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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 99TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 32WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2008
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NO BIG PLAYSDarrius Heyward-Bey hasn’t caughta pass in two games for the TerpsSPORTS | PAGE 10
THE ICE CREAM MANThe Culinarian talks to the guy whomakes the university’s frozen specialtyDIVERSIONS | PAGE 7
Tuition freeze unlikely next yearHundreds ofsophomoreswill loserooms in fall
A blitz for ballots
ELECTION 2008
Graduationrates remainlow for men’sbasketball
At first meeting,state task forcelooks to reducepredatory towing
‘We need to strive forequal representation’
With economy’s grim outlook, officials aim to slash budget furtherBY KEVIN ROBILLARD
Senior staff writer
ANNAPOLIS — The state’s chief fis-cal analyst yesterday gave statelawmakers a somber briefing onthe state’s budget situation andsuggested eliminating the tuitionfreeze as a possible solution.
Warren Deschenaux, the direc-tor of the Office of Policy Analysis,told members of four GeneralAssembly budget committees thatcontinuing to hold tuition at 2005levels is one of several state poli-cies that “need to be reexamined inlight of a new fiscal reality.”
The state is projecting a $195
million budget deficit for the cur-rent fiscal year and a $1.3 billiondeficit next year. This year’s deficithas prompted Gov. Martin O’Mal-ley (D) to bring $300 million in cutsto the Board of Public Works,which will vote on them today.
The $300 million is an increaseover the previously planned $250
million in cuts. P.J. Hogan, the Uni-versity System of Maryland’s lob-byist, said USM’s share of the cutswill increase from about $30 millionto $35.4 million. Of the original $30million, $12 million was planned tobe cut from this university, but
Please See BUDGET, Page 3Projected demand foron-campus housingsimilar to last year
BY DERBY COX AND NICK MERCURIOStaff writers
About 575 sophomores are not likely to geton-campus housing next year according to aprojection released by the Department ofResident Life yesterday.
The document, which Resident Life Direc-tor Deborah Grandner referred to as a “pre-liminary projection,” indicates that a littleless than half of the 1,240 sophomores Resi-dent Life expects to request housing will beturned away. The number of students deniedhousing, however, could be as low as 441 or ashigh as 893, according to the projection.
The numbers are similar to last year’s,when Resident Life predicted that about 556sophomores would be denied housing.
Resident Life will again use the lottery sys-tem, which assigned housing numbers ran-domly to rising juniors last year, to determinewho will be able to stay on the campus,Grandner said.
Resident Life will look into converting somedouble apartments in University Courtyards
Please See HOUSING, Page 3
ANNAPOLIS
Terps’ score improvesfrom last year, but is stillbelow Division 1 average
BY JEFF AMOROSSenior staff writer
The Terrapin men’s basketball team scoreda 10 out of 100 on the Graduation SuccessRate report, a marked improvement from lastyear’s score of zero but still below thenational average of 62, according to theNCAA GSR report released yesterday.
The report, issued each fall, reflects gradu-ation rates for all student-athletes whoentered the university between 1998 and2001 and received scholarship money. But itdoes not penalize schools for low scores likethe Academic Progress Rate, which comesout each spring. Instead, the GSR is regardedas an early indicator for APR scores.
This year’s score shows just one of the 10men’s basketball players — Mike Grinnon,according to men’s basketball coach GaryWilliams — who entered the universitywithin that period earned a diploma duringthe six-year window set by the NCAA.
Despite the low score, Senior AssociateAthletics Director Kathy Worthington saidthere is reason for hope of higher scores inupcoming years. She cited the graduations ofJames Gist, Bambale Osby and JasonMcAlpin — who doesn’t count on the GSRbecause he was not on scholarship — from
Please See GSR, Page 8
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
Have you ever felt Maryland’s towing com-panies are out of control? Well, the towingindustry does.
Towing company owners are among the mem-bers of a task force charged with bringing a rec-ommendation to the state legislature outliningwhat, if any, towing regulations it should adopt.
The task force, which also includes about twodozen police officers, state delegates, MotorVehicle Administration officials, insurancecompany representatives and members of thepublic — met for the first time yesterday inCollege Park.
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Leaders reflect as Hispanic Heritage Month concludes
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
For Latino students, Hispanic HeritageMonth is more than a chance to celebrate theirculture. It is a chance to raise awareness aboutthe big issues that continue to plague thissmall on-campus population.
Attracting Latino students and providingmeaningful support to those at the universityare issues the population continues to strugglewith while lacking official university supportin its new strategic plan.
“The goals of the university are changingfrom focusing on issues of race to focusing onbecoming globalized citizens,” Latino StudentInvolvement and Advocacy CoordinatorPamela Hernandez said of the university’sstrategic plan. “But it’s still a necessary con-versation to have. This is not a color-blind soci-
ety, and Latinos cannot find themselves in thisnew discussion of diversity.”
Because the strategic plan does not directlycall for increased diversity among faculty andstudents, Latino students must find ways to doso on their own, a venture officials say the uni-versity should support.
“When Latino students come here, theydon’t necessarily see that many Latinos oncampus, so they search for and create theirown communities and groups,” Hernandezsaid. “Latinos will always look for that sup-port, for that familia, and the campus as awhole needs to figure out how to be more wel-coming and inviting to these students.”
During the last five years, the number ofundergraduate students who self-identify asHispanic has stayed at about 6 percent, leading
Please See HERITAGE, Page 2
Students take advantage of their final opportunity to register to vote while the "TerpsVote Boat" sits in the background. Yesterday was the final dayto register to vote in the general election Nov. 4. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
MaryPIRG President Lauren Kim tries toconvince students to register to vote. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY BEN PENN AND ALLISON STICESenior staff writers
Volunteers from the TerpsVote coalition, including members ofMaryPIRG and the SGA, learned last week that they registered thesecond-highest number of voters among the 156 colleges and uni-versities nationwide participating in PIRG’s New Voters Project thissemester.
But instead of settling with the tentative total of 1,783 voters theyhad registered as of Monday night, MaryPIRG’s campus organizer
Student groups ramp up voterregistration efforts on final day
Please See REGISTRATION, Page 2
to more Hispanic students at theuniversity as overall enrollmentgrows. At the same time, the per-centage of incoming freshmenwho identify as Hispanic has de-creased from 7.3 percent in 2006to 6.7 percent this year, the dis-crepancy between the two statis-tics being caused by a number offactors including Hispanic stu-dents taking more than fouryears to graduate and thereforestaying on campus longer.
Community leaders cite a lackof outreach and institutionalizedsupport as reasons for the dropin new students.
“The university’s require-ments for incoming freshmenare going up, and Latinos aren’tmeeting these new require-ments,” said Maryland alumnusRoberto Juarez, who now worksfor the community advocacygroup CASA de Maryland. “It’s ahuge issue. We can’t forgetabout these low-income immi-grant communities becausethey’re right outside the univer-sity’s door.”
According to the Digest of Ed-ucation Statistics, nationwideonly 25 percent of college-ageLatinos are actually enrolled incollege, compared with 42 per-cent of whites, 32 percent ofAfrican Americans and 60 per-cent of Asian/Pacific Islanders.
Assistant Director of Market-ing Technology for the Office ofMulti-ethnic Student EducationTunji Sawyer said offices likeOMSE are working to level the
playing field and both attract andequip minority high school sen-iors for the challenges of college.
