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TERPS TOP DUKE, 79-72 WIN SETS OFF CELEBRATION IN COMCAST, RIOTING ON ROUTE 1

Terps’ forward Cliff Tucker makes his way through a raucous home crowd after students rushed the court following last night’s 79-72 win over Duke on Senior Night. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

For Vasquez, Hayes and Milbourne, win over Duke is a storybook ending

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Terps’ forward Landon Milbourne, a senior, jumps over Duke forward Kyle Singler to snag a rebound. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

As the final second of Greivis Vasquez’s home career expired, he threw his hands skyward.

The Terrapin men’s basketball senior got off two quick hops before being engulfed in a wave of gold-clad students.

Not even the bold Venezuelan could have dared to talk about such a sensational ending, a fitting regular season conclusion to a decorated Terp career.

But as No. 4 Duke trudged toward their Comcast Center locker room, the Terps bounced in celebration after completing their first unbeaten ACC home slate since 2002.

The No. 22 Terps knocked off the Blue Devils 79-72 last night, vaulting the red-hot home team into a first-place tie atop the ACC.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling,” said Vasquez, who struggled at times in his Comcast Center finale but still scored a team-high 20 points. “I’m just proud of my teammates, and I’m so thankful to be here enjoying this moment.”

After a back-and-forth first 18 minutes of the second half, the Terps (22-7, 12-3 ACC) closed on a 12-5 run to defeat Duke (25-5, 12-3) for the first time in seven tries.

Forward Jordan Williams’ putback gave the Terps a two-point lead with 1:37 to go, and Vasquez followed with an improbable circus shot. Duke, which missed five of its last six shots, never recovered.

The Terps used a balanced attack with four players in double figures to avenge a blowout loss on Feb. 13 at Cameron Indoor Stadium with their sixth straight win — but first punctuated with a full-scale court rushing.

“You couldn’t really ask for a better script than that,” said guard Eric Hayes, who participated in the pregame Senior Night ceremony with Vasquez, forward Landon Milbourne and player-turned-assistant strength and conditioning coach Jerome Burney.

The Terps, who closed the season 15-1 at home, seized momentum early behind a sellout crowd boosted by students who received “Maryland Gold Rush” T-shirts as part of a promotion. With a plethora of notable Terp figures in attendance, including all-time leading scorer Juan Dixon, the Terps jumped out to an early 102 advantage and led by as many as 14 points in the first half.

But the Blue Devils got hot to close the half, nailing three 3-pointers in the final 3:08 of the

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Police use pepper spray, horses in clash with students on Rt. 1

BY BEN SLIVNICK Senior staff writer

For the first time in a college generation, university students took to Route 1, took down street signs and rioted.

At 11:07 p.m., Greivis Vazquez hit a free throw to clinch the Terrapins’ first defeat of Duke after six consecutive losses in the series. At 11:10 p.m., rancorous, cheering students bellowing, “F--- Duke,” from downtown bars poured outside in a demonstration that built slowly from streetside shouting to the point where horse-mounted police in full riot gear could not clear Route 1 in a single sweep through the street.

Just before midnight, mounted horses descended on the thousands of students who mobbed Route 1, yelling, dancing and throwing possessions ranging from shoes to beer cans. The students at first taunted the police’s encroach, cheering, “Defense! Defense!” and “Let’s go Maryland,” as police sprayed pepper gas and a helicop-

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ter flew over head.

The mob scattered temporarily. When students returned to the streets, an armored vehicle and Prince George’s County Police paddy wagons rolled onto Route 1, and police started making arrests. It took nearly 20 minutes for police to clear the street. University Police spokesman Paul Dillon estimated the crowd on Route 1 exceeded 1,500 people.

Dillon said police made several arrests but could not specify how many. Both Dillon and Cpl. Mike Rodriguez, a spokesman for Prince George’s County Police, said no injuries had been reported.

“We were hopeful it wouldn’t happen, that they would come out and celebrate in another way, but we prepared for that case, and it did happen,” Dillon said. “Apparently, a regular season win over the No. 4 team allows thousands of people to come out and block roadways and start fires — and that’s disappointing, to say the least.”

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RIOT from page 1 For students, their first College Park riot was anything but a disappointment. Sophomore business major Kyle Bisciotti had heard of the university’s uproarious reputation before he sent in his college applications but said last night’s show of jubilation and destruction exceeded even the loftiest tales he heard of riots past as a high school student.

“It way exceeded my expectations,” he said. “I knew we’d be down here partying, but look at this place, we’re running a rampage through Route 1.”

Still, despite the enthusiasm of students charged with adrenaline and alcohol, last night’s Route 1 romp was mild compared to past riots. In 2001, after the Terrapin basketball team lost a Final Four matchup against Duke, students burnt couches and tore Ludwig Field’s soccer goals from the ground, carried them to Fraternity Row and lit them ablaze.

Late last night, one administra-

tor sought to downplay the scene on Route 1.

“I wouldn’t call tonight’s activities a riot,” Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement said at about 1:30 a.m. “We’ll see how the night plays out.”

Clement, who oversees the university’s Office of Student Conduct, reiterated the university’s policy of expulsion for any student caught at a riot. Dillon echoed Clement’s vigilant attitude with a stern warning.

