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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 98TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 144THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
THE DIAMONDBACK
TURNING PROGist gets ready for tonight’s draft
SPORTS | PAGE 10
THERE WILL BE BULLETSWho needs plot when you’ve got violence?
Wanted has got plenty of the latterDIVERSIONS | PAGE 7
Regents condition dorm funding$80M allocated to project if university can show progress in private off-campus housing
BY CARRIE WELLSStaff writer
Plans for a 750-bed dorm onNorth Campus were dealt a blowFriday when university systemofficials said its funding hinged on
private development in the city.The Board of Regents, which
governs the University System ofMaryland, issued a statement say-ing the university must submit areport in September showingplans for new housing in the city of
College Park have progressed.The university must also continueto increase its savings at its cur-rent rate.
Developers building studenthousing in the city must “maintaina high level of commitment, have
made progress sufficient to judgethe projects as highly viable, and[have] a strong likelihood of proj-ect completion,” the board wrotein a statement. Until the university
Final EastCampussketches
meet mixed reactions
Residents worry proposaldoesn’t have a college feel
BY BRADY HOLTStaff writer
Developers revealed the final renderingsof the university’s East Campus project lastweek to a largely positive response.
Foulger-Pratt Argo is set to submit its plansto the Maryland-National Capital Park andPlanning Commission next week for the $900million, 38-acre mixed-use project. Construc-tion is expected to begin in 2010 on the proj-ect, which will be located at the corner ofRoute 1 and Paint Branch Parkway.
Of the several dozen local residents andstudent leaders who attended last week’spublic forum, most liked the overall project,but some expressed concern about theappearance and eventual contents of the
Please See EAST CAMPUS, Page 3
Museumbenefits from
universitypartnership
BY DIANA ELBASHAFor The Diamondback
Carrie Clarady, a senior research assistantfor the university’s Center for the AdvancedStudy of Language, kicked off the NationalMuseum of Language’s current lecture seriesSunday standing beside a projected image of“The Cherokee Syllabary,” an alphabet-likearray of the language’s native phonetics.
The museum, which opened in CollegePark in May, will host presentations explain-ing the complexities of the Cherokee lan-guage, “one of the 300 languages native toNorth America,” Clarady said.
“The university already has a strong lin-guistic program,” she added. “I hope to see itone day become a language research center.”In its first month of existence, and in the
City officials breakground for garage
ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKFollowing a groundbreaking ceremony at the future site of the College ParkParking Garage, mayor Stephen Brayman prepares to operate an excavator.
BY BRADY HOLTStaff writer
The city of College Parkbroke ground for its newparking garage last Thurs-day, as dignitaries turnedover shovelfuls of dirt andMayor Stephen Braymanattacked a house with anexcavator.
The five-level, $8 milliongarage is located downtownat the corner of Knox Roadand Yale Avenue and isscheduled to be completedby the end of next summer.It will include 300 parking
spaces and 5,800 square feetof retail, which is enoughfor one to four storefronts.
Several dozen city offi-cials and residents gatheredunder a tent on the propertyon which the garage will bebuilt, where Brayman,Prince George’s CountyCouncilman Eric Olson andDowntown College ParkManagement Authority rep-resentative John Brownspoke about difficulties thecity has faced since the ideafor a garage first arose more
BY MICHAEL O’NEILLFor The Diamondback
Forget the Viking horns; thelong, blonde braids; and theear-splitting high notes of“Figaro” — junior biology andmusic major Anna Wallis is allabout singing opera, withoutany of the broken glass.
Wallis performed in afundraising concert Friday —an annual event Wallis holds toentertain friends and familywho do not get to see her per-form during the school year —to earn money for a trip to
Italy. Wallis was accepted intothe Ezio Pinza Council forAmerican Singers of Operaprogram in Oderzo, Italy, andleft yesterday for five weeks ofstudies in opera and the Italianlanguage.
The performance drewnearly 200 people at the St.Mary Magdalene Mission inBel Air, a concert organized byher father, David, and theMaryland Conservatory ofMusic, an institute where Wal-lis took lessons.
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ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKTheatre professor Helen Huang displays several sketches of costumes she has designed for variousproductions.
Design’s
Theatre professorknown for innovative
costume concepts
COURTESY OF HELEN HUANGProfessor Helen Huang designed all the costumes for the playMeasure for Pleasure, above, running this month in Washington.
BY BEN PENNStaff writer
The summer is a relaxing time for manyuniversity professors — a chance to takeadvantage of a scaled-back courseload and arelatively quiet campus.
Theatre professor Helen Huang, for exam-ple, is not teaching a single course this sum-mer and is vacationing in Turkey this week.But to call Huang a sloth might be a taduntrue.
Huang just finished designing the cos-tumes for the play Measure for Pleasure,which is running this month at Washington’sWoolly Mammoth Theatre, and is currentlydesigning costumes for three upcomingplays, one also in Washington and others inMinneapolis and Syracuse, N.Y.
As calling her a sloth isn’t necessarilyaccurate, Huang came up with a better term.
“I describe myself like bumblebees,” jokedHuang, while making a rare appearance inher office in the Clarice Smith PerformingArts Center Friday before darting back toMinneapolis to squeeze in a few days of workon Madeline and the Gypsies at the Chil-dren’s Theatre Company before her well-deserved trip overseas.
“I plan well,” she added. “I need torecharge.”
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Traveling to aforeign stage
LEADINGLady
Construction waitingfor building permits
than a decade ago.“There was a time when I
thought cars would be obso-lete by the time this garage isbuilt,” Brown said. “It willhave a huge economic benefitfor downtown merchants.”
