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Univ. budget to be cut by FridayRising foodcosts pushup dininghall prices
FUTURE
Council setto vote oncity’s officiallanguage
DOTS: Shuttleprogram drawsno city ridersin two weeks
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Officials impose faculty hiring freeze until state finances reboundBY KEVIN ROBILLARD
Senior staff writer
The university implemented ahiring freeze that went into effectyesterday in response to a mid-year budget reduction that shouldbe coming in the next few days,officials said.
The reduction means some openpositions may go unfilled for now,and the university may delaymaintenance projects. Many stu-dent services, which are supportedby student fees and not by thestate, will be unaffected by thecuts, but cuts will likely be made toacademic and administrative
areas that are paid for using theroughly $400 million the universityreceived from the state this year.
While university administratorshad anticipated a budget reduc-tion, the reduction now seems tobe a certainty.
“We will receive a budget reduc-tion,” said Joseph Vivona, the
chief operating officer and vicechancellor for administration andfinance for the University Systemof Maryland.
Both Vivona and universityPresident Dan Mote said thestate’s increasingly difficult fiscal
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Students say mealpoints running outfaster than usual
BY SAM TAUTEStaff Writer
The cost of the standard campus meal planthis semester had its smallest increase infour years despite rising national food prices,and some students say their meal plans arealready coming up short.
Despite the lower increase in meal plancosts, the food prices in the dining halls haveincreased due to significantly higher costsfor the bulk food Dining Services purchases.
The price of hamburger patties are up 7.5percent from last year. Chicken breasts areup 18 percent, oil for french fries are up 39.8percent and french fries themselves are up15 percent, Dining Services Director ColleenWright-Riva said.
The only food item that did not increase inprice was scrambled eggs, the price of whichdecreased 4.3 percent from last year, shesaid. Rather than passing along the pricehikes directly to students, however, DiningServices has been able to offset the lossescaused by reducing operating costs in otherareas of the department, she said.
“Everything is a balancing act,” Wright-Riva said. “It comes down to how well wenegotiate deals with vendors, how efficientlywe run the business, how well we get rid ofwaste and how we make slight adjustments
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Perry’s push for Englishmet with heavy criticismby other council members
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
A College Park city councilman’s sugges-tion that the city evaluate making English itsofficial language met sharp rebuke from hiscolleagues last night.
District 2 Councilman Jack Perry said Eng-lish is “the language that holds us alltogether,” and repeatedly referred to it as“the language of commerce” in the country.
The wording Perry offered the council bor-rowed heavily from two other regionalmunicipalities: Herndon, Va., and Taneytown.
“The use of a common language removesbarriers of misunderstanding and helps tounify the people of College Park,” the pro-posed amendment to the city charter reads.“The government of College Park can reducecosts and promote efficiency … by using theEnglish language in its official actions andactivities.”
But last night’s council meeting didn’t start
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BY JEANETTE DER BEDROSIANStaff writer
Since the university bus system opened up toresidents of College Park Sept. 1, there havebeen no reports of bus use by registered non-stu-dents, officials from the Department of Trans-portation Services said.
Under the pilot program, which is costing thecity $5,000, Shuttle-UM drivers are supposed tocheck city ID cards for non-students and radio inwhen a resident boards their bus, DOTS Direc-tor David Allen said. The tally exists to track useof the program by non-student riders, he said.
“It takes a long time,” Allen said. “That’s kindof how transit is. It’s not like you make a changeand people flock.”
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BY BEN PENNSenior staff writer
Amid high gas prices, a struggling econ-omy and ongoing military involvement inthe Middle East, finding energy solutionshas become more urgent in this electionyear than other perennial issues such asimmigration and higher education.
With oft-repeated phrases such as off-shore drilling, renewable energy sources,nuclear power and independence of foreignoil dominating this election season’s energydiscussions, it is easy for the average college
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ELECTION 2008 | THE ISSUES OF OUR AGE
[Editor’s note: This is the second story in abiweekly series highlighting the impact of thepresidential election on college students.]
For student voters, the nation’senergy issues seem to lack long-term consequences
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thing that is going on promi-nently on the campus. Sothat’s great for civic engage-ment. We go out for a coupleof hours in the afternoon tosee if people want to get regis-tered and we rake up 50 or 60people who aren’t registeredyet who register. I think thatyou can’t really do that in thebroader world.
DBK: Politicians seem to beusing universities as a back-drop for rallies. Is that a coin-cidence or does that carry anymeaning as to the role thatyoung people might play inthis election?
Ellis: It’s not a coincidence.You look at electoral math andyou see what is a large portionof the population that votesanemically and that is 18-to-25-year-olds and so when, as apolitician, you get a sense thatthis age category is gettingfired-up, and all of the poll-sters and pundits and think-tank people are saying thereare going to be record num-bers in this age group turningout, then it’s hard not to see itas votes to be won. So I thinkit’s natural that politicians aregoing to come to college cam-puses, and they are going totry and draw big crowds andare going to persuade thosevoters. For them, it’s morebang for their buck. Leavingaside [Sen.] Barack Obama’ssort of once-in-a-decade virtu-osity in terms of drawing acrowd. It’s much harder foryour average politician to gosomeplace other than a col-lege campus and get a couplehundred people on any shortnotice. It’s a great environ-ment for them. They certainlyfeel charged up. I think it’sfine. I think it’s good thatyoung people feel that they
are being made important.That college students feel thatthe significance of their par-ticipation is being recognizeddirectly and that they have anopportunity to see candidatesand elected officials up-closeand personal and to interactwith them directly, to maybeeven get the chance to askthem some questions. That’sreal direct democracy, in away. I think that it’s great. Itenergizes people who may nototherwise have gotteninvolved to get involved in anelection and make up theirminds and take a position andgo out and vote if maybe theyfeel like there is a personal
connection. They’ve seen theperson and now they reallyagree with them or now theyreally hate them. I’ve heardpeople say, ‘Oh, politicians aregoing to come and take advan-tage because it’s a captiveaudience.’ I mean, come on,students are not naive. It maybe easier to get a big crowd ofstudents in a room, but theyare definitely not talking to anaudience that is any easier towin over or any less astute orquestioning than anotheraudience, in fact probablymore so.
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RROOCCKKVVIILLLLEE –– A Kensington man ischarged with starting several fires atschools in a string of 12 MontgomeryCounty fires within two weeks.
A Montgomery County Fire andRescue Service spokesman says 21-year-old Preston Crocker is accusedof starting the fires between Aug. 26and Sept. 9. Spokesman PetePiringer says Crocker was arrestedMonday and charged with arson ofvehicles and structures.
In Silver Spring, firefighters werecalled to Woodlin Elementary SchoolSept. 8 because a trash bin, a cov-ered wooden walkway and a portableclassroom were burning. Damageswere estimated at $130,000.
Authorities also connectedCrocker with several arson attemptson vehicles in Kensington and SilverSpring and trash bin fires at OaklandTerrace Elementary School in Kens-ington.
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OOCCEEAANN CCIITTYY –– The big vote under-way in Ocean City has nothing to dowith picking the next president orAmerican Idol.
Tourism officials are offering Inter-net users the chance to vote onlinefor one of three designs for a newspecialty state license plate honoringthe resort town.
Town Spokeswoman DonnaAbbott says resort officials chose notto design a new logo for the licenseplate. Instead, the three contendersare established logos: a wave logofrom the official town flag, an “O.C.”logo currently used by the tourismoffice and a 1970s-era logo from theInlet water tower.
The voting ends Oct. 10. The win-ning design will require town councilapproval.
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BBAALLTTIIMMOORREE –– The Maryland Trans-portation Authority is looking for pri-vate developers to renovate and takeover two rest stops on Interstate 95.
State officials say the MarylandHouse and Chesapeake House aretoo costly for the state to maintain.
The Transportation Authority willhold a public meeting Oct. 8 at theBWI airport Marriott hotel to attractpotential operators and contractors.
The rest stops in Cecil and Harfordcounties are owned by the state buthave been managed since 1986 byBethesda-based rest-stop operatorHMSHost Corp. A spokeswoman forHMSHost says the company plans tobid on the renovation and lease proj-ect.
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BBAALLTTIIMMOORREE –– The Baltimore CityCouncil is looking again at restric-tions on plastic bags.
City Councilman James Kraft hasintroduced a bill that would ban plas-tic bags at stores.
The council voted in July to rejectnarrower legislation that would haveaffected retailers with more than$500,000 in annual gross revenue.
Meanwhile, Councilman Bill Henrysays he plans to introduce a bill thatwould impose a $0.25 fee when cus-tomers get a paper or plastic bagfrom a store.
The bills will be studied by the newBaltimore City Commission on Sus-tainability before the council consid-ers them.
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WWAALLKKEERRSSVVIILLLLEE –– Frederick Countyauthorities have accused a man ofpunching a pit bull puppy, fracturingits skull and blinding the animal.
Troy D. Goines of Frederick hasbeen charged with felony and misde-meanor animal cruelty. He is beingheld on $20,000 bail. He wasarrested last week.
According to charging documents,Goines is accused of punching thedog in Discovery, a Walkersville sub-division, on Aug. 2. The dog’s owneragreed to have it euthanized after itscondition deteriorated.
Trial is set for Nov. 6 in DistrictCourt.
– Compiled from wire reports
BRIEFS Q + A
BY STEVEN OVERLY ANDKRISTI TOUSIGNANT
Senior staff writers
With the Nov. 4 generalelection quickly approach-ing, expect the politicallyactive to traverse the cam-pus, encouraging studentsto register to vote. Amongthem will be Devin Ellis,who spearheads the uni-versity’s TerpsVote effort.
Ellis, who has heldnumerous positions in stu-dent government, spokewith The Diamondbackabout civic engagement onthe campus and how col-lege students seem to beshowing an increasinginterest in politics.
The Diamondback: Canyou explain your new posi-tion and what it entails?
Devin Ellis: TerpsVote isthe name we have given tothis broad effort that hasbeen organized across theuniversity to try and sup-port and promote studentsregistering for and votingin the election on Novem-ber 4. It’s not an individualbureaucratic entity. It’s asteering committee of 32people from differentorganizations and depart-ments across the campus.And as that sort of grand,coalition-style operation,they needed someonewhose full-time job it wasto simply coordinate it andmake sure everyone ismoving in the same direc-tion. That’s what my job is.I simply sit at the center ofthe web and just makesure all wheels are turningat the same time and noone is duplicating anyoneelse’s effort.
DBK: Was this a neweffort?
Ellis: It’s not new. Therewere large registrationefforts in past years, par-ticularly this past year inthe primary election, thatwere very successful. Thiskind of grew out of that,and that has been run outof vice president for stu-dent affairs’ office. Thefolks who had manned thelast couple of timesaround sort of framed itdirectly out of the [StampStudent] Union withGretchen Metzelaars to dothis group. This year ittransformed from, ‘Lets dowhat we did last time,’ to,‘Let’s move heaven andearth and try for 100-per-cent participation fromstudents, faculty and staff,’
DBK: State Sen. Jim Ros-apepe (D-Anne Arundeland Prince George’s) inAnnapolis had been push-ing for some electionreform requiring universi-ties to have an individualor a group devoted tovoter registration andcivic engagement. Is thisrelated to that?
Ellis: I wouldn’t say thiswas a direct response tothat at all. It is a nice tan-dem. I think the universityindependently, if you will,recognized the need tohave someone doing thisthrough election season.Right now, my position isnot permanent afterDecember. We will seewhat becomes of that.
DBK: In the media, thereis a lot of hype about theyouth vote in this presi-dential election. Have youfound that to be accurate?
Ellis: From the extrememicrocosmic perspective Ihave, I would say yes. Iwas comparing notes withtwo of my colleagues thisafternoon and we weresaying how sort of stunnedwe were when we went totalk to large UNIV100classes, which are allfreshmen, about registra-tion. Many of them arealready registered, which
is unusual compared topast years. I think what weare seeing is more peoplethan we expected arealready registered and theoutreach that we havedone so far, which hasbeen very targeted andfocused on individualinteraction, have beenvery successful.
DBK: I know you have amore narrative perspec-tive since you focus on thisuniversity, but what aboutthis election is resonatingmore with young peoplethan previous elections?
Ellis: I don’t know. With-out sort of wondering offmy highly neutral politicalreservation here, I thinkI’ll just say that the combi-nation of personalities andissues in the presidentialrace as well as a sense thatthis is a very dramaticturning point in the historyof country has sort ofenergized young people tofocus on these issues in away that they might nothave four years ago, muchless eight years ago. Ithink there is a muchgreater sense that we arein times that are changingmuch more quickly. Thereis a great deal more uncer-tainty. You aren’t really allthat comfortable thinking,‘Oh, you know, I’m at theuniversity. These prob-lems are four, eight or 16years away from having animpact on my life.’Increasingly, they aretrickling down and affect-ing us directly as studentsand also increasingly day-to-day changes and impor-tance of policy decisionsthat are made in Washing-ton are affecting everyonein the country’s’ lives verydramatically, and that’s alot harder to miss. I thinkthat gets people energized.
DBK: In your opinion,should voter registrationor other civic engagementinitiatives be the univer-sity’s responsibility?
Ellis: Here’s what I’llsay: I think that a univer-sity is not the same as saya primary or secondaryeducation unit. It’s morethan just a teaching envi-ronment. It’s also a com-munity with a tremendousamount of dimensions thatfunctions as its own littleworld in a lot of ways. It’sa community that largely,if you survey leaders inhigher education, part ofthe purpose of this com-munity, especially in thepast few years, has beendirected at fostering theengagement of young peo-ple with this society andwith the world. Mosthigher education leaderswould tell you that, yes itis their responsibility tosupport civic engagement.
DBK: Having that com-munity on a college cam-pus atmosphere, does thatmake voter registrationand civic engagement eas-ier or more difficult?
Ellis: I think it makes iteasier. It’s more direct. It’smore compacted, espe-cially if you live on thecampus. You live in amicrocosmic world. Youspend 90 percent of yourday within the samesquare mile, essentially.You are there with 30,000other people. It’s as muchas we talk about all thetransportation problemson campus and how manycars there are in the park-ing lots and the shuttles,all you have to do is stepoutside to see that it is stilllargely a communitywhere people travel on-foot. They interact face-to-face on a massive scale.It’s like living in down-town Manhattan. There isa density of people thatmakes it hard to miss any-
Devin Ellis discusses the university’s voter registration, civic engagement efforts
Leading Terps to the polls
Devin Ellis, who is leading the university’s voter registration efforts,stands with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Ellis said students seems to beshowing increasing interest in politics. COURTESY OF TERPSVOTE.UMD.EDU
to the menus, particu-larly with catering.”
In March 2006, thevalue dinner at theDiner cost $6.95,according to a Dia-mondback article.Monday night’s din-ner cost $7.10.
Students who havethe standard campusmeal plan paid 3.92percent more thissemester than lastsemester. In return,they will receive$35.50 more in mealpoints and $20 morein Terp bucks. Diningservices officials areconfident this $55.50increase is sufficientto cover the highercosts that students will needto pay at the register.
“I’m not saying that therehas not been an increase inthe price of food for students,because there has been insome cases, but I don’t thinkit’s significant enough tocause serious problems.”Wright-Riva said.
Some students, however,disagree.
“I’m supposed to be at 950
[meal points], but I’malready down to 780,” sopho-
more engineeringmajor Steve Hay-ward said.
Other students whohave already noticedthe drain on theirmeal points believethe problem couldbecome more seriousas the semesterwears on.
“I think that wecould have a foodfrenzy crisis by theend of the semester,”sophomore lettersand sciences majorSara Liebermansaid.
Wright-Riva saysshe has consideredserious alterations inthe current meal
plan like eliminating focusdates and introducing all-you-can-eat meal plans tocertain areas of the campus.In order to make drasticchanges, however, she saidshe would need a lot of stu-dent input. It is too early topredict any changes to themeal plan at this point,Wright-Riva said.
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Rising food pricesworry students
situation means the university,along with most other stateagencies, will see budget cuts.Vivona said the size of thereduction should be decided byFriday.
However, Mote and Vivonaboth said the reduction shouldbe relatively small.
“We shouldn’t consider this acrisis,” Mote said. “We should-n’t get too alarmed.”
Vivona said it will be a “rea-sonable reduction, relative tothe size of their [deficit].”
Some student services, suchas Dining Services, theDepartment of Resident Life,the Stamp Student Union andthe Department of Transporta-tion Services, are paid forentirely by student fees andwon’t be impacted. Costs thatare supported by private dona-tions, such as endowed chairsand the athletic department,also won’t see cuts.
The budget reduction is nec-essary because of a slumpingeconomy, which has resulted inlower-than-predicted revenuefrom sales, income and othertaxes. The state now antici-pates receiving about $400 mil-lion less in revenue this fiscalyear than it originallyexpected. The decline in taxrevenue means the state couldface a deficit of $1 billion in
the next fiscal year. The poor economy is causing
the deficit to grow, despite avariety of tax increases andbudget cuts passed by the statelegislature during a speciallegislative session last fall.
Although the reduction’s sizecould be announced in thecoming days, it won’t becomeofficial until the state’s Boardof Public Works approves it.The board, which consists ofGov. Martin O’Malley (D),state Comptroller Peter Fran-chot (D) and state TreasurerNancy Kopp (D), has its nextmeeting Oct. 1.
The university last facedmid-year budget reductions inthe 2002-2003 school year,when the state also faced alarge deficit. In total, the sys-tem had to return 12-to-13 per-cent of the funds it originallyreceived from the state, total-ing about $100 million. Thatbudget reduction forced theBoard of Regents to raisetuition between the fall and
spring semesters, but Mote hassaid previously that option canbe avoided.
O’Malley said last week “hun-dreds of millions” in cuts to thestate budget would be coming.
The most immediate impactof the cuts will likely be the hir-ing freeze, which went intoeffect yesterday. The freezemeans some professorships andother positions will go unfilledfor the time being. Lower-costpositions such as lecturers,graduate teaching assistantsand student employees areexempt from the freeze.
Exceptions to the freeze canbe granted by Mote at therequest of one of the univer-sity’s vice presidents, but onlyif the hiring is essential to thedepartment.
Vivona said the universitysystem also implemented a hir-ing freeze in 2002, and it lastedthrough parts of two fiscalyears. He said the length of thisfreeze will depend on the sizeof the budget reduction.
While administrators arewaiting on word from the stateabout the size of the reduction,departments are trying to fig-ure out how to deal with thereduction and the hiringfreeze.
Charles Rutherford, associ-ate dean for faculty affairs atthe College of Arts andHumanities, said he wasn’t
sure exactly how the hiringfreeze would impact the collegebecause they were waiting formore information.
“Right now, it’s sort of a waitand watch for us,” he said.
Rutherford added that duringthe last hiring freeze, the col-lege was only able to make twohires, compared to about 17 or18 during a normal year. Rightnow, the college has 38 openpositions for faculty listed onits website.
Linda Clement, the univer-sity’s vice president for studentaffairs, said her divisionreceives about $12 million of its$150 million budget from thestate. The state money sup-ports the career, health andcounseling centers, as well asthe offices of student conductand parent and family affairs.
Clement was unsure of howstudent affairs would respondto the cuts.
“We’re just beginning to talkabout it now,” she said.
Vivona said although therewas no alternative to thebudget reductions, the univer-sity system would do its best tospare students from the bruntof the cuts.
“We’ll do everything to mini-mize the impact on academicprograms, teaching programs,”he said.
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Council may vote to boost diversityoff well for Perry, as MayorStephen Brayman opened themeeting with a jovial “Well,hola everyone!”
Council support for Perry’sproposal did not improve overthe course of the night.
Brayman grilled him overwhat effects the English pro-posal would have and, unsat-isfied with the answers hereceived, eventually dis-missed the extended discus-sion as “a complete waste oftime.”
When Brayman and othercouncil members said the lan-guage Perry had submittedwas vague and asked him toclarify it, his response was tobegin reading the documentaloud, talking over the mayoras he asked Perry to explainwhat English as an official lan-guage would accomplish.
“Mr. Perry, I gotta say,you’re really avoiding thequestion,” Brayman said. Hesuggested the only purpose ofthe motion was to “get you onRush Limbaugh.”
“I don’t want to be on RushLimbaugh, and I don’t thinkyou should be asking all thesedamn questions,” Perry said.“You told me in the verybeginning you were opposedto this. I just wish I could get afair hearing.”
Perry eventually describedthe purpose of his suggestionas “an indicator as to wherewe as a government want togo.”
But other council membersdid not seem to support hisproposed direction. District 1Councilman Patrick Wojahnintroduced a resolution with adirection for the city nearlythe polar opposite of Perry’s,and District 3 councilmanMark Cook said the city hasbetter things to talk about.
“Really, as a council, weneed to be focusing more onimportant issues — economicdevelopment, public safety —and not on things that are justthere to say, ‘Well, English isthe official language of thecity,” Cook said. Furthermore,he said, “This is a wedge issue.It is designed to divide people,not unite them.”
Wojahn agreed.“I see no reason why we
need to declare an official lan-guage,” he said. “It would be ameaningless gesture, as Mr.Perry was unable to declarewhat impact it would have,and any effect it would havewould be a negative one.”
For his part, Perry workedto address what he said mayhave been perceived as cul-tural insensitivity on his part.
“I have a difficult time withindividuals who would tellme that I’m xenophobic,”Perry said. “That could be nofurther from the truth than itpossibly is. I want everyonein this country to succeed, togo as far as they possibly can.And if you don’t speak Eng-lish, you run up against aceiling where you can’t goany higher.”
Perry’s proposal broughthigher-than-usual mediaattention to the College ParkCity Council, whose day-to-day activity is typically cov-ered only by The Diamond-back and the weekly PrinceGeorge’s Gazette, after he firstbrought up the idea.
Over the summer, the ideaof English as the city’s officiallanguage was covered by theAssociated Press and the localNBC affiliate, whose accountswere spread around the Inter-net and met with enthusiasticblog response.
Perry told The Diamond-back in July he was “sick ofkowtowing to minority fac-
tions” who spoke only “theHispanic language” or “Taga-log, whatever the hell that is,”and didn’t think the city gov-ernment should be spendingmoney on translations.
City Manager Joe Nagroestimated the city spends$4,000 to $5,000 per year tomake information availablein other languages, offeringtranslations of the city’s web-site, printing Spanish ver-sions of a guide to city serv-ices and maintaining multi-lingual personnel.
“If you want them to followrules, you have a good reasonto present them in their nativetongue,” Nagro said.
He added that the effect ofany English-only legislationon the city’s ability to commu-nicate with its residents woulddepend entirely on the word-ing of the final document thecouncil adopts.
As proposed by Perry, theordinance offers numerousexceptions to an English-only
city: “Private use” is protectedunder the First Amendment,multilingual voting docu-ments are required under fed-eral law and using other lan-guages to teach English isencouraged.
It also accepts the use ofother languages to “protectpublic health, sanitation, andpublic safety,” or to collecttaxes and fines.
Wojahn’s proposed resolu-tion calls for a laundry list ofitems, among them “recog-nizing the value of diversityand the importance of pro-viding services to all resi-dents,” which recognize theuse of English but do not callfor it to have the designationof “official.”
The council will vote on thetwo proposals at next Tues-day’s council meeting.
“I expect grandstanding tobe anywhere from 30 to 270minutes,” Brayman said.
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No city residents rideShuttle-UM despite130 registering
The city has registeredapproximately 130 residents forthe program, said Claire Cara-bello, who works in the cityclerk’s office and compiles theregistrations. Still, Allen saidthe ride-count remains at zero.
“I haven’t heard a peep fromanybody,” he said.
At least one College Parkresident says she has used thebuses, though. CouncilwomanMary Cook, one of the pro-gram’s biggest advocates, saidshe used the Seven Springsshuttle to get from her homein North College Park to a citycouncil meeting downtown.
“When I was on the bus, theyhaven’t taken any kind ofcount,” she said. “They didcheck my ID. … I got on theday, maybe the day after, theprogram started, so maybe theyhadn’t send out the memo.”
Cook said she only rode Shut-tle-UM one time because sheusually doesn’t head downtown,but she encourages other resi-dents to register.
“It’s a logical thing, with theuniversity right in the center oftown,” Cook added. “Why nothave that cooperation betweenresidents and the college?”
Though Cook is not surehow long the pilot programwill last, she said she hopes
the city will fund the programfor at least a year to give thecity’s residents a chance tolearn about the program.
“We have to advertise,” shesaid.
As for the program’sprogress thus far, Cook ispleased.
“I think it got off to a muchbetter start than I had antici-pated,” she said. “I realize thatresidents of the Washington,D.C., area don’t take advantageof the public transportationthat’s available to them.”
With a little advertising and acouple more months of opera-tion, she hopes people will rec-ognize the program’s benefits.
“It’s just one more optionavailable to people in terms ofalternative transportation, toget them out of their car sinceeverybody’s complaining —including me — that there’stoo many cars on Route 1,”Cook added.
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Cuts, hiring freeze leave departments short-staffed indefinitely
student to tune out the topic al-together — unless, of course, itcan be directly tied to loweringprices at the pump.
With seven weeks remainingbefore the Nov. 4 election, vari-ous student leaders are discov-ering through their efforts toencourage fellow students tobecome more informed votersa disconnect exists betweenstudents’ ability to recognizethe importance of energy poli-cies today and their knowledgeof how energy plans will direct-ly affect them in years to come.
Ali Adler, for instance,preaches energy’s significanceto students everyday as part ofher role as the campaign direc-tor of Clean Energy for UMD.
“It’s hard to connect howclean energy issues affect uspersonally, because we don’treally see the effects, exceptfor gas prices. I think it’simportant to think aboutwhat our lives are going tobe like when we’re gettingout in the real world,” saidAdler, a sophomore sociol-ogy major and former Dia-mondback columnist. “What
kind of energy do we want tobe spending our money on?Do we want to be spendingour money on foreign oil, ordo we want to be spendingour money on energysources that are going to becreating new jobs — jobsthat our students themselvescan be picking up as soon asthey get out of college?”
Sterling Grimes, who coordi-nates this university’s chapterof Students for Barack Obama,is also thinking about energy’sfuture implications.
“These are the problemsthat we are going to inherit,”Grimes said. “We are going tohave houses soon, and we aregoing to have to pay for our en-ergy. It’s really important forus in this generation to realizethat these problems are goingto be ours, whether we like itor not.”
To those who devote their ca-reers to studying energy, likeGreg Jackson, who chairs theuniversity’s Energy ResearchCenter, the issue retains themost relevance for youngergenerations.
“We’re at a point in climatehistory where the decisions
that we make in the next 10years may lead to irreversiblechanges in the climate that willimpact the lives of college stu-dents and their kids muchmore so than it will someonelike myself,” Jackson said.
In addition to economic andenvironmental changes thatcould result from this country’schoice of energy sources, theissue has other potential life-al-tering effects on the daily livesof students in years to come.
Steve Fetter, the dean of thepublic policy school, advisespeople to pay attention to ener-gy policies because of the pos-sible shift to electrically pow-ered hybrid cars.
“Plug-in hybrids could havea dramatic affect on whatthings would look like 10 yearsfrom now,” Fetter said. “Mostcars, almost all the time, wouldrun on electricity, so you’d havemuch lower levels of air pollu-tion and much less dependenceon oil.”
Fetter said the younger gen-eration need not worry aboutthe United States running outof an oil supply. Rather, he said,the issue is whether oil will be-come too expensive, forcing us
to switch to alternatives suchas hybrid cars.
Jackson and Fetter both saidpresidential candidates SenJohn McCain (R-Ariz.) and SenBarack Obama (D-Ill.) actuallyhave similar energy proposals,with the key differences comingin the areas of offshore drilling— Obama appears less willingto drill offshore than McCaindoes — and reliance on nuclearenergy — McCain favors invest-ing in nuclear energy.
Try asking Adler who to votefor, and you will come awayempty-handed. She maintainedClean Energy for UMD’s un-willingness to support a certaincandidate’s energy policy.
“A lot of students will ask,‘Who should we vote for?’ andit’s not up for us to say,” Adlersaid.
As for what Adler will betelling them, her message isclear: “I think that’s somethingscary, getting out of college to aslumping economy. And I thinkthat seeing a major clean ener-gy transition within the next 10years is going to have a majorpositive impact on our lives.”
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College Park’s five bars arewonderful for a variety of dif-ferent drinking-oriented ac-tivities, but occasionally the
average university student demands adifferent experience. That is whereCollege Perk comes in — or that’swhere it did, until it was threatenedwith a double-whammy of eviction no-tices and an electrical fire that has shutdown the city’s only real coffeehouse.
When I was in high school, Idreamed about hanging out at thePerk. I decided it would make me abetter person: It would bring me to-ward unknown bands I could bragabout to all my home friends; it wouldintroduce me to cool, witty peopleprone to having long, pointless conver-sations; and, most of all, it would makeme a lover of coffee, a drink I’d nevergotten used to... If The Diner’s buffalochicken sandwich sold me on the uni-versity, the Perk sold me on CollegePark.
But the Perk, I soon realized upon
starting school, wasn’t walking dis-tance from my dorm, or the campus oranywhere, really — it is perched atopan off-ramp for Route 1. It was essen-tially inaccessible: I didn’t drive; I hadvery few friends with cars and evenfewer brave enough to try the loneMetrobus route that stopped there.The Perk’s inaccessibility was nothingshort of a tragedy for me at 17, and Iwould find my ascent to college hips-terdom stunted until I got myself a dri-ver’s license.
The Perk is an example of what soci-ologists would call a “third place,” apublic setting where people can inter-act with each other. Coffeehouses, withtheir comfortable chairs and BobDylan wannabes strumming acoustic
guitars at the open mic, are the stereo-typical “third place,” but the termcould apply to bars, diners or evenbookstores. Not your dorm and notyour classes, they allow you to putaside your concerns and, as the kidssay, “just chill out.” They “are the heartof a community’s social vitality, thegrassroots of democracy,” according tourban sociologist Ray Oldenburg.“Third places” aren’t just a place forpeople to kill time; they’re a tool for so-cial and civic engagement.
College Perk is a community, even ifits members don’t all know each other.In the front room, tables are pushed to-gether and board games are set up forlate-night marathons. By the bar, jadedgraduate students congratulate them-selves for getting away from thedrunken freshmen’s antics on Route 1.Out on the back porch, cigarettes aresmoked and conversation is made be-tween strangers brought together byan orange flame that slowly burns outin the night.
Can any of the downtown bars offer
that same diversity of experiencesunder one roof? Can any of our book-stores offer the exchange of ideas thatthe Perk makes possible? Why is it,then, that a venue that offers so muchis in such an inaccessible location? Assoon as the necessary repairs are done,the Perk plans to reopen later this se-mester, but there’s no telling if it’ll beable to remain, as foreclosure threatsloom. With all of downtown’s vacan-cies, there’s no reason why it or anoth-er coffeehouse couldn’t set up shopthere, within easy walking distance ofthe campus and the surroundingneighborhoods.
To the communities they build, cof-feehouses like the Perk are the centerof the universe. Shouldn’t we have onein the center of town, where they canbuild a stronger community for Col-lege Park’s residents and studentsalike?
Dan Reed is a senior architecture andEnglish major. He can be reached [email protected].
Wanted: A real coffee shop in College Park
Defending free speechI have so many problems with
Richard Garcia’s guest column, “In De-fense of ROTC,” that I could fill an en-tire newspaper addressing them all. Idoubt The Diamondback would allowthis, so I’ll focus on just one.
In Garcia’s opening sentence, heclaims “It is despicable that The Dia-mondback would run Malcolm Harris’column … on the seventh anniversaryof Sept. 11, 2001.” He goes on to call thearticle “fraught with anti-military, anti-American rhetoric.” While Garcia’s col-umn makes further claims about the“righteous cause” in reference tobomb-making and the waging of war,and basically claims that the protestersat Kent State had it coming, his angerover the publishing of a column withviews that challenge his own is alarm-ing for its hypocrisy and ignorance.
If America is this great, ass-kickingnation (to paraphrase Garcia) that vol-untarily spills its own soldiers’ blood “tospread freedom and liberty to an area ofthe world devoid of them,” isn’t it anti-American of Garcia to criticize The Di-amondback for allowing Harris to exer-cise his right to free speech?
No, Garcia, The Diamondbackshould not have withheld Harris’ col-umn on Sept. 11. To do so would be toeliminate the very thing which you feelit is necessary for hundreds of thou-sands of people to die for: our freedoms.The Diamondback’s publishing ofcolumns such as Harris’ and yours isn’t“despicable” at all. Rather, it is a cele-bration of our freedoms and liberties,which we must be vigilant to protectfrom suppression.
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Lipstick on an elephant“As we like to say in Wyoming, you
can put all the lipstick you want on a pig,but at the end of the day, it’s still a pig.”
Anyone who has observed the presi-dential campaign trail for the past weekhas become very familiar with thisbarnyard metaphor, as it was used bySen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at a rally inVirginia last Tuesday.
But the words above are not Obama’s;rather, they belong to Vice PresidentDick Cheney in 2004, referring to Sen.John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) soon-to-be-fruitless presidential campaign.
The McCain camp has jumped at theopportunity to scrutinize the statementand label Obama as a sexist, claiminghis lipstick comment was directed to-ward GOP vice presidential candidateGov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska).
It is easy to make this supposed con-nection. In the eyes of many campaignspectators, Palin has taken on the imageof the “beauty” to complement Sen.John McCain’s (R–Ariz.) “brawn” and“brains.” But let’s not assume theObama campaign has turned to OldMacDonald and swine name-calling.
The main problem is the metaphor in-cludes the word “lipstick” — an itemthat Palin herself wants used more oftenin the White House.
But the context of the quote in no wayrefers specifically to Palin.
Obama said, “John McCain says he’sabout change too... And so I guess hiswhole angle is, ‘Watch out, George Bush— except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy,foreign policy and Karl Rove-style poli-tics — we’re really gonna shake thingsup in Washington.’” So there’s the pig.
Now for the lipstick, which could beon the lips of two things, neither beingPalin. Either the lipstick is the generalmessage of “change” that McCain is en-dorsing, or Palin herself is the stick ofMaybelline. In no logical way can it beinterpreted that Palin is the pig. She iseither the lipstick (which is hardly an in-sult) or she is one of the jockeys on thepork of McCain’s campaign.
My recommendation to Obama aboutthe quote: say “lipstick on an elephant”— it’s clearer, not to mention painfullycorny.
BRIAN HOOKSJUNIOR
JOURNALISM
The greatest university presidents have had a well-defined vision for theinstitution and aggressively used their position as spokesmen of the uni-versity to generate progress. Consider, for example, former president“Curley” Byrd, who is judged by some to be the most influential individual
in the university’s history. During Byrd’s tenure as president, enrollment morethan quadrupled, state funding increased more than six-fold,and the university’s total increased tremendously, from $3 mil-lion to $37 million.
It was a combination of Byrd’s unparalleled politicalinvolvement (he was, at one time, the favored candidate inMaryland’s 1954 gubernatorial race) and his vocal champi-oning of his vision that led to his unparalleled success. In Mon-day’s State of the Campus address, university President DanMote outlined his commitment to the self-reliance needed toachieve excellence in the coming decade but refused to take an equally strongstance when it came to addressing alcohol abuse on the campus. We urge him tofollow in Byrd’s footsteps to become the university’s leader, instead of merely itshead cheerleader.
At yesterday’s address, Mote announced an entire day of programming commit-ted to addressing drinking. Last month, he signed the Amethyst Initiative, a docu-ment acknowledging the seriousness of alcohol abuse on college campuses nation-wide and demanding an honest discussion of potential solutions, including lower-
ing the drinking age to 18. The initiative drew vociferous attacks in the nationalpress, and we applaud Mote’s commitment to pursuing this dialogue despite thecriticism he’s fielded; the issue is simply too pressing to stall or ignore it.
But Mote needs to become more aggressive still. When asked about adopting aGood Samaritan policy, he hemmed and hawed. Mote declined to answer the
question, claiming he didn’t want to violate the principles ofshared governance and it was a matter for consideration by theUniversity Senate.
While we appreciate and value Mote’s espoused respect for theperspectives of the senate’s staff, administrators and students, itcannot serve as an excuse for timid leadership. It is Mote’s responsi-bility to develop a firm position on the university’s most importantissues and to lead the University Senate — much in the same wayWhite House initiatives are driven through the U.S. Congress.
Strong leadership will never be universally popular; Byrd had to contend withboth the suspicion of his colleagues and consistently critical coverage in The (Bal-timore) Sun. Furthermore, in times of crisis, strong leadership may require aban-doning an established process: Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus topreserve the Union. We’re hardly encouraging Mote to lock up students, but it isnot hyperbole to suggest alcohol abuse on the campus approaches crisis. Theadoption of a Good Samaritan policy has the potential to literally save lives. Leadus, Mote.
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Crime is like that annoyingfriend from your freshmandorm — it shows up atinopportune times and it
attacks before you have time toreact. But instead of awkwardexchanges of “Let’s hang out some-time,” you could be knocked downwith your wallet stolen.
Although we live in an area witha high crime rate — according to a2006 FBI report, the universityrecorded the second-highest num-ber of violent crimes of all stateuniversities with large undergrad-uate populations — we also live inan area with a large population.
With 25,813 undergraduatesattending this university, the prob-ability of becoming a victim of acrime is statistically very low. But
crime can, and does, happen, andthe university needs to take realsteps to address this long-standingissue.
The Student Government Associ-ation and University Police will tellyou they have taken steps toaddress the problem. But onlinepresentations lecturing you onsecurity do little. I mean, the onlything I remember from Alco-holEDU, another online presenta-tion, is to put water, rather thanalcohol, in your red cup.
Education and preventive meas-ures help only so much. Whileinexcusable, student behavior onthe campus will never change, nomatter the threat. Inebriated stu-dents will still walk back from thebars alone rather than waiting an
hour and a half for NITE Ride, andsober students will still walk aloneacross the campus at night to theirfriends’ dorm rooms.
It is the responsibility of theleaders at this university to stoptrying to protect students fromthemselves and to start protectingthem from crime.
How about taking some realsteps toward protecting this cam-pus, like better lighting? If you’ve
ever walked from across the cam-pus past Shipley Field at night, youknow what I’m talking about.
Or how about foot patrols alongPaint Branch Parkway on the wayto the College Park Metro Station?How about something other thanoft-repeated advice that studentstune out?
Unlike when you see that annoy-ing friend from afar, you can’t turnthe other way when dealing withthe issue of crime. But that’sexactly what this university hasdone. It’s time for administrators totake a second look.
Joel Cohen is a junior governmentand politics major. He can bereached at [email protected].
Leaders: Protect students from crime, not themselves
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BuzzLightyear andWoody of ToyStory 2.
the end of an era: MTV’s TRL
Surprising news came Monday night when MTV announced itwould end its flagship video show, Total Request Live, inNovember, after 10 years on the air.
In the late ’90s and early 2000s, TRL was theshow you watched for your music video fix. It madestars out of Britney Spears, *NSync, Eminem,Limp Bizkit and especially its host, Carson Daly.TRL shaped pop music at a time when MTVwasn’t just a network for faux-reality shows.
Long gone are the days of TRL’s reign,however; Daly left for his own talk show in 2002,and the show — which featured a rotating cast ofyoung VJs, including Vanessa Minnillo and One TreeHill’s Hilarie Burton — never quite recovered.
TRL will officially go on hiatus — producer DaveSirulnick said it isn’t dead just yet — with a two-hour special inNovember. In recognition, Diversions takes a look at three ofTRL’s more infamous moments.
MARIAH CAREY BREAKS DOWNIn 2001, Mariah Carey wanted to become a
movie star. On the heels of Glitter’s release in2001, Carey appeared on TRL, wheeled out anice cream cart, took off her shirt and said allshe wanted was to take a day off so she couldeat ice cream, stare at rainbows and learn howto ride a bike. It was either a cry for help or a
publicity stunt, but either way, Carey’sbreakdown didn’t help Glitter, which tanked both
commercially and critically.
EMINEM VS. MARK WAHLBERGOne of the more awkward moments in TRL history
came during an oddly booked interview betweenDaly, Eminem and Mark Wahlberg. All threeappeared out-of-sorts during the spot, withEminem breaking the ice by saying somethingto the effect of, “Let’s all stand around like afunky bunch.” Wahlberg didn’t take too keenlyto the reference to Wahlberg’s former rap group— he denounced his days as Marky Mark and theFunky Bunch to move on to an acting career — anda mini-feud erupted, Eminem’s TRL specialty.
THE JESSE CAMP EXPERIMENTWith TRL came a renewed interest in VJs — a
term MTV coined for its show hosts — and thewinner of the first Wanna Be a VJ contest wasJesse Camp, a homeless-looking apparent junkieand wannabe rocker. Camp seemed ill-fit for thejob, and appeared on TRL intermittently the year
after he won. He also tried to parlay his fame into afailed music career, but Camp was troubled from the
start, and MTV never seemed to get it.
COLUMN | THE CULINARIAN
Oh my sweet Carolina
BYTRIPPLAINOStaff writer
One of the biggest holes in College Park’s cui-sine is a lack of home-style eating. While there’sa plethora of quick food, café-style eateries andnational chains, there isn’t much in the way ofdown-home eating. Thankfully, CarolinaKitchen is here to save the day.
OK, Carolina Kitchen isn’t in College Park —it’s located behind the Towers at UniversityTown Center, adjacent to the Regal Royale 14movie theater. But its location doesn’t make adifference, because it still serves the area withgood food in a nicely designed interior.
Wood floors are complemented by warm or-ange-colored walls decorated with jazz postersand musical instruments. The bar area contin-ues the wood floors and a bevy of large, high-definition televisions, making it a primo spot tocatch some good food or a good brew whileyou’re watching the game.
The appetizers list is one place where Caroli-na Kitchen takes some chances, which is al-ways nice to see. Among the normal selections,like bacon and cheese fries and chicken wings,there are also a multitude of fried selections.Frankly, there’s almost no better way to trysomething you’ve never had before than whenit’s breaded and deep-fried.
Options include sweet potato fries ($4.95),okra ($5.45), zucchini ($6.45), green tomatoes($9.95) and eggplant fries ($6.45). While theseare certainly not one-of-a-kind creations, theyare fun regional novelties some may havenever tried before.
And thankfully, the regional specialties aren’tlimited to appetizers. The southern oddity ofchitterlings have a home on the menu, with aone-pound portion for $13.99. Also known as“chitlins,” the dish comprises pig intestines. It’s
a meal better set for the adventurous.Fried chicken can sometimes be a rough ex-
perience: Too often, breast meat dries out bythe time it gets to the customer, forcing the useof a condiment to better enjoy it. Thankfully, itwasn’t the case here.
The chicken breast was absolutely massive,roughly the size of a brick. Fortunately, the sim-ilarities between the two ended there. Thechicken was succulent beyond belief, comple-mented by its skin, which was dotted with a va-riety of spices and added an extra oomph to theflavor of the fried chicken. The crunchy bits ofextra seasonings and flour on the chicken arelike bombs of flavor, exploding with a satisfy-ingly salty and greasy crunch in every bite.
Chicken is available in either two- ($7.79, add$.99 for white meat), three- ($9.99) or four-piece ($11.89)dinners and comes with two sidesand cornbread.
The side dishes come from the typical mixfound at soul food and barbecue restaurants:macaroni and cheese, baked beans and collard
greens are all featured, as well as a New Year’sEve favorite, black-eyed peas. A small side is$3.29, and a large (for takeout only) is $5.29. Fearnot, as the small sides are generous portions.
The collard greens were the biggest disap-pointment of the sides, but even its shortcom-ings could not derail the rest of the meal. Thebarbecued pork mixed into the greens added astrong barbecue flavor not normally present ingreens, and, while this addition made thegreens overly sweet instead of slightly bitter(the typical serving style), it did add a nice,smoky flavor. Without the overt sweetness, itwould have been a winner.
Regardless of the slight misstep with the col-lard greens, Carolina Kitchen is a restaurantworth making a trip for. Whether you’re in themood for a meaty rack of ribs, a platter of friedchicken, blackened catfish or a fried pork chop,it’s one place where you can scratch your soul-food itch.
While it may not be in College Park, Carolina Kitchen lives just outside the city, near UniversityTown Center in Hyattsville. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Midfielder Katie O’Donnell and the Terps have beaten American 30 of 31 times all-time. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps face off withNo. 14 American
BY MICHAEL KATZStaff writer
Don’t call it a rivalry.The No. 2 Terrapin field hockey team
hosts No. 14 American today at 3 in the32nd all-time meeting between the teamslocated just a few Metro stops apart. TheTerps lead the series 30-1.
The competition has heated up in recentyears, with four of the last six meetingsbeing decided by two goals or fewer.
The storyline had been fueled by thepresence of the Infante sisters on bothsidelines. Paula Infante was a four-timeAll-American for the Terps, while CamilaInfante and Denise Infante were All-Americans last season for the Eagles.
All three sisters have graduated in thepast two years. With the family feud nolonger a factor, coach Missy Meharg saidthe top-15 matchup is just another gameon the Terps’ (5-1) tough schedule.
“It’s never really been a brewingrivalry; it’s always just been a cross-towngame,” Meharg said. “It became a rivalrybecause of the sisterhood in those fouryears here, and that was very real, justfrom a parental standpoint and a culturestandpoint. But that’s not present on theteam anymore.”
Of greater concern for the Terps iscontinuing to regain the momentumthat was derailed in last Saturday’s lossto No. 3 Syracuse. The Terps stormedback with a 10-1 win against North-western on Sunday.
American finds itself in a similar posi-tion. The Eagles (3-2) used a 5-2 winagainst Northwestern Saturday to getback on track after consecutive losses toNo. 6 Iowa and No. 9 Duke.
“Before [the loss to Syracuse], we were
just sitting back, hoping that our skillswould just kind of take over,” forwardSarah Scholl said. “Now it’s the front ofeverybody’s mind that we have to playwell every day.”
A key for the Terps is to continue tomove offensively like they did againstNorthwestern, when they applied relent-less pressure on the Wildcat defense. Theteam has run up the score on several over-matched opponents but struggled againststauncher defenses such as Penn Stateand Syracuse.
As a result, the Terps are excited to get backon the field against yet another top-20 team.
That the team happens to be Americanonly adds to the anticipation. Even withoutthe Infante sisters, players said they stilllooked forward to the contest.
“It’s like fighting over territory —kind of a DC-Maryland field hockeything — because you know they’reright around the corner and they’realways good,” Scholl said. “It’s alwaysa team we know well, and it’s always agreat game.”
Without Infante sisters, local matchup has less flair
Terps vs. AmericanWhere: Field Hockey &
Lacrosse ComplexWhen: Today, 3 p.m.
Radio: WMUCsports.com
Volleyball coach Tim Horsmon won — and won often — at every stop he made before joining the Terps this season. So far, the Terps are 2-7. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Finding his shellTim Horsmon is finally coaching volleyball at the school he grew up loving
BY KATE YANCHULISStaff writer
If you want to stop in on a Terrapinvolleyball practice session this season,you are out of luck.
Coach Tim Horsmon bolts thedoors to the Comcast Center Pavilionfor the three-hour daily practicesand the team discussions that usu-ally follow, bringing intensity,urgency and — he hopes — winning.
His tough methods have not paiddividends yet in his first year withthe program. The team is only 2-7this season, albeit through a toughout-of-conference schedule. But thisdoes not discourage Horsmon, whogrew up in Maryland, went to LeftyDriesell basketball camps and, asthe son of an alumnus, has rooted forthe Terps all his life.
“I don’t know how many years it isgoing to take, but my goal has alwaysbeen to win a national championship,”Horsmon said. “And there couldn’t beanything cooler for me than to do it atthe University of Maryland. It’s going tohappen. We’re not doing what we needto do right now, but, in the long run, weare going to be one of the elite programsin this country. It will happen.”
Horsmon took over for coach JaniceKruger, who retired in January afterheading the program for 20 years.
Kruger led the team to five ACC
Championships, including three in arow from 2003 to 2005, but in her lastfew years, the atmosphere becamelax and the program slipped intomediocrity.
Horsmon came with only nine yearsof experience as an NCAA Division Ihead coach, five years at Dayton andfour years before that at Robert Morris.
Even with so little experience, he hasearned eight NCAA tournament bids,eight conference championships and a225-93 record with his past teams.
Freshman setter Sharon Strizakswitched her commitment from Daytonto Maryland specifically for Horsmonand his coaching staff.
“I just really liked the way hecoached at Dayton,” she said. “I thinkhe’s brought a new identity to this teamand a new work ethic. The team reallyhas pride.”
Even with his own recruit, cominginto a program can be a difficulttask. The players are unknown, theroutines are not yet established. ButHorsmon embraced the challenge ashe had twice before.
“I think coach Kruger and I, ourstyles are just very different,” Horsmonsaid. “She was very successful for 20years, and there’s not really a right orwrong style, but we’re just different.You’re always going to run into someproblems, some issues. That’s not theplayers’ faults, that’s just the situation.
They’re having to adjust to us, and I’msure that’s not easy.”
Rather than ease into it, Horsmondived in headfirst, immediately imple-menting his own brand of coaching toget the players acclimated. Horsmonkeeps the team and the players undertight control and pushes the players togive 100-percent every day on the court,especially stressing the importance ofconsistent play.
But for Horsmon, consistency doesnot translate to a set cast of playerson the court from match to match.Rather than having a set startinglineup, players “earn their time” inpractices and games.
Horsmon has tried seemingly endlesscombinations of players and substi-tutes, including more recent ones thatfavor youth over experience.
Some established and experiencedplayers can find the team’s new direc-tion hard to swallow. Senior setter TediDoucet and senior outside hitter MaryBeth Brown were pulled from the rota-tion last weekend in favor of Strizak,Maddi Lee and Brittney Grove.
Both Doucet and Brown were un-available for comment.
“We’re trying to find the right playersthat will give us the most success thisyear,” Horsmon said. “I think a lot ofthat is the players. The players need towalk in and say, ‘I am going to earn aspot on the floor. I am going to work to-
ward this role on this team.’ Right nowwe have a lot of players that are kind ofin the mix but no one has really estab-lished themselves.”
Despite the lineup shuffles, senioroutside hitter Maggie Schmelzle saidthe new coach has brought positivechanges such as renewed energy, workethic and team play that have onlychanged the team for the better.
This enthusiasm can be heard eventhrough the closed gymnasium doors;the players cheer for each other overthe squeaking of sneakers and pound-ing of volleyballs.
“We’re trying to make changes; it’sjust our execution that isn’t there yet,”Schmelzle said. “But we’re gettingthings together, and we see how goodwe can be.”
Horsmon has not had the instant suc-cess with the Terps that he had with hisprevious programs. Still, he is confidenthe can lead his home team to success.
“We came here to do something spe-cial. We left a program that was a top-25program because we knew it would bespecial,” Horsmon said. “Our goal is tosurpass our last program as soon as pos-sible and be a national contender.
“This was a great opportunity forme to come home and work for theschool that I think is the greatestschool in the country.”
SCHIMMEL
convert 13 of his 14 field goal at-tempts against ACC opponentslast season.
“I have all the confidence inthe world in Obi,” quarterbackChris Turner said. “There’s nopoint in getting down on him be-cause we’re going to need him atsome point down the road. Youjust got to keep practicing and getbetter. I think he’ll be all right.”
That’s the spirit, Chris.It’s not like Egekeze doesn’t
have the ability to be successful.He made 17-of-23 attempts
last season in his first year kick-ing field goals for the Terps, andhe’s been the victim of some badluck so far this season.
Two of his three attempts inthe season-opener againstDelaware — all of which werefrom more than 40 yards out —hit the goalpost, and he also hitmetal in his lone attempt againstMiddle Tennessee.
The near misses must havestarted to get in Egekeze’s head,as he didn’t really look terribleuntil he hooked a 27-yard at-tempt against California.
“It’s not a physical thing,”coach Ralph Friedgen said afterthe Cal game. “You got to kick it.He’s trying to steer it through.”
But while he admitted thisweek that the field goal kickingis a concern, Friedgen smartlyisn’t ready to give up onEgekeze just yet.
Friedgen said during his week-ly news conference Tuesday thatEgekeze, who was not madeavailable for comment, lookedvery good in practice Monday onthe first day of competition.
At the end of a two-minutedrill, both Wallace and Egekezewere brought in to kick a 51-yardfield goal. Wallace missed his at-tempt, and Egekeze knocked histhrough.
“[At] our kicking competition[Monday] night, I would thinkObi won the kicking competi-tion,” Friedgen said. “We’ll stillhave it competitive this week,we’ll see where it goes. Obi[Monday] night was kicking very,very well, so we’ll see where’she’s at.”
And let’s hope whereEgekeze’s at Saturday againstEastern Michigan is back on thefield kicking field goals.
One kick down the middlecould get him back on theright foot.
“Once he gets going he’sgoing to be fine,” widereceiver Darrius Heyward-Bey said. “The team, we’rebehind him. So as long as hehas his teammates behind himI think he’ll be all right.”
Egekezehas supportfrom Terps
EGEKEZE, from Page 10
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BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
As efficient as the No. 4 Ter-rapin men’s soccer team hasbeen on offense this season,coach Sasho Cirovski thinks itcan be even better.
That’s because forward JasonHerrick, a redshirt sophomorewho sat out all of last season be-cause of a torn meniscus, is grad-ually approaching the form thatearned him a spot on the All-ACCfreshman team in 2006.
“We’re already better withhim in the lineup. He looks likehe’s getting 1, 2, 3 percent bet-ter every game,” Cirovski said.“It’s only a matter of time be-fore he gets his full grooveback.”
Before a head injury sidelinedhim 12 games into the 2006 sea-son, Herrick displayed the versa-tility and strength that Cirovskisaid reminded him a little bit ofthe program’s all-time leadingscorer, Jason Garey.
Herrick finished crosses withhis head and showed his touch,putting a goal in the top left cor-ner from 30 yards out in a gameagainst N.C. State on his way toscoring five goals in his first eightcareer games.
The Elmhurst, Ill., native re-covered in time to record thegame-winning assist in the TerpsNCAA tournament match withSt. John’s.
But then, Herrick tore themeniscus in his knee — twice. It
was a slow recovery process, onehe’s still going through even as hehas regained the starting for-ward spot.
“Obviously, my legs still feela little weak compared to whatthey should be,” Herrick said.“The first couple months, itwas going slow. But since I’vebeen back, it’s been going pret-ty good.”
Though he hasn’t scored thisseason for the Terps (4-1-0), Her-rick has made an impact on theattack. Through four games hehas one assist and a couple ofscoring opportunities, one thatmissed by a matter of inches.
With a little more than 30 min-utes left in the first half of theTerps’ Sept. 7 win against David-son, Herrick gathered the balland saw Davidson goalkeeperMatt McElroy out of the net. Her-rick flicked a shot over McEl-roy’s head, and the ball skirtedjust outside the left post.
“I missed it by a little bit,but they’ll come,” Herricksaid. “When we need to score Ithink I’ll be the guy and I’ll getthe big one.”
That confidence is anotherreason why Cirovski said it’s onlya matter of time before Herrickgets back to full strength andcompletes his comeback.
“He just has a malice about theway he plays,” Cirovski said. “Hecan throw fear into any team.”
But the intensity Herrick playswith also made sitting throughthe injury harder, though Her-rick said he eventually found theright mindset.
“It was frustrating. But I justdecided that once it happened,it’s done. I can’t do anythingabout it, so I just tried to makethe best out of it,” Herrick said.“I tried to find the positives andjust do whatever was best forthe team, whether it was talk-ing to people and motivating orwhatever I could do from thesideline.”
Now that Herrick is off thesideline and healthy for the firsttime in a year, Cirovski hopes theforward will again show thepromise he did during his fresh-man year.
On fresh feet
Forward Jason Herrick missed all of last season with a knee injurybut provides scoring ability. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Herrick’srecovery givesTerps another
offensive option
Green working his way backhave another tough assign-ment to add to his schedule.
The Terp backfield wouldalso be aided by Morgan Green,who saw his first action of theseason Saturday after missingmost of the preseason with aquadriceps injury. Friedgen saidrunning back Dan Bonato andfull back Corey Jackson couldalso seeing time in Scott’s role.
But Meggett, who hasshown flashes of brilliance ingaining 136 yards on 22 car-ries this season, would likelytake the bulk of the work.
“He’s a true freshman, andhe’s learning every day,”Friedgen said of Meggett,who rushed for a career-high82 yards and a touchdown on13 carries against Cal. “IfDa’Rel can’t go, he has tocome up big for us this game.We’re going to count on that.”
Meggett said he expectsScott to play Saturday. Hesaid Scott is feeling bettereach day and looked good car-rying the football in practice
Tuesday.But even if Scott makes his
fourth career start againstEastern Michigan, Meggettknows he plays a key role inthe running game.
“I love helping him out,”Meggett said. “He alwayslooks to me, and he’s like, ‘Yougot me?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I gotyou.’ He deserves a break.”
Meggett earned the secondrunning back spot in presea-son camp with his hard-nosedplay when Green was side-lined. But Friedgen said hehad relaxed his effort inrecent practices, causing theeighth-year coach to have atalk with Meggett before theCal game.
After Meggett stepped infor an injured Scott andhelped seal an upset win,Friedgen said Meggett wasback playing hard Mondayand showing progress in sev-eral areas he had struggled,including pass blocking.
He expressed confidence inMeggett and Green, whoearned praise after taking his
first consistent reps in about amonth.
Green, who entered presea-son atop the depth chart withScott, picked up no yardsagainst Cal on his first twocarries of the season.
He said he’s back at 100percent and ready to con-tribute.
“It’s been rough,” Greensaid. “I was looking forwardto the season, and then I gotthis nagging injury. Hope-fully, I have a chance to getback out there.”
Scott is hurting, Meggett’syoung, and Green just wantsan opportunity.
The Terps would love to getall three in top form headinginto ACC play, but it might notmatter who is in the backfieldagainst the Eagles.
The Terps, with an all-sen-ior starting offensive line,have displayed a dominatingground game so far this sea-son. They are averaging 186rushing yards per game and4.8 yards per rushingattempt.
“The holes they are openingup are not just big, they’re gap-ing,” Meggett said. “We’re alllooking forward to runningthrough them.”
TERP NOTES: Defensiveend Mack Frost was listed asdoubtful with a knee injury.These players are out for Sat-urday: safety Terrell Skinner(ankle), cornerback RichardTaylor (knee), receiverLaQuan Williams (foot). ...Friedgen also noted thatsafety Dominique Herald willnot redshirt this season. Her-ald, who was suspended forthe first game of the season,will be forced into actionbecause of injuries in the sec-ondary.
[email protected] Green lost his position as the Terps’ second running backafter an injury. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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NSCAA/adidas Men’s Soccer Top 10School Record Prev.1. Wake Forest (5-0-0) 12. SMU (5-0-1) 43. Notre Dame (4-1-0) 54. TERRAPINS (4-1-0) 85. St. John’s (5-0-1) 11
School Record Prev.6. California (3-0-2) 67. Connecticut (2-0-3) 78. North Carolina (4-0-1) 129. Northwestern (5-0-1) 1410. Akron (3-1-2) 2
Hug thy kicker
Obi Egekeze has yet to make a field goal this season on five attempts. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
GREGSCHIMMEL
If you happen to see ObiEgekeze walking around thecampus this week, give him apat on the back.
Or maybe you could look himright in the eye, give him a firmhandshake and say “I still believein you, Obi.”
Or maybe just give him a hug.The Terrapin football team’s
senior kicker is going throughtough times right now, and hecould seriously use a confidenceboost.
Egekeze is 0-for-5 on field goalattempts through the Terps’ firstthree games this season, and hehas fallen into a competition inpractice this week with the Terps’four other kickers. SophomoreNick Wallace and redshirt fresh-man Mike Barbour are the closestbehind him.
But a change to a new place-kicker who has never attempted afield goal in a collegiate game isnot what the Terps need right now.If Egekeze is having trouble stand-ing up to the pressure, how willany of the others fare?
As frustrating as it might beuntil he straightens things out, theTerps need to continue to bepatient with Egekeze and hope hesomehow regains the mentaltoughness that allowed him to
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Meggett maystart at RB
True freshman Davin Meggett took over for starting runningback Da’Rel Scott after Scott injured his shoulder and rushedfor 82 yards Saturday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY ERIC DETWEILERSenior staff writer
Davin Meggett is confi-dent in his abilities on thefootball field.
That’s why the Ter-rapin running back hasother things on his mind,despite the possibility ofhis first career start Sat-urday against EasternMichigan if Da’Rel Scottcan’t play because of aleft shoulder injury.
“What I’m thinkingabout this weekend is Ihave some homework todo in government andwomen’s literature,”Meggett said. “I thinkthose are actually on mymind.”
Scott, the ACC’s lead-ing rusher at 135.7 yardsper game, sprained the
AC joint in his shoulderon a third-quarter run inSaturday’s 35-27 winagainst Cal.
Coach Ralph Friedgensaid the sophomore isvery sore and would weara no-contact jersey atpractice to begin theweek. Scott is question-able against the Eagles,but Friedgen said hehopes to get him on thefield.
Scott was not availablefor comment.
If Scott is out, the 5-foot-8, 210-pound Meggett will
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2008FOOTBALL