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Our 100TH Year, No. 146THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERThursday, July 8, 2010
Studentsmuggedin Lot 1Police arrest two teensafter ‘brazen’ robbery
BY LEAH VILLANUEVAStaff writer
Two students were assaulted and robbed inLot 1B on Friday afternoon, police said, and two16-year-olds were arrested nearby shortly after-ward in connection with the crime.
In what police believe to be the first broad-day-light mugging on the campus in more than ayear, the two students — both men — were at-tacked by a teen who approached them on a bicy-cle as they were getting into their car parkednear Knight Hall, University Police spokesmanCapt. Marc Limansky said.
The students were walking back from theUniversity Health Center at about 3 p.m. when ateenager came up behind them and accusedthem of talking about his mother.
The students ignored him and got into thefront seats of their black four-door Toyota, butthe teen — who police do not believe knew thestudents — climbed into the passenger side ofthe back seat and continued to badger them.
When the driver came around to the rear pas-senger door and told the teen to get out of the car,the teen punched the student in the face, knock-ing him to the ground, then got into the driver’sseat and began punching the other student, whoremained in the passenger’s seat, Limansky said.
He then grabbed the second student’s iPhoneand rode off with another teenager on bicycles,Limansky said, adding the students sufferedminor injuries.
The students and a passerby who witnessedthe robbery immediately called police with adescription of the robbers and their bicycles,and University Police broadcast an alert, Li-mansky said.
Police stopped one of the two suspects at the
Univ. disregards arearestrictions on water
A university employee waters plants near Lot 1 on July 2 despite an orderbanning all outdoor water use. BRADY HOLT/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY SOHAYL VAFAIStaff writer
The university is facing criti-cism from students and publicworks officials for violatingmandatory water restrictions andnot notifying on-campus residentsof the need to conserve.
The Washington Suburban Sani-tary Commission ordered all its cus-tomers throughout Prince George’sand Montgomery counties — in-cluding the university — to mini-mize water consumption betweenlast Thursday and early Tuesday asit made emergency repairs to itslargest water main.
To maintain enough water pres-sure for firefighters and to prevent a
contamination risk, WSSC told cus-tomers to halt all outdoor waterusage and minimize consumptionwhile washing clothes and dishes,bathing and even flushing toilets.Anyone caught watering plants orwashing cars risked a $500 fine.
But the university didn’t evenhear about restrictions until noonFriday, according to WilliamMonan, assistant director of land-scape services. Even then it only re-duced its watering instead of haltingit altogether as WSSC required,Monan said, and the university saidnothing to most students until morethan nine hours after the five-day re-striction period had ended.
see WATER, page 7
see ROBBERY, page 2
Next presidentmight not bepermanentInterim could replaceMote as search drags on
BY RICHARD ABDILLStaff writer
An interim president may take over theuniversity after President Dan Mote’s retire-ment takes effect Aug. 31, according to Don-
ald Kettl, the public pol-icy dean and chairmanof the search committeetasked with findingMote’s replacement.
After Mote an-nounced his retirementin February, ChancellorBrit Kirwan and theBoard of Regents ap-pointed a presidentialsearch committee to in-terview candidates andcompile a short list for
Kirwan and the regents to consider.Kettl said that while his group was work-
ing “as quickly as we can,” there is no guar-antee there will be a permanent replacementby the time Mote leaves at the beginning ofthe fall semester.
Kirwan said he would appoint an interimpresident in the meantime, a situation thatwouldn’t be unprecedented at this university— an interim was briefly in charge after Kir-wan himself stepped down as president herein 1998 before Mote’s appointment.
see MOTE, page 3
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PRESIDENTAir conditioning outages exasperate residents of Commons 1 and 2Area increase in energy demand due to the heat threatens to overload electrical grid
BY ALICIA MCCARTYFor The Diamondback
Commons 1 and 2 were withoutair conditioning Tuesday night,and Commons 2 residents werestill facing air conditioning issuesWednesday evening, residents anda community assistant said aftertemperatures soared to 101
degrees during the day.Abby Widom, a university alum
who was staying with a friend inCommons 2 Tuesday night, calledthe outage “miserable.”
“I woke up drenched,” she said.South Campus Commons man-
agement could not be reached forcomment on the incident Wednes-day night.
At the same time some studentswere left without air conditioning,university officials requested stu-dents across the campus conserveenergy as air conditioner usethroughout the region threatenedto overload the electrical grid.
Officials sent out a campus-widee-mail early Wednesday afternoonasking the university community
to conserve energy from 2 p.m.until 10 p.m. due to the possibilityof brownouts and blackoutscaused by a large increase in elec-tricity demand in the area.
An hour after the university’s e-mail, Commons management fol-lowed suit, asking residents to
see COMMONS, page 3
Students largely uninformed aboutlocal order to decrease consumption
A SEARCH BEGINSPossible replacements forAthletics Director DebbieYow emerge
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As temperatures reached the triple digits for the third straight day Wednesday, pedestrians on the campus found relief at a water stationthe University Health Center set up outside of the Stamp Student Union. Prince George’s County officials reported that 28 people acrossthe county have been taken to local hospitals for heat-related illnesses. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
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corner of Adelphi and Toledo roadsabout a mile and a half from the robberyscene, Limansky said, and soon got wordthat someone had run into the nearbyPrince George’s County CommunityCenter. Police found that suspect in thebuilding’s bathroom with the stoleniPhone, he added.
The victims and the witness all identi-fied the two 16-year-olds as the mug-gers, and the teens were charged withrobbery, assault and theft, Limanskysaid. Although police believe only one ofthe two suspects was a direct partici-pant, police spokesman Paul Dillon saidboth conspirators are equally responsi-ble under the law.
Because they were charged as juve-niles, Limansky would not identifythem except to say one of them livesnearby in Riverdale.
Neither is suspected of committing anyother on-campus crimes, he added, credit-ing the arrest and the recovery of theiPhone to “good police work” and the time-ly and coordinated response of the officers.
Limansky noted that the robbery wasunusual for the College Park area; mostrecent muggings have occurred late atnight blocks away from the campus itself.
The students therefore had no reason tobelieve they were about to become vic-tims, he said.
“They were walking together at a timeof day when their guard would be down,”Limansky said. “It was just a brazen thing.”
Sophomore computer sciencemajor Molly Li said she was “not toocomfortable” about the idea of a mug-ging occurring on the campus in themiddle of the day.
“I usually avoid walking around at nightbecause I know something like this couldhappen and I’ve heard about it happen-ing,” Li said. “But broad daylight — that’sjust a little disconcerting.”
Junior computer science and financemajor Edward Tsao said although thedaytime mugging was unusual, he was“not surprised” to hear about it.
“You kinda get enough police reportsfrom Prince George’s County Police tokind of expect this stuff to happen,”Tsao said.
However, Limansky said that in spite ofthe “smattering of occurrences” of crimein College Park, “statistically, it’s a verysafe campus.”
Police said the last similar crime oc-curred more than a year ago when a fe-male student was robbed of her book bagas she crossed a street near South Cam-pus Commons at 11 a.m. last May — amugging that remains unsolved.
In other recent crime news, two stu-dents and their non-student compan-ion were cited for shooting fireworksoff the roof of the Mowatt Lane park-ing garage at 1:35 a.m. last Thursday.Officers saw fireworks and stoppedthe three men in the garage’s stair-well, police said, and one of them ad-mitted to setting off one firework.
Police also stopped a man on KnoxRoad near Cornerstone Grill and Loftwho they said was cursing at andmooning nearby pedestrians around 1a.m. Friday. Adrian Lamont Moten, a22-year-old student from Hyattsville,was cited but not arrested for disorder-ly conduct, police said.
And Friday afternoon, police said aman assaulted a university parking en-forcement officer after the officer ticket-ed his truck, which was illegally parkedbetween Marie Mount Hall and the Skin-ner Building.
The man yelled profanities at theofficer and swatted at his face, graz-ing the officer’s cheek, and thenbriefly blocked in the parking en-forcement vehicle with his own truckwhen the officer tried to leave, policesaid. Because the officer wasn’t in-jured, he decided not to file charges,police said.
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conserve energy by keeping thermo-stats at 78 degrees, taking shortershowers and unplugging appliances.
Neither e-mail mentioned any issuewith the Commons air conditioning.
Vivey Chen, a senior economicsand geography major who lives inCommons 2, said she experiencedissues with her air conditioner duringthe last week of June and was not sur-prised when the problem becamemore widespread.
Chen called the outage “infuriating”and was most frustrated by the lack ofcommunication Commons manage-
ment has had with residents about thestatus of the system. She said she hadreceived no e-mails about the outagefrom management and no confirma-tion that it was actually fixed.
Kaitlyn Shulman, a public policygraduate student who lives in Com-mons 2, echoed Chen’s concernsabout management’s communicationwith residents.
“I’m just wondering if I shouldinvest in a fan,” Shulman said.
Nicole Silva, a senior family sciencemajor and the community assistant forCommons 1 and 2 who was on dutyWednesday evening, said she hadbeen informed by other staff membersthat the air conditioning in both build-ings had been fixed Wednesday morn-
ing. But, she said, she was still gettingcalls from residents about air condi-tioning issues.
In at least some of the cases, studentsdidn’t notice their air conditioning hadbeen repaired because they left theirvents closed, Silva said. However, someresidents were still reporting faulty airconditioning Wednesday night.
BY ALICIA MCCARTYFor The Diamondback
New parking space pay stations areon track to replace individual metersthroughout much of downtown Col-lege Park later this summer, city offi-cials said.
The 13 new stations will replace nearly200 meters and four existing pay stations,officials said. The stations would let mo-torists pay with paper money or a creditcard at the College Park Shopping Centerand on nearby streets and lets parking of-ficers collect money in central locationsrather than in dozens of individual me-ters, officials said at Tuesday night’s Col-lege Park City Council meeting.
The city is replacing its existing paystations at its new parking garage andits municipal parking lot after userscomplained they were too slow and dif-ficult to use, College Park finance direc-tor Steve Groh said. The new machineswill include signs detailing how to usethem and will process credit card trans-actions faster, he added.
“I feel very confident that the newmachines will address the issues withthe existing machines,”Groh said. Thenew stations cost approximately$10,000 each, he added.
As planned, the city will install five paystations throughout the 143-space shop-ping center parking lot, two others alongLehigh Road and Sterling Place and two
more in the garage, officials said, newsthat didn’t thrill students parking in thearea Wednesday morning.
“This is faster,” said Yuki Watanabe, asenior mechanical engineering major,pointing to the meter he just fed in theshopping center lot.
Senior theater major Chelsie Lloydlet out a frustrated sigh at the news.She said she prefers meters to pay sta-tions, particularly at a shopping center,
because she is often simply runninginto a store to pick up food and does notneed long-term parking.
“I think the pay station splurge oncampus has caused a lot of problems,”she said.
Despite its investment in new park-ing stations, the city has no immedi-ate plans to change its parking ratefrom the existing 75 cents an hour, of-ficials said.
District 2 Councilman Bob Catlinsaid he still hopes to see surface lotparking rates increase at some pointto encourage more drivers to use theunderutilized parking garage ratherthan circling crowded lots and streetshunting for a space. The originalLedo Restaurant pizza parlor —scheduled to move into the garage’sKnox Road retail space from its cur-rent location on Adelphi Road later
this summer — will also help boostthe garage’s use, officials said.
The city must get approval from theowners of its downtown commercialspace before installing meters at theshopping center and on the two streets,Catlin said. Barring objections, whichhe said he didn’t expect, the meterswould go in sometime next month.
The College Park Shopping Center will likely get five new pay stations to replace 143 individual meters in August, cityofficials said, but students are unsure of the new system’s merits. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
Several faculty members aroundfor the 1998 transition said theycouldn’t recall any problems with thesystem, and the University of Mary-land, Baltimore, also had an interimpresident until July 1, after formerpresident David A. Ramsay steppeddown in March.
The presidential transition comesat a time of administrative upheaval
in College Park: Vice President forResearch Mel Bernstein left July 1 totake a position at Northeastern Uni-versity and Athletics Director Deb-bie Yow announced last week thatshe is leaving for N.C. State.
Bernstein’s and Yow’s positionsboth come with a chair in the presi-dent’s cabinet and are now staffed byinterims while officials wait for a per-manent president to appoint theirreplacements.
MOTEfrom page 1
New parking meter system may spread to more of downtown College ParkCity says centralized pay stations aremore convenient than individual meters
Four city pay stations criticized asconfusing and slow will be replaced.MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
COMMONSfrom page 1
“I’m just wondering if Ishould invest in a fan.”
KAITLYN SHULMANCOMMONS 2 RESIDENT
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T his is a super-condensed,ultra-CliffNotes edition of“How to Be a Terrapin: AnInstruction Manual for
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1. Pick up the all-important freeUniversity Book Center and Mary-land Book Exchange T-shirts. Thesewill be integral to your participationin the giant red wave commonly seenat school sporting events. In fact,these shirts are appropriate foralmost every single occasion on cam-pus. So take your time to break themin and run your fingers over thatbeautiful turtle. Oh yes, there will beplenty more free shirts in your colle-giate future — but trust me, none willcompare to these two.
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3. Forget about looking both waysbefore crossing the street. I too hesi-tated before crossing the street whenI was a freshman, but I soon learnedthe cars always stop. They just do. I
must also insert a friendly word ofcaution that this rule does not applywhen you go back home. And if youhappen to hail from the mean streetsof Washington or Baltimore, makesure to re-learn how to cross thestreet before going home. I learnedthis the hard way.
4. Stay away from the friedchicken, French fries and buffalowings. It’s easy to say but oh so hardto do. Your eyes will probably glazeover at the number of food choicesavailable when you first step onto thecampus. And with your seeminglyunlimited meal plan, why notindulge? Don’t do it. No matter howmuch you plan to work out afterward,you will most likely not followthrough.
5. Pick up The Diamondback on adaily basis. If you can’t handle the NewYork Times or The Washington Post justyet, think of The Diamondback as a
set of friendly training wheels. Notonly will you be a wonderfullyinformed student but you will have agame of sudoku and a crossword avail-able during a particularly boring lec-ture.
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Actually, if you happen to beextremely bored, it’s also great fun toscroll through the comments at theend of the articles posted online. But ifyou’re feeling particularly nice andwant to infinitesimally increase yourgood karma, send us feedback ormaybe even a compliment that isn’tlaced with anger and acridity. We willlove you forever.
Angelina She is a sophomore physiologyand neurobiology major. She can bereached at [email protected].
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W hat are the firstthoughts that come tomind when you hearthe words “Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac”? Mine are:bailout, financial crisis, irresponsiblelending, housing bubble and sub-prime mortgage.
Ever since the government seizedFannie and Freddie in September2008 (right as they helped crash theeconomy), the taxpayer has beenpaying for their losses to keep thehousing industry afloat. Right now,the bill sits at $145.9 billion, and theCongressional Budget Office pre-dicts it’ll be $389 billion when all issaid and done.
There’s another way in which Fan-nie and Freddie are poised to under-mine the country: clean energy.Property Assessed Clean Energy isone of the best renewable energy andenergy efficiency financing ideas outthere. The program allows countiesand cities to give out micro-loans toproperty owners who want to retrofittheir home with solar panels or makeit more energy efficient but can’t
afford the upfront cost. The home-owners can then repay these loansover 20 years through a surchargeon their property taxes while at thesame time reaping energy savingsfrom the retrofit.
The importance of the surchargebeing on the property tax is that ifthe owner sells their home afterthey’ve used PACE, the loan stayswith the property and is passed on tothe next owners since they are thebeneficiary of the lower electricitybills. By overcoming two challengesto localized clean energy generation— upfront costs and the possibility ofan owner moving out after they’vedone a green home improvement —PACE changes the playing field. Itmakes clean energy affordable formiddle-class Americans.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Machave just brought PACE to ascreeching halt. These two govern-ment-owned corporations guaranteehalf of the nation’s $11 trillion inmortgages, and they have warnedlenders (local governments) not toparticipate in PACE. The issue is
that if a borrower defaults on theirhome, the PACE property tax sur-charge must be paid off before themortgage. Fannie and Freddie seethis as increasing the risk on theirmortgage loans, which means theycould raise interest rates to compen-sate. In other words, if Fannie andFreddie want to scare municipalitiesaway from PACE, they can.
Because of the warnings comingfrom Fannie and Freddie, all PACEprograms around the country havebeen paused as they await guidancefrom the mortgage lenders. No newprograms have arisen. This is lead-ing to lost opportunities for greenbusinesses and homeowners allaround the country. BoulderCounty, Colo., participated in PACElast year and funded $10 million
worth of improvements, creatingjobs all around the state. Manymunicipalities in California hadadopted PACE and were expected tocollectively drive $1 billion in localprojects. If PACE is killed, jobs,energy savings and reduced pollu-tion go with it.
Right now, with a sputtering econ-omy, banks that aren’t lending and anunemployment rate near 10 percent,we can’t afford to let Fannie and Fred-die bury PACE. Ironically, neither canthe mortgage giants. Energy effi-ciency and solar power have guaran-teed long-term energy savings thatincrease the financial security ofhomeowners and increase the value ofhomes. Based on their track record inyears past, we should encourage ourcongressmen and senators to giveFannie and Freddie some sound finan-cial advice before they sink us on thisone.
Matt Dernoga graduated in May witha degree in government and politics.He can be reached [email protected].
PACE: Undermined by Fannie and Freddie
Don’t waste water, the old adage goes. However, university officialschose to ignore that bit of wisdom during the first sweltering week ofJuly, creating a health and safety hazard.
After discovering a weakness in its largest water main, which sup-plies about 1.8 million residents in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties,the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission told customers to cut theirwater consumption from Thursday to Tuesday. Watering plants and lawns, wash-ing cars and even excessive laundry loads or toilet-flushing were discouragedthroughout the area, with warnings and $500 fines delivered to those who failedto comply.
But the university disregarded the order. Although it shutoff sprinkler systems a day after the restriction periodbegan, it continued to water plants and flowers in key loca-tions during the rest of the restriction period.
However, the ultimate transgression was that nobodyalerted students to decrease their water usage and manywere unaware of the ban.
The mandatory restrictions were intended to maintainenough water pressure for firefighters in case of an emer-gency and to guard against the risk of water contamination while the WSSCworked extensively to reinforce the pipe. The WSSC hoped to cut down con-sumption by 33 percent in order to achieve that goal, but only managed a 14 per-cent decrease.
By a stroke of luck, no massive fires or widespread water contaminationoccurred by the time the restrictions were lifted Tuesday. But just a day later, a 24-inch water main burst in a residential area of Potomac, spewing chunks of asphaltand flooding the neighborhood as water gushed for hours. The broken main is justfour miles from where the WSSC had completed repairs of the original pipeline,which is about four times bigger. If the rupture had occurred when customerswere supposed to have been monitoring their water usage during crucial repairs,who knows what could have happened.
Facilities Management officials said it would be impossible not to water the30,000 trees and flowers on the campus for three days inextremely hot weather. But parks and recreation authoritiesin nearby Laurel suspended watering in all parks, even wherenew sod and grass had just been planted. Besides, the univer-sity’s commitment to continually watering the grass seems tobe newfound — take a stroll through Washington Quad, onceone of the prettiest areas on the campus to play volleyball, bar-becue or lay in the grass, and you won’t be able to tell the dif-ference from the Sahara Desert.
Everybody loves green grass and fresh flowers, but the uni-versity had its priorities all wrong when it chose to violate a ban intended to keepresidents healthy and safe. Worse, students were kept in the dark when a simpleflyer posted on the door of dorms could have informed those who wanted to turnoff the faucet and, unlike the university, help out.
Staff editorial
Our ViewThe university shouldhave complied with re-
strictions and encouragedstudents to do the same
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The university, so precari-ously placed inside the Cap-ital Beltway, has always rep-resented the whimsical
ideal of a commuter campus. Histori-cally, this concept began with thefounding of the Maryland Agricul-tural College more than 150 yearsago, wherein students had to ridetheir brown 1852 Mustangs 15 milesdown Route One-half and fight forparking at one of the few haltingspaces outside of Van MunchingHall. While that picturesque campusmay be a thing of the past (asidefrom the traditional see-throughcows), our students and faculty arestill somewhat burdened by thiscommuter tradition, possibly due toan irrational fear that the ghosts ofHarry J. Patterson and Adele H.Stamp will haunt them for theirtreachery.
Therefore, we established depart-ments at the university to help easethe collective burden shared by com-muters and students living on-cam-pus, ultimately culminating in thecreation of the balancing-act behe-moth which is the Department ofTransportation Services. Wheneverthe issue of “car entanglement” isbrought up, many choose to focus onthe (laughably) disorganized park-ing system DOTS has heralded aspart of the reign of terror during its 8years at the university, whichmerged permit and ticket revenue assmoothly as my 87-year-old grand-mother would merge with a D.C.party bus barreling down Interstate95 at rush hour.
However, the issue that hasattracted my attention today as anactive student of the summer varietypertains specifically to the invasionof the campus by steely, shafted cars,so to speak.
Indeed, concern about finding aplace to park my faithful 2000 DodgeNeon is low on my list of concerns at2 a.m. No, I would probably just besatisfied finding a way past the damngates, chained entrances and otherflimsy symbols of oppression DOTSso punctually prepares at 10 p.m. onthe dot.
These security measures, whileseemingly admirable attempts toalleviate student safety concernsduring the arduous summermonths, cannot possibly be seen aslegitimate attempts to strengthen thesafety of on-campus residents fromoutside intruders. Indeed, while thegates do in fact limit the points ofaccess to our hallowed domain, fun-neling cars into a handful of chokepoints around Route 1 and Route 193is almost pointless without anyoneactually standing there guarding thedamn things.
Whereas during the cooler monthsthere would be a student donning a lit-tle yellow sash waving in permit hold-ers and Cluck-U Chicken deliveryguys, the unbearable heat of the sum-mer months must be too strenuousfor DOTS or University Police Auxil-iary to station anyone there.
As a result, students are unneces-sarily restricted in their options andare sometimes forced to circlearound the hellish back alleys of theKnox Boxes looking for a route backto the main gate.
Meanwhile, potential criminalswho don’t give up the hunt afterbeing denied by the gate outside ofMowatt Lane parking garage aresimply inconvenienced, and if theirresolve passes the test laid downbefore them by DOTS and they findtheir way around, they are awardedwith all the loot they wish to plunderduring the dark, humid hours of theJuly night.
Benjamin Franklin once said,“Those who wish to sacrifice free-dom for security deserve neither.”Well, he sure as hell didn’t say any-thing about sacrificing both.
Mark Glaros is a senior governmentand politics major. He can be reachedat [email protected].
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The way he rhymesBY ZACHARY BERMAN
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The career of Big Boi, one halfof genre-bending Atlanta rap duoOutKast, has long relied on baringhis influences and his new solorelease, Sir Lucious Left Foot: TheSon of Chico Dusty, is a return toform.
After 2006’s Idlewild film sound-track, OutKast has been on a longhiatus and both Big Boi and his part-ner-in-rhymes André 3000 haveplanned solo releases before thenext group record. Almost fouryears later, Big Boi has finallyreleased his solo debut, getting theworld one step closer to a possiblenew OutKast LP.
But don’t just look at Sir Luciousas a release that is half of a whole.Much the opposite: Big Boi bustsout of the splintered-music-groupstigma to forge a record that isdecidedly powerful and forthright.
At the forefront of the album isBig Boi’s iconic stop-start, nearlyconversational delivery style thatsets him apart from others in the rapgame.
This vocal style shares a direct lin-eage with psychedelic funk all-starGeorge Clinton’s relaxed delivery,who unsurprisingly makes his sec-ond OutKast-related guest appear-ance on this album with the head-bobbing fast soul track, “Fo Yo Sor-rows,” also featuring Too $hort andSam Chris.
With or without Clinton in tow,the Parliament Funkadelic influ-ence is immense, notableon almost every track.Take single “Shutter-bug,” led by a deepvocoder-af fected bassvoice that will rhythmicallyslap listeners’ speakers. Thethick sub-phonic snarl dis-tinctly recalls Parliament’s“Give Up The Funk (Tearthe Roof Off theSucker).”
What reallyhelps the albumpull away from theravenous wolfpack of homoge-nous-soundingrap albums arethe beats,which for thegreater part ofthe album willsurprise listen-ers with theiroriginality andcatchinesswithout failingto show theirinfluences.
Many of thebeats go welloff hip-hop’sbeaten path,particularly “Tan-
gerine,” featuring T.I. and KhujoGoodie. The beat swirls with
natural-sounding easternpercussion and a perpetual
distorted guitar riff, aswell as multiple vocaleffects.
Interesting soundaside, Big Boi and com-
pany don’t feel a need totake this par-
ticular trackto anotherlevel —perhapsan intel-lectualone —andchooseto rapinsteadabouthip-hop’scon-
stant:volup-
tuous vix-ens. The
rhymesaren’t bad
but the obvi-ousness of thesubject in thisgenre might
cause more
than a few groans.“Shine Blockas,” which features
jailbird Gucci Mane on the chorus,has one of the best beats on thealbum — a bouncing funk-gospelexploration that acts as a tri-umphant penultimate track on thealbum.
In other places, Big Boi makesexpert decisions in his guest cast-ing. The melancholy “Be Still” fea-tures repeated Big Boi collaboratorand hot young artist Janelle Monáein a starring role. Realizing thestrength of her chorus and voice,Big Boi lends himself a singleverse and allows Monáe to take therest of the song into the strato-sphere.
Sir Lucious is a record that car-ries few disappointments andmany clear references to thepast.
While many recent musicalartists have decided to conform,perhaps simply copying other con-temporaries to make a snappynumber, Big Boi continues to delveinto a rich back catalogue of influ-ences in order to formulate newsounds.
With OutKast out of the picturefor so long, listeners who are look-ing for something different mayhave found their album.
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For the restoration, Rialto Pictures“has made new 35 mm prints from a
restored negative super-vised by” the film’s
cinematographer,Raoul Coutard,according to anAFI Silver pressrelease. Thenew prints alsoinclude revised
English subtitles. The film follows
Michel Poiccard(Jean-Paul Belmondo, A Man
and His Dog), a sexist womanizer whosteals cars and sells them for a living.
Godard’s lens observes Poiccard inParis and documents his brief anddoomed love affair with an American,Patricia Franchini (a pitch-perfect per-formance by Jean Seberg, Kill! Kill! Kill!Kill!).
Breathless stands strong as essen-tial cinema. It is an accomplishmentthat helped to lay the foundation of notonly modern filmmaking but modernculture. — Reese HigginsRATING: 5 stars out of 5
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WSSC issued 356 warningsand four $500 citations for re-peat offenses during the re-striction period, White added,but the university was not finedfor its watering because WSSCwas not aware of its actions.Widespread disobedience ofthe restrictions caused usageto drop by just 14 percent, wellshort of the commission’s 33percent goal.
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about them through media re-ports, White said.
Many students — includingEvan Schneider, a Jewish studiesmajor who lives in Commons 5— said they didn’t cut their wateruse because no one informedthem they were supposed to.
“I’m surprised to hear there’s awater shortage,” Schneider saidMonday as he finished a fourthload of laundry. “The universityshould have informed us.”
Officials at the Resident LifeDepartment, responsible for thefew students currently staying indorms, said their employeestook steps to conserve water butthat they could have also sentout a notification.
“There are under 200 people inthe residence hall program,” saidChris Moore, the department’sadministrative services director.“But it’s a lesson learned in thatevery bit helps even without acampus-wide announcement,even if it’s just in Resident Life.”
Officials in Commons — wheremany students live for the sum-mer — said they could not explainwhy no one had sent an e-mail totheir residents.
The first campus-wide e-mailcame Tuesday evening from Fa-cilities Management energymanager Joan Kowal, who de-clined to comment on the delay.
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BYZEMENHABTEMARIAMFor The Diamondback
The University System of Mary-land hopes to encourage more stu-dents to complete two-year com-munity college programs beforetransferring to its own schools, fol-lowing the advice of a report theBoard of Regents received duringits meeting last month.
By streamlining the process oftransferring to this university — oranother university system institu-tion — the system can make it easi-er to persuade students to take themore cost-effective route of knock-ing out entry-level requirements ata less expensive college, accordingto Nancy Shapiro, an associate vicechancellor for academic affairs forthe university system.
“In my opinion, I think whatmatters most is not whether thestudent starts at a two-year col-lege but how they end up at thefour-year college — whether theygraduate successfully with goodgrades, maybe honors, whetherthey’ve had undergraduate re-search or internships,” Shapirosaid. “I think it’s the outcomesthat matter.”
By making it easier to transfercredits and by advertising the ad-vantages, officials said the univer-sity system can attract more stu-dents from community colleges.
Colleen Hoffman, a governmentand politics major who graduatedlast year, thinks the “2 + 2” transfermodel — two years at communitycollege followed by two at a univer-sity — is a good idea, especially if itmeans saving money.
“There’s some really well-offareas in Maryland, some of the
highest in the country, so there’sgood community colleges be-cause of the money funneling intothem,” Hoffman said.
Hoffman also said if she couldstart over again, she definitelywould have taken the “2 + 2” route,although she would have takenthe first two years at a communitycollege in Pennsylvania.
“It’s a good way to save moneyand to put yourself through col-lege as a result, especially a univer-sity with a well-regarded name andgood reputation,” Hoffman said.
However, D. Britt Reynolds, thisuniversity’s director of undergrad-uate admissions, said the primarygoal of these initiatives is not to af-fect the number of incoming fresh-men and transfer students but toincrease the quality of transfer stu-dents coming in and keep themfrom wasting time retaking classeswhose credits didn’t transfer.
“I think we need to be planfuland make good plans with our col-leagues at the community collegeand the students at the communitycollege,” Reynolds said, “so thatwe are not just planning from thepoint they are making the transi-tion but that we are making theplan ahead of time so that whenthey make that transition, theyhave taken the right courses.”
Teri Hollander, another associ-ate vice chancellor for academicaffairs for the university system,said the board is currently plan-ning to work with the MarylandAssociation of Community Col-leges this summer in a joint com-mittee tasked with developing in-centives that would spur morecommunity college students tocommit to getting their associate’s
degrees and transfer. “We have begun the environ-
mental scan of best or most prom-ising practices across the countryas well as those in Maryland,” Hol-lander said. “Our state is alreadyconsidered one of the leaders intransfer, but we need to now focuson degree completion.”
Hollander noted studiesshowing that students transfer-ring to a university after complet-ing their associate’s degree havea higher graduation rate thanthose who enroll as freshmen infour-year colleges.
The report also noted that ahigher number of community col-lege transfers to system institu-tions have been minorities. Ac-cording to the report, the numberof black and Latino communitycollege students who transferredto a university system institutionover the past five years have in-creased 17 percent and 27 per-cent, respectively.
Some students say it’s alreadyfairly easy to transfer to this uni-versity from a community college.
Besides a science credit thatwas briefly lost to a computererror, senior criminology majorBilly Arrington’s transfer fromCarroll Community College suf-fered no holdups.
Arrington said he initially decid-ed to only pursue his associate’sdegree but later decided to trans-fer to a university as a ticket to amore secure job in the future.
“In this day and time, I need abachelor’s degree, and I can makemore money if I have a bachelor’sdegree,” Arrington said.
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Terps will playTemple inBB&T Classic
JONAS SHAFFERSenior staff writer
The Terrapin men’s basketball team willplay Temple in the BB&T Classic, tourna-ment officials announced last week.
The Dec. 5 matchup will headline theregion’s annual winter basketball showcase,which also includes games at the VerizonCenter between Florida and American andGeorge Washington and Navy.
The Terps have lost seven of their pastnine games in the tournament, including a95-86 loss to then-No. 3 Villanova last season.
Temple won’t be a tough out, either. AnNCAA Tournament team a year ago, theOwls return starters Lavoy Allen, Juan Fer-nandez and Micheal Eric.
Coach Fran Dunphy is also a formerGary Williams assistant and leads a tough-nosed team many expect to rank in the top25 next season.
Tip-off time for the game has yet to be set.
The Terps have already set part oftheir 2009-10 schedule. Here’show it looks at the moment:
■ Nov. 8: Seattle■ Nov. 10: College of Charleston■ Nov. 18/19: Coaches vs. Cancer
Classic (Championship Rounds)■ Dec. 5: Temple
SCHEDULE PREVIEW
NEXT IN LINE?With Athletics DirectorDebbie Yow taking thesame post at NorthCarolina State, hereare four candidatesthat could be in therunning to take overTerrapin athletics.
The 1979 university graduate has servedthe Sooners for a long time, so this is likelya long shot. As appetizing as a homecom-ing might be for Castiglione, a cushy newBig 12 TV contract could be all the convinc-ing he needs to stay put in Norman. Withhis success with the Sooners — Okla-homa’s football and basketball programsare perennial league powers — and themoney he should be seeing soon, it’shighly doubtful he would ever leave.
Joe CastiglioneOklahoma AthleticsDirector
Mullens, right, served seven years in College Park,moving on to Lexington after serving the AthleticsDepartment in positions including chief of staff. The WestVirginia graduate nearly landed the Mountaineers’ athlet-ics director gig just weeks ago, but will he get a secondshot at leading his own program this summer?
Rob Mullens Kentucky Executive Associate
Athletics Director
A graduate of this university and Yow’s personally rec-ommended successor, Hathaway, left, spent nearly adecade in the Terps’ Athletics Department and has morerecently helped build basketball powerhouses in Storrswith Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma. He’s also over-seen the rapid transformation of Huskies football fromDivision I neophyte to Big East contender.
Jeff HathawayConnecticut Athletics Director
Randy Eaton Terrapin Interim Athletics Director/Chief Financial Officer
Eaton, like Castiglione, is probably a reachfor the athletics director position he nowholds for the Terps on an interim basis — butit’s not because Eaton’s reluctant to take theposition. Eaton came into the post June 28after several years of solid work in the Terps’Athletics Department, but he has no illu-sions about keeping his title beyond the fall.Still, if things go right with Terps’ footballthis season, and he does and says the rightthings, don’t rule him out.
Photographs, clockwise from top, courtesy ofOklahoma Athletics, Kentucky Athletics, Ter-rapin Athletics and Connecticut Athletics.Information compiled by Jonas Shaffer.
DECISION TIMEHere’s a tentative timetable of what the Athletics Department’s search for anew athletics director looks like:
July 9: Athletics Director’s DebbieYow’s last day at the university
July 15: First meeting for athleticsdirector search committee
September/October: New athleticsdirector expected to be named