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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Judge delays Univ. launches new classes for veterans arraignment After receiving federal grant, officials turn focus on veteran retention, graduation rates for student in assault case

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

Grad student charged with sexual assaults will return to court

Using hundreds of thousands in federal grant money, the university hopes to enhance the programs and services it offers to veterans by supplementing its on-campus veteran’s office and expanding its online presence.

Stamp Student Union officials announced last month they will be receiving about $400,000 from the Department of Education. Using the existing Veterans Program Office as a central hub, officials will create two new classes targeting student-veterans, hire more faculty members, improve its website and fund other

miscellaneous enrollment and retention projects.

The grant documentation called on universities to “[establish] a Center of Excellence for Veteran Student Success,” and officials interpreted that in a broader sense, student union Director Marsha Guenzler-Stevens said.

Although there will be a home base in the office, the money will go toward fostering an environment that promotes veterans’ success, not an actual new building.

“Our aim is to create the institution to be a center of excellence,” she said.

“What we want to do is create ... a culture at the institution that is responsive to veterans.”

The university will add an online database to the website with information about military enrollment, demographics of student-veterans and graduation and retention rates, Guenzler-Stevens said. Officials will hire permanent faculty — two more graduate students and a full time adviser who will contribute to research efforts. The university will also use the grant money to improve its national reputation as a veteranfriendly campus by reaching out to potential students in local military bases and National Guard groups, she said.

Vice President of Programming for Terp Vets Matthew Marsh said hav-

ing extra, full-time faculty will be beneficial because they won’t be stretched as thin. Previously, students could only visit the Veterans Program Office during the advisers’ office hours if they wanted to seek help, he said.

“The two graduate students that are there part-time, you don’t know who’s going to be there and they’re not there five days a week,” Marsh, a junior mechanical engineering major, said. “Just to have someone who’s going to be there every day, that will help out.”

One of the new courses — which

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BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer

The words “guilty” or “not guilty” were not uttered at graduate student Adan Martinez Cruz’s first court appearance for sex offense and assault charges yesterday morning.

The only decision made in the Prince George’s District Court in Hyattsville was to postpone his arraignment on the grounds that Martinez Cruz’s lawyer, William Mitchell Jr., had not received the state prosecutor’s evidence — called the discovery — until that morning. The new court date has not yet been set.

Judge Lawrence Hill Jr. granted Mitchell’s request for more time.

In his next court appearance, Martinez Cruz, 31, of the 1800 block of Metzerott Road, will enter a plea.

If he pleads not guilty, a criminal trial will ensue in which a judge — not a jur y — will make the decision to convict or acquit him. Mitchell declined to comment on how his client will plead.

University Police spokesman Sgt. Ken Leonard said he did not know the date the prosecutor, Benjamin Rupert, received the evidence. Generally, once the police reports are written, Leonard said that information is provided to the state’s attorney’s office, whose job it is to hand the evidence over to the defense.

Martinez Cruz, a research assistant in the agricultural and resource economics department, was arrested Oct. 7 and charged with sexually assaulting a female student in Stamp Student Union. Three days later, a second female student reported a similar incident in the same location to police.

Members of his department have not seen Martinez Cruz at the university since, according to a colleague who asked not to be identified because she was told not to speak to the media.

Martinez Cruz is charged with two

TELLING A TICKETER’S TALE DOTS ticketing supervisor Sadel Hawkins leans against his truck and holds out parking tickets. PHOTOS BY ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK

DOTS’ top ticket-issuer reflects on job’s challenges

BY ALICIA MCCARTY Staff writer

Sadel Hawkins is the man students love to hate. But you’d never know that by talking to him.

The 53-year-old parking enforcement manager for the Department of Transportation Services is upbeat and friendly. And although he spends his days driving around the campus in his white pickup truck, writing parking citations, dealing with angry drivers and walking around outside no matter the weather, he says he loves his job.

“I’m just a people person. I try to get along with everyone,” Hawkins said. “I like to help people out.”

According to DOTS Director David Allen, the amount of tickets issued on any given day depends largely on where enforcement officers are dispatched.

Hawkins, who has worked for DOTS for more than 20 years, is the man who sends ticketers out — although Allen said he still pulls in more tickets than any other

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Digging deeper

Speaker explores how drug war impacts the environment

Alumnus leaves his mark by landscaping

Student activists herald event’s message

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

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Most students boast that they know the university inside and out once they’ve been handed their diplomas. But when Bobby Tjaden graduated in 2008, his work here was just beginning.

Tjaden, 24, joined the Facilities Management staff only days after graduating from this university with a degree in landscape architecture. Two years ago, he spent his days drawing and studying inside classrooms, but now he finds himself consulting on designs for major campus projects.

Tjaden first began work with Facilities Management in his second year as a landscape architecture

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Alumnus Bobby Tjaden stands in the newly unveiled Garden of Reflection and Remembrance, which he helped create.

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Sanho Tree, the director of the Institute for Policy Studies’ Drug Policy Project, spoke to about 30 students last night about two topics that rarely intersect: drugs and the environment.

Students for Sensible Drug Policy hosted the lecture, “The Drug War and the Environment,” which targeted U.S. counter-narcotics policies’ social and environmental effects on drug-producing countries. Attendees, mostly SSDP members, said the focus on the environment was an interesting twist on the belabored topic, and they appreciated looking at it from a new angle.

Tree explained how this country’s “war on drugs” is to blame for the vio-

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lence, social unrest and environmental degradation in Mexico, Afghanistan and Colombia — the three countries he honed in on. He cited extreme poverty in producing countries, high demand at home and, due to laws prohibiting them, the artificial escalation of the value of drugs.

“The alchemists never found a way to transform things into gold,” he said.

“We’ve found a way to turn essentially worthless plants into gold. Any kind of solution must first address taking away the value from these substances.”

Though the name of the event had some students expecting otherwise, Tree mainly discussed the adverse environmental effects in Colombia, while

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DESIGNER from page 1 student when he interned to fulfill a graduation requirement.

“When they pulled me on, I was doing little stuff, like basic designing type stuff,” he said.

“Eventually, as I kept working, they kept giving me more and more projects. A reason I really enjoyed it was because of how [school and work] paralleled each other. ... I’d see the behind-the-scenes meetings and then I’d get to actually do some of the work.”

Once hired, the small projects turned into large-scale designing and consulting jobs.

Tjaden even found himself working with a small staff on the Peace and Friendship Garden, located in front of the President’s Residence on the campus. The project, he said, quickly became one of his favorites because working with a small group of professionals enabled him to give more creative input.

Tjaden also worked on the Garden of Reflection and Remembrance, which took nearly four years to complete and was unveiled Oct. 29 on the south side of the Memorial Chapel. Much of the project’s success, he added, stemmed

HAWKINS from page 1 enforcer, a fact that he attributes to Hawkins’ demeanor.

“It’s a completely thankless job,” Allen said. “He’s just a good, long-term, dedicated employee who does a job that many people would not do.”

Allen, who has known Hawkins since he began working part-time, said Hawkins has really risen through the ranks over the years at DOTS due to his dedication and attitude. He leads by example, according to Allen.

During move-in days, Hawkins has parked his white enforcement pickup truck outside dorms to give parents directions and help students move in.

“I like to help out more than just write tickets,” he said,

COURT from page 1 fourth-degree sex offenses, two counts of second-degree assault and one count of molesting a student, court records show.

from the fact that it was a collaborative process.

“I don’t think I could say that I designed any one part of the garden,” he said. “There’s no design that’s just one person — it’s always a group effort. It was the university’s effort.”

Tjaden said he was grateful to have the internship that eventually landed him a job fresh out of college, while many of his peers are still struggling to find work.

“A lot of the landscape architecture jobs are in the housing market, so no one was really hired when we graduated, and I guess some of them still aren’t,” he said.

“Luckily, [Facilities Management] offered me a job. I guess I had kind of cut a hole for myself.”

Scott Munroe, Tjaden’s supervisor and a landscape architect in Facilities Management, said he’s watched Tjaden’s skills develop over the past five years and has high hopes for him in the future.

“I think he’s been growing immensely as far as his capabilities, and we’re working him into being a project manager,” Munroe said. “He’s integrated himself very well with the staff, and he’s done a very good job in his growth with project management.”

adding he voids countless tickets during the early semester move-in periods.

Hawkins began working for DOTS as a part-time ticket writer in the late 1980s after injury ended his goal of playing professional baseball.

He was spiked in the knee during a tryout for the semi-pro Washington BlackSox when he was in his mid 20s. Like his father, who played in the Negro League for the Vista Yankees, Hawkins hoped to play professional baseball, but was unable to after the injury.

For physical therapy, Hawkins’ doctor suggested he stay active and walk a lot, so he became a DOTS enforcement officer — a job that requires a fair bit of walking. Today, Hawkins, who gives off a spritely aura, claims his job has kept him physically fit.

“It keeps me young,” he said.

A second court date for the first incident has not yet been set.

He will appear again in court Nov. 30 for the second incident.

The agricultural and resource economics department chair, other AREC graduate research assistants, the

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University alumnus Bobby Tjaden helped design the Garden of Reflection and Remembrance as a Facilities Management employee. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK

As for Tjaden’s future plans, he said his top priority is to become a fully licensed landscape architect by the summer.

The process, he said, entails passing a series of rigorous exams that are often considered second in difficulty compared to the Medical College Admission Test.

But that next — and possibly most difficult — milestone is one Tjaden said will take his design abilities to the next level.

“If I get my license, I’ll have the status of being a profes-

sional landscape architect, and right now there are designs and projects I technically can’t do yet,” he said.

Tjaden added he hopes to own his own design firm one day and find a way to integrate environmentally friendly practices into his projects.

“Eventually, I’d like to merge the green initiative ideas and sustainability ideas to site development,” Tjaden said.

“But while I’m here, I just want to keep doing what I’m doing.”

“The only complaints I get about him are that he smiles too much.”

ited to students, Hawkins said, noting he’s had many unpleasant run-ins with faculty as well.

“That’s a whole other level,” he said. “Faculty, they somebody. Especially the ones with titles. They important, you is not important.”

Hawkins, who has two children and two grandchildren, said the disrespect makes the job incredibly tough, but no less rewarding.

“You got to be strong willed,” he said. “I’m just trying to do a job, make an honest living and get through.”

Allen said Hawkins is unmatched in his ability to enforce parking. And somehow he manages to stay positive along the way.

“The only complaints I get about him are that he smiles too much,” Allen said.

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“Keeps me on my toes.”

Part of what keeps the veteran parking enforcer on his toes can be the reactions angry students launch at ticket-writers.

“Oh, we just the bad guys. It’s like us against the world,” Hawkins said, explaining how he and other enforcers have been subject to everything from nasty comments to eggings over the years.

And the disrespect isn’t lim-

Office of Legal Affairs, the Office of Student Conduct, the dean of the graduate school, Martinez Cruz’s lawyers and Martinez Cruz himself declined to comment on the case. roubein@umdbk.com

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Today, students looking to enjoy the crisp autumn air can also rake in the feel-good benefits of donating to charity.

Attendees at the class of 2013’s Fall Festival can play in an apple cider pong tournament, enjoy free food and participate in a cake-eating contest — Class Council members only ask that they bring either canned food or monetary donations.

All proceeds from the event, which will be at the Nyumburu Amphitheater from 4 to 6 p.m., will go to the College Park Food Bank and Silver Spring’s A Wider Circle — an organization that helps those less fortunate climb out of poverty.

“It’s perfect because it’s right around the holiday season,” Vice President of Philanthropy Lauren Kurtz said. “It’s a perfect time to do this and to help out.”

Kurtz, a sophomore business major, said although class officers organized the event at the last minute, they hope it will still yield a large amount of donations. Several students said they’d be glad to contribute.

“Sign me up. I did a food drive last year and loved it,” sophomore criminology and criminal justice and history major David Hornstein said. “I think it’s great, especially around Thanksgiving time. It’s nice to see it going somewhere to feed families for Thanksgiving that are less fortunate.”

Joey Sakla, president of the 2013 Class Council, said he expects the laid-back atmosphere to draw in participants.

“We hope that people come out and make friends and have a good time,” the finance major said.

“We’re also looking to help out good causes. We want to help those less fortunate while still having fun.”

The event, which isn’t limited to sophomores, will be funded by prior Class Council events and profits from T-shirt sales, Sakla said. They ordered all of the food through the Dining Services’ catering business, Goodies to Go. In addition to collecting canned food items and money for the charities, Sakla said he hopes the event will be a bonding opportunity for students of all ages to get to know one another.

“It’s a chance for everyone to come hang out, talk, socialize and meet new people,” he said.

Several students said they thought the festival seemed like it had the potential to be a success.

“This event actually sounds like a lot of fun,” Kelly Shih, a sophomore government and politics and international business major, said. “I think I’m going to stop by on my way home from classes.”

Members of the council all contributed to the idea for today’s event, Kurtz said.

“In the beginning of the year, the entire sophomore Class Council was brainstorming about a lot of good, quality events and ideas,” Kurtz said.

“Ultimately, we decided to combine them all into one huge Fall Festival.”

Sakla said he intends to use his position on the Class Council to launch more events and drives than what has been done in previous years.

He plans to sell more Class of 2013 T-shirts at the festival today after sophomores bought the first 500 in less than two days.

The council also plans to give away shirts as prizes for winners of today’s games and contests. Other prizes will include gift cards to various businesses on Route 1, Sakla said. egan@umdbk.com

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LECTURE from page 1 he focused on other problems in the other two countries.

So far, the U.S. government has spent $7 billion to destroy coca plants grown by Colombian peasant farmers in an effort to eradicate the cocaine industry, Tree said. Fumigation planes — which fly over croplands and spray the coca crops with chemicals — are the main method of destroying the crop, but they often have unintended victims.

Tree told the audience about one couple he met in Colombia in 2001 who obeyed the U.S. government and grew food instead, but still lost their harvest because the planes sprayed chemicals anyway — four times.

“People generally talk about the economic effects or the health effects of drugs, but the environment is often overlooked,” said junior English and philosophy major Zach Brown,

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co-president of SSDP. Tree discussed how in the 1990s, the opium market in Afghanistan was in full swing, but once the Taliban outlawed the drug, the trade became much riskier — but far more profitable. As the market became more dangerous and the U.S. increasingly intervened, prices continued to rise, along with producers’ motivation to grow the drug. As a result, more and more people turned to the opium market as a profitable alternative to food crops.

About 30 students attended an event sponsored by Students for Sensible Drug Policy about “Forced eradication doesn’t the environmental and social effects of U.S. drug enforcement. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK work,” Tree said, a statement that summed up a main point of problem.” As police shut down traveling to Colombia, where he about the complex issue and open-air drug markets and arrest flew in the fumigation planes and more inclined to spread awarethe lecture. ness about an aspect of the probTree’s description of Mexico dealers, rival gangs fight to take gained first-hand knowledge.

“Tree has a unique perspective lem that is often overlooked. also focused mostly on the impact over the newly unoccupied space, “To me, it’s important because drug cartels have on public safety which results in extreme vio- into how the war on drugs affects people all around the world, dis- our drug policy is overarching — and the government’s inability to lence, he said.

“What’s really being de- proportionately affecting those it affects other countries in control the streets. He said in that country, the social problems are stroyed is the social fabric, the so- who are poor and just trying to extremely damaging ways,” senmore prominent than the envi- cial contract, the idea that the feed their families,” said SSDP co- ior nutritional science major Nyssa Bryant said. ronmental impact, and they actu- state is there to provide safety for president Brandon Levey.

Students said they left the lecally escalate when police “throw the people,” he said.

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VETERANS from page 1 may be available in fall 2012 — will ease veteran students’ transitions to the university by introducing them to college life, providing information about how to interact with professors and teaching effective study skills, Guenzler-Stevens said.

“Think of UNIV 100 for veterans,” she said. “It’s not just about the transition into school, but into careers as well.”

Marsh, a veteran of the Iraq War, said having this introductory class will clarify the differences between academic and military life.

“It’s a culture shock,” he said.

“There are cultural differences between a military and a school environment. For instance, like office hours in the academic setting, it’s something you’re supposed to go to for help. In the military, it’s a form of punishment. Sometimes if you don’t understand … trying to make that adjustment is difficult.”

The second class will focus on veteran student leadership and involvement in extracurricular activities. According to the National Survey of Student Engagement released last week, veteran students are not as likely to participate in activities outside of classes because many have families and less free time.

The leadership class, which will likely be available as a seminar for spring 2012, will give students the opportunity to lead other veteran students. The group leaders will be like Resident Assistants in that they will teach other students about ways to get involved on the campus.

“One thing we know about the military is that it’s very team-oriented,” GuenzlerStevens said. “This would sort of mirror that team orientation.”

Marsh said because he is married and older than traditional college students, he struggles to balance school and family life and usually comes on the campus just for classes and to finish his work. He said many veterans feel similarly, rarely considering staying to participate in extracurricular activities.

“It’s usually the case for a lot of veterans,” he said. “It’s not something that’s totally stopping us, but it’s something that we deal with.” korkut@umdbk.com

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The whipping boy T

While other bar owners, such as Mark Srour of Cornerstone Grill and Loft, may hirsty Turtle has come to symbolize the problem of underage drinking at this university, and local officials are hoping its downfall will lambaste Turtle’s recklessness or crow the fall of a major competitor, it would be ser ve as a warning to all other city establishments, nipping this naive to think that other city bars are any less guilty than Turtle. Both Cornerstone problem in the bud once and for all. But such hopes run dr y and and R.J. Bentley’s passed police’s test with “flying colors” and have not been issued liquor citations in more than a decade, but it is no secret that each and every bar that ignore the larger issues at hand.

Turtle has taken quite a beating in the past few months. Coming into the has ever made a dime in this city has done so with the help of underage patrons. And fall semester, Turtle had already accumulated two alcohol citations in its while bar owners may deny such claims as hyperbole, students know it to be true.

Yet despite this equal claim to guilt, Turtle has become the scapegoat for short three-year existence: for ser ving underage patrons and refilling topuniversity and local officials. To single out Turtle alone for somehow being shelf liquor bottles with cheap booze. the kingpin of underage drinking in the city comThen, in September, University Police Chief David pletely ignores much larger issues.

Mitchell decided to initiate a sting-like operation to test After all, while Turtle may have garnered a reputation the integrity of the infamous College Park establishThirsty Turtle has been as the “high-school bar,” it is hardly the only local bar with ment. He sent in two undercover police auxiliar y offilax entry practices. Furthermore, underage drinking cers, who were allowed to enter and were ser ved beer unfairly singled out in does not solely occur in the confines of a building with a despite presenting real state IDs that clearly showed the university, city and liquor license. This weekend’s sparse turnout at Turtle, they were under 21. A few short weeks after that, media Cornerstone and Bentley’s may indicate that students attention descended on Turtle after a brawl involving county’s fight to curb chose to avoid the risk of lurking liquor inspectors and several underage students began in the bar and led to a underage drinking, as other instead drank behind closed doors, where regulators and knife fight less than a block away. businesses provide alcohol security are not on the payroll and there are no last calls.

Calls for repercussions for the bar’s irresponsibility were Ultimately, Turtle didn’t stand much of a chance in almost immediate, with Mitchell expressing his desire to padto underage students. this fight. Circumstances and media attention demanded lock Turtle’s front doors the very next day. Turtle’s owners did their best at damage control — cracking down on underage admissions and a hard-line response from officials. As a result, Turtle may serve its last drink as soon as Nov. 23. But even if Turtle’s lights forever darken at the end of the employing ID scanners at the door in an attempt to save their reputation. month, another local bar will likely fill the void and become the new underage But it was to no avail.

Last week, the Prince George’s County Board of License Commissioners watering hole, and the same problems will persist: Students will drink often in gave the bar its kiss of death when it voted unanimously to revoke Turtle’s excess, bars will serve them, and occasionally, some people will pay the price liquor license — a decision that shocked many students and even surprised when dramatic events force the spotlight on this pillar of college life.

As the liquor board drafts its final decision and Nov. 23 rapidly approaches, John McGorty, a county liquor license inspector. Although the hearing was originally called to address the September incident involving the police auxil- university and local officials should take a minute to look at the absurdity of this situation and what its true ramifications could be. Turtle no doubt deserves puniary officers, last month’s stabbing undoubtedly fueled the decision.

Although reaction to the liquor board’s decision has been split, with some ishment for its actions, but it should not become a whipping boy for a much more students mourning what will likely be the bar’s demise and others lauding the prevalent problem, having been given little chance to correct its wrong. Grandstanding does not solve problems — it simply sweeps them under the rug. decision as an act of justice, both sides seem to miss the broader point.

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Dorms: A study in contrasts

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h, traditional dorms. As an almost two-year resident of Ellicott Hall, I’ve come to appreciate the pros (yes, there are pros) and cons of living in the North Campus dorms. Just why am I writing this? Well, it’s almost Thanksgiving, I just got a pseudoextra hour of sleep because of daylight savings, I don’t have any exams until after break — so I think it’s high time to stroke my non-existent beard and do some spontaneous self-reflecting.

The Cons: 1. No air conditioning Except for lucky residents of LaPlata and Cumberland halls, there is no air conditioning on North Campus. Things are pretty bad for those two to three weeks when the heat is unbearable. Every single movement causes you to sweat, so nobody really wants to do anything. And sleeping — oh, sleeping is absolutely terrible. Part of me wants

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to sleep with no covers but then another part of me feels oddly cold without them.

2. Communal bathrooms Thirty-plus college students sharing a common bathroom? That’s a recipe for some interesting experiences. From hairballs to someone’s stomach contents on the floor, it’s really quite a crapshoot as to what you’ll find when you step in the shower or open the door to the bathroom stall. So, seriously, thank your housekeeper for putting up with it all the next time you see him or her.

3. Floor lounges Well, I guess this could be a borderline pro/con. The lounges can be

either depending on what mood you are in. If you’re trying to study for an exam and there are 10 people playing a rowdy game of water pong, it’s gonna suck. But if you’re stressed out about said exam and need a break, then it might not be so bad.

The Pros: 1. Open doors For residents that haven’t really seen South Campus and suite-style living, this might not seem like a pro at all. But believe me, it makes a big difference on a floor when people keep their doors open. Roughly analogized, it’s like a mini-Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on your floor where nearly all your floormates say hey or start a small conversation when you walk by. Yay, friendliness!

2. People go to programs Did you just see a flier for a random program your resident assistant is hosting this week in the lounge? And did you just feel a slight inclination to attend? Well, it may not seem like it, but

program attendance is definitely a unique pro of North Campus. A lot of residents actually show up to programs, so it’s pretty easy develop friendships with the people on your floor.

3. Everyone wants to make friends And I guess this leads me to the biggest pro about living on North Campus. For a lot of floors, there’s a big sense of community and camaraderie. Most underclassmen are pretty open and friendly to each other. Yeah, there are cliques, but in general most underclassmen don’t mind striking up a random conversation with their floormates.

I don’t know where I’ll end up living in the next two years. But, weighing these two sides, I think I can honestly say that a tiny part of me will probably miss North Campus when I leave.

Angelina She is a sophomore English and neurobiology and physiology major. She can be reached at ashe@umdbk.com.

Diversity: Making a nation for all people

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ne week ago, I sat glued to my television, watching in dismay as the Democratic Party suffered blow after blow in this year’s elections. As a lifelong liberal, my heart sank while I watched the map of the United States slowly become covered in red — as Democratic candidate after Democratic candidate fell to his or her Republican challenger.

As I went to bed, I mourned the death of the progressive politics that had swept the country in 2008, bringing this nation some of its greatest achievements since President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society: health-care reform, the toughest financial regulations since the 1930s, progressive hate-crime laws and a stimulus package that many now credit with preventing another Great Depression, just to name a few.

But over the past week, once I had taken the opportunity to analyze the election results and look at the profiles of the new members of the 112th U.S. Congress, I realized that in addition to halting the progressive movement in its tracks, the 2010 midterm elections had made history in another, more insidious way: They caused a decline

in the diversity of this nation’s elected representatives.

Indeed, despite the record number of female candidates running in this year’s election cycle, the 2010 elections represent the first time that women will have lost seats in Congress since 1968. Not only will Nancy Pelosi — who made history as the first woman to be elected speaker of the House — lose that position, but the total percentage of women in Congress will drop from its historic (yet depressing) high of 17 percent.

Adding insult to injury, in the soonto-be-sworn-in 112th Congress, the number of black senators will drop from one to zero and the number of Latino/a members in both chambers will decrease.

Ultimately, when the new Congress convenes Jan. 3, of the 535 members of the new Congress, 13 percent will be women, 7.8 percent will be black, 4.4 percent will be Latino/a, 1.9 percent will be Asian-American, 0.7 percent will identify as lesbian or gay, 0.1 percent will be Native Americans, and a whopping 73.3 percent will be straight white males.

So much for being a melting pot.

And while the diversity of this

KEVIN TERVALA nation’s representatives may seem like a trivial matter to some — being an issue that only politically correct liberals like myself care about — nothing could be further from the truth.

A lack of diverse identities among our elected representatives hinders the ability of lawmakers to ensure that all laws serve the interests of all people — not just the majority. For who we are as individuals indelibly shapes and alters the way we see the world and how we perceive our realities.

A person who identifies as straight will never truly know the fear that accompanies every kiss a gay couple shares in public, causing them to view hate-crime laws in a different light. A white person will never truly understand the lasting impact of racism on people of color, preventing them from understanding the damaging effect of anti-immigrant legislation. And a man will never truly understand the dam-

aging effects of governmental control over a woman’s reproductive system, allowing him to vote for anti-abortion laws without truly understanding their consequences.

And while the experiences of minority populations do not make them any more qualified than majority populations to legislate or to govern, legislators from minority groups can provide a differing point of view on many of the most important matters of the day — opinions and viewpoints that majority populations simply cannot understand.

Nothing can be done to increase the diversity of viewpoints in the 112th Congress. However, all elected representatives must go out of their way to listen — and truly internalize — the viewpoints of minority populations. And in the future, we, as voters, must ensure that the people we are sending to Washington are as diverse as we are. It is only that way that we can have a government of (all) people, by (all) people and for (all) people.

Kevin Tervala is a senior art history and history major. He can be reached at ktervala@umdbk.com.

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ith the final ballots cast, I am proud to report on the success of this year’s TerpsVote coalition. Organized by the Student Government Association and charged with registering student voters and getting out the vote, TerpsVote exceeded our ambitious expectations.

Last Friday, The Diamondback’s editorial board criticized student leaders’ efforts to get out the vote.

However, by focusing only on voter estimates at Stamp Student Union, The Diamondback failed to recognize the impact we, as students, have on elections. A cornerstone of this year’s campaign season was the myriad of voting options available for the first time, allowing the impact of student voters to be felt in every district of the state.

An important facet of our efforts was to encourage students to vote where they felt most comfortable, not just the student union. Every option was equally encouraged.

Students could vote early, vote by absentee ballot, vote at home rather than in College Park or cast a provisional ballot at a convenient polling location. Focusing on one polling place fails to consider the true impact of our students in this year’s election.

More than 1,635 people — both students and residents — voted early at the College Park Community Center, according to the state Board of Elections, and many more students opted to do the same in other districts. Even among local Election Day student voters, our impact spread beyond the student union. As an out-of-state student registered in College Park, I fell into that category after being districted to the Paint Branch Elementary School polling location.

Our efforts extended beyond voter registration to encouraging and educating students about voting. The SGA developed and distributed pamphlets containing platform information on state and local candidates. Additionally, we hosted a debate between the College Democrats and College Republicans to showcase the state’s most important issues.

Finally, the TerpsVote coalition pooled the collective efforts of university leaders to personally engage with students, first registering them to vote and then convincing them of its importance.

Voter registration is often separated from get-out-the-vote efforts, but the two are inexorably linked.

Even if students are being re-registered, voter registration is the first step to engaging students in this process and making them aware of the importance of voting. The TerpsVote coalition made phone calls to every student registered through its efforts and every student who signed a pledge to vote.

Between the registration deadline and Election Day, 6,000 get-outthe-vote contacts were made, including pledges to vote and voting encouragement via Facebook, Twitter and text messaging.

Although there is always room for improvement, this year’s midterm election efforts were a clear success. Thanks to the newly implemented voting options, our impact was felt across the state.

And though the election season is over, the SGA’s work continues.

During this year’s legislative session, the SGA will be lobbying our representatives on the issues affecting students at this university, such as textbook affordability and keeping tuition low.

Thanks to the efforts of leaders across the university and, more importantly, those students who voted, I look forward to a successful lobbying season in Annapolis.

When students vote, they have a seat at the table. After such a successful election season with student turnout, our voices will undoubtedly be heard.

Steve Glickman is the president of the Student Government Association. He can be reached at SGAPresident@umd.edu.

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LOST IN SPACE KiD CuDi’s latest, Man on the Moon II, is a shapeless mesh of studio tricks

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Senior staff writer

Stardom — it used to bring people down. They would start at the top, and a sleepless world of sex and drugs would drag them under. Nowadays, things are a bit different. According to his own supposed slacker-turnedloser-emo-drug-addicted-hip-hop-manfrom-the-moon storyline, KiD CuDi started way at the bottom, flailing around haphazardly until the record companies finally caught on.

CuDi is the epitome of modern pop star — he’s not a very good rapper, he’s not really a singer and he doesn’t write much of his own music. Instead, he is an image, pure and simple: an

image of youth and of the kind of drugaddled party-poppers his record executives want youth to be.

Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager is released today, opening a new chapter in the life of KiD CuDi. Interestingly, as life is said to imitate art, this new record, though similar to the first, is a darker retreat into CuDi, the emotional opposite of Man on the Moon: The End of Day. Perhaps CuDi is good at conceptualizing things, and perhaps he is a great character for all the ineptitude required for him to keep up his “Mr. Rager” status, but Man on the Moon II proves nothing more than the first album did: His producers and guests make these albums, not him.

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Mary J. Blige, Kanye West and Cee Lo Green (whose own album is released today) all show up for great guests spots, leaving CuDi as a sort of roast master. While CuDi’s voice is certainly distinctive and has an interesting timbre about it, listeners will probably once again be more interested in the beats and hooks than anything CuDi has to say.

Once again on this album, CuDi has a strong focus on faux-theatrics, such as string sections and spacey reverb between tracks. It gives the album a nice atmosphere, but after another whole album of such segues, it can seem unnecessary at times, as if it’s only there to make some songs seem more important than they are or to try to unfairly relate this album to the previous one.

The songs themselves are considerably darker than Man on the Moon, which again is the only real separating factor between the two records. At the same time, it makes the new record far more homogenous in sound, and on initial listens audiences may feel lost in the sameness of it all.

Similarly, many of CuDi’s choices on structure can be annoying. CuDi has admitted in interviews that he only raps as much as he needs to, which for him can often even mean less than the standard 16 bars. At the same time, his songs still follow a decidedly hip-hop songwriting process, meaning there are repetitive loops and only two sections in every song — the verse and the chorus.

On many songs, this leads to a tedious reliance on the chorus, seeing as how CuDi isn’t hitting his verse for very long. Opener “Scott Mescudi vs.

the smooth trip-hop styling of “The End,” featuring GLC, Chip Tha Ripper and Nicole Wray, and “These Worries,” featuring Blige, a spacey and soulful detour into interest.

Listeners who want to follow the record’s somewhat silly and pretentious “Acts,” will notice that a long stretch in the middle of the album is meant, at least musically, to be an aural exploration of a bad trip.

There are a few good tracks before and in the aftermath of the “Trip,” but CuDi seems to have focused too hard on atmospherics for this album.

For those who truly loved and had their life affirmed by the first record, the second will be, and purposefully is, a bit of a downer. CuDi manages to put a new spin on the idea of a sophomore slump, letting his own issues overtake his artistic work instead of letting his artistic work make use of his personal issues.

As an artist, CuDi is sure to entertain some and disappoint others with his new record. The only clear truth is that the first record was a better work, far rawer than its sequel, which, due in part to his fame, is just the least bit stale.

Nevertheless, the more CuDi can’t deal with this rock-star lifestyle, the more he and the record executives have to write about, so audiences can pretty much expect CuDi to never stop — at least until he’s dead.

the World,” featuring Green, is just under four minutes, and yet the last two minutes of the song are just Green’s chorus repeated again and again, not to mention the two iterations of the same chorus earlier in the song.

There’s nothing wrong with the chorus — it is catchy — but on repeat listens, hearing it again and again can be annoying. His ode to “pretty green bud,” titled “Marijuana,” is 4:20 long and just chorus after lame guitar solo after chorus of CuDi telling people what time it is with relation to dope smoking.

Other songs are inherently boring, regardless of structure, such as “Wild’n Cuz I’m Young,” a track that tries to recapture the strength of “Solo Dolo (Nightmare)” from the past album with a minimalist, spacious beat. The song fails in its chorus, if it can even be called that: a rhythmic repetition of the title that most listeners will tag as annoying long before the song reaches the foreseeable theatrical atmospherics at its conclusion.

All told, Man on the Moon II can still be a good listening experience. As much as his songs can be bashed for their occasional uselessness or disinterest, there are some tracks with interesting elements. “Mr. Rager,” of course, is a fine single, if a bit lyrically contrived and self-indulgent.

In general, the second half of the album takes off and features all of the best tracks on the record, including

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TOURNAMENT from page 8 In an instant, the silence was replaced by a deafening chorus of screams as the Terps continued to rewrite program history. In earning their first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Terps will begin their quest for a national title Friday with the newfound respect and pressures of a tournament favorite.

“I’m so excited,” senior co-captain Caitlin McDowell said. “There are no words; I never want it to end.”

The reactions throughout the locker room varied. Many players reached for their cell phones, text-messaging family and friends with the news. Others, including forward Ashley Grove and midfielders Amy O’Sullivan and Megan Gibbons, were a bit more animated, celebrating with a jumping, screaming hug in front of their lockers. Even normally calm assistant coach Jonathan Morgan cracked a grin.

But a reserved Brian Pensky, the team’s sixth-year coach, simply copied down the Terps’ bracket and raised his eyebrows.

“As the assistant, I’m allowed to crack a smile,” Morgan joked. “He’s not.”

With Stanford, Portland and North Carolina having all but locked down the top three No. 1 seeds before yesterday, the Terps entered the tournament conversation firmly on the top-seed bubble. SEC champion Florida, boasting similar credentials as the Terps, seemed to be their biggest competition.

But ultimately, runner-up finishes in the powerful ACC’s regular season and conference tournament proved just enough for the Terps, who are guaranteed home-field advantage until the College Cup. “I thought we were an outside shot at a [No. 1 seed],” Pensky said. “Our team has been fighting for respect, so for the national committee to put us in the likes of the Carolinas and the Portlands and the

The Terps celebrate their first-ever No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament inside their team locker room yesterday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Stanfords, it’s a statement about where we’ve come as a program.

“It feels good, but in the bigger picture, it doesn’t really matter. We’ve got to go out and win games.”

Along with the Terps and the Tar Heels, six other ACC programs earned bids to the tournament. Florida State, Boston College and Virginia received No. 2 seeds, with the Cavaliers falling in the same 16team quadrant as the Terps.

The Terps will open their tournament slate Friday against High Point. Should they win, they will face the winner of Georgetown and Siena on Sunday at Ludwig Field.

“It’s nice to be in our own beds; it’s nice to not have to travel; it’s nice to hopefully get some support,” said Pensky, whose Terps are undefeated at home this season.

“Home-field advantage is a big deal.”

Third-seeded Ohio State and fourthseeded Texas A&M round out the seeded teams in the Terps’ bracket.

And even after Sunday’s heartbreaker in Cary, N.C., the Terps know they must

now turn their attention to the Big South champion Panthers.

“We’re still stung to not have that hardware sitting in our locker room right now,” Pensky said. “So now, we turn our attention to the NCAA Tournament and see if we can pick up some hardware in the Big Dance.”

When the team had filtered out of its locker room, leaving only Pensky and his coaching staff lingering, one plaque loomed prominently next to the now-blank TV. It bore a long list of the team’s lofty preseason goals, many of which have been realized. But one objective, written out in bold silver lettering, stood out as yet unreached: College Cup. Over the next two and a half weeks, the Terps will have another opportunity to conquer a goal that few outside their locker room ever believed possible.

“We’re going to remain humble and look at every team as the biggest game of our life,” McDowell said. “If you don’t win, you’re going home.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

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BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

With a win at Miami on Saturday, the Terrapin football team said last week, it could reach dual goals of adding a resumé-building victory and keeping pace in the ACC’s Atlantic Division race.

With the Terps’ loss, the opportunity to secure a signature win fell apart. But even in defeat, the Terps somehow managed to retain complete power in shaping their own fate in the chase for the Atlantic Division title.

“We’re right back where we started,” coach Ralph Friedgen said in a Sunday teleconference. “We missed an opportunity to really take a step forward. But all in all, we still control our own destiny.”

Stumbles by the Terps’ divisional rivals, N.C. State and Florida State, certainly helped.

The Wolfpack fell to Clemson, 14-13, while the Seminoles lost at home to North Carolina, 3735, leaving the Terps’ path to an Atlantic Division crown even more straightforward.

If they can win all three remaining games on their schedule, beginning with a trip to Virginia on Saturday and ending with a pair of divisional tilts against the Seminoles and Wolfpack at Byrd Stadium, they’ll head to the ACC Championship in early December.

The Terps are not the only ones who find themselves in a similar scenario. The Wolfpack could also win out and take the Atlantic Division.

“It’s Groundhog Day,” N.C. State coach Tom O’Brien said at a press conference yesterday. “We wake up, and we’re where we started last week.

SEATTLE from page 8 allowed Seattle to stick around for much of the half.

The Redhawks turned 29 turnovers into 35 points, and 11 different Terps turned the ball over.

“That game is going to have a lot of turnovers when you play at that pace,” Gary Williams said. “We had some unforced turnovers, which we will need to get rid of. Teams are going to press you if they see that you are not very good at handling pressure, so we need to show them that we can handle it.”

The Terps continued to push their up-tempo approach during their 46-point first half, and soon distanced themselves from the Redhawks

We’ll see if we can finish it off and do a better job this time.”

The Terps and N.C. State are knotted at 3-2 in the conference.

Both are just a half-game behind Florida State, which has played in one more ACC game and claims a 4-2 conference record.

The traffic jam atop the division leaves room for dozens of scenarios that could play out in the final weeks of the season.

Four possible teams, including Clemson (3-3 in ACC play), could win the Atlantic Division title and earn a spot in the ACC Championship.

Friedgen said he was “very thankful” both N.C. State and Florida State lost Saturday, leaving the Terps in the thick of the race. But he was quick to voice his disappointment at his own team’s inability to finish against Miami at Sun Life Stadium. With a win, the Terps would have stood atop the division entering their grueling homestretch.

“I don’t think anyone in this office feels very good right now; we missed an opportunity,” Friedgen said. “We caught a break, so we didn’t lose any ground.”

Still, Friedgen recognized that though the defeat was far from a defining win, it was also far from a dispiriting loss.

“They were the preseason pick by some to win the national championship, and we were 36 seconds away,” Friedgen said of the Hurricanes.

“Obviously, we showed we can play with that team. I think we’re a pretty darn good football team, but what we’re going to be tested on now is our ability to forget this one and move on to the next one.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

with a 14-4 run to end the half.

When their defense hardened in the second half, their lead only lengthened.

“Once we were able to stop people, we were able to get into transition and score,” Bowie said. “But as soon as tip-off starts, we need to be ready.”

As ugly as it may have been, the victory should provide the Terps ample momentum for the rest of the week. Williams will get a chance to address the night’s problems against the College of Charleston tomorrow and then Maine four days later before the team meets No. 4 Pittsburgh at Madison Square Garden.

“Twenty-nine turnovers is entirely too much,” Bowie said.

“We do that against Pittsburgh, we’re going to get killed.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps roll past bumpy start Terps commit 29 turnovers but rout Seattle in season opener, 105-76

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

Guard Sean Mosley, left, led the Terps with 21 points during their seasonopening victory against Seattle yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Early in the second half last night, Adrian Bowie received an inbounds pass and began weaving his way through Seattle’s full-court press.

It wasn’t long, though, before the Terrapin men’s basketball guard fumbled the ball away to the Redhawks, who converted for an easy layup.

The Comcast Center crowd let out a collective groan over the umpteenth turnover it had seen the Terps commit against the fast-paced Redhawks.

It wasn’t the type of night Bowie envisioned in his first game as a senior, which began with two early fouls and finished with seven turnovers.

But even with his struggles and a tight first half, the Terps found a way to run past a pesky Seattle team to win their season opener, 105-76, and post the most points in an opener since 2005. Led by guard Sean Mosley (21 points) and forward Jordan Williams (17 points, 15 rebounds), the Terps began their season by avoiding a loss they couldn’t afford.

“The way they played, it was never over because they can score in bunches,” coach Gary Williams said. “We are trying to win and learn at the same time this year.”

The Terps’ depth and endurance ultimately devastated the Redhawks, as 11 different players finished in the scoring column. And after reaching the century mark in

points only twice last year, the Terps hit triple digits for the second straight showing. They managed 106 in an exhibition against Florida Southern last week before again reaching familiar territory against its first Division I competition last night.

Early mishaps that lingered for much of the game marred an otherwise well-rounded offensive performance. The team finished with 29 turnovers against the Redhawks, including a flurry of mistakes at the game’s start.

“We just have to step it up early,” Jordan Williams said.

“We only had two points in the first four minutes and we let them hang around.”

Less than four minutes after tip-off, Bowie drew his second foul, forcing coach Gar y Williams to go to his freshman backups earlier than anticipated.

Bowie could only watch as backcourt counterparts Terrell Stoglin and Pe’Shon Howard electrified the crowd.

Stoglin’s behind-the-back pass spurred a Williams slam, while Howard’s no-look dishes to Mosley and for ward James Padgett resulted in easy scores.

“I thought they played great for their first college game,” Gar y Williams said. “They played with a lot of confidence.”

But even with the flashy play off the bench, the Terps continued their turnover woes and

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Forward Jasmyne Spencer, center, reacts to the Terps’ draw in the NCAA Tournament yesterday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Terps earn No. 1 seed in tourney Team selected as one of NCAA’s top four squads

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

The Terrapin women’s soccer team’s locker room, brimming with a mass of anxious players, fell surreally silent as the Terps stared at a single television screen yesterday afternoon.

The team, still reeling after dropping Sunday’s ACC Championship game to Wake Forest in penalty kicks, had gathered to watch the unveiling of the brackets for the NCAA Tournament. Few players dared to speak, instead focusing their attention on the ESPNU telecast.

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