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Students unite to fight cuts to budget

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One sent to hospital with injuries, Univ. Police said

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

A black pickup truck struck two students last night near 7-Eleven on Knox Road, and one was transported to the hospital with minor injuries, police said.

The two students were hit at about 7:30 p.m, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said. The Dodge Ram 3500 pickup truck was turning out of the College Park Shopping Center

by Jason’s Deli onto Knox Road and hit the two students who were reportedly walking in the middle of the road, he said.

One student screamed in agony and then appeared to be unconscious, said Dave Simkin,

House considers bill to cut $20 million from USM

BY JIM BACH AND LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writers

While lawmakers finalize the state’s budget for the upcoming year, they have another hurdle to tackle: Higher education and student leaders have rallied to fight proposed cuts to the University System of Maryland.

State legislators still have two weeks to finalize the budget, but the House of Delegates and Senate have proposed drastically different bills — the Senate bill proposes a $5.3 million cut to the system while the House bill proposes nearly $20 million. But system officials and students said they will advocate for the smallest cuts possible since students will inevitably face a tuition increase next year, and officials argue they are barely scraping by as is.

In the wake of the proposed cuts, student representatives from 10 system institutions — including this university, Towson University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — have formed the group USM Students for Affordability, which aims to avert these cuts through grassroots activism. Student leaders wrote an open letter, which they plan to send to every member of the General Assembly, and have begun rallying students across various campuses.

“We are not simply Terps, Tigers, Retrievers, Gulls, Bulldogs, or the like,” the letter reads.

“We are Marylanders, and we are united so that we may see future generations of Marylanders receive the best and most affordable education our State sees fit to offer us.”

The chambers have proposed balancing the

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Finding a home in the kitchen University graduate runs popular restaurant

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Terrapins men’s basketball guard Terrell Stoglin, the ACC’s leading scorer this season, announced last week he will return for his junior year. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Stoglin set to remain a Terp another year

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Behind foil trays of simmering lentils and curries, Mohammad Nadeem spends 14 hours a day cultivating a Pakistani kitchen. His restaurant has become the second home he never found on this campus, and his loyal customer base is that second family.

Although Nadeem, a 2007 alumnus, was too busy as a commuting undergraduate to join a single club or go out with friends, he decided to take a risk and buy a restaurant, Eastern Kabob and Sweets in Germantown, in his final semester. While he still sometimes dreams of a cushy 9-to-5 job, Nadeem said he has grown close to his staff and customers and recent glowing reviews continue to boost his business.

Eastern Kabob and Sweets, located in a Germantown shopping strip, draws many regular customers, some frequenting several times a week. A March 4 review in the Washington Post

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Mohammad Nadeem, a 2007 university graduate, has found success in post-college life after buying a Pakistani restaurant in Germantown. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Magazine praised many of the authentic Pakistani dishes, including the creamy yellow lentil daal, a traditional goat and rice specialty and freshly ground kabobs “propelled to greatness

with jalapeño, paprika and flavorful thigh meat.”

“I want to serve people what I could eat,”

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When Terrell Stoglin looks back on his career in College Park, the Terrapins men’s basketball guard doesn’t want to be known solely for his ability to sink shot after shot or his gaudy scoring numbers. The guard wants a legacy of having led the Terps back to national recognition and a place in the NCAA Tournament.

So last Wednesday, the rising junior, who hasn’t played in the postseason in either of his two seasons, put his NBA dreams on hold. Announcing his decision on Twitter — “Back for another season Terpnation!” he wrote — Stoglin said he will return for the Terps’ 2012-13 campaign.

Stoglin, the ACC’s leading scorer, wants to be known as more than that. And in a phone interview Sunday, he made clear his intentions for next season.

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RESTAURANT from page 1 said Nadeem, glancing around his restaurant at the familiar faces — the couple at the table near the restaurant’s entrance is from Hagerstown, he says, and the man seated under the TV, set to NASCAR, orders tea ever y day.

“I would never do frozen food at all, never,” he added.

“We’ve got to ser ve ever ything fresh.”

But Nadeem wasn’t always working toward a restaurateur career — he originally envisioned himself crunching numbers.

Throughout his college years, Nadeem had been juggling finance classes, daily commutes from Rockville and a full-time job at the Gaithersburg Marriott Hotel when he began to realize the economic downturn had thinned the market for finance majors. He convinced one of his closest family friends and a professional chef, Mohammad Hanif, to help take over a tiny 15-seat restaurant that had fallen into disrepair.

He did not seek professional advice from his business professors, war y of their skepticism.

“I was scared of failure,” he said. “I thought they were going to say, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ But I was ver y hungr y and motivated and I wanted to do something with my life.”

Instead, Nadeem said he followed a “gut feeling,” and he and Hanif spent months cleaning away layers of dirt before they opened in 2007 and slowly gained a following

of take-out customers.

And while he said he cannot imagine working 14-hour days at the restaurant his whole life, he recently moved to a larger space and muses about opening another location in College Park or Rockville.

Or he could sell his restaurant and return to this university to earn a graduate accounting degree. But he’d miss the friendships he’s forged.

“I have a very special bond with my customers,” he said.

“They’re like family to me now.”

Manager Rabia Jevad, a student at Montgomer y College and regular customer, said Nadeem always does as much as he can to help people, especially customers.

“With catering, he’ll personally go and drop the food off, and he calls back to make sure everything is going the way it should,” said Jevad, who met Nadeem because her family drove from Columbia about four times a week to eat Eastern Kabob and Sweets food.

Other customers, like Asifa Hassam, visit the restaurant daily. She said the food is always fresh and her regular table at the restaurant has become her “little office.”

“A lot of customers will call him on his cell phone,” Hassam said. “We talk about anything and ever ything.”

Before Hassam and Nadeem became friends, she felt the restaurant needed more publicity and tacked his menus on every apartment building bulletin board in Germantown.

