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Vigil to be U. Senate Samaritan policy scuttled of Student Conduct protocol held after Office preempts long-debated proposal sophomore died April 4

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Police say student jumped to death from I-95 overpass

After years of debate and months of deliberation, the university may be adopting a Good Samaritan or medical amnesty proposal — just not the one advocates had in mind.

A proposal written by a group of students and faculty has been dropped in favor of a new procedure

created by John Zacker, the director of the university’s office of student conduct. But student advocates of the original policy said Zacker’s protocol would be subject to change at the discretion of administrators and wouldn’t be strong enough to impact student behavior.

Zacker said more investigation

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For Vertigo, an unhappy ending

BY KYLE GOON Senior staff writer

State police are investigating the death of a university student who jumped from an overpass in Howard County and was struck by a tractor trailer April 4.

Witnesses told police sophomore Alexander Raymond Stewart, a 19-year old from Jessup, Md., was on the Vollmerhausen Road overpass above Interstate 95 around 11:30 p.m. when he climbed over a fence along the side of the overpass. Stewart then jumped down into oncoming traffic, according to a state police press release.

Stewart was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not yet identified the specific vehicle that struck him, but evidence suggests it was a tractor trailer.

Police have ruled the case a suicide.

Students have organized a ceremony in honor of Stewart, who was in the honors humanities program. The candlelight vigil will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. between Caroline and Wicomico halls, where students in the program are housed.

Loyal customers bemoan loss of independent store

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

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ast October, the owners of Vertigo Books issued an ultimatum: The store would close if its business did not improve.

Customers responded and sales picked up during the holiday season, but it was “not enough to dig us out of the hole we’re in financially and make us sustainable into the future,” said Bridget Warren, who co-owns the store with her husband.

The final announcement came Friday: Everything in the store is 20 percent off as Vertigo empties its inventory. It

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East Campus development allotted $5M by the state Opponents say project is too preliminary to fund

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A commander leaves home During his time as the head of District 1, Davis saw College Park crime rates drop

The state’s final capital budget includes $5 million to jump-start the university’s East Campus development project, angering some legislators and city council members who oppose giving state funds to a project that is still unsettled.

Legislators added the $5 million to pay for relocation costs relatively late in the session at the request of university officials. The funds will go to university departments that are being moved before the developers raze the 38-acre site. The project, located between Fraternity Row and Paint Branch Parkway, is expected to include stores, hotels, a movie theater and housing for graduate students.

But local officials said funding shouldn’t be given to a project where so many important details are still up in the air.

“At this point on East Campus, there is no agreement between the university and the developer, the city or the county,” said state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s), who represents College Park. “There isn’t really anything concrete to

The College Park City Council invited former District 1 Commander Lt. Col. Kevin Davis to its meeting last night to thank him for reducing crime in the city.

But Davis also wanted to thank the council.

“I owe a big debt of gratitude to the City of College Park and District 1,” Davis said in an affable and heartfelt tone of voice.

“We’ve come a long way.”

The meeting was the culmination of Davis’ three and a half years in charge of Prince George’s County Police District 1, which includes the city. His tenure saw the city’s

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Grappling with an unexpected death Friends remember sophomore for her fun-loving attitude

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Friends say they are finding ways to cope with the unexpected loss of Jessica Marie Cole and remember the sophomore family sciences major in a way she would have wanted.

“I keep telling people to just smile because that’s what she would have wanted you to do,” Cole’s god-sister Malia Eckart said.

Cole, 20, was found dead in her Hagerstown Hall dorm room Sunday. Police said the cause of death was suicide.

Those close to Cole say she loved her car — a blue Pontiac Sunfire.

She would drive it proudly around

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City council split on funding East Campus CAPITAL, from Page 1 be able to decide clearly whether taxpayers should be investing money.”

For now, the project is stalled because its developer, Foulger-Pratt, has been unable to secure loans to begin construction because of the economic downturn. It is unclear when they will be able to. The city will not be able to apply for tax increment financing to pay for projects of its own, including a luxury hotel, before the developer secures loans.

But administrators have said they are continuing to work to get financing and want to be able start construction as soon as they can.

“We have to build new facilities on the campus in order to move everybody off the East Campus site, and we need to do it soon,” said Ann Wylie, the university’s vice president for administrative affairs. “We really want to get started on this.”

While most city council members seem supportive of the project, some individual members are against it. District 4 City Councilwoman Mary Cook doesn’t feel the state should subsidize private development, she said.

