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alk to Gary Williams long enough and surely some topic in the conversation will cause the 20-year Terrapin coach to reminisce about his career in basketball. He will link his approach to his days as a high school coach in Camden, N.J. He will reference his own playing career at the university when discussing athletes who supplement mediocre talent with knowledge of the game. He will laugh about the fracases Big East teams regularly engaged in when he used to coach at Boston College. So in the midst of a chaotic season for Williams, which featured a verbal spat with the Athletics Department, a bevy of criticism vis-à-vis his recruiting ability and a home fan-base that was divided in support, Williams reminisced to a worse time. When a reporter asked him if
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The university is considering a master’s program that will cost about half a million dollars a year but will only attract about ten students every three years. Administrators said the Master of Fine Arts degree in Performance will enable the university to attract gifted artists from across the nation and take advantage of the Washington region’s growing reputation as one of the nation’s best performing arts areas. They also point out that the program is expected to attract heavy philanthrophic support — Robert and Clarice Smith, two of the university’s largest donors, have already pledged to support it. But the program’s relatively small cohort for such a high cost has some asking questions about whether it’s an appropriate use of university funds during an economic downturn. “Whenever I see that kind of a price tag for that few amount of students, I hesitate,” said undergraduate student senator David Zuckerman. “It looks like a good program if we have the money for it.” Zuckerman is a member of the senate executive committee, which voted to send approval of the program to the full University Senate earlier
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RHA seeks healthier options in shop Residents complain Leonardtown store should carry food for cooking BY DANA CETRONE Staff writer
(Left to right) Scientists Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc, Melissa Resto and Barbara Gerratana discovered an enzyme that could help combat tuberculosis. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Univ. scientists discover key to new TB drugs
The RHA is pushing Dining Services to offer healthier foods in the Leonardtown convenience store. The move, Residence Hall Association members said, aims to give students living in New and Old Leonardtown convenient, healthy options for their meals as an alternative to dining in Route 1 restaurants, which are closer to the
apartments than either of the university’s dining halls. Its two main requests were for fresher fruit and ingredients students could use to cook their own meals. “Right now there are only snack foods, which are unhealthy and you can’t use them in the kitchen,” said Sam Lengyel, the chairwoman of the RHA committee that advises Dining Services. “We want to put in more produce and cookable foods.”
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venience store would offer kitchen-friendly supplies. “Some of the ingredients are for baking, and if they had some stuff to season food with or something that I could use to make like a marinade for, that would be pretty cool,” sophomore kinesiology major Phil Cobb said. “I mostly cook, I occasionally treat myself to something a little
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Enzyme could help combat latest forms of fatal disease A team of university scientists has cleared a major scientific hurdle that should lay the foundation for the development of new drugs to combat tuberculosis, a disease that killed 1.8 million people in 2007. The team uncovered the structure and function of NAD+ synthetase, an enzyme essential for the survival of tuberculosis-causing bacteria, that could help scientists develop drugs to fight the deadly disease. Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Barbara Gerratana led the study, “Regulation of active site coupling in glutamine-dependent NAD+ synthetase,” which was published on March 8 in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Graduate student Melissa Resto and Assistant Professor Nicole LaRondeLeBlanc also contributed to the study. “I am hoping that now with the structure and characterization in hand, a drug effective against latent tuberculosis will be developed, thus contributing to the eradication of this disease that still is one of the world’s major killers,” Gerratana wrote in an e-mail. Gerratana said no current treatments are effective against the latent form of TB, but targeting the NAD+ synthetase enzyme could be key to fighting both active and latent bacteria.
