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Severity of cuts uncertain Short waitlist couldresult in vacanciesDemand for spring semester housingnotably down compared with last year
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
Only 24 students remain on thehousing waitlist for the spring se-mester compared to hundreds at thistime last year, a Resident Life offi-cial said.
The 11 females and 13 males stillon the list have a good shot at receiv-ing housing as more students with-draw from housing before the firstday of spring classes, Resident LifeManager of Assignments and PublicInquiry Erin Iverson said. ResidentLife has already offered 900 studentshousing in the spring, including 300last week. Of those, about 170 chosenot to receive housing, she said.
Iverson said it was still too early totell if there will be vacancies at thebeginning of next semester, but if the
rest of the students get off the wait-list and the housing cancellationscontinue, it is a possibility.
“Our goal, obviously, is to open upfor the spring semester with as fewvacancies as possible,” she said.
Vacancies could cause a loss ofrevenue for the university. Roomand board cost $9,108 this year, ac-cording to the university’s website.
The specific financial conse-quence of possible vacancies is hardto judge, but “the smaller number ofvacancies, obviously, the less impactthat would have financially,” Iversonsaid.
Iverson credited Resident Life’sincreased outreach with gettingmore people off the waitlist sooner.
“One of the things that we’ve been
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Administrators say budget woes may be realized within next monthBY ALLISON STICE
Staff writer
The state’s economic situationremains uncertain but could be direenough for another round of mid-year budget cuts in the neighbor-hood of $200 million later this week.
Any further budget reductions will
become clear after the Board of Rev-enue Estimates paints a picture ofthe state’s economic outlookWednesday. The Board of PublicWorks, composed of Gov. MartinO’Malley (D), Comptroller PeterFranchot (D) and Treasurer NancyKopp (D), will convene Wednesdayto determine what must be done.
The state has yet to decide whereother funds can be slashed, but noth-ing is off the chopping block, saidO’Malley spokesman Shaun Adamec.But University System of MarylandChancellor Brit Kirwan wrote in asystem-wide message yesterday that
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The culture of consumption
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
It’s the last Friday night beforefinals week, and 20 or so glassy-eyedstudents are milling around outside
Thirsty Turtle when a fight breaksout.
Josh, a 19-year-old visitor fromTennessee, falls to the floor afterbeing thrown into a window. Shardsof glass cascade to the ground aroundhim as a police officer runs to breakup the scuffle.
“Oh man, that’s my friend,” saidWade, a 19-year-old sophomore. “He
can’t get arrested, not tonight. Hedoesn’t even have his own fake [ID].”
Josh, who was uninjured andallowed to leave once the fight wasquieted and the glass swept up, saidgoing out drinking is, and always hasbeen, an integral part of the collegeexperience.
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After a semester of alcohol talks, students say indulgence is brimming
NO TEST BEFORE FINALSMen’s basketball dominated DelawareState with a 86-58 win FridaySPORTS | PAGE 22
[Editor's note: The last names of sev-eral students interviewed for this storyare withheld because they share theirexperiences drinking underage.]
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
FRISCO, Texas – On a hot, humid Augustafternoon, midfielder Graham Zusi stoodon the turf at Ludwig Field and projectedinto the future, something rare for anyTerps soccer player to do, much less thequiet and reserved Zusi.
“I don’t see why a national championshipis out of our reach, by any means,” Zusisaid at the team’s media day. “Absolutelywe can win it — without a doubt — if weplay to our full potential.”
In this weekend’s College Cup at PizzaHut Park in Frisco, nestled far away inthe northern suburbs of Dallas, Zusi wasthe driving force behind the fulfillment ofthat goal.
His perfectly placed 67th-minute strikelaunched just inside the left goal post and
Senior midfielder Graham Zusi scored bothof the Terps’ goals this weekend in theCollege Cup, where the Terps beat St.John’s on Friday and North Carolinayesterday to win the national championship.PHOTOS BY ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
FRISCO, Texas – By the time the finalhorn had sounded and the Terrapinmen’s soccer team had finished its 1-0win against North Carolina in yester-day’s national championship game, for-ward Casey Townsend was too tired tocelebrate.
The freshman bent over at midfieldwith his hands on his knees before even-tually strolling over to a jubilant mob ofteammates nearby. Through the last 10minutes of the game, while most of theTerps crowded their own zone to protectthe slim lead, Townsend was alone uptop, charged with running sideline tosideline in order to prevent the deliveryof long balls into the Tar Heel attack.
Townsend’s unrelenting effort wassymbolic of the energy the Terps put outall season, earning them a school recordfor 23 overall victories at the end of a16-game winning streak, all in theprocess of winning coach Sasho
Cirovski’s second national title in fourseasons.
“It was the most balanced team I everhad,” Cirovski said. “For a program thathas done so much in the past decade,this team just set the gold standard. Wejust kept plugging away. If this was amarathon, we just completed our 26thmile, and that takes a lot of heart, guts,character and preparation. We had allthose things on this team.”
The No. 13-seed Tar Heels, who upsetNo. 1-seed and tournament favoriteWake Forest in Friday evening’s firstsemifinal at Pizza Hut Park, provided astiff test, as they had in the previous twogames against the Terps this season,both Terp wins by one goal.
But the Terps had been eyeing thischampionship run since their 2007 sea-son ended with a heartbreaking over-time loss to Bradley in the sweet 16.After a 5-3 loss at Clemson on Oct. 3 inwhich they allowed three goals in just
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Men’s soccer team clinches secondnational championship in four years
Zusi definessenior leadership
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University goes far and wide in search for new studentsBY JEANETTE DER BEDROSIAN
Staff writer
Applications for enrollmentto the university are up againthis year, a slight increase fromlast year’s numbers, whichUndergraduate AdmissionsDirector Shannon Gundy oncedescribed as “ridiculouslyhigh.”
The overall applicant pool isup 1.5 percent, she said, without-of-state applications up 2.2percent and in-state applica-tions down one percent. As ofthe Dec. 1 priority deadline,there have been 23,842 applica-tions overall. Last year, therewere 23,570 at the deadline.
“We worked really hard toincrease our numbers,” Gundysaid. “We’ve been recruitinghard out of state, and it seemsthat it paid off.”
National and internationalrecruiting efforts haveincreased, Gundy said, as aresult of goals laid out in the
strategic plan to recruit a morediverse student body and “dra-matically intensify”recruitment efforts.
Recruiters havealways traveledacross the country toattend college fairs,high school informa-tion sessions andmeetings with highschool guidancecounselors, Gundysaid.
This year, however,university admis-sions representativesmade strongerattempts to recruitoutside of New Jer-sey, New York andPennsylvania,according to SeniorAdmissions Counselor Christo-pher Brown. For the first time,recruiters traveled to Arizona
and Minneapolis and gaveextra attention to recruiting in
Atlanta, Denver andLos Angeles, Brownsaid.
“We’ve tried toincrease our notori-ety among studentsfrom other parts ofthe nation, expandingto areas where weusually don’t travel,”he said. Brown alsosaid recruiters sendpersonalized mes-sages and remindersto memorable stu-dents after each visit,attempting to makethe applicationprocess more per-sonal.
Both Brown andGundy said they are not restingeasy just yet. With the weak-ened economy, getting students
to choose the universityremains their top priority.
“Converting an admitted stu-dent into an enrolled student isour main concern right now,”Gundy said. Spring openhouses, increased alumniinvolvement and one-on-onemeetings between prospectivestudents and student servicesrepresentatives are vital toensuring a high enrollmentrate, she said.
“They can really get a goodfeel for whether or not this is
where they want to spend thenext four years of their life,”Gundy said.
Brown said he expects to seethe economy take its toll onenrollment, a trend that hasalready started.
“You’ll see a much largernumber of people enrolling incommunity college — even ifthey got into the university —and then transferring after twoyears,” Brown said. “That’sreality in general.”
He added that having more
applications does not necessar-ily equate to a more competi-tive application pool.
Still, admissions officialshope the university’s standingas a “Best Value in Public Col-leges” in Kiplinger financialmagazine’s rankings will helpkeep students interested. Theuniversity ranks No. 9 for its in-state tuition and No. 13 for itsout-of-state tuition.
“In tough economic times,it seems students may belooking for the best value,”Gundy said.
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“We’ve triedto increaseour notorietyamongstudentsfrom otherparts of thenation.”
CHRISTOPHERBROWNSENIOR ADMISSIONSCOUNSELOR
people off the waitlistsooner.
“One of the things thatwe’ve been doing, really,since last summer is justmore actively communicat-ing with students,” she said.“The earlier we hear fromstudents, the better off it isfor everyone who’s waitingfor assignment.”
Residence Hall Associa-tion President Alex Beuch-ler, a senior government andpolitics major, said she hasnoticed Resident Life striv-ing to keep in touch with stu-dents since more than 600students were kicked off thecampus in spring 2007.
“I’ve definitely seen anincrease in really trying to
be very transparent and layeverything out early so thatstudents are informed aboutwhat their realistic situationis,” Beuchler said.
Increased communicationcould partly account for thedecreased housing demandthis year that allowed theuniversity to house 350transfer students, said SpiroDimakas, chair of the RHA’sReLATe Committee, whichworks with Resident Life.
“The increased communi-cation and the doomsdaypredictions were kind ofvery shocking to students,”Dimakas said. “The newsthat very few students wouldget on-campus housing kindof led to this massive rush ofstudents going off campus.”
There are about 220
vacancies across the cam-pus, Iverson said, up fromabout 50 at the end of Octo-
ber. A little more than 8,000students are in on-campushousing, she said, not includ-ing South Campus Commonsor University Courtyards.
At the same time last year,more than 8,300 people livedon the campus, Iverson said,but capacity was also higherdue to forced triples andlounges converted intoquads.
Despite the short waitlistfor the spring, Resident Lifeprojections released in Octo-ber indicate that about 600rising juniors will be unableto get on-campus housing forthe fall next year.
The increased availabilityof housing this year is ananomaly caused by unex-pectedly low freshmen hous-ing demand, Resident Life
Associate Director JanDavidson said.
“We certainly believe it’s aone time kind of thing,” hesaid.
Next year, leasers of Com-mons 7, which will open forthe spring semester, couldboost on-campus housingdemand further as they lookfor a place to live in the fall,Davidson said.
New housing is needed tosolve the long-term housingproblem, he said.
But until that happens, stu-dents will have to make do.
“It’s not like it’s a newshock; it is a number thatwe’ve been faced withbefore,” said Taylor Cole, asophomore English and sec-ondary education major whoserves on the ReLATe Com-
mittee. “And I really thinkthat the school is doing asbest it can to get as many ofus on campus as possible.”
“I do know that people arekeeping that eye open look-ing out for off-campus hous-ing,” Cole added.
In lieu of an end to housingproblems, communicationwith Resident Life is key forstudents, Beuchler said.
“It’s obviously not the per-fect first answer,” she said.“Before that is getting morehousing, which clearly we’vebeen doing, but not enoughto satisfy everyone yet. Ithink that it has helped toreally prepare studentsbased on whatever the cur-rent situation is.”
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ResLife: Housing surplus is “a one time kind of thing”
SGA executive secretaryappointed chief of staff
BY MICHAEL LEMAIREStaff writer
SGA President JonathanSachs appointed a new chief ofstaff this week to replace MattVerghese, who is ineligible forthe position next semester.
Amanda Schreier, who cur-rently serves as the StudentGovernment Association’sexecutive secretary, wasappointed by Sachs onWednesday.
Verghese, a senior econom-ics and electrical engineeringmajor, was appointed by Sachsin April after the SGA elec-tions, but is completing hisundergraduate degree thismonth and will be ineligible toserve in the position nextsemester. Verghese willremain at the university as agraduate student.
Schreier, a sophomore gov-ernment and politics and mar-keting major, ran for the busi-ness legislator position lastyear on the House Party ticket,but was not elected. Sheapplied for and was appointedexecutive secretary by Sachs,a member of the StudentsParty, last May. Her experi-ence this semester is some-thing that both Sachs andVerghese say makes heruniquely qualified to fill theposition on such short notice.
“She is in one of the fewpositions that works closely
with the executive branch, andshe probably has the best per-spective as far as our pro-gramming and other proceed-ings are concerned,” Vergheseexplained. “I am very confi-dent she can step into the joband do a great job on day one.”
“A lot of time and thoughtwas put into the decision,”Sachs added. “Amanda is afuture leader in the organiza-tion; she knows how thingswork. It was an easy choice,and it is easy for her to stay inthis capacity.”
Schreier said she acceptedthe position of chief of staffwith the idea that she enteredthe SGA with the goal of ris-ing quickly through theorganization.
The position comes withadditional responsibilities andduties, such as making surethere is good communicationwithin the organization andhelping Sachs with advocacyefforts in Annapolis. WhileSchreier said that was a majorconcern, she also said she hadto only make a few sacrifices.
“I have always pridedmyself on being able to havereally good time managementskills,” Schreier said. “I will,however, have to disassociatemyself with some of the groupsI am in so I am able to put 100percent effort into the SGA.”
Journalism school hosts dean candidate
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
The journalism school ishosting a candidate for itsvacant dean position this week.
Kevin Klose, president ofNational Public Radio fromDecember 1998 to September2008, is a candidate for thevacant dean position at the jour-nalism school. Klose will be vis-iting the campus to meet withfaculty and students of the jour-nalism school, as well asProvost Nariman Farvardin anduniversity President Dan Mote.
Klose was also a reporterand editor at The WashingtonPost for 25 years.
“It’s obvious that he has anexcellent and extensive back-ground,” said Interim Dean ofthe College of Journalism LeeThornton, who is on the searchcommittee.
Other committee membersdeclined to comment becauseof the search’s restrictions.
Klose received a bachelor’sdegree cum laude from Har-vard University. He is therecipient of honorary Doctor-ate of Humane Letters degrees
from Union College, MaristCollege and St. Lawrence Uni-versity. He also served as a seaofficer in the U.S. Navy. Afterleaving the Post and beforecoming to NPR, he served asthe president of Radio FreeEurope/Radio Liberty.
The university is looking fora dean with leadership ability,energy, high quality scholar-ship and a vision to take theschool to the next level ofexcellence, Farvardin said.
Klose, who couldn’t bereached for comment, hasauthored and co-authored fivebooks but has no past aca-demic experience. Farvardinsaid Klose’s professional back-ground is typical for deans ofprofessional schools, such asformer journalism Dean TomKunkel.
“Some of the best deanscome from the profession,”Farvardin said.
Farvardin said he can’t makea decision about Klose until hemeets him, but he said “at thispoint, he’s the only candidate.”The search is still open.
Thorton said a good adminis-trator is needed to run the
journalism school, an abilityKlose demonstrated whileworking at NPR.
While at NPR, where Kloseheld the titles of president,corporate board of directorsmember and president of theNPR foundation, its budgettripled to more than $160million annually, according toan e-mail sent by the journal-ism school. Klose will visitthe campus tomorrow. Hispresentation and open forumwill be from 2 to 3 p.m. in theTyser Auditorium in VanMunching Hall.
The interview is the secondphase of the dean search. Thesearch committee selectedKlose in the first phase. Ifuniversity officials arepleased after his visit, theuniversity will extend Klosean offer, Farvardin said.
“It’s extremely importantwe have the opinion of stu-dents,” Farvardin said. “Weencourage them to participate.We would like for students tocome out and give theirthoughts.”
WAITLIST, from Page 1 “I’ve definitely seenan increase inreally trying to bevery transparentand lay everythingout early so thatstudents areinformed aboutwhat their realisticsituation is.”
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I’ll walk into a politician’s officeready to ask tough questions, makebold demands and pile on pressure,then it hits me. Doubt creeps in
about whether “all or nothing” is the bestway to get my way. Sometimes you wantto let up and appreciate what people aredoing, even if it isn’t enough.
There was an article in The Diamond-back a few weeks ago about environmen-tal activists lined up outside the Bank ofAmerica on Route 1 protesting the bank’sfunding of the coal industry’s mountain-top removal projects. I was one of them.Bank of America has since made a rea-sonable concession, as many similarprotests were held all over the country:They’ve decided to phase out and eventu-ally cease funding for mountaintop re-moval projects, which make up a sizableportion of all coal mining.
But the bank is still funding coal com-panies in the rest of their activities. What
should the reaction be from environmen-talists? Should we thank the bank andback off? Give them some breathingroom? Reward a good policy with goodwill? Or dismiss the bone that’s beenthrown, and go after the entire carcass?
This kind of dilemma with politicianscan be even tougher. Their positions varyacross the board. What do you say tosomeone who is on the right side of everyenvironmental issue, except for the bigone, where they’re wrong?
For me, it’s difficult to be uncompro-mising. I recognize and appreciate when
someone who doesn’t see eye-to-eye withme on everything is trying to accommo-date. Although I’m politically progres-sive, my four best friends I grew uphanging out with are all conservatives.We haven’t killed each other yet.
But when it comes to environmentalactivism, compromising often under-mines the entire point. Settling for lessusually gets you nothing in the end. Asenvironmental activists, there’s a dead-line on our objectives and the future ofour very planet is at stake. There isn’tmuch of a difference between failingmiserably and failing gracefully.
Failing gracefully is how you end upwith President-elect Barack Obama (D)talking about clean coal when it doesn’texist. It’s how after decades of inaction,Congress gets credit for raising fuel econo-my standards to a pathetic 35 mpg by 2020.It’s why too many politicians in the statethink you can cut carbon emissions while
building giant roads, such as the Inter-county Connector. It’s why the Purple Linehas stayed a good idea and nothing morefor decades. It’s why everyone is pro-Chesapeake Bay, but the bay is in sham-bles. It’s how Bank of America can claim tobe environmentally conscious, yet stillfund coal. None of that is leadership.
And so I’m in this office, sitting nerv-ously, but inevitably, my moment of doubtalways passes. My good will turns to ironwill. My regret melts in the fire. Istraighten my shirt, check the agendaand grip the folder. The choice of “all ornothing” isn’t a choice. I stand up, walk totheir door and turn the knob. Deepbreath. No letting up. No slowing down.Full speed ahead.
I choose all.
Matt Dernoga is a junior government andpolitics major. He can be reached [email protected].
Climate change: Don’t settle for compromise
The SGA is about to face the greatest challenge any Student Government Asso-ciation has faced in the past five years. Not since 2003 has the university beenfaced with budget cuts. That year, the university suffered substantial cuts anddropped in the U.S. News and World Report rankings as class sizes swelled.
SGA presidents protested with rallies and hunger strikes, but even those demonstra-tions couldn’t hold back the scalpel.
If this year’s SGA hopes to minimize the impact of this threat andprotect students’ interests, they’re going to need to be more focused,more organized and more aggressive than they have been this se-mester. If they want to ensure the accessibility and quality of highereducation, they need to be prepared for a fight.
So far, this year’s SGA has hinted at its potential to rally and em-power students. The administration has picked up where the organ-ization left off last year, tackling the recurring issues of crime, voter registration and en-vironmental activism. Legislator Gabi Band has taken steps toward assembling aGreek neighborhood watch, a pragmatic and active approach that promises to enablestudents to protect themselves. The SGA has worked to organize students around themost important environmental issues impacting the campus and the surrounding area,tackling transportation and development issues. And Senior Vice President JoannaCalabrese spearheaded a planning forum for bike routes on the campus, attended bysome 50 cyclists. A much-improved SGA website has granted students greater oppor-tunity to monitor the activities of their elected representatives.
But if the SGA has any hope of fending off the impending cuts, they’ll have to step uptheir game in serious ways. President Jonathan Sachs is going to need to lead the or-ganization in taking strong stances. He can’t waffle like he did at the Alcohol Summit,when he claimed to not have an opinion on the state’s drinking age. He can’t hem andhaw and quietly demur like he did on the issue of legalizing slots in the state.
And if the SGA is going to be an effective voice for student interests, the whole or-ganization needs to be on board. In 2003, university President Dan Mote delegatedbudget-cutting responsibilities to college deans, and one person can’t be in 13 places atonce. Sachs’ earlier tension with Calabrese sets a worrying standard for cohesion with-
in the organization. But even if the entire organization is working together, the SGAalone will not be enough to fight budget cuts; the SGA must organize and lead the stu-dent body. And although they have done some good work, the SGA has missed impor-tant opportunities. The time for selling back textbooks this semester is ending, andthere is still no free online book exchange. Two-thirds of the way through this SGA’stenure, talk of an online landlord rating system hasn’t produced any results.
Looking toward the spring, the SGA will need to accomplish agreat deal, and quickly. They’ll need to have definite priorities and aclear plan to pursue them. Fortunately, Sachs has an ambitious vi-sion for lobbying in the state capital. He plans to do everything in hispower to recruit students to advocate on their own behalf, lobbyingstate delegates and senators from their home districts. We’ve heardambitious lobbying plans in the past, but we hope that Sachs can
capitalize on his experience in Annapolis and deliver on a larger scale than we’ve seenbefore. Affordability is only half of the story, however. Sachs recognizes that a tuitionfreeze is only desirable to the extent that the quality of higher education can be pro-tected. But to maintain the quality of education on this campus may require as muchlobbying in College Park as in Annapolis.
There has been a disquieting lack of forethought among the SGA administration asto how cuts to the university budget will be implemented. Recent legislation calling forreallocation of funding to the behavioral and social sciences college shows an aware-ness of funding inequities, but there needs to be a well developed list of funding priori-ties to fight for — particularly when it seems there will soon be program cuts.
Officials are refusing to discuss specifics before Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) presentshis budget in January. But the writing is on the wall, and the SGA needs to be preparingfor crisis. The student body is in dire need of focused, cohesive and creative leadership.We believe the SGA is best positioned and most responsible for providing that leader-ship. With limited time and resources next semester, the SGA won’t have the luxury ofdebating the merits of Juicy Campus — they need to prioritize and focus on what real-ly matters. Sachs has said he wants every SGA to make the most of their year — wehope he makes the most of his, for all of our sakes.
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After living in Dorchester Hallfor the past two years, I thoughtI had gotten the elevator rou-tine down. I would usually
strike up a conversation with whoeverelse was in the elevator. Because Dorch-ester is a relatively small dorm, I’d usual-ly recognize whoever was there. And ifnot, I’d just make a new friend.
I naively expected the same when Imoved into South Campus Commons atthe beginning of the year. But instead, Ihave learned one of life’s most valuablelessons: An elevator ride can be one ofthe most awkward and harrowinghuman encounters you will ever face.
Or maybe it’s just me.After living for a semester in Com-
mons, I have become the iPod-blaring-stare-straight-ahead-don’t-look-at-me-when-I-am-in-the-elevator kind of per-son. But is this normal? Is it normal tostrike up a conversation with someonewhile in an elevator? Is there such a thing
as elevator etiquette?With all this in mind, I set out to find
the answers in what I thought was thebest way possible: riding the elevators ofvarious buildings around the campus.
In the elevator of Hartwick Towers, Ifound junior government and politicsmajor Colleen Hoffman. Hoffman, wholast year lived with me in Dorchester, toldme you have to be “very specific in howyou stand and conduct yourself in the ele-vator, but it depends on who is in therewith you ... when it’s people you know, it’sa lot more relaxed.”
This brings up some interesting ques-tions: Should you talk at all in an elevator?What about when you are having a con-versation with a friend? Do you continueit when you’re entering the elevator?
The other day, my roommate and Iwere having an in-depth conversation aswe entered the elevator. I continued talk-ing, but once he realized someone elsewas in the elevator, he stopped, which
just made it more awkward. I set out tofind out who was right.
I caught up with senior governmentand politics and international businessmajor Jehiel Baer and his friend ChristaSofinowski, who doesn’t attend the uni-versity, in the elevator of Commons 5,and did, in fact, talk to them. We chattedabout this very point. Sofinowski said thatif “[Baer and I] are having a conversa-tion, we’ll usually stop it if other peopleare in the elevator, unless it’s really nor-mal — like weather normal.” Baer addedhe is commonly guilty of the weatherconversation. But since he is a resident
assistant, engaging strangers in awk-ward situations is more or less his job.
Even after this interview, I still heldfirmly to the belief that the weather con-versation is not a legitimate one. You ei-ther have a real conversation, or you lookstraight ahead and don’t say a word.
As my quest continued, I wound up onNorth Campus, where I met sophomorebusiness major Claire Oliver in LaPlataHall. She agreed with me, saying al-though she had just come in from thepouring rain, she would never talk in theelevator, not even about the weather.“Don’t talk and always have your face tothe door,” she told me. “Always.”
So after all this work, I still don’t haveany definitive answers.
Screw it — next time, I’m taking thestairs.
Joel Cohen is a junior government andpolitics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
Elevators: Just look forward and don’t say a word
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JOELCOHEN
You don’t get it, girlI am conflicted and confused by
Alex Gagne’s guest column, “GetThat Dough” in the Dec. 11 issue ofThe Diamondback.
Gagne implies that women in thefields of education, communication,family science and others dominatedby women choose these majorsbecause they feel comfortable inthem. Gagne recommends thatwomen pursue more challengingmajors that will make them moremoney out of college (maybe like hermajors of business marketing or pub-lic relations?) as a means of closingthe income gap between men andwomen.
I would like to challenge theassumption that women choose thesejobs because they seem comfortableand unchallenging. I believe everycareer can be challenging anddemonstrate an individual’s capabili-ties and potential. Perhaps womenchoose to study education, communi-cation and family science becausethey are passionate about caring forand teaching people. After all, moneyisn’t the only measure of success, andhaving a degree that doesn’t yield asix-figure incomes doesn’t equate to“mediocrity.”
If income is something that womenvalue and feel measures their suc-cess, shouldn’t women fight to closethe income gap that exists in theabsolutely essential fields of educa-tion, family science and communica-tion? The fact that women in thesefields don’t make reasonable wages isthe real inequality and injustice —not the income gap that existsbetween high-ranking businesswomen and men. No one — male orfemale — should have to forfeitstudying something he or she is inter-ested in and passionate about inorder to make more money.
Additionally, I challenge everyoneto rethink income as a measurementof success. Although it has tradition-ally been used to measure the suc-cess and happiness of Americans, Istrongly believe that success can bedefined by other things, like relation-ships and personal growth.
Lastly, I believe American cul-ture’s disregard for service jobs suchas teaching and nursing, is a realdownfall. What does it say about usthat we value profit over humanitar-ian value?
JOANNA CALABRESESENIOR VICE PRESIDENT
STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Don’t deny our Christmas traditions
In their Dec. 10 letter to the editor,“A frosty reception to Christmas dec-orations,” Sala Levin and Rachel Bal-tuch present the silly notion thatbeing a public institution in thisnation precludes a university fromdisplaying physical manifestations ofa religious holiday. This notion hasbecome so permeated by moderncapitalist culture that it has come tobe a secular celebration.
Government agencies do not oper-ate on Dec. 25, neither at the statenor the federal level. While “diversityand pluralism” certainly matter, thesimple fact is that as secularized andliberal as our country has become,this nation is, and always has been, aChristian nation. I don’t mean to sug-gest our founding fathers were die-hard Christians (or, in some cases,Christians at all); rather, I merelypoint out the irrefutable fact thatWestern civilization, including theUnited States, is wholly inseparablefrom Christianity. Unless, of course,we wish to drink the Kool-Aid of themodern, self-worshipping world. Todeny its Christian heritage and iden-tity is to deny the very idea of theUnited States.
So happy Hanukkah, ladies, andmerry Christmas, too. I’m sureFrosty loves a good poinsettia, andmaybe he even has a crèche!
NATHAN P. ORIGERGRADUATE STUDENT
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Letters to the editor
It’s that time of the year again. Youknow ... that time. I’m contractual-ly obligated to not mention whattime that is because it will offend
someone, but it’s certainly that time.So go about your business quietly
this holiday season, and try not to getinto anybody’s way.
But really? Do you people seriouslycare? On Dec. 25, more than 200 millionpeople in this country are going to becelebrating Christmas, and you nottalking about it isn’t going to changethat.
Look, it’s one thing if someone isshoving crucifixes in your face andscreaming at you about Bible study, butif they want to put a tree up in the busi-ness school, let them do it. It’ll injectsome emotion into that lifeless and coldrobot factory, anyways.
And Christmas isn’t even a winterholiday anymore. It starts a couple daysbefore Halloween and ends sometimein mid-July. Christmas isn’t one day; ithas become an entity that’s going toconsume us all. And religious? Comeon, dude. The closest you’ve probablyall come to being religious about
Christmas is thinking, “Christ, that’s anexpensive necklace. But I have to gether something because I can’t dumpher this close to Christmas.”
Or the female version of that: “Jesus,that’s how much video games cost?Screw it, I’m dumping him. I don’t carehow close to Christmas it is.”
The Christmas spirit is commercial.People like trees and presents andlights. It’s not about the messiah andthe baby in the manger and all that. Ifthe business school put up a display ofthe virgin birth, that would be a differ-ent matter. (And kind of awkward.)Don’t get any ideas, you silly university,you.
But people keep getting offendedand, honestly, I think a lot of people justlike being angry at things, which iswhat I think led Sala Levin and Rachel
Baltuch to write a letter to the editorlast week saying they didn’t appreciatethe use of university funds for a reli-gious display. We all saw where that onewas going: The letter seemed like aslight overreaction, but it was nothingcompared to some of the comments onThe Diamondback’s website.
Those comments were got ugly. Theygot ugly faster than Amy Winehouse.What is it about this season that bringsout the worst in people?
You all need to stop getting offendedbecause your winter holiday does thisand their winter holiday does that.Here’s something you might not knowabout Rob Gindes: I’m Jewish. Sur-prise! I couldn’t give less of a crap whatyou celebrate. Celebrate “I hate RobGindes” day, for all I care. And put upyour Rob Gindes hate trees. And singyour Rob Gindes hate carols. You havemy guarantee that I won’t get offended.
And that, my friends, is the rarest giftof all.
Rob Gindes is a junior journalismmajor. He can be reached at [email protected].
If you’ve noticed teachers lookingmore stressed than usual, it’sabout more than grading final pa-pers. University President Dan
Mote’s campus-wide e-mail about theforthcoming budget cuts and furloughdays this week was just the tip of theiceberg, and our professors know it.
Right now, departments are strug-gling to cut into already-thin budgets.They’re considering options such ascutting Honors programs, ending“extra” university services and turningsmall discussion classes into giant lec-tures. For our already overworked pro-fessors and graduate students, thismeans more classes, more studentsand less money. It seems like the uni-versal reaction has been, “Boy, thatsure bites. I guess we’ll have to makedo.” I’ve come to a different conclusion.
When I received Mote’s e-mail, I wascoincidentally reading Santa ClaraUniversity associate professor MarcBousquet’s piece in The Chronicle ofHigher Education titled “Taking theAusterity Bait Will Shatter Obama’sPlans for Higher Ed.” Bousquet writesthat cost-saving measures like ourbudget cuts are designed to shift theway our education system works: awayfrom labor-intensive small classes andseminars and toward increased “pro-ductivity.”
What this productivity means isdoing more with less. It means a re-liance on impersonal technology in-stead of professor-student interactionand cutting programs that give stu-dents a more in-depth learning experi-ence.
But it’s no one’s fault, right? It’s theeconomy — nothing we can do aboutthat. This line of thought is pretty ap-pealing: We can tighten our belts, workharder and learn less until the markets
improve. Unfortunately, it’s not true.Some people don’t mind the budgetcuts and have no real incentive to fightthem. Bousquet writes, “Many admin-istrators welcome austerity. It’s whatthey live for. It’s what they know how todo; it’s their whole culture, the reasonfor their existence, the justification fortheir salary and perks, the core criteriafor their bonuses.”
Mote may seem regretful and apolo-getic, but austerity is what he is sup-posed to enact. Consider other move-ments in our economy. What did Gen-eral Motors do when it couldn’t makeends meet? Did it ask its workers toproduce more cars with less materialsand time? Of course not; that would beabsurd. Instead, they went hat-in-handto the federal government and askedfor the money they needed.
If we can’t expect auto workers tomake more cars, why would we expectprofessors to perform educationalalchemy? The truth is that with thesecuts, learning will decrease. No one cancontest that. Professors and graduatestudents don’t have magic powersthey’ve been hiding, and an increase intheir number of students will decreaseprofessor time per student.
The path Mote seems headed downis to try to raise private money to coverthe shortfall. This is not an acceptablealternative. Aside from the recessionhitting donors as hard or harder thanthe state, accepting private money toreplace state funding tells Annapolis
that we don’t need much help after all.And it fundamentally changes the waythe university operates. Outside fun-ders’ interests will not be the same asthose of the students, and to say thatwon’t affect how the university is run isnaive at best.
There are other options. Mote needsto recognize that if he wants to continuerunning a strong educational institu-tion, he should go, hat-in-hand, and getthe money we need. Surely public uni-versities, investments in the future ofour nation, are as worthy of bailouts asprivate financial institutions. Don’t take“no” for an answer. When workers atthe Republic Windows & Doors factoryin Chicago were refused the moneythey deserved, they occupied the facto-ry. This week, they got the money.
What we have now is an educationthat’s getting more expensive whenfamilies can least afford it, while at thesame time reducing in quality when theUnited States needs bright youngminds. We have a university with beau-tiful and extravagant building projectsand a bowl-bound football team, whilethe educational base crumbles fromwithin. By appearing to operate asusual, we let the state get away withunder-funding our education. Moteshould suspend all building projects andathletic events, not because it will giveus more money to spend on education—it won’t — but to demonstrate that theuniversity won’t appear to operate nor-mally under these conditions. To makeuniversity funding a political problemfor the state and federal governments,we can’t pretend it’s business as usual.
Malcolm Harris is a sophomore Eng-lish and government and politicsmajor. He can be reached [email protected].
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2008 | OPINION | THE DIAMONDBACK 5
Univ. funding: Don’t take ‘No’ for an answer
Winter break isapproaching, and Ihave this problemevery year: It’s tooshort to get a real job,and it’s too long to just
sit around without any plans. I’malso not looking to spend a lot ofmoney. Any ideas?
I have major com-plaints when it comesto our winter break,which this year is actu-ally three days less
than last year’s. We had one week-end and zero weekdays to preparefor finals, and then we have a zilliondays to sit around and do nothing.Not only that, but this ridiculouslylong winter break also has implica-tions for the spring semester. Wedon’t get to go home for the summeruntil all of our friends have alreadyexhausted all of the fun things to doin our hometowns (which, in mycase, involves the Taco Bell drive-thru exclusively). And after every-one has returned to school after ahandful of fun, relaxing winterweeks, I’m left with the thrill ofdoing my own laundry whenever Iplease without having to scroungefor quarters. For me, that’s really allwinter break has to offer.
All ranting aside, though, I’msure if you get creative you cancome up with something to helppass the time. You can try pickingup quilting or paint a mural in yourbasement or something. If you’renot too lazy (I definitely am), callaround to some gyms and inquireabout trial memberships. If winterbreak yields nothing else, at leastyou’ll come back to school morestudly than before.
I know the six or so weeks aren’tsubstantial enough to get a real job,but there are plenty of sketchy fakejobs that could put some extramoney in your pocket. This mightnot be news to anyone, but at thebottom of Craigslist, they have a sec-tion called “gigs.” You can get paidto do pretty much anything, fromorganizing someone’s closet to sell-ing pictures of your feet. And I’d bewary of anything under the “adult”section, but you may be more adven-turous than I.
But for those of us looking forother options, I am also a huge fan ofbabysitting. I don’t think the averagecollege kid even knows what anuntapped goldmine babysitting is.Picture sitting around watching TV,eating Gushers and getting paid atleast $10 an hour, tax-free. I’m seri-ous: That’s really all babysitting is —you just have to make sure it’s late atnight so the children will be sleep-ing. This isn’t just for girls, althoughfor some reason, parents feel a lotmore comfortable leaving their kidsin the capable hands of maternal col-lege girls than reckless college guys.
Try calling some family friendswith young children just to tell themyou’ll be around for a few weeks.You’d be surprised how desperateparents are for reliable help. If yourfamily isn’t the friends-making type,put up fliers on the bulletin boards atyour local grocery stores (put up twoat Whole Foods because the moreexpensive the food, the higher you’llprobably get paid).
Once you’ve accumulated somemoney with various “gigs,” you canactually do something fun. If youhave other friends at home whoeither don’t attend college or attendour college, then you can take anynumber of trips together. And aseveryone in the world’s favoritetopic of conversation is gas prices,even if you don’t drive a car atschool, I’m sure you’re aware thatthe price of gas is remarkably lowthese days. Try taking a road trip tovisit some friends at school. Chancesare their semesters will have juststarted, meaning there will certainlybe parties to go to and alcohol to behad. If nothing else, it’s always inter-esting to see your friends in theirnew elements and see what theirschool friends are like.
If nothing like this appeals to you,then you hate adventures and arebetter suited to watch the adven-tures of others on TV. I hear thatshow Lost is really long ... and con-sidering that it starts during winterbreak, what else can you do?
Esti Frischling is a sophomore studio artmajor, so she literally has nothing better todo than answer your questions. She can bereached at [email protected]@gmail.com.
Holidays: ‘Tis the season to be grumpy
at issueIf you had to cut one thing
from the university’s budget,what would it be?
“David Edwards-BrennanSeniorSociology
“Nick FraherSeniorEnvironmental scienceand policy
“Are scootersfor athletesin the budg-et? I hatethose. Thescooters area hassle forother people.”
Aliya MannSophomore Sociology
“Kaitlin UnsworthSeniorEnvironmental scienceand policy
“Rachel MihalySophomoreArchitecture and art
“I wish Iknew moreabout thebudget. Idon’t know.”
Dan BruceSophomoreAnimal sciences
“The best possible investment we could makeis in the education of our citizenry.”
- Del. John Bohanan (D-St. Mary’s)From the Dec. 11 edition of The Diamondback
“I can’t emphasize enough the city is not, andwill not, take any action to throw people out
of their apartments on Christmas.”- Bob Ryan, director of public services for the city of
College ParkFrom the Dec. 12 edition of The Diamondback
Best of the week
MALCOLMHARRIS
Looking back on the past fewmonths, it is hard to believe thesemester is coming to a close.There’s no doubt everyone ispreparing for the busy week ahead.When you finally do turn in that lastfinal, you might find yourself remi-niscing about the past semester andhopefully the successes of the Resi-dence Hall Association will come tomind. We worked tirelessly toimprove campus policy, all thewhile striving to bring a sense ofcommunity to this sometimes over-whelming campus.
To start off the semester, we wereinformed of some unfortunate newsfrom the Department of Transporta-tion Services. DOTS projectionsindicated a shortage of parkingspaces in the next few years, whichwould ultimately cause some stu-dents to lose their parking privi-leges. Acting on this news, the RHApassed a resolution urging theRHA’s Transportation AdvisoryCommittee to explore the detailsand possibility of a carpooling per-mit.
While the RHA was busy dealingwith issues such as these, we werealso planning the launch of the uni-versity’s first GoCrossCampusgame. The online game, kind of likeRisk but with a map of the campus,sparked a lot of excitement through-out the campus, and the RHA looksforward to executing this gameagain next year.
Also in October, in response touniversity President Dan Mote sign-ing the Amethyst Initiative, RHAPresident Alex Beuchler sat on thestudent panel at the university’sAlcohol Summit. Preceding thesummit, the RHA passed a resolu-tion recommending the dialoguesaddressed in the initiative begin inFebruary and continue through theend of the academic year. In prepa-ration for these dialogues, the RHAhas been listening to constituentconcerns and has been collaboratingwith the Alcohol Coalition and theUniversity Health Center.
Safety concerns related to motorscooters on the campus also sur-faced this semester. Unbeknownst tomany students, riding motor scoot-ers on sidewalks is actually againstthe law and, needless to say, ratherdangerous on a campus with somuch foot traffic. In an attempt tovoice the concerns of students, theRHA passed a resolution expressingthe safety issues brought about bymotor scooter usage on the campusand urging stricter enforcement ofthe laws prohibiting them on side-walks.
The RHA also welcomed thebeginning of the mixed-genderhousing pilot program. This wasparticularly exciting, as the explo-ration for this idea began more thanfive years ago. We had the opportu-nity to discuss these students’ expe-riences so far, and we were happy tohear those who participated in theprogram were pleased with theirliving situations. As a result, thepilot program will extend next year,with the addition of 24 beds.
A huge success for the RHA wasalso brought about when the optionto opt out of focus dates wasannounced. Throughout the years,the concern with focus dates hasbeen brought to our attention con-tinually, and it was a major issueduring campaigning for the RHApresidency last spring. Beginningthis past summer, the RHA and Din-ing Services really started hammer-ing out the details in introducingthis option, and as a result, we arepleased to see this come to fruition.
Also new next semester will bethe movement of room selection tothe Internet. If you have ever par-ticipated in room selection in thepast, you have most likely experi-enced the stressful process of hav-ing to attend several meetings. Withthe endorsement of the RHA, roomselection is predicted to be muchmore manageable from now on.
