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Police probe bar fire as arson Cornerstone Grill and Loft still closed after last weekend’s incident BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer
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Last year, Robotics @ Maryland finished tenth in the Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego. This year, the club and its robot, seen in the water above, won.
SINKING THE COMPETITION University club’s underwater robot takes first place BY CHRIS YU Staff writer
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After placing tenth in last year’s competition for autonomous underwater vehicles, the university’s Robotics @ Maryland club hoped to rank in the top five this summer. But thanks to a robot far more advanced than its predecessor, the club was in for a big surprise. Robotics @ Maryland took first place at the 11th Annual International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition in San Diego, which took place from July 29 to Aug. 3. The competition featured 25 schools from around the world as they competed to see whose robot is capable of performing the most tasks underwater. Members of the robotics club were shocked by the unexpected win. “It didn’t really sink in at first because we were so surprised,” said Joseph Gland, the graduate advisor to the club. “We went into the competition thinking it would be great getting second place.” The competition required each school’s robot to accomplish a set of objectives in a
The robot, seen above, had to complete a series of tasks during the competition, such as going through a gate, locating an item and picking the item up.
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Emu eggs: They may be green, but they are also 10 times the size of chicken eggs, have less bad cholesterol and are slightly higher in nutritional content, according to Westminster emu farmer Diane Brown. The $13 eggs are also one of more than 60 listings on www.foodtrader.org, an online farmer’s market run by the university’s Environmental Finance Center. The website launched July 15 and complements the
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In the midst of a presidential election reaching levels of intensity this summer normally reserved for September or October, two unlikely candidates with close ties to the university threw their names into the mix last week — except not as election candidates but as doctorate candidates. Tim Moore and Craig Garthwaite, second and third year economics graduate students respectively, released a study last week that estimated media mogul Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama resulted in more than one million votes for Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries this past year. Moore and Garthwaite, who focus their studies not on politics but primarily on health economics, thought the project would be creative and interesting but never imagined their
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Last week’s fire at Cornerstone Grill and Loft is being investigated as arson, fire officials said. The bar has been closed since Aug. 3 while damage from the fire and other vandalism is repaired, said College Park Public Services Director Bob Ryan after a conversation with Cornerstone owner Mark Srour. Prince George’s County Fire Department Spokesman Mark Brady said the fire had burned itself out before the fire department was called to the scene. Cornerstone employees found a “possible break-in and vandalism, and they noted that there may have been a fire,” Brady said. Brady said the first steps of an arson investigation are “processing physical evidence and looking for a fuel source” but said he could not be more specific because the investigation of the Cornerstone fire is ongoing. A sign posted on Cornerstone’s door last week encouraged patrons to go to Santa Fe Café while Cornerstone is repaired. Srour owns both bars, along with The Mark. Srour declined to discuss the fire, saying he was too busy. “My life is engulfed in getting Cornerstone back open,” he said.
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names would be featured in the campaign coverage of several national media outlets. “Craig and I were working for the same professor last year; we were just talking about Oprah and whether her effect on consumers might be the same as on voters,” Moore said. “Once we started talking, we thought, ‘Why not use the information on commercial products and use that as an analysis of voting behavior?’” Though Garthwaite is on vacation this week, he explained in an e-mail his study’s applicability. “I think that, in general, the academic community has an unclear view of how endorsements affect politics,” wrote Garthwaite in the e-mail. “To the extent that we can further the understanding of this in both the academic community and the general political arena, it is a positive thing.”
The meeting last month that decided a price floor for alcohol in College Park’s bars was called in response to pressure on county and state legislators, city officials said. The City of College Park hosted a meeting between bar owners, elected officials, police officers, representatives of the county liquor board, university officials and student leaders to discuss the Thirsty Turtle’s 25-cent rail drinks, city Public Services Director Bob Ryan said. Ryan said state Sens. Jim Rosapepe and Paul Pinsky and Prince George’s County Councilman Eric Olson received “concerns” the low prices may be encouraging students to excessive or binge drinking, but the three legislators could not be reached for comment yesterday.
