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Our 102ND Year, No. 108THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERTuesday, March 13, 2012
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BY ERIN EGAN AND QUINN KELLEYSenior staff writers
Although University Police arresteda 19-year-old student Sunday whoallegedly threatened to go on a “shoot-ing rampage,” the department waitedalmost 12 hours to email studentsabout the incident — a strategic move,officers said, to ensure campuswide
panic did not ensue. Police arrested Oakland Hall resi-
dent Alexander Song outside of Cum-berland Hall at 10:06 a.m. Sunday, afterreceiving tips he posted “stay awayfrom the Mall tomorrow at 1:30” and“hopefully I kill enough people tomake it to national news,” on websitesOmegle — an anonymous text andvideo chatting site — and Reddit.
University Police Chief DavidMitchell held a press conference yes-terday at Ritchie Coliseum to answerany lingering questions from theweekend’s incident — police officialssaid they received numerous callsSunday and Monday from concernedstudents, parents and community
U. Police say threat is over
University Police Chief David Mitchell held a press conference yesterday toanswer questions about Sunday’s arrest. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACKsee THREAT, page 7
Officers intentionally waited to send alert about student’s arrest
BY CHAD SINCLAIRStaff writer
Although university administratorspledged to take steps to improve work-place conditions for staff members —including offering more English as aSecond Language and computer skillsclasses — activists say they have seenlittle progress the last few months.
This past September, a HumanResources Working Group submitted a62-page report addressing allegationsof workplace abuse that arose in severaluniversity departments last year. Thecommittee made several recommenda-tions to address these issues; however,six months after the report’s release,the university’s ESOL classes have notbeen updated and no computer classeshave been implemented.
Human Resources Director DaleAnderson said university officials arecurrently working to “focus” the ESOLclasses and develop a curriculum forthe computer courses, which he saidwill most likely begin sometime afterspring break.
However, Solomon Comissiong —
the president of the Black Faculty andStaff Association — said he is not will-ing to wait for the university to takeaction and has developed his own com-mittee of five volunteers to begin teach-ing computer programs to universityemployees within the next few weeks.
Comissiong said he spoke with atleast nine Hispanic workers last weekwho said they had not been notifiedwhen the new ESOL or computerclasses will begin. Many of the workers,he said, are eager to learn the skills.
“Last week I spoke with an Afro-Cuban housekeeper who was veryadamant that if and when she is noti-fied of these classes actually beingoffered, she said that she wants to takeadvantage of them to have an opportu-nity to become [promotable],” he said.
Comissiong noted he plans to addthree to five more members to hiscommittee, adding he would considerscaling back if and when administra-tors follow through on their promise.
“If I’m pleasantly surprised that a massmemorandum is physically distributed
Some say admin slow toaddress workplace issues
see WORKPLACE, page 2
Officials defend negotiations with unionSystem leaders say ‘meet and confer’ deal in the works for years
BY LAURA BLASEYStaff writer
Although graduate students weresurprised last week when the Univer-sity System of Maryland negotiated adeal with Gov. Martin O’Malley to killlegislation granting graduate students’collective bargaining rights, systemofficials said the agreement has beenin the works for years.
On Thursday, graduate studentswere set to testify before the state Sen-
ate Finance Committee in favor of theHigher Education Workforce EquityAct — a bill introduced last month bySen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery)and Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Mont-gomery) that would give adjunct fac-ulty, tenure-track faculty members andgraduate assistants the long-soughtafter right to unionize.
However, Raskin pulled the legisla-tion before the hearing because thesystem agreed to instead implementa “meet and confer” process —
enabling graduate students andadjunct faculty to employ union rep-resentation during meetings withadministrators.
Graduate Student GovernmentPresident Anna Bedford said graduatestudents were left out of negotiationsbetween the system, O’Malley and theAmerican Federation of Teachers —the union that will presumably repre-sent graduate students, since it has
see UNION, page 2
TWO-SEED SMILES
Guard Laurin Mincy smiles as she sits next to Terrapins women’sbasketball coach Brenda Frese during last night’s unveiling of theNCAA Tournament bracket. The Terps were named a No. 2 seedin the Raleigh region and will play Navy on Saturday at ComcastCenter. For more, check out page 8. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY NICK FOLEYStaff writer
For those in fierce pursuit of falafel or in dire need of adumpling, five new restaurants will soon open their doorswithin walking distance of the campus, catering to a widevariety of culinary tastes.
The owners of a Mediterranean eatery, a hot dog shop, aMiami-based Mexican chain and two new Asian restau-rants have signed leases in old buildings lining Route 1 andnew spaces in The Varsity apartment complex, accordingto College Park Economic Development CoordinatorMichael Stiefvater.
“Each place kind of has their own style,” Stiefvater said.“They’re all excited to be near the university.”
Roti Mediterranean Grill, which is slated to open in one ofThe Varsity’s retail spaces Aug. 1, will feature falafel, sand-wiches, salads and Mediterranean dishes. Peter Nolan, therestaurant’s spokesman, said the Chicago-based eatery
TRADINGSPACES
Five new restaurants set to openwithin walking distance of campus
see RESTAURANTS, page 2
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the longest history of activityat the university. AlthoughAFT representatives werebrought in late last week as theprospect of a deal becamemore realistic, system lobbyistP.J. Hogan said most negotia-tions have been occurring be-tween O’Malley and the sys-tem for the last year and a half.
“[Being an assistant] is partof the educational experiencefor graduate students, andthere is a wide range of adjunctfaculty; some only teach oneclass and others are full time,”said Hogan. “Neither are per-manent [faculty members],and we decided a meet-and-confer arrangement was muchmore appropriate.”
Under meet and confer,both constituents can createindependent bodies repre-sented by a union duringmeetings with administra-tors, but administrators stillaren’t obligated to negotiateworking terms with the bod-ies. Although the graduate as-sistants and adjuncts stillaren’t technically union mem-bers, having union represen-tation in these meetings willhelp their causes greatly, AFTrepresentatives said.
Although graduate studentsare upset they weren’t includedin negotiations for such aprocess — which did not ex-tend to tenure-track facultymembers meet-and-confer priv-ileges — Hogan said their con-cerns were already examinedby a system-wide task force ongraduate students and adjunct
faculty two years ago.“A lot of what we discussed
[during meet-and-confer negoti-ations] and the issues that wereraised came from that,” he said.
Hogan added tenure-trackfaculty were not included be-cause they are considered per-manent employees. AFT offi-cials had tried to negotiatetenure-track faculty into theagreement but said system offi-cials refused, arguing they arerepresented sufficiently in theUniversity Senate.
Bedford said all constituentsshould have had a seat at the ne-gotiating table.
“We’re more upset by theprocess than by the output, andwe’re definitely unhappy aboutbeing left out,” she said. “… It’sproblematic that these deci-sions were made by groups thatweren’t consulting the effectedconstituencies.”
Bedford said the GSG willdiscuss whether to use themeet-and-confer process at itsmeeting Friday and, if it de-cides to, which union it wouldwant to represent them. Gradu-ate assistants and adjunct fac-ulty members who employmeet and confer can pay dueson a voluntary basis.
AFT officials said meet andconfer now empowers theseconstituents in a new way.
“Graduate students and ad-junct faculty didn’t have manyrights before and now we’relooking towards our nextsteps,” AFT Maryland organiz-er Todd Reynolds said. “…Over the spring, we will contin-ue to organize and build a col-lective of graduate students.”
already opened a successful lo-cation near the George Wash-ington University campus and iswell prepared to cater to the Col-lege Park crowd.
“College students are prettyworldly eaters, and our experienceat GW shows that students loveMediterranean food,” Nolan said.“We are quick and affordable,which are musts for students.”
Several doors down, ChiDo-gO’s — a Washington-basedhot dog eatery — is scheduledto fill another space in The Var-sity, offering a menu of Viennabeef hot dogs and Italian beefsandwiches. While the busi-ness was scheduled to debut inFebruary, it has yet to open itsdoors. Stiefvater said therestaurant should open“maybe sometime before theend of the school year.”
A ChiDogO’s representa-tive could not be reached forcomment.
Across from The Varsityheading down Navahoe Street,Irene Song, owner of HanamiJapanese Restaurant, will unveilher second Asian eatery in theCampus Village Shopping Cen-ter. Pho D’Lite will cater to fansof pho — a Vietnamese beef orchicken noodle soup — and it isslated to open in April or May,Stiefvater said.
He added that Song, whocould not be reached for com-ment, serves as a testament toother local entrepreneurs of thecity’s stabilized economy.
“That’s a good sign that shewould want to open a secondrestaurant,” Stiefvater said.
“We’ll definitely be there to en-courage people to eat there andtry to give them as much sup-port as we can.”
Heading down Route 1 onto the7400 block, Lime Fresh MexicanGrill will occupy the space previ-ously leased by California Tortilla,joining other popular Mexicanfood chains Chipotle and AustinGrill Express with an emphasis on“a lot of fresh, healthy ingredi-ents,” Stiefvater said.
“It’s interesting that they de-cided to move into that space,”he said. “Perhaps they’re offer-ing something different fromthe other guys.”
The Miami-based chain fea-tures 50 different hot sauce vari-eties and a homemade salsa bar,
with the average meal costingabout $8, according to LimeFresh PR and Marketing Man-ager Melissa Trimp.
Stiefvater said owners havenot yet set an opening date butwill begin renovations soon.
Several blocks farther down-town in the Terrapin Stationstrip at 7313 Baltimore Ave.,District Dumpling, slated toopen in May, will offer a menuheavily devoted to the Asian del-icacy, making it the first of itskind in the city.
“It looks like the only placethat’s strictly dumplings,” Stief-vater said. “There’s always an-other business that is ready totry something different.”
Several students, including
junior elementary educationmajor Kim Collier, said despitethe crop of restaurants comingto the city, the area is still miss-ing a “good breakfast place.”
“The only place to go to isIHOP,” Collier said. “I know inD.C., there are a lot of brunchplaces, and I feel like that’d bereally popular on the week-ends [here].”
Collier said while she appreci-ates having more options close toher apartment building, Univer-sity View, some offerings are toopeculiar for her tastes.
“I mean, I’m probably not goingto go to a hot dog specialty place,”Collier said. “Just not my thing.”
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UNIONfrom page 1
into the hands of employeessaying that computer andESOL courses are offered dur-ing work hours and are offeredto everyone without penalty toattend, then it will be easy topull back our committee,”Comissiong said. “Until we seesomething tangible, all of theseproblems will persist.”
Anderson said officials areworking to expand course
offerings for employees.The university currently
offers two elementary and twointermediate ESOL classes,Anderson said, because offi-cials have only started to offerthe classes to employees withinthe last few years — the pro-gram was discontinued sixyears ago — it will take timebefore they figure out the bestmeans to improve them.
“As time goes on we will getan opportunity [to makeimprovements],” Andersonsaid. “We are now in a position
that we are following the pro-grams and we are determininghow effective each of the pro-grams are and what needs tobe done to make them moreeffective. We are going to tryto focus the [ESOL] classeswith many of the workplaceexamples that can make[workers] more effective,faster and quicker.”
He added the computercourses are nearly ready to beimplemented.
“I can say we have developedthe “criteria” for the basic com-
puter literacy and developmentclass. It will cover everythingfrom learning how to turn on acomputer to learning how tolook up records,” he said. “Weknow who these people are andwe will be contacting them.”
In response to the allegedabuse by managers, Andersonsaid administrators are “com-mitted to changing the cul-ture” of work environmentson campus.
“I will take action immedi-ately if [employees] come tome,” Anderson said. “If they
feel like they are not getting afair hearing within their organi-zation, they can feel that theycan come to me or talk directlyto [Facilities ManagementDirector] Carlo Colella — he isanxious to hear from employ-ees and will absolutely assurethem of no reprisals.”
Comissiong said whileAnderson’s stance is a goodstart, he has yet to see evi-dence that anything will bedone to address specific prob-lems. He added Anderson metwith two Hispanic employees
and an interpreter severalmonths ago to discuss issuesin the workplace and said oneof those employees continuesto face those issues.
“I’d be the first one pattingthe university on the back ifthey had fixed this,” Comis-siong said. “The longer thisback and forth about what isoffered and what is not goeson, it looks like someone[within the university] is nottelling us the truth.”
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May is swiftly approaching.For us seniors that ulti-mately means graduation,which, of course, means
crowding into Comcast Center for hoursduring an air condition-deprived ceremo-ny and falling victim to what’s becomingan annual tradition — lame commence-ment speakers.
