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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Our 102ND Year, No. 114

AN UNSIGHTLY END

Junior criminology and criminal justice major Dan Ryan holds a photo of his brother, Kevin, who was killed after being hit by a drunk driver when he was a Towson University freshman in 2007. ALEXIS JENKINS/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

A brother’s battle for justice Junior starts petition to hold the drunk driver who killed his brother accountable

BY JON WOLPER Senior staff writer

At the initial hearing, Dan Ryan didn’t speak. He couldn’t. He didn’t say anything when his parents spoke about his brother; he didn’t say anything when the parents of his brother’s killer spoke fondly of their son.

His brother, Kevin Ryan, was a freshman at Towson University when Matthew Miller’s car jumped a curb and struck him. Miller was intoxicated and fled the scene, leaving 18-year-old Kevin Ryan in the middle of the road, where he was hit by a second car. He died on Oct. 14, 2007, two days later.

But as Dan Ryan’s parents and

older brother Luke spoke at Miller’s hearing in 2008 about their lost son and brother, he was unable to find any words. So he kept quiet, like he largely has since his brother died.

Until three weeks ago.

Dan Ryan, now a junior criminology and criminal justice major, received a call from his dad, who’d heard Miller — the man convicted of felony negligent manslaughter — had applied to have the charges wiped from his record entirely. If it passes, the blood would be on no one’s hands. The hearing will be held in Towson tomorrow morning.

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Bring on the bikes

Sophomore psychology major Dale Zhou trains for a 4,400-mile bike ride for the 11th annual 4K for Cancer, set to be held this summer.

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Students prepare to embark on 4,400-mile bike ride

East Campus preparations forge ahead Officials clear space for 38-acre project

BY LAURA BLASEY Staff writer

For sophomore psychology major Dale Zhou, the last miles can be some of the hardest on his weekly bike rides along the Potomac River.

Zhou spends his weekends riding outdoor bike trails, sometimes traveling more than 40 miles along the Anacostia Tributary Trail System, the Potomac River or Lake Artemesia. And he typically bikes 20 miles, four days a week, on a stationary bike in the Eppley Recreation Center.

While this schedule, in addition to taking 19 credits, might be intense for some, Zhou said it is all worth it. He is one of several students training for the 11th annual 4k for Cancer this summer, a 4,400-mile, cross-country ride from Baltimore to Portland, San Francisco or Seattle.

“It gets easier to push through it knowing I have hundreds of friends who are supporting me,” said Zhou, one of several university students currently training for the event.

Since 2002, teams of bikers aged 18 to 25 have participated in the ride, sponsored by the Ulman Cancer Fund

BY TEDDY AMENABAR Staff writer

Although officials have talked about forging ahead with the East Campus development for nearly a dozen years, they are now taking steps to free up space in the city and make the project a reality.

Since the first phase of the project — a proposed 38-acre development that would revitalize College Park by bringing a 4star hotel, graduate housing, upscale restaurants and other amenities — requires space between Route 1 and Paint Branch Parkway, officials have been moving buildings to allocate more space for construction. To ensure the project stays on track, officials plan to move several facilities from Route 1 and create more space for East Campus developments.

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Sophomore psychology major Dale Zhou is in the midst of training for the 11th annual 4k for Cancer this summer. He bikes 20 miles a day, four times a week, to prepare for the 4,400-mile trek from Baltimore to Portland. ALEXIS JENKINS/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

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Officials’ latest project, which began last year and is slated to be completed in June, will move the shuttle bus building from its current location on the corner of Paint Branch Parkway and Route 1 to a new, $6.7 million building across the street from Comcast Center. The new building, which will take up about 11,000 square feet, will provide parking for about 70 buses.

“It’s one of the larger facilities that need to be relocated

to aid families struggling to afford treatment.

Biking across the country is no easy feat, however. Participants must raise a minimum of $4,500 each before departure and put themselves through grueling

training regimens to ensure they can keep pace with the group, with typically averages between 70 and 100 miles per day.

“I feel like I will meet that minimum,” said Zhou, who has raised $2,156 to date. “But

money is definitely one of the big challenges we’re all facing.”

Sophie Jin, a sophomore letters and sciences major, is participating for the first time as a member of Team Portland. She said asking for large sums of

prior to East Campus development starting,” Capital Projects Director Bill Olen said.

“It’s the third piece of the relocation effort to clear East Campus.”

While the project is costly, Vice President for Administrative Affairs Rob Specter, who is at the helm of the project, said the shuttle bus building is a large space that is crucial in ensuring construction crews have enough space to carr y out the project’s proposed plans.

“We’ll need to move that in order to develop East Campus into the development that we want it to be,” Specter said.

Once officials free up the space, the land will be used to build a full service hotel and a parking garage. The hotel, which will have 23,000 square feet allocated for conference rooms, will also house 266 rooms. Additionally, a combined 88,000 square feet will be used for retail buildings and graduate student apartments.

“There’s a whole series of construction projects that are either finished or planned that will enable the East Campus area and its first phase,” Facilities Management Director Carlo Colella said.

Crews will also move the campus mail building, the

motor transportation building, the Facilities Management warehouse and the heavy equipment restoration facility. The spaces will be used for additional restaurant and retail spaces and graduate housing.

Since tangible steps are being taken to break ground on East Campus, Specter said he expects to see construction begin in the coming year.

“The plans are progressing well,” Specter said. “We’re looking for ward to a great project and breaking ground next spring.” amenabar@umdbk.com

money was awkward even though it is for a good cause.

“I felt weird asking strangers, so I tried to start with my close, personal friends,” said Jin. “College students don’t have a lot of money, though, and now that I have less time to raise money, I have to branch out and try different approaches.”

The 4,000-plus-mile journey comes with other challenges as well. Many of the trip participants, while passionate about the cause, were not experienced bikers.

“What I thought was really scary was biking with cars,” Jin said. “It’s different than training on a stationary bike — the road is intimidating.”

However, Jin and Zhou said they are motivated to overcome the challenges. For both students, the cause is personal.

Jin’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer last fall, and while she successfully completed treatment, the ordeal was frightening and stressful.

“I can only imagine what it would be like for people who are not able to access the care and support they need,” said Jin. “This is important to me and this is what motivates me to stick to my training or refocus when I have doubts and fears.”

Cancer affected Zhou’s family as well. His aunt is fighting ovarian cancer and his father was orphaned at age 10 when complications from cancer killed his only living grandparent, Zhou’s grandfather.

“When tragedy strikes, we share and divide the burden,”

“Behind my extreme action are amazing, generous people who support the cause — it’s not just my ride.”

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said Zhou. “Behind my extreme action are amazing, generous people who support the cause — it’s not just my ride.”

Zhou and Jin said they have found no shortage of support in their cause. As leg leaders for the trip, they were responsible for organizing food and shelter along the trip route for their team and they were surprised by how few people turned down their requests for assistance.

“It was pretty amazing how welcoming people were when I called them,” added Jin. “Both hosts who were welcoming us back and saying how much they loved us and new hosts were really receptive.”

Zhou said he calls schools and churches he finds on Google to find places for his team to stay.

“From big cities to small towns of a few hundred people, people are just overwhelmingly generous,” he said. blasey@umdbk.com

To make room for East Campus projects, officials moved the shuttle bus building to a space across the street from Comcast Center. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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or both Prince George’s County and this institution, 2010 went out with a time to how long it takes to fix a pothole, according to the Post. This system, the Postsaid, bang. The university ended the year on a positive note as University Presi- will let the entire community see what works and what doesn’t — a clear way to increase dent Wallace Loh officially took office Nov. 1, 2010, promising a slew of transparency and educate tax payers on where exactly their money is going. It also ofgoals and initiatives to energize both the campus and surrounding commu- fers meetings for citizens to review the data and adds opportunities to provide feedback nities. Just two weeks later, however, any hope Loh brought with him was overshad- online. The CountyStat program will go a long way towards securing residents’ trust owed by a local political controversy: County Executive Jack Johnson was arrested and improving the county’s reputation. Baker’s proposed budget also closely aligns with Loh’s own goals for the university and offers a path for both

by FBI agents for taking kickbacks and bribes in exchange leaders to achieve their goals that overlap. College Park is the for helping a developer secure federal funding for housing most economically robust city in the county, and Loh has developments in the county. placed great emphasis on transforming it into a top-20 college The story was so outlandish it was almost comical: JohnPrince George’s County town, specifically by seeing through major developments like son was charged with evidence tampering and destruction of Executive Rushern Baker’s the Purple Line and East Campus. evidence after he was caught on tape telling his wife, County He has more than this university’s interest in mind, pledgCouncilwoman Leslie Johnson, to flush a $100,000 check proposed initiatives will ing to offer pathways to higher education to local high school from a developer down a toilet and hide $79,600 in cash in her help university President and middle school students. Loh and Education College bra when FBI agents knocked on their door. The arrests Dean Donna Wiseman have worked to launch a county-wide launched a federal probe into political corruption within the Wallace Loh achieve his charter school that would offer university credits to its stucounty, once again reinforcing the notion of an out-of-control Prince George’s County (anyone remember images of counown goals for the campus. dents. While Loh and his administration work to launch the private school, Baker is looking out for the public schools — ty officers beating university students after the men’s bashis budget calls for allocating $30 million more to local ketball game against Duke just eight months before?).

The university had found a strong leader in Loh, but the county was effectively left schools. Together, the two leaders are helping ensure that no student falls between the cracks and all are offered a quality education. without one. Enter Rushern Baker, who took over for Johnson in December 2010.

It’s unclear exactly how closely the two are working, but Loh started his tenure by The current county executive inherited a terrible legacy, but he vowed to turn things around in a transparent manner. Earlier this month, Baker introduced a $2.7 billion specifically making a promise to Baker and College Park Mayor Andy Fellows in his inbudget plan for the county which prioritizes local schools, economic development and augural address: “The university will work together with you to make a positive differhealth care. He told the Washington Posthis goal is to transform the county “into a nation- ence in College Park — to develop a safer, more attractive, less car-congested communially recognized jurisdiction that has a thriving economy, great schools, safe neighbor- ty, with stronger schools — a community that more of our faculty and staff will choose to hoods, access to high-quality health care, effective human services for those in need and live in.” One year later, it seems Loh and Baker have a fighting chance of seeing these goals through. By aligning their initiatives, the combined power of the university and the provides a clean and sustainable environment.”

Almost two weeks later, Baker unveiled plans to launch the CountyStat program, a county can have a lasting impact on both the students on this campus and the middle system that will analyze government operations, ranging from county police’s response schoolers dreaming of one day becoming Terps.

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our March 15 editorial, “Peddling a silly proposal,” deeply misunderstood my bill to promote biking in university facility master plans and my view of the university’s efforts to promote biking.

First, the bill simply requires all the University System of Maryland campuses to include bike infrastructure in their plans. This university’s plan does — so, in that sense, the bill is fully consistent with the university’s practice.

Second, on the larger question of how the university is doing in moving up the rankings of bike-friendly campuses, everyone agrees it has a long way to go. The good news is that, under university President Wallace Loh, the campus has moved forward.

I’m aware of what the campus is doing and am supportive of it.

The bill makes good sense — and so does accelerating investment in bicycle infrastructure.

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Sameness or parity?

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Trayvon and Shaima: Why racism still exists

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he year was 1955. A 14-year-old black boy by the name of Emmett Till was beaten and eventually shot to death by two white men for allegedly flirting with a white girl. The year was 2012. A 17-yearold black boy by the name of Trayvon Martin was shot cold by a neighborhood watch officer after a brief altercation while he was out buying Skittles.

The year was 2012. A 32-year-old Muslim mother by the name of Shaima Alawadi was beaten to death with a tire iron by unknown attackers who left a note saying, “This is my country. Go back to yours, terrorist.” For the record, Alawadi was a stand-up citizen whose husband used to contract with the U.S. Army.

It’s been nearly 60 years since Till’s unjust and hateful death sparked the civil rights movement that made us all think we’ve become “progressive.” But in the past month, we have witnessed two deeply saddening deaths that are eerily similar to Till’s. Clearly, these cases have exposed some serious, unresolved racial

OSAMA ESHERA and religious challenges.

Martin and Alawadi’s deaths both likely resulted from some sense of racism or hate. But after 60 years and three generations of Americans experiencing civil rights reform, the real question is: Why does racism exist today? Gen. Douglas MacArthur, a former chief of staff of the U.S. Army, once wrote; “Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency.” We have created a culture of fear and paranoia that dominates people’s minds and drives them to behave irrationally, like those who killed Martin and Alawadi.

The persistence of this maddening cul-

ture and its troubling growth since 2001 is the reason racism still exists today. This isn’t only true sociologically — the idea that fear drives racism was proven to be biologically true. A 2010 study published in Current Biology demonstrated children with Williams Syndrome, a unique genetic condition that suppresses one’s psychological fear of strangers, do not stereotype on the basis of race. According to Current Biology, “The findings support the idea that prejudice stems from fear of people from different social groups.”

An earlier 2005 study by psychologist Elizabeth Phelps proved racial bias was associated with a “deep-seated fear of people perceived as members of a different social group, a connection that some researchers had suspected but for which solid data was lacking.” Phelps also found this fear decreases significantly when people have more contact and personal relationships with members of other races. When this social fear disappears, racism will too. We are all collectively responsible for the social-political landscape

in our country and community.

Yes, the government and mass media have significant bearing on public opinion.

But on a localized level, the way we speak, interact and think about each other determines the impact of that bearing. Then, on a larger level, we need to hold the government and media accountable if they are misrepresenting true public opinion.

So, for the sake of Trayvon and Shaima and to quell your inner fear, leave your comfortable social circle and interact with people of other races and backgrounds.

And when you find the “other” is not quite as fearful as portrayed by your government or the media, use the power of your own voice and actions to demand a more accurate portrayal of your neighbor. Do not allow these cases to die down without justice and due process. If we keep talking about it, the media will listen and the government will act — hopefully.

Osama Eshera is a junior bioengineering major. He can be reached at eshera@umdbk.com.

Help the huddled masses yearning to break free

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y name is Myroulla Nicolaou and I grew up in the eastern city of Kyrenia in Cyprus. I lived on the Greek side of the island with my parents, two sisters and Yiayia (my grandmother).

We had a good life, living in a port city, and my father’s restaurant did well. My mother took care of us all and kept us healthy.

On July 20, 1974, disaster struck. The Turkish army swarmed over the dividing line under false pretenses of restoring the constitutional order of the Republic of Cyprus. The air force dropped bombs on our beautiful island; hundreds of paratroops rained down across the northern half — including Kyrenia — while 30 Turkish troop ships landed more than 6,000 men with tanks, trucks and armored vehicles. Three days later, a ceasefire was established, with a grand total of around 30,000 troops occupying the island. The Turks reinforced their Kyrenia position and prepared for a second invasion. On Aug. 14, the Turks seized the remaining 37 percent of the land they now oppress.

Our Greek-Cypriot forces were unable to resist the Turkish advance. They drove 180,000 of us from our lives. Turkish-

Cypriots moved into our homes. My family and I were lost in a mass of refugees, with most of the world turning a blind eye to our plight.

We made it off the island onto the mainland of Greece, but we had nothing. We tried to pretend everything was back to normal, yet Yiayia’s plaintive question, “Sotia, when will you take me home?” was a constant reminder of our old life. I promised her daily she would return, and I continued to reassure her until the day she died. She never saw her home.

It was not until 2003 that we were let back onto the island to visit our house. We walked to the door — excited to reunite with our home — only to find a Turkish family still living there. We found them using the same beautiful furniture my mother slaved over choosing and the same picture frames that once held my family’s memories. The Turkish-Cypriots were very cordial, and they offered us a cup of coffee before showing us the door — effectively shutting us out of the life we once had. We were crushed, but we put on brave faces and walked back to our new lives in Greece.

Myroulla and her family aren’t real; they represent just one of many families

MARIA ROMAS affected by the Turkish oppression of Cyprus. As of today, there are about 150,000 Turkish settlers believed to be living in the north, in violation of the Geneva Convention.

Many Americans don’t know about the occupation of Cyprus and might wonder why they should care. I’m Greek-American myself, which probably affects my awareness of the issue. Yet it’s my sense of humanity that drives me to spread the news about the tragedy of Cyprus.

As the Turkish occupation is universally denounced as a gross violation of both international law and the United Nations Charter, Turkey should be facing repercussions. Did the United States not enter conflicts over differences in governing when other ideologies infringed upon what Americans considered basic human rights? Half of Cyprus is still illegally occupied — something

against moral standards, which people and governments across the world recognize and condemn. Yet this country continues to foster a relationship with Turkey — the occupiers.

Although the federal government attempted to make amends for one of its misdeeds when Congress imposed an arms embargo on Turkey in 1975 for using American-supplied equipment during the invasion, it restored the bond with Turkey during the 1980s. In 2004, officials appropriated $30.5 million to assist economic development in the Turkish-Cypriot community.

Many Greek-American Congress members have established firm positions on the matter: The United States is not doing enough to stop the occupation. It is up to citizens to come together and show the representatives in Congress just how wrong it is to continue supporting Turkey, when the country supposedly believes occupation of another’s land is acceptable. It is up to Americans to help release the oppressed land of Cyprus.

Maria Romas is a sophomore English and journalism major. She can be reached at romas@umdbk.com.

n response to Nicholas Shade’s March 16 letter, “Dr. King’s dream,” affirmative action for college admissions may not promote equality (sameness) as the author asserts, but it does support equity (parity). To claim affirmative action is “another form of racism” is itself a form of color-blind racism — the ideology that race is irrelevant and should be avoided. This argument suggests colleges should select students and companies should interview candidates based on their abilities and performances while disregarding social contexts such as race.

This mindset of meritocracy proposes students can succeed if they work hard because they are all born with the same opportunities. The problem is, not all students are born with the same opportunities. Furthermore, meritocracy undermines the systematic structures that marginalize race.

Such opportunities have been limited by structural racism over the course of this country’s history. The National Housing Act of 1934, for example, allowed only white people the opportunity to subsidize home mortgages, while black people found it difficult to qualify. After this act was declared unconstitutional, black and Hispanic residents started to move into predominantly white communities. White residents feared their property values would subsequently decline, so they left the neighborhoods. As a result of white homeowners taking their wealth with them, these communities faced higher property taxes and endured a decline in public services such as schools and public transportation. These institutionalized racial issues remain salient today — the wealth gap between white and black families persists, minority communities face underfunded schools and not all students have the necessary resources to do well in school.

An African proverb says, “Start where you are, but don’t stay there.”

Not all students start in the same place, but affirmative action helps these students get there.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Your ideas may be favored not because they are so good, but because competing ideas are so bad — but that is about to change.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may have an advantage over one of your competitors simply because you have positioned yourself in a way that resonates with those around you.

You have a certain inimitable style that will be recognized as yours and yours alone, despite the outward shows you may put on at any given time. Others can tell when you have been on the scene because you affect personal dynamics in a way that is palpable — and usually permanent.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may be tempted to do that which will raise eyebrows and cause those around you to think you may have lost your senses temporarily.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — An old-fashioned event is likely to bring you together with those who share your attitudes and aspirations.

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REEL NEWS: SO THERE’S GOING TO BE A CARRIE REMAKE In its continuing quest to drop buckets of pig blood on the heads of old movies (by which we mean remake them), Hollywood has decided to revive the 1976 flick — and Stephen King book — Carrie. Chloe Moretz of Let Me In and Kick-Ass fame will star, it will probably get middling reviews and everyone will forget about it within a month. Happy Wednesdsay!

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THE FIRST STRING(S) Award-winning, local teen guitarist talks about his past and future

BY MARY CLARE FISCHER Staff writer

From outside, the Mansion at Strathmore is quiet, primly guarding its contents from the passersby who only use its sprawling grounds as a shortcut. Yet inside, on March 14, an electric guitar’s wails shake the walls, so unexpectedly and painfully loud that someone should really tell the musicmaker to take his teenage angst some place else.

No one does. The guitar player is a teenager, but he’s earned his place in Strathmore’s wood-paneled Dorothy M. and Maurice C. Shapiro Music Room. At 17 years old, Nate Foley has already released two CDs, earned the Washington Area Music Association (WAMA) 2011 award for “Best New Artist of the Year,” won the Apollo Theater’s Amateur Night Contest eight consecutive times and has been selected as an Artist in Residence at Strathmore, a non-profit that provides a wide variety of arts programming in north Bethesda.

On Wednesday, he will perform in concert at the mansion, premiering the new music he’s been working on through the Strathmore program.

Foley refuses to admit any of that is unique (except for the wins at the Apollo Theater — he’s admittedly ver y proud of that streak). Deep down, he’s a relatively normal 17year-old. He thinks high school is “terrible” and “boring.” He performs locally as a part of fusion band FLLD (Foley, Lieder, Lieder and Dunnevant). He hates talking in front of a crowd, an issue he’s had to face frequently as a performer.

“For a guy getting a lot of attention, I don’t think he’s letting it go to his head,” said Dan Hovey, Foley’s mentor at the Artist in Residence program. “I think he realizes that there are skills he needs to develop more to be a full-on professional, and

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I think he’s ver y serious about getting those skills.”

Although Foley had a childhood dream of being a herpetologist (he still has a fascination with snakes), he has always wanted to be a musician. When he was about six years old, he told his parents he wanted to play guitar. They told him he had to first play piano for a year to prove he was committed. On his first day of lessons, the piano teacher opened the door, and Foley immediately said, “I’m only doing this so I can play the guitar.” “[The teacher] was kind of taken aback,” said Nate’s father, Maurice Foley, chuckling. “We didn’t know where he would end up, but we knew he did have skill.”

Then came the guitars. The toy guitar from Toys “R” Us that was such a letdown after that rough year of piano. The three-quar ter size classical guitar because he learned classical first. The Squier Stratocaster that has had skewed strings ever since he accidentally hit the bridge against a bus. The Paul Reed Smith (PRS) Student Edition that became unusable when one of the potentiometers broke. The Epiphone Les Paul that simply faded into the background when PRS decided to sponsor Foley and sent him two guitars. His favorite is the PRS Custom 24, which sells for about $3,000 in stores.

“The neck is perfect. The action is perfect. It’s just perfect. It sounds awesome. To the max,” Foley said.

Foley could play by ear at seven, although he says he wasn’t even good until age 12 when he became the guitarist at the Sharon Bible Fellowship Church. He grew up splitting his listening time between his father’s soul and funk and his mother’s contemporar y Christian gospel, so his church’s hymns are just as valuable to him as the work of

Funkadelic or Jimi Hendrix (At the concert Foley gave for Strathmore donors on March 14, his jazzed-up rendition of “Amazing Grace” received more applause than any other song).

Foley auditioned for the last season of the TV show Showtime at the Apollo when he was about 12 years old. He didn’t make it, but his name was mistakenly put on the bill. As an apology, he was put on the weekly variety show, and so began his legendar y winning streak.

“The first time I played at the Apollo was when I lost all ner vousness for all gigs in the future,” Foley said.

“That’s like the peak of fear because they can boo you off the stage, and if they like you or don’t like you determines if you win or not, and that’s just so frightening.”

Drummer and bandmate Miles Lieder disputed Foley’s claim.

“He got ner vous last week,” Lieder said, referring to the band’s concert debuting music from their new CD, Noon Time Moon Shine, a play off the band’s former, also-paradoxical name, Midnight Sun. Foley glared at his friend but smiled as he asked, “What the hell, man?”

His goal is to win a Grammy before he’s 22, after he heads off to either Belmont University or the University of Southern California to pursue a degree in guitar performance. Yet Foley has never had goals in the past.

“I trust that things work out ‘cause they usually do, and I think setting goals would have prohibited me from doing a lot of things I have done,” Foley said. “I didn’t want to do to the Apollo; I didn’t want to do Artist in Residence, but I don’t listen to my head a lot of times. I’m not going with the scared par t of me; I’m going with the courageous part of me.” mcfischer@umdbk.com

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TIGERS from page 8

cent from the field. They held them to 0-for-8 shooting from beyond the arc. Diggins alone finished with more assists (11) than the entire Terps team (10).

“I thought it was going to be a close game, back and forth,” Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw said. “I thought we might get 10 points ahead. I did not envision this.”

Nor did Terps seniors Anjale Barrett, Kim Rodgers and Lynetta Kizer, whose careers ended in blowout fashion. The trio combined to score just 10 points.

“We had a phenomenal season. We had a lot of good wins this year, a lot of comeback wins,” Rodgers said. “We just weren’t able to get it done tonight.”

The Terps entered last night’s game with a chance to reach their first Final Four since their championship season in 2006. Just as Achonwa had to Mincy’s shot, the Fighting Irish did away with it convincingly.

“I thought they were spectacular,” Frese said.

“Obviously, tonight was Notre Dame’s night.”

performance also stands as the second time they have shut out an opponent for an entire half. Hofstra did not score in the second half of its 11-4 loss to the Terps.

“It’s a great feeling, and it doesn’t really happen a lot in lacrosse,” Dipper said of her perfect night in goal. “Our defense came out strong — our whole team did. They were getting the slides there, and making my job a lot easier. All together, we meshed really well tonight.”

Meanwhile, on the offensive end, there was no shortage of firepower for the Terps. Thirty-eight seconds after the opening whistle, Alex Aust found fellow attacker Karri Ellen Johnson for the first goal of the game.

Those two were heard from again in a hurry. Aust had three more assists in the first half, while Johnson landed four more shots in the net. With five total goals, Johnson broke her own individual high for the season and now stands just four scores away from passing Kelly Coppedge for No. 2 all time in career goals.

“Alex was great behind the cage, and she just found me,” Johnson said.

“She’s just gotten so good back there and comfortable. It helps our offense because if that’s not working, we can try something else in our drives. Our dynamic makes it so they can’t shut anything down.”

Although Johnson did not add any more goals to her gaudy total in the second half, the Terps were able to find offense from other sources. Midfielder Kelly McPartland got back-toback goals, and midfielder Katie Schwarzmann scored all three of her goals in the second stanza. The Terps’ goal leader now has had a hat trick for five consecutive games.

The Terps may have a rough patch of opponents lurking ahead — they face three ranked teams in their next three games — but for this night, they did just about everything right. Their shooting percentage was at 50 percent, the mark Reese had set as a team goal on offense. The defense was near-perfect, aside from a stretch late in the second half. And they accomplished the ever-important little things, too, including securing a commanding 14-4 advantage in draw controls.

“We got some really good looks all night and I was pleased with that,” Reese said. “We took care of business on the other end of the field too. I’m just really happy with both ends of the field.”

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Coach Brenda Frese, above, could do little to stop Notre Dame from pulling away to lead by as many as 32 points after an early Terps run. Despite a size disadvantage, the Fighting Irish stifled the offense of guard Laurin Mincy, below, and the Terps all night. PHOTOS BY JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

IRISH from page 8

Mincy said. “They did a great job of swiping at the ball when I did attack the rim, so I think that was all credit to them.”

Normally the dominant team on the glass — their 13.8 rebounding margin entering last night’s game ranked second in the nation — the Terps were routinely outmuscled by an undersized Notre Dame team. Though they feature three post players taller than the entire Fighting Irish team, the Terps totaled a season-low 27 boards in the game. Notre Dame had 46.

“They beat us at our own game tonight,” forward Alyssa Thomas (17 points) said. “They crashed the offensive boards and we weren’t boxing them out. Then on offense, for us, we didn’t get a chance to pull down rebounds because they boxed us out well.”

The Fighting Irish held the Terps to their lowest scoring output of the season by 10 points. They outshot them by nearly 10 per-

WACKER from page 8

you,” Wacker said after Sunday’s win. “It really relaxed me up there.”

Wacker was the team’s primary center fielder last season, starting 53 games and batting .250 with 21 RBI. But the coaching staff wanted to

change his role this year, using him as a left-handed relief pitcher in late-inning situations. So far, he’s made 10 relief appearances with a 3-0 record and 0.69 ERA, plus one save.

“Korey is still a tremendous asset to our pitching staff,” Bakich said Sunday. “He was warming up just in case at the end because he was the next guy we were going to go to

because we knew we had to extend [closer Jimmy Reed].”

Even if Wacker isn’t on the mound, he can still make an impact on the pitching staff with his play in center field. In the first inning of the series opener with Miami, Wacker made a diving play in the field to end the inning. Bakich called Wacker’s defense throughout his time in College Park “stellar.”

“Defensively, we knew Korey would be fine because he’s just a really good athlete,” left fielder Michael Montville said. “But he’s just a competitor, so him being out there and able to do that, it was a great day for him.”

Bakich said Wacker will now take on the “dual role” of starting center fielder and reliever, just as he did a year ago.

Entering the matchup with St. John’s (13-10), Bakich said replacing White won’t be easy.

His offensive and defensive contributions were too important to the Terps’ (16-9) success.

Still, Wacker knows that his coach and his team have confidence in him as the team moves deeper into ACC play.

“There’s not a guy that wouldn’t have another guy’s

back in the game at any point,” Wacker said. “We’re all confident in each other and confidence is high. We have high expectations and our goal is still in mind. As a team, that’s what we’re working towards.

We battle adversity with the best of them. All we can do is look forward to the next day.” dgallen@umdbk.com

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PETITION from page 1

Dan Ryan sprang to action, and, at the suggestion of his fraternity’s president Zach Feuer, started a petition on change.org.

He sent a link to his classes’ listservs, his fraternity (he’s a member of Kappa Sigma), the Greek community at large and to various friends and acquaintances he’s made at this university and Towson University — including some of Kevin’s old friends.

The petition’s reach began to expand. Dan Ryan’s parents sent it to colleagues and friends and acquaintances made at organizations their boys were in as children. They sent it to people they knew from the gym.

They sent it to people in the community.

And those people forwarded it along to their friends, and within three weeks, it garnered more than 2,100 signatures as of last night. Dan Ryan, a Diamondback

advertising representative, plans to print all the supportive notes and place a giant stack of paper on the judge’s desk tomorrow. The online petition is still accepting signatures.

It’s the best weapon he has to make sure this conviction sticks to Miller’s record, which he said deserves to stay.

“He could be able to say ‘I never did this,’ but the evidence would still be there,” said Dan Ryan, who was 16 years old when his brother was killed.

“The remains of his actions would still be scattered around.

No amount of legal motions is going to bring my brother back.”

That initial hearing in July 2008 was the first and only time he and Miller were in the same room together.

Miller pled guilty and served seven months of an 18-month jail sentence.

According to a statement by Miller’s lawyer, David Irwin, expunging Miller’s record would help him “secure employment in

an effort to integrate him as a productive member of society.”

“Obviously it’s a very tragic case,” Irwin said, adding he has the utmost respect for the Ryans. “And we’re just trying to keep moving forward in Matt Miller’s life.”

The short sentence combined with the recent motion has sparked a sense of outrage.

Thanks to the petition, this exasperation has made ripples up and down the state.

But Dan Ryan isn’t fighting this out of anger — he’s fighting it so Miller will always have to remember the lives he affected that night.

“I turn 21 this year, but I never got to go to his 21st birthday party, and he’s not going to be able to come to mine,” Dan Ryan said. “Our kids aren’t going to play together, stuff like that. So the biggest loss wasn’t what we had, it was what could have been.” jwolper@umdbk.com

Kevin Ryan (above) was a freshman at Towson University in 2007 when he was hit by a drunk driver while walking on a sidewalk and died two days later. His brother, Dan Ryan, a junior criminology and criminal justice major at this university, has launched a petition to ensure the driver’s record isn’t wiped clean. PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH MEEHAN

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Sports

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ELITE EIGHT: NO. 1 SEED FIGHTING IRISH 80, NO. 2 SEED TERPS 49

Dame. Set. Match.

Terps’ run ends in Raleigh with blowout defeat

BY JOSH VITALE Senior staff writer

RALEIGH, N.C. – Laurin Mincy streaked toward the basket, the Notre Dame defense closing in quickly around her. She pulled up for a foul-line jumper that, to that point, had been all too easy for her this NCAA Tournament. Visions of an improbable comeback grew fainter every second.

Only the shot wasn’t there. Nothing was for the Terrapins women’s basketball team in PNC Arena last night.

A ferocious block from Fighting Irish forward Natalie Achonwa sent Mincy’s attempt careening off-course. Devereaux Peters saved the wayward ball and launched it to Skylar Diggins at midcourt. The Raleigh, N.C., Regional’s Most Outstanding Player, as was often the case, went in for an uncontested layup on the other end of the court. The top-seeded Fighting Irish’s lead was up to 24 points, and that was too much for even the No. 2 seed Terps, who’d made comebacks look customary.

They were playing with borrowed time by then in their eventual 80-49 loss. As Mincy’s shot became a Notre Dame basket, not even 10 minutes into the second half of the Elite Eight showdown, the game became a countdown to an inevitable end.

“I thought we looked really tired,” coach Brenda Frese said. “I felt like our energy and effort was spent in the game before [against Texas A&M].”

A 12-12 tie with 11:51 remaining in the first half marked the final time the Terps (31-5) would be in contention. The Fighting Irish (34-3) outscored their overmatched opponents 16-1 over the next six minutes and 28-9 to close the first half.

Led by Diggins’ first career triple-double (22 points, 11 assists, 10 rebounds), Notre Dame led the ACC Tournament champions by 19 entering halftime and by no fewer than 26 points during the final 10 minutes of the game.

“I thought we were a step slow all night. We did a lot more watching than we typically do,” Frese said. “Every time we went into timeouts, we weren’t gaining any ground.”

“We wanted to let them know why we were a No. 1 seed,” said Diggins, a firstteam All-American. “We came out and we dominated.”

Achonwa’s (18 points) emphatic block came in the middle of a 16-4 run that gave the Fighting Irish their largest lead of the game at 32 points and led to the Terps’ largest defeat of the season.

Mincy followed her impressive 21point, 12-rebound performance against the Aggies on Sunday with just two points on 1-for-6-shooting last night, a statline that seemed to signify all the high-flying Terps could not do with a Final Four berth on the line.

“I really couldn’t get into a rhythm,”

see IRISH, page 7

Notre Dame guard Brittany Mallory comes up with a loose ball as she gets tangled up with forward Alyssa Thomas during the Fighting Irish’s win last night. The Terps committed 21 turnovers and were outrebounded by 19 in their worst loss of the season. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

BASEBALL

Terps blow out, shut down Tigers With White out, Wacker

Team scores first 12 goals in 13-3 dismantling of in-state opponent

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON

Outfielder to remain at CF vs. St. John’s

Staff writer

With just more than 19 minutes remaining in the second half, a roar erupted from the visiting team’s bench at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex last night. Towson’s Rhiannon Coogle had beaten Terrapins women’s lacrosse goalie Kasey Howard with a shot, and players and visiting fans donning the black and yellow screamed with joy.

There was one problem: It marked the first time the Tigers had found net all match. Thoroughly dominated to that point and once trailing 12-0, they were unable to beat starting goalie Brittany Dipper even once. Towson scored two consecutive goals afterward to finally halt the No. 5 Terps’ offensive onslaught, but it mattered little in an eventual 13-3 blowout loss.

“That’s one of the most complete games we’ve played all season,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We gave up some opportunities in the second half, but all in all, I think they were on fire tonight.”

The Terps’ defense, to put it simply,

fills in nicely for Terps

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson, right, finished with five goals in the No. 4 Terps’ 13-3 win over Towson last night. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

has not put on a better show all season. In addition to Dipper’s perfect showing through nearly 40 minutes in front of the cage, the three goals allowed

by the defense in the second half marked a season low. The Terps’ first-half

see TIGERS, page 7

When the Terrapins baseball team lost Charlie White for the season to a broken hand almost two weeks ago, the impact was apparent — on paper, at least.

The Terps would have to play more than two-thirds of their schedule without their leadoff man and, perhaps more importantly, their center fielder.

In four of the next five games, coach Erik Bakich started Jordan Hagel, primarily the team’s right fielder, in center field with a rotating cast in the corner outfield spots.

Then Bakich decided on Korey Wacker in center field during last weekend’s series at Miami. It’s easy to see why he’ll stay there this afternoon against St. John’s.

“When Korey brings the defense and then shows what he can do

offensively,” Bakich said, “it kind of becomes a no-brainer that we would go with Korey because he kind of brings to the table what Charlie White left, which is good defense, speed, the ability to get on base, steal bases, that type of guy.”

The move paid off Sunday in the Terps’ 6-4 win over the Hurricanes, as Wacker helped pace a Terps comeback by going 5-for-5 with two RBI and one run scored. For the weekend, the senior was 7-for-11 with another run scored on Saturday, leaving him with a .389 average, four RBI and four runs scored this season.

Explaining his success at the plate, the Harker Heights, Texas, native was quick to credit his teammates for his standout play.

“It really helps when your team’s behind you and has confidence in

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