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Univ. not meeting all sustainability goalsAir travel related to university business holding back progress
By Madeleine ListStaff writer
Despite measurable strides in im-proving environmental sustainability on the campus, a rise in university-related air travel may prove to be the wrench in the mix keeping the univer-sity from making progress.
Net greenhouse gas emissions in-creased more than 17 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the Office of Sustainability’s most recent annual report, released at the end of the fall semester. Emissions from commer-cial air travel for university businesses
alone grew 20 percent from 2010 to 2011, totaling about 44,070 metric tons of carbon dioxide — a unit that aggregates different types of green-house gases into one measure. While 2010 brought a 15- percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the university’s 2005 baseline, officials will have to grapple with air travel — which continues to rise as the economy recovers — in order to meet their next benchmark, a massive 25-percent emissions reduction by 2015.
The Office of Sustainability’s Prog-ress Report 2012, which includes data through 2011, shows positive trends in areas such as recycling, compost-ing and public transportation, but it is still unclear whether those gains will do enough to offset the environmental damages that accompany the univer- See green, Page 7
sity’s growing campus and increasing globalization.
“When you look at the data, you have to keep in mind that the campus is growing, meaning there will be more energy consumption,” said Sally DeLeon, the progress report author and sustainability office project manager.
University Sustainability Council members said reducing travel emissions
Police respond to two crimesPG Police receive calls of two robberies Sun.
no chance to come back
the men’s basketball team fell to the No. 1 Duke Blue Devils Saturday, 84-64, at their last-ever trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium as an ACC foe. Once Duke pulled away in the game’s waning minutes, the Terps were met with chants of “Don’t come back,” referring to the university’s 2014
move to the Big Ten. For more game coverage, check out the sports section on page 10. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
Prince Frederick Hall will ‘come up out of the ground,’ Resident Facilities officials sayBy Sarah SextonStaff writer
North Hill should be a little quieter this semester now that ex-cavation is completed on the Prince Frederick Hall site, and workers are moving onto the next phase of the dorm’s construction.
Students can expect far fewer dis-ruptions as workers begin laying the structure’s foundation and in-stalling support columns, officials said. As classes resumed last week, workers were deep in the ground waterproofing the foundation’s walls and preparing to put in the ground-floor slab, said Cindy Felice, See frederick, Page 3
See robberies , Page 3
By Fola AkinnibiStaff writer
Prince George’s County Police re-sponded to an armed robbery, in which a student fell victim, and an attempted armed robbery yesterday.
County police arrested three males, who were armed with brass knuckles and a knife, in connection with the armed robbery, according to an email alert. The suspects included 20-year-old Edgar Hernandez of Riverdale, a 15-year-old male and a 17-year-old male.
The three males allegedly punched a student in front of Shanghai Cafe at about 3 a.m. Sunday. They then proceed-ed to go through the student’s pockets before taking his wallet and iPhone, which was eventually recovered, ac-cording to the alert. An officer pursued and arrested the suspects.
The student suffered minor injuries but did not go to a hospital, the alert stated.
At about 1:15 p.m. yesterday, a male allegedly displayed a handgun inside The Varsity and demanded a person’s laptop, University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said. The victim refused to hand over the laptop and after a brief scuffle, the suspect fled the scene, Limansky said. County and University Police are continuing to search for the suspect.
Police described the suspect as a 5-foot-8, 165-pound black male wearing a black ski mask, black peacoat and dark blue jeans.
The victim told police a second suspect may have been involved, police said.
Limansky advised students to be
Cafritz development planning on holdDeveloper did not meet county requirementsBy Teddy AmenabarStaff writer
Some local residents and city of-ficials are breathing a sigh of relief after preliminary plans for the Cafritz development were pulled from the Prince George’s County Planning Board earlier this month.
The developer, Calvert Tract, LLC, failed to meet conditions for county approval of some preliminary plans and may not reapply for months, ac-cording to Patrick Wojahn, District 1 city councilman. Despite the allure of a new Whole Foods store and ad-ditional housing, some local residents
a whole foods market and other amenities that were part of the Cafritz development plans will not be coming to College Park anytime soon, after the developer pulled its plans. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
Construction on new dorm in next phase
Residential Facilities associate director.“We’re going to see the building
starting to come up out of the ground this semester,” Felice said. “During this stage, the real noisy and disruptive pile-driving part is over. This semes-ter, students near the site will just hear general construction noise — trucks backing up and coming and going. Just general noise.”
Officials recognize construction noise can be disruptive for students, so Facilities Management limits work hours between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Felice also emails residents who live in the area surrounding the site —
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have found it difficult to support de-velopment of the 37-acre property, a project estimated at $226 million. Local governments have also criticized it harshly as a rushed development that would do more harm than good for the municipalities involved: College Park, Riverdale Park and University Park.
“The developer just seems to want to cut corners at every turn,” Wojahn said.
However, Chip Reed, the Cafritz development attorney, believes the plans have had a more extensive review process than any other project he’s been a part of in 30 years.
See cafritz, Page 3
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25Percentage university officials need to decrease greenhouse emissions by 2015 to meet benchmark
20Percentage emissions from commercial air travel for university business increased from 2010 to 2011
13Percentage greenhouse gas emissions were reduced in 2011 from 2005 baseline
DIVERSIONS The area’s newest boutique theater is far from what it tries to be p. 6
OPINION Neal Freyman reflects on why going to the movie theater is a lost art p. 4
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located next to the Mowatt Lane Garage along Preinkert Drive — to give them advanced notice of any increased noise or outages.
“Any time we expect the con-struction to have a big impact on students, we understand the im-portance of giving the students advanced notice,” Felice said. “We also realize many residents are sleeping early in the morning when construction starts, but we need to take advantage of daylight.”
Felice said she does not expect any outages or road closures in the foreseeable future. Construction continued despite the light snow last week, but heavier snowfall or ice storms could be a setback for the project, which is expected to be completed in August 2014. Once the structure is constructed and the workers are inside, wintry weather will be less of a concern, Felice said.
“If we have a bad winter storm, it would really slow us down,” she said.
A student living in Commons 6 said he has noticed a decrease in the amount of noise from the construction site since the ex-cavation last semester.
“This semester I’ve heard almost nothing. During the day, they are working and sometimes there is some loud banging, but by and large I am in class for that,” said Benjamin Anderson, a sophomore computer science and mathematics major. “The only real disruptions are when equip-ment is crossing the street. Traffic can get backed up some, and you can’t get by on the sidewalk.”
Zach Caplan, who lives in Commons 5 directly across the street from the construction site, also said the noise has been less of an issue this semester.
“Last semester, construc-tion frequently woke me and my roommates up early in the morning and was disruptive throughout the entire day,”
said Caplan, a junior econom-ics major. “Construction hasn’t been so bad this semester con-sidering classes haven’t truly started yet.”
However, Caplan is concerned the construction will be disrup-tive later in the semester.
“I worry I will be distracted by noise when midterm week ap-proaches, considering it proved to be an issue last semester,” he said.
Officials plan to adjust the construction hours during finals to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. to allow students more un-disrupted sleep in the morning and quiet study time in the evening, Felice said.
But noise from the site can be disruptive even before the official start time, Caplan said.
“They often state that con-struction will begin at 7 a.m., but they fail to mention that construction workers will be screaming at each other starting at 6 a.m., and trucks will also be ar-riving before then. That makes it difficult to get a full night’s sleep.”
Felice hopes that keeping stu-dents informed about the project and providing email updates, es-pecially when officials expect the work to be disruptive, will help students understand the project and feel better about the process.
“We acknowledge construc-tion is noisy, but there’s no way around that,” Felice said. “We just try to give advance notice so students can prepare for extra noise or outages, and we offer students all of the details about the construction process on the Resident Life website.”
FREDERICKFrom PAGE 1
“many residents are sleeping early in the morning when construction starts, but we need to take advantage of daylight. “
CINDY FELICEResidential Facilities associate director
careful when choosing whether to comply with robbers.
“People need to use good judgment,” he said. “Every sit-uation is different. The person with the best information is
the person on the scene.”Limansky said students
walking home alone late at night should call for a police escort and report any suspi-cious behavior, in addition to avoiding excessive alcohol consumption.
robberiesFrom PAGE 1
“You couldn’t have more hearings, almost, than this has had,” Reed said. “There would be, and is, no attempt to short-change or shortcut any process whatsoever.”
The Cafritz development has been in deliberation for so long in part because many separate local governments have been involved, Reed said.
In addition, there was a major point of contention surrounding the potential construction of a bridge and roadway on land owned by the American Center for Physics, which neighbors the property, Wojahn said.
“The developer had rep-resented that he had a letter from the American Center for Physics,” Wojahn said. “It turns out that that letter was a letter that the attorney for the developer himself had drafted that had not been approved by the [ACP].”
But Reed said when he first presented the letter to the Uni-versity Park town council, he specifically noted it was labeled “draft” in order to avoid mis-representing the ACP’s views.
“I got up and stated emphati-cally that I drafted this letter,” Reed said. “I do not repre-sent the American Center for Physics; I don’t speak for the American Center for Physics.”
While Bernard Khoury, the
ACP liaison to the commu-nity, said the letter gave resi-dents another reason to oppose the development, he added it should not be seen as “foul play” in any way.
“[Reed] made a judgment, and it came out in retrospect to hurt him,” Khoury said. “He has apologized for that action, so I see that action behind us now.”
The ACP still considers the
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proposal for construction on its land to be an “active proposal” regardless of what happened two weeks ago, Khoury said.
Students also should not be upset with the project’s delay, said Josh Ratner, Student Gov-ernment Association liaison to the city council.
“It would have been nice to have the Whole Foods, but now there’s a potential to have some-thing closer to campus if that works out,” Ratner said.
However, several area locals said they harbor some concerns about any development on the site — Riverdale Park resident Bruce Wernek said construction would essentially mean “geno-cide for the wildlife.”
“It’s a terrible situation for the wildlife,” he said. “Sure, we have to have economic de-velopment and all, but we have to think about, well, what are the impacts to the other living
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reapply as soon as possible, Reed said. In the coming months, the ACP will need to decide whether allowing the bridge and roadway on its property would be benefi-cial, Khoury said.
“We’re continuing to evaluate whether we want that done,” he said. “There are clearly some benefits, so the issue we’re looking at is how we balance the downside to the upside.”
Whole Foods Market remains out of reach within the county as plans for the $226 million Cafritz development were pulled earlier this month. The developer, Calvert Tract, LLC, may not reapply for months, according to a city council member. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
“It would have been nice to have the Whole Foods, but now there’s a poten-tial to have something closer to campus if that works out.”
JOSH RATNERSGA liaison to the College Park City Council
Debt (ceiling) on fi re
EZRA FISHMAN
Apersistently grim outlook has turned into the status quo for our nation’s economy, and yet this
state seems to have bucked the trend. Drastic spending cuts and tax increases don’t need to be on this year’s legisla-tive agenda because, for the fi rst time in Gov. Martin O’Malley’s six years in o� ce, the state won’t have to resort to these measures to avoid fi nishing the year in debt.
So while last year saw a fl urry of ac-tivism when students rallied to fi ght a potential double-digit tuition increase, it looks like education funding is safe — and even more generous than in the past several years. O’Malley’s proposed budget sets aside about $6 billion for public education, which amounts to a 3.5 percent increase from last year.
And with voters upholding huge state initiatives this past election, including same-sex marriage and the DREAM Act, it looks like lawmakers are poised for what could be one of the most productive legislative sessions in years. While we’re still far from having lucrative revenue streams, the state doesn’t need to scrape the bottom of the barrel to fi nd funding for various bills. Finally, it can focus less on desperate measures and con-centrate fully on sound, long-term decision making.
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Why should students care about all of this? Every year, student activists mobilize during the spring semester to advocate for various initiatives in the hopes of moving them forward — and ideally seeing them passed — in the 90-day legislative session. Without budget woes or education funding to worry about, this year is the ideal time
for students to push for bills that have been voted down consistently or put on the back burner.
But with such a unique opportunity ahead — this state is one of the very few experiencing economic success — students need to start now and get organized. It’s one thing to rally around ideas, whether they be tighter gun control laws, repealing the death penalty, gender identity anti-dis-crimination laws or whatever you’re impassioned about, but it requires much more to do the research to clearly
articulate why a certain bill may be necessary for the state.
It’s only about three weeks into the legislative session, leaving students plenty of time to draft plans to either travel to Annapolis or continually write lawmakers. When it looked like students would have to pay a more than 10-percent-higher tuition rate, students gave personal testimonies to show O’Malley and lawmakers in the General Assembly why the hike had to be averted — and tuition eventu-ally saw a modest 3-percent increase instead. If students hope to experi-ence success traveling to Annapolis and rallying this year, that same e� ort and unity needs to be present. It is better to focus on proactively engag-ing in the issues than reacting late to potentially devastating measures.
Lawmakers have a responsibility to serve their constituents, but the only way they can do so is if citizens clearly make their voices heard. The state has come a long way in just the last year by passing two bills that protect people who have been discriminated against, and students on this campus played no small part in that. That success came from months and years of hard work, dedication and organization — and now is the perfect opportunity to continue building on that momentum.
A prime opportunity
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The state’s refreshingly optimistic budget allows
students a critical chance to help dictate relevant policy
and future funding.
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EDITORIAL CARTOON
Once again, the U.S. is in danger of defaulting on some of its debt ob-ligations. This has only happened a few times in American history, and only during or following a war or combating the Great Depression. Simply put, the U.S. Treasury won’t legally be permitted to borrow any money to pay its creditors, and thus can’t pay its bills. For the moment, the problem has been alleviated; but unless someone acts soon, it will happen again in May. Why?
Take a step back to 1917. During the peak of World War I, our gov-ernment needed to borrow a large amount to finance its military spending. Until then, the Trea-sury needed congressional approval every time it tried to borrow money. With the sudden increase in bor-rowing, this became hugely imprac-tical. To save time, Congress created a “debt ceiling”: a statutory limit to which the Treasury could borrow without congressional approval. Since the Treasury could only spend money on what Congress passed in a spending bill, nobody saw this as a particularly signifi cant problem.
In 2010, though, things started to change. With the birth of the tea party movement, public interest scrutinized Congress for huge in-creases in public debt. People were led to believe the government needed to stop borrowing, and thus many senators and representatives started bucking the tradition of tying the debt ceiling to the budget. After the 2010 elections, the new, tea party-laden Congress was able to fully separate the two ideas. Suddenly, federal debt became its own issue. This is when things got bad.
About halfway through 2011, we came close to defaulting on our federal debt for the fi rst time since the ’70s. Both then and now, the Treasury
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found loopholes around fully defaulting. Certain government employee pension funds were temporarily underfunded, and the Treasury made some amount of “IOUs” that didn’t actually count as borrowing. Before too long, Congress extended the debt ceiling for another $2 trillion. This extension held until Dec. 31. As of Wednesday, the House of Repre-sentatives temporarily suspended the ceiling until May.
In February, Congress will resume debates over next year’s budget and the future of government spending and taxation. It will try to find ways to limit the rate at which our govern-ment borrows money, under the (gen-erally misguided) assumption that the dollar will be devalued if we spend too much money (it won’t). As Congress debates these important issues, it will also have to decide what to do with the debt ceiling. It may even try to use the ceiling as a tool to force the White House to buckle to its demands. This would be catastrophic.
If we default on our debts, our economy will cease to function smooth-ly. The entire fi nancial world relies on U.S. government debt being risk free. If this fails, the dollar, U.S. businesses and U.S. exports will su� er. Companies and countries won’t want to invest in the U.S. and will move their money to other, more stable currencies. Interest rates will soar, infl ation will be rampant, and companies will outsource like crazy. This may sound extreme, but from a business perspec-tive, it’s the only rational response.
Not raising the debt ceiling (or remov-ing it entirely) would be the opposite of fi scal responsibility. It wouldn’t save us any money, or help our futures. It would just serve as another example of hope-lessly out-of-touch and silly congress-men and senators doing terrible things in an attempt to take a stand for principles that aren’t principled at all.
And unless we fi nd a way to stop them, it’s probably going to happen.
Ezra Fishman is a junior accounting and fi nance major. He can be reached at [email protected].
There was a recent election in Israel, which apparently means it is time to reach into the grab
bag of pro-Israel talking points. “Israel good. Iran bad. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.” Those involved in the Israel commu-nity can recite these one-liners until the camels come home, but they are dishonest and dangerous.
In a Jan. 24 Diamondback guest column, “Reaffirming faith in de-mocracy,” Akiva Futter stated, “Israel directly embodies the Ameri-can spirit of democracy.” Perhaps Futter was referring to the push by the American right wing to disen-franchise minorities from voting, for it is clear Israeli democracy does not represent all of the coun-try’s inhabitants. Given it has now been more than 45 years since Israel gained control over the Palestin-ians in the West Bank — instigating an occupation becoming ever more deeply ingrained — it is becoming harder and harder to refer to Israel as a “pure” democracy in an intel-lectually honest manner.
It is an outrage for pro-Israel ad-vocates to tout the successes of a Potemkin democracy while failing to mention the continued struggle of the Palestinian people. Yes, I recog-nize Israel is more than the contin-ued occupation, which was deemed illegal by a European Union report. The recent election was predicated on things such as the economy, secu-rity and other domestic issues. Still, we must consider the whole country, not just the parts as palatable as fresh falafel and hummus.
A true democracy allows all people,
even the most marginalized, to have a voice in their government. This is not true of the territories ruled by the Israeli government. While it is true the few Arab-Israelis who are eligible for citizenship are represented in the par-liament, their parties have rarely been included in a governing coalition. I echo Peter Beinart’s suggestion that there are, in fact, two Israels: “a fl awed but genuine democracy within the green line and an ethnically-based nonde-mocracy beyond it.”
This sentiment is hardly reflected in most pro-Israel literature. Instead, there’s a tendency to simply reach back into the pro-Israel 101 toolbox. Never ever end an argument without demon-izing other cultures. Conveniently forget to mention that, after the Arab Spring, Libya, Egypt and Tunisia are also (strug-gling) democracies in this region. Where was the outpouring of support when England held a democratic election? Germany? Mexico? Why does a peaceful democratic transition necessitate, in and of itself, unwavering support of another country and stalwart declarations of its virtues?
As someone who dreams of taking my children to an Israel that is both Jewish and democratic, I fi rmly believe we must address truths, not talking points. A true friend addresses fl aws out of love and concern and, if need be, shouts them from the rooftops to ensure success. I have always been someone who holds my close friends to the highest possible standards. Why should I not do the same for Israel?
Jesse Rabinowitz is a senior environmental science and policy major. He can be reached at [email protected].
I am sitting on my couch at home, feet up, a bag of popcorn in one hand, with the other routinely distributing kernels into my mouth. I couldn’t be more comfortable. A sizable screen, relative darkness, surround sound and a kitchen to my right for whenever this popcorn wears o� . As I hit “play,” the movie starts, and while I slowly melt into the loveliness of my living room, I think, “Who in his or her right mind still goes to movie theaters?”
That question would have seemed absurd just a decade ago. In fact, going to the theater to catch a film was a worldwide phenomenon in the 20th century. The “movie palace” was a place for people to be immersed in the lawless frontier of the Wild West or to convulse in a fi t of laughter over Charlie Chaplin’s antics. An afternoon at the cinema was a transformative experi-ence for people, who left their dull, routine lives at the door in exchange for a wondrous assortment of breathtaking visuals and gripping stories navigated by larger-than-life heroes.
Much of the romanticism associated with the movie theater in the early 20th
century has been lost today. Instead of existing as solitary, ornately designed buildings, many modern cinemas have moved inside shopping malls, hoping it wouldn’t be too burdensome to see a matinee on the way from Target to Macy’s. A gluttony of other amusement options — YouTube, TV shows, Angry Birds — have displaced the feature fi lm as the cornerstone of entertainment for the modern consumer. And while the novelty of the theater is surely gone, should we now begin to worry about its extinction?
Watching a movie, whether at home, on a plane or on the toilet, has never been easier than in the 21st century, where the entire world’s fi lmography can be found on the In-ternet via Netfl ix and a host of other legal and illegal streaming websites. The comforts of our own home seem too good to pass up. We can pause the movie to go to the bathroom or text our friends during the boring parts — not to mention, it’s all free. It seems ridiculous to get in a car, drive to a mall and pay an exorbitant fee to watch a film a couple of months before it can be found online. People seem to be catching on. According to the Motion Picture Association of America, ticket sales in the United States have been steadily declining
over the past decade, from 1.57 billion sold in 2002 to 1.28 billion in 2011.
Do not count me as one of the defectors. I was never a consistent theatergoer in my childhood, and much less so in college. But during winter break, maybe because it was so cold and bleak near the Arctic Circle up in Massachusetts, I went to the cinema a lot. I saw The Hobbit, Les Misérables and Django Unchained. I enjoyed all three immensely, sig-nificantly more so, I’m convinced, than if I had watched them at my house. Movies, after all, are meant to be shown on the big screen, with tremendous sound coming from all directions in a pitch-black room. I could not get a pizza out of the oven or use my phone, but I was happy to leave those distractions at home. The two-plus hours I spent in the movie theater were undistracted and de-lightful each time. There is something oddly exhilarating about experiencing a fine piece of entertainment with dozens of strangers in a dark chamber and half of an overpriced Crunch bar melting in your pocket. And that’s what going to the movies is all about.
Neal Freyman is a senior history m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t [email protected].
Cinema’s timeless charm
Talking point(less)
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A BOUTIQUE THAT’S TOO CHICMoviegoers have started flocking to theaters that offer a more “refined” cinematic experience, but the area’s latest — Fairfax, Va.’s Angelika Film Center — is more garish than classy
REVIEW | ANGELIKA FILM CENTER
By Warren ZhangSenior staff writer
T he A ngelika Film Center & Cafe in the Fairfax, Va., Mosaic District is the latest in the ever-growing legion of boutique movie theater chains. What was once limited to small, independent cinemas scattered around big cities has since gone national.
While I don’t have a problem with this trend in theory, I actively dislike how the rise of the fashionable theater resulted in a need for all of these fancy theater chains to try really, really hard to maintain their cinephile cred.
E Street Cinema and Bethesda Row Cinema do so by trot-ting out the same hackneyed French movie posters in the lobby and mostly limiting their selection to art-house indie flicks, while the Mosaic goes for modern art museum-chic but ends up being the bigger joke for it.
First, the good: The managers at the Mosaic absolutely nail many tiny details. The automatic water faucet in the bathroom is tuned to the perfect temperature. I appreciate how the fountain drink dispensers are customer-operated and how the Angelika is pretty much the only theater I know of that actually accepts those newfangled iOS Passbook tickets.
The Angelika also, rather surprisingly, enforces reserved seating during such screenings. Strongly consider purchas-ing tickets beforehand if you want good seats.
Despite the Mosaic’s sharp refinement in certain areas,
the theater misfires spectacularly on a much more obvious level — the architecture of the theater tries so hard to impress that it actually hurts the establishment’s usability.
Leaving aside the extraneous chandelier that greets you on the top floor like a middle finger from a homeless man decked out in Armani, the list of terrible designs runs long.
Let’s start with how the screens are on the top f loor. There’s space enough between the top level and the lobby for a whole additional floor. Then, there are the escalators placed in a remote corner of the lobby, invisible from both the entrance and the ticket booth.
Next are the two concession stands, one of which sells popcorn while the other does not. In essence, there’s just a massive practicality problem because the designers decided their cold, steel and glass, modern art gallery-inspired veneer trumped all else in importance. Who, outside of a few hillbillies, actually finds that classy?
All of this would be more palatable if the tickets didn’t cost $13 for a non-I M A X screen i ng. T hat’s someth i ng I’d expect of a theater smack dab in the middle of Times Square, not something in the middle of a Virginian sub-urban development.
I suppose that premium can be considered a dapperness tax, a method through which the theater pretentiously tries to weed out riffraff. In that capacity, the Angelika has at-tracted a clientele that leans older and possesses enough manners to not use cellphones during a movie.
But despite the theater’s attempts to discourage loud patrons, the aural presentation is still somewhat compro-mised by underwhelming speaker setups. It’s perhaps a nice contrast to the sonic damage incurred by IMAX adverts, but the speakers’ lack of bass still makes the shipwreck sequence from Life of Pi less impactful.
On the other ha nd, projection qua l ity is f i ne, i f not amazing. The theater is equipped with suitably sharp 4K projectors that did a good job rendering the color palette but a little bit too dimly for my taste.
Similarly, popcorn is a step up from the crap at AMC, but still slightly dry and flavorless. The pastry selection is quite extensive, but definitely not worth the inf lated movie theater prices.
At the end of the day, how much you’ll like the Angelika boils dow n to how much you value seeing fi lms w ith a more appreciative crowd. If texting during a movie is an aneurysm-inducing pet peeve for you, maybe you’ll be able to overlook the garish design, unreasonable prices, mind-boggling layout, mediocre sound systems, poor location and motherf—ing chandelier.
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the chandelier at the Angelika is an example of how the theater puts too much effort into its look and not enough into important elements, such as popcorn or speakers. photo courtesy of yelp.com
the angelika film center has reserved seating and accepts the iPhone’s Passbook tickets but also inflates its prices slightly to make up for the added luxury. photo courtesy of yelp.com
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is particularly challenging because they are at the mercy of the technology available.
“Air travel is the biggest chal-lenge we have just in terms of carbon emissions. Study abroad, international research … these are things that, as a university, we support and endorse,” said Mark Stewart, the office’s senior project manager. “As aircrafts themselves become more fuel efficient, hope-fully there will be more low-car-bon options for travel.”
Construction of new facili-ties also contributes to a greater carbon footprint. The addition of the Institute for Bioscience
and Biotechnology Research and the Severn Building in 2010 caused a setback, DeLeon said, as both research-intensive lab buildings use a significant amount of electricity.
To address issues regarding new buildings, the Sustainabil-ity Council has partnered with Facilities Management to create a work group called the Sus-tainable Buildings and Energy Sources work group. Members have been meeting once a month since September to discuss im-plementing policies regarding building efficiency, energy con-sumption and use of renewable energy. The work group is ex-pected to present a set of recom-mendations by April, said Carlo Colella, Facilities Management
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associate vice president and the work group’s chairman.
The Sustainability Council is looking to address two parts to energy conservation: the physical structures on the campus and the behaviors of those who use them, DeLeon said.
“The energy conservation part is two-pronged. We can go in and change the lighting and [heating-cooling] systems to be more effi-cient,” she said. “And then there’s the participatory side. People in the buildings need to be aware and turn off lights and machines and unplug what they’re not using.”
A water use work group has also been meeting since Sep-tember and will present its own set of recommendations to the council in April, DeLeon said.
The council is in the process of forming a sustainability educa-tion work group, but meetings have not yet been scheduled, DeLeon said.
The council faced criticism last semester for failing to come up with effective plans to reach its goal for carbon neutrality by 2050.
However, officials still point to a slew of improvements as a sign the university is taking the lofty goals in stride: According to the progress report, recycling rates increased from 63 to 64 percent from 2010 to 2011; compos-ted food waste leapt to 431 tons from 138 the year before; Facili-ties Management conservation projects saved 4,565 megawatt hours of energy, up from 3,277 in 2010, and bike registration
on the campus jumped to 2,234 from 1,630.
The Sustainability Council’s efforts are part of the American College and University Presi-dents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), a 2007 pledge to reduce the university’s carbon footprint and become carbon neutral by 2050. The council is still collecting data from 2012, and a full report of last year’s data will not be published until the fall, but Stewart said he remains optimistic the university is once again working toward zero net carbon emissions.
“We really don’t know how we’re doing until we do that final data crunch,” Stewart said. “I think we can confidently say that we’ve achieved the 15
percent cut by 2012.”The Sustainability Council will
meet three times over the course of the semester to discuss the Sustainability Progress Report and strategies for the future. The next goal following the 2015 mile-stone is to cut 2005-level emis-sions in half by 2020.
Several students said they would like to see a clearer picture of the university’s plans as they develop.
“It’s realistic if we have a good plan for it — right now there’s not a solid plan,” said Alex Krefetz, a junior environmental science and policy major. “It’d be cool if [the Sustainability Council] could get into classrooms and communi-cate to students.”
Student creates social music outletParallel Tracks influenced by Spotify and Twitter; allows users to share musicBy Marissa LaliberteFor The Diamondback
Seven tech-savvy students gathered in a university lab yesterday, logged onto their computers and got to work “hacking” one of their peers’ projects, a music-centered social media website set to launch in the coming weeks.
But the hackathon was not an attack on ParallelTracks.com — it was coordinated by site creator Daniel Noskin in the startup shell of the university’s Technology Advancement Program Building as a way to rapidly take his project from an idea to a prototype. For the junior business major, the 12-hour event was a major step toward revolutionizing the way people share music online.
Parallel Tracks will offer users a combination of Spotify and Twitter, Noskin said. Unlike other digital music services, his site will allow people to share the
music currently playing in their “song feed” with other users and view others’ past playlists.
“In my opinion, Spotify got it wrong,” Noskin said. “A social music outlet should allow users to gather around and listen to-gether, similar to when people used to gather around a record player or radio. Parallel Tracks lets you do that.”
If users respond well and the website gains popularity, Noskin said he envisions celebrities, bands and local businesses using the site to promote themselves. Some local artists, including Su-permoon, Harmonic Blue and Sarah Castille, already signed on with the site.
“You can see what Shaun White is listening to as he goes down a half-pipe during the X Games,” Noskin said, “Or you could follow Bentley’s and hear what’s in the bar before going out.”
When Noskin proposed his idea for Parallel Tracks during a
Mobile App Developers student club meeting in October, senior economics major Vinnie Ven-demia was immediately drawn to the idea.
“Social media is so popular nowadays,” Vendemia said. “It’s not just Facebook and Twitter; it’s all the other little things too, like Snapchat. People are so drawn to sites that let them share with their friends.”
Vendemia agreed to work as a mobile programmer during yes-terday’s hackathon. The event allowed student programmers, marketers and entrepreneurs from different academic back-grounds to work from scratch and collaborate to produce a simple layout for the proto-type’s launch.
Another “ hacker,” Scott Block, a junior information systems major, is overseeing the website’s launch and the technological aspects. Block is a website creator himself;
in the fall, he and three other students launched Venture-board, a social networking site for student entrepreneurs.
Music is “inherently social,” Block said, adding he hopes users will access the site to connect with one another in new ways.
“You’ll be able to listen to what people you look up to are listening to,” Block said. “It’s a good way to learn about people. It would help personalize celeb-rities and athletes.”
Vendemia also sees great potential in allowing users to follow their favorite athletes’ playlists on Parallel Tracks.
“When you watch sports, the players are always listen-ing to music,” Vendemia said. “It would be cool to see them using the website or app to stream that music live over the Internet. Ray Lewis will be in the Super Bowl, so it would be cool to go listen live to what he
is listening to.”Though the site will become
available to students relatively soon, Noskin said it will still have plenty of room for growth.
“I hope that the people who use it love it and understand that it’s a prototype,” Noskin said. “For now, we just want to put it out there and see the response.”
He also encourages other
students to take advantage of resources on the campus and launch their own ideas.
“It is in human nature to want to explore,” Noskin said. “Find your line and go beyond it. I believe that everyone should run with their passions into the unknown.”
parallel tracks founder Daniel Noskin said he envisions celebrities using the site to share their playlists, adding he hopes it will foster connections through music. image courtesy of daniel noskin
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National Player of the Year candi-date Mason Plumlee to pull away in the game’s crucial moments.
After Terps center Shaquille Cleare held him to three shots in the first half, Plumlee ex-ploded for 15 points over the final 20 minutes. The Terps struggled to fight through screens on defense, and the Blue Devils’ eight-point half-time edge ballooned to 20 with 4:39 remaining.
By the time Plumlee slammed down a two-handed reverse
dunk 77 seconds later, the Cameron Crazies were serenad-ing the Terps with a chorus of “Don’t come back!” — an ode to this university’s November decision to join the Big Ten.
“I feel like they got momen-tum and we couldn’t get it back,” forward Charles Mitchell said. “So the last 15 minutes is what I’m going to focus on when I get home — what mistakes I made, what mistakes our team made — to help us get better for the last 15 minutes. But we played hard for the first 25.”
Slow starts have plagued the Terps on the road this season, a trend that seemed destined
to continue at unforgiving Cameron Indoor.
And yet, there were the Terps responding to an early 10-4 deficit with a 9-2 run o f t h e i r ow n . T h e re we re the Terps more than dou-bling the Blue Devils’ first-half offensive rebound total. And there was Mitchell, who scored eight points in three minutes over the first half, hitting a putback to give the Terps a 13-12 advantage about six minutes into regulation.
The lead was short-lived. Sulaimon hit four straight 3-pointers over a 2:44 span to give the Blue Devils a 27-18
edge midway through the first half. The freshman had 18 points — one shy of his then-career high — on a perfect 5-of-5 shooting from beyond the arc by halftime.
“With the way they shot the ball from three,” Wells said, “there’s no team in the country that would be able to stay with them.”
Of course, the Terps still had their chances. But they seemed to lose focus offensively down the stretch, often settling for contested attempts early in the shot clock. They hurried posses-sions and tallied costly giveaways. Duke outscored the Terps, 18-5,
in points off turnovers on the day.But Turgeon wasn’t too con-
cerned with dwelling on his team’s shortcomings following the Terps’ first blowout loss of the season.
He noted his squad showed considerable improvement in a raucous environment, referenc-ing its first-half shellacking at North Carolina a week earlier. He explained that the Terps, who started five underclassmen Saturday for the fourth-straight game, don’t have veterans like Plumlee or senior Seth Curry to help younger players acclimate to the college game.
And, above all else, he lauded
Duke’s effort three days after suffering the worst defeat by a top-ranked team in 45 years.
“There’s a lot of positives,” Turgeon said. “I know it’s hard to say that when you look at the final score, but Duke never quit. They played 40 minutes of really good basketball.”TERPS NOTE: Guard Seth Allen sat the entire first half for ar-riving late to a team meeting earlier in the week. The fresh-man scored two points on 1-of-2 shooting and registered zero assists during 10 second-half minutes.
“inspired arena.” But you could hardly say any of them stepped up when the Terps needed a spark Saturday.
Faust jacked up 12 shots, but made just three of them in a nine-point, four-turn-over performance. Howard played better than recent showings, but his five points and three assists weren’t enough to make a dent in the Blue Devils’ lead. Padgett was nearly invisible with two points in six minutes. Len managed to post a solid eight-point, 10-rebound line, but took just six shots and looked physically overmatched against the smaller Mason Plumlee.
In fact, forwards Charles Mitchell and Wells — both of whom had never been to Cameron Indoor before — were the only Terps to make any sort of substantial
impact on Duke’s defense. But as much as their contributions showed up in the box score, their efforts weren’t very notice-able on the court.
Mitchell scored 13 points and grabbed seven boards, but he did it in 13 foul-plagued minutes. Wells looked like he could’ve been the leader the Terps needed when he scored all seven of the team’s points in the game’s first four minutes, but he scored just six over the final 36 minutes and finished the afternoon with 13 points on 5-of-13 shooting.
“The thing that’s been holding our team back — and I’ve been saying it for about a month — is immaturity. We don’t have a Mason Plumlee our kids can rely on,” Turgeon said after the game. “We don’t have that. So we’re not going to grow up as quickly as a Duke team.”
He’s right. Seven of the Terps’ 10 rota-tion players are underclassmen, so the
team is still far from mature. Wells has the ability to be a go-to scorer, but he hasn’t quite figured out how to bring it on a nightly basis. Though the 7-foot-1 Len is a projected NBA lottery pick, he still struggles to dominate smaller players at times. Guard Seth Allen has also shown the ability to light up the scoreboard, but Turgeon benched the freshman in the first half after he was tardy for a team meeting earlier in the week.
There’s no question the Terps have talent. The problem is none of those talented players are veteran enough yet to control a game when their team needs them.
The Terps have grown a lot during Tur-geon’s second season in College Park. Sat-urday’s loss to top-ranked Duke at hostile Cameron Indoor, though, showed they still have plenty more growing up to do.
Coach Mark Turgeon and the normally stout Terps defense had no answer for Duke guard Seth Curry and the No. 1 Blue Devils’ high-powered offense. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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victory over Cody Klempay 17 seconds into the second period of the very next match, combining with Boley to turn a three-point deficit into a nine-point lead. The Terps would coast to a 21-16 win over North Carolina, rebound-ing from a 20-19 loss to the No. 9 Hokies the night before.
“It was a big win because we never want to come in front of our home fans and lose,” No. 7 Jimmy Sheptock said. “The Navy match was hard and we lost to Virginia Tech by one point, so coming in here and getting the win definitely boosts morale.”
The 184-pound Jimmy Sheptock earned victories over the Tar Heels’ Alex Utley and Virginia Tech’s Nick Vetterlein, extending his record to 15-0 in dual meets and his team-high dual point total to 56.
“The big thing is that we can count on a win from [Sheptock],” coach Kerry McCoy said. “Our goal is for him to continue to get better, to not just win dual meets, but to win the ACCs and be a na-tional champion. He’s the stan-
dard of excellence and we want everyone to compete like him.”
It was their dominance in the heavyweight classes that keyed the Terps all weekend. The 174-pound Josh Asper, 184-pound Sheptock and 197-pound Boley each won both of their matches this weekend, accounting for more than half of the team’s combined 40 points.
That success helped the Terps (10-6, 1-1 ACC) overcome their struggles at the middleweight classes. They’re just 5-27 at 157 and 165 pounds this season — they were 0-4 at those weights against the Tar Heels (4-6, 0-3) and Hokies (13-2, 5-0) this weekend — but the wins in the heavier weight classes, along with bonus points from pins, nearly helped the team secure two victories this weekend.
But despite continued reason for concern in those areas, Boley knows a victory is always a step in the right direction.
“Coming off two losses, it was tough for us to really refocus,” he said. “It was important that we came out here and refocused, and it was just a confidence booster.”
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Jimmy SheptOck won both his matches for the Terps this weekend. christian jenkins/the diamondback
the Terps bettered themselves by making 58.9 percent of their shots from the field, including 41.7 percent from beyond the arc.
“That’s the thing, when you have a big game, you can’t let up for the next game,” Hawkins said. “We didn’t want [this game] to be a lay-an-egg game where we come down and play down to our competition or ‘not play our game.’ The biggest thing was coming out and playing every game as a big game, and today was a big game.”
Center Alicia DeVaughn was the other Terp in double figures, as she notched 14 points to go along with six rebounds and four steals. The
Terps — with frontcourt players Thomas, Hawkins, DeVaughn and Howard combining for 57 points — outscored the Tigers in the paint, 40-14.
The Terps now have won seven straight games, and they’ve held a lead of at least 10 points in each of their nine ACC contests this year. While stepping over each new chal-lenge they’ve faced, Frese sees everything the Terps have ex-perienced this year as small parts of a large whole that lies deep in the postseason.
“I think we have a big picture, bigger goals,” Frese said. “We’re not satisfied. This wasn’t our goal to be where we’re at. It’s a bigger picture goal and if we stay humble and hungry, great things are going to continue to happen for us.”
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Guard Katie Rutan scored 16 points and made four 3-pointers. file photo/the diamondback
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too much to handleNo. 1 Duke’s near-perfect performance overwhelms
Terps in lopsided loss
Without go-to scorer to rely on, Terps struggle in hostile Cameron Indoor
Forward Dez Wells (top left) has his shot blocked by a Duke defender, forward Jake Layman (top right) watches as Rasheed Sulaimon celebrates one of his six made3-pointers and guard Nick Faust (bottom) loses the ball out of bounds during an 84-64 loss to the No. 1 Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
By Connor LetourneauSenior sta� writer
DURHAM, N.C. — Dez Wells idolized Duke while growing up in nearby Raleigh, N.C. The future Terrapins men’s basketball forward watched greats Shane Battier and Jay Williams, and reveled in the Blue Devils’ 2001 national championship run.
So Wells was hardly surprised Sat-urday afternoon when No. 1 Duke de-lighted a raucous crowd at Cameron Indoor Stadium with a near-fl awless performance. The Blue Devils were coming o� a 27-point embarrassment at Miami — their worst regular-season defeat since January 1984 — and were ready to send a message, to prove why they’re one of college basketball’s win-ningest programs.
“We were expecting them to come out really fi red up and ready to play,” Wells said moments after the Terps fell, 84-64, for their fourth loss in six games. “And the way they played, they probably could beat any team in the nation.”
Yet the young Terps didn’t break easily. They hung close with Duke throughout the fi rst half and entered the break trailing by single digits. The Blue Devils dictated the tempo of the game for much of the second half, running away with the rout before a national television audience.
The box score tells much of the story. The Blue Devils shot 52.4 percent from the fi eld, and connected on 11-of-22 three-point attempts. They tallied just four turnovers, while forcing 14 Terps giveaways. And guard Rasheed Sulaimon’s career-high 25 points led fi ve Duke starters in double fi gures.
The display proved too much for a Terps (15-5, 3-4 ACC) team still adjusting to the rigors of ACC play. Though coach Mark Turgeon’s squad used a sizable rebounding advantage to stay close in the fi rst half, Duke (17-2, 4-2) relied on a dominant stretch from
DURHAM, N.C. — The Terrapins men’s basketball team isn’t equipped to deal with the pressures of Cameron Indoor Stadium.
There’s nothing quite like playing there. The cathedral-style arena holds just 9,314 people, but it’s the loudest group of 9,314 people you’ll ever hear. They aren’t sitting around the court; they’re standing right on top of it.
They’re in your ear, too. Dez Wells was treated to repeated chants of “No means no.” Self-described former fat kid Charles Mitchell heard choruses of “Please don’t eat me.” The Cameron Crazies even thought up something for Alex Len, serenading the Ukrainian big man with chants of “U.S.A.”
It’s the type of atmosphere that could make any team crumble. Espe-cially a team like the Terps.
As No. 1 Duke pulled away for an 84-64 rout Saturday, it was clear the Terps didn’t have anyone they could count on to lead them. As the Blue Devils got better and Cameron Indoor got louder, the visitors got quieter.
Coach Mark Turgeon’s team couldn’t defer to a Greivis Vasquez in crunch time. It couldn’t feed a Jordan Williams in the post. It couldn’t even count on a Terrell Stoglin trying to singlehandedly shoot the Terps back into the game.
The team simply doesn’t have a go-to player, a guy who wants the ball in his hands when the game is on the line. When Duke turned its eight-point edge into a 20-point romp during a nine-minute stretch in the second half, the Terps had no one they could rely on to right the ship.
They couldn’t even turn to the guys who had been there before. Guards Nick Faust and Pe’Shon Howard, forward James Padgett and center Alex Len have all experienced the intensity of playing in what Turgeon called an
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STATLINE
Terps women’s basketball center AliciaDeVaughn’s line in an 80-40 win vs. Clemson
4Steals
14Points
6Rebounds
3Assists
By Daniel PopperSta� writer
After suffering a narrow one-point defeat at the hands of Virginia Tech on Friday night, the Terrapins wrestling team welcomed North Carolina to Comcast Pavilion on Saturday in danger of suf-fering its third consecutive home loss.
Trailing the Tar Heels, 9-6, near the halfway point of Saturday’s match, No. 18 Christian Boley stepped onto the mat for a face-o� with Frank Abbondanza at 197 pounds. After dominating for nearly seven minutes, Boley pinned Ab-bondanza with three seconds remaining in the third period, unleashing a thun-derous scream after the fi nal whistle.
“I worked the full seven minutes,” Boley said. “I was constantly moving, I was con-stantly trying to take a shot, constantly trying to score, and to see that I was re-warded with the six points instead of four or fi ve brought joy not to just myself, but to my team and my coaches, and we just kept rolling from there.”
The 285-pound Dallas Brown earned another six points for the Terps with a
WRESTLING
Boley’s pin keys Terps past UNCTeam splits weekendvs. Hokies, Tar Heels
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Coach BrendA Frese’s squad had � ve players score 10 points or more in a 40-point victory at Clemsonyesterday. Forward Tianna Hawkins led the team with 17 points and 10 rebounds. � le photo/the diamondback
Balanced e� ort leads to blowout of ClemsonFive in double fi gures as Terps win, 80-40By Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer
In a season rife with adversity, Alyssa Thomas and Tianna Hawkins have emerged as the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s only con-sistent contributors.
But in a road game at Clemson days after the two forwards recorded dominant stat lines in a win over North Carolina, the Terps turned in one of their most balanced performances.
With fi ve players fi nishing in double fi gures, the No. 10 Terps steamrolled Clemson, 80-40, at Littlejohn Coli-seum yesterday. Hawkins led the way yet again with her 11th double-dou-ble of the season by scoring 17 points and grabbing 10 rebounds, but center Malina Howard and guard Katie Rutan were close behind with 16 points each.
“We’ve watched teams come in here and kind of play down,” coach Brenda Frese said. “We could have been full of ourselves after the [North Carolina] game, but I credit this team. Any time you challenge them to lock in, they do, and I thought we were ready to play from the start. We never looked at the score.”
The Terps (17-3, 8-1 ACC) notched their largest conference win of the season despite a slow start from Thomas. The junior picked up two early personal fouls and saw limited action. Her fi rst basket
of the game gave the Terps a 28-point lead over the Tigers (5-14, 1-7) with less than two minutes left in the fi rst half. Thomas, though, still recorded her 12th double-double of the season with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
While Thomas took an unaccustomed seat on the bench, Rutan led the o� ense. The redshirt junior scored 14 fi rst-half points en route to tying her highest output as a Terp at 16. In her third game since returning to the starting lineup after forward Tierney Pfi rman su� ered a dislocated kneecap, the Xavier transfer shot 6-of-9 from the fi eld and 4-of-6 from three-point range.
“It’s just a process and it takes a little bit of time to get used to stu� ,” Rutan said. “But I feel like I’m in my rhythm now, so it feels really good.”
The Terps jumped out to a hot start and scored the game’s fi rst 10 points. Clemson cut the lead to fi ve with a 10-5 run, but the Terps’ fi repower proved too much for a struggling Tigers squad. Rutan hit three consecutive 3-point-ers in less than two minutes to key a 15-4 run, and the Terps took a 44-18 advantage into halftime.
It was all part of the team’s best shooting night to date. Four days after setting a season high in shoot-ing percentage against North Carolina,
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