In the past, the university has reallyswung and missed on what it perceives tobe provocative speakers. Sure, they man-aged to bring in then-Maryland Gov. Par-ris Glendening. And there was the Googleguy, Sergey Brin. But those were about adecade ago. Now it just feels like it’s Satur-day night — the weekend is almost overand they’re just lowering their standards— settling, if you will. In 2001, the winterclass enjoyed David Satcher, the 16th sur-geon general. Because everybody want-ed to get that classic “smoking is bad foryou, kids” speech before they graduated.A year and a half later, there were the wisewords of Franklin Raines, chairman andCEO of Fannie Mae. I’m sure his advicewas impeccable.
The biggest decline occurred between2004 and 2007, when the university ap-peared especially fond of politicians. Yes,
politicians are always perfect role models.In 2004, Department of Homeland Securi-ty Secretary Tom Ridge made an appear-ance. He was a pioneer, the first to headthat department. But where was his per-severance? He quit after four years … toserve on the board of Home Depot. Comeon, Tom, the rest of the country toleratedGeorge W. Bush for eight years; we allcouldn’t just quit our jobs and hide behindthe fertilizer.
The politician era was followed by theclose-but-no-cigar age, which we current-ly reside in. ESPN baseball analyst anduniversity alumnus Tim Kurkjian spokeat the winter 2007 commencement.When I want the latest MLB news aroundthe July 31 trade deadline, or unrivaled in-sight for my fantasy team, I tune in toKurkjian on Baseball Tonight. But whenI’m looking for inspiration before I em-bark into the real world, are you going totell me one National League scout toldyou my future might be bright?
The same goes for DeMaurice Smith,the executive director of the NFL PlayersAssociation, who spoke at last spring’scommencement. He was a prominent fig-ure in a high-profile legal battle. Thenagain, he’s one of the guys who nearly
cost me a football season. No matter whathe would’ve said, I would’ve had morelockout questions. For one, “How dareyou?” Plus, he’s a Wahoo.
The university had the right idea thelast few years, but it’s forgetting a criticalaspect: The commencement speakermust be an inspirational “somebody” whowill grasp us seniors with his or her anec-dotes and launch us into the world withuncanny advice.
I know just the guy: When I graduatethis May, I’d like Ray Lewis to be my com-mencement speaker. Lewis has the threemain ingredients that would lead to a leg-endary speech. There’s the resume: Balti-more Ravens linebacker for 16 seasons.Thirteen Pro Bowls appearances. SuperBowl MVP. Future Hall of Famer. Andsoon enough, his statue will stand along-side Johnny Unitas’.
Second, he’s a preacher: Lewis gave
an impassioned speech after the Ravenslost on a missed field goal to the NewEngland Patriots in January’s AFCchampionship game. He’s the only guywho can turn a heartbreaking loss into anew chapter for his team. I once heardhim liken Cleveland Browns runningback Peyton Hillis to a blind cat. And hetreats a Week 3 matchup against theJacksonville Jaguars like it’s the SuperBowl — that’s impressive.
And finally, there’s heart: No. 52 contin-ues to suit up for every game, every prac-tice. After 16 NFL seasons, he’s still allover the field, delivering blows left andright. Lewis often refers to his faith. It’shis motivation. It’s his fuel to be honest.It’s his reason for optimism. It’s why he’sas energetic now as he was a decade ago.
Put Lewis behind the podium in May,and I’ll make a Joe Namath-like guaran-tee: Everyone in attendance will rise totheir feet. Hope will be contagious. Inspi-ration will be inevitable. And if not, thereshould at least be an awesome pickupfootball game afterward.
Sam Spiegelman is a senior journalismmajor. He can be reached [email protected].
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THE DIAMONDBACK LAUREN REDDINGEDITOR IN CHIEF
A fter learning of a potential threat to the university community Saturday night,the response from University Police was — by almost all accounts — an un-equivocal success. Officers worked with Office of Information Technologyofficials to track down the student who made online comments threatening a
“shooting rampage [Sunday] on campus” and apprehended Alexander Song well be-fore 1:30 p.m., when Song had posted he would “hopefully … kill enough people tomake it to national news.”
When news of the situation broke Sunday night, the firstresponse from those on and off the campus was perhapssome combination of surprise and relief: Surprise that thisuniversity could have been the scene of violence similar to the2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, and relief that University Po-lice responded to the threat in a manner that ensured thesafety of the university community.
But after taking time to commend the department for itsswift action in response to the potential threat — which, itseems, was nothing more than an empty threat made by astressed-out student — this editorial board is left wondering:Why did it take University Police so long to inform the com-munity of this incident?
Police say they apprehended Song about 10 a.m. Sunday, but the department didn’tpost a press release until about 8:55 p.m. Officials tweeted a link to the release at 9:54 p.m.,then sent a crime alert to the university community about 11:30 p.m. A statement fromuniversity President Wallace Loh gives two reasons for not issuing a campus alert duringthe nearly 11-hour period. First, Loh states “detectives were actively tracking the stu-dent’s whereabouts throughout the morning and a public alert might have disruptedthose efforts before they were able to take him into custody.” It’s understandable that of-ficials were concerned about issuing an alert before apprehending Song — officersshould do whatever is necessary to track him down. But that doesn’t address the periodafter he was located, which leaves Loh’s second claim that “any threat to [the] communi-ty was mitigated once the student was taken into custody at approximately 10 am” as theexplanation for not alerting the campus until nearly 11 hours after resolving the situation.
Basically, Loh claims there wasn’t an actual threat once Song was taken into custody,
and therefore informing students of the matter wasn’t particularly important. We beg todiffer. Within minutes of posting the first article about the incident, visits to The Dia-mondback’s website increased 10-fold. Hundreds of media outlets across the countryhave covered the story since Sunday night, and University Police Chief David Mitchellheld a press conference yesterday to answer questions about the incident. Meanwhile,students complained about hearing of the situation via text messages from concerned
parents, and one student even tweeted an important inquiry toLoh: “Is it safe to go on campus tomorrow[?]” In response toother tweets about the university’s failure of communication,Loh promised to “meet with all appropriate campus units to re-view safety and communications procedures.”
Given the university’s recent track record of failed communi-cation, it seems more than a “review” is in order. Students mayrecall the tornado false alarm last fall, when the university wascriticized for sending emergency alerts about an impendingtornado — despite National Weather Service confirmation thatno such tornado existed (officials stood by their decision, citinginformation received from the AccuWeather service). After anexplosion in the chemistry building injured two students last
September, this editorial board questioned the inefficiencies and glitches in the univer-sity’s alert system, which led to uneven notification of students. In a published response,Mitchell wrote, in part, “the community expects and deserves prompt and timely notifi-cation in the event of an emergency … our notifications could have and should havebeen timelier.”
If the claim that students were never actually in danger is true, why not alert thecommunity anyway? University Police did great work to apprehend Song, then spentthe rest of the day letting the issue simmer until it boiled over to Facebook and mediaoutlets Sunday night. Officials could have avoided confusion and fear — especially onthe part of students and parents — by sending a campuswide alert sooner than 11hours after the incident.
Loh and University Police are always repeating the slogan, “If you see something …say something.” But that’s a two-way street — if officials apprehend a student threaten-ing a shooting rampage on McKeldin Mall, they need to tell the community about it.
Staff editorial
Our ViewUniversity Police shouldn’t
have waited so long toinform the campus after
apprehending the studentaccused of threatening a
shooting rampage.
Vegetarianism: A considerable decision
Last week, the SGA unani-mously voted to amend itsconstitution. With such avote, the existing Student
Government Association constitu-tion will hopefully be replaced by amore appropriate, updated version.Of course, one question remains:“Why is the SGA attempting to alterits constitution?”
At the end of last semester, theSGA passed a piece of legislation thatwould rename the Senior Vice Presi-dent position to Vice President of Stu-dent Affairs. With the changing of theposition title, it became necessary toamend the constitution to reflect thesame change. This amendment pro-vided the initial impetus to re-evaluatethe constitution.
As the Constitution and By-lawsCommittee began updating the docu-ment, one flaw became clear: The pur-pose of a constitution is to describethe mission of an organization andoutline its basic structure, while by-laws detail the intricate structure andrules of the organization. The SGA’sconstitution addresses certain topicsthat do not belong there, whichinhibits the organization’s ability tofunction properly. The existing consti-tution delves too deep into meticuloussubjects normally reserved for the by-laws. One intention of the revisionwas to eliminate such overlap.
One of the principal responsibilitiesof the Constitution and By-laws Com-mittee is “to update and maintain theConstitution, By-laws, and other Gov-erning Documents of the SGA.”Although the committee reviews andadapts the by-laws and other docu-ments on a regular basis, the constitu-tion had not been reviewed andamended since 2007. As a result, thisseemed to be a perfect opportunity toreflect on the current constitution andrevise it to ensure it truly representsthe nature and function of the SGA.
One of the most significantamendments to the constitution willbe to the preamble. Although thepresent preamble imitates the U.S.Constitution, the language used isdifficult to relate to and the preambledoes not accurately reflect the pur-pose of the SGA. The preamble wasrewritten to more accurately reflectthe current purpose of the SGA, aswell as its future direction.
Another major change is theremoval of references to specific posi-tions held by members of the execu-tive board, with the exception of thepresident. This allows future adminis-trations to adjust the different vicepresidential positions as necessary.
The current constitutionincludes sections enumerating thepowers and duties of the executiveand judicial branches of the SGA.However, no such section exists forthe legislative branch, and thusone was composed.
The last major amendments tothe constitution regard the gover-nance board. These include modify-ing the length of a governanceboard term to conclude at the end ofthe legislative year, requiring major-ity votes to render decisions (ratherthan unanimously, as it had been)and moving the power to appointthe chief justice from the presidentto a majority vote of the governanceboard members.
To view all of the amendments,please visit www.mdsga.com or visitthe SGA Office in room 0209J in theStudent Involvement Suite in StampStudent Union. The SGA is also inter-ested in obtaining feedback regard-ing the pending amendments and willbe holding a town hall meeting afterspring break.
Landon Greer is the StudentGovernment Association Legislativecoordinator and parliamentarian, aswell as chairman of the Constitutionand By-laws Committee. He can bereached at [email protected].
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I ’m a vegetarian. Uh-oh. Learnedreaders of The Diamondbackknow whenever a column beginswith a declarative statement of
identity (i.e. “I am something or other”),the ensuing 500-600 words are eithergoing to be tear-jerking journeys into thepersonal life of a columnist facing adver-sarial life problems or forceful — oftengenerically rendered — accounts of “posi-tive marginality” (making a marginal trait— like queerness — work to one’s advan-tage rather than allowing social pressureto stymie one’s intrapersonal growth).
I’m not knocking the formula. Some ofthose columns are among the best pub-lished. I’m saying it’s a good trick and I’mabout to jack it.
I haven’t eaten meat in two months. Be-fore the VegTerps readership startsgoing bananas, I want to make clear that,for me, vegetarianism is a personal deci-sion, and I would never encourage any-one to stop eating meat unless he or she
really wanted to. As a matter of fact, in thepast two months, although I haven’t eatenmeat, I’ve helped some mageirocophobicfriends cook it.
So why did I become a vegetarian? Likemany contemporary Americans, I recog-nize that my everyday decisions havebroader material implications in otherparts of the world. Vegetarianism affectsmuch more than one’s personal health —it affects the environment, too.
Raising cattle requires land and some-times necessitates clearing parts offorests. Cattle also release a lot ofmethane. A June 6, 2007 New York Timesarticle stated, “The animals’ burps, the ni-
trous oxide gases from their decompos-ing manure and other factors, includingthe energy needed to store and transportmeat, were responsible for 18 percent ofgreenhouse gas emissions — more thanthe entire transportation sector.” By re-fraining from meat consumption, vegetar-ians as a group can curtail — on a verysmall but important scale — some of theenvironmental damage caused by theraising of cattle.
Thus, my decision to become a vege-tarian, oddly, had nothing to do with myhealth and everything to do with my per-sonal investment in environmental jus-tice. It was based on a larger ideology thatsays, “As a member of the global econo-my, your seemingly harmless consump-tive decisions may facilitate economic, so-cial, political and environmental oppres-sion elsewhere.” In a country where virtu-ally everything comes from “elsewhere,”almost every purchase we make affectssomeone or something outside of the
United States’ geopolitical borders.We can all probably agree that destruc-
tive corporate externalities, environmen-tal racism, excessive waste and green-house gas emissions are bad. Rarely,however, do we make lifestyle changesbased on the consequences our decisionshave on people, environments and locali-ties in other parts of the world.
Without an immediate reference pointconnecting us to the indirect effects of ourconsumption — the 12-year-old girl whosewed your shirt showing up at yourdorm and begging you to stop purchasingfrom your favorite clothing company —many of us, myself included, can sidestepa sense of responsibility.
With all of that said, if you want to eatspaghetti with Bolognese sauce, go for it.I’ll even help you cook it.
Michael Casiano is a senior Americanstudies and English major. He can bereached at [email protected].
CCAASSIIAANNOO
MMIICCHHAAEELL
Securing an all-star commencement speaker
Born today, you have variedand diverse interests, andthey are likely to compel you
to explore all manner of situationsthat are new, unusual and ulti-mately highly rewarding. You aredriven to pursue that which is rightfor you, and you will steer clear ofthat which does not speak to you insome way.
You can be a fierce competitor,but you never seem to lose yoursense of fun even when you arebattling hard against a rival whoreally puts you to the test. Whilewinning is, of course, your pre-ferred outcome, you can be agraceful loser — on those rare oc-casions when you do not come infirst.
Also born on this date are:EmileHirsch, actor; Rachael Bella, ac-tress; Will Clark, baseball player;Adam Clayton, musician; Dana De-lany, actress; William H. Macy,actor; Neil Sedaka, singer, song-writer,musician;William Casey,CIAdirector; L. Ron Hubbard, Scientol-ogy founder; Percival Lowell, as-tronomer.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
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LCD Soundsystem wasdance-punk. When JamesMurphy retired the monikerin 2011, we were grieving notonly the death of a legendaryartist at its white-hot peak, buta genre as well.
Sounds From Nowheresville,the new record from The TingTings, is vapid indie rock at itsworst. Despite passing catchi-ness, there is nothing exten-sive to linger on. Instead, thealbum reminds us why dance-punk went under after Mur-phy decided to stow away hiscowbell, drumsticks and blackstage tuxedo and call it a day.
Even worse than the sillyhomage are the lyrics, whichresemble chants from an ele-mentary school playground.“Liar liar jump in the fire,”shouts Katie White on “HitMe Down Sonny,” with all theturbulent passion of an 8-year-old girl who just got herbrand new Bratz doll thrownin the mud.
The low point comes with“Give It Back,” which at-tempts to painstakinglyrewrite every aspect of LCDSoundsystem’s “North Ameri-can Scum,” from the mid-tempo drumbeat to the hand-claps to the crunchy guitars.It’s all there, just in less effec-tive, cop-out form.
If there’s anything remote-ly forgivable about the album,it’s brevity. Clocking in atonly 34 minutes, no soundcomes across as too out-landishly irritating, eventhough the bearability factoris putridly low.
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REVIEW | THE TING TINGS
TING THINGSDance-punk duo doesn’t get
anything right on newest albumThe Velvet Underground & Nico is not
only the first record to dabble in near-inscrutable avant garde-isms; it’s also thebest. It opened my eyes to the primaleuphoria that is unabashed noise, and I amforever changed by it.
It’s sometimes tough to fathom that thisrecord came out in 1967, a year where theVietnam War was in full throttle, The Godfa-ther hadn’t yet been released and The Beat-les were still together. Music abided by astrict code of pervasive niceness, one thatremained intact through the psychedelicera. No one had the balls to challenge thepre-existing order of artistic normalcy.
Such was the case until a young bandteamed up with the notoriously self-promot-ing Andy Warhol and a chanteuse namedNico to create a record of genuine New YorkCity sleaze that accidentally spawned agenre (punk) and a form of artistic expres-sion (avant-gardism), all while kicking inor-dinate amounts of ass, even if the world was-n’t quite ready for it yet.
Even to this date, the album soundsfresh and immediate. Listen to the wayJohn Cale’s strings swell under Lou Reed’svoice on “Venus In Furs,” or how MaureenTucker frantically loses pace of her drum-ming tempo on “Heroin” like an out-of-con-trol freight train.
Or listen to Nico’s melancholic longingfor a future of happiness in a sad, sullenworld on “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” thedefinitive “All My Friends” of the ‘60s.
These moments of shameless beauty arerelevant and vital in any musical era. Butthe fact that they came during such a rigid,formulaic era for rock makes it so muchmore awe-inspiring.
The record will always hold a specialplace in my music-devouring heart, not justbecause of its legacy and impact, butbecause its message is universal and time-less: Life is love, love is noise and some-times we just need to sleep for a thousandyears. Happy 45th birthday.
— Dean Essner
OK, fine, I’ll admit it: I was introducedto The Shins through Garden State. AsZach Braff and Natalie Portman fell inlove in suburban New Jersey, I developeda serious crush on the guitar pop ofJames Mercer and company.
It’s easy to mock The Shins and theirfolky, direct-from-Portland indie rockas the music of hipsters and manicpixie dream girls. It’s the kind of musicthat’s everywhere — McDonald’s evenused the group’s music in a commer-cial — made by the kind of sensitive,bearded artists who Portlandia skew-ers every week.
But as I look forward to the band’s lat-est album, Port of Morrow, arriving nextweek, I think I’ve realized why The Shinshave remained so talked about, and justwhy I love them so much.
It’s simple, really: The band makesgreat music.
What Mercer has done on The Shins’past albums (and, if the singles fromPort of Morrow are any indication, ispoised to do again) is craft beautiful,endlessly hummable pop gems repletewith simple but memorable melodiesand affecting lyrics that cut straight tothe heart of what it feels like to grow up
in suburban America.Take “New Slang,” arguably the
group’s biggest hit. Airy guitars and anincessant tambourine jangle along be-hind ethereal harmonies, sounding likea road trip or a campfire sing-a-long. Themusic sounds like childhood, even asthe lyrics (“Dawn breaks like a bullthrough the hall/ Never should havecalled/ But my head’s to the wall and I’mlonely”) speak of the inevitable alien-ation of growing up.
Or, for the disaffected teenager,“Young Pilgrims,” from the group’s soph-omore album, Chutes Too Narrow, findsThe Shins as sneering and sarcasticpunks who warn that “this modernthought can get the best of you.”
Garden State, a film about 20-some-things trying to find their way in theworld, hit perfectly on what makes themusic of The Shins work: It’s the sound-track to growing up and coming of age inmodern America.
I had the band’s music to guide methrough the pangs of adolescence, andI’m thrilled to have Port of Morrow tousher me into the messy new world ofadulthood.
— Eric Bricker
VVEERRDDIICCTT::You can do much, much better
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members — and to assurethose concerned that the situ-ation was under control.
University Police posted apress release on the arrest toits website at about 8:55 p.m.Sunday. After fielding dozensof calls, spokesman Capt.Marc Limansky said he decid-ed to send out an InformationAlert at about 11:30 p.m.
“We felt that we had the sit-uation contained, and the lastthing we wanted to do was toalert the entire campus, in-cluding Mr. Song, that wewere looking for him, andtherefore cause a precipitat-ing effect,” Mitchell said atthe conference. “The threathad subsided when we tookMr. Song into custody.”
University President Wal-lace Loh also sent a campuwideemail to inform students of theincident at 12:40 p.m. Monday.In his email, Loh wrote that po-lice contained the threat andtherefore believed no campusalert was necessary.
“The police are confident thatany threat to our communitywas mitigated once the studentwas taken into custody at ap-proximately 10 a.m.,” Lohwrote. “For both of these rea-sons, no campus alert was is-sued. As always, we are com-mitted to maintaining clear andopen communication with ourcampus community.”
Limansky also noted thatthe department nearly dou-bled the number of officers pa-trolling the campus Sundayand Monday even though theydid not believe there was anycontinuing threat. While thereare usually five officers in high-ly visible areas, such as McK-eldin Mall or Stamp StudentUnion, police dispatched nineor 10 in light of the incident.
Song, a Fulton, Md., resi-dent, was taken to a psychi-atric hospital after policeteamed up with the universi-ty’s Office of InformationTechnology and workedthrough Saturday night to pin-point where the threateningposts were coming from,Mitchell said.
Although students saidthey were shocked such athreat was made to the cam-pus, some said they are gladpolice did not inform the cam-pus community about the
posts until after the situationwas contained.
“It was the right thing to dobecause police didn’t want topanic the students,” saidAlexandra Glakas, a freshmanFrench and internationalbusiness major. “I feel verysafe because the police didtheir job. They got him, theydid their jobs.”
But Song’s friends, includ-ing his “great friend” sincemiddle school, Margo John-son, said they do not believehe was serious about thethreats, and the situation wasblown out of proportion.
“He’s not at all the type of per-son that would commit a mas-sacre,” said Johnson, a sopho-more at Carnegie Mellon. “It’sjust part of his messed up senseof humor. Me and a bunch ofpeople who know him readwhat he was saying and theywere messed up, but he didn’tmean them.”
Police were called to hisOakland Hall dorm roomabout a week ago after theyreceived a call that he wasmaking noise and yelling,Mitchell said. Song told policehe was stressed, Mitchellsaid, and police determinedhe was not a threat to himselfor others. Mitchell added thatpolice served a search war-rant to Song’s parents at theirHoward County home Sun-day night and seized his lap-top for forensic analysis.
According to court docu-ments, Song has no other pre-vious record in the state.
Song’s status as a student atthis university was revoked,and he is no longer allowed onthe campus. If Song’s doctorsin the psychiatric ward of thehospital allow him to be re-leased, he will immediately beserved with a warrant for hisarrest and will be charged withdisturbing the orderly conductof activities, administration orclasses. The misdemeanorcharge is punishable by a fineof $2,500 or less and/or sixmonths jail time.
Limansky added policehave no reason to believethat Song was working withan accomplice.
“All his posts were ‘I’ or‘me.’ They were very specif-ic,” Limansky said. “There’sno indication that he’s work-ing with someone else.”
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Students question Republican candidatesFour Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate — Daniel Bongino, Daniel Broadus, Richard Douglas and Corrogan Vaughn —came to the Hoff Theater in Stamp Student Union last night to take questions from students. SU HONG/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK
BY JIM BACHStaff writer
Many students jumped atthe opportunity to challengeU.S. Republican senatorial can-didates on topics ranging fromforeign policy to the slow-grow-ing national economy at a Col-lege Republicans-sponsoredevent last night.
While the four candidates— Daniel Bongino, DanielBroadus, Richard Douglasand Corrogan Vaughn — arenot considered serious com-petitors to incumbent Sen.Ben Cardin (D-Md.) by manypolitical pundits, studentleaders at last night’s eventsaid they were undeterred byheavy Democratic support inthe state. Instead, theygeared their questions to-ward how the candidateswould transform the state andnation’s liberal-leaning poli-cies — including budgetarypolicies, such as PresidentBarack Obama’s health careprogram, which candidates
said have contributed to thefederal debt.
“I feel like it’s easy for peopleto write off the RepublicanParty in Maryland,” said Alli-son Agazzi, vice president ofpublic relations for this univer-sity’s College Republicans. “Ido feel like a lot of the candi-dates are strong candidateswho could take Cardin.”
Despite the state’s heavy De-mocratic representation —which includes Gov. MartinO’Malley, six of eight Democrat-ic representatives in the house,two Democratic senators and ademocratic majority in both ofthe state’s legislative chambers -— young Republican leadersvoiced confidence in the pool ofcandidates that could potential-ly take Cardin’s seat.
Additionally, many studentsvoiced concern over the stateand nation’s slow economic re-covery and worried that theywill face a slim job marketupon graduation. Candidatespointed to poor Democraticpolicies, including increased
government spending on ini-tiatives such as health care, So-cial Security and Medicare, toexplain the state and nation’sgrowing debts.
“We owe so much moneythat will likely not be paid in mylifetime,” Bongino said.
Douglas added that studentswill likely carry the burden ofpaying off the debt.
“When Cardin took office in1987, the debt was $2 trillion.Today, it’s $15 trillion,” he said,referring to when Sen. Cardinfirst joined the House of Repre-sentatives. “Guess who gets topay it?”
Sarah Brown, president ofthis university’s chapter ofCollege Republicans, said itwas critical for students tohear Republican candidatesdiscuss hot-button issues sostudents can hear and learnboth sides.
“Events like this are impor-tant because one of these mencould be representing [stu-dents] one day,” Brown said. “Ithink it’s always important to
see both sides.”Douglas, a College Park resi-
dent who worked in the U.S.Senate and served in Iraq, saidCardin has failed to representstate residents and instead isworried only about issues thatalign with his Democratic col-leagues in the senate.
“Sen. Cardin never makes asound when bad things hap-pen in Maryland,” he said. “Ifyou’re under economic pres-sure, it doesn’t matter whatyour party card says — a sena-tor who is doing his duty caresabout everyone in this state.”
But Brad Coker, a pollsterfor Mason-Dixon Polling & Re-search — a Jacksonville, Fla.-based polling firm — said all ofthe candidates will be hard-pressed to take Cardin’s seat.
“As far as the general elec-tion goes, Maryland is such astrong Democratic state,” hesaid. “Even a big-name Republi-can would have a hard timebeating Cardin.”
U.S. Senate candidates field concerns about foreign policy, economic climate
up points.“I just want to show peo-
ple I can do a lot of things onthe basketball court otherthan score,” Stoglin saidafter the Terps fell to NorthCarolina, 85-69, on Friday. “Iwant people to see that.”
Some experts say Stoglin,who isn’t listed on anyprominent NBA mock draftsfor June’s draft, will have dif-ficulty translating his gameto the NBA. Generouslylisted at 6 feet 1 inch tall,Stoglin is a talented scorerbut also a middling defenderand unpolished passer.
If he indeed decides toleave College Park, it wouldmark the second straight yearthe Terps have lost a sopho-more to the draft. ForwardJordan Williams left schoolearly a year ago and wasdrafted in the second roundby the New Jersey Nets.
Williams set the programrecord for double-doubles ina season and led the Terps inscoring and rebounding ayear ago, but he also haddoubters. Several draft pun-dits noted Williams was thestar forward of a team thatcouldn’t even make the NIT.
The same can be said ofStoglin, who, despite his pro-lific scoring, was notregarded as one of theACC’s premier players inpart because of the Terps’generally lackluster play.
Stoglin, though, cer-tainly has left the door openfor a return.
“I just want to become abetter player,” Stoglin said.“Honestly, I just want toimprove in every aspect. Iwant to be a better shooter,be quicker, my defense tobecome better. As a team,we just want to improve andget smart and do the thingsthat we didn’t do this year.”
very talented players on there,and they got some great looksat goal,” Reese said of the Syra-cuse game. “Unfortunately, we
fell a few short.”Perhaps the hardest aspect to
swallow was how close the losswas — again. Despite offensiveshortcomings in losses to No. 3Duke and Syracuse, the Terpsfell by only a goal in both. Andgiven the Terps’ low shooting
percentage in each, their twolosses could’ve easily been winson another day. Despite tallying30 shots against the Orange, theTerps landed only nine in theback of the cage.
Another area for concern isthe trend of the offense’s scoring
output. After more than 15 goalsin each of their first three gamesof the season, the Terps’ highestmark in the four games since hasbeen 12 against No. 11 Virginia.Against unranked Hofstra, theTerps mustered just 11 goals.
That might not bode well for
the Terps, who play unrankedRichmond (3-3) tonight in Col-lege Park. Their offense needsa spark against a low-qualityopponent, but a strong showingfrom the Spiders’ defense couldbe all they need to make thingsinteresting. Richmond has also
won three straight games fol-lowing a poor start.
“It’s not complicated,” Reesesaid, “we just need to put theball away when we have theopportunities.”
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began Jan. 25.Above all else, though, Edsall said the Terps
were just happy to finally start putting last seasonbehind them.
“It was great to be back out here,” Edsall said.“Believe me, I wish we could’ve started the day afterthe season ended.”
INSTALLATIONS UNDERWAY
For the second straight season, the start of springpractice marked a new beginning of sorts for the Terpson both sides of the ball.
With the offseason hires of offensive coordinatorMike Locksley and defensive coordinator Brian Stew-art, the Terps began to implement Locksley’s pro-styleoffense and Stewart’s aggressive 3-4 scheme Saturday.
“I thought the defense really did a good job of com-municating,” Edsall said. “Guys were lined up. Guyswere running to the ball. Offense was finishing.”
The centerpiece of the transition offensively will bequarterback C.J. Brown, currently the team’s onlyscholarship quarterback after Danny O’Brien wasreleased from his scholarship.
Brown said he’s already comfortable with Lock-sley’s playbook, but conceded there’s been a bit of alearning curve.
“It’s going to be a little different,” Brown said. “Theterminology’s changed, [but] the scheme’s prettymuch the same.”
On the defensive side, All-America defensive endJoe Vellano said the Terps have adjusted well to Stew-art’s style.
“First practice, first coordinator, and I really think weactually did a lot of good things,” Vellano said. “Nomental mistakes among the [first team].”
PERSONNEL ROUNDUP
Saturday’s practice began with a welcome surprise, asoffensive tackle Justin Gilbert — who projects as theteam’s starter at left tackle with the offseason departureof Max Garcia — participated with the team. Gilbert hadinjured his ankle during offseason workouts.
“Justin Gilbert rolled his ankle in the competitionstuff that we were doing,” Edsall said. “[I was] told hewas out. He got better and improved so I knew if hewasn’t up here, it’d probably be Tuesday when he wasout here.”
Edsall was also impressed with the play of cornerbackIsaac Goins, a transfer who joined the program after play-ing the last two seasons at a California junior college.
“I would say that Isaac’s probably a little bit ahead of[fellow newcomers] Quinton [Jefferson] and Levern[Jacobs] just because he’s played at the junior collegelevel,” Edsall said.
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send the Terps (28-4) to RBCCenter — the regional site clos-est to College Park — for a datein the Sweet 16 and possibly theElite Eight.
“We’re thrilled,” coach BrendaFrese said. “We know how wellour fans will travel, being able togo down to Raleigh. They showedthat in the ACC Tournament, sowe wanted to make that happen.”
The Midshipmen (18-13) enterthe tournament as the PatriotLeague champions, havingdefeated Holy Cross, 57-48, in Sat-urday’s title game. Despite thetwo schools’ proximity, the Terpshave never faced the Annapolis-based school in its 34-year pro-gram history.
Since the tournament fieldexpanded to 64 teams 18 yearsago, No. 2 seeds are a perfect 72-0against No. 15 seeds in the open-ing round.
“It’s the top 64 teams in thecountry,” center Lynetta Kizersaid. “You’re going to see playersout there you’ve never seenbefore. I think that’s what people
have to realize about you goingout and you playing. … Every-body is going out there and justcompeting hard.”
Should the Terps move past theMidshipmen in the first round,they would face either No. 7Louisville or No. 10 Michigan Stateon Monday in Comcast Center.
The Cardinals (22-9) finishedseventh in the Big East this sea-son. The Terps lost their onlymeeting with Louisville, a 77-60Elite Eight defeat in the 2009NCAA Tournament in Raleigh.
