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Names of riot arrestees surface Three who have seen charges dropped are university community members

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

The State’s Attorney’s Office has released the names of four additional people who have had riot-related charges dropped, including one university student and one graduate.

Sophomore William Wang and alumnus Christopher Booze will no longer face charges, joining junior John McKenna and sophomore Ben Donat. Roberto Valladares, 24, and Henry Barillas,

dent claims of police brutality, acts of which have been documented in student videos and witness testimony.

“The claims students made of excessive force on the night of the celebration are validated by many aspects of this case, including the fact that many of the [Prince George’s] County officers who were listed as complainants and witnesses did not show up in court for the trials of the students that were charged,” she said.

24, who are unaffiliated with the university, have also seen their charges dropped.

Those involved in the students’ cases said that some Prince George’s County Police officers did not appear in court, making it easier for students to beat their charges.

Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator working with attorneys Chris Griffiths and Terrell N. Roberts III on the students’ cases, said the officers’ failure to show up in court supports stu-

One of the four suspended officers, Officer Sean McAleavey, who signed the charging documents in McKenna’s case, was among officers who missed their court dates, according to the defense team.

The charging documents, which alleged that McKenna assaulted officers and Maryland-National Capital Park Police horses, were widely invalidated by a student video showing McKenna being beaten — apparently without

see CHARGES, page 2

Building from the ground up

Arts and Humanities Dean James Harris speaking during the discussion of the faculty merit pay plan.

The University Senate later voted in favor of the plan. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Senate approves dance-theatre merger plan

Bakich leads baseball’s resurgence with new crop of touted recruits

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

On the afternoon of April 1, as the rest of the Terrapin baseball team worked out for the next day’s series opener with North Carolina, pitching coach Sean Kenny was partway across the country in Robinson, Ill., watching junior college baseball in the shadow of a prison tower and its armed guard.

All three Terp coaches had taken turns making day-long scouting

Student representation to be considered, officials say

BY DERBY COX Senior staff writer

The dance and theatre departments are one step away from merging after the University Senate overwhelmingly approved the proposal yesterday.

Student leaders had been concerned that the merger plan did not provide for student representation on most of the new school’s administrative committees — 17 of 18 committees listed in the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies’ organizational plan do not include student representatives, and the last provides one non-voting seat for undergraduates and one for graduate students. But before the vote, arts and humanities Dean James Harris said a committee would look into adding graduate, undergraduate and staff representatives. The plan passed in a 72-6 vote.

After the meeting, Harris called the failure to previously address the issue of student representation “an oversight.”

Neither graduate student senator Aaron Tobiason nor undergraduate senator Jonathan Sachs raised the issue of student representation during the senate meeting. Both senators serve on the senate’s most

trips to watch recruits play before weekend series, and that Thursday, it was Kenny’s turn. He hopped on a plane and headed to Parker Field, home of the Lincoln Trail College baseball team and neighbor to the Robinson Correctional Center, a high-minimum security prison with a daily average of 1,187 inmates.

“When I first saw it, I thought, ‘We gotta get a player from there,’” Kenny joked. “The guy who gave

see BAKICH, page 7

THE FUTURE IS IN THEIR GLOVES Coach Erik Bakich has signed a recruiting class that’s both big on numbers and talent. Here are three of the group’s big-timers:

see MERGER, page 3

CHRISTOPHER CULVER

AUSTIN KILBOURNE

KYLE CONVISSAR

Infielder and pitcher who is ranked as the 96th-best high school prospect in the nation.

6-foot-3 outfielder also considered Clemson and North Carolina.

Severna Park native is rated as the No. 1 player in the state.

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SGA gives $25,000 in final round of appeals New District 1 commander Legislature turns away six groups, allocates MaryPIRG $20,000

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff writer

The SGA legislature doled out a total of about $25,000 in additional funding to three student groups in the last round of appeals last night after hearing cases from nine groups dissatisfied with their initial allotments.

After almost half of the $50,000 in group funding that was requested from the legislature yesterday was granted — $20,000 of which was given solely to MaryPIRG to fund a non-student position in their organization — only about $5,000 was left for student group emergency funding next semester. Emergency aid, or “group help” as it is called in the Student Government Association, is given to stu-

dent groups struggling to stay afloat or new groups that are formed early in the academic year.

“Group help is in danger, and honestly, we’re trying to figure out how to take the money away from PIRG,” freshman legislator and finance committee member Zach Cohen called out in the middle of a heated debate last night. Cohen later apologized to the legislature for his outburst.

Yesterday’s last-ditch appeals marked the end of the financial process for student groups, during which the SGA Finance Committee was faced with more than $2.4 million in requests — about twice the amount the SGA has to give out. About

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

see APPEALS, page 3

must prioritize relationships PG County Police have no successor for Dusseau yet; officials say new leader will need to emphasize univ. community

BY DARREN BOTELHO Staff writer

SGA legislators and club water polo team members Michael Schwartz, left, and Ian Winchester, right, reveal their speedos as they ask the legislature to approve more group funding for the club team. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

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The new commander for the Prince George’s County Police district that includes College Park will need to prioritize building a relationship with the community and the university, County Police Chief Roberto Hylton said.

While Hylton said he didn’t expect widespread allegations of brutality against county police in the wake of the riots that followed the Terp men’s basketball team’s win over Duke last month to complicate the search, he did say building relationships with the community would be critical.

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The new commander has to have “integrity, can lead in a complex and diverse community, be a coalition builder and be someone who can affect crime through traditional and community policing methods,” Hylton said.

The search process could take months, Hylton said, but will be finished before the end of the year. Former District 1 Commander Maj. Daniel Dusseau, who retired from the force earlier this month, was named commander the same day former commander Kevin Davis was promoted to deputy chief last spring.

see COMMANDER, page 2

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MORE ONLINE www.diamondbackonline.com TESTUDO GETS ROASTED In the tradition of Comedy Central roasts of celebrities such as Flava Flav and Pamela Anderson, Testudo sat in the hot seat yesterday, enduring insult after insult, all without saying a word.

Student Government Association President Steve Glickman and a man in a hare costume also appeared at the event to taunt the turtle.

Most of the jokes were aimed at Testudo’s drug habits and sex life, drawing few crowd members after the event’s free T-shirt giveaway was over.

For more on this first-ever event, see staff writer Erin Egan’s story online.

Testudo is roasted by every turtle’s nemesis, the infamous hare, in the Baltimore Room of Stamp Student Union. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

BLACK AND JEWISH STUDENTS COME TOGETHER Community leaders from both university cultural groups hosted an event to highlight shared struggles and promote communication, which many say has been almost nonexistent so far.

For more on this story, see staff writer Melissa Quijada’s story online.

CHARGES from page 1 provocation — by county police.

County police spokesman Maj. Andy Ellis reported earlier this week that no witnesses were summoned in Valladares’ case, but a witnessing officer is listed in the court documents, according to the state judiciary case file. Ellis said he is looking into why he was told otherwise.

Weidenfeld added that in the cases of McKenna and Donat, two park police officers who were summoned showed up to the hearing. They were the only officers who appeared in court as witnesses, although multiple county police officers were summoned.

Griffiths spotted another pattern after conducting interviews with witnesses and arrestees: Some students who

SENATE CREATES SITE SELECTION COMMITTEE The independent body will determine where the university can construct new buildings, taking environmental impact into consideration.

For more on this story, see staff writer Lauren Redding’s story online.

STARK DIFFERENCES IN SGA PARTY FUNDRAISING According to financial reports released last week, the STARE coalition didn’t raise any funds while Your Party and Sky Party each raised more than $2,000.

For more on this story, see staff writer Alissa Gulin’s story online.

COMMANDER from page 1 Dusseau retired the same week a video of police beating a student during the March 4 riots surfaced and drew national media attention, but county police have said his retirement — and move to the private sector — had been expected.

Hylton didn’t expect the process to be overly complicated, he said, noting it will be much simpler than choosing a new county or University Police chief.

“A police chief search is much different than choosing who to put into different commands,” he said.

“Choosing a new chief involves putting out announcements and people applying. The new District 1 Commander will be a current major or a competent captain.”

One thing the new commander won’t have to manage is an internal investigation of police behavior during the riots — four officers have already been suspended.

“Our commander of our professional standards division will be

“I think once you get a permanent commander in the position it is a more effective way to run the district.”

handling the case,” county police spokesman Maj. Andy Ellis said.

“Any investigations involving the College Park incident are not the responsibility of the Hyattsville District 1 Commander.”

The FBI and the State’s Attorney’s Office are also investigating the allegations.

But in the riot’s wake, the new commander may have to repair a strained relationship with university students, many of whom have said their trust in county police has dropped.

Assistant Commander Capt.

Cesar Pacheco is the interim commander, and Hylton said he isn’t scrambling to find a permanent replacement. The chief has the final word on who will replace Dusseau, but he said he will consult his deputy chiefs and community members before appointing someone. While district commanders generally have the rank of major, there is no list of potential candidates among the force’s 17 majors, Hylton said.

Ellis said it was important to name a new commander relatively soon, since District 1 is the county’s most populous with more than 200,000 residents, and that a permanent commander can ensure things run smoothly.

“I think once you get a permanent commander in the position it is a more effective way to run the district,” Ellis said. “With a permanent commander everyone knows who to contact and who to work with.”

MAJ. ANDY ELLIS COUNTY POLICE SPOKESMAN

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were issued citations have not yet been notified of their court dates, unlike those who faced charging documents.

Ellis said it takes several months for citations for make their way through the system, noting that charging documents are entered directly into the system after they are issued.

Booze, 21, who was issued a citation, saw his charges dropped last week.

Students who were issued citations and have yet to receive their court dates should be hearing from the court within the next 30 days, Ellis said.

As for any officers who did not respond to court summons, Ellis said departmental sanctions — ranging from a written notice to fines — could follow.

“Maybe there was a misunderstanding,” he said. present@umdbk.com

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New policy to create standard guidelines for faculty bonuses Every department must meet eight criteria and seek approval for its current method of doling out merit pay

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

A new policy will standardize why and how faculty members receive bonus pay after the University Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve it yesterday.

Right now, each department has its own policies to determine when faculty members deserve bonuses. While the new policy wouldn’t make those processes uniform, it aims to ensure that each department’s method is fair, representative and transparent. Each department will be required to present its process to the senate’s Faculty Affairs Committee, which will make sure it meets eight guidelines already in existence.

“We requested copies of merit pay plans from all units on the campus that are supposed to have one,” said Eric Kasischke, a geography professor and chairman of the Faculty Merit Pay Task Force. “We got about 75 percent of the plans back. We found that less than 5 percent had all eight components.”

The eight components include having an appeals process, informing faculty members in writing and weighing several years of performance when issuing merit pay.

Some senators feared revising merit pay was a backdoor way of implementing a posttenure review policy, which the senate shot down last March.

That policy would have allowed departmental committees to review tenured faculty members on a yearly basis and possibly increase or decrease their salaries

“We only wanted to discuss merit pay, and that has nothing to do with pay reduction.”

ERIC KASISCHKE FACULTY MERIT PAY TASK FORCE CHAIRMAN

based on performance.

Mark Leone, an anthropology professor who serves on the Senate Executive Committee, asked whether there was any mechanism in the recommendations whereby salary could be lost or taken away, as would have been the case if the posttenure review policy has passed.

But Kasischke was adamant the committee had remained focused exclusively on faculty merit pay and didn’t deal with salar y decreases.

“We did not consider anything that had to do with the post-tenure review debate of last year,” Kasischke said. “We only wanted to discuss merit pay, and that has nothing to do with pay reduction.”

The committee did, however, recommend that Provost Nariman Farvardin develop a plan to address salary compression and equity issues. Some faculty were concerned salaries didn’t rise along with professors’ academic standing.

“In my department, this is a serious issue,” said senator Lisa Mar, a history professor. “We often hire faculty at the begin-

ning level and as they progress toward tenure, we then lose the faculty because there’s not a way for them to jump to the next rank.”

Several senators voiced frustration that some faculty members who aren’t tenured or tenure-track — such as research and library faculty — weren’t considered in the committee’s report.

Senator Jordan Goodman, a physics professor who was on the task force, said that while it was important for a review of those faculty members to take place, their pay was a separate issue that shouldn’t be included in the vote.

Legislators added an amendment to clarify who is meant by faculty — tenure, tenure-track and library faculty — throughout the report. Another amendment, which was proposed by the executive committee and passed by the senate, stated that each unit should post its approved plan on its website so faculty can review it.

The committee also recommended colleges and departments develop procedures to make sure new faculty members are aware of the merit pay process. It also suggested the policy be revised so that all years are accounted for when considering merit pay, even those when bonuses were not available. Bonuses were not available this year because of the university’s decreased budget.

The senate voted in favor of the recommendations 73-4.

Feminism Without Borders President Mary Yanik, far right, along with member Jack Izen, center, requests more money from the Student Government Association to cover the cost of hosting panels with sweatshop workers. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

APPEALS from page 1 $1.2 million was given to student groups in the first round of funding earlier this month, which included subsidies for travel and airfare for the first time.

MaryPIRG’s request for salary money for a non-student position was supported by more than 1,900 students who voted “yes” on the referendum featured on the SGA election ballot last week. But the request only passed the legislature by one vote in a 15-14 break after a high-intensity debate that took up about half of the 10-hour meeting.

Although the finance committee had already granted the request for MaryPIRG’s campus coordinator salary, the additional $20,000 will go toward half the salary of its state director. Both positions would be filled by nonstudents.

Many legislators questioned why such a large sum of money should go to a person students have little access to and whose primary job is to lobby student

issues in Annapolis, while SGA President Steve Glickman questioned MaryPIRG’s accountability in representing the entire student body when lobbying.

“I have to question when they go in and represent the student body — how do they represent them? It’s the 50 or so people who want to advocate on behalf of the students on student issues,” Glickman said. “The fact that we aren’t able to go in and check that MaryPIRG is advocating on something we would like them to advocate on behalf of — that kind of bothers me.”

Others praised the work of MaryPIRG, urging legislators to see them as “professional lobbyists.”

Groups whose appeals were denied didn’t receive their requests mostly because legislators didn’t want to make unfair exceptions to across-the-board cuts initially imposed by the Finance Committee, according to SGA Vice President Andrew Steinberg.

While some legislators debated the merit of groups’ requests, Steinberg and others insisted on continuing to use neu-

trality in assessing the appeals, most of which asked for money that had been cut across-theboard for all groups.

“We can’t just spend money because we have it,” said Lisa Crisalli, South Campus Commons legislator and finance committee member.

“It sounds like giving a child a cookie because they asked you 20 times.”

Appeals from groups such as Best Buddies, the Satanic Mechanics Theater Company, Feminism Without Borders, the Intelligence Community Club, the Homecoming Committee and the men’s water polo team — the team’s representatives, including SGA legislators Ian Winchester and Michael Schwartz, dropped their pants to display Speedos during their appeal to the legislature — were denied.

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MERGER from page 1 powerful committee — the Senate Executive Committee — and have expressed concern over the issue.

Tobiason, who represents the arts and humanities college, said he had previously considered motioning to send the proposal back to a senate committee because of the lack of student representation. He said he decided against raising the motion because the senate floor was not the proper place to discuss the issue. No one at the meeting argued against the proposal.

After the meeting, Sachs said he did not raise the representation issue because he believes the merger is worthwhile and the issue seems to

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plan. He said he would recommend the executive committee have another committee look into the protocol for combining departments.

During yesterday’s meeting, the senate also approved a new plan of organization for the information studies college. Before that vote, Tobiason and Sachs both commended the plan for including student representation on committees.

When asked whether his comment was intended as a statement about the dance and theatre merger, Sachs said, “That’s up to whoever interprets what I was saying.”

University President Dan Mote still needs to approve the merger before the departments can combine. cox@umbdk.com

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“To see a merger like that go down in flames about what we were assured was an oversight didn’t seem pragmatic,” he said.

Combining the departments into the new school will allow for greater crossdiscipline collaboration, administrators have said. For example, the proposal states that a new master’s program in the theatre department “has an emphasis on movement practice that a stronger connection with the department of dance will enrich and diversify.”

“I think it’s great,” Harris said. “This is not simply a merger. This is the creation of a new unit.”

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Road closure for students W

hen administrators announced Campus Drive will have restricted time those goals come to fruition — such as with Campus Drive — there is a transit access this summer, some students leaders felt shut out of the whole new generation of students, potentially with different thoughts, goals decision-making process. Beyond the issue of students fighting for and philosophies.

So how should the ever-changing student voice be incorporated into the longa stronger voice within the administration, there is a deeper problem: This case is symptomatic of an eternal struggle at this university between the term plans of the university? The best answer is a concerted effort by administrators to involve students every year in long-term goals. Instead of involving students long-term work administrators try to do and the short-term goals of students.

It’s simple math. Students are only at the university for a handful of years, in the process when the action is about to happen, administrators should be reachwhereas administrators work with things such as strategic plans, attempting to ing out to take the pulse of students every year. This doesn’t mean re-writing a 60page year-long effort because the student body presidency project decades ahead. This creates a fundamental disconnect changes hands, but administrators could do something as simbetween students and long-term university projects such as ple as briefing relevant student leaders before a new aspect of a the restricted motor transit on Campus Drive. Granted, the entire list of the short- and long-term goals of the university is Students should have more plan is implemented.

But some of the onus for this should fall on students as well. virtually never-ending, but that shouldn’t deter administrators say in the implementation Members of the SGA were aware of the plan, but with so many and students from at least attempting to tackle the long-term of long-term university pressing short-term problems, it’s easy to see how an issue menu for the university on a constant basis. such as this can disappear from the radar screen. A solution Student leaders were miffed at the announcement of a projects. was proposed by defeated SGA presidential candidate and Vice potential pilot program slated to start in June that would experPresident of Finance Andrew Steinberg, who suggested the iment with eliminating motor traffic around the Stamp Student Union. Although Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie said yester- SGA create its own strategic plan to drive its advocacy in the long-term. We hope day in this paper that administrators are seeking input for the plan, that did not stop Glickman, who in his second year should have a better understanding of long-term Student Government Association President Steve Glickman and SGADirector of issues than most SGA presidents, picks up the idea.

There exists a major hidden advantage to such constant input, as well: If stuEnvironmental Affairs Joanna Calabrese from expressing concern over the lack of dents have more input on long-term university goals, they will be able to identify a student voice affecting the issue.

Yet, administrators would respond that students were involved in the process: when some long-term goals become stale. There is always the chance that goals in The call for a transit-free Campus Drive was mentioned in such places as the Facil- Strategic Plan made in 2008 could be outdated and no longer desirable by students, ities Master Plan, which was most recently updated in 2007. Student voices had an so administrators should be reaching out to see how to tighten the ship of the longimpact then and earlier, but obviously, many of those voices are now among univer- term plans. Such findings could save wasted time and energy.

Students always want a seat at the table. The university should realize the seat sity alumni. The nature of a university makes this problem virtually unavoidable: When administrators reach out to students for input on long-term goals, by the shouldn’t just be a guest chair.

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Hipsters: Fighting an uphill battle

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see you, boy with the clipboard and unwashed hair. I see you petitioning to have McDonald’s removed from the campus and asking if I have “60 seconds to talk about baby seals.” I see you creating that Facebook group inviting us all to watch porn, then discussing its implications regarding gender communication. I see you and I think: Stop making us all look crazy.

Do I wish people cared more about the environment, consumed meat more responsibly, respected women and bought locally-grown organic goods? Of course I do. The problem is extremely intense advocating (see: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) makes it really easy for the uninformed to just scornfully write off any worthy movement as being for weirdos (see: feminism).

My friend — a self-proclaimed hipster, which is a contradiction in itself as hipsters never admit to being hipsters — who lives in New York City claims I

BETHANY

WYNN have no idea what a hipster is and that my perceptions are all wrong. He’s probably right, but I’m going to talk about hipsters I see on the campus, which is perfectly OK because they have no idea who they are either.

Hipsters at the university seem to be a conglomeration of many types of hipster: the intellectual, the music scorner, the “all my clothes are from a thrift store” and the “I’m wearing an $85 Supreme hat,” the politically active advocate, the fixed-gear bike rider, the “Look at my Hasselblad camera: Everything looks so much cooler in black and white,” the skateboarder.

I like hipsters, but I’m not a hipster.

Strike one: I own Uggs. I had dinner

with a hipster friend during winter break and wore them. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him more horrified, even though we once watched his dog jump through a plate-glass window in pursuit of a deer.

Strike two: I read lesbian vampire novels on my Kindle. No Leo Tolstoy.

Strike three: Hipsters seem to be the only ones doing any kind of intellectual discussion or protesting on the campus — things I don’t participate in because I’m apathetic.

I’m out. I do own fake horn-rimmed glasses though. My bad.

Anyway, I went to Testudo’s Market last week, and it was hipster central. If I wanted to round up and capture the university’s entire hipster population, I would’ve just dropped a huge net over Hornbake Plaza. Everyone likes the idea of supporting local farmers and local art. There was a stage with people playing instruments and such, but unfortunately many hipster-ish types chose to use it as a platform to yell

things like “Don’t feed the monkey!

Don’t feed the man! Fight corporations!”

When you’re doing a cover of Nada Surf’s “Popular” while wearing Ray Bans — which any self-respecting hipster has given up by now — and a plaid shirt during the university’s farmers’ market, you’re just alienating people. We go to a state school. Everyone knows bros hate hipsters, which clouds their judgment when it comes to things like saving the planet and helping others. If you want people to not eat meat and buy locally produced goods, you have to infiltrate using stealth tactics. What does my bro-ish friend — who once yelled “You look like a tool!” at a guy with a faux hawk during a basketball game, if that gives you any idea — think of the delicious, cheap, vegetarian-friendly Maryland Food Co-op? “It smells funny.”

See what we’re up against?

Bethany Wynn is a junior French and sociology major. She can be reached at wynn@umdbk.com.

Quirks: Embracing our differences

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make weird faces when I listen to music.

It doesn’t matter if I’m alone in my room or walking across the campus with my iPod — the look on my face is always the same. I’ve tried describing it to people, but I can never fully do it justice. I guess it’s sort of this weird mixture of mild confusion and intense pain. Like, imagine how I’d look if you asked me about my day and then punched me in the face before I could answer. It’s like that, only much, much worse.

And I hate it. I hate how I look like I’m taking a huge crap when I jam out to a song. Really, it kills me.

When I mentioned this to a few of my friends, they started laughing.

“Oh, great,” I thought, “now I’m going to get made fun of.”

But after the laughter died down, something strange happened: My friends didn’t make fun of me. In fact,

they actually complimented me on my oddball faces.

“Wait, what are you talking about?”

I asked, completely taken aback.

“Dude, we’ve noticed it before, and we think it’s great,” one of my friends said.

“Yeah. It’s what makes you who you are,” another replied.

And that was that.

It got me thinking about how unnecessarily self-conscious people are about their quirks, myself included. To think I spent my entire life agonizing about a part of my personality my friends not only appreciated but actually identified with me.

I’m not saying I’m suddenly proud of the way I look when I listen to music — far from it. I’m just saying it’s something that makes me who I am, and maybe I shouldn’t hate what makes me different.

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SANDERS quirky things, and I bet most of us identify that person solely through their particular quirks.

My old manager Alissa never knew how to say the word “goodbye” correctly. Instead, she combined the words “bye” and “OK” into something that sounded vaguely like “OKbye-e.” Was it weird? Of course.

When I first heard her say it, I thought my brain was playing tricks on me. And when she said it a second time, I laughed my ass off. But eventually, it became the one thing that made Alissa, well, Alissa.

Have you ever read one of univer-

sity President Dan Mote’s e-mails?

Have you ever understood one? No, you haven’t. That’s because Mote speaks in riddles. And while I don’t always enjoy slogging through a 40paragraph treatise that sounds important but winds up being about Maryland Day, I tolerate it. I tolerate it because writing long-winded emails that make no sense is what makes Mote who he is.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, fly your freak flags high, brothers and sisters. Your quirks are what make you different, and what makes you different is what makes you interesting. Let’s get a little weird. Let’s stop marching to the beat of one drum.

You know, so I can finally stop making these stupid faces.

Mike Sanders is a junior history major. He can be reached at sanders@umdbk.com.

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’ve seen both sides. I’ve seen people screaming at each other in fury, in despair and in humiliation. I’ve crossed through checkpoints between Israeli and Palestinian areas. I’ve seen mothers break down in tears as they remember their children, lost to a suicide bomber, a missile or an unforgiving battlefield and as they realize their son or daughter will never walk through the door again. I’m not some naive idealist who believes Israelis and Palestinians just need to hold hands and sing “Kumbaya” to end a bloody conflict.

As I’ve paid attention to the tensions on our campus over the past few weeks, I’ve come to believe even more strongly than before that this conflict is not a situation of us versus them. Casting it as so is a dangerous and unproductive method of demonstrating national pride. This paradigm is polarizing and forces individuals into camps, since those in the middle are often viewed as wrong, traitorous or simply crazy. It’s remarkably easy to fall into this trap, and there are many forces in our society that compel people to pick sides.

It’s not a win-or-lose game, nor an example of the prisoner’s dilemma.

There are very few true dichotomies in life, and while the Duke-Maryland rivalry may be one of them, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — like most other conflicts — is not.

Advocating violence is never the answer. This lesson rings true throughout history, such as in Mahatma Gandhi’s fight to gain Indian independence, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta’s campaigns against mistreatment of farm workers in California and Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement. Terrorism is never the answer, nor is depriving people of basic human rights.

For any real change to happen, each side needs to own up to its mistakes as well as celebrate its strengths. There is nothing wrong with self-criticism or criticism of others: It is how we grow and learn to adapt to what is around us. During the course of our lives, we realize things about ourselves — such as personal habits or ways of dealing with people — could be improved, and we act accordingly. Is it too much to expect countries, movements and politicians to do the same and take an honest look at their actions?

Cultural pride is also important, but it is often seen as an attack on the other side. I disagree with this understanding. Learning about other peoples’ cultures not only helps us broaden our own worldview but also reveals the humanity innate in each of us. Realizing that our “enemy” is actually a real person, with a name, a face, interests and a soul makes it impossible to demonize them or wish them harm. It’s about moving past polarized categories of “enemy” or “friend” and viewing one another simply as fellow humans.

UMD Students for Justice in Palestine had a valuable opportunity during Palestinian Solidarity Week to engage in both self-criticism and strengthen cultural pride. My own observations suggest this opportunity was not taken, but I encourage future Palestinian Solidarity Weeks to incorporate both of these elements.

The upcoming Israel Week has this opportunity as well, and I challenge the organizers to take advantage of it by acknowledging the fact that 96 percent of the 1.4 million people in Gaza depend on humanitarian aid for their basic needs. To do otherwise would be ignorant and rude.

While each of these events can and should move toward a more respectful embodiment, I challenge the organizers, as well as the entire university community, to come together and have a Peace Week during which different peoples can engage in honest discussion and appreciation of one another's’ cultures. As years of fighting, misunderstanding and lack of respect has shown, polarizing the situation and casting fellow humans as the enemy has not worked. The only way this conflict, both in the Middle East and at our university, can improve is the creation of a new paradigm and means of understanding that values cooperation, healthy selfcriticism, cultural pride and a shared common humanity.

Nehama Rogozen is a senior government and politics major. She can be reached at nehama.rogozen@gmail.com.

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REVIEW | A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

Freddy got fingered A Nightmare on Elm Street violates the cinema legend that is Freddy Krueger

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Staff writer

Beautiful people and unrepentant carnage are essentially the only two constants audiences can expect in modern Hollywood filmmaking, disregarding for a moment the utter dominance of computer animation in live action films. There’s nothing wrong with all the bloodshed and bombshell women — that’s what most spectators crave. But a little originality here and there shouldn’t be too much to ask.

Originality is something one might think a big-time movie producer would have looked for before green-lighting yet another horror movie remake. Alas, New Line Cinema has recreated A Nightmare on Elm Street and proven once again horror movie remakes are often just as bad as repetitive horror movie sequels and far more useless.

For the uninformed, in the past few years, modern directors have been coming in droves to recreate classic hor-

ror films, including musician and director Rob Zombie’s (The Devil’s Rejects) stab at the first two installments of the Halloween franchise and relatively unknown director Marcus Nispel’s version of Friday the 13th.

A Nightmare on Elm Street is being advertised as a re-envisioning of the titular nightmare Freddy Krueger, who can only slaughter his targets by invading their dreams, except the consistently gory wounds afflict his victims in the real world as well. On top of this, before inexplicably transforming into this terrible phantasm, Freddy was a sadistic child molester. The film revolves around his slow stalking and murdering of the teenagers who told on him as children, an act which led to his murder. The teenagers’ only defense is to stay awake at all times, which is an impossibility.

That’s the plot, and from the audience’s point of view, the film effectively transmits the message that no matter how badly he’s burned, Krueger the pedophile

will always win. Of course, this probably wasn’t exactly what the creators had in mind, but then again, Wes Craven, who directed the original almost 26 years ago, probably wasn’t expecting his classic film to be butchered like a promiscuous teenager who can’t stay awake.

In the original, Freddy was a child killer and not a child molester, and the story had strong undertones decrying teenage sex — in a sense, it was partially a morality play. By removing these undertones and changing Freddy’s criminal nature, he becomes a hero for vicious rapists who has no purpose in the story other than providing an onslaught of claw-handed violence. One of the cornerstones of the horror movie genre is loving to hate the villains, but this movie forces its audience to simply dislike Freddy.

This new Freddy, played by Jackie Earle Haley (Shutter Island) doesn’t deliver the same semi-comedic soul that Robert Englund (Night of the Sinner)

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Conversely, awkward laughter may well be the only real emotion a viewer can pull from the movie. Screenwriters Wesley Strick (Love Is the Drug) and Eric Heisserer must love walking because every other scene in the film involves one of the one-dimensional teenage victims meandering down a lonely hallway in nearly absolute silence.

Then there’s an ear-piercingly loud sound in conjunction with a shocking image or a flash of Freddy’s blades. After the second time this happens, every scene with Freddy follows this structure and becomes absurdly repetitive. Scaring someone with a loud noise isn’t so much the production of a real

Jackie Earle Haley plays the dark and mysterious Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street. COURTESY MOVIEWEB.COM

emotion as it is the production of a tepid shock.

Similarly, this film, made more than a quarter of a century after the original, has less interesting and less realistic visual effects. There is a strong reliance on poorly rendered computer generated images, whereas the Craven version had to use entirely real visual trickery and set design to create its wonderfully appalling gore.

Many scenes reworked for the new film, including the infamous zero-gravity bedroom murder, have been marred by bad camera angles.

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So the question arises: Why remake such an accolade of the horror genre? Audiences more than likely wouldn’t stand for a remake of something as important to the history of filmmaking as Gone with the Wind, so there is no reason to waste time recreating one of history’s quintessential and revolutionary horror movies. Whoever had the idea to remake this movie made a serious mistake — unfortunately some terrible dreams really do come true. diversions@umdbk.com

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BAKICH from page 1 me the directions told me it was on the prison road, but I didn’t think anything of it. But then when I got to the field ... I mean, you could see the guard in the tower with the rifle.”

Even after spending 11 seasons as the recruiting coordinator for San Diego and Pepperdine, it was a definite first for Kenny. But it’s indicative of the recruiting odyssey the Terps’ coaching staff has embarked on since coach Erik Bakich was hired this year to revive a longsuffering program.

The team hasn’t been to the ACC Tournament since the conference expanded in 2005, and with a 4-17 ACC record heading into today’s series opener against No. 16 Miami, it’s unlikely the Terps (15-30) will snap the streak this year.

It’s easy to see why, even with 11 games left on the schedule, some of the Terps’ coaching staff’s thoughts are elsewhere.

Kenny, along with Bakich and recruiting coordinator Dan Burton, have logged thousands of miles on the road and spent thousands of dollars in search of the talent necessary to resurrect a nowpowerless program.

“There are some good coaches out there who don’t win because they have no talent,” Bakich said, “and then there are other questionable coaches who win because they have a great team. ... We can coach our tail off every

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year, and it won’t be worth a damn if we don’t have good players.”

As soon as Bakich stepped in for Terry Rupp, he pledged to recruit “anybody, anywhere.” But before he could begin that undertaking, Bakich had to find a way to substantially upgrade the program’s fundraising efforts.

His first move was to create a new position — director of baseball operations — and fill it with Bernie Walter, the winningest coach in state public

high school history and a man who Bakich describes as the “most well-connected man in Maryland.” A 1963 graduate of the university with the Terrapin logo etched into the carpets of his car, Walter was an easy sell.

With his staff finalized, Bakich sought to completely revamp the program’s fundraising arm of the Terrapin Club, the Home Run Club, making a point to reach out to former players who wanted to see the program

become competitive again.

Soon after Bakich’s hire, the program set an ambitious goal of raising $100,000 in donations. After months of work, Bakich had amassed $128,180 as of last week, according to Associate Athletics Director for Compliance and Baseball Supervisor Dan Trump.

“We added the director of operations position — and it isn’t even a full-time position — but with Bernie, the job practically pays for itself,”

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Trump said. “The Home Run Club used to just be made up of parents. Now, it is much, much more diverse.”

The team’s remaining balance stands at exactly $40,000, and it’s no secret most of their funding has gone toward recruiting. And after recognizing the program’s opportunity to return to prominence under Bakich, the Athletics Department has pledged the program improved financial backing.

Heralded as a renowned recruiter when he was hired in June, Bakich has already collected letters of intent or formal pledges to matriculate from nearly 20 recruits. At least eight of those players, according to PGCrosschecker.com, an expansive recruiting database college coaches use to scout players, rank among the countr y’s top 500 high schoolers. The state’s top two players — No. 158 Alex Ramsay, a catcher from Severna Park, and teammate and shortstop No. 219 Kyle Convissar — form the cornerstone of his local pull.

The class’s headliner, however, is No. 96 Chris “Cito” Culver, an athletic and versatile position player from Rochester, N.Y. With national powers such as LSU and Miami recruiting him, it once seemed unlikely Culver would choose College Park.

But without the facilities or tradition to impress Culver, Bakich sold Culver on the future, staying hot on his trail even as other high-profile contenders popped up on his radar.

“I want to be at a school where I can stand out and be part of something where we start a winning tradition,” Culver said. “[Bakich] just really paid a lot of attention to me, and he was really the only coach to check in so often. I just really liked the plan he had for me as a student and an ACC player.”

But Bakich isn’t just recruiting against college teams. For many of the Terp recruits, major league organizations and their six-figure signing bonuses are realistic and attrac-

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With the team’s newfound time off and middling upcoming opposition — the Minutewomen have lost all of their games against ranked opponents this season — the Terps have found opportunities to tend to their injuries and postseason futures.

“At this point, we’re trying to take care of people who are sore, tired so that we can take care of our bodies,” Reese said.

“We have a lot of time to prepare and get better.”

The Terps insist there is a lot of room to grow even after holding North Carolina to a season-low five goals this

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the eight games since her return to the lineup April 17 against North Carolina. The Terps have won six of those games.

“It’s great,” Blackie said.

“It’s senior year, so [I’m] tr ying to go out with a bang.”

With only a handful of games remaining before the ACC Tournament and then possibly the NCAA Tourna-

COLGATE from page 8 defenseman Jesse Bernhardt said. “But it’s also a good practice for us to get ready for the tournament because we can help fix our mistakes from the past week and stay in shape before we get to the tournament.”

Usually, the games in the postseason gap provide relatively easy pickings for the Terps — especially compared to the stiff competition in their powerhouse conference — making them ideal candidates for any pre-tournament conditioning. But Cottle said he is not convinced this one will be a cakewalk.

The Stags, coached by former Terps’ assistant coach Andy Copelan, ranked as high as No. 16 in the media poll earlier this season before droping out three weeks ago.

Still, in Joseph Marra, they have statistically the top goalie in the country. Marra leads the nation with a .616 save percentage and a 7.09

“We can coach our tail off every year, and it won’t be worth a damn if we don’t have good players.”

ERIK BAKICH TERRAPIN BASEBALL COACH

tive post-graduate options.

Bakich has been down that road before. As a prolific recruiter at Vanderbilt, he often battled for recruits’ futures against the MLB FirstYear Player Draft. Instead of offer sheets, Bakich counters with pages upon pages of research ranging from the number of late-round draftees now on major league rosters to complex financial plans showing players exactly where their signing bonus money will go.

“Of course we tell them we want them, but ultimately, it’s their choice,” Bakich said. “I just want to make sure they are fully informed about their decision.

“And maybe I talk about the value of a college degree and the college experience that is irreplaceable as well,” he added with a smirk.

Both Bakich and Kenny said they will spend all but two or three weeks of the summer on the road scouting. And while they occasionally lament the often monotonous and draining nature of life on the road, the appeal of recruiting to the two former college players lies with the precious opportunity to experience a success of their own once again.

“Recruiting is really the only thing that allows us as coaches to compete with other coaches,” Kenny said. “Sure, there are the games, but those are played between two teams of players, not us. I take losing a recruit like I take losing a game. We want to win in all phases of the sport, and we work harder every day to make that happen.” lemaire@umdbk.com

weekend and earning the No. 1 ranking for the first time in seven years.

“It starts with the seniors, the captains on the team and the coaches — just the intensity that they bring and their drive to do well,” midfielder Katie Schwarzmann said.

“Now we’re entering into a whole new season.”

For the team, it doesn’t matter if it’s against a familiar name.

“We can really stick it to these teams before NCAAs,” Taylor said. “Even though we won the ACC Championship, we can still step it up another level — really show the rest of the country who the 2010 Terps are.” ceckard@umdbk.com

ment, Blackie’s bat in the lineup could make an average offense — and in turn, the Terps’ chances at a postseason berth — that much stronger.

“It would be amazing, especially for this team,” Blackie said. “We’ve worked so hard, and I think we’re in the right place right now. We’re going in definitely the right direction. I’m excited to see what we can do.” schneider@umdbk.com

goals-against average.

With wins against Fairfield and Colgate, the team could essentially wrap up the No. 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but a hot netminder could cause trouble. The Terps lost both games this season in which they scored fewer than 10 goals.

There will be more than seeding on the line, though, especially for the team’s upperclassmen. Seven Terps will be honored in tomorrow’s Senior Day ceremonies, making their final game in Byrd Stadium just a little more important than the schedule filler it appears to be.

“I get emotional thinking about kids we’ve worked with for four years getting close to the end,” Cottle said. “Right now, we have a synergy as a team that we don’t want to end. And so we have to be able to channel that emotion into composure. Every man on this team wants their seniors to leave their Senior Day with a victory.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

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Terps set for initial tournament warm-up Men’s lacrosse plays Fairfield and Colgate before NCAA Tourney

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

For most Terrapin sports teams, the ACC Tournament feeds right into the NCAA Tournament, setting up a simple postseason transition.

But because the conference’s men’s lacrosse championship always falls two or three weeks before the national tournament, coach Dave Cottle and the Terps inevitably face a choice for the empty weekends in between: play or stay idle?

“I think you schedule these games, because what’s the option?” Cottle said. “The alternative isn’t a very good one.”

So tomorrow, six days after the end of the ACC Tournament, the No. 3 Terps (9-3) will face Fairfield (8-4) at Byrd Stadium. A week later, they’ll play Colgate in Manhasset, N.Y., hoping to stay prepared for the restart of postseason play May 15.

Since the ACC Tournament began in 1989, the Terps have scheduled at least one game following the annual conference championship every year. Though the weeks before the NCAA Tournament offer a chance for time off — especially for a Terps’ team that has played at least once every weekend since early March — Cottle chooses to play on.

“We just haven’t had a break,” Cottle said. “We haven’t had a breather.

That’s been a tough thing. But when you play good teams, you have to play well each week or you lose, so it prepares you for that next level.”

After the ACC Tournament ends, the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team often faces middling nonconference opponents as a bridge to the NCAA Tournament. The Terps have played a game in between the postseason tournaments every year since 1989, including a game against Yale two years ago. The Terps face Fairfield tomorrow and Colgate next weekend. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

The Terps’ ACC foes also usually schedule games during the postseason lull. But with a rare two-week break this year rather than the usual one, they’ve decided on a mini-vacation of sorts. North Carolina and Duke are taking this weekend off before playing next weekend, while Virginia is doing the opposite, playing this weekend and recuperating the next.

For the Terps, the non-stop schedule affords them a breakup in the monotony of practice on the same field against the same players.

“I think it helps us focus in on an

opponent and keeps us fresh, rather than playing each other every day, which kind of gets old after a while,” attackman Travis Reed said.

Cottle also appreciates the extra game action for its value in helping him help the team. The Terps struggled with their cuts in Sunday’s 10-6 loss to Virginia in the ACC title game, and the live action Cottle will see tomorrow will allow him to measure just how far they’ve come in the week since.

“We want to win these games,”

BRIDGING THE GAP The Terrapin men’s lacrosse team regularly plays games against nonconference opponents to fill the gap between the ACC and NCAA Tournaments. Here are their last 10 such contests:

2003: Terps 15, UMBC 8 Terps 9, Georgetown 5 Terps 10, Notre Dame 4

2006: Terps 12, Penn 4

2004: Terps 9, Notre Dame 8 (2OT) Terps 13, Penn 5

2008: Terps 16, Yale 10

2005: Terps 21, Penn 6

2007: Terps 12, Yale 4

2009: Terps 10, Yale 6

OVERALL RECORD: 10-0

see COLGATE, page 7

After extended layoff, Blackie finally returns to the plate for softball Finger injury pushed Terps’ power hitter to sideline for nearly a month Day, was especially tough for Blackie to miss. Her No. 9 covered the stretch of outAs she walked to the plate field right behind the first in a March 20 contest base bag she had become against North Florida, Ter- accustomed to manning, and rapin softball infielder her walk onto the infield to Nadine Blackie had no idea receive a framed uniform playing it safe would put her from coach Laura Watten in the pregame ceremony was in harm’s way.

Pulling her bat back after a a welcome but fleeting return to the field bunt attempt, for Blackie.

Blackie was But after that cracked in the hand brief moment of celby the ball, breakebration, she ing a bone in her returned to the ring finger. dugout, where she “By the time I got had spent the previdown to first base, it ous 16 games. was like a glove on “Oh my gosh,” my hand,” Blackie Blackie said. “I was said. “It had already NADINE hurting so bad.” started to swell.”

BLACKIE “Talking to her After nearly a TERRAPIN SOFTBALL on Senior Day, it month on the side- INFIELDER was really hard,” line, Blackie is finally back in the lineup as Watten said. “I just told her, the Terps (31-19) close out ‘Don’t throw it away, you just their home schedule against need to stay focused and do Longwood (35-15) in a dou- the best you can do with bleheader tomorrow. A key being on the bench right cog in the team’s offense, now and realize that when the Terps’ run production you come back in, you’ll make it worth it, and you’ll sputtered in her absence.

The inactive stint was be a part of keeping your painful for Blackie — and not senior year going as long as just in her hand. The senior you can.’”

For a while, the Terps missed crucial games during the Terps’ NCAA Tourna- feared Blackie’s career was ment push, unable to help over. The hand injur y the offense as it struggled to seemed as though it wouldn’t heal in time for her .307 push runs across the plate.

“Frustrating,” Blackie career average to factor into said of the ordeal. “[I] just how the Terps fared in the had to do whatever I could season’s homestretch. But to help the team. ... Just tr y when her health returned, to pick swings apar t and so too did her optimism.

“I was just so excited,” help pick pitchers apar t of the other team. Helping Blackie said. “I was counting people with their swings. down. I was like, ‘Two days, two days until I see the doctor.’”

Cheering hard.”

Blackie is batting .353 in The Terps’ series finale against Virginia Tech on see SOFTBALL, page 7 April 11, the team’s Senior

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

Coach Cathy Reese instructs her Terrapin women’s lacrosse team during a recent practice. Reese, a former Terps’ player, joins four other ex-Terps who coach a team that ranks in the top 10 nationally. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Women’s lax’s Reese faces off against familiar face in weekend game against Massachusetts Coach set to play former Terps Venechanos and Patton in next two games

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

When Massachusetts women’s lacrosse coach Alexis Venechanos brings her team to College Park this weekend, she’ll be the latest former Terrapin player to grace the sideline wearing colors other than red, white, black and gold.

The Terps’ dominance of the sport in the 1990s and early 2000s launched coaching gigs for many former players across the country, and Terps’ coach Cathy Reese has had to plan against former

teammates and players regularly in her four-year tenure.

Venechanos and Dartmouth head coach Amy Patton, who the Terps will face next weekend, are the next in line.

“They have great coaching,” Reese said of the two teams. “Obviously, I’m a little biased.”

Of the nine other teams joining the Terps in the top 10 this week, four of them are coached by former Terp players, including No. 2 Northwestern’s Kelly Amonte Hiller and No. 6 Duke’s Kerstin Kimel.

But even with Venechanos

and Walker’s homecomings, the Terps aren’t focused on welcoming their forebearers but rather building off their ACC Championship.

After upending then-No. 1 North Carolina on Sunday for their second straight tournament title, the Terps (16-1, 4-1 ACC) rose to No. 1 in the national rankings and now hope to sustain that momentum against Venechanos and her unranked Massachusetts squad (10-8).

While the Minutewomen won the A-10 conference championship last week, the matchup is less significant to

the Terps than their last two games against the Tar Heels and then-No. 4 Virginia.

Teams such as Massachusetts and No. 10 Dar tmouth provide a buf fer for the Terps to recover before the NCAA Tournament and the possibility of facing their ACC foes again.

“It gives us a little bit of time to refocus instead of going full speed into both tournaments,” defender Karissa Taylor said. “We can get back into practice and understand what the coaches

see UMASS, page 7