However, the relationships go far beyond food, Nadeem said. Customers often share good news, daily gripes and

Mohammed Nadeem, a 2007 alumnus, opened Eastern Kabob and Sweets in Germantown before he graduated. The restaurant serves several Pakistani dishes, including chicken karahi (above). CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

even family troubles with him.

One man called Nadeem at the restaurant because he and his wife were thinking about getting a divorce. Although Nadeem doesn’t remember who the customer was, he spent 15 minutes on the phone consoling him and passed along a phone number to call to help

him find a new place to live.

“In that situation, what should I do?” Nadeem said with a laugh. “I was like, ‘I don’t know who you are,’ but I helped him out.”

However, his loyalty to his customers sometimes holds Eastern Kabob and Sweets back. While the Washington

to help before police arrived, Simkin said.

“It was just really shockfrom page 1 ing,” he added.

Because Prince George’s who witnessed the incident.

“When you hear that kind County Police were handling of scream you know it’s the accident, Limansky said bad,” said Simkin, a univer- he was unsure whether the sity alumnus. “He wasn’t driver — who is not a stumoving any limbs and right dent — was issued any citaaway you could tell that the tions. County officers at the ambulance was going to scene declined to comment and others did not return need to be called.”

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Post Magazine called his food “exceptional,” the reviewer also noted the “motel art and plastic utensils.”

Nadeem said he would like to ser ve food on nice plates instead of paper, but many regulars like the atmosphere.

For now, he said he does not have the heart to make any

changes that would increase prices, currently ranging from $7 to $13.

“If I had a choice, I would do it; it would bring more class to it,” said Nadeem. “But if I do that, I have to raise prices, and I don’t want to lose anyone.” lurye@umdbk.com

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If you get to the library in the afternoon, say about 3 p.m., there is nowhere to sit. One person will take up an entire bench just to Facebook stalk and use StumbleUpon. You can’t exactly sit right next to this person, because that’s just awkward.

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Professor to embark on archaeology adventure Summer study abroad course to take students on dig in Israel

BY MARLENA CHERTOCK For The Diamondback

He’s been described as the Indiana Jones of the university’s Jewish studies department.

Professor Matthew Suriano, who began teaching at this university in the fall, has built a reputation among students and colleagues for excavating ruins, reading ancient Canaanite languages and working as a serious scholar.

This summer, Suriano plans to take up to eight students along with him to par ticipate in an archaeological dig at Tel Burna in southwestern Israel.

“It’s one of the few prominent [sites] in Israel that up until two years ago had never been touched,” Suriano said.

Suriano said he first surveyed the site 12 years ago and recently collaborated with two Israeli colleagues to bring university students over to the site to take part in excavations. So far, four students have expressed interest in the four-credit study abroad course in which the par ticipants will dig at Tel Burna and travel across the countr y to other archaeological sites as well.

“It’s redefining the educational experience,” said Charles Manekin, who directs the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies. “It makes it a much more collaborative experience rather than a passive experience where you’re sitting down, listening to some guy lecture.”

He said the Tel Burna dig offers students a valuable experience that goes beyond the typical trip to Israel.

“If you want to do some-

thing which has academic weight, which will improve your mind and bring you into cutting-edge scholarship in the field — something besides sitting on a bus and going on tours and drinking in pubs at night, which you can do anywhere — [this class] is where you’ll actually find out more about the countr y,” Manekin said. “You’ll be digging into the ancient histor y of the countr y.”

Manekin added that Suriano has been a valuable addition to the faculty. Suriano had first taken a job at IBM in Chicago after graduating from the University of Illinois, but said he realized he was dissatisfied with the corporate job and followed after his childhood interest in museums, the Bible, and the countr y of Israel.

Suriano first taught a Narrative in the Hebrew Bible course to three students last semester, and two this semester. He also teaches a Hebrew Bible course with 57 out of 60 spaces taken this semester.

Suriano said while he is more accustomed to teaching lecture-sized classes, he likes to brag about his smaller class sizes to colleagues at other universities.

“You really get to know your students quickly, and I like that. It’s a much more intimate environment,” he said.

“Sitting around a table in my office, with students who are able to read Hebrew, and reading through the biblical texts in the original language, it just doesn’t get any better than that.”

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Fishing for change: Students work to fight hunger Team of Gemstone students plans to install fish tank on the South Campus Diner’s rooftop garden for research project

BY ALLISON GRAY Staff writer

For a group of university students, tilapia is more than a simple dinner — this fish is potentially a cheap, green solution to fighting global hunger.

The 14 students, members of the university’s Gemstone program, will test different natural materials to determine what the most cost effective and efficient resources are in the agricultural system of aquaponics — a combination of fish farming and growing plants without soil. The group of students, also known as Team MEGA, received a $12,000 grant from the University Sustainability Council, which awarded funds to a dozen eco-friendly projects on the campus this year.

Sophomore cell biology and genetics major Kalyani Kumar, a member of the team, said many people suffering from hunger or malnourishment could benefit from using aquaponics — but only if they can use available resources.

“There are aquaponic systems that are meant for urban environments, but these are really high-cost and just require a lot of energy to maintain,” Kumar said. “There isn’t a lot of research as to how aquaponic systems can be implemented in rural third world countries.”

Aquaponics produces vegetables and herbs in water through a circular system in which the fish’s waste fertilizes plants, which in turn cleans the water and creates a healthy environment for the fish.

Sophomore electrical engineering and mathematics major Dan Mirsky, a member of Team MEGA,

from page 1 state’s $1.1 billion deficit in var ying ways. While the Senate bill proposes raising taxes to generate more revenue, the House version instead relies heavily on cuts — meaning education would take a much harder hit under the legislation.

“I’m very supportive for the Senate plan which protects the university’s budget more,” Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DAnne Arundel and Prince George’s) said. “We need to be investing more, not less, in higher education.”

Additionally, the House leg-

out how to care for the fish by exploring other tanks around the campus — including the eye-less, thumb-sized Mexican blind cavefish in the Jeffrey Lab and bass in the animal science building.

“Ultimately it’s intended to be a very closed system, so it shouldn’t require a terrible amount of maintenance,” said Li. Team MEGA will publish its findings as par t of the

Gemstone program, and Li said he hopes companies will use the results to produce more environmentally friendly, economical aquaponics systems in the future.

“We definitely hope to spread awareness about aquaponics and its potential to really make a difference in how food is produced globally,” Kumar said. gray@umdbk.com

Cybersecurity partnership to improve anti-hacking systems

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Team MEGA — 14 university students in the Gemstone program — received a $12,000 grant from the University Sustainability Council. Part of that money will go to making and caring for a fish tank located on the South Campus Diner’s rooftop garden. PHOTO COURTESY OF KALYANI KUMAR

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STOGLIN “Just talking to different scouts and other people from the league, they were telling me that I needed to establish myself as a facilitator and basically show that we could win games,” Stoglin said. “I want to play in the NCAA Tournament.”

The sophomore earned second-team All-ACC honors this year after leading the conference with 21.6 points per game. But Stoglin, at 6 foot, 1 inch and 185 pounds, didn’t showcase an ability to run the offense the way scouts would have liked.

He routinely dropped more than 20 points but finished with more turnovers than assists. He’s also been a key contributor on two teams that fell short of the NIT. Stoglin said he made the decision last Tuesday night after speaking with his father and coach Mark Turgeon.

“I think this is the best decision for Terrell at this time, and it’s good for Maryland basketball,” Turgeon said in a statement. “I feel like he needs to grow as a complete player, and I think Terrell wants to be part of an NCAA Tournament.”

Stoglin wasn’t listed on any of the major mock-ups for this year’s NBA Draft, but he still decided he would gauge his stock following the Terps’ ACC Tournament loss to North Carolina on March 9. He said Sunday that “it wasn’t for certain, but I was definitely looking.”

With Stoglin returning, Tur-

said aquaponics eventually pays for itself.

However, many people living in energy-poor, remote regions cannot use the system because they do not have access to commercial fish food.

With hunger and malnourishment climbing — the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates it impacts more than 1 billion people worldwide — Team MEGA hopes the resources impoverished communities do have, such as poultr y litter, compost and even human waste, could be the answer.

“The project was born out of noticing how the conventional aquaculture is either inefficient, wasteful or just overall not ver y environmentally friendly,” said sophomore mechanical engineering major Kevin Li. In addition to Li, three other students, Eric Kazyak, Jessica Lu and Mike Reilly, developed the plan for the aquaponic system project.

In a three-phase experiment, Team MEGA will test five different natural materials as fertilizer and five different possible fish foods, such as soy meal. Then, members will measure the yield — meaning how much vegetables and fish each tank produces.

For the next two summers, the team’s 14 members will trade off caring for the fish.

The tanks will be housed on the South Campus Diner’s rooftop garden under a greenhouse structure that will protect the fish and plants from weather conditions.

“We also plan to get the community involved as much as possible,” Kumar said.

“Our main goal is obviously research, but we also hope to spread awareness within the campus by doing tours.”

Li said the team figured

Univ. center partners with Baltimore-based company

BY MADELINE TALLMAN For The Diamondback

Terrell Stoglin, men’s basketball guard and leading Terps scorer, said he wants to help the Terps re-enter the NCAA tournament next season. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

geon and the Terps are expected to make a jump into the ACC’s upper half next season. Point guard Pe’Shon Howard should be healthy from an ACL injury, and Turgeon is poised to bring in a top-15 recruiting class.

The program received a sixth verbal commitment from the class of 2012 yesterday, when Sam Cassell Jr. — a 6-foot-4 guard from Baltimore — announced on Twitter that he would be coming to College Park next year.

A key component will be

islation looks to transfer $7.75 million of the system’s savings account — which is an accumulation of revenue from tuition and state appropriations — to help balance the state’s deficit.

The fund has not been tapped in the post-recessionar y period, according to USM Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance Joseph Vivona.

“It affects us negatively when they take from the fund balance,” Vivona said. “It might stop you from renovating a lab, it might stop you from starting a program in cybersecurity. That fund balance is essential in keeping the university ahead of itself.”

how Stoglin meshes in his second season under Turgeon.

The guard, now certain he’ll be around for another year, is ready to help bring the Terps back to national prominence.

And he seems set on doing it with a focus on something besides scoring.

“Personally, on the stat sheet, I’m going to try to get rebounds, assists to add to my points,” Stoglin said. “I just want to get rebounds and assists.” ceckard@umdbk.com

System lobbyist P.J. Hogan said such cuts could inhibit funding to financial aid and hamper of ficials’ attempts to stave of f tuition hikes. He added that should the General Assembly pass a bill similar to the House version, it would negate Gov. Mar tin O’Malley’s proposal to set aside $9.5 million for the purpose of capping tuition increases at 3 percent — meaning tuition could potentially increase more.

He added system lobbyists have been reaching out to legislators “ever y day, ever y week,” to convince lawmakers to opt for smaller cuts to the system’s budget.

Because the state allocates

To develop new methods to protect computer systems against hacking and cyberattacks, the university’s Maryland Cybersecurity Center has teamed up with the Baltimore-based CyberPoint International Co. to launch collaborative research projects with faculty and students.

CyberPoint, which has about 90 employees, develops technology products and research aimed at tackling problems of online privacy, security and unauthorized access. While university officials have yet to begin any projects with the company, members of both sides of the partnership aim to enhance their research by covering different aspects of cybersecurity issues, including computer science, engineering, social sciences, economics and public policy.

“We believe strongly in an interdisciplinary approach to research in cybersecurity, that brings government, academia and industry together,” said Mark Raugas, the direc-

funds to the entire university system, rather than individual institutions, Student Government Association President Kaiyi Xie — who cofounded the USM Students for Affordability group — said it is especially crucial for student leaders to band together so legislators realize their decisions will impact the state’s more than 180, 000 college students.

“Just us lobbying by ourselves doesn’t have as much credibility because it doesn’t give the state the entire picture,” Xie said. “We want to keep our system strong and keep a continuous suppor t, so hopefully we’re going to get a good response from

tor of research at CyberPoint. “[We’re] excited to collaborate with UMD students and faculty as part of MC2.”

The cybersecurity center, also known as MC2, has partnered with 12 corporations — including Google, Lockheed Martin and other local companies — to develop new educational programs, research and innovative technologies to protect against cyberattacks.

“Part of the mission of the cybersecurity center is to extend outreach and to engage local industry in solving cybersecurity problems,” said MC2 Director and computer science professor Michael Hicks, who noted students involved in the research projects may also get employment opportunities with partnering companies after graduation.

Hicks said the collaboration is not connected to the last month’s state audit that found the University System of Maryland stored thousands of prospective students’ online information in an accessible server.

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legislators.”

Emmanuel Welsh, a Towson University student who chairs the USM Student Council, said the campaign has been ver y successful thus far, with many students recognizing the importance of the initiative.

“Higher tuition and fees, less financial aid and scholarships, further delays of much needed capital projects are just a few of the many consequences of the proposed budget cuts,” he wrote in an email. “In a time when many Mar yland families are finding it harder and harder to send their children to college, the state cannot make cuts of this magnitude.”

are completely independent of any decisions that USM might chose to make,” Hicks said.

CyberPoint spokesman Peter Kilpe said researchers at the company hope to “connect with new ideas, new thinking” through this partnership, noting that cybersecurity is a high priority in the government and industry.

“If [a company or government] loses that intellectual property, that’s a huge problem,” Kilpe said. “Financial information gets lost or stolen — there are grave consequences to that.”

Officials at MC2 and CyberPoint plan to apply for a federally funded grant at the end of this year to further their research projects.

Sophomore computer science major Kelvin Rodriguez called such a partnership necessary to tackling today’s cybersecurity problems.

“Threats are constantly evolving,” Rodriguez said.

“We need to keep up with advanced technologies that allow those threats to become more serious.” news@umdbk.com

SGA Director of Governmental Affairs Zachar y Cohen said leaders will be working with various university efforts to raise awareness among students through email listser vs, a Facebook group and Twitter handles.

“We are tr ying to encourage students to reach out to their legislators,” Cohen said.

“We hope the legislators looking at budget cuts will have a huge number of students reach out to them, because it really says something about how important it is for them to accept as small a budget cut as possible.” bach@umdbk.com, villanueva@umdbk.com

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hile students fled the campus last week for spring break, some major financial aid. More funding will also be designated to the Race to the Top-like program political discussions began brewing on Capitol Hill regarding higher for college affordability and completion. Additionally, he proposes spending $8 billion education funding — negotiations that could have major implications on community colleges over the next two years.

Obama’s higher education proposals have received criticism from both sides of the for this university in particular.

In February, President Barack Obama unveiled his 2013 budget, which includes political spectrum. Republicans questioned why some spending, like the billions of increasing the Education Department’s funding by $70 billion. Almost immediately, dollars stet the Perkins loan program, is being classified as mandatory and not discretionary. Democrats questioned why billions are being poured Republican opponents began picking apart the document into new, untested programs instead of invested in initiatives and promising to propose their own budget. On Tuesday, that have already proven successful.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made good on that promise, releasNow, let’s look at the university and state’s goals. Uniing his party’s budgetary vision, which includes cutting Regardless of political versity President Wallace Loh hopes to increase underspending in 2013 more than the levels Congress agreed upon party affiliation, President graduate enrollment by 4,000 students by 2020 by primaafter the debt-ceiling debate last summer. Not surprisingly, pulling from local community colleges. Both Gov. some of these cuts will hit the Education Department.

Barack Obama’s proposed rily Martin O’Malley and Loh have backed a goal of increasThe debate continued late last week, with Education Secretary Arne Duncan defending Obama’s budget Thursday budget is the best option to ing the number of state residents with a degree to 55 percent by 2025. An extra $8 billion from the federal governbefore a House Appropriations subcommittee. The Obama v. help this university ment to improve community colleges could go a long way Ryan budget faceoff is far from over, and it’s hard at this point to bringing in more students, who could eventually be to say which one will ultimately serve the country best. But in achieve its goals. pulled into this university or join the local workforce and terms of higher education — regardless of political party affiliation — it’s clear Obama’s budget will best help the university and state achieve the improve the economy. Additionally, Obama’s pledge to fund student loan programs could help ensure in-state universities keep tuition rates low — a standard goals recently laid out.

Let’s look at Ryan’s budget first: Overall, it could lead to an 18.5 percent cut in edu- Loh and O’Malley have at least attempted to achieve. With the state currently cation spending by the end of 2014. While not all those cuts would necessarily be put proposing massive cuts to the University System of Maryland, federal funding to higher education, it does lay out specifics that could seriously affect college stu- increases — like those proposed in Obama’s budget — will be vital to ensure this dents. Under Ryan’s budget, Pell Grants would be funded with discretionary — university continues to prosper in troubling economic times.

It’s hard to say which programs Congress will ultimately decide to authorize and instead of the current mandatory — spending, meaning Congress could cut the program substantially with ease. Although his plan doesn’t propose specific cuts to the fund before the next fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. It would be all too easy for Republicans to hate Obama’s budget just because he’s a Democrat. But for university com$40 billion program, it does prioritize lending money to low-income students.

Obama’s budget, on the other hand, is much more generous to higher education. munity members, true allegiance shouldn’t be to the red or blue party — it should be He proposes a $7 billion expansion to the Perkins loan program, which Obama said to the university. At this point, Obama’s budget is the one that will best ensure this will encourage colleges to keep tuition prices low if more students are granted federal institution achieves what it long ago set forth. What’s more important than that?

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he week before spring break, I nestled in my little corner on the second floor of McKeldin Library. With a swordsman’s defiance, I jabbed the sign-out button of my daily companions: Gmail, Facebook and Twitter.

It was time to face the books.

Such plans, it seems, are doomed for failure. A notification flags up, your cell buzzes or the nearest spot on the wall demands your undivided attention and you sit, hand on chin, pondering reflectively.

In this instance, however, no such distraction came — only disaster. There was a spider.

Anyone who knows me the slightest bit understands spiders are my greatest undoing. When faced with stink bugs at home, I pay my 5-year-old sister (who is also afraid of spiders) to contain the creature by placing a plastic cup on it until bug patrol — my father — arrives.

You will thus understand that it took a great deal of self-discipline to avoid jumping up on the desk and screaming for help at the top of my lungs.

FATIMAH WASEEM Running away was impossible. I could not leave my books behind, nor could I whisk up a tissue and jab at the eight-legged beast — smashing a spider is only so effective when you’ve got one hand over your eyes, head turned away and fingers trembling. So I decided to wait it out. Every 10 seconds or so, I would peek over my pages to get its latest location.

Ten minutes later, it was still there, silent and motionless, its beady eyes locked onto mine. I decided it must be dead (and I was safe).

But then I looked up and it was gone.

In that moment, I understood one of the greatest anomalies of fear. What is far more cumbersome than the presence of things we fear is when they disappear. The unseen and the unknown

are forces clouded in a veil of darkness.

Their presence is reassurance, their disappearance is a measure of uncertainty.

I panicked when the spider disappeared. I looked in my backpack, shuffled through my papers and looked under the chair (because spiders can lift 100-plus pound objects). I mistook the tassels of my scarf as the spider and swatted at myself repeatedly.

But for how long? Such meandering in the lands of darkness where worries may cut you down at any corner, under any page ruffle, has to end somewhere. And it did. After hours of studying, I forgot the spider, packed up my belongings and left.

That night, I returned to my home and opened my backpack. I reached inside for my cushioned pen, feeling its unnaturally soft padding, and wrote.

Suddenly a black, furry little thing nestled on its edge caught my eye. I had finally found the spider.

We all have our little spiders, the hairy, scary things that make you cringe: The uncertainty of post-graduation, the questions surrounding job security, the hesitancy regarding whether

you circled the right answer to those three multiple-choice questions you teeter-tottered on or the fear of leaving your umbrella in your dorm on a day when unexpected rains come.

To revel in the uncertainty of a spider’s absence is to wait for cloudiness on a sunny day, to live the good days knowing they will give way to the bad.

Where did it go? What will come next?

Will we be prepared when that time comes? Such questions can suspend you in time and space. But a 10-second peek to see if what you fear has finally gone is not the answer.

Instead, pack your belongings — your dreams and aspirations — and move on. Reach for what you desire and as you do, you may learn you have been backpacking you fears alongside your dreams all along.

Worry can indeed give a small thing a big shadow.

Fatimah Waseem is a freshman neurobiology and physiology and journalism major. She can be reached at waseem@umdbk.com.

Non-violence isn’t the only answer

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e have had it ingrained in our minds since a young age that violence is not a tool to solve problems. It is no surprise many of our heroes are or were proponents of philosophical non-violence. People like Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Cesar Chavez and Nelson Mandela are all well-known and adored figures, and rightly so: They stood in the face of a repressive society and fought for what they believed in, utilizing a manner that fit their moral code. There are few problems with this. The good that great people have done with non-violent means is not to be discounted. The problems that arise are problems of analysis and cultural expectations. The idea that the only valid means of political change is through peaceful means is a privileged one. It discounts decades of third-world political counter-organization and ideological construction, and is ahistorical to a huge degree.

Gandhi did not free India in a peaceful national environment with total unity behind him. Nor did India become inde-

pendent in a contextless vacuum.

Gandhi’s non-violence worked because of the collapse of British power postWorld War II and the empire’s lack of desire to hold on to India, should it revolt. It’s important to note that Kenya came into existence after a violent revolt against a tiny white minority government and that Vietnam came into existence after 10 years of warfare against the French. In cases where the state or other institutions are capable of violence and are willing to use it to suppress the people the idea of non-violence becomes useless. Just ask the Syrians who were trapped in Homs. To say that non-violent methods are “good” for social and political change and the use of violence is “bad” is a kind of silly dogmatism brought about by a personal privilege.

The context of political actions is ignored far too often. Instead, it is replaced with an attempt at objective moral truth; violence is evil and should never be used. Only half of that statement is true. Political violence can cause tremendous damage to communities and societies and is

TOM BRADTKE never a strictly good thing. However, saying it should never be used is ignoring the numerous instances where it is the only means by which the oppressed can take control of their own affairs and change their personal and material conditions.

First-world moralists often quibble about this, saying that perhaps the Naxalite Maoists in India should form a legitimate political party, or that the Greeks should stop burning down banks and rioting in the streets. Do people not understand that when they say the Greeks should stop behaving as they are, it trivializes the very real threat to Greece’s sovereignty from international finance?

That doesn’t even go into the fact that Greece’s current government is in no

way acting in the interests of the Greek people. When even democratically elected leadership acts directly counter to the desires of the voters who elected them it’s hard to begrudge the people’s anger.

This isn’t a call to use violence as a means of political speech, and I am not condoning it. I am simply fed up with people blanketing as evil political movements who have used violence to advance their ends. It ignores the reasoning behind such tactics, and it betrays a worldview that does not accept as valid the struggles of oppressed peoples in the colonized world. Didn’t a group of political terrorists found this countr y? It is not as if the founding fathers formed a peaceful protest movement and the British acquiesced. Are they so different from modern groups with similar agendas and similar tactics? Personally, I think not.

Tom Bradtke is a senior history major. He can be reached at bradtke@umdbk.com.

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am 23 years old. I was born 15 years after Roe v. Wade and 68 years after the 19th Amendment granted women’s suffrage . I grew up in a world where I was told I could be anything I wanted to be, regardless of my gender. I suppose growing up in this era was a bit too comfortable for women. Did we not realize the hegemonic sexism that still exists in this country would come back to oppress us further? The War on Women is marching forward, threatening to take away the autonomy of every woman in this nation.

It seems this misogynistic warfare is popular enough to be a valid campaign tool. Mitt Romney has sworn to get rid of all federal funding for Planned Parenthood — which provides preventative health care to more than 3 million women per year. Rick Santorum’s views on non-procreative sex extend as far as outlawing prenatal testing because it might encourage abortions. Even the libertarian-leaning candidate, Ron Paul, cannot support a woman’s right to choose, even though he seems to support everyone else’s right to choose on anything else.

But this war is not merely a campaign tactic; it extends to current legislation. Recently, the Idaho state Senate required women to have an ultrasound before allowing them to get an abortion. With this legislation, Idaho joined eight other states. These eight states also currently restrict coverage of abortion in private insurance plans. Forty-six states allow individual health care providers to refuse to provide abortions. Thirty-five states mandate pre-abortion counseling.

Twenty-six states have a mandatory waiting period. Ten states are considering a trans-vaginal ultrasound requirement — a condom-covered, six- to eight-inch ultrasound probe — which, without consent, would constitute as rape, according to the legal definition.

The Georgia House of Representatives recently debated a bill that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they “naturally” go into labor. Utah recently passed legislation mandating a 72-hour waiting period. A state senator from Arizona wants to pass a law requiring women to view footage of someone else’s abortion before she can have her own.

It was not until radio host Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” for demanding that a Jesuit institution provide access to birth control that I realized I was offended. It is not the word “slut” that gets to me.

After all, what is wrong with a woman who exercises sexual freedom? But Limbaugh not only thinks those women are sluts — to him all women who ever attempted to decide how many children they wanted to have are sluts. Rush Limbaugh called my mother a slut; but then again, he probably called his sister, three ex-wives and current wife a slut.

I am offended because I am being told that my gender does not have the ability to make decisions. I grew up being told I can be anything I want to be (even though I will still make less money than my male counterpart), but I cannot even decide how many children I want to have.

I can be an astronaut if I want to, but I do not have autonomy over my own body.

If you think feminism is a dirty word; if you think women have already won the equality battle; if you think you aren’t a “slut” — think again.

Traci Siegel is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at siegel.traci@gmail.com.

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LET THE GAMES BEGIN Beneath The Hunger Games’ success is a movie worth seeing

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The operative word for understanding The Hunger Games is “huge.” Suzanne Collins’ original dystopian trilogy, where 24 preteens and teens are brought to an arena and made to fight to the death for sport, garnered a huge, slavish following. The scope of the movie — with its 12 agrarian districts and spacious Capitol — is huge. And its $155 million opening weekend, the third biggest of all time, was huge.

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From top to bottom, there is simply more care put into this film than certain cobbledtogether teen-lit adaptations (which will remain nameless here, but c’mon, you know what I mean). Gary Ross (Seabiscuit) directs from a screenplay he wrote, and the movie presents a cavalcade of great actors: Jennifer Lawrence (X-Men: First Class), who proved her chops in Winter’s Bone a couple years ago; Woody Harrelson (Game Change), who needs no introduction; an unrecognizable Elizabeth Banks (Man on a Ledge), who thrives as the bemakeup-ed Effie Trinket; and plenty more.

Ross creates a wonderful contrast between scenes set in the outlying districts, where Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen hails from, and the gaudy Capitol, where she’s paraded around as one of the tributes, or participants, in the games.

The former are filmed in harsh blues, the movement of the denizens tight and practiced; the latter is an orgy of neon, constantly shifting, and always exciting.

And the Games themselves — when the 24 tributes are put into a forested arena and forced to kill each other for the Capitol’s enjoyment — shift the movie’s feel again. The weapons and arena are old school, but the arena itself, which can display the pictures of dead tributes seemingly in midair and is fitted with hosts

VERDICT: The Hunger Games is a blockbuster that, despite a few lame scenes, is actually well-made. of genetically engineered super predators, feels very futuristic.

This contrast, which is presented less than subtly, helps humanize an otherwise cartoonish world. The blue hair and immaculately constructed beards are bizarre, sure, but a bunch of kids having to survive in the woods makes a bit more sense.

And all that is a canvas for the movie’s stars to work atop.

Lawrence is serviceable as a big-budget heroine, mostly because she can sell the more emotional moments the script requires. Harrelson, as always, rules as mentor and former victor Haymitch. Stanley Tucci, as the press arm of the Games, is wonderfully ridiculous.

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AGGIES from page 8 of the game when we built those big leads,” Blair said. “You saw a glimpse of how good we could be when we took that 18-point lead. We were executing, getting out in transition and forcing turnovers.”

And yet, the Terps crawled back. A 21-6 run led by forward Tianna Hawkins cut the team’s deficit to just three at halftime, and a second-half defensive adjustment launched the Terps from a dozen points down to seven points up by game’s end.

“It wasn’t a pretty game from our end, but we were able to withstand the waves of pressure and find a way to keep our composure,” Frese said. “I think we showed resiliency, composure, confidence and a will to win.”

Weakened on the interior by the loss of Hawkins to a hip bruise just after the second half’s midway point, Frese switched from a man-to-man defense to a 2-3 zone look, oftentimes electing for three guards on the floor alongside forward Alyssa Thomas (21 points) and centers Alicia DeVaughn or Lynetta Kizer.

The defensive change stymied the Texas A&M attack. The Aggies failed to score a single point after a layup from guard Alexia Standish (19 points) gave them a one-point lead with 3:48 to play, shooting 0-for-6 in the final minutes as the Terps closed the game on an 8-0 run. “[Tianna] was definitely a big loss for us, especially with that much time left on the clock,” Kizer said. “We know Tianna.

If she could have been out there, she would have been. We just wanted to step up and play that much harder.”

Guard Laurin Mincy was the offensive catalyst for the Terps in that stretch, scoring 13 of her game-hightying 21 points in the second half. She shot 7-for-8 from the field, 2-for-2 from beyond the arc and made all five of her free throws. She also set career highs with 12 rebounds and three blocks.

“We knew getting on the boards was going to win us the game,” Mincy said.

“We all believed in it.”

“We have so many special players in this locker room and Laurin is no exception,” Frese said. “You look at her in this postseason and in the ACC and NCAA Tournaments where the pressure is at its most and she has stepped up and been huge for this team.”

The win sets up an Elite Eight matchup between the Terps and topseeded Notre Dame tomorrow night, giving the Terps a chance at their first Final Four berth since their 2006 national-championship season. The Fighting Irish, who defeated No. 5 St. Bonaventure, 79-35, on Sunday, are 4-1 all time against the Terps. The programs haven’t met since 2007.

Yesterday, though, it hardly mattered to the Terps whom they would play next.

They were just happy to be back for more.

“I think when we were down 18, what was playing in my mind was, I didn’t want this to be my last game,” Kizer said. “That is honestly all I could keep thinking.” vitale@umdbk.com

FIGHT from page 8 national-television audience had watched the entire debacle unfold.

“I’m just disappointed because we really pride ourselves on discipline and poise and keeping our composure, and we didn’t do that,” coach John Tillman said after the game. “I want to apologize to our university and our fans and our state. We didn’t have our composure.

We didn’t handle it very well.”

But the fight wasn’t the Terps’ undoing.

Just moments after play finally resumed with the Tar Heels up, 11-9, Terps defender Goran Murray scored his first career goal to cut the deficit to one. Midfielder Charlie Raffa won the ensuing faceoff, and the Terps had a chance to tie the game. Hoping to capitalize on a four-on-three fast break, attackman Owen Blye winged a pass to attackman Joe Cummings, positioned near the crease, with three seconds left.

It never got there, and Tar Heels goalie Steven Rastivo hauled the ball in for his sixth save of the afternoon, ending the Terps’ hopes of a victory.

“I think in the second half, [there were] a lot of flags, a lot of man-up opportunities,” said Tillman, whose team allowed a two-goal lead to fade into a two-goal deficit in the final period. “[North Carolina was] obviously able to convert on some of those and that gave some momentum back.”

Playing on a rain-drenched field, both teams struggled to keep their footing throughout the game. The Terps (5-2, 11 ACC) finished with 12 turnovers and the Tar Heels (7-3, 1-1) had 14.

North Carolina exploited the Terps’ sloppiness early and raced to a 3-0 lead within the opening 10 minutes. It was a far cry for Tillman’s squad, which had previously outscored opponents 24-5 in the first quarter.

“Give credit to North Carolina,” Tillman said. “You know, they were home.

They really got out really fast. We made a couple mistakes and they capitalized really well.”

Still, the Terps proved resilient.

Down early for the first time this year, they netted three goals over the next 18 minutes to enter halftime with just a one-goal deficit.

Nine seconds into the third quarter, Cummings evened the score at 4-4 with his 10th goal of the season, a tally that provided the boost the Terps’ offense had

Coach Brenda Frese and the Terps will face top-seeded Notre Dame tomorrow night in the Raleigh, N.C., regional final.

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— the senior was scoreless on 0-for-2 shooting with two turnovers in 12 minutes of play — pushed the freshman guard into extended action, just as it did in last Monday’s secondround victory over Louisville. She played 28 minutes yesterday, just two short of her career high.

“I like to push the tempo,” Moseley said. “We really started chipping away at their lead when we started killing them in transition.”

After the Aggies outscored the Terps, 116, on the fast break in the first half, the freshman keyed a second-half transition turnaround. Moseley’s energy helped the Terps dominate in the open floor in the final 20 minutes, outscoring Texas A&M, 9-2, in fastbreak points after halftime.

Moseley finished the afternoon with seven points, six assists, four rebounds and just two turnovers, and her solid play in part thwarted Texas A&M’s defensive strategy.

After the game, Aggies coach Gary Blair said he was committed to having guard Sydney Carter, the team’s best on-ball defender, matched up with either Mincy or forward Alyssa Thomas. That left the freshman Standish charged with stopping Moseley, a task she struggled with throughout the second half.

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think she’s solid.”

Moseley was seated in her usual position on the bench when the ball was tipped just after noon yesterday, watching as Barrett took her usual spot at the head of the Terps’ backcourt. But when the final buzzer sounded, Moseley was the point guard on the floor who had helped lead the Terps back from a 12-point second-half deficit and on to the Elite Eight.

Not even a blown layup could take that away from her.

“I always try to prepare myself. If I’m on the bench, I give my best energy. If I’m on the court, I give my best energy. Regardless, I’m going to do whatever I can to help,” Moseley said. “You never know what the game is going to give you.” vitale@umdbk.com

been lacking. The team notched three more goals in the period, giving it a 7-6 advantage at the start of the fourth.

The Terps took their largest lead of the day when attackman Billy Gribbin finished off his first career hat trick less than two minutes into the final quarter for an 8-6 advantage.

But just as it had during its shocking loss at UMBC earlier this month, the Terps’ defense sputtered in the game’s most pivotal moments. It allowed five goals during a nine-minute stretch to fall behind, 11-9, with 2:23 remaining.

Two of those scores came on man-up opportunities.

The Terps’ shortcomings proved critical. They lost the groundball battle, 3326, and they were just 2-for-5 on man-up opportunities, while the Tar Heels finished 3-for-6.

Even as Gribbin led the Terps with his hat trick, North Carolina attackman Joey Sankey always seemed to have an answer. Each of the freshman’s three goals came at a critical moment for the Tar Heels’ offense.

He scored with six minutes left in the first to extend the Tar Heels’ early lead to 3-0, ended a 24-minute scoring drought with 12 seconds left in the second and kick-started their late-game run with a goal in the opening moments of the fourth.

The Terps will need to address their deficiencies before hosting No. 1 Virginia on Saturday. Coming off a tough overtime loss to No. 2 Johns Hopkins over the weekend, the Cavaliers will be eager to return to their winning ways.

“We’re going to have to come back to work on Monday and get going, really try to improve, make the necessary changes that we need to make,” said Cummings, who was the only Terps player made available to the media after the loss. “And then get back to playing Maryland lacrosse.”

Tillman understands that doesn’t mean just winning, however. He knows that for his team to reach its full potential, it’ll need to learn from the good and the bad of the game’s waning moments.

“There are times when good kids make bad decisions,” Tillman said. “And we’ve got to make sure that we talk to those guys, we educate them, we address it and we make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Because it’s not going to happen again.”

Photo editor Charlie DeBoyace contributed to this report. lllllllllllllllll letourneau@umdbk.com

Tensions flared often in Saturday’s game, as North Carolina attackman Jack McBride and Terps midfielder Michael Shakespeare, pictured on top, got into an altercation after Shakespeare’s third-quarter goal. A late Tar Heels rally ultimately secured the team’s first ACC win. PHOTOS BY CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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SWEET 16: NO. 2 TERPS 81, NO. 3 AGGIES 74

Comeback kids

Forward Alyssa Thomas, left, and center Lynetta Kizer celebrate after the Terps’ comeback victory over Texas A&M in the Sweet 16 yesterday. Thomas, who had 21 points, combined with guards Laurin Mincy (21 points) and Brene Moseley, pictured below, to lead the team to the brink of its first Final Four berth since 2006. PHOTOS BY JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

With Barrett off, Moseley delivers

Terps’ rally in second half seals Elite 8 spot

BY JOSH VITALE Senior staff writer

RALEIGH, N.C. – Sitting atop a stage deep inside PNC Arena yesterday, Gary Blair offered a few weighty words to close his postgame press conference about the Terrapins women’s basketball team that had just ended his season.

“They’re going to be in the Final Four,” the Texas A&M coach said. “Whether it’s this year, next year or the year after that, they’re going to be back.”

Based on what he saw in the No. 2 Terps’ 81-74 Sweet 16 victory yesterday, could you doubt him? The Terps came back in the first half. They came back in the second half.

Now, after an afternoon of basketball that seemed for a while as though it would mark this season’s last one, they’re a win away from being back in the

Final Four.

“This team knows, and has the confidence, that we can come back against anyone,” coach Brenda Frese said. “This one was obviously extremely special and filled with a lot of Maryland magic.”

Torrid shooting and an early 12-0 run helped No. 3 Texas A&M build an 18-point lead near the midway point of the first half, the largest margin the defending national champion would hold all afternoon.

When the Terps whittled their deficit to as little as one point just after halftime, the Aggies went on another run, scoring 16 of the game’s next 21 points to open up a 12-point cushion in the early part of the second half.

“I thought we were going to be able to knock Maryland out

see AGGIES, page 7

BY JOSH VITALE Senior staff writer

NEXT UP: ELITE EIGHT WHO: No. 1 Notre Dame vs. No. 2 Terps WHEN: Tomorrow, 9 p.m.

WHERE: PNC Arena (Raleigh, N.C.) TV: ESPN/ESPN3.com

RALEIGH, N.C. – Clinging to a three-point lead with less than a minute to play, Brene Moseley found herself all alone, streaking ahead of a retreating Texas A&M defense. She received a cross-court pass from Laurin Mincy and approached the right side of the basket, nothing standing between her and a layup she’s made too many times to count.

Moseley picked up her dribble, took two steps toward the rim and let the ball roll off her fingertips and onto the backboard. It clanged off the front rim and back onto the court.

She’d missed it.

Shattered confidence?

Bruised ego? Those might have been the most likely symptoms for a true freshman, especially in a do-or-die Sweet 16 game against the defending

national champions.

Not Moseley.

“At first, I got mad. I got real mad,” she said. “Then I thought about [how] I can’t let my team down. Even though I messed up, I can’t mess up another play.”

With the ease of a veteran, the Terrapins women’s basketball freshman guard simply brushed off her open-court gaffe. She poked the ball loose from Aggies guard Alexia Standish seconds later, giving the No. 2 Terps the ball back with 44 seconds left and helping to secure a wild 81-74 victory over No. 3 Texas A&M. “She’s fearless,” coach Brenda Frese said. “She loves the big stage and she wants to be in these big-time moments.”

Moseley didn’t start yesterday’s contest, but ineffective play from starter Anjale Barrett

see MOSELEY, page 7

MEN’S LACROSSE

For Terps, a fight and a fall Fourth-quarter brawl overshadows 11-10 loss at UNC

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Senior staff writer

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – When the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team arrived at North Carolina’s Fetzer Field on Saturday, it figured it was in for a dogfight.

It got more than it ever could’ve expected.

In a hotly contested matchup between two of the country’s premier programs, the No. 7 Terps fell to the No. 14 Tar Heels, 11-10, after 60 minutes that featured five ties and four lead changes. But the

lasting image wasn’t one of a game played with emotion, but of a handful of players who allowed their emotions to get the best of them.

With the clock winding down on the Terps’ first conference loss of the season, a game became a brawl.

Moments after midfielder Kevin Cooper turned the ball over, he was called for a threeminute cross-checking penalty on North Carolina midfielder Greg McBride near midfield.

Upset with the illegal hit, McBride tackled Cooper. The Crofton native responded by

punching McBride twice in the head as he lay on the ground. Tar Heels players quickly intervened and squelched the altercation, pulling Cooper to the ground.

But the damage had already been done. Cooper and McBride were ejected for fighting, North Carolina defender Charlie McComas received a cross-checking penalty and both benches were handed conduct penalties. And since the game was broadcast on ESPNU, a

see FIGHT, page 7

North Carolina and the Terps fight toward the end of Saturday’s 11-10 Tar Heels win at Fetzer Field. One player from each team was ejected after the scuffle. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK