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Univ. officials support testing NCAA athletes for sickle cell Athletics has screened players for gene since 2005

BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer

Although the NCAA will soon require Division I athletes to be tested for sickle cell anemia to better prevent sudden deaths, this university has been doing just that for years without any backlash, officials said.

This NCAA prerequisite, which took effect Aug. 1, requires universities to identify athletes predisposed for sickle cell anemia — a chronic genetic disorder in which crescent-shaped red blood cells can cause blockages in veins and arteries — who are also likely to be at high risk for life-threatening complications brought on by extreme physical activity. Those who test positive would be monitored more closely and allowed to request modified training schedules that allot more time for resting and staying hydrated, NCAA officials have said.

But many, including the Sickle Cell Anemia Association of America, have responded to the mandate with visceral opposition, citing concerns that those who test positive may be setting themselves up for discrimination that harkens back to

PULLING THE LEVER FOR HIGHER ED State’s first slot machine casino opens in Perryville while others stall

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

Even though not all students are old enough for weekend gambling escapades, they will still benefit from the grand opening of Hollywood Casino Perr yville — the first casino to open in the state since the 1960s.

Gov. Martin O’Malley will unveil the casino at its official grand opening in Perryville at a ceremonial ribbon-cutting with Hollywood-

themed festivities planned to take place this morning.

State voters approved slots in November 2008 as a way to lower the state budget deficit and generate millions of dollars in funding for the state’s higher education system, and the casino has already seen a large turnout since it unofficially opened on Monday, officials said.

After conducting a closed launch for invited guests Saturday, with all proceeds

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Hanami will serve wine, pitchers of beer County approves Japanese restaurant’s petition for liquor

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

The Facilities Master Plan, which is still underway, focuses on planting more shrubs and trees to improve the campus landscape. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Facilities continues working on master plan for campus Landscape, sustainability among univ. priorities

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Staff writer

From the looks of the many fenced-off construction projects cropping up across the campus, Facilities Management officials have their hands full, but they’re showing no signs of letting up.

Officials are working on the latest version of the Facilities Master Plan, and it’s chock-full of initiatives in line with the university’s sustainability goals, including improving the campus landscape, adding more bike paths and increasing the use of public transportation.

The plan, which is updated every five

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Sushi enthusiasts looking to wash down their California rolls with some sake won’t need to venture out of the downtown bubble for much longer.

Hanami Japanese Restaurant, located in the Campus Village shopping center, cleared the second and final hurdle to securing a

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Downtown Berwyn neighborhood low on shops but hopeful for more student patrons

BY AMANDA PINO Right now, it doesn’t look like much.

The small corner in the back of a quirky historic property sits dwarfed by rooms containing vials of herbs, spices and vitamins and stands filled with greeting cards and incense. It’s quirky.

But Smile Herb Shop co-owner Linda Wolfe said she’s expanding.

Within the next two weeks, Wolfe said she will be adding Wi-Fi, fair

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county establishment, as it does each month, and two candidates made their cases why they should be the latest business to turn on the tap.

Hanami owners presented character witnesses and petitions in favor of their receiving the license, helping Hanami beat out El Ranchero Y Sus Mariachis, a

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years and is scheduled to come out in September 2011, will be Facilities Management’s guiding document for the next two decades and determines the types of construction projects that will occur on the campus.

The last update, in 2007, focused on Facilities Management’s more basic duties, such as choosing sites for new buildings and renovating existing ones.

About three years ago, the campus was designated for an arboretum for a botanical garden, so officials decided to capitalize on that project and devote resources to

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liquor license Tuesday morning and will begin serving beer and wine as soon as the final paperwork clears. Students said they are looking forward to having a new watering hole close to the campus but don’t anticipate Hanami will become a target for overly boisterous partiers.

The Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners had one license to give out to a

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BERWYN from page 1 trade coffee and a few tables to the tiny room at the back of her store to create “a Starbucks kind of thing.”

Smile Herb Shop dates back to the 1970s and is one of the few commercial enterprises still standing in Berwyn’s historic downtown area. The stretch of old storefronts houses a bookmaker, gym and vegetarian restaurant Berwyn Café, but the remaining few spaces have been left empty for years. Yet Wolfe and the owners of Berwyn Café are still hopeful for a future in which the empty shops to either side of them are filled and more students venture into the neighborhood.

Berwyn Café employee Paul Baranson said he plans to start handing out flyers near some of the new apartment complexes popping up on Route 1, such as Mazza Grandmarc and the University View’s second building, to attract more student patrons.

And the StarView Plaza apartment complex, which broke ground in December 2009, is only a block north from Berwyn Road on the opposite side of Route 1.

“We’re excited to have some new neighbors, and we hope to see their faces,” Baranson said.

District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin, who lives in Berwyn, said it’s hard to predict what impact StarView will have on student interest in the café and herb shop.

“There’s not a whole lot of need to cross Route 1, with the Paint Branch Trail taking you south to campus,” he said.

The tiny commercial district, just a stone’s throw from the campus, looks more like small-town America — not College Park. Hidden among single-family homes blocks off busy Route 1, the strip remains half empty, and besides the herb shop and café, it offers few destinations.

Although the herb shop’s clientele is a relatively small niche, consisting mostly of those interested in herbal health care remedies, Berwyn Café sees a strong turnout at its Friday open mic nights, at which undergraduates frequently perform.

“A lot of students show up, not a particular group,” said senior government and politics major Jon Berger, who lives in Berwyn. “It’s

Berwyn Café, a vegetarian restaurant nestled in downtown Berwyn about two miles from the campus, offers an escape from College Park. PHOTOS BY JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

“We’re excited to have some new neighbors, and we hope to see their faces.”

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mostly students who live in the neighborhood; sometimes people from TerPoets will perform.”

Residents in the neighborhood said they’ve been spreading the word about Berwyn Café, and have seen more students — typically upperclassmen or graduate students — venturing over.

Human development graduate student and Berwyn resident Erica Zippert said a friend recommended she stop by the neighborhood, and so, she did.

Zippert said most students would probably like the healthy vegetarian food and quiet place to work with Wi-Fi but guessed many had no idea the Berwyn neighborhood existed.

The city has poured thousands of dollars into extending a bike trail through the area, redoing sidewalks and installing street lamps and some signage on Route 1 alerting passerby to the neighborhood, but more small businesses taking up shop in Berwyn’s downtown seems unlikely.

While the area houses a number of student rental properties, they are fewer and farther between than those in Old Town near downtown bars, fraternity

and sorority houses and the campus.

And the Berwyn neighborhood itself hasn’t been bustling for decades. Foot traffic has diminished multiple times over the neighborhood’s history: when the trolley car from Washington stopped running in the 1960s, when the Motor Vehicle Association moved to Beltsville and when zoning was made more stringent in the 1990s.

Zoning limits the commercial uses of many properties, meaning many types of businesses are not able to move in.

For example, though there had been some interest in opening a yoga studio, the would-be owners

were unable to obtain a permit, Wolfe said.

To further complicate things, the owner of most of the buildings in the city’s downtown district, Alvin Jenkins, is locked in a dispute with Berwyn officials over ownership of a gravel lot that cuts the bike trail in half. And the city isn’t willing to give him what he wants until he settles the suit.

So for now, students will have to settle for Berwyn being a step back in time, to a simpler and quieter America.

“It’s kind of like a retreat,” Zippert said. “It’s not something you’d expect to find in College Park.” apino@umdbk.com

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In last night’s meeting, the Student Government Association voted 17-8 to approve a new system that will allow for legislation to be approved more quickly and for the body to follow up on bills’ implementation. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK

SGA changes system for passing legislation Close vote leads to new process that specifies steps for implementation

BY SARAH MEEHAN Staff writer

The SGA voted last night to streamline its legislative process so members can vote on bills sooner than the previous system allowed.

Representatives hope the new protocol will allow legislation to move through the system more efficiently and keep members on their toes.

Prior to the change, the Student Government Association followed a three-week reading calendar to process proposed legislation, but some members said in the new four-week system they can achieve more with the allotted time.

As the system stands now, during the first week, the SGA sends any proposed legislation to its appropriate legislative committee for review.

It then takes an additional two weeks before the body can vote on the bill.

In the new process, the legislature will vote on those bills in the second week, as opposed to the third. Then, passed legislation will return to its committee where members will hammer out a plan for the bill’s implementation.

SLOTS from page 1 charities, the state issued a license the next day that allowed Hollywood Casino Perryville to welcome patrons before the official opening — three days earlier than was expected, casino spokesman Marc DeLeo said.

“We were surprisingly very busy Monday,” said DeLeo. “Because it was a Monday and the weather was not great, we expected it to be a little slower, but it was very busy, and we’re very excited about it.”

DeLeo said despite receiving short notice that the casino would stay open all week, business has remained steadily high the past three days.

The road to legalizing slots in the state was a long one, starting in 2003 when former Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich proposed them as a solution to closing the budget gap.

After five years of impassioned debate and discussion, voters approved five casinos statewide in a 2008 referendum on slots, which O’Malley, a Democrat, supported.

The Maryland Department of Legislative Services projected the casino’s revenue at $210 per machine per day, 48.5 to 51 percent of which will be funneled into the Maryland Education Trust Fund.

The 1,500 machines in the casino are estimated to yield about $57 million for the fund.

During the final week, the SGA will follow up on the status of the new legislation, which members said is a key step to holding legislators accountable for the bills they sponsor.

“Our new system will better represent each legislative constituency by creating a more efficient process that provides adequate accountability,” said SGA President Steve Glickman. “The legislators now have to report back to committees and report back to fellow legislators, whereas before they didn’t have to report back to anybody,” he said.

Glickman added that in the past there has been no official way to check up on the progress of initiatives once they were passed.

Other legislators echoed that sentiment and said they hoped the refined system will change other students’ negative perception of the SGA’s inner workings.

“Most people, when they think of SGA, they think of a group of people sitting around a table not getting anything done,” said letters and sciences Legislator Jimmy Gray, who voted in

“There is money anticipated in the budget for next year from slots which will benefit the state’s general fund and that will fund public education and higher education,” said Rick Abbruzzese, O’Malley’s campaign spokesperson.

The state’s next casino location is already stocked with 750 slot machines and is scheduled to open at the Ocean Downs Racetrack on the Eastern Shore on Dec. 16. Officials previously advertised a Memorial Day-opening, but they were forced to push that date back because of asbestos and construction problems with the casino site.

The fate of the state’s two largest proposed casinos — slated for Anne Arundel County and Baltimore — has been on hold and remains in limbo due to regulation and zoning issues.

Several people involved with O’Malley’s reelection bid said they are confident that despite the setbacks in getting the casinos up and running, these slots will prove beneficial to O’Malley’s campaign.

“What this shows is that after four years of gridlock under the previous administration, O’Malley came into office and finally got the slots passed,” Abbruzzese said. “In just a short period of time you have the first one opening [today] and the second one expected to come shortly.” farrell@umdbk.com

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favor of the change.

Last night’s 17-8 vote marked the third amendment to the SGA’s Constitution and Bylaws so far this semester and required a two-thirds majority to pass. Because one legislator had to leave the meeting before the decision, a substitute legislator cast that vote — bumping the supporting side up to the 17 votes needed for approval.

Chief of Staff Michelle McGrain said she thinks the new calendar system will allow the body to ensure it passes and implements meaningful legislation.

Because the revised schedule requires SGA committees to create specific action plans for their bills, legislators and non-legislators have the opportunity to build stronger connections within committees, she said.

Others think the new process will only prolong the routine because legislators will now have to debate both the bill’s guiding concept and the implementation details.

“It’s adding another layer to the bureaucratic cake that is SGA,” said behavioral and social sciences Legislator Zach Cohen, who voted

against the bill.

Cohen said he did not see a major problem with the previous reading calendar and added most legislative bodies across the countr y use a three-week system. Other legislators argued a procedural change like this should have been made in last spring’s omnibus bill, but Glickman said he wanted to consult this year’s legislature first, adding many changes were made to the original bill because of their input.

“In spirit, this is a good idea,” said Anton Medvedev, a senior philosophy and government and politics major who resigned from the SGA earlier this semester. “I think that the problem with this is that it adds another step in the legislative process.”

Though Medvedev did not completely agree with the stipulations of the new system, he said he appreciates that the SGA is tr ying to improve its approaches to better ser ve students.

“I’m glad it passed,” he said. “I’m glad to see the SGA is open to reassessing its methods.” meehan@umdbk.com

the 1970s, when sickle cell anemia screening programs were used by companies and state governments to identify carriers, who were then denied employment and insurance coverage. Because 8 percent of blacks carr y the trait, compared to 0.5 percent of Latinos and 0.2 percent of whites, according to the National Institutes of Health, the systematic testing was highly racialized.

The NCAA program is being viewed as a test case, after as many as 10 Division I football players who had the gene died following workout sessions in the last decade.

But Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Medicine Darryl Conway said this university has never faced any accusations of discrimination, despite having tested its athletes for the past five years.

Conway said the players are no more likely to face discrimination as a result of this screening than they are in any other medical tests the university conducts, such as screens for flat feet, asthma and diabetes.

“My personal opinion is this is being blown out of proportion,” he said, noting that everyone is tested for the sickle cell trait after they are born.

In 2005, the university began testing all “at-risk athletes” — those of AfricanAmerican, Central and South American, European, Mediterranean and Italian descent — for the sickle cell gene, Conway said, which constituted about half of the university’s athletes. In 2007, the university moved to testing all athletes, he said.

“Everybody has some mix in their background,” he said.

Sickle cell anemia can affect red blood cells by changing their circular shape to that of a crescent, causing the cells to have difficulty passing through small blood vessels, thus damaging tissue. Those who have the disease have two copies of the sickle cell gene, whereas those with the sickle cell trait have only one copy and generally remain unaffected.

Yvette Rooks, the Terrapins’ team physician and a member of the NCAA committee that recommended the requirement, said she

FACILITIES from page 1 improve the campus’ appearance, Associate Vice President for Facilities Management Frank Brewer said.

Brewer also said Facilities Management will focus on making the campus more bikerfriendly, because he said students and faculty members often complain it is difficult for bikers to find safe paths or enough bike racks.

“Biking hasn’t really been a part of the culture at Maryland because we don’t have enough paths, racks or storage areas,” he said. “We’re going to work hard on that because we believe that many more of our students and staff will use their bikes if we’re more biker-friendly.”

Facilities Management is also on the lookout for areas to plant more flowers and shrubs to make the campus more attractive, as well as areas to add more trees to expand the campus’ tree

HANAMI from page 1 Mexican restaurant in Beltsville, a clerk on the board said.

“It was a competition,” said Diane, a 30-year employee of the board who asked her last name be withheld. “They’re both fine restaurants, but we only had one license …

Hanami demonstrated the public would be accommodated by a liquor license.”

Owner and manager Irene Song said she is excited about the advantages of bringing a liquor license to her business, an almost five-year-old establishment serving sushi and traditional Japanese food.

“It should help a lot,” Song said. “Sake goes with sushi, and you can sake bomb.”

Song hopes to add Japanese beer, such as Sapporo, to her menu, in addition to a wine selection. Tables of six or more will be able to order pitchers of beer.

Students said a liquor license will separate Hanami from the other Asian restaurants nearby that do mostly

Part of the Facilities Master Plan addresses the university’s transportation concerns. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

canopy.

“We want it to connect with regional canopies, which provides routes for wildlife to move throughout the region,” Brewer said.

The landscape projects will also focus on improving the university’s performance as a stakeholder in the Anacostia watershed, so officials will be

carry-out orders or serve quick eat-in meals. Though Seven Seas, located further north on Route 1, is students’ go-to sake bombing destination, several said having that option within walking distance from the campus is ideal.

“That does sound like more fun,” said senior accounting major Parisa Karimi, who said she goes to Hanami for sushi but would be interested in bringing a group of friends to have a couple drinks with dinner.

“It’s definitely a change from the standard bars in College Park,” she added.

Although Song said she expects adding alcohol to the menu will bring in extra revenue, she knows she might have to prepare for some rowdy patrons and said she plans to monitor that possibility.

In order to minimize any negative alcohol-influenced incidents, Song said only parties ordering food will be allowed to add beer or wine to their bill. The county will not require the restaurant to purchase ID scanners to serve customers drinks.

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working together to install more projects with the Low Impact Development Center, Inc. — a non-profit organization that aims to protect water resources — to improve the quality of the campus’ runoff water.

Both the landscape improvements and transportation initiatives address the university’s larger goal of creating the most

“My personal opinion is this is being blown out of proportion.”

DARRYL CONWAY ASSISTANT ATHLETICS DIRECTOR FOR SPORTS MEDICINE

doesn’t foresee any discrimination occurring.

“By testing ever yone, I think you get rid of the prejudices,” Rooks said.

The policy was mandated after Rice University football player Dale Lloyd II’s family filed a lawsuit claiming his death was linked to the genetic trait — Lloyd did not have sickle cell anemia.

“Do we see it a lot? No, but we like to be cautious,” Rooks said.

Rooks noted that most people who have the sickle cell gene can live a long, happy life without ever experiencing any complications or developing the disease.

However, she said, there’s a chance that with extreme physical exertion, other wise normal red blood cells may sickle and fail to deliver enough oxygen to essential organs and tissues.

Those who test positive haven’t ever been excluded from any athletic participation, Conway said, just monitored to make sure they remain healthy. Starting this year, Rooks will personally educate athletes on what sickle cell anemia is and what they should be mindful of when under extreme physical pressure.

“It’s a two-way street,” Rooks said, adding athletes need to be aware of their bodies and know when they need to take a break.

Conway said that with athletic trainers, coaches and an unlimited supply of water and Gatorade, university athletes have plenty of people — and resources — to ensure they remain healthy.

“That’s what you don’t get at other places,” he said, adding that the key to preventing complications is getting the results of the sickle cell trait test on a child’s immunization chart so youth league coaches and parents are aware of the trait. roubein@umdbk.com

environmentally sustainable campus possible.

Brewer said officials are gearing most of their transportation efforts toward improving Shuttle-UM buses and Metro buses so students, staff and faculty will view public transportation as a more appealing option. The goal is to make public transportation as convenient and attractive as possible to reduce automobile traffic on the campus.

“We’re hoping to increase the frequency of the buses, so instead of running every 20 minutes, they’d run every 10 or 15 instead,” he said. “We’re going to try and align our shuttle bus routes with where students live.”

Many Department of Transportation Services buses are hybrids, and Brewer said hopefully the university will add more over the next several years.

The update is on track to be completed by summer and ready for presentation to the Board of Regents for approval next fall. abutaleb@umdbk.com

Hanami Japanese Restaurant was granted a liquor license and will begin serving beer and wine. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

District 1 Councilman Marcus Afzali said he doesn’t think inappropriate behavior will be an issue — the established atmosphere in the typically mellow restaurant just doesn’t lend itself to that kind of behavior, he said.

“Considering the restau-

rant, I don’t think people are going to go and start sake bombing,” Afzali said. “I don’t think it’s going to have much impact on the atmosphere of the restaurant.” present@umdbk.com

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The council’s student representation is small, consisting only of District 4 ndergraduates have long felt disenfranchised by the City of College Park. With graying politicians running the show, many students have Councilman Marcus Afzali, who was elected as a graduate student and introfelt their concerns and opinions go ignored or dismissed based on duced the amendment. However, this lack of representation makes the prospect officials’ perceptions of their youth and temporary status. To be fair, of an undergraduate council member all the more appealing.

There are several city-wide issues that an undergraduate candidate could capstudents have done their part to give such dismissals ammunition by shying away from local elections and not turning out to open College Park City Council italize on to bring students to the polls — from parking regulations to the retention of local businesses to noise control. This candidate would need to demonmeetings, where issues that impact students directly are often debated.

But in the College Park, undergraduates may soon have a place at the table. strate to students why an undergraduate voice on the eight-member council is needed while also showing city residents he or she is The city council will debate a proposed amendment to the informed and serious about improving the quality of life city’s charter that would enable a city resident as young as in College Park.

18 to run for a seat on the council. Such an amendment As Afzali and others have noted, a prospective underwould be a remarkable change to the charter as it stands, A proposal by the College graduate council member would have to be focused and which requires council members be at least 21 years old Park City Council to lower committed to win an election. And with students spread and a registered city voter for no less than one year. the age requirement for throughout College Park’s four districts, he or she would Even if approved, the amendment will merely present need to be able to attract support — and votes — from an opportunity for students — it will not make it any easier council seats to 18 could both students and residents. for an undergraduate to successfully run for a city post. create a more inclusive and Although it seems inherently unlikely an undergradThe fact of the matter is many city residents harbor a uate could secure a spot on the city council anytime certain amount of disdain for students, whose booming livable community. soon, we welcome the prospect and encourage the city house parties and late-night lifestyles often conflict with the interests of older residents. This divide has made it difficult for students who to do the same.

This is a community that has often seen city pitted against university in met the age requirement to get elected in the past.

The last two undergraduate students to attempt such a feat have failed. And regards to policy and development disagreements. Opening the door for a possialthough students under the age of 21 will no doubt face an uphill battle, this edi- ble student council member would not only be a victory for the more than 26,000 torial board believes there are students engaged enough, serious enough and undergraduates at this university, but it would also be a step toward creating a more inclusive — and livable — community. ambitious enough to make the climb.

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Thirsty Turtle: A fond farewell

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f any of you have listened to the lyrics of Ke$ha’s “Take It Off” lately (and I suggest you don’t), you’ll notice she’s “composed” a song specifically about our ver y own Thirsty Turtle. It’s a hole in the wall, it’s a dirty free for all, we’ve got our drunk text on, and we’ll regret it in the morning.

There’s definitely glitter on the floor — as in broken glass — and I’ve seen plenty of freshman girls take it off lately, as in I can see their panties when they’re bent all the way over dancing on their fellow 12-year-olds.

I’ve never flashed anything whatsoever at Turtle, but I have been sprayed off the bar with a soda gun, had a friend who burned her hair on holiday lights, fallen off a speaker, fallen off a mechanical bull, been punched in the face, won nine straight games of beer pong and almost been crushed to death while catching a glimpse of Jersey Shore’s

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WYNN DJ Pauly D. I’ve watched my friend sustain critical injuries after having a beer bottle smashed in his face. I’ve heard of people urinating in cups and then throwing the contents into the crowd. Oh, if those walls could talk. The things we’ve all seen there.

The things we will continue to see.

The trouble is, lately, my ability to pick out freshmen has been horrifically easy. The wide-eyed look on their faces, the way they clutch their fake IDs and the teeny tiny outfits (little Ke$ha lookalikes!). I can’t go into Turtle these days without feeling amused in a motherly or horrified way. Worse, many times I’m

bored. I’m not sure when seeing people get tackled into kegs became boring, but I’m guessing it’s about the same time I stopped seeing that and started seeing ever y bathroom stall occupied by a vomiting girl smeared with black eyeliner. No one does anything surprising anymore.

You’re boring me.

I’ve come to a horrible, earth-shattering realization, and I don’t like it.

Here goes: I’m too old for this. With only three bars, navigating Route 1 has become a minefield, running into the same exact people my own age and the same bleary-eyed underclassmen fighting for space on a few grimy dance floors. We’re warned about being mugged after leaving the bars, but the real robbery starts with the $5 cover at the doors. The bouncers are horrible.

Unfortunately, though, while I’ll probably go to Washington and private wine nights more often, I’m not

going to stop frequenting Route 1 until the Metro starts moving at the speed of light or a crazy house party scene materializes out of nowhere.

I’ve spent many a happy semester accidentally dropping mixed drinks on people at Cornerstone Grill and Loft and arguing with R.J. Bentley’s bouncers about whether the Sharpie squiggle on my hand does, in fact, indicate that I already paid cover.

But as for you, Turtle? I’ve seen the light. I once loved you and your flaws, but now you’re suddenly gross in a sadly uninteresting way. My friends and I have decided: We’re never, ever going back. We’re old, grumpy and condescending. Those girls should put some pants on.

We’re probably also in denial.

Maybe just pitchers?

Bethany Wynn is a senior sociology major. She can be reached at wynn@umdbk.com.

The social network: It’s so cool

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Facebook movie is a ridiculous idea, and my fellow filmgoers apparently agreed with me on this subject a couple months back when they collectively groaned during the opening credits of a preview for The Social Network. Why would they try to make a movie about us? Get those old people some Facebook training wheels! On the surface, it certainly seems like an out-of-touch studio executive’s ill-conceived attempt at making a buck. But the trailer was well made, and the movie is written and directed by Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) and David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), respectively. Consequently, my interest was piqued; perhaps this film isn’t just Hollywood’s feeble attempt to understand what we’re interested in. Perhaps this is the sort of film that will enable us to reach some important conclusions about our generation.

Facebook is certainly a microcosm of the epochal effects technology has

had on our society. We are just now beginning to grapple with the true possibilities of the Internet, and I hope The Social Network searches for answers to some of the questions facing us: How are we responding to new technology?

Will we use it to improve our lives?

What does it all mean? Who are we?

What will we become?

Ponder this line from one of the trailers: “The Internet’s not written in pencil, Mark; it’s written in ink.” It’s a simple statement that, in the trailer at least, is obscured by the accelerating tempo of keystrokes in an online conversation.

But that’s sort of the point: distracted by a world increasingly cluttered with status updates and Internet memes, we have yet to comprehend the ramifications of a technological society.

Already, politicians are dealing with Playgirl spreads, witchcraft and an appearance on MTV’s Sex in the ‘90s — and this is just the beginning. You are what the interwebs says you are, whether its two or 20 pages of search

CHRISTOPHER HAXEL engine results. To de-tag or delete is not to de-create: Googlegate will inevitably usurp Watergate, as untold political aspirators and celebrities find their ancient de-tagged pimps ‘n’ hoes photos dug up by facial recognition software scrubbing vast reserves of Google caches and JPEG archives. We completely underestimate the vastness and permanence of our online persona; people change, but ones and zeroes remain constant. Is the future you prepared to defend your current online self?

Older people can exonerate themselves for not understanding the implications of their technological missteps, but our generation has no excuse: We’ve grown up in a wireless world of

cell phones and e-mail, text messages and instant messenger, MySpace and Facebook. Our generation is the first group of people intrinsically prepared to envision a technological society, but we’re blowing it because we waste so much time Facebook-stalking people we’d ignore in person or posting pictures of our sophisticated German study-abroad beer.

Why do we do this? Because it’s cool?

Old people have Facebook! You don’t have 968 friends, and Germany is littered with McDonalds. The wheel isn’t cool. Books aren’t cool. Electricity isn’t cool. The Internet is no longer cool, and maybe The Social Network is the kick in the ass we need to realize this. The training wheels are off; it’s time for us to acknowledge our technological society and to begin figuring out how to use it to make the world a better place.

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

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eil Sheehan, author of the 1989 Pulitzer Prizewinning book on the Vietnam War, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, argues in his 2009 book, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War, that the Korean War never would have happened if the United States had retained its atomic monopoly for a few more years. He blames the atomic spies — people who are thought to have given atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II and the Cold War — for causing the Korean War by giving the Soviets at least a twoyear start in producing atomic weapons. This also was the position of Judge Irving Kaufman in 1951 when he sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for espionage: He blamed them for causing the Korean War. However, one mustn’t forget that at least two factors go into making an atom bomb: the knowhow and the material resources.

The atomic spies provided only the knowledge to the Soviets. But the Soviets did not have the material resources — the most important of which is uranium — in sufficient quantities and was, in fact, largely provided them by a strategic error of the United States.

America, as stated by Zbynek Zeman and Rainer Karsch in their 2008 book, Uranium Matters, beat the Soviets to the uranium fields in Germany and Czechoslovakia, the Erzgebirge (the Ore Mountains), which forms a border between the two countries. Gen. George Patton, while advancing through those mountains to liberate Prague, could have easily liberated much of Czechoslovakia when he received an order to hold back and let the Soviets take Prague. The regions in East Germany and Czechoslovakia that he had already liberated, including the Erzgebirge uranium deposits, were later turned over to the Russians as part of the eastern zone in Germany, and Czechoslovakia was simply abandoned to the Soviets.

There’s an old saying: “To the victor belong the spoils.” America could’ve kept the German uranium fields as spoils of war rather than given them to the Soviet Union. If the United States couldn’t legitimately keep the Czech uranium mines, as Czechoslovakia wasn’t an enemy during World War II, it could’ve at least seen to it that non-communist Czechs, rather than the Soviet Union, regained control of those mines.

I’m not saying that the Soviet Union, if left alone, wouldn’t have eventually gotten enough uranium from someplace else, perhaps from its own territory, to break America’s atomic monopoly. But it would’ve been delayed a few years or so if it hadn’t been for that uranium coming from East Germany and Czechoslovakia. The bulk of the uranium used to break America’s monopoly came from those two countries. If it hadn’t been available, the Soviet Union would’ve been hard-pressed to find enough uranium for a nuclear weapon — at that time and for some years after.

Therefore, Sheehan and Kaufman are incorrect in their belief that the Rosenbergs’ espionage caused the breaking of the American nuclear monopoly. The U.S. government, and those officials in the Truman administration who ordered Patton’s halt and later turned over the Erzgebirge to the Soviets, must share equal responsibility with the atomic spies for causing the Korean war.

Jonathan S. Miller is a graduate student in geography. He can be reached at jsmiller@umd.edu.

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REVIEW | BURIED

Six feet under Buried is ill-paced but visceral and disturbing

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Staff writer

Few people are prepared to die. Simply facing the prospect can lead to feelings of loneliness and isolation as they realize time is slipping through their hands — that they are slowly fading away from everything they love.

But most people don’t spend that time in a coffin without any idea where they are. Unfortunately, that’s the case for Paul Conroy in Buried.

An American truck driver on a contract assignment in Iraq, Conroy (Ryan Reynolds, The Proposal) wakes up buried in a wooden coffin with nothing but a BlackBerry, a

pen and a lighter. Immediately, he is in a fight for survival — if he cannot get $5 million in ransom money to his captors within 90 minutes, he will be left to die.

With limited room, a dying cell phone battery, poor reception and a diminishing supply of oxygen, Conroy’s struggle is a race against time and a battle against despair.

The entirety of the movie takes place within the coffin.

Indie director Rodrigo Cortés received some acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival for the film, as he is able to keep that limited locale interesting with a few tricks — namely, the camera and the actor.

Creative use of the camera keeps the coffin from

getting old too fast. Instead, varying camera angles focus on different sections of the coffin and on Reynolds’ facial expressions.

The camera is also used in a way that allows viewers to share the claustrophobic sensation of being stuck in a coffin that will affect them long after they leave the theater.

Not only do viewers emphasize with Conroy, they also share his isolated mindset. In this regard, it is masterly. Some moviegoers may even feel the need to stretch out and take a shower immediately afterward.

The other great choice Cortés made was to fill Buried’s coffin with Reynolds.

Reynolds is a dynamic actor

who makes Conroy a character audiences will root for.

As the only actor seen on screen during the film, it is Reynolds’ cycling through fear, delirium, sadness and anger that allows viewers to care at all about this man.

His raw, exciting performance is the glue that keeps the film together.

It is moments such as Conroy using his phone to call his mother for what may be the very last time or begging government officials — “What are you doing right now to help me?”

—that deliver the right amount of emotion and make the character relatable, even in his dire situation.

Unfortunately, though, emotion messes with the pace of the film. During action, whether it is a twist in the plot or a suspenseful scare, the emotion drains out of the film, only to re-

turn later. The film struggles as it adds the elements of a drama to a suspense stor y, which causes the movie to feel like it’s either moving too fast during the action or dragging.

A few moments that could make matters tenser end up being humorous. Early events such as Conroy being forced to listen to on-hold music will lead to chuckling rather than anticipation, and these kinds of events happen a few times throughout.

Despite its flaws in pacing, Buried will get under your skin.

As Conroy etches important phone numbers into the lid of the coffin like he’s a prisoner in an insane asylum and sand slowly falls through the cracks, you can’t help but hope the hostage is rescued.

The realities of war are sprinkled throughout. Conroy’s place as an American in Iraq (despite not being a soldier) is an interesting issue throughout the film, and the events of the war in Iraq do affect his predicament. In a smart move, the film avoids commenting on politics.

Those who go to see Buried are in for some surprises. An entire movie in a coffin indeed works, even if there are a few hiccups. Audience members will be kept guessing up until the very end, and they’ll be affected by the expert camera work and Reynolds’ acting.

The pacing is by no means perfect, but it will suffice for those who want a new kind of thriller experience.

A piece of advice: Get seats with no one sitting on either side of you. When staring at a coffin for an hour and a half, you’ll appreciate the extra space. afreedman@umdbk.com

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BUCKLEY from page 8 said, laughing. “But training- and school-wise, it’s a lot more full-on. At home, it doesn’t really matter if you don’t go to classes, but here, it’s all about attendance, and it’s the same thing with training.”

Buckley said she’s adjusted to life in the U.S. with ease, and it’s shown on the field. The junior has started all nine games for the Terps, recording 20 points on eight goals and four assists.

On Sept. 19, in the 20th minute against Massachusetts, the Terps lined up for a penalty corner, and Buckley was called upon to take the shot.

After defender Ali McEvoy faked a shot, she passed it across the field to Buckley, who rifled a hard and low ball into the corner of the goal past Massachusetts goalkeeper Alesha Widdall.

The score ended up being the game-winner.

“She’s fit in really well,” defender and co-captain Alicia Morawski said. “It’s always nice to know that when she has the ball, she’s going to do some good with it.”

Although Buckley has played well for the Terps so far, coach Missy

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Meharg wants her to work on a more “American” style of play. Coming from Australia, Buckley is accustomed to a more zone-oriented defense.

Meharg, though, likes to run a combination of manto-man and zone coverage.

The veteran coach hopes the changes show on the field when Buckley sees her sister in Charlottesville tomorrow. The Cavaliers are one of just three teams in the country that are still undefeated.

“I’ve been so impressed with her character and ability to just work hard,” Meharg said. “I think one of the things that we’re working on with her is a different type of defense because they play very zonal in Australia. … I know that she will leave

here with different technical strengths.”

For Meharg, getting Buckley to be a Terp wasn’t an easy task. Meharg recruited her while she was in high school, but after graduation, Buckley decided to stay in Australia and play for the national team and the University of Western Australia. But Meharg was persistent, keeping tabs on her prized recruit over the next two years. When she called once more before this season, the answer was yes.

“I’ve been in contact with Missy for the past four or five years, and it had never been the right time,” Buckley said. “But it just worked out that everything came together, and I wanted to

finish my studies.”

Now that Buckley is a Terp, she said she’s looking forward to playing against her sister, who has recorded an impressive 20 points in her first year for Virginia. When the Terps play the Cavaliers tomorrow, it will be the first time the two have been pitted against each other on separate teams.

Back in Australia, where the two Buckleys played on the same high school team, they often pushed each other to improve their own game.

“I’m the older one, so I have to be better than her,” Jemma Buckley said with a grin on her face.

“But we always give each other goals to work on and see who’s scoring more.”

Despite the sisters’ closeness, Buckley said she has been talking trash heading into tomorrow’s game. She even sent her younger sister a friendly pregame present.

“It was funny, because I sent her a shirt that said ‘Fear the Turtle,’ and she had it on when we talked on Skype,” Buckley said. “All the UVA girls give her a hard time because I play at Mar yland, but it’s a good rivalr y. It’s fun. I can’t wait till we play them.” jengelke@umdbk.com

Cornerback Trenton Hughes, left, and the Terps allowed 355 passing yards to Florida International in their win Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

DUKE from page 8 In their past two games, against West Virginia and Florida International, the Terps have allowed 623 passing yards and six passing touchdowns. This week, they face a Blue Devil passing offense that is 20th in the country, averaging 281.25 yards through the air per game.

Things got so bad for Chism last week that after gambling on pass defense and giving up a long touchdown in the first half, defensive coordinator Don Brown replaced Chism with redshirt freshman Dexter McDougle in the second half.

“I guess I just got beat so he took me out,” Chism said.

Chism wasn’t on the bench very long, though. And after the game, Brown lauded Chism’s attitude and said the jun-

ior played much better as the Terps pulled away from the Golden Panthers.

“I am still just as confident,” Chism said. “I think it’s just that I am so eager to make a play, I forget the technique or something. It’s just the little things. I just have to calm down and do my job.”

He will need to be exceptional at his job Saturday. Duke wideouts Conner Vernon and Donovan Varner are two of the better pass-catchers in the conference, already having combined for 51 catches and 707 yards this season.

Chism and the rest of the secondary are well aware of the Blue Devils’ playmakers. The Terps will be better Saturday, Chism said, and so will he.

