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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER

State may cut funding for univ. projects Cash for East Campus, other initiatives may be slashed thanks to $1.6 billion shortfall lion, state officials said.

Annapolis analysts released a report last week predicting the shortfall the state will encounter next year will be about $400 million more than was anticipated in September. And throughout his gubernatorial campaign this fall, Gov. Martin O’Malley said to close this gap, he will be relying on budget cuts

BY KELLY FARRELL Staff writer

The proposed East Campus development and other pending university initiatives may not see as much state funding as officials may have hoped for as legislators are poised to deal with a predicted budget shortfall of about $1.6 bil-

rather than tax increases.

Although it is too early to forecast how the shortfall may impact this university, Capital Budget Manager Matthew Klein said the state’s tough financial straits will no doubt impact the University System of Maryland and its flagship institution.

“From a Capital Budget perspec-

tive, certainly requests from University of Maryland, College Park, may have to be differed, which goes with all requests from all state agencies,” Klein said.

Funding will most likely be cut from projects that have not yet been started,

see BUDGET, page 3

A proposal to build a high-rise aimed at undergraduates above the Maryland Book Exchange has led to debate and opposition.

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City waits to take stand on high-rise

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

College Park District 3 City Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich last night joined the ranks of disgruntled homeowners, District 3 Prince George’s County Councilman Eric Olson, state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) and others who have expressed their discontent with plans to build a student housing project above the Maryland Book Exchange.

But city officials who said it was too early to take a stance on the development shot down Stullich’s plea to oppose the proposal.

In last night’s city council work session, Stullich presented a letter from the Old Town Neighborhood Association outlining aversion to the project by nonstudent residents of southern College Park — those who live in homes between downtown and the Metro line.

Stullich used the letter to advocate for the council to side with residents: in a 240 vote last month, the neighborhood association opposed the project, citing concerns about a possible increase in noise and other disruptions that many residents felt would occur if hundreds of additional students moved into the area.

But other council members, who said they understood residents’ concerns, decided they wouldn’t take a stance on the project until the developer made detailed plans for the apartments available to the public.

“I’m concerned that doubling the number of students in the long run may hurt property values because of the

see DEVELOPMENT, page 2

Big Brother was watching Instructor turns stint on FBI terror watchlist into creative venture

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

Hasan Elahi arrives on the campus with a remarkable list of accolades: He was an art professor at six other universities, his artwork has been featured at venues around the world, and he even appeared on The Colbert Report.

He also spent six months on the FBI’s terror watchlist.

Following a tip that said he was storing explosive materials, Elahi — who joined the university faculty this semester as an instructor of graduate students in the arts and humanities college and also works in the Digital Cultures and Creativity honors living-learning community — endured months of interrogation and scrutiny before his name was finally cleared.

Not long after he escaped the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s constant watch, Elahi was inspired to launch a continually updated virtual art project that showcases his daily comings and goings. He even

has his own website — www.trackingtransience.com — where he keeps track of his every move. The site showcases more than 42,000 photographs of every place he’s been, every meal he’s eaten and even every bathroom he’s used in the last seven years.

Elahi was first identified as a potential terrorist threat Sept. 12, 2001, when an anonymous

see INVESTIGATION, page 3

Hasan Elahi posts images of his daily meals, activities and trips to the supermarket on his website, which he started as a response to being tailed by the FBI. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WWW.TRACKINGTRANSIENCE.COM

DOTS will whiz students to and from Potter premiere

A shadow of its former self

Longer hours accommodate movie

Turtle showed promise before fall

BY ALICIA MCCARTY Staff writer

BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer

With a fresh coat of glossy red paint and a new $150,000 state-of-the-art light and sound system, Thirsty Turtle was ready to make a name for itself in 2007 among city residents and students alike.

As a new business in downtown College Park, its goal was difficult but crucial: to strike the balance between a family-friendly atmosphere and a fun nighttime spot for students to drink and dine.

“The only way to survive is to cater to [residents] too. ... You have to make sure you don’t specifically target one

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Thirsty Turtle became more of an underage watering hole than the family-style restaurant it promised to be, students said. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

market. That’s how I’ve stayed in business for so long [at Alario’s],” Turtle owner Alan Wanuck told The Gazette before the establishment opened.

But Turtle fell from grace a short three years after opening when an employee opened the doors a little too wide and admitted two underage police aides Sept. 23. Last Wednesday,

Cloudy/50s

Wanuck handed over Turtle’s liquor license permanently after it was revoked a few days earlier.

Although the popular bar eventually earned a reputation as a place for underage students to drink and dance, students who remember Turtle’s early

It won’t be the Knight Bus, but students planning to see a midnight showing of the newest Harry Potter movie can ride a university shuttle to and from a local theater.

The Department of Transportation Services will be extending service on the University Town Center Shuttle-UM bus, which runs to Prince George’s Plaza, until 4 a.m. Friday for fans who preordered tickets to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1.

