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GOP candidate Ron Paul speaks to students in Ritchie Coliseum

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

Ron Paul may be dragging in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination, but that did not deter the thousands who gathered at Ritchie Coliseum last night to greet the GOP contender with chants of “President Paul.”

“Sounds to me like freedom is popular in Maryland,” Rep. Paul (R-Texas)said, responding to raucous applause.

Paul’s platform of limited government, fiscal conservatism and decreased military intervention has resonated with many students at this university, prompting

several to form a chapter of the group Youth for Ron Paul and compete for the chance to hear the candidate’s message firsthand.

Yesterday, Paul addressed an audience of nearly 2,000 students, marking the culmination of more than six months of the group’s petitioning and campaigning.

“A lot of people are waking up,” Paul said. “I think the younger generation is certainly waking up.”

This university’s chapter of Youth for Ron Paul collected the most signatures of all the chapters countrywide,

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SGA President Kaiyi Xie said students who are not in STEM programs should still vote against a tuition premium for undergraduates in those majors. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

SGA rejects higher STEM tuition rates Admin. defends proposal, says it won’t deter prospective students

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

The SGA voted to oppose the proposed tuition increase for certain laboratory science and engineering programs last night, with several legislators calling the hike an unfair burden on students in those fields.

The Board of Regents, the University System of Maryland’s 17-member governing board, is discussing the proposal submitted by Provost Ann Wylie about whether to raise tuition for certain sci-

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Countywide plastic bag tax killed in General Assembly

All by itself Little Tavern has sat vacant on Rt. 1 since 2008

Legislation fell one vote short of reaching House floor

NICK FOLEY Staff writer

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

Retailers in the county will continue to provide shoppers with tax-free plastic bags, lawmakers decided Saturday, after a bill that would levy the new fees failed to make it out of committee.

Many Prince George’s County officials and state delegates were confident they would be able to enact the revenue-generating legislation, about a year after a similar statewide bag tax failed to pass in its third attempt through the state’s General Assembly. Many environmental activists from across the state — including this university’s MaryPIRG chapter and Student Government Association — pushed for the 5-cent fee, as a similar tax in Washington has curbed plastic bag usage by millions.

However, the state’s House Environmental Matters Committee killed the bill — which would enable the county to place a tax on the plastic bags retailers give to customers — citing concerns it would overly burden low-income residents. It fell one vote short of reaching the House floor.

“I was disappointed,” said committee member

Del. Doyle Niemann (D-Prince George’s), who voted in favor of the bill. “I thought we should have the right to do it. It works, it changes the way people behave in positive ways and it does it with, I think, minimal costs.”

Although other regions have enacted the fee — such as Montgomery County in January — opponents of the bill felt the measure would place a burden on the county’s poor. Del. Cheryl Glenn (D-Baltimore City), who voted against the measure, said reusable bags are not accessible enough to low-income shoppers to soften the blow of the fees.

“A lot of my colleagues don’t understand what it’s like for people if you are disadvantaged or you’re living in poverty,” she said. “I’ve lived that life, and it’s really devastating.”

Del. Melony Griffith (D-Prince George’s), also opposed the legislation, stating some residents would balk at fronting the added cost in addition to other possible taxes — such as a gasoline tax and online sales tax — coming out of this legislative session.

“I believe that charging citizens more for an

ence and engineering students — a hike some university officials said may be necessary in order to hire more faculty members and accept more students into the costly programs.

However, several Student Government Association members voiced concern that an increase in tuition may deter students from coming to the university or pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees — known in academia as STEM — especially with a proposed

Unlike most downtown businesses strung together in shopping centers, Little Tavern stands alone, a solitary slice of the bustling swath of bars and restaurants crowding Route 1. It’s green and white, it’s small and it’s empty.

The petite structure, at 7413 Baltimore Ave., was constructed in the 1940s and opened as Little Tavern, a successful burger place offering hamburgers at five cents a piece — 25 cents a dozen — according to landlord Ron Willoner. The business ultimately went defunct, but the name, a

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three percent in-state tuition hike next year.

“I think it’s in extremely poor taste for the administration to make it even harder for students to complete college when we’re already facing this onslaught of increases,” computer, mathematical and natural sciences legislator David Lieb said.

Lieb and the SGA Vice President for Academic Affairs Jamil Scott pledged to find alternative means to fund these programs, such as obtaining grants for science and engineering programs.

To ease the financial hit, a portion of the revenue generated from the hike would go toward financial aid for STEM students, and officials would eliminate the course

fees for the affected majors, according to Wylie. She did not say which majors may be impacted or how much tuition could increase.

“Many universities have such differential tuition already, and we have no knowledge that it has deterred a significant number of students,” Wylie wrote in an email. “Of course, we would want to be very careful in ensuring that needy students are held harmless.”

University President Wallace Loh said while he understands student opposition, the university has not received increases in state funding in about four years, which makes it more and more difficult for officials to meet the growing demand for students in the sciences.

“You can only continue on this path for so long before the quality starts declining. … It will not happen on my watch,” Loh said. “If we

have had no increases for four years, and whatever increases we have from tuition go to inflation costs, how are we going to create more labs, more faculty members, in engineering? And the demand is huge.”

At last night’s meeting, arts and humanities legislator Mace Phillips said the proposed hike is fair, as the science and engineering fields are often those that require the most money to sustain.

He also noted that students in other fields often do not receive as much funding. “[The behavioral and social sciences college] is obviously the largest college on [the] campus, but it has the lowest per capita funding per student,” Phillips said.

“While it sucks to have to pay more money because of your major, it also sucks to see less money because of your major.”

SGA President Kaiyi Xie, a senior engineering major, agreed.

“I’d say that the legislators who are not from fields as hard as STEM may be doing their constituents a disservice by accepting this,” Xie said.

However, other legislators from arts and humanities and behavioral and social sciences opposed the hike, saying keeping STEM programs at the university strong and accessible to students benefits the university as a whole.

“This bill is not about the disparity between colleges,” Ellicott Community legislator Joseph Landgraf said. “I think it’s really a disservice to give the administration a free pass to raise tuition on anybody.”

Several science and engineering majors said they have a long road of school to pay for ahead.

“I don’t have a massive amount

Computer, mathematical and natural sciences legislator David Lieb spoke at yesterday’s SGA meeting against the university’s proposal to raise tuition for students in science and engineering majors. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

of money. I plan to go to medical school, and I have siblings, too,” freshman general biology major Nuriya Gadiwalla said. “In this economy, I don’t think it’s fair to raise tuition on half the campus

because we happen to be in a more expensive major.”

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mer 2008, when city officials decided against a proposal to build a hotel in its spot, according to Willoner.

This could be the chance to restore the building to the prosperous locale it once was, Willoner said he thought, but then the process proved to be “torturous.”

“I looked into redeveloping it, and then it would be an easy rental,” Willoner said. “The trouble is that so many people have their hands in it. … The city and the county design the building, and you have to build it the way they want it.”

Several students, such as junior accounting major Jessica Yamini, said the building holds a mystifying presence in the city, and they’d like to see a business fill the space.

“I think it’s really cute,” Yamini said. “It’s a little bit wasted just sitting there. It looks nice; I’ve always been interested in it.”

But for Willoner, the building doesn’t hold any particular charm. It’s a money pit. “[Beauty is] in the eye of the beholder,” he said. “As a businessman, it doesn’t produce rent.”

from page 1 nostalgic reference to the city’s historic roots, stuck.

Since that time, the building has seen a variety of tenants with eclectic offerings, including a Philly cheesesteak joint, an Indian restaurant and several barbeque spots.

Last year, Naked Pizza — which emphasizes a healthy alternative to traditional pizzerias — signed a lease at Little Tavern but then balked on plans to renovate the space, which Willoner said would be mandator y before it could open.

“They told me they were going to remodel it, then they changed their minds,” Willoner said, adding that the building is now seeking a sublessee for the space. “They just wanted out.”

The growing company didn’t want to spend the necessary cash, according to College Park Economic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater, who added, “the building does need a lot of work.”

For the time being, the structure will continue to sit stagnant, as it has since sum-

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Nearly 2,000 attendees gathered in Ritchie Coliseum to hear Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) speak about his presidential campaign platform, which includes elimination of several government initiatives. TJ ROOT/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

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according to the group’s secretary, Paul Rowe.

“This has been the goal since we were set out,” he said. “The goal is to get his message out and the best way to do that is to have him here to get him to deliver it.”

Free tickets available online ran out within two days after the university formally announced the arrival of the GOP hopeful to Ritchie, Rowe said.

The event drew a mix of college students and avid Paul fans from around the area, despite having just 71 delegates, compared to the 569 claimed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, according to a recent CNN estimate.

“People are skipping classes, getting off work, driving 50 miles; it’s definitely what we wanted it to be,” Rowe said before the event.

“We would have really liked to have a bigger venue because it seems like we definitely have the audience for it.”

The speech opened with Paul’s rejection of government initiatives such as the Affordable Health Care Act, which he said “represents intrusions into our personal lives.”

“When you think about it, what is government other than a big mandate? All they do is mandate everything we do,” he said.

Paul also touched on this nation’s militar y involvement abroad. He said the countr y should temper its role as “world police,” and should no longer engage in nation building.

“We have become an aggressor nation,” he said.

“A lot more can be achieved with peace than with war.”

He drew a strong response from the crowd with his discussion of the Federal Reserve, which he said encouraged inflation, prompted the burst of the housing bubble and slowed the nation’s recovery postrecession.

“The Federal Reserve is a facilitator, it facilitates the growth of big government,” he said to an army of “end the fed”

chants. “It’s immoral to counterfeit money, and they’re the big counterfeiters.”

Many students said they were enthused to see the candidate in person. Freshman psychology major Jay Willging said, “there were incredible amounts of energy,” adding the event

was “surreal.”

It also drew students from across state borders, such as University of Delaware freshman Tim Heider, who made the two-hour drive with his friends to see Paul’s speech. Heider said the candidate’s message appeals to the values and concerns of

many youth.

“The fact that he’s economically conservative, kids really like that because they don’t want people taking their money,” Heider said.

“But he’s socially liberal and kids like that, too.” bach@umdbk.com

everyday cost is regressive,” she said. “I just thought the proposal was ill-timed in terms of its physical impact on the senior citizens and low-income citizens in our county.”

Michelle Kim, the SGA’s sustainability director, said the SGA will try to expand their outreach next year to include more people in the surrounding communities.

“It’s kind of a necessary step in terms of waste reduction at this point,” she said. “If it’s not going to happen, we’re just going keep having the same pollution problems.”

However, the issue is likely to

Senior staff writer Rebecca Lurye contributed to this report. villanueva@umdbk.com

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“It’s kind of a necessary step in terms of waste reduction at this point.”

MICHELLE KIM SGA DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABILITY

come up in next year’s legislative session, Niemann said.

“We’ll be back next year with more of a campaign to convince people that it’s not a tax, this is way of changing behavior,” he said. bach@umdbk.com

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Why that’s wrong: Gansler has already confirmed that such a law holds water in this roponents of an all-inclusive Good Samaritan policy received good news before spring break: State Attorney General Doug Gansler officially conclud- state. On the federal level, the Drug-Free School and Communities Act states that “a ed that enacting a drug amnesty policy would not violate state law. Since the disciplinary sanction may include the completion of an appropriate rehabilitation prolegislation has been stalled in the University Senate for the last few months gram.” Levey’s proposal includes this mandate and ensures the follow-ups aren’t puniwhile senators waited for Gansler’s recommendation, his opinion officially marks the tive, so students aren’t deterred to call for help. Additionally, the Board of Regents — the 17-member gubernatorial body that oversees the University System of Maryland beginning of what’s sure to be months of debate on this polarizing issue.

— has also given the OK to craft such a policy.

The existing Good Samaritan policy, passed by the senate Claim No. 3: There isn’t enough research to prove a drug last spring after four years of debate, only protects dangerousamnesty policy is necessary or would even be effective. ly intoxicated students who call 911 for themselves or a friend Why that’s wrong: Let’s look at the statistics. According to a from university sanction; the new extended policy, which unIf University Senate 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, drug dergraduate senator Brandon Levey officially submitted last members do not support overdose caused more than 36,400 deaths in the United States semester, would also protect students who have drugs in their and is now the second-leading cause of unintentional injury system or on their person. an all-inclusive Good deaths, trailing only car accidents. Another 2011 study, from Now that Gansler has weighed in, the Senate Student ConSamaritan policy, they the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, showed that hosduct Committee has officially been given the green light to rerates for drug overdoses increased 55 percent beview the proposal and the full body will ultimately vote on it. might as well not support pitalization tween 1999 and 2008; hospitalization from combined drug and Though they’ve received the attorney general’s approval, stualcohol overdoses increased 75 percent. dents still have major mountains to climb — chief among students’ safety.

Here’s the scariest part: A call for help occurs less than 50 them being many older senators may not be in favor of such a policy for various reasons. This editorial board would like to educate those senators on percent of the time when someone in the U.S. overdoses, according to 2005 research. why an all-inclusive Good Samaritan policy is necessary to protect students and how The biggest reason for not calling? Fear of police involvement and punitive retribution. A Good Samaritan policy can change that. A 2011 study in the Journal of Student Affairs foolish it would be to not support it.

Research and Practice found students are 2.5 times more likely to call for help during a Claim No. 1: Enacting a drug amnesty policy would actually condone drug use.

Why that’s wrong: The current proposal would not protect students who have been medical emergency if they’re aware a drug amnesty policy is in place.

In the end, senators should really only have to ask themselves one question: If accused of manufacturing or selling drugs. Instead, it would prevent punishment for students with no drug-related disciplinary record. The student, in exchange for pun- your child were to overdose on drugs and be unable to call 911, would you want ishment, would enter mandatory treatment and counseling. This policy is by no there to be anything preventing others from assisting? The failure of an all-inclusive means revolutionary; if anything, the university is behind on ensuring student safety Good Samaritan policy will increase the chance that your child — or someone because 50 other schools across the country — including one in this state, Washington else’s — dies alone and without help. A drug amnesty policy will decrease the number of seconds someone debates calling 911. And in these situations, seconds can College — have similar policies in place. literally determine life or death.

Claim No. 2: Such a policy could violate state and federal law.

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Editorial cartoon: Joey Lockwood

Tweet tweet: The late bird catches the worm

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yllabus Week had been going fine, with no major surprises or glaring errors in judgment. I was almost in the clear, even halfway through my Friday 9 a.m., until — “You all have a Twitter, of course?” my professor chirped. “If not, get an account ASAP.” My heart sank. I’d almost gone four years Twitter-free in the journalism college, where the motto is pretty much “Tweet or die.” I just didn’t get the appeal. When Twitter first launched, I predicted 60 days in the spotlight, max. It was like the Sarah Palin of the Internet: silly, ill-adapted to challenges, nice to look at but hardly compelling. If we ignore it, it’ll go away.

But it didn’t. Instead, Twitter celebrated its sixth birthday last week. Somehow, it’s become a legitimate tool loved by many, including professional journalists, not just D-list celebrities desperate for fans.

Those little words attached to number symbols are everywhere. People say, “Follow me on Twitter!” like it’s not weird to encourage stalking. In my senior capstone class, uploading a profile photo is an actual homework assignment. #smh

ALISSA GULIN But my profession is dying (if you haven’t heard), so I did what I had to do. I chose a corny username, deigned a really cool background and began documenting this column: The Twitter Chronicles.

On our first assignment, I felt like an alien in a new Twitterverse, surrounded by classmates already fluent in the native shorthand. It didn’t even seem convenient: Downsizing my message into 140 characters took way longer than writing a lengthier, normal sentence would have.

Finally, my first tweet was out there, but it felt incomplete. Why, I wondered, were budding journalists encouraged to sacrifice clarity and thoroughness for brevity? We’re taught to tell the whole story, to value accuracy above all else.

Twitter’s mini-messages seemed counterproductive to journalism’s core goals.

People tell me they often find out about major news events via Twitter. At first, I scoffed. How could they trust the accuracy of hastily written Tweets? In the rush to be first, journalists sacrifice doublechecking. Facts are flubbed, phrases are misleading and people (Joe Paterno) are prematurely pronounced dead.

Then I explored a bit more, going on a “follow” rampage of anything that interested me. That was a mistake. My page was immediately clogged with the inner musings of athletes and musical artists.

I’m interested in their talents, not the color of their snot. #Tellittoyourmother After adding bona fide news organizations, however, I began to see Twitter’s utility. All the headlines were in one place, and no medium is updated as frequently.

It saved me from slogging through piles of news, but also gobbled up my free time and intensified that stressful “there’s so much to read and watch” feeling.

Maybe the idea of Twitter itself didn’t bother me — rather, it was the strain of adding yet another site to my daily checklist. Luckily, I was introduced to iGoogle, which allows you to customize a home-

page for your Internet browser. It provides an endless buffet of content: news headlines, photo collections and yes, gadgets connecting to your social media accounts. #Googleforpresident These aggregator sites are the key to juggling everything the 21st century has to offer and allowing various Internet services to play nice together. Twitter is intended to enrich our knowledge while saving us time, but until I could seamlessly incorporate it into my routine, it did the opposite. Now, instead of wasting time flipping from page to page all day, I simply leave the iGoogle tab open. Twitter seems way less obnoxious and actually kind of cool.

Uh-oh. Am I actually enjoying this thing I’ve stubbornly snubbed for so long? I’ve definitely eaten a few of my words, but not all of them. I still don’t see the point of tweeting — if anyone’s interested in my ramblings, that’s what my columns are for — and it’s still weird not knowing whether your stalkers are robots or real people.

Alissa Gulin is a senior journalism major.

She can be reached at gulin@umdbk.com.

The court is on trial with “Obamacare”

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inally, after three days of the longest proceedings heard in the U.S. Supreme Court in 46 years, conservative politicians and millions of Americans have demonstrated their fanatic blood thirst to kill “Obamacare.” Now the only question remaining is whether at least five Supreme Court justices will share their venom.

Based on the stiff reactions of the justices during the proceedings, the individual mandate — which places a penalty on people who can afford health insurance but choose not to purchase it — and potentially, the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, may be in peril when the court makes its ruling in June. Yet it’s important to remember how far we’ve come since the days when people most viewed the act’s constitutionality as a given.

Back in 2010, the commonly held legal view was, as former Solicitor General (under Ronald Reagan) and current Harvard law professor Charles Fried said at the time, “If you don’t like it, repeal it or amend it. But don’t ask the courts to do the job for you, because they won’t.”

Forget the costs or effectiveness of the act — they don’t matter in this case.

What matters is the Commerce Clause in the Constitution grants the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce. Heath-care insurance made up 17.6 percent of U.S. GDP in 2009, making it one of the largest industries in the country. The constitution grants the government the right to regulate a near universally used market.

From the day an American enters this world until the day he dies, he almost certainly directly and indirectly participates in the health-care market.

When the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate in 2011, Judge Jeffrey Sutton — nominated by former President George W. Bush — wrote that, “The basic policy idea … is to compel individuals with the requisite income to pay now rather than later for health care.” The ruling also noted that providing health-care coverage to the uninsured raised collective premiums by $43 billion in 2008. Unlike forcing everyone to eat broccoli — a popular argument against the individual

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KARASOV mandate — we are already paying for the uninsured and the act just aims to manage the money differently.

Asserting that an individual mandate would grant Congress unlimited power plays politically, but it should not hold up from a legal standpoint. Unfortunately, the court seems inclined to support this political rhetoric and Americans have taken notice: A recent Bloomberg poll concluded 75 percent of Americans believed politics would influence the court’s decision and only 17 percent thought the court would rule solely on legal merits.

Such pessimism should disturb you.

As many in the press have pointed out, the poll numbers likely result from the realities of this year’s campaign. If the court overturns President Barack Obama’s central initiative, it will fuel the fires of Re-

publican rhetoric, leading Obama’s opponents to cast his presidency as “unconstitutional” and stigmatize the entire Democratic Party — fair or not. Given Obama’s presumed advantage at the moment, the predominantly conservative Supreme Court has a strong incentive to rule against the individual mandate, not to mention that Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife is a lobbyist for the Heritage Foundation, which is vehemently opposed to the act. Conflicts of interests cloud the case.

The court has displayed political motives in the past, but perhaps not since Bush v. Gore has the nation analyzed the politicized nature of deliberations so closely. I hope people will realize the nuanced implications of the court’s ruling in June.

So will the justices rule based on legal merits or politics? No matter where your party allegiances lie, you should hope for the former. Otherwise, we’ll have a Supreme Court distorted to a sad degree.

Nadav Karasov is a sophomore economics major. He can be reached at karasov@umdbk.com.

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tudents from the 11 University System of Mar yland campuses comprising the Mar yland Student Climate Coalition have been fighting to pass the Mar yland Offshore Wind Energy Act. We’ve rallied, we’ve gathered petition signatures, and we’ve met with administrators and legislators because we know clean, renewable energy will be good for our state.

Students support this act because we know it will improve public health, make the state a leader in curbing global climate change and boost the state economy — the General Assembly should pass it immediately.

This act would allow the construction of a wind farm 10 miles off the state’s coast. The proposed project would generate 310 megawatts of electricity annually, powering 50 percent of homes on the Eastern Shore, or over a third of homes in Baltimore.

Offsetting this amount of electricity produced by coal, the state’s primar y electricity source, would prevent huge amounts of harmful substances such as mercur y (which bioaccumulates in seafood); nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, which cause respirator y diseases and acid rain; and carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from entering the atmosphere. This offsetting would save at least $27 million per year in public health costs (along with an estimated 390 lives).

Other benefits of this act include an estimated 1,300 construction jobs and hundreds of ongoing maintenance jobs for the wind farm, as well as countless savings for agriculture, fisheries and coastal properties.

Students across the state, realizing this act will be hugely beneficial for the state’s future, have been working together to show support for the bill. We’ve woken up early on Saturday mornings to gather letters in far away districts, we’ve organized photo petitions and we’ve shown how much we care about the future of energy in our state. Right here in College Park, students in groups such as Mar yPIRG and UMD for Clean Energy have been speaking to legislators, canvassing in swing-vote districts, organizing rallies and collecting student signatures. Thanks to grassroots support, the Student Government Association unanimously passed a resolution in support of the bill.

In Februar y, the MSCC held a rally and lobby day at the Statehouse in Annapolis in support of offshore wind. Eighty students, representing more than a dozen campuses, stood alongside delegates, senators, professors and Gov. Martin O’Malley to stand for offshore wind — all on a Wednesday morning.

At the event, Board of Regents student member Collin Wojciechowski said, “Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2012 meets our students and our University System’s common goals. We recognize the significant, positive and lasting impact this legislation would have on Mar yland’s environment, economy and public health.”

Despite sweeping student support, the fight for renewable domestic energy isn’t over yet.

The bill did not get out of committee last year, and this year the bill’s status is still uncertain. Students will keep sending a loud message, and we need your help.

April 2, come to the “Circle of Support” rally in Annapolis, where hundreds of environmental advocates of all ages will meet at 7 p.m. to circle the Statehouse.

Mar yPIRG is providing free bus rides there and back, leaving from Cole Field House at 5:30 p.m. and returning at about 10 p.m. If you want a free ride to Annapolis to help pass this historic legislation, RSVP at marypirgstudents.org. You can help bring positive change to the state — don’t let this opportunity for safer, smarter energy slip away. Come to the rally, talk to your student government and college administrators and take the initiative to help pass the Mar yland Offshore Wind Energy Bill.

Nina Randazzo is a freshman environmental science and policy major. She can be reached at ninarandazzo@msn.com.

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PREVIEW | DELTA SPIRIT

Songs from the strange vine San Diego rock band Delta Spirit is as restless as ever on its third album

BY DEAN ESSNER Staff writer

When San Diego rockers Delta Spirit broke out in 2005 with a rich, robust Americana-meets-punk sound, maturity seemed like a distant and unnecessary concept.

“We were 21-year-old kids,” said bassist Jon Jameson.

But now, after releasing its self-titled third LP to critical acclaim, stepping outside of their musical distinctions and embracing adulthood has proved to be the necessary course of action to stay fresh and interesting.

The band will bring this new face to a sold out 9:30 Club in Washington on Saturday.

“There is no love when bankrupt/ Just an empty gutted house/ And a grave,” sings once wild-child lead singer Matt Vasquez on album opener “Empty House.” He emotes like a rocker dad who can barely pay his bills — a progression far

removed from their more carefree roots.

Fortunately for Delta Spirit and its fans, settling down personally does not mean setting down musically. Tracks like “Tellin’ The Mind,” with its crazy Tarzan screams and its driving punk bass line and “Tear It Up,” which bares many similarities to The Strokes’ “Machu Picchu,” are both rowdy and sonically relentless.

It’s a happy change following years of four chord folk-rock tunes that had Delta Spirit unfairly pegged as the finest A.M.era Wilco knockoff in America.

Now it’s about bringing the weird. And Jameson only confirms these forays into uncharted territory with his musical inspirations going into the record.

“I listened to a lot of ’80s,” he said. “Also, [I was listening to] the Cocteau Twins, New Order, Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine and PJ Harvey.”

The experimental spirit also extends to the tour setup, which

is truly ambitious, especially for the group’s big-but-not-too-big following. Pioneered by keyboardist Kelly Winrich, the band built a lighting rig that will travel with them as they take their new material on the road.

“We’re still not a massive band, [but] we built our own set design,” Jameson said.

In the end, through all the added bells and whistles and studio tweaking, Delta Spirit is really just a working band with an admirable, de facto passion for making sweet, sweet music.

“We love this band,” Jameson said. “[We love] playing music, and we want to make this our career if people will let us.”

Saturday’s sold out show seems to indicate a resounding “Yes, please.”

Delta Spirit will perform at the 9:30 Club on Saturday. Doors open at 10 p.m. The show is sold out. diversions@umdbk.com

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COMEBACK from page 8

Quarterback Danny O’Brien is following in the footsteps of former N.C. State quarterback Russell Wilson, who excelled last season at Wisconsin. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

O’BRIEN from page 8

considered a preseason top-25 team for the 2012 season.

Should O’Brien play this year, he’ll partner with Heisman Trophy finalist Montee Ball in Wisconsin’s backfield.

O’Brien, who had also visited Penn State and Mississippi before ultimately deciding to join the Badgers, could replace another ACC transplant in Madison. Quarterback Russell Wilson transferred to Wisconsin before last fall after spending his first three seasons at N.C. State.

With his eligibility exhausted, the Badgers have just two healthy quarterbacks competing in spring practice, and O’Brien will have a strong chance of earning the starting job for next season.

“As is the case with any player who joins our program, we have not promised Danny anything other than the chance to come in during the fall and compete for the starting quarterback position,” Bielema said. “He understands that and is excited for that opportunity.”

O’Brien had 22 touchdown passes in his two seasons with the Terps, ninth best in pro-

gram history, but he asked for a release from his scholarship following a sophomore season defined by a quarterback controversy between him and C.J. Brown.

O’Brien is the most high profile of the 13 members of last season’s 2-10 team to be released from their scholarships this offseason.

“I will always be a proud Terp alum, but am hungry to get after it and start my next chapter in Madison!” O’Brien wrote on his Twitter account yesterday afternoon. “Lots of hard work ahead.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

“As you advance in the NCAA Tournament, you cannot keep playing with a deficit,” Frese said Monday.

“Especially the really large one we suffered against Texas A&M the other night.”

It became evident early Tuesday night that the team hadn’t heeded its coach’s warning.

Notre Dame took an early 12-12 tie and turned it into a commanding 40-21 halftime lead, putting the Terps in a trailing position they’d been in more times than they’d like to admit.

Yet it was a situation the Terps had grown comfortable in. Even as they entered the locker room down 19 points, hope never seemed to wane.

“Until the buzzer sounded,” guard Laurin Mincy said. “We always believed that we could come back.”

When guard Anjale Barrett took a defensive rebound from end to end for a fast-break layup to open the second half’s scoring, it looked for a moment like the Terps had life. The deficit was down to just 17 points, one fewer than the firsthalf margin they overcame against the Aggies on Sunday.

What allowed them to mount those comebacks in earlier games, however, failed the Terps on Tuesday night. After holding the Aggies to a paltry 35 percent second-half shooting mark during its 13-point comeback, the team allowed the Fighting Irish to hit better than 56 percent of their field goals over the final 20 minutes.

With the Terps’ defense struggling to put any sort of dent in Notre Dame’s everpresent offensive attack, the Fighting Irish never led by fewer than 26 points in the final

Notre Dame guard Skylar Diggins and the Fighting Irish shot 56.7 percent from the field in the second half Tuesday night, quashing any comeback hopes. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

10 minutes of the contest, building leads as large as 32 in that span.

“We didn’t stop fighting to the end,” Barrett said. “It didn’t matter if we were down 30, 40 or 50; we were going to go down fighting and that’s what we did.”

Resilience had brought the Terps as far as the Raleigh, N.C., regional final, but that

would be as far as it could take them. The list of comeback victories the Terps have captured this season is a long one. On Tuesday, the Fighting Irish made sure they wouldn’t be a part of it.

“They had a very good game plan,” Frese said. “We had no answer.” vitale@umdbk.com

WRESTLING | SEASON IN REVIEW

Season of honors ends far from biggest one Terps’ showing in NCAAs blights stellar year

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

The Terrapins wrestling team finished its season with one loss, an ACC Championship and four individual ACC titles. Seven Terps were selected as All-ACC wrestlers, and junior Josh Asper (165) was an All-American for the second straight year.

But for coach Kerry McCoy — himself the ACC Coach of the Year — it still wasn’t enough.

“Unless you get 10 national champions that get 10 pins in the first period, then no one’s satisfied,” said McCoy, whose Terps sent seven wrestlers to the NCAA Championships but finished only No. 31 overall. “Going 15-1 in dual meets and having seven NCAA qualifiers, it was a great overall season and I’m definitely proud of all that, but the ultimate goal was to win a national championship.”

That didn’t happen, but the

end-of-season setback didn’t necessarily temper McCoy’s pride over this year. He said this Terps team was more committed than any other in the four squads he has presided over while in College Park.

“They were definitely as committed as any other year, but in certain circumstances, it was even higher,” he said. “The preparation and commitment throughout the season was definitely the highest that it’s been, and that’s just a credit to the hard work that the staff and the guys put into it.”

McCoy hopes that commitment will propel his team into next season, allowing the Terps to at last reach their national-championship goal.

And with only one of 10 starters graduating, the Terps may have a chance.

In a season full of wins, it wasn’t hard to find memorable moments. The highlight of the season, McCoy said, was seeing Asper achieve All-America

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status with a sixth-place finish in St. Louis earlier this month.

Senior Kyle John’s win in the ACC Championship also ranked near the top of his list.

“The highlight overall is always when we get an AllAmerican, so when Josh won his match in the quarterfinals to get All-American status was a huge moment,” McCoy said. “[John] was the ACC champ, he had a lot of wins in dual meets, and a lot of those stand out.”

So do his wrestlers. Seven Terps — John, Asper, Shane Gentry (125), Geoffrey Alexander (133), Jimmy Sheptock (174), Christian Boley (197) and Spencer Myers (heavyweight) — earned All-ACC honors last week, while McCoy won Coach of the Year honors for the second straight season and third in the past four.

“It’s certainly a great recognition,” McCoy said. “Seven ACCs is the most we’ve ever had and the most in the conference, and it’s just a credit to how much effort we put in. We want that to be the standard that we set. We want to be the best in the conference.”

After an offseason spent rehabilitating injuries and refining technique, McCoy explained, the Terps’ next goal is clear: win the national championship they’ve been craving for so long.

“We’re not satisfied because we always want more,” he said, “and we’re looking for it all next year.” egan@umdbk.com

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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For once, Terps can’t come back

Forward Alyssa Thomas helped the Terps rally from two double-digit deficits in a win Sunday. There was no such comeback Tuesday. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Following year full of big rallies, Terps sink deeper vs. ND

BY JOSH VITALE Senior staff writer

RALEIGH, N.C. – Twelve players, four coaches and 200 or so red-clad fans seemed to know the future of the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s season hung by a thread late Tuesday night. For every second that ticked off the game clock overhead, the deficit on the scoreboard appeared to grow larger.

But even as top-seeded Notre Dame treated the ACC champions’ defense as a veritable layup line in an eventual 80-49 victory, it was still hard to shake the feeling that the No. 2 seed Terps would somehow crawl their way back into it.

They had done it too many times this season to count them out.

They dug out of a 20-point secondhalf hole to beat Georgia Tech on Jan. 6, then came back from six points down two days later in the final 1:48 of regulation in an overtime win against North Carolina.

They overcame a 12-point deficit to beat Duke on Feb. 19 and a ninepoint margin to defeat Louisville in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on March 19.

Coach Brenda Frese even went as far as to reference her team’s “Maryland magic” after it mounted comebacks of 18 and 11 points in an 81-74 Sweet Sixteen victory against Texas A&M on Sunday.

The Terps seemed fortunate to sneak out of PNC Arena with a victory Sunday, but their good fortune ran out against the Fighting Irish.

see COMEBACK, page 7

Quarterback Danny O’Brien endured an up-and-down two years in College Park, being named ACC Rookie of the Year in 2010 before struggling in his sophomore season. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

O’Brien going to Wisconsin Former Terp can play two more seasons

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

Former Terrapins football quarterback Danny O’Brien will continue his career at Wisconsin next season, the school announced yesterday.

O’Brien, who is set to graduate in May, will attend graduate school at Wisconsin starting in the fall.

Because he will enroll in a graduate program not offered at this university, O’Brien won’t be required to sit out a season as a transfer. The rising redshirt junior has two years of eligibility remaining.

“We’re excited that Danny has chosen to attend Wisconsin,” Bad-

gers coach Bret Bielema said in a release. “The first thing we did when we were aware of Danny’s interest was to try and find out what type of person he was and if he would fit into our program.

“From our dealings with him and all the things I have heard from those who have been around him, he is a tremendous person and has great character. He had a fantastic visit and our current players who met him came away impressed.”

O’Brien, the 2010 ACC Rookie of the Year, will join a Badgers program that has won two straight Big Ten championships and is

see O’BRIEN, page 7