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Student mugged at Leonardtown Two women also robbed on Calvert Road on “Safe Corridor” to College Park Metro

BY RICHARD ABDILL Staff writer

A student was attacked outside his Old Leonardtown apar tment Monday night by an assailant who stole his laptop computer, police said.

The robbery occurred just four days after two women were robbed by three men on Calvert Road.

One of the women was punched and kicked by the men before they fled with one of the victims’ purses,

according to police.

In the Leonardtown incident, the 22-year-old student was using his laptop outside the 240 building of the Leonardtown apartment complex behind Fraternity Row at about 9:30 p.m. when a man “snatched [it] away,” according to a crime alert sent Tuesday.

When the student resisted, police said, the suspect — described as a thin black man wearing dark clothing — punched him in the face and ran off with the

laptop, joining a second man in nearby Lot 16 on Norwich Road.

He dropped the laptop in the parking lot and fled toward Rhode Island Avenue, and the student was not injured, police said.

Investigators are reviewing that night’s footage from nearby security cameras, but University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said police have not identified a suspect.

Junior psychology major Mallory Andrews, who lives in the 240 building, said she wasn’t surprised

by news of the crime.

“There’s always really sketchy people around the area,” Andrews said. “This part of campus, especially in the summer, is very uncomfortable.”

Dillon said summer’s reduced student population leaves residents more isolated and therefore more susceptible to attack, adding that residents should continue taking normal security precautions: remaining aware, not

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A hangtag alerts residents of a Commons 5 apartment that their locks had been changed, after managers lost track of keys.

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Commons master key misplaced Six buildings must have locks and keys replaced

BY SOHAYL VAFAI For The Diamondback

South Campus Commons management has lost track of at least one of its master keys that can open any door in a building, officials said, forcing the replacement of every key for six of the complex’s seven apartment buildings.

Commons residents began receiving new keys and lock components June 7, a process that will continue in Commons 1-6 through July 12, according to Commons Associate Director Erika Poindexter. Commons 7 is unaffected.

“As a part of a recent audit, Capstone OnCampus Management has identified that one or more keys to your building are unable to be accounted for,” Poindexter and Commons Director Gina Brasty wrote in an

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Police ban defecator from McKeldin Man allegedly used bathroom floor as toilet

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NO CARS ON THIS DRIVE University closes part of Campus Drive on Monday after weekend delay

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA For The Diamondback

University officials said closing a portion of Campus Drive to private cars already seems to be a success, calming down the center of the campus without causing significant traffic problems, but some students said the changes were needlessly inconvenient.

The university shut down the street from Cole Field House to the “M” traffic circle Monday morning as part of an eight-week pilot program to test how the campus handles the conversion of the roadway into a pedestrian plaza, one of the administration’s long-term goals.

Temporary concrete blocks now stand in the middle of each lane of Campus Drive, with enough room

for buses, delivery trucks and emergency vehicles to pass single-file between them — pushing past bendable plastic barriers — and University Police officers appeared on the scene to redirect confused motorists.

In front of the Stamp Student Union, the road was quiet and nearly empty.

“I had numerous people comment on how great Campus Drive was

without all the vehicles,” Director of Operations and Maintenance Jack Baker said. “If you walk down Campus Drive, there is a whole new feel to it. I know there was for me. So I invite people to go out and take a look at a pedestrian-friendly Campus Drive.”

Officials had announced in April that the road would be shut starting

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As if studying weren’t crappy enough.

A 32-year-old Rockville man was banned from McKeldin Librar y last week after he was accused of repeatedly defecating on the floor of the building’s fourth-floor bathroom over a period of several months, according to University Police spokesman Paul Dillon.

Librar y staff called police last Monday afternoon when they discovered the latest deposit, and one employee provided a description of a man who had just left the bathroom, Dillon said.

A man matching that description returned to McKeldin the following morning, and police caught up to him while he was using a computer on the four th floor, Dillon said. He denied involvement in “the bathroom incident” but brought up the matter before officers could ask him about it, Dillon added.

Although the matter was investigated by police, the man was not charged with

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Renting and raving Textbook rental programs gain popularity, though most students still buy

BY ALICIA MCCARTY For The Diamondback

After a successful spring, two College Park bookstores will continue to offer textbook rentals alongside traditional sales, letting students borrow a new book for the semester at less than half the price of buying it.

The University Book Center in the Stamp Student Union is expanding its rental pilot program, doubling its available rentals from 150 to 300 titles, and the Maryland Book Exchange on Route 1 will continue to offer hundreds of rental books of its own, managers at the two stores said.

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The Book Center’s pilot program — also tried in two dozen other Barnes & Noble-owned stores nationwide — was “surprisingly successful” at this university, according to Book Center manager Mike Gore.

“Everyone’s trying to save money.

Books are expensive, and if you can rent it and come out ahead money-wise, why not?” Gore said.

But some students said the flexibility of owning the book outright is worth the extra cost. They’re free to take notes in the books as they please, donate them to charity, recoup the purchase price by

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TEXTBOOKS from page 1 selling them privately or — like sophomore electrical engineering major Ronak Shah — save them for future reference.

“I might want to keep them. A lot of my classes build on each other,” Shah said.

“There’s a different feeling when you rent a book,” junior computer engineering major Tam Nguyen added.

Bookholders, the third major bookstore that caters to this university, is also not a fan of textbook rentals.

“We’re not worried at all,” store manager Sam White said in January of his competitors’ rental programs. “Numbers are still up this year, and we haven’t noticed any change with students renting.”

The store’s owners didn’t return phone calls this week to say why they weren’t interested in offering a rental program.

Ted Ankeney, who owns the Book Exchange, said the lower bills was a major draw for his rental customers and added

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that convenience is another key selling point.

“All you have to do is rent it, use it and bring it back,” Ankeney said.

Ankeney acknowledged renting books is not ideal for everyone, but said he thinks the fact that renters will never get stuck with a textbook that bookstores aren’t buying back makes it the best choice for most students.

“It’s like a guaranteed buyback,” Ankeney said.

Both stores’ guarantee extends even to books that students have taken notes in, the managers said, as the books are re-sold as used anyway. Major damage, such as a broken binding, would void the rental agreement and the student would need to buy the book or pay extra fees.

“Don’t feed it to the dog, and don’t throw it in the bay,” Gore said.

While Gore said textbook renting seems to be the way of

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the future, it remains a niche in College Park. Both Gore and Ankeney said they couldn’t tell exactly what portion of their business went to rentals, but only a fraction of their

books — fewer than a thousand titles at each store — are available for rent.

And many students, including sophomore engineering major Kevin Matthew, said

they weren’t even aware of the rental option.

“Doesn’t everyone just buy them?” Matthew asked. news@umdbk.com

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First impressions predict retention patterns, research finds University doctoral students find freshmen’s early attitudes signal whether they will transfer or drop out

BY ANNIE HUNTER For The Diamondback

Students’ early impressions of a university can help predict whether they will remain until they graduate, according to a recent study from two university doctoral candidates.

The finding may seem obvious, Corbin Campbell and Jessica Mislevy concede, but the two said they believe their research can help university administrators prevent students from dropping out.

“What we really hoped to find was whether we could identify some warning signs early on, eight weeks in,” said Campbell,

a higher education graduate student. The study suggests that future enrollment patterns can be predicted as early as eight weeks into a student’s freshman semester.

Campbell and Mislevy studied the responses of 2,084 firsttime, full-time, degree-seeking freshmen at this university from a Beginning Student Survey administered in 2002. The survey asked students about their expectations, attitudes and behaviors after their first eight weeks.

The researchers studied dozens of different items from the survey to see which ones predict students’ enrollment be-

havior. Above all other factors, they found general attitude toward the university was the most powerful enrollment predictor — students reporting a more negative attitude toward the university were the most likely to drop out, transfer out or take time off.

Erin Werner, who graduated in May as an elementary education major, said the survey’s results track her experience.

“I was really excited to be at Maryland in my first semester ... so I’d say this would be a really good predictor,” Werner said.

Jennifer Jenkins, a senior elementar y education major who transferred from Ameri-

can University to this university after her freshman year, said more school spirit would have kept her in place.

“Finance was a big reason why I transferred, but had I liked the school in general, I would’ve stuck it out,” Jenkins said. She added, however, that there wasn’t much American’s administrators could have done to keep her enrolled.

This university’s advisors and administrators are already reviewing the study for possible lessons they could apply here.

“The big piece I took away was that the first part of the first semester is critical in solidifying in students’ minds that this is

where they want to be,” said Britt Reynolds, director of undergraduate admissions.

“We should take this information and use it as we can. … We want to make students as comfortable as possible right from the start,” Reynolds added.

The study also found a few different enrollment predictors between male and female students. In the results, only the attitude factor stood out among men, while the data about women were more complex.

Other factors also correlated to their graduation rate from the university — for example, outof-state female students were more likely to transfer out than

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in-state female students, and white women were more likely to take time off before graduating than black, Latina and Asian women.

It also found that six semesters after the survey had been issued, 76 percent of the student respondents remained continuously enrolled at the university; 12 percent were enrolled but had at some point taken time off from university; 8 percent had transferred to other schools and 5 percent had dropped out of college entirely.

“Overall, students are likely to stay,” Campbell said. news@umdbk.com

MCKELDIN

from page 1 Saturday, and posted signs to that effect around the campus.

But Baker said that leaving the road open to all drivers throughout the weekend — with none of the promised police enforcement impeding their progress and with concrete barriers and “road closed” warning signs lying ignored off to the side of the road — was entirely intentional.

Officials opted to publicize an earlier date to minimize traffic flow while workers prepared to block off the street. Closing the road a few days after the posted date didn’t seem to cause any problems, Baker said.

Although some drivers, service workers and even police officers suffered a weekend of confusion, several students agreed with Baker’s positive assessment of the closure.

“It’s definitely quieter,” said psychology graduate student Jeremy Turret, walking near Campus Drive Wednesday. “You don’t have to dodge cars. It’s nice generally.”

Some pedestrians, however, did not like the changes.

“I see empty bus lots and I see no cars,” senior geology major Katherine Watter said. “I think that’s just wrong.”

Motorists who needed to get around the campus didn’t face major problems either, said Lt. Jeffrey Killion, who was supervising University Police presence along Campus Drive Monday.

“Most people seemed compliant and understanding,” Killion said. “I think the university did a good job getting the word out.”

Baker and Killion said traffic around Campus Drive had yet to significantly back up by Wednesday, with normal rush hour traffic as the only congestion.

Visits to the closed road this week have supported that claim.

So far this week, traffic has appeared to flow smoothly as drivers were redirected away from the entrances to Campus Drive with no noticeable backups, with the only noticeable hiccups occurring along Union Lane, where the road was reversed from one-way down the hill next to the student

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union to one-way uphill.

Police officers stationed near the road’s barricades — chiefly for “informational purposes” rather than enforcement, Killion said — helped motorists find alternate routes across the campus and, in some cases, yelled to motorists to turn around as they tried to enter the closed portions of roadway. Police will begin ticketing unauthorized drivers today.

Besides those who need to make an emergency drop-off at the University Health Center, all drivers should be taking alternate routes like Fieldhouse Drive or simply entering the campus closer to their destination rather than using the main entrance and driving through the campus’ center, Killion said. The university is counting the cars that use various streets to see if drivers will shift from using interior routes as officials hope, Baker said.

Some student drivers said it did not bother them to find an alternative route or follow the posted detours, but the idea that Campus Drive would be closed to cars for the next eight weeks was met with skepticism.

“I think they’re making a big

mistake, especially with summer classes going on,” said Mike Nehmer, an alumnus who graduated last month but returned to the campus Monday to pay a library fine. Nehmer said although he easily rerouted to the parking lots because he knew his way around, he still found it “aggravating.”

Other motorists had a more difficult time finding a new route.

“I basically drove through the whole campus before I could get here,” junior biology major Karlie Hartman said as she collected her car from the Union Lane parking garage on Monday.

And even some students who did not commute were skeptical about the closure.

“I don’t really see the point,” senior economics major Brittany Johnson said. “Basically campus altogether is already pedestrian friendly.”

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a crime because, as Dillon wrote in an e-mail, “no one actually saw him defecate on the floor.”

The man — whom police would not identify, except to say he was not affiliated with the university — is now in a “large file” of people banned from the campus or portions of the campus.

While it’s not unusual for students — such as those who chronically cause problems at sporting events — to be forbidden from specific locations such as Comcast Center, nonstudents are typically banned from the entire campus.

Dillon wouldn’t say why the serial defecator was banned only from McKeldin even though the man was suspected of multiple incidents dating back to March, saying only that the parameters of campus bans are at the discretion of the officers involved.

He added that additional security measures — gates and ID checks, for example — would counteract the goals of a university that prides itself on being open to the community.

“That’s not the nature of this campus,” Dillon said.

“There’s been some challenges, but we are a public institution open to the public.”

The defecator isn’t the first unusual character to strike McKeldin. In October 2008, a student was sexually assaulted in the first-floor reference stacks by a man who masturbated on her.

Nonetheless, Eric Bartheld, director of the librar y dean’s office, agreed with Dillon, adding that though the feces had been discovered multiple times in June alone, it comes with the territor y.

“These things are unpleasant, but they occasionally happen in public buildings,” Bar theld said. “We get all kinds of people here. ... We do our best to keep it clean and safe.”

But if the university really wanted safe, clean bathrooms, senior government and politics major Anna Heffron said, it could be taking more drastic steps to keep away people such as the McKeldin defecator.

“That’s gross,” Hef fron said of the McKeldin incident. “If he’s not a student, it should probably be the whole campus.”

Summer student Katie Driver wasn’t concerned — just confused.

“It’s not exactly polite to just go do that,” Driver said.

“What’s the point? Toilet.

Right. There.” rabdill@umdbk.com

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Locked lips

Paying attention to the manual

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outh Campus Commons officials are quick to threaten residents with resident $150 to replace the lock core and a lost or missing front door key, with higher rents and service cuts when vandalism occurs in the seven additional charges for bedroom door keys. Although officials say different buildings — even when they suspect nonresidents are responsible for costs are at play, the number likely plays into the rough estimate of the cost of the bulk of the destruction, as was the case during last month’s spree. the large-scale replacement job underway. There are almost 2,000 students in But the same officials who cried foul on two separate occasions for $10,000 those six buildings, each of whom has a key for the front door and a key for in damages to smashed windows, doors and exit signs, now refuse to release their room. You can do the math, since Commons officials sure aren’t going to the cost they will incur replacing every door and bedroom lock for every apart- do it for you. Either way, it’s a hefty cost, and it’s a total embarrassment.

To add insult to injury, the tight-lipped Commons administrators won’t say ment in six of the seven Commons buildings, excluding Commons Building 7. where the money will come from or how rents and services Capstone On-Campus Management, which manages might be affected as a result. Claims that residents won’t be the Commons complex, decided in conjunction with the paying the price ring hollow without this information, because Department of Resident Life to rekey the buildings all the way back in April after misplacing one or more of the masSouth Campus Commons the money must be redirected from somewhere. Officials don’t hesitate to reveal the costs associated with vandalism, so ter keys — and they won’t reveal how or when the keys officials should be account- why are they hiding other expensive maintenance figures? went missing, either.

If students are expected to be vigilant to prevent vandalCommons Director Gina Brasty said that for security able and transparent about ism — and foot the bill for the bad behavior of those responreasons, she can’t reveal how Capstone manages the mastheir blunders. sible for the damages — then they have a right to know how ter keys, or how it is supposedly streamlining the process much Capstone’s blunders are going to cost as well. to avoid future expensive mistakes. Yet, if they’ve been In March, when all the Commons 7 desk and dresser drawers had to be misplaced, the lack of clear communication regarding how officials will revamp the process to prevent similar errors certainly won’t make residents switched out due to a manufacturing error, every student at least got a $5 Chipotle gift card for the inconvenience. This time, however, all they’re getfeel any safer.

It’s easy to see why the authorities might want to deflect the issue: It costs a ting is the runaround.

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Relationships: Hooking a hook-up

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recently read an article on Jezebel.com by Katy Kelleher called, “What’s the Dumbest Thing You’ve Done to Get Laid?” It’s about how women also do stupid things to get the person they’re interested in.

My guy friends and I have been debating this for years. They claim all a girl has to do to get a guy is look at him, preferably while naked. I disagreed and decided to conduct my own investigation. But what began as playful girl talk quickly turned into something more serious.

I started out by asking by asking, “What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done to get someone?”

Some of the responses were predictable: Walking out of your way to oh-so-casually bump into them as they get out of class, pretending to like whatever their T-shirt said and, of course, asking a cute stranger for the time or directions when you need neither.

The best response was from a friend who confessed to joining gospel choir for an entire semester to flirt with a

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RASTOGI crush she ultimately did not win. For the record: She is not Christian and had no Christian upbringing.

“It was a pretty big decision because it was between LOST and gospel choir, but I joined it just so I could guarantee seeing him once a week,” she said. “He ended up moving to Japan, lived in Iowa after graduation to do some sort of AmeriCorps thing and is in a relationship with a girl who is much less hot than him, which makes me happy.”

Well, at least she’s not bitter.

Other amusing stories came from girls who wanted to continue the relationships they were already in.

“This one guy only liked hooking up when there was a horror movie on in the background. He was really ‘talented,’ so I just let that go,” one girl

said. However, she drew the line at Saw and did not enjoy this practice at all. “For me, hearing people dying violently whilst hooking up is slightly awkward,” she explained.

Another girl deals with text rejection from her current boy. She’s been leaving messages such as, “Hypothetical situation. If I wanted to ‘meet up’ between the U.S. vs. Slovenia and England vs. Algeria [matches], would you be available?” He elegantly responded to that one, “No.” Then a friend turned the conversation more serious. “You should discuss the ways that girls will keep a guy happy without realizing that they are compromising their own happiness,” she suggested.

One girl shared how she allowed her boyfriend to shut her off from all her friends because he felt their relationship should be more than enough.

Another girl just ended a verbally abusive relationship in which the guy would constantly make remarks about her weight and intelligence. She only left him when the relationship took a violent turn. Another friend didn’t

want to discuss her past relationships but said she was grateful for the University Health Center’s Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program because it was able to help her in her time of need.

Despite everything, an astounding number of my friends actually said they approach first when they see people they are attracted to. From chasing boys on playgrounds to chatting them up in bars during World Cup matches, these women are fierce.

My friend has a three-step strategy.

First, she’ll compliment them to make her interest known. Then, she’ll casually tell them she likes them by saying something along the lines of, “I would like someone like you” when talking about dating. Finally, she’ll spend time with them to learn their personality and interests.

So whatever your style, just know the opposite or same sex is working equally hard to get to know you.

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

Environmentalism: Seeing is believing

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espite the fact that I spend a lot of time advocating for clean energy and environmental protection, I’ve never considered myself much of a nature lover. Most of my passion for environmentalism has been founded in the view that we should value preserving the Earth’s ecosystems and resources because human society is dependent on them.

This year, though, I’ve come around more than I thought I ever would to having a sincere appreciation for the aesthetic and intrinsic value of the natural world. I’ve started visiting places in the state that are sanctuaries for some incredible biodiversity and scenery. I’ve made a couple of trips to Conowingo Dam, which is a result of a large hydroelectric plant in the lower Susquehanna River. Conowingo is one of the top birding hotspots in the country, with hundreds of bald eagles, great blue herons, gulls and plenty of other

species. Bird enthusiasts, photographers and tourists flock for the incredible view while fishermen compete with the birds for the fish. Near Conowingo is Susquehanna State Park, full of trails and miles of forests.

I’ve written a couple of columns about the need the state government to protect the Mattawoman Creek, one of the most pristine fishing tributaries in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. I’ve also written about preserving Chapman Forest, which contains more than 2,000 acres of rich biodiversity. This May I was given a tour of both of these areas in Charles County, and writing about them isn’t justice unless you see them in person. I couldn’t go diving in the Gulf of Mexico or take a boat out to coral reefs, but I did go to the National Aquarium in Baltimore and see up close sea creatures of all sorts living in simulated ecosystems. Throw on top of that a triathlon in Tuckahoe State Park on the Eastern Shore, and it’s

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DERNOGA been quite a year so far!

When I was walking through Chapman State Park and dipping my fingers in Mattawoman Creek, something unexpected happened: All these memories started coming back to me from when I was a kid, before the PlayStation 2 took over my teenage years and the Internet found its way into my home. It was like I had just recovered from amnesia that had blocked out the first half of my life. I spent a lot of my time as a kid outside, exploring the woods around my old house, chasing fish in the stream that ran in front and frequently visiting places with my dad such as the aquarium and the zoo.

These memories made me realize that my passion today for protecting the planet might be largely humanitarian, but subliminally it’s grounded in the enjoyment I found in my youth from exploring nature. It’s something that’s missing in too many of our lives today, where we’re so caught up in the latest iPhone from Apple or the newest application on Facebook.

I’m not going to change to the point where seeing a rare plant species makes my day, or where I spend every day hiking in the woods. But I’ve learned this year that in order to keep my passion for my advocacy indefatigable, it helps to see in the flesh what I’m fighting to protect. I’d encourage everyone, environmentalist or not, to give themself that chance every so often. It’s worth it.

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

JOEL COHEN

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eading the packet you get at orientation is probably a lot like reading a manual you get the first day on a new job: It’s full of background information that you will probably never use and stuff that you will probably forget two weeks from now (or, for some of you, tonight at Thirsty Turtle).

Or so I thought.

You see, despite having graduated from this esteemed university, I barely read any of those orientation materials four long years ago. I just wanted my “free” T-shirts.

Until now. A few days ago, when I was home, I found my orientation folder — the one with the picturesque images on the front — in pristine condition. It was sitting on the floor of my room in the same spot it was placed on that hot July day back in 2006.

After contemplating what to do with it, I decided to open it and take a look through it. Right now.

As I’m typing this.

The first thing I see as I open the folder is the “Reminders for Orientation” page that I apparently printed out on July 19, 2006.

Not surprisingly, the “program fees” are right at the top of the page. Some things never change.

But at least I got my shirts.

What I’ve learned: You’re paying a lot of money to be here (at the very least, your parents are paying a lot of money for you to be here) for the next four to six years.

Get your money’s worth — by securing as many free shirts as possible.

As I continue flipping through the voluminous folder, I get to the unnecessarily long-titled page, “Division of Letters & Sciences Orientation Advising Record.”

Despite the fact I will (hopefully) be receiving my degree in the mail very soon, I still can’t understand this document. I mean, between the HLs, the LLs, the HAs, the HOs, the SBs and the IEs, who has time to translate all these acronyms? I remember a few days after orientation, I wanted to email my adviser a question. But I never caught her name and never saw her again. That was that.

What I’ve learned: Take everything your adviser tells you with a grain of salt. Or else you might end up on the six-year plan.

Four years later, the most important thing I have learned is to never pass up an opportunity.

For example, look at this column.

When I was asked if I wanted to write one for this week’s paper, I said yes, even though I had absolutely no idea how I was going to write 479 words (or whatever it ends up being after editing) when I couldn’t even think of a good idea. I mean, I still can’t think of a good idea.

What I’ve learned: It’s what they don’t tell you that really counts.

Now, hopefully, I’ll get to read that new job manual soon.

Joel Cohen graduated in May with a degree and government and politics and is a former Diamondback columnist. He can be reached at JoelDCohen@gmail.com.

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he coming week is likely to favor the individual endeavor over the group effort almost every time, with the expected result that stars are likely to be born at this time — those who are able to rise to the occasion and do what is necessary to get the job done and, at the same time, secure their names in the annals of memorable accomplishment. Of course, this doesn’t mean that no team effort can score a victory at this time — on the contrary. But any victory that makes the highlight reel is likely to be singular indeed, and worth remembering.

As a rule, it’s the solo act that will win the most accolades.

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When it comes to love and romance, there are likely to be few periods during the entire year that are more favorable to courtship and, in the end, romantic conquest. Even a relationship that is in the proverbial rut can be revitalized, and imagination surely plays a role.

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CANCER (June 21-July 7) — You’ll have the chance to prove that you are one of the experts, and you will have time to enjoy the fruits of your labors. (July 8-July 22) — There’s no reason to think that you can’t achieve your goals; proceed according to plan.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) — You will have to take the time to get routine affairs completed before moving on to that which interests you more. (Oct. 8-Oct. 22) — There’s no business like the business you’re in; you may feel as though you’re on top of the world.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 6) — All eyes are on you as you step forward and do what you do best. Even your critics will have to admit that you’re the real thing. (Nov. 7-Nov. 21) — A head-to-head contest proves little, and you may still have much to brag about.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) — Put your best foot forward early in the week and you’ll have supporters clamoring to provide precisely what you need. (Dec. 8-Dec. 21) — Your direct, no-nonsense approach is just what the doctor ordered. You can score an impressive victory.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 6) — What gets done early in the day each and every day can add up to an impressive overall accomplishment. (Jan. 7-Jan. 19) — The more information you pass onto others, the more likely they will be to come to you when the need arises.

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ARIES (March 21-April 4) — You’ll be playing a waiting game throughout much of the week. Before long, you’ll realize that you can move forward with cautious optimism.

(April 5-April 19) — It’ll be up to you to give it to ‘em straight, without any kind of deception or embellishment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 5) — You’re not likely to let minor aches and pains slow you down; indeed, you have become adept at working through such irritations. (May 6May 20) — You may require the assistance of someone who is more experienced than you; lessons are learned quickly.

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COMMONS from page 1 e-mail to residents.

Poindexter and other Commons officials were tight-lipped on what exactly had happened or when. Capstone — the company that oversees Commons — and the Resident Life Department made the decision to rekey the buildings in April, but officials would not say how long the master key or keys might have been missing, how long they had known about the issue, how any keys were lost or what might have happened to ones that were lost.

The e-mail said officials “have no evidence of key misuse,” and Resident Life Assistant Director for Housing Partnerships Dennis Passarella George said not knowing where keys are doesn’t necessarily represent a safety risk.

“We don’t really have security concerns. It’s not a hole in the system so much as a range of different ways of accounting over the years,” Passarella George said. “We’re streamlining the system and starting fresh.”

Nonetheless, some students — like Commons 4 resident Deepa Jonnagadla, a senior electrical engineering major — said they still felt uneasy.

“It’s kind of scary that someone could have gotten a hold of the keys,” Jonnagadla said.

Commons is replacing the key core — the part of the door handle that accepts keys

— of each apartment’s front and bedroom doors. Residents who lose their keys are charged $150 for that same replacement; Brasty said the cost of this ongoing operation “is different” but would not say what Capstone is spending except to say that residents face no charge.

In describing the incident, Poindexter and Brasty said only that there were “inconsistencies” in accounting practices used to record keys, but would not say what those inconsistencies are.

“We cannot make public how we handle securities issues like that,” Brasty said. “Keys are a very sensitive issue. We have to be careful on what information we give out.”

Officials also would not say which buildings have already been rekeyed or the schedule for which buildings are coming next, citing similar security concerns. Notices posted to residents’ doors inform them when they will have their keys replaced, and door hangtags will remind residents to collect replacement keys from their service desks.

According to the e-mail, residents will never lose access to their apartments, including during the 30-minute rekeying process, which relieved some residents.

The rekeying procedures “don’t seem like an inconvenience” to Adi Lang, a senior electrical engineering major who lives in Commons 2.

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South Campus Commons management is working to change most locks in its apartment complex as a precaution after losing track of one or more keys. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

“If rekeying makes the buildings safer, it’s fine,” Lang said.

Officials blamed a recent streak of vandalism in Commons on non-student, non-resi-

dents let into the buildings, saying it is “not related in any way” to the key mishap. news@umdbk.com

walking alone and avoiding situations that would leave one vulnerable, such as working on a laptop outside at night.

Dillon also said reduced population does not translate to reduced police patrols.

“When there’s more people around and there’s more activity, it does make it less attractive for criminal activity,” Dillon said. “But we haven’t cut back.”

He also said the attack was, like many other College Park robbery cases, a crime of opportunity — the suspect saw an opening and took it.

Another such crime happened last week, when three men confronted two women near Rhode Island Avenue just after midnight on June 18.

They demanded that the women — who were not students — hand over their purses, according to a crime alert sent out last Friday evening by University Police. When one of the women refused to give the attackers her bag, she was punched and kicked to the ground, the alert said.

When the other woman threw her purse at the men, they took the purse and ran toward Rhode Island Avenue. A spokesman for the Prince George’s County Police, which is investigating the crime, said he did

not have further details readily available.

Police described the three suspects in the attack as black men, two of them about 5 feet 5 inches tall, 140 pounds and approximately 18 years old. Police said the third suspect was wearing a white shirt but said they had no further description.

Calver t Road is one of three roads specially flagged for the “Safe Corridors Initiative,” a par tnership between the city and university that has given it more blue-light phones, increased lighting and changes to landscaping, Dillon said.

The upgrades to Calvert Road, along with College and Rhode Island avenues, are intended to allow for safer passage between Route 1 and the College Park Metro Station, Dillon said. The city also intends to install security cameras in the area, he added.

But despite these measures and patrols by both University Police and Prince George’s County Police, it’s impossible to completely prevent crime, Dillon said, adding that the system was only designed “to improve the physical safety of several roads.”

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Prince George’s County Council puts off zoning rules revision Minimal impact to city development plans expected, but College Park planners call old ordinance “outdated”

BY EMAUN KASHFIPOUR For The Diamondback

A county decision that delays a planned update to its zoning rules will likely have a minimal impact on College Park’s development plans, but upgrades to the policy would still be “ver y helpful,” city planners said.

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Council opted earlier this month to postpone a major revision to its zoning ordinance — which governs how property owners may use their land — after deciding the county could not afford to spend several hundred thousand dollars to have its planning department rewrite its rules, which are decades old.

As it is, the county’s zoning

ordinance is a 1947-era document saddled with more than six decades of case-by-case amendments, College Park Planning Director Terr y Schum said.

“You’ve got outdated zoning categories, you have an outdated format for looking up the rules and regulations, and you probably could do a lot of streamlining,” Schum said.

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In addition, builders in the county have long been pushing for updates to the cumber-

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“We’ve always had concerns about the zoning ordinance,” Campbell said.

Representatives for the county planning office could not be reached for comment yesterday.

But Schum said those changes wouldn’t have a huge impact on the development she is overseeing at the

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Student travels to Haiti to help new wave of humanitarian aid As earthquake-stricken country drifts from American consciousness, junior joins a mission trip to help out

BY DIANA ELBASHA Staff writer

The continuing aftermath of the January earthquake that left much of Haiti’s land in ruins reminds Adeolu Aromolaran of his native country, Nigeria.

“When they showed the devastation in the news, I was just imagining it being Nigeria, so I empathize with them,” the junior biology major said.

So when the Laurel-based Touch of Love Bible Church that Aromolaran attends organized a mission trip to the disaster zone that has since drifted from mainstream attention, he seized the opportunity.

Aromolaran departed Monday for the town of Pignon — located about two hours driving from the capital city Portau-Prince — because he

believes that despite the magnitude of the crisis, earthquake victims are receiving increasingly less aid.

Kyle Russell, a university alumnus accompanying Aromolaran on the journey, shares that belief.

“I definitely feel people have already forgotten about Haiti,” he said, adding that such disasters as the recent Tennessee floods aren’t receiving proper attention due to the Gulf oil spill clouding America’s attention.

“There is only 15 minutes of fame for each disaster, and the oil spill is having its 15 minutes,” Russell added.

Aromolaran organized a drive on the campus via a donation box in Anne Arundel Hall to collect supplies for the mission — most specifically

over-the-counter medicines, medical supplies and toiletries.

He also requested art supplies to create care packages for young children.

Gabrielle Szlenkier, an alumna and co-founder of UMD Students Helping Haiti, said the decreasing awareness extends even to the university.

“Knowing the challenges that our group faced during the semester, I’m not really surprised [the drive] may have not gotten the visibility it deserved,” she wrote in an email. Despite this, and the minimal membership in Aromolaran’s Facebook group entitled “Donations for Haiti,” Aromolaran said he received a large amount of supplies.

“I’ve even had six or seven people personally give me

bags full of stuff,” he said. “If trip who are constantly texting.”

Aromolaran agreed the cireverybody brings at least what I’ve been able to get, we’ll be cumstances will allow for more focus on the pretty good.” task at hand For the week but admitted Aromolaran “the hardest and Russell will thing is going stay in Haiti, to be missing they hope to the World Cup encounter with and NBA dignity what KYLE RUSSELL Draft.” may bring the UNIVERSITY ALUMNUS Luckily, he average college student unthinkable will find himself distracted by a anguish: They will have no bonus to the trip: In addition to access to phones or comput- providing supplies, Aromoers, must survive only on laran will care for Haitian medAmerican-bought water and ical patients, giving him muchmust compromise with hun- needed experience before he dreds of others on only three attends medical school.

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“I think it will actually be ical trip when I signed up,” he refreshing,” Russell said. “It said. “I just thought, summer is may be the greatest thing for an opportune time, so I might pre-teens and teenagers on the as well help.”

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But working alongside nurses in makeshift clinics where he will meet lines of Haitians seeking to get their blood pressure and sugar levels tested, Aromolaran, an active member of the Charles Drew Pre-Med Society, is looking forward to putting his dream into practice.

“It’s really good because I’ll get experience,” he said.

Szlenkier, a former sponsor of multiple fundraisers, drives and vigils for the benefit of Haitian earthquake victims, commended Aromolaran and Russell’s efforts.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010

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DRAKE TO HAVE NO. 1 SELLING BARGAIN BIN CD IN THREE MONTHS Somehow, 447,000 copies of rapper Drake’s debut album, Thank Me Later, were sold in its first week in stores and online, landing the album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It’s the third-best sales week of 2010 for a single album, only behind LPs by Sade and Lady Antebellum. What’s most shocking about the news is that close to half a million people paid tribute to the ailing format of the full-length album.

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online exclusives KNIGHT AND DAY The film follows June Havens (Cameron Diaz, Shrek Forever After), a somewhat uncoordinated cutie with a penchant for fixing dead automobiles. She inexplicably gets on the wrong airplane at the wrong time and — surprise — finds herself embroiled in the world of international espionage.

While Diaz is the film’s emotional center, Roy Miller (Tom Cruise, Valkyrie) is its strong arm, killing more than his fair share of people. He’s on the run from a corrupt U.S. government when Diaz becomes his unlikely ally, and audiences can probably guess most of the rest.

The producers made a smart choice in toning down the romantic aspect and playing up the comedy angle. Every scene has a stitch of laughter in it — some ironic or tongue-in-cheek moment that has a more universal appeal.

Conversely, the universal appeal, which makes it work as a date flick, muddles the experience as a whole. Certain parts of the film are played down, or sometimes tangential to the story, leading to plot holes and repeated stops and starts in the pacing.

The key to this film is to not pay close attention to the plot. — Zachary Berman RATING: 3 stars out of 5

I AM LOVE I Am Love somewhat bizarrely stars actress Tilda Swinton (The Limits of Control) and centers on the Recchi family, who live in Milan, Italy. The Recchis are extremely wealthy and own a textile business. Everything about the family — from its gigantic house to the family members themselves — is beautiful.

However, the film reveals several flaws in the family and its business.

Most of the movie’s plot revolves around the passionate and scandalous affair — and its after-effects — between Swinton’s character Emma and Antonio (Edoardo Gabriellini, Tutta La Vita Davanti), a chef hired by Emma’s son to cater a few Recchi parties.

There are many dramatic moments in the film, and with his erratic filming style, director Luca Guadagnino tends to milk them for all they are worth. After a while, his technique almost borders on irritating. — May Wildman RATING: 2.5 stars out of 5 For full reviews of the movies above, just click the Diversions tab at:

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Blast from the past Once canceled, beloved series makes comeback on cable

BY REESE HIGGINS Senior staff writer

After an almost seven-year hiatus from original episodes, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s underappreciated Futurama returns to television for an all-new season on Comedy Central on Thursday at 10 p.m.

Originally airing for four seasons on Fox from March 1999 to August 2003, the animated comedy centers around a late 20th century New York City pizza delivery boy living life in the 31st century and follows the misadventures of the Planet Express intergalactic delivery company and an amusing assortment of human, alien and robot characters.

Not unlike fellow resurrected animated comedy Family Guy (currently on Fox), Futurama found relative success with DVD sales and in syndication as a staple of Cartoon Network’s late-night comedy block, Adult Swim. In 2007, Futurama was reborn in the form of four original direct-to-DVD movies, to be aired later in serial for-

mat on the show’s new home of Comedy Central.

Two new episodes air backto-back Thursday night on the network and the wait was worth it.

The season premiere picks up where the last movie, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, left off. Save for the wacky Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth and our 20th centur y man, Philip J. Fr y, (both voiced by Billy West, The New Woody Woodpecker Show) the entire Planet Express crew is dead.

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“I’m dripping with placenta,” one reborn character exclaims.

“Good thing it’s casual Friday.”

Sadly, Fry’s love interest, sexy cyclops Captain Turanga Leela (Katey Sagal, Sons of Anarchy), is not revived at first.

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by Groening and David X. Cohen, the science fictioncomedy hybrid still stands as one of the funniest comedies on television — animated or otherwise.

The new season promises to continue the series’ trademark blend of absurdity, slapstick and satire.

What the old Futurama was often great at doing was crafting emotionally resonating stories of loss or other heartbreaks.

Such heartfelt episodes cannot be helped when the protagonist (Fry) is 1000 years from home (he accidentally fell into a cryogenic freezer on the eve of the year 2000 and woke up in the year 3000 in New New York City).

The tearjerkers and nostalgia-centered stories were Futurama’s secret weapon, and hopefully, the reignited series continues to excel in this heart-

felt field. Watching the first two new episodes, it wasn’t apparent this would be the

case.

At this point in the series, Leela and Fry have finally entered a consensual romantic relationship. Yet, in the second episode of the new season, Leela is forced to perform a sexual act with one of the show’s slimeball characters.

The usually emotionally deft show deals poorly with what would be a disturbing scenario in any setting. The intended humor fails here.

Aside from a few missteps, Futurama looks poised to regain its position as a reliable television comedy.

Futurama airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on Comedy Central. rhiggins@umdbk.com

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Speaking from the heart Reilly follows his own script in improvisational romantic comedy Cyrus

BY TREVOR RUBEN Staff writer

When watching John C. Reilly’s latest film, Cyrus, you may notice a unique blend of intimacy and emotional depth that doesn’t come along very often. The reason for this, and the reason Reilly took the job in the first place, is brothers Jay and Mark Duplass.

In a sit-down interview, Reilly shed some light on the process the brothers go through to produce their distinct style and some revelations he had while on set with the dynamic duo.

“They don’t want to make corny, formulaic, processed kinds of stories,” Reilly said.

“They want the movies to seem emotionally truthful, and that’s definitely true of this one.”

To achieve this, “they wrote a good script and then they encouraged us not to use it,”

Reilly said with a smirk.

Recalling the off-kilter and sometimes frustrating experience, he mentioned that the brothers would constantly encourage the actors to wing it and use their instincts.

Reilly threw his hands up as if the Duplass brothers were sitting in the room and said, “My instinct is to do what you want!” They refused to give any strict direction, trusting that Reilly and his fellow costars would find the characters on their own, he said.

Cyrus is about a relationship triangle. John (Reilly, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant), a divorcée in a slump, meets and falls in love with Molly (Marissa Tomei, The Wrestler). The only catch is that her 21-year-old son Cyrus (Jonah Hill, Get Him to the Greek) still lives with her and has some serious mommyattachment issues. Needless to say, a battle over Molly’s

affections ensues.

Reilly brought John to life by keeping the simple idea of being truthful in mind.

“I never try to worry about whether characters are likable or not, I just try to make them real,” he said.

Seeing as the movie was written for Reilly, his approach seems appropriate.

His co-stars played different roles in bringing the movie together. Hill’s character is a bit creepy, and he certainly has his moments.

“A lot of [Hill]’s comedy comes from calling stuff the way it is,” Reilly said. “You know like, ‘Dude, your beard looks like a vagina.’ That’s kind of his trademark.”

However, it was Tomei who kept Hill and Reilly’s humor from getting out of hand.

“Marisa’s character — and Marisa as an actor was a real kind of grounding point, you know — she brought the real-

“A lot of [Hill]’s comedy comes from calling stuff the way it is,” actor John C. Reilly said of Cyrus co-star Jonah Hill, right. The film opens in Washington on Friday. COURTESY OF MOVIEWEB.COM

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ity to it.”

And reality, at least for the directing team, is the name of the game. The Duplass brothers — part of what some call the mumblecore movement in film — not only let their actors reign free on the set but also differ from many other directors in how they put the film together.

Reilly found that an important part of the brothers’ input came after shooting.

“The editing process is probably their biggest screenwriting contribution — the way you take the raw materials of what you’ve gotten with the actors and the way you shape that into a stor y,” he said.

Raw would be an understatement. In addition to their improvisational style, the brothers implement a strict no-tripod policy on their cameras. The producers would send notes down, Reilly recalled, begging for them to use a tripod. But in the name of their style, they refused.

“They made this movie the way that they made The Puffy Chair,” Reilly said. “This movie cost millions of dollars, but they made it with that same vision.”

Always going against the norm, the brothers also shot the entire movie in digital, as opposed to the traditional film used for most movies. The advantages of using digital are clear: it’s cost-effective, film length is virtually unlimited and some argue that the overall quality is better. However, Reilly has an interesting take on the subject.

“The takes go on so long, that once you get past like 10 minutes, 15 minutes, the crew just starts to get restless, and there’s less focus on the set,” he said.

With real film though, he

After taking roles as an immature stepbrother, a cocky stock car driver and fictional rocker Dewey Cox, actor John C. Reilly, right, stars in Cyrus as a recent divorcée looking to get his love life back on track. COURTESY OF MOVIEWEB.COM

revels in the sense of occasion.

“Everything stops because you only have at the most 12 minutes, and that film’s burning. It’s a commodity; it’s a thing that we’ve paid for,” he said.

He also just likes the way film looks.

Reilly revealed the most, or maybe the least, insight about working with the Duplass brothers when he said, “You’re in the perfect spot if you don’t know what you’re doing.”

This either means the Duplass brothers thrive on randomness, or John C. Reilly just has no idea what he’s doing.

It’s probably the first one.

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After setbacks in MLB Draft, Bakich looks to move forward Baseball coach calls departure of four signees from first recruiting class a sign of Terps’ effort to ‘redefine normal’

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

After a trying first season, coach Erik Bakich will welcome a talented recruiting class that will arrive in College Park without some of its top prospects. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Erik Bakich’s daunting task of rebuilding Terrapin baseball isn’t getting any easier.

A program that has long lacked top-flight talent will have to make do next season without several expected cornerstones of the program’s still-forming foundation.

Four signees from Bakich’s first recruiting class, as well as rising senior pitcher Adam Kolarek, signed professional contracts with major league teams after being selected in the 2010 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in early June.

“You never want to lose any recruits, but it’s a risk you have to take when you want to recruit at the highest level and compete for the elite talent,” Bakich said.

Widely considered the crown jewel of Bakich’s recruiting haul, high school shortstop Chris “Cito” Culver went to the New York Yankees with the last pick of the first round. The Irondequoit, N.Y., native and Under Armour All-American later signed a contract with his hometown team.

Pitcher Tyler Vail, a fifth-round selection by the Oakland Athletics, also signed a contract, as did infielder JaDamion Williams (Minnesota Twins) and catcher

Patrick Leyland (Detroit Tigers), the son of Tigers manager Jim Leyland.

Kolarek inked with the Mets, and graduated senior pitcher Dan Gentzler was not drafted, but later signed with the Tigers.

“They were obviously good players, and we want to have everyone we recruit make it to school. But it’s no different than losing a big game,” Bakich said.

“It’s not something that we want to have happen, but when it does, we need to move on, we need to try and replace them with players who are just as good, if not better.

Every year, there are stories about kids who fly under the radar who sign really late in the process.

And sometimes those kids end up being the best players on the team. We were fortunate that the four players we did sign signed relatively early so we could look elsewhere right away.”

As a former assistant at powerhouse Vanderbilt, Bakich knows that recruiting the best can possibly mean losing the best before they even set foot on a college campus. But it’s the only way to ensure a return to relevance for a program that has suffered through recent history as a conference cellar-dweller.

“We compare our recruiting to the guys that we have to be,”

Bakich said. “When you look at the best players in the country, the ones going in the first 10 rounds of the draft, those players are littered with ACC, Pac-10, SEC and other big-time conference commitments, so it’s not unusual.

In fact, I’d argue its quite normal.

All we are doing is trying to redefine normal.”

While 26 players listed on last season’s roster have another year of eligibility with the program, space will be tight and competition will be fierce with the arrival of a sizable and talented recruiting class — even if it is missing several of its key cogs.

“We are going to play the best nine guys in the field and our best pitchers are going to pitch,” Bakich said. “These kids couldn’t ask for a better opportunity because the slate has been wiped clean. It doesn’t matter what they did last year, because there is going to be competition at every position, and I think that is what helps players develop. They know if they slow down for even one second, there is someone right on their heels waiting to take that spot. ... We can’t focus on the kids we lost. We need to focus on the kids who will be a part of our team next season.” lemaire@umdbk.com

Wujciak named to top defensive player watch list

BY JONAS SHAFFER Senior staff writer

Terrapin football linebacker Alex Wujciak was named Monday to the watch list for the 2010 Bronko Nagurski Trophy, awarded annually to the nation’s best defensive player by the Football Writers Association of America and the Charlotte Touchdown Club.

As the linchpin of a Terps’ defense in desperate need of playmakers this season, Wujciak had received previous attention from the national media. The rising senior had been listed as an initial candidate for the Lott Trophy and the Lombardi Award, honors bestowed on college football’s best defensive players.

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didacy for the Nagurski Trophy by a deep and talented pool of conference rivals. Four North Carolina players, three Clemson players and two each from Boston College and Miami also made the 74-man list. In total, 13 players from the ACC made the initial watch list for the award.

The list will be trimmed to five finalists Nov. 18, and the

winner will be announced Dec. 6 in Charlotte, N.C. A two-year starter for the Terps, Wujciak finished second in the ACC and eighth nationally in tackles last year.

He also received All-ACC honors for the second straight season and has started the team’s past 25 games. sports@umdbk.com

Linebacker Alex Wujciak is considered one of the top defensive players in the ACC. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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