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Our 101ST Year, No. 44THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERThursday, October 28, 2010
BY LAUREN REDDINGSenior staff writer
The university’s Good Samaritanprotocol may be modified to more ex-plicitly protect students who needmedical assistance when drinking,after the University Senate’s most pow-erful committee recommended thechanges at its meeting yesterday.
The Responsible Action Protocol,which recommends but doesn’t man-date the university not punish danger-ously intoxicated students who call 911for themselves or a friend, has facedskepticism from administrators sinceit was first introduced two years ago.
But after the Office of Student
Faculty favor amnesty protocol changeSenators support sharpening Samaritanprotocol while SGA seeks formal policy
see SAMARITAN, page 3John Zacker, Office of Student Conduct director, distributed materials askingstudents to remember the Samaritan protocol. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
SGA backsrevokingTurtle’slicenseStudent leaders willtestify before county
BY SARAH MEEHANStaff writer
The SGA will testify againstThirsty Turtle in liquor board hear-ings, recommending the bar’slicense to sell alcohol be revoked, fol-lowing a contentious debate and aclose vote at last night’s meeting.
Student Government Associationlegislators said Turtle has provenitself to be a threat to the publichealth of the university communityover the past three years, becausestudents frequently drink too muchthere.
“The student body won’t stand foryou taking years away from our livesbecause of your dirty business,” saidMatthew Bernstein, the businesslegislator who proposed the bill. Hesaid the bill was prompted more bythe bar’s history of allegedly servingunderage patrons than by thismonth’s stabbing incident.
The SGA adopted the measure 14-9, with three members abstaining.
SGA members who opposed Bern-stein’s bill said if Turtle goes under,students could resort to more dan-gerous drinking options, such as iso-lated house parties. Outlying com-muter Legislator Brendan Cusacksaid Turtle is being used as a conven-ient target for the reality of pervasiveunderage drinking in College Park.
“I think the benefit of having theThirsty Turtle is that it gives us aname to always blame,” Cusack said.
Others legislators added that theSGA should try to echo the mood ofthe student body.
“I seriously question whether ourconstituents are in favor of support-ing this bill,” freshman LegislatorRachel Burke said.
“Do you care if your constituency
see TURTLE, page 3
BY KELLY FARRELLStaff writer
Since the semester began, Gov. Mar-tin O’Malley has made two visits to theuniversity to meet students and rally forhis re-election, but his opponent, for-mer Gov. Bob Ehrlich, has not made anappearance.
Earlier this month, Ehrlich made a rareshowing in Prince George’s County in aneffort to gain support in a county withvery strong Democratic leanings. But al-though his running mate, Mary Kane,has spoken to a small group of students ina closed meeting, Ehrlich himself has notvisited the campus during his campaign.
“Given the lopsided partisan leaningsof Prince George’s County generally, and
the university community more specifi-cally, Ehrlich’s campaign likely thinksthat their resources — time and money— are better used elsewhere,” saidKaren Kaufmann, a professor in the gov-ernment and politics department.
Ehrlich spokesman Andy Barth con-firmed that the Republican gubernatorialcandidate has no plans to visit the univer-sity before the Nov. 2 election. Ehrlichhad agreed to join O’Malley, a Democrat,at the university for a proposed Dia-mondback-sponsored debate on highereducation issues, but O’Malleyspokesman Mark Giangreco said thegovernor was too busy to attend.
Without a promise of a back-and-forth
Students say Ehrlich’s lack ofon-campus presence may hurtO’Malley has visited campus twice to campaign
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Officials maycrack down onbikes, scootersU. Senate investigates whether helmetpolicy would help keep student riders safe
BY BEN PRESENT AND LAUREN REDDINGSenior staff writers
University Police and officials are mobiliz-ing to keep student motorists and pedestri-ans safe after several accidents involving bi-cycles and motor scooters sent students tothe hospital in recent weeks.
Earlier this month, a bicyclist in Lot 1 wasstruck by a car. Last week, Terrapin footballright tackle Pete DeSouza was rushed to thehospital with two broken legs after his a carcollided with his scooter. Monday, a 16-year-old riding on a scooter in Rockville waskilled in a similar accident. These recent in-cidents have university officials questioningthe need for heavier enforcement of exist-ing law and establishing a campuswide hel-met policy.
University senators debated this possibili-ty and ultimately voted to charge the campusaffairs committee with reviewing the meritsand disadvantages of helmet enforcement onthe campus at the Senate Executive Commit-tee’s meeting yesterday. The senate couldvote on a policy change by the end of the aca-
demic year and, if approved, scooterdrivers and bicyclists could be finedfor riding without a helmet, senateChairwoman Linda Mabbs said.
Several campus and state lawsdictate safe practices while ridingbicycles and scooters. Further-more, all scooters used on the cam-pus are required to register with theuniversity — there are 299 registeredfor use this year.
Scooter drivers are required by lawto have a driver’s license, to stay offsidewalks, to keep their speed under 30miles per hour regardless of the postedspeed limit and to refrain from driving onhighways with speed limits more than 50miles per hour.
Bicyclists, who University Policespokesman Capt. Marc Limansky saidare most often involved in accidents be-tween bikes and cars when the cyclistleaves the sidewalk and “darts into theroadway,” are also bound by various state
see SAFETY, page 3
Scooter drivers areprohibited fromriding scooters onsidewalk areas.
Scooter drivers areencouraged, but notrequired to, wear helmets.
Scooterdrivers arenot supposedto drive withmorepassengersthan thevehicle isdesigned for.
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Purposeful in pink
Students wear pink hijabs toraise breast cancer awareness
BY DIANA ELBASHAStaff writer
With one accessory, the women of the Muslim Stu-dents’ Association brought together two issues that
many people remain hesitant to discuss: breast cancer andIslam.
Yesterday, female students who wear hijabs — the traditionalIslamic headscarf for women — opted to wear pink ones inrecognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. These stu-dents joined many others around the world in recognition of aday that has been dubbed Global Pink Hijab Day by the Susan
see AWARENESS, page 2
Scooter drivers arealso restricted to aspeed limit of 30mph regardless ofposted limits. Theyare required toregister with theuniversity andhave a license.
Check out video of studentsexplaining the cause online.
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with his opponent, Barth said,Ehrlich didn’t have enough incen-tive to come to the campus.
“Honestly, it’s just a long trip,and time’s incredibly tight now,”Barth said. “We didn’t have athree-hour block if there wasn’tthe debate to justify it.”
Ehrlich has also visited the uni-versity in the past, Barth added,just not during this campaign.
“He has been to College Parkdozens of times; if he hasn’t beenin the last month or so, it’s not thathe doesn’t come down often,”Barth said. “We haven’t beeneverywhere we’ve tried to; wecount on Facebook and broadcastand the conventional news mediato get the message out, too.”
Sarah Martin, president of theuniversity’s chapter of College Re-publicans, said she was told
Ehrlich has been absent due tostudents being hostile to him inthe past.
“I think it will affect him [in theelections]; he should be here,”Martin said.
Ehrlich made an appearanceon the campus in November2005 while he was still gover-nor and was met with much op-position about his moves to in-crease tuition.
“Ehrlich’s history with respectto the university — raising tuitiona good deal while he was gover-nor — means that his record is atodds with local preferences,”Kaufmann said.
Martin said Ehrlich should beexplaining to students why tuitionincreased by nearly 40 percent inhis four years in office.
“I believe that he doesn’t feelcomfortable addressing the tu-ition increase, even though thereis a way to address it,” Martin said.
