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City Council voices Univ. debates UMB merger in forum opposition to Rt. 1 apartment complex Final Board of Regents report due to General Assembly by Dec. 15

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

Book Exchange high-rise will clash with downtown area, officials say

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

The College Park City Council voiced its opposition Tuesday night to a student apartment complex proposed to be built over the Maryland Book Exchange, arguing the building would not complement the surrounding properties and character of the neighborhood.

At Tuesday’s meeting, many council members expressed concern that the development — situated on 2.71 acres on the corner of Route 1 and College Avenue — would not mesh with the city’s vision for the future of Route 1, as outlined in the Route 1 Sector Plan. Although the proposed five-story building would bring 341 units of student housing — more than 1,000 additional off-campus beds — near the campus,

council members said it will not match the Old Town College Park area.

“When you look at this ... building and compare it with the surrounding residences and the surrounding community, to say that this is not in violation — in opposition — to the intent of the sector plan is, quite frankly, ridiculous,” District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali said. “I think there’s been an absolute lack of a true attempt to work with the community on this.”

This proposal, put forth by local developer and university alumnus Ilya Zusin in July 2010, is the first to come under the new sector plan — a set of guidelines and standards for development along the downtown College Park road — that the Prince George’s County Council

University President Wallace Loh spoke yesterday at a forum on merging this university and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Members of the university community were presented yesterday with their first opportunity to weigh in on a potential merger between this campus and the University of Maryland, Baltimore at a forum hosted by university administrators.

About 90 people — fewer than 10 of which were university students — gathered in Stamp Student Union to ask questions and give input to university officials on the proposed merger. Officials from both institutions will ultimately submit a summary of their studies to the Board of Regents, which will then be presented to the state General Assembly in December. Officials said yesterday the input of students, faculty and staff will be vital in deciding to move forward with a merger.

Comments and questions ranged from faculty pledging their

support to students questioning the potential impact on their educational experience and financial expenses. University President Wallace Loh hosted and moderated the forum while Provost Ann Wylie, Vice President for University Relations Brodie Remington and Office of Technology Commercialization Director Gayatri Varma — all of whom chair merger task forces — fielded questions posed throughout the forum.

After University System of Maryland officials developed a study, which was approved by the board in June, the state’s top higher education officials created four task forces to study the impact of a merger on areas such as education and research, financial costs and benefits for both universities, technology transfer, promoting research commercialization and

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Serving up hope Colleges Against Cancer members cook dinner for patients undergoing chemotherapy

BY LAUREN HICKS Staff writer

Donning pajama pants and night shirts, members of Colleges Against Cancer cooked eggs, bacon, sausage and waffles yesterday evening for cancer patients currently battling chemotherapy.

Camilla Yanushevsky, who organized the event, pushed to expand the program this semester from a yearly event to a bimonthly program to allow university students to forge stronger bonds with the patients at the Baltimore Hope Lodge — a free place for cancer patients to stay

The Student Government Association held its first meeting chock-full of bills last night. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

With 11 bills, SGA still sees almost no debate

while receiving treatment from The Johns Hopkins Hospital or other area medical facilities.

“The first time I went I really thought it would be depressing and that there would be people with no hair, but people were really optimistic and friendly,” said Yanushevsky, a sophomore finance major who serves as the university chapter of Colleges Against Cancer’s advocacy chairwoman. “[The Hope Lodge] really means a lot to me. I really want to try and make sure everything runs perfectly.”

Admittance into the Hope Lodge is need-based, and

preference is given to those who are struggling financially or who are living in a location far from Johns Hopkins. The home provides free shuttle service to the hospital but does not serve free food — which is one of the many reasons why it’s important to cook meals for the lodge’s residents, Yanushevsky said.

“Everyone wants some company. They really like meeting new people. When you go through therapy you go through the same routine and see the same people,” said Yanushevsky. “When

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Legislators unanimously approved every bill that came before body

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

While last week’s 11 proposed SGA bills ended a threeweek dry spell in the body’s legislation, last night’s meeting came and went without debate, and legislators unanimously approved every bill that went before the body.

There were only a few slight differences of opinion during the Student Government Association’s weekly meeting yesterday. While some legislators said this means the organization is effectively hammering out any contention during weekly mandated committee meetings, Speaker of the Legislature Carson McDonald said this seeming indifference to

the voting is contrary to the body’s duties as legislators; they were not elected into office to passively pass bills, he said.

“I think what the legislators need to understand is that when there are bills on the table, you need to stick up for your constituencies,” McDonald said. “If you’re not going to stick up for your constituencies and just pass and this and this like it’s not a really big deal, then you need to consider whether you’re really the right person for the job.”

During last night’s meeting, there was one abstention from the vote on a resolution to support the College Park Boys and Girls Club and two

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Knox Box apartments burglarized in recent weeks After several break-ins, management emails residents on safety issues

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

After four or five Knox Boxes were broken into during the past two weeks, residents are doing everything from doublechecking their doors are secure at night to buying dogs to ward off unwanted visitors.

Although Prince George’s County Police Department District 1 Commander Hector Velez said burglaries such as these are fairly common, the incidents prompted property manager Gosia Sylla to send an email to residents Monday entitled “Breakins! URGENT!” It detailed safety tips and

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procedures that residents should take — such as deadbolting doors at night and locking windows — and Sylla wrote that Knox management would like to organize a meeting during which residents meet with the “City of College Park police department,” which does not exist.

Velez said while police are currently investigating each case, they do not have any suspects and county police did not have more information available on the incidents.

Knox Box officials declined to comment.

“We’re in the process of investigating and developing leads, but we don’t have much in the way of suspect information,”

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Velez said. “At this point, we’re trying to piece things together and see if there’s a trend. All these break-ins may be linked, but they also may not be linked.”

Police said some break-ins have not been anything out of the ordinary — stolen laptops and game consoles.

Camden Kent, a junior economics major and Knox Box resident, said several of his belongings were stolen out of his apartment two weeks ago. His laptop, Xbox, power cables and backpack were reported missing after a party at his residence Sept.

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this stuff, but it is super creepy.”

Other Knox Box residents said they will continue to ensure their apartments are secure at night.

“You just have to make sure you leave ever ything locked,” said senior animal science major Eugene Skinner.

Skinner, who lives in a Knox Box basement, that he would like the incidents to be thoroughly investigated and for Knox Box officials to do more about the incidents than just sending emails to residents.

“It would give me more peace of mind, though, if there was more being done to prevent more of the serious crimes, like these,” he said.

approved in June 2010.

City Planning Director Terry Schum said this proposal has been a challenge for Zusin under the sector plan’s new guidelines.

“We’re in a position right now where we’ve been unable to have a meeting of the minds, to reach agreement on some of the issues of most concern to us,” she said.

“We find that we can’t recommend approval or even approval with conditions.”

According to city documents, the plan will go before the Prince George’s County Planning Board on Nov. 3. Although the final decision will be left up to the county, the city council’s recommendation usually carries weight. The council will formally vote to either support or oppose the proposal at Oct. 11’s meeting.

Representatives from Axiom Engineering Design — who presented the plan to the council Tuesday night — made their case nonetheless, saying in addition to complying with the surrounding architecture, the building will also be environmentally friendly.

“For the building overall, we’re seeking, at a minimum, LEED Silver, and as it looks like we’re close to LEED Gold certification, we’ll do our very best to get to that level as well,” said Adam Morman, an Axiom senior landscape architect.

However, some city council members maintained this is exactly what will set the building apart so drastically.

“I don’t see how you can look at a place where people live, be it fraternity buildings, sorority buildings or a building adjacent to a church where only five people live on the entire block, and not call that residential,” District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said.

Senior City Planner Elisa Vitale said during the meeting that Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, the Old Town Civic Association and the Episcopal Student Center have also voiced their opposition to the proposal.

“The community expressed that they were not in favor of undergraduate housing at that location as the primary use,” Schum said.

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Several Knox Boxes were broken into in the past two weeks, prompting a property manager to send an email to residents. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Knox Box residents were reminded to keep their doors safely locked at night. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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In response, Kent and his roommates said they bought a dog for protection.

“Manny’s still a puppy,” Kent said of the new dog. “He’s not big and scar y yet like we want him to be.”

Two students, Alan and Dan Aiken, both seniors, came home Sunday morning to their Knox Box apartment to find an unknown Marine sleeping on their couch, the brothers told NBC Washington. The 20-yearold Marine told police he had been celebrating his birthday and thought he had fallen asleep in his own home.

“I don’t think he even lived in

the area,” Velez said. “I think he was just that intoxicated.”

Velez added police do not think the Marine had intended to steal any of the residents’ belongings.

“It’s not unusual, especially dealing with a college town,” Velez said. “A lot of times people have other people over, and they see something they like or something they want, and they come back two days later and take it.”

Several residents said the break-ins have not caused them any extra anxiety.

“We’re not scared, so much; it’s more worried,” Kent said.

“I don’t think anyone would come in with the intention of harming us; they just want to steal our stuff. I’m pretty sure it’s college students stealing

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A panel of university administrators takes questions from the university community on the potential merger of this campus with the University of Maryland, Baltimore at a forum in Stamp Student Union yesterday. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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national reputation and competitiveness.

State Senate President Mike Miller, who originally proposed merging the two institutions in January, said because the universities have complimentary and non-competing programs, a merger could propel this university to another level of research and education.

“The students will benefit in terms of stature, for one thing,” Miller said. “It’s a matter of prestige, but it’s also a matter of obtaining federal dollars because many of these research grants require collaborative work between [different departments].”

But Donald Langenberg, a former university system chancellor who also served as chancellor of the University of Illinois after two of its campuses merged in 1982, warned university officials that complications can arise from bringing together two large institutions.

“It is possible to merge two

such different institutions, but it ain’t easy and there are a lot of questions you probably can’t think of right now that will come up,” he said. “The cultures of those institutions are enormously different. I would guess to accomplish a true merger in such a situation, it will take something between one and two decades. This is a lifetime project for a lot of people at these institutions.”

Many of the university’s top administrators — including School of Public Health Dean Robert Gold, kinesiology Chairman Brad Hatfield and public policy school Dean Don Kettl — threw their support behind the proposal, noting their respective departments would greatly benefit from collaboration with graduate programs at UMB. “If you look at strategic locations of both campuses, critical issues lie in boundaries of disciplines we both work in,” Kettl said. “The combined institutions have the potential to be an incredible research powerhouse.

Merging would be a vast benefit to both of our campuses.”

Students at the forum said it was important for both undergraduate and graduate students to engage in discussions surrounding the merger, given how greatly it could impact both research and education.

“I’m a little disappointed [with the student turnout] because I do feel like it’s a big issue affecting the campus, so I would think a lot of students would definitely be more interested in what’s going on,” sophomore biology major David Lieb said. “There’s so much to be gained from potential research opportunities, pre-professional programs and collaborations between various departments. There are challenges, but potential gains would make it worthwhile.”

While Langenberg declined to say whether he favored a merger, he said it’s important for the university to consider multiple options to advance innovation and research.

“It’s striking how rapid change has become; the pace is going very, very quickly,” he said after the forum. “There’s a need to prepare students for

University of Maryland School of Medicine neurology professor Richard Macko addresses the panel; he was one of about 90 attendees at yesterday’s forum. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

lives and careers that will be remarkably different 10 years from now than they are now.”

Although Loh has yet to take a public stance on the merger, he said investment in higher education could do more than just expand educational opportunities for students and faculty — it could also lift the state out of an economic recession.

“I don’t think there’s any project worth undertaking unless it’s big, dramatic and complex,” Loh said at the forum.

“This is a very significant issue for the state regardless of how it comes out. These are difficult, challenging times, and yet, what’s going to pull this state out of a recession and this nation out of economic downturn is more investment in research and education.”

The Board of Regents will host forums both on this campus and in Baltimore at the end of the month. Once it compiles a final report, which will include feedback from these forums, the board will submit it to the General Assembly by Dec. 15. abutaleb@umdbk.com

HOPE from page 1 you enter with food and ever ything, it really means a lot to them.”

At yesterday’s event, about 10 students dined with the nearly 30 dinner guests, bonding over ever ything from their majors to college football to their involvement in Colleges Against Cancer.

“One of the girls came and sat with us, and we were talking to her and her mom is a breast cancer sur vivor,” said Dolores Norton, a Hope Lodge caretaker. “It’s nice to talk to the young people, and see what they are doing.”

Provost Ann Wylie answers merger inquiries from the audience, which consisted of few students. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

“It’s nice to talk to the young people, and see what they are doing.”

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Colleges Against Cancer funded the event through oncampus bake sales and other fundraising events to purchase the ingredients necessary to cook a complete breakfast in the span of a few hours.

“People do get excited about it around here,” Norton

said. “The buzz was ‘hey there is a dinner tonight.”’

Many residents said they enjoyed the students’ company and are looking for ward to more frequent visits this year — except for one.

“I don’t like hanging around young people,” resident Kathleen Norton said, jokingly. “I want to hang around old people so I look young.”

And many at the Hope Lodge said they enjoyed eating breakfast for dinner.

“The waffles were really good,” said Dolores Norton.

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The illusion of reform

s University President Wallace Loh sees it, his administration’s recent employ such supervisors enables a fear of retribution to permeate the workplace. release of a report investigating alleged workplace abuse should be Already, at least one member of Loh’s administration knows too well what can hapenough to extinguish the complaints of disgruntled employees that have pen when supervisors retaliate against their employees.

Robert Specter, appointed this summer as vice president of administrative emerged across the campus during the last several months.

But to a bevy of others — employees and their representative organizations, stu- affairs, is in charge of implementing the report’s recommendations. But in 2003, dent groups and this editorial board — Loh’s acceptance and implementation of the Specter — then a VP at Oregon State University — was a co-defendant in a lawsuit filed by a former employee, who said OSU officials didn’t group’s report constitutes a disingenuous attempt to renew his contract in retaliation for his claims of racial disaddress the workers’ concerns. crimination.

Instead of acknowledging that systemic shortcomings According to The Seattle Times, an all-white jury agreed, have led to hostile work environments in which university The administration’s report and the plaintiff was awarded $332,251 in damages. Specter employees are consistently mistreated, Loh’s administraon the alleged workplace was long gone when the jury reached its verdict — he took a tion has compiled a laundry list of tangential changes that position with Baruch College nearly four months before the fail to address the most basic complaint: Supervisors misabuse is an inadequate August 2003 decision was reached. treat their employees without consequence.

Although Specter was not directly penalized, this editorial Provost Ann Wylie’s investigation began this summer in response that will do little to board is left to question the wisdom of directing him to see a response to three anonymous letters, purportedly submitsolve the root problems. report that is all smoke and mirrors. While it spends a great ted by Facilities Management employees, which comdeal of effort refuting the allegations in those letters, it plained of sexual harassment, discrimination, a lack of promotional opportunities and an inability to register complaints without fear of retri- seems to ignore other complaints that point to widespread problems in Facilities bution. One letter even alleged that Facilities Management managers have created Management and other parts of the university.

Specter, Wylie and Loh shouldn’t have to look far to see this problem is more widea workplace similar to a “Nazi camp” and a “plantation.”

Wylie’s resulting report highlights nine recommendations to be implemented in spread than the report admits. The Black Faculty and Staff Association has hosted two university departments — Facilities Management and Resident Life. A few of several forums for employees to discuss grievances. It conducted an anonymous these suggestions, such as expansion of work-related ESL program classes and a survey of Facilities Management employees that uncovered a broad array of comreexamination of the department’s Fair Treatment Guidelines, will perhaps plaints, which the group compiled into a “Worker’s Rights Report” and submitted to Loh in May. The Diamondback published a guest column on Sept. 27 by a disgrunimprove the day-to-day experience of employees.

But other recommendations seem difficult to enforce, and one proposal — the tled former facility coordinator in the languages, literatures and cultures school; othimplementation of “Pillars (Building Great Supervisors)” — is downright ridicu- ers have contacted us alleging problems at the College of Computers, Math and Natlous. The program, a four-day training event, is expected to cost nearly $437,000 ural Sciences and calling for a campus-wide forum to discuss staff issues.

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. The quantity and sincerity of complaints indiover the course of two years and will teach supervisors and managers important lessons. Perhaps managers will be taught that it’s not acceptable to call a subordi- cates there are many more workplace problems on the campus than those outlined nate “boy,” or that referring to a translator as “a hot little thing” doesn’t foster a pos- in the three anonymous letters addressed by Wylie’s report. If the administration wants to make small changes to stamp out small fires, perhaps every disgruntled itive work environment — real complaints made by university employees.

People in leadership positions who mistreat their employees to this degree worker should submit an anonymous letter.

That would really give Loh, Wylie and Specter something to sweat over. should be fired, not sent to “staff relations” class. By its very nature, continuing to

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Addressing the consumer’s conflict

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e all own cell phones, maybe even two. We buy appliances and gadgets to stay constantly “plugged in.” We buy cars, jewelry and musical instruments. What do all these things have in common? They are all made of copper. But to most people, that little fact doesn’t mean much.

I am a consumer, but, like almost everyone else, I am rarely a conscious consumer. I do not usually know how my food is grown, where my clothes are sewn or what materials go into the products I buy. I am aware of my consumer oblivion, but too often I am unaware of the greater impact my purchases have on the environment, the land and the greater world population.

However, last semester, while studying abroad in Thailand, I became aware of what I now call “the consumer’s conflict.” I stayed in a village called Huay Muang, located in the northeast region.

Villagers have been living in the area for more than 130 years, primarily farming cassava, fruit trees and rice. The land-

JENNIFER SCHWARZ scape is beautifully green with fertile farmland and rolling hills in the background.

Huay Muang lies at the base of a mountain containing one of the richest copper reserves on the globe, and Puthep Mining Company is trying to open the first copper mine in Thailand on this untapped source. However, villagers have been fighting against opening the mine for more than 15 years, because this mountain not only provides food and farmland for the villagers but is also tied to their religious and cultural life.

While in Huay Muang, I learned the consequences a mine would have on the natural environment, both in terms of its beauty and resourcefulness. Mines damage land surfaces and pollute water

sources. The disposal of mine waste and the processing of the extracted mineral also have destructive environmental impacts that are felt many miles away from the mine site. If a copper mine opened next to Huay Muang, many large holes would be dug into the mountain and subsequent consequences would destroy the villagers’ physical health, livelihoods and way of life.

However, as I stood in solidarity with the villagers’ fight against the copper mine, I realized the ironic contradictions.

Even as villagers fought against the mine, each family owned at least one cell phone partially made out of copper.

Beyond the village, my own consumer demands for electronics and so many other goods created this need for a copper mine in the first place.

Huay Muang is just one example of a village whose people are threatened by the consumer habits that many of them partake in themselves. Copper is just one example of a natural resource we use every day while hardly considering the wider implications on people and the

environment. The reality is that this occurs around the world impacting people we don’t even know exist.

I became sympathetic to villagers’ fight in Huay Muang because I formed personal relationships while staying in their homes. I still hope for the preservation of their health and way of life. But I wonder, do I feel the same sympathy for people affected by mining if I have not met them? I don’t always, but I should.

When we become aware of the ecological consequences our purchases have thousands of miles away, our choices as consumers become more difficult. How do we reconcile our consumer demands as humans with our concern and care for our fellow humans’ well-being? I still have trouble being a conscious consumer, but I know that if I keep this consumer’s conflict in mind, it forces me to think about my choices with every purchase I make.

Jennifer Schwarz is a senior environmental science and policy major. She can be reached at schwarz@umdbk.com.

A soundtrack for conformity

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ndrew McMahon (of Jack’s Mannequin and Something Corporate) sings: “I wanna hear some music, now that they’re driving us all underground,” so I’m here to offer some music while we do just that. The lyrics of many indie pop songs illustrate a disturbing problem among young adults — our failure to separate ourselves from a collective mindset formed during these four years.

College is this intense island where priorities are skewed for better or for worse — frequently the latter. We start off as bright-eyed freshmen ready to begin a new chapter of our lives filled with hopes, dreams and awe at our newfound independence. Pretty soon, we devolve into sleep-deprived, consistently hungover creatures who, at best, are stressed to the max, and at worst, are actually a little insane. Not exactly the island in the sun Weezer promised us.

It’s easy to forget that in the real world, we will not spend Tuesday nights praying our glasses won’t shatter from vibrating off the shelves because of the deafen-

ing music coming from the party on the floor above. It’s easy to believe we’ll never get more than four hours of sleep because of the five-page paper due Wednesday, the friend of a friend’s 21st birthday we just couldn’t miss or the racket from the screeching of three fire alarms that all decided to break at 3 a.m. on the same night.

We quickly forget anything outside the four years and battered walls of university life even exists. We have values and beliefs when we arrive here — they may not be the ones we want to, or even should, hang onto for the rest of our lives, but we have them. Then, as soon as we enter these beer-stained halls we embrace … nothing.

Sure, in 1960s student-activist fashion, we take up various causes: boycotting McDonald’s for its cruelty to animals, pushing to change our janitorial suppliers, requesting healtheir food in the dining halls. But what exactly do we stand for? It’s much more popular to stand for nothing than for something, to merely go with the flow and agree with every-

LAURA FROST one, rather than actually stand out. We go with what keeps us with the crowd because it’s easier that way. “Bandwagon’s full,” Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy sings to us. “Please catch another.”

Newsflash: In the general population, it is not normal to drink your way into the ground any given night you can do so.

People don’t actually sleep with whatever moving being is closest to them.

Socialism isn’t going to work — the 9,000th time is not the charm (as the European Union can explain to you right about now). Legalizing marijuana is not a “sensible drug policy.” Atheism is not a belief system, it is a lack of one.

These “beliefs” illustrate one of the most ridiculous trends of college life — choosing to throw your support behind

an idea because it’s considered the “it” position. Following a religion (or a lack of one) is something you do because you truly believe in it, not because your friends are doing it or because it is too hard to stand up for the morals, laws and values that religion requires of us.

“I was trying so hard to fit in, fit in” Jon Foreman of Switchfoot sings. “Until I found out I don’t belong here.” Maybe beliefs and value systems forged on our own don’t actually belong in college; maybe we aren’t that advanced yet. Or maybe more people need to take it upon themselves to change the culture of college so they do belong.

Hopefully, this elusive real world really does exist, and its inhabitants are able to form their own opinions. But maybe, as John Mayer sings, “there’s no such thing as the real world,” and we’ll be stuck here in this whirlwind of moral relativism forever.

Laura Frost is a junior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at frost@umdbk.com.

Redesign for all Yesterday’s staff editorial “Redesigning McKeldin” is right on the mark. As you correctly state, a goal of the project is to determine how McKeldin Library can be more inviting to the entire university community. Although some aspects of the needs assessment will target the needs of undergraduate students (the heaviest users of the building), we’re also involving graduate students and faculty, who also need and value library spaces and services. Additionally, our interview samples will include individuals beyond the walls of the library.

We’ll observe students’ study habits in non-library locations.

We’ll ask what they need to succeed — whether inside a library or not.

This broad-based input will help inform a better redesign.

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Protesting the means I can only imagine how AfricanAmerican studies students felt when the Osama Eshera’s Sept. 28 column “Remember, remember the Irvine 11” compared the 1960s civil rights movement to the ridiculous interruptions of Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California, Irvine. Perhaps the jury did go too far in their punishments of these students — who could endure a dreaded probation — but those childish and nonproductive methods of protest cannot compare to what happened here in the 1960s.

As a liberal Jew, I am split between ensuring the safety of a homeland for my people and securing a true state for Palestinians. Many actions taken by the Israeli government — particularly those by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — have been borderline outrageous. Israel was formed following human rights atrocities against the Jewish people, and now it seems Israel condones the violation of Palestinians’ rights, albeit on a much smaller scale. I support peaceful protests in favor of a Palestinian state, and I would stand alongside Palestinians in such a protest.

But what happened at Irvine was juvenile, if not counterproductive.

Let us not forget when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University in 2007.

I don’t think I need to elaborate on the controversies of every single thing this man has said or done. Yet, aside from occasional boos, the students at Columbia were calm and professional, if not laughing in their seats.

The bottom line is, if we are to make any progress on anything — Middle East peace, tax reform or immigration law — we need to avoid hyperbole and false comparisons. We need to avoid isolating demographic groups and increasing tension. My grandfather didn’t get incarcerated with Martin Luther King Jr. for heckling Strom Thurmond during a speech; they were reciting Psalm 23 in a public space. This is what I’d like to see from Palestinian activists — peaceful readings of the Quran, one of the most beautiful pieces of literature ever written. What the “Irvine 11” did was not unorthodox, unless the methods of a fifth grader could be considered unorthodox. Those students were no John Lewis, but I sure do wish we could soon see a Palestinian John Lewis.

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orn today, you look at the world through a lens of your own creation — one that allows you to see life as more colorful, vibrant and satisfying than most of your peers. Indeed, your positive view of the world is so detailed that you should be able to remake the world, in small ways that matter only to you, to match your impression of it. And this, in turn, is likely to make you the happiest person you know.

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You are quick to spot new opportunities, and you are never afraid to drop what you are doing in order to pursue a new goal — confident that when the time comes you will be able to pick right back up where you left off.

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FEATURE | AFI LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

The best of the world, en español This year’s AFI Latin American Film Festival is making sure to cover all the hottest films south of the border. Here, Diversions samples a couple.

BY WARREN ZHANG Staff writer

Unlike most events in the area, the AFI Latin American Film Festival has its fingers on the pulse of Latin American culture. Now midway through its 22nd iteration, festival planner Todd Hitchcock shared some of his favorite films in this year’s lineup and screened the movies for this writer.

Country Music Country Music, a collaboration between writer/director Alberto Fuguet (Se arrienda) and film students from Vanderbilt University, has its fair share of problems. The film’s low budget often bleeds over into its aesthetic — scenes are poorly lit and the jitteriness in the camera feels more like poor mounting than anything intentional.

The low production values, however, don’t diminish Pablo Cerda’s (Velodromo) great performance as Alejandro. Country Music revolves around Alejandro, a down-on-his-luck Chilean immigrant, as he tries to find a home and a source of income in Nashville.

Cerda adds pathos and richness to Alejandro. Watching him despondently wander around Nashville is both genuinely affecting and dr yly comedic. As Alejandro’s backstor y gets further fleshed out, the movie reaches a satisfying emotional conclusion — one that doesn’t pander to the audience, yet delivers a graceful and upbeat end.

The Colors of the Mountain The Colors of the Mountain is a war movie told through the perspective of children.

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The Colors of the Mountain tells the stor y of a group of soccer-obsessed Colombian kids as their village comes into contact with armed forces.

The film concerns itself with the lives of its child protagonists as the world around them slowly deteriorates.

The film manages the tricky feat of both primarily focusing on the children while escalating a sense of

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The highlights of the movie are the child actors: All of them deliver effortlessly authentic and moving performances and have a convincing rapport. The adults, while generally relegated to the background, are mostly good, though not revelatory.