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BERWYN HEIGHTS — A local mayor whose dogs were killed in a drug raid was cleared of any wrongdoing after police had been reluctant to rule out his involvement in drug smuggling or apologize for the violent incident. Prince George’s County Police Chief Melvin High said Friday he called Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, on Thursday to say they were no longer suspected in a drug smuggling scheme. A SWAT team raided the mayor’s home July 29 after intercepting a FedEx package shipped to Tomsic that was filled with 32 pounds of marijuana. Officers broke down the door, shot the two dogs and kept Calvo and his mother-in-law bound for nearly two hours. Police now believe the drug delivery was part of a scheme that sent packages to the homes of unsuspecting recipients. The packages would then be picked up by someone else shortly after delivery. Two suspects have been arrested in the case. – Compiled from wire reports CORRECTIONS In last week’s opinion section, the staff editorial misidentified the gender of Interim Dean of Libraries Desider Vikor. He is male. Also in last week’s opinion section, Laura Moore’s column, “Routes for Route 1,” an editing error misrepresented Moore’s opinions on the character of the city. Moore meant to say she is “appalled by the utter lack of charm and character” in the Route 1 downtown area, not the entire City of College Park.
giant pool of water. The robots must go through a gate, follow a predetermined path, drive into a red ball, go through a tunnel, locate an item, pick that item up and surface to a designated target. The robots must perform all of the above by themselves, without the aid of remote control or human guidance. The club’s robot, called Tortuga II, was able to finish most of the tasks successfully. To complete each objective, the robot had to navigate to several locations all on its own, using a camera and sonar technology to find its way around. “It’s like a little animal,” said Steve Moskovchenko, a recent graduate who specializes in electronics for the club. “It’s alive. You can tell it what to do, but it’s got a mind of its own.” Tortuga II’s ability to self-navigate is a far cry from the robot the club had last year, which could only move in a straight line, said Joseph Lisee, a computer science and aerospace engineering major who also leads the club’s software team. In fact, last year’s robot was only able to finish one task at the competition: going through the gate. It was unable to swim to the other objectives. But such a major leap in technology came at a price. Members of the club had to dedicate most of their free time to making the win possible. While other students may spend their weekends partying, the club got together on Friday nights to work on the robot, said Nicholas Limparis, an electrical engineering major who graduated last se-
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To perfect the robot, seen above, members of Robotics @ Maryland worked around the clock, logging in hours during class and on the weekends. mester and is the co-leader of the electronics team. There was so much work to be done that Moskovchenko said he sometimes designed the robot’s circuit boards during class. Staying up until 5 a.m. was a common occurrence for him, but he claimed “engineers are nocturnal.” This is only Robotics @ Maryland’s second year in the competition. Team members said their victory would not be possible without the university’s Space Systems Lab, which provided
them with a pool to test their robot in. Gland said no other team in the competition had access to this kind of facility. The robot has been a two-year effort and is funded mostly by the school, including the engineering school, the aerospace engineering department, the computer and electrical engineering department and the Institute for Systems Research and the University of Maryland Division of Research. Companies such as Apple, BAE
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University hopes to Despite skeptics, professors defend report spotlight rural goods “It’s not only OPRAH, from Page 1
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A screenshot of www.foodtrader.org. Items for sale on the website include ground emu meat. MARKET, from Page 1 center’s www.agtrader.org, which launched in May. In contrast to www.foodtrader.org, www.agtrader.org is geared toward farming equipment, livestock, hay, compost and so on, said Joanne Throwe, associate director for the Environmental Finance Center. “I was looking at Craigslist one day, and I thought, ‘Why can’t we do this?’” Throwe said. The online farmer’s market allows state farmers to post descriptions, pictures and asking prices for their fresh foods. Users can browse the site by food category, newest listings or county or create their own listings for desired items. And similar to Craigslist, pickup and purchase details are worked out entirely between the buyer and seller, and neither party has to pay to use the site. With listings such as Brown’s emu eggs cropping up, Throwe said even she is “surprised at what Maryland has to offer.” On the site, Brown also lists emu oil products (“a pharmaceutical in Australia”) and hopes to add emu meat (“the healthiest meat you can buy”) once a category is created for it. “It’s a great site; we were really happy to learn about it,” said Brown, who posted her listings Sunday. “We were impressed about how it’s set up.” The simplicity and user-friend-
liness will hopefully be the key to the website’s success, Throwe said, and may help urban and suburban users appreciate the state’s rural offerings. “As we have more urban growth, this is a great way to maintain some of our farms in the state,” she said. Indeed, the state was in dire need of something along these lines, said Sam White, the agriculture and concentrated animal feeding operation chair of the Sierra Club’s Maryland Chapter. The model of traditional agriculture is being threatened by rising fuel and energy costs, said White, who runs a 177-acre beef and produce farm in Mount Savage with his wife and her family. With this website and others such as www.localharvest.org, family farmers can depend on a direct marketing scheme to reach customers, he said. The next step is to spread the word about the website, Throwe said, by reaching out to groups such as the Restaurant Association of Maryland — which has already informed its members about the website — and organizations such as hospitals. For example, an announcement will be sent to hospitals via the sustainable food program run by the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s School of Nursing, Throwe added.
Moore and Garthwaite analyzed Oprah’s ability to influence consumers through subscriptions of her magazine and sales from her book club, and applied this same impact on voting behavior while factoring in numerous control variables such as age, race, income and unemployment. “Even after controlling for all those things, we still find a relationship between Oprah’s magazine circulation and Barack Obama’s share of the votes,” said Moore, who placed less emphasis on the reported exact number of votes from Winfrey’s endorsement — 1,015,559 — than on the more general finding that Winfrey’s endorsement had an enormous influence. Economics chair Peter Murrell, who said he read Moore and Garthwaite’s 59page report and was “very convinced by the result,” commented on the novelty
of such a study. “It’s wonderful because two graduate students produced a very innovative study,” Murrell said. “It’s not only getting attention because of Obama and Oprah, but also because it’s really new. Nobody’s been able to get these type of results before on the effect of a celebrity endorsement.” Yet others in the political and economic community are not as impressed as Murrell. When Moore and Garthwaite sent the study to economics professors — including University of Chicago professor and Freakanomics co-author Steve Levitt — who proceeded to report the findings on their blogs, it generated much skeptical reaction. For example, some people are not convinced that subscribers of O, The Oprah Magazine would not have voted for Obama regardless of Winfrey’s endorsement, including CNN senior politi-
getting attention because of Obama and Oprah, but also because it’s really new.” –Peter Murrell ECONOMICS CHAIR
cal analyst Bill Schneider, who sarcastically barked on the air last week, “One-million-fifteen-thousand-fivehundred-fifty-nine votes she brought to Barack Obama. Well, that’s a little absurd. How do you get specific to that degree?” Economics professor Bill Evans, who advised Moore and Garthwaite when they worked for him as his
research assistants before he left the university for the University of Notre Dame, said he warned the economists of the potential negative backlash from releasing the study, but still supported the research’s credibility. “What’s convincing in the paper is what they do to show it’s really not magazine subscribers that’s really driving this; it’s really Oprah’s endorsement,” said Evans, who said Oprah’s extremely popular celebrity status combined with this year’s unusually long primary season enabled such groundbreaking statistical findings to take place. And as for the mixed results from the public’s discerning eye, Moore was able to take the reaction in stride. “The difficulty in doing academic work is that nobody might pay attention to your results, so the interest from the media has been nice,” Moore said. penndbk@gmail.com
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City says state pressured bars to raise prices LIQUOR, from Page 1 The bar owners then “voluntarily agreed” to a $1 minimum charge for a shot, mixed drink or 16-ounce beer, as suggested at the meeting by R.J. Bentley’s owner John Brown, Ryan said. Neither Brown nor the other bar owners at the meeting would comment for this story. But although city officials have stressed that the price floor was purely voluntary, a sign that had been posted at the Thirsty Turtle explaining the new high prices suggested that the city had forced their decision. Ryan said any pressure put on the Thirsty Turtle was not from the city, but from the state legislators — whom city officials said promised to legislate an alcohol price floor if one was not reached voluntarily — and from the owners of other bars. “Some business owners thought a quarter a beer was unreasonable and irresponsi-
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ble,” Ryan said. “It was peer pressure, where responsible business owners put pressure on other business owners.” Ryan said he could not speculate as to why the bar owners would agree to raise prices if the lower prices had been better for their business, but did say he thought they might have fewer liability risks with fewer binge-drinking patrons. City officials said there were four or five students at the meeting who were invited
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Warsaw: Poland’s second city
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n Aug. 1, several days of celebrations commenced in Krakow. There were military parades, banners, food and performances. The festivities were a little weird to a foreigner who knew little of Polish history, but it finally made sense when I went to Warsaw. The parades were in celebration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, which began on Aug. 1, 1944 and lasted 63 days. One of Poland’s most tragic events, it is also one of its most celebrated. While the other Allied powers did not even consider this event to be part of the World War II effort, to the Poles, this was their biggest fight for freedom. With the Red Army poised to liberate them in a matter of days, Varsovians knew this was their last chance to assert their sovereignty by liberating themselves. Instead of waiting, the campaign was launched. Unfortunately for Warsaw, the Nazis decided to fight back with great force — an army of 15,000 that had doubled by the end of the uprising. The Poles had 40,000 soldiers but only enough weapons for 2,500. The dead lay in the streets, in some places piled up to the second story of houses. The story of the Warsaw Uprising is a fascinating one whose legacy still lives on in the city. Historians speculate the uprising’s largest effect was to weaken a society that could have otherwise opposed communism. Different from the many other cities destroyed in the crossfire, Warsaw was actually systematically leveled by the Nazis. After the uprising, the Nazis punished Poland by destroying Warsaw block by block. If there is one thing the Nazis were best at, it would have to be their systematic way of doing things. Even when it came to destroying the city, the instructions for destroying each building were actually written on its walls. The great palaces and churches –Sonny Franckel that once made COLUMNIST the city as beautiful as Krakow were all demolished. Eightyfive percent of the city was destroyed. As I have mentioned though, the Poles are very proud of their country. Warsaw was completely rebuilt to its earlier splendor using old paintings of the city as a guide. Much of it is so accurate, it is extremely easy to forget the buildings are new. Of course there are still jokes about it, especially about the one section of old town that strongly resembles Disney World. And it really does — I was waiting for Mickey to walk by and fireworks to go off the whole time. But come on, if you’re going to Warsaw to see old buildings, you’ve gone to the wrong place. Modern Warsaw is much larger than Krakow and far more modern. While Krakow was built outward with small quaint buildings, Warsaw was built up with modern skyscrapers. Fancy malls and modern towers (including one fondly known as the “Palace of Culture and Science,” or “Stalin’s penis”) dot the skyline, unlike in Krakow where the tallest buildings are ancient cathedrals. The two cities have been rivals since the end of the 16th century when King Sigismund III Vasa moved the capital from Krakow to Warsaw. Even today, Krakovians talk of Warsaw as a lesser city and unworthy of a visit. I have been told dozens of times now that Warsaw is not worth visiting. Of course that’s not true — Warsaw is just a very different type of city, more modern, rich with Polish history and a source of both jokes and Polish pride.
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f last week’s article on the lack of a sprinkler sys- bar owner, as the city council began looking into taktem at Santa Fe Café seemed a little familiar, it’s ing legal action against Srour over the contract. And it’s about time. While The Diamondback has because Mark Srour, as he has for the past five criticized Srour in the past for his years, tried yet again to avoid seemingly carefree attitude toward accounting for the safety of the the safety of the patrons of his bar, patrons of one of his bars. the City of College Park has not done Since signing a contract with the city more than five years ago to The city council should enough to hold him responsible for the installment of a sprinkler system. install sprinklers in the bar, Srour has harangue Mark Srour In fact, earlier this year, the council time and again evaded city council requests that he actually install a sys- until he begins installing decided not to press Srour on the point, supporting the renewal of tem. But in the last two weeks, two a sprinkler system at Santa Fe’s liquor license despite the important events occurred that Santa Fe Café lack of sprinklers. should — hopefully and finally — It is our hope the city keeps this spur Srour into action. newfound resolve as it pushes Srour A fire at Cornerstone Grill and Loft, also owned by Srour, has been shuttered since to install sprinklers. Anything less than Srour putting Aug. 3 as police investigate the incident as a poten- a new sprinkler system in place as soon as possible should be seen for what it is — an obvious evasion tial arson. Meanwhile, just a few days later, Srour skipped a from someone who’s perfected the art. And as the city, Srour and all his patrons learned city council meeting at which he was supposed to report on the sprinkler system at Santa Fe. The from the fire at Cornerstone, the need for sprinklers in absence may have been one slight too many from the Santa Fe is not an issue the council should let slide.
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“The great palaces and churches that once made the city as beautiful as Krakow were all demolished. Eighty-five percent of the city was destroyed.”
Sonny Franckel is a senior computer science major and has been writing summer columns on her experience interning with Google in Krakow. She can be reached at sfrancke@umd.edu.
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ith an eye toward expanding the Olympics and attracting new athletes, sponsors and viewers from across the globe, the International Olympic Committee will roll out several new sports this month as it seeks to capitalize on the first Olympics held in China. Here’s a brief description of some of the new games Bob Costas and crew will call on NBC later this month:
Pass Out Competitors stand in downtown Beijing during rush hour breathing in the freshly polluted air. The last one left standing, gasping for air wins a medal and a lifetime prescription for asthma medication. Rumors are circulating the entire U.S. delegation for the sport hails from Los Angeles.
Sweatin’ for the Pennies Athletes are placed in a sweatshop setting while given grueling, repetitive tasks such as assembling several hundred Mr. Potato Heads a day for shipment to western countries, all while being paid a
fraction of a cent for each hour worked. The athlete who survives under these conditions the longest gets the gold (Made in China, of course).
Whack-a-Protester Armed with nightsticks and strict orders to keep those pesky human rights advocates at bay, contestants roam the streets of Beijing, pulling down posters and cracking the skulls of all who dissent against the People’s Republic. Bonus points for arresting anyone connected to the Dalai Lama or Joey Cheek.
All-Day Buffet Taking cues from the popular reality show Fear Factor, this event will have competitors gorging on cheap local cuisine and trying their best to stave off dysentery. Think of it as an obstacle course — but with parasitic amoebae! Home field advantage definitely goes to Beijing natives on this one, and it also explains why Michael Phelps was recently spotted chomping on some scorpion while swimming laps. Cross-training, apparently.
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ummer sucks. Let me just come out and say it. Summer sucks. Now that we are in college, summer just isn’t what it used to be — going to the pool, hanging out with all your friends, going to camp and so on. Now, we are adults, and we have to do adult things. Most importantly, we need to find summer jobs. There are two main paths to take when working in between semesters during the long summer months: find an internship to further your career or find a job that gives you some spending money for the school year. The first option is the internship that furthers your career. In most cases, you will make very little money if any at all. However, that resume of yours looks better afterward. And when you see one of your friends who is still working as a camp –Mike Rosen counselor or COLUMNIST lifeguard, you look down on him and feel you are so much better than those ingrates. Last summer, I took the unpaid internship route and worked on Capitol Hill. I worked hard, putting in more than 50 hours a week without making a single penny. However, I looked at my friends at home who were working at the local pizzeria and thought how much better I was than them. I was important. I was furthering my career. They were wasting their time. Fast forward one year: I worked for a moving company and am now working as a painter. This is option two: doing manual labor, working for a camp or doing anything that will get you minimum wage or higher. Sure, it won’t look as good as Mr. Capitol Hill, but you will be laughing when you can afford gas or the cover charge at Thirsty Turtle (both of which are a bit too costly anyway). However, there is still that nagging feeling of wasting your time, because your friends are working “important” jobs. I have experienced those feelings this summer, moving heavy loads or whitewashing entire floors of buildings for two weeks straight. Yeah, I’m making more than $15 an hour. But is it fulfilling? Absolutely not. In fact, I feel inferior when I see some of my friends working for accounting firms or law firms, while I am stuck ruining my $50 Nike track shoes splattering paint all over them. All of this brings me to the point of this article: Why should there be a s t i g m a –Mike Rosen attached to COLUMNIST working a job over the summer that doesn’t further your career? Since when do we have to give up our childhood at the age of 18? I know my parents didn’t. My mother was a waitress, and my father worked at a gas station during his summer breaks. Not having “important” internships didn’t prevent them from becoming a physical therapist or a doctor, respectively. Why, in the year 2008, is the only way to get into graduate school working internships? I think all of this is nonsense. But, of course, this is the world we live in, where if you aren’t working to eventually make the big bucks in your career, you are wasting your time.
“Summer sucks. Let me just come out and say it. Summer sucks.”
“Why should there be a stigma attached to working a job over the summer that doesn’t further your career?”
Mike Rosen is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at mrosen11@umd.edu.
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THIS VIRGIN SCORES Diversions cherry picks the highlights and lowlights of last weekend’s festival at Pimlico in Baltimore BY ROXANA HADADI Senior staff writer
Back in the day, when WHFS 99.1 FM still existed, summer festivals weren’t just for music fans in Indio,
Calif. (Coachella), Chicago (Lollapalooza) or Manchester, Tenn. (Bonnaroo). Local fans of rock and hip-hop mourned the day the festival died; were they doomed to shows at small clubs forever?
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The Offspring provided a career-spanning set on South Stage Saturday.
Enter the Virgin Mobile Festival. In recent years, the festival has brought dozens of acts to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, and this past weekend was no different. Thousands of fans packed the race course this weekend for headliners such as The Offspring, Nine Inch Nails, Stone Temple Pilots and Kanye West, but just because there were crowds didn’t mean there were good performances all around. Read on for Diversions’ list of the best, the worst and the just plain boring.
Though the crowd wasn’t nearly as big as the one flocking toward Kanye, audience members went crazy for the newer singles “1,000,000” and “Discipline” and favorites such as “Closer,” “Only” and “Head Like a Hole.” Only adding to the greatness was the phenomenal light show, which featured two huge projection screens that were raised and lowered throughout the set and displayed ridiculous effects, like a night sky and a thunderstorm. Oh, Trent. Is there anything you can’t do?
BEST HEADLINER: Nine Inch Nails DAY: Sunday SET TIME: 8:05 p.m. to 10 p.m. VENUE: North Stage Trent Reznor is a rock god. After releasing two free albums this year, Reznor has hit the road with the Lights in the Sky tour, which capped off Sunday’s performances. Hitting the North Stage a little after 8 p.m., Reznor — with tourmates-but-not-official-band-members Alessandro Cortini, Robin Finck, Josh Freese and Justin Meldal-Johnsen — brought out both the rage and the rhythm, performing some of the band’s most popular singles and a lengthy interlude of instrumental pieces.
BEST SET LIST: The Offspring DAY: Saturday SET TIME: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. VENUE: South Stage Dexter Holland’s not just smart at science. The Offspring’s lead singer is also pretty damn good at crafting a bangin’ set list, which featured tons of the band’s best singles — who knew they had so many? — but mainly focused on 1998’s Americana and 1994’s Smash, the bestselling independent-label album in history. Want to hear new songs “Hammerhead” and “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid”? Check. Older stuff such as “Come Out and Play (Keep ’em Separated),” “Gone Away” and “Self Esteem”? Got it. Even “Pretty Fly (For a
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Nine Inch Nails’ awe-inspiring light show included a live re-creation of the music video for With Teeth’s “Only.” White Guy)” made an appearance, during which the humongous crowd — which stretched from the South Stage, where The Offspring
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Other performers at the 2008 Virgin Mobile Festival included indie folksters She & Him (She being Zooey Deschanel, above) and 81-year-old rhythm and blues legend Chuck Berry (below).
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On the verge of pulling a Kanye West — à la West’s Bonnaroo 2008 performance — Lil Wayne arrived 40 minutes late for his Sunday Virgin set.
Lil Wayne and Bob Dylan disappoint at third annual Virgin Mobile Festival VIRGIN, from Page 7
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Lil Wayne DAY: Sunday SET TIME: Supposed to be 3:50 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.; actually showed up 40 minutes late, at 4:28 p.m. VENUE: South Stage Oh, Weezy. Couldn’t you have phoned home and let the disgustingly huge crowd — poor Taking Back Sunday, who was scheduled for the same time at the North Stage — know you were going to be so late? As the minutes ticked by, the crowd grew more and more antsy — booing and throwing up the middle finger — and when Lil Wayne finally appeared at 4:28 p.m., neither the crowd nor Wayne immediately got into it. And an appearance by Kanye West couldn’t even help things — two egos, one stage and not nearly as good as expected.
Undead think it was a good look? The group, whose first public performance was at Virgin, not only proved their lack of fashion sense, but their set was almost pitiful. Most members of the six-person group seemed exceedingly nervous, hiding toward the back of the stage, and their efforts to pump up the crowd often fell flat. Poor kids — they tried, but it’s hard when your specific brand of music makes Hannah Montana almost bearable. Almost.
WORST STAGE PRESENCE: Bob Dylan DAY: Sunday SET TIME: Supposed to be 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m.; was later
WORST NEWCOMER: Hollywood Undead DAY: Sunday SET TIME: 11:30 a.m. to noon VENUE: South Stage
because of Lil Wayne’s delay VENUE: South Stage Bob Dylan may be America’s best living songwriter, but a lot has changed since the ’60s. Though Dylan may have created classics such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” and Blonde on Blonde, seeing him live in recent years was, to put it bluntly, a blower. Listless and lackluster, he may be a legend, but it doesn’t excuse that Victoria’s Secret commercial — or his complete lack of energy and disinterest in his fans. Apparently, the times really are a-changin’.
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REVIEW | TROPIC THUNDER
Journey into the (light) heart of darkness Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black prove there’s room for more than one comedy in August BY DAN BENAMOR Staff writer
While the boys of comedy are busy getting stoned, the men are going off to war. And it’s hilarious. Ben Stiller (The Heartbreak Kid) takes a relatively rare step behind the camera for
Tropic Thunder, and the result is a much more assured, consistently funny effort than his previous directing gig, Zoolander. Going from self-absorbed male models to self-absorbed male actors, Stiller and Co. find different ways to mine their comic vein and easily fill out a feature comedy. Thunder’s best idea is also its most controversial: Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) stars as white method actor Kirk Lazarus, who dyes his skin to play the role of a black sergeant in the war movie all the characters are starring in (also called Tropic Thunder). Downey’s role is really the spark holding the whole movie together; it draws the best and biggest laughs, and silly role or not, Downey absolutely disappears into the character. There is no sign of his trademark, screwballpaced charm. When he pulls his wig off, it takes a moment to remember it is really Downey playing this ridiculous c h a r a c t e r, laughably attempting to fashion a convincing Af r i c a n American sergeant
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honcho. A good example of Tropic Thunder’s ingenuity and, for lack of a better word, depth is in the handling of the character Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson, Cuttin Da Mustard). An over-the-top rapper moonlighting in film, Alpa Chino is introduced through one of his music videos, his face next to two butts as he plugs his soft drink “Booty Sweat” and candy bar “Bust a Nut.” Alpa Chino could have just been an obnoxious character who relied on his rap persona for laughs throughout, but he reveals himself to be intelligent and not the hyper-sexed figure his media image suggests as the movie goes on. There may be moments here and there that drag, but Stiller and Co. have managed to pack Tropic Thunder with enough surprises to keep the pace up. Not every joke hits, and there is, to some extent, an over-reliance on vulgarity in all the dialogue, as if saying something dirty enough should warrant a laugh by itself (Sorry folks, but South Park has the monopoly on that racket). The bottom line, though, is Tropic Thunder is a really funny movie. For a comedy, this means mission accomplished. Tropic Thunder should have minimal competition as the last
smash hit of the summer. Mark two this season for Downey, whose career comeback has reached the stratosphere and knows no boundaries — not even race. dan.benamor@gmail.com
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Tracking the red and white Beat writer Eric Detweiler logs football’s first scrimmage of the summer
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Former Terps have mixed results at Beijing Olympics The U.S. field hockey team — which has three former Terps — has tied its first two games of Olympic play. Keli Smith, who graduated from this university in 2001, scored in the first game to help U.S. come back against Argentina. USA field hockey still has a shot at the medal round, but the US soccer team was knocked out of contention yesterday after a loss to Nigeria. Former Terps Maurice Edu, Robbie Rogers and Chris Seitz were all on the U.S. team, which finished pool play 1-1-1. Gist to play overseas The San Antonio Express-News reported Wednesday former Terps forward James Gist signed a contract to play for Italian team Angelico Biella. Gist was selected by the NBA’s Spurs in the second round of June’s draft, but with San Antonio’s crowded roster, Gist likely would have spend much of his rookie season in the NBA Developmental League. By playing in Italy, he opens up a roster spot, while remaining part of the Spurs’ property.