“If I get my hands on the ball, I want to score,” Chism said. “No missed tackles, no coverage busts. I just want to help us win.” lemaire@umdbk.com

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Sports

Volleyball hitting the road The Terrapin volleyball team looks to continue its fast start in ACC play with a win tonight at Wake Forest. Get more at diamondbackonline.com/sports.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Last-second Virginia goal still haunts Terps in 2010

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

Cornerback Cameron Chism, right, likely will help cover Duke wide receivers Conner Vernon and Donovan Varner on Saturday. Vernon leads the ACC in receiving yards per game, and Varner is eighth. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Far from a secondary concern Inconsistent Chism will lead Terps vs. talented Duke attack Saturday

BY MICHAEL LEMAIRE Senior staff writer

After leading the Terrapin football team in interceptions and being named the team’s most improved defensive player last season, Cameron Chism was expected to step in as the team’s top cornerback and a leader in an inexperienced secondary.

But things haven’t quite

gone according to plan.

After spending the offseason eagerly awaiting the season opener against Navy, Chism suffered a hamstring injury and missed all of training camp.

Chism returned in time to play in the game against the Midshipmen, and yesterday he said his hamstring hasn’t slowed him down this season.

The missed repetitions in practice did, however, delay his pro-

gression. And heading into Saturday’s showdown against a pass-happy Duke team, coach Ralph Friedgen is waiting for Chism to live up to his potential and take charge of a Terp secondary that has taken its lumps.

“He’s struggling right now,” Friedgen said. “Cameron missed all of training camp and that kind of set him back. He was only cleared a week before Navy, and a lot of his fundamen-

FIELD HOCKEY

Still close to home, even half a world away Australia’s Buckley sisters starring stateside under-21 team and Elly Buckley for the under-16 team), came to the United States together this year to combine their love for field hockey with Every night before she goes to sleep, Jemma their pursuit of a college degree.

Tomorrow, they’ll play against each Buckley logs on to Skype to see a other for the first time as the No. 1 friendly face.

Terps (8-1, 2-0 ACC) travel to No. 3 VirThe Terrapin field hockey defender ginia (9-0, 1-0). and Perth, Australia, native does, after “It’s really different, but it’s good all, miss her friends and family, many fun,” the elder Buckley said. “I love it of who live about 12,000 miles away. here. Having to learn everything about One of the people she misses most is this place is a little difficult, but it’s been Elly Buckley, her younger sister. And good. … I’m not very far from Virginia, although Jemma Buckley talks to her so we can see each other. It’s good that sister every day on the Internet — as we’re both experiencing it.” she does with much of her family — JEMMA Buckley noted the many differences the younger Buckley doesn’t live BUCKLEY between life at home and life stateside, across the Pacific Ocean.

TERRAPIN FIELD ranging from cultural differences to Elly Buckley lives in Charlottesville, HOCKEY DEFENDER styles of play on the field hockey pitch.

Va., as a freshman forward for ACC “You guys eat a lot. Meals are a lot bigger,” she rival Virginia.

The sisters, who have played for youth Aussee BUCKLEY, page 7 tralian national teams (Jemma Buckley for the

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Senior staff writer

tals are not where they need to be. We kind of figured he was a veteran, but he’s got to play better for us than he is right now.”

Chism, who leads the team in pass breakups and passes defended with six of each, largely embodies the woes that have befallen a secondary that has shown flashes of improvement but remains inconsistent.

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The No. 7 Terrapin women’s soccer team won’t soon forget what transpired in Charlottesville, Va., last October.

After midfielder Caitlin McDowell gave the Terps a 2-1 lead over host Virginia with her 79th-minute goal, it appeared with each passing minute that the Terps would soon be heading home with a big road victory.

They came up exactly one second short of leaving with a win.

Cavalier midfielder Jess Rostedt’s shot from 15 yards out rolled past then-goalkeeper Mary Casey and into the back of the net, sending the game into overtime, where it ended in a draw.

To the Terps, it might as well have been a loss.

“Oh, my gosh, I feel like that game just happened,” McDowell said. “That was definitely a game that resonated with us all season. It still feels so surreal.”

The Terps have their first opportunity for vengeance tonight, when the No. 9 Cavaliers come to Ludwig Field.

“We realize how close we were last year,” McDowell said.

“It made us realize you have to play literally every second of every game.”

The Terps (8-0-1, 0-0-1 ACC) will need a 90-minute effort if they hope to get their first conference win of the season over the powerful Cavaliers (7-1-1, 10), who have surrendered a mere two goals all season and boast the nation’s stingiest goals

against average.

Virginia can bring it up top, as well. They are averaging 3.33 goals per game this season, the best mark in the ACC, and they have two players with seven goals apiece, the same number Terp forward and leading scorer Ashley Grove has.

“They’re the stingiest defense that we’ve played against so far,” coach Brian Pensky said. “They’ve also scored the most goals of any team we’ve played against.”

Goals, obviously, will not be easy to come by for the Terps despite their explosive offense, which ranks seventh in the nation in scoring.

Forward Jasmyne Spencer stressed the importance of striking first tonight.

“In all of our ACC games, especially Virginia, we’ve got to be the first ones to score,” Spencer said. “It takes so much pressure off and gives you that edge, especially at home.”

Scoring the first goal might not be decisive for the Terps, but taking points from the game will be pivotal. The upper echelon of the ACC appears to be as wide-open as ever after No. 2 Boston College’s 3-2 win over defending national champion North Carolina on Sept. 23.

If the Terps hope to leap to ACC prominence, they’ll need to play soundly from the opening kickoff to the final second.

The very last second. cwalsh@umdbk.com