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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 99TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 110TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2009
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U. Senate to voteon grad. prayer
Univ. to keep focuson issues, not race
Committee members expect heatedchurch and state debate at meeting
BY MARISSA LANGSenior staff writer
A proposal to eliminate a prayer atthe campus-wide graduation cere-mony will be brought before the Uni-versity Senate next month.
The issue, touching on the contro-versial issue of the separation ofchurch and state, was originally raisedin 2005 and was considered by the Sen-ate last year, but has never actuallybeen put up for a vote.
After a contentious debate yesterdayin the Senate Executive Committee —the Senate’s most powerful — overwhether the issue merits a vote orshould be passed directly to university
President Dan Mote, the committeedecided the full Senate should vote onthe issue. Senate officials are predict-ing a controversial and lengthy discus-sion, they said.
“For every 100 people, you’re goingto have 98 different opinions on this,”said Office of Information TechnologyPolicy and Planning Director WillieBrown, who chairs the committee thatdrafted the recommendation. “Butultimately, I would rather face themusic and bring this to a Senate vote.”
The bill calls for the elimination of aprayer invocation at the university’scommencement, which is crafted and
Please See PRAYER, Page 3
State Attorney General’s report advisescolleges on legal race-based programs
BY ADELE HAMPTONStaff writer
The University System of Marylandplans to use a report from the stateattorney general’s office to create pro-grams addressing minority-relatedissues, such as college affordability, andachievement and graduation gaps, offi-cials said.
The report, “Strengthening Diversityin Maryland Colleges and Universities:A Legal Roadmap,” which was releasedby Attorney General Doug Gansler’soffice, outlines ways state universitiescan incorporate diversity into their aca-demic programs without causing legalcontroversies over the role of race.While the report provides advice for allinstitutions in the state, officials saidthe university will instead continue tofocus on issues that typically plague
minority students, including disparitiesin academic performance.
“We’re going to create programs notbecause they’re race-based, butbecause they make sense,” said RobertWaters, the university’s assistant vicepresident for equity and diversity.
“We have great legal advice andscholarship advice. But it’ll help every-one across the board, and it’s nice toknow where the state stands,” he said.
Please See REPORT, Page 2
DOUG GANSLER STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Number ofsummer jobsdwindles dueto economy
BY NELLY DESMARATTESStaff writer
Despite turning in job application afterjob application and scanning both onlineand print classifieds, freshman letters andsciences major Alex Reece is still joblessfor the summer.
“It has been really hard. You look in theclassifieds, and nobody seems to be hir-ing,” Reece said.
And he’s not alone.The summer labor market for 16- to 19-
year-olds hit a 60-year-low last year,according to a Northeastern University
Please See JOBS, Page 3
The ever-changing Facebook
BY JEFF NASHStaff writer
Facebook’s latest makeover has sparkedoutrage among its users. Just like the pre-vious makeover did. And the makeoverbefore that.
But despite the constant outrage, the sitehas continued to grow and now has morethan 175 million users. The reason, stu-dents said, is because regardless of itsappearance, Facebook remains a dominantform of communication on the campus.
“I think it’s funny how everyone alwaysflips out when they see a new Facebooklayout, but change is good, I guess,” juniorgovernment and politics major Justin Perl-man said. “I think it’s a continuous cycle;
the next time there’s a change, those peo-ple complaining now will be wishing theyhad this version back.”
Perlman said he actually finds thechanges refreshing, because looking atthe same design can get boring. But a sig-nificant number of people disagree — 1.7million people have joined a groupprotesting the new changes, making thispossibly the largest Facebook user revoltsince the introduction of the news andmini-feeds in 2006.
The new layout changed the homepagefrom a mash of friends’ status, photo,group, event, link and note activity into amore organized display that focuses on
Please See FACEBOOK, Page 2
Constant Facebook changes frustrate students,but site’s appeal has them logging back in
Body of infantgirl found inlake a milefrom campus
BY NICK RHODESStaff writer
Prince George’s County Police are askingfor help from the public in solving the caseof a dead infant found in a bag in LakeArtemesia.
While fishing in the lake in Indian CreekPark near Paint Branch Parkway on Sun-day at around 3 p.m., two men discovered ablack plastic bag with the remains of a new-born infant, police said. The lake is about amile from the campus, bordering 54thAvenue and the College Park Airport.
Please See ARTEMESIA, Page 3
Lake Artemesia fishermendiscover remains in bag
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
When the buzzer signaling theend of warm-ups sounded, mostof the Terrapin women’s basket-ball team jogged to the bench,preparing to begin their NCAATournament run Sunday.
Marissa Coleman, though,remained under the basket.
As is her ritual before everygame, Coleman took three extralayups — one from the left side,one from the right side and onefrom directly in front of the hoop— before enthusiastically bounc-ing the ball on the floor and join-ing her team on the sideline.
While seemingly meaningless,the three extra shots show whyColeman, whose No. 1 seed Terpsplowed through No. 16 seed
Please See COLEMAN, Page 7
Marissa Coleman hasestablished herself asan all-time Terp great
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Comptroller: Counties shouldenforce old soda fountain law
ANNAPOLIS – Comptroller PeterFranchot’s team says counties shouldbe enforcing a nearly century-old lawthat established a $25 to $60 annualsoda fountain license fee that manycounties haven’t used for years.
Franchot’s office says the feesaren’t just for places where sodajerks work, however. All restaurants,convenience stores and otherplaces with soft drink dispenserswould be charged the fee for eachsoda fountain they operate, accord-ing to a recent memo.
The Restaurant Association ofMaryland’s Melvin Thompson saysfood service facility licenses havereplaced the soda fountain fee.
State Del. Nic Kipke (R-AnneArundel) is pushing a repeal of the“archaic” law. Kipke says the meas-ure could cost state restaurants$1.5 million.
Triple murderer found dead inBaltimore cell
HAGERSTOWN – A triple mur-derer who was judged insane buttoo dangerous for hospitalizationkilled himself in his maximum-secu-rity cell in Baltimore, the state prisonagency said Monday.
Kevin Johns, 26, was found unre-sponsive around midnight Sundayat the Maryland CorrectionalAdjustment Center, also calledSupermax, said Rick Binetti, aspokesman for the Department ofPublic Safety and Correctional Ser-vices. Staff attempts to revive himfailed, and paramedics pronouncedhim dead at the scene, Binetti said.
John’s lawyer, Harry J. Trainor Jr.of Annapolis, said Johns hangedhimself with a bed sheet.
He said Johns had made at leastone previous suicide attempt, butBinetti said prison officials had norecord of it and Johns had neverbeen on suicide watch.
Johns was found not criminallyresponsible in June for stranglingfellow inmate Philip Parker Jr. in2005 aboard a prison bus.
— Compiled from wire reports
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Kirwan: Rulings made universities ‘timid’“We haven’t had race-based programs atthe university for a long time. We haveprograms that appeal to different affinitygroups, but all of them are programs[that] have been open to everyone for thelast 15 years, legally.”
This university ran into a legal hasslein 1994 when a federal court banned itsBanneker Scholarship on the groundsthat the award was only open to blackstudents. Since then, the program hasbecome what is now known as the Ban-neker/Key Scholarship — an awardbased on academic achievement ratherthan race — and the university has notinstated any more race-specific pro-grams, Waters said.
The report, which is the first ever to bepresented to state institutions that dealswith race-based programs, encouragedthe state’s colleges and universities to in-crease their number of minority studentswithin the limits of the law, said RaquelGuillory, spokeswoman for the attorneygeneral.
“We did a more-than-a-year study tolook into the issues and court cases tocreate sound advice with accordance tothe law,” Guillory said. “We sent it toeveryone, trade schools included, be-cause it serves as a good useful re-source for them to turn to. In light ofseveral court decisions, there was somehesitation on the part of universities tocreate diversity on campus in fear itcould lead to court challenges.”
The report explains the importance ofhaving a diverse campus, but warnsagainst the legal consequences of havingprograms and quotas based on race. It alsoasserts “the time is right for each Mary-land institution to consider the meaning ofdiversity in its overall mission and to es-tablish measures to achieve the diversitygoals that best advance that mission.”
A 2003 Supreme Court decision —Grutter v. Bollinger — ruled race couldbe considered as a factor of admission,but cannot be the determining factor. De-spite the high priority placed on diversityin universities nationwide, many haveveered away from race-based academic
programs due to an apprehension ofvarying legal challenges and limitationssince decisions like Grutter v. Bollingerwere made.
Because of the legal limits on how pro-grams can incorporate race, universitiesnationwide began looking for alternativesto race-based programs. But for some,like the university system, these con-straints ultimately created an obstacle toachieving certain goals, such as closingachievement and graduation gaps be-tween low-income minorities and the restof the student population, system Chan-
cellor Brit Kirwan said.“In general, higher education across
the country became very timid aboutpressing diversity programs because ofthe possibility of legal challenges,” Kir-wan said. “And there was a lot of animosi-ty about what couldn’t and could be done.[Universities] were trying to create pro-grams, but were uncertain whether theyhad the legal right to do so.”
Kirwan said the system aims to in-crease its diversity-based programs inthe future to address minority issues likethe achievement gap using the guidanceprovided by the report.
“Some of these students come fromschools that don’t have the same kind ofstandards that suburban schools do, sothey come with educational differencesthat need to be addressed,” Kirwan said.“So the ability to have specific programsis going to be absolutely vital. How wewill use [the report] is to be able to designprograms that go up to, but not beyondthe law.”
REPORT, from Page 1
Students used to Facebook overhaulstheir statuses and wall-post activity.
“As more and more informationflows through Facebook, the needfor people to easily discover themost recent and relevant contenthas grown,” Facebook founder andCEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on“The Facebook Blog.” “The newhome page will let you see every-thing that’s shared by your friendsand connections as it happens. Itwill also provide you more controlby letting you choose exactly whoyou see among the people andthings you are connected to.”
The new design has drawn com-parisons to Twitter, a rival socialnetworking site that allows peopleto post “tweets” — short statuses orlinks of fewer than 140 characters.
“The new home page is verysimilar to Twitter, because it tells
you what your friends are doing,”freshman communication majorKaye Schacter said. “But withTwitter, you choose the sources ofthe statuses and that’s all you see.On Facebook, I see that two peopleI haven’t seen in years are wallposting — I don’t care that that’soccurring. It would take too long togo through all of your friends andpick which statuses you careabout. Even so, Facebook is still the
best way to stay in touch withfriends.”
Sophomore government and pol-itics and criminology and criminaljustice major Andrew Fisherwishes Facebook would stop tryingto reinvent itself.
“As the old adage goes, if it ain’tbroke, don’t fix it,” Fisher said. “Itwas okay before but has gottenworse with each update.”
Sophomore communicationsmajor Emily Kaplan echoed thatsentiment.
“It’s been a little annoying, but Iremember I felt that way the lasttime they changed Facebook. I’msure after a while I’ll get used toit,” Kaplan said.
In the Facebook blog, Zucker-berg said interface redesign deci-sions will not be subject to a uservote, because “Facebook is still inthe business of introducing newand therefore potentially disrup-
tive technologies. This can meanthat our users periodically experi-ence adjustments to new productsas they become familiar with them,and before becoming enthusiasticsupporters.”
Not all students believe theupdate won’t stop them from fre-quently visiting the site. FeliciaGaray-Stanton, a freshman jour-nalism major, gave up Facebook forLent because she thought shespent too much time on the site.After seeing others use the newFacebook layout, she thinks thechange will cause her to visit thesite less.
“Without Facebook, I feel like Ihave more free time,” Garay-Stan-ton said. “I don’t like how it looksnow. Why would I spend my timelooking at something that’s nolonger visually appealing to me?”
FACEBOOK, from Page 1 “Why would I spendmy time looking atsomething that’s nolonger visuallyappealing to me?”
FELICIA GARAY-STANTONFRESHMAN JOURNALISM MAJOR
“We’re going to createprograms not becausethey’re race-based, butbecause they makesense.”
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presented on a rotating basisby each of the university’s 14chaplains, who are instructedto make it as “inclusive aspossible.”
Last year, a proposal wasbrought before the executivecommittee that would substi-tute the ritual two-minuteprayer with a one-minutenondenominational invoca-tion, given jointly by the uni-versity chaplains, followedby a minute of silence. Butthis proposal was sidelineduntil the senate committeethat drafted the proposalresearched the matter morefully and gave a more con-crete proposal.
“The idea of a moment ofsilence was considered a copout,” Brown said. “We weretold we should attack thishead-on or not touch it at all.”
Though the Supreme Courthas explicitly outlawed theuse of prayer at public K-12
schools, there is no clearstance from the SupremeCourt regarding public insti-tutions of higher education.Past federal court rulings onthe issue have dependedheavily on the context of thesituation.
Brown noted that studentshave the choice to attend ornot attend the commence-ment ceremony, and there-fore, it can be argued that theprayer is not being forcedupon anyone. But the reportnotes that none of the univer-sity’s peer institutions —University of California,Berkeley, University of Illi-nois at Urbana-Champaign,University of Michigan, Uni-versity of North Carolina andUCLA — have prayer at theirgraduation ceremonies.
Some said the polarizingnature of the issue wouldcreate such a fuss that itmight obstruct the issue athand.
“This is an issue that will
go nowhere in the Senate,”Senate Chair Ken Holumsaid. “It will be endlesslycontroversial.”
Holum said that Mote wasseeking counsel on the issuefrom the executive commit-tee, and as such, felt the pro-posal should not be broughtto the Senate for a vote.
“This is not a policy pro-posal,” Holum said. “Thepresident’s office sets theagenda for commencement,and the president has simplyasked us for advice.”
But many members of theexecutive committee dis-agreed, noting that since theproposal had been putthrough the senate commit-tee process and was origi-nally brought up by a uni-versity senator, it should bea matter of policy given tothe Senate general body tovote on.
“If we bring this to theSenate floor, of course it willbe controversial,” University
Senate Director Reka Mont-fort said. “But isn’t that thepoint of shared governance?”
When the senate consid-ered the issue last year, Motesaid there were “ways to con-vey the spirit of the momentwithout crossing the line”and that “it can be cloudyabout what is denominationaland what’s not.”
While the report advocateshaving no invocation is the
best way to “be more sensi-tive to believers and non-believers,” religious studentleaders say having a prayerat graduation enhances theoccasion for many studentsand their families.
“I’m going to be graduatingin December and I alreadyknow I’m going to cry,” sen-ior physical sciences majorJade Williams said. “Andhaving prayer there will justremind me that I’m therebecause God brought me tothis place where I’ve accom-plished so much.”
But Williams, who is amember of the Baptist Cam-pus Ministry, added that itwould not be a disservice tothe religious community ifthere were no religious invo-cation at the ceremony, andwould support its omission ifit made it more enjoyable foreverybody regardless of theirbeliefs.
“As much as I want to sayGod exists and we should
include Him in the cere-mony, I know not everyonebelieves that,” she said.“That should be taken intoconsideration.”
Brown said the proposalwas intended to be as inclu-sive as possible by eliminat-ing what has been perceivedto be too scriptural for some,while not imposing anyalternative.
“This is a new take on anold issue,” Brown said.“We’re talking about thecomplete removal of prayerat commencement. ... Thereis no right, no wrong, nogood, no bad.”
If the Senate votes toapprove the proposal onApril 6, the invocation will beeliminated from the all-cam-pus commencement cere-mony, but individual collegeswill still be able to makedecisions regarding theirown ceremonies.
PRAYER, from Page 1
study. A study by theNational Association of Col-leges and Employers saidcollege graduate hiring willfall about 22 percent for theclass of 2009. The overallresult will be fewer summerjob and paid internshipopportunities for students,according to Heidi Shier-holz, an economist with theEconomic Policy Institute.
“We are seeing employerscut expenses across theboard, and what we know isthat, if you look at the tempo-rary help industry, you willsee that they have seen enor-mous decrease in its workers,because those are the employ-ees that employers shed firstin a recession,” Shierholz
said. “I would imagine thatthat would translate intoemployers, when choosingbetween whether to have asummer internship program,to just cut that type of pro-gram or decrease it.”
Although Shierholz saidthere were few studies on col-lege student employmenttrends, she believes theylikely follow the job market fortemporary workers, which hasdramatically declined duringthe recession.
With the country in a reces-sion and with new hiring inthe service industry downsharply, students looking toget a summer job or paidinternship are likely going tofind more competition forfewer positions, said MeganO’Rourke, the internship coor-
dinator for the university’scareer center.
There is more competitionfor every job opening as theeconomy continues to worsen.According to the EconomicPolicy Institute, in February,there were four unemployedpeople for every job opening.At the beginning of 2008, thatratio was about 1.9 to 1.
“It might be tougher forstudents to enter the job mar-ket now than before, espe-cially if students are lookingfor jobs in the retail and serv-ice industry,” O’Rourke said.“However, I don’t think adecline in teen and graduateemployment will necessarilytranslate into a decline in col-lege student internships.”
Those looking for help fromthe Obama administration
may have to look again, as the$787 billion economic stimu-lus package passed by Con-gress, while benefiting 2009graduates, is unlikely to helpstudents looking for seasonalwork, O’Rourke said.
Despite the ominous eco-nomic trends, some stu-dents are not worried aboutfinding summer employ-ment opportunities.
“I am not really worriedmuch about summer employ-ment opportunities,” saidjunior physics major NoahGlushakow-Smith, who saidhe was certain he could findan internship. “The job mar-ket [for students], while notbetter than years before, isprobably not much worse ashiring college students isbetter for companies, at
least dollar wise, than hiringfull employees and theplaces that would hire col-lege students are probablystill hiring them.”
Despite his own difficul-ties, Reece said he hasplenty of friends who feelsecure in getting a summerjob, mostly because of par-ent intervention.
“Not too many of myfriends seem to be worriedbecause they have a lot ofhelp from their parents,”Reece said. “I have a lot offriends who work for theirparents or with their par-ents, and so it is a lot easierfor them than for people likeme who have to go out andfind jobs.”
Police issue reminder about Safe Haven lawAlso in the bag were the
after birth and umbilicalcord, which seem to indicatethe baby did not live longbefore it was placed in thebag, according to policespokesman Officer EvanBaxter.
The incident is beinginvestigated by the countypolice’s Homicide Unit andthe Maryland-National Capi-tal Park Police.
Upon finding the remains,the men called 911 and both
police and fire departmentsresponded. The infant isdescribed as being an eitherwhite or Hispanic full-termfemale with black hair.
Police do not have muchinformation yet and arewaiting for the completion ofa full medical examinationin hopes that it will givethem some clues and leadsto the identity of the child orher mother and the circum-stances of the crime. Policeare optimistic the medicalexamination will be com-pleted within the week.
In the press release, policereminded citizens of theMaryland Infant Safe HavenLaw which allows a motherto leave her child in the careof any responsible adult at apolice station, fire depart-ment or hospital anony-mously with no questionsasked within 72 hours ofbirth. Currently, all 50 stateshave some form of this lawin place.
Baxter stressed that thecommunity is going to be thepolice’s best resource insolving the crime and said
police are really pushing theCrime Solvers tip line as animportant tool.
Police are asking anyonewith information about themother or the infant to callthe Prince George’s CountyPolice Department’s Homi-cide Unit at (301) 772-4925or the Crime Solver’s tip lineat 1-866-411-TIPS (8477) ortext CRIMES (274637). Areward is being offered forany information leading toan arrest and indictment.
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“The idea of amoment of silencewas considered acop out. We weretold we shouldattack this head-on or not touch itat all.”
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Acommon thread I see regardingmany meaningful state billsstudents at the university haveadvocated over the years is that
either they end up failing or they becomeso watered down that any progress madecan only be measured in baby steps.
This is no different in states all over thecountry. The bold reforms activists pushrequire massive grassroots efforts thatfail far more often than they succeed be-cause of political gridlock we often don’tunderstand. The state’s legislative bodyis a good case study for why this occurs.
In Annapolis, the General Assemblyhas a state Senate and House of Dele-gates. Each of the 47 districts has onesenator and three delegates. This meansif you’re a state senator, you’re one of 47.If you’re a delegate, you’re one of 141.
The ruling parties in the senate andhouse elect leaders who are called theSenate President and House Speaker.These leaders take the senators and dele-
gates, and put them on committees thatspecialize in certain kinds of issues. If abill gets the majority vote by memberson its committee, it goes before either theentire house or senate for a vote.
Each committee has a chair appointedby the leader of the senate or house. Thechair decides if a bill is voted on at all.That’s power. If the chair pisses off theleader, the chair could be demoted ormoved to a different committee — sochairs usually only think for themselveswhen it’s okay with the leadership.
Some committees have more powerthan others. The Appropriations Com-
mittee makes the multi-billion dollarbudget. Ways and Means sets the taxes.Legislators want to be on these commit-tees and bring cash back home to pleaseconstituents. Say I’m on Appropriationsand make a lot of noise about an issueagainst the wishes of the House Speaker.I get sent back to the Judiciary Commit-tee to debate the death penalty to no end.
This is how the system is gamed. If youmarch in line with the leadership, you geton the right committees and move up tochair. If you think for yourself too often,you’ll end up on the Environment Com-mittee arguing about a program that Ap-propriations has to fund anyway. The re-sult is politicians who actually take prin-cipled stands and think for themselvesare far and few between. Worse, they areneutralized by the leadership.
What we have in Annapolis is a hand-ful of committee chairs in each chamberasking the senate and house leadershipwhich bills to allow a vote on. As a result,
meaningful legislation usually onlymoves when our Senate President andHouse Speaker decide they want it to.Special interest groups know this. Allthey have to do is target their money andlobbying power into a handful of decisionmakers. But I’m afraid students don’t un-derstand. And if they do, they lack thecash to sway the real decision makers.
There’s no easy fix. Changing eitherthe campaign finance system or thepower structure of the General Assem-bly is a heavy lift when the people run-ning it don’t want that change. Ultimate-ly, if enough people got behind thesekinds of reforms, they would pass. Politi-cians will only side with political expedi-ency so long as it doesn’t threaten them inthe polls. Perhaps voters should do a bitof targeting of our own.
Matt Dernoga is a junior governmentand politics major. He can be reached [email protected].
State politics: Moving the movers and shakers
Given the option of paying $320 more in tuition next year or squeezingextra students into a freshman history lecture, many in-state univer-sity students and their parents would likely opt to save the money.The weak economy has driven a growing number of families to
search for financial assistance as they struggle to pay mounting higher educa-tion expenses. A tuition increase would only stretch pocket-books further.
But some higher education officials see matters differently.While all endorse a tuition freeze in good economic times,when presented with the choice of either raising tuition orexpanding class sizes and scaling back student services, manysay a hike is preferable.
At the start of the legislative session earlier this year, Gov.Martin O’Malley (D) proposed providing the University System of Marylandwith an additional $16 million to fund a tuition freeze for the fourth academicyear in a row. But the House of Delegates put forth a $21 million cut to the sys-tem’s budget Friday, and if the House’s proposed cuts are approved, the sys-tem will once again be facing a budget gap. As a result, in-state tuition couldclimb at least 4 percent, or about $320.
Legislators said the Board of Regents, a body of gubernatorial appointeeswho ultimately set tuition, should maintain the freeze and trimming otherareas of the budget. But their suggestion seems little more than an attempt toslash funds without appearing to harm students, and it’s unclear whether
they’ll wield enough influence to dictate the regents’ final decision.Regents serve staggered, five-year terms, which by design helps to relieve
political pressure, system Chancellor Brit Kirwan said in an interview. Theregents’ primary charge is to preserve the quality of higher education in thestate, and officials have plainly stated a tuition hike will be considered if legis-
lators hack away at state funds. Lawmakers in Annapolis must realize the likelihood of an
increase should they keep the cuts when a final budget ispassed into law next month. They should not rely on a sugges-tion to keep higher education affordable. Completely fundingO’Malley’s proposal is the only surefire way to ensure tuitiondoesn’t budge.
But affordability isn’t solely the legislature’s responsibility,and the system needs to carefully weigh their options should the legislature final-ize cuts. Some sacrifices — including slightly larger classes and fewer studentservices — aren’t cataclysmic. And in times of economic hardship, a universitysystem with an annual budget of about $4 billion can trim $21 million more easilythan many in-state families can produce a few hundred extra dollars.
While the options are far from ideal, Kirwan asserts — and accurately so —that universities in other states are facing much more dire circumstances.Even a 4 percent increase here would be modest compared with schools facinghikes more than twice that size. He’s right that the state has an advantage inthat regard, and we need to keep it that way.
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Culture shock is an inherent partof studying abroad, but somecountries induce a bit more of ashock than others. Jordan is one
of those countries. As a country in thecenter of the Middle East, Jordan’s cul-ture is largely shaped by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Being a Jew, there-fore, has proven to be a difficult (but en-lightening) part of my experience.
Jordanian history has a large part toplay. First, well over half of the country isPalestinian, which means most of thepeople in Jordan have a personal stake inthe conflict. Second, unlike many othercountries in the region, Jews have neverlived in Jordan. In Jordan, most havenever interacted with Jews, savethrough the media and hearsay. To manyJordanians, a Jew equals an Israeliequals an Israeli soldier who was respon-sible for the deaths of innocent people inGaza or who bulldozed a cousin’s housein Ramallah. Therefore, there’s very lit-tle wiggle room in conversations when itcomes to my heritage.
While some of my close Arab friends
know that I’m Jewish, it is not somethingI share with many. While I have neverhad anti-Semitic rhetoric directed at mepersonally, it’s difficult to spend a full daywithout hearing a remark or two.
In a recent conversation with a cabdriver, our discussion quickly turned to-ward politics — he wants Palestine back.According to him, the Israelis don’t wantpeace. “Look at the war in Gaza,” he ex-claimed, “the Jews killed lots of innocentwomen and children. The Jews are re-sponsible… By the way, what do youthink of the Jews?”
The most difficult conversation tookplace on my way back from Israel. I hadspent a long weekend in Haifa visiting aclose friend. Returning to Amman, theconversation with my taxi driver quicklyturned political. He told me about his rel-ative — a suicide bomber who killed afew Israeli soldiers. He didn’t think thatthere are any good Jews; he believed thatevery Israeli can be targeted. I was at aloss for words.
These types of conversations occurregularly, but it’s almost impossible to get
into them — by the time we’ve begun,I’ve almost reached my destination. Butthey still reflect a lot about the conflict,like the inability of many Jordanians todistinguish between Jews and Israelis,and the obvious political disconnect be-tween the average Jordanian and thosemaking policy in the political sphere.
At soccer games, a popular cheer is“Uchtik Sharmuta, Abuk Yehudi,” or,“your sister is a whore, and your father isa Jew.” From what I understand, the ed-ucational system has changed afterpeace was established with Israel in1994. But there is still a very ingrainedunderstanding of “the way things are.”And while I don’t agree with them, I canunderstand why many Jordanians are
unable to reconceptualize the qualities ofa Jew or an Israeli. Every time fightingbreaks out, the media in the Arab coun-tries is just as effective at providing aperspective that emboldens their ownnational narrative as the Israeli media is.
I haven’t had all bad experiences. Ionce spoke with a cab driver who lived inIsrael during the ’80s and ’90s, spoke He-brew and told me that every country, in-cluding Israel, has a few bad people,though the majority are fine. I’ve hadgreat conversations on religion, politicsand culture with my Arab friends whoknow I’m Jewish. I’ve had an opportuni-ty to teach my friends about Judaism andIsraeli perspectives. To most, I’m thefirst Jew they’ve ever met. On the whole,this level of people-to-people dialogue isalarmingly nonexistent. Perspectiveswill only change if people are willing tolook beyond their television sets for anunderstanding of the world.
Ari Gore is a junior government and pol-itics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
Jordan: A secret Semite amid anti-Semitism
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The Thursday before spring break,the University Senate rejected the pro-posed post-tenure review system,which would have made our professorsmore accountable to the university. Theproposed system would have only pun-ished the worst offenders, who eithergreatly neglected their classroom work,left it to graduate teaching assistants ordid not progress in their research.
The proposed post-tenure review sys-tem took into account all of these factsand suggested a very reasonable mech-anism: Professors would be reviewedannually (by a committee of theirpeers), and if they failed the review theywould be put on notice for a year. If theyfail again, they get another year torecover. If they fail to get their acttogether a third time, the review com-mittee writes a development plan forthat professor to follow. If the professorfails again then they could be subject toa salary reduction. This system isdesigned to punish only the worstoffenders.
Almost a year ago, the senate votednearly unanimously to support thestrategic plan, which mandates the cre-ation of a new post-tenure review policythat includes salary reductions. How-ever, when departments began to hearabout possible salary reductions, nomatter how unlikely they’d be, a frenzybroke out.
The senate listserv saw a flurry of e-mails discussing how faculty membersare above “employee” status and notsubject to review because they pursuehigher learning without strict 9-to-5hours. Accountability to students, theuniversity or the taxpayers of the statewas out of the question, according tosome.
At the actual senate meeting, the usu-ally bare lecture hall was packed. Afterspending most of the meeting onamendments, it came time to debate thepackage. As the senate adjourns at 5:00p.m., there was a motion to extend themeeting until 5:30 p.m. At 5:25 pm, asthe two of us were waiting to speak infavor of the process, a senator motionedfor a vote, which put a close to any fur-ther debate.
Hence the “debate” was limited tofaculty senators lambasting the process.Not a word was spoken in support of theprocess. It is not debate and not demo-cratic to silence a viewpoint in a discus-sion. The senate must amend their by-laws to allow for debate to be equallydivided between perspectives and notbe allowed to call for a vote without atleast hearing from the other side.
There are some very good reasonsthat make a post-tenure review processa good option. Tenured faculty mem-bers are often the least interested inteaching and pass on the brunt of thoseresponsibilities to their graduate stu-dents. They are also the worst offenderswhen it comes to the misuse and insome cases even abuse of graduate stu-dents. Most importantly — if thetenured faculty members at this univer-sity believe that they are doing a goodjob, why fear a review (and a very rea-sonable one) in the first place?
The list of reasons for making thisprocess desirable runs long. The senatemeeting, which resulted in a voteagainst the proposal, was extremely dis-appointing. In our roles as student lead-ers, we are committed to pursuing thisissue and ensuring that professors areheld accountable if they underachieveand rewarded if they are outstanding.
Jonathan Sachs is the StudentGovernment Association president.Anupama Kothari is the GraduateStudent Government president. Theycan be reached at [email protected] [email protected].
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When albums such as The Decemberists’ latest, TheHazards of Love, turn up, it really raises the question ofwhy The Who’s Tommyhasn’t gotten more grief.
Until Tommy, the first self-proclaimed rock opera,there wasn’t much of a stigma surrounding so-calledconcept albums. If you think about it, most great al-bums have at least some vague concept tying the songstogether and rock ‘n’ roll has always depended on the-atrics. So it seems natural enough for any ambitiousrocker to marry musical theater and rock.
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Rob Reiner’s landmark mock rockumentary ThisIs Spinal Tap basically hammered the nails into therock opera coffin with the absurdly hilarious “Stone-henge” number, dancing dwarves and all. Since the1984 film, the rock opera has become something of adinosaur, an old product of too much cocaine and egothat occasionally resurfaces against better judgment(ahem, Green Day’s American Idiot).
This brings us back to The Decemberists, a bandthat has always sort of edged on the haughtier fringesof indie rock. Colin Meloy’s literary/historical tenden-cies took a progressive (as in Jethro Tull) turn on theband’s last full-length LP, The Crane Wife, a shiftmany thought might disappear after the release of theAlways the Bridesmaidsingles collection.
Alas, the prog rock is back on The Hazards ofLove, which would be all well and good if the albumdidn’t play out like a 58-minute farce in high fidelity.Meloy and Co. don’t seem to be in on the joke — theirlatest album is a medieval puppet show of sex, infan-ticide and forest mysticism set to electric guitarsand glockenspiel.
Margaret (voiced by Lavender Diamond’s BeckyStark) ventures into the forest only to be surprised byWilliam (Meloy), a shape shifter who seduces (orrapes, it’s unclear but is forceful either way) and im-pregnates her between “The Hazards of Love 1” and“A Bower Scene.”
Things gets wilder — the evil queen (Shara Wordenof My Brightest Diamond) objects to the relationship,William offs his kids and shows no remorse, etc. —and all is written off with the reprise, “Oh, oh/ The haz-ards of love.”
Say what you will about Meloy’s occasionally off-putting pomp, but the guy has been an ace story-teller in the past. From Castaways and Cutoutsthrough The Crane Wife, he’s built an extremely col-orful cast of lovers, soldiers, performers and travel-ers. But on his latest, it’s too difficult to connect toMargaret or William when the listening experienceis so much more real and punishing than anythingthe characters suffer.
The hard rock riffs on “Won’t Want for Love (Mar-garet in the Taiga)” and “The Wanting Comes inWaves/Repaid” conjure up everything terrible andLed Zeppelin-inspired, but like any good showmen,The Decemberists save the best for last.
Before leaving off somewhat gracefully with themournful “The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned),”the band fires up a tour de force of tasteless rock operablunders on “The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)” and“The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise).”
Children choirs are always dangerous in rockmusic (though The Rolling Stones got away with it),but a dead children’s choir, that’s just something you
don’t really hear too often. To its credit, the albumreally does milk the train-derailing factor — it’s fas-cinating just how quickly Hazards sinks into un-knowing self-parody.
Perhaps what is most unsettling about the album ishow it manages to suffocate the interspersed momentsof beauty and ingenuity. The musical interludes (“Pre-lude” and “An Interlude”), though brief, offer thecounter-argument: Despite the overall ridiculousnessof the album, it’s not without a few redeeming nuggets.
Of course, then, the question becomes how muchcorny ’70s finger-picked guitar and maudlin crap areyou willing to sort through for a few minutes of quality.The Crane Wifehad plenty of fat around the edges, theworst of which (“When the War Came”) hinted at themusical threads of Hazards. But the missteps werecompletely forgivable in an otherwise strong release.
Why Meloy thought he could bring high art to a lowform like rock opera, we’ll probably never know. It wasa crazy thought and one he really should have resisted.
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Dartmouth on Sunday and faceNo. 9 seed Utah in the secondround tonight at Comcast Center,is considered one of the bestplayers in program history.
That extra effort, or what Cole-man’s father Tony Coleman de-scribed as “the work that comeswith the responsibility of beinggood,” is what helped mold thesenior’s game from an early ageinto a player capable of reachingsecond on the program’s all-timescoring and rebounding lists.
Coleman, who stands at 6-foot-1 and whose broad shoulders andlong arms make her a physicallydominating presence comparedto most other college guards andforwards, remembers telling herdad while growing up that shewanted to concentrate solely onbasketball — and wanted to begreat at it.
“I was probably like 11, 12 or13 [years old],” Coleman said. “Iwrote my dad a letter telling himthis is what I want to do. So hesat me down one day, let meknow the amount of hard work itwas going to take, about havingto make sacrifices outside of reg-ular practices, and all thatcomes with being a great basket-ball player.”
But Tony, a Prince George’s
County police officer who him-self was a successful athlete atCardozo High School in Wash-ington in the 1970s, remembershis youngest daughter express-ing a love for the game at an evenearlier age.
When she was 7 years old,Coleman once scored all of herteam’s points in a Boys andGirls Club game. The nextyear Coleman, who was stillplaying soccer at the time, toldher dad, “I want to be reallygood at basketball.”
Having personally experi-enced the amount of dedicationit takes to excel at a sport, TonyColeman warned his daughter ofthe amount of desire one has toshow to truly reach that point.
At every step of the way, Cole-man accepted the challenge, en-gaging in long discussions withher father about strategy andtraining. Coleman recalls run-ning in the summer and takingextra shooting practice whenev-er possible. Instead of groundinghis daughter, Tony Colemanwould force her to practice freethrows on the court outside thefamily’s home — and Colemanjoked she enjoyed that method ofpunishment.
As Coleman approached highschool age and different areaprivate schools recruited the
Cheltenham native, she beganto realize just how good shecould be. She eventually attend-ed St. John’s High School innearby Washington, winningtwo Washington Catholic Ath-letic Conference champi-onships before leaving theschool as the program’s all-timeleading scorer and rebounder.
At the end of her high schoolcareer, the result was an invite tothe prestigious McDonald’s All-American game and an opportu-nity to display her work ethic at
an emerging local college pro-gram under the direction of Terpcoach Brenda Frese.
FROM DAY ONEColeman came into the pro-
gram with fellow senior KristiToliver, also a high-profile re-cruit coming out of high school,in time for the 2005-06 seasonwith designs of turning theTerps into a program of nation-al importance.
Frese remembers encounter-ing Coleman and Toliver at the
2005 WBCA High School All-Star game the weekend of theFinal Four in Indianapolis.
“After that All-Star game theywere telling me, ‘Coach B, nextyear, we’re going to be playing inthe Final Four, winning our ownchampionship,’” Frese said. “Ijust remember, just thinking itwas a pretty bold statement forseniors in high school to make, ayear ahead of their freshmanyear. I guess the joke was on me.”
A year later at the 2006 FinalFour in Boston, Coleman record-ed double-doubles in both theTerps’ semifinal win againstNorth Carolina and their cham-pionship game win against Duke.
The confident freshman, whowillingly accepted the dauntingtask of helping the Terps becomean elite program, made two freethrows in the final 13 seconds ofovertime and grabbed thegame’s last rebound to seal thenational title.
Along with the picture of To-liver’s dramatic game-tyingthree-pointer to force overtime,the image of Coleman with herhead tilted back, eyes closed andmouth roaring in celebration wasfeatured on highlight shows andplastered in newspapers acrossthe country.
“I think we definitely accom-plished what we wanted to, put-ting Maryland on the map,”Coleman said. “We definitelyhad our ups and downs, butthere’s probably a lot of playerswho have graduated who wouldhave loved to accomplish whatme and Kristi have. But onceyou accomplish these things,you get greedy.”
That made the next two sea-sons, in which Terps’ squadsloaded with talent and expecta-tions lost in the second round in2007 and the Elite Eight in 2008,tough to handle.
“We didn’t deserve to win an-other national championship,”Coleman said plainly, adding thatthe amount of preparation neces-sary as a team for a repeat title inthe summer before the 2006-2007 campaign didn’t occur.
So with her senior season uponher, Coleman did what got herhere in the first place. She madeit a point to shoot 1,000 jumpersevery day during the summerand confidently proclaimed her-self as the team’s leader beforethis season, filling in the leader-ship roles of the departed LauraHarper and Crystal Langhorne,the only Terp in program historywith more points or reboundsthan Coleman.
The goal in Coleman’s mindfor her final season was simple— win everything.
She openly talked of her in-tent to win the ACC regular sea-son title and ACC TournamentChampionship, both of whichthe Terps hadn’t won since1989. And being the highly mo-tivated competitor that she is,Coleman made a second nation-al crown a priority.
But with a roster full of first-year players and a team tryingto build chemistry with two newstarters in forward Dee Lilesand center Lynetta Kizer, thisseason didn’t start as well asColeman had hoped.
STARRING SENIORThe Terps never dropped out
of the top 15 of the national rank-ings, but a season-opening loss atTCU raised doubts for the pre-season-No. 3 Terps. The teamwent on to win seven consecutivegames, despite some inconsis-tent performances from Cole-man and Toliver.
But in the Terps’ 29-point lossat Pitt on Dec. 7, everything wentwrong. Coleman went 3-of-9from the floor and was benchedin the second half by Frese, whocalled out her star forward in thepostgame press conference for alack of energy and leadership.
Coleman’s response was pre-dictable. She got back to work.Concerned about her free throwshooting, Coleman shot 200 extrafree throws on off days.
Not coincidentally, as Colemanraised her level of play at the be-ginning of February, so did theTerps, who have won 13 consec-
utive games since their loss atVirginia on Jan. 30.
Coleman established careerhighs in points per game (17.4)and rebounds per game (8.2) onher way to earning a spot on theAll-ACC First Team and beingnamed the ACC TournamentMVP.
In the meantime, the versatili-ty and intensity in her gameshined. Coleman started to con-sistently hit her mid-rangejumper and frustrated opponentswith her bruising ability to drib-ble-penetrate.
“The thing that impresses memost about Marissa is what op-posing coaches say about her,”said ESPN and Westwood OneRadio women’s basketball ana-lyst Beth Mowins. “When peo-ple compare her talents to thoseof a Magic Johnson, it speaks tothe versatility in her game. Shecan score in so many differentways, and with her size andstrength, she’s just so difficultto try and guard. She probablyhas the most versatile game incollege basketball.”
Coleman’s willingness to helpothers was never in questionthroughout this season, accordingto Kizer, Coleman’s team-man-dated “accountability partner.”
“We click well together,”Kizer said. “She’s an emotionalplayer, just as I am. That’s onething that we like to relate to onthe court. We bring it out ineach other.”
Coleman and Kizer, theteam’s new McDonald’s All-American, do a mock dance rit-ual during pregame introduc-tions, featuring a karate chopand chest bump.
The almost carefree, no-pres-sure approach of key freshmensuch as Kizer, guards Anjalé Bar-rett and Kim Rodgers and juniorcollege transfer forward Liles re-mind Coleman of herself and To-liver during the team’s 2006 na-tional title run.
In the midst of her final tour-nament opportunity, the power-ful small forward said she feelssome minor, but eerie, similari-ties to that 2006 team. Besidesthe comparable dynamic be-tween experienced veteransand keen newcomers, Colemancites the national championshiptriumphs of the Terps’ fieldhockey and men’s soccer teamslast fall.
Both those teams last won thenational title in the fall before2006.
But the senior is aware of thechallenges ahead. Even if theTerps (29-4) are able to avoid anupset from the Utes (23-9)tonight and a handful of worthycontenders on the way to theFinal Four in St. Louis, they’llmost likely have to beat the un-defeated and seemingly invinci-ble Connecticut Huskies for thenational championship.
The Huskies feature a playerwith the same versatile style ofColeman in sophomore forwardMaya Moore, the odds-on fa-vorite for national player of theyear awards.
In typical Coleman style, theplayer who always wears aboxer-like hooded warm-upjacket before games said shewouldn’t back down fromMoore in a potential heavy-weight national championshipgame matchup.
“It would be a battle,” Cole-man said. “Pride would be onboth of our sides. Me being asenior, I personally want it a lit-tle more.”
That’s not surprising to TonyColeman, who has always seenhis daughter strive for a little bitmore in her basketball career.
He attended the Terps’ Feb. 27senior night against Boston Col-lege to see Coleman’s No. 25 jer-sey honored in Comcast Center’srafters. He felt proud, and whilethoughts of his daughter’s earlierdays of hard work and intensepreparation flashed through hismind, he also had another pre-monition.
“Don’t smell the roses,” TonyColeman said. “We got a lot ofwork left to do.”
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2005 2009
All In Four Years’ Work
March 1, 2005Totals 22 points and eightrebounds as a senior for St.John’s High School inWashington against WCACrival Good Counsel in theleague title game. Despite her3-pointer to bring St. John’swithin three points with sevenseconds left, Colemannarrowly misses a 3-pointerto win the game after stealingan inbounds pass.
Nov. 26, 2005Matched up against No. 1Tennessee’s CandaceParker, puts up 16 pointsand grabs four reboundswhile limiting Parker toeight points over the final27 minutes.
April 4, 2006Scores 10 total points andtwo in overtime to helpthe Terps top Duke in thenational title game.Coleman collected 14rebounds in the final andsemifinal game two daysearlier against NorthCarolina.
March 20, 2007Scores 20 points on 7-of-17 shooting to go alongwith 12 rebounds in theTerps’ disappointingsecond round NCAATournament loss toMississippi.
March 31, 200816 points in 38 minutes ofaction is not enough asNo. 2 seed Stanford runspast the Terps in lastyear’s Elite Eight regionalfinal.
Feb. 22, 2009Recorded her 2,000thcareer point against No. 7Duke on to become thesecond Terp to reach thatmilestone and eighthplayer in ACC history withat least 2,000 points and1,000 rebounds.
Feb. 27, 2009Scores a career-high 32points in the team’sSenior Night victoryagainst Boston College,before her No. 25 jersey isunveiled in ComcastCenter’s rafters.PHOTO BY JACLYN
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March 8, 2009Named the ACCTournament MVP afterrecording 28 points, 15rebounds and six assistsagainst Duke in the ACCTournamentChampionship game.
Coleman made an immediate impact
Coleman, center, is a leader for the Terps, guiding younger players such asLynetta Kizer, left, and Marah Strickland, right. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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BYMARKSELIGSenior staff writer
As time ticked down, forwardDave Neal teared up.
With Memphis far ahead of theTerrapin men’s basketball teamin the second round of the NCAATournament, each second thatpassed was one less in Neal’s ca-reer and the Terps’ season.
It was a bittersweet ending forNeal and the Terps. They weredominated in Kansas City by theNo. 2 seed Tigers. But it was anaccomplishment enough thatthey were playing Saturday.
“We were a great team,” Nealsaid. “The way we finished theseason — going back to the NCAATournament and winning a gamein the tournament. I’m gonnamiss this team lot. This team has ahuge heart.”
Neal, the team’s only senior,embodied the team, using astrong work ethic to overcome alack of size and athleticism.
The Terps were picked bymany to finish near the bottom ofthe ACC. After a 7-9 conferenceseason that landed them in a sev-enth-place tie in the league, theTerps won two games in the ACCTournament to fortify theirNCAA Tournament hopes.
By reaching the tournamentand winning a first round game,the Terps proved the punditswrong — which was really one oftheir objectives throughout theseason.
The Terps harped on the lackof respect they received in themedia and played with industrial-sized chips on their shoulders.The tension peaked after coachGary Williams was publicly scru-tinized for his ability to recruittop-flight players.
“There’s definitely prideamongst the team,” guard EricHayes said. “Everything we’vegone through this year and all thedoubt that we’ve had from theoutside, we all knew as a teamthat we could get to the tourna-ment and have a great season.And I think we did that.”
The team won 11 of its first 13,including an upset victory overthen-No. 5 Michigan State onThanksgiving in the Old SpiceClassic.
But an ominous home lossagainst Morgan State began a 3-6skid that incited many outsidersto believe that the Terps would beNIT-bound for the fourth time infive years.
The young Terps ralliedaround their embattled coach andimproved play from their starguard, Greivis Vasquez, the onlyplayer from a major conferenceschool to lead his team in points,rebounds and assists.
“[When I look back] I’ll be realproud of this year’s team,”Williams said Saturday after theTerps’ second-round loss. “Theywere incredible in terms of sup-port for me, and their ability to beresilient I think is the thing I’ll re-member about this team.”
That resilience was shown onFeb. 21, when the Terps rose fromthe dead to give their season anew meaning.
Behind Vasquez’s 35 point, 11rebound, 10 assist performance— the Terp’s first triple-doublesince 1987 — the Terps upsetthen-No. 3 North Carolina, puttingthe underdogs back into the tour-nament picture.
It was Vasquez’s stubborn con-fidence — the same confidencethat screamed back at tauntinghome fans earlier in the seasonand declared that Memphiswould be a sub-.500 ACC teambefore Saturday’s game — thatgave the Terps their swaggerthroughout the year.
“After everything we wentthrough, we came together,”Vasquez said. “I think our chem-istry [was] good — this is morethan a team, it’s a family. We puteverything behind and just start-ed playing hard.”
Hayes and forward LandonMilbourne — both returningstarters from last season —flanked Vasquez as the team’s pri-mary scoring options, as both gotused to new roles.
Hayes played as a sixth manduring the second half of the year,while Milbourne had to adjustfrom being a small forward to apower forward as a result of theTerps’ lack of interior players.
Sophomore guard AdrianBowie emerged this season as akey contributor after an inconsis-tent freshman year. Freshmanswingman Sean Mosley and soph-omore forward Dino Gregoryprovided the team with a new-found defensive grit.
The Terps closed out the regu-lar season with an 18-12 record.Along with wins against N.C.State and Wake Forest in the ACCTournament, the Terps’ resuméwas good enough to garner a No.10 seed in the NCAA Tourna-ment, where they defeated No. 7-
seed California in the first round.Barring a transfer or Vasquez
entering the NBA draft, nextyear’s team will return all playersexcept for Neal.
With the additions of forwardsJordan Williams and JamesPadgett giving the Terps much-needed size next season,Williams is eager to see his teamplay with an above-the-rim stylenext season.
Because while an NCAA Tour-nament appearance was an ac-complished goal, the Terps’ ulti-mate objective remains greater.
“We gotta get back to this pointand get past where we did [thisyear],” Milbourne said. “We gottaget further into the tournamentnext year.”
There will be no next season forNeal, whose senior year will de-fine his otherwise forgettable ca-reer.
The 2008-09 Terps will bewidely remembered forVasquez’s histrionics, but no onewill remember this season as en-dearingly as the lone senior will.
“We had a great year overall,”Neal said. “If you look back andreminisce on some of the greatwins we had this year againstWake Forest, North Carolina,Michigan State — coming into theseason, people didn’t think we hada chance to be a great team. And Ithink we proved to a lot of peoplethat we were a great team.”
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PPhhoottoo 11:: Guard Eric Hayes after a 75-48 loss to Georgetown in Orlando on Nov. 30. PPhhoottoo 22:: Forward Landon Milbourne in a 85-44 loss at Duke on Jan. 24. PPhhoottoo 33:: Foward Cliff Tucker in an 88-85 overtime win against then-No. 3 North Carolina on Feb. 21. PPhhoottoo 44:: Guard Adrian Bowie in a 75-64 ACC Tournament win against Wake Foreston March 13. PPhhoottoo 55:: Guard Greivis Vasquez in a 84-71 NCAA Tournament win against Cal on March 19. PPhhoottoo 66::Coach Gary Williams and forward Dave Neal embrace during a 89-70 NCAA Tournament loss to Memphis onMarch 21. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW CREGER (5, 6), ALLISON AKERS (1, 3), ADAM FRIED (2), JACLYN BOROWSKI (4)/THE DIAMONDBACK
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