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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 98TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 99THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
THE DIAMONDBACK
SENIOR SIGNOFFForward Harper finishing
illustrious career with TerpsSPORTS | PAGE 10
A FAILED HEISTAs a crime caper, The Bank Job leaves
too many loose endsDIVERSIONS | PAGE 10
SGA considers pay for president‘Only the wealthy can run for this position,’ Friedson says of top student government post
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
The SGA proposed two bills lastnight that would provide futureSGA presidents with a yearlystipend and expense account, inorder to make the position more
accessible to economically-chal-lenged students.
The bill — which will provide theStudent Government Associationpresident with a maximum of$4,000 a year and a reimbursementsystem for expenses — wouldn’t bethe first time SGA members were
paid for their services. All SGAmembers were paid until 2004,when the organization removed thepay scale, with the justificationthat the presidency should be a vol-unteer position.
SGA President Andrew Fried-son said the money is necessary to
level the playing field for studentsinterested in the position. As presi-dent, Friedson claims to havespent at least $1,200 in travelexpenses alone from his trips toAnnapolis and Washington D.C.,
SGA getscloser tokey voteCommittee votes to
support Campus DriveBY MARISSA LANG
Staff writer
The SGA appeared poised last night topass a resolution expressing support for aCampus Drive route for the planned Pur-ple Line transitway, despite contentiousdebate about language in the document.
The resolution, which is scheduled for avote next week, chronicles the progress ofthe Purple Line issue and concludes withthe Student Government Association’ssupport of putting the light rail tracksalong Campus Drive. State transportationplanners have urged the SGA to support aCampus Drive route and have planned forthe train to stop at Stamp Student Union.
Much of the debate last night centeredon how explicit or concise the resolutionshould be, with Matt Verghese, the resolu-tion’s key sponsor, facing off against SGASenior Vice President Brad Docherty.Docherty and Verghese ultimately backeddown, and Docherty told legislators, “Ithink it’s time for us to pass a bill.”
Verghese also agreed to back away fromdebate, saying, “This bill could die today,and I don’t want that.”
The resolution made it out of the Cam-pus Affairs Committee with seven of eightmembers voting in favor of the CampusDrive alignment. One member of the com-mittee favored an alignment that wouldhave run along Preinkert Drive, the com-mittee report shows, but the memberabstained from voting. Committee reports
Council hasissues with
new housingDevelopers have eye onbuilding’s green design
BY BRADY HOLTStaff writer
The exterior design ofa new Route 1 housingcomplex slated to go upnext to the College ParkCar Wash has sparkedthe latest debate over thelong-embattled project.
Tuesday, developerMukesh Majmudar andtwo of his architectsshowed renderings of theproposed StarViewPlaza, an angular, glass-covered-five-story build-ing set close to the roadand equipped with athree-level underground parking garage.
Majmudar said the unique design isintended to be environmentally friendly,but his plans are clashing with some tasteson the College Park City Council and a cityordinance that mandates extensive use ofbrick in Route 1 facades.
The disagreement is once more puttingthe project’s schedule in doubt, six yearsafter development on the site was firstproposed and in the midst of a severe on-campus housing shortage.
The design team is asking the city towaive the brick requirement so it can keepon schedule to open by fall 2009.
“There’s a mandate for 75 percentADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACK
Forward James Gist and his father celebrate his career on Senior Night last Sunday.
Terps’ Gist has embraced leadership roleBY ANDREW ZUCKERMAN
Senior staff writer
About 30 hours before the Ter-rapin men’s basketball teamfaced Clemson, the players werehanging out in the locker roomwatching the halftime show dur-ing a game between Duke andN.C. State.
The show consisted almostentirely of NCAA Tournamenttalk, specifically about the bubbleteams. The Terps were one ofthose teams in the discussion, andthe players started talking aboutwhich other teams were in andwhich other teams were out. Butthen, senior forward James Gistdelivered a message to his team-
mates — a message no one elsecould have delivered at thatmoment.
Gist relayed how tough it wasnot to see “Maryland” pop up onthe bracket during his freshmanand sophomore years. The Terpsdid not make the NCAA Tourna-ment those two years and insteadended up in the NIT.
“Watching Selection Sundayand not seeing your name pickedis an absolutely terrible feeling,”senior swingman Jason McAlpinsaid. “He just reiterated that andwants to make sure everybodyleaves it on the court.”
Gist is the only fourth-year sen-
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ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKJunior English and theatre major Benji Fogelman dramatizes the university’s reaction to last semester’s Nyumburu noose incident during a performance last night of a play hewrote. Fogelman said he came up with the idea for a play because “when this happened I was like, ‘I dont want to sit here anymore and not do anything.”
EXAMINING THE AFTERMATH OF HATEBY KRISTI TOUSIGNANT
Senior staff writer
Anoose hanging outside the NyumburuCultural Center last September con-jured memories of hate and remindedthe campus that its best efforts to cre-
ate unity weren’t always enough. It incitedrage, confusion and an newfound urgency to
promote tolerance on the campus.Five months later, many of the same ques-
tions leaders posed to packed student rallies inresponse to the noose still remain in the air. Butwith a series of monologues entitled “White-wash,” senior Benji Fogelman looked foranswers.
“When this happened I was like, ‘I don’t wantto sit here anymore and not do anything,’” said
Fogelman, the play’s lead actor and writer.The 20-minute play featured seven charac-
ters raging from a white, male college studentto an aging civil rights activist professor to aoverly exuberant spokesman, all approachingthe noose from different angles.
Based off a series of interviews Fogelman
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Please See SGA, Page 2
Please See STARVIEW, Page 3
Please See WHITEWASH, Page 3
Stephanie Stullich,a District 3
council member,said the proposal
was ‘ugly’
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Renowned Painter Jo Smail to LectureArtist and professor of painting at the MICA will givea lecture about her work, 5 p.m., Art & Sociology
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We had a six-and-a-half hour car ride today,but by far, the most remarkable thing said camea few minutes ago inside the media dining room.
Deputy sports editor Adi Joseph made thetrip instead of our regulars Mark Selig and Gere-my Bass. His presence has already been felt.
After downing two monster-sized chili-cheese dogs, Adi proclaims, “I wish I hadn’teaten lunch,” he said referring to the Wendy’sBaconator he ate around 1:30 p.m. “I wouldhave had room for three, maybe four, of these.”
Thankfully for myself and photographerAdam Fried, it’s fast food the rest of the trip,and we don’t have to see Adi attempt to downfour chili dogs.
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Reporter downs twochili cheese dogs.Asks for more.Andrew Zuckerman
Chesapeake Fund won’t restore bay andmay be cut, senators warn
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Grim outlook for a new$50 million fund aimed at stepping up cleanupefforts for the Chesapeake Bay — Marylandsenators working on a spending plan for thefund say it won’t be enough to restore theChesapeake and may be cut anyway.
Senators agreed unanimously Wednes-day to a preliminary spending plan for the$50 million they set aside last fall afteryears of warnings from scientists that stateefforts to improve water quality in the pol-luted Chesapeake weren’t nearly enough torevive the estuary.
But even as senators signed off on a spend-ing plan for the additional money, sponsorsgave a grim outlook for what the fund woulddo.
“It would take 100 years at $50 million ayear to clean up the bay,” said Sen. Paul Pinsky(D-Prince George’s) who presented thespending plan that would direct all the moneyto a BayStat agency Gov. Martin O’Malley setup to coordinate Chesapeake restorationefforts.
— Compiled from wire reports
BRIEFS
SGA stance could impact administration
JACLYN BOROWSKI–THE DIAMONDBACKSaladworks in the Stamp Student Union.
TOSS THIS
do not include names of mem-bers.
The SGA remains the onlymajor student group that hasnot voted on a resolution re-garding the alignment of thePurple Line, which has becomeone of the most controversial is-sues to face the university thisyear.
