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With 3-2 win, Terps avenge 2009 defeat to UNC, claim seventh national championship

BY JAKOB ENGELKE Senior staff writer

Megan Frazer never forgot watching North Carolina celebrate its sixth national title after defeating the Terrapin field hockey team in last year’s championship game.

It was an image that motivated the Terp midfielder throughout the entire season, and the memory figured prominently when the Terps went into double overtime against the Tar Heels in a national championship rematch yesterday.

With just more than two minutes left to play in the second extra frame, Frazer received a pass from forward Katie O’Donnell near the

top of the shooting circle. After corralling the pass, Frazer deked around a Tar Heel defender before eventually rifling a hard, backhanded shot to the far post, beating North Carolina goalkeeper Jackie Kintzer to give the Terps a 3-2 win and a seventh national championship in front of a standing-roomonly crowd of 2,381.

Frazer raised her fist in jubilation before jumping up and down with joy.

O’Donnell sprinted over to her teammate and flew into her arms, while the rest of the Terps stormed the field, throwing their sticks into the air before surrounding Frazer and

Loh ‘looking forward’ to enhanced Good Samaritan

BY LAUREN REDDING

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Senior staff writer

Advocates of a Good Samaritan policy have just found an unexpected ally: university President Wallace Loh. A policy that would protect dangerously drunk stu- WALLACE LOH dents who call for help from UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT getting in trouble, the Good Samaritan policy has divided students and administrators for two years of debate. But for Loh, who has only been president for three weeks, the decision was simple.

“I am in total support of a Good Samaritan policy,” he said in an interview Friday. “I strongly support it as a policy, not just a protocol. ... I don’t know what the reason was two years ago [for not implementing a policy], and I’m looking forward, not looking back.”

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Delivery man More speed cameras near campus issuing $40 tickets robbed at Knox and Guilford

Metzerott, Rhode Island cameras activated; Route 1’s to come within six months

BY ALICIA MCCARTY Staff writer

Another man leaving Greenbelt Metro mugged

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Speed cameras along Metzerott Road and Rhode Island Avenue are now actively ticketing drivers who travel 12 miles per hour or more above the posted speed limit, and others along University Boulevard and Route 1 are due in the near future.

The cameras join those installed last month on Paint Branch Parkway, which caught an average of 75 speeders a day who received warnings until Nov. 15, when the city began

to issue $40 tickets, city officials said.

The Metzerott cameras are installed between Adelphi Road and University Boulevard; the Rhode Island cameras are in place from University Boulevard north to the city limits, according to the College Park website.

College Park Public Ser vices Director Bob Ryan said the city hasn’t predicted the number of tickets the new sites will generate but said the goal is to discourage drivers from speeding, not to raise revenue.

“All city speed cameras are approved by the city council to be placed in areas where

there is the potential risk for pedestrian injur y due to speeding vehicles,” Ryan wrote in an e-mail. “It is hoped that drivers will slow down and obey the posted speed limits within the city.”

College Park receives $24 of each $40 ticket; the difference goes to the company that installed and maintains the cameras.

In his e-mail, Ryan didn’t specify how soon the city would activate cameras on Route 1 or University Boulevard — where speed limits

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A bicyclist delivering food in the Knox Box neighborhood was tackled, assaulted and robbed early Saturday, just hours after a man was mugged at gunpoint near the Greenbelt Metro station in northern College Park and just more than two days after a robbery in a Mowatt Lane Garage stairwell.

The delivery man, a University of Maryland University College student, was attacked by three men at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday at Knox Road and Guilford Drive, Prince George’s County Police said.

The man described his assailants as white men between the ages of 20 and 25, one of whom was wearing a gray knit cap, police said. They made off with some of his belongings; police did not disclose what they took.

Both county and University Police converged on the scene of the robbery, where the victim had suffered minor injuries but refused to be taken to the hospital, police said.

Seven hours earlier and three miles away, a man with no university affiliation was robbed while walking back to his hotel room near Route 1 and

The Hogwarts Express DOTS transports students to Potter showings

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

Wizards, Muggles and other assorted students packed themselves into designated Shuttle-UM buses Thursday night to be whizzed off to the long-awaited midnight premiere of the latest Harry Potter movie.

On the night of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, the Department of Transportation Services extended shuttle services on the Silver Spring and University Town Center lines until 4 a.m. to give Potter fans a lift to and from midnight showings.

The extra service came as a relief for many

students who said their chances of making it to the premiere and back to the campus without DOTS were slim to none.

“We’ve been wondering for the past three weeks whether we would have to walk or call a cab,” said sophomore government and politics and dance major Patty Mullaney, who rode the UTC bus to Prince George’s Plaza. “But this is a lot better. It’s much more convenient.”

A UTC bus was scheduled to collect students from Stamp Student Union at 11:15 p.m. to get them to the movie theater before 11:30, but a large group of Potter enthusiasts had

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DRIVER PLEADS GUILTY IN CRASH THAT KILLED ALUMNA A woman who was driving a car that ran off the road last fall and killed a recent university graduate pled guilty last week to involuntary manslaughter and maiming while driving intoxicated.

Ashley Roberta, 22, who had graduated from the university last May, was a passenger in the 2004 Infiniti that nearly split in two after striking a guardrail on the George Washington Parkway. The crash also injured U.S. men’s national soccer forward Charlie Davies, another passenger. Read more at www.diamondbackonline.com.

ON THE BLOG Students fill a Shuttle-UM bus to a Harry Potter midnight premiere in Hyattsville.

ally more Terp gear than character costumes, one could easily spot a from page 1 Hermione or an Albus Dumbledore and — of course — a wide variety of already gathered in time for the earlier Harry Potters.

Sophomore computer science 10:40 p.m. shuttle.

Even this early bus was packed to full major Adrian Harding, one of those capacity, with half of the crowd still left dressed as the titular character, on the sidewalk, but moans of disap- arrived at the theater complete with pointment as the bus pulled away his Hogwarts coat, Potter glasses quickly turned to excited cheers when and magic wand.

“This is kind of a once in a lifetime a second designated bus rolled up less experience,” Harding said. “So I than a minute later.

Several students said they had been thought, ‘Why not go all out for the waiting for this midnight premiere for a last movie?’ Except it’s in two parts, but the next part will be in the sumlong time.

“I’m extremely excited,” said fresh- mer. So it’ll be different because I man government and politics major won’t be on campus.”

And after the long anticipation and Ahuva Sunshine, who dressed as Hermione Granger — her favorite Pot- hectic ride to the midnight premiere, ter character — for the premiere. “I students came back with rave reviews knew if I didn’t [go to the midnight pre- for the latest Harry Potter installment.

“It was probably my favorite miere], everyone would be talking about it, and I didn’t want them to spoil movie in the series. It was pretty it for me. So I just had to see it as soon as true to the book, which was really great,” sophomore history and secit came out.”

Even those who didn’t consider ondary education major Britni Cunthemselves huge fans of the Potter ningham said, adding, “Once it was movies were eager to go along for over, it was really nice to just come out and see three buses just waiting the ride.

“I’m excited for the experience,” for us.”

While many students said they freshman bioengineering major Josh Nehrer said. “Being with all these crazy were grateful for the lift from DOTS, some complained the buses were Harry Potter fans will be fun.”

Although riders’ apparel was gener- overcrowded. Several students also

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reported that after they packed themselves back into the buses at about 2:45 a.m. to head back to the campus, the buses stayed put for another 45 minutes to wait for stragglers.

Students said as the buses began to head back, everyone was still pumped up and chatting with one another about what they just watched, but the excitement in the air gradually waned into weariness the closer they got to the campus.

Some students said they managed to get just a few hours of sleep before class the next day, while others admitted they slept right through their morning discussions.

Even so, most students said the trip to and from the midnight premiere was well worth the experience not only to see the movie but also to have the adventure along the way and back.

“What was cool about it was that it brought together a whole lot of people who probably wouldn’t have hung out other wise,” Cunningham said. “On the ride back, we were all excited talking about the movie and talking about the book. …

Ever ybody was a huge Harry Potter fan. So it was interesting to see that a lot of people had that interest in common.” villanueva@umdbk.com

blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive CHOCOLATE CRAVINGS As students gather with family and friends this week to enjoy Thanksgiving meals, it may not occur to many to be thankful for the star ingredient in many holiday desserts — chocolate.

But experts say environmental factors could lead to a widespread chocolate shortage and significant increase in prices.

For more details on the sweet’s possible future, visit The Diamondback’s Campus Drive newsroom blog at blogs.umdbk.com.

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MARKETING OPPORTUNITY SURVIVES TURTLE’S DEATH Not sure what to wear to Thirsty Turtle’s funeral? Route One Apparel has the answer.

A group of students is selling red mesh jerseys to commemorate the bar that was shuttered earlier this month after allegedly serving underage patrons.

The garment features a picture of a turtle wearing sunglasses, sipping a drink. It also includes a catchy phrase — “Barely Remembered, Never Forgotten” — and the words “Turtle Survivor” on the back. Read more at blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive.

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CAMERAS from page 1 range from 30 to 45 miles per hour — but the College Park Patch reported they will all be operational within six months.

Because Route 1 can be dangerous to pedestrians, sophomore marketing major Sam Blum said he supports the idea of speed cameras in College Park.

“I do think it’s a good idea.

It’ll be more money for the city, and they need it,” Blum said.

On the other hand, freshman criminology and criminal justice major Katie Chang said she might rethink bringing a car to the campus next year because of the speed cameras all over the city.

“It’s not going to slow people down. People are just going to get upset about it,”

A food delivery man was robbed early Saturday while bicycling at the intersection of Knox Road and Guilford Drive. ILLUSTRATION

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MUGGINGS from page 1 Cherokee Street in northern College Park, according to a www.nixle.com alert from county police.

The man was approached by a masked man who pointed a handgun at him and made off with his bag and wallet at about 7:15 p.m., police said.

The suspect — described as a black man, 18 to 20 years old, standing 5 feet, 6 inches tall and wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and a dark colored bandana — fled down 51st Avenue, police said.

University Police spokesman Ken Leonard said police did not send out a crime alert to the university community because the northern College Park incident occurred too far from the campus and therefore did not pose an immediate threat to students and staff members.

District 1 Commander Robert Liberati said county police will review video footage from the scenes and

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look to develop suspects for both robberies early this week. As of last night, University Police were still looking for a man who robbed a student of her cell phone and student ID card in a Mowatt Lane Garage stair well late Wednesday night.

Although the muggings occurred in a short time span, Leonard wasn’t ready to say that a trend is developing because the suspects in all three incidents have different descriptions.

Still, he urged students to take precaution as the university approaches the holiday weekend.

“Obviously with the increase in robberies in and around the area we continue to remind students to be aware of their surroundings, walk with other people at night and utilize transportation options,” Leonard said.

He said students should take advantage of available Shuttle-UM buses, the NITE Ride ser vice and police escort ser vices. present@umdbk.com

by-case basis — is already under review by the University Senate.

Loh said he won’t intervene in the body’s procedures but strongly recommended the protocol be implemented as a policy.

Some were concerned Loh’s move to crack down on underage drinking at bars near the University of Iowa — where he had spent the previous two years as provost — meant he would bring a no-compromises approach to the issue here.

But Loh said his experience with Iowa’s Good Samaritan policy was positive and he has seen its effectiveness at getting help for drunk students who need it at universities across the country.

Furthermore, after speaking with University Police Chief David Mitchell, Loh said it’s already an unwritten rule that this university’s officers won’t arrest an underage drunk student if he or she is calling for help, so there’s no reason that couldn’t be applied to other university sanctions.

“Of all the cases where some student has called in for help, police have not arrested the student,” Loh said. “They were only arrested if the student who called in was also involved in a

A new “photo enforced” sign appears under the speed limit on Route 1 near Fraternity Row as the city prepares to activate speed cameras there. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK

she said.

Chang said she doesn’t think cars make Route 1 unsafe; she feels crime is more to blame.

Freshman psychology major Ashley Boateng did think the $40 tickets will help deter drivers from speeding.

“I feel like the threat of knowing they’re there will slow them down,” she said.

crime, like assault. For all practical purposes, it’s an unwritten policy. So I said, ‘If that’s the case, what’s the big deal here?’”

Although administrators have long been silent on the issue, Loh said a healthy discussion dhas emerged.

Crystal Varkalis, a sophomore environmental science major and vice president of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy, said Loh’s commitment to a policy is a long-awaited show of administrative support.

“Hopefully, it will be the head honcho speaking behind us, instead of us having to battle against all the other administrators who weren’t for it,” she said.

“Finally having an administrator who feels the same way we’ve felt for so long ... I think it’s finally nice to have someone on our side and not be shooting us down.”

Undergraduate Senator Irina Alexander said Loh’s recommendation will hopefully carry some weight in the senate.

“I’m hoping it will, especially because he came from a university that had an all-inclusive Good Samaritan policy,” she said. “He’s someone who’s had experience with this issue. Even before he came in, we heard underage drinking and student health were one of his main concerns, so he’s built up some credibility.”

Director of the Office of Stu-

dent Conduct John Zacker, whose office uses the Responsible Action Protocol and has said that protocol is sufficient without a formal policy, couldn’t be reached for comment over the weekend.

Alcohol policy has gotten unusual attention this semester after the popular Thirsty Turtle bar lost its liquor license for allegedly serving underage students. But for Loh, who has vast experience dealing with underage drinking at Iowa, Turtle closing is just the tip of the iceberg.

“There’s no one single magical bullet,” he said. “Just closing a bar, it’s a tiny little first step. If all you do is just raise the [drinking] age, you just move the problem some where else. In fact, you make it worse. You take it into the neighborhoods ... it’s spread all over the damn city.

You have a far worse problem.”

Loh said Iowa has an even worse underage-drinking problem than this university, largely because downtown Iowa City has about 60 bars, while College Park now has two. Describing the city as a “Mecca for underage drinkers,” Loh said alcoholrelated emergency transports were often in the double digits in a single night.

He said there are several aspects that go into ending what he called “high-risk drinking,”

including policing neighborhoods, expanding alcohol education and giving students alternative activities on weekends.

For example, Loh said he allocated about half a million dollars to student groups there to fund late-night, alcohol-free functions. One widely popular event turned the university’s indoor pool into a floating movie theater — movies were projected onto the pool’s ceiling so that students could swim and watch a movie at the same time.

“You can have your dates there; you can meet people there; it’s packed,” he said. “People wearing their skimpy bikinis, floating in their inner tubes at 2 o’clock in the morning. And it was packed. We gave money to the students and said, ‘You come up with the activities.’ ...

Students said, ‘We want a bowling alley.’ I said, ‘Fine, we’ll build you a bowling alley.’”

With the state’s budget shortfall estimated at $1.6 billion, Loh said it’s unclear how similar funds at this university will be allocated. But, he said, his commitment to students is still the same.

“My goal is the safety of students,” he said. “If we can maintain the safety of students then I’ve done my job.”

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Problems with parking

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n the past few years, students have been forced to dig deeper into their short-term residency in the city acting as justification for delegitimizing whatpockets as costs rose. Whether it be tuition and student fees or the price ever concerns they may have.

Increasing the cost of residential street permits could contribute to of beer pitchers, students continue to pay more for life’s necessities.

And for those living in the neighborhoods of College Park, they may see decreasing congestion, but it seems there is a fairer way to go about it so that students are not the ones forced to pay for issues largely out of their hands. the price of another necessity begin to rise: parking.

A year ago, the city unveiled its 288-space, $9.3 million downtown parking At last week’s College Park City Council meeting, District 1 council members Patrick Wojahn and Christine Nagle floated the idea of increasing the garage. Originally built to help draw more shoppers and diners to the downprice of city parking permits for households with two or more cars — their town area and alleviate the parking shortage in the College Park Shopping Center, the garage has largely been a flop. Many still argument being that such a measure would help reduce opt to park at the shopping center, and the expected the nightmarish parking situation and ease congestion increase in retail that some thought would follow the in the city.

An idea to raise the cost of garage’s opening has been absent.

While this is a worthy goal and addresses an imporWith the garage bringing in little revenue, the city tant problem, the means by which the council wishes to parking permits for residences has begun to look to money from monthly garage persolve it directly targets students. After all, who exactly with over two cars has merit, mits. Yet the publicity campaign, much like that for the would a price increase for households with more than garage in general, has been lackluster, with many two cars affect: local families or students? Obviously, the but the city council should unaware that such permits exist. For a garage that answer is students, for most houses with renters often think of alternate ways to raise boasts nearly 300 parking spaces but averages only 50 have numerous cars depending on the number of sturevenue and decrease vehicles to 100 cars a day, transforming part of the garage into dents that live there. long-term parking for city residents would not only City permits are only $10 for the year. In comparison, on city streets. ease street congestion but increase use of the garage. the Department of Transportation Services charges onNo doubt some residents would have little interest parking in the garage, campus residents a whopping $419 to park on the campus and commuters $217. And in many other college towns, students pay considerably more than depending on the distance to their homes. But if they city were to offer a disthe existing $10 charge to park in residential neighborhoods that have an count to city residents or students in an attempt to increase usership, it could influx of cars. The council has not yet determined what the new permit price encourage drivers to park a few minutes from home and walk, much as students living in South Campus Commons do when parking in the Mowatt tag will be for additional cars.

As such, an increase in the cost of city parking permits is perhaps in order Lane garage.

A price increase for on-street parking permits could have its benefits for the — not only as a way to bring in needed revenue but as a means to help reduce the number of unnecessary cars in residential neighborhoods, thus creating a city, but a plan that implicitly targets students seems all too unfair. By creating a plan that provides alternatives and diminish the bull’s eye on students, greener city.

But the proposal as advocated for by Wojahn and Nagle seems narrow- the city has an opportunity to lessen congestion and use the city garage that sighted and once again perpetuates the city’s negative attitude toward stu- has been mostly unsuccessful. But perhaps more importantly, they have a dents. Students, it seems, are the fall man for every city problem, with their chance to lessen the long-standing perception of an anti-student city council.

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Editorial cartoon: Shai Goller

Sustainability: A call for comprehensive recycling

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ecently I received an email asking for student feedback about the state of the university as administrators work on updating the Strategic Plan. This got me thinking about ways the university can continue to improve its sustainability efforts.

It would be great if the university could increase the number of recycling bins around the campus, as well as make the types of acceptable recyclables consistent at each receptacle. While there is a recycling bin next to most trash cans around McKeldin Mall and Stamp Student Union, they are few and far between across the rest of campus. I have had to throw out recyclables on numerous occasions because I either did not want to walk across the campus to find a recycling bin or it was not a can or plastic bottle. Most things are recyclable now, so the bins should reflect that.

Another key component of the university recycling program should be

GRACE GOODE consistency with what is acceptable to put in the recycling bin. Although the university pledged to switch to single-stream recycling in academic and administrative buildings in October, there are still some buildings that haven’t made the switch yet. And the change doesn’t effect dorms at all. Simply put, it would just be nice if there were recycling bins on the campus that accepted every type of recycling, regardless of where you are on the campus — anything to cut down on the number of recyclables that get thrown out because of an easily preventable problem.

It’s important that we keep finding ways to be more sustainable because it is such an easy opportunity. It

would be selfish and stupid not to answer the challenge. We dominate the surrounding environment, constantly altering it, and usually not for the better. The fact that the Wooded Hillock was even being offered up as prime real estate for “development” last year is a clear reminder that we often demonstrate our dominance in reckless ways.

It would be pretty cool to see the creative things we could accomplish if we challenged ourselves as a university-wide community to treat our surrounding environment with compassion and care: compassion because of the simple fact that we take our natural environment for granted all the time, and care because only through ensuring our immediate natural environment is healthy will we know we are healthy.

We can probably all at least agree there is a connection between a healthy natural environment and the individual health of each person who lives in that environment, right?

Maybe if the university set a challenge to see how inclusive the recycling program could be, it would mean an easier task of convincing College Park to waive the fee for picking up recycling from local businesses. Just think about how much glass and plastic gets thrown away at the bars because there is no recycling service provided. Sure you can recycle; if you are willing to pack everything up and truck it to a far off recycling center.

Recycling as much as possible only makes sense in the present environmental state of affairs. Unfortunately our supplies are not endless, regardless of how much we pretend or refuse to acknowledge it. We take resources from the earth on a continual basis, so really it’s just a matter of maintaining the balance, restocking what we take out.

Grace Goode is a junior anthropology major. She can be reached at goode@umdbk.com.

Airport security: Finding a balance

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ll too often, students are not aware of their most basic constitutional rights.

As a consequence, in too many cases, fellow students face unlawful and unmerited violations of their civil rights. And as many of us travel home for the convenience of free laundr y and food over Thanksgiving break, we will continue to face such risks thanks to more aggressive security measures implemented by the Transportation Security Administration.

In March, the TSA deployed 385 advanced imaging devices at 68 airports across the countr y. The TSA adopted millimeter wave and backscatter scanners, which transmit electromagnetic waves that pass through clothes and reflect a three dimensional image of a person’s naked body, revealing any concealed items. Passengers can refuse and opt-out of this intrusive screening if they desire, but refusal prompts a similarly invasive full body pat-down.

Over the past few weeks, groups of concerned citizens have used the Internet in an effort to encourage travelers to partake in a National Opt-Out protest — all set to occur during this busy travel holiday weekend. Passengers are urged by these groups to refuse screening and instead undergo the pat-down searches, which take considerably longer and are likely to cause significant delays.

Certainly, the TSA must ensure an appropriate level of security for travel while simultaneously diminishing the impact of such procedures on the traveling public. But it is no less important that travel by other means, on trains, boats and buses, also remains safe. It is troubling and alarming that these enhanced security procedures — if truly necessar y — are absent from the security aboard these other forms of mass transit.

Moreover, it is disconcerting that TSA Administrator John Pistole defended these procedures yester-

ANDREW STEINBERG day on morning talk shows and confirmed there are no plans to change the policy. According to Pistole, these increasingly invasive procedures are justified because they minimize evolving threats to aviation security. Yet, Pistole also alluded to the fact that other countries such as Israel have a less physically intrusive security model that seeks certain behavioral cues that are indicative of potential threats.

And this system is extremely effective: Israel’s international airport security has not been breached since 2002.

We should not have to undergo a virtual strip search or have a hand run past our genitals just to step aboard an aircraft. Such a screening

is humiliating and degrading, and something no one should have to experience as a prerequisite to travel. As you travel home this holiday season, I encourage you to consider what you would subject yourself to in order to travel.

Although TSA’s goal to keep passengers safe and evolve screening procedures is laudable, we must find a better balance that respects the dignity and privacy of travelers.

Surely, we cannot be lackadaisical in protecting ourselves and others, but we must not shed our personal freedoms at the airport terminal in the process. And as Benjamin Franklin eloquently said, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deser ve neither and lose both.” To that end, let’s find an equilibrium and keep both.

Andrew Steinberg is a senior criminology and criminal justice and government and politics major. He can be reached at steinberg@umdbk.com.

The Nov. 16 article “City officials to illuminate local streets” discusses the dangers of poorly lit areas (even though the people interviewed only spoke about how they “feel” less safe in unlit areas and the article does not cite any statistics reinforcing validity of this feeling), but what about the dangers of light pollution? If one were to do some quick research, I am sure it would become clear how, in addition to wasting energy, excessive lighting negatively affects wildlife, our view of the night sky (talk to the observatory’s staffers about how unnecessary lighting is ruining their ability to conduct research) and even human health. I’d say the clear research supporting a link between the incidence of cancer and excessive lighting is more rigorous than some students’ mistaken view that every dark area hides a rapist.

MICHAEL KOSSIN SOPHOMORE PHYSICS

An inspirational event Thursday night, I attended the Oxfam America Hunger Banquet held in the Nyumburu Cultural Center, and it was an eye-opening and memorable addition to the events that marked National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. There were more than 100 people in attendance. The event was organized

by Mar yPIRG, and all of the food was donated by Hillel. As attendees filtered into the room, they were handed a slip of colored paper that would determine their socioeconomic destiny — green for the poorest portion of the global population, blue for the middle class and red for the wealthiest individuals. Most students in attendance didn’t know the significance of the colors or the nature of the banquet, and most were surprised when five individuals were invited to sit at a candlelit dinner, while the vast majority of people in the room were directed to sit in circles on the floor.

As a student who has had experience with similar events in the past, I was excited by the positive energy and level of discourse and participation sustained throughout the evening. Even the most destitute, sitting on the floor and eating only rice, had engaged in thoughtful discussions from the outset. The first speaker from Oxfam touched on the unequal distribution of food in the world but also discussed in-depth issues such as the misguided motivations and detrimental effects of food aid — something that was unwittingly illustrated when one of the girls in the most privileged group guiltily snuck her second bottle of sparkling cider to a lower class circle.

The banquet concluded with an empowering speech from Stephanie Grutzmacher, a faculty research associate at this university, which left ever yone in the room with a better understanding of our personal ability to combat hunger and poverty around the world. Her speech also left us with a number of ways to pursue the fight against hunger and poverty, with a list of reputable organizations and recommended further readings.

This event was truly a remarkable and moving experience, and I was inspired to see so many people coming together to discuss how to alleviate hunger and poverty in their communities and across the world.

CATHERINE TAPPERT FRESHMAN ARABIC STUDIES

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REVIEW | ASSASSIN’S CREED BROTHERHOOD

When in Rome

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Staff writer

Assassins are the perfect predators.

They watch their prey while in plain sight, waiting until the moment is right to strike. They are stealthy, mysterious and get the job done.

And when they work in groups, they’re unstoppable.

The ability for a player to take on the role of an assassin, along with a contemporary, sci-fiinspired parallel storyline, is part of what has made the Assassin’s Creed series so successful.

Publisher and developer Ubisoft (Shaun White Skateboarding) has brought the series back for another round on the computer, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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where Assassin’s Creed II left off, in the year 2012. Newly discovered assassin Desmond Miles and his companions travel to Italy to build a new hideout to escape the Templars, against whom they are waging a centuries-old war.

It also marks the return of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Desmond’s ancestor and the descendant of Altaïr, the hero of the original game.

In the parallel Renaissanceera storyline, Ezio is traveling to Moteriggioni, Italy with his uncle Mario. After the villa is attacked and Mario is killed, Ezio takes off to Rome to find those responsible.

Rome, however, is being taken over by irate politician and nobleman Cesare Borgia. The city is “the center of Borgia and Templar rule.”

Ezio can’t take down the Tem-

plar order by himself, so in a new move for the series, he recruits some help.

Players enlist oppressed citizens into their ranks to build their forces. These citizens can be trained and sent on contract missions to improve their skills. The new assassins can also be called in to back up Ezio during combat.

Eventually, Ezio may not need to fight at all, returning to stealth mode while the novices fight guards for him.

Everything that made Assassin’s Creed II a great sequel is in place in Brotherhood. In fact, the games are extremely similar and look and play almost identically.

The graphics are crisp, the controls are responsive (sometimes too responsive) and there are more mind-bending puzzles to solve. As always, Ezio’s rooftop parkour is as liberating as virtual

experiences can be.

Real historical figures continue to play supporting roles — most returning from Assassin’s Creed II — such as philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli, saucy Italian noblewoman Catalina Sforza and Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci.

Rome isn’t the only location in Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, but it’s where the majority of the story takes place. It doesn’t allow for as much exploration as the previous titles, which split up the game between several locales. That’s not to say Rome gets stale — it’s a rather large playing field — but the exploration is slightly downplayed.

Just like in Assassin’s Creed II, Desmond Miles is slowly becoming a more interesting character.

As he develops confidence, he becomes more interesting to play when you’re not controlling Ezio (his newfound assassin skills

don’t hurt, either). Miles has grown from a whiny captive to a self-assured adventurer. It’s gotten to the point where he’s a protagonist who is almost as interesting as his assassin ancestors.

Unlike its predecessors, the combat in this game isn’t limited to one-on-one fighting. If guards flank Ezio, he can take out one and then go into a chained killstreak, taking out multiple enemies in one series of moves.

Also, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood brings another feature to the table that its predecessors did not: multiplayer mode.

The online multiplayer modes thrust assassins into a hunt for each other. Players are given contracts to kill other players but must also avoid those out for them. These are available in both team and solo modes, with more to unlock. There are many different characters as well, each with their own unlockable gear.

While Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood fixed previous combat issues, a few other problems still persist. Controls can be touchy, and some camera angles can get a little wacky, sometimes blocking the player’s view of Ezio.

Despite these problems being few and far between, they’re especially annoying when they interrupt what is otherwise a high-quality game.

There is no other way to say it — Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is the quintessential game of the series. It has all of the improvements Assassin’s Creed II made over the original plus a few tweaks of its own.

On top of that, its online multiplayer is a blast.

The most important thing for an assassin to do is to stay under the radar. Don’t let this game go under yours. afreedman@umdbk.com

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“I just have a picture in my mind of them winning last year,” Frazer said. “I just wanted it be us so much this year. We did it, so I’m happy.

“I really don’t know what happened, where I got the ball or where it came from,” she said of the game-winning goal. “I just remember feeling it hit my stick and seeing it hit the backboard.”

With the win yesterday, the Terps (23-1) claimed their seventh national championship and fourth in six years.

Three different players — Frazer, defender Harriet Tibble and forward Hayley Turner — scored in the game to help compensate for a surprising lack of scoring from O’Donnell, who was held without a point yesterday but made an impact nonetheless by setting up Frazer’s goal.

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better team,” coach Missy Meharg said. “They had a deep defense that statistically was holding people out. ... But we’ve got a lot of scoring threats.”

Although the Terps left with the win, the Tar Heels (22-3) held the lead for the majority of the contest.

North Carolina midfielder Marta Malmberg scored the Tar Heels’ second goal of the game on a straight shot off a penalty corner in the 42nd minute.

With a one-goal deficit, the Terps tried to rally, only to be stopped by a stingy Tar Heel defense anchored by Kintzer, who finished with nine saves.

Despite being turned away initially, the Terps didn’t stop their offensive pressure, realizing there was ample time for a comeback.

“They gave us the best possible lesson last year,” O’Donnell said of the Terps’ lastminute national championship loss in 2009. “When we went a goal down, it was like,

‘The game’s not over. If they could win a game in 11.9 seconds and we still have [28] minutes left, ... we still have plenty of time to turn it around.’”

The Terps did just that in the 63rd minute, when Tibble gained possession inside North Carolina territory before dribbling around a Tar Heel defender inside the shooting circle. After a quick glance toward the goal, Tibble hit a backhanded shot from the left side that beat Kintzer to the right and tied the game at two.

“We just kept giving it what we had. We just kept going,” Tibble said. “We just kept playing our game, passing it around and playing as a team. ... That’s just how we play Maryland hockey, and it worked for us.”

After Tibble’s goal, her first of the season, both teams were held scoreless for the ensuing 30 minutes of action.

But the Terps were able to break through in the 98th

minute off of Frazer’s shot.

“It was a sweet shot,” O’Donnell said. “Backboard height, and it was just a rocket.

I don’t think anybody in the nation could have saved that.”

For the team’s three seniors — O’Donnell and defenders Alicia Morawski and Amanda Himmelheber — the championship proved a fitting ending to careers defined by success.

“I took a moment, and I just looked around,” O’Donnell said. “We are definitely rivals.

It’s amazing. ... I couldn’t have asked for a better four years and a better senior year.”

TERP NOTE: Frazer, O’Donnell, Tibble and defender Lauren Barr were named to the NCAA All-Tournament team yesterday. The Terps tied the record for most games won in the NCAA Tournament with 47. The only other team with 47 wins is Old Dominion, whose nine national titles are also an NCAA-best. jengelke@umdbk.com

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“I just wanted to get a good shot off,” Stoglin said. “We understand what we need to do to win big games. We just have to finish it at the end.”

Stoglin redeemed his earlier miss by hitting a 3-pointer with 14 seconds remaining after Illinois had missed four straight free throws. But Illinois guard Brandon Paul nailed both his attempts to ice the game in the final seconds.

“This wasn’t a guarantee game up here,” Gary Williams said.

Even with Jordan Williams and Gregory picking up two early fouls in the first half, the Terps kept up with the Fighting Illini throughout the opening 20 minutes. Williams played nine minutes in the first half, going 0-for-1 and grabbing two rebounds. He ultimately finished the game with his fourth double-double of the season (15 points, 13 rebounds).

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turnovers,” Friedgen said.

O’Brien was hit while tr ying to pitch the ball to running back Davin Meggett early in the game. Florida State recovered the loose ball, setting up a touchdown drive on a short field.

In the fourth quarter, the Terps unraveled even further.

Facing pressure on a third down, O’Brien rushed a low pass that was picked off by cornerback Greg Reid. Though replays appeared to show the ball hitting the ground, the officials held up the call after a review.

“I don’t know what the replay showed, but it looked like on the board that he dropped it,” Friedgen said.

Though the Terp defense

The Terps won the rebounding battle and controlled the paint for much of the night, but they couldn’t defend Illinois’ streaky 3-point shooters. For a 12-minute period encompassing both halves, the Fighting Illini didn’t score a single field goal inside the arc. But they did hit eight 3-pointers during that stretch and finished the game hitting 10 of 19. The Terps, meanwhile, hit five of 18.

“They’re a great streak shooting team. They seem to feed off each other,” Gary Williams said.

“You would like to match their 3-pointers. We’ll get there.”

Even with the two-loss trip to New York, the Terps didn’t leave feeling too down on their performance. Last season, they lost two games in a November tournament and still went to the NCAA Tournament.

“We just showed that we had a lot of heart, and that’s going to help us for the rest of the season,” Stoglin said. “We’re a young team, so we’re just learning from everything.”

“We’re a work in progress, no doubt about it,” Gary Williams said. “But we’re a pretty good basketball team.” ceckard@umdbk.com

forced a three-and-out, seemingly avoiding any damage, a purposefully short Seminole punt hit Terp cornerback Cameron Chism in the back, and Florida State recovered 17 yards from the end zone. The Terp defense held the Seminoles to a field goal, but the Terps still needed seven points to force overtime. On the final play of the potential game-winning drive, O’Brien again threw a touchdown — but to the wrong team.

“I thought we did a great job moving the ball down there, but in the end, we just came up short,” Friedgen said. “We are going to beat one of these teams one of these days. I see it. We are very close. Through all the adversity we had today, we still had a chance to win it at the end.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

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on a left-footed strike from 10 yards out to the far post.

The extra strength from the week off proved instrumental.

“We did a lot to really rejuvenate their minds and their bodies so that they would be feeling very fresh for today’s game,” Cirovski said. “I think you saw the result. The energy was outstanding.”

Goalkeeper Zac MacMath built on his ACC Tournament Most Valuable Player performance with several key saves at the beginning of the game and during the second half. Despite

a rotating backline due to a rash of injuries, MacMath has continued to excel, recording his 14th shutout of the season against the Quakers.

“Everyone has responded well with injuries or new positions,” MacMath said. “Everyone has confidence in each other.”

For the ninth straight season, the Terps have advanced to the Sweet 16. There, they’ll face the Nittany Lions in a rematch from last season’s NCAA Tournament.

“When you get to the round of 16, you only see good teams,” Cirovski said. “So we’ll be ready for them.” ceckard@umdbk.com

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Running back Da’Rel Scott, center, is tackled by a pair of Florida State defenders during the Terps’ 30-16 loss Saturday. Despite a productive game offensively, the Terps committed several turnovers that ultimately cost them a shot at the Atlantic Division title. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

KNOCKED OUT Terps bounced from contention for ACC Championship with 30-16 defeat

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

Entering Saturday’s game, the Terrapin football team already had far surpassed expectations for this season, transforming from a 10-loss team into a conference contender.

But the Terps wanted more — a signature win against Florida State, an Atlantic Division title, an ACC Championship.

Even after a pair of fourth-quarter turnovers Saturday night, the Terps still had a chance at keeping those hopes alive.

Down by seven points, the Terps took over with less than five minutes on the clock and drove downfield.

With 54 seconds remaining, the Terps faced a fourth down on the 19yard line. But facing pressure from the Florida State defense, quarterback Danny O’Brien threw a pass blindly up the middle, where it was picked out of the air by Seminole safety Nick Moody, who took it 96 yards to the opposite end zone.

“I didn’t even see where the receiver was,” O’Brien said after the Terps’ 30-16 loss. “I was just kind of throwing to where I thought he would be. I didn’t even see him. I just didn’t want to go down for the sack.

We had [tight end] Will [Yeatman] coming short and [wide receiver] Adrian Cannon coming behind him, and I was just trying to get it up.”

The Terps gave chase to Moody’s run before slowing down and staring dejectedly, knowing the score signaled an end to their title run. Many of the 48,115 in attendance at Byrd Stadium exited en masse soon after, not sticking around to watch the final seconds of a result they were all too familiar with.

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the Seminoles in a similar scenario, suffering a 37-3 blowout during a prime-time, “blackout” game in late November with a spot in the ACC Championship on the line. Satur-

day’s showing offered more competitiveness but no difference in outcome. The Terps again are out of contention in the Atlantic Division.

Even while dealing with injuries to

an already depleted offensive line, the Terps managed to hold momentum through much of the first three quarters. Starting right tackle Justin Lewis went out with a knee injury, while center Bennett Fulper missed the majority of the first half with an injured hand before returning after halftime. True freshman Max Garcia, who burned his redshirt to come in after Fulper’s injury, also was hurt.

“Those are all guys in an area where we couldn’t sustain many more losses, but our kids were right in it to the very end,” coach Ralph Friedgen said. “I think the biggest thing that could have gone wrong today did, and we didn’t flinch.”

For a while, it looked as if the Seminoles’ mistakes would end up costing them the game.

With the Terps driving in the first quarter, Florida State appeared to have an interception for a touchdown. The turnover was called back after an unnecessary roughness penalty, however, giving the Terps new life on their possession before tying the game at 10.

Later, Terp safety Kenny Tate intercepted a pass by quarterback Christian Ponder, helping set up a Terp field goal. A fumble by the Seminoles led to another field goal for the Terps, giving them a 16-13 lead in the third quarter.

But in the end, it was the Terps’ miscues — something that had become rarities this season — that sealed the final result. Though the Terps ended with eight more first downs than the Seminoles and 78 more yards of total offense, they lost the turnover battle, 4-2.

“The tale of the night was the

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NEW YORK – Terrapin men’s basketball guards Sean Mosley and Terrell Stoglin both said their team’s effort Friday came from the heart.

For a second straight night, the Terps allowed a top-15 team to make a run early in the second half to push its lead to double digits. And on both occasions, the Terps just held on, continuing to pick away at the deficit before putting themselves within striking distance in the final minutes.

Pulling out a win, though, proved the problem. In the consolation game of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs.

Cancer, the Terps fell to No. 13 Illinois, 80-76, to cap off the tournament with two losses at Madison Square Garden.

“I’m really proud of the team,” said coach Gary Williams, whose Terps also fell to No. 4 Pitt, 79-70, on Thursday.

“Both nights here, we could have folded, but we didn’t.”

After for ward Dino Gregor y’s basket gave the Terps a one-point lead with 15:31 remaining in the game, the Fighting Illini made their push. They hit back-to-back 3-pointers and attacked the basket with two layups to grab their largest lead of the night.

While the Terps (3-2) didn’t let Illinois streak away, they also couldn’t cut into the deficit. With 5:35 remaining, two free throws by Illinois guard Demetri McCamey gave the team a 12-point lead.

Then the Terps started finding forward Jordan Williams in the post. Williams, who went scoreless in the first half due to early foul trouble, nailed three of his final four free throws, and Stoglin hit a pair of 3-pointers to give the Terps a chance.

“We kept fighting, we kept pushing,” Mosley said. “We were right there.”

Perhaps the biggest chance for the Terps came after two made free throws from Williams with 90 seconds remaining.

After an Illinois (4-1) timeout, Stoglin jumped in front of an inbounds pass for a

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Foul trouble limited forward Jordan Williams, left, for much of the first half in the Terps’ 80-76 loss to Illinois on Friday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

MEN’S SOCCER

After week of rest, Terps show their stuff in 4-0 win vs. Penn With early three-goal surge, team moves to Sweet 16

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

After a seven-day layoff since its ACC Championship performance, the Terrapin men’s soccer team didn’t wait long yesterday to begin its quest for a fourth national championship in earnest.

Looking to erase the memory of a no-shot second-half performance against North Carolina on Nov. 14, the Terps scored only nine minutes in against Penn, starting what became a three-goal first-half outburst in a 4-0 win against the Quakers in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

The win at Ludwig Field moved the second-seeded Terps (18-2-1) on to the Sweet 16, where they’ll face No. 15 seed Penn State on Sunday.

The Terps’ longest break of the season didn’t hurt their Division I-best offense. Ailing with injuries and fatigue after three games in five days in Car y, N.C., the Terps used last week to recover. Against the Quakers, they looked the part of a fresh team.

“When we have our legs and our energy, we can dictate the tempo of the game,” coach Sasho Cirovski said. “I thought today our guys benefited from a week of preparation. ... I

thought it was a complete performance.”

Midfielder John Stertzer started the Terps off quickly when he received a header in the penalty box from forward Jason Herrick. He slid and knocked the ball to the left part of the net as Penn goalkeeper Ben Berg dived right.

“They did all the hard work, really. I just put myself in a good position,” Stertzer said.

“We talked about it before the game that we wanted to come out strong. I know if I put the work in, my time will come.”

With the confidence from the first strike and fresh legs, the Terps kept attacking. Mid-

Defender Greg Young lines up his first-half goal during the Terps’ 4-0 win yesterday against Penn.

The Terps will face No. 15 seed Penn State in the Sweet 16. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

way through the half, forward Casey Townsend found himself battling with Penn defender Thomas Brandt in the penalty box for an incoming pass.

Brandt pulled him down, drawing a penalty kick. Midfielder Matt Kassel calmly nailed his ninth goal of the season by beating Berg with a shot to the

lower right corner of the net.

“This week break leading up to this game really helped me get my legs back,” Kassel said.

“It’s just important to step up and be confident.”

Defender Greg Young capped off the efficient first half with a wide-open score from eight yards out. Young found

himself with possession after a Kassel free kick and powered the ball to the top of the net for the first goal of his career.

With the game easily in hand, midfielder Patrick Mullins scored the game’s final goal in the 88th minute

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