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University Analysts suggest budgetary trim senators Proposal may bode well for higher ed. as lawmakers look to cut budget lambaste tenure review ANNAPOLIS 2009

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — The university’s

funding survived its first encounter with the General Assembly yesterday, as virtually no cuts to funding

for the university system were proposed during a hearing.

The friendly reception legislators gave to University System of Maryland’s budget is a positive sign funding for higher education isn’t being targeted as lawmakers grap-

ple with Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget proposal, which closed a $2 billion state budget deficit.

The lone cut advised by analysts for the House of Delegates Appropriations Committee was a $5.6 million reduction in the amount given

to the Higher Education Investment Fund, which legislators seemed ambivalent about. The reduction is meant to reflect lower anticipated revenue from corporate

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Critics say proposal would hurt academic freedom, job security

BY MARISSA LANG Senior staff writer

Faculty members expressed criticism and outrage over a proposal they said could end tenure and lead to arbitrary reductions in their salaries at a University Senate meeting yesterday.

Members of the Post-Tenure Review Task Force presented a plan that would allow committees to review the performance of tenured professors and decrease or increase their salaries accordingly.

Task force members were forced to defend their proposal against an onslaught of criticism from other faculty members who claimed the proposal would undermine tenure, which many faculty members view as essential to both their job security and to academic freedom.

The proposal would lead to a yearly evaluation for professors based on three criteria: teaching, research and public service. Supporters said the proposal would lead to greater accountability from professors and departments.

Senate Chair Ken Holum, a history professor, said the initiative for the new system came from Provost Nariman Farvardin, college deans and department chairs — who, according to Holum, are ultimately responsible for “keeping faculty members on their toes” — because they were frustrated by a small number of tenured faculty who have been performing below expectations.

Many faculty members opposed the

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‘You’re a citizen with a concern’ Undergraduates, graduates push pro-student policies at annual event in Annapolis

BY CASSIE BOTTGE Staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — Students flooded the halls of the General Assembly

Graduate students Nisha Peris, Josh Silverstein and Roberto Munster, discuss with Del. William Frick (D-Montgomery) about the lack of financial aid for graduate students. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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last night, lobbying for a tuition freeze, cheaper textbooks and increased funding for the university.

About 75 students took two buses to the state capital last night as part of Terrapin Pride Day, a significant increase from last year. While Student Government Association President Jonathan Sachs called the event a “success,” some undergraduates were unable to lobby their

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Reporting from the frontlines CBS war correspondent Kimberly Dozier talks about surviving a 500-pound car bomb explosion while working in Iraq

BY RICH ABDILL Staff writer

On May 29, 2006, war correspondent Kimberly Dozier was walking down a seemingly calm Baghdad street, expecting to spend a “slow news day” with American troops. But nothing could have prepared Dozier for the battle ahead.

As her CBS News team was being escorted through a neighborhood where a roadside bomb had gone off the day before, unseen insurgents detonated a

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500-pound car bomb about 25 feet from where Dozier was standing.

Four people, including her camera and sound technicians, were killed instantly. Dozier was left with two

shattered femurs, shrapnel in her brain and burning metal in both legs from hip to ankle.

“Technically, I died five times on the operating table,” she said, noting that her heart stopped five times as doctors tried to stabilize her for transport.

In an event sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists yesterday, Dozier spoke to a group of about 40 students and faculty members — most of whom were aspiring journalists — about her

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Free music website shut down Friday Ruckus allowed students to legally download songs to computers

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Ruckus, the university’s music service that provided students with a legal and free way to listen to music on their computers, shut down late Friday evening.

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The Ruckus Network Inc.’s website simply displays a message saying “unfortunately the Ruckus service will no longer be provided.”

“We just learned this morning that the Ruckus service has ended,” Phyllis Dickerson John-

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The Family Man Eric Detweiler He could’ve picked up and left after his one season in College Park for some good jobs around the country, but toward the top of the list of things that kept James Franklin around (in addition to the fact that he was named coach-in-waiting Friday) was the desire to keep his young family in one place.

Franklin has bounced around the country since he landed his first NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision job as tight-ends coach at Washington State in 1998. His travels have taken him to full-time gigs in Idaho, Maryland, Wisconsin, Kansas and NFL internships in Miami and Philadelphia before he returned to the Terps in December 2007.

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ANNAPOLIS – Maryland’s comptroller urges “real taxpayers of genius” to file their taxes online this year in a YouTube video spoofing a memorable series of Bud Light ads.

Taxpayers frustrated by filling out traditional tax forms are shown enduring paper cuts and other hassles.

“Today, we salute you, Mr. Frustrated Taxpayer,” the announcer intones. Then, backed up by singers repeating his words in falsetto, he tells them they have an alternative — file their taxes electronically.

At the end, Comptroller Peter Franchot appears and reminds viewers to file online because it’s faster and easier than mailing in a return.

“Bringing humor to the otherwise stressful topic of doing taxes is one way we hope to grab people’s attention,” Franchot said in a release.

The state spends $1.98 processing a paper return, compared to 38 cents for a return filed online. Online filing is free for people who meet the requirements.

McDaniel College student dies in hit-and-run crash WESTMINSTER – Police in Westminster say a McDaniel College student was killed in a hit-and-run accident on West Main Street.

Police say 19-year-old Thomas Rouleau of Gilboa, N.Y., died at the scene.

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CORRECTION Due to editing and reporting errors, a portion of the headlines and text of Monday’s story on Terrapin Pride Day were incorrect. Students aren’t focusing on textbook lobbying during the event because of differences between students and the administration on the issue.

Also, the university organized the event and transportation to Annapolis for participants, not the Student Government Association.

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TENURE, from Page 1 very nature of the proposal, saying the prospect of what appeared to be arbitrary punishment made them and their constituents uneasy.

“I am deeply troubled by this proposal,” history professor and university senator Gay Gullickson said. “It seems to me that this is a proposal based on a desire intended to catch a few people who are irresponsible and punish them. But most of us are doing exactly what we should be doing.”

Professors also criticized the draft for its vague language and perceived emphasis on punishment rather than con-

Students: Ruckus placed limits on music use longer be available to students.

Ruckus could not be reached for comment.

There were 11,300 subscribers to the Ruckus service at the university, Dickerson Johnson said. But many students said they were either unaware of the program or didn’t use it.

“There’s plenty of ways to get music. You don’t need Ruckus,” Vinay Mehar, a sophomore engineering major, said.

The basic music service did not allow users to transfer music to transportable music players or burn CDs and is not compatible with Mac computers, limiting its uses and its popularity.

“You spend time downloading it, and it’s just on your computer, and you can’t do anything with it,” said Mokshya Sharma, a junior physics major.

Adam Wilner, a sophomore government and politics and philosophy major, said he used Ruckus last year but forgot about it over the summer. He now just uses iTunes and suggested the university offer free iTunes downloads to students.

The university already has a relationship with iTunes since it began using iTunes U two years ago, but iTunes U supplies university and academicrelated content, not music, Dickerson Johnson said.

The Ruckus service provided more than 3 million songs to users who registered with their school e-mail address. The company also offered a subscription-based service called Ruckus-To-Go, which allowed users to download songs to a portable player for $20 per term. Users could also purchase individual tracks for 79 to 99 cents and albums for about $9.99.

Dickerson Johnson said because the music service ended without notice, OIT has just begun evaluating what its next step could be in finding another way to provide legal music to students.

Ruckus was the only free and legal, ad-supported entertainment service designed just for college students. Prior to Ruckus, the university used the Cdigix digital music service from spring 2005 until spring 2007, when the company withdrew from the market, according to OIT. A few months later, the university began its agreement with Ruckus. clevelanddbk@gmail.com

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“The problem is this document doesn’t specify how sharp a reduction in salary the punishment could possibly be,” physics professor and university senator Tom Cohen said. “Let’s say the review committee says, ‘Hey, this guy’s ridiculous. He should get a 92 percent decrease in salary.’ That would effectively be the end of tenure altogether.”

