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Oakland Hall layout unlike high-rises Meter fee Two doubles will share bathroom; laundry facility to be located on every floor BY MICHELLE CLEVELAND Staff writer

Construction on Oakland Hall will begin this August, but the new North Campus dorm will feature a distinctly different layout than neighboring buildings. Modern architectural design features aim to maximize space in the Z-shaped building,

including four-person suites consisting of two double rooms adjoined by a shared bathroom, said Residential Facilities Director Jon Dooley. The chosen design strays from the traditional high-rise dorms, which consist of double rooms that share one communal bathroom. “Resident Life conducted a housing study in which a variety of unit configurations were looked at,” Dooley said.

Kevin Ford, chair of the Residence Hall Association’s ReFAB committee, said Resident Life is making the change because “they’re trying to maximize space because of the housing crisis.” A housing shortage caused Resident Life to exclude seniors and hundreds of juniors from

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hike could be smaller Money would come from cut to Zipcar

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BY NELLY DESMARATTES Staff writer

An increase in parking meter fees may be less than previously anticipated as the university considers eliminating its subsidy for the campus Zipcar program, angering graduate student leaders who said the program mainly benefited teaching and research assistants. The Committee for the Review of Student Fees, which determines student fees, recommended cutting the university subsidy for the Zipcar program. If the cut is approved, the parking meter charge would increase by less than $1. If the program is kept, meter rates will increase from $1 to $2 per hour, as previously planned. The amount the elimination of Zipcar would save parkers per hour is not known, Department of Transportation Services Director David Allen said, but the Zipcar program cost the university slightly less than $60,000 last year, with most of the funding coming from parking meters. Zipcar is a membership-based car-sharing

Students look to bring co-op housing to College Park

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City council challenges Perk license Liquor board will determine whether to renew license BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

Interested in living in a tenant-ruled house for about $600 a month, including meals and utilities? Senior Rachael Maddox is attempting to make the idea of cooperative housing a reality for residents of College Park. In a meeting yesterday outside of the Maryland Food Collective in the Stamp Student Union, Maddox, an individual studies major, proposed the idea of cooperative housing to eight students interested in finding more affordable housing close to the campus.

The College Perk coffeehouse faces yet another hurdle after the College Park City Council voted unanimously last night to recommend the county liquor board not renew its liquor license, the first time in eight years it has challenged a license. The council had wavered on the issue in recent weeks after Perk owner Chris Gordon paid a long-due city fee but was then nearly evicted from the property just days later. The council’s six present council members (two were absent from the meeting) voted against the Perk without discussion. The city

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Fliers advertise a meeting to gauge interest in co-op housing on the campus. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JACLYN BOROWSKI AND SHAI GOLLER

Lack of funding for bike plan may slow progress Allen says $1.4M project may take three more years than anticipated to implement

‘We need to make our voices heard’ Students protest former Rep. Tom Tancredo’s speech at American U. BY MARISSA LANG Senior staff writer

WASHINGTON — More than 400 students from universi-

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DOTS may need to stretch its recently released three-year bicycle master plan into a longer project due to a lack of funds, department director David Allen said. The Department of Transportation Services has $103,000 to begin implementing the master plan in the fall, the Committee for the Review of Student Fees announced late last week after deciding the best way to handle a surplus DOTS accumulated from lower-than-anticipated gas prices. But it is unlikely that

ties across the Washington metropolitan area converged at American University last night in a peaceful protest, waving signs festooned with a simple message written and occasionally shouted in more than five different languages: “America is multicultural.”

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Professor’s satellite crashes into ocean University professor Ross Salawitch spent eight years designing a satellite that would measure atmospheric carbon dioxide. Yesterday, it finally took off — and then crashed into the ocean just north of Antarctica. The $280 million Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, was designed to take about 500,000 measurements per day to help researchers “precisely determine global carbon dioxide flux over time,” according to a university press release. It would circle the earth once every 99 minutes. NASA officials said a Mishap Investigation Board will be convened to determine what went wrong, but early indications trace the problem to the rocket’s nose cone, which encapsulated the satellite. The structure failed to detach as expected, leaving the OCO stuck to the rocket rather than letting it enter orbit around the Earth. Salawitch has joint appointments with multiple government environmental agencies and was on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that split the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. The press release stated he will not comment on the situation at this time.

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Police release suspect photos Student assaulted by at least 3 in argument about Feb. 7 South Hill party BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

University Police released photographs of three unidentified suspects yesterday who they believe are responsible for assaulting a male student earlier this month. The suspects are wanted in connection with an assault that occurred Feb. 7 between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m. in the courtyard between Calvert and Cecil Halls. The victim attempted to enter a party in Talbot Hall when he was informed by some of the partygoers that the party was “closed” and he was not allowed to enter, according to University Police Spokesman Paul Dillon. It is unclear whether the party was ending or if the victim was personally not welcome there. As a result, there was a heated verbal exchange between the victim and a group of people at the party that eventually escalated into a fight. The victim was jumped by a group of partygoers, including the three suspects, and was “greatly outnumbered,” Dillon said. It is unclear how many assailants were involved. The victim suffered injuries to the face but was able to walk down to the station under his own power to report the incident. During the fight, the victim lost his wallet and was not able to re-

cover it. One of the suspects allegedly took the wallet and was videotaped later that evening using the victim’s credit card at a 7-Eleven in Baltimore with the two other suspects. The credit cards have been used in multiple areas since the assault. Police are not yet classifying this case as a robbery. They are confident that the men in the photographs are responsible for the attack, as one of them was identified by a witness to be one of the assailants. No crime alert was issued after the assault because the victim’s injuries were minor and because of the general frequency of this type of event, police said. Police are asking that anyone who knows any of the suspects’ identities or recognizes them in any way to call the police department or submit anonymous tips on their website. “We’re looking for help,” Dillon said. “Obviously, someone must know them since they were on campus.” The University of Maryland Police Department can be reached at 301-405-6871. Individuals wishing to remain anonymous may make an e-mail submission through the anonymous tip link at www.umdps.umd.edu. rhodesdbk@gmail.com

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he 2009 TERRAPIN YEARBOOK, in association with Carl Wolf Studios, will be taking graduation portraits the week of February 23-27, 2009. Although it is TOO LATE for these pictures to be included in the 2009 TERRAPIN, many of you called to request this portrait session. There is absolutely NO cost or obligation on your part. Several poses will be taken, both with and without cap and gown, if you prefer. You will then have an opportunity to purchase portraits at a reasonable charge. You may make an appointment by calling 1-800-687-9327, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. until Friday, February 20th, or schedule your appointment on the net! Visit our site at www.ouryear.com using Maryland’s school code: 87101. Beginning Monday, Feb. 23rd, appointments can be made by calling the Terrapin office at (301) 314-8349 between 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

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DOTS will be able to get the full $359,000 recommended for the plan’s first year, Allen said, possibly forcing the $1.4 million master plan to be fully implemented in as many as six years instead of the draft’s recommended three. The plan includes adding a bike program manager to oversee changes on the campus, establishing a bike rental centers at Cole Field House, introducing specialized bikers’ sidewalks and more directly tying bicycle access to public transportation in the hopes of decreasing the reliance on cars to travel farther from the campus. Daniel Goodman, transportation planner for the Toole Design Group, which

designed the master plan, suggested the university spend $359,000 in the first year to hire a program manager and introduce bike lanes on the campus. “The full initiative is like $1.4 million, and we are not going to be able to spend $1.4 million in three years. We may spend that much in six years, but money is money, and if you don’t have it then you just don’t have it,” Allen said. “So we are going to do the best we can with our $103,000.” Student Government Association Senior Vice President Joanna Calabrese, who attended a final draft information forum on Monday, praised the master plan as being innovative but said it was unreasonable to not spend the full $1.4 million in

three years when it would potentially save the university much more money than that. Part of the bicycle master plan states a goal of increasing bike ridership from 5 percent of the student body to 9 percent, which Calabrese said would help the university’s climate and sustainability initiative. “If the university does the project as it proposes to do in the next three years, at $1.4 million, then it won’t have to build the two parking garages that are planned for by 2011, saving the university $30 million per parking garage,” Calabrese said, citing the bike master plan, though Allen said there are no plans to build parking garages. desmarattesdbk@gmail.com

GSG: Lack of representation led to cut METERS, from Page 1 company that allows members to rent cars by the hour or by the day, with members receiving an access card that operates a Zipcar they have previously reserved online. The Zipcar program will remain on the campus and the price for undergraduate students will stay the same, Allen said. But the price for the faculty and staff Premier Program will increase, which Graduate Student Government President Anupama Kothari said will unfairly impact graduate teaching and research assistants who use the program. “When David Allen presented his case, he definitely presented in a way that

would get the Zipcars program cut, because he said that Zipcars are primarily used by graduate TAs and RAs, and everyone from the SGA sort of jumped on that,” Kothari said. Kothari, who is on the Committee for the Review of Student Fees, said the lack of graduate student representation on the committee hindered their ability to prevent the cut from being recommended. “With only two graduate students on the committee, we really didn’t stand a chance,” she said. Currently, the rates under the Premier Program for faculty and staff is $8.25 per hour on weekdays, $49 for a time period between 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on a business day

and $60 for a 24-hour weekday period. Undergraduate students and non-Premier Program members pay regular Zipcar rates, which are $9.25 per hour on weekdays and $69 for a 24-hour period on weekdays. Both Premier Program members and students currently pay less than the price of annual Zipcar fees, but without the subsidy, those in the Premier Program will likely have to pay the regular rates. “I think that the cutting of the Zipcar ... just shows how little graduate students count, and how it is so easy to cut any benefits to [them],” Kothari said. desmarattesdbk@gmail.com

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Cal, Michigan, Purdue Students say Tancredo’s all have co-op housing rhetoric is ignorant, racist PROTEST, from Page 1

CO-OP, from Page 1 “Cooperative housing is when a group of people who want to live together come together to own and manage, democratically, their living quarters,” Maddox explained. The catch with cooperative housing is there are typically 10 to 30 people who live in the house together. In a cooperative house, there is no rent paid because the house is owned by the students, Maddox explained. The monthly payment would therefore cover food, house repairs and anything else their daily lives would require. “If a person wants to paint their room, start a garden, renovate the house or get a cat, they can without having to ask a landlord, because there is no landlord,” Maddox said. “Because you are the landlord.” Co-op housing teaches people how to live and own a home democratically, Maddox said. Every week there are house meetings to allow a public discussion of problems. Maddox got the idea for cooperative housing through a friend who lives in co-op housing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “I would be interested in the sense of community,” said Marija

Pantelic, a senior sociology major. “Co-op living would force you to meet people. In class you never go beyond the superficial.” One of the hurdles of bringing co-op housing to College Park is the law that limits the number of unrelated people who are allowed to sign onto a lease to five. Students at the meeting were eager to learn more about the new housing possibility. “My big question is: How much would it cost?” asked A.J. Short, a freshman women’s studies major. Essentially everybody living in the community would own a share of the house — roughly $600 for housing, food and utilities — which would be their monthly rent, Maddox said. “It’s insane. Greek life is cheapest housing option in College Park — even with dues.” According to the university’s Off-Campus Housing Services website, the monthly rent for university-owned Greek housing ranges from $620 to $985, while the traditional dorm room costs about $1,140 per month. The cooperative-housing movement in the United States started during the Great Depression when people needed a way to pool their resources so they could live affordably, according to Maddox. “A lot of cooperative housing ini-

tiatives became ‘white, middleclass hippie movements,’ but they’re at their best when there’s a broad range of people involved who share similar values of affordable housing opportunities, collective living and democratic decision making,” Maddox said. “All people are welcome. All types of people can benefit from cooperative living.” For students to make co-op housing a reality, they would need funding. The North American Students of Cooperation is one organization that helps student cooperative housing initiatives by educating and assisting interested community members. There are also various government loans directed at starting affordable housing. “The process of making a co-op ... is gonna be some work, but we can definitely do it,” Short said. Other universities that have cooperative housing include Ann Arbor, the University of California, Berkeley, University of Texas, Austin, and Purdue University. “The university is making many attempts to solve housing problems, but they simply cannot solve them alone. Students must step up to the plate and take housing into their own hands,” Maddox said. newsdesk.dbk@gmail.com

Students from this university, American, George Washington and Georgetown sat in forced silence at American University last night, as American University police officers encircled the room, to oppose former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo’s (R) stand against immigration and America’s “cult of diversity.” More than 10 students from this university made the trip to American University to protest what they perceived to be a personal affront to many Americans’ cultures and histories. “This matters to me,” sophomore art major Ingrid Berbery said. “ I want to hear the other perspective, but most of all I feel like my presence makes a difference. And we need to make our voices heard.” The trip was organized by the Latino Student Union’s advocacy committee, though other students attended. They said they heard about the protest via an announcement sent out by the D.C. Latino Student Partnership, an umbrella organization that organizes and increases communication between Latino groups in the area. “This is a lot more people than we were expecting to respond,” said organizer Elzy Muñoz.

“And look around, it’s not just Latino students, it’s all different colors of people.” Tancredo was invited to speak at American University by the newly established national organization Youth for Western Civilization — a national right-wing organization that aims to reverse policies perceived as being anti-American — which YWC President Kevin DeAnna said will likely attempt to establish a chapter at this university in the near future. “We need to announce ourselves as a force,” DeAnna said. “[The turnout] shows that people have been waiting for this kind of a message: that people of the West should get off of their knees.” Though Tancredo denied being prejudiced against any group, students characterized much of the former congressman’s ideologies as being “ignorant” and “racist.” “I’ve gotten to the point, over the years, where I only say something if I think it’s completely necessary,” freshman Arabic studies and criminology and criminal justice major Carla Castro said. “But this is just ignorant. And Hispanics need to stand up and come together to fight it.” Tancredo, who ran for president in 2008, dubbed immigrants’ tendencies to hold on to their own cultures as a destruc-

tive force in the “American fabric” that he said needs to change to preserve the union. “Throughout history, people who are not white Anglo-Saxon have become American by adopting a white Anglo-Saxon culture,” Tancredo said. “Today, this cult of multiculturality emphasizes our differences — things that pull us apart instead of bringing us together.” Lidia Rosas said despite Tancredo’s insistence, it is very hard to separate supporting anti-immigrant politics from being prejudiced against the immigrants themselves. “He said he’s not being racist, but just look at the people he’s railing against,” Rosas said. “What color are they? You can’t separate the two issues.” Tancredo’s speech singled out both Latinos and Muslims as “problem” cultures that are contributing to the fragmentation of American society. “We are forcing children to participate in a world that promotes Muslim sensitivities,” he said. “We are losing the relevance of citizenship. Being an American used to mean something. We have every right to be proud of who we are. And this is not something I think we can survive.”

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Oakland Hall to have environmentally friendly certification OAKLAND, from Page 1 on-campus dorms in recent years. Oakland Hall promises to house 650 students, a slightly higher amount than the largest existing dorm, LaPlata Hall, which holds 641 students. At 230,000 square feet, however, Oakland Hall is roughly double the size of any existing high-rise building. Oakland Hall will feature laundry facilities on each floor, and recycling and trash containers will be placed in the common room

of each wing. Every floor will have a main lounge and study room, as well as a smaller study room and lounge at the opposite end of the wing, Dooley said. “Where we are right now in the schematic design phase, things are changing,” he said, adding that renderings and architectural drawings are not yet available because the look of the building could change. Although there was talk among the RHA of the building having no singles in order

to include as many beds as possible, Dooley said they are planning to have singles for resident assistants. Oakland Hall will also house a satellite central utility building, which provides heating and air conditioning for the entire building, as well as water for all six of the buildings in the Denton and Elkton communities, Dooley said. The new dorm will be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as meeting the Silver-level in Leadership in Energy and Environmental

Design certification, meaning that steps will be taken in the construction, design and maintenance of the building so it will meet specific environmentally friendly standards, such as indoor bike storage for 15 percent of the building’s occupants, Dooley said. During the next 12 months, Dooley said the department will oversee water, sewer and utility lines being put into place, and that traffic will likely increase on the north corner of the campus as a result. Beginning construc-

tion activities, such as building fences and bringing in equipment, will not occur during move-in at the beginning of fall semester because the area will be needed for checkin parking. Full-scale building will start in September. Dooley admitted the construction may be disturbing to nearby residents on North Campus, but said that is expected for such large-scale construction, which will require extensive staff, deliveries of steel and concrete and destruction of a parking lot.

Associate Director of North Campus Amy Martin said there will be a meeting soon for all North Campus residents to hear a presentation by the construction company, Bethesda-based Clark Construction Group, LLC, and the architecture firm, Washington-based WDG Architecture. Resident Life said it wants to make sure students are involved in the site plan and are kept up to date on the construction timeline. clevelanddbk@gmail.com

Ryan: City council’s position is ‘irrefutable’ PERK, from Page 1 will send its recommendation to the county liquor board, which has sole authority over the Perk’s license. The council had also considered recommending against the Perk’s license last year, though it ultimately voted to support the coffeehouse. The Perk closed a few months after that vote, however, after suffering fire damage last June. It has not reopened, Gordon has said, because he has yet to receive an insurance settlement, which he has said since last summer will be coming any day now. Gordon has only narrowly avoided multiple evictions through repeated last-minute court actions after the property was sold in foreclosure in January 2008, and he has paid hefty court bonds with a loan from a “friend of

a friend.” If he doesn’t pay an additional $49,000 by March 12, Gordon could face his fifth eviction attempt from the Route 1 property, a judge ruled last week. Gordon has said he expects to convince the courts his foreclosure was fraudulent. But his tenuous hold on the property and his nonpayment of city fees made the council unwilling to support his liquor license. “I really regret this is going to happen, especially to a business as unique and as well liked, but we really need people to follow the law,” District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook said after the council vote. Gordon recently paid a city liquor license fee for the license that expires this year, but only after describing the fee as unjust. He has not, however, paid city occupancy permit fees, which he

contends the city has no authority to charge and is fighting in court. City Public Services Director Bob Ryan — who will testify about the Perk to the county liquor board at some point within the next few months — said he does not expect the county to renew the Perk’s liquor license. “I think the city’s position is irrefutable,” Ryan said. Cook said she would like to see the Perk survive its many troubles even without a liquor license. Gordon, who did not attend last night’s meeting, did not respond to calls or e-mails seeking comment. The council annually reconsiders every liquor license in the city, and had not recommended against renewal since excess fights and safety violations closed the Terrapin Station bar in 2001, Ryan said. holtdbk@gmail.com

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n 1994, the university administration issued a news release promising sity to help them fund trips to conferences. These trips give graduate students a graduate students a $13.5 million student center. Instead, after 14 years chance to present original research and fully engage the academic communiand a bitter fight, graduate students had to settle for a sprinkler system in ties they are aspiring to join. Right now, the university pays a small portion of Graduate Hills and Graduate Gardens. Administrators admit graduate graduate students’ traveling costs only once. But master’s students generally students get a pretty raw deal on a regular basis. We think they deserve a little need to attend three conferences during their academic careers, and doctoral candidates typically go to 10. While graduate students haven’t earned the same more than basic fire safety. While constructing the strategic plan, administrators publicly recognized travel perks as professors, we sympathize with those trying to stretch $14,000 incomes to cover international plane tickets. Colleges should the crucial role graduate students play at the university. at least assume responsibility for notifying students about They shoulder the grunt work that makes the university travel grants or unused money within departments — stutick, teaching discussions and grading papers, writing professors’ grant proposals and logging long hours in labs. UltiThe university can adopt dents say this practice is rare at best. Another GSG proposal asks the university to allow students mately, the research they conduct is crucial to the university’s reputation as a research institution, and the quality of two similar measures to im- with newborn children a one-year leave. Graduate school can prove graduate education. be a handful, and parenting probably isn’t too easy either. their coursework largely determines the rankings of many Those venturing to take on both should be guaranteed an of the university’s colleges. Accordingly, administrators have prioritized improving the graduate student experience as one of the extra year to complete their work without facing penalties. You’d get that benefour pillars in the Strategic Plan. But as we wait for this 10-year plan to be fit if you were a young lawyer working at a law firm. Meeting the compassion realized, the Graduate Student Government has raised two concerns admin- standards of the cut-throat legal world doesn’t seem like too high a bar for universities to shoot for. It can take a decade to earn a doctorate, and that’s a long istrators can and should address now. Two weeks ago, the GSG unanimously passed a resolution asking the univer- time to put your life on hold. After all, graduate students are people too.

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Course evaluations: Student groups should step up

hen Renee Baird Snyder, coordinator of course evaluations, submitted a letter to The Diamondback last Wednesday soliciting feedback on how to improve the completion rate for teacher evaluations, she expected to receive at least a few responses. But so far, she said, she has received none. This is symbolic of the student response to the teacher evaluation process as a whole. Only 61 percent of university students filled out even one evaluation. But this information isn’t just for professors and administrators. If enough students filled out the evaluations, the results would be posted online and we’d all be able to view them. It would be www.ratemyprofessors.com, but better. Yet somehow, the evaluation program has not taken off. Administrators pushed evaluations, filling our inboxes with countless e-mails and

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COHEN stuffing The Diamondback with ads. Now it’s time for students to take ownership of a program set up for their best interest. In 2000, the Student Government Association first proposed the idea of moving evaluations online and opening them up to students. But since the program was launched in 2007, this enthusiasm was lost. And while administrators can only do so much nagging, student groups have the real power to drive students to fill out evaluations. There will always be students who will fill them out, and there will

always be those who won’t. But student groups need to do more to target the people in the middle: the students who would fill them out if there were some sort of an incentive or a reminder they could not avoid. Student groups could set up tables with laptops around the campus and in the dining halls during evaluation time. Once students take the five minutes to fill out their evaluations, they would be given an instant incentive (such as a pass to see a movie at Hoff Theater in Stamp Student Union). The most effective marketing offers rewards and convenience — this option offers both. Another method to increase participation is by creating contests throughout the campus. For example, the SGA could hatch a contest to see what college gets the highest participation rate. The Residence Hall Association could run floor contests in the dorms.

Incentives do work. Why do you think companies give away free samples or create contests? Because it motivates people to do things that they ordinarily would not make time for. It would be illegal for administrators to force students to fill out evaluations, but even if they could, it wouldn’t matter. Sure, you would get 100 percent participation — but the data would be so skewed as a result of students randomly filling out the evaluations that the results would be worthless. When it comes to completing teacher evaluations, students are more likely to listen to students and student groups rather than administrators. Unfortunately, they have been as quiet as Baird Snyder’s inbox. Joel Cohen is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at jcohendbk@gmail.com.

House hunting: An early trial in life after college

ith graduation rapidly approaching, I’ve spent way too much time lately dreaming about where I’m going to live after college. Rather than look for jobs at architecture firms — or, even before that, finishing the portfolio I would show them in the interview — I’ve been visiting real estate websites, poring over the Apartment Guide and spending many a late night clicking through ads on Craigslist. I don’t have a source of income yet, but I’m already debating the merits of an apartment in Columbia Heights versus a rowhouse in Capitol Hill. This past Valentine’s Day, I fell in love with a three-bedroom apartment in Rockville. Two of my friends and I were out apartment hunting, visiting places in Montgomery County even though our leases in College Park don’t run out until the summer. It had everything you could hope for: hardwood floors, granite countertops, track light-

ing, floor-to-ceiling windows. Not only that, but it was literally on top of a grocery store and a slew of restaurants, meaning that those top-of-the-line appliances in the kitchen wouldn’t be getting used very much. My fantasies of living the yuppie dream were finally going to be realized. But the leasing agent at this complex had already decided that we weren’t worth his time. He refused to answer our questions about the complex, saying he “didn’t know” what amenities there were, and didn’t even give us a price list for the apartments. While walking us to a model apartment, he turned to me and said, “Why are you really here? Because you don’t look like you could afford to live here. I mean, if I was your father, I wouldn’t like you living here.” He was right: We don’t have jobs. (Yet.) But what he said was still illegal — and besides, why would he think my friends and I unfit to live in Rockville, a

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REED town just half an hour from where we all grew up? Was it our standard college-kid uniform of jeans and a hoodie, my unshaven face, my messy hair? Or was it any number of prejudices against our group, which was composed of an Italian man, a Jewish woman and a gay, half-black-halfIndian man? We could’ve passed for the people in the ads for any apartment complex trying to look young and progressive but, instead, we were getting turned away. As graduating seniors, it’s easy to forget that the outside world doesn’t look like College Park. When we walk

into those job interviews or leasing offices, we’re going to be judged more as big kids than little adults, and the first hurdle we’ll have to overcome is simply earning the respect of those with more experience. After being sent away by the leasing agent, I called his manager and explained to her what happened. Horrified that he had behaved that way to us, she apologized, promising that the agent — who turned out to be a temp that wasn’t even authorized to show apartments — would be properly reprimanded. While it was a rude awakening, I’m glad this experience gave me a little taste of the real world, making me just a little bit more ready for life outside of College Park. Now, of course, all I have to do is find a job. Dan Reed is a senior architecture and English major. He can be reached at reeddbk@gmail.com.

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JESSICA ENFANTE I was frustrated by Dana Cetrone’s Feb. 17 story, “An obscured View.” I found it to be an incomplete depiction of the living situation at the University View. The article left out the fact that, despite the amount of time, money and planning that goes into construction building, View management never told residents they’d be building a new tower when we signed our leases. It is nearly impossible that they did not know this would be happening. They could have at least warned us it was a possibility. Instead, the management simply chose not to tell us, knowing many people would chose to live elsewhere. The article quotes the View’s owner, Otis Warren, as saying that most of us have been very understanding. Residents have also received numerous e-mails thanking us for our patience and cooperation. Our patience is irrelevant. We have no choice but to cooperate — we’re trapped under our leases. If you happen to run out of patience and complain about the construction, you will be ignored. Management promised that construction would not start until 8:30 every morning. I regularly get woken up at 7 a.m. to the sounds of hammering, sawing and other work on the unsightly temporaries to the side of the building. I complained about this, about the migraines and computer malfunctions I get from the constant pounding and shaking, in an e-mail to building management. I sent this more than 10 days ago. I have yet to JESSICA hear back from ENFANTE them. GUEST COLUMNIST The only things management has done for us are two poorly publicized instances of free food. I find this insulting to our intelligence. Do they honestly think this attempt at misdirection will cause college students to forget the construction zone their homes have become? Probably. This would never happen in the real world where people can live and die in the same apartment. If we are being uncooperative, we are a temporary problem. People know they can rip off students because there is a steady stream of us coming and going. What obligation is there to care about the current crop? The Diamondback’s article only quoted three people, two of whom are roommates. If you really want to know what’s going on, talk to more residents. Several of us feel ripped off, lied to and taken advantage of. We know building management cares more about our money than our discomfort. It’s time more people heard about it.

“We have no choice but to cooperate — we’re trapped under our leases. If you happen to run out of patience and complain about the construction, you will be ignored.”

Jessica Ashley Enfante is a senior American studies and English major. She can be reached at jessica.ashley42@gmail.com.

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Coppin State hands Terps their first win Eagles prove no match for baseball team BY JEFF NEWMAN Senior staff writer

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THE BIG ONE Duke game has major implications this year BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer

All the stars have aligned to make the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s game tonight the most anticipated one all season. The Terps (17-9, 6-6 ACC) are coming off their biggest win of the year. They’re on ESPN fighting for a position in the NCAA Tournament. It’s a rematch against an opponent who crushed the Terps by 41 points last month. And that opponent’s name is No. 7 Duke (22-5, 8-4). As guard Greivis Vasquez said, “The whole campus hates Duke.” “It’s just going to be out of this world,” forward Dave Neal said. “This place is going to be lively. There’s a big hatred against Duke in the state of Maryland. People are going to be extremely excited since we beat UNC, and now we get to play another top-10 team.” The same crowd that swamped the Comcast Center floor Saturday will be back in their seats, as loud as ever. Such is the case each year when the Terps host Duke — the “it” game for which season ticket holders await and students pray they’ll get a ticket. On Jan. 24, the Blue Devils overwhelmed the Terps 85-44 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. But much has changed since that game, which vaulted the Blue Devils to the top ranking in the country. Since then, Duke is 4-4, causing Neal to call them “extremely beatable.”

“There’s a big hatred against Duke in the state of Maryland. People are going to be extremely excited since we beat UNC, and now we get to play another top-10 team.” DAVE NEAL SENIOR FORWARD

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has been forced to shake up his lineup in response to his team’s minor struggles. Guard Nolan Smith and center Brian Zoubek — both starters against the Terps last month — have received less playing time lately. Elliot Williams and Lance Thomas are now starting in their places. After defeating North Carolina last weekend, the Terps look capable of knocking off the Blue Devils, too — a premise that seemed out of the question while they were being throttled at Duke. “They beat us by 41 points when we played them at their place, so it’s going to be a fight,” Vasquez said. “I’m just thinking about that game. It’s gonna be a huge game for us, even more important than the UNC game.” “There’s revenge out there we want to put on them,” Neal added. “We pretty much got humiliated last game

and don’t want that to happen again.” The fact that they are playing at Comcast Center, where the Terps are 14-2 this season, lends more credibility to the team’s hopes for a second consecutive upset. At times, the Terps have looked like completely different teams when their home and away performances are compared. “We practice in this arena every day, know what the rims are like,” Neal said. “Just the feel of being in your arena and playing against a top10 team — just having that feeling is a huge plus. You have that feeling of confidence when you’re on your home court.” Maryland and Duke have split the six games played against each other at Comcast Center, whereas at Duke, the Terps are just 15-54. “Obviously, you’d rather play at home,” coach Gary Williams said. “Playing at home is an advantage, but it doesn’t win the game for you.” It also carries a more subtle advantage for the Terps’ superstitious coach. When asked if we will see the Terps wear their gold uniforms, in which they beat North Carolina and are 3-0 when wearing this season, Williams grinned. “You might,” he said. “Right now, they’ve been good to us at home so far.” And home has been good to the Terps. Just expect it to be raucous tonight. mseligdbk@gmail.com

A win is a win, but something about the Terrapin baseball team’s 16-1 homeopener victory against Coppin State yesterday seemed a little unfair. The Terps (1-3) have 32 players on the roster, while the Eagles (0-1) have only 14. The Terps’ pitchers pitch, while Coppin State’s pitchers play in the field if they aren’t on the mound. The Eagles won four games all of last season — zero the one before that — and the Terps have won 36 Freshman shortstop Alfredo of the teams’ last 37 meetings. Rodriguez and the Terps rolled over In a game Terp coach Coppin State in seven innings. Terry Rupp and Eagle coach MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK Mike Scolinos agreed beforehand to end after seven 2008 Tommy John elbow surinnings due to Coppin State’s gery, pitched the first three lack of players, the Terps innings and allowed no runs scored 16 runs on 11 hits as on two hits to collect his first Eagles pitchers combined to college win. The game’s most interestissue two balks in one inning and 10 walks overall and to ing, and fitting, moment came in bottom of the fourth inning, hit four batters. “We thought before the when within seconds, both teams committed game that the velocity major gaffes. wasn’t going to be as With the bases fast as what we’ve loaded and zero seen in the past or BASEBALL outs, the Terps had a what we’d seen on the weekend, so our Coppin State . . . . . . . . 1 chance to extend 10-0 lead. game plan was to just TERPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 their Freshman shortstop stay back and work backside, go the opposite way Alfredo Rodriguez hit a pop and stay up the middle and fly to right field. Eagle outjust not do a whole lot with it,” fielder Josue Martinez, who said Terp outfielder Gerry spent the first three innings Spessard, who finished the pitching, caught the ball game 3-for-3 with three RBIs. cleanly but let it slip from his By the sixth inning, with mitt after glancing into the the score already 12-0 and infield. Spessard scored from the temperature cold, neither third while Rodriguez took team looked particularly first. Meanwhile, first baseZack Helgeson interested in playing any man longer. Eagle outfielder Rob advanced to second only to McCullough, who wasn’t find outfielder Taylor Buran even listed as a possible standing there as well. shortstop Chris pitcher on the Coppin State Eagles roster, came in for the sixth Caudillo tagged both out with frame and did little more one swipe of the glove. “I thought our baserunning than lob the Terps batting practice. Eagles pitchers stunk today,” Rupp said. “It’s threw fastballs that resem- the same thing that happened bled changeups and curve- at Wilmington. We had some balls that had an equal baserunning mistakes that chance of smacking the bat- took us out of some big innings. You can’t do that ter as crossing homeplate. On the other side, freshman against good teams.” Matt Fullerton, who is still recovering from his January jnewmandbk@gmail.com

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Maryland Terrapins

Duke Blue Devils

17-9, 6-6 ACC

22-5, 8-4 ACC

RPI: 52, SOS: 28

RPI: 4, SOS: 6

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It will be a sold out Comcast Center, and the Terps seem to play well when that’s the case. With an electric atmosphere Saturday night, the Terps upset then-No. 3 North Carolina. In the midst of a comeback run, the crowd took the Terps to another level. In another packed house, the Terps can use their home court to their advantage.

A GIANT CONCERN?

TERPS

DUKE

72.5 41.8 31.9 77.3 38.1 15.0 13.0

79.1 45.5 33.6 72.3 37.8 14.0 13.0

In their first matchup, 7-foot-2 center Brian Zoubek was a giant problem for the smaller Terps, as he scored nine points, grabbed nine rebounds and blocked four shots in only 18 minutes. Recently, he’s struggled to even get on the court; he played zero minutes Sunday. “The biggest thing is you have to be physical and push him out,” Neal said. “We’re gonna expect him to play as many minutes as he did in the first game because he hurt us.”

MUCH MORE MILBOURNE

INDIVIDUAL STATS

During the middle of the season, forward Landon Milbourne was the most consistent Terp. Recently, that hasn’t been the case. Milbourne was limited to six points in 25 minutes on Saturday. The Terps would rather see the guy who was their lone contributor down at Duke last month.

TERPS POS

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G G G F F

24.8 34.3 19.3 28.5 22.4

3.3 2.7 5.5 4.7 3.7 1.4 5.4 0.7 4.2 0.8

ONE-ON-ONE

BLUE DEVILS POS

MIN PTS REB AST

G G F F C

12.4 31.5 28.4 30.9 18.2

TERP G GREIVIS VASQUEZ VS. DUKE G/F GERALD HENDERSON

3.3 1.6 0.5 13.9 3.7 2.9 16.3 4.7 2.2 16.1 7.8 2.7 5.9 3.5 0.4

SERIES RECORDS ALL-TIME SERIES LAST MEETING

Terps lead 104-60 Jan. 24, 2009

RECENT MEETINGS 2009-(A)2008-(A)2008-(H)2007-(A)2007-(H)2006-(H)-

L, Terps 44, Duke 85 L, Terps 65, Duke 77 L, Terps 84, Duke 93 W, Terps 85, Duke 77 W, Terps 72, Duke 60 L, Terps 88, Duke 96

Gerald Henderson and Duke slammed the Terps with a rousing 85-44 win Jan. 24 in Durham, N.C. Henderson had a 35-point effort against Wake Forest on Saturday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Terrapins vs. No. 7 Duke

WHEN: Tonight, 9:00 p.m. WHERE: Comcast Center TV: ESPN DATA: Terps try to pull off second consecutive home upset after defeating North Carolina on Saturday. LINE: Duke -5

A. Bowie G. Vasquez S. Mosley L. Milbourne D. Neal

6. Baylor 7. Auburn 8. Louisville 9. North Carolina 10. Duke

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Greivis Vasquez isn’t the only player in this game who’s coming off a career-best performance. Duke swingman Gerald Henderson tallied a personal-high 35 points Sunday as part of a big 101-91 Duke victory over Wake Forest. Both junior guards have been the pulse of their respective teams this season, and each is capable of carrying his team to victory. When they last met on Jan.24, Henderson paced the Blue Devils with 17 points. Vasquez, on the other hand, struggled to penetrate Duke’s defense, scoring four points on 2-10 shooting. The Terps’ offense is at its best when Vasquez is rolling. When he struggles like he did against Duke, the Terps struggle too — scoring 44 points as a team down at Cameron Indoor Stadium.