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Mote to tour Iranian universities Trip intended to strengthen ties between higher education systems

BY KEVIN ROBILLARD Senior staff writer

University President Dan Mote is one of six American research university presidents who will travel to Iran as part of an effort to build ties between higher education institutions in the two

countries.

University officials hope Mote’s trip, which he says is non-political, will extend its ties to Iran and improve educational relationships between the two countries. The trip, which begins today and will last a week, was organized by the Association of American Universi-

ties, which is made up of 62 of the largest research universities in the United States.

The university already has some ties to Iran. The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Center for Persian Studies was founded in 2004, and the university houses one of the first Persian studies

majors in the country.

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, the head of the center, said the highlevel trip could make future educational exchanges possible.

Unlike most foreign language students, he said students studying

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Informal discussions underway to patrol more of Rt. 1 corridor

BY KYLE GOON University Police are exploring the possibility of expanding their concurrent jurisdiction with Prince George’s County northward on Route 1, which could give them more policing power in the area around the University View and uptown businesses.

University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said the university is informally discussing the idea of enlarging its jurisdiction around the campus, which ends on the north side at Lakeland Road. Although the university and Prince George’s County Police haven’t settled on specific areas, Dillon said the west side of Route 1 is a possible area of interest for the university.

“It comes up every few years,” Dillon said.

“The university is looking to expand their property. We’ve not yet entered formal discussions, but we’re looking into this.”

Although University Police are primarily responsible for the campus, they have an agreement with county police giving them authority in downtown College Park down to Bowdoin Avenue and the College Park Metro Station in the east, Guilford Road to the south

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Young voter turnout up nationally in Nov. election Experts say momentum could be sustained by keeping people informed

BY DERBY COX Staff writer

Voter turnout at this university in the Nov. 4 election was about 130 percent higher than in 2004, TerpsVote coordinator Devin Ellis said.

The jump underscores a national trend that saw young voter turnout in the presidential election reach its highest point in at least 16 years, according to projections made by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University.

Twenty-three million people younger than 30 voted, which equates to about 53 percent of eligible young voters, CIRCLE’s data show. Youth turnout was 4 to 5 percent higher than in 2004 and about 11 percent higher than in 2000, according to the data.

One of the keys to tapping into the excitement created by the election will be to keep informing young people about what they can do to make a difference, CIRCLE Youth

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It’s been just less than a year since 7416 Baltimore Ave. finally opened its doors to the public as Thirsty Turtle, after more than a year of prolonged anticipation.

The excitement was palpable across the campus and much of College Park a year ago. Many expected the bar would revitalize downtown nightlife, which had been dominated by just a few chronically overcrowded bars.

Its promise of multiple wet bars, flat-screen TVs and a dance floor seemed to match its college clientele perfectly.

But since then, Thirsty Turtle seems to have settled among the ranks of other College Park venues. Its short On opening night about a year ago, students line up along one of Thirsty Turtle’s several wet bars to order drinks. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Housing being built near the univ. not planned for students

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Several complexes in relative proximity to the campus designated for faculty, staff and alumni

BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

An apartment building across Campus Drive from Lot 1 would be a dream for students tired of making the trek down Route 1 to the campus.

But while the building may be a reality, the shorter commute won’t be.

Despite a housing crunch that has caused students to scatter throughout College Park, two new apartment complexes, Domain at College Park and the Mosaic at Turtle Creek, are being designed for non-students with university affiliations — faculty, staff and alumni — despite being built on Mowatt Lane or adjacent to university property. In addition, housing in the university’s East

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There are thousands of student beds coming to College Park along Route 1 in the next few years, but their locations to the north of the campus would make them less convenient for students and add to congestion.

But administrators and city council members both see a need for nonstudent housing.

“There are many housing needs in this area. Student housing is not the only one,” said Ann Wylie, the university’s interim vice president for administrative affairs. She said one of the university’s greatest flaws is that there are few places for faculty and staff to live nearby, forcing them

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LARGO — when a tooth infection spread to his brain will live on through a project aimed at bringing dental care to needy children in his community.

State and county health officials gathered Thursday to announce the Deamonte Driver Dental Project, which will bring a mobile dental office to nine elementary schools in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties, including the school Driver attended, the Foundation School in Largo.

Driver died from a tooth infection that spread to his brain in February 2007 after his Medicaid coverage lapsed and his mother couldn’t find a dentist to treat him.

The state has given Prince George’s County more than $288,000 to pay for the first year of the project and a bus-like vehicle with dental chairs and equipment. They will rely on volunteer dentists to staff the vehicle that will visit schools during the week and could make stops at churches or shopping malls on weekends, Harper said.

Revenue collections have little good news ANNAPOLIS – Comptroller Peter Franchot says there is little, if any, good news in October revenue collections, and that the worst news might not be immediately clear.

On Thursday, the comptroller’s office released revenue figures for October, which were down 8.7 percent from October 2007.

Franchot says individual income tax receipts fell last month, as did lottery sales. Corporate income tax receipts increased, but all the growth came from final payments.

Franchot warned that the poor October results do not reflect the full impact of the “marked deterioration” of the country’s economy.

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LGBT panel focuses on finding comfort zones in sex issues

BY MATT WAGNER For The Diamondback

“I teach what I am. I am what I teach.”

With these words, women’s studies doctoral student Mel Michelle Lewis summed up her identity as a teacher, a black woman, a lesbian and a feminist.

More than 60 students packed the Language House Multi-Purpose Room in St. Mary’s Hall to hear Lewis and two other doctoral students share their research on of sexuality, race, ethnicity and identity in a colloquium event organized by the Consortium of Race, Ethnicity and Gender, titled “Intersectional Approaches to Sexuality: Image Identity and Structure.”

The panel discussion, moderated by Christina Handhart, an American studies and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies professor, combined academic and personal presentations that emphasized a multidimensional approach to studying sexuality and personal identity.

Lewis, who studies black queer theory and feminist thought, began by explaining how her research intersects with her experiences in the classroom, particularly in her African American and women’s studies courses.

After identifying herself as a black lesbian, Lewis said students often open up about their own self-conceptions, whether they are based on race or sexuality.

“It takes away the taboo,” she said.

“Students often come out or tell personal stories in class. That’s one of the most valuable things. By legitimizing others’ identities, they legitimize my own.”

Emily Mann, a sociology doctoral student, discussed her research on government policy toward teenage sexuality. She said that while mainstream liberals and conservatives disagree on issues such as contraception

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and abstinence-only education, government policy from both sides routinely ignores non-heterosexuals, she said, adding that heterosexual marriage is promoted as “the idealization of American identity.”

Even when the LGBT community is addressed in teenage sexuality programs, STD prevention is almost exclusively the focus, she said. Mann argued for a broader government approach to teenage sexuality that does not assume that all teenagers are heterosexual.

Panelist Christopher Perez of the American studies department presented a detailed and personal description of his interviews with José, a gay Venezuelan AIDS activist.

online that these are OK.” The other projects include the Varsity at College Park, which will bring 914 beds to a site adjacent to the University View; Starview Plaza, which will bring 662 beds to a location farther down Route 1; and the expansion of the University View.

But despite their locations, Wylie said the properties south of the campus aren’t inherently more convenient for students. The Route 1 properties are closer to the mathematics, science and engineering buildings than those on Mowatt Lane, she said.

The university is working on a land swap with developers of the Mosaic at Turtle Creek to exchange the university land behind Maryland Hillel for two parcels the developer owns at the corner of Paint Branch Drive and University Boulevard, Wylie said.

Those parcels, which Wylie said are often mistaken for university property, would help make a buffer around the campus, she said. She said the two properties are of equal value, but she would not say how much they are worth. holtdbk@gmail.com

Iran trip could attract foreign students Persian, or Farsi, are unable to study abroad in their language’s country of origin.

“One of our tasks is to make Iran concrete to our students,” Karimi-Hakkak said. “And study abroad would do miracles towards making that happen.”

The university could also benefit if the highly educated population of Iran, which has about an 82 percent literacy rate, could study in the United States. Although every Iranian graduate student has to study abroad for a semester, Karimi-Hakkak said, the lack of a U.S. embassy in Tehran usually means Iranians have to travel to Istanbul or Dubai to take the GRE and TOEFL or get a visa. Instead, he said, they end up studying in Australia, New Zealand, England, Germany and Canada.

Besides benefiting the university, Mote and KarimiHakkak believe the trip can help ease tensions between Iran and the United States, much in the way cultural and scholarly exchanges with the former-Soviet Union and China eased tensions with those nations in the 1980s.

“A lot of the coming together will be through universities,” Mote said.

While the trip would seem to be controversial due to the Iranian government’s hostility toward the United States and Is-

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to live elsewhere and commute, clogging area roads and university parking lots.

College Park District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook agreed.

“If [the housing] saves someone coming from Rockville driving over, that’s OK,” she said. “It’s not just students that want to be near the campus.”

“I can understand the students’ point of view, though, that maybe there should be student housing,” Cook added. “[But] I think we have so much student housing coming

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rael, Mote said he has received mainly positive feedback, including a letter of support from Abe Foxman, the president of the Anti-Defamation League.

Furthermore, Mote said, the trip is apolitical.

“There’s going to be no contact with high-level government,” he said. “This is a higher education mission.”

“No one wants to be seen shaking the hand of [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad,” Mote added.

The apparent lack of controversy surrounding the trip contrasts with the steady stream of criticism aimed at Columbia University President Lee Bollinger when he invited Ahmadinejad to speak there in Sept. 2007. Ahmadinejad has hosted a conference of Holocaust deniers and once said Israel should be “wiped off the map,” a statement some members of the Iranian government and professors have argued was improperly translated.

While there was no diplomatic relationship between the United States and Iran from 1980 to 2007 and President George W. Bush called Iran a member of the “axis of evil” as recently as 2002, relations between the two countries have improved recently. Diplomats from the two countries met in Baghdad earlier this year, and President-elect Barack Obama (D) has said he would be willing to talk to Iran.

“One of our tasks is to make Iran concrete to our students. ... And study abroad would do miracles towards making that happen.”

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There are about 60 Iranian natives enrolled at this university, Mote said, and about half of those are graduates from the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, one of the country’s leading science institutions and the host of the trip.

Sharif University’s president, Saeed Sohrabpour, was a graduate student in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, when Mote was professor there.

The presidents of Carnegie Mellon University, Rice University, the University of Florida, Cornell University, and the University of California, Davis will also be on the trip. robillarddbk@gmail.com

José received asylum in the United States after he was abducted and tortured in his home country.

Perez compared José’s experiences in asylum court to interviews he conducted with Perez in the activist’s bed.

He discussed how in the comfortable setting of his bed, José could discuss his sexuality, a key component of his identity. Perez said that having a space to express one’s sexuality is of primary importance for many members of the LGBT community.

“Asylum is not all about trauma,” Perez quoted José as saying. “It’s about helping other people find comfort in that process.”

Students said the event was engaging and thought-provoking.

Ashley Gollmann, a master’s student who studies queer athletes of color, said she was most interested in Perez’s presentation.

“I was very interested in Christopher’s work,” she said. “To think of the bed as a space of comfort and how he’s relating that to the courtroom as a space of alienation [is interesting.]”

Education doctoral student Jay Garvey said the panel showed the evolution of sexuality studies.

“It’s just interesting to look at where we have gone from modernism to postmodernism to critical queer, and I’m interested to see where we will go next,” he said. newsdesk.dbk@gmail.com

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ty two years ago and printed shirts out of the back of a truck to promote

Coordinator and Researcher Abby Kiesa said.

“We did a big national study recently, and we talked to students in focus groups around the country,” she said. “And what we heard from students across the board was that people are definitely interested in issues. We heard so many passionate stories about people who care about issues but don’t know how they personally can make an impact.”

About 133 million people voted in the presidential election, according to CBS News, up from 122.3 million in 2004.

The increased y o u t h turnout accounted for at least 60 percent of the overall increase in votes, despite young people making up only 18 percent of those who voted on Nov. 4, ac- DEVIN ELLIS cording to TERPSVOTE CIRCLE’s COORDINATOR data.

Pe o p l e are sent a lot of information about voting, such as sample ballots, Kiesa said. In a similar fashion, organizations have to tell young people how to participate in issues that matter to them in order to keep them engaged, she said.

TerpsVote is developing strategies to keep young people involved, including informing them about opportunities like the upcoming Power Shift climate conference, Ellis said.

As for the next election, TerpsVote is already analyzing how to increase youth participation, Ellis said.

“What we’re in the process of doing right now, is sort of digesting the lessons we’ve learned about what was effective and what was less effective,” Ellis said. “The university will focus on doing the things again and doing them better and bigger that we think really worked the most.”

But interest in future elections will hinge more on the state of the country than anything else, Ellis said.

“From a macro picture, it is going to be the substance of the elections that ultimately will determine how interested and how engaged young people get,” Ellis said. “And that’s sort of out of our hands.”

their Drive-By Press business. Since then, they have traveled more than 100,000 miles to more than 100 schools, showing students the process

behind printing. In addition to traveling to universities, they also tour with rock bands, Greg Nanney of Drive-By Press creates a print during an exhibition in the atrium of the Art Sociology building.

where they print shirts live on their 800 pound printing press during the concerts.

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The last concurrent jurisdiction agreement in College Park in 2004 extended coverage into the business area of the city, including the downtown bars.

In 2007, a city councilcommissioned study showed expanding concurrent jurisdiction could overextend University Police officers and resources and divert their focus from campus safety. Dillon said spreading police over a larger area still could pose problems.

“We have to be careful. We have to make sure we can still cover our primary juris-

diction if we’re covering more places,” Dillon said.

“If we expand our jurisdiction, we might have to increase the number of our officers.”

The university may be expanding the police jurisdiction in part to serve new student housing developments.

The Board of Regents has said it wants the university to rely on privately owned housing to relieve the oncampus housing crunch rather than building statefunded housing.

But at the same time, the university should also offer public services — such as Shuttle-UM service and

police presence — to private developments to lessen the county’s burden, interim Vice President for Administrative Affairs Ann Wylie said.

There are several proposed housing complexes along the west side of Route 1 between Lakeland Road and University Boulevard scheduled to be completed in the next few years. The Outlook expansion to the University View, StarView Plaza and the still-unapproved Varsity at College Park could add almost 2,100 beds to offcampus housing options along the corridor where police may expand their jurisdiction.

