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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 98TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 131TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008
THE DIAMONDBACK
STARTING OVERMen’s lacrosse team looks to begin anew
with NCAA tournament in mindSPORTS | PAGE 16
ALL HAIL HER MAJESTYMadonna continues her reign asQueen of Pop with Hard Candy
DIVERSIONS | PAGE 9
Univ. slowto expand
facultydiversityOther USM schools
show quicker growthBY CARRIE WELLS
Staff writer
This university has fallen behind othersystem universities in hiring women andminority faculty, an analysis of system anduniversity data shows.
University System of Maryland officialshave long said increasing the ranks ofwomen and minority faculty should be a toppriority for Maryland universities, and theuniversity’s strategic plan, which charts theuniversity’s course for the next decade,emphasizes that goal. But the data showsthe university has consistently laggedbehind others in the system for the past sixyears, increasing its proportions of minori-ties and women faculty at a slower rate thanother system schools.
Despite the data, USM Chancellor BritKirwan said the university is making
Victim stabbed outside Bentley’sMan underwent surgery after artery in leg was severed during attack
BY BEN WORSLEYStaff writer
A fight that began at R.J. Bent-ley’s Sunday morning led to thestabbing of a man just outside thebar, and the victim underwent sur-gery to repair a severed femoral
artery in his upper leg.Robin Patrick Smith, 24, of Silver
Spring, was arrested by PrinceGeorge’s County Police andcharged with first- and second-degree assault, carrying a con-cealed weapon and intent to injurewith a dangerous weapon in con-
nection with the incident, accord-ing to court documents. Court caserecords show he has never beenpreviously arrested for any crimi-nal charges.
Maj. Kevin Davis, District 1commander of the Prince George’sCounty Police, said the victim was
treated at MedStar Health inColumbia after he was stabbedduring the fight. Although the vic-tim’s injuries were severe, Davissaid, they are not currentlybelieved to be life-threatening.
Dining hallsto increasefood labels
Students complain itemsaren’t clearly marked
BY NANDINI JAMMIStaff writer
Freshman philosophy major Mar Chiesathought she was making a healthy choicewhen she opted for meat stir-fry, a specialmeal at the Global Gourmet counter atThe Diner, but she became suspiciouswhen she got a headache as she ate.
“[My food] was very yellowy; it was liq-uid,” she said. Chiesa said she confirmedwith the line worker that her stir-fry hadbeen cooked in butter rather than health-ier and non-dairy vegetable oil.
In response to complaints from studentswith dietary restrictions, Dining Servicesis trying to become more transparentabout what is in their food. Dining Services
PHOTO COURTESY SARAH HEMPSTEADThe Maryland women’s ultimate Frisbee team celebrates after its sectionals win.
Frisbee team lays out a path to nationalsNo. 13-ranked team reaches topcompetition for first time ever
Man arrested in robberyoutside Susquehanna
Baltimore man arrested in dorm at BowieState University, could face 40 yrs. in jail
BY BEN WORSLEYStaff writer
University Police arrestedone of four men wanted in con-nection with the assault androbbery of a student two weeksago near Susquehanna Hall.
Jewell Marcus Reid, 19, ofBaltimore, was arrested yester-day and charged with robbery,second degree assault, theft andconspiracy, court documentsshow. Reid could face up to 40
years in jail if convicted of allthe charges, University PoliceSpokesman Paul Dillon said.
Court records show Reid hasno previous charges of anykind.
Dillon said University Policeworked with the campus policeat Bowie State University tomake an arrest in the univer-sity’s dorms yesterday morn-ing. He declined to comment on
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
The football and basketball teams failed to wintitles, but there is still hope for Maryland sports fanslooking for another national championship.
With a second-place finish in the Metro EastWomen’s Regionals on Sunday, the women’s club ulti-mate Frisbee team secured a place in the 16-teamnational tournament to be held May 16-18 in Boulder,Colo., for the first time in team history. During the pastsix years, the team has gone from struggling to recruitmembers to achieving the No. 13 ranking in the nationfrom the Ultimate Players Association, the sport’sgoverning body.
After cruising through the opening rounds with
Please See ARREST, Page 3Please See FRISBEE, Page 3
Please See LABELS, Page 2
Please See FACULTY, Page 8
Please See STABBING, Page 3
ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKSophomore pitcher Nathan Steelman dreamed of playing at Shipley Field while serving as an Army sergeant in Iraq, where he guarded an Army-run prison.
Army sergeant dreamed of pitching for TerpsBY AARON KRAUT
Senior staff writer
Just a year ago, Sgt. Nathan Steel-man couldn’t even play a simple gameof catch.
The threat of rocket-propelledgrenades and attacks by Iraqi insur-gents on his U.S. Army-run prison inBaghdad made everyday activitiesdangerous.
Every night after every monotonous
day, Steelman thought about reachinghis dream: wearing a Terrapin base-ball uniform. Five months afterreturning home, Steelman is no longerjust fantasizing.
Early February, Steelman joined theTerps as a walk-on just a few weeksbefore the season started. And despitenot pitching much, he said making it tothis point is an achievement.
“I always thought about it, how hugeit would be for me to do that,” Steel-
man said. “To go from probably one ofthe worst places in the world rightnow to playing Division I baseball —that’s something you aspire to do.”
Before being called into active duty,Steelman had been a college athlete.He spent his freshman year atShenandoah University, where heplayed quarterback for the footballteam in 2004 — but not baseball,
Please See STEELMAN, Page 13
From Baghdadto the
bullpen
officials already started labelingvegetarian, vegan and gluten-freevalue meals in the dining hallsand plan to put comprehensivenutritional information online inthe fall, but many students sayDining Services still isn’t going farenough to accommodate studentswith dietary restrictions.
Students have long complainedthat there are not enough veganand vegetarian options in the din-ing halls. But a newer wave ofcomplaints is directed at the hid-den ingredients in meals — suchas the butter in the stir-fry —which leads students who arevegan, lactose-intolerant, keepkosher or have celiac disease orother dietary restrictions to avoidmany cooked foods because theysimply don’t know what the mealis made of. Dining Services offi-
cials said they want to addressthese concerns by posting ingre-dients and other nutritional infor-mation online, but students saidthat not having the information inthe dining halls as they choosetheir meals is impractical.
Freshman government andpolitics major Dan Fishbein hasceliac disease, which means hemust avoid products with gluten— most starchy products containgluten. Fishbein said gluten-freelabeling isn’t helpful for him be-cause he already knows what hecan’t eat, but he said he looks for-ward to being able to read the in-gredients to find unexpected in-gredients that would aggravatehis condition.
Junior biology major AmandaStrand skips the Cluckers count-er, the pasta counter and thesandwich counter every day asshe hunts for an acceptable meal.
Sometimes she opts for a salad,other times a grilled cheesesandwich, but this vegetariancan rarely trust anything else inthe dining halls to cater to her di-etary needs.
“The other day, I got a pastadish, which didn’t specify tofu orbeef. I wasn’t sure, and they didn’ttell me,” she said. Strand said thatsince the new labeling only ap-plies to the value meal counter, itdoesn’t help her when she wantsto eat elsewhere in the dining hall.
Freshman English and musicmajor Joel Gleiser became a veg-etarian this year after consideringthe environmental impact and vi-olence of eating meat. He said heappreciates the labeling of valuemeals but added that he was con-cerned the change was too limitedto help him seek out all the possi-ble vegetarian options the dininghalls have to offer.
“Honestly, it doesn’t have a bigimpact because [the labels are]hard to spot because of the fewthings they’re on,” he said.
Several students, however,said they would welcome the de-tailed online menus, whichwould help them better plantheir meals ahead of time.
Senior women’s studies majorStephanie Baker, who has beenexperiencing food allergies,called the revamped website astep that has been “long over-due.” Due to the current lack ofinformation, Baker has been un-able to figure out what, exactly,she is allergic to.
Dining Services SpokesmanBart Hipple said the departmentwas modeling its online nutritioninformation after Harvard Uni-versity’s interactive website,where students can enter theirdesired portion sizes and com-pare nutritional content to that ofthe recommended serving size.
Campus nutritionist SisterMaureen Schrimpe is supervis-ing the process, which involvesrevamping the recipes from bothdining halls to make them consis-tent and recording nutritional in-formation and ingredients.
Dining Services officials saidthey will monitor student reac-
tions before extending the labelsto all counters in the dining hallsand that they do not expect to listcomplete information. DiningServices Advisory Board chairBixi Zeng called a possible exten-sion to the service “an eyesore,”citing concerns about counterslooking “a lot more messy.”
Dining Services officials saidthey hope to eventually install anumber of electronic kioskswhere students can access nutri-tional information in the dininghalls. They said money for thekiosks has not yet been allocated.
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Wilbon: ‘I’m going to get thrown off the air some day’
BYKYLEGOONStaff writer
One thing Michael Wilbonlearned from being a sportscolumnist at The Washington Postand a pundit on ESPN’s Pardonthe Interruption is that when hetalks, people listen.
Although Wilbon said he want-ed to interact with the audiencewhen he spoke on campus lastnight, the approximately 200 stu-dents mostly watched in star-struck awe as the Chicago native’sunfettered opinion streamed outfor two hours.
And the audience loved it.“I love watching him on PTI
and NBA halftime shows,” fresh-man Matthew Bouchard said.“He’s a smart guy, a fun guy.”
Utilizing his characteristic “realtalk” attitude, Wilbon explored alitany of topics raised by students.From eccentric details about his
friendship with co-host Tony Ko-rnheiser to why he feels recruitingnews is comparable to “kiddieporn,” no topic was taboo for theextroverted sportswriter.
Even ESPN couldn’t avoid tak-ing a hit for the way they exposedMiguel Tejda’s true age two weeksago. Wilbon called the technique“dishonest” and compared it to anepisode of Cheaters, a show wherejilted lovers confront their signifi-cant others in the act of infidelity.
“I’m going to get thrown off theair one day because I’m going tosay something without regard forwho’s paying me,” Wilbon admit-ted to the crowd.
One student did challenge oneof the writer’s assertions: Sportinga Sean Taylor jersey, the young fansaid he took offense to Wilbon’scolumn following the Redskinsafety’s shooting death that said he“was not surprised” about theplayer’s tragic fate.
Wilbon ardently defended hisstance, saying that although hemight have written it differently,he didn’t want to back down fromthe deeper issue of pro athleteswho are surrounded by dangerouspeople or influences and theirstruggle to escape them.
“There are going to be timeswhen you’re reading the paperover your Rice Krispies that I’mgoing to make you feel uncomfort-able,” he said. “But it is a discus-sion we should be having morefrequently in this country.”
Wilbon’ s ties to the universitygo back further than the handful oftalks he has given on the campus inrecent years. One of his first beatswas covering Terrapin sports, andhe described the death of Len Biasas the most influential and trau-matic sports event in his career.But ultimately, he said, he comesback to the university to talk to as-piring writers and journalists.
“I remember when I was in thesame seat and people came in totalk to me. Students need to hearfrom the people that are actuallyin this industry,” he said. “I don’t
have any particular message, but Ilove storytelling. I’m a sports-writer — it’s what I do.”
Washington Post columnist talks to star-struck students
PHOTOGRAPHER–THE DIAMONDBACKMichael Wilbon, a Washington Post sports reporter and co-host of ESPN’sPardon the Interruption, speaks in the Grand Ballroom on Monday aboutsports and his career.
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Campus robbery suspect arrested at Bowie Statewhether Reid is a student atBowie State University.
Police arrested Reid in connec-tion with an incident that oc-curred the morning of April 13.According to the victim’s accountin an earlier interview, he had just
parked his car in the MowattLane Parking Garage by SouthCampus Commons after return-ing from a party as a designateddriver.
The victim, who asked he re-main anonymous, said he waswalking along Lehigh Road whenfour men approached him. One of
them punched him in the face,and the victim tripped as he triedto run away. The men began kick-ing him, the victim said, and heoffered them his wallet if theywould leave him alone. The mentook the wallet and fled.
University Police obtained aphoto of one of the suspects using
the victim’s credit card to make apurchase at a nearby 7-Elevenlater in the week. Dillon said thecredit card was also used at a Mc-Donald’s in Bowie. University Po-lice reviewed video footage at theMcDonald’s to find the vehicle ofthe man using the credit card,and they then traced the tags of
the car to Reid, Dillon said.Dillon praised his detectives
for their diligent work in handlingthe case. The victim echoed Dil-lon’s sentiments, saying policewere “very logical and careful” inmaking the arrest.
“They’re really trying to catchthese people. I had never felt like
they had given up or anything,”the victim said. “I’m really happywith the way they went abouteverything.”
Dillon declined to comment onany leads police have in findingthe remaining three suspects.
ARREST, from Page 1
PHOTO COURTESY SARAH HEMPSTEADUltimate Frisbee team member Clara Morris throws upfield to teammate Amy Hudson during a game.
Stamina gives Terps a tournamentberth in national Frisbee league
blowout wins over Haverford andPenn State, the Terrapins perse-vered 15-9 over Pittsburgh beforelosing to tournament championOttawa.
The loss set up a rematchagainst Pittsburgh for secondplace and the tournament berth.After a back-and-forth match thatprogressed much like their previ-ous meeting, the Terps pulledaway by virtue of better condition-ing.
“We just had more stamina, andwe ran them into the ground,”club president and sophomoregovernment and politics majorMolly Rose said. “We won usingour legs and our heads.”
The highlight of the matchcame when co-captain and seniorcivil engineering major HeatherSmith performed a rare “Calla-han,” in which a player scores ondefense by intercepting the Fris-bee in her opponent’s endzone.
The trip to the national tourna-ment will cap a breakout seasonfor the team, which finished witha 26-3 record during the seasonand won its sectional tournamentfor the first time.
“As a team, we decided to reallygo in a new direction,” said seniorjournalism and Spanish majorMelanie Lidman, a former Dia-mondback opinion columnist.“You can decide to do [a club
sport] for the community and ca-maraderie, or you can take it tothe next level.”
Lidman was one of many on theteam to give up her job to focus ontraining, she said.
The team began a strenuoustraining regimen that includedgym workouts, swimming andtrack practices, which irked thetrack team.
“They kept saying, ‘We’re train-ing for nationals,’ and we werelike, ‘We are too,’” Lidman said.
The talent pool increased, too.For the first time, there wereenough players to split into A andB teams, in stark contrast to theteam that former captain CaraMartin remembers joining as afreshman in 2002.
“A majority of the time theyhardly had any people, and theycould barely get a team together,”said Martin, who stayed with theteam until earning her master’sdegree in mechanical engineeringlast year.
Martin decided to stay in theUltimate Frisbee communityafter graduating, acting as a re-gional tournament coordinator. Sowhen the Terps won their wayinto the national tournament,Martin was on hand to congratu-late them.
“I felt very much a part of it,”she said. “I know I was a part ofthat team even though I wasn’t onthe field.”
Being congratulated by thewoman they called “Mom” provedtoo much, Lidman said. “Thewhole team just burst out cryingabout how far the team has comein the last four years,” she said.
Now the real work begins: get-ting the money to make the trip toColorado. The club receives fund-ing from the Student GovernmentAssociation, but it won’t beenough to cover travel expenses.
“I think all of us are prettymuch willing to do whatever ittakes to go,” said co-captain ClaraMorris, a senior English majorand Diamondback opinion colum-nist. “Let’s just say you might seesome more Ultimate Frisbee bakesales in front of Stamp in the com-ing weeks.”
The national competition willfall during finals week, and manyof the players will miss exams, butRose said professors have beenaccommodating.
“Most of them probably don’tunderstand what Ultimate Fris-bee is,” Rose said. Once it was ex-plained to them, however,“they’ve all been pretty excited.They thought it was pretty cool.”
Lidman put all of their work intoperspective. “It’s kind of funnythat we dedicate so much of ourtime to a sport that is so far underthe radar, people think it’s some-thing you play with your dog.”
FRISBEE, from Page 1
Campus declared an arboretum
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
The Washington area, a hubfor eco-friendly talks and initia-tives, has gained a new arbore-tum: the university’s campus.
The university announced itsnew status on Maryland Day byleading visitors on “campus treewalks” to show off 52 species oftrees it has cultivated over theyears. Becoming an arboretum— or area “in which trees andshrubs are cultivated, usually forscientific and educational pur-poses,” according to the Ameri-can Public Gardens Associationwebsite, which classified the en-tire campus as its newest mem-ber — was part of a campus ini-tiative to become more environ-mentally sustainable, as outlinedby the university master plan.
The university has been work-ing to establish itself as an ar-boretum since 2003, when facili-
ties workers began taking inven-tory of the trees around the cam-pus. Achieving and maintainingarboretum status opens the doorfor the university to receive re-search grant money to studyurban tree growth, ecological re-lationships and landscape de-sign, according to a brochure dis-tributed during the campus treewalks.
The arboretum is “an attemptto integrate planning, research,teaching, physical environmentand even public enjoyment,”said Bill Mallari, the coordinatorfor campus development in theDepartment of Facilities Plan-ning.
The American Public GardensAssociation, the organization thatofficially dubbed the campus anarboretum, promotes foundingarboreta because they foster aca-demic plant research, supportacademic classes and institution-al outreach and beautify the
campus. Scott Munroe, a landscape ar-
chitect in Facilities Management,said the tree walk was well re-ceived by visitors at MarylandDay who felt the new arboretuminitiative was “an asset to the uni-versity.” The arboretum not onlyenhances the campus’s beautybut also allows the university todemonstrate the best practices inenvironmental stewardship, hor-ticulture and landscape design,according to the literature the uni-versity was passing out Saturday.
The tree walk featured 56 dif-ferent stops and 52 differentspecies of trees. Facilities em-ployees placed signs along thetrail — spanning from the Archi-tecture Building to FraternityRow — to teach visitors about thevarious species ranging from theexotic Chinese parasol tree towhite oak, an American staple.
Status opens opportunities to seek grant money
Bentley’s patron faces assault, weapons charges
MedStar Health could not bereached for comment regardingthe victim’s condition.
Davis said a fight began insidethe bar when someone who waswith the victim accidentallybumped into Smith. A fight esca-lated inside the bar betweenSmith, the victim and a few oth-ers, and they were all kicked outof the bar.
Davis said the fight continuedoutside of Bentley’s. Smith fledthe scene, Davis said, and some-
one with the victim pointed outthat the victim, who did not real-ize he had been stabbed, hadblood on his right leg.
The victim flagged officersdown about 2:15 a.m. near thecorner of Knox Road and YaleAvenue, Davis said. Police beganlooking for the perpetrator, andthe victim was transported toMedStar Health.
Davis said an officer noticeda man with bloody pants walk-ing along Montgomery Street.The officer tried to stop theman, but the man fled. The offi-
cer chased him down and re-covered a knife from the sus-pect that police believe may bethe assault weapon.
“Our officers were in the rightplace at the right time,” Davissaid. “They made a keen obser-vation that led to the apprehen-sion of the suspect.”
Smith’s preliminary hearingis scheduled for May 27 at thecourthouse in Upper Marlboro.
A manager at Bentley’s de-clined to comment on the incident.
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In 1999, Maryland struck a dealfor the ages with ConstellationEnergy to deregulate the energymarket in exchange for a limit on
energy costs for six years. The trade-off? Only the removal of the govern-ment’s oversight of the electricitymarket followed by the startling real-ization that six years doesn’t last forev-er. Utilities that were once mandatedto invest $13 per person in energy effi-ciency decided their businesses wouldbe better if their customers boughtmore energy. Go figure! They startedinvesting a penny per person.
After the six year cap on ratesended, electricity rates rose by 72 per-cent — almost as much as the bloodpressure of the customer when theysaw their electricity bill. Combine thatwith almost zilch going into energy ef-ficiency for our infrastructure and ap-pliances along with rising energy use,and the state could be facing rollingblackouts in the next few years. Take abreath, and savor this, for it is politicaland fiscal incompetence at its finest.
While deregulation is here to stay,lawmakers had an opportunity thisyear to set right some of its casualties.After entering into the RegionalGreenhouse Gas Initiative Programwith nine other states, Maryland willacquire $80 to $140 million this sum-mer from state power plants, whichneed to purchase carbon allowancesfrom the government in order to pol-lute. All of this money was supposed togo into a yearly $140 million strategicinvestment fund to help consumersand businesses improve their energyefficiency. Significant reductions inour energy use per capita would great-ly alleviate the coming energy short-age. Factor in that every $1 invested inenergy efficiency yields $4 in savings,and this would be significant long-term rate relief.
In the book 1984, there’s an episodewhere a man is tortured into admittingtwo plus two doesn’t equal four, butthree, because the government saysso. You have to wonder if our politi-cians have taken this same math class,because they seem convinced that $1is more than $4. The bill that was sup-posed to allocate all the money to ener-gy efficiency programs was watereddown, so now the fund is getting 46percent of the proceeds. That isn’teven half of what was originally ex-pected, and the long-term rate reliefisn’t going to be nearly as significantas it should be.
So where will the rest of the moneygo? Mostly into rebates and billingcredits for energy consumers. Don’tbe easily deceived into thinking this isgood policy. When spread out over allof the consumers whom the rebateswill reach, this is only a couple hun-dred dollars of rate relief at best.When your electricity bill has beenhundreds of dollars too high everymonth, a few hundred dollars of relieffor one month isn’t going to make anysubstantial dent on the year. Ratherthan investing all of this money intouseless short-term relief, it should allhave gone into securing Maryland’senergy future and making a dent inour energy bills for the next 10 years.We should have learned our lesson onenergy efficiency in 1999. Apparently,some mistakes are too much fun tomake only once.
Maryland lawmakers aren’t theonly ones failing preschool math. Justtake a look at our federal government.When faced with a sagging economydue in part to high energy prices, theygave out $168 billion in rebates toAmericans to stimulate the economy,with zip going to energy efficiencyprograms. Will that work? At the uni-versity, we’re taking notes: We spend$50 million a year on energy, and a lotof it is wasted on inefficient buildingsand lighting. Then we go to Annapolisand ask dumb and dumber for morestate funding without seriously consid-ering what we could do to save moneyourselves.
I’d rather have energy savings forthe next 10 years than a pittance of arebate for 2008. I want my lights toturn on when I flick the switch in thefuture. I’d also like our officials to un-derstand that the least expensivewatt of energy is the one you neverhave to use. Recognizing that four isgreater than one would be a goodplace to start.
Matt Dernoga is a sophomore govern-ment and politics major. He can bereached at [email protected].
You have just picked up TheDiamondback, and you aregetting ready to readMatthew John Phillips’
newest column. Before you continueon, you will probably flip to the cross-word and give up after nine across or28 down. You might be reading this inclass, tucked safely underneath yournotes. Or you might be sipping a warmcup of coffee and eating your morningbagel — cinnamon raisin, “lite” creamcheese — while curled up in one of thechairs of the Stamp Student Union.You might still be in bed, on your back,kicking the bottom of your room-mate’s mattress while he or she sleepsthrough morning classes.
Wherever you are, whatever youare doing, take note of the peoplearound you. Is the person just in frontof, behind, next to you holding up TheDiamondback, as well? They mightbe reading this exact same column,these exact same words. Will youlook up and try to spot them as theyturn the page? Wait to see the pictureof the funny guy with the spiked hairand tie to float to the top of the page?Give them 30 seconds to catch up.Then follow along with them, com-forted by the knowledge that some-one — someone within reach — un-derstands your present moment bet-ter than any other.
Now that we have all formed a mo-mentary connection, think about whatwould happen if this column, that guysitting next to you reading it, were todisappear. We float in and out of eachother’s lives, not really aware of thetransient hellos and goodbyes of theeveryday. And with all of the technolo-gy and flash of the quotidian, it isamazing we are even able to grab ontosomebody else for a few moments.That the few “stickers” we get in life— those who never really let go, forbad or good — don’t get washed awayin the storm of a thousand other po-tential connections.
There’s something so dauntingabout the thought of billions of peopleswarming around you on any givenday. It’s the stuff romantic comediesfeed on. Zoom in to handsome man ashe enters coffee shop, then pan tobeautiful woman as she comes in be-hind him. The people in the audiencehold their breath, waiting for theirfated lovers to meet. But they don’t,passing by each other with barely asmile or a nod. It’s just one of manybungled opportunities in the next twohours of the movie.
And sometimes, life isn’t too faraway from the art. Friday night, I metthe most beautiful French man at clubTown. He was tall, with glasses, darkhair and a casually buttoned shirt thatjust spoke European cool. We danced;we kissed. But, like any good romanticcomedy, we were destined to floataway from one another. In my excite-ment (and in his language gap), num-bers were never exchanged. Now I amfixated by the idea that what seemedso bright for a moment now falters outof sight on the horizon.
Perhaps, like so many of the rela-tionships that we forge daily, it waspurely coincidental or appropriatejust for that time and place. If everysingle person we exchanged a word— or kiss — with were to stick withus, then suddenly it would be like wewere in that Play Station game Kata-mari Damacy, just rolling around,picking up small children and petsbefore we can accumulate the biggeritems such as adults and sub-com-pact cars.
Luckily, friendships and relation-ships are never really about quantity.But sometimes, like with the Frenchguy, you just miss the mark. And thenit is difficult to just pick up and returnto life, because you know someoneelse is lost and sporting around, justlike you. And the chances of you evermeeting again (one in 6 billion) seempositively overwhelming. With every-thing — Facebook chat, MySpace,Google and beyond — it seems unfairthis should be so.
Yet, most romantic movies thriveon missed opportunities such as this.But then, in the final five minutes,handsome man and beautiful womanfinally cross paths. The audiencesighs, sniffles, wipes away a tear. Ithasn’t happened yet. But the movie’snot over.
Matthew John Phillips is a juniorEnglish major. He can be reached [email protected].
Come! ’Tis the red dawn of the day, Mary-land!” How well a verse from our state songcaptures the mood of Maryland Day, wherewe welcome with open arms students andvisitors alike to delight in the sights that
make our university unique. But the zeal that students,faculty and staff share for Marylandis in stark contrast to the responsewhen university President Motepitched his idea in 1998 to mimic CalDay at Berkeley. As Mote said in apast article, “There was a lot of resist-ance and a lack of enthusiasm on thisidea.”
In a time of tight budgets, it washard to justify spending $200,000 onan open house. But Mote got his way, and the resultshave been spectacular. In 2004, while Cal Dayattracted 40,000 people to Berkeley’s campus, Mary-land Day was attracting more than 70,000. It has been asmall but integral part in Mote’s vision for the univer-sity. And this vision, coupled with improvements inacademics and funding, has generated an immenseamount of pride in our school.
Though we often use this space to chide Mote formaking baseless decisions, it must be said that he isthe president who pushed Maryland into national
prominence. He brought the university from beingranked 30th nationally among public universities in1998 to 18th in 2002. But we’ve stayed stuck aroundthere ever since, and a primary cause is that we don’thave enough money to roll with the big cats.
Even though we’re more than halfway done with the$1 billion campaign, we’re still farbehind our peers. All of our peerinstitutions — Berkeley, Illinois,Michigan, North Carolina and UCLA— have finished or are in the midst ofcampaigns with goals of more than $2billion.
We can’t increase our graduationrate without money to give financialaid to needy students. We can’t con-
duct cutting edge research without funding for newbuildings to replace our aging facilities. We can’tattract the best faculty from around the world withoutdonations to create endowed chairs.
Events like Maryland Day attract new members ofthe Maryland family and give old ones a reason toreturn to the campus. We need alumni to take pride intheir alma mater and help it to an even greater future.We must create a culture of giving among alumni ifever we hope to chant with pride our dauntless slogansong, “Maryland! My Maryland!”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking lessthan you need.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
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The “Great Expectations” campaign has justreached an impressive milestone; it has offi-cially raked in $500 million. That is a colossalsum, and it should be applauded. Let’s put that
amount into perspective: If it costs $15,000 to bake54,000 cupcakes for Maryland Day, $500 million wouldallow us to bake one billion, eight hundred million cup-cakes. If each cupcake has a radius of 2 centimeters, wecould blanket .0070 percent of the surface of the state ofMaryland with our sugary treats. This is respectable butstill nowhere near our ambitions as a flagship bakinginstitution. So just when we have crossed the bighalfway mark to $1 billion, how can we make the bigfinal push? Here are some sure-fire get-rich-quickschemes.
The Pete Rose method
Any fundraising initiative must begin with harnessingthe university’s image in the world of sports and thetenacity of its fans. To that end, the administrationshould explore allowing students, faculty and alumni toplace wagers on the outcome of Terp sporting events.The initial investment would be some sort of yacht tokeep offshore where the university could book all thebets, but the payoff would be almost instantaneous. Theadded bonus would be alumni with money riding on theoutcome of games would start to care a great deal moreabout university sports.
The Diamondback, brought to you by Pepsi
While the university has made some strides in attract-ing corporate sponsorship and dollars, overall, it hasbeen far too conservative. We’ll have to do better thanthe Chevy Chase Bank Field and the deal with Pepsi toget to $1 billion. There are so many parts of the campusthat are languishing without corporate banking. Imagine
it — the Boeing Periodical Room in McKeldin Library,the A. James Clark School of Engineering, brought toyou by Procter and Gamble. The empty space on themall could even be rented out to companies to constructpermanent advertising fixtures. What has that grassever done for the university other than incur mowingcosts?
We know where you live
The university wants to create a culture in whichalumni are expected to donate when they get rich andcan afford to do so. Well, simply begging for money isn’tgoing to create that culture. What is needed is some mer-ciless intimidation. The fundraisers should contract pro-fessional stalkers to keep tabs on tight-pursed alumniand to make their lives a living hell until they decide togive back. The sort of 24-hour coverage that will be nec-essary for this strategy to work is expensive, but it willultimately pay off when alumni just can’t take it any-more. These cheapskates need to know that when we say“Great Expectations,” we mean it!
Progressive tuition
It is time to abandon the outmoded standard that allstudents should be charged the same amount for tuition.It is time we realized certain students make use of theuniversity’s services more than others. A student with aGPA of 3.8 has certainly made the most of his or her timehere. He or she probably spent time in the library withbooks, used the university’s Internet services and likelyattended lectures and took notes. A 2.1 GPA studentprobably did none of the above. So why should the latterstudent pay the same amount of money? It is simplyunfair to ask those students to bear the same share of thetuition burden as the ones who actually make use ofservices. The good students ought to pay more.
Halfway there
The threadsof fate
MATTHEW JOHN PHILLIPS
Revisitingarithmetic
MATT DERNOGA
Every morning at 8:00, WangPing (pictured here) ridesan old, rickety bus to theapartment complex where
he works in Beijing. For the next 12hours, he stands (or sits,when he thinks no one islooking) at rigid attention,ostensibly to provide secu-rity for the four apartmentbuildings under his purview.He only gets brief breaks forlunch and dinner. However,his real respite, he says, arethe brief moments when hecan smoke a cigarette with-out his manager findingout. He is 17 years old. Alocal security company, hisemployer, affords him agenerous salary of $3 aday.
I see Ping as I go in andout of my apartmentbuilding every morning,and I started talking tohim to get a sense of lifein a decidedly differenteconomic bracket. Likemany young Chinese people, Pingleft his rural home, a small village inGansu province, to find work in Bei-jing. Between deep puffs on his ciga-rette, the fourth I’ve provided himwith since we began our conversa-tion, Ping explains that 25 yuan aday would be impossible to find inhis village. In Beijing, Ping says, hecan afford food, clothes and ciga-rettes. Part of the reason Beijingfears inflation of its currency isbecause of young migrant workerssuch as Ping, who rely on state-regu-lated prices of daily necessities,such as pork.
As with many everyday occur-rences in China, child labor is illegal.Faced with corruption, lax enforce-ment and employers constantly seek-ing ways to cut corners, it comes as nosurprise to find the worker pumpingsewage from an open manhole does-n’t just look 14 — he might actually be14. Worker protection laws, so com-mon in the United States, have not yetcaught on in China. CCTV, China’sstate-run television network, is awashwith tear-jerking programs, in whichsome 13-year-old child is rescued
from a smelting factory. It is not anuncommon occurrence for unsavoryemployers in rural China to purchasechildren from destitute families oreven to steal them off the street.
In some ways, child labor isemblematic of the difficulties facingmodern China. Traditionally, Chi-nese culture places great emphasison rearing children. Only in the mostdestitute or dire situations were chil-dren sent out to work. Yet, in a cul-ture that has had its values slowlyeroded by years of radical change,Communist rule and a cultural revo-lution, the new religion of capitalismushered in by Deng Xiaoping hassupplanted those traditional valuesat a breakneck pace. Because themajority of abuse takes place in therural countryside of China, lawenforcement is especially difficult.Accurate figures of the childemployment rate in China areimpossible to find.
Ping’s dormitory is little morethan an 8-by-8 square. He sharesthis space with five other securityguards. Ping prefers summer to win-ter, he explains, because at least inthe summer he can always keepwarm. The gas that is supposed toheat his dormitory during the wintermonths is often shut off for long
spells. Ping says he has a good rela-tionship with his roommates, allmigrant workers from the sameprovince. “We all came for the betterpay,” he explained. “It wasn’t a diffi-cult decision for any of us, I don’tthink.”
The only time Pingseemed to be regretful ofhis decision to comework in Beijing waswhen I asked him abouthis plans for the future.He said he hoped to saveup enough money to per-haps start a business withfriends, but when Ipressed him on the details,he admitted that he doesn’treally give the long termmuch thought. I asked himabout his education, and heseemed a bit regretful.“Books are expensive,” heexplained. I asked Pingabout his political thinking,and he said he didn’t reallyconcern himself with poli-tics. However, when askedabout specific problems,such as the return of Taiwan,
Ping conformed exactly to the gov-ernment stance. The Chinese Com-munist Party relies heavily on sup-port from rural Chinese people, suchas Ping, who almost uniformly sup-port the continuation of one-partyrule in China.
Part of the unparalleled economicrise of China is attributable to capi-talism’s ability to tap into China’sabundant commodity: its people.Capitalism in China takes advantageof this resource in ways the oldorder never could. However, as Pingand an entire generation of ruralyouth can attest, China’s newfoundpromise of wealth still leaves manyshortchanged. Until China can finda way to sustain growth while pro-tecting its most important asset, itwill never realize its full potential.As the fortunes of Ping go, so dothose of China itself.
Hunter Pavela is a senior Chineseand philosophy major currentlystudying abroad in Beijing. He canbe reached at [email protected].
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“Well that depends. When is Passover over?”
- A Thirsty Turtle bartender on whenbusiness might pick up againFrom the April 25 Diamondback
“We're on the brink of a new level of student leadership”
- RHA Vice President-Elect Josef MensahOn the results of the election
From the April 23 Diamondback
“We all just wanted to be sure becausethere are a lot of crazy people
who live in this town.”
- Resident Clif Frailey on the death threats posted on the Diamondback website
From the April 28 Diamondback
Beijing on $3 a day
Saturday was my first everMaryland Day, and I wastruly impressed by the im-mense amount of planning,
organizing and resourceful under-taking that went into bringing thisaction-packed and diverse showcaseof our university to life.
Yet one of the grandest displays ofthe day gave me some food for seri-ous thought — literally. The 54,000cupcakes Dining Services startedbaking way back in December sat onHornbake Plaza meticulouslyarranged in the shape of the Mary-land seal. Just a few yards away,flags from around the world wereperched in the grass, most likely torepresent our new Strategic Plan’stheme and goal of becoming an inter-national institution. The juxtaposi-tion of these two displays got methinking about the strides we have totake as we move toward achievingglobal consciousness as a university.
The cupcakes were meant tobreak a world record, but to me, the$15,000 project symbolized a lack ofglobal thinking. While our guests andwe enjoyed our 12.6 million caloriedelight this weekend, the world con-tinued to suffer from the currentfood crisis. Sunday’s WashingtonPost reported food prices have risen80 percent in the past three years, ac-cording to the United Nations’ Foodand Agriculture Organization.Though it has begun to decline in re-cent weeks, the price of grain in par-ticular has skyrocketed, having risenby 200 percent since 2000, accordingto the World Bank.
Many of us in the United Statesmay be feeling a slight pinch in ourpockets, but for the more than a bil-lion people living on less than $1 perday — many of whom depend ongrain as the major staple in theirdiets — spiking food prices are a truematter of survival. Violent food riotshave broken out in at least 14 coun-tries, including Haiti andBangladesh.
Officials at the U.N. World FoodProgramme fear the current foodcrisis could plunge 100 million of theworld’s poorest people into hunger.When, according to the WFP, close to900 million people in the world donot have their dietary needs met, we,at the university, spent the equiva-lent of the daily income of 15,000 ofsome of the world’s poorest ondesserts. Among the ingredientsused were 1,415 pounds of flour, 177gallons of 2 percent milk and 117.93gallons of eggs to bake our cupcakeextravaganza.
Granted, most people probablydidn’t have visions of starving chil-dren when they looked at the spiritedcupcakes, and I know we needed abig publicity draw to put MarylandDay on the media map. Maybe wecould have drawn attention to ourglobal consciousness by donating orasking our sponsors to donate$15,000 to the WFP, which providesfood to about 73 million people. TheWFP estimated in January that itwould need to raise an additional$500 million this year to compensatefor rising food prices.
But beyond what we could orshould have done, in the end, thisisn’t really about the cupcakes. Theysimply symbolize the importance ofmaking the connection of how evenour smallest actions connect beyondour borders as we continue to worktoward becoming a “world-class”university.
In order for this institution toachieve a level of international sta-tus, we must first learn to think glob-ally, even down to the seemingly in-significant details. As Maryland Daydemonstrates, this university is notjust about academics. Along with ourstudies, we have a plethora of activi-ties and groups, and we’re all tryingto have a little fun. But in enjoyingthis privilege, all of us — students,faculty, administrators, staff and visi-tors — must keep in mind and talkabout how we relate to the global pic-ture. We can see ourselves as Terps,as Marylanders and as Americans,but above all else, we need to see our-selves as world citizens, taking intoaccount how we might better ex-press ourselves in the collective spir-it that we hope will characterize ourinstitution in the years to come.
Ali Adler is a freshman sociologymajor. She can be reached at [email protected].
Best of the week
In Pennsylvania’s 2002 guber-natorial race, now-Gov. EdRendell ran on a platform ofreducing property taxes.
Because Pennsylvania was losinggambling revenue to states such asNew Jersey, West Virginia andDelaware, he proposed the intro-duction of slot machines, whichwould replace property taxes as themain funding source for publicschools. By legalizing slotmachines, gamblers who wouldotherwise be forced to travel topopular gambling destinations suchas Atlantic City could travel to“racinos,” Pennsylvania’s hybridracetrack-casinos.
Pennsylvania’s slot machine leg-islation provides an interestingcase study for the proposed legisla-tion being discussed in Annapolis.Currently, Pennsylvania has almost12,000 slot machines, each of whichmakes an average of $307 a day.According to estimates given to thePennsylvania Gaming Congress,those averages are expected to fallto about $200 a day. Last year, Penn-sylvania generated more than $1billion in gambling revenue, andbecause the state is only running at25 percent of its legal capacity ofslot machines, that revenue couldincrease substantially.
A 2006 study by Harrah’s Enter-tainment, one of the world’s largestcasino and entertainment compa-nies, found that Pennsylvania hasunique access to three of the largest“feeder markets” in the country —markets that have a large popula-tion that tends to gamble. A third ofall New Yorkers travel out of thestate at least once a year to gamble.Like New York City, a third ofPhiladelphia’s 5.5 million peopletravel outside of the state at leastonce a year to gamble. On the list ofthe top 20 feeder markets in Har-rah’s study, Maryland does not havea single city listed. The closest areais Washington, which has a low par-ticipation rate (17 percent) and apopulation over 21 that is muchsmaller than Philadelphia’s.
The only states on the East Coastwith above-average gamblingrates are New York, New Jersey,Massachusetts, Connecticut andRhode Island, markets that havealready been tapped by Pennsyl-vania and New Jersey. At best,Maryland can hope to convinceonly a small portion of gamblers togamble within the confines of thestate. Any more seems highlyunlikely while destinations such asLas Vegas remain popular.
In a report prepared for Gov.Martin O’Malley last year, threeother states — Delaware, West Vir-ginia and Pennsylvania — wereanalyzed as to how they influencedMaryland gambling habits. It wasfound that Maryland residentsgambled about $400 million playingslot machines out of state in 2006.For 2008, Maryland is expected tohave a budget deficit of $1.7 billion.Even if a significant portion of theestimated $550 million does go tohigher education, it will not balancethe budget, and it will not beenough to cover the needs of thegrossly underfunded higher educa-tion system. Given that Marylandresidents only gamble $400 million,an estimated revenue of $550 mil-lion seems unrealistically opti-mistic given that out-of-state gam-blers have more attractive optionselsewhere.
However, slot machines are agood idea for Maryland in theirown right. The state loses moneyeach year by forcing its residents togo elsewhere to find casinos. Race-tracks, casinos and the industriesthat support them all generate jobs,and more jobs would be createdwith the legalization of slotmachines. However, using anunpredictable and unsteady rev-enue source to balance budgets andfund higher education is irresponsi-ble, regardless of where the moneycomes from and the social stigmasattached to it.
If the state wants to pass legisla-tion legalizing slot machines, theyshould do so without attaching themoney to a specific problem. If wecan be sure of anything based onPennsylvania’s experimentationwith slots, it is that if slot revenuesfell short, property taxes wouldnot have been lowered. If Mary-land’s experience with slotmachines is disappointing, highereducation will be the first to paythe price.
Brian Snyder is a sophomoreEnglish and psychology major. Hecan be reached [email protected].
THE DIAMONDBACK | OPINION | TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008
Maryland’sgamble on
slot machines
Brian SnyderHunter Pavela
Thinkglobally
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Letters to the Editor
Cupcake excess
I, like any other student, would love to witnesssuccessful fundraising at my university. Adminis-trators seem to be finding that it’s difficult to col-lect from alumni. As university President DanMote stated, “We were very late to the game.”
It isn’t that we were late to the game. It’s that wewere never in it. This university is plagued withmore than just financial problems. There is a lackof communication between the administration andits students. With high crime rates, housing short-ages and parking problems, students are forced totake negative views of the university. Why wouldalumni fund a university that failed to providethem with a unique experience?
If the problem were that we were a decade toolate, then the university needs to start planningahead. In another 10 years, how many members ofthe class of 2008 will be signing over checks? Whenparents and alumni visit the campus and see a fieldof cupcakes, they’d honestly question the use oftheir funds.
If I had seen the campus for the first time onMaryland Day 2008, I would have noticed ageddorms, a mall covered in white tents, showcasecupcakes, historic academic buildings, frustratingparking situations and overcrowding. From thisfirst impression, I would have taken my donationsto the local bakery (because those cupcakes lookeddelicious), local landlords (to expand off-campushousing), public transport (to reduce the number ofstudents dependent on the university’s Departmentof Transportation Services) and local landscapingcompanies (because those tents and heavy trafficmust have laid waste to the mall).
Our reputation precedes us. Our students tore updowntown after basketball games. Our athletes arecaught cheating, failing or driving drunk. Ourparking lots are converted into toilets and trashcans during football season. Our Greek organiza-tions are still caught hazing and marring the faceof the university. There are frequent reports of rob-beries, rapes, assaults and thefts. Can the same besaid for UCLA, North Carolina and Illinois?
CHRISTOPHER AMERASINGHEJUNIOR
ECONOMICS
Realism on library funding
This is in response to the staff editorial printedApril 25, “The heart of the university.” I’m disap-pointed to see The Diamondback take a narrowview that fails to account for previous universityobjections. Yes, we would like for everything to beour No. 1 priority, but that amounts to nonsense. Togive more money to the libraries, we have to takethat money from somewhere else — complaints arenot solutions; alternatives are. Is spare cash betterspent on libraries or new buildings? Increased stu-dent housing? Funding other chronically under-funded programs?
One partial solution is to pass subscription costsalong to the primary users. If a department is theonly significant user of a journal, it should pay thesubscription cost, instead of the university as awhole. This will have three main effects: Journalsnot worth their cost will be dropped, the campuscommunity as a whole will have a better idea ofwhat subscription costs are, and librarian salaries(and other library maintenance) will not directlycompete with subscriptions. The first effect may bemitigated by the tendency of large publishers tooffer journals in bundles; the second effect may nothelp much but will keep the misery of rising sub-scription costs from falling solely on the shouldersof the library system.
There will be other complications to workthrough (more than one department, for example,uses Nature, and pricing journals that compose abundle is tricky), but that’ll probably be easierthan conjuring funding out of a hat. I must confessignorance as to how our libraries are currentlyfunded — this idea may already be in place, or itseffects may not be what I project (if, for example,librarian salaries and journal subscriptions comefrom different areas of the university budget).
MATTHEW GRAVESSOPHOMORE
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Fine art in The Diamondback
“From Italy, With Opera” was a great article inyesterday’s paper about the Maryland Opera Stu-dio’s production of Così fan tutte, but I wish it hadcome out last week, or even two weeks ago. Foranyone who reads the article and feels enticed togo, it will be a disappointment to realize that theopportunity has now passed. More disappointing isthe fact that there was very little advertisement forthe show other than what was on the Clarice SmithPerforming Arts Center website and what traveledvia word of mouth. As operas go, Così can serve asa particularly wonderful first-timer’s piece, and it’sa shame to think of how many people may havemissed out simply because they were never awareof the opportunity.
On a broader scale, I’ve yet to see any mention ofthe Theatre Department’s production of Marisolthis week or the University of Maryland Sym-phony’s Orchestra and University of MarylandChoirs’ performance of Joseph Haydn’s The Cre-ation on Friday. With so much great art going on upat CSPAC, one really wishes a little more attentionwere paid. If there’s enough room for “All The CrapYou [Allegedly] Care About” involving people inHollywood, I have to imagine there’s enough roomfor the university’s newspaper to cover some of themore creative things being done by students at theuniversity.
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“great” progress, chalkingup the disparity to routineretirements and lack ofrecruiting opportunities.
“Obviously we have morework to do in this area, butit’s an instance in which wecan take some pride in theprogress we’ve made,” hesaid.
The proportion of minorityfaculty at other system uni-versities grew by 5 percent-age points on average in thepast six years, but at this uni-versity, it grew only 1 per-centage point. In the sametime period, the percentageof women faculty increasedan average of five pointselsewhere in the system, butthis university’s increasewas four percentage points.
A September 2007 surveyin the Chronicle of HigherEducation ranked the univer-sity behind all but one of itspeer institutions in employ-ing minority faculty mem-bers.
Ellin Scholnick, the associ-ate provost for facultyaffairs, cited an explanation.Research universities havetrouble recruiting womenfaculty members because ofan overall lack of women inthe sciences, she said.Except for University ofMaryland, Baltimore Countyand University of Maryland,Baltimore, none of the othersystem universities areresearch-based.
“If you look at the school ofmedicine, it’s going to lookdifferent from the school ofsocial work,” she said.“You’re going to get differ-ences that reflect differencesin the disciplines.”
Raises in universities’budgets and presidents’salaries are based on overallperformance, meaning that if
a university hasn’t madeprogress in hiring diversefaculty or in other areas suchas graduation rates, theirraises wouldn’t be as large asthey could be, Kirwan said.However, Kirwan said thisuniversity wasn’t in any dan-ger because its progress wasdeemed satisfactory.
The numbers on diversityshow the number of blackfaculty members fell whileAsians made up much of theincrease in minority facultymembers. Ron Walters, aprofessor and expert onracial issues, was particu-larly concerned with the per-centage of black facultymembers at the university.
“I understand that theUniversity of Maryland istrying to become anotherHarvard, but every univer-sity does, too,” he said. “Ifyou want to live in the realworld, you have to makethat diversity a reality.”
He said that part of theproblem could be that theuniversity’s higher standardsfor hiring have left out manyminorities who have not hadas much access to educationas their white counterparts.Historically black colleges inthe system could be attract-ing talented minority profes-sors away from this univer-sity, he added.
Kirwan said that an even-tual goal would be for all theuniversities in Maryland toreflect the general popula-tion, both in faculty andgraduate and undergraduatepopulations.
“It’s going to take a lot ofadvances in education in alllevels,” he said. “There’s alot that goes into achievingthat ideal state. As a nationwe’re nowhere near to wherewe ought to be.”
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CIA’s history revealed ... some of it, anywaySpy club brings former intelligence officer to campus
BY JAD SLEIMANSTAFF WRITER
Many lecturers enjoy an en-gaging round of questions fromtheir audience. But Linda Mc-Carthy, with 24 years of CIAservice under her belt, warnedher audience that some of theirquestions would have strictlyclassified answers.
The UMD Intelligence Com-munity Club last night brought theEmmy award-winning author andformer CIA intelligence analyst totalk to students about the murkyhistory of the U.S. spy business.Touching on historical figuresfrom the American Revolution tothe Cold War, McCarthy tracedthe origins of the CIA while notingthe daring activities of some of thenation’s smoothest spooks.
“I love the collegiate crowd be-cause you guys ask some heavyquestions,” McCarthy began.“There might be some I cannotanswer; it’s not because I don’tknow the answer, it just hasn’tbeen cleared and blessed by theagency.”
She began her lecture by show-casing the clandestine side of the
U.S.’ founding fathers. GeorgeWashington, “the consummatespy master” as McCarthy calledhim, helped win the America’s in-dependence by paying agents forinformation on British activities,often “out of his own pocket.”
“Do you read about that whenyou read history books aboutGeorge Washington?” McCarthyasked.
A large part of her presentationhinged on the CIA’s World War II-era predecessor, the Office ofStrategic Service. The OSS wasstarted in large part as a result ofAmerica’s lack of an intelligencegathering and an analysis agencyafter the Japanese attack on PearlHarbor, McCarthy said.
Among the dozens of WorldWar II OSS agents McCarthynoted were Moe Berg, the profes-sional baseball player who spokea dozen languages and helped theU.S. gauge Nazi Germany’sprospects of developing an atombomb and the “famous limpinglady of the OSS,” Virginia Hall,who helped disrupt Germancommunications in the build-upto the Normandy invasion despite
her wooden leg.“D-day stands for deception
day,” McCarthy said, “It was allpredicated upon lies.”
McCarthy ended her presenta-tion with a display of old-schoolspy gadgets, some of which arestill in use. Laying on a displaytable that would fit nicely in Q’sfamed MI6 laboratory was,among other spy gadgets, amatchbox camera for capturingsecret documents, a “doggie doo”transmitter that gave away trooppositions and, if “things got a littledicey,” an easily concealable dag-ger disguised as a pencil.
Organizers were excitedabout showcasing the often-times overlooked history of U.S.spies. UMD Intelligence Com-munity Club Vice PresidentShoshana Plotkin said most ofthe club’s events featureemployee recruiters, so havingan intellectual conversationabout a hidden part of thenation’s history was exciting.
“She’s a historian, so she knowsa lot about the background ofthese organizations,” Plotkinsaid. “It’s important that students
know some history.”Some students were surprised
to hear about some of the U.S. spymethods, including the OSS’s use
of pigeons in areas where radiomessages were easily intercepted.
“Pigeons, who knew?” saidAmanda Musiani, a junior psy-
chology major. “They were using,like, birds to spy. That’s crazy.”
JACLYN BOROWSKI–THE DIAMONDBACKLinda McCarthy, a 24-year CIA veteran, gives a presentation Monday night on multiple aspects of the CIA at a meetingof the UMD Intelligence Community Club.
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REVIEW | MADONNA
A sticky and sweetHard Candy
With some help from Timbaland and Timberlake, thereigning Queen of Pop delivers yet another solid album
COURTESY OF MADONNA.COMMadonna may have three children, but she’s all youth on her latest album, Hard Candy. The album borrows from thehip-hop genre and adds an urban flair to Madonna’s typically electro-pop sound.
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Will Madonna ever age? Allsigns point to no, especiallywith her latest album, HardCandy. A saucy slice of urbanelectronica, the album cementsMadonna’s reign over all thingspop. Take the album at facevalue — i.e., ignore the simplis-tic, sometimes gross lyrics —and it’s enjoyable. Pay atten-tion, and it’s slightly skeevy.
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On Hard Candy, though,Madonna looks firmly to thepresent for inspiration. Withhelp from producers such asTimbaland and N.E.R.D.’sPharrell Williams and col-laborators such as JustinTimberlake and Kanye West,
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Madonna has built an empireout of her sexuality, and on HardCandy, the promiscuity comesfast and furious. The album kicksthings off with “Candy Shop”(produced by Pharrell, who dis-played his love for all things fe-male and naked with the wonder-fulness of “Lapdance”); the songutilizes a funky beat, a catchy cho-rus and some nasty-licious lines.Madonna begins with an invita-tion into her store, where she has“candy galore ... Turkish Delight,baby, and so much more,” and fol-lows up with lines like, “You’ll bebeggin’ for more/ Don’t pretendyou’re not hungry/ I’ve got plentyto eat” and a hook of “My sugar israw/ Sticky and sweet.”
At face value, the lyrics aren’tthat bad. Plenty of artists havesaid more vulgar things in theirlyrics. But this year, Madonnaturns 50 — that’s AARP age,folks. Shouldn’t it be time for herto close her legs and cover up?
Yet Madonna doesn’t take thehint, nor does she let her agehold her back. Instead, she “cango on and on and on,” as she pro-claims on “Give It 2 Me;” she’s
“got no boundaries and no lim-its/ If there’s excitement, put mein it/ If it’s against the law, arrestme/ If you can handle it, undressme.” Or, you can catch her “pop-pin’” and “droppin’” on “Heart-beat,” on which she also com-mands the listener to “see mybooty get down.” Or, you canhear how “sex with you is in-credible” on “Incredible.”
But Madonna also knows howto temper her image, as HardCandy includes a number of bal-lads that focus on love, not lust.For example, the song “MilesAway” may sound a lot like aGwen Stefani track (Return ofSaturn-era No Doubt, that is), butappeals to the heart with lyricssuch as “I guess we’re at our bestwhen we’re miles away.”
Despite all the good things,Hard Candy can get slightlyrepetitive. “Beat Goes On”sounds like a track left overfrom the Confessions on aDance Floor recording sessions;it’s far too disco-based to fit inwell on this album. Similarlyboring are “Dance 2night,” asMadonna’s vocals are too synth-ed out to make any kind of im-pression (shockingly, not evenTimberlake can save this one)and “Spanish Lesson,” whose in-strumentation sounds too muchlike Snoop Dogg’s single “Beau-tiful” to be memorable (the simi-
larity is probably thanks toWilliams, who played a role incrafting both songs).
Overall, however, Madonnahas delivered yet another solidthreat to all female performersout there. Though she may beup there in the years, Madonnais a force to be reckoned with,especially when she rubs shoul-
ders with the key architects oftoday’s pop sound and comes upwith an album as hypnoticallycatchy as Hard Candy. On“Heartbeat,” Madonna says “itmay feel old to you, but to me itfeels new” — either way, shedoes a damn good job.
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Everyone loves to debatewhich bands that have beenlying dormant for years willbecome irrelevant the fastest.But if anyone suggested Por-tishead’s first two trailblazingcontributions to trip-hopwould fade to the peripherywith the new millennium, theywere sorely mistaken.
Since 1997, the only peepheard from the gloomy Bristoltrio was a discreet solo albumfrom lead singer Beth Gibbons,but in its busiest week in almost11 years, Portishead manages toheadline the Coachella ValleyMusic and Arts Festival andrelease their aptly titled album,Third. After Europe’s AllTomorrow’s Parties festival lastyear, Third leaked and pickedup a steady Internet buzz.Though no one should expect aPortishead album to make themgiddy, this is the most excitedyou should ever be for 49 min-utes of utter despair.
The instrumental bulk of thenew album consists of a seam-less layering of electronicdrumming, synthesizers andviolins. Portishead affirms itsability to adapt by utilizing lug-ging and steady instrumentalsinstead of over-the-top, dra-matic beats. Adrian Utley andGeoff Barrow take the backseatand allow Gibbons to infuse thealbum with her melancholy andeerie voice.
When it comes to lyrics, theband doesn’t depart much fromits tried but true themes ofdepression and longing; lyricsshift between angst-ridden bal-lads and mopey love songs.Creepy songs such as “Silence”and “Hunter” highlight bothhaunting lyrics and Gibbons’whispering, floaty voice.
But as the album continues, itslowly reverts back to theband’s trip-hop roots. Some
songs are surprisingly self-ref-erential; the single “MachineGun” is backed by synthesizingintentionally reminiscent of gunspray. “Nylon Smile” beginswith up-tempo, complex beatsbut succeeds in staying beauti-fully sad and wanting; Gibbonswails, “I’d like to laugh at whatyou said/ But I just can’t findthe smile/ Cause I don’t knowwhat I’ve done to deserve you/And I don’t know what I’d dowithout you.”
Even with her impressivemusic, Gibbons still “can’t seenothing good.” The song endsabruptly, and the last four sec-onds are silent before the tracksswitch. On “The Rip,” Gibbonsdemonstrates her remarkableability to hold a note — shestretches the phrase “will I fol-low” for more than 30 seconds— and the instrumentals willremind listeners of the denseelectronic element Portisheadis known and loved for.
Despite the sensibility andcontrol of the previous tracks,the best song on the album is“Plastic.” Vocal re-recordingand echoing complement animpressively inconsistent arrayof instrumentals. It’s like a sam-pling of what the band is capa-ble of electronically, and eachsegment is better than the last.
Third probably cannot begrouped with Dummy and Por-tishead in the trip-hop genre theband pioneered, but thealbum’s deviation from formproves perfect for the new slantin the contemporary musicalclimate. After a delay similar toChinese Democracy, fans giv-ing up hope can be reassured —Portishead’s innovative outputwas well worth the wait. Ifyou’re not quite ready for thatfeel-good summer album, breakout the tissues and downloadaway — you won’t be disap-pointed.
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After more than a decade with no newmusic, Portishead returns in fine form
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BYALEXRUSHStaff writer
Although The Roots’ latest worklaments the injustices of American gov-ernment and society, the group still giveshope to music fans everywhere.
Sure, most songs on the six-memberhip-hop band’s 10th album, Rising Down,do not sound optimistic. The beats areladen with distorted minor chords, andemcee Black Thought attacks the trackwith desperation, evident in his signaturestrained voice.
However, the fact that The Roots caneven release such a dark album on amajor label proves that, in this age of cor-porate commercialization of music, cer-tain artists can still control their products.And even though The Roots just releasedthe pop-tinged “Birthday Girl,” with vo-cals from Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump(the song, thankfully, isn’t actually on Ris-ing Down), the album is still a political,thought-provoking record. Forget radio-friendly songs.
“The radio has been playing the samesong all day long,” croons guest singer
Chrisette Michelle on the title track. “I’vegot something you’ve been waiting for.”
As a whole, the album is a testament tohow the band has evolved in its 15 yearson record. The Roots’ first album releasedthrough a label, Do You Want More!!!??! ,was recorded live in 1995 and featuredplayful improvisation, jazzy grooves, beat-boxing and lyrics about being too smoked-out to leave the house. But as they becamehip-hop veterans, The Roots became pro-ficient in studio production, using samplesand other electronic sounds.
They have also used their lyrics to focuson change, seen in “Rising Down,” featur-ing Mos Def and Styles P. Black Thoughtand his collaborators sound like the ThreeMusketeers of hip-hop, each addressingan issue: Mos discusses conflict dia-monds, Styles complains about prescrip-tion drug propaganda, and Black Thoughtbrings up global warming. The track alsoincludes heavy synthesizers that enhancethe ominous subject matters.
“Criminal” also shows how The Rootsare rebels with a cause. Black Thoughtand the wise thug Saigon, who may havehip-hop’s greatest story never told since
he has yet to drop his debut album, spitfrustrated and militant raps. The pairdrops knowledge about the prison indus-trial complex, racial profiling and the lackof social mobility in the United States.
“I’m put up in handcuffs and pissingin a cup,” raps Black Thought. “Ifthere’s a God, I don’t know if he’s lis-tening or what.”
Through standout verses and by hold-ing his own on tracks with heralded em-cees such as Common and Talib Kweli,Black Thought proves he is one of themost underrated rappers in the game.Drummer, producer and band-leader?uestlove may be the brains and backboneof the group, but Black Thought is theheart who pumps lyrical blood throughthe veins of the record, especially on “75Bars (Black’s Reconstruction).”
“I can’t help that my heart beats asa metronome,” he rhymes on “LostDesire.”
In addition to Black Thought’s power-ful rhymes, Rising Down runs on ?uest-love’s precise beats, most of which es-tablish the mood of each song. The dron-ing bassline on the somber “SingingMan” is haunting and puts listeners inthe mindset of the rapper Porn’s charac-ter, a school shooter. Similarly, the grind-ing bass line and thrashing symbolsmake “Get Busy” sound like an abstractboom-bap track: rough East Coast hip-hop with the band’s twist.
However, some fans may miss thefunky, interactive sounds of a live band,
the best aspect of The Roots on their ear-lier work. The sounds of Rising Downare very manufactured, except for theAfro-beats on “I Will Not Apologize” andthe jamming drums and piano on “Ris-ing Up.”
But overall, Rising Down is a calculatedwork by some of the smartest musiciansin hip-hop. Named after the book RisingUp and Rising Down: Some Thoughts onViolence, Freedom and Urgent Meansand released on the 16th anniversary ofthe Los Angeles riots, the album remindslisteners that music can still be a call toprotest.
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While it was the Terps’ third lossin four games, their reaction tothis one was different because ofthe situation. After droppingwinnable rivalry games againstthen-lower-ranked Navy andJohns Hopkins, a home-standingCavalier squad seeking revengeprovided a much different task.
Senior midfielder Max Ritz saidthe loss just gives the Terps,whose roster features 18 truefreshmen, more experience.
“It definitely helps us get better,especially for postseason, playingteams this strong,” Ritz said.
“This is the type of team you’ll seein May. I think it just shows wehave a lot we can learn.”
It would seem the Terps stillhave a lot of improving to do ifthey are going to make a runthrough the tournament. Theoffense continues to struggle attimes and has not posted double-digit goals in any of the past fourgames. The team has not puttogether a complete effort since its13-7 win against Virginia onMarch 29.
Although the Cavaliers took anearly lead and maintainedmomentum throughout Friday’sgame to knock the Terps out of thetournament for the third straightseason, Cottle said there was evi-dent improvement in his squadthat has him excited about the
future. “I saw something today that I
really liked,” Cottle said. “I think ifwe can go back to work, I think wehave a chance to get a lot better.”
The Terps have some time to getit right. This weekend, they hostunranked Yale for Senior Daybefore the NCAA tournamentstarts May 10 and 11.
That’s what Cinosky was focus-ing on directly after the Terps’'ACC aspirations were dashed.
“I think we played a great gametonight,” Cinosky said. “You can’ttake anything away from the Vir-ginia guys. They took advantage ofthe opportunities. It was disap-pointing, but we’ve got to look for-ward now to Yale.”
ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKAttackman Ryan Young is one of 18 true freshmen on the Terps’ roster. With the postseason approaching,they will have to learn quickly from their recent mistakes.
OUTLOOK, from Page 16
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which he had played for threeseasons at Smithsburg HighSchool.
But financial reasons causedSteelman to leave Shenandoahfor the armed forces, and inJune 2006, he was sent to Texasfor training. In August, his unitwas sent to Kuwait and a cou-ple weeks later, to Baghdad.
Steelman was stationed atCamp Cropper, a maximum-security prison run by the U.S.Army near Baghdad Interna-tional Airport, which holds2,000 detainees and held for-mer Iraqi dictator SaddamHussein.
Planted on a base that suf-fered multiple attacks duringhis time of duty, Steelman saidhe could not stop thinkingabout stepping onto the moundfor the Terps.
He exchanged e-mails withhigh school teammate andTerp left fielder Gerry Spes-sard. Steelman already hadthis university in mind for aca-demic reasons, and he wantedto find out more about thebaseball team.
“I really hadn’t played base-ball for about three years, so I
started e-mailing him to try tofind out what I would need todo to walk-on here. I knew Iwas going to apply,” Steelmansaid. “I was like, ‘If I’m goingto go here I might aswell do something,like sports.’”
Steelman returnedto the U.S. after 15months in Baghdad.Once accepted bythis university, hewas urged by Spes-sard to contact coachTerry Rupp, whogranted him a tryout.
In the month and ahalf he had to pre-pare, Steelmanworked out at theExtra Innings train-ing facility in hishometown of Hager-stown, where he wasable to get his armback in shape. Heimpressed thecoaches during a pri-vate bullpen session this win-ter and earned himself a spoton the team.
“He showed some armstrength and an OK breakingball, but here’s a guy that has-n’t really been throwing,”
Rupp said. “But we saw somepotential in him.”
“I hadn’t picked up a ball inalmost four years,” Steelmansaid. “I was just trying to
remember everything Iknew about pitching.”
This season, Steel-man has pitched just3.1 total innings in fourappearances, but hehas a valuable trait toany baseball team: alively left arm.
“He’s not a guy that’sgoing to be used in a lotof situations this year,”pitching coach Jim Farrsaid. “But if we can getsome innings under hisbelt, I think he’s a guythat can help us out inthe bullpen in terms ofa left-handed matchupguy.”
In one of Steelman’sfirst bullpen sessionswith Farr, he respondedto the pitching coach’s
instructions with “Roger.”Farr said from that time on, theteam has referred to Steelmanas “Roger,” an ode to Steel-man’s not-so-distant days inthe military.
His first opportunity to
prove himself came in theninth inning of a 7-1 gameagainst Coppin State on April8. The Terps were ahead com-fortably against one of theirweakest oppo-nents of the sea-son, but for Steel-man it was a bigstep.
Steelman, acriminology andcriminal justicemajor who hopesto work for the FBIone day, struck outtwo batters andgave up no runs toend the game,afterwards admit-ting to Rupp thathe was nervous.
“I said, ‘Well,that can’t be, youcan’t be more nervous pitchingon the mound than guardingSaddam Hussein’s jail,’” Ruppsaid.
It’s that experience thatteammates and coaches claimis every bit as valuable asSteelman’s arm.
“He’s a guy you can alwayscount on to be there for youwhether it’s during a game ornot,” Spessard said. “You can
always go to him, and he’s agood guy to have on yourside.”
Steelman’s mother Sharonsaid he exhibited those val-
ues before join-ing the armywhile growing upwith two siblingsand a singlemother.
“Nathan’salways been astrong character,”said Sharon Steel-man, who came toShipley Field forthe first time tosee her son andthe Terps take onOld Dominion lastweek.
“I’ve been a sin-gle mom for years,
and he’s kind of been brotherand father, so he’s always hadresponsibilities,” she contin-ued. “When he told me he wasgoing to the Army, it didn’t sur-prise me one bit.”
She was surprised, though,when she found out thatNathan had a spot on the team.She never expected him to beplaying Division I baseball.
The day after the Terps’
game against Old Dominion,the Terps traveled to Towson,and Sharon Steelman watchedher son pitch for the first timein a Terps uniform.
It was another blowout —this time the Terps were down12-2 — but another importantpart of Steelman’s story. Hestruck out one in one scorelessinning, showing an effectivebreaking ball and confusingTowson hitters.
Because of that perform-ance, Steelman traveled withthe team to an ACC road seriesfor the first time this season.He even pitched an inning inSaturday’s 10-2 loss at Duke.
For Steelman, what startedout as a dream to bide timewhile going through the dailygrind of being a soldier in Iraqhas become reality. And withfurther development, his roleon the team might surpass hisoriginal goals.
But for now, he’s just happywith how far he’s come.
“It doesn’t matter if I didn’tget any playing time,” Steel-man said. “With everythingI’ve gone through, I’m justgrateful to be here.”
Nathan SteelmanSophomore Pitcher
STEELMAN, from Page 1
Steelman provides Terps leadership
“I said, ‘...youcan’t be more
nervouspitching on the
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Hussein’s jail. ”–TERRY RUPP
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weekend’s NFL Draft, six of his teammateshave signed with teams.
Guard Andrew Crummey (San DiegoChargers), defensive lineman Carlos Feli-ciano (New England Patriots), cornerbackIsaiah Gardner (Jacksonville Jaguars), tightend Joey Haynos (Green Bay Packers), line-backer Erin Henderson (Minnesota Vikings)and running back Keon Lattimore (DallasCowboys) have each signed contracts.
While Feliciano, Gardner, Haynos and Lat-timore were considered fringe draftees,Crummey and Henderson both fell out of thedraft largely due to injury concerns.
Crummey missed five games in his seniorseason with a broken left leg. He then re-injured the leg in the East-West Shrine gamebefore working out for scouts.
Henderson suffered knee injuriesthroughout his time with the Terps.
“It’s definitely hurt [my draft stock]. It’sdefinitely a mark next to my name,” Crum-mey said on the Terps’ Pro Timing Day inMarch. “But it doesn’t end my status; it does-n’t stop me from getting drafted. I lose a lit-tle of prestige, a little ground. But it’ll heal.In the long term, it’s not an issue.”
All six players will still have to earn theirway onto NFL rosters through summercamps.
NOTEBOOK, from Page 16
FILE PHOTO–THE DIAMONDBACKRunning back Keon Lattimore signed with the DallasCowboys after a big senior season with the Terps.
Injuries a concern for Crummey, Henderson
FILE PHOTO–THE DIAMONDBACKGuard Andrew Crummey was sidelined for part of last season with a broken fibula, hurting his NFL Draft stock.
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ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKSenior midfielder Dana Dobbie uncharacteristically lost 2 draws in overtime of the Terps’ 10-9 loss to Virginia on Sunday.
Second-half slumps catch up to women’s lacrosseBY BRIAN KAPUR
Staff writer
The Terrapin women’slacrosse team has had anAchilles’ heel throughoutthe season, and in the ACCtournament, it was struck.
The Terps have struggledin second halves during theseason, but dominant firsthalves propped the Terps upto a 15-1 record enteringSunday’s ACC champi-onship game against Vir-ginia. Then, it finally caughtup to them.
This continuing pattern hasstumped the Terps all season,but they have not been able topinpoint the cause of theirsecond-half slumps.
“If I knew, then we would-n’t be having those prob-lems,” coach Cathy Reesesaid.
The Terps were outscored9-2 in second halves in thetournament, but they werestill within one goal of win-ning the championship.
“In the second half, wecame out, and we just didn’tfinish on a lot of our shots,”Reese said. “We had somegood opportunities, but Vir-ginia’s goalie played out-standing. It is what it is.”
The Terps blew an 8-3lead Sunday. And while theyslumped, the Cavaliers
outscored the Terps 7-1 therest of the way to extend theTerps’ ACC championshipdrought to five seasons.
“We weren’t as disci-plined in the second half andturned the ball over whenwe really needed to havepossession,” sophomoremidfielder Caitlyn McFad-den said. “We let them backinto it.”
The Terps’ second-halfwoes nearly kept them out ofthe ACC championshipgame. They raced out to a 6-1 halftime lead on NorthCarolina in the semifinals,but the Terps were shut outin the second half. The Terpswere able to scrape by dueto their first-half lead, asthey had done all seasonlong.
But things fell apart Sun-day.
Virginia dominated thesecond half in every phase ofthe game. The Cavalierstook six more shots than theTerps, collected five moreground balls and forced twomore turnovers. The mosttelling sign of the Cavaliers’dominance was their abilityto collect draw controlswhen it counted. Virginiacollected both overtimedraws against Terp seniormidfielder Dana Dobbie,who leads the nation in draw
controls.The Terps’ second-half
struggles were compoundedby fouls. The Terps commit-ted 11 more fouls than theCavaliers, which resulted inthree goals off free-positionshots. The Terps also col-lected five yellow cards andhad to play man down for sixminutes.
“We did a lot of things thatwe could control, and therewere things that we couldn’tcontrol, and we just focusedon those too much,” seniormidfielder Kelly Kaspersaid. “We have to focus onwhat we can do and what’sin our control and not worryabout everything else that’sgoing on.”
The Terps will need to ad-dress their issues and pickthemselves up off the mat in ahurry, because they will beplaying Princeton on Wednes-day night in a game that coulddecide a top-four seed in theNCAA tournament.
“The way to look at it isthe season isn’t over yet,”Reese said. “The bottom lineis we can’t sit around andharp on it. We have a biggame Wednesday againstPrinceton, which is a reallyhuge game for us at thispoint.”
Nike/Inside Lacrosse Men’s Poll Top 10School Record Prev.1. Duke (15-1) 12. Syracuse (12-1) 23. Virginia (12-3) 34. Georgetown (9-3) 45. Johns Hopkins (6-5) 6
School Record Prev.6. Notre Dame (11-2) 127. UMBC (10-3) 78. TERRAPINS (8-5) 59. Cornell (10-3) 810. Ohio State (9-4) 9
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Sports
The third seasonBY ERIC DETWEILER
Senior staff writer
Just minutes after losing in theACC men’s lacrosse tournamentFriday, Joe Cinosky had alreadyfound a silver lining.
The Terrapin senior defenderwas upbeat after his team’s 11-8loss at Virginia because he remem-bered a lesson he learned early inhis Terp career from coach DaveCottle.
“I remember a couple of yearsago coach Cottle said there’s threeseasons: regular season, ACCs andplayoffs,” Cinosky said. “We’re
going into our third season rightnow, and I’m pretty happy withwhere we are right now, becausethe only results that matter are theones at the end.”
Although the Terps were elimi-nated from the ACC tournamentby its hosts less than four weeksafter beating the Cavaliers in Col-lege Park, the young team washappy with their performanceagainst a hot team in a hostileenvironment.
“We made some young mistakes,but I thought we competed,” Cottle
Freshman Walker to transfer
YUCHEN NIE–THE DIAMONDBACKForward Shane Walker has decided to transfer after receiving limited minutes as a freshman.
BY ADI JOSEPHSenior staff writer
Terrapin basketball forwardShane Walker is leaving theTerps after his freshman year.
After a season where heaveraged just 0.5 points and 1rebound per game, Walker haschosen to leave the Terps. Hehas not decided where he willtransfer.
Walker’s departure leavesthe Terps’ frontcourt eventhinner than expected. Whilethe gangly 6-foot-10, 211-pound forward did not producemuch offensively, he providedthe Terps with a big body. Withthe losses of seniors BambaleOsby and James Gist, theTerps are left with just Brax-ton Dupree, Jerome Burney,Dave Neal and Dino Gregoryin the post before recruitAugustus Gilchrist is eligiblein December.
Walker could not be reachedfor comment.
Six Terps sign NFL contractsWhile defensive tackle Dre
Moore (115th overall by theTampa Bay Buccaneers) wasthe only former Terrapin foot-ball player selected in this
TERRAPIN SPORTS NOTEBOOK
Please See NOTEBOOK, Page 14
ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKSenior midfielder Max Ritz and the Terps know they still have time to rebound from theirACC tournament loss to Virginia last weekend.
Men’s lacrosse looks toward postseason
Please See OUTLOOK, Page 12
