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City Council approves new bar plans Rosapepe Terrapin Turf would open in former Santa Fe Café venue, include live music nights

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

Students are one step closer to frequenting the building that once held Santa Fe Café, now that the College Park City Council has given its stamp of approval on a potential new bar, Terrapin Turf.

Mohammad Afshar appeared

system to keep out underage drinkers — Afshar just has to obtain a liquor license from the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners on Feb. 28 to start renovating the building students once flocked to.

The dilapidated building has sat vacant for nearly two years, but Afshar said he has extensive renova-

before the council last night along with his two daughters, Salomeh and Yasmine — who are co-owning the bar with him -—to discuss the terms of the property use agreement. Now that the council has OK’d his business plan — which includes a 50/50 food to alcohol ratio, a $2 minimum for alcoholic beverages and a $9 minimum for beer pitchers and a security

tion plans for the property, including a nearly $50,000 sprinkler system.

The space would function as a restaurant during the day and transition into a bar at night, Afshar said. A full menu has not been hammered out yet. Terrapin Turf would also be equipped with a projector screen to

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proposes tuition cap Three percent hike expected next year

BY JIM BACH

A 103-year-old adventure

Staff writer

In an effort to ensure higher education remains affordable in an uncertain economic climate, state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DAnne Arundel and Prince George’s) JIM introduced a bill ROSAPEPE Monday that STATE SENATOR would cap tuition increases and mandate funding for the University System of Maryland.

Although this is the sixth time Rosapepe has introduced such legislation, he said he hopes lobbying efforts by university student groups, alumni associations and the university system will help push the bill further than it has gone in past years. This year’s version of the bill, SB 675: Tuition Cap and College Opportunity Act of 2012, would prevent tuition hikes from surpassing the state’s three-year average median family income.

“Middle-class families need to be able to afford to get their kids through college,” Rosapepe said. “The fact of the matter is the state has the resources.”

see TUITION, page 2

Alumna attended the university in the 1930s

BY JON WOLPER Senior staff writer

Because Margaret Gibson gets her hair done every Monday, it is a sharp shade of gray, light and well-coiffed. There is a salon in the building, so she does not have to go very far, even though she cannot walk to it any more. The last time Gibson was on her feet was two years ago — when she was 101 years old.

Gibson, an alumna of this university, lives at Goodwin House in Alexandria, Va., a retirement community. Some of the elderly residents still work part-time and get around on their own. Others, such

as Gibson, live in the health-care unit, where nurses constantly monitor their well-being.

At 103 years old, Gibson has made herself at home there. She has had plenty of time, at any rate — she first moved to the Alexandria community in 1983. Patty Butler-Burkhart, the director of resident services, met Gibson when she started working at the Goodwin House 10 years ago. Back then, she said, Gibson was “schoolmarmish” and terse.

Then, one day, the two women realized they were both Terps.

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For many, a fight to the finish

Roundtable focuses on financial literacy

Students struggle to pay for school; SGA members lobby against tuition hike

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Jordan Klaverweiden isn’t sure how much longer he can afford to call himself a Terp — and he’s not the only one.

The junior geographic information systems major recently took out a second loan just to make it through this semester. His parents — who have faced pay cuts and taken on second jobs — cashed out their retirement funds just to pay for his two years at a community college before he transferred to this university in the fall. Klaverweiden also works 20 to 25 hours a week as a merchan-

BY LAURA BLASEY

diser with Kellogg Company to pay for rent and gas. At the same time, his twin brother, Justin, is working just as hard to pay his way through school at Towson University.

Klaverweiden is just one of many students struggling to pay to attend this university. With a proposed 3 percent tuition increase likely to pass in the General Assembly this legislative session, several said they are worried how this tuition hike — the third in three years — will affect their chances of graduating.

“My dad had to take a 12 percent pay cut, and I’m barely making it,”

see STRUGGLES, page 2

Student leaders sit down with Hoyer Staff writer

To address student concerns about college affordability, House Minority Whip Leader Steny Hoyer (D) and other state officials sat down with a group of university student leaders Monday in a roundtable discussion of these issues.

Alongside student representatives from other state institutions in Hoyer’s district, leaders from the Graduate Student Government and the Student Government Association raised concerns about the allocation of federal Pell Grants, the future of Sophomore journalism major Jasmine Cruz is just one of many students struggling to afford tuition. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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TUITION from page 1 The language of the legislation has been revised in this year’s version of the bill to empower — rather than require — the university system to comply with tuition increases, said Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery).

“In the past the legislation has been written in a mandatory way,” he said. “It basically changes from a ‘shall’ to a ‘may.’”

Many state lawmakers have rallied behind the bill, noting they think it will fare well in the General Assembly, especially as economic conditions improve and more residents reenter the labor force.

“It is a bipartisan bill,” said Sen. Karen Montgomery (D-Montgomery). “I generally see it being a very positive force.”

But other legislators have said higher education should always remain affordable, regardless of the state’s economic condition.

“In these recessionary times the government needs to do what it can to help struggling students and families supporting students to be able to get an education,” said Sen. Richard Colburn (R-Caroline, Dorchester, Talbot and Wicomico), a co-sponsor of the legislation.

While the Student Government Association has not taken a stance on the legislation yet, Director of Governmental Affairs Zach Cohen said the organization is likely to support any permanent legislation that eases students’ financial burdens.

“I’m sure that’s something we’d be willing to support,” he said. “The last thing that we would want is for action to be taken and then undone.”

Since tuition would increase in accordance with median family income, Raskin said the statute would give students more clarity.

“Essentially the goal is to improve the ability of students to plan on what their tuition cost will be,” he said.

Rosapepe said the state is financially prepared to sign the bill into law, but the problem lays in funding the university system in the years to come, adding the state will need to bring in more revenue.

“We have historically underfunded higher education,” he said.

“The state would have to come up with a funding source to adequately fund the university.” bach@umdbk.com

Last week, SGA President Kaiyi Xie spoke before state legislators from students’ testimonies on the difficulties of affording tuition. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

STRUGGLES from page 1 Klaverweiden said. “It’s hard being a twin and having to work so hard and seeing my brother work and my parents work ... With prices going up everywhere and having all of that, we have to make up for that just to survive.”

To advocate for the lowest tuition increase possible in Annapolis, Student Government Association leaders gathered about 40 testimonies from students struggling financially at this university last semester. SGA President Kaiyi Xie and Director of Governmental Affairs Zach Cohen quoted from these testimonies when they spoke before legislators of the House Appropriation Committee’s subcommittee on education and economic development last week.

“I am being supported by my single dad. Earlier this year, he was laid off from a job he held for eight years,” one testimony reads.

“Despite how much we have cut back, all our savings have used to pay the necessary bills. I’ve had to watch as the stress brought my dad to be hospitalized. I am running out of options other than dropping out of college.”

Xie said it is important for legislators to hear these stories and understand the impact a tuition increase would have on students.

“It puts a personal face to what state senators are doing with their budget. It’s one thing to look at the numbers and another thing to look at what the numbers represent,” Xie said.

Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel, Prince George’s) said although he has not yet received any messages from concerned students regarding this issue, he is very much aware of their struggles. He noted Gov. Martin O’Malley had worked to ease some of the burden by freezing tuition for four years and has included increases for financial aid in his proposed budget.

However, Rosapepe recognized many students do not

qualify for the financial aid services currently available.

“Obviously, tuition at the University of Maryland in Col-

“I don’t want to think that I might have to leave the university ... because I can’t afford it.”

JASMINE CRUZ SOPHOMORE JOURNALISM MAJOR

lege Park got much too high under [former] Gov. [Bob] Ehrlich,” Rosapepe said. “I absolutely understand the concerns from students in low-income families.”

Junior communication major Sydney Airey — who is the first in her family to go to college — was shocked when she learned

she did not qualify for financial aid. Like Klaverweiden, Airey spent her first two years at a community college before transferring to the university she “always wanted.” Her single mother, a correctional officer in state prisons, earns less than $35,000 a year, and Airey has had to work part-time since age 14 to help make ends meet.

Airey said she has taken out nearly $20,000 worth of loans to pay for her tuition and books, and she works four to five days a week at R.J. Bentley’s to pay for groceries and car insurance.

“It’s really stressful sometimes,” Airey said. “There are people at my job who don’t really need their jobs. Their parents pay their tuition, so they just do it for fun or because they’re bored.

But there are students like me who support themselves.”

Sophomore journalism major Jasmine Cruz — a New Jersey resident paying more than $25,000 a semester for out-ofstate tuition — said the financial strain is intensified by the projected cost increases for dining and

room and board on the campus.

Cruz, who maintains a 4.0 GPA while staying active as a Residence Hall Association senator and resident assistant for Oakland Hall, said she recently took out a loan so her single father would no longer need to take money out of his retirement fund to pay for her tuition.

However, she said she is concerned these measures will not be enough for her to stay at her “dream school.”

“I don’t want to think that I might have to leave the university not because I’m not doing well, but because I can’t afford it,” Cruz said.

Students said they hope their stories will be considered when the state legislators sit down to consider the budget this spring.

“There are a lot of students who aren’t represented correctly,” Klaverweiden said. “I know numerous other people who are taking out student loans and can barely do it in community college.

They are in my same situation.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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display university football and basketball games, and will also feature “All-star Buffets” on game days that would offer traditional American cuisine.

The building has a contentious history with the council, after former owner Mark Srour refused to install a $90,000 sprinkler system at the request of council members. But members said last night they were pleased with Afshar’s plans to revamp the space.

“I’m excited,” said District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich. “It seems like a responsible plan, and I certainly would like to see that space used in a good way.”

The Afshars’ attorney, Abigale Bruce-Watson, cited one concern with the current agreement last night. The agreement requires the business to integrate photo-identification software — a system also in place at recently opened Looney’s Pub that requires employees to take a picture of patrons’ IDs and keep them on file — a “liability” for the bar if that ID information was somehow stolen.

“What a … loss of public confidence someone may have if they come to our establishment and their identity gets stolen,” Bruce-Watson said.

But District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali said the same mandate hasn’t been an issue at Looney’s.

“Looney’s has it and it hasn’t affected their reputation,” Afzali said last night.

“Looney’s has not been hurt by having such a [system].”

Afshar and his family recently owned a live-music bar, Saloun, in Georgetown, that closed in October. It featured live music seven days a week and catered to the Georgetown college scene.

While the family said they will wait to see how College Park responds to the bar before booking bands ever y night, they hope to revive the jazz and blues music scene that “was ever ywhere 30 years ago.”

student loans and college tuition affordability at the meeting in Waldorf, Md. SGA leaders also stressed the importance of financial literacy education among students and increasing the number of students in the state in college.

“Nothing that was brought up was very surprising,” said SGA President Kaiyi Xie. Maureen Beach, spokeswoman for Hoyer, said that Hoyer is currently working on the Make It In America plan, a congressional proposal to improve U.S. schools and help Americans attain higher levels of education and jobs. Student loans are of particular concern for Hoyer, who along with delegate John Bohanan (D—St. Mary’s) aim to ensure higher is education However, SGA members said they wanted to meet with these state officials to ensure their concerns were heard — and would hopefully be met.

Xie, SGA Vice President of Academic Affairs Jamil Scott and SGA Director of Governmental Affairs Zach Cohen said they stressed the importance of teaching students financial literacy.

The current student loans interest rate is set at 3.4 percent and will rise to 6.8 percent this July, Xie said.

Two GSG members — GSG Chief of Staff David Colón-Cabrera and GSG Vice President of Community Affairs Blessing Okoroafor — attended the event to advocate for graduate students and voice financial concerns.

“Graduate stipends have stayed the same for the past four years, while the costs of living have increased,” Colón-Cabrera said.

Budget cuts and additional costs make a substantial impact on a graduate student’s ability to pay for graduate programs, especially when coupled with student loan rates, according to Colón-Cabrera.

Hoyer stated in a press release that the meeting was productive.

“By hearing first-hand from campus leaders, Assistant Secretary [for Postsecondary Education Eduardo] Ochoa, Delegate Bohanan, and I have a better understanding of the issues that matter most to Maryland’s students,” the release stated.

After sitting defunct for nearly two years, a new owner plans to move into the space Santa Fe Cafè occupied. The business, to be called Terrapin Turf, will be a restaurant during the day and a bar in the evening. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

“That’s what we’ve known, that’s what we’ve grown up with and that’s what we want to bring to this area,” Salomeh said, adding that bringing this sound to College Park would be a seamless transition. “What’s the difference between Georgetown or GW students and Maryland students?”

Upon hearing specific plans for the new space, several students said the new bar would fit well into the College Park nightlife scene, which has seen the addition of two new bars in the last year.

“I think that’s exactly the kind of place we need in this town,” said junior English and government and politics major Mace Phillips. “This is something that’s different, fun. …

That’s probably the best bar move we could make.”

Sophomore family sciences

“It seems like a responsible plan, and I certainly would like to see that space used in a good way.”

STEPHANIE STULLICH DISTRICT 3 COUNCILWOMAN

major Bryna Ambrose said she hopes the bar will give her a taste of Santa Fe Café, which she said upperclassmen often raved about.

“Santa Fe closed before I came here,” Ambrose said.

“Upperclassmen were always talking about how fun it was, With the College Park City Council’s backing, so I’m excited.”

Mohammad Afshar just needs to obtain a liquor license foley@umdbk.com

from the county before he can renovate the building. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Load, vote, win Former student creates website where users upload content for prizes

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

Once Jonathan Doman decided to create a new platform for people to show off their talents online, he didn’t wait to earn a college degree — let alone train in computer science.

Last Thursday, the former university student who delayed his senior year indefinitely to pursue an idea with a partner, launched LoadnVote.com — an “American Idol-esque” visual media competition site where users post videos, photos or text to place in a variety of contests. Participants are pitted against each other to win prizes ranging from the extravagant, like an all-expense paid trip to Mexico, to the more modest $50 Petco gift card, Doman said.

He affords prizes for the winners — who enter competitions like best guitar solo, ski trick and comedy routine — using funds from store partnerships and the investment company Canrock Ventures, which now owns the website.

Doman, who studied history at this university, said he originally pitched the idea to Canrock Ventures when he interned with the company this past summer, an opportunity he nearly passed by.

“At first, I didn’t really want to do this internship, but my parents kind of pushed me into it,” said Doman.

He said after he and his business partner — who does not go to this university — mapped out the idea for the site and pitched it to his bosses, the project just fell into place. But Doman said entering the venture without any computer science training has its challenges.

Jonathan Doman, a former student, decided not to return to this university for his senior year to develop the website LoadnVote.com. PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE.COM

“It’s such a rare opportunity, and at times I feel like it is overwhelming and I’m out of my league,” he said.

The first round of 10 contests, which last for two weeks each, will end Feb. 12. Out of the 10 contests currently available on the site, the “Write the Caption Contest” for a photo is receiving the most traffic, Doman said.

Other available contests include “Next Top Bikini Model,” “Unique Talent,” “Peak of the Party Original Picture” and “Let’s See Your Dougie.”

To help him bring content to the site and sort through the entries Doman said are already flooding in, he employed 20 college interns, including three from this university.

One, Load N Vote content coordinator intern Chelsea Markel, is responsible for spreading the word on the campus, she said.

“If we have a contest based on

music, I talk to music groups and target music organizations,” said Markel, a sophomore communication major.

She added that she was convinced the site was going to be “huge” and couldn’t resist the opportunity, despite earning just a minimal salary based on the number of contest entries she brings in.

“I just think it’s such a great opportunity for people who have unique talents,” Markel said. “You could win great prizes, but if you don’t, it’s still a new outlet for people to express themselves.”

And while many people already upload content to YouTube for free, she said, Load N Vote can deliver a reward.

“It’s the same concept, but now you’re eligible to gain exposure and win prizes,” Markel said. “It’s going to be a win-win.”

Although most of the employ-

ees are under the age of 25, and most of their recruiting is done on college campuses, Doman said the site isn’t just for younger generations.

“It’s probably more geared toward young people, but we don’t want it to be just a college thing, we want it to be a talentbased site for people to gain recognition,” Doman said. “If the entries come from college students or 35-year-olds, we’re okay with either one, as long as the content is good.”

And although it’s too early to tell whether www.LoadnVote.com will succeed, Doman said he has no regrets about postponing his college education to create it.

“The only thing I can say with certainty is that I don’t ever want to look back and say I didn’t give it my all,” said Doman. “It will work or not work, but we gave it our all.” egan@umdbk.com

ON THE BLOG www.campusdrivedbk.wordpress.com SENATE PASSES SMOKING ENFORCEMENT, THEN DOES NOTHING TO ENFORCE IT The University Senate spent two years tossing around the idea of whether or not to ban smoking on the campus. It came to a decision in September — instead of full-out banning smoking, university policy would be amended so smokers now had to stand 25 feet, instead of the original 15 feet, away from a building to light up.

To enforce this, officials said they would place “no smoking” signs and cigarette receptacles around the campus. They haven’t.

Fore more, check out the news blog, Campus Drive.

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GIBSON from page 1 Now Gibson is not only forthcoming — she is downright talkative. She was born an only child in 1908 in Washington and lived across from her school, she said, where she would hear the bell from her house and run across the street to get in line. She moved between the city and northern Virginia during her childhood.

Her father, Harold, worked with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Her mother, Emma, was a housewife.

She spent two years at the Wilson Normal School for Teachers in Washington before coming to this university to finish her education. While here, she lived in the then-newly built Margaret Brent Hall, which still stands as St. Mary’s Hall today.

After she graduated in 1935, Gibson taught 5th and 6th graders in the city’s public school system for 40 years and traveled to England every summer. She moved to the Goodwin House 29 years ago and has been living there ever since. Her room now is heavily decorated with old photographs of her family, friends and her partner, Hayward Miller, who she dated for 40 years but never married. There are duck figurines perched around the room, and a perfume tray, sitting on the night table, stocked with glass bottles and a slight blanket of dust. Her college diploma, which hangs in the room’s entryway, is the very first thing you see on display.

Gibson’s sight is nearly gone, and her eyes, though a radiant blue, are glassy and distant. She answers questions sharply, smartly, but always focuses straight ahead.

There is nowhere else to look.

But, though her timeline is murky, she remembers most things vividly. She remembers all the way back to her childhood, when she moved to a one-story house in Arlington, Va. because her father “couldn’t make the stairs anymore.” She remembers Willard Small, a friend of the family who also happened to be the dean of the College of Education when she attended this university.

She remembers two friends from her time at the university.

One might have also been named Margaret (but whose last name escapes her), whose father was a minister in southern Maryland.

She remembers another who died at the Walter Reed National Medical Military Center in Bethesda. She remembers how she took the train to visit this friend in her final days, but she cannot recall her name.

She still remembers her time at this university, though.

“I loved the history professor that was there,” she said, but his name escaped her, too.

“I was going to say, if you could pull that one out of your hat then I’m really impressed,” ButlerBurkhart said, loudly, to make sure Gibson could hear. “Because I only remember two of my college professors, so—” “Well, he was so good looking.”

“Well, that always helps, huh?”

When Gibson was a student here, she did her work at the library and in her dorm, and it was a lot of work, but it was not particularly difficult, even though she told Butler-Burkhart at one point that she took eight classes in one semester. She had a curfew and other rules to follow — she was, after all, a college-aged woman in the ’30s — but didn’t pay much attention to them.

“Everybody broke ‘em,” she said.

She would find time to go to hockey and basketball games on the campus. She also liked football, even though the team was not very good. She had a dining plan, though the food was not very good. She also had her fair share of suitors.

And what did they look like?

“The way I wanted them to look,” she said.

“What were they interested in, that made you like them?” ButlerBurkhart asked.

“Me,” she replied.

Gibson said she remembers coming to the campus 10 years ago for a dance, when she lived in her house in Arlington, but ButlerBurkhart instantly mouthed a rebuttal: No, that’s not right. Gibson has not lived in that house in nearly 30 years, which means the dance was at least three decades ago, if not more.

Gibson’s memories are vivid, though. She went as the date of one of the guys she would “go around with” when she was a student, when she and her friends would break curfew and hang out at the edge of the campus, when sometimes they would pile into one of the men’s cars, if anyone even had a car, and head a little further down the pike, as they used to call it, a place that was pretty good, even though there were not too many places to go in those days.

Some number of years ago, she went to the dance with an old flame and another couple, and she has not been back to the campus since. jwolper@umdbk.com

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n 2006, a network security audit blasted the university’s Office of that should take substantially less than two years,” he said.

This editorial board isn’t composed of any cybersecurity experts but, Information Technology and identified seven pressing findings — six of which had remained unaddressed from a previous audit — in mat- given his credentials, we’re willing to bet Hicks is right. We’re also concerned by the system’s seemingly nonchalant ters that could affect the privacy of sensitive stuapproach to protecting information that can lead to dent information such as social security numbers. identity theft.

In 2008, hundreds of students opted to sign up for The university system must do more to protect perfree Equifax credit-monitoring service provided by The University System of sonal data. the university after the Department of Transportation Maryland should have Auditors shouldn’t have to tell the system to follow Ser vices accidentally released the Social Security its own “USM Guidelines in Response to the State’s IT numbers of about 24,000 students. rectified its cybersecurity Security Policy,” or “ensure the servers’ operating sysFast-for ward a few years and it’s deja vu — except issues years ago. This tem software includes all of the latest security updates this time the University System of Mar yland is in patches” because it hasn’t been updated since trouble. continuous problem puts and April 2009. Nor should users be able to log into the A recent report issued by the Maryland General Maryland Research and Education Network — which Assembly’s Office of Legislative Audits found that all students’ private handles Internet access and USM institutions’ online data from more than 8,000 system applicants — including sensitive information such as social security information at risk. System library systems — without a password. Auditors especially shouldn’t have to report that three findings from numbers and credit card numbers — was stored in officials need to step up 2009 haven’t been addressed. unencrypted plain text files on a publicly-accessible and take responsibility for Officials stress that no information was ever stolen server between Feb. 2008 and March 2011. in the latest incident — so WikiLeaks this isn’t — but If this wasn’t bad enough, the office had previously the repeated errors. it only takes one security breach to put thousands of discovered about 53,000 Social Securitynumbers and 21,000 credit card numbers being stored in a similarly unencrypted manner students’ identities at risk. If that happens, the nearly $15,000 DOTS spent on Equifax reports in 2008 could be peanuts compared to losses from stufrom 2005 to 2008.

Ignoring established policies when storing personally identifiable infor- dent bank accounts.

It’s bad enough for some of these rejected students to not get into a mation is never good when it happens once. But failing two consecutive school. But then to find out later their personal information was stored — audits — what gives?

According to system spokesman Mike Lurie, the university system took regardless of their rejection — and then stored without any protection? If about two years to move all of the sensitive data to an internal server. But it was Lurie’s information at risk, you can bet he would make damn sure it Michael Hicks, a computer science professor and director of the univer- had been protected right away. Let’s hope system officials heed the audisity’s Maryland Cybersecurity Center, thinks two years should be enough tors’ advice this time and take steps to ensure private information remains to move about 8 million records — not 8,000. “To me, it sounds like a job private. Time to step up, guys.

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or more than 40 years, I have been attending athletic events at this university. In particular, I have been a staunch supporter of the football and basketball programs.

To my dismay, I have watched and listened to the student section at these events take on crude chants and disrespectful jeers directed at players and coaches who are up against the Terrapins.

Along with my wife, son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren, I have become increasingly uneasy, angr y and embarrassed by these verbal assaults on the opposing teams.

During a recent game, students booed when there was an announcement from the ACC to show respect for each player in a competitive atmosphere. When the basketball players met and shook hands at mid-court, students vociferously expressed their negative sentiments from the stands. As usual, not soon afterwards the students began to direct their “you suck” chant toward the opposing team. But a vulgar comment directed at the North Carolina team during the national anthem reached a new low. Thankfully, the student was escorted from the game. Hopefully the university will take appropriate action and never allow the student to return to an athletic event.

It is time students begin to consider creative — rather than crude — ways to express themselves at athletic events. Until that happens, they will continue to be an embarrassment to the university and the ACC. JIM DE GEORGE ALUMNUS ‘68 COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROJECTS

Cutting a forest No matter if you’re gay or straight: Love is love

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ith more states debating and adopting marriage equality, it seems our nation’s laws are finally entering the 21st century. Gay and lesbian soldiers serve openly in the armed forces, Hollywood’s glass closet is slowly cracking open and blatantly homophobic rhetoric is being forced out of societal discourse.

While these achievements are certainly significant, equality has by no means been achieved. Indeed, taking the place of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and laws prohibiting same-sex marriage is another, more insidious form of homophobia — one expressed not through laws, but through words and actions. Gay and lesbian history isn’t discussed in schools, LGBT families are looked down upon and our nationwide visibility is seemingly limited to Ellen DeGeneres and Glee. In short, much work remains to be done.

MATT ARNSTINE For example, this past weekend, a few of my gay friends from Washington trekked up to College Park for the night. A pregame, an apartment party and an adventure to a College Park bar were planned for the evening — all the makings of a great night. However, in one of College Park’s drinking establishments, I was enraged and deeply hurt by the reactions of students after two of my male gay friends began making out with each other.

Multiple people started pointing, shouting anti-gay slurs and recording my friends’ drunken lip locking on their iPhones. Straight people never have to worry about the possible con-

sequences of a benign action such as holding hands in public or making out. Yet LGBT people must remain observant of who is around them because of vitriolic reactions from homophobes. If it were a heterosexual couple kissing, everyone in the bar would have recognized the action as business as usual.

Clearly, the sight of two men or two women making out isn’t the norm in a College Park bar. I would expect bigoted behavior at the University of Mississippi, but not here. We attend a university located just miles from a major gay village known as the Northwest quadrant of Washington — you would think people’s minds in this area would be more open.

The anti-gay sentiments expressed toward my friends isn’t a problem that just affects our university — it’s a societal issue. As our nation has started down the road of erasing hatred from its laws, we have yet to fully eradicate hate from

our hearts and minds. Love is love, and until we respect all relationships between two loving individuals equally, we’ll continue to see bullying in schools and discrimination in the workplace.

Realistically, the incident this past weekend doesn’t just apply to gays and lesbians, but rather to everyone who has ever been subjected to a dirty look. The white girl who grinds with black guys, the fat girl who gets nasty looks because she decided to eat a slice of Ratsie’s, the short guy everyone is judging for being, well, short — we have all been subjected to prejudice.

Discrimination, prejudice and hatred have no place in our lives or on our campus. So, to my fellow students at this university I say this: Stand up, speak out and fight back.

Matt Arnstine is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at arnstine@umdbk.com.

The U.S. Farm Bill: Ending the global food crisis

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ave you ever been told to finish the food on your plate because there are starving children in Africa? I find the phrase so cliche because my gluttonous Americansize meal will not solve global hunger. But the phrase serves its purpose: It fills us with guilt and reminds us what a privilege it is to have a belly full of food.

This year, Congress will be debating the renewal of the U.S. Farm Bill, which covers most federal government policies for agriculture.

Our nation’s food and agricultural policies have a profound impact on countless lives both in this country and across the globe.

The largest portion of the Farm Bill budget goes to domestic food assistance for the food stamp program. The food stamp program benefits 45.8 million Americans living under the poverty line, the majority of whom are children or elderly.

This program is at risk of budget cuts in the upcoming Farm Bill.

It frustrates me how food has

become a politicized issue, with politics determining the growth and distribution of food. Every person needs food to survive. But it is not that the world doesn’t have enough food to feed the world’s population, it’s that food is not distributed fairly or efficiently, benefiting some people disproportionately.

The Farm Bill also directly impacts global food aid. People in the developing world depend on the U.S. government for food aid, especially during emergencies such as earthquakes or famines. However, U.S. policies are causing unintended and dire consequences. For example, policy mandates that we ship U.S. food abroad. Of ever y taxpayer dollar designated for food aid, 60 cents goes to shipping costs.

This means it takes too long to get relief shipments to the people in need, and it undermines local farmers’ growing abilities in the developing world.

On my recent visit to Haiti, I was troubled seeing bags of donated U.S.-grown rice tagged with an

JENNIFER SCHWARZ American flag and the words, “from the American people.” I’m American, and I didn’t choose to send it.

I’d rather see those Haitians learn to grow their own rice for self-sufficiency in food production than depend on the imported rice. Ultimately, the U.S. food aid policy is inefficient and needs improvement.

Reforming the Farm Bill is important to me because of its global impact. But if international politics is not your passion, then consider how it affects our domestic food distribution and hunger concerns. It regulates organic farming, trade, commodities, nutrition, sustainability and more.

Congressional discussions about Farm Bill revisions are already under way. In the upcoming bill,

cost-cutting measures will be a top priority. Now is the time for constituents to demand a more just food bill that uses our taxpayer money wisely and addresses domestic and global hunger issues.

I’m tired of letting my apathy and any cynicism I have about the inefficiencies of national and global politics slow me down. This issue may not be a hot topic like reproductive or marriage rights, but food justice and food security is an issue I care about, and by writing this column, I’m fighting my apathy. Histor y shows young people are a great influential force that can mobilize politics in this country. Let’s recognize our position of privilege and power-through-education and stop being apathetic college students. As we know, change is a long process, and, in my opinion, the first step is increasing awareness.

Jennifer Schwarz is a senior environmental science and policy major. She can be reached at schwarz@umdbk.com.

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or those who commute to this university via New Hampshire Avenue and Adelphi Road, the pretty forest you pass at the corner of Riggs Road and Adelphi Road may soon be completely cut down. A North Carolina developer — Zimmer Development Company — has plans to destroy it, and unbelievably, the Prince George’s County Planning Board seems ready to go along with the plan.

The property is covered with huge trees and is the last remaining unspoiled patch in already overbuilt Adelphi. It is an odd, triangular shaped lot with a stream running through it. The developer plans to cut down the entire forest and put up a parking lot with a CVS plopped in the middle — right across the street from an existing Rite Aid. I’m no tree-hugger, but this corner is already a traffic nightmare; a high volume, fast turnover retail business is the worst decision for this spot. Had the developer made a decent proposal — perhaps an office building with parking underneath and an entrance on one side and exit on the other (thus saving 50 percent of the trees) — it might be acceptable. But to cut down all the trees for an unneeded and unwanted additional drugstore seems insane, particularly since the county has been touting its motto of being “clean and green.”

There will be a hearing on this matter Feb. 9 at 8:30 a.m. at the Prince George’s County Administrative Building in Upper Marlboro. I believe the members of the zoning board should be held accountable if they let this travesty take place — and I have to question the competence of the county planner coordinator, Ruth Grover, who signed off on this project.

Time is running out, and I hope the university community will try to do something to prevent this tragedy. Citizen groups have appeared at every hearing to oppose the action, while the proponents have only been represented by a lone, well-paid lawyer. Even the tax revenues will largely benefit North Carolina, yet the planning board has moved the process along. Would the Zimmer Development Company have pursued this project if it were located in its own neighborhood?

ROBERT JENNER ALUMNUS ‘95

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orn today, you can be a rather imposing individual, though this has less to do with your physical stature than your personality — which is vibrant, strong and at times even overbearing. There may be occasions in which you charge into things for which you are not ready, and you must be willing to do a quick about-face and retreat in order to protect yourself and, often, others. Your adventurous spirit can, however, do you much good, and because you are quick to jump into things, you may often be the first to take advantage of an opportunity that arises out of the blue.

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VITAL VIDEO: BILLY EICHNER AT THE SUPER BOWL For those who don’t know Billy Eichner, the aggressive, unpredictable and hilarious host of the guerrilla game show Billy on the Street (on FUSE), his piece for Conan from the Super Bowl is a good place to start. Eichner’s in top form, accosting strangers and players about how excited they are for Madonna’s halftime show. It’s a must-watch.

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A REEL STALE WINTER The early months of every year are usually when Hollywood studios roll out the worst they have to offer. Is there any reason right now to go to theaters?

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Conventional wisdom holds that January and February are the worst months of the year for moviegoers. Big-budget blockbusters open in the summer while prestige pictures are reserved for the fall and early winter, leaving the early weeks of any year a cinematic dry season that movie studios use only to burn off sure-to-flop films they aren’t willing to support with a choice release date.

There’s some truth to this — the major distributors do generally hold their best material for release later in the year. But that doesn’t mean cinephiles have to starve during the winter months; those willing to stray off the beaten path can find offerings as rich as at any other time of the year.

(That doesn’t mean the multiplex is entirely barren, either. A quick look at the showtimes of local major-chain theaters reveals a few diamonds in the rough, with well-crafted actioners such as Haywire and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol mixed in with critical favorites such as The Descendants, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Hugo.)

Washington has no shortage of independent and arthouse theaters, and any film fan willing to make the journey to the nearest indie-friendly cineplex would be spoiled for choice even in the early months of the year.

You could go and see The Artist, an endearing-if-slight silent film homage and the presumptive Best Picture Oscar frontrunner, or Steven Spielberg’s John Ford-esque War

Horse, psychodrama A Dangerous Method, spy flick Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, sex addiction drama Shame or Iranian film A Separation, one of the best pictures you could see this year — or any year (Don’t just take my word for it; it topped Roger Ebert’s list of the best films of 2011 and is the favorite to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film).

Or, if you’re in the mood for a past favorite, you could take the metro to Silver Spring and see one of the many classics screened at the American Film Institute. A glance at

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Paul W.S. Anderson’s 2002 film, Resident Evil, has lodged itself permanently in my psyche partially on the merits of it being my first. Everyone remembers their firsts, and I fondly recall the first time I was profoundly freaked out by a movie.

Yet something else about the movie lingers on my mind. Even

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Sampling February cinema is like shopping at a Halloween store during Thanksgiving weekend: Nearly everything is cheaply produced, unappreciated and generally unnecessary. These films are the unloved orphan children of a dog-eat-dog movie society that is too busy readying itself for the Academy Awards to notice the stink of trash left rotting in the canister.

February is the time when Katherine Heigl, one of the many patron saints of putrid cinema, looks for gruff, buff and tough men to shack up with. February is the time

when Liam Neeson releases Taken 2 (under a different title, of course, because he’s fighting wolves instead of Albanian abductors). But most of all, February is the time when horror film directors, with a twoweek window before their next project, decide to shoot using a hand-held camera, a creaky old house, the finest actors a $12 budget could buy, and call the final product “found footage.”

But what can the industry do? People are still willing to pay hefty fees even though the film fare is decidedly subpar.

That’s the frightening part.

The trend will never turn toward solid February entertainment if the same people going to see The Descendants and Melancholia are also willingly seeing One for the Money, Red Tails and Man on a Ledge. It’s a high-class problem for such low-class entertainment.

So, as we ready our Oscar ballots and fancy hors d’oeuvres for Feb. 26, let us not forget February cinema. Though nearly every film may be a dark void of vapid crap, there is still hope that on one fine, future February day, we may find something truly excellent. But for now, we’re stuck with Heigl, Neeson and more found footage experiments. To borrow Jonah Hill’s euphemism from Moneyball regarding unappreciated baseball players, February cinema presents itself like “an island of misfit toys.” The only way to break the mold is to not vacation there, stay at home, rent Hugo and wait, anxiously, for summer movies.

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GOT GRAMMY FEVER? Neither do we. But if you do have some morbid curiosity about what goes down when music’s finest get together to talk about how great they all are, check Diversions tomorrow for another face off, this time dealing with the relevancy of everyone’s favorite awards show.

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their “Coming Soon” list should excite any moviegoer: Singin’ in the Rain, Metropolis, Rebel Without a Cause, Attack the Block, The African Queen, Last Tango in Paris, Happy Together and, yes, even The Notebook will be shown in the next few weeks, among numerous others.

So quit complaining about the paucity at the movie theater and look into one of the many worthwhile films playing all over the area. If the best recent wide-release films are a found-footage teen superhero flick and a movie where Liam Neeson fights wolves, it’s probably the ideal time to check out what’s been flying under the radar.

though I’ve subsequently seen better and more traumatic zombie movies, Resident Evil is still one I think back on most frequently.

Resident Evil, unlike many of its horror-zombie movie brethren, is a film largely unconcerned with mortality. Characters come, characters die. I suppose it’s tragic, but the movie doesn’t particularly care.

Instead, Resident Evil con-

cerns itself with the limits and fallibility of human perception.

The movie’s biggest scares come when Anderson gleefully twists the seemingly benign into the horrific. A normal-looking silhouette of a dweebish office dweller turns to reveal a bloody, zombified face. A bland, unimpressive tunnel actually hosts laser-guided death.

It all goes hand in hand with the movie’s heavy-handed allusions to Alice in Wonderland and Matrix-esqe post-industrial cyberpunk. Anderson’s fixation on the fluid nature of perception has turned a video game adaptation into a dream-like, existential nightmare.

Of course, that’s not to suggest

that Resident Evil contains much depth (it doesn’t) or is a wholly successful horror movie (it isn’t).

Simply having the elements in place, however, elevated Resident Evil from a trashy, forgettable flick to a more haunting experience for my 10-year-old self. This heady, potent brew of casual carnage and existential freak-out provided nightmare fodder in the years since my first viewing.

One of the last shots in the film is of the protagonist pounding against the one-way mirror of a containment cell.

The camera is placed on the other side of the mirror, allowing us a view of her sterile white room and the tiniest glimpse of the wrecked control

room beyond.

It’s as haunting a shot as any, wryly asking the viewers if we really wanted to see what was be-

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a full-court pass by Tigers forward Milton Jennings, but stepped out of bounds as he grabbed the ball. Since the ball never entered play, the Tigers were ordered back to the baseline, and guard Andre Young couldn’t hit the last-second heave.

“We got real lucky,” Turgeon said of the late play.

“You just kind of had a feeling it was going to come down to that.”

The Terps (14-9, 4-5) held a four-point halftime lead and used an efficient offensive attack to start the second half.

Mosley and guard Pe’Shon Howard hit a combined three consecutive 3-pointers, putting the Terps up 46-32 with 12:56 left in the game.

Those two, however, were among the least of the troubles last night for Clemson, which had no answer for guard Terrell Stoglin. The sophomore finished with a game-high 27 points on 11 shots, hitting four of his six 3point attempts. His shooting performance — a near-perpetual source of intrigue and controversy this season — hardly overshadowed a balanced night from his Terps teammates.

“One of the keys to winning the game was valuing every possession,” Mosley said. “I think all the guys shared the basketball the whole game. We took shots that we knew we could make.

That helped us get the win tonight.”

With seven minutes left in the game, the Tigers started a run of their own, propelled by a 3-pointer from Young out of a media timeout. Clemson ran off eight straight points as part of a 13-3 run to cut the lead to four.

Against a high-pressure 13-1 defense that stretched past the 3-point line to the top of the key, the Terps struggled to get into their offense and committed a series of turnovers. Then Stoglin found an opening and hit a 3pointer with 4:39 remaining to put the Terps up 56-47.

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“You just kind of had a feeling it was going to come down to that [lastsecond Clemson 3-pointer].”

MARK TURGEON TERRAPINS MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH

With a 61-58 lead and less than a minute left, the Terps had a chance to seal the win, but center Alex Len and guard Nick Faust both missed shots inside that led to a fastbreak

by Young. The guard pumpfaked from the 3-point line and drew a foul on Howard with 10.7 seconds left.

The ACC leader in freethrow percentage, though, missed his first two before hitting his last attempt.

Stoglin hit two subsequent free throws, followed by a Jennings 3-pointer with 2.8 seconds left and then a Mosley free throw to put the Terps up 64-62.

The Tigers weren’t able to convert their last-second, potentially game-winning 3pointer as the Terps — finally — walked out winners.

“It was our next step,” Turgeon said. “You can just see we’re growing up. Guys are caring more. You like being around each other more today than six weeks ago. By no stretch of imagination are we a great team. But we’re playing as well as we can be playing at this point.”

More than anything, players said, the win was a relief.

“We were hearing it from our coach, that we had to get road wins, that he’s tired of hearing that we cannot win on the road,” Stoglin said.

“So this is a big-time win.”

For the first time in a while, the Terps last night left a building not named Comcast Center full of laughs.

Smiling as he walked out, Turgeon said: “I can finally sleep tonight.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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Guard Terrell Stoglin finished with a game-high 27 points in the Terps’ 64-62 win at Clemson last night. He made two free throws with 10 seconds remaining to help the team end a two-game skid. PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSHUA KELLY/THE TIGER NEWSPAPER

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The Terrapins men’s tennis team will begin a threegame home stretch today against what may be its toughest opponent all season: ACC rival and secondranked Virginia.

The 41st-ranked Terps (1-3) begin match play against the Cavaliers (4-0) this afternoon at the Tennis Courts at College Park.

The Terps are returning to play a week after the ITA KickOff Weekend in Austin, Texas, where they went winless in matches against No. 15 Texas and No. 31 Michigan.

Coach Kyle Spencer said he was confident in his team’s ability to play well today against Virginia.

“We are looking forward to playing Virginia,” Spencer said. “They are a tough team to beat and always ranked very high. We are used to playing a tough schedule and this year is no different.”

The Cavaliers bring three

players ranked in singles — including the top-ranked player in the nation, Mitchell Frank — and four ranked doubles teams led by the 13th-ranked pair, Philippe Oudshoorn and Justin Shane.

While Virginia has ample star power, the Terps also have three ranked players of their own this season: Freshman Vlad Stefan is No. 121 nationally for singles, while doubles teammates Maros Horny and John Collins are ranked No. 36 in the country.

Against a talented Cavaliers squad, Spencer said today’s matchup is as much a measuring stick as it is a lesson plan for the Terps.

“Every match, you learn something new: You learn what you do well as team, and what you need to work on,” he said. “At four matches into the season that’s hard to determine, but we are continuing to get better with each outing.” sports@umdbk.com

Blowout victories have become commonplace for the Terrapins women’s basketball team this season.

Of its 20 wins, 14 have been by double-digit margins. Eight have been by 30 points or more. The Terps even set a program record in their 108-33 drubbing of Delaware State on Dec. 8, with the 75-point margin marking the highest in team history. With a per-game scoring margin ranked in the nation’s top 10, the Terps have shown time and again that they have little trouble shooting opponents out of the gym.

Yet while high-scoring affairs have been routine for the team this season, tightly contested games might be where the Terps are truly at their best. In games that have come down to the wire, the team has been nearly unbeatable. Other than an eight-point road loss to Duke and an out-ofcharacter home loss to Virginia Tech without star forward Alyssa Thomas, the Terps are 6-0 in games decided by 10 points or fewer. That includes victories over then-No. 19 Delaware, then-No. 23 North Carolina and two wins against No. 22 Georgia Tech.

Their ability in such situations was on display Monday night in Duluth, Ga., where a game-ending 12-2 run secured the Terps’ eight-point victory over the Yellow Jackets.

“It was a game obviously where both teams had to grind it out,” coach Brenda Frese said. “Georgia Tech, with their style of play, kind of makes it into that [type of game].”

Frese said the key to crunchtime control is poise and composure, something the Terps seemingly have no shortage of late in games.

Thomas is normally the catalyst, playing an instrumental role in two of the Terps’ lategame victories. She hit a gamewinning jumper with 17 seconds remaining to clinch their first victory against the Yellow Jackets on Jan. 6, and nailed a buzzer-beating layup to force overtime in the team’s Jan. 8

Forward Tianna Hawkins helped the Terps outlast Georgia Tech on Monday with a career-high 23 points. The team is 6-0 in games decided by 10 or fewer points. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

win over the Tar Heels.

“That’s something that the coaches make us practice, these types of situations,” Thomas said. “So that in game, we can come in and step up.”

While it’s normally Thomas who has the ball in her hands in late-game situations, forward Tianna Hawkins was the player who proved most crucial down the stretch Monday.

Though she and Thomas both finished with 23 points, Hawkins was the team’s most

consistent scorer on an otherwise bad shooting night for the Terps, finishing nearly 85 percent from the field.

“I thought she played like a vet; she played the game slow, played the game with a lot of confidence,” Frese said.

“Sometimes you have to find ways when we’re not shooting the ball well from the floor, so it was great being able to have her step up and make the plays she did.”

With games to come

against No. 6 Miami, No. 5 Duke and No. 23 North Carolina, continued success in tight contests will certainly help the Terps’ ACC Tournament seeding.

“Georgia Tech is going to be in the top half of the league as this thing unfolds,” Frese said.

“Anytime you can give yourself that advantage, give yourself the tiebreakers and get the sweep, that’s important.” jvitale@umdbk.com

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TERPS 64, TIGERS 62

Terps outlast CU for first away win in nearly a year

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

CLEMSON, S.C. – Sean

Mosley turned to his bench last night and let out a powerful fist pump. He screamed at his celebrating teammates inside Littlejohn Coliseum.

In one swift motion, the frustrations of the past few months for the Terrapins men’s basketball guard were let out.

The senior guard had been apart of eight straight losses on the road, a mark that began last Februar y and finally ended with a 64-62 win at Clemson.

“Obviously, that’s a great win for us because I don’t have to listen to them say that we’re going after our first road win,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “We have that behind us.”

Said Mosley: “It feels great.

This is taking the next step to becoming a better team.”

Mosley scored 16 points and became the 50th player in program history to pass the 1,000point mark in a career.

He also gave the host Tigers (11-12, 3-6 ACC) one final chance when he missed the second of two free throws with 1.3 seconds left and the score at 64-62.

On the following inbounds play, Mosley made a break on

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“Obviously, that’s a great win for us because I don’t have to listen to them say that we’re going after our first road win,” coach Mark Turgeon said last night after the Terps held on for a 64-62 win at Littlejohn Coliseum, their first road victory this season. PHOTO COURTESY OF JOSHUA KELLY/THE TIGER NEWSPAPER

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