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Higher ed supporters split on key measure USM lobbyist opposes capping fee hikes

BY BEN SLIVNICK Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — Higher education advocates are clashing over a key provision in a state bill aimed at limiting sharp increases in college costs.

P.J. Hogan, the University System of Maryland’s lobbyist, has proposed state legislators exclude non-academic student fees from a bill that seeks to restrict the price tag of higher education from rising faster than the income of the state’s average household. But student leaders and a state senator said excluding fees from the bill could create a loophole for universities to exploit.

Both sides adamantly support the rest of the bill, which would permanently establish the Higher Education Investment Fund and create a new fund attempting to prevent unpredictable tuition jumps. The bill defines tuition to include fees, and says neither should grow faster than the

see FUND, page 2

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Council approves security cameras In scaled-down plan, 15 surveillance cameras will be installed in downtown area

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

The College Park city council voted last night to install 15 security cameras throughout downtown, despite privacy and financial concerns from some council members and residents.

In a 6-2 vote, the council decided to award a security camera contract to Avrio Group Surveillance Solutions, LLC — one of the

largest surveillance companies in the area. Last year, the city received a $500,000 grant toward installing surveillance cameras around town, most of which are expected to be concentrated on Knox Road, Calvert Road and College Avenue.

The city had originally applied for up to $3 million in grants to install cameras citywide. But they were only awarded one-sixth of that amount, and decided to only

put the cameras downtown, where most of the city’s crime occurs. But the lack of funding for cameras in the rest of the city upset some residents, who said the entire city could benefit from increased security.

In addition to the cameras, four license plate scanners will be installed downtown, and all of them will be connected to the university’s

see CAMERAS, page 3

Mayor Andy Fellows, center, and District 4 Council member Marcus Afzali discuss a bill at last night's College Park City Council meeting. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

THE LONG ROAD TO REFORM Health care overhaul supporters march from Philadelphia to College Park

BY NELLY DESMARATTES Staff writer

It’s a long walk from Philadelphia to College Park.

But the five health care reform supporters who embarked on a 130mile, five-day trek didn’t seem tired last night.

They stood on the stage at Nyumburu Cultural Center and led more than 70 students, professors and community leaders in rallying cries of “Health care now” and “Pass the bill.” They ignited the crowd with stories of denied and dropped coverage and escalating health care premiums. They recited statistics: 31 million Americans don’t have health insurance, and every day, more than 14,000 people lose their coverage.

On the eve of a summit between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders of both parties, the five activists who took on Melanie’s March had one explicit message: pass health care reform. Now. “The country needs health care reform, and they needed it 10 months ago,” said Sean Dobson, the executive director of Progressive Maryland.

The five marchers were on their way to Capitol Hill today for a rally in support of health care reform.

They undertook the journey called Melanie’s March in honor of Melanie Shouse, a health care activist and Obama presidential campaign volunteer who died in

see MARCH, page 2

Univ. budget survives first hearing

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

The university’s 2011 budget remained largely unscathed after its first budget hearing in Annapolis on Friday. Although the proposal received no recommendations for significant cuts, state funding to the university will likely decrease about a third of a percent in the coming year.

Gov. Martin O’Malley budgeted $411 million in state funds to the university for the upcoming fiscal year — up about $21 million from last year’s allowance — but after mandatory costs and the loss of more than $15 million from the expiring Higher Education Investment Fund, the university stands to lose about a third of a percent in state funding this year.

The impending loss of the Higher Education Investment Fund — a pool of money set aside to shelter universities from economic strife that is set to expire over the summer — has spurred the creation of a new bill that would make the fund permanent and

see BUDGET, page 3

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The five participants in Melanie’s March, made in honor of a deceased activist, helped lead the rally last night. The five marched 130 miles from Philadelphia to College Park. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Health care reform supporters hold up signs during a rally at the Nyumburu Cultural Center last night, on the eve of a major meeting about health care today in Washington. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

New solar panels on Diner’s roof should save $1.7M annually Panels will provide one-third of building’s hot water supply

BY DANA CETRONE Staff writer

The Diner is going solar.

Twenty new solar panels that will be used to generate heat were installed on the roof of The Diner in North Campus last week — the latest step in a university plan to overhaul utilities in nine buildings to be more energy efficient.

The 20 solar panels are meant to generate onethird of The Diner’s hot

Windy/30s

water, which is used for cooking and washing dishes and hands, university officials said.

Although the projects included in the Energy Performance Contract will cost $20 million, Dining Services officials said in the end, the university will break even in costs because the money saved will be used to pay back the 10-year loan it received from a state

see SOLAR, page 3

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HUFFPOST COLLEGE: YOU DON”T HAVE TO PAY BUT THEY WON”T EITHER The Huffington Post launched a spankin’ new section Monday called HuffPost College, inspired by founder Arianna Huffington’s travels to campuses nationwide that reminded her of “all the excitement, promise, passion, intellectual curiosity and vitality of college life.”

In other words, HuffPost College is not the world of drunken debauchery and one night stands that we know, but instead a feature fed by more than 60 college newspapers and student contributors from across the country.

In case you were wondering, The Diamondback declined to be a part of the new section.

Huffington has been widely criticized for killing newspapers, a charge she flatly denies. Critics claim she maximizes on free material by emphasizing citizen journalism, unpaid bloggers (often her celebrity friends: if you’ve ever wondered what John Cusack thinks of health care reform, you’ve found your site) and by linking to other papers’ original reporting instead of conducting its own.

But in a hilariously ironic twist, the first major item on the section was called “Majoring in Debt” and featured essays from nine students who collectively owe $816,897 in tuition, and who weren’t paid for their contributions.

The section’s success remains to be seen, although The Huffington Post boasts more readers than the New York Times website.

However, we look forward to stealing ideas from it for blog posts in the coming days and weeks. It’s called payback, Arianna.

For more posts like this one, check out The Diamondback newsroom’s blog, Campus Drive, at blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive, updated daily.

MARCH from page 1 Januar y due in part to a lack of affordable health care.

“If you had met her you would have been caught in the rapture of Melanie Shouse,” said friend and colleague Romona Taylor Williams, who took part in the march. “Not one more life should be lost, not one more wife, husband, son or friend should be lost from the lack of affordable health care.”

The university’s chapter of the American Medical Student Association helped put on the event, which featured more than a dozen speakers telling their stories on stage.

