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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 99TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 65WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
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Mather to speak at graduationNobel Prize winner, adjunct physics professor to discuss life lessons, scientific discoveries
BY BEN WORSLEYStaff writer
John Mather, an adjunct profes-sor of physics who won a NobelPrize in physics in 2006, will bethe university’s winter com-mencement speaker.
Mather, a senior astrophysicistat NASA’s Goddard Space FlightCenter in Greenbelt, was chosenby the university’s senior councilto speak at the ceremony, which
will take place Dec. 20 at the Com-cast Center.
“I’m really tickled and pleasedto be speaking to these young peo-ple,” Mather said.
Mather admitted he has notgiven his speech much thoughtyet, but did say he plans to offerlife lessons for the graduating stu-dents, as well as point out some ofthe latest discoveries in cosmologyand astronomy.
“It’s a very exciting time of sci-
ence and culture,” he added.Senior Marissa Shirron, the
commencement speaker chair forthe senior council, said Matherwas one of the council’s topchoices for potential speakers. Shee-mailed him just before Thanks-giving asking if he would be will-ing to speak, and he acceptedwithin 24 hours. He later sent herhis personal resume, which
DOTS mayadd winter,spring BWIshuttlesThanksgiving bus exceededofficials’ turnout expectations
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
A DOTS shuttle service to BWI airport maybe brought back for winter and spring breakafter its success over the Thanksgivingbreak.
More than 300 students rode the Depart-ment of Transportation Services shuttles tothe Baltimore-Washington InternationalThurgood Marshall Airport on the Tuesdayand Wednesday before Thanksgiving,exceeding the expectations of DOTS DirectorDavid Allen, who said he would consider 100riders successful.
Students who used the shuttle said theyfound it more convenient than the previouspublic transportation option for getting toBWI, which involved taking a Shuttle-UM busto the College Park Metro Station, taking the
SGA to debateelection rulesfor next year
BY MICHAEL LEMAIREStaff writer
The SGA is set to debate new campaignregulations tonight that limit spending andenforce regulations, in an attempt to elimi-nate what in recent years has become asource of contention.
The proposed regulations, which could beamended by the legislature, may play a largerole in determining who will lead the studentbody and represent its interests before theuniversity administration and the MarylandGeneral Assembly as the Student Govern-ment Association president next year. One ofthe largest changes in the newest version ofthe rules is a shortening of the campaignperiod from 14 to 10 days, which could ham-per independent candidates who run withoutthe backing of a party, said Ashwani Jain, the
Robbery increase sparks police outreachBY KYLE GOON
Staff writer
During Thanksgivingbreak, Prince George’sCounty Police posted a signon College Avenue near theMaryland Book Exchangethat stated, “SAFETYREMINDER, ALWAYSLOCK YOUR DOORS,ALWAYS LOCK YOUR WIN-DOWS.”
It’s a cautionary reminderpolice have been stressingthroughout the semester, butwith only a few weeks of thefall semester left, the countyand university are tryingonce more to get the wordout.
The simple suggestionaddresses a growing problem
in the university community.This year, burglaries throughNov. 30 have increased 54percent compared with all oflast year. In addition, in everysexual assault that took placein a residence this year, theassailant was either let in orentered the house through anunsecured door or window.
District 1 Assistant Com-mander Capt. Daniel Lipseysaid county police have beenhanding out fliers warningstudents and other CollegePark residents to protectthemselves from intruders.However, he said he hopesthe sign proves more effec-tive than other measures.
“Sometimes you hand outA sign on College Avenue warns residents to lock their windows anddoors, after an increase in robberies. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
RHA committee launchesroom selection prototype
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
Resident Life unveiled anonline room selection proto-type at a Residence HallAssociation committee meet-ing yesterday that many saidcould simplify the housingprocess this spring.
RHA members will test theprototype before votingwhether to support the proto-type at its meeting Tuesday.Members of the ReLATeCommittee, which advisesResidence Life, said the newprocess should make roomselection less stressful andmore intuitive for students.
“Compared to what [roomselection] currently is, this isa tenfold improvement at thevery least,” ReLATe Com-mittee Chair Spiro Dimakassaid.
If all goes according to plan,Information Technology Man-ager Tom Lamp said roomselection may move online forthe spring semester. Studentscan view the prototype atwww.resnet.umd.edu/MyDRL/Student/rmsel/.
The online room selectionsystem allows a user to cre-ate or join groups of one tosix people. Group creators
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Please See SPEAKER, Page 2 JOHN MATHER Commencement speaker
BOWLING FOR A SPARETerps waiting for postseason situation to clear up
BY JEFF NEWMANStaff writer
Two weeks ago, the Terrapin footballteam held its destiny in its hands. With twovictories to close out the season, the Terpswould guarantee themselves a spot in theACC Championship game and a finish asthe first- or second-place team in the con-ference.
Two weeks and two losses later, theTerps, much like the bowls in which they
might play, are left waiting to see who willplay where in late December.
Once the conference champion is deter-mined between No. 18 Boston College andVirginia Tech this Saturday, the ACC’s bowlgames will begin their selections. TheOrange Bowl will automatically receive theconference champion, and every remainingbowl-eligible ACC team will either havefour or five conference victories.
Coach Ralph Friedgen and the Terps know they don’t have many options as to which bowl game they will play in this season. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
The Terps’ loss to Florida State on Nov. 22 knockedthem out of ACC title contention and into the rangeof mid-level bowl games. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACKPlease See BOWLS, Page 8
chairman of the SGA’s Constitu-tion and Bylaws committee.
But Jain views the change as away to ensure the student bodyremains interested in the elec-tion, while still allowing candi-dates time to reach as many po-tential voters as possible.
“Obviously the more time wegive the candidates the more peo-ple we can reach,” Jain said. “Theissue of fairness was brought up,but if you look at our voter turnoutlast year, the percentage of votersis down from previous years, sowe thought some of the studentswould lose interest.”
Devin Ellis, a former SGAchief of staff, didn’t think that theloss of days would be of majorconsequence, adding that inde-pendents put themselves at a dis-advantage from the start.
“I don’t think the four days willmake a big difference. It won’t un-fairly disadvantage anyone,” Ellisexplained. “The people whochoose to run alone start with adisadvantage.”
Shortening the campaign peri-od was not arbitrary, said SGAPresident Jonathan Sachs, butnecessary based on the calendarthis year.
“There’s no idealistic reasonfor making it 10 days,” Sachssaid. “It’s just technical days onthe calendar.”
Former SGA President An-
drew Friedson, who had less than14 days to campaign when he ranfor election, agreed that four daysis relatively inconsequential, buthe disagreed with the idea thatshortening the election periodwould affect student interest.
“It’s the job of the candidates togenerate interest in their way,”Friedson said. “If they want tokeep people interested, they needto campaign in a way that gener-ates the most interest.”
Also, just two years after vot-ing to allow individual donors tocontribute up to $3,500 to a cam-paign, the committee decided tocut the amount permitted to $500,a move that Jain said would closea glaring loophole.
“As the rules read last year, anindividual can donate $3,500,which essentially means that oneindividual could pay for an entirecampaign,” Jain said.
The committee also allowedcandidates an extra $500 to spendon their campaigns, raising themaximum from $3,500 to $4,000.Many members of the committeefelt that even $4,000 was too low,and pushed for a $5,000 cap, ac-cording to Jain, but he stepped into help the committee find ahappy medium.
“Again it comes down to reach-ing as many people as possible,”Jain said. “We have a large com-munity and we want candidatesto people to effectively reach asmany people as possible.”
Ellis said that during his time onthe SGA, it lifted the cap before itwas brought back in 2007 saying“free money, in this country, is freepolitical speech.” But he saidmoney won’t decide the race.
“In the end, It’s not how muchyou spend but how much you do,”Ellis said. If you have great out-reach and a great ground team,then you will probably win.”
But limiting the amount oneperson can donate can hinder theamount of funds a candidate isable to accrue, Sachs said.
“I think money is really helpfulin getting your message out tostudents,” Sachs said. “It’s notonly access for those who want toserve but also access for the stu-dent body. There’s obviously acorrelation between funding andvoter engagement both locallyand nationally, and that’s obvious-ly something that we will have toconsider.”
Friedson admitted a balance isdifficult to strike.
“I don’t know if they will everbe able to make it perfect,” Fried-son said.
Marissa Lang contributed to thisreport. [email protected]
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Sports Illustrated namesPhelps Sportsman of theYear
NEW YORK – MichaelPhelps achieved another un-precedented feat: the firstswimmer honored as SportsIllustrated’s sportsman of theyear.
Phelps broke Mark Spitz’siconic record with eight goldmedals at the BeijingOlympics in August and be-came the winningestOlympian ever with his 14 ca-reer victories. Olympians inother sports have earned theaward before in its 54-yearhistory but never a swimmer.In 1972, the year Spitz won hismedals, UCLA basketballcoach John Wooden and ten-nis great Billie Jean King werehonored by the magazine.
“I’m doing what I love. I wasable to accomplish what Iwanted to accomplish thisyear.” Phelps said.
– Compiled from wire reports
BRIEFS
BY NELLY DESMARATTESStaff writer
With the credit crunch and theannouncement by the NationalBureau of Economic Researchthat the United States is officiallyin a recession and has been formore than a year, The Diamond-back talked to Sarah Bauder, di-rector of the Office of FinancialAid, about how the poor econo-my will affect student financialaid, student loans and the av-enues available to help studentpay for college.
The Diamondback: How doyou believe the current economicsituation will affect the studentloan industry?
Sarah Bauder: The Staffordstudent loan is a government-backed student loan, so the reces-sion is not going to impact that atall, so students will not be im-pacted. Who will be impacted bythe recession are parents. Par-ents take out a credit-worthyloan. So the economic crisis is fo-cused on whether or not a familyis credit-worthy. So lenders aretightening up their credit scores,so historically when Mom andDad apply for a loan and theywere on the bubble — that is, thatthey were iffy about whether ornot they can qualify for a credit-worthy loan — now those stu-dents, or rather their families,are not going to get that loan.
DBK: According to the Projecton Student Debt, the university’sclass of 2008 graduated with$1,000 more in debt than theclass of 2007. Can you give me
your reasons why that might be?Bauder: It is really hard for me
to give my opinion on just one sta-tistic because statistics neverstand alone. There could be 50other variables. For instance itcould be because more studentsare majoring in business andmedicine and health fields,which has a higher cost of educa-tion than other fields. It could bethat the state — which it is —could be reducing the amount ofaid going into higher education.Every state has a budget, someare line-item budgets and someare what I call “fluff,” which isnon-mandated. Higher educationis something that is a non-man-dated expense. So when all yourbills are paid at the state level,whatever is left over goes to thenon-mandated items. So in timesof good, when there is a lot ofmoney coming in and citizens arebuying things and taxes arebeing paid, money is given tonon-mandated expenses such ashigher education. So because weare a non-mandated item, thestate government cuts higher ed-ucation first. So the question is,how do we make up that revenue,because students still want all thethings they expect from a college.So the university has to increasetuition. So an increase in tuitionwill cause higher debt.
DBK: How do you believe stu-dents will be able to fund theireducation in this economic situa-tion?
Bauder: That is a really goodquestion as I am playing withthat right now, because the [fed-eral government] has cut work
study, but Pell Grants andStafford loans have increased.The state has decreased thefunding to the university, so ourinstitutional operational budgetto give to students has decreased.So all of these variables are inplay and, as I award funds fornext year, I have to think about allof this. I think there are going tobe more have-nots than havesnext year.
DBK: What advice would yougive students who were eco-nomically stable in previousyears but due to the economicsituation are now seeking finan-cial assistance?
Bauder: In the past familiesusually went to either their homeequity, their 401(k)s, their creditcards because they were going topay it off in order to finance a col-lege education. Now, because ofthe economic situation, those av-enues are no longer available tothe degree they were. So now,these resources have dried up. Iwould tell continuing students tomeet with me, they need to makethemselves a voice. We have24,000 undergraduate students,and 17,000 apply for some type offinancial aid. So those 17,000 wecannot address all of them. So theones that actually come in andsay ‘you know what, I can’t pay.’Our job is to make sure that stu-dents do not drop out due to fi-nances. That is my whole job. Somy message would be do notpanic, come in and talk to us andusually there are avenues to helpwith finances.
Recessionary spendingFinancial Aid’s Sarah Bauder on how to afford tuition
Speaker first non-alumnus in 2 years
Shirron said was 34 pages longand consisted of at least 20pages of publications.
“He’s done so many amazingthings,” said Shirron, whose fa-ther also works with Mather.“And winning a Nobel Prize defi-nitely speaks for itself.”
Although Shirron doesn’t grad-uate until May, her twin sister willbe graduating in December.Shirron said she is looking for-ward to personally meetingMather at the ceremony.
“I’m just really excited tomeet him,” she said. “He’s anincredible person.”
Mather is best known for hiswork with fellow astrophysicistand Nobel Prize winner GeorgeSmoot on the Cosmic Back-ground Explorer Satellite. TheCOBE project helped prove theBig Bang Theory with concrete
evidence. He was honored as oneof TIME magazine’s 100 Most In-fluential People in the World in2007, thanks in large part to hiswork with the COBE project.
Mather has won a vast amountof accolades for his work in thefield, even dating back to a schol-arship he earned in 1964 as an un-dergraduate at Swarthmore Col-lege in Pennsylvania. Matherwent on to graduate with a doc-torate in physics from the Univer-sity of California, Berkley, in 1974with a 4.0 GPA.
The Roanoke, Va., native willjoin the ranks of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bern-stein, ESPN reporter TimKurkjian and former House Ma-jority Leader Steny Hoyer, theprevious three commencementspeakers, who were all formeruniversity students. In the recentpast, Google co-founder and uni-versity alumnus Sergey Brin, U.S.
Congressman Chris Van Hollen(D), and professional footballplayer and university alumnusBoomer Esiason have spoke atwinter commencement.
Although Mather is supposedto be a professor of physics at theuniversity, he is instead a self-ac-claimed “adjunct professor whodoesn’t profess.” Mather hasbeen busy working on the JamesWebb Space Telescope, a succes-sor to the Hubble Space Tele-scope, that should be finished infive years, and lacks the time toteach students.
But Mather said he is lookingforward to inspiring the graduatingstudents three weeks from now.
“The students are the youngones going off into the world tofind out what it’s about,” he said.“I want to give some picture ofthis in a kind of poetic way.”
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RHA, DOTS pleasedwith shuttle turnoutMetro one stop to Green-belt, and then taking a busfrom Greenbelt to BWI.
“I didn’t have to worryabout catching buses,” saidSteve Glickman, a sopho-more government and poli-tics major, SGA memberand university senator. “Ijust had to be at the bus stopat 7:30 p.m. and didn’t haveto worry about anything. Itwas a lot more stress freefor me. I hope they offer itagain.”
Glickman said he woulduse the service againbecause it eliminated a lot ofthe excess travel time andinconvenience. He added itwas “quick, easy and free.”
“[The university] has allthese shuttle buses, theymight as well use them,”said Nehama Rogozen, ajunior government and poli-tics major.
Rogozen said the timingwas always wrong when sheused public transportationto get to the airport. She saidshe used to switch from abus to the Metro to anotherbus to get to the airport, soshe started riding the $36Super Shuttle. Rogozen andher roommate, who is anResidence Hall Associationmember, thought of an idea
to utilize the DOTS shuttles. Both the RHA and DOTS
said they were surprisedwith the success.
“It shows that we do needthe service,” said RHATransportation AdvisoryCommittee chair ScottShuffield.
Next time the buses willrun every two hours ratherthan every hour and a half toallow for more travel timebecause some of the busesran late, Shuffield said.
Glickman said the buswas 30 minutes late andarrived at the airport only20 minutes before his flighttook off, which was closerthan he would have liked.He added one student on thebus almost missed his flight.
RHA Member DebbieKobrin, a junior govern-ment and politics major whofirst suggested the idea toAllen, was surprised withhow eagerly Allen agreed tothe plan within such a shorttimeframe.
“It’s exciting to see thathappen. ... It gives the RHAmore confidence whenwe’re asking for things,”Kobrin said. “It bodes reallywell for the RHA and DOTSworking together in thefuture.”
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$500 limit placed on campaign giftsSGA, from Page 1
CLARIFICATION
Yesterday’s story “Irishschool partners withuniversity” stated theuniversity offers onlyshort-term study abroadprograms in Ireland duringthe summer. The universityhas also previously offeredprograms in Ireland duringthe winter term.
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Dietitian dissects dining hall menuDining Services dietitian visits dining halls as part of Eat Smart Campaign
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
In a self-described “firststep” toward leveling the play-ing field for single mothers,university researchersreleased a study debunking thesocial stigmas surroundingbeing a single mom.
Despite high rates of divorceand an increase in non-maritalchildbearing, the study is thefirst of its kind to chalk up thedifference in child care to alack of available resourcesrather than personal deficien-cies and to also provide adetailed look at the amount oftime and level of interactionsingle mothers are able todevote to their children.
By using American TimeUse Survey data — an annualfederal survey that asks partic-ipants to fill out a detailedaccount of how they spend 24hours — and surveying morethan 1,800 single mothers andmore than 4,300 marriedmothers with young children,researchers derived thatregardless of marital status,there is not a big difference in
the number of hours mothersspend caring for their chil-dren. These findings, theysaid, were surprising.
“We thought they would bereally busy, but it turned outthat they still spent up to 90percent of the time with theirchildren that married womendo,” principal researcher andsociology doctoral studentSarah Kendig said. “That’s alot of time.”
Despite the numerous chal-lenges single mothers face,those single mothers surveyed,on average, spent only three tofive fewer hours per week onchild care than married moth-ers. The differences are statis-tically significant, researcherssaid, but can be explainedalmost entirely by a gap inavailable resources.
“Single moms have moreconstraints,” department chairand co-author SuzanneBianchi said. “We start underthe assumption that motherswant to do well by their chil-dren, but these mothers — par-ticularly the never-marriedmothers — have very low per-centages that have much edu-
cation beyond high school ...that implies what kind of jobsthey can get and how manyhours they would have to workto support a family.”
When compared to marriedmothers of the same socio-eco-nomic demographic, however,the differences in the amountof time devoted to child caredisappeared, researchers said.
“We were surprised that thedifferences, given how differ-ent [single mothers’] situationsare from married mothers’ —even though single momsspend a little less time withtheir kids — the differencesaren’t huge,” Bianchi said.“We were able to show that ifwere to compare single momsto married moms who weresimilar in terms of educationand work hours, they turn outto be very similar.”
Students from single-motherhouseholds said this study iscommon sense and should notbe necessary to prove to theworld that single parents arecompetent parents, too.“I wasalways around my motherwhen I was little,” said sopho-more sociology and family sci-ence major Khrysta Evans,who was raised by her singlemom. “I think, a lot of times,single parents are kind of bet-
ter than married parents,because they don’t have any-one else to depend on, so theyknow that they have to doeverything if it’s going to getdone at all, whereas a marriedparent, to some extent, canpush [responsibilities] off ontheir husband or wife. Mymom was from a single-parenthousehold, too, and she madesure she was there for me.”
But, researchers say singlemothers typically get a badreputation and those behindthe study hope it will be seenas a step toward improving theimage of single mothers.
“There’s this stereotype thatrevolves around single moth-ers,” Kendig said. “And it’salways bothered me how theyget this bad rap. They’re notworse mothers. They do spendless time with their children,but it’s not because they careless. We can explain all the dif-ference in the time by educa-tion, employment and opportu-nity, and that means that peo-ple don’t have to believe allthese other reasons like howmuch they care about theirchildren to explain anything.We need to break down thesestereotypes.”
County, Universitypolice working onjoint safety event
fliers, and you see studentsjust shove them in theirpockets and never readthem,” Lipsey said. “Butpeople read the sign; itdraws their attention. It’s ashort message you can readquickly.”
Capt. John Brandt, direc-tor of Crime Prevention forthe University Police, saidmany students don’t neces-sarily protect their dormrooms and off-campus resi-dences like they wouldtheir homes. He said lock-ing doors and windows andbeing skeptical of strangerswho wander inside is criti-cal to ensuring their valu-ables and safety.
“Some burglars will walkright into rooms to see ifanyone’s inside,” Brandtsaid. “If there is someone,they’ll cover by asking forchange or asking if some-one else lives there. Butconsider this: How wouldyour parents feel if some-one walked into your homeand asked for change? Stu-dents don’t have that mind-set. This is their constitu-tional home. They need toprotect it.”
In dorms, Brandt said aburglar can steal valuablesin as little as 15 seconds.Many students keep pre-cious things on or in theirdesk or in the first twodrawers of their bureau.Brandt also said somecriminals only take a fewbills out of wallets, whichcan cast suspicion on thevictim’s roommates.
Senior history major andKnox Road resident JoshBosstick said his house hasbeen burglarized several
times in the year and a halfhe has lived there. Intrud-ers have entered the houseby taking out air condition-ing units in the windowsand then stolen electronics.A recent sexual assault thatoccurred on their block hasraised their already height-ened awareness, includingthat of Bosstick’s femaleroommate.
“She was really scared,”he said. “We’re really care-ful to lock our doors andwindows at night. We stillhave one more air condi-tioning unit in a window,and she wants us to take itout.”
Lipsey said county policewill soon be unveiling anew campaign calledSafeNet, which is aimed atgiving residents tips forpreventing theft and bur-glary. He added countypolice, and UniversityPolice are trying to plan ajoint safety event for stu-dents, but nothing has beenfinalized.
Brandt said there is usu-ally an increase in theftstoward the end of thesemester. There was also aburglary spree that hit 20houses during last winterbreak.
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Installation of campus’s second green roof delayedCranes near Stamp Student Union would be too dangerous, inconvenient during semester
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
Plans for the second greenroof on the campus havetaken a detour.
The $2.7 million installa-tion of green roofs on theAtrium and the PrinceGeorge’s room in the StampStudent Union has beendelayed because FacilitiesManagement doesn’t want toset up two cranes outsideStamp during the semester,citing the safety of and con-venience for both studentsand construction workers,said Carlo Colella, FacilitiesManagement’s director ofarchitecture, engineering andconstruction.
“It will be less impactful oneverybody when the univer-
sity is closed,” he said. “It willbe easier on [the constructionworkers], because they willhave less traffic to control.”
The cranes, which wereoriginally expected inNovember, were pushed backuntil either the day aftercommencement ceremoniesor the day after Christmas,said Associate Director ofStudent Union FacilitiesStephen Gnadt. Not all thepreparation work was inplace, and Facilities Manage-ment decided to wait untilStamp quiets down beforestarting the heavy lifting,Gnadt said.
Because the projectinvolves swinging steel,Stamp has to be evacuatedbefore moving materials overthe building, Gnadt said.
Colella said the crane delaywill not affect the rest of theproject, which is still pro-jected for an April 1 comple-tion. Because of the cranedelay, the project has focusedon the demolition of theinsides of the rooms, such asceilings, light fixtures, sprin-kler systems, fire alarms andduct work, Gnadt said.
Delaying the cranes allowsfacilities to bring in both ofthe cranes at once, whichshortens the amount of timethe rooms will be exposed tothe elements, Gnadt said. Thecranes will be in place forapproximately four days,depending on the weather,Colella said.
The $2.7-million projectwill upgrade the 35-year-oldroofs that were passed over
during Stamp’s previous ren-ovation project.
The rooms were originallydesigned as outdoor court-yards and were enclosedlater, causing pooling wateron the roofs, which leak whenit rains. The vegetation on thegreen roof will prevent theleaks by absorbing the water,Gnadt said.
Green roofs are moreexpensive and not alwayspossible when renovating anolder roof, but they absorbrainwater runoff, insulate thebuilding, reduce pollution,provide a new habitat andcool the atmosphere — bene-fits most university officialssaid they believe are worththe extra cost.
Time frame for onlineprocess still undecidedinvite others to join theirgroup by entering theirfriends’ e-mail addresses.Students can join one groupof each size to increase theirchances of securing hous-ing.
Once a group is formed,the creator sets the roompreferences for the group.Leaders make an orderedlist of individual rooms,floors, buildings or entirecommunities where thegroup prefers to live.
When the system runs, agroup receives its preferredrooms according to its prior-ity numbers, with largergroups going first. At theend of the process, studentswithout a room are ran-domly assigned a space.
The time frame of the newprocess remains undecided.
“That’s something that Iwant people to give me theirfeedback on,” Dimakas said.
The process could be runall in one day, or it could bestaggered, with the largestgroups going first, andsmaller groups going on thefollowing days.
If the process were run allat once, students who don’tplan ahead could be in trou-ble. If a student were onlypart of a group of three, forexample, and one of theother group members founda spot with a separate groupof four, the three-persongroup would be down to two
members. The remainingstudents would then beunable to secure spots intriples, leaving them at themercy of the random assign-ment process unless theywere also part of a group oftwo.
“We’re going to have to doour homework,” Leonard-town Senator Taylor Colesaid.
Despite the details, mem-bers of the committee saidthe online system wouldsimplify the room selectionprocess.
“I had no idea what wasgoing on” under the currentsystem, Cole, a sophomore,said.
Under the system, stu-dents have to attend roomassignment meetings held inthe Stamp Student Unionthroughout April to secure aspace based on their prior-ity numbers. Meetings formore desirable locations,such as South Hill, are heldbefore meetings for lessdesirable ones, such as tra-ditional residence halls. Stu-dents may have to attendmultiple meetings to find aspace.
“Moving to onlineprocesses in general helpsstudents to do business effi-ciently,” Resident LifeDirector Deborah Grandnersaid after the meeting. “Itsounds like students arevery supportive of the idea.”
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Research aims to debunk single mom stereotypesSingle mothers spend as much time with kids as their married counterparts
BYMICHELLECLEVELANDStaff writer
For some students, the searchfor healthy options among thegrease-soaked pizza and piles offrench fries at the dining halls isover.
The university’s dietitian, SisterMaureen Schrimpe, was at TheDiner for an hour and a half dur-ing lunchtime yesterday to answerquestions students had about dietsand dining hall food. She will be atthe South Campus Dining Halltoday from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Only a few students came to thetable set up inside the dining hallto talk to the dietitian, who hosteda question-and-answer session aspart of the Eat Smart campaign, ahealthy eating initiative launchedby Dining Services last week.
Schrimpe said she is makingherself more available to studentsto encourage them to select thehealthy choices the dining hallsoffer and to inform students aboutEat Smart. Schrimpe said shehopes students will ask her if theyare not able to find healthy alter-natives.
“Although [students] think thatwe fry everything, there are otheroptions as well,” Schrimpe said.
Kerianne Duval, a sophomoreneurobiology and physiologymajor, talked to the dietitian andthe nutrition intern for about 20minutes about her dining hall op-tions as a diabetic.
“I wanted to know how I couldincorporate my diabetic diet with
the food that’s here,” Duval said.“I wanted to know what genre offood to look out for.”
Duval appreciated the access toSchrimpe because visits to theHealth Center’s dietitian costmoney, and the Center for Healthand Wellbeing at the EppleyRecreation Center is usuallybooked, she said.
Ultimately, Schrimpe saidhealthy eating and balancing agood diet is up to students. Shemade suggestions like to “get tuna
fish without the mayonnaise byjust asking.” Schrimpe said thesalad bar is usually a healthy se-lection, but not when students usetoo much salad dressing. She alsosuggested students take advan-tage of lighter meal options, suchas a basic turkey sandwich fromthe delis or the fresh vegetables of-fered at Cluckers.
Still, some students are not in-terested in the healthy options thedinning halls offers.
“I know not everyone wants to
eat salads every day,” sophomorepsychology major Lara Paek said.
Sophomore economics andEnglish major Hammad Rasulsaid he was not even aware of thedietitian event at the dining halland had doubts about the selectionof nutritional options at the dininghalls.
“It gives you a lot of bad optionsand the good options are reallyhidden,” Rasul said.
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By now, you’ve probably heardthat there’s a Five Guys Burg-ers and Fries in College Park,and chances are, you’ve been
there once or twice or even 10 times. Itisn’t open late enough to take advantageof the post-last-call crowds, but FiveGuys seems to be doing pretty well —well enough, at least, to justify opening anew location five minutes away from thestore it opened earlier this year in Hy-attsville. But is it here to stay? I wouldn’tbe so sure.
You could say that any place that spe-cializes in cheap, junky food is destinedto be a big success on Route 1. But trytelling that to the Fractured Prune,Curry Express, JD’s Roadhouse, TastiD-Lite, Eats (extra credit to anyone whoremembers it, let alone actually atethere), Moe’s Southwest Grill (whichhad two locations — one at Route 1 andHartwick Road and another next toIKEA) and, of course, our belovedWawa, which was a convenience store,
but managed to be cheapest and junkiestof all. Every single one of these establish-ments opened its doors sometime withinthe past four years, thinking it’d get linesout the door like Chipotle does now, onlyto fail miserably.
Take Fractured Prune, for instance. Itstarted out as a seasonal business, openonly during the summer on the board-walk in Ocean City. By default, all busi-nesses in College Park operate seasonal-ly. But a donut shop in Ocean City willmake much more money in threemonths than a donut shop in CollegePark will in nine, merely because it’ll getmore traffic from beachgoers. Not to
mention, of course, that college studentsin school tend to be very frugal, but thosesame students — along with their friendsand significant others and parents andsiblings — will gladly spend moneywhile on vacation.
On the other hand, seasonal trafficmay not be as big of an issue in CollegePark, where we’ve got 26,000 year-roundresidents and hundreds of thousandsmore in surrounding towns who couldeat here when school’s out. And they do,to an extent. If you go to school here,don’t have a car and don’t feel like ex-ploring, Route 1 is about the only placewhere you can spend money. But ifyou’re from here, you’ve got choices —malls in Hyattsville and Greenbelt andmuch nicer malls in Silver Spring andBethesda, and so on. There you can haveyour burger and go buy a television or apair of shoes, or just people-watch. Indowntown College Park, you can have aburger, mosey on over to Cornerstoneand drink away the rest of your day. But
for the majority of post-graduate individ-uals, this is no way to live.
When Five Guys first opened, it hadone location in Arlington, Va., and itmade that city a destination for burgerfans. That’s what College Park needs — adestination that isn’t a football game. Ifwe want to ensure the economic healthof our local businesses, we need to diver-sify. That doesn’t just mean bringingback Curry Express. It means drawingbusinesses that sell televisions or shoesor something you can’t find anywhereelse, so when the university crowd goeson break, they can draw customers andcompete against the region’s other shop-ping destinations.
So is Five Guys here to stay? Maybe,but only if all the other vacancies in Col-lege Park aren’t filled by more burgerjoints.
Dan Reed is a senior architecture andEnglish major. He can be reached [email protected].
College Park: If you build it, they will come
The relationship between the university and its students is sometimesviewed in simplistic terms. Students fork over tuition, spend fouryears or so learning some things, get a diploma marking their aca-demic success (or at least their passing ability), and go off to do their
work in the world. But that relationship needs to be rethought. Learning should
not be a passive process, where students simply receive informa-tion from professors. The university should not be a place wherethe contemplative life is divorced from a life of purposefulaction. In that spirit, universities should not consider studentsas tuition checks and alumni donations; students are thelifeblood of the institution. As it continues to strive for excel-lence, the university has taken some steps to invest in students,and empower them to reshape the institution. This is a trendthat should be continued and expanded.
As part of a public art class, students created a five sculptures, now displayedacross the campus. The students received great benefits in creating a publicly dis-played sculpture, benefits that cannot be had through simply studying art his-
tory. In prominently displaying the sculptures, the university is doing more thanpublicly demonstrating its commitment to artistic pursuits; it is also endorsingthe work and skill of its students. Last year, an undergraduate history course wasdeveloped to investigate the role that slavery may have played in the university’shistory. It is an enormous demonstration of confidence for an institution to
entrust students with its history — with its very identity. This is the principle behind shared governance, having stu-dents play a role in the school’s administration, by serving inthe University Senate, on the Stamp Student Union AdvisoryBoard and the like. Students benefit from the experience,and from the responsibility, and the university has morebroadly based leadership with a better idea of the interestsand concerns of the student body. The university has workedhard to attract an increasingly bright and talented group of
25,000 undergraduates — they should invest in their development, and harnesstheir potential. This idea is important for the university to more fully realize andexpand, because, ultimately, it’s simply too big a place for administrators toachieve their vision on their own.
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Every time we visit my rela-tives in New York, my par-ents feel the need to takeme on their grade-school
tour. First, my dad shows us his oldelementary school. Then, my momshows us her middle school. “Theschool used to be this color,” he’llsay. “I used to play on the monkeybars over there,” she’ll say. It con-tinues, but I’ll spare you the addi-tional details.
But the more I thought about it,the more I realized the only way tosee change is to be removed fromsomething for a period of time.
It all started when I got home forThanksgiving.
Upon entering the house, mydog, as usual, went crazy. After afew minutes (OK, about 15 min-utes), he calmed down. At thatpoint, I looked down at him andimmediately noticed something.No, not the fact that he lives the lifeI want to live one day: He was get-ting gray! When I mentioned this to
my parents, they said they hadn’tnoticed. They are around my dogeveryday, and therefore, they did-n’t notice the incremental change.
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Iwent back to work at Costco. Dur-ing the past four months that I had-n’t worked, many products hadchanged, while others had differ-ent packaging. When I mentionedthis to some of my co-workers, theylooked at me like I was crazy — oneeven asked me how I could havepossibly noticed.
When you’re around somethingevery day, you don’t notice thechanges. But when you areremoved for a period of time, youappreciate it that much more.
We’re always going to notice thebig changes. For example, my firstnight home during Thanksgivingbreak, I was getting ready to go tobed when I entered the bathroomto brush my teeth. I immediatelyrealized we only had Crest tooth-paste.
I don’t know about you, but forme, the thought of switching tooth-paste is like our campus at night:scary.
All this talk of change got methinking: How much do we miss ona daily basis? Change happensslowly over time, but many times,we are too caught up in our ownlives to notice it. This holds true ona college campus, but it also holdstrue in the real world. Many par-ents coming through my checkoutline this past weekend at Costcoseemed more concerned with satis-fying the wants of their childrenthan enjoying the holiday season.Many of these parents will say,
“They grow up too fast,” butmaybe it’s the parents who aren’tnoticing the changes.
We often get too caught up inwhat’s due tomorrow or the mostrecent friend request on Facebookto notice the changes on the cam-pus and in the rest of society. Whenmy parents came to the campustwo weekends ago, they bothnoticed the half-complete KnightHall. I realized that I have passedby the building at least once a weekthe whole year, yet I had notthought twice about it up until thatpoint.
Before I left to come back to thecampus this past Sunday night, Ithought about visiting my old ele-mentary school — after all, it hasbeen more than 10 years since mylast visit.
Maybe next time.
Joel Cohen is a junior governmentand politics major. He can bereached at [email protected].
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DANREED
JOELCOHEN
This time, there was no ticker-tapeparade. The president did notaddress the nation; the soldiers didnot all come home; and the newspa-pers did not plaster their front pageswith bold-faced letters. But make nomistake about it: On ThanksgivingDay, the United States achieved amajor victory in the war on terror.
It is on that day that Iraq’s parlia-ment signed the Status of ForcesAgreement with the United States.The agreement declares that all U.S.troops will clear out of Iraqi cities byJune 30, 2009, and will leave thecountry entirely by Dec. 31, 2011.The SOFA must pass an Iraqi refer-endum by July 2009, but with Ameri-can soldiers out of Iraqi cities, it isunlikely the Iraqi people will voteagainst the measure.
And make no mistake about it, thisagreement would not be possiblewithout the blood, sweat and toil ofthe United States’ all-volunteer mili-tary. Since the war started in March2003, two presidents have beenelected, six Thanksgiving dinnershave been served, and four generalshave been in charge. The mostrecent general to command theMulti-National Force-Iraq was Gen.David H. Petraeus. Replaced in Sep-tember by Gen. Raymond Odierno,Petraeus changed what was sure tobe a losing war into a winning one.
In fact, Petraeus inherited such abad situation in Iraq that in April2007 — less than three months intoPetraeus’ command— Senate Major-ity Leader Harry Reid declared, “Ibelieve ... that this war is lost, andthis surge is not accomplishing any-thing.”
The truth, however, is much morecomforting. Since October of lastyear, civilian casualties havedecreased by 76 percent, high-pro-file attacks have decreased by 70percent and ethno-sectarian violencehas gone down 96 percent, accordingto the White House. Not bad for awar we’d already lost. Meanwhile,our soldiers are already starting tocome home. All five brigade combatteams from the surge have returned,along with two Marine battalions, aMarine Expeditionary Unit andthousands of soldiers from othercoalition countries.
So why is the signing of the SOFAsuch a significant achievement? Itrepresents the beginning of the endof the war in Iraq and an end inwhich the United States emerges vic-torious. In April 2007, when the Sen-ate was embroiled in a debate to fundthe war, the Democrats wanted fund-ing tied to a timeline for withdrawal,while the Republicans wanted anydecision on withdrawal based uponconditions on the ground. With thesigning of the SOFA, the Democratsand Republicans both get what theywanted: a timeline for withdrawalthat is based upon conditions on theground. For the first time since thebeginning of the war, the security sit-uation in Iraq can allow U.S. troopsto come home without severely jeop-ardizing the country’s future as ademocratic nation. In short, victoryis at hand.
The SOFA with Iraq is the culmi-nation of a president who refused toaccept defeat, a general who saw thepath to victory and a military that didwhatever it was asked and more. AsTeddy Roosevelt said, “It is onlythrough labor and painful effort, bygrim energy and resolute courage,that we move on to better things.”This Thanksgiving, the United Stateshas good reason to give thanks.We’re moving on to better things.
Ned Curry is a junior governmentand politics major. He can bereached at [email protected].
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Born today, you aren’t thekind to give without re-ceiving in return, andyou’re not the kind to love
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You are able to shift gears andturn on a dime, and if it meansthat you are criticized for seeminginconsistency, so be it. You under-stand that what you do you do foryou alone; the perceptions of oth-ers do not matter much to you,whether they are positive or nega-tive.
Also born on this date are: HollyMarie Combs, actress; Daryl Han-nah, actress; Julianne Moore, ac-tress; Ozzy Osbourne, rocker andreality-TV personality; AndyWilliams, singer; Bobby Allison,auto racer.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —You mustn’t impose your ex-pectations on those who are notwilling to play along. You mayhave to go it alone, if necessary.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Animportant though cloudy issueis likely to be cleared up beforethe day is out. A friend or lovedone may have a bone to pickwith you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —Appearance is not as importantas function. Be sure that you doyour job; how you look doing itis only a passing concern.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Majorrewards are in the offing for theone who steps forward andtakes charge. Do you have whatit takes to be a leader?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Thisis no time to let yourself getcaught up in a cause that does-n’t involve your family. Your at-tention must be on loved ones.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Whatyou don’t say can prove farmore important than anythingyou do say — and people will belistening for what you leave out.
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FLEET FOXES’ “BLUE RIDGEMOUNTAINS” (LIVE FROM THEBASEMENT)Nigel Godrich is the man. When theunofficial sixth member of Radiohead isn’tproducing Beck, Paul McCartneyor In Rainbows, he’s invitingbands over to play in hisbasement. From theBasement, Godrich’sonline and IndependentFilm Channel show,features studio-like liveperformances producedby the man himself. Anew season kicks off nextyear, but Godrich put up a fewclips as a primer. The standout isFleet Foxes’ serene “Blue Ridge Mountains,”which sounds as polished as ever throughGodrich’s ears.
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BYLAURENCOHENFor The Diamondback
When it comes to inspiration,Towson-based band Fire In TheHole finds it in one another.
“We all feed off each other’s en-ergy really, really well,” lead gui-tarist Michael Klicos said.
Klicos and drummer BrianSturgeon both attend the universi-ty, while bassist Tim Davis and
keyboardist Matt Rampolla bothattend Towson University. Leadsinger and guitarist Zach Cum-mins has a full-time job androunds out the five-piece band,which plays Santa Fe Cafe tonight.
The band released its first full-length album, Love and Malice, onNov. 21 — a six-month-long studioeffort that cost the band more than$10,000 to create. To finance thealbum, the guys borrowed from
friends and family in addition to put-ting a lot of their own money into it.
“I think after our CD release,we’ve paid everyone else but our-selves back,” said Sturgeon, a jun-ior communication major.
The album’s release is just onepart of Fire In The Hole’seventful year, which in-cluded playing somebigger shows, suchas Towson’s annualTigerfest, wherethe band openedfor The Roots, Im-mortal Techniqueand The Calling.
“About a year ago,we decided to starttaking it really seriously,so we got the right people inthe band who are all on the samepage, everybody who really want-ed to take it seriously and take itfurther, and ever since then, thingshave been going so well for us,”Sturgeon said.
As far as music goes, Sturgeonsaid each band member’s person-al preferences contribute to FireIn The Hole’s sound.
“That’s one thing about our band— there’s five of us, and we’re allfive completely different in musi-cal interests, musical tastes, musi-
cal styles,” Sturgeon said.Sturgeon said he classifies the
band’s sound as “rock ‘n’ roll witha psychedelic twist.” Personally,he’s into keeping up with currenttrends, while Klicos said he drawsfrom heavy metal and classic rock.
Sturgeon said you’ll findthis range of musical
preferences in Loveand Malice.
“The one thingwe tried to do iswe made all thesongs as intricateas we could, andwe spent a lot of
time on everylayer, but we made
the lyrics and the vo-cals approachable so that
people that don’t really have awhole lot of knowledge, or wealthof knowledge of music, could stillget into it,” Sturgeon said.
If Fire In The Hole conveys anysort of message, it seems to centeraround one thing in particular:having a good time.
“Our lyrics are not like, ‘breakup with your boyfriend and thenlisten to our song,’” Sturgeon said.“Our music is like, ‘drink a lot andput our music on.’”
“It’s just fun music, you know?”Klicos, a junior economics and in-ternational business major, said.
“Yeah, it’s heavy, and it’s upbeat,but it’s not dark,” Sturgeon added.“It’s like feel-good rock ‘n’ roll.”
The desire for fun is somethingnot only found in their music but inreal life, as well.
“We have the best time withjust the five of us; no one else un-derstands, but that’s fine,” Stur-geon said.
As for goals, Sturgeon has aclear idea of what he would like tohave happen.
“I hope that everything keepssnowballing in enough time thatwe can finish our degrees and getout of college and have that behindus and then right then, the day wegraduate, start a tour,” he said. “Sothat in the event that we don’t havethat forever, you know — even thebiggest bands don’t last that longanymore — that we still havesomething to go back on.”
Fire In The Hole performstonight at Santa Fe Cafe. Coveris $5.
Boys just wanna have funINTERVIEW | FIRE IN THE HOLE
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Heroes needs a saviorCOLUMN | THE TELEVISIONARY
After a stellar start, NBC’s Heroes has tapered off into faulty storylines
“Villains,” the third volume of the NBC sci-fi drama,Heroes, is hurtling toward a stunning conclusion. Injust five days, we will finally learn whether anyone canthwart the evil Arthur Petrelli (Robert Forster) andsave the world from his grasp.
It’s all very exciting — or it would be, if the show wasstill worth watching.
Two years removed from the magic of its grippingfirst season, Heroeshas lost its touch with audiences andcritics alike. The series’s initial volume used a balancedcombination of character-driven episodes and mind-blowing plot twists to garner both high ratings and a 2007Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama Series.
Time travel, flashbacks and intersecting plotthreads meticulously built toward an intense finalethat year. The program’s comic book roots gave He-roesa distinctive style, and who could forget the popu-lar slogan, “Save the Cheerleader. Save the World.”But this season — which is split into two volumes, titled“Villains” and “Fugitives” — hardly resembles thatstellar first campaign.
The decline for Heroes started last fall, with itsstrike-shortened second season. The show’s writersrelegated enthusiastic time-bender Hiro Nakamura(Masi Oka) and murderous villain Sylar (ZacharyQuinto) to underwhelming subplots, while far less in-teresting characters took center stage.
Crucial scenes filling the gaps between volumes oneand two were held until late in the season, leaving viewerssimply baffled for many of the episodes. With too muchgoing on at once — a problem Heroeshas had since dayone but gotten away with in the past — the show deterio-rated into little more than a convoluted mess.
Even creator Tim Kring recognized Heroes was inthe middle of a major downward spiral. Returning tothe show after limited involvement during season two,he pegged the third volume as the program’s tri-umphant comeback. Although “Villains” has been aslight improvement from that second volume, “Gener-ations,” Heroes is still a far cry from the suspenseful
storytelling of its mysterious first season.Nothing can make a good show grow tiresome faster
than overusing old plot devices, and Heroes certainlyshows this to be true. Every season to date has fol-lowed the same formula — Hiro and Peter Petrelli (theangsty Milo Ventimiglia) go to the future, see whatwould happen if a certain crisis isn’t prevented andthen go back in time to save the world.
It’s the same exact story — again and again. Sadly,that is just the start of Heroes’ many frustrating narra-tive missteps. For one, the fact that both Hiro and Petercan freeze time creates an unfathomable number ofplot holes, and finally made the writers take away theirpowers. And apparently, whenever Kring decides theyneed to inject a little shock value, the show finds twocharacters who aren’t family and reveals — gasp! —that they’re related.
Heroeshas also struggled with finding its focus dur-ing the last two seasons, wasting time introducing aslew of thoroughly forgettable characters (Caitlin,Monica, West, Alejandro and Maya, just to name afew), only to awkwardly cut their arcs short.
Heroes mainstays, meanwhile, have been workingwith subpar material for a while now. In “Villains,”Sylar’s tumultuous redemption storyline feels pre-dictable, forced and tedious, while Suresh’s (Sendhil Ra-
mamurthy) sudden turn to evil came across as com-pletely implausible. As if those ridiculous plot threadsweren’t bad enough, a romance blossoming betweenElle (Kristen Bell) and Sylar — just days after he mur-dered her father — is so absurd, words can’t do it justice.
Though seemingly no one was safe from the GrimReaper during the first volume, the show has monoto-nously continued with all of its regular cast memberssince then. Just to ensure they completely take awayany semblance of true life-and-death stakes, the writ-ers have pretended to kill off pretty much every maincharacter by now.
While Niki Sanders actually did die in the season twofinale, Heroesbrought back actress Ali Larter as — getthis — her newly discovered twin sister. Once a heavy-weight on the primetime drama scene, Heroescurrent-ly has the plot developments of an afternoon soap opera.
Nowadays, only three things have made it worthflipping to NBC on Monday nights at 9 p.m.: HaydenPanettierre, Brea Grant and Bell. And if you’re a girl —or a guy who hates beautiful women for some reason— even they probably won’t do it.
Interestingly enough, it’s now Heroes that’s in needof saving. Go figure.
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1999, the Terps have never lostany of the event’s games whenplaying at home (4-0), as theywill be doing tonight at theComcast Center. Michigan,meanwhile, is below .500 onthe road (1-2).
During that nine-yearperiod, the Michigan basket-ball program has struggled,but with Beilein — who previ-ously had great success at WestVirginia — in his second yearat the helm, the Wolverineslook to be turning a corner.
So far this year, sophomoreManny Harris has been one ofthe top guards in the nation,averaging 22.3 points, 8.0rebounds and 4.2 assists pergame against quality competi-tion (Michigan lost to then-No.10 Duke, in addition to playingUCLA). Like Terps guardGreivis Vasquez, Harris leadshis team in all those categories,in addition to steals.
Another similarity to theTerps is Michigan’s immediateproduction from the bench.Like Bowie, Wolverine for-ward DeShawn Sims (15.2ppg) is his team’s second-lead-ing scorer despite never hav-ing started this season.
“He’s not just a post playerat 6-8, he’s a good 3-pointshooter,” Williams said. “Inoticed when they were down20 to Savannah State at half-time, Sims did start the sec-ond half.”
The Wolverines pulled outthat win against SavannahState, but it took overtime to doso, proving that inconsistencyruns in their blood as well.
But after a disappointingperformance in their finalgame at the Old Spice Classic,the Terps seem more con-cerned with themselves thantheir next opponent. The teamwatched plenty of game filmfrom Sunday so they couldhone in on their recent imper-
fections.Williams said he was pleased
with the way his teamresponded in practice Monday,as he emphasized the point ofball movement to his team.
“You’re gonna get good shotsif the ball moves, no matterhow good the other team’sdefense is,” Williams said.“That’s what we’re going tohave to do better againstMichigan.”
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Guard Adrian Bowie is the Terps’ second leading scorer so far this season, despite his role as the team’s sixth man.Similarly, Michigan’s second leading scorer, DeShawn Sims, doesn’t start either. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps have never lost home gamein the Big Ten-ACC ChallengeMICHIGAN, from Page 10 “You’re going to get
good shots if theball moves, nomatter how goodthe other team’sdefense is.”
GARY WILLIAMSMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH
Thanks to a rule thatallows bowls to choose anybowl-eligible team pro-vided it is within one con-ference victory of theremaining team with thehighest conference-wintotal, the ACC bowls will beable to select any of theconference’s nine remain-ing bowl-eligible teams.
With 10 eligible teamsand only nine bowl games,the Terps could, but likelywon’t, be the odd team out.But that doesn’t make theirsituation any less disap-pointing.
“Right now, we don’thave a whole lot of choice,”coach Ralph Friedgen said.“We’ll go where we have togo. If we won [Saturday],we would’ve had a lot bet-ter options.”
The Terps are tied withClemson, Wake Forest, N.C.State, North Carolina andMiami with four confer-ence wins, but theydefeated the Tigers, DemonDeacons, Tar Heels andWolfpack during the regu-lar season and didn’t playthe Hurricanes. So, theTerps could have an argu-ment as the fifth- or sixth-place team — behind thefour with five wins — in theconference, but bowl com-mittees will have their pickas to who they consider themost attractive teams.
Once the Chik-fil-A,Gator and Champs Sportsbowls make their likelyselections from the remain-ing five-win teams, theTerps could end up any-where from the Humanitar-ian Bowl in Boise, Idaho, tothe Music City Bowl inNashville, Tenn. In anycase, there are a number ofpotential scenarios.
The most intriguing is apotential matchup betweenthe Terps and rival WestVirginia in the Meineke CarCare Bowl in Charlotte,
N.C. The Meineke Car CareBowl receives the thirdselection of Big East teams— the Mountaineers arecurrently tied with Pitts-burgh and Rutgers at 4-2 inconference play, behindonly conference-championCincinnati — and will workwith the Emerald andMusic City bowls to deter-mine which ACC teams gowhere. Bowl games typi-cally prefer teams that fin-ish the season strong, butthe prospect of a rivalrygame could give the Terpsa needed boost after losingtheir final two games.
“That would be a veryattractive game,” said WillWebb, executive director ofthe Meineke Car Care Bowl.“A big rivalry, I think thatwould be a good game. Ithink the matchup with WestVirginia would be somethingthat would help fans over-come [the two losses].”
Another interesting sce-nario would be if the Terpswere to fall to the Eagle-Bank Bowl, which selectsninth. Navy is alreadyslated to play in the Eagle-Bank Bowl, and a matchupbetween two Marylandteams in the nation’s capitalcould be quite a local draw.
“It would be fantastic —I’m a huge Maryland fan,”said Steve Beck, executivedirector of the EagleBankBowl. “It would be thehardest ticket to come bysince the Redskins playedat RFK [Stadium].”
But the EagleBank Bowlis the earliest bowl game onthe schedule, played Dec.
20, the last day of finalsweek at the university.While the Terps, who wouldneed to practice in theweek leading up towhichever bowl they playin, would like to avoid play-ing so early, it remainsunclear what they woulddecide if the EagleBankBowl were their onlyoption.
If such a scenario pre-sented itself, the Terpscould have the option torefuse the EagleBank Bowl— or any other ACC bowl —and hope for an at-large bidin one of the smaller, non-ACC bowls. There areseven bids to smaller bowlgames with affiliations toconferences that do nothave enough bowl-eligibleteams. For instance, theIndependence Bowl willhave two at-large spotsbecause neither the SECnor Big 12 have enoughbowl-eligible teams to send.
Also unclear is whichteams will be available forthe Music City, Emeraldand Meineke Car Carebowls to negotiate over. Theerratic Terps will almostcertainly be one of them,and the Emerald Bowl, inwhich the Terps played lastyear, is unlikely to selectthem again, so their mostlikely destinations are theMusic City, Meineke CarCare or Humanitarianbowls.
But with every eligibleACC team up for grabs, thelower bowls are forced towait until the larger bowlshave made selectionsbefore they can review theremaining crop of teams.
“We can’t do anythingbefore the four primaryteams are gone,” Webb said.“We’re playing wait and seeat this point. We’ll see who’savailable and whatmatchups we could have andthen go from there.”
BOWLS, from Page 1
Bowls waiting rightalongside Terps
“Right now, wedon’t have a wholelot of choice. We’llgo where we haveto go.”
RALPH FRIEDGENFOOTBALL COACH
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Terps on the runWomen’s basketball team is as athletic as ever this year
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
It’s not every day a Ter-rapin women’s basketballplayer will admit a playeron this year’s team is doingsomething better than for-mer frontcourt stars Crys-tal Langhorne and LauraHarper.
To veteran Marissa Cole-man, the combination offreshman center LynettaKizer and junior collegetransfer forward DemauriaLiles already have a leg upon Langhorne and Harper,both now in the WNBA, in atleast one facet of the game.
“No knock to Lang orHarp, but Dee — her ath-leticism, the way she canget down the floor. AndLynetta gets down the floorgreat,” Coleman said. “Idefinitely think we havepotential to be a better tran-sition team than last year.”
It’s a strong statementfrom the senior forward,who played three seasonsand won a national champi-onship with Langhorne andHarper. But so far, fellowsenior Kristi Toliver, whostarts most of the No. 8Terps’ fast break opportuni-ties, said she has seen thesame development.
“This is probably themost athletic group thatI’ve played with here,”Toliver said. “It’s going tobe really fun, especially as apoint guard, to have an ath-letic team that loves to getdown the floor.”
Toliver, who looks to pushthe tempo whenever possi-ble, has mentioned howexcited she is about thetransition opportunitiesLiles and Kizer can provideseveral times already thisseason.
And while the fast breaknumbers haven’t been eye-catching as of yet, there is a
noticeable feeling withinthe team that the transitiongame is going to distinguishthis year’s Terps (6-1) fromlast season’s Elite 8 squad.
“We’re still looking forimprovement in that area,”coach Brenda Frese said. “Ido think Lynetta and Deerun the floor probably thebest we’ve had here. But I’dlike to see us get more easytransition opportunities, andI think as the season unfoldswe should be able to.”
It’s not as if the fast
break game was rare whenLanghorne and Harperwere around. Both regu-larly got down the floor foreasy layups on assists fromToliver, Coleman and theteam’s other guards. ButLiles in particular has thepotential to bring theTerps’ transition game toanother level.
In the Terps’ Nov. 20 winagainst James Madison,Liles showed her athleti-cism by jumping a passinglane for a steal and drib-
bling past everyone on herway to an open reverselayup opportunity in theTerps’ first defensivesequence. In other games,she has blocked an oppo-nents’ shot, then beat theperson she was guardingdown to the other end of thecourt, giving the Terpssomething a lot of teamsdon’t have.
“She’s phenomenal,”Frese said. “She’s off thechart in terms of her ath-leticism, and she runs thefloor like a guard, so it def-initely gives matchup night-mares for other teams.”
Kizer, who made it knownbefore the season startedshe was a more transition-oriented player than herfrontcourt predecessors,has done an effective jobfinishing several fast breaklayups.
But even Kizer has praisefor her fellow big.
“Dee is like a jackrabbit,”Kizer said. “She just takesoff, and once she goes I justfeed off of her energy, sowe’re doing a lot better jobgetting up and down thefloor just to keep that fast-pace game that we havehere at Maryland.”
But Kizer admitted bothshe and Liles must continueto get better at finishingfast break plays in order toback up their veteran team-mates’ bold statements.
“I think that’s one thingthat me and [Liles] areworking on right now,”Kizer said. “We’re improv-ing. We’re getting betterright now.”
Forward Demauria Liles has wowed her teammates with herspectacular athleticism. She is a standout in a Terp frontcourtthat can really run the floor this year. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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might be needed as theTerps continue their run tothe College Cup with theirquarterfinal matchupagainst Creighton on Satur-day afternoon.
“I’m feeling a lot better,”Kassel said. “I’m comingback and I’m progressing.I’m just trying to get betterfor game time [Saturday].”
Kassel is back practicingwith the team full time,though Marchiano stillstarted the Terps’ gameagainst Cal.
CREIGHTON’S ODD SEEDThe Terps’ opponent Sat-
urday, Creighton, wasranked No. 2 in the finalNSCAA/Adidas poll behindWake Forest and only lostonce this season. But fortheir efforts, the Blue Jayswere awarded the No. 7seed in the NCAA Tourna-ment, meaning they have toget past the No. 2-seedTerps in College Park to
win the region and advanceto the College Cup.
One of the reasons forthat demotion was the BlueJays’ schedule. Creightondidn’t have many opportu-nities to beat top-flightteams in the Missouri Val-ley Conference, and as aresult, their pre-conferencetournament RPI was 10th inthe nation. The Terps hadthe No. 4 RPI in the coun-try.
But Cirovski wasn’t dis-suaded by those numberswhile talking aboutCreighton yesterday. Undercoach Bob Warming, theBlue Jays have become oneof the nation’s soccer pow-ers and have been in thepast 15 NCAA tournaments.
“I think they have somesimilarities to us and theyhave a great pedigree,”Cirovski said. “You look attheir history they’re one ofthe top programs of the last15 years.”
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Defensive midfielder Matt Kassel has seen limited action butshould be back for Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Kassel’s return helpsTerps on set pieces
10 THE DIAMONDBACK | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
SportsMen’s soccer NCAA tournament quarterfinals*No. 8-seed South Florida 22-1-1No. 1-seed Wake Forest 15-4-3
Unseeded Northwestern 15-4-3No. 13-seed North Carolina 13-7-1
No. 6-seed Indiana 14-6-3No. 3-seed St. John’s 18-2-3
No. 7-seed Creighton 18-1-2No. 2-seed TERRAPINS 20-3-0
*all games to be played Saturday on higher seed’s home field
TERRAPIN MEN’S SOCCER NOTEBOOK
Gonzalez named Hermann semifinalistBY AARON KRAUT
Senior staff writer
Last Saturday’s 2-1 winagainst California wasn’t theonly accomplishment of theday for Terrapin men’s soccerdefender Omar Gonzalez.
The 6-foot-5 center back wasnamed one of 15 MAC Her-mann Trophy semifinalists forcollege soccer’s player of theyear. The junior from Dallashas been a solid part of theTerps’ at times dominantdefensive unit. He’s also usedhis unique skill set as a con-verted forward to score fivegoals and record one assist onthe year, including the firstgoal in the round-of-16 winagainst Cal.
“It’s a real prestigiousaward,” Gonzalez said. “Iknow the last [Terp] that madeit to the semifinal was StephenKing, and he was one of ourbig-time players, and I feel agreat honor to be on that samecaliber. But I’m really happy tobe a Terp and make it to thesemifinals.”
King was named a semifi-nalist last season. But he was amidfielder and had moreopportunities to score — and tomake an impact on the trophycommittee.
“Naturally, those awardstypically go to attacking play-ers,” coach Sasho Cirovskisaid. “It’s a tremendous honorfor him and for our program.We’ve constantly been able toput a guy into that list of hon-orees, and we’ve got somefuture ones on the team too.”
Gonzalez was named 2007ACC Defensive Player of theYear, an award which WakeForest defender Ike Oparawon this season, but continuedto improve his game.
“He’s improved every year,and I think he’s one of the top
players in college soccer,”Cirovski said. “He’s just adominant player. His gamehas matured on the field, andhe as a person has matured offthe field. And you’re seeing agreat progression of a bigtime player.”
KASSEL RETURNSMidfielder Matt Kassel
finally returned to action inthe second half of Saturday’sgame against Cal after sittingout three games with a rightfoot contusion he sufferedearly in the Terps’ Nov. 12 ACCtournament quarterfinal winagainst North Carolina.
The freshman, who has
recorded seven assists thisyear mostly on set pieces,played just over 12 minutesand was replaced by defenderKevin Tangney for defensivepurposes as the Terps tried tohold on to their 2-1 lead.
While senior captainMichael Marchiano hasstepped into the starting roleat defensive midfield that Kas-sel held all season and per-formed well, Kassel’s ability
Junior Omar Gonzalez, who won ACC Defensive Player of the Year lastseason, was named a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy givento the top player in the country. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
2008MEN’S SOCCER
Terp bigmen Braxton Dupree (left) and Jerome Burney (right) will take on a Michigan team that playsan odd 1-3-1 zone defense that makes ball movement crucial. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Michigan D will be toughBY MARK SELIG
Senior staff writer
Against Georgetown onSunday, the Terrapin men’sbasketball team scored 48points, its lowest offensiveoutput since 1995. CoachGary Williams said hisplayers were selfish withthe ball from the onset, andthe lack of teamwork wasresponsible for the Terps’moribund 31.6 percentshooting from the field.
Tonight in the ACC-BigTen Challenge, the Terpsoffense may need to rely onlast game’s deficiencies —ball movement and shooting— more than usual, as atricky 1-3-1 zone defensefrom John Beilein’s Michi-gan Wolverines (5-1) awaits.
“It’s something you don’tsee every game, probably
the only 1-3-1 we’ll see allyear,” guard Eric Hayessaid. “They’re prettyaggressive. We saw UCLAhad a lot of trouble withthat, so that’s something weneed to work on.”
The Wolverine defense hasheld opponents to 57.8 pointsper game this season andhelped Michigan key a 55-52upset victory over then-No. 4UCLA two weeks ago.
To beat a zone defenselike Beilein’s 1-3-1, it is cru-cial that the offense movesthe basketball crisply andquickly in order to keepdefenders a step behind.But that’s merely step one.If the Terps shooters obtaingood looks, they must con-vert their shots — some-thing they failed to do withthe few open chances theyhad against Georgetown.
“That’s a concern for us;we’ve been shooting the ballfrom the outside, not very[well],” Hayes said.
“If we can’t knock downshots, they’re going to stay intheir zone the whole game,”guard Adrian Bowie said.
Since the ACC-Big TenChallenge’s inception in
Terps vs. MichiganWhere: Comcast Center
When: Tonight, 7:30 p.m.TV: ESPN
Wolverines beat then-No. 4 UCLA earlier this season
Please See MICHIGAN, Page 8
Please See NOTEBOOK, Page 9