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Committee votesfor fee increase
English proposal angers LSU
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Chris Turner, Darrius Heyward-Bey and Davin Meggett (l-r) will take on Eastern Michigan tomorrow at 1p.m. The Terps hope to continue their momentum from last weekend’s unexpected win over then-No.23 California. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Revenue will help campus movetoward 100 percent clean energy
BY MICHAEL LEMAIREStaff writer
The Committee for the Review ofStudent Fees voted unanimouslyThursday for an additional studentfee to help pay for the creation ofclean energy and efficiency pro-grams.
A referendum on the act was ini-tially proposed in April 2007 by MattLyons, the Student Government Asso-ciation’s Speaker of the Legislature. Itwas placed on the 2007 SGA ElectionsBallot, where 91 percent of the stu-dent body said they would be in favorof the additional fee.
Both Lyons and SGA Senior VicePresident Joanna Calabrese said the
act’s passage is a true testament tohow committed students are on theissue of clean energy.
“I think this is a huge statementabout the students,” Lyons said.“They showed what kind of impactthey can make on a sustainable cam-pus for the future.”
“It’s just one example of how sup-portive students are of clean energyand green issues,” Calabrese added.“Students showed they are willing todo more than just talk about a sustain-able future. They are willing to pay tomake it happen.”
The act calls for a $4 student feethat would be separate from the fuel
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Despite funding delays, Duncan saysofficials could agree on plans this fall
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
The university is getting closer toreaching a compromise with the stateon the planned Metro Purple Line,Vice President for AdministrativeAffairs Doug Duncan said yesterdayin a guest lecture to an urban plan-ning class.
Duncan, who has long opposed theMaryland Transit Administration’sproposed Campus Drive alignmentfor the Purple Line — a light rail or
bus-rapid transit line that will runthrough the campus — ceded in yes-terday’s lecture that, provided theMTA complies with certain criteria, acompromise is in sight.
“I expect that sometime this fall,the university and MTA will reach anagreement [on the Purple Line align-ment],” Duncan said. “It will be agreat addition to this university.”
When the MTA and the universitystarted discussing the Purple Line,
Please See COMPROMISE, Page 3
Do Terrapins have a funny bone?
University group plans to speak at next city council meetingBY BRADY HOLT
Senior staff writer
The Latino Student Union ispreparing to speak before nextweek’s city council meeting inresponse to a College Park city coun-cilman who is trying to have Englishadopted as the city’s official lan-guage, LSU officers said.
LSU President Manny Ruiz saidhe hopes to get students and faculty
to rebut with “concrete details andspecifics” the “bias” and “whims” ofDistrict 2 Councilman Jack Perry’s
pursuit of an official language. Perry’s proposed amendment to
the College Park city charter —which the council discussed at itsmeeting last Tuesday — says the city“shall make no law or policy whichdiminishes or ignores the role ofEnglish as the common language ofthe city.” Fellow city council mem-ber Patrick Wojahn, of District 1, is
BY SAM TAUTEStaff writer
Dining Services officials say stu-dents last year used more than 1.1million containers made fromfoamed polystyrene, a non-biodegradable material more com-monly known as Styrofoam. Nextyear, that number will be zero, thosesame officials say.
Dining Services will replace all ofthe foamed polystyrene containersin the dairy section of campus dininghalls on Monday with paper cupsand three-compartment trays madeof Bagasse, a biodegradable productmade from processing sugarcane.By the beginning of next semester,officials say Bagasse and paper willhave completely replaced foamedpolystyrene.
The change has been discussed for
years as the dining halls look tobecome more environmentallyfriendly, but the department didn’tsettle on an alternative until afterdirector Colleen Wright-Riva tookover at the tail end of last year.
“[Wright-Riva is] really the onethat made it happen,” said GregThompson, the associate director ofDining Services. “It was really afight until she came along.”
Wright-Riva formed a committeeresponsible for finding an alterna-tive to foamed polystyrene. The com-mittee evaluated many optionsbefore settling on Bagasse andpaper.
Unlike foamed polystyrene,Bagasse can be composted and willeventually disintegrate if littered.
Bagasse is heavier and thus costs
Please See TRAYS, Page 2
Sophomore journalism major Hugh McAdorey, a crowd favorite, reads a story he wrote during Off the Wall'sSept. 11 performance. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Dining Services plans totrash foam cups, trays Officials: Biodegradable material won’t coststudents more this year, despite higher price
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Campus comedy groups look to gain recognition
BY KELLIE WOODHOUSEStaff writer
Comedy at this university —you’re kidding, right?
There is a comedy scene on thecampus, but relatively few peopleknow much about it. In fact, many ofthose who are familiar with campuscomedians tout them as the best-kept secret on the campus.
But this year, the university’simprov troupes and stand-up clubsplan to shrug off the invisibilitycloak that has shrouded them for solong and become key players in thecampus’s entertainment commu-nity. Of the four Student Govern-ment Association-recognized com-edy groups, three — the Bureau,
Please See COMEDY, Page 3
JACK PERRY DISTRICT 2 COUNCILMAN
Univ., state may soonreach route decision
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ALUMNI ADVICE DAYPanel discussion featuring university alumni in themedical and dental fields. Advice will be offered toundergraduates, 10 a.m. to noon, Stamp Student Union:Jiménez Room
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MLK memorial group toseek building permits
WWAASSHHIINNGGTTOONN —— Criticismof the Martin Luther King Jr.Memorial’s design has comedown to approvals of its stonesurfaces, fonts for inscrip-tions and security at the Na-tional Mall site.
The U.S. Commission ofFine Arts approved the designThursday with several condi-tions. The arts panel, whichearlier criticized the depictionof the civil rights leader, nowwants to see full-scale sam-ples of the stone finish for thesculpture and ways to securethe memorial without uglybollards cluttering the area.
These are the kinds of hur-dles a group has to clear tobuild a memorial at the heartof the nation’s capital whereproperty is scarce.
Death of inmate ruled ahomicide
UUPPPPEERR MMAARRLLBBOORROO ——Prince George’s County au-thorities said the state’s chiefmedical examiner has ruledthat an inmate found dead inhis jail cell was strangled.
A spokesman for State’sAttorney Glenn Ivey said a re-port released Thursday indi-cates 19-year-old RonnieWhite was the victim of ahomicide caused by asphyxi-ation.
White was found deadJune 29, several days after hewas arrested in the hit-and-run death of a police officer. Apreliminary autopsy shortlyafter White’s death also de-termined he was strangled.
Ivey’s spokesman, RamonKorionoff, called the medicalexaminer’s final report a “sig-nificant step” but said nocharges have been filed inWhite’s death and an investi-gation is ongoing.
State comptroller easesgasoline blend rules
AANNNNAAPPOOLLIISS —— State comp-troller Peter Franchot said heis allowing gasoline stations inthe state to immediately sell aheavier blend of gasoline nor-mally not allowed to be solduntil after Oct. 1.
The move is intended to in-crease the gasoline supplyavailable for sale in the after-math of Hurricane Ike’s im-pact on refineries in the Gulfof Mexico.
Franchot stressed there isno shortage of gas in thestate, and he does not expectone. Instead, he said the deci-sion is intended to help con-sumers through the spike ingasoline prices that followedthe hurricane.
— Compiled from wirereports
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An anniversary of an accordSCENE + HEARD
BYNELLYDESMARATTESFor The Diamondback
Several prominent Middle Eastrelations experts came to the cam-pus Thursday to commemoratethe 30th anniversary of the CampDavid Accords, the first-everpeace talk between an Arab nationand Israel.
In the midst of growing tensionsbetween the United States andMiddle Eastern countries, thespeakers discussed both the histo-ry of Middle East diplomacy aswell as what the next U.S. presi-dent could do to improve relations.Shibley Telhami, the university’sSadat Chair for Peace and Devel-opment, moderated and spon-sored the forum.
University President Dan Mote,who kicked off the forum in theStamp Student Union in front ofabout 100 spectators, called theCamp David Accords “one of thegreatest diplomatic feats of recenthistory” and “an allegory of the artof leadership.”
The speakers at the forum wereGen. Brent Scowcroft, the nationalsecurity advisor for presidentsGerald Ford and George H. W.Bush; William Quandt, formermember of the National SecurityCouncil during the Camp DavidAccords; and Ambassador DennisRoss, former special Middle Eastcoordinator who served in boththe George H. W. Bush and Clin-ton administrations.
The forum touched not only onthe accords but also modern is-sues including the impact of thewars in Iraq and Afghanistan onMiddle East peace talks, the roleoil plays in Middle East policies
and the current presidential elec-tions.
The conversation — at timesseeming more like a group offriends discussing politics ratherthan influential leaders in themidst of a forum — grew tensewhen the discussion turned to-ward Iran, its influence and whatthe next U.S. president should doregarding the country and its lead-ers. All the speakers agreed thatIran was one of the biggest foreignpolicy problems the next presi-dent would face, and they stressedthe need to use diplomacy first.
“Iraq has shown us the limita-tions of [military] power,” Scow-croft said.
Meanwhile, Telhami stressedthe importance of the accords.
“[The Camp David Accords]are ... arguably one of the most im-portant accomplishment[s] ofAmerican diplomacy in the Mid-dle East, ever,” Telhami added.
The forum served to commem-orate when Egyptian PresidentMuhammad Anwar al-Sadat andIsraeli Prime Minister MenachemBegin met with U.S. PresidentJimmy Carter at Camp David,Md., in September 1978 to discusspeace between Israel and Egypt.These peace talks became knownas the Camp David Accords andset up the framework for theEgyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty andother peace relations in the Mid-dle East.
Egyptian President HosniMubarak, who has led the countrysince al-Sadat was assassinated in1981, is expected to step downsoon. Once the 80-year-old leavesoffice, experts predict there maybe some political instability, and
no one is sure what will become ofrelations between the nation andIsrael, panel members said.
“There is really no messagethat one should send,” Telhamisaid of the forum’s purpose.“What I would like to do is providea lot of information so that peoplesay, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that,’ and[begin] challenging their pre-setpositions.”
Students at the event were ex-cited to have the chance to hearrenowned Middle East expertsdiscuss both the history of theCamp David Accords and how thepast will shape current events.
“I’m taking [classes in] interna-tional relations, and this helps mesee international relations in ac-tion — not just in the newspaper,but something being discussed infront of me,” sophomore govern-ment and politics major DavidBotwick-Rise said.
Led by professor Shibley Telhami (left), Gen. Brent Scowcroft, University of Virginia professor WilliamQuandt and ambassador Dennis Ross participate in the Sadat Forum Thursday night in the ColonyBallroom. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Paul Scham, executive director of the university’s GildenhornInstitute for Israel Studies, asks a question during Thursday night’sSadat Forum in the Colony Ballroom. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
30 years after the Camp DavidAccords, experts speak about the
United States and the Middle East
Dining Servicesto examine traycosts this year
more to ship, and it’s uncertainhow long the material takes todecompose outside of a compostpile, said Bart Hipple, aspokesman for Dining Services.Wright-Riva also said they havenot determined whether paperwill break down in compost.
Heather Lair, a project man-ager in the university’s Office ofSustainability, was among thoseon the committee. Lair empha-sized that Bagasse is bio-degradable, unlike foamed poly-styrene, but said using fewercarry-out containers was stillthe most effective way of reduc-ing waste.
Dining Services representa-tives said students won’t take onany additional costs this year as aresult of the change. Departmentofficials plan to review how muchthe new containers will cost themand will determine next yearwhether they will need to chargestudents more money.
Yet it’s difficult to comparematerials in terms of environ-mental impact because each hasits benefits and drawbacks,Wright-Riva said. No materialhas proven to be completely en-vironmentally friendly.
“The department has beenwanting to make a change for along time, but the worry wasthat people just didn’t knowwhat the best product was,”Wright-Riva said. “There’s nosilver bullet that will makewaste disappear.”
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2008 | NEWS | THE DIAMONDBACK 3
Spanish-speaking community callsEnglish-only policy anti-diversity
BEATING THE SWEAT OUT OF SWEATSHOPS
Sophomore government and politics and philosophy major Anton Medvedev takes his swing at theFeminism Without Borders sweatshop piñata as part of a continued effort to convince universityPresident Dan Mote to support the Designated Suppliers Program that would prevent Terps apparelfrom being made in factories that use sweatshop labor. JACLYN BOROWSKI-THE DIAMONDBACK
BY DIANA ELBASHAStaff writer
When Alli Matson came tothe university two years agoto work at the UniversityHealth Center, she found onemajor flaw in the center.
“I noticed we didn’t havehealth center publications oncampus focusing on the issueof STIs,” said Matson, who isnow the coordinator of sexualhealth programs at the healthcenter.
To combat that lack ofinformation, the health centerlaunched an entire “STI Pub-lic Education” campaign thissemester. The campaign wasput together last year, and theposters began lining thehealth center walls and shut-tle buses earlier this month.
“Our goal is to educate stu-dents on STIs and let themknow that they can seek treat-ment at the health center,”Matson said.
Though the health centerdoes not keep track of thenumber of students treatedfor STIs, employees noticedthree diseases were particu-larly prevalent on the cam-pus: herpes, HPV andchlamydia. So the health cen-ter, while it strives to educatestudents about overall sexualhealth, is focusing primarilyon these three diseases in itsyear-long campaign.
Matson said she hopes toexpand the campaign to theDepartment of Resident Lifeand the Greek community inthe hopes that every residentassistant and house manager
will eventually be educated toassist with the campaign.
“We wanted to come upwith more attractive materi-als, not just the standardblack and gold,” she said.
Signs with messages read-ing, “Well, what do youknow?” and “Get tested forSTIs and use protection,” arethe most common of the cam-paign materials. Matson saidshe hopes such statementswill prompt students to ques-tion how informed they areabout sexual health.
Matson added that thefinal stage of expanding thecampaign will involve themedia — including radio andnewspapers — in creatingpublicity.
“The process is not neces-sarily hard,” Matson said,
“but time-consuming. Wewant to make sure we are giv-ing the right message to stu-dents and letting them knowthat treatment is available.”
The health center providesconfidential treatment —such as medications and wartremoval — for most STIcases. More severe illnesses,such as HIV, are referred tonon-university doctors so awhole team, including socialworkers, can assist in treatingthe case, Matson added.
“As much as we love thestudent body, we don’t want tosee all of the student bodies inthe health center,” she said.“We are hopeful that peoplewill read the messages andreally take them to heart.”
offering an alternative resolu-tion calling for “appreciatinglinguistic and cultural diver-sity” and “seeking to incorpo-rate members with limitedEnglish proficiency as fullmembers of the community.”
“That’s exactly what weshould be doing,” Ruiz said ofWojahn’s resolution, which hesaid the LSU will probably sup-port at the next city councilmeeting. Representatives fromboth the LSU and Latino advo-cacy group CASA de Marylandattended Tuesday’s councilmeeting.
At the council meeting, Perrysaid he wanted to encouragecity residents to speak Englishso they could be more success-ful in this country, a sentimentshared by Rob Toonkel, aspokesman for U.S. English, apro-English advocacy group.
“In the United States, pro-moting English is a positivereinforcement for the mostimportant skill an immigrantcan have,” Toonkel said. “If agovernment is promoting thelack of a need to learn English,it’s doing immigrants a disserv-ice.”
Perry has said he hopes thecity could cut down on its trans-lation services, which city offi-cials estimated at $4,000 to$5,000 annually.
But Ana Maria González, aCollege Park resident originallyfrom Colombia, said it can bedifficult for some immigrants topick up a new language evenwhen they want to.
“People with very fewresources, who don’t havemuch money, can’t pay for Eng-lish classes and, therefore,can’t learn it very quickly,”González said in Spanish.
She moved to College Parkwith her husband — a doctorwho works as a Latin Americanconsultant for the World HealthOrganization — early last yearbut said that, while they bothcan read English well, neitherspeaks it.
González said she appreci-ates having written informationpresented in both Spanish andEnglish and hopes College Parkdoesn’t stop doing so.
“First I read the English,because I have an interest inlearning and I’m curious howmuch I know,” she said inSpanish. “But when they’revery important documents, Ialso want to read them inSpanish so I can be sure of theinformation.”
Perry said non-English speak-ers should be more proactive inpicking up the language ratherthan relying on translations pro-vided at the taxpayers’ expense.In an interview, Perry explainedthe benefits of adopting Englishas an official language as awake-up call to non-speakers inthe United States: “I’d better getmy act together and learn how tospeak English.”
“Then they can tell their boss,‘I have a better job. I’m not goingto clean the floor; I’m going to gobe a teller at the bank,’” he said.“If one is not proficient in Eng-lish, one is establishing them-selves a glass ceiling.”
Council support for Perry’smotion to make English thecity’s official language was solow that neither he nor othercouncil members said theyknew if it would even get sec-onded, a prerequisite for fur-ther council discussion. Mostcouncil items pass unani-mously, with a second only as aformality.
Despite Perry’s insistencethat making English the city’sofficial language will save itmoney, CASA de Marylandspokesman Mario Quiroz saidmaking English an official lan-guage serves mostly to make astatement.
“Having an English-only pro-posal sends a message that wedon’t want diversity in the com-munity, that we want just oneway of seeing things,” he said.“A proposal like English-onlywill eliminate the expansion ofdiversity.”
González said her primaryconcern with Perry’s proposalis that it could prevent peoplefrom understanding the laws ofa new country, not the state-ment Quiroz said it makes.
“Each country and each cityhas the right to have its own offi-cial language, and this is fine.When we foreigners come to thiscountry, we know this countryspeaks English,” González said.“But even with an official lan-guage you have to rememberthat there are many who speakother languages who need helpunderstanding English. Youshouldn’t exclude these people.”
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Purple Line may move forward thanks to design changes
Health Center launches STI awareness campaignAfter observing prevalent infections, employees hope to alert students to risk
Comedy groups aim tocultivate new talent
Erasable Inc. and Off TheWall — are launching cre-ative strategies to get stu-dents involved and to catapultthe college toward the samelevel as schools with famouslythriving comedy cultures:New York University, Skid-more College and the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania.
The Bureau — a group thatencompasses a smorgasbordof stand-up comedy, improvperformances, musical com-edy, scripted sketches andvideo parodies — has plans toattract more students byadding comedy workshops toits repertoire.
Bureau president DaveSmith, a reporter for TheDiamondback’s Diversionssection, and co-creativedirector Dan Greene said asmany as 60 people at oncehave auditioned for a spot onthe team, so they believe theworkshops will serve as apopular stepping-stone forthose who don’t make the ini-tial cut during auditions.
“We’re all about givingback to the campus, but allthese people [who get cut]feel bitter,” Smith said. “Wewant to be friends with thesekids; it’s not like it’s per-sonal.”
With the workshops,Smith and Greene said theBureau can provideresources for students whoare just beginning to learnthe ins and outs of improvand invest in their matura-tion as performers. Ulti-mately, they said, the work-shops will create a more inti-mate relationship betweenstudents and players.
“We work with them andthey work for us: We’re try-ing to cut that boundarybetween audience and play-ers out,” Smith said.
Erasable Inc., the univer-sity’s oldest comedy group,stays visible to students byperforming improv in frontof McKeldin Library everyFriday afternoon. In thepast, the group has givenadvice to aspiring comicsand worked on improv withthe audience after shows.This year, the team will runthese informal sessionsmore regularly, memberssaid.
Erasable Inc. co-creativedirector Becca Barish saidthe sessions will be open toanyone, no matter his or herexperience.
“It doesn’t matter; you cancome from different places,”she said. “It’s not like youhave to be a part of the the-atre department to be a partof this group.”
Stand-up comedy groupOff The Wall also tries to bevery available to students,
allowing anyone to sign upfor a five-minute slot duringits weekly Thursday per-formances. The group mixesprofessional comedians andinexperienced stand-up new-comers in their show, bring-ing popular Washingtoncomics to display their witalongside first-time studentcomedians — an interestingmove for a group that justformed in March.
“We are making it as inclu-sive and as open as possible,”said sophomore Justin Cous-son, the group’s founder.“You don’t have to audition oranything; you just have tocome to us.”
Barish, Smith, Greene andCousson all said even thoughmost groups perform for thesame audiences, there’shardly any competition ortension between them. Infact, members of The Bureaupostponed a practice lastsemester to attend Off TheWall’s first show and provideencouragement to the younggroup.
“There’s no competitionbetween the groups; we’re allkind of a bunch of upstarts,”Cousson said.
Even in a school of over25,000 undergraduates, thecombined patronage of thesegroups may be in the lowhundreds. But they say lownumbers won’t stop themfrom maturing into moreinventive comedians.
“All the groups are reallyambitious, which is great,”Smith said. “I think, for themost part, nobody gets satis-fied with where they are.”
Each group wants novicestudent comedians to feel therush that comes with per-forming off-the-cuff, a feelingthey excitedly describe asaddicting and exhilarating.
“I was like, ‘This is the mostamazing feeling I ever had,’”said Greene, speaking of hisfirst performance to a largeaudience of over 400 students.“It was cathartic; I just feltdrained of all this energy thatI’d been building up.”
And the importance ofcomedy isn’t just personal —college groups should keep inmind the experience they canget out of the on-campusscene, Cousson said.
“When it comes down to it,aspiring comics in the areahave two choices: Whoreyourself out on the localopen-mic circuit and findyourself telling jokes to acrowd of nine comics and adog while bar patrons watchfly-fishing on ESPN2, orcome down to one of ourshows and walk out vali-dated, beloved and with afull head of lush, silky hair,”he said.
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university administrators wereunder the impression the trackswould run underground and notinterfere with roads and walk-ways on the campus. But once itbecame clear the line would bean above-ground system, de-bate ensued.
“It poses a lot of interestingchallenges for us,” Duncan said.“For instance, this is a lovelycampus, and there’s this pedes-trian culture where we don’t stopstudents to let cars through, westop cars to let students through.We don’t want to lose that.”
MTA Purple Line projectmanager Mike Madden said thestate reevaluated its originalplans and made changes, whichwill hopefully quell universityopposition.
“Our original graphics gavethe idea that we would be divid-
ing the campus,” Madden said,referencing the notion that bar-ricades would be built along therail system, forcing students tocross at designated points.
University officials worriedthat fences and power lineswould interfere with the archi-tectural style of the campus.
“Now we have this open-plazaconcept, so pedestrians can crossanywhere,” Madden said. “[Thecars] would operate similarly tohow the buses do today.”
The open-plaza design for thePurple Line would also eliminatethe need to “funnel students”through designated crosswalksbecause the light rail’s trackswould lay in the ground ratherthan rise above it.
This, Duncan said, is ideal.“Trains have to make their
schedules, and students have tomake their classes, so theywould step over the barriers,”
he said. “Before you know it,the barriers would get higherand higher until you have afence dividing our campus. Wewant them to keep everything atone level so you don’t have tostep up or step down.”
Madden said the state has nodesire to negatively affect any as-pect of university life and hassent consultants to work with theuniversity.
“We are working to find waysto address all of these concernsand are testing both [thePreinkert and Campus Drive]alignments,” Madden said.
Students attending the presen-tation — there were only 25 in at-tendance — raised their con-cerns about the light rail system,including its environmental im-pact and the financial burden itwould put on students. AfterDuncan told students some uni-versity bus routes would be can-
celed or changed when the Pur-ple Line is built, one student ex-pressed concerns about havingto pay for the Purple Line insteadof riding the buses for free.
Duncan said all these con-cerns would be looked at, but nochanges would be made immedi-ately. He assured them the buseswould be left intact until the Pur-ple Line is up and running.
Despite all the noise sur-rounding the project, the actualplan will not be implementedfor years, due to a cut in statefunding.
“What’s funny is, we have allthis debate and people are allup in arms about it, and thenwe’re going to come to a com-promise and pick an alignmentand sit for 20 years becausethere’s no money to build any-thing,” Duncan said.
New fee may allow university to buy only clean energy
and utilities fee studentsalready pay. This committee,which was comprised of stu-dents and campus officials,chose to approve the $4 feewith the caveat that it wouldreview it each year anddecide whether it needs tobe raised, with the pricecapping at $12 in four years,Lyons said.
With the additional fee,the university “could poten-tially purchase 100 percentof student consumption inclean, renewable energy,”according to the language ofthe act. Though the price of
renewable energy creditshas risen since the act wasoriginally written, Lyonsremains optimistic.
“There is certainly noguarantee that the fee willbe able to purchase 100 per-cent consumption,” Lyonssaid. “But I think it is animportant step in the rightdirection for the campus tobe making.”
According to the act, theEnvironmental ProtectionAgency publishes a list ofthe top College and Univer-sity Partners in the GreenPower Partnership and thisuniversity has never been onthe list, a statistic that Lyons
said he hopes will changewith this new act.
“No question, I hope tomake the list. I think itwould be a great statementby our campus,” Lyons said.“We have made a lot ofchanges in sustainability forthe future and also for thepresent. If we combine thosetwo, I think we have a greatshot of getting on the list inthe future.”
The fee will not be put intoplace until 2010. But AliAdler, the campaign directorof Clean Energy for UMDand a former Diamondbackcolumnist, thinks the actwill have an immediate
impact for the university aswell.
And though Calabrese, ajunior environmental policymajor, will not be enrolledlong enough to see theresidual effects of the act onthe sustainability of thecampus, she said her sup-port of the initiative wasnever about her own per-sonal gain.
“To say that I was instru-mental in creating some-thing that will improve thesustainability of this campusin the future makes it worthit,” Calabrese said.
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You’ve seen it before. The oblivi-ous kid listening to his iPodwhile crossing the street whodoesn’t even blink after nearly
getting run over. If you haven’t seen it,it’s probably because that oblivious kidwas you. Screeching brakes, expletivesand an occasional not-so-friendly handgesture are all-too-familiar to the aver-age driver trying to get through thecampus.
Pedestrians are taught they alwayshave the right of way when they see acolumn of white stripes ahead of them,regardless of how long a car has beensitting there waiting.
Students on foot swarm the campusevery day at 10 minutes before the houron Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridaysand then again 15 to 30 minutes past thehour on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
When I first moved onto the campus,I thought, “What idiot would try todrive through the campus, knowingthat classes generally let out at those
times?” Why not just wait the 10 or 15minutes until the traffic clears to have asmoother ride, instead of inching yourcar up and scaring people on foot just toget up a few meters in traffic and feellike you’ve gotten somewhere.
But then it occurred to me — are wepedestrians the jerks? On-campus resi-dents could wake up 10 minutes beforeclass starts and make it there on time,but for some, that’s just the walk fromthe parking lot. Some students have towake up as early as two hours beforetheir first class just to get here — everysingle day.
With all the money the Department
of Transportation Services rakes infrom the expensive parking permitscommuters are forced to purchase, youwould think the streets of the city ofCollege Park would be a little bit easierto get around.
The most recent suggestion targetsour busiest street, Campus Drive, andpromotes prohibiting motor vehicleaccess. Could this be the first steptoward making our streets more pedes-trian-safe, or more driver-inconven-ient?
In Europe, more and more architectsare considering the idea of woonerfswhen building. Woonerfs originated inthe Netherlands, and translates roughlyas “living street.”
It erases the boundary between side-walk and street to give pedestrians thesame clout as cars. Elements like traf-fic lights, stop signs, lane markings andcrossing signals are removed, while thelevel of the street is raised to the sameheight as the sidewalk.
The layout strongly resembles NewYork streets in those crazy days beforeGE bought the traffic light patent andstandardized traffic patterns. Althoughthe arrangement suggests chaos, visualaides made me see this type of designactually raises the awareness of bothparties.
In this setting, common courtesy willfinally return. It might be decadesafter we’ve left Testudo’s side beforeany of these new ideas are put intopractice here, but maybe somedaythey will be. Maybe someday, therewon’t be f-bombs dropped when abiker comes out of nowhere orwhiplash because some girl on her cellphone expected the world to wait forher. Maybe someday, the streets on thiscampus will actually be convenient foreveryone.
Fenan Solomon is a junior journalismand pre-pharmacy major. She can bereached at [email protected].
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Don’t generalize about sororitiesI recently read the advice column,
“Avoid the hook-up blacklist” (Sept.16). At first glance, the adviceseemed to make sense, but the moreI thought about it, the more I real-ized just how ignorant it sounded.This advice isn’t just applicable tosororities, it is “girl code” in general.I consider myself to be a member ofvarious social circles, including atight-knit group of friends fromhome and a group of girls from thefloor I lived on my freshman year.None of these girls are in sororities,and yet it’s a mutual understandingthat we abide by the same policy. It’scalled being a loyal friend. If one ofyour friends started hooking up witha guy you had a history with or wereinterested in, would you be comfort-able with that? And you’re not in asorority, either.
My next issue is that the entirecolumn is based on all of thesethings that have been “heard.” Youuse the phrases “I’ve heard rumors,”“it seems like” and “I’m not sure if.”That’s a helluva lot of assumptions tomake and not nearly enough fact.
Finally, your closing is one of themost ludicrous generalizations I’veever seen. News flash: Not everysorority hazes and makes its pledgesmemorize ice cream flavors. Thatmakes every sorority girl seem likean airhead. Your closing line of, “Youdon’t want to burn your bridges andend up on the wrong side of someslutty girl’s vendetta,” is simplyappalling. In case you didn’t know,about 12 to 15 percent of the univer-sity’s students are in a fraternity orsorority, and you just called all thosewomen sluts because of a socialactivity they participate in. That’sreally mature. It seems to me likeyou have more of a vendetta againstsororities than slutty sorority girlshave against guys. But then again,I’m just assuming.
KAITLIN BAUMERJUNIOR
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Respect our sisterhoodI am generally not an easily
angered individual. However, what Iread in The Diamondback left meunbelievably offended and outraged.The Sept. 16 column titled “Avoid thehook-up blacklist” was absolutelyabsurd.
The statement “I don’t pretend tobe familiar with the inner workingsof the university’s sisterhood” shouldhave been the only statement made.Last time I checked, it’s consideredbad journalism to write about some-thing you know nothing about. Butunfortunately, the author didn’t stopat that statement. She implied that anumber of women at this universityare easy: “Thankfully, she’s a lover,not a withholder, and lucky you get.”She then continued to stereotypesorority members further, as “side-ponytail-wearing, Vera Bradley-tot-ing blondes.” Oh, and of course, weall spent “six weeks in a small base-ment memorizing the birthdays andfavorite ice cream flavors of [our]pledge masters.”
Sorority members, in my house atleast, are all friends. We don’t need tomake a list, nor has there ever beena list. Also, I have been a member ofthe Greek community longer thanyou have been student at this univer-sity and have friends in many differ-ent houses. Never once have I heardanyone refer to a “list.” As a friend, itis considered wrong to hook up withsomeone your friend has dated. I findthis to be true outside of the Greekcommunity as well. I am sorry if youfind it acceptable to hook up withyour friends’ romantic interests; per-haps you are actually more of a loverthan a withholder.
Keep your “rumors” to yourselfuntil you have come down and met uspersonally.
SAM MORROWJUNIOR
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As business leaders, civic associations and, of course, political donorsgear up to swing and sway voters before the state’s Nov. 4 referen-dum on slots, the good voters of Maryland have yet to hear from thegroup the referendum could impact most: students.
The state’s highest court Monday approved language in the referendumthat said education funding would be the “primary purpose”for installing 15,000 slot machines at five locationsstatewide. And lawmakers predict slot revenue would bringin $600 million a year — almost half of which would go toeducation.
Still, most of the noise in the statewide debate has comefrom rival politicians and lobbyists. Students need to jointhis debate, and the Student Government Associationshould lead their charge.
The organization showed its potential to drum up studentvotes in the midterm elections of 2006 when it registered more than 1,000voters along with the nonpartisan political advocacy organization MarylandVotes and paved the way for a record turnout at the Stamp Student Union
polling place. Of course, its attempt to repeat the feat in last year’s city coun-cil election was disappointing.
The difference between the two efforts was focus. In the city election, stu-dents didn’t seem to understand what was at stake. So far on slots, historyseems to be repeating itself.
But the SGA can’t focus the student body until the SGA hasfocused itself. The organization can’t urge students to regis-ter and vote until they’ve made the stakes clear. They can’thand out educational pamphlets until they’ve decided whatthey should say.
This newspaper has already weighed in, and with univer-sity President Dan Mote’s announcement of a hiring freezeTuesday, the need for slots revenue seems all the more clear.The rejection of slots will mean more of the same financialuncertainty that has plagued the university in the past. And
a rejection certainly won’t give administrators much incentive to resume hir-ing, as they’re also looking to maintain a healthy professor-to-student ratio.If the SGA fears this future, they should make themselves heard.
Stand on slotsStaff Editorial
Our ViewThe SGA should take aposition on the state’s
potential legalization ofslots.
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The state of Maryland an-nounced last week that it facesa deficit of almost $200 million.This means budget cuts across
the state, including for (you guessed it!)the university. The administration is al-ready dealing with relatively meagerstate appropriations, and we are whatthe Strategic Plan calls “a chronicallyunder-funded institution.”
A new round of cuts will undoubtedlyback university President Dan Moteand Provost Nariman Farvardin evenfurther into a corner. A university likeours must do everything it can to main-tain its academic quality. But for thoseof you worried that your education willsuffer, don’t worry; I have come up withthe ultimate solution to the universitybudget crisis and keeping late-nightmozzarella sticks at the Diner.
First, please don’t pursue a policy ofmaking uniform cuts across the boardto our academic colleges. While some
programs may be able to shoulder a 2percent budget decrease without muchof a problem (business school, anyone?),others cannot. The College of Behav-ioral and Social Sciences is racked withovercrowded classrooms, outdated fa-cilities and under-qualified faculty. Cut-ting BSOS funding would only put morestress on an already overworked col-lege.
There are a few ways the universitycan act to save money. One of these isour energy costs. Walking around thecampus at night, I can’t help but noticethat either there are a lot of late-nightclasses that aren’t listed on Testudo, orthe university sucks at turning off un-necessary lights. I’m not talking aboutfloodlights that illuminate the campusfor students walking home late at night.I’m talking about the brightly lit class-rooms that shine through the windowsof almost every academic building. Isthere really a need for the Tydings lec-
ture hall to be ready for a surprise classat 2 a.m. on a Friday night? The univer-sity spends $50 million a year on ener-gy; can’t we at least turn off the lights?
Still looking for places to save money?The Segway transportation system Uni-versity Police can be found ridingaround the campus on cost the universi-ty close to $30,000 when it was pur-chased in 2006. With so many academicissues facing our university, was equip-ping our officers with fancy scooters re-ally the best way to spend money?
Finally, we should decide as a univer-sity this year to make the ultimate sacri-
fice for the sake of cost-efficiency: no50,000 cupcakes for Maryland Day. Lastyear, Dining Services put together abeautiful tapestry of frosting in theshape of the state flag.
Now I enjoy cupcakes as much as thenext guy, and I realize this is a terribleburden to bear. But, I can’t help feelingthat there are better places to spend$15,000.
On a more serious note, the inevitablebudget cuts for the university will comewith some tough decisions. The adminis-tration must do everything in its power tominimize the impact on the university.This university is one of the country’sgreat public universities, and the qualityof education cannot be sacrificed.
I sure will miss those cupcakes,though.
Andrew Hallowell is a junior govern-ment and politics major. He can bereached at [email protected].
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Surf on Surfer, DudeINTERVIEW | MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
BY THOMAS FLOYDSenior staff writer
Landlocked Austin, Texas,may not seem like the mostlogical place to premiereMatthew McConaughey’slatest film, Surfer, Dude. Butfor the 38-year-old actor, itmade all the sense in theworld.
“My producing partnerson this film and I met at theUniversity of Texas,”McConaughey said in aninterview with The Dia-mondback. “Texas is whereI went to film school and gotmy first acting job in Dazedand Confused, and Surfer,Dude seemed like the rightkind of picture to take backhome to where I met thepeople that I started work-ing with. Those were theyears where I got on trackand figured out what I wasgoing to do for the rest of mylife. That was right there inAustin.”
With 15 years passedsince that breakthroughpart as David Wooderson inDazed and Confused,McConaughey boarded intouncharted waters withSurfer, Dude, where he tookon the role of a full-fledgedproducer for the first time(he previously was an exec-utive producer on Sahara).He worked on bringing themovie — which is the firstproduction by his company,Just Keep Living — to thebig screen for a decade
before it finally hit theatres.“I optioned this script in
1998,” McConaugheyexplained. “I started work-ing with [director] RobBindler … and he started toput in more of the consciousthemes into it. Themes ofbrotherhood, the greenthemes and the planet-friendly themes made it feellike something a little moreworth making, but also stilla comedy.’”
Surfer, Dude tells thestory of Steve Addington(McConaughey), a laid-backstoner with a penchant forhitting the waves as often aspossible. But when theocean in his home town ofMalibu, Calif., goes flat forweeks on end, the high-pro-file surfer finds his lifestylethrown astray.
“He’s a simple guy who isvery connected with nature,which is a big part of thestory,” McConaughey said.“He loves one thing andthat’s the most precious
thing in his life, and that’sthe waves.”
The same, however, couldnot be said aboutMcConaughey, whose Texanroots previously kept himfrom ever becoming an avidsurfer, even after he movedout to California.
“Basically I went and gotwet and got in the water andfumbled around for awhile,” McConaughey said.“I got smashed andslammed for a couplemonths before I ever actu-ally caught a wave. I’m fromTexas, so there’s not muchsurf — well, I guess there isnow with Hurricane Ike —but I didn’t know about surfdown there.”
But once he got off thebeach and onto a board,McConaughey realizedexactly what he was miss-ing. Now he just hopes morepeople will appreciate surf-ing and all the sport has tooffer.
“I think the movie willshow people what’s coolabout the philosophy ofsurfing,” he said. “It’s ananalog thing to do. You’re aperson, you’ve got a board— all you need is waves.There are no membershipfees, you don’t have to havea coat and tie to get in andit’s about as close to natureas you can get.”
In addition to spendinghis days in the ocean,McConaughey also used thefilm as an opportunity toonce again work with WoodyHarrelson, who playsAddington’s manager.McConaughey considers hisco-star to have been “morelike a brother than a friend”since the two met on the setof EDtv.
“It’s always a hoot work-ing with Woody,” he said. “Inever know what’s going tocome out of his mouth andhe never knows what’sgoing to come out of mymouth. There is a lot ofimprovised stuff whenWoody and I are in a scene.”
When it comes to whyaudiences should pack the-aters to see Surfer, Dude,McConaughey cited how thefilm is “lighthearted, absurdand funny, but it’s also gotsome good things to say.”
“An overall theme in themovie is that if you do thecool thing in life and makethe right choice, life’s goingto reciprocate and give backto you,” McConaugheyadded. “After those sort ofmessages, which are nothardcore preachy or a ham-mering fist, it’s all a jokeand more understandablebecause it’s harnessed incomedy. After that, it’s a fun,stony movie.”
BY DAVE SMITHFor The Diamondback
Alanis Morissette doesn’tcare if you think her musicmakes her seem like an angry,stark-raving, man-eatingbitch. She’s not out there toimpress; her albums and hermusic have always aimed to bean accurate reflection and self-portrait of her life, loves, fail-ures and successes.
Right now, you could sayMorissette is enjoying one ofher successes. Earlier thissummer, her new album, Fla-vors of Entanglement, debutedat No. 8 on the Billboard 200and has sold over 500,000copies to date.
In an interview with TheDiamondback, Morissette dis-cussed her uplifting album andthe corresponding Flavors ofEntanglement tour.
“The album reflected someserious disassemblings in mypersonal life, and it’s sort offar reaching,” Morissettesaid. “It reaches into my pro-fessional life. It’s like a break-ing or a broken moment cap-tured and then, I like to think,a phoenix rising.”
It’s been nearly 18 yearssince Morissette’s first album,Alanis, and 13 years sinceJagged Little Pill. But Moris-sette believes her currentrelease may be her most sig-nificant album yet.
“The album allowed me tohit rock bottom in a way that I[had] never done before,”Morissette said. “I’d alwayssort of bottom-dwelled, but Inever really bounced off thebottom. The best news of allfor me was that there is a bot-tom, because I used to thinkthat emotions were bottom-less, and if I didn’t calibrate it,that I would be eaten whole.
“So now that I know thatwhen I surrender there’s a bot-tom and I can bounce back up,
I realize the only thing that [isbottomless] is joy, so that’s apretty big revelation for me,”she added. “That’s the snap-shot of this record.”
Morissette has given hopeand adrenaline to music listen-ers for nearly two decades, buther overwhelming message ofempowerment still holds true.
“As a woman, I had shamearound being powerful,”Morissette said. “I had shamearound being a warrior. I hadshame around being angry. Ihad shame around being vul-nerable and devastated andugly and rejected and all theseseemingly shameful things.There’s this no-holds-barredapproach when I write a poemor, frankly, even when I writean e-mail sometimes.”
On tour, the multi-layeredset represents the album’sshifts in mood from rage to joy,and Morissette is excited tohave designed most of the setpieces herself. But while shecould easily — and happily —leave the music scene for good,she said she is far from beingfinished with her music.
“I feel like I’ll be writinguntil I’m dead,” she said. “I’mnot sure who will be listeningto it, but it really isn’t some-thing I can control.”
After all, she’s never reallycared what her critics say.
“I write these songs formyself,” Morissette added. “Idon’t write them for other peo-ple. I can appreciate that somepeople say, ‘Hey, that’s me.’And whether they’re accurateor not for whatever reason,people recognize themselvesin my songs, and that sayssomething right there.”
Alanis Morissette willappear at DAR ConstitutionHall in Washington Sept. 22and she performs at the LyricOpera House in BaltimoreSept. 23.
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Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers
BY MICHAEL KATZStaff writer
The air is a little coolerthese days, but the competi-tion is about to heat up for theTerrapin field hockey team.
Four of the Terps’ next fivegames come against ACCopponents, all of which arecurrently ranked in the top15. They open league play athome Saturday against No.12 Boston College.
Though hesitant to say so,the Terps admitted that thestart of the conference sched-ule provides some extra moti-vation. That bodes well for aTerps team that has admit-tedly lacked passion at timesearly in the season.
“We try and come out thesame way for every game,but it doesn’t always workout that way,” back SusieRowe said. “We’ve definitelystruggled a bit with that con-sistency. It’s going to be cru-cial to start the game as weended [Wednesday’s gameagainst American].”
The undefeated Eagles (5-0) pose a formidable chal-lenge for the Terps (6-1), butthey remain largely untested.The Eagles have yet to face ateam ranked in the top 20.
Unlike the Eagles, theTerps have saturated theirschedule with contestsagainst elite programs. AfterWednesday’s win against No.
14 American, coach MissyMeharg said the tough sched-ule would be to the advantage
of the battle-tested Terps.“I’d much rather be in bat-
tles like this — emotionalbattles and physical battles— to prepare for the ACC,”Meharg said. “In thatregard, I think we’re verywell prepared.”
All season, Meharg hasstressed that the best fieldhockey is played in the ACC.
Looking at the polls, it’shard to argue.
The ACC boasts six teamsin the top 20, including threeof the top five teams. At No.12, Boston College is rankedthe lowest of the six.
It remains to be seenwhether the elevated stakesand competition will light afire beneath the Terps.Meharg said she hopes theteam will play with the samepassion regardless of theopponent, but concedes thestart of ACC play may havecome at just the right time.
“We need to define and beaccountable for the way westep out [on the field],”Meharg said. “Do I thinkACC competition brings thatout? Probably.”
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BY JOHN TALTYFor The Diamondback
For the first time in threeyears, the Terrapin women’stennis team is healthy, andcoach Martin Novak is excitedfor the possibilities.
The Terps start off their sea-son this Friday with the Mary-land Invitational, an annualtournament held at the TennisCenter at College Park. Lastyear at the Invitational, theTerps struggled mightily andadvanced to only one finalsmatch. But Novak seemspleased with the work teammembers put in during thespring and offseason.
“They’ve been looking goodin practices,” Novak said.“There has been a good pro-gression in the workouts and anincreased intensity.”
Israeli Michal Amir and Aus-tralian Lisa Miller are expectedto lead the team this season.Amir, in addition to being theTerps’ top singles player lastspring, teams up with Miller toform the Terps’ lead doublesteam.
Different from the team effortthat occurs during the spring
season, the fall season is com-prised of individual tourna-ments. Coach Novak said theteam still practices, works outand travels together, but it’struly an individual effort duringthe fall.
The team finished 3-18 in thespring season due to some prob-lems with injuries, but withsome work in certain areas,Novak feels the Terps have achance to be much better.
“We have worked a lot on howwe do in match play,” Novaksaid. “We’ve worked on trying toincrease our execution and be-coming more polished.”
In addition to the Terps, Dart-mouth, George Washington,James Madison, Delaware,Pittsburgh, Army, UNC Wilm-ington and Georgetown will allbe participating in the Mary-land Invitational. It runs fromFriday through Sunday, andeach day of play begins at 9 a.m.
Tournament to be held at TennisCenter in College Park; beginsindividual play fall season
Error-prone Terpshead to Towsonfor tournament
BY KATE YANCHULISStaff writer
The Terrapin volleyball teamhas let its opponents run awaywith games — literally.
The Terps (2-7) have playedinconsistently in almost everyaspect of the game, but the onething they have done regularlyis commit errors and allow theiropponents to go on scoring runsthat leave the Terps in the dust.
“There are many junctures inthe games where we are justbreaking down,” coach TimHorsmon said. “You just can’twin when you’re giving up five,six, seven, eight pointsin a row.”
The problem hasplagued the team allseason, but the Terpswill try to shake it thisweekend when theytake on Towson tonightat 7 p.m., then Lehighand North Dakota onSaturday at the TowsonInvitational.
Towson, at 8-3, isseemingly the toughestopponent on paper.Lehigh is only 4-5, butthe team averages sixfewer errors per matchthan the Terps, whichcould give them the upper hand.The wild card is North Dakota, a12-1 team in its first Division Iseason that has yet to face trulychallenging opponents.
“One of our main focuses inpractices this week and forthis upcoming weekend is tolimit our errors and not letthe other team go on runs, sowe don’t get too far behind ingames,” senior outside hitterMaggie Schmelzle said. “Wewant to gain some confidencebefore we get into the ACC
schedule [starting Tuesdayagainst Boston College].”
In a 0-3 loss at Tulane lastweekend, the Terps gave up four
five-point runs, puttingthe match out of theTerps’ reach. This wastoo similar to theteam’s first game of theseason, a sweep byCentral Michigan,when the team gave upa 6-0 run in the first setand a 13-4 run to endthe set.
The worst mighthave been the 0-3Kentucky match,when Terp miscuesand errors allowed theWildcats to score 10unanswered points inthe very first set.
The Terps’ top three offensiveproducers, Schmelzle, KatieUsher and Michelle Kenning,are the players who have themost errors.
“We’re making far too manyerrors,” Horsmon said. “Withour personnel right now, wecan’t be a team that’s error-prone. We need to handle theball, make good decisions andbe able to work with the oppor-tunities we get.”
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“We’remaking fartoo manyerrors. ...We can’t bea teamthat’s error-prone.”
TIMHORSMONVOLLEYBALL COACH
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BY DAN MORRISONStaff writer
There’s something about thelocker room that changes theTerrapin women’s soccer team.
A habit of following good halveswith bad ones, and vice versa, hasdeveloped all season.
Aside from their season-open-ing 5-0 win over George Masonon Aug. 23, the Terps (3-3-1) haveyet to put together a consistentlysolid 90 minutes of soccer. Thosemental and physical lapses haveled to less than desirable resultsin the non-conference schedule.
Coach Brian Pensky acknowl-edged that a couple times thisseason his team has outplayedits opponent, but letdowns in ef-fort and focus have left theTerps with a .500 record.
“We had a momentary lapseagainst William & Mary that costus the goal and that cost us thegame,” Pensky said.
Pensky said the team hastalked about continuing theirstrong play for two full halvesand eliminating the mistakes thatcan haunt them.
Too often this season the Terpshave dominated the first half butwere unable to score any goals totake advantage of their solid play.Then, in the second half, a coupleminutes of uninspired play has ledto quick goals for the other team.
With only one game remainingbefore ACC play begins nextweek, the Terps know they needto find the solution to this prob-lem now. Their final chance willcome Sunday at 1 p.m., whenthey host Mount St. Mary’s andtry to end the non-conferenceschedule with a winning record.
Losses to Bucknell and Elonand a tie against American were
three games this season wherethe Terps gave a lesser opponentmore opportunities than they de-served and paid the price for it.
To prevent that from happen-ing again, the Terps have been fo-cusing on increasing their inten-sity in practice.
“In practice, we’re pushingourselves, and we have to havethat translate into games,” goal-keeper Mary Casey said.“That’s been part of our prob-lem so far this season: Wehaven’t been giving a full prac-tice, so we don’t give a fullgame. It starts here in practice.”
Although the Terps have strug-gled in their non-conferencegames, Pensky believes his teamhas the potential to surprise someteams in the ACC.
“I’m confident that we’ll beconnected and OK defensively,”he said. “We’ve had moments ingames where we’ve been prettygood, but I don’t think we’ve puttogether a complete perform-ance yet.”
The Terps only have one morechance to put that complete per-formance together and show whatthey’re capable of before the truetest comes in conference play.
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
Normally when the Terrapinmen’s soccer team plays Duke,it’s one of the biggest games ofthe season.
But sandwiched between lastweek’s visit from the defendingconference champion BostonCollege Eagles and next week’stilt with No. 1 Wake Forest,tonight’s game against No. 25Duke just doesn’t have thesame feel it usually does.
Despite having won fourstraight, the Blue Devils (4-2-0)started the season unrankedand are viewed as being in arebuilding year — somethingnot lost on Terp forward JasonHerrick.
“They’re a pretty good team aswell, but I think we have betterplayers, and we’ve been playing alot better than they have this sea-son,” Herrick said. “It’s gonna be abig game, but if we come out andplay our game, we’ll definitelytake them.”
Coach Sasho Cirovski, whowith a win tonight wouldbecome the winningest coach inprogram history, didn’t soundas confident. But even the gen-erally reserved coach acknowl-edged the No. 4 Terps (4-1-0)won’t be seeing the same Duketeam that beat them 2-1 in over-time last year.
First-year Blue Devil coachJohn Kerr has six returningstarters from last year’s squad.But Duke dropped games to No.14 Indiana and No. 3 NotreDame on the opening weekend
of the season.“I think their coaches have
done a great job. I think that, intheir changeover, theyare probably ahead ofschedule,” Cirovskisaid. “They’re veryathletic, and they’revery skillful and prob-ably a little bit aheadof where they thoughtthey might be.”
One Duke playerwho the Terps willhave to focus on issenior forward MikeGrella. The MAC Her-mann Trophy candi-date for nationalplayer of the year isleading the ACC with12 points and 5 goals.
“If you look at MikeGrella, he’s probably next toMarcus Tracy [of Wake Forest]as one of the most dangerousstrikers in the ACC, and proba-bly one of the best strikers inthe country,” Cirovski said. “Hecan win a game on his own with
just his skill.”So while tonight’s game may
not match the intensity of theTerps’ 1-0 win againstDuke two years ago,which was played infront of a national tel-evision audience andthe largest crowd inLudwig Field history,beating Duke tonightwon’t be an easy task.
Midfielder DougRodkey said that’spart of the deal whenplaying ACC teamsweek in and week out.
“Every team in theACC is strong, andwe respect everyteam,” Rodkey said.“It’s a long season,but when you come
to this conference, you knowit’s going to be tough everyweek.”
While Cirovski said it is tooearly to tell how good the ACCis this season, there is always ateam that comes out of nowhere
to contend. Last year it wasBoston College, who went fromunranked at the beginning ofthe year to the NCAA tourna-ment’s No. 1 seed.
The Terps hope Duke isn’tthis year’s version of BostonCollege.
“Every year, there’s two orthree teams that are sort of bet-ter than people thought,”Cirovski said. “[Duke] is a solidteam everywhere. They pose alot of problems.”
ready tomorrow.Wednesday, Friedgen had
his team run 49 plays in 20minutes to prepare for exactlythat issue.
The defense needs to showthat it can still pressure thequarterback and make playswhen an offense is trying toquick-pitch them, or theycould fall into a disappointingrelapse against the Eagles.
“I think Middle Tennesseehad a very good game-planagainst us. They made it aperimeter game,” coach RalphFriedgen said. “EasternMichigan has the same type ofoffense and the same type ofpersonnel [so] that they coulddo the same thing. Plus, nowthey have us on tape.”
The spread offense is a sys-tem that consists of four- andfive-receiver sets as theoffense tries to spread theopposing defense thin and getthe ball to the perimeter.
The Terps looked ill-pre-pared to handle it two weeksago against Middle Tennessee,and they were often a stepbehind when the Blue Raiderskept cycling in differentreceivers and hurrying to theline of scrimmage.
“It was very surprising,”senior linebacker DavePhilistin said. “I was lookingover, trying to figure out whatthe defense was, and [defen-sive line] coach [Dave] Sol-lazzo is signaling it in fast, and
I’m trying to tell everybodythe play very fast, and by thetime you know it, they’re hik-ing the ball.”
The Terps emphasized keep-ing up with the no-huddle thisweek in practice, and Friedgensaid the coaches rotated in twooffensive scout teams to simu-late the no-huddle and thehurry-up no-huddle.
The plan is to get thedefense better conditionedthis week to fight off thefatigue that hurt them againstMiddle Tennessee and in thefourth quarter against Cal.
“I sleep at 10,000 feet, man.I sleep in an altitude machine,so fatigue isn’t too bad forme,” Philistin said. “But it canbe [a problem] as far as com-munication goes. You don’twant to be the player out therenot telling the line to slide leftbecause you’re tired.”
Maybe some of the otherTerp defenders can bunk withPhilistin tonight, as theymight have their work cut outfor them tomorrow.
As Terp fans know by now,every week is different, andjust because the Terps arecoming off a win against aranked opponent doesn’tmean it’s going to be easyagainst Eastern Michigan.
The Terps are going up againsta team whose scheme could pres-ent some problems for them.
Let’s hope the Terps have fig-ured out how to cover the spread.
Defense lacking in crucial momentsHURRY, from Page 12
Defensive tackle Olugbemi Otulaja and the Terps have struggled with fatigue against hurry-up offenses this year. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Midfielder Doug Rodkey said, entering ACC play, every opponent is tough,even a rebuilding Duke squad. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
SCHIMMEL
Terps vs. DukeWhere: Ludwig Field
When: Tonight, 8 p.m.Radio: WMUCsports.com
“They’re aprettygood teamas well,but I thinkwe havebetterplayers.”
jASONHERRICKSOPHOMORE FORWARD
Men’s soccer takes on rebuilding Duke
Terps vs. Mount St. Mary’sWhere: Ludwig FieldWhen: Sunday, 1 p.m.
Radio: WMUCsports.com
ACC play looming aheadfor women’s soccer team
When Califor-nia’s offensesped up Satur-day, the Ter-
rapin football team’sdefense slowed down.
The Golden Bearsswitched to a hurry-upoffense in the fourth quarterof the Terps’ 35-27 win, anda seemingly winded Terpdefense gave up 21 points inthe last 6:55 of the game.
“They were trying to getpoints, and by then, I think,we’d been playing ourhearts out from the begin-ning,” linebacker MoiseFokou said. “We startedrunning thin on energy.”
It was a disturbing endingto an otherwise inspiringupset, and it leaves ques-tions for the Terps’ defenseto answer tomorrow againstEastern Michigan.
Specifically, do the Terpshave the stamina to staywith a team that spreads thefield and doesn’t waste timebetween plays?
The Terps had problemsagainst Middle Tennessee,who operated with a no-huddle offense throughoutthe Terps’ 24-14 loss theweek before. The BlueRaiders simply controlledthe clock and kept theTerp defense on the fieldand tired.
The Eagles play aspread offense similar tothe Blue Raiders’ attackand also employ the hurry-up, so the Terps need to be
Eastern Michigan and its spread offensewill use Middle Tennessee’s effort againstthe Terps as a blueprint. But the Eagles havequestion marks at key spots.
The Terps looked strong last week, andeven without Da’Rel Scott, the offensive lineis playing so well it’s an easy choice.
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HEAD HEADOFFENSE
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MUSICAL MOMENTUM
PREDICTION
TERPGAMEDAYWHEN: Tomorrow, 1 p.m.WHERE: Byrd Stadium, College ParkT.V.: ESPN 360DATA:One week after a surprising victoryagainst then-No. 23 Cal, the Terps, on paper,should have an easier time vs. Eastern Michigan.
THE MATCHUP
TERPTRACKER
TERPS EMUPassing (ypg) 164.3 190.0Rushing (ypg) 186.0 224.7Total (ypg) 350.3 414.7Points per game 21.0 26.33rd-down conversion 43% 40%Turnovers 7 6
2008 TEAM STATS
Maryland Terrapins
Eastern MichiganEagles
2-1 (0-0 ACC) 1-2 (0-1 MAC)
SERIES RECORDSALL-TIME SERIES Terps lead 3-0LAST MEETING 2003
RECENT MEETINGS
2003-(A)- W, Terps 37, EMU 132002-(H)- W, Terps 45, EMU 32001-(H)- W, Terps 50, EMU 3
The bottom line for the Eagle defenseis they gave up 41 points to Toledo athome last week.
The Terps have struggled mightilystopping the spread offense. But theyplayed extremely well for three quarterslast week, getting five sacks against Cal.
DEFENSE
Terp kicker Obi Egekeze has missed allfive of his field goal opportunities this sea-son yet managed to keep his starting job.
Eastern Michigan kicker Joe Carithershas made 3-4 field goal attempts this sea-son, and the Eagles rotate three puntersbased on the situation.
SPECIAL TEAMSEastern Michigan coach Jeff Genyk
knows the Terps struggle stopping thespread offense, and he’s had all week to fig-ure out how his team can be effective.
Terp coach Ralph Friedgen has preachedconsistency to the team in practice whilethey adjust to some major offseason changes.
COACHING
Eastern Michigan has lost two straightgames, including a 24-point loss to confer-ence foe Toledo.
The Terps are determined not to let downwith ACC play starting next week. Theyhave a 14-3 record against teams currentlyin the MAC.
INTANGIBLES
Friedgen has pulled out all the stops to keep his Terps fired up
KEY MATCHUPTERP QB CHRIS TURNER
VS. EMU LB DANIELHOLTZCLAW
Turner leads a Terp of-fense that broke out with35 points last week againstCal. The junior appearedto make progress withfirst-year offensive coor-dinator James Franklin’sWest Coast system. Hedidn’t turn the ball over last week afterthree interceptions in a loss at MiddleTennessee.
Holtzclaw, the Eagles’ defensiveleader, will try to slow down the Terp at-tack. The senior linebacker was named to
three national preseasonwatch lists, including
the Butkus Award,given to the top line-
backer in college football.Holtzclaw has started
every game in his East-ern Michigan career andis sixth on the school’scareer list in tackles.
GOLDEN MEGGETTRunning back Da’Rel Scott, the
ACC’s leading rusher, is stillquestionable for tomorrow’s game,with a sprained AC joint in his leftshoulder. Scott practiced the lasttwo days wearing a no-contactjersey. True freshman DavinMeggett, who has rushed for 136yards and two touchdowns on 22carries this season, should take onan expanded role whether or notScott plays.
“He’s proven that he can doit,” offensive coordinatorJames Franklin saidWednesday. “Would youlike a more experiencedguy in there play in andplay out? Yeah, but he’sa big kid. He’sconscious and smart.I’m confident he’llget the job done.”
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Senior staff writers
For a moment during Tuesday’sTerrapin football practice, Chris
Turner thought he was down onRoute 1 at R.J. Bentley’s.
As the Terps prepared for theirfinal team practice periods of theday, Journey’s “Don’t Stop Be-
lievin’,” a staple of the downtownsports bar, poured out of the speak-
ers above the Terp practice field.“Playing some Journey and
Zombie Nation — God, it was amad house,” Turner said. “It waskind of ridiculous, but it definitely
gave us a little boost at the end ofpractice.”
Coach Ralph Friedgen’s reasonfor adding the extra motivation at
the end of practice was simple. Hebelieves learning to play consis-
tently on Saturdays starts in prac-tice, and he’d noticed the
Terps’ trouble with the last 20minutes of practice. He’s looking tochange that, even if he has to breakout the jock jams and 1980s rock.
A week after being embarrassed24-14 by Middle Tennessee, theTerps upended then-No. 23 Califor-nia 35-27 for its third-straight victo-ry over a ranked opponent datingback to last season.
Heading into tomorrow’s homegame against Eastern Michigan, theTerps (2-1) hope to maintain consis-tency and remain focused to build onthat effort with ACC play — and atrip to No. 23 Clemson — loomingnext weekend.
“I definitely say lesson’s learned,”guard Phil Costa said. “I think we’rea different team now, and we’renever taking anyone lightly, I don’tthink.”
The Terps’ position is nothingnew. They have gained areputation for knocking off theirtop competition.
Last season, they toppled then-No.8 Boston College a week after fallingto a North Carolina team that en-tered the game 2-6. With MAC oppo-nent Eastern Michigan (1-2) comingto Byrd Stadium, this week’s empha-sis has been overcoming an equallynotable habit of struggling against
lesser foes.Throughout the week, Terp play-
ers and coaches have been put in thetough position of answering howthey can improve consistency. Asthey have shown in the past, it’s easi-er said than done.
“I think for any team in the coun-try, it’s always harder if you’re play-ing a team on paper that shouldn’t beanywhere near as good as you,” sen-ior receiver Danny Oquendo said.“It’s always harder to get up and re-ally get motivated to play thatgame.”
The Terps believe they’re capableof maintaining focus against EasternMichigan, just as they didn’t foreseehaving such a letdown against Mid-dle Tennessee. Weeks ago, Friedgenasked his players to identify their in-dividual strengths and weaknesses.
“Overwhelmingly, the biggestweakness was inconsistency,” theeighth-year head coach said.
Friedgen acknowledged that afteryears of watching his team get up forbig games against ranked opponentsand play down to weaker competi-tion, he knows he has his work cut
out for him.“That’s my job to get them out of
that. It’s not easy to do,” he said. “Ithink it was the time when we wereup 28-6, and I thought I’d be able topull the trigger. I was out there intheir face in the huddle, ‘Let’s putthis away, let’s not screw around.’They looked at me like I’m nuts. Butthat’s kind of how I am. Maybe theyneed to be more like me; I don’t know.To me it’s not over ’til it’s over. Itdoesn’t matter who you’re playing.”
Failing to get motivated againstless heralded opponents has been aproblem recognized by some of theteam’s veterans, and one they knowmust be corrected.
“A weakness since I’ve been here, Ifeel that we tend to prepare and playto the level of our competition,” sen-ior cornerback Kevin Barnes said.“Remember what happened twoweeks ago, the sick feeling we had allweek. I’m pretty sure no one wants tofeel that again.”
Friedgen hopes a little Journeygoes a long way.
Darrius Heyward-Bey and the Terps are looking to carry some of the swagger they showed last weekend against Cal into tomorrow’s game. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Beleaguered senior Obi Egekezewill kick for the Terps tomorrow.Friedgen opened competition for thespot this week, and Egekeze held onto the spot, despite strong competi-tion from Nick Wallace.
Egekeze has missed all five fieldgoal attempts this season, in his sec-ond season as a starter.
Last season, Egekeze knockedthrough 17-23 field goal attempts,including 13-14 in ACC play.
“We owe him that much, to seewhat he does,” Friedgen said. “Hemay get on a run, who knows.”
Egekeze also has the confidenceof several of his teammates.
“The team, we’re behind him,”Darrius Heyward-Bey said.
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