The RHA is already looking for-ward to next semester and is wel-coming any and all comments orconcerns you may have. If you everhave an issue related to on-campuspractices, please inform the sena-tors that represent your hall or areaor e-mail the executives [email protected]. To learnmore about the RHA, please visitour website atwww.marylandrha.com and ourblog atwww.marylandrha.blogspot.com.
Alicia Hartlove is the RHA’s publicrelations officer. She can bereached at [email protected].
RHA inreview
Guest Column
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Thetruth sometimes hurts, but it isnecessary for growth — anddon’t shy away from it.
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Drinking is part of college culture, students sayApril, a 19-year-old blonde
smoking a cigarette outside ofthe Thirsty Turtle with a friend,agreed, adding that students, likeherself, drink because they wantto let loose and have fun.
“If you want to find alcohol,you’re going to find alcohol,”April said. “It’s pretty easy tocome by, and I know I drink be-cause I feel freer. I can be moremyself and have more fun — andthere’s nothing wrong with that.It’s so not as big a problem aseveryone makes it.”
This culture of drinking, whichstudents say goes hand-in-handwith college life, has come underintense scrutiny in recentmonths as a result of universityPresident Dan Mote’s and Uni-versity System of MarylandChancellor Brit Kirwan’s deci-sion to sign onto the AmethystInitiative — a petition that urgesuniversity administrators to ex-amine binge drinking among col-
lege students and the effective-ness of the legal drinking age.
“Education and changing peo-ple’s view is our best weapon onthis,” Mote said. “Because clear-ly the law isn’t working.”
The signers of the AmethystInitiative have come under firefrom various organizations andother universities, but mostmembers of the campus commu-nity say they are proud of the uni-versity’s attempt to do away withthe taboo associated with alcohol.
Though he admits that he is inthe minority among universitystaff, Associate Director of Resi-dent Life Steve Petkas said it’sabout time the legal drinking agewas reexamined.
“I think it was a courageousstatement by the presidents thatsigned [the petition],” Petkassaid. “I admire that courage andfeel that the effects of a prohibi-tion are problematic. It createssomething that’s forbidden andpeople are more likely to pursuethan they would if it was an ac-
knowledged freedom.”Petkas pointed out that young
Americans between the ages of18 and 20 have many “adult”rights such as the right to marry,serve as a juror, gamble, drive,vote and serve in the UnitedStates military. But they cannotlegally enjoy an alcoholic drink.This, Petkas said, just doesn’tmake sense.
He went on to say that studentsshould be given an opportunity tolearn responsible drinking be-haviors while in college by con-suming alcohol in an acceptingenvironment comprised of adultsas well as peers.
“There’s this cultural elementout there that says you’re sup-posed to come to college andparty hardy, that you’re supposedto do all this drinking,” Petkassaid. “When I was a resident as-sistant in 1976, one of my firstprograms was a two-kegger . . .but no one at that program gotstone-puking drunk. The key isthere was supervision for the en-
tire program.”But according to the College
Life Study conducted by the Cen-ter for Substance Abuse Re-search, an on-campus researchgroup that focuses on alcohol be-havior, students’ drinking behav-iors are largely defined by thetime they turn 18.
Frostburg State UniversityPresident Jonathan Gibralter ac-cepted an award earlier this se-mester for cracking down on stu-dent drinking. Frostburg hasseen some progress — off-cam-pus alcohol citations have de-creased by nearly 40 percentfrom 2006 to 2008. His “zero-tol-erance” approach has gottenboth negative and positive atten-tion, but overall, Gibralter said,he thinks it’s working.
“Really, it’s less about ‘zero tol-erance’ as it is about zero willing-ness to accept that a studentmight die from underage drink-ing,” Gibralter said.
Public health professor Ken-neth Beck, who has done exten-
sive research into the culturethat promotes excessive drink-ing, said that while Gibralter’sapproach may be effective atFrostburg — a state university inrural western Maryland with5,200 students — the climate ofthis campus is very different andmust be dealt with accordingly.
Beck added that the Universi-ty Senate — the most powerfulon-campus legislative body thatdirectly advises the president onuniversity policy — reconvenesin the spring semester. The GoodSamaritan policy, a propositionthat would provide amnesty forstudents who call for help fortheir dangerously intoxicatedfriends — should be on theirradar, he said.
“You should be able to call in,risk-free, to get help for someonewithout endangering yourself,”Beck said. “That’s rewardingproactive behavior. That’s a stepin the right direction. The univer-sity needs to be proactive.”
University officials also noted
that, in addition to prevention,students should be able to enjoytheir weekends without a beerbong or an ice luge.
“A bunch of people sittingaround someone screaming‘Drink! Drink! Drink!’ is ab-solutely unnecessary,” Petkassaid. “Binge drinking is becom-ing more problematic becausestudents are growing up in thesecloister settings without experi-ence, restraint or other things todo on Friday nights.”
Students agree but insist un-derage binge drinking will stillpervade throughout the collegesocial scene regardless of whatsteps are taken to eradicate thepractice.
“People drink because they’renot allowed to, or because theywant to have fun or de-stress,”said 20-year-old sophomoreStephen. “Whatever it is, peopledo it and they’re going to keepdoing it. They’ll never stop this.”
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BYADELEHAMPTONFor The Diamondback
Mary Gray saw Mario Chavez’spolice cruiser fatally collide withher son’s car on the morning ofDec. 10 last year. Last week, theday before the one-year anniver-sary of his death, Gray watched ascounty prosecutors settled onChavez’s punishment.
The result was a speedingticket.
A year ago last week, BrianGray, 20, was on his way to take hisfirst final exam of the semester.His mother was driving behindhim, taking a family friend toschool, according to media re-ports. As he made a left turn ontoBelair Drive in his hometown ofBowie, Md., his Chevy Beretta wasstruck by Chavez’s police cruiserand was hurtled 85 feet past thecollision site, according to mediareports.
Chavez’s light punishment, dueto the lack of sufficient evidencelinking his actions to negligence,according to a report by The Wash-ington Post, leaves friends andfamily angry and disconcerted.
“Someone’s son, friend,boyfriend is never going to get himback because of [Chavez’s] selfish-ness,” said Kayla Brewster, BrianGray’s friend since the eighthgrade. “It’s extremely unfair. … Itjust goes to show you what theworld has come to.”
County police spokesman MikeRodriguez could not comment on
the investigation. State’s AttorneyGlenn Ivey, Ivey’s spokesmanRamon Korionoff and Mary Graycould not be reached for com-ment.
Friends of Brian Gray said theyremember him fondly.
“He was an all-around greatperson,” Brewster said. “He wasfun, no drama and all about havinga good time. Everyone still talksabout him, not one bad word issaid.”
Chavez, who was driving 25miles per hour faster than thespeed limit at the time of the colli-
sion, admitted to consuming alco-hol the night before the crash, ac-cording to media reports and thedeposition for the civil case.
His blood alcohol level was notquestioned due to state law, andaccording to media reports, offi-cers at the scene said they had noreason to suspect Chavez wasunder the influence of alcohol, ac-cording to media reports. BrianGray’s blood alcohol level wastested. Investigators found no signof alcohol consumption.
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Despite years of being under-paid and the university’s unsurefinancial future, graduate stu-dents are projected to receivehigher stipends than ever before.
A 10-year plan released lastyear by the university includes aproposal to set the minimumstipend a graduate student canreceive at $18,000 for a littlemore than a nine-month period,which is considerably higherthan the current minimumamount.
For the 2009 fiscal year, gradu-ate students are projected toearn about $14,000 for a nine-month commitment, which, ac-cording to The Chronicle ofHigher Education, is still lessthan the nation’s leading gradu-ate institutions, where graduatestudents receive about $18,000 ayear.
In a discussion Friday with theGraduate Student Government,Provost Nariman Farvardin saidthe university plans to get thismoney by lowering the numberof students admitted into somegraduate programs, essentiallysplitting the money among asmaller group of people.
He said during the past twomonths, all colleges and depart-ments have been assessing their
graduate programs to determinethe number of students thatshould be enrolled in them. Hesaid some of the programs havebecome too big, and the pro-grams need to be adjusted tomatch the market demand forgraduate degrees in those fields.
“I am a strong believer that weare doing a disservice to gradu-ate students by admitting theminto our programs when themarket has no need for them,”Farvardin said.
Thomas Castonguay, an asso-ciate dean at the graduateschool, said there are 115 gradu-ate programs at the university,and not all of them are funded aswell as others.
He said Farvardin’s plan tochange the number of studentsin the programs is not downsiz-ing, but “right-sizing.”
According to Castonguay, thenumbers will be adjusted on aunit-by-unit basis, so only theprograms that have too manystudents will decrease enroll-ment.
He said it is too soon to knowfor sure what the numbers willbe, but he thinks the studentswill benefit from this plan be-cause the university will be ableto increase the size of thestipends they receive.
“[Because of the recession],we may have been served
lemons, but we may be makinglemonade,” Castonguay said.
However, in the face of recentbudget cuts and the economic re-cession, many graduate studentsare worried about the plans of theprovost not coming to fruition, afear that he said is legitimate.
Graduate students said theycurrently get a small stipend in-crease each year, but it is onlyenough to cover the cost of living,which also increases.
GSG President AnupamaKothari said she is afraid the uni-versity will lower graduate stu-dent stipends, but is happy tohave Farvardin as an ally in thematter. She said many graduatestudents not only have to handlethe cost of living, but many alsohave families and mortgages toworry about.
“We are just hoping that theydon’t cut any of our income be-cause we don’t have much of it,”she said. “We’re such a small partof a big pool [that the universitycan take money from].”
According to Matthew Pragel,a mathematics graduate student,although he and his fellow gradu-ate students receive small in-creases, they are barely enoughto cover the costs of living in theWashington area, and they havenot been as significant as thestrategic plan promises.
“I appreciate the university
being committed to helping toprovide us with efforts to in-crease our funding and our abili-ty to live in the metropolitan-D.C.area, but I still believe that hous-ing costs are a major issue andare definitely important to re-member,” he said.
Farvardin said there will bemore budget cuts to come for theuniversity, even as soon as nextmonth, and that it is impossibleto tell when the university’sbudget problems will end.
“The budget is a very painfultopic to speak about becausewe’re not talking about budget in-creases, but budget decreases,”Farvardin said.
However, despite the grimeconomic outlook, the provostsaid he is confident that most ofthe goals outlined in the strategicplan can be accomplished withina decade, including the $4,000 in-crease in the minimum graduatestipends.
“When developing the strate-gic plan, I was completely cog-nizant of the fact that in a 10-yearperiod you can expect one,maybe two periods of economicdownturns,” he said. “I just didn’tknow one would come within thefirst year of the plan’simplemen-tation, but I remain very opti-mistic in the long term.”
Univ. remains indark on budgetthe system is facing a secondround of budget reductions forthis fiscal year.
Instead of speculating aboutfuture cuts, the University Sys-tem of Maryland officials are fo-cused on trimming the salaryand wage budget by $15.9 mil-lion within the next six monthsby implementing system-wideemployee furloughs.
The Board of Regents, whichoversees the university, ap-proved the furlough resolutionFriday, deeming the salary cutpreferable to layoffs. State em-ployee furloughs are expectedto return $40 million to state cof-fers. University presidents willsubmit their plans within thenext two weeks to Kirwan tocreate a system-wide solution;about $6.8 million of the totalwill come from this university,university President Dan Motesaid.
Furlough days will be tiered,with high-salaried employeestaking as many as five dayswithout pay. The money couldbe subtracted from one pay pe-riod or the entire year. Kirwansaid graduate assistants will notbe affected.
“I will fight tooth and nail to en-sure that graduate students won’tbe furloughed,” Provost NarimanFarvardin announced at a Gradu-ate Student Government meetingon Friday. “They’re students, notemployees."
The state budget was slashedby $350 million in October, in-cluding $15 million from thesystem, $4 million of whichcame from the university. The
university also implemented ahiring freeze and delayed re-pairs and maintenance acrossthe campus.
The last time the universityfaced multiple budget cuts dur-ing one fiscal year was in 2002,when a series of cuts forced theregents to raise tuition betweensemesters.
As of now, system officials arein the dark about what couldcome next.
“The state hasn’t said yetwhether they’re going to reducestate budget funds, or fromwhat,” Kirwan said. “Given thestate of the economy, there’s noguarantee.”
One thing that is out of thequestion is a mid-year tuitionhike for in-state students, as theregents voted against it earlierthis year. But after a three-yearfreeze, a tuition increase is stillpossible for fiscal year 2010.
“It’s fair to say that it’s not offthe table, and it’s a reasonableidea to consider, as well,” Motesaid.
Interim Vice President forAdministrative Affairs AnnWylie said she doesn’t know ifthe university’s budget will becut this year, but doesn’t expectto receive the full funding re-quest for fiscal year 2010.
“In my division, I’ve justasked each of my directors tostart thinking about how theywould operate with fewer fundsnext year,” Wylie said.
She hasn’t ruled out eliminat-ing programs, but she said shehoped construction projectswon’t be delayed.
Rumors that the university’sbudget could be cut by 10 to 15percent are “way premature,”Kirwan said.
Staff writers Jeanette DerBedrosian and Julia Russellcontributed to this report. [email protected].
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“The state hasn’tsaid yet whetherthey’re going toreduce statebudget funds, orfrom what. Giventhe state of theeconomy, there’sno guarantee.”
BRIT KIRWANUNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLANDCHANCELLOR
“I will fight toothand nail to ensurethat graduatestudents won’t befurloughed.”
NARIMAN FARVARDINPROVOST
BY KYLE GOONStaff writer
At the University Squareapartments in Greenbelt, thedimly lit houses and the darkwooded paths didn’t reallybother anyone. However, arecent rash of crime in thearea has created a sense offear in the community thatresidents are trying tochange.
Five robberies werereported in the complex dur-ing a span of six days in earlyNovember, in addition toother incidents that occurredearlier in the month. Many ofthe crimes were committedagainst graduate studentswho live in the apartments.
Electrical and computerengineering graduate studentDikpal Reddy lives in Univer-sity Square in a building onlyfeet away from where severalmuggings took place. Hepointed out the shadowedsection of sidewalk whereseveral attackers knockedone of his friends to theground.
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knew whether they weregoing to be there.”
One computer sciencegraduate student who askedto remain anonymous waswalking to his car Nov. 2 onWestway Road, the mainstreet that winds through thecommunity. As he passed by agroup of men on the sidewalk,one of them hit him on theback of the head. The blowtook him off his feet and theassailants took his bookbagand fled the scene, the stu-dent said.
In two other incidents, onestudent was mugged at ashuttle stop and another wasbeaten until he gave up hiswallet and cell phone, both inthe same week, Reddy said.
Graduate student Raghura-man Gopalan experienced adifferent kind of terror. OnNov. 10, he returned home tofind someone had entered hisroom through a window andrifled through his den. He losthis camera in the burglary.
Telecommunications stu-dent Ashwin Murali waswalking with a friend Nov.11 and was only a few min-utes away from his homewhen several menapproached and tauntedthem. Murali had heardabout the robberies and was
frightened immediately. “They said, ‘We know
you’re scared,’” Muralisaid. “Then they followedus. We kept trying to walkaway, but they followed usfor a few minutes. It reallyshook me up a lot.”
Greenbelt Policespokesman George Mathewssaid the incidents promptedmore patrolling of the area,and thorough investigation.Mathews said police identi-fied suspects, but didn’t haveenough evidence to make anyarrests.
Instead, officers visited thehomes of the suspects andtheir families and told themthe crimes had to stop. Sincethe final robbery on Nov. 7, noothers have been reported.
“The job of our officers is tomake sure they stop crime,even without an arrest,”Mathews said. “Since therehaven’t been any robberiessince then, I have to assumewe were talking to the rightpeople.”
Despite the seeming resolu-tion to the crimes, Gopalan,who has lived in UniversitySquare for three years, saidhe isn’t satisfied with themanagement’s response tostudents’ requests for moresafety features. Reddy andsome of the victims of thecrimes drafted a letter to theirproperty manager asking formore lighting, security cam-eras, increased police patrols,notices of the crimes and tocut off the forest trails to theneighborhood. They receiveda reply saying most of thethings they wanted couldn’tbe done, due to funding prob-lems and tenant codes.
“I loved the place. It was areally good community,”Reddy said. “Now I feelunsafe still. Our building isaccessible through the mainentrance because everybodyknows the universal accesscode. The management didn’tpost any notices or anythingsaying these things were hap-pening. We might move outbecause of this.”
University Square Director
of Property Management JayShankman said the manage-ment has already taken someactions to prevent futurecrime, however. He said somelighting has been added andthe management hired anextra security team member.After the new year, they’replanning a safety seminar fortenants with GreenbeltPolice.
“We’re all doing what wecan to be good neighbors,”Shankman said. “However,it’s more of a police issue, andthe crimes stopped a monthago. We’ve made somechanges, but we can only doso much to prevent thesetypes of incidents.”
Students still think Univer-sity Square can do more.Reddy pointed out that thereisn’t any light on the side-walks that are shadowed bythe buildings. Also, thewooded trails have little visi-bility beyond a few yards, hesaid. The mugging victimsaid management should con-sider a fence and a strict pol-icy against loitering.
Reddy and 80 other stu-dents sent a petition callingfor improved security meas-ures to Lerner Enterprises,which owns UniversitySquare. They haven’t heard aresponse yet.
The Graduate Student Gov-ernment is meeting nextweek to raise awarenessabout the issue and discussways to elicit more of aresponse from management,said GSG president AnupamaKothari.
Meanwhile, UniversitySquare residents have yet toease back into their old rou-tines. Reddy said many stu-dents still try to walk ingroups from shuttle stops,and some are not sure thecommunity is as safe as theyonce thought.
“We are really concerned,”Reddy said. “We’re comingtogether to say we want tomake some changes to stopthis from happening again.”
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Eco-friendly dishwareimplementation tricky
BYMICHELLECLEVELANDStaff writer
Dining Services is making thesustainable switch to environmen-tally friendly dishware next semes-ter and will likely expand its com-posting program, but officials arestill unsure of how to guarantee thenew carry-out containers, plates andcups will be properly disposed.
Starting Jan. 1, all plastic foam onthe campus will be replaced byBagasse, a product made of sugarcane which can be composted into anutrient-rich soil additive andreused to fertilize campus gardens.
But Dining Services has no controlover how students discard the com-postable material once they leave thedining halls, and the university can-not send the containers to be com-posted if they end up being thrownaway anywhere on the campus out-side the dining halls, said Dining Ser-vices spokesman Bart Hipple.
The Bagasse material, which willbe purchased from Boulder, Colo.-based company Eco Products, willbe between two and a half and fivetimes more expensive than the plas-tic foam the dining halls currentlyuse, Hipple said. Dave Raymond,the procurement officer in DiningServices, would not reveal the exactcost of the compostable containersand plates because “pricing is prettymuch confidential.”
Dining Services will make up forthe extra cost by encouraging a de-crease in carry-out dining. Hippleestimated that last year, customersused approximately 1.1 million take-out containers. He said decreasingthe number of carry-out containersstudents use could help minimizenext year’s room and board.
The university also has plans for apilot program to compost its ownwaste. The school’s food waste ispicked up daily at the two dining hallsand at the Stamp Student Union by acompany called Envirelation, whichtakes it to a landfill on the EasternShore for composting, said AssistantDirector of Dining Services Mainte-nance Greg Thompson.
To make these pickups include asmuch of the Bagasse as possible, offi-cials hope students will bring the con-tainers back to the dining halls anddiscard them on the tray-return line.
Scott Lupin, the director of the Of-fice of Sustainability, said the universi-
ty will test out its own composting be-ginning in early February when theytake a load of food and Bagasse wasteto a university farm in Clarksville.After the 90-day process is complete,the compost will be brought back tothe campus for use on the groundsand gardens, Lupin said.
Eliminating plastic foam andcomposting its own waste will winthe university some green points,but other universities across thecountry have already introducedother sustainable dining initiatives.
About half of all colleges and uni-versities compost some food andlandscape waste, and biodegradablecarry-out containers are offered at32 percent of schools, according tothe 2009 College Sustainability Re-port Card, which is published by theSustainable Endowments Institute.
“Many, many universities who re-ally champion sustainability do notallow carry-out,” Hipple said. Headded those universities generallyhave all-you-can-eat dining plans,making it possible to eliminatecarry-out containers altogether.
During the month of January, em-ployees will be retrained to usechina as much as possible.
The carry-out containers will con-tinue to be the only option for stu-dents during late-night becauseDining Services does not haveenough labor to supply a dish crew.
“Budgets are very, very tight,” Hip-ple said. “Food costs have gone up,and we are not raising our prices.”
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REVIEW | THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
ONCE IN A LIFETIMEBenjamin Button details the backward life of its protagonist from beginning to end
BY ZACHARY HERRMANNSenior staff writer
A runtime of 168 minutes is no small engage-ment for a feature film — but it may not be quiteenough to capture an entire lifetime. It’s an ambi-tious undertaking, even for the prodigiously tal-ented David Fincher, whose new romantic epic,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, covers thewanderlust of its titular character as he ages in re-verse — from Benjamin’s crippled, elderlybirth to his death as an infant.
After directing the thrilling (andvastly underappreciated) Zodiac,Fincher has turned his lens tosomething far more nostalgic.His focus is now life anddeath, instead of just the lat-ter, and, if nothing else, theelegant film should silencecritics who have previouslyderided the director as coldand clinical.
With a dusty amber tint in theair, Fincher and director of pho-tography Claudio Miranda (Fail-ure to Launch) glide through andlinger in the life of Benjamin (BradPitt, Burn After Reading) as heventures backward into exis-tence. Born as a pint-sizedold man knocking on death’sdoor, Benjamin is left by hisfather (Jason Flemyng, Mir-rors) on the stoop of an as-sisted living home in NewOrleans at the conclu-sion of World War I.
The hefty narra-tive is framed by thedestruction of thecity on the eve ofHurricane Katrina,as told by Caroline(Julia Ormond, Kit
Kittredge: An American Girl), the daughter of Ben-jamin’s lifelong love, Daisy (Cate Blanchett, Indi-ana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).As Daisy lays on her deathbed, the storm beatingaway at the window, she has her daughter readBenjamin’s diary.
It may seem a bit timely, but screenwriters EricRoth (Lucky You) and Robin Swicord (The JaneAusten Book Club) carefully include New Orleansas one of the fallen in what is essentially a story
about coping with the passing of time andloss — both senseless and natural,
and yet always bound by fate. From a deceptively youngage, Benjamin — who ap-pears to be a man in his late80s — discovers death in away no real person couldever hope (or want) to. Heis a child trapped in an oldman’s body, watching theelderly occupants of thehome come and go while
he desires to experience asomewhat more normalchildhood.
The visual effects em-ployed are simply remark-
able. Forward or backward,never have filmmakers aged a
cast so believably. Of course, itwould all be a $150 million gim-
mick if not for the talent behindthe prosthetics. Pitt, while given a somewhat wood-
en and esoteric Southern gentleman towork with, imbues Benjamin with
the tragedy and complexity nec-essary to make the film work.
When he meets his first love(Tilda Swinton, Burn After
Reading) after taking off
from home, we realize Benjamin will never trulyconnect with anyone for too long.
As his childhood sweetheart Daisy filters in andout of his life (Blanchett commands the screen, asalways), Benjamin either is too mature or tooyoung, except for the brief period when they meetin the middle in their 40s.
The troubled relationship and the age rift propelButton’s most inspired moments. Despite themagnetism of its leads and supports (Taraji P.Henson is fantastic as Benjamin’s foster mother,Jared Harris equally so as his captain and fa-ther figure), the film sags under the burdenof its mission: to relay every last turn of thestrange life of a man.
We gather little from Benjamin’s briefforay into the Navy aboard a tug boatduring World War II, aside from thenotion that not all losses are createdequal — many come far too early and forno reason at all.
Few stretches of the film manage to re-capture the energetic opening centeredon Benjamin’s curious upbringing. Theanti-coming-of-age story plays muchbetter than Benjamin’s perpetual mid-life crises and threads the themes ofaging and death more subtly than in thelonger narrative.
It’s all too easy to relate Button to Roth’sother, inferior Southern man epic, For-rest Gump, which had neither thestyle nor the power of Fincher’sdirection to guide it. Asidefrom the less-caricaturedperformances given inButton, Fincher ele-vates the weaker ele-ments of thes c r e e n p l a ywith thestrength
of his images: 23-year-old Daisy dancing against afoggy night; a young, old man coming to his rightof passage in a boozy burlesque house; and an in-fant unlearning how to walk next to one of manymother figures.
Like life itself, Button is a beautiful mess andprobably could not have come out any other way.
MOVIE: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | VERDICT: 1/2
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FEATURE | SMOKELESS SMOKING
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Smokeless smoking alternatives may provide tobaccosmokers with healthier options — if any catch on
BYZACHARYHERRMANNSenior staff writer
It’s hard to deny the iconographic allureof a cigarette, no matter what the healthrepercussions may be. Whether it’s a vin-tage photograph of Bob Dylan, smoke curl-ing around his frizzy hair, or Lauren Bacallon set, seductively pulling on a cigarettebetween takes, cigarettes have their pres-ence entrenched in the American mindset.
But even in an expanding world ofportable technology, where people feelcomfortable clipping phone receivers totheir earlobes as if they wandered off theset of Star Trek, it’s still difficult to imaginesmokers taking well to a battery-operated,pen-sized cigarette.
“I took it around to a couple smokershere, and they all said the same thing: It’stoo effeminate,” Pamela Clark, a tobaccoresearcher at the university’s school ofpublic health, said. “They wouldn’t becaught dead smoking that in public.
“Every time we’ve had a smoking ma-chine — a nicotine delivery device thatdoesn’t look like a cigarette — every time,it’s failed,” she added.
Electronic cigarettes are currentlyavailable on retail markets all over theworld — a model similar to the one Clarkhad on hand (made by NJOY) is availableon Target’s website. The device vaporizesvarying amounts of nicotine saturated insmall cartridges, producing a thick vaporresembling smoke when the user inhales.Because nothing is actually being burned,
the process is healthier than actuallysmoking, Clark said.
“Smoking is the most dangerous thingyou can do,” she said. “It’s better to jumpout of airplanes — I know, I’ve done it.”
However, Clark was sure to note “anyother form of nicotine delivery has its prob-lemstoo.” While it is widely believed vapor-ized tobacco is absorbed at the mouth andthroat level rather than in the lungs, “thereisn’t any information” to confirm an answereither way, she added.
Clark and university researcher ElbertGlover recently concluded work on asmokeless tobacco study involving a prod-uct fairly new to Americans: Snus(rhymes with “loose”), a chewable alter-native meant for on-the-go nicotine deliv-ery. After Clark and the researchers geton their way with a grant to study hookahsmoking — she said the act of smokinghookah is far worse for your health thanmost people tend to think — the Depart-ment of Public and Community Healthhopes to begin a study this spring involv-ing the electronic cigarette. Aside fromthe basic how-to, Clark said it isn’t evenclear exactly how vaporizers work.
“Nobody knows, except for those thatmake them,” she said.
Frank Bartscheck, vice president of va-porizer manufacturer Vapir, Inc., saidyears of the company’s independent re-search “has been poured into” the OxygenMini, its latest portable vaporizer.
“Not only are you able to enjoy the prod-uct that you’ve enjoyed previously, but
you’re able to do it the healthy way, andyou’re not constricted or confined to using itwhere only there’s an outlet to plug it in,”Bartscheck said. “Vaporizers, while effec-tive for home use, have not gained any trulyeffective units for those on the go, which ofcourse smokers are often on the go.”
Despite its slightly awkward loadingmechanism, the Mini seems to be a logicalproduct of healthy thinking and the needfor nicotine wherever, whenever.
“If you are a tobacco smoker, you can useour vaporizers to wean yourself off smok-ing and do it in a way that is considered bymany to be healthier,” Bartscheck said.
When given a pass at the electronic ciga-rette, senior family science major AshleyWilt didn’t see the usefulness or the appealof vaporized nicotine.
“It’s a bunch of crap,” she said. “It does-n’t taste like anything.”
Senior environmental science and poli-cy major Keith Presley agreed the designof the electronic cigarette was a little ef-feminate, but said the vaporized nicotinewas “not bad.”
“It gets the oral fixation, which is kind ofa big thing,” he added.
After expressing the idea of quittingsmoking come graduation, junior Ameri-can studies and Spanish major AshleighEdwards said the electronic cigarette was“definitely as pleasing as a cigarette.”
“If this would offer any health benefits, Iwould use this instead,” Edwards said.
The school of public health hopes to begin astudy on the electronic cigarette in the spring.JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Snus is a smokeless tobacco alternativemeant for places where smoking is notpermitted. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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MAMMA MIA!This saccharine Broadway show-turned-film hits homevideo as a two-disc set with loads ofspecial features. You can chooseto watch the film unadulteratedor with karaoke-stylesubtitles — which wereadded to the film’s laterweeks of theatrical release— for all 22 songs inMamma Mia!. In addition, abonus song, “The Name ofthe Game,” is included. Thesecond disc of the set has awhole slew of features,including an overall look at themaking of the movie and a featurette on filming in Greece.Most interesting is the piece on the anatomy of blockingand choreographing a scene, which requires a lot morework than might be expected of a short dance sequence.
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGONEMPERORThe second sequel to The Mummy also arrives as atwo-disc set. On disc one, director Rob Cohen provides
commentary on the film and thereis the typical set of deleted
and extended scenes. Disctwo is far more in-depth,with a number offeaturettes looking intothe creation of the film.The best involves theprocess of creating Jet
Li’s mummy Emperor Han.The process involved a very
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THE MUMMY: THE ANIMATED SERIES —VOLUMES 1-3These three separately releaseddiscs collect the two seasons ofthe show, which aired on theWB from 2001 to 2003. Theseries doesn’t quite carryover the fun factor thethree films used to grossover $1 billion worldwide. Interms of special features,the discs are barebones.Volume one has shortcharacter bios,; volume two hassome short text about people,places and things in ancient Egypt; andvolume three has no special features. Some of the episodesare entertaining, but these discs are just for the hardcoreMummy fans out there.
REVIEW | FALL OUT BOY
Mixed boyish madnessFall Out Boy goes further mainstream with new album
BY THOMAS FLOYDSenior staff writer
In many ways, Fall Out Boy repre-sents everything wrong with the modernmusic scene. While deeper, more melod-ically concise work flies under theradar, attention-craving emo princePete Wentz’s often choppy, self-indul-gent lyrics top the charts and sell outvenues across the country.
But damn it, why do their songs have tobe so catchy?
When Wentz isn’t booking guest spots onCalifornication and Privileged or spawn-ing the heir to his pop punk throne withwife Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, he pens thelyrics and plays bass for that quartet fromthe Chicago suburbs that you just can’tstop listening to.
That in mind, it’s easy to understandwhy one won’t find a more defensive artistthan Fall Out Boy. The video for their 2007single, “The Take Over, The Breaks Over,”depicts haters pelting the band with waterballoons because they sold out to the Man.And we all know by now how they firmlybelieve, “This Ain’t an [Emo] Scene, It’san Arms Race.”
With Fall Out Boy’s fifth full-lengthstudio album, Folie á Deux (translation: amadness shared by two), Wentz and hiscollaborators have strayed even furtherfrom their now distant indie rock roots.This time around, the disc’s second trackand first single, “I Don’t Care,” isWentz’s self-explanatory f--- you to FallOut Boy’s critics.
“I don’t care what you think/ As longas it’s about me/ The best of us can findhappiness in misery,” frontman PatrickStump sings. The video takes it a stepfurther, with Guns N’ Roses alumnusGilby Clarke scolding to their faces,“What the hell happened to rock androll? Eyeliner? Energy drinks? And noguitar solos? I’ve taken shits with big-ger rock stars than them.”
Clarke’s claim is most likely true,though the band still proves its point.Behind the song’s message, Stump againworks his melodious magic with Wentz’swords, infusing the track with the idealtempo and giving the chorus an irresistiblyalluring hook.
“Never the same person when I go tosleep/ As when Iwake up,” Stumpmuses about theidea of changingovernight duringthe album’s thirdtrack, “She’s MyWinona.” Althoughthose are Wentz’swords, it doesseem more fittingcoming out ofStump’s mouth.After all, Wentzmay be the face ofthe band, butStump is its voiceand primary com-poser. Most impor-tantly, it is his evo-lution as an artist that seems to be dictat-ing Fall Out Boy’s direction.
From the album’s opener, “DisloyalOrder of Water Buffaloes,” the album’s1980s influences ring clear while Stumpgets the album off to a strong start. Aftersuperbly treading through the song’s slow,organ-led intro, the guitarist raises thecadence a notch and belts out the lyricswith convincing bravado.
Stump keeps pushing himself to thelimit vocally with each new release, andFolie á Deux is no exception. Stump shunshis typically high-pitched chords fromtime to time, most notably delving into adeeper, Josh Groban-esque tenor in theband’s Elvis Costello collaboration, “What
a Catch, Donnie.”Stump has also made a habit of adding
those quick inflections to his voice at justthe right moments, and he does so to greateffect in the standout, “America’s Suite-hearts.” However, he occasionally goesoutside his range to regrettable results aswell, such as his clunky opening verses to
the otherwise stel-lar pace-changingharmony, “Head-first Slide intoCooperstown on aBad Bet.”
Since the begin-ning-to-end consis-tency of 2003’s TakeMe to Your Grave,Fall Out Boy’s lasttwo albums — FromUnder the CorkTree and Infinity onHigh — have beentop-heavy effortsweighed down by ahandful of subpartracks.
This remains anissue with Folie á Deux, as messy, overpro-duced songs such as “w.a.m.s.” and “WestCoast Smoker” close the album on a sournote. And appearances by Panic at theDisco’s Brendon Urie on “20 Dollar NoseBleed” and Lil Wayne on “Tiffany Blews”see Fall Out Boy cater the music to theirguests’ styles far too much.
On the other hand, the combination ofstriking hits and forgettable fluff does fitwith the band’s philosophy. As Wentzwrote in “She’s My Winona,” it’s all about“hell or glory/ I don’t want anything inbetween.” For now, we’re luckily seeing abit more of the glory side.
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War is a beautiful death WaltzREVIEW | WALTZ WITH BASHIR
BY VAMAN MUPPALAStaff writer
Even the best war movies oftenstruggle to escape the trappings oftheir genre. Visuals ripe withexcessive gore and bombasticexplosions are largely the only wayfilmmakers express the horrors ofcombat. In an age of embeddedreporters and IED blasts on 24/7cable news networks, however, thistechnique becomes increasinglydevoid of impact and effectiveness.
Waltz with Bashir — a largelyautobiographical dream of a film byIsraeli director Ari Folman (Madein Israel) — conquers this short-coming by abandoning conventionalreality altogether.
“It always planned to be an ani-mated film,” Folman said in aninterview with The Diamondback.“If you look at everything that isin the film ... going from realitiesto dreams to subconscious to hal-lucinations to war, which is proba-bly the most surreal thing onEarth. So animation is the perfectway to do it.”
Opening with Folman’s friendBoaz’s recurring war nightmares,Bashir quickly establishes that it isno mere cartoon. The film’s 26 sali-vating dogs — seemingly straightfrom the underworld — will deci-mate any memories of Lady andthe Tramp.
As Folman narrates one of thefew memories he retains from war,the movie begins its near-hypnotictrance. Perfectly constructedimages of three naked soldiers (Fol-man and two others) emergingfrom the water against a sky burntyellow by warfare, combined withhis rueful voiceover and somberstrings, quickly establish an atmos-phere of regret and fear that carrieson throughout the film.
Soon after, when he meets with atherapist, Folman realizes that hismind has repressed large portionsof his memories from Israel’s inva-sion of Lebanon in 1982.
“I realized that it was the firstever for me to hear my story,” Fol-man explained. “Then came the
dream with my friend, and thingsstarted to roll.”
Thus begins the central conflictof Bashir: Folman’s quest to fill inthe gaps in his recollections andconstruct a narrative of whatexactly happened during the warthat was traumatic enough for Fol-man to involuntarily repress it.
This journey for answers leadsFolman to travel around the worldto question his old friends.Although they would much ratherforget their pasts, Folman’sfriends slowly begin puttingtogether the puzzle, one disturbingpiece at a time.
It is in the flashbacks of Folman’sfellow soldiers that the visualsreally shine. Though the images aresurreal and at times absurdist, theyspeak volumes and carry an unex-pected emotional weight.
There is a brilliant sequence inwhich Folman’s friend, ShmuelFrenkel, performs a ballet of sortswhile firing at Palestinian militants,lost in the delirium of war. Mean-while, the television journalist Ron
Ben-Yishai struts calmly throughthe gunfire, observing the carnagebut invincible to it.
In a lesser film, this imagery sim-ply would have been dismissed as
ludicrous and unconvincing, yetBashir achieves a sort of transcen-
dence, and according to Folman,“nothing is too absurd in life.”
The acting in Bashir is conductedby way of subtle illustration and thehaunted tones of the characters’narration. Although the faces arenot extremely detailed, the simplydrawn lines of weariness and stub-ble on Folman and his friends’ facescontrasted with the nubile, hopefulvisages of their younger selvesspeaks volumes about their psycho-logical development.
Similarly, the dialogue is sparsebut very effective. Owing largely tothe documentary format of the film,there are no ornaments or artificeto the speech of the characters.Nobody engages in monologues orshoots for overstated eloquence;each character simply and honestlyrelates what happened.
As a result, the characters act asa conduit for the emotional potencyof the events themselves, ratherthan serving as obstructions.
Amid these individual surrealscenes, the larger narrative beginsto emerge. The Israeli army isextremely perturbed by the Pales-tinian insurgents, and, is in a gen-eral state of confusion. In fact, Fol-man’s orders are simply to justkeep shooting.
Unfortunately — as Folmanlearns — this panic had very direconsequences. When Israel’sLebanese ally, Bashir Gemayel, isassassinated, the Phalangist fac-tions loyal to him begin demandingblood. Every Israeli soldier thenbecomes an accessory to the geno-cide as they acquiesce to the Pha-langist demands.
Still, Folman feels that his com-plex surrealist masterpiece can beunderstood very simply.
“The whole film is just basicallythe words of ‘Masters of War,’” Fol-man asserted, referring to the BobDylan song. “This is it. It’s the onlystatement coming out of the film,nothing more than that.”
Director Ari Folman discusses making a surrealistic account of his real-life war stories
Waltz with Bashir explores the Israeli consciousness through the horrors of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Director Ari Folmanmelds animation with a somber documentary approach to produce a film of extraordinary impact. PHOTOS COURTESY OF MOVIEWEB
MOVIE: Waltz with Bashir | VERDICT: 1/2
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BYADIJOSEPHSenior staff writer
No one can figure out whenthe last Terrapin cross countryrunner qualified for nationalsbefore this season. The recordbooks are unclear on the histo-ry. But one thing is clear:Sophomore Alex Lundy is thefirst Terp to make the NCAAmeet in a while.
Lundy, a Littleton, Colo., na-tive, was joined by head coachAndrew Valmon and distancecoach Terry Weir at the meet,where he eventually finishedright around the middle of a fieldof more than 250 runners, in125th place. He ran the 10-kilo-meter race in 31:04.9, just morethan two minutes behind Ore-gon’s Galen Rupp, who won theevent after competing in the Bei-jing Olympics this past summer.
The Diamondback caught upwith Lundy, a biology major andaspiring doctor, to discuss his tripto nationals, how he got there andwhat keeps him running.
The Diamondback: When didyou begin to feel like nationalswas a realistic goal?Alex Lundy: At the beginning ofthe season, we talked about ourgoals throughout the season, andcoach was saying that we had the
opportunity to get to nationals ifwe run well at regionals. But itreally didn’t become clear to mewhat I was running foruntil right before the re-gional meet.DBK: When you firstfound out you made it tonationals, did you grasphow big this was for theprogram?Lundy: I didn’t realize itimmediately. After, Iguess, about an hour orso, coach was trying tofigure how long it hadbeen. He told me it was a good 10or 15 years. It didn’t really sink inuntil a couple days after they toldme. It was a really cool feeling. Itwas nice to confirm all the workwe’ve done.DBK:What was your experienceat nationals like, running againstthe nation’s elite?Lundy: It was really enjoyable,just being out there with thattype of competition. In highschool, I was never up to the levelsome of those guys are at. Just torun against some of the guys thathave been to the Olympics ... itwas pretty much surrealthroughout.DBK: You run the 10K for meets,but what’s the longest distanceyou’ve ever run?Lundy: I probably did a 17-18-
mile run just for training. Com-petition-wise, I’ve run a half-marathon for fun over the sum-
mer. It’s an interestingfeeling. A lot of peoplethink distance runnersare crazy for wanting torun that long or beingable to. But really, youdon’t think about howlong you’re running.DBK: What do you thinkabout when you’re run-ning?Lundy: For a lot of people,running is a moment of
clarity. A lot of my friends saysome of their best thinking comeswith running. For me, it’s more ofa time to just shut my brain offand let my body do its thing andjust run and take control.DBK:How big of an advantage isit, really, to be adjusted to run-ning in the mountains?Lundy: As far as the altitude dif-ference, I notice a pretty big dif-ference in the first few weekscoming back from home. I thinkthe best part of training backhome is running mountains andhills that are really tough on yourlegs and build strength and helpavoid injuries. I think it’s morethe hills, rather than the altitudechange.
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CHAMPIONSHIP PART II1:23, there were doubts about theirability to accomplish that feat.
But in the 16 games that followed,a stingy defense allowed just sixgoals; playmaking midfielders Jere-my Hall and Graham Zusi emergedon offense; and the team won theACC tournament.
“There was a time in the middleof this year where we weren’t surewe had the fiber to be a champion,and we challenged our guys rightafter the Clemson game,”Cirovski said. “There are a lot oftalented players on this squad thathave never won a championship,and we reminded them of what ittakes. They not only bought into it,they surpassed every expectationI had for them.”
One of the players who had won achampionship before was Zusi, whowas a key substitute in the team’s2005 national title run. Zusi scoredboth goals for the Terps this week-end — yesterday’s low 18-yardstrike toward the left post in the 67thminute and Friday night’s 26-yardfree kick to the upper-left corner toadvance past St. John’s in doubleovertime.
“What more can you ask for?”Zusi said, referring to his nationaltitle victories in both his freshmanand senior seasons. “I was extreme-ly happy to be more of a part of thisone, a little bit more playing time.Everything about it was incredible.”
Yesterday’s title game was evenlymatched but lacked flow and openplay, something Cirovski attributedto both teams’ fatigue. Zusi’s shot atgoal came as a result of a deflectedshot from Hall, who was creditedwith the assist.
On the other side of the field, theTerp backline again held steady.The defensive unit ended the seasonwith a program record of its own, 15shutouts, which defender OmarGonzalez made sure his coach in-cluded while listing all of his team’saccomplishments during thepostgame press conference.
The Tar Heels only had twoshots on goal, but a number ofopportunities were preventedbefore they got more dangerouswhen Terp goalkeeper Zac Mac-Math came out of net to aggres-sively collect balls in the box.
North Carolina’s best chancecame with a little more than 19 min-utes remaining, when midfielderMichael Callahan made a run intothe box and had an open look at thegoal. MacMath ran out of goal andwas able to get a foot on the shotfrom point-blank range.
The freshman from St. Peters-burg, Fla., helped the Terps survivethe Tar Heels’ final charge and wasa major factor throughout theirchampionship season, recording a19-1-0 record for the season aftertaking over for sophomore WillSwaim after the Clemson loss. Hefinished the year mirroring the ef-forts of freshman goalkeeper ChrisSeitz in the 2005 title run.
“Everyone told each other that wewere going to stay home and cleareverything out. No matter what, wewere going to keep it out of the backof the net,” MacMath said. “With thehelp of all the guys here and all thecoaches, they put confidence in meand let me be as good as I can.”
In the first half, the Tar Heelsshowed they would mount more of achallenge than St. John’s did in Fri-day night’s semifinal. Though the
Terps gained some traction as half-time approached, North Carolinarecorded six shots, twice as many asthe Red Storm could muster in theentire match on Friday night.
Forward Jason Herrick wascaught offsides while tapping in across from defender Rodney Wal-lace, with a little more than 15minutes remaining in the firsthalf. In the 24th minute, a headerby Herrick off of a corner kick bymidfielder Matt Kassel wasstopped by Tar Heel goalkeeperBrooks Haggerty at the near postand deflected out of bounds.
Although the Terps admitted tobeing tired afterward, they finallybroke through with Zusi’s goal in thesecond half.
Zusi was named the tourna-ment’s offensive MVP and Gon-zalez, whose girlfriend, Terps’field hockey player and nationalchampion Alexis Pappas, was atyesterday’s game, received thecorresponding defensive honors.
But the story of the Terps nationalchampionship season wasn’t merelyabout talented individuals earningawards. Throughout their 16-gamewinning streak, the Terps exertedmaximum effort on the field, a qual-ity Townsend displayed in full nearthe conclusion of yesterday’s game.
“I was exhausted, but I owed it tothe seniors because they worked sohard,” Townsend said. “So I laideverything that I had out there forthem. I couldn’t ask for more in myfirst season.”
Cirovski couldn’t have askedfor more, either, as he hoisted hissecond national championshiptrophy in four years.
Coach Sasho Cirovski embraces defender Rich Costanzo as the Terps celebrate winning the nation-al championship. This season was the first time the Terps have won the ACC tournament and NCAAtournament in the same year, thanks in large part to stingy defense. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Defense proved steady force
Zusi scored both Terp goalspast North Carolina goal-keeper Brooks Haggerty. Itwas good enough to give theTerps a one-goal lead. Thatlead was good enough toensure the 1-0 win and the2008 national championship.
“I happened to be at theright place at the right time,”Zusi said in his typicallyunderstated manner.
Luck may have played apart in it. The ball came toZusi after a shot by midfielderJeremy Hall deflected off of adefender. But Zusi’s clutchperformances played a hugefactor in the Terps’ CollegeCup triumph.
Zusi’s sharp, curling 26-yard free kick toward theupper left corner also gave theTerps the 1-0 win in Fridaynight’s semifinal against St.John’s. That goal came in dou-ble overtime, and Zusi pulledoff and waved his shirt aroundas his teammates flooded thefield, celebrating the win.
“I guess it is a little bit ofbeing in the right place, justtrying to step up at the righttime when my team needs methe most,” Zusi said, whenasked about his knack forscoring big goals. “I don’treally know how to answerthat question, but I was justfortunate to do so.”
Now, the senior from Long-wood, Fla., has two nationaltitles, coming in his first andlast seasons on the team. Butfor Zusi, who also scored in theTerps’ 2005 semifinal winagainst Southern Methodist, itwas hard to envision beingnamed the NCAA tournament’soffensive MVP when he wasstruggling with his new attack-ing midfield position for muchof the regular season.
He broke out in the Terps’2-1 Oct. 31 win at Virginia,and has been one of the team’smost consistent performersever since, leading the teamwith five goals in that final 10-game stretch.
“Sasho always told me thatI did have it in me,” Zusisaid. “I think it was just mebuying into that. That madethe difference.”
Cirovski said since Zusi hasbecome more comfortablewith the position, making surenot to get too wide in theattack, he has been among theTerps’ best players.
“It took Graham sometime,” Cirovski said. “The linkwas missing; we detailed itquite a bit. I think when Gra-
ham’s eyes opened up and herecognized that, he’s been onfire. He’s just been terrific.”
Zusi still displayed thatsame soft-spoken mannerwhile sitting at the table dur-ing yesterday’s postgamepress conference. But therewas also a feeling of satisfac-tion for leading the Terps tothe national championshipseason he had anticipatedfrom the very beginning.
The Terps celebrate midfielder Graham Zusi’s goal in yesterday’sNCAA championship game. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
ZUSI, from Page 1
CHAMPIONSHIP, from Page 1
ALEXLUNDYSOPHOMORERUNNER
lack of a dominant center, theexcessive minutes given toflawed players in the post andMilbourne, a natural smallforward, being forced to playout of position.
Regardless of yourthoughts on the play of DaveNeal and Dino Gregory, it’stime to rethink that finalpremise.
Milbourne has broken hiscareer high in scoring duringeach of the Terps’ past twogames. And while a depletedGeorge Washington squadand a 2-11 Delaware Stateteam hardly pose the threatsof top ACC frontcourts, Mil-bourne’s aggressive play is asign of good things to come.
“I think he’s starting to seehis opportunities to score, andhe’s doing a really good job,”coach Gary Williams said.“He’s settling in and reallyhelping the rest of the teamby being able to play thatposition.”
And the Terps are going toneed this kind of sustainedeffort from the tri-captain ifthey plan on making theNCAA Tournament. Withoutthat planted center control-ling the paint, Williams willneed players like Milbourneand guard Greivis Vasquez topick up the slack with insidescoring and rebounding.
Milbourne isn’t a back-to-the-basket scorer. But one ofthe strongest assets of thisTerp team is its versatility,with each player capable ofplaying any role in Williams’patented flex offense. Inmany ways, the 2008-09Terps fit the flex better thanany Terp squad in recentmemory, and Milbourne isperhaps the biggest reason.
“I feel comfortable, no mat-ter what position I’m at,” saidMilbourne, who is averaging11.9 points and 4.8 reboundsper game. “It’s just good forme. I feel good no matterwhat position I’m at. ... Youcan’t get caught up in a num-ber.”
That’s the right attitude forMilbourne at this point, andit’s something he’s going tohave to stick with as ACC playapproaches. Milbourneshould not bog himself downwith trying to play power for-ward against bigger, strongerfrontcourt players he’s goingto run into, players such asNorth Carolina’s DeonThompson or Wake Forest’sAl-Farouq Aminu.
If he instead plays his owngame, Milbourne should beable to blow by those playerson offense and use thestrength and peak physicalfitness Williams has laudedall season to keep pace withhis larger foes on defense.
“I think he’s just quickerthan bigger guys,” said team-mate Gregory, who oftenguards Milbourne in practice.“He’s real strong. He’s realactive. He never gets tired. SoI think that’s his advantage:He’s quicker and better-con-
ditioned than other guys.”After Friday’s game, Mil-
bourne was the first player inthe Terp locker room most ofthe media swarmed. It’s a sta-tus generally reserved for thestar, the player every mediamember needs to interviewfor their on-deadline story.
Similar to his new positionon the court, the soft-spokenMilbourne is still growinginto his role as that guy, thatkey interview. But fellowjunior Eric Hayes, who hasbeen in that position occa-sionally throughout his threeyears as a Terp, is quick topoint out that his teammateis slowly adjusting, and forgood reason.
“If he keeps playing theway he is,” the guard said,smiling as he looked as hisclassmate, “he’s going to havea lot more media coming athim after games.”
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just feeling really confident,real energetic.”
Milbourne was economicalwith his 12 shot attempts, mak-ing nine and hitting all five freethrows. He also collected sevenrebounds as part of a 41-30Terps advantage on the glass.
And, once again, guardGreivis Vasquez filled up thebox score with a diverse 16-point, eight-rebound, seven-assist performance, as he con-tinues to candidly strive for acertain personal achieve-ment.
“I’m trying to get a triple-double,” Vasquez said afterthe game. “But hopefully I getit against a big-time team.”
As well as the Terps played,they didn’t need to be perfectagainst the struggling Hor-nets, who missed open shotsaplenty when the Terps’defense allowed them.
But the Terps still displayedtireless energy, perhaps bestshown by reserve swingmanCliff Tucker, who was astarter early in the season buthad recently lost considerableplaying time.
With an early 20-4 run, theTerps for all intents and pur-poses won the game beforeTucker even stood up fromthe bench. But when hefinally got some time at theend of the first half, Tuckerused his athleticism to do justabout everything in helpingthe Terps extend their lead.
Tucker hustled around thecourt accumulating sevenpoints, six assists, five reboundsand a pair of steals while im-pressing his coach in a stirring19 minutes on the floor.
“He was very active, and hemade things happen,” coachGary Williams said. “That’sthe type of player Cliff has tobe for us.”
Tucker’s glad he had that
opportunity.“I feel like I can be a starter
on this team,” the sophomoresaid. “By not playing, I kind ofget down on myself because Iknow I should be on the courtplaying. When he gives me achance to go in there I gottaprove that I can play in orderto get into the rotation, andthat’s what I did today.”
From the starting unit tothe bench, everything hasbeen falling into place for theTerps recently. Williams hasbegun to get a feel for a con-sistent rotation, and the play-ers who have received timehave responded with qualityplay.
In the win, the team had aseason-best 23 assists.Guards Adrian Bowie andEric Hayes had 12 points
apiece, and recently resur-gent forward Dino Gregorychipped in with a career-high eight.
And as for Milbourne: “Ithink he’s settling in and reallyhelping the team by being ableto play that [power forward]position,” Williams said.
With five soft non-confer-ence games after finals, theTerps have a big opportunityto continue building on theirthree-game win streak beforeconference play begins.
“I feel pretty good about myteam,” Vasquez said. “I haveplenty of confidence and hope-fully we’ll make a run thismonth. Maybe we’ll be 12-2going into the league [against]Georgia Tech at home.”
Reserves showcased in winHORNETS, from Page 22
ADI JOSEPH
Milbourne adjusting wellJOSEPH, from Page 22
Landon Milbourne isn’t a natural power forward, but he has provencapable of manning the position, topping his previous career highsin each of his past two games. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Guard Greivis Vasquez spearheaded an efficient Terp offense thathad 23 assists and just 11 turnovers. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
“I feel comfortable,no matter whatposition I’m at.”
LANDON MILBOURNEJUNIOR FORWARD
have one of the nation’s toprushing attacks based out ofthe “pistol” formation. But thebiggest question still looms:Can the Terps pull off an eight-win season and build momen-tum for next year by knockingoff Nevada (7-5, 5-3 WAC)?
The game will close a wildend to the season for the Terps(7-5, 4-4 ACC), who will end upplaying in Boise after losingthree of their last four gamesto fall out of ACC Champi-onship contention. Followingthe departure of two assistantcoaches, a shot at redemptionentails a nearly 2,400-mile,cross-country trek to meet ateam with an unusual offensethat features the quarterbacktaking a shortened shot-gunsnap with a traditional I-for-mation behind him.
“We can end this thing theway we want to end it,” saiddefensive tackle JeremyNavarre, one of 30 Terp sen-iors whose career will end inBronco Stadium. “We have asecond chance.”
Despite holding out hopeuntil the end for an invitationto play in the Meineke CarCare Bowl in Charlotte, N.C.,the Terps seem excited for achance at postseason play.Coach Ralph Friedgen askedthe entire team if they wantedto play in Boise. Althoughmany players called the ques-tion a formality, every playerraised his hand.
“I think that everyone knowsthe bowl shuffle wasn’t fair, inreality,” quarterback ChrisTurner said. “We don’t look atourselves as the [ACC’s]eighth-best team. We can geteight wins, and that’s a goodseason.”
The Terps, who have beenone of the nation’s most incon-sistent teams this season, hopeto regain some respect after
limping down the stretch. Theoffense is focusing on runningthe ball behind a senior-ladenline bent on closing with agood performance. Thedefense hopes to make interimdefensive coordinator Al Sea-monson look good in his audi-tion to get the job permanently.
They’ll play a team that lostby a touchdown to No. 9 BoiseState this season and featuresthe WAC offensive player ofthe year, dual-threat quarter-back Colin Kaepernick.
“We’ve worked so hardthroughout the winter and thesummer for this opportunity,”linebacker Alex Wujciak said.“It’s not going to be hard to putit all on the line one moretime.”
Unlike the bowl games thelast two years, the Terps willget to spend Christmas at theirhomes. The team will fly toBoise Dec. 26, and playersfrom outside the area can fly inseparately that day.
Then the Terps will spend afew days experiencing thelocal culture before trying toclose the legacy of a team thatbeat four ranked opponentsbut won just one road game ona positive note.
“I’m just happy I’m notgoing to be sitting at home onChristmas break watchingother guys play,” Navarre said.“You’ve just got to take whatyou can get.”
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Wolf Pack use odd formationinconsistency. One week theywould show up with their Agame and beat a rankedopponent, then the next weekthey would come out flatagainst a team they wereexpected to beat.
Coach Ralph Friedgen saidseveral times throughout theseason that he wished heknew which Terp team wasgoing to show up, and heoften didn’t find out untilafter the game started.
The Terps seem excited tobe playing in this bowl game,and Friedgen said practicewent surprisingly smoothlast week following a layoffafter the end of the regularseason.
Still, it’s anybody’s guesswhat the Terps’ level ofintensity will be on Dec. 30.
2. How will the absence ofdefensive coordinator ChrisCosh affect the Terpdefense?
Cosh left the team earlierthis month to take essentiallythe same position at KansasState, and he will not coachthe Terps in the bowl game.
Cosh was never exactlywell-received by Terp fans,but his absence — as well asthe absence of special teamscoordinator and tight endscoach Danny Pearman, whotook a job at Clemson —leaves the Terp coachingstaff short-handed and couldpotentially lead to someminor instability.
Linebackers coach Al Sea-monson will serve as interimdefensive coordinator, andhe is said to be auditioningfor the job permanently.
Led by running back VaiTaua and quarterback ColinKaepernick, the Wolf Packranked second in the nation
in rushing offense and 13thin the nation in scoringoffense, so Seamonson andthe Terps will have theirhands full.
3. What will Darrius Hey-ward-Bey do in what mightbe his last game as a Terp?
The Terps’ star widereceiver has until Jan. 15 tomake a decision aboutwhether to declare for theNFL Draft, and he is said tostill be weighing his options.But this very well could beHeyward-Bey’s last game asa Terp.
The junior has had aninconsistent season, domi-nating some games with hisbig-play ability and com-pletely disappearing in oth-ers as opposing defenseskeyed on him as the Terps’most dynamic offensiveweapon.
Heyward-Bey missed theTerps’ regular-season finalewith a strained calf, but hewill likely play against theWolf Pack, which has theworst passing defense in theFootball Bowl Subdivision.
4. Will the Terps be able to
run the ball against theWolf Pack?
As bad as the Wolf Pack’spassing defense is, its rundefense is ranked third in thenation, as it has allowed just74.5 rushing yards per game.
The Terps’ rushing offense— starting with their runblocking — has been veryinconsistent all season, as theTerps rushed for more than200 yards three times and fornegative yardage twice.
Running back Da’Rel Scottfinished the regular seasonsecond in the ACC in rushingyards per game, and heneeds 41 yards to become thefirst Terp to rush for 1,000yards in a season since ChrisDowns in 2002.
5. Will Jordan Steffy winthis game for the Terps?
This may seem a little outof left field, but you mayremember Friedgen’s emo-tional guarantee the Tuesdayafter the senior quarterbackinjured his thumb in the sea-son opener against Delawareon Aug. 30.
“I can tell you this,” Fried-gen said. “Regardless of whoplays this week or next weekor whatever, Jordan willcome in and win a game forus before the season’s over.”
Well, the Terps have played11 games since then, andSteffy hasn’t yet seen thefield, so the HumanitarianBowl would be his last chanceto prove Friedgen right.
And unless something hap-pens to quarterback ChrisTurner, it’s probably notgoing to happen in this game,either.
Nevertheless, it’s one ofthe more interesting sub-plots in a game that may beworth watching after all.
GREG SCHIMMEL
Which Terps will show in Boise?
Receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey may be playing in his finalgame as a Terp in Boise. ADAM
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third of the season, and by fartheir easiest.
“The guys went out there andhad a fire underneath them to goout and perform,” McCoy said.“They fought hard and some ofthe things we worked on duringthe week showed today. It was agood overall performance, andI’m glad it went the way it did.”
The Tigers never seemed tohave a chance with the Terpsdominating them in almost everyfacet.
Sophomore Lou Ruland startedthe romp with an early takedown
and a pin with only one secondremaining in the first periodagainst Princeton’s Robert Ben-itez.
After Ruland, two of the Terp’sranked wrestlers, junior StevenBell, ninth, and redshirt juniorAlex Krom, 18th, both dispatchedtheir opponents with pins.
The final fall for the Terps wasbrought by redshirt freshmanKyle John at 157 pounds, whotook down Princeton’s MartyEverin in 4:30.
Princeton’s lone points in thematch came at the very end, asthe Tiger’s Kurt Brednel beatfreshman Owen Smith, 5-1.
The two forfeits in the matchwere in the 197 and heavyweightmatches, helping seventh-rankedHudson Taylor and PatrickGilmore gain victories. Taylorimproves to 15-2 on the season.
The wrestling team is off fortwo weeks for finals, then will goto the Wilkes Open on Dec. 28.Their next home game, and con-ference opener, will be on Jan. 11against North Carolina.
“We’re looking forward to nextyear, and we believe that ’09 willbe a great year for this program,”McCoy said.
[email protected] wrestler Kyle John pinned Princeton’s Marty Everin in 4:30, one of three pins for the Terps in theirsweeping victory against the Tigers in the team’s home opener. JACLYNBOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Terps have an extended break
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SportsFOR FULL MEN’S SOCCER COVERAGE, SEE PAGE 18
TERP SPORTS WINTERBREAK SCHEDULES
Men’s Basketball:Dec. 22, 7:30 p.m. vs. AmericanDec. 27, 2 p.m. vs. BryantDec. 30, 8 p.m. vs. Elon Jan. 3, 4 p.m. vs. CharlotteJan. 7, 8 p.m. vs. Morgan StateJan. 10, noon vs. Georgia TechJan. 14, 9 p.m. @ MiamiJan. 20, 8 p.m. vs. VirginiaJan. 24, noon @ Duke
Women’s Basketball:Dec. 21, 1 p.m. @ Old DominionDec. 29, 2 p.m. vs. UNC-AshevilleDec. 30, 2 p.m. vs. Miss. State
or Marshall Jan. 3, 3 p.m. @ RichmondJan. 8, 7 p.m. vs. Wake ForestJan. 12, 7:30 p.m. @ DukeJan. 15, 7 p.m. @ ClemsonJan. 18, 4 p.m. vs. Virginia TechJan. 25, 7 p.m. vs. North Carolina
Football:Dec. 30, 4:30 p.m. Humanitarian
Bowl vs. Nevada in Boise, Idaho
Gymnastics:Jan. 9, 7 p.m. vs. Kent StateJan. 17, 7 p.m. @ Ohio StateJan. 23, 7 p.m. vs. Denver and
N.C. State
Men’s Tennis:Jan. 25, 11 a.m. @ Louisville
Track:Jan. 9-10, Virginia Tech
Invitational in Blacksburg, Va.Jan. 17, Maryland Invitational in
LandoverJan. 24, Navy Invitational in
Annapolis (men) or Fairfax, Va.(women)
Men’s Swimming:Jan. 16, 5 p.m. vs. Villanova,
Pittsburgh and Penn StateJan. 17, 11 a.m. vs. Villanova,
Pittsburgh and Penn State
Women’s Swimming:Jan. 16, 5 p.m. vs. Villanova,
Pittsburgh and Penn StateJan. 17, 11 a.m. vs. Villanova,
Pittsburgh and Penn StateJan. 24, 1 p.m. vs. Richmond
and Miami
Wrestling:Dec. 28, Wilkes Open in Wilkes-
Barre, Pa.Dec. 29-30, Midland
Championships in Evanston, Ill. Jan. 11, 2 p.m. vs. North CarolinaJan. 16, 7 p.m. @ OklahomaJan. 18, 2 p.m. @ NebraskaJan. 24, noon @ N.C. State
Swingman Cliff Tucker was one of several key Terp reserves who stepped up with increasedminutes against Delaware State on Friday, in the Terps’ easy win. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps breeze into finals weekMilbourne leads balancedeffort in Friday’s 28-pointblowout of Delaware State
BY MARK SELIGSenior staff writer
The only thing standing inthe way of a nine-day exambreak for the Terrapin men’sbasketball team was a 2-10MEAC squad theyhad to take care ofFriday night.
But even with anupcoming rest, theTerps decided not toloaf againstDelaware State, alesson they learnedafter struggling totake care of business againstteams they should havebeaten last season.
Forward Landon Milbournescored a career high for thesecond straight game, thistime tallying 23 points as theTerps (7-2) operated on theHornets (2-11) in a quick andpainless 86-58 victory at Com-cast Center.
“We spoke a lot about what
happened last year aroundthis time,” Milbourne said. “Ithink we’re headed in the rightpath so far. We have a lot ofpositive energy this year. Guysare more focused on this team.Guys aren’t willing to settle
just because we had acouple good wins. Westill want to get better,still know we haveareas to work on.”
After exams, theTerps will play Dec.22 against American— a team that upsetthem at Comcast Cen-
ter last year on that very samedate. But heading into thebreak, the Terps are hittingtheir stride, especially withMilbourne getting the hang ofthe power forward position andbecoming a fourth consistentscoring option.
“I’m feeling comfortablenow,” Milbourne said. “I’m
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Terps need thisfrom Milbourne
On one play in theTerrapin men’s bas-ketball team’sthrashing of
Delaware State on Fridaynight, forward Landon Mil-bourne went up for a layup,was fouled and still made thelayup.
Later in the game, Mil-bourne flopped to the floor andwas given an on-court view ashis layup spun around thecylinder awkwardly, pausingat the back of the rim before
falling through the netting.Still later, Milbourne threw
down a powerful dunk despitetaking a hard hit from aDelaware State defenderunder the basket. This time, helanded on his feet.
Twenty-three points, sevenrebounds and a 28-point Terpwin after Milbourne wasannounced as the Terps’ start-ing power forward, his per-formance left little room todeny that he earned — at leaston this night — the adjective infront of his position.
Throughout this season,Terp fans have whined abouttheir team’s lack of a dominantfrontcourt. These argumentsare generally spun around the
ADIJOSEPH
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Princetonpinned byTerps in winWrestling takes homeopener by wide margin
BY CHRIS ECKARDStaff writer
Down two points heading intothe third period, Terrapinwrestler Steve Fehnel found away to battle back in dramaticfashion with a 6-4 decision insudden death, using two take-downs and an escape.
The victory was just a smallpart of a dominant afternoon forthe Terps against Princeton yes-terday.
“He has been banged up allweek, and for him to suck it upand go get that win was huge forhim as well as for the rest of theguys to keep that momentumrolling,” coach Kerry McCoysaid.
Starting the match with a 12-point advantage because of twoforfeits, the Terrapin wrestlingteam rolled through the Tigers,winning 46-3 in their homeopener.
Four pins led the Terps, includ-ing three straight to start thematch. One major decision andtwo regular decisions completedthe score. The win was Maryland’s
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Receiver Isaiah Williams and the Terps are headed to the Humanitarian Bowl on Dec. 30. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
HUMANITARIAN BOWL PREVIEW: TERPS VS. NEVADA
WELCOME TO BRONCO STADIUMSome big
questions forthe big bowl
While the Roady’s Humani-tarian Bowl in Boise,Idaho, may not be the mostglamorous bowl destina-
tion, having been the subject of ridiculein more than one of these columns, thetruth is the game itself could be fairlyentertaining.
The Terrapin football team andNevada appear to be relatively evenlymatched, and it might actually be worthgiving up a late Tuesday afternoon dur-ing your winter break to tune in.
If you do decide to watch, here arefive things to look for from the Terps’side of things in the Humanitarian Bowl.
1. Will the Terps come to Boise readyto play, or will they be sleepwalking?
More than anything else this season,the Terps were defined by their
GREGSCHIMMEL
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BY ERIC DETWEILERSenior staff writer
When Jamari McColloughfirst heard the Terrapin footballteam was headed to Boise,Idaho, to play in the Humanitar-ian Bowl on Dec. 30, he neededsome answers.
The destination was unfamil-iar to the junior cornerback,and he didn’t know much aboutthe opponent, Nevada.
The only sure thing forMcCollough was the quirkyblue Astro Turf at Boise State’sBronco Stadium.
“When I first heard it, I was a
little upset,” McCollough said.“I didn’t even know whereIdaho was.”
The blanks have started to fillin for McCollough, who is look-ing forward to snow tubing inBoise and knows the Wolf Pack
Nevada should provide a challenge for Terps
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