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Admin. to study economic relationships Univ. aims to cut Firm to examine how the university, city impact each other financially

BY DERBY COX Senior staff writer

The university is hiring an independent firm to study the economic interplay between the university and the city in an effort to ease tension and provide a foundation for future financial talks with the city of College Park, administrators said.

The study, which Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie said would cost about $20,000 and take a few months, will examine factors such as the costs and benefits of student housing to the city. The university invited the city to co-sponsor the

study, but city officials said cashstrapped College Park may not have the money and wanted more specifics about how it would play out.

“This study is really intended to help the city and the university understand the kind of economic implications of our partnership together because economic issues come up constantly in decisions,” university President Dan Mote said. “Probably the most common topic of conversation with the city is who’s costing who how much.”

The university introduced the idea in a Feb. 7 letter to the city, but after not receiving a response, university

administrators selected Sage Policy Group Inc. of Baltimore to conduct the study. College Park Mayor Andrew Fellows said city officials would consider the idea at a work session Tuesday.

“If we had unlimited money, I think we’d be interested in sharing the costs of the study, but times being what they are, it may be difficult to spend the money on this,” Fellows said.

Even without financial support, Mote said the university would appreciate the city’s endorsement of the study. Without the study, he said there

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Hard to pin down Taylor’s eccentric personality not getting in the way of his ultimate goal

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

Hudson Taylor remembers countless occasions awaiting a chance to audition for a spot in Generics, the university’s all-male a cappella group.

Taylor has always been interested in showing off his singing ability. But

each time he went in for a tryout, he left before his turn came, realizing another extracurricular activity would be too time-consuming.

For a typical college student, effective time management can be important. For Taylor, it’s imperative. The fifth-year senior, who has volunteered in political elections, cam-

paigned for gay rights and even crafted his own major, is involved in a slightly more intensive activity throughout the year.

He happens to be, by nearly every statistical measure, the best wrestler in the history of the Terrapin

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PFC. THOMAS JENSEN, 1972-2010

‘His loss is a huge blow to all of us’

BY DARREN BOTELHO Staff writer

Prince George’s County Pfc. Thomas Jensen died Tuesday night at an area hospital after sustaining injuries from a car crash about two weeks ago at the intersection of Route 1 and University Boulevard, police said.

Jensen, 27, was driving south on Route 1 after receiving a call about a burglary in progress at 6:55 a.m.

Feb. 27, when his car slid on a patch of black ice, causing his police cruiser to spin out of control and hit a utility pole. He was taken to Prince George’s Hospital Center in critical condition and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit upon arrival.

District 1 Commander Maj. Daniel Dusseau said at the time of the crash,

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several nearby officers immediately gave Jensen first aid. The five-year District 1 veteran was described as a genuine person who had always wanted to be a police officer — just like his father, Sgt. Tom Jensen, who also worked for county police.

“I worked with Officer Jensen’s father and remember when Officer Jensen was born,” county Police Chief Roberto Hylton said. “This loss is made all the more difficult because of the close ties with the Jensen family.”

Jensen remained in a medically induced coma since the crash, and some said it seemed that as of Monday he might recover. While he was in the hospital, police said, fellow officers visited him every night.

“Officer Jensen was a beloved member of our police family, and his

Rain/50s

Ph.D. enrollment by 10 percent Only three colleges will see an increase in doctoral students under new plan

BY DERBY COX Senior staff writer

The university will aim to admit about 100 fewer doctoral students next year as part of a push to increase completion rates while decreasing the amount of time students spend in the program.

Enrollment targets call for the majority of the university’s 13 colleges to admit fewer doctoral students next year and for overall enrollment to decrease 10 percent by 2013. Fewer students will allow for closer relationships between students and mentors, more funding for graduate students and increased advising support, Graduate School Dean Charles Caramello wrote in an e-mail.

He added that these factors will help to increase completion rates and decrease completion time — two of the goals of the university’s Strategic Plan.

“A strategic and gradual decrease in overall enrollment will positively affect the univer-

Student activists take aim at Nike contract Alleged sweatshop practices spur protest Staff writer

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loss is a huge blow to all of us,” Hylton said. “Officer Jensen grew up in Prince George’s County; he is truly one of our own.”

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Freshman government and politics major Jack Izen tapes a sign to the Testudo in front of McKeldin Library after he and other members of Feminisim Without Borders wrapped the turtle in aluminum foil. The group was protesting the university's dealings with Nike. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY ALISSA GULIN

Pfc. Thomas Jensen

sity’s graduate programs and will help to achieve the goals laid out for graduate education in the Strategic Plan,” Caramello CHARLES CARAMELLO wrote.

Both the Graduate School Dean arts and humanities and the behavioral and social sciences colleges will both cut their enrollment by about 30 doctoral students next year, the largest two decreases, while three colleges — the mathematical and physical sciences college, the engineering college and the public health school — will actually admit more students.

“I’m really worried about the importance of the behavioral and social sciences and humanities decreasing,” Graduate Student

Testudo got all wrapped up in the activism spirit Wednesday afternoon.

Feminism Without Borders members covered the beloved Terrapin statues in Stamp Student Union and in front of McKeldin Library with aluminum foil to protest the university’s apparel contract with Nike as part of its ongoing campaign against factory sweatshop labor.

President Mary Yanik said the aluminum foil represented “that our school’s continued licensing relationship with Nike reflects poorly on the university. It was a play on words, like a reflection.”

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duction plants in Honduras, where some university apparel is made, did not receive a collective $2.5 million owed to them in severance pay when the factories closed in January 2009.

Students protesting the snub rallied on McKeldin Mall and in front of the student union about 1 p.m., handing out fliers and displaying signs with adaptations of the company’s slogans, such as “Just Pay It” and “Unswooshable Starts Here.”

In a letter submitted to university President Dan Mote last month, Feminism Without Borders called Nike’s actions a flagrant violation of the university’s fair labor code of conduct, which holds companies responsible for

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010

Students to spend break providing relief 21 students make a trip to Haiti while others provide Chile aid from home

BY ADELE HAMPTON Staff writer

Students are trading Solo cups for hammers and donation buckets as they spend their spring break in Haiti or organizing aid to Chile, helping to restore countries ravaged by recent earthquakes to normalcy.

While some students will be spending their spring break sleeping in, tanning or going on road trips, some students will be spending their vacations trying to rebuild Haiti and raise funds to send to Chile. The students, who all have different reasons for their philanthropy, agree they would rather spend their time helping these nations because it’s the right thing to do.

Next week, a group of 21 students and community members will travel to Haiti to teach those affected by January’s devastating earthquake how to build eco-friendly and weather-resistant shelters. The coalition is operating under Brothers and

Sisters International, an organization that works to educate, connect and expand economic stability for developing nations around the world. Although some students have gone to Haiti individually for relief efforts, this will be the first group of students to make the

“What makes our program different is that we’re giving people a skill in solidarity.

This will help them better than Red Cross donations. This is empowerment to people.”

DESTA ANYIWO SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MAJOR

man Patrick Wojahn said.

“There’s a number of differfrom page 1 ent ways in which the university impacts the city, and I would be no factual basis for would hope that if they do a future financial discussions study like this, that the study between the city and university. would take all of those into But Fellows added he’s account.”

The relationship between concerned a study funded wholly by the university the city and university has might not be completely always been strained, but two recent issues brought things objective.

And College Park City to a head, Wylie said.

First, the university considCouncil members also questioned exactly what factors ered challenging whether it is legally responsible for the study would address.

“The devil’s always in the $550,000 in taxes the Athletics details,” District 1 Council- Department pays the city.

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trip together.

“A lot of people have been placed out of their homes ... and in a few weeks Haiti’s rainy season will be here ... so if you have people sleeping outside there’s more opportunity for infection and a good possibility of more people losing their lives,” Brothers and Sisters International Director Paul Pumphrey said.

“It’s influenced those of us who are concerned about our fellow woman and man to help.”

But relief efforts are not only geared toward the devastation in Haiti. Students are also coming together to send aid to Chile, which was hit with large aftershocks this week after a magnitude-8.8 earthquake shook the country late last month.

Newly formed student organizations, such as the Chilean Earthquake Relief Group formed by Chilean student Rodrigo Herrera, have set up tables outside of Stamp Student Union asking for contributions to raise funds for Chilean relief.

Larger student groups such as

Then, the university bought The Washington Post Co.’s College Park printing plant, spurring a debate about how much the city deserved in compensation for lost property tax revenue from the site.

College Park spends at least $800,000 more than it takes in from the university in taxes on ser vices for student residents, including trash cleanup, public safety and code enforcement, according to a report prepared by the city in December.

The report notes 37 percent of the city’s land is

the Black Student Union and the university chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are organizing larger events, such as benefit concerts, to help relief efforts in both countries.

The students actually going to Haiti had to pay about $850 per person, as the trip is being run independent of the university. Once in the country, the students will help build and teach others how to build earthbag homes — houses built from dirt-filled bags stacked atop one another that have been used by international organizations such as the United Nations for quick and cost-effective relief.

“What makes our program different is that we’re giving people a skill in solidarity,” said Desta Anyiwo, a senior mechanical engineering major. “This will help them better than Red Cross donations. This is empowerment to people.” hampton@umdbk.com

exempt from property taxes because it is owned by the university.

Still, city officials said they had more pressing concerns than co-sponsoring the study, such as how to cover the costs of this winter’s snow removal.

“They paying for it? That’s fine, go ahead and do it,” District 2 Councilman Jack Perry said. “As long as they’re paying for it, I don’t have a difficulty with that. Don’t ask us to pay for it, that’s for sure.” cox@umdbk.com

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Feminism Without Borders members Jack Izen, right, and Bob Hayes tape a “Just Pay It” poster above the entrance to McKeldin Library during yesterday’s protest of the university’s dealings with Nike. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

CONTRACT from page 1 ensuring workers’ rights.

The letter detailed the steps the group is asking the administration to take, including immediately terminating the university’s Nike contract. The group asked for a response by Tuesday, but Yanik said they “heard nothing but silence” — a response that spurred Wednesday’s protest.

“The main purpose of the action was to involve other students,” said Yanik, a junior chemistry and government and politics major. “I’ve seen a general empathy on campus for workers’ rights and these sorts of justice issues.”

The protest introduced the campaign to some students who were unfamiliar with it but may have fallen short of convincing more people to get involved.

“I hadn’t even heard about it before I saw the gathering,” said junior aerospace engineering major Caitlin Marsh. “I guess it’s just out of sight out of mind, but seeing the protest at least made me think about where I stand on the issue for once.”

Feminism Without Borders has spearheaded a campaign against Terp apparel manufacturers that engage in sweatshop

labor practices for about five years, Yanik said. It’s affiliated with United Students Against Sweatshops — an international coalition of activists pushing for better working conditions.

She said she hopes the university will participate in the Designated Suppliers Program, a proposal that ensures the university will only honor contracts with factories that support workers’ rights. So far, 46 schools have endorsed the idea, including Georgetown University and the University of California system, although the program hasn’t become a reality yet.

Student pressure was instrumental in prompting the university to cut its contract with Russell Athletic last April in response to unethical labor practices that led to the closing of its Honduras factory where Terp gear had been produced.

Yanik criticized the administration’s “incredible reluctance” to change its licensing policies and said she hopes it will be more proactive in the future.

“We’ll definitely be stepping up our actions and visibility on campus,” she added. “[This issue] is not going to go away in our minds.”

The university’s director of trademark licensing Joe Ebaugh was unavailable for comment. gulin@umdbk.com

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DOCTORAL from page 1 Government President Anupama Kothari said. “Everything seems really oriented toward engineering.”

But arts and humanities Associate Dean Elizabeth Loizeaux said adjusting enrollment would actually help the college and emphasized that enrollment changes were not uniform across the college’s 17 doctoral programs. “‘Right-sizing’ will, in fact, help us build even stronger graduate programs — programs with better financial support for their students and with higher job placement rates,” Loizeaux said.

“All of this will enhance the humanities.”

The new targets were based on programs’ successes in “training, mentoring and appropriately placing doctoral students” along with their abilities to “recruit, train and mentor top students and support them financially,” Caramello wrote.

The decision to examine doctoral enrollment was not motivated by budget concerns, he noted, but some programs

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“‘Right-sizing’ will, in fact, help us build even stronger graduate programs — programs with better financial support for their students and with higher job placement rates.”

ELIZABETH LOIZEAUX ARTS AND HUMANITIES ASSOCIATE DEAN

may have suggested decreasing their enrollment because of the budget.

The new figures would help to ensure that doctoral students find suitable employment after they leave the university, Loizeaux said.

“We also need to align our programs with the availability of jobs,” she said. “Students come into graduate school with dreams of entering the profession for which it trains

them. We need to help assure that if they are successful in their programs, that dream will be realized.”

Kothari said she was concerned by that kind of calculation because it fails to take into account the inherent value of education.

“We are in the business of education — we are not in the business of placing students,” Kothari said. “It’s not a numbers game. You’re going for a Ph.D. because you want to learn more.”

Teaching assistants’ workloads will not increase as a result of the new targets, Caramello wrote, a concern GSG officials brought up last semester.

It took 15 months to arrive at the new targets, Caramello wrote. Each of the university’s 83 doctoral programs gathered data on their successes and resources and proposed their own enrollment targets, he wrote in a letter to the graduate programs.

Final enrollment targets were selected after meetings between graduate school officials and representatives from each college. cox@umdbk.com

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STUDENT GROUP CELEBRATES WOMEN OF COLOR For National Women’s History Month, the student group hosted its annual awards ceremony to honor four women of color affiliated with the university for their roles in the community.

ALL COMMONS 7 DRAWERS TO BE REPLACED OVER BREAK Some South Campus Commons residents may soon enjoy a discount on a Chipotle burrito thanks to a manufacturing defect on their desk and dresser drawers.

Capstone Management, the company that oversees the Commons buildings, will give Commons 7 residents $5 gift cards to the restaurant to excuse the inconvenience of replacing every drawer in the building during spring break.

‘Animals are just the same as humans’ VegTerps display equates human, animal cruelty

BY DANA CETRONE Staf f writer

In Hornbake Plaza this past week, a set of tri-fold boards showcased pictures of slaves being branded, police beating black protesters at a civil rights march and something else rather graphic — piglets being castrated.

Peta2, the youth offshoot of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, co-sponsored the Animal Liberation Project exhibit with VegTerps, an animal activist group at the university, in an effort to spread awareness about animal cruelty that members said mirrors human suffering. “[The display] takes a look back at the histor y of human oppression and how there should be the same rules for animals,” peta2 spokeswoman Adrianne Burke said.

“Animals are just the same as humans, and they should have the same social justice.”

The exhibit featured tall panels with a picture of an animal cruelty practice at the top — such as cow branding — with an image of similar brutality involving humans — such as the branding of slaves — below it.

The boards also featured images of a monkey sticking its fingers through a cage next to the hand of an inmate reaching out through a fence, as well as more disturbing images of a cow in an experimental apparatus.

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Motivational speaker Margaret Dureke spoke at the African Student Association's tribute to women of color. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

At the time of the car crash, Jensen was responding to a call reporting a man who had gotten high on PCP and broken into an apartment using force, according to a statement issued by police.

“It’s been crazy around

VegTerps and peta2 set up an exhibit in Hornbake Plaza this week depicting animal cruelty as similar to human oppression throughout history. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

“The main goal is to raise animal awareness,” Vegterps President and founder Michelle Carr said. “It’s to compare how old human oppression is happening today with animals.”

Peta2 representatives and VegTerps members stood outside the display and handed out leaflets advocating for veganism and awareness of animal cruelty.

“Ninty-five percent of animals are raised under factor y farming conditions, and being a vegan can save over 100 animals’ lives per year,” Burke said.

Most passers-by continued on their way.

One onlooker who stopped by the table, senior economics major Sobia Ijaz, said she agreed with what the boards represented.

“I have an interest in this

here,” Dusseau said. “Losing an officer is a lot to deal with on top of ever ything else we need to handle.”

Jensen, who graduated from DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, aspired to be a narcotics detective and was active in charity work, his friends told The Washington Post.

A viewing will be held Sunday at the Robert E. Evans

train of thought and I’ve known about these issues,” Ijaz said. “It’s nice to have it put out here in public. Some people just walk by and don’t even care.”

Carr said peta2 contacted her about having the exhibit at the university in light of their recent Libby Award for Best Student Group — a distinction peta2 gives to student groups at universities across the country that honor animal-friendly efforts.

Peta2 representatives were on the campus all week and even lent a hand to VegTerps with their McCruelty campaign efforts, raising the number of signatures on their petition to remove McDonald’s from Stamp Student Union to 3,500. cetrone@umdbk.com

Funeral Home in Bowie, Dusseau said, and ser vices will be held Monday at the Riverdale Baptist Church in Upper Marlboro.

Jensen is the 26th county police officer to die in the line of duty. He is survived by his wife of five months, Kristelle Jensen, his mother and his father. botelho@umdbk.com

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Stoking the fireside I

t wasn’t too long ago that the issue of transparency dominated the dialogue at salary guide annually. And even with this salary information already accessible, the university. But university President Dan Mote’s retirement, last week’s the administration’s refusal to post the budget in its entirety led students to do it riot and other issues have combined to push the debate over the administra- themselves. A pdf file of the 900-page document can be viewed in many places tion’s willingness to open its inner dialogue over budget cuts to outside views now, including the Student Government Association’s blog and The Diamondout of the minds of most. Surprisingly, it doesn’t appear to have slipped the minds of back website.

Yet the administration remains reluctant of doing everyadministrators. thing it can. In place of the actual budget, there are PowerEarlier this week the administration unveiled a redesigned Point slides that give an overview but lack concrete specifics.

“Budget Central” website loaded with information for those Administrators must understand that this demand will not wishing to understand the budgetary process. The administraThe administration owes it cease. Despite the dramatic improvements they have made in tion should be lauded for its willingness to follow through on an to students to make the such a short period of time, it is not enough. As history shows issue that students have expressed as important even after us, the administration was just as reluctant to unveil faculty other events have moved public attention away from the issue. budget clear and easily salaries in the 1970s. Some things never change, including The redesigned site also makes dramatic improvements accessible. student pressure. over its predecessor. There are now flowcharts that lay out how Students may never have an actual say in what gets cut, but budgetary decisions are made for various sectors, from student affairs to research, in addition to new “fireside chat” videos that feature Mote they can exert their opinions. Administrators even welcome suggestions about answering students’ questions. While slightly corny, if not propagandistic, it’s still what to cut on their new website from students and faculty alike. But these suggestions will never be as informed as they could be as long as the actual budget good to see administrators making an effort.

But despite all of these improvements, one thing remains missing: a copy of the remains hard to find and hard to comprehend.

If administrators really want their actions towards improving transparency to be budget in an explanatory and easy-to-read format. The firestorm that originally erupted last semester was about this very factor. The administration refused to taken seriously, they should give students and faculty a real chance to think critipost the budget online for fear that other schools would attempt to recruit profes- cally about university spending. That can only start with a pdf file and a truly transsors who may be underpaid, despite the fact that this very newspaper publishes a parent Budget Central.

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Community: Policing ourselves

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omewhere between our supposed criminal reputation from the Prince George’s County riot squad and the foolish ne’er-do-wells we all aspire to be lies a small group of people who see us clearly and without fault.

You may not notice them, but there is a non-student resident populous who calls our playground home.

They are the university faculty, young families and older couples who know this town better than any of us smart-ass students. These brave souls, the normal contributors of society, understand what it means to live in a college town. It takes patience, tolerance and an ability to see public vomiting as a way of giving back to nature. Well, sort of.

Be thankful — without these folks, College Park would have a lot more in common with Folsom State Prison than we’d like to admit.

Last week, my housemates and I created quite the stir in our quaint

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KRAMER neighborhood, and I say this lightly.

Having received minor complaints in the past, this particular night went a little too far. Rather than calling the bacon squad on our hides, a concerned neighbor decided to confront the situation civilly, unlike the preemptive strike from our friends in the riot squad.

To correct any future disturbances, he spoke with us in person about the issue. Keep in mind, this wasn’t a lecture or anything close to a disciplinary beatdown, but it was a reasonable conversation between people of two different lifestyles that eventually spurred a sound solution: no cops.

After a simple exchange of phone numbers and an agreement to kick it down a notch, we carried on like the suburbanites we are. Before you erupt with anarchist praise over a zero-cop society, it’s important to know that this arrangement still would have involved the local authorities, but only as a last resort. Put simply, if we cannot control the situation, they will.

Witnessing the civility of our surrounding non-student neighbors threw me for a loop. For a while, I was convinced the city paid them to hate us, but this is far from the truth.

We are college students and many of them choose to respect that.

However, deals such as this require commitment on both ends.

These residents are regular people, and we would be wise to respect them. Failure to do so results in a clear disobedience with residential conduct, and it presents you as the kind of person who might never own

a home.

Living next to the campus has its perks. Actually, it might be the best arrangement you could ask for. But without a resident assistant stalking your shadow, actions must be kept in check. We’re lucky to have such great neighbors and even luckier to have friends who respect their requests.

Besides, we’re putting the foot down on creepy party wreckers. The blame is never pointed at them, but every party has the shady characters nobody knows, who drink silently in the corner until they get the urge to break something.

I’m sorry, but from here on out, we only allow cool people.

If you feel left out, go start a senseless riot — unless we won a big game.

Jason Kramer is a junior American studies major. He can be reached at kramer@umdbk.com.

Language: A capital issue

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hy do the styleenforcers of the print world insist on the capitalization of “Internet” and “World Wide Web,” but don’t insist on reading from Books and Newspapers or watching Television?

The question of when and why we capitalize words in English is not nearly as obvious as you may think.

The first word in a sentence is capitalized, as are names, religions, language names, locations — lumped together as “proper nouns.” The pronoun “I” is capitalized, even though no other pronoun is, but that’s been explained as a typographical strategy to avoid having the modest standalone letter “i” being accidentally attached to the preceding word or deleted entirely.

Just about every acronym comes in the form of capital letters, regardless of the lowercase status of the full phrase: we have 3-D, IV, HD, CD and DVD — even though movies are

three-dimensional or high definition, shots are given intravenously, we listen to compact disks and watch digital video discs. The question of why some phrases become acronyms and others don’t is a whole other conundrum — why didn’t cassette tapes become CTs, despite near-identical use and phonetics as CDs? It seems fair enough to accept the lowercasing of mp3 and pdf as the direct result of its digital formatting.

Capital letters also work to mark specific historic instances — the Black Death of the 14th century, the Civil War in the U.S., the Holocaust of World War II. The capitalization of the Olympics seems to hearken back to the singular event in ancient Athens.

Let’s return to the Internet and the Web. The latter is broken off from the World Wide Web, so it might be that the acronym, WWW, led to the capitalization of the full phrase, a form retained even when the shorthand “Web” became common. That

MARDY

SHUALY doesn’t explain the Internet.

New technologies have a mixed record. When new gadgets are produced by a single company, they’re obviously capitalized, which is why we watch in Technicolor and listen in Dolby Digital. Sometimes a company’s dominance leads to the substitution for the generic name, as in Xeroxing for making copies and Kleenex for tissues. Google is an interesting case. “Googling” is a ubiquitous verb, but the rules are unclear — some people capitalize it, other people don’t. The choice in this case actually suggests a bit of nuance: Googling emphasizes the

service provider, while googling seems more generic, with the emphasis on the searching. At least Yahooing and Binging haven’t caught on. Generic new technologies don’t conform to any obvious rule; some are capitalized (like Blu-ray and Bluetooth), but many aren’t (email, broadband).

I’m of two minds when it comes to the Internet’s style. On the one hand, I do think it’s transitioned from a fancy new technology to a universally-used medium. If someone asks, “Where can I find it?”, the answers “in a book” and “on the internet” really feel the same. On the other hand, the Internet is understood as a singular entity, a unified bundle of networks. You cannot have several Internets. So, for now at least, let the Internet stand.

Mardy Shualy is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at mshualy@umdbk.com.

Inheriting an old problem MATTHEW GRAVES

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on Saltzman’s March 9 guest column, “On even ground,” asks a question that I suspect he didn’t think through: What if we couldn’t rely on the success of the generations before us?

No one could use a tool they had not figured out or someone close hadn’t discovered recently.

Language probably wouldn’t exist, since parents couldn’t teach their children how to talk. Plants and animals couldn’t be domesticated or bred, except for a few generations. We’d be hunter-gatherers with no culture, knowledge or wealth — with short lifespans and unfulfilling relationships.

Where do I sign up?

Perhaps it would help to pay more attention to what Martin Luther King Jr. and Betty Friedan actually advocated. Sensible people realize reality is inherently unfair, but some unfairness is artificial.

Equality of opportunity in the sense of advantages will never be realized, but equality of opportunity in the sense of social or legal restrictions can be. Restrictions based on birth, race or sex are generally artificial (notable exceptions exist, such as pregnancy), and the artificial ones should be done away with.

The forces that prevent a sudra, the lowest traditional Indian class, from becoming a merchant should be abolished. The forces that prevent someone without capital from investment, cannot be abolished.

Unfairness that is built into the nature of reality cannot be done away with, and attempts to do so end in blood and tears. Perhaps Saltzman should meditate more on the outcome of the French Revolution and the subsequent sevenyear duration of the Saint-Simon experiment. I wouldn’t call that “thriving.”

When one child is born with the genes to be a genius and another is born with genes that will make knowing a thousand words a skill that will take decades to acquire, no amount of wishing or activity will make the second child as smart as the first. The first can be reduced to the level of the second, but such a villainous act would worsen their life and the lives of everyone around them.

Saltzman also limits himself to a inheritor’s perspective when he talks about Paris Hilton. Make of that what you will. The other side to the inheritance equation is the person giving away the wealth.

Who would say Conrad Hilton didn’t deserve his wealth? And if he deserves to own his wealth, certainly he should deserve to use his wealth, and one use for wealth is giving it away. How far someone plans for the future tends to scale with their age — young children make decisions based on the very short term, teenagers based on the short term, adults based on the long term and elders on the very long term.

Someone with only a decade or two left to live nevertheless makes plans that span many decades because that person’s experience has been built over many decades.

People choose when to retire and what to do with their money during retirement based on the laws governing inheritance.

When they can give away everything to their children or their chosen institutions, they work longer and harder to accumulate more so they can do more. When a sizable portion of their estate is taxed, they work shorter hours and less strenuously, since their accumulating power is reduced. Were their estate confiscated entirely at death, they would have no reason to save anything beyond what would last the remainder of their lives, and would retire as soon as they could afford it.

Abolish inheritance? Hardly. We should celebrate it, and build what we can for the next generation.

Inheritances do not get larger or more prevalent through wishing.

Matthew Graves is a senior economics and physics major. He can be reached at vaniver@gmail.com.

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After all these years, legendary soul performer Al Green isn’t resting on his laurels. His passionate international fanbase wouldn’t even let him if he tried.

Green is the charismatic singersongwriter who made his name with sensual hits like “Tired of Being Alone” and “Let’s Stay Together” in the 1970s and went on to become an important name in gospel recordings of the ’80s.

And with all of that, he is still touring the world, making new music and presiding over his congregation at the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in Memphis, Tenn., in his role as an ordained reverend.

Green makes a stop in Washington this weekend to make up for his snow-canceled February dates.

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“I think that’s the home crowd,” Green said about performing in Washington. “I grew up singing to Washington, Baltimore.”

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“The people in New Zealand wouldn’t leave the theater!” Green said. “They had to start blinking the lights so the people would go home. They were waiting on Al to come back! “‘He ain’t done, man, he gotta sing “Call Me” yet! And “You Ought To Be With Me”! Where do he think he going?’” Green added, imitating the New Zealand crowd. “I just played for an hour [and] 40 minutes, man, I’m [tired]! The folks wouldn’t leave, so they start turning the lights out!”

When asked about his involvement in the church, Green started exclaiming with shock, “I’m a preacher! I’m a preacher!”

“What you is writing about is a preacher coming to Washington, D.C. to the Constitution Hall for two

nights,” Green said, steadfast on how very much involved in the church he is. “That’s what you writin’ about! And I’m willing to lay it down, let it go, fall in love, love and happiness, good times. How can you mend a broken heart? That’s what I’m gonna do!”

As for gospel music, Green said he was currently writing the framework for an album with “a timpani type of backbeat” but with an R&B feel. He predicts the album will be released this summer.

Not surprisingly, being a reverend has affected Green’s songwriting. “[My role as a pastor is bound] to have a profound work because I don’t have anything else to write about,” Green said. “It’s like when the big man say what he’s got to say, ain’t nobody else got nothing else to say. So

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I’ve just got love and happiness.”

Even with all of his religious duties, Green is still very much a music man. But when asked what type of music he was currently listening to, his answers allowed for the frightening image of Green rocking out to Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha.

“I have to listen to everything,” Green said. “Whether I like it or not. I’m in the business. And I’m too far in the business to have my head out of the business — I’m too far into everything to have my head out of it. So my head is in the business and I have to listen to the rappers and the singers, and the this and the that, and this group and this new group and all the rest of it.

I have to hear it all. Because I’m a participant, and so, therefore I have to listen. I have to hear it.

“I don’t have a single favorite of anything. I just like whatever the man play on the radio. It doesn’t matter to me.”

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Taylor from a party-first freshman into an enigma, hard to pin down in both life and wrestling.

While Under Armour is the default apparel for Terrapin athletes, Taylor prefers ripped jeans, a flannel shirt and a pair of Chuck Taylors. His fiancee, Lia Mandaglio, said Taylor often takes an ardent interest in her outfits and accessories. She also said if he had the money, he would wear anything from “a burlap sack to a fabulous Gucci suit.”

Mandaglio said Taylor has swapped shirts with complete strangers on the street simply because he wanted to try out something new. Taylor chose to travel to Kenya, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the summer after graduating high school. There, Taylor encountered a man wearing shoes made out of tires, and they immediately swapped footwear.

He still has the shoes in his closet.

Not even his wrestling teammates can figure him out. Alex Krom remembers arriving on the campus as a freshman and being introduced to a teammate

TAYLOR from page 1 wrestling program. And on March 18 in Omaha, Neb., Taylor will attempt to win the Terps’ first wrestling national title in 41 years.

“I kinda had to step back from all of the different activities and focus on my wrestling this season,” Taylor said. “I am not a religious man, but I do believe that my name will live on after I die. I like the fact that if I come back to Maryland in 20 years, I will be able to look up on the wall in the wrestling room and still see my picture and my name hanging there.”

A two-time All-American and the No. 3 wrestler in his 197pound weight class, Taylor has the most career wins, most career pins and most pins in a season in program history. He’s drawn an abnormal amount of recent media attention for a college wrestler, most of which details his diverse off-the-mat interests and quirky personality.

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wearing Ugg boots and oversized, 1970s-style eyeglasses.

Krom wondered what he had gotten himself into.

Coach Kerry McCoy, who took over for former coach Pat Santoro in 2008, said despite an almost two-year relationship with his star, there are still things Taylor does in practice that baffle him.

Wednesday, in between sparring sessions with McCoy, Taylor began talking to himself about techniques and strategies, which threw his coach for a loop.

“He is really out there,” McCoy said of Taylor. “The thing about him is, he does whatever he thinks is the right thing to do, and he doesn’t care what other people think of it. We can have disagreements on wrestling technique, and no matter what I say, it won’t matter. He will just do his own thing.”

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of clothes in his entire room and must have lost his room keys “like 400 times.”

As he headed home for winter break that year, Taylor had a 1.8 GPA and wasn’t sure he wanted to go back to school.

But once he did, he credited his blossoming relationship with Mandaglio for much of the turnaround.

Taylor said Mandaglio, a law student at George Washington University, was incredibly organized and detailed. Her work ethic helped him realize he needed to change his lifestyle.

“He was a mess. He was used to a rigid lifestyle at prep school where everything was scheduled for him and people told him when he needed to get things done,” Mandaglio said of Taylor, whose high school friends at Blair Academy in New Jersey identified him by his free-spirited attitude. “He had never used an agenda book — he couldn’t keep track of anything. I just helped him realize it was all a lot easier than he thought.”

With that, his wrestling results also improved. He finished third at 197 pounds in the

National Championships two years ago and repeated that result last year. He’s 38-2 with 24 pins this season.

He admitted he’s more focused on finishing his career on a high note than other interests, but that hasn’t stopped him from showing his outward personality.

It’s not out of the ordinary for Taylor to get sidetracked on a night out with Mandaglio in Washington. He has actually stopped on the side of the street to sit and share stories with a homeless man. McCoy said he’s never heard Taylor say a bad word about anybody, even in a playful manner among teammates.

“I just like to strike up conversations with people and learn as much as I possibly can,” Taylor said. “I view each day as a chance to do something and learn something, and I hate wasting days. I am always trying to expand my horizons and my knowledge.

It’s just a personality thing.”

That attitude allows Taylor to avoid being consumed by his quest for a national title. He

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“We should have a little bit of swagger coming in there. ... We’re not going to get away from what got us to this point.”

from page 8 to No. 12 seed Miami.

The Terps charged from the sixth seed to win their unlikely 2004 title at the Greensboro Coliseum — the only time a team other than Duke or North Carolina has won it in the last 13 years.

They’ll kick off this year’s edition tonight against the Yellow Jackets, who knocked off North Carolina 62-58 in a firstround game yesterday.

“Tournament play is funny because it’s one game,” coach Gary Williams said before contrasting it with a drawn-out NBA playoff series. “If you play poorly, you go home.”

Thanks to earning their first bye since the conference expanded to include multiple first-round games in 2005, the Terps have had plenty of time to let their favorable prospects sink in.

Tuesday, a day before the team left for the tournament, Williams said the Terps had focused on themselves in the

LANDON MILBOURNE TERRAPIN MEN’S BASKETBALL FORWARD

days since locking up a share of the regular season crown with a win at Virginia last weekend.

After an at-times rigorous ACC slate that featured several quick turnarounds, Williams relished the Terps’ time to decompress — which included no formal practice Sunday or Monday.

Despite posting regular season wins against 10 of the 11 teams that will be vying for the conference’s at-large tournament berth, the Terps know they’ll need to continue their steady improvement to be a factor in Greensboro, N.C. “We humble,” Vasquez said.

and McCoy agree that even if he doesn’t win — he narrowly lost to Iowa State’s Jake Varner, the No. 1 wrestler at 197 pounds, in the National Duals in January — Taylor has already cemented his wideranging legacy.

When the NCAA Tournament is over, Taylor has no desire to relax in his final two months of college.

Instead, he plans to take up rock climbing and earn his degree in interactive performance art, a major he created that combines aspects of art, theater and philosophy. Taylor’s senior thesis is an ambitious project, in which he hopes to take four of the largest blank canvasses he can afford into each quadrant of Washington and encourage passers-by to “express themselves using paint and brushes.”

He hasn’t had time to start that undertaking, of course.

He’s concentrating on the one thing he has yet to achieve in college wrestling.

After that, he’s planning on giving a cappella another shot. lemaire@umdbk.com

“We know that what’s coming ahead of us is unbelievably tough. We got to earn every win and continue to work hard.”

Last season, the Terps needed ACC Tournament wins to secure a spot in the NCAA Tournament field. They got two before the Blue Devils stopped their run in a Saturday semifinal.

But the team’s success in a parity-marked conference ensures it will be a target this time around.

The Terps’ recent consistency provides a not-so-subtle indication they are equipped to survive that gauntlet.

And if they can rise to the occasion and add an ACC Tournament championship to their growing list of accomplishments, the Terps will finally claim the conference spotlight all to themselves.

“We should have a little bit of swagger coming in there,” Milbourne said. “At the same time, we gonna just work hard. We’re not going to get away from what got us to this point.” edetweiler@umdbk.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010

Sports

Live from Greensboro ■ Go to Terrapintrail.com for plenty of extra coverage

from the ACC Tournament in Greensboro, N.C.

TERPGAMEDAY Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

Maryland Terrapins

20-11, 7-9 ACC

23-7, 13-3 ACC

WHEN: Tonight, 7 p.m.

WHERE: Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C. TV: Raycom/ESPN2 DATA: The Terps look to continue their hot streak into postseason play with a win in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament against No. 7 seed Georgia Tech.

TERPTRACKER TEAM STATS Average PPG Field Goal % 3-Point % Free Throw % Rebounds/G Assists/G Turnovers/G

GT

TERPS

74.3 46.0 36.8 65.2 40.3 14.3 16.1

79.8 47.5 39.3 72.1 38.9 16.6 11.8

INDIVIDUAL STATS GEORGIA TECH POS

MIN PTS REB AST

G G F F F

29.2 21.7 22.5 26.2 26.7

I. Shumpert M. Udofia D. Bell G. Lawal D. Favors

10.0 6.5 6.5 13.6 12.1

3.3 4.0 2.6 2.1 2.7 1.5 8.7 0.4 8.4 1.1

TERPS POS

MIN PTS REB AST

G G G F F

33.6 30.6 28.3 29.5 24.5

G. Vasquez E. Hayes S. Mosley L. Milbourne J. Williams

19.6 11.0 10.8 12.4 9.3

4.6 2.6 5.3 4.9 8.3

6.3 3.9 2.6 0.8 0.2

Terps are flying high but know of potential pitfalls Team faces No. 7 seed Georgia Tech in ACC Tournament as one of the favorites

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

For most of this season, the Terrapin men’s basketball team drifted along on the fringes of the national college basketball radar.

Duke’s dominance and North Carolina’s post-National Championship swoon took much of the spotlight away from a Terps’ squad that struggled for consistency early and didn’t garner a marquee win during its nonconference schedule. Late last month, coach Gary Williams wondered why his team hadn’t secured a national ranking despite piling up conference wins.

But with seven straight wins to close the regular season, including several in which they needed secondhalf heroics to squeeze by, the No. 19 Terps have demanded attention with their success. They roll into today’s ACC Tournament opener against No. 7 seed Georgia Tech as unquestionably the conference’s hottest team.

In a tournament that has been owned by the Blue Devils and Tar

Terps to focus on improving themselves in weekend match

see ACC, page 7

Guard Greivis Vasquez drives to the basket in the No. 19 Terps’ win over Georgia Tech in February. The Terps will face the Yellow Jackets tonight in Greensboro, N.C. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

Men’s lacrosse prepares for struggling Towson with friendships, deep ties in mind Cummings, other Terps learned the game in Tigers’ backyard

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

No. 2 Terps to take on No. 12 New Hampshire tomorrow

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

Ask a Terrapin women’s lacrosse player about an upcoming opponent and chances are she won’t have much insight to give on that team’s strategy or tendencies.

Coach Cathy Reese has a different way of preparing her players for opponents. She believes it’s the coaches’ responsibility to understand the opponent while it’s the players’ responsibility to focus on their own performance.

In the days before a game, the Terps watch film of their past games and see where they can improve. But the focus lies solely on their team and nobody else.

“As a coach, I’m a big believer that it’s our job to scout the opponent, and the kids should worr y about what we tell them,” Reese said. “I’m not going to fill their heads with what’s unnecessar y.”

So when asked to explain the tactics of No. 12 New Hampshire, their opponent tomorrow, two upperclassmen could only say, “I don’t know.” Reese said she believes her team is talented enough and that if they play the way they’ve learned, everything else should take care of itself.

“They need to focus playing great lacrosse and playing the best that they can play,” Reese said. “I think if each of them work on that, then this Mar yland team can be unstoppable.

Sometimes they don’t even know what they’re preparing for, they’re just prepared.”

When the Wildcats come to College Park, the No. 2 Terps (5-0, 2-0 ACC) will treat it like any other game and look to improve in areas in which they have fallen short before.

“We know they’re going to come out fighting and not looking to lose,” midfielder Caitlyn McFadden said of the Wildcats, adding that she knew they were ranked.

Midfielder Laura Merrifield added, “To be honest, we’re just focusing on Maryland.”

Though Reese said the team takes a game-by-game attitude, her coaching style warrants preparation for the long run, which means gearing up for a national championship.

New Hampshire (4-1) is the first of

Heels in recent years, the No. 2 seed Terps (23-7, 13-3 ACC) come in facing the big expectations that come along with being ACC regular season cochampions.

“We don’t think about it,” forward Landon Milbourne said. “These are just our goals. We set our goals at the beginning of the year, and it’s just a matter of us going out there and conquering them. Our next goal is to win the ACC championship. There’s no reason we can’t do that.”

Sporting a veteran roster that includes three seniors and most key cogs from last season’s impressive postseason push, the Terps seem wellpositioned for a run at their first ACC Tournament title since 2004.

But Williams and the Terps know firsthand how fickle late season success can be.

Three years ago — at Milbourne, Greivis Vasquez and Eric Hayes’ first ACC Tournament — the Terps entered riding a seven-game winning streak and dropped a first round game

Sarah Mollison and the Terps said they’re focusing on improving their own games and not on their opponents.

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“As a coach, I’m a big believer that it’s our job to scout the opponent, and the kids should worry about what we tell them.”

CATHY REESE TERRAPIN WOMEN’S LACROSSE COACH

four consecutive teams the Terps will face at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex. The almost two-week home stand is the longest of the year for the Terps and includes important top-20 matchups.

“I love the challenge and the competition,” Reese said. “It’s good for our team as we try to become the best we can be. We can only do that if we are challenging ourselves against the top teams in the country.”

The Wildcats enter tomorrow’s game coming off their first loss of the season, against Harvard in double overtime. Before that, New Hampshire won four straight and began rapidly advancing in the polls.

For the second straight year, though, the Wildcats will face the Terps in College Park.

Once again, the Terps hope to use their high-speed attack to run away from New Hampshire with quick goals. With school out of session for spring break, the Terps can concentrate even more on their play while allowing the coaches to focus on their opponent.

“There’s no stress of classes and all that,” Merrifield said. “There’s a lot of time to chill and bond as a team.” ceckard@umdbk.com

Growing up, Towson native Joe Cummings spent hours learning to play lacrosse and honing his skills on the fields of the university near his home.

“Towson’s basically in my backyard,” he said.

Cummings has moved on from his childhood stomping grounds to become a starting attackman for the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team, helping lead it to two top-20 wins this season.

Tomorrow, the sophomore will play his first game at Byrd Stadium, the Terps’ storied home field and one of the top lacrosse venues in the country. Due to stadium renovations, the Terps have not played a home game in Byrd in nearly two years.

But for Cummings, even all the excitement can’t match the chance to play Towson tomorrow, even if the Tigers are unranked and winless.

Cummings’ roots with Towson University go beyond the school itself — he also has many friends on the roster. But while he looks forward to seeing his friends and various teammates from high school allstar games, he wants nothing more than to help the No. 6 Terps (3-0, 1-0 ACC) beat the Tigers (0-2).

“You get out there and you give them, like, a high five, slap on the butt or something. And then they’re an enemy,” Cummings said. “After the game’s over, you’re best friends again, but once the game starts, it’s your team versus theirs, so you’re going to do whatever you can to beat them.”

Cummings is far from the only Terp who claims connections to Towson. Three more Terps call Towson home. Five are former high school teammates of Towson players. Even more have played with Tigers on various other teams and at lacrosse camps, forming a web of relationships between the programs. Goalie Brian Phipps will even face his two best friends.

“I’d have bragging rights from then on, so hopefully we can take them out,” Phipps said.

Two players have more direct links between the schools than most. Midfielder Eric Boyle transferred from Towson to this university in the fall of 2008. He redshirted last year because of eligibility requirements, so this weekend he will face his former team for the first time.

On the other side, former Terp Will Harrington leads the Tigers in goals and is tied for lead in points,

Midfielder Will Yeatman, shown last weekend against Duke, and the Terps take on local rival Towson tomorrow in the team’s first game at Byrd Stadium in nearly two years. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

with six goals and an assist through the team’s first two games. He played his freshman season for the Terps in 2006 before switching sides in the rivalry.

The Terps recognize that friendly but fierce competition will fuel both sides in Saturday’s match. And Towson will have an added incentive — revenge. The Tigers have lost eight straight against the Terps.

But Terp players think their return to Byrd Stadium, which has hosted numerous Final Fours and can serve as an intimidating atmosphere for visiting teams, will serve as a boost.

The Terps last played in the stadium in the opening round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. While it underwent renovation last year, they played their home games at Ludwig Field, a much smaller venue that hosts the men’s and

women’s soccer teams. Besides the greater home field advantage on a more impressive stage — Byrd is a massive stadium that seats more than 50,000 — coach Dave Cottle said the pending return invigorated the team at practice this week.

But he has cautioned his players, including Cummings, against letting their excitement get the best of them, especially against a Towson team that prefers a slow pace that could disrupt the Terps’ highspeed attack.

“We’ve got to play hard, and we’re doing a good job of that,” Cottle said.

“But we also have to play smart, and we have to control our emotions.

The tempo, we’ve got to be the ones controlling the tempo. That’s a big factor this game.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com