However, Ellin Scholnick, the associate provost for faculty affairs, who also serves on the task force, said devising a specific percentage is much easier said than done, as the appropriate amount would

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likely vary on a case-by-case basis.

“Salary reduction is only one possible penalty for underperforming faculty members,” said Adele Berlin, an English professor who chaired the committee. “There’s a lot of flexibility built into the proposal. And we tried to emphasize that the evaluations would be based on overall performance, not just one element.”

Some professors also said their departments already conduct evaluations, and implementing a similar policy across the university would not be a revolutionary change.

“Many departments have built-in reviews,” Scholnick

said. “I always receive all these wonderful announcements that talk about the accomplishments of faculty.

These evaluations would look at those accomplishments. We seem to be focusing on the tailend, whereas 95 percent of faculty are doing superlatively.”

But many faculty members left the meeting feeling dissatisfied and unconvinced, saying the symbolism of imposing such a policy is insulting.

“This will raise serious questions as to what degree the word ‘tenure’ retains its meaning,” sociology professor and university senator John Pease said. “It’s an insult to these tenured faculty who

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have worked hard to make this university what it is today.”

The task force was made up of six professors and one administrator. A proposal for post-tenure review was first included in the university’s strategic plan last year, but opposition from some university senators led to the creation of the task force to draw up the details of the plan.

The final proposal will be presented to the university senate next month. But because the senate is merely an advisory body, administrators could implement the plan despite faculty objections. langdbk@gmail.com

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Kirwan defends funding increase BUDGET, from Page 1 taxes, which are allocated to the fund.

However, university officials argued that the cut already occurred when O’Malley proposed the budget.

“Our response is the governor’s office already knew [HEIF] was underperforming,” said University System of Maryland lobbyist P.J. Hogan. “If you take that one off and say there was a misunderstanding, they recommended no further cuts.”

University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan said the reduction would be a “double cut.”

“We have already accommodated underfunding in the state budget,” Kirwan testified. “We strongly urge you not to adopt this recommendation because it would in effect make that reduction twice.”

The fund is the state’s first and only dedicated source of funding for higher education and is meant to provide a

buffer to prevent the severe tuition increases or budget decreases in the future.

While Kirwan disagreed with the proposed cut to the fund, both he and Board of Regents Chairman Cliff Kendall had more success defending the system’s budget increase during the hearing, which was held before the House Subcommittee on Education and Economic Development yesterday. The university system was one of the few areas receiving an increase in funding from the state under O’Malley’s proposal, which legislators can take away from but not add to.

The proposed increase is enough to cover increased costs from inflation.

Kirwan cited the system’s efforts in closing the achievement gaps plaguing minority and low-income students, promoting economic growth and eliminating wasteful spending in the system. He said the state was a poster child for its ability to grow a knowledgebased economy and provide

affordable education and promised committee members they would be pleased with their investment.

Committee members had few questions besides concerns voiced by Del. John Bohanan (D-St. Mary’s) about what the system is doing to deal with coming shortages of teachers and nurses and closing the achievement gap.

Bohanan said he would like to see the system study the gap further to make the best use of state money.

Kirwan said all of the system’s 11 colleges and universities were working toward eliminating the achievement gap within a decade.

“Quite frankly, as a state and as a nation, we are not going to be able to prosper if we don’t fix it,” he said.

The chancellor also pointed out the system’s cost containment policies, which require some departments to generate as much revenue as they spend, a hiring freeze that began in November and a system-wide construction back-

log of more than $1 billion as reasons the budget should remain intact.

Officials were pleased the tuition freeze and budget increase were left untouched but said the budget situation was far from settled and dependent on external events.

“I think everyone is kind of on hold to see stimulus package and revenue estimates,” Kirwan said. “Once those numbers come in, then we’ll see a flurry of activity with the budget.”

The passage of a federal economic stimulus package, which is expected to include both extra funding for state governments and for higher education, is anticipated sometime soon. State revenue estimates are due in March.

Hearings focusing on the budgets of each institution in the system, including this university, will happen before the end of the General Assembly session. sticedbk@gmail.com

News correspondent Kimberly Dozier talks to students in the Art/Sociology building Monday evening. Dozier was critically injured in 2006 as a reporter in Iraq. JAMES B. HALE/ THE DIAMONDBACK

Students struggle to find legislators LOBBY, from Page 1 home legislators, and graduate students were upset over what they said was a lack of attention paid to their issues.

A key part of the plan this year was to lobby legislators from students’ home districts and have out-of-state students lobby College Park representatives. But some students’ representatives were nowhere to be found during the night, and students who talked to College Park legislators were told by two state delegates their efforts would be better spent elsewhere.

Before the lobbying began, university President Dan Mote briefly greeted students in the House of Delegates building Sachs then addressed the crowd and gave a short training session that explained what students should do to maximize the effectiveness of their time with their legislators.

“It’s important for us to emphasize why the tuition freeze is so important,” Sachs told the group.

“You’re not expected to be an expert. You’re a citizen with a concern.”

Steve Glickman, a Buffalo, N.Y., native, represented out-of-state students and visited Delegate Ben Barnes (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park, to discuss the tuition freeze Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) proposed.

While Barnes listened to student concerns, he told them to target the members of the appropriations committee, which is in charge of the budget.

Glickman, a sophomore government and politics major who is an SGA commuter legislator and an undergraduate senator for BSOS, said he was impressed with the number of participants.

“Last year, I don’t know if there was more than 20 students,” he said. “And there’s people here on behalf of other people.”

Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who also represents

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College Park, told students they have her vote and gave students copies of the committee members’ names and office numbers.

“You have our support in the 21st,” she said, referring to the legislative district containing College Park. “Don’t even waste your time with us.”

“You have an hour to really make a difference,” Barnes added. “Follow up with e-mails and phone calls. It’s all in the numbers.”

While some undergraduate students were shooed away by legislators who now support increasing state higher education funding, graduate students were upset over the focus on undergraduates.

Of the 75 students, seven were graduate students.

“We’ve been totally sidelined at

this event,” said Anu Kothari, the president of the Graduate Student Government. “We didn’t get access to any list. We weren’t asked to participate.”

An example of the clash between undergraduates and the GSG is over a textbook affordability act, which the SGA supports.

“It restricts academic freedom and faculty, and it could have unintended consequences, and it definitely needs amendments,” said Roberto Munster, the GSG director of operations.

Sophomores Brian Burrell, an English and government and politics major, and Vinnie Ochoa, a government and politics major, represented students from Rockville and visited several delegates before looking for their state senator, Jennie M. Forehand (D-

Montgomery).

When they discovered Forehand wasn’t in her office, they revised their plan of action.

“I can understand,” Burrell said, when he saw Forehand’s door was closed. “It’s past 7 o’clock, and it’s a three-month job.

They are usually very open to having people talk to them.”

The students decided to visit the offices of Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park, and Sen. Paul Pinsky (DPrince George’s) instead.

“It’s great to have students down here tonight,” Rosapepe said. “We see a lot less from students than we do from other lobbyist groups.” bottgedbk@gmail.com

experiences in Iraq.

Sue Kopen Katcef, the faculty advisor for this university’s chapter of SPJ, said she saw Dozier speak last summer.

“I just said, ‘She’d be great for our students,’ many of whom are interested in foreign correspondence and covering warzones,” she said.

Kopen Katcef was right.

The event was moved last minute to accommodate the crowd, which Katcef said was larger than any of the organizers had anticipated.

For about an hour, Dozier spoke about her career, starting with her beginning as a freelance reporter. And by the time the United States invaded Iraq, Dozier was an affiliate television correspondent reporting in Iraq for CBS, she said.

Dozier began filing highprofile stories from Baghdad, traveling to sites of bombings and interviewing residents, many of whom blamed the United States for not protecting them from the violence, she said.

Despite waning public interest, rising costs and personal attacks from conservatives, Dozier continued to report.

But the danger was closing in.

Unlike the Red Cross and U.N. officials, journalists were no longer off-limits, and the threat of kidnapping or attack was very real. Security costs exceeded $1 million per month.

To combat this threat, Dozier practiced “ninja reporting” — a tactic she described as interviewing on the street for 15 minutes at a time before leaving the scene.

“We estimated that was

how long it would take before the insurgents realized we were there, went to get their hidden weapons and came back to take us,” she said.

But no amount of experience could have prepared Dozier for the attack in May 2006.

Insurgents in the area may have been tipped off that her team of journalists would be in the area that day, she said, noting though nothing is known for sure, it is likely they were the targets of the car bomb that nearly cost her the career she worked so hard to cultivate.

Yet after more than two dozen surgeries to repair her legs and more than a year of recovery, Dozier got back to work.

She traveled around, speaking with military leaders about her experiences in Iraq and telling her story on CBS Flashpoint.

“Imagine what it’s like to have a colleague try to make you cry for hours on end, and then watch it on TV with music,” she said.

Eventually, Dozier went on to write a book, Breathing the Fire, about the incident and her recovery in 2008.

Dozier said the same tenacity and perseverance that earned her a career in journalism also fueled her recovery. Doctors were skeptical she would ever walk again and several times discussed amputating her right leg, but Dozier ran a 10k race last year and is entered to run the Marine Corps Marathon on April 1.

“If there’s anything I got out of this,” she said. “It’s that now I’m just about fearless.” abdilldbk@gmail.com

All plastics to be recycled under new university plan Officials say recycling all seven types of plastic will help environment, campus

BY RICH ABDILL Staff writer

The university has made a deal with the recycling firm that serves the campus and is now able to recycle all seven categories of plastics, an expansion from the two types it accepted previously.

Most plastic containers come stamped with a number on the bottom to indicate what type of plastic it is made of. Until today, the university could only recycle types 1 and 2 — mostly beverage bottles and milk jugs. It now has the capability to recycle all seven categories of plastic, which include cling wraps, hard plastic containers and the carry-out salad containers used in the dining halls.

Officials said the impact on the

campus’s recycling output couldn’t be immediately known but expect many of the gains to be in bulk recycling done by university departments.

“Now, we can recycle things like old trash cans, milk crates and bread trays. We’re expecting to see a lot more coming out of the dining halls now that we can collect the harder plastics,” said Sandra Dykes, the assistant director for administrative services with Building and Landscape Services.

She said the university previously threw away many things they can now recycle.

The program is effective immediately, but recyclables must be free of food and other contaminants to be processed. This contamination of the recycling stream is the only real

concern, said Mark Stewart, campus sustainability coordinator with the Office of Sustainability.

Dykes, who negotiated the agreement with World Recycling, the recycling firm that serves the university, said it will require only minimal effort from students. “[Executives at World Recycling] were hesitant in accepting the other plastics from the university because it all has to be clean.

For instance, we can recycle yogurt cups now, but you might have to give them a little rinse before you do,” said Dykes.

Harry Teabout, director of Building and Landscape Services, emphasized awareness.

“Recycling is an education thing,” he said. “If we can get informed about it and understanding it, we’re

one step ahead of the game.”

The new guidelines now allow the university to recycle the plastic lids of dumpsters, many of which are being removed and replaced with sturdier models, according to Teabout. He said there are plans to replace 200 dumpster lids around the campus, all of which will be recycled.

Dykes said there are plans to get the word out to students, faculty, and staff as soon as possible, but students can start recycling under the new guidelines immediately.

“We’re working on crafting a communication piece with Facilities Management, but we didn’t want to waste time,” she said. “It’s good news for everybody.”

WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN? Most plastic products are stamped with a number inside the circular recycling logo— the university can now accept all seven types: 1: Polyethylene terephthalate — most soda and water bottles 2: High density polyethylene — milk and water jugs 3: Polyvinyl chloride — cling wrap 4: Low density polyethylene — sandwich bags 5: Polypropylene — hard containers; some cups and bowls 6: Polystyrene — clam-shell containers; Lean Cuisine containers 7: Other, most likely polycarbonate — water cooler jugs

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uring his two tours of duty in Iraq, senior Scott Wilson had the Mary- 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 will provide veterans with land flag stitched to his uniform. But despite honorably represent- financial aid, it only covers as much as in-state tuition. Thus, students in a ing this state and the country, despite his six years of service in the position like Wilson’s will still pay out-of-state rates for states they represented Maryland national guard — during which he survived no fewer than in the war.

This is an issue that policymakers safely removed from the three roadside bomb attacks — at this institution, Wilson is conflict should pick up on behalf of Wilson and the thousands considered a foreigner. of other troops who will soon return from the Middle East.

You see, Wilson is a native of Virginia. Upon returning to In 2004, Anthony Brown, Maryland’s current lieutenant govthe United States, Wilson applied for in-state tuition at this If you serve in the ernor, spent about 10 months in Iraq, where he worked to university. After tackling what he described as a mountain of Maryland national guard, provide humanitarian assistance. His personal experience paperwork, Wilson learned his time spent in Iraq interprovides him with undeniable authority on the issue; he rupted his in-state residence and made him ineligible for the you should be able to use it to lead state lawmakers to remove the red tape lower tuition rate. Administrators said Wilson deserved inreceive in-state tuition at should constraining returning service members’ opportunities. state tuition, but it wasn’t their call to make. Their hands Maryland universities.

Time spent representing a state in armed conflict should were tied by policies of the Board of Regents and of the count toward residence in that state. Wilson may have been state.

Both the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama’s administration are born in Virginia, but he stood on the front lines of war as a Marylander. Wilplanning troop drawdowns in Iraq. With thousands of troops returning home, son is now in talks with legal counsel and declined to disclose his next step, stories like Wilson’s may soon become all too common. And while the Post- but his fighting should have ended overseas.

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Environmentalism: Why’s the green so white?

[To fully address the issue of minority participation in environmental initiatives, this column is the first in a two-part series.]

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he environmental movement has a big problem. In every environmental group I’ve met or seen, the overwhelming majority of the members and meeting attendees are white.

Why? Outdated communication on seemingly far-off problems that people cannot immediately see or feel.

Take people in polar bear suits.

The polar ice caps are melting thousands of miles away. The planet is going to warm by a few degrees over the next 50 years! Support clean energy, and there will be green jobs for you. Nature and wildlife must be protected because it’s beautiful. It might cost money to be more sustainable and ecofriendly, but we need to protect our ecosystems. The only way all of this could sound less compelling is if it were followed by a wink.

There’s often a recognition by

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DERNOGA environmentalists that there needs to be more diversity in the movement. One of the first ideas that people excitedly bring up in practically every brainstorming session for a campaign is “Let’s reach out to the black churches, the cultural student groups, the minority communities!” This is usually about as far as things go. The message stays the same. The outreach is poor at best and usually nonexistent.

Then the opposition to a green initiative stands up and says, “This bill being pushed by the lattedrinking hippies will make [blank] more expensive.” The progressive community is split in two, and the bill stalls. Minorities are told they will be on the losing end of legislation sought by green groups. The

tragedy is they are predominantly the casualties of environmental degradation and pollution.

Pollution sources are often conveniently placed in low income areas, where people stand the least chance of successfully opposing the project. Sixty-eight percent of black people live within 30 miles of a coal plant. Seventy-one percent live in counties that violate federal air pollution standards. In all 44 metropolitan areas in the country, blacks are more likely than whites to be exposed to higher concentrations of toxins in the air. Hispanic and black children have far higher rates of asthma-related emergency room visits than whites.

