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Three candidates seek RHA presidency Pell grant Better SGA relationship, student outreach highlight hopefuls’ platforms

BY DANA CETRONE Staff writer

For the first time in two years, there is a contested race for RHA president.

While the three candidates have similar elements in their platforms — all hope to improve the Residence Hall Association’s relationship with the Student Govern-

ment Association and increase student outreach — the competition still gives RHA members a choice after Alex Beuchler and Sumner Handy, the past two presidents, ultimately ran unopposed.

RHA Vice President Josef Mensah, who has also been an RHA senator and committee chairman, is running against Debbie Kobrin, a North Hill senator who had a

failed run for SGA senior vice president on the CONNECT Party ticket, and Kevin Ford, a South Hill senator who leads the RHA committee that advises Residential Facilities.

Ford, for one, said the RHA needed to do a better job of working with the SGA and improve communication so the two groups’ efforts don’t overlap. He said the

SGA often gets credit for RHA initiatives and “[wastes] time on things that are in our jurisdiction.”

“The RHA is the strongest, most influential voice for resident students,” said Ford, a sophomore English major. “But our efforts have been stymied as a result of

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expansion could help thousands About 3,300 students in the state stand to benefit from program

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From an early age, the Calabrese twins have made green living a priority

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A simple change in federal financial aid funding could save thousands of college students thousands of dollars, a new report says, but the change has generated significant opposition from student lenders.

Under President Barack Obama’s budget proposals, a popular type of federally subsidized student loan would be eliminated in order to pay for an expansion in Pell grants, which are given directly to students from the government. The report, released by the Campaign for America’s Future, said an additional 260,000 students nationally — including 3,300 in this state — would receive Pell grants if Congress

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or most, sustainability is a buzzword people like to use when talking about environmental matters.

For juniors Joanna and Laura Calabrese, it’s a mission.

If you’ve seen anything around the campus advocating clean energy, sustainability or conservation, chances are the Calabrese sisters had something to do with it. The two are driving forces behind green efforts in the Student Government Association and Clean Energy for UMD, an environmental political advocacy group. Many see them, with little opposition, as College Park’s

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IMPACT OF PELL EXPANSION If Congress approves Obama’s budget proposals, a popular federal loan program will be eliminated in order to pay for Pell grant expansions, a move experts say will benefit students: 260,000 more students nationally would be eligible for Pell grants.

3,300 more students in the state would be eligible for Pell grants. $5,550 will become the maximum Pell grant award available.

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GSG elections inspire little involvement from students Secure Internet communication Parking lot signs Current president seeking Fraternal twins Laura, left, and Joanna Calabrese have been environmental activists on the campus since arriving three years ago. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

may be made easier by invention may be changed Key-exchange system won one of the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization awards for easier use SGA proposes color-coded signs based on permit, time restrictions

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During the final weeks of its current administration, the SGA has drafted a proposal to color-code parking signs in terms of time and restrictions in an effort to increase sign clarity and decrease the number of parking tickets issued.

The proposal calls for all parking signs to be coded with colored borders designating parking restrictions and time rules — such as red-bordered signs for parking lots that are unrestricted after 4 p.m. — and includes a request for a map and legend to be added to

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BY JEFF NASH Imagine video-chatting with your friend or crush while, unbeknownst to you, a nosy cyber-stalker or computersavvy, overprotective parent is eavesdropping on your conversation.

New award-winning technology created by a university-professor-led engineering team could ensure your conversations, and other sensitive information, remain safe.

Engineering professor John Baras and two electronic engineers from the Army Research Laboratory, Paul Yu and Brian Sadler, have developed a method where secret keys (or passwords) needed to

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INVENTION INFORMATION Possible uses for the key-exchange system, which a university professor helped develop, and that won one of the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization’s Invention of the Year awards last week: Secure video-chat communication Increased secrecy of battlefield communication Bank or business transactions Secure communication using smaller, less powerful computers

This campaign season has been relatively uneventful for GSG assembly member Aaron Tobiason — no posters, no speeches, no debates and no opposition.

Tobiason, like six others running unopposed for executive seats in the Graduate Student Government, does not have to worry about campaign posters, fliers, buttons or T-shirts.

All he has to do is wait for the election to draw to a close today.

Unlike other student governing bodies, such as the Student Government Association and the University Senate, a lack of student involvement in GSG elections is not unusual, as they typically have notoriously low participation rates despite a $1,100-per-semester stipend that accompanies executive positions.

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The statute already covers victims attacked because of race, religion, national origin or sexual orientation.

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help the economy,” Lotke said. “[A] Pell grant is money that immediately goes into the economy: it’s spending money. If a student gets the money right now, they’re going to spend it on housing, on food, on tuition that pays professors’ salaries. If a privileged person got a thousand dollars, they’re going to put it in the bank.”

Lotke said reinvesting this money into financial aid programs shows that education is a top priority for the Obama administration, which has also pledged to set the country on track to have the world’s highest rate of college graduates by 2020.

“Uncle Sam could say, ‘I’m going to end the FFEL program — yay! We can buy another Raptor Jet,’” Lotke said. “There are lots of other things the government could be doing with the money, but instead, the money is being set aside for education.”

Roberto Munster, director of operations for the GSG, said he tries to encourage students to vote and run for executive and representative positions, often to little avail.

“Executives meet every week, and officers must also represent GSG in other committees and meetings [that are not GSG-related] on campus; it’s a big time commitment,” Munster said.

“Many graduate students feel they cannot make the time commitment.”

