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Our 101st Year, No. 26THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERMonday, October 4, 2010
Studentfalls victimto robberyon campusMugging incident tookplace outside Anne Arundel
BY AMANDA PINOStaff writer
This semester’s string of muggings has made itonto the campus.
University Police are looking for three men theysaid robbed a student of his wallet and cell phone atabout 4:30 a.m. yesterday on a sidewalk betweenAnne Arundel Hall and McKeldin Library, Univer-sity Police spokeswoman Capt. Carolyn Consoli said.
In the first robbery to strike the campus since May9, the student told police he was walking hometoward Queen Anne’s Hall when the men interceptedhim and one tackled him, Consoli said. The assailantsran off toward Lot 1, and the student — who was notinjured — called police promptly, she said.
The men did not display a weapon and did notappear to be armed, she added.
Consoli said that the area the student was walk-ing in was not well-lit but that there were two secu-rity cameras in the area of the robbery and dozensmore nearby. Police are reviewing the footage, butConsoli said she couldn’t say whether the suspectswere caught on tape.
The campus itself isn’t as common a mugging tar-get as College Park’s back streets; there have beenat least five off-campus robberies since students
Univ. departments help digitize health care Interdisciplinary collaboration intends to make medical records more accessible
BY CLAIRE SARAVIAStaff writer
As the nation’s paper-basedhealth-care system moves online,multiple university departmentswill collaborate to design newinformation technology solutionsthat officials hope will put theuniversity’s research efforts onthe national stage.
The health information tech-nology initiative is being co-ledby the Center for Health Informa-tion and Decision Systems at thebusiness school and the publichealth school. CHIDS AssociateDirector Kenyon Crowley saidthe goal of the research will be tocreate an interconnected health-care system in which doctorshave immediate access to a
patient’s medical information. The idea is that health-care
professionals will be able tomake better-informed decisionsby having immediate access to apatient’s records, such as beingmade aware if a patient is due fora routine exam.
The name of the new centerwill be announced this week,when submissions through a uni-
versity-wide naming contest havebeen judged.
“The problems [with healthIT] are so multi-faceted, it’sgoing to take people from allover campus to come up withsolutions,” Crowley said. “Thegoal of the initiative is to build aunified team to take on health IT
Vito Riccio, owner of Vito's Pizza, stands in theempty area where he plans to open his loungeand bar today. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Vito’s to reopenwith new lounge
BY RACHEL ROUBEINStaff writer
Vito’s Pizzeria will reopen its doors today, butwith a few new additions — a lounge and a liquorlicense.
“College Park, here it is: the spot,” said Vito Ric-cio, the restaurant’s owner.
The reopening, planned for this past weekend,was postponed due to a lack of hot water in the rest-rooms and the death of Riccio’s father last week.Riccio said today will be the “soft opening,” withhalf-price pizzas and happy hour draft specials,while the grand opening will commence this week-end, with a DJ appearance planned for both nights.
Honors students test driveiPads in new program
see ROBBERY, page 3
see TECHNOLOGIES, page 3
see LOUNGE, page 2
BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD
For The Diamondback
After the university an-
nounced that 55 freshmen en-
rolled in a new Honors College
program would be given free
iPads as a part of the pro-
gram’s curriculum, many
members of the university
community responded with
marked disapproval.
But officials and students in
the Digital Cultures and Cre-
ativity program said the stu-
dents are merely test-running
the devices for potential use
across all disciplines.
As digital natives — people
who have grown up amid com-
puters, the Internet and the
rapid technological progress of
the 21st century — many stu-
dents have dabbled in areas
such as web design, video-
game design and digital art.
Dabblingin digital
devicessee IPADS, page 2
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A 71-yard touchdown reception from running back Da’Rel Scott, center, gave the Terps a 12-pointlead over Duke early in the fourth quarter Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Quarterback Danny O’Brienthrew for 170 yards and onetouchdown Saturday. JACLYN
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TWICE AS NICETerps double last year’s win total by toppling Blue Devils on Saturday
BY MICHAEL LEMAIRESenior staff writer
In the middle of the fourth quarter,after letting Duke wide receiver Dono-van Varner slip past him for a 35-yardcatch that set up a Duke touchdown,Terrapin football safety Antwine Perezknew he had messed up.
Perez hadn’t heard defensive coor-dinator Don Brown screaming at himfrom the sideline to back up. He’dremembered the coverage scheme dif-ferently from practice. As Varner blew
by him, he was caught flat-footed.After the conversion — one which
Brown said made him want to “bangmy head on the top of the stadium” —Perez knew Brown would be steam-ing. So he went over and told his coachthat he owed him one.
“It was a blown coverage on mypart; it’s my fault for not looking at thedown and distance,” Perez said. “Thatplay was really kind of nagging on me.So the next drive, I knew I had to makea play.”
So on fourth-and-15 with less than
two minutes left in the game and Dukedriving for the game-winning touch-down, Perez atoned for his mistake.He drilled wideout Austin Kelly rightas the ball arrived, dislodging the ball,breaking up a potential first down andsealing a 21-16 win for the Terps.
“You don’t really want to makeCoach Brown mad. You always want tobe on his good side,” Perez said. “Ithought I paid him back with a big playat the end of the game. I think I am
21 16
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“We’re really excitedabout being able to be oneof the College Park places tocater to the students,” Ric-cio said.
But Riccio said he wantshis establishment to standout from other bars in thecity by giving the lounge —previously the location ofWata Wing — a “New York,urban, chic feel” throughpostmodern artwork, nocover fee at the door and anonly over-21 crowd in thebar area at night. ID scan-ners and security will be onsite to ensure this require-ment, he said.
“We’re going to be realstrict,” he said, adding thatas a young entrepreneur —Riccio is 28 — he needs totake extreme care.
Riccio received his ClassB liquor license — the samelicense as the city’s other
bars — and will be allowedto serve wine, which won’tbe in until next week, andbeer starting today. UnderCollege Park City Councilregulations, the pizzeria willbe prohibited from servinghard liquor for six months,but Riccio said he willappeal that decision to thecouncil and liquor board
within the next two weeks. “Because I’m so young, I
feel like I’m operating inhandcuffs,” he said.
Other changes include aroped-off section separatingthe over-21 lounge crowdfrom the all-ages takeoutarea, TVs that Riccio hopeswill attract the Sunday foot-ball crowd, a renovated
menu to add more “authen-tic Italian dishes” and DJsevery Thursday, Friday andSaturday night. The pizze-ria will stay open as late asthe city’s other bars, cater-ing to the late-night pizzacrowd.
“I want to throw a partyevery night,” Riccio said.
Many students agreed therevamped Vito’s Pizzeriamight help to alleviate someof the congestion studentssay they’ve noticed sincethe recent closing of twolocal bars.
“All the other bars areovercrowded,” said senioraccounting major JohnBrower. “It’s small, but itmakes a difference.”
Junior environmental sci-ence major Christine Mar-cozzi agreed, also citingovercrowding issues atother venues.
“I think we definitelyneed another place to go,”she said.
Vito Riccio, owner of Vito's Pizzeria, is opening a newlounge section of his restaurant today. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE
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LOUNGEfrom page 1
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The Mighty Sound of Maryland marching band is competing in a national competition to win $25,000 anda spot on the newly revamped CBS show Hawaii Five-0. Online voting closes today, and the winning bandwill be announced during the Oct. 11 episode of the show. JACLYN BOROWSKI/ THE DIAMONDBACK
The DCC program’s goal, offi-cials said, is to tap into this innateknowledge and explore how bestto combine a humanities educa-tion with a knowledge of emerg-ing technologies.
According to DCC directorMatthew Kirschenbaum, the iPadserves as a unifying platform for theprogram’s participants, who havemost recently explored the possibil-ities of the iBooks application,which allows iPad users to read fullversions of books on the device.
“It’s great for reading textbooks— a lot cheaper and more conven-ient than carrying around stacks ofbooks,” said Sarah Chase, a fresh-man biochemistry major and mem-ber of DCC.
In a way, these students are test-driving the device for possible futureuses, Kirschenbaum said. Althoughnot all textbooks are availablethrough the application, more areadded every semester, and it mayprove more financially sensible forfuture students to replace traditionaltextbooks with digital versions.
“We’re kind of like guinea pigs,”freshman business major SherryFeng said.
As advertised when the programwas announced last year, DCC stu-dents will not only learn about waysto make use of technology but alsohave the opportunity to design anapplication themselves.
The university’s Mobility Initia-tive — the program that partneredwith DCC to provide the iPads —aims to enrich students’ educationthrough the use of mobile technolo-gy. This year, it is sponsoring its first“Mobility Contest,” a competitionfor students to create a mobile appli-cation that in some way supportsuniversity life.
DCC students, especially thoseinterested in programming, are en-couraged to form a team and enterthe contest. The three teams withthe best applications, which will bejudged mid-April, could each winup to $3,000 in prize money.
Although there has been skepti-cism about the merit of spendingsuch a large amount of money onsuch a small portion of the studentpopulation, Kirschenbaum said hebelieves that the iPad initiative willultimately benefit everyone.
“One of the things a great uni-versity does is innovate,” he said.“Its ability to incorporate new toolsand technology into the curriculumto aid students in the digital age ispart of what makes it stand out.”
A progressive attitude towardtechnology draw in a more talentedstudent body, he added.
One criticism the program hassparked is that students get to keepthe iPads rather than give them backfor the next round of participants.But Kirschenbaum said recyclingthem just wouldn’t be practical.
“DCC is a two-year living andlearning community,” he said. “Ifwe gave them out to new studentstwo years from now, they would al-ready be outdated.”
While it is uncertain whetherDCC will partner with the MobilityInitiative to provide iPads to nextyear’s students, program partici-pants seem to think the practiceshould continue.
“It’s a lot of money, and I person-ally wouldn’t have bought one my-self,” said freshman Cara Shillenn,an anthropology major. “We haven’tdone a whole lot with it yet, butwe’ve only been here four weeks. Ithink it’s a good investment as longas we continue to use it more inclass.”
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CORRECTIONDue to an editing error, Friday’s story, “Championing for acure,” misidentified the organization co-chairing the“Breastfest of Champions” on Oct. 20. The event is being co-chaired by the fraternity Kappa Alpha Order.
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Health school celebrates accreditationOfficials say formal recognition will bring more respect, research funds
BY RACHEL ROUBEINStaff writer
Five years ago, RobertGold sat in Provost NarimanFarvardin’s office to gainsupport for his vision: creat-ing a public health school atthis university.
“It was an easy sell for me— a no-brainer as far as I wasconcerned,” said Farvardin,who now also serves as actinguniversity president.
The idea formally becamereality in June when the pub-lic health school receivedfull accreditation. Thisachievement allows theschool to compete for mil-lions of research dollars,symbolizes high-quality edu-cation standards and repre-sents a positive reputationamong peer schools, of fi-cials said.
The school celebrated itsaccreditation and 10th
annual Research InteractionDay on Friday, and speakersat the event included Gold,the school’s dean; Far-vardin; John Colmers, statesecretary of health and men-tal hygiene; and CarolynClancy, director of theAgency for HealthcareResearch and Quality.
This university’s publichealth school was recog-nized by the state in 2007,but it still had to perform a“self-study” — a deep lookinto the school’s curriculumand staf f — and pass reviewsby the Board of Councilorsof the Council on Educationfor Public Health to receiveaccreditation.
“It’s one heck of an under-taking,” said Blakely Pomi-etto, the school’s assistantdirector of student services.
The school receivedaccreditation at a “lightningspeed,” according to Far-
vardin, and is the only accred-ited school at a public univer-sity in the Washington area.
“This milestone for us rep-resents advancing a betterstate of health for Maryland,”Gold said.
To achieve that, the school’sacademic researchers mustcollaborate with state policy-makers, Colmers said.
“It’s an important relation-ship that cannot be under-emphasized; it’s essential inthe field that we have thevalue of information pro-duced in the research com-munity,” he said.
Colmers said the relation-ship is important because itcan help the public under-stand the complex changes ofPresident Barack Obama’sAffordable Care Act andaddress the disparities ofhealth across racial and eth-nic lines.
Clancy said the partnership
will expand research for bet-ter care, work within commu-nities to improve citizens’health and provide a well-edu-cated workforce.
The school’s creation andaccreditation is in time toaddress the shortage in thepublic health workforce. By2020, more than 200,000 morepublic health practitionerswill be needed in order toreach the same number ofprofessionals per capita as the1980s, Gold said.
Clancy said it’s importantthe school’s students and fac-ulty view themselves as“leaders and innovators” whowill impact public health forgenerations.
“These are the people whoare devising methodologiesfor creating policies that willhave a positive impact on ourstate,” Farvardin said.
Three men robbed a student behind Anne Arundel Hall earlyyesterday morning. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
returned for the fall semester.University Police typically attrib-ute the discrepancy to higher po-lice patrols, license plate readers,manned checkpoints and morethan 300 security cameras.
But even though many stu-dents walking in the area of themugging yesterday afternoonsaid they feel safe within the cam-pus’s boundaries, some alsoquestioned that sense of security.
“I was out 20 minutes before ithappened, walking alone at 4 inthe morning,” said Jon Boduch, afreshman mechanical engineer-ing major who lives in AnneArundel Hall.
“Three guys jumping one guy,that’s not fair,” he added.
Several students said they fre-quently traveled between Northand South Campus dorms andacross McKeldin Mall withoutworrying for their safety, evenlate at night. Others said theyregularly wander among theNorth Hill dorms to do laundryor pick up packages.
Junior animal sciences majorMaggie MacKnight said she al-ways travels with a partner onpoorly lit sections of the campusbut named ways more could bedone to protect students.
“I wonder if a cop could be sta-tioned around here, but [I] knowthey can’t be everywhere,”MacKnight said. “Maybe morelighting would help.”
The Student Government As-sociation is asking students toidentify locations on a campusmap where they feel at risk;
copies of the map are available atStamp Student Union and else-where in and around the cam-pus, and students and policehave scheduled a “safety walk”for Oct. 11 to visit the sites.
Consoli said that the nearlyempty campus at 4:30 a.m. mayhave encouraged the muggersand that students need to beaware of their surroundingswherever they are, even in areasthey consider safe.
In the May 9 incident, a groupof five or six men approached athree-person group walking inthe parking lot of the MemorialChapel and demanded theirmoney but ran away when one oftheir intended victims called 911on a cell phone.
During the summer break,robberies also struck the periph-eries of the university property— University Courtyards in lateMay and the Old Leonardtowndorm in June. Suspects in thosecrimes remain at large.
In the crime alert, police de-scribed one of the suspects inSudnay’s robbery as a blackmale, 5 feet, 10 inches to 6 feet,2 inches tall with buzzed hairand medium build, wearing agray hoodie with dark graystripes and dark pants. The re-maining two suspects were alsodescribed as black men, but po-lice said they had no further de-scriptions.
The first version of the crimealert described the robbers asthree white males; Consoli sentout a corrected version a fewminutes later and said the errorwas a typo.
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problems.”Crowley said students will also
have opportunities to engage inresearch alongside faculty.
“There’s a huge demand forhealth information technologiesright now,” Crowley said. “It’llbe important to make studentsaware of this opportunity.”
The initiative, which hasbeen in the making for morethan a year and is beingfunded with $80,000 from theDivision of Research, willinvolve several academicdepartments at the university,including the engineering
school, the behavioral andsocial sciences college andthe computer, mathematicaland physical sciences college.
The initiative will also pullfrom multidisciplinary move-ments at the university includ-ing the University of Mary-land Institute for AdvancedComputer Studies and med-ical schools at the Universityof Maryland, Baltimore.
CHIDS Founder and Direc-tor Ritu Agarwal said everyoneinvolved will play a critical rolein developing solutions.
“It’s amazing once youstart talking that you havemore research that excitesyou than separates you,”Agarwal said of the dif ferentresearch departments thatare involved.
Crowley said today’s paper-based health care systemmeans a patient’s medical his-tory, such as severe allergiesand medical conditions he orshe might have, is restrictedto the office where it wasfilled out. But new technolo-gies created through this ini-
tiative could make it easier fordoctors to share a patient’smedical history withoutrequiring a patient to com-plete additional forms.
“It’s not just efficienciesand saving costs,” Crowleysaid of the potential technolo-gies. “It has real effects onpeople’s health and qualitiesof lives.”
In addition, Crowley saidinitiative team members arefocusing on developing solu-tions to help doctor-patientrelationships by designing apatient-centered medical hub— a system that wouldinclude providing certainpatients with interactive mon-itoring devices they couldkeep with them at home.
With these devices,patients would be monitoredand alerted to any changesin their immediate healthand vital signs. The informa-tion could then be trans-ferred through the centralmonitoring system to healthcare professionals on theother end to determine
whether the patient is inneed of medical attention.
Agarwal said the technol-ogy solutions the team isworking to develop will likelygain national attention fromboth policy-makers andhealth-care providers.
“This is a concept that islikely to be adapted acrossthe health-care system,” shesaid. “We still have a lot tolearn, but this could eventu-ally become the new stan-dard [for health care].”
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“It’ll be importantto make studentsaware of thisopportunity.”
KENYON CROWLEYCHIDS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
“It’s amazingonce you starttalking that youhave moreresearch thatexcites you thanseparates you.”
RITU AGARWALCHIDS FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
This state has a competitivegubernatorial electionbetween current Gov. MartinO’Malley and former Gov.
Bob Ehrlich. At this university, themedia and politicians like to talk abouttuition. However, I’ve been engagingstudents on environmental issues forthe last four years, and the majorityeither have an inclination to supportenvironmental policies or actively pro-mote them. The most concrete exam-ple of this is the 2007 SGA election ref-erendum in which 91 percent of stu-dent voters approved a self-imposedgreen fee to offset carbon emissions.
If you care about the health of theChesapeake Bay, reduction of green-house gas emissions, creation of cleanenergy jobs and construction of the Pur-ple Line, the best choice for governor isclearly O’Malley.
O’Malley has made some decisionsthat I don’t like, such as building theIntercounty Connector and supporting aweakening of stormwater regulations.But he has also supported and signed
some of the most aggressive environ-mental legislation in the country, such asthe Clean Cars Act of 2007, whichreduces emissions from automobilesand increases fuel economy. Addition-ally, he entered the state into theRegional Greenhouse Gas Initiative withother northeastern states, an action thathas forced coal companies to reduceemissions and pay fines if they pollute.
O’Malley signed a Renewable Elec-tricity Standard — which pledged that20 percent of the state’s energy wouldcome from renewable energy sourcesby 2022. He has accelerated a solarenergy standard, improved the solargrant program and mandated that utilitycompanies achieve a 15 percent reduc-tion in per capita energy use by 2015.
Furthermore, the Greenhouse GasReduction Act that was signed by O’Mal-ley in 2009 mandates a 25 percent reduc-tion of the state’s greenhouse gas emis-sions by 2020 — one of the strongestglobal warming laws in the nation. Thegovernor has even just proposed $48million for the Purple Line in his newesttransportation budget proposal.
What about Ehrlich? He says he’d“pull the plug” on O’Malley’s plan tobuild the Purple Line light rail. The halt-ing of the Purple Line would have seri-ous consequences, from affecting theimprovement of College Park to reduc-ing smart development and accessibletransportation options for students.Ehrlich opposed the Clean Cars Act in2005, and he raided funding for Pro-gram Open Space — a land conserva-tion program in the state that O’Malleyfully funded. Ehrlich killed efforts in2003 to regulate the poultry industry’sharmful impact on the Chesapeake Bay.Finally, Ehrlich fired experienced staffat the state’s environmental agenciesand appointed inexperienced industry
insiders in their place — an auto-indus-try lawyer was head of the state Depart-ment of the Environment!
The ultimate difference between thetwo candidates is the distinctionbetween offense and defense. Fourmore years of O’Malley will allow advo-cates in the state the opportunity to passenvironmental laws and build on the vic-tories from his first term. ElectingEhrlich will mean no opportunity forprogress and a major fight to preventthe rollback of clean air, clean water andclean energy laws. Even the Purple Linewould be dead.
I support a chance at progress. Youngpeople cannot afford to sit on the side-lines for this election. Register to vote byOct. 12, and either vote early from Oct.22 to Oct. 28 at College Park Commu-nity Center (except Oct. 24), or ElectionDay on Nov. 2. Find out more atwww.elections.state.md.us/voting.
Matt Dernoga is a graduate student inpublic policy. He can be reached [email protected].
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What do you think ofwhen you hear the word“privacy”? Do you pic-ture a “Do Not Disturb”
sign or a sock on your doorknob?Does your mind wander to that videoof a bald Britney Spears attacking thepaparazzi with an umbrella?
Or do you perhaps think about theinalienable right that American citi-zens are guaranteed? Though it’s notspecifically mentioned in our Consti-tution, privacy is widely considered afundamental privilege all of us shareand none of us would like to cede. Pri-vacy is what ensures our protectionfrom self-incrimination, from unrea-sonable search and seizure and frombeing persecuted for our beliefs, toname a few.
Needless to say, privacy is one ofour most important rights — yet it’salso the one that is arguably the mosteasily (and frequently) taken away. Assoon as we are attacked or threatened,or there is a potential for some kind of
threat or attack in the near or distantfuture, our privacy heads for the doorand sometimes gets pushed right out.
Obviously, there has to be somegive-and-take in the tug of warbetween the right to privacy and thegovernment’s need to secure our col-lective well-being. I appreciate thatthere are security cameras on and offthe campus because they make mefeel safer. Thus, I had no qualmsabout supporting the 19 new securitycameras that are being installed in off-campus locations after Gemstone stu-dents discovered they would helpcrime prevention efforts.
Just like having to put my luggagethrough an X-ray machine at the air-port and having my belongings exam-ined by a stranger, the security cam-eras could be considered an infringe-ment of my right to privacy. Butbecause they are there to ensure I ambeing watched wherever and when-ever I walk — which will most likelyreduce the probability that I’ll be
attacked or mugged — it’s the kind ofinfringement that is more helpful thanharmful. Cameras can be a deterrentto crime because they induce a fear ofbeing watched in criminals that willhopefully reduce violent activityaround College Park.
When efforts to make me feel saferend up trumping my right to privacy,though, it becomes a problem. I’mwilling to give up some things in thename of public safety, but there’s alimit to what I’ll voluntarily cede with-out a good reason.
It’s not like I have anything tohide, but it’s the principle of the mat-ter. Many civil rights activistsprotested the USA PATRIOT Act,
which gave the government largelyunlimited power to wiretap phonesand monitor Internet usage to catchterrorists. When it was first enacted,it was so vague that it could easily beapplied to those who weren’t engag-ing in criminal activity in the slight-est. If no one’s checking on them tomake sure they don’t cross the lineand snoop without purpose, it’s onlya matter of time before Big Brotherbecomes a Peeping Tom.
Remember in George Orwell’s 1984how the government monitored every-thing? I’m all for big government andintervention when it’s necessary topromote safety, justice and equality,but it’s a little overwhelming when itcould potentially become personal andunsupervised. Because at the end ofthe day, my privacy is just that — mine.
Emilie Openchowski is a seniorjournalism and government andpolitics major. She can be reached [email protected].
The right to privacy: A balancing act
So it goes. The crime spree of 2010 continued early yesterday morning as yetanother victim was assaulted and robbed in College Park. This time, how-ever, it was in the heart of where many students call home.A student was tackled to the ground and mugged by three suspects about
4:30 yesterday morning near two Honors dorms — Queen Anne’s and Anne Arundelhalls. The incident further debunked the Crime Time myth promoted by local policeand the Student Government Association, which claims most crimes occur betweenthe hours of 2 and 4 a.m.
Since students returned to the campus fewer than twomonths ago, there have been at least six muggings in CollegePark. This is the first to creep onto the campus since last May.Such a dramatic number is not only rattling for students andtheir families, but it is unacceptable. And the fact that such vio-lent robberies are now occurring feet from where many stu-dents sleep is all the more concerning.
University and Prince George’s County police are undoubt-edly bombarded by high expectations from students, parents, alumni and residents.The minute a crime occurs, many students curse police for not doing their jobs orwasting their time busting parties. Although there may be some truth to such anargument, the fact is police cannot be everywhere all the time — nor do we thinkmany would want them to be. However, the recent surge in violent crime has shownno signs of dying down.
The public safety department employs more than 100 officers and another 100 stu-dent auxiliary, but that number is beginning to seem insufficient. The crime wavemay require a surge in officers or a shift in patrolling tactics to place more policewhere they need to be on the 1,250-acre campus. While patrols conducted in policevehicles are no doubt useful, yesterday’s robbery demonstrates that crime does notjust occur near roadways. It happens in darkened corners off the beaten path, wherestudents may be caught off guard and without anyone to come to their assistance.
Crimes such as yesterday’s do not only illustrate the risk posed to students but alsothe risk to the university’s reputation. Although Maryland Images’ tour guides mayshy away from prospective students’ questions regarding campus safety, that facadecan only remain for so long. NBC4’s story about the latest mugging was headlined“Another College Park Robbery,” implying the run-of-the-mill rate at which suchcrimes happen here. And just this month, The Daily Beast ranked the university No. 5on a list of the most dangerous schools in the ACC.
But who can be surprised by such an embarrassing rank-ing when considering the statistics? Since 2007, when theclass of 2011 entered the university, there have been 29aggravated assaults, 31 robberies, 347 burglaries and a stag-gering 1,329 cases of larceny on the campus. Such numbersare all the more overwhelming considering this academicyear is still less than eight months away from completion.
There is no easy solution to crime. Despite increasedpolice presence and public awareness efforts, students and
residents continue to fall victim to crime. Although the university has seen a steadydecline in various types of crime, the university’s reputation of having a dangerouscampus and surrounding area has not changed.
Students become well acquainted with crime when they enroll at this university.Waking up Sunday mornings to crime alerts is something many grow to expect. Butwhen crime strikes feet away from students’ bedrooms, it can send a chilling wake-upcall. Yesterday’s robbery, much like the one that occurred last February betweenHarford and Frederick halls and another that occurred at the ATM outside of EllicottHall, show how dire the situation really is.
Each time crime strikes another victim in College Park, the university is robbed ofsomething, too. And each incident is more than just another tally on the university’scrime statistics sheet. Students are frightened. Parents are frightened. And some-thing must be done.
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Our ViewThe robbery that occurred onthe campus yesterday is justone incident in a crime wave
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Am I the only one whothinks The Diamond-back missed a crucialpoint as to why sports
fans don’t show up to universitygames in its Sept. 29 article, “Fan-ning out”? It’s not about the earlygames, and it’s not about theweather. What it is about is theridiculously intense police forcethat patrols this university.
University Police enforce suchstrict laws on the campus that stu-dents are forced to tailgate two tothree miles away. Who wants towalk to the stadium from that far?I don’t care what time it is, howhot it is or what our record is: Col-lege students want to cometogether in their team gear, drinka beer or two and go to the gametogether. That’s what college stu-dents do. But how does the uni-versity or the athletics depart-ment expect students to attendthe games when they are forcedoff the campus in order to dothat? And better yet, when theygo off the campus, even at Col-lege Avenue houses, the policechase them off those premises,giving everyone a buzzkill.
Now, I am certainly not preach-ing the virtues of underage drink-ing, alcoholism or anything likethat. I am just stating the mental-ity of most college students, aswell as rehashing what you see inmovies, read about in newspapersand hear about from friends. It’snot too complicated; it’s just plainold fan bonding.
At other universities (Rutgers,Indiana and Penn State, for exam-ple), I know for a fact that the stu-dents are allowed to tailgate rightoutside the stadium — regardlessof their age. Because of this, peo-ple actually go to the games. Rut-gers has a far worse football pro-gram than we have, but their fanviewership has increased. What’sthe reason for this? Because theyare able to casually drink outsidethe stadium and walk 10 feet tothe game. If I ever tried that, Iwould probably be arrested onthe spot. The police here don’teven let 21-year-olds drink withbeer kegs or party balls on thecampus, and they don’t let themplay drinking games. Since whenis a police officer allowed to tell a21-year-old how to drink? Addi-tionally, since when was this uni-versity a dry campus?
I’m certain there is a direct cor-relation between tailgating loca-tion and attendance at games. It’ssimple: If the police took the timeto simply monitor drinking ratherthan more or less ban it alto-gether, fan viewership wouldincrease. I’m sure of this. It’s notabout the record, the time or theweather: It’s about being a frickin’normal college student for oncein our lives.
Jenna Shulman is a seniorjournalism major. She can bereached at [email protected].
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You never rush into somethingwithout giving it the thought itdeserves — and often you willthink twice before acting. Sure,you may work more slowly thansome, but ultimately you aremore efficient, as the sameamount of effort yields greaterresults more often than not.
Also born on this date are Ali-cia Silverstone, actress; SusanSarandon, actress; Anne Rice, au-thor; Charlton Heston, actor; Ar-mand Assante, actor; Damon Run-yon, writer; Buster Keaton, actorand comic.
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PREVIEW | SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE TOUR
Dancing for joyBY ANDREW FREEDMAN
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There’s no business like showbusiness.
The contestants of So You ThinkYou Can Dance find this out the hardway: dancing in several styles weekafter week until one of them is voted“America’s favorite dancer.” As muchfun as they may have had on the pop-ular FOX television program, they’llbe tested in new ways on this year’snational touring version of the show.
In the 40-city tour, the top seven con-testants from the past season as well asa mix of “All-Stars,” popular dancersfrom previous seasons, will performdances from the show as well as brandnew pieces for the tour. Tomorrownight, they will light up the stage at the1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore.
“We just love going out there anddancing for everyone, giving thecrowd an amazing performance,”said contemporary dancer KentBoyd, 18, of Wapakoneta, Ohio.
“When you get out into an arena ofthousands of people and hearscreaming at the fact that you’re onstage is the most incredible feeling inthe world,” said Robert Roldan, 20, acontemporary dancer from Thou-sand Oaks, Calif. “I can’t even explainhow that rush just happens every sin-gle time I’ve stepped on stage so far.”
After a grueling summer on the hitTV series, the two runners-up havebeen extremely enthusiastic aboutperforming live.
“None of us really got any breaksfrom the show. But it’s great; it’swhat we love to do,” Boyd said. “It’sso amazing to actually realize thatthere are more people watchingthis than just your parents.”
Roldan in particular was lookingforward to a performance in Balti-
more, having lived nearby. “I lived in Maryland for about a
year and a half, actually,” he said. “Iwas living in Riverdale, which is kindof close to Baltimore.”
Both performers discussed theirfavorite numbers. For Roldan, it is acontemporary routine to Coldplay’s“Fix You,” with All-Star Allison Holker.
“It’s very special to me, and I’mso glad I can do it on the tour,”Roldan said.
Boyd looked forward to group rou-tines with the other dancers.
“There’s a couple of new ones that Ican’t talk about until you see it live, andI don’t want to ruin them,” Boyd said.“Those became some of my favorites.It’s refreshing and new for me.”
Jamie Curtis, director of market-ing and public relations at 1stMariner Arena, expressed her satis-faction working with those puttingthe tour together.
“We’ve had this show for a numberof years,” Curtis said. “They are fan-tastic to work with.”
She called Baltimore “one of thebest stops on ... the entire tour of thisshow,” saying that Baltimore, the met-ropolitan area and the arena staff all fellin love with So You Think You CanDance.
“We all love live entertainment, andwe love the whole process of gettingthe show and putting it together andwatching it grow,” she said. “Every-body that works at 1st Mariner getsthis kick out of seeing people comeinto the building and just the excite-ment on everybody’s face.”
The dancers encouraged studentsto come see the tour in Baltimore.
“Well, first off, for any of the guyswho go to college, there are fiveamazing looking females and they’reup on that stage,” Boyd said. “And letme tell you, in some of those num-
bers they look incredible. So rightthere, there should be a whole bunchof guys there.”
Roldan also expressed his enthusi-asm for the performances on the tour.
“It’s so entertaining, top to bottom,all different styles of dance. [Audi-ences] can walk away feelingexcited,” said Roldan.
Both also pointed out that dance isa powerful art form they feel doesn’tget enough attention.
“I feel like people my age don’treally see this type of art form asmuch,” Roldan said.
Boyd hopes that those who come
to the show “can discover a new pas-sion” by watching the various stylesof dance over the course of the night.
More than anything else, thedancers stressed how much the audi-ence will enjoy watching the show.
“All I can tell you is the tour isamazing,” Roldan said. “It’s a lot offun. There’s a lot of fun stuff that hap-pens on stage.”
The So You Think You Can Dancetour is tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at 1stMariner Arena. Tickets start at$37.50.
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With one last drop of snark left,1980s and ’90s indie rock bandshave been making their reunitedrounds this fall. Washington seemsto have been on the receiving end ofa big dose of nostalgia, with recentarea shows from Pavement and Su-perchunk, as well as upcoming oneswith Belle and Sebastian and GuidedBy Voices.
Saturday, Washington’s 9:30 Clubplayed host to The Vaselines andTeenage Fanclub — both from Glas-gow, Scotland. The first, a lo-fi butloud band made famous by KurtCobain’s fandom (and Nirvana’streatment of three Vaselines songs),is touring in support of its first albumin more than 20 years, the Sept. 14-released Sex With An X. TeenageFanclub, on the other hand, neverbroke up like The Vaselines did andreleased their 10th full-length albumin May.
Both bands employ rock guitars,breezy songs about love and, in true
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BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer
As new Terrapin AthleticsDirector Kevin Andersonstrolled into Ludwig Field onFriday night, he saw a Ter-rapin men’s soccer team play-ing at its best and a crowd at
its fullest.Before a nationally televised
audience including Andersonand a new record crowd, theNo. 8 Terps (5-2-1, 2-1-1 ACC)didn’t just slide past the No. 9Blue Devils (4-2-3, 1-2-1). Theywon with conviction, their 2-0victory giving the team its first
signature win of the season.“It’s a great night for Mary-
land soccer,” coach SashoCirovski said.
“It was incredible,” mid-fielder Patrick Mullins said ofthe 7,260 in attendance.“Everywhere I looked, therewere people. It just made ahuge difference for us.”
In turning in one of theirmost thorough efforts thisyear, the Terps held Duke’soffense without a shot on goal.The team’s attack, meanwhile,finally clicked for its first scorein the run of play in more than280 minutes.
“Our team defending wasoutstanding, and our connec-tion on the field was verygood,” Cirovski said. “Youcould see the communication;the movement was very good.We probably deserved a fewmore goals.”
Despite averaging morethan seven shots a matchentering Friday night’s game,Duke forward Ryan Finley,the nation’s leading scorer,found only two openings theentire game. Both came in thesecond half, and both werestopped short by a stoutdefense. The Blue Devils man-aged only 10 shots and didn’ttest All-America goalkeeperZac MacMath once.
Defender Alex Lee lookedcomfortable at his new centerback position, while rightback London Woodberry alsocontinued to impress Cirovskiwith his impact on both sidesof the ball.
“That was probably ourstrongest effort as a backlineso far against a high-qualityteam,” Cirovski said.
After an offensive lull tostart the contest, the Terpsstarted heating up before theend of the half. In the 34thminute, forward Jason Her-rick dribbled into the right
side of the penalty box anddrew a penalty kick after atrip by Duke defenderAndrew Wenger.
For the second straightgame, midfielder Matt Kasselscored on a penalty kick witha strike to the right. Dukegoalkeeper James Belshaw,who finished the game withseven saves, even guessedright, but Kassel’s shotzoomed out of reach.
Just eight minutes later, Her-rick again attacked the Dukedefense, ripping a shot to theleft side of the net. Blocked,the shot rolled to Mullins, whoslammed home his secondgoal of the season with a rip tothe right.
“I was just in the right placeat the right time,” Mullins said.“We talked about followingshots up, and we preach that alot in practice.”
Despite several other oppor-tunities in the second half, theTerps couldn’t meet their teamgoal of three scores. With theirdefensive supremacy, though,they didn’t need to.
While an important non-conference match tomorrowagainst No. 3 Connecticutlooms, the Terps knew howimportant a victory Fridaywas. The win earned theteam three more points in theACC and vaulted the Terpspast Duke and Virginia in thestandings.
After running down the farsideline giving high-fives tofans after the final whistle, Kas-sel could finally pause andreflect on the marquee victoryand oversize crowd that wit-nessed it.
“It’s what we come here for,”Kassel said. “We support themjust as much as they supportus. We displayed somethingspecial for them.”
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Midfielder Patrick Mullins celebrates his first-half goal in theTerps’ 2-0 victory over Duke. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
back on his good side now.”Early in the game, it
seemed as if the Terps (4-1, 1-0 ACC) wouldn’t be in a posi-tion to protect a lead. Theiroffense repeatedly stalled,and their defense couldn’t getDuke off the field.
After weeklong sermons onthe importance of third-downstops, coach Ralph Friedgenwatched Duke (1-4, 0-2) con-vert its first three third downsen route to an early 3-0 lead.
For the rest of the half, healso watched the Blue Devils
roll up 227 yards of totaloffense, including 173 yardsthrough the air and four tripsto the red zone.
But as it has done nearly allseason long, the Terps’defense stif fened when itneeded to. Duke came awaywith only nine points andheaded into halftime with a 9-7 lead despite an obvious on-field superiority.
That changed at halftime.Brown tinkered with hisdefense, and the Terps finallystarted creating pressure onquarterback Sean Renfree.
“It’s really a tribute to theplayers,” Brown said.“They’re the ones who took
that aggressive mentality andmade it work. We just cameout of the locker room with arenewed vigor.”
Without the running gameor accuracy that helped makehis debut as a starter againstFlorida International a success,Terp freshman quarterbackDanny O’Brien wasn’t quite assharp in his first ACC contest.
Even when he led theTerps to their lone first-halfscoring drive late in the sec-ond quarter, it was aided by acrucial roughing-the-passerpenalty on Duke that allowedthe drive to continue.
Luckily for O’Brien and therest of the Terps, punt
returner Tony Logan saw theoffense struggling.
And so when he got his firstchance to touch the ball afterDuke’s first possession of thesecond half, he made it count.
After dodging the initialdefender, Logan started mov-ing to his left before cuttingback to his right, finding aseam and racing 84 yards forthe go-ahead touchdown,which he punctuated by hurl-ing the ball at the GossettTeam House.
“In the first half, I didn’t getto go out there because thedefense was having a toughtime stopping them,” Logansaid. “We went into halftime,
and all those guys came up tome and told me, ‘Look, we aregoing to give you a chance toget back there and do whatyou do.’ I just came out know-ing that first drive was goingto be the one that was goingto change the momentum inthe game, and it definitelyhelped us get going.”
A singular effort from run-ning back Da’Rel Scott gavethe Terps their final score.Scott caught a short pass,broke two tackles and outranthe rest of the Duke defensedown the sideline for a 71-yard touchdown.
With the win, the Terpsnow own twice as many victo-
ries as they had all last sea-son, plus much-neededmomentum headed into theirbye week.
But Duke might be theweakest conference game onthe Terps’ schedule, andFriedgen knows the team stillhas work to do.
“It wasn’t pretty,” Friedgensaid, “but a win is a win. I toldour team if we are going tohave a good season, you haveto win some when you aren’thitting on all cylinders. Youjust have to reach down andfind a way to win, and I thinkthat’s what we did.”
BY KATE YANCHULISSenior staff writer
The Terrapin football team’sdefense struggled to get startedSaturday, allowing Duke to scoreon its first three possessions of thegame and putting the Terps in anearly hole.
But late in the first half, on theBlue Devils’ fourth drive of thegame, safety Antwine Perezgrabbed an interception in the endzone, sparking the defense to pickup its intensity and level of play forthe second half of the 21-16 win.
Perez’s timing was impeccable.The crucial interception came ona third down, which the BlueDevils had converted with easeto start the game.
The Terps had clamped downin the red zone to that point, lim-iting the Blue Devils to just threefield goals.
But ending their scoring streakproved key.
“We got the crowd into it again,the offense was behind us, andeveryone just believed,” Perez said.
While the Terps’ of fensescored its first points of game onthe ensuing possession, it was thedefense that really felt the effectsof the interception. The Terpsyielded just 48 yards to Duke inthe third quarter after giving up227 in the first half. They also hadfour sacks on quarterback SeanRenfree, including two in thefourth quarter.
“We were around him the wholenight,” defensive coordinator DonBrown said. “From the third quar-ter on, I don’t think we left himalone to throw the football morethan two or three occasions. Wewere around him the whole night
when the game was on the line.”Because of the Terps’ dogged
second-half defense, the BlueDevils’ ground game went back-ward in the second half. After
starting the half with 54 yards on16 carries, Duke ended with 48yards on 23 carries.
As the Terps continued tostymie the Blue Devils’ running
game, they honed in on Duke’s tal-ented receiving corps, which wastargeted on all but seven plays inthe second half.
“In the second half, we just cameout with a whole other attitude andwe just were ready to roll, and youcould see that in the effort we gavein the second half,” Perez said.“We really didn’t make too manyadjustments. We just playeddefense a lot tighter.”
The Terps, in particular, intensi-fied their focus on wide receiverDonovan Varner. Varner had 91yards on six catches by halftime,catching the attention of coachRalph Friedgen, who singled outthe receiver when speaking to thedefensive unit at halftime.
“I said, ‘No. 26 [Varner] is killingus,’” Friedgen said. “We had himdouble-covered; we had two guysplaying them man-to-man, vicingthe guy, and he catches the ball,which doesn’t help my blood pres-sure much.”
The Terps responded. In the thirdquarter, Varner had just two yards.
In the fourth quarter, he againbroke free, getting behind thesecondary for a 35-yard catch thatset up a Duke touchdown twoplays later.
Fittingly, though, he was deniedon the Blue Devils’ final offensiveplay of the game, a fourth-and-15look from Renfree that never madeit to his target.
“Going out after halftime, wejust said, ‘We’re going to playMaryland defense and get afterthem,’” Brown said. “And that’swhat we did. For the most part,except for one series — really, oneplay — the kids really played well.”
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TWO-MINUTE DRILL
STAR OFTHE GAMELogan made the BlueDevils regret theirdecision to kick to himwhen he brokedownfield for a third-quartertouchdown. With the team’s offensestruggling, the Terps likely wouldn’thave reached 21 points without him.
WHEN IT WAS OVERDown just five points, Duke faced afourth-and-15 from the Terps’ 38-yardline with less than three minutes left inthe game. The Blue Devils needed a firstdown to stay alive, but safety AntwinePerez broke up the would-be first-downpass, ending Duke’s comeback bid.
WHAT THIS GAME MEANSThe victory gives the Terps a 1-0 start inACC play and confidence heading intothe bye week. But it was an ugly win,and it came against arguably the worstteam in the conference.
TERP LOWLIGHTOn a fourth-and-19 in the in the fourthquarter, Duke quarterback SeanRenfree’s pass found wide receiverDonovan Varner, moving the Blue Devilsto the one-yard line. A touchdown twoplays later cut the Terps’ lead to 21-16.
TERP HIGHLIGHTTony Logan ran a punt return back 84yards for a touchdown. His secondreturn for a score in as many gamesputs him in a tie for first place in thenation in punt returns for touchdownsthis season.
Linebacker Adrian Moten had a second-half interception to help leada resurgent Terp defense Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
After a poor start, defense closes game
SportsWomen’s soccer falls to VT
The Terrapin women’s soccer team suffered its firstdefeat of the season yesterday in a 1-0 loss at VirginiaTech. Get more at www.diamondbackonline.com/sports.
Terp players celebrate their 21-16 victory against Duke on Saturday night. The win doubled the Terps’ win total from last season, when they won just twice. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Terps 21,Duke 16
Brown and Terps improve first-half play to limit Duke’s weapons in crucial ACC win
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