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Research grants up 30 percent $118M increase helps some colleges cope with repeated state budget cuts CARRIE WELLS Senior staff writer

Defying the economic odds, the university pulled in nearly 30 percent more research grants last fiscal year than it did the year before, helping to soften the blow of repeated budget cuts, administrators said.

In the last fiscal year, which ended June 30, the university received about $518 million in The new garage behind Cornerstone Grill and Loft remains empty, while the CVS parking lot is often full. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

research grants — $118 million more than the year before, university President Dan Mote said. Vice President for Research Mel Bernstein and university deans said the increase can be attributed to proactive faculty members applying for more grants and the university’s research focus on topical fields like climate change, national security, biotechnology and energy.

While most research grant

money is earmarked for actual research, much of it goes back to the university’s operating budget, which is used for general expenses.

Some money can also be used to hire graduate or undergraduate students as research assistants and to renovate laboratories.

Furthermore, only a tiny bit of this jump can be attributed to the federal stimulus package, meaning the amount of research dollars will

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most likely go up next year as the stimulus kicks in. Still, 80 percent of the research dollars originated with the federal government, mostly from the Defense Department, NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Health and Human Services Department.

While the amount of grant money raised varies from college to

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Drivers continue to prefer shopping center’s lot to $9.3 million project

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

More than a month after the grand opening of College Park’s new $9.3 million downtown parking garage, few of its parking spaces are finding customers. But city officials and business owners are calling for patience, saying it will take time for people to get used to the idea.

Yesterday afternoon, there were 10 cars on the garage’s lowest floor and a slightly larger cluster near the top, where most cars displayed permits for city employees or long-term parking.

The rest of the five-story structure was empty.

Stephen Groh, the city’s director of finance, reported an average of 20 cars use the 288space garage at any given time, not counting monthly permit holders and city employees.

Just across Route 1, the parking lot at the College Park Shopping Center continues to be full.

“I didn’t even know there was a garage,” said one student as she walked to her car near Starbucks in the parking lot, within sight of the new building and its banner reading “Parking garage now open!!!”

Scott Osborn, a city parking enforcement supervisor, said as he emptied parking meters in front of CVS that he hadn’t noticed any significant decrease in usage of the shopping center lot since the garage opened. Groh said

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In brutal College Park dining world, eateries are aware of the competition

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

Much like the animal kingdom, when it comes to downtown College Park restaurants, only the strong survive.

Ledo Restaurant — an eatery that serves pizza and other Italian food — is moving to College Park by next summer. And with so many similar restaurants situated in a concentrated area coupled with an economic downturn, some toes are bound

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to get stepped on, some tensions are likely to flare, and restaurants are all forced to devise their own methods of staying atop the food chain.

Ledo Restaurant owner Tommy Marcos said he looks for ward to the challenge of moving into the saturated downtown area.

“I actually look forward to the competition,” Marcos said.

“Competition doesn’t scare me — the economy does.”

But not every restaurant is

complaining of lower profits or frugal students.

“Business went up for us almost literally 500 percent as opposed to the summer,” said Martin Chavez, the manager of Fat Tino’s Pizzeria, which opened in late May. “I think right now it’s kind of fun being the new guy in town. A lot of people want to come try it.”

And he’s not shy about picking on some of the city’s most established eateries.

“I think that Ledo’s caters to a

different taste of pizza,” Chavez said. “I personally despise it.”

Chavez didn’t stop there. “[We’re] far, far better than Ratsie’s,” the Brooklyn, N.Y. pizza maker said. “I can safely say we use much better products.”

Ratsie’s Pizza & Subs owner Mike Falamoun simply said the only business he worries about is his own and that business is good, and Marcos took a more amicable look at the situation.

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SEPT. 11 | EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY

DENNIS HEALY, 1957-2009

‘Polymath’ professor worked with federal government

After a tragedy, university adjusts Academics shift in post-9/11 world

BY CARRIE WELLS Senior staff writer

Dennis Healy, a math professor responsible for developing new technologies for the federal government, died Sept. 3 from a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 52.

Healy worked as a math professor at this university since 2000 and as a project manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — a division of the Defense Department.

While at DARPA, Healy helped oversee numerous projects including the invention of better MRI imaging software, a camera that could be mounted on robots and sent into danger zones and a camera so thin and flexible it could be carried around in one’s pocket, said Katherine Healy, his wife of 24 years. But most of all, students, friends and family will remember Healy for his love of teaching, passion for

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research and kind spirit, they said.

“Everything was interesting to him,” Katherine said. “He didn’t understand how anyone could ever be bored because he thought everything was so interesting, and that’s how he

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After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, academics nationwide confronted a newly recognized gap in the country’s knowledge of foreign languages and cultures, as well as the unavoidable question of what inspired one of the most horrific moments in American history.

Eight years after the attacks, the country is still grappling to understand 9/11, and the quest to do so has left an unmistakable mark on this university’s curriculum and research.

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tive Affairs Ann Wylie said. “It was kind of an awakening call — that we need to pay more attention to that.”

New programs in Persian studies, Arabic studies and terrorism studies were all products of this new awareness, Wylie said.

The attacks also resulted in a range of new classes across disciplines, but it may have left its greatest mark in the research opportunities it inspired.

Since 9/11, the Defense Department has become the largest contributor of federal funds to university research, granting it $72 million in the fiscal year 2009, up from $27 million in 2000.

As the Defense Department has become

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GARAGE from page 1 the city’s numbers support that observation.

“Perhaps people just assume before going in [the garage] that it will cost much, much more than coming over here,” Osborn said.

The garage on Knox Road charges the same rate, 75 cents an hour, as parking meters in the shopping center lot and elsewhere in the city, but there are no time restrictions in the garage and users there can pay with paper money or credit cards. Parking there is free overnight — 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. — and on Sundays and holidays.

But some students said, regardless, they just don’t like the idea of parking farther away.

Family sciences major Jessica Jacobs said she’d sooner circle the crowded shopping center lot to find a spot than cross Route 1 to the garage.

“I’m a senior, so I’m used to parking over here,” Jacobs said. “I just forget [the garage is] there.”

Nearby parking lots, including the lot at the College Park Shopping Center, haven’t seen any less parking congestion since the garage opened, Groh wrote in an e-mail.

“People with cars have traditions and habits,” said John Brown, owner of R.J. Bentley’s and a board member of the Downtown College Park Man-

agement Authority. “It will take them a while to realize, ‘Oh, I can park across the street, and it’s not that far.’”

Brown agreed with city officials, who said it was too early to judge any success or failure of the garage.

College Park Public Services Director Bob Ryan said he’d like to see the garage’s usage after a full month of student use, but Brown’s first signpost will be the Terps’ first home football game Saturday.

“We’ll get our football fans back in town, and they’ll say, ‘Hey, this is pretty convenient,’” Brown said, adding they will be drawn back to College Park again in the future.

However, as officials had hoped, the city has issued fewer parking tickets since the garage opened last month. Groh attributed the decrease to the garage’s “additional payment options on the pay stations and availability of longer term parking.”

Officials also expect the garage to get a significant boost when the original Ledo Restaurant opens on the building’s ground floor next spring or summer. They expect the business to be popular, especially with its new convenient parking.

The College Park City Council approved a lease agreement Tuesday to bring the venerable pizza restaurant from its current location on University Boulevard in Adelphi.

DOTS issues new regulations for scooters University Police join in effort to make sidewalks safer

BY LAUREN REDDING Staff writer

In the name of pedestrian safety, the Department of Transportation Services and University Police are cracking down on scooter owners by adding new out-of-the-way parking spots while strictly enforcing traffic safety rules.

Scooter violations that have rarely been applied — such as driving on sidewalks or carrying a passenger — could now cost scooter drivers points on their license.

“People riding scooters have to abide by the law just like they would in a car,” University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said.

Scooter drivers must also park in spots designated by a brown sign with a motorcycle symbol, according a DOTS press release issued Sept. 4, which means they will be barred from parking on the sidewalk or in bicycle racks.

DOTS has added more than 50 new parking spots to the more than 209 already available, most of them at sporting fields and complexes like Byrd Stadium, Comcast Center and

“Sidewalks are made for pedestrians — streets are made for vehicles.

Scooters are vehicles.”

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Ludwig Field to serve student athletes. More spaces, including at Mowatt Lane Garage, will be created on south campus this fall.

Starting in October, if a scooter has received at least three warnings for parking violations, it could be towed.

However, students don’t have to worry about receiving DOTS parking tickets for scooters, according to Beverly Malone, assistant to the director of DOTS. Aside from wanting to better serve student athletes, the new spots were necessary because overcrowding on sidewalks posed a hazard, Malone said.

Students who park their scooters at the bike racks or on sidewalks will start receiving tickets under new DOTS rules.

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For Dillon, the reason for stepping up enforcement is more obvious.

“Sidewalks are made for pedestrians — streets are made for vehicles,” Dillon said.

“Scooters are vehicles.”

“People were being assholes on scooters.”

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Sophomore kinesiology major Ashley Cromartie, who rides her scooter to and from track practice, finds the new spots unaccommodating, but realizes the necessity of the rules.

“It’s different from last year, because you could park wherever,” said Cromartie. “This is inconvenient because you have to find a spot, but I guess they did it for legitimate reasons. People were being assholes on scooters.” redding@umdbk.com

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DATING FOR A GRADE

HEALY from page 1 approached life. There was no boundary between his life and his work.”

Born in Los Angeles, Healy got his doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degrees in math from the University of California at San Diego, finishing his studies in 1986. He went on to teach at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. , for 10 years.

In 1996, the Healys moved to

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“You got a sense he knew so, so much.”

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the Washington area to work for DARPA, and he continued his work with the government during his tenure at this university.

While Healy’s specialty was harmonic analysis, a type of applied mathematics that can be used for processing audio and images, he was also well-versed in the fields of physics, engineering and chemistry. Math professor John Benedetto described him as a “polymath.”

“He had a tremendous scientific breadth,” said Benedetto, who was particularly proud of recruiting Healy to the university.

“You got a sense he knew so, so much.”

Erin Boyle, a 2008 chemistry alumna, went to his office hours at least once a week while taking one of his upper-level classes last fall.

“He would try to put things in

context of real processes,” Boyle said. “He always had graphics, would show the problem visually.”

Marybeth Shea, a longtime friend and lecturer in the English department, said simple communication was among his strong points.

“Sometimes math people can be hard to communicate with because math is such a specialized language,” she said. “But Dennis was always able to say something to communicate to literate people who didn’t get math.”

There will be a memorial mass for Healy today at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church at 7501 Adelphi Road in Hyattsville. Healy is survived by his wife and his sons Daniel, 21, and William, 16. cwells@umdbk.com

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Tyser opens for home opener Athletics dept. blames slow economy, not lack of interest, for lagging suite sales

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

After five years of planning, two years of construction and $50 million of private funding, the renovation of Tyser Tower is complete.

However, the sales of its suites and mezzanine tickets are not.

The university held a ribboncutting ceremony at Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium yesterday evening to celebrate its completion and showcase the new structure days before the Terrapin football team’s home opener against James Madison University. The fact that only 41 of 64 suites and 360 of 440 mezzanine seats have been sold did not put a damper on the event.

“This is something we can look forward to and take tremendous pride in as Terps.

We have one of the finest facilities in the country,” said Terp football coach Ralph Friedgen.

The Athletics Department is pointing to the current economic crisis, not a lack of interest as the reason for slow ticket sales.

For many businesses, the standard five-year $50,000 lease for a suite is simply too much to take on right now.

However, many of those companies have called to show interest in a suite as soon as business picks up, according to Senior Associate Athletics Director

RESEARCH from page 1 college, Norma Allewell, the dean of the chemical and life sciences college, said the money her faculty received from grants last year offsets budget cuts quite significantly, and that it will continue.

But the grants aren’t a total remedy, Allewell said.

For example, while they might fund a six-figure startup bonus for a new professor, the money in the budget that supports a faculty mem-

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Brian Ullmann. It is this interest, combined with the tax deductibility of leasing a suite, that has Ullmann confident that in one year’s time Tyser Tower will be completely sold out.

Those in suites will be treated to typical suite amenities: complimentary food and beverage service, carpeted hallways, flat screen TVs mounted on the walls and Terrapin insignia throughout. The plush seating for the suites and mezzanine level are relatively standard in terms of luxury seating. But where the seats are located is not, as Tyser ticketholders have the choice of sitting in or outdoors throughout games.

“Most suites are behind glass,” Ullmann said. “The people that have suites are diehard fans. They want to be a part of the atmosphere. They want to hear the roar of the crowd. They want to be a part of it.”

Throughout the night, speakers at the event touted the efficiency of the project that was both on time and on budget — $70 million after interest, according to Athletics Director Debbie Yow. “The mantra for the athletic program this year is ‘We will find a way, or we will make a way,’” Yow said. “And we will.” sports@umdbk.com

an integral part of the university’s research mission, the university has also become an essential partner to the department, said Kenneth Gertz, the university’s associate vice president for research development.

“In a way, I kind of see that this university ... is sort of helping the Department of Defense transform itself into this 21stcentury Department of Defense,” Gertz said.

This intimate connection, for some students, has raised a potential conflict of interest.

Last March, one group unfurled a banner over the Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology building, reading, “Lockheed Martin out of UMD, out of Iraq, out of everywhere,” in reference to the university’s connections to the company.

Wylie dismissed the notion

ber’s salar y year after year is not there.

While research money can’t make up for money lost through budget cuts, it definitely provides relief, Bernstein said.

“It helps the university in all kinds of ways,” he said.

Graduate students who are laid off or not hired because of budget cuts will benefit from the increase in research dollars — those funds will allow colleges to hire more of them.

Darr yll Pines, the dean of the engineering school, said

the school got a $40 million grant from the State Highway Administration in the last fiscal year to study how to design better roads.

“For ever y state dollar we get, we probably bring in three more in research dollars,” he said. “It doesn’t really offset the budget cuts directly, but the soft money can be used to buy instruments, renovate labs, pay the salaries of graduate students and the faculty members’ summer salaries.”

that outside funders — public or private — pose a conflict.

“There are no strings on these grants,” she said. “We don’t accept grants with strings on them. Faculty are able to follow where the data leads them.

They need not be influenced by who’s paying for the study.”

And with increased funding, the very nature of the university’s research has also shifted.

Prior to the attacks, defense research focused heavily on engineering and technology but has since expanded its aims, public policy professor Jacques Gansler said.

“More and more there is this concept at [the Defense Department] of doing research on and looking into something called ‘human terrain,’” said Gansler, a former U.S. undersecretary for defense acquisition.

This focus on the “human terrain” has led university researchers to explore how social networks work and how

ideas spread among populations. It has also resulted in the creation of two new centers at the M Square research park: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency does research for the nation’s intelligence community, while the Center for Advanced Study of Language, which was established on the campus in 2003, addresses language acquisition with a national security focus.

“In a sense, the changes today are a broader interpretation of what national security means,” Gansler said “You know, a more holistic perspective on national security involving homeland security — not just the Department of Defense — involving the State Department more on international relations as part of security, involving environment and energy as part of security.”

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BUSINESSES from page 1 “We probably won’t pull customers from somewhere else, but we’ll bring our customers in,” he said. “We’re bringing people to the area that haven’t been there before.”

And it’s not just pizza places that have competition on the brain.

“We certainly are mindful of what the competition is doing, and not just Cluck-U and Buffalo Wild Wings, but also Domino’s

and Pizza Boli’s,” said Wing Zone manager Ben Demeo.

But Cluck-U Chicken manager Kenny Brady said he would rather focus on what he can control — his own establishment.

“They never enter my thoughts honestly,” Brady said .

“There’s 60,000 students, so there should be plenty of business to go around.”

Even promotions in this town often come in twos: Both Panda and Shanghai have similar latenight specials, and pizza chains Domino’s and Papa John’s both

sport a student-only $5.99 large cheese pizza special.

But not all related restaurants have a contentious relationship.

Pita Pit manager Keegan Riseling sometimes refers customers to Pita Plus, a kosher restaurant down the road.

“We’ll refer customers there if they ask for something we don’t have,” Riseling said of those looking for kosher options. “I wouldn’t hesitate to show them where it is.”

But despite the food fights raging amongst the local restaurants, students often make their dining

selections based on either price or quality.

Senior communications major Rebecca Noel said the Domino’s student deal is too good to pass up, even though she thinks there’s better pizza available.

But some students, like junior aerospace engineering major Ryman Wiemann, would rather pay more at Potbelly’s than eat at a bigger, national chain.

“Quiznos and Subway are just the same shit all the time,” he said. rhodes@umdbk.com

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or once, the SGA came out firing. After hearing about the possibility that fronted with difficult decisions in the reality of a struggling economy and dwindling budget cuts would doom the Engaged University, a popular and worth- tax revenues,” the letter read.

There is nothing too objectionable about that sentence. Being a governor in a while program that does everything a good university outreach program should do, they passed legislation urging the administration to save it, downward-spiraling economy isn’t a job anyone would want to have. And on the called for media attention and managed to get stories on two of the region’s nightly whole, O’Malley is one of the most higher education-friendly governors the Old Line State has ever had. But what is objectionable is what the letter didn’t say: Tunewscasts.

The program warrants the attention and the effort. Engaged University pro- ition needs to go up. The university’s fiscal situation is perilous. While no one wants vides out-of-school programming for Prince George’s County middle school stu- to raise tuition, the alternatives are massive cuts to academics and student services.

At this point, it seems that part of the reason there won’t be a dents; internships, classes and research opportunities for colrelatively small second-semester tuition increase is due to polilege students; and a sustainable environmental example for the tics. O’Malley has made it clear he doesn’t want tuition to go up, whole region.

This is why everyone loves it, from politicians (House Major- There are many programs and the Board of Regents doesn’t appear ready to buck him.

Glickman and other SGA members must know this. But ity Leader Steny Hoyer, an alumnus who represents College that require as much atthey said nothing. This is profoundly disappointing. Glickman Park, visited the Riverdale site this summer) to students to community residents. And this certainly played no small role in tention as the SGA is giv- said the threatened cuts to the Engaged University drew ing Engaged University. protests because they were specific. The SGA, he said, will the SGA stepping up and demanding the program be saved. protest cuts to other programs they deem as priorities.

Engaged University may yet be saved — either by the adminisBut what about protesting the cuts in general? What about asking for a tuition intration or by some of those politicians. And Steny, how about $150,000 for your old crease so some of the cuts can be offset by new revenue? Obviously, the current stomping grounds?

The response was a good one. And it represents a marked improvement over ear- economy makes it impossible to avoid all reductions in academic quality or student services. But the SGA can and should be doing more. lier SGA efforts about the budget cuts rattling the university.

So as the state readies for a potential third round of cuts — new (and likely deAfter the first round of budget cuts, the SGA was silent. After a second round, they published a press release about a letter SGA President Steve Glickman sent to pressing) revenue estimates are due next week — the SGA needs to start making Gov. Martin O’Malley. Not long after O’Malley cut millions from the university’s more noise. Saving the Engaged University is the student government equivalent of budget, Glickman praised O’Malley for his leadership. The letter’s tone seemed a no-brainer. But who will stand up for the upper-level dance seminar or the intromore concerned with O’Malley’s feelings than the quality of education university ductory class in some sparsely populated major? Who will make sure our class sizes don’t triple? students would receive.

It’s time for the SGA to stop being polite and start raising the occasional bit of hell.

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Party lines: Just as deep as ever

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ust when you thought the absurd anger and passionate yet irrational tirades of the summer were finally over, the fury over President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night reminded us that now is not the winter of our discontent.

This summer, I laughed at the “birthers” who remain perturbed over Obama’s supposed foreign birth without batting an eyelid at Sen. John McCain’s (R) birth in the Panama Canal zone. I was shocked at how Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s comment about being a “wise Latina” seemingly disqualified her from serving on the Supreme Court in the eyes of Republican senators.

While my fellow citizens denounced the president for wanting to instruct the schoolchildren of this nation in the ways of socialism when in reality he upheld the thoroughly American values of hard work and personal responsibility, I realized how

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VERGHESE utterly preposterous the discourse had become.

But hearing Rep. Joe Wilson (RS.C.) shout “You lie!” to Obama during his address to a joint session of Congress was one yell too far: Call it the uproar that broke the camel’s back. The appalling display witnessed across the country during what is usually a sacrosanct act in our American democracy was symbolic of what the national debate has devolved to: Boorish and uncouth yelling with the intent to accomplish nothing.

As Americans, we cannot rationalize away this ridiculous state of affairs by pointing to increased partisanship

in Washington or deluding ourselves that our democracy demands such actions. We have sacrificed consensus building and surrendered the common ground, and in doing so we have robbed ourselves of the capacity to tackle our problems and make forward progress.

Tough decisions are meant to be delayed, buried or handed off. Compromise entails making the other person sacrifice. Politics is supposed remind us how much we disagree with each other. It is much easier to yell until we are hoarse than it is to listen and have a civil conversation. The center will not hold because it has been long abandoned for the fringe.

But do not think for a moment that this is how things have always been or must be. We live in a country where, eight years ago today, we came together during a time of national crisis, looked past our divisions and realized the strength in unity. One year ago this month, the warring parties in

Washington came together to prevent the collapse of the financial sector and forestall a depression.

But our ability as a society to cultivate consensus, foster rational and civilized debate and tackle challenges is not dependent on emergencies or crisis. It is not reliant on a president who demands an end to acrimony or a departed senator who embodied collegiality and knew how to bridge divisions. No, we are the ones who can change. We are the ones who can transform our homes, classrooms and workplaces and provide a muchneeded course correction away from this downward spiral.

On this Sept. 11, we remember and honor those who had their lives taken from them. In their memory let us also challenge ourselves to do better and be better. We can and we must.

Matt Verghese is a graduate student in public policy. He can be reached at verghese@umdbk.com.

Another swine flu column: Time to panic

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’m as happy as a pig in slop.

What can I say about swine flu that hasn’t already been said about my columns? It’s horrible, it won’t go away and it’s all anyone talks about.

But now we’re at the point where we’re vacillating between being scared shitless for the impending pigocalypse and reassuring each other that it’s not as bad as the regular flu or a construct of the liberal media (like global warming). Personally, I don’t know what to think, so as per usual I just scream my opinions louder than everyone else.

On one hand, we’ve got people telling us it’s the same thing as the normal flu, or it’s slightly worse than the normal flu, or it’s a little less bad than the normal flu or that it’s an interpretive dance based on the normal flu.

On the other hand ... PANIC!!!

My favorite news from Adele Hamp-

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GINDES ton’s story yesterday was that on Oct. 15, the first 2,000 horrified individuals who attend an “emergency vaccination drill” at the University Health Center will receive “free seasonal flu shots.” So now we’re treating this like we’re WLUP 97.9: The Loop, and flu shots are free concert tickets to Nickelback. Call in now to DJ Clipboard and tell us that you’re ready to swine and dine and you get two free vaccinations to the next black death! Only on Chicago’s No. 1 rock station!

We’re screwed no matter what, though. Everyone knows college is a

cesspool where germs rule and washing your hands every once in a while drools. Gross.

I wrote a column on it last year, which prompted a cell biology and molecular genetics major to write me a letter because I obviously “have no semblance of a clue” about what antibodies are. So I’m more screwed than most, because swine is coming like an oinking steamboat from the River Styx itself. We are done for.

It’s even warranted a fancy little “H1N1 OUTBREAK” graphic that goes with the news stories we write about it. In my new position as opinion editor, I campaigned for the little symbol to be an angry pig’s face. I was told this was not professional.

The only good part about swine flu, like every other tragedy or pandemic, is exploiting it for personal gain. All you have to do to skip class with no penalty is sneeze twice. I’ve had two or

three kids missing from every one of my classes as the teacher gravely announces Billy is the latest victim of “flu-like symptoms.”

Great news, though: According to WebMD, flu-like symptoms can include: Sleeping in, playing basketball at the rec center, staying at Thirsty Turtle too late and waking up still drunk. Who knew? See, don’t let anyone tell you my columns aren’t informative. You’re welcome.

In all seriousness, we’re done. Our goose is cooked. We’re all going to be dead pretty soon, so screw it. I’m even mailing it in for the last 30 words of this column. Who cares?

That’s a wrap on life, you guys.

Make your peace with God. It’s been real. See you never.

Rob Gindes is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at gindes@umdbk.com.

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n February 2008, physics professor Tom Cohen discovered a dangerous substance: a liquid banned for sale on much of the campus. Fearing for our safety, he charged up a desk-sized electromagnet to zap this bottle of vice and malice — an empty Coke can.

“It’s gonna pinch inward,” he said, pushing the can into the magnet’s center and giving the magnet 1,500 volts. The class’s teaching assistant flipped the switch and the can crumpled at its middle and pinged like a dropped plate.

The class nagged for 3,000 volts.

The TA recharged the device and let the can have it. The can cracked into two fastballs pitched to both ends of the lecture hall.

The lesson? “Keep the Coke products off our Pepsi college campus.”

Like most of my classes, I fell asleep once the real lecture started, but the lesson about Pepsi’s on-campus drink monopoly raised a vital question: Why Pepsi over Coke?

Sure, you can get Coke in some places on the campus where it’s stashed deep in a cave in the on-campus convenience stores, but you can’t walk 20 feet here without being able to buy a Pepsi product or having a Pepsi-shaped recycling container to throw it in before you buy the next one.

The answer certainly doesn’t matter to most students here. I mean, how can a student drink a soda with a Natty Light can in one hand and a Jack Daniel’s bottle in the other? A student only has two hands, not three.

But why not both brands? Why can’t Pepsi and Coke share the spotlight? It would never work: the university had to pick one or the other to avoid a logistical sand trap — a catastrophe akin to global warming, the Sept. 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and Santa Fe Cafe’s closure. Stocking two brands makes our dear vendors cry. Stocking one brand never raises their heart rates above what it takes to eat a Twinkie. I sympathize with the vendors and realize that, for them, a single brand forms a more ideal stocking situation.

Yet no situation is perfect. Last semester, Pepsi’s monopoly irked a tall, bald, middle-aged and twitchingly peeved McDonald’s customer in the Stamp Student Union whose order of Coke the cashier denied, though she might not have denied him a restraining order.

“I got a coupon!” he shouted, rubbing the coupon against her jeering face. “I want a Coke. It’s McDonald’s.

They serve Coke.”

I settled the row. “They sell only Pepsi, not Coke. It’s like prostitution in Nevada: You want some, you gotta leave Vegas.”

He faced me. “Hey, this guy knows something! I bet he ain’t one of those septic tank-for-brains kids who doze off during class. No, this guy pays attention.”

I lost attention thereafter, and I forgot to answer my own question. Why Pepsi over Coke? The issue, like many the university tackles, came down to certain qualities.

The university sells only the best products to its students, so it’s no surprise why it chose Pepsi over Coke: One brand is a trusted, wellestablished product that tastes great, always refreshes and that everyone likes, and the other is Pepsi, which has at times offered its soda for cheaper prices than Coke. What else matters?

Andrew Trettel is a junior mechanical engineering major. He can be reached at andrew.trettel@gmail.com.

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Everyone seems to have friends who sit in their basement late into the night, fiddling with Pro Tools or GarageBand, creating what they consider the future of music, and who, no matter what time it is when they finish said musical creation, will send the obligatory ‘come check this out’ text. Adam Young is one of those friends.

Except, unlike your friends, Young’s combination of dreamlike — yet happy — lyrics and melodies has turned what began as a hobby during his downtime working at a warehouse into a bona fide music career.

Owl City, the name of Young’s project, and its synth-pop sound has been drawing comparisons to Ben Gibbard’s work in The Postal Service, but Young’s musical inspiration for the project has come in a more abstract form.

“Wordless music endlessly inspires me,” Young wrote in an email, citing “a lot of experimental abstract music … a lot of Boards of Canada, Unwed Sailor and Hammock” as his muses.

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“There’s something amazing about that game,” Young explained. “It’s the nerdiest thing imaginable but I really wish I lived in this level called Dolphin Park featured in Wave Race 64.

The aesthetic/mood/feel looks like the way I want Owl City to sound.”

So with all those inspirations in mind, Owl City took form. The project was small in the beginning; Young recorded songs in his basement and then posted those songs on his MySpace. But then his budding career took a turn that most early careers don’t — he got noticed.

Owl City selfreleased the Of June EP in 2007, which found online acclaim by way of the frequently-played lead track “Hello Seattle.” Young followed the EP by self-releasing Maybe I’m Dreaming in 2008. This album too, garnered much attention for Young’s burgeoning project, so much so that he signed a deal with Universal to release his third record.

“I kept asking myself what my goal for Owl City was at the end of the day,” Young said, explaining why he stopped self-releasing material. “And the answer kept coming back to the

idea of wanting to share my art with as many people as are willing to listen. The label came along and that was that.”

The result of the record deal was Ocean Eyes, which he released at the end of July.

“I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the response thus far has been breathtaking,” he added.

And, really, “breathtaking” is just about the perfect word to describe the response to an album recorded in a basement in Owatonna, Minn.

“Honestly, [the recording process] didn’t change at all,” Young said. “I made the Universal record the same way I made my first two independent records — in my basement.”

Well, let’s start handing out the drinking water in Owatonna, because Ocean Eyes looks to be a certified hit.

The album, so far, has peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard 200 chart, and for the week of Sept. 12, it has a solid showing at No. 78.

But what may be the biggest sign of hope for commercial success is the album’s single, “Fireflies,” hitting No. 94 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is charting even higher on Alternative

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“I [had] absolutely no idea that song would be as well-received as it’s been.

[It’s] completely thrilling,” he said.

And now, Young is taking his show on the road, and in a big way.

His North American tour hits 36 cities in two months, including already sold-out performances in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and, yes, Washington.

The always-lively Young describes his excitement for these sold-out shows as making him “feel like eating Taco Bell and not wearing my seatbelt.”

But Young’s joking aside, the ability for Owl City to sell out shows months in advance is yet another amazing feat considering that his first live performance was this past February.

“I wasn’t sure how much I’d like playing live,” Young described. “But [now that I’ve been] touring for a few months, I honestly really enjoy it.”

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Forward Herrick’s improvement a plus for soccer

BY JONAS SHAFFER Staff writer

For any one of several reasons, the 2008 version of Terrapin men’s soccer forward Jason Herrick would have been an unlikely candidate to be the hero in the Terps’ 2-1 overtime victory Sunday night against No. 11 California.

Back then, he was weaker.

He was slower. And he couldn’t run for very long.

But against the Bears last weekend, the new-andimproved Herrick looked quite comfortable as the leading man for the No. 7 Terps (1-1), who commence their conference

schedule tonight against Boston College (1-2).

Herrick played nearly the whole match Sunday and finished his runs with a pace and strength rarely displayed by the junior Elmhurst, Ill., native last season.

The progression of the goal itself — a rundown of a long ball from midfielder Matt Kassel where he split two defenders and held them off long enough to tee up his game-winning strike — wasn’t part of his arsenal last season. It is now.

“Either one or the other factor might not have happened [last year],” said Herrick, who was named to TopDrawerSoc-

cer.com Men’s Team of the Week. “I either could’ve beat him and not muscled him or muscled him and not even got past him, so there’s definitely an improvement this year.”

Having Herrick on the field that late in the game was a blessing for coach Sasho Cirovski, who likened his forward to an on-field assistant coach. Herrick said he felt comfortable playing for only 60 or 70 minutes on the field last season before he was done physically.

“He’s just got an earlier start to his form,” Cirovski said.

“He’s a very good leader and a very intelligent player, and he’s a guy that makes us tick.”

After a weekend pitted against veteran defenses and seasoned goalkeepers, Herrick and the Terp attack will encounter a raw, young Boston College backline tonight.

Among the Eagles’ expected starters are two freshmen defenders and another in goal.

“Every time we try to go out there and do whatever we can to get behind the defense,” Herrick said. “I don’t look past them whether they’re veterans or rookies.”

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work off the rust. The Terps won’t have massive left tackle Bruce Campbell going up against a squad that earned the top seed in the FCS playoffs last season, but a multi-touchdown Terp win is both a possibility and a necessity.

“We need to bring our A-game,” wide receiver Adrian Cannon said.

“We’re ready to set the tone early and gain some momentum.”

It’s the perfect time to do it as the Terps kick off a stretch of four straight home games taking them into ACC play. That means erasing the protection problems, no longer giving up big plays that plagued them at Cal and leaving no doubt they’re the better team against James Madison, which will be breaking in a pair of inexperienced quarterbacks in its season opener.

These seemingly lopsided matchups can be telling, as last week’s ACC-CAA battles showed.

The Cavaliers and Blue Devils’ losses laid the groundwork for disappointing seasons in Charlottesville, Va., and Durham, N.C. Up the coast, Boston College’s 54-0 pasting of Northeastern has Eagles fans excited their team might exceed expectations.

But this week, when asked about his conference’s struggles against the CAA so far, Friedgen quickly dismissed the question, saying he has his own problems to worr y about. On Saturday, we’ll start to find out

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Offensive line play will be a key tomorrow because of the absence of left tackle Bruce Campbell. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

exactly how well he’s worked those problems out.

His team continues to talk a good game, careful not to provoke a team that will no doubt embrace any perceived disrespect. That leaves plenty of room to handle their business on the field.

“We’re coming off a pretty bad loss, and for us to have a ver y good showing and a ver y good win would feel good,” said quarterback Chris

Turner, who will start his first game of his career against an FCS squad.

“But we just want to get the win. To us, a win is a win.”

However, all wins aren’t created equal. If the Terps come out sluggish and the Dukes hang around too long, the crowd will surely let Turner and the Terps know what they expect.

Even if it’s easier said than done. edetweiler@umdbk.com

He said there is still a lot his team can accomplish, and it starts tomorrow with the first game at the newly renovated, newly named Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium.

“Cal’s over. It’s done.

We’ve got to worr y about James Madison right now,” Friedgen said. “I told them, ‘Ever y goal is still there except the one to beat Cal. But you’ve got to come out and you’ve got to be better this week than you were last week.’”

The two areas in which the Terps especially need to improve this week are on the offensive line and on defense as a whole.

When a team allows six sacks and 52 points, those are usually the logical areas to place at least some of the blame.

But the already inexperienced offensive line will be without Bruce Campbell tomorrow, as the hulking left tackle will be out at least for this week and possibly longer with a turf toe injur y he suffered in the game against Cal. The Dukes feature two preseason FCS All-Americans in defensive tackle

Sam Daniels and defensive end Arthur Moats.

To address the hole Campbell leaves on the line, Paul Pinegar, who started at right tackle last week, will start at left tackle, and redshirt freshman R.J. Dill will get his first career start at right tackle.

“These kids got to come on a little quicker than we anticipated,” offensive line coach Tom Brattan said.

On the other side of the ball, the defense is not going to abandon defensive coordinator Don Brown’s aggressive scheme, but it needs to execute better.

The Dukes don’t have anywhere near the level of speed and explosiveness the Golden Bears offense showed last week, but they do run a spread offense that could pose new challenges for the Terps.

The Terps aren’t necessarily going to change ever ything they do this week. They just know they need to do it better.

“The guys believe in what we’ve got going here,” defensive end Deege Galt said. “We play hard ever y snap to every whistle, and I think we really still believe in that.” schimmel@umdbk.com

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TERPGAMEDAY

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WHEN: Tomorrow, 6 p.m. ET WHERE: Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium ONLINE: ESPN360.com DATA: The Terps are coming off a seasonopening 52-13 loss at No. 10 California. James Madison comes to Byrd for their opener ranked No. 6 in the FCS Preseason poll.

TERPTRACKER TEAM STATS JMU*

TERPS

Passing (ypg) 118.6 Rushing (ypg) 282.8 Total (ypg) 401.4 Points per game 38.1 Opponents ppg 23.1 Avg. Time of Possession 31:25

167 136 303 13 52 32:58

*JMU stats are from 2008

BEING UP FRONT Left tackle Bruce Campbell is out for tomorrow’s game with a turf toe injury he suffered last weekend.

Campbell, one of two Terp offensive lineman who had started a game before Saturday, will be replaced by Paul Pinegar, who started at right tackle against Cal. Redshirt freshman R.J. Dill will get his first career start at right tackle.

Offensive line coach Tom Brattan said Wednesday it is unclear how long the 6foot-7, 310-pound Campbell will be out.

“You’ve got to decide, ‘What are you going to do?’” Brattan said. “Are you going to roll the dice and have him get hurt more, and have him lose more time? Or are you going to shut him down completely until he’s healthy?”

James Madison features two Football Championship Subdivision preseason All-Americans in defensive tackle Sam Daniels and defensive end Arthur Moats.

TATE’S TIME Last night the team released an injury report announcing safety Jamari McCollough would not be available tomorrow after the senior left the Cal game in the first half with an ankle injury.

Earlier in the day, Friedgen seemed slightly irked about the other injury news that had leaked earlier in the week regarding Campbell, and said he wasn’t sure yet if he would be releasing an injury report.

Because McCollough is unable to go, Kenny Tate will start in his place at strong safety.

Friedgen also confirmed Thursday that Tate would return punts again tomorrow, but would not comment explicitly on the status of punt returner Tony Logan, who is still questionable.

Logan injured his shoulder during the preseason, then missed the Cal game and was limited in practice this week.

Friedgen considers Logan to be surehanded, but Tate is more explosive.

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KEY MATCHUP

Coach Ralph Friedgen watches the Terps practice this week, days after Saturday’s 52-13 defeat at Cal, the second-worst loss in Friedgen’s nine-year tenure. The Terps will try to move on against James Madison tomorrow. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

BOUNCE BACK TIME After 39-point loss, Terps look to get back on track

BY GREG SCHIMMEL Senior staff writer

The Terrapin football team is finally ready to move on.

After a week of taking questions about all that went wrong in their season-opening 52-13 loss at then-No. 12 California, the Terps are hoping to find some answers on the field tomorrow against James Madison.

The Terps admittedly showed some glaring weaknesses when they got mauled by the Golden Bears last Saturday, but it’s still hard to tell exactly where they stand after one game against one of the nation’s best teams.

A win against Foot ball Championship Series power JMU would be the first big step in the Terps getting their season back on track.

But they know a loss against a

see FOOTBALL, page 7

Byrd Stadium’s renovated Tyser Tower will be a big part of the Terps’ home opener tomorrow. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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For Terps, the HEAD HEAD time is now

TERP DEFENSE VS. QB DREW DUDZIK AND QBJUSTIN THORPE The Dukes have said they will use both quarterbacks to run their spread offense.

They are predominantly a run-based team, but coach Ralph Friedgen said he expects to see a lot of option runs, and the big quarterbacks could be tough to bring down.

Linebacker Adrian Moten (pictured below) and the Terp defense struggled to put pressure on Cal quarterback Kevin Riley last weekend, and they need to do a better job making Dudzik and Thorpe feel uncomfortable tomorrow within defensive coordinator Don Brown’s scheme.

“Their quarterbacks to me are like running backs — big running backs,” Friedgen said. “Both of them run very well. ...They’re like linebackers back there.

Dudzik is listed at 6-foot-1, 210, and Thorpe (pictured above) is listed at 6-1, 215 on the Dukes’ depth chart, but Friedgen said he thinks they’re actually bigger than they’re listed.

team from an inferior division could spell the beginning of a very long year. “[This game] is very, very important,” quarterback Chris Turner said. “It was a pretty bad loss [last week], and it leaves a bad taste in our mouths. If we go out and get a good win and get a good experience, I think it would kind of erase a lot of the memories from last Saturday.”

Before they tried to forget, the Terps took some time to reflect on what happened out west.

In addition to the team’s regular film work with position coaches, coach Ralph Friedgen said he showed the entire team 25 plays Monday from last week’s game to illuminate both the things the Terps did well and the things they need to do better.

Then they started getting ready for JMU. Friedgen said it’s important his players looked at the Cal game only to learn from their mistakes, but otherwise they should forget about the outcome.

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DETWEILER

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his one should be easy. In tomorrow’s Terrapin football home opener against James Madison, the stats should pile up as the youngsters build confidence. It should be the game where students don’t feel bad about leaving a few minutes early — just this once. In theory, it’s a surefire win in a tricky nonconference schedule.

For the fourth straight season, the Terps welcome a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division IAA) opponent to Byrd Stadium for an early-season contest. And after winning their last three season openers against the lower division by an average of less than 13 points, the Terps need an even better performance Satur-

day to get the season back on course.

“You don’t want to be a team that loses to a I-AA team,” said linebacker Alex Wujciak, perfectly aware that ACC rivals Virginia and Duke joined that particular club last weekend.

“I think we’ve got a little something extra to go for after losing on national TV like we did.

I think there’s extra incentive for us to come out here and play harder in front of our home fans for the first time this year.”

It doesn’t make sense for a team coming off a 39-point loss at California to talk about running the Dukes out of newly renovated Byrd tomorrow. The Terps have predictably kept the focus on themselves this week as they recover from a very draining trip west.

But another struggle — or even a loss — will just raise more questions at a time when the young team must start figuring things out. Unlike FCS challenges in past years, the Terps already have one game under their belts to try to

see DETWEILER, page 7

OFFENSE

DEFENSE

JMU’s spread offense could be better than some people would expect from a FCS team, but as the saying goes, a team with two starting quarterbacks doesn’t really have a starting quarterback at all.

The Terps’ offensive line needs to rebound from a tough opening performance to give Chris Turner more time.

Don Brown’s Terp debut was an absolute nightmare last week, as the Terps allowed 52 points and 542 yards of total offense.

But even though the Dukes have a solid defense, the Terps have bigger, faster and more athletic personnel.

Look for them to rebound this week.

SPECIAL TEAMS

COACHING

JMU’s Scotty McGee is a legitimate playmaker returning both kicks and punts for the Dukes.

But Torrey Smith and Kenny Tate give the Terps two explosive returners, and freshman kicker Nick Ferrara looked very good in his debut last week.

Mickey Matthews is the winningest coach in James Madison history, and is highly-regarded in the FCS. Ralph Friedgen predictably took some heat after last week’s debacle, but his teams generally respond very well after high-profile losses.

INTANGIBLES

PREDICTION

The Terps are desperate for a win after getting blown out in their opener, and they should get a boost playing in front of their home crowd for the first time.

The Dukes won’t be intimidated by the Terps’ ACC status, as FCS teams Richmond and William and Mary beat Duke and Virginia last week.

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