THE DIAMONDBACK THE DIAMONDBACK FUTURE: UNKNOWN Football could be headed to any of several bowls SPORTS | PAGE 8 TOILET BOWL DIVERSIONS | PAGE 6 TOMORROW’S WEATHER: Rain/50s www.diamondbackonline.com INDEX NEWS . . . . . . . . . .2 OPINION . . . . . . . .4 FEATURES . . . . . .5 CLASSIFIED . . . . .6 DIVERSIONS . . . . .6 SPORTS . . . . . . . . .8 Our 101 ST Year, No. 65 THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Abrupt close leaves some asking ‘why?’ After Thanksgiving weekend, many students were surprised to find Quiznos locked, dark and empty. MATTHEW CREGER/ THE DIAMONDBACK Students buy Four Loko while it lasts As FDA cracks down and stores cease to sell controversial drink, students stock up BY KELLY FARRELL AND BEN PRESENT Staff writers Editor’s Note: The last names of several students have been withheld because they discuss drinking underage. After two tumultuous months under national scrutiny and an official warn- ing from the Food and Drug Administration, the makers of Four Loko announced two weeks ago they’d strip the alcoholic beverage of its energy-boosting components. But many students refused to bid the beverage a quiet goodbye. Instead, “Farewell, Four Loko” has become a popular party theme as students race to liquor stores to stock up on their favorite cocktail while it still packs the same punch. Several states — not including this one — and uni- versities banned the bever- age in its original form earlier this month. The FDA weighed in shortly thereafter, and made alcoholic energy drinks illegal. Phusion Pro- jects, the Chicago-based man- ufacturer of Four Loko and similar products, promptly agreed to remove the caf- feine, guarana and taurine — three of the drink’s four ‘loco’ ingredients — and other sub- stances from their drink. The combination of those ingredients was the main rea- son the concoction was dubbed “blackout in a can” and led to its label as a men- ace to young drinkers. Many of the beverage’s fans, how- ever, said the recipe was exactly what made the drink so appealing. Sam, a junior engineering major, said she and her friends decided to hold a Four Loko funeral once they heard it would lose its signature ingredients. “We called every liquor BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer If the locked doors and dark windows are any indication, Quiznos is toast. But no one seems sure why. The latest in a handful of business casu- alties in recent months, Quiznos’ unex- pected and unexplained closing two weeks ago took patrons and employees by surprise. Billy Gamy, an employee at the national sandwich chain, showed up for his sched- uled shift on Nov. 16 after taking two days off, but the building was empty. “On the 13th, ever ything was just fine,” Gamy said. “When you look inside and see nothing, it’s kind of a heads up. I guess I don’t work here anymore.” Gamy said he sat outside the store and watched as other employees — dressed in full uniform — attempted to open the locked doors. They didn’t know the estab- lishment had closed either. Neither Quiznos management or Greenhill Capital — the company that owns the strip from Wynn Hair Studio to Vito’s Pizzeria — could be reached to comment on why the downtown restau- rant has disappeared. A customer relations representative With plan in hand, students renew push for Native American studies Provost lauds effort, says subject matter is important BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Staff writer This is not the first time stu- dents have rallied behind a push to expand Native Ameri- can studies at this university. But with a renewed energy, greater organization and a better sense of what it may take to see the discipline expand, students, faculty and administrators engaged in the movement say this time, they expect results. Earlier this month, an infor- mal coalition of university stu- dents, faculty and staff mem- bers, calling themselves the Native American Studies Work- ing Group, met for the first time to brainstorm how to progress toward creating more Native American studies courses, hir- ing more Native American fac- ulty and staff and forming a Native American studies minor. And the outcome, some said, seems more promising than ever before. Student activists circulated a petition for Native American studies that garnered over 360 signatures in a week before a small group of student leaders met with Provost Nariman Far- vardin last Tuesday to discuss these goals. Following the meeting, Far- vardin noted achieving these goals would take time and care- ful study; minors don’t material- ize overnight. The U.S. Latina/o studies minor, which was instated in 2008 after stu- dent protests and petitions came to a head that year, took several years of talks and plan- ning to come to fruition. Still, Farvardin recognized that Native American history and cultures are subjects the university should address. “I am quite supportive of developing a more robust set of courses in Native American studies as this topic constitutes an important part of the history and culture of our country,” he wrote in an e-mail earlier this week. “We will have to gauge the interest of our students in taking these courses, and the interest and expertise of the fac- ulty in teaching them. I will dis- cuss this matter with the deans of the colleges that are likely to be engaged in offering these see COURSES, page 3 see QUIZNOS, page 2 see REGULATION, page 2 Quiznos becomes latest city shop to close down BY RACHEL ROUBEIN Staff writer From the exterior, they look like three ordi- nary College Park houses. But unlike the average city rental home, par- ticipants in the Co-op Housing University of Maryland Inc. group say their houses — deco- rated with homemade drawings and murals painted on roofing material recovered from a trash container — have truly become home. The Mad Ox, the Bucket and the Pod — as see HOUSING, page 2 New co-op housing fosters community Kirby Bowling has been deployed three times while pursuing a doctorate degree. Bowling says he hopes to graduate in a year and a half. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK A dream deferred The Black Eyed Peas return with a terrible new album BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer When Kirby Bowling started his first semester as a doctoral student, he knew there was a chance he would have to leave. At the time, the Iraq War was just begin- ning and troops across the nation were preparing to deploy. In January of 2003, Bowl- ing, who is a Security Forces Officer in the Air Force, received a phone call informing him he had a week to prepare for deployment to North Africa and Europe. His mission was to help guard thousands of troops who were getting ready to invade Iraq. For the sociology student, the request was not exactly a surprise. He’d wanted to deploy for a while, going so far as to change from being in the militar y full-time to work- ing as a reservist — a standby, to increase After three deployments and divorce, doctoral student-veteran works to complete his degree see BOWLING, page 3 MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE DIAMONDBACK
FUTURE: UNKNOWNFootball could beheaded to any ofseveral bowlsSPORTS | PAGE 8
Our 101ST Year, No. 65THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERTuesday, November 30, 2010
Abrupt closeleaves someasking ‘why?’
After Thanksgiving weekend, manystudents were surprised to findQuiznos locked, dark and empty.MATTHEW CREGER/ THE DIAMONDBACK
Students buy Four Loko while it lastsAs FDA cracks down and stores cease to sell controversial drink, students stock up
BY KELLY FARRELLAND BEN PRESENT
Staff writers
Editor’s Note: The last namesof several students have beenwithheld because they discussdrinking underage.
After two tumultuousmonths under nationalscrutiny and an official warn-ing from the Food and Drug
Administration, the makers ofFour Loko announced twoweeks ago they’d strip thealcoholic beverage of itsenergy-boosting components.
But many studentsrefused to bid the beverage aquiet goodbye. Instead,“Farewell, Four Loko” hasbecome a popular partytheme as students race toliquor stores to stock up on
their favorite cocktail while itstill packs the same punch.
Several states — notincluding this one — and uni-versities banned the bever-age in its original form earlierthis month. The FDAweighed in shortly thereafter,and made alcoholic energydrinks illegal. Phusion Pro-jects, the Chicago-based man-ufacturer of Four Loko and
similar products, promptlyagreed to remove the caf-feine, guarana and taurine —three of the drink’s four ‘loco’ingredients — and other sub-stances from their drink.
The combination of thoseingredients was the main rea-son the concoction wasdubbed “blackout in a can”and led to its label as a men-ace to young drinkers. Many
of the beverage’s fans, how-ever, said the recipe wasexactly what made the drinkso appealing. Sam, a juniorengineering major, said sheand her friends decided tohold a Four Loko funeralonce they heard it would loseits signature ingredients.
“We called every liquor
BY RACHEL ROUBEINStaff writer
If the locked doors and dark windowsare any indication, Quiznos is toast. Butno one seems sure why.
The latest in a handful of business casu-alties in recent months, Quiznos’ unex-pected and unexplained closing twoweeks ago took patrons and employeesby surprise.
Billy Gamy, an employee at the nationalsandwich chain, showed up for his sched-uled shift on Nov. 16 after taking two daysoff, but the building was empty.
