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Univ. to lose Brewer after more than 40 years semester, cited age as the main reason for his departure. He is 66 years old.

“I’ve been here a long time,” he said.

“There’s other things [my wife and I] would like to do.”

Brewer completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at this university.

Although he said it’s the right time to

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

Associate Vice President for Facilities Management Frank Brewer, who has spent 40 years at this university ,said he would be retiring following yesterday’s Master Plan meeting. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Frank Brewer, associate vice president for Facilities Management, said yesterday he will be retiring from his post at the end of June after more than 40 years at the university.

Brewer, who said he informed his staff of his retirement at the end of last

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BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

A faculty and student committee is nearly a month away from deciding how to implement a more feasible university student e-mail system, but committee members say the alternative most popular among students may come with some privacy risks.

The Student E-mail Committee has met several times since December to explore the possibility of updating or replacing the unpopular Mirapoint student e-mail system in time for the fall semester, with the goal of making a recommendation to the University Senate Information Technology Council by the end of March. To gather further student input, the committee is hosting a town hall meeting March 2 to discuss the various alternatives. Members will also meet with a student focus group tomorrow to glean more insight as to how students use various technologies, such as Gmail, Facebook and Twitter.

The committee has already received about 500 e-mails from students weighing in on the options: operating student email accounts through a system such as Google or Microsoft, moving accounts to the system used by faculty and staff, providing a forwarding-only service or continuing to use the existing system.

The Student Government Association and the Graduate Student Government posted discussion boards on their Facebook pages about the e-mail options.

The feedback has revealed that an overwhelming majority of students favor the option of outsourcing student accounts to Google, but committee

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Give them your tired, your poor Students volunteer at rotating shelter

BY LAUREN REDDING Senior staff writer

University Honors Director Bill Dorland discusses reorganizing the Denton and Ellicott Communities to unify Honors living-learning programs at an RHA town hall meeting in Denton last night. JEREMY KIM/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

Students talk back on proposed Honors move Several tell officials isolation, amenities are of primary concern

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD AND MARIA ROMAS Staff writers

Although it seems as though a proposed move of the University Honors living-learning program to the Ellicott Community is still in the works, several students voiced their opposition and concern before administrators at

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two town-hall meetings last night.

Of the about 20 students who attended yesterday’s meetings — one was held in Denton Hall and the other in Queen Anne’s Hall — most students raised issues surrounding Denton’s new air conditioning amenities and to what extent moving Honors students into Hagerstown Hall would create too much of an insular commu-

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nity, as Ellicott Hall plays home to Gemstone and Flexus students and La Plata Hall will soon house an Integrated Life Sciences living-learning program.

Honors College Director Bill Dorland, who attended both Residence Hall Association-sponsored meetings,

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Merily Horwat tried to prepare herself for volunteering at a local homeless shelter last week, but not long into her first volunteer shift, she met a woman not much older than herself — a single mother with two young children who had no place to go on a freezing Monday night.

And although Horwat, a freshman letters and sciences major, is a member of College Park Scholars’ Public Leadership program and has learned all about the prevalence of local poverty, she said at that moment, any preconceived notions she had went right out the window.

“I’ve known about [poverty] for so long, but I think it’s so different when you go in and actually talk with the people,” said Horwat, following her week of service. “If you go in with an open mind and you’re not expecting anything, it’s very impacting.”

Horwat was one of about 20 students to volunteer at the St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church shelter last week.

For the fifth straight year, the university partnered with the local parish to assist the weeklong Warm Nights program — a county initiative to keep the homeless off the street during

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the winter months by rotating shelters to a different county church every week.

Each night last week, volunteers — many of whom were members of the religious student group Episcopal/Anglican Terps — set up about 40 beds in St. Andrew’s. They served guests a hot breakfast and dinner and gave them a bagged lunch for the day. A county social worker was present overnight to help refer guests to other services — which many officials said are scarce at best.

Homelessness is on the rise across the state and nation at large, according to a report recently released by the National Alliance to End Homelessness. In this state, one of the 31 states to see an increase in the number of homeless people from 2008 to 2009, homelessness increased nearly 27 percent. Nationally, the rate increased 3 percent, or by about 20,000 people, the report said.

Rev. Peter Antoci, the university’s Episcopalian chaplain, said demand for homeless services in Prince George’s County far exceeds the number of permanent shelters — only three exist and have limited capacity, he said, noting the importance of

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SKELLY from page 1 view on the major environmental crises the world faces due to an “industrialized approach to life.”

“This is very much [the prince’s] testimony for what the problems are and what the solutions are,” Skelly said.

Although sustainability is not a common issue for royalty to speak about, the prince has long been an advocate of the cause and even established the Foundation for the Built Environment, which seeks to educate the public on ecofriendly building and living.

At last night’s event, Skelly highlighted environmental issues such as the depletion of the rainforests and overharvesting of oceans as the main problems students must find sustainable solutions to by uniting with the

BREWER from page 1 step down, the decision to leave wasn’t an easy one.

“This university has been very good to me,” he said. “I’ve been here 41 years and part of me will always be here.”

Before assuming his current position in 1998, Brewer rose through the ranks of Facilities Management for more than 30 years. Since his tenure as associate vice president, the department has experienced what many called tremendous success with the construction of several key buildings, such as the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Kim Engineering Building and Knight Hall.

Jack Baker, director of operations and maintenance, said Brewer’s leadership has been invaluable to such projects and campus growth.

“He’s a tremendous individual, and it’s truly hard to describe how much he’s done for this campus,” Baker said.

Director of Capital Projects Carlo Colella said the news of Brewer’s retirement came as a surprise.

“My entire time here, he’s always been there,” Colella said. “I started thinking about it and he’s been here for over four decades, so my surprise

rhythms of nature instead of working against them.

“The next generation is the generation that will inherit the consequences,” Skelly said. “[The prince] is calling for what he calls a ‘sustainability revolution.’”

Skelly said students can practice sustainability by making efforts to recycle and walk instead of drive whenever possible, which honors nature’s balance instead of disrupting it with modern industrialized technologies.

“It’s really about changing our perceptions of how nature operates,” Skelly said. “If we are to achieve a more sustainable approach and thereby a safe and secure life for generations that follow, we have to start to mirror nature and recognizing that there are limits.”

Skelly was invited to speak at the invitation-only dinner by anthropology Professor Emeritus

Suheil Bushrui, who the prince considers to be “one of the great treasures of today’s world” and has translated many of his speeches into Arabic, Skelly said.

Skelly said Bushrui, who holds the George and Lisa Zakhem Kahlil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace, is also planning on translating the prince’s book into Arabic, which will be published through the university.

Bushrui said more attention needs to be paid to individual action to “alleviate pressure” on the environment, adding that he thinks the next generation holds the key.

“The young people usually are forgotten and they are the promise,” Bushrui said of students. “I believe in young people.”

Former university President Dan Mote attended the event and said it was important for the university to continue providing

turned to happiness for him.

Now he can bookmark this part of his life and start a new chapter.”

Brewer also served as interim vice present for administrative affairs in 2007 during the search that eventually found Douglas Duncan to assume the role permanently later that year.

Brewer said his successor — who will be charged with leading a department responsible for nearly 13 million square feet of campus space with a $70 million budget and more than 800 employees — has not yet been selected. A search committee has already been assembled and is in the process of selecting a replacement, he said.

Brewer also serves as chair of the Facilities Management Master Plan Steering Committee — which is charged with

updating the university’s campus construction and growth plan over the next 10 years — so an additional successor will be named to that position.

He declined to give any further information on either search.

Brewer is the most recent vacancy in a slew of administrators to step down over the last several months, including Provost Nariman Farvardin, several deans and Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs Jim Osteen.

But Brewer said this unusually high number of vacancies is most likely a matter of long tenures, like his own.

“There’s a large number of folks that have been here a long time,” he said. “So I think that’s why we’re seeing this trend.” israel@umdbk.com

opportunities for students to hear about current issues from global leaders.

“Sustainability is a fundamental value we have been pushing for many years [at the university],” Mote said. “I’m very thrilled students are backing it so strongly.”

Bushrui invited 23 of his students as well as students in the Baha’i Club he advises — 21 of them showed up for the unique experience.

Freshman neurobiology and physiology major Jessica Liu was no stranger to the issues discussed.

Ian Skelly (right), co-author of Prince Charles Windsor’s new She and the others in Bushrui’s book, spoke before a crowd including former university HONR 238U: The Spiritual Her- President Dan Mote (left). CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK itage of the Human Race class last semester were assigned a 15-page Bushrui’s class last semester, things in life besides school and paper about the prince’s ideas on came to reacquaint themselves technology,” Zheng said. “I don’t with issues they had spent so think this is something people environmental issues. think about on a daily basis.”

Students like freshman ac- much time learning about.

“I came to remind myself to counting and finance major Margaret Zheng, who also took slow down and there are other saravia@umdbk.com

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HONORS from page 1 said housing first-year Honors students in the Ellicott Community, as well as moving Honors ice cream socials, lectures and evening events there, would create a more cohesive learning environment for students. Dorland added Anne Arundel Hall, which serves as the hub of Honors activities, will continue to function as a center for the Honors College.

He also noted Honors students who wished to retain their living arrangements or move to a different dorm would not be forced to move into Ellicott.

“People have friends outside of Honors, they want to live outside the community, that’s a normal thing,” he said. “There’s not much difference in the fall between having the plan and not having the plan for all the people who are currently here.”

Some students raised complaints about the idea of moving Honors students to a dorm without the amenities Denton will soon have.

“My main concern is that I’ve asked other people about this and they think it’s a good

idea to put freshmen in Hagerstown,” said freshman Russian major Tess Krimchansky. “But they think ones in Denton should be able to stay there because people in Denton don’t want to leave because they are getting AC.” Krimchansky added brandnew Oakland Hall was a much more attractive option for older Honors students.

“That might translate — we could still put freshmen in the Honors community, and that way they can build foundations with each other,” she said.

Another question raised at the meeting challenged the concept of the move itself — students were concerned that creating an Honors community would effectively cut them off from other students at the university.

“I’m all in favor of centralized classes for Honors lectures, but at the same time I question whether or not having an Honors community will promote, I guess, just campus-wide unity and diversity of ideas and interaction with those not in the Honors College,” said freshman civil engineering major Meenu Singh, who serves as president of Denton Hall Council.

Dorland said grouping Honors students together would

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Students listen at the Resident Hall Association’s town hall meeting in Queen Anne’s Hall last night to discuss moving Honors College housing. JEREMY KIM/ FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

not prevent them from interacting with the rest of the university community, but would provide a centralized location for Honors events.

“I think having that sense of place is as important as the particular buildings it’s in,” he said.

RHA President Sam Lengyel said she was happy students came out to speak their minds about the proposed move.

“I’m really excited so many residents came out to show their support because it’s really important to our organization

that we get feedback from our residents before we take a stance on a huge issue like this,” she said. “I think we can confidently go back to our Senate and make a decision we feel is best for residents.”

The RHA is expected to discuss and vote on the proposal in coming weeks.

“I think the overall feeling was that this would be a positive transition for the Honors program,” she added. kirkwood@umdbk.com, romas@umdbk.com

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members have expressed concern with some of the security and privacy issues such a switch may involve. E-mail data would no longer be owned by the university, while outside vendors may store data in foreign databases rather than on the campus, according to committee chairman Michael Ball.

Google’s contract also states that emails may be subject to data mining — in which the company sells users’ information to firms hoping to profile potential customers — and neither vendor would accept responsibility for deleting user information if the university chooses to switch vendors in the future.

University Counsel Anne Bowden, who sits on the committee, said while it would not be illegal to sign a contract with these stipulations, they are cause for concern.

“It’s a risk decision, and it’s a policy decision,” Bowden said. “None of these issues is sufficient to say, ‘We can’t sign the contract.’ We have to make a business decision to see if the risks are outweighed by the advantages.”

Ball, a management science professor, said these privacy risks concern unlikely scenarios and said many students already accept the risks by using their own Gmail accounts. But he added the committee has to consider that tighter security may be expected from a university account.

“We really do want what the students want,” Ball said. “At the same time, with some of these issues like privacy, we have to decide the kind of responsibilities the university has in that area, and we need to be careful.”

GSG physics representative Tomek Kott, who also serves on the committee, said these issues are of particular concern to graduate students. If teaching assistants’

e-mails are data mined, he said, information such as students’ grades may no longer be private, and there is no guarantee e-mail communications on research would be stored in the country, as is required by law for certain fields.

“We’ve discussed maybe the possibility that the undergraduates go on Google and Microsoft and then the graduate students go on Exchange [the service used by faculty and staff] because most graduate students TA or do research,” Kott said. “But then the question is, what about the undergraduates who do research or TA? ... We’re starting to look at an option that’s split along some groups, but we don’t know what those groups might be.”

While members said they do not believe such issues are severe enough to take the option of outsourcing off the table, they will be reaching out to students to determine how they can best proceed.

“We need to have a dialogue with students, because this is an issue that is very unique in that the impact is primarily on students,” said SGA behavioral and social sciences legislator Zach Cohen, a committee member. “This is not just going to affect next year’s students, but students 10 and 20 years from now.”

Despite the issues , Office of Information Technology representative David Barks said he is confident students will have a better email system by next semester.

“It’s all about what’s going to give students the best experience,” Barks said. “As long as we make a decision that is long-term viable ... I think we’ll be in a better place than we are now.”

The student e-mail forum will be held March 2 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in room 1243 of the BiologyPsychology Building. villanueva@umdbk.com

SHELTER from page 1 moving shelters that can reach a large number of people across the county.

Antoci said the St. Andrew’s shelter was filled to capacity ever y night, noting that on some nights in the past guests have been turned away, which is why it’s important a social worker be present to direct the individual or family to another available shelter nearby.

He said he’s noticed a large increase in the number of homeless individuals and families over the last few years, citing the economic downturn as a likely reason.

Antoci said many homeless people from the District throughout the year — especially in the winter — wander onto the campus in search of a place to stay. But, he added, rates of homelessness in College Park are also much worse than many students realize.

“These needs are not remote,” he said. “It’s happening right here, right across the street from Route 1. This is an open campus. It’s a bubble, but it’s a permeable bubble. The university provides a lot of ser vices in the community, but I don’t think we’ve found enough ways to interact with the humans who need us.”

Maureen David, a program coordinator for university relations and a member of St. Andrew’s, has been coordinating student volunteers for more than five years and said the experience is a unique volunteer opportunity: Students did more than just set up beds and ser ve food.

“The other part of the whole experience is to sit down with them and talk with them,” she said. “One of the best things the college students do is sit and talk with those people.

One student stayed until 10 o’clock at night because he was talking to a guest.”

Emily Apatov, a public policy graduate student who volunteered at the shelter, said she was amazed at the guests’ high spirits, especially a man named Rodney who she spoke with for much of the night.

“It was mostly just a challenge for me to understand how he can be so grateful for all that he has even though it’s so little,” she said. “It was hard for me to wrap my head around that.”

Antoci said volunteering at the shelter gives students a brief but critical glimpse into poverty.

“It helps people experience a broader dimension of humanity than they would in the course of a normal day,” he said. “It’s more than just what you see and read in a book. The point is to intersect with other human lives.” redding@umdbk.com

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Guest column

Restoring the union

Don’t ignore aesthetics

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o many students at this university, workers’ unions are intangible declared that Daycon had violated federal labor laws by walking away from organizations to be studied in a history class and only experienced negotiations with its employees’ union as well as by refusing to reinstate the through grainy, black-and-white photographs of early- to mid-century striking workers. In addition, the judge, Joel P. Biblowitz, ordered Daycon to picket lines and strike breakers. Yet, while the golden age of the reinstate the 55 striking workers and compensate them for seven months of union has certainly set, the issue of workers’ rights has not yet been consigned back pay.

Now, with a ruling made, the ball, it seems, is back in the university’s court. to the dustbin of history. In fact, the fight has recently ensnared one of this uniWill the contract be terminated? Or won’t it? versity’s contractors.

The ultimate decision should be based on Daycon’s next actions. If the comAt issue is a negotiation held April 22 between Daycon — an Upper Marlpany appeals the decision — as The Washington Post boro-based chemical and janitorial supply company that reported it was planning to do — then the administracontracts with the university — and its unionized tion should not hesitate to permanently sever ties with employees. When presented with its employees’ University contractor the company. This university, which has long commitrequests in a session with a federal mediator, Daycon ted itself to equality and fair labor practices, should not management walked away from the bargaining table, Daycon must reevaluate be in business with any company that refuses to never to return. And when 55 of its workers went on its anti-labor policies acknowledge the rights of its employees or a wrongdostrike days later, Daycon hired new ones, subsequently ing declared so by federal law. refusing to return the striking workers to their jobs before it garners a If Daycon chooses to accept the ruling, re-hire its when asked to do so unconditionally. reputation that forever stains employees and pay them the compensation they are owed, Since the strike began, student groups at this univerthe company and then there appears to be no reason to terminate the consity, including Feminists Without Borders and College tract. For while the multiple violations of federal labor laws Park Students for a Democratic Society, have aggresthis university. and the disenfranchisement of workers are certainly grievsively advocated for a termination of the contract between the university and the embattled company. Despite their efforts, not ous offenses, every person and every company deserves a second chance. And, as much has happened. University President Wallace Loh declined to take action SDS member Dennis Frostbutter noted, “If all the universities and businesses just despite writing a letter to the union and Daycon, stating “the University is cut their contracts with Daycon, long-term it would put the workers out of work, committed to conducting its business operations in a way that reflects social and that would just defeat the purpose of what we’ve been doing. We have to allow responsibility.” James Stirling, the university’s director of procurement and [Daycon] to make the right decisions so the workers can continue to work.”

So in the upcoming weeks, the university has a decision to make. Will it sit idly by supply, stated it wouldn’t be fair to make a decision either way until a ruling by the National Labor Relations Board had been made. And so the issue as it as has so far, or will it petition the company and allow its position on labor practices to be known? After all, these decisions will have a deep impact not only on Dayreached a standstill.

That is, until one week ago, when a federal administrative law judge con’s reputation, but on this university’s as well.

Perhaps it is just me coming from a working-class family that has struggled to afford college tuition for so many years, but any increase in tuition is bad. Perhaps at its next gathering, the SGA can think about student concerns and stand up to administrators and lawmakers rather than just bending over and kissing their asses.

You see, the big problem at this university is not students’ behavior at games, it is the treatment of students by the administration. We understand that they have a lot on their plates, but student issues and concerns are certainly not something to push to the backburner. We have a great institution here, yes, but to continue that tradition, they must treat those responsible for much of its success, the students, better than in the past.

Josh Birch is a junior communication and history major. He can be reached at birch@umdbk.com.

Barrett Dillow is a graduate student in aerospace engineering. He can be reached at bdillow@umd.edu.

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Editorial cartoon: Shai Goller

Eating disorders: Take a bite

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f you’ve been to the Eppley Recreation Center since the beginning of February, you may have noticed small laminated cards on the cardio machines and fliers posted on the walls. And if you’ve managed to take your eyes off the hottie next to you on the treadmill or elliptical, you may have even noticed what these cards and fliers have written on them. In case you haven’t been able to actually look at these cards — after all, I understand the gym can be a difficult place to concentrate — I’ll help you out and tell you what they say. The cards and fliers are courtesy of the Center for Health and Wellbeing, which is promoting February as “Love Your Body Month.”

This week is also National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, and the statistics are terrifying. According to a study performed by the National Eating Disorders Association on a

ELLEN LINZER college campus, 91 percent of women had tried to control their weight through dieting and that 22 percent said they were “often” or “always” on diets. After reading some of the bullet points describing habits or actions that may lead to an eating or exercising disorder, I frowned, noting that a lot of people I know, myself included, could fit at least one of those descriptions.

Now, I know I blame society for a lot of things, but it really screwed the pooch on this one. As many as 10 million women are fighting an eating disorder. Sadly, that number is not sur-

prising, given the women we see on a daily basis on TV and in Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Seventeen, People, Shape, Women’s Health — need I go on? The worst part is that these magazines, especially the ones promoting “women’s health,” swear that their “tips” and “pointers” will lead to amazing bodies, usually with the words “toned,” “firm,” “fit,” “lean” or other adjectives in that same vein. And while they’re the majority, it’s not just girls and women who suffer from eating disorders. As many as one million men struggle with eating disorders, wanting to match the “lean” and “buff” looks of male celebrities.

We’re constantly bombarded with the idea that we cannot only always improve our bodies, but also that we should constantly be doing such “improvement.” With our images regularly under siege, it’s no surprise we’re racked with guilt about eating a

decently sized meal or missing a trip to the gym. But an eating disorder is not the way to go because it will only put your health at risk and your selfesteem will still be in shreds. So I encourage you to love your body!

This doesn’t mean you can eat whatever you want and avoid the gym like the plague, but there is a healthy balance to be found. Know that it is OK to indulge ever y once and a while or sleep through an early morning run if it’s really cold out.

Know that you don’t need to be a size zero to be attractive and healthy.

And if you think you are struggling with a disorder or know someone who is, get help. No twisted image of beauty is worth the damage an eating or exercising disorder brings.

Ellen Linzer is a senior English major.

She can be reached at linzer@umdbk.com.

Students: We deserve better

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o much has been made in the past year of students’ behavior, especially at sporting events. Statements such as “these actions are hurting the universities image” and “ESPN will cease to televise Maryland games” have, it seems, become more common than University Police’s crime reports.

University officials here want us to believe this is one of the greatest universities in the nation, which I agree with. However, my main question is this: If we are one of the best schools in the nation, why are the students ignored so frequently?

Now, I am not going to throw out a laundry list that includes items such as “make the food better” or “give us less work,” but there are some things that happen here that absolutely puzzle me.

First, the campus’s surroundings are abysmal. The jail cell look of College Park makes it all too welcoming for the thugs who come and rip away personal items from unsuspecting

students. I think it is safe to say that without this university, many of these businesses would cease to exist. No longer would Cornerstone Grill and Loft and R.J. Bentley’s be able to pump out thousands of overpriced drinks on weekend nights, and Ratsie’s wouldn’t be able to give such bad food to so many customers. Business owners need to realize that college students, while poor, don’t like to eat in filthy shit holes while being ripped off for a greasy slice of pizza.

The least you could do is clean up your businesses and add some variety in the city to make this a true “livable community.”

Next, the living conditions in the dorms are appalling. I think administrators forget how hard it is to study when your room is 100 degrees. It also is increasingly difficult to get work done now that some officials support creating more forced triples than ever before. Now, not only do you get to share that small cinderblock box of joy with one person,

JOSH BIRCH but you get an extra one thrown in just for fun. If you think that’s a way to increase student productivity, I may have underestimated your stupidity.

Last, but certainly not least, we have Student Government Association President Steve Glickman and his band of idiots. The SGA is supposed to be a student organization that represents student needs. But I think Sir Glickman has forgotten his duty. And no, I’m not talking about the Duke ticket situation, as that debacle has gotten far too much attention. When I heard the SGA supported Gov. Martin O’Malley’s decision to raise tuition, citing it was a modest raise following several years of frozen tuition, my jaw dropped.

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n important question regarding the Purple Line light-rail alignments not raised at the recent town hall meeting sponsored by university President Wallace Loh is how the university would like to present itself to the region in this century. One alignment hides the campus from the community (or the community from the campus), while the other displays its history and beauty to all who may pass through.

A ride on the administration’s proposed Prienkert Drive alignment — which would lead travelers from east to west from the eventual East Campus development — would be a tease of a ride, giving Purple Live passengers the merest glimpse of the campus. Crossing Route 1, riders would slide up Rossborough Drive and turn left around the Armory, lingering just enough for them to wonder at the columnlined facades after the modern, mixed-use feel of the East Campus enclave before diving underground into a tunnel.

This tunnel would hide the iconic image of the Memorial Chapel after giving just a peek of the well-trodden lawn that fronts it or a passing glance at the color guard or marching band practicing for an upcoming game. Riders would then travel under Morrill Quad and arise on the far side of the hill to stare blankly at the backside of the buildings that border Preinkert Drive. Eventually, they would stop at a station crammed between the bland wall of the Art-Sociology Building and a hill that drops off to the Architecture Building. The train would then move on to Bethesda, having left its only stop on the campus in its distant southwest corner.

This plan is in stark contrast from the locally preferred alignment of the Maryland Transit Administration, which is not only endorsed by Gov. Martin O’Malley but also our entire congressional delegation, county representation, the College Park City Council, the Student Government Association and the Graduate Student Government.

Imagine, instead, a ride along the route a majority of the community favors and that sound engineering shows is not just a feasible alignment for a tier-one research university, but also the most convenient, economical and expedient. As passengers ride the light rail departing from East Campus, they cross Route 1 along Rossborough Drive. The train then veers right and the neo-classical columns fronting the Armory, now on your left, come to complement the columns and red-brick buildings — engineering, math and physics — stretching up Campus Drive on the far side of the Engineering Fields. Intramural sport teams are playing on the field nearest them, and students are bustling beyond the thoroughfare. Riders are left with little doubt they have entered the state’s flagship campus as they traverse the gentle incline past the well-landscaped “M” and merge into the traffic passing Hornbake Library. The train slows to rest in front of Stamp Student Union, and passengers who depart here are greeted by a smiling statue of Jim Henson and a broad pedestrian walkway leading into the building.

Those who don’t depart continue along Union Drive, passing Cole Field House on their right, then the new Knight Hall on their left — the growth of the university now fully displayed from some of the oldest buildings to the newest.

The vehicle continues toward UMUC and stops, releasing passengers destined for that college and Graduate Hills. Finally, with all university-bound passengers departed, the train carries on toward Bethesda. Those passengers who just rode through are left with a better appreciation of the beauty and community that is this university and a sense of being welcome on our campus.

This is the choice we, as a community, have to make. What journey do we wish our neighbors to have through our home. Shall they ride in darkness — hidden — or shall we grant them the view of which we are most proud?

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You may enjoy a kind of resilience that others can only wish for, and the fact is that you will recover rather easily from the kinds of setbacks that might ruin others. But you have the sort of character that can see you through even the most difficult times, and that enables you to keep your eyes on the prize no matter what may happen.

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Let’s be honest — it’s not hard to get people to listen to pop, but it is hard to make pop that is truly listenable. Then you get someone like Adele, who takes pop back to its more rocking roots and brings meaning back to the term singer-songwriter.

On her new record 21 — which follows 2008’s 19 — England’s Adele spends most of her time delving quietly into somber pop-perfection with flashes of rock.

The most important aspect of this album is Adele’s astounding voice.

Listeners won’t find any Auto-Tune here; that’s not to say it wasn’t used in the recording process, but it’s just not obvious.

Regardless, unlike the poorly dressed and beer-bellied Ke$ha, Adele uses her deep, sultry pipes to lay a level of originality over every song on the recording. Even something as standard as “Don’t You Remember,” a pop tune to be sure, is lifted by the woody tones of her voice — every note she sings is a story in 19th century woodcut.

Adele has earned herself comparisons to classic jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald or Etta James. However, unlike her last album, 21 avoids a lot of the jazz elements that permeated tracks such as the James Bond-smooth “Cold Shoulder.”

Even the album’s jazziest moments are drenched in pop, such as on “Lovesong,” a cover of the clas-

sic The Cure track.

Although most of 21 is focused on pop elements, the music doesn’t really suffer. Adele’s songwriting, with help from a few others, shows a need to find melodies that are worth repeating. Even a simple piano ballad like “Take It All” has shots of brilliance, from the shouting choir to the complex chord changes and the solitary emotion often found with artists such as Joanna Newsom.

Outside of this, there are compositions such as “Rumor Has It,” where Adele flirts with the heavy stomp of Southern rock, albeit almost entirely acoustically. With a bass drum that sounds like a hand beating a suitcase to death and Adele’s sweetly overdriven microphone, the song is thick with texture and shows fans the songstress can really rock out.

On the flip side, most of the tracks on the album are slower and more sober, which lends the album to more of a late-night listening crowd.

Few songs on the record are bad, but many are slow.

This wouldn’t be an issue, except for the fact that it seriously throws off the album’s pacing. Since this is technically a pop album, perhaps record executives aren’t expecting anyone to sit through the whole album. With the advent of iTunes, many listeners simply bow to the shuffle feature.

For everyone else, 21 hits a wall after “Set Fire to the Rain.” The pace of the record slows down consider-

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ably and never picks up again, making the 54-minute album seem considerably longer as one song drags into another.

There is still great music at the tail end of this record, however, such as the slow building gospel of “One and Only,” which takes the award for best bridge on the album — a choir of swelling voices over an affecting two chord structure before exploding into a major key resolution.

If nothing else, Adele proves most of the pop pushed on listeners today is empty and image-

obsessed — she’s cute, but she’s not the prettiest, and she is “overweight” by modern pop culture’s impossible standards.

Yet her music stands above the rest because no one is forced to care about what she’s wearing (looking at you, Lady Gaga). If Grammy Awards and hit singles aren’t enough to get people to listen to what she’s done in the past, perhaps 21 will be the record to take her to the next level. berman@umdbk.com

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After starting side by side for the first time against the from page 8 Wolfpack, Stoglin and Howard are soaking in every moment stepped up to assume the they share the court together.

“We’re real close,” Stoglin roles of primar y ball hansaid. “We’re both from the West dlers for the Terps.

“Both situations are out of Coast so we share that. ... We necessity,” Williams said. have a lot of flash to our game.”

Even before their recent “[Vasquez and Hayes] were bigger. These guys are breakout performances, that quicker. They’re different showmanship had popped up types of players. Both intermittently this season.

Pe’Shon and Terrell think of Both had signature moments themselves as point guards to start the season, as Howard hit a game-winning shot coming in.”

At the point-guard position against College of Charleston this season, Williams first on Nov. 10 and Stoglin finlooked to seniors Adrian ished with 17 points against Bowie and Cliff Tucker. Illinois at Madison Square While both have shown Garden on Nov. 19.

Both, however, also strugimprovement, neither has demonstrated the capability gled at times.

“When you’re a freshman, to lead the Terps to the NCAA Tournament as the it’s very rarely you’re consistent,” Williams said. “That’s team’s de facto floor general.

Bowie has eight points the hardest thing for a freshcombined in his past three man. They’re not used to games and didn’t take a shot going against a tough player against NC State on Sunday. every game.”

Howard, who seemed to During the same stretch, in which the Terps went 1-2, find his stride a little earlier than Stoglin, has shown a Tucker had seven turnovers.

So more and more, knack for effectively running Williams has looked at the Terps’ offense, finding Stoglin and Howard to run open teammates and setting the offense, interchanging up easy baskets. In the past the two in the starting lineup seven games, he has 27 assists to go with just nine and even throughout games.

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Guard Terrell Stoglin’s 10.6 points per game average is the highest of any Terp freshman guard since John Lucas in the early 1970s.

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NEWCOMERS from page 8 fast-paced and intense than high school ball was,” Czechner said. “It was really exciting to get the chance to start a game and win. The team definitely rallied behind me.”

Beards has provided a lift to the Terps’ offense as well at first base. She is batting .400 with a .571 on-base percentage through the first set of games from last weekend.

The freshman recorded a hit in her first collegiate at-bat, a single through the right side against Iowa on Feb. 11, and kept her success going in her first career start the next day against Illinois State, going 2-for-3.

“I felt like I was getting my foot wet in the water a little bit, and then I jumped into starting,” she said.

Coming out of Paramus Catholic High School, the Ringwood, N.J., native hit .500 as a

senior and was named an ESPN RISE All-American along with garnering All-League, All-County and All-State honors.

“I used to see people on TV, and now I’m actually playing against them,” she said. “I was kind of patting myself on the back because I made it, too.” “[Czechner and Beards] just need to keep in perspective that this is not high school, this is not travel ball,” Watten said. “When you play at this level, your opponent’s never going to give up.

They’re only going to get stronger throughout the game.”

As a transfer from Baylor, Hanafin took a more circuitous route to College Park. She returned to be close to her home and her family in Arlington, Va., but was familiar with the program as a former recruiting target of Watten while playing at Yorktown High School.

The junior played in 50 games for the Bears in 2010, batting .232

with seven home runs and 32 RBI. She had to sit out fall practice after breaking her hand, something that had her itching to get back in the lineup, but hit .500 in the Terps’ five-game tournament, including a two-run home run in the team’s Feb. 13 loss to Georgia.

“I just kind of wanted to get out there and show them, ‘Hey, this is what I can do, and I can help you guys out this year,’” Hanafin said.

While the Terps are keying on the pitching of Knight and Hickey to help lead them back to the NCAA Tournament, the team knows the sustained success of its newcomers will be just as important as the contributions from its proven veterans.

“I feel like a goal would be just to put my team first before me and make sure everybody plays like a team,” Beards said, “because I feel like we all made it as a team so we should all play as a team.” dgallen@umdbk.com

SHOOTING from page 8 able to spark the Terps’ play with timely shots. She hit three consecutive 3-pointers to spark a first-half run against Wake Forest on Jan. 28 and knocked down two straight 3-pointers in a decisive 21-0 run against NC State on Feb. 6.

But her efforts have proven equally inconsistent. She has shot just 25.4 percent from beyond the arc this season — compared to Bjork’s 40.9 percent clip last year — and has left the Terps one-dimensional at times this year.

Frese, though, said the team’s inconsistencies can’t be put solely on Rodgers’ shoulders. While the junior is clearly the first option for the Terps, Frese also looks for guards Anjale Barrett

game, it’s more up-tempo,” Gregory said. “He’s a fast guy and a young guy from out west, he’s trying to go, go, go.”

“Terrell thinks the light is always green,” Williams added.

“He’s never seen a red light.”

On Sunday, when Vasquez’s banner was unfurled from the rafters in Comcast Center, the Terps closed one chapter in the career of one of the most storied point guards in program history.

Moments later, when two heady freshmen of different backgrounds and skill sets took the court together, they opened the door to what might be their backcourt of the future.

Williams has opted not to compare the success of his previous backcourt, which earlier this season he called one of the best in the country last year, to his current one.

But so far, Stoglin and Howard have shown the potential to continue in Williams’ long line of standout guards.

“You can’t really compare us because we’re different players,” Stoglin said. “But we’re looking forward to playing together on the same backcourt next year.”

turnovers.

His 2.0 assist-to-turnover ratio is the highest for a Terp freshman guard since Terrell Stokes in 1995-96, surpassing even former stars Steve Blake and Vasquez.

“He comes in the game ready to play, really intense on defense, calms the offense down, gets us through our plays,” forward Dino Gregory said. “He’s basically our floor general when he comes out there. He demands everyone’s attention.”

“My last year in high school, I had to be the coach on the floor,” Howard said. “I think that helps now I’m in college. When I come in the game, I try to pick up the tempo or make sure if we have the lead we keep it.”

Stoglin, meanwhile, hasn’t hesitated to call his own number. The freshman has the speed to beat almost anyone on the fast break and the creativity to get his shot from nearly anywhere on the floor.

As his playing time has soared, Stoglin’s scoring has approached historic levels. His 10.6 points per game average is the highest of any Terp freshman guard since John Lucas in 1972-73.

“When Terrell’s in the

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and Laurin Mincy and forward Diandra Tchatchouang to bear some of the responsibility for replacing Bjork.

“We’ve brought her name up numerous times,” Frese said of Bjork. “She would have played remarkably well with this team. She’s the missing piece.

“I would say Kim’s effort is there, but we can do a better job as a team helping her get open. We didn’t do a very good job at getting Kim easy looks. We’ve got to do a better job getting her easy looks.

She was rushed all night [against Florida State].”

So while it’s difficult to pinpoint the exact root of the Terps’ shooting woes — “I’m surprised by it, given the kind of talent we have in this locker room,” Frese said — its effects on the rest of the team have been plainly obvious this year.

Earlier this season, center

Lynetta Kizer boasted that “nobody can stop our bigs when we’re down there.”

Kizer’s sentiment again rang true against the Seminoles, who were doubled up by the Terps’ scoring in the paint, 44-22. But those inside contributions were all but moot without some help from the perimeter during a late-game comeback effort predicated on layups and short shots.

Down the stretch, the Terps regularly looked inside to trim the Seminoles’ lead. But ultimately, what the Terps needed to better cut into the deficit was just what they were unable to register in the final 3:26 of action Sunday: a 3-pointer.

“I don’t think all is lost in the big picture,” Frese said. “On those off nights, we just have to be able to find other ways.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

DEFENSE from page 8 something goalkeeper Niko Amato took solace in against Detroit. Saturday’s game was the 5-foot-8 freshman’s first career start.

“I was anxious to get out there,” Amato said. “My defense played really well in front of me, and it’s really calming to have three seniors out there.”

Amato finished the game with three saves, but perhaps even more important was his ability to clear the ball upfield.

Amato led a perfect transition game for the Terps, who, even with their All-American long pole midfielder Brian Farrell sidelined due to a shoulder injury, converted on every clearing chance, finishing 20-for-20.

“Niko was fine. Clearingwise, when we set up and we did what we wanted to do, I thought the guys executed pretty well,” Tillman said. “It was hard to hear, but from what I did hear, I liked Niko’s grasp of what we were doing.”

In addition to Amato and Bernhardt, fellow long poles David Miller and Michael White and short-stick defenders Landon Carr and Pat Morrison also aided the Terps’ clearing effort.

Taken as a whole — from Amato’s performance in goal to the seniors’ play on the backline and the team’s clearing game — the Terps’ defensive effort was sound all around. They forced 14 total turnovers, held the Titans to only 17 shots and won the ground-ball battle in dominating fashion, 49-23.

But players realize that they can take only so much from Saturday’s game, which featured a less-than-stellar opponent in Detroit.

“A lot of things went well,” Amato said. “We need to improve our communication, sliding and recovering. But overall, we did a pretty good job when tested.” jengelke@umdbk.com

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Sports

Thomas gets her Terp record Terrapin women’s basketball forward Alyssa Thomas earned her school-record sixth ACC Rookie of the Week honor yesterday. Read more online at TerrapinTrail.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

CHANGING OF THE

GUARDS

Defender Michael White and the Terps blanked Detroit Mercy for more than a half Saturday.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

Goal-filled win shows off defense

« Terrell Stoglin 10.6 ppg, 3.2 apg

Pe’Shon Howard » 5.2 ppg, 2.0 assiststo-turnover ratio

Backline sound vs.

Detroit in blowout

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Senior staff writer

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Terrell Stoglin and Pe’Shon Howard can be found every night in Comcast Center taking shot after shot, driving off imaginary picks, attacking the rim — two workaholics from out west tending tirelessly to their games inside their new home away from home.

Just a year ago, the pair was in high school, chasing separate glories. While Stoglin led Santa Rita High School through the Arizona 4A-II playoffs, Howard — a Los Angeles native — guided Oak Hill Academy in

Mouth of Wilson, Va., to its usual spot among the nation’s top prep powerhouses.

Now, as Terrapin men’s basketball teammates, they’ve found that little about their responsibilities has changed, even if their venues have. With the Terps’ NCAA Tournament hopes fading fast and the play of several seniors heading the same way, coach Gary Williams has increasingly turned to Stoglin, a lightningfast 6-foot-1 shooter, and Howard, a muscular 6-foot-3 distributor, to help carry the Terps’ backcourt for the rest of the season and likely beyond.

Their play of late, including Stoglin’s 25 points and 7.5 assists per game last week that earned him ACC Rookie of the Week honors, has brightened the prospects of an otherwise disappointing season for the Terps. And while the duo may not be able to salvage the team’s postseason aspirations this season, their early production indicates they could forge standout careers not unlike the slew of greats that preceded them.

“Like all good freshmen, they’re starting to figure things out,” Williams said. “We are a little small, but their toughness and quickness can help over-

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As Terps struggle, Stoglin and Howard emerge as team’s go-to options

come that.”

Five years ago, Williams went through the same growing process with another freshman point guard tandem in Greivis Vasquez and Eric Hayes. The departure of guards D.J. Strawberry and John Gilchrist the year before had left Williams to rely heavily on the two.

This season, Williams found himself in the same predicament with the graduation of Vasquez and Hayes. But despite typical freshman inconsistencies, Stoglin and Howard have confidently

Just minutes into the second quarter of Saturday’s game against Detroit Mercy, long pole Jesse Bernhardt forced a turnover inside his own defensive zone during a man-down situation for the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team.

After scooping up the ensuing ground ball, Bernhardt streaked down the center of the field, executing a perfect clear from the defensive zone and ending the extra-man opportunity for the Titans.

Though only a small footnote amid the Terps’ dominant offensive performance Saturday — 13 players recorded a point in the 16-4 rout — it was nonetheless indicative of the Terps’ highly experienced and equally capable defense.

After allowing two early goals to Detroit, both of which came while the Terps were trying to kill off a three-minute, non-releasable penalty, the Terps held the Titans scoreless for a span of 32:13 — more than a full half of action.

Detroit didn’t muster an evenstrength goal until less than seven minutes remained in the game’s third quarter, a testament to the Terps’ senior-laden defensive unit that is expected to be one of the team’s strong points and among the nation’s best this season.

“The guys take a lot of pride in that,” first-year coach John Tillman said Saturday. “The defensive guys take personal pride in making sure that we’re doing the right things.”

Seniors Shane Hall, Ryder Bohlander and Brett Schmidt started at close defense for the Terps on Saturday, while Max Schmidt, who is still not yet 100 percent after suffering an undisclosed preseason injury, came in off the bench in relief.

The four seniors combined to grab nine ground balls and force five turnovers while anchoring the Terps’ backline.

The leadership of the group was

see GUARDS, page 7 see DEFENSE, page 7

SOFTBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Trio of newcomers lifts Terps early in season

Shooting woes go deeper

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

On a team whose dominant storyline entering the season centered on the returning pitching at the top of its rotation, it was a trio of newcomers that sparked the Terrapin softball team on its opening weekend.

Freshmen Ashley Czechner and Candice Beards, along with junior transfer Bree Hanafin, pitched in solid performances last week to help lead the Terps to two victories at the Red & Black Showcase in Athens, Ga. While the mainstays of the lineup struggled, the trio — making their Terp debuts after differing paths to the team’s final roster — led the team from the plate and the circle.

“I recruited all three of them and know what they’re capable of,” coach Laura Watten said.

“I expect that from them. I wasn’t surprised.”

Joining an already solid pitching rotation anchored by senior Kerry Hickey and junior Kendra Knight, Czechner arrived with a near--flawless portfolio from her career at Waccamaw High School in Pawleys Island, S.C., where she went 27-1 with a 0.29 ERA and 422 strikeouts as a senior.

In her first collegiate start against Lipscomb on Feb. 12, Czechner recorded a completegame victory, allowing three runs over seven innings while striking out nine Lipscomb batters.

“It was definitely a lot more

see NEWCOMERS, page 7

After graduation of sharpshooter Bjork, Terps struggle to find true 3-point threat

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

Guard Kim Rodgers is the Terps’ most frequent 3-point shooter this season, but her shooting percentage is fifth on the team. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

When the Terrapin women’s basketball team is successful shooting from the perimeter, coach Brenda Frese said, it can be “unstoppable.”

But as No. 14 Florida State showed Sunday, the Terps are decidedly stoppable, largely because of their inconsistencies from beyond the arc. They have made the fewest 3-pointers of any team in the ACC, a glaring weakness for a team with few.

In their 72-66 weekend win, the Seminoles opted to focus their defensive efforts on containing the No. 15 Terps’ talented post players, challenging their guests to beat them from outside. It paid off, as the Terps shot a dismal 3-for-13 from beyond the arc in defeat.

“That’s an area where we’ve got to become much more consistent,” Frese said. “You have to have an inside-outside attack. Of the six games that we’ve lost, sometimes you can point to our perimeter.”

The Terps’ primary issue has been an inability to replace the contributions of graduated guard Lori Bjork, who hit more 3-pointers last season (85) than the team has combined for in 27 games this season (84).

Coming into this season, guard Kim Rodgers seemed the likely candidate to replace Bjork. The junior has proven clutch from the perimeter at times this season, most notably nailing a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to elevate the Terps over Georgia Tech on Feb. 3.

She also has occasionally been

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