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Board OKs small fee hikes Committee wants to investigate eliminating dorm landlines

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

The Committee for the Review of Student Fees voted last night to investigate student use of dorm landlines — a measure that may save students $200 in fees that committee members said largely go to waste.

“I have yet to meet someone in college who didn’t have a cell phone,” said Student Government Association Vice President Elliott Morris, a member of the committee.

“If you really needed a landline — such as being [a resident assistant] or you don’t have a cell phone— then you would be able to have this option [of paying per line] and not be mandated to pay,” SGA vice president of

finance and committee member Andrew Steinberg said.

Resident Life has been considering cutting the cord on dorm phones for a while, but no decision has been finalized yet. Eliminating the landlines would save the department $71,870 in the next fiscal year.

SGA President Steve Glickman, a member of the committee, said the report will investigate if asking students to pay each time they use a landline would be more appropriate than charging a universal fee for a service few students use. The results of the report will help inform the committee’s decision when it meets in November, he said.

NEXT YEAR’S FEE HIKES ResLife and Residential Facilities Yearly rent for traditional dorms will increase $165; rent for apartmentstyle dorms with a kitchen will increase $172 Dining Services Meal plans will cost $57 more a year DOTS Commuter permits will increase by

$4, resident permits by $7 Faculty and staff permits will cost

$7 or $10 more, depending on salary

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For most of its history, students haven’t been allowed to eat in McKeldin Library. That will change around March 1. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Libraries will allow food and drink on trial basis starting in March

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Students largely welcome policy change

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

For years, students have been sneaking food into McKeldin Library because of a policy that prohibited food and drink anywhere besides Footnotes Cafe.

Until now.

Starting around March 1, the university will enter into a trial period of allowing food and drink throughout all of McKeldin and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library. If that goes well, students could see the nofood policy overturned at all eight university libraries as early as next year, officials said.

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The university’s promise to give ever y student the chance to study outside the country became easier to keep last week when officials added an eighth study abroad destination, a semester-long program in Barcelona.

Barcelona, a Mediterranean coastal city in northeast Spain, has long attracted university students with its rich history, beaches and vibrant nightlife. But with the university launching its own Barcelona program, officials hope to expand the Study Abroad Office’s reach and encourage more students to study internationally.

Students have already begun signing up for the program, which will kick off next fall.

“We look where students are going and where the need is,” said

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Lisa Tenley Alton, the Study Abroad Office’s outreach specialist.

“Students went with other programs, and we wanted to provide our own program,” said Lauren Ruszczyk, a program coordinator in the office. “It has an added layer of quality and service.”

According to a study from the Institute of International Education, Spain is the third most popular destination for U.S. students studying abroad after the United Kingdom and Italy.

The Study Abroad Office tailored the program so that its academics would attract students from all fields, unlike the Mar yland-in-Shanghai program which has emerged as a favorite for students interested in international business.

“It isn’t geared toward a specific

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On a recent Thursday night, Elizabeth Ingraham pulled out her cell phone to the familiar vibration of an incoming text message. She opened up her phone to discover a picture message from her most recent hookup: tall, muscular, blond — and naked.

“The typical naked mirror picture when the guy is flexing every single muscle in his body always cracks me up,” Ingraham said.

Like many, Ingraham, a senior sociology major, has sent and received such

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Feeling ‘right’ among their own Campus Republicans among 5K students at conservative convention

BY ALISSA GULIN Staff writer

College Republicans spokesman Clyde Thompson lost his voice this weekend cheering and shouting at an event in Washington that attracted more than 5,000 college students.

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risqué texts since high school. University health advocates warn that this practice, known popularly as “sexting,” can lead to disgrace with friends and employers, and MTV has recently started airing a public awareness campaign aimed at highlighting sexting’s unintended consequences.

But when Ingraham dashes off titillating texts in search of a late-night hookup, she doesn’t give it a second thought. Not even when she’s sending revealing pictures.

“It’s fun,” Ingraham said. “When it’s just a hookup, there’s this ‘forbidden fruit’ kind of idea, so sexting makes it even more appealing.”

And despite the mounting campaign warning against sexting,

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Students engage in risqué texting, but may regret it later

“We will use the spring semester as a period to understand the problems — if indeed there are — with permitting food and drink in those two facilities,” a proposal distributed to library staffers read. “Other libraries will have the advantage of that experience to gauge whether they want to permit food and drink.”

The initiative is one objective of new dean of libraries Patricia Steele, who joined the university in September. Steele found success allowing food in the libraries at Indiana University, where she also served as dean of libraries, said Jane Williams,

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But this was no rock concert — it was the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.

The conference, which featured big-name Republican politicians out to promote their party’s message, attracted a record-breaking number of young people, including about 10 from this university.

“Sorry my voice is a little sore, I was just screaming everywhere. It was a crazy weekend,” Thompson said. “It was a lot of fun. Any young conservative, if they get the chance to go and just talk to people and listen to them speak, they should.”

Because the conservative movement is in a period of transition, according to political analysts, its leaders have been directing efforts to the younger demographic in much the same way the Democratic party has done for years.

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About 60 to 70 percent of ticket holders at the three-day event were younger than 30, according to the American Conservative Union, the event’s sponsor.

For the members of this university’s chapter of College Republicans, attending the conference was an opportunity to “meet people and see more about what’s going on in the party,” Thompson said. Those who went said they were glad to see cheaper conference tickets and designated entertainment areas specifically geared toward college students and think such tactics will attract more widespread support among the younger demographic for the conservative movement.

“All the politicians were appreciative of the young movement,” said

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BARCELONA from page 1 major,” said Alton. “It’s an option for most students to consider.

Not even language barriers are a problem, Alton said.

“Students who never took Spanish before can take a beginner class,” she said, “It’s for ever ybody.”

In addition, students studying there will coordinate extracurricular activities such as volunteering and internships with a university

employee stationed in the city.

Lindsay Deutsch, a junior journalism major who is studying in Barcelona, expressed enthusiasm about the university’s decision to add the program.

“It has a ton of histor y and art; the nightlife is great; it’s on the beach; and the weather is mild and Mediterranean,” Deutsch wrote in an e-mail. “Just getting out of the Mar yland bubble is refreshing, and my life here is definitely far from what it would be on Route 1.”

Still, she is not without regrets. The Study Abroad Office did not offer the Maryland-in-Barcelona program this spring, meaning she had to plan her experience with CEA Global Education, an agency outside the university.

“I would prefer to have direct credits from my study abroad rather than transfer credit,” Deutsch said. “I really wish Mar yland had offered a Barcelona program earlier.” news@umdbk.com

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Students gather in Footnotes Cafe, the only place food is allowed in McKeldin Library. Soon they will be able to eat and drink throughout the building. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

LIBRARY from page 1 the director of planning and administrative ser vices for the libraries.

For about a month, librar y officials and Director of Building and Landscape Ser vices Harr y Teabout have been meeting to make Steele’s goal a reality, Teabout said.

“We gave [the libraries] our proposal — our model — that we thought was needed and we came up with a compromise,” he said.

His proposal included trash and recycling stations he called “one-stop shopping” for students to easily dispose of their waste and the addition of a housekeeper to deal with spills.

For the change to become permanent in all eight of the university’s libraries, Teabout said students will have some simple responsibilities throughout the rest of the semester.

“If students are ver y diligent about how they clean up after themselves, ... I think they will make this ver y successful,” he said. “A lot is hinging on them, and that’s what we’re going to be obser ving.”

Williams said she hopes students recognize the benefits and responsibilities that will come with the change.

“It’s a plus for students to be able to have food and drink with them,” Williams said.

“And I hope they acknowledge that by keeping the libraries clean.”

Students generally welcomed the adjustment.

“If I can go to the fourth or fifth floor and bring food, that’s great,” senior government and politics major Elizabeth Flamm said. “If you’re here all night, you need to keep fueling yourself.”

But some were worried the policy could bring additional noise and chaos to a facility that requires quiet and calm to allow students to focus on

their studies.

“That would be a huge distraction if people brought full meals into the librar y,” senior communication major Cassie O’Connor said. “It would be really weird.”

O’Connor added that her other concern with large amounts of food in the librar y was cleanliness, whereas before this change students were more inclined to just sneak snacks into the stacks.

“It’s going to be a disgusting place to study if people leave trash ever ywhere,” she added.

Despite some concerns, come March, students will no longer need to hide full cups of coffee, sandwiches and midnight munchies in their bags before coming into the librar y.

“We can feel more relaxed about doing something we already do,” senior communication major Carolina Peña said. present@umdbk.com

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CONVENTION from page 1 Thompson, a senior criminology and criminal justice major.

“It gave some recognition to the work that young Republicans are doing. They recognized that we were there and cared and have our own separate issues. They’re trying to keep us involved and made an effort to reach out to us. I got that from every person I talked to.”

A passionate crowd heard speeches from influential party figures such as Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.), Rep. Mike Pence (RInd.) and Rep. Ron Paul (RTexas). The students said they got swept up in the enthusiasm. “[FOX News host] Glenn Beck was the most moving and the one that brought the point home the best,” said senior government and politics and history major Brandon Fleig. “He had a segment in his speech about the Statue of Liberty, and

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health and human sexuality professor Robin Sawyer says Ingraham’s attitude isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“Theoretically, if it was some type of harmless fun between two people who cared enough about each other to never share the material with anyone else, then possibly it’s not so bad,” Sawyer said.

In an impromptu poll, Sawyer said about 10 percent of his class of 200 students said they had received nude or semi-nude pictures via text, following a national trend. About 10 percent of young adults nationwide have sent sexts and 15 percent have received them, Sawyer said.

But despite sexting’s mass appeal, it doesn’t always have the desired effect.

“Given the reality that material inevitably will get shared with others, I’d have to conclude that in general, sexting is not a positive thing and could lead to some pretty damaging consequences,” Sawyer said.

Allison Bennett, a coordinator with the university’s Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program, said her office hasn’t seen any sexting-related cases this

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it was one of those moments where someone really inspires you. … He’s a possible influence for a forward trend.”

At the convention, young participants were also invited to XPAC — a lounge area sponsored by actor Stephen Baldwin complete with Wii Sports, Dance Dance Revolution, conservative-leaning comedians and chances to mingle with like-minded students.

“The XPAC lounge was a good place to get away and take a break because there was just so much stuff going on you needed to take it all in,” said Thompson, who also attended a small reception with Gov. Tim Pawlenty (RMinn.) and workshops with Iraq veterans and the College Republican National Committee.

Students also lauded the networking opportunities they got while rubbing elbows and chatting with leaders and activists of the movement. They said this event and the movement it represents was appealing to them

because it harkens back to what they called true conservative principles.

But best of all, they said, was the chance to meet other likeminded people their age.

“It really helps you connect and see different perspectives from outside your region,” Fleig said. “You may have different conservative values as someone from New York than as from Alabama. It helps you understand their ideas.”

“I took from it all that it’s not as weird as it seems to be young and conservative,” Thompson added.

“At Maryland, it just seems like you’re always the minority. But here you got to come together.”

Uniting under a common set of principles was a recurring theme throughout the conference, Fleig said.

Involving the youth “always should be a strategy if you’re trying to have your beliefs grow,” he said.

“I still worry that my ex has those pictures saved in his phone.”

boyfriend’s phone ringing in the employee locker room and looked at it,” Ingraham said. “I really wish my 60-year-old creepy manager hadn’t seen all that.

Needless to say neither of us really lived that down.”

Still, Ingraham continues to sext because it lures men in and gives her a sense of power in relationships.

For Kaileigh Donlon, a freshman government and politics major, sexting serves mainly as a way to remain connected with her boyfriend when they’re not together in school.

But she sets a line: No pictures.

The mere possibility of a risqué photo falling in the wrong hands makes Donlon nervous. She sticks to sending text-only messages and sends them only when she has a boyfriend.

“If you [sext] to strangers, I think that’s a little messed up,” said Donlon. “If you send it to, like, your friends, it’s kind of crossing the line too.”

Ingraham, too, threw up caution.

“Take into consideration the fact that the person you are sexting to might show it to their friend,” Ingraham said. “Do you really want to be meeting their friends for the first time after they have already seen you naked?”

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year, but she expects these incidences are vastly underreported.

She pointed out that intimate messages originally sent in confidence can easily be copied, pasted and sent to mutual friends and strangers.

And while sexting remains a central part of Ingraham’s sex life, she admits she still worries about texts she sent to her ex-boyfriend.

“I still worry that my ex has those pictures saved in his phone,” Ingraham said. “We had a rough breakup, so I doubt he would be a gentleman and delete them.”

Two years ago, she had a nearly devastating sexting experience when a message she sent her boyfriend at work wound up in the wrong hands. Her boyfriend was working a shift at a grocery store where they both worked His phone was in his locker. His manager picked it up.

“It was only a topless picture, but our store manager heard my

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GSG advocates mentoring program Initiative would pair undergraduates with grad mentors

BY MELISSA QUIJADA Staff writer

Graduate student leaders are proposing a system of one-on-one mentoring to help guide undergraduates who are considering postgraduate studies.

Under the program, undergraduates would shadow individual graduate students to gain perspective on their dayto-day issues like time management and student loans, and receive help in their application processes.

Graduate Student Government officials say the mentoring program remains in its preliminary stages, as they have yet to fine-tune the details like university partners and funding, but they still hope to launch it this fall.

The GSG’s Academic Affairs committee is drafting the program’s details. Officials anticipate funding from the university’s Career Center.

Although there has been no official confirmation from any university departments, GSG Vice President for Committee Affairs Tomek Kott wrote in an e-mail that many have informally expressed support

FEES from page 1 Unlike the committee’s meeting last semester, when a slew of controversial fees were created or increased, the hikes approved this semester were standard increases to the budgets of the Department of Transportation Services, housing and Dining Services.

Resident Life and Residential Facilities fees are each going up about 3 percent. The dining fee is increasing 1.5 percent, and small hikes of $10 or less were made to the cost of parking permits.

Last semester, fees totaling nearly $200 were approved.

Some of them funded services — including the libraries and the

after GSG President Anupama Kothari announced the idea earlier this month.

“Anu has pitched the program to various potential partners across the university, including the Career Center, the provost, and alumni association. All have been very receptive to the idea and are willing to help either with funding or through logistics,” Kott wrote.

Kothari added that even if there is no university money for the program, the GSG will still be able to offer mentoring to undergraduates.

“At this point we don’t really need funding,” she said.

“It would only arise for a networking event or to publicize the program.”

As an undergraduate, Kott said he based his decision to pursue his doctorate in physics upon attending listening sessions for graduate students. Similarly, he said, the program would build upon the concept of firsthand mentoring.

Graduate students largely support the program, and some wish they had participated in a similar program as undergraduates. One stu-

University Health Center — tuition has traditionally paid for, drawing ire from students.

Another recommendation coming out of the meeting is to keep students from footing the bill for the Friendly Ticket Program, an effort enacted several years ago to forgive first-time violators who park in restricted spaces.

DOTS will have to raise the price of a campus parking permit by 1.7 percent in order to sustain the program. The committee voted to recommend that DOTS find an alternative funding source.

Last year, DOTS requested the committee raise parking meter prices. Steinberg said this ended up deterring students from parking on the campus and ultimately created another revenue shortfall.

dent said she would have benefited from a fresh perspective when she stood at the crossroads deciding between more school or the workforce.

“When I was an undergraduate student, sometimes I had no idea whether I should continue with graduate studies or just find a job,” said Xiaoya Sun, a first-year chemistr y doctoral student. “At that time the only person I could ask was my academic advisor. She was a professor and she graduated many years ago. She didn’t know much about what the graduate life is like today.”

GSG officials maintain there is indeed a demand for such a mentoring program among undergraduates.

“The initial importance is we know that there are undergraduates that are curious about graduate school,” said GSG Vice President for Academic Affairs Aaron Tobiason. “The initial purpose is to give them a chance to talk one-on-one with the graduate students within the same field.” mquijada@umdbk.com

Graduate Student Government president and committee member Anupama Kothari said her primary concern is a sense that students are increasingly being forced to bail out the department and save DOTS from budget shortfalls.

Kothari said a viable solution to DOTS’ budget problems that doesn’t sap student fees has yet to materialize.

“We need a good long-term plan that’s a good revenue model, and that needs to be talked about,” she said. “It needs to be discussed very soon so that every year they’re not passing certain things which we might end up regretting next year.” aisaacs@umdbk.com

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Counting on it

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he image of the American university has never been higher — or lower. fundraising — occasionally from big corporations — must increase.

This trend will not dissipate, especially at a research institution. Despite the rallyAbroad, American universities are the envy of the world for our research capabilities that have driven the world’s largest economy for decades. But ing cries to expel corporations from influencing the priorities of a university, the fact here at home, the image is getting uglier. The focus isn’t on the ground- of the matter is universities need that money. But faculty and administrators must breaking research universities engage in, but on the students they educate or fail not lose sight of the higher purpose of every university: to educate. Although a qualto educate. The domestic image of the American university is no longer that of a sci- ity education does depend on good faculty and facilities, monetary interests should entist mixing chemicals in a lab, but of an overpaid bureaucrat burning through not skew the purpose of universities.

The blame for privatization ultimately rests with state governtuition money. ments cutting funding, not with university administrators. MasAccording to a series of surveys conducted by Public sive budget cuts in state dollars lead administrations to raise Agenda for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher tuition and seek outside donations. If people really are worried Education, six out of ten Americans believe universities are American universities about universities becoming more like businesses then they focused more on profits than students’ educational experience.

To many students, this isn’t shocking. Our generation, after are facing an image crisis need to funnel their anger into supporting higher education years of being told a college diploma is essential for the workas a result of the down policies. If lawmakers are convinced that the citizens of their state truly want better funding for higher education then they place, will step into the real world on average more than economy. may be more careful with the scalpel next time around. $20,000 in debt and face an unemployment rate hovering near The cost of an education has long been the factor holding 10 percent. The reputation of universities as a place focused back potential students across the country. Added to rising tuition costs students more on betterment and less on profits seems to be fading.

Disregard the question about whether this image is totally accurate — it has ker- will face next year and what The New York Times has described as the “new poor” nels of both truth and fiction — and accept the fact that a substantial portion of the — recently unemployed middle class Americans who could remain that way for American public now views universities — even land-grant colleges like this univer- years to come, hindering their ability to send their kids to college — the prospect sity — as little more than educational corporations, providing students with a of attending a university becomes nothing more than a dream to many.

Administrators should be aware of the crisis currently facing their image. Studegree in exchange for $20,000 or more.

Despite the rhetoric surrounding the privatization of public universities, what dents and their families want to feel like they are truly paying for something worthmany critics fail to realize is that many universities, including this one, don’t have while. In order to ensure they do not become the enemy, they must remind stumuch choice. In order to become a top tier institution money must be available to dents that they still care about the broader values of higher education. And in order build the best facilities and attract the best faculty. Without such funds, the quality to halt the slide towards corporate universities, voters must remind lawmakers that of education decreases. As state funding for public institutions begins to shrink, they still care as well.

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Editorial cartoon: Jenna Brager

Clean energy education: RE-ENERGYSE America

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s far as states go, this state is fairly ambitious when it comes to producing clean energy, creating green jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In 2009, Gov. Martin O’Malley approved a law mandating the state to reduce these emissions to 25 percent below 2006 levels by 2020. This can largely be achieved by reaching for lowhanging fruit, such as energy efficiency and deployment of existing low-carbon technologies. But what about after 2020? What about the other 75 percent?

We shouldn’t just be asking this question about emissions for the state but also the United States and the emerging clean energy industry throughout the world. As countries and states pick the low-hanging fruit, they’re going to look for more advanced, innovative and efficient technologies to get steeper emissions reductions. Is the United States going to be importing them or exporting them?

RE-ENERGYSE, a new federal education initiative centered on the explod-

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DERNOGA ing clean energy sector, has been proposed by President Barack Obama’s administration. If funded by Congress for fiscal year 2011, RE-ENERGYSE would be run by the Energy Department and the National Science Foundation with an initial investment of $74 million in clean energy-related education at K-12 schools, universities, and community and technical colleges. The beloved Solar Decathlon, a competition to build the most attractive energy-efficient, solar-powered house in which this university won second place in 2007, would become part of this program.

RE-ENERGYSE would create cutting-edge undergraduate and graduate clean energy programs in universities, provide scores of scholarships and fel-

lowships for aspiring scientists and engineers and equip thousands of technically skilled workers at community colleges for clean energy jobs. It has a goal of putting up to 6,000 professionals into the clean energy sector by 2016, and up to 13,000 by 2021.

This support could see scientists from this university playing a key role in the development of new energy sources. Our scientists are already working on cellulosic ethanol and biofuels from algae. The Chesapeake Bay region could significantly benefit from the commercial development of cellulosic ethanol, considering the large amount of biomass we get from all the feedstocks grown. Scientists are experimenting with growing algae at wastewater treatment plants, which could filter a source of the bay’s water pollution and then produce a renewable fuel.

I constantly read about the potential for new breakthroughs such as solar panels that capture infrared radiation, meaning they would work at night, or a new test plant in Norway that uses the

simple process of osmosis to drive a turbine and generate electricity. I’m not kidding — Google it.

Funding RE-ENERGYSE is far from a slam dunk. In 2009, the Obama administration appropriated it in its fiscal year 2010 budget, but it was nixed in the Senate’s appropriations process.

This is why it’s important for students to write to their representatives in support of RE-ENERGYSE. In order to lead the world in global energy technology this century, we have to do more than invest in greencollar jobs for today. We need to create an unparalleled clean energy education initiative to give our up and coming scientists the support they need to innovate for America. This will ensure the green jobs of tomorrow are ours. REENERGYSE is an important step in the right direction — a step toward that other 75 percent. Let’s go for it.

Matt Dernoga is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at dernoga@umdbk.com.

Mock trial: The power of the pantsuit

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y options for this Sunday were as follows: Do all the work (including writing this article) that I had for Monday; head down to the gym and catch up on my squats; chill in the apartment while my roommate caught up on all The Secret Life of an American Teenager she’s been missing because she suddenly realized she’s not a 9year-old; or shimmy on down to Baltimore to watch a good friend on the university’s mock trial team kick the asses of every big-name school on the Eastern Seaboard.

I chose Baltimore, of course. Let’s face it: I wasn’t going to do work anyway, I’ve already missed so many squats that my legs don’t even hurt when I climb stairs anymore, and if I have to relive the teen years one more time I’m going to throw myself down the student section at Comcast Center.

So off to the University of Maryland

School of Law we trotted, ready to play the ditzy friends in Legally Blonde intruding upon a practice criminal trial in which our friend was the star. (And yes, there was a jury and everything.)

When we got there I was taken aback by the formality of it all. College kids in suits with exhibits and objections and game faces, judges with actual law degrees and audiences with their hearts in their throats.

It was incredible to see the amount of preparation and heart that went into the charade of playing attorney, witness and defendant. It was a nail-biter but in the end they pulled a Cliff Tucker and nailed it. However, as a female student who aspires to a similar profession, what personally impressed me was the female actors’ inclusion and performance. Decked out in pantsuits, hair carefully coiffed, jewelry artfully chosen, they did not command attention merely through their appearance but through

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OFFUTT their academic and professional merit.

In other words, these ladies were kicking ass, taking names and doing it in three-inch heels. I said to myself, “You know, maybe we’ve actually done it.

We’ve broken the barriers, the glass ceiling, the boys’ club.”

And then we went to Hooters to celebrate. Not by choice: It was one of those times when there is no other option besides starvation. So my three (girl) friends and I ventured cautiously into uncharted waters, unsure of what we would find. What we found was an establishment boasting the shortest shorts since Richard Simmons, where the hair-

nets go somewhere other than the head, the best tips are earned by girls below table level, and the food — well, let’s just say that the meat you go to Hooters for isn’t the stuff served on a plate.

Should my knee-jerk objection to such an obvious horny men’s establishment be sustained? I’m not sure. The women (and their patrons) seemed to be having a good time, and from the looks of them, business must be good.

Sure, their uniform isn’t exactly a pantsuit, but who am I to judge? If I had the cans to pull it off, maybe I’d be there instead of law school. I guess what I’m trying to say is, hoot on, Hooters girl.

And don’t worry, I’ll be there to clear up those pesky pubic — oops, I mean public — nudity charges.

Bethany Offutt is a sophomore criminology and criminal justice and psychology major. She can be reached at offutt@umdbk.com.

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ith the 2010 census approaching in March, speculation has emerged concerning how the U.S. Census Bureau plans to reach its goal of a returned form from every resident in the country. Filling out the survey is much more a matter of abiding the law than it is a choice, as the Bureau would convey. But what it really comes down to is choosing whether it is worth your time.

At 10 minutes and only 10 questions, the 2010 census is the shortest it has ever been, a change that should make its completion less of a hassle.

What does the census do, though?

Many people believe the census is just a count of how many different kinds of people live in certain areas. It is indeed a population count, but the population determines much more than just demographics for research.

It determines the number of congressional representatives for each region and distributes $400 billion in government funding. With the economy in a slump, you’d think we could all use a little monetary incentive.

But the fact remains that a huge number of people still won’t complete it, especially college students.

Students typically assume our parents take care of it (this was the case for me at least). The truth is, though, that your parents don’t fill it out for you because you don’t live there (unless you’re commuting). You live in a dorm, apartment or house, and you fill out the census at the residence where you mostly live.

Minorities, which substantiate much of the College Park community, have traditionally been “hard to count.” Some have speculated that their reasons for not filling out the census are general misunderstanding and/or distrust in the government. Controversial legislation in recent years regarding privacy (such as the Patriot Act and instances of wiretapping) makes it unsurprising that people are skeptical of the government. What many minorities don’t know is the information they provide to the census is protected under strict laws. It is a federal crime to disclose private information, and Census Bureau employees who release any information are fined up to $250,000, sentenced up to five years in prison, or both.

Those who seem to be most worried about private information are undocumented immigrants fearing arrest and deportation. One senator, David Vitter (R-La.) even proposed an amendment that would require census participants to state their citizenship and immigration status, allowing the government to remove non-citizens from the count that determines congressional seats. His proposal was rejected, and undocumented immigrants can sleep a little easier at night. Census participants don’t have to list citizenship status at all (another fact that probably needs more clarification).

Who would have known any of this information without going to the census website? I wouldn’t, but I do now because of some extra research.

Realistically, students, minorities and the general population need to be handed the information, not go looking for it themselves. So the Census Bureau must inform people of the benefits and confidentiality of the survey — or maybe just its brevity. If you want to learn more or would like any clarification on questions you have, visit www.cpcensus.com.

Sammi Liang is a senior American studies and communication major. She can be reached at sliang3@umd.edu.

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Another large piece of her harp Joanna Newsom is musically ambitious on her triple LP, Have One on Me

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Staff writer

As much as people complain about labels, there’s nothing quite as exhilarating as trying to pin down the often multiphrased genres of recording artists. Even attempting to describe all the different subsets of dubstep can lead to brain hemorrhaging, and sifting through the vast styles held within the not-so-aptly titled “indie rock” mega-genre can be equally as infuriating.

Freak folk, which is nontraditional acoustic folk plus psychedelic weirdness, is easily one of the more interesting and varied subgenres of “indie rock,” and according to iTunes and various sources on the all-powerful Internet, harp-wielding

songstress Joanna Newsom is the queen of acoustic freaks. But her repertoire doesn’t entirely support this claim because she doesn’t seem to be much of a psychedelic, and her newest LP, Have One on Me, is a triple album that pulls her further from the bizarre than ever before.

Of course, a petite woman in earthy dresses crooning sad stories in a thin, fragile voice while winding her fingers around the strings of a harp can never really get too far from folk. Generally, though, Newsom isn’t so much of the Appalachian mountain top as she is of the baroque folk, and her music definitely shows it.

Take a track such as “‘81,” a serene piece with sparse instrumentation: Only Newsom’s harp and her quiet voice spiral notes

up and down, singing “I found a little plot of land/ In the Garden of Eden/ It was dirt and dirt is all the same.”

Interestingly, this recording sees Newsom drawing on American sources more than she ever has before, at least in terms of her music. Listening to “In California,” it’s fairly obvious that Newsom wants to sing about her own roots as a native of Nevada City, Calif. Newsom accentuates her own playing in this song with quick banjo rolls and guitar counterpoint. The song builds to an epic swell of strings and pounding drums as Newsom soulfully “caws” in emotional

release.

The properties of “In California” illustrate another important point of reference on Newsom’s third full album. Way back in 2004, her debut album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, was almost entirely a solo project, with little other than voice and harp, while her second album, Ys, featured long compositions and full orchestral accompaniment on many tracks.

Have One on Me goes in different direction: The writing seems fit for a smaller ensemble but with a mixture of instruments that still feels huge, including grand piano, smaller string sections, horns, woodwinds, guitars, varied percussion and the odd banjo.

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In a way, Newsom is channeling Sufjan Stevens, for her widerange of instrumentation is as important to the songs’ story as are the lyrics.

“You and Me, Bess” begins as usual, with Newsom singing softly alongside her trusty harp.

Later in the track, a light horn section begins to bubble between the notes, and at the song’s crescendo, Newsom’s voice and the horns are layering melodies off one another, backed by plucked strings and male backing vocals.

The energetic “Good Intentions Paving Company” is built around a bouncing piano riff, letting organ, clattering percussion and Newsom’s expertly harmonized vocals, which draw listeners into what is perhaps the most fun song she has ever written. Newsom doesn’t usually make toe-tapping music, but here, tapping your foot is kind of unavoidable.

The main issue with this triple album is that it is a triple album.

Even for the best artists, 70 minutes is pushing the boundaries

of a listener’s attention span.

With Have One on Me, Newsom stretches 18 songs among three discs and about two hours of music. Fourteen of those songs are between six and 12 minutes.

This shouldn’t lead listeners to think any less of the individual tracks. Most of the songs are beautiful compositions, but all strung together, they can become tedious to listen to by the third disc. Further, it doesn’t help that the music drops in quality from disc to disc. The final set of songs is often downright boring, minus “Autumn,” with its mini orchestra and wailing trumpet.

Whether Newsom is a freakfolkster doesn’t matter — in the end, everything comes down to how much listeners enjoy her music. There’s plenty to like in the vein of calm, depressive folk that occasionally swells into small, orchestrated crescendos, but there’s twice as much downtime where it seems as if nothing is going on at all. diversions@umdbk.com

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When pressed during a Friday afternoon media session, Terrapin men’s basketball coach Gary Williams reiterated his allegiance to a three-guard lineup.

Asked if he has considered using three forwards at times against some of the ACC’s more rugged front courts, Williams cited confidence in reserve guards Adrian Bowie and Cliff Tucker as a major reason for continuing to eschew a more traditional lineup.

Even with growing confidence in his forwards, Williams said making a switch, even for short stints, would likely cost the juniors some playing time and disrupt a rotation he has spent months perfecting.

On Saturday against Georgia Tech with the game on the line, the 21st-year coach put that trust into action.

With 1.5 seconds remaining and the Terps down by one point, Williams called a play for Tucker to get the game’s final shot. The Texas native’s gamewinning 3-pointer just rewarded that sentiment.

“I was a little surprised when he was drawing it up — I couldn’t believe it,” Tucker said minutes after celebrating the Terps’ first buzzer-beating game-winner in almost seven years. “I thought he was going to change it at the end, but he kept it that way, and we’re fortunate it worked, so maybe he might do it again more.”

In a game in which the four Terp bench players combined to pump in 23 points, the Terps’ final possession proved a fitting exclamation point. Playing their fourth game in eight days and matched against a physical and athletic Georgia Tech squad, the Terps (19-7, 9-3 ACC) leaned heavily on their bench down the stretch. The reserves — Bowie, Tucker, Dino Gregory and James Padgett — provided the much-needed boost and inspired confidence that they might be peaking at just the right time.

“All these games, they wear down on you — the games and practices and stuff,” said Gregory, who provided nine points off the bench. “If everybody didn’t come to play today, there’s no way we

coulda won that game. Everybody did their roles.”

At times this season, the Terps’ bench contributions have been uneven or worse. Before Gregor y returned from suspension in early December, the Terps struggled to piece together a reliable rotation, tr ying to squeeze minutes at the power for ward position out of undersized Jin Soo Choi, who is no longer with the team. Less than three weeks ago, non-starters accounted for a season-low three points in a win at Florida State.

Saturday the Terps, who are 121 this season when their reserves outscore the opponent’s, got their biggest bench scoring output since a Jan. 16 win at Boston College in which Tucker and Bowie combined for 29 points.

And even before Tucker’s heave dropped, those buckets came at big times.

Gregory had seven first-half points, including a thunderous transition dunk, to help make up for a struggling Landon Milbourne, who missed his first nine shots. For the second straight game, Bowie added a pair of 3pointers. Tucker, who didn’t register a point in Wednesday’s win at N.C. State, played just nine minutes and scored eight points, including a 3-pointer with 4:23 left when the Terps faced their biggest deficit of the game. Padgett didn’t score in four minutes.

Williams mentioned Tucker, Bowie and Gregory by name in his opening statement postgame, saying without a solid rotation his dragging team might have been run off its home floor.

“I think [Georgia Tech] had us worn down pretty good at times,” Williams said. “But we were able to get Adrian in there, and Cliff really helped us, and that’s why we were able to be there at the end of the game.”

The postgame fanfare rightfully focused on Tucker.

Williams jokingly quoted Bowie as saying the unlikely hero finally earned his scholarship. ESPN anchor and university alumnus

TERRAPIN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK

Terps prove road toughness in loss; NCAA Tourney still possible

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

DURHAM, N.C. — If the Terrapin women’s basketball team’s first venture to Tobacco Road left it with more questions than answers about its road readiness, the Terps’ loss Sunday at No. 6 Duke might have actually provided the best response yet.

Against a Blue Devils team now 16-1 at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Terps never trailed by more than five points in the second half until a Joy Cheek threepoint play put Duke up 61-53 with just more than three minutes left.

In January, N.C. State rushed out to a 17-4 start in the game’s first eight minutes and the Terps never got within single digits, falling 73-45.

Their eventual 71-59 loss Sunday was the smallest margin of victory Duke had enjoyed over an ACC opponent at home. Second-place Florida State lost by 30 last month.

“When you look at our first ACC game [against N.C. State] to where we are now, I think that’s the thing I’m most proud of,” coach Brenda Frese said. “There was a point in the season this team could have folded.”

BUBBLE POPPED?

With Selection Monday approaching and the Terps’ postseason prospects still in limbo, questions surrounding the team’s candidacy for an NCAA Tournament berth have become a popular issue for Frese in recent press conferences.

“I think there’s a lot of great basketball left for us with the two games we have left, with the ACC

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

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Diandra Tchatchouang shoots against Duke. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Tournament,” Frese said Sunday.

“When you play hard and you compete like we did today, those things will all take care of itself.”

There’s no clear consensus on just where the Terps stand. In its most recent bracket projection Wednesday, CollegeRPI.com did not include the Terps in the field.

ESPN.com women’s college basketball “bracketologist” Charlie Creme had the Terps slotted in safely as a No. 9 seed in a projection updated Monday afternoon.

“With as well as the Terps played, even in a loss at Duke, it’s hard to imagine a scenario in which they wouldn’t make the tournament if Maryland could just beat either Boston College or Florida State in the season’s final week,” Creme wrote.

The Terps visit the Eagles on Thursday before concluding the regular season Sunday against the Seminoles. shaffer@umdbk.com

line.

“I’m so happy for Cliff,” Vasquez said. “That’s only going to help him get more confidence and just understand that he’s got to work even harder from now on so he can continue to help us win games.”

The Terrapin men’s lacrosse team came into this season with an almost ready-made lineup, with established attackmen, veteran defenders and a set starting goalie for the first time in three years.

Yet despite the experience underpinning the rest of the roster, the midfield situation remained murky.

After losing the three senior anchors in the midfield from last year, the preseason No. 8 Terps were left with a plethora of options, but no easy decision. And when a snow-shortened preseason limited their chances to test-drive their choices before Saturday’s season opener, coach Dave Cottle decided to field a nineplayer, three-unit rotation against Bellarmine.

Though the offense started slow in the 12-7 win in Louisville, Ky., the midfield served as the catalyst against the unranked Knights (21). Sophomore Jake Bernhardt scored the first Terp goal, one of three for the first midfield group. The second group put in three as well, and the third contributed one.

“I think we took the team on our shoulders a little bit,” Bernhardt said. “I think the midfield — all the midfields — really stepped up for the first game of the year.”

Cottle liked the production he saw from the midfield, and he also noticed the relatively even play from one unit to the next. That was especially evident between the first unit of Bernhardt and seniors Will Yeatman and Adam Sear, and the second, which includes sophomores Drew Snider and Michael Shakespeare as well as freshman John Haus. As a result, Cottle has decided to continue the system, extending the tryouts into the season indefinitely.

“I think, being limited with the amount of scrimmages, it’s going to take a while to figure out the rotation,” Cottle said. “We’re going to keep playing different guys to see who will stand out. Right now, I’m going to try to play three midfields because I think we play better when a lot of guys play.”

He believes the deep store of midfielders played a critical role in the victory against Bellarmine, and not just because of the scoring.

While the Knights relied heavily on their six starting midfielders and attackmen, the Terps kept moving fresh players onto the field to reenergize the team throughout the game.

The competition for time on the field also keeps players alert and working hard in practice, setting the tone for the rest of the team.

“A lot of people questioned whether we would step up this year,” Bernhardt said. “But it’s only the first game of the year, and we’ve still got a lot more games, and I think we’ll exceed people’s views for our midfield this year.”

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Forward Dino Gregory contributed nine key points in the Terps’ 7674 win against Georgia Tech on Saturday. Gregory combined with reserve guards Adrian Bowie and Cliff Tucker to total 23 points in the team’s ninth conference win. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Scott Van Pelt lingered in the Comcast Center inter view room after ward hoping to give Tucker his congratulations.

But as Vasquez heaped praise on his teammate, the senior starter probably could’ve been talking about any of the Terp reser ves and how their glimpses of success might help down the