Hartford, Conn., a city with a large minority community, has the most trash incineration in the state, as well as eight waste facilities and four power plants. There are also the highest asthma rates in the country, with 41 percent of children and 48 percent of Latino children having the condition. In the entire country, children with asthma missed 12.8 million school days in

2003. Consider that minorities also have less access to health care, and it’s clear pollution damages these communities.

I’ll barely touch on global warming. More frequent heat waves and stronger storms cause greater spread of disease. Data from past heat waves show black heat-related mortality rates to be 5 percent higher than whites. Poor access to health care makes the spread of malaria and dengue fever into southern states a major issue. Anyone who witnessed Hurricane Katrina knows that lower income people have a much harder time getting out of the way of a disaster. I could draw dots all day for you to connect.

Catch your breath — if you’re fortunate enough to live in a community where the specter of asthma isn’t a constant worry. Read part two next Tuesday for how I think we should move forward.

Matt Dernoga is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at mdernoga@umd.edu.

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s I sat in the second row of my social psychology class, my professor began his lecture on the evolutionary model of psychology with a disclaimer.

What he was about to teach us, he said, did not necessarily represent his views and did not necessarily need to reflect the views of his students. Rather, he was teaching the principles of a theory that has scientific support. He was not advocating it or trying to denigrate creationism, but, rather, he was merely teaching us what is believed by many scientists. And then he began his lecture.

As this was the first time evolution had been taught extensively in one of my college courses, the way he introduced this topic gave me great comfort. He presented the material not as a solid, known fact, but as a theory, defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a plausible or scientifically accept-

able general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena.”

The concept of evolution, originally articulated by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species, was designed to explain speciation and presented natural selection and the branching off of ancestors as the two principal means for our current existence. Although it is supported by a great deal of scientific evidence and by many scientists, it still remains a theory and should be presented as such. This does not mean every class that mentions evolution should present and explain other theories as well, but simply noting other theories exists, the way my social psychology professor did, is necessary and appropriate. Other professors, however, have not been so considerate.

Many professors, especially in the chemical and life sciences college, take the fact that evolution is a theory for granted. They are so accustomed

SARON

YITBAREK to evolution being taught with certainty, as the only logical possibility, that they speak of it with little room for argument or even question. They speak of evolution as a fact, as a known and sure phenomenon. While I am certainly not saying evolution should be kept out of classrooms, it doesn’t hurt to note that evolution is an explanation of how we arrived and that like most things scientific, it is fallible.

But those who do not choose their words wisely, who refuse to acknowledge that other theories of life exist, have tasted the consequences. Some

professors who have gone as far as to openly dismiss the idea of a creator in their lectures have been complained about by many students who take personal offense. While most are not so bold, they can, in their offhand comments and subtle creator-bashing remarks, come off as very condescending to religion in general. They probably don’t even know it.

Yes, evolution is an important topic that should be examined and taught, especially in a life-sciences class.

However, doing so in a way that puts down and dismisses any other possible explanation of life is offensive and disrespectful. Professors new and old alike should take that into consideration the next time evolution comes up in a lecture.

Saron Yitbarek is a sophomore psychology major. She can be reached at yitbarekdbk@gmail.com.

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FRED KAHN I had arrived in the United States on March 3, 1952, from Belgium, having survived the Holocaust. I must admit my ignorance — until then, I was totally unaware of people discriminating against others because of their different skin color.

At the time, a black person could not use the same restroom as white people, a black person could not be served in some restaurants, and a black student at this university could not sit down and eat at a restaurant in College Park.

A black person could not play football, basketball or any other sports at the university.

At that time, some of the humiliation inflicted on black people was almost the same as that inflicted by the Nazis on Jews in Germany in the 1930s, well before they were deported to death camps. For me, this is an intensely personal issue — the parents who reared me were among those sent to the death camps.

That was the America I discovered to my surprise. Before my immigration, I was unaware of the segregation in the U.S. Given my personal history, I instinctively dismissed any such behavior as abhorrent. I am pleased to report that I was always open-minded.

For example, when I was in the U.S. Army in 1953 (soon after it was desegregated), I had as many black buddies as any other.

In my junior year at the university, I was appointed to the U.S. delegation to the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. The dean asked me to room with a darkskinned fellow worker because nobody else wanted to room with him. Among those who refused were lighterskinned “Negroes,” the term in usage at the time.

During the six months I roomed with John Yancey from Brooklyn, N.Y., I learned a great deal about the life of darker-skinned Americans. He and I were pictured together in 1958 in a national black magazine.

In November 1959, I was involved in an event that led to the desegregation of restaurants in College Park. A fellow black student was discriminated against and refused service in my company. The incident was reported in a local paper and featured in an editorial

by The Diamondback.

Fifty years ago, an exhibit featured at the U.S. Pavilion at the world’s fair, titled “Unfinished Business” and depicting racial problems in the U.S., was forced to close during the fair because of political pressure. The exhibit depicted the unfinished business regarding equality of Americans and admitted the then-awful discrimination still rampant in 1958.

Ten of my colleagues, including my roommate, who worked at the exhibit, as well as Professor Emeritus Charles Butterworth, wrote a letter of protest to then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who acknowledged it in a response to the American guides of the U.S. Pavilion.

Although economic problems are at center stage as the nation’s unfinished business, the U.S. has to grapple with the “unfinished business” of eliminating any trace of racial discrimination wherever it now subtly exists. The election of President Barack Obama is a major step forward, but it does not mean that the still-lingering racial discrimination in some areas can be dismissed. It does not mean that the gap in education, especially substantial among blacks and minorities, can be ignored. As students at this university, you all have a responsibility to seize the moment and contribute to a more perfect country where all skin colors, nationalities and religions are equally respected.

Fred Kahn is a university alumnus who graduated in 1960 and a former Diamondback columnist. He can be reached at lejeune42@yahoo.com.

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- Anonymous posting on Juicycampus.com From the Feb. 6 issue of The Diamondback

MARTY BOCK [Editors’ note: Every other week, The Diamondback will publish a pair of opposing positions on a contentious issue from student groups and local leaders.]

At such a big university, it is important for every student to find his or her own way of making it feel small. Greek life serves not only as one of the most noticeable dimensions of the university, but it is also one of the most rewarding and wellrounded experiences that college has to offer. With diverse membership and unique programming, the more than 50 fraternities and sororities of the university represent more than 10 percent of our undergraduate body and incorporate daily values of sisterhood, brotherhood, scholarship, service and community.

Members of the Greek community raise more money for philanthropy, commit more hours of community service and receive a higher GPA than the average student at the university. They also get the closeknit feeling that is central to the community of men and women that choose to join a variety of Greek organizations. Each group offers a different charity partnership, a unique social and service agenda and a number of peers with similar goals and values and a shared spirit for Greek life.

“Going Greek” at hundreds of colleges around North America can be an enriching experience for hundreds of thousands of undergraduates every year and creates bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood that reach across the country. Joining a fraternity or sorority can be rewarding anywhere; however, at this university, the Greek community takes particular pride in our activities and our accomplishments. Fraternities and sororities here regularly receive top awards from their national organizations and are the top contributors to local and national charities as well as community service organizations.

Over the past year, the university’s Greek organizations have supported charities MARTY such as the BOCK Juvenile DiaIFC PRESIDENT betes Research Foundation, the Alzheimer’s Association, the Hero Campaign for Designated Drivers, the Boomer Esiason Foundation, the Food & Friends soup kitchen, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Relay for Life, the Ronald McDonald House and many more.

Fraternities and sororities also make academics a top priority. In spring 2008, sorority members earned an average GPA of 3.31, compared to the average GPA of 3.18 among all undergraduate women. Similarly, the fraternity member’s average GPA of the same semester was 3.12, while the average GPA for all undergraduate men was 3.01.

While negative stereotypes and rumors surround Greek life at this university and nearly every other college in the country, Greeks at this university are taking it upon themselves to solve and overcome the issues that all undergraduates here face. With the activities of National Hazing Prevention Week, a speaker series on underage drinking and informational programs on eating disorders and sexual assault prevention, members of fraternities and sororities are working to not only overcome their stereotypes but to face the many challenges that all college students deal with.

Students who join Greek life at the university have found a balanced and well-rounded college lifestyle, complete with great experiences, true friendships and a meaning behind the good work these men and women do for their groups, their university and their local communities. From the enormous spirit at this university’s homecoming to alumni networking, from career fairs to educational and social justice speakers, Greeks seek to make the most of their four years at the university and create an experience that will last a lifetime.

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Marty Bock is the president of the Interfraternity Council. He can be reached at mbock@umd.edu.

- District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich From the Feb. 4 issue of The Diamondback

Foreign Correspondence

The Great Debate

To rush ...

“A lot of kids are here in the summer and they still have parties.”

The Great Debate

Travel: Searching for the real Thailand

W

ithout much mental preparation, I have found myself in some sort of backpacking Mecca. In Bangkok, I am surrounded by foreigners who frequent Southeast Asia and travel around until they run out of (what is usually their parents’) money and return to whatever Western country spit them out in the first place. They are certainly a type: They wear the telltale signs of traveler-hood with pride, and you can usually even easily identify which country they hail from merely by their haircuts. Now, these are the travelers, not to be mistaken with tourists, lest you get hit over the head with a Birkenstock. But really, what is the difference?

Most importantly, travelers won’t go anywhere or do anything that is too “touristy.” For some (convenient) reason, this doesn’t include the main drag for foreigners in Bangkok: Khao San Road. The only Thai people surrounding this street for about a kilometer are the ones selling you Westernized Pad Thai or offering to massage your feet.

However, don’t mention visiting Phuket, as too many footprints have been left on that beach — why not try another, less touristy one? While the sentiment is valid, the result is going to another island that may not have the same tourist destination reputation as Phuket, but will still have the same number of white people.

While even I am having a hard time

ESTI

FRISCHLING distinguishing myself from them, I find the traveling type to be agreeable, but extremely elitist. Their commitment to travel stems from a yearning to gain worldly experience and somehow contextualize their upbringing within a global framework. This means getting to know the ways other people live and work, and accepting it as an equally significant way of life. It’s also — obviously — an extremely good time.

But somehow this common philosophy doesn’t lead to real open-mindedness at all; in fact, it is severely alienating. Somehow, the spicier you like your food, the cooler you are. Likewise, the more countries you’ve been to and the more tattered your passport is, the cooler you are. The farther away your country is by proximity and culture to America, the cooler you are. The more colleges you’ve dropped out of to “just travel for a little while,” the cooler you are.

A sense of reverence has been placed upon this spontaneous, irresponsible and “authentic” way of seeing other countries. All of this seems pretty awesome, right? The problem is, it’s all just a ruse. None of these people know what it’s like to live in a fishing

slum five minutes away from where they are currently downing pints. Not one of them knows what it’s like to drive the ferry from coast to island, dropping off drunken young people on Thursday and picking up burnt-out and hungover young people on Sunday.

It’s insulting to insinuate you are getting a “real Thai experience.”

This isn’t, of course, to say that I am.

I do want to learn as much as I can. I do want to try everything once and see things in the most authentic way possible, but that doesn’t mean adopting this pretentious traveler’s attitude that most people get handed to them at the door with their entry visas. I’m not going to apologize for being American.

I’m not going to apologize for the fact that most Americans only speak one language. I’m not going to apologize that I’ve been to McDonald’s three times since I’ve been in Thailand, and I don’t like spicy food.

I’m here to travel and learn just like everyone else. Everyone, the travelers and the tourists, are guests in this country. And what I will apologize for is the disrespectful feelings of entitlement so many of us feel when we swing on our backpacks. Because I don’t know if you noticed, but mine has about 10 different airline tags on it.

Malcolm Harris is a sophomore English and government and politics major. He can be reached at harrisdbk@gmail.com.

Stefanie Williams is a former Diamondback opinion editor. She can be contacted at stefaniewilliams25@yahoo.com.

“ “ “ “ “ “ I’d say the combination of alcohol and weapons is a bad idea.”

With the shootings at Northern Illinois and Virginia Tech, why not minimize the risk? I can’t see why Josh Loewenstein someone would Senior need a gun in Government and politics and journalism College Park.”

Ben Kirshner Junior Criminology and criminal justice

Etana Kenter Freshman Letters and sciences

I don’t really think you’d need a [gun], but if you think you need one, go ahead.”

Bill Lipsky Senior Criminology and criminal justice

Andy Jordan Junior Kinesiology

[Gun owners] have to run through background tests, so if anyone wants to have a gun, they should be able to.”

I think it’s funny the legislature is trying to ban guns when they’re already not allowed, according to the student code of conduct.”

Corporations: You have no business here

W

hile I was on my computer procrastinating on doing my laundry this weekend, I ran into an ad that was possibly the most disturbing thing I’ve ever seen on the Internet — and that’s saying something. I was visiting Salon.com, one of my favorite lefty news and commentary sites.

Since I don’t pay for a subscription, I had to view an ad before entering the site. The ad was ostensibly for a contest on Open Salon, the site’s new media portion that allows readers to contribute to the site through their own commentary.

The window invited readers to answer the question, “Realistically, what is your ultimate vision for this country as it relates to sustainable mobility?” for a possible cash prize. Lexus sponsored the ad and contest, and the window had a big, labeled picture of their new hybrid HS250h sedan. Sometimes it’s hard to see how everyday corporate advertisements can delineate the lines of our debate on tough contemporary issues. Then again, sometimes it’s not.

Lexus inviting Salon’s readers to write about realistic sustainable mobility is like Utz offering a prize for consumers who can guess the best chipand-pretzel manufacturer. The answer isn’t Frito Lay. In the same vein, when

MALCOLM

HARRIS Lexus asks what “realistic sustainable mobility” means, they’re not asking about bike-riding or public transit.

Lexus’ use of the word “realistically” is especially brazen. What is realistic in terms of public policy solutions should not be up to corporate interests.

Expanding and improving public transportation may not be a realistic solution to Lexus, but it certainly deserves a place on America’s range of solutions.

What makes the ad doubly offensive is the people to whom it was directed.

Open Salon is the site’s attempt to integrate new media into a traditional (albeit online) format. The logic behind Open Salon is the same logic that underlies Wikipedia and President Obama’s transition team’s Change.gov.

It’s the line of thought that distrusts conventional sources of information and wonders if the rest of us can do better.

For a news and commentary site like Salon, a user forum like Open Salon is an admission that the traditional pun-

[Editors’ note: Every other week, The Diamondback will publish a pair of opposing positions on a contentious issue from student groups and local leaders.]

dits don’t have all the answers.

I’m particularly disappointed by Salon’s leadership. For one of the few outlets that provide real criticism of consumerism and the role of corporations, Salon was, at best, unthinking in accepting this ad.

What this ad proves is that corporations will learn to co-opt new media just as they learned to control the old.

If we allow interests that don’t represent the people-at-large to dictate the terms of our debate, we could easily lose any democratizing benefits of technology.

There are a lot of people telling us what “realistic” means. Fiberglass insulation must have sounded unrealistic to asbestos manufacturers, but we made the transition anyway. When we as a nation need to solve major problems such as the future of sustainable transportation, we need to look at all the options. A list of Lexus-approved solutions isn’t going to further the national debate over energy independence and global warming. We need precisely the opposite. We need unrealistic solutions.

Esti Frischling is a sophomore studio art major writing this semester from Thailand. She can be reached at estidbk@gmail.com.

The state is considering making guns illegal on college campuses.

Do you support this legislation?

Mike Rosenberg Freshman Letters and sciences

STEFANIE WILLIAMS

God, I’m old. It’s hard to imagine, freshmen, that four years ago I was exactly where you are. Living in Easton Hall, actually attending classes, thinking I was awesome, getting into Bentley’s with my ghetto fake ID. Rushing a sorority.

Yep, it’s been a while since I’ve been back to the campus, but something tells me the whole Greek scene is still the same. So when a Diamondback editor approached me to write a column about my experience with my former sorority, I figured, why not? I wish someone had done so before I rushed.

Now, look. This isn’t a sorority-bashing article; this isn’t a Bitter Betty getting her revenge on her old house, which I should mention I eventually dropped. In fact, I won’t name any houses. Everyone’s entitled to form his or her own opinions about each house. I won’t taint that process. However, what I think is important is the stuff they don’t tell you during rush, during pref night or during bid day.

First, and most importantly, certain houses haze. They can lie to you all they like, lie to the Panhellenic Association, lie to nationals, but the truth is, hazing happens. Other than being required to recite the Greek alphabet until we got it right (Alpha… gamma… delta?), my pledge class got off easy. However, horror stories span houses. Some embarrassing, some totally demeaning, some actually frightening and dangerous. I’ve heard of girls being told to eat an entire raw onion. I’ve heard of 3 a.m. wake-up calls demanding pledges show up to their house within 15 minutes (nothing like walking around College Park, alone, at 3 a.m., right ladies?). Ridiculous and embarrassing dance routines to be performed in public. You can be screamed at for not knowing a senior’s name. Being told to orgasm like a farm animal. And worst of all, I’ve seen girls being taken to fraternities on campus under the guise of a “retreat” to another college. They were left to get wasted, sleep on the floor and told, “We’re not responsible for what happens to you here.”

I watched one of my best friends get hazed for two months. Eventually, she too ended up dropping her house simply because she was so disgusted by the idea of indoctrinating girls into a cycle of hazing.

As for me? I dropped for entirely different reasons. My house became too demanding, too pushy, too forced.

Having worked with the men’s lacrosse team that spring, I missed a lot of events on weekends and got a lot of crap for it. I hated having to get dressed up for Monday meetings (70 girls and I have to dress business casual after rushing from class?). My house, at the time, was in debt, and we had no events, no formals, no crush parties. I was paying more than a grand a semester to eat awful food once a week and be told I wasn’t involved enough. It stressed me out that girls would comment on my whereabouts. I even got crap for missing a philanthropy event for my (biological) sister’s wedding rehearsal dinner. Not my scene.

I made it three more years without being part of the Greek system. I went to formals with some of my best guy friends who were in fraternities. I still partied with the lacrosse team. I still went to the bars. I still had an awesome social life. And I didn’t have to pay a grand a semester to do it.

Am I telling all my readers not to rush, not to join a sorority? Of course not. Some girls love it. Some girls make the best friends they’ll ever have in their houses. Houses do a lot of philanthropy work, and I’m sure a lot of girls have the time of their lives. But at 23, knowing what I know now, knowing who my true friends are, I would never go back and do it over. I would never let another girl make me feel so stressed about being accepted again.

Girls, go through rush. Enjoy it. Get excited when you get invited back to a house you like, cry outside the Colony Ballroom in Stamp Student Union after you get rejected from a house you loved (oh, it happens). But if nothing else, know exactly what you’re getting into before you pledge a house. And above all, stand up for yourself. You don’t need to let other girls treat you like shit to have a good time, trust me.

at issue I have too many crime alerts on my BlackBerry as it is.”

... or not to rush?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If it’s worth having, it’s worth asking for — and you’re going to have to make your desires clear before you start getting what you want.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be interested in only the best, but for starters be willing to settle for second best — and then work your way up.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ll be concerned with issues of quality control, at home and at the workplace. You’re not interested in the same old thing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You can join with another to maximize potential — and future gains. This is a partnership you may want to develop further.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Someone in your inner circle is likely to make demands on you that take you away from your central purpose.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can expect a family member to get into a little trouble that only you can help him or her get out of before the day is through.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — The help you receive isn’t likely to help — at least not in the way you need or desire. Be clearer in your expectations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re trying to get a solid start, but circumstances may be conspiring against you at this time.

A delay may be in order.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Brook no interruptions as you strive to make clear what must be done — and when, and how.

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REVIEW | DAN AUERBACH

A CHANGE IN KEYS The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach scores big with his solo debut

BY ZACHARY HERRMANN

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Contrary to the popular idiom, some people in the musical world are making them like they used to.

And few have been as (artistically) successful in doing so as Dan Auerbach.

By day, the thick-bearded Akron, Ohio, rocker tears one mean riff after another in the grittiest guitar-drum duo this side of The White Stripes — The Black Keys. The group is unquestionably a full-time commitment. But somehow, in a year that saw the band release and tour behind one of its finest albums, Attack & Release, Auerbach found time to produce three other groups in his selfmade Akron Analog studio, most notably singer Jessica Lea Mayfield’s critically lauded debut.

A little more than a month into 2009, Auerbach is showing

Auerbach may be best known as half of The Black Keys, but in 2008, he also produced three albums at his own Akron Analog studio. Here's a breakdown: JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD — WITH BLASPHEMY SO HEARTFELT With Auerbach's guiding hand, 19-year-old singer Jessica Lea Mayfield put out one of 2008's most beautiful albums. Mayfield's sleepy-eyed emotion clicks in perfectly with the subtly sparse instrumentation.

HACIENDA — LOUD IS THE NIGHT Hacienda — currently Auerbach's touring band — debuted strong on Loud is the Night, a sunny throwback to The Zombies, Beach Boys and other trippy retro outfits. The production is incredibly crisp and straightforward — no gimmicks necessary.

BUFFALO KILLERS — LET IT RIDE These guys really know how throw down a stoned groove. Out of Akron Analaog's 2008, Let it Ride was the least interesting, but it's enough to get your buzz going. no signs of slowing down in terms of quality or quantity. Keep It Hid — the multi-instrumentalist’s first release as a solo artist — has the same wonderful texture of previous Akron Analog albums. The album’s comfortably worn edges are equally indebted to Auerbach’s penchant for vintage rock and blues and his careful attention to sound.

Attack & Release gave plenty of reassurance The Black Keys are no one-trick pony. Keep It Hid extends a little more on Auerbach’s versatility as a songwriter, exposing just how much he is capable of.

While the album is certainly realized as a whole, two songs in particular rise above the other 12 (at about 50 minutes, Keep It Hid is no small endeavor). “Whispered Words,” a song originally penned by Auerbach’s father, has all the aching melody and weariness of an early Rolling Stones ballad. It is quite possibly the most beautiful song Auerbach has ever sung.

That is, until he closes the album with the folkie lullaby “Goin’ Home.” There’s a real timeless quality to nearly everything Auerbach sings about — loneliness, broken love, death and all other things cheery and uplifting. Somewhere around the delicate bottleneck solo, it hits you: This song could easily have come from any number of classic albums dating between 1965 and 1974.

The rest of the album could not possibly match the power and allure of these two songs.

Still, it’s not so far off. Auerbach knows just how to reel you into his darkness.

He has already proven himself to be no mere revisionist, and he does so time and again

most definitely hot: RADIOHEAD AND THE USC MARCHING BAND — “15 STEP” While three-fifths of Radiohead wasn’t involved in the band’s first-ever Grammy performance, it didn’t stop the band from blowing the proverbial roof off the Staples Center. Thom Yorke danced like a maniac, Jonny Greenwood played guitar and the University of Southern California marching band managed to reinvent the In Rainbows opener as a marching band stomp. Perhaps the Trojans will add it to its repertoire.

M.I.A., KANYE WEST, JAY-Z, LIL WAYNE AND T.I. — “SWAGGA LIKE US” With a black and white broadcast, a new name (The Rap Pack) and an-about-to-give-birth M.I.A. in tow, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne and T.I. ripped through their Grammywinning track, “Swagga Like Us,” in a performance that — dare we say — was better than the recording. Dressed in black tuxes, each rapper spit his or her verse passionately, with a pregnant M.I.A. bouncing around stage — what a story she’ll be able to tell her kid, who was due that night.

most definitely cold: U2 — “GET ON YOUR BOOTS” U2 opened the awards with a karaoke machine, an iTunes-like visualizer and plenty of boots. The first-ever live performance of the single from the band’s new album, No Line on the Horizon, featured nonsensical lyrics, an underwhelming energy and Bono removing his sunglasses. Yikes.

TAYLOR SWIFT AND MILEY CYRUS — “FIFTEEN” We’ll be upfront, we’re not the biggest fans of country, but even supporters would admit this was bad. Billed as the first-ever duet between the two (as if we were expecting more), 19-year-old Taylor Swift and 16-year-old Miley Cyrus joined forces for Swift’s “Fifteen.” While Swift sounded OK, Cyrus sounded awful, proving her singing voice is in nowhere near the same league as Swift’s. Perhaps it was singing someone else’s song, but in the future, she should stick to “just being Miley.”

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on Keep It Hid. There’s an uproarious melding of psychedelia, blues and soul in the hip-shaking crunch of “I Want Some More” and “Mean Monsoon.”

At a few turns, the album suffers slightly from too much of a good thing, especially late in the game. On face value alone, there’s nothing too wrong with “Street Walkin’” other than that its deletion would probably move things along more swiftly. Auerbach isn’t a man to be rushed, and it’s definitely a good thing to let the songs run loose and maintain their live feel. However, the repetition in the more riff-based tunes mars things a little with a hefty 14-song track list.

Auerbach also gets a bit tripped up on one overly sweet ballad, “When the Night Comes,” on which Mayfield accompanies him. Nothing about the lyrics rings false — “When the night comes/ And you lay your weary head to rest/ No more trials/ No more tests/ When the night comes” — but the singer just feels a bit out of place.

Really, though, it’s a minor quibble. Only 29 years old, Auerbach has an amazing command over everything passing through his hands, whether he’s behind the soundboard, in front or both. His tight-knit group of collaborators — Auerbach’s Uncle Jim, Mayfield, Bob Cesare, engineer Mark Neill and guitarist James Quine — work together seamlessly in creating what is very much a full band album.

Along with M. Ward, Jack White and some other of this generation’s steadfast champions of analog, Auerbach makes one hell of a case as to why everyone’s better off going back to the basics. Keep It Hid creaks, blares and whispers with personality.

If the album has a few blemishes here and there, Auerbach more than makes up for them with overall character. Whether you consider yourself a Black Keys fan or not, this one is a definite keeper.

REVIEW | LILY ALLEN

Still alright Lily Allen ditches her tabloid image on sophomore effort

BY KYLE LUCAS For The Diamondback

It hasn’t been very hard to keep up with Lily Allen’s life. Since the singer released Alright, Still in 2006, the 23-year-old has become a London tabloid fixture. From drunken exchanges with Elton John at an awards ceremony to wardrobe malfunctions (and her ubiquitous third nipple), the paparazzi have been there to document it all.

But lately, the singer has become a bit more reclusive. She stays at home, claims to have stopped doing drugs and has been out of the public eye. It’s all about to change, however, with Allen’s sophomore effort, It’s Not Me, It’s You. Gone are the reggae-tinged riffs and “Smile” of Alright, Still; in are big beats and danceable production. Allen has created the soundtrack to her nights out, and what a fun night it would be — if she still went out.

From opener “Everyone’s at It,” you can tell Allen followed through on her promise of taking her music in a new direction — a claim she made on her oft-read personal blog. With a synthesizer at the forefront and an infectious keyboard line, Allen will have fans bumping and bobbing to the beat — a theme of the album.

It’s Not Me manages to take Allen’s many influences and use each in the background of a dance track — for the most part. On “Never Gonna Happen,” accordion replaces guitar, giving the song a pop-minded Gogol Bordello feel.

And while Allen moves in several new musical directions, her talent for songwriting remains, though The Bird and The Bee’s Greg Kurstin co-wrote all the songs. She’s still pop’s reigning queen at being able to surprise you by throwing in a completely unexpected — and often vulgar — lyric behind a sun-soaked song.

On standout cut “Not Fair,” she manages to drop gems like, “I lie here in the wet patch in the middle of the bed/I’m feeling pretty damn hard done by absently just giving head.” And on “Him,” which finds Allen pondering the traits of a prospective boyfriend, she sings, “Do you think his favorite type of human is Caucasian/ Do you reckon he’s ever been done for tax evasion?” Surprising, if not slightly off kilter.

But her biting lyrics and satirical edge come through the fullest

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on “F--- You.” The song criticizes homophobia and close mindedness, but when looking at the song by the music and the way Allen delivers her vocals only, this is by far the cheeriest and brightest song on the album.

And while the album loses almost all its momentum in the last three tracks, due to a slowed tempo and loss of the overall danceability of the previous nine songs, it’s a fitting end to the album, showing Allen’s softer, more vulnerable side.

Simply put, It’s Not Me, It’s You is a fun album. You’ll dance, you’ll laugh and you might scratch your head, but Allen cements herself as Britain’s prime pop princess. klucas7@umd.edu

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Franklin is an answer to program’s big questions SCHIMMEL, from Page 10 positive vibe.

Friedgen still claims to have a few more years left in him, and it doesn’t appear he’s going to let anybody push him out the door before he’s ready to leave.

But Friedgen is soon to be the past. Franklin is going to be the future, and the Terps are better off for locking him up now. “[Franklin] is a winner in every sense of the word,” Yow said.

Friedgen’s detractors are lamenting the announcement as an indication of Franklin bringing more of the same.

They say it’s a safe move that will end up ensuring the program continues to run with the same philosophies Friedgen preaches now.

But even though Friedgen and Franklin said they share the same vision and many of the same core values, you have to believe that, when his time comes, Franklin is going to shape this program and give it his own identity.

This is the right move. It is a natural progression for the program and something that needed to be announced and agreed upon before Franklin went somewhere better.

In fact, it was probably already decided on when Franklin came back here before last season.

Making it official ensures the Terps’ stability in recruiting — where continuity is a good thing — and guarantees them a coach who will infuse

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new life and energy into what is becoming a slightly stale program after Friedgen rescued it at the beginning of the decade.

“I’ve been trying to change and make some adjustments and do the best I possibly can with areas that I think we can improve,” Franklin said. “So hopefully, when I do have the opportunity to take over, it won’t be radical changes, but it will be slight adjustments.

There are probably things I would put a little bit more of a focus on.”

Whether you like his coaching style or not, you can’t argue with Franklin’s ability as a recruiter.

He is widely considered one of the best in the nation; players seem to almost unanimously love him; and he will quiet the fears of potential recruits who may be worried about Friedgen leaving in the near future.

Franklin works tirelessly to scout players and to maintain a personal connection with them.

He has been known to keep consistent contact with players even after they have already committed to play for him.

Plus, unlike Friedgen, he is young and black, both attributes that allow him to relate to players on a level Friedgen is unable to.

Mike Farrell of Rivals.com said, when Franklin left to join the Green Bay Packers in 2005, it left a major void in the Terps’ presence in local recruiting. Farrell believes Franklin’s departure was a

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Ralph Friedgen (top) will hand over the reigns as Terp football head coach to James Franklin (bottom) in the future, but that date is not yet certain. PHOTOS BY JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

major factor in Penn State’s landing of several of this state’s top recruits for a few seasons, a point of bitterness among Terp fans.

It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that Franklin signed four four-star recruits for the Terps in his first year back.

“He’s been in every position he could be in as a coach,” Farrell said. “He knows everything there is to know about what kids are looking for these days.”

So while Friedgen may not be Bobby Bowden or Mack Brown — legendary coaches who have built their programs to the point where they will deserve a legacy hire after they leave — this move makes sense for different reasons.

James Franklin is the right person to lead the Terps into a new era.

You can tell just by looking at him. schimmeldbk@gmail.com

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gave the Terps (19-4, 7-2 ACC) a 81-75 lead with 46 seconds remaining and stopped the Eagles’ run, Coleman hit four free throws to milk the game away.

But the story wasn’t just two more standout performances from Coleman and Toliver, who scored 23 and 19 points, respectively. The Terps’ winning effort was helped in large part by three other double-digit scorers: Liles, center Lynetta Kizer and guard Marah Strickland.

“They’ve definitely been helping us a ton,” Toliver said of Liles’ and Kizer’s ability to pressure defenses. “With the ability to make the 15-point shot and go to the rim and run the floor, their versatility definitely is a huge complement to this team.”

The Terps’ defensive performance last night, however, wasn’t as sharp.

The Terps had trouble stopping Boston College (17-7, 5-4) from the start, as evidenced by the Eagles 68 percent shooting clip through the first 12 minutes. Some of those struggles were due to uncharacteristic scoring outbursts from Eagle role players.

But part of the problem was self-inflicted. The Terps got caught getting back late on defense after made baskets and allowed plenty of open looks from 3-point range when in their 2-3 zone defense in the first half.

“You want a grade?,” Coleman joked when asked to evaluate the Terps’ defensive performance.

“It needs to get better. It’s something that coach Frese talked to us about before the game, at half-

time and afterward, so we know it’s definitely something that we’re gonna need to get better at if we want to be successful come March and April.”

Still, lingering defensive issues couldn’t hold the Terps back last night. Trailing 29-34 with 5:05 remaining in the first half, the Terps began to show the firepower that makes them the ACC’s second-highest scoring offense.

After a 3-pointer from Toliver, Liles received a pass off a pick and roll with guard Sa’de Wiley-Gatewood and was immediately double-teamed. Instead of forcing up a contested shot, Liles quickly passed the ball along the baseline to a wide open Kizer, who was fouled on the successful lay-up.

After a Toliver baseline jumper and another 3-pointer, the Terps suddenly had a sixpoint lead. They would take a 4641 lead into the locker room and continued their stellar offensive execution with more nifty-passing plays inside and timely shooting from the perimeter during the second half.

“I just think we have dominant players at every position,” Coleman said. “At every position, we have somebody who can step up and lead us in scoring. I think that’s what makes us so great.”

As for the other side of the ball, the defensive intensity the Terps know they will need for a potential ACC championship run.

“Baby steps,” Coleman said.

“We’re just gonna look at the film and go from there. It’s not gonna get corrected overnight.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

Terps struggled without Bowie’s offensive spark BOWIE, from Page 10 committed 16 turnovers, including six from his replacement, Hayes.

Bowie is also one of the team’s top penetrators, and the Terps struggled to get into the lane Sunday, scoring just 14 points in the paint.

“Adrian gives you that explosion in the backcourt,” coach Gary Williams said. “He can drive through three guys and score all of a sudden and make a play that might be bigger than two points.”

At the 10 a.m. shoot-around, Bowie took foul shots and then sat down while his teammates practiced more intensively.

Georgia Tech sent a doctor to see him at noon, and according to Williams, the doctor noted “it was a pretty good case of the flu coming on.”

The guard took medicine to regulate his temperature but was still drained by gametime.

“I saw him a couple times; he was shivering over there on the bench,” Williams said. “He just didn’t have any legs or anything.

He was tired.”

At the 14:09 mark in the first half, Bowie subbed in. After five quick points by the Yellow Jackets, guard Cliff Tucker replaced Bowie at the next whistle 51 seconds later.

“We thought that if he warmed up hard, then didn’t

“Losing him is a big part of our team, but we fought through it tonight and got a W.”

“I saw [Bowie] a couple times; he was shivering over there on the bench.”

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start the game and then came in pretty quick, that would tell if he could play or not,” Williams said. “At least he would have gone game-speed in the warmup and see what that would do to him.”

It’s tough to quantify just how much Bowie was missed in the game. The Terps scored just 57 points, while they had averaged 72.4 heading into Sunday’s game.

But Bowie’s replacements weren’t the ones scoring below their averages. Tucker chipped in with eight points in 17 minutes, and Hayes hit a pair of 3pointers to kick-start the team.

Forward Dino Gregory said the Terps lacked a lot of fast break opportunities because Bowie wasn’t available to play.

“Adrian brings a lot of good things defensively and offensively, and losing him is a big part of our team, but we fought through it tonight and got a W,” Gregory added.

While exiting the arena after the game, Bowie’s mother Marsha Bowie said her son simply looked too tired and had too much medication in his system to be able to play at a high level.

“He tried, and that’s all you can ask a player to do,” Williams said. “He tried to play, and he couldn’t. We need him, and hopefully he’ll be back by Saturday.”

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ven when all you are doing is looking at him, James Franklin makes you feel good about the future of the Terrapin football program.

As Franklin sat at a table Friday next to current coach Ralph Friedgen and listened to Athletics Director Debbie Yow announce him to the press as the Terrapin football team’s head coach-in-waiting, Franklin exuded youthful energy, genuine confidence and natural charisma.

He sat up straight, looked physically fit and had an engaging smile. He had the look of somebody who had a lot more he wanted to accomplish and was

excited to get to work even if he’ll have to wait three more years.

Whether this is fair to Friedgen or not, I guess what I’m trying to say is Franklin didn’t look like Friedgen.

Friedgen has been successful and is well-liked and wellrespected by his players, but sitting with a morose look on his face directly to Franklin’s left, he didn’t give off quite the same

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Bowie incapacitated by flu on Sunday Guard has five-day break to recover

BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer

ATLANTA – At 9 a.m. Sunday,

Adrian Bowie, shown here against Miami, was too sick with the flu to play any more than 51 seconds against Georgia Tech on Sunday. JAMES HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

guard Adrian Bowie left his Westin hotel room in Atlanta and headed for the elevator for the team breakfast before leaving for the arena. Bowie felt sick, and paramedics came over to take a look at him.

The sophomore guard had a 102-degree fever and was in no shape to play a breakneck basketball game at Georgia Tech in 10 hours. So guard Eric Hayes started in his place, scored 15 points and helped the Terrapin men’s basketball team obtain its first road win.

Though Bowie’s absence may not have affected the result, the Terp offense, at times, looked like it sorely missed him. The Terps are fortunate to have a five-day break

before their next game against Virginia Tech on Saturday, which should be enough time for him to recover.

Without Bowie, the Terp offense lacked a key component, and the 57 points they scored as a team was just barely enough in the one-point victory. “He’s a great player, and we definitely could have used him tonight,� forward Dave Neal said from the visiting locker room after the game. “But it just shows that we’re not going to use that as an excuse. We came out here and just played hard and used what we had.�

A starter in the previous 16 games, Bowie has been the team’s main ball-handler at the beginning of games. Without him on the court, the Terps

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BALANCED ATTACK Terps nail 9-of-16 3-pointers in road win

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – All season, the Terrapin women’s basketball team has based its identity on a vaunted offensive attack. Whether their points come from a smoothly run pick-and-roll with forward Dee Liles, a bruising drive by forward Marissa Coleman or a fadeaway 3-pointer by guard Kristi Toliver, the No. 11 Terps’ identity is to score, and score in bunches, to win games.

That pure offensive willpower was on full display in a 85-81 win at Boston Col-

lege last night, despite a late ninepoint Eagle run that WOMEN’S threatened the BASKETBALL Terps’ once comfortNo. 11 TERPS. . . . . . . . 85 able 12-point lead.

Boston College . . . . . 81 “It was nice down the stretch,� coach Brenda Frese said. “I thought we were able to do a tremendous job staying composed, go up and make our free throws.�

After a Toliver 3-pointer over 6-foot-6 Boston College center Carolyn Swords

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