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The Terps — seen here during spring practice in April — had their first scrimmage Saturday. They will scrimmage again Saturday evening.
BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer
The Terps took the field at Byrd Stadium for the first of three official intrasquad scrimmages Saturday evening. The defense put on the red. The offense donned the white. Overall, the defense dominated, forcing a pair of turnovers and holding the offense to 17 points despite often being stuck with a short field. Friedgen said the offense was rustier than usual because he normally has a small scrimmage at practice before the first live scrimmage but opted to do “The Oklahoma Drill,” a competitive tackling exercise, this week instead. Here’s a look at what else happened during the 15-possession “game.” QB Update: Junior Chris Turner got the scrimmage started with a 13-play drive that resulted in a missed 50-yard field goal by Obi Egekeze. He was 8-of-12 for 93 yards, and coach Ralph Friedgen said afterward he thought Turner performed a little better than his competition, senior Jordan Steffy and junior Josh Portis. Turner’s reaction: “That’s the first time I’ve heard that all camp, so I guess that’s good, right?” Portis was 4-of-9 for 69 yards with an interception that was returned 30 yards by junior cornerback Nolan Carroll for a touchdown. But he bounced back to complete the longest pass of the day, a 41-yard laser to freshman wide receiver Quinton McCree, which set up a touchdown. “[Portis] just waited [on the interception]. You can’t do that, but then again, he comes back and makes some plays, too,” Friedgen said. “I think he’s learning, and I see him getting better.” Steffy was 5-of-9 for 76 yards, and he was picked off in the end zone by senior cornerback Kevin Barnes. There’s still a lot of time for a starter to emerge, but Friedgen got a look at each quarterback in a variety of situations. “I’m trying to evaluate all of them with all teams and then see who does what,” Friedgen said.
Scrimmage Star: True freshman running back Davin Meggett. Meggett, the son of former NFL running back Dave Meggett, burst onto the scene by scoring the Terps’ lone offensive touchdowns. He scored from six yards out on the seventh possession of the game, and he opened the 14th possession by taking a pitch up the right sideline for a 50-yard touchdown run. “He’s got a lot of growing to do,” Friedgen said. “You can see he’s got ability, and he’s really pushing for the second team spot right now.” Meggett finished with 73 yards on 13 carries and solidly outperformed sophomore Morgan Green, his main competition for the second running back spot. Green finished with minus-1 yards rushing on four carries and did not get a touch after being whistled for a false start before Meggett’s first touchdown. But Meggett was less than optimistic about the performance, guessing he made mistakes on 11 of his 13 carries. “There’s a lot of yelling going on,” Meggett said. “Just because I scored doesn’t mean anything. I still make mistakes. I make a lot of mistakes.” Play of the Day: Carroll scored the team’s first points of the season on the second possession of the scrimmage. He jumped a sideline route thrown by Portis, one of his roommates, and scampered untouched down the sideline for the touchdown. Carroll, a former wide receiver, is battling for the starting cornerback position opposite Kevin Barnes. “It was a confidence builder,” Carroll said. “But my biggest thing is I’m trying to do this on the field. I won’t feel accomplishment until I’m making the same plays when the games matter.” Hit of the Day: On the first possession, Turner hit freshman wide receiver Ronnie Tyler near the right hashmark, but as he secured the ball, reserve strong safety Drew Robinson leveled Tyler with a bone-crunching blow. The South Car-
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Terp Lowlights: Egekeze was just 1for-3 on field goal attempts during the scrimmage. After missing wide left on his 50-yard attempt, he had a 38-yard attempt blocked by junior Deege Galt. Egekeze later made a 20-yarder and then hit both of his short field goals during the team’s goal line drill. Tyler held on after Allen’s crushing hit, but he dropped a pair of punts as a return man. After the second muff, Allen was replaced deep by senior Danny Oquendo. Friedgen said he will try other players in the spot as camp progresses, but Oquendo, who returned punts last season before being injured, is the front runner for the spot. “Better I find out now than against Delaware,” Friedgen said. “Right now, it’s not close. Danny Oquendo will be back there because he can catch the ball.”
