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Univ. View shuttlenow requires IDs
Shuttle use amongcity residents climbs
Off-campus students angry they canno longer use bus to get on the campus
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
Students taking the University Viewbus will now be required to show aView ID before boarding, excludingmany off-campus students who use thebus to commute to the campus.
The Department of TransportationServices decided to enforce the ruleafter the apartment building’s residentscomplained to View staff about busovercrowding. The View pays DOTS$76,440 a year to fund the bus route fortheir residents, and property managerO. T. Warren said he thinks View resi-dents should have priority on the buses.
“The goal is to make the buses exclu-sive for our residents,” Warren said.
“We want to make everything conven-ient for our residents.”
The View sent out e-mails to studentsto inform them they needed to havetheir View ID cards before riding on thebus this week. Signs were also postedoutside of bus stops Friday.
Management from the Viewapproached DOTS about the studentcomplaints and the department sup-ported the idea to limit the route toView residents, Director of the Depart-ment of Transportation Services DavidAllen said.
“You’re paying for it,” Allen said.“Your students should be able to use it.”
Junior biochemistry major Charlotte
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Councilwoman says DOTS improperlylogged riders during first two weeks
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
More than 100 College Park resi-dents have registered to ride DOTSbuses since the program’s start date atthe beginning of the month, city offi-cials said.
While Department of TransportationServices Director David Allen saidonly 22 city residents have actually rid-den the buses since the programstarted on Sept. 1. The city of CollegePark has registered 135 people for buspermits, according to Sara Imhulse,assistant to the city manager.
After two weeks of the new programoffering residents free admission onShuttle-UM buses with a city ID card,DOTS officials said no residents had
used the pilot program. However, thepast weeks have upped the tally.
Knowing how many city residentsare riding the buses is critical for thecity to decide whether it should con-tinue the program, which costs $5,000 asemester. If the program is continued,it will cost the city an additional $5,000for each subsequent semester. If notenough residents decide to use theservice, the city council could opt touse the funds elsewhere.
District 4 Councilwoman Mary Cook,who has been one of the program’sstrongest supporters, is concernedDOTS was not properly logging thenumber of city residents using Shuttle-UM. Cook said she and at least one
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The Leonardtown apartments lack security to stop people from walking right up tothe front doors. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
In a dramatic improvement from last year,all but one University Senate committee hasstudent representation, an achievement offi-cials hope to continue in future years.
Last year, six senate committees wentwithout student representation, including theLibrary Council, which is the only committeewithout a student representative this year.
Although senate officials said that this isnot a new problem — they chalk up the con-sistent lack of student engagement to over-committed students who are unable to fitserving on a committee into their schedules— the senate is looking at ways to get theword out more effectively, something studentleaders say is a must.
Because the senate, the university’s mostpowerful legislative body, operates through a
Students serveon all but oneUniv. Senatecommittee
A fresh take onthe cold cup
Freshëns unveils compostable cupat Sneakers Energy Zone in ERC
BY SAM TAUTEStaff writer
On the heels of Dining Services’ recent decisionto phase out styrofoam from the dining halls,Freshëns has introduced the nation’s first com-pletely renewable and compostable paper coldcup to the campus.
Freshëns, whose smoothie and health foodproducts are sold at Sneakers Energy Zone in theEppley Recreation Center, held a national mediaevent on Monday to introduce “ecotainer” papercold cups to the college market.
Officials from Atlanta-based Freshëns, whichhas more than 1,200 locations nationwide, includ-ing 420 on college campuses, say they chose theuniversity as their launch spot because of thecommitment the university has shown toward
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BY KYLE GOONStaff writer
Days after an armed robbery at aLeonardtown apartment, all threesuspects have been apprehendedand charged, but members of thecommunity are still trying to return
to their normal routines.The scare has caused minor
changes, they said. They’re check-ing the door more carefully whenthey hear a knock and locking win-dows they once left open.
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BY BEN PENNSenior staff writer
The housing crisis, the dimin-ishing value of the American dol-lar, soaring gas prices and now themost recent economic setback, thegovernment’s multibillion dollarcorporate buyout, which taxpay-ers are expected to bear the bruntof for years to come.
All of these issues surround astruggling economy that Sen. JohnMcCain (R-Ariz.) or Sen. BarackObama (D-Ill.) must attempt toresolve immediately after takingoffice in January.
While both candidates will try toconvince voters of their economicprowess on the campaign trail,what much of the presidential can-didates’ jargon fails to capture isthe degree of influence the eco-nomic status will have on currentstudent voters in their most tryingyears of post-college, early profes-sional life.
With Nov. 4 looming, the choice
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NEW YORK — The failure of thebailout package in Congress literallydropped jaws on Wall Street andtriggered a historic sell-off, includinga terrifying decline of nearly 500points in mere minutes as the votetook place, the closest thing to panicthe stock market has seen in years.
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Cook: City needs reliable numbersother city resident rode thebus during the period whenthe university reported no cityriders.
Cook said she is telling resi-dents to insist that bus driverscall in and report their pres-ence on the bus.
“It’s very important to[make sure DOTS accuratelyrecords the number of resi-dents], because at the end ofthis term, we have to haveaccurate numbers to decidewhether it’s worth spendingthe city’s money,” Cook said.
Allen said the bus drivershave been reminded theyneed to radio in when a cityresident rides the bus so
DOTS can keep track of thenumbers and inform the city,who can then make aninformed decision at the endof the pilot program.
“We are the serviceprovider,” Allen said. “We willprovide them with their num-bers.”
Allen said the program isworthwhile because it intro-duces residents to the univer-sity bus system.
“Any time the university andthe city can come up with awin-win situation, it’s good,”Allen said.
Imhulse said she plans oncontacting the residents whohave signed up for the pro-gram via e-mail to get a sam-ple of how many residents are
using the buses, just so thecouncil “has an idea.”
“I think it needs to be docu-mented,” Cook said. “What weneed to do now is to get it offto a better start by marketingit better.”
On Route 1, longerwaits for busesHiggins lives off-campus anddepended on the UniversityView bus to get to class. Hig-gins, who lived in the View lastsemester, said she never sawthe bus turn anyone away be-fore and said the overcrowd-ing problem was nothing new,having sat through manycrowded bus rideswhile she lived there.
Higgins didn’t buya parking permit thissemester becauseshe had counted onthe View bus as theeasiest and cheapestway to get to the cam-pus. Now, she willhave to wake up at6:50 a.m. to walk toher 8 a.m. class.
“If my school isencouraging me togo green, wouldn’tthey want people totake the bus?” Hig-gins said. “Now peo-ple will be drivingvehicles — unlessthey expect peopleto bike or ride a scooter. It justdoesn’t make any sense.”
Allen said he didn’t thinkthe now-excluded studentswould overflow other buses.He said they will probablyjust end up walking or couldwait a little longer to catch theCampus Connector SouthShuttle-UM bus route or theRoute 1 Corridor bus, whichrun every 30 minutes.
“It is a huge hassle withgetting work done,” junior el-ementary education majorBrittany Debelius, who livesoff-campus, said. “I don’twant to be sitting and waitingfor a bus when I should beback at my house doinghomework.”
Debelius lives off of BerwynRoad and her classes are inthe education building, which
makes for about a 1.5 milewalk. And that’s just one way.
“I rely on the bus system toget to campus,” Debeliussaid. “It’s more convenient towalk to the View than waitingan hour for the other buses.”
Debelius has no other wayto get to the campus. If Debe-lius can’t use the View bus,she will have to get to class an
hour early or walka half-hour to thecampus, she said.
“It bothers mebecause it’s a UMbus,” Debeliussaid. “We shouldhave equal privi-leges to all buses.”
But some Viewresidents said theydidn’t have a prob-lem with non-resi-dents using thebus.
“It does get a lit-tle crowded,” jun-ior economicsmajor Justin Daysaid.
Junior psychol-ogy major Calei
Chan lives in a house onRhode Island Avenue and nowhas to walk from the far side ofcampus to her house, nearly atwo-mile walk.
“People don’t realize it’sa really long walk,” Chansaid. “[The new rule is] an-noying.”
Bus drivers will be lenientfor the first couple days, Allensaid. The ID check will onlyoccur between 9 a.m. and 5p.m. for the safety of studentswho want to use the bus atnight.
“I have no problem with[the new rule]. If I lived overthere, I’d be pissed off,” Daysaid, pointing across thestreet while sitting at theView’s bus stop.
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Victim says police downplayed robbery
“We used to open the door tosee who it was,” sophomorebiology major Hannah Millersaid. “Now we use the peepholeor check through the windows.We really all are a lot more cau-tious.”
The motel-style housing com-munity sits on the edge of thecampus and is an area thatInterim University Police ChiefMaj. Mark Sparks describes asa “transitional zone” betweenthe university and the city ofCollege Park, and thus is anarea of special concern.
Over the past few nights,police have stepped up theirpresence in the area, said Capt.John Brandt, a UniversityPolice spokesman. Police andthe Department of ResidentLife have also encouraged resi-dents to take extra precautions.So far, community membersseem to be taking that advice toheart.
“Our windows are locked allthe time now,” sophomore land-scape architecture major Mike
Humber said, who lives in thebuilding where the robberyoccurred. “We used to openthem to let in air, but now theypretty much stay closed. Weleave the blinds closed a lot,too.”
But while some are beingmore cautious, many studentssaid they still feel relativelysafe, given the speedy arrestsfollowing the incident and howthe victims were targeted.
“It was unnerving at first, butwe’re trying to get things backto normal,” sophomore Russianmajor Rick Jackson said. “Thepolice are rolling by a lot, andthey seem to have it well-cov-ered. I think they’ve shown theytake this stuff extremely seri-ously.”
Not everyone thinks Leonard-town is as secure as before.
“I feel a lot less safe,” Millersaid. “It’s a lot different livinghere than in the dorms. I don’tfeel safe going out by myself todo laundry. It’s not really a partof main campus, and it’s notreally protected by anything.”
Attempts to reach Leonard-
town Resident Director KellyTavenner were unsuccessful.
The victims of the shotgunholdup felt that police may havedownplayed the incident by say-ing it was targeted.
“It almost sounded like it wasour fault,”said sophomore kine-siology major Phil Coblentz, oneof the victims. “It’s a little irri-tating that some people think itcouldn’t happen to them orthey’d do something different ifsomeone pointed a gun atthem.”
Brandt said the police depart-ment was just trying to providestudents with as much informa-tion about the crime as possibleso they could make their ownjudgments.
Police are looking into addingmore dedicated patrols in thearea and possibly adding moresecurity cameras, Sparks said.
Miller said she has noticedmore police patrols. “Hopefullythey’ll stick around. Any extraprecaution from the universitywould be great.”
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Should Maryland voters pass theslots referendum?
“We have to haveaccurate numbersto decide whetherit’s worth spendingthe city’s money.”
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committee system — an issuebrought to the senate’sattention is sent to acommittee to be discussed,reviewed and reported backto the senate — having everyseat in a committee filled isalways the senate’s goal, andhaving both students andfaculty represented is whatthe senate strives for, saidSenate Chair-Elect EliseMiller-Hooks.
“The way this university’ssenate is set up is really quitespecial, because we havestudents serve as senatorsand on committees,” Miller-Hooks said. “We always try tofind interested students butit’s been tough to getundergraduates.”
While the chairs ofcommittees must be senators,non-senator students mayserve as members on thecommittees. Miller-Hooks
said the senate has struggledwith recruitment for thesenon-senator positions in thepast.
“Part of the problem is wedon’t have a way to get theword out to the rightstudents,” she said. “We go tothe senators and have one ortwo representatives to ask forhelp [with recruitment] butwe don’t have a good way tofind that pool of people whomight be interested.”
Senate officials said theyusually look to senators whohave connections to thecampus such as leadershiporganizations like the StudentGovernment Association toget the word out to fellowstudent leaders. Thesestudents, however, tend to beover-committed and despiteapplying for the job in thespring, change their mindsand back out of the positionthey applied for come fallsemester.
“Once someone bows out ofa position, we have to find areplacement,” said SenateExecutive Secretary andDirector Reka Montfort. “Inthe past we’ve been somewhatsuccessful, but we did a prettydecent job this year, though itwas a bit of a struggle to get tothis point.”
Despite their success infilling vacant committeeseats, Montfort said thesenate did not change its
recruitment strategy fromyears past.
“There are a lot of long-standing issues that areinherent to student schedulesconflicting with meetingtimes as well as with ourability to get students toengage and commit,”Montfort said. “We are talkingabout ways to better get theword out other than whatwe’re currently doing.”
Student leaders, however,say more needs to be done toattract students.
“I had no idea there wereall these committees before Ibecame a senator,” said juniorAmerican studies andcommunication majorSamantha Liang, who is anArts and Humanities senator.
Students cite e-mailnotifications and informingthe student body more clearlyabout what the senate does asnecessities in this venture toattract more students.
“I think that becauseundergrads are such a hugepart of this campus, we needto have them in thesecommittees so they can havea say in what goes on,” Liangsaid. “A lot of people complainabout things on campus, andit’s so easy to do that, but ifyou really want to see achange, then you have to getout there and participate.”
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Experts struggle to distinguish candidates’ economic abilitiesof placing a man in office to dic-tate policy potentially affectingstudents for up to the next eightyears may seem academic tosome, but students will graduateto a world in which either Obamaor McCain plays a major role inshaping the economy.
While the housing marketcrunch that has plagued the na-tion the past year is predicted bysome experts to now have abrighter outlook for potentialfirst-time home buyers, the jobmarket still looks bleak.
Peter Levine, who studies thepolitical motivations of youngpeople as the director of the Cen-ter for Information and Researchon Civic Learning and Engage-ment at Tufts University, a title heused to have at this university,said it is the young demographicwho may have the most to lose asa result of the economic disaster.
“Unemployment is really con-centrated with young people, soit really is a youth issue,” Levinesaid. “Candidates tend to not talkabout it that way; they talk aboutit in a neutral way.”
With unemployment alreadyhurting young Americans, thismonth’s financial fallout onlystands to hurt this year’s upper-classmen even more as theyenter the workforce in the nextseveral years.
“It’s pretty clear that the sen-iors this year are going to have atough job market,” finance pro-fessor Albert Kyle said. “And Iwould suspect that the juniorsnext year are going to have atough job market, because theeconomy is going to be in some-thing resembling a recession.”
Assuming that college gradu-ates can find a job, next comesthe responsibility of paying taxes,an issue that looms large regard-less of who becomes president.Similar to the job market, thenews for taxpayers in light of thismonth’s financial collapse is notpromising, according to govern-ment and politics professor PaulHerrnson.
“Students should be advisedthat this catastrophe, which wascaused by just following themantra of deregulation, is goingto be with them for a long time,”Herrnson said. “They will be the
ones paying this debt off whenthey pay their taxes.”
Political economy professorGar Alperovitz believes Obama’sproposed tax increases for thewealthiest Americans will benefitthe overall economy, allowing formore spending on other venturesthat will benefit students, butKyle is less optimistic that eithercandidate can truly distinguishone set of tax policies as superior.
“Neither McCain nor Obamaseems like they will increasetaxes on the bottom 95 percent ofthe population, and they’re onlyarguing about a few percentagepoints on the top five percent ofthe population,” Kyle said.“Changing taxes plus or minus acouple of percentage points does-n’t make much difference.”
Looking into the future to de-termine how this issue will playout is taking a backseat to themore pressing concern of dis-cerning which candidate has theeconomic platform more likely tolimit the negative consequencesof the economic crisis.
Obama’s plan to retool theeconomy includes a proposal totax oil companies to provide a
$1,000 rebate to all families,spending $50 billion to prevent amillion job losses and tax cuts tobenefit the middle class.
McCain’s proposal calls forkeeping tax rates low on largeand small businesses, construct-ing nuclear power plants to pro-vide a new source of energy andcreate jobs and eliminating gov-ernment earmarking and waste-ful spending.
The same experts who pontifi-cate about the certainty of doomin this country’s economic futureare at a loss for words when at-tempting to distinguish the can-didates’ ability to lay out a planfor improving the economy.
“I follow the election veryclosely, but I don’t quite under-stand what either of the candi-dates is proposing on the econo-my,” Kyle said.
Even a professor with a moreintimate understanding of the po-litical arena can’t provide a moredefinitive statement.
“Will either of [the candidates]be able to say anything terriblyrevealing [about the economy]?”government and politics profes-sor Stephen Elkin asked rhetori-
cally. “And the answer, I think, isno. Neither of them wants to sayanything terribly specific, if theycan help it.”
Watching debates and speech-es may not provide clear solu-tions, but there are other meansto differentiate between Obama’sand McCain’s economic stances.
“By and large, the thing to do islook at the record more than whatthey say,” Alperovitz suggested.
Alperovitz finds Obama’s pro-posals more likely to improve theeconomy, but McCain’s policy ofa free-market economy is moreappealing to others, includingsophomore government and poli-tics major Nicholas Cravotta.
“Obviously, I want more jobsand I want to graduate in an econ-omy that is more stable, but as aRepublican, I don’t change mybeliefs of a free-market econo-my,” said Cravotta, who is secre-tary of the College Republicans.“I think that a free-market econo-my that John McCain is support-ing will lead to a more stable,more prosperous, job-creatingeconomy.”
Senior physics major and De-mocrat Andrew Grossman said
he believes Obama is taking themore level-headed approach tosolving the economy thus far, buthe is not expecting either candi-date to say anything that willguarantee a prosperous economyin years to come.
“I’m voting based on the typeof person that they are, the type ofexperiences that they’ve had andtheir philosophy on things,”Grossman said.
Grossman acknowledged theimportance of his future job secu-rity, but still vowed not to makethe candidates’ specific economicpolicy proposals the basis of hisvoting decision, a mindset Levinecan understand.
“I think the economy at onelevel is very hard to understand,very technical,” Levine said.“There’s an element wheremaybe that will be harder foryounger people.”
Kyle echoed Levine.“It’s going to be hard for stu-
dents to make up their mind,” Kylesaid. “I don’t think that the candi-dates’ economic proposals offermuch choice to the students.”
Despite economic turmoil, Seniors are not worried about job marketBYBROOKEGILLILAND
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Ryan Earle is staying opti-mistic. Despite a slumping econ-omy that analysts don’t think willturn around until 2009 or 2010,Earle is confident his full-timejob offer with Ernst & Young willpan out next October, right intime to go house or apartmenthunting while taking advantageof the market slump.
However, the senior account-ing major admits his optimismhas its boundaries.
“If I hadn’t secured a job,though, I would be very con-cerned,” Earle said.
Earle is one of thousands ofseniors at the university who aregoing to enter the job market dur-ing a period of economic turmoilthat has riled the financial and
banking industries. Despite thegrim outlook for companies inthose fields, most students areconfident they will land a job.
Daniel Bailey, a senior ac-counting major, has a job withSC&H group, an accounting firmhe interned with last summer.
“I honestly don’t feel too badabout the job market when Igraduate,” Bailey said. “SC&H isa growing firm, and they actuallyexperienced record profits in themonth of July.”
The economic problems mak-ing headlines in recent weekshave roots in the subprime mort-gage market and have caused aseries of dramatic events.
On Sept. 7, the federal govern-ment overtook Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac, two of the country’slargest mortgage companies. Aweek later Lehman Brothers, one
of the country’s largest invest-ment banks, went bankrupt.Merrill Lynch, another venerableWall Street investment bank, hadto be bought by Bank of Americato avoid a similar fate. And Amer-ican International Group, one ofthe country’s largest insurancecorporations, was taken over bythe government Sept. 16.
And other economic problemsremain: Gas prices are up, hous-ing prices continue to fall and un-employment is at 6.1 percent, afive-year high.
But the economic slowdownmay have an upside for graduat-ing seniors. Kavita Gopalan, asenior finance major, thinks thedemand for general, entry-levelpositions will always be high.
“If anything, this economymakes us more coveted,”Gopalan said. “We offer enthusi-
astic, cheap labor at a time whencompanies are desperately try-ing to cut costs.”
But Susan White, a financeprofessor at the university, hasconcerns.
“I think the slow economy willmake the job searches for stu-dents graduating in December,and likely in May also, more diffi-cult,” White said. “In particular,
students who were set on an in-vestment banking career willhave difficulty in the near fu-ture.”
For graduating seniors, Whitesuggests being flexible, exploringall options and making contactseven when not looking for a job.
Freddy Tang, a senior econom-ics and finance major, said hisconcern about the job market has
made him consider studyingabroad to delay graduation.
“I have not secured any intern-ships/job offers yet but I am ar-dently looking,” Tang wrote in aFacebook message. “For the firsttime ever, I attended a career fairthis year. I got so much free stuff— it was awesome.”
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becoming environmentallyfriendly.
Besides already having a com-posting program in place to han-dle the disposal of a compostableproduct such as the “ecotainer,”the university was deemed oneof the nation’s top 15 green col-leges and universities by Grist,an environmental magazine.
“We chose the University ofMaryland because we’re bothmoving in the same direction,”Frëshens Senior Vice PresidentEd Redmond said. “The univer-sity really understands green.”
But making the cups trulygreen will require effort fromstudents.
In order for the “ecotainers”to be composted properly, theyneed to be brought to one ofthree locations by the studentswho purchased them, a demandthat could stretch even thegreenest college student.
The locations — at The Diner,
the South Campus Dining Halland the Stamp Student Union —are the only ones that feed intothe university’s compost stream,where they go to a compost pileto disintegrate.
“That’s not a permanent solu-tion or a long-range solution, butthat’s what we have right now,”Dining Services spokesman BartHipple said. He also pointed outthat having a compost bin in theERC would not necessarily fixthe problem because most peo-ple carry their smoothies home.
Regardless of whether the cupis composted, however,Frëshens representatives saythat there are other environmen-tal benefits to the “ecotainer.”Specifically, the manufacturingprocess requires less energy anduses renewable as opposed tonon-renewable resources.
“There’s no excuse for every-one not to get on the bandwag-on,” Redmond said, expressinghis desire that more companiesuse the “ecotainer” to replace
traditional paper cups.To try to get more people on
that bandwagon, representativesfrom Frëshens and InternationalPaper, the company who manu-factures the cup, hosted a bean-toss game outside Sneakers Cafethrough the afternoon. Coupons,T-shirts and free smoothies wereawarded. Frëshens representa-tives also handed out freesmoothie samples.
“This all coincides with therepositioning of the brand to at-tract customers that are reallyinterested in leading active, en-ergetic lifestyles,” said JohnStern, the president of Frëshens.
Frëshens officials said theprice increase for implementingthe new cups will be minimal.
“It might cost a couple centsmore per cup,” Redmond said.“And with the cost of petroleumcontinuing to rise, it could actu-ally be cheaper soon to use paperinstead of styrofoam.”
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The long-term effect of the finan-cial meltdown on American in-terests is going to take years, ifnot a decade, to fully unravel.
One of this country’s longtime strengthsin the world economy was not only thedepth and sophistication of its financialmarkets, but the perceived stability andsecurity of the financial system itself.Now that the image has been cracked (ifnot shattered) by recent events, it re-mains to be seen if foreign investors willcontinue to see America’s financials asan attractive investment.
In the midst of this country’s financialcrisis, an equally disturbing but far lessimpactful social crisis has been takingplace in China. Milk manufacturers hadbeen putting the toxic chemicalmelamine in their products, poisoningtens of thousands of children and killingfour. Parents throughout China are furi-ous — both at the manufacturers and atthe lax regulation that allowed such anevent to take place. It thus far appears to
be one of those rare events in modernChina that is forcing the central govern-ment to act lest they risk discontent.
American furor over the fraud andnegligent business practices that lie atthe center of the current economic prob-lem has been no less strident. Part of thegridlock in Washington over the failed$700 billion bill to bail out Americanbanks was in no small part due to angryconstituents putting pressure on law-makers over what is seen as a rewardrather than a punishment for dishonestbusiness practices.
What brings these two seemingly un-related events together is the economic
system in which they took place. TheUnited States and now China both havecapitalist economies based on free mar-ket principles. In the United States, it’sonly been strong crises that have broughton regulation — normally as a sort of adhoc fix. While it’s not accurate to think ofthe U.S. economy as a strict free market,it’s clear that American fiscal policy isdifferent from that of Europe or othermore socialized economic systems.
The natural question that arises fromthese events is whether societies (evenones as culturally different as the UnitedStates and China) have the sort of good-faith, societal trust that is required toavoid such crises in relatively unregulat-ed economic markets. In an article inTime, Bill Saporito wonders if we haven’tturned into France, writing “We’re nowno different from any of those WesternEuropean semi-socialist welfare statesthat we love to deride.” Writers likeSaporito and others are wondering if theUnited States will move toward states
like France who have highly nationalizedfinancial sectors in order to avoid the cor-ruption that seems to follow from a lackof governmental oversight.
Meanwhile, a growing intellectualmovement in China has been criticizingthe government for, ironically, not havingenough socialization in the economy.Seeking to return to values of social re-sponsibility, this movement also wantsChina to avoid the stricter free marketthinking that has characterized the Unit-ed States economic philosophy.
The fundamental questions thesecrises bring up are ones that the universi-ty, and the generation of students now en-rolled here, will have to address. Our so-lution may not be a shift to a more Euro-pean approach, but at the least it will en-tail some way of ensuring our trust isn’tviolated again.
Hunter Pavela is a senior Chinese andphilosophy major. He can be reached [email protected].
Foreign Affairs: A financial paradigm shift
It has been important for me toread all the feedback about Safe-tyUMD in The Diamondback. JoelCohen’s Sept. 17 column, “Leaders:Protect students from crime, notthemselves,” raised some interest-ing questions that I have beenresponding to in private e-mailssince the launch of the SafetyUMDprogram four short weeks ago. Mostof the feedback has been positive,yet the negative seems to be makingits way onto the opinion pages ofThe Diamondback.
Annually, the campus is floodedwith promises about improvedsafety — such as more police or stu-dent patrols. We have 99 police offi-cer positions and 80 police auxiliaryfor the campus and the immediateoff-campus area. The city has con-tracted police officers and PrinceGeorge’s County Police, who alsoprovide us with additional protec-tion, and the university offers twotypes of police escort services,evening Shuttle-UM routes andblue-light phones to help peoplefeel safe.
I went on a ride-along last weekwith the University Police. It wasclear to me that the police do fre-quent our neighborhoods and arevigilant in inves-tigating suspi-cious activity,but they needour help.
Policing byitself will notoffer instantgratification onthis importantissue. Safe-tyUMD outlinesthe ways inwhich we canassist in theirefforts.
It was my goalto do somethingdifferent andmore proactive with SafetyUMD: toaddress safety in a way we haven’tdone before in our community. Edu-cation is the best way to accessknowledge about dangerous scenar-ios and resources available to stu-dents. All of us are here to furtherour own learning, including learn-ing how to adapt to different envi-ronments and situations. It is mygoal to provide an interactive wayto learn about small steps that wecan take to make our environmentas safe as possible.
SafetyUMD’s comprehensiveapproach allows us to be moreresponsible for our safety and secu-rity. Improving our community isnot simple or easy, but education isa gateway to greater awareness andpossible prevention. By betterequipping ourselves with the toolsneeded to make safe decisions onand off the campus, we can makethe university safer together.
During the past week, there havebeen some crime incidents on thecampus. Now, more than ever, it isimportant for us to familiarize our-selves with the resources availableto assure that we do not becomevictims.
I encourage you to take Safe-tyUMD and add all of the campusresource numbers to your cellphone and carry them with you. Donot hesitate to use these resourcesany time you feel unsafe. You canget to the link easily on the new andimproved website for the StudentGovernment Association,www.sga.umd.edu.
Jonathan Sachs is the president ofthe SGA. He can be reached [email protected].
A time forSafetyUMD
Life for most freshmen on this campus is relatively straightforward: You livewith a roommate you probably don’t know, you dodge the watchful eyes ofyour resident assistant, you take your freshman English and CORE classesand you revel in your newfound, parentless freedom as much as possible.
And there’s a good chance you’re part of a living-learning program, such as Hon-ors, College Park Scholars, Gemstone or CIVICUS, all of which cluster residents to-gether in dorms throughout the campus. These groups claim to bring students to-gether in a quest for friendship, cultural awareness and highereducation.
But let’s be real: Without living-learning programs, would stu-dents really be incapable of forming their own relationships orpursuing academic success? How much hand-holding must theDepartment of Resident Life really do to create a rightful placefor everyone? And how many students are actually interested?
Derby Cox’s Monday story, “Few residents attend living-learn-ing meeting,” described how Resident Life is developing a program, to be piloted inEaston Hall, that would encourage “students to connect with one another,” accord-ing to Resident Life Associate Director Amy Martin. The department hopes tobring 200 to 300 students across the Denton Community together within the nextfive years for programs that are “small in nature.” “We’re not looking to do large-scale programs or large-scale lectures,” Martin added.
Number of students who came to the meeting: about 20. Number of initiatives Resident Life could be pursuing instead: probably a lot.
Instead of manufacturing a sense of closeness between students who wouldlikely develop it on their own, why not concentrate the department’s efforts onmore important endeavors, such as making sure students feel safe in the dormswhere they study, sleep, eat and spend at least the first two years of their colle-giate lives?
Also in Monday’s issue of The Diamondback was a story by Michael Lemaire,“SGA, RHA plan dormitory walk throughs,” which described how the Student Gov-
ernment Association and Residence Hall Association plan towalk through dorms on the campus and hear from studentsabout problems often found in their buildings. Similar to theSafety Walk held each year around the campus, the walk-throughs would highlight issues students have in the placeswhere they’re doing all that living and learning that fills Resi-dent Life with pride.
Before the department launches a misguided program that willbring together students who simply don’t seem that interested, it should first focus onmaking those same students feel safe. Partnering with the SGA and RHA on thosewalk-throughs would be a good first step, as would be organizing campus-wide fo-rums inviting students to talk about the areas of the dorms where the light’s alwaysbroken or the window never locks or the door doesn’t close all the way.
Living and learning is all well and good, but safety — especially in light of thehome invasion at Leonardtown last week and the Peeping Tom in HagerstownHall last year — should always be Resident Life’s first priority.
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Did you know the poorer youare, the more likely you are togamble? This is why the slotsreferendum we’ll be voting on
in November will place 15,000 slot ma-chines in three rural areas and two low-income minority areas. The poor alsogamble differently from the rest of us, atproportionately higher stakes as an ill-advised investment, not entertainment.
The reality is that slots are a regres-sive tax on the poor that bring negativesocial consequences. They are highlycorrelated with gambling addiction,crime, domestic violence and child neg-lect. By taking advantage of low-incomepeople and minorities to reap profits forour state, lawmakers are showing analarming lack of morality and vision.
A little over a year ago, there was anoose hanging outside the Nyumburu
Cultural Center. Everyone from universi-ty officials to student leaders held discus-sions and rallies about race relations andracism. But the noose represented farmore than racism; it represented socialoppression of people. Slots are a form ofoppression targeted at low-income mi-norities. How can anyone protest a singlenoose, yet stay silent or support slots?We’re so quick to condemn blatantracism, but we’re slower than a snail witharthritis to spot its subtle signs.
Where is the leadership on the cam-pus with this issue? What happened touniversity President Dan Mote? Whereare the College Democrats and CollegeRepublicans? How does the StudentGovernment Association not speak up?Are we all paralyzed simply becausethe promise of funding for higher edu-cation is tied to a measure that chal-
lenges our principles? There’s a fascinating similarity be-
tween the slots referendum supportersand the people that slots will be takingmoney from. Our university, our Board ofRegents and many of our elected officialsare desperate. They need money verybadly. They’re willing to try and acquireit by any means necessary, even if in bet-ter circumstances they would prefer todo it differently. Compare that to the peo-ple who play slots. Just as desperate.
They’re just hoping to catch a breakagainst a system that seems morestacked against them every hour of everyday. So they play our game.
In this game, the odds are impossibleto overcome. Our revenue depends onthem losing.
So the single mother pops in quarterafter quarter and keeps pulling the lever.The man fighting alcoholism becomes agambling addict and digs deeper into hismeager savings. Children never make itto college to see the higher educationbenefits their parents paid for. Thesepeople may never crawl out of theirbudget shortfall. It’s OK though — wewin. Right?
Matt Dernoga is a junior governmentand politics major. He can be reached [email protected].
Slots: We may win, but at what cost?AIR YOUR VIEWS
JONATHAN SACHS
4 THE DIAMONDBACK | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
HUNTERPAVELA
MATTDERNOGA
“Policing byitself will notoffer instantgratificationon this im-portantissue.”
JONATHANSACHSSGA PRESIDENT
This is my first year atthe university, and I’m avegetarian on the mealplan. It seems so unfairthat there are hardly
any vegetarian options, and I can al-ready see myself putting on weight.How can I avoid gaining the freshman15 while on the meal plan?
I’ve been a vegetariansince I was about 8 yearsold, and the bottom lineis, you have to sacrificefor your choice, andthat’s it. During my first
semester on the meal plan, I ate thesame thing every day — literally.You’re not entitled to any extra assis-tance based on your high moralstances, and I promise you, it will getmonotonous. While you’ll sleep betterat night knowing the cows and chick-ens that have already been killed (andwill probably get thrown in the trash atthe end of the day anyway) at leastwon’t have been killed for you, youwon’t be able to indulge in most of the
options at either The Diner or theSouth Campus Dining Hall. But thegood news is, the vegetarian optionsdon’t have to be fattening.
First of all, little things like dippingcarrot sticks in bleu cheese dressing asopposed to dipping your cheese fries inbleu cheese can make a significant dif-ference in your daily caloric intake.Try and leave yourself more time to eatso you can wait in the Salad Sensationsor Sprouts line, instead of getting fries.
Whole-wheat wraps and salads areobviously good options, but when thatgets boring, you have to get creative.One of my favorite tricks is stealing thepatty from the veggie burgers and con-structing my own sandwich or salad in-stead of eating it with the white bun.Being a vegetarian is the only high-
moral road I take, though, so I usuallynonchalantly drop the empty bun onthe floor to avoid paying for it.
I also think eliminating Late Night isa smart choice, as the options availableare obviously catered to insomniacstoners with the munchies.
And, speaking of late-night activi-ties, your drinking habits are as im-portant as, if not more importantthan, your eating habits. If you findyourself starting to bulk up, it’s timeto man up. Lounging around the kegat a party, sipping beer all night, isone way to meet guys ... and thenhave them stop texting you a fewweeks later on account of the beerbaby you’ve started to gestate.
Might I also suggest taking thestairs? With no air conditioning in mostNorth Campus dorms, you should beback to your normal size soon.
Esti Frischling is a sophomore studioart major, so she literally has nothingbetter to do than answer your ques-tions. She can be reached at [email protected].
Anyone interested in ruiningconversation at the dinnertable can always depend onthe subject of evolution. Near-
ly 150 years after the publication of Onthe Origin of Species, no one seems tobe able to keep a clear head when dis-cussing Darwin’s theory. Self-pro-claimed religious adherents adoptevery absurdity in their attempts to dis-credit evolution, while those on theother side of the debate beat their headsagainst the wall in frustration and di-rect often unjust insults against theChristian establishment.
I will not endeavor here to addressspecific complaints against the theoryof evolution itself. Darwin was carefulto attend to the majority of legitimatearguments against his theory in On theOrigin of Species and The Descent ofMan, and anyone who questions howan eye or a sense of morality could havedeveloped under evolutionary princi-ples may consult these two texts.
I am more disturbed by the nature ofthe evolution debate, which seemsfounded on false principles. Apparent-ly, the reigning consensus is that everyscientific achievement must be accom-panied by an extraordinary inflation ofhubris on the part of the scientist. Toooften, science is assumed to be opposedto religion, as if the scientist loses theneed for spirituality when examiningnature’s beautiful and complex phe-nomena. The truth is that the best sci-entists never lose their sense of wonderbefore nature. Religion need not worrythat science will usurp its rightful placein the pantheon of human thought.Questions regarding man’s relationship
to God, his purpose on earth and themoral tenets he should follow to live thebest life, are not problems that physicsis ever likely to solve, and science geeksknow that as well as anyone.
However, in insulting the humility ofthe natural scientist, the Christians whoprotest against evolution also do them-selves and their religion injustice. Thecomplaint, of course, is that the theoryof evolution does not accord with theBiblical account of the origin of life inGenesis. How insulting that they sup-pose that the word of God can be so eas-ily interpreted! If one really conceivesof God as the infinite and absolute, thenno amount of scientific minutiae detail-ing the origin of man should be able tothreaten His power. If science conflictswith our interpretation of the Bible, weshould have the humility to questionour own interpretation.
Too often, when examining the Bible,we expect to extract easily understoodstories with a clear moral significance,which can be accompanied by a cheer-ful illustration in next week’s session ofSunday school. We focus too much onthe stories’ historical significance andcompletely miss their philosophicalvalue.
In Fear and Trembling, SørenKierkegaard begins his spiritual in-quiry by presenting several re-imagin-
ings of the famous story of Abrahamand Isaac. He gives four different inter-pretations by filling in the historical de-tails not included in the Biblical ac-count, and in doing so, he highlights thestory’s philosophical importance. Hetreats Abraham and Isaac as humanbeings rather than worn-out symbols offaithful obedience. He asserts that thepoint of the story is not, as so many haveassumed, to show us that we should fol-low God’s commands.
Instead, we should “either forgetall about Abraham or learn how tobe horrified at the monstrous para-dox which is the significance of hislife.” Ultimately, the story revealsthe paradoxical nature of faith, andit is this philosophic discovery —and not any cheap moral summary— that the religious thinker shouldtake away from his or her reading.
Similarly, we sell the creation storyin Genesis short if we expect to use itas a means of calculating the precisenumber of years that the earth andmankind have existed. The creationstory should teach us far more thanwhat the scientific origin of species is.If the Bible is so dear to them, the op-ponents of evolution should learn torespect it and to understand that it is avastly complicated work with awealth of philosophical importancebeneath its surface. They should con-cern themselves with the higher prob-lems of theology and leave the work ofcalculation to the scientists.
Susan Holcomb is a physics major. Shecan be reached [email protected].
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 | THE DIAMONDBACK 5
Evolution: A case for religious compromise
[Editor’s note: This is the first face-offstyle column in an occasional seriesaimed at giving the College Democ-rats and College Republicans achance to weigh in on issues in thisyear’s election.]
Rapidly increasing energy costsare undoubtedly among the mostimportant issues to the Americanpeople as this year’s presidentialelection approaches. The recentfinancial crisis and the ensuing mort-gage crisis make Americans evenmore desperate for immediate relieffrom the high cost of gas. Sen. JohnMcCain (R-Ariz.) is extremelyreceptive of the financial burdensoaring gas prices impose on Ameri-can families, and this seasoned vet-eran also understands the impor-tance of eliminating the UnitedStates’ dependence on foreign oil.
McCain has stated that the energychallenge “concerns America’s mostfundamental interests and, above all,the safety of our citizens from theviolence of the world.” Leaders suchas Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, whoacquire immeasurable wealthbecause of America’s dependence ontheir oil, often manipulate oil prices,to the detriment of the Americanpeople. The main goal of McCain’senergy policy is ending the UnitedStates’ vulnerability to the maliciousdecisions of foreign leaders whilealso relieving prices at the pump.
If elected, McCain will achieve oilindependence and greatly reduceour trade deficit before 2025 byremoving the legal restriction on off-shore drilling. This plan has multiplebenefits because it creates an enor-mous domestic source of oil for theUnited States, thus dramaticallyincreasing supply, which would sub-stantially lower prices for con-sumers. Moreover, McCain supportsnuclear energy more than Sen.Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and favors theconstruction of new nuclear powerplants, which are not only environ-mentally sound but will furtherdecrease our reliance on foreign oil.Additionally, building new nuclearplants will ensure that the UnitedStates maintains its civilian nucleartechnological advantage over othersophisticated countries such asJapan, France and Germany, whichalso use nuclear power. McCain’senergy plan also calls for researchinto affordable, green-energy tech-nologies; however, unlike Obama andthe left, he favors phasing in thesetechnologies over time. To encouragecleaner energy in the car industry,McCain has proposed a positiveincentive in the form of a $5,000 taxcredit for anyone who buys a zero-carbon-emission car.
McCain’s plan not only includescleaner energy but also paints a clearpath to finally ending America’sdependence on foreign oil. He recog-nizes that the only way to guaranteeaffordable energy is by expandingoff-shore drilling within the UnitedStates. This is an aspect of McCain’splan that Obama fervently opposedbut now belatedly claims to support(since August).
Clearly, the energy crisis needs tobe addressed immediately. Unlessthe bold, effective solutions proposedby McCain and the Republicans arerapidly implemented, the UnitedStates will be virtually held hostageby oil-rich dictators, and soaringgasoline prices will devastate oureconomy, our small businesses andthe financial security of Americanfamilies.
We as Americans have the abilityto solve the energy crisis and secureour nation’s future, if we unite insupport of effective long-term solu-tions. As Abraham Lincoln said sotruly, if Americans are determined topersevere, we will outlast any crisisand emerge even stronger, for “if[destruction] ever reach us, it mustspring up amongst us. It cannot comefrom abroad. If destruction be ourlot, we must ourselves be its authorand finisher. As a nation of freemen,we must live through all time, or dieby suicide.”
Christopher Banerjee, Leigh Ryanand Nicholas Cravotta are thepresident, vice president andsecretary of the CollegeRepublicans, respectively. They canbe reached at [email protected].
Advice
Vegging out
at issueHow has your sense of
security changed since theLeonardtown home invasion?
“Since theincident,there are somany morepolice thatI’m morescared tosmoke outside ordrink outside.”
Matt DevlinSophomoreEconomics
“I honestly don’tknow what theycould do tostep up security in thedorms.”
Raquel SosnowskiJuniorEnvironmental scienceand policy
“I feel fine.I’m stillbreathing,aren’t I?”
Matt KarlinSophomoreLetters and sciences
“It reallyhasn’tchanged allthat muchbecauseLeonardtownis on theoppositeside of campus.”Janae Harrison
SophomoreLetters and sciences
“It really hasn’tbecause Ihaven’t heardabout it.”
Mary BolgianoFreshmanHistory
“I mean,these thingsjust happen.There’splenty ofcrimes inD.C.”
Chris AuzmendiSophomoreFinance
“It’s one thing when you’re walking around atnight, but I didn’t expect someone to be point-ing a gun at me in my own apartment.”
- Sophomore landscape architecture major Matt KeplerFrom the Sept. 26 edition of The Diamondback
“We love the firefighters. We want to communicate with them. They put the wet
stuff on the hot stuff.”
- University Police spokesman Paul DillonFrom the Sept. 24 edition of The Diamondback
Best of the week
ESTIFRISCHLING
SUSANHOLCOMB
Q:
A:
[Editor’s note: This is the first face-offstyle column in an occasional seriesaimed at giving the College Democ-rats and College Republicans achance to weigh in on issues in thisyear’s election.]
Energy policy is the defining issuein this election. It drives the economy,as crude oil prices dictate the price ofnearly everything else. Energy policyaffects foreign policy, with a country’spossession of oil playing a large role inhow we deal with it. And it has an ef-fect on the environment, which we areslowly destroying with every drop ofgasoline we burn. We are at a cross-roads in this country when it comes toenergy policy: If we continue downthe path we are on, we will see sky-rocketing inflation, wars over oil andfar fewer polar bears. But if we makea change now, there is a good chancewe can right the ship.
Democrats lead the way when itcomes to protecting the environmentand creating alternative energy solu-tions. Global warming is a seriousissue that requires serious solutions,not empty promises made at electiontime with no real results. The Repub-licans have realized that to get to the270 electoral votes necessary to winthe election, they have to follow theDemocrats’ leadership on this issue.But they have no track record of pro-ducing results, and we can expect thatthis issue will slip back as a prioritysomewhere between Election Dayand Inauguration Day if the Republi-cans win in November.
Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.)choice of a running mate belies hiscampaign rhetoric and shows his truecommitment to taking the energy cri-sis seriously. Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alas-ka) only recently admitted a humanrole in global warming. This is not theattitude we need a heartbeat awayfrom the Oval Office if we expect tomake any progress toward solving theenergy crisis. We need leaders whowill address this problem head on, notwho bury their heads in the meltingsnow.
The Republicans’ big new idea isthat we need to drill for oil here athome. That is a cigarette addict prom-ising that the next pack he buys will bethe last, or a gambling addict slippingoff to Atlantic City for one last night of
poker. The solu-tion is not moreoil. What we needis a plan thatweans us off of oiland produces al-ternative, sus-tainable and cost-effective sourcesof energy. And astop-gap meas-ure like this onlymeans more timespent destroyingthe environmentand less timesearching for analternative.
Regrettably,Sen. BarackObama (D-Ill.)has offered tepidsupport for
drilling in the United States for thesake of political expediency. But he hasby no means made it the centerpiece ofhis energy policy. Obama and the De-mocratic Party have laid out a compre-hensive, detailed plan on how he willmake the energy crisis a priority. Hesets ambitious goals, calling for fivemillion new green jobs, increasing fuelefficiency standards, fully funding al-ternative energy sources and taxing oilcompanies who continue to profit asthey enable our addiction to foreign oil.He proposes a project on the scale ofthe Apollo program to get to the moon— and he didn’t first commit to theseideals when he realized he wanted towin the Iowa caucus.
We don’t need leaders who resort topithy, poll-tested talking points and so-lutions that simply prolong the energyproblem. We need leaders who arewilling to spend the political capitalnecessary to effect meaningfulchange. Obama has the plan and thewill to end America’s addiction to oiland put us on the path to alternativeenergy sources.
John Allenbach is president of theCollege Democrats. He can bereached at [email protected].
Energy: Defining
this year’selection
2008 Election
COLLEGE DEMOCRATS
Energy:AssertingAmerica’s
future
2008 Election
COLLEGE REPUBLICANS
“We needleaders whowill addressthis problemhead on, notwho burytheir headsin the melt-ing snow.”
JOHN ALLENBACHCOLLEGE DEMOCRATSPRESIDENT
“The last five minutes were just quiet.That’s when you know you’re doing
your job.”
- Senior defensive tackle Jeremy Navarre From the Sept. 29 edition of The Diamondback
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND “OTTOMAN”Vampire Weekend + Devo’s MarkMothersbaugh + Nick and Norah’s InfinitePlaylist = a slight mess. Yes, it’s coolMothersbaugh produced it, butit sounds like every otherVampire Weekend song(complete with Ezra Koenigreusing the “Feels sounnatural/ Peter Gabrieltoo” line from “Cape CodKwassa Kwassa”). Maybeit’s a joke, maybe it’s not, butthe song’s staccato guitars anda string section are all too familiar,making “Ottoman” actually a perfect fit forNick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. (Can westart calling it Juno: Part Deux yet?)
Tom Morello always has something to say comeelection time, and this year is no different. Hissophomore effort as The Nightwatchman, The
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T.I. against the worldREVIEW | T.I.
Far from Normal
REVIEW | BEN FOLDS
Ben Folds’ piano-laden pop rock shines through on his latest, Way to Normal. COURTESY OF WOLFTRAP.ORG
T.I. follows T.I. vs. T.I.P. and house arrest with what may be his best albumBYALEXRUSH
Staff writer
Although T.I. reps Atlanta to the fullest, the way hiscurrent trials and tribulations have affected his latestalbum, Paper Trail, is similar to that of a West Coastlegend.
When Tupac Shakur released Me Against theWorld, one of his most lauded albums, he was facingsome dire circumstances: In 1995, the late, greatemcee was in prison for a sexual assault convictionand had just recovered from multiple gun shotwounds after being ambushed at a recording studio.But despite, or perhaps because of, those struggles,Shakur delivered classic material.
Like Shakur, T.I. is also facing legal issues. He re-cently pleaded guilty to gun possession and was sen-tenced to a year in jail, which he will serve after com-pleting 1,000 hours of community service. And alsolike Shakur, his drama with the law inspired him torecord his best album to date.
T.I. recorded Paper Trail, his sixth record, underhouse arrest. He clearly had plenty of time to reflecton his life and his innermost thoughts, because thealbum is deeply personal. The album owes its title tothe fact that T.I. wrote down his lyrics, which he hasnot done since his 2001 debut. Unlike his previous re-lease, T.I. vs. T.I.P., the rapper does not create carica-tures of himself and duel with his split persona. In-stead, T.I. bares his soul. Paper Trail shows the trueClifford Joseph Harris Jr.
T.I.’s advanced, rhythmic lyrics and husky voice area tour de force over mostly minimalist and drum-dom-inated beats. Although the smash single is the catchy,sing-songy “Whatever You Like,” the rest of the albumisn’t simple, crossover pop rap.
Confrontational tracks such as “Ready for Whatev-er” provide insight into T.I. the man. He raps to justifyhis case: “If your life was in jeopardy, everyday is youtelling me/ You wouldn’t need weaponry, just becauseof your felonies.” T.I. discusses the paranoia and de-pression he felt after his close friend was shot dead, aswell as his frustration with street violence. However,he admits buying unregistered machine guns was a
poor decision by spitting, “I’m wrong and I know it, myexcuse is unimportant/ I’m just trying to let you know Ididn’t think I had a choice.”
Perhaps this mature outlook, which rarely glorifieshis badass exploits on Paper Trail, is due to his com-munity service. He fulfilled most of his hours byspeaking to youth at schools around the country abouthow to steer clear of trouble and remain positive. MTVeven filmed some of it and is thinking of turning it intoa reality show.
T.I. continues his socially conscious message on“Live Your Life,” which includes that bizarre samplefrom the infamous “Numa Numa” dance video onYouTube. Although Diversions dissed the track twoweeks ago, the Just Blaze-produced beat may grow onlisteners. Plus, T.I. drops knowledge such as “your val-ues is in disarray, prioritizing horribly/ unhappy withyour riches because you’re piss poor morally/ Ignor-ing all advice and all forewarning.” Listeners shouldbe impressed with T.I. for turning such a goofy instru-mental into a wise track.
But don’t think the role model music makes T.I. soft.T.I. may have a frail frame, but he’s a beast on thebeats and still proclaims he’s King of the South. T.I.can expand on one type of rhyme for a whole verseand include plenty of punch lines,metaphors and meaningful contextsalong the way.
“Swagger Like Us” is an infectioustrack featuring superstars Jay-Z,Kanye West and Lil Wayne rockingover an M.I.A. “Paper Planes” sam-ple. But T.I. makes it clear thisis his track — holding hisown among his stand-
out contemporaries, which he sums up succinctly: “Gosee Weezy for the wordplay/ Jeezy for the bird-play/Kanyeezy for diversity/ And me for controversy.” T.I.knows all eyes are on him. Luckily, he doesn’t buckunder pressure.
On “I’m Illy,” T.I. declares, “I’m the hottest n---- rap-ping since Shakur.” Although he clearly isn’t takinginto account some of his veteran peers (Jay-Z and Nas,of course), T.I. can overcome adversity through musicas well as Makaveli.
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Ben Folds is a musician built for the live setting,despite his unorthodox choice of instrument: piano.
Regardless of the quality of his albums (whichhave always been good) or the piano’s traditionalclassical use, Folds has always been a musician whoexcels in the live setting, elevating the already-su-perb tracks laid down in studio to a higher level.
It’s nice to see how Way to Normal, his third soloalbum, seems to follow this pattern for Folds. Thealbum feels like a blueprint for what he intends to dowith the tracks once he’s able to transport them to thelive setting. While it’s next to impossible to duplicatethe energy and feeling of a live show in the studio,Folds does his best job to replicate the experience.
“Dr. Yang” has a bouncy, aggressive rhythm,which is driven by a heavy drumbeat and Foldsslamming the keys, but the song transitions intomore intricate ivory work as the track progresses.Though the track is a scant 2 minutes and 30 sec-onds, its length helps keep the tempo high.
It’s easy to picture Folds playing the song in frontof a rabid audience — bopping in his two-pointboxer’s stance as he slams his hands on the pianoand races to match his vocals to the breaknecktempo. “Dr. Yang” should be a crowd-pleaser, bring-ing people to their feet and keeping them there.
A major part of Folds’ charm has always been hisability to take himself lightly, especially on songs withan autobiographical tilt. He’s been poking fun at him-self for a long time, with Ben Folds Five songs such as“Army” and “Best Imitation of Myself” showcasinghis ability for lighthearted jabs.
He continues this tradition with “Hiroshima (B BB Benny Hit His Head),” a song about how hewalked straight off the end of the stage at a show inJapan, incurring a concussion in the aftermath. It de-scribes what happened in a straightforward manner,“I waved down low to the crowd/ As I busted ass on
the front of the stage.”The song doesn’t only highlight the ordeal in a silly
way, but also employs live ambiance to add anotherdimension to the track. Furthering the album’sstance as better heard live, a pre-recorded crowdchimes in on the “Oh-Oh” portion of the chorus —making it an instant addition to the live show.
Folds loosens things up in other ways on Way toNormal, not only by highlighting embarrassingepisodes in his life, but also with off-the-wall looks atlife and relationships.
“Bitch Went Nuts” has a spoken word intro detail-ing how men and women look at relationships differ-ently. It says while women can offer up many differ-ent reasons for a relationship ending, men alwayssay, simply, “The bitch went nuts.” The song’s off-beat lyrics are endlessly catchy, and the accompany-ing beat is sure to get toes tapping.
It’s not all fun and games for Folds, however. Forthose in search of the next “Brick” (a fan favoritefrom Ben Folds Five’s Whatever and Ever Amen), interms of tone and mood, the best fit is probably themelancholy “Cologne.”
The percussion is muted, allowing the song tofocus almost exclusively on Folds’ vocal and softpiano work as he laments the loss of a woman. It’s alittle scattered lyrically, jumping from the lonelywalk back to his hotel room after the woman has lefton a train to the story of the scorned astronaut whodrove cross -country in diapers in a revenge attempt.
Still, even with this odd choice, it’s an emotion-al song, conjuring up the feelings of a badbreakup in anyone who has shared that experi-ence. It’s not the emotional wallop of a song like“Brick,” but it will suffice.
Way to Normalhits a lot more than it misses. Foldsmanages to lay down lots of punchy, upbeat tracks,sure to please fans both on the album and in concert.It’s not a knockout, but it’s definitely a win by decision.
Ben Folds’ latest studio set should translate nicely live
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“We’re gonna make thelearning from this game to bevery positive,” Cirovski said.“There were a lot of positivesin that game. Sometimes, allthat is lost when you just seethe result. I think the playershave embraced all the chal-lenges and we’re gonna growfrom it.”
Binghamton (5-1-3) has anexperienced roster with eightseniors and earned threevotes in last week’s
NSCAA/adidas coaches’ poll.“I think they’re a danger-
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Other than defenderMichael Marchiano, who isinjured after making his sea-son debut last week againstAmerican, the Terps have nomajor injuries.
Freshman midfielder
Kaoru Forbess, a highlytouted recruit from Garland,Texas, made his first careerappearance against WakeForest Friday after a backinjury held him out all sea-son.
“He’s a really skillfulplayer. I know we need toslowly get him into the mix,”Cirovski said. “His lungswere hurting after the [WakeForest] game. It was a goodintroduction for him, and Ithink he’s just going to getbetter and make us better.”
For now, the Terps say it’stime to leave the Wake Forestgame behind and continue toimprove into October andbeyond.
“They’re the best in thecountry, so we can’t forgetabout that,” Yates said. “Weobviously had a lapse in thesecond half, but we know wecan play with them. In thesenext games coming up wereally want to put on displaywhat we can do.”
November 2006.“Everyone said Clemson
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The Terp defense adjustedand held one of the confer-ence’s most explosiveoffenses scoreless in the sec-ond half. Even with a pooroffensive performance, theTerps still put up 20 points ina hostile environment.
For now, Friedgen will be con-tent to be 1-0 in conference play.
It’s as good a start as hecould ask for.
“It’ll feel real good if I geteight [conference wins], andthen hopefully nine,” Fried-gen said. “But you can’t haveeight until you’ve got one,and we’ve got one right now.”
or position changes are reallyjust taking a look at differentshapes and different spacesthat become available,”Meharg said. “Both [Rowe andO’Donnell] have handled itreally, really well. They’re thetype of positions where youdon’t have a lot of time to think,which is very much of an assetfor their game and the team.”
Meharg said formationsoften must be adjusted toexploit the strengths of eachplayer. A shift in position does-n’t force a player to changetheir game — instead, it ismore often an opportunity toput players, and the team, in aposition to succeed.
By pinching her two topplayers closer to the middle ofthe field, Meharg has con-structed a strong core fromwhich the Terps have con-trolled possession and builttheir counter attack.
“[Rowe] has been tremen-dous in transferring the play[up the field],” Meharg said. “Ithink [O’Donnell] from 30 to 40yards out is more dangerousthan she is from 16 to 20.”
O’Donnell has thrived in hernew role as defensive pest andfast-break facilitator.
In the Sept. 14 win overNorthwestern, O’Donnellsnapped up a pass at the 25-yard line and darted towardthe goal. She snuck betweentwo defenders and drew the
goalie out of the net beforeflicking a pass to forwardMary Reilly for an easy goal.
It was her sixth assist of thegame.
“I don’t ever think about,‘Oh, I have to go out and scorefor us to do well,’” O’Donnellsaid. “I want to be doing some-thing out there to help us win.”
The same can be said forRowe, who has responded tothe move by leading the teamin goals with 13. Her imposingsize and powerful shot havemade her a threat inside thescoring circle and a force onpenalty corners.
But even though things areworking out now, Mehargmade it clear that the forma-tion situation is subject tochange. The bottom line isthat the team will put playerswherever they are needed onthe field.
“So far, it’s worked out verypositively,” Meharg said.“Now, on the flipside, it’s veryeasy to move [O’Donnell] up inthe system and [Rowe] back,which we’ve done at times. Ithas a lot of flexibility to it.
“It’s all how you look at it,”Meharg added. “I don’t lookat it as we’ll switch if we’restruggling in a certain area, Ilook at it as we’ll switch so wecan get a goal. ... It’s more thenature of the way the game isgoing and what we need atthat time.”
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School Record Prev.6. Penn State (5-0) 127. Texas Tech (4-0) 108. Brigham Young (4-0) 119. USC (2-1) 110. South Florida (5-0) 13
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CLEMSON, S.C. — After watch-ing his team score 14 points inthe second half to complete acomeback win at then-No. 20Clemson on Saturday, Ter-rapin football coach RalphFriedgen didn’t sugarcoat histeam’s performance.
Friedgen acknowledged hisoffense wasn’t at its bestagainst the preseason ACCfavorite.
The eighth-year coach did-n’t make any excuses for adefense that allowed 195yards rushing in the first half.
His best explanation for theimprobable win was histeam’s heart and makingfewer second-half mistakes.
But that was certainly goodenough for him.
Although it wasn’t pretty,the Terps (4-1) improved to 1-0 in ACC play for the firsttime in four seasons. By drop-ping the Tigers (3-2, 1-1 ACC)in Death Valley, the Terpsshowed they have to be con-
sidered a factor in a confer-ence lacking a dominantteam.
“We found a way to win onthe road against a good foot-ball team,” Friedgen said.“That’s got to be huge foryour season.”
It was a big step for the pro-gram, especially given itsrecent history in ACC openers.Friedgen improved to 3-5 ingames in conference openers.Since beating Duke 55-21 tokickoff their 2004 conferenceslate, a 1-0 ACC start had
eluded the Terps. In 2005, they blew a 10-point
fourth-quarter lead in a homeloss against Clemson. The nextyear, the team couldn’t hold a9-point fourth-quarter advan-tage at Georgia Tech. Last sea-son, Wake Forest rallied from a21-point second-half deficit tobeat the Terps in overtime.
This season, it was the Terpswho pulled it together late togain some early-season confi-dence, leaving the Tigers and81,500 fans at Clemson Memo-rial Stadium in shock.
“It’s real big, especially inthis atmosphere,” said runningback Da’Rel Scott, whose 1-yard touchdown run with 10:25left won it for the Terps.“Being in Death Valley andgetting our first ACC win justgives us a lot of momentum forthe rest of the ACC games.”
The Terps have now wonthree straight games, includ-ing a pair against ranked oppo-nents, since falling at MiddleTennesee on Sept. 6. In theAssociated Press poll releasedSunday, they were the lastteam left out of the country’sTop 25.
With a road win Saturdayagainst a 1-3 Virginia team, theTerps could find themselvesranked for the first time since
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So, how does a team get outgained 372 to 295 total yards and still win? Forcing threeturnovers and committing none certainly helps. A 76-yard run by Darrius Heyward-Beyon a reverse to set up the Terps’ first touchdown also helped. But in tight games like Sat-urday’s, every little thing can have a profound impact on the final outcome.
Against the Tigers, Terp punter Travis Baltz averaged a net of 39.4 yards per punt and dropped three ofseven boots inside Clemson’s 20-yard line. On the other side, Tigers punter Jimmy Maners averaged anet of only 30.6 on five punts, dropping one inside the Terps’ 20 and one for a touchback.
That’s nearly one additional first down the Terps added onto each Clemson drive, which can take itstoll over the course of a long, physical game. Field position was a critical element to last week’s win over EasternMichigan, and Saturday was no different — the Terps’ average starting field position for the game was the Clemson35; the Tigers began on average on the Terps’ 24-yard line.
The importance of special teams play peaked in the fourth quarter, though. After the Terp offense failed to converton third and 10, Baltz, who was named co-ACC special teams player of the week, recorded his lone touchback of thegame when he booted a 42-yard punt into Clemson’s end zone. The Terps’ defense stuffed Clemson at the 20, andManers responded with a poor 35-yard punt that was returned 10 yards by Danny Oquendo to the Clemson 45.
Given another chance inside Clemson territory, the Terps and Oquendo (who had three catches for 43 yards on thedrive) cashed in for the go-ahead touchdown and the game’s final score. In a game as close as this one was, it’s oftenthe small, ignored aspects that make the difference. The Terps were able to overcome an explosive Tigers offense bybeing opportunistic on defense and forcing turnovers. But they needed Baltz to win the field position game and getthem over the hump.— Originally published on TerrapinTrail.com.
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Punter Travis Baltz had one of his best games as a Terpon Saturday at Clemson. The sophomore landed three ofseven punts inside the Clemson 20-yard line. ADAM
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The Terp defense came out of the gate sloppy Saturday, but in the second half, they shut down Clemson’s vaunted ground game. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
Tonight’s game againstBinghamton isn’t the actualhalfway point of the Ter-rapin men’s soccer team’sschedule, but it does repre-sent a change in team’smindset for the rest of theregular season.
All of the attention sur-rounding the No. 2 Terps’ 4-2 loss against No. 1 WakeForest on Friday has faded,and the team is ready to con-centrate on the lessonslearned from a second halfin which it gave up two goalsand was shut down offen-sively.
“I guess you could saythat was basically the culmi-nation of our first half of theseason,” midfielder DrewYates said. “It definitelygives us more motivation forthe rest of the year. Obvi-
ously, [today’s] game is nextin line, but Wake challengedus to get better, and nexttime we meet them, we wantto give them a better game.”
The team was in goodspirits following yesterday’spractice, and coach SashoCirovski said the Terps (6-2-0) should have no troublerefocusing after theirbiggest game of the year.
Terps vs. BinghamtonWhere: Ludwig Field
When: Tonight, 7:30 p.m.Radio: WMUCsports.com
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Senior back Susie Rowe has increased her offensive output this seasonbecause of the Terps’ new formation. ALLISONAKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY MICHAEL KATZStaff writer
Missy Meharg didn’tseem to get the memo: If itain’t broke, don’t fix it.
The Terrapin field hockeycoach decided she could getmore out of two of her mostproductive players, reposi-tioning senior Susie Roweand sophomore KatieO’Donnell, both of whomare coming off All-Ameri-can seasons.
Rowe has traditionallyanchored the back line forthe Terps. She was secondon the team in goals a yearago, and this season, she hasbeen bumped up and askedto take an even more
aggressive role in theoffense.
O’Donnell burst onto thescene last season and ledthe team in goals and assistsas an active forward. Thisseason, she has startedgames at midfield to bestuse her defensive intuitionand ball skills.
Both have rapidlyadjusted to their new rolesand the No. 3 Terps (9-1, 2-0ACC) haven’t missed a beat.
“Many times, formation
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