The bus will depart from Stamp Student Union at 11:15 p.m. and arrive at the Regal Hyattsville Royale 14 theater

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DEVELOPMENT from page 1 amount of parties, noise and code violations that seem to come with a large student population,” District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said. “But I’m not sure what the benefit is on taking a stance on this issue now..”

Developers Ilya Zusin and Josef Mittlemann believe the project can still move forward despite their proposed development. Over the summer, the two entered into a contract to purchase the 2.6-acre downtown property and have announced their plans for a five-story, 1,000-bed facility at the corner of Route 1 and College Avenue that would target undergraduate tenants. Zusin has said his compliance with all zoning laws and addition of about $250,000 per year in property taxes and 100 permanent jobs in the city are all positives for the area.

He has also noted his tenants would likely be no more disruptive than the many students who already live in Old Town.

District 2 Councilman Jack Perry said the civic association’s opinion can’t trump the fact that the developers’ intended use for the property is legal according to county zoning laws and the city’s master plan. “[The developer] should be allowed to do what the zoning and the law permits,” Perry said.

But many residents disagree.

“The influx of at least 835 undergraduates will profoundly and negatively impact our neighborhood,

as this new population will swell the ranks of house parties that are already straining our nerves and the resources of the city,” read the letter, signed by Christopher Aubry, the acting president of the neighborhood association.

Any stance the council took would serve as political clout, as the county government makes all final decisions on development projects in Prince George’s.

Zusin, who attended the work session, said he was not yet ready to announce a timeline for when the plans would become available.

The council also addressed two other issues fairly unique to college towns — streets overcrowded with students’ cars and any aesthetic or safety hazards posed by furniture placed on rooftops.

Wojahn proposed a system of graduated fees to address parking overcrowding: the more vehicles per home, the more they’ll have to pay for residential parking permits.

He said under such a system, there would be a standard fee for permits for the first two cars, with an increase for each additional vehicle.

Now, those with proof of residence in most College Park neighborhoods can get five parking permits per house at $10 per permit.

Stullich, who supported the graduated permit fees, also proposed a bill that would cut down on rooftop furniture. City staff agreed to present wording for the city code to make rooftop furniture illegal at the council’s next work session.

TURTLE from page 1 days said it wasn’t always that way.

Senior criminology and criminal justice major Wade Stephens was a member of the Turtle generation — the select class to witness the establishment’s promising beginnings and later downfall.

“I feel like in the beginning they did [city outreach], and they tried to maintain it,” he said.

“They were making a big deal about upping their sales during the day. I do remember them catering to it being more of a restaurant at first.”

And three years ago, Stephens said, the bar passed the ultimate daytime test as a place to bring visiting family members.

“It was definitely a place you

more mature crowd.

“Just given the name and how they painted it a bright red color, I don’t see that as having much of a success with the older residents,” he said.

Rebecca Misler, a senior public and community health major, said that from the start, Turtle was frequented by young students.

“I think it always had that stigma that it was the new bar, that was easy to get into,” she said.

Misler said Turtle opened when she was a freshman and it was “the place to be.”

“I just remember taking the Orange bus, and everyone getting off at Route 1 and lining up at Turtle,” she said.

“The line was really long, but you’d get in, and it was so crowded but a lot of fun.”

could go at three in the afternoon when your parents came to visit you on a random Thursday and you’re not going to run into a bunch of belligerent clowns,” he said.

But Stephens said a bar’s goal generally boils down to making money off liquor sales, and it wasn’t long before underage students made their way through Turtle’s doors.

As a two-floor venue with a capacity of more than 900, Turtle is a difficult bar to fill without allowing in underage students, some say — a reality that claimed the fate of Lupo’s Italian Chophouse, the building’s previous tenant, which was unable to fill the spacious setting.

District 2 City Councilman Bob Catlin said Turtle’s appearance alone may have deterred a

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BUS from page 1 about 11:25, just in time for the midnight showings. Students will be picked up at PG Plaza at about 2:45 a.m.

The shuttle will make one stop at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center for students who live on North Cam-

pus and then return to the student union to pick up all other students.

DOTS is teaming up with the Residence Hall Association — which first suggested the idea to DOTS Director David Allen — to bring Harry Potter enthusiasts the shuttles.

“DOTS and David Allen have always enjoyed providing access to students,” DOTS

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Assistant Director Beverly Malone said. “Our relationship with the RHA has proved mutually beneficial.”

While officials said the decision to extend service for the much-anticipated premiere has been well received, some students said news of the extra service came far too late. Allen is on vacation until late next week, and Monday, Malone did-

n’t know about his plans to extend the shuttle service.

Freshman accounting major Sara Bleistein said she’s excited for the premiere and even had a movie marathon last week in preparation.

Because the information was released the week of the movie — after many students preordered tickets — Bleistein didn’t factor the transportation

perk into her plans.

She is having a car dropped off at the university and will be driving to Arlington, Va., for the premiere.

Freshman electrical engineering major Micaela Larson hasn’t read the books and doesn’t consider herself a Hogwarts expert, but she is still attending the premiere for the social experience.

