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USM: Cuts may lead to tuition hike if approved House proposes $21M slash to system budget

BY ALLISON STICE Senior staff writer

Trash talk ends with Tigers on top

Terps outmatched in second round of NCAA Tournament

BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Throughout their season, members of the Terrapin men’s basketball team realized they weren’t the biggest players and admitted they weren’t the most athletic, either.

At times, those shortcomings bled through the surface during blowout losses. But during the final month, as the Terps (21-14) willed themselves to an inspired dash to the postseason, they rallied around their limitations, winning in spite of them.

Their rush finally came to a close Saturday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament against a supremely talented Memphis team

(33-3), which has now won a nationbest 27 straight games.

The second-seeded Tigers pummeled the Terps 89-70, ending Maryland’s renaissance season.

This time, the little guys didn’t have enough.

“You go into a game, you talk about boxing out, but when a guy makes a play two feet over the rim, that’s what they can do,” coach Gary Williams said, referring to Memphis’ physical advantages. “We don’t play up there this year. ... This year it was about making adjustments just about every [game] once we got into league play.”

Like most ACC opponents, the

A sharp budget cut proposed by state legislators on Friday may force the university system to raise tuition, officials said.

The House of Delegates’ budget committee approved $21 million in cuts to the University System of Maryland late Friday, more than wiping out the minor funding increase that Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) had proposed for higher education. While state legislators said they want to continue a tuition freeze, University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan said tuition would have to increase to maintain educational quality if a cut of that size is finalized.

“We now have an over-$20 million hole that has to be filled either by raising revenue — namely

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BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Greivis Vasquez has never been one to strap a leash to his comments.

He gladly indulges the media and fans with whatever is on his mind, typically conducting attention as a result.

In a way, this is what has made him one of the nation’s top guards. His passion spills out on the court, and his boisterous actions are channeled toward one goal: winning.

A day before his Terrapin men’s basketball team played Memphis in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, Vasquez fired another

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City council members listen as planning director Terry Schum (center) discusses tax incentives for non-housing development. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Knox Box owner meets REESE CLEGHORN, 1930-2009 with officials privately A ‘demand for excellence’ Attendees decline to discuss meeting; site eyed by city for redevelopment

Longest-serving journalism dean who helped lead college to national prominence dies journalism professor who pointed to Cleghorn’s “demand for excellence and an eye for talent” as the key to Reese Cleghorn, a former dean of the college’s success.

During his years at the university, the university’s journalism school who transformed it into one of the Cleghorn’s top priority was the quality of the school, which nation’s best, died from he boosted by recruiting heart disease complicaPulitzer-Prize winning tions March 16 at his faculty — including forhome in Washington. He mer Philadelphia was 78.

Inquirer and New York Cleghorn began as dean Times editor Gene of the journalism school Roberts and Washington April 1, 1981 and retired Post journalists David because of poor health 19 Broder and Haynes years later, during which Johnson — and through he recruited top faculty creating the college’s and revamped the colCapital lege’s curriculum. He REESE CLEGHORN student-run News Service, which stayed on the faculty as a FORMER DEAN gives journalism students professor until December, teaching courses in editorial writing. hands-on experience covering both “He was a moral and professional Annapolis and Washington, and leader in the college up to the very end,” said Carl Sessions Stepp, a Please See CLEGHORN, Page 3

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TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Planners want tax incentives for condos, grocers and stores

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College Park city officials held a private meeting earlier this month with a landlord who owns many of the Knox Boxes but wouldn’t say if any progress had been made toward redeveloping the area.

City officials have long hoped to see the aging Knox Boxes torn down and replaced with newer and higher-density housing, but any redevelopment chances were difficult when many owners controlled the 52 individual properties.

Since 2005, landlord Janet Firth has bought many of the Knox Boxes, sparking hopes the neighborhood just south of the university could be consolidated and rebuilt.

Projects to meet housing needs, city planner says

JANET FIRTH KNOX BOX OWNER The officials who attended the meeting, including College Park City Council members and planning staff, would not say what they discussed, but an official who was invited and did not attend said the planned topic was a discussion of the future of the neighborhood.

Firth did not return calls seeking comment, but she told The Diamondback in 2006 that she would only redevelop the neighborhood if she could

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Sunny/40s

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

After years of encouraging more student housing development in College Park, city officials are hesitating to offer incentives to build more housing, saying planned projects will be able to satisfy demand.

The city should instead use tax credits to encourage the development of condominiums, office buildings, grocery stores, high-end restaurants, clothing stores and independent locally owned businesses, city planning director Terry Schum said.

City officials said they believe between existing housing and planned developments, the city will have enough housing for students for the foreseeable future. Four projects on Route 1 alone — the Varsity at College Park, Mazza Grandmarc, Starview and an expansion of University View called University Overlook — will bring more than 2,500 beds to the area

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Jenna Bush security detail van towed in Baltimore BALTIMORE — City officials say a van attached to the security detail for Jenna Bush was towed after it accumulated six unpaid tickets.

Adrienne Barnes, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Transportation, said a second Secret Service vehicle was also ticketed.

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan confirmed one vehicle was towed and said the federal agency is paying the tickets.

The spokesman said the van is not used to transport Bush, the daughter of former president George W. Bush.

Barnes said the van was picked up Friday from the city’s impound lot.

Bush and her husband, Henry Hager, bought a two-story rowhouse in South Baltimore in April, a month before they were married. Hager works for Constellation Energy.

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Restaurant opening may be delayed

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The opening of the planned Amanecer Marino restaurant may be delayed, according to College Park Public Services Director Bob Ryan.

The restaurant was scheduled to open May 1 on Route 1, serving Salvadoran, Mexican and Caribbean food, but owner Maria Canales has postponed an application for the establishment’s liquor license, Ryan said.

Her attorney, Linda Carter, notified the city in writing without providing an explanation for the delay or saying when the restaurant might open, Ryan said.

Carter has not returned calls seeking comment.

Last week, city employees called police when they saw equipment being removed from the restaurant building, but later learned the property owners themselves had been taking it away, Ryan said.

“It’s not a good sign when you’re taking the kitchen equipment out,” Ryan said. “It’s too bad, because it looked like it would be an interesting place.”

Students and city officials alike have said they are looking forward to trying the food at the restaurant but worry a new business could struggle in tough economic times.

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At a College Park City Council meeting last week, Planning Director Terry Schum, middle, said the city should have enough student housing to meet future demand. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

arrange a large project and that she was committed to housing students.

“My intention from the very first one that I purchased is to provide highquality student housing,” Firth said. “The only thing I can share with you is that

I’m running them as student housing and continuing to upgrade them.”

The city was able to hold a private and unannounced meeting with Firth because it did not have a quorum of five council members attending, city officials said. holtdbk@gmail.com

Lack of grad. student housing worries officials HOUSING, from Page 1 over the next few years. Both University Overlook and Mazza Grandmarc have already broken ground.

“We think that, if all our student housing projects that are planned in the pipeline get constructed, we will have saturated that market, so that’s not a project type we want to be encouraging,” Schum said.

The tax credits reduce property taxes for new developments the city considers desirable and encourages developers to build those types of projects. Most of the projects already underway wouldn’t be eligible for a tax credit, officials said.

“The intention of this is to get a project that might not otherwise be possible,” said District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich. “If it’s already being built, we have no reason” to give up tax revenue.

However, Stullich and some other city officials disagreed with Schum’s assertion that the city would soon have

enough student housing.

“It looks like a lot of student housing projects are going to be built right now, but who knows what the future holds?”

Stullich said.

To grapple with the issue, the council is considering less specific wording for its tax credit code that would allow the city to choose whatever type of development it wants to see in a particular time and place. Officials also said if some student housing projects fail to be built, future projects could be chosen to receive tax incentives.

Another city official noted an influx of undergraduate housing does not solve every student’s housing needs.

“Nobody’s talking about graduate student housing,” said City Economic Development Coordinator Chris Warren. Graduate students “have different needs, and they add more to the culture of what’s thought of as a college town.”

Mazza and the university’s planned East Campus project will both include graduate stu-

dent housing, but graduate student leaders have said the planned rents are too high.

The city began studying the possibility of a revitalization tax credit after developer Mark Vogel requested one for his Varsity at College Park mixed-use student housing project. The Varsity might therefore be eligible for the tax credit, officials said.

For the Varsity, Vogel bought three small properties on Route 1 next to University View and spent millions to buy out the leases of Jerry’s Subs and Pizza and Merchant’s Tire and Auto Center.

The taxable value of the property will increase from about $555,000 to about $75 million after the Varsity is built, the city finance department estimated, so the city will receive more in property taxes even if the rate is lowered.

The council will likely decide on the specifics of the program next month. holtdbk@gmail.com

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Student senators pledge to unite Students have debated voting as a bloc in the Univ. Senate for years

BY MARISSA LANG Senior staff writer

Newly elected undergraduate student senators said they need to work together to advance student causes through the faculty-dominated University Senate, repeating a pledge made by past senators.

The 24 students elected earlier this month will represent undergraduates in the senate, which directly advises the administration on university policy. But they will be outnumbered by more than 100 faculty and staff senators. Beyond their minority status, student representatives only serve one-year terms, while faculty and staff senators typically serve three-year terms. To overcome these disadvantages, voting less as individuals and more as a cohesive bloc should be a priority for next year, students said.

But student senators have repeatedly pledged to work together more, with only mixed results. Last year, despite widespread support from students, a Good Samaritan policy failed to make it to the senate floor.

Earlier this month, most students voted for a posttenure review policy, which aimed to hold tenured professors accountable for their performances, but opposition by faculty members ensured the bill failed overwhelmingly.

“We just need to make sure our voices are heard through all the noise and static of the senate.”

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“The issues the University Senate tackles are really important to students,” said Student Government Association President Jonathan Sachs, who was elected to the senate as an undergraduate representative for the behavioral and social sciences college.

“We tried to organize students around post-tenure review this year, but overall, we just need to make sure our voices are heard through all the noise and static of the senate.”

Kevin Tervala, a reelected student senator, said although the issue of increasing student senator unity has been raised in previous elections, little has been done to accomplish that goal. But he said increasing communication and involvement will be key next year, and that students need to be committed to make it happen.

“I think a monthly meeting where students can come and ask questions

about university policy and raise their concerns is absolutely something we can organize,” Tervala said.

“But senators need to be committed. I know we’re all busy and are involved in other things, but for an hour or two every month, if we could have a forum like that, it would be fantastic.”

Besides post-tenure review, the senate has also addressed other controversial issues this year, such as a Good Samaritan policy and an all-campus smoking ban. Next year, the senate will consider the revamping of the university’s general education program and may continue to work on posttenure review.

“The SGA keeps passing legislation in favor of all these things, like Good Samaritan,” said arts and humanities undergraduate senator-elect Josef Parker.

“But the University Senate doesn’t have to listen to what the SGA passes. That’s why it’s so important for students on the senate to have a strong unified voice.”

While the senate is technically only an advisory body, university President Dan Mote rarely ignores its recommendations. This separates it from the SGA, which primarily acts as a student advocacy organization.

Tervala said students feeling disenfranchised is not new but added a student voting bloc might not be the

best solution.

“It’s always an issue that students feel like they don’t have their voices heard as much as they’d like,” Tervala said. “But as a senator, you’re able to build personal relationships with faculty and staff members of the senate and discuss issues with them. Things can be accomplished that way.”

Elected senators mentioned CORE, reevaluating student conduct codes, increasing transparency in managing the university’s endowment and advocating for their colleges as top priorities for next year, but overall, all said they just want to make an impact.

“I wouldn’t have run if I didn’t think I could make a difference,” business school undergraduate senator Alex Chafitz said. “I was really drawn to the idea of shared governance — the idea that students have a say.”

Despite their numbers, newly elected undergraduate student senators said they can and will make a difference next year.

“Being in the minority doesn’t mean you have no voice,” Sachs said. “This is a really exciting time to get involved, and I think more and more students are looking for ways to have their voices heard ... The senate is a great place to go to get significant results for the student body. ” langdbk@gmail.com

Cleghorn raised school’s caliber CLEGHORN, from Page 1 revamping the college’s curriculum to include law, history and ethics classes.

But Cleghorn’s advocacy wasn’t just for students — he also moved the home of the National Association of Black Journalists and a national bimonthly magazine, American Journalism Review, to the college. Cleghorn served as AJR’s publisher, and the magazine brought prominence to the college with its in-depth pieces on the state of the journalism industry.

Cleghorn was not only a visionary but a determined, driven dean who could transform his ideas into success, Stepp said. He raised the standard for journalism school students, reduced the college’s enrollment to a more manageable size and created the college’s Board of Visitors, an advisory group of professionals and alumni that was one of the first of

its kind at the university, said Frank Quine, an assistant dean of the journalism school.

“He was single-minded,” said Chris Hanson, another journalism professor. “He would do what he had to do to get it done. If you don’t have that kind of vision, it’s hard to get things done in a bureaucracy.”

Yet Cleghorn’s tenure was not without some controversy. In 1998, he advocated removing the university’s public relations program from the journalism school, saying the program was stretched too thin and only had two tenured faculty members.

Public relations students protested outside the journalism school while the decision was being made, chanting, “save our sequence.” The program did leave the journalism school and is now part of the university’s communication program.

After stepping down as dean, Cleghorn continued to be in-

volved with the journalism school, teaching editorial and commentary writing classes until retiring in December. His classes focused on opinion writing and its role in the history of the United States and challenged students to analyze international issues — such as poverty, environmental change and the war in Iraq — in a clear, logical way, and often in 500 words or less. He also regularly hosted barbecues for his students at his home in Washington as a way to interact with them outside of the classroom.

For his work, Cleghorn was given the Freedom Forum’s Journalism Administrator of the Year award in 1995 as he had “set the standard for journalism schools of the future,” according to the chair of the forum.

Before coming to the journalism school, Cleghorn had an accomplished career as a journalist. Born in Georgia in 1930, he

earned degrees from Emory University and Columbia University, became a city editor and editorial writer for the Atlanta Journal in the 1960s and was among the south’s earliest civil rights advocates. He would go on to serve as the Charlotte Observer’s editorial page editor in the 1970s and later as the associate editor of the editorial page at the Detroit Free Press, and would advocate for hiring more black journalists when others in the industry were hesitant to do so, Hanson said.

A memorial service will be held at the Memorial Chapel on March 26 at 3 p.m.

Cleghorn is survived by his wife of 34 years, Cheree Briggs Cleghorn of Washington; two children from his first marriage, the Rev. John Cleghorn of Charlotte and Nona Cleghorn of Atlanta; and four grandchildren. taustindbk@gmail.com

General Assembly, governor have voiced support for freeze TUITION, from Page 1

ition freeze very carefully.”

However, both the governor tuition — or making cuts to pro- and the General Assembly grams,” Kirwan said. “And we have expressed they are very don’t really want to do either, much in favor of a tuition but in my opinion, I think most freeze, seemingly regardless of students would prefer a minor cuts made to the system’s tuition increase to having the budget. And it is unlikely the quality of their experience de- regents will raise tuition if Annapolis stands firm, said state crease.”

Tuition has been frozen for Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne the past three years because Arundel and Prince George’s), the governor has dedicated a former member of the Board state money to keep it down. of Regents.

“The Board of Regents aren’t This year, he allotted $16 million to do so and proposed a going to do anything the governor or General Assmall funding increase sembly doesn’t want for the system. But bethem to do,” he said. cause the university The regents are system’s general fund hardly complaining and tuition revenues go about the cuts as into the same pool, offithey are all too cials will face an undeaware of the state’s sirable choice if the economic situation, system’s budget suffers Vivona said. But the a cut: maintaining qualsystem has already ity or maintaining afmade highly praised fordability. efforts to increase The house slashed productivity as $11 million from the much as possible system’s general fund through the Effiand $10 million from its ciency and Effec$104 million in retiveness initiative, serves, which system and making up leaders also worry will budget cuts by furbring down the systher reducing enrolltem’s credit rating. Delment, majors or egates indicated they other services would wanted to keep the tuition freeze in place, BRIT KIRWAN hinder the system’s efforts to move forsaid Joe Vivona, the USM CHANCELLOR ward, he added. system’s vice chancellor for administration and fi- Raising tuition by four percent nance. This concerns system could quell that very problem.

“But the governor is saying leaders because the cut to the general fund doesn’t come from higher education is so expenspecific areas. But if $16 mil- sive, and he’s right,” Vivona lion of an already reduced said. “Maryland has been budget is labeled for holding abysmal in terms of affordabilidown tuition, the quality of the ty for such a wealthy state. So system’s 11 institutions would that’s what we’re up against.”

The senate will make its own undoubtedly decrease in order cuts in coming weeks. While no to plug the gap, Kirwan said.

The Board of Regents, a panel one is sure what they will be, of gubernatorial appointees who university officials continue to oversee the system, has the final make their case for holding on word when it comes to tuition to O’Malley’s original proposal, increases and won’t make any which was already “a modest decisions until after the budget budget, not a move-forward budget,” Kirwan said. After the is approved next month.

“One of the things the Board senate makes its decisions, of Regents feels strongly about high-ranking legislators in both is we don’t want the quality of houses will haggle over the difhigher education to go down,” ferences in conference commitsaid Board of Regents Chair- tee and finalize the decision by man Cliff Kendall. “And if April 6. there’s a sizable cut, the Board of Regents will evaluate a tu- sticedbk@gmail.com

“I think most students would prefer a minor tuition increase to having the quality of their experience decrease.”

Center’s ‘super battery’ to store renewable energy hybrid technology.”

The heart of the project is rooted in improving the elecGary Rubloff is trying to trostatic capacitor, a cenhold on to wind gusts and sun turies-old electronic component that stores electrical rays.

Well, not exactly. But charge between small plates Rubloff, the director of the of metal, and the weak point university’s Maryland of the energy storage equaNanoCenter, is trying to solve tion. The limits are on how one of green energy’s thorni- much energy can be stored est problems: how to store and how long it takes to energy generated from alter- charge, Rubloff said, and conventional capacitors have native sources.

“There’s a lot of focus on reached their practical limits.

“It’s very good at fast renewable energy: sun power, wind power. But the wind charging and discharging but really bad at storing stops and the sun a lot of energy,” goes down,” he said.

Rubloff said. “What “We need a way to we’re doing is keepgrab that energy ing that fast charge and store it. capability but Nanoscience is the increasing the power, answer to developprobably by a factor ing the next generaof at least 40 to a tion of energy storcouple hundred.” age.”

These improved The NanoCenter, structures, cona partnership structed by finessing between the engihundreds of billions neering school, the of one-atom-thick computer, math and layers of metal into physical sciences an aluminum-oxide college and the honeycomb, could be chemical and life combined to store sciences college GARY energy for a myriad could be within 10 RUBLOFF years of releasing a NANOCENTER DIRECTOR of uses, including a means to better har“super battery” ness energy gleaned that could power a car for 300 miles after from solar and wind power.

About seven other charging for five minutes. are leading Rubloff and his fellow researchers researchers are bringing teams in other areas of nanand energy atomic-level physics into otechnology practical use, developing research, Rubloff said, eyeing useful technology in hybrid technological quandaries in electric cars at a time of solar power, fuel cells, heightened concern about lithium-ion batteries, chemicapacitors and both the environment and cal-based America’s dependency on vibrational energy — the ability to harness power from foreign oil.

“The motivation is that kinetic movement, such as the there’s an energy crisis, motion of a shoe. These are everyone knows that, but rapidly expanding areas of there are a lot of things that study that are quickly being aren’t quite there for dealing moved off the back burner, with the crisis,” he said. Rubloff said.

“It’s an opportunity to lead “Batteries are too big, too heavy, too expensive, what- the world,” he added. ever the case may be. We need the next generation of abdilldbk@gmail.com

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ast spring, the University Senate approved the university’s 10-year strate- large task ahead of him. He should begin by strengthening the current review gic plan in a vote of 68 to five. The plan sets ambitious goals for excellence, process to show skeptical professors that reviews have real value. This would also and to achieve them, it calls for greater accountability throughout the uni- give Farvardin an opportunity to work directly with the faculty members who felt versity. College deans and department chairs have to go to greater lengths alienated from the drafting of the proposal. But ultimately, professors need to suck to justify their funding. Students have to meet higher benchmarks to graduate. And it up and see past the threat of extra work and salary reductions. They need to reyes, professors too have to share in the new responsibilities. The plan calls for a alize that an effective post-tenure review will benefit the entire university — and new review system for tenured faculty that would reward innovative scholarship they shouldn’t need a cadre of administrators to make that obvious.

Post-tenure review is a part of the university’s larger vision to raise its profile and teaching with bonuses and punish subpar work with pay cuts.

But a year later, the same professors who endorsed the review system in princi- and better serve students and the state. It’s consistent with the values senators signed onto last year, and it’s consistent with the standards adple resoundingly rejected putting the post-tenure review plan ministrators are raising across the university. Those professors into practice. Some professors seemed open to the strategic who say the new post-tenure review procedures will waste time plan’s intentions, but many more acted hell-bent against any review system beyond the spottily enforced process already on the Professors should realize when they could be focusing on scholarship offer no better of an excuse than the students who say they’re too busy studying to fill books. The final vote two weeks ago was so overwhelming, they post-tenure review out course evaluations. The fact is, progress requires hard work didn’t even bother with a hand count. benefits the university. and sacrifice.

History professor Gay Gullickson expressed many professors’ And at the end of the day, an effective post-tenure review sysconcerns, calling the proposal “punitive” and “counter-productive,” arguing that pay cuts don’t make better teachers. What Gullickson and like- tem can’t work without professors’ buy-in. In a faculty-dominated senate, profesminded professors are missing is how pay cuts are essential to developing an ef- sors will have the deciding vote on any new policy. More importantly, they’re in the fective review system that does make better teachers. The senate itself acknowl- best position to craft an effective post-tenure review policy and will ultimately be edges that annual reviews are far too frequently ignored, and underperforming the ones carrying it out. So if professors were truly troubled by the nuts and bolts of professors currently have little incentive to follow through on the development the proposal they voted down two weeks ago, they need to take the lead when displans they’re required to draft. Faced with the prospect of pay cuts, professors will cussions start again. The next post-tenure review proposal shouldn’t come from take the review process more seriously. But even after a slew of amendments soft- the top down. But a subsequent proposal needs to come soon. Professors cannot be content to research and teach without accountability, and they shouldn’t imagine ened the proposal’s punch, professors refused to budge.

Provost Nariman Farvardin, who has vowed to revisit post-tenure review, has a post-tenure review is their problem alone.

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Language: Don’t get too comfortable

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riginally, this was going to be a lame column about nothing.

And then the president went and made a Special Olympics joke. We’re back in business.

President Barack Obama — you know, the charismatic speaker, the guy who replaced the guy who always messed up speaking — just couldn’t wait to stuff his foot in his mouth after he went on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and said of his own poor bowling performance, “It was like the Special Olympics or something.”

Awesome.

Obviously, the media hoopla followed, the president apologized to the Special Olympics, blah blah blah. But if you ask me, it speaks to something larger that we really need to take a look at: Collectively, as a society, we’ve all decided that words like “retarded” and “gay” are synonyms

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GINDES for “lame.” It may not seem like the end of the world when you’re with your buddies, but it’s slightly more important when the whole country’s going to hell and the guy we’re looking to as our savior is saying it.

And look, I’m just as guilty as anyone. I use words like “retarded” just as much as any 20-year-old redneck. My mother says it’s because I have a limited vocabulary. Which is true, because I am lazy.

And there’s your deeper problem.

We’re all just so lazy that we don’t bother

to speak properly. Everyone knows that Obama doesn’t hate Special Olympians.

Nobody thinks he’s an intolerant, crass human being. But he’s a product of an America where we don’t care about speaking properly anymore. We’re sloppy with our language, and not just when it comes to slurs. I can barely understand the hip slang myself these days. That hit me the day “Stanky Legg” by GS Boyz came out. I’ll be damned if I know what a stanky leg is.

It’s just the nature of the beast right now. We’re all way too comfortable with these words, but the fact that we’re lazy doesn’t change how offensive these slurs are at their root. When you think something sucks and you call it gay, you’re basically saying that you think all gay people suck. That’s not fair. All straight people suck too. Everybody sucks.

Using these slurs just shows that we’re

lazy and uneducated. We have poor vocabularies. And when you’re the one we chose as our leader, you should also be the one leading us in not looking like an idiot.

The point is, I’m not saying that Obama is a bad person because he let a Special Olympics joke slip while he was talking with Leno.

I’m just saying that, Obama, you’re the president of the United States, the leader of the free world and the icon for hope and change in times of doom and gloom.

You don’t know that a nationally televised broadcast isn’t the right time is to make a joke about mentally and physically challenged people?

That’s just retarded.

Rob Gindes is a junior journalism major.

He can be reached at gindesdbk@gmail.com.

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wo weeks ago, one of my least-favorite words was bandied about by both President Barack Obama and our own University Senate.

The word is “accountability.” Obama spoke about cultivating “a new culture of accountability in America’s schools.”

The senate considered a proposal that, to quote The Diamondback, aimed “to hold tenured professors accountable.”

In public schools, accountability means test score data. The president wants to explore merit pay plans, which reward teachers who produce higher scores on standardized tests. You know how teachers do this? They drill students on a narrow list of facts that are most likely to appear in test questions, and they teach students test-taking gimmicks. It’s the exact opposite of Robin Williams’ classroom in Dead Poets Society.

On this campus, faculty members in the senate rightly voted against a pro-

posed post-tenure review policy. Still, the Student Government Association and Graduate Student Government presidents and the provost continued to argue that the performance of tenured professors should be evaluated annually, in the name of accountability.

Student leaders say they want input, but students reliably fail to show up during office hours and continue to generate a low return rate of course evaluations.

Students like to complain to their friends about professors but don’t have very much actual constructive criticism for faculty.

Administrators are using accountability as a cover for an attack on tenure. Faculty salaries are the biggest part of the university budget, and without that pesky tenure protecting those salaries ,administrators could slash away.

Those arguing for accountability ignore the fact that getting tenure is enormously difficult. A single tenure-track position attracts dozens, if not hundreds,

JEREMY

SULLIVAN of applicants. Professors must generate a resumé that overflows with positively reviewed research and teaching experience. Administrators and faculty have numerous opportunities to delay or deny the granting of tenure, and it is only after a thorough process that a candidate is awarded the rare privilege of tenure.

Apparently, some people need to be reminded that tenure exists to protect academic freedom, an idea that cannot be compromised if a university wishes to be considered reputable. Professors must be able to push the boundaries of their field without worrying about cost-cutting bureaucrats or ideologically motivated

administrators who disagree on principle with a subject like stem cell research or a Palestinian right to statehood.

Both Obama and supporters of the post-tenure review policy are using the language of accountability to obscure their true objectives. Obama wants to see test scores go up; go watch season four of The Wire if you want to see how faith in rising test scores works in practice.

Post-tenure review means the end of tenure. Currently, tenured faculty members work hard at their scholarship and teaching. They are constantly evaluated by students, their colleagues here and other scholars in their field. Threatening their job security won’t make them better; it will drive them away. All we'll have to show for our newfound accountability is a worse university.

Jeremy Sullivan is a doctoral candidate studying American history.

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SCOTT CANCEL Scum. A word defined in the dictionary as a low, vile or worthless person or group of people. This word is usually used to describe someone with little to no class, someone who has a known tendency to bring people down with no expense to themselves. I never thought I would ever use this word to describe my president, the leader of the free world, the person in charge of making key decisions to ensure the great success of our nation.

However, in light of President Barack Obama’s recent remarks on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, no other word comes to mind. For those who may not know, Obama compared his low bowling score of 129 to the Special Olympics, an event held every two years for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. These words may have seemed a harmless joke to some, but they’ve proven to be much more.

I do not have a mentally handicapped relative, nor do I know the struggles and hardships of raising a child born with a disability. What I do understand is the constant struggle of a population that seeks acceptance from a society that too often forgets or misunderstands them.

For the past five summers, I have worked at a summer camp for children and adults with a range of mental and physical disabilities. I have personally seen the neglect, ignorance and harassment these individuals receive on a daily basis.

I have also seen the unheralded compassion, love and impact these individuals can have on people who are close to them. I would know, considering I am one of these individuals.

I am grateful for my experience, as it is one that few have the opportunity to gain. With society’s constant abuse of the word “retard” and jokes about those mentally and physically handicapped, the overall portrayal of these people is seen as low, beneath the rest of the population. Comments like the one made Thursday night do nothing but fuel this hateful fire.

When the man who is supposed to represent our country, make sure no single group is misrepresented and look out for the well-being of our citizens makes a comment that degrades a group of individuals, there is little hope that any change can be made. The president should be encouraging increased acceptance and understanding of these individuals, not making fun of them. Every day, millions of parents go through the struggles of raising a child with mental or physical disabilities. Obama’s comment not only insulted them but left them with less support to turn to for help.

This is not an issue that should be treated with an apology delivered by a press secretary, nor with a simple phone call to the head of the Special Olympics. The least Obama could do is deliver a public apology himself. This situation offers our country a unique opportunity: A chance to realize the words we use matter, a chance to recognize we need to change our outlook on people with special needs.

Obama, you called for change throughout your campaign. Now is your time to deliver. Start from the bottom and work your way up to the top.

Scott Cancel is a freshman letters and sciences major. He can be reached at scottcancel@gmail.com.

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One of David Burnett’s photos from Bob Marley’s 1977 Exodus tour.

Over time, Bob Marley has become one of the most iconic figures in music history — his image plastering everything from dorm room walls to pillowcases to tobacco rolling papers. David Burnett had the opportunity to photograph Marley for Time magazine at his home in Jamaica and on tour in Europe in 1976 and 1977. His collected works make up Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley, a book and an exhibit at the Govinda Gallery in Washington. The free exhibit started on Marley’s birthday, Feb. 6, and runs through April 11.

REVIEW | RUSSELL BRAND

Silly title, major laughs Russell Brand tells all in his autobiography, My Booky Wook

BY TRIPP LAINO Staff writer

Unlike most celebrity autobiographies, Russell Brand’s My Booky Wook doesn’t include a second (or third) author, who (presumably) did all the work. Instead, the tales of debauchery come directly out of his mouth, seemingly unedited.

While Brand didn’t launch onto the American scene until his scene-stealing role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, he’s been a presence in his native U.K. for years with stand-up shows, television work and a weekly radio show.

The book, which was a No. 1 bestseller in Britain, hasn’t been edited to better suit American audiences; instead,

explanatory footnotes have been added. These are especially useful, as Brand frequently references British pop culture, such as TV shows and celebrities, most of which would be lost on American readers.

“Keeley Hazell is a topless model who appears on Page 3 of The Sun newspaper,” Brand wrote. “Page 3 is a crazy concept whereby for no discernible reason a national newspaper prints a photograph of a young woman showing her tits. I’d object, but I’m too enamored with the boobs. ... Amusingly, they often attribute a comment on the day’s events to the Page 3 girl of the day, right next to her lovely, naked body.”

He also explains cultural anachronisms, such as Per-

spex instead of Plexiglass, and the process of Cockney rhyming slang, where rhyming phrases are substituted for words.

It’s clear this work is in Brand’s voice: The wild, crazy and sometimes rambling way he spoke on his radio show, from which he has since resigned over a public dispute, comes through in printed form as entertainingly as it does vocally.

Selected highlights from the roller coaster ride encompassing the life of Brand include: An addiction to drugs, including heroin (kicked), an addiction to sex (partially kicked, if any of the tales of Brand’s current exploits hold true) and a chronic love of the spotlight (clearly not kicked, see the

2008 MTV Video Music Awards).

But his VMA performance, which offended many Americans with his shots at former President George W. Bush and the Jonas Brothers (note to Brand: Don’t get involved with the religious right), wasn’t the first time he’s been in a negative limelight involving America. Brand worked as a video jockey at MTV Britain and decided to appear on the program dressed as Osama Bin Laden. It was Sept. 12, 2001.

He was promptly dismissed.

Brand’s conversational manner peppers My Booky Wook, and while it’s largely unconventional, it’s what you’d expect. The book reads as if he’s in the room having a conversation with you, and

Originally released in the U.K., My Booky Wook features updated footnotes of British terms for American audiences. COURTESY OF MTV

while the style wouldn’t work for most authors, Brand pulls it off effortlessly.

If you haven’t seen or heard Brand outside of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, My Booky

Getting back to The Source Psychedelic 1960s band with cult connections gets a modern touring revival Senior staff writer

Most musical timelines give a pretty definitive end date for the 1960s and all the social ideals attached to that brief time period: Dec. 6, 1969, the notorious Altamont Free Festival where a man was stabbed to death as The Rolling Stones performed “Under My Thumb.”

Tucked away in the Hollywood Hills though, psychedelic music and the optimistic principles of the Aquarian Age carried on well into the 1970s. The Source Family, a Los Angeles-based spiritual collective — or cult, if you can get past the negative connotations of the term — intertwined communal living and Kabbalah mysticism with musical experimentation.

Under the tutelage of Father Yod, the operator of Los Angeles’s famous Source vegetarian restaurant and patriarch of the Family, Ya Ho Wha 13 (derived from the Jewish name for God, Yahweh) cut roughly 65 albums, some of which, in the last decade, have been rediscovered as landmark psychedelic recordings.

Within a few years of Father Yod’s death in a 1975 hang gliding accident, Ya Ho Wha 13 and the rest of the Family mostly went their separate ways. However, the 2007 re-release of The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family, a book written by one of Yod’s wives, Isis, ignited a new interest in all things Ya Ho Wa. The three core members of the band reunited in 2007 to tour and record Sonic Portation, an album cut in the spontaneous nature of those early, Source Family albums. The band will appear at the Talking Head Club in Baltimore on Thursday and at Velvet Lounge in Washington on Friday.

In an interview with The Diamondback, guitarist Djin Aquarian said the 2007 tour and forthcoming dates were really the first proper live shows the band had ever played.

Ya Ho Wha 13 guitarist Djin Aquarian, right, said that despite forming in the 1960s, the band’s first real live shows weren’t until 2007. COURTESY OF GOLDMINEMAG.COM

“We were so busy creating the Family energy, so to speak, and taking care of all the needs of the restaurant and the children and the Family, we didn’t have a lot of time to go out and do the things we used to do,” Aquarian said.

As a teenager in Chicago, Aquarian more or less paid his dues as a professional musician before joining the Source Family in Hollywood. He recorded sessions at the legendary Chess Records and shared concert bills with the likes of Howlin’ Wolf.

Needless to say, Ya Ho Wha 13 and life in the Family was a change of pace.

“Back then, we were in our 20s and we had no frame of reference for what happened to us,” Aquarian said. “We just sort of joined in, joined up with the

Family and surrendered our mortal egos.”

His regular bandmates Sunflower and Octavius Aquarian (all Family members share the last name), were also professional musicians, so it took some adjusting to Father Yod’s free-flowing musical direction.

Aquarian cannot remember the exact point where he gave in to Father Yod’s “spontaneous energy,” but it changed his musical approach from thereon.

“He was like the conductor,” Aquarian said of Father Yod. “He usually had a point that he was making in the music, whether we knew it or not. We were pretty much just following his lead. A lot of his technique was very childlike. And that brought in a lot of the innocence and magical spirit that we had in the old days.”

Although Aquarian admitted Sonic Portation occurred more out of a “conscious volition,” than the albums recorded at the wee hours in the Family mansion, there still seems to be some guiding Ya Ho Wha magic behind the whole thing.

A chance introduction with recording producer/engineer Peter Lyman led to Lyman’s donating his services and studio for two days, during which Ya Ho Wha 13 recorded the album.

“It all just came together just from people feeling connected to us and having a good feeling about us,” Aquarian said.

Without much left of the original Family infrastructure, Aquarian spoke of Ya Ho Wa 13 as “really carrying the torch of family and brotherhood” to deliver Father Yod’s message. It’s what Aquarian believes Father Yod would have wanted.

“I can’t say that for sure, of course,” Aquarian said.

“But you know, he did create this, he loved playing with the band and he probably would be playing with us now. He wouldn’t miss a chance to get in front of a bunch of people who loved them and fill their ears with wisdom teachings.

“That’s what he did.”

Ya Ho Wa 13 will play Thursday at the Talking Head Club in Baltimore. Doors open at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door. The band will also play Friday at Velvet Lounge in Washington. Doors open at 9 p.m. and tickets are $10. zherrm@gmail.com

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BOOK:My Booky Wook | VERDICT:

INTERVIEW | YA HO WHA 13

BY ZACHARY HERRMANN

Wook provides a perfect filler between now and 2010’s Get Him to the Greek, when he’ll reprise his role as Aldous Snow.

all the crap you care about TWITTER TWAT Stephen Colbert appeared slightly out of character for an interview with the TODAY show’s Meredith Vieira on Thursday, promoting his voice role in Monsters vs. Aliens. But he did offer one bit of truthiness as Vieira threw it to commercial with a tease about Twitter. Vieira asked Colbert if he tweets. “I have twatted,” Colbert said before Vieira paused, thought about it and replied: “So have I,” followed by the entire TODAY crew bursting out in laughter. Leave it to Colbert to put the twat in Twitter.

OF COURSE THERE’S A SEX TAPE As if the Chris Brown and Rihanna situation couldn’t get any more cliché, Star magazine is reporting that a sex tape exists. Rihanna is reportedly worried about the tape getting out there — apparently Brown has it — especially because the couple is once again on a break. Brown was even spotted getting off a plane in Virginia with another girl.

IT’S IKHY, NOT ICKI So it turns out M.I.A. wasn’t lying when she said her son was not named Ickitt; he’s actually named Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman, according to TMZ. Really, it could have been much stranger.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2009

THE UPS & THE DOWNS DEFENSE The Terps allowed Memphis to shoot 58.5 percent from the field and 52.6 percent from beyond the arc.

A month ago the tournament seemed like a pipe dream, but the Terps came together and even won a first-round game.

SLOW START Memphis went on a 15-0 run, burying the Terps in an early deficit they could not come back from.

53 33

36 ——————89 37 ——————70

MEMPHIS TIGERS (33-3) PLAYER MIN FG FT Taggart 29 5-8 4-6 Dozier 38 7-10 3-3 Anderson 37 1-2 0-0 Evans 32 7-13 4-5 Mack 21 6-11 0-0 Kemp 8 1-1 3-4 Sallie 23 4-6 2-2 Hend.-Niles 3 0-0 0-0 McGrady 1 0-0 0-0 Witherspoon 7 0-2 1-2 Laird 1 0-0 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 31-53 17-22

O-T 3-11 3-8 0-1 0-4 1-1 0-1 0-3 0-1 0-0 1-2 0-1 0-2 8-35

A 0 1 11 5 1 1 2 0 0 0 0

PF 2 2 1 2 2 0 3 2 0 3 0

TP 14 17 2 19 17 6 13 0 0 1 0

21 17 89

PERCENTAGES–FG: 58.5 FT: 77.3 3FG: 52.6 3-POINT GOALS–1019 (Mack 5-7, Sallie 3-4, Evans 1-5, Kemp 1-1, Witherspoon 0-1, Dozier 0-1). TURNOVERS–13 (Evans 5). BLOCKED SHOTS–3 (Evans 2). STEALS–6 (Evans 2).

MARYLAND TERRAPINS (21-14) PLAYER MIN FG Milbourne 29 4-9 Neal 29 3-8 Mosley 19 1-3 Vasquez 33 8-16 Bowie 24 4-10 Hayes 27 4-7 Dupree 3 0-1 Gregory 17 1-3 Tucker 16 2-5 Kim 3 0-0 Team TOTALS 200 27-62

FT 0-0 2-2 5-9 0-0 3-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3 0-0

O-T 1-2 2-4 3-3 1-3 1-3 0-1 0-1 1-3 1-3 0-0 1-4 11-19 11-27

Tigers’ shooters sealed Terp loss MEMPHIS, from Page 1

BEING IN ROUND 2

MEMPHIS TERRAPINS

TERPRECAP

A 1 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 1 0

PF TP 2 8 2 9 1 7 3 18 3 11 3 10 0 0 2 2 0 5 1 0

Tigers were bigger and more athletic than the Terps. But this time the Terps could not make the adjustments necessary to foil them.

A day before the game, the Terps compared Memphis to Wake Forest, whom the Terps dominated a week earlier in the second round of the ACC Tournament. Both the Tigers and Demon Deacons had great length and agility, and both lacked outside shooting prowess.

Yet Memphis, which shot just 32 percent from the 3-point line during the regular season, stroked 8-of-11 attempts in the first half to build a 20-point lead by intermission.

“There’s nothing we could do,” lone senior Dave Neal said. “They caught fire.”

In a near upset loss against 15thseeded Cal State Northridge on Thursday, Memphis guard Roburt Sallie hit 10 threes, while his teammates struggled, shooting 1-13.

Sallie was hot again Saturday, nailing three more against the Terps. But this time, he wasn’t the Tigers’ only threat. Guard Doneal Mack made five 3-pointers, including a first-half spurt in which he drilled four in five possessions.

“Unbelievable,” guard Greivis Vasquez added. “They shot the ball pretty well, but once again, our defense wasn’t there. We played great defense all year, and today our defense wasn’t there. It’s a team effort, and we just couldn’t stop it. They had some good drivers, but they made a ton of shots today.”

After a 15-0 Memphis run in the game’s first five minutes, the Terps were never close to the runaway Tigers.

“When they made that run, we

BY THE NUMBERS

9 17 70

PERCENTAGES–FG: 43.5 FT: 57.9, 3FG: 35.7 3-POINT GOALS––514 (Hayes 2-4, Vasquez 2-4, Neal 1-4, Tucker 0-2).

TURNOVERS––7 (Vasquez 3). BLOCKED SHOTS––3 (3 tied with 1) STEALS––8 (3 tied with 2).

MEMPHIS 89, TERPS 70

A statistical look at Saturday’s game

got a little flustered and tried to come back too quick,” Neal said.

“We didn’t rely on our offense and execute our offense as good as we have been the last couple games this year.”

In addition to their hot outside shooting, Memphis managed easy baskets via freshman guard Tyreke Evans, who swiftly drove through Terps defenders and navigated the paint in cruise control.

Five Tigers scored in double figures, including Evans, who had a game-high 19 points while tallying five assists despite a Terp defensive strategy that was “to try to help as much as possible on Tyreke Evans,” according to Williams.

Even when the Tigers missed, Memphis’ big man duo of Shawn Taggert and Robert Dozier were there to clean up.

Evans was off line with a 3pointer in the first half, but Dozier, demonstrating his team’s strength, out-leaped his peers for a forceful put-back slam.

“They are a great, big athletic team,” guard Eric Hayes said.

“When we are getting bodies on guys, they can get rebounds right up next to the rim and just tap them in. It’s tough when they have five guys on the floor who can rebound and be physical.”

After making waves Friday by knocking Memphis for playing in the weak Conference USA, Vasquez failed to surge the Terp offense like he has all season.

He finished with a team-high 18 points, but most of that damage was done early in the second half, when any comeback effort seemed futile because of the disparity on the scoreboard.

Following the Terps’ season-ending loss, Vasquez could only sur-

the rewards in the form of an NCAA Tournament bid. With a deviation from that method against a top-tier team, there was little way the Terps could advance any further.

“Our intensity wasn’t the same like it was [in the first-round win] against Cal,” guard Sean Mosley said. “And that’s what hurt us today.”

render and offer his opponents their due respect: “At this point, I have to give Memphis credit,” he said. “They really came out hard, and they beat us on the court.”

Because of their natural disadvantages, the Terps had to play each game this season with more precision, more passion and more concentration than their opponents.

For doing just that, they reaped

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15 Straight points Memphis scored after a 4-2 Terps start

Landon Milbourne and the Terps struggled with Memphis’ length and athleticism throughout Saturday’s game. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

3-pointers Tiger guard Doneal Mack hit in the span of five offensive possessions.

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21 Assists by Memphis

Assists by the Terps

Vasquez praises Tigers after game Terps bringing back all four VASQUEZ, from Page 1 attention-grabbing missile.

“If [Memphis] played in the ACC Conference, they’d have a losing record in the league,” he said Friday. “They’d probably win all of their games outside the league and have a losing record in the league.

The ACC is too tough.”

This time, Vasquez’s remarks didn’t have the desired effect. Memphis — who has won 58 straight games in Conference USA — learned of the disrespect Vasquez threw their way, and the Tigers pounced on the opportunity to prove him wrong.

After an 89-70 Memphis victory Saturday, the No. 2-seeded Tigers certainly looked like they could contend in any conference.

“They proved me wrong; that’s what the sport is about,” Vasquez said after the loss. “I don’t regret anything. They have good players and a good coach and they won. There is nothing else. We came out here to play basketball, and there was some trash talking involved, but it’s basketball. I thought they were better than us for those 40 minutes.”

Tiger guard Antonio Anderson and forward Robert Dozier said they did not think about Vasquez’s comments when preparing for the game.

But coach John Calipari said his players were all aware of it “in the information age right now,” and admitted, “I was kind of happy he said it.”

In their locker room Friday afternoon, Memphis forward Shawn Taggart only knew Vasquez as “a big guard who’s a good player.” Forward Pierre Hender-

son-Niles referred to the Terp star as “Sanchez.”

Less than an hour later, when told about Niles’ lack of knowledge, Vasquez responded, “They will know my name.

They will know who I am tomorrow on the court.”

“I don’t care who guards me. I’m going to go at him and at the whole team,” he also said. “I’m such a competitor. I don’t care who’s in front of me. I’m going to compete.

“The only person who can stop myself is myself,” Vasquez continued. “I mean I played against Kobe [Bryant] two summers ago. You tell me who’s better than that.”

Anderson helped to keep Vasquez under wraps, holding him to six points and one assist in the first half.

Vasquez didn’t play poorly, but he certainly wasn’t making the impact he claimed he would and didn’t control the game the way he has in Terp victories this year. He finished with 18 points and five assists.

After Vasquez was stripped of the ball on one first-half play, an angered coach Gary Williams yelled at his bench players, “You don’t wolf in the paper, then not play the next day. You don’t do that.”

In a press conference after the game, Williams addressed Vasquez’s comments.

“You know, he’s wrong,” Williams said.

“He’s wrong in saying those things like he said, but at the same time, sometimes the translation gets lost a little bit.”

When Vasquez picked up his first foul, fans of Memphis cheered excessively.

With his team ahead 25 points early in the

second half, one Memphis supporter yelled, “Hey Vasquez, how’s your ACC now?” And with five minutes left and the Terps down by 29, a group of Tigers fans chanted “ACC! ACC! ACC!” mockingly.

“That’s part of it,” said Vasquez, who was monitored by assistant coach Robert Ehsan while addressing the media after the game. “The fans are going to be like that regardless. At this point, I have to give Memphis credit. They really came out hard and they beat us on the court.”

To make his day worse, Vasquez received a technical foul for “an unsporting comment to the official.” Turns out his words weren’t appreciated by the referees either.

Calipari compared Vasquez’s bulletin board material to former Memphis forward Joey Dorsey’s during the 2007 NCAA Tournament.

The Tigers were set to play Ohio State in the Elite Eight, and Dorsey called opposing center Greg Oden “overrated.”

He called the matchup David vs. Goliath — with Oden being David.

In the ensuing game, Oden held Dorsey scoreless. Oden tallied 17 and helped lead the Buckeyes to a 92-76 victory and Final Four berth.

Saturday, the Tigers may not have needed the extra stimulus from Vasquez’s provoking comments. But it couldn’t have hurt.

“I mean, I guess it might have sparked something,” Terp forward Dave Neal said. “He said it, and I mean, nothing you can do about it.” mseligdbk@gmail.com

NCAA competitors next year

WRESTLE, from Page 12 into the picture by going undefeated the rest of the tournament. In the wrestleback, Taylor won six straight matches to finish in third place at 197 pounds.

“It was disappointing for me because my sole intention was to win and walk away with a national title,” Taylor said.

“But I was able to push through those negative thoughts from that loss.”

Along the way back to the top, he took down four top-10 seeds. Taylor became the fourth repeat all-American in program history.

“We turned a lot of heads this weekend,” Taylor said. “A culmination throughout the season of those painstaking losses and careful preparation pushed us to this top-10 finish.”

Steven Bell, the third All-American for the Terps, was the No. 12 seed in the 133pound weight class. Bell started with a 90 win in the first round, but he couldn’t find a way to beat No. 5 seed Andrew Hochstrasser of Boise State in the second round, losing 9-2.

Just as Taylor did, Bell got momentum and won five straight matches in the wrestleback, avenging a prior loss to No. 8 seed Joe Baker of Navy in the process.

Hochstrasser had Bell’s number, though, and defeated him for the second time in the tournament and third time this season, with a 7-3 decision. McCoy said Bell had trouble with staying healthy all weekend, and he finished in

sixth place.

The final Terrapin to compete in St. Louis was redshirt junior Brendan Byrne, who was unseeded in the 125pound weight class. Byrne lost his firstround match to Steve Bonanno of Hofstra, but he was able to beat Mike Watts of Michigan in the wrestleback. Byrne lost the next match, falling short of All-American status, which is awarded to the top six wrestlers in each weight class.

“This was a great weekend for our program,” McCoy said. “I am very proud of the way we finished. This year has been full of ups and downs, but it all came together in the end.

This would not be possible without the tremendous support of our administration, fans and family.”

The Terps look to be one of the rising programs in the country, as Taylor, Krom, Bell and Byrne are all juniors and should be back next season. Joining them will be Mike Letts, who finished 26-3 in a redshirt season after winning an ACC Championship title two seasons ago.

Taylor said the team will have one week off and then it will be back to training for next season.

“Tenth place is amazing, and we are enjoying it,” the fourth-year captain said, “but next year we want that team national title, and the entire team will be 100 percent focused.” eckarddbk@gmail.com

MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2009 | SPORTS | THE DIAMONDBACK

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Terps rolled on both ends TOURNEY, from Page 12

Goalie Jason Carter saved 10 Tar Heel shots in the Terps’ 8-7 win, which doubled as the fifth-year captain’s Senior Day. Carter improved his season record to 3-0. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Defense tagged with injuries UNC, from Page 12 apparent, the Tar Heels’ shortcomings were equally debilitating. North Carolina (7-3, 0-2) turned the ball over 22 times — six above its season average — somewhat neutralizing their advantage on the draws.

And of North Carolina’s 36 shots, just 17 were on net.

But fitting of the occasion, it was a group of seniors that put the Terps in a position to win.

Though lately the attack had been carrying the scoring load, Groot stepped up with three goals and an assist.

“We talked about getting back to dodges with the midfield,” Groot said. “If we can draw a slide before moving the ball down low, that’s what can really get our offense flowing.”

A string of injuries forced defender Anthony Costanzo, a fixture on the man-down unit,

into a spot at close defense just five minutes into the first quarter. The senior responded with three caused turnovers, headlining the Terps’ most impressive and unexpected defensive outing of the season.

Against the No. 4 offense in the nation (13.11 goals per game) and their own lack of depth, the Terps held North Carolina to just seven goals, equaling the Tar Heels’ lowest output of the season.

“With spring break this week, we had a lot of time to practice, and I felt well prepared,” Costanzo said. “Of course, it’s great getting this chance on senior day.”

Helping out the defense was goalie Jason Carter, who started in place of the injured Brian Phipps. Though it was not originally his turn in the Terps’ rotating-goalie system, the fifth-year captain was happy to spend Senior Day between the pipes.

Carter celebrated the occasion with 10 saves, three of which came while protecting a one-goal lead in the games’ final five minutes.

Still, he couldn’t help feeling a little sympathetic when he saw the game-winner sneak into the net.

“I sorta felt bad,” Carter said. “It’s every goalie’s worst nightmare.”

To some extent, the Terps may owe this win to the Tar Heels’ misfortune. The Tar Heels have now lost 19 straight games against their three conference foes.

After the game, Cottle put his own spin on the win.

“That was pool cue English,” Cottle said about the game-winning goal. “When you play hard, goals sometimes come your way. I feel for North Carolina, but I’m very happy for our guys.” mkatzdbk@gmail.com

With 1:51 remaining in the first half, Toliver drove down the lane, faked a pass to guard Kim Rodgers in the right corner, cradled the ball in mid-air and finished a layup before falling to the ground to give the Terps a 37-20 lead.

Just 29 seconds later, forward Marissa Coleman, who quietly scored nine points but also led the team with 13 rebounds, found Toliver slashing to the hoop on the left side with a no-look fast-break pass to push the lead to 19.

At halftime, Toliver had equaled the 23-point output of the entire Dartmouth team.

The Terps (29-4) led 42-23.

“I love seeing when Kristi’s in that kind of attack mode,” coach Brenda Frese said. “I think it really helps our team for her to be aggressive and they have to find a way to be able to stop her.”

Guard Marah Strickland was the only other Terp in double figures with 10 points, but because of Toliver’s first-half explosion and the team’s improved defensive play, heavy contributions from others weren’t necessary.

Frese emphasized defense in the team’s two-week break after their ACC Tournament championship in Greensboro, N.C. In Thursday’s practice, Frese urged her defenders to pressure the ball and not allow Dartmouth (18-11) open shots from the perimeter, instead daring them to drive the lane against taller and more physical Terp post players.

Dartmouth forward and Ivy League Player of the Year Brittney Smith finished with 13 points on 4-of-19 shooting.

Guard Kim Rodgers and the other Terp reserves got extended playing time in yesterday’s blowout. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Guard Koren Schram, also a member of the Ivy League First Team, was scoreless in the first half while matched up against Strickland. Schram finished with nine points.

Although the Terps languished offensively at points in the second half, they held the Big Green to 27.4 percent shooting and allowed Dart-

mouth just three assists compared to 11 turnovers.

“Coming into the tournament, we wanted to prove that we could play defense,” Coleman said.

“That’s where people are doubting us, so we just wanted to play with confidence.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

SCHIMMEL

Bigger tests loom ahead SCHIMMEL, from Page 12 do, and they’ll be back for the second round tomorrow night.

“It’s a good feeling to be able to start your first-round game as well as we did,” forward Marissa Coleman said. “We were confident going into it.

We knew we were ready [for the tournament] before this game even started.”

And instead of playing down to their inferior competition, the Terps played their game in the blowout.

They ran the floor, pressured the ball on defense, spread the ball around and still made sure their stars got their shots.

They played to their various strengths, exploiting each of the advantages they had on the

Ivy League champion.

The Big Green had nobody quick enough to stay with Kristi Toliver, so the Terp guard took the game over early and scored 23 of her game-high 27 points in the first half.

The Big Green had nobody big or strong enough to compete in the post, so the Terps got the ball inside when they could and ended up out-rebounding Dartmouth 52-34.

Toliver and Coleman played with their typical flair, breaking down their defenders off the dribble and finding each other with look-away, no-look and/or one-handed passes.

The Terps’ only shortcoming was they didn’t have enough players on their nine-woman roster to allow all five starters

to enjoy the ample garbage time in the second half from the bench.

But Toliver and Coleman did have their sweats back on with more than six minutes remaining, and that’s what you like to see on the tournament’s opening weekend.

“We’re ready,” Toliver said.

“I think we showed that today.”

It’s obviously only going to get tougher for the Terps, and though they’ve won 13 games in a row, there is still a long way for them to go to reach their ultimate goals. But if they continue to play like they did yesterday, they are going to be tough to beat regardless of their opponent.

Yesterday was a good sign. schimmeldbk@gmail.com

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A fight nearly broke out in baseball’s loss to Boston College. Gymnastics is living life on the bubble. Women’s tennis finally won an ACC game after 25 straight losses, while men’s tennis lost its second straight. Softball faced off against a strikeout queen. Full coverage online.

Wrestling team places 10th in NCAA tourney

Terps skate past UNC with luck at the finish Tar Heel defender deflects in game-winner the No. 11 Tar Heels on Senior Day at Ludwig Field.

“Honestly, I don’t really know what It was a play so bizarre that even the happened,” Groot said. “I must have hit man credited with the game-winning a defenseman’s shaft. Lucky backspin, it bounced in the goal.” goal was left at a loss for words.

A bit of good fortune was With the game tied in the necessary for the Terps (6-2, 2fourth quarter, midfielder Dan 0 ACC) to win what coach Groot spun and fired a shot that was deflected high into the air MEN’S LACROSSE Dave Cottle acknowledged was by a North Carolina defender. No. 11 North Carolina . . . . 7 a statistically ugly game.

The No. 10 Terps were outPlayers searched for the ball as No. 10 TERPS . . . . . . . . 8 shot (36-21) and out-scooped it bounced up off the ground near the crease and glanced off the stick (47-30 on ground balls). But somehow of defender Ryan Flanagan, skipping they survived, despite winning a paltry past befuddled Tar Heel goalie Grant two faceoffs in 19 tries — including an 0-of-11 second half.

Zimmerman with 7:47 remaining.

If the Terps’ struggles were more The score proved to be the difference as the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team eked out an 8-7 win Saturday against Please See UNC, Page 11

BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer

Juniors Bell, Krom, Taylor earn All-American status

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

Dan Groot (right) lifts teammate Jeff Reynolds in celebration after Groot’s shot was deflected into the goal by a North Carolina defender to give the Terps a one-goal lead Saturday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Toliver burns Big Green Senior guard scores 23 in first half of round one win

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

With 11:28 remaining in the Terrapin women’s basketball team’s NCAA Tournament first-round victory against Dartmouth yesterday afternoon, guard Kristi Toliver took a seat on the bench for good.

She threw a towel over her head, leaned back with her legs crossed and put her left WOMEN’S arm BASKETBALL around the chair No. 16 Dartmouth . . . 53 of assis- No. 1 TERPS . . . . . . . . 82 tant coach Tina Langley before casually watching her teammates finish out the No. 1seed Terps’ 82-53 victory against the No. 16-seed Ivy League champions at the Comcast Center. The Terps will play No. 9 seed Utah on Tuesday night in the second round.

For Toliver, who had finished carving up Dartmouth for 27 points in 26 minutes with relative ease, it was just another outstanding performance and tournament win in a career full of both.

“It’s tournament time,” Toliver said. “It’s time to play your best. My teammates were getting open and getting me open looks.

I was able to attack the basket more today than I usually have. So that just gave me another opportunity to score.”

The senior shot 11-of-14 from the field and made three 3-pointers but also benefited from easy layups and assists from teammates in the open floor. The final result was a series of crowd-dazzling plays.

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he Terrapin women’s basketball team has set the tone for its NCAA Tournament run.

There was little doubt No. 1 seed Terps would beat No. 16 seed Dartmouth in their

THE ALL-AMERICANS Stephen Bell

133 pounds

Sixth-place finish THE PATH: W vs. Kelly Kubec, L vs. No. 5 Andrew Hochstrasser, W vs. Jimmy Conroy, W vs. Tristen DeShazer, W vs. Dan Mitcheff, W vs. No. 8 Joe Baker, L vs. No. 5 Andrew Hochstrasser, L vs. No. 3 James Kennedy

Alex Krom

141 pounds

Fifth-place finish THE PATH: W vs. No. 4 Alex Tsirtsis, W vs.

Jamal Parks, W vs. No. 12 Drew Lashaway, L vs. No. 8 Ryan Williams, L vs. No. 6 Nick Gallick, W vs. No. 7 Chris Drouin

Hudson Taylor

197 pounds

Third-place finish THE PATH: W vs. Andrew Delaney, L vs. No. 7 Brandon Halsey, W vs. Patrick Bradshaw, W vs. No. 5 Dallas Herbst, W vs. No. 9 Cayle Byers, W vs. Cameron Simaz, W vs. No. 6 Maxwell Askren, W vs. No. 4 Tyrel Todd

many of them were thinking that he could pull that upset,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “As a team, we knew he could do it, and he was great this weekend.”

Krom went on to lose the semifinal match, 4-1, but went through the wrestleback with a 1-1 record and fifth place in the 141-pound bracket.

Taylor took a different path than Krom. The junior, who was the highest-seeded Terp at No. 10, won his first-round matchup against Andrew Delaney of The Citadel but was pinned in the second round by No. 7-seeded Brandon Halsey of CSU in 40 seconds.

After getting pinned for the second time in three matches — he was upset by Virginia’s Brent Jones in the ACC Championships — Taylor exploded back

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No. 2 women’s lacrosse wins defensive battle Terps score 10 goals against BC games, orchestrating the backfield and notching three saves.

“We’re really confident The Terrapin women’s lacrosse team’s offense took with Brittany back there,” 33 shots Saturday against midfielder Caitlyn McFadden said. “She’s been Boston College but doing a really good struggled to put the job, making good ball in the net, as saves, and we really shots sailed wide or WOMEN’S believe in her.” ended up in the posLACROSSE This solid outing session of Eagle goalie Katie Mon- Boston College . . . . . . 5 was sorely needed No. 2 TERPS . . . . . . . . 10 because Monaghan, aghan. the Boston College But as the normally prolific attack strug- goalie, had 15 saves, matching gled, the Terp defense her career high and halting a stepped up, allowing just 12 Terp offense that averages shots and frustrating the 15.125 goals a game.

But the Terps continued to Eagles again and again.

Thanks to the stout per- bring the ball to the goal, and formance, the No. 2 Terps (8- the persistence paid off, giv0, 3-0 ACC) beat Boston Col- ing them enough goals for the lege (6-3, 0-2) 10-5, despite win.

“We knew coming in that recording their lowest goal she was a great goalie, so we total of the year.

“Defensively, we were knew we’d have to move her sharp and solid,” coach Cathy and really place our shots,” Reese said. “We forced McFadden said. “We did that Boston College to move the sometimes but not all the ball around for quite a while time. So I think we needed to focus and just see the net a litbefore they took their shots.”

With the Terps’ swarming tle more, but overall, we did a defense, the Eagles hardly good job.”

But after recording their managed a clean look at the goal. In the first half, they took lowest goal totals of the year just three shots, and their one in their last two games, the goal in the first 30 minutes Terps are worried they could came on a wild shot that be suffering from offensive bounced past freshman goalie fatigue, so they hope to get strong offensive and defenBrittany Dipper.

The defense remained the sive efforts to coincide against steadying influence through- in-state rival Towson on Tuesout the game. Terp defenders day.

“We learned that, no matter allowed four goals in the game’s final 30 minutes, with who we’re playing, we have to the last two only after the vic- go hard,” McFadden said. “We have to fight for every ball on tory was sealed.

Dipper gave a strong effort offense and really talk on in her first complete game of defense and have intensity the the season after splitting time whole game.” with fellow freshman Mary Jordan in the season’s earlier kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

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Senior guard Kristi Toliver carried the Terp offense with 27 points in 26 minutes against Dartmouth, in a game that was out of hand early. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

The right kind of first-round swagger GREG

Terrapin wrestler Alex Krom knew the road to a national title would be tough.

Krom was not seeded at 141 pounds heading into the NCAA Championships despite coming off a conference championship and a top-10 national ranking. With his draw, Krom would be facing No. 4 seed Alex Tsirtsis of Iowa in the first round.

The redshirt junior continued to prove people wrong and upset Tsirtsis, 5-4. Krom didn’t let up, advancing all the way to the national semifinals, including a commanding 10-1 victory over 12th-seeded Drew Lashaway of Kent State.

With his performance, Krom was the first of three Terps to claim All-American status and helped the Terrapins grab 10th overall at the NCAA Championships in St. Louis over the weekend. The top-10 finish was the Terps’ second best in school history.

Along with Krom, Steven Bell at 133 pounds and Hudson Taylor at 197 pounds finished as AllAmericans. It was Taylor’s second straight All-American season.

The Terps finished with 47.5 points, ahead of traditional powerhouses Michigan, Northwestern and Penn State. Iowa State won the team championship for the second straight year, finishing with 97.5 points.

“People all around the tournament were wondering why Krom didn’t get seeded, and

first-round game yesterday — and they did, 82-53. But the way a top seed handles its first-round opponent usually gives some indication of what’s going to happen the rest of the way.

In some of these 1 vs. 16 matchups, the hopeless underdog will hang around for a while with the national powerhouse, exposing a specific weakness that may prove to be a fatal flaw later in the tournament when a team like the Terps plays

against stiffer competition.

Just last season, when the top-seeded Terps couldn’t shake No. 16-seed Coppin State until the second half, it was because the Terps struggled with their perimeter defense. The Eagles’ starting backcourt combined for 45 of the team’s 66 points.

When the Terps finally bowed out to Stanford in the Elite Eight, the Cardinal’s best two guards combined for 64 of the team’s 98 points, led by All-American

Candice Wiggins’ 41.

But no such weakness was evident yesterday against the Big Green, and the Terps coasted.

It’s easy to brush aside the win as just another beatdown of a significantly lesstalented team, but the way the Terps handled their business yesterday is certainly better than any of the alternative outcomes.

They did what they had to

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