The Graduate Student Gov-ernment and the ResidenceHall Association have both sup-ported Maryland Transit Ad-ministration’s proposed Cam-pus Drive alignment of the Pur-ple Line, which would allowStamp Student Union to remainthe transportation hub and cen-ter of campus life in the future.
SGA President AndrewFriedson said while other stu-dent organizations have at-
tempted to influence the state’sfinal decision on the alignmentby taking official stances, theSGA has been working hard be-hind the scenes with the admin-istration to reach a decision.
“There was some seriouspushing for the administrationto come up with a more realis-tic alternative,” he said.
While the administration hadbeen opposed to the entire ideaof bringing a new above-ground transitway to the cam-pus at first, they are now at thepoint of deciding where to putit, Friedson said.
University President DanMote’s position on the issue haschanged multiple times, how-ever. The third alignment theuniversity has introducedwould run along PreinkertDrive on South Campus. Motehas asserted that the Purple
Line would destroy the naturalbeauty of the campus and posesafety issues to pedestrians.
Verghese’s resolution, how-ever, points out that a transitstation on Campus Drive“would be convenient for allguests and members of the uni-versity community.”
Friedson said he hopes theresolution could have an im-pact on the way the administra-tion views the issue.
“If this resolution getspassed, we are in the best posi-tion to negotiate with the ad-ministration because we havetaken the longest time to con-sider the issue,” Friedson said.
Ann Wylie, Mote’s chief ofstaff, disputed Friedson’s claim,however, saying the SGA reso-lution would have zero impacton the university’s stance onthe issue.
“We’re not going to changeour position,” she said.
Although an MTA represen-tative was unavailable whencalled for comment, Friedsonsaid the support of the SGA onthe issue will be importantwhen the state makes a final de-cision on where the line will beplaced.
“The SGA is elected to repre-sent more people than anygroup, other than perhaps citycouncil,” he said. “That has im-pact no matter what.”
The MTA will present all op-tions to Secretary of Trans-portation John Porcari, whowill then make a decision re-garding its alignment, trans-portation officials have said.
Introducing a resolution onthe issue is only the first stephowever, and the Purple Linewill not face construction for
years, long after members ofthe SGA have come and gone.
The resolution makes note ofthis future uncertainty by pro-viding a provision that allowsthe SGA to change their stanceon the issue.
“This support may be recon-sidered in the future only if newinformation becomes avail-able,” the resolution states.
The resolution will face avote next week, with a 60-minute debate allotted to nego-tiate issues in terms of wording,though the position of the or-ganization appears to be clear,Verghese said.
“I’m very hopeful aboutthis resolution gettingpassed,” he said. “I reallythink it will be, in an almostunanimous vote.”
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BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
The university braced itself forcolossal rains Tuesday night. Butthe researchers at the College ofChemical and Life Sciencescould rest assured their labs andequipment were safe from flashflood.
It hasn’t always been that way. Engineers this week are put-
ting the finishing touches on a$2.75 million renovation to the
storm water system on CampusDrive. School officials say the im-provements will help avert thekind of multi-million dollar dis-aster that befell the fledgling Bio-science Research Building in2006 when flooding stalled thebuilding’s opening by almost ayear.
For researchers, it’s a chanceto breathe a little easier.
“It has big psychological im-pact,” said David Dalo, directorof facilities for the College of
Chemical and Life Sciences.“The fear was always therewhen the forecast called forheavy rains.”
The new drainage pipes havealready been installed, and Di-rector of the Department of Ar-chitecture, Engineering andConstruction Carlo Colella saidworkers should finish coveringthe new system by the end of theweek.
The renovation, contracted outto CPF Underground Utilities,
Inc., doubled the size of the pipesthat carry excess rain water toPaint Branch Creek.
The 1500-foot piping thatranges from 48 to 68 inches in di-ameter will “reduce the speed atwhich the water goes into thestream, decreasing erosion,”Colella said.
Aside from tamping downflood concerns, the new drainswill also benefit campus ecolo-gy, said biology professor DavidInouye.
He said water typically runsoff campus very quickly intoPaint Branch Pond, whichmerges with the Anacostia River.
As a result, the gravel beds inPaint Branch Creek are now cov-ered with sediment, destroying abreeding ground for fish.
“The renovation can help toreverse [the sediment],” Inouyesaid. “It means we are a betterneighbor for the watershed. Weare trying to create a new habitatfor animals to nest on campus.”
The newly diverted runoff willalso mean a more stable habitatfor research experiments.
The mess left in the BioscienceResearch Building in 2006caused delays in the project.Temporary facilities were builtfor highly-acclaimed faculty
members that hoped to move di-rectly into the new facility.
“The frustrating thing was re-searchers were chomping at thebit to get in the new research fa-cility,” Dalo said about the 10-to11-month delay.
Dalo, who has been with thebuilding since the design phase,said it was 70 percent completewhen the rain storm flooded theBioscience Building, which had-n’t been closed or graded.
The drains in their originalstate were not large enough to ac-commodate the water causing anoverflow.
Dalo estimated that the floodcaused more than five milliondollars in damage.
conducted in response to thenoose, he said he tried to mockthe university’s reaction to theincident.
The wishy-washyspokesman was the only recur-ring character throughout theplay, as the others ranted,raved and argued about racerelations on the campus.
In a dialogue held after theperformance, director of theplay, assistant professor LeighSmiley hoped the play wouldcreate some discussion aboutthe incident she felt had notbeen fully addressed.
“I don’t think [the incident]
was explored,” Smiley said.“Initially, I think it was buried. Aplay is another angle to explorethe issue. I don’t think you canjust walk away from racism.”
Junior government and poli-tics major Richard Burdei of-fered a look at the play from arational distance.
“At the time, it was a little bitlike 9/11,” Burdei said. “Itawakes emotion that eventuallysubsides. This is not any differ-ent. People scream and shout butthen go back to their normal rou-tine. This play is a refresher andoffers a more logical look at it.”
Though intrigued and movedby the play, Burdei saw himselfstewing about the points
brought up for a while.“It was original,” he said.
“I’m still kind of thinking aboutit.”
Sophomore theater and artmajor Justin Fair said he feltthat the proper voice had notbeen given to the issue after theincident occurred and saw theplay as a way to finally serve asan outlet for these emotions.
“Right when it happened,people got together to talk aboutit, but then people thought theblack community talked toomuch and too loudly and thenthere was nothing,” he said.
Fogelman hatched the ideafor the play out of this perceivedapathy. In the beginning, he said
he was unsure how to interpretthe noose incident and felt theneed to do something.
Fogelman grabbed a videocamera and took it around cam-pus with him, filming faculty,administration and student re-action to the hate crime.
Within weeks, he was writinga script.
“I could say I believe in a freeAmerica,” Fogelman said. “Icould say I believe in a non-seg-regated state, but that wouldn’tadd to anything to what I wasdoing. I was affected by some-thing and thought, ‘What do Ihave to offer as a response?’”
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Drainage system to prevent floodingDrainage project on Stadium Drive aims to calm nerves in flood-prone buildings
SGA presidentialsalary follows long-
held GSG policy university-related meetings.
“We have created an animalthat we all hate in govern-ment,” Friedson said. “As itstands now, only the wealthycan run for this position.”
There are currently nomeans of getting reimbursedfor any expenses incurredwhile on the job, said SGAVice President of FinancialAffairs Maria Rescigno. Theproposed account wouldprovide the president withreimbursements for suchexpenses.
The honorarium awardedwould be contingent on anevaluation of the president’sperformance, and both thehonorarium and expensereimbursement would comefrom student activities fees.The bill will be voted on atnext week’s SGA meeting.
SGA Speaker of the Legisla-ture and author of the billNick Chamberlain said thatthe organization will exploreways to gauge the president’sperformance by judging out-reach to the campus and visi-bility on the university, stateand national level, amongother criteria.
Friedson said payment isimportant because the job ofpresident is too time-consum-ing to allow for a part-time jobwhile in school.
“Personally, I have madethe decision to do whatever I
need to, no matter the cost,”he said. “I am not confidentthat everyone can comfort-ably make that decision.”
But former SGA presidentAaron Kraus, who cam-paigned on the platform ofabolishing honorarium, saidthe presidency should be avolunteer position.
“I was the first one notpaid, and I campaigned to doaway with it” said Kraus,who served from 2004-2005.“There is no conceivablereason why anyone on theSGA should be paid, even thepresident.”
Kraus also said taking themoney out of student activi-ties fees would be disserviceto students.
“That money does not comeout of thin air,” said Kraus.“The money that goes towardhonoraria is money takenaway from student groups.”
Chamberlain, however,insists that the amountneeded to cover the proposedhonorarium would be incon-sequential.
“It averages out to like 30cents a student,” he said. “It’slike taxes; I have to pay thembecause the government isproviding a service to me.”
Chamberlain also said thebills would not be a gatewayfor honorarium awarded toother members of the organi-zation.
PRESIDENT, from Page 1
ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKTwo actors from the play “Whitewash” stretch as they discuss the noose incident on the campus.
WHITEWASH, from Page 1
Designers want brick requirementwaived to keep project on schedule
brick. That mandate was tocreate a colonial, Georgian-style building that wouldmesh with the university’sarchitecture,” architect JonGrant said. “But this buildinghas to be somewhat iconic,and brick isn’t exactly a greenmaterial.”
Some council members areuncomfortable with thatapproach.
“I want to be blunt. I think[the renderings] are ugly,”District 3 CouncilwomanStephanie Stullich said.“When we say we want brick,I think it’s reflecting a value oftraditional design. Sometimes,what architects like and whatpeople who live there likearen’t the same thing.”
Council members alsovoiced reservations about thearchitects’ overarching planfor the building’s street-front
retail strip eventually meetingother new buildings alongRoute 1.
“My concern is changingthe tone of either the sectorplan or what we’ve seen so farcoming to the Route 1 corri-dor,” College Park MayorStephen Brayman said. “I’mnot sure a corridor of thesebuildings is what people areexpecting.”
Others on the council weremore supportive, such as Dis-trict 3 Councilman MarkCook.
“If we’re to be the latestcommunity in energy effi-ciency and all those otherthings, we have to be willingto stand up and accept a vari-ety in our architecture,” hesaid. “I think the community’svision is changing, as well itshould.”
“If you can get LEED plat-inum, I don’t care what it’smade of,” District 1 Council-
man Patrick Wojahn added,referring to the highest levelof the national standard forgreen building. Developershave only pledged to go ashigh as LEED silver, two lev-els down from platinum, butrepeatedly pointed out thatthe design is not finalized.
But the controversialdesign threatens yet anotherproject delay, as the councilwants to continue discussingthe project next week andthen get public opinions froma few monthly civic associa-tion meetings. Brayman sug-gested the process wouldtake four to eight weeks, butMajmudar wants a tighterschedule.
“I think what I want to do isstart working on the detailedsite plan now. I want to submitit by the end of the month,” hesaid.
DEVELOPMENT, from Page 1
“I don’t think you can just walk away from racism”
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Have you ever seen that Lipi-tor commercial? You know,the one with Robert Jarvik,“inventor of the artificial
heart”? Well if you haven’t, let me fillyou in on the details. It starts withJarvik looking poignantly into the cam-era with a beautiful lake in the back-ground. Jarvik is identified as Dr.Robert Jarvik, the “creator of the arti-ficial heart.” He endorses Lipitor, amedication prescribed to people withhigh cholesterol, and then the com-mercial cuts to hypnotizing montagesof Jarvik rowing rather impressively inthe aforementioned beautiful lake.
So what’s the big deal? Well, it turns out Jarvik is not a car-
diologist nor is he licensed to practicemedicine in any state, although he doeshold a medical degree. Then there isthe letter sent by three of Jarvik’s for-mer colleagues at the University ofUtah which claims that Jarvik was, infact, not the inventor of the artificialheart. They claim Jarvik’s mentor, Dr.William Kolff, and his associate, Dr.Tetsuzo Akutsu, deserve that distinc-tion. It should be noted that since theseprotests, Pfizer changed the wordingof the commercial to identify Jarvik asthe “the inventor of the artificial Jarvikheart,” a distinction that some ofJarvik’s colleagues are still not satis-fied with. Another one of Jarvik’s for-mer colleagues at the University ofUtah insists that the Jarvik series ofhearts was simply different versions ofearlier prototypes. To top it off, the per-son you see rowing so impressively inthe commercial is not even Jarvik but atrained double. According to The NewYork Times, Dr. Jarvik “does not row.”
Could a commercial be any moremisleading? Not only is Jarvik not qual-ified to make a professional endorse-ment of Lipitor, not only did he not in-vent what the commercial claims hedid, but he doesn’t even row!
Last week, under increasing pres-sure from congressional oversight,Pfizer announced it would pull its de-ceptive multi-million dollar ad cam-paign featuring Jarvik and create anew ad campaign instead. A represen-tative for Pfizer said, “The way inwhich we presented Jarvik in these adshas, unfortunately, led to misimpres-sions and distractions from our pri-mary goal of encouraging patient andphysician dialogue on the leadingcause of death in the world — cardio-vascular disease.”
When Pfizer says its main goal in itsadvertising campaigns is “[to encour-age] patient and physician dialogue”my B.S. alarm goes off. What is Pfizerreally suggesting here? It would seemthey are implying there is a lack of dia-logue between patients and doctors oncardiovascular disease. But if theirgoal is to create dialogue, why onlymention their product? Why not pro-vide consumers with the whole rangeof options available to them?
This raises an interesting point.Should pharmaceutical companies beallowed to advertise prescription drugson television at all? Isn’t there a reasoncertain drugs require a prescriptionfrom a doctor before you can buy them?Isn’t the whole point that only a quali-fied medical professional is in a posi-tion to decide if you need this drug ornot? Please do not assume I am againstpromoting patient-physician dialogue.If pharmaceutical companies reallytook an interest in promoting genuinepatient-physician dialogue, that wouldbe another case entirely. But clearlytheir goal is to increase the frequencywith which their drug is prescribed.
Before you go all First Amendmenton me, let me remind you that this gov-ernment has already kicked tobaccoads off television. Indeed, the govern-ment censors a wide variety of images,ideas and words from the airwaves. Ifwe are going to take a stand against nu-dity and cursing, I think it’s time wetake a stand against biased ads that tryto make us pressure doctors to pre-scribe us medication.
I’m pleased to see that congressionaloversight has forced Pfizer to end itsdeceptive ad campaign. My hope isthat rather than waiting for Pfizer’snext biased or deceptive ad, or anyother pharmaceutical company’s nextad, Congress will work to make surepatient and physician dialogue isn’tcorrupted by corporate influence.
Tim Hiller is a senior microbiologymajor and former vice president of theCollege Democrats. He can bereached at [email protected].
No singlestrategy
This past January, I spent twoweeks learning about environ-mental problems and policy inIndia, one of the world’s largest
and poorest countries. With the voicesof Indian government officials and envi-ronmental advocates echoing in theback of my mind, I am deeply disturbedby Jay Nargundkar’s declaration thatglobal warming is “an issue of practical-ity, not morality” (“Chill out,” March 4).If there is anything I learned in India —as well as from my experience in envi-ronmental justice activism — it is thatthe current global climate crisis is noth-ing but a question of justice and equity.And it most certainly necessitates im-mediate action.
The climate crisis is inherently un-just because of the glaring discrepancybetween those who cause the problemand those who suffer the conse-quences. In the United States, with fourpercent of the world’s population, ourover-consumptive, fossil-fuel-intensivelifestyle leads to 23 percent of theworld’s greenhouse gas emissions.Contrast this to India, which contains16 percent of the world’s populationbut only contributes 5.1 percent of itsgreenhouse gases. Poor, developingcountries such as India (as well asChina, Brazil, South Africa and others)bear little historical responsibility forclimate change, but because of their fi-nancial and infrastructural inability toadapt to climate change, they will besome of the first and hardest hit. For in-stance, even if global emissions werereduced to zero tomorrow, the Hi-malayan glaciers that feed the GangesRiver, providing 37 percent of India’sirrigation and drinking water for 500million people, will be completely goneby 2030.
The ethical dilemma becomes evenstickier when we consider that coun-tries such as India have rapidly devel-oping economies. To meet its develop-ment goals and raise its citizens out ofpoverty, India intends to triple orquadruple its energy consumption by2026, but because most of this energycomes from dirty-burning coal, India’sgreenhouse gas emissions will also sig-nificantly increase. Under the currentfossil-fuel-based global energy econo-my, if developing countries are forcedto make and pay for steep greenhousegas reduction commitments, it is un-likely they will also be able to meet nec-essary economic and social develop-ment targets. As citizens of an industri-alized country who enjoy one of thehighest qualities of life in the world, wecannot in good conscience deny our In-dian counterparts the right to lift sevenhundred million people out of a $2-per-day standard of living. Yet if developingcountries follow our oil- and coal-basedpath, the world will not reach the Inter-governmental Panel on ClimateChange recommended emissions re-ductions, levels in time to avert effectsof climate change even worse thanthose that are already inevitable.
This most urgent need to enact re-sponsible, pragmatic climate policies inthe U.S. stems not from hyperbole or ex-aggerated doomsday prophecy butrather from the fact that, if we do not pro-duce realistic capacity and technologyfor a renewable energy economy on ourown shores, there is no way we will beable to aid developing countries in a low-carbon development trajectory. In an in-terconnected global economy, we arefooling ourselves if we think the econom-ic disruption, global health problems andfood and water scarcity caused by cli-mate change will miraculously stop atour own borders. Climate crisis is not anAmerican problem or a European one oran Indian one or a Chinese one. It is aglobal problem that requires globally ap-propriate policy solutions.
There is no silver bullet solution thatwill end the climate crisis in one fellswoop. I agree with Jay Nargundkarthat the disadvantages of corn ethanolfar outweigh its advantages. I also agreewith Ali Adler that we must move asquickly as possible toward a solar-and-wind-based energy economy. Ultimate-ly, however, we must not be so naive as tothink that there is a single strategy thatwill cure all of our climate ills. Our poli-cy demands must include a diverse en-ergy basket that incorporates renew-able energy from a variety of sources,and our social demands must include aparadigm shift toward an overall reduc-tion in our outrageously excessive con-sumption level.
Most importantly, when we focusour efforts on the domestic climateagenda, we must not be so shortsight-ed that we cannot see beyond our ownborders. While a national or transna-tional The Day After Tomorrow sce-nario is highly unlikely, the clock iscertainly ticking. Restraint is simplyno longer a feasible option.
Rachel Bergstein is a junior individualstudies major. She can be reached [email protected].
Deceivingthe masses Even though its approval holds no weight, the College
Park City Council once again missed an opportunityto — at the very least — publicly condemn Santa FeCafé owner Mark Srour for his lack of safety stan-
dards and, instead, offered support for his bid to allow patronsas young as 18 into his bar.
The council balked on its own contractual agreement withSrour last month when it decided to issue aletter of support for his request to renewhis liquor license, despite Srour’s four-year failure to install proper sprinklers inSanta Fe. We just cannot figure out why heis continually getting support from thecouncil despite the laundry list of bad ideasand inadequate safety measures.
Now, Srour is petitioning for support toallow more patrons — more accurately, pa-trons who are younger than the legal drinking age — to be per-mitted in the bar for music shows. And somehow, the councilconsiders a trial run of Srour’s wishes a “compromise.”
A compromise would be supporting Srour’s petition for un-derage patrons only if he agrees to install a proper sprinklersystem. A compromise is meeting halfway, not giving in all atonce and labeling it a compromise. The council has walkedaway from a “compromise” it made nearly five years ago withSrour regarding sprinklers, allowing him to continue to per-mit legal patrons into his bar without an adequate sprinklersystem in exchange for serving a high ratio of alcohol to food.Is this a compromise, or are they simply bowing down toSrour’s every request?
Not only would allowing underage patrons into the bar cre-
ate more havoc in terms of underage drinking, but is it reallythe best idea to pack even more people into a bar laced withwood when there is no working sprinkler system? Why doesthis idea garner the council’s support? What will it bring ourcity other than increased risk and a watered-down stanceagainst underage drinking? Despite outlooks like that of Dis-trict 2 Councilman Jack Perry, who pointed out “[Srour’s]
business, as far as we can tell, is selling al-coholic beverages to people, and suddenlyhe’s providing entertainment? Come on.What does he think I’ve been smoking?”,the council lent its support to Srour with-out hesitation, once again ignoring warn-ing signs. Indeed, what is the councilsmoking, Perry?
The council has lent its support to Srourmultiple times despite nothing but empty
promises and an inability to keep his word, even in terms of acontract. It has been embarrassed time and time again be-cause of Srour’s inability to hold up his end of the bargain withthem, and this situation will be no different. The “compro-mise” they are now supporting will be much of the same dis-appointment.
The council needs to realize the importance of its influenceand act accordingly. While their support would not make orbreak Srour’s petition, it speaks to whether the council is real-ly considering the hazards Srour’s most recent petition holdand continues to make the council look indifferent about stu-dent safety. Once again, the council has taken an easy anddrama-free route in supporting Srour without, it seems, trulyconsidering the potential consequences.
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.” - D.H. Lawrence
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Lighten up!In response to Kevin Keating’s letter (“Time to
grow up,” March 5) about maturity, lighten up! Ourcollege years are the best years of our lives, and weshould be enjoying them. Yeah, I agree peopleshould not be taking dumps in sinks andmicrowaves, but if people want to have fun and bea little immature, let it happen! Students who aretoo young to go to bars will drink in their dorms andact the exact same way as most older students actcoming home from the bars. They’re going to get alittle wild.
Instead of planning out every second of your lifeand being all uptight about having fun, grab a fewbeers with some friends and go a little crazy. Onceyou graduate, there will be plenty of time for theseriousness and maturity you desire. And as for naptime and recess, what college student does not takenaps and/or play outside?
ALAIN PARCANSOPHOMORE
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A different look at housingThis is in response to Brandon Blische’s column
“Luxury Life,” printed March 4. First, I think heneeds to be disabused of the notion that all studentsfrom rich families are “snotty, immature” or bigspenders or that the students he sees wearing lux-
ury clothing can actually afford it.Second, I disagree with his statement that rents in
the region are not “reasonable.” Who decides whatprices are reasonable? He would do well to remem-ber the words of Publilius Syrus: “Everything isworth what its purchaser will pay for it.”
I sympathize with his complaint that there aremore options for high-paying students in thisregion, but the answer is to let high rents attractdevelopers instead of shutting out developers withprice controls. You can’t increase supply by makingit less profitable to produce student housing.
Finally, his solution is students should refuse “toaccept the status quo,” but gives us no glimpse ofwhat doing so would look like. Here’s my take:Demonstrate some initiative and solve your ownproblem. Rent a house in Berwyn and cram in asmany students as you can. It’ll be close (only inAmerica have I heard people complain about walk-ing two miles), you can save money by cooking yourown food, and your share of the bathrooms willprobably be better than the share dorm studentsget.
If you can scrounge together the capital (or, ifdesperate, get a no-down-payment loan), you couldeven buy one of these houses and maintain it as alow-cost apartment building. If nothing else, justlooking into what it takes to do this yourself willgive you a wider perspective of how housing works.
MATTHEW GRAVESSOPHOMORE
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Jason Statham’s career is officiallystuck in neutral.
After the London native secured hisplace in Hollywood with an appearancein the 2000 hit Snatch, Statham has madea habit of cranking out intense actionthrillers with little actual plot to speak of.Though his latest effort, The Bank Job,may work well enough as an entertainingadaptation of a true story, any in-depthlook will reveal the film’s clear lack ofsubstance.
Statham plays Terry, a car dealer in1971 London who keeps some question-able company but generally means tostay out of trouble. When his old friendMartine (Saffron Burrows, Reign OverMe) meets with him and suggests a flaw-less plan to rob a bank, however, his in-terest is caught. Terry decides to take onthe job and assembles a team of amateurcriminals to help him, but it isn’t long be-fore the unlikely thieves realize they arein way over their heads.
Underlying issues of sexual scandaland political blackmail creep up in direc-tor Roger Donaldson’s (The World’sFastest Indian) film when the narrativeturns to the story of revolutionaryMichael X (Peter De Jersey, Doctors ). Afelon who walks the streets freely thanksto incriminating photographs of Britishroyalty, the figure may be an interestingone — but his direct relevance to the plotis debatable.
Many of the scenes involving him andother secondary characters seem unnec-essary, partially because the direct con-nection between Michael X and the rob-bery is not made until midway throughthe movie. Also, an entire subplot about aBritish spy (Hattie Morahan, The GoldenCompass) investigating Michael X hasabsolutely no connection to the centralstory line.
Having based the film on an actualcrime for which no arrests were made,writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais(both from Across the Universe) seem-ingly use the case’s gray areas as an ex-cuses to leave in some glaring plot holes.
This is most evident when two charac-ters are suspiciously murdered, only tohave their deaths dismissed as unsolvedmysteries and given no further explana-tion.
When it comes to the heist itself, thefilm’s central sequence is surprisinglydisappointing. As the team loudly drills atunnel into the bank and gets by unno-ticed thanks to laughable police negli-gence, the scene is not only anticlimactic— it makes one wonder if the filmmakershave taken unrealistic liberty with thetrue story.
It is after the theft that The Bank Jobgains some steam and sees the jumbledpieces of its narrative fall into place. Thepreviously introduced matters of politi-cal corruption are worked into the livesof the protagonists, and the film’s sus-penseful final act somewhat justifies itssluggish beginnings.
Statham’s Terry, a family man despitehis coarse demeanor, is the closest thing to
a fleshed-out character The Bank Jobhas.Afraid that his family will face repercus-sions from the robbery — and maybeeven be torn apart by his budding roman-tic interest in Martine — Terry’s dilemmasounds compelling enough on paper. Butthe plot thread is forcibly rushed throughbefore reaching an unearned conclusion,making it just another one of the movie’smany missed opportunities.
Sadly, Statham doesn’t look like heintends to step outside his comfortzone any time soon, as his upcomingprojects include sequels Crank 2: HighVoltage, Transporter 3 and an oddly fa-miliar-sounding heist flick titled TheBrazilian Job. Though some actors canlead a successful career by simply re-hashing the same role over and overagain, Statham should understand hehas the screen presence and charismato be better than that.
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TERRY, JASON STATHAM
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MARTINE, SAFFRON BURROWS
REVIEW | MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY
A lively PettigrewBYDAVESMITHFor The Diamondback
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day:The film’s title says it all, really.
Miss Pettigrew (Frances Mc-Dormand, Friends With Money)is a downtrodden and impover-ished governess in London whois surrounded in misery. Thanksto poor treatment by her em-ployers — and her own low tol-erance for indecency and un-fairness — Miss Pettigrew soonfinds herself without a job andon the streets with just theclothes on her back.
So, in a completely uncharac-teristic move, Miss Pettigrew doessomething a little indecent herselfand steals an assignment from an-other governess. As a result, shewinds up on the doorstep of
Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams, En-chanted, in yet another charmingrole), an American actress withone too many love problems.
Delysia’s got three men on hermind: One who will make her astar, one who will make her richand one who will make her happy(if you’ve seen any chick flick, youcan take a wild guess as to what’llhappen), and she needs Miss Petti-grew’s unexpected degree of wis-dom and advice for all of her loveproblems. And just like any goodfarce, all three of her boyfriendsare attending the same party, anda big announcement needs to bemade about whom she chooses tospend her life with.
But before Delysia makes andadmits her choice, we enjoy MissPettigrew as she catches a breakfor once and gets her much-de-
served taste of the glamorous life.To get an idea of what Miss Pet-
tigrew Lives for a Day is all about,imagine a madcap comedy suchas Noises Off!, mixed with a chickflick, and then set against ’30s Lon-don during Hitler’s rise to power.This historical backdrop providesa different approach to a typicalchick flick, however, and allowsthe film to broaden its appeal fur-ther than it would have if it wereset in the present day.
Not that the film couldn’t havedone it on its merit alone; on thecontrary, Miss Pettigrew Lives fora Day has a lot of good thingsgoing for it. Adams is by far thebest part of this movie, and she in-jects the flimsy character ofDelysia with a believable, appeal-ing personality.
And although Adams steals
every scene she’s in, McDormand— known for her outstanding per-formances in Fargo and AlmostFamous — definitely holds herown. She shares the spotlight well,and her performance allows youto sympathize with Miss Petti-grew, not just pity her.
As talented as these actressesare, however, this movie wouldhave fallen by the wayside if it
weren’t for some brilliant writing.Writers David Magee (FindingNeverland) and Simon Beaufoy(The Full Monty) deliver an ex-tremely impressive and excellent-ly written script that is both smartand hilarious. As integral as thecast is in this film’s success, thewriting alone makes the film standout as more than just anotherheart-warmer.
While Miss Pettigrew Lives for aDay is talented in these respectsand definitely outshines otherfilms in its genre, the film neverstrays further than “cute” territo-ry. The story is light, but it pro-vides a nice relief from all of thedark fare of this past year’s films— and is another win for Adams.
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The Terrapins take to the matevery day to prepare for the post-season, practicing takedowns andreversals and pins until their bod-ies cannot take any more. On thewalls around them are pictures offormer seniors who led theirteams to championships.
This year, the No. 22 Terrapinwrestling team is headed into theACC tournament with no seniorsin sight. But the team refuses tosee its youth or lack of experienceas disadvantages.
“No more excuses,” coach PatSantoro said. “They’re young, butage is just a number. We’ll havethe home crowds behind us; wejust need to deliver.”
For the Terps (16-4, 5-0 ACC),seniors have had little presenceon the mat this season. Theteam’s starting lineups have beenmade up almost exclusively ofunderclassmen. Only one upper-classman, redshirt junior JoshHaines, starts regularly.
When the season began, theteam did not expect the startinglineup to be devoid of seniors.
After open competitions inevery weight class, a surprisinglyyoung lineup emerged, a result ofthe nationally ranked recruitingclasses Santoro signed the pasttwo seasons and the relativedearth of seniors — only eight ofthe 38 roster spots.
One senior, Charlie Pinto, 2005ACC champion at 141 pounds,started the year splitting startingtime with sophomore Jon Kohler.But Pinto was injured in mid-No-vember, and aside from returningbriefly for two matches in Janu-ary, he hasn’t wrestled since.
Losing the only senior startercould have been devastating.But when Kohler became themain starter, he made the mostof his opportunity and has wonhis last four dual matches for a14-12 record.
As the year progressed, sen-
iors have fallen further from thespotlight.
Even in the Senior Night victo-ry over American on Feb. 13, onlyone senior, Ryan Kennett, was inthe starting lineup, and he lost.
Seniors Kennett and Clint Stouthave seen limited time, mainly intournament play. The rest of theseniors have been confined tocontributing off the mat.
The Terps have not let the lackof senior leadership affect theirapproach to competition.
“We still have to go out and getour jobs done,” redshirt sopho-more Brendan Byrne said.
In fact, the absence of seniorshas allowed other wrestlers toflourish.
The team’s three rankedwrestlers, Haines, ranked No. 19at 184 pounds, redshirt sopho-more Hudson Taylor, No. 5 at 197pounds, and sophomore MikeLetts, No. 9 at 174 pounds, havetaken the lead.
Taylor and Letts especiallyneed to set examples for theirteammates in the days leading upto the postseason. They bothmade it to the NCAA tournamentlast year, and they need to usetheir experience to educate theirteammates.
But not only the top Terps aretaking responsibility for theirteam.
Sophomores such as Kohlerand Byrne make up most of thelineup and have been a drivingforce behind the Terps’ success.
Even freshmen have steppedinto starting spots withoutmissing a beat, using talent totrump experience. Eric Med-ina and Brian Letters arenearly permanent fixtures inthe starting lineup, and bothboast winning records, 19-10and 15-13 respectively.
With the postseason startingSaturday, the Terps are workingharder than ever to prove them-selves, still disregarding anymention of their youth.
“No one cares how old you are.
They’ve got the experience,” San-toro said. “It’s the end of the sea-son. We’ve got to be ready.”
Next, the Terps host the ACCtournament at Comcast CenterPavilion at 2 p.m. on Saturday.They believe they are prepared tofight in every weight class, de-spite often facing older or moreexperienced opponents.
“We are doing whatever it takesto stay crisp,” Byrne said. “We arepeaking at the right time.”
The team hopes to match itsACC regular-season title with anACC tournament championshipand as many bids to the NCAAtournament as possible.
“Every match in the ACC tour-nament will be a battle,” Santorosaid. “Everybody’s ready to workhard. We just want champions.”
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Gonzaga (24-6, RPI 30, SOS 95)The Bulldogs closed out the regular season Monday witha 13-1 WCC record and a seven-game win streak. Anydoubts about Gonzaga’s status have been erased now.
BYU (23-6, RPI 22, SOS 88)Center Trent Plaisted has carried the Cougars into verystrong position for the Tournament, winning 11 of theirlast 12 games as the MWC leader.
Illinois State (22-8, RPI 36, SOS 79)Saturday’s win at Southern Illinois really solidified IllinoisState’s position for a chance at the Big Dance. TheRedbirds now are looking to improve seeding.
KEY TEAMS FALLINGRhode Island (21-9, RPI 56, SOS 106)*What happened? Just a month ago, the Ramsappeared to be a virtual lock for the Tournament. Nowthey’ve lost six of their last eight games.
Syracuse (18-12, RPI 57, SOS 9)A perennial bubble team, Syracuse once again findsitself on the brink of a bid. A strong SOS is basicallyholding their season up at this point.
Arizona (17-12, RPI 24, SOS 1)The Wildcats have tremendous computer numbers buta questionable record. At some point, the computerwon’t be able to carry them anymore.
Texas A&M (21-8, RPI 47, SOS 74)Losing four of their last five games is rather embarrassing fora team that was once considered a near-lock. Mark Turgeonneeds to turn things around, quick.
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Future is now foryouthful Terps
Wrestling substitutes talent for experience
Ruppuseseight
pitchersin the fifth inning, Rupp started toclear his bench.
“Today was good because I got achance to look at a lot of infieldcombinations, since that’s whatwe’ve been trying to settle,” Ruppsaid. “Everybody wants to playsince they worked very hard in theoff-season, and we could get a lot ofguys in the game today.”
Rupp used eight pitchers in thegame, allowing each an inning ofwork with the exception of fresh-man Matt Quinn, who pitched boththe fifth and sixth innings.
The staff combined for 15 strike-outs and, after the brief Eagle rallyin the fourth, shut Coppin Statedown. Senior Mike Sufczynskistarted the first inning and pickedup the win to even his record at 1-1.
Durakis made his first start ofthe season at first base while juniorJensen Pupa, who had been play-ing first base when not pitching,started at second base.
“Anytime a player can play a lotof different positions, it gives coachRupp a few more options,” saidDurakis. “I’m fine playing wherev-er Coach wants me to play. Pupa isa pretty good athlete and looksgood over there at second; we haveconfidence in him.”
Defensive errors plagued win-less Coppin State all game long.They ended up with seven total onthe day. There were dropped flyballs, poor pickoff throws and abotched double play on an easygrounder to second.
In the top of the seventh, CoppinState’s third-base coach got into theact, letting a foul grounder tricklethrough his legs.
Despite the convincing win, theTerps know their trip to Tallahas-see this weekend won’t be as easy.
“It was a nice little warm-up, butnow is when it really starts,” sopho-more right fielder A.J. Casario said.“We gotta step up, and hopefully theguys that are hot stay hot and guysthat are struggling get it together.”
BASEBALL, from Page 10
Memory of Gist willlinger on with Terps
GEREMY BASS
to take it, but inside me, I justfeel like this is all on my shoul-ders. I shouldn’t have let thishappen to the team.”
Gist tried his best to stave offthe unbelievable defeat, record-ing team highs with 15 pointsand eight rebounds. It wasn’tenough to preserve a win, butGist’s marvelous four years as aTerp more than compensate forany single loss.
We’re talking about one offive players in school history torecord 1,000 points, 500 re-bounds and 200 blocked shots. Ienrolled at this universityalongside him in 2004 and im-mediately knew he would growinto something special. Now, aswe leave together for the nextstage, I’m proud to say Iwatched him do great things for
the Terp basketball program. I had the privilege of talking
to him after each game, but fora can’t-miss opinion, mommaknows best.
“We’re beginning to seeJames, now, as a man,” saidLinda Gist, James’ mother. “Wecan see it in the manner inwhich he expresses himself —his passion — and we can justsee that evolution. That transi-tion from a boy to a young man,and now to a man.”
Fans may all-too-quickly for-get the contributions of that manas the 2008 season draws to aclose this month. But Gist’spresence in the locker room, onthe road and, of course, on thecourt won’t be around next year,and his departure will leave atangible void.
Time after time during theloss to Clemson, Gist brought
the Comcast Center crowd to itsfeet with a soaring slam or abig-time block, just as he’s donefor the entirety of his four yearshere. He’s an all-around playerwho has grown to become theheart and soul of his team.
Regardless of how the seasonends, remember the player whodrew the loudest ovation duringpre-game introductions, whosespark could ignite an 18,000-seat building in seconds andwho was respected by everyonewho knew him.
Remember what James Gistwas for the Terps.
Oh, and in case you forget,I’m sure you’ll get a chance towatch him again.
The NBA certainly hasroom for a player, and a man,like Gist.
BASS, from Page 10
BY GREG SCHIMMELSenior staff writer
When Maria Harper saysshe always told her daughterLaura she was destined forexcellence, she doesn’t say it toshow off, and she certainlydoesn’t say it with arrogance.
The soft-spoken genuineMaria says it because she haslived and has always taughther two children to live by thefundamental belief that, if youdo something and you trulygive it 100 percent, there is noway you will not be excellent.
“That’s not negotiable,”Maria says.
From the time senior for-ward Laura Harper startedplaying basketball at the sur-prisingly late age of 13, she hasgiven it nothing but her best,and as she heads into her finalpostseason with the Terrapinwomen’s basketball team thisweekend, she does so as oneof the most accomplishedand influential players inthe history of the program.
She has worked harderthan most to achieve excel-lence.
“It’s not about basketball;it’s not about any sport,”Maria, a teacher, said. “It’sabout whatever you do — it’sdoing that excellent. So I said,‘Whatever you choose to do,you have to be excellent.’”
At first, Laura didn’t choosebasketball.
Laura’s father, Haviland,played college ball atGeorge Washington and isstill a relatively well-known high schoolcoach in the Philadel-phia area, but Havi-land and Maria sep-arated when Laurawas in third grade,and Laura livedwith her mom, soshe didn’t neces-sarily grow uparound thegame.
Instead,Laura strovefor excel-lence inother thingssuch as playingthe saxophoneand fieldhockey.
“I wasa bigfield
hockey player, but then I gottoo tall almost, and it startedhurting my back,” the now 6-foot-4-inch Laura said.
Then one day when Laurawas in seventh grade, she andMaria were driving some-where when Laura told hermother she wanted to play bas-ketball.
She’d never played before.“Not an
ounce,”Maria
said.
“Ijust
decidedto tryit,”Laura
said. “My
mom was just like, ‘You wantto play? Then you have tofocus, and you have to actuallycommit to something.’”
So Maria went to a small,run-down gym near theirhome in Elkins Park, Pa. to seeif she could find a place for herdaughter to play.
“I didn’t know what I wasdoing. I just walked into a gymand said, ‘Does anybody hereplay ball?’” Maria said. “WhenI went in there, it was justsmelly, sweaty guys. But I did-n’t have any reservations aboutmaking sure Laura and herbrother were excellent. I justwanted to make it happen.”
So Laura went back to thegym a few days later and
played. And then sheplayed in different gyms,
then for Amateur AthleticUnion and Police AthleticLeague teams, and by the timeshe was in high school, Laurawas literally playing basket-
ball seven days a week,anywhere she possiblycould.
As she got better,Maria paid for her tohave a trainer andwould drive her wher-ever she needed to go toplay.
“She was pretty inde-pendently disciplined. Inever had to force her to
practice or play ever, which isreally cool,” Maria said. “Theonly thing I had to tell her wastelling her when to stop. Youcan’t play until the wee hoursof the morning.”
During her junior year atCheltenham High School,Laura began getting recruitedby nearly every big women’sbasketball program in thecountry.
She verbally committed toConnecticut but changed hermind and committed the nextday to the Terps — then arebuilding program that wouldgo 10-18 in 2002-2003 underfirst-year coach Brenda Frese.
“Everyone tried to talk meout of coming to Maryland,”Laura said. “They didn’thave anything at the time, soit was easy for another coachto pick a fight [with] whyMaryland. We just had tobelieve, and we did.”
Maria liked the choicebecause of the personalapproach of Frese and assis-tant coach Erica Floyd during
the recruiting process.“They seemed to be gen-
uinely interested in her as aperson,” Maria said.
After she was named aMcDonald’s All-American andthe 2004 PennsylvaniaGatorade Player of the Yearfollowing her senior season,Laura suffered a major set-back early in her freshmanseason as a Terp.
During practice in lateDecember, Laura was runninga sprint when she took a badstep and ruptured her Achillestendon.
“It feels like someone takesa bat and [slugs] your anklewith it,” Laura said.
But after undergoing sur-gery that left her with about 50stitches on the back of her leg,Laura attacked rehab with thesame passion and effort Mariaalways expected of her.
She sometimes had to beheld back by the Terps’ trainerbecause he was afraid shewould try to overdo it.
Laura practiced for the firsttime at Maryland Madness inOctober of her sophomore sea-son, nearly 10 months after theinjury.
“How Laura handled that, tome, that’s the mark of a truechampion,” Maria said. “Shedidn’t let the injury stop whoshe was.”
That season, the Terps wonthe program’s first nationalchampionship, and Laura wasnamed the Most OutstandingPlayer of the final four.
She had achieved excellenceon a national level, the culmi-nation of years of hard work.
“It was so many things allwrapped up into one,” Mariasaid. “It was relief, unspeak-able joy. It was pride. It washappiness. It was awe.”
And now with only a fewweeks left in her senior season— her best statistically withthe Terps — a WNBA draftpick is a likelihood, and Laurastill has the same advice fromher mother going forward.
It’s not negotiable.“My counsel has not
changed. Whatever you do, ithas to be excellent,” Mariasaid. “She loves basketball; shewants to continue playing. I’mgoing to be there, but there’sno negotiating. She’s got togive it 100 percent.”
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Softball pusheswin streak to 12Dooley picks up Terps in both
ends of double header vs. DukesBY JEFF NEWMAN
Staff writer
Sarah Dooley completed hershutout against James Madisonexpecting to watch the secondgame of the doubleheader fromthe bench.
It wasn’t until Terrapin softballcoach Laura Watten had cycledthrough the remaining threepitchers that Dooley realizedshe’d have to go in and close outthe Dukes a second time.
“I wasn’t expecting to go in, butwe always have to be ready to goout there and pick ourteam up,” Dooley said.
It was a tale of twopitching performancesfor the No. 23 Terpsyesterday, but bothtimes they came outwith wins.
In the first game,Dooley allowed onlyone hit and one walkin a seven-inningshutout the Terps(15-1) controlled the entiretime and won 3-0.
The Dukes (7-7) jumped on theTerps and starter MeredithNelles early in the second gamewhen shortstop Amber Kirk hit athree-run shot over the wall inleft field to make the score 3-0.The Terps quickly responded,batting around and scoring sixruns to make it 6-3 after one in-ning of play.
“I think we started out strongin the first game and we had noworries, and Meredith justcouldn’t find the zone, and Ithink that was a little uncom-fortable to all of us” Watten said.“When you can’t find the zoneand you have to force pitchesand you’re facing hitters thatare swinging as hard as theycan, that’s going to happen.”
Freshman Kerry Hickey cameon to relieve Nelles in the first in-ning, and was subsequently re-lieved by rarely-used sophomoreLindsey Wright in the third. Butafter none of the first three pitch-ers could get into a groove, Wat-ten turned to Dooley, who camein to pitch the final four innings ofa 7-4 victory. The junior finishedthe day with 11 strikeouts andonly allowed two hits in 11 in-nings of play.
“She’s great. She has a greathead,” Watten said. “She stayed
with her game, kept throwing herpitches and stayed focused. She’sgetting so much better eachweek, and not only does she pitchwell, but she plays defense well.”
Also playing great defense wassophomore Alex Schultz, whowas a vacuum at shortstop andkept a personal tally of 17 ballshit her way. Officially, the sopho-more finished with 13 assists onthe day. She also recorded two er-rors, but both came on toughplays that she had already madelook routine in both games.
“Alex is such a playmaker,”Watten said. “I’m soproud of her becauseshe’s struggling rightnow offensively, butshe’s able to go out ondefense and disconnectfrom that and just playher game. She covers alot of ground, and she’salways going to dive orrun through a wall.She’s somebody I ab-solutely want out on the
field at all times. I could put heranywhere and she’d perform.”
In addition to solid defense, theTerps were productive from theplate. They totaled 20 hits on theday, but also left 16 runners onbase and know that in order tokeep their winning streak alive,they will need to consistentlyscore with runners on base.
“We’ve got to keep working onstringing hits together becausenow we have a target on our backand teams are going to be comingafter us,” Schultz said.
The Terps are used to jumpingout quickly on teams, but Wattensaid it was good for her team toexperience what it’s like to bedown early so that it won’t over-whelm them when the confer-ence schedule begins.
“I like things to happen likethat sometimes for them to bechallenged,” Watten said.” “Wego out and jump on teams andcontrol games but its good to seethat happen because they getchallenged in different ways.That’s what these non-confer-ence games are about: Gettingchallenged in different ways andbeing able to do well.”
At 15-1, so far, the Terps haveanswered their challenges verywell.
SOFTBALLGAME 1
TERRAPINS. . . . . . . . . . 3James Madison . . . . . 0
GAME 2TERRAPINS . . . . . . . . . . 7James Madison . . . . . 4
Sunday night was painful.Everyone in Terrapin Nationfelt the sting from the devas-tating loss, and the Terps’
uncontested leader, their experi-enced elder, their tested general,endured an ache worse than anyone.
James Gist, with his Senior Nightshattered to pieces by Clemson’slast-second 3-pointer, struggled tocompose himself as he spoke afterthe game. He tried his best to findanswers and field questions withpoise and maturity. But deep down,it throbbed.
It’s a shame the game ended theway it did and not only for the Terpsand their postseason chances. Theloss put a massive scar on a nightthat should have been Gist’s finish-ing touch on a career that will lingerin Comcast Center for as long as theTerps call it home.
For fans in attendance, cherishthe fact that you saw Gist elicitabject pride from the sold-outcrowd. You were one of the luckyfew to stand and applaud as heraised his framed jersey above hishead, honoring his body of work forthe team he calls “my team.”
“I take it all upon my shoulders,”Gist said, teary eyed, after thegame. “Coach [Gary] Williams tries
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ning of the season, he becamethe Terps’ No. 1 leader — onand off the court. It has beenhis job to deliver those mes-sages during one of the mostunusual seasons by a Terpteam, and Gist has had to ad-just to every twist and turn.
Now, though, he may befaced with his most difficulttask: getting the Terps focusedon Sunday’s absolute must-wingame at Virginia. But Gist hashad a lot of help learning howto be a leader, and it didn’tcome from coaches or players— it came from his family.
“There was such a heavy ex-pectation for him to be a leader,but you never heard anythingabout leadership training,”Linda Gist, James’ mother,said. “So what his father and Ihad to do was we offered all ourexperiences. We gave him a lotof ideas when the team wasstruggling. ‘Hey J, what aboutthis, what about that?’ Hewould call us and feed thingsoff of us. So we kind of walkedthat walk with him as a seniorin terms of helping him under-stand what it was to be a leaderand how leaders had to be de-veloped.”
*****Gist, a Silver Spring native,
realizes his time with the Terpsis coming to a close. He onlyhas a maximum of five weeksleft to play college basketball,and all of it is valuable.
It’s just not as valuable as thetime he spends with his family,which traces back to when hewas born in Turkey as part of amilitary family that traveledoften.
“I think by us being a mili-tary family overseas, that prob-ably set the tone for our familybeing as close as it was,” saidJasmine Smith, Gist’s older sis-ter. “J wanted to stay close tohome so we could be there tosupport him. If he needs some-thing, he calls, and I think heenjoys that.”
During his four years as aTerp, Gist has been part ofmany highs and lows. But thisyear, through all the toughtimes, he is the one expected to
say the right things after arough patch. People look to Gistto have a dominating gameafter a bad loss. It wasn’t likethat in past years, and Gist hashad to adjust.
Before the season started,Gist emphatically declared theTerps his team.
“Anything that goes on withthis team, I take personal,” hesaid at the time. “The good andthe bad, I think that nothingelse should have to go to any-body else besides myself andcoach Williams and the coach-ing staff. I feel like I’m respon-sible for what goes on with theteam on and off the court.”
To his parents, that mentalitywas a problem, and they triedto explain to him that it wasn’tabout one person, even if thatone person is a leader. Respon-sibility is a team issue and notan individual issue, Gist’s par-ents taught him.
It’s just one of the manythings Gist has learned fromhis parents during the past fouryears.
“James wanted to be close tohome so he would have thatfamily support,” his fatherJames Gist Jr. said. “And he’sseen over the years where it’spaid off to be close to home andnot so far away. He sees whatsome of the guys go throughnow who are away from homeand don’t have that supportsystem close by. So I think itwas a benefit for James, and heenjoys it very much.”
*****Gist is not overly emotional,
he doesn’t scream to make apoint, and he isn’t one to makea dramatic scene.
“He might be the nicest guyon the team,” senior centerBambale Osby said. “He comesin and shakes everybody’shand, sees how everybody’sdoing.”
But somewhere inside thatnice-guy persona is theleader the Terps look towhen things get tough.In fact, Gist has savedhis movie-like inspi-rational momentsfor when theTerps needed itmost.
Coming off
back-to-back losses, the Terpswere set to face Wake Forestand were in dire need of a win.Gist delivered a pre-gamespeech — for the first time —telling his teammates to forgetabout the big picture and justfocus on the one game. Gist be-lieved the Terps had lost sightof that and were too concernedwith the NCAA Tournament.
“Before the Wake game, hereally did a good job,” coachGary Williams said. “We’recoming off two losses andWake’s 14-1 on their homecourt. We knew it was a toughsituation, but James wasn’tafraid to speakout before thegame.”
The Terpsbeat WakeF o r e s t ,thanks toGist, whob a c k e dup hiswords witha career-high 31points.
“I knowwhat it
feels like not to get [to theNCAA Tournament], and Iknow what it feels like to getthere,” Gist said. “Last year,being able to make it to thattime for the first time, for me,that was a great feeling. And Iwant to be able to do thatagain.”
*****What lies ahead could be the
NBA. Just as Gist’s parents have
taught him about leadership,Williams has taught him how toget the most out of his potential.
As a freshman, and even asophomore, Gist was just anathletic forward who couldthrow down a dunk. He wasn’tcapable of consistently hittingan outside shot or having anall-around game.
But with Williams’ teach-ing, he has become an all-around player, and with that
comes a shot at the NBA.Bob Ferry, a scout with the
Cleveland Cavaliers, said Giststill needs to work on his
shooting, but noted thevast improvement.
Ferry and fiveother scoutswere on handSunday tosee Gist inone of hisfinal games.Gist is oneof just fiveplayers inschool histo-ry to have1,000 points,500 re-bounds and200 blocks.
“I thinkhe’s a realintriguing
p r o s p e c tbased on hisathleticism,”said Aran
Smith, presidentof NBADraft.net.“He’s really devel-oped as the year’sgone on and shown
some outside shoot-ing ability and real-ly kind of showedsome maturity inhis game that willreally help him.”
For now, though, Mr. andMrs. Gist want their son tofocus on the immediate future.
“We’ve always talked to ourkids about having short-termand long-term goals,” Mrs. Gistsaid. “But we always tell themthat to accomplish the longterm, you have to accomplishthe short term. We’re focusingon graduation and graduationparties. The next level, all thatwill come after graduation.
“James is not out there play-ing for agents or to get on ateam. James is still playing forthe University of Maryland andto get them to the NCAA, andhe wants to keep his focus onschool and basketball. He does-n’t want to be distracted fromaccomplishing those twothings, and we just tell him thateverything else will come intime.”
*****On Senior Night, Mr. and
Mrs. Gist and about 45 otherfamily members were in atten-dance to see Gist play his finalhome game. Mr. Gist was therewearing his No. 15 “DAD” jer-sey, as usual. Gist’s mother andsister also have similar jerseys,which they’ve worn many,many times throughout theyears.
Gist’s parents said they’vemade it to about 90 percent ofTerps games during the pastfour years, both home andaway. This particular SeniorNight was bittersweet, though,given the way the Terps lost.
After tough losses like theone to Clemson, Gist’s parentswill sometimes spend a couplehours on the campus with theirson, helping him digest whatjust happened and find a wayto put it in the past. And thenit’s up to Gist to do the same forhis teammates, something thesenior has become a master atthis year.
“You talk about it, but a play-er has to be comfortable,”Williams said. “You can’t makea player do that.”
Gist has become comfort-able in the leadership role. Butit’s something he couldn’t havedone without his family by hisside.
Terpsknock off
EaglesBaseball clearsbench in victory
BYAARONKRAUTSenior staff writer
In its final tune-up before con-ference play begins, the Terrapinbaseball team handled visitingCoppin State 12-2 yesterday, im-proving its record to 5-4 in time forone of its toughest road trips of theseason.
“It’s here real soon,” coachTerry Rupp said regarding thisweekend’s ACC opener at No. 20
Florida State.“I think a lot ofthings came tolight today,and we’ll beready to go inthere and bat-tle very hard.”
“It’s greatjust to get a win so we can go downto Florida State with some confi-dence,” senior catcher Chad Du-rakis said. “It feels better to winthan to lose, and hopefully we takethe momentum we picked up todaywith us down there.”
Despite five Terp runs in thefirst two innings thanks to threeEagle errors, Coppin State had anopportunity to get back in the gamein the top of the fourth inning.
Down 5-2 with the basesloaded and two outs, Eagle leftfielder Jerry Matos struck outlooking on a fastball from fresh-man Adam Kolarek.
After the Terps stretched theirlead to 7-2 and locked up the game
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Takinga last
look atGist
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Joe Walters visits Terrapin men’s lacrosse teamFormer Terrapin lacrosse star Joe Walters dropped in on the team’s practiceand helped workout the Terp goalies. Read men’s lacrosse beat reporter EricDetweiler’s blog post about Walters on Terrapin Trail, The Diamondback sportsblog, at www.terrapintrail.com.
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NBA could be in Gist’s future
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