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Lawmakers debate voting reform Commission MaryPIRG: Election Day registration would enfranchise student voters ANNAPOLIS 2009

pushes for state higher ed. goals Bohanan funding model too costly to implement this year

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS – Despite knowing the $700 million price tag is too expensive for the state, legislators and academics pressed ahead with a new 10-year funding model for the state’s public universities yesterday, hoping the state will adopt their recommendations as goals.

The bill, based on two years of study by the Commission to Develop the Maryland Model

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — Students with the university’s chapter of the Maryland Public Interest Research Group are trying to establish Election Day registration in the state, a move they say will enfranchise stu-

dent voters.

Incidents like the more than 350 university students who were forced to cast provisional ballots in this year’s presidential election despite meeting registration deadlines make the same-day registration necessary, advocates said.

“Students put in the effort to get

their registrations through, but still their votes were not counted,” freshman mechanical engineering major and MaryPIRG member Timothy Facemire said. “It’s very important to get involved.”

If successful, the push would mean residents of the state could register to vote on the same day

they would vote. Currently, the state requires that people register 21 days before they vote.

Legislation under debate in Annapolis would call for a referendum that, if passed would make a one-sentence constitutional

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Students, staff gather to remember Ken Joseph

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BY RICH ABDILL Staff writer

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ore than 400 people, including students, faculty and friends, gathered in the Memorial Chapel Thursday to remember Ken Joseph, the associate director of the College Park Scholars Media, Self, and Society program who died Feb. 5.

The service, which lasted about an hour, hosted speakers from all facets of Joseph’s life and provided the portrait of a man committed to students, friends, family and the connection between the three.

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University to sell too few parking permits to meet eco-friendly guidelines

BY RICH ABDILL Staff writer

The Department of Transportation Services has begun to sell discount parking permits to drivers of fuel-efficient vehicles, but it is unclear whether the program will have any substantial environmental impact or help the university with LEED certification.

The program, which offers a 20 percent discount to drivers of vehicles on a list provided

Tables outside of Ken Joseph's memorial service hold memories of his life for guests to look at.

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‘We’re plotting the way forward’ RHA: Dorm phone lines University professor’s obsolete, unnecessary 13-year project lost in satellite crash

BY RICH ABDILL Staff writer

A satellite carrying NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory takes off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. The mission, which a university professor contributed to, later crashed into the ocean. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF GENE BLEVINS/LA DAILY NEWS

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Thirteen years ago, atmospheric and oceanic science professor Ross Salawitch began to develop methods of measuring carbon dioxide levels from space. Tuesday, his years of work were set to pay off as the Orbiting Carbon Observatory took off from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Not long after, it crashed into the Indian Ocean.

Salawitch started planning with his

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Univ. officials say eliminating land lines has been discussed, could raise problems

BY MICHELLE CLEVELAND Staff writer

RHA members have pitched the idea of eliminating phone lines in on-campus dorms, saying they’ve become obsolete as students rely almost entirely on cell phones to communicate.

Kevin Ford, chair of the Residence Hall Association’s Residential Facilities Advisory Board, brought up the idea of the switch at the RHA senate meeting last Tues-

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day. The proposal, which was discussed informally, would involve students registering their cell phone numbers so the university, rather than the cell phone provider, would take responsibility for oncampus calls.

He said having phone lines and data jacks in campus dorms is an unnecessary and outdated feature.

Students currently pay a room, telecommunication and cable fee,

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Senate moves to give D.C. citizens vote WASHINGTON – The people of Washington would get the vote in Congress that the Founding Fathers denied them under legislation the Senate has approved.

The Senate legislation would give the District a vote in the House of Representatives. The bill offsets what is certain to be a gain for Democrats by adding one seat in Republican-leaning Utah.

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PRINCESS ANNE – The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating the Somerset County sheriff after a woman alleged he hit her twice with his car.

Donna Dee Marie Pusey said Sheriff Robert Jones hit her with his car twice while he was parked in front of her apartment complex Feb. 12, after she asked him to move. She took out a temporary civil peace order against the sheriff, but a Wicomico County District Court judge dismissed the order this week.

Jones said he has nothing to hide and thinks an investigation will help him. He said he was conducting surveillance for a case.

Wicomico and Somerset counties’ state’s attorneys declined to investigate the allegations.

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CLARIFICATION Tuesday’s story, “BSOS dean to advise on auto industry overhaul,” may have incorrectly implied the degree to which Dean Edward Montgomery is absent from his university post. Montgomery is splitting time between the university and working for President Barack Obama’s administration, so some members of the college are helping to fulfill his responsibilities.

Revealing unknown racial history Author Douglas Blackmon discusses forgotten issues of injustice after the Civil War

BY JAMES B. HALE Staff writer

President Barack Obama’s election was historic, but Douglas Blackmon, an author and journalist who has written about how society should deal with a past that has been tainted by slavery, said the election isn’t enough to permanently solve race relations in the United States.

Blackmon, a best-selling author and reporter for The Wall Street Journal, spoke about racial dialogue and history in the United States at the Nyumburu Cultural Center yesterday to a crowd of about 80 people.

The speech, “A Persistent Past: Reckoning with Our Troubled Racial History in the Age of Obama,” was part of the Provost’s Conversations on Diversity, Democracy and Higher Education.

Blackmon said he became interested in racial history while researching the forced use of black laborers in coal mines by U.S. Steel, a steel company founded in 1901. Even after former President Abraham Lincoln declared slaves were free, blacks were arrested and forced to work the mines in the early 20th century.

The incident, which most historians passed over, is just one of many unknown stories of racial injustice in the last century, said Blackmon, who wrote about the topic in his best-selling book Slavery by Another Name.

“There is a history that a lot of people, African Americans in particular, may not know the full facts of the

story,” he said.

One of the problems is people’s unwillingness or discomfort in talking about racial issues, he said. The election of Obama shows the country should be ready to have these dialogues, Blackmon said.

“We’re at a point in time where we can have conversations without getting completely angry or offended, and we ought to have them,” he said. “The people who did the worst things and suffered the most are all dead.”

