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Student leaders will continue to focus on extending the in-state tuition freeze into a fourth year even as out-of-state tuition may increase.

Student Government Association President Jonathan Sachs has made it a priority to extend the freeze into a fourth year this semester and the SGA legislature

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voted to support that effort last night. But the freeze helps only instate students, and since it began, annual out-of-state tuition has increased by 8 percent to $21,637.

SGA members said keeping out-ofstate tuition low was an important issue, but that it was too early to fully address it and that politics make it a tough sell in Annapolis.

As part of their lobbying this

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Police update rape suspect description Evidence shows man was driving a dark-colored Chevrolet Avalanche

BY KYLE GOON Senior staff writer

Prince George’s County Police investigators have updated their description of the man who raped a student and left her stranded on a highway last Saturday.

The new suspect description expounds upon the original profile: Police are looking for a Hispanic or Middle Eastern man with a slim build and short, black spiked hair, with no facial hair. The man is believed to be between 20 and 25 years old, and between 5-feet-6 inches and 5-feet-8 inches tall. He was wearing a white hooded sweatshirt Saturday night.

The vehicle description has been modified as well. Police now say the vehicle is a dark-colored Chevrolet Avalanche, a pickup/SUV vehicle.

Assistant Commander of District 1

Capt. Daniel Lipsey said photographic evidence led them to believe the suspect was driving this model.

The man is wanted for picking up a student between 2:30 and 4 a.m. Saturday, taking her to an unknown location and raping her. He then drove to Anne Arundel County and forced her out of the vehicle on Route 50 near Davidsonville Road.

Prince George’s County Police and University Police have been handing out fliers for the past two days with a picture of the vehicle they believe the suspect was driving. Several fliers are posted in downtown businesses.

Police are offering a reward for information leading to an arrest.

Anyone with information can contact police at 301-772-4908 or the tip line at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477).

Greivis Vasquez and the Terps were swarmed by the Duke defense, scoring just 67 points.

Strong Terp effort falls short in the end against No. 7 Duke

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Univ. accepts more out-of-state students to preserve revenue Admissions officials expect poor economy to cause drop in non-resident enrollment

BY TIRZA AUSTIN Staff writer

Fearful of a sharp decline in revenue from out-of-state tuition, the university admitted more non-resident students than usual this year.

Expecting the number of out-ofstaters who actually enroll to decline because the struggling economy will make the university’s significantly higher out-of-state tuition more difficult to afford, the university is admitting more nonresidents in hopes of keeping the ratio similar to what it has been in past years.

“We extended more offers to outof-state students because we know it will be hard to attract them,” said Barbara Gill, the director of undergraduate admissions, who said she

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is “concerned” about a drop in nonresident enrollment because students might choose to attend cheaper state colleges.

Out-of-staters make up about 24 percent of the student body. But due to much higher tuition rates for nonresidents, they provide more than half of the university’s tuition revenue. If out-of-state enrollment was to decline drastically, the university would be in financial trouble, officials said.

“We’re dependent on the 24 percent to balance the budget,” said John Blair, the university’s director of budget and fiscal analysis.

“The numbers we have total to maintain a certain population. We try to be consistent.”

Ahead by six points with about two minutes remaining last night, Duke star Gerald Henderson began milking the clock. Each second that ticked away was one second fewer for the Terrapin men’s basketball team to mount another comeback.

All eyes were on the sinewy swingman when, finally, he made his move to the hoop, forcing the Terp defenders to collapse.

Without a clear path to the basket, Henderson

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fter the Terrapin men’s basketball team’s lopsided loss against Clemson last week, coach Gary Williams looked at the Terps’ daunting upcoming schedule and found the silver lining in the opportunities it presented them.

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Water permit delays Jason’s Deli opening Restaurant ranks No. 2 in Health magazine for healthiest fast food

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

Students eagerly awaiting the opening of Jason’s Deli should be happy to hear it was just named one of the healthiest fast food restaurant chains in America

by Health magazine.

They might also be equally disappointed by the eight-week opening delay the Texas-based franchise now faces due to confusion with obtaining a plumbing permit from the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Jason’s Deli now plans to open in early May. Daniel Helfman, the restaurant’s public relations director, said the sandwich shop was tentatively slated to open at the end of February after waiting more than seven months for permits from Prince George’s County to come through.

“They’re good to go as far as the city is concerned,”

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NEWSMAKERS BRIEFS O’Malley supports bill to require legal residency ANNAPOLIS – Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) says he supports legislation requiring people to demonstrate they are in the country legally before receiving a driver’s license.

O’Malley pointed out Wednesday that Maryland is the only state on this side of the Rocky Mountains that does not currently require a person to have legal status to obtain a state driver’s license. Maryland is one of four states where undocumented immigrants can get a driver’s license.

Lawmakers are holding hearings on legislation Wednesday afternoon.

OC convention center to be restored, taxes to drop OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Town Council has approved a $9.8 million project to enlarge the resort town’s convention center, a renovation that is expected to bring in $23.6 million.

The project would double the amount of exhibit space and add a 1,200 seat performing arts auditorium.

Some of the new space would have bayfront views.

The General Assembly approved half of the funding last year through a 1 percent food and beverage tax.

The Maryland Stadium Authority will pay the rest.

Finance Director Martha Lucey says even if the food and beverage tax was cut in half, the debt could still be paid off in 10 years.

Johns Hopkins raising tuition 3.8 percent BALTIMORE – Johns Hopkins University says it is increasing undergraduate tuition 3.8 percent next fall, bringing tuition at its two largest schools to nearly $40,000 a year.

The university announced Thursday that the increase will bring tuition to $39,150 for the more than 4,700 full-time undergraduates at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering. The university said the increase is the smallest since the 1974-1975 academic year.

Johns Hopkins says the increase also applies to its two smaller undergraduate schools, the School of Nursing and the Peabody Conservatory.

Nursing school tuition will rise to $31,920 and Peabody tuition will increase to $34,270.

Prince George’s County Police: Suspect fled toward courthouse UPPER MARLBORO – Prince George’s County police say a suspect fled in the wrong direction when officers responded to an Upper Marlboro home invasion.

Officers called to a home in the 4900 block of Colonel Contee Terrace around 12:15 p.m. Tuesday spotted four people fleeing.

Police say they caught three suspects within minutes. But they say the fourth suspect ran almost a mile — toward the courthouse in Upper Marlboro.

Police surrounded the suspect in the courthouse parking garage and arrested him.

Illness closes Catholic school until next week TOWSON – Archdiocese of Baltimore officials have closed a Towson elementary school for the next few days because dozens of students and some staff have been home with flulike symptoms.

Archdiocese spokesman Sean Caine said Tuesday that Immaculate Conception School in Towson will be closed for the rest of this week.

Caine says the elementary school will be cleaned during that time “to make it as germ-free as possible.”

— Compiled from wire reports

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Jason’s Deli will offer patrons free ice cream DELI, from Page 1 said Bob Ryan, director of public services in College Park.

Helfman said they were unaware they needed to submit plans to the WSSC and it took another eight weeks for the plumbing permit to come through, hence the twomonth delay.

“I’m personally surprised it happened in College Park,” Helfman said, adding there is usually some delay in bigger cities but rarely problems in small ones like College Park.

Helfman was excited to talk about the restaurant’s healthy advances in eliminating trans fat and creating a menu full of “good food” that’s “what college kids want.”

In the March issue of Health, Jason’s Deli was ranked No. 2 behind only Panera Bread in its list of

“America’s Top 10 Healthiest scious menu.

“Looking for healthy Fast Food Chains,” citing the deli’s “devotion to organic places to eat is always a challenge,” junior food” as the main general business reason for its major Farrah Alranking.

Mansoor said.

“Jason’s menu “There’s not that also highlights many healthy ultra-healthy restaurants on sandwiches and Route 1.” provides the Helfman also nutritional info,” believes the the article said, establishment adding the judges will be successwere especially ful because of a impressed with popular promo“being able to tion: free ice build any sandcream. wich on an “It’s what organic whole we’ve done for 30 wheat wrap.” years,” he said.

Students seem EARL SCHAFFER “We always joke mostly unaware SENIOR ENGLISH MAJOR that Ben and of the delays in Jerry’s gives the deli’s opening away free ice and initially expressed little excitement cream one day a year and we about it until hearing the give more away in a week, details of its health-con- nationally, than they do in a

“I love sandwiches — I could eat them every day. I think it’s good we have a new place because people need options.”

Half of tuition funds come from non-residents ADMISSIONS, from Page 1 Blair said the university tries to maintain the number of resident students because they want to “provide significant access to in-state students” even though the university makes significantly more money from out-ofstate student. A Board of Regents policy mandates the student body consists of at least 70 percent in-state students.

While the cost of in-state tuition has been frozen for the past three years, out-ofstate tuition has been steadily climbing. Last year, it increased four percent to $21,637.

In-state tuition stayed at $6,566.

This gap means that for every 1,000 in-state students enrolled instead of out-of-

year.”

Helfman explained almost anyone who comes into the restaurant is entitled to a free ice cream cone. He said the ice cream is typically for customers but employees are encouraged to be lax and give out scoops to anyone.

Senior English major Earl Schaffer expressed hope that Jason’s Deli will be able to appeal to his “high expectations” and replace Wawa, the store that occupied the space before, but did not renew its lease in 2007.

Schaffer said he expects the restaurant to be as popular and exciting as the wellliked convenience store once was. He also hopes it will be able to withstand the drunken mobs just as well.

“I hope the administration [of Jason’s Deli] has the gumption to do what Wawa couldn’t in terms of longevity,” Schaffer said,

adding he remembers the large amount of theft that riddled the store late at night.

But Schaffer did say he was excited about a healthy sandwich shop coming to the Route 1 area.

“I love sandwiches — I could eat them every day,” he said. “I think it’s good we have a new place because people need options.”

Others weren’t so optimistic.

Freshman pre-pharmacy major Kirsten Du was not familiar with the franchise and was not impressed with the healthy nature of Jason’s Deli.

“There’s the Quiznos and the Subway already,” Du said. “If it’s between Quiznos and Jason’s Deli, I’d probably pick Quiznos because I’ve heard of it.” rhodesdbk@gmail.com

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state students, the university loses $15 million, Blair said.

Blair said the university expects the same percentage of in-state and out-of-state students to enroll this fall. To ensure this, Gill said she hopes new admissions and recruitment efforts will be able to encourage an equal amount of out-of-staters to enroll.

Gill also said the university is accepting fewer transfer students than in the past to try and increase the university’s Shady Grove campus.

This year, they plan to enroll 300 fewer transfer students than last year’s 2,400. The university plans on enrolling the same number of total freshmen as last year — about 4,000. taustindbk@gmail.com

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Education school increases international focus Strategic Plan, approved last year, asks all colleges to add global elements to curricula

BY TIRZA AUSTIN Staff writer

The university’s education school is trying to incorporate more international aspects into their curriculum, with the hopes it will trickle down to earlier levels of education.

Armed with a $25,000 grant from the Longview Foundation, the College of Education hopes that giving future teachers worldwide knowledge will enable them to better educate primary and secondary schoolchildren in the ways of the world.

At the same time, the college is also working to fulfill a requirement in the university’s Strategic Plan for colleges and departments to give their curricula a global focus.

“Everything is international

no matter what your major is,” said Saul Sosnowski, director of International Programs. “There is nothing you can do in isolation.

That is something we have to understand.”

As part of its efforts, the College of Education is having students read international literature, examine world history from non-American viewpoints, learn how ancient cultures studied math and look at the effects of climate change. James Greenberg, the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, said international perspectives in education have traditionally been ignored, and hopes the new curriculum will change that.

“We need to realize how much of an effect we have on the rest of the world,” Greenberg said.

Although the college isn’t

changing its curriculum requirements, Greenberg said, they are asking professors to incorporate more global issues into their courses, creating a transformation process rather than a straight swap of old material for new material.

“It’s not a matter of adding something on,” Greenberg said.

“The idea is to be more or less a transformation that reflects through all the parts. We are continuing to make that part of the awareness.”

Greenberg said this process begins with faculty development through the Global Awareness in Teacher Education Fellows Program, which was developed with the grant from the Longview Foundation.

“People who are going to be teaching the teachers need to be-

come as up-to-date and aware as possible of new initiatives,” Greenberg said.

The foundation usually focuses on incorporating international studies in grade school. Through partnerships with the university and other institutions, the foundation is able to influence what the teachers learn, said Betsy DevlinFoltz, its executive director. She added the foundation tries to increase international and language education in K-12 schools.

“It’s clear to us you can’t change schools unless you work with the teachers,” Devlin-Foltz said.

Greenberg is also working with students to examine successful teaching methods used in other countries. As part of this effort, he took a class of education students to Germany for a short-term study abroad course in January.

Besides asking individual departments and colleges to add global elements to their courses, the university is also trying to increase the number of students studying abroad and recruit more international students and faculty.

For example, Sosnowski said he expects the new CORE curriculum to integrate international studies into the university curriculum through adding new courses and adding new material to old classes.

“That issue is going to come up,” Sosnowski said. “How do we incorporate the world into our curriculum?”

Devlin-Foltz, who said incorporating an international perspective throughout the university using the Strategic Plan was an excellent idea, said students who graduate need to be aware

of international issues to be prepared for the 21st century.

“Students are graduating in a world that is international,” Devlin-Foltz said. “They need to think in global terms. They will be working with international areas. There are few challenges, and global components, in jobs that are not global.”

As the Internet and business industry continue to connect the world, Greenberg said the classroom needs to prepare students for the new challenges they will face.

“Lately, as the world gets more interconnected and integrated, we need more sense of global awareness,” Greenberg said. “The next generation needs to understand that the United States is part of an international perspective.” taustindbk@gmail.com

Rosapepe: Politics makes out-of-state freeze difficult SGA, from Page 1 semester, SGA members have collected about 500 signed letters from students asking state legislators to continue the tuition freeze, which has kept in-state tuition at $6,566 per year for the past three years. But neither the letter nor the SGA’s tuition fact sheet mentions out-of-state tuition, which has increased by $1,632 since the 2006-2007 school year.

Out-of-state students are “definitely a group that often gets thrown on the back burner,” SGA Speaker of the Legislature Matt Lyons said.

Sachs said keeping out-ofstate tuition low was a priority, but it was too early to do much about it. The Board of Regents, a group of 17 gubernatorial appointees that oversees the University System of Maryland, ultimately sets inand out-of-state tuition and won’t act until after the state budget is finalized this summer.

Sachs said his “great rela-

“I understand the limits of the Maryland SGA. ... I can’t expect them to cover New Jersey as well.”

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tionships with people on the Board of Regents” will help him in lobbying to keep outof-state tuition costs low.

Although no one voted against the lobbying bill, two legislators abstained.

Cambridge Community Legislator Lisa Crisalli, a New Jersey native, said she abstained because of the possible impact of the tuition freeze on out-of-state students.

“Historically, there is a chance that the costs could befall out-of-state students,” she said, although Governmental Affairs Committee

Chair Nick Mongelluzzo said the freeze would not automatically raise out-of-state tuition.

Engineering School Legislator Kate Bodner, also from New Jersey, said she abstained because the bill did not help her entire constituency. But, she said as an out-of-state student she had to be “realistic” about the SGA’s ability to keep tuition low.

“There’s only so much we can control,” Bodner said. “I understand the limits of the Maryland SGA. ... I can’t expect them to cover New Jersey as well.”

SGA Speaker Pro Tempore Jenna Aidikoff and Outlying Commuter Legislator Steve Glickman, both out-of-state students from New York, said they were not upset with the SGA’s focus on the tuition freeze.

“There are people looking out for out-of-state students,” Glickman said, adding that on the university’s lobbying day early this month he talked to legislators about out-of-state

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tuition.

Although the in-state freeze has been a priority, the SGA has also stressed to state senators the need to keep out-ofstate tuition low, Mongelluzzo said.

State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who supports the freeze, said he had heard from the SGA about the out-of-state tuition issue.

“Everybody thinks we need to keep tuition as low as possible across the board,” he said.

Part of the problem with keeping out-of-state tuition low is that there is little political incentive, Sachs, Mongelluzzo and Rosapepe said.

“It’s much harder to convince a legislator to support freezing the tuition of a constituent who can’t vote in the election,” said Mongelluzzo, who added there was “no major in-state effort to freeze out-of-state tuition.”

Sachs also noted the SGA’s

efforts to pass state legislation aimed to reduce the cost of textbooks will benefit both in- and out-of-state students.

“Textbooks is one of the issues where everybody is paying way too much for no reason,” he said.

The last item of the SGA bill promises to “lobby to reduce the impact of an in-state tuition freeze” on the expenses of out-of-state students. The clause arose from a

“misconception” about how funding for the freeze works, Mongelluzzo said.

If the state legislature cuts the $16 million necessary for the freeze from Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) budget proposal, in-state tuition will rise but out-of-state tuition will not be directly affected; its ultimate rate is set by the Board of Regents. coxdbk@gmail.com

OUT-OF-STATE TUITION While in-state tuition has been frozen for the past three years, out-of-state tuition has climbed steadily. Here are the tuition rates for non-residents for the past three years: 2006-2007: $20,005 2007-2008: $20,805 — 4-percent increase 2008-2009: $21,637 — 4-percent increase

Source: Bursars’ office website.

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hey decided same-sex couples working for the University System of Mary- And they can’t properly educate themselves without listening to students. We’re not land shouldn’t receive domestic partner benefits. They have the final vote on just saying this as students, either. Students have an understanding distinct from that tuition, and they pick which on-campus housing projects will receive state of lawmakers or administrators that regents will need to understand if they hope to do funding. According to administrators, they have the final say on whether their jobs right.

But we hardly expect regents to pick the brains of the hundreds we’ll be allowed to implement a medical emergency amnesty poliof thousands of students in the system. That’s why the student recy. But for all of their power, too many students don’t even know gent plays such a pivotal role. Sara Elfreth, the newly nominated what the Board of Regents and its members do, let alone what student regent, said she is going to develop a stronger state-wide they’re capable of.

Students need to speak to network of Student Government Associations. The ideas and opinThe fact that students are out of the loop about a political process is nothing new. But what’s crazy is that most new regents also start new Regents, who have the ions of students can travel through their representatives to Elfreth, who is tasked with ensuring that the other 16 regents hear off out of the loop. The board is the governing body of the state’s 13 responsibility to listen. students’ concerns. Elfreth repeatedly said she’ll support whatevstate colleges and universities; regents are appointed by the goverer decisions the regents vote to adopt, but she’s got it backwards. nor and confirmed by the state Senate. Last week Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) nominated four regents, including the new student regent. Like most of the She needs to act as a representative of students, not of the other regents.

New regents will be hearing from older regents, state lawmakers and university adcurrent and past regents, none of the nominees (except the prospective student regent) come from within the university system, or even from academia. One nominee ministrators. Students’ ideas can’t be looked at as an optional addendum. Regents are is a defense industry executive, one is a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology and one is appointed to represent the interests of all stakeholders, even if they happen to be 20 years old and without any political capital to throw around. One of the four recent the president of a health care management company.

With such diverse backgrounds, we hope the new regents can leverage their nominees, Linda Gooden, is an executive vice president at Lockheed Martin Informastrengths for the good of the system: Maybe with two health care professionals, the re- tional Systems and Global Services. The company’s motto is straightforward: “We gents can take action on the much-needed Good Samaritan policy. But the new re- never forget who we’re working for.” For Lockheed Martin, the federal government is gents will quickly have to move beyond their areas of expertise and acquaint them- far and away its largest customer — funded by tax dollars, they’re working for the selves with the full range of issues affecting the state’s public universities. After all, American people. Fueled by the taxes of Marylanders and by the tuition dollars of stuthey’re the highest-ranking officials in the state when it comes to higher education. dents, the regents should never forget who they’re working for, either.

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O’Malley: Do what’s right, not what’s popular

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hen President Barack Obama passed his $787 billion stimulus package last week, nobody expected Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) to reject the $3.8 billion Maryland has coming, like some fiscally conservative governors in the South.

“All of us are committed to working with President Obama to pull our nation’s economy out of the ditch that George W. Bush ran it into,” O’Malley said in a Feb. 23 Associated Press article.

“If some of the fringe governors don’t want to do that, they need to step aside and not stand in the way of the nation’s interests.”

But what about Maryland’s interests?

The money in the stimulus package should be spent carefully, and ought to be weighed alongside major cuts to programs. While the stimulus plan may seem like a gift, let us not forget the state still faces a $2 billion budget shortfall.

In the budget O’Malley originally proposed, he appeared ready to make the

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spending cuts necessary to protect the state’s economic future. But now it appears he is going back on his word — and that’s cause for alarm. Public schools will get back money they would have lost, which is a good investment. But the 700 state government jobs, which O’Malley was planning on eliminating, are now safe. They shouldn’t be.

The state was facing a deficit far before the current crisis, and it needs to make those job cuts or make another hard choice that will ensure economic prosperity in the future. Once the stimulus funding disappears, the governor will face the same problem he does now.

As the editorial board of The (Annapo-

lis) Capital states, “Even if it works as planned, the stimulus package is exactly like taking aspirin for an awful case of the flu ... little will be done about the underlying illness.”

That illness is overspending. The state’s government spends far more than it earns, and for many years now, has had to dip into state savings to pay for programs with debatable merit (such as the Purple Line). Now the state has to rely on federal money when it could have been using its own savings. The federal money could have been used as intended: stimulating the economy with one-time programs (such as the Purple Line).

After watching House last night, I wondered what Gregory House would say about O’Malley’s budget. On the weekly dramedy, House makes a list of all his patient’s symptoms on his white board. O’Malley’s symptoms are too little revenue and too much spending. New symptoms include falling tax receipts due to a slowing economy.

House works tirelessly with his team

to tackle the problems, and solves it in the final minutes of the episode. He doesn’t attack each symptom with temporary fixes as O’Malley has tried to do since.

He holistically cures his patients.

O’Malley likes the little fixes. It started with a huge tax increase in 2006, which was going to solve the deficit. It didn’t.

Slot machines were going to solve the problem of a faltering education system.

It is expected to make less than O’Malley promised. Finally, as O’Malley was going to perform major surgery to finally solve the problem and to make the necessary cuts, it is as if he was given a big shot of methadone by the feds to dull the pain a year. The only sure-fire fix for a deficit is restraining spending, not increasing it.

O’Malley should simply do the necessary surgery, so that time and money aren’t wasted trying to dull the pain of making unpopular cuts.

Nathan Cohen is a junior economics and journalism major. He can be reached at cohendbk@gmail.com.

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he general education task force will finally begin discussing a new CORE curriculum this spring. Better late than never: It’s about time we sat down and took a good look at CORE. We’ve all heard that it will be revamped, and some of us may even have read the strategic plan, which (very vaguely) outlines what the changes will be. For those who haven’t, let me fill you in: Instead of the current Distributive Studies requirements — the required English, science and math classes — all students take, the new CORE will set broader umbrellas for our general education. The new requirements will have pithy names such as Pathways to Knowledge and Creativity, 2020 Perspectives and Ways of Thinking. I can’t wait to see how the task force plans on making that into a coherent, cohesive curriculum.

But as you may (or may not) know, Distributive Studies is only part of your CORE requirement — everyone also has to take Fundamental Studies courses

(for math and English) and Advanced Studies (two upper-level electives). Well, Fundamental Studies is only required for most: You can actually place out of math, English or both with SAT or AP scores. I shouldn’t need to say this, but if you’re good at math or English in high school, does that mean that you don’t have anything left to learn?

I guess the administration tries to make up for that through Junior English.

If you placed out of ENGL 101, you still have to take ENGL 391 (or an equivalent), which should (in theory) teach you professional writing. Here’s what makes even less sense: Anyone who got an A in ENGL 101 is exempt from Junior English, which means that the students who placed out of the freshman English class (and, by the university’s logic, should be better at writing) join those who did poorly when they registered for the junior class. That arrangement is to nobody’s benefit: It inflates the egos of the overachievers, and weakens the confidence of students who were already

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The strategic plan, however, seems as confused as most freshmen are about how these requirements fit into the curriculum. The plan says that “through Fundamental Studies in English and mathematics, the new General Education program will impart to students habits ... needed for success in their primary fields of study and throughout their lives.” To me, that sounds like they’re thinking of something new and improved. But the very next paragraph says: “The new General Education proposal retains the present requirement of Fundamental Studies in English and mathematics for all students.” Wait,

that’s the opposite of new!

Don’t get me wrong — I’m not for changing things that work well. But, honestly, has anyone in the administration taken the time to think about our present Fundamental Studies requirements?

I hope the general education task force will consider the problems of the current Fundamental Studies requirements, and possible methods for improving it. My suggestion? Everyone should have to take math and English, but not necessarily at the introductory levels. Let students who need improvement in one area take the lower level, but let science majors fulfill their math requirement with Calculus III and literature lovers fulfill their English requirements with a 400-level course on English epics from Milton to Joyce — or whatever else they decide is interesting.

Lida Zlatic is a senior art history and classics major. She can be reached at zlaticdbk@gmail.com.

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GABE KLEINFELD We’re all taking actions to combat global warming. Some of us are strict about turning off lights and faucets. Others use eco-friendly shopping bags and recycle everything in sight. Yet there is something too few of us think of when we wage our war against climate change: public transportation.

Between 15 and 30 percent of carbon emissions come from automobile exhaust. Many of us rely on cars to commute to school and work — too many of us. We are an automobile-centric society, and we shouldn’t be — especially when public transit is cheaper, more efficient and more ecologically friendly.

One bus can take up to 40 cars off the road. Instead of emitting 40 cars’ worth of carbon, think of emitting a GABE fraction of that KLEINFELD through public SOPHOMORE transportation.

GEOGRAPHY MAJOR The economic stimulus bill which was recently passed provides much-needed funding for projects related to improving public transportation.

In this difficult economic time, we must recognize the cost efficiency of public transit versus the expenses associated with owning a car. Estimate the price of gas, maintenance and registration of a car. Now think of that versus the generous estimate of $30 a week spent commuting on the Metro. Gas prices alone can easily add up to more than that.

The university’s chapter of the Maryland Public Interest Research Group has been stressing the importance of public transit development and funding, both on the state and federal level, and I applaud our representatives for their support of public transit in the economic stimulus bill. Appropriations for roads are down 18 percent from the 2008 budget, and railroad’s proportion went up from 2 percent to 21 percent. We need to recognize the merits of public transit and not let the $17.7 billion allocated to transit from the stimulus bill go underutilized.

One of the flaws in the bill shows our unwavering dependence on the car. While the bill dictates that mass transit users will get to spend up to $230 a month tax free on commuting, the same amount goes to drivers and did before the bill passed. The optimal circumstance would be to keep the former tax break for transit riders — $120 a month — and lower the drivers to the same or even less to encourage more use of public transit. The extra tax revenue could then go to infusing transit agencies with capital, while rewarding transit users. The raw numbers of the stimulus package give great emphasis to the importance of public transit in our future, and we should embrace it with open arms.

Here’s to a future path built on rails, not roads.

“We need to recognize the merits of public transit and not let the $17.7 billion allocated to transit from the stimulus bill go underutilized.”

Gabe Kleinfeld is a sophomore geography major. He can be reached at gabe@umd.edu.

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REEL NEWS: Seth Rogen’s next project — superhero flick The Green Hornet — just got a whole lot more interesting. After Stephen Chow stepped away from the director’s chair (he’s still slated to play the Hornet’s sidekick, Kato) things were looking pretty damper. But Tuesday, a ray of Eternal Sunshine shined down and blessed cinema geeks everywhere with a gift: Visionary director Michel Gondry will be stepping in to take over directing duties. The idea of Rogen and Gondry collaborating is a pretty mindblowing concept and one we wholeheartedly support.

arts. music. living. movies. weekend. reel news THE PLAME GAME Recent Oscar-winner Sean Penn is in talks to star alongside Naomi Watts in Fair Game, the forthcoming film on the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

The Variety report states Penn would play Plame’s (Watts) husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson under Doug Liman’s direction.

(C-LIST) CELEBRITY HOT TUB Previously credible actor John Cusack, mildly funny Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry and Apatow/The Office cohort Craig Robinson may join Clark Duke in the Hot Tub Time Machine. The film follows a group of friends who get transported back to their glory days in 1987 via a time-traveling Jacuzzi. It sounds like they’ve really got that Weird Science-meetsinfomercial vibe down.

INTERVIEW| DIRECTOR JAMES GRAY

Only the lonely know why Director James Gray probes the infinite sadness in Two Lovers Senior staff writer

Wherever Joaquin Phoenix’s increasingly strange legacy takes him from here, let’s hope people can remember Two Lovers, a film that reveals the actor as one of the best in his generation.

The unfortunate likely truth will be that most people will recall Phoenix’s spacey, heavily YouTubed appearance on David Letterman rather than the film he was supposed to be promoting at the time (his last, if we are to believe the hype). And, regardless of whether Phoenix’s strange demeanor and promised rap career is meant to be taken seriously, it’s a damn shame.

Borrowing a bit from Dostoevsky, director James Gray has spun a tragic romance the likes of which rarely appear in mainstream American cinema.

“Very few American movies take love seriously,” Gray (We Own the Night) said in an interview with The Diamondback. “Almost all of them tend to treat it like a comedy.”

Two Lovers is not without its humor and warmth — Gray said

Gwyneth Paltrow and Joaquin Phoenix pine for one another in Two Lovers.

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Despite his longing for Michelle, Leonard gets involved in a serious relationship with Sandra (Vinessa Shaw, Badland), his father’s business partner’s daughter.

In what may well be his finest hour, Phoenix completely embodies Leonard’s duality, appearing shrunken and apologetic in his parents’ apartment and with Sandra, but emboldened and romantic around Michelle.

Gray said he and fellow screenwriter Ric Menello pulled more from their lives than from

he devised plenty of visual “buttery yellows and browns” to cut the austere, cool blues — but the overall gravity is undeniable.

Leonard (Phoenix, We Own the Night), a manic depressive who still lives with his parents in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, is a man confined by limitations beyond his control.

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He needs the comfort and security one love can offer, while he suppresses the magnetism he associates with the other. Though not overtly political, Two Lovers manages to strike a chord of relevance with its tale of personal stasis — caught between what is easily attainable and what is just out of reach.

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The junior bounced back from a poor game against North Carolina with a teamhigh 19 points and some tough rebounding.

THE CROWD They got there early, brought signs, and let the refs know when they didn’t agree with a call. Plus the “Scheyerfaces.”

FREE THROWS The Terps missed seven free throws in the second half, when points were at a premium.

REBOUNDING The Blue Devils outrebounded the Terps 39-28 and came up with second chance points that kept them close.

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DUKE (23-5, 9-4 ACC) PLAYER Singler Thomas Henderson Williams Scheyer Smith Paulus McClure Plumlee Zoubek Team TOTALS

MIN 37 18 37 31 37 4 13 12 3 8

FG 4-7 0-2 7-18 6-8 3-10 2-3 2-5 0-1 0-0 1-3

FT 3-6 1-2 4-4 2-4 5-6 0-0 2-2 0-0 1-2 2-2

O-T 4-10 0-2 2-8 3-6 1-3 0-0 0-2 0-2 0-0 2-4 1-2 200 25-57 20-28 13-39

A 2 0 3 1 5 0 0 0 0 0

PF 4 4 2 4 1 2 2 1 1 1

TP 13 1 19 15 12 5 8 0 1 4

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 43.9 FT: 71.4 3FG: 42.1 3-POINT GOALS–819 (Singler 2-3, Paulus 2-4, Smith 1-1, Henderson 1-2, Williams 12, Scheyer 1-7). TURNOVERS–9 (Singler 5). BLOCKED SHOTS–6 (Henderson 4). STEALS–5 (Thomas 2).

TERRAPINS (17-10, 6-7 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Milbourne 36 6-8 7-8 Neal 26 2-4 1-2 Mosley 23 2-7 0-0 Vasquez 22 5-11 0-2 Bowie 25 4-8 5-7 Hayes 31 4-5 1-2 Kim 1 0-0 0-0 Tucker 19 1-5 2-4 Gregory 17 0-2 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 24-50 16-25

O-T 3-5 0-2 0-3 1-6 0-1 0-4 0-0 0-2 0-2 2-3 6-28

TERPRECAP

DUKE 78, TERPS 67

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A 0 0 0 5 1 2 0 0 0

PF 5 0 5 5 3 0 1 4 3

TP 19 6 4 10 14 10 0 4 0

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PERCENTAGES–FG: 48.0 FT: 64.0, 3FG: 37.5 3-POINT GOALS––38 (Bowie 1-1, Hayes 1-1, Neal 1-3, Tucker 0-2, Vasquez 0-1).

TURNOVERS––11 (Milbourne 3). BLOCKED SHOTS––6 (Milbourne 2) STEALS––4 (Gregory 2).

ATTENDANCE––17,950 (17,950).

turned to his backside, delivered the ball to guard Jon Scheyer, and with four seconds remaining on the shot clock, the most mocked man at Comcast Center drilled a backbreaking 3-pointer. The Terps (1710, 6-7 ACC) had no answer and No. 9 Duke (23-5, 9-4 ACC) prevailed 78-67.

“That shot was definitely a dagger,” Hayes said. “That put them over the top. That’s a pretty big shot he made.”

Fans arrived at Comcast Center at 5 a.m. for the much anticipated 9 p.m. tip-off, and as part of what they called “Operation Scheyerface,” the majority of the student section brandished a teasing picture of the Blue Devils guard.

It was Scheyer who got the last laugh, rendering a valiant Terps effort futile.

Duke smacked the Terps by 41 points when the teams met Jan. 24, but the Terps went into last night’s game with a newfound confidence following an upset victory against then-No. 3 North Carolina last Saturday.

Last night, the lead changed 11 times, the score was tied on 13 occasions, and neither team went ahead by more than four points until there were fewer than five minutes remaining. Eventually, the Blue Devils created separation.

“We played hard as a team, but they finished and we didn’t,” guard Adrian Bowie said. “They wanted it more. They knocked down open shots, and we made too many mental mistakes at the end.”

Duke hit clutch shots when they needed them, secured enough loose balls to make a difference and wore down a Terp team that played most of the second half without star guard Greivis Vasquez, who was in foul trouble and eventually fouled out.

“There were a couple of balls on the floor that we didn’t get … and [Duke was] able to get them,” coach Gary Williams said. “They were big plays. It’s a shame, because we worked so hard, and a couple plays like that hurt us. We made them miss but couldn’t come up with the ball, and that really hurts you against a good team, because they’re gonna make some shots.”

After getting dominated inside the paint by Duke last month, the Terps carried a 40-26 advantage

BY THE NUMBERS A statistical look at last night’s game

Gary Williams and the Terps nearly pulled off a second straight big upset last night against Duke. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

down low behind 19 points from forward Landon Milbourne last night. Heading into the half, the teams were even at 34-34.

Following halftime, it appeared the Terps’ grip would slip away following a series of unfortunate plays. Up by one, guard Sean Mosley crumbled to the floor, holding his left leg and wincing in pain.

Moments later, Vasquez picked up his fourth foul. And with 17:42 remaining, last weekend’s hero took a seat on the bench.

“It was a big loss,” Bowie said.

“He’s the best player on our team, so leadership [was] lost, and points too.”

But for 10 minutes and 9 seconds, with Vasquez cast aside on the bench, and Mosley back in action, Bowie and Milbourne helped the Terps outscore Duke 20-17. Upon Vasquez’s reentrance with 7:33 left, the score was tied 56-56.

Williams began employing an offense/defense substitution mode with Vasquez and Mosley respectively. With 3:24 remaining, Vasquez committed an offensive foul and was disqualified. Mosley picked up his fifth foul on the next possession.

After the game, the Terps showed a mixture of pride and disappointment. They gave the Blue Devils a scare, but couldn’t sum-

Duke’s second-half field goal percentage

Terps showed a lot despite loss “Everything is still there for us,” Williams said at the time.

“We play enough good teams coming up that, if we can win some games in the stretch, it can put us in good shape.

That’s what we’re going to talk about and go from there.”

It sounded a little like a rash display of bravado, but Williams looked like a genius Saturday when the Terps beat then-No. 3 North Carolina, setting up another huge opportunity to make the same statement Wednesday against No. 7 Duke.

Confidence last night was high; morale at Comcast Center was even higher; and even though the air was slowly let out of the balloon in the 78-67 loss, by the end of the night you really had to believe in this team again, no matter how many negative columns you may or may not have written about them.

But then you remember the schedule, and you can’t be so sure.

“We feel like we can play with anybody,” forward Landon Milbourne said. “We feel like we can win any game we play.”

And while those statements would have sounded extremely cliché a week ago, at this point Milbourne is absolutely justified.

The Terp team that took the floor Wednesday night was worthy of an NCAA Tournament berth, and would beat most teams in the country.

It’s just too bad the schedule had to break this way, and that the Terps didn’t have this kind of swagger when they were

While Landon Milbourne scored 19 points, the Duke defense stifled the Terps last night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

playing the lower-echelon ACC teams earlier in the conference season.

The Terps are playing their best basketball at what normally would be the perfect time of the season — except they had to play these juggernauts Williams was excited to face.

“We’re going to be tough the rest of the way,” Williams said.

“I guarantee you.”

The Terps probably will be, but it may just be too late.

They gave a tremendous effort in an electric atmosphere at Comcast Center last night, and should be applauded for sticking around with Duke for as long as they did.

The Terps stood up to every Blue Devil challenge until the final minutes, putting a major scare into the same team that barely broke a sweat against the them only a month ago.

They pushed a top-10 team to its limit in a game — unlike

Greivis Vasquez scored just 10 points in only 22 minutes last night, eventually fouling out in the second half. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

mon the dash to pull off a second upset victory in five days.

“We’re a damn good basketball team,” Williams said. “We played really hard; we played our hearts out. We didn’t get the win, but I know what we did out there tonight and how hard we worked to get where we had a chance to win that

game. And I’m really proud of the players in getting ready.”

He continued: “We’re gonna be tough the rest of the way. I guarantee it. This is a good basketball team, and I’m proud to be coaching this team.”

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Swingman Gerald Henderson scored 19 points and eight rebounds to pace No. 7 Duke in their 78-67 win last night. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

the one against North Carolina — in which the Terps didn’t get most if not all of the breaks or bounces, and they certainly didn’t get all the calls.

They did it with Greivis Vasquez on the bench in foul trouble for the vast majority of the second half and with Sean Mosley limited by an leg injury.

If the Terps had played this well against Boston College, against Florida State and in the first game against Miami, Wednesday’s loss would have been just a minor speed bump in the Terps’ road to a sure NCAA appearance.

But now, the Terps still have their work cut out for them in their last three games. They have yet another top-15 team coming into Comcast next week in No. 13 Wake Forest on Tuesday, sandwiched between games at N.C. State and Virginia.

If the Terps play in their last three games like they last night, a tournament berth is still a possibility. But it’s a lot tougher than it has to be.

“Some of those games in the past, we could’ve won those games if we played as hard as we played against Duke,” guard Adrian Bowie said. “You have to think about that.”

Yes, you do. Because as inspiring a performance as last night’s was, the bottom line is the Terps still have some digging left to do to get out of the early season hole.

The hole may have gotten a little deeper, but at least now it looks like somebody handed them a shovel. schimmeldbk@gmail.com

Minutes for Greivis Vasquez, who averages 33.9 on the season

Total fouls called

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Big showing for Terp fans By 5 a.m., fans were lining up outside student entrance

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

For Glenn Licker, last night’s Terrapin men’s basketball game against Duke started well before the scheduled 9 p.m. tip-off.

The senior history major was at the front of a group of students who started lining up as early as 5 a.m. in order to get prime seats for what was widely regarded as the biggest game of the season.

Buoyed by Saturday’s home win against then-No. 3 North Carolina, the Terp students were in rare form last night, almost completely filling up the student wall nearly an hour before game time.

That was plenty of time to reign a chorus of boos as the Blue Devils came out for their final warm-ups and to ready their photocopies of the now infamous “Scheyerface,” an unflattering picture of Duke guard John Scheyer, which students held up periodically during the game. “[Without the North Carolina win,] we might’ve come at 7 [a.m.] instead of 5 [a.m.]” said sophomore letters and sciences major Adam Hammer, a member of Licker’s group.

Licker, who periodically rotated with a group of friends throughout the day, said he “just chilled” and worked on school work as more and more students joined the pack before doors were finally opened at 7 p.m.

Senior statistics major Mat Schulman, who came out at 8 a.m. to claim the 10th spot in the line, said the pregame camp-out was not as crowded as before the 2007 game against the Blue Devils, which fell on a Sunday. But in order to get a good seat for his final Duke game as a student, Schulman was willing to show up early.

“It’s pretty important,” Schulman said before the game. “I want to go out with a bang.”

For the seniors in attendance, the Terps’ 72-60 win against the Blue Devils in 2007 becomes the only positive home result from the rivalry.

With a chance for the Terps to take their NCAA Tournament resumé to a comfortable

Fans lined up early with their signs meant to taunt Duke guard Jon Scheyer. TOP: VINCE SALAMONE | BOTTOM: ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

position that didn’t seem possible just last week, the fans carried over their excitement from Saturday. “[The North Carolina win] gave people a little more faith in our team, and we’re ready to go” said sophomore economics major Cate McCrory, who stood in the front row holding a large poster with Scheyer’s face and big blue tears, reading “Real men don’t cry.”

A late Duke run quieted the sell-out crowd, but that didn’t change their feelings toward the Blue Devils. Licker made it clear the outcome was beside the point of his passion.

“Do I need a reason?” Licker asked rhetorically. “They’re Duke.” edetweilerdbk@gmail.com

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BY AARON KRAUT | Senior staff writer

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Emery Wallace will never play another game for the Terrapin women’s basketball team. That doesn’t make her any less valuable for the Terps.

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Emery Wallace regularly helps her teammates warm up before games despite knowing she won’t play.

FTER THE Terrapin women’s basketball team’s 29-point December loss at Pitt, coach Brenda Frese knew she had to make a critical adjustment to ensure her team’s future success on the road.

The seventh-year Terp coach wasn’t thinking about a change in the starting lineup or a switch in defensive strategy.

Frese was concerned about a member of the team who didn’t play that day — one who wasn’t even in Pittsburgh to witness the Terps’ worst loss of the season.

That player was redshirt sophomore Emery Wallace, who after multiple injuries to her left knee is no longer able to suit up for the No. 5 Terps.

But Frese felt that Wallace’s other attributes — her seemingly endless charisma and energy on the sideline — were too important for the Terps (23-4, 10-2 ACC) to be without when away from Comcast Center.

“I told her she was not allowed to miss another road game,” Frese said, adding Wallace also missed the team’s seasonopening loss at TCU. “She’s that valuable. She has become a huge part of our team

and our program.”

Wallace will undergo an ACL reconstruction and meniscus transplant after the season, her fourth left knee surgery since her junior year in high school, after re-injuring the knee before the season. Until then, the Roanoke, Va., native will continue to take on her self-proclaimed role as the team’s “hype master,” responsible for energizing and supporting her teammates.

It’s common to see Wallace stand on the sideline and yell defensive instructions like an assistant coach, or leap out of her seat when a Terp makes a big play. She’ll also take part in the team’s pregame drills, clapping her hands and yelling in the process.

“I’m a very positive and upbeat person,”

“Let me just say, the two away games that she wasn’t there, we lost.”

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Wallace said. “I’m just trying to keep my teammates always positive, keep up that cheering and be the bench leader. When people come out of the game and they are struggling, I try to keep them upbeat.”

Freshman center Yemi Oyefuwa has grown accustomed to Wallace’s persistent motivation on and off the court.

“Let me just say, the two away games that she wasn’t there, we lost,” Oyefuwa said.

Wallace’s role might seem inconsequential to some, especially on a team that boasts two All-American caliber talents in guard Kristi Toliver and forward Marissa Coleman. But to her teammates and Frese, the player sometimes dubbed “Little Brenda” is a crucial component of the Terps’ chemistry.

While others, such as Oyefuwa, center Lynetta Kizer and guard Marah Strickland are always vocal during practices, they are still able to exercise their enthusiasm for the game on the court.

Wallace’s career is finished because of her troublesome knee. She played just one season for the Terps: last year, when she averaged five minutes played in 12 appearances.

That makes her continued passion for the program unique.

“She makes every film session,” Frese said. “There’s always clips to show of Emery, of just the energy and enthusiasm she displays on the bench. She brings it every single day in practice. You talk about a player that’s so selfless and completely about the team, I mean her career is over and she wouldn’t need to have that energy.”

Wallace, who will remain on scholarship after being granted a medical hardship waiver, according to Frese, understands she won’t be able to contribute to the team on the floor. So far, her desire for the team to succeed has overcome that realization.

“I love these guys,” Wallace said.

“They’re like my sisters. They’ve been supporting me, so now I’m trying to give

Wallace played in just 12 games as a Terp, all last season, including this game against Loyola (Md.).

all my energy and support to them, because I can’t give it on the court.”

Wallace was on the court last Thursday, if only for a couple minutes, helping the Terps go through warm-ups before their win at Georgia Tech. She stood at her usual spot at the high post, dressed in her white Terps’ jersey adorned with a handwritten word from each player that symbolizes what this season means to them.

She drilled pass after pass to oncoming shooters before taking a seat on the bench before tip-off, knowing the Terps needed to beat a tougher-than-normal Yellow Jacket team in order to stay in the chase for first place in the ACC. Wallace stood up and yelled, high-fived teammates and focused on the game as intensely as ever, once again proving that, although she couldn’t play, this season means as much to her as anyone else on the team.

“I realize I can get through anything right now,” Wallace said. “I’ll do anything I can for my teammates to help us win.” akrautdbk@gmail.com