“The message is if you’re going to be a part of a crowd like that, you’re going to be met with police, and you’re going to be arrested. And if you’re a student, you’re going to be referred the Office of Student Conduct for possible sanctions by the university,” Dillon said.

After the campus’ most recent riot in 2006, university officials tightened rioting punishments and charged seven students with student conduct violations.

All their charges were dropped or severely reduced, but at the time, officials vowed they sternly punish students involved in fu-

Sachs faces possible SGA impeachment Council liaison, former pres., charged with shaky attendance

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

SGA City Council Liaison Jonathan Sachs will face impeachment next week, as one legislator charged him with shirking meetings he is required to attend.

Sachs, who served as Student Government Association president last year, admitted he has only attended about one legislature meeting a month during his tenure as city council liaison, while SGA rules require him to attend two.

Citing this attendance record and missed meetings in an SGA committee, arts and humanities legislator Kenton Stalder motioned to impeach Sachs last night.

The legislature did not vote on Stalder’s motion after a group of legislators recommended to move the impeachment vote to next week in order to give Sachs a chance to respond to the accusations.

For his part, Sachs, who was not present at last night’s meeting, said he has attended nearly every College Park City Council meeting — another requirement of his job — and said when he misses SGA meetings, it is because he doesn’t have anything to report.

“I’ve always gone when there’s been something relevant to say,” he said. “My job is to be at city council meetings, and those are anywhere from four to five hours ever y Tuesday, and they’re ver y demanding.”

Sachs said Stalder did not address him about his concerns or inform him before his impeachment motion. Sachs called the motion “cowardly” and said Stalder has plotted his impeachment since he came into office.

“He’s made it clear to other people ... that this was his intention,” Sachs said. “I’m not surprised. ... This is a personal thing.”

Stalder acknowledged that he’s never spoken personally to Sachs, but he said others have.

“Concerns have been expressed before, not by me, but by other people, and they were not satisfied, so we moved forward,” he said. “He has been aware that this motion has been in the air for a long time.”

Of the 18 executive cabinet meetings the SGA has held so far this year, Sachs has attended three, Stalder said.

According to SGA rules, the city council liaison must attend all of these meetings.

The liaison is also required to attend the SGA’s weekly Department of Public Affairs and Department of Governmental Affairs meetings; Stalder said Sachs missed most of those meetings before being excused from those responsibilities last October.

SGA President Steve Glickman said he excused Sachs from those particular commitments but not from the others.

Glickman would not comment on Stalder’s motion but said he was aware of Sachs’ absences.

Leonardtown legislator Andre Beasley spoke out on Sachs’ behalf.

“He knows a lot more about the city than perhaps anyone in this room,” he said.

But Stalder remained steadfast in his motion.

“I know this is a hard vote to make; I know this is a very sticky issue, and it makes people uncomfortable ... but just imagine if any of us had this kind of record,” he said.

Sachs said that, in the end, fulfilling his responsibility has little to with his attendance record.

“I know what it is to be an advocate for the student body,” he said. “The ultimate goal of those requirements is that I’m fulfilling my responsibility, and I am.” aisaacs@umdbk.com

Craigslist exchange leads to North Campus robbery

BY DARREN BOTELHO Staff writer

University Police are searching for two men who allegedly robbed a non-university-affiliated male Tuesday night after selling him an iPhone.

The two men arranged to meet the victim, a 28-year-old Adelphi resident, at the ATM outside Ellicott Hall at about 8:22 p.m., after arranging a transaction on Craigslist. The victim handed one of the suspects the money for the phone, and he put it in his pocket.

Immediately afterward, one of the suspects punched the victim in the face, causing him to fall to the ground, and then removed the newly purchased iPhone and another iPhone from the victim’s pocket before fleeing toward La Plata Beach.

University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said the victim received a small cut to his lip but didn’t need any medical attention.

Three witnesses called 911 soon after the incident, Dillon said.

The victim and witnesses identified the two suspects as black males, 6-feet-tall, with athletic builds and wearing hooded sweatshirts.

Dillon said University Police are following up on leads, and when the suspects are discovered, they will be charged with robbery and assault. The suspects chose the meeting spot outside Ellicott Hall, so Dillon said there is a possibility the suspects are affiliated with the university.

A student was robbed between Harford and Frederick Halls exactly a week before this incident, but Dillon said police do not believe there is a connection.

“This is the first time we have dealt with this kind of thing,” Dillon said.“But this is the first time I can recall that people met on Craigslist and there was a robbery involved — it’s just not common.” botelho@umdbk.com

ture incidents.

The legacy of the university’s strict rules lingered over students before the rioting began in earnest last night, and after four years without such an outburst, expectations for the night were mixed.

Toward the end of last night’s basketball game, police cars and officers lingered in downtown College Park, but businesses remained open with their doors unlocked, and many of the first students who trickled outside after the game said they weren’t expecting a full blown riot.

It took more than half an hour after the game’s final buzzer before officials closed down Route 1, and as students chanted and set off fireworks during the early stage of the demonstration, many students said they weren’t expecting the mob-scene to escalate.

“After the riots when we won the national championship, they cracked down hardcore,” said Chetan Mehta, a senior physics major, at about 11:15 p.m., before students spilled onto Route 1.

