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Vasquez, Williams win ACC awards Star player and coach earn conference’s top individual honors yesterday

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Guard Greivis Vasquez won the ACC Player of the Year award yesterday, becoming the first Terp to do so since Juan Dixon did so in 2002.

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On a day when he knew the ACC was announcing the winner of its highest individual men’s basketball honor, Greivis Vasquez spent part of his morning talking to youngsters at nearby Hollywood Elementary School with his cell phone turned off.

The Terrapin guard did not want to be bothered with calls and questions as he waited for the news to break, so he arranged to visit the College Park grade school yester-

day to sign autographs, pose for pictures and visit with some of his youngest fans.

When Vasquez was finished, he had more than 40 congratulator y text messages waiting for him, a clear indication of what he had missed.

Vasquez became the fifth player in Terps history to be named the ACC Player of the Year, garnering 39 of 53 votes to handily win the award over Duke guard Jon Scheyer. The Venezuelan became

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Top leaders, Governor back legislation to cap tuition

BY CARRIE WELLS Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — A bill that would cover the cost of future tuition increases got a boost last week from the governor and the top two members of the Maryland General Assembly, giving hope to supporters that it’ll pass by the end of the legislative session in April.

At a Friday press conference, Gov. Martin O’Malley and others touted the Tuition Stabilization Trust Account bill as essential to keeping tuition costs down. The governor’s budget includes a 3 percent tuition increase for university system institutions next year.

“By providing additional stabilization guarantees for tuition in the future, families can better prepare for the costs of higher education, preventing the types of peaks and valleys that volatile economic times can create,” O’Malley said.

With O’Malley, Speaker of the House Michael Busch (D-Anne Arundel) and Senate President Mike Miller (D-Calvert and Prince George’s) attempting to rally support, the bill should have a better chance of survival, said Sarah Elfreth, the student representative on the university system’s Board of Regents. But a January recommendation from the Department of Legislative Services that the bill be abandoned “didn’t help,” she said.

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Riot is latest controversy for county police

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BY ADELE HAMPTON Staff writer

Caddi Golia tries to ignore the stares when she walks down the sidewalks of Washington with her boyfriend.

Holding hands and smiling at each other, they look like any other couple.

Except for one clear difference: She’s black and he’s white.

Mixed-race couples have been popping up in bigname movies such as Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself and Rick Famuyiwa’s Our Family Wedding. Still, students like Golia and her boyfriend Jake Reed still think their relationship is viewed as anything but mainstream. For many mixed-race couples at this university, the issue isn’t their relationships being tolerated — it’s their relationships being accepted.

“It can get awkward,” said Golia, a junior public health major. “I don’t think [my boyfriend] notices, but I do and

Department has history of using excessive force

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

For many years, the Prince George’s County Police Department had a hard-nosed image: Act first, ask questions later.

And while police officials largely believe they have been able to shake the stigma, their actions during a riot on Route 1 following the Terps’ defeat of Duke Wednesday night have reinforced a reputation driven by a history of federal condemnation and heavy-handed tactics. After the riot, student complaints about brutality were widespread, and videos of the night broadcast on local and national television have only furthered students’ perception that police used excessive force. A hastily-planned protest Thursday drew 35 students condemning police actions.

But Prince George’s County Police chief spokesman Maj. Andy Ellis had a different take: He thinks students and citizens alike were encouraged by the department’s show of force in preventing further damage.

“The police have a job to do and people understand that there can’t be unmitigated disorder where streets are shut down,” Ellis said. “I think the majority of the student body understands that.

The students at the University of Maryland don’t want their university to be known as a place where people go out in the streets and cause damage after basketball games.”

But some students caught up in the riot insist they didn’t participate in the mayhem. They said they were trying to get to downtown restaurants and bars or were walking home when they unwittingly wandered into the mob scene.

One of the 23 university students arrested at the riot, who wished to remain anonymous, said he

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Tolerance is growing, but mixed-race couples say society can be slow to accept them

Interracial couples Caddi Golia and Jake Reed (top) and Bethany Jackson and Gregory Joseph (bottom) say their relationships can still draw stares on the street. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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A poet unafraid of power Outspoken legislator Stalder pushing for Sachs’ impeachment

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

Kenton Stalder, shown last semester, is moving to impeach SGA City Council Liaison Jonathan Sachs. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Kenton Stalder is a poet first, politician second.

Although he’s spearheading a controversial effort to impeach former Student Government Association President Jonathan Sachs from his position as city council liaison for shirking required meetings, it’s when Stalder talks about being in TerPoets that his face lights up — he even once took a first date to a poetry reading.

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loved it so much that I stayed,” he said. “And I was like, ‘Well, if you don’t like this, then it’s not going to work out anyway.’”

At first, Stalder, a 27-year-old senior English major, didn’t think the relationship between him and politics would work out either. Stalder, now the SGA Arts and Humanities legislator, said he was content last year when he was the president of the English Undergraduate Association and serving on TerPoets executive board.

“Those things were more important to me than running for student government,” Stalder said.

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It was only after months of nagging from student activist and Diamondback columnist Malcolm Harris, who ran for student body president on the Student Power Party ticket last year, that Stalder was convinced to run for the legislative seat. Stalder finally agreed — two days before the deadline.

As one of the few Student Power Party members who is still in the organization, Stalder has taken it upon himself to advance the party’s radical reputation.

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REPUTATION from page 1 was on his way to a fundraiser at Santa Fe Cafe when police stopped him and his friends near 7-Eleven and told them to turn around.

As the group walked back toward the campus, a police officer pushed the student in the back, prompting him to ask the officer what he did wrong. Without warning, the student said, he was handcuffed and led into a SWAT car. He said police drove him to Ritchie Coliseum, where other officers taunted him. “‘You better know how to fight because you’re going to be spending the night in Upper Marlboro jail,’ they said,” the student alleged. “They asked which ones of us were students because we were going to be expelled.”

The student also said some handcuffed students next to him asked to go to the bathroom and were told they could “piss their pants.”

“They were trying to intimidate us,” he added. “I don’t really know what their motive was.”

At the end of the night, the students were issued tickets and sent home. The student said the incident has shaken his faith in the area’s police force, prompting him to go home last weekend.

“I have a hard time respecting them at this point,” he admitted.

But Ellis insisted students’ perception of brutality wasn’t based in reality.

“Certainly, if there are concerns in the community about the actions of police officers we want to hear about it,” he said. “But when you look at excessive force complaints, across the board they’re down from last year and also our crime is at the lowest it’s been in 35 years.”

STALDER from page 1 sense that he says what’s on his mind,” said North Hill legislator Natalia Cuadra-Saez, who also ran on the Student Power Party ticket. “He also is outspoken in the sense that he speaks up and does what he thinks is right.”

While Sachs and others have called Stalder’s move to impeach him a personal attack, CuadraSaez said Stalder’s decision falls in line with the legislator’s principled track record, which includes speaking out last year after a state senator threatened to cut the university budget over the showing of a pornographic movie, posting the university’s budget online and arguing against a tuition increase.

“Kenton made this move to impeach based on the bylaws and based on the rules. ... it’s as simple as that,” she said. “He doesn’t do things to play politics.”

But Sachs has a harsher take on the situation and said Stalder — who he has had little interaction with — has been determined to attack him.

“I know he's been whispering to a lot of people that he didn't particularly care for me, which is his right,” he said. “Numerous legislators have come up to me saying, ‘Kenton really has it out for you,’ and this was months ago— we're talking even the summer.”

“It’s not shocking,” he added.

Student reports of excessive police force after last Wednesday’s riot echo complaints lodged against the Prince George’s County Police Department for years. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

If investigations into police conduct find that student complaints are justified, they would be far from the first levied against county police. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a formal complaint against the department alleging a history of excessive force. The result was an agreement in which police pledged to adopt new standards limiting the use of dogs and pepper spray. Police used pepper spray and pepper pellets numerous times Wednesday night.

The agreement said the police would “reinforce the prohibition against using [pepper] spray in crowded areas,” “provide that [pepper] spray may be used only when verbal commands and other techniques that do not require the use of force would be ineffective…” and “require, that unless it would present a danger to the officers or others, a verbal warning to the subject must be issued prior to use.”

“When we talk about the use of pepper spray in confined areas, we’re talking about interior areas,” Ellis said. “The use of [pepper] spray during a civil disturbance, when used properly, is an accepted practice because it

can lessen injuries both to protesters or people involved as well as officers.”

Ellis defended police actions further, saying they follow protocol.

“Our standard warning to the crowd over the PA system would be to clear the street,” he said.

“Generally, the announcement of the use of [pepper] spray would be used directly before the use of the spray.”

According to police bylaws, an investigation is made any time a non-lethal weapon is discharged.

“The good thing about the justice system is that each person who’s charged can make their own case and explain their particular circumstances,” Ellis said.

In July 2008, police executed a search warrant at the home of Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo, shooting two of his dogs and amassing thousands of dollars of damages to his home during the raid. Calvo had picked up a package, which was under surveillance by police, addressed to his wife that contained marijuana. Calvo was cleared of any wrongdoing.

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”I just can't really understand how he's pursuing it without ever talking to me.”

Stalder was born and raised in South Dakota, about an hour outside the Native American reservation his Lakota-Sioux grandmother grew up on. With a GPA skirting a C average and a family of miners and roofers, Stalder said he “wasn’t the college profile.”

So, he enlisted in the military two days after graduating high school. Stalder’s nearly nine-year stint in the U.S. Air Force brought him to Afghanistan twice for a total of 11 months and to the Maryland National Guard in Baltimore for the past three years. He’s due to be discharged in two months.

“I am 27 but I act like I’m 12, so people put me in the middle,” he said.

But Harris, a senior English major, gives Stalder a little more credit for being the one to make the motion to impeach Sachs, which Harris said has been coming for “months.”

“Everyone’s acting like this is a, like, Kenton Stalder rogue action. But this is like 80 percent of the SGA — they just don’t have the guts to say it in public,” Harris said. “The guy’s done multiple tours in Afghanistan; he’s not scared of Jonathan Sachs.”

Although Leonardtown legislator Andre Beasley said Sachs knows more about College Park than anyone in the SGA, Stalder said he stands by his motion.

“People talk about all the knowledge he has with the [College Park] City Council and the politics, and I don’t doubt any of that. But what good is that to an SGA that doesn’t get access to any of that knowledge?” he said. “The way in which he wasn’t fulfilling his responsibilities was incredibly disrespectful and it was bringing down morale, and I felt like something needed to be said.”

Stalder said he gets his love of the law and the concept of citizenship from his grandfather, who hauled water in a pickup truck for 12 years, rather than pay plumbers to examine work he’d done himself, in order to legally use city water.

“I have that kind of stubbornness in me,” he said.

Stalder said he has become more and more vocal because being in the SGA helps legitimize what he has to say to students.

“What I feel best about in terms of what I’ve accomplished in the SGA is being that voice and being in the debates, and talking to people, and changing minds and raising consciousness,” he said.

Still, Stalder said he’s far from anxious about the outcome of tomorrow night’s vote.

“The point of the motion was to point out to other people ... what the other cabinet members have been doing is so fantastic, and to allow [Sachs] to tail onto that — I just felt was a disservice,” he said.

Sigma Chi to move to Fraternity Row

BY AMY HEMMATI Staff writer

Sigma Chi will move into the prominent house on 14 Fraternity Row, formerly the residence of Zeta Beta Tau before the chapter lost its charter last December amidst allegations of drug use and hazing.

The competition for the prime real estate was stiff, and Sigma Chi bested applications from Kappa Sigma and Phi Kappa Psi. The new tenants aim to use their campus headquarters to eliminate stereotypes and set a positive example on the row.

“One of our goals as a leadership organization is to bring more diversity to the row and try to bridge a gap between the Greek community and the rest of campus,” Chapter President Ryan Kennedy said. “It can only get better from here.”

Kennedy, a junior environmental science and policy major, hopes the increased visibility that comes from having a house on the row will attract more people to fundraisers or rush events, and called the location next to Route 1 “the best on the row.” The chapter, founded in 1945, has been living in a rented house on Knox Road.

Before nearly 40 brothers can lay claim to the rooms in early

Sigma Chi will occupy 14 Fraternity Row, the home of Zeta Beta Tau before it lost its charter. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

June, the house will be refurnished with funding from the chapter’s national headquarters.

“We want to give the inside a more Sigma Chi feel by redoing the living room and study rooms,” Kennedy said. “We’re going to be putting family trees in the halls to remind everyone of how far we’ve come.”

Bob Nichols, assistant director for Greek Facilities, who selected the new tenants, said the fraternity’s strong leadership credentials and close relationship with alumni set them apart from the rest of the pack.

“In the past, it seemed like the

fraternity we selected was much stronger than the other applicants, but in this case, we had to pick the strongest among equals,” he said.

Nichols said Sigma Chi will only improve after taking up residence on the row.

“Moving into the house will have a big impact on the chapter,” Nichols said. “People are going to be much more aware of what goes on in this organization with their letters emblazoned on the portico.” hemmati@umdbk.com

cers in College Park in one weekend. On Friday, an off-duty police officer working security at the Rugged Wearhouse shot two individuals after they attempted to shoplift from the store. The officer’s arm got caught in their car window as they tried to drive away, dragging him alongside of the moving vehicle. The officer then shot into the car.

Two days later, a man wielding two knives inside 7-Eleven on Route 1 called police and said he wouldn’t leave and that the police would have to “do their job.” After police surrounded the building, the man lunged at a police dog when police shot him several times.

A university graduate assistant, who spoke to The Diamondback on the condition of anonymity, was a neighbor of the man gunned down and said the man was having mental and financial problems and needed help.

“I really do think that [county police] didn’t treat the situation properly,” he said. “It’s stuff like that that just leads to tension around here.”

The graduate assistant admonished police for not better recognizing the circumstances surrounding the incident and realizing they were dealing with an unstable individual. He went so far as to imply the man, who lived 30 minutes from College Park, went to the Route 1 7Eleven in order to elicit exactly that response from the police.

“He was a very well-thought out person,” he said. “The reason I live in Montgomery County is because I wanted to wash my hands of the whole area. I would much rather encounter a Montgomery County police officer than a Prince George’s County police officer.” rhodes@umdbk.com

In fact, he doesn’t have high hopes.

“I feel like it’s going to be a hard motion to pass because we are a pretty friendly environment, and for a lot of people it just doesn’t sit with them to do something so caustic,” he said. “And that’s admirable, and I’m fine with that.” aisaacs@umdbk.com

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State lawmakers weigh clean energy loan fund

BY ALISSA GULIN Staff writer

A proposal for a city fund for green housing improvements encountered another hurdle yesterday, as students from UMD for Clean Energy struggled to convince skeptical state lawmakers to allow cities to issue loans for environmentally friendly home upgrades.

Students first marketed the idea, which would give residents low-interest, long-term city loans, to the College Park City Council last year. But the program stalled because state laws prohibit cities from being lenders.

Strong opposition and heavy questioning from legislators dominated the Senate Finance Committee hearing on a bill that represents the next step for a program proponents say will save homeowners money while protecting the environment.

Members of UMD for Clean Energy testified in both houses in favor of the bill, which authorizes cities to issue loans from a fund in partnership with Maryland Clean Energy Center that would be repaid through taxes tied to the property.

The mechanics of the program came under fire, however, as committee members voiced concerns about consumers’ eligibility for loans, the possibility of defaulting and the repayment structure.

Because the loan is not attached to the property owner, if a resident decides to move before it is fully repaid, the responsibility is transferred to the new tenant.

Several senators said they wor-

ried this would make the retrofitted homes less attractive, and could exacerbate the foreclosure crisis of the past two years.

But Laura Calabrese, organizational director of UMD for Clean Energy, said these concerns were misguided. She said most participants want to take advantage of the long-term energy savings the renovations would provide, and wouldn’t be quick to put their houses on the market.

“I don’t know if they really understand the nature of this program,” said Calabrese, a senior sociology major.

Sen. E.J. Pipkin (R-Eastern Shore) wondered if consumers’ appetites for green homes would exceed the green in their wallets, and if they would default on existing loans, such as mortgages, as a result.

The bill sets in place eligibility criteria, adjusts payment plans accordingly and requires an auditor to assess the possible benefits of installing new equipment. Calabrese said the program “isn’t geared toward the people who would default on their loans.”

“The whole point of this is to have the consumer save money,” she said. “It’s not aimed at putting anyone at an economic disadvantage.”

If the state passes this bill, city legislatures will then take over to formulate their own individual loan programs.

“Clean energy innovation is something that’s going to have to be revolutionary to a certain extent,” Calabrese said. gulin@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, a story yesterday about student volunteer firefighters incorrectly stated the rank of firefighter Jen Chafin. She is actually a second lieutenant at Branchville Volunteer Fire Company in College Park.

Due to a reporting error, a story and headline yesterday incorrectly stated the Student Government Association cut its budget three years in a row. Former SGA President Jonathan Sachs did not cut the organization’s budget last year.

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LOCK ‘N’ LOAD Student Airsoft gun enthusiasts emphasize sport, safety at yearly gun show

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

For Caddi Golia (right), Jake Reed (left) is her first white boyfriend, but the couple says it doesn’t matter what race they are — just that they’re happy together. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Reed, a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, approaches the issue of interracial dating with humor.

“I do have a ‘black pass’ now. She made me one,” he said. “I now have permission to listen to rap and play basketball. But our relationship isn’t fundamentally different.

I’m diversified.”

Students discussed mixedrace relationships at this university during a panel that was part of last week’s Mixed Madness Week — a five-day campaign by the Multiracial and Biracial Student Association to raise awareness about interracial issues. The panel, made up of students who were in mixed-race relationships, said interracial couples were more likely to be accepted here than in other parts of the United States because of the university’s proximity to Washington and because college campuses tend to be more liberal than most other communities.

Last semester, junior microbiology major Bethany Jackson and Gregory Joseph started their relationship with three simple words: “I like you.”

But no amount of affection can change one fact: She’s white and he’s black.

And although the difference is physically apparent, Jackson said it’s personality and chemistry that defines their relationship.

“Obviously I noticed he was black,” Jackson said. “But my first thought was that I was attracted to his personality. I don’t really see color. ... I’m more thrilled that I found a guy who I can connect with and who I’m happy with. But I’m human, and I do notice people looking.

But I don’t think we’re different.

It feels normal.”

Joseph, a junior cell and molecular biology and genetics major, said although the couple has received skeptical looks from those they don’t know, the

Bethany Jackson and Gregory Joseph say when they walk down the street, they still get unwanted stares because of their skin colors. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

issue of race was never raised in his family.

“I primarily date white girls,” Joseph said. “It doesn’t make me second guess myself.

It’s always been OK with my parents. My friends know that this is who I am, this is who I choose to be.”

At last week’s panel, students said their families’ responses to their significant others varied by generation.

“It was never a big deal if I brought home a person of a different color,” sophomore letters and sciences major Zach Brown said. “It was more about the grandparents being uncomfortable.”

Jackson agreed, saying the generation that grew up during segregation seems to have the most qualms with racial mixing.

Interracial marriage only became legal throughout the United States in 1967, but since then, the rate of mixed-race unions have doubled in the past decade, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Recently, some have even

made cases for why dating outside of one’s race is preferable.

In her new book, Don’t Bring Home a White Boy, author Karyn Langhorne Folan discusses why black women should date outside their race.

She urged them to forget the historical stigmas that spit animosity toward other races and to view interracial dating as a way to side-step the lack of available black men, she told The Washington Post.

College educated black women tend to prefer black men on their level, Folan said, but single black women with college degrees outnumber single black men with the same education level 3 to 1 according to the 2008 U.S. Census American Community survey.

For students, though, educational attainment is a non-issue.

For these couples, it’s a matter of happiness, not social politics.

“I’ve never dated outside my own race,” Golia said. “I’m happy, so I don’t care.” hampton@umdbk.com

About 12 guns lined the tables of a small classroom in H.J. Patterson yesterday, as junior physical sciences major Antonio Busalacchi circled the room, picked one up, aimed and pulled the trigger.

Airsoft @ UMD, a student group for airsoft gun enthusiasts, displayed their collection of guns during their annual gun show last night in the H.J. Patterson building.

And although there were at least a dozen unloaded guns — which look nearly identical to real guns — on display for students to come and tr y out, group co-founder and president Busalacchi said definitively, Airsoft is a sport, and it should be treated like one.

But the club, which boasts about 30 members, is not allowed to play anywhere on the campus and instead plays on fields in the Washington and Baltimore area.

Busalacchi and co-founder sophomore electrical engineering major David Holub, said the club’s goal right now is to grow to a university-supported intramural sport, complete with a team and practices.

“We started this club to play on a competitive level,” said Busalacchi. “That is our major goal, to get an entire team to play Airsoft together.”

Not ever yone considers Airsoft play to be harmless, however.

Recently, criminals and gangs have increasingly begun to use Airsoft guns as a means of intimidation without having to pay for a real assault weapon; a homecoming king in Virginia was suspended for having an Airsoft gun in his truck, and a former Purdue University student was on trial this week for his involvement in an Airsoft-related prank that ended in the fatal shooting of his childhood friend.

It’s stories like these that lead campuses across the countr y to outlaw any type of firearm — real or fake.

But for Airsoft @ UMD members, the guns are not tools to threaten, intimidate or “just play around with.”

“It just shames Airsoft,” senior criminology and criminal justice major Eric Dorcey said. “[Those stories] have nothing to do with our sport, but its what people hear.”

Busalacchi explained the sports draw: It’s a lot cooler

Junior physical sciences major Antonio Busalacchi is president of Airsoft @ UMD, which held their annual gun show in H.J. Patterson yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

and more realistic than a video game, a lot cheaper than a shooting range and hurts a lot less than paintball, he said.

Club members said in a sport that can easily move from all in good fun to lethal in a matter of seconds, safety is their number one priority.

“There is one rule that does not change [in Airsoft skirmishes] and that is safety,” Busalacchi said. “If you are told to drop your weapon, you drop it, and you step back.”

Dorcey, who is also a member of the university’s police auxiliar y, explained that police are trained not to take chances when it comes to a possible armed threat, and that Airsoft guns would be treated just like any other firearm.

“Any crime committed with an Airsoft counts as an assault rifle,” Dorcey said.

But club members said they’re not looking for trouble.

“We’d like to play in Cole Field House, but we need to be intramural first. Our longterm goal is to possibly play behind Comcast, in the Wooded Hillock area, but that is a long way away as of now,” Busalacchi said.

“There is a time and a place for the sport,” Dorcey said. “You don’t play in a parking lot or a backyard unless you want trouble.”

He explained that a significant amount of clearance was required to just have their annual gun showing yesterday, which, to the innocent bystander essentially looked like a classroom overflowing with full weight, full scale, assault weapons.

“We cleared the event with

FUND from page 1 “Everything is still up in the air,” Elfreth said. “I’d say it’s about a 50-50 chance. At its heart, the legislature is very supportive of the concept. It’s O’Malley’s bill, but at the same time, anything with a [funding increase] is getting scrutinized tenfold.”

The Tuition Stabilization bill introduced by O’Malley in January would take a portion of the Higher Education Investment Fund and put it toward warding off future tuition hikes. The bill would also reauthorize the fund, which comes from a corporate income tax and provides about $40 million a year to university system institutions.

The Higher Education Investment Fund, which has only been in existence for three years, will sunset this summer unless the bill passes. Although, according to the DLS report, if the fund were to expire, the shortfall would likely be covered by general funds.

The bill also stipulates that tuition should not increase more than the average family’s income over a three-year period.

The Department of Legislative Services, a group of nonpartisan policy analysts for the General Assembly, recommended against the bill in January, saying the money was too unstable to count on when the economy sours. For example, the fund was estimated to contribute $53.5 million to the university system in the 20082009 academic year, but only contributed $46.4 million because of the declining corporate revenue it’s based on.

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“We will never get to the point where you can store an Airsoft gun in a dorm room — and we shouldn’t.”

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the campus, county and state police before we brought these guns in here,” Dorcey said.

But with many campuses across the countr y pushing for bans on all types of guns — Airsoft, BB and paintball guns included — Holub said they are not seeking anything extreme in terms of permissions from the university.

“We will never get to the point where you can store an Airsoft gun in a dorm room — and we shouldn’t,” Holub said. “Legislation like that is an accident waiting to happen, and would basically end our club.”

Overall, Busalacchi, who’s been playing for over 5 years and has never had a problem, explained it as a really fun sport that’s significantly cheaper than a shooting range or paintball.

In fact, for the first-person shooter video game fanatic, he said Airsoft can be a dream come true.

“If you play, say, Call of Duty, you can get a replication that is pretty close,” he said. “I just love it, it’s a really fun sport.” farrell@umdbk.com

be the sole source of revenue for higher education, but the institutions do set budgets based on the projections,” the report states. “When money does not materialize, programs and services suffer.

The corporate income tax revenue’s recent history has been volatile, demonstrating the risk of tying budgets to unstable revenue sources.”

Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) pooh-poohed the impact of DLS’s report.

“The governor and speaker of the house and senate president are much more influential,” Rosapepe said. “They’re the elected officials. Generally, [DLS recommendations] don’t make any difference.”

Student Government Association President Steve Glickman was less optimistic.

“We have to deal with the reality as well as what our goals are,” Glickman said last month. “The reality of mandating funding for higher education in this economic year is just not going to happen.”

Yesterday, Glickman said it’s possible the bill will pass, but it would be “challenging.”

O’Malley, who is facing reelection in the fall, has made support of higher education a key part of his campaign. After former Gov. Bob Ehrlich raised tuition by 40 percent in three years, O’Malley kept in-state tuition frozen for four.

“We’ve been swinging between the pendulum of major increases and years of tuition freeze,” O’Malley said.

“We’re trying now to find a moderate balance and move forward.”

Senior staff writer Ben Slivnick contributed to this report. cwells@umdbk.com

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Time is of the essence

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Jonathan Sachs, a former student body president. The official reason? Sachs hasn’t he SGA is making a habit of wasting students’ time.

First, on Feb. 24, the Student Government Association failed to reach a attended the required number of legislative meetings, which he admits. The actual consensus on whether to support Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed 3- reason? Pettiness from a group of students who, for whatever reason, have been percent tuition increase. A few days later, it voted to oppose the minor trying to demonize Sachs for nearly a year. Sachs was far from a perfect SGA presiincrease based on “principle.” Then, at the SGA’s annual lobbying day in Annapolis, dent, and we criticized him harshly in these pages. But this move isn’t motivated by many members refused to accept the advice of university President Dan Mote to actual concern for students — it’s motivated by a desire to embarrass Sachs.

All of these things show this year’s SGA has a disturbing tendency to waste time grudgingly accept the increase in an attempt to preserve a smidgen of credibility while talking to legislators. And now, a few weeks after this whole rigmarole began, on meaningless or fruitless efforts that were destined for failure from the beginning.

We’re not condemning everything the SGA has done. Events like the speaker SGA President Steve Glickman wrote a column yesterday accepting the tuition series and CrabFest went off without a hitch, and students increase and saying he testified in support of the Governor’s enjoyed them. They streamlined the funding process for stubudget because it is “our best case scenario.” dent groups, and decided this year to cut their own budget by In the past three weeks, the SGA has rejected a bill supporting the tuition increase, rejected a bill opposing it, supported a The SGA wastes too much about $80,000. Even minor steps like opening a room for student groups have been productive. And the SGA bill opposing it and now the organization’s president is saying time on issues that don’t stranded ultimately made strong responses to two major campus issues: he will support it.

Glickman got Provost Nariman Farvardin to agree to allow for If the SGA wanted to have an impact on the tuition increase, require their attention, more student influence on several committees, and their advoit should have taken a stand in the fall, when the governor was eschewing problems of cacy for Engaged University, while it failed, was a noble effort. shaping his budget. Once the legislative session began and actual importance.

This SGA has done a lot of good work, and its members, by and O’Malley submitted his budget, it was too late. Could the SGA’s large, have worked hard for students. stand have made a difference? The fiscal and political realities But it’s the work the SGA has wasted that troubles us. What could they have make it difficult to imagine, but it’s possible.

But instead of thinking about the budget, the SGA was working on an infeasi- done with the time they spent on the SmarTrip initiative? Could time they spent ble plan to make student IDs double as SmarTrip cards. Glickman declared this talking about the tuition freeze in Annapolis been better spent discussing the his top priority, and spent months working on an impossible-to-implement plan Higher Education Investment Fund? The portrait these incidents paint is of a that WMATA seemingly had zero interest in and that would have done little to group that, while well-intentioned, has a tendency to fly off track, often because a encourage students to travel to Washington. Finally, Glickman gave up on the lone member has a goal he stubbornly pursues long past the point at which it idea, citing the turmoil surrounding Metro General Manager John Catoe’s resig- makes sense.

It’s time certain SGA members stop focusing on their egos and start focusing on nation as the reason.

This week, the SGA is going to debate whether to impeach City Council Liaison actually helping students.

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Students vs. cops: Needs more Mike Sanders

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t’s going to be hard to solve this whole “students vs. police,” “Route 1 riot” business in 500 words or less, but if anyone’s up to the challenge, it’s me.

In fact, I’ll be honest: I have a long history of quelling conflicts. My résumé is pretty damn impressive in that department. Those cognizant of world history, for example, could point to the time I brokered a peace deal between Israel and Palestine; others might remember how I stopped two frat dudes from dropping the gloves at Panda last Friday night, saving everyone from a bad dining experience. So honestly, “students vs. police” ain’t even no thang to me, because solving problems is just what I do. It basically boils down to me being a lover, not a fighter. A uniter, not a divider. A man of peace, not a Man-o’-war.

I extend so many olive branches,

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SANDERS people think I work at the damn Olive Garden. My face is so associated with peace, everyone jokingly calls me “Shalom-dome.” I’ve got one hand in my pocket, and the other one is giving the peace sign. Peace: It’s what’s for dinner, except I eat it for breakfast and lunch, too.

Hell, I’m even going to win over those who thought the last paragraph was a bit excessive, that’s how much of a uniting spirit I am. Now that Greivis Vasquez has won the ACC Player of the Year award, I’ll be the first one consoling runner-up Jon

Scheyer. Put away that Scheyer-face, man, because I’m a uniter. Remember my handiwork the next time you see the two of them cavorting about in public, all smiles and hugs.

Everyone wonders how I do it, but the truth is, I have no idea. Maybe I’m just a really nice guy. Maybe the mere thought of conflict doesn’t sit well with me, or maybe I just have this crazy desire to settle all the world’s problems. When I asked my parents about it, they said they knew I was a lamb of peace way back in my diaper days.

Apparently, I stopped them both from getting a divorce at the tender age of 2.

It’s hard to remember exactly what I said — me being only 2 years old and all — but I distinctly remember some sort of parade being thrown by America in my honor. Mom and Dad said everyone was so impressed with this sexy little kid who prevented the coun-

try from becoming an international laughing-stock — my parents are Barbara and former President George H.W. Bush, by the way — that a parade was the least anyone could do for me.

Well, cool beans, it’s whatever. I don’t really like to draw attention to myself — I just mention all this in passing.

Anyway, with all that backstory out of the way, it’s time to figure out how best to solve this “students vs. police” drama. I’ve been thinking about it all day, and I’ve finally come up with a solution I think will be acceptable to both sides that might just come in under the word limit to avoid part of this story getting cut out. In order to stop this in-fighting between police and students, I think we should all strive to Mike Sanders is a junior history major.

He can be reached at sanders@umdbk.com.

Skirt Day: The only reason I’m still here

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think the winter of our discontent is finally over. After the worst winter ever experienced by man or beast, the sun rose the other day, and a warm glow came over the campus. For a lot of you, this time of year means midterms and spring break. But for me, the shining sun and chirping birds mean one thing.

Skirt Day. In fact, I wrote this column Monday night and promptly went to bed with my pajamas inside-out because I had a sneaking suspicion that today, March 10, would be Skirt Day 2010. It should be a national holiday. I know I’ve given myself the day off. Because I am the grand marshal of Skirt Day. For those of you who don’t read the newspaper, like me, these pages were set ablaze two years ago by the controversy over a reader who sent in a letter declaring Skirt Day 2008 had passed. For Skirt Day 2009, I refused

to let the subject die, chiming in with my own column. And now, because I love beating dead horses just as much as I love skirts, I’m going to champion Skirt Day 2010.

What makes Skirt Day great? Look around. It’s officially warm enough for the lovely demographic of this university to show off the spring line.

Skirt Day is a day of warmth, beauty and love. Sorry, I’m into those things.

Sorry I’m not sorry.

This is college, so be real. College is all about superficial beauty. When else in our lives are we going to have hours and hours to work out and tan?

And here’s something you might not know: Our metabolisms peak during the college years, according to a scientific report I made up for the purposes of this paragraph.

And much like the common North American grizzly, we’ve spent the cold months in hibernation. You know what else has been in hiberna-

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GINDES tion? Our collective sexy. Skirt Day is upon us now, and it’s time to give it everything you’ve got.

Skirt Day, like anything great, has its share of haters. I’m 21 years old, you grumpy bumpies — I’m going to have enough time to get bitter and hate on everything for the rest of my life. Today is the day all the pretty girls on the campus have decided it’s time to show off the gams, and I’m going to damn well enjoy it.

The last thing Skirt Day is about is hate. Skirt Day is a love fest of the highest order. It’s the day when you look around and you thank whatever God you believe in for where you are

in life. If anyone’s too serious about this stuff — now, in college, in the springtime — I’d hate to see how much stress you’re going to have when you’re in the work world.

You know who doesn’t have nice legs? Me. My legs are pasty, and I consistently get made fun of for my horrible inability to grow hair on them. But if I had nice legs, I’d be wearing bike shorts today. Everyone has gifts. Mine is being the best college newspaper columnist in the world. I share it with you every Wednesday. If yours is a set of legs that goes on for days, then this is the day we appreciate you.

It’s your day in the sun. It’s my day in the sun. It’s all of our days in the sun. It’s the best day. It’s Skirt Day. Enjoy it. I know I am.

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

JON SALTZMAN

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ow many of us are paying for tuition with our parents’ money? What about our grandparents’ money? I’m one of the many students who have taken advantage of the success of past generations, furthering my own family legacy of higher education and white-collar careers. Is it fair? Well, no, but why should I refuse aid from my family because some of my friends’ parents can’t afford the cost of college on their own? It’s dog-eat-dog out there, after all.

The concept of “equality of opportunity” is a lingering topic in economics and government, often linked with meritocratic principles. Equality of opportunity is what Martin Luther King, Jr. and Betty Friedan advocated: It is the design in which everyone has the same opportunity to succeed in life. It is, in many respects, a counterpart to Social Darwinism.

In Social Darwinism, instead of white children going to better schools than black children, everyone goes to the same school, with the chance to receive the same education. No one receives any extra help, and therefore one’s success is truly based on his or her innate abilities and talents.

Wouldn’t it be nice if it worked like that?

In reality, nothing is fair. Some children have tutors and educated parents who can help them with schoolwork. Successful students can only go to college if they have the money — or the audacity to take out substantial loans — to pay for it. This leads to the exclusion of many financially disadvantaged students from higher education, even as financially advantaged students on the same intellectual level can continue their studies.

This is the biggest tragedy of our nation’s so-called utilitarianism.

Now, imagine a society with true equality of opportunity. What if we couldn’t rely on the success of the generations before us?

Among the early French socialists of the 19th century was the littleknown Henri de Saint-Simon. Even during his lifetime, his teachings were obscure. But after his death, his school spread and thrived (for a whopping seven years). Quite a few things can be taken from the SaintSimon school, but its notion of the abolition of one particular practice seems essential to the creed of equality of opportunity. This practice has been a part of humanity for as long as we have recognized structured families. It has bound us together, connected us to the past and kept nations in order. It is the practice of inheritance, and if we ever want to be free from injustice, it must go.

All right, that’s a little extreme.

But, really, just how fair is it?

Think of Paris Hilton or Prince Charles. What did they do to deserve their fame? Is it fair Barack Obama had to pull himself up by his bootstraps while George W. Bush attended the best schools with his family’s money? Maybe it is in our world, but in a Saint Simon world, this would be unacceptable. Imagine if every accomplishment — every fortune in the world — were one’s own doing, independent of inheritance or parents’ money.

My question is this: Could we aim for this idealistic meritocracy? Could we ever fully embrace true equality of opportunity? That’s a question we might wonder about forever.

Jon Saltzman is a freshman anthropology and government and politics major. He can be reached at jonsaltzman@gmail.com.

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AWARDS from page 1 the first international player to earn the honor thanks to a season in which he was the lone Division I player to average more than 19 points and six assists per game.

Coach Gary Williams won his second ACC Coach of the Year award after leading his team to an unlikely share of the regular season championship to complete the Terps’ banner day.

“I’m a little concerned about that because if I talk to [Williams] face-toface, I guess we’re going to really cry in front of each other,” Vasquez said, while looking forward to his first encounter of the day with his coach.

“We’re both so emotional.”

During a previously scheduled media session yesterday afternoon, humility was the theme as Vasquez and Williams attempted to deflect praise toward teammates and each other, while focusing on the Terps’ upcoming postseason run.

Vasquez plopped down in a red chair wearing one of the gold T-shirts distributed to students before his Senior Night game a week ago and mentioned each of his teammates individually for helping him earn the honor.

“I’m a little concerned about that because if I talk to [Williams] face-to-face, I guess we’re going to really cry in front of each other.”

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The senior, long one of the conference’s most polarizing figures, downplayed the accomplishment and said he would have been satisfied sharing the award with Scheyer and Virginia Tech guard Malcolm Delaney, the other two players to receive votes.

Williams, who beat out Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski for his award, sat down in the same chair Vasquez had occupied moments before and didn’t mention his honor in his opening statement.

The 21st-year Terps’ coach heaped praise on his star player, who spurned professional basketball last summer in favor of a final season in College Park.

“A lot of that when guys don’t come

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back to school, it’s an ego thing. ‘What do you mean I’m not good enough to play in the NBA? I’m staying. I’ll show you.’ And then they wind up not making the NBA,” Williams said. “Greivis has come back and put himself in a completely different situation for that, as well as being a great team player for us.”

After attending ACC Media Day in October, forward Landon Milbourne said he felt his teammate was not viewed as a threat to win the award, which a Terp hasn’t captured since 2002, when Juan Dixon won. Duke forward Kyle Singler earned the preseason Player of the Year nod with Vasquez finishing a close second.

Once the season started, some still questioned the fiery guard’s candidacy, wondering if the Terps would win enough games and if Vasquez could garner enough support from the North Carolina-heavy voting base to beat out Scheyer.

But down the stretch, Vasquez played some of the best basketball of his career.

That run included scoring a career-high 41 points in a double overtime win against Delaney’s Hokies on Feb. 27 and leading the Terps to an upset against Scheyer’s Blue Devils a week ago.

“I don’t think they could’ve denied it from him this time,” Milbourne said.

Both Vasquez and Williams benefited from the Terps’ late surge, which has included seven straight wins to close the regular season. After being picked fifth in the preseason, the No. 19 Terps went undefeated in conference play at home en route to sharing the ACC regular season championship with No. 4 Duke.

Vasquez, who has earned All-American honors from two national websites, acknowledged he never could have imagined winning the award when he arrived in the United States fewer than six years ago.

But yesterday, Vasquez reiterated that the bigger goals he has focused on since withdrawing his name from the NBA Draft pool last June are still out there.

“I wanted to win something special, not the ACC Player of the Year — I’ll tell you that,” Vasquez said. “I wanted to win the ACC regular season. And I want to win the ACC Tournament and maybe go to the Final Four. It’s going to be tough.”