This year’s GSG president, Anupama Kothari, is running for re-election and is one of the six candidates running unopposed.

The only position being contested this year is vice president for student affairs. Both Siddharth Choksi and Lenisa Joseph — who serve on the body’s general assembly — are competing for the job.

Both Joseph and Choksi have been campaigning on their own behalf over the last few weeks.

Choksi, the GSG representative for information management, chose to get the word out by speaking to classmates and reaching out to the Students Council of India, a student group that recognizes about 70 percent of Indian graduate students as members.

“The [Students Council of India] has many members, both Indian and nonIndian, and the group is closely associated with other graduate groups,” Choksi said. “So sharing my ideas with them was useful in reaching a large group of students.”

Since announcing her candidacy, Joseph, the assembly representative for special education, created fliers and Facebook groups and sent e-mail messages to get the word out.

“I ran for the position because I genuinely care about getting [graduate] students’ voices heard on campus,” Joseph said. “This is not just about me winning; it’s about students stepping up and making sure they’re adequately represented.”

Often, the level of interest of graduate students directly impacts which departments are represented in the GSG. “If that one student [enrolled in Jewish studies] didn’t want to get involved with the GSG assembly, then that department wouldn’t have any representation in the assembly,” Munster said.

The number of participants running for representative positions in this election is more than usual, Tobiason added, but he would like to see more in the future.

“I think the GSG election committee did a great job getting people to run for different positions, and we’ll find out how good the voter turnout was when the results come in on Monday,” Tobiason said. “The good thing about not running against anyone, though, is that I am already prepared to assume my role as vice president for academic affairs.”

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Banks to defend loan program PELL, from Page 1 adopts the proposals.

The grants could help students here and at colleges across the country, who are requesting financial aid at a rapid pace.

The university is expecting students to request $3 million next year, six times as much as the $500,000 it was able to grant this year. About 4,200 students at this university already receive Pell grants. While the university has had a tuition freeze for the past four years, as of 2006, the average student still graduated with $13,243 in debt.

Obama’s plan calls for eliminating the Federal Family Education Loan Program — in which the federal government subsidizes student loans given out by banks — by using the $5 billion saved per year to expand the Pell Grant program to more students, upping the maximum available award to $5,550 and redirecting the loans

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Jurors listened to rebuttal arguments from federal prosecutors yesterday morning. Then U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett spent about two hours instructing the panel about how to evaluate evidence and the intricacies of the crimes of which Byers and co-defendant Frank Goodman are accused. The jury started deliberations about 1:20 p.m. yesterday.

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“Why are we still subsidizing these loans? Let’s stop and reinvest that money in students.”

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through the Department of Education’s direct loan program, a switch that is projected to save $47 billion during the next five years.

But media reports indicate banks are looking to defend the program, through which three-quarters of federal student financial aid is given because its has proven to be highly profitable, noting that the current program provides jobs and important services to students.

However, supporters of Obama’s proposal said the old system — which was created in the 1960s, when banks wouldn’t grant stu-

dent loans without federal subsidies — is badly outdated.

“The federal government doesn’t need to keep backing [the Federal Family Education Loan Program],” said Eric Lotke, director of research at the Institute for America’s Future and a coauthor of the report. “Nowadays, banks are falling all over each other to give students a credit card. ... The question becomes, why are we still subsidizing these loans? Let’s stop and reinvest that money in students.”

The proposed expansion of Pell grants would be a first during an economic downturn because Congress traditionally believed financial aid didn’t provide immediate economic help.

But experts say government officials have changed their opinions on this and are now see investing money in students as a direct help to the economy in both the long and short runs.

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RHA to vote on ‘We need to think beyond presidency at recycling and light bulbs’ next meeting CALABRESE, from Page 1

RHA, from Page 1 our poor rapport with The Diamondback and SGA.” Kobrin also said the RHA should be doing more to help oncampus students than the SGA. “The SGA shouldn’t propose things and then RHA just gets on the bandwagon. RHA should be the ones developing resolutions and policies,” Kobrin’s platform reads.

All three candidates cited the SGA working to upgrade washers and dryers in the dorms after the RHA had already convinced Resident Life to do so.

Mensah also wanted to make the RHA’s contributions more recognized among student groups and improve outreach to students generally.

“Basically, other groups need to know what we’re doing. I think it’s a relationship we’ve taken for granted in past years, and this year we’ve tried really hard to talk, but we need to solidify our ideas and create change,” he said.

Mensah, who described himself as a “team player,” encouraged RHA senators to take ownership of their ideas and work to make sure they go beyond the committee level.

leading environmental advocates.

But trying to save the world is no easy feat. They’re hard people to track down, especially together. The fraternal twins live on opposite sides of the campus but happen to cross paths every so often in the Stamp Student Union’s Student Involvement Suite, where they both spend most of their time.

Joanna’s busy and looks it.

She walks quickly and stands closely when she talks. She gets things done.

Laura is just as busy and just as efficient, but she’s more deliberate, more organized. She walks at a more relaxed pace and spends more time conversing.

Laura, the organizational director of Clean Energy for UMD, has a much quieter public persona — she made her reputation behind the scenes as a meticulous organizer and attentive administrator, a foil to Joanna’s more public, hands-on approach.

“I don’t enjoy being in the spotlight,” Laura said.

Does Joanna?

Laura checks to make sure Joanna is distracted by a friend who stopped to chat. She chooses her words carefully.

“She’s not motivated by the spotlight,” Laura said. “She’s just more comfortable there.”

During her tenure as senior vice president of the SGA, Joanna started a “green group roundtable” to help facilitate open communication between campus environmental groups. She is also helping to organize a “green fund,” designed to help distribute private donations to environmental groups on the campus.

“Joanna is better at getting things rolling,” said their father, Richard Calabrese, who is a chemical engineering professor at the university. “But Laura is better at getting it done.”

They caught green fever early.

As six-year-old Girl Scouts in Laurel Troop 553, Laura and Joanna cleaned streams, planted trees and stenciled warnings on storm drains. In middle school, they traveled with a group to Big Ugly,

“The SGA shouldn’t propose things and then RHA just gets on the bandwagon.”

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Ford also expressed interest in making the campus more bikefriendly and ending data fees for unused telephone and data network jacks in the dorms.

Kobrin wants to create an RHA committee focusing specifically on safety, to work with University Police and the university Police Auxilary to increase oncampus safety and to incorporate The Courtyards, the only university-provided housing whose residents are not represented in the organization, into the RHA. Travis Durepo, a junior who represents South Campus Commons, is the only candidate for vice president.

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Colored parking signs to be univ. colors, officials say SIGNS, from Page 1 the back of on-campus signs.

“I had realized that colorcoordinating parking signs [to] correspond with the rules on the signs would be a great way to clear up confusion more immediately for students as they are driving into parking lots,” said Student Government Association Greek Legislator Gabi Band, who brought up the idea and drafted the proposal.

Along with SGA President Jonathan Sachs and SGA Senior Vice President Joanna Calabrese, Band presented the proposal to the Department of Transportation Services and the Department of Facilities Management for approval.

The proposal is being reviewed by the Architectural Design Standards Board, a department within Facilities Management that deals mostly with aesthetic improvement within the university and ensures that changes coordinate with the university’s color scheme and architectural style.

In order to appease the board, Band and Sachs decided to have the colors banding the parking signs be the university colors of black, red and yellow.

According to Director of Facilities Planning Brenda Testa, the only issue with

the proposed color-coordinating of the signs is timing.

As a response to the university being designated as an arboretum and botanic garden earlier this year, Facilities Management is in the process of creating a landscape master plan in which way-finding signs, such as parking signs, will all be under review, Testa said.

She added that all plans to change parking signs are going to be part of the landscape master plan, and because that is not off the ground yet, the change in parking signs is going to have to wait.

Freshman business major Hope Mookim knows the current parking lot signs present a problem for students and visitors. Several members of her family have had difficulties reading the signs, and some have gotten several parking tickets because of it.

“I think the proposal is a good idea,” Mookim said. “It is so hard to sit there for 20 minutes trying to figure out a sign and wondering if it is after 4 [p.m.], and I think that the color-coding would be so much more efficient and you wouldn’t have six cars sitting in front of the parking lot trying to figure it out.’’

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According to Yu, the technology was developed over a year and a half with collaboration between the university and the Army. The key exchange method was the information science category winner at the Invention of the Year Awards hosted by the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization last week.

The method, which has a patent application pending, allows for more frequent key updates, which increase the protection of sensitive information. It could be used to help secure video-chat communications, to ensure attackers cannot tune into a Netflix video stream for free

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organize 153 students to attend Power Shift 2009, an international conference on global warming and climate change in Washington. The conference concluded with what organizers claim was the largest lobbying day in U.S. history. She calls this her proudest accomplishment, not only because of the message sent but because events like this inspire people, she said.

“People like Joanna and I are created at Power Shift,” Laura said. “I’ve seen it happen, where someone hears a speaker and just decides ‘All right. There’s no choice. This is what we have to do.’”

But the two acknowledge that not everyone is enthusiastic enough to go stumping for Mother Nature. They maintain that education is a vital component of the green movement.

“As much as I love the activism side of sustainability, it’s also important to understand the impact of what you’re doing,” Laura said. “It’s easy to say, ‘global warming is bad, go green,’ and say, ‘yeah, I’m green,’ but then you have a lot of people that don’t really understand what that means and don’t know if they’re actually being sustainable.”

“There’s a difference between being noticed and being understoods,” Joanna added, nodding.

“We’ve got people’s attention,” Laura said. “I think we’ve been very successful, at least on this

campus, at getting noticed. Now that we’ve got people’s attention, though, what are we going to do with it? We need to think beyond recycling and light bulbs.”

The pair’s plans for the future are still hazy. Laura plans to continue working with Clean Energy for UMD, and Joanna wants to use her SGA experience to become an “independent leader.” She has voiced interest in serving as the environmental affairs liaison to the SGA or working on the Campus Sustainability Council to help oversee implementation of the university’s Climate Action Plan.

The pair is also very emotionally invested in their work — they’re protective of it and say, as their final year at the university approaches, they’re actively looking for someone to accept the torch.

“I have days,” Laura said, “when I sort of feel that the green movement really started when we got here and is going to end when we leave.”

But Davey Rogner, the SGA environmental affairs liaison and co-founder of Clean Energy for UMD, is confident the movement will continue.

“They’re two great people, but it’s important to point out that they’re not the only people involved,” Rogner said. “This is the most pressing issue of our time.

There are intelligent people everywhere. There’s no doubt about it: This will continue.”

or to guarantee the secrecy of battlefield communication.

“In the Army, we’re always very concerned with secure battlefield communication,” Yu said.

“Communication frequency bands are constantly being switched to prevent adversaries from listening or intercepting data.

Our method would enable us to quickly and secretly switch frequencies.”

Secret keys are used in secure communications or transactions between parties, such as banks, businesses or the government, when private information needs to be communicated.

Problems arise when keys need to be updated and new key sequences must be generated in order to minimize the risk of information’s confidentiality being compromised. Currently, when one

or more of the parties that share encrypted information choose to change a key, some of the parties are forced to use an expensive and timeconsuming amount of computing resources.

Another current solution for secret key exchanges would be for the two parties to use a trusted third party to pass along the information, but no third-party communication is risk-free, and third parties are sometimes unavailable.

Baras, Yu and Sadlers’ technology solves these problems by having both parties agree to rules beforehand that limit the possible key updates.

By greatly narrowing the possible keys updates both parties can choose from, far less computing is required to generate a new key, and

there is a very low probability of a third-party breach in confidentiality. With secret, currently impenetrable rules dictating what the next keys could be, computers can handle more secure key sequences.

Yu said finding a way to minimize the computing resources needed for key exchanges has become important as computer systems continue to get smaller.

“Smaller and smaller computer modules continue to emerge: We saw computers, laptops, iPhones and devices that are basically sensors with batteries,” Yu said. “Smaller devices have more energy constraints, and the old methods need too much computing for these smaller systems.” jnashdbk@gmail.com

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W.Va. — a community, true to its name, that was deeply impacted by destructive coal mining methods — to help convert an abandoned elementary school into a community center by collecting hundreds of books and computers to set up a library there.

“We had this sheltered suburban upbringing, and then we were driving down this road and there were all these broken, tilted trailers, and it was just a desolate place,” Joanna said. “It was just mind-blowing for us.”

After an adolescence of joint projects, however, Laura, now a sociology major, was eager to remove herself from “the whole twin thing” in college. She joined Community Roots and the College Democrats in an effort to separate herself from Joanna.

But by fall 2007, Laura was back working with Clean Energy for UMD because, “in the end, the green movement was the thing [she] really wanted to support.”

Meanwhile, Joanna, an environmental science and policy major, decided to get political. In 2007, she ran unopposed for SGA agriculture legislator. After serving a year in the organization, Joanna ran for SGA senior vice president against her former roommate, Wanika Fisher, and won — allowing her to further her environmental agenda.

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ertigo Books did everything right. When the 17-year-old bookstore yuppie, liberal diatribe about responsible business and local investment; East moved here from Dupont Circle in 2000, it offered character to College Campus’ success hinges on its ability to attract yuppie liberals. Its success hinges Park and immediately sought to connect with its university setting. The on atmosphere, and Vertigo Books is a prime example of how a local business can store hosted lectures in conjunction with academic departments and add to a community’s character.

Unfortunately, the shaky state of the economy makes it even less likely FPheld them in the afternoons to specifically target students’ schedules. Its off-beat selection fostered a college-friendly environment and offered students a place to Argo will gamble on independent businesses. When money is tight, developers think and exchange ideas — even if they didn’t always take advantage of it. Poor tend to stick to the stability of chain stores that can also afford to pay higher rent. sales have pushed the business to bankruptcy. Next week, it will shutter its doors. But East Campus’ plans are far from settled. In the fall of 2007, FP-Argo was far Vertigo Books is exactly the kind of business we’d like to see in the university’s from contracting with retailers, and they still are. When the developers came East Campus development project. But if the intellectually minded, college-town before officials two years ago, their plans were only rough sketches. They still haven’t finalized their blueprints with the university, city and bookstore concept couldn’t work 50 feet from the campus, we’re county. worried about its prospects a mile up the road. Still, there’s reaFP-Argo principals Richard Perlmutter and Bryant Foulger son for optimism. Administrators are explicitly designing East Independent businesses repeatedly expressed interest in local and independent busiCampus to attract a more refined clientele: graduate students, professors and the urbanite visitors who now only come here for will be critical to the success nesses when they visited the university last year, and we hope we can take them at their word. We hope FP-Argo developers Kronos Quartet concerts at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts of East Campus. get in touch with Vertigo and other College Park businesses.

Center. And with plans for the Birchmere, fine dining and a College Perk would be a perfect fit for East Campus if it could movie theater, East Campus has the potential to bring to College Park the critical mass needed to support a business that doesn’t sell beer or sand- straighten out its finances. Perlmutter and Foulger could also get in touch with the management of Planet Z, a successful coffee shop and restaurant that closed wiches. In fact, developers are looking for a bookstore.

The problem is Foulger-Pratt Argo, East Campus’ developer, is only consider- when its owners moved to a bigger location.

If the ideal economic conditions to build an authentic college town don’t exist ing Borders and Barnes & Noble. And these aren’t the only chain stores FP-Argo is targeting. When the developer listed Yankee Candle Company, Starbucks and right now, we can excuse developers for pushing back the projects’ deadline. But Urban Outfitters as potential retailers in a fall 2007 presentation to the university, the university can’t afford to compromise its vision. Every part of the university the East Campus development plan looked more like a mall map than an outline community gripes about downtown College Park, and if we settle for an outdoor for a college town. Of the more than 50 potential businesses they discussed, the mall this time, we’ll just be building another town center that lacks a college feel.

Once East Campus is built, it won’t be going away. only one from College Park was R.J. Bentleys. We don’t even need to get into a

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Commencement ceremonies: Without a prayer

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n June 24, 1992, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Lee v. Weisman, a case regarding a school principal who had invited a rabbi to deliver a prayer at the 1989 graduation ceremony of Nathan Bishop Middle School. The court’s 5-4 decision ruled that prayer had no place in public school graduation ceremonies, and that such actions constituted indirect coercion of students.

But 17 years later, we are faced with a similar predicament on this campus.

University President Dan Mote’s decision to overrule the University Senate by reinstating a prayer at the campuswide commencement ceremony is part of a recurring trend that flies in the face of the principles that founded this country and the diversity preached by university officials.

While certainly no law has been broken, nor does Lee v. Weisman pertain to prayer at a public university, Mote and his supporters shouldn’t be so willing to ignore the lessons that can be learned

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from that case. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that it was unrealistic for those who wished not to partake in the prayer to simply not attend. “In our society and in our culture, high school graduation is one of life’s most significant occasions,” he wrote. College graduation is just as significant, and no one should feel forced to forfeit the reward for their hard work because of the pandering to the beliefs of many.

There may be a Christian majority, but that doesn’t mean the Muslim minority or the atheist minority or others should be discounted. Despite this fact, that seems to be exactly what is taking place today.

In the U.S. Senate, each session has been opened with a prayer for the past 207 years. It’s a tradition, but is it an appropriate tradition? What many fail to realize is values change, and thus traditions change. The invocation before each session of Congress may have been appropriate when Protestant, white, landowning men controlled the government.

However, that time has passed. We no longer live in a land of religious certitude.

The recently released American Religious Identification Study found that the number of Americans with no religious affiliation has risen from eight to 15 percent since 1990. Such dramatic numbers demonstrate that religion is not a guiding force for a growing number of Americans. This trend is reflected in the University Senate’s vote, in which not one student senator voted in favor of keeping the commencement prayer.

And those who say this is somehow one of the few traditions we have left are spewing pure nonsense. There was a

time when it was a tradition to haze pledges in fraternities — that doesn’t make it right. The broader tradition is that of graduation, a moment where students who have worked hard to earn their degrees should feel proud, not shunned.

University officials have discussed receiving e-mails from across the state and even from state senators that contain “shocking language” regarding the University Senate’s decision, ultimately raising a larger question: Whose campus is this? Does it belong to grandstanding state senators like Sen. Andy Harris (RBaltimore and Harford), who carp about the showing of pornography? Or to alumni who won’t even be at the commencement ceremony? To parents who wish to see their values reflected in their children?

Or does this campus belong to us?

Justin Snow is a sophomore history major. He can be reached at snowdbk@gmail.com.

Nice guys: This time, they’re not even in the race

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hat’s it. Like they say, no more Mr. Nice Guy. That’s where we’re at right now. You can’t be a nice person anymore, or everyone else is going to think you’re a psychopath. It’s equal parts people not trusting each other and people doing horrible things to each other. Mix that together, and you get this bucket of suck.

I feel like there used to be a time when you could walk around being nice to people and they’d be nice back. Nowadays, they just consider you a creeper.

Remember on the first day of freshman year, when university President Dan Mote told us to all walk around with our heads up and say hello to each other?

Can you imagine if anyone actually did

that? How much of a creepy son of a gun would that person be? Why can’t I stop asking questions? I’m just angry and sad.

I feel bad walking down the street and seeing some tiny girl carrying a bunch of heavy bags because I feel like if I offer to help, I’m going to get pepper sprayed. I was on a run in the middle of the night a few months ago and I saw a girl who was obviously drunk and stumbling around.

I walked toward her to see if I could help her get to where she was going, and naturally, she booked it out of there. Do I blame her? Not at all. Not when a guy raped a girl a few weeks ago after offering her a ride. People freaking suck.

But it’s lame when you’re just a normal person who is looking out for the best interests of the public at large. It

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GINDES shouldn’t have bugged me, but it really did — I really hope that girl wound up OK that night, even though I’ve never met her and probably never will.

That’s just the nature of the beast right now. You can’t simply be a nice guy.

People can’t just start trusting each other because half of you out there are freakshows and you like taking advantage of one another. It just sucks that be-

cause of you weirdos, this is the way it has to be.

You can’t even do things that have no possible way of being mistaken. Take holding doors as an example. I’ve held the door for people and gotten the nastiest looks in the world — like they’re mad at me for keeping a door open. What’s up with that? I mean, I know you could probably fend for yourself and get the door open on your own, but I just felt like being nice. Sorry.

That’s where we’re at. Niceness is a thing of the past. Kindness is dead. So screw all of you.

Rob Gindes is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at gindesdbk@gmail.com.

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Respect the choosers MARC MCCARTHY On Monday, Michael Pakaluk presented the lecture “Does Abortion Cause Mental Illness?” in the ArtSociology Building. Terps for Choice came to the lecture — sort of. On and around the door of the room where the presentation was held, members taped papers, including citations from the 2008 American Psychological Association Task Force on Mental Health and Abortion. This is the report that claimed there is no link between abortion and mental illness.

It is also the report, incidentally, that was being analyzed at the lecture.

Once the Terps for Choice members finished their Scotch-taping, they left.

Whether or not they should have stayed is a subject for a different article. What I want to posit here is that I respect Terps for Choice members more than many people out there. The reason: At least they care enough to act.

If the unborn aren’t valuable human beings, then abortion should be treated like getting a tooth pulled.

If that is the case, abortion should be accessible on demand and without apology. Abortion should be funded domestically and abroad. Doctors should not discriminate against abortion as a medical procedure. Women should not risk their lives seeking unsafe, illegal abortions. Anti-abortion activists would be despicable fanatics attempting to deprive women of their rights, and endangering lives in the process. Being lukewarm in such a scenario is absolutely unacceptable.

If the unborn are valuable human beings, however, there is even less of an excuse to be lukewarm. Why? Simply put, abortion would be the legal killing of 3,500 people per day in the United States. Better yet, consider the abortion facility that is five minutes from this campus. Would you sit still if you knew that even one person, today, was about to be killed unjustly, a fiveminute drive from your place?

That is not all, though, because the children would only be the second victims. The first victims would be the daily 3,500 women who “choose” to have their offspring killed. Would such killing be what they truly want, or would they feel they have no choice but to kill? On the campus, for example, some may feel forced to choose between killing their child and abandoning their education and career. If abortion is chosen at all, it may be chosen under duress. That sounds like oppression of women to me.

And so, I ask: Is it not reasonable to question the integrity of those, myself included, who profess to be pro-life but who have failed time and again to treat abortion like the oppressive atrocity they believe it to be? Professing to be pro-life while doing little about it is living a lie. Perhaps the Terps for Choice members say this about tepid pro-choicers. For all of us, integrity is material for constant selfexamination.

Whether the unborn are valuable or not, there is no excuse to be lukewarm about abortion — absolutely none.

Perhaps one might say, “I didn’t know,” as a certain prison guard at the notorious Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp said. At the end of the day, though, that’s just not good enough. Don’t know? Well, find out.

Either way, lives depend on it.

It bears repeating — active members of Terps for Choice are more respectable, in a very real way, than many of my friends who call themselves pro-life but refuse to lift a finger about it. At least they have got the courage to act on their beliefs.

Marc McCarthy is a senior Romance languages and international business major. He can be reached at mtmccarthy@gmail.com.

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Like Dave Chappelle and Carlos Mencia, Dave Attell is one of the many faces of Comedy Central, either through stand-up specials or their own shows. Attell’s biggest splash came on Insomniac with Dave Attell, where he wandered the streets of populous cities late at night, often encountering the comically inebriated. Attell does his often brash stand-up routine at Rams Head Live! in Baltimore tomorrow.

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EARTH DAY ON THE NATIONAL MALL Last year’s Green Apple Music Festival — rebranded this year as Earth Day on the National Mall — was a gigantic disaster.

Nonstop downpours kept the crowd totals for the concert on the Mall in Washington small, before promoters eventually shut the show down, effectively canning performances by The Roots, Toots and the Maytals and Gov’t Mule. This year, organizers scaled things down a bit and waited until Tuesday to announce that The Flaming Lips, moe. and Los Lobos would headline this year’s free festivities. Expect short sets and lots of talk about the environment. Here’s hoping the weather holds out.

The Sunday concert begins at noon and runs until 6 p.m. with Chevy Chase hosting.

Thao Nguyen discusses The Get Down Stay Down and its new album

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CHELSEA HANDLER It was a long time coming for Chelsea Handler, but in 2007, she finally found a show that worked: Chelsea Lately, a late-night talk show on E! The show varies drastically from similar latenight programs, serving more as a gossipy talk show, with guests who are more likely to be tabloid fodder than critical darlings. Handler’s also the only woman on late-night television. Her on-air exploits earned her an appropriate award at Bravo’s A-List Awards earlier this week: “A-List Funny.” Handler performs at the Warner Theatre in Washington tonight at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $39.50 to $45.

All it took was a simple e-mail to get Thao Nguyen on the stage.

A fan of Portland-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, Nguyen sent an e-mail through Veirs’ website to ask if she could open for her.

Slim Moon, the founder of independent record label Kill Rock Stars — and Veirs’ manager at the time — wrote back, and the rest is history.

But that wasn’t the then-junior at the College of William and Mary’s (she graduated in 2006) first foray into music.

“I think I was lonely and bored when I was 12,” Nguyen said. “That’s how that started.”

The Falls Church, Va., native will return to Washington with her band, The Get Down Stay Down, tonight at the Black Cat. Originally claimed by area critics as an artist in the Washington music scene, Nguyen moved to San Francisco three years

ago. She and her band are going on tour after spending time in the studio recording the follow-up to 2008’s critically adored LP, We Brave Bee Stings and All. Nguyen said the new work will be a bit more intense than the raw pop of Bee Stings.

“I play primarily electric guitar on this record,” Nguyen said. “This album, I think, has a lot more rock-ish-ness. ... In comparison to our last record, there’s a lot more emotion and intensity. And I think it’s a more honest depiction of me as a songwriter and the band as musicians and performers.”

Bee Stings was recorded when the band had only been playing together for two months. The new album — set for an Oct. 13 release — showcases the group’s newfound identity.

“I think this album has a lot more band involvement,” Nguyen said. “The songs are a lot more high-energy. I think we’ve tried to incorporate more of our live show into the recording.”

Nguyen describes both Bee Stings and the new record as autobiographical, but it seems as though the content of the latest album might be significantly more obvious.

“And I would say this [album] is even more personal and timesensitive,” Nguyen said. “A lot of it is about one relationship in particular — the end of it. It’s more emotionally concentrated, a lot more straightforward

lyrics ... it’s pretty raw. There’s a lot of sadness and anger in it.”

Though a larger touring effort will take place in the fall to coincide with the album’s release, Nguyen assures the audience tonight will be exposed to some new material.

“We’ll play three or four [new] songs,” Nguyen said. “It’s tough to navigate what your setlist will be. I’m sure people want to hear new songs, but if you play too many of them, you alienate people. There are certain songs we know we like to play. The only concern is making sure the momentum flows well.”

And in the hands of a crew this eager to tour, the show will surely flow.

“I’m excited,” Nguyen said. “We’ve been off the road for a couple months now. Tour is a very love/hate thing, but when you’re off for too long, you get a strong hankering for it.”

Tonight’s homecoming show, the second date on the tour, is sure to be a good one, Nguyen added.

“It’s nice,” Nguyen said of her return to Washington. “It’s really helpful to see a lot of familiar faces when you spend most of your time with strangers. There’s definitely a bit of hometown camaraderie. And people have always been very warm and receptive. It’s always a pleasure to come back.”

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Cottle will have decision to make

Rupp hopes rest will help spark lineup

PENN, from Page 8

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Staff writer

With just 12 ACC games left to achieve the goal of making the ACC Tournament, the pressure is mounting for the Terrapin baseball team to make a run.

But you wouldn’t know it from watching the team go about its daily routine this week.

The Terps (16-20, 4-14 ACC) sit five games behind Duke (26-13, 9-9) for the eighth and final spot in the ACC Tournament heading into this weekend’s showdown with the Blue Devils at Shipley Field. But, with their window of opportunity closing fast, the Terps looked relaxed during yesterday’s short practice, and coach Terry Rupp was confident his team is going to come out sharp.

“I really think the guys are focused and ready to go,” Rupp said. “We had a crisp practice today, which is always a good sign. They looked well rested, which is what we want, and I am looking forward to a big weekend from them.”

Both teams have a lot on the line, as the Terps hope to get back into the ACC Tournament race and the Blue Devils must increase their probability of earning an NCAA regional atlarge bid.

After promising earlier in the week that he wasn’t going to overwork the team, Rupp got what he wished for when Wednesday’s scheduled game against UMBC got rained out. Most of the players spent the day off either weightlifting or resting.

Rupp hopes the extra rest will help his struggling offense. The Terps are last in the ACC in team batting average at .271 and are also last in the conference in runs scored, with just 204 runs in 36 games.

“Sometimes, it’s helpful to play that game to stay in the flow, but especially this time of year, it’s good for us to step back and take a break,” Rupp said. “What we are hoping is that they have recharged their batteries. We are hoping that will help us see more of what we saw on Tuesday night.”

A victory in the series

Outfielder A.J. Casario and the Terps hope to improve after last week’s sweep to Virginia Tech.

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Terps vs. Duke Where: Shipley Field When: Tonight, 7 p.m.

Radio: WMUCsports.com opener could be key for the Terps to build momentum. But for that to happen, the team will need more from its ace, Scott Swinson, than it has received so far.

Swinson was the team’s best pitcher and workhorse in the ACC last season, with 85.1 innings pitched and key victories over then-No. 3 North Carolina and Wake Forest.

But, this year, he has not been the same pitcher, and he enters today’s game at 2-5 with a 6.00 ERA. He almost put it together last weekend against Virginia Tech when he allowed four runs in the first two innings before coming back to shut out the Hokies for his final 4.2 innings. Pitching coach Jim Farr thinks Swinson is on the brink of success.

“I think he's starting to put the pieces together,” Farr said.

“Based on his last two starts, he’s had as good a bullpen session this week as he’s had all spring. I think there's a good chance you'll see the Scott Swinson of 2008 out there on Friday. He's ready to go.” mlemairedbk@gmail.com

goalie system, Cottle is no stranger to juggling personnel decisions.

He sees the merits of each player.

“Travis and Ryan have great chemistry together, I will say that,” Cottle said. “The point [in Pietramala’s statement] was that in some games Will’s a better option, in some games Travis is a better option. I believe that’s true.”

With Yeatman out, Reed has been the only option.

With at least one assist in each game where he has started, he has helped make up for Yeatman’s absence.

Reed’s insertion into the lineup has coincided with improvement from the Terps at the offensive end. In the first half against Hopkins, the Terps looked crisper than they had in some time.

While other players around Reed have also stepped up, it’s hard to ignore Reed’s presence.

Midfielder Jeff Reynolds said the Terps have practiced enough with Reed and Yeatman to feel comfortable with both.

“Travis has done a good job,” Reynolds said. “We played with him all of last

year. [Missing Yeatman] is nothing we can’t overcome. ... I think we run well with the guys that are in there right now. They do their jobs and I think we’ve seen that in the past couple games, that we’ve been clicking.”

As both coaches mentioned, chemistry has been a big part of that success.

In the words of Pietramala, Young and Reed “are a bear back there.”

“It’s just kinda bringing back memories from last year when we had the three attackman,” Catalino said. “But whether it’s Travis or Yeatman, I think it’s both good for us.”

Happy to be on the field, Reed has performed admirably when asked to play midfield. At times, he even likes it, as he’s more likely to pick up an exploitable short-stick defender.

But Reed admitted the transition wasn’t easy from a mental standpoint. The switch back to attack, for however long he might remain there, has been helpful.

“For me, it’s just getting in a rhythm. That’s big for me,” Reed said. “Get a couple shots, and start getting in a rhythm and seeing how my stick throws and stuff like that.

That’s definitely easier to do [when starting] than coming off the bench.”

Attackman Will Yeatman, shown in practice earlier this season, is injured, nursing a sprained ankle. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

It hasn’t been easy for his coach, either.

After the win against Binghamton, Cottle mulled over the personnel decision he knows he’ll have to answer once Yeatman returns.

“We’re fortunate we have a kid, Travis Reed, whose been a starter, knows how to play,” Cottle said. “So we won’t force Yeatman back until he’s ready.” mkatzdbk@gmail.com

Team using game against Hokies as prep for ACCs HOKIES, from Page 8 2001, the last year the Terps went undefeated, they won the national championship.

But after losing in the ACC Tournament as a No. 1 seed the last two years, the Terps are more focused on changing their postseason luck.

The Terps will use the road game as preparation. The tournament is being held Saturday in Blacksburg, and they will play either Virginia Tech or Virginia in the semifinals, so they can scout the location as well as the opponent.

But the players don’t want to get ahead of themselves.

As important as the tourna-

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ment is to the Terps, they first want to have a strong win against the Hokies in their final tuneup.

“This game gives us a chance to improve on the things we’ve been weak on this season, tighten up on defense, get smoother on offense,” Reese said. “We want to combine it all into a complete 60 minutes of lacrosse and play our best game yet.”

Duke and North Carolina, both 3-1 in the conference, play tonight for the No. 2 seed in the tournament. If the Terps lose tomorrow, they will have the same ACC record as the winner of

tonight’s game. But with wins against both the Blue Devils and the Tar Heels this season, the Terps hold the tiebreaker.

But the Terps want to win the conference without the tiebreaker and keep their momentum going into next weekend.

“We want to finish out our ACC regular season strong,” midfielder Caitlyn McFadden said. “We’ll build on everything we’ve learned and accomplished so far this year and get a push for the conference tournament.”

The Terps are a perfect 50 all-time against Virginia Tech with an average of

18.2 goals a game in the series. In last year’s matchup, the Terps crushed the Hokies 20-3.

This weekend, the Terp attack will go for a repeat of that high-scoring performance behind its three newly named Tewaaraton Trophy nominees: McFadden and attackers Sarah Mollison and Karri Ellen Johnson.

“Virginia Tech is our last game before the tournament,” Johnson said. “We’re really excited just because we want to be ACC champs and we’re going to do anything to get that. kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

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Defender Brian Farrell to redshirt

Sports

Check out TerrapinTrail.com for updates on the men’s lacrosse team, a summary of yesterday’s spring football practice and more on the women’s basketball team’s transfer situation.

Softball hosts Boston College this weekend while both men’s and women’s tennis saw their seasons end at the ACC Tournament in Cary, N.C.

Still work to do for women’s lacrosse

Reed settling in back on the attack

Terps still trying to improve despite unbeaten record

As the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team’s leader in assists, it’s fair to say Grant Catalino is underrated as a passer. But his latest dish was more of a gift than anything, and for that he can thank fellow attackman Travis Reed.

In transition against Binghamton on Tuesday, Catalino fired an off-target pass to the 5-foot-9 sniper, who picked it out of the air. Settled and alone in front of the net, Reed toyed a bit with the goalie before finishing the play with a goal.

“He makes a catch in our game against Binghamton that probably nobody else on our team could make on that 4-on-3,” coach Dave Cottle said. “He’s a smart player. He helps us play smarter when he’s out there.”

Lately, Reed has been on the field more and more. He will likely start Saturday, when the Terps (7-5) travel to Penn (3-7) while attackman Will Yeatman continues to recover from an ankle sprain.

A starter as a freshman, Reed had seen his playing time decrease this season as a result of offseason surgery.

And the transfer of Yeatman, who came highly regarded from Notre Dame, led to a crowded attack corps.

But each week Cottle has steadily increased Reed’s role, both at attack and midfield.

Sophomore attackman is performing well in place of injured Will Yeatman as team heads north to Penn

BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer

BY KATE YANCHULIS Staff writer

Elsewhere in the competitive Atlantic Coast Conference, tension is building with the approach of the final conference games this weekend, which will determine ACC Tournament seeding and postseason fates.

But for the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team, the pressure is off.

With last weekend’s win against North Carolina, the No. 2 Terps (15-0, 4-0 ACC) secured the ACC regular-season championship and a bye into the semifinal round before even touching the field in their final conference match Saturday at Virginia Tech (7-8, 1-3).

Well, almost. Technically, the conference does not reveal the official tournament seedings until after this weekend’s game, much to coach Cathy Reese’s chagrin.

“They say they don’t announce the seedings until next week, so we’ll see,” Reese said, sarcastically.

“Who knows? We’ll just look to focus on ourselves and

Caitlyn McFadden helps lead an explosive offense. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps vs. Virginia Tech Where: Blacksburg, Va. When: Saturday, 1 p.m.

TV/Radio: None tighten up the things that we do so when we step on the field against whoever it is in the first round of the ACCs; we’re ready to play.”

With a win against Virginia Tech, the Terps will be one game away from an undefeated regular season. A match against Princeton is sandwiched between the ACC and NCAA tournaments. In

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Travis Reed has increased his production since Will Yeatman got injured before last Saturday’s loss to Johns Hopkins. Reed recorded a goal and an assist in that game. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

After the Terps 10-9 loss against Johns Hopkins April 11, Blue Jays coach Dave Pietramala questioned whether the sweet-shooting sophomore was being used to his full potential.

“One of the things we’ve noticed is that they have better chemistry with Reed in the game,” Pietramala said. “He brings a lot to the table to

them in the big-little picking game.

“I’m not the coach, and look, they’re a talented team and Yeatman is one of their top scorers,” he continued.

“But I think they bring to the table a different entity with Reed in the game.”

Now, in year two of a rotating

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