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Our 101st Year, No. 24THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERThursday, September 30, 2010
Athletics has screened players for gene since 2005
BY RACHEL ROUBEINStaff writer
Although the NCAA will soon require DivisionI athletes to be tested for sickle cell anemia to bet-ter prevent sudden deaths, this university hasbeen doing just that for years without any back-lash, officials said.
This NCAA prerequisite, which took effectAug. 1, requires universities to identify athletespredisposed for sickle cell anemia — a chronicgenetic disorder in which crescent-shaped redblood cells can cause blockages in veins andarteries — who are also likely to be at high riskfor life-threatening complications brought on byextreme physical activity. Those who test positivewould be monitored more closely and allowed torequest modified training schedules that allotmore time for resting and staying hydrated,NCAA officials have said.
But many, including the Sickle Cell AnemiaAssociation of America, have responded to themandate with visceral opposition, citing concernsthat those who test positive may be setting them-selves up for discrimination that harkens back to
Facilities continues workingon master plan for campusLandscape, sustainability among univ. priorities
BY YASMEEN ABUTALEBStaff writer
From the looks of the many fenced-offconstruction projects cropping up acrossthe campus, Facilities Management offi-cials have their hands full, but they’reshowing no signs of letting up.
Officials are working on the latest ver-sion of the Facilities Master Plan, and it’schock-full of initiatives in line with the uni-versity’s sustainability goals, includingimproving the campus landscape, addingmore bike paths and increasing the use ofpublic transportation.
The plan, which is updated every five
years and is scheduled to come out in Sep-tember 2011, will be Facilities Manage-ment’s guiding document for the next twodecades and determines the types of con-struction projects that will occur on thecampus.
The last update, in 2007, focused onFacilities Management’s more basicduties, such as choosing sites for newbuildings and renovating existing ones.
About three years ago, the campus wasdesignated for an arboretum for a botanicalgarden, so officials decided to capitalize onthat project and devote resources to
see FACILITIES, page 3
Hanami will serve wine, pitchers of beerCounty approves Japanese restaurant’s petition for liquor
BY BEN PRESENTStaff writer
Sushi enthusiasts looking towash down their California rollswith some sake won’t need to ven-ture out of the downtown bubblefor much longer.
Hanami Japanese Restaurant,located in the Campus Villageshopping center, cleared the sec-ond and final hurdle to securing a
liquor license Tuesday morningand will begin serving beer andwine as soon as the final paper-work clears. Students said theyare looking forward to having anew watering hole close to thecampus but don’t anticipateHanami will become a target foroverly boisterous partiers.
The Prince George’s CountyBoard of License Commissionershad one license to give out to a
county establishment, as it doeseach month, and two candidatesmade their cases why they shouldbe the latest business to turn onthe tap.
Hanami owners presented char-acter witnesses and petitions infavor of their receiving thelicense, helping Hanami beat outEl Ranchero Y Sus Mariachis, a
Univ. officials support testingNCAA athletesfor sickle cell
The Facilities Master Plan, which is still underway, focuses on planting more shrubsand trees to improve the campus landscape. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY AMANDA PINOStaff writer
Right now, it doesn’t look likemuch.
The small corner in the back of aquirky historic property sitsdwarfed by rooms containing vialsof herbs, spices and vitamins andstands filled with greeting cardsand incense. It’s quirky.
But Smile Herb Shop co-ownerLinda Wolfe said she’s expanding.Within the next two weeks, Wolfesaid she will be adding Wi-Fi, fair
Berwyn Café is one of the few shops in the city’s classic downtown,which is hoping for more business. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACKsee BERWYN, page 2
see TESTING, page 3
see HANAMI, page 3
PULLING THELEVER FORHIGHER EDState’s first slot machine casinoopens in Perryville while others stall
BY KELLY FARRELL
Staf f writer
Even though not all stu-dents are old enough forweekend gamblingescapades, they will stillbenefit from the grand open-ing of Hollywood CasinoPerryville — the first casinoto open in the state since the1960s.
Gov. Martin O’Malley willunveil the casino at its offi-cial grand opening in Per-ryville at a ceremonial rib-bon-cutting with Hollywood-
themed festivities planned totake place this morning.State voters approved slotsin November 2008 as a wayto lower the state budgetdeficit and generate millionsof dollars in funding for thestate’s higher education sys-tem, and the casino hasalready seen a large turnoutsince it unofficially openedon Monday, officials said.
After conducting a closedlaunch for invited guestsSaturday, with all proceeds
see SLOTS, page 3
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SHAI GOLLER/THE DIAMONDBACK
Small-town AmericaDowntown Berwyn neighborhood low on shops but
hopeful for more student patrons
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trade coffee and a few tables tothe tiny room at the back of herstore to create “a Starbucks kindof thing.”
Smile Herb Shop dates backto the 1970s and is one of thefew commercial enterprises stillstanding in Berwyn’s historicdowntown area. The stretch ofold storefronts houses a book-maker, gym and vegetarianrestaurant Berwyn Café, but theremaining few spaces havebeen left empty for years. YetWolfe and the owners ofBerwyn Café are still hopefulfor a future in which the emptyshops to either side of them arefilled and more students ven-ture into the neighborhood.
Berwyn Café employee PaulBaranson said he plans to starthanding out flyers near some ofthe new apartment complexespopping up on Route 1, such asMazza Grandmarc and the Uni-versity View’s second building, toattract more student patrons.
And the StarView Plaza apart-ment complex, which brokeground in December 2009, is onlya block north from Berwyn Roadon the opposite side of Route 1.
“We’re excited to have somenew neighbors, and we hope tosee their faces,” Baranson said.
District 2 Councilman BobCatlin, who lives in Berwyn,said it’s hard to predict what im-pact StarView will have on stu-dent interest in the café andherb shop.
“There’s not a whole lot of needto cross Route 1, with the PaintBranch Trail taking you south tocampus,” he said.
The tiny commercial district,just a stone’s throw from the cam-pus, looks more like small-townAmerica — not College Park. Hid-den among single-family homesblocks off busy Route 1, the stripremains half empty, and besidesthe herb shop and café, it offersfew destinations.
Although the herb shop’s clien-tele is a relatively small niche, con-sisting mostly of those interestedin herbal health care remedies,Berwyn Café sees a strongturnout at its Friday open micnights, at which undergraduatesfrequently perform.
“A lot of students show up, not aparticular group,” said senior gov-ernment and politics major JonBerger, who lives in Berwyn. “It’s
mostly students who live in theneighborhood; sometimes peoplefrom TerPoets will perform.”
Residents in the neighborhoodsaid they’ve been spreading theword about Berwyn Café, andhave seen more students — typi-cally upperclassmen or graduatestudents — venturing over.
Human development graduatestudent and Berwyn residentErica Zippert said a friend recom-mended she stop by the neighbor-hood, and so, she did.
Zippert said most studentswould probably like the healthyvegetarian food and quiet place towork with Wi-Fi but guessedmany had no idea the Berwynneighborhood existed.
The city has poured thou-sands of dollars into extending abike trail through the area, redo-ing sidewalks and installingstreet lamps and some signageon Route 1 alerting passerby tothe neighborhood, but moresmall businesses taking up shopin Berwyn’s downtown seemsunlikely.
While the area houses a num-ber of student rental properties,they are fewer and farther be-tween than those in Old Townnear downtown bars, fraternity
and sorority houses and thecampus.
And the Berwyn neighbor-hood itself hasn’t been bustlingfor decades. Foot traffic has di-minished multiple times over theneighborhood’s history: whenthe trolley car from Washingtonstopped running in the 1960s,when the Motor Vehicle Associa-tion moved to Beltsville andwhen zoning was made morestringent in the 1990s.
Zoning limits the commercialuses of many properties, meaningmany types of businesses are notable to move in.
For example, though there hadbeen some interest in opening ayoga studio, the would-be owners
were unable to obtain a permit,Wolfe said.
To further complicate things,the owner of most of the buildingsin the city’s downtown district,Alvin Jenkins, is locked in a dis-pute with Berwyn officials overownership of a gravel lot that cutsthe bike trail in half. And the cityisn’t willing to give him what hewants until he settles the suit.
So for now, students will haveto settle for Berwyn being a stepback in time, to a simpler and qui-eter America.
“It’s kind of like a retreat,” Zip-pert said. “It’s not something you’dexpect to find in College Park.”
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BERWYNfrom page 1
Berwyn Café, a vegetarian restaurant nestled in downtown Berwyn about two miles from thecampus, offers an escape from College Park. PHOTOS BY JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
“We’re excited tohave some newneighbors, andwe hope to seetheir faces.”
PAUL BARANSONBERWYN CAFÉ EMPLOYEE
charities, the state issued a li-cense the next day that allowedHollywood Casino Perryvilleto welcome patrons before theofficial opening — three daysearlier than was expected, casi-no spokesman Marc DeLeosaid.
“We were surprisingly verybusy Monday,” said DeLeo.“Because it was a Monday andthe weather was not great, weexpected it to be a little slower,but it was very busy, and we’revery excited about it.”
DeLeo said despite receiv-ing short notice that the casinowould stay open all week, busi-ness has remained steadilyhigh the past three days.
The road to legalizing slotsin the state was a long one,starting in 2003 when formerRepublican Gov. Bob Ehrlichproposed them as a solution toclosing the budget gap.
After five years of impas-sioned debate and discussion,voters approved five casinosstatewide in a 2008 referendumon slots, which O’Malley, a De-mocrat, supported.
The Maryland Departmentof Legislative Services project-ed the casino’s revenue at$210 per machine per day, 48.5to 51 percent of which will befunneled into the MarylandEducation Trust Fund.
The 1,500 machines in thecasino are estimated to yieldabout $57 million for the fund.
“There is money anticipatedin the budget for next yearfrom slots which will benefitthe state’s general fund andthat will fund public educationand higher education,” saidRick Abbruzzese, O’Malley’scampaign spokesperson.
The state’s next casino loca-tion is already stocked with 750slot machines and is scheduledto open at the Ocean DownsRacetrack on the EasternShore on Dec. 16. Officials pre-viously advertised a MemorialDay-opening, but they wereforced to push that date backbecause of asbestos and con-struction problems with thecasino site.
The fate of the state’s twolargest proposed casinos —slated for Anne Arundel Coun-ty and Baltimore — has beenon hold and remains in limbodue to regulation and zoning is-sues.
Several people involvedwith O’Malley’s reelection bidsaid they are confident that de-spite the setbacks in gettingthe casinos up and running,these slots will prove benefi-cial to O’Malley’s campaign.
“What this shows is thatafter four years of gridlockunder the previous adminis-tration, O’Malley came into of-fice and finally got the slotspassed,” Abbruzzese said. “Injust a short period of time youhave the first one opening[today] and the second oneexpected to come shortly.”
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improve the campus’ appear-ance, Associate Vice Presidentfor Facilities Management FrankBrewer said.
Brewer also said FacilitiesManagement will focus on mak-ing the campus more biker-friendly, because he said stu-dents and faculty membersoften complain it is difficult forbikers to find safe paths orenough bike racks.
“Biking hasn’t really been apart of the culture at Marylandbecause we don’t have enoughpaths, racks or storage areas,”he said. “We’re going to workhard on that because we believethat many more of our studentsand staff will use their bikes ifwe’re more biker-friendly.”
Facilities Management is alsoon the lookout for areas to plantmore flowers and shrubs tomake the campus more attrac-tive, as well as areas to add moretrees to expand the campus’ tree
canopy.“We want it to connect with
regional canopies, which pro-vides routes for wildlife to movethroughout the region,” Brewersaid.
The landscape projects willalso focus on improving the uni-versity’s performance as astakeholder in the Anacostiawatershed, so officials will be
working together to install moreprojects with the Low ImpactDevelopment Center, Inc. — anon-profit organization thataims to protect water resources— to improve the quality of thecampus’ runoff water.
Both the landscape improve-ments and transportation initia-tives address the university’slarger goal of creating the most
environmentally sustainablecampus possible.
Brewer said officials are gear-ing most of their transportationefforts toward improving Shut-tle-UM buses and Metro busesso students, staff and faculty willview public transportation as amore appealing option. The goalis to make public transportationas convenient and attractive aspossible to reduce automobiletraffic on the campus.
“We’re hoping to increase thefrequency of the buses, soinstead of running every 20 min-utes, they’d run every 10 or 15instead,” he said. “We’re going totry and align our shuttle busroutes with where students live.”
Many Department of Trans-portation Services buses arehybrids, and Brewer said hope-fully the university will add moreover the next several years.
The update is on track to becompleted by summer and readyfor presentation to the Board ofRegents for approval next fall.
the 1970s, when sickle cellanemia screening programswere used by companies andstate governments to identifycarriers, who were thendenied employment andinsurance coverage. Because8 percent of blacks carry thetrait, compared to 0.5 per-cent of Latinos and 0.2 per-cent of whites, according tothe National Institutes ofHealth, the systematic test-ing was highly racialized.
The NCAA program isbeing viewed as a test case,after as many as 10 Division Ifootball players who had thegene died following workoutsessions in the last decade.But Assistant Athletics Direc-tor for Sports Medicine Dar-ryl Conway said this univer-sity has never faced any accu-sations of discrimination,despite having tested its ath-letes for the past five years.
Conway said the playersare no more likely to face dis-crimination as a result of thisscreening than they are inany other medical tests theuniversity conducts, such asscreens for flat feet, asthmaand diabetes.
“My personal opinion is thisis being blown out of propor-tion,” he said, noting that every-one is tested for the sickle celltrait after they are born.
In 2005, the universitybegan testing all “at-risk ath-letes” — those of African-American, Central and SouthAmerican, European,Mediterranean and Italiandescent — for the sickle cellgene, Conway said, whichconstituted about half of theuniversity’s athletes. In 2007,the university moved to test-ing all athletes, he said.
“Everybody has some mixin their background,” he said.
Sickle cell anemia canaffect red blood cells bychanging their circular shapeto that of a crescent, causingthe cells to have difficultypassing through small bloodvessels, thus damaging tis-sue. Those who have the dis-ease have two copies of thesickle cell gene, whereasthose with the sickle cell traithave only one copy and gen-erally remain unaffected.
Yvette Rooks, the Terrap-ins’ team physician and amember of the NCAA com-mittee that recommendedthe requirement, said she
doesn’t foresee any discrimi-nation occurring.
“By testing everyone, Ithink you get rid of the preju-dices,” Rooks said.
The policy was mandatedafter Rice University footballplayer Dale Lloyd II’s familyfiled a lawsuit claiming hisdeath was linked to thegenetic trait — Lloyd did nothave sickle cell anemia.
“Do we see it a lot? No, butwe like to be cautious,”Rooks said.
Rooks noted that mostpeople who have the sicklecell gene can live a long,happy life without ever expe-riencing any complicationsor developing the disease.However, she said, there’s achance that with extremephysical exertion, otherwisenormal red blood cells maysickle and fail to deliverenough oxygen to essentialorgans and tissues.
Those who test positivehaven’t ever been excludedfrom any athletic participa-tion, Conway said, just moni-tored to make sure theyremain healthy. Starting thisyear, Rooks will personallyeducate athletes on whatsickle cell anemia is andwhat they should be mindfulof when under extreme phys-ical pressure.
“It’s a two-way street,”Rooks said, adding athletesneed to be aware of theirbodies and know when theyneed to take a break.
Conway said that with ath-letic trainers, coaches and anunlimited supply of waterand Gatorade, university ath-letes have plenty of people —and resources — to ensurethey remain healthy.
“That’s what you don’t getat other places,” he said,adding that the key to pre-venting complications is get-ting the results of the sicklecell trait test on a child’simmunization chart so youthleague coaches and parentsare aware of the trait.
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Mexican restaurant in Beltsville,a clerk on the board said.
“It was a competition,” saidDiane, a 30-year employee ofthe board who asked her lastname be withheld. “They’reboth fine restaurants, but weonly had one license …Hanami demonstrated the pub-lic would be accommodated bya liquor license.”
Owner and manager IreneSong said she is excited aboutthe advantages of bringing aliquor license to her business,an almost five-year-old estab-lishment serving sushi and tra-ditional Japanese food.
“It should help a lot,” Songsaid. “Sake goes with sushi,and you can sake bomb.”
Song hopes to add Japanesebeer, such as Sapporo, to hermenu, in addition to a wineselection. Tables of six ormore will be able to orderpitchers of beer.
Students said a liquorlicense will separate Hanamifrom the other Asian restau-rants nearby that do mostly
carry-out orders or servequick eat-in meals. ThoughSeven Seas, located furthernorth on Route 1, is students’go-to sake bombing destina-tion, several said having thatoption within walking distancefrom the campus is ideal.
“That does sound like morefun,” said senior accountingmajor Parisa Karimi, who saidshe goes to Hanami for sushibut would be interested in bring-ing a group of friends to have acouple drinks with dinner.
“It’s definitely a change fromthe standard bars in CollegePark,” she added.
Although Song said sheexpects adding alcohol to themenu will bring in extra rev-enue, she knows she mighthave to prepare for some rowdypatrons and said she plans tomonitor that possibility.
In order to minimize anynegative alcohol-influencedincidents, Song said only par-ties ordering food will beallowed to add beer or wine totheir bill. The county will notrequire the restaurant to pur-chase ID scanners to servecustomers drinks.
College Park City Council
District 1 Councilman MarcusAfzali said he doesn’t think inap-propriate behavior will be anissue — the established atmos-phere in the typically mellowrestaurant just doesn’t lend itselfto that kind of behavior, he said.
“Considering the restau-
rant, I don’t think people aregoing to go and start sakebombing,” Afzali said. “I don’tthink it’s going to have muchimpact on the atmosphere ofthe restaurant.”
HANAMIfrom page 1
Hanami Japanese Restaurant was granted a liquor license andwill begin serving beer and wine. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY SARAH MEEHANStaf f writer
The SGA voted last night tostreamline its legislativeprocess so members can voteon bills sooner than the previ-ous system allowed.
Representatives hope thenew protocol will allow legis-lation to move through thesystem more efficiently andkeep members on their toes.
Prior to the change, theStudent Government Associ-ation followed a three-weekreading calendar to processproposed legislation, butsome members said in thenew four-week system theycan achieve more with theallotted time.
As the system stands now,during the first week, theSGA sends any proposed leg-islation to its appropriate leg-islative committee for review.It then takes an additionaltwo weeks before the bodycan vote on the bill.
In the new process, the leg-islature will vote on thosebills in the second week, asopposed to the third. Then,passed legislation will returnto its committee where mem-bers will hammer out a planfor the bill’s implementation.
During the final week, theSGA will follow up on the sta-tus of the new legislation,which members said is a keystep to holding legislatorsaccountable for the bills theysponsor.
“Our new system will bet-ter represent each legislativeconstituency by creating amore efficient process thatprovides adequate accounta-bility,” said SGA PresidentSteve Glickman. “The legisla-tors now have to report backto committees and reportback to fellow legislators,whereas before they didn’thave to report back to any-body,” he said.
Glickman added that in thepast there has been no offi-cial way to check up on theprogress of initiatives oncethey were passed.
Other legislators echoedthat sentiment and said theyhoped the refined system willchange other students’ nega-tive perception of the SGA’sinner workings.
“Most people, when theythink of SGA, they think of agroup of people sittingaround a table not gettinganything done,” said lettersand sciences LegislatorJimmy Gray, who voted in
favor of the change. Last night’s 17-8 vote
marked the third amendmentto the SGA’s Constitution andBylaws so far this semesterand required a two-thirdsmajority to pass. Because onelegislator had to leave themeeting before the decision,a substitute legislator castthat vote — bumping the sup-porting side up to the 17votes needed for approval.
Chief of Staff MichelleMcGrain said she thinks thenew calendar system willallow the body to ensure itpasses and implementsmeaningful legislation.
Because the revised sched-ule requires SGA committeesto create specific action plansfor their bills, legislators andnon-legislators have theopportunity to build strongerconnections within commit-tees, she said.
Others think the newprocess will only prolong theroutine because legislatorswill now have to debate boththe bill’s guiding concept andthe implementation details.
“It’s adding another layerto the bureaucratic cake thatis SGA,” said behavioral andsocial sciences LegislatorZach Cohen, who voted
against the bill.Cohen said he did not see a
major problem with the previ-ous reading calendar andadded most legislative bodiesacross the country use athree-week system. Otherlegislators argued a proce-dural change like this shouldhave been made in lastspring’s omnibus bill, butGlickman said he wanted toconsult this year’s legislaturefirst, adding many changeswere made to the original billbecause of their input.
“In spirit, this is a goodidea,” said Anton Medvedev,a senior philosophy and gov-ernment and politics majorwho resigned from the SGAearlier this semester. “I thinkthat the problem with this isthat it adds another step inthe legislative process.”
Though Medvedev did notcompletely agree with thestipulations of the new sys-tem, he said he appreciatesthat the SGA is trying toimprove its approaches tobetter serve students.
“I’m glad it passed,” hesaid. “I’m glad to see the SGAis open to reassessing itsmethods.”
SGA changes system for passing legislationClose vote leads to new process that specifies steps for implementation
In last night’s meeting, the Student Government Association voted 17-8 to approve a new system that will allow for legislation tobe approved more quickly and for the body to follow up on bills’ implementation. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK
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“My personalopinion is this isbeing blownout ofproportion.”
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I f any of you have listened tothe lyrics of Ke$ha’s “Take ItOff” lately (and I suggest youdon’t), you’ll notice she’s “com-
posed” a song specifically about ourvery own Thirsty Turtle. It’s a holein the wall, it’s a dirty free for all,we’ve got our drunk text on, andwe’ll regret it in the morning.There’s definitely glitter on the floor— as in broken glass — and I’veseen plenty of freshman girls take itoff lately, as in I can see their pantieswhen they’re bent all the way overdancing on their fellow 12-year-olds.
I’ve never flashed anything what-soever at Turtle, but I have beensprayed off the bar with a soda gun,had a friend who burned her hair onholiday lights, fallen off a speaker,fallen off a mechanical bull, beenpunched in the face, won ninestraight games of beer pong andalmost been crushed to death whilecatching a glimpse of Jersey Shore’s
DJ Pauly D. I’ve watched my friendsustain critical injuries after having abeer bottle smashed in his face. I’veheard of people urinating in cupsand then throwing the contents intothe crowd. Oh, if those walls couldtalk. The things we’ve all seen there.The things we will continue to see.
The trouble is, lately, my ability topick out freshmen has been horrifi-cally easy. The wide-eyed look ontheir faces, the way they clutch theirfake IDs and the teeny tiny outfits(little Ke$ha lookalikes!). I can’t gointo Turtle these days without feel-ing amused in a motherly or horri-fied way. Worse, many times I’m
bored. I’m not sure when seeing peo-ple get tackled into kegs becameboring, but I’m guessing it’s aboutthe same time I stopped seeing thatand started seeing every bathroomstall occupied by a vomiting girlsmeared with black eyeliner. No onedoes anything surprising anymore.You’re boring me.
I’ve come to a horrible, earth-shat-tering realization, and I don’t like it.Here goes: I’m too old for this. Withonly three bars, navigating Route 1has become a minefield, runninginto the same exact people my ownage and the same bleary-eyed under-classmen fighting for space on a fewgrimy dance floors. We’re warnedabout being mugged after leavingthe bars, but the real robbery startswith the $5 cover at the doors. Thebouncers are horrible.
Unfortunately, though, while I’llprobably go to Washington and pri-vate wine nights more often, I’m not
going to stop frequenting Route 1until the Metro starts moving at thespeed of light or a crazy house partyscene materializes out of nowhere.I’ve spent many a happy semesteraccidentally dropping mixed drinkson people at Cornerstone Grill andLoft and arguing with R.J. Bentley’sbouncers about whether the Sharpiesquiggle on my hand does, in fact,indicate that I already paid cover.
But as for you, Turtle? I’ve seenthe light. I once loved you and yourflaws, but now you’re suddenly grossin a sadly uninteresting way. Myfriends and I have decided: We’renever, ever going back. We’re old,grumpy and condescending. Thosegirls should put some pants on.
We’re probably also in denial.Maybe just pitchers?
Bethany Wynn is a senior sociologymajor. She can be reached [email protected].
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AFacebook movie is a ridicu-lous idea, and my fellow film-goers apparently agreed withme on this subject a couple
months back when they collectivelygroaned during the opening credits of apreview for The Social Network. Whywould they try to make a movie aboutus? Get those old people some Face-book training wheels! On the surface, itcertainly seems like an out-of-touch stu-dio executive’s ill-conceived attempt atmaking a buck. But the trailer was wellmade, and the movie is written anddirected by Aaron Sorkin (The WestWing) and David Fincher (The Curi-ous Case of Benjamin Button), respec-tively. Consequently, my interest waspiqued; perhaps this film isn’t just Hol-lywood’s feeble attempt to understandwhat we’re interested in. Perhaps thisis the sort of film that will enable us toreach some important conclusionsabout our generation.
Facebook is certainly a microcosmof the epochal effects technology has
had on our society. We are just nowbeginning to grapple with the true pos-sibilities of the Internet, and I hope TheSocial Network searches for answers tosome of the questions facing us: Howare we responding to new technology?Will we use it to improve our lives?What does it all mean? Who are we?What will we become?
Ponder this line from one of the trail-ers: “The Internet’s not written in pen-cil, Mark; it’s written in ink.” It’s a sim-ple statement that, in the trailer at least,is obscured by the accelerating tempoof keystrokes in an online conversation.But that’s sort of the point: distracted bya world increasingly cluttered with sta-tus updates and Internet memes, wehave yet to comprehend the ramifica-tions of a technological society.
Already, politicians are dealing withPlaygirl spreads, witchcraft and anappearance on MTV’s Sex in the ‘90s —and this is just the beginning. You arewhat the interwebs says you are,whether its two or 20 pages of search
engine results. To de-tag or delete is notto de-create: Googlegate will inevitablyusurp Watergate, as untold political aspi-rators and celebrities find their ancientde-tagged pimps ‘n’ hoes photos dug upby facial recognition software scrubbingvast reserves of Google caches andJPEG archives. We completely underes-timate the vastness and permanence ofour online persona; people change, butones and zeroes remain constant. Is thefuture you prepared to defend your cur-rent online self?
Older people can exonerate them-selves for not understanding the impli-cations of their technological missteps,but our generation has no excuse:We’ve grown up in a wireless world of
cell phones and e-mail, text messagesand instant messenger, MySpace andFacebook. Our generation is the firstgroup of people intrinsically prepared toenvision a technological society, butwe’re blowing it because we waste somuch time Facebook-stalking peoplewe’d ignore in person or posting pic-tures of our sophisticated Germanstudy-abroad beer.
Why do we do this? Because it’s cool?Old people have Facebook! You don’thave 968 friends, and Germany is lit-tered with McDonalds. The wheel isn’tcool. Books aren’t cool. Electricity isn’tcool. The Internet is no longer cool, andmaybe The Social Network is the kick inthe ass we need to realize this. The train-ing wheels are off; it’s time for us toacknowledge our technological societyand to begin figuring out how to use it tomake the world a better place.
Christopher Haxel is a junior Englishmajor. He can be reached [email protected].
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Undergraduates have long felt disenfranchised by the City of CollegePark. With graying politicians running the show, many students havefelt their concerns and opinions go ignored or dismissed based onofficials’ perceptions of their youth and temporary status. To be fair,
students have done their part to give such dismissals ammunition by shyingaway from local elections and not turning out to open College Park City Councilmeetings, where issues that impact students directly are often debated.
But in the College Park, undergraduates may soon have a place at the table.The city council will debate a proposed amendment to thecity’s charter that would enable a city resident as young as18 to run for a seat on the council. Such an amendmentwould be a remarkable change to the charter as it stands,which requires council members be at least 21 years oldand a registered city voter for no less than one year.
Even if approved, the amendment will merely presentan opportunity for students — it will not make it any easierfor an undergraduate to successfully run for a city post.
The fact of the matter is many city residents harbor acertain amount of disdain for students, whose boominghouse parties and late-night lifestyles often conflict with theinterests of older residents. This divide has made it difficult for students whomet the age requirement to get elected in the past.
The last two undergraduate students to attempt such a feat have failed. Andalthough students under the age of 21 will no doubt face an uphill battle, this edi-torial board believes there are students engaged enough, serious enough andambitious enough to make the climb.
The council’s student representation is small, consisting only of District 4Councilman Marcus Afzali, who was elected as a graduate student and intro-duced the amendment. However, this lack of representation makes the prospectof an undergraduate council member all the more appealing.
There are several city-wide issues that an undergraduate candidate could cap-italize on to bring students to the polls — from parking regulations to the reten-tion of local businesses to noise control. This candidate would need to demon-strate to students why an undergraduate voice on the eight-member council is
needed while also showing city residents he or she isinformed and serious about improving the quality of lifein College Park.
As Afzali and others have noted, a prospective under-graduate council member would have to be focused andcommitted to win an election. And with students spreadthroughout College Park’s four districts, he or she wouldneed to be able to attract support — and votes — fromboth students and residents.
Although it seems inherently unlikely an undergrad-uate could secure a spot on the city council anytimesoon, we welcome the prospect and encourage the city
to do the same. This is a community that has often seen city pitted against university in
regards to policy and development disagreements. Opening the door for a possi-ble student council member would not only be a victory for the more than 26,000undergraduates at this university, but it would also be a step toward creating amore inclusive — and livable — community.
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Our ViewA proposal by the CollegePark City Council to lower
the age requirement forcouncil seats to 18 could
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Neil Sheehan, author ofthe 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning book on theVietnam War, A Bright
Shining Lie: John Paul Vann andAmerica in Vietnam, argues in his2009 book, A Fiery Peace in a ColdWar, that the Korean War neverwould have happened if the UnitedStates had retained its atomicmonopoly for a few more years. Heblames the atomic spies — peoplewho are thought to have givenatomic secrets to the Soviet Unionduring World War II and the ColdWar — for causing the Korean Warby giving the Soviets at least a two-year start in producing atomicweapons. This also was the posi-tion of Judge Irving Kaufman in1951 when he sentenced Juliusand Ethel Rosenberg to death forespionage: He blamed them forcausing the Korean War.
However, one mustn’t forgetthat at least two factors go intomaking an atom bomb: the know-how and the material resources.The atomic spies provided only theknowledge to the Soviets. But theSoviets did not have the materialresources — the most importantof which is uranium — in sufficientquantities and was, in fact, largelyprovided them by a strategic errorof the United States.
America, as stated by ZbynekZeman and Rainer Karsch in their2008 book, Uranium Matters, beatthe Soviets to the uranium fields inGermany and Czechoslovakia, theErzgebirge (the Ore Mountains),which forms a border between thetwo countries. Gen. George Pat-ton, while advancing throughthose mountains to liberatePrague, could have easily liberatedmuch of Czechoslovakia when hereceived an order to hold back andlet the Soviets take Prague. Theregions in East Germany andCzechoslovakia that he hadalready liberated, including theErzgebirge uranium deposits,were later turned over to the Rus-sians as part of the eastern zone inGermany, and Czechoslovakia wassimply abandoned to the Soviets.
There’s an old saying: “To the vic-tor belong the spoils.” Americacould’ve kept the German uraniumfields as spoils of war rather thangiven them to the Soviet Union. If theUnited States couldn’t legitimatelykeep the Czech uranium mines, asCzechoslovakia wasn’t an enemy dur-ing World War II, it could’ve at leastseen to it that non-communistCzechs, rather than the Soviet Union,regained control of those mines.
I’m not saying that the SovietUnion, if left alone, wouldn’t haveeventually gotten enough uraniumfrom someplace else, perhapsfrom its own territory, to breakAmerica’s atomic monopoly. But itwould’ve been delayed a few yearsor so if it hadn’t been for that ura-nium coming from East Germanyand Czechoslovakia. The bulk ofthe uranium used to break Amer-ica’s monopoly came from thosetwo countries. If it hadn’t beenavailable, the Soviet Unionwould’ve been hard-pressed to findenough uranium for a nuclearweapon — at that time and forsome years after.
Therefore, Sheehan and Kauf-man are incorrect in their beliefthat the Rosenbergs’ espionagecaused the breaking of the Ameri-can nuclear monopoly. The U.S.government, and those officials inthe Truman administration whoordered Patton’s halt and laterturned over the Erzgebirge to theSoviets, must share equal respon-sibility with the atomic spies forcausing the Korean war.
Jonathan S. Miller is a graduatestudent in geography. He can bereached at [email protected].
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Born today, you know how tobend the rules to their limitwithout breaking them, and
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Men born on this date are quitecreative, and are able to hit on themost unusual solutions to life’sproblems; women born on this datehave a knack for avoiding thoseproblems altogether, though cer-tainly others will spring up now andthen that require careful handling.All born on this date can be honest-ly expressive — to a fault.
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Few people are preparedto die. Simply facing theprospect can lead to feelingsof loneliness and isolation asthey realize time is slippingthrough their hands — thatthey are slowly fading awayfrom everything they love.
But most people don’tspend that time in a coffinwithout any idea wherethey are. Unfortunately,that’s the case for Paul Con-roy in Buried.
An American truck driveron a contract assignment inIraq, Conroy (Ryan Reynolds,The Proposal) wakes upburied in a wooden coffin withnothing but a BlackBerry, a
pen and a lighter. Immediate-ly, he is in a fight for survival— if he cannot get $5 million inransom money to his captorswithin 90 minutes, he will beleft to die.
With limited room, a dyingcell phone battery, poor recep-tion and a diminishing supplyof oxygen, Conroy’s struggleis a race against time and a bat-tle against despair.
The entirety of the movietakes place within the coffin.Indie director Rodrigo Cortésreceived some acclaim at theSundance Film Festival for thefilm, as he is able to keep thatlimited locale interesting witha few tricks — namely, thecamera and the actor.
Creative use of the cam-era keeps the coffin from
getting old too fast. Instead,varying camera angles focuson different sections of thecoffin and on Reynolds’ fa-cial expressions.
The camera is also used in away that allows viewers toshare the claustrophobic sen-sation of being stuck in a coffinthat will affect them long afterthey leave the theater.
Not only do viewers em-phasize with Conroy, theyalso share his isolated mind-set. In this regard, it is master-ly. Some moviegoers mayeven feel the need to stretchout and take a shower imme-diately afterward.
The other great choiceCortés made was to fillBuried’s coffin with Reynolds.Reynolds is a dynamic actor
who makes Conroy a charac-ter audiences will root for.
As the only actor seen onscreen during the film, it isReynolds’ cycling throughfear, delirium, sadness andanger that allows viewers tocare at all about this man.His raw, exciting perform-ance is the glue that keepsthe film together.
It is moments suchas Conroy usinghis phone to callhis mother forwhat may bethe very lasttime or beg-ging govern-ment officials— “What areyou doing rightnow to help me?”—that deliver theright amount of emotionand make the character relat-able, even in his dire situation.
Unfortunately, though,emotion messes with thepace of the film. During ac-tion, whether it is a twist inthe plot or a suspensefulscare, the emotion drainsout of the film, only to re-
turn later. The film strug-gles as it adds the elementsof a drama to a suspensestory, which causes themovie to feel like it’s eithermoving too fast during theaction or dragging.
A few moments that couldmake matters tenser end upbeing humorous. Early eventssuch as Conroy being forced to
listen to on-hold musicwill lead to chuck-
ling rather thananticipation, andthese kinds ofevents happena few timesthroughout.
Despite itsflaws in pacing,
Buried will getunder your skin.
As Conroy etchesimportant phone num-
bers into the lid of the coffinlike he’s a prisoner in an in-sane asylum and sand slowlyfalls through the cracks, youcan’t help but hope thehostage is rescued.
The realities of war aresprinkled throughout. Con-roy’s place as an American inIraq (despite not being a sol-dier) is an interesting issuethroughout the film, and theevents of the war in Iraq do af-fect his predicament. In asmart move, the film avoidscommenting on politics.
Those who go to see Buriedare in for some surprises. Anentire movie in a coffin indeedworks, even if there are a fewhiccups. Audience memberswill be kept guessing up untilthe very end, and they’ll be af-fected by the expert camerawork and Reynolds’ acting.
The pacing is by no meansperfect, but it will suffice forthose who want a new kind ofthriller experience.
A piece of advice: Getseats with no one sitting oneither side of you. Whenstaring at a coffin for an hourand a half, you’ll appreciatethe extra space.
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said, laughing. “But train-ing- and school-wise, it’s alot more full-on. At home,it doesn’t really matter ifyou don’t go to classes,but here, it’s all aboutattendance, and it’s thesame thing with training.”
Buckley said she’sadjusted to life in the U.S.with ease, and it’s shownon the field. The junior hasstarted all nine games forthe Terps, recording 20points on eight goals andfour assists.
On Sept. 19, in the 20thminute against Massa-chusetts, the Terps linedup for a penalty corner,and Buckley was calledupon to take the shot.After defender AliMcEvoy faked a shot, shepassed it across the fieldto Buckley, who rifled ahard and low ball into thecorner of the goal pastMassachusetts goal-keeper Alesha Widdall.The score ended upbeing the game-winner.
“She’s fit in really well,”defender and co-captainAlicia Morawski said. “It’salways nice to know thatwhen she has the ball,she’s going to do somegood with it.”
Although Buckley hasplayed well for the Terpsso far, coach Missy
Meharg wants her to workon a more “American”style of play. Coming fromAustralia, Buckley isaccustomed to a morezone-oriented defense.Meharg, though, likes torun a combination of man-to-man and zone coverage.
The veteran coachhopes the changes showon the field when Buckleysees her sister in Char-lottesville tomorrow. TheCavaliers are one of justthree teams in the countrythat are still undefeated.
“I’ve been so impressedwith her character andability to just work hard,”Meharg said. “I think oneof the things that we’reworking on with her is adifferent type of defensebecause they play veryzonal in Australia. … Iknow that she will leave
here with different techni-cal strengths.”
For Meharg, gettingBuckley to be a Terp was-n’t an easy task. Mehargrecruited her while shewas in high school, butafter graduation, Buckleydecided to stay in Aus-tralia and play for thenational team and the Uni-versity of Western Aus-tralia. But Meharg waspersistent, keeping tabson her prized recruit overthe next two years. Whenshe called once morebefore this season, theanswer was yes.
“I’ve been in contactwith Missy for the pastfour or five years, and ithad never been the righttime,” Buckley said. “Butit just worked out thateverything cametogether, and I wanted to
finish my studies.”Now that Buckley is a
Terp, she said she’s look-ing forward to playingagainst her sister, who hasrecorded an impressive 20points in her first year forVirginia. When the Terpsplay the Cavaliers tomor-row, it will be the first timethe two have been pittedagainst each other on sep-arate teams.
Back in Australia,where the two Buckleysplayed on the same highschool team, they oftenpushed each other toimprove their own game.
“I’m the older one, so Ihave to be better thanher,” Jemma Buckley saidwith a grin on her face.“But we always give eachother goals to work on andsee who’s scoring more.”
Despite the sisters’closeness, Buckley saidshe has been talking trashheading into tomorrow’sgame. She even sent heryounger sister a friendlypregame present.
“It was funny, becauseI sent her a shirt thatsaid ‘Fear the Turtle,’and she had it on whenwe talked on Skype,”Buckley said. “All theUVA girls give her a hardtime because I play atMaryland, but it’s a goodrivalry. It’s fun. I can’twait till we play them.”
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In their past two games, against WestVirginia and Florida International, theTerps have allowed 623 passing yards andsix passing touchdowns. This week, theyface a Blue Devil passing offense that is20th in the country, averaging 281.25yards through the air per game.
Things got so bad for Chism last weekthat after gambling on pass defense andgiving up a long touchdown in the firsthalf, defensive coordinator Don Brownreplaced Chism with redshirt freshmanDexter McDougle in the second half.
“I guess I just got beat so he took meout,” Chism said.
Chism wasn’t on the bench very long,though. And after the game, Brownlauded Chism’s attitude and said the jun-
ior played much better as the Terpspulled away from the Golden Panthers.
“I am still just as confident,” Chismsaid. “I think it’s just that I am so eager tomake a play, I forget the technique orsomething. It’s just the little things. I justhave to calm down and do my job.”
He will need to be exceptional at his jobSaturday. Duke wideouts Conner Vernonand Donovan Varner are two of the betterpass-catchers in the conference, alreadyhaving combined for 51 catches and 707yards this season.
Chism and the rest of the secondaryare well aware of the Blue Devils’ play-makers. The Terps will be better Satur-day, Chism said, and so will he.
“If I get my hands on the ball, I want toscore,” Chism said. “No missed tackles, nocoverage busts. I just want to help us win.”
Defender Jemma Buckley has started every game forthe Terps this season. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Cornerback Trenton Hughes, left, and the Terps allowed 355 passing yardsto Florida International in their win Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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SportsVolleyball hitting the road
The Terrapin volleyball team looks to continue itsfast start in ACC play with a win tonight at WakeForest. Get more at diamondbackonline.com/sports.
BY JAKOB ENGELKESenior staff writer
Every night before she goes to sleep, JemmaBuckley logs on to Skype to see afriendly face.
The Terrapin field hockey defenderand Perth, Australia, native does, afterall, miss her friends and family, manyof who live about 12,000 miles away.
One of the people she misses most isElly Buckley, her younger sister. Andalthough Jemma Buckley talks to hersister every day on the Internet — asshe does with much of her family —the younger Buckley doesn’t liveacross the Pacific Ocean.
Elly Buckley lives in Charlottesville,Va., as a freshman forward for ACCrival Virginia.
The sisters, who have played for youth Aus-tralian national teams (Jemma Buckley for the
under-21 team and Elly Buckley for the under-16team), came to the United States together thisyear to combine their love for field hockey withtheir pursuit of a college degree.
Tomorrow, they’ll play against eachother for the first time as the No. 1Terps (8-1, 2-0 ACC) travel to No. 3 Vir-ginia (9-0, 1-0).
“It’s really different, but it’s goodfun,” the elder Buckley said. “I love ithere. Having to learn everything aboutthis place is a little difficult, but it’s beengood. … I’m not very far from Virginia,so we can see each other. It’s good thatwe’re both experiencing it.”
Buckley noted the many differencesbetween life at home and life stateside,ranging from cultural differences tostyles of play on the field hockey pitch.
“You guys eat a lot. Meals are a lot bigger,” she
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JEMMABUCKLEY TERRAPIN FIELD
HOCKEY DEFENDER
Still close to home, evenhalf a world away
Australia’s Buckley sisters starring stateside
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Cornerback Cameron Chism, right, likely will help cover Duke wide receivers Conner Vernon and Donovan Varner onSaturday. Vernon leads the ACC in receiving yards per game, and Varner is eighth. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY CONOR WALSHStaff writer
The No. 7 Terrapin women’ssoccer team won’t soon forgetwhat transpired in Char-lottesville, Va., last October.
After midfielder CaitlinMcDowell gave the Terps a 2-1lead over host Virginia with her79th-minute goal, it appearedwith each passing minute thatthe Terps would soon be head-ing home with a big road victory.
They came up exactly one sec-ond short of leaving with a win.Cavalier midfielder Jess Rostedt’sshot from 15 yards out rolledpast then-goalkeeper MaryCasey and into the back of thenet, sending the game into over-time, where it ended in a draw.
To the Terps, it might as wellhave been a loss.
“Oh, my gosh, I feel like thatgame just happened,” McDow-ell said. “That was definitely agame that resonated with us allseason. It still feels so surreal.”
The Terps have their firstopportunity for vengeancetonight, when the No. 9 Cava-liers come to Ludwig Field.
“We realize how close wewere last year,” McDowell said.“It made us realize you have toplay literally every second ofevery game.”
The Terps (8-0-1, 0-0-1 ACC)will need a 90-minute effort ifthey hope to get their first con-ference win of the season overthe powerful Cavaliers (7-1-1, 1-0), who have surrendered amere two goals all season andboast the nation’s stingiest goals
against average.Virginia can bring it up top, as
well. They are averaging 3.33goals per game this season, thebest mark in the ACC, and theyhave two players with sevengoals apiece, the same numberTerp forward and leadingscorer Ashley Grove has.
“They’re the stingiestdefense that we’ve playedagainst so far,” coach Brian Pen-sky said. “They’ve also scoredthe most goals of any teamwe’ve played against.”
Goals, obviously, will not beeasy to come by for the Terpsdespite their explosive offense,which ranks seventh in thenation in scoring.
Forward Jasmyne Spencerstressed the importance ofstriking first tonight.
“In all of our ACC games,especially Virginia, we’ve gotto be the first ones to score,”Spencer said. “It takes somuch pressure off and givesyou that edge, especially athome.”
Scoring the first goal mightnot be decisive for the Terps,but taking points from the gamewill be pivotal. The upper eche-lon of the ACC appears to be aswide-open as ever after No. 2Boston College’s 3-2 win overdefending national championNorth Carolina on Sept. 23.
If the Terps hope to leap toACC prominence, they’ll needto play soundly from the open-ing kickoff to the final second.
The very last second.
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Last-second Virginia goalstill haunts Terps in 2010
Far from a secondary concernInconsistent Chism will lead Terps vs. talented Duke attack Saturday
BY MICHAEL LEMAIRESenior staff writer
After leading the Terrapinfootball team in interceptionsand being named the team’smost improved defensiveplayer last season, CameronChism was expected to step inas the team’s top cornerbackand a leader in an inexperi-enced secondary.
But things haven’t quite
gone according to plan.After spending the offseason
eagerly awaiting the seasonopener against Navy, Chismsuffered a hamstring injuryand missed all of training camp.
Chism returned in time toplay in the game against theMidshipmen, and yesterday hesaid his hamstring hasn’tslowed him down this season.The missed repetitions in prac-tice did, however, delay his pro-
gression. And heading into Sat-urday’s showdown against apass-happy Duke team, coachRalph Friedgen is waiting forChism to live up to his potentialand take charge of a Terp sec-ondary that has taken its lumps.
“He’s struggling right now,”Friedgen said. “Cameronmissed all of training camp andthat kind of set him back. Hewas only cleared a week beforeNavy, and a lot of his fundamen-
tals are not where they need tobe. We kind of figured he was aveteran, but he’s got to play bet-ter for us than he is right now.”
Chism, who leads the teamin pass breakups and passesdefended with six of each,largely embodies the woes thathave befallen a secondary thathas shown flashes of improve-ment but remains inconsistent.
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