Dignitaries, includingelected officials from the cityand county and representa-tives of the construction com-pany, posed for pictureswearing matching hardhatsas they officially brokeground, turning over a fewclods of dirt with shovelsdecorated with bows.
The garage is being builton the space now occupied bya city-owned parking lot andtwo homes the city recentlypurchased for demolition,one of which was partially
flattened by Olson and a grin-ning Brayman.
“Ooh, bouncy seat,” Bray-man said as he climbed intothe excavator, before usingthe machine’s arm to knockdown the house’s roofed frontporch.
Despite the show of thegroundbreaking ceremony,construction of the garagewaits on pending buildingpermits. City officials saidthe permits should bereleased “soon.”
City officials and otherspeakers at the groundbreak-ing urged the assembledcrowd to come back for thegarage’s grand opening.
“Come and use the parkinggarage, eat, drink, and behappy,” Brown said.
GARAGE, from Page 1
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Health center going green
All the University HealthCenter’s records are beingconverted into an electronicformat, health center officialssaid.
Deirdre Younger, theassistant director for IT &Operations for the healthcenter who has supervised theprocess, said “an electronichealth record system canprovide greater efficiency andstreamline the recordkeepingprocess.”
The system launched June18, and beginning this fall,students will be able to makeappointments, fill out forms,refill prescriptions and updatehealth data online.
But the system will not coststudents, as the center hasbeen saving up for the projectfor years, Younger said. In fact,electronic health records willsave money over time due tolack of medical record jacketfolders, labels and paper,Younger added.— Romney Smith
Fatburger location delayed
The planned Fatburgerrestaurant opening in CollegePark, which would be the firstlocation of the national burgerchain in the area, has beendelayed.
Former Baltimore Ravenstackle Orlando Brown, who isfranchising the locations andplans to open as many as 10stores over the next six years,has chosen to open the firstFatburger location in Columbiain August instead. A secondlocation has been chosen nearHoward University MedicalCenter, and talks are underwayfor a College Park location asthe franchise area’s third site.
The California-based chainhas multiple locations in thewest, and can be found in 15states. The restaurant serveshamburgers, ice cream shakes,onion rings and chili. — Compiled by Maren Voss andwire reports
IARPA comes to M-Square
Research park M-Square isgetting a new tenant, as theIntelligence AdvancedResearch Projects Activity(IARPA), a military agency, iscoming to the area. The agencyresearches cross-culturalinterrogation techniques and istemporarily located in theuniversity’s Center forAdvanced Study of Language.
IARPA’s new home will be a1 2 0 , 0 0 0 - s q u a r e - f o o tcompartmentalized informationfacility. The agency is notexpected to discuss itspresence, and its new home isexpected to be unmarked uponcompletion. Ground is expectedto be broken this summer forIARPA’s new residence. — Compiled by Alyssa Zeleznikand wire reports
BRIEFS ‘Every project is a new window to the world’Being gone from home,
where she lives with her twoteenage daughters and hermother, is not strictly a sum-mertime occurrence forHuang.
“My life is a handful,” shesaid. “Sometimes when I amdoing a project out of town Iwill fly back to teach for oneday [and] maybe don’t evenhave time to go home.”
Despite her hectic lifestyle,Huang still has time to comeup with ingenious, playfuland somewhat outlandishcostume ideas, such as intri-cate wigs and hoop-skirts,that she describes as “18th-century fashion all the way tocontemporary couture.” Andthose ideas, coupled with her
creativity and dedication, iswhat has impressed peersand students alike.
In fact, Frank Labovitz,Huang’s assistant and a grad-uate student at the universityseeking a master of fine artsdegree in costume design,changed his career plan forthe chance to work withHuang.
“It was not necessarily partof the plan for me to go backto grad school right now,”said Labovitz, who was a pro-fessional designer in the areabefore meeting Huang at theuniversity’s costume shop.“The opportunity to haveHelen as a professor seemedlike too good of an opportu-nity to pass up.”
Labovitz, who executedHuang’s wig designs for Mea-
sure for Pleasure, said hisonly previous wig experi-ences dealt with synthetichair or human hair, butHuang’s design called for astraw-like material, whichHuang said is soaked in waterand then sculpted to theshape of the wigs using wires.
“It’s a very artificial ele-ment — the big wigs,” Huangsaid. “We used this veryunique translucent materialto create a sculpture to cap-ture the shape. It’s unique foreach character. This entireprocess is very organic.”
Huang glowed when dis-cussing her pleasure in see-ing Labovitz’s final product,which she cited as an exam-ple of why she must con-stantly move from project toproject.
“In this field, you learn bydoing it. For students comingto a field like this, it’s veryimportant that their professoris active in the field,” Huangsaid. “This affects me everyyear when I pick out a projectfor my students. ... I wouldlike my students to be able todesign anything from simple,everyday clothes to Shake-speare.”
Huang’s packed scheduleand wide variety of projectstyles enabled Labovitz tolearn immensely in theprocess, he said.
“Helen is someone who istremendously busy butalways seems to manage tofind the balance of being ableto give the attention to theshow she’s working on as wellas to the project she’s work-
ing on next,” he added.Labovitz will continue his
work with Huang in the fall aspart of his graduate assistant-ship. Huang said she foundedthe MFA program in theatredesign along with two col-leagues in 1995, six yearsafter she started working atthe university and 10 yearsafter she first moved to theUnited States from Beijing toattend graduate school inMissouri.
As for the graduate pro-gram’s future — as well asher own career — Huang hasno plans of slowing down.
“I feel I will continue theeducation of myself,” shesaid. “Every project is a newwindow to the world.”
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ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKMayor Stephen Brayman and County Councilman Eric Olson, having alreadybroken ground for the city’s parking garage, knock down the front porch of ahouse on the land of the new construction.
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Singer recognizedfor mature voice
Standing at center stage,Wallis looked straight into theaudience as she sang a varietyof songs, juxtaposing classicsongs in Italian and Germanwith more modern pieces suchas “Over the Rainbow.”
Though Wallis has per-formed in public before — shehas opened games at RipkenStadium with the nationalanthem, and she even sang“America the Beautiful” at aLittle League World Series —she still gets butterflies, shesaid.
“Of course I wasnervous,” she said.“With experience, youlearn to overcome that— you learn to dealwith it.”
Though most col-lege-age kids indulgein pop, rock or hip-hop, Wallis looksbeyond today’s sceneto the music of legendssuch as Beethoven andWagner. Opera, Wallissaid, is especiallyinspiring.
“It’s a combinationof the arts that tells astory,” she said.“There is acting,singing, instrumentalmusic, and the sets areincredibly elaborate— it’s a fulfilling experiencefor me.”
Though her opera pipescame later in life, Wallis hasbeen singing since she was 2years old.
Wallis’ father first noticedher talent when she was in sec-ond grade, when she sang “MyFavorite Things” from TheSound of Music in a choral per-formance.
“She sang it beautifully,” hesaid. “That’s when I thought,‘Oh my goodness, she can per-form.’ She can really do some-thing — she can sing.”
Wallis continued to singthroughout elementary schooland found her niche duringher junior year of high school,when she discovered classicalmusic.
“I’m good at singing classi-
cal music, so it kind ofevolved,” she said. “I went tosee an opera when I was little,and I liked it.”
For the Wallises, music isalso a family affair. On Friday,Wallis sang “Cantate Domino”a cappella with her sister,Maggie, and a folk song, “SteelRails,” with her father on gui-tar and uncle on harmonica.
And her family membersaren’t her only fans. Wallis’friends, many of whomattended the concert Friday,said they have seen herdevelop as a singer as she pro-
gresses through hertime at the university.
“She is fantastic;she’s amazing,” saidalumnus Len Mancini.“She deserves to go toItaly. She has workedso hard.”
Duke Thompson,Wallis’s teacher andfounder and presi-dent of the MarylandConservatory ofMusic, believed Wal-lis’ voice is in aleague of its own.
“She is totally spe-cial — she’s on herown level,” he said.“She has a clear, bellvoice — so pure, sorare.”
Thompson, whowas a music profes-
sor in Canada for 17 years,added that Wallis’ voice isextremely advanced for herage, as an opera singer’svoice usually does not fullymature or peak until somepoint between the ages of 35and 40.
“It’s amazing to see howmature her voice is for onlybeing a sophomore,” Thomp-son said.
Though David admittedfeeling a little nervous abouthis daughter pursuing acareer in music, he encour-aged her to pursue herdreams.
“I’ve always told her tofollow her heart. ... As long asshe is doing that, she can’t gowrong,” he said.
Strings placed onhousing funds
can prove at least 2,500 bedsare on the way, funds for the$80 million North Campushousing project are on hold.
The dorm would replacethe Old and New Leonard-town apartments, set to bedemolished to make way forthe East Campus develop-ment. There would be 100more beds in the dorm thanin Old and New Leonardtown.
In 2005, administratorsand system officials wereoptimistic the board wouldapprove the long-plannedproject, but plans wereshelved after regents saidthe university should seekpublic-private funding. Vice
President of Student AffairsLinda Clement insisted statefunding was the way the uni-versity should proceed withits housing endeavors, butshe was criticized last yearfor her 2005 decision whenmore than 600 seniors weresqueezed off-campus.
The regents also voted Fri-day to fund a program toreduce the risk of damage tothe campus caused by naturaldisasters, and it alsoapproved a measure to pur-sue contracts with new elec-tric and gas providers.
Editor Adam Friedcontributed to this [email protected]
Officials worry E. Campuswon’t meet student needs
buildings.Outgoing Graduate
Student GovernmentPresident LauraMoore described thehousing componentsof the project as“bleak” and “cookie-cutter.” College ParkDistrict 4 Council-woman Mary Cooksaid the buildingswere boring and over-sized and the develop-ment in generallacked a “collegefeel.”
“The residents ofCollege Park wanted acollege town. This [de-velopment] is Bethes-da; this is Clarendon,”Cook said.
FP-Argo is knownfor developing downtown Sil-ver Spring, where they workedwith then-Montgomery CountyExecutive Doug Duncan, whois now working on the EastCampus project as the univer-sity’s vice president for admin-
istrative affairs.FP-Argo did not provide the
renderings for The Diamond-back to publish, butthe housing depictedwas rectangular bricklow-rise apartmentbuildings thatstretched along Route1 and streets withinthe development.
Some members ofthe community ex-pressed doubt that thedevelopment would beable to lure specificbusinesses such as adiscount grocery storeand a beauty shop, twosuggestions from resi-dents. Residents arealso concerned hous-ing would not be af-fordable. Members ofthe council simplywanted the project to
avoid domination by chainstores, they said.
Other buildings, such as theBirchmere music hall and aglass-covered movie theater,generated less contention, par-tially because some viewerssuch as Student GovernmentAssociation PresidentJonathan Sachs, said it didn’tmatter so much what the build-ings looked like, provided theywere affordable.
Last week’s forum was billedas an opportunity for membersof the community to ask ques-tions and submit last-minutefeedback. Developers said themost common question theyheard was how soon the proj-ect would be built.
“Build it ASAP!” read onesuggestion card.
Museum’s exhibits delve deep into culturesmonths of preparations pre-ceding its grand opening, stu-dents have already been put towork, researching and draftinglectures for various lecturers.
Clarady spoke to a crowdof about 25 in a room wallpa-pered with displays of the“founding languages” —Sumerian, Phoenician,Greek, Roman, Hebrew andArabic. Each language’s dis-play contained the alphabetsof their influential writingsystems, as well as variousphotos and artifacts.
The museum also hosts aninteractive exhibit called“The Name Game.” Goingwell beyond its icebreakernamesake, the activityallows users to type theirnames into a computer andwithin seconds have a
printed sheet with such writ-ten in four foreign lan-guages: Arabic, Assyrian,Hebrew and Punjabi.
“A large chunk of today’sworld is about language,”said Amelia Murdoch, a for-mer employee of theNational Security Agency.She said the NSA often didnot understand how lan-guage and culture wereintertwined or languagenuances such as differentdialects. This ignoranceinspired her to found theNational Museum of Lan-guage, she said.
Murdoch said that whilethe museum is small — thesuite is only about 16 feet by24 feet — she has big ambi-tions for it.
“A national consciousnessneeds to be raised about theimportance of language,” she
said while sitting at the“activity table” — full ofpaintbrushes and paper toteach children to draw Chi-nese characters and brightpuzzle cubes with the Arabicalphabets.
Murdoch emphasized thatschools did not do a suffi-cient job teaching studentsabout languages and cul-tures, and she said the goalof the museum is to helpteach visitors though anartistic medium.
“I feel that here we areable to display these ideas ina visual manner,” Murdochsaid. “And it has beentremendously successful.”
Though primary and sec-ondary schools have nottaught students much aboutlanguages, the university hasa lot to offer the museum,she added. She said she
hopes to rely on the Centerfor the Advanced Study ofLanguage for guidance, anadvantage of the museum’slocation.
The exhibits delve deeperinto cultures than just thealphabets, though. Includedin the displays were religiousartifacts, including a Torahand Quran. Murdoch said themuseum aims to answerphilosophical questions aswell as linguistic ones.
“I want to create an organ-ization outside of the schoolsystem that will enable peo-ple to have questionsanswered,” she said. “Whathappens when you have asingle copy of something?What happens when you’reable to pass around the wordof God on paper?”
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OPERA, from Page 1
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deserves to goto Italy. She
has worked sohard.”
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Driving with my mom inthe car is a lot like lis-tening to Simple Plan:Your ears really hurt,and you vow you will
never do it again. No matter howmuch she yells — and trust me,she yells — I stay as stubborn asever and take the speed “advisory”into consideration.
But I’m sure you already knowwhat is getting me and millions ofother Americans to slow down:gas prices.
Gone are the days of $1 gas and$15 fill-ups for your Hummer. Infact, I can’t even remember thelast time I saw a Hummer on theroad.
For all the complaining andmoaning, the “surging” gas priceshave done what Congress, thepresident and OPEC couldn’t do:got people to drive less, encourageenergy independence and spurdevelopment in more gas-efficientcar technology. Don’t get mewrong: I love seeing oil executivesbeing dragged in front of Congres-sional committees just as much asthe next person, but what does thisreally accomplish, besides allow-ing these well-paid cronies to saythey did something?
The “record-breaking” gasprices seen in recent months arethe best thing to happen to thiscountry since LeBron James.Come on, isn’t seeing gas pricesmake astronomical jumps everyday just as exciting as a monstrousJames dunk? The sky’s the limit.
On a serious note, though, gasprices have finally caused peopleto change their habits. Conversa-tion topic No. 1 throughout thecountry is gas prices. People arebuying less because more moneyspent on gas means less disposableincome, which means fewer big-screen TVs flying out the door atCostco.
Americans are drastically cut-ting back their driving. In fact,according to news reports about aU.S. Department of Transportationstudy, “U.S. motorists drove 11 bil-lion fewer miles” in one month thisyear than in the same period ayear ago., and the “4.3 percentdecline was the steepest year-to-year drop for any month since theagency started reporting on esti-mated travel in 1942.” Americansare turning to mass transit inrecord numbers, something Euro-peans, who have historically paidmuch more for gas than we do,have long relied upon.
The “skyrocketing” gas priceshave helped encourage action onenergy policy. Politicians havetalked about “energy independ-ence” for years. In fact, Congress’Select Committee for Energy Inde-pendence and Global Warming’swebsite states that the committeewas created in 2007 “to addurgency and resources to the com-mitment of this Congress toaddress the challenges of Amer-ica’s oil dependence and the threatof global warming.” But only inrecent months have members ofCongress sought to do something.There is growing support in Con-gress for oil drilling in Alaska; thiswould be one small step towarddiminishing the need for foreignoil in the United States.
Car companies are changing theway they develop and market cars,introducing new, gas-efficienttechnology to a public thirsty forsavings. As gas prices haveincreased, the size of our cars hasdecreased. The country is slowlyshifting from a nation of Hummersand Explorers to a nation ofhybrid cars such as the ToyotaPrius and the Honda Civic Hybrid.In fact, General Motors is evenconsidering selling or discontinu-ing the iconic Hummer brand alto-gether because of the understand-able drastic drop in sales. Just asfast as gas prices shot up, large carand SUV sales shot down.
Without the “sky-high” gasprices, what would the media talkabout? And how would I be able todescribe gas prices throughoutthis column without the mediahelping me fill in the quotationmarks?
I had a proud moment the otherday: I drove the entire length ofInterstate 270 without exceedingthe posted speed limit. Gas pricesdid what even my mom couldn’tdo. Let’s just say that the next carride with her will be much quieter,just not for the reason she thinks.
Joel Cohen is a junior governmentand politics major. He can bereached [email protected].
Music tomy ears
We walked into thecave-like roombuilt into the sideof a hill. The roomwas long and box-
like with two doors that had longsince been removed. There wereno lights, only a little sunlight fil-tering in through the holes in theceiling. The walls, presumablybrick, were covered in plasterand charred as if from a combi-nation of burning and aging. Aplaque had instructed the groupto maintain silence, so it waseerily quiet.
Here in this room, and in sev-eral others like it, thousands hadlost their lives in one of the mostcalculated massacres of all time.Once dead, they were crematedin the adjoining furnace room.
This gas chamber is the onlyone still intact at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.The Birkenau (also calledAuschwitz II) gas chambers weredestroyed during the Germanretreat in order to erase the evi-dence of such heinous crimes. Yetthis one was left standing inAuschwitz because it was onlyused during early experimentswith Zyklon B gas and was laterconverted to an air-raid shelter.
Disturbingly, the gas chamberis not actually within the camp’sborders but, instead, lies just out-side the gates, a block away fromthe commander’s house, wherehis wife and children lived. Nextto the death chamber are housesfor visitors.
As a Russian Jew, I expectedmy visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau tobe a horribly depressing trip, yet Iknew it was utterly necessaryduring my stay in Krakow. Still,when walking the gravel streets ofAuschwitz on a gorgeous sunnyday through rows of brick build-ings, each one with trees outfront, it’s easy to forget where youare. In the end, after enteringevery single one of the buildings,now set up as a sort of museum,the trees and sun are probably theonly way to maintain composure.
Over the course of our tour, wesaw the straw mats prisonersslept on, two tons of hair cut fromthe prisoners and then sold toweave nets and fabric, and pilesand piles of shoes where prison-ers were given hard woodenclogs. We saw prison block 11,where rule-breakers and theirfamilies and friends were exe-cuted or tortured. Tiny cells, 1.5square meters each, were set upfor four prisoners to stand in allnight after being forced to workall day — a torture that could lastover a week. Other cells were forstarving or suffocating prisoners.
We saw rows of pictures of peo-ple that had died in the camp,many in only a matter of daysafter their arrival. We learnedthat the average lifespan for awoman in the camp was 6months, and it was not muchmore for a man. While the prison-ers were all dressed alike withshaved heads, they ranged in age,nationality and gender.
Many of us on the tour werealready familiar with the atrocitiescommitted by the Nazis, but allwere struck by how bad it reallywas. No article could possiblydescribe how utterly ravaged thesepeople were or how calculated andcold-blooded the operation was.
If one thing stood out, it washow well-organized the campwas. Everything was planned andnothing was wasted. For example,an entire building stored hair,shoes and other belongings.These people were used as slavesand discarded when they nolonger had value to the Nazis. Itstill amazes me that 6,000 peopleworked at Auschwitz alone andaccepted such heinous crimes.Nothing could have prepared mefor what I saw at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Sonny Franckel is a senior com-puter science major and will bewriting summer columns on herexperience interning with Googlein Krakow. She can be reachedat [email protected].
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his week marked a watershed moment forthose pushing for a fresh look to CollegePark’s downtown area. The city broke groundon a brand new parking garage with retailspace on Thursday, while
Foulger-Pratt Argo displayed its finalrenderings of the East Campus devel-opment. The timing of the two projects,coinciding with arrival of freshmen onthe campus for orientation, empha-sizes the efforts of the university andstudents to mold College Park into atrue college town.
And it’s about time.Known for the past decade more for
its riots than for any ritzy attractions, College Park mustcontinue its facelift if the university hopes to enter theupper echelons of public institutions of higher education.With a scant strip of sandwich joints, rickety bars and lit-tle to offer in the way of true retail space, College Park isin desperate need of the makeover this week’s develop-ments promise.
But the city and university cannot stop there. In TheDiamondback’s story today about Foulger-Pratt Argo’sdesigns, residents and students alike criticized the ren-derings for being “bleak” and lacking a “college feel.”
For the city and the university, this categorization
must be treated as completely unacceptable. The EastCampus project represents a seminal moment in Col-lege Park history. With the new retail space, apartments,music hall and movie theater, the face of the city will
completely change. Residents and stu-dents alike will benefit as the newchanges will serve to redefine the cityin the same way Silver Spring under-went a reputation change followingthe completion of that city’s newdowntown.
At the same time, the new develop-ment marks a significant step for theuniversity, as the project should helpthe school attract top graduate stu-
dents and professors by making College Park not justmore livable, but a hotspot in the region. The currentlack of attractive and affordable graduate housing, cou-pled with an atmosphere Washington City Paperreporter David Morton described as having “the loca-tional charm of a highway rest stop,” hamstrings the uni-versity’s efforts to market itself as a true Public Ivy.
While the developments of the past week represent smallsteps in this larger struggle, students and residents must notaccept a “bleak” or “cookie-cutter” design. The changes to thecity provide too big an opportunity for College Park officials tosettle for anything less than perfection.
“College Park’s greatest shortcoming: It has the locational charm of ahighway rest stop.” - David Morton
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If you’re like most Americans, record-high gasprices are probably putting a bit of a damper onyour summer plans. But there are cheaper alterna-tives than suffering petroleum pains — some justrequire a little more creativity than others.
Use a rickshaw
Rickshaws are environmentally friendly and muchsafer than a car — when was the last time you saw a rick-shaw pileup? Transportation powered by human strengthalso solves two problems: rising gas costs and the escalat-ing unemployment rate. Everybody wins!
Buy a DeLorean
At the end of Back to the Future, Doc Brown reveals hisnew DeLorean uses old beer, banana peels and garbagefor fuel, and for most college students, garbage and oldbeer are much easier to come by than gas money. Plus,each tank creates 1.21 jigowatts of energy. Take that,OPEC!
Get a Segway
If you want to avoid traditional automobiles altogether, abattery-operated Segway may be a logical, albeit nerdy-looking, choice. This two-wheeled vehicle is not only the
preferred mode of getting around the campus for Univer-sity Police, but it’s also good enough for Gob Bluth ofArrested Development. Come on!
Start hitchhiking
Opponents may point to the fact that hitchhiking is dan-gerous or “not legal,” but what do they know? In additionto being completely free — unless you subscribe to the old“gas, grass or ass” mentality — hitchhiking is a great wayto meet interesting new people ... who may or may not killyou and harvest your organs to sell on the black market.
Stop going places
Perhaps the easiest (read: laziest) solution is to just stopleaving your residence entirely. BetweenCampusfood.com and classes on Blackboard, it’s like theuniverse is trying to tell us something. Maybe that some-thing is “Be a shut-in.” A little agoraphobia never hurt,right?
Steal gas from neighbors
You know which neighbors we’re talking about. Theones with a couple of SUVs in the driveway and an H3 inthe garage. The ones who “gas up” four to five times a day.The ones who run sprinklers on their lawns with gasolineinstead of water. Yeah, those neighbors.
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The coming week is likely tosee a great many strange and,perhaps, wonderful thingshappening to many individu-
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Those who want to be where theaction is are not likely to be disap-pointed. Conversely, those who aretired of being in either the fire or thefrying pan may find that it’s difficultto get out of the kitchen altogether.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 7) —Now is the time for you to putyour plans into motion. By week’send, you can surely have thingsmoving ahead at a surprisingpace. (Dec. 8-Dec. 21) — Why be asheep when you can be the shep-herd? You truly desire to be lead-ing the pack. Do so.
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 3) — Aloved one will be in a position todo you more than one valuablefavor — and just when they aremost needed. Show your grati-tude. (Feb. 4-Feb. 18) — It’s nevertoo late to do the right thing —and circumstances will prove theadage.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 5) —Someone you know well is likelyto play a surprising role in youraffairs. Don’t make the mistake ofstopping things too soon. (March6-March 20) — You may wishthings were more like the olddays, but the truth is that you’redoing quite well.
ARIES (March 21-April 4) — Youknow how to get where you wantto go, but the question remains:when? Timing is everything, andyou mustn’t be hasty. (April 5-April 19) — You may not realizejust how your actions affect thosearound you. Focus on interaction.
TAURUS (April 20-May 5) — Youmay be tired of pretending thateverything is going as you hadhoped. You can make the first in astring of changes. (May 6-May20) — You may resist doing thingsthe way they’ve been done in thepast, but tradition is your friend.Follow the rules.
GEMINI (May 21-June 6) — Some-one of great stature is likely to letyou into his or her circle. Be surethat you are truly prepared. (June7-June 20) — Your gift to a friendmay be misunderstood at first.Later, appreciation makes itmemorable.
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Wanted is very much a film inthree acts. The first half-hourmakes you think the whole moviewon’t give you a second to catchyour breath. These 30 minutespractically stand alone. There is aclear resolution to the first act,and it’s a knockout (literally).
After such a fast-paced start,the second Wanted stops toexpound to us the details behindthe mysterious order of the assas-sins it showcases, the air rushesright out of the picture. Wantedmanages to get some of thatenergy back by its finale, but itnever fully recaptures the initialrush.
Soul-crushed office worker Wes-ley (James McAvoy, Atonement)puts up with his tyrannical bossand pretends he doesn’t know hisbest friend is sleeping with hisgirlfriend. But he finds some spineafter he learns his father (DavidO’Hara, Doomsday) is a world-class assassin. Hisuntimely death leavesWesley with millions —and a group of assas-sins eager torecruit him.
The scene thatfollows is thehighlight ofWanted, and itonly happensabout 20 minutesin. Wesley cursesout his boss, ripshis ergonomickeyboard (a nor-mal keyboard
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A simple story would haveallowed more straight-forwardaction, which is really what Wantedis all about.
But even the action runs out oftricks fairly quickly. ScribesMichael Brandt and Derek Haas(who wrote the 3:10 to Yumaremake) with an assist by ChrisMorgan (Cellular), adapting fromMark Millar and J.G. Jones’ comicbook series, only have a set numberof action gags.
The bullets can bend.The assassins can shooteach other’s bullets inthe air. Wesley’s fatheris able to jumpbetween skyscrapers
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Russian-Kazakh director TimurBekmambetov (the Night Watchseries) knows a thing or two about“wow” flourishes. Working with ahigher budget than his Night Watchfilms, Bekmambetov throws thecamera around with flair. He’snever met a head he didn’t want toshow a bullet going through insuper-slow motion.
As for the actors, McAvoy showshimself to be a thespian with range.Typically playing confident andattractive leads (see Atonement andThe Last King of Scotland) he gets asurprising amount of laughter asthe wimpy nerd Wesley, beforeswitching back into confident lead-ing man mode for the latter half ofthe film. Angelina Jolie (A MightyHeart) is in full-on sexy mode as afemale assassin, something shepulls off with ease. And MorganFreeman (The Bucket List) playsleader Sloan as another wise men-tor figure.
Wanted starts and ends as aridiculously super-charged actionpicture, one so enthusiastic in itsverve you want to get on board andjust enjoy the ride. But in the mid-dle it turns into another studio-packaged summer action flick.And while the ending revives someof the beginning’s promise, it does-n’t make up for the sub-par mid-dle. ’Tis not the season for cine-matic ingenuity.
REVIEW | WANTED
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MOVIE:Wanted | VERDICT: 1/2
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For 21 summers, the National Orchestral Institute atthe university has been redefining passion and dedica-tion by inviting talented college musicians from aroundthe nation to a four-week orchestral summer program.
Founded in 1988 by Donald Reinhold, the NOI orig-inally served as a three-week program devoted to“young, talented players from across the country tohave an experience in orchestras,” NOI Artistic Direc-tor James Ross said.
According to Ross, the fourth week was added dur-ing the 20th summer to give students a chance to be-come better oriented with the faculty and with playingin large orchestras before they began the program.
The students’ time is devoted to learning orchestralpieces over one week, culminating in a weekendrecital. Workshops, special events and lectures are in-terspersed to give students a variety of experiences.
This year, students had a chance to work with anumber of guest conductors and faculty in threemajor public events. The first, Bold Strokes, was
conducted by Ross and featured pieces such as Jo-hannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 and ClaudeDebussy’s Fetes.
Out of the hundreds who auditioned, 97 studentswere chosen for the program. Participants have achance to work with members of orchestras fromaround the nation, including the Philadelphia and SanFrancisco orchestras.
“When you have 600 or 700 people auditioning, theones who get in ... are people who show a certain fluen-cy on their instruments and a certain electricity intheir presence,” said Ross, who selected the studentsfor the program.
After the first week’s performances, which featurefaculty and students, the remaining three events arealmost entirely student performed. Students begin theweek never having seen the pieces they are to per-form each week. Over the week, through sectional andgroup rehearsals, students learn the pieces and per-form them Saturday night, he said.
The one-week periods are designed to help stu-dents see a “bigger transformation” of themselvesand their talent with “passionate music-making in-
volved,” Ross said.Through the performances and the special events,
NOI serves to redefine the orchestral movement andits purpose in the future. With guest lectures on the fu-ture and relevance of orchestras today, Ross hopesstudents will not only hone their musical talent but re-alize their roles in the future of orchestral music.
“One of my main hopes is that people come out ofthis course seeing that they ... can really affect the fu-ture of orchestras,” said Ross. “The future is more intheir hands than they think.”
The last NOI performance is Saturday at 8 p.m. inthe Dekelboum Concert Hall. Andrew Litton conductsthe performance, Titan’s Roots, which features worksby Gustav Mahler and Robert Schumann.
The orchestra kids are alrightFEATURE | NOI
The National Orchestral Institute’s summer program ends with a concert Saturday
PHOTO COURTESY STAN BAROUHStudents perform at one of last year’s NOI performances.This year’s session culminates on Saturday.
Three former Terrapin fieldhockey players will travel toBeijing to represent the USA inthe 2008 Olympic Games inAugust. Lauren Powley (classof 2006), Dina Rizzo (’02) andKeli Smith (’01) were selected
to the 16-player national team,USA Field Hockey announcedMonday.
Another former Terp, SaraSilvetti (’05) will accompanythe team to China as an alter-nate.
Swimmers can represent U.S. withsuccess at trials
Five Terp swimmers willcompete at the U.S. OlympicTeam Trials in Omaha nextweek. The trials span from June29 to July 4.
Senior Dong Kim will com-pete in the men's 50-meter and100-meter freestyles. SeniorEric Cullen, will swim in the100-meter breaststroke.
On the women's side, threejuniors from the Terps swimteam will compete at the trials.Jen Vogel will race in the 100-meter butterfly, while Patty De-Scenza and Nina Rossi are en-
tered in the 200-meter butterfly.
Future Terp Hastings to play withU.S. U-18 team
Freshman Lydia Hastings —who will be a member of theTerps’ women’s soccer team thisfall — was recently named to theU.S. Under-18 Women's NationalTeam Foreign Training Camp.
The forward/midfielder willtravel to Europe on June 27 for anine-day training trip, featuringtwo matches against Denmark’sU-19 team and one against Eng-land’s on July 4.
– From staff reports
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a much different role than the onehe had with the Terps. In college,the 6-foot-9 Gist was a power for-ward whom his team relied on forscoring. In the NBA, he will proba-bly shift to the small forward posi-tion and be used primarily as a de-fensive replacement.
“With his standout athleticismhe can overcome the fact that he’sa bit raw on the offensive end,”Smith said. “I could see him as aspecialist guy, a defensive stopperwho comes in with great energy.”
Smith compared Gist’s style ofplay to Renaldo Balkman, a NewYork Knicks forward who useshustle and energy to carve out hisspot in the team’s rotation.
Gist welcomes any role he canclaim and realizes that he won’t bea double-double threat like he wasover the past couple of years.
“Coming into the NBA, I don’tplan on playing a lot,” Gist said.“They have their guys who can doa lot of scoring, and I don’t look atmy role as that. I’m a defender; Ilook to defend the [small forwardposition]. Come in and guard theTracy McGradys of the league,the Kobe Bryants.”
Gist’s length and leaping abilitylend to the notion that he could bea good defensive player in thepros. At the Orlando pre-draftcamp — an event where topprospects assemble for measure-ments, interviews and exhibitiongames against one another — Gistdisplayed a 7-foot-4-inchwingspan and a 35-inch verticalleap. Both are impressive num-bers for a potential NBA player.
Gist’s shot was erratic duringthe exhibition games in Orlando,but according toDraftExpress.com, “he lookedvery active defensively in thepassing lanes and did a great jobgetting out in transition, using hisathleticism well around the rim ...The energy he brought to the floorwas exactly what the doctor or-dered for his draft stock.”
Tonight, the value of his stockwill be discovered. And Gist willbe watching intently from Penn-sylvania with family members.
With any luck, he’ll become abit more geographically ground-ed, as well as a proud member ofan NBA team. Just like he dreamtit at age six.
in the trailer at halftime of agame we were down and play-ing terrible in,” Edu said.“Coach comes in, and he’syelling and screaming. Hekicked the door of the trailer sohard that it came back and hithim. It was hard not to laugh.”
Despite his exuberance inthat situation, Cirovski’s coach-ing worked, and in 2005 Eduwas a key player on the Terpsnational championship squad.
Working mainly out of themidfield, Edu tallied 10 goalsand 11 assists in his three-year college career. He wasnamed a first team NSCAAAll-American in 2006, afterscoring five game-winninggoals that season.
Toronto FC selected him withthe first pick of the 2007 MLSDraft and he won the league’sRookie of the Year Award. Eduhas become an important youngplayer in the U.S. Soccer sys-tem. He earned his first cap(appearance in internationalcompetition) against Switzer-land in October of 2007.
“It’s definitely great any timeyou go out there and represent
your country,” said Edu, whowas named to the nationalteam’s World Cup qualifyingroster on June 11.
Edu was put in the spotlightearly this month when hestarted against Spain, the No. 4-ranked team in the worldaccording to FIFA, then playedthe entire second half againstNo. 1 Argentina four days later.
“It’s definitely a good experi-ence, learning against the bestplayers in the world,” he said.“You try to measure yourselfagainst them and see whereyou’re at and where you have toget better.”
The game against Argentinaended in a scoreless draw infront of a crowd of 78,682 atGiants Stadium in New Jersey.Now Edu is back with Torontoand in the middle of his secondMLS season.
But despite his early profes-sional success and the recentopportunity to play againstsome of the best players in theworld, Edu said he rememberswhere he was just two years ago— developing his skills as aTerp, right here in College Park.
Coaching helpedEdu succeed
ADAM FRIED–THE DIAMONDBACKIt is Gist’s childhood dream to have his name on the back of an NBAjersey. Tonight, that dream could come true.
Gist projected assecond-round pick
GIST, from Page 10
EDU, from Page 10
TERRAPIN NOTEBOOK
Former field hockeyTerps Beijing bound
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
Two years ago Maurice Eduwas entering the final season ofhis career with the Terrapinsmen’s soccer team.
Now, after being namedMajor League Soccer’s2007 Rookie of theYear and earn-ing seveninternationalappearanceswith the U.S.National Team, Edulooks back at his colle-giate soccer days asan essential part ofhis development.
The 22-year-oldmidfielder is anexample of a col-lege player whohas succeededearly in his post-college career,despite thecommon notionthat the collegesystem does apoor job ofpreparing playersfor the profes-sional game.
“I got so muchbetter from myfreshman year to when Ileft,” Edu said. “Maryland isthe closest to being profes-sional as you’re going to find incollege soccer.”
Judging by the number of
Terps involved with the U.S.National Team recently, Edumight be right.
Besides Edu, who appeared inall three of the team’s recentfriendlies against England,
Spain and Argentina,former Terp defenderDan Califf receivedplaying time for theUSA, starting June 8against Argentina.
Forward RobbieRogers andgoalkeeperChris Seitzwere part ofthe team’s 33-man playerpool for the
World Cup quali-fying team.
The Terpscoaching staff,which Educalled “firstrate,” is a bigreason why so
many formerTerps are suc-ceeding at thenational level.
Edu has onememory of Terpscoach SashoCirovski thatstands out,even if it isn’t
particularlyflattering.
“We were in the locker room
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ADAM FRIED –THE DIAMONDBACKAfter a stellar tenure with the Terps, James Gist will see tonight where his basketball careertakes him next. He will be watching the NBA Draft in Pennsylvania with family members.
Gist awaits future in NBABY MARK SELIG
Senior staff writer
James Gist remembers being a kid, sitting downwith his father and watching Michael Jordan andShaquille O’Neal play in the NBA. He used to think,“That’s gonna be me some day,” long before heknew of his actual potential.
Tonight, Gist will be watching an NBA eventagain. But he’ll be watching to see if his childhooddreams come true, as 60 players from colleges andoverseas will be selected by NBA teams during theleague’s annual rookie draft.
The former Terps forward who averaged 16points and eight rebounds per game his senior sea-son is projected to be picked sometime in the draft’ssecond round.
“Now that I’m here, it’s like ... man! My wholelife can change,” Gist said from an airport in De-troit on Tuesday afternoon as he awaited hisflight to Boston to work out for the 2008 NBAchampion Celtics.
This drill has become habitual for Gist, who hasrecently trained in enough NBA teams’ clothes tofill a walk-in closet and amassed enough frequentflyer miles to buy up an airline.
Boston was the 13th and final team Gist workedout for as part of the pre-draft preparation, whereplayers showcase their skills to organizationswhich may, in turn, draft them.
So life for Gist has been a repetitive, yet excitingroutine — fly to an NBA city, stay for the night in ahotel, check out by 8 a.m. and be ready to impressscouts and team management by 9.
If Gist has caught the eye of the right people,he’ll hear his name called tonight and see hishard work come to fruition. Draft experts see thatall happening.
“I know there’s definitely some interest in thesecond round for him,” NBADraft.net founderAran Smith told The Diamondback. “He’s proba-bly going somewhere in the 40s.”
Smith thinks there’s about an 80-percent chanceGist will be selected by a team during the draft.
If Gist does get picked or latches onto a teamafter the draft via free agency, he will likely have
Former TerpEdu starsfor USA
Workouts, travel fill hectic month for forward
Please See GIST, Page 9Please See EDU, Page 9