But there is no reason people should believe the issues between the races are completely fixed, he said.

Sophomore studio art major Ingrid Berbery, who attended the event for a journalism class, said there is still a lot to learn about the relationship between black and white Americans. She said people need to keep an open dialogue, even with a black president.

“With the election of President Obama, there are a lot of people saying we’re living in a post-racial society, but that’s completely not true,” she said.

Blackmon said the idea of a “post-racial” society — a society in which race is not an issue — is absurd. He said there will always be black and white — it’s just the way we talk about the different races that needs to change.

“I use the words ‘white people,’” he said. “Not many white people use the words ‘white people.’ When they talk about [their race], they say ‘people,’ and then they say ‘black people.’”

Blackmon stressed the

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importance of understanding the truth about issues such as slavery will help people learn how to treat race relations today. White Americans, he said, forced blacks into labor until World War II and oppressed them until the 1970s.

“From that point in time, there is no group in human history that has accomplished more than African Americans,” he said.

Although blacks overcame a lot of prejudice, it’s important not to continue dividing different groups, Blackmon added.

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Funding mandates may be too pricey to pass BOHANAN, from Page 1 for Funding Higher Education — informally known as the Bohanan Commission after its chair, Del. John Bohanan (D-St. Mary’s) — was showcased for the House Appropriations Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee. Backers of the legislation say they sense increased support for higher education in Annapolis and would not be disappointed if the state were to adopt the policy without mandating it be fully funded.

“It sets the guidelines, which is how we have funded education over the past 10 years,” Bohanan said. “It raises the bar and sets a goal

and a challenge.”

Although funds are dedicated to K-12 education, community colleges and private institutions, state money has never been mandated for public colleges and universities. The funding model encompasses all public higher education institutions and balances state money, financial aid and tuition so that funds cannot be taken away from one area without going to another.

Still, state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park, will present a bill to the senate in a few weeks that mandates that many of the Bohanan Commission’s recommendations,

particularly ones related to financial aid and tuition, be fully funded by the state. But the bill is unlikely to pass, due to its $700 million price tag over the next decade.

“I think both bills, because they are expensive, are going to be very difficult to get through this year, but we’ll keep pushing forward,” Rosapepe said.

The state is in rough financial shape, especially as revenues from income and sales taxes are declining. Gov. Martin O’Malley’s (D) budget needed to close a $2 billion deficit, and state legislative analysts are projecting billion dollar deficits for the next several years.

The commission recom-

mended the state base its funding guidelines off how well the states Maryland competes with for employers fund their universities, asking for greater financial support for higher education than in three quarters of those states.

Previously, recommendations were based off how well universities’ peer institutions were funded.

Having received no negative feedback, Bohanan, who chairs the Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on education and economic development, thinks the bill will pass, but university officials offered no guarantees.

“I think they want to get to the goals in the funding formula, but remember, we’re in

the worst budget crisis anyone down here has ever seen,” said Ross Stern, the university lobbyist. “It would be extremely unlikely to pass a bill that mandates hundreds of millions more dollars. That said, if we can get this policy in place, it’s a very positive thing. When we come out of this budget crisis, maybe then we can get some funding attached to it.”

The state legislature set goals for higher education funding in 1988 and 1998 but never completely funded or supported either formula, university President Dan Mote said.

“The state mandated an enormous amount into K-12 education, and now we have

the No. 1 school system in the country, and that was also an investment over a 10-year period,” Mote said. “Now they’re wondering where the good students from K-12 are going to go. Now they’re starting to focus on higher education.”

Supporters also touted the accountability measures in the bill, which include a process that would track progress made by public universities on a website. That progress would then be subject to review by the General Assembly. The model’s 10year plan will begin whenever money is dedicated to the formula. sticedbk@gmail.com

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by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, will be funded next year with $18,000 of proceeds from the hike in parking meter fees.

However, officials are unclear on whether the university qualifies for LEED points, because the university doesn’t o f f e r enough permits to qualify under the latest specifications, w h i c h call for 5 percent of spaces to be “ p r e DAVID ALLEN DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT ferred,” OF TRANSPORTATION w h i c h SERVICES means drivers with fuel-efficient vehicles either get spots closer to the buildings or are provided permits at a discount.

Transportation Services’ budget for this year calls for about 21,000 parking permits to be issued, but only about 220 of those, or 1.5 percent, are expected to be green permits.

The latest version of these LEED guidelines outline three options for earning points through programs for fuelefficient vehicles: providing the vehicles for 3 percent of students and faculty, reserving 5 percent of total parking spaces as preferred parking or providing enough alternativefuel refueling stations for 3 percent of total vehicle parking.

Allen said the permits were the most cost-effective way to earn points.

“This was just an area that was inexpensive,” he said.

“Everything costs money.”

However, the low cost is also paired with a perceived lack of effectiveness.

The program is off to a slow start due to a lack of public awareness, said Scott Lupin, director of the Office of Sustainability.

Allen attributed this to the program’s “false start:” The program started this semester and originally offered discounts to people seeking permits for vehicles rated at or above 37 miles per gallon, Director of the Department of Transporation Services David Allen said, but the specifications were altered after the program started, and then DOTS restricted discounts to only LEED-designated cars.

About 40 of the approximately 100 green permits issued were sold for cars that do not fit the new specifications, but no permits were revoked, Allen said.

LEED is a program run by the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council that assigns structures a sustainability rating based on analysis of the building and its upkeep requirements.

Points are assigned from analysis of everything from roof types to light bulbs. The university has committed to making all new construction a minimum of LEED Silver-certified.

“This was just area that was inexpensive.

Everything costs money.”

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The service was the first Scholars event in a decade that Joseph didn’t help set up, said Greig Stewart, executive director of College Park Scholars, in his welcoming remarks.

Joseph’s dedication to the Scholars program was the dominant theme of the afternoon.