Giangreco said O’Malley’s
commitment to higher educationhas encouraged him to maintaina presence at the university, eventhough he couldn’t find time for adebate. He said Ehrlich’s ab-sence represents the unpopulari-ty of his policies.
“I think raising college tuitionisn’t something that will win youplaudits at a university, so I can un-derstand why [Ehrlich] might notwant to be on campus,” Giangrecosaid. “We feel we’ve got a verygood story to tell when it comes tohigher education. … He’s made ita point to come and visit and talk tostudents and faculty.”
But Kaufmann said this isn’tnew for politicians of either party.
“It makes little sense forEhrlich to allocate scarce cam-paign resources in [the] county,as he is unlikely to pick up a criticalmass of additional support here,”Kaufmann said.
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G. Komen Foundation. Pink Hijab Day began in 2004
when a group of Muslim girls at aMissouri high school wore pink toencourage discussion about boththeir religion and the battleagainst breast cancer. The eventexpanded more every year and isnow celebrated by followers in atleast 15 countries, includingTurkey, Nigeria and Australia.
Freshman business major Ha-reem Mannan said one goal of theevent — to help the public under-stand Muslim women — was par-ticularly important to her.
“Wearing a pink scarf showsmy dedication to this beautifulcause, supporting my sistersaround the world,” she said. “I willwear it and wear it proudly, even ifit means only changing one per-son’s mind about Muslims andwhat we stand for.”
Anisah Imani, a sophomore an-thropology major, who commit-ted to the hijab at 10 years old, par-ticipated in the event for the firsttime this year. She said she andother women will donate moneyto organizations that work to findcures for the disease.
“I want to let people know thatMuslims are interested in issuesthat affect our greater society. Weare human, too, and we’re not im-mune to diseases such as breastcancer,” she said. “It will show the
world that we stand with them inthis fight.”
Sophomore neurobiology andphysiology major Bushrah Rah-man said the event helps demon-strate that breast cancer is anissue that does not adhere to cul-tural confines.
“Hopefully, [others will] makethe connection to Breast CancerAwareness Month,” Rahmansaid. “It’s also to show that Mus-lims, too, care about those whoare suffering from breast cancer.”
Rahman participated in theevent for the third time this year,and like Imani, welcomed dis-cussion about her attire; peopleregularly question the womenabout their motives for wearing aheadscarf.
Imani said that it was a volun-tary decision and that inquiriesabout it don’t bother her.
“I love this question,” she said.“It lets me know that with all theignorance out there, there aresome people who are willing tolearn the truth.”
Shirley Liang, vice president ofExternal Affairs for Alpha KappaDelta Phi, which often hostsbreast cancer awareness events,added that Pink Hijab Day killedtwo birds with one stone.
“From my knowledge, Muslimwomen are perceived as inferiorto men and are subjected to a con-servative dress code,” she said.“As such, the involvement of Mus-lim women in the public events al-lows them to become more out-spoken in proving themselves asstrong and independent women,while enhancing breast cancerawareness.”
Lollar hopes to unseat 15-term incumbentRepublican congressional candidate Charles Lollarspoke to students on immigration, Social Security
BY LAUREN KIRKWOODFor The Diamondback
Although many remain skepti-cal of a Republican who promisesto topple 15-term incumbent andU.S. House Majority LeaderSteny Hoyer (D), who representsCollege Park, Charles Lollar in-sisted to a 60-person crowd yes-terday that he will win on Nov. 2.
In a town hall-style meetinghosted by the College Republi-cans, Lollar offered familiar con-servative arguments on such is-sues as illegal immigration, So-cial Security and balancing thebudget to a largely enthusiasticaudience of students and Col-lege Park residents in StampStudent Union’s Juan RamonJiménez Room.
“Our chances are very goodof helping Mr. Hoyer retire andspend more time with his grand-children,” Lollar said. “Andwe’re going to win for the rightreasons.”
Lollar criticized what he saidwas a pervasive practice of con-gressmen voting on bills theyhadn’t completely read, and he
earned a round of applausewhen he promised never to dothe same.
In an effort to appeal to the uni-versity setting, Lollar alsostressed his commitment to rep-resenting the interests of theyounger population.
In politics, he said, collegestudents are often overlookedbecause they don’t have the“dollars and cents” to maketheir voices heard.
Lollar said students couldovercome this by exercisingtheir right to vote and being in-formed citizens on topics such asthe U.S. Constitution.
“It’s a tragedy that so manypeople don’t know the Constitu-tion,” Lollar said, which he saidhelps explain why many bills in-troduced in Congress seem to vi-olate its tenets.
Lollar appeared delightedwhen students correctly an-swered constitutional triviaquestions such as the numberof amendments — and disap-pointed when they answered in-correctly.
Later in the evening, audience
members had questions of theirown for Lollar. One studentasked about the DREAM Act,which would make college edu-cation available to individualsbrought into the country illegallyas minors; Lollar replied thatstopping illegal immigration alto-gether should be prioritized overaccommodating undocumentedimmigrants already here.
“I think the DREAM Act is agood idea, but it puts the cart be-fore the horse,” Lollar said,adding, “If we don’t fix the immi-gration problem, the DREAMAct won’t make a difference.”
Although the audience wasdominated by Lollar supporters,some students who hadn’t firmlycommitted to the candidate at-tended the event.
Lindsay Schneider, a fresh-man letters and sciences major,said she would lean toward anyRepublican candidate but want-ed to hear more specifics aboutLollar.
“Since elections are soon, andI’m definitely a conservative, Iwanted to come out and see whathe had to say,” Schneider said.
Though many people ex-pressed confidence about Lol-lar’s ability to win the 5th Con-gressional District seat fromHoyer on Election Day, noteveryone saw his campaign’ssuccess as a certainty.
“I think that he’s doing thebest he could against someone
as long-standing as Hoyer,”Schneider said. “I don’t reallyknow the polls, but the tides aredefinitely turning.”
Hoyer has received at least 69percent of the vote in his previousfour re-election bids, and theCook Political Report lists therace as solidly Democratic.
Regardless of the results of theelection, Lollar offered this ad-vice to graduating seniors.
“Make sure you’re connectedand have a belief system,” hesaid. “Difficult times are going tocome. They just do.”
Charles Lollar, the Republican candidate in the 5th Congressional District, which includes the univer-sity, speaks to students in Stamp Student Union yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
From left to right: Sophomore Anisah Imani, senior NaomiHenry and junior Kadija Koroma wear pink hijabs to raiseawareness of breast cancer. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK
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VISITSfrom page 1
likes you, or if they’re healthy?”Bernstein responded.
University Police Chief DavidMitchell, who has been one of themost vocal opponents of Turtlesince three underage studentswere knifed nearby Oct. 12,attended the meeting to speak insupport of Bernstein’s bill.
Mitchell said Turtle is one of thebiggest causes of overconsump-tion of alcohol in College Park.
“They’re not the only problem;they’re the primary problem,”Mitchell said.
But some legislators saidanother problematic bar wouldalmost certainly appear in place ofTurtle on Route 1 if the liquorboard were to shutter that bar, andmany students agreed.
“I just think it’s pointless; assoon as Turtle goes away, some-thing else will sprout up in itsplace,” said junior Japanese andinternational business majorShabaab Kamal.
“I think it will be more danger-ous. I think people will go to thebars whether or not Turtle’s there,”freshman Jewish studies majorErica Burgess said, pointing to the
overcrowding that could occur atthe other College Park bars.
Another argument against thebill was that it would take away avenue for legal drinkers.
“I graduated already, but I likeTurtle; I just think it’s the most funbar,” 22-year-old alumnus SimranKaushal said.
