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Council votes against buying No. 1 Liquor store Officials had considered turning the Route 1 site into park

BY NICK FOLEY For The Diamondback

For the owners and patrons of Number 1 Liquor, years of uncertainty have drawn to a close — the store has escaped the threat of a city-mandated makeover into a small park after the College Park City Council voted to abandon its effort to convert its location.

The possibility of demolition

The city has long sought to turn Number 1 Liquor into a green space to go with the new surrounding buildings. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

has loomed over the store since 2005, as several city council members previously referred to the small, aged building as an “eyesore” along a stretch of Route 1 increasingly dominated by large, new apartment buildings.

But in the council’s meeting on May 24, council members voted 6-2 not to buy the property at 8200 Baltimore Ave., with officials deciding against forcing out

a popular local business.

“We’re happy it’s been resolved.

They’re not allowed to touch us now,” said Lance Williams, a manager at the store. “I mean, putting a park right here would be the dumbest thing they’ve ever done; it would attract homeless people.”

In the city’s 2012 budget, officials cited the liquor store as the

see PROPERTY, page 6

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

When Patrick O’Shea takes the helm as the university’s vice president for research next month, he will aim to bring together the entire academic community — PATRICK from the sci- O’SHEA ences to the VP OF RESEARCH humanities — in fostering new innovations and broadening the university’s impact on the world around it.

Following a seven-month national search, university President Wallace Loh announced Friday he had selected O’Shea — who has served as chairman of the electrical and computer engineering department for the past six years and is the co-director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center — to fill a position aimed at increasing the university’s growth as a premier research institution while bolstering its funding.

On July 1, O’Shea will take the reins from interim Vice President for Research Norma Allewell, who has held the position since last June, when Mel Bernstein stepped down after four years on the job.

“Patrick brings that rare blend of academic expertise, vision, administrative excellence and entrepreneurial spirit to this pursuit,” Loh said in a press release.

“He is well-equipped to increase the University’s research and educational impact internationally and within this region.”

When the Cork, Ireland-born O’Shea first stepped out from a taxi

9 7 THEY’RE HISTORY Loss denies Terps first national title since 1975

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Senior staff writer

BALTIMORE — With 1:50 remaining in Monday’s national championship, fans of the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team began to file out of M&T Bank Stadium.

Virginia midfielder Colin Briggs had just rifled a shot past goalkeeper Niko Amato for his fifth goal of the game, putting the seventh-seeded Cavaliers up by three and all but ending the Terps’ hopes

Report detailing workplace abuse sent to Loh for review

JOHN HOOVER, 1991-2011

‘He was everything’ Senior staff writer

Whether playing soccer, heading to the gym or going out with friends, John Hoover always seemed to be on the move, and wherever he went, he had a smile on his face.

“He loved friends, loved his family and loved life,” said Carolyn Hoover, his mother. “How can you sum up a person? He was everything.”

Hoover, 20, of Derwood, died May 15 after the 2007 Toyota Corolla he was riding in left the road and struck two trees and a telephone pole at 3:15 a.m., killing him and two other passengers in the car.

Hoover was pronounced dead at the hospital. The driver of the vehicle was allegedly intoxicated.

Born April 9, 1991, Hoover —

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see VIRGINIA, page 8

Left: Three Terps embrace after the team’s 9-7 loss to Virginia at M&T Bank Stadium on Monday. Above: Attackman Ryan Young, who endured a trying season marred by the death of his mother, walks off the field. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

see O’SHEA, page 3

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA

of winning the program’s first championship since 1975.

With Briggs’ final goal, a majority of the pro-Terp crowd of 35,661 had seen enough.

Red-clad fans walked toward the exits so they wouldn’t have to see the inevitable conclusion. A garbage-time goal from midfielder Jake Bernhardt brought the unseeded Terps’ deficit to just two goals, but, with only 16 seconds left on the clock,

Administrative investigation to take place

who was known as Johnny by friends and family — attended Magruder High School in Gaithersburg, before coming to this university as a psychology major. Around the time he died, Carolyn Hoover said her son had just finished his last final and was excited about starting intramural wrestling and moving into a house with three friends from high school next year.

“He always wanted to go to the University of Maryland and be a University of Maryland student,” Carolyn Hoover said, noting he was interested in psychology and communications because he wanted to help others.

And it was that caring nature his friends said they will remember

see HOOVER, page 6

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BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

John Hoover was known as a fun-loving friend. PHOTO COURTESY OF GIRISH CHASKAR

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University President Wallace Loh is calling for an administrative investigation into claims of university employees’ workplace mistreatment after officials sent him a detailed report of such allegations Friday.

The 56-page report compiled more than 70 surveys filled out by staff members across the campus, highlighting testimonials of alleged sexual harassment, racial discrimination, verbal abuse, lack of opportunity for promotion and oppressive climates in the workplace. These issues were brought to the forefront of administrators’ attention at two forums held last month where about two dozen employees — from housekeepers to grounds workers to office staff — came forward to voice their griev-

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ances before acting Vice President for Administrative Affairs and Facilities Management Director Frank Brewer.

When members of the university’s chapter of the Black Faculty and Staff Association — which compiled the report and hosted the forums — presented copies to Loh and other administrators in Friday’s meeting, Loh, who could not be reached for comment, was reportedly stunned by the extent of the report.

“He expressed surprise,” said Brewer, who attended Friday’s meeting. “He wasn’t anticipating a 56-page report. I think he was expecting something smaller.”

BFSA President Solomon Commisiong said when he described the alleged abuse and disrespect that had

see REPORT, page 3

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Univ. to renew Daycon contract Students protested over company’s labor practices

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

Despite months of protesting by student groups across the campus, the university will renew its contract with janitorial supply company Daycon for another year come December.

Students from the Drop Daycon coalition said the decision made by university President Wallace Loh has added more fuel to their fight to cut the university’s ties with Daycon, which is appealing a guilty ruling of violating federal labor laws.

“We are going to keep going until we believe that justice has been served to Daycon,” said junior government and politics major Ann Levie, a member of the student-run coalition. “We are not going to let Daycon be rewarded for violating workers’ rights. Our university is rewarding them for violating workers’ rights instead of punishing them. And we are not going to let that happen.”

After members of the coalition held a six-hour “study-in” protest in Loh’s office May 13, university officials promised to hold meetings with students and come to a final conclusion

about the contract on May 20.

But ultimately, acting Vice President for Administrative Affairs Frank Brewer said even after multiple meetings with students and other administrators, the university is unable to sever its ties with Daycon — an action that university officials said would be as unlawful as the labor law violations the company is being accused of.

The bottom line, according to Brewer, is that the National Labor Relations Board still needs to hear Daycon’s appeal.

He noted that Daycon or its workers could even take the matter to federal court, and the university cannot make a decision until the full legal process is carried out.

“The students were asking that the university intervene in the ongoing dispute between management and labor in this case,” said Brewer, who is also the director of Facilities Management. “The university position is that it is not appropriate for the university to intervene in the ongoing adjudicating of the matter.”

However, Brewer added that the university will work with the attorney general’s office to create

specific regulations against working with companies that are socially irresponsible and that the university has previously sent letters to Daycon “affirming its strong desire to work with a company that is socially responsible.”

Members of Drop Daycon said they were disappointed with the administration’s decision.

“Taking my passion for workers’ rights out of my comment, I felt that we weren’t being heard,” Levie said. “We expected a little more of a discussion, and so it was confusing because you would think that if they were really taking our argument into consideration, they would have many more questions, and they didn’t.”

Brewer said the group’s actions have added food for thought for the university’s future contractors.

“I think that it is very much in response to the dialogue with students that we are taking action; they have increased the awareness of our responsibilities,” he said. “We have come to the conclusion that there are steps that need to be taken in terms of future vendor contracts.” romas@umdbk.com

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City OKs East Campus funding After extensive delays, the university will use $1.7 million to prepare for building its new development

BY REBECCA LURYE For The Diamondback

A university plan to create a bustling hub of eateries, stores and apartment complexes at the corner of Route 1 and Paint Branch Parkway received approval from the College Park City Council for an additional $1.7 million of state funding May 24, which university officials said would help lift the long-delayed development off the ground.

Although the 38-acre East Campus development project was initially set to be completed by 2010, a series of budget woes caused the plan to be abandoned last year and left some officials and students wondering if it would be left as just an idea that never came to fruition.

But in a unanimous vote, the council approved releasing the money to help the university relocate existing facilities from the site between Paint Branch Parkway and Fraternity Row in preparation for the redevelopment.

“We want to make sure we help them spend the money so they can move forward in a timely manner,” said District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle.

The sum is the university’s first use of its second $5 million of state funding it was promised in 2009.

“They’re not far enough along yet to need all the money,” District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin said. “But, what they do request, we have to approve of how they spend it.”

Facilities Management Director Frank Brewer, who requested the funds during a May 17 council worksession meeting, said this year the idea — which a group of architecture students first proposed in 1999 — is turning to action once again. After the economic downturn caused the university’s negotiations with its original developer, FoulgerPratt/Argo, to fall through, Cordish Companies stepped up to take the project on last July.

Before construction can begin on East Campus, the university

The College Park City Council voted to release state funds for East Campus. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

still needs to complete a business deal with Cordish, draw up a legally binding management development agreement and begin the design process anew, Brewer said.

Previous design concepts featured a network of streets connecting businesses, housing and pedestrian plazas. Officials have said only that the new concept will be designed for phased construction for more funding flexibility.

“I think it’s all consistent, as far as I can tell they’re moving fairly fast with it now that they have a site to move things off East Campus,” Catlin said. “I think it’ll really happen, as long as the plan isn’t too ambitious at once.”

However, the costs for the relocation phase of the project — including $27 million from the university’s funds — have gone up since their original estimates.

Relocating two university repair shops to a soon-to-be constructed building near Comcast Center will cost nearly twice as much as Facilities originally planned. Also, upgrades to the Severn Building — the former site of the city’s Washington Post Co. printing plant the university purchased last winter to house the remainder of the relocated facilities — will also be $200,000 more than the original estimate.

Brewer, who is also the acting vice president for administrative affairs, attributed the majority of these extra costs to “greening” the project, such as adding an ecofriendly rooftop to the new repair shop. UMD for Clean Energy, a student group committed to promoting sustainability, voiced concerns in a November public forum that the development plans were not geared toward constructing energy-efficient buildings.

After these projects are finished — construction on Severn in November and the new repair shop is set to be completed by the end of January — East Campus plans are going to move more quickly, Brewer said.

In 2009, the state legislature approved of a five-year plan to fund the project with a total of $25 million. However, the university has only been promised $10 million so far, and Brewer said officials hope to receive another $10 million of funding in fiscal year 2014.

Council members said they expect the state will see more East Campus funding requests in the future — at the May 24 meeting, District 2 Councilman Jack Perry called the university’s requests “$5 million, with Miracle Grow.” news@umdbk.com

O’SHEA from page 1 cab onto the campus as a graduate student in 1980, he never dreamed he would assume one of the university’s top administrative posts, he said.

O’Shea said he will never forget the day he traveled out of town to buy a bicycle and was asked by the store owner where he went to school. When he said this university, he was told by the owner that he should consider transferring to a “better” college, such as Georgetown, the next semester.

“I found that very upsetting,” O’Shea said. “I vowed I would work if given the opportunity to make sure the reputation of the university is what it should be.

And now I do.”

O’Shea said one of his chief goals will be to foster collaborations between multiple disciplines that would not typically intersect and ensure the university promotes its research in all fields.

“It’s important that research covers the entire university. Science can tell you how the world

REPORT from page 1 arisen in recent months, Loh’s initial surprise gave way to serious concern, especially when Commisiong detailed the claims of sexual harassment, which was reported by three housekeepers at one of last month’s forums.

As a result, Loh asked Brewer to lead a review of the report and determine the next steps for addressing these allegations. Brewer said while it was too early to say when the review might be launched, he would take action as quickly as possible.

“We will go through the report carefully and decide what the best way of responding is,” Brewer said.

Commisiong said he had been aware and concerned about issues of alleged workplace mistreatment for years, but he said even he did not anticipate officials would ultimately be putting together a 56-page document. But after an anonymous letter to the administration comparing the environment in a Facilities Manage-

works, but not why, so we rely on the arts and humanities,” he said.

“We can’t just do a traditional research that is distant from a societal impact. We have to have a connection across transdisciplinary research and break down boundaries that you usually have.”

O’Shea said he pushed for the university’s cybersecurity center, which was unveiled in the fall, to go beyond the computer science and engineering aspects of cybersecurity to work with researchers from the social sciences.

Behavioral and social sciences Dean John Townshend, who chaired the 17-person search committee that selected O’Shea, said it was these ideals that made O’Shea an excellent candidate.

“He is a person of immense breadth,” Townshend said. “He understands the campus, and he understands the different parts of the campus. And he’s actively bringing people across the campus together to look at challenging new innovations. That’s exactly what we need — someone of those kind of capabilities.”

O’Shea said the university’s research collaborations should

ment department as a “labor camp” or “plantation” became public in March, more university employees came forward with similar grievances.

Commisiong said he was concerned no action or review has yet been taken, as Brewer and other administrators were present at last month’s forums to hear such complaints straight from the employees themselves. And at Friday’s meeting, Commisiong said these same administrators said very little besides clarifying some points for Loh. “If you were there seeing employees crying in front of the microphone, it seems to me you would want to work with the organizations or with the individuals who were on the forefront of this crucial human rights issue,” Commisiong said.

And while BFSA members are hopeful Loh’s investigation will result in serious actions, the lack of administrative response thus far leaves some room for skepticism.

“Understandably, [Loh]’s the president, and presidents, they have a political agenda just in terms of protecting their universi-

not just be confined to departments within campus boundaries. He said as vice president, he plans to strengthen the university’s research relationships with other institutions in the University System of Maryland and capitalize on the university’s proximity to Washington to work with the federal government and the commercial sector.

“Really what matters is the impact we have on people,” O’Shea said. “We are an international research university, but it’s important we don’t neglect the local areas. It’s really important that we do things that impact service, education, delivery of technology and so forth.”

And ultimately, O’Shea said, the goal of these initiatives will be to enhance the knowledge and educational experience of students in all fields.

“People who adapt, engage, collaborate and are entrepreneurial, that’s the type of people we’re trying to educate,” he said.

“Research creates the sort of engine that gets all this new ‘stuff.’” villanueva@umdbk.com

ty,” said Nyumburu Cultural Center Director Ronald Zeigler, who attended the meeting and serves as the BFSA senior advisor.

“Hopefully he’s sincere about not only looking into it but getting something done, because some issues, in my opinion, need to immediately be addressed. He was somewhat surprised to hear about that, but he wouldn’t want this campus to have that reputation.”

Students have also mobilized to pressure the administration.

History graduate student Jesse Zarley — who organized a rally in front of the Main Administration Building against the alleged abuse in April — said he and a coalition of about 20 students will be working over the summer to determine how they can raise awareness and call for change.

Commisiong said this continued efforts of students, organizers and the employees themselves that may force reforms.

“I think the momentum is here,” Commisiong said. “Our job is to provide that healthy pressure to those upper administrators.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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But administrators have been steadfast in their refusal to sever ties with rom the cradle to the grave, one simple principle guides almost all human behavior: If we break a rule, we will be punished. As chil- the company, stating not only that it would be illegal to break the existing dren, punishments were one of the primar y ways we learned right contract while the business is still in the process of appealing the unfavorfrom wrong. And as adults, the threat of disciplinar y action helps able ruling against it, but also that it would be unconstitutional for this instiensure we obey the laws that structure our society. Indeed, this axiom — one tution to refuse to sign a new contract with the business in the midst of its so basic that even kindergarten students know it — can be seen as one of the legal disputes.

And while this editorial board may have bought the reasoning that the unifounding principles of human society.

Yet, in recent weeks. university officials have apparently decided that versity would be unable to sever an existing contract with Daycon because of some poor behavior and illegal actions are deserving not of punishment, but possible due process violations, the claim that administrators’ hands were tied by the Constitution when it came to signing a new rather of reward. contract seems dubious at best. There is a huge differAt issue is the appalling May 20 decision to renew ence between breaking a current contract and being this university’s contract with Daycon — the embattled legally obligated to sign a new one.

Upper Marlboro-based chemical and janitorial supply It is morally reprehensible To us, as well as to many students, it seems as company that has been found guilty of unlawfully firing that university officials chose though administrators are hiding behind a legal dozens of its workers. shield, claiming utter helplessness when there is perSince late February, when federal administrative law to renew this institution’s haps more legal “wiggle room.” judge Joel P. Biblowitz declared Daycon had violated contract with Daycon for However, regardless of the specifics of the legal situfederal labor laws by walking away from negotiations ation, by choosing to passively give in and allow this with its employees’ union as well as by refusing to reindubious legal reasons. university to do business with a company that has state approximately 55 striking workers, university been found guilty of gross violations of federal labor administrators have come under great pressure — from students and from this newspaper’s editorial board — to break their current law, administrators have tacitly condoned the abuse of workers. The statement they have made is that they care more about traveling the path of least contract with the company.

Indeed, since Biblowitz’s ruling, student activists from Feminism Without resistance than about human rights and dignity. Indeed, despite acting Vice Borders and Students for a Democratic Society have aggressively lobbied President for Administrative Affairs Frank Brewer’s statement that the unithe administration, dubbing themselves the Drop Daycon coalition, with versity desires “to work with a company that is socially responsible,” this some even going so far as to hold a four-hour “study-in” protest in university institution’s words do not match its actions.

And that, it seems, is the ultimate crime.

President Wallace Loh’s office on May 13.

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Editorial cartoon: Eric Owusu

Identification: More troubling than you might think

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n February 2010, one of my roommates had the misfortune of hearing that his basement had flooded. In it, his parents had stored many of his personal legal documents, including his birth certificate and Social Security card. After successfully getting a job, he was required to present his employer with multiple forms of identification. Possessing only a driver’s license, he had to send away for the other supporting documentation. It’s easy enough for an American citizen to do so, not factoring in the time, money and hassle of getting the documents. In the time being, however, we all joked, “You’re illegal!”

Paper identification is an unreliable method of proving who is who, but it is unfortunately the most popular method we have. All kidding aside, my roommate might as well have been a non-person in the eyes of his employer and the formal labor economy, which cannot be entered without some type of

MICHAEL CASIANO valid — or fabricated — identification.

So why do states insist on requiring their citizens to present “valid” forms of identification to vote?

According to South Carolina State Sen. Brad Hutto (D), quoted in a May 28 New York Times article, “Republicans have to have some reason to do this because it doesn’t sound good to say, ‘We don’t want Latinos or AfricanAmericans voting.’”

But that can’t be the only reason, can it?

In the same article, it was reported that state legislatures around the country are “rewriting voting laws to require photo identification at the polls, reduce

the number of days of early voting or tighten registration rules.” These measures have reportedly advanced in 13 states, including Kansas, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.

Also noted in the article is that “most of the measures would require people to show a form of official, valid identification to vote. While driver’s licenses are the most common form, voters can also request free photo IDs from the Department of Motor Vehicles or use a passport or military identification, among other things.”

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration, 33.1 percent of licensed drivers are aged 18-29.

According to the Pew Research Center, of the people in this age group, an overwhelming 66 percent voted for President Barack Obama in the 2008 election. Statistically speaking, this group has the largest number of licensed drivers of all age groups.

However, college students represent only 12.6 percent of the licensed population, which, according to a Jan. 24 article in The Washington Post, is because teenagers don’t get their licenses at the golden age of 16 because, well, they don’t want to (too much Facebook).

Not counting Obama’s mobilization of the youth population in 2008, youths have, historically, been an apathetic voter bloc. I think Republicans are implementing the perfect strategy to keep us away from the voting booths.

If I hadn’t already spent hundreds of dollars and hours getting my driver’s license, and I was told I had to take a bunch of documents to the Motor Vehicle Association to get a photo ID to vote, I’d just as soon get a fake and go to Bentley’s.

Michael Casiano is a senior American studies and English major. He can be reached at casiano@umdbk.com.

Loh: Lacking in leadership?

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t the main commencement ceremony in Comcast Center, University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan delivered a romantic soliloquy that detailed his fondness for the Board of Regents’ recent high-profile hire, university President Wallace Loh. But underneath all the pomp and praise, the university community is starting — with good reason — to become a bit skeptical of Loh’s performance as president.

Sitting at commencement, it was clearly evident that our university has undergone a radical restructuring of personnel over the past 12 months. In addition to the deans Loh has appointed (or will appoint), he has also been given the opportunity to select a new athletics director, provost, football coach, men’s basketball coach, vice president for research and vice president for administrative affairs — to name just a few.

While a certain level of attrition and turnover are bound to happen with a change at the top of the food chain, the exodus of institutional knowledge is cause for worry. Indeed, the turmoil

couldn’t have come at a worse time for our university. There are decisions that will be made within the next year or so that will profoundly affect our university for decades to come.

For instance, after years of debate, the long-awaited East Campus development has finally gotten back on track with a capable developer: The Cordish Companies. Typically, before these decisions are made, there are town hall meetings with various university constituencies. Yet, besides a completely worthless forum organized by Cordish representatives in Ritchie Coliseum in December, the university administrators and the developer have been fully and utterly nontransparent with both city residents and students.

How can we know if Loh’s administration has clearly emphasized to Cordish the importance of incorporating environmentally friendly features?

And more importantly, there’s the 500pound gorilla in the room that neither the university nor the developer has yet addressed: Explaining which features will ultimately be incorporated into the massive project.

But this troubling lack of trans-

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ARNSTINE parency or dedication to community input affects other university issues, such as the proposed Purple Line — a proposed $1.7 billion light-rail line that would connect Bethesda to New Carrollton via this campus. After all, the administration will soon submit a recommendation for its preferred alignment for the Purple Line, a decision that will have broad and farreaching implications.

And while nearly every knowledgeable stakeholder has recommended the Campus Drive alignment, opposition from the administration, albeit mostly from former university President Dan Mote, has stalled progress on this critically important public transportation project.

In his seven months on the job, Loh could have reversed Mote’s opposition to the Campus Drive proposal and

ended the stonewalling tactics of the former administration. However, instead of listening to his constituents, Loh and his acting Vice President for Administrative Affairs, Frank Brewer, have done next to nothing, taking the weak stance that the Purple Line must be built but refusing to reveal their thoughts of which alignment they prefer.

Whether this lack of progress on key issues is due to the relative youth and inexperience of the administrators leading our university remains unknown.

However, it’s high time that Loh and his administrative team step up and start taking action — the first step of which must be taking into account community concerns and feedback.

And if administrators continue to refuse to make their preferences known about these key issues, they, at minimum, must start the process of really and truly engaging student and community leaders to assist them in the decision-making process going forward.

It’s time to lead, Loh. Matt Arnstine is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at arnstine@umdbk.com.

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ince 1980, scholars have deliberated, debated and developed more than 110 definitions for the term leadership. The subject is one of enormous scope and variety, as leadership styles and methods var y historically and in practical professional settings.

On May 12, Diamondback columnist Christopher Haxel issued a blunt and potent satire on the overuse and ineffectiveness of leadership development at this university, titled “Leadership: Losers need not apply.” Citing “61,900 pages of leadership” one can find upon searching the Internet — including College Park Scholars’ Public Leadership program and two of its main classes, PUAF 201 and CPSP 318P — Haxel wrote satirically from the standpoint of a student leader, pompously calling other students “losers.”

Upon first glance, Haxel’s obser vation appears to be a legitimate concern to this university.

If, seemingly, the majority of the nearly 27,000 undergraduate students enrolled at this university are involved in repetitive and useless leadership programs, what significance does the title hold, other than the self-imposed elitism of “leaders” with, as Haxel says, “rich parents who can get you a summer job?”

The first major flaw in this argument, however, arises when one notes the sheer scope of leadership’s role in our university community and society at large.

As diverse members of a national and global community, the role of leader — to organize, represent and empower others to create change — is presented to each student. To create a unique dialogue and advance the interests of each unique group, members of diverse ethnicities, sexualities, religions and creeds are called upon to contribute effectively to our community. Losers need not apply? Ever yone, please, apply.

Let’s make things a little more concrete: As students at this university, we are among the lucky 1 percent of the world who will graduate from college. If ever y member of ever y university in the world graduated with Haxel’s “leader label” stamped on his or her diploma, only one in ever y 100 people in the world would be “a leader.”

Is it not then crucial that we Terps apply the resources of our education to lead and help others lead in our communities?

And while it appears realities such as these would put leadership in high demand, consider this: Programs at this university, such as Public Leadership and many like it, do not promote the idea of leadership segregation.

These programs strongly emphasize community outreach and civic engagement as necessar y components of active citizenship and social awareness.

The curricula of their courses often challenge the misconceptions that leaders are CEOs, heads of state and militar y commanders. While these positions may require skills and abilities associated with leadership, leadership can be applied across many disciplines and from all hierarchical levels.

Pubic Leadership’s community-based learning problems familiarize students with the issues facing financially illiterate members of Prince George’s County and those facing impoverished and illiterate students in Africa. Leadership is not an award given to a select few; it is a developmental and applied knowledge that creates change and empowers others.

So, please, join those programs and groups. Ask questions, deliberate and develop your own style with the framework that groups provide. Challenge yourself and others. Ser ve your community and address a major issue you’d like to see changed. Want to be a leader? Go for it. The world needs you.

The Public Leadership Council represents College Park Scholars: Public Leadership. It can be reached at plcouncil@umd.edu.

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PROPERTY from page 1 only property they wished to acquire under the state’s Program Open Space, which allocates money to beautification projects. Officials planned to purchase the store from landlord Annette Sargent or to seize it under eminent domain if Sargent refused to sell, which would allow the city to take control of the space for public use.

As dozens of students, city residents and representatives from the store looked on, council members debated an amendment to the budget District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle proposed at a May 17 work session meeting that would prevent the city from acquiring the land.

Some council members argued the park’s construction would align with their vision to make Route 1 more aesthetically pleasing.

“It’s important to work towards having a more attractive Route 1 gateway and corridor,” said District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich. “Green space adds a lot to our daily experience — it will

make College Park a better place.”

And the city should buy the land while it’s still at a reasonable price, said District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin.

“We need to have a park on Route 1,” Catlin said. “I think in five to 10 years we’ll have a council up here saying, ‘Why didn’t we acquire that property?’”

District 2 Councilman Jack Perry countered that another park is already in construction near Number 1 Liquor.

“Why would you put a park, go up the street one house, and put another park?”

Perry said. “As long as there’s no city money involved, let the property run the way it runs.”

Although District 3 Councilman Mark Cook conceded the liquor store’s front appears a bit “cartoonish with its big ‘Number 1,’” sign, he argued the business should be allowed to use its prime location sandwiched between the University View and The Varsity to prosper.

“Let the owner of the property reap the benefits of the surrounding buildings,” he said.

When city resident Lisa Ealley asked the meeting’s attendees to raise their

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“Personally, I think that it lends College Park a bit of character to have this crappy liquor store,” said city resident Jude Wang. “I think it adds a sort of quirkiness to the city.”

Richard Daniels — Sargent’s attorney — declined to comment on the council’s decision because it did not change the store’s existence. He said this was the first he had heard of the decision. He said city manager Joseph Nagro had contacted his client for the first time earlier this semester about purchasing the store but the price was lower than the property’s actual value and no further offers were discussed.

Several students — such as junior journalism major Caitlin Zentgraf, who lives in the University View — said they were relieved the store will remain in its convenient location off Route 1.

“If they had taken over it, it would have just been another letdown like the Thirsty Turtle,” Zentgraf said. news@umdbk.com

HOOVER from page 1 the most about Hoover.

“I always felt like I could go up to Johnny and he’d talk to me and ask how everything’s going,” said longtime friend and junior accounting major Girish Chaskar.

“He was very trustworthy.”

Chaskar played alongside Hoover on the varsity soccer team at Magruder and said Hoover always kept up with that “little clique” of friends he formed in middle and high school through college.

Another former varsity soccer teammate, Ipiok Apandak — a junior economics major at Columbia University — said Hoover continued to keep up with him on the phone or on Facebook after he moved away and would constantly invite him over.

“He always welcomed people over to his house. He just loved to entertain,” Apandak said. “He was really goofy and always got you laughing. He liked to make people laugh.”

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as to call him a “gym rat.” Along with varsity soccer, Hoover also ran cross country at Magruder and played intramural soccer at this university.

“He lost games a lot,” Carolyn Hoover said with a laugh. “But he worked hard and he tried his best. He loved to have fun.”

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Does the world really need another XMen movie? There have already been four in 11 years, and after a mediocre third installment — X-Men: The Last Stand — and an outright atrocious prequel, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the answer would appear to be “no.”

But Hollywood is Hollywood, so a fifth installment, X-Men: First Class, arrives in theaters this week. While it’s not remarkable enough to feel like a necessary addition to the series, it does at least return to the “solid if forgettable” level of quality characteristic of the franchise’s two earliest (and best) entries.

First Class, a prequel (unrelated to Wolverine, thankfully), jumps from the present-day setting of the earlier films to the 1960s, when mutants (read: superheroes) were first appearing.

Professor X (James McAvoy, The Conspirator) is still a graduate student and hasn’t yet run into future nemesis Magneto (Michael Fassbender, Jane Eyre), who’s still Erik Lehnsherr, hunting down the Nazi who murdered his mother.

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The budding friendship between Professor X and Magneto — and its inevitable dissolution — is, wisely, the film’s focus. The two have always been the series’ most well-drawn characters. It’s easy to sympathize with would-be villain Magneto, and even saintly Professor X is given a few realistic flaws and blind spots, especially in his relationship with Mystique.

McAvoy and Fassbender both do a solid job taking characters previously played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, respectively, and making them their own.

McAvoy, for example, is far more suave than the erudite Stewart. It’s hard to imagine Stewart pounding back beers and flirting with coeds the way McAvoy does, but rather than feeling like an entirely different person, the Professor X of First Class just seems like a younger, brasher version of the same character.

At the same time, Fassbender (who, between this and Jane Eyre, is having an excellent year playing sympathetic sort-of-villains) nicely captures the anger and cynicism McKellen brought to the role, giving the eventual antagonist the weight and depth it calls for.

It’s beyond that core relationship where the film falters. The younger mutants who make up the titular first class of X-Men all feel generic and aren’t as important to the future story, making them difficult to care about. What’s more, there have already been so many mutants in the series that the writers really seem to be scraping the bottom of the barrel, with such lame heroes as “guy who can scream really loud” and “guy who has hands for feet.”

Still, there’s more here to like than not. Beyond McAvoy, Fassbender and the occasional moment of thematic subtlety, there’s plenty of the requisite superhero theatrics, which, as executed by director Matthew Vaughan (Kick-Ass), are entertaining if uninspired. The fight scenes may not be ver y original, but they’re still full of the kind of chaotic spectacle you hope for in a CGI-fest.

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In particular, the tone and themes go virtually unchanged. The series has always operated on a continuum that runs between “relatively nuanced Civil Rights allegory” and “complete, utter nonsense,” and First Class is no exception.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2011

VIRGINIA from page 1 it was all too late: Virginia 9, Terps 7.

The departing fans missed exactly what they had imagined. The Cavaliers ran onto the field, threw their helmets and sticks into the air and grabbed the championship trophy as chants of “U-V-A” rained down from the thinned-out crowd. The Terps, just 50 yards away, solemnly huddled around coach John Tillman one final time, taking a last glance up at the scoreboard.

“We put that much emotion, that much work in. It makes the wins feel that much better and the losses hurt that much more,” said midfielder Dan Burns, one of the team’s 17 seniors. “This locker room’s like a morgue right now just because everybody thought they could do a little more to help out. We just have to take it for what it was and try to move on.”

With the loss, the Terps’ championship drought now stands at 36 years. Since winning it all in 1975, the Terps have gone 0-6 in NCAA title games.

“To not get it done for those kids and for our staff and our alums, it hurts,” Tillman said.

“It’s hard. It’s going to take a while to get over it, no doubt about it. They invested so much, and it meant so much to them. That’s what hurts for all of us.”

The Terps (13-5) struck first Monday with a goal from attackman Grant Catalino at the 12:27 mark, and they took a one-goal lead into the second quarter. But that’s when Virginia’s offense came to life.

Scoring five goals in the second frame, three of which came from Briggs, the Cavaliers (135) led 5-3 at halftime.

“The tough thing about 60 minutes is you don’t want to let a team like that get on a run,” Tillman said. “To Virginia’s credit, I think they had some good looks early. I felt we were a little slow off the bus.”

After the teams exchanged goals in the third quarter, Virginia led 6-4 heading into the final 15 minutes of action. But the Terps stormed back to tie the score at six off a goal from Ryan Young, who corralled a feed from Catalino in transition and put a shot in between the legs of Virginia’s Adam Ghitelman (nine saves).

That was the closest the Terps would come.

Virginia scored the next three goals, capped off by Briggs’ tally

Attackman Fran Gormley, left, and goalkeeper Niko Amato walk off the M&T Bank Stadium field after the Terps lost their sixth straight national-title game. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

with less than two minutes remaining, and cruised to its fifth national championship.

Briggs, who was suspended

by Virginia coach Dom Starsia for Saturday’s semifinal matchup against Denver for a team infraction, was instrumental for Virginia and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player for his five-goal performance against the Terps.

“I really thought one of the biggest things was Colin Briggs,” Tillman said. “He didn’t play Saturday, and he was so fresh and so fast. He was a step ahead of everybody.”

With defenders Brett Schmidt and Ryder Bohlander able to shut down the Cavaliers’ top two options — Steele Stanwick and Chris Bocklet combined for zero goals and just one

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assist — Virginia showed its depth, with players such as Briggs and attackmen Nick O’Reilly and Matt White stepping up to fill the scoring void.

O’Reilly and White combined for eight points in the game.

“A lot of their other guys stepped up, which you need to do in a national championship,” Burns said. “Stanwick and Bocklet didn’t have too much, but their other guys stepped up and made big plays in the big game. That’s what it takes to win the championship.”

Not much went wrong for the Terps, who for the 13th time this season held an opponent below its season average for goals scored. The Terp defense, anchored by Amato (eight saves), held the Cavaliers to nearly four goals below their normal output of about 13 goals per game.

On offense, Catalino (two goals, one assist) and midfielder John Haus (one goal, two assists) stood out, while midfielder Curtis Holmes continued his dominance at the faceoff X, winning 12 of 19 draws.

Sitting in the locker room after the game, it was those kind of positives from this season — one that included the Terps’ first title-game appearance since 1998 and first ACC Championship in six years — that players mentioned as they sought to move on from the devastating defeat.

“We took a huge step in the right direction this year,” Catalino said. “Making it to the finals was not our goal. It was to win it. But getting here is a huge step. It will give the guys coming back here next year a lot of confidence.”

Still, players realized just how close they were to winning the program’s first national championship in more than three decades.

“You work your whole life for a moment like this,” midfielder Joe Cummings said. “To lose doesn’t feel good.”

TERP NOTE: Four Terps — Amato, Catalino, Holmes and Schmidt — were named to the All-Tournament team. jengelke@umdbk.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 2011

Sports

More on Terp men’s lacrosse Although its season is over, there’s still plenty of news about the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team. For recruiting and transfer updates, check out TerrapinTrail.com.

A repeat defeated

The top-seeded Terps held an early 4-1 lead in Sunday’s national championship, but Northwestern stormed back to avenge last year’s title-game loss, 8-7.

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Terps lose hold of early lead, national title as Northwestern reclaims sport’s top spot in 8-7 win

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Last season, the Terrapin women’s lacrosse team upended five-time defending national champion Northwestern, claiming the 2010 title for its first in nine years.

A year later, the No. 2 Wildcats returned the favor. Northwestern bested the top-seeded Terps, 8-7, in their rematch Sunday, capturing the national championship.

“It was a hard-fought game, and obviously it went all the way down to the wire, so it was just exciting, but it is always disappointing when it ends this way,” coach Cathy Reese said.

“Obviously, it’s tough when your season comes to an end, but I am really proud of the year that we had.”

The Terps’ star players had carried the team throughout the season and to the championship game, but Sunday it was unher-

alded freshman midfielder Beth Glaros who emerged as the answer for the Terps (21-2) in the first half. After surrendering the game’s first tally, the Terps scored four straight goals, three of them by Glaros.

“When we scored all of those goals, we were basically moving the ball around because they were doubling early,” Glaros said.

But after the Terps’ four-goal, two-minute barrage, the Wildcat (21-2) defense settled into place, allowing just one goal in the final 22 minutes of the first half. After making the necessary defensive adjustments, Northwestern closed the half on a 4-1 run, tying the score at intermission.

“We felt like we wanted to take [the Terps] out of their offense,” Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “Beth Glaros hurt us pretty bad in the first half, but I think we were able to contain their three big guns, which we felt was our key to our defensive success.”

Throughout the second half, the Wildcats frustrated the Terps on offense and defense, limiting the Terps to just three goals and goading them into 22 team fouls. But even without their normal effectiveness on both sides of the field, the Terps were able to keep the game close throughout the second half.

Still, missed opportunities doomed the Terps late in the game as they allowed the Wildcats to escape with the one-goal victory. Trailing 7-6 with less than 12 minutes to play, midfielder Katie Schwarzmann streaked down the field ahead of the Wildcat defense, taking a nearly uncovered shot that would have tied the game. But Northwestern goalie Brianne LoManto (eight saves) made the stop, and six minutes later the Wildcats scored what would prove to be the gamewinning goal.

“Because she had a full head of steam when she came down, I

figured she was going to shoot high,” LoManto said. “I made the save, and our defense came up with it.”

Northwestern ably contained the Terps’ normally high-powered attack, effectively shutting out their top offensive players.

Attacker Sarah Mollison, who entered the game with 12 goals in the Terps’ first three tournament games, was held scoreless on just two shots Sunday, while top scorer Schwarzmann and midfielder Laura Merrifield, the team’s third-leading scorer, combined for just one goal on five shots.

“We didn’t move the ball the way we needed to offensively.

We were taking sometimes the first opportunities rather than the right opportunities,” Reese said. “We needed to do a better job of working for each other offball to get those opportunities.”

With Sunday’s contest standing as the final game for the Terps’ star-studded cast of seniors, a title-game loss was not

the way the team had planned to end its season. And while the Terps fell short of a repeat, Reese said she remained proud of the way her team finished the season.

“We had a lot to overcome and to fight, and today’s game was a

fight,” Reese said. “We accomplished great things this year. ...

I am really proud of this team’s effort and the fact that we really did come together in every game that we have had.” vitale@umdbk.com

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