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Online room selection will eliminate much of the stress of the old physical process and will save Resident Life at least $20,000 in overtime salary and space reservation costs, according to the resolution. “I think [the online process] came out really well,” said RHA President Alex Beuchler, who called online room selec- tion a priority for the RHA at the beginning of the year. “It’s simple enough, but still pro- vides enough options.” The resolution leaves sev- eral details of the online process, including its timeline, undecided. It is also unclear whether room assignments will all be made at once or dur- ing the course of several days, similar to the current process. The resolution authorizes the RHA’s ReLATe Committee, which advises Resident Life, to work out the details. Under the new process, stu- dents will no longer have to attend room assignment meet- ings in the Stamp Student Union during April. They will instead be able to create or join groups of students they wish to live with by logging GSG lambastes Mazza project Graduate students bemoan expensive rental rates, units for undergraduates BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer Although developers of a proposed graduate student- housing project won over a skeptical College Park City Council last night, they have yet to impress graduate stu- dents themselves. Members of the Graduate Student Government said the planned rent for units in the Mazza Grandmarc project will be comparable to Univer- sity View’s — and will put the housing out of reach for underpaid graduate students. “There’s no way a graduate student can afford to live in a place like the University View with the stipends we receive,” said GSG Chief of Staff Roberto Münster. “If the rents are going to be as high as University View, very few graduate students are going to live there.” Yet Mazza’s developers said they anticipated this sce- nario and are thinking the building may also attract An artist rendering depicts the Mazza Grandmarc housing project, which was initially marketed for graduate students. COURTESY ART Charges change in Costa assault case BY KYLE GOON Staff writer Senior Terrapin football player Rick Costa still faces assault charges stemming from a drunken fight outside of Cor- nerstone Grill and Loft, and he could still see prison time. However, a change in the charges could help Costa avoid extra time behind bars. During Costa’s preliminary hearing yesterday morning, the state attorney amended the first-degree assault charge to a second-degree count. However, the linebacker could face an absolute maximum of 30 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He also faces two additional charges of second-degree assault. Costa was arrested after he was accused of strucking Cor- nerstone bouncers in the face and hitting a Prince George’s County Police offi- cer, damag- ing his cornea. At the time, Prince George’s County District 1 Commander Maj. Kevin Davis said the injury would keep the officer off active duty for at least a month. Yesterday morning’s pro- ceedings took only a minute. The state moved to amend the charges, the defense had no objections, and Costa and his ‘It’s just a slap in the face’ Terrapin football player may face lesser sentence, but jail time still a possibility Nichols acquitted on remaining charges BY KYLE GOON Staff writer Damien Nichols remem- bered the final moments of his trial played out like the idyllic conclusion of a movie. As soon as the judge read the “not guilty” verdict, his friends and family jumped up behind him, and cheers and applause filled the courtroom. “I didn’t think that kind of stuff really happened,” Nichols said, speaking through a series of electronic message exchanges. Nichols, a 2006 alumnus and former president of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, was acquitted last Thursday of sec- ond-degree assault and reck- less endangerment charges against a student. He stood accused of cutting Sean Ham- mond with a knife on the face and neck and punching him repeatedly in the Thirsty Tur- tle on Dec. 30 of last year. Hammond declined to com- ment on the case for this story. The ruling ended an nine- month odyssey for the accused alumnus that included jail BY MARISSA LANG Staff writer Scott Wilson owes his life to an Iraqi dump truck. On the sergeant’s first tour in Iraq, a roadside bomb exploded as he rode by on the top of a Humvee, completely exposed. Luckily, a dump truck pulled up and stopped between his vehicle and the bomb as it blew up, sending pieces of shrapnel flying into the side of the truck. Wilson made it out completely unscathed. “I saw two of my friends get hurt real bad from suicide car bombs,” Wilson said. “I was so lucky. Three times, a road- side bomb exploded within yards of my vehicle. I literally risked my life for this country, for this state. And to come home and not get any recogni- tion by the state — it’s just a slap in the face.” Wilson, despite being a Vir- ginia native, has served six years with the Maryland National Guard and has been denied in-state tuition repeat- edly for not filling state requirements that Wilson said could not be met on account of his two deploy- ments to Iraq. “I wore the Maryland flag on my sleeve and when peo- ple asked me where I was from, I always said ‘Mary- land,’” Wilson said. “I would never go into it and explain how I grew up in Virginia. I was proud to be part of the Maryland National Guard. Everyone else over there [in Iraq] knew the boys from Maryland were doing an awe- some job, and I was part of that.” Members of the Maryland National Guard from other states grapple with out-of-state tuition despite service Veteran Scott Wilson served in the Maryland National Guard. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK Design of a spherical microphone array for 3-D audio recording and playback. COURTESY OF ADAM O’DONOVAN University researchers create device that can detect the source of sound BY CHRIS YU Staff writer A sniper is perched on the roof of a building, stealthily crouched behind a pillar, poised to fire at innocent peo- ple below. As his finger lingers on the trigger, he pulls it. Within minutes of the blast, the latest device created by university researchers goes into action, pinpointing his location in a matter of moments. Superman has superhuman hearing, Spiderman has his spider senses, Daredevil has sensitive hearing radar and computer science professor Ramani Duraiswami has a small plastic ball that can see RICK COSTA SENIOR LINEBACKER Please See MAZZA, Page 3 Please See RHA, Page 3 Please See COSTA, Page 3 Please See VETERANS, Page 3 Please See NICHOLS, Page 2 Please See CAMERA, Page 3 Audio camera imaging of concert hall acoustics. COURTESY OF ADAM O’DONOVAN THE OF SOUND sight
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RHA votes tomove housingprocess onlineResolution will save Resident Life money,simplify annual process, proponents say
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
After months of discussionand development, the Resi-dence Hall Association yester-day unanimously passed a res-olution to move room selectiononline for the spring.
Online room selection willeliminate much of the stress ofthe old physical process andwill save Resident Life at least$20,000 in overtime salary andspace reservation costs,according to the resolution.
“I think [the online process]came out really well,” saidRHA President Alex Beuchler,who called online room selec-tion a priority for the RHA atthe beginning of the year. “It’ssimple enough, but still pro-
vides enough options.”The resolution leaves sev-
eral details of the onlineprocess, including its timeline,undecided. It is also unclearwhether room assignmentswill all be made at once or dur-ing the course of several days,similar to the current process.The resolution authorizes theRHA’s ReLATe Committee,which advises Resident Life,to work out the details.
Under the new process, stu-dents will no longer have toattend room assignment meet-ings in the Stamp StudentUnion during April. They willinstead be able to create orjoin groups of students theywish to live with by logging
GSG lambastes Mazza projectGraduate students bemoan expensive rental rates, units for undergraduates
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
Although developers of aproposed graduate student-housing project won over askeptical College Park CityCouncil last night, they haveyet to impress graduate stu-dents themselves.
Members of the GraduateStudent Government said theplanned rent for units in theMazza Grandmarc projectwill be comparable to Univer-sity View’s — and will put thehousing out of reach for
underpaid graduate students. “There’s no way a graduate
student can afford to live in aplace like the UniversityView with the stipends wereceive,” said GSG Chief ofStaff Roberto Münster. “If therents are going to be as highas University View, very fewgraduate students are goingto live there.”
Yet Mazza’s developerssaid they anticipated this sce-nario and are thinking thebuilding may also attract
An artist rendering depicts the Mazza Grandmarc housing project,which was initially marketed for graduate students. COURTESY ART
Charges change inCosta assault case
BY KYLE GOONStaff writer
Senior Terrapin footballplayer Rick Costa still facesassault charges stemming froma drunken fight outside of Cor-nerstone Grill and Loft, and hecould still see prison time.However, a change in thecharges could help Costa avoidextra time behind bars.
During Costa’s preliminaryhearing yesterday morning, thestate attorney amended thefirst-degree assault charge to asecond-degree count. However,the linebacker could face anabsolute maximum of 30 yearsin prison and a $10,000 fine. Healso faces two additionalcharges of second-degreeassault.
Costa was arrested after hewas accused of strucking Cor-
nerstonebouncers inthe face andhitting aPrinceGeorge’sCountyPolice offi-cer, damag-ing hiscornea. Atthe time,PrinceGeorge’s County District 1Commander Maj. Kevin Davissaid the injury would keep theofficer off active duty for atleast a month.
Yesterday morning’s pro-ceedings took only a minute.The state moved to amend thecharges, the defense had noobjections, and Costa and his
‘It’s just a slap in the face’
Terrapin football player may face lessersentence, but jail time still a possibility
Nichols acquitted onremaining charges
BY KYLE GOONStaff writer
Damien Nichols remem-bered the final moments of histrial played out like the idyllicconclusion of a movie. As soonas the judge read the “notguilty” verdict, his friends andfamily jumped up behind him,and cheers and applause filledthe courtroom.
“I didn’t think that kind ofstuff really happened,”Nichols said, speaking througha series of electronic messageexchanges.
Nichols, a 2006 alumnus and
former president of Studentsfor Sensible Drug Policy, wasacquitted last Thursday of sec-ond-degree assault and reck-less endangerment chargesagainst a student. He stoodaccused of cutting Sean Ham-mond with a knife on the faceand neck and punching himrepeatedly in the Thirsty Tur-tle on Dec. 30 of last year.Hammond declined to com-ment on the case for this story.
The ruling ended an nine-month odyssey for the accusedalumnus that included jail
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
Scott Wilson owes his life toan Iraqi dump truck.
On the sergeant’s first tourin Iraq, a roadside bombexploded as he rode by on thetop of a Humvee, completelyexposed. Luckily, a dumptruck pulled up and stoppedbetween his vehicle and thebomb as it blew up, sendingpieces of shrapnel flying intothe side of the truck. Wilsonmade it out completelyunscathed.
“I saw two of my friends get
hurt real bad from suicide carbombs,” Wilson said. “I wasso lucky. Three times, a road-side bomb exploded withinyards of my vehicle. I literallyrisked my life for this country,for this state. And to comehome and not get any recogni-tion by the state — it’s just aslap in the face.”
Wilson, despite being a Vir-ginia native, has served sixyears with the MarylandNational Guard and has beendenied in-state tuition repeat-edly for not filling staterequirements that Wilsonsaid could not be met on
account of his two deploy-ments to Iraq.
“I wore the Maryland flagon my sleeve and when peo-ple asked me where I wasfrom, I always said ‘Mary-land,’” Wilson said. “I wouldnever go into it and explainhow I grew up in Virginia. Iwas proud to be part of theMaryland National Guard.Everyone else over there [inIraq] knew the boys fromMaryland were doing an awe-some job, and I was part ofthat.”
Members of the Maryland National Guard from otherstates grapple with out-of-state tuition despite service
Veteran Scott Wilson served inthe Maryland National Guard.JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Design of a spherical microphone array for 3-D audio recordingand playback. COURTESY OF ADAM O’DONOVAN
University researchers create devicethat can detect the source of sound
BY CHRIS YUStaff writer
A sniper is perched on theroof of a building, stealthilycrouched behind a pillar,poised to fire at innocent peo-ple below.
As his finger lingers on thetrigger, he pulls it. Withinminutes of the blast, the latestdevice created by university
researchers goes into action,pinpointing his location in amatter of moments.
Superman has superhumanhearing, Spiderman has hisspider senses, Daredevil hassensitive hearing radar andcomputer science professorRamani Duraiswami has asmall plastic ball that can see
RICK COSTASENIOR LINEBACKER
Please See MAZZA, Page 3
Please See RHA, Page 3
Please See COSTA, Page 3
Please See VETERANS, Page 3Please See NICHOLS, Page 2
Please See CAMERA, Page 3
Audiocamera
imaging ofconcert hall
acoustics. COURTESY
OF ADAM O’DONOVAN
TTHHEE OOFF SSOOUUNNDD
sight
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From Georgia, thanks for the U.S.Newly appointed acting ambassador accuses
Russia of ethnic cleansing during August conflict
time, a benefit concert in his honorand a long wait for his day in court.
“I never thought it would go thewrong way, but I am astonished athow long it took to be vindicated,”Nichols said. “The trial only lastedapproximately three hours, but Iwas effectively on trial for almost ayear.”
Nichols was arrested in Marchand spent several hours in a hold-ing cell before being bailed out.
On April 14, the felony first-de-gree assault charges weredropped, but the remainingcharges were tried on July 18. Anextension for the prosecution drewthe trial out a bit longer, and thesecond part of it was set for De-cember.
Nichols’ attorney, Jon Katz, de-clined to comment for this story,but pointed to a blog entry hewrote about the case detailingsome of the trial’s events.
Katz wrote that the prosecution’smain evidence was Hammond’sidentification of Nichols in a photolineup. However, Katz tried to con-centrate the trial on the fact Nicholsand Hammond had no previous re-lationship or knowledge of eachother before the incident.
He also alleged that Hammondwould not have been able to identi-fy his attacker in the few momentsbefore he was cut and hit.
“The whole assault happened soquickly, and [Hammond’s] first in-stinct is self-preservation, not get-ting a detailed rundown of his as-sailant’s appearance,” Katz wroteon the blog.
The judge accepted the de-fense’s case that reasonable doubtexisted that Nichols was the as-sailant and returned a verdictNichols said he always knew hewould get. However, he still ex-pressed some bitterness aboutgoing through the financially andemotionally straining legal processto have to prove his innocence.
“This was a serious breakdownof the system,” Nichols said. “Ithank the judge for his handling ofmy case, but if anything, I was be-mused by the thought that I shouldsomehow be thankful to the justicesystem for figuring out that theircharges against me were bunk.”
Steven Silverman, a Washingtonresident who befriended Nicholsthrough activism, said althoughhe’s happy Nichols was vindicatedin the end, the case reflects a legalsystem that can turn on the wrong-fully accused.
“It’s an example of how thecriminal justice system targetedan innocent person,” Silvermansaid. “It turned out well in the endfor us, but I’m sure it doesn’t al-ways turn out as well for others.”
ROCKVILLE – Mont-gomery County health offi-cials are warning residentsabout an outbreak of thehighly contagious norovirus.
Mary Anderson, a countyhealth department spokes-woman, said Tuesday thatoutbreaks have beenreported at two nursinghomes and a businessluncheon. She says that agroup of county residentsalso became ill after attend-ing a wedding in Florida,where they likely wereinfected.
The virus has affectedabout 75 people since mid-November.
Officials say norovirusspreads by the air whenpeople vomit or by contam-inated hands that aren’tproperly cleaned afterchanging diapers or usingbathrooms.
Its symptoms includenausea, vomiting, chills anda low-grade fever.
Health officials are urgingcounty residents to practicegood hygiene.
—Compiled from wirereports
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BY ERICH WAGNERStaff writer
Malkhaz Mikeladze, who wasappointed only yesterday asGeorgia’s ambassador to theUnited States, spoke on the cam-pus yesterday, accusing Russiaof ethnic cleansing during theconflict between Georgia andRussia in August and speakingabout the future of his country.
Mikeladze, who also becamethe Georgian ambassador toMexico and Canada yesterdaywhen the former ambassador,Vasil Sikharulidze, was promot-ed to minister of defense, beganby offering thanks to the roughly25 people gathered in McKeldinLibrary yesterday for the Unit-ed States’ “crystal clear” supportfor Georgia during the “AugustWar.”
That conflict, which he saidwas a Russian attempt to invadeand annex Georgia, was foughtbetween Georgian and sepa-ratist and Russian forces in thebreakway regions of South Osse-tia and Abkhazia, as well as inGeorgia proper.
“The August crisis was a well-planned operation by the Russ-ian Federation, as evidenced bythe number of armored unitswho invaded,” Mikeladze said.
Russia’s goals were to annexGeorgia and put a governmentin place that would act more fa-vorably toward them, he said.
“The Kremlin wanted to over-throw the democratic Georgiangovernment to install a puppetgovernment,” he said. “Anotherdemocratic success story in theregion would lead to domesticunrest and further freedoms andconcessions from the Russiangovernment.”
Mikeladze expressed Geor-gia’s wishes to join the North At-lantic Treaty Organization,which NATO members prom-ised earlier this year. But NATOhas since said that Georgia mustresolve its internal problems be-fore being granted membership.
In the future, Georgia intendsto work on post-conflict recon-struction, as well as strengthenits democratic institutions, in-cluding strengthening the role ofparliament and the judiciary, hesaid.
“We will make the judiciarymore independent through life-time appointment of judges,”Mikeladze said.
Freshman governmentand politics major ElliottGoldberg said he wasexcited to hear Mikeladzebecause of Georgia’s promi-
nence in the news recently.“It’s good to hear about it from
an insider,” Goldberg said. “Itwas an interesting, insightfuland detailed presentation.”
Courtney Davis, a freshmanletters and sciences major, saidshe liked hearing Georgia’s per-spective directly instead ofthrough news outlets.
“I actually found the [ques-tion-and-answer] section moreinteresting than the presentationitself,” Davis said. “But it wasgood to be able to hear him rein-force what [news anchors] al-ready said.”
Makhaz Mikeladze, acting ambassador from Georgia to the UnitedStates, Mexico and Canada, shares his country’s views on such topicsas relations with the United States and the recent and ongoingconflict with Russia. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
‘I was effectively ontrial for almost a year’
BYBRADYHOLTSenior staff writer
A College Park landlord as-sociation will appeal the dis-missal of its lawsuit that seeksto strike down a city rent con-trol law, the organization’spresident said yesterday.
A county judge dismissed thelawsuit Alan Tyler et al. v. City ofCollege Park last week, sayingthe rent control law did not dis-criminate against students.
But Lisa Miller, president ofthe Prince George’s PropertyOwners Association, said her or-ganization will “absolutely” ap-peal a decision she called “odd,”“weak” and “anti-American.”
Miller and other landlordsargue that the rent control law’sprimary goal is to cap rents at arate below which landlords canafford to charge, forcing themto stop renting to anyone, butespecially to students. Sincemost of College Park’s rentersare students, the organizationargues that the legislationforces students out of CollegePark’s neighborhoods.
The city’s goals for using rentcontrol were not only to keep stu-dent renters from being gougedduring the housing crunch, cityofficials have said, but also to dis-courage speculators from con-verting owner-occupied homesinto rental properties. The city
exempted apartment buildingsfrom its rent caps to encouragedevelopers to build student hous-ing apartment buildings, officialssaid.
Judge Leo E. Green Jr. hadruled that it is not discrimina-tory for legislation to targetrental homes just becausemost renters are students, butMiller disagreed.
“When people are saying theydon’t want rentals in the com-munity, it’s not okay if all therenters are blacks,” she said. Inthe ruling, she said, Green “isamazingly saying that it’s okayfor the city to want to get rid ofrentals in the city.”
Miller would not say howmuch her organization has spenton legal fees arguing its case orhow much it is budgeting to fundits appeals, but she did say thegroup will take the lawsuit as faras it can.
Bob Catlin, the College ParkDistrict 2 councilman who firstproposed the rent control legis-lation, said the hardest part ofthe lawsuit was already overfor the city, because it takesless time and money to arguean appeals case.
“The appeals process won’t beall that expensive for the city, butI hope it will cost [the landlords] alot,” he said.
Landlords’ group to appealrent control lawsuit loss
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“The Kremlinwanted tooverthrow thedemocraticGeorgiangovernment toinstall a puppetgovernment.”
MALKHAZ MIKELADZEGEORGIA’S AMBASSADOR TO THEUNITED STATES
onto a Resident Life website.The group creators will thenform ordered lists of where thegroups want to move.
“It’s easy to use,” RHA VicePresident Josef Mensah said,comparing the process to signingup for an e-mail account. “It’svery, very self explanatory.
“Anything to make it easier onstudents to focus on academics,”is a good thing, he added.
Later in the meeting, the RHApassed a constitutional amend-ment to change the manner inwhich RHA executives may beremoved from office.
Noting that “the removal ofExecutive Board members di-rectly effects the ExecutiveBoard team,” the resolutiongives the Executive Board, as awhole, one vote in removal pro-ceedings. Before the resolution,executives had no vote in suchhearings.
The resolution would alsochange the appeals process forexecutives removed from office.Previously, such appeals werehandled by the Judicial Board, anever-used council composed ofhall and area council presidents.Under the resolution, these ap-peals are handled by one of theRHA advisors.
ReLATe Committee ChairSpiro Dimakas, who abstained,said he worried that RHA advi-sors, who work closely with theExecutive Board, may face aconflict of interests.
The resolution passed 31-5,with two abstentions.
The RHA also resolved tosend a letter to the heads of Resi-dent Life, Dining Services andthe Transportation AdvisoryCommittee, reminding them toattend RHA committee meet-ings or provide a knowledgeablefill-in.
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Friedgen: Costamay play in bowlattorney hurried out of the court-room as soon as the judge saidthey were free to leave. Theycould not be reached later forcomment.
Although one of the assaultcharges has been reduced, statelaw mandates the maximumpenalty is 10 years in prison and$5,000 for the individual charge,plus designation as a felony. Theother charges carry a maximumof 10 years and a $2,500 fineeach. First-degree assault car-ries a penalty of up to 25 years inprison.
Most second-degree assaultsare designated as misde-meanors, but since one victim isa policeman who was on duty,the charge is considered a felony.The police report said the officeridentified himself to Costa be-fore he was injured.
Senior Associate Athletic Di-
rector Kathy Worthington saidCosta was still suspended fromteam activities for being chargedwith a felony as of this afternoon,and she had not heard anychanges in his status. If thefelony charge were to be amend-ed again or dropped, she saidhead football coach Ralph Fried-gen would be able to make a de-cision whether he can play in theRoady’s Humanitarian Bowl inBoise, Idaho.
Friedgen acknowledged thepossible return of Costa, who is inhis final year of eligibility. Howev-er, he said he would wait to seehow the situation develops.
“We’ll just have to see,” Fried-gen said. “I can’t say anythingright now, but there could besomething forthcoming in thenext day or so.”
[email protected]. Seniorstaff writer Eric Detweiler con-tributed to this report.
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University can’t help veteransBut Wilson, who signed up for
the Maryland National Guardknowing he wanted to go toschool here, said upon return-ing to the United States, he wasconfronted with piles of paper-work and stringent require-ments for in-state tuition. Heknew the requirements wouldbe impossible to fulfill on ac-count of his two deployments.
“I knew I wouldn’t meet thoserequirements,” Wilson said.“But there should be somethingin place that allows soldierswho served on behalf of thestate of Maryland to receive in-state tuition.”
Wilson, whose military con-tract expired in June of thisyear, was deployed not once, buttwice, an unusual occurrencefor soldiers in the NationalGuard that student veterans sayis becoming more common-place as military resources arebeing stretched.
“With the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan, the [Army] Re-
serve and National Guard arebeing used so much more thananyone could have anticipated,”sociology graduate student andstudent veteran Kirby Bowlingsaid. “Now, you can serve wher-ever there’s an opening. Wehave people from D.C., Virginia,Maryland all serving here be-cause typically, people like todrill where they live or go toschool.”
Bowling said that by workingwith the Veterans Program Of-fice and other student veterans,they raised their grievances touniversity administrators andstate leaders last month by ap-proaching the Bohanan Com-mission — a group working todetermine a long-term fundingmodel for higher education inthe state.
“Any veterans, regardless oftheir home of record, should getin-state tuition,” Bowling said.“And certainly anyone whoserves in the Maryland NationalGuard or [Army] Reserveshould be granted in-state tu-ition. Other states, like Wiscon-
sin, do that.”But administrators said this
issue is out of the university’shands.
“We tried to get them in-state tuition,” Assistant VicePresident for Student AffairsWarren Kelley said. “It’s a bigdeal, we just don’t have the au-thority to do anything about it.It either requires a change inthe Board of Regents policy orstate legislation.”
University President DanMote said that though studentveterans could not apply for in-state tuition based on service,according to state regulations,there are many scholarshipsavailable.
But Bowling and Wilson saidthat veteran scholarships aredesigned for those receiving in-state tuition, and thereforecover very little of out-of-statecosts — which amount to about$10,000 more per year.
“The Iraq/Afghanistan schol-arships need to be expanded,”Bowling said. “Especially be-cause more vets are going to be
coming to the university overthe next bunch of years.”
Ultimately, Wilson said thathe hopes the issue can be re-solved for future veterans whomight run into the same prob-lems as they return to the uni-versity from overseas.
“Even if I don’t see anothercent from this college, I don’twant someone else to getscrewed,” Wilson said. “I’mready to move on with my life,but hopefully they canstraighten this thing out for thefuture.”
Paper towel wastestacks up in studySCS Engineers analysis could reignitepaper versus air dryer discussions
BYTIRZAAUSTINStaff writer
The debate between paper tow-els and hand dryers has blownacross the campus.
In the past, the university hasconsidered bringing hand dryersto the campus bathrooms in hopesof becoming more environmental-ly friendly. But because of spaceand code restrictions, paired withelectrical issues and consumerconcerns, no action has beentaken.
But those decisions may have tobe reevaluated after the universitysaw a high amount of “otherpaper” — usually paper towelsand napkins — in a waste streamanalysis conducted by SCS Engi-neers last month. The largeamount indicates the university’suse of paper towels may have alarger negative environmental im-pact than previously thought.
Dining Services alone uses 2.4million feet of paper in a calendaryear in the bathrooms and em-ployee sinks in the dining halls,Dining Services spokesman BartHipple said.
In last month’s results from thewaste stream analysis, 17.8 per-cent of trash in The Diner onNorth Campus and 14.5 percent inthe South Campus Dining Hallwas other paper consisting ofmostly of soiled paper towels andnapkins.
The highest amount of otherpaper usage was in the EppleyRecreation Center, with 30.3 per-cent of trash consisting of otherpaper. But, amounts of other paperwere high in all the facilities exam-ined in the study. In the Stamp Stu-dent Union, 23.6 percent of thetrash was other paper.
Steve Schatz, a facilities mainte-nance assistant director for Stamp,said he encountered some contro-versy when he proposed bringinga couple different types of handdryers to the bathrooms on thecampus. Schatz said he startedlooking into the motion because,“it’s a greener alternative to papertowels.”
According to a study conductedby Environmental Resource Man-agement, a leading provider of en-vironmental, health and safety,
risk and social consulting services,concluded that hand dryers aremore environmentally friendlythan paper towels.
Yet, Schatz faced concernsabout the germs that are spreadthrough the hand dryers and logis-tics problems of installing the ma-chines, delaying all thoughts of airdryers being brought to the Union.
Heather Lair, a sustainabilityproject manager, said paper tow-els aren’t all bad. They could neverbe fully eliminated because theyare needed to clean up spills, shesaid.
Dining Services has reducedthe use of other paper in the dininghalls with different methods. Forexample, they put napkins on eachtable, which is meant to eliminatestudents taking too many napkinsthat they don’t use and end upthrowing away, said Maria Lons-bury, a project specialist in the Of-fice of the Vice President for Stu-dent Affairs. The project has de-creased the quantity of napkinsstudents used, she said.
But officials are not so ready toswitch to hand dryers, Lair said,even though eliminating papertowels would also reduce laborcosts because housekeepingwouldn’t have to come in and re-place paper towels.
“Facilities managers would bereluctant to put [the hand dryers]in because there would be a lot ofcomplaints,” Lair said. “Peopledon’t like them. [Facilities man-agers] don’t want to do somethingthat people are going to complainabout.”
Ultimately, Lair said the univer-sity has to take into account whatstudents, faculty and staff use todry their hands.
“If students were telling Resi-dential Facilitates, ‘We want handdryers because they are more re-sponsible,’ they would put themin,” Lair said.
Lair said changes probably willnot start unless students startspeaking up.
“It’s an educational process,”Lair said. “I don’t think we canshove it down people’s throats. Weall have to decide how much painwe are willing to endure.”
City gives $60,000 to local organizationsBoy Scout troop, Lakeland Heritage Project and Meals on Wheels all benefit
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
The College Park CityCouncil voted last night toaward $60,000 worth ofgrants to local organizationsdespite one councilman’sobjection to spending moneyduring a recession.
“I don’t understand: Whendo we start tightening ourbelt,” District 2 CouncilmanJack Perry said. “Do we waituntil the wolf is at the door?”
Perry said although Col-lege Park isn’t sufferingfinancially yet, it should pre-pare for the same budgetcrises that the state andother agencies and munici-palities are now facing.
Discussing the grants at a
meeting last week, Perrysaid the civil servants on thecouncil — mostcouncil membersare federal ormunicipal employ-ees — don't under-stand fiscalresponsibility.
But District 2Councilman BobCatlin said thegrants represent analmost negligibleportion of its $13 millionannual budget, and it isimportant to fund communityorganizations.
Among the city’s grantswere funding for fire depart-ments, schools, a local BoyScout troop, Meals on Wheelsand the Lakeland Community
Heritage Project.“I don’t know that we want
to pull the rug outfrom a lot ofgroups,” Catlinsaid.
F u r t h e r m o r e ,Catlin criticizedone of the handfulof the few grantsPerry supported— Meals onWheels — forserving customers
largely outside College Park.Perry was the only council
member to vote against anyof the grants, leading MayorStephen Brayman to refer to“Mr. Opposition” before cor-recting himself to say “Mr.Perry’s opposition.”
District 4 Councilwoman
Mary Cook took the middleground, voting for the grantsbut suggesting the cityrestrain itself in futureyears. The city had writtenthe grants into its budget forthis fiscal year in April whenthe economy was less bleak.
But Perry maintained itwould be a bad idea to spendthe money this year, espe-cially, he said, because quitea few of the projects areunnecessary.
“I look at many of thesegrants as pure unadulteratedpork,” Perry said. “It’s for theelected officials to run aroundand pat themselves on theback and tell themselves howwonderful they are to the city.”
said while he’d love to see allgraduate students in Mazza —“We have promised the city ofCollege Park that we’re goingto market mainly to graduatestudents” — he anticipates halfthe 630 tenants will be under-graduates.
Yet GSG President AnupamaKothari disagreed.
“These are just flimsy excus-es camouflaging undergradu-ate housing as graduate hous-ing,” she said. Kothari addedgraduate students wouldn’t bewilling to pay more than $500to $600 a month, an amountTerwilliger said was too low forthe project to succeed.
Rent at the View starts atabout $800 a month, but Ter-williger said Mazza’s rent willdepend on market conditionswhen it opens in time for thefall 2010 semester.
“We’re spending a lot ofmoney to build this project andget the land,” Terwilliger said.“We’re going to charge whatev-er the market will bear.”
He said he was not aware ofconcerns that graduate stu-dents often can’t afford rents ashigh as undergraduates, andhad not considered offeringdiscounted rent to graduatestudents, as do Graduate Hillsand Graduate Gardens.
Terwilliger came before thecity council last night for a con-tentious discussion of how thedeveloper planned to fund im-provements to roads nearMazza, which broke groundlast month behind Jordan Kitt’sMusic on Route 1.
To open by August 2010,Mazza needed council approvalfor its plans last night, and thecouncil unanimously approveda compromise for how they willwork out paying for addinglanes to Greenbelt Road and anextension of Hollywood Roadto the west side of Route 1. Theagreement came after a shout-
ing match between attorneyThomas Haller and MayorStephen Brayman.
But council members did notsingle Mazza out as graduatestudent housing, mentioningonly the more general housingcrunch facing College Park’sstudents.
GSG officials blame gradu-ate students’ housing situationon a general lack of under-standing of their diverse hous-ing needs and a lack of univer-sity interest in increasing theirpay or subsidizing their hous-ing.
Many graduate studentsonly make $900 per month tospend on rent and all othercosts, so they say low cost isparamount.
“We’re not looking for lux-ury,” Münster said, referringto graduate students wholive in crowded buildingssuch as Graduate Hills andGraduate Gardens becausethey cost less than $400 amonth. “While [Mazza’s]facilities are probably goingto be a lot better, that’s quitea difference.”
Some graduate studentsalso want to live near thecampus with their families,and would prefer to live
away from rowdy under-graduates so they can con-centrate on their studies.
But with College Park suffer-ing from a student housing cri-sis and incoming developersplanning rents graduate stu-dents can’t afford, Kothari saidthe graduate housing situationwill continue to be poor withoutuniversity help.
“We’re going to be fartherand farther away from the uni-versity,” she said. “And ifyou’re lucky enough to livenearer in Greenbelt or Hy-attsville, we’ll still be living inpest-infested inferior housing.”
leagues are developing anaudio camera that can detectwhere sound is coming from.It could help police find thelocation of a sniper based onthe sound of gunfire. Theaudio camera could also helparchitects design concerthalls with better sound qual-ity and allow automakers tobuild quieter cabins for theirvehicles.
“In the long term, this willchange the way we viewsound,” Duraiswami said.
The audio camera is asmall plastic ball with 64holes spread across the sur-face, said Adam O’Donovan,a graduate student workingon the project. Under eachhole is an individual micro-phone. Because the micro-phones are in a spherical
arrangement, O’Donovansaid they are able to detectsound coming from justabout any direction, all atthe same time.
When a sound is detected,it is represented as a splashof colors on a computerscreen. Red represents themost intense sound, whileblue is the least intense,O’Donovan said.
The audio camera couldhelp police find a sniperbecause it not only detectswhere a shot is coming from,it also isolates the gunshotsound from all other soundsin the area, Duraiswamisaid. This way, police canpinpoint exactly where theshooter is hiding.
This ability to isolate onesound out of many could alsobe useful during teleconfer-ences, Duraiswami said.When more than one personis talking and it is difficult to
hear what each is saying, theaudio camera can separatethe commotion into compre-hensible dialogue.
The audio camera couldhelp architects design con-cert halls, O’Donovan said.In order for the audience toget a rich, full sound fromthe performance they arewatching, sound from thestage must bounce off thewalls throughout the build-ing. The audio cameraallows architects to seewhich parts of the concerthall are not getting enoughof that bounce, O’Donovansaid.
Enabling automakers tobuild quieter cabins forvehicles is also within theaudio camera’s capabilities,because the device pinpointsexactly where sounds areleaking in, O’Donovanadded.
Although the audio cam-
eras have many possibleuses, O’Donovan said puttingthe device together was diffi-cult. He had to build every-thing from scratch, includingthe 64 microphones. Whenhe tested the camera for thefirst time, it didn’t work. Hesaid his “heart dropped,” buthe later discovered thedevice was simply notplugged in.
“It’s rewarding to seeideas actually pan out,”O’Donovan said.
“In the long term,this will changethe way we viewsound.”
RAMANI DURAISWAMICOMPUTER SCIENCE PROFESSOR
MAZZA, from Page 1
“These are justflimsy excusescamouflagingundergraduatehousing asgraduate housing.”
ANUPAMA KOTHARIGSG PRESIDENT
“We’re spending alot of money tobuild this projectand get the land.We’re going tocharge whateverthe market willbear.”
BRUCE TERWILLIGERDEVELOPER
We have a lot of parking lotsin downtown College Park— one behind the Mary-land Book Exchange, one
next to Applebee’s and a garage beingbuilt at Knox Road and Yale Avenue. Yetthese lots will all sit empty while carsline up Route 1 to enter a parking lotmore exclusive than The Mark.
I’m talking about the College ParkShopping Center’s parking lot at KnoxRoad and Route 1. The shopping centeris home to all of your basic, non-alco-holic college kid needs: toothpaste, cof-fee and burritos. Its parking lot can bedescribed as nothing other than a night-mare, with lines that frequently back upinto the street and effectively stop KnoxRoad at rush hour. What’s the solution?Certainly not more parking lots. I’llcatch a lot of flak for saying this, but Ithink the meters aren’t charging enoughto park.
Here’s an example. I pay more for aroom in South Campus Commons,
which is right in the middle of down-town College Park, than someone wholives in University Courtyards, which ismore than a mile away. The rooms aremore or less the same, but I’m payingfor the convenience of having a shortwalk (or drive, if I’m lazy) to all of Col-lege Park’s deep-fried goodies. Should-n’t the same principle apply to moreconvenient parking spaces?
In his book The High Cost of FreeParking, Donald Shoup, professor ofurban planning at the University of Cal-ifornia, Los Angeles, argues that whatyou pay at the meter rarely reflects theactual value of a parking space. Two
years ago, the city of Rockville built anew parking garage in its downtownthat costs $1.5 million a year to main-tain, but charges just $1 an hour to parkthere. The result? A garage they can’tpay for that fills up before lunch, send-ing people to continue searching for aspace. And all of that extra driving putsa strain on the environment. In a studyof Los Angeles’ 15-block business dis-trict, Shoup discovered that peopledrive 950,000 miles a year trying topark, wasting 47,000 gallons of gasolineand pumping 730 tons of carbon dioxideinto the air.
If the goal is to take these cars — andthe accompanying waste and pollution— off the street and into a space, the an-swer is what Shoup calls right-pricing:setting rates at a level that will ensure aconsistent occupancy rate in parkingspaces. In other words, charge peoplemore to park at busy times (for exam-ple, around lunchtime) or in more cen-trally located lots. Basically, you’re put-
ting a price on convenience — parkingright in front of the store or not having tospend time waiting for a space to openup. It’s applying free market economicsto the parking lot: The city gets some-thing closer to its money’s worth on thespace, and you’re guaranteed to get yourerrands done in a timely manner.
It’s true overpriced parking spacescan drive people away. Just look at theMall at Prince Georges, whose manycustomers are attracted by the freeparking available, while the neighbor-ing University Town Center — whichcharges after two free hours — is fairlyquiet. Being a new shopping center thathasn’t built a name for itself doesn’thelp, either. But in an established desti-nation such as College Park, having cus-tomers that can’t even snag a space, letalone pay for one, is just as bad.
Dan Reed is a senior architecture andEnglish major. He can be reached [email protected].
City parking: You get what you pay for
From a moral standpoint, it would be misguided to equate the failings ofa minor with those of an adult. …” That’s what Supreme Court JusticeAnthony Kennedy wrote in the 2005 decision abolishing juvenile exe-cutions. It’s likely a similar thought process that prompted Prince
George’s County Councilman Will Campos (D-District 2) to argue forexpanded access to higher education for undocumentedimmigrants, saying, “students who were brought here ille-gally by their parents at a young age should not be penal-ized.”
But not everyone is so welcoming of academically aspir-ing illegal immigrants. Brad Botwin adamantly opposes leg-islation that would grant in-state tuition rates to undocu-mented students. Botwin is the director of “Help SaveMaryland,” an organization whose website argues, “thepresence of illegal aliens in Maryland poses an unaccept-able economic burden and physical threat to our communities. …” But illegalimmigrants can’t be written off as a drain on the economy, and certainly not inthe context of higher education. Quite the opposite, in fact: Immigrants mayvery well be our economic — and national — salvation.
International journalist Fareed Zakaria argues that the dominant position of
the United States results directly from the quality of our higher education, com-bined with our demographic compared with Europe and much of Asia. Whilethose countries have stagnant and aging populations, the U.S. continues to havean expanding (and younger) population. That growth, Zakaria says, is largelyattributable to continuing immigration.
The importance of recent immigrants to U.S. technol-ogy is immense — foreign students and immigrants makeup half of science researchers in the U.S., and receivednearly half of all doctorates awarded in science and engi-neering. By 2010, Zakaria projects that foreign studentswill receive more than half of all doctorates awarded inany subject in the U.S., and nearly three out of every fourawarded in the sciences.
The state has staked its future on continued success as atechnology corridor. The university has staked its global
prestige on excellence in the sciences. It is shortsighted and self-destructive toeffectively bar immigrants from our institutions of higher education by notoffering in-state tuition, when they are so clearly essential to sustaining andexpanding our successes. We hope that both state and federal legislators rec-ognize these facts, and truly act to help save Maryland.
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The end of the semester is atime for reflection — a time tolook back to see what wentwrong, what went right and
what you need to improve upon for nextsemester.
For me, it’s a time to reflect on theexorbitant number of free T-shirts I’vecollected this semester.
Right when you get to the university,you get your first free shirt. You re-member New Student Orientation. Youknow, that two-day, $145 field tripwhere you got drunk for the first time?You didn’t get just one “free” shirt —you got two! Flash forward to my junioryear, and the shirts keep on coming.
The first one of the year was a fight.It was Sept. 26 — a dreary, rainy andcold Friday night. Maryland men’s soc-cer vs. Wake Forest. Upon enteringLudwig Field after waiting in line fornearly 15 minutes, I immediately real-ized I had entered through the wrongentrance: They were giving away shirtsat the student entrance. But no need toworry — my former roommate and I
sprinted over to get a shirt. Despitebeing extremely tired and nearlybreaking my ankle in a hole in theground, nothing would stop me. We gotour shirts, and promptly watched ourteam lose 4-2 in the pouring rain. Theshirt got soaking wet, but it was thesame red and black “Crew” shirt that Igot last year, so no big deal. On a sidenote, I experienced my first “volun-tary” evacuation. I laughed. Shirt rank-ing: 6/10.
On that same night was the StampAll-Niter. Between a Panda Expresseating contest (the Orange Chickenwas amazing, by the way) and an “allnight” event that ended at about 2 a.m.,I got my shirt. This one wasn’t thattough to get — I saw them setting upand was ready to fend off the masses.But the shirt was still impressive. It isall black with red and white lettering.Despite the fact that the shirt did not in-clude the year on it and it was a large,I’ll give it a 7.5 / 10 ranking.
Next up was Midnight — sorry,Maryland Madness on Oct. 17. This
was a pretty cool night. Along with thefree shirt, I got free tickets to a suite inComcast Center. After seeing the sameexact show the previous two years (ex-cept this time, it was the Under Armourshow), the shirt and the tickets were theonly saving grace. The shirt was totallydifferent from past years’ MarylandMadness shirts and, just like the All-Niter shirt, didn’t include the date. It’slike they don’t want us to remember theseason. Shirt ranking: 8/10.
A week later was the Terps’ footballgame on Oct. 25. Once again, it was arainy, dreary and cold day. I thoughtabout not going, but then I got a callfrom a dear friend informing me thatthey were giving out free shirts. So nat-
urally, I didn’t just scan and leave; Iscanned, got my free T-shirt and left.Yep, I’m one of them. Despite the factthat the shirt’s sponsor, a to-remain-un-named bank, may soon cease to exist,the shirt was impressive — teamnames, dates and a graphic! Shirt rank-ing: 9.5/10.
The final free shirt was at the “Black-out” football game Nov. 22. Wait. Nevermind, I don’t remember that.
Though I enjoyed these free shirts,none of them topped my lucky finalsshirt — the Google “I’m feeling lucky”shirt I got my freshman year.
Sure, you may say that as an in-statestudent, I paid thousands of dollars intuition for the right to get the aforemen-tioned free shirts. It might have beenexpensive, but I feel it was well worththe cost.
The fact that the shirts may be worthmore than my degree: priceless.
Joel Cohen is a junior governmentand politics major. He can bereached at [email protected].
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JOELCOHEN
A day that lives in infamy
I think in our busy lives we do notmeditate on the meaning on lessons ofhistory enough. This weekend wasDec. 7, “A date which will live ininfamy.” But why? The Japanese didnothing wrong in carrying out a pre-emptive strikeagainst theUnited States.They were try-ing to prevent anattack from theU.S.
I, for one, amashamed thatour country wasonce so uncivi-lized that it con-sidered plan-ners of aggres-sion as warcriminals, and Iam embar-rassed that weput Japanesesoldiers on trial who used enhancedinterrogation techniques such aswaterboarding on American prison-ers of war.
I call on President-elect BarackObama (D), when he is inaugurated,to issue a formal apology to the nationof Japan for these long-standing injus-tices, and I hope he will have the goodmoral sense to do so.
AVI ROBERTS SOPHOMORE
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A frosty reception to Christmas decorations
While walking through the businessschool recently, we couldn’t help butnotice the striking Christmas tree andthe hanging poinsettias lining themain hallway. Our first thought was,“How delightful! Who doesn’t love agood poinsettia?” But upon secondthought, we were appalled at the bla-tant misuse of university funds andthe explicitly Christian overtones ofthe decorations.
Let’s first consider that this is notthe first or only example of favoritismthe university displays toward thebusiness school. We have yet to seeany decorations, or even refurbishedfacilities, in buildings that house theliberal arts. Of course, we understandthe arts and humanities majors won’tbe bringing in the big bucks asalumni, while the future upstandingchief executive officers of GeneralMotors graduating from the businessschool will be donating their pocketchange to the university. It seems onlyfair that they get the best this univer-sity has to offer.
Furthermore, when we applied tothe university, we were under theimpression that it was a public institu-tion. In fact, this is the case. This begsthe question: Why would a publicinstitution use decorations so clearlyassociated with a particular religiousholiday? A state university shouldhave no holiday decorations of anykind on its campus. Don’t get thewrong idea — we’re hardly anti-holi-day cheer. In fact, if you were to walkpast our South Campus Commonsbuilding, you’d see our apartment’sChristmas tree proudly standing inthe window — in the privacy of ourown home.
You may think that we would be sat-isfied by the inclusion of a menorahand a kinara, the symbol of Kwanzaa,alongside a Christmas tree. We’re allfor diversity and pluralism, but this,too, would be inappropriate. A stateinstitution should have no holidaydecorations of any kind on its campus.There is a place for religious symbol-ism, and a public university is not it.
Next time, we suggest the artisticvisionaries behind the lovely Christ-mas decorations stick to everyone’sfavorite secular standby, Frosty theSnowman.
RACHEL BALTUCH JUNIOR
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“I think inour busylives we donotmeditateon lessonsof historyenough.”
AVIROBERTSSOPHOMORE
Born today, you can be some-what mysterious, and it isnot likely that anyone else
will be able to plumb the depths ofyour personality with any real ac-curacy or detail. Indeed, you don’toften know yourself all that well,but you trust your instincts to seeyou through, and you considerself-analysis to be less valuablethan good old-fashioned hardwork. You are a solid thinker, andyou know how to put thought intoaction and reap considerable re-wards. You have many friendly ac-quaintances, but only a few trueand lasting friends.
You don’t like to talk aboutthose things that, to you, aredeeply personal — faith, money,politics and your family life. Thosewho do not respect your privacyare not for you; you will do all youcan to keep private affairs close tothe vest. You’re never one to tellsecrets.
Also born on this date are:Susan Dey, actress; Emily Dickin-son, poet; Dorothy Lamour, ac-tress; Kenneth Branagh, actor anddirector; Chet Huntley, news an-chorman.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) —You should enjoy an inspired,invigorating day — but youmust take care that you leavesomething left over for thatspecial someone.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —You’ll be driven forward byyour own rich and complex ob-jectives. You needn’t explain
yourself to your critics — justyet.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —You’re more in the mood forsmall, intimate gatherings thanyou are for a grand social event.Private talk results in a majordiscovery.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Achallenge comes your way, andyou can embrace it with greatenergy and passion. Seek a newmethod to achieve old ends.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Don’tbe lazy, especially when askeda favor by another Aries native.He or she may mean more toyou than others.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — It’s agood day to unleash your cre-ativity and to explore the moreunusual options available toyou at this time. Don’t be timid.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It’stime for you to claim your re-wards in an outright, honestand direct fashion. It’s impor-tant that you not let others takeadvantage.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Makeno decisions without first con-sulting those closest to you.What you do is sure to affectthem for some time to come.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You cansuccessfully reverse a negativetrend, and those around youwill be impressed with your in-genuity.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Yourfirst impressions are sure toprove more important thanusual — but you must keep yourtemper carefully under controlat all times.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Giveadvice only when asked — oryou’re likely to find that few arewilling to listen, no matter howvalid your views may be.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —There is no danger in going outof your way to please others; in-deed, you can reap great re-wards for your extra efforts.
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The Culinarian breaks down some of the best food shows not on Food Network
The best food shows you’re(probably) not watching
BY TRIPP LAINOStaff writer
So you’ve finally done it. You’ve completelyexhausted the gamut of offerings on theFood Network.
Rachael Ray’s signature “yummo” and“EVOO” have grown tired, Giada de Laurentiis’over-pronunciation of all things Italian (Moot-Za-Rell-Uh) sends you scurrying, and Paula Deen’s ob-session with butter (Fried Butter Balls, really?)sends cardiac shivers down right arms everywhere.
So what’s a foodie to do? Fear not, for the FoodNetwork and Bravo’s Top Chef are not the onlyplaces to get a food television fix. PBS (Channels 19,22 and 26 on the campus) offers a wide array of foodshows to suit any taste, and the Travel Channel hasupgraded its offerings beyond Anthony Bourdain’stravel show No Reservations.
The following are the three best food showsyou’re probably not watching — and you don’t evenneed cable for two of them.
Lidia Bastianich is, without a doubt, the best Ital-ian chef on television, especially after the Food Net-work dropped Mario Batali. She’s the co-owner ofseveral restaurants across the country, includingBecco in New York, and her son, Joe, is co-owner ofseveral restaurants with Batali.
She has several PBS-produced shows, the mostcommonly aired shows coming from Lidia’s Italy,which is peppered with scenes of Bastianich perusingItalian markets and learning dishes from cooks allover the country, followed by her cooking versions ofthose dishes or similar dishes in her kitchen.
Joe, is a renowned wine maker and appears onthe show to help with grilling and pairing wineswith the dinner selection. Joe isn’t the only familymember to get involved in the act. Lidia’s mother,
Erminia Motika, also makes occasional appear-ances on the show to help cook and share stories ofher life.
No matter which incarnation of Bastianich’sshows you encounter, you will surely see Italiandelights of all styles prepared. Lidia showcaseseverything from salads to desserts. Soon, you willbe repeating her signature phrase, “Tutti aTavola, a Mangiare,” when you want people to eatthe meals you cook.
For the most part, the show takes a lighter look atcooking, but the actual preparation of food is seri-ous business. Its principal mission is to examine themyriad of styles of preparations for a given food —chocolate cake, barbecue and macaroni andcheese, to name a few — and find either the beststyle, or sometimes a lighter version of said style.
In addition to the show, the crew of America’sTest Kitchenhas produced several cookbooks and apair of magazines — Cook’s Country and Cook’s Il-lustrated — covering the same territory.
Cook’s Illustrated editor in chief ChristopherKimball hosts the show and, despite his bookish ap-pearance, has great rapport with the rest of thecrew and even cracks the occasional joke.
While the primary aspect of the program is toshowcase a recipe, the series also has segmentscovering cooking utensils and ingredients. There’salso a series of Test Kitchen taste-offs (anything
from cocoa mix to parmesan cheese) and kitchenitem tests (everything from hand tools to blenders).Kimball sometimes demonstrates the tools but al-ways tastes the ingredients involved in the test, usu-ally leading to amusing results.
To be honest, if you haven’t seen this show yet,it’s likely because it premiered last week. Re-gardless, its opening pair of episodes showsbright promise, building off of the already in-triguing premise.
The guise of the show is its host, Adam Richman(who has worked in restaurants all over the countryin various jobs, according to his Travel Channelbio), visits a locale and takes on whatever mam-moth food challenge exists.
While there, Richman checks out other restau-rants, but the draw of the show is his attempts to gorgeon the nation’s giant steaks, burgers and sandwiches.
In the premiere episodes, he attempted the BigTexan Challenge of a 72-oz. steak, baked potato, sidesalad, shrimp cocktail and dinner roll in an hour orless in Amarillo, Texas (he won), and a seven-and-a-half pound burger in Memphis, Tenn. (he lost).
Richman manages to be quirky without taking itto obnoxious levels and clearly loves both thepreparation and eating of food, a combination thatmakes Man v. Food a show to keep an eye on.
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HEY, REMEMBER SATURDAYNIGHT LIVE?Now that the election’s over, Saturday NightLive can return to sucking for all 90 of itson-air minutes. But SNL’s still tryingthe political humor, even in apost-Sarah Palin world.This weekend, the showbrought back AmyPoehler as HillaryClinton, appropriatebecause most thoughtPoehler was done onSNL after she gave birth.With Clinton’s nominationas President-elect BarackObama’s (D) secretary of state,there was no better way to start the show.But it didn’t take long for SNL to slide backinto failure; Andy Samberg and LonelyIsland’s new digital short, “Jizz in My Pants,”did that for them.
JOHN KRASINSKI, SINGERWe don’t know why, but all comedians in
Los Angeles seem to be friendswith singer Aimee Mann.
We’ve seen her do comedybefore, but now, Mannflipped the switch, lettingThe Office’s JohnKrasinski join her on stagelast week for a “Winter
Wonderland” duet.Krasinski can’t sing — at all
— but if you were evercurious, we hope you’re satisfied.
KERMIT SINGS A SAD SONGYouTube has become a ripe place for peopleto make Jim Henson’s Kermit the Frog sing (ordo dirty things, whatever). So, it’s nice whenKermit gets to just sing anawesome song, even if it’s asomber one. For this video,Kermit lip-sings to LCDSoundsystem’s “New York,I Love You But You’reBringing Me Down,”around different parts ofthe Big Apple. It’s fitting,considering singer JamesMurphy sounds a bit like Kermiton the song, and at the end, wediscover Murphy was in on it all along — he’sthe one controlling Kermit. We’d show you thevideo, but record label EMI pulled it fromYouTube, despite Murphy’s involvement.
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INTERVIEW | MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
Bring on the OrchestraManchester Orchestra drummer discusses the band’s intense live show
BY JON WOLPERStaff writer
Manchester Orchestra is the paragon of a bandusing its Internet presence to its advantage.Through the combination of hefty MySpace usageand consistent YouTube-based video podcasts, theband gradually found itself accumulating notewor-thy buzz.
“It was never something where, all of a sudden,we saw a change in the people coming to shows,”drummer Jeremiah Edmond said. “It’s somethingwe always did, and it gradually grew along with us,and with the attendance to shows and the buzzaround the band.”
When the band comes to the Ottobar in Baltimoretomorrow, it’ll be bringing its different brand of rockin an intense, lauded live performance.
“It’s very loud, it’s very dynamic, and it’s very in-timate,” Edmond said of their performing style.
The band often brings out its openers to join themon songs like “Where Have You Been,” duringwhich more than 10 people could be screaming intothe audience “God, my God, where have you been?”at any point.
It’s extremely raw and powerful and exactly whatthe band strives for.
Manchester Orchestra’s debut full-lengthrecord, I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, used
very personal lyrics over a spectrum of music, rang-ing from quiet acoustic balladry (“Don’t Let ThemSee You Cry”) to booming emotional climaxes(“Where Have You Been” and “Colly Strings”).
It’s remarkable, then, that a band which seems sowell versed in crafting songs has been around since2005.
It’s even more remarkable that the average age ofits members is about 20.
“It wasn’t like we just started a band and made arecord, and all of the sudden, we were thrown on theroad,” Edmond said. “We’ve been out on the roadplaying shows for close to four years now.”
The majority of Manchester Orchestra’s mem-bers have been in bands and playing shows sincetheir mid-teens, he added, so the transition to a tour-ing lifestyle wasn’t terribly difficult.
“It wasn’t a huge shock for us,” he said. “Thingsjust kept getting a little bit busier and a little bitbusier until we were on the road for a full year.”
The band is currently in support of a new EP, LetMy Pride Be What’s Left Behind, which came out inOctober. It features several new songs, live rendi-tions of older tracks and a 40-minute documentaryby Sam Erickson, who followed the band on the road
last year. The new songs — specifically “I Can Feel a Hot
One” and “I Was a Lid” — expand on the songwrit-ing chops of I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child, whilestill keeping its structural and emotional core. Theformer hinges on a slow, gut wrenching vocal per-formance by singer Andy Hull, while the latter isfull-on power chord intensity, easily louder and an-grier than any song the band has put to tape thus far.
It’s easy to see the wide spectrum of moods theband conveys is as prominent as ever on the EP. Thiswill carry over into the band’s new full length, MeanEverything to Nothing, which is due out early nextyear, Edmond said.
“It’s really loud, dirty and abrasive at parts,” hesaid. “But it’s still written around pop songs, so themelodies are there. It’s really dynamic like the lastrecord but even bigger and louder.
“We’re a lot better at our instruments and fo-cused on pushing ourselves and thinking outsidethe box of what we’d normally write for a part,”Edmond added. “We’re trying to grow and dosomething new and not just make the same recordwe already made once.”
Manchester Orchestra, Dead Confederate, KevinDevine and All Get Out are playing at the Ottobar to-morrow. Tickets are $11, and doors open at 7 p.m.
Top-seed Wake Forest andthe No. 2-seed Terrapins wereamong the best men’s soccerteams in the country all sea-son, making the ACC arguablythe best conference through-out the year.
The Terps (21-3-0) and theDemon Deacons (22-1-1) wereexpected to advance to thisweekend’s College Cup inFrisco, Texas, but a third ACCteam, No. 13-seed North Car-olina (14-7-1), has crashed theparty despite a rocky end to itsseason.
The Tar Heels lost fivestraight matches entering theNCAA tournament, includingtwo to the Terps and one toWake Forest, and didn’t looklike the type of team that wasready for a semifinal run. Butthey earned a protected seed,meaning a first-round bye,then caught some breaks intheir region.
Both No. 4-seed Akron andNo. 5-seed Michigan Statewere upset before potentialmatchups with the Tar Heels,and they beat Jacksonville,Illinois-Chicago and North-western in Chapel Hill, N.C., —each by one goal.
Before the Terps’ 8 p.m.game against No. 3-seed St.John’s on Friday, the Tar Heelswill try to keep their run alivewith what would be a majorupset against the Demon Dea-cons.
It’s not the first time theACC has sent multiple teams tothe College Cup. This will bethe fourth consecutive seasontwo teams from the conferencehave made it to at least thesemifinal round.
“[It] is a remarkable state-ment,” coach Sasho Cirovski saidof the ACC’s soccer prowess. “Ithink playing in that league andhaving success in our leaguegives you a great deal of confi-dence when you get to NCAAtournament play. And I think wefeel, after [how] we played ourschedule, that no matter who weplay against, we’ve got a greatshot to beat them.”
Despite the league’s success,no two ACC squads have met
in the championship. That willchange in Sunday’s nationalchampionship if the Terps wintheir semifinal.
GONZALEZ HOMECOMINGWhile all the Terps made
getting to the College Cup oneof their season-long goals,defender Omar Gonzalez had aspecial incentive. Gonzalez hasbeen looking forward to get-ting to Frisco, about 30 milesnorth of his hometown of Dal-las, all year.
He said he expects about 25family members to show up atPizza Hut Park, home of MajorLeague Soccer’s FC Dallas, forFriday’s semifinal.
“I’m just looking forward toit,” Gonzalez said. “My mom issetting up a tailgate for all ofthe parents from here, becauseshe doesn’t get to come up tomany games. She wants tothrow a big thing so they allcan mingle before the game. Soit’s gonna be really nice.”
Though he’s from Dallas,Gonzalez said he spent a lot oftime in the Frisco area whilegrowing up playing soccer atFrisco’s soccer park.
“Most of my friends are from
there, so I spend a lot of timethere,” Gonzalez said.
TEAM MOTTOIn this age of ubiquitous cor-
porate naming rights deals forstadiums, Cirovski decided tojoin in on the act.
After Saturday’s 1-0 winagainst Creighton, Cirovskisaid one of the team’s mottosthis year was, “from the HomeDepot [Center] to Pizza HutPark.” The Home Depot Cen-ter in Carson, Calif., was thesite of the Terps’ season-open-ing 2-1 overtime win againstUCLA on Aug. 29. Pizza HutPark is the aforementionedhome of this weekend’s Col-lege Cup.
Ironically, defender RodneyWallace scored the game-win-ning goal in that UCLA gameand the game-winner in Satur-day’s win, which allowed forthe fulfillment of that goal.
“Rodney got the goal to getus started, and he put the goalaway to get us there,” Cirovskisaid of his left back, who onlyhas three goals all season. “Sohe’s a special player.”
Defender Omar Gonzalez is no stranger to Frisco, Texas. As a Dallasnative, the MAC Herman Trophy finalist frequented the town’ssoccer facilities. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
was extremely hard to watch,”Coleman said. “It wasn’t any-thing that was out of our con-trol. It was just our lack of in-tensity from the get-go, andwhen we come back inspiredand ready to play, we play ourbest basketball. I think we cansee some of that today.”
Coleman was at the top ofher game from the openingtip, hitting a 3-pointer for theTerps first basket of the nightwith 19:06 left. She had 13points in the first half to leadthe Terps (8-2), who usedtheir superior depth and sizeto go on a 13-0 run over thefinal 4:53 and take a 38-19lead into the locker room.
Coleman didn’t stop in thesecond half.
On the Greyhounds first pos-session, the athletic small for-ward stole a post entry pass onher way to a telling all-aroundstat line of 19 points, 13 re-bounds — six on the offensiveend — and five steals.
Frese was impressed withColeman’s energy level, whichshe felt the rest of her teampicked up on. It was a bigchange from after Sunday’sgame, when Frese said she ex-pected better from fourth-yearplayers Coleman and guardKristi Toliver.
“It’s contagious,” Frese said.“Marissa does such a phenom-enal job of leading the teamand bringing a tremendousamount of energy. When she’spositive and really gettingeverybody else fired up, it’s ex-tremely contagious. Then, shedoesn’t even have to worryabout her game because it’sgonna happen naturally.”
The Terps held the Grey-hounds without a point for a9:35 span bridging halftime. Bythe time Loyola scored their21st point, the Terps held acommanding 26-point lead.
Center Lynetta Kizer alsocame back from a sub-par per-formance on Sunday with 15points and 11 rebounds. Shewas complimented down lowwith a 17-point effort from for-ward Demauria Liles.
“Coach just told me to go in-side on the blocks and just go towork,” Kizer said. “I was just
using the confidence from myteammates and them giving methe ball and then going towork.”
While Toliver struggled,starting 0-6 from the fieldwith four turnovers, guardKim Rodgers hit all fourthree-pointers she took in thesecond half in her first careerappearance.
The redshirt freshman satout last season with a knee in-jury and the early part of thisyear while recovering frommononucleosis. Even thoughthe game was well in the Terps’control, Rodgers’ sudden 14-point barrage in just 12 min-utes of play was an excitingmoment for the team, whocheered wildly with each shot.
“I feel relieved,” Rodgerssaid. “I waited a long time toget back out there with myteam. I worked really hard, and
I just wanted to show up forthem because they really sup-ported me for this year and ahalf.”
It was a solid way for theTerps to come back after Sun-day’s blowout loss against thePanthers, though Loyola (6-3)didn’t provide the same level ofcompetition. Still, Colemansaid the Pitt loss was enoughmotivation.
“I just think we kinda got re-focused,” Coleman said.“We’re all obviously not happywith how Pittsburgh ended.We’re trying to build from that.We’re trying not to let that hap-pen again so we’re takingstrides. At times today we fellinto what happened, but I alsothink that we improved onthings that we needed to im-prove on.”
Forward Demauria Liles’ 17 points helped contribute to an overalldominant effort from the Terps. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
10 THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2008
BYJONASSHAFFERStaff writer
On the weekend of Nov. 21, the Navywomen’s swimming and diving team trav-eled to College Park for the Terrapin Cupalone, but hopeful they would return with atitle. Instead, they left empty-handed, fin-ishing sixth out of 10 teams while the home-standing Terrapins captured the crown.
Yesterday, it was the Maryland men’sswimming and diving team that paid theNaval Academy a visit.
In return, the Midshipmen men got pay-back. In convincing fashion, they took themen’s-only meet against the Terps, 159-111.
The Midshipmen’s win pushed them to aflawless 12-0 record on the year. The Terpsfell to 4-4 and squandered an opportunity tolay claim to the state’s best swimming anddiving program this year. Both men’s teamshad beaten two of Maryland’s other premierswimming programs — UMBC and JohnsHopkins — and this matchup pitted two ofthe region’s hottest teams.
But first-year coach Sean Schimmel’ssquad just didn’t have enough Tuesday af-ternoon. The disparity in talent was evidentright from the opening gun, when the Terps’vaunted 200-meter medley relay team —good enough to finish in first and ahead ofseven other teams in the Terrapin Cup —fell by more than two seconds.
Things didn’t get much better. Navy wenton to capture eight of the next nine events,and even Terp standouts such as AndrewRelihan and Mitch Challacombe wereforced to play catch-up.
The Terps weren’t shut out, though. EricCullen and Andy Dilz again dominated thebreaststroke events, with Cullen taking firstin the 100-meter variety (1:03.15) by nearlytwo seconds and placing second to Dilz(2:17.60) in the 200-meter event. Sean Stew-art also led a sweep of the 100-meter fly withRoger Dent and Kyle Glennon.
Schimmel and several Terp swimmersdid not return phone calls.
The meet marks the team’s final event ofthe 2008 calendar year, and they will kick off2009 in the Eppley Recreation Center Nata-torium for a Jan. 16-17 meet against Villano-va, Pittsburgh and Penn State.
Men’s teamcan’t swimpast Navy Terps unable to completesweep of in-state rivals
Terps adjusting to coaching lossesWith Cosh and Pearman gone, team now feeling effects in practice
BY ERIC DETWEILERSenior staff writer
When Dave Philistin got thephone call, he thought it was a joke.
The Terrapin linebacker was inNew Hampshire visiting familywhen Chris Cosh called him Friday.In a low voice, Cosh told the seniorhe was leaving his post as the Terpfootball team’s defensive coordina-tor to become an assistant headcoach and co-defensive coordinatorat Kansas State.
With three weeks left in his col-lege career, Philistin was withoutthe man who had set up his defen-sive schemes for the past three sea-sons.
“I didn’t know what to think,”Philistin said. “I had mixed emo-tions about this. You don’t want yourdefensive coordinator leavingbefore the bowl game.”
Coupled with the departure oftight ends coach and special teamscoordinator Danny Pearman, who isexpected to join the staff at Clemsonafter just one season at Maryland,the Terps have had to figure out howto deal with the loss of two coordina-tors in the last week.
Because neither will coach theTerps in the Roady’s HumanitarianBowl on Dec. 30, Terp assistantshave taken different roles duringthe last two days of practice. For-mer outside linebackers coach AlSeamonson has taken over asinterim defensive coordinator.Brian White, a staff intern in histhird year with the team, has takenover with the tight ends and willdirect the special teams with headcoach Ralph Friedgen.
After an off-week, Friedgen saidthe team has adjusted well to thenew alignment, which has forcedsome coaches to double up bothcoaching and recruiting duties.
“What I’ve found is the kids arepretty resilient,” Friedgen said.“Sometimes, it has more of an effecton the [other] coaches than it doeson the players. It didn’t seem toaffect us yesterday. The kids justadapt to those things.”
As Friedgen continues his searchfor full-time coordinators whilerecruiting and trying to prepare forthe bowl game, the players havestarted to move on.
Senior defensive tackle JeremyNavarre said it was weird not hav-
ing Cosh barking orders during thedrills at the beginning of Monday’spractice. But the players eventu-ally slipped into normalcy with oneof their more physical practices inweeks.
“It kind of sucks he left threeweeks before the bowl game and allthat,” Navarre said. “We would haveliked him to finish out with us, butit’s just part of the business.”
Seamonson said he plans on beingthe coordinator for the bowl gameand acknowledged it will be anaudition to get the interim tagremoved. But the Wisconsin gradu-ate, who has been with the Terpsduring Friedgen’s entire eight-yeartenure, doesn’t plan to change awhole lot to a defense that ranks60th in the nation in total defense.
“Our package is established,”Seamonson said. “We’re talkingabout Game 13. It’s not like we’regoing to re-invent the wheelbetween now and the bowl game.”
The special teams, which will getits third coordinator in three yearsnext season, is without Pearman, aClemson alumnus whose familylives in Chapel Hill, N.C.
When reached by phone lastnight, Pearman thanked Friedgenfor the opportunity to spend a sea-son with the Terps and called it a“mutual decision” for him to leave
before the bowl game.“It was a tough decision to leave
Maryland,” Pearman said. “Thetiming is never good to leave a job,but it was an opportunity for me togo back home.”
Punter Travis Baltz, who earnedAll-ACC honors this season underPearman’s watch, said the unitknows what it needs to do to preparefor the bowl and doesn’t blamePearman.
“If my dad got offered a promo-tion, I wouldn’t tell him not to takeit,” Baltz said. “And he gets to gohome again.”
Cosh’s departure is more compli-cated. The third-year coordinatorwas maligned during much of histenure because of the defense’sinconsistency. During a game againstVirginia Tech on Nov. 6, Friedgen gotvisibly upset at Cosh, who will shareWildcat defensive-coordinatingduties with former Clemson defen-sive coordinator Vic Koenning, aftera miscommunication led to a timeoutlate in the first half.
Friedgen maintained his supportfor Cosh, but linebacker Trey Cov-ington said he could see a “distanc-ing” between Cosh and Friedgen.
Cosh did not return phone calls tocomment.
Covington, who did not find outabout Cosh’s departure until Mon-
day, is happy his long-time positioncoach will get the opportunity.
“I always thought he’d be a gooddefensive coordinator,” Covingtonsaid. “He has a thorough knowledgeof our whole defensive scheme anda lot of good ideas. I’m glad to seeit.”
As the Terps prepare to meetNevada in Boise, Idaho, things maybe different. But to linebacker AlexWujciak, it’s nothing they haven’tseen before.
“You’ve got to just keep pushing,”Wujciak said. “That could be thetheme of our season. We’ve over-come obstacles like the toughlosses. Now the coaches leaving isanother obstacle.”
TERP NOTE: Friedgen said widereceiver Darrius Heyward-Bey isstill considering whether to enterthe 2009 NFL Draft. The redshirtjunior will continue to gather infor-mation regarding his possible draftposition before the Jan. 15, 2009,entry deadline. Heyward-Beymissed the final regular seasongame Nov. 29 at Boston College witha calf injury, but Friedgen hopes tohave him ready to play in the bowlgame-which would be a final chanceto showcase his talents beforedeciding his pro future.
Defensive end Jared Harrell and the Terp defense lost coordinator Chris Cosh to Kansas State. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
slightly different roster, thisyear’s Terps (6-2) haveattempted more threes andmade a higher percentage ofthem, knocking down 45-of-
138 (32.6 percent).“If you’re a great shooter,
it doesn’t matter how farthey put the line back,”guard Adrian Bowie said. “Ifyou can shoot, you canshoot.”
The Terp who has strug-gled shooting most from lastseason to this one has beenguard Eric Hayes, who hit39.2 percent of his threes lastseason, yet was only a 28.6percent shooterfrom long-rangebefore Sunday’sgame againstGeorge Washington.
But Hayessnapped out of thefunk to drill three 3-pointers in as manypossessions in thefirst half Sunday.Even though hemissed his remain-ing four attemptsthroughout thegame, he gave theTerps a push in adepartment thatcould be crucial thisseason with so muchreliance on theperimeter playersscoring.
“I don’t think it’smaking too much ofa difference,” Hayessaid regarding thenew 3-point line dis-tance. Hayes called a recentstring of bad shooting nightsbefore the George Washing-ton game “just something outof the ordinary for us.”
Hayes’ hot shootingseemed to rub off, as forwardLandon Milbourne followed
the sequence with a 3-pointer of his own and laterin the game hit his only otherattempt.
“If the opportunity isthere, then we’re gonna takeit,” Milbourne said.
Coming into the season,defending the new 3-pointline was as much of anemphasis as shooting from it.Players double-teaming offof their man and into the
paint now have alonger distance totravel in order toget back outside toput a hand in a 3-point shooters face.
The Terps’defense has had fewproblems trying todo that. Opponentsare shooting 28.6percent (40-for-140)behind the arc. OnlyMichigan has hitdouble-digit 3-point-ers against theTerps.
One change play-ers said they havenoticed is an open-ing of the court forbig men.
“For the guys inthe post, it’s a littledifferent for them,”Hayes said. “Theyhave a little morespace to work and it
takes longer for guys to comeif they’re gonnadouble[team].”
This aspect probably won’twork in the Terps’ favor, asthey don’t have a prototypi-cal back-to-the-basket bigman that opposing teams
would have to schemeagainst. But because theTerps’ two starting forwards— Milbourne and Dave Neal— can both step outside to
pop a three, the team’sguards have found it easierto get to the basket.
“Having it a foot back, it’smore area to create for oth-
ers,” Bowie said. “It shouldwork to our advantage, butwe have to knock down ourshots first. Once we knockdown our shots, it will bemore area to drive and moreroom for the post players toput in work.”
The small-ball Terps alsohave an innate advantagewhen they have five guys onthe court that can hit thatlonger shot, compared toother teams who may onlyhave three capable players.
The pushed-back linecould also lead to uncer-tainty for players less accus-tomed to taking 3-pointers.
“It’s the fringe shooters,the guys who were starting totake more threes who reallyweren’t great shooters, nowthe guy that sets the screen,pops out and gets the ballback, he might be lookingdown to make sure he’s onthe right 3-point line,”Williams said. “Anything thatmakes a shooter hesitatehelps your defense.”
Williams has been piningfor a longer 3-point line foryears, citing the fact that hiscollege players are muchbigger, stronger and quickerthan high school players whoused to shoot from an identi-cal difference.
Whether it’s for his benefitor not, Williams got his wish.Although the extended 3-point line hasn’t impactedthe game drastically yet,there’s no telling if it couldwill have a huge influencecome March.
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Forward Landon Milbourne is partof a Terp frontcourt that can knockdown outside shots with regularity.ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
The Terps’ top 3-point shooter last season, guard Eric Hayes has finally shownsigns of adjusting to the new 3-point line. JACLYNBOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Guard Greivis Vasquez and the men’s basketball team now muststep a foot back for 3-pointers. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Toeing anew line
Men’s basketball players aroundthe country have dealt with anew 3-point line this season
BY MARK SELIGSenior staff writer
When theNCAA Play-ing RulesOversight
Panel decided last Mayto move the men’s bas-ketball 3-point line backa foot to 20 feet, 9 inches,there were numerousopinions as to how thechange would affect thegame.
Teams’ 3-point shoot-ing would be curtailed.Percentages would godown. But maybedefending the 3-ballwould be more difficult,as well.
After about a quarterof a season has passed,the overriding opinion is:not much has changed.Except for a distracting
pair of lines in gymswhere women’s teamsalso play (the womenkept their line at 19 feet,9 inches), no clear differ-ence has been visible instatistics or game flow.
“Ours is white, theirsis red — that’s how weteach it,” Terrapinmen’s basketball coachGary Williams saidabout the two linesbefore the season.“Everybody grew upwith the one line. Allthese guys probablyhave had the 3-point linetheir whole life, so it’s adifferent look. At thesame time, if you’re ashooter, I don’t think itaffects much.”
Last season througheight games, the Terpsmade 33-of-118 3-point-ers — a rate of 28 per-cent. Albeit with aslightly different roster,
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Forward Marissa Coleman’s all-around spectacular night led the Terpsto a dominant win yesterday at Loyola. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
Coleman, Terps dust off Greyhounds
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
BALTIMORE – There wassomething drastically differ-ent about Marissa Colemanlast night compared to Sundayafternoon.
Against No. 16 Pittsburghthis weekend, the senior for-ward had her worst game ofthe season in the Terrapinwomen’s basketball team’s 29-point loss. She scored justeight points on 3-9 shootingand was benched with fewerthan 12 minutes remainingafter a conversation with
Last nightat Loyola(Md.), Coleman was a com-pletely different player, mak-ing plays all across the courtand energetically helping theNo. 15 Terps cruise to a 83-52victory in their last gamebefore final exams.