Mehta, a statistics minor, predict-

ed a 33 percent chance of a riot.

“There are a lot of police out here, but also a damn lot of people are drunk, so you never know,” Mehta said at the time.

As hordes of students descended on the downtown area from Comcast Center, a critical mass swamped Route 1 between 11:30 and 11:45 p.m., prompting officials to close the street.

Jumping and cheering in unison, students amid the mosh ripped out street signs and crowd surfed, and at one point attempted to tip a bus as the driver smiled.

The students dispersed initially but then returned to the street before a second swoop pushed students onto Knox Road and into nearby parking lots.

During that push, sophomore psychology major Justin Hoff said police beat him with a night stick and broke his phone.

“They grabbed me by my arm,” he said. “They knocked me down and smacked me in the back of my neck.”

With the students expelled from Route 1, flanks of police held

Students crowd Route 1 to celebrate the Terps’ win over Duke last night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

their positions, arresting any student who approached. At about 12:24 a.m., police made a final push, forcing students out of the parking lots and onto the campus or residential neighborhoods.

As students fled, at least one officer near Montgomery Hall fired rubber bullets, but even that show of force did not contain the mayhem. Moments later, a group of students lit fire to a Duke shirt.

Watching as the shirt went up

in flames and smoldered on a nearby tree, Sam Kool, a sophomore criminology major, mused on students’ motivations.

“It’s basically the looking glass mirror,” Kool said. “People are just doing this because they’re expected to.”

Staff writers Nick Rhodes, Kristi Tousignant, Kyle Goon and Adele Hampton contributed to this report. bslivnick@umdbk.com

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Senate denies undergrads seat on grade-dispute committees Proposed amendment fails in heated debate, but Senate votes to improve other aspects of existing policy

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

In a close vote yesterday, the University Senate decided to deny undergraduates a seat on grade-dispute committees after a heated debate between students and faculty.

The senate was voting on an updated policy on arbitrary and capricious grading, which deals with situations in which a student thinks a professor has given them an unfair grade. For each dispute, a committee is created to question the instructor’s grading, but for cases involving undergraduates, no students have spots on the committees.

Graduate and undergraduate

students fiercely argued against the proposal, particularly after one professor suggested students couldn’t be impartial in the disputes, but their proposed amendment to add a student to the committees failed 47 to 32. Two other amendments aiming to make the policy more studentfriendly also failed.

While there was a dispute over student representation, the senate voted overwhelmingly, 62 to 14, to make general improvements to the policy.

University officials can now enforce the committee’s decisions — it was previously up to the professor’s discretion — and the university will now track the number and outcome

of grading disputes. Committees must also make decisions by the end of the semester the complaint is filed in, other than in exceptional cases.

Charles Delwiche, a biology professor who chairs the Academic Procedures and Standards Committee, which drafted the new policy, said the changes aimed to make a complex process as simple as possible.

“We all value the concept of shared governance,” Delwiche said. “But the work that the committee does is very complex, and having a student on the committee could further complicate it. If you start to create a committee that’s too large, with too many conflicting constituencies, you run the risk of breaking the structure of the committee.”

But Delwiche hit a nerve among students when he suggested undergraduates would serve more as advocates than as impartial judges, prompting seven students to respond, often harshly.

“This is a fundamental issue of fairness,” said arts and humanities undergraduate senator Kevin Ter vala.

“Students have continuously demonstrated they can

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ser ve as a non-biased member, not an advocate. I can’t imagine students vying one way or another.”

“Although the professor is being evaluated, so is the student,” added Jonathan Sachs, an undergraduate senator from the behavioral and social sciences college. “A student peer can understand why a student would think they’re being treated unfairly. I reject the idea that a student would serve as an advocate. Students are very capable of removing themselves from the situation.”

Sachs, a member of the powerful Senate Executive Committee, also questioned why there is graduate student representation on the committees for graduate students but undergraduates aren’t given the same privilege.

“There are two graduate students on the committee for arbitrary and capricious grading for graduate students,” he said. “Undergraduate students should also be represented.”

Graduate student senator Aaron Tobiason backed the undergraduates’ claims.

“This is an excellent opportunity for us, as a body, to confirm our principles of shared governance,” he said.

“The graduate school policy respects students to a far greater extent than this policy does.”

But faculty members wouldn’t budge and maintained the decision wasn’t about leaving students out of the process but about protecting the professor being examined.

“In this case, it’s a faculty member being judged,” said

Provost Nariman Farvardin sat in on the first University Senate meeting of the semester Wednesday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Martha Nell Smith, an English professor and member of the Academic Procedures and Standards committee. “We debated long and hard over this. A student’s presence could inhibit a professor’s input. It doesn’t come from not trusting the students. I really believe in student representation, and the faculty is very supportive of students. Faculty take grades very seriously, and we’re pretty tough on each other. We’d be tougher amongst ourselves.”

“It’s totally understandable why they would be upset,” Delwiche said. “From the perspective of the student, it looks like they’re being left out. Students can serve beautifully on committees, but that doesn’t

acknowledge the reality that there is a hierarchy of professors we have to deal with.”

However, students who spoke out at the meeting took the vote personally.

“I’m incredibly disappointed,” Ter vala said. “By voting to not put students on the committee, the majority of the senate is saying students can’t be trusted to make these decisions.”

Tervala said a student’s last option would be to directly appeal to university President Dan Mote, but no definitive plans have been made yet. The senate advises Mote, but he has only ignored one of their decisions in 12 years. redding@umdbk.com

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Stop and S.T.A.R.E.

The right choice

Student movements have a terrible life expectancy. One day, hundreds of students increases and an unfortunate reliance on big donors. But while student groups are mobilized for change. A few weeks later, no one remembers what the big deal have goals, they lack any true road map.

A classic example of this can be seen in S.T.A.R.E. One of the group’s major organwas. This inability to stay focused on an issue is inherent to student politics, and inability to follow things through has been the death sentence for many of these move- izers, Jazz Lewis, said the group wasn’t trying to “demonize” Provost Nariman Farments. It should come as no surprise the momentum that led 600 students to march vardin. Meanwhile, Malcolm Harris, another organizer, regularly referred to Farvardin as Darth Vardin in his Diamondback columns. This shows a lack of strategic on the Main Administration Building last November seems to have vanished.

Then, students were protesting the dismissal of Cordell Black from his post as asso- and tactical planning.

To achieve their goals, students must work both inside and ciate provost for equity and diversity. Today, students organized outside the system. Putting pressure on administrators with 600by Students Taking Action to Reclaim our Education, the same person marches is a great way to get a seat at the table, but congroup that organized last semester’s march, will protest again in Student movements need vincing administrators and bureaucrats, who are by nature slugunison with other students across the country. Their fight will not gish to change and only persuaded by statistics and facts, be for Black but for protesting the “attack” on public education to follow through on a sustained, developed and reasoned argument and conlaunched by administrators to make cuts and run universities protests with hard work. requires versation. The romanticized Marxism that intertwines itself with more like corporations. S.T.A.R.E. may again engage hundreds of many student movements is not something that has much sway students, but it’s difficult to see it going anywhere.

The fight will go on for a new generation of students. It’s embedded in the college in administrators’ daily task of keeping an underfunded public university afloat.

The methods we are endorsing are boring, hard and may not lead to immediate mindset to fight The Man. And therein lies the problem: The administration is not automatically the bogeyman. Officials at universities nationally and at this university are accomplishment. But they can work. It took three years of lobbying by the Student overpaid and often deny students their right to influence how the university is run. But Government Association and others for legislation to lower the cost of textbooks to the administration has an advantage: permanence. It will not cease to exist. The faces pass, but it did — over the objections of the University System of Maryland. The bill in it and its policies may change, but there will always be people over the dreaded age was not perfect, but it improved the status quo.

When students at this university and at others across the country walk out of class of 30 looking out the windows of the administration building down at protesters.

Picketing and bullhorns have their roles — they attract TV cameras, excite today and march to reclaim public education, they should walk with pride for standing potential volunteers and shift public attention. But if student power groups ulti- up for something they believe in. But when the march ends, the real work begins. It mately wish to accomplish anything of substantial merit, fighting The Man will only may sound tainted or elitist, but legislation is not passed and policy is not made on the steps of great buildings or the streets in front of them. It is done in the offices inside. get them so far. They must also use The Man. If student groups wish to carry on the momentum they’ve shown they can conThese groups are filled with passionate and intelligent students. No one thinks they don’t believe in what they’re fighting for. And the university and public higher jure and achieve their goals, they must pick a destination and a road on which to education is going through troubling times due to state budget cuts, tuition reach them. After all, no one can march forever.

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Editorial cartoon: Jenna Brager

Budget crisis: California dreaming

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he news coming out of California is sobering.

Fifty years after California passed the “Master Plan for Higher Education,” promising free higher education to all in-state residents, a generation of students will witness the state’s public higher education system crumble around them.

Costs borne by students and their families have exploded. Academic and student services have been cut, and thousands have been simply turned away as enrollments are slashed and the admissions process becomes more competitive.

In the wake of these distressing and depressing conditions, a coalition led by students, faculty and staff has assembled in an attempt to actively resist. Holding on to no formal lever of power, the success of this unlikely alliance will be measured by the attention it brings to the rotten state of affairs in California’s higher education system. It is a system that has forsaken accessibility, crucified affordability and

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VERGHESE failed to demonstrate the long-term economic and social value of higher education, a system that continues to cling to dated ideas, refuses to innovate and sees itself losing its global competitive advantage.

California’s problems may, at first, seem irrelevant to us here in this state.

Gov. Martin O’Malley has advocated for higher education. Tuition was frozen for four consecutive years, and student financial assistance increased; the state’s first dedicated funding source for higher education was established, and significant investments were made in community colleges. The reward for this unwavering support has been a consistent rise in the rankings of public colleges and universities and national

recognition for the achievements of faculty, students and administrators.

Even in the midst of a stark budget crisis, support from Annapolis has been strong. The projected tuition increase could be as little as 3 percent for in-state residents, and legislation to limit future increases and provide a permanent reserve fund for higher education will likely earn majority approval in the Maryland General Assembly.

But we cannot become complacent.

Our successes are dangerously fragile and can be overturned at the ballot box in November. Former Gov. Robert Ehrlich will undoubtedly challenge O’Malley, and students should fear the prospect. Maryland Republicans released a budget plan that specifically cut higher education and eliminated 1,000 jobs in the University System of Maryland.

Student leadership has been disastrous. The inability of the Student Government Association to decide its position on O’Malley’s budget is embarrassing and a one-night photo oppor-

tunity in Annapolis will not correct the perception that student leaders are disconnected and ineffective. SGA President Steve Glickman may think the Higher Education Investment Fund is the snake oil solution to our higher education conundrum, but it represents only a small part of a comprehensive funding model that may cost the state more than $800 million if fully implemented.

Much more work needs to be done, not only to ensure students have a voice when decisions are made but also are seen as partners in promoting accountability, dealing with entrenched problems such as minority graduate rates and rethinking education — be it in the form of three-year degrees or a new modern liberal arts curriculum.

Higher education is on the verge of fundamental change. It is our responsibility to be involved and engaged.

Matt Verghese is a graduate student in public policy. He can be reached at verghese@umdbk.com.

Activists: The strength of students

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n the last year or so, these columns of mine have gained me something of a reputation. My readers, though few and far between, know well my aversion to making any sort of substantive political or social statement. Well, my friends, don’t fear. The self-deprecating goofball drunkard you’ve all come to love is surely soon to return, but just for a minute, let’s get real.

During our last columnist meeting (and yes, we do actually get together to attempt to put some thought into these things, for anyone who is justifiably surprised), I was lamenting the fact that this week I really had no Underdog(s) in mind. Usually when that is the case, I wait until the last minute and then reach into my ass and slap something silly together, but this week, fellow columnist Malcolm Harris offered up a little help. Let’s be honest, in terms of The Diamondback’s opinion columnists,

Malcolm vs. me is roughly the equivalent of Che Guevara vs. Tommy Chong, but on occasion I can’t help but try to close the gap.

What Malcolm mentioned to me had to do with the scheduled statewide student protest that is going on in California today. I’ll be honest, when he first mentioned it, I really had no idea what the hell he was talking about other than the fact that I had heard California students were pissed off about tuition hikes. Well, that is true, but it is only the beginning of the shitstorm of financial and social injustices laid out on the California public education program over the recent months. Along with what amounts to a 32 percent hike in tuition, California schools have seen massive budget cuts, widespread faculty layoffs and even resegregation of public education programs. In response to these policies, a student organization in the University of California system has

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DIMARCO organized a Day of Action and Strike in Defense of Public Education. The protest has spread statewide and is scheduled to hold events on at least 23 campuses across California.

I’m not here to indict the government or to call upon my fellow Americans for action, but I am here to commend some really brave students who are willing to do just that. Sure, some of them are likely just feeling a nostalgia for the good old days of the Berkeley hippies (that their parents told them about when they were sharing a joint), but the fact of the matter is these students are a rare breed.

Tuition costs are mounting across

the country, and in past generations, we would have seen resistance everywhere, but the truth is the majority of our generation is not willing to take action. Most of us — namely people like me — are going to watch these prices rise and cuts keep mounting and not do a damn thing but grumble to our friends and pledge to vote for someone who will change it, but we aren’t going to flex any muscles — that’s for sure.

Now, I’m writing this March 2, so by the time you read this, California may already have been taken over by student revolutionaries. More likely, they will already have started being arrested, but either way, in a time when the American youth has gone a little soft, I can’t help but admire these students’ giant, giant balls.

Mike DiMarco is a senior English major.

He can be reached at dimarco@umdbk.com.

NATALIA CUADRA-SAEZ

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n response to Friday’s staff editorial, I would like to defend the SGA’s choice to take a stance, “on principle, against using tuition increases to compensate for demonstrably insufficient state funding” (in the language of Sunday’s resolution).

The editorial argues the Student Government Association should “rise above public opinion and face reality” and “support the unpopular tuition hike because it is the only feasible option.” First of all, our choice to take a symbolic stance against a 3percent tuition increase was not based primarily on public opinion but on the realities of the lives of average students, as opposed to the realities in Annapolis. Although we did consider student views, our primary concern was to most genuinely represent the students’ best interests, especially for those who would be affected by any increase in tuition.

We were not particularly concerned with being popular.

Now, even if the tuition increase is inevitable, the SGA has no obligation to support or encourage such a measure. Is it really a good idea to support something simply because, realistically, we know it will happen?

Of course, we realize state legislators cannot add to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget and get rid of the tuition increase. And, of course, we are also aware this university needs more funds. But the SGA is not a lawmaking body, despite the editorial’s illogical comparisons of the SGA to Congress. In reality, the SGA is an organization that advocates on behalf of students.

And in this case, we believe additional funds for this public university should not come from an increase in tuition-- but from an increase in “the proportion of state funding of [University System of Maryland] to levels accordant with our peer institutions in future budget proposals” (also in the language of Sunday’s resolution). Although we know this adjustment cannot happen this year, we owe it to our constituents to take a position that truly reflects students’ best interests. The editorial, however, made it seem as though there are only two options: to cut programs or to charge students more. There are many more options.