“Many of us are not here because we lost a teacher, but rather because we lost a friend,” said Kyle Goon, a 2008 graduate of the Scholars program and an editor at The Diamondback. Goon spoke of Joseph during the memorial’s “Ken, the Advisor” section. “It’s clear to me that nothing mattered more to him than our own wellbeing.”

Joseph worked with Mike Colson, associate director for admissions and registration, since the day he was hired by the university in

1999. He began as a program assistant in admissions, and two years later became the assistant director of the Media, Self, and Society Scholars program.

“There is no one more deserving of this tribute today than Ken Joseph,” he said.

Kalyani Chadha, director of the Media, Self, and Society program, worked closely with Joseph and said that despite his close relationship with students, he was also a firm administrator.

“He never shied away from his enforcer role,” she said during the memorial’s “Ken, the Steadying Force” section. “I’ll never forget him studying in the back of the room, glaring at students that dared to text during colloquium.”

Although Joseph had been dedicated to his various roles at the university for the past few years, he also touched lives of those out-

side and off the campus — friend and speaker Jan Munsey met Joseph while he was working at a Baltimore book store in the early 1990s.

“Within a week, I was working there,” she said while remembering Joseph during “Ken, the Friend.”

“Within a week, I knew I had met my best friend.”

Munsey went on to ask Joseph to be the maid of honor at her wedding, saying that he “even offered to wear a dress.”

Students, who left the memorial in droves, said they found the ceremony fitting for Joseph’s memory.

“I thought it was done really well,” said sophomore Kenny Gartner, who is in the Media, Self, and Society program. “There wasn’t a better way to say goodbye to him.”

Senior linguistics major Michael Levine agreed.

“It was nice to see him memorialized this way,” he

Greig Stewart, executive director of the College Park Scholars program, welcomes guests to the memorial service for Ken Joseph.

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said.

Karen Joseph, Joseph’s sister, was appreciative of the turnout — which stretched until the middle sections of the chapel — and said that Joseph would have

Proposed same-day registration bill needs support in Senate, legislator says REGISTRATION, from Page 1 amendment allowing for same-day registration, said Sen. Mike Lenett (D-Montgomery County), and the details of how to implement it will be determined later.

After the outcome of the proposed referendum, the General Assembly will vote on the amendment.

The process will take three years, and the earliest it could be implemented is 2012. The first step in the process is passing a bill to create a statewide referendum on the issue in 2010.

The Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee heard the bill yesterday, and MaryPIRG members arrived to lobby committee vice chairman Sen. Roy Dyson (D-Calvert, Charles and St. Mary’s).

Del. Kirill Reznik (DMontgomery) told the students that the House has the

momentum to pass the measure but is looking for similar support in the Senate. The bill already has 16 sponsors in the Senate, but Dyson is the linchpin, MaryPIRG campus organizer Greg Schwab said.

Facemire, one of Dyson’s constituents, met with the senator after the hearing to persuade him of the need for Election Day registration in light of voting problems in Prince George’s County.

Dyson offered no guarantees, Facemire said.

Freshman English major David Bransfield testified before the committee along with a handful of other witnesses, with every one in favor of same-day registration.

“The right to vote is too important to be cut off by an arbitrary date,” Lenett said before the committee.

Representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and the National

“People who move around a lot or live in areas where it’s hard to register get disenfranchised under the current system.”

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Association for the Advancement of Colored People touted the fact that eight other states have adopted same-day registration with largely successful results. Election judges said it would require no extra work on their part and could almost entirely eliminate paper ballots. Iowa, the state that most recently adopted same-day registration, saw a two-thirds decrease in pro-

visional ballots on Election Day. “People who move around a lot or live in areas where it’s hard to register get disenfranchised under the current system,” Bransfield said. “And it’s easier to cheat the system with provisional ballots than it is with sameday registration.”

Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DAnne Arundel and Prince George’s) said there were a lot of positives in the sameday registration measure that merit discussion but could not say if it would get a favorable vote. Rosapepe has sponsored the Student Voting Rights Act, which also seeks to address enfranchisement — it would require institutions to hire elections coordinators and provide information and resources for students looking to register to vote — it will be heard in a few weeks.

team in 1996 and was in California for the satellite’s launch early Tuesday morning. In the beginning stages, all appeared normal. The problem arose when the satellite was supposed to separate from the transporting rocket and enter orbit — the nose cone housing the satellite failed to break free, and the entire structure fell into the ocean just north of Antarctica.

Salawitch would not speak to the media in the days following the accident and is still very disappointed by the events.

“I personally think a great opportunity was lost,” he said. “We were poised to take a great step forward.”

The satellite was planned to circle Earth every 99 minutes, taking 500,000 images a day.

The project would give scientists a picture of the amounts of global carbon dioxide with an unprecedented level of accuracy, Salawitch said. This accuracy was at the heart of the group’s goals.

“Measuring CO2 is not an issue. Anybody can measure CO2,” Salawitch said. “It’s

measuring it well enough to advance the science.”

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are currently at about 385 parts per million, Salawitch said, and the satellite had to be able to measure with enough accuracy to detect a change of one part per million.

Salawitch said the group’s first hurdle was convincing the scientific community not that the experiments would be successful but that the accuracy was possible.

“If we could show the world we could measure to one part per million, our science was a slam-dunk,” he said.

The project was accepted by NASA in 2001, and the team grew to about 50 international scientists, Salawitch said, adding that, in addition, several hundred engineers actually built the satellite.

“We had the right mix of people to be able to pull it off,” he said. “It was a grand challenge, but the community felt if anybody could do it, we could.”

The two-year mission had several implications for the community at large — in addition to providing scientists with

a greatly enhanced image of global carbon dioxide levels, the system was accurate enough to monitor carbon dioxide levels shifting in and out of individual countries, Salawitch said, having implications for global public policy involving carbon rebates and fines.

Salawitch wore two hats in the project. His knowledge of the global carbon cycle placed him in a critical role with the initial proposal to NASA. “I was one of four or five people that worked on the proposal, and we were literally locked in a room for two months. We had a secretary, state-of-the-art computers and refreshments,” he said. “I just stopped everything I was doing and helped write this document.”