“On the 13th, everything was just fine,”Gamy said. “When you look inside andsee nothing, it’s kind of a heads up. Iguess I don’t work here anymore.”
Gamy said he sat outside the store andwatched as other employees — dressedin full uniform — attempted to open thelocked doors. They didn’t know the estab-lishment had closed either.
Neither Quiznos management orGreenhill Capital — the company thatowns the strip from Wynn Hair Studio toVito’s Pizzeria — could be reached tocomment on why the downtown restau-rant has disappeared.
A customer relations representative
With plan in hand, students renewpush for Native American studiesProvost lauds effort, says subject matter is important
BY LEAH VILLANUEVAStaff writer
This is not the first time stu-dents have rallied behind apush to expand Native Ameri-can studies at this university.
But with a renewed energy,greater organization and a bettersense of what it may take to seethe discipline expand, students,faculty and administratorsengaged in the movement saythis time, they expect results.
Earlier this month, an infor-mal coalition of university stu-dents, faculty and staff mem-bers, calling themselves theNative American Studies Work-ing Group, met for the first timeto brainstorm how to progresstoward creating more NativeAmerican studies courses, hir-
ing more Native American fac-ulty and staff and forming aNative American studies minor.And the outcome, some said,seems more promising thanever before.
Student activists circulated apetition for Native Americanstudies that garnered over 360signatures in a week before asmall group of student leadersmet with Provost Nariman Far-vardin last Tuesday to discussthese goals.
Following the meeting, Far-vardin noted achieving thesegoals would take time and care-ful study; minors don’t material-ize overnight. The U.S.Latina/o studies minor, whichwas instated in 2008 after stu-dent protests and petitionscame to a head that year, took
several years of talks and plan-ning to come to fruition.
Still, Farvardin recognizedthat Native American historyand cultures are subjects theuniversity should address.
“I am quite supportive ofdeveloping a more robust set ofcourses in Native Americanstudies as this topic constitutesan important part of the historyand culture of our country,” hewrote in an e-mail earlier thisweek. “We will have to gaugethe interest of our students intaking these courses, and theinterest and expertise of the fac-ulty in teaching them. I will dis-cuss this matter with the deansof the colleges that are likely tobe engaged in offering these
see COURSES, page 3
see QUIZNOS, page 2
see REGULATION, page 2
Quiznos becomes latestcity shop to close down
BY RACHEL ROUBEINStaff writer
From the exterior, they look like three ordi-nary College Park houses.
But unlike the average city rental home, par-ticipants in the Co-op Housing University ofMaryland Inc. group say their houses — deco-rated with homemade drawings and muralspainted on roofing material recovered from atrash container — have truly become home.
The Mad Ox, the Bucket and the Pod — as
see HOUSING, page 2
New co-op housing fosters community
Kirby Bowling has been deployed three times while pursuinga doctorate degree. Bowling says he hopes to graduate in ayear and a half. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
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The Black Eyed Peas returnwith a terrible new album
BY LEYLA KORKUTStaff writer
When Kirby Bowling started his firstsemester as a doctoral student, he knewthere was a chance he would have to leave.
At the time, the Iraq War was just begin-ning and troops across the nation werepreparing to deploy. In January of 2003, Bowl-ing, who is a Security Forces Officer in theAir Force, received a phone call informing
him he had a week to prepare for deploymentto North Africa and Europe. His mission wasto help guard thousands of troops who weregetting ready to invade Iraq.
For the sociology student, the requestwas not exactly a surprise. He’d wanted todeploy for a while, going so far as to changefrom being in the military full-time to work-ing as a reservist — a standby, to increase
After three deployments and divorce, doctoralstudent-veteran works to complete his degree
see BOWLING, page 3
MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
store and bought whatever theyhad left,” she said. “At the party, weeven had a moment of silence oncewe were out of Lokos.”
Jake, a junior international busi-ness and supply chain manage-ment major, said many of hisfriends also chose to snatch up asmany of the original 23.5-ouncecans while they still could.
“I know a lot of people whostocked up. There were a couple ofparties I knew of that were for FourLoko,” Jake said. “I know people allover the country who stocked up,not just in College Park. My friendsand I got four packs when wefound out.”
University Police did a tour oflocal liquor establishments about amonth ago to draw owners’ atten-tion to the drink’s risks. Althoughthe cans were harder to find be-cause of high demand, Four Lokostayed on shelves until a few daysafter Phusion Projects’ announce-ment on Nov. 16.
The company maintains thedrink is safe, but also released astatement saying it would continueto obey the new regulations.
“As a result of FDA’s findings wewill notify producers, wholesalersand importers that they are prohib-ited from selling or shipping theproducts that FDA has deter-mined to be adulterated in inter-state or foreign commerce,” thestatement read.
Despite the outcry from healthofficials, students said they don’tblame the drink itself for any nega-tive consequences associated withit; they point fingers instead at indi-vidual irresponsibility and exces-sive media attention.
Laila, a junior psychology major,said outlawing alcoholic energy
drinks is an improper response.“The banning is ridiculous,” she
said. “It’s a ‘people not being able todrink responsibly’ problem, not aFour Loko problem.”
Laila added she thinks themedia has created an artificial ob-session with the beverage, andbanning it is only encouraging stu-dents to stock up.
Jake agreed the excessive pub-licity has created an overblown fad.
“It was more because it was get-ting banned that it became so popu-lar,” Jake said. “It’s not that thedrink tastes good — it kinda tasteslike drinking a battery.”
Mark Tinnin, a cashier at #1Liquor, said students have been re-questing Four Loko for the past fewweeks. He added the store is nolonger selling Four Loko or Joose— a similar drink manufactured byUnited Brands, which also receivedan FDA warning. But Tilt, anotheralcoholic energy drink, remains onshelves at #1 Liquor and manystores across the country.
University Police Chief DavidMitchell commended the FDA forpursuing Phusion Projects, butnoted one drinking fad will alwaysfollow another, pointing to alco-holic whipped cream that is grow-ing in popularity. Mitchell said heknows students can still maketheir own alcoholic energy drinkconcoctions.
“I understand you can go get aRed Bull and mix it with vodka,” hesaid. “You can also drink Sterno. Soa little bit of common sense has tobe applied here.
“There are warnings in regardto the content of it being danger-ous if consumed,” Mitchell added.“The FDA has said that it’s unsafeand I applaud their swift action onthe drink.”
CHUM members have dubbedtheir homes — share a commongoal: attaining and maintaining acommunity spirit while provid-ing affordable living for studentsin a familial environment.
What started as the brain-child of recent graduate RachaelMaddox, who wrote her seniorthesis on how to start a coopera-tive at this university, has turnedinto reality this semester, as 18students spread among threerented houses live, cook, clean,share groceries and even playpranks on one another.
“I wake up, and I’m happy tobe here,” said Kaitlyn Shul-man, a public policy graduatestudent who lives in the MadOx house near the intersectionof Rhode Island Avenue andGuilford Road. “This is what Iwanted in college; this is it. ...It’s like freshman year butmore responsible.”
For Shulman, the affordabil-ity — about $625 per month, in-cluding food, utilities andamenities — is a mere perk ofthe community living style shecraved.
“We’re not that different fromany group of friends living to-gether in a house except that wehave this cooperative spirit,”said sophomore engineeringmajor Matt Smith, who lives inthe Bucket on Columbia Av-enue near Calvert Road. “Webuy food together; we makemeals for each other; we dochores together and make surewe keep our house clean.”
But the community-centeredenvironment didn’t come with-out its fair share of work, saidCHUM President Natalia
Cuadra-Saez, a senior classicsand history major.
Last year, the group was offi-cially recognized by the StudentGovernment Association, metwith College Park City Councilmembers, became formally in-corporated, arranged for theirhouses and started to forge thecamaraderie that exists inCHUM’s homes today.
“We’re just starting; we don’talways know what we’re doing,”Cuadra-Saez said. “As someonein my co-op described it, we’retrying to build a bike while rid-ing it at the same time.”
And it’s a learning experi-ence, as demonstrated by theever-changing chore charts.What started as a circularwheel in the Bucket house —an idea resident and senior so-ciology major Gabe Barouh ap-propriated from a summercamp — has since changed to acheck-your-name-of f-when-completed chart, with choresranging from kitchen cleanup
to playing house chef to com-post, trash and recycling duty.
But Smith said the climate ofunderstanding in the houseleads to rapid changes when ahousemate is disgruntled.
“I think it’s mostly just aboutempowerment, being in chargeof yourself,” Smith said. “It’s avery open environment, and inturn, you can talk to your room-mates and your housematesand that change can happen,which is starkly different thanliving on campus.”
But no matter how busy mem-bers of the CHUM family are,they get a homemade meal fivenights a week, thanks to theweekly $20 each resident chipsin for groceries.
“It’s really nice to come back at7:30, and dinner’s alreadycooked,” Smith said.
CHUM’s next goals are to buy,rather than rent, its houses and tocreate friendly relationships withother city residents, in addition tocity council members.
“[City residents’] biggestgripes is students come in and livein a house and don’t care aboutanything, don’t upkeep theirlawn, throw beer cans every-where, don’t come over to sayhello,” Smith said. “That’s a voidwe’re trying to fill — to becomemembers of the community.”
And with weekly Sundaypotluck dinners open to stu-dents and the public, CHUM isgetting to know its neighbors,some of whom have come to themeals, Shulman said. They alsoplan events including movienights, “CHUMsgiving” andsoccer games.
With the labor comes re-wards, Cuadra-Saez said, andCHUM is in it for the long haul.
“It’s a lot of hard work rightnow because we’re starting itfrom scratch,” she said. “We re-ally expect CHUM to bearound for a really long time —forever, actually.”
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from Quiznos said she was not al-lowed to comment because of pri-vacy reasons. The location hadbeen individually owned and op-erated, she said.
Chris Warren, College Park’seconomic development coordina-tor, said he suspected the manage-ment, which he said had changedhands within the last couple ofyears, was having trouble running
the business effectively.“My sense is that the rents are
too high, and there’s not a lot ofwalk-by traffic,” he said.
The strip seems to be gaining areputation as an inhospitable spotto set up shop. It has experiencedsignificant turnover the past fewsemesters — South StreetSteaks, Wata-Wing and ChickenRico also came and went quickly.
Along with Cluck-U Chicken— which closed earlier thismonth but may reopen soon, pos-sibly in a new location — Quiznos
stands out from the rest becauseit’s a national chain. Franchiseshave traditionally been consid-ered safe from the revolving doorof business downtown, but thatassumption may not hold trueany longer.
“It makes people nervous,”Warren said. “It makes studentsnervous that their favorite busi-ness will go belly-empty.”
Managers of other storesalong the strip said they wereshocked to see the business sud-denly lock its doors.
“They just disappeared,” saidMonica Estrella, general manag-er of Street Tacos, who said she’dtalked to the manager that week-end. “He said, ‘It’s slow.’ Peoplecomplain about that sometimes,but I didn’t think it was major.”
Steve Kroll, a manager at Vito’sPizzeria, mirrored that senti-ment, saying such abrupt clo-sures generate concern amongbusiness owners.
“It’s really unsettling,” he said.“It was overnight.”
Gamy, who has lived in the
area his whole life, said the sur-render of Thirsty Turtle’s liquorlicense last month has changedthe city’s economy and could bepartly to blame for why Quiznossuddenly closed. The chain hadrecently extended its dininghours to accommodate the late-night crowd.
“The nighttime economy herein College Park is dependent onthe bars. Of course, you getdrunk and want something toeat,” he said. “Drunk business isgood business.”
Student interest is an integralcomponent of keeping a businessafloat, Warren said, and some stu-dents said the eatery was nevertheir first choice.
Sophomore letters and sci-ences major Megan Lafferty saidshe knew there was a Quiznos lo-cation along Route 1 but wentelsewhere to get a sandwich fix.
“I usually stick to the sameplaces,” she said. “I did not knowthat Quiznos closed.”
his chances of being selected.So, after just one semester of
schoolwork, Bowlingexchanged his books for an M-4and camouflage body armorand kissed his wife and two chil-dren goodbye.
What he didn’t expect werethe consequences his deploy-ment would have on his familylife and his academics. Bowlingwould be deployed two moretimes — to Iraq in January 2004and to Afghanistan in fall 2009— during his doctoral career.And as the end of this semesterapproaches, for Bowling, itmarks another commence-ment he won’t be attending.
The university does notkeep track of how many stu-dents are deployed duringtheir college careers, butStamp Student Union DirectorMarsha Guenzler-Stevenssaid officials hope to start adatabase that will feature vet-erans’ enrollment data usingfederal grant money theyreceived last month.
Once students are calledupon to go abroad, there is lit-tle the university can do to pre-vent it, even if they are in themiddle of a semester, sheadded. And according to TerpVets President Andrew Crevel-ing, what happened to Bowlingis hardly unusual. In fact, hesaid it could happen to anyonewho enlists in the military.
“We’ve had folks here whowere close to the end of theirtime here,” Guenzler-Stevenssaid. “When they’re being calledup, they’re being called up.”
Bowling said while he knewwhat to expect on the battlefield,he never fully adjusted to war.
“When you’re driving in aconvoy, you know that in orderto survive you have to have acertain mentality,” he said.“That mentality is, ‘I need to dowhat I need to live. I know peo-ple that have died on this road.... I’m expecting something toblow up.’”
Bowling said a few weeksafter he came back from his firstdeployment, simple tasks likedriving brought war memoriesflooding back, causing him toimagine trash on the streetexploding at any moment.
“I’d gotten into a mindset asif I’m doing a convoy,” he said.“That’s the way I drive to sur-vive, that’s the way I react.When I’m driving past a pieceof garbage, there could be abooby trap. If there’s an animalcarcass on the ground, some-times I’m going to swervefairly violently to avoid thatpotential threat.”
After Bowling’s seconddeployment, things took a turnfor the worse. His wifedivorced him and he became asingle father.
“It’s taken a tremendous tollon me and my family,” he said.“My family is an unfortunatecasualty of war.”
Divorce happens often inthe military because familiesare put in stressful situations,he said. There are over 90,000single parents in the Armyalone, he said, and despitetheir single status, they are stillexpected to serve when themilitary needs them.
“[The last deployment] wasa lot more difficult for me toleave and more difficult tocome back because I didn’thave someone taking care of
my place and kids like I didbefore,” he said. “Havingsomeone in your life who’skind of helping you out andthey’re not there anymore, andyou’re still doing what you’redoing — it’s a lot harder to do itby yourself.”
Creveling, who deployed toIraq in 2007 while he wasattending Anne Arundel Com-munity College, said many stu-dents who deploy have a hardtime readjusting with theirfamilies because they’re usedto their absence.
“Across the board, we allcome back having to readjustto life again,” he said. “Life notat war, life not carrying aweapon, life not with your fam-ily. It was tough coming backwhere my mom, brother andsister had adjusted to me notliving there and I had to throwmy two cents in.”
The sacrifices aren’t for noth-ing though, Bowling said.
“I’ve helped save people’slives,” he said. “When I wasin Afghanistan, every day Idid something very impor-tant. I was either savingAmericans’ lives or savingAfghans’ lives ... Then, Icame to the U.S. and theAmerican expectation of mewas to be a good consumer.That was a rough transition.”
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Environmental activists weighin on East Campus development
BY CLAIRE SARAVIAStaff writer
Starting tonight, yet anothervoice will join the cacaphony ofopinions on the East Campusdevelopment — an eco-con-scious one.
Students from UMD forClean Energy, a student groupcommitted to sustainability onthe campus, are planning tospeak at a public forum on EastCampus development today at 7p.m. to voice concerns that thedesign for East Campus isn’tpedestrian-friendly or sustain-able enough. The Cordish Com-panies, the developing companyhired to design and build EastCampus, will be hosting theforum for all members of theuniversity community.
Hilary Staver, a member ofUMD for Clean Energy’s boardof directors, said the group’sgoal is to ask the developers howsustainability is being incorpo-rated into the development’sdesign — everything fromenergy-efficient features in build-ings to promoting safe trans-portation for pedestrians andbicyclists. The group will alsopresent two poster-size petitionsfilled with about 100 student sig-natures asking for a sustainableEast Campus.
“Sustainability should not beviewed as an extra little benefit,”Staver said. “It should be a cen-tral principle in designing thisdevelopment.”
Staver, a junior environmentalscience and policy major, said inaddition to asking questionsabout sustainable design plans,group members plan to offerspecific technological and policysolutions that could be applied,including installing windows thatreduce energy loss and insula-
tion to prevent heat loss.Group members are also plan-
ning to request the developersexceed the university- and coun-ty-required “silver” rating in theLeadership in Energy and Envi-ronmental Design certificationscale. A silver rating is the thirdbest out of four possible LEEDcertifications, and UMD forClean Energy wants the bar to beset at gold, the second-highest.
“Given the fact that these build-ings are going to be here fordecades, the university has anopportunity to be a role model forsustainable development,” Staversaid. “I would say go for gold.”
As for the group’s pedestrian-friendly push, Staver said they areconcerned the design plans forEast Campus make it unsafe touse alternative methods of trans-portation like biking or walking.
“It kind of parallels what yousee on Route 1 right now wherethe sidewalks aren’t complete insome areas,” Staver said. “It’s dif-ficult if you’re walking or bikingto move safely up and downRoute 1.”
Staver said group membersare planning to ask how develop-ers will make East Campus a safeplace for students to ride bikes orwalk rather than catering only tomotorized transportation.
“We would really like to seethis development be pedestrian-centric,” Staver said.
The forum won’t be UMD forClean Energy’s first interactionwith developers at Cordish:Staver said group memberswere invited to the company’sheadquarters in Baltimore lastmonth to discuss sustainabledesign options in the develop-ment project.
“They’ve been very nice to us,but I think part of the reasonwe’re pushing for this forum is for
another reminder that sustain-ability never hurts,” Staver said.
UMD for Clean Energy hasinvited several student groups tojoin them, including the StudentGovernment Association andthe Residence Hall Association,Staver said, adding she hopes alarge student group presencewill inspire other students tospeak up.
“We definitely want as manystudents as possible askingquestions,” she said.
SGA President Steve Glick-man said some SGA memberswill be attending the forum, buthad been planning to do so sepa-rately from UMD for CleanEnergy’s initiatives.
Vice President for Administra-tive Affairs Ann Wylie, the chairof the Campus SustainabilityCommittee, said it’s importantfor the campus community —especially students — to speakup at the event.
“I believe the interests of stu-dents who are concerned aboutsustainability and those of theuniversity coincide,” Wylie said.“This is an opportunity, forwhatever the students feelstrongly about, to make theirpositions known.”
Staver said the forum is agreat opportunity for studentsand university officials to standup for the university and committo making it a sustainable rolemodel for other college cam-puses in the future.
“How this development isbuilt is going to be a huge influ-ence on what it’s like to spendtime on Route 1,” Staver said.“This is our university and this isgoing to have a big impact onhow our university impacts theenvironment.”
courses in the near future.”For the past year, the Amer-
ican Indian Student Unionand their allies have workedto raise awareness of the needfor Native American studies atthe university by meetingwith faculty, deans anddepartment heads. They alsomade their presence knownto students through severalpetitions and multiple NativeAmerican-centered events,including the annual NativeAmerican Indian Powwow andAmerican Indian SolidarityWeek, which was firstlaunched during last year’sNative American HeritageMonth — honored eachNovember.
Students said the first meet-ing of the Native AmericanStudies Working Group is themost concrete indication so farthat Native American studiesis making headway.
“A lot of people have caredabout this for a long time,”said senior classics and his-tory major Natalia Cuadra-Saez, who has been a long-time Native American studiesadvocate. “We just never gottogether in one room to dosomething about it.”
For Cuadra-Saez, her fightfor Native American studies atthe university began when shereturned from an alternativespring break trip to the PineRidge Reservation in SouthDakota her sophomore year todiscover administratorsplanned to cut two NativeAmerican-centered courses —the only two offered.
Native American advocatessucceeded in having thecourses reinstated in 2009, andin April, Cuadra-Saez took itone step further by sponsoringa Student Government Associ-ation bill demanding the uni-versity create more Native
American courses and hire ofmore faculty to teach them.
Student leaders said thewaitlists for Native Americancourses and the number ofpetition signatures demon-strate a strong student interestin the topics, which they saidis often glossed over in otherAmerican history courses andtraditional textbooks.
“We treat it like it’s some-thing of the past, like some-thing that’s not relevant, likeancient history or anthropol-ogy, and not as several cul-tures that are alive and thriv-ing,” Cuadra-Saez said. “That’sa really big issue in the UnitedStates today.”
Student leaders also saidissues such as rampantpoverty, alcoholism anddepression found on NativeAmerican reservations havebeen ignored as well, andaddressing these issues mustbegin in the classroom.
“The problem is that we’rethe smallest minority on cam-pus, so we have to push a lotharder,” said AISU PresidentErin DeRiso, a senior govern-ment and politics and journal-ism major. “But to have thesocial change that’s needed, ithas to begin on an educationalfoundation.”
But student leaders saidthey were optimistic afterspeaking to some administra-tors who they said supportthe cause, especially now thatit has been brought moreclearly to their attention.They are also excited after thefirst working group meeting,where some suggested creat-ing a Native American “I”-series course and the launchof a website with resourcesfor students interested inNative American studies,including a list of courses stu-dents identified as having a 25percent Native Americanfocus on their syllabi.
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Iam a Tea Party Patriot — sort of.I joined their website for a sociologyclass. I am registered under thepseudonym “Michael Casiano” and
have been a member for a little morethan year now.
The tea party movement — whichbegan in 2009 — officially became amajor player in national politics sincethe Republican Party gained a majorityin the House of Representatives afterthe midterm elections. After I sawJenny Beth Martin, co-founder of theTea Party Patriots, on CNN, I decidedthe group was important and lookedthrough the hundreds of deleted mes-sages I had accrued in my “Trash”folder.
I read the e-mails bemusedly, tryingto figure out if they were serious. Afteran hour or so I realized they were seri-ous, and I became frightened. A lot ofthe e-mails employed the typical race-blind silly-talk that conservatives andlibertarians enjoy using. A recent one,“The DREAM Act: STILL A SpendingNightmare,” uses this strategy master-fully by claiming the Development,
Relief and Education for Alien MinorsAct is fiscally irresponsible in a 10-pointmanifesto that outlines reasons why thepolity should be frightened by the legis-lation.
Predictably, few of these reasons ref-erence, much less focus on, the fiscalimplications of the bill at all. They’remuch more concerned with painting aportrait of the type of people who willbenefit from the legislation. The firstpoint mentions that the bill is not just for“kids,” no matter how much the“Demon-crats” would like you tobelieve otherwise. A few points stressthat protection and amnesty will beextended to undocumented “criminals”despite their criminal histories. Anotherpoint claims undocumented peopledon’t actually have to get a college
degree to get amnesty and “that illegalalien high school drop-outs will also beput on a pathway to citizenship.” Allthey have to do is get a GED and enrollin an institution of higher education.
After reading the e-mail I could imag-ine how someone might process it ifthey had never read the DREAM Act.The 10 points paint an archetype for us— an old, dumb criminal who leechesoff the state and doesn’t pay taxes (noteven the sales tax, somehow). If youdidn’t know the legislation wasintended for college-age people, youmight wonder why the federal govern-ment is trying to extend education to allthese old, dumb criminals.
This isn’t the only issue the Tea Partyhas successfully complicated. Based ontheir e-mails, if I didn’t know any better Imight think the NAACP was racist, thatpatriotism and traditionalism were thesame thing and that the United Stateswas the best country in the whole wideworld. The Tea Party has taken up thebanner of American exceptionalism andbrought it back to life when a lot of peo-ple, myself included, would have been
content to see it slowly diminish into themarshes and swamplands of the coun-try.
All that said, I do appreciate themovement’s ingenuity. I constantlyreceive e-mails encouraging me to callmy representatives, and all the neces-sary contact information is conve-niently provided. They have success-fully mobilized their following tobecome the fringe voice of the Republi-can Party. They say all the things I’dimagine Republican politicians wouldsay if they weren’t too scared to do so.No matter how many liberals deny theinfluence of this grassroots movement,you have to hand it to them — theymake a lot of noise.
On their home page, you’ll find thefollowing ominous line: “We are makinga difference in this country andtogether we will continue to make a dif-ference in this country.” If only itweren’t true.
Michael Casiano is a junior Americanstudies and English major. He can bereached at [email protected].
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Across from Stamp StudentUnion sits a modest brickbuilding that, like mostbuildings on the campus,
doesn’t get a second glance whenmost people pass it by. Although itdoesn’t get a lot of attention, it’s apretty important building on a cam-pus this large. After all, the UniversityHealth Center is typically a student’sfirst stop for medical treatment ordiagnosis unless it is an emergency.In spite of this reality, the health cen-ter needs to step up its game becausethe service it provides is, to put itlightly, below par.
Upon first entry, you’ll notice a red,London-style pay-phone booth. “Whata neat quirk,” you’ll think, as youcough, sneeze or sniff your way to theinformation desk inside. After pocket-ing a few free condoms from the desk,you’ll ask to make an appointment.You’ll then be directed to that quirkyred phone in the lobby to make theappointment you could have justmade with a human being.
Standing inside the frighteningly
cramped phone booth, you’ll realizeyou are being exposed to the mil-lions of germs left behind by previ-ously ill students. Yum! Don’t fret,though, that booth o’ germs is theleast of your worries on your trip tothe health center.
You should actually consider your-self lucky if you even get to stand inthat hotbox of bacteria — the healthcenter’s hours are helpful if you don’thave classes all day, don’t get sick Sat-urday afternoons and don’t fall ill Sun-days. If you need assistance after reg-ular hours, there’s always the AfterHours NurseLine, which sounds likea hotline that charges $1.99 a minuteand dishes out a little more than justmedical advice.
Once you get past the phone booth,you pass a rigorous basic exam. It’susually assumed that everyone,because we’re in college, must havemono or strep, and ladies, you can betyour birth control they’re asking ifyou’re pregnant. If you’re there for aninjured limb, you get an X-ray, which,like the last time a friend of mine was
there, the employees perhaps won’tbe able to read, will need to do it againand charge you accordingly.
My favorite experience at thehealth center (luckily one of few),involved a questionnaire they hadme fill out while waiting for the doc-tor. It asked me how many servingsof fruits, veggies and calcium I con-sume per week. Then it asked mehow many alcoholic drinks I con-sumed the last time I drank. Call menaive, but I answered honestly, andcircled 4-5. After I was done, the doc-tor came in, looked it over, informedme that number was a lot, and thendirected me to that website, e-Black-out or e-Chug or whatever it’s called.I’m all for preventing binge drink-ing, but if you force that kind of crap
on a college student, you are riskinglosing their honesty in other impor-tant departments.
Contrary to what you just read, Ithink the health center does a lot ofgood. The Sexual Assault Responseand Prevention Program, women’shealth division, counseling, suicideprevention and many other amazingprograms fall into the health center’sdomain. But it also needs a lot of atten-tion. In a real emergency, you need todial 911. And what if you’re unsureabout the seriousness of your prob-lem? A university with a student bodyof about 37,000 (granted, not all ofthem live on the campus) needs tohave a health center that can accu-rately diagnose and treat the stuff thatfalls in between unimportant and life-threatening. I raise my fourth (or wasit fifth?) drink to your health, andhope you have a doctor somewhereoff the campus.
Ellen Linzer is a senior English major.She can be reached [email protected].
The health center: A game of doctor
G raduate students have long struggled to secure their share ofresources at this university. Movements to allow graduate studentswho work as teaching and research assistants to organize intounions have faced strong opposition from administrators and have
thus far been unsuccessful. What’s more, they often lack representation —they have the fewest number of representatives in the University Senate, themost powerful legislative body at this institution. And for years, graduate stu-dent leaders have called for affordable housing and convenient child care.
So perhaps it should come as little surprise thatattempts to create a graduate student writing center havebeen equally unsuccessful. Despite there being about10,000 graduate students at this university, they do nothave an editing and peer-review service of their own andare forbidden from using the popular undergraduate Writ-ing Center located in Tawes Hall.
But the failure of university officials to secure fundsfor what should be a standard amenity hasn’t sloweddown some graduate students. Using a budget ofmerely $2,000, the International Graduate StudentsAssociation has created a “peer tutor” pilot program toprovide what the university has failed to: a place for graduate students toreceive peer feedback on papers and assignments.
The IGSA has taken great initiative, and what it has pulled off with suchlimited resources should have some administrators bowing their heads inshame. As Graduate Student Government President Anna Bedford said, thesuccess of the IGSA is an incredibly sad reflection on the university’s willing-ness to extend existing services to graduate students.
Indeed, despite our world-class credentials, when it comes to providingwhat should be a standard service to its students, this university fails to com-pare to large public universities such as the University of California, Berke-ley, or Penn State University.
The organizers of the IGSA’s pilot program say it is expected to remain
open until final exams, at which point its success will be evaluated and a deci-sion will be made as to whether it should be permanently instated. Andregardless of whether the service continues, it should be acknowledged thatthe IGSA’s program is not a fully functioning editing and peer-review servicein the same way the undergraduate Writing Center is. As such, universityofficials should not consider the problem solved.
The pilot program should further fan the fire under administrators’ feet tofind the funds to either create a permanent graduate student writing center
or open up the existing Writing Center to studentsseeking all levels of academic degrees.
Graduate students face just as many writing chal-lenges as undergraduates. While their writing skillsmay be more polished after an undergraduate educa-tion, that does not mean a trained set of eyes is any lesshelpful. Moreover, many working toward advanceddegrees are international students whose grasp onAmerican-style grammar and formatting is not alwaysas strong. And for a university that prides itself as aleader in international education, with more than 3,600students from around the globe, it seems inherently
contradictory to deny what is a boilerplate service at other institutions.A graduate student writing center would need funding and trained tutors,
including specialists from different departments who are knowledgeable aboutcertain types of writing. After all, a graduate student studying engineering com-poses very different reports from one studying history. That said, for the uni-versity to claim the money just isn’t there, in light of what the IGSA has beenable to accomplish by securing funds from multiple sources, is pathetic.
As the IGSA’s pilot program wraps up, administrators should think longand hard about the message they preach versus the services they deliver.The inability to provide graduate students with what should be a staple of atop-tier university is not only an issue of fairness but also reflects the univer-sity’s commitment to graduate education.
Staff editorial
Our ViewThe university must allowgraduate students to accesswriting services in order toensure that high-quality
education is being provided toevery student at this university.
The Tea Party: More than just noise
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After reading sophomorephysics major MichaelKossin’s Nov. 24 guestcolumn, “Surprise, sur-
prise?,” I must admit that I was a lit-tle hurt. Having started my studiesat this university in physics, I willsay that I have had my fair share ofribbing and mocking from friendsand classmates over my philosophycourses — especially when Iswitched my major and devoted mystudies entirely to the subject. Inthat time, I’ve heard quite a fewbelow-the-belt kicks at the study,but the opposition has always beenopen-minded. Much to the vexationof other philosophy majors, I havealways been the first to admit thatmy study is abstract, detached andmore than a little impractical inmany ways. Never, though, have Ibeen told that philosophy is a study“without much mental investment.”
I am compelled to wonder onwhat grounds he makes such aclaim. In my personal experiencewith physics, other natural sciencesand the humanities, I have foundthat the most challenging and men-tally exhausting tasks belong to phi-losophy. Philosophy challenges usto give up whatever notions wemight have had about the things wewere once sure about. It requiresboth creativity and analytic thought.I left the realm of the sciencesbehind because what a physicist sawin reality was unenlightening to meand the answers were too narrow formy tastes. So I took a step back.What I found was philosophy, a richworld vibrant with competing theo-ries of reality and questions of exis-tence, truth and morality. I wonder,then, when people claim philosophydoes not require mental investment,if they have ever studied it. Fromwhat I can tell, philosophers do noth-ing but think — suggesting other-wise seems strange and incoherent.
Nor have I found it to be the casethat philosophy would be a stagnantfield without advances in other sci-ences. Rather, there is, and alwayshas been, a mutual dependence.Philosophers and physicists bothstudy the works of Isaac Newton,René Descartes and Aristotle notbecause they were separately math-ematicians and philosophers, butbecause they were both. Theirinsights apply to both fields simulta-neously. The skills developed byquestioning and delving into theideas’ integral philosophy is whatgenerates the need and desire topursue study in fields such as psy-chology, linguistics and, yes, evenphysics. Where would we be in ourunderstanding of the subatomic ifGreek and Indian philosophers had-n’t envisioned the smallest unit ofmatter or developed the field of“atomism” (a natural philosophypredating the separation of philoso-phy and the sciences)?
So does one need to attend a uni-versity to understand the conceptsexplored by philosophy? Probablynot. By that same argument, onedoes not need to attend a universityto expand on the thoughts studiedby the natural sciences. A personcan self-teach any subject. Butunderstanding years of advance-ment and complex thought entailedby the study of any pursuit is aidedby a guide. Why should we believethat the ideas integral to philosophyare inherently easier to grasp thanmathematics or physics? Whywould the unobservable require lessmental investment or guidance thanthe observable?
I would like to challenge Kossinand others who share similar viewsto take a step back out of their owndisciplines to see a larger picture. Ichallenge them to try and under-stand the writings of philosophers,ancient and modern alike, from epis-temology to ethical theory. I guaran-tee that if they apply themselveshonestly to such undertakings, theywill gain new perspective they wouldhave otherwise missed. I know I did.
RJ Mohondro is a senior philosophymajor. He can be reached [email protected].
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In defenseof thought
Born today, you are likely tofind yourself buffeted againand again between two ex-
tremes — the social and the soli-tary — and there is no tellingwhich you will prefer at any giventime, though it is likely thatwhichever way you are compelledto live because of work or un-avoidable circumstances will bethe opposite of the one that youare leaning toward in your heartand mind. The truth is that you al-ways sort of see things as betteron the other side of the fence —not greener, exactly, just some-how, indescribably better in small,subtle but significant ways.
You can be rather reluctant toshare your feelings with thosearound you; it is the special friendindeed who is privy to your inner-most thoughts.When you do sharethem with that lucky individual,he or she is likely to know youbetter than you know yourself attimes.
Also born on this date areShirley Chisholm, politician; Vir-ginia Mayo, actress; June Pointer,singer; Sir Winston Churchill, Eng-lish prime minister; Mark Twain,author; Dick Clark, TV and musichost; Robert Guillaume, actor; Rid-ley Scott, filmmaker.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) —Make no changes to your rou-tine without first consultingthose who will be peripherallyaffected. You’re not completelyalone.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —Some may not trust your eager-ness or enthusiasm, but it’sgenuine to be sure. You’re notthe kind to fake such thingsvery often.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —Your excitement about a recentdevelopment is likely to beshared by others — and you’llwant to seek them out to maxi-mize your enjoyment.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —You don’t have to do much to behelpful to another. Indeed, eventhe slightest effort on his or herpart will have a big impact.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Youmay be starting one of thosephases marked by dissatisfac-tion with the status quo. Youknow that it will pass, however— if you’re patient.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Youmay be required to spend muchmore time than necessarydoing the groundwork forsomeone else. It will pay off foryou in the end.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Takecare that one of your bad habitsdoesn’t begin to rub off onsomeone who is already influ-enced by you in other ways.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —You may have been expectingone thing, but what you get islikely to be quite different.Still, it can serve you just aswell.
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REVIEW | THE BLACK EYED PEAS
Where is the talent? The Black Eyed Peas abandonany former musical integrity
BY ZACHARY BERMAN
Senior staff writer
Theoretically, this would be the per-fect time for some sort of desultoryquip about how the Black Eyed Peas’new album The Beginning is indeed the“beginning of the end” for this group,whose last album The E.N.D. was assuccessful as it was generally terrible.
However, the simple fact that thisband is going to make an immenseamount of cash off this new recordshows that the Black Eyed Peas areprobably going to be around for agood bit longer. Instead, we can countThe Beginning as the beginning of theend of musical culture as we know it.
There’s no denying it — The E.N.D.took the Black Eyed Peas to the top ofthe heap, if songs such as “Boom BoomPow” and “I Gotta Feeling” are any indi-cation. They are both catchy and greatfor the club, but everything on thealbum that wasn’t a single simply was-n’t worth listening to. It’s a sign ofthe times, for sure, just not onethat is particularly positive.
The Black Eyed Peas’ busi-ness model is that of the digitalage: Everything is skewedtoward one or two songs therecord label believes it mightbe able to get people to actu-ally spend money on, insteadof illegally downloading.
Music has long been a busi-ness, but this is a new low, see-ing as how no one really careswhat’s on the album after the sin-gles have been produced. Mostsongs on The Beginning are awaste of time, and those alreadypegged for singles, namelyopener “The Time (Dirty Bit),”don’t live up to the band’s stan-
dards or those generally upheld bydrunken partygoers.
Will.i.am and company’s sickening,sadistic need to lift pop hooks fromwell-known old-school tracks reallyonly shows one thing: The man’s co-song craft is alternately trashy anddownright larcenous.
All the group adds to the classy origi-nal “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life,”from the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, isAuto-Tuned junk and a hefty helping ofsleaze by way of thick LMFAO-stylesynth and vague techno. On top of allthis, the song faces plagiarism accusa-
tions from star pro-ducer Deadmau5,
obviously not for thelame sampling, but
for the so-called “dirty bits” in between.After the shock of the craptacular
opening track, a torrent of annoyingcompositions drenches the record, fromone major-chord sellout to another.
Euro-trash techno is the special of theday on this album, and no song escapesthe incessant, will.i.am-centric pop.
For an act that is supposedly, at leastin part, a rap group, there is very littlein the way of hip-hop verses on thealbum. Even when they appear, theyare marred by boring lyrics, excessiveproduction and the general malevo-lence of Auto-Tune.
For instance, “XOXOXO” stumblesalong without a discernible hook orstriking beat, and theverses dropped by
will.i.am and the lesser Black EyedPeas cast members really don’t domuch more than buy time to stretchthe song out to its designated threeand a half-minute pop length.
Speaking of those other cast mem-bers, it is worth noting that — morethan ever — this album is nothing ifnot the will.i.am show. The translucentmembers of the group, apl.de.ap andTaboo, are seemingly not on thisrecord, except for a few vocalmoments that could easily have justbeen a well-equalized will.i.am.
Even though the other band mem-bers are sparingly
listed as songwriters, the amount ofsongwriting the group actually handleson its own can only be inferred, seeingas how so many other professional,award-winning songwriters are alsolisted as co-writers.
As for Fergie — who made it outfrom under the crushing weight ofwill.i.am to have her own solo career— the singer doesn’t offer very muchto the album, as if she simply wasn’taround for most of the recording.
There are a few high points, such asdisco tune “Fashion Beats” and change-of-pace composition “The Situation” —which most people will probably believeis a Jersey Shore reference — but thereisn’t enough on The Beginning to lift thealbum off the ground.
For a band that used to make original,even meaningful, singles including“Where is the Love?,” this new album ofmostly irritating detours into bad elec-tronica such as “Don’t Stop the Party” isa bit more than a letdown, makingthem really no better than the stupidlysuccessful joke that is LMFAO.
The Black Eyed Peas, along withother so-called “artists” such asDavid Guetta or Ke$ha, seem to bespelling the end of musical inven-tion, plain and simple. A reliance ontired tricks and lazy sampling hasbegun to lead listeners down a pathwhere there is no U-turn.
If The Beginning is to be under-stood, then the future of music is
spelled out in lazy, overproduced,alcohol-flavored vomit, leaving behind
the once-enjoyed tenants of music, suchas variety and nuance, forever.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2010 | SPORTS | THE DIAMONDBACK 7
MMEENN’’SS SSOOCCCCEERR || NNOOTTEEBBOOOOKK
Terps avoid repeating history vs. NittanyLions; Woodberry’s injury still lingering
BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer
Late in the first half of Sun-day’s NCAA Tournamentmatch against Penn State,the Terrapin men’s soccerteam appeared as if it mightbe headed down a forebod-ing path.
The situation — a shutoutfeaturing a struggling Terpoffense and an aggressive Nit-tany Lion counterattack — hadset up similarly to the threegames this season the Terpsdidn’t win.
But unlike their matchesagainst Michigan State, BostonCollege and North Carolina inSeptember, the Terps managedto hold strong in the back. Witha late goal by defender TaylorKemp, the Terps (19-2-1)advanced to the quarterfinalsin a game they may have lostearlier in the season.
“We were hitting the cross-bar, getting the ball out wide —we were doing almost every-thing but really putting thekind of pressure on the goal-keeper that we thought wecould have done in prepara-tion,” coach Sasho Cirovskisaid. “That’s soccer.”
For the second time in thepast three games, the Terps’
offense finished with anunusual statistic. AgainstNorth Carolina in the ACCChampionship on Nov. 14, theTerps didn’t record a singleshot in the second half. Sundayagainst the Nittany Lions, theTerps didn’t put a single shoton goal until Kemp’s score inthe 87th minute.
“I think we lost our compo-sure,” forward CaseyTownsend said.
Penn State did its part,disrupting the attack bystretching the field withcounterattacks.
“We didn’t do a good job atcompacting things on theirlong, quick counters,” Cirovskisaid. “We really wanted to con-dense the space between theforwards and our backs.”
“When we’re compact,”Cirovski added, “we’re usuallybetter than most teams.”
INJURY REPORT At this point last season, the
Terps limped into the NCAATournament hampered byinjuries throughout their start-ing lineup.
Midfielder Doug Rodkeyhad broken a bone in hisfoot, defender Alex Lee wasout after being hit by a car,and midfielder Matt Kassel
was playing through a tornhip labrum.
This season, the Terps havebeen fortunate to avoid thesame plague of injuries.Among the team’s regular con-tributors, only defender Lon-don Woodberry and reserveforward Matt Oduaran havenot played this postseason dueto injuries.
Woodberry (quadriceps),who has not played since Oct.19, had won the starting posi-tion at right back. Since hisinjury, midfielder Billy Cortesand defender Greg Young havesplit duty, with Young startingthe past three.
Oduaran (dislocated leftkneecap) has not played sincethe team’s Nov. 2 game againstWilliam and Mary. Though hedoesn’t start, Oduaran usuallyenters as a substitute near theend of the first half and midwaythrough the second half to givestarting forwards Townsendand Jason Herrick a break.
Both Woodberry andOduaran dressed Sunday, butneither played.
MACMATH HONORED Even with the loss of
Woodberry, the Terp defenseis still putting together arecord-breaking season. The
team tied a program recordwith 15 shutouts and has notgiven up a goal in more than430 minutes.
Clemson is the only team inthe past nine matches to beatgoalkeeper Zac MacMath,while the Terps lead the coun-try in shutouts.
MacMath is also starting topile up honors. After earningfirst-team All-ACC honors, thejunior was named the ACCTournament’s Most ValuablePlayer. He also made Top-DrawerSoccer.com’s nationalfirst team.
Most impressively, though,MacMath is one of five final-ists for the U.S. Soccer YoungMale Athlete of the Yearaward, and one of only twoplaying college soccer. Pastwinners of the award includeJozy Altidore, Landon Dono-van and DaMarcus Beasley —all members of the U.S.National Team.
“I’m very grateful to beselected as a finalist for such aprestigious award,” MacMathsaid. “Representing my coun-try has always been somethingspecial to me, and it really is anhonor to be named amongsuch great players.”
After a preseason scrimmageagainst Penn State in lateAugust, coach Missy Mehargtalked about how her Terrapinfield hockey team would get pastits heartbreaking loss to NorthCarolina in the 2009 nationalchampionship. This year’s teamwas different, she emphasized,and had moved on from thedemoralizing defeat.
The Hall of Fame coach’searly-season evaluation was onpoint. The Terps, after all, hadlost seven seniors to graduation,while the defending nationalchampion Tar Heels returnedseven starters. The Terps rankedbehind their ACC rivals in mostpreseason publications, whichpegged North Carolina as thefavorite to repeat as champions.
But for the Terps — even afterlosing a senior class thatincluded members with threenational championships —expectations for greatness neverwavered. After that late-summerpractice, Meharg and senior co-captains Alicia Morawski andKatie O’Donnell all said theirgoals for 2010 were a nationalchampionship and revenge fortheir loss to the Tar Heels.
“It’s Maryland field hockey,”Meharg said. “We like to put our-selves in a position to win theACC Championship and to winthe NCAA Championship. Hav-ing done that, you always have tobelieve you can.”
The Terps accomplished bothgoals on the same stage, toppingNorth Carolina in double over-time, 3-2, in the national champi-onship game Nov. 21 in front of astanding-room-only home crowdthat numbered nearly 2,400.
“It was great,” O’Donnell said.“After four years of hockey, to goout against your biggest rival isremarkable. To know that I’mleaving with one-up on UNC andthat I will be able to have twonational championships undermy belt is something that notmany other people will be able tosay leaving their college careersbehind them.”
The Terps’ (23-1) win was oneof three against the Tar Heels
this season. They were also vic-torious in the regular seasonand again in the ACC Champi-onship. All three of North Car-olina’s losses came at the handsof the Terps.
“Just a really fitting finish forus after last year,” Meharg said.
The Terps ran through theirregular-season schedule, slip-ping up only once in a 4-2 loss toPrinceton that O’Donnell saidgave the team extra motivationfor the rest of the season.
“Last year, when we wereundefeated, it always puts morepressure on you to win, and wemay not have been focused onthe present. But this year, havinglost, it really helped us build andwork together as a team,” O’Don-nell said. “Losing’s not easy whenyou come from a winning pro-gram, so it definitely helped us inthe long run because we all wentthrough it together.”
After that loss, the Terps neverlooked back, rattling off a 15-game winning streak en route toan ACC championship and anational championship. FourTerps — O’Donnell, defenderJemma Buckley, midfielderMegan Frazer and forward JillWitmer — were named All-Amer-icans, and O’Donnell claimednational player of the year honors.
Following their victory overthe Tar Heels, the Terps tooktime to relish their seventhnational title, the second-most inNCAA history. But Meharg wasalready looking ahead to 2011and beyond.
Entering next season, fewerquestion marks seem to be fac-ing the Terps, who lose just threeseniors. O’Donnell will be gone,but the emergence of freshmenHayley Turner, who scored thefirst goal in the national champi-onship game, and Witmer, theACC Freshman of the Year,should ensure that her depar-ture won’t cripple an offense thatwill likely again rank among thenation’s best.
“We’re all just still chasing OldDominion,” said Meharg, alludingto the owner of the sport’s mostnational championships. “Theyhave nine, so let’s keep it going.”
game for his career. He is the firstTerp to make the team in threeconsecutive years since linebackerD’Qwell Jackson (2003-05).
Tate developed into a defensiveforce in his junior year, rankingfirst in the conference with 0.33forced fumbles per game. He pro-vided one of the most memorableplays of the year in the Terps’ sea-son opener, stopping Navy quarter-back Ricky Dobbs short of the goalline in the game’s final minute topreserve the Terps’ 17-14 victory.
Logan was such a threat return-ing punts that opposing teamsstarted kicking away from him. Hereturned two punts for touch-downs, tying the program’s single-season record. His 18.8-yardreturn average was first in the ACCand third in the nation. His 563return yards were second in schooland conference history.
Vellano became an interior forceafter seeing little action as a red-shirt freshman, leading the team intackles for loss and sacks, whilePinegar proved invaluable to theTerps as a versatile lineman on anoffensive line decimated by injury.
If the Terps avoid the MilitaryBowl but fall short of an invitation tothe Champs Sports Bowl, a trip toNorth Carolina could be in theworks.
Will Webb, the executive direc-tor of the Meineke Car Care Bowlin Charlotte, which has the fifthpick of ACC teams, said althoughhe did not foresee the Terps get-ting a spot in the Champs SportsBowl, everything below was fairgame. Webb noted the Terps’strong end to the season “putMaryland in the picture for a lot ofbowls,” including the MeinekeCar Care Bowl.
Other bowl possibilities includethe Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas,with the fourth ACC selection, theMusic City Bowl in Nashville,with the sixth, and the Indepen-dence Bowl in Shreveport, La.,with the seventh.
“I think some of the upper-tierbowls are interested in us,” Fried-gen said. “We have to wait untilthe championship game is slot-ted. But I think we’re in prettygood position. We’ll have to waitand see.”
Coach Ralph Friedgen said he thinks the Terpsare “in pretty good position” for a top-flight bowlbid. Bowl matchups are officially announcedSunday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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SportsA Maryland hate week?
Penn State fans are taking an unusual approachon Twitter to build hype for Wednesday’s men’sbasketball game. Read more at TerrapinTrail.com.
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Resurgent Bowie delivers bestperformance of early season
BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer
When informed he hadn’tcommitted a turnover Fridaynight against Elon, Adrian Bowiewas seemingly incredulous.
Then, he cracked a smile andsavored his achievement.
“Oh, I didn’t? Thank God,”the Terrapin men’s basketballguard said. “I’m so happy.”
Even as forward JordanWilliams received much of theattention for his second-halfdominance in the Terps’ 76-57win, Bowie quietly helped theTerps avert disaster againstElon in recording what was oneof the most impressive stat linesof his career.
Hounding Elon’s guards withfull-court pressure andsmoothly running the offense,Bowie managed 14 points, eightrebounds, seven assists and,most importantly, no turnovers.
“[I’m] just not trying to dotoo much,” Bowie said.“When someone is open intransition, I try to give themthe ball, and when in doubt,always go inside.”
Having scored in double dig-its the past two games, Bowie isbeginning to climb out of anearly-season slump duringwhich he saw freshman coun-terparts Terrell Stoglin andPe’Shon Howard enjoy earlysuccess with clutch shots andprominent late-game roles.
Bowie recorded just 12 min-utes in the Terps’ season openeragainst Seattle and was conspic-uously absent from the floor inthe waning moments of theteam’s narrow victory over Col-lege of Charleston, whichHoward clinched with a last-minute shot.
Despite Bowie’s highturnover rate — his 20 this sea-son are already just six short oflast season’s total — coach GaryWilliams had refused to dis-place his senior from the start-ing lineup. His patience wasrewarded Friday, as Bowie ranthe floor fluidly and efficientlyand sparked the defense in thesecond half.
“The defense was goodenough for us to win the game. Ithought Adrian Bowie had a lot
to do with that,” Williams said.“He really sparked us defen-sively, was aggressive with thebasketball. … I was really proudof what he did tonight.”
Along with the rest of theTerps’ starters, Bowie playedthe majority of the second halfas the team dug itself out of anearly double-digit deficit. Herecorded a team-high 35 min-utes as Stoglin and Howardcombined for just six in the sec-ond half.
“I always think Adrian canmake plays for us,” guard SeanMosley said. “He’s a toughguard to stay in front of. He’sthe point guard, he’s the leader.”
For the first time all season,Williams didn’t shuffle inyounger players for much of thesecond half. Bowie, Mosley,guard Cliff Tucker and JordanWilliams all played at least 17 ofthe 20 second-half minutes, andforward James Padgett was thelone reserve to see more than
five minutes of action after inter-mission.
“I told the starters at halftimethat they’re the veteran players,the guys that have to pick us upand carry us,” Gary Williamssaid. “So when they came outplaying well, I was going to playthem as long as I could beforewe substituted.”
The Terps face a crucial pairof looming nonconferencegames against Penn State andTemple, and Williams is likely tostick with his starters throughmuch of those contests.
And with the confidenceaccompanying a near triple-double performance, Bowie isagain relishing the role of lead-ing the Terps.
“We’re going to have to setthe tempo for our team,” Bowiesaid. “We’re going to have torely on each other, and Coachwill have to rely on us as well.”
Guard Adrian Bowie had seven assists and no turnovers inFriday’s win against Elon. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY JEREMY SCHNEIDERStaff writer
After a two-win 2009 season, itwasn’t surprising the Terrapin foot-ball team had a mere two presea-son All-ACC selections — widereceiver Torrey Smith and line-backer Alex Wujciak.
But after a resurgent 8-4 cam-paign this season, more honorswere expected. And with yester-day’s unveiling of the all-conferenceteams, the Terps got them. Six play-ers garnered All-ACC honors,including four first-team selections.
Punt returner Tony Logan, safetyKenny Tate, Smith and Wujciakwere selected to the first team,while defensive tackle Joe Vellanowas picked for the second team,and offensive lineman Paul Pinegargarnered an honorable mention.
The four first-team selections,which tied the Terps for the most inthe conference with Clemson, arethe most the Terps have had since2003, when they also had four.
Smith was voted to the team forthe second year in a row just daysafter a dominant performance in awin against N.C. State during whichhe broke several program records.His four receiving touchdowns werea Terp record and gave him arecord-breaking 12 for the season.His 5,183 all-purpose yards are themost ever by a Terp, and Smith isonly the second receiver in schoolhistory to have a 1,000-yard season.
Wujciak’s selection was his thirdin a row. He was the fourth-leadingtackler in the ACC with 9.3 pergame in his senior season, andthird among active Football BowlSubdivision players with 10.2 per
Four namedfirst-teamAll-ACC
see HONORS, page 7
BY KATE YANCHULISSenior staff writer
Given the choice, the Terrapin foot-ball team would prefer to use plane tick-ets rather than Metro fare cards to getto its bowl game.
And thanks to a series of events thisweekend that shook up the ACC bowlpicture, the Terps have a better chanceof ending up in a marquee bowl localeand avoiding the Washington-basedMilitary Bowl, which gets the last pickof bowl-eligible conference teams.
Saturday, South Florida upsetMiami, precipitating the dismissal ofHurricane coach Randy Shannon andpotentially spoiling the team’s chancesfor a better bowl selection. Clemson,another desirable pick due to its loyalfan base, lost to South Carolina, leavingthe Tigers with a mediocre 6-6 record.
The Terps, on the other hand, beatN.C. State, keeping the Wolfpack out ofthe ACC Championship game and put-ting the Terps in position to move up
the bowl-selection ladder when thespots are officially announced Sunday.
“You’re not going to find many 8-4teams in the country, especially wherewe came from,” coach Ralph Friedgensaid. “I think, to me, we should be apretty attractive bowl option [with] thestory we had and the way our kids playwith attitude and enthusiasm. I’m hop-ing that people will recognize that andbe very interested in us.”
The Terps tied with N.C. State andMiami for the third-best record (5-3) inthe conference behind title contendersVirginia Tech and Florida State. Andafter their win against N.C. State and anarrow earlier loss to a now coach-lessMiami team, the Terps could be themost desirable of those three options.
Despite their record, the Terps couldfall down the pecking order becausebowl organizers, to an extent, are notrequired to choose the competitorsbased on record. Even in a tie for thirdplace, the Terps could still fall near thebottom of the ACC bowl heap because
of concerns about ticket sales to fans.But Greg Creese, the director of
communications for the ChampsSports Bowl, recalled the Terp faithfulwho traveled to Orlando four seasonsago to watch the team beat Purdue inits season finale.
“Maryland traveled well in their lastappearance in 2006,” Creese said. “Weare hopeful that if selected, the Mary-land faithful would support CoachFriedgen and the team after such atremendous turnaround this season.”
Had the Terps lost to the Wolfpack,Creese said the Terps likely would nothave had a shot at the Champs SportsBowl, which has third pick of confer-ence teams, behind only the BowlChampionship Series and the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
But with the victory, the Terps appearto be in contention. ESPN college foot-ball blogger Andrea Adelson and CBSSports both have the Terps playing inthe Orlando-based bowl opposite NotreDame in their latest projections.
Still, the Military Bowl remains oneof the team’s most likely options. TheTerps have struggled with low atten-dance and lack the rabid fan bases ofother ACC schools such as Clemsonand North Carolina. But Military Bowlofficials said they would love to get theTerps to RFK Stadium to introduce alocal appeal to the game.
The bowl would benefit the Terpsfrom an economic standpoint, as send-ing the team to a bowl game 20 minutesaway would cost significantly less thansending them on a weeklong trip.
But the Terps believe they haveearned a bowl in a different — andwarmer — destination, and Friedgensaid at his teleconference Sunday hewould lobby hard to give his playersthat opportunity.
“I try to do all I can because of theirefforts this season,” Friedgen said.“They need to be rewarded. I’m hopingthat will come to fruition.”
TAKEYOURPICKTerps’ bowl might be downthe road or down south