“We need to strive for equalrepresentation,” Sawyer said.“But we have to work to achievethat goal.”
Latino students have taken onthe lack of outreach by establish-ing advocacy groups and makingdemands of the university.
Students and officials agreethat Latino visibility on the cam-pus has noticeably increased, ashift that is necessary to be heardand noticed. In just a year thenumber of active Latino studentorganizations has grown — theUMD Salsa Club was created lastschool year, and the HispanicHeritage Coalition was revivedthis semester — the U.S. Latina/oStudies minor was approved, andthe public vocalization of Latinoconcerns has taken a more seri-ous tone — the Latino StudentUnion presented the administra-tion with a manifesto of goals anddemands last semester.
“It’s so different than when Iwas an undergraduate,” said So-cial Chair for the Latino Gradu-ate Student Association MaritzaGonzalez, who also attended theuniversity as an undergraduatestudent. “All these groups havebeen reaching out to educateboth Latino and non-Latino stu-dents and saying ‘We’re here tostay, and this is what we need.’And administrators actually lis-ten to their concerns — it’s im-pressive.”
But leaders say listening is notenough.
“Hispanic Heritage Month isimportant, but it’s become tok-enized,” Juarez said. “The uni-versity needs to recognize thatLatinos need support and re-sources that aren’t there rightnow. They shouldn’t just wait forstudents to say ‘Hey, we needthis.’ They should take it onthemselves to create that atmos-phere.”
BY MIRANDA RUSSELLFor The Diamondback
With new classes everysemester, living situationsfrequently changing and thedemands of schoolwork, col-lege can be a stressful time.But these stress overloadscan sometimes cause stu-dents to despair.
In 2007, the American Col-lege Health Association’sHealth Assessment Surveyfound 6.8 percent of studentsat the university have seri-ously considered suicide atleast once and 0.8 percenthave attempted it.
Suicide is the second lead-ing cause of death among col-lege students, and becauseOctober is National Depres-sion Awareness Month, TheDiamondback spoke withCarrie Martin, coordinator ofthe University Health Cen-ter’s Suicide Awareness,Health Education and Train-ing Program, to gain a betterunderstanding of depressionand ways to help people whomay be suffering.
TThhee DDiiaammoonnddbbaacckk:: Why arecollege students most at riskto suffer depression and sui-cide?
CCaarrrriiee MMaarrttiinn:: Many mentalhealth disorders begin todevelop when a person turns18. Other factors that put col-lege students at risk are:greater academic demands,use of alcohol and drugs,issues of identity, being inde-pendent in a new environ-ment, lack of adequate cop-ing skills, financial responsi-bilities and preparing for lifeafter graduation.
DDBBKK:: What are the commonsymptoms of depression incollege students?
MMaarrttiinn:: Common symp-toms include loss of interestin hobbies or friends, changein sleep habits, low or irrita-ble moods, change in
appetite, inability to con-centrate, lack of motivationor energy, feelings of worth-lessness or large amounts ofguilt and thoughts of deathor suicide.
DDBBKK:: What can a studentdo if he knows he or she issuffering from depression?What are the first steps totake?
MMaarrttiinn:: In addition to get-ting treatment, lettingsomeone know whom theperson trusts — a friend,family member, adviser,professor. If the person ishaving suicidal thoughtsand recognizes this, then itmakes it more expedient forthat person to get help rightaway. In addition to the Uni-versity Counseling Centerand University Health Cen-ter Mental Health Service,there are hotlines, such asthe National Suicide Preven-tion Lifeline, 800-273-TALK,or the Help Center Hotline, apeer-based service at UMD,301-314-HELP.
DDBBKK:: How can studentshelp their friends see a coun-selor if they know he is suf-fering from depression?
MMaarrttiinn:: One way is to talkwith the friend in a very non-judgmental, open andempathic way about thechanges they have seen intheir friend’s behavior —always use “I” statements.Also, you want to make sureyou allow enough time forthe conversation — haveuninterrupted time to talk.After talking with yourfriend, you can then offer togo to the counselor withthem, which will increasefeelings of support andacceptance.
DDBBKK:: What can students doif they know their friend iscontemplating suicide?
MMaarrttiinn:: Be direct! If youthink one of your friends iscontemplating suicide, askthem. One of the greatest
myths is that by asking a per-son if they are suicidal mightplant the seed for them to acton this impulse. The fact isthat asking a person if theyare suicidal actually opensup conversation, is usuallymet with relief and lowersanxiety. If you are living in adorm, tell your RA or call theCounseling Center or healthcenter to talk about ways youcan help your friend —always make sure you aregetting the support you need,as well as for your friend.You can also learn moreabout how to help a friend byattending a GatekeeperTraining. The SuicideAwareness Health Educationand Training (SAHET) Pro-gram offers these trainings,which teaches how to recog-nize signs of depression andsuicidality; what to say tosomeone who is depressed orsuicidal; how to persuade aperson to get treatment andrefer them to professionalcounseling.
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MARYLANDTODAY@
Guards for Washingtonschools admit acceptingbribes
WASHINGTON – TwoMaryland men who workedas special police officersfor Washington publicschools have pleadedguilty to taking bribes fromsomeone who ran an illegalfor-profit parking operationon the grounds of EasternSenior High School.Shawn Armstead andShawn Johnson, both 37years old and from Laurel,pleaded guilty Tuesday.They face up to 15 years inprison at sentencing Jan.5, but are likely to getmore than two years inprison.Prosecutors say thesecurity officersdiscovered the for-profitparking scheme in July.The parking operation wasrunning for events both onand off school property.Records show the guardsdemanded bribes of atleast $1,500 during twomonths to keep quiet andlet the parking operationcontinue.
Md. bomb threatssuspect surrenders topolice
ROCKVILLE –Montgomery County policesay a 34-year-old mansuspected of making bombthreats to the immigrantadvocacy group CASA deMaryland has turnedhimself into authorities.Officials say Wesley JamesQueen II, of Pasadena,Md., was charged Tuesdaywith two counts of falsestatements and two countsof telephone misuse.Police believe Queen isresponsible for making twocalls in May to CASA inSilver Spring. In one, amale caller left a voicemailmessage threatening toblow up CASA. In thesecond, 10 minutes later,the caller threatened aCASA employee whoanswered, and again madebomb threats.Police say Queen turnedhimself into police at 10a.m. Tuesday. He is beingheld on $250,000 bond.
Md. election boardshandle flood ofregistrations
ANNAPOLIS – Voters whowanted to have a say inthe presidential electionand on a slots referendumfaced a Tuesday deadlineto register.Local elections boardswere flooded with calls andregistration applications inthe days leading up to thedeadline, deputy electionsadministrator RossGoldstein said.
–Compiled from wirereports
BRIEFS
Diagnosing depressionHealth Center Coordinator Carrie Martin talks college suicide
CARRIE MARTIN HEALTH CENTER COORDINATOR
Q + A
Latino visibility on campusincreases over the last yearHERITAGE, from Page 1
Flowers for survivors
Kimberly Bonner (right), a graduate assistant coordinatorwith the Sexual Assault Response and PreventionProgram, helps sophomore communication major DoreenWu plant a bulb in front of the survivor garden in front ofthe Health Center as part of domestic violenceawareness month. JAMES B. HALE | THE DIAMONDBACK
‘This is no rocketscience. It’s towing.’
Towing industry representa-tives at the meeting blamedmost predatory towing prob-lems that trigger common com-plaints — such as overchargingand over-aggressive towing —on “gypsy towers” and “snatch-and-grabbers” who call them-selves towing companies simplybecause they own a tow truck.
“Right now, anybody in thisroom can walk out and buy atow truck and start towingcars,” said Fred Scheler, presi-dent of Towing and RecoveryProfessionals of Maryland.
Towing representatives saidthese “rogue towers” — whichthey estimated to be up to 60percent of the state’s towingcompanies — can be bad applesthat spoil public trust in theirmore reputable competitors.
State law already includes afew rules governing towingpractices, but most are left up tocounty governments, some ofwhich have no further rules orinconsistent enforcement.
“The counties aren’t doingtheir jobs,” Scheler said. “The in-dustry feels it would be good tohave a set standard statewide.”
Representatives fromGEICO on the task force saidthey had seen bills of more than$1,000 for a towing job they saidshould have cost only a few hun-dred dollars at the most, as wellas similar fees for a few days’worth of storage.
“It’s the insurance companiesthat end up paying these ran-
soms to get policy holders backto their cars,” and the policy-holders who are stuck with theresulting increased premiums,said Tom Gross of the GEICOSpecial Investigations Unit.
Scheler and others said theywould like to see the state setprice ceilings for towing andstorage, and enforce the newlaws with police rather thancode enforcement officers.
Another GEICO representa-tive, Don Sigrist, said he wasglad to see industry support forincreased state regulation oftowing.
“It’s gotten to the point wherecertain towers are not responsi-ble and need to be regulated,”Sigrist said. “Everyone seems tobe in agreement on that.”
Members of the task forcealso said standardizationthroughout the state makes iteasier for consumers and inter-county towers to know whatrules they’re operating under.
But some members of thetask force, like Baltimore Coun-ty Police Cpl. Al Friedman, saidpolice have more importantthings to do and that the statedoesn’t have the resources toenforce towing regulations.
“This is no rocket science. It’stowing. Let police do policework,” Friedman said. Headded that regulation should re-main mostly at the county level.
The state law setting up thetask force mandates recommen-dations by the end of the year.
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State, university likely to face further budget cuts
Hogan wasn’t sure if that num-ber would increase with thenew figures.
The Board of Public Works,which controls the state’sbudget when the GeneralAssembly is out of session, con-sists of O’Malley, ComptrollerPeter Franchot (D) and Trea-surer Nancy Kopp (D).
Franchot, a political rival ofO’Malley’s, announced yester-day he would support the gov-ernor’s proposed cuts, likelyguaranteeing their passage.
The state’s current fiscalcrunch became apparentwhen revenue estimates weresharply decreased last monthdue to declining income andsales tax revenue. But thatwas before chaos began in theglobal financial and bankingmarkets. Deschenaux said theBoard of Revenue Estimateswould reevaluate the econ-omy in December, which maylead to even lower projectedtax revenues and more poten-tial budget cuts.
“There’s a strong likelihoodstrong actions will need to betaken,” he said.
Franchot predicted yester-day the Board would have asecond round of budget cutsin December.
The hearing was somber anddry, with Deschenaux andother analysts from theDepartment of Legislative Ser-vices — the state’s nonpartisananalysis agency — going overstatistic after statistic indicat-ing the state’s economy was
heading in the wrong direction.For example, the state’s unem-ployment has increased 1.1percentage points to 4.5 per-cent in the five-month periodbetween April to August — therate is still lower than thenational average of 6.1 — andeconomists now expect a reces-sion that will last at least threefinancial quarters.
“There were no real sur-prises,” Hogan said. “It’s bad.It’s very bad.”
Hogan said the Board ofRegents, USM’s governingbody, doesn’t plan on having amid-year tuition increase,which happened in 2002-2003after the university sufferedseveral mid-year budget cuts.
Ross Stern, a lobbyist forthe university, largely echoedHogan. He said next year’santicipated tuition freezewould depend on the Decem-ber revenue estimates. Healso predicted a hiring freezerecently implemented by theuniversity would continuethrough at least the next fiscalyear.
In an interview Friday, uni-versity President Dan Motewas also pessimistic about con-tinuing to cap tuition.
“It’s a little difficult for me tosee how we can continue atuition freeze,” Mote said.
Besides ending the three-year tuition freeze,Deschenaux also suggestedthe state restructureemployee and retiree benefitsto make them comparable tothe private sector, restrainrecent expenditures such as a
Chesapeake Bay clean-upeffort, and explore sellingstate assets such as roads toprivate companies.
In-state tuition has beenfrozen for three years in a rowafter skyrocketing under for-mer Gov. Robert Ehrlich (R).The freeze has caused thestate to drop from having thesixth-highest tuition for pub-lic schools in the country tothe 16th.
One solution to the state’sfiscal problems is the legaliza-tion of slots in the state, whichthe DLS says could eventuallybring $600 million a year tothe state. O’Malley has saidslots are necessary to preventfuture spending cuts and taxincreases.
But even with the moneyfrom slots, DLS still projectsthe state will have deficits ofmore than $1 billion for fiscalyears 2010, 2011 and 2012 anddeficits of close to that amountin 2013 and 2014.
In addition, slots opponentshave said legalizing themwould create a host of social illsthat would make them a netloser for the state financially.
Last fall, O’Malley called aspecial session in which legis-lators raised numerous taxesand cut more than $2 billion inspending to avoid a $1.7 billiondeficit predicted for this fiscalyear that was largely createdbefore his administration cameinto his office.
The Associated Press con-tributed to this report. [email protected]
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BYDERBYCOXStaff writer
The Residence Hall Associ-ation yesterday voted to lookinto creating parking permitsfor students who carpool.
The resolution, which makesno specific recommendations,is designed to address an antici-pated parking crunch in thecoming years that could pre-vent freshmen and sophomoreswho live on the campus fromparking at the university.
It would also support the uni-versity’s environmental goals toreduce the number of cars onthe campus by 3,400 within thenext five years, RHA Trans-portation Advisory Committeechair Scott Shuffield said.
The resolution comes weeksafter Department of Trans-portation Services DirectorDavid Allen presented a car-pooling permit plan to the Cam-pus Transportation AdvisoryCommittee. His proposal of-fered a 20 percent discount tostudents with the permit.
RHA Student Groups LiaisonDan Leydorf, who is also amember of CTAC, said Allen’sproposal met with resistance.
“Carpooling is very impor-tant to us, and if it drops, thenthere’s going to be no winnersto that,” said Leydorf, whodrafted the resolution. “If wedon’t take this battle up as an or-ganization, there’s a very goodchance that it’s going to be
dropped.”The spots for carpoolers
would come from the spaces offive percent of leaving facultymembers.
“The harder people to con-vince would be the faculty asopposed to the students,”Shuffield said.
Leydorf, however, thought afew faculty parking sacrificeswas not a big deal.
“Is one faculty member’sconvenience of parking moreimportant than two or three stu-dents’ right to park on campus?”Leydorf said he didn’t think so.
The resolution passed 36 to 3,with one abstention.
ReLATe Committee chairSpiro Dimakas, who votedagainst the proposal, said hethought carpooling was a goodidea, but questioned the RHA’sdecision to examine the issue.
“We’re an on-campus gov-erning body,” Dimakas said.“We shouldn’t have to deal withcommuters. ... I just think it’s awaste of resources.”
Also at the meeting, universi-ty President Dan Mote present-ed the Amethyst Initiative, aproposal that calls for the dis-cussion of alcohol laws.
Mote said he was mainly in-terested in drinking laws from ahealth and safety standpointand called for a “full and opendialogue.” The university willhold a day-long discussion onthe issue Oct. 30 in the StampStudent Union, he said.
into quads to increase availablebeds, Grandner said. Grandnersaid she did not know how manyspaces would be opened, but thenumber would be less than 100.
There will be more spacesavailable in South Campus Com-mons and Courtyards this year,Grandner said, because fourth-year students will not be able torenew their leases for the follow-ing year. This regulation meansthat about 40 percent of the soph-omore class will find spots in oneof the apartment complexes, shesaid.
Resident Life does not haveany other plans to increase capac-ity for next school year, Grandnersaid.
“If there were good things todo, we would have done them lastyear,” she said.
While most students agreedthat the situation had them wor-ried for the future, they differedon how the situation should behandled. Proposed solutionsranged from lowering universityenrollment to finding off-campushousing as early as sophomoreyear.
Some students, such as fresh-man letters and sciences majorJosh Tilton, felt that the crunchwas unfair.
“You can’t keep telling kids tocome if you have nowhere to putthem,” Tilton said.
Others, like sophomore micro-biology major Jhon B. Ramirez,were not fazed by the housingcrunch.
“I think that, if you really areserious about studying here, thenyou can find a place to live,”Ramirez said.
Freshman biology major JeffBlazar lamented the loss of thedorm bonding experience withthe lack of available on-campushousing.
“Dorms are really nice becausethey’re on campus; I meet peopleand I make friends that way too,”Blazar said.
There are several housing proj-ects slated for the future. Thestate Board of Public Works willreview the proposal for OaklandHall, a potential high-rise dorm inthe Denton quad on North Cam-pus, tomorrow, Grandner said. Ifapproved, the dorm would bring650 beds to the Denton Communi-ty. South Campus Commonsseven is slated to open in January2010, adding space for 368 moreresidents.
For some, the long-term solu-tion to the housing crunch is clear.
“The housing crisis isn’t goingaway anytime soon,” ReLATeCommittee chair Spiro Dimakassaid. “The only way to deal with itis to build more housing.”
Visible on-campus remindersaid last-minute registrants
Greg Schwab said, studentvolunteers continued theiraggressive push to sign upthose last few procrastinat-ing students.
In the words of one volun-teer organizer, yesterday wascrunch day.
TerpsVote set up tables atStamp Student Union, out-side of the North and SouthCampus Dining Halls and theMcKeldin and Hornbakelibraries yesterday, register-ing an additional 471 votersfor an estimated total of 2,514newly registered voters,including 260 university stu-dents who registered online,according to Schwab.
“We’re trying to get every-body that fell through thecracks, get the stragglers andjust be really visible, so stu-dents realize, ‘Oh, crap, it’sthe last day,’ and register tovote,” said Lauren Kim, presi-dent of the university chapterof MaryPIRG, who estimatedeach volunteer collected anaverage of 30 registrationforms per hour Tuesday.
Kim said Monday’s one-day total of 125 new regis-trants had already been sur-passed as of 1 p.m. yesterday.
Mobs of students crowdedthe table at the Student Unionin bursts, some who weren’taware of the deadline, otherswho put if off until the lastminute, and a rash of out-of-state students who decided tochange their address.
Senior criminology andcriminal justice and Englishmajor Katherine Garcia wentout looking for registrationtables today after a fellowsorority member remindedher of the deadline.
“And I’m really happyabout that, the reason being Ilive in Rockville and I didn’twant to go over there to voteon election day,” Garcia said.“Hopefully, everything worksout with my paperwork.”
Sophomore letters and sci-ences major Andrew Choiwasn’t aware of the deadlineuntil he heard the echoes of
MaryPIRG interns yellingthrough makeshift mega-phones of rolled-up paper.
Schwab said he made a last-minute run to the Board ofElections office in Upper Marl-boro “literally to make the 9p.m. deadline” last night.
Elsewhere on the campus,SGA President JonathanSachs tried to encourage stu-dent registration by speakingin three different governmentand politics lecture halls.
“Today is the last day [ toregister] to vote in the stateof Maryland. How many ofyou are registered to vote?”Sachs asked, getting straightto the point in his briefaddress to the more than ahundred students packedinto Shoemaker Hall’s lec-ture room.
Nearly all the students sig-naled they were registered byraising their hands, but Sachspassed out registration formsand pens nonetheless and stillwalked away with a freshstack of filled out forms fiveminutes later.
“Going in and speaking toclasses is powerful. Thereare 15 [additional] voter reg-istration forms I have in myhand — 15 percent of theclass. It’s really incredible,”he said.
Standing nearby, by thefront entrance of South Cam-pus Dining Hall, MaryPIRGcampus organizer senior gov-ernment and politics majorDan Shults was finishing upthe last half hour of his 1 to 3p.m. shift, asking every stu-dent who passed if he or shestill needed to register to vote.
Shults said he had col-lected 20 forms in the first 90minutes of his shift and hadanswered many students’questions regarding chang-ing their registeredaddresses.
Shults’ work was appreci-ated by one passing student,geography doctoral candi-date Leeann King, whostopped to change heraddress. King, who saidMaryPIRG’s tabling allowedher to avoid a trip to Balti-
more, felt fortunate to be astudent.
“It’s such a hassle for any-one who is not in the schoolsystem. What do people dowho don’t have vehicles?”she asked.
Yesterday marked the lastday of an increasingly fren-zied effort, as MaryPIRGinterns said they’ve each putin between 10 and 20 hoursover the past weeks. Lastweekend, they canvassed off-campus housing, includingUniversity Town Center,Knox and Hartwick Towersand the University View.
The interns and volunteerswill be taking a break for awhile before focusing theirefforts on getting people whohave registered to pledge togo to the polls Nov. 4. TheStamp table yesterday fea-tured the first model of acardboard “vote boat,”spray-painted red, white andblue, which will be water-proofed, outfitted with can-nons and sent to float downthe fountain on the Mallsometime in the next fewweeks, Kim said.
BYBRADYHOLTSenior staff writer
The College Park City Coun-cil last night unanimously ap-proved a preliminary plan for asubdivision that would allow theowner of the University View toconstruct a second building onhis property, resolving concernsthat threatened to delay the stu-dent housing project.
City planners wanted devel-opers to make slight changes toFreshman Connection at Uni-versity Outlook — a 13-story,517-bed apartment building —but developers said the changeswould require them to resubmitthe construction plans.
The developers agreed to tes-tify to support the city’s request-ed changes, the most significantof which was shifting the prop-
erty line back about 18 inches toaccommodate county rules, tothe county planning board,thereby avoiding the lengthyprocess of re-submitting plans.
Otis Warren, owner of theUniversity View and the newOutlook project, said he hopes tobreak ground on the new build-ing in three weeks. It is set to bebuilt in the space between theView’s driveway and Route 1.
District 2 Councilman JackPerry, who formally motionedfor the city to accept the Out-look’s plans, said he hoped theproject could soon relieve thearea’s student housing crunch.
“Let’s go on and get thosebeds. I want those studentsgone from the neighborhoods,”Perry said.
Developers to agree to city- requestedchanges,won’t have to resubmit plans
University Viewexpansion passedwith condition
RHA to look into studentcarpool parking permitsMembers also hear Mote presenthis views on the Amethyst Initiative
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I’ve really taken to WashingtonQuad, the lush new green space onSouth Campus between KnoxRoad and the Memorial Chapel.
It’s exciting to see how successful thisformerly unused space has become.Everything happens on WashingtonQuad: volleyball, picnics, clandestinehookah-smoking, post-bar yelling,walks of shame. Indeed, it’s become thenew place to see and be seen.
But you won’t find anyone taking thewalk of shame in another new space onSouth Campus that opened this sum-mer. We’ll call it Van Munching Mall, ina nod to the gigantic business schoolthat lines most of this new lawn nearMowatt Lane Garage. Is it pretty? Ofcourse. Those trees look like they’vebeen there for decades, and the bricksidewalks are cleaned so often youwonder if it’s just to give somebody ajob to do. Everything’s there — that is,everything except for people.
It’s not like people never walkthrough Van Munching Mall. You’vegot one of the university’s biggestschools fronting the space, not to men-tion a large parking garage and severaldorms. Just a little farther away are theArt/Sociology Building, South CampusCommons Buildings and Hillel, whoseservices draw many, many peopleacross this mall every Friday night. Sowhy aren’t people sticking around?
Let’s compare this space to McK-eldin Mall, which is, of course, consid-ered to be the largest academic mall inthe nation, a full six inches longer than
that of runner-up University of Vir-ginia. It’s a lot bigger and a lot busierthan Van Munching Mall, but it’s a goodexample of what a college quad shouldlook like.
For starters, McKeldin Mall has thesundial, a central focal point that’s apopular place for people to meet. VanMunching’s clock tower hangs off theend of the space, like an exclamationpoint for the business school. No onewould meet there because walkingthere would take you out of your way.Also, there’s just one door to the busi-ness school, and it’s down there by theclock tower. Business majors, by farthe largest potential contributor of lifeto this space, don’t have to enter themall to go to class.
What would make Van MunchingMall more active? Barbecue grills and avolleyball court might be inappropriatefor an academic quad, but putting outmore benches and even tables would
draw people into the space. Directentrances from the adjacent dorms andanother entrance from Van MunchingHall will encourage people who’d oth-erwise be too lazy to walk around thebuilding to come outside. And pro-grammed events in the space — such asperformances, demonstrations or evena Frisbee tournament — would givepeople a solid reason to come by.
The success of Washington Quadshows how bad South Campus needsmore open space, and useful openspace, at that. Pretty as it may be, VanMunching Mall and the buildings thatsurround it prevent people fromspending any meaningful time there.But with a few minor improvements,there might be life on the new mallwhen the weather gets nice again.
Dan Reed is a senior architecture andEnglish major. He can be reached [email protected].
Van Munching Mall: An unutilized student space
AGeorgia Institute of Technology professor’s study has raised ques-tions about the campus’s No. 1 safety blanket since the shootings atVirginia Tech. As Jessica Bauer reported in the Oct. 14 issue of TheDiamondback, the study revealed the text message emergency
alerts are often unreliable with slow delivery times and an even more trou-bling possibility that a massive emergency text send-off could clog cell linesand block 911 calls.
University Police say they’re already aware of the tex-ting system’s limitations. The problem is the campus atlarge isn’t. For now, the texting system offers universityofficials a compelling option to communicate with the cam-pus in the case of an emergency, and we applaud the uni-versity for acting quickly to learn from the lesson of Vir-ginia Tech. But if the general public doesn’t understandthe system’s drawbacks, it has the potential to create masspanic.
An example: Patrick Traynor, the Georgia Tech profes-sor who authored the study, cites an instance at his university last yearwhen a chemical spill broke out and officials thought the campus at-largewas threatened. A text message alert was sent out telling people to evacuatethe campus. Soon after, when officials learned the spill was not as drastic asthey feared, they sent out a second message saying to ignore the first.Because of the delay in sending the texts, some students reported gettingthe second message before the first. In this case, no harm was done. But
what if this happened during a shooting? Or a dangerous natural disaster?The moral of the story boils down to the fact that we can’t rely solely on
emergency text alerts. This is another point University Police understandand stated in Bauer’s story yesterday, but amid the university’s advertisingblitz to enroll students in the texting program, it should be doing more tocommunicate to students about the other emergency response optionsalready in place. For instance, remember in high school, when the teachers
explained the emergency response plans on the first day ofschool? Why not do the same here? Why not have residentassistants explain plans for their dorms or apartmentbuildings? If the general public isn’t well-versed in the uni-versity’s other emergency response options, the textingsystem fosters no more than a false sense of security. Uni-versity Police have a lot of other options in place — in theevent of an emergency, they set off sirens, send out e-mailsand send messages over all university speakerphones. Whynot remind students of these other messages in the same
advertisements that promote the texts?The university’s emergency response proposal isn’t a problem in plan-
ning, but a shortfall in communication. One study isn’t enough to make uslose faith in the texting program, but it’s findings can’t be ignored. The ideathat the texting system can’t cause any harm is flawed, and we hope officialsare thinking up alternatives and back-ups. Most importantly, we hope theykeep us updated with all of their options along the way.
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Our ViewA recent study has raisedtroubling questions aboutthe university’s emergency
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Good news, campus whores!There’s a new walk ofshame. Your one-shoed treksfrom the fraternity houses to
your apartments are taking a backseatto something even more disgusting,and with Maryland Madness comingup, it’s time to take a stand.
Make the walk to Comcast Centerduring a basketball game this seasonand you’ll see the phenomenon. You’llpass dozens — if not hundreds — ofyour peers walking in the wrongdirection. Where are all of these peo-ple going? Don’t they know there’ssome quality basketball being playedin the other direction?
Oh, they know. They know damnwell. They’re just the ticket scanners— the worst people ever. They’ve hadwhat they deem to be an intellectualbreakthrough, and it goes as such:
1. Wow, basketball tickets at theuniversity are free! What a super-wonderful place!
2. The tickets are based on a lotterysystem where I get a better chance toget a ticket to a Duke or North Car-olina game if I go to the games againstnon-conference, cupcake teams noone wants to see.
3. What’s that you say, my friend?All I need to do is show up, get myticket scanned and then turn aroundand go home for a busy night of Rockof Love: Charm School instead ofwatching an actual basketball game?
4. I’m enough of an entitled assholethat I think I deserve to get credit forthings I don’t actually do.
5. Ticket scanning, it is!I like to stare at these people as they
pass me on their way back to their hov-els and caves, I and really try to get
some insight as to what makes themthink they’re better than everyoneelse. Look, we’ve all been there. We’veall had a test or a study group come up,and we didn’t want to get penalized, sowe scanned and ran. But some peopleare making an art out of it.
If you want to have a better chanceto get a ticket to a big basketball game,then you should be a good fan andshow up to support the team duringthe games against the teams no onecares about. If you don’t want to, then
don’t complain when you don’t get aDuke ticket. You didn’t deserve it.
Anyone who thinks they’re out-smarting the system by showing upto basketball games, scanning theirtickets and leaving needs to knowthat they’re cheapening the hell outof the experience of being a Mary-land fan. When the PrincetonReview ranked us No. 2 in the coun-try for “Students pack the stadi-ums,” I was embarrassed because Iknew the truth: There’s a huge dif-ference in the number of studentswho reserve tickets and the numberwho actually show up for the game.Congrats, ticket-scanners, you areall big, stupid phonies.
Rob Gindes is a junior journalismmajor. He can be reached [email protected].
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DANREED
ROBGINDES
It’s 3 p.m. and you just got backfrom a long day of classes. You’re tooexhausted to start homework, andinstead decide you need some timeto relax. But let’s face it: there’snothing good on TV yet, and stalkingpeople on Facebook can get a littleold. Why not try something new?
The Residence Hall Associationwill be launching the university’sfirst Go-Cross-Campus game Satur-day. The game will last about twomonths, and all students are encour-aged to take advantage of the pure,addictive fun the game will no doubtprovide.
Go-Cross-Campus is a massiveonline university-wide and team-based game, kind of like Risk butmade specifically for college cam-puses. The goal of the game is toconquer the most territories on thecustom-made campus map whileexpelling all other teams. The greatdraw to the game is that, rather thanhaving just one person per team,there are teams comprising entirehousing communities, in addition toan off-campus team, battling againstone another to take over the territo-ries students interact in every day.
The beauty of Go-Cross-Campuslies in the fact that students candecide how much, or how little, timeto put into it. There are no real com-mitments. The game does have tonsof cool features for those who dobecome particularly engaged in thebattle, such as the ability to nomi-nate or impeach a commander, catcha spy and engage in team chats, toname a few.
RHA members are extremelyexcited about launching the univer-sity’s first Go-Cross-Campus gameand cannot wait to see what it doesfor this university. Go-Cross-Campusprides itself on the game’s ability tobuild school spirit and to create asense of community — two thingsthe RHA is very serious about. Wesee Go-Cross-Campus as a great wayto start a university-wide traditionthat has the ability to excite studentsabout interacting with one anotherand uniting around a common goal.
What’s even more exciting is theprize the winning team willreceive!.The RHA will provide thevictorious team with a pizza party asa way to reward those team mem-bers for their dedication to the uni-versity’s first game. The party willserve as a chance to interact in per-son with teammates and celebratethe success of the game.
So why not be a part of this monu-mental event? There is no pressureand no time commitment in order tobe involved. The game has alreadybeen widely successful at Yale, Har-vard, Boston College, Ithaca College,the University of Massachusetts andso on. This is a great way to take partin an event that will no doubtbecome widely known at the univer-sity.
To join the game, go towww.gocrosscampus.com/game/umd/ Oct. 20 and create an account.The game is completely free andcompletely fun. For more specificquestions, feel free to e-mail theRHA at [email protected] orvisit our website at www.marylan-drha.com. Our blog, located atwww.marylandrha.blogspot.com,will be discussing the game as well,so stay posted!
Alicia Hartlove is the RHA’s publicrelations officer. She can bereached [email protected].
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BYTRIPPLAINOStaff writer
How it feels to be led into the university’s icecream room echoes the curiosity Charliemust have felt as he entered Willy
Wonka’s factory. But instead of a gaggle of OompaLoompas scurrying about with various ingredients,there is only Jeff Russo, the head bakery chef incharge of ice cream production, and his assistant,Nora Garcia.
The two work tirelessly to crank out the 25,000 gal-lons of ice cream the university goes through everyyear, all of which comes from a single restaurant-sizeice cream maker. To create the massive volumeneeded, the machine runs seven hours a day, fivedays a week, Russo said.
Ice cream production is a lengthy tradition on thecampus, dating back to 1924, when the university’sdairy also made milk, butter and cottage cheese, ac-cording to a university press release. The frozen treatwas the best-selling item, and that legacy lives ontoday, something Russo is proud of.
“When people say, ‘Who made ice cream on cam-pus?’ there’s only so many,” Russo said. “So I’m onein that line, which is nice to know.”
While there have been changes along the way —such as when the original 78-year-old machine brokedown in April 2007, prompting a replacement with anewer, more high-tech version — the process has re-mained largely the same during the last 84 years, ex-cept for the expanding flavor variety.
“We’ve increased the flavors on a regular basis by10,” he said. “The flavors are more in-depth.”
Russo, whose family’s chef ancestry dates back tothe 1880s, started working at family-owned restau-rants when he was 14 years old.
He has worked at the university for the last 12years but didn’t start producing ice cream here untilabout four years ago. Yet he’s had lots of experience— Russo said he’s been making ice cream since the1980s at previous pastry chef jobs.
But ice cream only composes a fraction of his jobas part of the bakery — Dining Services also makesthe baked ingredients you find in many ice cream fla-
vors, such as brownie bites or cake pieces. Though inspiration for those flavors can come
from a variety of sources, they aren’t always easy towork with.
“I may see something in a magazine, like a fruit. ...There’s no rhyme or reason, I just get a thought,”Russo said. “The hardest thing is to take a Philadel-phia-style ice cream and making it taste like gelato,since there’s no egg in it. ... That takes a lot of practiceand experience to figure out how to do that — the fla-voring and how you layer [the ingredients]. There’s alot of factors involved.”
The inspirations spark flavor tests about twice aweek, and Russo tries to find comfort food flavors thatstudents will enjoy, he said. But don’t expect flurries ofnew flavors to come pouring into The Dairy.
“It may never make it into production if it’s a littletoo off-the-wall,” he said. “I made something withbrioche [a sweet bread often served as pastry] Imade like a bread ice cream. I thought it was great,but for the common crowd, it’s a little too esoteric forthem. ... It tasted like bread pudding.”
As for that persistent rumor about the ice cream’slack of FDA approval for its outrageous fat content,it’s simply not true, Russo said.
“It’s 14 percent fat,” he said. “If someone actuallythought about that statement, the FDA does not ap-prove ice cream. Secondly, if you understand how dairyworks, there’s only so high you can go, percentage-wise, with fat. So it would debunk the whole thing.”
But university students have been hearing thatmyth for a very long time.
“It’s been going on since Associate Director JoeMullineaux, when he was a student, in the ’70s,” hesaid. “It’s been around all that time. It’s a myth, so letit keep going.”
Behind the scenes of the university’s creamery
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“Our numbers are defi-nitely going to improve, butsince it’s not a real-timesnapshot, we’re looking atpeople who went here sevenyears ago,” Worthington said.
Worthington said the Ath-letics Department hasfocused on making suremen’s basketball players arefewer than 12 credits fromgraduating in their lastsemester of eligibility.
The goal is to reduce theamount of work the Terpsneed to do that semester,when the lure of professionalbasketball contracts oftendistracts players from theiracademics, Worthington said.Nine of the 10 players meas-ured in this year’s reportwent on to play professionalbasketball, she said.
Williams criticized theGSR as a measuring stick forreal-world success becauseof the need for players tomaximize their earningswhen they are young.
“There’s nothing you cando about players leavingearly,” Williams said. “Guyslike Chris Wilcox — he leftwhen he was 19. He’s proba-bly made $50 million. Would-n’t you like to do that by thetime you’re 25?”
Williams added that play-ers at other universitiesbenefit from taking onlinecourses, which are limitedat this university. He saidone of the players countedin the report who hasn’tgraduated, 2002 nationalchampionship team memberDrew Nicholas, is takingcourses online while playingfor the Greek team, Panathi-naikos.
“In the NBA, until youreach a certain level, you’re
required to be there over thesummer to work out,”Williams said. “We’veworked with the universityto try to make it easier bytaking courses online. Youhope they come back and gettheir degree.”
While Williams’ formerplayers have been successfulin moving through the pro-fessional ranks, their earlydepartures led to the Terpsranking last in the ACC againthis year, 19 points behindClemson, and 20 behind oneof the university’s peer insti-tutions — the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley scored30. It marks the fourth-con-secutive year the Terps havefinished last in the ACC onthe GSR.
But Anton Goff, associateathletic director of academicsupport and career develop-ment, said the departmentdoesn’t expect the low scoreon the GSR for men’s basket-ball to continue. Goff, whooversees the tutoring andacademic counseling athletesreceive, said his departmenthas moved resources in thepast to focus on the team andto improve both its GSR andAPR numbers.
“What we’re doing rightnow, we’re happy with,” Goffsaid. “We expect those num-bers to improve.”
On the whole, Terp sportsteams scored an average of79 on the GSR, a one-pointincrease from last year, and11 teams finished above thenational average for theirsports, including football. Ofthe other sports, only men’stennis finished significantlybelow the national average.Goff attributed the men’s ten-nis team’s score of 43 — 40points below the average forthe sport — to the small sam-ple size involved since theuniversity did not give outscholarships to members ofthe team for part of theperiod measured.
GSR, from Page 1
Athletics satisfiedwith recent progressin men’s basketball
Muracco pushes No. 2field hockey to 5-0 winThree returning Terps outshined byjunior forward’s high-scoring night
BY MICHAEL KATZStaff writer
With three starters return-ing from a week-long hiatusat the Junior Pan AmericanGames, the Terrapin fieldhockey team expected tobounce back after a rare lossover the weekend.
But leading the way for theTerps were a pair ofplayers who hadbeen here all along.
Nicole Muraccotallied four goals in a5-0 win against No.12 Princeton (9-2).Alicia Grater madenine saves for the No. 2 Terps(12-2), including seven in thesecond half to stonewall anypotential comeback.
“[Grater] leads well ver-bally and of course she hasgreat technique,” coachMissy Meharg said.“[Muracco] was just incredi-ble, she had a great day.”
The standout days wereaided by the support of thereturning teammates. For-ward Katie O’Donnell, mid-fielder Alexis Pappas andback Brianna Davies madetheir long-awaited returns tothe Terp lineup.
O’Donnell infused energyinto an offense that struggledin a loss to then-No. 9 Duke onSaturday.
Her ability to set up team-mates or take it herself keptthe Tigers (9-2) on their toes.Tuesday, she played the dis-tributor, assisting on two ofMuracco’s four scores.
“[O’Donnell’s] incredible,the way she draws defendersand dishes,” Muracco said.“Her passes were incredible
today. She’s just such anunselfish player.”
Davies’ impact anchoredthe defense in front of Grater.With defensive stalwart SusieRowe taking playing a moreaggressive role in the offensethis season, Davies provides arock on the back line.
Today, she was also aweapon in the Terps’ counter-
attack.“Bri had a great
pass to me off arestart that led to agoal,” said Muracco,lauding the senior’sheady play. “It’ssomething simple,
but something like that canobviously be very important.”
With the team back at fullstrength, Meharg was onceagain pleased with the prod-uct displayed on the field.The Terps authoritative per-formance against yetanother top-20 team helpserase the memory of theweekend setback.
“The combination of theteam attack was nice to see,”Meharg said. “We know wecan score on penalty corners,but today we were scoringgoals within the game play aswell. The whole flow of theoffense was on for us.”
Perhaps most important,the Terps are back togetheras a team. It’s something theplayers agreed help invigor-ate the team.
“Just having everyone backputs us in a great spot,”Meharg said. “We came outwith fresh legs, fresh minds.We were energized from thestart and it showed.”
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Terps failed to execute on man-up
as he did in last Tues-day’s 2-1 overtime winagainst Charlotte.
All it took for Lehighto take the 1-0 lead wasone defensive error, adropped cross fromgoalkeeper Zac Mac-Math in the 53rdminute. Lehigh’s PatrickCucci got to the looseball and easily tapped itinto the net.
“We gave up a softgoal again,” Cirovskisaid. “Then we had togrind it out again. Ireally like the characterof this team. Sometimes,I’m a little frustratedwith their killer instinct,or lack thereof.”
While the Terps con-tinued to head crossesover the net and Lehighdefenders packed thepenalty box anddeflected shots, frustra-tion started to build.
When the refereeissued a red card toLehigh’s Daniel Oden-welder with 25 minutesremaining for pushing aTerp to the groundwhile waiting to head agoal kick, it looked likethe Terps’ job would beeasier. But it was awhile until their advan-tage resulted in a goal.
Nydell saved apenalty shot form Terpmidfielder Jeremy Hall,adding to the Terps’frustration, after mid-fielder Drew Yates wastaken down in the boxwith 16:11 remaining.
“Especially being aman up at that point, wewere getting a lot ofopportunities, andsometimes it seems likeit’s not gonna go yourway,” midfielder DougRodkey said. “I thinkwe’re constantly gettingbetter. We played theball around really well
in the game. Sometimesyou get a little unluckywhen it comes to theopportunities.”
After the game,Cirovski, who turned 46yesterday, was relieved.Before the game, amember of The Crew,the student fan groupthat attends all homesoccer games, pre-sented Cirovski with ashirt and birthday cardsigned by all of itsmembers.
Thanks to his team’slate comeback, Cirovskiwas able to celebrate.But the result couldhave easily been theopposite.
“One of our sayings iswe play every play,”Cirovski said. “We’regonna fight down to thelast whistle, and thank-fully, tonight we wereable to raise our game.”
Terp coach Sasho Cirovski took a bow for his fans as they wished him a happy 46th birthday last night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
LEHIGH, from Page 10
Defender Rich Costanzo and the Terps allowed justone goal last night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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touch average.“The other defensive coordinators
and coaches in the league aren’t stupid,and they’ve realized that, in mostgames, Darrius has had huge plays thathave swung the momentum,” Franklinsaid. “So their whole defensive plansare to say, ‘Look, let’s take Darrius outof the game and force the other playersto beat us.’”
Heyward-Bey just wants to continueto do his job. He’s not interested in thecause of his struggles. He’s not worriedabout the opponents’ game plans thathave stuck him with double- and some-times triple-coverage.
“What I can control is what I do,which is run routes and catch the ball,”Heyward-Bey said. “That’s the de-scription of a wide receiver. I have nocontrol over what the coaches think,what the quarterback thinks [or] whatthe O-line does. All I can worry about isthe receivers and what I do. I don’t lookfor answers.”
After the win at Clemson in whichHeyward-Bey dropped a pair of pass-es, he apologized to his teammates for
letting them down with his poor play. “I felt they deserved to know that,”
Heyward-Bey said. “I’m the type ofguy who’s very hard on myself becauseI want to be the best. When I’m mess-ing up, I know how to look in the mirrorand know that I’m messing up.”
After the Terps’ poor performance inCharlottesville, there was no such apol-ogy. But the embarrassing loss madehis insignificance in the Terp offenseeven tougher for him to take.
Tuesday, Friedgen defended hiswide receiver, saying he expects theformer freshman All-American to“blossom” to his full potential soon.
“I have no question about his workethic,” Friedgen said. “I thought he’sworked extremely hard. Darriusknows what he needs to work on, andhe’ll continue to do it.”
For Heyward-Bey, that means learn-ing to deal with adversity for the firsttime in his Terp career. In his first twoseasons, Heyward-Bey had just twogames without a catch.
Receivers coach Lee Hull said Hey-ward-Bey has stayed positive in recentweeks. While receivers Ronnie Tylerand Danny Oquendo have risen to take
some of the pressure off Heyward-Bey,Hull said the Terp star has focused onstaying consistent.
“He’s understanding if he’s going toget double teamed or have coverageroll his way, he’s got to be more detailoriented to get open,” Hull said.
After suffering their first shutoutin four years, the Terps need theirplaymaker to regain his early-sea-son rhythm soon. He’ll have achance this weekend against WakeForest in a match-up with DemonDeacon cornerback AlphonsoSmith, who led the nation with eightinterceptions last season.
Heyward-Bey said he’s feeling freshafter the time off and excitedp for thefinal six games of the season.
He’s not ready to hit the panicbutton yet.
“I’m not out there screaming, tellingpeople I want the ball,” Heyward-Beysaid. “That’s not my job. I just want togo out there and do my best to help uswin.”
Staff writer Jeff Newman contributedto this [email protected]
BY KATE YANCHULISStaff writer
In the middle of a six-game los-ing streak with just one conferencewin on its resumé, the Terrapinvolleyball team is focusing on hav-ing fun.
The solution may seem unortho-dox, but the Terps (5-14, 1-6 ACC)believe that bringing fun to theirteam will help them build off ofSunday’s narrow loss to a strongMiami team in what first-yearcoach Tim Horsmon called one oftheir strongest games yet.
“The players had more fun Sun-day because they competed,”Horsmon said. “I think for some-one watching us play, I’m guessingthey haven’t been much fun towatch, and they haven’t had awhole lot of fun playing so far. Thetop of our pyramid now is havingfun, and we’re figuring out how toget there.”
The team is moving forwardwith this in mind and hopes it willmake the difference that will turnthe season around.
Even after a practice that lasteda half-hour longer than the setending time, players and coachesalike were more positive andupbeat after the practice than theyhad been in previous weeks.
“We have a lot more energy.We’re finally starting to playtogether,” right side BrittneyGrove said. “The system justclicked.”
Horsmon was optimistic thatthis will pay dividends later in theseason as long as players put inthe effort and work on their per-formance.
“I want to see them enjoy play-ing volleyball,” Horsmon said. “Iwant to see them playing hard andbeing passionate about whatthey’re doing and how they’redoing it. I think if they’re able to dothat, then this whole thing will be agreat experience. But, like I said,they’ve got to execute now.”
Before the Miami match, theteam suffered from inconsistency
and sloppiness that extended intoFriday’s 1-3 loss to Florida State.
But the Terps won the first setagainst the Hurricanes, andthough they dropped the nextthree sets, they managed to stayclose throughout. Miami’s widestmargin of victory in a set wasthree points.
“Against FSU, we came out hardin the first game, but we diedthroughout the match,” Grovesaid. “We didn’t make the littleplays and our intensity died down.We came back with Miami, and itwas a big step for us because weplayed the match in its entirety.”
The Terps equaled the Hurri-canes in kills with 64, had noblocking errors in the match andhad standout performances fromfreshman hitter Maddi Lee, whohad a career-high 18 kills, andmiddle blocker Katie Usher, whohit .357.
The only problem the Terps hadagainst Miami was pulling throughin momentum-changing moments.
“We had opportunities, but wedidn’t execute in the big points asmuch as should have,” Horsmonsaid. “We have to play cleanerand execute and have a couplemore great individual perform-ances and hopefully that willallow us to win.”
Wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey is averaging 25.6 yards every time he touches the ball this year. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Middle blocker Lisa Scott and theTerps progressed as a team even ina loss at Miami last Sunday.ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Heyward-Bey double-covered often
Terps going for afun approach
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NSCAA/adidas Men’s Soccer Top 10School Record Prev.1. Wake Forest (13-0-0) 12. Northwestern (10-0-2) 23. Creighton (9-1-1) 34. St. John’s (10-1-2) 55. Akron (9-1-2) 4
School Record Prev.6. TERRAPINS (10-3-0) 107. UC Davis (11-1-1) 148. Loyola (Md.) (10-0-1) 129. Notre Dame (8-3-1) 1510. North Carolina (10-2-1) 16
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Freshman forward Casey Townsend scored the Terps’ game-winning over-time goal for the second straight Tuesday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps clip MountainHawks in overtimeTownsend scores game-winner in 97th minute
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
Eventually, the Terrapin men’ssoccer team might not be able tokeep grinding out wins if it can’tfinish scoring opportunities.
But in last night’s 2-1 overtimewin against Lehigh atLudwig Field, the No. 6Terps again escaped witha victory even after trail-ing 1-0 with a little morethan five minutesremaining in regulation.
“Not as we planned it,”coach Sasho Cirovski said of thegame. “The midfield play wasexceptional. But then, we reallydidn’t have the malice in ourattack that we’ve had recently.”
Despite playing with a manadvantage after a Lehigh red cardin the middle of second half, pep-pering Lehigh goalkeeper
Jonathan Nydell with 21 shots inregulation and getting a penaltyshot opportunity in the secondhalf, the Terps (10-3-0) simplycould not convert chances.
Finally, defender Omar Gonza-lez came through with a boomingshot more than 30 yards from
goal. The ball deflectedoff of a Lehigh defenderand past Nydell into thenet, tying the game.
“Of course a game likethat is always going to befrustrating,” Gonzalezsaid. “But some games
are just gonna be like that. So Ihad the chance, and I took it uponmyself to at least try a shot and itworked out for the best.”
In the 97th minute, midfielderJeremy Hall found forward CaseyTownsend for the golden goal, just
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Heyward-Bey mired in slump
BY ERIC DETWEILERSenior staff writer
Darrius Heyward-Bey didn’t spend theTerrapin football team’s bye week frettingover his recent lack of touches.
Practice was business as usual for thejunior wide receiver as he tried to improvehis route-running and timing with quarter-back Chris Turner. Over the weekend,Heyward-Bey relaxed at home watchingcollege football.
Despite not catching a pass for the secondstraight week in a 31-0 loss at Virginia onOct. 4, Heyward-Bey didn’t overthink hisdecreased production.
“I just went out there and ran each routeas hard as I could,” Heyward-Bey said.“Balls went other ways, and that’s just theway football goes.”
Heyward-Bey appeared poised for acareer year through the first four gamesafter grabbing 12 passes for 250 yards andthree scores while rushing five times for 110yards and another touchdown. ESPN’s MelKiper ranks the lightning-quick Heyward-Bey as the third-best junior wide receiver inthe nation.
But the fourth-year player has not reachedthe end zone in his last two games and hastouched the ball just twice — a game-chang-ing 76-yard run in a win against ClemsonSept. 27 and a meaningless 25-yard pickupas part of a hook-and-ladder play to end thefirst half against Virginia.
Coach Ralph Friedgen has said the playshave been called to get Heyward-Bey theball, and it is up to the speedster to getopen. Offensive coordinator JamesFranklin said there is still a package of 15to 20 plays designed to go to Heyward-Beyand take advantage of his 25.6 yards per
Wide receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey is explosive with the ball in his hands, buthasn’t had it as often as the Terps would like lately. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps’ top receiver has no receptions in last two games
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