“I oppose state funding for a private project,” Cook added. “I think if someone has a project they are enthusiastic about doing, that’s part of the cost of doing business.

“What is the city going to

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get from these public funds that are being spent? It’s everybody’s money that’s going into this,” she added.

Ross Stern, the university’s lobbyist, said language in the capital budget requires the university to get approval from the city council before spending any money.

Besides East Campus, the university largely got all the capital items on its wish list.

The General Assembly funded a new physical science complex and a new training center for the Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, both of which were laid out in the university’s fiveyear capital improvement plan. However, legislators again didn’t include money to help the university deal with a $600 million — and growing — repair backlog.

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Senators: Protocol a good first step PROTOCOL, from Page 1 would be needed to determine if the original proposal, which a group of students and faculty spent nearly three months crafting earlier this semester, was in line with the Board of Regents policy. But his new proposed protocol, officially entitled “Promoting Responsible Action in Medical Emergencies,” clearly is, he said.

Zacker revealed the changes yesterday at a Senate Executive Committee meeting and defended the protocol as the best the university could do, given time and legal constraints.

“We can pass this as an acceptable administrative practice, but not as an acceptable university policy,” Zacker said. “We’re nowhere near the point of proposing a policy that would face not only the University Senate, not only the university president, but the Board of Regents as well. We would be

doomed if we did that.”

Because a protocol gives guidance on how to implement existing policy rather than creating new policy, it is not subject to University Senate approval. But Zacker said bringing the proposal to the Senate for a vote will legitimize the university’s stance on the issue.

The protocol, which will be heard at next week’s Senate meeting, aims to mitigate student hesitation in alcohol-related medical emergencies when calling for help may put the students in danger of violating university policy.

According to the proposal, students who call 911 for themselves or on behalf of a fellow student will not face disciplinary charges under the Code of Student Conduct or Residence Hall Rules for either possession or consumption of alcohol, provided both caller and victim complete an “approved alcohol intervention program.”

But Brad Docherty, a longtime

advocate of the original policy who serves on the executive committee and chaired the Good Samaritan working group, said the protocol wouldn’t have the same effect.

Docherty expressed concern over the requirement of mandated completion of alcohol intervention programs for both the victim and the person who calls for help, which if ignored could result in alcohol use or possession charges or, depending on the circumstances, more severe sanctions.

“We don’t want any perception that there will be any hurdles you have to jump over to get rid of these sanctions,” Docherty said.

“I’m very uneasy about that language. Having charges deferred ... is very different than having no charges at all.”

The executive committee, the senate’s most powerful decided to pass the protocol proposal along to the Senate floor in a 7-2 vote. But because the protocol can be imple-

mented with or without senate approval, a senate vote would merely be symbolic.

“By having the senate vote on this, we are acknowledging it and showing that we support action on this issue,” former history professor and Senate Parliamentarian Marvin Breslow said.

“Preserving the dignity of human life is real important,” math professor Denny Gulick added. “It would be bad policy for us to not show our support of something — policy or protocol.”

Senate Chair Ken Holum said despite the heated debate in committee, he expects the Senate general body to support the protocol.

“I don’t see any downside to passing this protocol,” Holum said.

“If we passed a policy, the president may feel constrained and forced to veto it. But I don’t think there’s much chance the Senate or the president wouldn’t approve of this [protocol].”

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‘A policeman’s policeman’

Friends remember outgoing student

DAVIS, from Page 1 crime rate drop as he worked with residents and councilmembers to implement a community-focused approach to policing, which he had promised to do when he first took the job.

“My approach is going to be, tell me how I can partner with you in an environment that’s going to be a learning environment,” Davis told The Diamondback in November 2005, when he took over as commander. “We can all live together.”

And now, more than 40 months later, Davis feels he succeeded in completing his two main goals: reducing crime across the board and improving relations with the community.

“Building those relationships [with the community] is something that requires a lot of work,” he said. “I threw my heart and soul into it. I felt a special obligation to this district.”

Davis was born and raised in College Park, and his father, also a police officer, worked his whole career in District 1.

In September 2006, just 10 months after Davis was appointed, crime in College Park began to drop significantly in virtually every area, including robberies, assaults and auto theft.

“He’s done very incredible things for District 1,” said Kim Lugo, the head of District 1 Neighborhood Watch. “He gave 100 percent for neighborhood watch. He’s a policeman’s policeman. I’m hoping that the new commander will continue along the same direction.”

As part of his communitybuilding efforts, Davis gave Lugo an office in District 1 headquarters, a step previous commanders hadn’t taken.

Lugo said Davis’ accessibility did wonders for the relationship between residents and police.

University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said Davis was an important part of improving relations between the two departments and called him one of the hardest working and most dedicated men he’d ever met.

“Kevin was great at reaching out to the community,” Dillon said. “He was really the face of District 1.”

COLE, from Page 1 Senior animal science major Audrey Barker searches through the books at Vertigo during their closing sale. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

‘The only college town without a bookstore’ Maj. Dan Dusseau, the newly appointed commander of District 1, spoke to the city council. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook said the quick arrests in the recent rape of a student and the Christmas Eve assault at the Holy Redeemer Church serve as quintessential examples of what Davis has meant for the district.

“I think that he has been able to get his officers in the right place at the right time,” she said. “I think we can see that in that a couple really big crimes have been solved.”

Davis, who was promoted to deputy chief in charge of support services last week, also introduced the council to his replacement, Maj. Dan Dusseau.

Dusseau said it’s “both a blessing and a curse” to follow someone so successful, but that he is appreciative of the road Davis has paved for him.

“I see already that I’m stepping into a very solid foundation,” Dusseau said. “Right now, there’s a good plan. I believe in staying the course when there’s a good plan [in place].”

Davis says he’ll always have fond memories of his time in District 1 and repeated a few times that he’d only be stationed right down the road.

With a smile, he left the meeting with a few final words to friends and reflected on his time in a bittersweet manner.

“I’m proud of what I’ve done,” he said. “I’ll always root for District 1.” rhodesdbk@gmail.com

VERTIGO, from Page 1 will close at the end of next week.

Vertigo, which was founded 17 years ago in Washington and moved to the College Park Shopping Center in 2000, was the city’s only independent bookstore. Its loss, officials and customers say, symbolizes the struggles faced by locally owned businesses and by bookstores nationwide.

Bookstores across the country have also faced the problem of competing against big-box chains Borders and Barnes & Noble and against Amazon.com, the online giant. Since the early 1990s, the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. has fallen from more than 6,000 to about 2,200, according to the American Booksellers Association.

Vertigo had witnessed this trend first-hand. When the store originally opened in Washington, it was one of several small bookstores on its block. Most of them are now closed.

But Warren said it was Amazon, not the chains, that ultimately led to Vertigo’s final chapter. Fewer people were reading, she said, and those who did were shopping online.

“All the independent [bookstores] that are around now have survived Borders’ big expansion,” she said. “It’s Amazon that’s really hurt us.”

John Pease, a university sociology professor who lobbies for textbook reform, said many faculty members — especially in the English and women’s studies departments — liked to support Vertigo by having their stu-

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dents buy their books there.

Stewart said about 30 classes per semester picked up books from his store.

But even Pease said he prefers the convenience of ordering books online or getting them from libraries, and he likes to give his students the opportunity to buy their books used.

“Everyone’s buying books online, and the need to go to a bookstore to browse has greatly diminished,” Pease said.

But customers who were wandering around the store Saturday with stacks of books in their arms said shopping online just isn’t the same.

“I like to look at books. It’s worth it to me to drive to a store to look at a book,” said Marianne Rankin, of University Park, who said she met her husband in a bookstore and has been shopping at Vertigo since it opened. “I think real bookstores have a place.”

Customers said they have also appreciated the personal attention they’ve received from the Vertigo staff members, who learn their individual interests to provide recommendations.

They also liked the store’s big selection — 17,000 different titles as of Saturday, Stewart said — of locally written or otherwise unique books Vertigo has traditionally stocked instead of just a few big names.

“This will be the only college town without a bookstore,” said Luigi Boschetti, another longtime Vertigo loyalist.

But it’s easier for many people to support the idea of College Park having a small locally owned bookstore than for them

to actually spend their money at one, Warren said.

“Vertigo Books simply cannot survive only on good wishes and fond thoughts,” she and Stewart wrote on the store’s website in October.

The same is true of any locally owned business, Warren added.

If College Park residents aren’t going to support existing businesses, she said, new ones will be discouraged from moving in.

Stephanie Stullich, a College Park District 3 Councilwoman and regular Vertigo customer, said the bookstore’s closing highlights the need for the sort of “buy-local” campaign she has long been advocating.

“What we really need to do is encourage people to ask themselves: ‘If I save a dollar by buying online, is it worth it if it drives out the businesses I want?’” Stullich said.

It was a question she said she had to come to terms with herself, Stullich added.

“I used to think that Vertigo was a great business and still buy books at Amazon because it was so easy,” she said.

“Then I realized I was part of the problem, and I now make a conscious effort to always shop there.”

District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook agreed the city should promote the advantages of such businesses.

“I think what the owners and staff of Vertigo Books have been trying to tell us is that we need to be spending our dollars in College Park,” Cook said. holtdbk@gmail.com

driving skills” to Fortiz in her last will and testament. But she never could have imagined how soon that day might come.

Cole and Fortiz were the only two friends from their close group at Cambridge-South Dorchester High School to come to the university. Other friends scattered across other state institutions.

“She was a fun-loving, outgoing person,” said Kaitlin Follmer, a freshman at Towson University and a high school friend of Cole’s. “There was never a dull moment when we hung out.”

Kelsi Carter, a sophomore sociology major who was supposed to share an apartment with Cole next semester, agreed.

“She was tiny but she was so feisty,” she said. “I was looking forward to all the memories we were going to make next year in our apartment.”

Friends repeatedly said how much they were going to miss Cole’s great listening, pretty eyes, smile and contagious laugh.

Sophomore economics and German major Marissa Goldner noted that besides being fun to be around, Cole was always very motivated and financially independent, working 12-hour weeks at Tell-A-Terp in Annapolis Hall.

But she wasn’t always that way. Eckart said she used to tease Cole for changing her career goals every three months — first she wanted to be a lawyer, then she decided she’d rather work with children, and eventually decided she wanted to pursue a career as a marriage counselor.

“Her presence was so comforting,” Carter said.

Goldner, who added that the two would make fun of each other but always enjoyed laughing together, said Cole had a special capacity to get along with people despite their differences.

“I found her to be a warm, very special, supporting friend,” Goldner said. “She didn’t stick out in the crowd, but she was very special.”

Cole took a genuine interest in people’s lives, Goldner said, adding that friends would talk to Cole over the phone when they were apart during the summer months and other vacations.

Goldner said she would have never expected Cole’s death because she always appeared so happy.

“I felt like she was someone I would know forever,” Goldner said. “But if she was really happy, this wouldn’t have happened.”

One of Cole’s non-university friends is making red and black bracelets with Cole’s initials — J.M.C. — to sell to raise money for a memorial scholarship fund in Cole’s name.

Cole is survived by her adoptive parents Richard and Patricia Cole, her biological mother Lisa Creasen and three younger stepbrothers Kyle, Johnny and David who live in Cambridge with their parents.

The viewing and funeral will be on Friday at noon at the Cambridge Church of the Nazarene.

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t’s that time of year again: class registration. Some spend hours on Venus, Ou- of the key questions their class will address and how they will do so (which books will rUMD and Koofers preparing for registration, plotting out ideal schedules, be assigned, how many tests, how many papers and so on). Advanced expository backups and backups for their backups. Some take 10 minutes and blindly cast writing, for example, “will emphasize argument and the neglected part of rhetoric their lots, following their friends or choosing solely based on course titles. And dealing with arrangement.” Students will spend time “generating different plans for the same paper and discussing the consequences of committing to one version rather for some people, this ignorant leap of faith isn’t even a choice.

Say, for instance, that you’re trying to decide between taking ENGL 489R: The than another.” In courses with more than one section, professors post descriptions for Rhetoric of Grammar and ENGL 493: Advanced Expository Writing. No books are how they’ll teach their individual classes.

It doesn’t make sense that other departments aren’t supplying listed for either, and The Rhetoric of Grammar hasn’t recently similar information. Professors spend weeks developing curricula, been taught, so you can rule out asking friends. And definitely don’t so it shouldn’t be hard to take a half-hour to write up a course deturn to Testudo for answers. The course description for Advanced The university should scription. It makes even less sense that departments like English, Expository Writing says the obvious: The class will deal with “writwhich already have detailed course descriptions, don’t make them ing processes and documents most necessary for professional elaborate on Testudo’s readily available to every student by posting them on Testudo. writers.” The Rhetoric of Grammar doesn’t even have a course decourse descriptions.

Two years ago, the University Senate’s executive committee disscription.

If you happen to be an English major (or a course selection nerd), you may know cussed the paltry postings on Testudo, but the issue hasn’t progressed since. Senate that the English department posts detailed course listings on its website. But if you’re Chair Ken Holum said the issue might have fallen through the cracks. But as Associin a major such as government and politics, business or engineering, you’ll be lucky ate Provost Phyllis Peres put it, “if students are going to make good choices about to find even a one-sentence hint about that 400-level seminar you’re about to sign up courses based on personal interest, intellectual challenges and academic rigor ... we need to provide them some information to do this.” for.

Otherwise, we’ll just keep picking based on grade distributions. See you in BSCI The solution to the problem is simple. English has set a high standard for describing its classes. For every course, professors post a one- or two-paragraph explanation 103: The World of Biology (for non-science majors).

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Vertigo Books: With death, a new beginning

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hen people complain about College Park, they say this city lacks charm and character; that there’s nowhere to go except the bar; that Route 1 is soaked with chain stores. Did we forget that we have one of the suburban Washington’s most renowned local bookstores?

We do — at least until later this month, when Vertigo Books shuts down for good.

Founded in 1991, Vertigo’s original location in Dupont Circle was already a local institution when a landlord sent its owners, Todd Stewart and Bridget Warren, packing. Nine years ago, they relocated to College Park because it was close to where they lived and closer to their customers in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties, but even university professors warned them about coming here.

“We’d thought the area had changed enough,” said co-owner Warren in an interview. When they first visited College Park years earlier, she and Stewart didn’t believe the town began and ended with

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REED the bars. “There must be a side street where the coffeehouses and the galleries and the bookstores are,” Warren remembered thinking.

They made an attempt to reach out to the university, hoping to eke out a college town from the bar scene. There was a series of lectures in conjunction with the journalism school, scheduled in the afternoon rather than evenings so students would be more likely to attend. Events were announced with fliers and on the listservs for departments throughout the arts and humanities college.

Until this past fall, a handful of professors even ordered their books through

Vertigo, giving many students their first introduction to the store. But, Warren lamented, “growth dwindled” during the years. The Vertigo Books blog lays the blame on chain stores and Internet retailers such as Amazon for their demise, but ignorance played a part, as well. I’ll bet that if you asked 10 undergrads if they’d ever been to the independent bookstore two doors down from where Wawa used to be, nine will probably respond: “You mean the Book Exchange?”

Vertigo Books is the kind of place I’ve been writing about all year: a “third place” where people can meet and hang out; an intellectually oriented business that attracts other businesses seeking creative people; a unique experience to make College Park a real destination. I’m angry to see that such an awesome place could close. And I’m angrier still to know that I have lived within walking distance of this place for four years now but visited it exactly twice. I want to mourn the passing of Vertigo Books, but I realize by

not shopping there, I helped put the nails in the coffin.

But as the old adage says, “whenever God closes a door, he opens a window.”

Stewart and Warren are giving out coupons for other local businesses in the hope that if they couldn’t help remake College Park, someone else will. And in the meantime, they’re selling their entire stock of books and throwing a wake this Saturday for the death of Vertigo Books — in the Irish tradition, which is more a celebration of what happened than mourning what could have been.

And for us, the students who spend money on Route 1 and complain that there just isn’t enough here, Warren has a simple warning: “If you don’t support locally owned business, if you don’t support diversity of retail, this is what you get,” she said.

Dan Reed is a senior architecture and English major. He can be reached at reeddbk@gmail.com.

Demonstration: Say a little prayer, but make it your own

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n April 6, the University Senate voted 42-14 (with three abstentions) to abolish the twominute invocation at our commencement ceremony. The undergraduate student caucus unanimously decided to support that decision. On April 9, university President Dan Mote vetoed the decision in response to political pressure, mostly from outside the university community. This is the first time Mote has overturned a senate decision: I wonder why he chose this issue. I could understand him overturning a decision if the senate vote was very close, if the issue was one of immense importance to the continuation of the university’s standards of education or research, if some of the wording in the senate document was not legally admissible or any number of other legitimate reasons. However, political pressure (likely backlash from the porn controversy) isn’t a compelling reason, especially if most of it is not even

from the campus community.

I believe the official invocation cannot possibly encompass the diversity of religious and spiritual beliefs among the members of the university community.

We pride ourselves on the diversity of our campus. The fact that we have 14 chaplains from different religions is a great testament to the dedication of the university in creating an inclusive environment. But the current practice at commencement is that one of those 14 chaplains delivers a two-minute invocation — a benediction has not been part of the ceremony for a few years — and that a different chaplain does it each year, presumably on a 14-year cycle. But here’s the problem: Each year, the chaplain delivering the invocation represents a relatively small number of students who belong to that religion, and even as a group, the 14 do not represent the full diversity of beliefs among members of the community. If we really wanted to be in-

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ZLATIC clusive, we would give people the option to pray on their own with their campus congregation, or not at all.

Because we believe Mote’s decision was not made in the best interest of the campus community, undergraduate student senator Kevin Tervala and I ask that those students, faculty and staff who would like to express their disagreement with the decision join us May 4 on McKeldin Mall. Come prepared to showcase your own religious diversity in a supportive and inclusive environment. We will have a paper scroll and markers, and we encourage everyone to

write a prayer in the language that they would normally use, a message of support for our cause or a short statement about their religious or spiritual beliefs that would showcase the diversity of our campus. We will have white T-shirts and fabric paint at the event and at various events before then for students to use to express their religious diversity, and we hope everyone will wear their shirt to the event on the mall.

Finally, I want to say that this is not a protest against prayer, nor do we want to suggest that prayer does not have an important role in campus life. We simply believe that religious and spiritual beliefs are a personal matter and should be kept out of the official university commencement ceremony.

Lida Zlatic is a senior art history and classics major, and a member of the University Senate. She can be reached at zlaticdbk@gmail.com.

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MIKE SARZO “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” So reads the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Last week, the university faced two tests of principles inherent in the First Amendment. While the university didn’t strike out, it certainly didn’t hit majestic home runs in either case.

In the first case, a debate about pornography, university administrators canceled a planned showing of Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge at the Hoff Theater in Stamp Student Union after state Sen. Andy Harris (R-Baltimore and Harford) threatened to withhold funding for the university. Not to be shut down, the Student Power Party decided to show parts of the movie, coupled with a discussion about the film and its contents.

Much discussion has centered on perceived blackmail by Harris and whether the state should support showing hardcore pornography. But what should be discussed is the mission behind any institution of higher learning.

Obviously, facilitating learning by students from all majors and walks of life should be high on the list of priorities for a university. But the university should not merely be a place where students get theory crammed into their heads. It should be a place where people debate ideas, even unpopular ones. Many people remember their days at a university as being where they literally — and figuratively — grew up.

Shutting down an expression of speech because you find it abhorrent is an offense against the very tenets outlined in the First Amendment. The 14th Amendment, dubbed by some Constitutional scholars as the “second Bill of Rights,” extends many restrictions against the powers of the national government to the states themselves. The state cannot, and should not, prohibit freedom of speech and expression, even if the result is showing a triple-X movie at the Hoff.

Harris is absolutely wrong to threaten to withhold funding. But the university administration precipitated his mistake by canceling the showing of the film. Would I have wanted to see the movie? Probably not. But let that be my decision as a former student. Let students, staff and faculty make up their own minds. Don’t force our hands. We don’t need it.

Also making news was the University Senate’s vote to end prayer at the campuswide graduation commencement ceremony. The senate’s 32-14 vote cited the principle of separation of church and state in its decision, but university President Dan Mote’s decision to override the senate vote does not violate the principle by advocating the establishment of an official university religion. Instead, Mote’s decision does not prohibit people from exercising their right to pray or not to pray, which is at the very heart of the First Amendment.

I’m not a very religious person. I’m not comfortable with overly religious observations. However, from a strictly constitutional perspective, Mote was right to override the senate. If you’re in the audience or you’re one of the graduates, you don’t have to pray when the university chaplain calls on you to pray. You can reflect silently or pray on your own schedule. You can opt not to pray at all. But the senate’s vote threatened to prohibit the free exercise of religion for far too many people who gather in the Comcast Center.

In the end, the First Amendment is first for a reason. It should be valued as the preeminent expression of rights granted to all Americans. It should not be infringed upon by the state or any institution thereof.

Let that lesson remain after the events of this past week recede into history.

Mike Sarzo is a university alumnus from the class of 2000. He can be reached at msarzo@yahoo.com.

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As Cabinet members were confirmed, policies introduced and bailouts distributed, Michelle has drawn her fair share of headlines, too — simply by getting dressed.

All the controversy surrounding the first lady’s wardrobe choices thus far came to a head April 1, when she wore a very casual outfit to meet Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. The fact that her black cardigan over a simple black-and-white dress was no April Fool’s prank put some fashion experts in a frenzy.

“You don’t ... go to Buckingham Palace in a sweater,” Oscar de la Renta proclaimed to Women’s Wear Daily.

The designer also said he thinks Michelle should expand her style to include some higher-end lines. Vera Wang and Donna Karan both agree, saying in interviews they wish the first lady would venture out from her less recognizable, more budgeted choices.

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But the aftermath of “Sweatergate” — as it’s been dubbed by some media outlets — isn’t the first time Michelle’s choices have been criticized.

She got flack from Amnau Eele, cofounder of the Black Artists Association, for not wearing clothes made by a black designer on Inauguration Day, instead opting for an Isabel Toledo outfit during the day and a Jason Wu evening gown at night. “Why wasn’t she wearing the clothes of a black designer?” Eele inquired in an interview.

“That was our moment.”

Still, others simply don’t like what some call Michelle’s fresh fashion sense. Critics varied in opinion from thinking her Toledo ensemble looked like a grandma’s upholstery to complaining that it had too much sparkle for a daytime look.

As for the Wu dress, naysayers lamented it was unflattering and looked more like prom garb than a traditionally conservative inauguration ball gown.

Whichever side of the fence you’re on, one fact is ever-present in the never-ending discussion of the first lady’s frocks: She is the most fashionably fun person in the White House since John F. Kennedy’s wife, Jackie Onassis.

And while Onassis and her 21st century counterpart do have one style staple in common — the classic pearl necklace — the former preferred cloth-

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Michelle, on the other hand, has publicly worn off-the-rack pieces from chain stores such as J.Crew and White House | Black Market on a regular basis. During the same overseas trip that spawned Sweatergate, she wowed foreign crowds with some high-waisted skirts, preppy pastels and a good, old-fashioned little black dress.

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Midfielder Laura Merrifield scored three goals on a game-high 10 shots in the Terps’ 18-12 win yesterday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

After slow start, Terps get it going Team stays unbeaten despite tying lowest first-half scoring output of the year with 14-goal second half

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For the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team, yesterday’s game against Johns Hopkins was a tale of two halves.

The No. 2 Terps could not find a rhythm in the first 30 minutes, tying their lowest scoring output in a half this season with four goals and trailing at halftime for the first time this year.

But in the second half, the Terps (15-0) exploded, burying the Blue Jays 18-12 on the back of a 14-goal second half deluge, tying the team’s largest goal total in a half this season.

“We were just slow to get going,” midfielder Laura Merrifield said. “We know what we need to do, we just didn’t bring it out in the first half. But in the second half, we just came out and did it.”

In the first half, the Terps outshot Hopkins 17-6. But the Terps converted just one of seven free position shots. In one possession, they missed four consecutive shots, two of which were free positions.

That, plus five saves for the Hopkins goalie, limited the Terps to four goals in the half.

On the other hand, Hopkins converted 5-of-6 shots for a shooting percentage nearly 60 percent higher than the Terps’, and carried a 5-4 lead into halftime.

“That was frustrating,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We really talked about that at halftime and wanted to come

out in the second half and create good looks at the goal and when we had our chances to shoot to finish them.”

The Terps did just that, dominating the second half with a performance that showed no trace of their initial struggles.

Merrifield scored less than two minutes into the second half, followed by two goals in one minute by attacker Karri Ellen Johnson, who led the team with five goals, giving the Terps a 7-6 lead they would never relinquish. Less than 10 minutes in, the attack had doubled its first-half production.

Hopkins scored sporadically throughout the half, but the Terps answered each Blue Jay goal, often scoring two or three goals in a row, including two open-net scores when Hopkins pulled their goalie at the game’s end.

The Terp offense was on fire, hitting 14 of 20 shots in the final 30 minutes. Though the Blue Jays shot an impressive 63 percent, they simply could not generate enough opportunities to keep up with the Terps, who scored more after halftime than Hopkins scored the entire game.

“I want that to happen from the opening half, not the second half,” Reese said. “But that’s, I think one of the great things about lacrosse. The momentum can change at any given time.” kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

Young pitching, 17 hits propel Terps to 13-2 win

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Staff writer

Getting swept by Virginia Tech over the weekend took a toll on the Terrapin baseball team, so coach Terry Rupp gave his squad a day off on Monday.

Based on yesterday’s outcome, Rupp thinks he has found a new strategy.

The struggling Terp offense looked relaxed and confident at the plate as they banged out 17 hits en route to an easy 13-2 victory against Mount Saint Mary’s (13-15).

Rupp credited the decision to give the Terps (16-20) a day off as one of the reasons for the improvement.

“We went back and looked at the tape of the Virginia Tech series, and I think we might have overworked the guys before that series,” Rupp said. “So you can bet your butt we will go light on Thursday before the Duke series.”

In contrast, the Mountaineers offense barely put up a fight, as three Terp pitchers combined to hold them to just three hits. Pitching coach Jim Farr decided to

start Matt Fullerton, who rewarded his coach with a strong performance.

In his previous two starts, Fullerton struggled with his command. But against Mount Saint Mary’s, Fullerton used his fastball and breaking ball to pound the strike zone in five innings of two-run ball.

It also helped that the team jumped out to such a quick lead. The Terps scored four runs in the first inning, two of which came on first baseman Will Greenberg’s two-run home run over the centerfield fence.

The Terps’ No 2, 3, 4 and 5 hitters combined for 11 hits and 8 of the team’s 11 RBI. After going hitless in five at-bats on Sunday, third baseman Mike Murphy got back on track with three doubles and three RBI. “It’s about getting back on the right track and doing things the right way, and hopefully tonight was the first step,” Murphy said.

“Everyone just tried to flush it and come in today with a new attitude, and I think it showed.” mlemairedbk@gmail.com

Toward the end of the third quarter, goalie Jason Carter left the crease with the ball and sprinted up the field.

He encountered a defender after crossing midfield, and the senior passed the ball off to a teammate before retreating to the cage.

“What are you stopping for?” a voice from the crowd boomed, half jokingly.

By that point in the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team’s 15-6 win against Binghamton yesterday, the smattering of fans in attendance was looking for some excitement beyond the repetitive scoring by the home side.

As the play developed, the pass led to the first goal of the season for attackman Danny Gallagher. It was a fitting ending to the sequence on a day when every decision the Terps made seemed to be the right one.

The win — the 700th in program history — suited the ailing Terps just fine. After the team’s first three-game skid since 2005, the team was relieved by the victory, albeit against an overmatched team in Binghamton (2-10).

“We were just talking, I think it was 2008 the last time we won,” coach Dave Cottle said, chuckling.

“That’s what it felt like.”

For that reason, the win Tuesday was as important as any the No. 14 Terps (7-5, 2-1 ACC) have had this season.

Coach Dave Cottle vowed a new team would emerge following a loss Saturday to then-No. 9 Johns Hopkins.

Three days later, the Terps looked poised to make good on the promise when they jumped out to a 6-1 firstquarter lead.

“We went into this game like this is the second half of our season,” said Grant Catalino, who finished with two goals and an assist.

“We're 1-0 right now. That’s how we’re thinking about it.”

Binghamton won the opening face-off, but it seemed like the game got out of hand almost as soon as the Terps gained possession.

Jeff Reynolds started the barrage with an unassisted score 2:33 into the game.

Bryn Holmes won the ensuing face-off, and long pole Dan Halayko tallied his first goal of the season 25 seconds later on a feed from attackman Nick Ward.

The rout was on.

“To stop what [Binghamton] had to do, we had to get

Midfielder Dean Hart and the Terps started fast and didn’t let up in their 15-6 win against Binghamton yesterday. The victory ended the team’s three-game losing streak. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

on them early,” Cottle said.

“Once we got on ’em early I thought it made it easier for us.”

That was evident on the field as the Terps dominated most aspects of the game.

In a balanced effort, nine different players had at least one goal. Attackman Ryan Young, who went without a goal for the first time since March 21, handed out three assists.

Even with the game in hand, the Terps continued to hustle.

Superior athleticism led to a 53-20 advantage on ground balls. And the Terps successfully worked on some extraman plays even without a man advantage.

“We did two good things,” Cottle said. “We got the ball off the ground, and then we shot the ball well.

“I thought we were unselfish, especially in the first quarter,” he continued.

“Our seniors gave us a lift in the first quarter and for us to score 11 goals in a half is pretty good.”

Today served as a second Senior Day of sorts.

The Terps held the main

ceremony on March 21 against North Carolina, the last Saturday home game.

But in the Terps’ last regular-season home game, Cottle trotted out his seniors to begin the day against the non-conference foe.

Despite the clammy weather, the Terps reveled in their first victory in three weeks.

But after praising his team, Cottle took a moment to put the game in perspective.

“You can’t read too much into this except that we got the ball off the ground, we hustled, and we had better players today,” Cottle said.

“But this was better than any practice we could have had.” mkatzdbk@gmail.com

Attackman Ryan Young celebrates with a teammate.

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