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FBI probes county police over riot Federal officials take lead, interview about 40 officers who witnessed the mayhem

BY BEN PRESENT Senior staff writer

Athletics Director Kevin Anderson was “disappointed” with the bowl selection process. FILE PHOTO/ THE DIAMONDBACK

The FBI has taken over an investigation into police conduct during last semester’s post-Duke victory riot, during which police used what some called excessive force — horses, pepper spray, pellets and batons — in controlling a rowdy student crowd.

Thursday night and into Friday, federal investigators interviewed about 40 Prince George’s County Police officers at their homes — nearly nine months to the day after the March 4 mayhem.

Although investigations had been ongoing in the county police’s internal affairs division, the state’s attorney’s office and the U.S. attorney’s

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office, no charges had been brought against any of the officers in question.

The officers interviewed by the FBI were selected because federal authorities felt they could provide useful eyewitness accounts of that night, officials said.

“We were very particular in who we picked,” FBI spokesman Rich Wolf said,

adding he could not release details from the interviews because of the ongoing investigation. “The 40 officers were determined to be useful in providing information or they were present at the scene.”

Initially, when various departments began to look into county police conduct from the night of the riot, the

FBI had deferred to local and state authorities. When the FBI reappeared as a leader in the probe, local investigators stepped aside.

“Our understanding always was that we were the lead in the investigation,” county police spokesman Maj. Andrew Ellis said. “But

see PROBE, page 2

A league of their own Students start roller hockey teams

BY LAUREN REDDING Senior staff writer

When seniors Avishai Shuter and Al Croxford discovered it wasn’t as easy as they hoped to launch a university roller hockey team last year, they didn’t bench the concept.

Instead, they took the idea and treated it like a fast break in their

Low ticket sales hurt bid for warm-weather bowl

favorite sport — they ran with it.

This semester, Shuter and Croxford finally achieved their goal and began an independent league for students and alumni.

They said the group represents a small community of roller hockey enthusiasts who come together every week to play in an outdoor

see HOCKEY, page 3

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

MULTIMEDIA

After a win in its regular-season finale against N.C. State pushed the Terrapin football team to a surprising tie for third in the ACC on Nov. 27, the Terps’ feelgood story of conference resurgence seemed to bode well for a coveted warmweather bowl.

But it was ultimately ticket sales, not wins, that decided the Terps’ postseason destination: Washington’s Military Bowl, the conference’s lowest-tier bowl game, against Conference USA’s East Carolina.

Kickoff against the Pirates is set for 2:30 p.m. Dec. 29 at RFK Stadium.

“We’re disappointed in the process,” Athletics Director Kevin Anderson said in a teleconference yesterday shortly after the team accepted the bowl invitation.

“We’re disappointed with how things were determined, and it has nothing to do with

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Go online to see video of the team practicing.

Students and alumni play roller hockey on Sundays in their own league, which students started after finding the university process for launching new club teams too complicated. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

see BOWL, page 7

Kabob restaurant will fill empty spot in Stamp

University considers changing e-mail host

Moby Dick station will open in Jan.

Officials seek student feedback

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

A year after Steak Escape closed up shop in Stamp Student Union’s food court, officials said last week that Moby Dick: House of Kabob — a local Middle Eastern restaurant — will take its place in January.

Student union officials began searching for a Steak Escape replacement in the spring, launching surveys as well as a suggestion box where students, faculty and staff could name

what restaurant they wanted to see at the food court.

In the surveys, students identified Moby Dick as their preferred tenant, at which point the university began to court the Washington-based chain for the space, student union Director Marsha Guenzler-Stevens said.

Moby Dick’s Persian fast food will be the first Middle Eastern offering in the student union, she added.

“We definitely have not had one in the Stamp,” she said.

“This will be new for us, which

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BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer

A Middle Eastern eatery, Moby Dick: House of Kabob, will open as the latest food station in Stamp Student Union’s food court in January. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

will be terrific.”

Hamid Rizi, manager of the university’s Moby Dick, said he is excited the local business will join the university.

“Most students who live in the area have been to a Moby Dick,” he said. “It’s good expo-

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sure for Moby Dick, too.”

The restaurant signed on to be a part of the student union food court in April but had to wait until January to open because it was still in negotiations with the

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The outdated university student e-mail accounts may get a facelift if students speak up in favor of a change.

Office of Information Technology officials have asked students to send in their opinions as they examine how to implement a more student-friendly system.

In the coming months, the Student E-mail Committee — composed of faculty, graduate students and

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undergraduates — will gather student input and evaluate possible alternatives to the current Mirapoint student e-mail system, which many students said is slow, obsolete and unreliable. OIT sent out a university-wide e-mail Friday inviting students to contribute their opinions by sending a message to emailcommittee@umd.edu.

According to the e-mail, the committee will consider

see E-MAIL, page 3

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Facilities doesn’t up snow budget after last year’s records Department still sets aside just $25,000 a year for snow removal

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Staff writer

Whenever snowflakes begin to fall, students staring mindlessly out their windows cross their fingers and hope to hear school is closed. Meanwhile, officials at Facilities Management scramble to make a decision about whether to shut the school down.

Every December, officials prepare for the possibility of snowfall. After two major snowstorms struck College Park last winter, the department found itself buried in more than $1 million worth of work on a budget that allocates $25,000 for snow removal and cleanup.

Employees worked 12-hour shifts — many overnight to maintain staffing levels around the clock — to clear the campus of record-breaking snowfall.

But even after Snowpocalypse, Facilities Management has no plans to budget extra money, officials said. Surpassing the low snow budget by hundreds of thousands of dollars is a matter of routine, they said, and it has never been a hurdle to track down the money elsewhere.

Building and Landscape Ser vices Director Harr y Teabout said snow’s unpredictability makes it impractical to change the budget ever y year. Even though most years Facilities Management officials need an additional $250,000 to $300,000 at the end of the snow season, some years they do not need to use any of the already budgeted money, he said.

“Ever y year is different,” said Frank Brewer, associate vice president for Facilities Management.

On the years the snow removal budget is exceeded — including during Snowpocalypse — expenses are charged to a “deficit account” that is submitted to the provost, whose office finds surplus money elsewhere to fill the hole, Teabout said.

“So far, they’ve been ver y good and reimbursed us for all our expenses, and it has never become a burden on the next year,” Brewer said, also estimating that the $25,000 budget is still enough to cover costs in 10 to 20 percent of winters.

Even so, some students feel officials should be taking more measures to ensure the

“Before last year, the record was 52 inches, and last year we all of a sudden got 56 inches in 10 days. I don’t think they have to plan around a fluke year.”

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safety of the students and efficient snow cleanup after last year’s saga.

“One of the bigger issues last year is students weren’t told the extremity,” said Leticia Rivera, a junior Spanish major. “They need to let the students know beforehand how to go about it. ... When we needed to get back to school, it still wasn’t safe walking to classes.”

But others believe it is highly unlikely this area will face considerable amounts of snow any time soon and said officials should prepare like any other year.

“I’ve been living in Mar yland my whole life. Before last year, the record was 52 inches, and last year we all of a sudden got 56 inches in 10 days,” junior government and politics major A.J. Francis said. “I don’t think they have to plan around a fluke year.

There’s no point in wasting money on that.”

Although last year offered many unexpected challenges, officials said it has only better prepared them for what may be ahead this year.

“It’s always useful to have recent experience, and before last year, it was four or five years before when we had really significant snow,” Brewer said. “By then, you have personnel turnover, and people forget what it’s going to be like. Now that we’ve had that recent experience, I think we’re probably more on our toes. ... We are better prepared this year to handle it because we have the recent memor y in our minds to deal with it.” abutaleb@umdbk.com

CORRECTION In Friday’s story about the Student Government Association and Dining Services, the quote, “It will take some careful menu planning, and there may be some financial impact, but if they’re committed, then they absolutely can do it,” was misattributed due to an editing error. Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple was the speaker.

PROBE from page 1 at this point there are now strong indications to us that the FBI intends to take over this investigation.”

Ellis said county police gave the FBI names of officers who were working that night but was surprised with the approach they took when conducting interviews.

“It’s unconventional,” Ellis said. “It’s not the manner in which inter views are normally conducted in these types of investigations, but I’m sure the FBI had their own good reasons for it.”

Ellis noted the county police’s internal investigation, despite being close to complete, is on hold. He said county police could bring charges against its officers today, but, due to the nature of this case, department officials decided to defer to higher powers.

“Throughout the course of the investigation we have been coordinating with the state’s attorney’s office and the U.S. attorney’s office,” Ellis said. “At this point, we’re acting pursuant to their instruction. ... We could, if we wanted to, bring charges against certain individuals via a statement of charges.

But because it involves police officers and because of the very public nature of what occurred, it’s more prudent for us to work with the state’s attorney’s office and to go through the grand jury process of indictment.”

Last spring, the riot made national headlines after students alleged police used excessive force in dispersing a crowd of hundreds of students who spilled into the streets, uprooted street signs and cheered on the Terrapin men’s basketball team after they beat Duke for the first time after six consecutive losses.

The FBI has launched an investigation into Prince George’s County Police’s response to last semester’s riot downtown. The clash between students and police followed a March 3 Terrapin men’s basketball victory over Duke. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

The case against police was fortified after attorneys released a student’s video footage depicting police using their batons to beat then-junior John McKenna without apparent provocation, the day after charges against McKenna and then-sophomore Ben Donat were dropped.

Four officers were suspended with pay — the three officers county police determined were in the video, as well as Sean McAleavey, the officer who signed charging documents against McKenna. The footage largely debunked what the documents alleged — that McKenna had provoked horses and assaulted officers.

The Washington Post reported Reginald H. Baker, Anthony J. Cline and James Harrison Jr. were the three officers shown in the video, but Ellis would not confirm those names.

Ellis added that one of the

three officers in the footage now has an administrative position, while the other two remain suspended with pay.

McAleavey returned to full duty after police officials determined he signed charging documents based on what other officers told him and was therefore not culpable for any inaccuracies.

State’s attorney spokesman Ramon Korionoff said the state will continue its own investigation even as the FBI assumes more control.

“We are working ver y thoroughly and diligently on the matter and in conjunction with our federal counterparts,” Korionoff said. “[The time frame] really depends where our investigation leads us.”

The FBI is in a similar position.

“We’re never in a hurr y to wrap these things up because of the sensitive

nature of [civil rights investigations],” Wolf said.

“There’s really not a time frame right now.”

As the criminal investigation picks up speed, attorneys Chris Griffiths and Terrell Roberts and private investigator Sharon Weidenfeld are constructing civil cases against police for a number of students, including McKenna.

Weidenfeld said she and her colleagues were relieved to see authorities actively pursuing the case again, which she said appeared to be shelved for a number of months.

“Our clients are extremely happy to see that this investigation is moving and that it is being taken so seriously by the Department of Justice,” she said. “Our clients have been fully cooperative with the FBI in their investigation.” present@umdbk.com

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HOCKEY

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New Carrollton rink. For the players, no university sponsorship, no problem.

Croxford, a senior aerospace engineering major who’s been playing the sport for 14 years, said the only university-sponsored club team fizzled in 2006 when most of the players and coaches graduated.

Although he and Shuter tried to revive that team, they said they were met with a surprising series of roadblocks. Because campus club and intramural teams receive university funding, the application process is extensive and requires at least two faculty advisers.

For the two seniors, the rationale was simple: They didn’t care about the paperwork or the politics — they just wanted to play. So they side-stepped the unnecessary obstacles and turned their sporadic pick-up games into a league unaffiliated with the university.

“At the end of the day, we get to come and play,” Shuter said.

“That’s what matters.”

Although they said they would like to someday see a universitysponsored team, the duo has been satisfied with the league’s turnout — about 25 players, divided into five teams, played every Sunday this semester.

The season ended last week when Croxford’s team won the championship game and the coveted Testudo Cup, but several players still came out in yesterday morning’s frigid cold to play the game they love.

Croxford said the laid-back nature of the league drew a

four possible options: moving student accounts to the system used by faculty and staff, operating the accounts through a system such as Google or Microsoft, providing only a forwarding service or continuing to use the existing system.

After evaluating the responses, the committee will make a recommendation to the University Senate Information Technology Council by the end of March and implement any changes in time for the 2011 fall semester, said Joseph Jaja, OIT’s chief information officer and interim vice president.

Jaja said upgrading the student e-mail system has been a long time coming. In his e-mail, he listed data from the most recent OIT annual student survey — conducted last month — indicating that 59 percent of students have their e-mails forwarded to other accounts hosted by services such as Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail.

Of the 1,287 respondents to the survey, 36 percent said they would prefer a forwarding-only account, while 26 percent said they favored keeping the Mirapoint system and 35 percent said they wanted a university e-mail address through Gmail. Another 2 percent said they would prefer Microsoft service.

“I think that’s a clear indication that students are not happy about the current system,” Jaja said of the data. “Frankly, the current system is a bit outdated, and students expect a lot of different things from their e-mail system.”

Jaja said Student Government Association members responded positively to the idea when he proposed it at their most recent meeting and appointed four representatives to the Student Email Committee.

SGA behavioral and social sciences legislator Zack Cohen said replacing or updating the existing

KABOBS from page 1 university, Rizi said. The final agreement was signed in late October, Guenzler-Stevens said.

The restaurant franchise started in Bethesda in the late 1980s, Rizi said. It expanded to various other locations in Washington, Virginia and Maryland. However, Moby Dick does not yet have a restaurant in College Park — the closest is in Silver Spring.

Rizi said Moby Dick fans can expect to get their favorite falafel

Players in an independent roller hockey league met for an early morning game at an outdoor rink yesterday, although their season ended last week. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

diverse range of players, many of whom learned of the games from Facebook groups or by word of mouth.

“We have really wide-ranging skill levels,” he said. “There are guys who have been playing on the ice and in leagues from a young age and then some guys who just learned to play skating in their street.”

For brothers Sean and Dan Gugger, the league provided an opportunity to play the sport together — a bonding activity

they missed from their childhood.

“We played in high school, but we’re two years apart, so we were never on the same team,” said Dan, a freshman mechanical engineering major. “It just never worked out.”

And the league allowed Sean, a junior electrical engineering major, to get back to the game he had played for years.

“I never got to play hockey in college until this league started,” he said. “I really missed it from high school.”

patties and chicken kabobs at the campus location, but the restaurant will have more of a cafeteria feel and dishes will be served at “student-friendly” prices.

“It’s going to be cheaper” than other Moby Dick restaurants, he said.

Guenzler-Stevens said Moby Dick should be an attractive option for students for its various meat and vegetarian dishes at affordable prices.

“I think folks will find that Moby Dick has a really wide variety of items that are priced in an affordable way,” she said.

Exact prices have not yet been

announced.

Guenzler-Stevens said while the university searched for a permanent replacement, Dining Services operated InTheMeantime, serving such food as hot dogs, grilled cheese and frozen custard last spring.

“It was there literally shortterm, operated to provide a new food option while we looked ... to provide for a new restaurant,” Guenzler-Stevens said.

Students already familiar with the restaurant said they were excited they won’t have to trek to Krazi Kebob near Route 1 to satisfy their craving for Middle

The league will officially reconvene next semester, but Croxford said they will play pick-up games until there is snow on the ground.

Because he and Shuter will be graduating in the spring, they hope someone else will accept the commissioner title and ensure the league doesn’t fall by the wayside.

“Not many people know about it,” Croxford said. “We’re trying to pass the torch. Hopefully someone will step up.” redding@umdbk.com

Eastern food.

“I think it’s a really good addition,” junior electrical engineering major Alvin Hua said. “We don’t have many kabob places near the campus.”

Even some students who hadn’t previously been to a Moby Dick said they were still excited about having a Middle Eastern restaurant as an extra option for hungry students.

“I’ve never eaten there,” junior accounting major Eugene Gimose said. “But having more options is always a plus.” korkut@umdbk.com

system would please a lot of students, who voiced their dissatisfaction with Mirapoint.

“It’s slow, it looks like it’s from the ’90s and sometimes e-mails don’t get through until 24 hours later,” Cohen said. “It’s pretty obvious we need to change it, and I think now’s the best time to do it.”

Several students echoed those concerns, many of whom said they have their e-mails forwarded to other accounts through Gmail or Hotmail, which they said were more user-friendly and reliable.

“I don’t really trust the university system,” education policy graduate student Sadie Ellner said. “People have said e-mails have been getting lost or not coming in until a day later. I use my Gmail account because it’s a lot easier.”

Of students who said they don’t use their university accounts, many said they approved of the options the committee is offering, adding they would probably use them if they were improved.

“If I’m allowed to connect it with my other accounts, then that’d be great,” environmental science and technology graduate student Dan Wallis said.

Cohen said the SGA and the Graduate Student Government will use their listser vs to spread the word, speak to classes about the proposed changes and find students who feel strongly about the issue to participate in focus groups that would evaluate the best alternative.

Jaja also encouraged students to e-mail the individual committee members with their input, an action he said is central to the success of the project.

“Students feel very strongly about their e-mail system,” Jaja said. “I think it’s very important their opinions be clearly heard throughout the process. If we find a new system that they don’t like or don’t use, we’d have failed.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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Polishing the protocol

Telling the truth about pot

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ast Thursday, members of the University Senate’s Student Conduct hol-related violations — remain unprotected by this document. Despite the Committee — bowing to pressure from students, the senate’s own numerous objections to these exclusions, which remained intact throughout Executive Committee and university President Wallace Loh — made the revision, the SCC did not see it fit to acknowledge these concerns.

The guiding principle of the protocol — which is stated in the very first sena drastic change to the Promoting Responsible Action in Medical tence of the document — is “the health and safety of university students is of Emergencies Protocol: They removed a footnote.

Established in spring 2009, the Responsible Action Protocol — as it was paramount concern.” Yet, by twice-failing to protect all dangerously intoxipreviously written — shielded some students some of the time from univer- cated students from university-based sanctions, the SCC has failed to align sity punishments if they or their friends called for emergency assistance itself with that statement.

This university should be encouraging all students at all times to call for because they were dangerously intoxicated. Yet, as student activists had long pointed out, the protocol’s language, which stipulated in a footnote that the help when they or their friends are in need of emergency medical attention.

As pointed out by students, parents and alumni alike, director of the Office of Student Conduct could ignore individuals who are not protected under this protocol the protocol’s intent and impose penalties on a “case-byare much more likely to hesitate before calling for help case basis,” made the measure confusing and ineffecAlthough the University and also to not call for help at all because they fear unitive. Indeed, of the 84 students who sought protection versity punishments. And this, as many have noted, from university punishments in the previous academic Senate’s Student Conduct endangers students’ lives. year, more than 46 percent did not receive it. Even StuCommittee should be Thus, by specifically excluding certain groups of student Government Association President Steve Glickman dents from protection in spite of this sort of testimony, — who has been exposed to this issue for the past four commended for its latest SCC is sending a clear signal: that students’ lives years — told members of the senate that he “didn’t even action, more work remains to the matter, but only up to a point. After all, what makes a understand the protocol.” be done on the Responsible person who has never committed an alcohol violation Recognizing the confusing nature of the document, more deserving than a person who has? the SCC unanimously voted to remove the footnote to Action protocol.

Luckily, the SCC has not finished deliberating make it more student-friendly. And while this newspaper’s editorial board commends the SCC for its long-overdue decision to changes to the protocol — it still has time to make the document one that truly reflects the university’s stated commitment to students’ health and remove this ambiguity, it should not stop there.

After all, it was not just the ambiguity of the protocol that students have safety. As it moves forward, this editorial board urges the committee to keep objected to. Activists over the years have also protested the fact that some stu- up the good work by removing the other exclusions found in the protocol and dents — such as those who committed what the university calls “aggravated ensuring this document is one that the university can stand behind, knowing violations” while intoxicated and those with prior disciplinary records of alco- it, in fact, protects all of its students.

be helpful has, in reality, crossed the line and is akin to suppressing the free exchange of thought. Despite the spoiled milk having been spilled by Assange, it should not signal the end of questioning, critiquing, discussing and investigating the world around us.

Universities have always served as a haven for the free expression and exchange of ideas, even those that might be controversial. Let’s remind ourselves that the unique perspectives, life experiences and beliefs everyone brings with them ultimately enrich the vibrancy and meaning of discussions bound to occur not just in a university setting but in our increasingly global society. And as rich as the English language is, words cannot come close to capturing the importance of a society that remains open to divisive discourse and one that encourages it.

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

Justin Kander is the secretary for this university’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. He can be reached at kaabinator@gmail.com.

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Editorial cartoon: Shai Goller

Human Rights Day: A day for remembrance

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s a human rights activist, I geeked out when I found out Human Rights Day will be on my birthday, Dec. 10.

Because it’s this Friday, it got me thinking about how the international community protects and upholds human rights.

Human Rights Day was created to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly.

Through the Holocaust, the world saw how unimaginably horrific genocide truly is and moved to formalize the protection of human beings. Yet on the eve of the 62nd Human Rights Day, there are stark reminders everywhere that the struggle to defend and restore human rights is far from over. Sudan’s current crisis is a perfect example.

In 2005, Sudan ended its bitter 21year civil war with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. The mostly Christian south fought the Muslim north because Sudan’s brutal dictator, Omar

GRACE GOODE al-Bashir, was marginalizing the nonMuslim south and attempting to forcefully implement sharia law. As part of the peace agreement, northern and southern Sudan agreed to hold a referendum Jan. 9, 2011, to let southern Sudan decide if it would like to secede and form its own country. This historic date is only a month away, and tensions between the two factions are at an alltime high, and unfortunately, the threat of war is looming on the horizon. Bashir has been doing everything in his power to delay and derail the referendum — an independent southern Sudan means his regime loses its main source of revenue: oil. Despite Bashir’s public rheto-

ric that he will honor the outcome of the vote regardless of the result, all evidence indicates the opposite. Add the bigger problem of Bashir’s ongoing campaign of genocide against the western Sudanese region of Darfur, and it is clear why commemorating Human Rights Day comes at an especially poignant moment.

As citizens of the United States, we enjoy the privilege of deciding our own futures and feeling safe in our own homes. The Obama administration has not made it policy to exterminate certain ethnic groups in the country, such as in Darfur. The human right to live and breathe — to simply exist on this planet — is continually contested in places like Darfur. Hundreds of thousands of people fight to survive ever y day because their oppressors do not believe in human rights. It is up to us, being in a most privileged position, to defend the human rights of those without a voice. It is easy to remember why

human rights matter in conflict situations because the violence clearly illustrates the consequences of not defending those rights — innocent people die. Those conflicts are merely isolated pockets around the world though; it is the stable parts of the world where human rights must be defended most vigorously. Those in power will always put human rights second to economic and security motives when creating policy; therefore, it is up to us as individuals to ensure human rights are part of the dialogue. Stable nations are the places where institutionalized defense of human rights above all else must emerge first. So as Human Rights Day comes and goes again this year, the challenge remains learning the true value of collectively defending our right to live.

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

Free speech: Lessons from WikiLeaks

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t is hard to believe that it was just a week ago that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, disseminated 291 classified diplomatic cable communications from 274 embassies. Over the course of the next few months, WikiLeaks plans to release the entire collection of 251,287 cables. Certainly, this release has prompted significant controversy and reactions that span the spectrum.

From harsh condemnation by governments to those who support the release and champion the right of free speech, reactions have sparked considerable division among citizens, civil rights organizations and academics.

Although none of the cables that have been and are set to be released are classified as top secret, I strongly condemn the original leakage of, and subsequent release of, the documents to the world at large. The release of internal communications, ones that are not meant to be public and are essential to diplomatic operations, could seriously jeopardize the fragile

relationships officials juggle in the world of diplomacy. The release — and the manner in which it was done — is an affront to the hard work of those who represent our interests domestically and abroad. Moreover, Assange’s goal to promote the spirit of full transparency and a greater knowledge of government activities is laudable, but the manner in which he has sought to achieve such goals is troubling. Simply, the ends do not justify the means.

Many of the various arguments for and against the release of the documents stem from reasonable, sound and fair assessments of the issue. Yet there is a much larger issue that should draw our thoughts and focus, no matter your position regarding the release: the ever-present influence of the First Amendment in many aspects of our lives.

Beyond a reiteration of the details surrounding the leak, I am of the impression that our academic community can extrapolate and be reminded of one of its fundamental

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STEINBERG core values: academic freedom. As students in an academic setting, we should come to appreciate that the mission of this institution is to promote the study and inquiry of ideas, even those that are controversial.

Although that notion is widely accepted and respected throughout the world, I was, as you might be, surprised to learn that Columbia University’s Office of Career Services sent a suggestive e-mail to students discouraging the discussion of the leak through social media. The e-mail discourages students who are seeking government jobs to discuss or review the leaked cables, as it could jeopardize the prospects for their employment. What may have been a good faith attempt to

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hile the recent election primarily focused on the change of leadership in Congress, perhaps the most interesting aspect of the 2010 campaign was a state ballot initiative in California. Proposition 19 sought to legalize marijuana by regulating distribution and decriminalizing possession and growing. To the disappointment of many activists and cannabis consumers, Prop 19 failed (albeit by a small margin of 54 percent to 46 percent).

Most people think Prop 19 was unsuccessful because people are not ready for legalization. This isn’t true. The failure can be attributed to the problems with this specific initiative and not with legalization itself. Some were worried about personal profits, and others were influenced by a fear campaign about new penalties for young people.

There could also have been more grassroots organization to generate public support, as ver y few organizations were working for it.

In addition, the passage of California Senate bill 1449 in October decriminalized possession of minor quantities of cannabis, leading many people to believe that measure was enough and Prop 19 was unnecessar y.

Unfortunately, it is still extremely alarming how many people are against legalization because of their misguided beliefs about cannabis. According to government propaganda, cannabis is associated with everything from cancer to extreme laziness. Virtually all government claims are strongly discredited by objective research from respectable doctors and professors around the world.

In reality, cannabis actually helps cancer patients, is remarkably safe for any medical or recreational use and does not significantly impair motivation or driving (although you shouldn’t drive while high, just to be safe). But humans are stubborn beings, and once someone has their mind set on something, it is ver y difficult to change their opinion. People who grew up being told cannabis is evil are naturally inclined to dismiss any positive news about it, no matter how much there is. If people could just admit they were wrong and accept the legalization solution, this world would be a much better place. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Prohibition is unimaginably destructive and can in fact be considered a crime against humanity. It results in almost a million people being arrested each year, gives jobs to violent criminals all over the world, wastes billions of dollars in precious state and federal resources, has created a prisonindustrial complex that feeds on innocent people, tears families apart and more. Yet even with all this terror and destruction, people are afraid of legalization because it might lead to “increased use.”

In my opinion, people should be afraid of what is going on right now: Police mistakenly breaking into houses and killing beloved dogs — which happened to Ber wyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo — is a lot scarier than some responsible users smoking cannabis in their homes. These nonsensical policies even exist within our university, where many students have been mindlessly kicked out of their dorms and subjected to degrading and expensive drug testing. The problem is people cannot understand others’ pain ver y well, since if we could, prohibition would have been eliminated in the few days following its implementation in this country.

Thankfully, it will not be long before we see real change. Organizations such as Students for Sensible Drug Policy are already preparing legalization initiatives for the 2012 elections, and this time, there may be opportunities beyond California. The movement has learned a lot from Prop 19’s failure, both in how to write the laws and how to promote them.

With all of this new knowledge and support, it is looking more and more like 2012 will be the death of cannabis prohibition and not the end of humanity.

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REVIEW | DISNEY EPIC MICKEY

PAINT IT BLACK

BY ANDREW FREEDMAN Staff writer

Mickey Mouse may be the most iconic character in American history.

Though he has changed slightly throughout the years, the Disney mascot has always been friendly, playful and lighthearted.

But to survive Disney Epic Mickey, he’ll have to be smart and strong, too.

Developed by newcomer Junction Point and published by Disney Interactive (Tangled: The Video Game), Disney Epic Mickey is the latest story from the House of Mouse for Wii. Many years ago, Mickey traveled through a mirror into the study of sorcerer Yen Sid, who was painting a world for forgotten characters with his magic brush. Mickey decides to play with the brush and unleashes a large paint monster, the Shadow Blot, onto the painting.

Fast forward through years of Mickey’s fame, and the Shadow Blot returns for its creator through Mickey’s mirror and pulls him into the ruined world, now called Wasteland

and run by Mickey’s mischievous half brother Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Armed with the magic paintbrush, Mickey prepares to defeat the Shadow Blot and restore Wasteland to the peaceful world it was meant to be.

Granted, Wasteland is anything but peaceful. It’s the antithesis of everything Disney. Contrary to the bright colors associated with Mickey, Wasteland is a dark and dingy world. Locations such as Mickeyjunk Mountain and Bog Easy are covered in blacks, dark colors and shadows.

Wasteland is also filled with two types of enemies, Blotlings and Beetleworx, which come in several different varieties. Mickey fights these paint creatures with the magic brush — he can either cover them in paint to make them friendly or shoot them with paint thinner to eliminate them altogether. They can also be beaten with Mickey’s spinning attack. As the game progresses, players find new ways to fight off adversaries.

The paintbrush allows for innovative gameplay besides combat. As Mickey travels throughout the many desolate

Disney Epic Mickey is a fun trip through the iconic character’s interesting history

areas of Wasteland, players use the paintbrush to navigate the world and eliminate obstacles. For example, if a bridge is broken in half, Mickey can use paint to repair it. If a wall blocks the mouse’s way, he can use paint thinner to remove it.

Players wield the paintbrush using the Wii remote, which is aimed at the screen to release paint or paint thinner.

This leads to the game’s strongest point — its puzzles. As players use paint to create and remove different aspects of the world, they’ll have to think (though never too hard) and change the actual world to succeed; it’s a breath of fresh air from using only switches and levers, although those are present too.

The game also uses a decision system, in which Mickey’s actions will affect the world around him. Whatever players do, they will face the consequences. Assisting the residents of Wasteland leads to them returning the favor when you need it most. Players can also go for options that will benefit them more immediately, such as collecting E-Credits.

Many quests are optional but can lead

to positive outcomes in the long run.

Aside from innovation, Epic Mickey brings along something else that will put smiles on player’s faces — Disney.

Players can collect virtual Disney pins, find hidden collectibles, meet some lesser-known characters and view dark worlds inspired by the Disney canon.

Despite all of the darkness, the Disney spirit penetrates it with a positive light. Mickey Mouse, even in the shadowy Wasteland, is still curious and valiant.

Another impressive detail is Epic Mickey’s cutscenes. The short movies that drive the story along are vividly animated in a unique style that could hold its own as a Disney film. It would have been nice, however, to get some voiceovers — Mickey and friends speak in gibberish and subtitles.

If Epic Mickey falters in any area, it’s in the camera. While players move Mickey around, the camera picks what it feels is the best angle. However, the

angles are not always great, and players often have to change it themselves.

Luckily, a quick press of the C button will, in most cases, center the camera behind the protagonist, and the camera can be adjusted with the control pad.

Even then, the camera may not change quickly enough for combat to stay fluid.

If players want to adjust the view, they’ll have to do it before firing off paint for best results.

Disney Epic Mickey is a solid title — especially for Junction Point’s first game. Mickey Mouse, many decades after his creation in 1928, is still a lovable character. Even when the game is at its darkest, the positive Disney spirit manages to prevail.

The game’s paint system is innovative and is used smartly for puzzles.

Even with some camera issues, the game will still bring smiles to the faces of both gamers and Disney lovers alike. afreedman@umdbk.com

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MICHIGAN from page 7 career,” said coach Sasho Cirovski, who sat alone at the postgame press conference as his team nursed only its third defeat all season. “At no point did I feel like we were going to lose this game.”

Despite a season-high 33 shots, the Terps (19-3-1) could manage to score only twice against Michigan goalkeeper Chris Blais. Forward Casey Townsend and midfielder John Stertzer combined (16) nearly matched the Wolverine’s shot total (18).

But each time the Terps had seemingly found the answer to their scoring woes, their shots slid right past a post, struck off the crossbar or floated just high of the net.

“We probably left, by my recollection, about seven high-quality opportunities unfinished,” Cirovski said. “When nine shots of your 33 are on target, you make it tough on yourself.”

After needing 87 minutes to score against Penn State last week, the Terps struck early with a strike from Townsend.

Just 17 minutes into the match, the junior gathered the ball with his chest and struck a right-footed side-volley to the far corner of the net.

Before Saturday, the Terps had never lost after scoring the game’s first goal. They also had relinquished a lead only once all season.

But a high-ankle sprain to defender Greg Young threw the defense in flux, forcing Cirovski to move midfielder Billy Cortes to right back to start the second half and then bring in reserve defender London Woodberry, who had not appeared since Oct. 19.

In the 50th minute, Michigan defender Jeff Quijano scored from 16 yards out on a deflection to give the Wolverines (17-4-3) momentum. Just 10 minutes

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later, Michigan forward Justin Meram scored from 12 yards out with a shot to the far post, beating Terp goalkeeper Zac MacMath to take the lead.

“We did all the things necessary to win except find ways to keep the ball out of the net,” Cirovski said.

Facing their first deficit since their last loss on Sept. 24 at North Carolina, the Terps continued to press offensively. Forward Jason Herrick appeared to save the game in the 79th minute when he powered an accurate shot from 19 yards out to even the score.

But even with chance after chance following Herrick’s goal, the Terps couldn’t break through for a final tally. Whether it was a Stertzer header that flew right over the crossbar or a Townsend flick that Blais just got a hand on, the Terps ran out of luck in the final stage of their season.

“It’s really, really hard to believe we’re not going to Santa Barbara,” Cirovski said of the California site of the College Cup. “I truly felt we were the better team today and deserved a better result.”

Ultimately, the Terps’ season ended in a fashion strikingly similar to how it began — in an overtime thriller at Ludwig Field to a team from the state of Michigan.

This time, the stakes were much higher than during the team’s 4-3 loss to Michigan State in early September. A sixth trip to the College Cup in nine years, which early Saturday had seemed all but certain, ended a step short for the second season in a row.

“I don’t want this loss to diminish the incredible year we’ve had,” said Cirovski, whose Terps also fell in the quarterfinals last year. “I couldn’t be more proud of them. I love them. They’ve invested heavily; they’ve worked hard; they’ve brought a lot of honor to the program this year.

It’s a shame, and I hurt for them.” ceckard@umdbk.com

SHAFFER from page 7 second-seeded Terps had played for the final time this year was even more pained Saturday. Minutes after an enthralling afternoon of soccer theater had yielded a 3-2 loss to No. 10 seed Michigan, Cirovski struggled to grapple with the end of a season that seemed destined for the College Cup, if not another championship.

“As we all know, this can be a very cruel game.

Every once in a while, the game reminds us of how cruel it really is,” an emotional Cirovski explained.

“But we’ll bounce back.

We’ve got a lot of players who will take this hurt and move forward.”

The key question for this Terp team now becomes who will move onward. Of the 11 starters who took the field for the final time Saturday, as many as eight could be elsewhere next September.

Seniors Billy Cortes, Jason Herrick, Doug Rodkey and Greg Young won’t be returning.

Junior goalkeeper and prized U.S. Soccer prospect Zac MacMath, who couldn’t have picked a worse possible time to go without one of his highlight-reel saves Saturday, has already indicated he will enter the professional ranks.

Junior midfielder Matt Kassel and junior for ward Casey Townsend certainly couldn’t be accused of making bad decisions if either were to enter the MLS SuperDraft later this month. And sophomore defender Ethan White, a Kensington native and product of the D.C. United youth academy, could

make a healthy living from home should he choose to chase a paycheck.

Cirovski said Saturday that “it won’t be long until we’re back in the College Cup.” Given the future Hall of Famer’s credentials, it makes sense to think that the Terps’ next trip to college soccer’s final weekend will come sooner rather than later.

But it was this year, not next year or the year after, that was supposed to be the next big one for what is arguably the game’s biggest program. The team was healthy. It was scoring goals.

It wasn’t allowing many.

Then Michigan midfielder Fabio Pereira scored his first career goal in the second sudden-death overtime, and the dream of a fourth national championship frame for Ludwig Field’s final corner was over.

“We did everything but put the ball in the back of the net,” Cirovski said. “Good fortune was on their side today. To get to the promised land, you need some luck, and today, it was not on our side.”

Maybe that’s true. To have nearly three dozen shots and score just twice as the Terps did Saturday is unlucky at best and doomed at worst.

But again, it’s likely the results outside the box score — like seeing every topseeded team in the NCAA Tournament but his own advance to Santa Barbara, Calif., this week — that will eat at Cirovski the most.

“There’s an expectation every season at Maryland that we’re going to be in the College Cup,” Cirovski said.

“It’s the honor and reputation we’ve built up.” shaffer@umdbk.com

BOWL from page 1 the bowl game and where we’re playing.”

Despite finishing behind only Virginia Tech and Florida State in the conference standings, the Terps (8-4) dropped below four teams with worse records — Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami and North Carolina — in the pecking order for bowl selection.

Bowl organizers often have the leeway to choose teams they feel will most positively benefit their event’s profitability or marketability. As a result, bowl order rarely matches the final conference standings.

So even with the country’s second biggest turnaround this season, the Terps didn’t have enough to escape the Washington area.

“We’re going to make the best of it.” coach Ralph Friedgen said. “The toughest thing for our guys is that it’s in our own backyard.”

In a video released by the athletics department last night, Anderson urged fans to make the trip to the nation’s capital to support the team and “the chance to participate in something larger than football.”

It will be the Terps’ seventh bowl appearance in the past 10 years and first in program history in Washington.

“For the thousands of Terrapins fans in the region, this will be a great opportunity to support their team in a bowl game in their own backyard,” said Steve Beck, the executive director of the Military Bowl.

Poor fan support likely damaged the Terps’ bid for more prominent bowls

such as the Orlando, Fla.based Champs Sports Bowl, which selected N.C. State. The Terps fell more than $500,000 short of season ticket-sales projections in each of the past two seasons, and only one game at Byrd Stadium this season was at 75 percent capacity.

The bowl announcement did not sit well with some of the Terps’ players.

“This is bullshit,” defensive lineman Drew Gloster wrote on Twitter yesterday. “[H]ow n the hell do we go 8-4 n still have to play n the bumass militar y bowl against east carolina, I’d rather not play! [sic]” Offensive tackle R.J. Dill wrote: “[W]hy do we even play the games lets just pick the teams that travel the best and send them to bowls.”

The matchup against the Pirates, if far from glamorous, should at least prove exciting for the fans who do attend. East Carolina (6-6) has the 12th-best scoring offense in Division I but ranks last in the countr y in total defense. They have dropped five of their past six games, including a 7635 rout against Navy.

While Anderson and Friedgen both expressed excitement for the chance to support bowl sponsor United Ser vices Organization, which helps troops and their families, they couldn’t quite explain the Terps’ tumble down the bowl ladder.

“We thought [the N.C. State win] would determine where we placed in the league and that we would be rewarded for that placement,” Anderson said, “and evidently, that last win wasn’t good enough.” ceckard@umdbk.com

A series of second-half substitutions by coach Gary Williams helped revitalize the Terps’ chances before they eventually fell to Temple last night. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

TEMPLE

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from page 8 scores with Temple late, but even after a 3-pointer by Stoglin with five seconds to go pulled them within one possession, the Terps could not match the Owls.

Stoglin missed a desperation buzzer-beater just past halfcourt to seal the defeat.

“We’ve got to learn how to start off and start off better,” Williams said. “You’re not going to win games being down by 15 to start off the second half. ...

You’re just not going to win a game like that, simple as that.”

The Terps struggled throughout the game to set up their halfcourt offense. Though the Terps worked well in transition for much of the game, Temple made stopping the Terps’ fastbreak attack one of its priorities.

Again, mental miscues plagued the Terps. The team

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to make,” Frese said. “We found out the news that Alyssa wasn’t going to be able to continue on in the second half, and we were having trouble with their sets.

We wanted to go to our strength with our size, so we went to the matchup.”

It didn’t take long for the Terps to up the energy and intensity level needed to put the Mountaineers away. The Terps scored the first seven points in the second half en route to a 142 run that finally separated them from their visitors.

Tchatchouang scored 12 of her 17 points after intermission to lead all scorers. Aiding her was Kizer, who had a strong second half to end with 12 points and 10

“We can’t throw it in to Jordan. ...

We need plays like Pe’Shon and Terrell gave us tonight.”

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had 14 turnovers and was outrebounded, 42-32.

“We have to get better,” Gary Williams said. “We’re not good enough offensively yet; rebounding tonight, we could have done better. We can’t throw it in to Jordan and watch him.

That doesn’t work. We need plays like Pe’Shon and Terrell gave us tonight. We need guys to step up.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

rebounds for a double-double.

“It definitely has an impact on the game when we outscore them from down low,” Kizer said.

Frese said forwards Alicia DeVaughn and Tianna Hawkins also “gave us a spark.”

The two reserves came off the bench to combine for 18 points and 19 rebounds.

The stat sheet provided evidence of the second-half onslaught.

The Terps outscored the Mountaineers 54-18 in the paint, 22-9 on second-chance points and 16-2 on fast-break opportunities. Seven Terp players scored at least eight points, as well.

“With the talent we have on this roster,” Frese said, “that’s how we should be able to distribute the basketball.” nmunson@umdbk.com

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SUDDEN DEATH

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Rally falls just short vs. Temple Starters struggle through 64-61 loss

MEN’S SOCCER

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

Forward Casey Townsend reacts after a missed shot in the first overtime period of Saturday’s 3-2 loss to No. 10 seed Michigan in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals. The loss snapped a 15-game winning streak for the Terps, who ended one step shy of the College Cup. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

For Terps, a shot gone awry

Overtime loss ends season in quarterfinals

JONAS SHAFFER

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

As the ball skirted across Ludwig Field in the second sudden-death overtime period of Saturday’s NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, an unmarked Michigan player found space on a hard run into the penalty box and nudged the ball toward the far post.

When it found the net for the decisive goal in the Terrapin men’s soccer team’s stunning 3-2 loss to the No. 10 seed Wolverines, the realization of finality hit hard for a squad who had expected to play another weekend. Players dropped to the cold pitch, burrowing their face in their hands as teammates sought to console them.

The 15-game winning streak, the program’s record of shutouts, the nation’s leading scoring offense — none of it mattered after Michigan midfielder Fabio Pereira’s first career goal proved to be the last the No. 2 seed Terps would see this season. The dreams and expectations of hoisting the program’s fourth national championship trophy had evaporated.

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xactly a year ago Saturday, in the last byte of recorded history from the Terrapin men’s soccer team’s frantic and unforgettable 2009 season, Sasho Cirovski sat in a cramped Charlottesville, Va., media room and ended a press conference with a tersely worded statement whose brevity was more surprising than its boldness.

“This game will sit with me,” said the typically garrulous coach after a seasonending 3-0 loss to Virginia, “until we win the next championship.”

The title-or-bust proclamation came as no surprise to anyone who knows the man.

A prerequisite for any successful season, Cirovski said last year, is a full step forward. Just how allergic is he to failure?

That statement came after his team had won the 2008 national championship, its second in four years.

The expression on Cirovski’s face after his Midfielder Widner Saint Cyr consoles midfielder Billy Cortes, right, after the Terps’ 3-2 loss. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Terps go inside to move past App. State Kizer, Tchatchouang, Thomas propel team after close first half

BY NICHOLAS MUNSON Staff writer

For much of the first half yesterday, Appalachian State managed to keep pace with the Terrapin women’s basketball team.

Turnovers and missed opportunities prevented the Terps from controlling the game early, and as they broke off for the locker room at halftime, the score of 39-38 overhead surely resulted in uneasiness.

But thanks to the efforts of forwards Diandra Tchatchouang and Alyssa Thomas and center Lynetta

Kizer, the Terps overcame the slow start and won decisively, 81-65, for their sixth straight win.

From the outset at Comcast Center, it was easy to see how effective the different attacks for both teams would be in the first half. The Mountaineers (6-2) were able to spread the ball around the perimeter and hit key shots early on.

“I was really impressed with Appalachian State on film and the success that they’ve had,” coach Brenda Frese said. “They’re never out of a game.”

Mountaineer point guard Sam

Ramirez (15 points) had all nine of her first-half points come from behind the arc, and forward Canesha Edwards contributed nine points and seven rebounds in the first 20 minutes.

On the other side of the ball, the Terps’ Thomas took control early, dominating in the paint and picking up 13 points. The Terps (7-1) were dealt a setback at halftime, however, when Thomas was ruled out for the remainder of the game with a deep cut on her knee.

“At halftime, we had two decisions

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Lacking energy in last night’s game against Temple, the Terrapin men’s basketball team relied on substitutes to engineer a furious comeback.

The reserves did their job, tying the game with less than two minutes remaining and giving the Terps a shot at a signature nonconference victory they need desperately.

But the 15-point deficit the team’s starting corps handed the Owls early in the second half ultimately proved too much for anyone on the team to handle. The Terps fell, 64-61, again beset by issues of inconsistency among the players counted on to lead the team.

“You can’t expect to come back 15 in the second half on a Temple team that’s won the Atlantic 10 the past three years, picked to win the Atlantic 10 again this year,” coach Gary Williams said. “I’m just very disappointed.”

After coming out flat in the first 20 minutes — and shooting just 28.6 percent from the field — the Terps came out in the second half equally listless. By the first media timeout, they were down 40-25.

Coach Gary Williams decided he needed to take drastic measure.

When the Terps retook the court, three substitutes joined forward Jordan Williams and forward Dino Gregory on the court.

“I thought Coach was 100 percent correct,” Jordan Williams said. “We needed guys out there who were going to play hard.”

The energy shifted immediately.

The Terps strung together a 10-point run, all on scores by the bench players — a layup by forward James Padgett, a 3-pointer by guard Terrell Stoglin, a layup by guard Pe’Shon Howard and finally a 3-pointer by forward Haukur Palsson to cap the drive. Suddenly, the Owls held just a two-possession lead.

“Young guys came in and did a great job,” Gary Williams said. “I told the team after the game: It doesn’t have to be perfect, you just have to play hard, and those guys played hard, so I was proud of them.”

Temple extended the lead slightly, but the Terps kept within striking distance through the half, never again falling behind by double-digits.

With less than four minutes to go, the Terps mounted another run, again keyed in part by their substitutes. Down by eight points, Howard and Stoglin each contributed scores after a Williams layup, cutting the score to 56-54. A Padgett dunk tied the game.

But the Terps never took the lead.

On the possession immediately following Padgett’s dunk, Temple forward Lavoy Allen was fouled by Stoglin while scoring a layup. He converted the free throw to complete the three-point play, which ended up putting the lead out of reach for good.

Although Allen fouled out just 23 seconds later, sending Jordan Williams to the line, the sophomore missed two key free throws, leaving the Owls’ lead at three.

Williams, though, was far from the problem last night, finishing with a team-high 17 points and 11 rebounds for his seventh doubledouble of the season.

“Especially in the first half, he wasn’t getting a lot of help,” Gary Williams said. “He got some help in the second half. ... We got a couple plays where we could have won the game, a couple of free throws go in, a pass, but that’s the way it goes. When you get behind that far, you have to be pretty perfect to win the game.”

The Terps continued to trade

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Center Lynetta Kizer had a doubledouble yesterday in the Terps’ win.

Guard Pe’Shon Howard had six points and six assists yesterday.

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