The Colors of the Mountain will be shown tonight at 5:30 p.m. at AFI Silver Theatre.

The AFI Latin American Film Festival runs through October 12. For a full listing of movies and showtimes, go to www.afi.com/silver. chzhang@umdbk.com

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starting the season at middle linebacker, he’s shifted back to weakside linebacker — where he played during his first two seasons — while linebacker Darin Drakeford recovers from a nagging ankle injury.

Regardless of where he’s played, Hartsfield’s been consistent. His 11.8 tackles per game rank third in the ACC, and he’s been one of the Terps’ few sure tacklers.

“He’s a guy that needs to play well for us because he’s been a guy that’s been on the field,” coach Randy Edsall said Tuesday. “You start to take a look at that defense, there’s not a lot of experience out there right now.”

While Hartsfield, linebacker Kenny Tate and cornerback Cameron Chism have each started since 2009, the Terps will start three freshmen against No. 13 Georgia Tech on Saturday. Now it’s Hartsfield who finds himself serving as a mentor to one of those newcomers, middle linebacker Lorne Goree.

“I’ve always been there for him, kind of like being a big brother to him. Me and him are pretty close,” Hartsfield said. “I know the situation he’s in, being that he’s a young guy, he’s a freshman playing. I was in that situation a couple years ago, so I just try to encourage him as much as I can.”

Not far removed from Goree’s position himself, Hartsfield is following in Wujciak and Moten’s footsteps, guiding him through the ups and downs of his freshman campaign.

“He actually lives in my suite, so we go over stuff a lot,” Goree said after the Terps’ win over Towson on Saturday.

“Even when I’m on the field, I just holler at him, ‘Mete, what do I got?’

“I know from being in the

honors in recent days.

In addition to being tabbed ACC Player of the Week on Tuesday, the Traverse City, Mich., native was named the NSCAA and Soccer America Player of the Week yesterday.

Townsend tallied a goal in the 22nd minute of the Terps’ 3-1 win over thenNo. 12 Charlotte on Tuesday and notched the lone goal in a 1-0 win over thenNo. 2 Creighton on Friday.

A candidate for the MAC Hermann Trophy, given annually to the sport’s best player, Townsend ranks second in Division I with 11 goals this season.

“This season has been a lot of fun,” Townsend said last week. “I’m just playing as free as I’ve ever played. I mean, I don’t have any worries in the world.”

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yards per game, the more output from Hartsfield, the better.

“You expect him to make sure that everything stays under control, that he takes care of his responsibilities, and when he sees things, that he can point some things out to those younger guys,” Edsall said. “We expect him to even play better than what he’s been playing because I think he has that in him to do that.

“I don’t think he’s maxed out.”

After Tuesday night’s nail biter against Rutgers, the Terps are readying for another test at ACC rival Virginia tomorrow.

A mainstay in the NCAA Tournament, the Cavaliers have dropped four games this season, all to quality opponents, and aren’t currently ranked in the Top 25 of the NSCAA Coaches Poll.

But that may not be such a good thing for Cirovski’s squad. The Terps have outscored ranked opponents 14-2 this season.

Against unranked teams, their margin is just 17-6.

“Virginia’s a much better team than their record,” Cirovski said. “They’re going to give us their best effort, so we’ll have to be ready to give them our best.”

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Linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield, right, has been one of the few constants on a linebacking corps ravaged by injuries and inconsistency. Hartsfield and the Terps face No. 13 Georgia Tech on Saturday afternoon. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

linebacker room with him, he’s very smart. He always knows what to do, and he just does it. I look up to him for that. I’m trying to get on that level of intelligence that he’s on.”

Hartsfield’s versatility has helped keep the Terps’ defense operating smoothly despite a rash of injuries. He’s made seamless transitions in bouncing back and forth from middle, or Mike, to weakside, or Will, linebacker, and although he said yesterday he prefers to be in the middle, he’s more

than willing to play either.

“I like playing Mike. It’s pretty fun, and if I had to choose, I’d probably choose Mike right now,” Hartsfield said. “But that’s one good thing about myself. I can play Mike, Will, whatever they want me to play.”

“Having him in our defense is critical,” Tate said. “He’s really versatile. He can cover, he’s big enough to play Mike, he plays Will. He knows the whole defense.”

Hartsfield will become even more essential for the Terps’

defense over the next three games. After playing the Yellow Jackets, who boast the nation’s second-best scoring offense, the Terps will have to deal with similarly prolific offenses in No. 8 Clemson and No. 23 Florida State.

But even as Hartsfield’s been among the team’s best and most consistent players on defense, Edsall said he expects more from the veteran down the road.

And with a defense that’s surrendered an ACC-worst 412.5

BROCK

ELLIOTT from page 8

from page 8

since 1997.

On paper, Brock succeeded. As a part-time starter and season-long contributor, she scored six goals and finished the year with 15 points, marks that ranked fourth on the team.

But the Nittany Lions’ playing style and team chemistry didn’t quite suit Brock, and she decided to look elsewhere. After visiting the Terps in early May, Brock canceled the rest of her recruiting visits and ended up where she could have been all along.

“These girls are making decisions as sophomores and juniors and they won’t know where they will be in another year,” Laura Brock said. “A school that seems like it would be perfect ends up not being perfect two years in for whatever reason.”

Unlike higher-profile sports such as football and basketball, soccer players who transfer do not have to sit out for a year under NCAA bylaws. The rule, which Pensky said he supports wholeheartedly, has allowed not only Brock to contribute immediately this season, but also transfers Kristin Schimdbauer (UNCGreensboro)and Remi Kriz (Purdue).

“They’re making these early decisions, so now, at 18, 19, they’re second-guessing the decisions they made,” Pensky said. “They should have an opportunity to almost re-think that choice, as so long as they’re responsible and smart and

Wake Forest, No. 4 Duke and No. 10 North Carolina, Brock’s contributions will be needed more than ever.

But as seemingly smooth as Brock’s transition from Penn State to the Terps has been, she knows there remains room to grow.

“You have to get used to playing with people, but it’s still developing,” Brock said. “And, hopefully, it’ll be there soon.”

NCHSAA Scholar-Athlete in high school.

“She was drawn to this university and this area because of the ability to work in diplomacy,” coach Tim Horsmon said. “She’s artistic, and she has so many neat parts to her beyond being extremely athletic.”

For evidence, just look at her community-service record. She’s volunteered with Arbor Acres, Samaritan Ministries and the Special Olympics, but her enthusiasm was most obvious in her work with middle-school girls at the YMCA. “I become their mentor, and I believe it’s important because I know that if I had that kind of influence I can offer them now when I was younger, I would’ve made different decisions,” Elliott said. “It’s just great for them to be empowered, and it’s satisfying for me to make a change in their lives.”

“She’s always willing to go out of her way for others, even strangers,” her mother, Avis Williams-Smith, said.

“And she doesn’t fake it.”

She is also making a change for the Terps, and a positive one. Now relied on as one of the Terps’ regular six starters, Elliott is adjusting her expectations of herself.

“I just recently started setting goals for myself, such as getting five kills as game and a block a game,” said Elliott, who said she used to only shoot for three kills a game.

Although she’s just a freshman, Elliott holds the kind of presence an upperclassman might on the Terps.

And whether it’s volunteering back home in Winston-Salem, N.C., or excelling on the court, she’s doing it the way she was raised to.

“It’s important for me to tell myself to not be afraid of anything or anyone,” she said. “And I play in the honor of my mom, because she’s done everything for me.”

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Forward Hayley Brock, center, has four goals and 12 points for the Terps this season.

honest and up-front with all the respective individuals in that transferring process, I think it makes sense.”

Brock said her transition to life as a Terp has been smooth, and she’s made her presence felt on the field, scoring four goals and recording 12 points, good for second on the team. She also leads the team in assists with four.

In her first start Sept. 22 against Boston College, Brock scored a goal in the

ninth minute, and at Clemson on Sept. 29, she helped set up a goal by Danielle Hubka in the second minute of play.

“She’s just so athletic,” forward Jasmyne Spencer said.

“She’s a workhorse. She never stops running. She puts pressure on backlines that we haven’t really had in a couple years.”

Pensky started Spencer and Brock as the Terps’ two forwards against Clemson, a combination he could return

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to in future games, especially as Spencer returns from injuries that sidelined her for two weeks. “[Brock is] another weapon in our arsenal,” Spencer said. “Now teams have to worry about three or four of our attackers instead of one or two in the past. It’s definitely keeping backlines on their toes.”

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SGA from page 1 abstentions from the vote on a resolution supporting new standards for course syllabi.

Five other bills — including a resolution supporting the campaign for affordable textbooks and another resolution endorsing this year’s Facilities Master Plan — passed unanimously.

Although McDonald said most of the bills were not ver y controversial, he said he was perturbed that not even one legislator addressed the syllabi resolution, which was a plank in both parties’ platforms during the spring elections.

The bill supports a University Senate bill that SGA President Kaiyi Xie proposed. If the senate passes the bill, it will mandate professors pro-

vide detailed outlines of course content and set a “hard deadline” for them to post their syllabi prior to the start of each semester.

Cambridge Community legislator Christopher Harris said he abstained from voting on the bill because he felt the current syllabi requirements are fine as is.

“As for putting [a syllabus] out earlier, I already feel like it’s early enough that you get a week to get your things together,” Harris said in an interview after the meeting.

The other abstainer, arts and humanities legislator Mace Phillips, said he did not feel informed enough to approve the bill because last night was his first meeting; he was just recently appointed.

Nonetheless, the bill was passed without any remarks from the body.

But several legislators said

the bills were not controversial enough to warrant discussion.

“I feel like a lot of the bills weren’t really contentious,” arts and humanities legislator Julie France said. “I was reading a lot of these bills on my computer before the meeting and I didn’t really see any reason to debate.”

Outlying commuter legislator Chuk Agubokwu said SGA committees, which debate and edit bills before they’re presented to the entire legislature, likely discussed the bills in depth first.

“I have a strong feeling that a lot of the debating was already happening outside of the session,” he said. “So I think this is a positive symptom that we are engaging in the legislation before it comes to debate on the floor.”

Xie said while debates are vital to the body’s role, debating simply for the sake of

debating is a waste of time.

“We can’t have the sixhour meetings of last year because that’s not efficient,” Xie said. “But I do hope ever y legislator who had questions asked them.”

Several SGA committees put the remaining four bills — some of which were controversial — on hold for revisions and future debates. These tabled bills include support for reforming the university’s process for setting mandatory student fees, urging the Department of Transportation Services to enforce a helmet policy for scooter riders, requiring all SGA members to volunteer at the annual Crabfest and displaying the organization’s agenda in the Stamp Student Union.

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MEN’S SOCCER | NOTEBOOK

Frese, drugs and Congress Why did Terps women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese reach out to Congress recently? Make sure to check out TerrapinTrail.com for the heartfelt answer.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Brock’s long route back

FOOTBALL

Fatigue evident in Terps

Ex-Penn State forward fitting in with Terps

Cirovski blames himself for issue

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

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Hartsfield. He’s gone from the little brother to the big brother, and with a scuffling Terps defense depleted by injury, Hartsfield’s experience has become even more pivotal.

“It’s really different,” Hartsfield said. “The spotlight wasn’t on me a couple years ago, and now it’s more like everybody looks at me to make the big plays, to be a leader and just to step up.”

On a defense that’s been largely disappointing this season, Hartsfield has been one of the lone bright spots. After

Sitting outside Stamp Student Union back in May as she waited for her daughter, Hayley, to finish visiting with the Terrapins women’s soccer team, Laura Brock was taken aback by what she saw.

The diversity of the campus was unlike any place she’d ever seen before, not in Hayley’s hometown of Acton, Mass., and not at Penn State, where she was finishing her freshman year.

Laura pined for a place like this university for her daughter.

Then she looked at her phone. It was a text message from Hayley: “I think I want to come here.”

By the end of the month, she’d made it official. It was a circuitous path for the younger Brock, one that took her from the brink of College Park to State College, Pa., and back to College Park, where she now finds herself as a starting forward for the No. 17 Terps.

And yet, it almost never happened in the first place.

The Terps, who heavily recruited her out of ActonBoxborough Regional High School, had Brock down for multiple visits and worked their way into her list of top schools along with Penn State and ACC rival Boston College. Brock said coach Brian Pensky and the Terps made an early impression on her, just not one that would last through the process.

“To be honest, I thought that her heart then was really with Maryland,” Pensky said. “We’d developed a good relationship with her and she with our entire coaching staff. I think her and her whole family really loved everything about Maryland. I was surprised we didn’t get her the first go-round.”

When Brock made the decision to become a Nittany Lion, it seemed like a natural fit for her.

She had played with many of the players at the club level and had a relationship with the coach, Erica Walsh, from her time playing on regional teams.

But despite capturing a share of its 13th straight Big Ten title, Penn State finished with an 119-1 record, its most losses

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Staff writer

During Tuesday night’s 2-1 overtime win over Rutgers, the Terrapins men’s soccer team showed all the trademark signs of exhaustion.

For much of the 97 minutes leading up to midfielder John Stertzer’s game-winning header, the No. 2 Terps were outhustled, out-thought and downright outworked by an unranked Scarlet Knights squad in front of 2,246 at Ludwig Field.

“Fatigue definitely played a factor,” goalkeeper Will Swaim said. “Especially when you have such a counter-attacking team like Rutgers and the way they play, it really became difficult for our guys.”

But given their recent workload, the Terps’ tired legs were understandable.

The Terps have played more games (12) than any other team ranked in the top 25 of the NSCAA Coaches Poll, and they were coming off two wins against top-15 teams last week.

Though he’s never been reluctant to address his team’s shortcomings, coach Sasho Cirovski took the majority of the blame for his players’ performance Tuesday.

“I take responsibility because I’ve overscheduled our team right now,” he said.

“We haven’t had a midweek break. So I’ve overscheduled probably, and that’s my responsibility.”

The Terps will continue that rough stretch when they play at ACC rival Virginia on Friday.

But after playing Division II school Adelphi Tuesday, they won’t play another early midweek game for the remainder of the regular season.

“Hopefully we can get through it,” Cirovski said, “and we can end up getting re-energized.”

TROPHY CASE

After leading the Terps to a pair of critical wins last week, forward Casey Townsend has earned several prestigious

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Linebacker Demetrius Hartsfield, a junior who has started since his redshirt freshman season, leads the Terps and ranks third in the ACC with 11.8 tackles per game this season. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

Demetrius Hartsfield was always the kid of the group.

He earned a starting spot in the first game of his redshirt freshman season in 2009 alongside veteran linebackers Alex Wujciak and Adrian Moten. For his first two seasons, he had the luxury of working through his youthful hiccups knowing all along that two of the Terrapins football team’s most dependable players in recent memory were there to cover for him.

Since their graduation last spring, that’s all changed for

NEW

HART Junior linebacker leading depleted Terps defense

VOLLEYBALL

BLACK AND BOLD

Flying high, dreaming big Elliott has dreams beyond court

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

The Terps will wear black helmets, black jerseys and gold pants Saturday at Georgia Tech. For more on the new look, visit TerrapinTrail.com. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Too often in college athletics, student-athletes become anything but, transforming into performance-driven machines focused entirely on their performances in their sport without a care in the world toward their classes and future outside the arena or off the field.

Then there’s Terrapins volleyball freshman Adreene Elliott.

Elliott, named the ACC Freshman of the Week after the first three conference matches of the season, is an obvious force on the court for the Terps. On a thin roster, Elliott has provided a muchneeded boost for the Terps.

Blessed with a 6-foot-3 frame, Elliott uses her height to her advantage as the team’s middle blocker, leading the team in blocks and ranking fourth in kills.

But Elliott plans on doing much more than starring at Comcast Pavilion during her time in College Park and beyond.

“I want to be involved in international diplomacy,” said Elliott, whose mother interned with the State Department during the George H.W. Bush administration, “and maybe become an ambassador to the United Nations.”

They may be lofty goals, but from all signs, Elliotthas the guidance and motivation to one day make them reality. In the classroom, she’s double majoring in government and politics and romance languages. Before she had her first college class, she had won the President’s Academic Excellence Award and National Achievement Scholarship, in addition to being named a

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Middle blocker Adreene Elliott ranks fourth on the Terps in kills this season. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK