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SGA funds groups $10,000 after emergency meeting Money pulled from technology grant given to six student organizations

BY SARAH MEEHAN Senior staff writer

The SGA restored more than $10,000 in funding to six student groups after an emergency meeting of executives on Friday, providing the groups with money originally intended for new computers

A Vito’s Pizzeria employee reviews security footage taken during a burglary that took place around 4 a.m. yesterday, the shop’s owner said. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

and accessories for offices.

The groups had been promised additional funding in a Wednesday meeting before Student Government Association officials realized they had offered some $20,000 more than they actually had available, sparking outcry against the body and concerns that

some of the groups wouldn’t be able to survive.

Each of the six groups was given the amount it was originally allocated Wednesday — $1,142 went to the Jewish Social Action Committee, $1,856 to Satanic Mechanic Theater Company, $5,810 to WMUC Radio, $253 to Ter-

rapin Anime Society, $1,000 to the Bangladeshi Student Association and $353 to the Black Honors Caucus, for a total of $10,414.

“The SGA executives really pulled through for us,” WMUC Sports business director Jamie

see FUNDS, page 3

Vito’s Pizzeria owner reports more than $1,500 stolen After reviewing footage, restaurant owner says he recognizes burglar

BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Senior staff writer

Although county police are working to track down the burglar who entered Vito’s Pizzeria early yesterday morning and took more than $1,500, the restaurant’s owner said it won’t be difficult to find the culprit — it’s someone he knows, whose face was also caught on video surveillance.

With the help of security cameras, owner Vito Riccio said he recognized the burglar broke into the pizzeria through a window at about 4:05 a.m., stealing money from both the register and a spot in the store where Riccio keeps his deposits.

No arrests have been

made, according to Prince George’s County Police Detective Sean Lewis. He was unable to comment further because of the ongoing investigation and would not confirm that the burglar had been caught on video.

“A burglar y did occur at that establishment, and currently we are investigating and will follow any leads that may arise,” Lewis said.

But Riccio said after looking over the store’s security tapes, he recognized the burglar’s face. In addition, Riccio said very few people know where he kept the deposits.

“It’s somebody that I know, but I can’t reveal who did it

TWICE AS NICE

One team’s run was emotional.

The other’s was expected. On Sunday, both were clutching ACC Championship trophies.

After an emotional week marred by the death of the mother of Terrapin men’s lacrosse attackman Ryan Young, the Terps topped

Duke, 11-9, to claim their first ACC Tournament title since 2005.

The Terrapin women’s lacrosse team, meanwhile, captured its third straight conference title with a 12-7 win against North Carolina.

– Text by Jonas Shaffer; photos by Charlie DeBoyace

see BURGLARY, page 3

SGA supports adding more exam study days

BY ALISSA GULIN Senior staff writer

As finals week creeps closer, members of the SGA are working to make cramming for exams easier on future students.

Last week the Student Government Association unanimously voted in support of a bill that asks the administration to increase the number of study days, called reading days by the university, provided for students before exam week begins, a move legislators said is critical to successful academic performance. “[One study day] really isn’t enough time for most students who often have more than one exam,” said journalism legislator Michelle Chan, who wrote the resolution. “If students are taking 15 credits on average,

you can generally count on at least three to four exams each semester. Sometimes they’re spaced out but often they’re not. ... I like to think I would do better if I had more time.”

Several SGA legislators said another primary concern is that sometimes the study day — intended to be a block of time with no classes for students to prepare for exams — falls on a weekend. This puts students who don’t work on Saturday or Sunday for religious reasons at an unfair disadvantage, they said.

The bill doesn’t specify how many extra days the SGA is seeking, but Chan said legislators are hoping for two or three — the number provided at several of the university’s peer

see EXAMS, page 3

DOTS completes most annual goals, officials say Students criticize department’s ticketing policy, campus traffic

BY SPENCER ISRAEL Staff writer

In its annual report last year, DOTS pledged to eliminate physical parking permits for students and expand outreach and transparency before the end of the 2010-11 fiscal year — initiatives officials now say they have accomplished with more than two months to spare.

But as the Department of Transportation Services looks to set its goals for next year, officials concede there are still

several areas the department can improve upon.

With the parking permit program that rolled out in time for the fall semester, DOTS completed an effort that it began studying the year before: using license plate-scanning cameras to see whether vehicles are properly registered for the lot in which they’re parked.

One DOTS employee, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized

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DOTS from page 1 to speak to the media, said the system still has a few bugs; people who register more than one car on their permits are occasionally ticketed for not being registered. But DOTS Assistant Director Beverly Malone said the new system has worked well overall and helps the department keep more accurate statistics.

“It used to be impossible to keep track of how many people were registered because we were always issuing new permits to people who lost them,” she said.

“But [the license plate recognition software] should mean it will be easier to count.”

According to last year’s report, DOTS also wanted to increase its transparency to students and provide more channels for the university community to communicate with officials.

In response, they started a blog and Twitter and Facebook accounts and redesigned the DOTS website in an attempt to make information more available.

To replace the old ShuttleTrac bus tracking system, DOTS also installed NextBus, a phone hotline and online feature that provides real-time information on the location of a bus. Students can now see exactly when a bus will show up and plan accordingly rather than blindly wait at a stop, Malone said, calling the service “one of the best things we did.”

Despite the progress made in the past two semesters, both stu-

dents and officials say there is still more work to be done.

For instance, planning for some future DOTS projects has been stymied by a lack of coordination among different departments and other state agencies working on them, such as the proposed redesign of Lot HH1 across from Stamp Student Union.

“The problem is it’s still undetermined how that space will be used,” DOTS Director David Allen said, adding that the yet-undecided route for the Purple Line light rail will affect the department’s plans.

Students also agreed that while DOTS overall provides a convenient service, there are aspects they would like to see changed.

“They should be more lenient in regards to parking in front of North Campus dorms,” sophomore finance major Ariel Khizgilov said. “I got a ticket for standing in front of the dorm while I was moving in a fridge.”

Senior community health major Esteban Torres, who drives a new weekend Shuttle-UM route to Beltway Plaza, was concerned that students trying to get from University Courtyards apartments to the student union find themselves on a route with an hour’s worth of additional stops and noted that weekday rush-hour traffic is very congested on the campus.

“During peak hours, like 4 to 6 p.m., this campus gets horrible,” he said. “But [DOTS is] doing the best they can.” israel@umdbk.com

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Vomit remains in dining hall stairwell After more than a month, Dining Services and Stamp Student Union officials disagree over responsibility for South Campus cleanup

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

More than a month ago, someone at the South Campus Dining Hall lost control of his or her stomach, splashing its contents at the bottom of a stair well to the third floor on the building’s east end.

As of last night, the bright pink splatter appeared to have been augmented by a second bout of vomiting and treated with bleach, but it was other wise undisturbed as different departments dispute who is responsible for cleaning it up.

Although the vomit is in the dining hall building, Dining Ser vices spokesman Bart Hipple said, it is actually Stamp Student Union — which owns the dining hall’s third-floor office space — that is responsible for keeping the stair well clean.

“As soon as you walk through those black doors, that’s where we end,” Hipple said of the doors from the dining area by the Gazebo Room toward the stair way.

But Steve Gnadt, the associate facilities director for Stamp, told it differently, saying the student union is only responsible for the offices and hallways on the building’s top floor, which he said are cleaned at least once a day.

In fact, he added, when the counseling center was temporarily moved to the third floor, Dining Ser vices took responsibility for painting over graffiti in one of the building’s stair wells.

“We are responsible for the third floor and the third floor only,” Gnadt said.

Because the vomit is in an area used primarily for access to the third-floor offices, few regular patrons at the dining hall had noticed it. But once they heard about

This vomit has remained at the bottom of a flight of stairs in the South Campus Dining Hall that leads to third-floor offices owned by Stamp Student Union for more than a month. The two departments have disputed who is responsible for cleaning the mess. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

the mess, many said it should have been cleaned up long ago.

“That’s disgusting. I’m surprised it doesn’t smell as bad in here as you think it would,” sophomore neurobiology and physiology major Lauren Geffen said. “That’s really gross.”

Another university department came under scrutiny for similar sanitation problems last year, after employees of the Department of Transportation Ser vices complained that vomit on Shuttle-UM buses was not being thoroughly cleaned.

The Mar yland Occupational Safety and Health agency investigated and ultimately determined that DOTS’ vomit cleanup policy met state standards.

Eric Uttenreither, the assistant commissioner for MOSH, said the agency would only step in to investigate if an employee made a complaint, as was the case with the DOTS incident.

While the DOTS employees had said the vomit put them at risk for HIV or hepa-

titis, Uttenreither said he was not aware of any serious health hazards associated with vomit or any standard guidelines for cleaning it up in public buildings.

“The only hazard I can see it being is as a slipping hazard,” Uttenreither said. “It’s still ver y odd. It’s such an easy thing to take care of.”

He added that this “odd” problem was still something that should have already been addressed.

“Owning-a-business-wise, you should be able to have someone come in and clean that up right away,” he said.

And upon seeing the mess, several students agreed.

“Maybe they should have DOTS come and clean it up, since they know all about vomit,” junior information systems and marketing major Michael Haber said.

According to Hipple, Dining Ser vices does not have any regular janitors or housemaids assigned to the South Campus Dining Hall.

Instead, the cooks and line ser vers rotate in taking care of the facility’s ser ving and

“It is our belief that if we saw something like that, we’d understand that it reflects on us nonetheless and it would have been quickly taken care of.”

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seating areas, but they stay within the cafeteria section of the building.

“Our staff has no reason to be going in and out through that set of doors,” Hipple said on Friday, but added, “It is our belief that if we saw something like that, we’d understand that it reflects on us nonetheless and it would have been quickly taken care of.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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because I’ve got the detectives working on it,” he said. “I can’t ever get a day off — not even on Easter.”

Although the store owner recently came under fire this semester when $300 his pizzeria raised for a Relay for Life team never made it to the designated charity, Riccio said the two incidents are not related.

Riccio said he rarely goes into the restaurant that early on Sundays, but happened to go in yesterday to get a pair of shoes he wanted to wear on Easter.

“I came into the store to grab my dress shoes, and I got a funny feeling,” Riccio said.

“And then I walked in, and I said ‘Why is the register like this?’ And I walked into the room, and there was shattered glass ever ywhere, then I called the cops.”

A Vito’s Pizzeria worker repairs a window that was shattered during an alleged break-in, burglary this weekend. MATTHEW CREGER/ THE DIAMONDBACK.BACK

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institutions. At the very least, she said, she wants to ensure the study day doesn’t create a religious conflict.

SGA Vice President of Academic Affairs Saba Gyemfi said she learned of the scheduling procedures only after she met with former Provost Nariman Farvardin last month to figure out the logistical details of the SGA’s proposal, and that administrators were supportive of the concept.

However, no changes to the academic calendar could begin until at least the fall semester of the 2016-2017 year — well after Chan herself will have graduated — as the schedule has been predetermined for the next five years. Even then, adding additional study days could be complicated by a minimum number of instruction days required for each term period, and administrators must also consider religious holidays and other universityobserved closures when scheduling.

“We want to get rolling with this now,” Chan said. “A lot of the things you do, you don’t see immediate results.”

Gyemfi said she has been meeting

with Associate Provost Betsy Beise — who helps determine the academic calendar — and also hopes to put a student on the committee for the first time.

Many students said they would welcome an extra day of studying and feel that the SGA proposal is a good idea.

“I usually plan finals studying pretty well, so I haven’t had a problem,” junior government and politics major Sean Ace said. “But I’ve talked to others and I can tell it’s a problem for the majority of the student body. I don’t think students would use it to party because of how serious finals are.”

But much to the legislators’ surprise, they said administrators were not even been aware of students’ concerns about a single study day — which Chan said indicates the student body should be more vocal about their concerns and that administrators should be more proactive in eliciting student input.

“I think it is an issue that affects all students and there are concerns about this,” Chan said. “That may be a greater problem with students understanding that they do have a say in policy, and the administration needs to recognize that and communicate that to the student body.”

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differ from year to year, Gyemfi said they are flexible about how many study days could realistically be added.

“Each academic year is different, so to choose a number isn’t going to help,” Gyemfi said. “We would like as many as we possibly can get.”

The effort will be one of the last for Gyemfi, a graduating senior who took over the executive position earlier this semester when the original vice president of academic affairs, Lisa Crisalli, stepped down.

But Gyemfi will pass the baton to Jamil Scott, the current Denton legislator and a sponsor of the bill, who said she is eager to continue the effort after she is inaugurated into the executive position next week.

Scott said she and Chan, who will remain as the journalism legislator next semester, plan to continue meeting with Beise to keep the plan moving forward.

“If Maryland wants to continue establishing itself as one of the best universities in the country, then we need to get with it and make sure that our students are able to succeed and do better than other students at other universities,” Scott said. gulin@umdbk.com

FUNDS from page 1 Forzato said. “Without that $5,800, we would have been shut down, we would have had to sign off the air.”

Last year, the SGA was granted about $20,000 by the Stamp Student Union to spend on new technology for student groups. The $10,414 that went to cover the appeals deficit would have been spent on new computers and other equipment for the Student Involvement Suite in Stamp.

About $5,000 of that fund covered the suite’s telephone and Internet costs for this academic year. Roughly $5,000 remains for next year’s bills.

“It was in the unanimous opinion of the execs that this was more important,” SGA President Steve Glickman said, and University Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement approved the fund transfer.

During Wednesday’s SGA meeting, 13 student groups left under the impression they would receive money, but those funds were revoked from seven groups later that night when the SGA realized it had promised student groups appeals of about $20,000 more than the $50,000 it had to give out.

To make up the difference, legislators backtracked through each appeal and ultimately revoked about half the appeals they initially granted.

The only group that was not given in full what they had been promised Wednesday night was Engineers Without Borders, which was already granted $1,000 due to a finance committee clerical error.

Several SGA executives — who did not have a say in the earlier appeals deliberations — agreed they were unhappy with the way the funds were initially allocated, but said this was the fairest way to treat the groups that had their appeals granted and then rejected.

“After Wednesday night, I think this is the best way that the executives could have handled the situation,” Vice President of Financial Affairs Robert Mutschler said.

At this point, the SGA has contributed a total of $13,796 from its own budget to help fund student group appeals. In addition to the money the SGA extracted from next year’s technology contract, during appeals allocations, legislators also voted to remove $2,000 from its general opera-

tions budget for telephone bills and $1,382 from its general operations security/salaries budget.

Glickman said there were no preventative measures the SGA could have taken to avoid the financial crunch for funding student groups, but noted several steps the SGA has already taken to ensure this doesn’t happen in years to come.

Between the SGA’s recommendation to increase the Student Activity Fee by $6 per year and the transfer of sports clubs’ funding to Campus Recreation Services, the SGA that presides over primary funding in years to come will have much more money to work with. However, neither measure will take full effect until 2013.

Mutschler said educating legislators on the finance process would be key to preventing such over-budgeting in the future.

“Future VPs of finance can try and take more measures to educate legislature on the finance process, perhaps making it a part of the legislators’ duties that they have to attend a president-treasurers workshop or a budget workshop,” Mutschler said.

Because the SGA hasn’t raised the Student Activity Fee in several years, Glickman said this budget crisis was “a long time coming.”

Anticipating ongoing tight budgets, Mutschler said he does not expect next year’s SGA to renew the technology contract.

“I really think that basic programming for student groups is a more essential item right now,” he said.

WMUC, which has operated since 1937, risked permanently losing its broadcast license from the Federal Communications Commission, Forzato said, because the type of license it holds was discontinued in the 1980s.

“We are just so thankful and appreciative to the SGA executives for recognizing the merits of WMUC and the legacy that it’s had on Maryland’s campus,” Forzato said.

But the funds WMUC ultimately received are the bare minimum it needs to maintain its license, and will not cover the station’s other operating costs, she added.

“We’ll still be on the air, but equipment, phone lines, everything like that will be coming out of student pockets,” Forzato said.

The station continues to fundraise and has raked in $4,900 in donations so far, she added; the station is working toward a total of $15,000. meehan@umdbk.com

ON THE BLOG blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive COLLEGE PARK: IN LIVING COLOR A local city employee is hoping to combat College Park’s high business turnover rate — one coloring book at a time.

The coloring books, drawn by Big Planet Comics employee John Staton, are being released to city businesses May 7 by the College Park Neighborhood Business Alliance, a coalition formed in January to hopefully foster a more-sustainable economic environment.

Its first task was to create a poster featuring various storefronts, designed by Staton.

To read more, visit The Diamondback’s online news blog, Campus Drive.

EVALUATING THE ENVIRONMENT Imagine a world without honeybees pollinating crops or clear streams supplying pure water. Some university students will have this task in a new environmental science class being offered next semester.

ENST 410: Valuing Ecosystem Services will teach students to put an economic value on different ecosystems to understand the critical roles they play in shaping everything from government policies to food production.

To learn more about this class, which is set to debut next semester, visit The Diamondback’s online news blog, Campus Drive.

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Through it all, Number 1 Liquors has continued to prosper. But it now appears embers of the College Park City Council talk a big game about attracting businesses to the city. They voted to invest millions in a the city might finally be going in for the kill. In its budget for fiscal year 2012, the parking garage to bring more shoppers to the downtown area. They liquor store is the only business the city has targeted to turn into a park using shake their heads in sympathy and dismay when another small busi- funds obtained from the state’s Program Open Space.

The city council’s continued animosity toward what is, by most accounts, a fairly ness is forced to shutter its doors. And yet, through all their talk about wishing to make College Park great, they turn around and threaten small businesses that successful business is just as disturbing today as it was several years ago. Moreover, their arguments for why the store should go have not gained any more validdon’t fit their vision for what the city should be.

For more than six years, under two different mayors, the city council has ity. The city argues the store is an “eyesore”, is situated in the middle of student housing, doesn’t fit the city’s vision of the future and more been trying to intimidate and strong arm Number 1 green space is needed along the Route 1 corridor. Without Liquors into vacating its property. Located on Route 1 a doubt, the store is ugly. But its beer advertisements and near the University View, the liquor store has been under outdated facade are no different than multiple other estabrepeated pressure to vacate the property so the city can The city of College Park lishments that line Route 1. build green, open space. Time and again, city officials should be ashamed of its Although the city has clearly made up its mind about have said they will either buy the land from the property Number 1 Liquors, other members of the College Park owner or use the power of eminent domain to obtain and repeated attempts to shutter community have defended the store, saying a business level the property.

Number 1 Liquors.

—any business — is more likely to benefit the city’s econThe city’s attempt to revitalize College Park and present omy than a park. The North College Park Citizens Assoan aesthetically pleasing environment has its merits, but it should not come at the expense of someone’s livelihood, nor at the risk of scaring ciation voted unanimously to support the liquor store earlier this month. And away business owners from a city notorious for its high business turnover and his- students, who would be most affected by the store’s ousting, seem to have no issue with the tiny liquor store. Those living in the surrounding buildings have torically contentious relationships with landlords.

The saga between the business and the city council has been a long one. even echoed concerns about the city’s attitude and questioned the usefulness of When The View opened in 2005, city officials encouraged builders to seize the a park in that location.

This, however, is apparently irrelevant to the city council. Their crusade to get property using eminent domain as part of the larger development. In 2009, former Mayor Stephen Brayman openly joked that developers nearby should what they want at the expense of others continues. Perhaps they will be successful destroy the successful liquor store with a crane. That same year, the city council in purchasing the property, or perhaps they will use their power to seize the land. voted 5-3 to attempt to purchase the property without notifying the business In either case, the city continues to tread down a dangerous road. To think other beforehand — and were that unsuccessful, city officials said they would try to businesses are not paying attention to the belligerency of the council would be naive. The city may very well get its park, but the question remains: At what cost? get the property condemned.

that affect every one of us. Are we just lazy? Are we scared of seeking out information that might disrupt the fantasy we’ve been living in?

Well, wake up, people. 2012 is going to be a big year for American politics.

You can stick your head in the sand, not vote and pretend like everything is just dandy as it is. Or you can realize you have the chance to make a difference in issues that mean something to you.

Not voting in the SGA elections when you know it won’t affect you after graduation is one thing, but sitting out national elections that will impact your daily lives and opportunities is like voluntarily sewing your mouth shut. The choice to be involved is yours — given what’s at stake, that choice shouldn’t be a difficult one for you to make.

Emilie Openchowski is a senior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at openchowski@umdbk.com.

Robert Mutschler is the vice president of financial affairs for the SGA. He can be reached at umdvpfinance@gmail.com.

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:00 p.m.: Things at Camp Sanders are getting pretty hectic. My father has volunteered to cook this year’s Easter dinner, but my mom believes that’s a “fool’s errand.” Apparently, he has a long history of undercooking the food.

I don’t know what she’s talking about, though — the ham is literally on fire right now.

5:43: Yeah, my dad definitely needs some help with the food. I’m going to lend him a hand because I’m an amazing son — just like Jesus was.

5:46: This is a fool’s errand.

6:00: Whoa! My entire extended family just appeared out of nowhere.

When did they get here? Why are they so sneaky? Where are my pants? Am I incredibly drunk? I ponder these questions as I crack open my ninth beer.

6:07: Now that we’re all seated at the table, it’s time for me to lead the family prayer. The sooner we get this

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SANDERS out of the way, the sooner we can eat.

“Dear Jesus, we thank you for ... amen.”

6:08: Prayer finished. This religious bullshit really gets in the way of Easter, you know?

6:10: I’ve filled my plate with turkey, deviled eggs, sliced cranberries, mashed potatoes and stuffing. It’s time to dig in. It’s time to ... get diabetes.

6:15: My grandma just asked me what I plan to do after graduation. Well, grandma, the first thing I plan to do — right after I walk across that stage in May — is figure out where my pants are. Then, I’ll probably move back home and cry softly in my room for

seven months. But that’s neither here nor there.

6:45: Check this out. If you take two sliced cranberries, smear some mashed potatoes between them and eat the whole thing like a sandwich, you will be taken to a completely different place. That place, of course, is the nearest emergency room. Seriously, never do this.

7:00: One of my uncles wants to know about my love life. Let’s see how I handle this.

“So, Mike, have you found that special someone yet?” he asks.

“Yeah,” I say. “Her name is Rebecca Black.”

“Oh, really? Why isn’t she here right now?”

“She’s gotta have her bowl.”

7:05: We have now come to the best part of any dinner: Dessert. This is that magical time when those of us who are still alive eat fatty foods until

our hearts explode. Looking around the room, it appears I’m the only one left standing. I’m so fat right now.

7:07: I wonder if you can make a bong out of these hollow chocolate bunnies. I wonder if I said that out loud.

7:14: I found my pants! Apparently I was wearing them the whole time.

Am I drunk? Oh, well. It’s time for some chocolate pie.

7:30: I think I’m about to enter a chocolate coma. I’m getting really drowsy and it won’t be long before I pass ouuuuuuuuuuu...

11:54: I just woke up in a completely different part of my house.

Everybody’s gone. The ham is still on fire. I think I’m gonna go downstairs and eat some leftovers. This Easter sucked.

Mike Sanders is a senior history major.

He can be reached at sanders@umdbk.com.

Voting: It’s never too early to get involved

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have a confession to make, something I haven’t told anyone yet, and I want to share it with you all: I didn’t vote in the Student Government Association elections two weeks ago. Yes, I contributed to the lowest turnout for SGA elections in 13 years.

Ouch.

I know it’s blasphemous. If you know me at all, you know I’m a huge proponent of voting in elections. Since the day I turned 18 and gained the right to vote, I’ve voted in every election that I could. It just seems to me like a silly thing to waste. Why voluntarily give up your voice in government? Some people argue that one person’s vote won’t make the difference, but if everyone thought that, no one would ever go to the polls. With politics so divided these days, every vote does matter, and everyone’s voice should be heard.

That said, I also am a firm believer in informed voting. If you don’t know much about the candidates or their

policies, you should take the 15 minutes to learn before automatically checking a box. That, in fact, is why I didn’t vote two weeks ago.

Of course, I care about the future of the university and want to see it grow after I leave, but I’m a senior, which means I’m graduating in three and a half weeks (commence panic attack).

I already won’t have a voice in next year’s student government at the university, so I didn’t do my research to see who I thought deserved to win.

But let’s face it: The SGA is not nearly as important as the federal government, which is why I don’t feel so bad about not voting in the SGA elections. Skipping out on Nov. 6, 2012 would be another story.

You may say that you just don’t care enough about politics to get involved or don’t want to be informed, but I don’t buy that argument. Considering the people you vote for are creating the laws that govern our lives, can you truthfully say you don’t care about politics? That you don’t care about

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OPENCHOWSKI whether the government legalizes abortion, reforms immigration, saves the environment, provides health care for all or continues to fight wars overseas? Or that you don’t care whether our nation goes broke or taxes are raised? That aid to the povertystricken in America or the proper standards for public education don’t matter? You don’t care whether the government bails out banks or lets gay people marry legally? You don’t care if they lower the drinking age or legalize marijuana (now I’ve got your attention)?

I have to have more faith in the American public than to think that so many people who decide not to vote don’t care about all of those issues

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hen it comes to dealing with the Student Activities Fee, the goal of the Student Government Association is to fairly and equitably distribute funding among the various student organizations. This year, 288 student groups requested over $3 million in funding while the SGA was only able to distribute $738,000. Many student groups were cut down to the bare bones of their budgets and some were cut even further. The final moment of appeals for these groups came Wednesday before the SGA legislature. These groups fought hard, pleaded their cases well and were granted their appeal by the legislature. Then midnight struck.

After all appeals were heard, the legislature was informed that it had dug itself into a $20,000 hole. The legislature began the night with $50,000 to give and wound up allocating more than $70,000. While the legislature was asked not to factor the amount of available funds into their decision-making so that groups who appealed later in the night would not be unfairly penalized, by the end of the night they had allocated well past the money that was set aside for both appeals and group help and had no way of funding the granted appeals. Legislators agreed to work until the mistake was rectified, even as it neared midnight and they were forced to move to a new building for continued deliberation as the Stamp Student Union closed. After significant deliberation, the legislature decided to go back over the appeals granted and cut the ones they could no longer afford to fund.

At the end of that meeting, which took place well into the early hours of Thursday, the executive board saw how negative of an impact the final budgetary decisions would have on the student groups in question. We were as dissatisfied with the outcome as were the student groups affected, and knew it was our responsibility to do whatever we could to rectify the situation. Whether the executives believed particular appeals should have been granted in the first place was, at that moment, beside the point. The organizations had been told by the legislature they would receive funding, and that word needed to be upheld. On Friday, the executives met to determine a way to fund those student group appeals that had initially been granted and later cut.

After careful research and deliberation, the executives were able to fund these organizations through a pot of money that was originally set aside for a technology contract. This contract was meant to maintain and bolster the technological ser vices provided in the student group offices of the Student Involvement Suite of Stamp. While this contract was originally a worthwhile goal, the funding of basic programming for student organizations is a more pressing concern.

The student groups affected by this decision, — Jewish Social Action Committee, WMUC Radio, Satanic Mechanic Theater Co., Terrapin Anime Society, Black Honors Caucus and Bangladeshi Students Association — were immediately informed of the decision so that their worries would be alleviated. We hope that with this funding, these student organizations will be able to continue the programming and events that have made these organizations great throughout the years.

We realize that the financial situation for all student organizations was difficult this year and will be harder still in the year to come. We encourage all organizations to find more efficient and cost effective means for planning events, to look for more sources of funding both on and off the campus, to collaborate and cosponsor programs and initiatives with one another, and to continue the diverse and effective programming that makes this university what it is.

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orn today, you are likely to get an early start, but where you are going may be anyone’s guess during the early years of what is likely to be a long and illustrious career. Indeed, you may seem rather scattered when you are first starting out, unable or unwilling to focus on a single avenue of endeavor — but then, why should you be when there are so many options available to you?

You know how to explore all manner of opportunities in order to reap the maximum benefit from each — and in order to minimize any possible negative effects that such exploration may have on you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — After a rough start, you should experience smooth sailing, provided you have charted your course in a detailed fashion.

The kind of happiness you seek is not always the kind that others can easily recognize, and for this reason those around you may question your motives again and again. But if you are true to yourself, you will always be able to trust that contentment can surely follow.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may be offered a rare opportunity, and your instincts tell you to accept the offer. What is holding you back?

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Also born on this date are Renee Zellweger, actress; Hank Azaria, actor; Talia Shire, actress; Al Pacino, actor; Meadowlark Lemon, basketball clown; Ella Fitzgerald, singer; Edward R. Murrow, newsman.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Someone you only recently met is likely to play an important role in your affairs, but the results of his or her involvement may be unclear.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You are likely to face a challenge that requires you to dig deep into your bag of tricks. A past experience lights the way for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You don’t want to come up short, so be sure to have as many tools at the ready as you can. A question of policy is likely to arise.

a more aggressive game in order to get it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Things that are more complicated than expected don’t have to be addressed immediately, but you mustn’t postpone them indefinitely.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Independence is an issue you are grappling with at this time, but a loved one knows that certain ties cannot be severed just yet.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — A strong start wins you the respect of your closest competitors, but a rival you haven’t even considered is likely to pose a challenge.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Avoid doing something that may be misinterpreted; you mustn’t let others think that you are not on your game in any way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re going to want more information than you have been given, and you may have to play

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REVIEW | PORTAL 2

SWEET SCIENCE Portal 2 doesn’t need to change a winning formula to succeed

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Senior staff writer

Puzzle games have never received their due credit.

Then again, Portal 2, like its predecessor, is more than the average puzzle game. Some might say it’s a puzzle game disguised as a first-person shooter. More importantly, it has an amusing stor y and is incredibly clever.

Developer and publisher Valve Corp. (Left 4 Dead 2) knows that those aspects are what shot the first Portal to stardom, and it’s only built upon them with the sequel, available on Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Players return as silent protagonist Chell, a test subject in Aperture Laboratories. When she wakes up from an artificially-induced slumber, centuries have passed since the first game. The labs are in bad shape, overrun with plant and tree growth.

Chell isn’t the only one who wakes up, though — so does GLaDOS (Ellen McClain, Left 4 Dead 2), the sadistic artificial intelligence unit that ran Chell through the last game’s tests. GLaDOS is less than thrilled about seeing Chell again, and immediately continues her testing.

Some might play through the stor y and scoff at the premise, especially after the surprising twists at the end of Portal. Players have came to expect the unexpected from the original game, so the twists in Portal 2 might not seem as potent. That said, the stor y is still strong, fun and witty. This game’s great moments are just as worthy as those in its predecessor, and some of them even more so.

The tests are very similar to the

The portal gun returns along with a new multiplayer mode in Portal 2, which takes place centuries after the events of the first game. PHOTO COURTESY OF RELEASEDW.WS

last game’s. The Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, or portal gun, shoots two wormholes — one orange, and one blue. Chell goes through one and comes out the other. These portals are used to navigate test rooms that become more complex and require thought, good timing and a basic understanding of how gravity and physics work.

The game’s atmosphere has changed slightly now that the Aperture Laboratories are in ruins, making it feel a bit newer than it is.

Portal 2’s single-player campaign is about twice as long as its predecessor. This leads to more difficult puz-

zles and more original ideas. There are some great new aspects added to the puzzles, like light beams that act as bridges and colored gels that change various physical characteristics of the walls and floors that they splash on.

There are some other great new additions to the game, notably some of the newer characters. Wheatley (Stephen Merchant, Hall Pass), an artificial intelligence personality, is neurotic and apprehensive, and Aperture Science founder Cave Johnson’s (J.K. Simmons, Megamind) self-centered humor is a great foil to GLaDOS’ passive-

aggressive qualities.

For those who want more difficulty (and more time added to their playing experience), Valve has introduced a two-player cooperative campaign that can be played on either a split screen or online. This campaign follows two robots, ATLAS and P-Body, who are given the task of testing the most difficult puzzles that went unsolved by human test subjects. Because there are two players, four portals can be used, boosting the game’s difficulty

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level several notches. The robots need to learn to work together, and perhaps even develop emotion. This mode can last several hours and is even more fun than the singleplayer campaign.

The game hasn’t changed much — if at all — graphically. It looks very similar to its 2007 counterpart. The game still looks nice (particularly considering how different the environments are from the original Portal) and a puzzle game may not need much more. But considering the time between the two games’ releases, it would have been nice to see a slight bump visually.

It should be mentioned there are a few musical treats to enjoy throughout the game. The score has its moments, but the vocal tunes are the highlights of the game’s melodies. For those who enjoyed the original Portal’s closing song, “Still Alive,” songwriter Jonathan Coulton has penned a new song for Portal 2. Also, indie rock band The National recorded an original song for the game (but you’ll have to find it to hear it).

Portal is a hard act to follow.

Hopes were high for Portal 2, and in the end it comes through. The story has plenty of shining moments and amazing writing, the gameplay is still as addictive as ever (and now you can — and should — play with a friend), and there are a ton of references and secrets to discover for those who are willing to search for them.

If only real science was this much fun. afreedman@umdbk.com

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Midfielder John Haus was one of eight players to score for the Terps during their 11-9 victory against Duke yesterday. The sophomore finished with a goal and an assist. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

CAROLINA from page 10 the first time this season they trailed entering halftime.

“We needed to settle down all over the field,” Reese said.

“On offense, we needed to stop standing and watching people and on defense we needed to just do what we do well. Not change anything from our game plan and stick to what we’ve prepared for.”

After being shut down by Tar Heel goalkeeper Laura Maksym early — she totaled eight saves in the first half — the Terps’ fast-paced attack finally broke loose in the second. Midfielders Laura Merrifield and Katie Schwarzmann and attacker Sarah Mollison each scored multiple goals in the second period, helping the Terps end the game on an 8-0 run.

“Credit to their goalie, who was making some great saves, but we were not choosing our shots as well as we could have,” Reese said. “We wanted to generate more offense, move off-ball, move for each other and work

HOKIES from page 10 us,” Bakich said. “We’ve got to do a better job of minimizing in that situation, where an eight-run inning should not happen to this program.”

The sweep was the Terps’ first at home all season, and it marked the seventh straight conference series loss. While many of those losses came against conference powers, this sweep at the hands of the Hokies — against whom the Terps are fighting for a tournament berth — further solidified the Terps’ place in the ACC basement.

Bakich and the Terps took solace yesterday in the fact that they are not yet mathematically eliminated from the ACC Tournament. But with the conference’s top eight

together. And when we did that, we were able to get some good opportunities and put some goals away.”

“Our defense starts our offense, and that made a difference in the second half,” Schwarzmann said. “We really worked for each other on defense and that really helped to open things up on offense.”

While the offensive onslaught in the second half propelled the Terps to victory, the key to the game was the Terps’ defense. The Tar Heels finished with six goals on 13 shots in the first half, but they were nearly shut out in the second, scoring just one goal on five shots as the Terps held them scoreless for the final 26 minutes of the game.

“We were forcing them, if they were going to shoot, into low-angle shots,” Reese said. “To hold a powerful offense like Carolina’s to seven goals and to one in the second half is really great play by our defense.”

Leading the way for the Terps was Merrifield, whose five-goal performance yesterday earned her the tournament’s most-valuable-player

teams making the field and the Terps tied for last place with Duke, a trip to the postseason seems unlikely.

“Honestly, we haven’t really been looking at the standings,” designated hitter Curtis Lazar said. “I think Coach said it might take a small miracle, but we’re willing to fight for that. It’s happened in the past, so we can still do it.”

If they don’t, though, Bakich is confident that the team, which has already matched its win total from last season, is still heading in the right direction.

“We’re getting — ” Bakich said, pausing. “We’ll get there. We’ll get there; we just need to get more consistent all the way around. Pitching, hitting, ever ything — got to get more consistent.” schneider@umdbk.com

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honors. Overall, Merrifield finished the ACC Tournament with a combined seven goals.

But even with another league title under their belts, the season is far from over.

The Terps have two more regular-season contests — at Georgetown and Drexel next week — before the NCAA Tournament begins.

Yesterday, though, the Terps were content to simply relish their third conference title in as many years.

“We’ve still got two more games, so we’re going to take them one at a time and go from there,” Merrifield said.

“But I’m going to enjoy this win for sure.”

TERP NOTE: Along with Merrifield, four other Terps were named to the 12-player AllACC Tournament team: attacker Sarah Mollison, midfielder Katie Schwarzmann, defender Katie Gallagher and goalkeeper Brittany Dipper.

Mollison and Schwarzmann combined for eight goals in the two games, while Dipper added 13 saves while allowing only 12 goals. vitale@umdbk.com

four-year fight with pancreatic cancer, Young’s mother, Maria, died last Sunday, exactly a week before the Terps’ title game.

“I think Maria Young was an unbelievable inspiration for all of us,” coach John Tillman said. “When I met her last summer, she said, ‘One, I want my son to graduate, so make sure you kick his butt and make sure he does what he’s supposed to do. And two, make sure he wins a championship.’ ... We told the guys, ‘We can’t let her down.’”

“Obviously, last week with our overtime loss to Hopkins, we were all down. And then Ryan Young loses his mom, it puts things back into perspective,” midfielder Curtis Holmes added. “There are so many more things that are bigger than just a lacrosse game. We used that all week as motivation — playing for Ryan, playing for his family, playing for his mom.”

With Maria in their minds, the Terps topped North Carolina, 7-6, in the semifinals Friday and snapped No. 7 Duke’s (11-5) 17-game home winning streak yesterday with a definitive, two-goal victory to earn the title of ACC champion in Tillman’s first season at the helm.

“It’s a great win for all of them against a really good team,” Tillman said. “We knew coming down here, to win two games would be really tough. Everybody’s good, and to beat Duke on their home field as the No. 1

seed — a team that had beaten us before — we knew we had our hands full.”

Attackman Grant Catalino, who scored the gamewinning goal against the No. 10 Tar Heels on Friday, paced the Terps on offense with three goals and was named the tournament’s most valuable player, while attackman Owen Blye dished out two assists and Young added two assists to his game-winning goal.

But what made the difference in yesterday’s game was the Terps’ play at the faceoff X from Holmes, who won 75 percent of the draws against the Blue Devils. His 18 faceoff wins gave the Terps ample opportunities on offense while limiting a dangerous Duke team’s possessions.

Four players lined up against Holmes yesterday, but it hardly mattered. The Blue Devil with the most success — long pole C.J. Costabile — won only four of the 13 draws he took.

“They had a lot of possession,” Duke coach John Danowski said. “We played a lot of defense, probably a little bit too much.”

Even though the Terps left with the victory, it was Duke that dominated in the game’s early going. The Blue Devils scored the game’s first two goals and owned a 5-2 lead after the first quarter.

But a three-goal run in the second frame tied the game at six, and the Terp offense slowly began to click. After trading goals with Duke and tying the score at eight, an extra-man goal from attackman Travis Reed gave the Terps the lead for good with

more than 18 minutes left to play. Then Young scored his clincher off Haus’ feed from behind the goal.

“Getting that goal just gave a little jumpstart to finish the game for us,” Young said. “John Haus made a ridiculous play and got me the ball. We took it from there and got the ‘W.’” With the win, Tillman became the third first-year coach to win an ACC Championship, and the Terps became the first team since Virginia in 2006 to sweep the men’s and women’s titles.

Just hours before in Cary, N.C., the Terp women’s lacrosse team defeated North Carolina to claim its eighth conference crown.

But above all else, yesterday’s triumph helped the Terps move on from a devastating week scarred by the sobering loss of a loved one.

“This week, obviously everyone knows it’s been extremely tough for me and my family, and my team, too,” Young said. “But those guys downstairs [in the locker room], they’re going crazy.

They’re my family. They’re my brothers. They’re the easiest people to lean on in a time like this. Nothing feels better than coming out with a win like that and coming out as ACC champions.”

TERP NOTE: Catalino was named the tournament’s most valuable player, while Brett Schmidt, Young, Cooper, Holmes and midfielder Dan Burns also earned spots on the All-ACC Tournament team. jengelke@umdbk.com

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Attackman Grant Catalino, left, raises his arm in celebration after scoring one of his three goals in an 11-9 victory over Duke at Koskinen Stadium yesterday. Catalino, who scored the team’s game-winning goal Friday against North Carolina, was named the tournament’s most valuable player. Attacker Sarah Mollison, right, helps lift the ACC Championship trophy after the Terps’ 12-7 win against North Carolina yesterday. The title was the third straight for the Terps, who have won 27 consecutive games. PHOTOS BY CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

JUST TWO GOOD Young’s second-half goal secures emotional victory

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Senior staff writer

DURHAM, N.C. – Early in the fourth quarter of yesterday’s ACC Championship, Ryan Young scurried back and forth along the Duke crease, looking to get open in the field’s most contested area.

After running off a pick, the Terrapin men’s lacrosse attackman called for the ball. Midfielder John Haus, dodging behind Duke’s cage, found him with a pinpoint pass that Young finished with a quick-stick goal over Blue Devil goalkeeper Dan Wirgrizer’s shoulder.

Young emphatically pumped

his fist in the air and celebrated with Haus as the Terp faithful who had made the five-hour trip to watch them began to chant “Ryan, Ryan, Ryan.”

The goal — the Terps’ 10th — ended up as the game-winner in an 11-9 victory against top-seeded Duke before 4,328 at Koskinen Stadium. The title marked the team’s first ACC Championship since 2005 and fourth since the league adopted a postseason tournament to crown its champion in 1989.

It also proved a gripping ending to the No. 6 Terps’ (10-3) hectic and emotional week. After losing a

Not since ...

2006 With the Terrapin men’s and women’s lacrosse ACC championships yesterday, this university became the first school in five years to win both titles in the same season.

Virginia was the last school to do so.

see DUKE, page 8

After rally, Terps roll North Carolina for another title

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

CARY, N.C. – As the final seconds ticked off the clock yesterday, members of the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team erupted from their bench, rushing across the WakekMed Park field to surround their goalkeeper in celebration of what has become a rite of spring.

For the third straight year, the Terps were ACC champions.

After defeating Boston College, 8-5, on Friday, the Terps overcame North Carolina’s three-goal halftime lead yesterday in dominating fashion, scoring nine second-half goals en route to a 12-7 champi-

onship victory.

“This is such a game of high emotions,” coach Cathy Reese said. “When both teams step on the field, you’re competing for an ACC Championship, and with the level of play in our conference ... I’m really proud of our team and the way we pulled that out.”

The win didn’t come with the relative ease their season had come to be defined by, though, as the Terps had to bounce back from their worst first-half performance of the season. Their three-goal output was their lowest total all year, and the 6-3 halftime deficit also marked

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BASEBALL

Against fellow cellar-dweller, Terps drop even further in ACC Visiting Hokies outscore team 31-9 in three-game sweep, effectively ending hopes of ACC Tournament berth

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

Erik Bakich acknowledges that the first step to reviving a long-dormant Terrapin baseball program isn’t making it to the NCAA Tournament but reaching the ACC Tournament.

And after getting swept by Virginia Tech — a team that entered College Park on Friday tied with the Terps for last place in the ACC — this weekend, even the typically optimistic Bakich admitted that the odds of the Terps making the

postseason are slim.

“I told the players we’re at the point now where it’s going to take a minor miracle,” Bakich said. “All the odds are against us. If somebody had a $1 bill and they put it on Maryland baseball to get to the postseason, they’d probably be a millionaire.”

The sweep marks the worst blow to the postseason prospects of the Terps, who lost the three games by a combined score of 31-9 as their once-dominant starting pitching struggled yet again. Even

with the Terps racking up double-digit hits in the final two games of the series, they couldn’t do enough with them to challenge the Hokies (2318, 7-14 ACC).

“We had a very, very poor showing this entire weekend,” Bakich said. “When you get a lot of hits and don’t score a lot of runs, it means you’re not getting timely hitting and it means you’re not hitting for power. We seemed to get a hit an inning, but we don’t string them together.”

In the series opener, start-

ing pitcher David Carroll had his best outing in the No. 1 spot since moving to Friday nights, going 6.2 innings while allowing four runs and striking out a career-high eight Hokies. But the Terps (17-25, 4-17 ACC) scored only two runs, and three ninth-inning runs from Virginia Tech turned a close game into a 7-2 blowout Friday.

The offensive struggles continued Saturday, when the Terps had a hit in every inning but again managed only two runs. Starting pitcher Brady

Kirkpatrick, meanwhile, followed up a solid start against Miami from the week before with a disappointing fourinning outing in which he allowed eight runs. The Hokies scored six runs in the fourth, and the Terps never recovered en route to an 11-2 loss.

“I don’t think anyone who gets swept and whose starters didn’t have their best performances can be happy with that. I just think we’ve got to do a better job of, if you’re a starting pitcher, being able to throw three pitches for strikes with

command,” Bakich said. “We’ve just got to do a better job of continuing to be more competitive in the strike zone and in the bottom of the strike zone.”

The Hokies had another big fourth inning yesterday, scoring eight runs to turn the series finale into a rout. The Terps managed a four-run outburst in the bottom of the ninth but still lost, 13-5.

“We’ve got to do a better job of damage control and not let that type of inning happen to

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