Now that the SGA has cast its sup-port, Bernstein said he plans to per-sonally attend the upcoming PrinceGeorge’s County Board of LicenseCommissioners hearings Nov. 3 andNov. 10 to present the SGA’s positionand to collaborate with universitypolice to press the issue.
“I’m not against underage drink-ing,” Bernstein said. “I think thespirit of the law is more importantthan the letter of the law.”
University Police Chief David Mitchell addresses the Student GovernmentAssociation. The SGA voted to support revoking Thirsty Turtle’s liquorlicense, which Mitchell has advocated. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK
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BY RACHEL ROUBEINStaff writer
Former Terrapin men’s basketballstar Juan Dixon returned to play at theuniversity Oct. 19, but he wasn’t at Com-cast Center. He wasn’t even playing bas-ketball. And he caused his team to lose.
When Dixon played for a CampusRecreation Services intramural flagfootball team, he had no current univer-sity affiliation — he is no longer a regis-tered student and isn’t employed here.
Sophomore biology major DavidStewart, who refereed the game at TurfFields, said CRS allowed him to playthe game before a check on eachteam’s roster had been performed.Teams with members who aren’t stu-dents, faculty or staff forfeit games inwhich those individuals played.
Players must present a university IDat each game and are granted oneexemption if they do not have it withthem. In that case, the player mustshow a driver’s license or another valid
form of identification.Stewart said Dixon had used his one
university ID freebie and shown a dif-ferent form of ID and then helped leadhis team to a 31-19 victory.
But when CRS staff plugged theteam roster — comprised of graduates,faculty and staff — into the computerthe day after the game, Dixon’s namedidn’t appear. This was because onlystudents, faculty and staff are in the uni-versity system and can be cleared toplay, Stewart said.
The team was then notified it hadforfeited that game, as Dixon was noteligible to play. Team membersdeclined to comment.
Yet, Dixon’s opponents — a teamcomprised of undergraduate men —said they thoroughly enjoyed playingagainst the 2002 ACC Player of theYear and NCAA Final Four Most Valu-able Player.
“He’s the best athlete ever at this uni-versity; it was awesome,” said senioreconomics major David Simkin, who
sacked Dixon during the game. “Hetold me I had some nice moves.”
Senior communication major RickLaFond said that on offense, Dixonplayed the role of quarterback well.
“One memorable play is he threw areally deep touchdown pass to theassistant basketball coach for Mary-land, Rob Ehsan,” he said. “There weretimes when I was trying to tackle him,and he was running all over the place.”
On defense, Dixon mainly mannedthe defensive line, rushing the passer,LaFond said.
“He’s a lot faster than anyone on ourteam, that’s for sure,” he said.
Some players, such as junior historymajor Josh Borneman, were alsopleased with Dixon’s sportsmanship;others said the game would forever becemented in their memories.
“It was really cool because I can tellmy kids I played against the 2002MVP,” LaFond said.
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RHA to study dining hall foodIn response to student concerns, committee will review whetherDining Services serves fresh and high-quality food products
BY LEAH VILLANUEVAStaff writer
Just where do those burgers in thedining halls come from, and how didthey get there? It’s something a lot of stu-dents want to know and that studentleaders and Dining Services will beworking together to bring to light.
The Residence Hall Association unan-imously passed a resolution Tuesdaynight to work with university officials toinvestigate the origins of food served atthe university. An RHA committee willevaluate where and how foods weregrown and raised and what processingthey went through before reaching stu-dents’ plates, according to the resolution.
The committee will report its findingsback to the full RHA body, which willthen distribute the information to stu-dents. Members said the process wouldtake some time, and they’re not surewhen it would be complete, but they saidthey will work as quickly as possible.
RHA President Samantha Lengyelsaid she authored the resolution inresponse to the many concerns raised atthe Dining Services’ town hall-styleforum last week.
At the forum, students demanded toknow the details about the freshness andquality of the food they were beingserved. Some activists were especiallyconcerned about whether produce camefrom local growers and humanelytreated animals.
“I think as resident leaders it’s our jobto find out those answers,” Lengyel told
RHA members when she presented theresolution. “It’s clearly something peopleare concerned about.”
RHA senators voted 43-0 in favor ofthe resolution. In an interview after themeeting, Lengyel said she was excitedby the unanimous support and hopedthe investigation would bring somepeace of mind to many anxious students.
“I think it’s definitely a step in the rightdirection as far as increasing trans-parency from Dining Services,” Lengyelsaid. “It will bring a lot of new knowledgeso hopefully students will have moresecurity and comfort in knowing wheretheir food comes from.”
RHA senator Jennifer Spangler, whochairs the Dining Services AdvisoryBoard, said her committee will meet withDining Services soon to begin discussinghow it will conduct its research and report
the information to the student body. Shesaid the committee will probably begin bylooking into the origins of the meat andeggs served and proceed from there.
Spangler added Dining Services isalready prepared and willing to workwith the RHA to distribute information tostudents after hearing the concernsvoiced last week.
“They were very interested in theissues students expressed,” she said.“They weren’t angry at all. They’re beingvery open-minded about it.”
And it is very important that theissues raised were being taken into seri-ous consideration, Spangler said.
“We’re college students now,” shesaid. “We’re not just going to eat every-thing Dining Services throws at us.”
Conduct spent a year collecting data onthe protocol and presented its findingsto members of the senate, several facul-ty members of the Senate ExecutiveCommittee largely agreed with long-standing student concerns.
Several faculty senators said theprotocol gives too much leeway to ad-ministrators and doesn’t reflect thatstudent health and safety is of para-mount importance. But Student Gov-ernment Association leaders reaf-firmed their support for a policy lastnight, which faculty senators have notyet supported.
The protocol, which is administeredby the Office of Student Conduct andits director, John Zacker, will be sentback to the student conduct committeeto review the possibility of a languagechange and extending the protocol’strial period, senate Chairwoman LindaMabbs said.
University senator Chuck Delwiche,a professor in the computer, mathe-matical and natural sciences collegewho serves on the SEC, said he agreeswith the content of the protocol en-abling administrators to judge studentson a case-by-case basis, but he’s unhap-py with some of the wording.
“We need to have a very clear, un-equivocal statement that in the casewhere a student is acting in good faithin the interest of the health and safetyof members of the university commu-nity, the university will do its best torecognize that and act appropriately incontext,” Delwiche said. “That doesnot come across the way this protocolis written.”
Delwiche added that before hestepped foot on the campus, he onlyknew once thing about the university:That it was where former Terrapinmen’s basketball player Len Bias over-dosed on cocaine, which is thought tohave caused his fatal cardiac arrest,two days after being selected in the1986 NBA Draft.
From that one incident, Delwichesaid, the university sustained damagethat has lasted decades. And for thatreason, he said, administrators needto make it clear that student safety isthe institution’s primary concern.
Undergraduate senator Ian Win-
chester said he felt having such vaguelanguage in the protocol could inhibitstudents from calling in times ofemergency.
“It’s not clearly stated that adminis-trators will make a sympathetic effort[to help students],” he said. “That’swhat students are looking for. We wantto know that if this person’s life is indanger and I want to make the call, Ishouldn’t have to think twice about it.”
At yesterday’s meeting, Zackerhanded out samples of his depart-ment’s new promotional campaign toeducate students about the protocolthat read “Friends make the call.” Hesaid he was willing to take the SEC’sconcerns back to the student conductcommittee following the meeting.
Faculty senator Martha Nell Smithsaid while such a campaign is a step inthe right direction, more needs to bedone to let the students know the ad-ministration isn’t the enemy.
“I don’t think [Zacker is] acting self-ishly — there’s just a lot of confusion,”she said. “[Students are] scared, andI’d like to see a proactive policy thatdoesn’t make them so afraid.”
But one exempt staff senator, Associ-ate Director of Resident Life StevePetkas, said the work of the studentconduct committee up to this point hasbeen thorough and that there may bemany unintended consequences ofchanging the language of the protocol.
“In my view, the SCC did a magnifi-cent job of reckoning with [student
concern] and constructing this proto-col,” he said. “In the residence halls, itis working the way it should.”
Although the changes suggested bythe faculty members at the SEC meet-ing did not include the implementationof an official policy, students, it seems,haven’t given up the fight for one.
Last night, the SGA unanimouslyapproved a bill supporting the cre-ation of a concrete Good Samaritanpolicy. This passage marks the thirdyear in a row that such a bill was ap-proved by the body.
Behavioral and social sciences Leg-islator Marcella Morris, who wrote thebill, said the SGA will ultimately have todeal with hammering out the finepoints of the policy, if approved.
“Giving them student opinion isone of the best things we can do,”Morris said. “People would be able tohelp their friends and seek medicalhelp if necessary. These can be life ordeath situations.”
If approved, University PoliceChief David Mitchell, who was at lastnight’s SGA meeting, said he wouldsupport and honor such a policy if itwere implemented.
“If you call to help a fellow student ...you’ll never hear anything from us,”Mitchell said, adding he wants to be in-volved in the decision-making processon this issue.
Staff writer Sarah Meehan contributedto this report. [email protected]
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and campus regulations — although statelaw does not require riders over age 16 towear a helmet.
“I also get anxious about watching stu-dents, faculty, anyone zip around withouthelmets,” said faculty Senator MarthaNell Smith. “I think it’s just a matter oftime before someone bashes their head.Let’s make [the helmet policy] a rule anduse it as an opportunity to educate.”
Sally Koblinsky, the university presi-dent’s chief of staff, said because the cam-pus roads are controlled by the university,administrators have more than enough ju-risdiction to enact a policy that would re-quire helmets.
“The state would certainly support thiskind of regulation if we thought it wouldbe wise to impose it,” she said. “Do wewant to wait until we have another acci-dent, or is it wise to act now?”
But some senators questionedwhether fining motorists would address-the problem.
Graduate Senator Erick Butzlaff sug-gested it would be more beneficial tolaunch an awareness campaign on the im-portance of safe scooter and cycling habits.
“I’m not sure citing is the best way to goabout enforcing it,” undergraduate Sena-tor Ian Winchester said. “It will just makestudents angry about something they ulti-mately have control over.”
Koblinsky said University Police ChiefDavid Mitchell has been in favor of such astrategy and even of setting up a fund forstudents who can’t afford helmets.
Recently, police have been able to crackdown on scooters driving on the sidewalkwith the help of a new ETIX system intheir cruisers, which enables police to seeif a scooter driver has been warned or tick-eted before. Before this system, policehad no way of knowing how many warn-ings a scooter driver had received. Whenpulled over, students could then easilyclaim ignorance, Limansky said.
Mitchell said scooter riders driving onthe sidewalk is the most serious and fre-quently occurring infraction on this cam-pus. It comes with a $70 fine if policechoose to cite a motorist.
But since the police implemented thesystem in May, things have started tochange: Officers have issued 24 citationsto scooter-riders and only seven writtenwarnings since late September.
“If you’ve been warned and this is a sec-ond offense, you’re probably going to becited,” Mitchell said.
Mitchell, a motorcyclist himself, urgedstudents to protect themselves if theychoose to ride.
“I see students wearing helmets, and Iapplaud them,” Mitchell said. “I’ve beenriding for a motorcycle for 40 years. ... It’sthe best protection out there.”
Mitchell said even though scooters areoperated at slower speeds than motorcy-cles, there is still a substantial risk for headtrauma should a crash occur.
“[If you crash,] you’re going to eject,”he said. “The question is where you’regoing to land.”
But university officials are also lookinginto making changes to ensure the safetyof bicyclists, which includes a large num-ber of faculty members and students.
Limansky said bicycles often are hit bycars or hit pedestrians, noting there arehundreds of bicycle-pedestrian crashesevery semester.
He also explained that if a cyclist wantsthe right-of-way given to pedestrians, cy-clists must walk their bicycles across theroad — if they’re riding their bikes, how-ever, they are acting as a vehicle, and aretherefore required to stop and yield be-fore crossing.
If the senate’s campus affairs commit-tee chooses to issue a recommendation tochange university policy, it will be heardand voted on by the senate as a whole be-fore proceeding to the university presi-dent’s desk for approval.
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“I’m not againstunderage drinking. Ithink the spirit ofthe law is moreimportant than theletter of the law.”
MATTHEW BERNSTEINSGA BUSINESS LEGISLATOR
Scooters remain popular among students despite a recent accident.ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK
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The midterm elections willbe held Nov. 2, and there isabout as much excitementon the campus as I have for
going to the dentist. Very few stu-dents I know are voting, and no oneseems alarmed by it. To me, 2008was a year when young peopleeverywhere came out and reallymade a difference. Two years later,we’re back to the same old apathy of2006. Some shrug it off and just sayyoung people are immature, do notcare and will not make an impact.Yet, historically, it has not alwaysbeen this way. What has happenedwith our generation? Why does noone care?
In preparation for writing this col-umn, I started to browse the Univer-sity Archives (which are fantastic, bythe way). I found out that at onepoint students did care, they didvote, and they did protest. I have
seen pictures of McKeldin Mallpacked with students protesting theVietnam War. I have seen pictures ofstudents packing the steps of theMain Administration Building at thebase of the mall to protest. I haveeven read stories of universityalumni who can remember theNational Guard coming to CollegePark and confronting students onthe campus and on Route 1 withclubs and tear gas.
Yet, the history of activism at theuniversity involves far more thanjust protests over the Vietnam War.This university has played an impor-
tant role in the fight for racial equal-ity and civil rights. In 1964, studentsorganized to form a chapter of Stu-dents for a Democratic Society tocombat racial segregation. Later, theBlack Student Union was organizedto speak out against racial inequality.Activists permeated the student gov-ernment, and protests occurred fre-quently over many different types ofinjustices. A memorable protest wasa sit-in held in response to the denialof tenure for two popular professors.
Given this wonderful history ofactivism and involvement, what hashappened to students at this univer-sity? Have we lost our courage tofight against the current as so manybrave students before us have done?Are we all content and happy? Or arewe just ignorant of the issues? I justdo not understand it.
Voting is a right for which peoplehave fought hard for a long time.
How can you just sit back and letyour potential vote go to waste? Wefought a war with the British to havethe right to vote. People riskedeverything for a chance to have a sayin government. But, nowadays, itseems we just don’t care.
I understand voting is somewhatof a pain in the neck. You have to reg-ister, drive a few minutes to the vot-ing center, click a few buttons andthen drive home. And I understandpeople are really busy and don’t havetime to devote out of their days. Iunderstand it — I do. But I think thatnot voting and not being an activecitizen is one of the biggest disap-pointments in our great democracy.Elections matter. Protests matter.Your vote matters.
Cory Kutcher is a senior kinesiologymajor. He can be reached [email protected].
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Nov. 2, citizens 18 years andolder will have the oppor-tunity to cast a ballot in thisyear’s midterm elections.