The Terps are 2-0 all timeagainst the Spartans (20-11),defeating them in regular-seasoncontests in both 2005 and 2007.The Spartans finished in a four-way tie for second in the Big Tenbut suffered a quarterfinal lossto Purdue in their conferencetournament.
The two teams that met in lastyear’s national-title game roundout the top three seeds in theTerps’ region. Defending cham-pion Texas A&M (22-10) is theNo. 3 seed and features three oflast season’s four leading scorers.Notre Dame (30-3), which lost tothe Aggies, 76-70, last April, is thetop seed in the region.
“We watched the [FightingIrish] during the season —they’re a very good team with a lotof experience,” Frese said. “Soobviously, those will be toughgames down the road.”
Other notable ACC schools tomake the tournament are No. 2seed Duke, No. 3 seed Miami andNo. 4 seed Georgia Tech. TheTerps wouldn’t meet any of thoseschools until at least the FinalFour in Denver.
Said forward Alyssa Thomas:“It just shows the strength of ourconference.”
Undefeated top overall seedBaylor and fellow No. 1 seedsStanford and Connecticut alsomight stand between the Terpsand their quest for a secondnational title.
But for Frese, her only focusis Navy.
“You can’t take anything forgranted. Just playing at home forus this year doesn’t give us anautomatic [trip] to Raleigh — it’sone and done,” Frese said. “We’vegot to take that same sense ofurgency that we had in the ACCTournament into the NCAAs.”
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Coach Brenda Frese and the ACC champion Terps face Navy on Saturday. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Stoglinwill mullover NBAoptionsHigh-scoring guardnot considered anelite draft prospect
BY CHRIS ECKARDSenior staff writer
ATLANTA – Fresh off a 30-pointperformance against one of thenation’s top teams, Terrapins men’sbasketball star guard Terrell Stoglinconfirmed this weekend that he’scontemplating entering the 2012NBA Draft.
A sophomore who led the ACC inscoring with 21.6 points per game,Stoglin said he wants to “test thewaters” and evaluate his profes-sional prospects after two collegeseasons. He will spend the next fewweeks deciding with his familywhether to forgo his remaining twoyears of eligibility.
Stoglin, who earned second-teamall-conference honors this season,has until April 10 to make a final deci-sion. The NCAA changed the dead-line — which is nearly a month ear-lier than the previous date — lastspring after coaches said the laterdeadline cut into their time to recruitpotential replacements.
April 10 is a day before the start ofthe spring signing period for incom-ing recruits. According to severalrecruiting websites, the Terps arestill pursuing options at guard inaddition to their five incomingrecruits already in the fold.
Stoglin said he’s considered mak-ing an early jump to the professionallevel since the middle of the season.He’s been adamant recently that hisgame is about more than just putting
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK WOMEN’S LACROSSE
BY CONOR WALSHSenior staff writer
In what was surely a welcomerelief for coach Randy Edsall and hisTerrapins football team, the Terpswere back on the field Saturday asthey sought to move past last sea-son’s 2-10 debacle.
For Edsall, the intensity of histeam’s first spring practice madeclear just how ready the Terps are tostart anew.
“I liked that we were back out hereon the field … seeing the guys comeout here and working together andgood attitude,” Edsall said after thepads-free practice. “It seemed likeforever. Now we can be back outhere doing this and being around thekids and them out here. I think today,
you could see a lot of enthusiasm, alot of intensity, a lot of guys just lik-ing to be around each other andworking together.”
Edsall said the team’s progress inits offseason conditioning program
was evident on the field, noting theteam had made notable strides inmajor lifts — bench press, squat andpower clean — since the program
Coach Randy Edsall and the Terps practiced for the first time Saturdaysince last year’s 2-10 season concluded. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY NICHOLAS MUNSONStaff writer
When Cathy Reese saw attackerKatie Schwarzmann’s free-positionshot miss the cage with 30 secondsremaining in Saturday’s game againstNo. 4 Syracuse, the coach of the Ter-rapins women’s lacrosse team was awitness to a new reality of sorts.
The seeming invincibility of herteam at home had come to an end.After 36 straight wins at the FieldHockey & Lacrosse Complex, theTerps finally faltered in what wastheir first regular-season home lossunder Reese.
The sixth-year coach said she wasunaware of the streak that was thefifth best in all of Division I sports.
“I didn’t even know about it, so Idon’t know how much the playersknow to be honest,” she said afterthe Terps’ 10-9 loss. “But now wedon’t have to worry about it any-more, so I guess that’s a good thing— one less thing to think about.”
The number of things to worryabout, however, is steadily increas-ing. The No. 6 Terps’ (5-2) loss toSyracuse left the team with its worstseven-game mark since 2006. Theteam has dropped from as high asNo. 2 in the national polls, and ques-tions have begun to creep in, espe-cially about why a star-studdedoffense is sputtering.
“We have such a great offense and
In spring work, Terps look aheadAfter forgettable firstseason, Edsall sayspractice feels ‘great’
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No. 6 Terps find moreissues than expectedTeam scoring fewer goals in recent weeks
BY JOSH VITALEStaff writer
A crowd of more than 150 players,coaches, media members and boost-ers packed inside a Comcast Centerroom let out a small cheer whenDuke was named the No. 2 seed inthe Fresno, Calif., region early lastnight. They grew even louder when
the second seed in the Kingston, R.I.,region was awarded to Kentucky.
When ESPN’s NCAA Women’sBasketball Selection Specialunveiled the Terrapins women’s bas-ketball team as the No. 2 seed in theRaleigh, N.C., region, Heritage Hallerupted in celebration.
The Terps are staying close tohome.
After more than a week of anticipa-tion following its 68-65 ACC Champi-onship victory over Georgia Tech onMarch 4, the team finally learned itsNCAA Tournament future. Just asthey did in their 2006 title run, theTerps will enter the tournament as aNo. 2 seed, hosting No. 15 seed Navyin the first round on Saturday in Col-lege Park.
“Once Duke didn’t have theRaleigh region, we knew we weregoing to get it,” guard Kim Rodgerssaid. “It’s good for us to be close tohome; we’ve played there before,we’ve been in North Carolina and weknow what it’s like.”
Two wins this weekend would
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No. 2 Terps earn nearby path to Final Four
From left: Center Alicia DeVaughn,guard Brene Moseley and forwardAlyssa Thomas react to the Terps’No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournamentlast night. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Terrell Stoglin’s season ended Friday.CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK