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Campus Dr. Robberies hit downtown, Courtyards closure CRIME ROUNDUP scaled back

Man robbed at gunpoint near Metro station Wednesday night in latest of four incidents

BY RICHARD ABDILL AND MARIA ROMAS Staff writers

Univ. compromises after strong opposition

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA For the Diamondback

After receiving a largely negative response to a plan to close a portion of Campus Drive to motor vehicle traffic this summer, university officials have scaled back their planned pilot program of turning part of the campus’ main thoroughfare into a pedestrian haven.

When the university announced its intention in late April to close the road between the “M” traffic circle and Cole Field House from June 19 to Aug. 13, objections came from all directions, including disabled students, Metrobus officials and the city of College Park.

University officials hope to use this summer as a test to see whether cars and buses can be rerouted out of the central portion of the campus as part of an ultimate goal of turning the area in front of the Stamp Student Union and Hornbake Mall into a pedestrian-only area.

Critics said the plan would be so disruptive to public transportation that the idea isn’t even worth an eight-week trial run.

Under the university’s new plan, Campus Drive will stay open to all buses from June 19 to July 16, but leave only two Shuttle-UM routes — as originally intended for the entire eight weeks — from July 17 to Aug. 13.

Emergency, paratransit, delivery, construction and maintenance vehicles will have access to the road throughout the eight weeks, but personal cars will be

Students were robbed last month at University Courtyards and in downtown College Park, another student said men who claimed to have a gun tried to enter her Courtyards apartment, and a non-student was robbed Wednesday night near the College Park Metro station, police said.

Perpetrators of all four incidents were still at large Wednesday.

In the first incident, a 20-year-old student was parking his motorcycle outside the 100 building in the Courtyards complex off University Boulevard just before 3 a.m. May 16 when a masked

man approached him holding a long silver handgun and took his keys, cell phone and wallet, University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said.

On May 20, a student called police to Courtyards’ 200 building at 11:40 p.m. to report that men knocking on her apartment door claimed to have a gun, Dillon said.

In the third incident, a 22-year-old student was beaten and robbed by two men at 3:23 a.m. May 22 at the intersection of College and Yale avenues, according to a crime alert from Prince George’s County police.

In the fourth incident, a non-student was walking along Knox Road at 8:50 p.m. Wednesday when a man jumped out of a dirty SUV, possibly a white Toy-

ota 4Runner, displayed a silver revolver and told the man to drop his bags and run away, according to another county crime alert.

The man had been walking toward the Metro station at the intersection with Rhode Island Avenue, the crime alert said.

University Police are investigating the first two incidents because Courtyards, as university property, fall within campus police jurisdiction, Dillon said.

County police are investigating the offcampus robberies in College Park.

In the Yale Avenue incident, the two assailants never spoke to the victim — they just started punching and

■ May 16: An armed masked man robs a student in Courtyards about 3 a.m.

■ May 20: Courtyards resident reports men knocking on her door at 11:40 p.m. who claim to have guns.

■ May 22: Two men rob a student about 3:20 a.m. near College and Yale avenues.

■ June 2: An armed man robs a non-student at 8:50 p.m. near Knox Road and Rhode Island Avenue.

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Cameras may soon catch city speeders Council aims to set up system by August

BY SAMANTHA WEKSTEIN For the Diamondback

College Park officials hope to install speed cameras on some of the city’s streets as early as August in hopes that $40 tickets will help crack down on unsafe driving in areas near the campus.

New state legislation allows for municipalities in Prince George’s County to install speed cameras near schools or universities, and the College Park City Council voted last week to hire Lanham-based firm Optotraffic to develop and manage a camera system for College Park.

The city needs specific permission to operate speed cameras on roads it does not own and maintain, but unless the state and county raised objections, cameras will likely pop up along Paint Branch Parkway and Greenbelt Road, and possibly on stretches of University Boulevard and Rhode Island Avenue, officials said.

“The cameras will be near pedestrian crossings in a place where there have been problems in the past,” District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin said.

One of those, the hiker-biker trail crosswalk on Paint Branch Parkway, has been the scene of several accidents in the last year. District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said she would still like to see a full stoplight at the crossing, but said the speed cameras could help as well.

After a 30-day warning-only grace period, motorists who pass a speed camera more than 12 miles per hour over the posted

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Bible study group robbed at gunpoint near Parkside apts.

Muggers make off with a measly $1 in broad-daylight heist that dismays local residents

BY RICHARD ABDILL Staff writer

It’s hard to know what three muggers were thinking when they held up a six-person Bible study group in the middle of a Sunday afternoon last month, but it’s pretty certain they weren’t expecting their victims to be broke.

The group, with ages spanning from 13 to 41, was sitting in a pavilion between 2 and 3 p.m. at the Lakeland Community Park in central College Park on May 23 when three men approached, all described as

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teenagers, police said.

One of the assailants flashed a black handgun, police said, and the men demanded those in the group empty their pockets.

Unfortunately for them, those pockets were empty.

“Only one of them had anything of value, and that was one dollar,” said Lt. Stanley Johnson, a spokesman for the Maryland-National Capital Park Police, which is investigating the robbery. “It really lets you know how some people are today.”

Johnson also added that attempts to catch the robbers were hampered

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by the group’s delay in calling the police — despite the attack happening between 2 and 3 p.m., no one called police until 5:15 that evening. The group may have never really considered the robbery to be an emergency, Johnson said.

The Bible study group had not returned to the park at the same time the following Sunday. The only person in the park at the time of a reporter’s visit declined to comment.

But Angel Benitez, 17, of Beltsville, who was watching a soccer game next door at the College Park Community Center said it worried him.

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He’d gone to Lakeland Park a few times, he said, but hadn’t heard about the robbery.

“Maybe it’s a one-time thing,” Benitez said. “I’ve never felt unsafe before, but it’s more of a risk now.”

Johnson wouldn’t say where the Bible group had come from. A church group also meets at the community center; a man working at the center’s desk declined to be identified but said he didn’t think the victims were from that congregation. Members of the Embry African Methodist Episcopal

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2010

Missing riot video deemed an oversight Univ. police cleared of wrongdoing

BY ZEMEN HABTEMARIAM For the Diamondback

State officials, including Gov. Martin O’Malley, joined university administrators last month at the groundbreaking ceremony on the site of what will be the new Physical Sciences Complex, a $128 million facility intended to attract top-notch research to the university. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Univ. breaks ground on science complex State-of-the-art, $128 million physical sciences facility to open in 2013

BY MARK MILLER For the Diamondback

The university formally broke ground on its new Physical Sciences Complex last month, preparing to construct a facility to house its physics and astronomy departments and other researchers who will use its stateof-the-art laboratories.

The $128 million complex is an example of a state investment in higher education designed to promote job growth, said Gov. Martin O’Malley, who joined university, state and federal officials at the May 24 ceremony. O’Malley said funding to the state’s universities should not be cut even in tough economic times.

“We continue to support higher education because higher education ... creates jobs, creates opportunities,” O’Malley said at the groundbreaking.

O’Malley — who is preparing to run for re-election this fall against former Gov. Bob Ehrlich, who dedicated less funding to the state’s universities when he was in office — said the new building was a key part of his agenda, call-

CRIME from page 1 kicking him and then took his wallet and cell phone, according to that crime alert.

The robbery took place just a block from Route 1 and directly in front of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house, making it closer to home for some students than crime in more distant corners of the College Park.

Prince George’s County Police Cpl. Larry Johnson said students need to stay alert in College Park.

“Basically just if you see anything suspicious, report it to the police. Don’t try to walk alone — there are a lot of suspicious people that live right around campus. Those are the two main things,” Johnson said. “We understand that students go to the bars, so when you are leaving make sure you are with something responsible.”

At the same time, however, a steady stream of crime alerts has left some students numb to another robbery report.

“I mean, that’s scary that it was so close to where I live, but at this point I’m used to it and I’m not really surprised,” said Grace Sweeney, a sophomore Spanish major who lives in the Alpha Chi Omega sorority house near the intersection. “College Park is so full of crime I expect it.”

Courtyards residents, however, said they weren’t as used to crime in their part of town.

“Hopefully it doesn’t catch on,” senior architecture major Marisa Gomez, who lives in the complex’s 400 building, said after the May

ing the complex the top capital priority of his administration.

University officials and researchers said the new facility will quickly make a big impact on key science departments when the first phase of the project opens in the summer of 2013, as it will let them move out of aging structures like the Physics Building, which dates to 1952.

Speaking at the groundbreaking, university President Dan Mote joked that in the Physics Building “it rains on every floor” because of ongoing leakage problems, and referred to the facility as “dilapidated” and “dangerous.”

Computer, mathematical and physical sciences college Dean Steve Halperin added that the complex “may be the best physical sciences building anywhere in the world” upon its completion — a big step up from existing conditions.

“Any time we hire a physicist these days, it means we spend a million dollars doing lab renovation,” physics professor Jordan Goodman said in an interview.

“The main thing a scientist wants to be able to do is get his work

done. And if the conditions around him don’t allow it, he can’t do that.”

The new seven-story complex, located next to the Computer and Space Sciences Building, will eventually include more than four dozen high-tech labs that will allow for sophisticated research.

For a while, however, the university will have to make do with its existing facilities. Dignitaries overturned ceremonial shovelfuls of dirt at the groundbreaking, but it will likely be at least three years before anyone can begin research at the new complex.

“People who are entering now as freshmen will see it done when they’re leaving,” astronomy professor Douglas Hamilton said.

“From an undergrad point of view, it’s gonna be ... a construction site for a number of years.”

Furthermore, the university only has funding — mostly from the state but also $10.3 million in federal stimulus money — for the first phase of this project, officials said. University officials hope to later add a second building and more classroom space.

Physics professor Andrew

Baden said cost shouldn’t stand in the way of upgrading facilities, predicting that the state’s economic benefit from the new complex could be enough for the building to pay for itself within a year of its completion.

“It’s all about the university being a big research university and protecting that,” Baden said.

“If you stand still, you get left behind ... particularly in the hightech sciences.”

U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), a university alumnus, said the complex is an excellent project for federal stimulus money, as it provides short-term and long-term economic benefits, first during its construction and then once the facility begins to attract research.

“I want to say we have some of the best scientists in the world at the University of Maryland,” Hoyer said. “This [building] is saying to young researchers, young scientists, young people in college, ‘Come to the University of Maryland, and do what you want to do.’”

16 robbery. “I’ve felt pretty safe on the north part of campus — it seems to experience less crime than the Route 1 and Metro areas.”

A few days later, however, a student told police she heard male voices outside her apartment door, Dillon

said. The men said they had a gun and told her to open her door, Dillon said the student told police.

When she did not do so, she said, they tried unsuccessfully to open the locked apartment door themselves, Dillon said. The student called police, but the men were already gone when officers arrived eight minutes later, he said.

The student said she saw a person who appeared to be wearing a red and black graduation gown standing outside her door when she looked through her peephole, but she never saw the gun, Dillon said. Without anyone having seen a weapon, Dillon said he didn’t think the incident merited a crime alert; alerts are typically sent out to the entire

campus community when there is an ongoing danger.

“We really don’t have anything else, just a young lady who thought there was a gun outside her door, and suspects who left the scene. We have no confirmation of any weapon involved,” Dillon said. Dillon said police did not believe it was related to the May 16 robbery.

The University Courtyards complex on University Boulevard had seen some robberies five or six years ago, Dillon said, but the problem mostly vanished when the university installed security cameras. The May 16 robbery outside the complex’s 100 building was the first to hit the complex in more than a year.

“I mean, that’s scary that it was so close to where I live, but at this point I’m used to it and I’m not really surprised.”

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A University Police technician who failed to turn over 90 minutes of subpoenaed video footage showing the March 3 riot after the Duke game suffered an “oversight” but was not acting maliciously, according to a Maryland State Police investigation of the incident.

University Police faced sharp criticism in April after the department nearly lost a key portion of the subpoenaed footage from its surveillance cameras in downtown College Park. Some had hoped the missing footage, from a camera pointed at Knox Road, would shed light on conflicting accounts of the riot between police who say they arrested unruly students and students who say they were brutalized by police without provocation.

The footage that disappeared showed the beating of 21-year-old John McKenna by several Prince George’s County police officers, a scene that had also been captured by a fellow student using a handheld camera. McKenna’s lawyers subpoenaed the footage from the university, which turned over 60 hours of material but left out what the lawyers wanted most.

A University Police officer, Lt. Jim Goldsmith, had made his own copy of most of the missing footage, letting the department belatedly fulfill its subpoena obligation. As it happened, however, the footage from camera 158 didn’t show the beating — a police technician monitoring the camera had pointed it elsewhere.

University Police had said from the start the near loss of an hour and a half of footage was accidental, and said their account was vindicated by the state police report.

University Police spokesman Paul Dillon released an excerpt of the report last week that reported “no evidence of collusion, or intentional mishandling of evidence,” but the university had not responded to a Public Information Act request to provide the full report by press time.

Sharon Weidenfeld, a private investigator working for students arrested at the riot, saw the excerpt and feels the university was too selective in the information it disclosed.

“I think it is important for the university to release the actual investigation done by the Maryland State

Police,” Weidenfeld said. McKenna’s attorney, Terrell N. Roberts, has also filed records requests for the full report. He and Weidenfeld said they could say little without having seen it, but Roberts said he remains suspicious.

“I find it strange that the technician failed to supply footage of the key location where the McKenna beating took place,” said Roberts.

As Dillon described it, one department technician failed to burn the subpoenaed footage onto a DVD for McKenna’s lawyers before it was automatically taped over by new material from the camera.

This error would normally have been caught instantly, Dillon said, but in this case, he said the technician’s supervisor — Lt. Joanne Ardovini — had removed herself from the process to avoid a potential conflict of interest: Her husband, Prince George’s County Police Officer John Ardovini, was involved in arresting McKenna on assault charges.

“If she had been part of it, the mistake would have been caught,” Dillon said. But in recusing herself, Dillon added, “she did exactly what she should have done.”

Dillon also noted it was his department, not the legal team, which first noticed not all the subpoenaed footage had been supplied.

“We found the error before anyone else,” Dillon said. “There was no deliberate attempt to not provide this video.”

Furthermore, Dillon said, no action will be taken against the employee responsible for fumbling the footage.

“We are not considering this a disciplinary issue because there was no misconduct,” Dillon said. “It was an honest mistake.”

Some students, such as sophomore accounting major Didi Ajibola, were willing to accept University Police’s account of Ardovini’s actions.

“For what we can see right now, I think it doesn’t merit suspicion, and it was smart of her to remove herself from the situation,” Ajibola said.

But despite the state police investigation, others remain mistrustful of the situation.

“It all seems too suspicious, even though [Ardovini] was doing her job by removing herself,” junior economics major Tomi Ipaye said.

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Univ. chooses Louisiana State Research VP to step down architecture head as new dean

Bernstein will move on to Northeastern University, Chem. and Life Sci. dean to temporarily hold post

Cronrath to take over architecture school July 1

BY SARAH MEEHAN For the Diamondback

The university’s next architecture dean plans to add an emphasis on sustainability and local infrastructure to existing high technical standards when he takes over next month, he said in an interview.

David Cronrath — who currently serves as dean of Louisiana State University’s art and design college — will replace Garth Rockcastle on July 1 as head of the university’s school of architecture, planning and preservation. The university announced Cronrath’s appointment May 17 after Rockcastle announced his decision to step down last fall.

Cronrath, a registered architect, won accolades for setting LSU students to work planning and assisting the revitalization and rebuilding of Katrina-ravaged portions of New Orleans and said he would apply this experience to struggling communities along the Chesapeake Bay. “I’m not a person that works at arm’s length,” Cronrath said.

Cronrath said he comes to the position with three more general goals: to continue graduating students who have both great technical skills and creative problemsolving abilities, to build relationships within the university and with state businesses to improve

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“We made a suggestion to the community, received input and responded,” Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie wrote in an e-mail. “Our plan is better for the discussion.”

The university released the outline of its plan May 21 but some details — including where Shuttle-UM buses will stop during the second phase of the trial and where the Department of Transportation Services will relocate handicapped parking spaces — had not yet been finalized as of last night.

Shuttle-UM plans in place so far include designating the stop outside Regents Drive Parking Garage as the main campus transit hub to replace the student union and planning to circle the Campus Connector North and South lines on Campus Drive every 30 minutes throughout the eight-week closure.

environmental sustainability and to help provide a boost to local communities.

He said he was at- DAVID tracted to CRONRATH this univer- NEXT ARCH. DEAN sity not only because of its reputation as a terrific university but also because the architecture school has already built an excellent platform from which he can work toward these objectives.

Rockcastle said last fall he was leaving his post to pursue a private practice and out of frustration over budget cuts to his school. He did not respond to requests for comment on this article.

Some faculty members are already expressing enthusiasm for Cronrath’s upcoming deanship.

William Hanna, a professor for the Urban Studies and Planning Program, said he feels assured that Cronrath’s experience will help enrich the Maryland community.

“His work in the Ninth Ward and other projects in and around New Orleans … makes me hopeful that he will look for opportunities to apply his skills … to problems such as the link between ero-

Other changes could emerge during the pilot program, DOTS Director David Allen said, so the department won’t be offering printed bus schedules for the summer. Schedules will instead be posted only on the DOTS website, and even then Allen said riders should be aware schedules could change “at any given moment.”

Metrobuses will take University Boulevard to Paint Branch Drive and Azalea Lane near Comcast Center and follow Regents Drive back to Campus Drive at the “M” traffic circle, said Reggie Woodruff, spokesman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, calling it as “a pretty significant rerouting.”

Associate Vice President for Facilities Management Frank Brewer said the university has taken steps to minimize the impact of its program on people with disabilities by providing the uninterrupted Campus Connector and paratransit shuttle services.

And while Student Government Association President Steve Glickman said the new

sion and development,” Hanna wrote in an e-mail. “Our school has given increasing attention to sustainability, and perhaps he will prove to be a leader in strengthening that aspect of our work.”

Cronrath said sustainability will be a point that cannot be ignored in architecture and planning disciplines.

“There is a profound change that is happening in the 21st century,” Cronrath said. “Energy will be the predominant issue as we drift away from petroleum.”

Cronrath also spoke generally of improving the “cultural capital” — the quality of infrastructure that attracts residents and businesses to certain places — of communities near the university and around the Chesapeake Bay but said he would need to hear residents’ needs before committing to specifics.

In Cronrath’s 10 years at LSU, he served as the director of its architecture school before becoming the dean of its art and design school.

He received his bachelor’s degree in architecture from Pennsylvania State University and his master’s from the University of California, Berkeley and worked in private practice in Philadelphia before heading into to academia. newsdesk@umdbk.com

plan does not “resolve all the issues,” he said he considers the revisions to be a good sign administrators took the SGA’s concerns into consideration.

The remaining problem, Glickman said, is that the university has not set any indicators by which it would measure the success or failure of the study.

“They don’t really have a plan for analyzing the data they collect,” Glickman said. “The whole point is to create a pedestrian friendly campus, of course, and they haven’t even defined what that means.”

However, Director of Operations and Maintenance Jack Baker, who heads a committee that will collect data during the pilot, said the present goal is not establishing a “pass or fail” system but rather to inform the Facilities Master Plan Steering Committee so that it can determine how best to create a “pedestrian-friendly campus.”

Baker said that discussion may take another year.

Baker said the university will be examining the closure’s impact on public transportation rid-

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA For the Diamondback

The university vice president credited with boosting funding for the school’s research division and increasing its stature among its peer institutions will leave his position at the end of this month for a post at Northeastern University.

Vice President for Research Mel Bernstein announced his departure to university President Dan Mote a few weeks ago.

Chemical and life sciences college Dean Norma Allewell will serve as the research division’s interim head while a permanent replacement is sought.

Bernstein, who has been at the university for four years, helped his department reach record funding last year, at $518 million, and secure partnerships with institutions such as the National Cancer Institute and the Smithsonian Institute, according to Associate Vice President for Research Development Ken Gertz.

“Mel has really done a tremendous job,” Gertz said. “We have seen a tremendous jump in our research volume and a significant enhancement of the research abilities at College Park.”

“He’s really done a lot to change the culture on campus in terms of how we feel about research,” Gertz added.

Gertz said he expects the permanent replacement for Bernstein to be selected by the next

ership, service to buildings along Campus Drive and the ability of riders to travel through and around the campus.

The university will monitor traffic counts, study web cameras it will install along Regents Drive and near the student union and gather personal feedback , he said.

However, Glickman said he still disagreed with the university’s restrictions on public transportation during the second four weeks.

“We are trying to encourage the use of public transportation as a greener alternative,” Glickman said. “We still believe that you can have a pedestrian-friendly campus while having public transportation.”

Wylie asked the student body to see how the test closure unfolds before writing off the idea, and said the university will definitely listen to feedback.

“A pilot makes the issue real, and our community’s response will inform the direction we take,” Wylie wrote.

university president after Mote steps down at the end of August.

Steve Halperin, dean of the computer, NORMA mathemati- ALLEWELL cal and INTERIM VICE PRESIp h y s i c a l DENT FOR RESEARCH sciences college, is proposed to absorb Allewell’s current role should her school merge with his.

Bernstein said he is confident the research division will continue to thrive under Allewell’s leadership.

“She will certainly continue the momentum,” Bernstein said of Allewell. “I wasn’t leaving anything I felt couldn’t continue [without me].”

Allewell is no fundraising slouch either. During her time as dean, she helped increase her college’s research funding to more than $30 million and hired more than 60 faculty members. She also helped improve and expand its facilities, including the construction of the Bioscience Research Building and the Chemistry Teaching Wing.

Arthur Popper, the associate dean of the chemical and life sciences college, said Allewell, as a member of the life-sciences community, will bring a new aspect of knowledge to Bernstein’s posi-

CAMERAS from page 1 speed limit will receive a $40 ticket.

If the city’s camera earnings add up to 10 percent of its budget — which typically totals around $13 million — any additional ticket revenue starts to go to the state instead.

Until that point, College Park will receive $24 from each ticket.

Optotraffic takes the rest but is fully responsible for installing and maintaining the cameras.

The cameras will likely be a moneymaker for the city soon after they’re installed, Catlin predicted, but he said he doubts they will be a sustained revenue source — drivers will learn to slow down near speed cameras and the tickets will be less frequent.

But, he added, the revenue drop won't be a major issue as long as the

tion. Bernstein, on the other hand, is an engineer.

“She knows all kinds of people and understands what the research department should be doing,” Popper said of Allewell.

Gertz added that Allewell’s connections in the life-sciences community will fit into the department’s strategic plan to build up funding with the National Institutes of Health and enhance partnerships with other major medical centers.

“Norma really understands the world of funding, particularly in regard to the life sciences,” Gertz said.

Allewell said she looks forward to working with Bernstein’s team at the research division, but it was too early to say whether she hoped to be considered for the full-time position.

“I have very big shoes to fill,” Allewell said. “I know the university would love to have [Bernstein] stay.”

Bernstein said the university’s research program must continue to pursue global projects and build successful partnerships to build the university’s reputation as a premier research institution.

“Almost everything we do is competitive,” Bernstein said of the research division. “We need to be sure we put forward the best proposals, and the university continues to provide support.” newsdesk@umdbk.com

cameras achieve the city’s primary goal of improving traffic safety.

Students have differing opinions on speed cameras coming close to areas where they live and drive.

Senior architecture major Lauryn Preller said she’s used to the speed cameras in her home town of Olney, and that she's not a fan.

“I just think it’s stupid because it feels like big brother. It’s a violation of privacy,” Preller said.

Others, like senior cell biology and genetics major Emily Sutton, were more supportive.

“I see the need on Paint Branch [Parkway] because students from Leonardtown cross there all the time and cars pass quickly. It doesn’t look like a pedestrian area,” Sutton said.

Besides, Sutton added, she doesn’t speed. newsdesk@umdbk.com

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This version of the plan would essentially create a mass-transit corridor along Camaving options is a beautiful thing. It enables people to weigh them, consider potential benefits and consequences and determine which pus Drive. It acknowledges the fact that Campus Drive is the heart of the campus.

And rather than attempting to block it off, the university would be effectively maxiwould be the best choice before making a decision.

When the university administration announced its decision to close mizing the convenience the road offers. Moreover, by closing the road to commuter off Campus Drive to all traffic except for two campus-connector shuttles, students vehicles, the plan would likely encourage more people to use public transportation, wanted options. For more than a month, students voiced concerns about the plan which would help move the university along in its goal to cut carbon emissions.

If adopted, the plan would also mesh well with a Campus Drive alignment for the and called for the administration to consider how closing Campus Drive could hurt, rather than foster, the university community. At its very core, the reason for stu- Purple Line — a light-rail system that would connect Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. Although the administration remains stubbornly opposed to dents’ discontent was simple: They felt cornered.

Since then, administrators have heard students out. And regardless of whether this alignment, it is clearly the route of choice for students, the Maryland Transit Administration and state officials. student feedback played into the decision to close the main Throughout the discussions about closing Campus Drive, road in two steps this summer, it was the right call. From June administrators emphasized the importance of sticking to the 19 to July 16, the university will continue to allow Shuttle-UM University officials have Facilities Master Plan, which will be updated and submitted to and Metro buses, emergency vehicles, facilities maintenance the Board of Regents by fall 2011. And if the ultimate aim is to and construction vehicles and delivery trucks to access the done well to provide coincide with the master plan’s goals, which call for the univerroad, while all other non-pedestrian traffic will be barred. From July 17 until Aug. 13, the university will close the road to Shut- options for Campus Drive sity to “create a more pedestrian-friendly central campus and significantly reduce the number of automobiles,” then maintaintle-UM and Metro buses, and the internal Campus Connector moving forward. ing bus traffic along the road would be a perfect way to ensure will begin serving as a shuttle to and from the Regents Drive transportation hub administrators said will receive all re-routed traffic. Having the pedestrians not only utilize the area but also frequent it. This would result in the opportunity to test both plans this summer will undoubtedly help both administra- sort of atmosphere administrators want — a bustling plaza of sorts without the congestion of private-vehicle traffic. tors and students see which would be better for the campus.

Although at the end of the summer the university will block off Campus Drive to Although the experiment has not yet begun, it seems the first model, which allows Shuttle-UM and Metro buses to continue running through the center of the bus traffic to determine whether that would be a viable option, it is far too short a campus, would eliminate many of the issues students had with the initial plan. Dis- time period to cause any significant inconvenience.

In the end, administrators will weigh the two plans to determine which is best for abled students would not have to rely on the Campus Connector shuttles to navigate the campus, student routines would not be disrupted, the convenience the the university, polling community members and considering student feedback. buses provide would remain intact, and the administration would still accomplish And although students may feel frustrated with how this experiment has been handled thus far, at least, going forward, they have options. its goal of eliminating most vehicular through traffic along the main road.

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University Health Center: Better late than never

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fter spending four years trying to avoid the University Health Center, it figures I would have to use it a week after graduating.

My post-graduation life of revelry manifested itself as a sore throat that quickly progressed into an inflamed tonsil, which has prevented me from eating or drinking for the last few days.

Even water burns. This has caused my mom to be overly concerned with my fluid levels. She has taken to yelling at me to drink more, so I can pee all the sickness out of my system. I honestly can’t tell if that’s awkward or funny.

I’m the type of person who is convinced that it’s better to let my body naturally fight ailments. It doesn’t matter if it takes months for me to heal because the alternative — going to a doctor and getting medicine seems like way too good of an idea.

I hate doctors’ offices. My friends

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RASTOGI don’t understand why I try so hard to avoid them. They understand why I might not want to go to my family doctor back home, but the Health Center is so convenient that they think it’s lazy of me not to go, especially when I usually end up seeing a doctor for medicine in the long run. Well, maybe I like suffering, or maybe I’m just convinced that I’ll be fine eventually and doctors are a waste of time.

So what changed, aside from having the worst swollen throat known to man? First, I got kicked off my parents’ health insurance when I turned 22 at the end of December. Second, I got

talked into buying the school’s health insurance. This made the Health Center my most feasible option.

Now that I’ve used its facilities, I’m not above saying that I was an idiot.

The Health Center was nothing like my hometown doctors’ offices. The waiting room wasn’t dark and filled with terrible magazines and screaming babies. Seeing the doctor wasn’t awkward because she wasn’t someone who was friends with my mom and dad, and her daughter isn’t in my sister’s Girl Scout troop.

I walked in without an appointment and used the London-esque phone booth to make one immediately. The doctor was cool and didn’t make fun of me when I told her that I searched my symptoms on WebMD and came up with a list of of 15 possibilities for what was wrong with me. She humored me and ran all the tests — even a blood test — right away. She

gave me a numbing gargle called “Magic Mouthwash” that the pharmacist had to mix specially like Madam Pomfrey in Harry Potter. It was easy, it was fast, it was awesome.

She called me within about two hours of my appointment to give me my results and called me the next day to check up on me. On one hand, I have a fever, am partially deaf and have an irrational fear that my throat will fully close up at any moment and I’ll suffocate to death. But on the other hand, I feel like my doctor really cares, and I’m not afraid of her.

If I could go back in time, I’d slap my past self for not going to the Health Center earlier. It was a dumb decision, but at least I know better now — even if I’m no longer a student.

Shruti Rastogi graduated in May with a degree in journalism. She can be reached at rastogi@umdbk.com.

Conservation: Putting away childish things

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hen I was a kid, I was under the impression that sheer willpower and a mandate from the universe would allow me to succeed at everything I attempted. Sure, I grew out of it once I became a teenager and the world gave me a reality check, but even in high school, I didn’t always put forth the necessary effort for schoolwork, athletics or other endeavors because of a gut feeling that circumstances would work out for me regardless of my actions. It sounds so silly looking back a few more reality checks later, but I guess that’s called growing up.

What has been scary to me is that our collective approach and attitude toward environmental and energy policy has been equally as childish. We have this illusion that technology will solve all of our abuses to this planet and its ecosystems that sustain us, regardless of their magnitude or scope. But today as we

helplessly watch the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, we can all acutely feel what I learned in my younger years.

It’s that sense that nothing and no one is bulletproof, not even us. Everything has limits and everything has a breaking point. The technological capacity of our government and the private sector to solve this crisis before the entire Gulf of Mexico is a dead zone just isn’t there, and that’s more than devastating to the entire gulf region. It shakes our psyche to the core. What if we can’t fix it? What if there’s no going back?

This goes far behind the offshore drilling disaster in the Gulf. It’s estimated that human activity is contributing to 27,000 species extinctions per year, versus the natural rate of 10 to 100.

They aren’t coming back. We’re rapidly depleting our coal and oil resources and we can’t explore new reserves forever, unless you think the technology of the energy companies is infallible. Looking

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DERNOGA at the gulf, we certainly can’t explore safely. Given that we’re in the process of taking all the carbon stored in the Earth’s crust and releasing it into the atmosphere, I’m afraid we can’t fix our climate once it descends into chaos.

But this doesn’t have to be a downtrodden march toward the cliff before we jump. Doing nothing will take us to a place we don’t want to go. Taking ownership over our mistakes and making bold, tough moves to correct them can put us in charge of the endgame. Yes, personal change is important, but right now the best thing we as Americans can do is make clear to our elected officials

that we’re ready to change course.

The House of Representatives has already passed clean energy and climate legislation that would begin a shift away from fossil fuels. The Senate is currently considering whether to take up similar legislation called the American Power Act. Both need to be stronger. There are a lot of problems out there, and time is limited until the midterms. After the Memorial Day recess, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama are going to lift their fingers in the air and gauge whether this is the year we do it. They need to hear us tell them the truth that’s bursting from underneath the gulf and settling in our national conscience.

This gulf disaster is our reality check.

It’s time to grow up.

Matt Dernoga graduated in May with a degree in government and politics. He can be reached at dernoga@umdbk.com.

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here’s nothing quite like the summertime. And in the summertime, there’s nothing quite like Mike

Sanders.

This truly is my time to shine.

Summer is when I really heat up.

I’m the one guy who can beat the summer heat. And with puns as awesome as those, you know I’m not lying. I’m frying! HA! Oh my dear God, that was brilliant. I’m here all summer, folks. The hits just keep on coming.

You know what I like about this time of year? Everything. There’s literally nothing you can do during the summer that I won’t like. Any plan is a good plan, and I’m down for whatever. If you want to go to a beach, I’ll pick out the location, bring the umbrella and pack the cooler full of beer. Most people don’t know this, but I love the beach. I’m actually a bit of a beach boy. I love girls from California.

And being true to my school. Ahdoo-run-run-run, you know?

I don’t have a great body, but it doesn’t matter. I still hit the beaches with authority, and I always look fly. Sure, my stomach is flabby and my skin is roughly the color of paste, but so what? I’m comfortable with myself, and summer is all about being comfortable.

You know what else summer is about? Doing nothing. I’m the king of doing nothing. And if you don’t believe me, you can ask my sociology professor. Or my history professor. Or my Latin professor. I didn’t do a damn thing in any of those classes. Summer’s like that. All play and no work. That’s why I thrive in this atmosphere.

I mean, I was built for this, you know? Most people spend the summer binge-drinking and making decisions they’ll regret forever.

Well, that’s basically my modus operandi all year round. In fact, looking up “modus operandi” in the dictionary is the hardest thing I’ve had to do this summer. It means “mode of operation,” and it’s Latin, by the way. So maybe I did learn something in class. Or maybe I’m just awesome. Whatever. It’s the summertime, and I don’t want to think about school.

The way I see it, we get three months to prove what we’re made of. And at the end of those three months, if you feel defeated or have a desire for school to start up again because you’re too bored, well, you lose. Summer is like a big test. And I passed the test. I passed it a long time ago, and now I try to show other people how to properly enjoy summer so they too can pass it.

Doing nothing may not seem like a lot, but it’s a full-time job. I can’t tell you how many people look forward to summer for months on end only to become bored a few weeks into it. These people just aren’t cut out for my lifestyle.

And if you aren’t cut out for that, then you have a pretty weird modus operandi. That’s mode of operation, kids.

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

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 7) — There’s no reason for you to politicize an issue that is on everyone’s mind at this time. You and your enemies are all in it together. (Nov. 8-Nov. 21) — You may be the only person to stand up to someone who is trying to bully his or her way forward.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) — You may find yourself doubting your own people skills as the week progresses. A formal endeavor is not for you at this time. (Dec. 8-Dec. 21) — You must be open to changing your opinions as you explore what is beyond your horizons.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 6) — You mustn’t let your admiration for another become tainted and cross the line into envy or jealousy. Keep things light and positive. (Jan. 7Jan. 19) — You’ve been keeping something under wraps that deserves to be unveiled.

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The heart of street art Coffee table book proves it’s one of substance

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The genre of “street art” has come a long way.

Graffiti and the idea of public defacement — or beautification,you decide — is as old as city streets but its popularization in art culture has only been bubbling for a couple of decades.

Publishing company Gestalten’s new book, Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art — compiled by Brits Stuart Mackenzie and Patrick Nguyen — celebrates and explores this relatively new art movement.

Today, street art has reached a pinnacle — it is recognized as a legitimate art form and street artists can actually make money off their works.

But street art certainly hasn’t gotten this far without a fair bit

of controversy.

Many artists and observers disagree with selling street art to make money. Dissenters argue that its purpose is public enjoyment and spectacle, not turning a profit.

Some street artists have completely moved off the street and into the studio, which is cause for more debate and intrigue.

Inside Beyond the Street’s 400 pages are interviews with 100 street artists, gallery owners, auction houses and other genre figures. This is not your mother’s coffee table book.

The book provides an interesting look at well-known street artists like Shepard Fairey, who did the Obama HOPE collage, and Ron English, who created

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the art in Morgan Spurlock’s 2004 documentary Super Size Me. However, the book is perhaps most useful for the discovery of lesser-known artists.

Beyond the Street largely consists of interviews interspersed with fantastic color photographs. The interviews are often successful in bringing out the essence of the subjects.

They range from the foul-mouthed yet humble and lovable New York City-based artist BAST, who ends his interview by saying, “You gotta get someone better to answer. … The guy at the bar would be better at this than me. I’m sorry!” to the articulate chairperson of the legendary Sotheby’s auction house in London.

The interviews tend to get repetitive. This may be de rigueur for a book holding conversations with 100 people concerning the same subject, but it becomes rather annoying to read the same questions over and over again, particularly the inquiry about working on the street versus in the studio.

There is one notable absence in the book despite its broad range of interviewees. Banksy, who is cited many times in the book as a trailblazer for street artists making a living off their work — and the creative mastermind behind the recently

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Ever y artist has a stor y, and Beyond the Street does a commendable job of finding that story.

Doze Green from New York City turned to graffiti as an alternative to gangs. Worldrenowned Futura was once in the military. Many were trained in art school, while others found the art world oppressive and skipped the whole scene altogether. The unique stories of the artists is one of the best aspects of the book.

Beyond the Street also delves into the criticism of street art with a fervor.

“There’s … a lot of bad street art out there that people are paying attention to because it’s very hip and lucrative right now,” said Jason LeVine of New York’s Jason LeVine Gallery in the book.

Street art seems to be the belle of the ball at the moment, and artists of the movement are making bank on it.

In regards to street art now selling for money, artist Pedro Alonzo is quoted in the book as saying, like many others, “Ever y artist needs money to live.”

Beyond the Street succeeds in raising a lot of questions about

The caption on this book snapshot reads: “Street artist Know Hope stands in front of his mural, A Technicality on the façade of Anno Domini Gallery. San Jose, California, 2008.” BY KNOW HOPE FROM BEYOND THE STREET COPYRIGHT GESTALTEN 2010.

street art.

Is it just a trend that will fade with time? And with so many people jumping on the bandwagon and putting up their own pieces, will street art’s original rebellious purpose be diminished?

Beyond the Street is the first book of its kind to provide a truly comprehensive look at

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Venerable drinking hole runs dry

BY RICHARD ABDILL Staff writer

After more than 25 years of providing College Park with live music and alcohol, Santa Fe Cafe shut its doors for good early May 23 in what the bar’s owner described as the result of high rent and a student body that just doesn’t party like it used to.

Santa Fe owner Mark Srour pledged to help find another tenant for his Knox Road space, with a focus on recruiting clothing retailer Urban Outfitters.

Srour had been paying nearly $18,000 a month for the space, and fewer students visit College Park’s bars now than when Santa Fe opened in 1984, he said.

“It’s harder to get into Maryland, so that brings more studious people into College Park,” Srour said. “The ’70s and ’80s — almost anything went. But they’re attracting smarter students that aren’t going out like that.”

Ruben Schwartz, a sophomore mathematics major, didn’t question that students might be more focused on their coursework than on partying these days but doubted that could kill a bar.

“I can see how the general Maryland population might not necessarily go out every night, but there are always people out,” Schwartz said. “To suggest that’s

why they’re losing money seems a little ridiculous.”

Santa Fe had also been the subject of a lawsuit with the city of College Park over Srour’s refusal to install a sprinkler system. He signed an agreement with the city in 2003 promising to add the safety feature, but he later said it was prohibitively expensive to put the sprinklers in a building that he doesn’t own.

A county judge gave him 90 days to install the sprinklers earlier this year, but Srour said in a recent interview that he never intended to do so.

“I’m not paying for a sprinkler system for [the landlord] to have in her building,” Srour said, estimating the cost at $60,000 to $100,000. “I knew that I would never spend a dime putting in a sprinkler system.”

When College Park Public Services Director Bob Ryan learned of Srour’s claim that he never intended to honor his contractual agreement with the city, Ryan issued only a drawn-out “wow.”

But it was a lease disagreement, Srour said, not the sprinklers, that eventually drove out Santa Fe. The owner of the property Srour had leased for his bar — whom he once described at a College Park City Council meeting as “a crazy little bird” — wanted to hike his rent beyond what he was

willing to pay when his lease came up for renewal, Srour said.

Some students seemed apathetic about the bar closing. Many were turned away on the bar’s last night of business because they were told it was “employees only,” and they simply moved down the block to the other bars.

Senior English major Emi Leiner said she enjoyed going to Santa Fe but wasn’t concerned about the future of the downtown bar scene.

“I’m 21 now, so I’m trying to go to [Washington] a little bit,” Leiner said, hinting at Santa Fe’s reputation for admitting underage patrons, especially those who prepurchased tickets to live shows.

But junior bioengineering major Afareen Rezvani said she was going to miss the place.

“It was a nice way to let go and have some fun and hear some good music. That’s going to be a huge bummer,” Rezvani said.

“But people were hearing about their sprinkler problems; I heard about it last year and thought ‘Oh, if there’s a fire, I could die?’ and I had to think about it.”

City officials expressed little sympathy for Srour.

His refusal to install sprinklers “clearly says he’s not a man of his word and, well, good riddance,” District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said. “It’s always a shame

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tough to operate a profitable business because rent is so high in College Park. It’s ridiculous.”

Srour is also closing the lesspopular Mark Lounge, next to Thirsty Turtle, to better focus on his third College Park bar: Cornerstone Grill and Loft, in a building that his family owns.

Srour said he’s been speaking to Urban Outfitters and several other firms he wouldn’t identify to encourage them to move in. For the community’s sake, he said. “I want a quality person to come in.”

“I would not like to see another Thirsty Turtle,” Srour said.

Phone calls to Urban Outfitters were not returned.

Church and First Baptist Church of College Park, both located near the park on Lakeland Road, said the Bible group was not from their churches either.

Jim Claiborne, a First Baptist Church member, said he was surprised to hear about the robbery nearby.

“It’s bad news any time people are getting robbed in a park,” Claiborne said. “That’s just sad.”

But while the time and place of this robbery are unusual, police said it’s not so different from muggings that happen in dark alleys in the middle of the night.

“We find a lot of these crimes are crimes of opportunity,” Johnson said. “There’s no rhyme or reason to it; they’re walking down the street and think, ‘There’s some people we can get.’”

Police described their three suspects in the mugging as a Hispanic man with short hair, a white T-shirt and a cast on his left arm; and two black men, one with light skin and a black-and-white checkered scarf over his face and the other with darker skin and shoulder-length dreadlocks.

They entered the park from the intersection of Lakeland Road and Rhode Island Avenue and fled along Rhode Island toward Berwyn Heights, police said.

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The popular Santa Fe Cafe bar closed May 23 after nearly three decades of operation. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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But we need businessmen that are willing to work with the community, not against it.”

Terry Schum, the city’s planning director, pointed to downtown College Park’s many thriving businesses and relatively low vacancy rate as evidence that business owners can afford the local market rate.

Srour, however, said a series of other businesses that have recently left the city shows he’s not the only business owner who struggled in the area.

“It’s a very tough town to have a business in, because you’re dealing with college people on a budget,” he said. “I don’t want to say I spread myself too thin, but … it’s

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REVIEW from page 10 But several questions started to emerge. Against Boston College in the final game during spring break, the offense couldn’t get its transition game started and finished the game with a season-low seven goals.

A week later, after the Terps hammered then-No. 8 Stanford by 12 goals, the team fell into another offensive lull against a resurgent James Madison squad. The Dukes held a three-goal lead in the second half, forcing Reese to change goalies.

While the team squeaked out another win, Reese found herself looking at a goalie competition between starter Brittany Dipper and backup Mary Jordan that lasted another four games.

The inconsistencies finally caught up with the team against then-No. 3 North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., on April 10. The Tar Heels sprinted out to a 10-4 lead on Dipper and held on to hand the Terps their first regular-season defeat in two years.

But the game also served as a turnaround for the team. Dipper finally began to find her form and the defense started to shut down all comers, leading the nation in fewest goals allowed per game.

“That was one thing that we knew that was special about this year’s team — our chemistry,” Reese said. “We knew

that these guys loved each other and the opportunity to play with each other.”

“Everyone loves each other so much,” midfielder Amanda Spinnenweber said.

Reese had her team peaking at the perfect time. The Terps cruised through the ACC Tournament in College Park, handling Virginia and then avenging their loss to North Carolina in the championship game.

After garnering the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Terps ran past Marist in the first round and Penn in the quarterfinals. The wins brought the team back to Towson for the Final Four for the second straight year.

There, the Terps sprinted to a 7-1 lead right before halftime against unseeded Syracuse, and the team held on to set up a date with Northwestern.

Against the mighty Wildcats, the Terps couldn’t have started off worse. The team allowed six straight goals in less than 10 minutes, and the team’s cadre of stars was absent from the action.

But what proceeded may go down as one of lacrosse’s best comebacks and certainly one of the most memorable women’s lacrosse games ever.

“I think this is going to be a game that people remember for a long, long time,” Reese said.

The Terps went on to defeat Northwestern for their first National Championship since 2001 in front of the largest crowd to ever witness a

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women’s lacrosse game in the U.S., forging an improbable comeback and holding the Wildcats scoreless for nearly 30 minutes.

“We can now say we’re a part of a national championship team,” defender Karissa Taylor said. “We knew the history of this school, and we wanted to be a part of it.”

Reese said she’s not looking toward the future and next year’s team quite yet, but when she does, she’ll certainly be pleased. While the coach loses a senior class that includes McFadden, a twotime Tewaaraton Trophy finalist, and several other AllAmericans, the team returns several starters on both sides of the ball.

At least for now, Reese’s attention is still trained on her 2010 team — one that overcame hiccups and road bumps along the way to finishing what it started.

“I don’t think this senior class could have gone out any other way,” Reese said.

Reese said winning her first National Championship in nine years won’t change the competitive drive she possesses. But she’s just happy to finally give her players what she experienced in her playing days.

“Winning the National Championship, it’s something that you’ve worked so hard [at] for four years. It’s like your life,” McFadden said. “To finally have that is so amazing.” ceckard@umdbk.com

Several Terps and Wildcats battle for a loose ball off a draw control Sunday. The Terps edged Northwestern in draw controls 14-12 en route to a national title. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Midfielder Amanda Spinnenweber, left, and goalie Brittany Dipper embrace. After a shaky start in goal, Dipper finished with seven saves Sunday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

right in front of the cage, which gives [goalie Brittany] Dipper no chance, especially in the sun,” defender Brittany Poist said. “We had to chip away, one at a time, and it was nothing to be negative about.”

As they had done in comebacks earlier this season against James Madison and Towson, the Terps kept their faith.

“Each goal, we came together and said, ‘Keep fighting and stay in it,’” McFadden said. “We completely believed in each other and kept playing with confidence and heart and came back from it.”

The Terps scored seven consecutive goals, while holding the nation’s top offense scoreless for more than 27 minutes. Although McFadden struggled to find her openings in the first half, midfielder Katie Schwarzmann pushed the Terps back into contention.

The freshman tied a career high with three goals, all in the first half, while attacker Sarah Mollison added three more to alleviate pressure from the struggling defense before the break.

During that time, the Terps’ top-ranked defense regained its form. Dipper, who allowed Northwestern to score on six of its first eight shots, finished strong with seven saves. She even stopped a shot by North-

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“I think that if you get down the stretch and play teams like Maryland, you are not going to put any team away in the first half, even if we’re up 15-0 in the first half,” Northwestern midfielder Danielle Spencer said. “I still don’t think that we would’ve just put them away because it’s got to be a full 60 minutes.”

In the second half, McFadden put her stamp on the game. Her goal less than four minutes into the half gave the Terps their first lead of the game.

But the Wildcats weren’t finished. Using a patient scoring attack, Northwestern found a few openings and forged its own comeback, scoring two goals to tie the game at 10 with 12:03 remaining.

Enter McFadden. The twotime Tewaaraton Trophy finalist assisted on the go-ahead goal by midfielder Brandi Jones and scored the eventual game-winner minutes later.

The Terps’ defense keyed the comeback and prevented the Wildcats from making one of their own. McFadden held Dowd, who had scored in 39 straight games before Sunday, without a goal.

Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson scored three goals in the game and also played a main role in the draw controls. Northwestern and midfielder Danielle Spencer led the country in draw controls per game, but lost the overall count to Johnson and the Terps.

The triumphant effort put an end to the Northwestern dynasty that had reigned for the past five years. It also opened the door for the Terps to author another one of their own.

“I’m so proud of this 2010 team,” Reese said. “The heart and the fight they displayed were outstanding. I think they showed such great composure and such great poise and just played a great game to fight back from that.”

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TERPS FINALLY TASTE TITLE NO. 10 Women’s lacrosse storms back from deficit to take first title in nine years

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Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson kisses the national championship trophy during the Terps’ postgame celebration following a 13-11 victory over defending champion Northwestern on Sunday. With the win, the Terps have an NCAA-best 10 titles and their first since 2001. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

WOMEN’S LACROSSE SEASON REVIEW

With Reese and McFadden, Terps finish what they started

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

The road back to national prominence for the Terrapin women’s lacrosse program started four years ago when Cathy Reese returned home.

It started when Reese, who had learned under the tutelage of legendary coach Cindy Timchal, brought back her own free-flowing coaching system from Denver, where she’d coached for three seasons.

It started when Timchal giftwrapped for Reese the perfect player for that system — Notre Dame Prep star Caitlyn McFadden.

The two formed an unlikely tandem — Reese, the quirky head coach with the pressure of bringing the Terps back to national relevance, and McFadden, the reserved but talented freshman hoping to live up to equally lofty expectations.

Four years later, in McFadden’s final game in a Terps’ uniform, she accomplished the goal both had set out to achieve. At the end of her team’s thrilling 13-11 victory against five-time defending

champion Northwestern on Sunday, McFadden held aloft the national championship trophy in front of a sea of red-clad Terp fans and alumni.

Only feet behind her stood Reese, wearing a pair of sunglasses and a proud, beaming smile. The coach, who had won four national titles as a player and another three as an assistant with the Terps, could finally rejoice.

“I wanted these guys to have a similar experience that I had,” Reese said. “Winning a championship is great, but there is something really special about winning that last game of the season. I want them to leave and look back and say that those were some of the best years of my life.”

The journey to the top wasn’t an easy one. Every year since 2007, when both Reese and McFadden arrived in College Park, the Terps have improved.

In their first two years, they only got as far as the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals.

Last year, the Terps surprised the nation by reeling off a 20game winning streak only to

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But with McFadden and the group of seniors that meant so much to her, the Terps had only one more shot. Returning all 12 starters heading into the 2010 campaign, the Terps were ranked No. 2 in the preseason, behind only he Wildcats.

The Terps started the season fast, including a 17-4 romp at then-No. 5 Duke, where they showed the team’s immense potential on both sides of the ball. The team kept up the intensity, dispatching its first seven opponents by an average of 10 goals per game.

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All-America midfielder Caitlyn McFadden dodges toward the goal from behind the net during the Terps’ 13-11 national title win. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

TOWSON — Caitlyn McFadden had worked too hard for this.

Less than 10 minutes into her first, and last, national championship game Sunday, the dedication the senior midfielder invested into the Terrapin women’s lacrosse program for four years had seemingly fallen apart.

Northwestern, winner of five consecutive national titles, stormed out to a six-goal lead and looked poised to run away with a sixth title. The Wildcats scored on almost every shot, forced the Terps’ offense into careless mistakes and capitalized on every opportunity.

But McFadden, even after watching two of her team’s first three goals get called off, kept her composure and helped put together the greatest comeback in women’s lacrosse championship history.

The Terps erased a six-goal deficit before halftime and controlled the second half en route to the program’s first National Championship since 2001, beating the Wildcats 13-11 in front of the largest crowd to ever witness a women’s lacrosse game in the United States.

As the final buzzer sounded, McFadden found herself lost among a pile of her teammates on the field. Moments later, the senior hoisted the national championship trophy with her coach, Cathy Reese, standing in the background, trying to conceal her tears of joy.

“It meant so much to me. I’m so excited,” said McFadden, who garnered the tournament’s most outstanding player award. “I think when the clock hit zero, I just ran right into the pile of my teammates. I just couldn’t stop smiling.

I didn’t have any words or anything to say. I was so excited for our team and so proud of the heart we showed tonight.”

Reese and McFadden, the centerpieces of the Terps’ resurgence to the top, punctuated their season in remarkable fashion.

But at first, the task seemed impossible. Northwestern easily weaved through the Terps’ defense to score time after time, leading to the six-goal start.

“We were allowing shots to go

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