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Sorority houses to get $13.7M facelift Sigma Alpha Mu

Alpha Phi, Phi Sigma Sigma receive upgrades

colony disbanded

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

Allegations of hazing, underage drinking

While Facilities Management crews have been busy building and updating several campus buildings this semester, they are also in the midst of renovating the Alpha Phi and Phi Sigma Sigma sorority houses in an effort to spruce up aging student housing facilities.

After the Residence Hall Association requested Facilities Management upgrade the houses, crews began working on the $13.7 million project — which was made possible by funds allocated by the Division of Student Affairs — in July,

see RENOVATIONS, page 3

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

The Phi Sigma Sigma house, 4531 College Ave., is one of two outdated sorority houses under construction. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Students who attempted to revive this university’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu failed to bring the fraternity back to the campus after their national organization revoked its affiliation and removed its recently achieved colony status.

The fraternity was recognized as a colony — a probationary group looking to receive full chapter recognition — by its national organization in February, but Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Matt Supple said the university has not formally acknowledged any Sigma Alpha Mu group since revoking the chapter’s char-

ter in 2006 for risk management violations and failure to comply with expectations and policies of the university. The group was registered separately with the Student Activities Reporting System.

After Supple and Office of Student Conduct officials reported repeated allegations of underage drinking and hazing to Sigma Alpha Mu’s national body last semester, it dropped the group once again and ran an ad in The Diamondback on Nov. 30 to make the split clear to students.

“We wanted a clean break with this group,” Sigma Alpha Mu Executive Director Leland Manders said. “We

see FRATERNITY, page 3

Mark Turgeon has his first impressive win as Terrapins men’s basketball coach, and guard Terrell Stoglin’s impressive outing to thank for it.

The sophomore scored 31 points in a 78-71 victory over Notre Dame at the BB&T Classic in Washington yesterday. Forward James Padgett had a double-double and guard Sean Mosley chipped in 17 points for the Terps, who held off a late charge by the Fighting Irish inside Verizon Center to claim their fourth win in seven games this season.

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University alumnae Jeanine Reyes and Rachel Devadas raised $570 to participate in a 15K race for charity. PHOTO COURTESY OF JEANINE REYES

Running for a good cause

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Alumnae raise money for sick children

Professor creates sustainable energy source

Develops high-tech fuel cell to power cars, houses, other buildings

BY CLAIRE SARAVIA Staff writer

Once-futuristic green energy sources may become mainstream sooner than imagined, as a university engineering professor works to develop a versatile fuel cell for cars, homes and other buildings.

For 25 years, Eric Wachsman has

been designing a fuel cell that can utilize a variety of energy sources — including hydrogen, natural gas and gasoline — to produce pollution-free power.

“That fuel flexibility is important,” Wachsman said. “[The fuel cell] could be used in a car, in a house or as a battery replacement for a car like the Chevy Volt.”

Wachsman said the public thinks of

fuel cell technology as futuristic because hydrogren fuel cells — the most popular prototype — cannot be widely used until hydrogen filling stations are developed.

“They’ve all thought of it as based on hydrogen, and because of that they kept thinking of fuel cells as future

see FUEL, page 3

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

In the Saturday morning cold, Jeanine Reyes waited for a gunshot to signal the start of the 15-kilometer Hot Chocolate Run for Bears.

With each step she took along the trail as part of the day’s Hot Chocolate 15k, the university alumna raised money for the Builda-Bear Workshop to send stuffed animals to children’s hospitals, totaling $570. And because Reyes hopes to become a pediatrician, the cause was close to her heart.

Reyes, who graduated from this university with a biological sciences degree in the spring, said she plans to apply to medical school next year and hopes to work with children after obtaining her degree. She volunteers at the neonatal intensive care unit at Howard County General Hospital and works as an emergency room scribe in Anne Arundel Medical Center.

Although she enjoys the entire hospital atmosphere, Reyes said

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TAKING PRIDE IN THEIR TRIBES

The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education hosted its seventh annual Native American Indian Powwow, which featured tribal dancers, educational displays on Native American history and vendors selling traditional goods, at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center on Saturday. PHOTOS BY CHELSEA DIRECTOR/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

RUN from page 1 her passion lies in pediatrics.

“I love the experience as a whole, but I love the pediatric side,” she said. “In middle school, we took a trip to a children’s hospital and played with children who were terminally ill, and I envisioned this Build-a-Bear Workshop to be like that, so the kids have something to enjoy and to ease the situation and to stop wor-

rying about their medical situations. They’re still kids, and it’s not fair that they have these illnesses.”

Reyes raised $570 to donate to UMPS CARE Charities, the nonprofit established by Major League Baseball umpires that helped sponsor Saturday’s race.

Runners could choose to raise money to benefit a charity — including Build-a-Bear or the Ronald McDonald House — but others attended just to enjoy a jog at National Harbor.

Each bear costs between $20

and $25 for the organization to build, Reyes said, and each runner benefitting a charity had to raise at least $350. She turned to family and friends for donations.

“There was a minimum fundraising goal … but I wanted to make it $500,” she said. “I wanted them to be able to make at least 20 bears, and it was awesome because I did it.”

Rachel Devadas, Reyes’ college roommate and best friend from high school , joined her in the race but did not fundraise for a cause.

The run’s cause fit Reyes’ interests perfectly, Devadas said .

“She wants to be in pediatrics, so I think it’s awesome, and this is exactly what she wants to do,” said Devadas, who graduated from this university in the spring with an economics degree. “It was very fitting for her, and I think it’s great that she did it. I’m very supportive of her and it was heartwarming to see her do this.”

She and Reyes have been running together for years, and both said they plan to participate in

next year’s race. After seeing the money Reyes raised, Devadas said she hopes to fundraise for next year’s run, too.

While Reyes benefits charitable organizations through runs, she also reaps personal rewards.

“I used to think I couldn’t run more than a mile, and now I run more than 13 in various halfmarathons,” Reyes said. “I have asthma on top of it and running really helps me with my breathing. Every mile is another challenge, but it’s fulfilling.”

Races like this are part of how Reyes said she hoped to pass time between college and medical school, in addition to traveling and visiting friends and family.

“Whenever I run, I usually try to run for a cause to make the experience more enriching,” said Reyes. “I’m helping other people but also helping myself by being active. I love volunteering, and this was an easy way because I also love running.” egan@umdbk.com

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2011 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK

University Police car hits drunk 19-year-old

Man stepped off sidewalk, uninjured

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

A University Police vehicle struck a 19-year-old man who reportedly walked away from the scene without injury at about 1 a.m. yesterday morning, police said.

The officers were responding to an assault reported at the Subway on Route 1 when the man — who is not a student at this university — stepped off the sidewalk near the intersection of Route 1 and Lehigh Road in front of the two police vehicles, one of which struck him in the leg, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said.

When officers called an ambulance, the man declined help but submitted to a breathalyzer test, which showed he was intoxicated, Limansky said. His blood alcohol level was higher than 0.08 percent — the legal driving limit — but police declined to give the specific number.

The man was also found with fake identification, Limansky said. Police declined to release his name yesterday because the man has not been charged with any offenses, and the accident is still under investigation.

“All of our traffic incidents involving police vehicles are investigated, so if it looks like our officer did something wrong, it will be addressed,” Limansky said.

Details about the incident in the Subway that police were originally responding to were not available as of last night, but Limansky said it did not end in any arrests or injuries.

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FUEL from page 1 technology because right now there’s nowhere to get hydrogen,” Wachsman said.

“You can’t go out and fill your car with hydrogen today.”

Although Bloom Energy, a California-based fuel cell company, developed similar technology to operate in buildings, Wachsman said his model could be used to power buildings, houses and cars because it runs at a lower temperature and produces more power.

“Their technology is a similar technology, but ours is much more advanced and higher energy,” Wachsman said. “It operates at 10 times the power and two-thirds the temperature.”

A car running on the fuel cell Wachsman is building could earn up to three times more gas mileage than it would with a standard gasoline-powered engine and emit up to a third less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In a house, the fuel cell could help save money on utility bills by running on natural gas alongside a furnace because it burns fuel more efficiently.

Research associate Kang Taek Lee said the cell would produce results as soon as it was installed.

“The efficiency of a fuel cell is ver y superior to any other energy conversion device,” he said. “If you use just the fuel cell, the fuel

RENOVATIONS from page 1 and the updates are slated to be completed during the summer. Alpha Phi’s chapter house, located at 7492 Princeton Ave., and Phi Sigma Sigma, housed at 4531 College Ave., are among the most outdated, according to Facilities Management officials.

They will both receive new roofing, windows, mechanical systems, fire alarms and sprinklers, as well as basements accessible to those with disabilities — in compli-

University engineering professor Eric Wachsman has been designing this fuel cell that can use multiple substances — such as natural gas, gasoline and hydrogen — to power both cars and buildings. PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIC WACHSMAN

efficiency should be increased over 10 or 20 percent immediately.”

Although the fuel cell will not be commercially available for several years, Wachsman said its development is occurring at a time when clean, efficient energy sources are in high demand.

“I think energy is probably the most critical issue facing mankind today,”

Wachsman said. “We have to be able to supply energy and do it efficiently, and among all ways to convert energy, fuel cells are the most efficient way of doing it.”

Other promising clean energy sources, such as wind and solar power, are being developed simultaneously on a national stage, but Wachsman said they can only be used when weather conditions

are favorable — making them less efficient than fuel cells.

“The sun shines when it wants to shine, and the wind blows when it wants to blow,” Wachsman said. “We need energy sources that are available when we want to use them.”

Because most of the public still associates fuel cells with the hydrogen-based model, Wachsman said

ance with federal law — and entirely revamped interiors.

Sorority members were also allowed to contribute to every step of the building’s interior redesign process, said junior communication major Gabby Wooten, a member of Alpha Phi. “We’ve picked out everything; we’ve designed everything from the upholstery to the furniture,” Wooten said. “They gave us a say in everything. …

Everything is going to be new.”

Both houses will also be equipped with geothermal technology — meaning the temperature control systems

will use natural sources of heat — and are among the first university buildings to utilize this eco-friendly feature, according to Facilities Management Director of Capital Projects Bill Olen.

“It helps provide efficient heating and cooling of the building,” Olen said.

The buildings will achieve LEED silver certification “at minimum,” but the department is striving for LEED gold certification, which was awarded to Oakland Hall, the newest campus dorm.

While the 47-year-old Alpha Phi house is still livable, Wooten

said, it is one of a few Greek houses in need of a facelift.

“It was outdated,” Wooten said. “All the houses are great, [but] I think Alpha Phi was the one in need of a lot of redoing.”

Sophomore neurobiology and physiology major and Alpha Phi member Elana Paris said although there were not glaring maintenance issues, the interior has been aging.

“It wasn’t in bad condition,” Paris said. “The wallpaper was a little outdated — it wasn’t modern. Everything was just a little outdated.”

Some Phi Sigma Sigma members — such as sopho-

FRATERNITY from page 1 wanted them to stop operating, and the student body needs to know they’re not a legitimate group … so play at your own risk.”

Colony members said they did not anticipate their termination.

“I was definitely shocked when my national gave me a call and told me we were going to be disbanded,” said the group’s president Adam Friedman, a junior neurobiology and physiology major.

“There were no talks.”

Complaints against the colony included underground pledging, underage drinking — which allegedly resulted in students being transported to the hospital on one occasion — and verbal and physical hazing, Supple said.

However, Friedman said none of the allegations are true.

“All the stories start out the same way: ‘Matt Supple called me and told me this,’ or ‘Matt Supple told me this.’ I’ve never gotten any other details … so it’s very sketchy, and it’s unfortunate,” he said.

Friedman said there was only one incident in which they broke their national organization’s rules. Last semester, Sigma Alpha Mu members hosted a party and distributed alcohol from cases of beer instead of having a bartender, which violates the fraternity’s rules for social events. However, he said the issue was resolved, and he was under the impression the group was still on track to become a chapter.

Office of Student Conduct Director Andrea Goodwin said she also received an unconfirmed, anonymous report in late September that group members were drinking underage and pressuring others to carry out “menial tasks” for them.

“Kind of servitude, I would say, was definitely part of it. Compulsory servitude, like forcing people to do things,” she said. “For example, come and clean my house, do my homework. … If there’s consequences if you don’t do it, then that would be considered hazing.”

The group is under review, but the Office of Student Conduct has not taken judicial action against it.

Sigma Alpha Mu has been a registered student group with STARS since Sept. 14. Campus Programs Assistant Director Joe Calizo said he hopes to communicate with the group about its status, and Friedman said he and his friends may form a philan-

many people are unaware major clean energy sources could become available in the not-so-distant future.

“This [fuel cell] has higher efficiency and uses the fuel we have today,” Wachsman said. “The idea of the hydrogen-based fuel cell is much further off — the idea of these is much closer.” saravia@umdbk.com

more communication major Emily Bloom, who is also the house manager — said the bedrooms and kitchens were in need of the most sprucing up, and that the house pales in comparison to most Greek houses.

“You would go in the other houses, and our kitchens wouldn’t be as nice,” Bloom said. “They’re tr ying to make it more homey for the girls living in the house. … It’s going to be great; it really is. It’s going to be beautiful.” foley@umdbk.com

thropy or sports club under a different name.

Supple said he had received anonymous phone calls about an underground Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity for years, leading him to believe the current group was connected to the one that was disbanded in 2006.

“We believed this was kind of an uninterrupted group of men who weren’t following the policies or procedures of the university or their own national’s policy,” Supple said.

Friedman said the colony’s 36 members were not affiliated with the old Sigma Alpha Mu chapter; about half were from his floor in Elkton Hall, and the rest were recruited from other dorms, he said.

“When I had a meeting with Matt Supple, he tried to connect the dots to see, ‘Oh, this person and this person know each other,’ but that obviously wasn’t the case,” he said.

University Police have not conducted hazing investigations against the group or broken up any of its parties, spokesman Capt.

Marc Limansky said, noting the department can only investigate hazing that involves a clear criminal violation, such as bodily injury.

Friedman also said DFSL emailed Pan-Hellenic Association sorority members discouraging them from attending Sigma Alpha Mu events.

“The school has personally been trying not to let us come back by not letting girls hang out with us and making it difficult for us to hold philanthropy events and just busting our balls, so to say,” Friedman said.

Marie LaMonica, president of the PHA executive board that governs 14 university sorority chapters, said each sorority has its own rules for whether members can participate in organized events with unregistered groups such as Sigma Alpha Mu. She emailed chapters telling them to check those guidelines.

“Had they had philanthropic events, we absolutely would have encouraged women to participate,” said LaMonica, a senior communication major. “That wasn’t really the way things were playing out. [Sigma Alpha Mu members] weren’t upholding the values of their organizations or the values our women stand for.”

Last week’s ad alleged the group was still operating “on the fringes of the university community,” but noted the organization hopes to return to the campus one day with support from the university. lurye@umdbk.com

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Sit in and speak up

An unsafe Purple Line plan

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n a university campus, there’s no shortage of opportunities for this crucial decision.

The SGA has already tasked a Commission on Financial Reform comstudents to criticize the actions of those in charge. That’s a good thing — being free to speak our minds is one of the most valuable prised of group leaders and SGA members who have been looking into rights we have. Between the alleged worker abuse in Facilities other schools’ systems for allocating money to student groups. The commisManagement and other university departments, the cuts to the athletics sion will issue recommendations to the full body based on its research and department and the controversy over an anti-Muslim ad that ran in this input from students. The 16 students on the commission, including Chair Gursean Singh, the SGA assistant vice president of newspaper, members of the university community finance, will decide the process for how the body will have had plenty to say recently — they’re just not allocate the about $1.5 million generated by the $31.52 always saying it in the right places.

Weighing in on decisions is great, but it doesn’t do Students should attend one student activities fee ever y enrolled student pays. How they choose to design the allocation process will determuch after the decision has already been made; students need to be proactive and go directly to the of the SGA’s forums in Stamp mine the experience of the thousands of students involved in the hundreds of social, academic, ser vice source for their input to matter. Today and tomorrow, Student Union today or and other extracurricular groups at this university. they’ll have a chance to do that on an issue that’s tomorrow to influence how As is often the case with big issues, there will evoked its fair share of criticism over the past several inevitably be those who are dissatisfied with whatever months. The Student Government Association is hostthe body reorganizes its revamped system is implemented. Unless those indiing two town hall-style forums where students can speak their minds about how to restructure the group funding allocation process. viduals attend one of the forums and offer their input, however, they’d hardly be justified in complaining. funding allocations process — a project the body The SGA hopes to create an effective system that minimizes the potential undertook in response to the finance debacle in April when students requested more than $3 million in primar y funding but the SGA had only for the kind of failure we witnessed earlier this year. It would befit group members to do whatever they can to offer their ideas for how this can be $730,000 to allocate.

Members of student groups are urged to attend the forums — which are accomplished. Sharing the concerns and specific needs of their groups open to the public and will be held in the Terrapin Room in Stamp Student would go a long way toward ensuring those worries are addressed and Union at 7 p.m. — to share their ideas, describe how their budgets operate those wishes are met.

For the commission to make the most informed recommendation, effecand explain how a new funding process would affect their particular group.

These forums demonstrate the SGA’s commitment to conducting them- tive communication will be required between the body doing the allocating selves in the most transparent, inclusive manner possible. This editorial and the groups doing the receiving. The SGA’s leaders have extended the board encourages students to take advantage of the opportunity to influence invitation — we hope students give them an enthusiastic response.

philosopher somewhere once said, “It’s the pits not being rich.”

There’s an ever-recurring comedy in American life that says we are all individuals who will overcome oppressive systems of power and function completely outside the box of conformity. The biggest contradiction we face is the realization that our society at once supports our claims to independence and shatters them by putting us in little categories with arbitrarily similar people. You will never escape. I don’t care how much Ayn Rand you read.

Ayn Rand aside, would you really want to?

Imagine a world where every individual’s experience was seen as unique, and traits such as bone structure and skin color weren’t used to differentiate people. In theory, that would be good.

But it would be very exhausting. And being exhausted is definitely “bad.”

Michael Casiano is a senior American studies and English major. He can be reached at casiano@umdbk.com.

Robert Jenner is a 1995 university alumnus. He can be reached at rejenner@aol.com.

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Editorial cartoon: Nathan Tucker

It’s time to activate the conservatism

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n 2008, right around the time I began my search for the right college, America was getting serious about its search for the next president of the United States. While I was bouncing from campus to campus during my junior and senior years of high school, as an aspiring journalism student, I picked up student newspapers everywhere I visited. There was a palpable air of excitement about the presidential race — still in the primary stage — and the student newspapers were filled with photos and headlines detailing student involvement.

Four years later, a new election is approaching and the campus seems indifferent. In 2008, young people across the country voted in record numbers for a man who promised hope and change. This time, it seems students are much more passive — willing to either accept the status quo, or whichever candidate the Republican party chooses to nominate. Unlike four years ago — and despite what seems like the biggest and most diverse primary candidate pool ever — young peo-

LAURA FROST ple across the country seem content to simply observe.

Until recently, conservatives were not known for their party activism (and no, yelling with Bill O’Reilly or at Rachel Maddow as you watch the evening news does not count). The tea party changed all of that. Last year’s elections brought the highest midterm turnout since 1994.

It also brought the turnover of more congressional seats than this country has seen since World War II. People got up and took charge of their country — it’s time to start doing the same this time.

The United States is a rare country with true freedom of choice for voters, yet we have one of the lowest levels of measured political activism compared to other democracies. We make little

effort to change this fact. At least seven major candidates are competing for the Republican nomination this election. If that does not spell disaster, I don’t know what does: From the lack of face time for candidates to the subsequent indecision within the party, voters seem overwhelmed by the options. A decisive vote forcing candidates to drop out after the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses seems unlikely.

One reason is that none of the candidates have sought favor with collegiate voters. Despite a history of low turnout, many pundits believe the youth vote carried then-Sen. Obama into the White House. There’s also the stereotype of student liberalism, but that does not mean Republican candidates should treat us as a lost cause. We learned in 2008 and 2010 that trends are made to be broken.

However, it’s also up to students to show candidates we care.

Conservative students need to stop assuming things will work themselves out. We pride ourselves on working for what we get, rejecting government handouts and doing things on our own.

So do this on your own — don’t just leave it up to fate. Don’t sit back and let others make decisions for you, and don’t hide your beliefs just to fit in better at this university. Judging by election patterns of the past, about half our country is conservative at any given time, so the campus isn’t an accurate microcosm of national political views.

If none of the candidates have made a connection with primary voters, it’s time for voters to form connections of their own. So stand up and fight. Organize a rally. Pick a side. Give a speech.

Study American history and give the Constitution a read so you actually know what you’re talking about. If you want things to change, change them.

Fill the newspapers with headlines about students acting, instead of reacting. Color the photographs with your passion — the candidates will listen, and maybe we can give prospective students something to remember.

Laura Frost is a junior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at frost @umdbk.com.

More than a two-way street

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wake up every morning and unconsciously know it would be a “good” idea to shave, shower and brush my teeth. After I dress, I walk to class and know it would be a “bad” idea to step in front of an absentminded driver if I’m interested in living, which I am.

In class, I opt to speak formally rather than informally so my professor fawns over my great ideas. Outside of class, I choose to speak informally with my peers and formally with faculty and employers. I know which end of the spectrum to manipulate because I, like you, have been programmed to view the world in terms of opposites.

A persistent gift of the Enlightenment, highly rational, systematized ways of viewing the world and constructing opinions have come to govern the way we think, speak and understand. White and black, male and female, good and bad — these ideas persist in binaries that any social scientist will tell you are “bad.”

In the 1830s, physician James

Young Simpson, in an effort to shore up the male/female binary, constructed a similar binary for hermaphrodites that either placed them in a “true” or “spurious” category. Looking at their genital organs, Simpson developed a system of classification in order to maintain the universe’s tidy social order. In other words, if you weren’t a man or a woman, you had to be something in between.

Later postmodern theory exploded these ideas by arguing that, by talking about one end of the spectrum, you’re already talking about the other. How can you talk about how we present our masculine and feminine identities (gender) without talking about our bodies (sex)? Even by complicating it, we haven’t abandoned the binary system.

On college campuses, where asserting your “individuality” becomes so important to folks, binaries often govern our understandings of difference. If you don’t want to be complicit in the capitalist world of “the man,” you have to transgress. No

MICHAEL CASIANO loafers for you. Just hemp shirts, bead bracelets and dreadlocks.

Unfortunately, in trying to escape categories, you’ve just constructed another one. Now we have a hippie/white-collar worker binary. It’s not your fault, though. If we all adhere to the same way of producing and receiving knowledge, it’s no surprise we’d base our opinions on the same system that will later invalidate them.

If we can’t dismantle binaries — if our understanding of the center is always dependent on the ends and therefore reinforces the continuum anyway — we might as well exploit them. If you’re light-skinned, check the “black” box, but make sure you pass for “white” in order to secure a steady inflow of capital because, as a

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s a graduate of this university, I am concerned that I have heard almost no discussion of the impact the proposed Purple Line will have on campus security. I have continued to live near the campus since I received my degree 15 years ago. As a local now, it is common knowledge that MS-13, the ruthless El Salvadorian gang, has a significant presence in the Riverdale Plaza area, as well as in Langley Park. So of course I am concerned at the prospect of connecting these two branches with an above-ground railway that crosses the campus. I know George Washington University has public transportation on its campus, but that is a rather small and condensed area.

This university has a sprawling campus with many nooks and crannies and is a far more difficult area to monitor and police. If there were compelling reasons why students needed to get to Riverdale Plaza or Langley Park, I might be willing to take such a risk. But as a graduate student over a six-year period, I think I traveled to Langley Park four times to buy beer at Tick Tock Liquors, and I am certain I never went to Riverdale Plaza even once.

The planners of the Purple Line are now justifying this project on the basis that it will provide students and residents a means to make short trips for shopping and other purposes without using their cars. But from Route 410 at Riverdale Plaza to Takoma Park, the proposed route of the Purple Line does not pass one national retailer nor any housing complex noted for student residents outside of College Park. Route 1, however, between Beltsville and Hyattsville, passes eight motels, numerous apartment complexes and a huge number of important retailers, including Costco, IKEA, Best Buy, Home Depot, Shoppers, all the stores in Beltsville and College Park and all the new development in Hyattsville — and eventually an upscale shopping center in Riverdale Park. In Amsterdam, the hugely popular light rail goes down the main shopping street. So why are planners advocating a route that avoids shopping and other attractions?

I do see the wisdom of connecting Bethesda to Silver Spring and bridging the two forks of the Red Line.

But planners seem to have overlooked the fact that the trek from Silver Spring to College Park is only five Metro stops. Yes, that includes a transfer at Fort Totten, but at an average 33 mph, the Metro still beats the 15 mph Purple Line.

Some say the true intent of the Purple Line is to stimulate redevelopment in Riverdale and Langley Park. One could have a whole philosophical debate concerning the propriety of the government delving into real estate speculation — especially in a down market. But more importantly, public transportation does not guarantee development. Sure, Bethesda, Silver Spring and Ballston have benefited, but they were always desirable communities. Naylor Road, Suitland and West Hyattsville have not experienced any improvement over their 30 years of Metro presence. In our area, the University Town Center just filed for bankruptcy, and it is located across from an existing full-fledged Metro stop.

Will the Purple Line transform Langley Park into the next Ballston? I’m skeptical, and my worst nightmare is that it will result in high-rise low income housing that will only make the area more congested and dangerous.

I’m reminded of the arguments prior to the Iraq War. Our officials were absolutely certain Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and the war would be short and cheap. Opponents were sidelined and ridiculed. The socalled Purple Line hearings have not been hearings at all. Only the proponents get a place on stage, and they appear to be conducting promotional pep rallies. It’s time to take off the rose-colored glasses and look at this proposal critically: It will cost almost $2 billion and be a constant drain on our future budgets. It will add congestion to Campus Drive and University Boulevard, seriously compromise campus security and still not help connect riders to shopping centers.

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Your creative energies can be applied to positive or negative endeavors, and as far as you are concerned the two are very much the same. This doesn’t mean you don’t know right from wrong or good from bad, but when it comes to applying your talents to a project you will do so wholeheartedly, regardless of its moral qualities.

Also born on this date are: Frankie Muniz, actor; Morgan Brittany, actress; Jim Messina, singer and songwriter; Little Richard, rocker; Otto Preminger, filmmaker; Strom Thurmond, U.S. senator; Walt Disney, animator and producer; Fritz Lang, filmmaker; George Armstrong Custer, U.S. military leader; Martin Van Buren, U.S. president.

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SPOTLIGHT | PETER GARAFALO

A BUDDING BLOCKBUSTER University junior makes, talks, dreams movies

BY MARY CLARE FISCHER Staff writer

Peter Garafalo could have taken failure as a sign of fate.

After all, his three forays into filmmaking all ended in disaster, resulting in lost footage, wasted hours and one ruined friendship. Maybe a spirit was trying to tell him to pursue a different dream.

“It was trying to say, ‘Peter, look, don’t do this. You’re not going to be successful at all in

this,’” said Garafalo, a junior.

“But I didn’t listen to that voice.”

Thanks to his perseverance, Garafalo debuted the teaser trailer for his first full-length feature film, Aesthetic, Saturday at the Winter Film Festival in the Stamp Student Union’s Hoff Theater. He plans to premiere the full film in the spring, when he’s done editing.

The festival was sponsored by the Maryland Filmmakers Club, a student group Garafalo has served as president of

since the spring. After writing a proposal to the Individual Studies Program, he is now the first film major in 25 years, he said.

He’s also the darkroom monitor for an advanced photography class, helps assistant film professor Oliver Gaycken with research for a book on early science fiction cinema and is the director of photography for graduate assistant Adam Nixon’s feature film-in-progress, Aspirin for the Masses.

“Even through all those trying experiences, it was still just so fun and so amazing, and I knew when I got on set, that was exactly what I wanted to do with my life,” Garafalo said. “At first, it was just fun connecting with people. Now, it’s the mix of that and being creative, and having some room for improvisation.”

Aesthetic started out as a movie about a man who falls in love with a woman who does not exist. Now, the film has evolved into a slightly more complex story where an introverted artist goes off to college, tries to reach out to others and ends up heartbroken. He wants to connect with someone so much that he falls in love with a woman in one of his paintings.

“I don’t think I admitted to myself that it was self-reflexive — that it was about me — until halfway through shooting it,” Garafalo said. “Then, I was like, ‘OK, this is definitely me.’”

Although Garafalo identifies with his reclusive protagonist,

he seems to have no problem in social settings now.

In the spring, he took over the leadership of the Maryland Filmmakers Club when then-president Rick Burks did not have enough time for the commitment.

That semester, the club had about 15 regular members.

Under Garafalo’s tutelage, 75 students are now regularly working on shooting their own films.

“What really distinguishes him, from my perspective, is his commitment to bringing people together outside of the classroom,” Gaycken said. “Most film people are collaborative by nature, since working in groups is part of the profession, but Peter clearly has a talent for organizing that goes beyond what is required to get a film made.”

Since Garafalo has brought more opportunities for filmmaking to the university, two other students are now applying to be film majors through the Individual Studies Program.

“He created a fabulous film studies major for himself, full of compelling film courses from across campus and across cultures,” said Individual Studies Program Director Joan B. Burton.

In fact, Garafalo is trying to reach across multiple institutions. He is also the director of logistics for the East Coast Student Film Festival (ECSFF), which will be a short film festival tentatively scheduled for

Peter Garafalo created his own film major, making him the first such major in 25 years, he said. At left, he poses outside Hoff Theater on Saturday. PHOTOS COURTESY OF PETER GARAFALO

March 29 to 31. As part of a board of students from five area universities, Garafalo will try to bring together student filmmakers from across the East Coast, creating dialogue between universities and their film clubs or departments.

“I don’t think I have ever seen someone as passionate for films as much as Peter is,” said junior physiology and neurobiology major Gaurav Khetan, who is Garafalo’s roommate and the

public relations officer of the Maryland Filmmakers Club.

Even in Garafalo’s room, movie posters cover his walls and ceiling. He said these allow him to stare through “windows into literally thousands of worlds.”

“If I can tell a story — not even mine, just someone’s — on 35 millimeter,” he said, “then maybe it can live forever.” diversions@umdbk.com

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WALSH from page 8 scoring output for a Terps team since the advent of the modernday shot clock.

They’ve got a superstar in the making in guard Terrell Stoglin, whose 31 points last night were one shy of his career high. Forward James Padgett has begun to forge an identity in the paint and posted a double-double last night. Sean Mosley’s 17-point performance furthered the notion that he could be a legitimate perimeter threat behind Stoglin.

And just as first-year coach Mark Turgeon promised they’d do, this team is starting to play some serious defense, forcing teams late into the shot clock and keeping them off of the freethrow line.

Was last night’s performance flawless? Far from it. The Terps let the Fighting Irish hang around all game and needed a circus shot from Stoglin to finally ice the game in the final minute. A very young, very thin Notre Dame roster doesn’t

IRISH from page 8 recorded his first career doubledouble. “We needed this win.”

Clinging to a one-point lead early in the second half, the Terps used a 14-4 run to extend it to double digits. A Stoglin 3pointer put the Terps up 51-40 with 11:59 left in the game. But Notre Dame coach Mike Brey switched his lineup to feature five guards, and the Fighting Irish responded with a run of their own.

Instead of succumbing late as they did against Illinois last Tuesday, the Terps weathered the streak and never relinquished their lead. Stoglin’s three-point play with less than five minutes put the Terps up by 10.

Still, the Terps had to fend off the Fighting Irish late in the game after a series of missed free throws and turnovers.

With just 13 seconds remaining, Stoglin hit a fading shot over several Notre Dame defenders to seal the win.

“I was happy because I had a great game, but my teammates had great games,” Stoglin said.

exactly compare to the North Carolinas and Dukes looming on the Terps’ schedule.

Still, the Terps found a way to get a win over a Big East opponent last night, and with the returns of point guard Pe’Shon Howard — whose recovery from a broken bone in his foot is ahead of schedule and could be over as early as Christmas — and center Alex Len each scheduled for the end of this month, things will only get better for the Terps.

“Where we are with our program, we’re always going to make it interesting,” Turgeon said after the game. “[Notre Dame] made a run at us and made us a little bit nervous. I was kind of glad it was close for these guys, that they made a run at us, made us a little bit nervous when we had to make plays. I think that did more for us than winning by 10 or 12. … Probably will help us more down the road.”

Which is exactly what these nonconference games are all about, isn’t it?

We’re not supposed to be seeing a polished Terps product yet, especially considering the turnover the program dealt

with over the offseason.

What we’re supposed to be seeing — and what we are seeing — is progress.

“It’s hard to say,” Mosley said when asked whether the team is further along than he expected.

“We have ups and downs. We’re still trying to stay on that even path, but right now we’re doing a great job picking up each and every game our intensity on both ends of the court.”

This season still isn’t going to be pretty, but with the improvement we’ve seen to this point, it’s not going to be nearly as ugly as everybody anticipated.

It would be unrealistic to expect much out of the Terps in ACC play. With one bona fide scorer and a largely inexperienced roster, the Terps aren’t going to be raising any ACC championship banners.

If they continue to improve anywhere near the rate they have to this point in the year, especially once they get Howard and Len back, then make no mistake about it: This team’s going to give people problems.

“That was the key tonight. It was a team win and we needed it.”

Stoglin’s scoring outburst aside, the Terps received quality production from both Padgett and guard Sean Mosley.

Mosley enjoyed a return to form with 17 points, while Padgett finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Padgett’s surprising season continued as the Terps consistently looked for the forward in the post, and he put up a careerhigh 11 shots. He made only three, but the junior’s work in the paint resulted in several trips to the free-throw line.

“He wore us down, scoring and rebounding,” Brey said. “He was a tough matchup for us.”

The Terps struggled offensively through much of the first half, relying on Stoglin’s hot hand to keep pace with the Fighting Irish. The sophomore connected on each of his first four shots and had 11 of the team’s first 12 points.

Then coach Mark Turgeon told his players to take advantage of their athleticism, and they soon got to the free-throw line against the inexperienced Fighting Irish. A five-point run at the end of the first half put the

Terps up 35-30 at intermission.

“I thought we were really good against their zone,” Turgeon said. “We had guys come in and give us good minutes.”

Guard Mychal Parker set a career high with nine points, hitting all six of his free-throw attempts, while center Berend Weijs tied a career high with seven points.

“We really talked about penetrating under control, and I thought we did that for the most part,” Turgeon said. “We really tried to drive the ball and play inside-out going through James.”

All season, Turgeon has spoken about his team’s inability to know “how to win,” especially after second-half letdowns against Illinois and Iona. Considering those struggles, the Terps showed obvious growth, winning just the program’s second game in the BB&T Classic since 2003.

“We obviously did a lot more things right, like rebounding, guarding the basketball, getting second-chance points, executing and going to the hot hand,” Turgeon said. “It’s all part of the learning process for our guys.”

AMERICAN

be smart with it,” Frese said.

“She’s fine; we just wanted to be conser vative.”

But even with Bays missing most of the second half and Tianna Hawkins struggling with foul trouble — she had four fouls with just six points and four rebounds in 16 minutes — the Terps had no trouble quelling any American comeback attempts.

Even as Frese emptied her bench late in the contest, the Terps cruised to a 34-point victor y, holding the Eagles to less than 30 percent shooting from the field in the process.

“With the way American shoots the ball, we wanted to disrupt them out of their rhythm and do a good job defensively, and to be able to hold them to 9 percent from the 3-point line was an extremely positive thing,” Frese said. “I knew they were going to scrap for 40 minutes, so we were prepared.”

With a slow start in the game’s first five minutes, it didn’t seem as if the Terps were necessarily ready for all 40 minutes the way Frese expected. But in the final 35, the team made it clear there would be no letdown following its most tightly contested victor y of the year.

Said Frese: “I just thought it was a really good, solid win for us.”

from page 8 really aggressively, I thought they were the more physical team in the first half and I thought they were able to take us out of our rhythm,” coach Brenda Frese said.

“But when we were able to get up-tempo, we were able to get more looks inside.”

Thomas scored eight of the team’s first 12 points, pacing the Terps (9-0) as they continued to grow their lead. After falling behind the Eagles (54) by three to begin the game, the Terps closed the half on a 38-13 run, outscoring them by 12 in the paint during that stretch.

“I would say I [felt a little bit responsible],” said Thomas, who led all players with 17 points. “Once somebody gets going, the rest of us get going, and that’s kind of our mentality.”

The second half continued without incident until just after the 16-minute mark, when forward Whitney Bays had to be helped off the court after suffering an apparent left knee injury. The redshirt freshman, who missed all of last season with an ACL injury, spent much of the remaining time in the locker room.

“She knocked her knee, and having injured an ACL off that knee, we just wanted to

EAGLES from page 8 to beat him,” McCoy said.

“There was no doubt in his mind going into his match today that he was going to win.”

But Boley was quick to acknowledge that he didn’t do it alone. Five of his teammates also won individual matches against their crosstown rivals. The meet increased the Terps’ record this season to 7-0 and kept the Eagles (0-4) winless.

“Knowing you’re going to win the match but getting those extra bonus points anyways for the team, that’s what’s important and that’s what’s going to take us all a long way,” Boley said. “We have to keep looking out for each other’s backs.

American’s ranked pretty high,

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and it’s a good win, but we’re not wrestling just to win dual meets.

We’re wrestling to win national championships.”

After their victory over American, the Terps went up to Penn State for the Nittany Lion Open, an individual tournament that featured 475 wrestlers and 10 ranked teams.

Boley was the only Terp to win a championship in his weight class yesterday, outwrestling five opponents to maintain his undefeated record.

174-pound Jimmy Sheptock won an overtime decision to make it to the finals for his individual weight class, but lost a close match to take second place. Frank Goodwin, Josh Asper and Spencer Myers each made it to their individual semifinal rounds. egan@umdbk.com

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TERPS 78, FIGHTING IRISH 71

A shooting star

Guard Terrell Stoglin, right, celebrates after the Terps’ 78-71 win over Notre Dame in the BB&T Classic at the Verizon Center in Washington. The sophomore finished with a game-high 31 points, one shy of his career high, on 11-for-20 shooting. Guard Sean Mosley added 17 points and forward James Padgett finished with a double-double. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Better than most thought possible

Stoglin’s 31 enough as Terps hold off Irish late

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

CONOR WALSH

WASHINGTON –

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xpectations may have been at an all-time low for the Terrapins men’s basketball team as it walked off the court with a five-point win over Northwood in a Nov. 4 exhibition game.

Only a month later, and the differ-

ence between the team that night and the one on display in a 78-71 win over Notre Dame yesterday is remarkable.

Now, don’t start stashing away money for tickets to the Terps’ NCAA Tournament games any time soon.

But maybe, just maybe, this team’s not going to be as awful as we all expected.

Think about it: The squad we saw control most of last night’s game in the BB&T Classic was the same one that, three weeks ago, posted the lowest-

see WALSH, page 7

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WASHINGTON – It had become

Coach Mark Turgeon and the Terps moved to 4-3 with yesterday’s win.

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something of an annual tradition: When the Terrapins men’s basketball team travels down the road to the nation’s capital for the BB&T Classic, it falls flat.

After losses in recent years to the likes of Temple, George Washington and VCU, the event’s hospitality, or lack thereof, had become well documented. So another defeat Sunday against Notre Dame wouldn’t have been entirely surprising, especially given the lack of depth and experience this year’s Terps team possesses.

But with a balanced and consistent attack, the Terps left Verizon Center with something they often hadn’t the past decade: a win. Behind 31 points from guard Terrell Stoglin, the Terps picked up a quality 78-71 victory against the Fighting Irish (5-4).

With a loss, the Terps (4-3) would’ve dropped below .500 for the first time in more than three years.

They now return back to College Park with a cushy home schedule to finish out the semester.

“Everybody on the team stepped up,” said forward James Padgett, who

see IRISH, page 7

WRESTLING

Slow start doesn’t mean Terps win again in Battle of the Beltway Boley’s victory helps team claim sixth straight vs. No. 7 Eagles different finish for Terps

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

Team held scoreless to start vs. American in eventual blowout

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

WASHINGTON – Four days removed from a nine-point victory over Michigan, it looked as though the Terrapins women’s basketball team was still feeling the effects of its most difficult test of the season at Bender Arena yesterday.

The Terps were held scoreless for nearly the first four minutes in their road game at American, missing their first two shots before an Alyssa Thomas jumper finally got them on the board just before the half’s first media timeout. The team didn’t take its first lead until more than a minute later.

But five minutes of close competition was just about all the Eagles had in them.

The No. 6 Terps never looked back after securing the lead, dismantling

Forward Alyssa Thomas scores two of her game-high 17 points yesterday.

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American in a 76-42 rout. It’s the Terps’ ninth victory this season and fifth by more than 30 points.

“Credit American: They came out

see AMERICAN, page 7

The Terrapins wrestling team had beaten American the previous five meetings before this weekend’s. On Friday, in one of the most high-profile installments in the Battle of the Beltway yet, that number increased to six.

The undefeated No. 20 Terps took down the No. 7 Eagles, 23-14, winning six of the 10 individual matches at Comcast Pavilion and ultimately retaining the garish belt trophy designed specifically for the local rivalry.

The deciding match came after an 8-3 final decision for the Terps’ 184-pound Ty Snook, which upped the team’s lead to 20-11. 197-pound Christian Boley entered the circle with American’s No. 8 Daniel Mitchell, who had beaten Boley in their previous encounter.

Boley was down 5-4 going into the third period of the match. He quickly earned a point for an escape, evening the score at five. With 30 seconds left in the final period, the 20th-ranked Boley, in a standing position, lifted Mitchell off the ground and dropped him down to the mat, earning two points and grabbing the lead.

His Hulk-like takedown sealed his 7-6 final-decision victory over

197-pound Christian Boley’s 7-6 win over American’s Daniel Mitchell helped the Terps beat American, 23-14, on Friday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Mitchell and sealed a Terps victory.

“I didn’t play into his strengths and I played into mine,” said Boley, who advanced his personal record to 10-0.

“I just put myself in the best situation to win, and I got it done. I was extremely happy.”

Coach Kerry McCoy said he knew

before the match started that Boley was going to come out on top.

“Christian made his mind up a long time ago — I may even say last year when he wrestled that kid — that the next time he faced him he was going

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