“What we’re in the process of doing right now, is sort of digesting the lessons we’ve learned about what was effective and what was less effective.”

and literature major and University View resident Andrew Gage said police should probably concentrate their efforts elsewhere.

“I guess it would be OK, but I would prefer them to be by the bars, where stuff actually happens,” Gage said. “It seems rather safe here.”

Dillon said there is no official timeline to begin negotiations about the possible expansion, but they could begin soon.

“I imagine we’ll get the ball rolling at the beginning of 2009,” he said.

District 1 Commander Maj. Kevin Davis said expanding the jurisdiction zone to the northwest corridor of Route 1 would make sense given the development plans for the area. He supports an expansion, but he said there is no urgency to change the current agreement at the moment.

“That is certainly an area where University Police could help us patrol,” Davis said. “It’s logical because they could serve the student community and also longtime residents. It’s helpful to us. To use a football analogy, it puts more players on the field.”

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Senior staff writer Brady Holt contributed to this report. goondbk@gmail.com

Thirsty Turtle’s popularity, business waxed and waned since opening ment for this story.

Mark Srour, who owns Cornerstone Grill and Loft, The Mark and Santa Fe Cafe, said his business was hampered

by Thirsty Turtle “for about six months” due to its immediate success.

However, things have since reached a more regular pace.

“It definitely hurt all the bars [at first], because it was new and everyone wanted to try it out,” he said.

“It doesn’t hurt us like it used to.”

Srour attributed the trend to local residents’ fascinations with a brand-new hangout spot. But he said this is nothing out of the ordinary.

The same thing happened after the Rendezvous Inn became Cornerstone and R.J. Bentley’s opened years ago, Srour said.

Both enjoyed temporary peaks in success, but the excitement died down soon enough.

“Everyone wants to see what it’s all about,” he explained. “When they open up, they always become popular at first.”

Other bars have upheld

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building, blocking a fire exit in a back alley and preventing the facility from opening. Soon after, the Prince George’s County Fire Marshal shut the bar down early one night because its occupancy placard was not displayed.

Last December, members of four Greek chapters asked that their chapters’ names be taken down from the walls of the bar’s second floor, which features the letters of most Greek organizations on the campus. Wanuck hired contractors to remove the letters.

Just last week, the bar was slapped with a $3,000 fine by the county after being found refilling used bottles of liquor.

Though the controversies haven’t deterred all students, Stottlemyer and his friends choose to frequent Washington bars. Thirsty Turtle is “absolutely way too crowded for me,” he said, adding that the large crowds trying to enter and order drinks create long waits.

“I’m not making that trip back to the Thirsty Turtle,” he said. “Me, I just prefer somewhere else.”

the competition through new drink specials, and Santa Fe maintains its usual large crowds through live bands, Srour said.

Since the burst of excitement about its opening, Thirsty Turtle has endured multiple controversies.

Some said the Thirsty Turtle has a reputation among students as being the “easiest” to enter underage.

“It’s definitely the easiest one to get into with a fake ID, honestly,” Firmin said.

Vernet pointed out that Thirsty Turtle lures many underage students because of its appearance at first glance, most notably the distinct red and black brick exterior and large crowds out front.

“Turtle’s really the one that’s most visible. Everybody crowds around there,” he said. “It’s definitely where all the younger students go.”

Although Vernet agreed the bar has a reputation for letting the most underage students in, he added, “I do have plenty of junior and senior friends who still go.”

The bar’s opening was delayed for more than a year due to a chicken-wire fence propped behind the

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history has also been blighted by a few controversies, and while some still find it to be a fitting spot for weekend debauchery, other patrons said the bar has lost its initial luster.

Senior Raphael Stottlemyer has only been to Thirsty Turtle once, and he doesn’t plan on returning.

Going to the bar earlier this semester to celebrate a friend’s birthday, he noticed a smell on the first floor “kind of like vomit with bleach mixed in it.”

“It had a really lasting impression on me,” the government and politics major said, adding he was nowhere near a bathroom when he noticed the odor. “I’ve smelled a lot of things; I’ve been to a lot of parties — I don’t know what it was.”

Mysterious odors aside, Thirsty Turtle still draws large crowds. On any given weekend, its long lines typically wrap around the building to the shops on Lehigh Road.

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health major Michelle Firmin, a self-proclaimed Turtle regular, said she and her friends go “at least once every two weeks.” She likes the bar because of its cheaper drinks and the second floor’s club-like atmosphere, she said.

“I’ve liked it from the beginning,” said Firmin, who went for the first time last spring. “It’s probably one of my favorite places to go.”

Freshman Dave Vernet, a business major, usually goes every other weekend.

“It’s really a fun place to go,” he said. “The first time I went, it was really cool.

You’re shocked by the atmosphere.”

However, Firmin and Vernet both said the bar has lost some of its initial excitement. Despite being a regular, Firmin said she does not have as much fun there as she used to.

Vernet said he liked Thirsty Turtle “a little bit less now,” simply because “it’s not as awesome as when I first started going.”

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uch is made of a newly elected president’s first 100 days in the university’s alcohol summit in October, the Purple Line meeting office. It’s a time of change when the nation takes a renewed handily avoided a repeat.

Still, two other events this week demonstrated how much more room interest in government, and legislators are willing to give new proposals a chance. It’s a time of immense focus and there is for students to translate their excitement into action. Wednesday morning, only three students showed up to a protest demanding energy, during which a lot can be accomplished.

The election is all wrapped up, but students remain far more civically increased funding for Route 1 development. Wednesday night, a public hearing on a plan to stabilize education funding on-camengaged and excited than usual. The election captivated pus drew only a dozen students. students and compelled them to get out and vote. But a Both issues — Route 1 and state funding — will play slew of other responsibilities remain, and student leadinto the university’s future as much as the Purple Line, ers now have a unique opportunity to harness student Student leaders should if not to a greater extent. We recognize that the Route 1 engagement by tackling state and local issues that will directly impact the university. capitalize on the election rally’s location was inconvenient for students (it was held in Greenbelt), and that the public hearing was Wednesday’s forum on the Purple Line was a textbook excitement and involve hardly as exciting as a student-run summit. But these example of how this can be done. At least 30 students students in local issues. issues are too important to ignore for convenience’s came, and 12 student groups were represented. The sake. event could have been a cloistered cheerfest representWe hope student leaders can apply the same strategies they used to ing only the Student Government Association, but instead there was a promote the Purple Line meeting to these issues, as well. Make the welcome spirit of cooperation between groups.

Most importantly, the meeting was informative. Few fundamental facts importance of the issues seem immediate. Market events to students and on the Purple Line have changed recently, but the event nonetheless pre- make them convenient. There is a limited window on election-fueled pared students to be effective advocates at the Purple Line public hear- inspiration. Government isn’t very exciting to most people most of the ing Wednesday. While some students seemed confused or uninformed at time. Get them moving while it still is.

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The problems with scooters I applaud the Residence Hall Association for its stand against the driving of motor scooters on sidewalks on the campus. The President’s Commission on Disability Issues has been concerned about this problem for some time.