In addition to fresher fruit, the committed listed vegetables, bread, larger quantities of flour and ground beef as some of the foods that would make the convenience store more accessible for students who want to cook. “A lot of the complaints are that none of it is for people who cook and that it’s basically a glorified 711,” said Taylor Cole, a member of the committee. Students said they wish the con-
ment and politics and English major, said his party stands out for its lack of connection to the curIn eighth grade, SGA presiden- rent SGA. “Students are really unsatisfied tial candidate Malcolm Harris ran for student body president and lost with the SGA right now,” said Mary Yanik, the Student — to a Slurpee machine. Power Party’s Life Sci“The other kid promences legislator candiised a free Slurpee date. “We know we machine, and I lost and could do it better, that’s he won,” said Harris, why we’re running.” who leads the Student Unlike its three comPower Party. “I feel like petitors, the Student that’s what’s happening Power Party is comall over again. I can’t prised mostly of students promise you a Slurpee who have little to no SGA machine, but we’re runexperience, which Harning an issue-based ris lauds as a necessary campaign and we can MALCOLM change. get results.” HARRIS “For years we’ve To Harris, the promises of other presidential candi- been electing the same people dates are like the Slurpee machine over and over again,” he said, not— great in theory, but unlikely to ing that the three other presidenmaterialize. Harris promises his tial candidates all ran with party will address issues, includ- Jonathan Sachs’ Students Party ing several the other parties’ plat- last year. “We need a new model.” The new model, Harris said, forms ignore, by grassroots organizing and protesting. Harris, a sophomore governPlease See HARRIS, Page 3 BY MARISSA LANG Senior staff writer
Members of the Student Power Party break through a banner that reads "Russell Contract" to represent their goal of ending a university contract that buys apparel the group says is made in sweat shops. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Store struggles with space New tuberculosis drugs RHA, from Page 1 unhealthy, but I’m trying to keep myself in shape by cooking my own meals,” he added. “If there was some stuff at the Leonardtown Community Center, I’d probably go out a little less.” Other residents noted that the fruit is not fresh and that the convenience store doesn’t cater to their needs. “I think they sell sausage links in cans, which I don’t think anyone buys, so anything would be better than that,” said Molly Lazarek, a sophomore engineering major living in Leonardtown. “They have single pieces of fruit but it never looks good, just like bananas, never anything like strawberries.” Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said students
years ago used to want frozen foods to cook, which he thought meant hamburger patties or hot dogs. But what students had really wanted was frozen dinners. Now it seems students have changed their minds. “The issue is that the store is so small that we cannot add things. We need to cater to that specific student population,” Hipple said. “RHA brought the concern to us, but we need an understanding of what it is they want.” The committee, the Dining Services Advisory Board, also realized the problem of the size of the store and that the content can only be changed, not added to. “It goes from one extreme to the other. [The advisory board] is hoping to find the balance between students who just
want snacks and students who want something other than mac and cheese,” Cole said. Although the CVS near Route 1 has a small grocery section, the nearest grocery stores to the campus are a Shopper’s Warehouse and a Giant, both requiring the use of bus transportation if students don’t have cars. The lack of easy access to groceries makes improving the convenience store’s offering an even greater priority. “We cook everything. I wish there was a grocery store nearer to campus because a lot of kids don’t have cars so it’s kind of hard to get there sometimes,” said Joanna Shieh, a sophomore graphic design and public relations major and one of Lazarek’s roommates. cetronedbk@gmail.com
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the structure-based development of drugs targeting this enzyme,” Gerratana wrote. Gerratana is collaborating with the National Institutes of Health to develop drugs to fight TB. While the findings provide optimism for science’s constant battle against the disease, Gerratana said new drugs would take years to emerge. “It’s very difficult to say when drugs will be developed at this early stage,” Gerratana said. “Creating drugs is very difficult; this is the first step of a long process. But without this discovery, no structure-based drug development could have occurred.”
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Harris won’t place emphasis on Annapolis HARRIS, from Page 1
Sophomore aerospace engineering major Uzzoma Agbara, left, and other members of the Student Power Party and Feminism Without Borders participate in a protest yesterday. JAMES HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Two university peers recently dropped Russell contracts PROTEST, from Page 1 around McKeldin Mall chanting: “What’s disgusting? Union busting! What’s outrageous? Sweatshop wages!” The protest was intended to put pressure on the university’s administration to join 25 other universities — including the University of North Carolina and the University of Michigan, two of the university’s peer institutions — and discontinue the contract with Russell Athletics, the students said. After circling the mall, the students then ran through 25 streamers to represent each contract that has already been cut, and one long sign to represent the university’s contract with the corporation. They then attempted to go inside the Main Administration
building to deliver their request, but were turned away by two University Police officers who said the building had been “shut down” and the students needed a permit to continue protesting on or around the building’s steps. “It’s kind of alarming that students can’t even go into the Main Administration building,” said undergraduate student senator Josef Parker, who is also running for a legislative position in the SGA with the Student Power Party. But student leaders said this is not the first time they have met resistance from the administration — just the first time they have been locked out of the building. “We have had meetings with Joe Ebaugh and [Mote’s chief of staff] Sally Koblinsky
before,” Feminism Without Borders President Mary Yanik said. “But nothing’s really happened since.” Students have been calling for the administration to sign onto the Designated Suppliers Program which proposes that universities to license most of their apparel exclusively with worker rights certified factories. “This isn’t anti-Terp gear,” junior English major and protester Henry Mills said. “This is pro-Terp gear done the right way.” Eventually, after the group dispersed, two of the students decided to go back and try to deliver the request again, in addition to mailing a copy to Mote’s office this week. langdbk@gmail.com
relies on grassroots organizing of students — even post election — to force administrators and politicians to pay attention to their concerns. “Going door-to-door is the only way,” Harris said. “Students have been alienated from each other, from the [Student Government Association] and from the university and I don’t blame them. We don’t need to shake the apathetic people or hit them until they care, we just need to talk to them.” The Student Power Party’s platform also singles out different issues than the other three campaigns, including expanding the proposed Good Samaritan Policy to include drug use, minimizing the amount of sexual assault on the campus, ending “sweatshop” labor practices by university contractors and insuring students’ rights are not violated by calling for student conduct disciplinary hearings to be taped and made accessible. “We’re not content to just be relegated to what the administration tells us we should address,” Harris said. “Sexual assault doesn’t happen on street corners, it happens in dorms and at house parties ...
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[and] Good Samaritan needs to be extended to include drugs. We can’t compromise on student safety.” But Harris said his unconventional platform has also brought on criticism from those who don’t fully understand his philosophies. “I’m not going to nationalize the Stamp,” Harris said, smiling. “If people have issues with my politics, I invite them to come talk to me and ask me about them. I’m not a politician, I’m an organizer.” And organize he does. In addition to co-sponsoring a protest of Russell Athletic’s contract dealings with the university yesterday, the Student Power Party’s bright yellow shirts were all handmade by the candi-
dates and countless others who “have nothing to gain by helping out,” Harris said, but believe in their cause. “This is our community, we have to care about what goes on for ourselves and each other,” he said. “There are people with the Student Power Party who are working their asses off, knocking on doors for three hours straight because they believe in making the university better for students. That’s the difference between [the parties] — these people don’t get tired, not until the job’s done.” Harris also said that while Annapolis will not be a priority next year, other candidates who think they can out-lobby professionals and ensure the student voice is heard are making Slurpee-like promises. “Nick Mongelluzzo may look good in a suit but he’s not going to beat [university system lobbyist] P.J. Hogan at pushing for textbook reform,” Harris said. “Student power is the idea that since we’re the majority on campus, we should have a say in what happens at this university.” “Even if it takes 3,000 students on the mall,” he added. “That’s what we’ll do.” langdbk@gmail.com
Holum anticipates support for program from senate and donors MASTERS, from Page 1 this month. The senate will consider the program on Monday. Generally, the senate executive committee quickly approves new programs, but senators took a more skeptical look at the program during their meeting. “[The cost of the program] means the senate has to scrutinize it that much more closely,” said
undergraduate student senator Brad Docherty, who also serves on the executive committee. But Phyllis Peres, an associate provost, said the large amount of money budgeted for the small program is misleading because some of the funds will be used toward undergraduate projects. It will also fund tuition for the graduate students as they work with undergraduates in the classroom
and on stage, she said. Both University Senate Chair Ken Holum and Peres stressed the program would benefit the entire university, not just the theatre department because it would draw philanthropic support, attract highly-acclaimed visiting artists and benefit the university and the surrounding community. “It will attract really good people to the graduate program and
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f you’re studying business, you probably won’t see yourself as just a uni- the ideal opportunity to reexamine the college’s priorities. And if you don’t versity graduate — you’ll be a proud graduate of the Robert H. Smith believe that a talented dean can transform a college’s potential, you just don’t School of Business. The same is true of you aspiring newspaper hacks — know your university history. In 1981, the journalism school had its accreditayou’ll be proud graduates of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. tion suspended. Then, former-dean Reese Cleghorn stepped from news And if you’re studying government and politics, or geography, or hearing and reporting into academia, leading the school to national prominence. Many credit former dean Howard Frank with winning similar successes for the speech sciences, well, at least you can still identify as a Terp. The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is underfunded and riddled business school. Although the stories of successful deans might serve as an inspiration for with shortcomings. The college has an alarmingly poor student-faculty ratio, ambition, their approaches to building community won’t the university’s lowest credit hour-to-state funding ratio and serve BSOS very well. Cleghorn cut down the size of the joursome of the university’s largest classes. The problems are nalism school to focus on quality. The business school is wellstarting to drive students toward a common cause — BSOS The new BSOS dean known for playing the same game — talk to any student students are walking out of their classes today in protest. But applying to enter business programs, and just wait to hear the as Dean Ed Montgomery leaves the college, his replacement should develop a grumbles about business school advisors who refuse to talk to should take this opportunity to build a BSOS identity around sense of community. non-majors. But raising the walls around BSOS would simply its academic mission, not just its adversities. close off too many opportunities to too many students — A strong communal identity benefits students most directly — it would foster a cohesive group of academic peers, a better understanding every single student should have the chance to take a government or psycholof where the disciplines sit and a clearer sense of academic mission. But a ogy course if they’re interested. Dan Mote first addressed the campus Aug. 30, 1998. It was 90-degrees and strong college identity also benefits the university. Administrators are increasingly chasing alumni donations, and more than ever the burden for sunny, but before he took the podium, he pulled a new University of Maryland fundraising is falling directly on individual colleges. You’re not likely to sweatshirt over his shirt and tie. Mote had been appointed president two months earlier, but it was at that moment that he became a Terp. Maybe when donate to a college that you never felt a part of. It’s not that Montgomery was bad at his job, but a change of leadership is the new dean arrives on campus, he can throw on a BSOS T-shirt.
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Film studies: Bring back that movie magic
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he days of the novelist are numbered. Let’s face it, the modern American tends to live by the motto “I’ll wait for the movie,” and there’s no change in sight. That said, I was more than a bit disappointed when I searched through the catalog of classes and found no screenwriting program offered at the university. True, being an aspiring writer in 2009 is a bit like selling VCRs, but writing for film is still a growing market is a great safety net. As I started looking into the absence of screenwriting opportunities here, I realized my woes are part of a much bigger problem. Far beyond screenwriting, there’s an enormous gap in film studies at the university. The moving pictures simply aren’t getting the clout they deserve. Any of my fellow slackers who
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DIMARCO would rather watch movies than do actual work will surely have noticed while surfing Testudo that there is no film major. A few film classes exist, sure, but the program is broken into a handful of individual courses that are divided among a number of other departments, such as English, comparative literature and history. There’s certainly no obvious path for aspiring film students. It turns out that there actually was a film program at the university more than 15 years back, but caught between budget cuts and the claim
that keeping up with the cost of materials needed for teaching film production was simply too expensive, the major was dissolved and the courses were shifted to other departments. Since its dismantling, the film program seems to have had a number of lobbyists fighting for its return, but to date, none have succeeded in resurrecting the major. Now I understand that the almighty economy has cast its plague upon us all, and budget cuts are inevitable. As usual, the first departments to feel the burn will be the fine arts, but the fact that the university eagerly offers majors in literature, theater, art design and dance before spending money for teaching film seems a bit skewed to me. I have nothing against ballerinas and bassoonists, but if you had to choose a medium for art expression that is going to thrive in the near future,
film is the obvious choice. There is certainly a stigma surrounding film studies, and there are no doubt many who envision a “film studies program” as a gathering point for potheads and aimless geeks. But the truth is, there are plenty of brilliant individuals doing significant academic study through film. Nearby universities such as the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and American University both have film programs, and this university could easily join the pack with a little support. Is there a part of me that simply wants to get college credit for watching movies? Of course there is. But a bigger part of me simply wants to see credit given where it is due. Mike DiMarco is a junior English major. He can be reached at dimarcodbk@gmail.com.
Marijuana: Weeding out the federal government
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reedom lovers rejoiced in February when Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. promised the Drug Enforcement Administration would stop raiding small marijuana dispensaries in states where it was legal, as long as they followed state law. Sorry, Maryland is not one of those states yet. But even President Barack Obama’s greatest critics on the economy praised him for his new policy. The beneficiaries were likely ecstatic. Old people and sick people were happy because they could alleviate some of their worst pain without worrying about when their shopkeeper would get busted and their supply would disappear, sending prices higher. And college students were happy because it has got to be pretty easy for them to find a doctor to diagnose them with some fake disease so they could carelessly toke up. Should we hold Obama to his word that sick people and their pharmacists/dealers are now safe? What are
American citizens supposed to think if Obama goes back on what he said? And how should Maryland legislators weigh this development as they consider a bill to legalize medicinal marijuana? The answer came last week, and it wasn’t promising. The DEA shockingly raided a San Francisco cannabis club after promising the raids would stop. No arrests were made, but computers, marijuana plants and growing lamps were hauled off the property. The DEA won’t tell us why the club was raided, of course, only claiming it violated state law. Local governments said the club hadn’t even been on their radar screen, and were unsure why it was raided. Shouldn’t state and local governments be responsible for state and local laws? Matthew Miller, a spokesman at the Department of Justice, said that in fact, no new policy was in place. The department’s funds were simply redistributed. They were diverting money away from busting dispensaries to use to-
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ward other needs the DEA believes are more pressing. So what if we do legalize medical marijuana here in Maryland? Should we rejoice? No. In California, the DEA has had to make substantial investments to develop their presence on the West Coast. We’re so close to the department’s headquarters that that won’t even be an obstacle. Many people on the campus support a strong central government in order to deliver national programs such as universal health care. But issues like medicinal marijuana are precisely why I have always championed states’ rights. States are in the ideal position to
judge what’s best for the local populations. California determined marijuana is good medicine, and are considering legalizing it completely. Central planners don’t do well planning anything, so of course they’re not going to be good at planning the national drug policy. Thirty-three states have already improved their policies on medical marijuana, according to the Drug Policy Alliance Network, and 80 percent of Americans support the cause. Many state legislatures are trying to legalize it themselves. There are countless stories of how improving medical marijuana has helped people. Yet, the DEA is perfectly willing to undermine state governments for no explainable reason. So much for change we can believe in. Nathan Cohen is a junior economics and journalism major. He can be reached at cohendbk@gmail.com.
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MALCOLM HARRIS I’ve never been much of a politician. I’ve been obsessed with politics since I was in 7th grade, but I’ve never had the temperament to run for elected office. I tend to be loud and brash, I don’t have a lot of tact and I tend to say the truth when a lie or brush-off would be more strategic. Instead, I’ve focused my energy on organizing, on getting people to take active responsibility for what happens in their communities. I’m running for Student Government Association president with the Student Power Party not because I want to improve my resumé or hobnob with the governor, but because I think students need a new representative model. Student Power is the idea that students, as the majority on the campus, should have a real voice in university decisionmaking. I’m not content with a simply advisory SGA. Current SGA members have failed to make themselves heard on a number of issues. The administration keeps students in the dark about major decisions, and the SGA is content to wag their fingers and hold meetings. When it was leaked that the administration was planning on bulldozing the Hillock — the last wooded area on the campus — to house departments that would be moved to make room for a shopping center in East Campus, the SGA unanimously passed a resolution opposing it. But passing a resolution and banging a gavel doesn’t stop the bulldozers, and the administration’s plans for the Hillock are progressing. The SGA we envision would reach out to students by meeting them where they are. Holding a couple of office hours a week in the Student Involvement Suite in the Stamp Student Union does not count as reaching out to students. The SGA needs to be out knocking on students’ doors, getting us out to put pressure on the administration and improve our university. We’re running our campaign the way we want the SGA to work: door-todoor. The Student Power Party doesn’t have the deep pockets of other campaigns. We made our T-shirts with spray paint and we coded our website ourselves. We don’t have SGA experience because you can’t throw out the current SGA if you are the current SGA. What we do have is a bunch of people who believe in what we’re doing. We have tireless volunteers who aren’t running for office and don’t want appointed positions. What they want is a new model of student leadership and innovative policy ideas, and you can’t buy either of those. Instead of writing up some platitudes about sustainability or transparency, we had hours-long issue meetings during which all of us decided that to fix students’ problems we needed to fix the SGA’s problems first. I don’t believe that anyone always has the best ideas — and the SPP has taken good suggestions from wherever they come — but we know that no matter how good our opponents’ goals sound, they won’t be accomplished without a new organizational model. In terms of policy, we want things such as a comprehensive Good Samaritan policy because it’s never acceptable to compromise student safety. We want sweatshop-free Terp gear so students don’t have to choose between supporting our school and supporting a living wage for workers. We want open textbooks and a non-profit campus book exchange because education should never cost more than it has to. If you want to know more, go to our website (www.umdspp.com) and check out our platform; it’s all there in painstaking detail, without the bullshit. We’re not politicians, we’re organizers. We’re not suits, we’re students. If you want a new model for your SGA, if you think students can do better, vote for Student Power come Election Day. Malcolm Harris is one of four candidates running for Student Government Association president, and a former opinion columnist for The Diamondback. He can be reached at mpharris@umd.edu.
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Criticism has intensified recently WILLIAMS2, from Page 8 was not qualified for. The school’s athletics director told Williams to coach soccer for a year before they got somebody more qualified to fill the position. Six seasons and one school-record nine-win season later, Williams finally left his men’s soccer post, heading to Boston College, again as an assistant to Davis. “It kept me as a head coach,” Williams said. “I was making decisions like a head coach would make at a very young age, so when I finally got [a head coaching opportunity], at least I had experience as a head coach, even though it wasn’t basketball.” Williams began climbing the college coaching ranks, moving from American to Boston College to Ohio State, before he answered the cry for help from fledgling Maryland.
THE RECOVERY PROCESS June 13, 1989: Gary Williams became the seventh head coach in the history of Terrapin men’s basketball. After the Terps’ previous coach, Wade, violated NCAA rules when dealing with recruits, Williams was told his new team would face impending penalties — probably just a slap on the wrist. That slap turned out to be a smack, clench and pull. The program was effectively
crippled. While the Terps were preparing for an ACC Tournament game during Williams’ first season as head coach, they learned of the penalties. No postseason play for two seasons. No television coverage for one. “No Maryland,” is what that meant for potential recruits. The Terps finished the ACC season in second-to-last place the next two years, and Williams didn’t look like the savior many projected him to be. Though the Terps weren’t on television or in the NCAA Tournament, point-forward Walt “The Wizard” Williams was exciting enough that Gary Williams could wrangle together a quality 1992 freshman class. And, building on that success, the Terps pulled in decorated high school players Joe Smith and Keith Booth the next season. Smith scored 26 points in his first game, leading the Terps to an upset overtime victory over Georgetown. Finally, the wheels were turning. “That game really might have put the program back on the map nationally,” Booth said. “It was big thing in this area because Georgetown was known as the top team in the area for many years before that.” Smith and Booth’s freshman season (‘93-’94) ended in a Sweet 16 finish — Williams’ first NCAA Tournament appearance at the university. The next season, the Terps won 26 games — a school record at the time — but once again, they were ousted in the third round. In the following five seasons, players like Terrell Stokes, Rodney Elliot, Laron Profit, Obinna Ekezie and Steve Francis came and went. The Terps made the tournament each year, but never got past that vaunted Sweet 16. Skeptics began to view Williams as just an average coach who would never be able to make a serious title run.
SWEAT AND TEARS In his 20th season, Williams has faced off against the media this year on numerous occasions, defending his recruiting and team. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Williams is an indefatigable force on the sidelines. Throughout a game he will pace a country mile on the sideline, causing sweat to seep through his sport coat. And if
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his team is not playing flawlessly, he will embark on profanity-laced tirades directed towards his players and assistant coaches. This rash routine has chafed at some of his past players, namely John Gilchirst, who left the Terps after a chaotic junior year only to go unselected in the NBA Draft. But some players, such as current guard Greivis Vasquez, embrace the tough love that Williams doles out. “He’s a tough guy, who never gives up and always tries hard,” Vasquez said. “It’s just a privilege to play for him. ... I mean, if I got to go to war with him, I would die for him before he dies.” On at least one occasion, before either Gilchrist or Vasquez had ever played for the Terps, Williams’ toughguy approach worked to perfection: In 2001, the Terps finally broke through the Sweet 16, making it all the way to the Final Four, where they lost to Duke. The following season, they earned a No. 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament, and treated that honor with too much relaxation. Two days before the opening round game, Williams kicked his team off the practice court in response to what he thought was poor effort. “It showed us that, no matter who you are, he’s still in charge,” said Byron Mouton, the starting small forward on
the team. Guard Juan Dixon begged Williams to give the team another shot at practice and told his teammates to refocus. The Terps then won six straight games to become National Champions. Williams stood atop a ladder with the championship game net in his right hand and an uncharacteristically joyous smile plastered to his face, as a tear barely crept out of his eye. “It was the best moment of my professional career,” he said.
SEVEN YEARS A.C. (AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP) Since the National Championship in 2002, the Terps have been on a much-publicized decline. But Williams, who has won a school record 418 games for the university, is dogged in defending his program, pointing out the merits amid the more talked about faults. In four out of the seven seasons A.C., the Terps have made the NCAA Tournament, but they have not been a serious contender to return to the Final Four. The turnover rate of assistant coaches has been frenetic, thus hampering the team’s recruiting efforts. Additionally, brokers from the AAU scene do not believe Williams has adjusted to the increasingly complicated recruiting world. Going into this past season, the Terps were projected to be a bottom-tier team in the ACC.
Williams has been lauded for his coaching job this season, as he has exceeded preseason expectations. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
And with fan expectations at an astronomical level and the Terps in the midst of a rut, Williams’ status as head coach was called into question this year. In response, Athletics Director Deborah Yow, who is widely believed to have a tepid relationship with Williams, gave her coach a vote of confidence. In meeting certain performance-based benchmarks in his contract (reaching the NCAA Tournament and having players sustain a fixed number of credit hours), Williams’ contract, which reportedly averages roughly $2 million per year, will more than likely extend through the 2012-13 season. “Health is the biggest thing, and I feel very healthy,” the 64-year-old Williams said
before the season. “I think you have to look at this as not a job but something you like to do. You make money as a coach now, but when I started, I made $6,900.” As for his legacy, despite all that Williams has accomplished, the next few years might help decide what people ultimately remember about the polarizing Terps coach. “I want to be remembered that we took a program that was probably the lowest of any program, that was supposed to be a decent basketball program, and made it a national champion,” Williams said. “We had to leapfrog about 200 schools to win a national championship and I’m proud of that.” mseligdbk@gmail.com
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Williams worked his way up Division I WILLIAMS, from Page 1 this was the toughest season mentally, the self-assured coach was quick to debunk that notion. “No,” Williams said. “My first three years here, due to NCAA sanctions, we couldn’t be on TV or play in the postseason. That was the toughest.” Amid constant racket surrounding the program this season, Williams led the Terps to the NCAA Tournament for the 13th time in his 20 years as coach of the Terrapins. Few expected the tournament run, which ended in the second round against Memphis. But even fewer may have expected Williams’ 19 years that preceded it, given the circumstances by which he entered his current outpost.
TERP TURMOIL June 19, 1986: Len Bias is pronounced dead at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale after a heart attack caused by cocaine use. “I remember sitting in my office and a friend of mine
from [the university] called me, and I was like, ‘Get out of here,’” Williams said. “It was unbelievable.” After successful stints as head coach at American University and Boston College, Williams had just accepted a new job during that offseason to coach Ohio State. As he sat in his new office, he watched his alma mater fall apart. Within months, Lefty Driesell, the Terps’ coach for 17 seasons, was forced to resign. Williams would have loved to have helped; he just couldn’t. “I took the Ohio State job, and people asked me if I’d leave Ohio State to go to Maryland once Lefty left,” Williams said. “I said, ‘I can’t do that. I just took this job three months ago.’ So I assumed the next coach would be there another 20 years, and I’d never get the chance to coach them.” As the Terps struggled under new coach Bob Wade, the first black head coach in the ACC, 400 miles away, in Columbus, Ohio, Williams was thriving. He immediately led the Buckeyes to a 20-win sea-
“I assumed the next coach would be [at Maryland] another 20 years, and I’d never get the chance to coach them.” GARY WILLIAMS MEN’S BASKETBALL COACH
son and a second round appearance while stockpiling strong recruiting classes for the future. Meanwhile, after three seasons at this university, Wade resigned from his job after the NCAA began investigating recruiting violations. According to a 1989 article in The Washington Post, the Terps sent out advertisements for a new coach, listing the following three qualifications: Bachelor’s degree required, with a master’s degree preferred. Minimum of five years coaching experience preferred. Commitment to the academic and athletic development of student athletes required. This time, Williams couldn’t pass up the opportunity.
BASKETBALL IN BLOOD
As a player with the Terps, Williams was a scrappy point guard known for defense and passing. COURTESY OF THE TERRAPIN
As a kid growing up in Collingswood, N.J., Williams frequented local blacktops with his friend Stan Pawlak so the two could inhale the game of basketball. Pawlak, who eventually played in the Continental Basketball Association, and Williams, a feisty young point guard, formed a formidable duo that dominated the other local kids. So when competition was lagging behind, they found another place to play just a few miles away. “We would hitchhike into the city of Camden all the time so we could play against better players,” Pawlak said. “During the summertime, we would just stick out our thumbs, find a ride and go down and play.” When it was time to decide on a college, Williams wanted to attend Pennsylvania — a short drive (or hitchhike)
Williams, shown here at Lafayette College with his mentor Tom Davis, coached soccer for the Leopards, as well as basketball, as a way into a paid position. COURTESY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
away, and a place where he could play with his friend Pawlak against strong Big 5 basketball competition. But without the grades to get into the Ivy League school, Williams contemplated going to Clemson, Pittsburgh, Providence and Maryland. His recruiting visit to this university — during an NCAA Tournament Eastern Regional final held at Cole Field House — removed all doubt. “I walked in; it was the first time I had ever seen a gym that big,” Williams said. “You know how you could walk in the street level there at Cole and look down? I see 14,000 people there, and I said, ‘That’s where I want to go.’ That’s why I came to Maryland.” As a pass-first point guard, Williams averaged 4.5 points in 74 games at this university, but showed a sense for the game that belied his average play. “Gary Williams was very keen and well minded,” Williams’ coach Bud Millikan said. “He always knew what we were trying to do. He was born to be a coach.” After his eligibility expired, Williams spent a fifth year completing an undergrad
Williams fondly remembers his days at Boston College, his first marquee job. COURTESY OF BOSTON COLLEGE ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
degree in marketing and acting as an assistant coach under Tom Davis for the school’s freshman team. Williams returned home to coach high school basketball, and in his first season as the head man at Woodrow Wilson, his team went 27-0. Then he followed his men-
tor, Davis, to Lafayette College to become an assistant coach. Problem was, the only money left was the salary for a vacant soccer coaching position. So at age 25, a naïve Williams began coaching soccer — a position he admittedly
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