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CORE-heavy Univ. Police locate missing riot video CONTROVERSY BUILDS colleges will keep funding Footage covering area, time of beating had been misplaced

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

General education plan won’t shift resources

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

The burden of teaching 80 percent of the university’s general education classes will shift away from the university’s three biggest colleges, but Provost Nariman Farvardin has promised their deans a drop in course load won’t come with a drop in funding.

The new general education program, which the University Senate passed 67-9 earlier this month, seeks to engage every college across the university in the program by asking all of them to offer general education courses. In the current CORE program, three colleges — arts and humanities, behavioral and social sciences, and chemical

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Although the post-Duke game riot happened more than a month ago, university officials had not turned over what some say is one of the most important pieces of video evidence taken from a university surveillance camera until earlier this week.

The video — which covered the hours of 12:00 a.m. to 1:30 a.m. — was the only relevant footage missing from the 60 hours of tape the university had turned over to Chris Griffiths, the attorney who represents 21-year-old John McKenna. The footage, however, does not appear to show the beating of McKenna, which was captured on film by senior electrical engineering major Ben Winter. University officials attrib-

uted the mix-up to a technicians’ error and said they have invited state police to investigate. But Griffiths said the amount of time it took for the video to surface raises serious concerns about the way the university handled this matter.

The controversy began Tuesday when university officials recovered video footage that officials said had been missing for weeks from university surveillance camera 158, which covers the portion of Knox Road from South Campus Commons buildings 3 and 4 all the way to Route 1.

The missing video surfaced in the hands of Lt. Jim Goldsmith, the commander of the University Police investigative unit. He had been conducting his own investigation of the riot since early March. Once Goldsmith learned the footage was miss-

ing from clips subpoenaed by Griffiths, he turned his copy over to officials. The original footage, which was logged on a system with a fixed capacity, would have been lost forever had Goldsmith not made a copy of his own.

A technician — or team of technicians — was responsible for removing the hours of footage requested in the subpoena. They removed 60 hours from multiple other cameras of the 350 on the campus but did not log any footage from the one camera with a clear view of the location where McKenna was beaten.

“Of the 15 or so cameras that we received, it was the one camera — the most important camera — that was omitted,” Griffiths said. “Again, they say it’s a mistake, but it’s a

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March 3 – After the Terps beat Duke, students take to Route 1.

County Police respond. They ultimately arrest 23 students.

March 4 – Students’ complaints about police brutality first surface. About 35 students participate in an impromptu rally.

March 26 – Lawyer Chris Griffiths says two of his clients will fight charges filed against them.

April 13 – Griffiths releases a video showing one of his clients, John McKenna, being beaten by police without provocation. The FBI also launches a probe.

April 20 –University Police find previously missing footage of the riot taken during the time and at the location McKenna was beaten, but the footage doesn’t show the beating.

More than 200 faculty, staff, students and guests joined the journalism school as it celebrated its new building and a new era of journalism last night in John S. and James L. Knight Hall.

Yesterday’s event was the official dedication of the $30 million facility, although students have been using the building the entire semester. The building is named after the late Knight brothers, whose foundation donated $10 million to its construction.

Speakers included university President Dan Mote, journalism Dean Kevin Klose and university alumna and former CNN anchor Connie Chung.

“It is a most impressive building,” Mote said. “It will inspire great work from our students and our faculty.”

Klose spoke to the audience about the challenges facing journalism today, commenting on the importance of the industry to the university and the nation as a whole.

“Journalism is a companion and a nurturer of liberty and independence and democratic, multiparty, multiple views coming together to find the paths forward,” he said. “The way forward is not so clear, but we are up to the challenges of change and up to the challenge of diversity in new ways.”

— Text by Jessica Bauer, photos by Jaclyn Borowski

The Senate Executive Committee decided to study age-related issues at Tuesday’s meeting. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Senate will study needs of aging faculty Univ. has high number of retirement-ready profs.

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

The University Senate plans to assign a task force to study age-related issues of emeritus faculty at the university.

The Faculty Affairs Committee proposed the senate and the provost work together to take a closer look at elderly faculty, as the university has a disproportionately large number of retirement-ready professors compared to its peer institutions. The task force would deal with bringing in new faculty to fill the large void left by older professors and also look at how to engage older faculty after retirement.

The executive committee — the senate’s most powerful committee — voted unanimously Tuesday to look into the problem further.

“We recommended that this is an important enough issue that a task force should be formed to study it,” Chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee Eric Kasischke said.

“Nobody’s thought about this before. It’s an additional challenge the university faces.”

The Faculty Affairs Committee collected data about the ages of tenure-track faculty and found that of the 1,455 professors, almost 50 percent are above the age of 55. Officials said a combination of both historic trends and recent economic troubles have contributed to the larger population of older professors.

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Bringing ‘life on the inside’ out Rapper-activist Capital-“X” speaks about the injustices of the prison system

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

Capital-“X” has been in and out of the prison system since he was 17.

