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Police say initiatives led to crime decline Senator backs bill Five-year decrease aligns with changes in University Police dept.

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

The number of violent crimes committed on the campus has steadily decreased during the last five years, culminating in the last several months during which zero such crimes have transpired — a trend University Police attribute to several programs they say promote safety.

The implementation of a plain-

clothes unit and to a program that assigned each officer a specific, consistent area to patrol are just some of the reasons University Police officials surmise crime has continued to decline. But some, such as criminology and criminal justice professor Ray Paternoster, said it’s too early to tell if these adjustments had tangible impacts on the change.

“A drop in one three-month period might be due to better police work or

it might simply be a fluke, a random perturbation or — in other words — chance,” Paternoster said. “The effectiveness of the police program will have to be judged in the long run, not the short run. So I would be cautious — hopeful,” he said.

Since 2005, violent crime has decreased by 61 percent — from 38 violent crimes to 15 last year, police

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to control tuition hikes for inflation Bill not expected to pass before session ends; Rosapepe says it makes a statement that even though this year, next year, last year, we’re in very tough fiscal times, the need for college education State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Prince is not going to go away.”

Since Rosapepe became a senator in George’s) introduced legislation yes2007, he has pushed for the terday that would prevent passage of proposals with excessive tuition hikes and provisions similar to this guarantee a set portion of the year’s SB 725: Tuition Cap state budget to institutions of and College Opportunity Act higher education. of 2011. Rosapepe’s resoluAlthough he knows tion links in-state undergradthere’s little chance this bill uate tuition increases with will be signed into law before median family income and the session lets out, for Rosconsiders the funding comapepe, it’s more about makpeting states provide to their ing a statement about SEN. JIM institutions of higher educatuition’s relationship to famiROSAPEPE tion. lies’ incomes in this state.

(D-PRINCE GEORGE’S) University System of “I’m going to put it in Maryland lobbyist P.J. every year until we make some progress on this,” Rosapepe Hogan told senators the Board of said at a state Senate hearing yesterday afternoon. “We all understand see TUITION, page 3

BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Senior staff writer

No place for children Student moms push for on-campus family housing

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

Junior English major Kimberly Frazier has never known what it’s like to live in a dorm.

It was never an option for Frazier, whose life is far from that of a typical student — she pays her own bills, works full time at Ruby Tuesday and is the sole provider for her 5year-old son, Jaylin. And although a Residence Hall Association bill supporting a trial program of university “family housing” — giving students such as Frazier a place to raise their families on the campus — has lost its main proponent, the idea hasn’t gone anywhere for student mothers.

“Freshman year, I wanted something close to campus that would give me a shorter commute and more time for studying,” Frazier said. “But there’s nothing around university that I would consider.

Having available housing from the university would have been great.”

RHA Vice President Taylor Cole, who authored the resolution but is dropping out of the university, said she has always felt passionate about the issue, even though she is not a student mother herself.

“I’ve been thinking about this for years,” she said. “My personal interest is making sure UMD is a leader. And as bachelor’s degrees are becoming more a part of life, we want to make sure everyone gets the same opportunity to earn one — even the people that are not traditional students.”

But Frazier and her friend Angelina Dani De Rosa, who is also a single mother juggling a full course load, said the university could do

College Park readies for skate park, will vote on final design Park to draw new skateboarders, officials say

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

The city is rolling ahead with plans for a local skateboarding park, now that the College Park City Council is set to vote on the final design for a skate facility several years in the works.

On Tuesday night, the city council was presented with final plans for a park in Sunnyside Neighborhood in north College Park. At March 22’s meeting, the council will vote to approve specifics of the park, which will be geared toward beginning skateboarders, according to representatives from Grindline Skateparks Inc., the Seattle-based company contracted to design and build it.

The city received a $250,000 grant from Prince George’s County to construct the park in 2007 and has since been working toward its design. At the council meeting, Grindline representative Micah Shapiro presented

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the park’s plans, including a 4-footdeep bowl and street elements such as basic ledges, banks and a handrail with stairs.

“It’s something a beginner can get into and not be intimidated, but at the same time, intermediate and advanced people are still going to enjoy it as well,” Shapiro said. “It’s going to be something that’s going to be a lot of fun for a lot of people.”

He said he envisions the facility accommodating a crowd of 25 to 30, with three to five people skating at any given time. Although the city originally planned to have the park built and running by now, Shapiro said he hoped construction would begin this summer. The council will vote on the plan next week and District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali said he anticipates it will be passed overwhelmingly.

Although there was some debate

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Junior English major Kimberly Frazier has lobbied for family-friendly on-campus housing. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Calvert Hall apartment undergoes $50,000 renovation Facilities is in process of refurbishing all on-campus Resident Director apartments; process could take another four to six years

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

Facilities Management guts an apartment in the Calvert Hall basement in order to give it a $50,000 facelift. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Calvert Hall is getting a nearly $50,000 facelift, but students shouldn’t expect to see the improvements in dorm rooms — the changes are for the basement, a floor students seldom visit but one the South Hill community director calls home.

The Resident Life Department is about halfway through its project of renovating on-campus staff apartments — a project that started in spring 2006 and is set to last another four to six years. Each refurbishment takes four to six months to complete, and 18 apartments have already been completed over the last several years. There are 12 more that have yet to be renovated.

The apartments, which house the university’s community and resident

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directors, are located in all of the campus’ dorms. Many of the apartments — some that have not been renovated since the buildings were originally built in the 1960s — need a number of new bathroom and kitchen fixtures to increase their appeal and meet building codes, said Jon Dooley, director of Residential Facilities.

Mike Glowacki, assistant to the Resident Life director, said when recruiting resident and community directors, the quality of the apartments — which they can live in for free as a part of their contract — is often a key factor in potential staff members’ decisions whether to accept job offers. To provide the best staff for students, Glowacki said it is important to provide those prospective employees the most appealing living arrangements.

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“There was a general sense from the staff that live there that there were a number of problems with some of the systems in their apartments,” he said.

“They reported the issues to their supervisors, so we became aware of the situation. There was just recognition across the board that we needed to renovate.”

Dooley said the cost of the renovations can start at $50,000, but because some apartments are more outdated or are getting an additional bedroom, the final price tag can be much more expensive. The apartments are being paid for with funds from the university’s housing budget, which comes from students’ room and board charges.

Calvert Hall’s apartment is set to be completed by Memorial Day, and

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from page 1 officials plan to move on to the resident director’s space in Elkton Hall next. David Williams, the South Hill community director who was living in Calvert’s basement before the renovation, was unavailable for comment.

Sophomore business major Bryan Oringher, who lives in Calvert, said the early construction became a nuisance at the beginning of the semester, prompting him to report his frustration to the department.

“We complained, and they’ve finally stopped making noise before 9 a.m.,” he said.

Although the department is about to unveil a new dorm, Oakland Hall, next semester, some students said they were frustrated Resident Life officials would choose to renovate staff apartments over student rooms.

“I’m pissed,” said sophomore electrical engineering major Pauline Ziadeh, who lives in Carroll Hall. “My room sucks. It’s so tiny. They should focus on renovating our dorm rooms, especially in buildings like mine that are super old.”

Other students said since the money is coming out of their room and board fees, they should be reaping the benefits through construction on dorm rooms.

“If students are going to pay for it, it should go to students,” sophomore letters and sciences major Lamar Rogers said. “End of story.” romas@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, Thursday’s article, “SGA legislators vote to increase activities fees by $6 per student,” misrepresented the authority of the Student Government Association.

Before the fee hike can be implemented in fall 2013, it must first be voted on and approved by the university’s Committee for the Review of Student Fees, after which university President Wallace Loh and the Board of Regents must also endorse the increase.

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CRIME from page 1 records show.

This decline in violent crime — which includes homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — began in 2005, which is the same year University Police started the plainclothes unit, a group of on-duty officers wearing donned in regular clothes.

“These officers don’t look like officers, so there is an element of surprise,” said University Police Spokesman Sgt. Ken Leonard, who was part of the unit when it first began.

To ensure that this trend in decreasing violent crime continues, police implemented another departmental change this year.

Effective Jan. 1, the campus was broken up into four different sectors, and each officer was assigned to a specific region.

“There is more definition and more focus for a patrol officer when you have a defined area to be in control of,” University Police Chief David Mitchell said. “[The officers] are highly visible, and they

“We’ve done our best to get the word out, and we’re seeing some dividends from our investments.”

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take it personally if a crime happens in their sector. It’s made a big difference.”

So far, no violent crimes have been committed this year, according to the University Police Information Analysis Unit. By this time last year, there had been three.

Since the new sectors began, non-violent crime has also decreased 12 percent from this time last year, according to the same data. Specifically, there was a 10 percent decrease in theft, a 33 percent decrease in stolen vehicles and a 100 percent decrease in arson.

Police also said the decrease in crime can be attributed to col-

Violent crime includes aggravated assault, homicide, rape and robbery.

Property crime includes theft, arson, burglary and motor vehicle theft.

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laborative efforts with other community organizations.

“We’ve worked with the Metro Police Department, Maryland Park Police, Prince George’s Police, and the City of College Park, Mitchell said.

“These partnerships have increased communication.”

Mitchell said University Police have also worked with several on-campus organiza-

tions to help prevent crime, including the Student Government Association and the Graduate Student Government.

“We’ve done things like Crime Walks to help make everyone aware,” Mitchell said. “We’ve done our best to get the word out, and we’re seeing some dividends from our investments.”

But regardless of the statistics, some students said it isn’t

apparent to them that crime has decreased at all.

“I think that it’s hard to believe,” sophomore food science major Caroline Mrohs said. “I hear about a lot of muggings, and there are so many Crime Alerts that it doesn’t seem like there is less crime than in the past.” egan@umdbk.com

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SGA joins groups opposed to officials’ stance on Daycon Body unanimously voted for univ. to cut company ties

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

In a unanimous vote Wednesday night, the SGA stood behind student activists in calling on the administration to cut ties with a university contractor found guilty of federal labor violations.

Students groups have been lobbying the administration to cancel its contract with Daycon — a janitorial equipment and supply company that was ordered by a federal judge last month to rehire 55 striking workers — since last semester.

Although they finally got a response from the administration last month, it wasn’t what they wanted — university President Wallace Loh’s chief legal counsel, Terry Roach, told students the university would be violating the company’s 14th Amendment rights by pressuring it to abide by the ruling before appeal.

Daycon has since appealed the decision and about 20 workers remain out of work.

But that hasn’t stopped student groups Feminism Without Borders and College Park Students for a Democratic Society from holding protests against the university’s stance.

And Wednesday night, they gained a powerful ally — the Student Government Associa-

tion, which overwhelmingly supported a resolution to urge the administration to suspend its contract with Daycon until the company resumes negotiations with the workers. No legislators voted against it and only a few abstained.

“It was really, really telling that all the SGA members agree that this is a pretty egregious flouting of the law for a company contracted with the university,” said North Hill legislator Andrea Marcin, who introduced the issue to the SGA. At the meeting, four Daycon workers and a representative from the Teamsters Local 639 union addressed the body, explaining Daycon’s violations and sharing their personal stories. Two of the workers described how difficult it has been to get medical treatment these past few months since Daycon has denied them health insurance.

Feminism Without Borders President Mary Yanik presented a copy of the university’s contract with Daycon, which she said explicitly states the university has grounds to terminate its contract without any serious negative consequences.

According to the contract, which Yanik said she obtained Tuesday, “The performance of

work under this contract may be terminated by the University in whole or in part, in accordance with this section, whenever the University shall determine that such termination is in the best interest of the University or the State.”

But the resolution vote was almost delayed until after spring break when SGA President Steve Glickman asked the body to further look into why university legal counsel had not already terminated the contract.

The SGA initially voted in favor of tabling the bill, but Marcin explained to legislators that legal counsel had already stated their conclusion in the letter Roach sent to student groups. Legislators then overturned the decision to table the bill and passed it.

“As student legislators, we have a vested interest in the ethical conduct of the university and its business dealings,” Marcin said. “Once students know about what Daycon’s been doing, they wouldn’t feel comfortable using that toilet paper knowing [Daycon] is breaking the law.”

Daycon representatives could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Yanik said having the SGA take up this cause after

Mentors on a mission Students sign up for mentoring services to prepare for post-university life

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

After Ashkon Jafari’s own years at this university left him wishing he had someone to help him navigate the sometimes-overwhelming, oftenconfusing path to post-graduate life, he decided to create a space where college students could connect with mentors.

“I switched my major and universities a few times and I found that having a professional that I could reach out to was invaluable,” Jafari said.

“It wasn’t until my college internship where I found this mentor who helped me find this path and how to go about the remainder of my college years.”

And so www.StudentMentor.org was born.

The site, which connects students to employers in their field of study, has already attracted the attention of students at this university, who noted the importance of making connections — particularly in the presentday economy.

University graduate students Karan Arora and Ankit Agar wal found the site while searching online for resources.

“I was looking for people who are working in the field

now and who can actually guide me,” Agar wal said. “I wanted to know what I should be doing with my education and the best way to transition to working.”

Both students said a mentorship is often only as valuable as the effort the mentor is willing to put into fostering a relationship.

“They were pretty helpful, I received good answers and they gave me concrete things to do [to better my job prospects],” Arora said. “I mentioned I was looking for an internship and my mentor sent me an e-mail and asked for my resumé because she had some opening in her company and could for ward it to others.”

Agar wal said although he has learned a lot from his mentor so far he is constantly looking for more mentors to learn from and network with.

The university also provides resources through which students can find mentors and programs that cater to their needs.

The Career Center, Alumni Center and various colleges’ own career ser vices often have resources to help students navigate to find a fellow Terrapin in their job market who is willing and able to

“We’ve had mentors come to us and tell us, ‘I was really looking forward to this opportunity but I didn’t realize how much of an impact it would have on my own life.’”

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Part of the reason so many people are willing to participate in mentorships, Jafari said, is because both mentee and mentor benefit from the relationship.

“We’ve had mentors come to us and tell us, ‘I was really looking for ward to this opportunity but I didn’t realize how much of an impact it would have on my own life,” Jafari said.

“The mentees are teaching the mentors about life and having a positive mindset.” farrell@umdbk.com

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SEX & ALCOHOL 101 “Your burning desire for each other could lead to a burning STI if your not-so-nimble hands break the condom while trying to put it on.”

This warning is listed as the No. 1 reason against mixing sex and alcohol in a new University Health Center flyer that recently debuted in the Eppley Recreation Center.

Some students had mixed reactions to the advice given on the flyers, though most agreed the information was comical.

To read the full list, visit The Diamondback’s online news blog, Campus Drive.

JAPANESE STUDENTS RALLY AFTER QUAKE To most university students, the images of Japan’s devastation flashing across CNN and the front pages of newspapers are foreign yet heartbreaking pictures of tragedy.

But to junior economics major and international student Hiroshi Sasakura, it’s home. Sasakura remembers waking up Friday morning to a barrage of Facebook messages from worried friends, asking if he and his family were OK. Confused, Sasakura checked his Yahoo page, and that’s where he first saw the news of the Tohoku earthquake.

“My first reaction was, ‘Oh, another earthquake,’” Sasakura said. “People in Japan, they are used to it.”

But it was not just another earthquake. The 9.0 magnitude quake triggered a massive tsunami that devastated the coasts of Japan, wiping out entire villages. As of Thursday night, almost 6,000 Japanese people have been reported dead and almost 10,000 missing, according to the National Police Agency of Japan. The numbers only continue to rise.

“I’m lucky that I’m not there,” Sasakura said. “But at the same time, I’m not there to help someone else.”

To read more, visit The Diamondback’s online news blog, Campus Drive.

Four Daycon employees, a union representative and several student groups spoke to the Student Government Association during Wednesday night’s meeting. TONIA WANG/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

months of her own lobbying makes her hopeful the administration will finally answer to students’ concerns.

“It shows that more and more people are becoming

TUITION from page 1 Regents — the 17-member committee that oversees the state’s institutions — supports the bill and its mission to improve higher education, particularly as it draws upon conclusions made by a group that produced a framework to fund higher education while ensuring affordability, known as the Bohanan Commission.

The Commission released its findings in December 2008, while the state’s tuition freeze was still in effect. Rosapepe drew many of the ideas presented in his bill from that report, he said.

“The bill provides a long-term funding formula for higher education,” Rosapepe said at the hearing. “It’s based on science ... you come up with a funding formula that says, ‘here is what the governor will put in the budget for higher education.’”

Right now, the governor crafts the state’s budget to include a set amount for higher education funding and the Board of Regents then levies tuition.

“The reality is that typically the governor submits a budget and

PARK from page 1 among city officials Tuesday night about the appropriate depth of the bowl — some feared four feet was too shallow and would actually be more challenging for inexperienced skaters — Shapiro said a smaller bowl would not pose a safety threat.

The city first entered into an agreement with the MarylandNational Capital Park and Planning Commission, which owns and maintains the current Sunnyside Neighborhood Park, to build the park two years ago.

Since then, city planning director Terry Schum said College

HOUSING from page 1 more than just offer family housing — having an on-campus day care that could accept more children and support groups for student mothers would create a better atmosphere for those with families, they said.

“I always felt like I was the only one at the university with this situation — taking care of myself and working full time [with a child],” Frazier said. “I felt like I couldn’t relate to anyone on campus. If there were a support group, it would just be so helpful.”

Although there is an on-campus day care center, it has limited capacity and only accepts preschool children. For mothers who cannot get on the waitlist, they are left without any other university options for

aware of the issue and there is a growing consensus that the only responsible thing for the university to do is cut the contract with Daycon,” Yanik said.

“I hope President Loh will take

the resolution of the SGA seriously along with the hundreds of students who signed our petition.”

the Regents negotiates to the governor what level of tuition increase to put into effect in an informal way,” Rosapepe said in an interview after the hearing. “This bill would make it a very transparent process based on guidelines the legislature would pass in the bill.”

At the hearing, Hogan said the university system has already reached one of the bill’s goals — setting in-state tuition at or below the 50th percentile of gross tuition and fees at similar institutions in competing states.

“We are still way down on the funding level, but you should take great pride that we have made higher education more affordable, and we’ve met that target already, frankly, without additional money,” Hogan said.

During the hearing, Hogan said he was wary about one aspect of the bill: a pilot program that would keep a students’ tuition locked for four years.

“It says your tuition should be this for the next four years,” he said. “That sounds great to you.

And it is, but understand that each cohort has to be readjusted.

It artificially has to readjust high.

While we’re open to the idea of doing this as a pilot, we’ve looked

around the country and the states that have tried it have failed.”

Rosapepe’s bill does not have a companion in the House of Delegates, which, paired with its late introduction, does not bode well for the proposal’s chances. The state’s legislative session adjourns April 11. But Rosapepe remains undaunted by this fact.

“I think most of the members of the committee are aware of the issue and sympathetic to it,” Rosapepe said. “Generally, big issues like this take a lot time to progress.”

Rosapepe said this bill has made little progress in the Senate in the past three years for two main reasons: It’s not matched with a revenue source from the university system, and the Regents haven’t intensely lobbied for a change.

“Passing a bill like this requires a lot of involvement by a lot of people, by students, by faculty, by staff, by the alumni, by unions,” Rosapepe said. “To date, the university has not been ready to take on that lobbying challenge and I hope that someday in the future they will be.”

Park has been gathering input from community members through several public hearings, and Schum said residents expressed overwhelming support.

“It was really a need that was identified by the North College Park neighborhood, where there are a lot of families with children who have skateboards,” Schum said.

Although there are skateparks in nearby Greenbelt and Hyattsville, students said a College Park facility would attract the large number of campus skateboarders. Freshman fire protection engineering major Richard Mellish, who is a skateboarder, said he may visit the park.

“If it’s close enough and acces-

child care.

And Mia Smith-Bynum, a professor in the family science department, said this often creates an added burden for mothers who are also going to school.

“I would say the primary challenge for a single parent in school is role overload,” she said. “You are then responsible for being a student, as well as meeting the needs of the child.

For example, living far from campus can create a logistical difficulty with getting the child to day care and getting to class on time.”

The original RHA bill would create family housing within the dorms, but Frazier said she had some worries about that part.

“Unless there was a specific area for family housing, I would prefer if the university would help with housing that is off-campus but is very close,” she said. “I would have

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sible by bus, probably [students would go],” Mellish said. “But not if it’s too much of a hassle.”

He said aiming the park toward beginners is a wise idea.

“Most people aren’t very advanced at skating, and it’s a lot easier if it’s pretty basic, to start off somewhere,” he said.

Other students said they would be happy to see fewer skateboarders on the campus.

“I always see people skateboarding around,” sophomore criminology and criminal justice major Nicole Riccio said. “It would give them somewhere to go instead of running over pedestrians.” kirkwood@umdbk.com

reservations about my son being around everybody on the campus.”

RHA President Sam Lengyel said although the body is not planning on taking up the family-housing bill in the immediate future, she hopes to approach it again with a strong student sponsor.

