A DEEP, DARK HOLE
DRIESELL FAREWELL
The newly sober Courtney Love tries to salvage her career with a new Hole LP
Assistant coach leaves Williams for coaching job at The Citadel SPORTS | PAGE 10
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
DIVERSIONS | PAGE 7
THE DIAMONDBACK THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
University hosts three police chief hopefuls
Students face technology withdrawal in 24-hour study Symptoms resemble those of drug addicts
Our 100TH Year, No. 129
Officials ask about how they would prevent future riots BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer
Tom Coppinger, who spoke in Stamp Student Union yesterday, is one of three candidates for the open position of University Police chief. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
Members of the university community had three chances within the past week to feel out how the finalists for the University Police chief position would fit into and help shape the campus atmosphere. At the three discussions — held Thursday, Friday and yesterday in Stamp Student Union — the candidates fielded questions ranging from how Uni-
versity Police would better respond to sexual assault cases on the campus to what the proper protocol should be for big basketball games in the future, in light of the recent riot controversies. The first two open forums — where former Prince George’s County Police Chief David Mitchell and County Acting Deputy Chief of Administration Gary Cunningham spoke, respectively — garnered
see CHIEF, page 3
BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer
Students battled extreme anxiety, fidgeting, loneliness and isolation — all symptoms of withdrawal — during a recent university study, but they weren’t experiencing a day without drugs. Instead, they were asked to give up social media. For one day, journalism professor Susan Moeller asked the 200 students in her JOUR175: Media Literacy class to avoid media: phones, television, computers and the Internet. Moeller, director of the university’s International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, said she was shocked to find the extreme reaction of her students, who reported adverse mental and physical symptoms. The study found students were “functionally unable” to go without media. “We were blown away by the answers, just blown away,” Moeller said. “There were certain things we expected. We expected they would immediately say they were addicted to the media in the casual way you say you’re addicted to say chocolate, and then we got the results back not only using the word addicting but also words like withdrawal, craving and the physical and mental responses that they talked about, like getting headaches, depressed, feeling lonely and miserable.” But members of the students’ generation said they weren’t nearly as surprised by the study’s results. “I feel like these findings were so obvious because this is what we grew up with, this is the only kind of real communication and lifestyle we know,” junior criminology and criminal justice major Lauren Tafoya said. “I
Tackling
magic
Terps’ running back Paul Lariviere is known for his captivating card tricks BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer
When Paul Lariviere, a running back on the Terrapin football team, tore his ACL last year, his rehabilitation plan included an unusual remedy — a steady dose of magic card tricks. Before the junior government and politics major’s surgery to repair his injured knee, Lariviere was in the Gossett Team House training room where he saw a teammate doing card tricks. With months of bed rest ahead of him,
Lariviere realized he had just found a challenge to replace football during his upcoming recovery. “I was bedridden for six months,” Lariviere said. “I needed something I could do with just my hands, so it was sort of natural.” His teammate taught him a few basic tricks to start off with, and Lariviere turned to YouTube to learn more. He said he has watched some of illusionist David Blaine’s tricks and figured out how to do them in fewer than five minutes.
see MAGICIAN, page 2
see STUDY, page 2 MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
Keeping faculty afloat Biology professor Arthur Popper helps minority, junior faculty stay at univ. BY MELISSA QUIJADA Staff writer
Student Union’s Grand Ballroom as the first of a series of speakers hosted by the student union to discuss nationwide issues. Daschle, who has advocated for health care reform since leaving public office in 2005, was President Barack Obama’s nominee to serve as
New faculty often feel like small fish in a large pond. Who better to advise them than biology professor Arthur Popper, who has spent his research career studying aquatic life? For many years, Popper, also an associate dean of the chemical and life sciences college, has made it his mission to guide assistant professors to tenured positions. Popper pairs new faculty with mentors and hosts workshops to help them balance their academic responsibilities — researching, teaching and advising — with their personal lives. Popper’s work has garnered praise from top administrators. Earlier this month, the University System of Maryland awarded him the Regents’ Faculty Award for his continuing work with tenure-track faculty. While serving as chair of the University Senate five
see DASCHLE, page 6
see POPPER, page 3
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle speaks to students about health care reform and how new federal legislation will impact current students and soon-to-be graduates in Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom last night. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK
Daschle tells students how health care reform will impact them Former senator addresses about 60 students in Stamp Student Union BY AMY HEMMATI Staff writer
After the signing of the long-debated health care reform legislation last month, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle educated students last night about the effect the new law will have on their lives.
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“Unlike the creation of the Federal Reserve Board, Social Security and Medicaid, this bill will affect each citizen,” said Daschle, a former Democratic senator for South Dakota. “But the generation that will feel most of the blunt of the responsibility and the blunt of the opportunity that this legislation entails is your generation.” Daschle addressed about 60 people in Stamp
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