He’s been on the inside, and now, he travels the world exposing the brutality and injustice he says exists in the American prison system.

Last night in the Nyumburu Cultural Center, Capital-“X,” a rapper and activist who was repeatedly incarcerated for drug-related offenses, told stories to a crowd of students about the prison industrial complex — all organizations involved in constructing, operating and promoting correctional facilities — and the parallels he sees between it and slavery.

“They stripped me of my name and gave me a number; they made me work. So now, who are the overseers?

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The prison guards. Who are the masters? The wardens. And who are the plantation owners? The corporations and the government,” Capital-“X” said. “It’s all about the money.”

Solomon Comissiong, the assistant director of student involvement and public relations for Nyumburu Cultural Center, said he brought Capital-“X” to the university as a way to heighten understanding of the issues in the prison system. The speech drew about 40 students, all of whom seemed to largely agree with the theories presented.

Although a Q-and-A session was held following his lecture, no student challenged Capital-“X” to defend his ideals, despite their highly controversial nature.

“So many people have no idea

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Capital-“X” gave an impassioned lecture about “the prison industrial complex” to a crowd of about 40 students at Nyumburu last night. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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COLLEGES from page 1 and life sciences — teach the overwhelming majority of the large lectures that end up defining the general education experience for most students.

History professor Ira Berlin, the chair of the General Education Task Force, met with the three deans at the beginning of the semester. Each had major concerns over how funding would change after the courses were spread out among the university’s 13 colleges. But Farvardin reassured them funds would not decrease.

“With any change, people are concerned,” Berlin said. “[The deans] want to be reassured the resources are there, and that’s been a concern. I think they’ve been reassured, and they seem to be very supportive. All the deans have spoken in pretty much one voice in favor of the program.”

Although the schools — even ones such as public policy and information studies, which currently offer mostly graduate courses — will engage in the new plan, arts and humanities Dean James Harris said the main three colleges, along with the computer, mathematical and physical sciences college, will continue to house the bulk of the classes.

“Those colleges offer so many seats already that the momentum is there,” he said.

“You can’t change that totally.

It’s such a big iceberg; it can’t be whittled away easily.

Other colleges will do some; others will do a lot. Any increase that is done will take some of the burden off the core colleges and enrich the student experience.”

For Harris, making sure funding was readily available in the tough economic climate was a priority.

“My question [to Farvardin] was very basic: If ARHU is expected to teach more students and more credit hours, will we be given more money?” he said. “And the answer was yes, but it will probably be phased in over time. With the current budget, there’s no way this college can handle any significant increase without diminishing the quality of what we do. We can’t do that.”

Farvardin said redistributing courses is a necessary change under the new plan and external funding will help make the transition manageable.

Students celebrate 40th anniversary of Earth Day Groups mark environmental holiday with week of events and discussions on the campus

BY DANA CETRONE Staff writer

Earth Day celebrates its 40th anniversary today as student groups do their part to make sure the environmental activism holiday is nowhere near over the hill.

University groups are marking four decades of environmental activism this week with a slew of events from a farmers market to a stream clean-up to a film festival and ending in a Clean Energy Town Hall with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) tomorrow.

Earth Day began in 1970 as an effort by a small committee headed by Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) to educate the country about environmental protection. Earth Day is now celebrated in over 175 countries.

University groups have advocated year-round for environmental conservation efforts celebrated by the original Earth Day founders.

Campus sustainability efforts have centered on local issues such as a Clean Energy Loan Fund bill for the city and saving the Wooded Hillock — an area behind Comcast Center — from demolition.

“I think that the entire crux of the movement towards mitigating climate change is

“The course load will become much more reasonable,” he said. “It will take some of the load off colleges who are carrying too heavy a weight and will put a very modest load on a large number of colleges that are not involved. Whatever implication it may have, we’ll make sure it’s very transitional and smooth. Hopefully by securing additional outside resources, we can make sure this won’t be a burden on any colleges.”

The plan engages other colleges by requiring that each one offers an “I”-Series course, the staple of the new plan that focuses on answering real-world questions in small class settings. Berlin and other deans said the wider distribution would be beneficial to the three colleges that have carried the weight of the CORE courses by offering more flexibility in the kinds of courses they offer.

“I think the committee did a great job and the plan is very forward-thinking,” said Norma Allewell, dean of the chemical and life science college, noting that her college will not change significantly because students will still have to fulfill science courses under the new plan.

“We’ve been doing well under the previous program, and I think we’ll be doing even better in terms of offering more courses that are exciting.”

An implementation committee chaired by Dean of Undergraduate Studies Donna Hamilton will be established this semester to work out issues such as how many courses each college will be responsible for teaching. Transitioning the programs will begin in 2011 and will most likely be phased in over four years.

Because implementation specifics are still unclear, some deans couldn’t comment on how the plan would affect their colleges, but offered support for it in general.

“I will say that, as one who has been calling for some time for a replacement of the CORE program, I am ver y pleased to see this new gened program which, I believe, offers a significant improvement in the experience we offer our undergraduates over the present program,” wrote Steve Halperin, dean of the computer, mathematical and physical sciences college, in an e-mail. redding@umdbk.com

about decentralizing things so we function as communities because, really, if we live sustainably, we’re living close to what we’re doing and where we live,” UMD for Clean Energy Director Laura Calabrese said.

UMD for Clean Energy and other environmental groups and university departments came together yesterday on McKeldin Mall for “The Other Mother’s Day,” sponsored by the Student Government Association.

The event was a collection of student groups with booths giving out information about their environmental sustainability efforts.

“It’s really hard to get the whole country to move in the right direction — that’s a lot of infrastructure,” Calabrese said. “But if we take this on locally, it’s less of an organizational hassle, especially for the government.”

Today, the Faith Community Network of College Park, an interfaith group made up of Islamic, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist and Episcopal religious groups in the city, will gather to clean the Guilford Run Stream, which runs alongside Guilford Road in front of the Lutheran church.

Katlin Meissinger, a member of the SGA's student sustainability committee, pours fresh paint for students to use to make handprints on a banner. The organization organized an Earth Day event on McKeldin Mall on Tuesday. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

“What we hope to do, as with most events for Earth Day, is to raise consciousness for the environment,” said James Vigen, pastor of Hope Lutheran Church, which is part of the interfaith group.

Vigen said the inter faith

group wanted to come together in a “broader sense” and decided to ask Mayor Andy Fellows what they could do in the community to work together towards a common good.

“Mayor Fellows, with his

environmental background, suggested that we do environmental work,” Vigen said. “We thought Guilford Stream was a central location between all of the faith centers.” dcetrone@umdbk.com

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“This is a unique problem,” Kasischke said. “The university’s faculty started growing rapidly after World War II. Most of those professors have stayed and are now at retirement age. But the economy impacted people’s decisions to retire.”

Although the task force doesn’t have a formal plan of action yet, officials said they will examine how the university recruits new tenure-track faculty after elderly professors retire.

“How do we replace these aging faculty when they do retire?” asked senator Lillian Doherty. “That’s something that really needs to be looked at, whether it’s through this task force or another.”

The task force will also determine what kinds of services should be offered to these aging faculty members, such as how to facilitate retirement

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The Senate Executive Committee discusses creating a task force to study how the university can meet the needs of emeritus faculty Tuesday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

and how the university will handle so many emeritus faculty.

Some emeritus faculty members said that while retired professors used to complain about a lack of interaction with the university, conditions have improved over the last few years.

“It took some time, but the university has developed some

pretty nice relationships with emeritus faculty,” said Marvin Breslow, an emeritus professor and parliamentarian of the senate. “There were a lot of complaints before I retired [in 2000] that we were ignoring emeritus faculty, and they were a resource we should be using better. I feel pretty good about the university reaching out and being available. It’s up to me

whether or not I take part in all of those interactions.”

Kasischke and his committee will expand on their report, documenting a formal charge and incorporating the suggestions made by the executive committee and will present it to the senate body as a draft on May 5. redding@umdbk.com

coincidence which raises enough questions that one would hope that it’s thoroughly investigated.”

University spokesman Milree Williams and University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said the university has asked state police to investigate the matter. Both officials, who spoke at a press conference at the university visitor’s center yesterday, said they don’t believe any employee misconduct took place during or after the riot, adding a state investigation should help clear up any uncertainties.

“As of today, the Mar yland State Police have begun an investigation or a review of our processes,” Williams said. “We’re expecting that review to show us some of the things that we can get a little better at.”

Dillon and Williams both said they can only characterize the coincidence as a technician’s error.

“Well, it started with what we believe was a technician’s mistake,” Dillon said, adding that because the university was other wise compliant, had the 90 minutes from camera 158 never been misplaced, there would be no controversy to look into.

“However, we are having the Mar yland State Police come in to do a review to make sure that is the case. If they find out something differently, then we’re going to take appropriate action to fix it if we have any employee misconduct.”

Dillon added since the footage does not show McKenna’s beating, the argument that his department is trying to hide something “doesn’t hold any weight.”

There are still three minutes of missing footage, roughly from 11:59 p.m. to 12:02 a.m., but Dillon said nothing germane happened during those few minutes. A review of the moments directly before and immedi-

“As of today, the Maryland State Police have begun an investigation or a review of our processes.”

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ately following the missing minutes seems to confirm Dillon’s statement.

Another element of controversy that recently surfaced was that Lt. Joanne Ardovini — who was in charge of monitoring the university’s sur veillance system on March 4 — is married to one of the mounted county police officers who was on duty during the riot.

Her husband, Officer John Ardovini, was named in the charging documents against McKenna and sophomore Ben Donat, both of whom no longer face charges.

Williams said Ardovini has since removed herself from the investigation because of a potential conflict of interest. He noted her motives are not being questioned by the university.

“Lt. Ardovini has been working for the university for a ver y long time,” Williams said. “She is a ver y trusted employee.”

Students said although they would like to trust the university to do the right thing, the entire chronicle of events don’t quite add up.

“It’s not a coincidence,” junior aerospace major Steve Sherman said. “That seems a little unlikely.”

Sophomore individual studies major Lauren Englehart also said the series of events seems suspicious to her.

“I hate to think that the people that work here would do that,” she said, referring to Ardovini’s potential conflict of interest. present@umdbk.com

Capital-“X” spoke to about 40 students last night at Nyumburu Cultural Center about what he’s learned both in and out of the prison system. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

PRISON from page 1 what the prison industrial complex is — you have companies involved in the stock market and privatized prisons that make people a lot of money,” Comissiong said.

Throughout his two hour lecture, Capital-“X” criticized the treatment of prisoners and the lack of educational services provided inside prison walls.

“I went in a scared kid and came out a criminal,” he said.

“In many European countries, they treat the prisoners like human beings, and in return, the prisoners act human. Here, they treat you like an animal, and that’s exactly what you become.”

Capital-“X” called for rehabilitation, not incarceration, for inmates. He said the prisoners need to be given inspirational stories and books that will push them to see their lives and potential on the outside in a positive light.

“Ever y single day, you have to work to better yourself and get ready for your release,” Capital-“X” said.

“The revolution I’m fighting here is an informational revolution, because you’ve all been lied to [about the prison system].”

In the United States, he said, it’s the responsibility of

the prisoners, not just the rehabilitation centers, to seek information, read books and learn. He cited countries such as Norway and Sweden as having an inherently different structure in their prison systems, comparing their prisons to repair shops and American prisons to warehouses.

Capital-“X” also stressed that many people don’t think about the amount of money being exchanged during the creation and maintenance of a prison: the construction, the employees, the administration, the businesses that distribute prison supplies, and the list goes on and on, he said.

He explained the prison industry as a multibillion-dollar operation second only to the military industry. He said if profits go down in prisons, the government creates new laws and finds new criminals.

“What does military do when business is slow?” he asked. “You start a war. ...

There’s so much money to be made there.”

After Capital-“X” concluded his talk, Comissiong used drug addicts as an example to illustrate the issues facing U.S. prisoners.

“You can’t take someone addicted to crack and expect them to be cured by incarceration,” Comissiong said. farrell@umdbk.com

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Electing education

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wo old foes will likely face off in the voting booth this November. sion. It has since dropped 15 spots to become the 21st most expensive.

But no tuition freeze can last forever. And although in-state undergraduates Former Gov. Robert Ehrlich announced his bid for governor earlier this month, and Gov. Martin O’Malley is set to make his announce- will see their tuition bill rise 3 percent this fall, Ehrlich’s assertion that higher ment for reelection next week. Marylanders will have to make a education in the state has suffered under the O’Malley administration flies in familiar choice between a man they voted out of office four years ago and a the face of reality. In many ways, this university has never been more highly regarded. We are currently considered the 12th best public university in the man they may want to vote out of office now. country by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

But the race between O’Malley and Ehrlich is not the And we are placed as the eighth best value in public higher only instance of déjà vu hitting the state’s political arena. education — a ranking that combines cost and quality — by Ehrlich’s contemptuous and hostile attitude toward Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. higher education is, again, rearing its ugly head. YesterGov. Martin O’Malley has And according to University System of Maryland Chanday, Ehrlich said on the Baltimore radio show Midday on cellor Brit Kir wan, state universities have seen a rise in WYPR that the tuition freeze, which has held in-state been a better friend to throughout the tuition freeze. Although in-state tuition steady for the past four years, has “hurt higher higher education than for- resources tuition for undergraduates remained frozen, out-of-state education” in the state. Even though Ehrlich is in the mer Gov. Robert Ehrlich. and graduate tuition has continued to bring in revenue. midst of a campaign running as the underdog, we can’t And while the Board of Regents has proposed a tuition help but wonder how a former governor could make such increase every year, Annapolis has compensated by increasing state support. a false statement.

The tuition freeze has allowed this university and others in the state During his term, Ehrlich hit higher education like a wrecking ball. Early on, he cut state funding for higher education, causing tuition at this university become affordable world-class institutions. Hard economic times have and others to skyrocket 40 percent — an increase similar to that facing public brought upon a thaw — but in a reasonable way that will continue to maintain universities in California, where protests and riots have rocked campuses. In accessibility and quality for Marylanders.

However, if Ehrlich’s comments yesterday tell us anything, it’s that another his 2006 campaign, O’Malley capitalized on voters’ dissatisfaction with Ehrlich administration will come down like a sledge hammer on students’ and Ehrlich’s attitudes toward higher education and pledged a tuition freeze.

And he carried through. O’Malley froze in-state undergraduate tuition for their families’ wallets. Such action would sacrifice not only the university’s calfour years and increased state support by more than 30 percent to makeup iber but also the ability of thousands to afford an education. The chaos that the difference. An undergraduate education at this university stood as the has engulfed California’s public universities may seem a world away right sixth most expensive in the country when Ehrlich left the governor’s man- now, but it could be knocking on our door come November.

Mike DiMarco is a senior English major. He can be reached at dimarco@umdbk.com.

Sarah Peitzmeier is a senior biology and music major. She can be reached at speitzme@umd.edu.

Taxes: Making dollars and sense

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VERGHESE health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid take two more dimes, more or less. Subtract the 6 cents you pay as interest on the national debt, and you are left with the final 30 cents or so that help kids go to college, make needed investments in infrastructure, fund food stamps and support scientific research.

Filing your tax return may be painful, but it’s easy to be proud of what your money will help accomplish.

Tea Party supporters would undoubtedly disagree. Those who gathered in Washington on April 15 holding “Don’t Tread on Me” signs denounce taxation as a form of tyranny and are frustrated by what they see as bloated government spending and a White House

committed to expanding government’s role in our lives.

Their positions are unfounded, and their anger is misdirected.

President Barack Obama has passed 25 separate tax cuts, including the largest middle-class tax cut in history.

According to Citizens for Tax Justice, provisions in the Recovery Act lowered taxes for 98 percent of all working families. These tax policies have led the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities to estimate that middleincome families are paying historically low levels: The average family of four is paying only 4.6 percent of its income in federal income taxes — the second-lowest level in 50 years. Rather than face the facts, it is easier to believe untruths about how the poor pay no taxes or that Americans work four months of the year to cover our federal tax liability.

It is easy to advocate for smaller government, but there is a disconnect over what should be cut. According to a New York Times/CBS Poll, Tea Party sup-

porters, being disproportionately older, want to keep their Social Security and Medicare — the two largest spending drivers. If you include defense spending in the untouchable category, you are left with a small number of discretionary programs that could be cut. Unsurprisingly, you don’t see anyone clamoring to slash NASA, National Institutes of Health or transportation funding.

The energy we witness today, rather than being wasted, should be channeled toward Republicans who supported policies in the past that favored Wall Street, big banks and the wealthy and allowed them to sink America’s economy. The anger should be directed at those Republicans who again stand with Wall Street and the big banks to block financial reform and new consumer protections. Want to make a difference? Start there.

Matt Verghese is a graduate student in public policy. He can be reached at verghese@umdbk.com.

Humans vs. Zombies: Feeling like a kid again UNDERDOG(S) OF THE WEEK aybe it’s because I rarely leave the confines of my home for fear of being dragged into the problems of others, but a few days ago, when I was walking around the campus in the early evening, I spotted a strange little spectacle. I usually pay little attention to the goings-on of the general public, but when you happen upon a group of kids shooting Nerf guns at another group of kids who appear to be emulating zombies, you have to stop and think, “Wait … what?”

I’m sure that some of you have seen or participated in this odd little event, appropriately referred to as “Humans vs. Zombies.”

I did some minimal research and discovered HvZ is actually a pretty popular little role-playing game played at a number of universities nationwide.

The whole point is for the “zombie”

team to tag humans — thus converting them to the ranks of the walking undead — and for the “human” team to murder the hell out of the zombie crew with fluorescent-colored Nerf weapons of death. While reading the rules online, it became pretty apparent these devoted participants don’t mess around with this shit, with rules such as “No artificial means of propulsion may be used to attack anyone. No skateboards, bikes, cars, rollerblades, parachutes or hang gliders.”

Now, I’ll admi,t on the long list of things to do in public that almost beg for you to be given a wedgie by an unnamed bully, running around with a bright orange foam sword and chasing around your buddy who is pretending to be a zombie is pretty high up there. Let’s face it: Live-action roleplaying games have seldom gotten anyone laid in the past — if it has, that

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DIMARCO was some freaky bedroom action. But you know what, who cares? As strange and uncool as it may be, these kids have the balls to go out in public on a college campus and act like kids because it’s fun.

I’ll be the first to admit that although I watched these weirdos go at it and thought to myself, “That’s awesome,” I’m damn sure not going to be joining them anytime soon. The vast majority of us are simply too self-conscious about how we look in public to cut loose and just have some good, oldfashioned childish giggles with our friends. It’s the same reason I never dragged my fat ass up the rock climbing wall or why most of us stopped

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rubbing Testudo’s nose like a week into freshman year. We’re too afraid of looking like a goober, and thus, we stop having fun.

Whether or not you’re into killing zombies with sock grenades, the point is this: On a college campus with so many of us trying so hard to mesh with the general populous, it’s refreshing to see some craziness going down. Remember last year when we had that huge pillow fight?

Or during the snowstorm when that campus-wide snowball fight broke out? Those seemed like silly ideas, but they both turned out to be totally awesome, right?

Real life is just around the corner, folks. On graduation day, if you want to grow up, go ahead. But for now, let’s all take some time while we’re here to just be kids for a while.

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t is difficult not to feel like a Republican when you are filling out your tax return. Despite your paltry income and those supposedly lucrative tax credits and deductions Congress passed to get you buying cars or putting solar panels on your roof, the size of your tax bill always seems too high, while the tax refund you were expecting to pay next month’s bills with won’t even cover the cost of tomorrow’s lunch. As you cut your check to the Treasury Department, it is hard not be resentful of those faceless bureaucrats in Washington who are undoubtedly wasting your hard-earned money on pointless government spending.

Thankfully, the political Jekyll and Hyde lapse should last only a few moments.

You quickly realize that while paying taxes is certainly not fun, it is a necessary cost of residency. Of every dollar you pay in federal taxes, 20 cents are spent on national security. Another 20 cents go to fund Social Security, while

SARAH PEITZMEIER n April 5, The Diamondback published a cartoon — “Sketched Inn” by Joe Welkie — that began with a lame pick-up line and ended with rape.

The man asks, “Hey baby, got any Italian in you? ... You want some?” The smiling woman replies, “Yea!” In response, the man pulls out a wooden cutout of the Italian peninsula that is longer and wider than the woman’s entire body. He lifts it over his head, yells “Here it comes!!!” and crams the heel of the boot up the woman’s skirt with such force that she is thrown spread-eagled off her feet, flying higher than the man’s head.

She appears pained; the man looks excited.

This “humorous” depiction of rape was run in the same edition of The Diamondback that featured an above-the-fold, front-page article about University Senate and University Police efforts to encourage rape victims to report sexual assault, thereby sharing the details of their experiences in the form of a crime alert.

Hundreds of victims each year do not feel comfortable seeking help from the community. The presence of violent vaginal penetration in the funnies is just one manifestation of a rape-friendly university culture that belittles and minimizes victims. The fact that “rape jokes” are an entire comic genre reflects how rape is considered a trivial act that does not affect real people.

Our cultural definition of “real” rape is so restricted it is impossible for any woman to qualify for the nurturing support society purportedly bestows upon “deser ving” rape victims.

Instead, we say she wasn’t “really” raped, she just regretted having sex, or she shouldn’t have been drinking. What did she expect after she made out with him and wore that skirt? Drinking alcohol, consensual sexual activity and wearing skirts are all considered rape-worthy offenses, resulting in “justifiable rape” in the way St. Thomas Aquinas expounded the God-given right to wage a just war. This attitude betrays a distressing preoccupation with the things victims “shouldn’t” do instead of the things perpetrators shouldn’t do — namely, rape people.

“Real” rape victims worthy of sympathy are those who are raped by strangers, fight back, sustain massive physical trauma, report the crime promptly to the police and successfully prosecute their attacker in court. But when this actually happens, we still vilify the victim. In February 2009, a student was abducted by a man driving a car down Route 1. She attempted to escape, but he repeatedly punched her in the face. He brutally raped her, then drove more than 30 minutes away to an unfamiliar location and forced her to jump out of the moving vehicle.

The police found her with her eye swollen shut, bruises all over her face, a bloody nose and severe road rash.

The single, baffling question many people at this university posed was, “Why did she get in a car with him?” The question we should ask is, “Why did this man rape an innocent young woman and leave her to die by the side of the road?”

Rape is not a concept. Rape is not a slapstick vaudeville gag.

Rape is a reality. Rape is on our campus, in our dorms and in our homes. Rape is, by definition, forced and is never asked for, justifiable or the fault of the victim.

Rape is always the fault of the perpetrator or perpetrators.

Rape has happened to you or to your friends and family, whether you are acutely aware or utterly ignorant of this fact. If we want victims to feel safe coming forward, then we cannot meet their stories with disbelief, scorn, anger and judgment — particularly not mirth. If we want victims to report sexual assault, we need to change the behavior — not of victims themselves, but of our entire community.

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The worst laid Plan

BY VAMAN MUPPALA Senior staff writer

Making a categorical judgment such as “all romantic comedies are bad” is entirely pointless, not because it isn’t true but because it’s just way too easy. Therefore, the rule should be amended to, “Every romantic comedy with a female star named Jennifer is guaranteed to be god-awful.”

One need only mention recent critical failures Valentine’s Day (Jennifer Garner), Love Happens (Jennifer Aniston) and He’s Just Not That Into You (Aniston, Jennifer Connelly) before the point is proven with a groan.

In this instance, the Jennifer in question is Jennifer Lopez (El Cantante) and the film is The Back-up Plan. Its title is a reference to her aging, successful

pet store owner Zoe’s decision to be artificially inseminated after striking out with the men of New York City. Just as Zoe writes off ever finding “the one,” the laws of introductory screenwriting act so that she finds cheese farmer Stan (Alex O’Loughlin, Whiteout) after a chance meeting caused by them hailing the same cab.

Are there really no better methods for screenwriters to force their leads to collide than the meeting-in-a-taxi scenario?

Judging by the frequency of this lazy, hackneyed device, OkCupid should have already lost its customer base to the New York Taxi Cab industry.

Poor Stan is thrust uncomfortably into the modern male lead’s simple seductive binary. He has to play the masculine ideal at first, taming farm animals and living

shirtless for large amounts of time. Then, he needs to be humanized through fainting spells, slapstick mishaps and accidental arson. Women may want him, but men will assuredly cringe at the prospect of ever being forced to spend time with him.

Lopez must be given credit for expanding her range enough to play someone whose Puerto Rican ancestry is not clear. It’s plausible enough that she’s named Zoe, but the filmmakers may have pushed their post-racial luck a bit far when they gave Lopez an apparently Jewish grandmother whom she calls Nana.

Even though the film is conceptually harmless and exists in

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The Back-up Plan proves one thing: Jennifer Lopez needs to go away and never come back the most numbing genre known to man, The Back-up Plan contains odd, misplaced and occasionally offensive helpings of locker room raunchiness. “Have you seen my vagina?... I will show you my vagina,” warns friend, mother of three and owner of a decimated vagina, Mona (Michaela Watkins, Yoga Matt). In fact, all of Lopez’s female buddies are bawdy enough to replace the bros from Hot Tub Time Machine.

As with any Lopez film, her derriere becomes a reliable punchline. In Monster-In-Law, it was her inability to fit a dress

over said body part. Here, its degradation in quality following the pregnancy is thoroughly examined.

The Farrelly brothers-esque animal hygiene humor in the film is just as bad as it sounds.

Zany physical comedy fills out the rest of the strained comedic oeuvre. A Knocked Up-style aping, full frontal birth shot is thrown in for extra shock value.

Constant use of the word vagina and extremely graphic explorations of everything birthrelated is admirable for its stigma busting intentions. In practice, however, the filmmakers express quite juvenile attitudes, replacing the current comedic gold mines of weed and scatology with birthing, babies

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If The Back-up Plan fails at the box office as it sorely deserves to, then the paltry sales can be viewed as part of a wider cultural backlash against Lopez’s creative ventures. The lead singles from her album flopped spectacularly, and mankind has yet to find anyone who laughed during her Saturday Night Live hosting gig.

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Terps’ offense falters again in 3-1 loss to state rival Tigers Baseball wastes 7 hits, leaves 12 runners on base to split season series with Towson

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

In yesterday’s inglorious battle of conference-worst units, Towson’s pitching found a way to be just better than the Terrapin baseball team’s hitting.

Tigers’ pitchers Mike Volpe, Wes Shifflett and Drew Permison, staples of a Towson pitching stable that ranks last in the Colonial Athletic Association, combined to hold the Terps’ ACC-worst offense to just one unearned run in a 3-1 win that split the instate season series.

Pinch-hitter Tyler Bennett left the bases loaded against Permison in the bottom of the ninth when he popped out to first.

“Tyler is a good fastball hitter, and we thought if he went up there hunting a fast-

ball we might get a good chance,” coach Erik Bakich said. “We had good energy tonight. We just couldn’t find a guy to get that big hit when we needed it most.”

With the defeat, the Terps have lost four of their last five games as they enter a daunting weekend home series against No. 2 Virginia.

Whether it was the soggy field conditions or the quality of the starting pitching, both teams started slowly offensively. Towson (12-27) struck first when leadoff hitter Ben Winter singled and advanced to second on a fielding error by left fielder Mike Rozak. After two straight outs, cleanup hitter Austin Harclerode drove a ball to the fence in right field, plating Winter.

Despite taking the loss in this game for the Terps (15-

25), reliever Matt Passauer continued to emerge as a potential weekend relief option after striking out six Tigers and allowing just one earned run in 3.2 innings.

A transfer from Duquesne, Passauer sat out last season and spent the first 40 games of this season pitching in games already well in hand.

But after yet another solid outing, Passauer has impressed his coach enough to potentially merit more important assignments as the season goes on.

“There is no question that was the best he has pitched all season,” Bakich said. “His role all season has been in long relief when we need someone to pitch multiple innings. Now he is starting to prove he can pitch when the game is closer.”

Despite a 17.28 ERA in only 16.2 innings this season, Volpe baffled the Terps’ hitters, limiting them to four hits with two strikeouts and no walks in five innings.

He had help, though. The Terps stranded 12 runners on base yesterday.

Shifflett relieved Volpe and threw two scoreless innings before the Terps took advantage of closer Drew Permison’s control issues to threaten the Tigers’ lead.

Terps’ shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez reached second base when the Tigers’ left fielder misplayed his line drive, and the Terps quickly loaded the bases after consecutive walks from Permison. Rodriguez then scampered home on a wild pitch, accounting for the Terps’ only run.

“We had good energy tonight.

We just couldn’t find a guy to get that big hit when we needed it most.”

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ACC from page 8 get to watch as their fellow conference opponents fight for a second-round berth.

Despite winning a share of the conference title, Virginia received the No. 3 seed. They’ll play without the luxury of a firstround bye, making their road to the championship much more demanding. Today, the Cavaliers face Virginia Tech.

“We have to play three games in four days to win it and against some of the top teams in the countr y,” Virginia coach Julie Myers said. “It makes it difficult.”

The Terps will play the winner of that game tomorrow, while the Tar Heels will face the winner of No. 6 Duke and No. 16 Boston College. Boasting a high ranking all season, Duke is also among the favorites to win the title. But even the Eagles enter the tournament as a possible title-contending team, hoping to knock off some of the perennial contenders.

Duke coach Kerstin Kimel said she already knows that.

“They’re a damn good team, and they should be ranked higher than that,” Kimel said.

“But with everyone ranked so high, having the opportunity to play a high-level opponent helps our RPI.” The format of the tournament makes it difficult for teams that play in the first round to win it all. Only once in the past four years has a team that played in the first round won the ACC championship — which means winning three games in four days.

“It’s a lot of running, it’s a big field, and there aren’t that many timeouts — it can create a big challenge for teams playing in the first round,” Kimel said. “It’s important to be well prepared and find ways to keep your team as fresh as possible. Those are the biggest keys to advancing.”

But Terps’ coach Cathy Reese knows that even with the first-round bye, any shot at winning the championship can disappear with one slipup.

“Any game can go any way,” Reese said. “A lot of these games have been really close. It’s just such an intense tournament.”

Only one goal decided four of the 10 matchups between top-five seeds this season. But the tournament isn’t just for bragging rights, it’s an important tool for evaluating teams for the NCAA Tournament selection in about two weeks.

Just by competing, each team’s RPI and strength of schedule will likely increase, helping their résumés.

Still, it feels better to win an outright title than to share it with two other teams.

“We go into the ACC Tournament knowing that one team will come out on top,” Reese said, “and there will be a clear winner.”

TERP NOTE: The Terps placed a league-best five players on the All-ACC women’s lacrosse team, which was announced yesterday. Attackers Karri Ellen Johnson and Sarah Mollison, midfielders Caitlyn McFadden and Katie Schwarzmann and defender Karissa Taylor were all named to the team. ceckard@umdbk.com

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Weekend tennis preview Check out www.diamondbackonline.com for a preview of the action for the men’s and women’s tennis teams at the ACC Tournament.

2010 NFL DRAFT |

TONIGHT: ROUND ONE TOMORROW: ROUNDS TWO AND THREE SATURDAY: ROUNDS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN

With the NFL Draft set to begin tonight, check out where some eligible Terps stand, according to NFLDraftScout.com Compiled by Aaron Kraut

BRUCE CAMPBELL | OFFENSIVE TACKLE PROJECTION: Second round BACKGROUND: Campbell impressed with his February scouting combine performance and was briefly considered a high first-round pick.

But after critics pointed toward the 6-foot-7 tackle’s inconsistent play in college, his stock dropped.

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TERRELL SKINNER | SAFETY PROJECTION: Undrafted BACKGROUND: NFL.com draft analyst Gil Brandt labeled Skinner the sleeper of the Terps’ 2010 draft class because of his perfect size for the position. The All-ACC nominee will likely have to make a team as an undrafted free agent.

Midfielder Brittany Jones breaks away from the defense in a Feb. 27 game at Duke. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Women’s lax preps for top-heavy conference tournament chase

NOLAN CARROLL | CORNERBACK PROJECTION: Sixth round BACKGROUND: Carroll broke his leg in the second game of the season last fall but has been able to partially regain his standing in this draft class with solid numbers, including a 4.37-second 40-yard dash in the Terps’ Pro Timing Day.

Staff writer

Including the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team, four of the top six programs in the country will today descend upon College Park with the tournament title of the nation’s toughest conference on the line.

After the No. 3 Terps earned a share of the ACC regular season title with No. 1 North Carolina and No. 4 Virginia, this year’s tournament will play an important factor in determining the clear confer-

ence winner, as well as the top team in the country.

The tournament includes three rounds, with the top two teams receiving a bye.

Since the Terps, Tar Heels and Cavaliers all finished with equal conference records and head-to-head records, the tiebreaker is goal differential in head-tohead matches.

The Terps (14-1, 4-1 ACC) had a plus-two goal differential, one fewer than North Carolina. Both the Terps and Tar Heels will

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CORY JACKSON | FULLBACK PROJECTION: Undrafted BACKGROUND: Jackson worked out with Carroll in Atlanta to improve his stock and impressed scouts at the Senior Bowl. But as a fullback, a position NFL teams rarely target in the draft, Jackson will also likely have to earn his way onto a team as a free agent.

ACC boasts four top-6 programs

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OTHER PROSPECTS

TRAVIS IVEY | DEFENSIVE TACKLE

QB CHRIS TURNER | PROJECTION: Undrafted

PROJECTION: Seventh round-undrafted BACKGROUND: At 6-foot-4, 325 pounds, Ivey has the ideal size for an NFL defensive tackle. The Riverdale native started all 12 games for the Terps last season.

C PHIL COSTA | PROJECTION: Undrafted CB ANTHONY WISEMAN | PROJECTION: Undrafted S JAMARI MCCOULLOUGH | PROJECTION: Undrafted