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Terps must replace three starters in secondary FOOTBALL, from Page 12 also provides a luxury to the secondary. “Expectations are already high from what you practice against,” said Barnes, the secondary’s lone returning starter. “It’s not really a shock once the game comes.” Barnes, who led the Terps with four interceptions last season, normally lines up across from Heyward-Bey during drills to bring together a battle of talents that is exceptional, even by ACC standards. Heyward-Bey said after working together for so long the cornerbacks and wide receivers begin to know each other a little too well. “I just try to run at them full speed at all times and give them different looks,” Heyward-Bey said. “We try to show them different types of looks, so they’ll be ready on Saturdays.” Junior cornerback Nolan Carroll, who returned an interception for a touchdown during Saturday’s scrimmage, calls the Terps’ receivers the best in the nation. Carroll, a former wide receiver who is battling for the starting spot opposite Barnes, sees their
speed and athleticism up close on a daily basis. He said it’s not fun trying to play press coverage against a Terp wide receiver running a fade. “They make you think so much about them running by you, but they can run other routes,” Carroll said. “By the time you realize it, they’re running a slant or a comeback.” Friedgen said he’s been pleased with both units so far in camp. He likes the talent that has emerged in the secondary, including Carroll and USC-transfer Antwine Perez, and expects Barnes to have a big senior season. Even as the offense focuses on selecting a starting quarterback, Friedgen has expressed confidence in the overall passing game. The Terps have two more weeks of chasing each other around before the season opener against Delaware on August 30 — a chance to work against a new opponent. Heyward-Bey said he’ll be ready because of the competition with his teammates. “It’s been tough,” Heyward-Bey said. “We’ve really been going back and forth.” edetweilerdbk@gmail.com
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Lacrosse player Young arrested on DWI charges Sophomore attackman will be suspended for at least two games BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer
Terrapin lacrosse player Ryan Young was arrested and charged with DWI on Aug. 2, just four months after teammate Travis Reed was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession. Young, an attackman who was third on the Terps with 27 points his freshman season, will miss at least two games of his sophomore campaign due to the Student-Athlete Code of Conduct. “If a student athlete is charged with a DUI or DWI, he is immediately suspended for 10
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Ryan Young was a huge spark for the Terps as a freshman, but his offseason activity will force him to miss time in 2009.
percent of the schedule,” Senior Associate Athletics Director Kathleen Worthington said. “It doesn’t matter how the case turns out; just putting yourself into a situation to be charged with it automatically triggers the suspension.” Police stopped Young in his hometown of Manhasset, N.Y., around 2:05 a.m., according to Nassau County Police Spokesman Michael Toich. He was held overnight and sent to arraignment court. Young is under 21 years old, so any amount of alcohol in his system while driv-
Strong receiving, secondary units make each other better Top cornerback Barnes stars in football’s first scrimmage of summer BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior Staff Writer
Terrapin wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey had been held in check for much of the football team’s first
intrasquad scrimmage Saturday when the preseason All-American found a seam in the secondary and hauled in a 38-yard pass from senior quarterback Jordan Steffy. Three plays later, senior corner-
back Kevin Barnes sat in the end zone cradling the football after grabbing a tipped pass for a momentumkilling interception. “That’s what
they do,” Heyward-Bey said of his team’s secondary. “Hopefully, they can do that against another team when the season starts.” The secondary, which must replace three starters from last year’s team, has gotten some quick experience working against a talented group of wide receivers that features five players who can run the 40-yard dash in 4.5 seconds or less. After constantly competing during seven-on-seven drills throughout the summer and battling through the beginning of preseason camp, the
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wide receivers and the secondary are very familiar with each other. The competition between the two groups runs high, and coach Ralph Friedgen hopes that can push both units into the ACC elite. “I think it helps,” Friedgen said. “They get to go a lot of different periods against each other, and there’s good competition there.” While the receiving corps makes life easier for whoever wins the starting quarterback job as well as offensive coordinator James Franklin, it
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