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Women’s basketball team can’t hang with Duke in second half

Heavy Rain aspires to be more than just a video game — and succeeds

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Monday, February 22, 2010

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Univ. aims to speed up financial aid for vets Overwhelming demand led to federal delays last semester

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

After processing delays left student veterans struggling to afford their education in the fall, the university is working to ensure veterans receive benefits that help pay for tuition, housing and books in a more timely manner this semester.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is working closely with universities to grant student veterans benefits granted under the new GI Bill, which applies to veterans who have served on active duty since Sept. 11, 2001. Because of the high volume of applications the VA received at the beginning of this academic year, the department had trouble processing all the requests, which left many veterans without benefits for months. University officials said some veterans at the university went without receiving educational benefits last semester.

“It was a difficult transition, and many students went without checks and funding for a number of months,”

Coach Gary Williams celebrates as he exits the court following the Terps’ last-second win against Georgia Tech.

ANSWERED PRAYER Tucker’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer rescues Terps in 76-74 win over Georgia Tech

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ANNAPOLIS 2010

Bill seeks to protect univ. reporters

Terrapin men’s basketball coach Gary Williams takes pride in preparation.

When the Terps, trailing by a point with 1.5 seconds remaining Saturday against Georgia Tech, found themselves with an inbounds play from near midcourt, Williams’ squad knew it had practiced for such a scenario.

The team works on similar set plays in the last 15 minutes of almost every practice — and nearly every time, the ball ends up in the hands of seniors Greivis Vasquez or Eric Hayes.

Naturally, with his team’s perfect

Fans, remember those last seconds | Page 8 home conference record hanging in the balance, the 21st-year coach designed a play for reserve swingman Cliff Tucker.

Tucker nailed a contested 3-pointer from the left corner as time expired to give the Terps a 76-74 win at Comcast Center. It was the Terps’ first game-winning shot as time expired since Drew Nicholas’s off-balance 3-pointer to beat UNC-Wilmington in the first round of

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Event shows diversity of black experiences

BY AMY HEMMATI Staff writer

Although Black History Month is dedicated to learning about the past and experiences of blacks in the United States, this history is typically presented as a monolithic experience that is true for all members of the race.

But Friday night, 11 students belted out poems and monologues intended to show that every person has unique expe-

riences, hardships and triumphs.

In the first-ever performance of The Black Monologues, students attempted to physically embody the university’s slogan for Black History Month — “Hear, Speak, See ... Us: Revolutionizing Black Empowerment” — by offering more than 130 attendees a glimpse into the experiences of black students. Each spoken word piece was an original student-

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MULTIMEDIA www.diamondbackonline.com Check out video of the poets and speakers at The Black Monologues show online.

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the 2003 NCAA Tournament.

After Vasquez seemingly won the game when he banked in a 40-foot runner just after the Terps called a timeout, Tucker took an inbounds pass from Hayes, pumped and fired the winning shot over Georgia Tech’s Glen Rice Jr. As the ball rattled into the hoop, Tucker sprinted around the court before being mobbed by teammates and several students underneath the basket.

“I dreamed about [hitting a gamewinning shot] a lot of times,” said Tucker, who finished with eight points in nine minutes. “I don’t practice it, but

Their stories, their voices

BY AMANDA PINO ANNAPOLIS – A bill that would allow student media organizations to keep the identity of confidential sources under wraps met little resistance in the state legislature Friday.

Although the state’s shield law protects professional journalists from revealing sources, notes or other information received in-confidence, wording in the law limits protection to journalists who are “employed.” Delegate Sandy Rosenberg (D-Baltimore City) sponsored the bill to amend the law to include what many say is a fundamental right of student reporters.

“Students working in classes or students who aren’t being paid to work on a school newspaper aren’t given the rights of a ‘normal’ journalist,” said Sarah Elfreth, a Towson University student who serves on the Board of Regents, a committee that oversees

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University broadens local elementary school partnership

MONOLOGUES from page 1 created composition, and the performers touched on everything from religious identity to sexual orientation to being an out-of-state student away from home and family.

“I think that people lose sight of the fact that whatever you’re going through, there is always someone going through the same thing,” said freshman communication major Nzinga Shury who performed “Out of State Blues,” a poem inspired by Shury’s experience keeping up with her friends and family at home in Brooklyn, N.Y. “I feel like getting your feelings out there helps people come closer together because they can all relate their our peers,” Shury said.

Upon walking into the Hoff Theater, students were confronted with 64 percent of the seats taped off. This tactic was used to represent the 64 percent of black college students who fail to graduate in six years or fewer.

At the beginning of the show, Hayley Haywood, who produced the show and performed her own monologue, challenged everyone in the audience to think about why the retention rate is so low and what they can do to address the problem.

“I think having the seats taped off and being able to physically see that statistic really makes an impact,” said sophomore communication major Mikeisha Williams, who attended to support a friend. “It’s important for us to realize that the inequality we learn about in class is actually going on in the world.”

Several resident assistants came to the show, which was free, to get a better sense of the issues that their residents face.

“All the diversity events are important to educate the com-

New program strives to make school one of the best

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

Taped-off seats in Hoff Theater during "The Black Monologues" represented the 67 percent of black men who don’t graduate within six years. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

munity,” said junior criminology and criminal justice major Dwayne Cunningham, who is an RA. “This is a pretty diverse campus, and it’s good to know what everyone thinks about these important issues.”

Although the audience was mostly made up of black students, most attendees said they came away from the performance feeling better informed about their peers.

“The purpose of this event was to celebrate the diversity within the black community — to show how different aspects of identity and experiences create varying perspectives among students that share the same racial background,” said Haywood, who works at the office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy. “I think it

allowed the audience to take part of a collective experience, and express their opinions.”

Following the performance, participants engaged in a question-and-answer discussion that covered a vast array of modern racial issues including a stark rejection of the notion that the country has entered a “postracial” or “color-blind” era.

Although this was the first time an event such as this had been attempted, student organizers said they’re going to try to make it happen again next year.

“One performer talked about how he ‘wondered why he had so much to say,’” Haywood said.

“The answer is probably because there are rarely forums that allow these stories to be heard.” hemmati@umdbk.com

Teaching tweeting Students unfamiliar with Twitter get a tutorial from some university professors

BY EMILY HOOPER For The Diamondback

Stereotypically Internet savvy and computer literate, college students usually find themselves teaching their teachers when technology crops up in class.

But in select classrooms, the roles are reversed when it comes to one of the Internet’s fastest growing social networking phenomena: Twitter.

Kevin Murnane, a psychology professor, introduced Twitter into his classroom last fall when he was searching for a quick way to communicate with students.

More streamlined than Blackboard and more convenient than e-mail (Twitter messages, or “tweets,” can reach the everyday cell phone), Twitter, in Murnane’s opinion, offered the most effective avenue for announcing information to his class.

His students haven’t always agreed.

“Some students have expressed a mildly hostile attitude,” Murnane said.

These students’ attitudes aren’t surprising. While almost a quarter of the country’s Internet users are under 25, only 16 per-

cent of that demographic use Twitter, according to a survey by the Nielsen Wire last year.

So when Murnane typed out a tweet at the start of this semester to let his students know about a textbook change, it’s likely his alert fell on deaf ears.

Still, Murnane requires all his students to create Twitter accounts.

In Chris Harvey’s online journalism class, Twitter takes on a more pragmatic role.

Harvey teaches her journalism classes to use Twitter as a reporting tool and as a means for live blogging. She encourages students to tweet her lectures and guest speakers.

“I require it because I know that when they get out, if they are reporting for print or web or broadcast outlets, they’ll be using it,” Harvey said. “It’s an entirely mobile way to report and allows for very quick updates on a story.”

However, not all of her students have seen the light. Out of a class of about 17 students, only a handful of them had Twitter accounts before taking her class last semester, she said.

Esther French, a junior journalism and Spanish major, was

one of those students. She said she has not looked at Twitter once since the class ended.

According to French, she has no motivation to use it as a student.

“It seems more suited for business purposes — marketing and publicity — than for social interaction,” she said.

On the other hand, online journalism graduate student Zettler Clay has continued to tweet beyond class lectures on the subject. Although he registered an account more than a year ago, it wasn’t until he enrolled in online journalism that he saw its purpose, he said.

“It’s the ability to engage a mass of people with just a little bit of effort,” Clay said.

Clay said the brevity Twitter imposes has even enhanced his writing skills — Twitter, of course, only allows posts up to 140 characters long.

He now tweets once an hour almost every day on topics ranging from the media and popular culture to philosophy.

“It’s the perfect convergence of texting and the Internet,” Clay said. “To be a media presence, you have to have a presence.” news@umdbk.com

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The Board of Directors sets general policy, approves budgets and selects the Editors-in-Chief for the student publications. The term of office is one year and begins in May, 2010. The Board meets about once a month during the school year.

For an application, stop by room 3136 South Campus Dining Hall and ask for Maggie Levy.

Applications are due by Friday, February 26th at noon.

A new agreement between the university and a nearby elementary school will offer local students more access to the campus’s resources, which officials said would help both the grade-schoolers and foster ties between the university and the community.

Earlier this month, the university and Paint Branch Elementary School signed an agreement that reaffirmed their commitment to making College Park’s local school one of the best in Prince George’s County.

Because of its convenient location, Paint Branch Elementary School is a prime partner for the university. Evan Jackson, a junior psychology major who serves as one of the Lakeland STARS mentors, said this partnership helps connect the university with the surrounding community.

“It’s hard to help all kids from underprivileged backgrounds, but I think it’s good to ... help out a school right across the street from us,” Jackson said.

The university’s involvement with the school — located in the central part of the city — dates back 14 years through an ongoing College Park Scholars tutoring program: Lakeland STARS, or Students Taking Active Responsibility.

The partnership now aims to go well beyond that initiative’s

“It’s been a great way for the broader community to get involved.”

AMY NEUGEBAUER UNIV. PARTERNSHIP MANAGER

Students at Paint Branch Elementary School have been working with the university’s Scholars program for 14 years. PHOTO COURTESY OF TABITHA MWITA

original weekly tutoring sessions. New goals include exposing the elementary school students to a global community through lectures from university professors, a class trip to China for 20 sixthgraders during spring break and increased visits to on-campus facilities.

As planned, 16 university departments will contribute to the long-term goals of making the city “[engage] more effectively with the community and its leaders” and inspiring students to consider a college education through the Paint Branch collaboration.

“It’s been a great way for the broader community to get involved,” said Amy Neugebauer, who manages the partnership for the university. “It’s not just a relationship between Paint Branch and the university — it’s much bigger than that.”

Helping elementary school students is a particularly effective way to help the community, Jackson said, because children at that age are very impressionable and would benefit from exposure to academic

opportunities.

The STARS program, which began as a weekly tutoring session in the basement of Centreville Hall, evolved when Coordinator for Community Involvement Tabetha Mwita realized that the Paint Branch students did not recognize how large the university really was.

“Reflecting on the change of place, a boy asked his tutor, ‘So that building [Centreville] isn’t the University of Maryland?’” Mwita wrote in an email. “When I heard that, I realized that we have to get out of the Centreville basement during activity time whenever possible so we can share with the children the incredible resources and experiences that the university has to offer.”

Since then, Lakeland STARS brought students to the university’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, its neutral buoyancy research facility and campus media newsrooms, among others.

While not conclusively linked to university efforts at the school, Neugebauer said Paint Branch has seen improvement in Maryland School Assessment test scores since the university’s involvement began. Furthermore, a recent survey indicated that 90 percent of students now believe that they will attend college in the future.

The program helps most in terms of preparing students to think about what it takes to go to college, senior neurobiology and physiology and secondary education major Lien Le, another mentor, wrote in an e-mail.

“I think the most important thing we do is planting the seed by telling them that they can do it if they want to,” Le wrote. korkut@umdbk.com

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK

the public interest that deserves protection equal with that of from page 1 paid professionals,” he wrote.

Although the bill was met university system policy. “I with few questions and little think it’s something people vocal opposition, some said overlook. People just assume it still wouldn’t of fer univerthat they have these rights, sal protections to student journalists. but they don’t.”

During the hearing, DeleThe new bill would extend the shield law’s protections to gate Susan K. McComas student journalists who (R–Harford County) asked if receive academic credit for bloggers were currently or their investigations. Only stu- would be protected under dents enrolled in a post-sec- the law. The answer was no ondary institution and work- — for now.

Klose also emphasized in ing on class projects or for university-sanctioned publica- his written testimony that high school students have tions would be included.

Kevin Klose, the dean of the produced substantial and journalism school at this uni- important journalistic work, versity, submitted written tes- too, although they are not included in the legislation. timony in favor of the bill.

Diamondback Editor in “Student journalists ... engage in serious journalistic work in Chief Kevin Robillard ques-

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tioned in his written testimony if the new bill would protect students that work for niche campus publications — such as La Voz Latina, The Public Asian, and Terrapin Times — who do not receive monetar y payment or academic credit for their work.

Supporters of the bill said the importance of extending the shield law to protect the rights of students who aren’t paid to report came to light this fall in Illinois. Northwestern University undergraduates were forced to hand over their off-the-record information that they had obtained during work for the Medill Innocence Project to county prosecutors.

Students involved in the project, which investigated

possible wrongful convictions, are now embroiled in a legal battle with Illinois prosecutors and are fighting to keep their sources and notes confidential.

“This is not hypothetical — this is what prompted me to introduce this legislation,” Rosenberg said during Friday’s hearing in Annapolis.

“Under current law, [students] are not afforded the same protection, though they are fulfilling the same function as they might a year later when they are hired to go to work for any of the media providers that are within the existing definition of the statute.”

The bill will be put to a vote later this year. apino@umdbk.com

OPENINGS

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The following positions are open: 1. Eclipse editor-in-chief (current salary $1,500) 2. Diamondback editor-in-chief (current salary $14,000) 3. Mitzpeh editor-in-chief (current salary $1,500)

Application forms may be picked up in the Diamondback business office, room 3136 South Campus Dining Hall. Applicants will be notified of an interview time and date.

The deadline for applications is noon on Friday, February 26, 2010.

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VETERANS from page 1 said Marsha Guenzler-Stevens, who oversees the veterans program office at the university.

Officials estimate there are between 500 and 600 veterans enrolled at the university. About half receive benefits from the VA. These roughly 250 university students join the ranks of more than 170,000 student veterans across the nation who also receive educational benefits through the department.

The new GI Bill, which went into effect in last August, was enacted to help student veterans afford expenses associated with a college education. The money granted from the VA is paid directly to schools, and veterans also receive a stipend to pay for housing, books and other necessities. The bill also covers dependents of service members.

Before the new GI Bill, student veterans were covered under a previous bill that allotted students a monthly sum for these costs and did not cover veterans’ dependents. In some cases, this monthly allowance was not even enough to cover tuition, let alone other college expenses.

This year, the university has also added a number of scholarships for veterans to help meet their financial needs.

“Educating for the future requires financial support, and many students are getting help from scholarships targeting military service members,” said university President Dan Mote in his testimony to the state legislature Friday. “Other scholarships for veterans, active service members and their dependents grew significantly in [fiscal year 2009].”

Despite additional scholarships, university officials said some students with dependents and high commuting costs are still struggling.

Some veterans who are graduate students “have already exhausted benefits where the new GI bill doesn’t help, and still others didn’t have enough time in post-9/11 to find it that great a benefit,” Guenzler-Stevens said.

To better serve student veterans, Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement met with state Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward J. Chow Jr. to address the slow processing of benefit applications.

“Our student veterans gave great marks to the university for how we operated in the interim, but poor marks to the VA,” Guenzler-Stevens said. “Many of our students availed them-

selves of the $3,000 check the VA was cutting for those who did not get payment on time.”

University officials said conditions have been improving since.

“At Maryland, the registrar’s office is working closely with the bursar’s office to assure that veterans’ registrations remain active when benefit payments are delayed,” said Chuck Wilson, the interim senior associate university registrar.

“I think our process is working very well,” GuenzlerStevens added. “The folks in our VA certification do a wonderful job. Where the VA slipped nationally, we were doing a great job of processing the paperwork and holding students harmless.”

At the national level, the department is also increasing efforts to better process requests for educational benefits. Earlier this year, the department hired an additional 530 education claims processors, bringing the total number of employees working to process veterans’ benefits to about 1,200. These employees have also been working mandatory overtime since August to meet the high volume of claims, according to a VA press release.

Although progress is being made, student veterans said it is still slow going.

“Overall the new GI Bill is a blessing to veterans, making it easier than ever to afford school, but they are still having a lot of payment issues,” Terp Vets President Laurissa Flowers said. “I know that because of this delay in payment a lot of veteran students are having to go out and find temporary work to help cover their bills until the VA finally comes through with their payments.”

Flowers, a senior kinesiology major, noted she still hasn’t received benefits for the spring semester almost a month into it.

Because the new GI Bill services dependents of veterans as well as veterans themselves, a new population of students are receiving educational benefits through their parents who are actively serving in the military.

Junior English and history major Mary Williamson, whose father is actively serving in the Air Force, is receiving money to pay for almost her entire education through the bill.

“I get allowances for books, housing, tuition, pretty much everything,” she said. “For my family, it’s been one less thing to worry about.” redding@umdbk.com

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The right lane for merging U

The new future

While it remains unclear how supportive rank-and-file faculty members of the niversity administrators have sometimes done a ham-handed job dealing with this budget crisis. But in the face of the ever-tightening merging departments are of the combinations, the leadership is definitely prescrews on the university’s budget, they made the right call when pared to follow through. Dance and theatre already share a department chair, and while the Diamondback editorial board isn’t the most cultured group of peodeciding what departments to merge.

When news broke that administrators were considering the merging of sev- ple at the university, there seems to be plenty of room for collaboration between eral departments, faculty across the university tightened up. The collective ques- the disciplines. And it’s worth noting increasing cross-discipline work is a major tion was whether schools would be smushed together with reckless disregard goal of the university’s Strategic Plan, and many proposals for reforming or reworking higher education rely upon them. for how it would impact the overall quality of education The other mergers, if they aren’t financially necessary, offered. Would all the diversity schools be rolled under one don’t make much sense. Combining African American, Amerumbrella? Would classics be folded into history? Would comican and women’s studies into one department would harm puter science be folded into the business school, which The administration each department’s unique identity, and lead to a confusing would then be folded into journalism, which would then be folded into architecture? Maybe not that last one. But con- should be commended for cluster of different work under one unified umbrella.

And to be a major public research university lacking an cerns were there for many departments. its choices regarding independent classics department would have been embarFour merger possibilities have been seriously considered merging departments. rassing. The study of Latin, Greek and the thinkers and so far. Two of them — combing the diversity department and artists who used them is the study of the roots of Western folding the classics department into another department — were driven primarily by budgetary concerns and aimed to protect smaller pro- thought, and all other work done on at the university can ultimately trace its grams. The other two — combining the chemical and life sciences college with roots back to Plato, Aristotle, Cato and Virgil.

The argument can and has been made — in this space, many times — that the computer, mathematical and physical sciences college and merging the dance and theatre departments — seem to be motivated by educational quality, when it comes to money versus education, too many times, the administration has fallen on the wrong side of the fence. Perhaps we are still facing a budget crinot the bottom line.

The latter two mergers are going forward, and the first two aren’t. These are sis, and perhaps there are still department mergers to come. But from where the right decisions. There is no way to avoid the budget cuts impacting students’ we’re standing, at this point in time, it seems the university has put its foot down educations, but the administration shouldn’t make academic choices for finan- when it comes to sacrificing quality to keep more money in the university’s coffers. We are sure it wasn’t an easy decision, but it was the right one. cial reasons.

Our View

Editorial cartoon: Shai Goller

Baltimore: Connecting to campus

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his winter break, I went home to lovely Ellicott City — a stone’s throw away from Baltimore. Two weeks into break, I realized one of my library books from last semester was due back soon. Being car-less, I tried to find a way to get to the campus via public transportation. After exhausting the Shuttle-UM routes, the Metro and the idea of walking, I came to a most unfortunate conclusion: There is no cheap and reliable form of public transportation between College Park and Baltimore.

Eventually, I did find one way to get to the campus. There is a MARC train that runs from Washington to Baltimore, and there happened to be a station near my house. But it ain’t cheap. The maximum fare for the Metro is $4.50, which is usually only for rides that span an entire route during peak hours. A 30-minute,

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SHE five-stop ride from Baltimore to College Park costs $6. Not to mention that the trains come ever y 30 minutes only during certain hours, and there is no ser vice on weekends.

There should be a better and cheaper way to get to a major city so near this campus.

If having a Shuttle-UM line going expressly to the city of Baltimore is impractical, then why not consider having a bus travel to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County? A quick search on Google Maps shows this university is about a 27-minute car ride from the Universities at

Shady Grove. There are Shuttle-UM buses to that location every weekday.

UMBC is a 28-minute car ride from this campus. There’s not much of a difference. Although UMBC is not a satellite campus of the university, it is still part of the University System of Maryland. There are plenty of resources at UMBC that students here can use, such as library materials and laboratories. Not only that, but UMBC also has a transportation system that connects to Baltimore and its suburbs.

Many of my fellow students have expressed their frustrations with the inaccessibility of Baltimore from the campus. For students who attended high school in this state, plenty of their former classmates attend UMBC. Arguably, there are more connections between the students of this university and UMBC than any other two schools in the system.

Baltimore is almost as much — if not just as much — a hub for the sciences and arts as Washington. I’ve spent entire weekends going to art museums near the Inner Harbor. I have shamelessly played with the exhibits meant for elementary school children at the Maryland Science Center. And I’ve admittedly been to a few Otakon conventions at the Baltimore Convention Center now and then. What about 1st Mariner Arena and Ravens or Orioles games? There is a wealth of activity in Charm City that is truly too close to our campus to be forsaken. For a school that boasts how wonderfully close it is to Washington and Baltimore, the university should facilitate convenient means to travel to both.

Angelina She is a freshman physiology and neurobiology major. She can be reached at she@umdbk.com.

Degrees: Not worth the paper they’re printed on

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report released last week by Public Agenda and the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education revealed what I would call disturbing news, except all it did was tell us what we already think about college costs.

According to its results, 55 percent of Americans believe a college education is necessary to succeed in the work world, and 60 percent believe “colleges today are like most businesses and care mainly about the bottom line.” Most of us agree contemporary institutions of higher education care more about money than education (60 vs. 32 percent in this poll), but if a diploma is a commodity, then it’s the worst kind: a mandatory purchase.

Any economics graduate student or smarter-than-average fifth grader can tell you the more inelastic consumer demand for a product is (e.g. young people feel they need to get college degrees to be successful in life), the more the price can increase without a drop-off in buyers. We’ve not only seen

steady tuition and fee growth nationally, but The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last month that university and college administrator salaries also increased 10 percent between 2007 and 2009. At this university, there is money to build a glorified shopping mall on East Campus, but tuition has to increase 3 percent. Administrators seem to have us over a barrel: Since a college degree is a ticket to a successful future, we’re stuck paying whatever we have to. But is a degree really that vital?

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 12-month average unemployment rate ending in September 2009 across all demographics was 8.6 percent.

A college education is supposed to insulate those of us lucky enough to have one, and indeed the unemployment rate for those with college degrees during the same period was 4.5 percent. However, if you look at young college graduates, those starting out in the same job market as we will when we graduate, this differential almost completely disappears. The unemployment rate during

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HARRIS the same period for college-educated men and women under 24 was 8.4 percent. For the first time in U.S. history, college graduates entering the workforce have no more protection from unemployment than the general population. Add to those numbers the fact that the two-thirds of students who take on education debt borrowed an average of $23,186 before graduation last year — representing a $10,000 increase in the past 12 years — according to the Education Department, and we’re left with a grim picture.

The contemporary university isn’t just a business; it has recourse to lofty ideals and a mandate for public service that administrators can invoke to distract or shame us when the numbers get

too appalling. The university has the finances of a corporation and the rhetoric of a church. But if any of these trends are going to change direction, we students must first admit we’ve been had.

The current structures have proven unable to rectify themselves, and old forms of student protest based on pressuring administrators seem as productive as negotiating with highway robbers. Anything we win now will disappear along the road to privatization. If students want a university that does more than issue receipts — receipts that don’t even guarantee jobs anymore — then it must be of our making.

A central reason I’ve heard from students for their unease with taking radical action to change our university is that we have too much to lose. I look at all the numbers in this column, and the many more that tell the same story, and I wonder: What do you think you have?

Malcolm Harris is a senior English and government and politics major. He can be reached at harris@umdbk.com.

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verywhere I look, it seems as though people in the journalism industry are running for their lives. They see newspapers such as The Boston Globe, The Washington Times and the Chicago Tribune encountering trouble and others, such as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, completely eliminating their print editions. Newspapers today just aren’t making the kind of money they used to.

Part of that is inevitably due to the Internet. Lord knows I love the Internet. I wake up before the sun rises to read my daily dose of The Washington Post and The New York Times — online, of course. No one in their right mind would go out a dining hall or McKeldin Library just for a newspaper with day-old information at that hour. The Internet is free, and newspapers are not. And free, in anyone’s mind, especially that of a college student, is a lot more appealing than paying the nearly $280 it costs to receive an annual subscription to the Post.

In the face of the changing industry, people run away from traditional journalism. They run away from the newspapers, television broadcast networks and magazines. The problem is no one knows where they’re running. True, consumers are exploring other options within journalism, such as online and multimedia venues. And while it’s great journalists are not only learning to write but also to work photography, audio and film, but nontraditional journalism is still a risky venture. Few have figured out just how journalism can make money in this age of instant information.

Sometimes I feel studying journalism is scary. My parents tell me that being a journalist is ridiculous. They ask me how I’ll support myself. They hope I won’t have to live at home forever, and I hope I won’t have to do that either. I look around me and I talk with my friends in the journalism college, and they all agree. It’s a competitive industry with an uncertain future. If we’re going to make it in this world, we’ve got to take action.

That action might not be leaving journalism, but it definitely is not staying where we are and leaving our futures to chance. We have more information and opportunities at our fingertips than any generation before us ever had. If we don’t take this moment to explore our options, wherever they may lead, I think we’re doing ourselves and our communities a great disservice.

As the Student Government Association journalism legislator, I believe it is my welcome obligation to represent the needs of journalism students. Part of that need is helping students figure out where they’ll be headed after their education here. I have therefore organized a panel of distinguished journalism alumni who have had great success in alternative fields, such as law, public relations, business and education. The panel, which will take place tomorrow at 6 p.m. in the Eaton Broadcast Theater in Knight Hall, will be a great opportunity for students to explore their career options and learn what steps they can take to be successful in a changing industry.

We don’t need to run around like the world is over. We need to explore our options and make ourselves the best candidates for our career aspirations. What we need to do is be proactive about our futures — take the first step by coming to the panel tomorrow night.

Michelle Chan is the SGA’s journalism legislator. She can be reached at mchan1@umd.edu.

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Writer David Cage (2005’s Indigo Prophecy) has designed a world and story that are emotionally engaging. All decisions are ultimately in the hands of the players and will affect the direction of the game, and each character has several issues that can change the path of the story.

It is also possible for the characters to die, but you won’t get a “game over” screen. Rather, the game continues with the other characters, and the death is worked into the story.

Other actions aren’t as exciting: Some mandator y parts of the stor y are slower and boring, making you wonder when you will get back to the thrills and emotion. The time spent on these interludes is minimal but definitely noticeable.

There are a multitude of possible endings to this story.

Going back and making different decisions to change the story and the ending will make you want to play Heavy Rain over again and again.

In a season that has been filled with sequels and adaptations, it is refreshing to see an original title. Though it has its faults in voice acting and some camera work, Heavy Rain is a wholly original thriller that almost seamlessly blends video games and cinema together, and it is certainly worth checking out to experience games as art.

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x Guard Greivis Vasquez ran off a screen from forward Landon Milbourne, allowing Cliff Tucker space to catch the inbounds pass and shoot the gamewinning shot in the Terps’ 76-74 win against Georgia Tech on Saturday.

SCHIMMEL from page 8 granted. But as Vasquez’s prayer went in, they hoped somehow the stoppage was a mistake — that a moment that surreal simply couldn’t be erased by an unfortunate decision on the bench.

But it was, so the faithful put their hands on their heads, shared disbelieving grins with the people sitting next to them, and simply had to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Because certainly the

Terps didn’t have two miracles in them.

“I think Coach [Gary] Williams was probably the only one frustrated.” Tucker said.

“We all just had faith.”

So while the referees tried to figure out how much time should remain on the clock, the Terps drew up a play.

Eric Hayes found Tucker with a perfect inbounds pass, Tucker turned, shot right over Glen Rice Jr. and rattled in the game-winner as the buzzer went off.

It was so ridiculous, nobody even knew how to react.

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“I saw it rolling in, and I just started running,” Tucker said.

“I didn’t know what to do, I was so excited.”

Tucker’s shot earned comparisons to former Terp Drew Nicholas’ buzzer-beater to beat UNC-Wilmington in the first round of the 2003 NCAA Tournament.

That game is probably the only Terps win of this generation that may have had a more exciting finish than what some of us got to see live Saturday.

The Terps lost in the Sweet 16 that year, but Nicholas’ shot remains perhaps the program’s

I’m happy it came true today.”

Vasquez, who scored his 2,000th career point on a first-half 3-pointer, paced the Terps (19-7, 9-3 ACC) with 18 points, eight assists and five rebounds. Hayes bounced back from a scoreless effort Wednesday at N.C. State by adding 15 points, and the Terps made just enough plays down the stretch to drop Georgia Tech for the ninth straight time — the longest winning streak by an ACC team against one conference opponent.

Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt said his young team probably played its best game of the season. Williams described his team as “fortunate” several times in his postgame remarks.

The Terps, who had won their first five ACC home games by an average of 19 points per game, won despite ceding 24 second-chance points and trailing by as many as five points in the final five minutes.

“You need some breaks at times during the year,” Williams said. “We got one there, but we played well enough to be in position to get that break.”

Tucker’s shot capped a wild final few minutes to a back-andforth game that neither team led by more than six points. The game’s final 1:20 featured five lead changes.

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points, punctuating the 3pointer that made him the sixth Terp to achieve that honor with his trademark shimmy.

Vasquez, who assisted several of his team’s most important baskets down the stretch, shot just 5-of-16 but said he never doubted the Terps would win, even after his bank-shot prayer was waved off.

“I’m excited, but I’m more excited about Cliff’s shot,” Vasquez said of becoming the first player in ACC history with 2,000 points, 700 assists and 600 rebounds.

Vasquez’s successful — but ultimately inconsequential — heave and Tucker’s game-winner were honored as the toptwo highlights, respectively, on SportsCenter’s “Top 10” yesterday morning. It was those tense final minutes, a perfectly executed final play and the unlikely hero that defined the contest that likely earned a permanent place in Comcast Center history.

When Tucker’s shot fell, giving the Terps their fifth win in six games, all that was left to do was celebrate.

“I felt tired chasing Cliff around the court,” forward Dino Gregory said of the immediate postgame scene. “He was sprinting hard, but it’s an amazing feeling. It’s something I never felt in my life.”

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Georgia Tech’s D’Andre Bell hit a jumper with 24 seconds left to give the Yellow Jackets (18-9, 6-7) a one-point lead. After a timeout, Vasquez answered with his own runner in the lane.

But Yellow Jacket freshman Derrick Favors, who dominated with 21 points and 18 rebounds, put back an Iman Shumpert miss with three seconds to go.

Vasquez raced up court and banked in a long shot, but it came just after the Terp bench signaled for a timeout. Tucker said assistant coach Keith Booth called the timeout.

Williams could be seen angrily pointing in Booth’s direction.

After some confusion about how much time remained and where the inbounds play would take place, Hayes angled a pass around Favors and Tucker sank the tough shot that would ultimately put the Terps alone in second place in the ACC. “Cliff did what he had to,” said Williams, who appeared at his press conference without the dark suit jacket that he threw to the ground in frustration with about five minutes left in the game. “We just said, ‘If we catch it, we have to shoot it.

There’s no time for anything else.’ And it was a great shot.”

The ending overshadowed Vasquez’s major milestone.

Entering the game, the guard needed five points to reach the 2,000-point mark. He hit for seven of his teams’ first nine

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“There were moments and stretches in this game where I’m watching their defense, and I’m watching our intensity, and we’re matching it — on the road, at Duke, against a team that is really physical and extremely tough,” Frese said.

Bjork and center L ynetta Kizer had 14 and 13 points, respectively, but neither scored in the contest’s final five minutes. Eventually, Duke’s experience and maturity — and the hostile atmos-

MCFADDEN from page 8 Ellis, who tallied nine saves on 19 shots in the first half, was the main reason for the Terps’ struggles early on. Ellis’ incredible point-blank saves allowed the Nittany Lions to control the clock and keep the ball out of the Terp attackers’ possession.

But Ellis was not able to contain the Terps’ offense in the second frame, when eight different Terps (2-0) scored a goal during the team’s comeback.

Penn State (2-1) added twostraight goals from Bucci and attacker Molly Fernandez to

phere on the road — became too much.

With Terp guard Jackie Nared and for ward Diandra Tchatchouang saddled with foul trouble in the second half, the stronger Blue Devils piled up second-chance points. And as the approving roars from the Cameron Crazies rose in volume, life became a little more complicated for the Terps.

“You could see their faces just drop,” Duke for ward Joy Cheek said. “When you’re at home, you need that. You want to shush them.” shaf fer@umdbk.com

cut the lead to 14-8. Fernandez, the Nittany Lions’ leading scorer, finished with three goals.

Any chance for a Penn State comeback was halted by the Terps, though, who controlled the rest of the game while adding three late goals to ease their way to an eightpoint victor y.

“Penn State-Maryland is always a huge rivalry. It’s always been close historically, in the past,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We need to have a greater focus and just get back to basics.” sports@umdbk.com

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TERPS 76, GEORGIA TECH 74

THE UPS

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THE DOWNS TERP BENCH In the Terps’ fourth game in eight days, the reserves played a big part, scoring 23 points, including a number of critical baskets.

LANDON MILBOURNE Milbourne started 0for-8 from the field and never got into a rhythm against the Yellow Jackets’ big and talented frontline.

DERRICK FAVORS Georgia Tech’s Favors, who should win ACC Freshman of the Year, cemented his case with a dominant 21-point, 18rebound performance.

GEORGIA TECH TERRAPINS

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The Terps celebrate with fans on the Comcast Center floor after Saturday’s 76-74 win against Georgia Tech.

Three seconds to remember GREG

42———————74 42 ——————76

SCHIMMEL

GEORGIA TECH (18-9, 6-7 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG Favors 32 9-15 Lawal 32 5-13 Shumpert 32 6-13 Bell 15 2-3 Rice Jr. 22 2-9 Udofia 9 2-3 Miller 17 1-2 Oliver 26 1-7 Peacock 15 0-3 Team TOTALS 200 26-68

FT 3-3 2-8 2-2 1-2 0-0 0-0 2-3 1-2 0-0

O-T 9-18 2-5 3-5 1-1 3-8 0-0 1-1 2-4 0-2 0-1 11-20 21-45

A 2 0 3 1 0 1 3 2 1

PF 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 2 1

TP 21 12 17 6 5 5 4 4 0

13 14 74

PERCENTAGES–FG: 41.2 FT: 55.0 3FG: 46.7 3-POINT GOALS– 7-15 (Shumpert 3-4, Udofia 1-1, Bell 1-2, Rice Jr. 1-4, Oliver 1-4).

TURNOVERS- 13 (Bell 5). BLOCKED SHOTS– 7 (Lawal 3, Favors 2). STEALS– 4 (Bell 2).

TERRAPINS (19-7, 9-3 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Milbourne 34 2-11 1-2 Williams 27 4-5 1-4 Hayes 31 6-10 0-0 Mosley 26 3-8 0-0 Vasquez 39 5-16 7-7 Bowie 14 2-5 0-0 Tucker 9 2-4 2-2 Gregory 16 4-6 1-2 Padgett 4 0-0 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 28-65 12-17

O-T 3-7 4-12 0-2 4-6 1-5 0-1 0-0 0-2 0-0 2-3 14-38

A 2 0 5 1 8 0 0 0 0

PF TP 3 5 3 9 2 15 2 6 2 18 0 6 0 8 4 9 0 0

16 16 76

PERCENTAGES–FG: 43.1 FT: 70.6 3FG: 36.4 3-POINT GOALS–– 8-22 (Hayes 3-6, Bowie 2-3, Tucker 2-3, Vasquez 1-7).

TURNOVERS–– 9 (Mosley 3). BLOCKED SHOTS–– 2 (Milbourne 2). STEALS–– 5 (Williams 2).

ATTENDANCE–– 17,950 (17,950).

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f you were at Comcast Center on Saturday afternoon, consider yourself one of the lucky ones.

If you saw Cliff Tucker’s incredible game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer — fading away and with a hand in his face — remember the way you felt when the ball swished through the net.

If you were there, remember how crazy it was when minutes before Tucker’s heroics, Greivis Vasquez banked in a 40-foot 3-pointer that would have won the game if only the Terp bench didn’t call a timeout.

Remember the premature ecstasy, the disbelief, the confusion, the agonizing wait and then the final moment of insanity — all of which you couldn’t fully understand unless you were there.

If you witnessed the Terps’ epic 76-74 win over Georgia Tech in person, make sure you cherish it.

Because that is probably the best live finish to a basketball game you are ever going to see.

“Praise Cliff. Praise the lord,” Vasquez said. “He made that big shot for us, and we won the game.”

It’s not overstating it to say this was one of the most improbable,

unbelievable endings to a game you could imagine. It almost made you feel like the Terps are the recipients of some supernatural intervention.

They seemingly lost the game twice in the final seconds, only to somehow pull out a win off the hand of an unlikely hero.

It’s unforgettable wins like these that often propel good teams to even greater things, and if you were at Comcast Center on Saturday you have to feel this win is only going to end up being one special part of a fun ride.

The Terps need to build on this victory, and they know there is still a lot of work to do as they play out the rest of their schedule. But regardless of if the Terps continue to ride Saturday’s magic, that final sequence will quickly and rightfully earn its place in Terrapin lore.

This win was all about the moment.

“It was amazing,” forward Dino Gregory said. “I never saw a shot like that in my life.”

Forward Derrick Favors gave the Yellow Jackets a 74-73 lead with a put-back layup with three seconds left, stunning the crowd and seemingly putting an end to the Terps’ six-game home winning streak.

Then Vasquez sprinted up the court and let it fly from long range.

Those in attendance heard the whistle and saw the timeout

see SCHIMMEL, page 7

Terps stay close, but it’s not enough at No. 8 Duke Staff writer

DURHAM, N.C. — Entering Sunday’s matinee against No. 8 Duke, the Terrapin women’s basketball team was without some of the requisite ingredients that had made its rivalry with the Blue Devils one of the most competitive in the nation.

The Terps didn’t have a national ranking. They lacked a true AllAmerican candidate. There was no go-to senior who’d endured the taunts and jeers of the Blue Devils’ faithful before.

For the first 36 minutes in the Terps’ 71-59 loss, it didn’t matter.

But as the game wound down and the volume amped up, the Terps’ youthful bliss ceded to the realities of life on the road in the ACC. In front of a rowdy crowd and protecting a lead in the ACC standings, the senior-laden Blue Devils outscored their visitors 17-6 in the final 4:28 of the game to hand the Terps their seventh ACC loss for the first time since the 2004-2005 season.

“The last four minutes, you saw veterans for Duke step up,” coach Brenda Frese said. “The last four minutes of the game was the difference.”

After the Terps (18-9, 5-7 ACC) clawed back from a five-point deficit to pull within one as they entered the final stretch, Duke (23-4, 11-1) managed to put the pressure right

back on.

A suffocating half-court defense made life miserable for the Terps’ ballhandlers, who had previously enjoyed a relatively pressure-free afternoon courtesy of the Blue Devils’ zone.

In a span of less than three minutes, Duke pushed its lead to 64-55.

Guard Karima Christmas, who had just eight points off the bench in the two teams’ first meeting, scored seven points in the decisive stretch final four minutes, putting her final mark on a game in which she totaled a career-high 25 points.

“If you would have told me before we started the game, if we held [Duke guard Jasmine Thomas] to eight points, we were going to lose, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Frese said. “I thought Christmas was spectacular. ... It was Christmas for her.”

The atmosphere inside Cameron Indoor Stadium wasn’t exactly jolly, though.

The intensity and physicality that have become staples of the rivalry’s play on the court started elsewhere, before the opening tip-off.

After finishing warm-ups, the Terps moved to walk through a line of Blue Devils standing before the start of the national anthem, likely expecting their hosts to part so they could do the same.

It didn’t come that easily. After awkwardly squeezing past the row

Teammates mob Cliff Tucker after his game-winning 3-pointer at the buzzer Saturday afternoon. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

McFadden’s six goals carry No. 2 women’s lacrosse team to comeback win at No. 14 Penn State

Women’s team falls 71-59 in Durham, N.C.

BY JONAS SHAFFER

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Terps trailed 4-1 at one point in first half of Sunday’s tilt

BY DANNY MILLER Staff writer

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — With

Center Lynetta Kizer and the Terps couldn’t hang with No. 8 Duke for 40 minutes yesterday.

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of blue jerseys, Terp forward Emery Wallace was visibly frustrated with the perceived lack of hospitality. There wasn’t any love lost between the teams for much of the rest of the game.

“This is why everyone in a red uniform wanted to come to Maryland,” guard Lori Bjork said. “We wanted to play in these types of matchups.”

After Duke scored four points in nine seconds to put the Blue Devils ahead 36-33 at halftime, the Terps inched back to a three-point lead midway through the second half.

see DUKE, page 7

the clock winding down in the first half, Penn State midfielder Theresa Bucci shot the ball past Terrapin women’s lacrosse goalie Brittany Dipper to put her team up 6-2 with only 21 seconds remaining on the clock.

No. 14 Penn State, who jumped out to a shocking 4-1 lead over the Terps at home yesterday, controlled the first half and appeared to be in control of the game heading into the locker room at halftime.

That’s when Caitlyn McFadden took over for the Terps.

The senior midfielder took control of the ball at the end of the first half and ripped a shot past Nittany Lion goalie Stephanie Ellis to cut the deficit in half, 6-3, halting Penn State’s momentum heading into the break.

But she was far from finished.

McFadden scored four goals in the first nine minutes of the second half and added one assist to help the No. 2 Terps rally to 12 unanswered goals to blow past the Nittany Lions, 17-9.

McFadden finished with six goals and one assist.

“After the first half, I knew some-

Midfielder Caitlyn McFadden scored six goals in the Terps’ comeback victory against Penn State on Sunday.

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thing had to change. We had to really want it,” McFadden said. “We just came out flat and not focused, so in the second half we just picked it up and started going a lot harder.”

see MCFADDEN, page 7