TERP NOTE: Forward Jordan Williams finished as the runner-up in ACC Rookie of the Year voting to Georgia Tech’s Derrick Favors, a day after becoming the first Terp since Steve Blake in 2000 to earn a spot on the conference’s All-Freshman team. edetweiler@umdbk.com

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But Williams never wavered.

He has attacked his job with the same fire and passion as always, and he has fiercely stood by his players no matter what anybody said about them.

Now he has been recognized as the best coach in his league, even if he doesn’t want to take all the credit.

“I can be the best coach in the history of mankind, but if I didn’t have the best players, it wouldn’t matter,” Williams said.

Vasquez and Williams seem to embody the everyman spirit of this university.

Their closest competition for their respective awards came from Duke guard Jon Scheyer and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who don’t have many fans around here.

Scheyer and Krzyzewski are great at what they do, and surely work very hard at it. But if you are human — and have that slightly insecure anti-Duke chip on your shoulder — you have to appreciate the justice of Vasquez and Williams getting the nod.

The way Gary and Greivis do things isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always traditional, and it isn’t always with a style a blueblooded Dookie would especially appreciate.

But it is unquestionably effective, and their success is welldeserved.

“We’ve got some similar things in terms of the drive,” Williams said. “He’s got that drive where he just doesn’t let critics determine how good he can be.”

Their stories are very different, but in the end, the themes are very similar.

It’s why Vasquez and Williams have been such an interesting pair to follow for the past four years.

It’s why they both deserved to win their league’s highest individual awards, and it’s why it’s fitting they both won them on the very same day. schimmel@umdbk.com

MASON from page 8 pressure up and keep possession.”

But it was Terps’ midfielder Caitlyn McFadden who really broke the game open, allowing for the substitutes to enter the game.

McFadden put up another statstuffing effort, dominating George Mason with three goals and four assists on only five shots.

“We want to play for them to get them in so that they can have some experience too,” McFadden said. “We can go hard the entire time and know that someone can relieve us.”

The Terps scored the first 10 goals of the game while the Patriots struggled to move the ball past midfield. Whenever the Patriots (2-3) recovered a missed shot or turnover, they tried to move the ball back and forth looking for any opening to move forward. But the Terp attackers and midfielders doubled-teamed and pressured to get the ball right back.

George Mason’s Megan Udovich came off the bench to score twice in 18 seconds giving the Patriots something to cheer about. The scores came near the end of the first half when Reese had begun inserting substitutes.

By that time, the game was all but decided.

For Reese, it was the perfect way to give her deep and talented freshman group — along with her other underclassmen — a chance to prove themselves.

“It’s very important to get them in,” Reese said. “It’s encouraging to have this kind of depth as a coach. I don’t have to worry as much.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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SCHIMMEL reivis Vasquez’s story is well-known, but to hear him recount the emotional details yesterday put it in a new perspective.

The ACC Player of the Year award is his crowning achievement, the final chapter of his storybook journey from the Venezuelan barrios to his status as one of the best basketball players in the history of this university.

He spoke yesterday of the isolation he felt when he first came to this country to play at Montrose Christian School in Rockville six years ago, when he barely knew any English and had nobody to communicate with.

He spoke of leaving his divorced mother behind in Venezuela, and how tough it was to know she cried every day he was gone.

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Vasquez sacrificed his entire life at home to make something of himself here, and he did it on his terms.

That is why, in a much more profound way than his stellar career on the court, Vasquez deserves this award.

“Nothing is impossible in this world,” Vasquez said.

“Nothing.”

Gary Williams’ story is not quite as dramatic, but it is fitting he won the ACC Coach of the Year award on the very same day.

Williams said he would “be on a boat home in about two weeks” had he faced the situation Vasquez did. But he has overcome his own adversity in recent years.

People have criticized him for not maintaining the program’s high level of success after the national championship in 2002. They have questioned his ability to recruit the best players, and, at their most venomous, have argued he should have stepped down

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George Mason is no problem for No. 2 Terps Women’s lacrosse cruises, 16-4

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

Gary Williams won his second ACC Coach of the Year award yesterday. The 21st-year Terps’ coach also garnered the honor in 2002. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

FAIRFAX, Va. – As yesterday’s game finally came to a close, George Mason goalkeeper Sara Longobucco sank to her knees, physically drained from almost 60 minutes of having to stop shots from seemingly every angle and distance.

The senior tried everything to keep the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team from exerting its powerful offense, even coming up with 18 saves.

But when the Terps controlled nearly every draw and possession, the barrage of shots and goals were inevitable. Using their offense as a defense, the Terps prevented the Patriots from taking any shots in the first 20 minutes of the first half while racing out to a 10-goal lead.

For the first time this season, coach Cathy Reese could give her freshman class and her bench quality minutes as the No. 2 Terps (5-0, 2-0 ACC) won handily at George Mason, 16-4.

“We need to get these guys experience,” Reese said. “They are a talented class. I think they played

really well on both sides of the field. It’s tough to throw them in, but they are working hard and getting a feel of the college game.”

Because of early season tests against top-20 teams such as Penn State, Duke and Virginia, Reese hasn’t been able to groom her younger players. With her team dominating through the early part of the game, Reese decided to put in the seldom-used younger players instead of continuing the scoring romp.

A total of 16 substitutes played in the game, including nine freshmen. Despite the changes, the Terps continued to keep a safe 10-goal cushion for most of the second half, which kept the clock running.

Of the freshmen, midfielder Alex Aust particularly stood out, contributing two goals and one assist — both careerfirsts. Defenders Iliana Sanza and Melissa Diepold played the majority of the contest.

“It feels great,” Aust said.

“It’s great that we can change the entire lineup and not see a difference in tempo or anything. We can put anyone in and run just as fast, keep the

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