The danger to people with disabilities who cannot move quickly out of the way of motorized vehicles is a serious matter.

Parking scooters and other vehicles on the campus is also a problem for people with disabilities, because they obstruct sidewalks and doorways. In addition, scooters, whether parked or in motion, detract from the campus atmosphere.

We should not condone or ignore an activity that is illegal. I recommend that the university begin a GAY concerted effort GULLICKSON to write tickets to UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR the riders of these scooters, and that it ticket and tow away scooters that are parked on sidewalks or the grass.

“I recommend that the university ... ticket and tow away scooters that are parked on sidewalks or the grass.”

GAY L. GULLICKSON CHAIRWOMAN, PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES ISSUES HISTORY PROFESSOR

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Parking tickets: Tales of windshield woes

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ou know the feeling. You walk toward your car, gradually picking up the pace as you cross your fingers. You begin to mumble some sort of prayer that nothing is sitting on your windshield. As you catch sight of that yellow envelope, your face scrunches in anger, as you now owe the Department of Transportation Services $75.

There goes that new game for your Xbox 360, that new pair of shoes or even a portion of your savings.

On average, DOTS collects nearly $2.2 million every year from parking tickets alone. And unlike students at our sister schools such as the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, who are given free ones based on request, students here are charged more than $400 for a yearlong parking permit that tends to go to waste in the academic offseason.

At any given time, there are three to seven lot attendants circling the campus. And if you think that running into them as they are writing

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SOLOMON the ticket may sway their decision, don’t expect to hear anything other than the classic “It’s already in the system.” The option to appeal is, of course, written in fine print on the back of the ticket. It states that you can contest the charge in the form of a letter. At best, this leaves you scotfree for your first few offenses, or reduces the fee to $35. But if you can’t tell a good lie to save your life, you’re stuck where you began.

As a parking permit owner and an eight-time offender, I’ve come to know the system rather well. By my fourth ticket, I was sitting in DOTS Director David Allen’s office asking him if I could drive a Shuttle-UM

bus for 8 hours (at the $10 rate he pays his employees) just to pay off one ticket. We shook on it, and I sent him my class schedule. Later, however, I discovered that he had charged the reduced fee of $35 to my student account without even notifying me. He knew I couldn’t cough up the money, but he assumed that my parents would, since they could afford to send me to school here.

After that experience, I decided to buy a parking permit for my sophomore year of college. Although the tickets were fewer in number, they were still coming. Living in Hagerstown Hall, I purchased a Lot 2 parking permit. The second ticket of sophomore year was for parking in the convenient strip behind my dorm (a section of Lot 2) during move-out time, as if only parents with their minivans and paper permits had a right to be there.

Living in University Courtyards this year, I never thought I would have to see that yellow envelope

again — at least not in my complex.

Alas, I was mistaken. Two weeks ago, I woke up to a $75 ticket because my parking permit from last year was covering my new Courtyards parking permit — that was literally the excuse written on the ticket, meaning the attendant saw both!

The cost of campus parking permits is disproportionate to the availability of parking spaces. And between getting tickets for minute infractions, having to memorize the basketball schedules to avoid towing and not being able to find spaces within your designated parking lot, these expensive permits have proven virtually worthless.

If the last two years have taught me anything, it’s to never buy a permit and avoid campus parking like the plague.

Fenan Solomon is a junior journalism and pre-pharmacy major. She can be reached at solomondbk@gmail.com.

Sports fanhood: Coping with victory

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have been a Philadelphia Phillies fan my whole life. When I was a little kid, summertime meant Phillies season, and with it came watching games on TV, playing baseball in my neighborhood and dreaming I was pitching on the mound at Veterans Stadium. I fell in love with the team during the 1993 season, when I was 5 years old. That year, the Phillies made it all the way to the World Series, only to suffer a heartbreaking loss at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays.

For the last 15 years I have followed the team with the same enthusiasm. In all those years, however, they failed to make it as far as they did in the sweet summer of ’93. But two weeks ago, as many of you know, the Phillies won the World Series. I celebrated, of course, and went home to enjoy the victory parade.

But I have to admit, amidst the celebration an unexpected emotion crept up on me: confusion. After ending so many seasons on a disappointing note, how was I supposed to react? Should I feel happy or vindicated? Can I still complain about the Eagles and 76ers’ disappointing seasons?

And should I really expect the Phillies to win it all again next year? In the days that followed, I tossed these questions around over and over again.

Every sports season everybody competes to come out on top. But when all is said and done, only one team’s fans can feel truly victorious. Only about 1 out of 30 teams can win a championship. That means that after any given season, more than 96 percent of sports fans end with feeling disappointment and frustration.

Ninety-six percent have to settle for coming up short. I’m no mathematician, but

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HALLOWELL that seems like a pretty poor success rate (Boston fans, please keep the obnoxious jokes about things being better to yourself). Nonetheless, so many of us are compelled to pour our hearts and souls into teams that inevitably end most seasons in failure. We come back year after year because we still love the ride, and when we do finally come out on top, success tastes even sweeter because of the wait.

This stubborn approach that we take to

sports can be a useful attitude in other areas of life as well. Though our goals often lie at the end of a long road that may at times appear to have no end in sight, unyielding determination often brings results. Especially in college, our ambitions may seem impossible or farfetched. After three semesters of Chinese classes and virtually no understanding of the language, I cannot help but feel frustrated. I guess there will always be setbacks along the way. But hey, the Phillies endured 15 fruitless seasons before getting back to the World Series and winning the championship. Trust me — if they can do it, anybody can. Just remember to enjoy the ride.

Andrew Hallowell is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at hallowelldbk@gmail.com.

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I agree with Chris Eckard’s story yesterday about Bioscience Day — it was wonderful to see such a great turnout for E.O. Wilson’s lecture. However, I’m not sure that Eckard’s report properly conveys the main point of the talk.

Wilson did emphasize the past, present and future of biological sciences, starting with Darwin and ending with his opinion on the direction biological research should take.

While Eckard and those he interviewed apparently thought new technology and lab equipment was the central theme of the talk, Wilson clearly stated that biologists need to become more integrated, should rediscover naturalism and avoid reductionist biology.

He pointed out that new technology has been wonderful for gaining understanding of many levels of biology, but that technology cannot be the focus of biological research.

Rather, technology must form part of JULIE an integrated HÉBERT philosophy DOCTORAL CANDIDATE that is driven by a desire to understand the organisms.

I believe that Wilson’s message is particularly important because while the College of Life Sciences is working hard on creating more lab space and getting up to date equipment, it has lessened its support for ecologists, naturalists and organismal biologists in order to focus research on reductionist biology. If the College of Life Sciences wants to gain a leading edge in biology in the future, they would be wise to listen to the opinion of one of the greatest scientists in human history. As Wilson said, “The age of reduction biology is over.”

“Technology cannot be the focus of biological research.

Rather, technology must form part of an integrated philosophy...”

JULIE B. HÉBERT DOCTORAL CANDIDATE BEHAVIOR, ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND SYSTEMATICS PROGRAM

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The thrill is gone — so should read the epitaph of the latest installment of the James Bond series, Quantum of Solace.

For all its murderous rage and quick-cut action, Solace has neither the adrenaline rush nor the quiet grace promised by its topnotch predecessor, Casino Royale. Where the last film took a delightfully revisionist stance on the recently sagging Bond legacy, the sequel tries to be bigger, faster and stronger without the narrative meat to back it up.

It’s a Michael Bay nightmare of tumbling vehicles and hydrogen explosions, obtuse angles and cold-blooded killings, which could be embraceable enough if the filmmakers answered just one simple question: Why should we continue to care about Bond?

Swept up in the glory of crosscontinent location shooting (Italy! Austria! Chile!), director Marc Forster (The Kite Runner) loses much of the energy and charm Casino Royale spent restoring to Agent 007 (Daniel Craig, The Golden Compass).

The scribes (Paul Haggis, In The Valley of Elah and Royale screenwriter Neil Purvis) balk at furthering the character, opting to set up one blaring chase scene after another.

As we last left Bond, he was hot on the trail of his lover’s killers, a global network of baddies we (and Britain’s MI6 secret service) come to know as Quantum. With little time passed in between the films, the sleepless nights and bouts of

alcohol have quickly sunken into Bond’s eyes, reducing him to a well trained psychotic killer.

From there, the race is on.

After a particularly clunky opener with a satisfactory punch line and the obligatory graphics-heavy title sequence (set to Jack White’s gnarling “Another Way to Die”), Solace settles down a bit, and the trajectory unravels. In underestimating the opposition, M (Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal) and the London secret ops have let their guard down and allowed spies to walk in their midst.

Through some convenient gadgetry, the London intelligence crew tracks their targets to Haiti, where Bond encounters Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), a murderer who deals in nation-building and destabilization. Fronting as an environmentally concerned philanthropist, Greene sets his eyes on Bolivia, where he plans to reinstate a military dictator to his financial benefit.

The morality play bubbling under the surface of Solace fits well enough, but the script remains fragmented in its thematic outlay. Though Bond suffers from what M calls “inconsiderable rage” — she may have a point; he offs nearly every man he comes in contact with — the morality of his actions never really intersect with the larger wheeling and dealing done by the powers above him.

Of course, Bond refuses to

play the puppet. Fueled by his thirst for vengeance as much as his sense of duty, he defies M’s orders and goes after Greene and his cohorts.

Stone-faced and severe, Craig plays the ruthless killer well, working with what little dialogue he has to chew through.

Solace opts more for the questionable poetry of gunfire and car crashes than wordplay, though Bond gets a few clever quips in here and there.

He gets his kicks in bed, too (off-screen, as the PG-13 franchise warrants), but with murder on his mind, Bond has never been less interested in bedding centerfold beauties. His featured Bolivian counterpart, Camille (Olga Kurylenko, Max Payne), shares his bloodlust and a sobbing backstory, but there’s never much between them — sexual or otherwise.

As the bodies and building wreckage piles up, the emotional damage doesn’t make it out alive. A lover scorned can cause a hell of a lot of pain when he happens to be cinema’s most bulletproof spy, but the filmmakers don’t allow the audience a second to soak in any of it.

The slapdash editing gives us only a glimpse of the endless series of expensive stunts and even less of a sense of character.

Bond has recovered from far worse hurts in the past (Tomorrow Never Dies, anyone?), but it’s unclear how long this one could take to heal. zherrm@gmail.com

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reel news ALL FOR THE MONEY(BAGS) Ridley Scott (Body of Lies) will direct the forthcoming film adaptation based on the Monopoly board game, according to an article filed by The Hollywood Reporter Wednesday.

Corpse Bride and Monster House scribe Pamela Pettler will handle script duties. How this will end up as anything short of disaster, we’d like to know. In the meanwhile, let us all hope Hasbro capitalizes on Scott’s involvement as director and producer with a Blade Runner edition of Monopoly — angry replicants have smashed your space cruiser; do not pass Go, do not collect bounty fees.

GARCIA BIOPIC ON THE WAY? Based on Robert Greenfield’s book Dark Star, a Jerry Garcia biopic is currently in the early stages of development.

Producers Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa and Eric Eisner have their eyes on Topper Lilien (Dungeons and Dragons) to pen the untitled project, which would focus on Garcia’s early days, pre-Grateful Dead. It’s unclear how this could affect the pending Grateful Dead biopic, an adaptation of Steve Parish’s Home Before Daylight stuck in development hell.

Loving a life of sex and Metal Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse “Boots (Electric)” Hughes extols the virtues (and excesses) of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle

BY REESE HIGGINS For The Diamondback

Sex sells; it liberates and pleasures, but more than anything else, it just plain rocks. Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse “Boots (Electric)” Hughes would probably be the last person to disagree.

Hughes and the rest of his bandmates will be at the 9:30 Club in Washington on Tuesday, touring in support of the group’s latest album, Heart On. With a title like that, it’s unlikely anyone needs more description of the fun, garage rock ‘n’ roll found on the disc. (Need more evidence? The final track is titled “I’m Your Torpedo.”)

Obviously, sex is on Hughes’ mind, and it looks like it’s doing good things for him. The rock ‘n’ roller cracks a joke roughly every 30 seconds and couldn’t be happier.

“For me, rock and roll is always a good time,” Hughes said in an interview with The Diamondback. “I love what I do. I love it.”

Hughes does not even mind the obligatory rock star duties, such as press interviews and other promotional activities.

“You would have to be the biggest dick in the world not to appreciate this job,” he said.

Being in a rock band is “like a thousand butterfly kisses from men,

Full of innuendo and delightful sleaze, Eagles of Death Metal tromps through Washington Tuesday night at the 9:30 Club. COURTESY OF KII ARENS

all over your body,” Hughes added.

It wasn’t always butterfly kisses, though. Hughes said he worked as a journalist “five, six, seven, 10 years ago” after going to school at the University of South Carolina and Clemson University. After he and his wife divorced, “things went shitballs,” he said. But then he started to work on music with his best friend and Queens of the Stone Age

frontman Josh Homme.

EODM released Peace Love Death Metal in 2004, after Hughes (vocals/guitar), Homme (drums) and guitarist Timmy Vanhamel recorded the debut in three days in Palm Desert, Calif. The 2006 follow-up, Death By Sexy, was recorded in two weeks with a few different session players, but with Hughes and Homme leading the

pack. For Heart On, the band took its time to record in a very different fashion, taking a year and a half to complete the album.

“We played live on the last two records, and this time it was zombies,” Hughes said jokingly of the lengthy Heart On sessions.

But it’s no joke when Hughes says he is “the happiest [he] could be.”

“Instead of f------ my own wife every night, I’m f------ everybody else’s wives,” he said. “Touring is a wonderful experience.”

Though Hughes fronts a band so deeply involved in overt sexuality, when asked about public masturbation and the university’s second public masturbator in the last six years, the singer was less than supportive.

“That’s crazy,” Hughes said, referring to the Oct. 8 sex crime.

“That’s a dirty trick. If people wanted to see you naked, they would let you know.”

In light of the disturbing crime, Hughes had these words of enlightenment for university students: “There’s the rock band that comes out and jacks off, and there’s the rock band that f---- everybody. I recommend the second one.”

Eagles of Death Metal will play at the 9:30 Club on Tuesday. Doors open at 10 p.m. Tickets cost $15. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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No. 1 Terps ready for title pursuit Top seed field hockey team not overlooking No. 20 Albany

BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer

Moments after the Terrapin field hockey team received the No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament Tuesday, coach Missy Meharg addressed the team.

The Terps (18-2) will face No. 20 Albany (12-9) at home in the first round Saturday, a draw that inspired an impromptu pop quiz.

“Now where is Albany?”

Meharg asked the attentive bunch.

“New York,” the Terps responded in unison.

“And where’s New York, Meg?” Meharg continued, calling on midfielder Meghan Dean, the Terps’ lone representative from the Empire State.

“North, about five hours from here,” Dean said.

“All right,” Meharg said.

“And it’s cold up there.”

The exchange summed up most of what the Terps know about their first-round opponent. That is to say, not much.

It’s a reasonable oversight considering the teams exist in separate stratospheres within Division I field hockey.

The Great Danes are making their first appearance in the NCAA tournament after

Quarterback Chris Turner and the Terps have been a significantly more impressive team against ranked teams this season, and No. 17 North Carolina may prove another example. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps vs. Albany Where: Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex When: Today, 11:30 a.m.

Radio: WMUCsports.com claiming the America East conference’s automatic bid as league champions. Meanwhile, the Terps seek a return to the final four after being absent last season for the first time in five years.

Disparities aside, the Terps aren’t taking anything for granted. Not after last year’s quarterfinal exit.

“Every team that’s in this tournament right now is a premier team, so any team that you’re going to face is going to be a good team,” forward Nicole Muracco said.

“With a 16-[team] tournament there’s not going to be any slips-ins, like, ‘Oh, how did that team get in?’”

No team enters the tournament with more fanfare than the Terps.

The nation’s top-ranked

Katie O’Donnell and the Terps are looking for the NCAA title.

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team is fresh off an ACC championship. Four Terps were named to the All-Tournament team, and Meharg and company will look to replicate that balanced effort Saturday.

But aggressive play should be expected from Albany.

Although the Great Danes do not appear to dominate either side of the ball, they do rank fourth in the nation in penalty

corners per game at 9.52.

The Great Danes also boast some experience against stiff competition. They have a win against then-No. 16 Michigan and have lost to tournament teams American, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Syracuse.

“They play a very good brand of indoor hockey, so I know that their tackling will be very good and that their technical skills will be strong,” Meharg said. “Until I see them on video, I don’t really know much about speed and tactics, but we will be [ready] Saturday.”

The excitement of facing an unknown team has been to the Terps’ benefit. Meharg said it would be “refreshing” to see an unfamiliar face in the first round.

Tuesday night, she told the team to seize this opportunity.

“What’s exciting to me when I first saw [the bracket] come out is, we don’t really know anybody,” Meharg said.

“It’s fresh, it’s all about us, and that’s where we’ve been.

Each step we’ve taken together we’ve talked about getting better, we’ve talked about defining new things.

This gives us even more of an opportunity.” mkatzdbk@gmail.com

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everything figured out.

A season of ups and downs only common thread I can like this one can provide see. Other than that, I don’t some excitement and some distant hope, but it’s probareally know.”

“There’s nothing differ- bly not going to lead to any ent,” cornerback Anthony championships.

And if Friedgen doesn’t Wiseman said. “It’s just the know why his team responds next big game to win.”

But there is something dif- better in certain situations than it does in others, it’s ferent. There just has to be.

Whether they are willing probably too late at this point for him to figto admit it or not, ure it out. the Terps are a dif“I told them ferent football team we’ve got to get when they play in a better; we’ve got to game nobody play better. We’ve expects them to got to play physiwin, and that’s not a cal; we’ve got to virtue. play smarter,” Big wins are Friedgen said. obviously nice, and “There’s a lot of the Terps are someareas where we can how still in a posibe better. But the tion to win out and season’s far from earn an unlikely over.” spot in the ACC So maybe the title game because Terps are lucky to of them, but the be playing the Tar occasional inspiraHeels this week tional upset really and No. 20 Florida just masks the State next week.

Terps’ frustrating They’re both inconsistency. home games, and “I think we got these next two good kids that probteams might be the ably respond to best the Terps have adverse situations,” RALPH played all season. coach Ralph Fried- FRIEDGEN But even if the gen said. “When FOOTBALL COACH Terps get a couple things are going good, like most people, they more upset wins the next kind of tend to relax. I don’t couple weeks, they still have know. I wish I knew the that other part of the cycle answer too. But I’m glad looming in the last game of the season on the road they respond.”

That’s not really accept- against Boston College.

As well as the Terps play able.

It shouldn’t take adversity against the best teams, and to wake the Terps up and get even if the trend continues them fired up to play against Saturday, you just cannot count on them to keep it their best opponents.

It’s been a frustrating going for a long enough cycle for the Terps all sea- stretch to get them where son: Lose to a bad team and they need to be.

So here we are again. Try turn everybody against you, beat a good team and get not to get too excited if they everybody back on your win. side, then lose again when it looks like you’ve finally got schimmeldbk@gmail.com

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No. 5 Terps taking on defendingACCchamps Men’s soccer trying to take BC’s title

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

Forward Jerome Burney is part of a Terp frontcourt that has drawn a lot of question marks all preseason. The lineup for the Terps’ first regular season game tonight is still unknown, but Burney could be a part. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Bucknell has a Devilish flavor Men’s basketball opens against a changing Bison squad

BY MARK SELIG Senior staff writer

When Terrapin men’s basketball player Dave Neal thinks about what Bucknell’s offense will look like in tonight’s season-opening game, a familiar foe comes to mind.

“It’s a lot like Duke,” the senior forward said, citing a similar motion offense.

With new head coach Dave Paulsen coming from Division III Williams College, Bucknell’s approach may be difficult to initially detect. But when adding tendencies from the Bison’s old team with those from their new coach, the Terps can see a little bit of the Devil in Bucknell’s potential offensive strategy.

“They step out people; their socalled four and five positions, they’re not afraid to step out those guys, and they might be taking threes,” Terp coach Gary Williams said. “[It’s like] when you play [Duke], if a [forward Kyle] Singler steps out and shoots a three. The biggest guy on the other team usually doesn’t do that. It can be a different look and a tough look.”

Neal went so far as to project the Bison to chuck up 30 threepointers in tonight’s 8 p.m. game at Comcast Center.

Thirty may be a little extreme, as the Bison attempted 620 total during last season. Though being on the road against a team they aren’t supposed to beat might cause them to be more triggerhappy behind the recently moved back three point line.

“A team with nothing to lose can come in loose and just fire away,” Williams said. “And if they’re hitting their shots, it can be a tough game.”

Bucknell has won more tournament games in the past three seasons (two) than the Terps (one).

But with the losses of head coach Pat Flannery and leading scorer John Griffin, the Bison are projected to finish in the bottom half of the Patriot League.

Regardless of how well Bucknell plays, the Terps realize it’s up to them to come out and play quality basketball to assure their first victory of the new season.

“The whole squad knows that they’re pretty good, but we just go

CARY, N.C. — After the Terrapin men’s soccer team beat then-No. 9 Boston College 1-0 in its ACC opener on Sept. 12, it was easy to dismiss the Eagles as true conference heavyweights.

Even though they were able to claw their way to the No. 3 seed in this week’s ACC tournament, the now-unranked Eagles struggled at times this season, dropping games to Brown and Holy Cross and finishing dead last in the conference in goals scored.

But as the No. 2-seeded Terps, ranked No. 5 nationally, prepare to face Boston College in the tournament semifinals today, the Eagles’ struggles don’t necessarily translate into much of an advantage for the Terps.

That’s because last season in this very tournament, played on the same site at the WakeMed Soccer Park, it was the Eagles who walked off as ACC champions. After yesterday’s light workout, no one was more mindful of that fact than coach Sasho Cirovski and his players.

“They return a lot of players,” Cirovski said.

“They have nine [regular] players now that were on the field last year when they were ACC champions. They have a sense of confidence down here.”

So even as some Terps, such as midfielder Doug Rodkey, relish the opportunity of a potential rematch with No. 1 Wake Forest in Sunday’s ACC championship game, they are giving Boston College the respect they deserve as last year’s tournament champions.

“Them being the reigning champs is a big deal to us, so we’re gonna come out and hopefully get a win and then face Wake,” Rodkey said.

“They’re a very good team. We played them earlier this year and it was a very tough game,

Forward Casey Townsend and the Terps are in the hunt for the ACC championship this weekend. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

so we’re just getting mentally prepared and taking them very seriously.”

The teams’ first meeting, that 1-0 Terp win in College Park, was an evenly contested match.

Unlike the case in many of the Terps’ one-goal victories this season, in which they clearly outplayed their opponent yet couldn’t find the back of the net on good scoring chances, the Boston College game could have gone either way.

Midfielder Graham Zusi scored the lone goal in the 12th minute. But the Eagles controlled the pace of play at times, and ended up with just one fewer shot.

After his team’s uneven performance in its 1-0 double overtime win against Clemson in the quarterfinals Wednesday, Boston College coach Ed Kelly said the Eagles are looking forward to the rematch.

“We’re happy to be playing Maryland,” Kelly said. “They’re a good team, and hopefully it will be a better game than it was today. Maryland plays a lot more on the ground, so that will be an easier team to play against, even though they are a very good team. But style-wise, it suits us better than playing against Clemson.”

The Eagles’ style is similar to the Terps’ in that both teams focus on

Terps vs. Boston College Where: Byrd Stadium When: Today, 5:30 p.m.

Radio: WMUCsports.com defending first. While the Terps were second in the ACC with only 0.89 goals allowed per game, Boston College was third with 1.06 allowed per game.

Scoring might be more difficult for the Terps, because of Wednesday’s injury to starting midfielder Matt Kassel.

Kassel, who all year has been the team’s most prominent set piece taker, suffered a right foot contusion in the first half of the Terps’ 1-0 win against North Carolina.

He is questionable for today’s game, according to Cirovski, who stressed how important it will be for his team to take advantage of their offensive opportunities.

“They’re a tough team to penetrate,” Cirovski said. “They don’t give away a lot of chances.

They don’t give away a lot of goals. It’s a two [versus] three matchup.

It’s two very good teams.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

Terps start far from home Women’s basketball plays in season opener at TCU tonight Guard Adrian Bowie is expected to be one the Terps’ top reserves this season, fighting for playing time in a crowded back court. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

out there and play our game, and play hard, and just be tough,” guard Greivis Vasquez said. “If we do that, then we’ll be OK.” The Terps’ entire playbook isn’t installed yet, but forward Landon Milbourne said that having actual game tape from last weekend’s exhibition game is a big help in self-assessment.

For the first time this week, the Terps have gotten to practice with their entire roster, now that freshman forward Jin Soo Kim is active and freshman guard Sean Mosley is healthy.

Williams plans on using a nineman rotation, but has not disclosed his starting lineup.

“It’ll be Eric Hayes, Greivis Vasquez, and Landon Milbourne ... and whoever practices well [Thursday],” he said.

Williams must still decide if he wants to surround the aforementioned three returning starters with a pair of big men or employ a smaller, more speedy starting set. He praised sophomore guards Adrian Bowie and Cliff Tucker for the improvements they’ve shown in pre-

Terps vs. Bucknell Where: Comcast Center When: Tonight, 8 p.m.

Radio: WMUCsports.com season practice.

All of that work in the preseason has led up to tonight, when the Terps’ season begins and the numbers on the scoreboard actually begin to matter. It may not be Duke, but it’s still an exciting time for the Terps.

“I just can’t wait to step out there and get that feeling again, playing on my court with my fans,” Vasquez said after a busy offseason which included ankle surgery and a trip to Venezuela to visit his ailing father.

Added Milbourne: “We’re definitely amped up for it.” mseligdbk@gmail.com

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

While conference rivals North Carolina and Virginia open their seasons tonight in the comfort of their own arenas against small schools with little chance of competing, the Terrapin women’s basketball team will be 1,378 miles away from home.

The No. 3 Terps are playing their first game of the year on the road against Texas Christian in Forth Worth, Texas.

Then coach Brenda Frese’s team is traveling back to College Park in time for Sunday’s home-opener against Delaware State. It’s a strange way for a major conference power such as the Terps to start their season, but according to Frese the busy weekend will help in the long run.

“I’m glad we’re coming back to play at home,” Frese said. “We’ve got to get this team ready and prepared for what the non-

conference and conference slate is gonna be like. So, no time is better than doing it early.”

The Horned Frogs went 23-12 last season and finished second in the Mountain West Conference before going to the WNIT. But TCU lost five seniors from last year’s team and returns only 32 percent of its scoring and 31 percent of its rebounding from a year ago.

That means the biggest challenge for the Terps could be the task of playing on the road in their first real game of the year against a team that is 30-4 in their last two seasons at home. But forward Marissa Coleman didn’t seem too concerned about TCU or any potential fatigue before Sunday’s game because of the travel.

“It’s just a mentality,” Coleman said. “Don’t tell yourself that you’re tired.

This is what you love to do, this is what you have fun doing, so if we want to win a national championship and we want to be competitors,

Terps vs. TCU Where: Fort Worth, Texas When: Today, 6:30 p.m.

TV: MTN these are things that you have to do.”

The opening weekend could appear to be especially challenging for the newcomers, including freshman center Lynetta Kizer.

But after experiencing a similar amount of travel and games on short rest playing with her AAU team in high school, Kizer was more excited than worried.

“Just to get to travel with these guys — it’s one of my dreams,” Kizer said. “Just watching them growing up, and like, I’m actually here now, and I’m flying out tomorrow to actually play my first college game.”

Senior staff writer Adi Joseph contributed to this report. akrautdbk@gmail.com

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THE MATCHUP

Maryland Terrapins

North Carolina Tar Heels

6-3 (3-2 ACC)

7-2 (3-2 ACC)

WHEN: Tomorrow, 3:30 p.m.

WHERE: Byrd Stadium, College Park TV: ABC LINE: North Carolina -3 DATA: The Terps are coming off a road loss, and have not lost at home this season.

TERPTRACKER 2008 TEAM STATS TERPS Passing (ypg) Rushing (ypg) Total (ypg) Points per game (ppg) Opponents ppg Avg. Time of Possession

204.3 146.9 351.2 22.2 19.7 26:32

UNC 195.6 132.3 327.9 30.8 18.4 28:08

TURNOVER TACTICS Turnovers have been North Carolina’s major key to success this season. The Tar Heels are tied for fourth in the nation with a +1.44 turnover margin. By comparison, the Terps have turned the ball over 15 times this season and forced just 12 of their own for a -0.33 turnover margin. North Carolina has forced 24 turnovers this season led by safety Trimane Goddard’s six interceptions. The Tar Heels, who have just one turnover in their last two games, have converted the turnovers into 83 points, including four interception returns for touchdowns.

“I’m not going to change anything I do specifically, but they do jump routes,” Terp quarterback Chris Turner said. “They take chances, and when they do make interceptions a lot of them are pick-sixes.”

SCOUTING SCOTT After Terp running back Da’Rel Scott’s worst performance of the season at Virginia Tech last Thursday, coach Ralph Friedgen said the sophomore wasn’t running aggressively enough. But the eighth-year coach was encouraged that Scott did not do any further damage to his injured shoulder while rushing 10 times for 11 yards against the Hokies. Friedgen said he expects Scott to be ready to go after another week of practicing in a non-contact yellow jersey “We’re not going to know until he gets out there, but I’ve been very impressed with the way he has practiced,” Friedgen said. “He looks very quick right now.”

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The Terps are returning home after losing at Virginia Tech last Thursday. They are 5-0 at Byrd Stadium this season but 1-3 on the road. JAMES HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

TAR HEEL TURNAROUND Terps are facing a much-improved No. 17 UNC this weekend

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Last year at this time, the North Carolina football team was struggling to the end of its sixth straight season without a winning record.

After all the hype surrounding the hiring of former University of Miami and Cleveland Browns coach Butch Davis, the Tar Heels did not appear ready to compete with the ACC’s elite.

But on Nov. 3, 2007, the Terrapins traveled to Chapel Hill, N.C., looking for their sixth win in as many tries against the Tar Heels under coach Ralph Friedgen. The Terps, playing with an offensive line depleted by injuries and riding a twogame losing streak, did not find it, as North Carolina held on to win 16-13 — one of its four victories of the season.

“Last year, that was their rise in the ACC, beating us,” quarterback Chris Turner said. “They were the

underdogs. We should have won that game.”

What a difference a year makes.

No. 17 North Carolina (7-2, 3-2 ACC) has taken major steps forward in its second season under Davis, led by a balanced offense and opportunistic defense. As the Terps (6-3, 3-2) get ready to host the Tar Heels tomorrow in a game with much higher stakes than last year’s meeting, they are prepared for one of the nation’s most improved teams.

“They’ve done some great things this season,” center Edwin Williams said of the Tar Heels, who are one of six teams, including the Terps, to beat three ranked opponents this season. “They’ve beat ranked opponents, played very well on the road. It’ll be a tough matchup. We’ve got to play the best game we’ve played all season.”

The Tar Heel turnaround has been facilitated by an explosive offense led by two different quarterbacks this season. After second-year starter T.J. Yates went down with a broken ankle in the Tar

“We don’t lose at Byrd.

That’s it. We’ll take it from there. We pride ourselves on our home stadium, so we’ll have to use that.”

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Heels’ third game of the season, Cameron Sexton stepped in to lead an offense that has averaged 30.8 points per game this season.

They’ve been helped by the ACC’s leading receiver, Hakim Nicks, and running backs Shaun Draughn and Ryan Houston, who have emerged in the last five games as a potent combo after seeing little work to start the season.

As a result, the Tar Heels, who ranked 10th in the league in total offense last year, have enjoyed a breakout offensive season.

“They have a lot more weapons,

RECENT MEETINGS 2007-(H)2005-(A)2003-(H)-

L, UNC 16, TERPS 13 W, Terps 33, UNC 30 W, Terps 59, UNC 21

KEY MATCHUP TERPS SECONDARY VS. UNC WR HAKEEM NICKS The key to stopping North Carolina’s offense for the Terps will be limiting Nicks, a leading candidate for ACC Player of the Year honors, who has nine touchdowns this season.

This is a situation when the Terps would lean on senior cornerback Kevin Barnes. But with Barnes out for the season, cornerbacks Anthony Wiseman and Nolan Carroll, if healthy, will have to lead a team-effort to stop Nicks, who had four touchdowns in a win against Boston College earlier this season.

Wiseman said he will be matched up with Nicks as part of the team’s dime coverage, used on the most obvious passing situations. The Terps also haven’t had an interception in their last four games, and a big play could spark the defense.

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o, here we are again — another big game against another ranked opponent few think the Terrapin football team can beat.

It’s already been the story line three times this season, and each time the Terps have somehow been up to the challenge.

The Terps have won all three of their games against ranked opponents this year — and five straight going back to last season —

and twice, as is the scenario heading into tomorrow’s game against No. 17 North Carolina, they have faced a ranked opponent after an ugly loss on the road the previous week had the fan base whipping itself into a state of panic.

It would appear to the casual observer that the Terps get themselves more mentally and physically prepared to play teams that are in the Top 25. But the players, with their generic quotes, aren’t buying into that.

“As far as I can tell, the biggest thing is our losses are on the road and then we play at home the next week,” quarterback Chris Turner said. “That’s the

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it seems like,” linebacker Dave Philistin said. “I guess a lot of weapons developed over the course of the last year.”

The improvement is enough to impress Turner, who acknowledged the loss at North Carolina doesn’t look as bad in hindsight.

Coach Ralph Friedgen described that Terp squad as “the walking wounded.” This year, the Terps are much healthier. But North Carolina has the confidence of a team challenging for its first conference championship since 1980.

The Terps are 5-0 this season at Byrd Stadium, where they are outscoring their opponents 15382. They hope the home-field advantage is enough to avenge one of their worst losses from last season with one of their best wins this year.

“We don’t lose at Byrd. That’s it,” Philistin said. “We’ll take it from there. We pride ourselves on our home stadium, so we’ll have to use that.” edetweilerdbk@gmail.com

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DEFENSE

The Terps finished last Thursday’s loss at Virginia Tech with negative-12 rushing yards and Chris Turner was constantly under pressure.

The emergence of Tar Heel running backs Shaun Draughn and Ryan Houston has given North Carolina one of the conference's most balanced attacks.

The Terps' success hinges on their ability to stop the run. They rank 11th in the conference, giving up 152.3 yards per game.

North Carolina leads the nation with 18 interceptions that have led to four interception return touchdowns already this season.

SPECIAL TEAMS

COACHING

North Carolina lost record-breaking returnman Brandon Tate to a seasonending knee injury Oct. 11 against Notre Dame.

Terp punter Travis Baltz, who leads the ACC in yards per kick, has helped the Terps control field position this season.

Terp coach Ralph Friedgen followed his first two losses of the season with wins against ranked teams.

Tar Heel coach Butch Davis has emerged as a prime candidate for some of the country’s top coaching vacancies thanks to his team’s surprising turnaround.

INTANGIBLES North Carolina has been dominant at times this season, and their two losses are by a combined six points.

The Terps have won five straight games against ranked opponents and won their last six games at Byrd Stadium dating back to last season.

PREDICTION

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