February 9, 2009

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South Hill without heat, water during the weekend Both services restored in days, but students say communication was poor

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Franklin, 37, will inherit the program when the 61-year-old head coach retires.

Franklin, who left the Terps after the 2004 season to join the Green Bay Packers and later Kansas State, rejoined the Terp staff in December 2007, but after just one season as offensive coordinator, he was courted for several job openings around the

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James Franklin was a wanted man, and the Terrapin Athletics Department knew it.

Two days after the Terp football team signed the nation’s No. 26-ranked class, according to Rivals.com, coach Ralph Friedgen and Athletics Director Debbie Yow further secured the future of the program. They announced Franklin, the offensive coordinator responsible for

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Reunited after years apart

BY TIRZA AUSTIN Staff writer

Students in the South Hill Community lost heat and hot water services over the weekend, but both have been repaired, officials said.

The repairs to the hot-water system were announced in an e-mail sent to South Hill residents last night. Jack Baker, the director of operations and management for Facilities Management, said in an e-mail to The Diamondback that the heating system had also been repaired.

The problems with the heat and hot water began Saturday, after water had started pouring into the satellite central utility building between Annapolis Hall and Frederick Hall Friday. University officials originally noticed water

All 10 minority Greek organizations exist on the campus for the first time in 11 years

BY ADELE HAMPTON Staff Writer

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For the first time in 11 years, all 10 chapters of the university’s Pan-Hellenic Council, which oversees all minority fraternities and sororities, are present on the campus, each chapter representing a piece of history and culture for the university as well as the black community.

After flourishing for two decades,

Students focus on textbooks, tuition freeze during lobbying

chapters began to fade in the 1990s because of graduating members, depleting membership and suspensions. Now that the chapters are back, black Greek life is more unified and complete, members said.

Chapters are involved with numerous outreach programs, such as breast cancer awareness, tutoring programs in the area’s elementary schools and

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Students flock to Annapolis today for the first of monthly trips to lobby legislators

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

This evening, members of the SGA will trek to Annapolis to lobby representatives on student issues such as the tuition freeze and the university’s budget.

The kickoff to a Student Government Association commitment to lobby en masse once a month, Terrapin Pride Day, is a day set aside for students at the state house, meaning legislators are likely to be in. The SGA is hoping for bigger numbers than in past years by going at 5 p.m., instead of during the day, when most students have class.

The strategy involves some planning, talking

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Representatives from the 10 Pan-Hellenic Council fraternities and sororities, and the PHC president, pose together. After 11 years, all of the groups now exist on the campus.

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KEN JOSEPH 1968-2009

Losing the friendliest face

Deli station reopens for late-night diners After closing last semester, The New Yorker offers new menu, hours

Media Scholars associate director knew every member’s name

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always put students’ concerns first.

“He was like an artist in the attention he paid to students,” Ken Joseph, associate director of said Mike Colson, who worked the College Park Scholars Media, side by side with Joseph as the Self and Society program, died Scholars associate director for Thursday evening at Washington KEN JOSEPH admissions and registration. “He Adventist Hospital. He was 40 built strong bonds just by being there. He’d years old.

“K-Jo,” as he was known to many, spent a make the time to listen to their concerns.”

Joseph was hospitalized Jan. 31 for decade with the Scholars program and is remembered by students and coworkers alike as a funny, deeply caring man who Please See JOSEPH, Page 3

The New Yorker deli is set to reopen tonight in The Diner on North Campus, donning new, multifunctional equipment, an expanded menu that includes five sandwiches and the option to create your own sandwich using an order form.

The deli line closed for construction near the end of last semester, so students seeking their favorite hot sandwiches have had to make do elsewhere.

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“I used to get Reubens there,” said Steven Woodward, a freshman biochemistry major. “I kind of miss those.”

Now students can satisfy their taste buds once again, choosing from a variety of traditional subs, such as meatball marinara, southwest chicken and turkey club.

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But those who are hoping the reopening of this deli station will ease the long wait at the neighboring California Deli during lunch and dinner hours may be let down — The New Yorker will only be open during late-night hours, Sunday through Thursday, Hipple said, because Dining Services administrators want the deli to be “special for late night.”

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NEWSMAKERS Funnyman Franken ready to join Senate MINNEAPOLIS – Al Franken said Friday he’s frustrated but not bitter that a lawsuit by Norm Coleman is keeping him out of the U.S. Senate and said he is working hard to keep up with issues in the meantime.

Franken, a Democrat, a former Saturday Night Live performer and a liberal satirist, left little doubt in an interview with The Associated Press that he considers himself the winner of Minnesota’s Senate race.

A recount ended with him leading Coleman, the incumbent Republican, by 225 votes, but Coleman is challenging the result “I admit to being frustrated at times,” Franken said. “But it’s a little out of my control. What is in my control is to prepare so that when I get to the Senate, I’m ready to go on day one.”

Franken said he gets regular briefings from Democratic members of Congress and staff. If he were in office, he said, he would support President Barack Obama’s stimulus package but would push for measures to make sure the money is spent wisely.

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Routine repairs cause water outages Calvert Rd., Rhode Island Ave. residents go more than 24 hours without water

BY MARISSA LANG Staff writer

Off-campus students awoke on Friday to a nasty surprise: dingy, brown water sputtered weakly from faucets before dripping dry, the result of a water main break on Calvert Rd. Friday morning.

“Thursday night, there was a big truck parked out [on Calvert Rd.] with workers and stuff,” senior government and politics major Matt Rothman said. “The next thing we knew, we woke up on Friday and there was no running water.”

A routine repair went awry when the water pressure from the newly installed pipeline caused the old pipe it was attached to to burst, said Kim Knox, community outreach director for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission.

The break knocked out running water for more than 24 hours to many residents within a six-block radius of the break, located at the intersection of Calvert Rd. and Rhode Island Ave., WSSC officials said.

“I couldn’t use my toilet,” junior kinesiology major Avi Blumenthal said. “And now our dishes are piling up because we couldn’t wash anything.”

Most students said they had to go to unaffected friends’ houses and apartment buildings to shower and use the bathroom, while some went to the Eppley Recreation Center.

Students’ immediate reaction was that something was wrong with their pipes or water service, but landlords and plumbers could not provide them with any answers.

“We just thought we didn’t pay our water bill,” junior math major

Greg Dasilva said. “Or maybe that the pipes froze, because it was really cold that night.”

Knox said while the water main break was unexpected, residents in the surrounding area should have been notified there would be a scheduled water outage because of maintenance work, which was scheduled to begin at 11:30 p.m. Thursday and conclude 10:30 a.m. Friday. But students said they had no idea any work was being done until they saw workers.

“I don’t know who the hell is doing construction over here,” said Blumenthal, who lives down Rhode Island Ave., less than a block away from the site of the break. “No one told us anything.”

At around noon on Friday, the water came back on briefly, giving some students relief, though

many said the water wasn’t suitable for use.

“The water was all brown and disgusting,” senior communication major Katie LaPerch said.

“I used a lot of Purell that day.”

After realizing the water main would take more than a quick fix, on Friday afternoon the WSSC established a station on Calvert Rd. where they gave out 168 jugs of water to needy residents.

But students said this, too, was poorly advertised.

“I must have called the [WSSC] people like nine times that day,” said LaPerch, who lives on College Ave. and did not know about the water station.

“They never got back to me.”

Running water came back at around 2:45 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, WSSC officials said. langdbk@gmail.com

Students heated over lack of communication WEEKEND, from Page 1 seeping through the walls Thursday and decided to wait until spring break to find the problem, Baker said. But after water began pouring into the building, officials knew they had to act.

The heat was turned off Saturday so crews could begin to look for the leak.

Officials in the Resident Life, Facilities Management and Residential Facilities departments hosted a meeting Sunday afternoon to talk with students about the repairs and the impact on the South Hill Community. Baker said he was disappointed with student turnout.

Meanwhile, students were upset about both the problem and what they said was a lack of com-

munication by administrators.

“It was freezing,” said sophomore finance and accounting major Sanjay Vemuri, who lives in Frederick Hall. “We are sleeping with jackets and blankets.”

Vemuri and roommate Vin Paruchuri, a sophomore computer engineering and finance major, said they received an e-mail Friday at 4:30 p.m. that said heat would be turned off Saturday morning, but they were critical of the lack of details and information. Paruchuri added that they received an e-mail saying the hot water would be turned off after they had already noticed. “[Resident Life] is just telling us problems, not how long [the work will continue],” Paruchuri said a few hours before both the heat and hot water were fixed.

Baker said university officials tried to keep students informed but originally had trouble finding answers to the leak.

In an e-mail to South Hill residents, officials offered students additional blankets or alternative housing accommodations in vacant beds across the campus.

The crews, which consisted of university employees and contractors, found two leaks in two different pipes 40 feet apart, Baker said.

On Sunday morning, the domestic water lines, which provide hot water for the community, had to be blocked to fix the second problem in the line, Baker said.

Baker said crews worked 12hour shifts, 24 hours a day, 12 feet underground to fix the prob-

lem and that mud around the workspace kept caving in.

“There is no higher priority right now on this campus than getting this problem solved,” Baker said before the problem was fixed.

Some students expressed frustration with the zeal of maintenance crews. The noise of the constant digging was worse than the water and heat outage, said sophomore computer engineering major Chuck Englehart, who lives next to the site.

“I haven’t gotten any sleep these past two days, and I’m sick,” Paruchuri said. “It would have been nice to get some sleep this weekend.” taustindbk@gmail.com

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Deli joins late-night dining options DELI, from Page 1 “A lot of stuff closes at late night, so it might be good to have another place to eat,” said freshman English major Tim Ghazzawi, who added that he hopes to see the station offer a wider variety of sandwiches.

Other students were upset the new food option won’t be open during the day.

“That’s lame. I liked it during lunch, too,” sophomore biology major Steve Knoll said.

Students will be able to order one of the signature menu items as either a sub sandwich or a wrap. When students feel like being creative, they can fill out an order form with their name and the ingredients they would like, similar to Seasons 12 at the South Campus Dining Hall.

Hipple said although the idea is offer students different dining options than what is served during the day, if students ask for the station to become a permanent all-day feature, Dining Services will consider it.

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SGA prepared to transport 100 LOBBY, from Page 1 points and training, and most importantly, matching the students who come along with the representatives from their districts, said SGA President Jonathan Sachs.

“The most basic and important thing is we want legislators to speak to their constituents,” Sachs said.

“They need to see that there are people who are directly affected by their decisions and who care about that.”

University lobbyist Ross Stern will conduct a short training session beforehand that focuses on the tuition freeze and university budget points. Sachs said the textbook affordability bill will be part of the agenda, but that it won’t be pushed as much because the university’s stance is “more complicated” than the students’; the vast majority of students support the bill in its current form.

The university has spoken out against a proposed textbook bill, with University System of Maryland lobbyist P.J. Hogan calling it “overly prescriptive.” Sachs has spoken out in favor of the bill.

The SGA has transportation for 100, including about 50 SGA members.

Governmental Affairs Committee member Becca Lurie assured no one would be left behind, even if they have to secure more rides.

After an election year where a promising number of young voters participated, many expect the student voice to be more powerful.

“It’s the intensity and the fact that the state legislature has the

“[Legislators] need to see that there are people who are directly affected by their decisions and who care about that.”

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opportunity to look them in the eye and see who their decisions affect, whether it be a hike in tuition or a cut in the budget” that makes student lobbyists effective, said Paul Herrnson, director of the Center for American Politics and Citizenship at the university.

Students will be encouraged to tell personal stories and speak candidly, and they can talk about whatever they wish, said SGA Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Nick Mongelluzzo.

Meeting with legislators in person is largely more effective than testifying or writing letters, university President Dan Mote said.

“Going to the office and having a dialogue is the option that gives students a better way to start and if the feeling is that there’s some traction on the issue, then they should consider testifying,” Mote said. “The whole purpose of going to lobby is to get the legislature interested on a topic and take action on something.” sticedbk@gmail.com

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Chapters have played historical roles GREEK, from Page 1 getting black students involved in the nation’s politics to cement the council’s renewed presence.

While PHC coordinator Corey Bailey said it is too soon to tell how the university has changed because of the reinstitution of the entire PHC, their presence “is definitely felt.”

“There’s a buzz around campus,” he said. “ But we can only speculate until the numbers come in. ... There’s more opportunity to take the campus by storm and to advance the black community.”

The National Pan-Hellenic Council, which represents the largest historically black fraternities and sororities with about 1.5 million members was formed in 1930 at Howard University. The group was completed with all nine chapters in 1997 with the inclusion of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. This university’s PHC was created in 1976 and added a tenth chapter in 1996 with the induc-

tion of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc. The university’s PHC was founded to create a support network for and improve retention rates among black students, according to Bailey, who is also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. It gave black students on the campus a sense of togetherness, he said.

The university’s Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc. chapter was the first predominately black fraternity to be founded at a majority-white institution in the country in 1971.

The Epsilon Psi chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. followed suit in 1972 amid strong racial hostility on the campus.

Through the early years of their chapter, the founders endured racial slurs and threats on their lives. They continued promoting their model of “culture for service, service for humanity,” according to the website. A year later, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. became the first predominately black sorority on the campus.

“There is such a historical sig-

nificance for some of these chapters,” Bailey said. Members of the fraternities and sororities on the campus want to continue the tradition of prestige and academic excellence, he added.

Many of the chapters in the Divine Nine were involved in the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights movements. Martin Luther King Jr. was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., while the founding members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. marched for women’s rights in the Women’s Suffrage March in Washington in 1913.

Members said there is a renewed sense of togetherness and strength. The image of the university is enhanced because it is now possible for minority students to get the full experience of black Greek life, said Kappa Alpha Fraternity Inc. president Malcom-Jamal Ray, a senior computer science major. Now that all the chapters are back, people can get a better understanding of what it’s like at a historically black university, he said.

“Suspensions hurt the PHC,” Ray said. “Having everyone back puts everyone on a unified front.”

In looking toward the future, many hope the ten chapters of the PHC will continue to have a strong existence on the campus.

“Black Greek life and the black community go hand in hand,” said Wanika Fisher, president of the College Park chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. The chapters of the PHC at this university are Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc. hamptondbk@gmail.com

‘K-Jo’ welcomed hundreds to campus JOSEPH, from Page 1 undisclosed reasons and was released Wednesday. He returned to work in Cumberland Hall the following day, when he lost consciousness and was transported to the hospital.

“He touched the lives of so many. They could sense how interested he was in them and how interested he was in their lives,” said Kalyani Chadha, a journalism professor who worked with Joseph as director of the Media, Self and Society program. “He could relate to them, and they could relate to him.”

Part of a military family, Joseph was born in 1968 and moved frequently, spending several years in Taiwan during grade school. He came to Maryland for his high school years and attended high school in Silver Spring.

He graduated from Penn State University in 1991 with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science. He worked with a bookpublishing company for several years and came to the university in

1998 to study public relations at the College of Journalism. He had not yet completed his degree.

The College Park Scholars program hired him as a program assistant in admissions in 1999.

Joseph was made assistant director of the Media, Self and Society program in 2001. By 2004, he was serving a dual role as the Scholars admissions coordinator.

Scholars Executive Director Greig Stewart said Joseph was interested in students from the very beginning.

“He probably knew something about every student that came through Scholars since 1999,” Stewart said.

Joseph’s co-workers and students recall his signature e-mails he sent out to current and former students. He always took time crafting them to make them funny, Colson said.

“He was always checking up on his students... He was always doing favors for people and never asked for anything in return.” said Kalani Hillman, a sophomore psychology major who credits Joseph with helping her get an ad-

vertising internship in Bethesda.

He would spend his summers studying student photos on attendance sheets, Stewart said, so he would be able to greet them by name when they arrived.

“He felt that was important,” Stewart said. “He didn’t do it to amaze anyone. He didn’t do it to impress the students or impress the parents. He did it to make the students feel welcome.”

Courtney Pomeroy, a senior journalism major and staff writer for The Diamondback, remembers meeting Joseph on her first day in College Park four years ago.

“Before I had met a single soul, he came up and said hello and knew my name,” she said. “It was then that I really felt I could make College Park my home.”

Pomeroy is the co-editor in chief of Unwind! Magazine, the Media Scholars monthly magazine for which Joseph was the faculty advisor.

“He was always there, offering to make copies or order pizza,” said Pomeroy. “He had the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever

met. Not just in College Park, but anywhere.”

The next issue of Unwind! Magazine will be dedicated to Joseph and will include a full page of anecdotes and photographs.

Joseph is survived by his mother of Knoxville, Tenn., two brothers, Kevin Joseph of Baltimore and Bernard Joseph of the Washington area, and one sister, Kimberly Joseph of Chicago.

Information regarding a funeral has not yet been released, but Stewart said the Scholars program may organize an oncampus memorial, pending approval of the Joseph family.

On the seventh floor of Cumberland Hall, where many of his students live, “In Memory of Ken Joseph” posters on the walls are full of messages to him. One anonymous note sums them up: “You were kind, thoughtful, and your sense of humor was one of a kind. Your e-mails never failed to make me smile. I am grateful for the short time I spent with you. Thanks.” abdilldbk@gmail.com

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Of course, university administrators haven’t always led the charge to s undergraduate students, we are four-year citizens of an institution with more than 150 years of history. We witness its protect LGBT rights. It took a full six years of debate before the univerprogress in a bubble, where the decisions we see made are typ- sity implemented mixed-sex housing. Last year, administrators were so ically removed from the debate that leads up to them. Last week, slow to commit funding for the position of associate director of the LGBT Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) proposed to extend full health benefits to the equity office that Shiva Subbaraman, who held the position, left the unipartners of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender state employees. If versity to look for work elsewhere. Nonetheless, it’s important to recognize that administrators have been strong advocates accepted by the General Assembly, this decision would with regard to LGBT equality. While’s it’s tempting mark a significant step forward for the state on an issue of (and easy) to blame officials here for all of the uniequality. In this instance, state officials are champions of versity’s ills, the roots of our problems are often more equality. But before you pull out your Annapolis pomThe state’s proposal to complex, and you can’t advocate on an issue you don’t poms, you’d best consider the past. grant all employees entirely understand.

The university and the state have been at odds on sameThe state has finally come around to addressing a sex equality since domestic partner benefits were first prodomestic partner benefits major university problem with its proposal to offer posed for the University System of Maryland 15 years ago.

The university officially endorsed the measure in 1994, is a welcome step in a fight LGBT employees domestic partner benefits. The unithat has taken too long. versity has lost several highly esteemed professors to with strong support from then-president Brit Kirwan. But other institutions that do offer the benefits. But this the Board of Regents, the governing body for all the state’s public universities, batted the proposal down. In 2003, the university pro- remains absolutely irrelevant to the argument. Ensuring equality is an posed adding new language to protect transgender students to the uni- issue of justice, not pragmatism. Our society is founded on the principle versity system’s anti-discrimination policy. But the state’s attorney gen- that all men and women are created equal — they must be treated as eral called the added language unnecessary. And in 2007, when the uni- such. This is an issue that every student here, indeed every citizen, versity proposed to pay for domestic partnership benefits (out of its own should rally behind. But before you pick up a megaphone, pick up a history book. budget, no less), a legal technicality prevented the move.

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A voice of reason Robin Sawyer’s Feb. 3 guest column (“Professor’s Perspective: Let’s talk about sex”) was great. This is a man who I truly admire. His blatant frankness concerning sex is incredibly candid and wellinformed. He is someone who can balance the opinions of conflicting parties and present a researched and informed position that avoids the social politics of our, at times, deeply confused culture.

To follow up on Sawyer’s ending comment, which suggests that our lingo is even more confusing than that of the sexual revolution, I agree. We now have a whole new lexicon, but the conversations are basically the same; we just have a different vocabulary. The biggest and most important difference is that the conversations now are more commonplace. From the radio to TV, from the Internet to newspapers (like The Diamondback), Americans seem more comfortable and confident when talking about sex.

Being able to discuss sex is an important step in making a real difference concerning the truly serious problems of sexually transmitted diseases. Unfortunately, those who are subjected to the philosophy of the socially conservative and sexually ashamed are the individuals who are most at risk to acquire serious illnesses.

People who are taught abstinence-only education, statically, have sex at rates similar to those who have a conventional and well-rounded sex education. Yet, due to ignorance concerning sex and sexuality, they don’t have the knowledge required to protect themselves. If you observe an abstinent lifestyle, that is your business, but the simple fact is most people do not. Additionally, just because you feel that abstinence is the right thing for you now, don’t assume that it always will be. Educate yourself, use a condom, and remember to respect the decisions of your elders, peers and children.

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Phelps: Stop your grumbling and find a new gripe

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special note to my parents before I start this column: After every sentence, add “... or so I’ve heard.”

Over the course of my short career pretending to be a journalist, one of the biggest problems I have seen people run into is caring too much, working themselves into a spitting outrage about things that are borderline worthless. Case in point: a certain local hero who may or may not have smoked weed in South Carolina.

Maybe Michael Phelps isn’t a good example. I’m pretty outraged myself — what, you win eight gold medals in one Olympics and suddenly you’re too good to get a DUI in Salisbury anymore? Way to forget where you came from, sellout.

So a 23-year-old guy shows up at a college party where — gasp — he smokes a “marijuana pipe.” I’m sorry, but are we upset about this now? The odds are he busted in the door, everyone went, “Oh, snap, it’s Michael

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GINDES Phelps. You have to hit this,” and he said, “I don’t see why not.” Maybe this would be news if he did it at a children’s hospital or something.

Then it’d be a different story.

But people just love getting upset at other people for this nonsense. If you got upset at everyone who ever tried to have a good time and smoked up or drank too much, you wouldn’t have time to do much else. People just make themselves feel good by cutting someone else down.

I think we waste too much of our time looking over to see what other people are doing and then criticizing them for it. It takes us away from stuff

that might be important, like when the president is trying to find people to help out the economy who have also paid their taxes.

But we’re more worried about Phelps and the message he’s sending to little kids. You know, speaking of President Obama, he smoked pot, too.

So that’s the greatest Olympic champion in history and the leader of the free world. Maybe they’re sending the right message to kids: Weed is great!

It’s these minor issues that stop us from moving forward. It was like the snow that crippled the university a few weeks ago. One day, snow is threatening, so the school shuts down, and then everyone gripes about how this state freaks out at even the hint of snow (but in its defense, have you seen our drivers?). The next day, the McKeldin Mall has turned into an ice rink like that episode from Hey! Arnold where they run all the hoses into the street and play hockey, and

we’re stuck skating around and trying not to die.

The general consensus was the school wasn’t going to shut down two days in a row that early in the semester. But why not? Because people were going to gripe about it and worry about the message it sends.

We’re Marylanders: We’re afraid of inclement weather! The reality is, who cares? I’m not Guy LaFleur — cancel class already.

We spend so much time worrying about what “message” is being sent and working ourselves up about nothing that we should take a step back and ask ourselves why we care so much. And maybe we should rethink how harmful too many snow days or an athlete smoking weed at a party are. Because maybe pot isn’t that bad.

Or so I’m told.

Rob Gindes is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at gindesdbk@gmail.com.

Writing: It’s about the journey, not the destination

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ull disclosure: I am writing my dissertation right now, a process which lends itself to the occasional bout of meditation on the very act of writing. Quite honestly, what you’re reading is one person’s attempt to write about what he was thinking one day while he was writing.

A few years ago, I read an article by the critic Clive James about the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. One point in particular struck me at the time and has continued to nestle in the back of my mind.

James noted that for Wittgenstein, there was a “noticing, seeing, conceiving” of an idea that occurs to us before we can describe that idea in language.

There is a moment when we have a thought prior to our effort to articulate that thought.

When we write, we’re trying to cobble together a string of words that best describes the idea that flashed in our minds.

Even the most eloquent writers need a

couple of tries before they are satisfied that they’ve accomplished their goal.

The process of writing often results in unexpected revelations. I’ll write a sentence or a paragraph, and upon rereading it, I’ll mutter, “Wait, was that what I was thinking?” My efforts to convey an idea fall short, but they spark new ideas that need to be explained.

Writing is cyclical in this way, and the process of writing, reading what you’ve written and rewriting is an extraordinary intellectual exercise.

In the “real world,” most writing is done on deadline. Time is money, and the memos, reports, briefs and articles produced for an employer or client must be done quickly and efficiently.

College writing is also usually done in a compressed time frame. Although professors urge students to start their writing assignments early, students typically disregard this advice and go on a writing bender when the deadline is unavoidably

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SULLIVAN close. Sometimes this results in a pretty good paper; more often, it results in a satisfactory one.

Deadline-driven writing prioritizes the finished paper, but the end product of a writing assignment is of secondary importance. With a few exceptions, most of the writing assignments issued to college students are designed to compel students to perform the intellectual task of writing. It’s the process that matters, not the result.

Writing requirements are built into the core curriculum because full-time students can spend hours at their computers

engaging in the writing process. While students often have other priorities, the theoretical aim of writing assignments is to encourage students to cultivate their ability to express ideas. This takes time, practice and dedication.

The most successful written pieces are those that make the author feel both proud and somewhat surprised at the outcome. We always begin a writing assignment with an idea of what we’re going to say, but the process of writing is a process of thinking, and at the conclusion, we should have discovered something new. There’s meaning in our sentences that we might not have been consciously aware of when we undertook to write them. It’s worthwhile to take the time to try to discover these hidden ideas.

Jeremy Sullivan is a doctoral candidate studying American history. He can be reached at sullivandbk@gmail.com.

POLICY: The signed letters, columns and cartoon represent only the opinions of the authors. The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Diamondback’s editorial board and is the responsibility of the editor in chief.

Friday’s staff editorial, “Online, off-kilter,” lacked not only a headline that made any sense but also any original or substantive ideas the university should use to improve safety on the campus. If The Diamondback has preached nothing else over the last seven years I have attended or worked for the university, it is that this school does not do enough to make the campus safe. However, each attempt at implementing any sort of safety program is predictably met by The Diamondback lambasting the proposal for being wrong, without any real suggestions for a better course of action. For a school with such a prestigious journalism program, one would think our student newspaper could scrounge up someone with more indepth thoughts and arguments to write their editorials.

While I’ll grant you that the boredominducing and “amateurish” SafetyUMD may not be the most effective tool for educating students, what did the editorial staff have to suggest instead? Orientation advisors having a frank safety discussion with students (something they already do) and printing up a pamphlet with emergency numbers (which are already printed on enough pamphlets, posters and magnets to sink a ship). As the resident director of the Leonardtown Community, which has had more than its fair share of safety concerns in the last year, I have a vested interest in this topic. However, my many attempts at “infuriatingly stupid programming,” as you call it, have done nothing to deter many of my residents from making appallingly poor choices when it comes to their personal safety. As I am sure my age of 25 makes me an “out-of-touch professional” — and the Student Government Association seems to be in the same boat — I would love to see the very in-touch staff of The Diamondback use its pages to generate some real discussion among students about safety issues or to champion ideas that you don’t think will be failures. But sitting back and pointing out failures is probably easier and a lot more fun, right?

KELLY TAVENNER RESIDENT DIRECTOR, LEONARDTOWN COMMUNITY

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Also born on this date are: Mia Farrow, actress; Alice Walker, author; Carole King, singer and songwriter; Mena Suvari, actress; David Gallagher, actor; Joe Pesci, actor; Roger Mudd, newscaster; Brendan Behan, author, poet and playwright; William Henry Harrison, U.S. president.

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PREVIEW | LINN MEYERS/HERE TODAY

Here today, gone tomorrow New Art Gallery exhibit features two massive wall drawings

BY DORIS NHAN Staff writer

Drawing on the walls has never been as much fun as it is with Linn Meyers, who gives it a whole new perspective in her upcoming art exhibition, “linn meyers/here today,” at The Art Gallery. Too bad it’s going to be taken apart after the exhibition ends.

“We all wanted to draw on the walls as little kids, and this is the way of doing that with the nod from the authority,” said the Washington-based artist.

As the first artist in residence with the art gallery in the art-sociology building, Meyers drew two largescale wall drawings for the exhibition opening this Wednesday. Also featured in the exhibition will be a time-lapse video and smaller paper drawings, which relate to the larger pieces.

The two massive wall drawings in the exhibition are on a 40-foot concave wall and a 30-foot chevronshaped wall, both built in the gallery specifically for Meyers’ work. After the exhibition, the walls will be dismantled and the pieces will be recycled for future exhibitions.

Linn Meyers went back to basics — black ink, lines and marks for her latest exhibit, “linn meyers/here today,” John Shipman, an associate director for The Art in the art-sociology building’s art gallery. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK Gallery and the exhibition’s designer, built both walls According to Meyers, the meaning of the work is after working with Meyers to shape the exhibition’s organic qualities of the drawing,” she added. “Sound, I layout. Shipman said after working with Meyers, the think, has a kind of revolving or swirling feel to it, so more about the process and the idea behind it. She said she hopes the viewer can understand that with the aid focus shifted away from just her work to the idea of her that’s how the composition evolved on that one.”

Meyers hasn’t always been drawing lines. Her ca- of the video and the drawings. work and the process of it.

“My hope is that some viewers may have an experiAs a result, Meyers was documented throughout the reer began as a landscape artist in graduate school, entire drawing process, which will be turned into a and her work eventually evolved into deconstructing ence in here that they can take with them,” she said. time-lapse video for the exhibition. The supplemen- the action of drawing — using just a series of repeated “Maybe part of that experience is knowing that the work doesn’t exist anymore and the power of that and tary drawings on paper also serve as a window into lines and marks.

“By simplifying the action that it takes to actually the power of the idea that everything is temporary.”

Meyers’ work.

She added she is aware that some people may be “The way I make drawings is I set up certain princi- put the piece onto the surface, whether it’s paper or the ples or rules and then, from that point on, drawings wall ... you allow the work to be a reflection of the mo- “really disturbed” by the idea of destroying the work after it was created, but said it only encourages her to kind of develop on their own,” she said. “So [the front] ment you’re in when you’re making it,” Meyers said.

Meyers said she transitioned to wall drawings be- continue with her work. drawing was based on some studies I made on a small “If the work is really about the moment and about scale, but it really took on a life of its own and things cause she struggled with the margins and boundaries that came with drawing on paper, while also being me being in the moment while I’m making it, and about that I hadn’t expected.” the viewer experiencing it in the moment, then [deThe back, chevron-shaped drawing also features a drawn to the temporary nature of wall drawings.

“I like the idea that the work is ephemeral and that, stroying it is] the appropriate end for it,” Meyers said. sound component designed by Richard Chartier, a “linn meyers/here today” will be on exhibition in on some really basic level, it avoids the question of art sound and installation artist.

The Art Gallery located in the art-sociology building Meyers said she worked closely with Chartier on as a commodity and ... an object,” Meyers said.

For her drawings, Meyers uses ink she mixes her- from Wednesday until March 13. The opening recepthe concept of the chevron wall with the idea that its shape would encourage sound and draw the viewer self. Depending on what she feels the drawing needs, tion is this Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. The opening recepshe chooses the colors and different washes. For “linn tion and gallery are free and open to the public. closer into the piece.

“There’s a really nice play between the organic and meyers/here today,” she used only black ink because it the man-made, or synthetic, qualities of the sound, the balanced the complicated nature of the drawing. dnhan@umd.edu

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TERRAPINS (15-8, 4-5 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Milbourne 27 1-5 1-2 Neal 25 2-10 0-0 Hayes 30 5-9 3-5 Mosley 34 0-6 0-1 Vasquez 38 6-13 5-7 Kim 3 0-1 0-0 Bowie 1 0-0 0-0 Tucker 17 3-7 0-0 Gregory 25 2-2 3-4 Team TOTALS 200 19-53 12-19

O-T 2-6 1-4 0-5 4-6 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-2 2-5 3-6 13-35

A 0 2 2 3 3 0 0 1 0

PF TP 3 3 2 5 3 15 1 0 2 19 2 0 0 0 1 8 2 7

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 35.8, FT: 63.2, 3FG: 31.8 3-POINT GOALS–722 (Hayes 2-5, Tucker 2-5, Vasquez 2-6, Neal 1-4, Kim 0-1, Mosley 0-1). TURNOVERS–16 (Hayes 6). BLOCKED SHOTS–0 (NA). STEALS–12 (Hayes, Vasquez 3).

GEORGIA TECH (10-12, 1-8 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG Lawal 32 4-6 Peacock 20 3-4 Clinch 35 1-11 Shumpert 30 4-11 Miller 23 2-4 Foreman 3 0-0 Storrs 28 2-5 Sheehan 5 0-0 Aminu 24 3-6 Team TOTALS 200 19-47

FT 0-1 4-5 2-2 4-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3

O-T 5-14 1-3 0-2 1-6 0-2 0-0 1-2 0-0 1-5 1-1 11-16 10-35

A 2 0 5 4 1 0 1 0 1

PF TP 2 8 3 11 2 5 2 13 1 6 0 0 3 6 0 0 1 7

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 40.4, FT: 68.8, 3FG: 35.0 3-POINT GOALS––7-20 (Miller 2-3, Storrs 2-4, Peacock 1-2, Shumpert 1-5, Clinch 1-6). TURNOVERS––24 (Peacock 6). BLOCKED SHOTS––4 –6 (Aminu, Shumpert 2).

(Lawal 3). STEALS–

ATTENDANCE––7,183 (9,191).

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Turnovers mark very sloppy game TECH, from Page 10 ran over to the opposite side of the court and jumped into Williams’ arms. Forward Dave Neal stomped on the ground with both feet as he screamed toward the rafters.

“It’s an awesome feeling,” the Terps’ lone senior said.

Neal and the Terps frequently doubled Georgia Tech’s larger post players and held their three forwards — Gani Lawal, Zach Peacock and Alade Aminu — to a combined 26 points.

Meanwhile, Vasquez carried the offense, scoring 14 of his game-high 19 points in the second half.

The Terps (15-8, 4-5) played all but a minute without guard Adrian Bowie, who was overcoming the flu. Hayes, who had started all season before switching to a reserve role for the last two games, started in Bowie’s place and shot the Terps into an early 8-2 lead via a pair of 3pointers.

“It’s a nice thing for us to have, too many guys that can start,” said Hayes, who finished with 15 points. “It was my night tonight with Adrian not feeling well. I think we have 6-7 starters on the team, so it just shows that if somebody’s down, someone else can pick it up.”

But it was a first half full of runs, and it was the Yellow Jackets’ turn next. They responded with an 11-3 spurt, which the Terps countered with a 15-3 sequence of their own. The Yellow Jackets closed out the final five minutes of the first half on 13-5 run to cut their deficit to two.

Things evened out, though, in the second half. Neither team led by more than four points.

The back-and-forth affair featured 12 lead changes, and even more changes of possession as the teams combined for 40 turnovers.

The Terps, responsible for 16 of those turnovers as well as a 35.8 field goal percentage, didn’t play crisply on offense but executed on the other side of the ball to stay in the game.

After giving up 108 points against North Carolina Tuesday, the Terps spent two entire practices focused solely on defense, according to Neal.

BY THE NUMBERS A statistical glance at last night’s game

Landon Milbourne and the undersized Terps managed to equal Georgia Tech on the boards. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

“We knew where we made our mistakes at North Carolina, and we know you can’t get a road win if you don’t play defense,” forward Landon Milbourne said.

“You can’t get any win if you don’t play defense. That was a big thing for us; we were really des-

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“Right now, we’re just enjoying this win,” Neal said. “It’ll be nice to have a plane ride back where we can actually talk and have a good time.” mseligdbk@gmail.com

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Points by Sean Mosley, Seconds played by guard Georgia Tech turnovers though the guard made Adrian Bowie, who some nice contributions battled the flu in his 34 minutes.

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Total shots taken by the Yellow Jackets, a puny number thanks to those turnovers

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The three-time defending national champion Terrapin competitive cheer team won the Terrapin Classic at Comcast Center on Saturday. The Terrapin Classic is the team’s only home meet of the season. The Terps will vie for their fourth straight national championship in the NCA Nationals tournament in Daytona Beach, Fla., starting April 8. Next for the Terps is the Cheersport Nationals in Atlanta. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

out of last week’s 72-71 win against the Seminoles.

Then, there’s Eagles guard Mickel Picco, the conference’s fifth-leading scorer at 17 points per game.

Boston College (17-6, 5-3 ACC) has lost consecutive games to ACC leaders Duke and Florida State but started out 5-1 in the league, another reason for Frese’s more critical outlook after Thursday’s win.

“It’s important in our job as coaches to not have letdowns,” Frese said. “When we get ready now to go to Boston College, it’s gonna be a battle. It’s gonna be a war. I don’t want to take steps back in our progression because I do feel, as a team, we’re really clicking; we’re being really unselfish. It’s our job as coaches to demand it in practice and demand it in games.”

The Terps’ coaches planned to demand a little more than usual in Saturday’s practice because of the team’s 9-of-16 mark from the freethrow line against the Wolfpack, despite the fact the Terps are the best free-throw shooting team in the ACC. It’s all in the hope that the Terps can actually improve from an easy win in time for what should be a more difficult challenge tonight.

“They’ll be some extra cardio on Saturday to understand we gotta step up and make free throws,” Frese said. “We’re gonna have to make them in critical situations when games come down to one possession like Florida State. At this point, it’s about understanding the focus and intensity that we have to have every game.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

Terp center Lynetta Kizer will have her hands full with two of the ACC’s biggest post players against Boston College. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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ESCAPE IN ATL Terps pull off first road win of the season

BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer

Terp offensive coordinator James Franklin’s family, which includes two young daughters, now has more certainty about its future, said wife Femi Franklin (not pictured). JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Franklin would be third-ever black coach at ACC school FRANKLIN, from Page 1 country this offseason. As a result, Yow and Friedgen decided to make official a possibility they had addressed upon his return.

“For us, it’s the end of a year of conversation,” said Yow. “[It was] an occasional thing and not a focus by any means, but we weren’t going to stand by and let a professional team take him away at this point.”

Yow called it a “commonsense” move meant to maintain the program’s continuity in recruiting as Friedgen’s contract, which runs through the end of the 2011 season, comes to an end.

Several schools across the nation, such as Florida State, Texas and Purdue, have made similar Franklin heaped thanks upon Athmoves in recent years, hoping to letics Director Debbie Yow and build continuity in the program Terp coach Ralph Friedgen after and reward star coordinators for being named Friedgen’s successor. staying at the school.

JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK Yow and Friedgen emphasized the announcement is not ting to that point where people related to Friedgen’s health. are going to be questioning how Friedgen, who said he has “been long I’m going to be coaching.”

Friedgen has compiled a 64on a health kick since October,” plans to finish his contract and 36 record in his eight seasons. then evaluate his future. The former Terp offensive Franklin’s deal expires along lineman has led the team to six with Friedgen’s on Jan. 2, 2012, bowl appearances in eight seaand he can re-evaluate his posi- sons, a remarkable run of suction in the program at that time. cess for a team that had not Specific terms of the deal were been to a bowl in 10 years prior to his hiring. Yow said the not disclosed.

“I’m going to coach as long as announcement was necessary I feel like coaching and as long for the “foundation” Friedgen as it’s enjoyable,” Friedgen said. has built to be preserved.

“The value of this is it shows “James has been such a big part of our success here, and to me, the program is really progressit’s kind of an honor and a legacy ing,” said Barry Gossett, a booster who made a to have one of your record $8 million coaches be able to foldonation to Terp athlow you.” letics in 2007. “With Franklin said he had James and Ralph, it’s “three different opporgoing to be great to tunities at well-repass the baton. It’ll be spected NFL organizaa seamless transition.” tions and colleges” Franklin, who is after finishing his first black, would be the season as Terp play first minority football caller. While neither head coach in school Yow nor Franklin adhistory. Currently, the dressed specific suitAthletics Department ors, one of those opporemploys three black tunities was believed head coaches: Jarnell to be with the Tampa Bonds (competitive Bay Buccaneers and cheer), Kerry McCoy new coach Raheem (wrestling) and AnMorris, who Franklin BARRY drew Valmon (track called one of his best GOSSETT and field). friends.

ATHLETICS BOOSTER The former DiviBut Franklin, with his wife and two young daugh- sion II quarterback gained ters in attendance, said the deci- experience and professional sion to stay adds continuity to his football contacts through three young family by keeping him in minority coaching internships, most recently with the Vikings a place he wants to be.

“Now that we have children, I last year. There is currently think the idea that we have the just one black head coach at ability to be somewhere for a long the 65 BCS conference schools, amount of time is great,” Miami’s Randy Shannon, who Franklin’s wife, Fumi Franklin, became the second black coach said. “It’s stability for our family.” in ACC history in 2007.

On Friday, Franklin, the fiery In addition to locking in a rising young coordinator and noted coordinator who has been recruiter, the Terps were able to known to chest bump his players take a step forward by announc- following big plays in practice or ing Friedgen’s successor before after games, graciously acknowledged Friedgen and othhis age became a major issue.

Friedgen said a recruit’s high ers who have helped him along school coach recently asked him the way as he sat in a dark-colabout rumors of his impending ored suit at a raised table in the retirement planted by compet- Gossett Football Team House, flanked by his mentor and Yow. ing schools.

“I just want to thank every“Penn State was recruiting him, and so was Boston College. body for this opportunity,” I said, ‘Well, (Boston College’s Franklin said moments after Frank) Spaziani is 64, and (Penn Yow began the press conferState’s Joe) Paterno is pushing ence. “I can guarantee I won’t 90, and you’re worried about me let you down.” retiring?’” Friedgen said. “I said, ‘No, I don’t think so.’ But it is get- edetweilerdbk@gmail.com

“With James and Ralph, it’s going to be great to pass the baton. It’ll be a seamless transition.”

ATLANTA – One of the Terrapin men’s basketball team’s biggest strengths all season, shooting from the free-throw line, almost cost it a crucial ACC win against the league bottom-feeder last night.

Instead, the Terps’ defense, which was a glaring deficiency during last week’s game at North Carolina, ended up carrying them during a tense 57-56 road victory against Georgia Tech.

In the final minute, guards Sean Mosley and Eric Hayes missed the front ends of one-and-one freethrow opportunities to keep the Yellow Jackets (10-12, 18 ACC) within one possession. But the Terps’ defense didn’t budge on a final Georgia Tech bid, and they escaped Alexander Memorial Coliseum with their first road win this season.

“I was just proud of the way we played defense after we missed the free throws,” Terp coach Gary Williams said. “Sometimes, there’s a letdown, especially when you have an 85 percent freethrow shooter on the line.

We were able to be tough enough to play defense in both those situations.”

After Hayes’ miss from the foul line, Georgia Tech got the ball back with 17 seconds remaining. Yellow Jacket guard Lewis Clinch missed a contested shot from about 15 feet out, but Georgia Tech’s Iman Shumpert corralled the rebound with enough time for another attempt.

Shumpert dribbled to the wing and flicked up a 3pointer with his body fading away from the hoop.

“I was nervous,” forward Dino Gregory said. “I was thinking about the Wake Forest game, when Georgia Tech played them and Shumpert hit a [game-winning] jumper from the elbow in kind of the same situation.”

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Guard Greivis Vasquez

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Guard Eric Hayes, starting in place of an ailing Adrian Bowie, scored 15 points but also turned the ball over six times in the Terps’ sloppy 57-56 win last night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Frese not satisfied with Terps’ efforts Women’s basketball coach believes her team lacks free-throw shooting, defense

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

Marissa Coleman and the Terps are 18-4 and coming off a 21-point win, but that didn’t stop coach Brenda Frese from criticizing her team. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Brenda Frese didn’t spend much time complimenting her Terrapin women’s basketball team after another blowout win Thursday night.

In the press conference following the No. 13 Terps’ comfortable 87-66 victory against N.C. State, the seventh-year coach wasn’t angry. But she wasn’t particularly enthused by the Terps’ secondstraight win, either. After quickly remarking how it was nice to win at home, Frese dug into her team.

Her two main areas of concern were free-throw shooting and defense.

While the Terps (18-4, 6-2 ACC) held the Wolfpack to 32 percent shooting from the field in the second half, N.C. State guards were able to penetrate or pumpfake their way into the lane with little deterrence from the Terps’ help-side defenders in the first 20 minutes.

“I thought, offensively, yes, we did some nice things,” Frese said.

“Defensively, we had some easy breakdowns. That’s the area that,

Terps vs. Boston College Where: Chestnut Hill, Mass.

When: Tonight, 7 p.m.

TV: RSN again, we’re not playing the score; we’re playing [for] us, to fine tune and to continue to be aggressive with our defense.”

Defense will be the focus tonight for the Terps, who are last in the ACC in scoring defense, when they meet Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., at 7 p.m.

The Eagles feature a dynamic post duo to challenge Terp forward Dee Liles and center Lynetta Kizer in 6-foot-4 Stefanie Murphy and 6foot-6 Carolyn Swords. Kizer, who drew the highly-physical assignment of guarding Florida State’s pair of 6-foot-4 forwards, fouled

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