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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
THE DIAMONDBACK THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Our 101ST Year, No. 65
Students buy Four Loko while it lasts As FDA cracks down and stores cease to sell controversial drink, students stock up BY KELLY FARRELL AND BEN PRESENT Staff writers
Editor’s Note: The last names of several students have been withheld because they discuss drinking underage. After two tumultuous months under national scrutiny and an official warning from the Food and Drug
their favorite cocktail while it still packs the same punch. Several states — not including this one — and universities banned the beverage in its original form earlier this month. The FDA weighed in shortly thereafter, and made alcoholic energy drinks illegal. Phusion Projects, the Chicago-based manufacturer of Four Loko and
Administration, the makers of Four Loko announced two weeks ago they’d strip the alcoholic beverage of its energy-boosting components. But many students refused to bid the beverage a quiet goodbye. Instead, “Farewell, Four Loko” has become a popular party theme as students race to liquor stores to stock up on
similar products, promptly agreed to remove the caffeine, guarana and taurine — three of the drink’s four ‘loco’ ingredients — and other substances from their drink. The combination of those ingredients was the main reason the concoction was dubbed “blackout in a can” and led to its label as a menace to young drinkers. Many
of the beverage’s fans, however, said the recipe was exactly what made the drink so appealing. Sam, a junior engineering major, said she and her friends decided to hold a Four Loko funeral once they heard it would lose its signature ingredients. “We called every liquor
see REGULATION, page 2
After Thanksgiving weekend, many students were surprised to find Quiznos locked, dark and empty. MATTHEW CREGER/ THE DIAMONDBACK
Abrupt close leaves some asking ‘why?’
A dream deferred
Quiznos becomes latest city shop to close down BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer
If the locked doors and dark windows are any indication, Quiznos is toast. But no one seems sure why. The latest in a handful of business casualties in recent months, Quiznos’ unexpected and unexplained closing two weeks ago took patrons and employees by surprise. Billy Gamy, an employee at the national sandwich chain, showed up for his scheduled shift on Nov. 16 after taking two days off, but the building was empty. “On the 13th, everything was just fine,” Gamy said. “When you look inside and see nothing, it’s kind of a heads up. I guess I don’t work here anymore.” Gamy said he sat outside the store and watched as other employees — dressed in full uniform — attempted to open the locked doors. They didn’t know the establishment had closed either. Neither Quiznos management or Greenhill Capital — the company that owns the strip from Wynn Hair Studio to Vito’s Pizzeria — could be reached to comment on why the downtown restaurant has disappeared. A customer relations representative
see QUIZNOS, page 2
After three deployments and divorce, doctoral student-veteran works to complete his degree BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer
When Kirby Bowling started his first semester as a doctoral student, he knew there was a chance he would have to leave. At the time, the Iraq War was just beginning and troops across the nation were preparing to deploy. In January of 2003, Bowling, who is a Security Forces Officer in the Air Force, received a phone call informing
Kirby Bowling has been deployed three times while pursuing a doctorate degree. Bowling says he hopes to graduate in a year and a half. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
With plan in hand, students renew push for Native American studies
him he had a week to prepare for deployment to North Africa and Europe. His mission was to help guard thousands of troops who were getting ready to invade Iraq. For the sociology student, the request was not exactly a surprise. He’d wanted to deploy for a while, going so far as to change from being in the military full-time to working as a reservist — a standby, to increase
see BOWLING, page 3
New co-op housing fosters community BY RACHEL ROUBEIN
Provost lauds effort, says subject matter is important BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer
This is not the first time students have rallied behind a push to expand Native American studies at this university. But with a renewed energy, greater organization and a better sense of what it may take to see the discipline expand, students, faculty and administrators engaged in the movement say this time, they expect results. Earlier this month, an informal coalition of university students, faculty and staff members, calling themselves the Native American Studies Working Group, met for the first time to brainstorm how to progress toward creating more Native American studies courses, hir-
ing more Native American faculty and staff and forming a Native American studies minor. And the outcome, some said, seems more promising than ever before. Student activists circulated a petition for Native American studies that garnered over 360 signatures in a week before a small group of student leaders met with Provost Nariman Farvardin last Tuesday to discuss these goals. Following the meeting, Farvardin noted achieving these goals would take time and careful study; minors don’t materialize overnight. The U.S. Latina/o studies minor, which was instated in 2008 after student protests and petitions came to a head that year, took
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several years of talks and planning to come to fruition. Still, Farvardin recognized that Native American history and cultures are subjects the university should address. “I am quite supportive of developing a more robust set of courses in Native American studies as this topic constitutes an important part of the history and culture of our country,” he wrote in an e-mail earlier this week. “We will have to gauge the interest of our students in taking these courses, and the interest and expertise of the faculty in teaching them. I will discuss this matter with the deans of the colleges that are likely to be engaged in offering these
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Staff writer
From the exterior, they look like three ordinary College Park houses. But unlike the average city rental home, participants in the Co-op Housing University of Maryland Inc. group say their houses — decorated with homemade drawings and murals painted on roofing material recovered from a trash container — have truly become home. The Mad Ox, the Bucket and the Pod — as
see HOUSING, page 2
see COURSES, page 3 INDEX
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