Once the mission had started, Salawitch would have been the project’s validation lead, charged with monitoring the data collected by the satellite and comparing it to data collected from monitoring stations on the ground. Assisted by Ben Johnson, his graduate assistant and a former opinion editor for The Diamondback, Salawitch would then adjust the computer

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systems to provide more accurate data.

Before the crash, Salawitch and Johnson were planning to move to Pasadena, Calif., to work on the project, plans that have since been scuttled.

Despite the loss of the $278 million satellite, Salawitch maintains the project was not a complete failure, pointing out the significant ground-measurement facilities that are still providing valuable data. In addition, he said, several graduate students received their doctorates from their work on the project.

“We didn’t lose everything when we failed to launch,” he said. “Some people are doctors because of OCO. And they won’t take the Ph.D.s away.”

He also said the crash did not necessarily kill the project, and discussions are already underway analyzing the possible next steps.

“It’s the end of the OCO, which was the specific satellite.

It is not, though, the end of the OCO team,” he said. “We’re plotting the way forward.”

which includes $172 for each telephone line. The Resident Life and Residential Facilities fee proposal for the 2010 academic year budget shows that the cost per telephone line will increase to $188.

Phyllis Dickerson Johnson, director of communications for the Office of Information Technology, said OIT investigates various technologies all of the time, and the idea of this switch may be “premature.” Potential problems could arise if the switch occurred, such as what would happen in the case of a power outage or an emergency situation in which cell phone providers become busy.

The switch could also pose a problem for resident assistants, who are required to have landline phones so their respective community desks can reach them while on-duty.

Chatise Scott-Webster, a sophomore family science major and RA in the Leonardtown Community, said she is called when there are emergency situations, noise complaints, maintenance issues or other problems. She added that RAs are required to have landlines, because cell phones can be unreliable.

Resident Life Director Deb Grandner said it’s not the first time the issue has been presented.

If implemented, it may provide “a cost savings for students.”

At various points, students and staff have considered the possibility of dropping the telephone lines in student rooms,” Grandner said.

“We would want to be sure the cell service would be reasonable to students in all locations.”

She added that Resident Life would also need to ensure there are mechanics in place for areas where there is no cell phone service.

Some students said switching exclusively to cell phone use wouldn’t be a major transition, as cell phones are their primary method of telecommunication.

Maura Donovan, a sophomore letters and sciences major, said she does have a landline phone, but hardly ever uses it. She said that at most, she only makes calls on it five times during the entire school year.

“I think it’s a waste,” Donovan said. “Who really uses them?”

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“He would want you to remember him as a joyous person who loved all of you,” she said.

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e’re a bastion of Christianity, holding the line after centuries of battle and we don’t stand for discrimination.” Listening to Tancredo will give you good exagainst the raging masses of Islam. White, black and brown immigrants amples of what you’re not. But listening to Tancredo won’t help you define who and are sneaking across our borders in a determined attempt to erase the what you are.

We hope the students who attended the protest are looking past Tancredo. We hope last waning vestiges of the European culture that our civilization was they’re looking to start a more serious discussion where the anfounded on. If we don’t line our borders with marines and military swers won’t be so black-and-white, where nuance and finesse are robots, we’ll never stop the hordes from sneaking in and sullying required. our country. And while we’re at it, we should probably stop all of Right now, immigrants throughout the state are rallying togeththat legal immigration too. We’ve got to stop buying into this “cult Students should not only er, urging lawmakers to allow all state residents to pay in-state tuof multiculturalism;” it’s a sham.

It isn’t hard to recognize spouts of racist bile as hateful blather define what they’re against, ition, regardless of immigration status. The idea was presented to when they’re this blatant. The ideas above are held and promoted but also what they’re for. the state legislature last year and was passed by the House with the support of Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) before stalling in the Senby former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.). When he came to speak ate. There are also some state lawmakers who are hoping to at American University earlier this week, students from throughchange the state Motor Vehicle Administration policies; this state is one of five that do out the region came to protest Tancredo’s bigoted ideas, and we’re happy they did.

But in many ways, that was the easy part. Which isn’t to say it’s easy to get 400 stu- not require applicants to prove they reside in the country legally before getting a dridents to rally around an issue. But it is easier to define yourself through difference ver’s license.

We believe there are strong arguments for both broadening access to higher educathan it is to really figure out what you stand for. With that in mind, it’s important to recognize that the protest should be seen as a transitional step, not as the culmination of a tion and maintaining access to licensing. But that isn’t the point. The point is that it’s movement. Cynics might point out the protest is unlikely to produce tangible results; difficult but imperative to define the boundaries of citizenship. It’s easy to argue we peacefully contrary students didn’t change Tancredo’s mind about multiculturalism. aren’t a bastion of Christianity, but it’s harder to define what makes us true Americans And some signs saying “America is multicultural” probably didn’t affect the opinions or true Marylanders. As we continue to explore identity boundaries on the campus, of policy-makers in Washington. But such a cynic would be missing the potential we hope stakeholders will move beyond discussing what we aren’t. We hope students arguing about Israel and Palestine do more than point fingers at each other. We hope value of the protest as an opportunity for organization.

In many ways, Tancredo is useful as a rallying point — it’s clear he stands for students fighting about abortion do more than vilify each other. If you don’t stop to liswhat’s wrong. It’s easy to say, “We don’t stand for racism, we don’t stand for bigotry, ten, you’re apt to wind up like Tancredo: sure that you’re right, and surely wrong.

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Racial humor: It’s about the big picture

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xcuse me, I cannot reach the top rack. Oh, you don’t work here ... you’re just black!

Awkward!”

These are the lyrics from “Awkward Rap,” a song written by the comedy geniuses at MTV’s The CollegeHumor Show. My first reaction: what the f---?

My next and more politically correct question: Are there any black writers on the staff?