In order to give you a better understanding of the reasoning behind the SGA’s decision, here are some statistics that were used in the resolution and helped guide our discussions and voting decisions: For the university in 2008, 44 percent of graduating students were left with an average debt of $20,091. In 1991, the state accounted for 45.12 percent of the university’s total revenue, while tuition accounted for 18.64 percent of total revenue. In 2009, state funds accounted for 26.19 percent of total revenue, while tuition and fees accounted for 26.53 percent of total revenue. On top of those figures, the university is funded by the state at $3,600 per student below the average of our five peer institutions.

Do you really want the SGA to take a short-sighted stance on this issue and openly support this trend?

At the end of the day, state lawmakers will do what they have to do, hopefully taking into consideration student interests as well as many other factors.

And at the end of the day, I hope the SGA will do what it has to, to advocate for students based not on what is realistic in Annapolis, but on what matters to the students in at this university.

Natalia Cuadra-Saez is the SGA's North Hill Legislator. She can be reached at ncuadra@umd.edu.

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REVIEW | ALICE IN WONDERLAND

BY MAY WILDMAN Staff writer

After much hype, the film that brings two legends together is finally here.

Alice in Wonderland is a cult classic that encouraged kids to use their imagination and think outside the box. Tim Burton is a director famous for churning out eccentric films such as Edward Scissorhands, Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Burton’s Alice in Wonderland for Disney brings the two together in an epic fusion of creativity.

Lewis Carroll wrote the book that started all the Alice shenanigans in 1865, and it was followed by the 1951 Disney picture that was actually a combination of Carroll’s Alice’s Adven-

tures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. It was a weird kids’ film that involved singing flowers, a lot of Alice getting lost in the woods and, of course, the grinning Cheshire Cat that probably contributed to a lot of nightmares.

The animated film kind of went on to be a stoner classic; however, people who are planning to watch the Burton version under the herbal influence may be a little disappointed. There is much less of a trippy element to this film. Burton brings more of a structured plot and stunning visuals in his interpretation, as well as clever humor.

Set in Victorian-era England, this Alice in Wonderland is different from the others in that Alice is a teenager, played by Mia Wasikowska (Amelia). Her wan-

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by Alice and sends a search party out for her.

Most of the animated film’s beloved creatures are represented. Sadly, though, they don’t seem to be as developed and are kind of annoying.

On the other hand, the human characters of the Burton film could not be better represented.

The Red Queen, with her big head and irritable demeanor, is more funny than scary. Depp, with his orange hair and eyes that change with his mood, plays a

derings in Wonderland come at a time when she is poised to get engaged to a lord, a union that would give her family much pride. But he’s kind of a prick and it is obvious Alice would never be happy with him.

After the lord proposes to her (in a pressuring public situation, of course), she runs away and falls into a hole and the whole reverie begins.

She meets the White Rabbit and Tweedledum and Tweedledee, who surprisingly turn out to be quite sweet despite their initial sinister appearances, and she also finds out she is fated to defeat a freaky-looking creature called a Jabberwocky. Eventually, she stumbles upon the notorious tea party, and we are introduced to Johnny Depp (Public Enemies) as the Mad Hatter.

pretty convincing crazy person.

As the White Queen, Anne Hathaway’s (Valentine’s Day) face is an aesthetically pleasing juxtaposition of black and white, with her pale skin, black eyebrows and dark crimson lips.

The best part about the film is the imagery. Alice mainly divides her time between the two castles of the Red Queen and the White Queen, both of whom were starkly different in visualization. The Red Queen’s castle was grand and rather intimidating. The White Queen’s was a beauty to behold, with a marble entranceway, cherry blossom trees and waterfalls.

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The freshman big man was a nonfactor in the first meeting between these teams. This time? He had 15 points, 11 rebounds, 3 blocks and one SportsCenter-worthy slam.

HELP FOR THE BIG THREE Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler, Duke’s dominate trio, combined to score 53 of the Blue Devils’ 72 points.

ATMOSPHERE The game lived up the its national billing. Area celebrities and former Terps filled Comcast Center, and a raucous student section quickly stormed the court after the game.

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NO. 22 TERRAPINS (22-7, 12-3 ACC) PLAYER MIN FG FT Vasquez 32 6-13 6-6 Hayes 31 6-8 0-0 Mosley 33 3-10 4-4 Milbourne 18 2-5 0-0 Williams 34 4-9 7-9 Tucker 11 2-5 0-0 Bowie 14 4-4 0-0 Gregory 20 1-2 0-0 Padgett 5 0-0 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 28-56 17-19

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ATTENDANCE–– 17,950 (17,950).

half as part of a 12-2 run that left the Terps nursing a two-point lead at intermission.

Duke took its first lead of the game on a 3-pointer from guard Jon Scheyer on the second half’s first possession, but both offenses grew stagnant soon after.

The shooter-friendly first half morphed into a physical second half. The Terps showed more toughness inside than they did when they got beat on the boards in the earlier loss at Duke.

This time, the Terps outrebounded the bigger Blue Devils, 36-35.

“There was a lot of bodies flying around, people diving on the ground, but we were prepared for that,” said Milbourne, who finished with five points after struggling with first-half foul trouble.

“We knew it was going to be that kind of game, and we just competed with them.”

“It was two really good teams fighting each other,” coach Gary Williams added.

And down the stretch, Vasquez led the surge, further cementing his case for ACC Player of the Year. In a game broadcast on national television in his homeland, Vasquez shook off a slow start and five turnovers to lift the team when they needed it most.

The 6-foot-6 guard scored 13 points in the second half. That total included an acrobatic layup falling away from the basket in the final minute that should go down as one of his more memorable Comcast Center highlights.

FANS from page 8 Hayes and sort of graduating with them,” senior marketing major M.J. Kurs-Laski said. “It’s exciting to be here.

“It’s the one thing that everybody on campus — no matter what program they’re in, what major, where they’re from — everybody shares

“That’s the last time I’ll ever be in the middle of a rushed floor like that. I tried to stay out there as long as I could because it just felt good.”

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“I made it,” said Vasquez, who followed up the play by blocking Scheyer’s lay-up attempt on the other end. “I’ll take the credit, but I was going to take the hit if I woulda missed it. I was gonna go for it.”

With the win, the Terps can clinch at least a share of the ACC regular season crown by scoring a road victory at Virginia in Saturday’s regular season finale or with a Duke loss in their last regular season game against North Carolina. And they continued to pick up steam as they march toward their third NCAA Tournament appearance in four years.

Those are the longer term effects. But in the immediate minutes after the game, the Terps had a brief chance to enjoy the euphoria of gutting out one of the biggest home games in recent seasons.

“That’s the last time I’ll ever be in the middle of a rushed floor like that,” Milbourne said. “I tried to stay out there as long as I could because it just felt good.” edetweiler@umdbk.com

this Terps spirit.”

That spirit was in full effect from the moment Group 1 student ticket holders flooded the lower bowl.

Posters were raised. Venezuela and Maryland flags were waved.

Cheers rang out with a full line left in the national anthem.

By tip-off, the crowd had worked itself into a frothing frenzy.

The crowd bobbed up and down to Zombie Nation, mirror-

SCHIMMEL from page 8 do that for 40 minutes,” coach Gary Williams said, “but you’re not.”

The Blue Devils switched to a zone defense that curbed the Terps’ momentum, and they slowly made their run.

They took their first lead of the game on Scheyer’s 3-pointer on the first shot of the second half, and under normal circumstances it might have seemed as if Duke was going to be too much to handle.

But last night was different, and through it all, you had the feeling whatever Duke did ultimately wasn’t going to matter.

As long as the Terps gave themselves a chance, they were going to pull this one out.

“Everybody just stayed tough,” Gary Williams said. “We wouldn’t let them get away from us.”

It might have been their destiny, but the Terps still had to earn it.

When things started to turn on them, just about every player in the Terps’ rotation stepped up and made a play.

Bowie was tremendous on both ends of the court, playing with energy on defense and running the break efficiently the other way.

Jordan Williams was simply a beast inside, not only limiting the Blue Devils’ frontline that he struggled to contain in the teams’ first meeting but continually going strong to the hoop and getting himself to the free throw line.

And when it came down to the

ing Vasquez, the conductor, at center court.

Forty minutes of basketball later, those same fans bobbed up and down on the court alongside the team. It was one last party at Comcast Center.

“It’s always a great feeling,” Eric Hayes said. “It’s happened a couple times since I’ve been here. It’s always great to see the fans and the support that they had for us.

Greivis Vasquez shoots over Duke guard Nolan Smith in yesterday night’s victory over Duke. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

end, there was Vasquez, demanding the ball with the game on the line.

His off-balance runner that sealed the win in the final minute was the exact type of moment that inspires these feelings of invincibility.

The Terps are not always the most talented team on the court, but they are playing with a confidence and a drive that make these wins inevitable.

Last night, nothing was going to stop them. schimmel@umdbk.com

“They were on their A-game today.”

One last memory made on everyone’s home court. It’s something these fans will keep with them. Well, at least until next year.

“It won’t be the same next year,” Cohen said. “But we’re definitely going to have to try and sneak down to the student section.” mkatz@umdbk.com

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FOND FAREWELL Senior students take in their final game with mixed emotions

BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer

The lights went down and the volume went up. The Comcast Center crowd cheered one last time in salute and appreciation of seniors Greivis Vasquez, Landon Milbourne and Eric Hayes. But for the seniors in the stands, the raucous ovation served as their own sendoff, too.

This was the last home game for these seniors. The visiting Blue Devils and high stakes just provided the tassels on the graduation cap.

“It’s very, very bittersweet,” senior sociology major Gabrielle Cohen said while sitting on a newspaper on the sidewalk outside of Comcast Center, where she’d been for more than an hour. “I’m not excited to leave.”

While the senior students are still here, their farewell could not be grander.

Hated rival Duke in town?

Check. An ACC regular season title on the line? Check. Oh, and ESPN, starring sideline reporter Erin Andrews, was there to document the proceedings. In all, there was more hoopla than Vasquez could shake his shoulders at.

And so throngs of students waited in the dreary weather, their sense of anticipation hiding any discomfort. The seniors in the crowd hoped their last seat at Comcast Center would be front and center for one more classic contest.

“I’ve never been out here this early, but this is the biggest game of my four years,” said senior engineering major Kevin Buckley, who arrived at 2:40 p.m., more than six hours before tip-off. He was still several hundred people away from the front of the line.

Circumstances aside, this would always be a special moment. The senior students still remembered entering the building for the first time, along with four years of growing pains and memories shared with friends and peers.

“It’s been exciting seeing the progression of Vasquez, Milbourne and

see FANS, page 7

Greivis Vasquez reacts to the on-court celebration after the No. 22 Terps’ 79-72 win against No. 4 Duke last night. Vasquez scored 20 points in his final game at Comcast Center. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Their time, their game GREG

SCHIMMEL

T Fans cheer the Terps on during the second half of last night’s game. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

he Terrapin men’s basketball team was not going to lose this game. Sorry. No way. Not happening.

Not after guards Greivis Vasquez and Eric Hayes and forward Landon Milbourne held their framed jerseys over their heads in a goosebumpinducing Senior Night ceremony before the game.

Not in front of the best crowd Comcast Center has ever seen, with thousands of gold-clad students creating a home-court advantage to rival any in the country.

Not with Vasquez leading the way against Duke, not with forward Jordan Williams becoming a primetime

player before our eyes and not with guard Adrian Bowie playing his best game of the year off the bench.

Duke might have made them work for it — and watching a 14-point lead disappear couldn’t have been fun — but the Terps simply were not going to let their biggest rival come in here last night and ruin the festivities.

This was their night, and they were going to find a way to get it done.

The Terps’ 79-72 win was virtually inevitable.

“Unbelievable. Unbelievable,” Vasquez said. “Duke is a great team, great coach, great players.

Just to win like that means the whole world for us.”

The crowds at Comcast Center have been tremendous all season, but the atmosphere in the building last night was truly something special.

The way the place was literally shaking as the opening tip

approached, you could sense the Terps’ fast start coming.

It didn’t matter which team had the better record. It didn’t matter which team had been receiving more national respect. It didn’t even matter which team had won the last six games of the head-to-head series.

Last night belonged to the Terps.

They opened the game on a 10-2 run, and the usually unflappable Blue Devils looked rattled in missing seven of their first eight shots.

As players and fans alike started to sense what was happening, the Terps kept piling it on.

After Williams stuck his knee into Duke guard Jon Scheyer’s chest to draw a foul on a vicious fast-break dunk, the lead stayed in the double digits for most of the first half.

“You’d like to think you’re going to

see SCHIMMEL, page 7

Sliding Terps face Tar Heels in dire need of a win ACC Tourney starts today with Terps seeking positive momentum

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

The Terrapin women’s basketball team was enjoying greatness and expecting more of it when it headed to Greensboro, N.C., for last year’s ACC Tournament.

As the ACC regular season champions, the Terps arrived last March as the No. 1 seed and prohibitive favorite to earn their second piece of league hardware. A long weekend and three wins later, they did.

This season’s team arrived in Greensboro on Tuesday under different circumstances. While last season’s ACC Tournament march perfectly capped an already-fulfilling regular season, a run this time around for the No. 9 seed Terps could make up for an underwhelming regular season

and bump the Terps into the NCAA Tournament for the seventh straight year.

“I’m excited about wiping the slate clean,” said coach Brenda Frese, whose Terps face No. 8 seed North Carolina this afternoon. “We’re coming in as defending ACC champions.”

As has been the case all season, though, the Terps aren’t coming in with the same pieces.

In the Terps’ tournament run last year, the team averaged 86 points in wins over Wake Forest, North Carolina and Duke, breaking 90 points in the final two games. Now-graduated stars Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver totaled 133 of those points — more than half of the team’s production — and combined for an average of more than 44 points per game.

This season, the Terps have yet to pass the 90-point plateau, and two players have combined for at least 44 in a single game only once all season.

“When you lose Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver, there’s only one way to go, really,” Tar Heels coach Sylvia Hatchell said.

With nine freshmen and sophomores on the Terps’ active roster and the loss of four starters from last season’s Elite 8 team, the drop-off hasn’t been too surprising.

Rather, it’s the Terps’ seasonlong inconsistency that’s been vexing. After two wins against Wake Forest and Clemson and an impressive showing in a loss at then-No. 7 Duke on Feb. 21, the Terps’ youngsters appeared to have finally come of age and to the brink of an NCAA Tournament invitation.

But after a crushing road loss to Boston College a week ago and a forgettable Senior Day thrash-

ing by then-No. 9 Florida State on Sunday, the Terps are back on the bubble.

If the Terps (18-11, 5-9 ACC) are to advance to the NCAA Tournament, they’ll likely need to put together two wins in two days against two teams they’re winless against. The Terps fell to thenNo. 10 North Carolina, 75-64, in January, and are 0-2 against the Blue Devils.

“There are a lot of teams that have to put some wins together to get to post-season play,” Frese said. “I think, like I’ve told the team, you control your own destiny, and we’ve had that all season long. As winners and as competitors, we want to go out and win every game that we can.

“Any team that comes through the tournament this year is going to be ready to play,” Frese added, “and it is going to be full of surprises.” shaffer@umdbk.com

Now Leasing Center Lynetta Kizer, shown during Sunday’s loss to Florida State, and the Terps face a must-win situation in today’s ACC Tournament game. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK College Park’s Premier Student Housing Destination

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