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Walking the walk BSOS students unite with a chant of "Stop the BS with BSOS" toward the end of the BSOS walkout and rally on the mall.
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University officials pulled out of a planned screening of a triple-X porno at the Hoff Theater this weekend after state legislators threatened to cut off tens of millions in funding. Senators yesterday morning fast-tracked an amendment to the budget that would have denied state dollars to any college or university that offered hardcore pornography for public viewing, PIRATES II a move which some say treads on protected free speech. Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement called off the film, Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, after the debate erupted in Annapolis. The flick is the most expensive
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Hundreds of students skipped class yesterday, but this time, they had a cause. Sophomore English major April Police officers watched from the Coughlin signs a petition after the steps of the Main Administration BSOS walkout. Building as students in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences on McKeldin Mall, chanted, “Stop the demanded more attention from BS in BSOS,” waved signs and gave administrators who they say have neg- speeches supporting dramatic fundlected to address the resource needs ing increases and improvements for the university’s largest college. of the college. The students, who planned to walk out of class at noon to join the protest Please See BSOS, Page 2
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Junior government and politics major David Zuckerman speaks with Fox 5 News after the BSOS walk-out.
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As candidates defend platforms, divisions show Student Q-and-A portion of SGA debate nearly eliminated due to time shortage Senior staff writer
Definite divisions between the four parties in this year’s SGA elections emerged last night as determined parties defended their platforms against a slew of questions from the elections board. But students almost didn’t get a chance to raise their concerns or ask the candidates to account for their platforms because of what the Student Government Association’s elections board called a lack of time. The debate was slated to last for an hour, but when time ran out before students were given a chance to speak, CONNECT presidential
candidate Wanika Fisher and Student Power Party presidential candidate Malcolm Harris refused to leave until students had a chance to question the candidates. “This is ridiculous,” Harris said. “They have it completely backwards. Student questions are the most important.”
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If it weren’t for DOTS, Nick Mongelluzzo might not be running for the SGA presidency right now. “In high school, I was never in the student government,” said the sophomore government and politics major. “I didn’t really have an interest in lobbying or government
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Uniform costs stack up in city budget Ryan warns city council to not cut from clothing budget; Cook seeks reductions BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer
College Park City Council members need to keep their scissors away from uniforms as they look for ways to make cuts to the city budget tomorrow, officials said. Some city departments have requested thousands of dollars in uniforms for their employees — coming to as much as $536 per person — but that spending is necessary, the department heads said. “Would you want to get a park-
ing ticket from a guy in a Tshirt?” Public Services Director Bob Ryan said. “Parking officers and code officers wear distinguishable clothing so people know they’re for real.” And what if the distinguishable clothing for someone to write parking tickets costs $500 a year? “That kind of is what it is to keep them in clean uniforms that keep them respectful of our public,” Ryan said. But District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook, who has committed herself to cutting from the budg-
et, said she thought there was a way to get the uniforms for less. The city rents the uniforms in a contract that includes laundry service, Ryan said. Parking officers must “lean across dirty cars” to tuck tickets under windshield wipers and get on the ground to chalk tires and boot wheels, he added. But Cook said she doesn’t “see a problem in people washing their own clothes,” and that the city needs to reevaluate the contract to be more economical. “We can give them their own uniforms” instead of renting
them , she said. Yet some city clothing requirements are deemed mandatory under a union contract, Director of Public Works Bob Stumpff said, such as an annual $170-peremployee allowance for steeltoed “safety shoes.” The cost of the uniforms for the department’s sanitation employees may also seem steep at $364 per year per employee, Stumpff said, but that includes multiple sets of clothes per worker and free laundry. And there are some things that get on clothes that city employees
BSOS, from Page 1 The university receives more than $60 million in tuition — excluding student fees — from BSOS students, yet the BSOS state-supported budget is only $34 million. This gap has led to massive overcrowding in the college’s classes and majors — the average size of BSOS class is 63 students, compared to 36 students for an average university course. “This forces the administration to open up discussion,” said Matt Lyons, the speaker of the Student Government Association legislature. “That’s what we are going to do. This isn’t the end; it’s just the starting point.” Students at the event said they were frustrated with huge classes, difficulty getting letters of recommendation from tenure-track faculty, long waitlists and what they generally feel is unfair treatment of the college by the administration. “It’s time to show them that they are going to be held accountable for what they promised us,” said
senior government and politics major and university Senator David Zuckerman. Students were hopeful the protest would make a difference. Brittany Simpson, a sophomore criminology and criminal justice major, said she was tired of huge classes and trouble getting tenuretrack faculty to write her letters of recommendation. “I think it will make a difference,” Simpson said. “When the university sees the reaction of so many students, they will have to do something with it.” “If the administration is able to realize that we do care about our education, that’s enough,” added Carly Delavigne, a sophomore psychology major. Despite students’ optimistic outlook, neither Provost Nariman Farvardin, who could reallocate funds to the college, nor university President Dan Mote attended the event. Robert Schwab, the interim dean of BSOS, said the provost was aware of students’ concerns and the problems the college has
SGA Speaker of the Legislature Matt Lyons leads a chant of “Stop the B.S. with BSOS” during the BSOS walkout on McKeldin Mall yesterday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
added, saying he supported the protest and hoped it would make the rest of the campus community more aware of the problem. The protest drew significant support from BSOS faculty members, who looked on while clapping and even chanting along with students.
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Eliel Talo, a junior government and politics major, adding he wouldn’t have attended the viewing himself. “I don’t think showing a porn should apply to taking away funding because it’s a free speech issue.” Others deemed the film inappropriate and said it would hurt the university’s reputation. “[College Park] is the biggest university in the state,” said Aaron Johnson, a freshman economics major. “The state should have a say in what we show. It doesn’t look good for the college, and my parents wouldn’t approve of it.” Adam Kissel, a director at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said that obscenity is a gray area under First Amendment protections and noted that
porn film ever made, and the event was to feature a talk from Planned Parenthood on safe sex practices. “We thought it was an opportunity to have a dialogue revolving around pornography as a film genre and promote student discussion,” Clement said. “But the General Assembly certainly expressed their disagreement.” Although the movie was given to the university for free, meaning that no state or student dollars were used specifically to plan or fund the screening, it would be wrong to assume that the General Assembly has no jurisdiction over what state buildings are used for, Clement said. Sen. Andy Harris (R-Baltimore and Harford) introduced the amendment, which called for all state funding to be pulled from
state colleges and universities that screened triple-X adult films, with an exception for pornography films viewed as part of an academic course. Senate President Mike Miller supported the amendment and said it would have passed the Senate if the university hadn’t called off the film before it came to a vote. “I don’t believe in censorship, but at the same time, I don’t think that film was appropriate in a state building on a state campus,” Miller said. “Yes, the amendment was overkill, but at the same time, it would have passed because it forced legislators to either vote for hardcore pornography or university funding.” Miller said “cooler heads prevailed” in the debate in Annapolis shortly after they received word that the university had backed down, and the amendment was withdrawn.
The Hoff Theater student planning committee unanimously approved the screening, which was scheduled for midnight Saturday at a cost of $4 per ticket. Saturday’s event would not have been the first time pornography was shown at the Hoff Theatre. In 2007, the university hosted “Shakespeare Undressed,” an event that looked at the great playwright’s impact on the adult film industry. Four years ago, the 1972 classic Deep Throat was screened. Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery), a constitutional scholar and former editor of the Harvard Law Review, vehemently opposed
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“don’t want in their home washing machines,” he said. Also, officials noted, they frequently don’t spend all the clothing money the budget allocates them. Some money is set aside for unplanned replacements, they said. In addition to trimming uniform costs, Cook said she is also looking for the council to reduce city spending on travel, membership dues to various organizations and subscriptions to municipal publications. holtdbk@gmail.com
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been facing. “I’ve been talking to the provost for quite a while,” Schwab said. “He is aware of the problem. I am optimistic that we will make progress in the coming year.” “It’s great our students feel this deeply about their education,” he
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state involvement in the issue. “The proposed amendment was a direct affront to freedom of speech,” he said. “The Supreme Court has been clear that student groups enjoy First Amendment rights. It’s not the movie I would have chosen for myself or my kids, but that’s the beauty of the First Amendment: People who want to see it can go, and those who don’t want to don’t have to.” Students offered mixed reactions to the film screening, but most agreed that state involvement in the matter would be an affront to freedom of expression. “We are all of legal age,” said
“Protesting is as American as the Revolutionary War,” said Mark Lichbach, the chairman of the government and politics department. Faculty members were allowed to decide how to handle students who walked out of class. Some professors simply canceled class, while others worked protesting into their lectures or simply encouraged students to leave. Simpson said her professor skeptically asked where she was going when she got up to leave during the middle of a class. But after she explained she was going to the walkout, her professor was thrilled. “Go ahead, get out of here,” the professor said. Lyons, who handed roughly 1,500 petitions to associate Provost Mahlon Straszheim toward the end of the protest, said faculty support was great. “It shows how bad the problem is,” Lyons said. “It’s the entire college that is suffering.” taustindbk@gmail.com
laws against it are already on the books throughout the United States. It is a dangerous road when the state can decide what content is acceptable on a college campus, especially with regard to student organizations, he said. “It was wrong for legislators to threaten the university over the showing of the film, and it was wrong for the university to capitulate,” he said. Raskin said the whole debate was ridiculous. “The amendment succeeded in getting a lot of free attention and publicity for a pornographic movie,” he said. “Now, presumably some private theater will pick up the slack and show the movie.” sticedbk@gmail.com
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MONGELLUZZO, from Page 1 directing the SGA committee that lobbies for the university in Annapolis, he decided he “had done as much as [he] could with government affairs.” “We [in the SGA] do have a lot of influence,” said Mongelluzzo, who also serves on the SGA’s Finance and Constitution and ByLaws committees, explaining his decision to run for president. “The one thing I didn’t see was results coming from that influence. I didn’t see things turning up on campus; I didn’t see things changing.” Mongelluzzo’s Unite UMD platform, which focuses on safety, advocacy and creating tangible improvements to the cam- Nick Mongelluzzo, SGA presidential candidate on the Unite UMD pus, is the narrowest in terms of ticket, explains the party's platform at the SGA elections debate last number of issues. He will be night. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK tackling five topics compared to the 10 in the ONE Party platform, the widest-ranging of the going to do what my job re- neighborhood watch program. Another major focus of the quires,” he said. “We want to go four. party is to more directly involve But Mongelluzzo said the dis- above and beyond.” The party’s emphasis on safe- students and political campus parity was due to the fact that certain topics, such as address- ty, always a hot-button issue at groups in governmental advocaing dining issues, are built into election time, is immediately ap- cy. “You ask a student, ‘Oh, what the job description of SGA presi- parent in the party’s 10-point does the SGA do with lobbying?’ plan to address the issue. dent. Some of the safety proposals They say, ‘Oh, Terp Pride Day, “There’s no reason to say I’m include extending the check- right?’ Well, that’s one very point hours at university en- small part of what we do,” said trances until 4:30 a.m.; offering Mongelluzzo, who said he is in first-aid and self-defense class- Annapolis at least three or four es to bus drivers; adding a safety times a week. To bridge that divide, Mongelcomponent to UNIV 100; creating a map of risky areas on the luzzo said either the director of campus; offering free self-de- governmental affairs or the fense classes to students; and president should appear in a the creation of a campuswide weekly or bi-weekly YouTube
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video detailing the organization’s advocacy efforts. He would add a lobbying component to the SGA website so students could sign up to go to Annapolis with the SGA and lobby. Mongelluzzo said he would also work to start construction projects, a process that he said is currently too dependent on the administration. The SGA did this early in the semester, funding a bus shelter outside Regents Drive Garage. “Instead of going and building a bus shelter, we’ll ask facilities ... to do it, and they’ll say it’s not possible because of funding or something like that, and then we’ll drop it,” Mongelluzzo said. “A bus shelter costs $5,000. [The SGA budget] has $1.4 million.” “At the end of the year, once you’ve done all your work, you need to be able to point to things and say this is what we did. ... I believe that we need to be able to show students not only where their money goes but why they are voting for people,” Mongelluzzo said. Senior mechanical engineering major Matt Bowen, who worked with Mongelluzzo on an elementary school education program, said Mongelluzzo is always trying to help others. “He never complains about [work],” Bowen said. “He takes on a lot of things. He probably didn’t have a ton of time [to work on the program], but he wanted to make a difference.” coxdbk@gmail.com
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friendly is a must, while the ONE Party advocated lowering lights in unused buildings at night and Unite UMD said it would continue to investigate composting campus waste. They also pledged to continue to fight for a post-tenure review policy and lobby on a more local level — the Student Power Party and Unite UMD both advocated pushing for a student to be elected to the College Park City Council. But in the end, the campaigns were able to draw distinct lines between their platforms and those of their competitors. “We need to distinctify ourselves from the rest of the pack,” Glickman said.
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efforts that will pay for themselves over time,” said Baker. The original worry with this approach was that, when an agency decreases its energy use, the next year’s state energy allocations shrink accordingly. Corry said the governor’s office recently turned this policy around to allow agencies to use energy savings to pay back debts accrued for energy-saving improvements. The project has a two-year construction window, Corry said, and will not interfere with classes in the affected buildings. “There might be interruptions with the mechanical improvements, but we’ll be doing everything while the buildings are occupied,” she said, referencing the more invasive upgrades to air conditioning units in the The Diner and the Computer and Space Sciences Building. Corry said the list of buildings in the second round of renovations has not been finalized.
but while Glickman and his party insisted they hoped to emulate this year’s SGA in the future, Mongelluzzo admitted they still have a long way to go. “You need experience, but when I’m in Annapolis, I lobby delegates and senators,” Mongelluzzo said. “There’s a big difference between working for Annapolis and making Annapolis work for you.” All of the parties agreed that key issues, such as safety and sustainability, should be high on their list of priorities, though they disagreed on their execution — both the Student Power Party and independent senior vice presidential candidate Lakisha Ames said making campus more bike-
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“We need time for students,” Fisher said. “There’s no good reason why can’t we afford to have student voices heard.” The elections board eventually acquiesced and allowed four students to ask questions directly to the candidates. Throughout the debate, both presidential and vice presidential candidates were asked about an array of campus issues, such as sustainability, a post-tenure review policy, increasing student involvement, engaging public officials, overhauling CORE, making textbooks affordable and improving the student group finance process, as well as on the specifics of their respective
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esterday, more than 500 students walked out of their classes and met on Right now, student demand isn’t a factor in the way the administration distribMcKeldin Mall to protest the poor state of the College of Behavioral and utes resources. Though the provost should also consider a department’s Social Sciences. SGA shirts littered the crowd, but the rally wasn’t just research costs and service to the state when setting funding levels, student the usual faces — ordinary BSOS students, as well as students from interest deserves consideration. The problem has hit BSOS the hardest, but it other colleges, also attended. The turnout speaks to more than just effective touches every college at the university. The strategic plan calls for the university to rewrite the way it distributes state money, and when it does, it should organizing. It shows that the SGA has tapped into a real problem. While BSOS classes make up 19 percent of the university’s course offerings, the link funding in part to credit hours taught. Unfortunately, the SGA’s argument didn’t go so far. Speaker of the Legislature college only receives 9 percent of the university’s state funding. Its average class Matt Lyons, who organized the walkout, said he’s leaving it to size is nearly double the campus average. And while the college future students to recommend ways to address the university’s has grown 50 percent over the last 15 years, the college has only funding disparities. Lyons suggested that the provost’s new added three tenure-track positions. Obviously, this creates a less personal learning environment, but the effects of BSOS’ short- The SGA’s BSOS walkout mechanism for resource reallocation could help struggling colcomings spill beyond the classroom. At yesterday’s rally, one exposed a pressing issue leges like BSOS, but the system was designed to bolster thriving departments and to find short-term fixes. The SGA has identistudent said she graduated late because she couldn’t get into the and united students. fied a systemic problem that demands a systemic solution. When BSOS classes she needed to take. Another noted BSOS students two students shouted, “What are you going to do about this?” yesstruggle to get recommendation letters from tenured professors because the school has so few of them. Administrators are talking about raising the terday, the SGA should have been better armed with answers. Still, it’s not too late to propose long-term solutions. And while the SGA did not academic bar, but they’ve been making their largest college play the limbo. We credit the SGA not only for organizing the rally but also for exposing a address every nuance of university funding models in its walkout yesterday, it flaw in the way the university allocates state funding. While most SGA initia- brought students together. In the past, it’s taken a far-reaching housing debacle or tives merely react to campus issues of the day — the Purple Line, the tuition a display of racism to organize students en masse. In those cases, the issues mobifreeze, the strategic plan — in this case, the organization is setting the agenda. lized students — yesterday, the SGA did.
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ver been left by a bus because there were too many people on it? How about never being picked up at all? If you walk or drive to your classes, this may seem like a foreign concept, but I’m sure that any University Courtyards resident reading this column is nodding because we all know those acts are as common as breathing. The obvious solution to this problem is simply to increase the number of buses that run and the frequency at which they run. For everyone else who doesn’t live at Courtyards, the buses run every eight minutes up until 11 a.m., after which they start to run less frequently. It seems convenient at first, until you realize that elbowing is the best way to get a seat, personal space is non-existent and, depending on your driver and your proximity to that white line up front, you could be thrown through the windshield any morning now. If you’re a slacker like me who’s
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SOLOMON scheduled classes for 12 p.m. and 2 p.m., forget choices. You get left with an annoying ultimatum of unnecessarily arriving at school too early, being late or not getting there at all — at least, not through the shuttle. Some of those midday buses don’t even show. I once waited outside with a few other students for a 1:42 p.m. bus that never came. I gave up, drove to the campus and had to pay for parking, because the transportation fees already built into my student fees clearly aren’t sufficient. Some people don’t have that option and would have been left to walk, which is the last thing anyone should have to do in 30-
degree weather. In February, the Department of Transportation Services invested excess funds in a so-called green initiative. All that means to me is that they’ve found a new way to successfully swindle me out of money and put it toward carpools and bike paths. Funny that they mention paving new bike paths, because as it turns out, people hate riding their bikes in the rain and blistering cold. And as an alternative, they choose to ride the bus for those six of the nine months that we’re here. Then, the weirdest thing happens. There’s a large increase in people riding the bus, and because there aren’t enough buses and there is a low frequency at the most needed times, people get left behind. So kudos to DOTS for yet again conning the university into believing that our transportation needs would be met, and then propagating that message at lease signings so the university wouldn’t lose our business to more convenient, nonuniversity-affiliated housing.
Predictably, DOTS Director David Allen blamed the whole mess on money. While I realize the university isn’t made of gold, Allen still needs to take responsibility for effectively managing his shuttle fleet. In a response to accusations of noshow buses, Allen responded, “Mass transit is not something that is guaranteed. Buses break down and they get into accidents. That type of thing is a part of taking mass transit.” I’ll make sure to tell my professor that when I miss an exam because a Shuttle-UM bus forgot to make an appearance. As for getting left behind when a bus is too full, Allen called it “unacceptable” and highlighted a new purchase of four 40-foot buses, one of which will be serving Courtyards at the most congested stop times. It sounds good, but I’ll believe it when I see it. Fenan Solomon is a junior journalism and pre-pharmacy major. She can be reached at solomondbk@gmail.com.
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hen I think of the antiabortion movement, I think about people standing outside of the Supreme Court with red tape over their mouths or old men with scraggly hair skulking on street corners and holding posters depicting aborted babies in pools of blood. Do I think of the word sensible? No way. Fanatics? You betcha. For the millions who support a woman’s right to choose, the anti-abortion movement is one of the more frightening factions in the United States today. The first time I laid eyes on an antiabortion demonstration, I was a freshman. As I came around the corner of Jimenez Hall, I saw 3,500 little blue and pink flags planted across McKeldin Mall. My first thought was, could there really be that many gas lines running across the mall? When I realized that I was looking at a protest by Students for Life to symbolize the number of babies
aborted daily in the U.S., I grumbled something about organizing a game of capture the flag and moved on. The abortion issue is one that continues to divide Americans because of its complexities and gray areas. So it was with great anxiety that I decided to attend a Students for Life meeting last Monday. Tucked away in the basement of Jimenez Hall, I went into the meeting prepared to do battle with religious extremists who were likely to preach death and damnation to all baby killers (and provide some great material in the process). However, what I found surprised me. They started off by making red envelopes addressed to President Obama as part of a nationwide campaign to send 50 million empty red envelopes to the White House, each to symbolize the number of babies aborted since Roe v. Wade, according to organizers of the initiative. What theatrics, I thought. Yet as
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the meeting went on and I had a chance to listen to their opinions, what I found weren’t fanatics on the verge of bombing abortion clinics but intelligent students passionate about their cause. They didn’t think those who were against the anti-abortion movement were bad people, only misinformed. While my mind wasn’t changed about the issue itself, it was about the movement. Any group that invokes discussion through provocation risks its credibility and alienating those it wishes to convert, but we see it all too often today. Whether it be planting 3,500 flags representing
babies “killed” in a single day or erecting displays that compare abortion to the Holocaust and genocide, we should learn that the shock factor isn’t always the best route. Abortion is a complex issue, and like any complex issue, it doesn’t have a simple solution. A woman’s decision depends on various circumstances, and while it’s easy to side with one extreme or another, we shouldn’t pass judgment on strangers, and that goes for both sides. At a university this large, there is a wide range of opinions on many different issues, but it seems all too often we opt to close ourselves off to those who differ from us. We could all learn something by taking a minute to stop shouting, take a deep breath and listen. Justin Snow is a sophomore history major. He can be reached at snowdbk@gmail.com.
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NICK MONGELLUZZO This election is about leadership. Now, leadership is probably one of the most overused words in college life, so we have to think, “What does leadership mean to me?” When I think of leadership, I think of students sacrificing their own time and giving their own talents to causes that benefit those around them, regardless of their own well-being. I think of students giving up their spring breaks to help educate impoverished children in foreign countries. I think of students working in grassroots campaigns to keep tuition low or to lower textbook prices. I think of students fighting for what they believe in no matter where they are, not being satisfied with simply having voiced their opinions, not resting until they see change. This mentality is what motivated me to run for Student Government Association president. I saw problems that needed to be fixed, problems that students dealt with every day and had come to be taken for granted, problems that I knew could be fixed if only the right group of people were in place to fix them. When we set out to build a ticket, we knew we wanted to find leaders who were not going to be content with sitting in one SGA meeting after another without seeing things change. We wanted to find leaders from all across the campus, leaders with different views and stories, leaders who were diverse but united in their desire to improve the college experience for all. And our efforts paid off. In building one of the broadest, most far-reaching tickets with leaders from all across the campus, we built the most comprehensive safety plan proposed in years. We organized the strongest ticket in advocating student interests on the state and local levels — including not only the most experienced members from the SGA but also those from other groups, such as the College Democrats and the Maryland Public Interest Research Group. In organizing such a diverse group, we built a united front in order to better our campus. One of the questions we are commonly asked by students is “Can you do it? Can you do what you promise?” The answer is yes. Members of Unite UMD have a resounding history of getting things done, from organizing the SGA get-out-the-vote campaign during the historic presidential election of 2008 to orchestrating lobbying efforts to preserve higher education funding in Annapolis to leading the drive to reform the finance process to organizing charitable events to fight autism. The size of Unite UMD's platform is matched in length only by the list of our past accomplishments. The results of our work are clear — in November, the university had the highest voting turnout in campus history, and legislation that will reshape the textbook market is currently poised to pass through conference committee in the state legislature. We have the history of success not seen with anyone else. We know how things work, and we know what must be done to make things better. Unite UMD is the organization with the record of working on behalf of students and actually producing the results we all benefit from day in and day out. We will not make promises we cannot keep. We can only pledge to continue strengthening the community through hard work and dedicated leadership. Let us continue working on behalf of the student body. Let us keep working for you. Vote Unite UMD on April 7 and 8. Visit our website (uniteumd.com) for more information. Nick Mongelluzzo is one of four candidates running for Student Government Association president. He can be reached at nmongell@umd.edu
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — That which is good for you is likely to be good for a loved one as well, and you can therefore begin something new that provides something valuable to both of you.
Today is the day for putting it on the line where romance is concerned. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may question your own thoughts or feelings for a time, but eventually someone you trust will set you straight. You know what you’re doing, and how you’re feeling.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Keep the tempo bright, and don’t give those around you any time for critical thinking. The more everyone keeps moving, the more likely you are to receive praise.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You are both willing and able to do what is asked of you — and more. When you get going, the competition had better look out, for you are going to come on strong.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’ll have a chance to revisit an episode from your past that provided you with a great deal of meaning and satisfaction. You may realize that little has changed.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — What you share with that special someone is more important now than it may have been in the past. You’ll have a chance to reclaim something that was lost.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — That which transpires behind your back can be quite hazardous, so you’ll want to be sure that you know exactly what’s going on all around you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — What you think and what you know are two very different things, and you must be willing to dispense with any thoughts or opinions that are not based in fact.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Things may have started more slowly than usual, but you’ll have the chance to make changes that allow you to work at a more satisfying pace.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — The demands you have been making on someone else are not in any way unreasonable. You must simply wait until he or she is ready to comply. Be patient.
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CHRISTIAN FINNEGAN It’s been nearly three years since Chappelle’s Show went off the air, but we won’t forget Christian Finnegan’s memorable role in the hilarious “Mad Real World” sketch anytime soon. Playing Chad, the only white roommate on a faux season of The Real World, Finnegan took unrelenting abuse and embarrassment in about every way imaginable until finally getting booted from the show. Finnegan is bringing his stand-up routine to DC Improv this week with performances tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Tickets are $17 tonight and tomorrow and $15 on Sunday.
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Imagine seeing a movie shot entirely in your room. For frequent visitors to Ocean City, that’s exactly what The Graduates, screening free Sunday at Hoff Theater in the Stamp Student Union at 7 p.m., is like. At the very least, writer-director Ryan Gielen’s (Larry Keel: A Beautiful Thing) ode to a group of high schoolers’ senior week celebration should feel very familiar to anyone who has ever partaken in the fun (and trouble) Ocean City has to offer. And while the film may have its share of issues, it’s tough to not be impressed by the very professional look Gielen and his team achieved on a slim $95,000 budget. “Nobody is going to know when they see the finished product what the budget was,” Gielen said. The simple act of creating the film involved a lot of hustle from Gielen himself, who used an award-winning short film (Deleted Scenes) he co-wrote and directed to help convince investors to chip in with him for Graduates. “It’s still a very risky investment,” Gielen said. “But I had a track record.” The film itself is not perfect, but to Gielen’s credit, there is some evidence he had more in mind than a simple raunchy teen comedy. The movie begins with a crew of high school kids heading off for senior week, with most hoping to get laid. While that scenario is typical, what follows in the movie isn’t. “One of the things that I don’t like about a lot of coming-of-age comedies is that they’re really cynical,” Gielen said. “The
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On numerous levels, though, the maturity of Sideways is not consistently felt in Graduates. The core characters insist on a designated driver while drunk but later take Ecstasy for no particular reason. There is no acknowledgment of the dangers of the drugs and the film is also overtly homophobic, with casual usage of a certain three-letter gay slur and characters who recoil at male intimacy. While the film does feel real to an extent, certain problems hold it back. Practically all the female characters are sexobsessed, which detracts from the film’s believability. The only black characters in the film rap — enough said. And to make the lead character, Ben (Rob Bradford, One Life to Live), seem naive, he asks questions like, “Chicks have orgasms?” But the performances, like the visuals, are very professional and would fit right
into a studio picture. Most impressive is newcomer Nick Vergara as the strongwilled Mattie, whose rich voice and confident screen presence draw attention. But all the actors acquit themselves well and benefit from the script’s distinctive, if somewhat archetypal, personalities. Overall, while it’s a mostly pleasant and familiar film, Graduates is neither a sharp enough comedy nor a sufficiently deep drama to function in the dramedy vein so effectively mined by Sideways. That being said, Gielen gets major respect for simply pulling off a practically studioquality film with less than $100,000 in the first place. The Graduates is screening at Hoff Theater on Sunday at 7 p.m. Gielen and two of the film’s producers will stay for a Q&A after the screening. Admission is free. dan.benamor@gmail.com
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009 | SPORTS | THE DIAMONDBACK
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Frese must replace seniors RECAP, from Page 8
Attackman Travis Reed and the Terps fell in seven overtimes last weekend but hope to pick things up against Navy. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps have lost four of last five vs. Mids NAVY, from Page 8 For the first time this season, the Monday film session included no tape from the previous weekend. And that’s not just because it would have taken too long. “We’re not gonna go back,” Cottle said. “We’re not gonna watch the what could have been or should have been or might have been. We put our headlights, our high beams, on Navy, and that’s how we have to approach it this week.” Instead, the No. 8 Terps (6-3, 2-1 ACC) will just take the field. In the minds of the players, there’s nothing else to do. Getting caught up in losses doesn’t bode well for the future. Maybe that’s why the mood was so upbeat when the players returned to work. “We came out, Monday practice, hootin’ and hollerin’, ready to go for Friday,” goalie Brian Phipps said. “We put [the loss] behind us, and we’re ready to go.” It helped that the Terps had a short week. One less day to practice than a normal week has meant they needed appropriate focus from the get-go. Navy has won four of the last five meetings between the teams, including a 5-4 win at Byrd Stadium last season. The Terps know today could be trouble if they aren’t ready to play. “It was good for everyone to get back out there and loosen up their legs and understand that we don’t have a lot time before we have to play Navy on Friday night,” attackman Will Yeatman
said. “You can’t harp over a loss like that. You’ve got to move on.” Still, there are aspects of last Saturday’s match that the team has taken to heart. Cottle said he thought the Terps gave their gutsiest performance of the season in Charlottesville, Va. It will be essential to carry that toughness and effort to Annapolis, given the rugged, defensive-minded opponent. And players seem inspired by the battle with the Cavaliers, one of two unbeaten teams left in the nation. Moving on is important, but there was a lot to take away, as well. “Confidence,” Phipps said. “We can play with the No. 1 team in the country. We can play with anyone from now on. We played hard for as many minutes as we did, so a regular game we can play that much harder.” Understanding this, Cottle said he doesn’t mind if players take their focus off Navy long enough to consider those lessons learned. With some time to reflect, the game doesn’t need to be forgotten or remembered — just put in perspective. “We were emotionally attached to that game [against Virginia],” Cottle said. “So when you invest a lot, it always hurts. There’s a pain, a sting, from losing a game like that.” “But if we can take this and help us to propel us ... hopefully we can start to feel like we’re turning a corner,” Cottle said. mkatzdbk@gmail.com
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losses of Laura Harper and Crystal Langhorne, the program’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder, and a drop off in wins wouldn’t have been surprising. But in late October, at the team’s media day, Coleman made her own expectations loud and clear. She wasn’t afraid to lay out exactly what she and Toliver wanted to accomplish in their final season. “Kristi and I have the opportunity to do something that none of the seniors before us have done, and that’s win an ACC championship and win a national championship,” Coleman said. “There’s no doubt in my mind that we can win another national championship.” While the Terps didn’t ultimately reach that second national championship, losing to Louisville on Monday in the Elite Eight, it’s evident Coleman wasn’t bluffing. By winning the team’s first ACC regular season and ACC Tournament championships since 1989, earning their second-straight NCAA Tournament No. 1 seed and impressing observers with their high-scoring, attractive style of play, this year’s Terp team proved its worth. Unfortunately for Coleman and Toliver, they couldn’t get one last crack at another national crown. “The media didn’t have those expectations for us,” Coleman said after Monday’s loss. “In our locker room, we did. We knew we could make it to the Final Four, and we fell short. But you know, we accomplished a lot of great things. I wouldn’t have rather spent my senior season with a better group of girls or coaching staff as I did this year.” After losing their first game of the season at TCU and suffering a 29-point loss at Pittsburgh in December, concerns began sprouting up around the Terps. But Frese made it a point to be patient while her team — full of young players such as center Lynetta Kizer, forward Dee Liles, guard Marah Strickland and guard Anjale Barrett — built chemistry. After blowing a 13-point lead at Virginia on Jan. 30, the Terps were 16-4 overall and 4-2 in the ACC, still trying to find the right combinations to fulfill their obvious potential. Just three days later at Florida State, the team sitting in first place in the ACC with a 6-0 record at the time, Toliver provided the moment that ignited the Terps down the stretch. Trailing by two against the Semi-
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Brenda Frese’s Terps fell one game short of the Final Four for the second straight year, despite winning the program’s first ACC title in 20 years. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
noles, the program’s all-time third highest leading scorer and all-time leader in assists hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer. The stage was set. Toliver and Coleman were unstoppable for the rest of the ACC schedule, and the younger players began to show flashes of their ability as the Terps won their next 15 consecutive games, which included three games in three days at the ACC Tournament. Toliver, the ACC Player of the Year and a First-Team All American, averaged 18.4 points and 4.8 assists. Coleman, the ACC Tournament MVP and a Second-Team All American, averaged 18.1 points and 8.6 rebounds. But as the NCAA Tournament wore on, the Terps’ considerable momentum began to dissolve. In their narrow Sweet 16 win against Vanderbilt, the Terps needed every bit of Coleman’s school-record 42 points to prevail. When neither Coleman nor Toliver could repeat that performance on Monday against the Cardinals, the Terps fell without much resistance, 77-60. “Obviously, we both had great careers here, we’re both very happy to have played with one another,” Toliver said. “But it’s just really unfortunate that we had to go out like this. It means a lot to have our team get to back-toback Elite Eights. I told the freshmen before the game, the Elite Eight game is the toughest game to play in the tour-
nament, and it just showed again.” Coleman and Toliver, who are projected to be top 10 picks in the upcoming WNBA Draft, will leave a huge hole in the Terps’ lineup next season. The duo was a constant storyline this season. They led the Terps in each of their 31 wins and struggled in their five losses. Frese spoke repeatedly about their value to the program, especially when talking to the Comcast Center crowd on Senior Night, when their numbers 20 and 25 were honored in the rafters. Next season, Frese and the Terps will have to figure out a way to sustain the program’s success of the last four years without them. Kizer, Liles and Strickland will all play big roles. Barrett will most likely replace Toliver at the point. Redshirt freshman Kim Rodgers, who recovered nicely after a knee injury forced her to sit out her freshman season, will figure heavily into next year’s plans. As will incoming freshman Dara Taylor, a McDonald’s All-American and elite point guard prospect. With Coleman and Toliver gone, the expectations for the first season of the new era of Terps’ women’s basketball will definitely be lower. But if the team learned any lesson from Coleman’s thought process before this season, they might exceed those predictions again. akrautdbk@gmail.com
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THE DIAMONDBACK | FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009
Arizona guard commits to Terps
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The men’s basketball team has signed Terrell Stoglin, a 6foot-1 guard from Tucson, Ariz., for their 2010 recruiting class. Read about it on TerrapinTrail.com. Baseball and softball are both headed to Virginia this weekend for three-game series while gymnastics competes in the NCAA regionals and both tennis teams head south.
No. 2 Terps eager to get back to playing lacrosse
THE GAME AFTER Men’s lax facing Navy after historic loss last weekend
BY KATE YANCHULIS Staff writer
For the first time in a month, the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team had a reprieve from midweek games, enjoying much-deserved rest and relaxation after a grueling stretch of seven games in 18 days. But after just four days’ rest, players are itching to get back out on the field again. According to the No. 2 Terps (11-0), relaxation is overrated. “We’re pretty fired up right now,” said midfielder Brittany Jones, coming off a career-high six-goal performance against No. 16 Stanford last Sunday. “We’re excited. We just want to have a good game and keep up our intensity going into the weekend.” Terps vs. Penn State The Terps play No. 18 Where: Columbus, Ohio Penn State (5When: Today, 5 p.m. 4) this afternoon at 5 in the TV/Radio: None opening game of the ACC/ALC Challenge at Ohio State and will face host No. 14 Ohio State (9-1) on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. They will not face the other ACC team at the event, No. 5 North Carolina. The Buckeyes and Nittany Lions will be the eighth and ninth top-20 teams the Terps have faced this season. “That’s kind of how our schedule’s been all season,” coach Cathy Reese said. “I feel like just game after game, it’s always very competitive.” But despite the caliber of their opponents, the Terps will not check their excitement. Instead, it makes them more eager for the games. “It’s always a fun weekend,” Reese said. “We always have a good time with these other teams because we’re all competitive.” The Terps want to avoid a match like they had against Penn State at last year’s ACC/ALC Challenge. The unranked Lions squad forced the No. 3 Terps into triple overtime before the Terps escaped with a 12-11 victory. This season, Penn State has no top-20 wins thus far. Leading scorer Karri Ellen Johnson, the ACC Offensive Player of the Week, will lead the No. 7 scoring offense in the country against Penn State goalie Stephanie Ellis, the ALC Defensive Player of the Week, and the Lions’ No. 6 scoring defense. “We know exactly what’s expected; we know how well we can play together,” defender Karissa Taylor said. “Now we just want to step up and actually do it.” Now, finally, the preparation is done, and the Terps get to take the field again. “We’re ready,” goalie Brittany Dipper said. “It’s a long trip, but we’re definitely ready to go.” kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com
BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer
Midfielder Dan Groot and the rest of the Terps face Navy almost a week after losing the longest game ever. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
Monday’s practice was at its regular 2:30 p.m. time slot, but by 2:15 p.m., the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team was out on the field, stretching. Such has been the mindset in the aftermath of one of the most draining losses in the history of lacrosse — a seven-overtime
defeat at Virginia. A looming showdown at No. 14 Navy (7-3) tonight under the lights leaves no time to think about the longest game in Division I history. Forgetting that contest might prove tougher than playing in it. With that in mind, coach Dave Cottle wasted no time starting the process. “On the field right after the game [against Virginia], we immediately talked about Navy,
Terps vs. Navy Where: Annapolis When: Tonight, 7 p.m. TV: CBS College Sports Network ’cause we were gonna talk about Navy no matter what,” Cottle said. “And on the bus, when we arrived, we talked about Navy.”
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TERRAPIN WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SEASON RECAP
The ups and downs BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer
When the Terrapin women’s basketball team started its season, there were two views on what exactly the expectations for coach Brenda Frese’s 2008-09 Terps should be. They were ranked No. 3 in the preseason coaches’ poll
The Terps’ women’s basketball team experienced a wide range of emotions this season. From their ACC Tournament win to their early NCAA Tournament exit, star seniors Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver were in the center of the spotlight. TOP: ADAM FRIED | CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: STEVEN OVERLY, JAMES B. HALE, JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
and predicted to finish just barely behind North Carolina in a highly-competitive ACC. The Terps also featured two All-American caliber talents in seniors Marissa Coleman and Kristi Toliver. Then again, the rest of the team was young and unproven. Add to that mix the
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