Dani De Rosa said the university should go even further than simply providing family housing — in general, the oncampus culture should be changed to be more accepting of undergraduate students with families.

“I think that UMD is definitely lacking in support of students with dependents,” Dani De Rosa said. “To support parents going to college is supporting the future — our future and our children’s future.” romas@umdbk.com

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ulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Sheehan, in his 2009 book, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, argues that the Korean war never would have happened if the United States hadn’t lost its atomic monopoly. If this is true, then why wouldn’t the war in Vietnam and the 21st centur y conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan also have been caused by the loss of America’s atomic monopoly?

If we had still held exclusive control of nuclear weapons and a conflict such as the Vietnam War had erupted in the early 1960s, does anyone really believe we wouldn’t have used our nuclear arsenal? No way.

Although the circumstances at the root of the 21st centur y Afghan and Iraqi conflicts are quite different from those that caused Korea and Vietnam, one factor would have remained constant if this countr y had kept its atomic monopoly: the inclusion of small-scale nuclear weaponr y as a tactical option in these two modern-day conflicts.

Indeed, with the United States still holding unquestioned control of all nuclear power in the world, what would the likely response have been in those two countries? Non-inter vention would have been the most likely response; but for sake of argument, let’s say the United States did inter vene.

Certainly, it wouldn’t have committed ground troops on any large scale. It wouldn’t have made sense to do so considering the militar y would have had nuclear missiles at its disposal — missiles nobody else had.

The public — whose outlook would not have changed that much since the Korean and Vietnam wars — would have demanded the use of tactical, small-scale nuclear weapons if air and missile strikes with conventional weapons weren’t enough. And this sentiment would have only increased if the president attempted to deploy ground troops in places such as Kandahar in Afghanistan or Fallujah in Iraq.

I’m not saying these are the policies I’d be advocating if I were living in that hypothetical situation, but they are the policies the American public would have demanded if America still held its nuclear monopoly.

So tomorrow, as we commemorate the eighth anniversar y of the war in Iraq, we should remember that the conflict could have gone ver y differently — or not occurred at all — if this countr y had not lost the atomic monopoly that it held in the middle part of the 20th centur y.

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oday, students make the great exodus from the tributing much to the economy. The city enacted harsher campus for a holiday gone wild. The sun is shin- public drinking laws and the mayor appeared on Good ing, birds are chirping and stink bugs are hatch- Morning America to tell students to party elsewhere. But ing, which can mean only one thing: Spring by that point, spring break had ingrained itself in collegiate culture and spread across America’s beach towns. break is here.

And so it remains today: Ever y March and April, thouThis weeklong seasonal vacation wasn’t always the booze-fest it is today. In fact, its American roots date back sands of students from this university and universities to the 1930s. Although the Greeks and Romans were per- across the countr y make the migration south to clear haps the first to celebrate the season of fertility by wor- skies and warm water. Like a drunken gaggle of geese, shipping their respective gods of wine, it was a swimming they invade cities from the Carolinas to those in the Caribbean and Mexico. With them, they bring whatever coach that brought the debaucher y to the United States.

Sam Ingram coached men’s swimming at Colgate Uni- pent-up aggression they may have toward an exam they versity in 1936 when he took his team south to Fort Laud- took just 48 hours before and the intention of taking that aggression out on their livers. erdale, Fla. to train at the first OlympicIndeed, as one spring breaker size swimming pool in the state. Two told TIME magazine in April years later, banking on what it thought Tomorrow this university 1959, “It’s not that we drink so could be a revenue generator, the city hosted the first College Coaches’ Swim begins spring break, an ancient much, it’s that we drink all the time.” Some things, it seems, Forum, which drew hundreds of college holiday celebrating rebirth never change. swimmers to the city. Soon enough, the Spring break has its absurditradition was born and ever y year more and renewal. ties. The excessive sexual looseand more students would make the journess and binge drinking leave many with forgotten memney south.

That said, popular culture certainly helped elevate ories and others with souvenirs best left behind. Some spring break to great heights. First came the 1961 film push it too far — but then again, there are those who do Where the Boys Are. Set in Fort Lauderdale and starring that no matter what week it is.

But as you embark for your various destinations, the young but just as crispy George Hamilton, the film centered around college students finding love while on whether it be Cancun or your Commons apartment, stay vacation. In the 1980s came the originally-titled film safe and do not forget your roots. The Greeks and Spring Break starring Tom Cruise and Shelley Long. And Romans may have been off on a few things: The earth cernot long after that came Girls Gone Wild, whose creator, tainly isn’t flat, and last we checked there are no centaurs Joe Francis, has since been found guilty of child abuse running around College Park. But on the idea of a spring awakening, they couldn’t have been closer to the truth. and prostitution.

Eventually, “Fort Liquordale” said “enough” in 1985 After all, spring break is a celebration of renewal. Here’s when student crowds began to number more than hoping that, in a week’s time, we will all be uplifted — and 350,000 and were causing chaos without actually con- not just hungover.

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Jonathan Miller is a graduate student in geography. He can be reached at jsmiller@umd.edu.

I’m looking forward to going home and seeing family and friends.”

I’m looking forward to relaxing and not doing anything at all.”

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Katherine Horner Sophomore Letters and sciences

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A home-cooked meal.”

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Having time to catch up on school.”

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aking connections is a vital aspect of college and life in general, but sometimes it can be hard to judge whether you and a new acquaintance will hit it off. Do you have similar personalities? The same disposition? When both of you look at the sky, do you see the same thing? And look out if you don’t have similar senses of humor. That would just be awful.

Or different tastes in Ben & Jerr y’s — no one wants to get too close with a kid who likes Cherry Garcia.

A ver y dear friend and I have our own special way of judging compatibility. We use this method to tell almost everything about a person. This method is accurate for predicting general mood, level of optimism, affinity for dresses (or attraction to girls in dresses), taste in literature and overall level of kindness in a person. By using this method, my friend can tell exactly what kind of day I am having or when we are mad at each other, and it’s also the best method for reconciling after our arguments.

Luckily for all you readers, this wonderful method can be used by anyone, because this magical method is hugging.

Hugs are the most fabulous things you can do with your arms and your heart. Seriously, they are. Hug-ability is the No. 1 determining factor in how close you can be with an acquaintance. Hug-ability is the preliminar y factor to check in a potential mate. Hugs just generally make people’s days and can really turn around an awful day.

It’s all about the sunshine and the hugs, guys, the sunshine and the hugs. And I’m sorr y, but if you give terrible hugs, you are probably a terrible person and no friend of mine.

Fear not, hug-ability and hug compatibility can be improved in almost all circumstances.

Maybe you’re not giving strong enough hugs. Like handshakes, hugs need to be gentle but firm. Maybe your hugs are too light (if you’re going to give hugs like that, what’s the point?). Another big no-no is giving a little pat-pat on the back while hugging. What am I, a dog? Hell no, give me a real hug!