“I think it’ll be fun,” she said.

Larson also said it was unfortunate she just found out about the extended shuttle service — she’ll be traveling to see the movie at an IMAX theater in Virginia.

As of last night, the theater at PG Plaza still had tickets available for a 12:02 a.m. showing.

BUDGET

amount of available resources.”

Although the governor has admitted that in-state tuition will likely rise next year, it is unclear what other fees might see an uptick and whether furloughs or pay freezes are still on the table.

The Higher Education Investment Fund — a dedicated funding source for higher education in the state that was re-approved in the spring for its fourth straight year — may also be tapped to help buffer the impacts of budget cuts, Klein said. The fund provides about $40 million per year to university system institutions.

But the state Department of Legislative Services, a group of non-partisan policy analysts for the General Assembly, issued a report earlier this year that said the state should not count on the HEIF for funding in light of economic uncertainty.

“HEIF was not intended to be the sole source of revenue for higher education, but the institutions do set budgets based on the projections,” the report states.

“When money does not materialize, programs and services suffer. The corporate income tax revenue’s recent history has been volatile, demonstrating the risk of tying budgets to unstable revenue sources.”

Mark Collins, a policy analyst

for the General Assembly, said state lawmakers issued higher education recommendations to the governor last legislative session that may be carried out in the coming year.

“At the end of the 2010 session, the joint chairman’s report said that if economic conditions don’t improve, then it’s the General Assembly’s intent that the public four-year institutions — that includes University of Maryland — should be funded at the same level per student as it was funded in the current fiscal year.”

Collins noted there is no mandated funding for universities, so the governor can choose to fund them at whatever level he wants to.

Regardless of the sobering possibilities of major budget cuts to come, university system lobbyist P.J. Hogan remains optimistic about the governor’s commitment to higher education.

“I think everything is vulnerable [to cuts],” Hogan said. “But I’m hopeful that given the progress that has been made in the past four years with [O’Malley’s] funding support for increased affordability and increased quality, I’m pretty confident he will do everything in his power to not go backward but continue moving forward.”

same day.

“I think anyone who talks to me for more than a few minutes realizes I’m not exactly a terrorist threat,” he said.

But Elahi’s ordeal was far from over.

For the next six months, he received repeated calls to his office at the University of South Florida to come in for more federal questioning.

Agents also combed through his personal records and questioned his then-wife, from whom he had been separated at the time.

Elahi said he readily complied with the FBI’s demands, confessing all of his personal details and surrendering his itineraries and records.

Although he knew he was innocent, Elahi said he always took precautions when he was called in for questioning: He would call his closest friends and tell them where he was going and who was inter viewing him, just in case he was arrested and they did not hear from him “by tomorrow night.”

But after one long day in November 2002 — during which Elahi under went nine consecutive polygraph tests — an FBI agent finally told him he was cleared.

By choice, Elahi now calls that same FBI agent whenever he travels to let him know where he is going.

The response from the agent, he said, is always the same: “Thank you. Be safe.”

But anyone with an Internet connection can see where Elahi is and where he’s been since 2003, thanks to his

tracking site.

Other photo archives on his website include ever ything from random signs and hallways to train stations, airports and food samples. But Elahi himself is never in the pictures — an intentional act, he said.

“As autobiographical as this information is, this isn’t really about me,” he said. “This is about me playing the role of a surrogate and bringing to light a broader situation rather than the individual circumstance.”

Elahi said the idea for the project developed organically but did not come right away during his six months of interrogation.

“The last thing I was thinking while this was happening was, ‘Oh, now I’ve got new work,’” he said. “No, it was, ‘How do I get out of this alive?’ or ‘How do I not get shipped to the Caribbean islands wearing an orange jumpsuit?’”

He said his project was the reaction of an artist tr ying to make sense of his experience through his artwork and ultimately delivering a larger statement.

“I think artists take what they see taking place around them and they use that as motivation for creative output or creative inquir y,” he said.

“In retracing my steps, in tr ying to understand for myself what just happened, I was able to piece together bits and pieces which ver y naturally then led to looking at it through the lens of an artist.”

from page 1 Klein said.

“I know that [the university] has got some plans in the works for the East Campus development, and funding for that could be jeopardized,” he said. “Also, there is a huge underground infrastructure problem at the university which is suggested to need $120 million — fixing this and using funding for a project that hasn’t even been started could very well be differed.”

Klein explained that the difficulty in securing funds for new projects is largely due to the state’s inability to take on more debt than it will be able to pay back. Furthermore, he noted, a large amount of state money is already slotted to fund other projects the legislature has committed to over the years.

“Split-funded projects, such as the physics complex, which is already underway and because the state has already made a commitment to funding it, are unlikely to be jeopardized,” Klein said. “But overall, there’s a very limited amount of resources that haven’t already been spoken for. ... All state facilities really are going to have to get in line and fight for a limited

INVESTIGATION from page 1 caller tipped off the FBI that an Arab man was hoarding explosives in a storage unit.

On his way back to the United States after an extensive work trip through Africa and Europe, Elahi was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service at an airport in Detroit.

Not only is Elahi unaffiliated with any terrorist organizations, he’s not even of Arab descent — he was born in Bangladesh. His storage unit did not contain any explosives. He’s also a U.S. citizen, raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., which is why he said he was so confused when he was detained by the INS. “The irony is that it wasn’t a case of mistaken identity and it wasn’t a case of similar name,” he said. “It was, ‘That’s the guy.’ They were pretty certain it was me.”

Elahi was questioned by an FBI agent and sent home that

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ON THE BLOG blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive CORNERING CORRUPTION Four journalists from Bhutan, Bangladesh and Pakistan spoke to a small group — with no students present — in Knight Hall yesterday afternoon about their most horrific experiences fighting to unearth corruption in their respective countries.

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A FAUX-LOH ON FACEBOOK There’s a new Facebook fraud on the Internet, and it’s not your typical celebrity — it’s new university President Wallace Loh. The imposter Facebook account has racked up 153 friends who believed the profile was legitimate.

But the real-life Loh said he’s never even been on the social networking site.

To read more, visit The Diamondback’s news blog, Campus Drive.

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Let there be light

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walks — in 2008, 2009 and this year — and it was also revealed during Monday’s lthough students have often complained that they are left in the dark event that some of the broken lights in the city had been out for two whole years. about the goings-on at this university, this week, their gripes about a Enough is enough. lack of light became all too literal.

This editorial board is appalled by city and university officials’ lack of action During the Student Government Association’s annual off-campus on this issue, especially considering it has been repeatedly brought to their safety walk, which was held Monday evening, students expressed their concerns to University Police and city officials over what they perceived as a lack of attention by both undergraduate and graduate students.

In the last four years, students have fallen victim to crimes — rape, sexual lighting in off-campus areas. The group, which consisted of about a dozen peoassault and armed robbery, just to name a few — many of which occurred in ple, traveled to the Leonardtown community and the area surrounding the poorly lit areas. And while we will never know if more lighting could have helped Parkside Apartments complex and pointed not only to broken bulbs, but also to to prevent crimes such as these, perpetrators of crimes lights that were blocked by trees, correctly stating that will always feel more comfortable in the darkness. the lack of lighting created an unsafe environment for stuMoving forward, officials should not only fix the probdents and residents.

Luckily, city and university officials agreed the streets University officials and student lems that student leaders have highlighted year after were indeed too dark and pledged to remedy the situation. leaders must do more to fix the year, but they must also be proactive in fixing lighting problems before they occur. Attention should also be University Police Chief David Mitchell called the lack of lighting problem on and near turned to installing additional lights throughout the city illumination “outrageous,” and Robert Stumpff, College and the campus.

Park’s director of public works, pledged to make turning the campus to create a And while safety walks are beneficial, student leaders on city lights a priority. safer community. should not stop there. Both undergraduate and graduate Though this editorial board is encouraged by the comstudent leaders should work together to ensure that their ments of these two men, in the end, they are only words that do not guarantee action. This is not the first time students have constituencies feel safe. In 2007, Matthew Stern, then-SGA director of governapproached city and university officials about the lack of effective lighting — mental affairs, estimated that 99 percent of students had no idea how to report a both on and off the campus — but few actions have been taken over the years lighting problem — which is as simple making a call. Today, it is unlikely that any more students have discovered this phone number. It is therefore the responsito address this problem.

Indeed, the dialogue that occurred during this year’s off-campus safety walks bility of organizations that serve students to inform city and campus residents mirrors — almost exactly — the dialogue that has taken place during previous about how best to make noise about this persisting issue.

Furthermore, one or two safety walks each school year is simply not adewalks. In 2007, members of the SGA showed city and university officials various locations on and off the campus where either lights were broken or more light- quate. There is no reason why large organizations such as the SGA or Graduate ing was needed. And following the walk, city and university officials responded Student Government can’t hold monthly walks throughout College Park and to student concerns, stating, as District 3 City Councilman Mark Cook did, that report safety issues themselves.

To create a safer community, city and university officials must take swift “better lighting needs to be implemented.”

Yet despite Cook’s statements and others like them, the problem of ineffective and decisive action to fix this ever-present problem. This community lighting has not been fixed. It was brought up in the SGA’s subsequent safety deserves better.

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Editorial cartoon: Ian Rodenhouse

Awareness: An awkward cause

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he past two days, I’ve heard Chris Brown songs on the radio twice, so it appears the American media is ready to “forgive” him for his transgressions.

And if not forgive, at least to tactfully forget. (For those of you with poor memories, more than a year ago, Chris Brown pled guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna.)

Despite this apparent “forgiveness,” Brown is in questionable company.

Celebrities such as Charlie Sheen and James Brown have abused their partners and continued to have fulfilling careers. Rihanna, after her experiences with Brown, even glamorized the concept in an Eminem duet, “Love the Way You Lie,” and accompanying music video. The song being really, really catchy has nothing to do with it.

Domestic violence is one of those things you don’t talk about because you don’t want to make other people feel awkward. Having something “abnormal” as a part of your life, whether it’s a

BETHANY WYNN deceased parent, growing up underprivileged, mental illness or another misfortune, means you’re always carrying a secret. Things like that don’t leave you. You don’t forget. It’s part of what shapes you as a person, and sometimes just walking around and interacting with people who don’t “know” about it feels like a lie.

It’s like after I watched Taken, in which a 16-year-old girl is kidnapped, auctioned off to sex traffickers and eventually rescued by her father (a badass Liam Neeson). I joked to my friends: How is she going to live a normal life after that?

What is she supposed to say? “Oh hey, by the way ever yone, when I

was 16 I was kidnapped and almost sold into the sex trade”?

See? Buzzkill. Also, clearly joketelling is not my forte.

But how do you live a normal life after that?

In America, we do two things with difficult issues: We glamorize them with “awareness” events and heartwrenching movies, and in real life, we ignore them. The “Love the Way You Lie” music video has been touted as raising awareness about domestic violence, but it pretty much just takes two good-looking people and alternates fighting with sex scenes while Eminem raps in a cornfield. Then they set a house on fire. Really, guys?

Not everyone with schizophrenia is a mathematical genius. Not everyone harassed for being gay has a secret dramatic talent that will manifest itself in a Tony Award and stick it to the bullies. Not everyone with breast cancer is an uncomplaining saint who loves

wearing pink (colon cancer deserves a look-in, too). Not everyone who goes through domestic violence looks like Megan Fox. Here’s to the people who are very much aware of their own personal battles and who don’t need awareness ribbons. It’s glamorous, and it’s a great cause — until it’s you or someone you know. Then it’s just awkward. Sometimes it seems like everyone else and their awareness ribbons have just sailed through life, and you’re the only weirdo with feelings. They haven’t, and you aren’t.

To quote Good Will Hunting: “It’s not your fault, it’s not your fault, it’s not your fault.” Going through something awkward to talk about doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you.

Don’t be afraid to talk. Don’t be afraid to listen.

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

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ell, I didn’t make it.

Perhaps I am too skinny to fight of f star vation, or more likely, I was one step too slow.

Regardless, on Saturday, I succumbed to the harassing presence of star vation after what can only be described as an epic battle. No, my diet of Ramen noodles and macaroni and cheese did not finally catch up with me — a person wearing an “X” made of pink duct tape did, as par t of The Love Movement’s Sur vive College Park event.

Most of the people I have talked to about Sur vive CP have little or no idea what I am talking about, so it has become necessar y for me to explain that the event should not be taken too seriously or even literally.

We were not evading armed muggers, police in riot gear, off-campus housing nightmares or student loans. The now-defunct dance floor of Thirsty Turtle and the horrors of organic chemistr y were not features of our fight to stay alive. What we

were tr ying to do was avoid star vation as we learned about homelessness in the Washington region.

Sur vive CP can generally be described as a combination of a scavenger hunt, team race and zombie tag that was put on by The Love Movement, a community ser vice club. What The Love Movement did was take a game that has been growing in popularity throughout the region, with recent variations including Sur vive DC and Sur vive Silver Spring, and added a ser vice element by making the game focus on homelessness. So not only was I having a great time playing, I was also learning about a serious issue, and my participation helped provide local organizations with donations to continue their work.

It is clear to me now that star vation is a ver y serious problem, not only because I felt its adverse affects personally but because it decimated my team (and many others). Of our original 12 members, only three sur vived, with one lasting

ROB RIKER because he decided his best bet to beat star vation was to go to Stamp Student Union to get some McDonald’s (in his defense, this strategy clearly worked).

The event did a good job of raising awareness about these issues because it created an appreciation for the difficulties people face ever y day and made me aware of the magnitude of the problem. I also realized that I am a terrible panhandler.

But what really struck home for me was hearing from a homeless family that was given housing by the Dwelling Place — a local nonprofit that works to provide temporar y housing. It is easy for many of us to forget how privileged we are, and this event helped put things in per-

spective for me.

The ser vice element is an approach that should be adopted by more student groups. When an organization decides to sponsor a fun event, it should consider incorporating a service or awareness raising aspect. And while the event did raise some money and donations of clothes and canned food, there is room to improve so future events (and I hope there are more) can have a larger impact.

When the last team finished and the paranoia and excessive running finally came to an end, the event was a success. At the very least, the event was incredibly fun and gave me a greater appreciation for what I have and a feeling of responsibility to try to make a difference for those who are not so lucky. Who knew philanthropy could be fun? And who knows, maybe next time I will survive.

Rob Riker is a senior history and government and politics major. He can be reached at riker@umdbk.com.

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n high school, one of the great narratives of college was the expanded influence of students. So naturally, when I arrived at this university in August, I was excited to exercise my newfound student rights alongside passionate and outspoken peers. However, in the midst of adjusting to a new environment, making friends and starting college classes, I did not immediately see the abundant collegiate activism I heard about in high school. That all changed during one of the Student Government Association’s legislative meetings in October, a meeting where about 100 students from the Latino Student Union, the Asian American Student Union, Lambda Upsilon Lambda and others came out to support a bill that would officially pledge SGA support for the federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. These students expressed their opinions to their SGA representatives to persuade them to support the bill. They identified a cause that they cared about, united and put in the effort necessary to have their voice heard, and as a result, the notoriously empty Benjamin Banneker Room in Stamp Student Union — where the SGA legislature holds its weekly meetings — was packed with students. As one of the freshman legislators, I was thrilled to witness what I always expected from college. Indeed, the activist spirit, which I had previously written off as a lie, was alive in that sweaty, overcrowded room.

The real power the SGA has is always fiercely debated, but regardless of what it really is, I can tell you the SGA’s influence becomes more powerful when there is real student support behind it. The opinions the student body expresses may seem unimportant, but they actually send a strong message to our administration and to universities nationwide that the students of this university have opinions and truly care about them. This is evident in the SGA’s DREAM Act bill — the passage of which opens up more opportunities to raise awareness and support at the university for the federal bill and to encourage other leading institutions to support it.

But this is only the beginning of what students can accomplish.

Recently, the university’s chapter of the Zionist Organization of America organized a 2,000-person rally on the National Mall to raise awareness about the prolonged captivity of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.

Through hard work and determination, the attendees were able to unite around a cause they truly believed in.

Ultimately, what the groups mentioned above and every other active organization at the university have proved that anyone here can say more, do more and change more.

College is the time when you get to have an opinion and express it clearly and freely. Now is the most opportune time to do something about the issues you care about most, so I call on all students at this university to take advantage of this culture and fight for their beliefs.

There are multiple avenues by which students can stand up and take action, whether it be through supporting one of the many student groups at the university or some other way. Activism is one of the most important features of college, but it is best accomplished by a community.

So organize, mobilize and actualize. We may only have four years at the university, but in that short time we can truly make a difference if we come together and try.

Ira Rickman is a freshman legislator for the Student Government Association. He can be reached at irarickman@gmail.com.

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There’s a tour for that

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

As a businessman, Norman Wonderly, the publisher of Alternative Press, tries to find a variety of bands readers of his magazine can appreciate while also searching for bands in need of exposure.

By looking at both qualifiers, Wonderly has helped to put together The AP Tour with acts he feels are up-andcoming and need to be heard.

The AP Tour comes to Sonar in Baltimore tonight with Bring Me The Horizon, August Burns Red, Emarosa, Polar Bear Club and This Is Hell.

The genesis of the tour, Wonderly said, was that bands would come to Alternative Press asking for tour sponsorship, and the magazine started putting on smaller tours.

Alternative Press has been in publication for more than 25 years.

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Every year, Alternative Press does a guide to “The 100 Bands You Need to Know,” and Wonderly thought putting the bands from the cover of that issue on a tour together would be a great way to cross-promote the issue.

In spring 2007, Circa Survive, Cute Is What We Aim For, As Tall As Lions and Envy on the Coast toured together on the first Alternative Press Tour. With the groups from “The 100 Bands You Need to Know” issue touring in the spring, Wonderly decided to add a fall tour to get more exposure for bands and to appeal to more readers.

“We wanted to do a little more of a tour that would appeal to guys as well as girls,” Wonderly said. “A lot of our readers are starting to get more into some heavier bands. The spring tour is a little more of a popier tour, and this one is more of a metal-y tour. We wanted to do that, and we wanted to pick bands that our readers were into.”

The tour has taken off — something that Wonderly expected would happen.

“I believed in what we were doing, so I’d have to say without sounding pompous about it, yeah, I thought it would get pretty popular,” he said.

Wonderly said everyone is excited about the shows.

“The show’s been pretty good so far,” said Bring Me The Horizon bassist Matt Kean. “All the bands are getting along, everyone’s cool. Everyone’s just getting on; it’s a good vibe; the shows are really good; and it’s just a good time.”

Bring Me The Horizon released its newest album, There Is a Hell, Believe

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In conjunction with this, the band is also enjoying the aspect of meeting new people.

“We’re all together playing these shows for two months, so everyone gets along and hangs out and chills,” Kean said. “It’s cool. We’ve made new friends.”

Polar Bear Club’s Jimmy Stadt said The AP Tour has been something completely new for the band.

“We’re used to playing shows to, like, 200 to maybe 500 kids,” the singer said. “Some of these shows have been getting up into 2,000 kids, which has been awesome. The whole point of this tour to us was to play to new people.”

The band members were originally hesitant to accept the invitation because their previous big tour with Every Time I Die and Four Year Strong did not go as well as expected.

Stadt said they felt that fans at those shows did not take to the music and that it wasn’t a successful venture.

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“What it really boiled down to was that we’re getting ready to do another record and we’ll get to play for all these people before we do the next record,” Stadt said. “It would be stupid not to take this tour. So hesitantly, we said, ‘Yeah, we’ll do it.’ And I’m so glad that we did. It’s been one of the best tours we’ve been on, without a doubt.”

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Williams resumes productive play; Terps sign two recruits

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

With his 20-point, 11-rebound performance against Maine on Sunday, Terrapin men’s basketball forward Jordan Williams accomplished something no Terp has in 15 years: five straight double-doubles.

The streak includes his two NCAA Tournament games last season, during which Williams broke out onto the national scene and generated considerable expectations for his play this season.

And after a productive summer reshaping his body, Williams has quickly solidified his position as one of the conference’s premier post players. He’s recorded at least 17 points and 11 rebounds in each of the Terps’ first three games, and his dominance was recognized Monday by the ACC when he received conference Player of the Week honors for the first time in his career.

“It’s extremely humbling,” Williams said. “It’s only the first week, so I have to keep pushing. I’m never satisfied with how I play. I always have to find something to get better at, something to improve my game.”

STARTING SLOW Terp guard Adrian Bowie didn’t start his senior season off exactly how he wanted, committing several turnovers and picking up two fouls against Seattle in the team’s season opener Nov. 8.

But it wasn’t just Bowie struggling.

The Terps (3-0) didn’t build a substantial lead until late in the first half.

Just two days later, College of Charleston held a four-point lead less than five minutes into its contest against the Terps, who battled inconsistent play for a second straight game.

Their early-game woes faded against Maine last Sunday, with the

Terps scoring the game’s first eight points. Players said they recognize the importance of starting off quickly, especially in games such as tomorrow night’s against No. 4 Pittsburgh.

But coach Gary Williams didn’t seem too worried by their struggles.

“As long as we’re playing with a certain level of intensity, whether we score a lot or not doesn’t bother me,” Williams said. “No one has ever won a game in the first four minutes anyway. There’s still 36 minutes left. So if you do get off to a bad start, it’s just shooting the basketball or turning the ball over.”

TERPS SIGN TWO RECRUITS Shooting guard Nick Faust of Baltimore and point guard Sterling Gibbs of Scotch Plains, N.J., signed national letters-of-intent to play for the Terps beginning in the 2011-12 season, the team announced yesterday.

The signings were mere formalities for the two high school seniors, who had already orally committed to Williams and the Terps.

Faust, rated the No. 37 player nationally by ESPN, possesses a thin 6-foot-6 build and the ability to score and handle the ball. He is also the first player from Baltimore to sign with the Terps since Sean Mosley.

“Over the years, we’ve had quite a few guys from Baltimore,” Williams said. “I think they’ve done really well.

Nick Faust is the latest.”

Gibbs is the nation’s No. 23 point guard, according to ESPN, and the younger brother of Pittsburgh guard Ashton Gibbs.

“Sterling is a very smart point guard who has played against outstanding competition,” Williams said. “Sterling plays the game in such a way that makes his team better. He’s a winner, and that is what we look for in our recruits.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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The Terps’ bubble burst a mere 16 seconds later, when diminutive Hoya point guard Rubylee Wright, who had been battling leg cramps throughout the second half, hit a wide-open 3-pointer to give the Hoyas the lead for good in a 53-45 win, their first ever over the Terps.

“To come back in that stretch says a lot,” coach Brenda Frese said. “But you’ve got to be able to finish and make plays.”

Throughout much of the game, the No. 21 Terps (1-1) could do neither. Despite earning 28 offensive rebounds — just one fewer than the No. 13 Hoyas (2-

0) had on the defensive glass — the Terps could muster only 15 secondchance points.

Making matters worse, the Terps shot just 17.5 percent from the field and turned the ball over 11 more times than the Hoyas, whose defense was relentless from start to finish.

“Twenty-eight offensive rebounds,” Frese said.

“You’ve got to be able to finish those when you get easy looks, and you’ve got to take care of the basketball.”

While the Hoyas’ fullcourt press and half-court zone forced many of the Terps’ mishaps, the team still managed to get some open looks from behind the arc when it desperately needed a big shot.

Making them, though, was a different story. The Terps

went 0-for-11 from 3-point range in the second half.

“That’s a credit to Georgetown, forcing us into quick shots,” Frese said. “They sped us up; that’s a credit to their defense and how hard they come at you.”

Much of the credit for the Terps’ comeback was due to DeVaughn. After playing just one minute in the first half following two early fouls, DeVaughn led the Terps with 10 points and 11 rebounds in the second half. While she, like the rest of her team, struggled from the field, she battled in the paint to earn trips to the free-throw line, where she was 6-for-8.

“I thought Alicia did a great job regaining her composure and confidence in the second half,” Frese said. “It really made a big difference

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Quarterback Danny O’Brien, above, and the Terps will keep pace in their division race with a win over Florida State. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

us pretty good.”

This year’s Terp team, though, has seemingly divorced itself from that 2008 team — which went on to fall to Boston College the week after the loss before then begrudgingly accepting an invitation to the Humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho — as well as last year’s 2-10 team.

When Smith spoke yesterday of the challenge of defeating a Florida State program that has long dominated the Terps, he seemed consciously oblivious to the team’s own documented history.

“Our team, we never played UVA before [last Saturday’s 42-23 win],” Smith said. “And this team’s never played Florida State before. It’s a new slate for us.”

Vestiges of the 34-point rout still remain, however. Seminole quarterback Christian

for us down the stretch.”

Frese didn’t hesitate to use her lauded freshman class in its first true collegiate test. At one point in the second half, DeVaughn was joined on the floor by three other freshmen and junior center Lynetta Kizer (10 points and 16 rebounds).

And while many of the newcomers’ inexperience shined through at times, players said they would take the loss for what it was: an early setback against a talented team in a long season.

“We know we can finish; it’s just the lack of concentration that we displayed tonight,” Kizer said. “That’s something that we’re going to get back to practice to work on tomorrow and just continue to go from here.” cwalsh@umdbk.com

Ponder, who amassed 224 total yards and two touchdowns in 2008, is expected to start Saturday against the Terps. And Florida State’s defense, even without Brown terrorizing backfields, is its normal scary self — the team is first in the nation in sacks per game (3.9).

But Saturday’s game, much like 2008’s, doesn’t hold true to the win-andthey’re-in atmosphere that has enveloped it. Two years ago, the Terps needed Boston College to lose for a shot at clinching the outright Alantic Division title against the Seminoles.

This year, they’ll need to win against Florida State (7-3, 5-2) and then N.C. State the week after to punch their ticket to Charlotte, N.C., for the ACC Championship.

“We’ve been close before,” Friedgen said, “but we’ve got to find a way to get there.” shaffer@umdbk.com

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FOOTBALL

Terps blacking out ’08 memories As game vs. FSU nears, earlier blowout by Seminoles offers similar circumstances

BY JONAS SHAFFER Senior staff writer

Forward Alyssa Thomas, center, forces up a shot in the Terps’ 53-45 loss last night. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps fall late at Georgetown in first defeat

BY CONOR WALSH Staff writer

WASHINGTON – It took the Terrapin women’s basketball team nearly the entire second half to overcome the deficit that Georgetown guard Sugar Rodgers handed it with her buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of the first half last night.

But when the Terps finally did on a free throw from for ward Alicia DeVaughn with 1:56 remaining at McDonough Arena, they seemed primed for the comeback victor y.

Despite turnovers and shooting woes, the Terps had erased a Hoya lead that

see GEORGETOWN, page 7

In late November 2008, then-high school senior Danny O’Brien did what most kids his age would in anticipation of celebration: He threw a party.

Inviting friends over to his Kernersville, N.C., home, the future Terrapin football quarterback hoped he could cap a night spent watching the Terps’ ACC showdown with Florida State able to claim he was headed to a potential ACC champion the next year.

Then the Seminoles scored the game’s first 24 points, Terp quarterback Chris Turner threw two interceptions and was sacked six times, and the team’s Atlantic Division title hopes were unceremoniously ended in a 37-3 beatdown before 51,620 in College Park.

“It sucked,” O’Brien said.

“It sucked, dude.”

Many of the stars entering the Terps’ Saturday night battle against Florida State have changed. O’Brien is now the Terps’ starting quarterback, not just one orally committed to the program.

Florida State’s star defensive end Everette Brown, who had 3.5 sacks against the Terps in the 2008 game, is now a member of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers.

The stakes, though, aren’t much different. A win will keep the Terps (7-3, 4-2 ACC) alive in the race for the Atlantic Division crown. A

loss will leave them wondering what their postseason destination might be after next weekend’s regular-season finale against N.C. State.

“It’s like a tournament for us,” wide receiver Torrey Smith said.

Said coach Ralph Friedgen: “Everybody knows what the score of the game is, so to speak.”

Few players cared to talk about the score of their 2008 game, though.

And for good reason. After a breakthrough win at North Carolina the week before, the Terps stepped into their season’s final home game facing considerable hype and pressure.

There were the ACC Championship implications they already knew about.

But there was also a national television audience, a fan “blackout” with all-black Terp uniforms to match, and the pomp and ceremony of a Senior Night that recognized 30 Terps playing in their final game at Byrd Stadium.

If those intangibles helped to carry the team at all, they didn’t last past the first quarter. After a scoreless first 15 minutes, the Seminoles scored three touchdowns in 14 minutes for a 21-0 halftime lead. Obi Egekeze’s third-quarter field goal was the Terps’ lone salvo in a storm of Florida State points.

“It was a tough loss for us,” Smith said. “They beat

see SEMINOLES, page 7

Former Terp quarterback Chris Turner, center, was sacked six times during the team’s 37-3 loss to Florida State in 2008. The defeat knocked the Terps out of contention for the Atlantic Division title. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK