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THE DIAMONDBACK Our 100TH Year, No. 131
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Admins seek More student riot charges dropped input on plan to shut down Campus Drive Of the 23 students arrested March 4, six have fought and beaten their charges BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer
Of the 23 students who were arrested during the post-Duke game riot last month, six have seen their cases go to court. All six have had the charges against them dropped. Not a single university student has faced trial for crimes relating to the riot, while four Prince George’s County Police officers have been sus-
pended in relation to the videotaped beating of a student, largely validating widespread student complaints about police brutality during the early morning hours of March 4. “It says that there was no basis for the charges in the first place,” said Terrell N. Roberts III, a law partner of an attorney representing three of the six students. “This demonstrates that at least six unlawful arrests occurred. So what’s the
basis for the use of force against these students? None.” County police spokesman Maj. Andrew Ellis said prosecutors dropped two recent cases because the officer who wrote the charging documents didn’t summon the witnessing officer to court. In most situations, the two officers are one and the same, Ellis explained. But in a riot, witnessing officers can’t leave the formation police use to disperse
the crowd, so other officers pick up the paperwork. County police have refused to provide a comprehensive list of the students arrested that night, but lawyer Chris Griffiths, who is representing about six students and said he was familiar with about 20 of the cases in total, said he believes most of the cases were unlawful arrests.
see CHARGES, page 6
Students say closed road may be an inconvenience BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer
Officials were expected to announce yesterday that transit access to Campus Drive would be restricted during the summer, but administrators decided to postpone making an official move until they receive feedback on the initiative. The pilot program will likely still take place, Vice President of Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie said, but the administration wants to first determine what problems the university community would encounter if Campus Drive were restricted, eliminating all vehicle traffic except for two Shuttle-UM routes. If the experimental move to turn the area around Stamp Student Union into a pedestrian-only zone were to be implemented, the pilot program would begin June 19 and end Aug. 13, after which administrators would discuss and determine the success of the test run. The proposal would restrict access from the traffic circle near the
see TRANSIT, page 7
English professor Matt Kirschenbaum received a grant from the Library of Congress to attain and preserve old video games and gaming systems. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
A bill demanding student seats on merger committee was withdrawn at yesterday’s SGA meeting. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK
SGA kills bill for undergrad representation Students seek say in dance, theatre merger BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer
A resolution demanding student representation on committees that would plan how to merge of the dance and theate departments — if approved by the University Senate — was withdrawn last night after SGA legislators said it seemed the bill wouldn’t change anything before the senate votes on the issue. As the plan stands, 18 committees would be charged with laying out the new structure and curriculum of the proposed School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. An overarching committee would have one undergraduate member and one graduate student member, both of whom would be non-voting. The other 17 committees have no student representatives, and other students aren’t allowed into committee meetings, which drove Arts and Humanities legislator Kate Richard to write the bill. “Students in the theater and dance departments are so involved at every level,” including technical work, stage managing and design, she said. “They should have a say in what happens.”
see REPRESENTATION, page 7
TOMORROW’S WEATHER:
A SECOND LIFE Two researchers attempt to salvage old-school video game worlds BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer
Frogger may face greater risks than leaping into oncoming traffic, and Pong could meet a worse fate than bouncing off of the screen into TV oblivion. For these and many other classic video games, it could very well be “Game Over.” Doug Reside and English professor Matt Kirschenbaum, who are the associate directors of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, are working to preserve video games as they become obsolete in an ever-chang-
ing technological world. The two have joined up with researchers from Stanford University, the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and the Rochester Institute of Technology in a project funded by the Library of Congress to find a way to save these pop culture artifacts from the march of time. Ultimately, Kirschenbaum said, he wants people to be able to track down an original version of Pong or Frogger in a few decades. “If I want to teach a novel that’s hundreds of years old, it’s not a problem — I
see GAMES, page 2
Helping many men, many women Founder of sexual awareness program to leave university at end of semester BY NELLY DESMARATTES Staff writer
As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close, so too will Sexual Assault Prevention Coordinator for the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life Mollie MonahanKreishman’s time at this university. After working six years to educate fraternity men and sorority women at this university on sexual assault prevention techniques, Monahan-Kreishman took a new job as director of the Women’s Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Monahan-Kreishman created the 10 Men and 10 Women plan in 2004 to fight a growing problem with sexual violence within university Greek organizations. The program selects 10 women and 10 men from selected
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sororities and fraternities to attend weekly meetings with a facilitator, learn skills to help sexual assault victims and find out how to prevent sexual assault from occurring within their organization. The program was originally run through the University Health Center, but after the project lost its funding, the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life picked it up. “By that time, fraternities and sororities were willing to try almost anything to advance the issue in the Greek community,” MonahanKreishman said. Monahan-Kreishman works specifically with two fraternities, meeting weekly with members of Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta
see PROGRAM, page 6
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Mollie Monahan-Kreishman, far left, of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, speaks to members of Alpha Tau Omega yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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