Sometimes the angle of your hug must be adjusted for height and size. If you’re super-tall, you better not tr y to put your arms under mine! Watch out for the split second when the direction of the arms is decided (both up, both down, one-up-one-down) — compatibility is zero if you can’t actually get your arms around the person. And my final piece of advice: Beware of the “awkward car hug” and just say no to hugs in cars.

Hugs are apparently not for ever yone (I know! I was surprised, too). Once during freshman year I tried to hug this girl I thought was a good buddy of mine. She kind of awkwardly backed away from me and said, “I don’t hug.”

What? Really? So some people have personal space issues. I definitely understand that. And it’s really OK, but a certain kind of sunshine is missing in your life when you miss out on hugs.

It’s kind of like missing out on Vitamin D — an essential nutrient, you know?

So next time you are hanging out with that cool kid from your anthropology class and you want to know if you can be best buds in the future, try out a hug. Or, if you haven’t quite decided whether that cute girl in the sundress is right for you (she totally is), give her a hug and test your hug compatibility. This is hard science, kids.

Mallory Servais is a senior anthropology major. She can be reached at mservais@umdbk.com.

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Also born on this date are Queen Latifah, actress; Bonnie Blair, Olympic speed skater; Vanessa Williams, actress and singer; Irene Cara, actress and singer; Brad Dourif, actor; Wilson Pickett, musician; Charley Pride, musician; John Updike, author; George Plimpton, author; Grover Cleveland, U.S. president.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Work you do in tandem with others is likely to be more valuable to you both personally and professionally than anything you accomplish alone.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You can get everything done, surely, but you have to take one or two shortcuts — and at least one of them may be risky.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll be called upon to negotiate an agreement between two conflicting parties — and the outcome can benefit everyone involved.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Keep your head in the game, and don’t let distractions pull you too far off-center. Only one or two objectives really matter now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’ll want to spend some time alone, but don’t let yourself fall into a funk. Focus on what lies ahead.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You must wait until someone in charge gives the green light before you can charge ahead along the path you have charted.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Avoid paying the price for someone else’s errors; you can swing into action and keep things running smoothly if you anticipate.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A new experience has you wondering if you should incorporate that kind of thing into your daily routine. Energy is high as a result.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Just when you think it’s time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labors, you may be called upon to do something for another.

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Limitless could have been a classic type of morality play, a film about the struggle that results when the ver y drug addiction crippling you is necessar y to fulfill your wildest dreams; that is, if its way-too-easy conclusion didn’t give the viewer the message that drugs can be used safely and effectively to acquire ever ything you could ever want without a negative consequence.

Our disheveled, straw-haired protagonist, Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper, Brother’s Justice) is a creatively constipated science-fiction writer whose achievements finally catch up to his ambitions when he begins popping cognition-enhancing pills that unlock a sort of semi-omniscient intelligence within him.

There are many failed attempts at vague pop-science to convince the viewer there lies a near-infinite processing power in each human brain waiting to be activated by this miracle drug called NZT. The opening credits feature a nauseating, Google Street Viewesque ride through New York City that leads to a digital image of a human synapse. It is then further magnified to reveal a human brain, DNA and any other biological mechanism director Neil Burger (The Lucky Ones) wanted to waste his CGI budget depicting.

Even if one accepts the premise and gives the film the benefit of the doubt, one is still left to drift through vast stretches of rudderless writing with nothing but Cooper’s alternatingly gray and golden face to stare at.

In short order, Eddie completes onefourth of a novel, cleans his apartment and seduces his landlord’s wife.

What follows is an exponential increase in both desires and successes as the NZT transforms Eddie into a dynamo with the world at the mercy of his Rain Man act.

Difficulties with Eddie’s addiction, such as increased tolerance and frequent bouts of complete memory loss, arise only to be dispatched quickly so Burger can shift the film’s focus to more fun, disposable activities. Thus, Eddie realizes nothing is more fun and disposable than the stock market and dives in headfirst, spouting amateur theories about market psychology and geo-political maneuvering to make

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Naturally, ruthless energy company CEO Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro, Little Fockers) wants to harness Eddie’s “gift” for his own world-conquering ends. While it is satisfying, in light of the recent recession, to see the world of corporate finance depicted as a lawless, bloodthirsty universe unto itself, there is little tension or interest in the story. Eddie wins with NZT and loses without it. De Niro mails it in and cashes a check as his character offers little resistance to the relentless drive of the narrative.

So ruthless thug Gennady (Andrew Howard, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) has to inexplicably pop up every once in a while and try to pilfer Eddie’s NZT by growling threats in a Russian accent. Since this conflict also doesn’t matter, Eddie’s ex-girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish, Bright Star) has to half-heartedly ask Eddie to give up the juice and return to his natural loser essence.

It’s difficult to lay too much blame on the actors when the script almost demands mediocrity. Screenwriter Leslie Dixon thinks actual authors use terms such as “the plight of the individual in the 21st century” when describing their work, so poor Cooper has to spout such nonsense with a straight face. On a related note, Dixon’s idea of powerful symbolism involves a fight scene in which a little girl’s ice skates become near-lethal weapons.

Burger and Photography Director Jo Willems (Confessions of a Shopaholic), both equally as incompetent as Dixon, appear to be hell-bent on pushing the hyperactive MTV aesthetic to extremes that even an ADD-addled teenager would find distasteful.

There is also the essential unanswered question: Do we really need 105 minutes and millions of dollars to discuss what life would be like if someone started taking super-Adderall?

A significant portion of college students are no doubt already familiar with the ubiquitous little pink pill and its almost magical neurological effects. Simply put, prospective viewers will be vastly better off popping a few milligrams or so of everyone’s new favorite drug (with a prescription, of course) and focusing intently on anything but this movie. vmain13@umdbk.com

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But in fact, Chenaux is a man of the city. His home for 30 years has been Toronto — by all accounts a thoroughly modern place.

“Weirdly, there’s a lot of music from Toronto that sounds like [my own], and we all live right in the middle of the city, ironically,” Chenaux said.

And though Chenaux has a very tradition-minded background when it comes to his songwriting and playing, his solo recordings attempt to balance the influence of the past and a vision of the future. Perhaps Chenaux’s soothing songs are meant as an antidote to the hustle and bustle of the city.

Much thought goes into his songwriting, though plans are often discarded at Chenaux’s live performances. He plays at the 9:30 Club in Washington on Sunday, opening for another act, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, with music that disregards

conventional classification.

As a live performer, Chenaux often improvises and incorporates elements of jazz into his avant-folk songs. He says his live music is “more playful” than the compositions found on his records, the most recent of which was released in September on Constellation Records.

Warm Weather With Ryan Driver, his third solo album, features the experimental folk style of songwriting Chenaux has honed since his first solo album was released in 2006. Warm Weather With Ryan Driver places renewed focus on Chenaux’s guitar playing, which he does almost exclusively with a nylon string guitar on this record.

“There is something about the nylon string guitar,” Chenaux said. “You sing to it differently than an electric guitar. There’s something about the tonality about the nylon string guitar that I find quite amazing to sing with. ... What I like about nylon string guitars is that almost every house has one.

They all kind of sound fine. I haven’t ever really played one that I don’t like. … It’s a real instrument that you find everywhere. And I quite like that aspect of it.”

The 40-year-old Chenaux has been playing music since his formative years in Toronto and writing songs since the age of 12.

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The artists he works with in Toronto and all over the world play music ranging from chamber music to jazz to French medieval balladry. The versatility and open-endedness of Chenaux’s musical pursuits has served him well.

His affection for the songs of one style eventually influences the music of a different mindset.

“You learn things from one project that, consciously or unconsciously, you would bring to another,” Chenaux said. “I feel I play very similarly in all of them. But I would say that hearing — trying to insert what one might consider their core belief in music into different situations, kind of nomadically — you learn something about what that thing is that you do. I find that to be probably one of my favorite things about playing music.”

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WILLIAMS from page 8 trying stretches.

“He caught some people off guard with how much he’d improved,” Gary Williams said last week. “They had to play against him to see how much better he was. The second time around, they brought more people in to help on him and things like that. It’s just like when you play against a really good team.

Jordan’s going to get everybody’s best shot.”

After an offseason spent losing nearly 20 pounds and refining his post game, Williams wasted little time showing his role was better suited as a go-to force than supporting cog, as it was on last year’s senior-led team.

He started every game for the Terps, averaging more minutes, points and rebounds than any player on the team. In two years, he has amassed more than 600 rebounds. Just one Terp has ever accomplished that feat in program history — Joe Smith, who departed College Park after his sophomore season in 1995 to become the Terps’ first and only No. 1 overall pick in the NBA Draft.

Williams has received praise from almost every opposing coach he’s faced this year, often being touted as the best big man in the ACC and one of the best in the country. But NBA Draft evaluators have tempered expectations for the sophomore.

“The season that Maryland has kind of speaks for itself,” said Jonathan Givony, the director of scouting for DraftExpress.com, which ranked Williams the No. 79 overall prospect for the 2011 NBA Draft. “In terms of the effectiveness of the way he played, being

the go-to guy for a team that wasn’t even invited to the NIT, I don’t think that’s really going to impress many people in terms of his resumé.”

Other projections have Williams outside the first round — uncertain territory given its lack of guaranteed contracts for draftees. Chad Ford, the NBA Draft analyst for ESPN, has Williams at No. 65 on his Top 100 and eighth among centers, while NBADraft.net has him as a mid-to-late first-round pick in the 2012 draft.

Givony and Ford both agree Williams has the strength and soft hands to play professionally. But while he’s one of the nation’s top rebounders, question marks remain about how his game translates to the next level.

“What he needs to work on is playing hard consistently,” Givony said. “On the defensive end especially, there are a lot of occasions where you watch him and you say, ‘Is this guy giving 100 percent despite the numbers and all that?’ He’s a guy that’s going to be a role player in the NBA, and he can’t be taking possessions off.”

But at least in college, Williams’ accomplishments in just two seasons under Gary Williams — and his potential for even greater heights should he stay — have been substantial.

And Williams himself has hinted at the possibilities the future holds for the Terps.

Whether he’s a part of it, though, may take a couple months to know for certain.

“It definitely shows that we have a bright future,” Williams said after the Duke loss. “The young guys are definitely going to be very good here in the future. So we’re definitely excited.”

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TOURNAMENT from page 8 “You’ve got to bring your game.

No team’s going to roll over for us at this point in the season.”

While Saint Francis (22-11) shouldn’t present the Terps with many matchup issues — the Red Flash had just one game against a ranked opponent, a 28-point loss to West Virginia — the threat of a firstround upset still remains.

For coach Brenda Frese, her task becomes one more focused on mental preparation than on-court schemes.

“The biggest thing for our kids is not being in awe of the NCAA Tournament,” Frese said of her senior-less squad. “For our freshmen and sophomores,

UMBC from page 8 season, the Terps had lost three straight against UMBC, a member school of the University System of Maryland, of which this university is the flagship.

Heading into tonight’s primetime matchup with the Retrievers (1-3), though, that recent history is something both Tillman and the Terps hope to put behind them.

“They got the best of us the first two years I was here,” senior attackman Ryan Young said. “But we focused last year and came out with a win, so this year, we’re going to try to do the same.”

The Retrievers’ recent success against the Terps extends back to 2007, when they knocked the seventh-seeded

being ready to play and playing for 40 minutes where you’re not nervous [is the key].”

For one of women’s basketball’s more storied programs, the Terps’ Big Dance opener at Comcast Center is a unique one.

The Terps (23-7) lean on freshman forward Alyssa Thomas as their spark and have just three players — center Lynetta Kizer and guards Anjale Barrett and Rodgers — with any NCAA Tournament experience.

But that trio, whose members all have established leadership roles for the Terps, has stepped forward to ensure their inexperienced teammates know what to expect.

“I was telling some of my teammates, ‘I’m ready to go,’”

Rodgers said. “I’ve been in the tournament before and I know how awesome it is to have the opportunity. It’s been a long layoff [since the team’s March 4 loss to Georgia Tech], and I think everybody’s really excited.”

A potential rematch with fifth-seeded Georgetown and a chance to knock off defending national champion Connecticut may be waiting just down the road after a matchup with Saint Francis. But despite the possibility of facing marquee Big East opponents shortly, Frese has chosen to focus on the past to prepare her squad for the Red Flash.

“You have to understand, you can’t take anyone lightly.

Your nonconference schedule prepares you for a team like

Terps out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament en route to their first — and last — trip to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals.

The next two seasons, the Terps fell to UMBC despite entering each matchup with a higher ranking. But Tillman, who was an assistant at Navy in 2007 and coach at Harvard during the Terps’ past two losses, believes things have changed.

“That was before I was here, but give credit where credit is due,” Tillman said. “If they’ve won three of the last four, you have to tip your hat to them. We can use it as motivation, like, ‘Hey, we need to pick up the pace and get that thing turned around one game at a time.’”

One of the Terps’ goals this season is to “win the state,” and with an 8-4 victory over Tow-

son last weekend, the team took its first step toward that objective. But with tonight’s matchup and April games against Navy and Johns Hopkins still on the schedule, players know there is much work yet to be done.

“We always talk about winning our state. It’s important.

We get everybody’s best game,” attackman Grant Catalino said. “UMBC gives us a tough match every year, and I’m sure they’ll bring it to us.

It’s just the rivalry.”

And although the Retrievers are struggling this season, having lost three straight games after a season-opening victory over Presbyterian, the Terps haven’t taken their mishaps into account heading into tonight’s game. UMBC, after all, wasn’t necessarily up to par, at least on paper, with the

Saint Francis,” Frese said.

“They’re a team that all their bigs are guards and they can all shoot it. They’re a different kind of team that we haven’t played in a while.”

With their lofty aspirations for this season’s NCAA Tournament, the Terps will look to harness the energy of their home court and start down what they believe is a road to the Final Four in Indianapolis.

At the very least, their season would be left unfinished if they’re unable to step over Saint Francis.

“Everybody’s going for the same thing,” Kizer said. “We’ve got to play six games to get another [national championship] banner.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

“I’m sure they’ll bring it to us.”

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Terps during its three-game winning streak from 2007-09.

Tonight, the Terps just want to show they understand the implications of being the only in-state school to have a jersey with “Maryland” plastered across the chest.

“Whenever we play these in-state games, we just have the rivalry that comes with it,” Young said. “We want to go out there and represent Maryland and show the state of Maryland that we’re the best team here.” jengelke@umdbk.com

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Terps set for two-game weekend road trip

BY MATT CASTELLO Staff writer

Forward Jordan Williams finished with 25 double-doubles this season for the Terps. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

ENGELKE from page 8 star Greivis Vasquez, and Williams ended up becoming a big part of that team by providing an inside presence the Terps desperately needed.

But that season will be remembered more for the work of Vasquez and his fellow seniors, Eric Hayes and Landon Milbourne. Williams was more of an auxiliary piece.

This season, with the trio of Vasquez, Hayes and Milbourne gone, Williams came in as the Terps’ go-to player and de facto leader — and the Terps ended up missing the postseason completely. If Williams wants to be remembered as one of the best players to ever don a Terp uniform, he can’t leave after one of the program’s worst seasons in recent history.

He should also consider the Terps’ far-greater potential for next year. With the emergence of freshman guards Pe’Shon Howard and Terrell Stoglin, and to a lesser extent forward Haukur Palsson, next year’s Terps are poised to do great things. But that’s if — and only if — Williams comes back for his junior year.

“It was frustrating,” Williams said of the team’s growing pains this season after the Terps lost to Duke in the ACC Tournament last Friday. “But I think at times this year we showed signs of being a great team for the future at Maryland. That’s definitely exciting.”

Add in a talented recruiting class that features possible early-impact players in guards Sterling Gibbs and Nick Faust and forward Martin Breunig, and the Terps have a legitimate chance to go from one of the program’s lowest points back to prominence in just one short year.

But perhaps most importantly, another year in the college ranks would allow Williams to round out his game and, subsequently, boost his NBA draft stock. We’ve already seen how hard Williams works in the offseason; he lost 25 pounds after his freshman year and vastly improved his condi-

tioning this season.

But opponents picked up on Williams’ game as the season went on, and after posting 20 double-doubles in the Terps’ first 23 games, Williams picked up only five in the team’s final 10 outings. Bigger, faster and stronger opponents started to wear on him in ACC play, and it showed.

In the coming weeks, as Williams debates his decision, he should look to Vasquez’s path to the NBA as a model.

Williams and Vasquez are clearly different players with different circumstances surrounding their ascent to the big leagues. But Vasquez dealt with the same sort of decision that Williams must now face.

After his junior year, Vasquez declared for the NBA Draft before ultimately deciding that another year of college was indeed the best way for him to better his game and improve his draft stock. Vasquez’s journey shows how, in some cases, there are benefits in delaying an NBA paycheck for a year.

“I would tell him just to care about your time and keep playing hard,” Vasquez said earlier this year. “More than that, he should enjoy college and enjoy every second of it. He’s got to work on being a better leader.

He’s got to be a better leader and understand that he can score 20-and-20, but that’s not important because you’re trying to win.

“Sometimes the challenge is, ‘How can I get my teammates better? How can I get everybody else better?’ I figured that out, and that’s why he’s got to figure it out. We all know he can play, but it’s all about, ‘How can I get everybody together to understand that I need all of them to win?’”

One more season might be all it takes for Williams to figure it out and become one of the NBA’s top prospects and, perhaps, one of the best Terps of all time.

But it hasn’t happened yet, and Williams would be to wise to continuing wearing red and white before he chases green, at least a littler longer. jengelke@umdbk.com

With a pair of winnable road games set for Sunday and Tuesday, the Terrapin women's lacrosse team seemingly has the ingredients necessary for a memorable spring break.

This trip, however, won't include any SPF 40 or sandsprinkled flip-flops. The No. 1 Terps first travel northeast to chilly Newton, Mass., for a Sunday matinee matchup with No. 18 Boston College.

The team then heads to New York to take on Stony Brook in a nonconference contest Tuesday. The Terps are hoping it won’t be their only trip to the Long Island school this year — a return date would mean a spot in the Women’s Lacrosse Championship in May. And coming off of their lowest goal-scoring effort this season, a 7-5 win against a Syracuse side that effectively executed its stalling strategy last

week, the Terps (7-0, 2-0 ACC) are not preparing for their third conference opponent of the season lightly.

“I think that we take every game like it’s the national championship. We’re not overlooking anyone,” defender Katie Gallagher said. “We’re going to come out as hard as we can against them.”

A stout defensive squad, the Eagles have not allowed more than a dozen goals in a game this season and limited the defending champions to their lowest number of goals last year in a 7-6 Terp win. This year, however, they have not faced an offense comparable to the Terps’ prolific attack, which already features four players with at least a dozen goals: Katie Schwarzmann (24), Karri Ellen Johnson (23), Sarah Mollison (15) and Kristy Black (12).

Mollison, a senior, leads the team with 16 assists and serves as the Terps’ primary facilitator on set plays. The

captain scored a team-high two goals and finished with two valuable assists against the Orange.

“Sarah does a great job of utilizing her options,” Reese said. “She sees the field really well, she makes smart decisions when she has the ball and she can create plays.

She’s somebody that other teams need to worry about. ...

They need to look to double her and when they do, she creates offensive opportunities for other players.”

Boston College (7-1, 0-1) reeled off six wins, all on the road, to start the season before its comeback effort fell just shy in a 12-11 loss to Virginia Tech.

The squad bounced back yesterday, though, with a 15-10 win against Harvard in its home opener.

The Eagles are the fifth ranked opponent to test the Terps this season. Reese’s squad not only contends with a difficult ACC slate but also annually plays some of the

best teams in the nation not from the conference.

“So no matter what, you go into the season and you’re playing your conference schools, which are all really good,” Reese said. “And then we’ve developed some really strong rivalries that have gone on from the years back to before my time here as a player.”

The Orange utilized a game plan that focused its efforts on killing the clock.

But regardless of the style Boston College implements, Mollison is confident her team will be ready.

“Our coaches tell us every day, we need to be ready for anything,” the Australia native said. “So teams that come out and want to hold the ball, we’re practicing that, and teams that want to play our kind of run ‘n’ gun game, then we’ll still take care of the ball and play our kind of style of offense.” castello@umdbk.com

GYMNASTICS

EAGL Championship on line for Terps at GWU

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

During a team practice at the Public Health building in early December, Terrapin gymnastics coach Brett Nelligan made clear his expectations for the upcoming season.

“We should be the team to beat in the EAGL this season,” he said.

To an outside observer, Nelligan’s confidence may have seemed misplaced. He had lost six seniors from a team that went 7-5 in conference play and placed sixth at the East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championships last season.

But as the No. 30 Terps prepare for tomorrow’s EAGL Championships at George Washington’s Charles E. Smith Center, Nelligan’s team is poised to fulfill its coach’s preseason declaration.

After going undefeated in conference play for the first time in program history, the Terps (17-5, 8-0 EAGL) hope to ride a late-season surge into another team feat: their firstever EAGL title.

The Terps posted four scores of 195 or better before scoring a 194.600 Sunday at their season-ending home quad-meet against George Washington, Kentucky and North Carolina. During that five-week stretch, they averaged 195.245 points per meet — a notable improvement over the 193.441 they had averaged

Jenn Iovino, right, and the Terps are undefeated in EAGL play this season. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

over the previous six meets.

“Even though people may say we’re the best because we’re the only team that went undefeated in conference, we don’t feel like we’ve reached our full potential yet,” senior Abigail Adams said. “If we just stay confident and focused, we know we can continue to grow.”

Adams has been pivotal throughout the Terps’ secondhalf emergence. She captured the regular-season EAGL AllAround title and finished within the top two gymnasts in three events: uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise.

Adams also was named EAGL Gymnast of the Week twice to close the regular season. Over a three-day span last week, she earned a pair of allaround titles without scoring lower than a 9.700 through eight events.

Even with Adams leading the charge, the Terps will need

a dominating performance to top the eight-team conference.

Despite their undefeated conference record, the Terps enter Saturday’s meet as the third seed. The two teams ahead of them, No. 25 NC State and No. 28 West Virginia, will likely present their biggest tests.

NC State (6-9, 4-1), which lost to the Terps at a March 4 tri-meet hosted by Penn State, is seeking its third conference title in five years. Buoyed by freshman Stephanie Ouellette’s average all-around score of 38.716, the Wolfpack has scored higher than a 194 in all but one of its 11 meets.

And after competing against five top-25 opponents this season, NC State won’t be intimidated by anyone it will face at EAGLs. It ranks first or second in the conference on beam, bars and floor and scores less than the Terps in only one event: vault.

While NC State boasts a balanced attack, West Virginia (97, 6-1) relies heavily on its vault routines. Led by freshman Hope Sloanhoffer’s conferenceleading 9.825 vault average, the Mountaineers top the EAGL in that event. They also rank second on floor — the only event that finds the Terps outside the conference’s top five.

West Virginia, which is the only EAGL team the Terps haven’t seen this season, already boasts six conference titles. That’s not only the most of any conference team, it’s also six more than the Terps have ever won.

So while teams like NC State and West Virginia approach Saturday’s meet intent on continuing their proud traditions, the Terps are hoping to start one.

Their program has been cut three times in its 32-year history. It still shares a practice facility with the School of Public Health’s Gymkana Troupe, and it didn’t get its own locker room until September.

Those realities are not lost on Nelligan, who took over the program from his father two years ago.

“You know, winning EAGL is what it’s all about,” he said.

“That would mean a lot to this program, but it’d even mean more to our seniors. They’ve been through so much with us and I can’t imagine a better way for them to go out.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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Reviewing the ’11 season For a video recapping the Terrapin men’s basketball team’s season and previewing next year’s outlook, check out TerrapinTrail.com.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Forward Jordan Williams finished his sophomore season as the Terps’ leader in minutes, points and rebounds. Still, questions remain about his readiness for the NBA.

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JUMPING-OFF POINT A big payday is still far away

Uncertainty over Williams’ future rules offseason talk

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

As he sat in the locker room of the Greensboro Coliseum after yet another loss last Friday, days away from learning his Terrapin men’s basketball season was over, Jordan Williams received a question he didn’t have an answer for.

Just two years earlier, the topic would have been laughable. A flabby, undervalued center from Connecticut’s basketball hinterlands wasn’t even a blip on the radars of many big-time college basketball programs, let alone any NBA scouts.

But after one of the most dominant seasons by any frontcourt player in program history, Williams is at the center of the team’s most pressing offseason question: Will the sophomore be back?

“I’m not even thinking about that,” Williams said before the start

of last week’s ACC Tournament.

“I’m just trying to focus on this team right now and getting this team better and getting this team to the tournament. That’s the most important thing. I haven’t really put any thought into that.”

His non-answer didn’t change after the Terps fell to Duke for the third straight time this season. Williams, despite continued struggles from the free-throw line, again carried the team with 16 points and 16 rebounds — a stat line of increasing regularity for the for ward this year.

The double-double marked Williams’ 25th in 33 games this season, more than any other player in Terp history. On a team filled with inconsistent pieces, Williams became the one player coach Gary Williams could regularly rely on through the season’s

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Williams generally is considered a second-round NBA Draft talent, a spot that would not guarantee him a contract. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

ith the Terrapin men’s basketball team not set to play another meaningful game until November, all attention from fans and media alike has turned to one thing: Jordan Williams’ looming decision on whether he will forgo his junior and senior seasons to pursue a professional playing career in the NBA. Williams has given no clear indication of what his decision will be, and following the Terps’ ACC Tournament-ending loss to Duke last Friday, the 6-foot-10 sophomore forward dismissed questions about the NBA. Instead, Williams said he was focused on preparing for the

Terps’ next game that ultimately never came.

“I haven’t even considered it, honestly,” Williams said. “I’m just trying to focus on my teammates right now, and I’ll worry about that after the season’s over with.”

But now that there are no more games and the Terps’ season is finished, Williams is left to make a decision that should be a nobrainer. After weighing his options, Williams should see that what benefits the Terps most next season is also what will help his own playing prospects significantly: staying in College Park for at least one more year.

If Williams departs, he’ll leave behind unfinished business. During the big man’s freshman season, the Terps made the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year behind the play of now-departed

see ENGELKE, page 7

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S LACROSSE

After long wait, Terps ready for March

In-state stakes loom vs. UMBC

NCAA Tourn. slate set to start vs. Red Flash

BY JAKOB ENGELKE

BY CONOR WALSH

Senior staff writer

Staff writer

As coach of the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team, John Tillman embraces this university’s status as the flagship institution of a lacrosse-crazed state.

Even with half a dozen other Division I lacrosse programs calling Maryland home, Tillman has often talked about how the Terps must carry the state’s banner as the de facto leader in the sport.

“I know how important this program is for the school and the state. It’s something that we embrace,” Tillman said earlier this season.

“Lacrosse probably means more to this university than almost any school in the country.”

But statewide dominance has proved a daunting feat for the No. 7 Terps (4-1) lately.

While the Terps have struggled to keep up with perennial power Johns Hopkins, it’s been their recent issues against a less-heralded UMBC team that are more striking.

Before rebounding with a 13-7 victory last

Everything the Terrapin women’s basketball team has strived for begins Sunday.

What happened in a successful regular season, one that featured a complete comeback from last year’s trip to the WNIT, has become largely irrelevant.

Now, the second season for the fourth-seeded Terps, who begin their NCAA Tournament on Sunday against No. 13 seed Saint Francis (Pa.), is all that matters.

It likely won’t get off to a rough start.

When it arrives at Comcast Center fresh off a Northeastern Conference championship, the Red Flash will present the Terps with a challenge they haven’t faced in some time — making sure none of March Madness’ glass slippers fit.

“Everybody’s looking to be that Cinderella team,” guard Kim Rodgers said.

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Forward Tianna Hawkins, right, and the Terps haven’t played since an ACC Tournament loss to Georgia Tech on March 4. On Sunday, they face No. 13 seed Saint Francis (Pa.). CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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