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Legality of city speed camera questioned Despite AAA complaint, city officials said camera OK

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

The location of a speed camera on Metzerott Road is being challenged by AAA Mid-Atlantic for lacking proper signs to warn motorists. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

A speed camera on Metzerott Road that has slapped nearly 110,000 drivers with a hefty $40 fine over the course of a year may not be operating legally, according to AAA MidAtlantic officials.

At a Wednesday press conference in College Park, AAA challenged the legality of the camera’s location, citing the lack of signage indicating the presence of a speed camera and its alleged technological flaws. But city officials

said the camera complies with the law.

“It’s a ‘gotcha’ for greenbacks,” said Lon Anderson, AAA’s managing director of public and government relations. “This camera is all about making money.”

The road abruptly reduces speeds because it is near the university, Anderson said, and the State Highway Administration requires proper signs warning drivers that a speed monitoring system is in use.

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BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

After 17 years at this university and 10 years in the Office of Student Conduct, Andrea Goodwin is ready to assume her biggest leadership position yet — director of the Office of Student Conduct.

Goodwin, who most recently served as associate director of student conduct, will officially take over as the director Sept. 6. Now charged with leading the university’s student judicial office and overseeing contentious policies such as Good Samaritan, Goodwin’s new position will largely center around working directly with students.

Goodwin said some of her initiatives will include reorganizing the office to manage the large caseload of student judiciary cases and strengthening the department’s relationship with colleges and student groups.

“We want to get the University Student Judiciary and staff members in student conduct to have a more public face and solicit some feedback from students so I know what’s on students’ minds,” Goodwin said. “We want to make sure they understand the rules and regulations and that we exist.”

Former director John Zacker left the position at the start of this month to assume the role of Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs — yet another in a string of administrative turnovers this year.

After Zacker announced his departure in June, university officials assembled a national search committee to find his replacement. Zacker said Goodwin’s wealth of experience in the department set her apart from the pack of applicants.

“She’s got a breadth of experience that contributes to her likely success in the position,” he said, adding that her experience covered “both academic and non-academic conduct.”

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CORRUPTION VS. CULTURE As 200 people came together to sing India’s national anthem and view its flag from the Nyumburu Amphitheater Monday evening, it was more than just a celebration of the country’s 65th Independence Day — it was a chance to bring the culture and issues of India to this campus.

“As India tries to take the important step and establish itself as a world superpower, it is important to

remember our national motto: Truth alone triumphs,” said Vasudevan Achuthan, a biology doctoral student and event co-host.

Both students and local residents attended the event, hosted by student group Develop Empower Synergize India.

As they ate traditional Indian dishes, many watched female Bollywood dancers perform, and dozens sported traditional saris

and kurtas.

Te event was also an opportunity for many to draw attention to government corruption they said continues to plague the country.

Protesters held signs demanding the recovery of alleged embezzled government funds and the passage of anti-corruption legislation as the audience awaited the ceremonial flag hoisting.

Despite the strong support, the signs were set aside once the festivities began.

“Democracy is a rediscovery for India,” said Ashutosh Gupta, a physics doctoral student and former DESI president. “Being a new governing system, people are trying to understand it. There is — right now — rampant corruption from top to bottom.”

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Before raising national flags at Monday’s India Independence Day celebration, protesters gathered to rally against alleged corruption in the country. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Graduate programs prepare to compare new GRE scores Testing overhaul officially launched Aug. 1

BY MOLLY MARCOT Staff writer

University researcher Don Schmadel found run-off from a construction site. PHOTO COURTESY OF DON SCHMADEL

Officials find pollution at off-campus construction site Researcher reported water contamination to state department

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

It was an ordinary summer’s day stroll in downtown College Park for physics researcher Don Schmadel — or so he thought.

But when he passed a construc-

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tion site at the 7420 block of Princeton Avenue on July 13, he noticed a fire hose leaking a stream of water, mud and oil into a storm drain — a matter the state Department of the Environment is now investigating due to his discovery.

“I was just like, ‘What’s this?’ This

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isn’t supposed to be going down into the storm drain,” Schmadel said.

“This is pollution.”

When county inspectors reviewed the site later in July, they discovered construction sediment had indeed

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Although the new GRE has proved to be a more difficult test for aspiring graduate students, universities across the country — including this one — are now grappling with how to compare scores between the new and old test.

The revamped Graduate Record Examination — a test taken by aspiring graduate students — launched Aug. 1. In addition to a change in the question types — some questions now require test takers to choose multiple correct answers with no partial credit given — the scoring scale was altered and the length of the test increased from three to four hours.

But comparing the old GRE to the new one is not going to be an easy task for colleges and universities, according to officials. Kaplan Test

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Prep surveyed the top 50 graduate programs in psychology, engineering, business and public administration about the new examination and its results showed the majority — 83 percent — had no preference on whether applicants submitted the old or new GRE. However, some said they are hesitant to accept the new test.

“Twelve percent of [surveyed graduate programs] said there’s actually an advantage to submitting scores from the old GRE, and that really shows that they’re not fully informed or really comfortable yet using new GRE scores,” said Lee Weiss, graduate studies director for Kaplan, noting only 5 percent claimed to prefer the new test to the old one.

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University researcher to collect 1M stink bugs for project In response to local dairy farmer’s concerns, researcher studies if stink bugs in cow feed negatively affect milk

BY KIRSTEN PETERSEN For The Diamondback

Not only should milk drinkers give their carton a whiff if it’s neared the expiration date — according to a university researcher, fresh milk should also be checked for a stench that may originate from a continuously growing population of stink bugs.

In response to concerns from dair y farmers across the state, university agricultural outreach agent and dair y scientist Stanley Fultz is attempting to determine whether stink bugs that are accidentally blended into cow feed impact the odor and flavor of cow milk.

Fultz said he was inspired to research the effects of cow

stink bug consumption after meeting a Frederick County dair y farmer who reported finding between 50 and 100 stink bugs coating each of his corn stalks. When it came time to har vest and process the corn into cow feed — known as silage — the stink bugs went straight into the mix with the rest of the crop.

In April, Fultz began making monthly visits to six farms in the state to collect samples of silage and milk, which he sends to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

There, USDA scientists analyze the samples for the presence of two odor compounds found in stink bugs. “[Farmers] are very much in favor of the study going on.

They’re thankful we’re looking into it,” Fultz said. “Their

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biggest concern is how do we get rid of stink bugs altogether.”

Although laboratory results are currently unavailable, Fultz said he anticipates the tests will show limited quantities of odor compounds, which will likely not be dangerous to humans or to cows.

“It doesn’t look like it’s going to be a major problem, at least not initially, because a lot of our milk will get diluted down” he said.

But if the stink bug population increases, Fultz said they could present a national threat to cows and local dair y farmers.

“If we continue to see an explosion of stink bug numbers and ever ybody is chopping corn that has this odor, that’s another stor y; then we may have a problem with our

milk supply,” he said. “But as of right now, I don’t think it’s going to be an issue. That’s the good news.”

Beginning in September, Fultz and Randy Baldwin, a research animal scientist at the USDA, will collect one million stink bugs from communities grappling with infestations to understand how many stink bugs can be consumed by cows before an odor or flavor variation is identified in milk.

Fultz said he plans to collect samples from the sides of stink bug-covered buildings, rather than the individual insects themselves.

“We had houses here last fall in Frederick County [where] the stink bugs were so thick on the side of the house that you could not tell

what the color of the house was,” Fultz said.

Following collection, Fultz and Baldwin will freeze the stink bugs and add them to cow feed in regimented amounts.

Fultz will present the results of these two experiments at meetings of the American Dair y Science Association and the National Association of County Agricultural Agents next year.

University entomology senior agent Jerr y Brust said this research is critical to to the dair y cows’ health and to the local milk supply.

“It is needed information about how consumption of the stink bugs affects the end product, and if consumption does, what steps need to be taken to lessen the problem,”

said Brust, who specializes in integrated pest management of vegetables.

Several students said they support this research, as long as it does not harm cows’ health.

“If it doesn’t hurt the cows or make a difference in the milk, [then] it’s not a problem,” senior geography major Austin Cheng said.

But other students, such as sophomore mathematics major Douglas Ulrich, said they think collecting and feeding thousands of stink bugs to dair y cows seems like an unusual solution to the stink bug outbreak. “[The experiment] seems more elaborate than necessar y,” Ulrich said. news@umdbk.com

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University physics researcher Don Schmadel found a fire hose leaking a stream of water, mud and oil into a storm drain on Princeton Avenue last month. The state’s Department of the Environment is investigating the matter. PHOTO COURTESY OF DON SCHMADEL

POLLUTION from page 1 contaminated the storm drain’s water supply.

State environment depar tment spokesman Jay Apperson said construction site contamination is a persistent problem in communities and controlling this type of sediment runoff is imperative.

“Sediment is a serious pollutant,” Apperson said, adding that it contaminates rivers, kills bottom-dwelling creatures and reduces the sunlight marine plants receive.

Project manager Paul Grossman of the Rockvillebased Forrester Construction Company — which was responsible for the construction — wrote in an email that several measures had been taken to keep construction site sediment from leaking into local water supplies. Grossman said persistent rainfall during the construction most likely contributed to water backups on the filtration systems and erosion problems.

According to Facilities Management officials, the project

— to renovate the Phi Sigma and Alpha Phi sorority houses — began July 7 as a greenfriendly initiative but quickly soured. William Olen, the university’s interim capital projects director, said the project’s contractor was creating wells that would provide energyefficient heating and cooling systems to the houses.

The drilling itself wrapped up early last week, and the contractor has since been working with the state environment department to clean up the site.

But Schmadel said it took far too long for of ficials to answer his pleas.

When he first noticed the sediment problem, Schmadel said he spent the next two and a half weeks calling and emailing various agencies but did not receive any responses until July 25.

An inspector from the county’s Department of Public Works and Transportation visited the site after Schmadel reached out to Prince George’s County Councilman Eric Olson (D-College Park).

According to county public works and transpor tation spokeswoman Susan Hub-

bard, the inspector reported finding sediment runof f from the site directly entering the roadway and storm drain system. However, the “oil” was determined to be a biodegradable vegetable oil that did not harm the environment. The inspector then directed Grossman to cut off the spill, install more measures to control the runof f and clean up the area, Hubbard said.

Grossman said he immediately installed additional sediment control measures as directed and had the site constantly monitored by onsite personnel.

However, Schmadel said the problems persisted, so he contacted state Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s). Her of fice then reached out to the university’s Facilities Management depar tment on Aug. 2, according to Facilities Management officials.

The next day, an inspector from the environment depar tment reviewed the site along with the county inspector and found the con-

tractor had complied with previous directions to cut off the runof f, according to Hubbard.

When Schmadel took his walk the next day, he said the site had completely changed.

“All I can say is that ever ything was clean and has been ever since that day,” Schmadel said. “What bothers me is that it was so hard to get something done, that citizenr y had to get involved.

The MDE should have been on this from the start.”

Since Forrester took immediate action to address the concerns, Olen said the university will not break its contract with the company.

“They were ver y responsive,” Olen said. “They followed the inspectors’ instructions, they stopped the runof f, they put up the barriers, and they cleaned up the site.”

But Schmadel said he is still uneasy.

“My chief concern is, what about the future?” Schmadel said. “Something in the system is still broken.”

university said applicants who submitted scores from either the old or new GRE would not be at a disadvantage either way.

“I haven’t seen any scores from the new exam … but I don’t think we’d make a distinction between [the old and new GRE],” said Ir win Morris, director of government graduate studies.

“We’re just going to have to see how things play out.”

And other graduate programs’ officials said it will take time for the university to acclimate itself to the new test.

“I don’t think if they took the old version they need to retake it,” said Melanie Prange, assistant director for graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering. “We’re more familiar with the old version, and we’ll just have to get familiar with the new version.”

Though the new GRE is expected to better gauge student aptitude, some admissions officials said it will be hard to determine right away.

“I think we’d need to see a few admission cycles before we can tell [how effective it is],” Prange said The most difficult change students may have to consider, according to Weiss, is the exam time.

“What we’ve been hearing from the first batch of students that have taken the test is essentially one of the hardest things about it is that it’s a longer test,” Weiss said. “You really need to be able to build up that mental endurance to be able to take a four-hour test.”

And students who’ve taken the test said the timed sections — where test takers only have a certain

“You really need to be able to build up that mental endurance to be able to take a four-hour test.”

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amount of time to answer a number of questions — is exceptionally challenging.

“I would say the hardest part would be keeping pace,” said senior government and politics major Peter Bils, who took the new GRE last week.

“You don’t want to have five questions to go and only 10 seconds left.”

Though this new exam is expected to be demanding for most students, some of the changes are welcomed.

“The old [test], you couldn’t stick around and go back to get to questions you skipped … whereas in the new one you can,” said senior psychology major Mallor y Andrews, who is taking the exam Saturday. “It’s much better.”

For students hoping to take the GRE in the future, veteran test takers offered words of advice.

“Buy practice books and prepare the best you can,” Bils said.

Andrews, who took the old GRE and will soon take the new one, echoed similar views on thorough preparedness.

“Allocate enough time if possible, maybe even study with people … do a lot of practice and really keep focus,” she said. marcot@umdbk.com

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A testing travesty

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s of Aug. 1, when a prospective graduate school applicant sits down to to be a “generalizably valid predictor of first year graduate GPA, overall graduate take the Graduate Record Examination — a test that almost every grad- GPA, comprehensive exam scores, publication citation counts and faculty rankuate school in the nation requires its applicants to take — she or he will ing.” But for the last 40 years, as shown in studies dating back to 1971, others be faced with several noticeable changes, including new types of ques- have proven there is a small relationship between GRE scores and success in tions, an updated scoring system, an increased level of difficulty and an extra hour graduate school. The same holds true for the SAT, a test that the College Board of questions. But regardless of the score the test takers receive, most will be left — which owns the SAT — admits is only “slightly more predictive than higher school grade point average” in college success. wondering, “What’s the point?”

Moreover, the effects that the tests have on the stuIn our society, standardized aptitude tests have assumed dents preparing for them are often negative. In addition a place of paramount importance, viewed by many as the watchdogs of higher education, the guardians that ensure Standardized tests such as the to shelling out hundreds of dollars for taking and retaking these tests — the price for taking the GRE in the only qualified applicants gain entrance to the ivory tower of SAT and GRE do more harm United States is $160 — many students spend an inordipost-secondary schooling. Whether it be the ACT or SAT nate amount of time worrying about and studying for for those applying for admissions to an undergraduate than good and should be tests that may have little impact on their admissions degree program, or the GRE for those applying to graduate eliminated from admissions decisions. In graduate school, for instance, the impact school, quantitative measures such as these hours-long of an applicant’s GRE scores varies, being a pro forma assessments have long been required by the vast majority decision making. submission at some, while others utilize it more heavily of college and university admissions officers in this country. when making admissions decisions. And, as a study But why?

In theory, the tests are supposed to serve as an objective measure of a student’s conducted at Bates College found, undergraduate applicants who submitted aptitude and future success in college — thus giving admissions officials a tool an SAT score during the admissions process ended college with a GPA that with which to objectively compare the credentials of a diverse and non-standard was only 0.05 higher than that of students who had chosen not to submit the test’s scores — showing that other factors such as high school GPA, letters of applicant pool.

However, to many students and educators around the nation — including the recommendation and entrance essays do just as good of a job ofpredicting colmembers of this editorial board — the tests do more harm than good and should lege success.

Ultimately, though standardized tests’ importance has become ingrained be scrapped, or, at the very least, be made optional by colleges and universities into our national consciousness, it seems to this editorial board they do more across the country.

Perhaps most compellingly, the studies performed to test the validity of stan- harm than good, eating up students’ time and money and causing undue levels dardized tests in predicting success in college have, thus far, been inconclusive at of stress — all for little educational benefit in the end. Instead of attempting to best. For instance, Educational Testing Service — the company that administers revamp the GRE again and again, it’s time for ETS and admissions officials the GRE and the SAT — points to a 2001 study that found the GRE General Test alike to take a stab at our question: Is it worth it?

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Worthless email signatures: Bad for the environment

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nyone who has spent time in the corporate, academic or government workforce has surely seen it at the bottom of someone’s email signature.

Underneath the sender’s name, title, company, phone number, email address, fax number, mailing address, astrological sign, favorite obscure crayon color, quote from a writer or poet the sender never actually read and wouldn’t understand anyway and finally some random squiggly wingding that takes up space is a message to really hammer home: “Please consider the environment before printing this email.”

It’s usually written in green or accompanied by a little picture of a tree, because the sender is, like, totally eco-friendly. Maybe it’s just me, but if I cared about the environment, I would go out and do something about it instead of change my email signature and call it my good deed for the day.

Sure, over the course of a year your email signature might save a couple

CHRISTOPHER HAXEL pieces of paper. But I could probably replenish that paper ten-fold by eating an apple and taking a dump in the woods next to my house. An undigested seed will germinate and, years thereafter, local schoolchildren will pluck delicious apples from my feces tree. At any time I could evict the resident squirrels and turn the tree into a few reams of paper.

Your fancy message, on the other hand, incrementally increases the size of your emails, which increases the amount of energy needed to send them, which increases the amount of fossil fuel burned at the local power plant. Send enough emails, and your “save-the-trees” signature actually increases the size of the hole in the ozone layer and contributes to global

warming. I think I know who to blame for the record-setting heat wave this summer.

I’m joking, of course: I wouldn’t actually make the argument that your email signature is hurting the environment. Rather, your misguided fauxactivism is hurting the environment.

Of all the causes in the world to pretend to care about, in a world of global warming, hydraulic fracturing, nuclear meltdown, overharvesting, genetically modified organisms and cute innocent baby animals covered in crude oil, your pièce de résistance is trees. The same trees that people have been burning ever since we figured out fire. The same trees that are so scarce we only use them to make homes, telephone poles, furniture, food additives (cellulose is wood pulp, read those ingredient labels, folks) baseball bats and basically everything you can think of. The same trees that we joke about something growing on, because then it would be plentiful.

People with eco-signatures frustrate me because they adulterate a legiti-

mate concern — the environment — and contort it into a fad, something to be emulated for the sake of fitting in.

But unlike planking and gladiator sandals and every other disposable trend, environmentalism is actually rooted in something important: the belief that raping our planet of its natural resources isn’t sustainable. Instead of a throwaway line at the bottom of an email signature, let’s elevate environmentalism to something more — something that transcends chic, something worth fighting for.

It seems fitting that this column is destined to be printed on the thin, cheap paper used by The Diamondback because it only needs to last a few days. Less important than the paper itself is the message it carries.

As far as environmentalism is concerned, I don’t care if you toss the newspaper into a recycling bin: I just hope you get the message.

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

Privilege: It comes with responsibilities

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n 13 short days, this campus — which has, for most of the summer months, been a ghost town — will once again be brought to life by the beginning of another school year. Professors will return to their classrooms and offices. Staff members will begin their work in places such as dining halls and libraries. And students — the largest and most rowdy population in this town — will fill the dorms, quads and bars and restaurants on the Route 1 strip. It is, to be sure, a wonderful time of year.

Yet, for the first time in four years, I won’t be participating in any of the activities that will accompany the start of the school year at this university.

Indeed, I won’t be participating in any university- or school-related activities during the entirety of the 2011-12 academic year. Instead, as a member of this institution’s class of 2011, it seems as though my 16-year stint as a student has come to a close, and I will — at least for now — be forsaking College Park and joining the “real world.”

And while this progression from college student to entry-level white-collar worker is one that is certainly not unex-

pected — after all, it is what society demands from the children of middleand upper-middle class parents — the transition has taken some getting used to. As I prepare for the world of work that lies ahead of me, I can’t help but feel nostalgic about the time I spent as a student at this university.

And why shouldn’t I? College, as anyone who has thought critically about the experience knows, is a place unlike any other.

Much of that is because we, as students, occupy a position of extreme privilege. Whether it be through loans or hard work (ours or our parents), those of us enrolled in any institution of higher education have enough money to to afford to spend about four years with few responsibilities other than thinking, learning and developing as intellectual, social and wellrounded human beings. Rather than working a 40-hour week, the majority of students are given the opportunity to spend that time attending class, participating in extracurricular activities and socializing with different and unique groups of people.

At least that is what it is what we are

KEVIN TERVALA supposed to be doing.

The reality, it seems, is very different. Instead of attending our classes, many of us skip them. Rather than challenging ourselves — both intellectually and socially — a majority of us aim to do the least amount of work possible. And in lieu of engaging with diverse groups of people, far too many of us stick to interacting with people we know and who are familiar to us.

Lost, it seems, is the idea of balance (the clichéd “work hard, party hard” concept comes to mind) and the notion that the four years we spend in college are supposed to be anything more than a giant party for and about us.

And while that may be all well and good for some, the fact is that, as college students, we have a broader responsibility, one that transcends the obligations we have to ourselves as stu-

dents and to our parents as those footing the bill for our college experiences.

Although we may have gone to college for purely selfish reasons — to get a better job, for example — as members of a select and privileged class we should never forget that we have been given an amazing opportunity, one that, if we put in the effort, will not only transform our own lives but could also possibly transform the lives of millions of other people.

A college education is a precious thing. Indeed, in this country only 27.5 percent of the population 25 years or older possesses a bachelor’s degree.

And when one looks at the world at large, that number shrinks to an even more depressing 6.7 percent. And so, to those of you who are lucky enough to be continuing at this university, I urge you not to squander the opportunity you have been given. Have fun, but never forget the privileged position you occupy and the responsibilities that come with it.

Kevin Tervala graduated in May with degrees in art history and history. He can be reached at ktervala@umdbk.com.

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ichele Bachmann — the tea-party-long-shotturned-legitimate-contender for the Republican presidential nomination — should scare you, and not just because of her “Krazee-Eyez Killa” impression on the cover of Newsweek.

Coming from the great state of Minnesota, I’ve had the privilege of observing Bachmann’s antics ever since she first ran for Congress in 2006. And in the five years since she won that election, I’ve seen her political stock skyrocket and watched her achieve national prominence. And let me tell you, it is terrifying. Indeed, over her political career, many Facebook groups and websites have been dedicated to Bachmann’s peculiarities, including the group “Michele Bachmann was dropped on her head multiple times as a baby” — a group I may or may not have created.

In the infancy of her national political life — when she was just getting started as a congresswoman — Bachmann was, at worst, an embarrassment to the political system and, at best, a highly entertaining sideshow. Indeed, in her most famous early gaffe, she sparked outrage after an October 2008 MSNBC interview in which she stated she was “very concerned that [Barack Obama] may have anti-American views.”

Yet, in recent years, as she rose to national prominence as a leader of the tea party movement and now as a presidential candidate, Bachmann has moved beyond being an embarrassment and become something much more scary: an individual who may have a shot at becoming the next president of the United States.

It only takes one viewing of “Michele Bachmann Says The Darndest Things” on YouTube to appreciate the insanity that is her mind.

Among the best quotes: “Not all cultures are equal,” and my personal favorite, “This cannot pass. What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing. This will not pass.”

Spoken like a true president.

Moreoever, throughout her political career, she has boldly proclaimed many things about the United States, but a lot of them are plainly wrong.

For example, Lexington — the site where “the shot heard ’round the world,” which incited the Revolutionary War, was fired — is found in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire, as Bachmann told a crowd in March.

Moreover, her claim in January that the Founding Fathers worked to end slavery was dead wrong.

Still, for all the questionable remarks she has made in the past, she has immense and even growing support. Indeed, in the last week, she has become a frontrunner for the Republican nomination. She beat out individuals such as her fellow Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) and former governors Mitt Romney (Massachusetts) and Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota) to win the Iowa straw poll, an important early testing ground before caucuses and primaries begin. And as unlikely as it seemed months ago, Bachmann now has a chance to grab the nomination, and more alarmingly, the presidency.

Even if Bachman fails to win the nomination, the fact that she has received so much support already may be far more telling.

If our leaders embody the times, what times do we live in? Maybe Americans need something extreme, and Bachmann has filled that void.

Or maybe we are so desperate for a leader we will turn anywhere. Or maybe we were all just dropped on our heads multiple times as babies.

Nadav Karasov is a sophomore economics and psychology major. He can be reached at njkarasov@gmail.com.

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Features HOROSCOPESTELLA WILDER

CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Ice crystals 6 Drifters 11 Regulation 14 Yup (hyph.)

15 Up in the air 16 Stein filler 17 Tybalt’s slayer 18 Groovy 19 None 20 Harshness 22 Ticked off 24 Insists upon 28 Vast expanses 29 Unwilling 30 Deep fissure 32 Porthole 33 Citation 35 Ex-superpower 39 Celtic tongue 40 Underworld network 41 Pilaf base 42 Galaxy unit 43 Intuitions 45 “Primal Fear” actor 46 Fuming 48 In a snit 50 Fix leftovers 53 Powdery fungi 54 Gather together 55 Capsize 57 Out of the way 58 Gem measure 60 Leprechaun kin 65 Topple over

66 Fred Astaire’s sister 67 Mattress name 68 Furtive 69 Tier 70 It’s above baritone

37 Item in a hardware bin 38 Long grasses 43 Cauldron 44 Joy ride 47 Scoundrel

49 Heir, often 50 Floating platforms 51 In-box contents (hyph.)

52 Mythical winged monster 53 Rhythm 55 Heavy hydrogen discoverer 56 Whey-faced

DOWN 1 Chinchilla or ermine 2 Frat letter 3 Physicist Georg 4 Take legal action 5 Stickers 6 Puts up drapes 7 Low-fat spread 8 Male guinea pig 9 Repeatedly 10 Zeno followers 11 Sri 12 Unfamiliar 13 Joins metal 21 Footnote word 23 Came back in a big way 24 Brubeck and Letterman 25 Turn inside out 26 High-IQ group 27 Major highways 28 Toon Olive 30 Sun-dried brick 31 Blue ox of legend 34 Shed, as light 36 Colander

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he coming week is likely to see a great many individuals put to some kind of test, either professional or personal — or both — that requires immediate and concerted effort, and a willingness to delve into some of the darker issues that lurk at the periphery of daily experience. Those that are somehow timid or sheepish are likely to make a mess of what needn’t be at all messy; nothing but a confident, strong approach will keep things aligned as they should be as they are addressed, adjusted and managed. For some, a journey is likely to be involved, and whether short or long, the same basic preparations must be made and precautions taken.

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There are some who are likely to feel very much alone, even when they are surrounded by others — others who usually serve as friends, mentors, supporters and the like. This kind of self-imposed isolation is merely imagined, however — and must, if at all possible, be avoided.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) — What happens is nothing less important than that which might threaten your progress or survival, and it must be addressed. (Aug. 8-Aug. 22) — A comedy of sorts is likely to begin in which you are the one who is left in the dark.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 7) — A new kind of discipline will enable you to get more done — and in the weeks to come. You have reason to be proud of yourself. (Sept. 8-Sept. 22) — You may find yourself dealing with old, familiar issues as if they were brand-new.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) — You may benefit from a glimpse of how the other half lives — and for a time you may wish that you were doing it their way. (Oct. 8-Oct. 22) — You may be wondering why others are seeing you a certain way, but your actions tell the tale.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 7) — You’ll notice a certain pattern that enables you to anticipate events and developments with greater confidence than before. (Nov. 8-Nov. 21) — It’s only a matter of time, but sooner or

later, you’ll be in a position to do precisely what you want to do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) — You may find yourself surrounded by the trappings of comfort, and yet not be quite comfortable yourself.

Play the hand you are dealt. (Dec. 8Dec. 21) — The qualities of other individuals are likely to be on full display — as are yours.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 6) — You’re seeking something that is just out of view — and though it may not be exactly hidden, it is surely obscured, and may remain so. (Jan. 7-Jan. 19) — Frustration mounts as you seem to be getting further from a certain goal the closer you get to it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 3) — You may require someone to step in and take control of a situation that is getting out of control in subtle but significant ways. (Feb. 4-Feb. 18) — This week, you may be called upon to put it all on the line — if not for yourself then for a close friend.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 5) — The quality of a deed is measured by how it makes others feel, and you’ll seem to know just what another needs to feel better. (March 6March 20) — What attracts you to another may actually surprise you, but it will be irresistible, surely.

ARIES (March 21-April 4) — What seems a disappointment as the week opens is likely to be quite the opposite when it really matters — and your surprise will be palpable.

(April 5-April 19) — You’re in need of a little comfort, but you must run the gauntlet first — and you know it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 5) — A difficulty arises because you didn’t take every possible precaution.

Such minor carelessness can be of major concern. (May 6-May 20) — You don’t want to stop what you are doing until you have completed all the steps. Keep going.

GEMINI (May 21-June 6) — You’ll realize that everyone may not look upon what you are up to with favor.

Your critics are likely to be quite vocal. (June 7-June 20) — You’ll have a chance to purge certain feelings and replace them with those that are far more positive.

CANCER (June 21-July 7) — You have what someone else wants, and though it’s not under siege, you must recognize that this increases its value to you. (July 8-July 22) — You may be able to display a few hidden talents that others will be surprised you have.

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College Park House for Rent 3 rooms available, walking distance to Metro/UMD shuttle, common areas furnished, off-street parking. Available immediately. Quiet students only need to apply.

MBR w/BA $750/month, 2BR w/shared BA $675/month each, rent includes utilities.

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Single BR Available in House On Harvard Rd. Social atmosphere. Walking distance to campus, 1 block from CP Metro. $600/month plus utilities. Contact Max Wait, 973-896-4289.

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HOUSES – 3-4 bedrooms. From $375/room.

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GOODWIN from page 1 Linda Clement, who ser ved on the search committee, said Goodwin’s experience will translate to a successful transition.

“I think she understands the system here and understands the university and was able to be as articulate as she was about the issues from so much experience,” Clement said.

Goodwin said one of her biggest initiatives will be expanding student outreach and incorporating suggestions from students, faculty and staff.

“I’ll continue what Dr. Zacker started: working with our staff and working with our students,” she said.

Clement also said it is an exciting time for the university, since there were very few administrative changes until this year. Over this summer alone, nearly half a dozen administrative positions have been filled and those still vacant are expected to be filled in the coming year.

“I think any time leadership changes hands and there is a transition, you bring a fresh set of eyes to the issue and they look at the position in a new and different way, and that’s always a valuable thing to happen,” Clement said.

AAA Mid-Atlantic questions the legality of speed cameras on Metzerott Road, citing alleged technical problems and lack of proper signage. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

CAMERA from page 1 Prince George’s County, you’re forewarned,” said John Townsend, a AAA spokesman.

However, city manager Joe Nagro said in a press release Wednesday that the camera is in an “institute of higher education zone,” — legally distinct from a K-12 school zone.

State law allows for a speed camera within one-half mile of an IHE zone.

But Anderson said the area isn’t a safety concern for pedestrians.

“The whole idea about being able to put cameras in education zones and school zones is because you have a lot of students that you need to protect,” Anderson said.

Will Foreman, owner of Eastover Auto Supply in Oxon Hill, said his company’s drivers have been fined dozens of times and alleges that they were not always speeding. He

used software to analyze photographs that ticketed drivers received in the mail with their fines and concluded the vehicles could not have driven the alleged speed, based on how long it took a motorist to drive a measured distance.

“What concerns me is that it steals,” Foreman said. “It is not accurate, and it falsely accuses people of speeding that are not.”

Mickey Shepherd — a senior account manager at Lanham-based Optotraffic, the company that produces and operates the system — said “the use of the pictures to tr y and determine the speed is a faulty device,” arguing the photographs don’t factor in the camera’s trigger delay.

District 1 council member Patrick Wojahn said the anger stems from the fines — and that the speed cameras are justified.

“I imagine that some people are upset when they get speeding tickets,” Wojahn said. “They don’t like the fact

police are tr ying to enforce the law.”

At the conference, concerns were also voiced over who receives fine revenue. Close to 40 percent of the money generated from issued tickets goes to Optotraffic. This has fueled motorists’ concerns that the cameras are simply profit driven.

“I’m not sending the tickets to the city of College Park,” said Peter Teuben, an astronomy researcher at this university. “It’s an anonymous P.O. box in Pennsylvania.”

Shepherd said the camera’s main objective is safety and that the company is providing a useful service to Prince George’s County law enforcement.

“People sell guns; they sell cars; they sell bullet-proof vests to police officers,” Shepherd said. “They’re all in business, and they’re all making money. Why is that any different from us?”

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news@umdbk.com FORMER SGA PRESIDENT MAKES NATIONAL HEADLINES Louis Magazzu, an SGA president from the 1970s, resigned from his post on the Cumberland County Board of Chosen Freeholders in New Jersey on Aug. 2 after nude pictures he allegedly sent to a woman he was corresponding with went viral.

Two of the photos showed Magazzu’s crotch, two showed him dressed up in a suit, and he wasn’t wearing a shirt in one,

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according to the New York Daily News.

He was the Student Government Association president around late ’70s, according to Pat Myers, an alumna who attended the university when Magazzu did.

“As SGA president, he was very well known on campus,” said alumnus Mark Holt.

To read more visit The Diamondback’s online news blog, Campus Drive.

FRIDAY – SATURDAY Final Destination

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Only 2 copies of the 2011 Terrapin are still available at $70 on a first-come, first-served basis.

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REVIEW | THE HELP

A SPOONFUL OF PREJUDICE The Help makes light of serious social issues without doing justice to the best-selling book

BY ROBERT GIFFORD Staff writer

If you relied solely on Hollywood’s version of history, you might believe the civil rights movement primarily involved noble white men and women helping grateful, unassuming blacks escape the clutches of a small group of unambiguously evil southerners who upheld a racist system and generally spoiled everyone’s day.

Enter The Help, the latest in a long line of feel-good, whitepeople-save-black-people movies. While it offers some minor improvements on the genre’s conventions, it falls into too many of the same patterns of condescension every other Hollywood look at race relations does.

First and foremost, the film’s focus is not really with the titular group of black maids in 1960s Jackson, Miss.

— who are relegated to the supporting cast — but instead on the requisite white guide to black territory, Emma Stone (Crazy, Stupid, Love).

Stone plays Skeeter Phelan, a recent college graduate and aspiring “serious writer” who takes a job as an advice columnist (journalism jobs being hard to come by even then) in her hometown of Jackson, and is shocked — shocked! — to find the city’s black servants receive less-than-fair treatment from the white housewives they work for.

Particularly evil is the icy

Hilly Holbrook (Br yce Dallas Howard, Hereafter), who’s as simple and hiss-worthy as a silent movie villain. The other women follow her like ducklings, nodding in absentminded agreement when she petitions for the ser vants to be forced to use separate bathrooms because “they carr y different diseases than we do.”

Not all of the white housewives, who make up the majority of the ensemble, are presented as unadulterated evil the way Howard is. In The Help’s Disney-fied version of history, most Jim Crow supporters were really just goodhearted people who couldn’t resist the peer pressure the Hilly Holbrooks of the world inflicted on them.

After going through the proper amount of righteous indignation at the unfairness of racism — as well as consulting her editor in New York — Stone sets about writing an account of the experiences of the help, from their own point of view, conducting clandestine inter views with maids such as Aibileen (Viola Davis, It’s Kind of a Funny Story) and Minny (Octavia Spencer, Flypaper).

This is the one and only way in which the film circumvents the conventions of the Hollywood civil rights film.

The black characters, shoved to the margins as they are, do have some agency: Those are their stories that Skeeter

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uses, and they’re the ones who have to run the considerable risk of badmouthing their white employers.

It helps that the maids are so well-cast. All of them — Davis especially — bring dignity to potentially undignified roles. If only the movie were deserving of their performances.

This is a movie that would rather please crowds than challenge them. The pernicious logic of the film is that if you’re not Hilly Holbrook, you’re not really a racist. It essentially congratulates the audience for not being Klansmen; it reassures you that as long as you’re not one of those Deep South hate-mongers, you’re probably OK. The possibility of any shades of gray has been excised entirely.

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enment, the film feels free to engage in some backward stereotyping that any other movie would stay miles away from. Spencer is given particularly short shrift, forced to wax poetic on her love of Crisco and mayonnaise before declaring, “I love me some fried chicken.” Yes, really.

So the film isn’t the second coming of Martin Luther King, Jr. it thinks it is. But even if you ignore the bankruptcy of its sepia-toned view of American history — which is doing the film a sizable favor, and one it probably doesn’t deserve — it still doesn’t work.

For one thing, there are far too many subplots. The movie drags on for nearly two and a half hours, and a good portion of that is spent on pointless tangents, such as a stor yline about Minny teaching Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life) how to cook for her husband.

It’s so digressive it at times resembles a David Foster Wallace novel for fans of Fried Green Tomatoes.

It also sells out the likability of Stone’s protagonist. She’s initially presented as a strong, independent woman who doesn’t need a husband or a baby, but this is undone when we learn that’s all a front: She’s actually just insecure that no one’s ever asked her to a dance — Stone, of course, being a notoriously unattractive woman — and would actually like nothing more than some male companionship.

But the biggest problem is that it resembles a Lifetime movie. It’s maudlin and sentimental, filled with the kind of writing you expect from a soap opera, and then leavened with broad, silly humor.

There’s too much Hallmark Hall of Fame when it should be more Spike Lee.

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Institutionalized oppression isn’t presented as a blight on American histor y so much as a source of melodrama and wacky sitcom hijinks — and it wasn’t anything a few tear y-eyed speeches and one shit-flavored pie (don’t ask) couldn’t solve. Once Skeeter publishes her book, society wakes up, realizes what fools they’ve been and promptly turns on Hilly. Even illnesses are seemingly cured by the power of Skeeter’s writing.

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DEFENSE STRUGGLING? In the ongoing preseason competition between the Terps’ new-look offensive and defensive units, coach Randy Edsall said one has so far looked considerably better.

“I feel I know who we are offensively,” Edsall said. “Defensively, I’m not as happy and as pleased or as far along in that assessment and evaluation of the people that we are going to need and who’s going to be there for us.

There’re a lot of still-unanswered questions from a defensive standpoint than offensively.”

Edsall said he anticipates some changes to the Terps’ depth chart but declined to elaborate on specific positions.

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UPS AND DOWNS In a 90-minute exhibition Tuesday night against Towson, the No. 4 Terrapin men’s soccer team showed that, at least against the Tigers, all the preseason plaudits for its offense are well deserved. However, so are the worries about an overhauled backline.

Midfielder Patrick Mullins, the ACC’s 2010 Freshman of the Year, scored two goals and midfielder Sunny Jane added another for the Terps in their preseason opener. But a disorganized defense and a handful of poor decisions meant the Terps needed a late Towson own goal to clinch a 4-3 win.

For more notes on the team, read TerrapinTrail.com.

Defensive end Justin Anderson will miss six weeks after undergoing surgery Friday to fix an injured foot, Edsall said Saturday.

Anderson started every game for the Terps last season as a strongside defensive end in former defensive coordinator Don Brown’s scheme, but he switched to defensive tackle this spring before shifting back to end before preseason practice.

Wide receiver Adrian Coxson also left practice Saturday with an apparent leg injury, but Edsall said Tuesday he would not discuss the severity of the injury or any others. In a Twitter post Saturday, Coxson wrote that he tweaked his ankle and that he was “good.” Coxson sat out last season after transferring from Florida. sports@umdbk.com

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’Cane controversy not on Terps’ mind Scandal could affect dozen players

BY JONAS SHAFFER Senior staff writer

A damning Yahoo! Sports report detailing the accusations of former Miami football booster Nevin Shapiro, who said he provided thousands of impermissible benefits to at least 72 studentathletes during an eight-year span, became the talk of the sports blogosphere soon after it was published Tuesday.

But for a Terrapin football team that, in two weeks’ time, will stand as the scandal-ridden Hurricanes’ first test of the 2011 season, the news was a nonissue.

That’s partly because, when players were asked about it Tuesday afternoon, they hadn’t heard about it. Quarterback Danny O’Brien said he had

heard whispers of the Hurricanes’ alleged transgressions, but that more pressing issues — namely, surviving his preseason two-a-days — were on his mind.

Defensive tackle Joe Vellano said he wasn’t even aware of Miami’s situation, which could threaten the eligibility of as many as 12 current Hurricanes, including quarterback Jacory Harris and defensive back RayRay Armstrong.

In a statement Wednesday, Miami president Donna Shalala said she “regard[s] these allegations with the utmost of seriousness and understand the concern of so many of you. We will vigorously pursue the truth, wherever that path may lead,

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