With all 435 seats of the House ofRepresentatives and 37 of the 100seats of the Senate in contest, thiselection will play a significant role indetermining the composition of the111th U.S. Congress. Many mightdefine this election as a referendumon a Democratically-controlled Con-gress. Others will suggest that it willbe viewed as a mark of approval ordisapproval for President BarackObama. Still others will see it as justanother day of the week (though thisis most unfortunate). Whatever itmay be, the importance of this daycannot be understated.
As the youth of this nation, wehold an incredibly powerful sway indetermining its trajectory. This toocannot be underestimated. We are in
the prime of our lives. Not yet cor-rupted by the drudgery of the 9-to-5workday, not yet made dull by politi-cal correctness and not yet havingsacrificed our creativity for unifor-mity, we are the shapers and not theshaped. Our vote is a necessaryvote. Without it, this country will besteered not by the unbridled enthu-siasm of our best and able minds,but by worn and tired hands. Ourvoice must not be muted by an over-whelmingly aging voting bloc. Whois to say their voice is louder thanmine or yours? Together, let us takehold of the reins of this country. It isours for the taking, not theirs.
If there is anything that can begained from this election, it is that wewill live to see it through. In time, wemight look back on the day when wetook part in something; instead ofcrying about it, we did somethingabout it. Perhaps our work will have
been in vain, but at the very least wegot our hands dirty. Sitting on thesidelines will amount to nothing. Itdoes not matter how lofty your opin-ions may be. Opinions are weightless;they are ever-changing and ever-fleet-ing. No one should take seriously theindividual who moves his lips at aswifter rate than his feet.
I have spoken with many of mypeers who say, “Voting doesn’t matter— it never changes anything.” But bysubscribing to this mindset, you aresubscribing to apathy. An apatheticcitizen is no citizen at all. A citizenwho fails to exercise his or her consti-
tutional rights is failing the country,and by failing your country you arefailing yourself. No one should haveto force it upon us to learn about thecandidates or about the issues. Ourforefathers would be pained to dis-cover such a disinterested youth.
Voting does not constitute an end-point; it is but one step in the demo-cratic process. You cannot simplyslap an American flag on the back ofyour car and call it a day. If none ofthe candidates appeal to you, fine.Vote for yourself as a write-in. Maybethen you will hold yourself account-able. But if you don’t show up Nov. 2,you can count on sitting on the benchfor the next two years. After all,bench players make for great criticsand lousy performers.
Steven Spinello is a junior economicsmajor. He can be reached [email protected].
Election day: Show up and make a difference
Tuesday night, several members of the College Park City Council demon-strated the hostility toward students that has long plagued this city and con-tributed to a deep rift between city and student residents.A proposed amendment to the city charter that would have lowered the
minimum age required for a candidate to run for city council from 21 to 18 —thus giving undergraduates the chance to serve — was struck down in a 6-2vote. Adding insult to injury, District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin then proposed hisown amendment that would have raised the existing age requirement to 25.Catlin’s proposal even came close to passing but wasdefeated when Mayor Andy Fellows broke a 4-4 tie in favorof the age requirement already on the books.
The behavior of council members and the dozen cityresidents who showed up in opposition to the amendmentis indicative of the anti-student sentiment that exists in thiscity. Such feelings are nothing new and show little chanceof vanishing anytime soon. However, the council’s opposi-tion to allowing most undergraduates the opportunity torun — regardless of the bleak chance he or she would win— is very disheartening.
As we have argued before on this editorial page, theamendment, which was proposed by District 4 Councilman Marcus Afzali,would have been a remarkable change to the city charter but would not haveguaranteed a student seat. Any undergraduate trying to secure a seat on the citycouncil would still have a long, hard road ahead of them, as he or she would needto convince longtime city residents, who often have a skewed view of students asdrunks and troublemakers, that he or she was responsible enough for the job.
But that does not mean there aren’t responsible students up for the chal-lenge who have the work ethic, knowledge and passion to serve as a public ser-vant at a young age.
The city council and some residents think otherwise. One resident statedthat all 18-year-olds think about is partying. Another said students aren’t con-cerned about the same things as permanent residents, implying that studentviews are therefore rendered irrelevant. And one resident cited TV personal-
ity Dr. Phil when claiming brains don’t mature until the age 25.And then there is Bob Catlin. This editorial page has long supported Mr. Catlin — endorsing him for the
past two elections. He has often been lauded for his intelligence and strongunderstanding of city issues. But he has also demonstrated an animosity towardstudents, which came to a head at Tuesday’s meeting. When the issue of lower-ing the age requirement was brought up last year, Catlin claimed it would be a“disaster,” saying “incompetent people could be elected more easily because the
people who’d vote for them are uninformed.” He went onto say that he had “never seen a place where studentshave made a difference.”
Catlin’s move to combat Afzali’s proposal with one to raisethe age requirement to 25 may have garnered applausefrom the few city residents in attendance, but it bordered onabsurd — especially considering Afzali was elected as a 24-year-old graduate student with Catlin’s backing.
The fact is students are a part of this community whetherthe city likes it or not. This is a city named College Park, andit is just that: a college town where students make up a largeportion of the population. Although students’ stay here is
often brief in comparison to permanent residents, the views of students on issuessuch as rent control and noise regulation rarely change when a graduating classleaves. As such, it only makes sense that those views be adequately represented bythe governing body that oversees the place students call home during their collegeyears. Many juniors, most seniors and almost all graduate students live in the neigh-borhoods surrounding the university, and they deserve representation.
The anti-student, anti-compromise attitude of some city residents and councilmembers shows an entrenched unwillingness to change. Lowering the agerequirement for council members would not have automatically created a stu-dent seat, nor would it have changed the unlikely possibility of a student mount-ing a successful campaign. But it would have given them the chance.
Unfortunately, the city council thinks that is an opportunity students simplydo not deserve.
Staff editorial
Our ViewThe College Park City Councildisplayed a distressing level of
hostility toward studentswhen it rejected a proposal tolower the age requirement for
city office to 18.
Student activism: Studying our history
SSTTEEVVEENNSSPPIINNEELLLLOO
In light of recent incidents,safety on and off the campushas become a more pressingconcern for many students
at this university. There have beenseveral robberies, including anarmed bank robbery at the inter-section of Knox Road and YaleAvenue and a mugging of a stu-dent near Anne Arundel Hall. Inaddition to the robberies, therewas a burglary in Leonardtown,the residential community that Irepresent in the Student Govern-ment Association.
This pattern is disconcertingbecause it continues to cultivate aclimate of fear and insecurity thatpervades the consciousness ofuniversity students. An incidentearlier this month, the stabbingsthat followed a fight that began inThirsty Turtle, is even more both-ersome because it was essentiallythe culmination of a string ofcrimes that threatened studentsafety. Even worse, it happened indowntown College Park, a placewhere many students go to social-ize with friends and enjoy them-selves. Events such as these mayperhaps discourage studentsfrom venturing downtown to therestaurants and bars that they fre-quent to avoid a potentiallyvolatile situation, inadvertentlyharming businesses that rely onstudent patrons.
It almost goes without sayingthat this problem needs to beaddressed continually. In my pur-suit of potential remedies, I haveturned to these pages andaccounts from administrators ofhow other suspects have beenapprehended in the past.
This past February, I read anarticle that I found to be particu-larly troubling. “Three charged inSouth Campus Commons theft,”detailed the apprehension of threesuspects involved in a theft. Theircaptures were hastened by secu-rity cameras. That article, as wellas an anecdote from Vice Presi-dent for Administrative AffairsAnn Wylie about how a kidnappingwas thwarted by security cameras,convinced me to pursue securitycameras as a measure to mitigateincidents and facilitate arrests.