Why, you may ask, does that even matter? The simple answer is this: Unfortunately, there are plenty of racist jokes out there. For whatever reason, whether masqueraded as an effort to contribute to better race relations or aimed at cheap laughs, most of them are done poorly and don’t accomplish either, because they lack a crucial ingredient: audience perception. Members of the staff from targeted groups essentially offer the perception of how the demographic itself will receive the joke.

Take that CollegeHumor piece, for example. The joke immediately offend-

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SOLOMON ed me because I, like many others, would never assume a person is a store employee because he or she is black.

There’s also an element of classism in the joke, worsening the blow and contributing to the awkward silence in the room full of my black friends watching.

At least with Chappelle’s Show, Dave Chappelle both wrote the skits and performed them, so you knew there was a black perspective. But after years of comedy, even Chappelle evaluated his skits and staff with a sense of seriousness. In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, he singled out the “pixie sketch,” in which everyone has a pixie encouraging them to act in racially stereotypical

ways. During the filming of the blackface pixie sketch, a white crew member was laughing.

Chappelle said, “It was the first time I felt that someone was not laughing with me but laughing at me.”

Truth: You can’t tell a bigot laugh from a non-bigot laugh. Intuition: If you can’t tell the difference between the two, should you even try making light of racism?

Many shows exploring racist humor defend themselves, saying they are exposing bigotry. Way before our time was a show called All in the Family. The story line of the program pitted Archie Bunker, a rascally but hard-working bigot, against his liberal son-in-law, Mike, a graduate student living in the Bunker household with Archie’s daughter. Producer Norman Lear answered critics by arguing that the comedy’s story line countered bigotry because Mike rebutted Archie and Mike was the one “making sense.”

But psychologists Neil Vidmar and

Milton Rokeach set out to prove that people with different levels of prejudice would not watch the show the same way, and they were right. They found that “high prejudiced persons were likely to watch All in the Family more often than low prejudiced persons, to identify more with Archie Bunker and to see him winning in the end. ... [T]he program is more likely reinforcing prejudice and racism than combating it.”

The writers of All in the Family were all white, which probably explains why its intended audience wasn’t laughing at first and eventually just stopped watching altogether. After 30 years, Chappelle made even more tasteless jokes and admitted to them being “socially irresponsible.” If you can’t play it off in Seth MacFarlane’s “everybody’s a target” style, than you probably won’t even get me to crack a smile.

Fenan Solomon is a junior journalism and pre-pharmacy major. She can be reached at solomondbk@gmail.com.

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f I, an Ethiopian raised in America, made an anti-Semitic joke to a group of Jewish people, I would probably be called a jerk and shunned by the Jewish world.

But if I were Jewish and made an anti-Semitic joke to a group of equally Jewish people, then I would probably be considered absolutely hilarious.

After all, the issue is not how racist and cruel the words I spoke are, but who they come from. Who cares about the fact that my joke has reduced the suffering of an entire people down to a few poorly chosen words and a punchline? I’m Jewish!

And being Jewish, in this situation, entitles me to an RHL: a Racist Humor License.

You see, in our world, certain people are allowed to make certain comments. Being of a certain race means you are entitled to those certain comments, and you can use and abuse

those privileges as you see fit. But what happens when it’s not a person coming up with a joke, but a group of people? When there is a united effort by a group of dedicated individuals whose simple goal is just to make you laugh, how do they know if it’s OK? Now the situation gets tricky.

In both teamwork and real life, majority usually rules, so let’s apply that here: The group with the most RHLs wins. That sounds fair. But at that rate, no one will ever be allowed to make a racist joke about Native Americans because of their tiny population, and we simply couldn’t have that. Imagine the number of carefully crafted sentences chock-full of good humor wasted because of a simple insufficient race ratio. Instead, we’ll have one individual stand in for the entire race — he or she came from that race, so they’ll obviously know if it’s OK. That way, we can spread our

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YITBAREK racist humor all around the world, free to sprinkle laughter with every punchline. Pure genius.

So really all that matters is not what is being served, but who provides that particular service. Let’s try and apply that to a different situation. Brad Pitt is pretty hot stuff. Philip Seymour Hoffman? Not so much. If they both served you a plate of feces, would the person who served it to you really determine whether or not you put it in your mouth?

The point is not that racist humor is as horrible as feces but that what

should matter is what the joke is about rather than who says it. While some racist humor makes fun of racism, other jokes are simply racist.

Some jokes may poke fun at the trivial differences between two different people, while others trivialize the pains of a people’s history. Now, the point where race-based humor stops being funny and starts being offensive is up to you and your level of tolerance, but blindly accepting humor based on who says what doesn’t make much sense. Rather, we should be more critical of the content of that humor and the point being made.

Only then can we decide whether we will accept those comments as tasteful or recognize them as being just plain ignorant.

Saron Yitbarek is a sophomore psychology major. She can be reached at yitbarekdbk@gmail.com.

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MIKE FEKULA It was gratifying to see the recognition given to the motion picture Milk at the Academy Awards. This happens to come at a time when Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) has advocated the extension of health benefits to same-sex partners of state employees. In that context, one can only hope the story of martyred gay politician and activist Harvey Milk can serve as inspiration for our society to move ahead toward a greater tolerance.

The Academy awarded Sean Penn the Oscar for best actor, while the film’s screenwriter, Dustin “Lance” Black, won the award for original screenplay, underlining the fact that this is a serious story well told. The film documents Milk’s rise to power and his brief term in office as a San Francisco City Supervisor, concluding with his assassination by fellow supervisor and political rival Dan White. White murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Milk at the San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978.

Much of the film plots Milk’s transition from closeted businessman to gay activist to hero of the gay movement. Josh Brolin plays White perfectly, earning him a supporting actor nomination. White is revealed to be a devout Catholic, Vietnam veteran and former police officer who had a wife and three children.

In one of the most poignant moments of the film, Penn suggests to a disbelieving inner circle of activist friends that White may be a closeted gay.

“I have seen the fear in his eyes,” Milk says, explaining he used to have the same fears of his own in his earlier, closeted life.

This theme was touched upon only briefly in the film, but it reveals a key component of Milk’s heroism: his ability to understand the fears of his opponents while having to withstand outright gaybashing.