They ranged from a doctor who sees families lose coverage and never come back for treatment; to small business owners who have insurance but suf fer from conditions that companies refuse to cover; to a cancer sur vivor who had great coverage; to the friends of a cancer victim who didn’t.

Sophomore biology major Ashlea Glickstein, who came out in suppor t of the event, said for a class assignment she inter viewed a Canadian woman whose son pays a mere $30 a month for health insurance.

“What we have been doing over the past several

FUND from page 1 state’s average family income over the past three years.

But Hogan said flatly blocking universities from raising student fees as needed would prevent them from improving and expanding services essential to students such as gyms, dorms and dining halls.

Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) warned if the state passed legislation capping increases in tuition but not student fees, universities may simply make up for lost tuition dollars by tacking on new fees.

Supporters of the health care reform bill currently in the Senate whipped out their cell phones yesterday after a rally organizer urged them to call up Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to tell him to “pass that damn bill.” CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

years clearly isn’t working,” she said.

Student organizers joined College Democrats President Amy Har tman at the lectern to speak about the disparity in health care costs between men and women, with women paying as much as one and a half times more for the same coverage. The

president and vice president of the university chapter of AMSA also spoke about the need for af fordable high quality health care.

While there was considerable optimism about the bill’s passage, many in attendance showed frustration and anger toward Democrats for taking so long to call

for a majority vote. There were several exclamations over Senate Majority Leader Harr y Reid’s lack of support for reform from those onstage and in the audience.

The Republican par ty and their obstruction of the bill also came under fire.

But at the end of the night, Rion Dennis, the

“The danger is this kind of loophole might create an incentive for campuses to shift costs that should be covered by the state over to students through fees,” said Rosapepe, who represents College Park.

Coming off a tuition freeze, this university did exactly that last fall when it concocted $135 in new fees to pay for libraries and the Health Center. Without adequate funding from state coffers and tuition, officials seeking to expand services turned to the fees to meet their goals. And Monday, students and administrators approved slight fee increases for Resident Life, Dining Services and the Department of

“We’re in a constant struggle to offer the best facilities ... but these are things that the state doesn’t pay for.”

freedom to set their own prices.

Otherwise, the state’s universities won’t be able to compete with their peers in offering topof-the-line student services.

“Think of the things that exist on any college campus today that didn’t exist 20 years ago,” Hogan said, referring to modern student demands for gourmet dining options and professional-class workout facilities. “We’re in a constant struggle to offer the best facilities and student services possible, but these are things that the state doesn’t pay for.”

Student leaders are similarly divided on the bill. Student Regent Sarah Elfreth, a student at Towson University, supports

P.J. HOGAN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM LOBBYIST

Transportation Services.

Hogan said these departments, which are funded entirely through student fees without state support, need

keynote speaker of the event and the political director of Progressive Mar yland had only one instruction for the crowd: to take out their cell phones, call the U.S. Senate and “tell them to tell Harr y Reid to pass that damn bill.” ndesmarattes@umdbk.com

Hogan’s proposed change, but Student Government Association President Steve Glickman called student fees a hidden cost of a college education.

“When prospective students and parents are looking at schools, student fees are often overlooked,” Glickman said.

“I’d like to see fees included in the final bill.”

In the end, Rosapepe said it’s pointless for the legislation to distinguish between how it treats tuition and fees.

“From a student’s point of view, tuition and fees look the same,” he said. “They’re all money.” slivnick@umdbk.com

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surveillance operation center and to university police databases.

The university agreed to monitor the city cameras in addition to the 280 on-campus cameras for no extra cost to the city, and will pay $90,000 in annual costs for the camera monitoring.

While cameras could be installed elsewhere in the city in the future, the cameras needed be close to the campus for university staffers to monitor them.

Some residents had concerns about privacy and logistical issues. Former District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook expressed concern with the locations of the cameras and the lack of privacy.

“We do not want to open a door that we are not able to close later,” she said.

Cook added that while the cameras may deter crime, she wished the entire city could benefit from the grant, not just downtown College Park.

One of the council members who replaced Cook, Marcus Afzali, had similar concerns, before ultimately deciding to vote for the bill.

“My favorite book is 1984 and I’m afraid of Big Brother watching,” he said in reference to the George Orwell novel where every citizen is moni-

BUDGET from page 1 add a new reserve pool that would attempt to prevent unpredictable spikes in tuition.

tored closely by closed-circuit cameras. “But [downtown] is probably the most crime-ridden area of our city. I fully support this.”

District 1 Councilman Christine Nagel and District 2 Councilman Jack Perry were the two votes against the measure.

Perry, a staunch fiscal conservative, was concerned about the on-going cost of maintaining and updating the cameras in the years to come.

Bob Ryan, the city’s director of public services, said the privacy concerns were overblown because the cameras don’t look

inside residences and all the video is deleted after two weeks.

Criminology and criminal justice professor Charles Wellford heads a Gemstone team that has been studying crime patterns in the area and has identified hotspots to be very near to where the proposed positions are.

Wellford also said a survey of residents and students resulted in a majority saying they supported the implementation of the cameras despite privacy issues.

“We’re really happy that it’s

been approved finally,” said junior economics and geography major Vivey Chen, who is a member of the Gemstone team. “I hope it will help solve crime and improve perceptions. Once it’s implemented, we hope to analyze the data and conduct another survey.”

The cameras’ installation will start early next month and end in late June.

The council also voted unanimously to begin looking into installing speed monitoring cameras near the university and the town’s five elementary schools. The speed cameras

would be used to issue tickets to cars that exceed 12 miles more than the speed limit, as per state law.

Student liaison Jonathan Sachs agreed the matter should be looked into but was initially skeptical of the cameras and suggested they be implemented during the academic semester so as not to take students by surprise.

But Perry — who made the motion — admitted he’d been caught by such cameras before simply saying: “They work.”

A similar bill was proposed and defeated last year because of its high price tag, and some fiscally conservative state senators think any bill of the sort is just as unlikely to be approved this year due to the poor state of

the economy. But some state and university officials are concerned about how the loss of this fund and the dip in state funding will impact college affordability.

“I think it’s a good idea, but I

don’t think we can afford it,” said Sen. James Lowell Stoltzfus (RSomerset, Wicomico and Worcester), who serves on the committee that reviewed the state budget Friday. “If you look at it as a stand-alone thing, you determine ‘we have to be able to afford it,’ but there are so many problems across this state that you have to balance that against.”

If the Higher Education Investment Fund is reinstated, the university’s Director of Budget and Fiscal Analysis John Blair said it would have no impact on next year’s budget, however.

“What will happen is there will be a swap,” Blair said. “If the state approves the higher education fund, then they’ll reduce the general fund by that amount.”

For many senators, the question of how affordable higher education in the state really is remains a point of concern.

The state’s Department of Legislative Services, which performs a yearly analysis of the university’s budget, questioned a 14-percent gap in minority graduation rates compared to white student graduation rates and how at-risk students may be impacted by a projected decrease in need-based aid relative to an increase in merit aid.

University President Dan Mote said in his testimony to the committee that the increase in merit scholarship expenditures was intended to reflect the increased costs of attending this

university — in-state tuition is set to increase about 3 percent next semester. Mote also noted recent changes in federal policy prevent the university from participating in loan programs that could lose about $1 million in need-based aid for students.

“The loss of this revenue stream for the campus is quite significant in the current economic climate, where we continue to receive more and more financial aid appeals each year,” Mote said, according to his written testimony. “The campus has committed to base budget an additional half million dollars for financial aid in [this year] to offset part of this loss, but we simply do not have the financial resources available to cover the entire loss.”

In his testimony, Mote also emphasized the university is still supremely underfunded when compared to its peer institutions — University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California at Los Angeles and University of California at Berkeley. This shouldn’t be the case, he said, as the university benefits the state in many ways, particularly economically.

“We would need $108 million additional funds to come up to the peer average, assuming 30,000 full-time students,” Blair said.

program used to foot the construction bill.

“The solar panels are just a piece of the amazing energy saving puzzle we are so proud of,” Assistant Director of Facilities for Dining Ser vices Greg Thompson said.

In line with the university’s long-term goal of reducing the carbon footprint of the campus to zero by 2050, the solar panel instillation comes on the heels of a slew of other green alterations being made to campus facilities.

According to the report issued on the project in October, the expected annual carbon reduction these alterations will provide is equal to the university planting about 20,700 trees every year.

This year, the university equipped high-rise dorms and other newly constructed buildings with water-conserving toilets, exchanged all lights on the campus with energy-efficient fixtures, replaced all air conditioning compressors and added five new exhaust hoods —used to moderate the amount of steam allowed to escape — onto building pipes .

“When completed, it is projected to save about $1.7 million annually in avoided energy costs — nearly 5 million kilowatt-hours and 2.5 million gallons of water,” Facilities’ Conser vation Manager Susan Corry said.

The exhaust hoods alone have already saved 26,000 kilowatts per hour each since being installed in the last year, said Joe Mullineaux, senior associate director of Dining Services.

“The Energy-Saving Opportunity began about one year ago, and all upgrades to North Campus Diner will be completed by the end of the semester,” Mullineaux said.

Johnson Controls, the company responsible for installing all the new, green utilities, will be paid with money borrowed from the state through a program that offers up to $70 million in loans to government agencies to purchase construction equipment.

Solar panels are also expected to be installed on the roof of Cole Field House. They will be primarily used to power the Driskell Center — a center dedicated to studying and showcasing African Diaspora art and culture.

Project construction in other campus locations is expected to continue through April 2011. Looking to the future, facilities officials have said the university may expand the project to encompass six more buildings, including the Art-Sociology Building, the Plant Sciences Building and Easton Hall. But the South Campus Dining Hall will not see any new solar panels or other green equipment installed anytime soon.

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From left to right, council members Christine Nagel, Patrick Wojahn, and Bob Catlin listen as a College Park resident speaks at last night's city council meeting. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

MULTIMEDIA www.diamondbackonline.com FEMALE ORGASM For the third year in a row, Marshall Miller and Dorian Solot made their way to the university to give students a healthy dose of sex education.

With the Grand Ballroom in Stamp Student Union teeming with 600 students, the husband-and-wife pair lectured about sexual health, safe sex, intimacy and, of course, female orgasms.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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Cutting the cord

Protecting speech

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ow many university administrators does it take to unplug a 301 area code, you can’t call them from the dorms anyway without paying extra for long distance. phone?

But landlines can’t be done away with altogether. Resident Assistants and We don’t know the exact answer, but it’s far too many. Monday night, the Committee for the Review of Student Fees voted to Community Assistants are required to have landline phones, and this requirebegin compiling a report on whether to eliminate landline phones in dorms. ment should continue for safety and communication reasons and the occaThis report is apparently separate from a Residential Facilities survey asking sional unreliability of cell phones. Plus, some microscopic portion of the onwhether students use landlines. When the French coined the term “bureau- campus student body likely remains without a cell phone and should have the option of using a landline. cracy,” which loosely means “government by desks,” this The solution is simple. During room selection, residents is what they were talking about. should be given the option to pay extra for a landline. ResiThe university’s tendency to form committees to investident Life personnel should be required to have one but gate committees that were looking at whether the univerLand phone lines are should also be granted a fee waiver. A community or pay sity has too many committees is often useful and generally largely obsolete for the phone should be installed in the hallway of each floor much leads to more thoughtful and reasonable policy results as they were in the past. Students would either pay by call than snap judgments would. modern student or contribute a much smaller fee to keep the community But other times, it seems like administrators struggle to population. phone working. see what’s directly in front of their noses.

Cutting the cord on landlines is a no-brainer, and waiting Here are some facts: Very few students use the dorm landlines. Even fewer students don’t have cellphones. Students pay about until November to make a decision will only force next year’s on-campus resi$200 in yearly fees to use the phones, and keeping them running costs Resi- dents to continue to live with a pointless fee for a service only a tiny slice of dential Facilities nearly $72,000 a year. To us, this is an open-and-shut case. them will use.

There are times when a committee should allow an issue to marinate — There is no need for a leisurely stroll around the issue.

Students who do have landline phones admit they rarely use them and the General Education Task Force, for example, should be given as long as rarely receive calls from anyone except the occasional telemarketer. Some necessar y to craft a way to overhaul the CORE program — and there are have voiced concern that during power outages or emergencies, cell phone times when an opportunity to save money and improve students’ lives is obviproviders could become overwhelmed and landlines would become neces- ous. But dawdling around a blatantly obvious solution simply leaves resisary. But this misses the point: Most students don’t even have phones dents on the hook for more fees as administrators continue to fail to answer plugged into the jacks provided, and unless your loved ones live in the local the calls of students.

threatened by your strong pelvis and run away crying, leaving you alone with his girlfriend. Congratulations, stud: You’re leaving with a not-so-single girl and you’ve warmed up your loins in the process.

2) “I’m so powerful!”

What you need: gaggle of one-dollar bills, business suit Go to a bar dressed in a business suit, order expensive drinks, throw money everywhere and scream, “I’m so powerful!” at the top of your lungs. Guys will offer up their girlfriends to you out of sheer respect. Pretty simple, really.

1) Be a better person than her boyfriend What you need: crazy pills WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS, EVER. Mike Sanders is a junior history major.

He can be reached at msanders@umdbk.com.

Brian Davis is a graduate student in public policy. He can be reached at bdavis11@umd.edu.

Editorial cartoon: Justin Cousson

Student-run classes: Rethinking learning

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ROB

GINDES ish professors and grades and we smoke a bunch of weed and sit around in circles and talk about why the establishment is bullshit. Kelly’s is a real class with real work and real grades.

She told me, in the closest thing I’ve done to an interview all year, that it started when she and a friend felt like international development classes at Tulane were lacking. So they went to the honors department and rounded up some faculty support, and — bada bing — there it was.

Student-run classes could only increase the quality of the education here. Granted, we’d have to be serious about who gets in and what mate-

rial is covered, but there are so many passionate students here who love their field of study that it feels like an untapped resource. I’ve spent the better part of four years learning tons from my fellow students, so it only makes sense that we open up avenues where that learning happens inside a classroom.

Obviously, not everything is suited for student-run colloquia. Take, for instance, BIPH698L, which is a biophysics seminar. Yeah, that’s going to be a class that needs to be taught by a professional. But what about social sciences or humanities? There are a lot of fields of study where an environment full of a student’s peers would be really beneficial to bounce ideas around in.

And hey, the economy sucks or whatever, and we wouldn’t need to pay another teacher’s salary, right? Everyone’s a winner. It’s a way to add more avenues and more learning without adding too much overhead.

Everyone knows I love the movie Accepted because I’m a hack writer and only talk about the same four things. But I’m not advocating we dump the school’s faculty, because that would be ridiculous. Teachers are some of the best resources on the planet. I just think there’s a place in our little world for students to share their own expertise with each other.

We can have our cake and eat it too.

And I love cake.

So the next time you’re sitting in class and you think there’s a gaping hole in the instruction at this university somewhere, just do what Kelly did. I’m not going to do it because I’m lazy, but if you’ve got the passion — and so many of us here do — go get it.

If nothing else, you’ll be the pride of your block back home.

Rob Gindes is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at champion@umdbk.com.

How-to: Pick up not-so-single girls

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hen you people see a really hot girl at a bar, dancing with a dude you presume to be her boyfriend, chances are you give up pursuing her. Well, not this guy. Picking up girls who are already taken is extremely challenging, but sex gods like me do it all the time, and with surprising ease. Below are some techniques that have helped me and may help you in similar endeavors.

4) “Which one of y’all is going home with Tigger?”

What you need: full-body Tigger costume, the song “I Invented Sex” by Trey Songz Don a Tigger costume (good luck finding one — I’ve cleaned out every Party City in the county for this little maneuver of mine), and wait outside a bar of your choosing for “I Invented Sex” by Trey Songz to come on. While you’re waiting, be sure to locate that

not-so-single girl you want. After you finally hear those synthesizers start blaring, run inside and listen for the “which one of y’all is going home with Trigga?” part of the song to start. When it does, take off the Tigger mask, find that not-so-single girl, jump in front of her boyfriend, and sing “which one of y’all is going home with Tigger?” directly in her face. She’ll be so smitten with your cunning and moxie — not to mention your costume — that she’ll dump her boyfriend on the spot and go home with you. I’ve actually had multiple girls want to go home with Tigger before, but they all were single, and where’s the fun in that? But anyway, this technique works like a charm, unless of course the bar doesn’t play “I Invented Sex” that night — in which case, good luck looking like the creeper outside the bar dressed in a tiger costume.

3) Pelvic thrusts of confusion What you need: your pelvis, bump-

MIKE

SANDERS ing techno music Again, head into a bar of your choosing and find that not-so-single girl you want. It’s best to employ this technique somewhere that plays loud techno music, but I suppose any old drag is fine. Approach the girl of your choice and start thrusting your pelvis wildly in all directions without shame. Ideally, you’ll “accidentally” thrust into her a few times, and here’s where this technique really pays off. The girl will be so impressed by your wild pelvic rhythms, she’ll demand that her boyfriend thrust into her as well. If you’ve done this correctly, though, the boyfriend will feel

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am about to take an unpopular stand, so brace yourselves: I fully support the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Citizens United v. FEC that allows corporate spending (in the form of advertisements and the like, not direct contributions to campaigns) in election seasons.

Before anyone accuses me of helping Coors sponsor Colorado’s third congressional district, hear me out.

Most people do not know the term “corporation” applies to more groups than just for-profits. It includes nonprofits and unions, among others. In fact, the plaintiff in this case, Citizens United, is a nonprofit political advocacy organization, not a company. Until this decision, all corporations were censored in the month before a primary election and 60 days before a general election.

Professional fear-mongers across the country predict the absolute destruction of American democracy as a result of the lifting of this ban. However, there are two good reasons why their speculation is inaccurate. Twenty-six states currently have no laws restricting corporate spending on state elections.

According to a 2004 Ethics Institute study that ranked the 10 most corrupt states in the country, only four were states without restrictions.

Therefore, a correlation exists between restriction of spending and public corruption, not the other way around.

Secondly, this decision will not harm democracy because the right of the individual to make up his or her own mind and vote privately remains unaffected. Who cares if Coca-Cola makes a documentary supporting a candidate from Atlanta? The rest of us can still say, “Why would I want to vote for a candidate who wants to steal my money to give it to Coca-Cola?”

But even if you disagree, there is still reason to support this decision. If you think it is bad because it will give corporations undue political influence, you are claiming two things: The government should have the power to determine who is allowed to speak freely, and the Supreme Court should make rulings based on perceived policy impact rather than the Constitution. Both of these assumptions are far more dangerous to American democracy than corporate influence.

In his concurring opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia noted the First Amendment protects speech, not speakers. In other words, the right to say what you want (not to mention the restrictions on that right) is not determined by who you are, but what you say. This principle is an essential component of equality under the law, which in turn is necessary for democracy. Therefore, Scalia concluded, restricting corporate expenditures is unconstitutional because it singles out one form of speaker for censorship.

To say he is wrong — that Citizens United should not have been allowed to air their anti-Hillary Clinton documentary — is to say that the government should have the authority to silence the political speech of its citizens in the run-up to an election based on arbitrary criteria about the form in which the individuals speaking choose to associate. I cannot understand how opponents of the decision find that acceptable.

Also, opponents have said people should disapprove of Citizens United because it will hurt democracy. Think about that for a minute: They are claiming the nation’s highest judicial body, charged with interpreting the Constitution and checking the power of the other two branches, should base its decisions on guesses about policy impact, not legal precedent and constitutional scholarship. Furthermore, they ignore the possibility of Congress passing a constitutional amendment; if corporate spending does prove to be overwhelming, public opinion will demand action and corporate speech can be banned for good.

Opponents favor subverting the rule of law for one policy, thereby effectively transferring lawmaking authority to nine unelected officials. Does anyone else think that is overkill?

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’m not even the most successful college student my age from my own street.

During my excursion to Mardi Gras last week, I was able to spend some time with my neighbor from back home, Kelly, who is a senior at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Being a newspaper nerd, I picked up a copy of their student paper, The Hullabaloo, to size up the competition. Lo and behold, Kelly was on the front page because — get this — she and a friend had started a student-run course at their school.

A class run by students! No teachers! Just a bunch of kids learning from each other. Awesome.

Inspired by a similar course at Georgetown, Kelly’s class is an honors colloquium called “Rethinking Development,” centered around international development. And it’s something every school should offer.

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Add to that cultural tastemakers like The Ed Sullivan Show, a long-running variety program, or The Abbott and Costello Show, which showcased two well-liked comedians.

But now? There are more lowbudget, exploitative reality shows playing at any given time than you can imagine; the networks, with a few exceptions, pass off lazily filmed scripts as “sitcoms;” and the number of derivative crime and hospital procedurals is more absurd than the paranormal slant they often tend to have.

But there is quality programming out there.

It may not necessarily lead us into the next Golden Age of Television, but it is out there.

We can start with network programming. If you trudge through the muck of Two and a Half Men and one of the 47 (that’s an estimate) variants of CSI and NCIS, you might find, first of all, a pair of very quality prime time sitcoms in ABC’s Modern Family, which I’ve

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written about at length before, and NBC’s Community.

While Modern Family has stagnated as of late — staying relatively funny while unfortunately jumping into bed with convention too easily — Community actively takes sitcom tropes, disassembles them and repackages them in an interesting new way. Also, Chevy Chase is pulling off epic pratfalls again, so that might be reason enough to watch.

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Mad Men, about 1960s advertising executives on Madison Avenue in New York, and Breaking Bad, which follows a dying chemistry teacher as he resorts to cooking meth to help his family financially.

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GALT from page 10 Galt has been a strength coach at this university in some capacity since 1984. In 1992, the same year in which he became a footballonly strength coach, Galt started to prepare players for the specific rigors of the NFL combine.

By the time players participate in the combine or in the Terps’ pro day after their college careers, Galt said they’ll have done hundreds of pro shuttle drills, hundreds of 60-yard shuttles, bench pressed 225 pounds (the standard weight for the bench press event) at least 10 times, and run the 40-yard dash at least eight times in front of crowds to create a pressurized atmosphere.

Campbell, the 6-foot-7 lineman who decided to leave the Terps in December after his junior season, stands the best chance of carrying on the Terps’ combine legacy. Galt said he’s confident Campbell will “absolutely dominate,” when he goes through workouts on Saturday.

Vernon Davis, one of the program’s more high profile NFL Scouting Combine performers, owns most of the Terps’ weight room records for tight ends.

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NFL.com draft analyst Gil Brandt agreed, and said Campbell will “probably be one of the most talked about, dissected guys in this draft,” because he’s expected to perform so well among offensive linemen this week.

The issue is how Campbell’s potentially stellar combine per-

formance in a few February drills will translate in the pros, when it’s time to put on pads and start playing in actual games.

“When you look at the ACC allstars, Campbell doesn’t get first or second team votes, and yet we’re thinking of him as possibly a guy in the top half of the first round of the draft,” Brandt said.

“You don’t want to take or throw away two or three years of information for an hour of work that’s done at the combine.”

Campbell played well for spurts last season, but injury problems forced him to miss three games, and there are concerns about his durability.

Brandt, who served as the Dal-

las Cowboys’ chief talent evaluator from 1960 to 1988, said he was often wary of prospects who excelled at combine events despite an incomplete body of work in college.

For the time being, perhaps nobody embodies the downside of that equation more than Heyward-Bey, who the Oakland

Raiders selected with the No. 7 overall pick in last year’s draft.

Heyward-Bey, who still holds the Terps’ record for best 40-yard dash time with a 4.23 second run in 2006, ran a 4.3 in last year’s combine — a number that caught the attention of the Raiders despite the almost universal consensus among draft analysts that there were better wide receivers available.

Heyward-Bey finished his rookie season with nine receptions, 124 receiving yards and one touchdown.

It’s a topic Galt doesn’t shy away from.

“Just because you’re a great athlete and you’re strong and fast doesn’t mean you’re a great football player,” Galt said, when asked if combine results are sometimes overvalued. “But [NFL teams] feel if they have a kid who has the right physical makeup, who has good character, that has the size, the strength, the speed to potentially be successful, they’re gonna give him a shot.”

Former Terp cornerback Domonique Foxworth, a third round draft pick in 2005 now with the Baltimore Ravens, said while most players would rather do without the combine, it’s a necessary tool. And to Foxworth, Galt is the source for many Terps’ success there.

Foxworth ran a 4.34 second 40-yard dash during his combine, something he thinks has prolonged his career.

“Not only did it help my draft stock, that number is something that sticks with you,” Foxworth said. “I will forever be known, as long as people are looking for corners, as a 4.3 guy.”

Galt takes pride in that trend, and is careful in his attention to detail when discussing the components of his program. His son, who also goes by Deege, started on the Terps’ defensive line as a senior last season and has already taken an assistant strength coach job at South Carolina.

Still, Galt is always tweaking the routine, always looking for another drill or another way for his players to get a physical edge.

And even with the welcomed combine success, that’s where his focus remains.

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19-7 (7-5 ACC)

WHEN: Tonight, 9 p.m.

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74.1 45.9 33.8 66.8 37.5 14.6 14.8

78.8 47.6 38.2 71.0 39.2 16.4 12.1

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18.8 10.7 10.2 13.3 8.8

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SERIES RECORDS ALL-TIME SERIES LAST MEETING

Terps lead 86-49 Jan. 31, 2010

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VASQUEZ ON TRACK Vasquez had one of his worst games of the season in the two teams’ first meeting.

The senior had trouble penetrating the lane, and his offensive game suffered. He scored just 10 points on 3-of11 shooting with a career-high nine turnovers.

Since then, he’s talked about getting revenge against the Tigers. Tonight he’ll get his chance.

STOPPING GRANT

CLEMSON

G. Vasquez E. Hayes S. Mosley L. Milbourne J. Williams

3-POINTERS The Terps turned the ball over a season-high 26 times during their Jan. 31 loss at Clemson.

Greivis Vasquez and Eric Hayes combined for 14 of those turnovers as the team was both careless and inefficient against the Tigers’ full court pressure.

Having guard Demontez Stitt back in the lineup makes Clemson’s press even more scary.

TERPTRACKER

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Terrapins vs. Clemson

19-7 (9-3 ACC)

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CLEMSON from page 10 at Clemson should provide the Terps all the necessar y motivation.

Booker and forward Jerai Grant combined for 28 points and 28 rebounds in their team’s nine-point win. Despite the Terps’ best efforts to doubleteam and harass Booker, the 240-pound forward still finished with 10 points and 16 rebounds.

Grant, a Bowie native, took advantage of the Terps’ focus on his teammate to notch career-highs in points (18) and rebounds (12).

Jordan Williams kept the Terps close early on with 10 first-half points and shook off a slightly sprained ankle to play a career-high 34 minutes.

The other two Terp forwards — Dino Gregory and Landon Milbourne — combined to add just seven points and eight rebounds. “[Jordan Williams has] competed all year against frontlines that are bigger than we are,” coach Gary Williams said. “He did the same thing that day. Even

Center Jerai Grant benefitted from all the attention the Terps gave forward Trevor Booker, establishing careerhighs of 18 points and 12 rebounds in the first meeting.

The Bowie native has continued to play well, hitting double figures in five of his last six games. He tied that season-high point total in a win against Virginia on Saturday. The Terps will no doubt be paying the junior a little more attention tonight.

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Forward Landon Milbourne has struggled recently, including in Saturday’s thrilling win against Georgia Tech, when he missed his first nine shots.

The senior has cracked double-digit point totals just once in his last four games and has failed at times to hold his own on the defensive glass.

Earlier this season, the Terps counted on Milbourne to step outside and knock down timely shots, but lately those attempts haven’t been falling.

Milbourne struggled last time out against the Tigers, finishing with just three points as part of a disappointing overall performance by the team on the offensive end.

As the Terps march toward postseason play, they need their quiet but intense 6-foot-7 leader to regain his form and take some of the pressure off of Vasquez, Hayes and freshman Jordan Williams.

though Grant and Booker had a lot of numbers, [Jordan Williams] didn’t get much help.”

Tonight the Terps, who allowed 21 offensive rebounds in Saturday’s win against Georgia Tech, will get another crack at handling the frontcourt.

Guard Sean Mosley said the team has been working on some new defensive looks to try to surprise the preseason All-ACC pick this time around.

And Gary Williams discussed balancing how much attention to pay to Booker with trying to keep Grant in check.

Jordan Williams just hopes his efforts will translate into more team success.

In the Terps’ second-to-last home game of his freshman season, Williams will get a chance to make more positive memories against the player who has carved out a career he’ll continue to aspire toward.

“I mean, yeah, that was good for myself,” Jordan Williams said of his first encounter with Booker. “But it doesn’t really matter what you do yourself if you lose the game.” edetweiler@umdbk.com

Women’s tennis uses make-up game to start rare winning streak

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

The phrase “winning streak” isn’t often associated with the Terrapin women’s tennis team.

Seniors Lisa Miller and Maggie McKeever are the only Terps who have experienced a winning streak, as their freshman season began with six consecutive victories.

They’ve gone through their careers without another since Feb. 11, 2007.

That all ended yesterday, when the Terps took down Delaware 5-2 in a rare midweek match at the Tennis Center at College Park for their second consecutive victory after losing three straight to start the season.

“The girls did a really good job,” coach Howard Joffe said. “There were a lot of distractions with this being a make-up, and we went about our business the way we were supposed to.”

The match was originally scheduled for Feb. 7 but was postponed due to inclement weather.

McKeever led the charge for

Forwards Landon Milbourne (left) and Jordan Williams will be key for the Terps tonight against Clemson’s frontline. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

the Terps (2-3, 0-1 ACC), dominating at No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles. The No. 2 doubles tandem of Jordan Hansbrough and Lexi Brand was also impressive, carrying play en route to an 8-2 victory over the Blue Hens’ Megan Doran and Samantha Carnall, who are ranked No. 54 in the nation.

Joffe also praised his team for its resilience as illness spread through the locker room this week.

Hansbrough, who was forced to sit out her singles match against Rutgers on Feb. 14 after an ankle injury, has bounced back well. She followed up a convincing win Sunday against Penn with a 6-1, 6-1 victory yesterday at No. 5 singles to help the Terps hand the Blue Hens (4-1) their first loss.

Freshman Burce Kurkan, a native of Turkey, improved to 4-1 in singles play to start her career.

“We were the better team,” Joffe said. “I’m pleased with our effort, but I still don’t believe that our team is playing to its full potential yet.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

The Terps have had trouble containing quick guards all season, and Stitt is among the league’s best playmakers at the position.

Stitt missed the two teams’ first meeting with a sprained foot, but he’s worked his way back into fine form. He put together a 15-point, six-assist game in a win against Miami last week.

Eric Hayes will likely get the first crack at slowing down Stitt, but the junior will probably also see a lot of Adrian Bowie, who coach Gary Williams has recently praised for his physical defense.

If the Terps are going to be successful, they’ll probably have to use their pressure to force Stitt into some poor decisions as well.

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Terps pleased with their French connection Tchatchouang has adjusted quickly both on, off court

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

Terps’ men’s lacrosse coach Dave Cottle has taken his team to seven straight NCAA Tournaments, but failed to reach the Final Four since 2006. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Cottle, players remain focused on this year Men’s lax coach is in final season of his contract

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

In his first eight seasons as head coach of the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team, Dave Cottle led the team to seven straight NCAA Tournaments and three Final Fours. But heading into his ninth season in College Park and the final year of his contract, his future at the helm of the program is uncertain.

The coach has an 88-41 record with the Terps and led them to the national semifinals in 2003, 2005 and 2006. But they haven’t been back since, a disappointing streak for the perennial lacrosse power. This season, the Terps started at No. 8, their lowest preseason rank in Cottle’s tenure.

Cottle, though, said he is focusing on the present, not on what-ifs.

“I’m not thinking about that,” he said. “At the end of the season, if I still like the guys and still like what I’m doing, then I’ll sit down and make a decision about what to do.

“If we’ve done well, I’ll sit down, and if I have that same feeling, then we’ll sit down, and I’ll do this thing again,” Cottle added. “And if we don’t, then I’ll sit down and talk to my bosses and evaluate what’s going on.”

Athletics Director Debbie Yow directed questions on the matter to men’s lacrosse supervisor Michael Lipitz, who had not responded by press time yesterday.

Cottle has a history of suc-

cess through his 28 years as a Division I coach. Before coming to the Terps, he spent 19 seasons at Loyola and compiled 14 NCAA Tournament appearances. Including his seven with the Terps, he has 21 tournament bids, tied for first all-time.

And on top of his NCAA accolades, he won back-to-back ACC Championships in 2004 and 2005 and claimed ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2004 and 2008.

Last year, though, the team struggled with inconsistent performances before earning an unseeded tournament berth.

The Terps have also struggled recently against their biggest instate rivals, dropping five of the last six games against both Johns Hopkins and Navy and three in a row to UMBC. Their recent Final Four drought, too, could hurt Cottle.

Three years may not seem like much time, considering the program’s two national title victories both came more than 34 years ago. But for the Terps’ program, a mainstay among the country’s top programs located in the heart of the lacrosse world, the expectation is always to win a National Championship — an expectation Cottle and his players acknowledge.

“There’s high expectations, but we put high expectations on ourselves,” midfielder Will Yeatman said. “We all want to do well and play well for this team.”

They’re succeeding so far. The

Terps already moved up to No. 7 in the Nike/Inside Lacrosse media poll after starting the season with 12-7 win at unranked Bellarmine (2-1) on Saturday.

It helps that, for the first time in three years, the Terps will have a regular rotation made up largely of upperclassmen. After spending the past few seasons building up youthful teams, Cottle now has the luxury of experience.

“It’s the first team that I’ve really been a part of that’s more of an older-base team, with juniors and seniors starting and being the main contributors,” goalie Brian Phipps said. “So that will help control the game and help control our season.”

And when the Terps head to No. 13 Georgetown on Saturday to face their first top-20 opponent, Cottle said he and the team will have all their attention on the game.

“Right now, I’m going full speed ahead, and I wouldn’t want anything to affect our preparation, for the kids or for me,” Cottle said. “I’ve got good coaches, I’ve got good kids on our team, I enjoy being here, so as of right now, we’re going to keep doing this thing.”

Still, as attackman Ryan Young admitted, the pressure to perform is there.

“I think there’s always pressure to start the year if you’re playing at a school like Maryland,” he said. kyanchulis@umdbk.com

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As much as Terrapin women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese marvels at the growth of her twoyear-old twins, Markus and Tyler, the growth of another one of her kids has been almost as impressive.

After returning from weeklong recruiting visits in the fall, Frese would often check in on freshman forward Diandra Tchatchouang, a transplant from France still grasping the new culture she found herself in. What Tchatchouang could say with only a week’s passing often left Frese speechless.

“It was like my kids right now that are learning how to talk,” Frese said. “You’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, when did she pick this up?

You understand?’”

While her English once left others unsure of what she was saying, nobody has ever questioned Tchatchouang’s ability on the court. As perhaps the top freshman in one of the nation’s toughest conferences, Tchatchouang’s ability has translated without a hitch.

“You expect to have that freshman curve,” Frese said. “That’s been the biggest surprise. You’ve never looked at Diandra and thought, ‘She’s a freshman.’”

For a player making the uneven transition to another country, it’s perhaps fitting that Tchatchouang’s relationship with the Terps was backward from the start.

As the team made its way through an international tour of Europe shortly after winning its first national championship in 2006, Frese and the Terps caught the eye of a young Tchatchouang, who was a rising star with France’s prestigious INSEP Academy.

Soon after, at Tchatchouang’s urging, the academy contacted the Terps’ coaching staff, letting Frese know that one of its most prized pupils was eyeing College Park as a possible postgraduate destination.

But Tchatchouang’s interest in the Terps would have been meaningless without reciprocation on Frese’s end. With the help of the Internet and several overseas sources, the Terps’ coaching staff bridged the transcontinental divide. They found foreign stat lines and scant video, but they liked the little bit they saw.

“You could put all of the pieces together,” Frese said. “It was pretty exciting when you’re doing the searches and just finding out how talented she was.”

Frese offered Tchatchouang a scholarship, and soon after she and former assistant coach Daron Park met with Tchatchouang’s family in France, Tchatchouang committed.

“We were everything she was looking for in terms of location and academics and having won a national championship and having developed players,”

Terps’ forward Diandra Tchatchouang, from France, has performed well this season despite having to learn a new language and a new culture. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Frese said.

Said Tchatchouang: “I didn’t think I could find another college as interesting.”

When she arrived stateside, basketball came naturally. Everything else, though, wasn’t as easy.

Armed with only a rudimentary knowledge of the English language, Tchatchouang was pushed into the Maryland English Institute, the first destination for many non-English speakers matriculating to the university.

For five hours each day, she labored over grammar, vocabulary and syntax. After that, she hit the books with tutors. It was only then that she could finally shoot, run and pass with her teammates.

Basketball, in many ways, was the least grueling part of her normal 12-hour daily schedule.

“I don’t know a lot of students, let alone student-athletes, who could’ve done her schedule that she had in the fall,” Frese said.

“She was going nine-to-nine every day.”

Over time, she began to embrace and understand a culture that was once so alien. After some initial shock, the option of switching channels to a television network dedicated to black entertainment — BET — is nothing new. She had her first Thanksgiving in November. She regularly blasts Beyonce.

And in the give-and-take of her American assimilation, her once-wary teammates began to treat her more like a best friend and less like a curiosity. Once a quiet presence on the floor and in the locker room, Tchatchouang now jokes around — and gets joked about — without a second thought.

“I think we were all a little hesitant,” forward Emery Wallace said. “We didn’t want to make her feel uncomfortable, we didn’t know what she liked to do. We know everything is different over there.”

Even when homesickness has led Tchatchouang to yearn for the comforts of home, basketball has been a sturdy crutch.

To start the season, Tchatchouang scored in double digits in all but two of her first 15 games.

She reached the 20-point plateau three times in that stretch, a considerable achievement for a true freshman.

“I think the best way to deal with homesick is playing basketball because that’s what I love,” Tchatchouang said. “I am the most happy when I am on the court.”

Ask Frese about her precocious freshman, and the praise hardly stops.

“Her basketball knowledge is off the charts,” Frese said. “She’s all by watch and feel. She can see how things are going on the court and just pick it up. You run a play, she’ll never mess it up.”

Even as her ability with the English language has caught up to her ability on the court — Tchatchouang earned a 4.0 grade point average last semester — it was her athletic talents that brought her to College Park.

And it’s those same gifts Frese said could solidify her legacy inside Comcast Center long after she leaves.

“She has the ability, like the five we’ve put up there, to have her name and her number lifted up in the rafters, if she progresses how we anticipate she’ll progress,” Frese said. “It’s scary, she’s only going to get better.

When you see that jump from most players from freshman to sophomore year, their grasp of everything, she’s already grasping that as a freshman.”

“Her future,” Frese continued, mentally scouring through words to describe the player who might not know their best pronunciation, “is unlimited.” shaffer@umdbk.com

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Williams preparing for Booker again Freshman played well in game at Clemson

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Terps’ football strength and conditioning coach Dwight Galt (right) looks on as linebacker Alex Wujciak and other players work out in the team’s weight room during a recent lifting session. Former players credit Galt with the Terps’ NFL combine success. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

The Terps’ combine wizard Strength coach Galt has established trend of NFL combine success

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

On the wall across from Dwight Galt’s office in the Terrapin football team’s weight room is a series of charts, one for each position, that list the top three results for players past and present in measurables such as the bench press, the 40-yard dash and the vertical jump.

Vernon Davis, the sixth overall selection of the 2006 NFL Draft after a record breaking 4.38 40-yard dash time and 10-foot-8 inch broad jump at that year’s NFL Scouting Combine, dominates the tight end board. His 465-pound bench press in 2005, for example, far exceeds the next-best number.

Davis is one in a long line of recent Terp draft prospects who have taken what they’ve learned in this room, located in the Gossett Football Team House just behind Byrd Stadium’s east end zone, to the NFL’s premier scouting event. For Davis and a number of others, that’s meant multi-million dollar rookie contracts and the attention that comes after displaying freakish feats of athletic ability.

Galt, the team’s longtime director of strength and conditioning, is the

man behind the scenes who has helped build the Terps’ reputation in the agility, speed and weightlifting drills that NFL teams will once again dissect when the 2010 combine starts today in Indianapolis.

“Dwight Galt — he’s the one that really stresses the stuff they do at the combine; the drills, the whole components of it,” said cornerback Nolan Carroll, who along with left tackle Bruce Campbell and defensive tackle Travis Ivey, will represent the Terps at Lucas Oil Field this week. “He really teaches everybody coming into that environment from the time you get there, so it’s kind of second nature by the time you leave.”

Carroll remembers when he was a freshman and Galt, who players refer to as “Deege,” revealed the intricacies of the 40-yard dash — the proper foot placement, the correct start and stance mechanics, the maintenance of max velocity.

It’s Galt’s strength and conditioning program, which puts players through many of the combine’s staple events from the time they begin their college careers, that’s helped produce the notable testing results of former players such as Davis,

Left tackle Bruce Campbell, pictured last year, could be the next former Terp to excel in the NFL Scouting Combine, which starts today in Indianapolis. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

D’Qwell Jackson and Darrius Heyward-Bey. All improved their draft stocks with good showings at the combine.

Even while most players leave College Park for personal trainers in other cities in the weeks leading up to the event, Carroll said the lessons Galt teaches stay with them, and the players recognize his value.

“A lot of the other college programs are doing the same things. A lot of other people are doing pro shuttle drills. Everybody’s doing 40-

yard dash,” Galt said. “But I think that kinda the way we approach it is different. When they’re underclassmen I teach them how to do them. ...

They know that, yes, they’re working hard to become great players here at Maryland — that’s by far the primary reason they do it. But there’s also a secondary, gleam in their eye look that, ‘Hey, this may actually serve me very well to make some money doing this.’”

see GALT, page 7

Jordan Williams looms three inches taller than Clemson’s Trevor Booker, but he looks up to the beefy-but-undersized Tiger forward just the same.

It’s easy to understand why the Terrapin men’s basketball freshman talks about Booker with such deference.

During his four-year career, Booker has worked himself into the top 10 on the Tigers’ career list in nine different statistical categories. With Clemson’s next win, Booker and teammate David Potter will become the winningest players in program history.

For a young big man, it’s hard to pick a better current ACC role model.

But when Booker and the Tigers come to Comcast Center tonight, don’t expect that respect to be readily apparent.

Banging with the ACC’s biggest frontcourts for 12 conference games has given the 6-foot-10 Williams a good idea of how to approach such matchups. After helping to force the 6-foot-7 Booker into a seasonworst 2-for-16 shooting in the Terps’ 62-53 loss at Clemson on Jan. 31, Williams has a plan to duplicate that success.

“Just to bump him and let him know I’m not going to be pushed around,” Williams said. “I think that sometimes players think they can just come in and move you around when you’re a freshman. I just want to make a statement right away.”

Williams, who finished with a teamhigh 13 points and 13 rebounds, stood out as one of the few bright spots of the Terps’ trip to Littlejohn Coliseum. The Terps’ 26 turnovers and 20 offensive rebounds allowed were just part of what quickly became one of their worst showings of the ACC season.

Along with handling the Tigers’ defensive pressure, how well the Terps (19-7, 93 ACC) hold up inside will likely go a long way toward deciding whether they will be able to capitalize on their first opportunity to avenge a loss this season.

“This is one of those games where you find out if you have been improving,” coach Gary Williams said.

Looking at the box score from the loss

see CLEMSON, page 8

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