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Thursday, July 14, 2011

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TASTE OF HONEY

‘Lift for Life’ pushes Terps’ physical limits

Winnie the Pooh triumphs in its return to film

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Route 1 may receive renovation funds

Loh names new vice president

Officials seek about $9M from feds

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

A nearly 14-year-old plan to rebuild Route 1 may receive its first promise of funding next week — a project that officials said will improve campus accessibility and revitalize downtown.

Since 1998, city and state officials have been fighting to completely revamp the road — adding new sidewalks, curbs and medians. On July 20, the National

Capital Region Transportation Planning Board will review whether $8 to $9 million of federal money can be allotted to fund the first phase of engineering for the Route 1 overhaul — a project which will eventually total up at least $100 to $120 million.

“Right now, it’s not a very attractive road. It’s not a very safe road. This is absolutely a key part of trying to make College Park

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Robert Specter will head administrative affairs

BY NICK FOLEY For The Diamondback

If funding is secured, a long-delayed project to improve Route 1 would begin next year. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Shop till you drop Ke’Chic makeover includes new location, discounts, layaway

BY JULIA WEAVER For The Diamondback

With funky tops and dresses lining the store’s hot pink walls and flashy accessories and Seven brand denim strewn across its tables, Ke’Chic Boutique could be the next hot destination for fashion-conscious students — if they can find it.

The boutique opened its doors on Route 1 a year ago and relocated further south in May to the corner of Lehigh Road and Yale Avenue, where it sits tucked behind the empty storefront that once housed Cluck-U Chicken. Lesley Sedgwick, the store’s owner, said she made the switch Ke'Chic offers flashy shoes, among other items.

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to draw in a larger student crowd. But some students, such as senior hearing and speech sciences major Hana Fudala, said the store’s name didn’t ring a bell.

“I’ve never heard of it,” Fudala said.

Lifetime College Park resident and Catholic University junior English major Marian Donahue said she has seen a number of local businesses come and go. Although Ke’Chic may provide a fix to quell fashionista cravings, Donahue said being seen is crucial for any local shop’s survival.

“Unless there’s a big sign or it’s in the line of

In the latest of a slew of administrative appointments, university President Wallace Loh announced a new vice president for administrative affairs, the official who serves as this university’s chief fiscal and administrative officer.

Robert Specter, vice president for finance at the University of Delaware, will take charge Sept. 1. University officials said because Specter has a long history serving in that capacity at various schools, they are confident he is the right man for the job.

“I know that he brings a wealth of experience at four prior institutions,” said Frank Brewer, the acting vice president for administrative affairs. “I think the experience, energy and enthusiasm

see SPECTER, page 3

City approves slight realignment of voting districts

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North Campus unified, no student-only district

BY NICK FOLEY For The Diamondback

The College Park City Council approved a new voter districting plan that will unite the Denton, Ellicott and Cambridge communities.

The three on-campus communities were previously split between Districts 1 and 4, causing confusion to North Campus voters who were unsure exactly where the lines were drawn. Now, North Campus will be entirely contained in District 4.

In an effort to keep boundar y lines relatively similar for upcoming elections later this year, only slight modifications were made to the districts.

The city council held a public meeting before its June 14 hearing to hear residents’ opinions on redistricting plans. Though other plans were considered at previous meetings, “Plan C” remained the city favorite.

Senior city planner Elisa Vitale said that unifying the three North Campus communities was why this plan was eventually selected.

The city was required to adopt a new plan after the Census Bureau released its 2010 statistics in Februar y because the city’s total

see REDISTRICTING, page 2

Blended learning initiative to launch in the spring semester Program aims to improve large classrooms with social networking websites, technologies

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Staff writer

A new program that aims to bring an interactive classroom home with students will keep professors and students in constant communication through course Twitter and Facebook pages.

After nearly a year of planning, university officials are preparing to launch the blended learning initiative this spring — a program that will bring 10 of the largest undergraduate courses into the digitized

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age. Known as “blended learning formats,” these classes will combine online resources and mobile applications with traditional face-toface interactions — and reduce the time spent in the classroom.

Interim Vice President for the Office of Information Technology Joseph Jaja developed the initial outline for the program after former Provost Nariman Far vardin asked to integrate the latest technological advances into the collegiate setting. After Jaja developed an outline to implement the program, Far-

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vardin formed a committee that sprung Jaja’s ideas into action. The initiative is being funded by the offices of the senior vice president and the provost.

“This program makes a much better use of institutional resources,” Jaja said. “Right now, students and faculty have to meet in a certain room at a certain time. …

This is much more flexible and a much more efficient use of resources so that down the road we can accommodate more students without sacrificing the quality of

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teaching.”

The program will be piloted in 10 large — primarily lecture hall — undergraduate courses, which faculty members said need some restructuring. Under the blended learning program, professors can provide more one-on-one interaction with their students.

Provost Ann Wylie said she hopes these 10 courses are just the beginning of a program that will eventually be implemented in

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Three teenagers arrested in connection with two car break-ins At least five cars’ windows have been smashed on-campus since June; GPS, iPods reported missing, police said

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

At least five cars have been broken into on the campus since the beginning of June, and Tuesday three teenagers and one non-student Hyattsville resident were charged in connection with two of last month’s incidents, police said.

Within a five-hour period on Saturday, three car owners parked in the UMUC lot reported that their front windows had been smashed, and two GPS devices were allegedly stolen. University Police are working with UMUC security personnel to increase patrols of the area, according to Univer-

REDISTRICTING from page 1 population increased.

District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali expressed his satisfaction over the new plan at the meeting and said it would help alleviate students’ confusion over boundary lines.

“I’m very glad that the three dorm communities have all been put in one district,” Afzali said. “I think it’s going to help students to know which district they’re in.”

In October, Mayor Andy Fellows proposed a studentonly district — to be dubbed District 5 — but the plan was ultimately abandoned. Officials said such major changes would cause too much commotion before the impending council elections this fall.

Several students, including North Campus resident Sarah Abutaleb, a sophomore letters and sciences major, said the plan would help to alleviate the confusion.

“It would be good in a sense that it’s more uniting,” Abutaleb said.

Although Plan C was intended to simplify voting for North Campus residents, it

sity Police spokesman Capt.

Marc Limansky.

The first theft Saturday was reported at about noon near the first level of the garage.

The driver said he parked his vehicle at 9 p.m. the night before and received a call from security around midnight that his vehicle appeared to have been damaged. When he checked on his car at about noon he found the front window smashed, but no items were reported missing, Limansky said.

Two hours later, another car owner reported a similar situation for a car that had been parked in the same lot since 7:30 a.m. A GPS was reported missing from the car’s center

console, Limansky said, though the device’s mount was left attached to the dashboard.

The third theft was reported at 5:38 p.m. on the garage’s second level, and a GPS attached to the front windshield was reported missing, Limansky said.

In Tuesday’s arrests, security guards reported two individuals pulling on the handles of a vehicle in Lot U5 near the Mowatt Lane Garage at about 4 a.m. on July 4. A University Police officer stopped the suspects, according to Limansky.

One of the suspects — a 16year-old — permitted officers to search him. The officer found a GPS device and a key to a Nissan Altima in his

“I’m very glad that the three dorm communities have all been put in one district.”

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pocket, which police later learned had been stolen in the Old Town area that evening, Limansky said.

Although the teenager was not charged with stealing those items, Limansky said investigations led police to charge him and two other teenagers — ages 15 and 16 — in connection with last month’s thefts. The first was reported at about 2 a.m. on June 6, when two of the suspects allegedly smashed the window of a vehicle parked in Lot 11B near Comcast Center and stole a Garmin GPS and an iPod. The second was reported at about 9:30 a.m. on June 26 in the same lot, where the win-

dows of two vehicles were smashed and a GPS and iPod were reportedly missing.

While some of the items have been recovered, others have been sold, Limansky said.

David Umana, 18 — the second individual who was found pulling on the door handles on July 4 — was charged on criminal summons with theft of less than $100 value in connection with the second incident Tuesday.

Because they were charged as juveniles, Limansky would not identify the other suspects except to say all three are from Hyattsville.

The incidents are still under investigation. Because the four people previously charged with break-ins June 6 and June

26 knew prior to the weekend that they were under investigation, Limansky said it is unlikely they were involved in Saturday’s thefts.

Limansky said thefts from vehicles are the second most frequently reported incidents on the campus, following thefts of unattended property.

He urged drivers to hide all valuables or take them with them after they park.

“There’s no real prevention system from having your vehicle windows smashed in,” Limansky said. “But you can reduce the opportunity for thieves to steal from you by taking care of your valuables.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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remains unclear whether the redesign will see an increase in student votes.

“I am so busy at college that [voting] probably wouldn’t be on my mind,” sophomore economics major Kevin Langstaff said.

Other districts in Plan C are District 1, which will include Mazza Grandmarc, IKEA and Camden College Park Apartments; District 2, which will include the Varsity, University View, the North Hill and South Hill communities and South Campus Commons 3 and 4; and District 3, which will include the proposed East Campus development as well as Fraternity Row and downtown. In addition to the North Campus community, District 4 will also include the Univer-

The College Park City Council approved new voting districts at its meeting Tuesday.

sity Courtyards.

Other slight changes in voter apportionment were made. In Districts 1 and 2, the boundary line shifted west to

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include Mazza Grandmarc and the North Hill and South Hill communities, respectively. In District 3, the boundary line shifted north to

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include the proposed East Campus development, as well as Fraternity Row, downtown and South Campus Commons buildings 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7. Dis-

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SPECTER from page 1 will be a great asset.”

Specter has ser ved in comparable positions at Baruch College of the City University of New York, Oregon State University, Montana State University and the Iowa Board of Regents, giving him more than 25 years of senior leadership in higher education.

A press release disseminated Friday stated that one of Specter’s first tasks will be to develop the budget for fiscal year 2013. As a long-term project, he will work with community and business leaders to revamp local neighborhoods to improve safety near the campus.

Additionally, the position is charged with helping oversee major campus initiatives, such as improving sustainability and aiding the 38-acre East Campus development project that will bring more hotels and businesses to the city. Some of

Loh’s recently created revitalization task forces address advancing these plans.

Specter said it is too early to formulate specific goals, adding that he does plan to focus on working with community leaders to develop East Campus and expedite construction of the proposed Purple Line that would bring a light-rail system through the campus.

However, he said his overarching goal is to please the community he serves.

“My focus will be on excellence in customer service and helping the Mar yland community achieve its aspirations,” he said.

Vice President for Student Affairs Linda Clement, who chaired the search committee, said she thinks Specter will be a welcome addition to the administration.

“He’s very engaging, very intelligent, very constructive,” Clement said. “I think he’s going to be a great vice president.”

Specter will take the helm from Brewer, who postponed his retirement to assume the

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ROBERT SPECTER INCOMING VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE AFFAIRS

role of acting vice president for administrative affairs in addition to his duties as Facilities Management director. Brewer will stay at the university for a limited time to assure a smooth leadership transition.

Specter said he chose this university because of its high academic standing, commending the school’s numerous programs and services. “[The] University of Maryland leadership is pretty visionary,” Specter said. “I’m excited to come to the university.” news@umdbk.com

DREAM DEFERRED Republican delegates in the state General Assembly have successfully netted enough signatures to suspend a piece of legislation that provides instate tuition to undocumented students.

Under the legislation, known as the state’s DREAM Act, undocumented students qualify for instate tuition if they complete 60 community college credits, prove they or their parents have paid state taxes for at least three years and graduate from a state high school.

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Faux activism

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n July, the last thing that most people expect is to see breaking news cut three scholarships from the team.

Next came the revelation of NCAA violations for excessive practice time coming from the Terrapin football program. Yet recently, the Terps can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. Indeed, news of scholarship reduc- under Friedgen — violations that will lead to the loss of significant practice tions, NCAA violations and a bar fight involving starting offensive line- time this year, a particularly burdensome punishment given the need to man Justin Lewis have all graced the pages of newspapers around the region. install new offensive and defensive systems. Finally, and perhaps principal The recent flurry of bad news emerging from the football team calls to among a slew of team departures and eligibility issues, was the news that mind the embarrassing fiasco that took place while students on break last starting offensive lineman Justin Lewis had been kicked off the team after allegedly assaulting an R.J. Bentley’s manager in June. winter. A little more than six months ago, Athletics But, for hopeful Terp fans, there may be a silver linDirector Kevin Anderson’s tempestuous search for a ing. Lost amid the torrent of dour news is that, by all new football coach concluded with the surprise choice of accounts, Edsall seems intent on running a tight ship. the University of Connecticut’s Randy Edsall. Anderson In the face of adversity, During a year in which allegations and scandals have faced intense criticism for hiring a man seen by many as Terrapin football coach rocked numerous NCAA programs, the Terps are a coach cut from the same archetypal cloth as former coach Ralph Friedgen, the reigning ACC Coach of the Randy Edsall has the program working with a clean slate: Edsall self-reported the practice-time violations, which perhaps led to a Year. Instead, it was argued, the Terrapin program sailing in the right direction. reduced sanction. Edsall has taken significant steps to needed a flashy hire who would inject excitement into correct the program’s APR, which had dropped for the program and energize the fanbase.

Indeed, Mike Leach, the former head coach at Texas Tech, seemed a per- five consecutive years under Friedgen. And Edsall had the gumption to disfect match for Anderson’s stated desires: Leach’s pass-centric “air-raid” miss Lewis outright, rather than hide behind the guise of an internal team offense and over-the-top personality would be sure to ruffle feathers accus- punishment.

All of which points to a man who, like former Terp men’s basketball coach tomed to the staid atmosphere of the Friedgen regime. But perhaps war y of Leach’s dismissal from Texas Tech and a subsequent spate of lawsuits, Gary Williams, understands the importance of a solid program that students, Anderson went with the safe choice and announced the hire of Edsall in fans and alumni can be proud of. Edsall has yet to show us what his teams can do on the field — which will ultimately determine his legacy — but so far his early Januar y.

Edsall has since led a program that can’t seem to shake bad news: After dis- off-the-field leadership has been commendable. And despite the host of issues pelling fears of an imminent transfer by starting quarterback and Atlantic facing the program, it is worth noting that the still-unemployed Leach recently Coast Conference Rookie of the Year Danny O’Brien, Edsall’s recruiting class made a splash by releasing excerpts from his tell-all book, Swing Your Sword. ranked near the bottom of the ACC. Trouble continued into the spring as Perhaps Anderson made the correct decision after all: What we need is a disword of the program’s dismal Academic Progress Rate caused the NCAA to cerning captain to steer the ship, not a pirate with a swashbuckling persona.

the geometry of the lot is a natural barrier to such practices.

I suppose the city’s decision to install the parking stations reveals something about the motives of our elected officials: Rather than maintain an efficient system perfectly catered to the needs of a strip mall, they spent tens of thousands of dollars installing new machines designed to squeeze just a bit more money from the pocketbooks of local residents. They’ll call it an investment and explain all the wonderful things they can do with the increased revenue. In response, I’ll shrug my shoulders and sigh, and then go off to play my new game. It’s called, “Park next to Applebee’s, where they still have meters.” Take that, technology.

Christopher Haxel is a senior English major. He can be reached at haxel@umdbk.com.

Thomas Bradtke is a senior history major. He can be reached at tjbradtke@verizon.net.

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College: The good, the bad and the meaningful

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our years after I first set foot on this campus, after parties have been attended, friends have been made and all the grades have been given, I am now officially a college graduate. I have walked across the stage and received my diploma. And now, it seems, is the time to make sense of the incredible and extremely varied four years I spent at this university, reflecting on what went right and what did not.

My time spent among the brick walls and Georgian architecture of this campus has undoubtedly changed me, transforming me into a person who hardly resembles the freshman who arrived at this institution in 2007. Yet, much of this transformation was not connected to my experience in the classroom. Indeed, it was not the endless lectures that made a man out of the boy I entered the university as. But rather it was the

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KUTCHER mix of the many different viewpoints of students at this university combined with the overwhelming freedom that college provided.

After all, in college, you can chose who you want to be. You are no longer followed by your high school reputation. If you were a bookworm in high school who was afraid of your own shadow, you can come to college and spread your wings and become a social butterfly.

And this ability to decide who you want to be, who you want to be friends with and what you want to do with your time is perhaps even more critical to

the college equation than all the classes and discussions you sit through every weekday. Looking back, this is why living on-campus was so important. I had such a rich four years because I was able to be involved with the school and my friends daily. At what other time in your life do you live with your friends and in close proximity to 10,000 other students? It is a unique situation that needs to be fully appreciated.

Yet with the good comes the bad.

One of the worst aspects of the student experience at this institution is choosing a major. Too often, people just pick a major to be done with the bureaucracy and settle into a path.

Other times, students choose a major without sufficient knowledge of what it is and what the career opportunities are. To me, the learning experience needs to be linked to one’s interests and experiences, which is why the use of a gap year, which enables students to

gain experience through volunteering, internships, training programs and travel, should be further encouraged.

Gap years are common in places such as the United Kingdom and often give people time to figure out a little bit more about their interests and help prevent people from wasting time and money on a course of study that is not for them.

Like anything else, college has its pros and cons. Yet the benefits of college are so varied and wonderful that many people — myself included — routinely refer to it as “the best four years of my life.” So, to all of you who are still enrolled at this university, I say to you: Make the most of it; college, despite the drawbacks, is truly a wonderful experience.

Cory Kutcher graduated in May with a degree in kinesiology. He can be reached at kutcher@umdbk.com.

Modern technology: Parking meter mania

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o students and residents alike, a quick trip to College Park Shopping Center has long involved a game of high-stakes guesstimation: One must take into account multiple factors when deciding just how much loose change to grab from the center console before exiting the vehicle. Too little money, and you might incur the wrath of a neon-cloaked meter maid.

Too much, and you’re the schmuck, letting someone else piggyback off the hard-earned nickels and dimes of time left on your parking meter.

But sadly, those days are over. The City of College Park has replaced the old, familiar parking meters with newfangled parking “stations.” Supposed monuments to the efficiencies of modern technology, the five stations handle the workload of 143 meters. They have fancy screens and colorful buttons, and the solar panels

on top evoke a vague sense of environmentalism, never mind that four of the five stations are located in the shade beneath an overhang.

And like a field of freshly mowed dandelions that you kind of, sort of liked, the meters themselves have been chopped off, replaced by an expanse of metal poles adorned with curiously numbered signs. Other, larger signs instruct visitors to find the nearest parking station and conveniently wait in line.

So much for efficiency. The lines that frequently ran four-deep on a recent summer evening will likely subside as people become familiar with the new system, but the city’s profit margin will go nowhere but up.

Officials brag that the parking stations accept credit cards, but they don’t mention that the minimum charge is 75 cents; if you don’t have change, you may as well sit in the car

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HAXEL while you enjoy that ice cream cone, because it’s the only way you’re likely to spend an hour at the shopping center.

Gone, too, is the age-old surprise of finding a spot that has already been paid for. There’s no longer a meter to tell you how much time is left, so the station forces visitors to pay for the same spot over and over. The only way to beat the system is to pass off your receipt to another motorist, a delightful fusion of pay-it-forward and stick-it-to-the-man that I certainly encourage. But as enticing as a parking receipt black market would be,

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ed Nugent recently wrote an op-ed in The Washington Times detailing how the Millennial generation has had an abysmal track record when it comes to mobilizing itself into meaningful political action, and then proceeded to talk about the good old days of the 1960s and ’70s when there were real political movements among the youth of the United States.

Despite my disgust at his destructive political views and tremendous ignorance regarding economic and social issues, I am inclined to agree with him on the first point.

The Millennials are awful when it comes to meaningful attempts at social change. The June 30 response to Nugent by Greg Nasif, “Millennials: More engaged than you think,” merely added more fuel to my belief that most so-called college activists are, in fact, terrified of social change and are ineffectual armchair activists who mistake talk and a virtual Internet presence for meaningful participation in the real-world battlegrounds where change is effected.

How can anyone claim they actually contributed to anything by sitting around on their laptop? I visited www.avaaz.org, as mentioned in Nasif’s article, and it’s literally just a depot for Internet petitions. How is this real activism? Any feel-good petition could be posted there, and is sure to acquire a large number of signatures from “activists” sitting far behind the front lines. Signing the petition means nothing, because it is entirely safe. Nothing has been risked, nothing will be gained. One could make a petition on Avaaz that’s about ending the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. One could get 500 million people to sign it; it would fail.

Governments the world over don’t care about armchair activists at all; words are not actions. Without any sort of mobilization of the population to demonstrate the power of a popular movement, activism is sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I’m more than a little confused as to why this kind of completely inactive activism is something people find admirable. Why not fight police in the street if your cause is just? Why not interrupt political events if they are against your cause and violate the ideals you believe in? Is it because those things are — to borrow a phrase from Nasif — “downright barbaric?” All of the people in the Third World battling for their lives against repressive regimes are disgusting barbarians based on this assessment.

Philosophical non-violence is the purview of the privileged. There are rebel groups all over the world battling in the face of oppression. Would you support them if they organized sit downs and hunger strikes (and then get shot)? The Arab Spring worked as it did due to a very specific set of circumstances. This leads me to the definition of “meaningful protest,” and why the recent “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” — also mentioned by Nasif as a form of his own activism — does not fit into this model in any way.

The rally was soulless consumerism at its finest. It was something allowing young liberals to congregate and say “I was there!” There were no goals, and there was no real point. Some people came out to show support against a conservative bogeyman and for some things approaching real issues. But most came out to congregate around corporate media and pretend that this meeting was important, though it had meaning in no other sense than through filling their own collective egos.

Do you think the protesters and supposed revolutionaries in the Arab Spring managed to overthrow their regimes through strategic clicks on an online form? In fact, a tremendous majority didn’t use Facebook or Twitter or other social media; they actually went out and protested. Technology is a useful tool. However, many people today attempt to use it as a substitute for actual action. Signing online petitions and “liking” things on Facebook as a replacement for activity is a convenient illusion for the privileged.

While I have my own issues with Arab Spring, at least they went out and did something. Armchair activism cannot and will not accomplish what civil rights protesters did in the 1960s and ’70s, and while Ted Nugent looks back on those decades with a rosetinted lens, he has a point about America’s youth today. If you aren’t willing to even argue and be passionate about your political and moral beliefs, then you’ll be left by the wayside while the real activists and revolutionaries change the world.

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ROUTE 1 from page 1 the kind of college town we’d all like it to be,” state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) said. “The road right now, it’s so old George Washington really did sleep here.”

In 2007, a host of state and local officials labeled the project a top priority in Gov. Martin O’Malley’s revenue package and transportation budget. The Route 1 overhaul advocates include Rosapepe, District 3 County Councilman Eric Olson (D), state Del. Joseline PeñaMelnyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) and Mayor Andy Fellows.

However, the economic recession and competition for funding with other state transportation projects left the construction project by the wayside. But this year, state legislators found money in the federal budget that they hope will help repair the road which university President Wallace Loh recently dubbed an “eyesore.”

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“I think the expression is, you can’t cross Route 1 without taking your life into your hands,” Peña-Melnyk said, adding a recommendation from O’Malley and the secretary of the state transportation department is imperative.

The project will begin downtown and stretch to Route 193 — alongside the university and largely student-rented highrises — in 2012 and is projected to finish in 2014. Eventually, the entire stretch through the city will be rebuilt; officials did not have an estimate as to when this would be completed.

“It looks like it’ll be initiated pretty quickly by [the] State Highway [Administration],” said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director. “Everyone’s excited.

We’re like little kids.”

The overhaul’s design includes multiple landscaped medians, which would eliminate the existing system that allows “anyone [to] make a left turn anywhere, anytime, anyplace,” according to Schum.

Pedestrians and bikers will see

new sidewalks and a cycle track separated from the roadway.

But the process to secure funding is just beginning.

“This is going to be a fight that’s going to go on for a number of years,” Rosapepe said of obtaining funding for the rest of the project. “This is a breakthrough … but we’re at the beginning of the road.”

In the next 10 to 15 years, Loh envisions the city as an easily accessible, bustling town center. The Route 1 overhaul coincides with this goal, which Loh recently created five task forces to help meet. They will prepare reports on ways to improve the city’s future in areas such as transportation, safety and development.

“All of these elements will make the road safer, more pedestrian-friendly and more consistent with the vision of a revitalized corridor that the University shares with the community,” Ari Schnitzer, the university’s real-estate coordinator, said in an email.

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BOUTIQUE from page 1 sight, they don’t really do well,” Donahue said.

College Park Planning Director Terry Schum said she’s noticed this trend.

“In general, businesses need to have visibility,” Schum said. “I would have no idea a clothing store is there.”

Sedgwick said some students probably don’t know about the store because it opened near the end of the spring semester. But once school starts in the fall, she said she plans to advertise heavily, offer student discounts and provide a 30-day layaway program for Terps on a tight budget. Sedgwick added she hopes to reach out to the university’s Greek community.

Though Fudala was unaware the store existed, she said she thinks it could still do well.

“A lot of younger students don’t have cars and can’t go ver y far,” Fudala said. “And I’m always looking for more clothes.”

Fellow downtown boutique owner Carol Gowling, who runs the shop On

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Cloud 9, said she welcomes Ke’Chic.

“It’s great having another boutique downtown,” she said. “It brings more people to the area, which means more shopping.”

Gowling, who also targets college kids with an eye for fashion, said she doesn’t see Ke’Chic as direct competition.

“The more the merrier,” Gowling said. “We don’t carry the same lines.”

Sedgwick described the style she sells at Ke’Chic’s style as trendy with a modern edge.

“It’s not for the shy fashionista,” Sedgwick said. “A lot of our items are edgy and unique.”

To ensure customers have an original look, Ke’Chic carries a limited number of each style.

“Nothing’s worse than walking into a place and seeing someone else wearing the same thing,” Sedgwick said.

The store is an extension of Ke’Chic’s online presence, which caters to an international audience, and the business goes beyond clothing sales by hosting art and fashionfocused events and fashion shows. news@umdbk.com

Bold accessories adorn the tables of Ke’Chic Boutique, a new hot spot for fashionistas. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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REVIEW | WINNIE THE POOH

MORE HONEY, PLEASE Winnie the Pooh is an exceptional animated treat for the whole family

BY REESE HIGGINS Senior staff writer

Unlike Eeyore’s life, the new Winnie the Pooh film is not disappointing.

Starring the eponymous bear, his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood and human pal Christopher Robin, this Disney reboot of the classic cartoon, based on the children’s stories

by A.A. Milne, is a delightful breather from a summer full of raunchy comedies and explosionheavy action films. It is also one of the few contemporar y animated films produced with the hand-drawn style common before CGI took over the multiplex.

The comedy comes often and easily from this sweet and too-short film (though the 69-minute runtime may be perfect for youngsters). There is plenty of physical humor, as well as random jokes of a more complex

nature, possibly aimed at the adults in the audience (e.g. the varied vocabularies of Owl and Rabbit).

Most of the comedy stems from the adorable character flaws each resident of Hundred Acre Wood personifies. From the kooky arrogance of Owl to Piglet’s cute cluelessness, Milne’s characters speak honestly about human nature.

But there really shouldn’t be too much to laugh about with Eeyore’s crushing depression. The dull-colored donkey is as sad as can be and is perhaps the most unlikely character of a children’s stor y. The humor for the youngest audience members lies in how much of an outlier he is in his community. Ever yone else is a paragon of (sometimes false) hope or pretentious intellect.

The older audience members can laugh knowingly at Eeyore’s unfortunate position. He represents the sad

sack in all of us, even though he is kind and not cynical, unlike most modern mopes. He’s a good reminder that laughter is the best medicine. His odd role in the Winnie the Pooh mythology also serves as a reminder that Christopher Robin’s playtime pals might be metaphors for the awfully damaged world we live in.

Pooh is as likable as ever as the “bear of very little brain,” and his often futile quest for honey provides many laughs. But like Eeyore, there is something striking and brutal in Pooh’s story. His addiction to honey mirrors that of any real-life drug addiction — he even begins hallucinating once he goes into honey withdrawal.

Owl and Rabbit are also odd characters for a children’s stor y. They are incredibly narcissistic, and their misdeeds go unpunished, while they punish those they deem inferior.

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MOVIE: Winnie the Pooh | VERDICT:

Get outta here

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Senior staff writer

Progressive rock is to popular music as graphic novels are to popular fiction — though its creations have sometimes become fashionable and widely admired, the majority of work is tirelessly tracked and respected only by the medium’s distinctive group of die-hard fans.

Just the same, prog rock has the same sort of self-induced issues that comics have. Even if the new output is downright bad, many fans blindly champion their group anyway.

This becomes a problem for a band such as Yes, the entire career of which is based on the idea that the music it makes is in some way “progressive.” As the band’s new album Fly From Here openly professes, it’s been a long time since “prog rock” has been anything other than a term used to describe the stuffy, over-indulgent music of a bygone era.

What an album such as Fly

From Here forgets is that the key ingredient to prog rock is a true sense of energy and the need to experiment with music. After a 43-year career and numerous lineup changes, it’s no surprise Yes might have lost some of this message along the way.

Normally, prog rock albums are defined by epic-length compositions that act as a centerpiece, known as “side-long” tracks in a reference to the amount of space they would cover on vinyl records.

Unsurprisingly, Yes — which once released a double album of four side-long songs ostentatiously entitled Tales from Topographic Oceans — returns to the long-winded compositional style with the title track, a 24-minute piece divided onto six tracks.

Like everything else on the record, the energy just isn’t present. It’s altogether lazy music that doesn’t really try to grab its listeners so much as float above them. The music is

best described as a watered down version of what Yes could be, back in its heyday.

The best tracks on the record are the shorter ones after the “Fly From Here” suite. “Into the Storm” is the best — a funky, fastpaced ditty that closes out the album. But the problem is it feels like a ditty. Everything sounds trapped in this lusterless loop where the first melody that popped into the band’s head was what they ran with.

Honestly, Fly From Here isn’t an album worth spending time on. If you haven’t heard of Yes or any good prog rock, you should definitely start somewhere else: Go back and listen to the band’s astonishing 1970s era records; take a listen to some Peter Gabriel-era Genesis; or try some King Crimson, old Rush, Van der Graaf Generator or Gentle Giant.

Fly From Here, though, is a classic case of “why did they even bother?” berman@umdbk.com

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fere with the enjoyment of Winnie the Pooh; it is a fascinating treat to have such intriguing characters in a G-rated Disney film. These characters are the gifts that keep on giving in the world of Winnie the Pooh.

The simple plot follows the animals in Hundred Acre Wood as they search for a tail for the eternally depressed Eeyore (Bud Luckey, Toy Story 3), who has lost his rear end decoration.

They also wind up tr ying to save Christopher Robin (newcomer Jack Boulter, with a British accent) from a mysterious monster after Pooh (Jim Cummings, Gnomeo & Juliet) finds a note by his friend’s door: “Bizy… Back soon.” Owl (late-night TV show host Craig Ferguson) cooks up a stor y about how the evil “Backson” creature has kidnapped Christopher Robin.

Owl’s frightening tale mobilizes the animals to trap the monster and

save Christopher Robin. Eeyore’s tail will just have to wait.

Both the voice acting and animation are wonderful and will please any fan of the late ’80s-to-early ’90s ABC series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. In particular, Cummings is fantastic as Pooh.

Why 2011 was a good year for a Winnie the Pooh reboot is unclear, but it’s great to hear the silly old bear’s heartfelt and hilarious voice once again.

New fans will be delighted as well, as evidenced by the ever-flowing laughter from small children at a recent press screening. Parents could also be heard laughing loudly.

Pooh may not be the brightest bear in the woods, but his new film is both bright and funny. The honey sure looks great, too. rhiggins@umdbk.com

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REVIEW | IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

Sleepy and hollow

BY ROBERT GIFFORD Staff writer

There’s a good EP somewhere inside Incubus’ latest album, If Not Now, When?, but, unfortunately, If Not Now, When? is a full-length LP, and the majority of it is dead weight.

There’s some wheat here, but not nearly enough to excuse the mountains of chaff you have to suffer through to get to it.

It’s unfortunate, but Incubus’ highest-charting singles have always been their most insipid; soggy ballads “Drive” and “Love Hurts” have fared much better commercially than solid guitar-rock tracks like “Anna Molly” and “Megalomaniac.” Incubus has never been a great band, but the members are at their best when they’re simply a bunch of guys rocking out.

But commerce trumps all, so If Not Now, When? is the band’s most soporific outing to date. It’s filled with the kind of sleepy songs that have sold well for the band in the past, only somehow made even duller. It’s like listening to Coldplay on NyQuil.

The album opens with the title track, which sets the tone for almost everything that follows. It’s well-produced and would make for fine, if forgettable, filler on another, more energetic album, but it’s just too goddamn bland to work as the statement of purpose for a whole album. It’s the kind of music you expect to hear in the waiting room of a dentist’s office, and some novocaine would certainly

make it easier to get through.

After that, Incubus essentially repeats the same song five more times. Each track proceeds along at the same plodding tempo, with the same piano-andstrings accompaniment and the same cloying lyrics that get increasingly stupid as the album progresses (“Baby can I be the rabbit in your hat/ I’d swing if you’d hand me, hand me the bat”).

If there’s any redeeming value to this snooze-fest, it’s vocalist Brandon Boyd.

To put it simply, the guy can sing. Sure, he over-emotes, but his voice has power and range enough to lend the drippy melodies some weight.

The album begins to show some promise after the halfway mark. Most of “The Original” is just as asinine as everything that precedes it, but it builds to an effective climax of thundering guitars in the last minute and a half, and its follow-up, acoustic number “Defiance,” earns points for brevity, if nothing else.

It’s really only halfway through the seven-and-a-half-minute track “In the Company of Wolves” that the album takes off. The first three minutes of the song are perhaps the most boring on the whole record (and feature such lyrical gems as “I was low but now I am high/ It helps to know serenity from ennui,” with “ennui” pronounced “enn-yoo-eye”).

But then, around the song’s midpoint, all the familiar elements drop away, leaving only a soundscape weird and moodily atmospheric enough to earn positive comparisons to Massive Attack.

From there on, the album picks up considerably. “Switchblade” finally moves at a pace other than narcolep-

With If Not Now, When? Incubus fails to produce an album worth staying awake for.

tic, and also features guitarist Mike Einziger playing like he means it for the first time. “Adolescents” feels like a return to “classic” Incubus — which is to say not great, but good enough for major-label guitar-rock.

Closing track “Tomorrow’s Food” returns to the experimentalism of “In the Company of Wolves.” With its arpeggiated guitars, ambient orchestration and echo chamber vocals, it

clearly wishes it was an unreleased track from Radiohead’s In Rainbows.

Of course, it falls far short of that mark, but it’s legitimately lovely and features the album’s best (read: adequate) songwriting.

As relatively strong as these last tracks are, it is too little, too late. Fif-

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Univ. choir hits a high Connecting profession note, named best in its with parenthood Univ. professor takes stand for ADHD children class on world stage UMD Chamber Singers win high awards in global competition, leave with lasting memories

BY KIRSTEN PETERSEN For The Diamondback

University choir members proved they know a thing or two about perfect harmony after bringing home top honors from one of the most prestigious international choral competitions in France earlier this summer.

The University of Maryland Chamber Singers — a 38-member choir of undergraduate and graduate voices — garnered some of the highest awards in the Florilège Vocal de Tours international choral competition. The singers won first prize for mixed choirs and special honors for their performance of Renaissance music.

Of the 14 choirs participating in the three-day contest, the Chamber Singers were the only college choir and representative of the United States to reach the coveted Grand Prix competition. Five choirs vied for the title of best overall chorus at Florilège, and the university’s student singers placed second behind Tokyo’s harmonica ensemble choral group.

“What [the choir] really focused on was making music at the highest possible level, singing the ver y best they could and letting the prizewinning process take care of itself,” university music professor and choral activities director Edward Maclar y said. “The prizes they received were really welldeser ved and well-earned.”

Maclary was also recognized as the competition’s most outstanding conductor.

The Florilège Vocal de Tours is considered one of the most competitive choral contests in the world, and this year’s sing-off was held from May 27-29. Choirs had to apply by last November and submit a recording of a recent concert to be considered for the competition.

When the Chamber Singers learned Jan. 1 that they had been selected, they immedi-

ately began preparing 20 pieces — primarily a cappella — for the contest.

On top of frequent performances and daily fourhour rehearsals after final The university’s Chamber Singers netted some of exams, the most prestigious awards at a competition members abroad. COURTESY OF THE UMD CHAMBER SINGERS practiced outside of class to perfect their pitch.

Some singers said the rigorous rehearsal schedule paid off.

“We were all exhausted and incredibly stressed and frustrated, but I think doing so well in the competition and in our performances in France made it all worthwhile,” said alumna Hana Cai, who sang with the group in France.

“Those rehearsals seem like a cake walk when I look back on them!”

Sophomore music major KELLIE MOTTER SOPHOMORE MUSIC MAJOR Kellie Motter agreed that the demanding agenda helped the experienced in America,” jungroup place so highly.

“We had to make sure we used ior music major Matt Hill said.

Although reaching the interevery possible second,” Motter said. “[Maclary] wanted to use national stage took dedication our actual rehearsal time to just and sore vocal chords, Motter be really musical and unified and said the tour seemed more like expressive, and I think that’s a special getaway than a stresswhat helped us so much — that ful competition.

“It didn’t feel like we were our members are so dedicated.”

Following the competition, the doing work,” Motter said. “It choir toured France for another just felt like we had this week to perform at picturesque incredible opportunity, and venues including the Cathedral we all tried to make the most of Chartres, the Église St. out of ever y second.”

But the song doesn’t end with Eustache in Paris and the Église St. Dominique — a 12th-century the honors the group earned in France. The Chamber Singers church in Monpazier.

Members said letting their have a series of upcoming pervoices soar in such a setting formances, including a concert was very different from per- with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center forming anywhere else.

“All of the cathedrals and and a showcase of 19th-century churches were not only visu- music at the university’s Clarice ally beautiful but the sound Smith Performing Arts Center. inside was so amazing — unlike anything I had ever news@umdbk.com

“It didn’t feel like we were doing work. ... It just felt like we had this incredible opportunity, and we all tried to make the most of every second.”

BY MIKE BOCK For The Diamondback

For university psychology professor Andrea ChronisTuscano, becoming a parent did not just change her dayto-day routine — it propelled her career.

The director of the university’s state Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Program, Chronis-Tuscano testified before a U.S. Food and Drug Administration hearing in March when she felt national research studies failed to produce conclusive evidence that food dyes are a direct cause of ADHD. The results of the FDA panel found “no convincing evidence” between the two, but the general lack of information regarding the effects of food dyes left ChronisTuscano unner ved.

And as a parent to a 3-yearold and an 8-month-old boy — neither of whom have the disorder — she said she still felt compelled to search her own pantr y.

“I left the meeting thinking that we should tr y to avoid

INITIATIVE from page 1 numerous university courses.

“What we hope is to develop not only these ideas into more robust proposals but to create a group of faculty who share an interest in new approaches to teaching and learning,” Wylie said. “I think what we want to do is to try to encourage creativity and give an opportunity to faculty who are interested in doing this to do so.”

Journalism professor Ron Yaros, who will teach JOUR 150: Introduction to Mass Communication, said his class — which is ahead of schedule and will be offered this coming fall — will be a mobile-app based course. Each student will be given an iPod touch with web capabilities that will connect students to a class

these foods whenever possible,” Chronis-Tuscano said.

Chronis-Tuscano said she is conducting clinical research on the campus to better understand the disease and its implications for child development.

She has been working with parents of children with ADHD for about a decade and has worked with ADHD-af flicted kids at camps, schools and in psychiatric settings.

After having her own children, Chronis-Tuscano said she is more sympathetic to emotional connections that parents have with their children and finds it is easier to relate to parents she sees during frequent family therapy sessions.

“Now that I’m a parent, I appreciate how hard it must be for parents to see their kids struggling,” she said. “I have a newfound appreciation for the emotional aspects of parenting.”

Though the FDA panel found no direct connection between food coloring and ADHD — nor any evidence

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“The regular meeting in class where they lecture and take notes is gone forever,” he said. “It’s a fresh, new approach to update the class with the very latest information. Students will get more real-time and real-world information, get to know each other a little more and they’ll see positive and negative aspects of new technology.”

Robert Schwab, who served on the provost’s committee and will be teaching ECON 200: Principles of Microeconomics — the university’s largest undergraduate course — said the program will help provide students with a more interactive learning experience.

“Students are often alienated by the experience [of taking this course] because they’re sitting in this very

that eliminating these chemicals from children’s diets alleviates the condition — the lack of information on the subject left Chronis-Tuscano concerned about the safety of consuming large amounts of the chemicals.

Directing the university’s ADHD program has afforded her the resources to continue researching the disorder that has captured her interest.

Chronis-Tuscano said she is interested in how parent interaction affects children with conditions such as ADHD — noting the crucial role parents play in shaping children with ADHD, particularly in terms of treatment methods.

When it comes to ADHD, Chronis-Tuscano recommends that treatment for the disorder rely on more proven methods — such as behavior therapy and stimulant medication — rather than diets that simply eliminate questionable products such as food coloring. news@umdbk.com

large lecture, attendance is horrible and students are not very engaged in the material,” he said. “I would love to see students get excited about economics and get more interested in the topic. That’s what I’m really hoping to get out of it.”

Jaja said if the blended learning initiative is successful — which he said he expects it will be — this university could become a catalyst in a movement to combine the latest gadgets with the collegiate experience.

“With newer technology, there are so many ways to improve the learning process and to make it much more active,” he said. “I’m hoping this is just the beginning that will enable us down the road to be one of the leaders of the nation in undergraduate education.” abutaleb@umdbk.com

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City approves beer, wine license for pizza joint Owners of Pizza Autentica unable to serve until county’s board of license commissioners approves measure

BY NICK FOLEY For The Diamondback

Pizza Autentica may soon join the ranks of other local eateries that serve beer and wine in a casual restaurant setting.

The joint is slated to open next month in the University View II, and Pizza Autentica owner Hakan Ilhan said he hopes to obtain a beer and wine license from the county — and join the ranks of other downtown pizzerias permitted to serve alcoholic beverages.

Ilhan appeared in front of the College Park City Council at a work session last week for approval to obtain a beer and wine license and faced little opposition. For his request to be official, he’ll need to go before the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners on July 26.

Although the restaurant may remain open until 2 a.m., its primary purpose is to sell pizza and pasta — not to serve rowdy bar patrons, Ilhan said. The early-morning operating hours are primarily for students still up studying, he said.

“We don’t really want to have problem customers from the bar,” Ilhan said, noting that the newly constructed Looney’s Pub will be located a short walk away in the Varsity.

“Usually that kind of crowd brings trouble more than anything.”

The council swiftly approved a property use agreement for Ilhan at its Tuesday meeting, stipulating the store’s alcohol-to-food ratio must be 35-to-65.

Despite Ilhan’s commitment to adhere to city regulations, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said that serving alcohol near minors is still a cause for concern.

“If you throw alcohol into the mix, there’s always potential for problems,” Limansky said. “If they follow the rules and follow proper procedures, like checking IDs, I think they could run a good establishment.”

Cashiers will card at the register — and managers will card at individual tables, if necessar y — to ensure that of-age patrons aren’t illegally sharing their alcoholic beverages with minors, Ilhan said. Customers will also be monitored with security cameras.

Some students, such as junior government and politics major Liza Jones, said the convenient location will be a draw for students.

“You can just go down for a beer; you don’t have to go out to ‘go out,’” she said. “This is more where people

The city council approved Pizza Autentica’s property use agreement Tuesday, stipulating an alcohol-to-food ratio of 35-to-65.

live. I think it just depends on the atmosphere and how people come home from downtown and Route 1, instead of going out for a purpose.”

Since the View and the View II both house many Freshman Connection students and the campus is a short walk from the pizzeria, District 2 councilman Jack Perr y said Ilhan will need to be war y of underage patrons.

“It’s going to be a challenge,” Perry said to Ilhan at a July 5 meeting. “The location you have selected is going to be very much of a challenge.”

Yet placing a store just an elevator ride away from a large number of students was a strategic business move, Perry added.

Though Ilhan anticipates alcohol to account for 10 percent of his sales, he said his store will strictly remain a restaurant that sells beer and wine.

“If you really want to get drunk, a pizza place is not where you go to get drunk,” Ilhan said.

MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

ON THE BLOG blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive A CHANGING PARKING PROBLEM Although residents may have once enjoyed the convenience of throwing a quarter into a coin-operated meter when stopping by College Park Shopping Center, they now have to grapple with more complex electronic pay stations.

Customers must pay 25 cents for 20 minutes of parking at one of five convenient pay stations on the strip.

And while the city may be boasting a more up-to-date method of parking, residents don’t seem to be enjoying the update.

To learn about the situation, read more online at Campus Drive at blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive.

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The Terps’ defensive linemen bested their offensive counterparts easily in Tuesday’s tire flip.

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the community, someone who’s a role model and someone who wants to give back,” said guard Andrew Gonnella, the chapter’s president. “Since I’ve been here, it’s always been promoted for every player to pick one thing you can do to give back. I’ve done Big Brother, Little Brother. I’ve done reading across different classrooms in D.C. and Baltimore, different things like that.

This is just one way we can keep carrying that on.”

And carry they did. When the Terps weren’t throwing themselves into sleds weighted down by managers or zig-zagging between cones in a race to the finish Tuesday, they were hauling 80-pound weights in each hand across the field.

But those sideshows proved only undercards for the main event. As the Terps’ linemen split into offensive and defensive sides, some of the team’s wide receivers and defensive backs shouted with glee: The tire flip was next, and they’d only have to watch.

The competition wasn’t much of one, as the defensive linemen flipped the monster-truck-sized tire across the field’s 100 yards long before their offensive counterparts could do the same.

“On the record, the black tire is heavier,” offensive tackle Justin Gilbert said, “so we did have a little disadvantage there.”

Afterward, the team huddled together with the smattering of alumni on hand — including wide receiver Torrey Smith, linebacker Adrian Moten and safety Antwine Perez, among others — as the

event’s organizers thanked the sponsors for their donations and help in improving on last year’s inaugural event.

“We wanted to double [donations] last year,” said Gilbert, a co-vice president of the university chapter, which set the donations goal at $10,000. “As long as every year we’re making more, it’s kind of one of those things whether we make a dollar or $10,000, as long as we’re giving back and stuff like that, it helps. Everywhere we can get it, it helps.”

With fewer than four weeks remaining until the start of summer practice, Tuesday’s action also provided a preview of the fierce competition officially set to resume Aug. 9.

“I was looking around, and you can see a lot of the guys really getting into competitive attitudes,” Gilbert said. “When we go into camp ... pretty much, the team splits. It’s offense versus defense the entire camp, and you can see that out here. The guys start to get a competitive edge, and it was nice being away from the regular, old ‘get out here and run.’”

TERP NOTES: Defensive tackle Joe Vellano was named to the Lombardi Award watch list on Tuesday. Vellano, a preseason first-team All-ACC selection, led the Terps with five sacks and 10.5 tackles for a loss in 13 starts last season.

Linebacker Kenny Tate, already on the watch list for the Bednarik Award, one of the country’s top honors for defensive players, was named one of 37 candidates for the Jim Thorpe Award on Monday. The award is bestowed annually on the nation’s best defensive back. sports@umdbk.com

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

After turnaround, Joffe leaves for Texas A&M

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

The coach who led the Terrapin women’s tennis team to the

NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006 last season won’t be around to guide a possible repeat performance. After his second year at the Terps’ helm,

Howard Joffe on Monday was named coach of the women’s tennis team at Texas A&M. Bill Byrne, the Aggies’ athletics director, said in a release that

Joffe’s ability to rebuild programs made him an attractive candidate to the search committee. Before turning the Terps’ program around, Joffe led

Miami (Ohio) to its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.

“He comes very highly recommended by many people within the tennis community and has done a great job of rebuilding two previous programs,” Byrne said.

Inheriting a troubled situation in College Park, Joffe rebounded from a dismal 2010 season in which the team went winless in conference play and 514 overall. A youthful and talented roster sparked the Terps this spring to three conference wins and a spot in the NCAA Tournament, where they fell to Washington in the first round.

Overall, the team finished with a 13-10 record.

Although Joffe, who could not be reached for comment, is

leaving behind a Terp team losing just one senior and returning All-ACC performer Cristina Sanchez-Quintanar, he will take over a Texas A&M program that has reached the NCAA Tournament in 12 consecutive seasons.

“It is no secret that Texas A&M is one of the best places in the country for tennis, as well as the entire athletics department,” Joffe said in the release.

A Terp athletics department spokesman said there is no specific timetable for the search for Joffe’s replacement and that the school is “exploring all our options.”

Senior staff writer Jonas Shaffer contributed to this report. munson@umdbk.com

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Cloud will transfer Decision leaves little depth at guard, but Frese confident about Moseley

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

Terrapin women’s basketball guard Natasha Cloud will transfer from the university before the fall semester for family reasons, coach Brenda Frese confirmed Wednesday.

Cloud, a rising sophomore from Broomall, Pa., recently learned that one of her three sisters was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Her father’s continued struggle with dementia, which Frese said is likely leading to Alzheimer’s disease, also helped Cloud decide she wanted to be closer to her family.

“She’s trying to transfer back close to home,” Frese said.

“Obviously, we support it and want to wish her all the best.”

As she seeks a hardship waiver — which would allow her to play in the upcoming season rather than sit out a year, as required of most transfers — Cloud might consider Villanova and St. Joseph’s, two schools within eight miles of her Philadel-

phia-suburb hometown.

Her departure leaves the Terps with little depth at point guard. While rising senior Anjale Barrett will likely return to her starting job, the departures of Cloud and Dara Taylor — who left for Penn State — puts only incoming freshman Brene Moseley behind Barrett on the depth chart.

And while Moseley is still recovering from a torn ACL, Frese is confident the highly touted Burtonsville native will be at 100 percent for the start of the season.

“All indications are she’s ahead of course,” Frese told TerrapinTimes.com, an affiliate of Rivals.com. “She has been released to work and [strength and conditioning coach] Kyle [Tarp] said she picks up things really fast. She’s going to have a big presence for us. She’s a scoring point guard and fun with the ball in her hands. She’s someone our fans are going enjoy watching play.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

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FOOTBALL

For Terps, a labor of love Team raises $9,000 at ‘Lift for Life’ event

BY JONAS SHAFFER Senior staff writer

For nearly 90 minutes Tuesday, on an unforgiving artificial turf surface and under a scorching sun that pushed temperatures high into the 90s, the Terrapin football team labored for a battle it knows won’t be won anytime this fall.

At their “Lift for Life” event sponsored by this university’s chapter of Uplifting Athletes, the Terps raised nearly $9,000 for the Boomer Esiason Foundation, a charity founded by the former Terp quarterback to raise awareness of and assist research for cystic fibrosis.

“Being part of the Maryland community and being part of the Maryland football team, that’s kind of what we want to represent, someone who’s involved in Members of the Terrapin football team run sprints before the start of Tuesday’s “Lift for Life” event, which raised nearly $9,000 for the Boomer Esiason Foundation. The organization aims to raise awareness of and help research for cystic fibrosis. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

see LIFT, page 11