In reflecting on White, I found myself remembering former colleagues who, by way of professional necessity, had to stay in the closet. I knew quite a few Dan Whites in my days working as a government contract employee at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, back in the mid’80s when the U.S. military was lurching awkwardly toward a policy that would eventually become “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

The military was struggling to come to terms with the undeniable fact that gays and lesbians were already quietly serving their country, that many of them had served in combat and that more than a few had already died for their country.

These heroes included Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, who served three combat tours in Vietnam and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. Despite his exemplary record, he was declared unfit for duty when he came out to his senior officers and was discharged. Matlovich died in 1988. His tombstone reads, “When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.”

The gay and lesbian soldiers I knew were among the hardest working, most disciplined and most reliable troops any commander could want. They had to be.

The military frowns upon any lifestyle that considered “oddball.” There was a facade that had to be maintained, and it came at a price. Marriages of convenience were common. And more than a few indulged in obsessive-compulsive behavior, designed to keep secret lives secret. In the worst-case scenario, there were closeted officers and sergeants who were master manipulators, expert at keeping others around them off-balance, mesmerized and intimidated — whatever it took to maintain the correct image and to direct prying eyes elsewhere.

One cannot blame these people for doing whatever it takes to serve their country by fighting the bureaucracy. We can only hope the sacrifices of Harvey Milk can some day make such choices unnecessary.

Mike Fekula is a program management specialist in the languages, literatures and cultures school. He can be reached at mfekula@umd.edu.

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INTERVIEW | THE FLYING EYES

Flying high above the crowd Local act takes aim at an evolved sound and increased exposure

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For a young band like The Flying Eyes, with all its members still in school and without a record label, getting your music heard can be one daunting task.

“About a year and a half ago, we sat down and said, ‘How are we going to get people interested?’” drummer Elias Schutzman said.

It was then that The Flying Eyes came up with a very simple idea.

“We started using the method of sort of bringing a party scene to our shows,” Schutzman said.

“We have a lot of energy and enthusiasm for the music onstage, [and] when [the crowd] sees us having fun like that, they get drawn into it that way.”

And it’s just impossible to not notice how much fun the group is having while onstage.

Whether it’s jumping to “Bad Blood” or singing along to the band’s superb rendition of the Butthole Surfers’ “Pepper,” the audience is guaranteed to have a sweaty, dance-filled time at a Flying Eyes show.

“We want everyone else to have as much fun as we’re having, because we’re always having a great time,” Schutzman said.

The Flying Eyes — vocalist/guitarist Will Kelly, guitarist Adam Bufano, bassist Mac Hewitt and Schutzman — have been together in this incarnation since the summer 2007, when Kelly replaced a previous singer. And the change, as it turned out, has only helped the band further craft their sound.

“We used to be this band mimicking other bands,”

The Flying Eyes thrives on bringing a “party scene” to its high-energy live performances.

Schutzman said. “We used to be sort of all over the place. But after we started the new [band] with Will, everything came together into more of a defined sound.”

The band’s sound is now a “heavy but still psychedelic blues sound, which is much more moving in our own direction,” Schutzman added.

But don’t think for a second those genres can accurately describe The Flying Eyes’ sound.

Throw in some good, old-fashioned garage rock, tempo shifts and Kelly’s Danzig-esque vocals, and you begin to have an idea of what the group sounds like.

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“We spent a good long time on the EP, just experimenting and making everything exactly how we wanted it,” Schutzman said.

“We’re fortunate that we basically have infinite studio time at our hands because Adam goes to [the University of Maryland, Baltimore County], in the studio recording department. So we basically can just sign out free studio time there, and go and do it ourselves whenever we want.”

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live shows and word of mouth, led The Flying Eyes to a good amount of local success, which allowed the group to embark on a tour this past summer to Texas and back. And after playing shows from time to time this semester, they’re ready to hit the road again for a short tour during spring break. This trek, planned with the help of newly hired booking agency Sinister Foxy Productions, will include stops in Atlanta, New Orleans, Charlotte, N.C., and Austin, Texas.

But even given the recent success of the band, they still have their priorities in place.

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THEIR OWN SPOTLIGHT Coleman and Toliver to be honored at Senior Night

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

Forward Landon Milbourne was a positive for the Terps in Wednesday’s loss, pacing the team with 19 points in a bounce-back effort. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Milbourne: ‘We felt like we could play with them’ WOLFPACK, from Page 8 win, but you know what, I know what we did out there tonight and how hard we worked to get where we had a chance to win that game.”

Though the eventual result was the same for both games against Duke, certainly this hard-fought loss was more encouraging for the Terps (1710, 6-7 ACC) than the 41-point beating they suffered one month ago.

While it won’t help the Terps in moving toward the right side of the bubble, it gave them a reason to stay confident heading into the final week of the regular season.

“It was great for us,” said forward Landon Milbourne, who led the Terps with 19 points. “Especially at halftime, we tied it up with them. It wasn’t unexpected for us — we felt like we could play with them.”

That’s the key — the Terps truly believed they would win. While no athlete will admit he didn’t believe in himself or his team, there have been certain stretches this season when the Terps’ body language failed to suggest such confidence.

Beating then-No. 3 North Carolina last weekend helped develop the Terps’ current attitude that they can run with any team in the country. And for about 35 minutes Wednesday night, they matched Duke shot for shot, stop for stop.

“I think we’ve developed a certain way to play,” Williams said. “We play with a great deal of intensity, our defense has been good lately, and hopefully we can improve that.”

When Duke clobbered the Terps on Jan. 24, it was part of a streak where the Terps lost four of five contests.

Entering Wednesday’s rematch having won three of four, the Terps exhibited a different air.

“They’re a cockier team,” Duke guard Jon Scheyer said when contrasting the recent Terps to the Terps of late January. “The way they’re playing is better. They’ve found their groove now; you can tell. They’re a tough team. They know their roles.

They’re a lot better. We knew that coming in, but we definitely got a better feel of it out on the court.”

Added Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski: “Gary Williams is a heck of a coach. The last time we played them, they were going in a different direction. He has changed the direction of this team.”

Williams said his team learned from the loss at Duke and did a nice job of not accepting that as their fate.

In hearing both Williams and the players speak, you get the sense that Wednesday’s loss was more of a bump in the road than a barricade.

Three Terp starters fouled out, including Greivis Vasquez, who was limited to just 22 minutes. And still, with their star on the bench, the Terps kept pace.

They consistently attacked the rim — a means of scoring that was absent in the first contest against the Blue Devils. After shooting 28 percent in the game last month, they came back with a 48 percent shooting night Wednesday.

The Terps travel to N.C. State for a game Sunday night. Then they host Wake Forest next Tuesday and go back on the road to play Virginia the following Saturday.

While fans are trying to decipher what combination of results will get the Terps into the NCAA Tournament, the Terps are set on winning all three to remove most doubt.

“We’re just gonna come in and try to win every game, plain and simple,” Milbourne said. “All we have to do is come in and prepare to get wins. We really don’t need to change much about our game; when we play good, we’re a real good team, we’re real good competitors. That’s what we’re gonna focus on, just try to get wins in these last couple weeks.” mseligdbk@gmail.com

Terrapin women’s basketball guard Kristi Toliver and forward Marissa Coleman have seen their share of emotional Senior Night ceremonies.

Two years ago, the Terps honored guard Shay Doron, coach Brenda Frese’s first major recruit as Terp coach and the team’s inspirational leader.

Last season, forwards Laura Harper, the Most Outstanding Player of the 2006 final four, and Crystal Langhorne, the program’s all-time leading scorer, played their final regular season home games.

Against Boston College tonight, it’s Toliver and Coleman’s turn.

Though they’ve been through it before, the final two members of the 2006 national championship team know it’s going to be a poignant occasion.

“I was emotional last year, and that wasn’t even my Senior Night,” said Toliver, who added that Coleman was going to be the more emotional of the two. “I cried two years in a row, so I’m pretty sure this will make it three.”

Coleman agreed, though she did say that Toliver — usually the more reserved personality of the duo — wasn’t going to hold anything back, either.

“She keeps telling everybody that,” Coleman quipped. “I think Kristi is gonna shed some tears, too. Last year we tried to hold it together with the big group that left, but neither of us could. I don’t know how either of us could possibly hold it together [tonight].”

While the No. 5 Terps (23-4, 10-2 ACC) will play at Comcast Center later in the season as hosts of the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament, tonight’s contest will serve as a memorable moment for two of the program’s greatest players.

Coleman is the program’s second leading scorer and only the eighth player in ACC history to record at least 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. Toliver is the program’s all-time leader in assists and fourth on the scoring list.

Both players will have their jerseys raised to the Comcast Center rafters alongside those of Doron, Langhorne and Harper — the full starting five from the title team.

Frese, who was quite emotional herself after last year’s Senior Night overtime win against Florida State, said she now knows more of what to expect. Last season, Frese returned to the bench for the Florida State game within a week of giving birth to twins.

“I did guarantee to Marissa and KT, though, that I wouldn’t be

Marissa Coleman (right) and Kristi Toliver (left) have made their impacts on the Terrapin women’s basketball program since they were freshman starters on the 2006 national championship team. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

bawling like a baby like the last time,” Frese said. “That was hormones from six days post-pregnancy, so it will be a different tone to this one compared to last one.”

Still, it will be a special one. Coleman and Toliver were both critical freshmen pieces of that national championship team, and as their senior season winds down, they have the Terps in position for their first ACC regular season firstplace finish since 1989.

“I’m glad I’m not going out there by myself,” Toliver said.

“We came into this program together and I think Friday will just be a special moment for us to reflect on how far we’ve come.”

According to Coleman, the Terps still have more places to go.

The Cheltenham native known for her versatility and proficiency across all statistical categories made it known before the season her goal was to win the ACC regu-

lar season title, the ACC tournament crown and her second national championship.

After No. 11 Florida State’s loss to No. 22 Virginia on Tuesday, the Terps can complete the first leg of that task with a win against the Eagles tonight and a win at Miami (13-14, 2-10) on Sunday afternoon.

It’s clear from Coleman’s demeanor on Wednesday that she’s not going to let the events of Senior Night get in the way of that. The Eagles (18-9, 6-6) faced little defensive resistance from the Terps in the two teams’ previous meeting, a 85-81 Terp win in Chestnut Hill, Mass., on Feb. 9.

“We have a chance to do something special that hasn’t been done here in a long time,” Coleman said. “So, these are two important wins, and those come first, more than Senior Night. I’m not too sure anything is going to

Terps vs. Boston College Where: Comcast Center When: Tonight, 7 p.m.

TV: RSN be able to distract us. We’re on a mission.”

But even Coleman knows how special the night will be.

“It’s been a tough week, knowing it’s approaching, knowing it’s about to be the end,” Coleman said. “It’s definitely gonna be a great night. I’m just gonna try to enjoy it and have some fun.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

Duke offense has taken noticeable dip DUKE, from Page 8 in 2007, they matched the Terps’ output by themselves in a 14-7 loss.

Now, Duke must move on.

“They fill those roles,” Terp midfielder Jeremy Sieverts said. “It’s not the same players, but it’s a good Duke team.”

But so far, the Blue Devils have had trouble finding the net.

No doubt there is talent on the Blue Devil roster, but Duke (2-1) has yet to put together a convincing offensive performance in the early going.

Already they have been held below double digits in two of their first three games, including a 9-6 loss to No. 15 Harvard. Duke failed to reach the doubledigit plateau just twice all last season.

“They’re a young team trying to find their own identity also,” coach Dave Cottle said.

“They lost, I think I counted, seven guys playing for them in the pro league that played for them it seemed like the last 12 years,” he said, referring to the extra year of eligibility granted to Duke players from the 2006 team which had its season cut short by rape allegations.

Attackman Max Quinzani is one returnee whom opponents should be familiar with. The junior netted 54 goals last season, second most on the team behind Greer. But it remains to be seen how he will respond to being the focal point of opposing defenses.

Quinzani will have help from Ned Crotty, who had the team’s fourth-highest point total in 2008. The senior played midfield a year ago, but should see time at attack to provide an added scoring punch.

“They’ve lost some key guys, we all know that,” Terp midfielder Jeff Reynolds said. “But they still have lots of talent; they still have lots of goal scorers from last year. There are still

Jeff Reynolds and the Terps know Duke has lost a lot of talent with the departure of a vaunted senior class, including former Tewaaraton Trophy winner Matt Danowski. But Reynolds says “you can’t underestimate them.” JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

great players on that team; you can’t underestimate them because they’ve lost a lot of personnel.”

Any thought of taking the Blue Devils lightly has been further removed by the Terps’ last weekend’s loss to then-No. 8 Georgetown.

Even though Duke is missing some familiar names, the history and stakes of the game suggest it will be a dogfight. And midfielder Dan Groot added that, without the big names, the Terps will focus on improving solid team defense.

“Danowski and Greer were obviously fantastic players,” Groot said. “They got some guys — Quizani, Crotty — who are just as good. So it’s kind of the same, but maybe more of a team aspect. Rather than focusing on a couple guys you gotta focus on everyone, which is probably better for us anyways.

“It’s always intense,” Groot continued.

“Anything Duke-Maryland is ... we hate each other.” mkatzdbk@gmail.com

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Lacrosse up against very different Duke team

Keep ya head up Terps head to N.C. State with new confidence and serious implications

Losses of Danowski, Greer leave Blue Devils lacking on offense

BY MICHAEL KATZ

BY MARK SELIG

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Duke lacrosse bestowed a starstudded roster upon John Danowski when he left Hofstra to take over the embattled program in the summer of 2006. In his first two seasons, the coach took the group to the two NCAA final fours, advancing to the finals in 2007.

But if there is a downside to having the Division I all time leader in total points and the Division I all time leader in goals, Danowski is seeing it now.

Eventually, these players move on.

Such is the case for the No. 12 Blue Devils, who face tempered expectations this season. Duke is grappling with the reality of replacing threetime All-Americans Matt Danowski and Zach Greer along with the rest of a talented graduating class of fifthyear seniors.

The Terrapin men’s lacrosse team (2-1) faces Duke in the Konica Minolta Face Off Classic on Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

It’s the ACC opener for both teams.

In the last two meetings between these squads, the Duke duo of Danowski and Greer combined for 12 goals in two Blue Devil wins. And

Please See DUKE, Page 7

What a difference a month makes.

Back then, Terrapin men’s basketball coach Gary Williams had repeatedly said there was no difference in his mind between a 20-point defeat and a 40-point defeat.

But when entering Comcast Center’s auxiliary gym to address the media after an 11-point loss to No. 7 Duke on Wednesday night, the 20th-year Terp coach was full of pride and immediately went on the offensive, letting everybody know just how he felt.

“We have a darn good basketball team,” Williams said enthusiastically even while looking as tired as a prizefighter after 12 rounds. “We played really hard tonight; we played our hearts out. We didn’t get the

Please See WOLFPACK, Page 7

After fouling out Wednesday night, Greivis Vasquez gave the Terp faithful a sign of life with a half-raised fist. Even after losing to Duke, the Terps can still make the NCAA Tournament with a strong finish. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Women’s lacrosse has revenge on their mind with Duke visiting town Blue Devils were responsible for 2 of Terps’ 3 losses last year

BY KATE YANCHULIS Staff writer

Nine months ago, an upset loss to Duke ended the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team’s season. In this weekend’s rematch, the Terps have only one objective.

“Beat Duke,” midfielder Brandi Jones said. “Just beat Duke. And not even by a little bit. Just dominate Duke.”

The No. 5 Terps (2-0) have revenge on their minds heading into tomorrow’s noon game against the No. 2 Blue Devils (4-0), who are returning to College Park for the first time since their 9-7 win against the Terps in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.

Though the Terps have the slight edge in the all-time series against Duke, 9-8, they were swept by the Blue Devils last season.

Of the Terps’ three losses last year, Duke was responsible for two: a last-second 1413 defeat in Durham during the regular season and the postseason loss. The only other loss came in the ACC championship against Virginia, who the Terps beat in the regular season.

“Since I was a freshman last year, the only team I’ve never beaten is Duke,” Jones said. “So I’m ready to beat them now. I’m ready to beat them every time we play them.”

The Terps, still feeling the sting of the early postseason exit, have ratcheted up the intensity in this week’s practices. Coach Cathy Reese even kept the team for an extra half-hour of practice Thursday to prepare for the match.

“We bring a lot of aggression,” midfielder Amanda Spinnenweber said. “We’re just pumped all the time. It’s always a big, exciting game. I think we’re ready. We’re excited and really going to be intense for it.”

The Terps will have to be, because this game is their first chance to prove themselves against a ranked opponent.

Midfielder Caitlyn McFadden and the Terps were cut short of what was expected to be a better finish last year by Duke in the NCAA tournament. Tomorrow, they attempt revenge. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps vs. Duke Where: Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex When: Tomorrow, noon Radio: WMUCsports.com But to get a win, the Terps will need their speedy offense to build momentum early and not stall in the first half, as has happened in the first two games. That could be a challenge against Duke goalkeeper

Kim Imbesi, who had 13 saves against the Terps in last season’s upset and this year is averaging 7.25 saves a game.

In the backfield, the Terps will need to rely on their freshman keepers, Mary Jordan and Brittany Dipper, to fend off Duke’s high-powered offense, which is not unlike the Terps’.

“We’re just excited to get another opportunity to play them,” midfielder Caitlyn McFadden said. “Duke is always an awesome team, it’s always a huge rivalry and it’s always a great game, and we want to bring it back to the Terps and get a W.” kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

Terps vs. N.C. State Where: Raleigh, N.C. When: Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

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