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City council rejects lowering required age to run for seat to 18 Instead, body almost votes to up minimum age to 25

BY ALICIA MCCARTY Staff writer

An effort to lower the minimum age to run for the College Park City Council from 21 to 18 almost backfired last night, as the council nearly passed an alternative measure that would raise that age to 25.

District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali had proposed letting any registered voter who has lived in College Park for at least a year run for a council seat, which would make it easier for more undergraduates to run for a two-year term.

But when about a dozen city residents turned out in overwhelming opposition to Afzali’s proposed amendment to the city charter at last night’s public hearing, the council voted it down 6-2.

Before that vote, Mayor Andy Fellows broke a 4-4 tie to reject District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin’s proposal that no resident younger than 25 be allowed to run for elected office in the city.

Catlin’s measure drew applause from the assembled audience when he introduced it.

He said the council erred when it even reduced the age from 25 in the past, and lowering it further would exacerbate the problem of inexperience.

“It’s kinda like saying the drinking age at 18 failed but that we should reduce it to 15,” Catlin said.

Even before the hearing began, Afzali’s optimism about his idea had faded — too many of

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District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali's amendment that would change the minimum age required to run for a seat on the council to 18 was voted down during yesterday's meeting. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Biology professor uses eel-like fish to understand how to craft realistic human prosthetics Staff writer

The future of human prosthetic limbs could be lurking in aquariums on the upper level of the biology-psychology building.

For the last five years, university researchers have been studying how different fish move in their aquatic environments in hopes of better understanding

complex human movement to create mechanical arms and legs that can better interact with the environment.

Biology professor Avis Cohen said her team is just months away from fully understanding how the three factors that contribute to animal motion — environmental forces, the nervous system

BY SARAH MEEHAN AND AMANDA PINO Staff writers

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MID-TERM ELECTIONS | 2010

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Students not plugged in to next week’s election

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DOTS officials: More tickets doesn’t necessarily imply more violations Why more tickets have been doled out this year versus last remains unclear

Youth tend to participate less in mid-term races

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

With elections less than a week away, state gubernatorial candidates are gearing up for the last leg of the race — but many students seem to have lost interest before the polls even opened.

Students who were on the campus for the 2006 mid-term elections and 2008 presidential elections largely said the university came alive with enthusiasm at election time. But this year, despite an extra push from student organizations to get the university community motivated about voting, many have said the excitement just isn’t there.

Ashley Baratz, a 2009 alumna, said the political activity at the university was memorable in both 2006 and 2008.

“I don’t know if people necessarily cared more in 2006 than they do today, but you could

BY ALICIA MCCARTY Staff writer

When the number of tickets in Lot 11B shot up by more than 525 percent last month, it wasn’t necessarily because there was a major increase in illegal parking in the lot near the University View.

This year, there may have just been more DOTS parking enforcement officers looking for violators there.

“It is the nature of parking enforcement,” Department of Transportation Services Director

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Second Nov. hearing with liquor board scheduled Thirsty Turtle, already facing a Nov. 3 hearing before the county liquor board for allegedly serving underage patrons, will also be formally called before the body for a review of events leading up to this month’s stabbing incident.

The Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners voted unanimously yesterday to hold the second hearing Nov. 10, at which Turtle will face allegations that underage students were involved in a brawl inside the popular bar — a fight that culminated in three students and another man being knifed down the street.

In either of the two hearings, the board could fine Turtle or suspend or revoke its license to sell alcohol.

There was no opportunity for public comment on Turtle at yesterday’s liquor board meeting; chief liquor inspector Norma Lindsay briefly described to board members the Oct. 12 stabbing incident and pointed out that the bar has incurred two previous violations since it opened in 2007. The board quickly voted to hold the Nov. 10 hearing without comment.

The two November hearings will take a more in-depth look at the allegations against Turtle.

Bar owner Alan Wanuck, liquor inspectors,

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FISH from page 1 and physical mechanics such as muscles — work in relatively simple organisms like fish and applying that finding to humans.

“The main thing to keep in mind when you have a prosthetic device is what you want it to do is reproduce what the body does,” Cohen said. “You want it to be able to follow what the other limb is doing.”

Cohen said the research team studied a jawless eel-like fish known as a lamprey because its nervous system is remarkably similar to a human’s but simpler to study.

But the research was still extensive; Cohen, who has been studying lamprey nervous systems for more than 30 years, observed the fish’s nervous system by detaching its spinal cord and attaching it to electrical charges. Because the lamprey’s spinal cord isn’t attached to blood vessels like a human spine, Cohen was able to make the fish move on its own, as if it were swimming in water.

Cohen said the team was then able to understand the basic motor patterns of the lamprey by stimulating and shocking its spinal cord with a nervous system stimulant and measuring its electric output.

Although these results have yet to be applied to human prosthetic limbs, Cohen said the research team’s ability to simulate movement based on previous knowledge of the fish’s ner v-

APATHY from page 1 certainly feel the tension between the candidates and the intensity of the race on campus,” she said, noting there was a clear difference between the mid-term and presidential elections in 2006 and 2008.

“Everyone was excited about the promise of change, and political talk around campus was everywhere,” Baratz said. “You couldn’t go into a classroom or public campus setting without hearing political discussion in

A university research team has developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address how a fish's body bends and moves when faced with external forces such as water current. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/ THE DIAMONDBACK

“When you move your arm to pick something up, that’s a remarkably complicated process you’re undergoing.”

AVIS COHEN BIOLOGY PROFESSOR

ous system gives better insight into more complex organisms, such as humans, to create promising improvements for prosthetic devices.

But researcher Eric Tytell said despite the promising research, the significant complexity of humans compared to fish will continue to be a roadblock in applying the results to humans.

Professor Avis Cohen has been studying lamprey fish nervous systems for the last 30 years.

“It’s never going to be directly applicable, but what we’re aiming for is understanding some general principles about how the vertebrate ner vous system works with its external environment,” Tytell said.

In addition to research with

the live lampreys, Tytell used computer simulations to determine how various physical factors such as stiffness and the amount of muscle in different fish work with such external factors as water current.

Before the researchers finish their work in the coming

months, Cohen wants to create more fish simulations to study their physical mechanisms, apply knowledge of their nervous systems and, hopefully, contribute to knowledge on human movement.

“When you move your arm to pick something up, that’s a

the weeks prior to the election.”

But this election, the fierce political climate has calmed.

Michael McDonald, a government and politics professor at George Mason University, said most young people just don’t appreciate the importance of midterm elections.

“People generally perceive the presidential election to be more important and interesting than midterm elections,” McDonald said. “Young people identify more with the president than state and local government or Congress. Their lives are more directly touched

by these elections, and as they get older eventually they will realize that midterm elections are important.”

McDonald explained that about 25 percent of young people vote in midterm elections, while 50 percent come out for presidential elections.

The biggest disparity between the two occurs in the 18 to 29 age group.

For the Democratic Party, the youth vote tends to be particularly important. In a 2008 CBS exit poll, two-thirds of those under the age of 30 voted for President Barack Obama, a

Democrat, making the gap between youth voters and all other age groups larger than in any election since the surveys began in 1972.

But the general apathy among university students in a mid-term election isn’t unlike that of the rest of the nation, according to George Washington University political science professor Forrest Maltzman.

“In general, interest in midterm elections is always less than in presidential elections,” Maltzman said. “It’s not just students or your campus; It’s everybody.”

Maltzman added the youth vote can be crucial to elections, and a low turnout of youth voters could swing elections one way or the other, citing 2008’s presidential election as evidence.

“Barack Obama did extremely well in large part because he brought voters out of the woodwork who had never voted before,” Maltzman said.

“These people were mainly the young and minorities.”

Many students said their apathy was due to a general disinterest in the midterm elections because many feel these elec-

A lamprey’s spinal cord can live up to five days after being removed from the body.

remarkably complicated process you’re undergoing,” Cohen said. “Hopefully when we’re done with [the research], we’ll be able to understand the underlying properties contributing to that movement.” saravia@umdbk.com

tions are not as important as presidential elections.

Emily Mize, a junior accounting and information systems major, said although she is voting via absentee ballot, most students she’s talked to are not planning to cast a ballot.

“Most people I know aren’t voting, and there doesn’t seem to be a large presence on campus encouraging students to vote,” Mize said. “Most of my friends just don’t care; they don’t see these elections as really having much impact on them.” farrell@umdbk.com

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Students ask admins to end Daycon contract University cleaning supply company accused of unfair employee practices

BY DIANA ELBASHA Staff writer

Student activists called on campus officials yesterday to cut university ties with a local company under investigation for poor labor practices, in hopes of ending a long-standing relationship with the sole supplier for facilities management.

Members of Feminism Without Borders and College Park Students for a Democratic Society hand-delivered identical letters to administrators that urged them to terminate the university’s contract with Daycon, which provides janitorial equipment and chemicals to the campus.

The two letters were addressed to Provost and acting university President Nariman Farvardin and Procurement and Supply Director James Stirling, whose office oversees the university’s purchases.

Daycon is currently under fire for refusing to fairly engage in mandatory collective bargaining, a regular negotiation process that aims to form agreements on wages and work conditions, with its employees.

Fifty-five Daycon workers, mainly

TICKETS from page 1 David Allen said. He said he did not know why there are large differences in the number of September tickets this year versus last year in any particular lot.

Lot 11B had just 31 tickets from the end of August to the end of September last year but 194 for the same time period this year.

According to Allen, the number of tickets in any given lot “just depends on where the enforcement officers go,” and where they go is sometimes entirely up to them.

On most days, Allen said, enforcers are assigned particular areas of the campus to patrol, such as North Campus lots or lots near Comcast Center.

But sometimes, a ticket enforcement officer is free to roam the campus, looking for a parking lot that no one else is already working on, Allen said.

Therefore, the difference between a large ticketing month for Lot 11B and a slow one could just be a parking enforcer who made the trip over to the lot, found it to have a high number of violations and made it a habit to return.

In addition to Lot 11B, Lot 1B also saw a large increase in ticketing: 237 percent more tickets this year than last, increasing from 65 to 219.

Ticketing in parking garages also changed significantly. Lot 6, located next to Comcast Center, had only four tickets in that month

drivers and warehouse employees, went on strike nearly six months ago.

“The fight for workers’ rights is a fight for basic dignity and human rights,” said Mary Yanik, president of Feminism Without Borders. “As a very prestigious university, we shouldn’t be dealing with a company that violates [labor] laws.”

The National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint on Daycon’s “unfair practices,” and the company will face the criticism at a Nov. 17 trial.

Daycon representatives declined to comment on the issue.

Although it only would have taken one student to deliver the letters, about 10 walked into the administration building as a group to emphasize the presence of students on this campus who are concerned about the issue, said SDS member Jon Berger. The senior government and politics major added Farvardin was out of his office at the time, but the students did have the chance to speak directly with Stirling.

“This is something that we will look into and consult with legal counsel,” said Stirling, who has begun an investigation on the allegations about

the company — such as their illegal refusal to accept employees’ unconditional offers to return to work — mentioned in the students’ letters.

Stirling said it was difficult to speculate on the outcome of the investigation, adding that his department would “deal with [termination] if and when it happens.”

Students involved said they hope the university will ultimately drop Daycon as a vendor and added a show of campus support could help make that happen.

“The administration won’t take a role in these actions unless students are involved,” Yanik said. “The student element is key if we want to get something done. We have that power and have to use it.”

Daycon provides services to other local institutions such as the Pentagon, the Smithsonian Institution and Georgetown University. As a student leader, Yanik has been in contact with activists from the Washington university, who are working toward the same initiative and prompted its administration to send a letter to Daycon.

“That was a result of student action,” she said. “That shows that stu-

dents on all these campuses want this and we need to work together.”

Doug Weber, the business manager of the union of which the Daycon strikers are members, said the involvement of universities — as major customers of the company — will have a lasting impact.

“I think a lot of people are reconsidering their contracts with Daycon,” he said. “Hopefully, when we get to the bottom line, wherever that may be, Daycon’s going to think, ‘Hey, we need to take a look at what we’re doing here.’”

He said the workers now spend their days alternating shifts picketing at various locations. Berger said Daycon’s actions violate the procurement and supply department’s mission statement, which includes a goal to ensure all business on the campus is conducted in compliance with laws and regulations.

Stirling said he will specifically look into the company’s adherence to its contract with the university and issues involving state labor laws that may require referral.

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on the campus and said enforcers also know lots near dorms are common violation sites and often check there.

Junior English and marketing major Tom Seymour was not surprised to hear parking enforcers don’t always work on a particular schedule but was unhappy to know there’s little way of predicting when a parking attendant was coming to a certain spot.

“That’s the worst,” he said. mccarty@umdbk.com

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“You can park for five minutes and have a ticket or park for an hour and not have one,” he said, adding he once got a ticket outside of Cole Field House after being parked there for 10 minutes.

Junior government and politics and history major Jordan Weiss said, based on his experience, he thinks DOTS targets pay lots the most, such as Union Lane Parking Garage, where he parked Sunday.

Allen confirmed that metered spots are the most highly ticketed

AGE his colleagues told him privately they opposed it.

“Unfortunately, this motion is dead,” he said.

Nonetheless, Afzali — who was elected as a 24year-old graduate student with Catlin’s support — spoke out in support of the amendment when it came to a vote.

“The main reason why I brought this forward is to make our city more equitable. Giving people the right to vote for or against who they want to,” he said.

College Park residents who spoke at the hearing said the issue was maturity, not equity.

“The only thing most 18-year-olds are thinking about is when and where the next party is,” said Leslie Booth, who supported raising the age to run for council to 25.

Another resident, Cindy Lollar, said 18-year-olds shouldn’t be allowed to represent the city because they may not be concerned about the same issues as long-term residents, and Donna Weene added that she saw on Dr. Phil that brains don’t mature until age 25.

David Milligan — a former District 1 councilman — was the only non-student who spoke to support the age change to 18, saying other cities such as Los Angeles have similar requirements and if 18-yearolds can get married and raise children, they should be able to hold public office.

“The question is should they have the right, and I think they should,” he said.

District 1 Councilman Pat Wojahn, the only council member to support Afzali, echoed that sentiment.

“I have a real problem where any government entity should judge without knowing the characteristic of an individual if they are able to run in a city office,” Wojahn said. “I think there are a lot of 18-yearolds who are immature, but I cannot say there would never be a case where an 18-year-old would be qualified. I believe that the residents of College Park have the ability to distinguish between someone who is qualified to fill this office and when they are not qualified to fill this office.”

Becca Lurie, the Student Government Association’s student liaison to the council, also testified in support of lowering the age. Lurie, now 21, has been involved with the city council since she was 19, but received jeers from the crowd after announcing her position.

“If someone can convince our residents that they are qualified, what does it matter if they’re 18 or 81?

Why are we imposing this artificial barrier to service? They bring fresh eyes and ideas,” Lurie said to the council.

District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle said students haven’t been involved enough in the city before to deserve a lower voting age.

“If they really want to get this passed, they will vote us out and get involved in the process,” she said.

Catlin, Nagle, District 3 Councilman Mark Cook and District 4 Councilwoman Denise Mitchell voted in favor of raising the minimum age to 25; Afzali, Wojahn, District 2 Councilman Jack Perry and District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich opposed.

DOTS PARKING TICKETS FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER

of 2009, but 141 in 2010. Stadium Drive Parking Garage, on the other hand, saw a 66 percent decrease in the number of tickets this year from 213 in 2009 to 66 this September.

While parking enforcement is not random, because the enforcers have a say in where they go, it’s difficult to guess where they might be.

But junior criminology and criminal justice major Stephen Shaffer said he thinks ticketing is more or less random.

District 1 Councilman Pat Wojahn, left, supported lowering the minimum age to serve on the city council to 18 from 21. District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin, right, asked that it be raised to 25. Both measures failed. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

TURTLE from page 1 police officers and officials and underage students who police sent into Turtle are expected to testify, according an employee at the liquor board who would not provide her name because she is not authorized to speak to reporters.

Even before the Oct. 12 stabbings, Turtle was in trouble with the liquor board after University Police sent two underage students to each downtown bar with their state-issued driver’s licenses. They were turned away from Cornerstone Grill and Loft and R.J. Bentley’s, but they were able to enter and then buy beers at Turtle, police said.

Turtle has previously paid fines for serving a minor and for tampering with liquor bottles.

Also, many students have described it as an easy place to drink without a valid ID. Linda Carter, Turtle’s lawyer, said that the picture being painted of the stabbing and the bar’s atmosphere in general is inaccurate and that police are still investigating the incident.

“Once the investigation is completed, we do believe the facts will be far different than those that are currently being reported,” Carter said.

Carter and Wanuck have declined to elaborate on their defense, saying they don’t want to undermine the hearing process.

In a previous interview, Carter said Turtle has always diligently checked IDs to prevent underage drinking there.

“The owners of the establishment have always been concerned with making sure that young people, underage individuals, are not permitted inside,” she said earlier this month.

“We do not believe that the establishment is a public nuisance,

and we do not believe that the establishment is a threat to the peace and safety of the community,” she added yesterday.

Police officials — most prominently, University Police Chief David Mitchell — have publicly and colorfully rejected that claim; Mitchell said he wanted to “padlock” the establishment at a press conference after the stabbing.

He also requested that the liquor board expedite its hearing on Turtle, a move backed by the College Park City Council but rebuffed by the county.

University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said Turtle’s record concerns police and is a risk to the university community.

“The kids get so, so drunk ... and I’m really afraid to think what could have happened if this would have continued through the next month,” Limansky said.

Prince George’s County District 1 police will testify “in support” of the university, said District 1 Commander Robert Liberati. While Liberati declined to comment on whether he believed the bar should be shut down, he said police will present evidence about underage-drinking trends downtown in addition to information about the stabbing.

“Whenever you have underage students that are coming out of that bar and being involved in a confrontation [outside], that in and of itself leads to concern about whether instances like this can be prevented by stopping people who are underage from being served,” Liberati said. “If these conditions weren’t there, then students may not have been cut or involved.” meehan@umdbk.com, apino@umdbk.com

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or decades — perhaps even centuries — students have questioned approved a massive overhaul of the general education curriculum. Among the the relevance of information taught in the classroom. They have won- many changes approved, which will be implemented in fall of 2012, was the dered whether there is a connection between the study of lyric poetry addition of two “Scholarship in Practice” requirements.

This requirement, which can be fulfilled by internships, technical skill and professional writing; they have doubted whether linear algebra has any relation to the challenge of personal finances; and they have openly courses and applied practice courses, will give students opportunities to put the knowledge they gain in the classroom to use. It will allow them to underchallenged the necessity of subjects like philosophy.

And for just as many years as students have questioned the pertinence of the stand and experience some of the connections between the “real world” and information learned in colleges and universities, professors have provided the classroom. And next spring, a new community-service based course will be offered as well, with 10 being offered in fall 2011, giving variations of the same response to their inquiries: The students hands-on experience. knowledge gained in the classroom, while not necessarAlthough a good first step — one for which adminisily applicable to the so-called “real world,” is important trators rightfully deserve praise — the Scholarship in because it teaches them vital skills and helps them grow The university must focus requirement should be thought of as merely a and develop as people — broadening their knowledge more on teaching students Practice first step. Much more remains undone. about the world and its cultures. how to use the knowledge Students should be explicitly taught in every course However, though this editorial board largely agrees with this logic and believes it is not necessary for everythey learn in the classroom in how to apply either the knowledge or the skills they learn to their ever yday lives. It should not be something learned in college to have any “real-world” conthe real world. thing that is limited to the Scholarship in Practice nection, students should be given more opportunities to courses. Additionally, all academic departments engage with the information they are learning beyond should follow the lead of the sociology department, which offers the onethe classroom.

For without instruction on how to use the knowledge and skills gained in col- credit class SOCY 398C: Transitions from Undergraduate to Professional every spring. If every department had a class such as this — one that helps lege, what is the point of even attending and taking classes at this university?

Indeed, outside of supporting the professional writing requirement, which students prepare for careers in the field or for graduate school — then every focuses on writing related to substantive careers, and living-learning programs student could be able to answer the question that is so often asked: Why like Beyond the Classroom, which seeks to bridge the gap between academia does this matter?

Ultimately, the issue of Scholarship in Practice comes down to the prioriand the so-called “real world” through academic instruction and required internships, this university has done little to prepare students in all academic ties of the university. Does it wish to merely educate its students, informing them about the things administrators and professors think they need to fields for success after college.

But luckily, because of recent changes to the general education plan at this know? Or does it wish to use education to transform and better the lives of its students? For the betterment and success of graduates, we sincerely hope it university, this may be changing.

Last year, the University Senate and former university President Dan Mote is the latter.

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Editorial cartoon: Ian McDermott

WikiLeaks: A selfish endeavor

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s promised, WikiLeaks recently produced another 400,000 classified documents from the supposedly undisclosed, incriminating behind-thescenes of the Iraq War, and the ensuing debate on whether the documents pose a risk to civilians has received frantic attention from high-profile people, including former Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who used to command forces in Afghanistan.

As McChrystal put it while speaking at the Daily Beast Innovators Summit, “that individual [who made the release] is making judgments about the value of that information, and the threat to comrades, that almost nobody is qualified to make.” He makes a fair point in contrasting the questionable value intended and the potential damages. While neither are certain, the consequence of the latter may prove more serious.

WikiLeaks editor in chief Julian Assange, on the other hand, has stated that there is no risk posed to military or

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RODENHOUSE civilian personnel and is quick to play up the significance of the documents.

Evidently, in response to criticism from the last leak, more strenuous efforts were made to eliminate names and delicate information from the documents. It is unsurprising that Assange believes these efforts are satisfactory enough to warrant the release of documents with questionable value.

And indeed, the release of these documents is bound to be almost as overstated as was a similar headline in July of this year. While the leaks provide more extensive documentation on casualties and have sparked discussion on whether American forces have met their obligations in protecting Iraqi civil-

ians from Iraqi police brutality, vigilantism and belligerence, these finer details are individually appalling but, collectively, not unanticipated. They confirm our suspicions but fail to exceed just that.

Accusations of U.S. war crimes are dubious, but maybe it is appropriate that the release of these documents is accompanied by the news that NATO is planning on delaying its withdrawal from Afghanistan until 2014 (a date that even Afghans have expressed uncertainty about for being too soon). While some might argue the documents could help to correct the efforts of American occupational forces in Afghanistan, it seems unlikely that the leaked documents will dramatically change the horrendous violence intrinsic to civil war and counterinsurgency.

Additionally, many of these issues have already been reported or overlooked. As Fareed Zakaria, editor at large of TIME magazine, explains of the first leak, “If these documents had not

been marked ‘secret’ and someone presented you with that as reporting, at this point it would not even have made the front page.” But indeed, he continues that “We have simply spent far too much time in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are dealing there with the problems of the past. The problems of the future, the opportunities of the future, lie elsewhere in the world.” Certainly, the ultimate point the document leaks were intended to achieve, beyond condemnation, has already been recognized. This lends a less favorable perspective to the brash acts of the WikiLeaks purveyors.

And so, while the nation debates the significance of the leaked documents, perhaps the most immediate revelatory finding is that Assange is, in fact, an enormous asshole, convinced enough of his own ideals to put himself ahead of everyone else.

Ian Rodenhouse is a sophomore government and politics major. He can be reached at rodenhouse@umdbk.com.

Masturbation: All not well in the nation

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onservatives have a knack for assaulting things: the Constitution, separation of church and state, gay rights or, in the case of Justice Clarence Thomas, perhaps women in general. But this election season, some on the right have placed their cross hairs on an ancient, if not all-American, pastime: masturbation.

In Delaware, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, who is running for the seat vacated by Vice President Joe Biden, has done an exemplary job at making a fool of herself.

In debates with her opponent, the balding policy wonk Chris Coons, who has been branded a Marxist by the conservative media’s intelligentsia, O’Donnell was unable to name a single Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe v. Wade. She blanked on what the Fourteenth Amendment was (you know, the one that said African-Americans are, in fact, citizens). And she issued a bizarre campaign ad in which she proclaimed “I am not a witch” while sitting in front of a background that looks like there’s a bubbling cauldron just off screen.

O’Donnell is the Sarah Palin mini-me.

Her physical and intellectual resemblance to the Mama Grizzly is so eerie it leads one to believe that the X-Files’ Cancer Man himself is behind the Tea Party insurgency.

But perhaps what O’Donnell is most noted for is her 1996 appearance on MTV, where, as the president and founder of the Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth, she proclaimed the sinful nature of masturbation as a “lustful” and “selfish” act. “You’re going to be pleasing each other,” she whined. “And if he already knows what pleases him and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture?”

Good question, Ms. O’Donnell!

While my idea of pleasure in 1996 was a bottomless bag of Sour Patch Kids, I may be able to shed some light on this issue. Men love to masturbate. They always have, and they always will.

Ancient art shows men and women (more men than women) playing with themselves as far back as antiquity. The college male specimen can attest to this better than anyone, whose go-to source for entertainment when all else fails is

JUSTIN SNOW almost always porn.

To be honest, Ms. O’Donnell, I’m not really sure why you’re in the picture — both sexually and politically. I suppose despite our affinity for porn and the skills men develop due to 24/7 access to the equipment, it would be fair to say you’re not really needed. But while most men “spank the monkey,” “charm the snake” and “free the willy” at least once a day, that doesn’t mean we don’t need companionship. After all, it’s about love, baby.

Although O’Donnell has said she would govern according to the Constitution and not her own inane personal beliefs, that shouldn’t diminish the focus on her religion-inspired lunacy. Religious conservatives have waged a war on the safest form of sex for as long as man has felt guilt. The Catholic Church, of which

O’Donnell is a member, has sought to bring salvation to the AIDS-crippled continent of Africa by condemning the use of condoms. Because while millions of Africans have died due to the AIDS epidemic, trillions more “lives” (also known as sperm) are wasted every time men experience sexual pleasure with the help of their right hands or while practicing safe sex.

It’s one thing to practice Bible sex in the bedroom but quite another to preach it to the nation. While O’Donnell’s opinions carry nowhere near as much weight as the Pope’s, they can still have an effect on the young and gullible.

Telling little Timmy that’s he’s going to hell because he pleasures himself is the equivalent of psychological castration.

Although O’Donnell will likely lose next Tuesday, the weight her words carry will continue to reverberate as long as such drivel is considered gospel.

But in the meantime, please, keep your hands off mine — unless you want to help, of course.

Justin Snow is a senior history major. He can be reached at snow@umdbk.com.

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raditionally, newspapers have had ombudsmen — individuals hired to receive and investigate complaints from readers about the accuracy, fairness, balance and good taste of the content that appears in the publications’ pages.

Days like yesterday remind me why having someone to navigate the often-bumpy road between a newspaper and the community it serves can be necessary. From the moment I woke up, I was bombarded with messages from readers, alumni, university employees, friends and coworkers expressing shock, disappointment and outrage about the editorial cartoon featured in that day’s paper.

But The Diamondback does not have an ombudsman. The Diamondback has not had an ombudsman since 2006. Instead, as the last stop on the chain of command at this newspaper, I am writing this column to account for yesterday’s cartoon and explain the newspaper’s process and decision to publish it.

Let me first say this: I’m sorry.

I’m sorry for any anger, hurt or resentment that resulted from the illustration’s publication in yesterday’s paper.

An editorial cartoon is not necessarily meant to be funny. And yesterday’s certainly wasn’t.

What it is supposed to do is address a certain political or social message, usually one that relates to current events. Yesterday’s cartoon

by Morgan Noonan accomplished all of these things.

However, the illustration also elicited outrage and offense among several members of the university community — from students to athletes to alumni to Terrapin football coach Ralph Friedgen.

While understandable, this was never the intent of the cartoonist, the editors or this newspaper.

Yesterday’s cartoon went through the same process that all editorial cartoons published in this newspaper do: They are drawn to reflect the opinion of the illustrator, sent to an opinion editor and then reviewed by four separate editors, including me.

And although the image of a football player in full gear should have been a red flag for those who saw the cartoon before the paper was printed, it was not. Instead, we all saw what Morgan saw: a illustration pointing to the serious issue of scooter safety on the campus.

While not malicious in its intent, to not realize the perceived allusion to offensive lineman Pete DeSouza’s recent scooter accident was a significant oversight. For this, I apologize.

What I will not apologize for, however, is allowing the issue Morgan Noonan’s cartoon raises to run on this newspaper’s opinion page.

Several members of the university community, including about half of the football team, own motor scooters. Of those who use them on the campus, few wear helmets or other protective gear while riding, which could make having an accident while on a scooter even more dangerous.

This issue is exacerbated by the necessity to share the road with other, bigger, vehicles that can inflict serious damage even when scooter riders are being 100 percent careful and law-abiding.

Pete DeSouza’s accident was not his own fault. Neither I nor yesterday’s cartoonist believes it was. And I — as well as every one else at this newspaper — hope DeSouza makes a complete and speedy recovery.

As editor in chief of this publication, it is my job to ensure this newspaper is adequately serving the needs of this community. In printing a cartoon thought to raise an issue about student safety yesterday, we instead insulted and offended many.

For that, I apologize.

Marissa Lang is the editor in chief of The Diamondback. She can be reached at mlang@umdbk.com.

From the cartoonist My editorial cartoon published yesterday has been regretfully misinterpreted by a number of readers. I, along with the entire university community, am relieved that Pete DeSouza is expected to make a full recovery from his recent accident. The cartoon’s message was meant purely as a commentary on campus safety.

It was not at all my intention to make light of his injuries, nor to mock him personally in any way. I extend my apologies to anyone who was offended or upset by the cartoon.

— Morgan Noonan

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HIGGINS I do not like the Disco Biscuits.

The Philadelphia jamtronica band is a fierce competitor on the list of the Worst Bands of All Time. If the group isn’t the No. 1 Worst Band of All Time, it certainly rests comfortably in the top three.

Despite my strong dislike for the jam band, last week I spoke with bassist Marc Brownstein.

I was hoping talking with a member of the group would change my opinion of the band. I had hoped Brownstein would wow me with generosity, kindness and intelligence in an effort to deconstruct my perception of the Disco Biscuits and its fanbase. I was also hoping to discuss with him, in detail, the very things I hate about his band.

I intended to write an in-depth piece about the group in time for publication before tonight’s performance at Rams Head Live in Baltimore.

Unfortunately, Brownstein only halfmet my expectations. He was fairly affable on the phone and seemed to have a genuine passion for the Disco Biscuits’ particular brand of music.

But he was also inconsiderate and made it seem like his date with the press could wait.

He was not ready for our interview at the scheduled time and proceeded to make me call back several times while he was occupied with some other matter. Recognizing how busy he seemed, I suggested we postpone the rest of the interview until later. My calls after that were left with no return.

With my deadline approaching, I figured I could just write a more general story, instead of the piece I originally hoped to write.

My first experience with the Disco Biscuits was a bad one — very bad.

On May 24, 2008, some friends and I traveled to Philadelphia to take in our very first Flaming Lips show. The Oklahoma City band was performing as a headliner of the Jam on the River festival at Penn’s Landing.

At that time, I held the music of the Flaming Lips very dear, and I had heard many euphoric testimonials from fellow fans about how life-changing a Lips concert could be.

I went to the festival with hopes of elation and little knowledge about the other bands playing that day. My group secured a spot close to the stage, and we stayed there for the majority of the day, waiting for the Lips’ hopefully divine performance.

What a mistake.

We were subjected to multiple sets by hometown heroes the Disco Biscuits before the Flaming Lips ever took the stage. The music was all kinds of awful, and the violent actions of some of the band’s fans did not help.

Many details could be divulged, but I only have so much space. Long story short: The Biscuits ruined the day.

The Flaming Lips’ performance was underwhelming, and my young self left defeated. My take on the Flaming Lips’ concert experience is a whole other column, but I digress.

I ended up catching a bit of a Disco Biscuits set again less than a month later. For all my dislike of the group, my run-ins with them have been surprisingly plentiful.

In any event, we return to fall 2010. I arranged to speak with one of the Disco Biscuits so I could better understand what the band’s huge fanbase

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saw in the band. What am I missing? Is my dislike undeserved?

Brownstein and I did manage to hold a conversation for a fair bit of time last week, but it was nowhere near the length I needed to get to know him or the ins and outs of the Disco Biscuits. I hope to be able to speak with him again in the future, but for now, oh well.

The little I did talk with him was educational.

I learned about the cost of the band’s latest album, Planet Anthem — somewhere around $150,000, according to Brownstein — and that artist Storm Thorgerson (his credits include Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin, The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd and Absolution by Muse) did the artwork for the album. All interesting information.

But what most interests me about the Disco Biscuits is the polarizing nature of the band. Its music is of the most horrific quality — extremely long and aimless compositions filled with bad lyrics and unnecessary vamping.

And its fans! The cruel things some of the Biscuit faithful will do to a fellow concertgoer are indescribable. Trauma of a terrible nature is the only thing sensible people will take away from a Disco Biscuits concert or recording.

Yet despite all this, the band is as successful as it ever was. Its fanbase is huge and demanding enough to warrant an annual music festival, Camp Bisco. The ninth Camp Bisco was held this past summer and acts including LCD Soundsystem, Caribou and Major Lazer performed.

“I think it’s for everybody, person-

ally,” Brownstein said of his music.

“And that some people just haven’t opened their mind to it yet. I’ve just been in the band for 15 years, and I know so many people who hated us and ended up being our biggest fans.

“You know, I started out hating Phish, and I ended up being their biggest fan,” he added. “I went through it as a fan myself. It’s hard sometimes to get yourself used to a new style of music when you’re not used to it. I personally think the Disco Biscuits are for everyone. We play every style of music.”

I don’t see myself changing my opinion of the group anytime soon, but I can see Brownstein’s point. Maybe I just haven’t yet heard the one amazing song that could make me a fan.

“So we have played polarizing music over the years, but I’ve seen us growing and growing and growing, and I feel positive about it. I feel good about it,” Brownstein said. “Just like punk music’s not for everybody. We’re the punk jam band. ... We’re the jam band that’s not for everybody.”

One would be hard-pressed to mistake the Disco Biscuits for punk rock, but stranger things have happened (Phil Spector’s wigs come to mind).

I asked Brownstein if his family (a wife and three children) were fans of the band.

“My wife’s been a fan of the band since 1997,” Brownstein said. “And my son, the other day, I was talking about my favorite bands and ... he looked up to me and he said, ‘Dad, Disco Biscuits are my favorite band!’ And I was like, that is

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what it is. My daughter, on the other hand, cannot stand the Disco Biscuits.”

With this information, I felt some kind of validation. Is it possible that I shared a contempt for this music with the offspring of one of the creators?

“She hates it,” Brownstein said.

“She just hates it. I don’t know what it is. She just doesn’t like it. She’s like, ‘Turn it off!’ and [my son is] like, ‘Turn on “On Time!”’ And she’s like, ‘Just turn it off, dad! You’re killing me!’”

Brownstein’s daughter is only 3 years old, but she already shows a critical ear for music.

Similarly, Phish frontman Trey Anastasio’s teenage daughter cannot stand Phish, according to Brownstein.

Phish is undoubtedly one of America’s most important jam bands.

“She’s 13, she’s into 13-year-olds’ music,” Brownstein said. “And her dad’s in a jam band. That’s hard for a young girl to swallow. It is what it is.”

The Disco Biscuits aren’t for everybody. But they certainly have a passionate core of fans. I’m still not sure what makes the group so appealing. Is it the actual music? Is it the community?

Much more can be said about the Disco Biscuits, but unfortunately, we’ve run out of space for this month’s edition of The Jukebox. If you’re interested to see the band live, you have the opportunity to see them tonight.

My advice: Decide for yourself.

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for a scrimmage, the defender felt he was ready. Cirovski thought so, too.

“When he called my name again,” Lee said, “I just kept smiling.”

LEE from page 8 ‘IT WAS LIKE MY OWN KID’ Coach Sasho Cirovski can’t remember a scarier night in his coaching tenure.

He received a call minutes after the accident, forwarded the information to Lee’s family and then met up with them at George Washington University Hospital in Washington.

“It was the worst time in my coaching career,” Cirovski said. “These are the moments in coaching that you hope you never have.”

The night of the accident began innocuously enough. After a Saturday practice, Lee had left the campus with Woodberry and teammate Billy Cortes to see D.C. United midfielder and former Terp Rodney Wallace.

After hanging out with Wallace, watching TV and grabbing a bite to eat, the three ventured home to College Park about 9 p.m.

When the accident happened, Woodberry said he “went into shock.”

Cortes, meanwhile, called 911 and then the Terp coaching staff. He went to Lee and tried to keep him responsive as emergency units arrived.

“It was the worst thing I’ve seen in my life,” Woodberry said. “I can’t compare it to anything. It’s something that comes from a horror movie. I couldn’t see anyone else surviving that accident.”

When Lee arrived at the hospital, doctors determined he hadn’t sustained any broken bones. Lee then under went an MRI and a CT scan, when doctors found a blood clot on the right side of his head. He was transported to surger y, where he under went a two-hour operation on his skull.

Woodberry and Cortes, meanwhile, joined their teammates back in College Park. Instead of enjoying their Saturday night, they stood together and prayed for their teammate. Then, they waited for the news.

The surger y was successful. As Lee began to regain consciousness, he started asking questions. He peppered doctors with queries about where he was and what was left of his soccer career. They told him he

Defender Alex Lee has started all 14 games for the Terps this season.

had six months until he could return to soccer.

LONG ROAD BACK As Lee sat on the bench this spring, he heard a familiar command from Cirovski: You’re in.

The day after team physicians had cleared him to play full-contact sports, Lee was back on the field he missed for so long.

He could only appreciate normalcy for a split-second. A soaring goal kick was headed straight to him.

Without hesitation, without a second thought about what might happen when a ball met a head with a 4inch scar that was obvious to anyone who cared to look, Lee rose up and headed it.

His journey back to that meaningless April match wasn’t easy.

The morning after his operation, flocks of visitors to Lee’s hospital

room started arriving. His teammates, his friends from home and his twin brother, Justin, a defender at Penn State, all rushed to see Lee. “It was crazy,” Lee said. “A lot of my friends from home stayed the night there. I seriously saw close to 50 people.”

He doesn’t really remember the conversations. But he can’t forget how much they meant to him.

“I started to see how my family was affected, my brothers, my teammates,” Lee said.

Three days after the accident, Lee was back home. He battled intense headaches as his teammates fought off Georgetown down the road. The team, sporting white wristbands inscribed with “AL18,” dispatched the Hoyas with Lee in mind.

“Ever ybody kind of had a chip on their shoulders because one of our teammates almost died,” Woodberr y said. “Things like that happen

ANDERSON from page 8

Defender Skyy Anderson is the daughter of Larry Anderson, the longtime men’s basketball coach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Anderson’s upbringing has cer tainly impacted her aggressiveness on the field.

Her father, Larr y Anderson, is entering his 16th season as the men’s basketball coach at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anderson grew up around the team, which represents a school known much more for its academics than its athletics.

“I used to travel with them,” Anderson said. “My dad gets players that are bench-warmers for their high school teams. Being around them and seeing what they do gave me confidence that I can do whatever I want if I put my mind to it.”

“She comes from a very athletic family,” Pensky said.

“She’s been pushed by [her father] for years.”

Pensky and his coaching staff saw that Anderson, a dominant striker in high school, had the talent to fill a vacancy at center back for the Terps last season.

“I think that Skyy is a little

unexpectedly, and you just have to be able to deal with them, especially as an athlete.”

Weeks later, Lee returned to class.

A month after the accident, he began running and hardly stopped. Taking a winter class, Lee ran every day, pushing himself to the best shape of his life.

It was all he could do. With his head injury, Lee was barred from any soccer-related activities. All doctors said he could do was run. And he did it tirelessly.

He remembers watching his teammates find a way to eke out an Elite Eight finish despite a litany of injuries, including his. What hurt most, though, was seeing the Terps face Penn State — and his twin brother — in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, with Lee stranded on the sidelines.

He didn’t give up. By the time April 18 came, and national finalist Akron arrived

bit better when she’s facing the game,” Pensky said, alluding to the fact that defenders play the game with nearly the entire field in front of them. “She’s ver y good for us back there.”

She has thrived with the position change and, barring injur y, will get another crack at the postseason next Wednesday in the ACC Tournament.

In the meantime, Anderson and the Terps will need to come back to reality after their historic victory over the Tar Heels on Sunday in time for Thursday’s battle with No. 9 Florida State.

With wins over the Seminoles and Miami, which visits Sunday, the Terps will keep themselves in contention for the No. 1 seed when the ACC Tournament rolls around.

“We’ve got to put the game past us,” Anderson said. “I’m not even thinking about it anymore. I’m tr ying to win a conference championship.

We got to look for ward to playing Florida State, beating them, then beating Miami on Sunday.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

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NEW SEASON, NEW REASON Soccer is — and was — all Lee ever thought about. But it seemed the sport didn’t reciprocate when he returned this fall. Just 20 minutes into the team’s second game, Lee took a hard hit to his cheekbone that required stitches. Five days later, Lee played only 30 seconds against Boston College before taking an elbow to the nose.

Now, Lee stands as the team’s starting center back. With an earlier injury to defender Greg Young, the former striker has transitioned to a position he never thought he could play. He took the switch in stride.

“He’s a tough kid, a competitive kid and at times even reckless and undisciplined,” Cirovski said. “But he has a greater sense of humility now.”

The Terps ride a seven-game win streak due in large part to Lee. They have displayed a connectedness and collected vision Cirovski revels in.

Few things, the Terp coach said, have contributed more to that alteration than Lee’s accident and recovery.

“When you go through difficult moments, whether it’s games or lifethreatening situations, you have opportunities to either grow together or grow apart,” Cirovski said. “This made everyone appreciate the strength of the relationships we had within the team and created even a stronger bond.”

Occasionally, Woodberry will walk into Lee’s room and tell him how happy he is to see him there, simply saying, “I love you, man.”

The near-tragedy has changed not just Lee’s life but also those of the people that surround him.

“Look both ways when you cross the street,” Woodberry said. “And just value life, man. You shouldn’t be going day by day having all this stress. You just have to be happy and take it one day at a time and enjoy it.”

“My outlook on life is different. Soccer was all I thought about,” Lee said, “and I just realized the fragility of life.” ceckard@umdbk.com

Coach Ralph Friedgen singled out Wake Forest running back and ACC Rookie of the Week Josh Harris as a player the Terps must limit Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

NOTEBOOK from page 8 “Then I saw the scooter in almost two pieces and the dent in the car and the shattered windshield,” Dill said. “It hit me then that this was serious.”

According to Dill, DeSouza will start out with walking casts on both legs and a walker to help him move around, but doctors have said he will make a full recovery.

“We’re very lucky to have Pete with us,” Friedgen said.

“The positive thing is none of his joints were injured. They’re anticipating he’s going to have a full recovery, so that’s a miracle in itself.”

CARTOON CRITICIZED Friedgen and several players expressed their displeasure at an editorial cartoon in yesterday’s Diamondback that they felt unfairly targeted DeSouza.

Friedgen sharply criticized the cartoon, which shows a woman talking to a football player dressed in full pads and standing next to a scooter.

“I didn’t think there was a game today ...,” the woman says.

“There isn’t,” the player replies. “But I’m afraid to hurt myself on my scooter.”

DeSouza was hurt Thursday night when the driver of a car trying to make a left-hand turn in front of him collided with his scooter. DeSouza later underwent surgery on both legs.

Friedgen addressed the cartoon without being prompted by reporters yesterday.

“We are lucky to have Pete with us, trust me,” Friedgen said. “We are pretty sensitive to what kind of jokes are written about it.”

Several players who had read the cartoon called it inappropriate.

“It’s a messed-up thing to do.

Kid gets in an accident — it’s not even his fault,” linebacker Alex Wujciak said. “He’s lucky to be alive. And they want to joke about it.”

Cartoonist Morgan Noonan, a senior studio art major, said she had no intention of belittling DeSouza’s injuries and

was instead remarking on the danger of riding scooters on the campus.

“The cartoon’s message was meant purely as a commentary on campus safety,” Noonan wrote in a statement.

“It was not at all my intention to make light of his injuries, nor to mock him personally in any way.”

OUT OF NOWHERE The biggest threat to the Terps’ defense this weekend against Wake Forest is not even listed in the Demon Deacons’ media guide.

Running back Josh Harris took the ACC by surprise last week against Virginia Tech in his first career start. The redshirt freshman, who was not even listed on the roster at the start of the season, rushed for 241 yards, the most the Hokies have ever allowed to a single player.

“I don’t know where this guy came from,” Friedgen said. “He’s a redshirt freshman who played a little bit against Navy and did a pretty good job, then started against Virginia Tech, and he’s pretty darn good, I think.”

Friedgen started the Terps’ team meeting Monday showing three runs by Harris on video. The running back earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors after averaging 12.1 yards per carry and scoring two touchdowns on runs of 33 and 87 yards.

Harris dazzled with his speed and ability to quickly find holes in Virginia Tech’s defense, against which he gained more yards than he previously had all season. He entered the game with 189 yards for the season, and 74 of those yards came against Football Championship Subdivision school Presbyterian.

“Their freshman running back was just running through Virginia Tech,” safety Kenny Tate said. “So we know that they’re going to want to run the ball.”

Senior staff writer Michael Lemaire contributed to this report. kyanchulis@umdbk.com

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Sports

Ayinde honored by ACC Terrapin women’s soccer forward Sade Ayinde was named ACC Player of the Week yesterday.

Get more information at TerrapinTrail.com.

FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK

MEN’S SOCCER

Arnett switches to offensive line; DeSouza is ‘well’

BOUNCING

BACK

Friedgen slams cartoon at presser

Accident doesn’t keep Lee from field

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

“I watched him [Monday] night in practice, and I think it’s a good move,” Friedgen said.

“Now, he doesn’t know what he’s doing, but I saw him hit people and knock people off the line of scrimmage, and that’s a good place to start.”

In an effort to bolster the Terrapin football team’s dwindling corps of offensive linemen, De’Onte Arnett has switched from defensive to offensive line.

DESOUZA RECOVERING The redshirt freshman, who Right tackle Pete DeSouza has played in just one game this season as a reser ve on left the intensive care unit of defense, believes the move can Washington Hospital Center yesterday, five days help him car ve out his after he broke his own role on the team, tibia and fibula in coach Ralph Friedgen both legs. said at a press conferFriedgen said the ence yesterday. redshirt freshman “We’re hoping that was “stabilized, and he can pick things up,” he’s doing quite Friedgen said. “We well.” don’t know how fast DeSouza started that’s going to happen, three games at right but we think it’s a good DE’ONTE tackle this season move not only for our ARNETT before Thursday’s football team but also TERRAPIN FOOTBALL accident, stepping for De’Onte.”

OFFENSIVE LINEMAN into a starting role After redshirting last season, Arnett missed most of after starting tackle Justin the Terps’ preseason after Gilbert sustained a season-endankle surgery to remove a cyst. ing knee injury.

Since the Terps returned “By the time he got back, he didn’t have the chance to win a from their win against Boston College, players said they spot,” Friedgen said.

Though Friedgen said he had have been taking turns visitcontemplated the move, Arnett ing DeSouza.

“I told them, ‘We’re not just actually approached Friedgen about it first, hoping to not only seeing Pete Sunday,’” Friedgen help out the ailing line but to said. “We need to be seeing “start fresh,” according to Fried- him the next three to four gen. The Terps’ defensive line months, whatever it takes until has no shortage of depth — we can get him here.”

Starting left tackle R.J. Dill, both now and for the future — and the team’s ailing offensive who visited DeSouza yesterday, said he could not believe it when line needs able-bodied players.

While the Terps are not yet he first found out about the sure which position Arnett will injury. He quickly rushed to the play along the offensive line, accident site in time to see DeSFriedgen found the one prac- ouza leave in an ambulance. tice in which Arnett has played encouraging. see NOTEBOOK, page 7

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Motionless, Alex Lee lay on the road with his eyes open, blood streaming from the back of his head.

Just moments before, Lee was the starting right back on a defending national championship soccer team. Life couldn’t have been any better.

In an instant, that status disappeared.

Lee doesn’t remember what happened the night of Oct. 10, 2009, just that he turned and saw a gold car with bright lights heading straight toward him.

London Woodberry remembers. He vividly recalls the sight of Lee dashing across Connecticut Avenue in Northwest Washington, the sound of an oncoming vehicle striking his friend, the feeling of horror as he watched one of his teammates fly six feet into the air and crash down headfirst on the pavement.

All Lee can picture now is crossing a street and seeing the Metro station. The next thing he remembers is waking up in a hospital bed with an IV hooked into his arm.

“When I saw him,” Woodberry remembered, “I thought he was dead.”

What had started as a simple visit to the nation’s capital to see an old teammate had ended in a horrific accident that scarred the 2009 Terrapin men’s soccer campaign.

Now, a year after the accident that nearly took his life, Lee stands not only as a backbone of the No. 3 Terps’ backline but also as a reminder of the delicate nature of both life and sport.

see LEE, page 7

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps will open scrimmage to public Saturday

Terps picked to finish 4th in ACC

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

The Terrapin men’s basketball team will have its six newcomers on display during an open intrasquad scrimmage at Comcast Center at noon this Saturday, just two days before the Terps play in an exhibition game Monday.

The scrimmage is slated to last two hours, with doors opening at 11:30 a.m. Fans can get autographs from the players after the scrimmage. Aside from a 10-minute scrimmage during Maryland Madness, Saturday’s event marks the first time the 2010-11 team will play before the public.

The Terps face Florida Southern at 8 p.m.

Monday in the team’s only exhibition match before the start of the season. ceckard@umdbk.com

Coach Brenda Frese had two freshmen from her highly decorated recruiting class, guard Laurin Mincy and forward Alyssa Thomas, named to the ACC’s Newcomer Watch List this season. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

The Terrapin women’s basketball team was picked to finish fourth in the ACC this season in the conference’s annual preseason poll, which was released yesterday.

The Terps are coming off a disappointing season during which they went 5-9 in conference play before failing to reach the NCAA Tournament for the first time since coach Brenda Frese’s first season in 2003.

The team appears primed for a return to the results the program has come to expect. Frese inked the nation’s second-best recruiting class to augment a

roster that lost only one contributor from last season in starting shooting guard Lori Bjork. The Terps return athletic center Lynetta Kizer and talented forward Diandra Tchatchouang.

Of that renowned recruiting class, guard Laurin Mincy and for ward Alyssa Thomas were two of six players named to the conference’s Newcomer Watch List.

Defending conference champion Duke, led by ACC preseason player of the year Jasmine Thomas, is projected to repeat as champion.

North Carolina and Florida State were picked to finish second and third, respectively. cwalsh@umdbk.com

For this Skyy, no limit Anderson bounces back from string of injuries to become cornerstone of Terps’ sturdy backline

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

The memor y of sitting on the sidelines for the vast majority of the Terrapin women’s soccer team’s postseason last year is still fresh in Skyy Anderson’s mind.

After starting at center back for the Terps all season, Anderson rolled her ankle midway through the first half of the Terps’ quarterfinal loss to North Carolina in the ACC Tournament.

The injury confined Anderson to the role of cheerleader while the Terps worked toward

their first Sweet 16 appearance in coach Brian Pensky’s tenure.

“It was so frustrating; I felt like I wasn’t part of the team,” Anderson said. “It was pretty sad to not physically be a part of it.”

Anderson suffered a similar setback this season, as she missed four nonconference games with a nagging hamstring injury.

The jovial defender has come back just in time for conference play for the No. 5 Terps, however, starting the past six games at right back to help solidify a Terp backline that has held two of the nation’s most explosive

offenses — No. 4 North Carolina and No. 14 Boston College — to just one goal apiece.

“Skyy is a special athlete,” Pensky said. “Her composure on the ball is very good. She’s strong. She’s great.”

And while Anderson carries a cheery demeanor with her to the practice field each day — “She’s a goof,” Pensky said — once game time arrives, everything changes.

“On the field, she’s a great voice,” Pensky said. “She brings an energy and a swagger to the team with her voice.”

see ANDERSON, page 7

An ankle injury confined defender Skyy Anderson to the bench for the Terps’ Sweet 16 run last season. Now fully healthy, Anderson is a team leader. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK