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Cheating Campus Drive to close this summer allegations fly post-SGA election

Traffic ban will test viability of future univ. plans but may impact Purple Line placement

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

Election officials clear Glickman of charges

As part of an initiative to make the area around the Stamp Student Union a pedestrian-only zone, university officials will ban all transit, with the exception of two ShuttleUM lines, on Campus Drive during the summer.

Shutting down the busiest street on the campus is meant to be an

experiment for a long-term change outlined in the university’s Facilities Master Plan, last updated in 2007, which aims to make the area around Campus Drive transit free, leaving the road open only for pedestrians, emergency vehicles and an internal campus loop shuttle. According to the Maryland Transit Administration, Campus Drive is used by about 750 transit vehicles and 5,500 private cars

routes that will require buses to avoid what is now the main drag for many Department of Transportation and Metro Bus lines that run through the campus, said David Daddio, co-founder of the development blog Rethink College Park.

Above all, Daddio said, the ban on traffic on Campus Drive could be detrimental to the establishment of

between the hours of 6 a.m. and 7 p.m. on an average weekday.

Vice President of Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie could not be reached for comment, but Wylie’s assistant, Jane Mulliken, said the university would officially announce its plans to block off the road today.

The summer ban is meant to be a test run to see whether or not Shuttle-UM ridership will be significantly impacted by the change in

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BY ALISSA GULIN Staff writer

A litany of cheating allegations against SGA presidential incumbent Steve Glickman and his Your Party has surfaced in the wake of the election, which ended last week. But no Your STEVE Party members have GLICKMAN been found guilty of SGA PRESIDENT any wrongdoing by the Elections Board so far.

A student filed a report on Thursday accusing Glickman, who won a second term as Student Government Association president last week, of carrying a laptop around the campus to illegally solicit votes — a violation of election rules. Another student claimed he saw two Your Party members instructing students to vote for their party members in McKeldin Library, but never filed a complaint with the Elections Board.

The Your Party won seats in all but two categories in which they had a candidate on the ticket, but SKY Party presidential candidate Andrew Steinberg, who lost to Glickman by an 8 percent vote difference, said

Inner peace: There’s an app for that

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City council rejects rent ceiling bill

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

The College Park City Council voted down an ordinance that would increase the current rent ceiling by 33 percent, surprising some in attendance after a contentious debate and some confusion among city officials last night.

With the ordinance’s failure, the rent ceiling will keep total monthly rent at 0.6 percent of the property’s overall value.

Had the bill passed, landlords would have been able to up their rent to 0.8 percent of the property’s value. It would have also mandated the rate remain constant for the next three years.

Students spoke out before the meeting about how profoundly higher rents could impact university students who live offcampus — an effort that swayed at least one council vote.

A previous agreement set the first

see RENT, page 2 TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Professor devises list, iPhone application for peaceful places

Driskell Center

BY MELISSA QUIJADA Staff writer

Jim Henson statue

Night-Day sculpture

see CONTROVERSY, page 3

City council members voted down an action to alter calculations for a city rent ceiling and annual increase for single family dwellings in the city. MATTHEW

Moxley Gardens

Memorial Chapel

Peace Garden

As exam week edges closer and students begin to pack libraries to work on term papers and final projects, they may find themselves in need of more than just a quiet space — they may find themselves in need of peace.

Bahá’í Chair for World Peace and professor John Grayzel is compiling a list of the most “peace-full” places on the campus, which is already listed online and will be available as a free iPhone application — Pathways to Peace — by late fall. Grayzel describes “peace” as any environment that fosters or leads to “human cooperative interaction.” He said he is designing the application, which will guide students to these places, to highlight tranquil spots, activities and courses on the campus and to increase awareness of opportunities for students to engage in peace.

“People tend to get into a cocoon and stay in their cocoon,” Grayzel said. “As a result, they lose out on connectivity.”

Although the list of Peace-Full Places will be growing as Grayzel continues his search on and around the campus, the Driskell Center in Cole Field House, the Jim Henson statue in front of the Stamp Student Union and art galleries around the campus are listed as a few of the places where students can find serenity.

The Pathways to Peace application will feature a “tranquility doodle” function, which would promote calming by providing a series of dots arranged in a line to trace and a menu of different categories for finding peace. A more fully formed website with the same

see PEACE, page 3

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Taking back the night — again Event aimed at raising sexual-assault awareness resurges after two-year hiatus

BY NELLY DESMARATTES Staff writer

Due to renewed student interest, the Take Back the Night event, which focuses attention on sexual assaults on college campuses, made a comeback at the university yesterday after a two-year hiatus.

The return of the event — which, organizers said, was suspended due to low student interest — comes amid what seems like a renewed focus at the university to stop sexual assault. A University Senate committee is investigating the issue, and student journalists recently won a two-

Sunny/60s

year battle to force the administration to release the names of students convicted of sexual assault by the University Judiciary.

More than 40 people gathered in the Stamp Student Union to discuss the prevalence of sexual assault on the campus — a 2000 study showed one in five women nationally would be raped or assaulted during their time in college — and then listen to survivor stories and find out how they can help. Only about 15 students attended in 2007, when the event was last held.

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AWARENESS from page 1 The University Health Center sponsored Take Back the Night as the last major event of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Four speakers addressed a variety of issues, including men’s role in preventing sexual violence, and shared their personal experiences.

Attendees then marched around McKeldin Mall, to Fraternity Row and back to Stamp.

Before the discussion, a rededication ceremony for the victim survivor garden took place outside the University

RENT from page 1 year’s ceiling at 1 percent and mandated a decrease by 0.1 percent each year for the following two years.

Both District 1 Councilmembers Patrick Wojahn and Christine Negle were the lone votes in favor of the ordinance while District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin, who proposed the legislation, was an abstention. The council voted 5-2 to reject the proposal.

Catlin, who abstained when it became clear the bill wouldn’t pass, was obviously frustrated by the result.

“They don’t care about the details,” Catlin said of the landlords and opposing councilmembers. “They just don’t

CLOSING from page 1 the Purple Line — a proposed light-rail system that would connect Metro lines from Bethesda to New Carrollton and would connect Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties. Although students, MTA officials and members of the surrounding community have come out in support of a Campus Drive alignment for the light-rail system, the university stands in staunch support of a Preinkert Drive alignment.

“It’s kind of an underhanded way of [the university Administration] trying to get their way with the Purple Line,” Daddio said. “I wouldn’t say that it’s an absolute strategy that’s going to get them what they want, but there’s that attention there.”

Purple Line placement is being researched by the MTA, which has found it would be more expensive and difficult to implement a Preinkert Drive alignment than one on Campus Drive. The university has said running a rail system down Campus Drive would emit electromagnetic waves that would interfere in scientific research.

“The university does not seem to want to address the reality of the situation, which is that the line they want is really not possible,”

Health Center. The garden also made a comeback after a break last year thanks to a resurgence in student interest, Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program Coordinator Allison Bennett said.

“We got feedback that there wasn’t a lot of interest and there was low attendance,” she said. “However, this year there was a lot of student effort to get the program back, especially by groups like Terps for Choice.”

Terps for Choice, a student group that promotes abortion rights, co-sponsored the event.

“A lot of people don’t think [sexual assault] is an issue or

like rent control.”

Student Government Association student liaison Jonathan Sachs spoke out against the measure, saying its passage would have “a profound impact on students.”

District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich was swayed by student testimony heard at a public hearing held before the council meeting.

“At this point, I’m not really sure why this is a beneficial change,” Stullich said. “It seems to be an area where student residents and long-term residents would both benefit from keeping the cap where it is.”

Last night marked the second public hearing the council has held on the issue this month.

“I think this ordinance in particular comes at a bad time for Uni-

Daddio said. “They don’t seem to be properly engaged with the state to come to that conclusion that at the end of the day it’s not possible to do what they do.”

Student Government Association President Steve Glickman said he was disappointed that students weren’t consulted.

“A big thing about this whole thing is that students weren’t included in this process,” Glickman said. “Now that they kind of have made their decision about it, they’re not willing to include students in the process.”

To provide students with more information concerning the summer ban, the SGA will be holding a forum next Tuesday from 4:30 to 5:30 in the Margaret Brent Room in the Stamp Student Union. korkut@umdbk.com

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an issue that affects them,” said junior psychology major Aliya Mann, Terps for Choice president.

Organizers said they were excited to see renewed interest in both events, but said they hope student engagement continues.

“I’m happy people came out, but I want more people to be aware that sexual assault happens here and it is more widespread and violent than people believe it is,” Bennett said.

Recent cases of rape at this campus and others — including the rape and abduction of a female university student last year and the case of a Uni-

“Landlords have an interest in making money.

We have an interest in affordable housing.”

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versity of Maryland students,” senior English and women’s studies major Elizabeth Cerezo said.

“There are a lot of issues affecting their pockets.”

Cerezo was one of only two speakers at the hearing. The other, Natalia Cuadra-Saez, recently ran for SGA president

versity of Massachusetts Amherst student who was given a deferred suspension after confessing to raping a friend last fall — have helped to peak interest in the issue, student attendees said.

“I’m here to help raise awareness and to get people talking about the issue,” said senior art and English major Deborah Kadish. “I got interested after seeing the U-Mass rape case and how people dismiss the issue of rape on campus and see the victims as cheaters, skanks and whores and not real victims.” desmarattes@umdbk.com

on a platform that included proposals for creating affordable housing options.

“It’s really easy to abuse students because there are students who need to live close to campus,” the junior classics and history major said. “Landlords have an interest in making money. We have an interest in affordable housing.”

Both Cerezo and Cuadra-Saez said they came to the hearing to speak on behalf of their peers who couldn’t make it out or didn’t understand the implications of the ordinance. With a transient student population, the landlords have the upper hand in understanding the “ins and outs” of local politics, they said.

“Students don’t know what’s going on,” Cuadra-Saez said. “Landlords have been

Students commemorate survivors of sexual assault in a ceremony outside the University Health Center yesterday, part of the events of Take Back the Night, a sexual assault awareness campaign. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

here longer.”

Only a handful of students joined them in the crowd.

During the meeting, Catlin stressed this was only one small part of the rent stabilization regulations and a necessary change. Some councilmembers inquired what percentage of rental properties would be affected, but Catlin had no definitive answer.

When he responded vaguely, his colleagues weren’t satisfied.

“I don’t know if that’s an answer,” District 2 Councilman Jack Perry said.

“It is an answer,” Catlin rebutted quickly.

“It’s something you said,” Perry quipped. “But it still doesn’t tell me how many.”

“There’s too many questions that I don’t get

answered,” Perry continued.

“I don’t think my vote’s ever going to change on this.”

Two weeks ago at the first public hearing, city landlords came out in a show of force against the ordinance, many of whom said the increase was too small.

“Their stated purpose for this ordinance is to protect the students from greedy landlords,” Dave Dorsch, a city landlord, said last week. “There’s really no need for rent control here. They should let market conditions work themselves.”

Dorsch also said that he didn’t think the council had heard his concerns and measures rarely make it this far in the legislative process without passing. rhodes@umdbk.com

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PEACE from page 1 capabilities will appear alongside the application.

This summer Grayzel plans to coordinate with computer science professor Ashok Agrawala’s graduate students to create the iPhone-compatible program.

Agrawala, who instructs a course — CMSC 818G: Advanced Topics in Computer Systems: InformationCentric Design of Systems — that teaches students to create such applications, said he agreed to help Grayzel with this application because of his ties to India and personal interest in peace.

Creating the list and the application seemed to be common sense to Grayzel, who said students often

struggle to find places with harmony and balance. He said he hoped UMD Students for Peace, a new student group, would someday take the responsibilities of managing and updating the application.

Students largely agreed that the university’s sheer size tends to obscure any sense of peace. Many students added that smartphone applications are a good way to communicate with students.

Senior mechanical engineering major Dan Nguyen said he wasn’t surprised about the existence of such an application.

“It’s convenient. There's an app for everything,” he said.

Junior government and politics major Annalisa Allen, who doesn’t own a smartphone, she said she still supports the concept behind the

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creation of the application.

“Sometimes it’s hard to find a spot where there’s no one else,” Allen said.

The list on the Semester for Peace website highlights many tranquil places, and Grayzel added that locations not listed, such as the Wooded Hillock, the Arboretum and Botanical Gardens would be added as some of the top places to find a peaceful spot on the campus. But, he noted, students may find other places that they find relaxing and serene because there is no right or wrong place when it comes to finding harmony.

“Peace to me is a direction, not just one place,” Grayzel said. “People decide for themselves what they think is peaceful.” quijada@umdbk.com

CONTROVERSY from page 1 it’s more than a case of sour grapes — it’s an issue of integrity.

In an election where one party swept so many of the seats, it is important to know all the votes cast were achieved in a legitimate and fair way.

“What really concerns me is how the Elections Board has handled the entire matter,” he said “As soon as I was aware of any allegations, I submitted a report right away, two hours into Election Day. This is about a fundamental process being fair.”

None of the complaints received by the Elections Board, which is comprised of appointed students who don’t serve in the SGA in any other capacity, have been found legitimate, said Chairwoman Danielle Chazen. After an investigation, the case was unanimously dismissed Friday.

In a report submitted to the Elections Board, senior kinesiology major Seneca Wood alleged Glickman approached another

student in a gymnasium in the public health school last Wednesday, the second day of the SGA elections, and asked her to vote on a laptop he handed her.

“I had no idea it was cheating,” Wood said, until he overheard a group of students discussing the voting protocol, which prompted him to file a report with the Elections Board.

Glickman denied any such activity took place, and added the laptop in question wasn’t his.

“This is probably a bunch of people who lost spreading rumors,” he said.

But a handful of other students have come forward accusing other Your Party candidates of soliciting votes as well.

Senior government and politics major Matt Dernoga, a Diamondback columnist, said he saw two Your Party legislators directing students working at computers in McKeldin to vote.

Dernoga recorded two candidates — both of whom ultimately won the election in their constituencies — leaning over a student’s shoulder and allegedly

pointing to names listed on the on-screen ballots with his cell phone camera.

“What raised a red flag for me was one of them said, ‘I’ll give you a Your Party pen if you vote,’” Dernoga said. “It didn’t seem quite kosher.”

But the video, which was obtained by The Diamondback, is blurry and doesn’t provide conclusive evidence of rule-breaking.

Because the Elections Board hasn’t confirmed that any investigation is taking place against the legislators Dernoga reported seeing in the library, The Diamondback is withholding their names.

These allegations come on the heels of SKY Party presidential candidate Andrew Steinberg’s complaint that a candidate was spotted soliciting votes in Ellicott Hall on the first day of voting.

Steinberg submitted a written report to the Elections Board last Tuesday against Your Party. The issue was dropped when the student in question withdrew from the election, student officials said. gulin@umdbk.com

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The chief concern

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t seems more than just a few reputations were lost in the chaos of the post- and actions should be scrutinized and questioned by those they will be serving in Duke game riot and the controversies that have followed. The university’s order to truly determine who will best serve the community and prevent a repeat quest to select a new University Police chief to replace Ken Krouse, who of the events of March 4. The next chief needs to find a balance between controlling retired at the end of last year after 20 years in the position, has all but been for- crowds on Route 1 and allowing riot police and mounted officers to march down Knox Road. gotten by most students.

Each of the three candidates answered questions about future riots well, with During the last week, the university hosted public forums for the three final candidates for the job to give members of the university community an opportunity to ask Mitchell saying he would offer students “a seat at the table with a voice to be heard.” questions and express their views. Yet despite the outcry from students in the past Although each candidate seemed receptive to student ideas and expressed a desire to prevent future riots — a fairly obvious stance to take — they few weeks about alleged police brutality during last month’s must be pressed further. And it is unfortunate more students riot — and the mysteriously disappearing footage of the beating did not turn out to do so. of junior John McKenna — students have shown little interest Students need a police chief who will listen and try new ideas. in who could be commanding the university’s police force for Students should project a Although police will continue to enforce laws that may be possibly the next two decades. more active voice in the unpopular among students, such as drug and alcohol policies, At the forums for former Prince George’s County Police Chief selection of the new they can still play a key role in preventing violence. The euphoDavid Mitchell and then for county Acting Deputy Chief of ria and celebrations that follow a Terp victory cannot be conAdministration Gary Cunningham, only one student turned out university police chief. tained with any number of mounted police or pellet guns. But for each. About 15 students showed up for the third forum, what police can do is establish trust with students and handle which hosted Tom Coppinger, the chief of staff for the State Police superintendent. But most of those were there for a class. There’s no doubt situations delicately. Reality should govern police actions, not expected realities.

As the administration approaches its final decision, students, whether individually coming out to hear a cop answer questions on a Thursday or Friday afternoon isn’t any student’s idea of fun. But one of these men will soon command the nearly 100 uni- or through university organizations, should express what they want in a chief to the versity police officers who patrol the campus. The new chief’s leadership and govern- administration through letters, phone calls and e-mails. Although it often may seem like those suggestions are ignored or brushed under the rug, the investigations that ing style could go a long way toward determining how police officers treat students.

It wasn’t university police who responded to the first post-game riot in four years. are now racking county police should be validation that is not always the case.

Students may have missed an opportunity to voice their concerns during these It was their county counterparts who swung clubs and beat students. But the actions of university police can be critical in preventing future riots. Their judgment past three forums, but it’s not too late to be heard.

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Campus Drive: Being bused around

t could never be more truly said than of the … remedy, that it was worse than the disease.” That’s what James Madison wrote about the administration’s plan to reduce oncampus traffic in the Federalist Papers.

He was truly a man before his time.

The campus is pedestrian-dominated, and is designed to be so. South campus in particular is crisscrossed with sidewalks, and roads are finely divided by crosswalks and stop signs.

The 2001-2020 Facilities Master Plan, which lays out a vision for campus layout for the next 10 years, is dedicated to reducing the number of cars on the campus and making everything even more walker-friendly.

Perhaps the single most dramatic part of this plan is to close Campus Drive to outside traffic. Nothing but pure walkability between the Stamp Student Union and the University Health Center. This is the good part of the plan.

Stamp is the heart of the campus, and it should reflect a commitment to building a walkable campus.

MARDY

SHUALY Closing Campus Drive to outside traffic does not mean replacing the road with sidewalks and another fountain, however. The Maryland Transit Authority’s vision has the Purple Line Metro running in front of Stamp.

Besides the trains, only emergency vehicles and UM buses would travel along Campus Drive.

A couple of years ago, I saw a presentation given by MTA engineers. They had created a nifty computer simulation of how traffic would function in such an arrangement. Naturally, cutting out Campus Drive created a bit of congestion around the “M” circle, but traffic through campus was essentially eliminated. This arrangement is the dream.

Vice President for Administrative

Affairs Ann Wylie has a different vision.

For years, university President Dan Mote unrelentingly opposed having the Purple Line running down Campus Drive, often (incorrectly) claiming that putting the train in front of Stamp would necessitate the construction of giant fences to prevent students from wandering in front of trains. At the moment, no one has any train-building money, so the train alignment isn’t even at issue.

What Wylie and the administration are currently pushing (and what is described in the Facilities Master Plan) is a closure of Campus Drive to outside traffic — and also to UM buses. The beloved blue line, the ever-entertaining South Campus Connector, the dependable 104 Metro bus — none of them would take you to Stamp any longer.

Instead, an internal campus loop would be set up. A bus could take you from off the campus to some drop-off point at the periphery of the campus. You would then wait for the internal loop to get anywhere within the campus.

Between June 21 and Aug. 13, the

administration is running a pilot test of the plan to eliminate Campus Drive traffic. To get Independence Day celebrations going, cars will likely be allowed access to Campus Drive on July 4. Otherwise, however, the road will be blocked from the “M” circle up to the fork by the beginning of Cole Field House. Shuttle UM buses will go to the Regents Drive parking garage instead of to Stamp. Metro buses will go to Mowatt Lane, just past the Hillel Center and Van Munching Hall.

Administrators failed spectacularly in consulting students before putting this pilot program into action. The traffic plan will play a large role in defining the campus experience. The Facilities Master Plan aims to replace traffic with increased public transportation use.

That goal is not served by pushing buses to the periphery of campus. Let's keep the middle of our campus bus-tastic.

Mardy Shualy is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at shualy@umdbk.com.

Addiction: You might just be a dick

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ou may have heard by now about a study recently conducted in a journalism class in which the findings showed a large chunk of students exhibited signs of being “addicted” to the Internet. Look, I have loneliness issues, too. But we’ve got to draw the line somewhere.

Sex addiction. Internet addiction. I saw an episode of True Life where some girl claimed her boyfriend was addicted to texting. Can we all just chillax on this for a second? Addiction is an actual issue. It’s not something you get to hide behind if you’re lazy.

“Oh, I can’t go to class today, I’m addicted to skipping.”

Students in the study were asked to spend 24 hours disconnected from all media. In the students’ reports of their experiences, they apparently used the same terminology as drug users in withdrawal, saying they were “depressed” and “miserable.” Which is fine. I can’t go more than six min-

utes without human contact, but that’s because I’m a big baby. It’s not because I’m fighting some kind of addiction. Have you ever seen Intervention? Those people have addictions. I’m not punching out windows to run away from my family and freebase Facebook. Not an addiction.

Let’s talk about sex addiction, too.

Because, Jesus, are we still going to perpetuate the myth that Tiger Woods cheated on his wife because he’s addicted to sex and not because he’s, you know, an asshole? This is stupid.

If you believe in sex addiction, then you’re addicted to being ignorant.

I get that students would feel withdrawal when forced to spend a day disconnected from all media. But that’s not because we have some carnal need, it’s just because media are what we’re comfortable using. If the power on the campus went out, I wouldn’t get the shakes. I’d just go play catch with my friends or something.

And besides, “addiction” is a really

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ROB

GINDES strong word to be throwing around when the study involved students basically cutting themselves off from communication with most of the outside world. Isn’t the need for company, like, part of the human condition? I suppose I’m addicted to breathing, too, because you should see how nuts I get when I’m in breath withdrawal.

It’s symptomatic. We’re so quick now to label everything as an addiction or a disease that it’s almost as if we’re washing our hands of anything that would make us weird or deviate from the norm in any way. You see it in the form of everything being diagnosed as a psychological disorder. I like chips. I’m a chipophile. I hate

darkness. I must have Seasonal Affective Disorder. That one was real.

It’s just something to hide behind.

Labeling something makes it OK. Take alcoholism, for example.

There’s a South Park episode in which Stan’s dad confines himself to a wheelchair and shaves his head because “alcoholism is a disease.” It’s not like cancer. In many cases, if you’re an alcoholic, you probably don’t require medicine to overcome your need to drink. It means you need to work — hard — to force yourself not to drink.

But that’s the sad reality when everything is an addiction. I’m not perfect either; I’ve actually got a confession. You see, I thought I was immune to this stuff, but it would be closer to the truth to say I can’t get enough. I’m gonna have to face it.

I’m addicted to love.

Rob Gindes is a senior journalism major.

He can be reached at gindes@umdbk.com.

Rallying against hate DANIEL BRENNER

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ep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow leader of the Civil Rights Movement, wrote in a 2002 San Francisco Chronicle oped, “During an appearance at Harvard University shortly before his death, a student stood up and asked King to address himself to the issue of Zionism. The question was clearly hostile.

King responded, ‘When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews; you are talking anti-Semitism.’”

I am reminded of this quote, because from April 12 to April 19, UMD Students for Justice in Palestine hosted Palestinian Solidarity Week. The week featured speaker Obi Egbuna, whose remarks some construed as advocating the killing of Zionists, on April 14 and “Your Tax Money to the Israeli Military?” on April 15. This week was less about showing the plight of the Palestinian people and more about demonizing Israel.

The week ended with an event on April 19, “I Saw Palestine,” which attempted to portray an Israeli check point. Organizers put up posters filled with halftruths and distortions. Participants handed out information packets that included some blatant lies. The event tried to demonize Israel through calling the security barrier between the West Bank and Israel an “apartheid wall” and saying Israel was ghettoizing the Palestinians (a clear reference trying to link Israel to Nazi Germany). Conveniently left out was the mention of the thousands killed or wounded in the second intifada and the thousands of rockets and mortars fired into Israel from Gaza. Also ignored was the fact that hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid comes to Gaza from Israel and that Egypt has completely closed off its border.

Egypt has even started to build a wall of its own. It left out that the Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, had refused to negotiate with Israel until the country delayed building housing projects in East Jerusalem, even though the Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu, has implemented the largest settlement freeze in the history of Israel.

The day selected for this event, April 19, was Yom Hazikaron. It is Israel’s Memorial Day, a day when Israelis and others around the world mourn the deaths of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who lost their lives in battle or in terrorist attacks. For the planners of the solidarity week to knowingly hold this event on that day would be malicious. Or, if they didn’t realize what day it was, it was extraordinarily ignorant. For a week that professes to be about raising awareness, the planners of the solidarity week prepared a deeply insensitive, inflammatory event that did nothing to promote dialogue and peaceful resolution of century-old issues.

For these reasons, I, along with other Jewish students, decided to rally against this event. We came dressed in remembrance of Yom Hazikaron in Israeli flags and Israeli shirts. We peacefully handed out pamphlets to show both sides of the conflict. The only people screaming and swearing were the solidarity week supporters when some students outside our rally went to talk to them.

Throughout the day, there were more Jewish students there than those supporting the event. Our statement was that hate speech is not, and will not, be tolerated on our campus.

The pseudo-checkpoint event did nothing to work toward a peaceful solution in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. If the event had been about the plight of the Palestinian people and promoted a fair discussion of the issues, I would have been there supporting the event, not rallying against it.

Daniel Brenner is a senior government and politics major and can be reached at brenner@umd.edu.

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TERRAPIN WOMEN’S TENNIS SEASON RECAP

First-year coach gets same results, new direction

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In mid-April, the Terrapin women’s tennis team entered the final week of its regular season as a battered unit.

Coming off seven consecutive 7-0 losses in ACC play and without a conference point since Feb. 26, any chance to contend for postseason play had long since faded. But there was still something left to prove.

In a season short on success, the Terps took two of their last four matches with wins against Georgetown and Richmond, while also avoiding shutouts in their final two conference matches.

The brief brush with victory showed just how far the Terps had come under first-year coach Howard Joffe, but also just how glaring the disparity in talent

between the Terps and the ACC’s upper echelon remained.

After taking down the Terps 52 last year, Richmond returned an almost-identical lineup to College Park against a revamped Terps’ squad on April 17. After enduring a decisive 6-1 loss the day before to conference foe N.C. State, the Terps proved their mettle against the Spiders in a 6-1 win.

“Richmond’s personnel didn’t change,” Joffe said. “This is the one tangible thing that speaks to our improvement. The attitude and direction are on a trajectory for good things.”

While the season’s results were nothing special — the Terps were winless in the ACC for the second time in three seasons and finished 5-14 overall — the Terps met Joffe’s top goal: steady improvement for a team lacking elite talent.

“The season was a success when seen through the lenses of how far we’ve come,” Joffe said.

“We were a very, very weak team, but the team is hugely improved player-for-player.”

That much was obvious in the Terps’ April 14 match against Georgetown. Both teams had suffered 4-3 losses to a weak Rutgers team earlier in the season, but when the Terps and Hoyas met on their own court, there was nothing close about their match. The Terps crushed their local rival 6-1.

“Our season results aren’t commendable on paper,” said senior Lisa Miller, who spent her first three seasons under former coach Martin Novak. “But I’ve witnessed first-hand the improvement and renewed passion among our team.”

With the team’s growth and the arrival of what Joffe believes

to be the country’s best recruiting classes in the fall, the Terps may soon remove themselves from the ACC’s cellar.

The newcomers include Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar, a highly touted recruit who arrived from Spain this spring but was forced to sit the season out due to NCAA transfer rules.

Sanchez-Quintanar, who defeated 2009 Junior Wimbledon singles champion Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in straight sets in a practice match earlier this season, will team up with at least three other recruits, according to Joffe, to help offset the graduation of top singles players Maggie MacKeever and Miller.

“Obviously losing Maggie and Lisa, we lose a certain amount of leadership and experience,” Joffe said. “But we have some players coming in who can play in the top spots.”

Joffe has a track record of reviving programs. During the two years he spent at Miami (Ohio) before arriving in College Park, he transformed a mediocre RedHawks team into Mid-American Conference champions, leading them to their first-ever berth in the NCAA Tournament.

“Howard has brought new life to this program,” Miller said.

“He will surely lead the team to an ACC title in the next few years, mark my words.”

Joffe envisions a similar transformation for the Terps’ program to the one he oversaw at Miami. It may be a more impressive feat in the cutthroat ACC, where the Terps have now lost 46 of their last 48 conference matches.

Joffe said the incoming recruits will likely take the top four singles slots for the Terps next season, leaving the final two

“The season was a success when seen through the lenses of how far we’ve come.”

HOWARD JOFFE TERRAPIN WOMEN’S TENNIS COACH

spots to be fought for by returning starters, with the early advantage to vastly improved underclassmen Julia Huschke and Jordan Hansbrough.

“I foresee us, at a surface level, being a way more successful team next year,” Joffe said.

“With the recruits and on the back of the work that’s been done this year, we will be much improved.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

LACROSSE from page 8 North Carolina on Friday in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.

“But we’ve got to take care of business,” he said. “We’ve got to win every game left.”

Cottle also picked the Cavaliers over Syracuse for the top seed.

“In my mind, they’re the best team in the country right now,” said Cottle, who served a four-year term on the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Committee. “We’ll find out how it goes along, but they should be the No. 1 team in the NCAA Tournament if you look at their résumé.”

TIME OFF After a month in which the Terps played six straight games against formidable opponents — two against Virginia, two against North Carolina and one each against in-state rivals Johns Hopkins and Navy — the team has earned a break of sorts. But it won’t last long.

Cottle gave the team Monday and yesterday off, but said they will be right back to work today to prepare for Saturday’s game against unranked Fairfield and then next week’s against Colgate.

The Terps are the only ACC team with two games before the start of the NCAA Tournament on May 15, but players said they’d rather be playing than sitting.

“This team that we have now is unbelievable,” Catalino said.

“Even when we lost those two games [earlier this season], our team stayed at the same level.

We weren’t down on ourselves at all — none of that. We just keep moving on.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

PITCHING from page 8 such strong pitching.”

Even as the Terps’ offense failed to click through the opening weekends of the campaign and sputtered at times throughout the year, the pitching staff helped to keep the Terps afloat.

The imbalance between the team’s pitching success and offensive woes became so glaring that players admitted their embarrassment following lowscoring losses. And after a futile offensive performance wasted Knight’s 18-strikeout effort against Towson in early March, Watten said “these hitters owe these pitchers a whole lot more.”

The Terps’ offense has improved of late, but even when the team has struggled to score runs, the pitchers have guided the team to victory.

“They’ve been holding it down for us,” infielder Alex Schultz said. “They’ve been doing a really good job. It keeps us in ballgames.”

And as the Terps’ season draws to a close, their pitching strength is poised to again be instrumental in not only getting them into postseason play for the first time in 10 years, but succeeding once they get there.

“One of the keys to actually getting into the tournament is really being able to have depth in your pitching,” Watten said.

“That’s one of the things the committee looks at, and how you’ve progressed in a season.

We feel like we’ve really gotten so much stronger as the seasons’ gone along. We definitely have the depth in our pitching staff — I really feel like it’s a huge factor for us.” schneider@umdbk.com

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TERRAPIN MEN’S LACROSSE NOTEBOOK

Injury hurts attack; Cottle talks postseason

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

In Sunday’s ACC title loss, the most noticeable piece of the Terrapin men’s lacrosse attack was the one standing on the sideline in street clothes.

Attackman Will Yeatman sat out during the loss to No. 1 Virginia with a mild concussion suffered in Friday’s game against North Carolina, leaving the team’s offensive strategy in disarray. Without him, the No. 3 Terps scored nearly five fewer goals than their season average, and the attack unit put just two points on the board.

Coach Dave Cottle and fellow attackman Grant Catalino called Yeatman’s absence “no excuse” for the lackluster performance.

But Yeatman’s head injury certainly hampered the team’s offensive abilities.

“With Yeatman going out, they were more limited in their options offensively,” Virginia coach Dom Starsia said Sunday.

The Cavaliers likely breathed a little easier with the Terps’ hulking senior out of the lineup. Since he joined the team as a transfer from Notre Dame before last season, he has been the team’s biggest weapon against the Cavaliers.

Against Virginia last year, Yeatman notched two goals and three assists on the Terps’ attack unit in a losing effort. In their April 3 meeting with their conference rival this season, the Terps switched him from his spot at midfield to the front line, where he scored a career-high four goals in an 11-10 loss.

Sunday, Cottle had hoped to employ the same strategy that has been so successful against the Cavaliers in the past — work from behind the cage to feed to the 6-foot-6, 250-pound attackman sitting on the edge of the crease.

Yeatman’s injury made that impossible.

“Without our guy who was going to attack them, we had to go out in front, and that was a downside,” Cottle said.

Virginia defender Ken Clausen, who usually matches up with the bigger Yeatman, instead defended the smaller Ryan Young, who is normally able to set up the offense from behind the cage. But under Clausen’s pressure, the team’s assist leader did not get a single point, and his struggles spread through the attack. Catalino went 1-for-9 shooting, and Travis Reed went 1-for-5, their poor shooting often springing the Cavaliers’ potent attack.

“When you take a shot that gets saved, that’s a transition the other way,” Cottle said. “So that’s a classic case of bad offense lends itself to bad defense.”

Cottle said he expects Yeatman to be back in time for his Senior Day match against Fairfield on Saturday.

Pitcher Kerry Hickey winds up before a pitch against James Madison. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Softball’s pitching pairing keeps Terps’ tourney hopes alive Hickey-Knight combination ranks among conference’s top units

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

Coach Dave Cottle said he believes No. 1 Virginia and the Terps will earn the No. 1 and No. 3 seed, respectively, in the NCAA Tournament. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

POSTSEASON PROSPECTS With the ACC Tournament finished and the NCAA Tournament just around the corner, coach Dave Cottle figured he’d try his hand at bracketology.

After the Terps’ loss to the Cavaliers on Sunday, Cottle opined on what the near future may hold for both teams. The ninthyear coach saw his own team as a strong candidate for the No. 3 seed in the 16-team tournament field, citing the team’s strength of schedule and dominance over then-No. 3

see LACROSSE, page 7

Midfielder/attackman Will Yeatman, right, moves toward goal during a March 6 win against Duke at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Baseball falls to Patriots again in 20-6 shellacking Terps were swept in season series

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

With the stands nearly empty and the Terrapin baseball team a half-inning away from one of its most embarrassing defeats of the season, the student in charge of music at Shipley Field did his best to change the game’s somber tone. As Terps approached the plate down by double-digit runs, the song “Don’t Worr y, Be Happy” blasted from the speakers.

But after a game in which Terp pitchers had accounted for five hit batsmen, six wild pitches and19 hits allowed en route to a 20-6 throttling at the hands of George Mason, not even the upbeat melodies of Bobby McFerrin could cheer coach Erik Bakich up.

“It looks like we are just playing not to lose,” Bakich said. “Sometimes when you don’t get results, the guys start to get timid andtentative, and you could see that happening. I don’t think the guys have consciously packed it in, but we certainly don’t look good.”

The Terps (15-29) had hoped that pitcher Blair Delean, who carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning in his last outing against Old

Dominion, would build on his recent success. But after the junior walked Patriots’ center fielder Jeremy Haas to start the game, shortstop Ryan Soares gave George Mason the lead for good just two batters later with a two-run home run to left field.

The Terps got a run back in the bottom of the first inning when they executed a delayed double steal, but they didn't record their first hit until the third inning. And by that time, George Mason (27-12) had added three more runs against Delean — and the scoring was just getting started.

The Patriots chased Delean from the game with seven runs in the first five innings, and over the final four frames, they tagged four Terp relievers for 13 runs as the game quickly got out of hand.

“Sometimes in order to build a winning culture, you have to win, and we just aren’t doing that right now,” Bakich said. “Anytime you lose by a couple of touchdowns it’s embarrassing. But after getting pummeled by Virginia all weekend, we still came out as flat as pancakes.

It’s inexcusable.” lemaire@umdbk.com

Before every game, Terrapin softball coach Laura Watten meets with her coaching staff to decide who they’ll trot out as starting pitcher. Most teams have a clear-cut No. 1, but the Terps have a problem most teams would envy.

In pitchers Kendra Knight and Kerry Hickey, Watten has two aces for one spot.

“It’s a really good thing that we have more than just one effective pitcher,” Watten said. “They’re both just so good. They both could be solo number ones on any team in the country, so we’re just really fortunate to be able to have two of such a strong caliber.”

Though the two pitchers are essentially equals on the rubber, there are considerations she factors into her decision. After scouring through their scouting reports, Watten and her staff decide what’s a better fit for the Terps: Knight’s speed or Hickey’s movement.

Other times, she just goes with her gut feeling.

As the more experienced of the two, Hickey has often taken the lead for the Terps in doubleheaders and weekend series. Watten said Hickey will likely do it again today when the Terps take on Delaware State in a doubleheader.

“Typically, we’ve started Kerry just because she’s had more innings and she’s been more confident in the beginning part of the season,” Watten said. “But as the season has gone along, they both have really got close to equal time. Kendra’s just really matured a lot. ... [She’s] really just grown so much throughout the season. She’s just really done a great job of working hard and getting better every day.”

Watten has ridden the arms of Hickey and Knight to a possible NCAA Tournament berth and, after a rough start to conference play, recent ACC dominance.

Knight was named ACC Pitcher of the Week yesterday after she held N.C. State scoreless during the weekend in 14 innings in work. The announcement marked the third time she has won the award this season and the fourth time a Terp has garnered the accolade this year.

Together, the tandem has made the pitching staff arguably the ACC’s best.

The Terps lead the conference in ERA (1.65), haven’t allowed double-digit runs all year and have given up the fewest runs in the conference as well.

“I think it’s an incredible feat,” Watten said, “especially in a conference as good as ours. It’s great for us to have

see PITCHING, page 7