Bearing this information in mind,I have identified seven locations inLeonardtown as areas with a needfor security cameras to preventcrime and apprehend suspects. Iworked with the university’sDepartment of Public Safety todevelop a proposal for the securitycameras that will eventually be sub-mitted to the Division of Adminis-trative Affairs. Recently, 19 camerashave been installed in Old Townand have helped facilitate thearrests of two suspects in connec-tion with the more troublingcrimes. Because of the images thatwere captured by security camerasand then disseminated, the sus-pects of the stabbings and bankrobbery were arrested.
Despite these transgressions,we can take solace in the fact thatwith care and strategic placementof surveillance, we can decreaseinstances of crime and bring thoseresponsible to justice. I fullyexpect there to be several inci-dents over the course of the aca-demic year, but I am very confi-dent that with more security cam-eras, College Park can be a saferplace for students to live and learn.They have proven to be an excel-lent investment in the past, andthey make the jobs of those whoprotect us, the University Police,easier. Safety can only be attainedthrough vigilance and innovation.
Andre Beasley is a senior historymajor and is the Leonardtownlegislator for the StudentGovernment Association. He can bereached at [email protected].
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BY JON WOLPERSenior staff writer
There’s no place for hate atStephen Colbert’s March toKeep Fear Alive.
That’s why the faux-conserva-tive Comedy Central host madesure to say that Fred Phelps,head of the controversialKansas-based Westboro BaptistChurch, wouldn’t be invited tothe march, which will take placeSaturday from noon to 3 p.m. onthe National Mall.
Instead, in a conference callwith The Diamondback, Col-
bert said he is selling straight-forward, no-frills fear.
“Are you going to getextremely moderate at therally?” he asked, as a counter-point to Jon Stewart’s simultane-ous Rally to Restore Sanity. “No,you’re going get jacked up aboutsomething, and that’s why I’moffering fear as something to getexcited about.”
Stewart’s rally has beenbilled by the man himself as a“million moderate march,”where attendees are encour-aged to bring non-contentioussigns such as “I disagree withyou, but I’m pretty sure you’renot Hitler.” It’s meant as acounter to the political andsocial extremism present inmuch of the country.
The March to Keep FearAlive is Colbert’s version,which aligns with his TV char-acter’s right-wing pundit bent.(Although, when asked, Col-bert responded curtly, “I’m notsure what character you’retalking about.”) In theory, it’smeant to satirize the sameextremism by simply present-ing it loudly.
The two hosts officially com-bined the two rallies into an all-encompassing Rally to RestoreSanity and/or Fear not long ago.
Part of Colbert’s punditimage is his overly inflated ego,which in the past has translatedto the comedian’s name endingup on a NASA treadmill and abald eagle, among other things.For the rally, it’s no different.
“[I want it to be] a genera-tion-defining event,” he said.“That’s all I hope from it —that it defines a generation. Ifthat’s all I achieve with it, thenI’ll be satisfied.”
As over-the-top as the claimsounds, though, there mightbe an inkling of possibilitythere. The Rally to RestoreSanity has more than 223,000people listed to attend on Face-book, and while not all of themwill make it to the event, thenumbers are still telling.
In the past, Colbert has usedhis huge fan base for thingsbesides ego-building. He hasencouraged fans — or, asthey’re known, the members ofColbert Nation — to donate toDonorsChoose.org, a nonprofitorganization that directsdonors’ money to classroomprojects of their choice. Whenall the required money for aproject is raised, the kids sendindividualized thank-you notesto their benefactors.
Colbert serves on the organi-zation’s 16-member nationaladvisory board, which meetsbiannually. The rallies’ effortshave raised more than $465,000of a $500,000 goal.
“He’s so community-oriented,”said Anna Doherty, the market-ing manager for DonorsChoose.“[His efforts] make an absolutelyincredible impact.”
But for the rally, the philan-thropic efforts didn’t even beginwith Colbert. An Aug. 31 post onReddit.com posited the idea for
a rally, and a mid-Septemberpledge, meant to catch Colbert’sinterest by donating to theorganization he was already apart of, raised more than$200,000 in 72 hours.
According to Doherty, themoney raised by Colbert’s cam-paign will account for about 10percent of the organization’syear-long haul.
“It’s an incredible organiza-tion, and it’s so immediate, it’sso clear how it’s working,”said Colbert ofDonorsChoose, in a rare out-of-character moment.
“I’ve loved getting feedbackfrom the kids that are gettingthe donations,” he added.“They’re sending me draw-ings of their greatest fearsfor me to show on air.”
The moment didn’tlast long, though.For all his philan-thropic leanings,Colbertstayed trueto character.
Hisbiggest fear?
“Bears,” hedeadpanned.“They’re god-less killingmachines. Immi-grant bears, maybe?Gay immigrant bears? Is thatpossible? Canadian bears,would be, I guess, the short wayof saying that.”
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pretty good idea of what they’redoing,” Horsmon said. “It’s justa matter of us executing andcapitalizing on our strengthsand their weaknesses.”
“We’re going to know whatthey’re going to be doing,” set-ter Remy McBain said. “It’sgoing to be a lot easier for us topick up on their tendenciesbecause we already know whatthey’ve been doing.”
Using their experiences asmotivation will be one of themost important factors in theTerps’ play. The team lostnearly half of its first 11 confer-ence matches, falling fivetimes to league foes. Playerssaid that with each loss camean added incentive forimproved play going forward.
“We know that there’s someteams we lost to that weshouldn’t have,” middleblocker Lisa Scott said. “Weknow what it’s like to be in thatsituation and lose, so we’rereally motivated to win.”
Against the nine teams theTerps will play twice this sea-son, the Terps went 5-4. TheTerps will need to improve onlast year’s performance in thesecond leg of league play to staycompetitive in the ACC this sea-son. After winning just three oftheir nine rematches last sea-son, the Terps are hoping to
find greater success this year.“I think we’ll do a lot better
this half because we knowwhat every team is doingalready,” McBain said. “We’reready to win because we don’twant to go 5-4 again. We wantto win all of them.”
With just nine matches left inthe season, the Terps understandhow important each one is. If theteam can find a way to play thetype of volleyball it has shown it’scapable of playing, players saidthere’s no limit to the teams theycan knock off their checklist.
“Good teams peak at the rightmoment, and we’re peaking atthe end of the year,” Horsmonsaid. “I think if we play to ourpotential, we can be one of thebest teams in the conference.”
sooner than later.”Anderson does not yet know what those
decisions will be. At California, several var-sity teams were relegated to club level orcut altogether. Anderson declined to com-ment on whether he foresees similaraction being taken at this university.
During Yow’s 16 years in College Park, Terpathletics largely thrived, especially in nonrev-enue sports. At times, however, she clashedwith two of the most prominent figures on thecampus: football coach Ralph Friedgen andmen’s basketball coach Gary Williams.
At his introductory press conference lastmonth, Anderson pledged that coacheswould always know where they stood withhim. In his newly furnished Comcast Cen-ter office last week, Anderson spoke of hisexcitement at the opportunity to work with-every last Terp program.
“I’m very happy with the coaches,” Ander-son said. “I’ve sat down with most all of them
now individually. We have a great bunch ofcoaches, and the program’s been doing great.”
Anderson said he is not set on shakingup the athletics department. Rather, hehopes to lead the department as it cur-rently stands, in a role he likened to that ofan orchestra conductor.
“When you get to the symphony and allthe musicians are accomplished and greatat what they do, and he or she is able tohear the music and have everybody playtogether, there’s this beautiful and wonder-ful sound,” Anderson said. “I get every-body together, I blend all these talents andexpertise, and we do everything that weneed to do to accomplish the mission ofmaking sure we’re having success in theclassroom, on the field and in the commu-nity and for this country.”
Anderson, who also worked for the Caland Oregon State athletics departments,has been roundly praised by numerousTerp coaches. Men’s soccer coach SashoCirovski lauded his enthusiasm, knowledgeand leadership style, calling him “the rightperson to help us get better.”
At the women’s basketball team’s MediaDay last week, coach Brenda Frese praisedAnderson’s compassion after he learnedthat her son was diagnosed with leukemia.
“As soon as Kevin found out, he was oneof the first ones to be able to come down toour team and to our practice and into myoffice and to be able to check in and findout how we were doing,” Frese said. “Wefeel very fortunate in our Maryland familyto be able to have so much support.”
Anderson knows that victories will helpfight the economic funk the department iscurrently mired in. But even with memo-ries of last year’s morbid football campaignand a restrictive financial situation, Ander-son said he won’t have win-loss records ordollars and cents define his tenure.
“I want to win,” Anderson said. “And wewant to win as much, probably even morethan, the next guy. But with what we’re try-ing to sell I think there’s much more, andthose are some of the things that we’regoing to start doing.”
BY JAKOB ENGELKESenior staff writer
For Katie O’Donnell, Saturday’svictory over previously unde-feated North Carolina proved acomplete reversal from her lastouting against the Tar Heels.
The Terrapin field hockey for-ward was held without a pointagainst North Carolina in lastseason’s national championshipgame. The three-time All-Amer-ica selection couldn’t evenmuster a shot, and her line onthe stat sheet consisted of sixstraight zeros. Part of the TarHeels’ game plan was to shutdown O’Donnell, and it worked,as North Carolina won, 3-2, toclaim a sixth national title.
But Saturday, O’Donnell car-ried the newly minted No. 1Terps on her back, scoring thegame’s first two goals and addingan assist on the game-winner.
“It’s not really about last year,”O’Donnell said. “It’s this yearthat counts. 2009 is in the past,but we learn from the past.”
Her three points from Satur-day bring her season total to 70and career total to 278. She ownsthe Terps’ single season recordfor points, recording 87 just a
year ago. With one more regular-season game, plus a possibility ofsix postseason games if the teamreaches the national champi-onship, O’Donnell would need toaverage three points a game totop her old record. The seniorco-captain is averaging 4.12points per game.
O’Donnell was also namedACC Player of the Week for thethird time this year, the confer-ence announced Monday. Dur-ing the team’s two games thispast week, O’Donnell totaledfour goals and two assists, play-ing a part in every goal scoredagainst American and NorthCarolina.
A Terp player has picked upthe award five out of nine weeksthis season. The other two camefrom forward Jill Witmer.
MOVING ON UPFor the second time this sea-
son, the Terps earned the No. 1ranking in the Kookaburra/National Field Hockey CoachesAssociation Division I Poll. Afterholding the spot during thefourth week of the season, theTerps lost to Princeton on Sept.28 and immediately droppedback to No. 2. But with a victory
over the now-No. 2 Tar Heels onSaturday, the Terps jumped backto the top spot with 44 first-placevotes and a total of 1,012 points.
North Carolina, the previousNo. 1, received six first-placevotes and a total of 962 points,while No. 3 Virginia receivedone first-place vote and a total of909 points.
ACC DOMINANCEWith the victory over North
Carolina, the Terps secured theNo. 1 spot in November’s ACCTournament, meaning they willhave a bye on the tournament’sfirst day and play the winner of theNo. 4 vs. No. 5 game on Nov. 5.
“It’s great,” coach MissyMeharg said. “For us, it’simportant for this team tounderstand that you’re good.There comes a certain amountof confidence from beating anyteam in the league.”
The victory over the TarHeels also gave the Terps a sec-ond consecutive undefeated runthrough conference play. Theteam has won 10 straight regu-lar season ACC games, a first inprogram history.
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After forgettable title game, O’Donnell rebounds vs. Tar Heels
Forward Katie O’Donnell scored two goals and had an assist Saturday against North Carolina,which held her scoreless in the 2009 NCAA Championship. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps take No. 1 ranking, claim ACC Tournament’s top seed
them the ball.”It poses an intriguing
matchup for a Terp squadknown for its offensivepotency, with forwards Jas-myne Spencer, Ashley Groveand Sade Ayinde all among theconference’s leaders in goals.
“They have a really athleticbackline, so that can be a littlebit of a challenge for us,”Spencer said. “But we can useour speed to get in behindthem and just trust our skill.We just need a balance.”
But just as the Terps (13-2-1,5-2-1 ACC) can defend — theyhave allowed less than a goalper game this year — the Semi-noles can also score. Theyhave averaged more than twogoals per game, good for sev-enth in the powerful ACC.
“It’s not that they’re low-pressure,” Pensky said of theSeminoles. “They just don’tgive away opportunities.”
While the Terps are nostrangers to top-10 opponents— in addition to the Tar Heels,they have also knocked off Vir-ginia and Boston College, eachof which was ranked in the top10 when they met — this will be
the first time they have faced atop-tier team without the moti-vation of bouncing back from adisappointing effort.
They were coming off a sub-standard draw against Dukewhen they topped the Cava-liers. They were still reelingfrom a loss at Virginia Techwhen they bested the Eagles.And they had just fallen in Win-ston-Salem, N.C., before beat-ing North Carolina.
It’s impossible to trulymeasure whether the Terpsare completely focused onthe conference-leading Semi-noles (12-3-1, 6-1-1), but a wintonight could loom large asthe Terps march toward thepostseason.
With the regular seasonwrapping up after Sunday’smatinee against Miami, theTerps have a chance to enternext week’s ACC Tournamentas the conference’s No. 1 seed.For that to happen, however,wins over the Seminoles andHurricanes are essential.
“The [team] actually set agoal for themselves to win sevengames in the ACC,” Penskysaid. “The fact that we’re goinginto this weekend with thatopportunity is pretty exciting.”
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Forward Jasmyne Spencer, center, sprints after a ball in an Oct.14 game against Clemson. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
the position from scratch himself. “There’s a couple programs
in the country that already havethat, and I don’t want to be sec-ond to anybody,” Cirovski said.“So we had to try to find a way toget it done.”
Last year, Burke’s duties —scheduling the team’s travel andrecruiting trips, organizingequipment, and advertising forCirovski’s summer camp — fellon former assistant coaches RobVartughian and Russell Payne.
With Burke in the mix, thetransitions for both Rowlandand Dello-Russo have beensignificantly simplified.
“It’s massive,” Rowland said.“It’s allowed us to focus more onthe other parts of being assis-tant coaches. I couldn’t imaginedoing all of his job with what
we’ve had to do as well.” While Burke has his niche in
the program, Rowland andDello-Russo already havestarted to grasp their rolesunder Cirovski.
Already pondering the addi-tion of a new staff member,Cirovski lost both of his seven-year assistant coaches in a mat-ter of three days in December.Payne accepted the head coach-ing position at Army, while Var-tughian became goalkeepingcoordinator for the PhiladelphiaUnion, a new Major League Soc-cer team.
Last fall, Cirovski had talkedwith Dello-Russo about potentialopenings on the staff. WhenPayne and Vartughian left,Cirovski jumped for his formerplayer right away.
“Payne was a former captain,great player, great builder of thisprogram, so I immediately wentafter Mike Dello-Russo — a for-
mer player, a Maryland kid thatcould fit that role,” Cirovski said.
He then convinced Rowland,a goalkeeper, to give up his play-ing career to take over Var-tughian’s position.
“Brian ... can be mistaken tobe Rob in a lot of ways,”Cirovski said.
Since starting earlier thisyear, Dello-Russo and Rowlandhave pieced together just whatCirovski expects from them asassistants. When they’reunsure, they call the guys whoused to sit in their same Com-cast Center offices.
“The process continues,”Rowland said. “That’s really howit was. ... We just asked ques-tions and we sort of learned aswe went.”
“I am hands-on in a lot ofareas controlling the whole pro-gram,” Cirovski said, “but I trustthose guys to do their thing justlike the players.”
The transition didn’t gosmoothly at the start, with anemotional 4-3 overtime loss toMichigan State preceding theTerps’ hectic trip to Boston Col-lege. But nearing the end of theregular season, the new-lookstaff is relishing its career in col-lege soccer.
“I think Brian already feelslike he went to school here,”Cirovski said of the University ofMaryland, Baltimore Countygraduate. “And I got an unso-licited text from Matt the otherday telling me it’s the happiesthe’s been his whole life.”
It’s no different for Dello-Russo, whom Cirovski hasknown since he was 12 years oldand said “is like [his] own son.”
“As a whole, this is probably adream job,” Dello-Russo said. “It’sbeen awesome, and hopefully itwill continue to be awesome.”
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“Good teamspeak at the rightmoment, andwe’re peaking atthe end of theyear. ... We canbe one of thebest teams in theconference.”
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ANDERSONfrom page 8
Athletics Director Kevin Anderson will have to battle a difficult economy and a tight department budget for the Terps. ORLANDO URBINA/THE DIAMONDBACK
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SportsHomecoming special
Make sure to check out tomorrow’s edition ofThe Diamondback for a special Homecomingsection on the Terrapin football team.
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Along sideline, new faces lead Terps to familiar places
BY CONOR WALSHStaff writer
As hard as it may be, the Terrapinwomen’s soccer team realizes that it mustput Sunday’s historic win over No. 4North Carolina behind it.
The Terps cannot afford to dwell on thepast tonight, when they are set to host asimilarly dangerous opponent in No. 9Florida State.
The good news for the No. 5 Terps,however, is that the team’s disappointing2-1 loss against Wake Forest just threedays before knocking off the Tar Heelsseems to be keeping them grounded.
“I think our confidence is pretty goodright now,” defender Skyy Anderson said.“After the Wake loss, we talked about howwe kind of were on our high horse. Wejust thought we were on top of the worldand got a little complacent. ... We’re prettylevel-headed right now.”
To capitalize on the momentumgained after Sunday’s win, the Terps willhave to do what only three ACC teamshave been able to this season: score onthe Seminoles.
Florida State boasts the ACC’s stingiestdefense and, having allowed only ninegoals all season, holds the nation’s 10th-best goals-against average.
“As a team, they’re very methodical,”coach Brian Pensky said. “They’re verywell organized. They tend to let theiropponents’ backs have the ball a lot. Theyjust try to bait you into eventually giving
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BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer
When the Terrapin men’s soc-cer team arrived in Boston onSept. 9 for its first ACC clash ofthe season, coach Sasho Cirovskiknew the team already had trou-ble even before facing BostonCollege — the Terps had no wayof getting there.
He quickly turned his atten-tion to Matt Burke, the team’s
new director of soccer opera-tions, who was in charge of theteam’s travel plans. It was hisfirst road trip with the team, andit showed.
“Everything was great untilwe got to Boston,” Burke said.“We thought the rental-car linewould go a lot faster than it did.It ended up taking an hour, andwe didn’t get what we wanted,and then we had to figure outhow to get to the hotel. I had
never been to Boston, so I was ina different world.”
It’s just one of the bumps theNo. 3 Terps have felt with a com-pletely new staff that not onlyincludes Burke but also first-yearassistants Brian Rowland andMichael Dello-Russo. For a teamthat returned all but two startersthis season, the three additionsto the sideline were an unusualfacelift. Still, it hasn’t changedmuch this year for the Terps,
who own a seven-game winningstreak heading into tomorrow’stilt against No. 11 Virginia.
“Each coach has a differentstyle, and it carries over off thefield, and that’s what I getexposed to more,” Burke said.“Sash is great, and he deals withadversity. If something comes upunexpected, we deal with it andmove it. But he’s always keepingme humble, too.”
Burke’s position is a new, but
rapidly growing, one in collegesoccer. Cirovski knew how muchthe duties of day-to-day opera-tions weighed on his past assis-tants and made sure to bring in athird staff member. With nofinancial backing from the athlet-ics department, Cirovskisolicited three- and four-yeardonation pledges from theteam’s benefactors and created
BY JOSH VITALEStaff writer
Once you beat a team,there’s no reason to lose tothem again.
It’s an ambitious motto forthe Terrapin volleyball team tohave for the rest of its season,but it’s one coach TimHorsmon preaches ferventlynonetheless.
All year, Horsmon has kept achecklist for the season. When-ever the Terps beat an oppo-nent, they check it off their listand move on to the next one.Losing to a team they’vealready beaten, Horsmon said,shouldn’t be an option.
“It’s something that I’vealways believed in,” Horsmonsaid. “Once you beat a teamand figure out how to beat
them, it’s a team you should putbehind you. ... You want to putthem in the rearview mirrorand keep them there.”
Just past the midway point ofconference play, the Terps willbegin a stretch of ACC play thatpits them in rematches againstprevious opponents. Stickingto Horsmon’s sentiment couldmake or break their season.
Having already faced all nineof their remaining regular-sea-son opponents, the Terps haveplenty of experience to gleanfrom. To find success,Horsmon and the team believethey must learn from whatthey’ve seen and capitalize onwhat they know.
“We watch so much video ofthese teams, so we have a
At just past the midpoint of their ACC season, the Terpshave begun preparing for rematches against nine of their 11league opponents. PHOTO BY ROBERT MANG FOR THE DIAMONDBACK
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In rematches, Terpswill look to the pastTeam hoping to add to ‘checklist’
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Coach Sasho Cirovski has abrand-new staff this year.FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACKsee ASSISTANTS, page 7
BY JEREMY SCHNEIDERStaff writer
Less than two years ago, KevinAnderson had just signed a contractextension to remain Army’s athleticsdirector. He’d also just hired RichEllerson to be the school’s footballcoach, a signing he viewed as the lastmajor component in helping theBlack Knights shed their well-earnedreputation as an annual also-ran.
His job, it seemed, was nearly done.
“Basically,” Anderson said, “I couldhave probably could have playedmore golf if I had stayed at Army.”
But Anderson, 55, decided againstreveling in his restoration and hit-ting the links, instead choosing toleave West Point, N.Y., to becomethis university’s athletics directorafter Debbie Yow left for the samepost at N.C. State this summer.
After being formally introduced inSeptember and officially taking overthe Terps’ 27-sport, $55 million athletics
department Oct. 1, Anderson acknowl-edged that he has much bigger issues inhis new position than his handicap.
Questions about the direction of afootball team that went 2-10 last sea-son loom ominously over the pro-gram. Vulgar student conduct atsporting events has upset alumni andbecome intertwined with the univer-sity’s image. Even the ACC regularseason co-champion men’s basketballprogram is struggling with ticket sales.
But there’s one issue that stands
above all on Anderson’s docket: theathletics department’s budget.
“I think our biggest challenge nowis financially and where we are withthe budget, the revenue we’re bring-ing in. It’s challenging to have 27sports compete at the level we wantto,” Anderson said in an interviewlast week. “So I mean, there aregoing to be some decisions that areprobably going to have to be made
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