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BY BEN PRESENTSenior staff writer
Mere hours after taking over asPrince George’s County executive yes-terday, Rushern Baker III (D) removedRoberto Hylton from his position aschief of Prince George’s County Police,a department addled by two ongoingfederal investigations that allege cor-ruption and misconduct.
Deputy Chief Mark Magaw, a formernarcotics commander who has been withthe department for 27 years, will take overimmediately as interim chief of police.
This appointment was just one of severalthat Baker made among the county’s topleadership positions yesterday. Although
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Our 101ST Year, No. 70THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERTuesday, December 7, 2010
Loh vows to fight future furloughsEmployee morale remains low as state approaches projected $1.6 billion budget gap
BY LAUREN REDDINGSenior staff writer
For university staff and facultymembers, it seems the hits keepcoming. But as they prepare for athird straight year of furloughs andno pay increases, university Presi-dent Wallace Loh said he will fight tohelp prevent a fourth.
As the state grapples with an esti-mated budget shortfall of $1.6 billion,Loh said he hopes to boost employ-
ees’ spirits with his public commit-ment to advocate against furtherreductions in take-home pay.
“The issue of morale is very real onthe campus,” Loh said in an inter-view. “After three years of furloughsand salary freezes, you’re losingground. I will strongly fight for nomore furloughs next year.”
Loh is already making his case toUniversity System of MarylandChancellor Brit Kirwan, but thestate and the Board of Regents —
the 17-member governing body ofthe university system — will makethe final decision on furloughs,which are days of mandatoryunpaid leave. Although the issue ofbalancing budgets is anything butsimple, Loh plans on arguingagainst furloughs with simplerationale and straight talk.
In the long run, Loh argues, fur-loughs will actually cost the state
County exec.ousts severalamid scandalPolice chief who servedduring riot steps down
Sat. scootercrash leavestwo injuredCornerback, defensiveend won’t play in bowl
BY JEREMY SCHNEIDERStaff writer
Another season-ending scooter-relatedinjury has struck the Terrapin football team.
Redshirt freshman cornerback DexterMcDougle will miss the Military Bowl laterthis month after breaking his clavicle in anon-campus scooter incident Saturday, ateam spokesman confirmed last night. Mc-Dougle was treated and released at a localhospital, and is scheduled for surgery today.
Sophomore defensive end Isaiah Ross,who was driving the scooter, was not in-jured.
The single-scooter accident occurredabout 6 p.m. Saturday as the two headednorthbound on Regents Drive toward theLee Building, according to University Policespokesman Sgt. Ken Leonard. While fur-ther details of the accident have not yet beenreleased, Leonard said he was “pretty sure”neither player was wearing a helmet at thetime of the crash.
“It’s single vehicle, so it wasn’t like theywere swerving to avoid somebody, some-thing like that,” he said. “It seems like theywere either going too fast [or] hit a pothole.”
McDougle played in 11 games this sea-son, recording 22 tackles as a second-stringcornerback and averaging 14.2 yards per re-turn as a kickoff returner. Ross finished with2.5 sacks and a fumble recovery in 12 gamesthis year.
The accident comes less than twomonths after starting offensive tackle PeteDeSouza broke both his legs after beingstruck by a car while riding a scooter on thecampus. The injury required season-endingsurgery, but DeSouza is expected to make afull recovery.
Sweets will be sold where The Mark once stoodBY RACHEL ROUBEIN
Staff writer
Instead of asking for IDs, the buildingthat previously housed The Mark willprompt patrons to find their inner child.
Bringing bright-green tile floors, nu-merous television screens, free WiFiand 450 to 600 candy bins, the owners ofCampus Candy — set to open at the startof the spring semester — hope theirbusiness will thrive despite downtown
College Park’s reputation for rapid busi-ness turnover. Regional manager Jerre-my Deckard said the staying power willcome from becoming a hotspot for cityresidents and students alike.
“We like to provide a place for peopleto hang out and not necessarily be abar,” Deckard said. “It’s a modern-dayversion of an old school candy shop. If aStarbucks, a Dylan’s Candy Bar and a The site of the defunct bar formerly known as The Mark will be trans-
formed into a candy shop, Campus Candy, as indicated on a flyer post-ed on the shop’s door. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACKsee CANDY, page 2
see POLICE, page 3
see FURLOUGHS, page 2
Former secretary of state discusses potentialfor bringing peace to nations in Middle East
Making ‘peace’ morethan just a word
BY COLLEEN JASKOTFor The Diamondback
Peace in the Middle East is not an elusive goal, for-mer Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told agroup of more than 800 who gathered in Stamp Stu-dent Union yesterday afternoon.
As part of the university’s annual Anwar Sadat Lec-ture for Peace, which focuses on peace in the MiddleEast, Albright, who was the first woman to becomesecretary of state, spoke with candor and wit about Is-raeli-Palestinian peace talks, relations in the MiddleEast and her experiences in diplomacy.
Albright, who was appointed by former PresidentBill Clinton in 1997, was the highest-ranking woman inthe history of the U.S. government at the time of herappointment. She was a leading diplomatic figure inBosnia and Herzegovina and in the Middle East.
Today Albright is a professor at nearby Georgetown
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FURLOUGH FACTSA furlough is leave from
work without payFaculty and staff have been
asked to take furlough daysfor two years
Days fall during universitybreaks so as to cause as littledisruption as possible
Take you to thecandy shop
Madeleine Albright, who served as secretary of stateunder former President Bill Clinton, spoke at the AnwarSadat Lecture for Peace in the Stamp Student Unionyesterday. PHOTOS BY CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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University and a member of theboard of the Aspen Institute —a Washington-based interna-tional nonprofit organization —whose seminars and confer-ences for the discussion of con-temporary issues make peacemore than just an “emptyrhetorical device,” she said.
“There is nothing inevitableabout conflict in the MiddleEast,” Albright said, empha-sizing that teaching hate is achoice, and although the U.S.cannot make choices for othercountries, it can be committedto facilitating them.
But in the end, Albrightsaid, peace must be the resultof choices made by the groupsinvolved. For example, while atwo-state solution for Israelisand Palestinians can be posedby diplomats, the partiesthemselves must answer diffi-cult questions on their own,such as where to draw territo-rial lines. Albright said making
these choices independentlyis important, even if it meanswaiting longer for peace.
When asked a questionabout the current WikiLeakssituation, in which hundredsof thousands of leaked diplo-matic cables — including onesfrom the U.S. — have been re-leased to the public, Albrightsaid that it is “definitely a badproblem,” and that dealingwith the information revolu-tion and the possibility ofcyber attacks will be an issue
in the future. On a lighter note, Albright
also talked about the challengesof diplomats, and how, as awoman, she used her charm toget people off their game andthen “let them have it.”
Students said that Albrightwas both insightful and enter-taining.
“It’s always interesting tosee what people on the insidethink about things,” saidSteven Goldstein, a sopho-more government and politics
major. “Also, she was prettydarn funny.”
Ilana Ullman, a senior gov-ernment and politics major,agreed.
“I thought she had a reallygood perspective and a greatsense of humor,” Ullman said.
Even as Albright drew onher past experiences, she em-phasized the importance ofmoving forward.
“I think looking back is use-less,” Albright said. “Our lead-ers have the responsibility tolook ahead.”
Despite her sense of humor,Albright took on a hardenedtone near the end, and drew onthe event’s namesake, Moham-mad Anwar el-Sadat, presidentof Egypt in the 1970s whoworked toward peace in theMiddle East, to make the pointthat policies should not bebased on frustration and fear.
“That was not acceptable toSadat,” Albright said, “and itshould not be acceptable tous.”
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright addresses heraudience in Stamp Student Union’s Grand Ballroom yesterday.CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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more money. As institutionsimpose unpaid workdays, themost talented faculty and staffmembers pack up their bagsand head for other institutionsthat don’t do so. In response,the university must then findless qualified replacementsthat require time and training— an investment that ulti-mately will cost the state, evenif the effect isn’t immediate.
“You’re paying a huge priceimposing furloughs,” Lohsaid. “The chancellor is veryaware of this and is very sen-sitive to adopting a long-termperspective.”
But Loh is also well awarethat in an economic climatestruggling to rebound, themoney that is immediatelysaved from furloughs is hardfor legislators to turn down.And at his prior position asprovost of the University ofIowa, Loh faced a universitybudget cut of 24 percent anddealt with his fair share ofbudget-balancing techniques.
In the Midwest, which hesaid has seen some of theworst layoffs in the country,Loh said he was more willingto impose furloughs if it meantsaving jobs — a notion thatstate lawmakers have oftenused to justify the practice.
“We protect our people intimes of recession,” Loh said.“A university is only as goodas the quality of its people.”
But Loh emphasized thatthis isn’t Iowa and he doesn’thave the flexibility from thestate to make such a call. Sowhile furloughs are beingimposed, Loh said he willfight them.
University Senate Chair-man-elect Eric Kasischke, ageography professor, saidthat while Loh’s opposition tofurloughs isn’t drastically dif-ferent from former universityPresident Dan Mote’s philoso-phy, his immediate commit-ment is encouraging.
“He understands the situa-tion and that it’s very seri-ous,” he said. “Everybody thatI talked with are not happyabout three years of fur-
loughs, but we’re all realisticabout the present economicsituation. We realize there area lot of people who don’t havejobs, and as faculty memberswe have that job security.”
But university senator andbiology professor Chuck Del-wiche said although institu-tions across the country arestruggling, this university hasa unique set of circumstances.
“I believe that if you com-pare faculty salaries to ourpeer institutions they werealready relatively low evenwithout correcting for cost ofliving,” he wrote in an e-mail.“Then when you consider thefact that we are located in theDC Metro Area where Fed-eral employees have not hadanything like furloughs —although it looks like that willchange next year — taking apay cut has really hurt us. Atthe same time, cuts in staffand student support haveincreased the workload forfaculty, so we are in effectbeing paid less for morework.”
The probability of futurelayoffs is still unknown, sinceGov. Martin O’Malley (D)will not release his proposedbudget for the next fiscalyear until next month. But asthe university moves forwardinto economic uncertainties,Kasischke said faculty andstaf f members appreciateLoh’s value in personnel.
“I think there is a spirit ofshared responsibility,” he said.“There’s a deep sense of prideand understanding in theentire community and there’spride in the university.”
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Yogiberry all run into eachother, that’s what you’d get.You’d get us.”
But some students are skepti-cal of a candy shop’s ability tosurvive in the city. With the clos-ing of three city bars, senior eco-nomics major Erica Meyer saida candy shop isn’t exactly whatstudents are craving.
“Students would rather haveanother bar, especially sincenow we only have two,” shesaid. “I just think it’s the wrongplace for it. I don’t think collegestudents want a candy bar.”
But Deckard called CampusCandy’s two other locations atIndiana University and the Uni-versity of Wisconsin, whichboth opened this year, an “unbe-lievable success.”
“Customer volume itself hasbeen very high in general, andquite honestly has blown ourprojections out of the water,” hewrote in an e-mail.
Founded by Mark Tarnofsky,a candy-bar-craving father whowas moving his daughter into herdorm at Indiana University, Cam-pus Candy is expanding its candyand frozen yogurt offerings toother college towns. CollegePark will be the third or fourth,depending on when the Univer-sity of Arizona’s location opens.
But with downtown CollegePark’s history of short-livedrestaurants — Living Well Café,Wata-Wing and Chicken Rico in-cluded in the casualties — andwith Yogiberry housed in thesame Route 1 strip, the newbusiness needs a stable plan,which Deckard said CampusCandy has. The store will targetthe student population through
social media outlets, he said,while also forging relationshipswith local residents by support-ing community events and phil-anthropic causes.
“[We plan to] get involved inschools, get involved with LittleLeagues — anything to help thecommunity, support the com-munity and let them know we’reinterested in staying here a very,very long time,” Deckard said.
As for Yogiberry, Deckard saidCampus Candy — which haswhat he called the “world’slargest topping bar,” as all candiescan be used as toppings for yo-gurt — is not trying to compete.
“We are first and foremost acandy store. … We’re not hereto come into town as a yogurtshop,” he said. “We’re not hereto put people like that out ofbusiness; we’re here to do ourown thing. If people like our yo-gurt better, then that’s that.”
Kai Umurzakoev, a managerfor the Yogiberry chain, saidtheir loyal customer base willkeep Yogiberry — which hashad a steady stream of customerssince its opening in College Parklast November — afloat.
“Of course it’s competition,but I think it doesn’t matter for usbecause our customers like ouryogurt,” he said. “We’re not new,and a lot of customers love us.”
But Deckard said the shop’s co-pious candies — with unique com-binations such as tequila-flavoredsuckers and chocolate-coveredgraham cracker “clodhoppers” —provide a lively atmosphere thatwill keep patrons coming.
“We get the ‘wow’ factor,” hesaid. “When people walkthrough the door, they get all ofthese candies people haven’tseen since they were kids.”
CANDYfrom page 1
Group says dining hallchicken has arsenicStudents warned of tainted poultry
BY ERIN EGANStaff writer
An activist group opposed toarsenic in chicken feed isspreading the word that thisuniversity’s poultry supplymay include the potentiallyhazardous substance.
The Food & Water Watch —a nonprofit safety watchdog —has created a petition to bepresented to the state GeneralAssembly seeking a ban onthe use of arsenic as a catalystto speed chickens’ growth.Some of its members arewarning students that chickenserved on this campus maycontain the chemical.
Keeva Shultz, a junior envi-ronmental science and technol-ogy major who interns for thegroup, said it is highly proba-ble the university’s chickenavailable for consumption con-tains traces of arsenic.
“The chicken they are serv-ing is from a factory farm thatmight have it,” Shultz said.“It’s hard to tell because we’renot allowed to know what thepoultry industry uses in theirfeed, but it’s very well possi-ble. The only way to know ifyour chicken is poison-free isto buy organic, and that canbe expensive.”
She added that because 100percent of meat tested in fast-food restaurants has traces ofarsenic, according to a studyby the Institute for Agricultureand Trade Policy, FWW be-lieves the university alsoserves chicken containing thesubstance.
Dining Services Assistant Di-rector Bart Hipple said he isn’tready to formulate an opinionabout the accusations yet.
“[Dining Services is] look-ing into it, but I do not have ananswer for it all,” Hipple said. “Iwould want a lot more informa-tion. I’m trying to get a lot moreinformation. Until I have infor-mation that I can count on, Ican’t really have an opinion.”
Hipple said he did not knowwhether the university pur-chases its chicken from farmsthat use arsenic-laced feed.While Dining Services investi-gates the situation, Shultz istrying to report what she be-lieves by getting the local com-munity involved.
“We go postcarding; we go
around to local businesses andask them to sign onto the cam-paign,” she said. “We have let-ter-writing parties, where wewrite letters to local delegatesto show them that our commu-nity cares. We have meetingswith community members,where we talk about the cam-paigns and their concerns.”
In order to proactively edu-cate the campus on the dan-gers of arsenic in food — whichthe group’s website said in-cludes an increased risk of can-cer, diabetes and neurologicalproblems — Shultz also speaksin classrooms on the campus.
“The industrial process ofgrowing thousands of chickensin concentrated conditions hasdriven the chicken industry tomass feed chickens a food addi-tive that is arsenic-based,” shesaid. “Arsenic is being unnec-essarily added to our food sys-tem and environment. It is af-fecting our waterways byleeching into the ChesapeakeBay from manure runoff.”
Sophomore business majorVal Nam heard a presentationby Shultz in an environmentalscience class and immediatelypledged her support afterward.
“I signed the petition be-cause it’s wrong,” Nam said.“Arsenic is poison, and it’shurting the chicken, it’s hurt-ing the environment and it’shurting us.”
Sophomore communicationmajor Emily Cohen hasn’t seenthe petition but said she wasglad she steers clear of dininghall poultry.
“If that is true, if the universi-ty chicken does have arsenic init, well then I guess it’s a goodthing I don’t eat it,” she said.
“We protect ourpeople in times ofrecession. Auniversity is onlyas good as thequality of itspeople.”
WALLACE LOHUNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
“Arsenic ispoison, and it’shurting thechicken, it’shurting theenvironment andit’s hurting us.”
VAL NAMSOPHOMORE BUSINESS MAJOR,PETITION SIGNER
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this decision comes at a timewhen the department and thecounty at large have made head-lines for scandal and corruption,police officials said the decisionis routine.
“Every county executive thatgets in here generally brings in anew chief,” District 1 Comman-der Robert Liberati said. “Eversince I’ve been with the depart-ment that’s the way it’s been.”
Police spokesman Maj. AndyEllis said he couldn’t speak toBaker’s intentions, but notedthe past three county execu-tives have elected to bring in anew chief.
Liberati said issues affectingstudents at this university, suchas police and student relations,have been addressed in the formof changes in training and poli-cies, and are not closely tied tochanges in administration.
He said Magaw, a former Dis-trict 1 Commander himself, iswell aware of the issues facingCollege Park.
Hylton, who was promoted tochief from the position of deputychief of bureau patrol in Septem-ber 2008, held the position for justmore than two years. Under Hyl-ton, crime in the county steadilydropped. But still, ethical ques-tions and charges of conspiracyand brutality persisted.
Consequently, Magaw willinherit a department that hascome under federal investigationmore than once — late last week,the FBI assumed control of aninvestigation of county police for
their conduct in the post-Dukevictory riot in March, interview-ing about 40 officers at theirhomes. Last month, three offi-cers were indicted for theiralleged involvement in the distri-bution of untaxed cigarettes andalcohol. The indictments,unsealed Nov. 15, also allegedofficers conspired to sell cocaine.
Still, officials maintained themove was nothing more than astandard shift in power.
“I think, had all this corruptionstuff not come out, I think he stillwould have chosen his own[chief],” Liberati said.
Magaw most recently servedas deputy chief of strategic man-agement and recently headedthe narcotics division for countypolice.
“I am honored and humbled tobe appointed interim chief of thePrince George’s County PoliceDepartment by County Execu-tive Baker,” Magaw said in astatement released yesterday.“This is an outstanding policedepartment with dedicatedemployees who serve our resi-dents every day. I will do every-thing I can to continue to moveour agency forward.”
Baker also appointed MarkBashoor as interim fire chief,Betty Hager Francis as interimdirector of housing and commu-nity development and Gail Fran-cis as interim director of finance.
He found permanent replace-ments for his chief of staff —Gwen McCall — and director ofhuman resources management— Stephanye Redd Maxwell.Baker appointed interim officialsin four other positions, as well.
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Van Munching mold removal poses no risk Some students still worried about exposure to chemicals in classroom
BY MATTHIEU DROTARFor The Diamondback
Despite ongoing repairs andposted signs warning of a“microbial hazard,” classescontinue to meet in the TyserAuditorium of Van MunchingHall, causing concern and con-fusion among students even asofficials insist the area is safe.
A careful examination of theauditorium following an Aug.18 storm revealed a severeroof leak that caused commonmold to grow within the walls,said Leland Comstock, direc-tor of operations for the busi-ness school. Since then, VanMunching’s largest lecturehall has been under repair.
The private company con-tracted to remove the moldused the disinfectant solutionSporicidin, which containssmall amounts of the chemi-cals phenol and sodium phen-ate. Prolonged exposure tothose chemicals can causeadverse health effects, includ-ing second- or third-degreeburns and harm to the nerv-ous system and heart, whichcould lead to seizures or coma.
Despite the risks, Sporicidin’swebsite says the solution has a
U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency toxicity rating of“low/very low.” Repairs areexpected to be completed beforethe start of next semester.
Business school administra-tors relocated all but one of theclasses scheduled to meet inthe lecture hall. They were notadvised of the specific moldremoval solution that would beused prior to making the deci-sion, according to FacilitiesMaintenance Associate Direc-tor Laura Wildesen.
“Classes were moved fromTyser Auditorium due to thefact that there would be insuf-ficient seats for some classesand to facilitate the repairs,”Comstock said. “It was neces-sary to keep some classes inTyser due to the unavailabil-ity of classrooms within VanMunching or elsewhere oncampus.”
One of the two lecture ses-sions for BMGT 364: Manage-ment and Organization The-ory remained in the audito-rium for the duration of therepairs. Over the past fewweeks, the remaining classeshave returned to Tyser aswell.
Inside the auditorium, a
large plastic tarp separates therepair site from the usable lec-ture area. Wildesen said usingsuch a barrier is common prac-tice for keeping dust anddebris out of the classroomspace and it will remain inplace until the interior repairsare complete.
Signs posted on the plastictarp read: “DANGER -MICROBIAL HAZARD - KeepOut - Authorized PersonnelOnly - Respirators And Protec-tive Clothing Are Required InThis Area.” But Comstock saidworkers finished removing themold in early September, sothe signs are now null.
“The signs are posted toensure workers wore appropri-ate clothing and equipmentduring emergency cleanupand demolition, just as a stan-dard procedural caution — nospecific hazards,” explainedWildesen. “The signs shouldhave been removed immedi-ately after the remediationactivity was complete.”
Some students takingclasses in the room, however,still harbor lingering concernsabout the blocked-off area.
“It is kind of weird thatthere are signs that say
‘microbial hazard,’” saidCourtney Burke, a sopho-more dance major whoseclass recently moved backinto Tyser. “And I’m a littleconcerned about the gapinghole in the plastic sheet.”
Not everyone was as wor-ried about the repairs, however.
“I’m not really concerned,”said junior information sys-tems major Philip Davis,whose class has been held inTyser all semester. “I trust thatthey know what they aredoing.”
In fact, for business profes-sor Mark Wellman, whoteaches the BMGT 364 classheld in the classroom, elimi-nating the two rear rows ofseats was a blessing in dis-guise for his teaching.
“You don’t really connectwith the people in the backrows,” Wellman said. “Therepairs made it easier to seeeveryone.”
Both Comstock and Wilde-sen stressed there is no dan-ger posed to any students orprofessors attending classes inthe auditorium during thestorm repairs.
Former county police Chief Roberto Hylton caught flak for officerconduct at the Duke victory riot (above). FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY LEAH VILLANUEVAStaff writer
The University System ofMaryland has approved a new10-year Strategic Plan for thestate’s colleges that focuses ongraduating more students, creat-ing classrooms that are moreconducive to one-on-one learn-ing environments and a greateremphasis on technology.
On Friday, the Board ofRegents unanimously approvedthe new plan, which systemadministrators said is specificallytailored to produce graduateswith the skills and specialties toaddress state and national eco-nomic needs.
To meet the state’s goal tohave 55 percent of the residentpopulation older than 25 college-educated by 2020, the plan callsfor increasing systemwideundergraduate enrollment by45,000 students over the nextdecade; this university mayaccommodate 4,000 of them,Chancellor Brit Kirwan told TheDiamondback last month.
Vice Chancellor Anthony Fos-ter, who played a key role indrafting the plan, said adminis-trators hope to boost the num-ber of graduates from science,technology, engineering andmathematics fields by 40 per-cent. Those fields are in high-demand in the state economyand job market.
The plan also calls to doubleexternally-sponsored researchand development funding, includ-ing a $600 million increase in capi-tal spending during the next fiveyears. As one of the system’s pre-mier institutions for STEM pro-grams and the home of a numberof important research centers,this university will likely be thecentral launchpad for these initia-tives, Foster said.
“What College Park will do interms of STEM graduation andwhat it will do on the home cam-pus for cybersecurity and biotech-nology is hard to see 10 yearsout,” he said. “But that will be atremendous element to the plan.”
Another major tenet of theplan is “course redesign,” whichspecifically targets large-lecture,introductory level courseswhere a single professor teachesa 100-student class withoutteaching assistants. According tosystem Vice Chancellor JoeVivona, the model set forth bythe plan would break up theseclasses into living-and-learninglaboratories open 24/7, where
students would receiveenhanced one-on-one instructionand utilize more technology, andfaculty would collaborate to cre-ate course curricula and placeclass material online.
“It’s smaller class sizes andgreater reliance on technology,so that the end result is studentsfeel good about working at theircraft,” Vivona said.
But he noted that this univer-sity has already jump-startedmeeting the graduation rate goalwith its updated general educa-tion program.
History professor Ira Berlin —who spearheaded getting the newgeneral education programapproved — said while the ele-ments of “course-redesign”sounded good, he wondered ifthey were needed on a campuswhere most large-lecture teach-ing courses are already broken upinto discussion sections with TAs.
“One of the things about ourgeneral education program is weuse the ‘I’ courses as kind ofintroductory courses,” he said.“They’re smaller, they have TAs,they present real-world ques-tions and provide occasions forstudents to interact.
“The most important relation-ship in education is between theteacher and student,” he added.“You want to maximize that asmuch as possible. Technology isgreat, it’s very useful, but it cer-tainly can’t replace the student-teacher relationship.”
But Foster said the new strate-gic plan simply laid out a blue-print and it’s up to administratorsat each institution to implementit on their respective campuses.And he said they have alreadybegun to do so.
“It’s not a directive process,”he said. “The chancellor won’tpoint and say, ‘do this,’ andexpect them to follow.”
Vivona said he realizes theplan’s implementation would callfor more state dollars even with aprojected budget shortfall of $1.6billion, but hopes lawmakers willbuy into his philosophy.
“We hope the state legislaturerealizes that there is an economicimperative that higher educationproduces people who are empow-ered because of their skills, andthat’s how you really recover theeconomy,” Vivona said. “We willhave to be the first priority of thestate, because the way to stabilityin the economy is through higherlevels of education.”
Regents approve USMStrategic Plan updateFocuses on technology, small classes
When I was a freshman, Iwas super excited toget my @umd.eduaddress. I considered it
a privilege to finally have an e-mailthat didn’t end in .com. In fact, Ialmost wished Facebook had stayedexclusive to college studentsbecause I was now endowed with thepower of a university e-mail! At first,the Courier font, square-shaped but-tons and pixilated icons of the Mira-point system that houses the univer-sity’s e-mail were endearing. Butafter a few weeks of using this univer-sity’s system, I couldn’t resist myaffinity for the user-friendly and eye-pleasing interface of Gmail.
So I was happy to hear the univer-sity was considering changing orupgrading its e-mail host. As statedin yesterday’s Diamondback, most
students do opt to forward their e-mails from the @umd.edu accountsto Google, Yahoo or Microsoft hosts.Nobody really uses the Mirapointsystem, and if they do, the system’slimited resources may in turn limitthe user in what they can achieve.Putting aside frivolous features suchas being able to customize yourGmail background to a lovely beachscene and whatnot, there are defi-nitely some key things the universitycould change to make the @umd.edue-mail functional and appealing.
Take something like GoogleDocs, for instance. Being able tocreate and edit a document, spread-sheet or blank canvas on the webwith a group is an invaluableresource for students. And at such alarge university — with people liv-ing on and off the campus — havingan online workspace like the oneGoogle provides its users is a con-venient and sometimes essentialtool to have. If the university were toupgrade the e-mail system, havingadd-on features that emphasize andfacilitate group work would greatlybenefit student efficiency.
It would also be helpful if the stu-dent e-mail system were moresmoothly integrated into theMyUMD portal. Rather than havingthe university e-mail as a separatebox on MyUMD that functions as an
external link and has limited capabili-ties, it would be helpful to have stu-dent e-mail, student bills, tickets,announcements and ELMS all on onehome page after one log-in. This isessentially what Google and otherlarge mail servers achieve as manyfeatures are lumped together in onespace for easy access.
Whether this university adoptsGoogle, opts for an updated versionof Mirapoint or does something elseentirely, there is no doubt [email protected] system needs some sortof improvement given the convenientfeatures available on larger mailservers today.
Angelina She is a sophomore Englishand neurobiology and physiologymajor. She can be reached [email protected]
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America has gotten fat. Thisis probably not news formost of you. An alarming34 percent of all Ameri-
cans are obese, and an even morealarming 17 percent of Americanchildren are obese.
So how did this happen?Obesity rates skyrocketed in the
population due to poor diet, overeat-ing and a huge decline in the amountof physical activity people get per day.Think of your own life experiences,from how often you eat junk food tothe portion sizes you eat on a regularbasis to the amount of exercise youget every day. We are definitely notafraid to take something that has nonutritional value and supersize it,then sit around and tweet about howgood Five Guys was.
At dining halls across the country,these problems can be seen all tooclearly. All-you-can-eat dining plans
encourage students to overeat andeven binge. In addition, dining hallsthat serve meals based on young peo-ple’s simplistic tastes are not helpingthe cause. These meals are too fried,too heavily salted and too covered infatty dressings. I went on a researchtrip to the North Campus Diner andthe South Campus Dining Hall andwas overwhelmed with stations serv-ing heavily fried foods and meat-cen-tric meals. Although the steps DiningServices has taken toward includingvegan, vegetarian and healthieroptions are commendable, it is dis-couraging to see a fried Blue Platespecial, chicken tender wraps, ham-burgers and french fries.
Yet the obesity epidemic goesbeyond plate size and the type offood served in college dining halls. Itstarts in the home where you grewup. Habits, such as the type andamount of food you eat, the pace at
which you eat and the amount ofexercise you get, are formed in thehome. If you have parents whoexpose you to nutritious foods andtout the importance of them, you aremuch more likely to form healthyeating habits. Eating meals togetherpromotes family values, teaches kidsto eat at a normal pace and is justnice for family bonding. Also, a fam-ily that emphasizes physical activitycan help form children’s exercisehabits, so later on, when they are liv-ing independently, children makethe right choices.
Additionally, it seems as if the
days when kids played outside withfriends until their parents calledthem in at nighttime are gone. Wehave become a nation of sedentarypeople, low on exercise and high onfatty and salty foods. If you takesome time and read books such asFast Food Nation, The Omnivore’sDilemma and Recipe for America,you’ll see why our food system isbroken, what we can do to fix it andhow our food habits have changed.
This trend has become soappalling that there is a countermovement called Slow Food, whichemphasizes the importance ofhealthy foods, eating slowly andsharing food with people you careabout. So take some time, chooseyour food wisely and enjoy it.
Cory Kutcher is a senior kinesiologymajor. He can be reached [email protected].
America: The unhealthiest nation?
Just three months shy of the one-year anniversary of the post-Duke vic-tory celebration, the ordeal that began with a game and ended with riotpolice and pellet guns continues.Last week, the FBI took control of an investigation into last semester’s
riot. The bureau has not commented on why it decided to take over ninemonths after the incident occurred and after Prince George’s County Policespent months investigating their own conduct on that infamous March night.But as FBI agents descended on the homes of 40 officers to conduct interviews,it seems a strong indication that sanctions may be imminent.
As it stands now, two county police officers remain suspended in connectionwith the beating of a student. The student, JohnMcKenna, had originally been charged with assaultingofficers and a police horse. But when video footage sur-faced shortly after the riot, it showed McKenna doing nosuch thing before officers bludgeoned him with batons,which led to a concussion and other injuries.
The FBI’s stepped-up role is welcome and seems like amove that should have been taken place months ago, par-ticularly considering county police’s history of question-able uses of force; the U.S. Justice Department was over-seeing county police as recently as last year because ofconcerns about excessive brutality.
But further FBI involvement in county affairs does littlefor the area’s reputation. Indeed, it was just last month that federal agentsarrested County Executive Jack Johnson (D) in connection with a corruptionscandal. Alongside her husband, Leslie Johnson, who yesterday was sworn into serve on the Prince George’s County Council, was charged with evidencetampering and destroying evidence after allegedly hiding nearly $80,000 in cashin her bra when agents came to the Johnsons’ door. Days later, three countypolice officers were arrested in connection with another corruption probe, andthe owners of Tick Tock Liquors, located in nearby Langley Park, charged withsmuggling liquor and cigarettes, were recorded on wiretaps talking about brib-ing officials. Needless to say, this county has seen better days.
Yesterday, however, the scandals that rocked the county in recent monthscame to a head. Rushern Baker III (D) was sworn in as county executive, prom-ising greater days ahead. While such rhetoric is typical of inaugural speeches,Baker demonstrated a willingness to act. Mere hours after assuming his new
position, Baker ousted Roberto Hylton as county police chief, dramaticallyshaking up the scarred department.
Hylton left his post hoping to be remembered as “a person of integrity andaccountability.” And while his personal legacy is not in question, it seems that ifjudged on the department he ran, that is a legacy he will have to continue hop-ing for. Hylton, a Johnson appointee, was sworn in shortly after the JusticeDepartment wrapped up monitoring operations of county police due to allega-tions of excessive force.
Hylton has claimed he was more aggressive in disciplining officers, and per-haps that’s true. After all, there are at least 46 county officers suspended or on
administrative duties. But this could also be an indica-tion of Hylton’s failure to change the mentality of adepartment that has had a slew of scandals, from an offi-cer indicted for reselling seized guns onto the streets toan FBI investigation of bribed officers protecting a gam-bling ring with powerful drug-dealing patrons.
But Baker’s dismissal of Hylton and the reshufflingof other county posts indicates that perhaps betterdays are ahead.
The county’s reputation for aggressive police and cor-rupt officials is not an easy one to erase. Indeed, theexpansion of federal corruption investigations and theFBI’s increased involvement in the McKenna beating
case will no doubt yield further headlines in the months to come.That said, Baker has an opportunity to truly make a cleaner and more livable
county. As he stated during yesterday’s inauguration, he has a “chance to get itright.” As the search for a new long-term police chief begins, it should be appar-ent the tactics used by previous chiefs have not worked. While Hylton may havebeen harsh in sanctions, it is obvious such sanctions did not rid his departmentof the culture that bred years of controversy.
County police surround the university, patrolling the streets and neighbor-hoods of College Park where students make their home. They should beviewed as protectors, not aggressors. But for years, events like last semester’sriot and November’s county executive scandal have made this gleaming repu-tation all the more unattainable.
Hylton’s departure and the change in leadership in the county governmentprovide an opportunity to change that. And it is up to Baker to make it right.
Staff editorial
Our ViewThe inauguration of RushernBaker III as the executive of
Prince George’s County couldsignal a new era free from
corruption and abuse, specifically on the part of
county police.
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CCOORRYYKKUUTTCCHHEERR
P ixar’s WALL-E depicts agrim future for humanity— one where morbidlyobese people sit in
advanced “wheelchairs” all day,relying on automated systems foralmost everything. And whilemany may view this depiction asunrealistic, I would invite anydoubters to check out the men’sbathroom in Cole Field House, orreally any of the restrooms on thecampus that are not equipped withauto-flush urinals. It is as if no onecan be trusted to manually flush atoilet ever since the automaticflush valves have been installed inmost of this university’s facilities.
But as disconcerting as thisreliance on technology for even thesimplest of things may be, what iseven more unsettling is the veryreal fact that modern technology ischanging the physical structure ofthe human body. This is especiallytrue of the way our brains function.After all, when was the last timeyou spent two or three hours work-ing on something without check-ing Facebook? Furthermore, whenyou are in a remote location — onewithout cell phone reception andan Internet connection — don’tyou feel anxious and uncomfort-able, almost as if you are goingthrough drug withdrawal?
A recent experiment by Univer-sity of California, Los Angeles,neuroscientist Gary Small and hiscolleagues found different patternsof neural activation in the brainbetween people with differingdegrees of exposure to computersand the Internet when they wereasked to perform online searches.“As the brain evolves and shifts itsfocus toward new technologicalskills, it drifts away from funda-mental social skills such as readingfacial expression or grasping theemotional context of a subtle ges-ture,” Small said in an interviewwith Scientific American Mind.
Additionally, according to arecent New York Times series,“Your Brain on Computers,” heavyvideo-game play may induce therelease of dopamine, a neurotrans-mitter in the brain that is thoughtto be involved with addictivebehavior. We all get too used to thedopamine squirt from the constantexposure of new information andto the feeling of being connectedvia technology.
Don’t get me wrong — I am nota pessimist. I don’t believe smart-phones and WiFi networks do anyharm to most of us, besidesencouraging procrastination.There is a lot of research thatreveals our brains are evolving andadapting to our technologicallyadvanced world in a good way. Ourbrains, scientists have shown, aregetting better at multitasking andare more capable of prioritizingwhen bombarded with tons ofinformation. Records even showthat average IQ scores have beenrising steadily.
However, in spite of this, when afriend of mine enthusiastically toldme about a new software thatcould help him focus on studying, Iinwardly groaned. The software hereferred to — called TemptationBlocker — blocks your Internetconnection for a user-specifiedperiod of time. To me, this seemsto be a sign that we are too depend-ent on technology, and I worrythat if someone ever invents amanual flush reminder, then wereally are doomed.
Chong Huang is a graduate studentin geography. He can be reached [email protected].
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Born today, you are not thekind to disappear into thebackground for any reason,
and though you don’t always goout of your way to be noticed,noticed you most certainly willbe in almost every conceivablesituation. It isn’t perhaps whatyou do or how you do it, nor is itthe force or nature of your per-sonality; rather, it is the combina-tion of all of this, and more. Suf-fice it to say, you are such a singu-lar individual that all eyes will beon you more often than not, andgood luck to you any time youwish to be left alone unwatchedor unscrutinized.
You have tremendous creativedrive, and you will rarely, if ever,engage in a serious endeavorthat does not allow you to ex-plore the full scope of your tal-ent; indeed, you always want tobring the full force of your skillto bear in every situation.
Also born on this date are C.Thomas Howell, actor; Larry Bird,basketball player and coach; TomWaits, singer and actor; JohnnyBench, baseball player; EllenBurstyn, actress; Ted Knight,actor; Eli Wallach, actor; LouisPrima, musician and singer.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— A co-worker may point outsomething to you that shouldhave been obvious — if youhad been paying attention. It’stime to catch up.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —You’ve been skipping around abit and not tending to things inthe proper order, but there are
benefits to enjoy as a result.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Someone you hold in high es-teem may actually disappointyou a bit, but recovery shouldbe quick. No permanent dam-age is done.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Acasual, even routine discus-sion is likely to be chargedwith undertones that makethings far more interestingthan usual.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) —You’ll be happy with the newsyou hear from a family mem-ber far from home, but one ortwo concerns may still bubbleto the surface.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —You may have trouble justify-ing any extra expenses, espe-cially to someone who iswatching over the funds withgreat care.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —You may suddenly find your-self with an hour or two to killin the middle of the day. If so,you don’t want the time to go towaste.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —What begins in a lightheartedmanner may quickly becomemuch more serious in tone asyou realize the darker implica-tions.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A dis-cussion of the possibilitiesleads you to a realization aboutthe way you use your time. Youcan increase your efficiency.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Alast-minute revelation mayhave you changing your mindmore than once, as you weighthe pros and cons of a wildidea.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —You’ll be relieved by what youhear about another’s well-being, but don’t let down yourguard too much or too soon.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Someone in your care is likelyto express the need for moreindependence. Are you in theright place to grant it — ormust he or she wait?
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T.I. versus the state of decencyThe rapper’s No Mercy is a breath of fresh air in a stale rap subgenre
BY ZACHARY BERMANSenior staff writer
Contrary to popular belief, people arenot predisposed to change. Instead,humans seem to constantly return tothe negative parts of their lives that arekeeping them down. Abusive partners,drugs, crime — the list goes on — allthese scars seem to drag their victimsback in regardless of their successesand opportunities.
For Atlanta rapper T.I., life has been afairly short road of drug dealing,arrests, prison stints and sudden star-dom. The majority of T.I.’s widely publi-cized arrests and recent televised soul-searching are likely only being used tosell the artist to his numerous fans assomeone who is finally making achange, when in reality it seems prettyclear that he isn’t doing much of any-thing to make himself a better person.
That being said, with No Mercy —T.I.’s seventh album — the rapper hastruly made a marked musical improve-ment from some of his trashier offer-ings in the past. No Mercy is actually agreat listen and thankfully doesn’t focustoo much on the fact that T.I. is spend-ing the next 11 or so months in jail.
Clearly, many musicians can’t belooked up to as role models anymore— except for maybe former correc-tions officer Rick Ross — and moreand more often their music isn’t worthlistening to either. However, this does-n’t have to be true of all artists, andsomehow T.I. is one of those.
T.I. makes a number of greatchoices on this record, from his pro-ducers to his guests.
Take opening track “Welcome to theWorld,” featuring Kanye West and KiD
CuDi. It’s a song that wastes no timegetting right to the point. No, the songhas nothing to do with West’s own“Lost in the World,” but it is still quite agood track.
The beat, co-produced by West,starts the album with a bang — catchychorus, rapid-fire synths and an inter-esting combination of voices as thesong bounces back and forth betweenthe three frontmen. T.I.’s verse is partic-ularly striking as he spits half of it withfaux-stuttering on every line.
Strange as it may seem, No Mercy isactually a happy, positive and excitedrecord, different than what one mightexpect given the timing of its release
and the cover art, a black-and-whiteimage of T.I. with his face in his hand,which is clearly playing on his impris-oned, soul-searching figure.
It seems fairly obvious that T.I.’s con-tinued opposition to the law was spunby his record label as a major piece of itsmarketing plan, but listeners shouldn’tlet this cloud their judgment about therecord because, ultimately, that movedoesn’t affect the songs.
“Everything on Me” comes later inthe album but exemplifies some ofwhat makes No Mercy great. Featuringsome interesting horn samples thatdrive the beat, the song wants nothingmore from its listeners than for them to
feel the groove it creates and vibe to itspositive energy.
Other tracks, such as “Big Picture,”are equally proud, epic and thumpingcompositions that really make thealbum a southern hip-hop affair full ofgood feelings.
Elsewhere on the album, everyonefrom Eminem to Drake to ChristinaAguilera stop by for some interestingguest spots. None of these feelforced, which — as minuscule of adetail as it is — really lifts the albumthat much higher.
The album is not completely free oferrors, however. Lyrically, T.I. oftensimply takes the easy way out andrhymes “dick” or “Al Capone” withalmost any other word. It can get to beannoying, especially over the course ofan hour-long record.
The song “Strip,” featuring YoungDro and Trey Songz, is a fairly obviousexample of this nonstop barrage ofhomogenous rhymes.
Things get very confusing with“Amazing,” produced by The Neptunesand featuring Pharrell on guest vocalduties. The beat — structured aroundan interesting glockenspiel melody anddeep drums — is strangely appealingand one of the best listens on the album.
However, the song falls prey to someincredibly raunchy lyrics — a “ParentalAdvisory” sticker wouldn’t even beginto describe them.
No Mercy is by no means conceptualor progressive like some of this year’sbest hip-hop releases, such as thosefrom Big Boi and Kanye West. How-ever, this record does fill an importantrole: The album is a straightforwardpop-hip-hop romp that really succeedsin what is often a dried-out genre.
No Mercy’s music may be relativelystandard, but it works so well on botha track-by-track basis and as a cohe-sive listen that it’s hard not to enjoythis record. Even if T.I. hasn’tchanged his ways, he does seem tohave stepped up his game, which in amusical climate pervaded by rubbishis nothing if not commendable.
ALBUM: No Mercy | VERDICT: 1/2
Although T.I. may only be able to enjoy the sales of No Mercy from his prison cell, the album is a worthy listen and asolid rap album without any of the conceptual leanings of artists such as Kanye West. PHOTO COURTESY OF FLISTED.COM
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conference opponents — No. 9West Virginia and Pittsburgh— they have been outscored bya combined 59 points.
The real danger for the Terps(7-1) could be looking ahead tofuture tests, such as a possiblemeeting with No. 20 St. John’s inthe championship game ofDecember’s Terrapin Classic aswell as the start of ACC play.
If the Terps can take care of
business, Frese said, tonight’sgame will serve as anotheropportunity for the team towork out its kinks as it headstoward a future that likelyposes far greater danger on thecourt than the present.
“Obviously, road wins arecritical to your success,” Fresesaid. “We’re just trying to growand mold together within ourrotations right now. We’re stillsearching together in terms ofour identity.”
LOYOLAfrom page 9
instability had undermined theTerps’ hopes of containing apotent Wolverine offense. Thethree goals the Terps surren-dered exceeded the numberyielded in the past 10 gamescombined and were also thesecond-most the team hadallowed all season.
“It took us out of our rhythmin the midfield,” Cirovski said ofthe injury. “But their goals did-n’t come because of that, atleast the first two goals. Greg’sbeen a great story for us thisyear. I don’t think we can putblame on anyone individually.”
The Terp defense, which hadallowed just four goals sinceSept. 24, wasn’t the only sec-ond-half problem. After forwardCasey Townsend scored thegame’s opening goal in the 17thminute, the Terps’ shooting effi-ciency severely dropped.
In the second half, theTerps converted just one oftheir 16 shots. The Wolver-ines, meanwhile, scored twiceon seven shots.
“If we would have done ourjob with our finishing chances,this game would have never got-ten to that point,” Cirovski said.“In the first half, I think they feltgood being down only one.”
The Terps cruised throughthe regular season with an unri-valed flair for scoring, leadingthe nation in goals per game.They scored a season-highseven goals on 15 shots at Vir-ginia Tech on Oct. 8, while scor-ing five goals on 16 shots againstCoastal Carolina on Nov. 5.
Before the team’s Sweet 16match against Penn State on
Nov. 28, the Terps had putnearly half their shots on goaland scored on about 20 percentof their total shots.
But after managing to putjust one of 21 shots on goalagainst the Nittany Lions, theteam improved only marginallyagainst the Wolverines on Sat-urday, placing only nine of aseason-high 33 on goal.
“We had so many chances,”Cirovski said. “I think I remem-ber seven pretty clear, goodchances. You have to credit theirgoalkeeper, he made somepretty good saves. Good fortunewas on their side today.”
The Terps put just three oftheir final 20 shots on frame,converting on one of thosechances. With an offense strug-gling to find the net and adefense trying to make up for amissing piece, the Terpsbecame disjointed in the finalgame of the season.
“They put out a great effortand they put out an effort that’sindicative of our program,”Cirovski said. “I think all gamesprovide lessons, and this onecertainly does. The details andthe importance of every play,whether it’s making the rightrun or hitting the ball down —we’ve been on the right side of99.9 percent of those this year.”
LOSSfrom page 9
“I don’t think wecan put blameon anyoneindividually.”
SASHO CIROVSKITERRAPIN MEN’S SOCCER COACH
a team-high six assists.Even after the reserves’
comeback bid had failed, GaryWilliams’ message to hisstarters was clear: Up yourenergy, or risk losing your job.
“We’ll see how the next twodays go in practice. That’s all Ican say,” Williams said whenasked about the starting situa-tion after the game. “We’ll workon some things, see if we cansnap some people out of theway they were playing tonightand go from there.”
Of the eschewed startersSunday, Gregory is likely theone whose job is most secure.Despite managing one pointagainst Temple, the senior hadsix rebounds and three steals.
Mosley’s spot also seems safe.Even with his offensive short-comings, the guard brings avaluable defensive presence.
Bowie and Tucker, however,might not be so fortunate. Theirshowings Sunday were the lat-est chapter in what have beenvexing seasons to this point.Bowie’s performances have var-ied from impressive to poor,while Tucker, after scoring indouble digits in the team’s firstsix games, had two pointsagainst Temple after being shut
out in a win at Penn State.As reserves, Stoglin and
Howard have starred at timesas freshmen, buildingresumés that could soonmake them a threat for start-ing roles, if they aren’t already.
“They didn’t do everythingright,” Gary Williams said Sun-day, “but they certainly playedwith a great deal of intensity.”
When asked about the lack ofintensity his fellow starters dis-played, Jordan Williams, the loneconstant for the Terps againstTemple, stressed patience.
“That’s what we’ve got to fig-ure out,” Williams said. “It’s notgoing to be instant or right away,but we are going to figure it out.”
and Duke had energized thestruggling program.
The NCAA Tournamentmay not be far off for theTerps, though. The team willreturn more talent in 2011than it did in the past two sea-sons, Horsmon said, and theTerps may finally have all thepieces necessary for the suc-cess they have longed for dur-ing his tenure.
“This year, [the NCAATournament] was in oursights, but we didn’t reallyknow exactly what we neededto do to get there,” setterRemy McBain said. “Now thatwe’ve been through it andwere so close this year, it willmake us that much better.”
The Terps will have to con-tend with the losses of foursenior stalwarts, includingmiddle blocker BrittneyGrove and libero BethanySpringer.
But there will be a newinflux of talent ready toreplace the old next season.Recruits Catie Coyle andAdrenee’ Elliot, both middleblockers, and AshleighCrutcher, an outside hitter,coupled with the return ofsophomore Sam Rosario and
freshman Carlisle Abeleshould give the Terps thedepth necessary to replacetheir departed players.
“They were a huge part ofwhat we did this year,”McBain said of the team’s fourseniors. “But I know that wehave a bunch of good fresh-men coming in next year, so Ithink they’ll fill in pretty well.”
“I could see one or two ofthose kids be on the All-ACCteam,” Horsmon said. “Wehave some great players ontheir way to College Park.”
Five years ago, the Terpswere a conference power,having won their thirdstraight ACC Championship.Despite their strugglessince, after two years as anafterthought, the 2010 sea-son could ultimately markthe beginning of the Terps’ascent back to ACC promi-nence.
“Through our three yearshere, we’ve gotten better eachyear,” Horsmon said. “Weexpect to continue that trend,and we’re going to get betteragain next year. We have a lotof talent in our program, andit’s just a matter of puttingthose pieces together, findingleaders and setting somereally high goals.”
REVIEWfrom page 9
CHANGESfrom page 9
Forward Jordan Williams wasinstrumental in the Terps’comeback Sunday. CHARLIE
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BY CONOR WALSHStaff writer
For nearly 35 minutes of last Thurs-day’s game at Purdue, the Terrapinwomen’s basketball team searched foranswers in a hostile Mackey Arena.
As the Boilermakers capped a 9-2 runwith just more than five minutes left onthe clock, it seemed the No. 22 Terps’chances to nab a key nonconference roadvictory had all but slipped away.
But after the team’s emotional leader,center Lynetta Kizer, challenged them toraise their intensity, the Terps responded,scoring 14 of the game’s final 16 points tostun the Boilermakers with a 56-55 come-back victory.
“Lynetta Kizer and her leadership hadthem believing that they could win thisgame,” coach Brenda Frese said. “I knowhow competitive this team is, and this isdefinitely something we can continue todraw upon.”
The Terps (7-1) certainly seemed tocapitalize on the win’s momentum whenthey hosted Appalachian State on Sun-day. In a game that could easily haveturned into a trap game given the team’semotional hangover, the Terps managedto withstand a sloppy first half beforeoutscoring the Mountaineers by 15points in the second to record theirsixth straight victory.
Mental toughness will again be para-mount tonight, when the Terps travel toBaltimore to face another middling oppo-
nent in Loyola.“Right now, with such quick turn-
arounds in the middle of all the work aca-demically, it’s all about staying fresh,”Frese said, referencing the addedstresses for her team as the semesterdraws to a close. “This is an intense timefor a student-athlete.”
It may have been those late-semesterstresses that produced one of the Terps’biggest blemishes last season, when theyrode a five-game winning streak up toTowson last December only to be upsetby the Tigers.
“With six games remaining beforeACC play, we’re trying to fine-tunethings,” Frese said. “We’re focused onplaying with the intensity level that we did[in the final five minutes] at Purdue for 40minutes.”
The Terps might not even need a flaw-less start-to-finish performance tonight tocome out victorious for a seventh straighttime. The Greyhounds are a pedestrian 2-5, and in their two games against major
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SportsTerps to play Owls in ’10-’11
The Terrapin men’s basketball team is expectedto play Temple again next year at the Palestra inPhiladelphia. Get more news at TerrapinTrail.com.
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Coach Gary Williams relied on a group of reserves for a near comeback Sunday night. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
For Terps, a changing of the guards?
Guard Adrian Bowie struggled in the Terps’ 64-61 loss toTemple on Sunday before being replaced in the secondhalf by his backups. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Guard Terrell Stoglin came off the bench to score 16 pointsagainst Temple on Sunday, more than any guard on theTerp roster. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY KATE YANCHULISSenior staff writer
With three seconds left on theclock Sunday night — enough timefor one final desperation shot thatcould have tied the game againstTemple — Terrapin men’s basket-ball coach Gary Williams turned notto one of his three upperclassmenguards but to a freshman.
Reserve guard Terrell Stoglin ulti-mately missed the half-court heave inthe Terps’ 64-61 loss, but that the ballwas in his hands at that moment wasa powerful enough symbol for thecritical role the Terp bench took Sun-day — not to mention what it mighttake on in the immediate future.
Starting guards Adrian Bowie,Sean Mosley and Cliff Tuckerstruggled through much of the firsthalf on both sides of the ball againstthe Owls. When the Terps openedthe second half by digging them-selves into a 15-point hole, Williamshad seen enough.
Within minutes, he had madewholesale changes, pulling out everystarter but forward Jordan Williams.
“I was mad,” Gary Williams said.“I would have put six [substitutes] inthere if I could have.”
He didn’t need to. The reservessparked the Terps to a 10-0 run.
“You just could tell, right away,they were flying around,” Williamssaid. “They just play. They don’tcare. They just play. And that’s whatwe needed. We didn’t need tochange a lot of things except for theenergy level we were playing at.”
Williams leaned on the substi-tutes for large chunks of the secondhalf. Led in large part by Stoglin andfreshman guard Pe’Shon Howard,the Terps trimmed a double-digitdeficit to a 56-56 tie with less thantwo minutes remaining.
“We were fighting,” JordanWilliams said. “We were playinghard. It wasn’t even about who wasthe better basketball player or whowas more talented. It was about whowanted it more, and us five on thecourt wanted it more than [the previ-ous starting five].”
The bench contributed 35 pointsin the game, compared to a com-bined nine from Bowie, Tucker,Mosley and forward Dino Gregory.
With 16 points Sunday, Stoglinoutshot the starting backcourt onhis own. Howard had six points and
BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer
On one of the final plays ofthe first half in Saturday’sNCAA Tournament quarterfi-nals, Terrapin men’s soccerdefender Greg Young wentdown with a high-ankle sprainthat changed the complexion ofthe Terps’ game and, ulti-mately, their season.
The play forced the redshirtsenior out of action for theremainder of the double-over-time match, and as a season-end-ing 3-2 loss unfolded beforeYoung’s eyes, he could do littleelse but stand on crutches andwatch the Terps repeatedlybreak down defensively.
The injury forced coachSasho Cirovski to tinker with alineup that seemed entrenchedat the start of the tournament.Midfielder Billy Cortes, who hadplayed right back at the end ofthe regular season and in theACC Tournament, again movedto the backline.
But after Michigan’s Jeff Qui-jano evened the score at 1-1 in the50th minute, Cirovski turned toformer starter London Wood-berry, who had not seen playingtime since Oct. 19 due to an injury.
Before long, the defensive
Goalkeeper Zac MacMath andthe Terp defense struggled latein a 3-2 defeat to Michigan.MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Terps’ losswas tale oftwo halves
see CHANGES, page 8 see LOSS, page 8
Injury, sputteringattack cost team
Outside hitter Kara Bates celebrates during a 3-0 win against Wake Forest on Nov. 12. The Terps won10 games in conference play this season, the most in three years. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Terps slowly morphinginto conference contender
BY JOSH VITALEStaff writer
Entering the 2010 season, theTerrapin volleyball team was anafterthought in the ACC. Comingoff two straight under-.500 seasons,the Terps were picked to finish justninth in the conference.
But in coach Tim Horsmon’sthird year in College Park, the Terps(19-13, 10-10 ACC) began a turn-around that could eventually bringthem back to the top of the league.
After finishing with just six and 14wins in Horsmon’s first two seasonsat the helm, respectively, the Terpsclimbed out of the conference’sbasement, finishing tied for seventhin the conference and, until a late-season slide, challenging for anNCAA Tournament bid.
“When it’s all said and done,we’re going to look at this and bepretty excited about where our pro-gram is going,” Horsmon said. “Wecan beat any team in our confer-ence, which we showed this year. I
don’t think we could have said thatour first two years.”
Inconsistencies plagued theTerps throughout the season, buteven through their struggles theyremained in the hunt for a spotamong the conference’s elite and apostseason appearance. Until athree-game skid to close the seasondashed the team’s tournamenthopes, midseason victories overconference powers Florida State
see REVIEW, page 8
Guard Anjale Barrett and the Terpswill travel to Loyola tonight to matchup against a 2-5 Greyhound squad.CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Terps lookingto push streakto seven winsTeam faces mediocreLoyola squad tonight
see LOYOLA, page 8
Struggles in Terps’backcourt mightprompt new looks
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