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Friday, March 11, 2011

Hovercraft sparks blaze in Denton Residents evacuated, forced to wait out in early-morning rain

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

After a student’s homemade hovercraft caught fire on the fifth floor of Denton Hall early yesterday morning, students were forced to wait outside in the rain while firefighters

responded to the call.

The fire, which ignited from a charging battery in freshman engineering major Ilya Smirnov’s engineering project, was extinguished but still smoking by the time the emergency services arrived, according to Prince George’s County Fire

Department spokesman Mark Brady.

Smirnov, who is a student electrician at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, said he noticed the battery was smoking at about 4:20 a.m. after the smoke alarm in his room

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BREAKING BARRIERS, MOVING CHAINS

Senior criminology and criminal justice major Talia Leibovic’s Lexus Rx330 was impounded after a collision with a police cruiser. PHOTO COURTESY OF TALIA LEIBOVIC

County police cruiser collides with student’s car No one seriously injured, though student remains shaken; both vehicles impounded

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

English professor Michael Olmert authored Moving the Chains: The Darryl Hill Story, a play that chronicles the life of a Terrapin athlete known as the Jackie Robinson of southern college football. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

English professor immortalizes the story of Darryl Hill, the first black football player in the ACC

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

Darryl Hill has been called the Jackie Robinson of southern college football.

As a black man in the 1960s, he overcame the barriers of racism and segregation to play the sport he loved — all while wearing a Terrapin uniform.

His story is being brought back to life in a new play, Moving the Chains: The Darryl Hill Story, by Michael Olmert, an English professor at this university. The play’s first stage reading will be March 21 at the Lincoln Theatre in Washington.

“He didn’t want to be Jackie Robinson, he just wanted to be a player,” Olmert said. “He realizes now it had to happen because it wasn’t going to happen at Clemson or North Carolina or South Carolina. This had to happen at Maryland.”

The play chronicles the life of Hill, who became the first black man to play in the ACC in 1963, and the university that paved the way for integration when no other southern institution would.

But Olmert said he had neither the time nor the interest when a friend, who had attended Hill’s high school, first approached him to write the story.

“I didn’t really want to write an athletic book because they’re not really dramatic; they’re usually just puff pieces, and they rarely make a good

A Prince George’s County Police officer’s squad car collided with a student’s vehicle early yesterday morning after the officer ran a red light at the intersection of Route 1 and Knox Road, according to the student.

Senior economics major Victoria Silva said she was waiting at the traffic light between Cornerstone Grill and Loft and Smoothie King at 12:30 a.m. yesterday when the light turned green and she drove forward. About a quarter of the way through the intersection, she said a District 6 squad car

driving northbound on Route 1, toward the main entrance to the campus, smashed into the front left side of the 2005 Lexus Rx330 she was driving.

Numerous calls to Acting District 6 Commander Robert Brewer went unanswered yesterday. Another official at District 6, which includes Beltsville and Laurel, declined to comment on the incident or release her full name. District 1 Commander Hector Velez, who oversees patrol of College Park, was unable to release specifics of the incident but said it remains under investigation.

According to Silva, the officer did

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University outsources study on future of student housing Company will evaluate local supply, demand

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

The first black football player in the league, Darryl Hill, No. 25, attempts to tackle Tar Heels’ Neil Henderson on Monday, Nov. 11, 1963. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

book,” Olmert said. “It would take a year out of my life.”

Yet on a snowy day last January, Olmert told Hill over lunch at Mulligan’s Grill and Pub at the University Golf Course that he didn’t want to make the story into a book. He was going to write a play instead.

Mulligan’s became the pair’s regular meeting spot. Every two weeks, for three hours at a time, Olmert took diligent notes as Hill recounted his life story — his childhood, his

family, his friends, his time at the U.S. Naval Academy before transferring to this university and his time as a Terrapin running back.

But Olmert, who has written two plays and about 90 television screenplays, said the task was daunting at first.

“This scared me because I had never written about anyone who was alive before,” Olmert said. “You’re

see HILL, page 3

To determine what future housing demands the university may encounter, officials have outsourced to an auditing company that will perform an analysis of the university’s shortterm and long-term strategies for responding to student need.

Although the only students explicitly guaranteed housing by the university are freshmen, with the construction of Oakland Hall, the promise of an East Campus development on the horizon and new housing projects sprouting up throughout the city, university and city officials decided it was high time they

determine exactly what the housing outlook will be in coming years. The Resident Life department hired Anderson Strickler, an in-state firm that specializes in performing market analyses for institutions of higher education, to issue recommendations for university and city housing strategies based on projected student need and the university’s enrollment goals.

According to Mary Hummel, assistant vice president for student affairs, the $68,500 that the project is expected to cost will be paid for with student housing revenue.

“It’s a very standard business practice

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Law and order: fake victims unit Mock student hearing demonstrates how cases are handled

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Staff writer

A panel consisting of students and faculty members held a mock Honor Review in Stamp Student Union last night to demonstrate this university’s judicial process. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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As the jury deliberated one student’s fate, he sat facing his accuser — a university professor who claimed he had cheated off another student’s work.

It was a scene fit for a courtroom drama — and in some ways, it was.

The Student Honor Council, a group within the Office of Student Conduct that oversees academic integrity cases, held a mock hearing yesterday in an attempt to educate students and com-

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munity members about what happens after a student faces a cheating accusation. And while only a handful of students attended yesterday’s event, those who did said they were relatively unaware of how the council functioned.

Unlike most colleges or universities, this university has an honor council composed of mostly students. In a case involving academic integrity, the accused student first meets with a faculty member or volunteer within the Office of Student Conduct to determine whether the case can be resolved infor-

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mally — in such a case, the student would admit responsibility and accept an “XF” for the course, which denotes that the student failed due to some form of academic dishonesty.

But if the student wishes to contest the charges, he or she must face an Honor Review, which is composed of three students from the Honor Council and two faculty members. A new honor board is assembled for every case and students serve as the prosecutors,

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FIRE from page 1 went off. He and his resident assistant then carried it into the hallway to ensure other objects didn’t catch on fire.

“My RA determined it would be best to pull the building alarm to get ever yone out, just in case,” Smirnov said. “It didn’t appear to pose any potential threat, though.”

After firefighters ensured the batter y was extinguished, they ventilated the smoke, which had filled the fifth floor, from the building.

Students were allowed to re-enter their rooms after being evacuated for about 20 minutes.

No one was injured, but Brady said the incident caused about $100 in damage to Smirnov’s property.

Smirnov said he is unsure why the batter y malfunctioned, noting he ordered it from a list of professorapproved websites.

According to a University Police report, the batter y was stored in a fireproof bag at the time of the incident.

Freshman engineering major Kevin Halpert, who also lives on Denton’s fifth floor, said all ENES 100: Introduction to Engineering Design students received flame-retardant bags at the start of the semester to store their batteries in. Halpert said the bag likely prevented the fire from growing.

All ENES 100 students are required to participate in designing and building a hovercraft.

But for the students who were forced to wait in the early-morning rain while the smoke cleared, the incident couldn’t have been much worse.

“It was horrible because I certainly wasn’t dressed for the cold or the rain,” said freshman letters and sciences major Katie Pisciotta, a Denton resident.

“I thought I had it bad, but some people were out there with shorts, T-shirts and no shoes. ... Ever yone was and still is extremely furious that we all got woken up that early, and I’m hoping this will never happen again.” egan@umdbk.com

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Six comedians grace the stage of Stamp Student Union in SEE’s annual Spring Comedy Show Comedian Gabriel Iglesias performed in Stamp Student Union yesterday in Student Entertainment Events’ annual Spring Comedy Show. Iglesias (top, bottom), performed an act ranging from mimicking unique sound effects to telling anecdotes riffing on his Mexican heritage, his love of Chipotle and his experiences performing in the Middle East. Iglesias’s routine is widely known for his regular appearances on Comedy Central.

Comedian Martin Moreno (left) also performed with four other comedians.

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ACCIDENT from page 1 not have his emergency lights on before the crash occurred. Silva said the impact of the accident caused the SUV-like vehicle to turn a full 180 degrees in

the street. She said the officer’s squad car crossed the Route 1 median.

Velez said no one was injured, other than a few bruises that did not require hospitalization.

The car Silva was driving actually belongs to her friend, senior criminology and crimi-

nal justice and government and politics major Talia Leibovic. Velez said both cars sustained serious damage and were impounded after the accident.

Silva, who was driving alone, said she was not allowed to talk to the officer after the accident for insur-

ance purposes.

“He asked if I was OK, but that was really it,” she said.

Hours after the accident, Silva said she was still shaken.

“It was really scar y,” she said. “I’m so startled.”

After seeing the wrecked vehicles, Leibovic said she

was surprised to find her friend in such good health.

“I’m just really glad [Silva’s] OK,” Leibovic said.

“If you saw the damages to the cars, you wouldn’t think she was OK, but I’m so glad she is.” egan@umdbk.com

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Researchers work with particles to promote greener products For 12 years, P2OWDER has focused its research on air quality measurements and materials manufacturing

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff Writer

As the university and the state attempt to find methods to cut greenhouse gas emissions, students and researchers at this university are coming up with solutions to these global problems.

For 12 years, the P2OWDER research group in the chemical and nuclear engineering building has housed researchers and students who, using particles, make products that are generally environmentally friendly.

Chemical engineering professor and group leader Sheryl Ehrman said that P2OWDER — composed of four graduate students and seven undergraduates — focuses its particle research on air quality measurement and materials manufacturing that will benefit the environment.

“It’s just really important to think about manufacturing in more environmentally benign ways that are still economically viable,” Ehrman said.

Since the group’s formation in 1998, Ehrman and student

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But during the 45 days it took to write the script, Olmert said Hill “didn’t change a single word” at their weekly Mulligan’s meetings.

Olmert said he wrote the final scene of the play the night before it was scheduled to have a rehearsed table reading in Tawes Hall in May. About 200 people crowded to watch the play’s debut, and at the end, Hill himself conducted a post-reading discussion.

Olmert said many attendees, especially black students, were shocked by the bigotry Hill faced not only at southern stadiums but even on Route 1. For example, one night Hill tried to go drinking with his friends at Town Hall Liquors — then called the Town Hall Bar — but was denied entrance because of his race.

While Hill was a hero in overcoming racial barriers in intercollegiate sports, Olmert said he paid a heavy price.

“He had a restricted undergraduate experience,” Olmert said. “He could never really be

researchers have studied the sources of air pollution and state emissions patterns, helping the state make greener policy decisions, she said.

“What we’re able to do is work with the state of Maryland and help them make good policy decisions,” Ehrman said. “We’re trying to understand what the sources [of pollution] are, which helps them figure out what to target.”

And a major aspect of the group’s research is upping current technologies’ ecofriendly factor, such as using metal particles to create conductive metal pastes often found on car windshield defrosters or solar panels.

Junior chemical engineering major George Peabody, a researcher in the conductive paste project for two years, said instead of the current practice of isolating metal particles from a liquid, the group instead turns the liquid into a mist before extracting the particles. This avoids disposing the environmentally harmful liquid into local waters.

“Directly we’re not doing

anything specifically geared towards the environment, but indirectly it’s a little more environmentally friendly,” Peabody said.

Other researchers in the group use hydrogen as an energy source to create greener technologies by having particles harvest energy from the sun to split water molecules.

Junior chemical engineering major Kosi Aroh, who has worked in the lab for a year, said this process could possibly eliminate the need to recharge an electric car.

“The hydrogen can absorb energy you can use once you can actually put it in your car,” Aroh said.

“The overall aim of the project is more environmentally friendly.”

Ehrman said the role students play in the research group is a win-win for both the research and the students involved.

“I think, for undergraduates, it gives them a chance to test the waters about research in general, and my undergrads make significant contributions to our work,” said Ehrman,

himself. He was always under the microscope. He wasn’t just an ordinary Maryland student, and he wasn’t just an ordinary Maryland player. He was a black student. He was a black player. And if he did anything wrong, he might let down his race. ... If you’re always having to be at your best, you’re not always at your best.”

After Hill was the first black man to play at South Carolina in 1963 in only his second game with the Terps, Hill told The Diamondback that he felt all eyes were watching his performance closely.

“You could sort of feel it in the air that many of them were looking for me to make a mistake or give a poor performance, but actually there weren’t any incidents to speak of,” Hill told The Diamondback on Oct. 1, 1963. “I guess many people probably felt that the South Carolina players would give me a good going over, but surprisingly they didn’t. Sure, they hit me hard, but they hit me clean too.”

Hill was the Terps’ leading pass receiver in that game as well as his debut game against NC State.

Senior English major Kevin

Ford, who had played several roles at the reading in May, said Hill’s story has made him more proud to be a student at this university.

“To know that we broke the color barrier in the ACC — that’s a huge deal. And a lot of students don’t know about it, and a lot of Marylanders don’t know about it,” Ford said. “But what professor Olmert has done is to write a great play that is going to be seen by a lot of people to learn about this really amazing bit of Maryland history. And the fact that I can be part of that — even for a little bit — is really special.”

And Olmert said Hill’s story has all the ingredients to create a captivating production.

“The definition for drama is that there are two opposite things on stage and you let them bang it out against each other for two hours and see who wins. And you fall in love with one character and you root for that character,” Olmert said. “Darryl Hill’s story is that kind of story. You will root for him, and you will fall in love with him for the things that he overcame.” villanueva@umdbk.com

Chia-Ying Chiang, a chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral student, works with particles in the P2OWDER lab in the chemical and nuclear engineering building. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

adding the research gives students valuable experiences for research in graduate schools or at companies.

Aroh said the lab helped him

HOUSING from page 1 to do a market study before hundreds of millions of dollars are involved in the housing system, like we will have in the next decade or two,” she said. “You want to collect appropriate data on the marketplace — in fact, financing agencies require a market study before anything else can be done — it’s an absolute necessity to be able to move into the future.”

Anderson Strickler will conduct interviews with university representatives and people from the College Park community, as well as hold focus groups with students and ask community members to fill out web-based surveys. The company will also consider the ever-changing offcampus housing market to get a full picture, said Linda Anderson, a principal of the company.

The market study will mark the first time this university has ever worked with the company.

“Every institution has different reasons for needing market study,” Anderson said. “But it’s all kind of similar in that, on a campus, there is more demand than there is housing. We advise on how to handle that. Each school

expand his knowledge of concepts important to his future.

“There’s something about renewable energy I wouldn’t have known if I wasn’t in this

has its own flavor but there are some basic things that underlie what we do. We find a housing system to help students today as opposed to when it was built.”

Though change is inevitable and sometimes unforeseeable, Anderson said the company will provide a vision for the next 15 to 20 years, and the strategies usually play out according to plan.

University officials finalized the contract with Anderson Strickler last week. Today, the key planners of the study will meet with the team members of the consulting group to talk about their intent and plan a strategy for how best to collect data and coordinate on the project.

“I think you could say while it’s my desire to be able to house all the students that are interested in living on-campus, this study will allow us to examine student interest and expectations, and how well we are meeting the demand for housing,” Resident Life Director Deb Grandner said. “And where we need to make some adjustments and improvements to meet demand. The idea with a market study is to enter into it with an open mind and to use information to guide your decisions so you are making decisions from an informed perspective.”

lab,” Aroh said. “It gives me a window into what I could do in the future.” saravia@umdbk.com

In the more immediate future, Resident Life intends to put air conditioning units in all North Campus buildings, which will cause the number of beds to decrease slightly, as is the case in Denton Hall, which will be fully equipped with air conditioning by the fall.

Even losing a few beds impacts the overall number Resident Life can accommodate, according to Michael Glowacki, assistant to the director of Resident Life, who added this problem is exacerbated by an increasing demand for housing.

But some students said these cosmetic improvements make a world of difference to those living in North Campus dorms.

Resident Life wants to be able to accommodate what students want and need, Grandner said.

Whether they want to stay in their current dorms or move across campus, they should have the choice to do either. She said they want to provide for as many students as possible.

“It’s best if we are fully occupied in residence halls, so that every student who really wants to live here can live here,” Grandner said. romas@umdbk.com

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defenders and judges for each case.

Members of the council simulated such a hearing yesterday.

In yesterday’s mock trial, two students were brought before a panel for allegedly collaborating on a paper — a scenario student council members said comes before them frequently.

After both students and the accusing professor gave testimony, the board deliberated for an hour while allowing audience members to participate and collectively reach a final ruling on the students’ actions.

Ultimately, one of the students was found responsible, and one was cleared of all charges.

And though it was only a simulation, students on the Honor Council said it’s a scenario that happens all too often — 300 cases are brought to the Office of Student Conduct each year, and nearly 40 percent make their way to the council.

Senior biochemistr y and economics major MengMeng Xu, who proctored yesterday’s event and serves on the council, said it’s crucial students realize the importance of a student-run council because their peers are more aware of the stresses and pressures a student is under and tend to be more understanding than others might be.

“We have students on the council so that it’s less biased,” she said. “We have the more experienced view than the faculty, and students have a better understanding of what student life is like on campus.”

Event attendees said although they did not know students ser ved on the board, they believe it serves as an advantage to those accused.

“I think it’s a positive thing because it’s kind of like the idea of being tried by a jury of your peers,” junior computer science and mathematics major Eric Oliver said. “If only faculty and staff try to reach a decision, they might not be able to relate as well to the students.”

Senior histor y and journalism major Matt Ford, who acted in yesterday’s simulation as the professor accusing the students of cheating, said he thinks the council still stands to increase its presence on the campus.

“I think [the event] ser ved its purpose, but I kind of wish there were more people here,” he said.

“I get the sense that the community at large isn’t really aware of what we do, and I think it’s a source of pride for the university. The council is ver y student-run. It’s for the students, it’s by the students, and I think more people in our community should be proud of it.” abutaleb@umdbk.com

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t this time a year ago, lawmakers in Annapolis were debating whether phone. After all, if this bill were to become law, there could easily be drivers to make driving while talking on a handheld cell phone a secondary scrambling to plug in a headset, causing far more of a distraction than if they offense, meaning motorists would only be subjected to police stops were to just accept the call.

Drivers, and particularly students, face a litany of potentially fatal distracand fines if they committed another traffic violation while talking on the phone. Some legislators argued such a ban would help rid the state’s roads of tions while behind the wheel, cell phones being one of them. But they their biggest nuisance, thus making them safer. Others countered that such a expand beyond cell phones to radios, iPods, GPS devices, food, drinks and ban was a violation of civil liberties and ignored the many other distractions one even other passengers. While cell phones have become public enemy No. 1 when it comes to driving distractions, many would think it absurd to ban drivencounters while driving. In the end, the law passed.

Yesterday, members of the House of Delegates moved one step closer to ers from carr ying on conversations with passengers sitting around them.

But under the premise of a cell-phone ban, that would making that ban even more expansive. In a 91 to 40 seem to be the most logical next step. vote, delegates approved a bill that would increase the Government should do what is in its power to proseverity of the cell-phone ban to a primar y offense. If Legislation that would make tect its citizens. A perfect example of this was when approved by the state Senate and signed by Gov. Martin O’Malley, motorists would no longer need to violate a talking on a cell phone while lawmakers in Annapolis banned texting while driving, a law they further expanded this legislative session to separate rule of the road to get pulled over and ticketed driving a primary offense in include reading texts while behind the wheel. It makes by police. The fine — $40 for the first offense and $100 sense to ban an activity that forces drivers to divert for the second — would remain the same, but the level this state is misguided. their eyes from the road and is blatantly a danger to all of invasiveness would increase dramatically.

The intentions of this bill are no doubt noble. Drivers distracted by their people who share the road.

And while similar arguments can be made to dialing a phone or answering cell phones cause 1.4 million car crashes annually, according to the National Safety Council. But the fact remains that cell phones are nowhere near the a call from a parent or friend, there is a limit. Ultimately, government can only do so much. At some point responsibility must be placed on individuals only distraction drivers encounter.

Indeed, as this bill would have it — and as the existing law stipulates — themselves to make responsible decisions.

The future of this bill is hazy, and it will likely face a tougher fight in the drivers using a hands-free cell-phone device, such as a Bluetooth headset, are not subjected to these fines. Yet studies have shown, including one by the senate, where the original ban making dialing and driving a secondar y Insurance Institute of Highway Safety, that mandating the use of hands-free offense passed with just a one-vote margin. So legislators in that chamber devices does not cause any decrease in collision rates. In fact, using such a should think critically about when government has exaggerated its role to device could end up being more dangerous than simply answering the protect and when it is time to put responsibility in the hands of the people.

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Editorial cartoon: Eric Owusu

Claustrophobia: The downside of development his university has one of the prettiest campuses of any college in the country. Open areas such as McKeldin Mall and the Washington quad provide the illusion of limitless space despite the about 36,000 students who attend this university. The multitude of trees — enough to be a registered arboretum — make you forget you’re actually in the middle of a city.

And the old, red-brick, whitecolumned Georgian buildings give this university a touch of class.

Yet as this university continues to develop its campus in order to improve student housing, increase research space and provide more offices for faculty and staff, our campus is quickly losing the “urban forest” feeling and becoming more and more of a brick and concrete jungle every year.

Indeed, the list of new buildings built within the last few years is extensive. In the last decade, the uni-

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CORY KUTCHER versity has embarked on what can only be described as a building spree. Knight Hall, the Kim Engineering building, Van Munching Hall, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, the Bioscience Research building and South Campus Commons 7 have all gone up since 2001, and the new Physical Sciences Complex and Oakland Hall are under construction. And that’s not even talking about the expansions and renovations that have occurred.

The impetus for this building spree is that the university is seeking to become one of the nation’s leading institutions of higher education.

They must construct new buildings with ample space for faculty offices,

classrooms and innovative research labs, among other things. And, in general, this type of building is a new thing — the university is growing and getting stronger.

Yet there is a price to pay for our administration’s continual push for excellence, a price which is oftentimes ignored. The way this university is slinging up new buildings leaves little room for open, expansive spaces. (After all, these new buildings must go somewhere).

Gone, it seems, is the open feeling the campus possessed in years past.

When I first enrolled in this university four years ago, this campus felt bigger and more open. I was never at a loss to find nooks to sit and read in, or wide open spaces ideal for a game of ultimate frisbee. Perhaps the best way to sum it up is to say that this campus is feeling more and more claustrophobic. I seemingly can’t go anywhere without seeing a construction project, or walking in the

shadow of a new building. But what’s the solution for all of this?

Clearly, the buildings that have already been constructed cannot and should not be knocked down. So, instead, we should look to future developments, particularly to East Campus. The new wing of the university, so to speak, is meant to help revitalize the Route 1 corridor and make College Park into a more desirable destination. In the plans: housing, a music hall, shops and more. I am really hoping planners leave enough green space for people to congregate so they can sit in a circle and talk, do handstands, strum guitars in nice weather or maybe even play some Quidditch. Buildings and progress are great, but when it comes down to it, people need open space.

Cory Kutcher is a senior kinesiology major. He can be reached at kutcher@umdbk.com.

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oday, it is my pleasure to tell you a “Tale of Two Haters,” Henry and Howard.

One day, Henry the Hater was walking home from the hospital, where he had been visiting stomach cancer patients and pouring hot sauce in their soup. On his way home, Henry walked by Northwestern High School in Hyattsville and observed a throng of protesters just hatin’ up a storm. Henry gathered that the protesters were members of the Westboro Baptist Church, and was very impressed with what he learned about them. He loved how they used God and religion to mask their malicious intentions. He was thoroughly impressed with their stated devotion to the teachings of Jesus Christ, despite willfully ignoring the man’s most remembered lesson: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Henry loves casting stones.

And to Henry, the church’s decision to protest the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder — which sparked a lawsuit that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and was decided

in the church’s favor — was completely justified.

You see, Henry the Hater loves hating on all types of people: gays, members of other religions, soldiers, cityfolk, national politicians, patriots and liberals, to name a few. He justifies his hatred on America’s tolerance for homosexuality. After all, the uncertainty that surrounds the cause of homosexuality and his impossible-toprove claims that God was punishing humankind for supporting homosexuals allows him to mask his hate behind vague assumptions and pure insanity.

And so, Henry looked into the cameras surrounding the high school and smiled — his business is hatin’, and business is good.

Howard the Hater, meanwhile, does not join the Westboro Baptist Church.

He doesn’t like teamwork because then he can’t hate on his teammates. So Howard stays out of organized hate and goes it alone. After becoming bored of e-mailing orphans pretending to want to be their foster parents, Howard decides instead to come to College Park and spray paint a swastika on the

GREG NASIF Kappa Sigma fraternity house. And since this university’s chapter of Kappa Sigma has a considerable Jewish membership, Howard the Hater has high hopes of stirring the pot.

Unfortunately for Howard, his work went uncovered in the media, perhaps because local news organizations were busy with the seethingly provocative hatin’ being done at Northwestern. Or maybe they were distracted by real news, such as Libya falling apart, same-sex marriage possibly being legalized in this state or Charlie Sheen.

Howard watched furiously as none of his hate received any recognition.

On network news, even globally televised specials, he looked into the gloating face of Henry the Hater, jubilantly hating on more than a billion

people. Howard just burned with jealousy and sadness. He had failed.

Henry and Howard may be mythical characters, but their acts of hatred were committed by real people, who unfortunately share their same values.

Hate is genuine, and it exists in the form of a red swastika on my fraternity house — a crudely sprayed message of appalling hatred.

Some of my fraternity brothers were unhappy with the lack of media coverage the graffiti received. I am not Jewish, and I will never understand how they feel. However, I accept that perhaps this is the way all messages of hate should be treated — selected neglect. While it may be a constitutional right to act like imbeciles, it’s not our obligation to watch.

As many would say, haters gonna hate. So we can take pride in knowing that the greatest mark we leave on this planet will be stronger than rudimentary scribblings of intolerance. We can rise above it.

Greg Nasif is a senior history major. He can be reached at nasif@umdbk.com.

I would like to respond to Monday’s staff editorial, “Foolish Fees,” and Wednesday’s follow-up guest column, “A truly troubling fee,” concerning the Department of Transportation Services’ fee increase for students with commuter parking permits who live in nearby apartment complexes. It appears to me that some background information would be helpful in this discussion.

DOTS is a self-supported organization. Its operating budget is primarily derived from student fees, parking permits, parking tickets, special events and parking meters. If you want the specific breakdown of revenue and expenditures, you can find it in the DOTS annual report on their website.

The university’s Climate Action Plan, passed in 2009, seriously damages DOTS’ budget future. The plan calls for DOTS to reduce the number of parking permits by 3,450 by 2015 and by an additional 1,200 every five years until 2050. This is a lot of money: The 2015 target represents more than $1.5 million in lost fees.

To its credit, DOTS is attempting to meet the targets in the Climate Action Plan. It makes sense that students who live extremely close to the campus and are serviced by a regular Shuttle-UM route would be the first candidates to give up their permits. DOTS could have prohibited these students from purchasing a permit, but they worked with members of the Student Government Association and Graduate Student Government to develop another solution. Wednesday’s guest columnist should appreciate that DOTS has taken a business approach and relied on price signaling; if the right to drive to the campus is worth an extra $200 to nearby commuters, then they are welcome to pay for that right. This option will reduce the number of parking permits with the added bonus of raising revenue.

This fee is undoubtedly the first of many steps DOTS will need to undertake to reduce parking permits. The campus needs to have an honest conversation about the consequences of the Climate Action Plan on DOTS’ budget because it is only going to get worse. As more and more student housing is added in College Park, students will undoubtedly want DOTS to expand its shuttle service. Gas prices are likely to continue to go up, while parking permit numbers will go down. If students want DOTS to continue its bus services or even expand them, we need to be creative. Ideas such as parking proximity pricing, distancebased permit fees, increased advertising and even Metrobus-like ridership fees have to be explored. If it is legal, perhaps the university needs to begin directly allocating funds for DOTS from its general budget.

I certainly do not know the solution, and I suspect DOTS Director David Allen does not either. I do know that those students who value a strong Shuttle-UM system should contact Allen or university President Wallace Loh and offer any ideas to improve DOTS. We should also commit to supporting DOTS’ efforts to provide environmentally and economically sustainable transportation.

MICHAEL SCHOLTEN GRADUATE STUDENT PHYSICS

Supporting marriage equality This is a letter to the members of the state House of Delegates who remain undecided on whether to support HB 175, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act. I urge you to vote yes on this bill, and I ask for your full support of civil marriage equality.

I was born in Maryland, I live in Maryland, I attend the University of Maryland, and I identify as a black lesbian. One day I plan to raise a family in Maryland — but the Maryland I envision is a fair and equal Maryland. As state lawmakers, you have found yourselves in a unique position as the national spotlight falls on Annapolis. There is a tremendous opportunity before you to allow this state the chance to be seen as an equal place for all persons, regardless of whom they may love.

It is my view that a state that succumbs to discrimination will suffer more for its trials. Separate rights are not equal rights, but as a unit I believe we will be able to take on anything, strengthen our bonds as a state and even make the impossible possible.

No one is made the same, but if we as a state can offer equality through marriage, our similarities will have the power to overcome our differences.

JAZMINE JORDAN FRESHMAN LETTERS AND SCIENCES

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The pursuit of trendiness New College Park boutique aims to sell modern clothes to college-aged women KAITLIN BULAVINETZ Staff writer

Starting today, College Park shoppers might be on cloud nine — literally.

On Cloud 9, a new women’s boutique right off Route 1 that officially opens today, aims to fill the niche of a designer clothing shop within walking distance of the university.

Located at 4513 College Ave. — two doors down from BookHolders — the shop’s white walls, lime-green trim and mini dresses in the window are a piece of retail heaven for fashion-starved women in College Park.

“There’s nothing really around here that’s like a clothing store besides Rugged [Wearhouse],” said Jenny Narod, a sophomore early childhood education major. “I feel like a lot of girls in Greek life, because it’s right here and all of the sorority houses are right here, I think it will draw in girls who want to get stuff for school and stuff to go out in.”

This is the boutique’s second location. Owner Carol Gowling opened her first On Cloud 9 boutique in Potomac seven years ago when she realized there was no store in the area catering to her middle-school-aged children’s need for formal wear for bar and bat mitzvahs.

The College Park location of On Cloud 9 caters toward an older, college-aged consumer. The shop carries modern and urban pieces for

On Cloud 9 will have a grand opening at its College Park location from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. The store is located on College Avenue and sells an assortment of trendy clothing and accessories for women. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

everyday college life.

Gowling’s five children were more than just her inspiration for a business; they became the cornerstone of On Cloud 9.

They selected the items she sold to their peers by accompanying her on buying trips to New York showrooms.

“When I was younger, for her younger store, I knew what people liked because I was her target audience,” said

Gowling’s daughter Brittany Karakostas, a sophomore family science and psychology major. “I helped her go to shows, and even when I couldn’t go to shows because I had too much school work, she would then know what to buy because she would see what I picked out.”

As Gowling’s children grew older than the customers of her Potomac store and enrolled in

college, she discovered another opportunity to open a store where her children knew the market — College Park.

Now she even enlists Karakostas’ friends in selecting the merchandise to truly get a sense of which retail trends are popular with college women.

“They’re a huge help for me,” Gowling said. “‘Mom, you’ve got to get this line,’

‘Mom, you’ve got to get that line,’ ‘everyone loves this,’ and ‘she’s coming out with this.’

They’re really good at keeping me up to date on the fashions.”

The result is the College Park store, which focuses on daytime wear and going-out attire for college women.

At the grand opening today, customers who buy an item will be entered into an hourly raffle for $25 gift cards to the

store. In addition, the first 50 customers will receive a free On Cloud 9 tote bag, which usually sells for $4.99. If they bring the bag with them for future visits, they receive 9 percent off their purchase.

The front of the new store is geared toward comfortable daytime attire. Piles of cotton T-shirts, bright sweatshirts by Chaser and jean shorts adorn two round wooden tables at the entrance of the store.

Short day dresses by brands such as Vintage Havana and BB Dakota line the left walls while the right side is dominated by lounge wear.

As customers walk farther back into the store, they find silk tanks by Greylin and banded tube-top dresses by La Cite, which are geared toward students hitting bars and clubs at night.

“The store has a very comfortable vibe,” said Briana Abedi, the store manager and a university alumna. “We get a lot of girls that come in to socialize, take a break and look around.”

While it may be the only convenient higher-end boutique in the College Park area, customers don’t need to worry about losing the originality of their purchases.

“We only order a certain number of every style, mostly between four and six pieces,” Abedi said. “Once it’s gone, we usually won’t reorder; this way, girls won’t be caught wearing the same thing.” kbulav@umdbk.com

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WOLFPACK from page 8 outside of star forward Tracy Smith (14 points), who was withheld from the starting lineup and hampered all night because of a nagging knee injury. Williams capitalized inside and finished with 16 points and 13 rebounds, his 24th doubledouble of the year.

“We came out with fire right away,” he said. “We wanted to show that we were ready to play, that we had energy. We hit some shots and we got some stops, so we just carried the momentum from there.”

The Terps used another quick start to the second half to distance themselves from NC State.

Guard Cliff Tucker hit a 3pointer with 10:11 remaining that gave the Terps a 58-46 lead. They kept a double-digit lead until the final two minutes, when the Wolfpack started a late comeback attempt.

In the final five-plus minutes of action, the Wolfpack trimmed the Terps’ lead to six with a 14-5 run bolstered by harassing full-court pressure. But after Stoglin sank two late free throws, the Terps’ date with the Blue Devils tonight was assured.

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“They made us work all the way up to the end of that game,” Gary Williams said. “The positive thing is that we won, and believe me, that’s important.”

The Terps’ defense limited the Wolfpack to just 33.8 percent shooting from the field and only two of 17 from behind the arc.

With an unusually high turnover total (17) on their own end, every Terp stop proved crucial.

“We’ve been preaching defense all week,” Gary Williams said. “I felt our defense wasn’t as good as it could be. I was glad to see us get some stops. We have to be that way.”

Now, the Terps have to do something even tougher: beat Duke. With a win against the Blue Devils, who have beat them twice this season, the Terps would take another step closer to their improbable goal of winning one tournament and earning a berth to the biggest one around.

“I’m excited,” Gregory said. “This is my last goaround in the ACC Tournament. Any time you can play in the second round, it doesn’t come that often, [so] you have to be excited.

We’re going to look to play this game and then hopefully two after that.” ceckard@umdbk.com

TOWSON from page 8 present the ultimate contrast in styles. While Towson prides itself on patience, often holding the ball for minutes before taking a shot on goal, the Terps are known for their frantic pacing. They use quickness to disorient opponents into surrendering easy shot attempts.

Because of this, Tillman said controlling the game’s tempo is key to securing the Terps’ first road win of the season.

“If we’re going to win, it’s going to be with our fastpaced style of play,” Tillman

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“Obviously, we always want to beat whoever we’re playing, but there’ll definitely be some extra incentive this weekend.”

JOE CUMMINGS TERRAPIN MEN’S LACROSSE ATTACKMAN

said. “But we’ve also got to stay poised and handle the

ball well.”

And although they likely won’t need it, his team will have some extra motivation this weekend. Five Terps hail from Towson, making tomorrow’s game a reunion of sorts.

“I can literally throw a lacrosse ball from my parents’ house to Towson’s field,” junior attackman Joe Cummings said. “Obviously, we always want to beat whoever we’re playing, but there’ll definitely be some extra incentive this weekend. So many of us know guys on their team, and you always want to beat guys you grew up playing with.” letourneau@umdbk.com

CONFERENCE from page 8 another challenge: the start of ACC play with a weekend series at No. 25 Georgia Tech.

The Terps (8-4) have downplayed the importance of ever y opponent they’ve faced this season, opting instead to put the focus on their own play — “the game against the game,” as players call it. But with conference play and a nationally ranked opponent looming, the Terps admit that this weekend’s series is a chance for them to send a message to the rest of the ACC about the state of Terp baseball.

“It’s real important that we go in there and show a good three-game set and just show everybody else in the ACC that Maryland’s back and Maryland’s ready to play and compete in the ACC,” second baseman Ryan Holland said.

“We’re not down. We’re not at the bottom of the barrel anymore. You think Maryland’s coming in, and it’s an easy weekend. It’s not going to be that, and Tech’s going to be surprised, I think.”

Conference struggles have been the norm for the Terps in recent years. They last made the eight-team ACC Tournament in 2005 and went a league-worst 5-25 in conference play last year.

the conference tournament.

The Blue Devils aren’t going to be a lifeless bunch of souls wandering across the hardwood, as the Wolfpack often looked last night. Duke is too talented and has too much on the line — most notably, a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament — to roll over.

NC State didn’t have much to play for, having entered last night’s contest as losers in four of its past five games. The Terps should have beaten NC State. It’s not a shocking development.

Now, they have less than 24 hours to prepare for a team that has already beaten them twice this season. Unlike what we saw last night against the Wolfpack, a win against Duke would actually be something to get excited about.

“The positive thing is that we won, and believe me, that’s important, especially this time of year to get that win,” Gary Williams said. “But now we’re playing Duke, and we’ve played them twice, so we have a pretty good idea of what they do.”

But even in coach Erik Bakich’s second year in College Park, center fielder Korey Wacker said this season is “sort of our rebuilding year.”

“We want to take it with a grain of salt and show ever ybody this isn’t an old Terrapin team,” Wacker said.

“This is a new and improved and relit Mar yland Terrapin baseball.

“We’re not going to play to everybody else’s, shall I say, concerns, and how they want us to play. We’re going to go out there and play our baseball and definitely give it the best we can, and hopefully we prove some people wrong.”

Strong showings in ACC play are often enough to secure postseason berths, but even with the increasingly important games, Bakich said the program’s recent league struggles will not be a burden for the Terps as they head down to Atlanta to face the Yellow Jackets (9-4).

“The Maryland of old is absolutely a nonfactor,” Bakich said. “This program now has nothing to with the old. There is no old Maryland, and we don’t compare ourselves to any teams that have ever been in this program.

This is a whole new program; this is a whole new team; these are all new players.

Nobody in this program could care less what this program has done historically. It’s all

He conceded last night that his team still needs to improve if it hopes to compete against one of the top teams in Division I basketball. The Terps, after all, didn’t play their best 40 minutes of the season last night.

They just played well enough to beat a listless NC State team.

The Terps threw away passes and missed a few easy layups. They committed 17 turnovers and struggled against the Wolfpack’s press late in the game. They gave up some easy transition baskets. And yet, after everything, they still won by eight.

“Our defense wasn’t as good as it could be,” Williams said. “This time of year, you’re not going to win without playing good defense because the teams you play from here on out are ver y good defensive teams, starting with tomorrow night. You have to match that.”

Williams is right: The Terps need to fix those mistakes — and fast — to stand a chance tonight against the Blue Devils.

Last night’s win was easy. Now comes the real test. jengelke@umdbk.com

us, it’s all about now, so it’s going to be good.”

After taking one of four games at No. 12 Texas, the Terps said they won’t be fazed by their second road trip of the season. Their opening series against the Longhorns came in front of a hostile crowd at Disch-Falk Field and, according to players, has prepared them for the hostile environments they will face on a regular basis in the baseballrich ACC. “That’s what I love so much about this program,” Wacker said. “We take on the biggest and baddest guy, and we want to take them down first. Having to go to an environment like that at Texas definitely prepares us for the future, places like Georgia Tech, Clemson, and once we ride to Florida State and such. But it definitely helps us out.”

The Terps will again play the underdog role against the Yellow Jackets. But despite Georgia Tech’s intimidating environment at Russ Chandler Stadium and the Terps’ own historical struggles, they see no reason why they can’t enjoy more surprising success in Atlanta.

When asked for a prediction for the series, Holland didn’t hesitate.

“I’m pulling two out of three,” Holland said. schneider@umdbk.com

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

THE SHOW GOES ON

Bigger test looms

Terps get plenty of contributions in 75-67 victory

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

GREENSBORO, N.C. – In its slide off the NCAA Tournament bubble in recent weeks, the Terrapin men’s basketball team became what amounted to a two-man squad absent much energy or hope.

But in the opening minutes of Thursday night’s first-round ACC Tournament game against No. 10 seed NC State, the seventh-seeded Terps regained the balanced scoring and defensive intensity they had lost.

They hit their shots, played tight defense and cruised to a 75-67 victory that kept the first stage of their postseason alive. And despite several lategame mistakes that again showed why they might not play in Greensboro Coliseum for much longer, the Terps held on to win and advance to face No. 2 seed Duke tonight.

“I thought we learned we could win,” coach Gary Williams said. “Winning is a fragile thing, and if you lose a couple games, it starts to seep in. You have to have tough people to prevent that from happening. Whenever you have a young team, it’s up to the players that played last year to be leaders.”

Forward Jordan Williams started the game almost perfectly, converting a three-point play on the game’s opening possession. On the team’s next trip down the floor, freshman forward Haukur Palsson nailed a transition 3pointer in just his second career start.

The Terps (19-13) raced out to a double-digit lead before the Wolfpack ever hit a field goal, holding an early 12-2 advantage. In never ceding control of the game, they built on a 13-0 run in the middle of the half to run past NC State (15-16).

And instead of becoming a scoring show solely orchestrated by Williams and guard Terrell Stoglin, the Terps’ offense branched out. All nine players who logged minutes in the game scored. Even forward James Padgett, who relieved Dino Gregory in the first half after foul trouble, emerged from his place deep on the team’s bench to finish with six points and four rebounds by intermission.

“We learned that we’re a pretty tough team,” forward Gregory said.

“Our focus was going out there and believing in ourselves, and that’s what we did.”

The Wolfpack had to find options

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mere 12 seconds into his ACC Tournament opener against NC State last night, guard Adrian Bowie got a sense of just how easy things would be for the Terrapin men’s basketball team inside Greensboro Coliseum.

After seeing forward Jordan Williams run a hook inside the paint and call for the ball, Bowie hit the streaking Williams, who went on to finish the ensuing layup while being fouled by NC State’s Scott Wood. The sophomore finished the three-point play with a swish from the free-throw line, giving the Terps an advantage right out of the gate.

The game’s early action — and much of it afterward — was almost child’s play for Williams and the Terps, who never relinquished their initial lead and cruised to a 7567 victory over the Wolfpack.

The win, aside from a final NC State flurry, was painless, easy and smooth. And even after the Wolfpack’s 14-7 run to end the game, the Terps were never truly threatened down the stretch.

Five days after a demoralizing 14point Senior Day loss to Virginia, last night’s pushover was just what players needed to move past a three-game losing streak that capped their regular season and then on to a potential four-game roll that could revitalize their year.

“I thought we learned we could win,” coach Gary Williams said.

“Winning is a fragile thing, and if you lose a couple games, it starts to seep in.”

And while the win was a boon to the Terps’ confidence, players realized they won’t have such an easy out tonight when they face Duke, their first real challenge of Forward Jordan Williams finished with 16 points and 13 rebounds in the Terps’ 75-67 win against NC State last night.

The Terps face second-seeded Duke tonight in a must-win second-round game. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

see ENGELKE, page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

In-state foe will test Terps’ history, attack Stingy Tiger defense could spell end of one-sided advantage in Towson tomorrow

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

Center fielder Korey Wacker and the Terps face No. 25 Georgia Tech today.

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BASEBALL

Terps open ACC play in new role Contending is top goal

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

A dozen games into the season, the Terrapin baseball team has done ever ything necessar y to make 2011 a year of resurgence for the long-dormant program.

The Terps had a strong showing in their season-opening series at nationally ranked Texas . They took care of business against Navy, Army, Canisius and Delaware, dropping just one game against the less-heralded opponents who might have given them trouble last year.

Now, the Terps’ 2011 season and program-rebuilding efforts face

see CONFERENCE, page 7

When the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team travels to Towson tomorrow for its first intra-state matchup of the season, more than just bragging rights will be at stake.

With a 13-0 all-time road record against the Tigers, the No. 8 Terps (3-1) have the unique opportunity to extend perfection.

But for a team trying to forget its last road test, a heartbreaking 9-8 overtime loss at Duke last Saturday, it’ll need more than history to overcome Towson’s stringent defense.

With goalie Travis Love saving 67 percent of opponents’ shots on goal, the Tigers (1-2) are allowing just 5.3 goals per game this season. The Terps, in contrast, have given up 7 goals per game.

“They like to sit back on defense and play really tight on the goal,” said attackman Grant Catalino, who leads all active Terps with six career goals against Towson. “It’s going to be really important for us to push the tempo and force them to spread out.”

Despite its strong defensive play, Towson has struggled to score this season.

Attackman Ryan Young, left, and the Terps won at Towson in March 2009, 9-7. Tomorrow afternoon, they’ll face a tough Tiger defense that has allowed just 5.3 goals per game this season. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Its 6.3 goals per game are less than one-half of the Terps’ average, 14.

Towson showed the potential of its attack last week, however, when it came to life in an 11-3 blowout win over Mount St.

Mary’s — a squad that finished last season ranked No. 16 nationally.

If the Terps hope to prevent another outburst this weekend, they’ll need to shut down attackman Matt Hughes.

The Tigers’ four th-lead-

ing scorer as a freshman, Hughes has developed into one of the Colonial Athletic Association’s most ef ficient scorers this season and leads his team with six points.

“If we’re going to stop

[Hughes], we need to be opportunistic,” coach John Tillman said. “We need to make good decisions that’ll take away easy shots.”

Tomorrow’s matchup will

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