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Our 100TH Year, No. 43THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERThursday, October 29, 2009
Education school reshapingBudget cuts speed up consolidation seven departments down to three
BY CARRIE WELLSSenior staff writer
The College of Education willmerge seven departments intothree next fall in a radical over-haul administrators hope willleave it better positioned to copewith budget cuts and preparethe next generation of teachers.
While some colleges arescarcely changing in the face ofdwindling state dollars, Educa-
tion Dean DonnaWiseman sees theselean times as anopportunity to helpthe college’s facultycommunicate moreeffectively. She hadstarted plans to con-solidate the collegewhile she served asinterim dean lastyear, but recentbudget cuts sped up
the process.“We’re not known
for how quick we areto change as a cam-pus,” she said. “Weneed to be more flexi-ble in terms of whatthe state wants, whatthe students want.”
Next fall, depart-ments includingteacher education,education policy, spe-
cial education, human develop-ment, education statistics,counseling and higher educa-tion administration will re-emerge as three units. Stu-dents in underpopulated pro-grams might see their majorscut, while other education stu-dents might not even noticethe difference.
Wiseman said students inDONNAWISEMAN EDUCATION DEAN
At disabilities forum,students air broadrange of complaints
DOTS Director David Allen discusses how his department ishelping students with disabilities at a public forum held inMcKeldin Library yesterday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK
Administration blames lack of fundsfor delays in addressing issues
BY NELLY DESMARATTESStaff writer
The university’s disabledpopulation faces a range ofissues every day, from whatmore than 30 students, facultyand staff members called “dis-respectful” employees to an“apathetic” administration atthe annual Campus Forum onDisability Issues yesterday.
The hour-and-a-half-longdiscussion in McKeldinLibrary focused on everythingfrom a lack of building accessand transportation, to wide-spread insensitivity, to thefrustrations the disabled com-munity has with universityadministrators, to the length oftime it takes to get changesmade at the university.
Administrators whoattended the forum blamed atight budget and lack ofresources for the delays inaddressing student concernsbut emphasized that serving
the university’s disabled popu-lation is, and will continue tobe, a top priority.
Throughout the forum, stu-dents with disabilities broughtup the difficulties they haveexperienced interacting withtheir professors. Several peoplecalled for mandatory sensitivitytraining for faculty and theinclusion of disabilities aware-ness programs for students.
Anthony Byrd, a senior gov-ernment and politics majorwith speech and physicalimpairments, spoke of hisimpression that two or threeof his professors are nothappy he is in their classes.He said he felt disrespectedwhen a professor addressedan issue about him to thedirector of the DisabilitiesSupport Service, Jo AnnHutchinson, instead of con-tacting him directly.
“I feel that some professors
Old school councilmenface newcomer in Dist. 2
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
Voters in College Park’s rap-idly transforming District 2head to the polls Tuesday todecide who will oversee an ever-increasing student population,choosing between the city’slongest-serving incumbents anda newcomer who moved to thecity just two years ago.
Bob Catlin and Jack Perryhave each represented the dis-trict — central College Park,including most of the campus —
for more than a decade, butchallenger Bob Weber says it’stime for a fresh outlook as thearea grapples with studentrental homes spreading everfarther from campus and as newstudent housing complexes pre-pare to sprout up just alongRoute 1.
But Catlin — who first joinedthe council in 1997 — said thecity needs his experience andexpertise to guide it through thistransition. Someone unfamiliar
The legacy of Len23 years after star basketballplayer’s death, Without Bias
premiers at Hoff tonight
BY JONAS SHAFFERStaff writer
In just 96 minutes tonight,filmmaker Kirk Fraser hopes hecan bring closure to the story ofa death he says has lingereduntold for the past 23 years.
Without Bias, Fraser’s docu-mentary about the drug over-dose death of former Terrapinmen’s basketball star Len Bias,will make its world premiere
tonight at the Hoff Theaterbefore debuting on ESPNTuesday as part of the net-work’s “30 for 30” film series.
“It’s just an eye-opener in see-ing that one mistake could costyou everything,” Fraser said.
But until now, the tale of theBias tragedy has mainly beentold in newspapers and televisionretrospectives, rarely garnering
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More than 160 people learned to do the dance accompanying Michael Jackson’s 1982 No. 1 hit "Thriller" lastnight in Eppley Recreational Center. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Instructor Mona Javid, Jr. (center)taught the group how to do the “Thriller”dance. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Hordes of students freak out while learning classic danceBY ALLISON LYONS
For The Diamondback
With Halloween a few days away,ghouls and zombies invaded theEppley Recreation Center last night.
Students dressed up in leatherjackets, tight pants and other“Thriller”-inspired outfits for thethird annual “Thriller” dance at theERC. The dance attracted about 160students, much more than a typical
dance class. The instructors saidthey hope this free class will inspirethe students who came to attendmore of the regularly scheduleddance classes.
At the end of the night, instructorspresented awards for the bestdancer, best costume and the mostenergetic.
“I put my all into this costume,”
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the soon-to-be-cut programs will beable to complete their degrees, and iftheir required classes are axed, the col-lege will work to find substitutes. Thecollege has not yet decided which pro-grams will stay and which will go.
The more efficient communicationwill also help the college manage withfewer professors or staff, as they havebeen unable to hire new ones when theold ones leave, Wiseman said.
“You can see what will happen overtime — when you put [departments]together, they might come up with newprograms and eliminate the old,” shesaid. “That’s what I’m hoping for.”
Wiseman said she would do every-thing she could to avoid layoffs.Instead, some faculty and staff mightbe reshuffled into new positions.
The largest of the new departments,with nearly 50 faculty members, willhouse programs related to teachingand teacher education, special educa-tion and education policy.
The second department will focus
solely on research in educational psy-chology, assessment, statistics andhuman development. The third willdeal with counseling, higher education,leadership and personnel services.Those two departments will haveabout 25 faculty members each.
Other changes to the college includea greater emphasis on globalization andtechnology. To accomplish this, the col-lege will develop programs with othercolleges, such as the College of agricul-ture and natural resources college andthe information studies college.
“Despite all the rhetoric in the lastpresidential campaign, I don’t think ona day-to-day basis [people] likechange,” said Linda Valli, the currentchair of the large Curriculum andInstruction department. “But I and a lotof people saw it as an opportunity tobreak down the barriers of depart-ments and work together.”
But some faculty feel confused andleft out of the process. One educationprofessor, who asked not to be namedso he could speak more openly, said a“significant” number of faculty aren’twelcomingthe changes.
“People feel like they’re disenfran-chised in the process and are less thancomfortable with the final outcome,”the professor said. “There are somegroups that don’t feel comfortablewith who they’re being merged with.Many people weren’t informed in atimely manner. And it’s not clear
where these decisions are comingfrom. Is it the provost, the dean?”
Professor Connie North said shewas unsure of how the reorganiza-tion would turn out.
“I think it holds promise becausethe current structure doesn’t makemuch sense,” she said. “But if you’retrying to be cost-efficient, how doesthe economy compromise this goalof excellence?”
Wiseman also admitted she hadn’tsought much input from undergrad-uate students and that some gradu-ate students were scared about theirprograms disappearing and whatthat would mean for them.
Faculty and staff in committeeshave already voted on the changes,approving the three-departmentmodel instead of an alternative four-department model. The changesmust now be approved by ProvostNariman Farvardin, the UniversitySenate and, for name changes, theUniversity System Board of Regents.
PROGRAM CHANGESNew Education Departments:
Teacher education, specialeducation and education policy
Research in educational psychology, assessment, statistics and human development
Counseling, higher education,leadership and personnel services
SOURCE: Education DeanDonna Wiseman
said sophomore economics majorChelsea McKenzie, who won thecostume award for her Michael Jack-son imitation outfit. “I channeled myinner Michael.”
Students took advantage of theopportunity to dress up a few daysbefore Halloween and came deckedout in Michael Jackson attire andzombie-like costumes.
Sophomore hearing and speech sci-ence major Rachel Pomycala camewearing a torn flannel shirt with fish-net stockings and face paint.
“There’s zombies in the ‘Thriller’video, so we wanted to go with thevideo,” she said.
Sophomore psychology major LiaKarvounis, who came with Pomy-cala, also wore a zombie outfit.
“We ended up looking more likethe joker,” Karvounis said, notingtheir bright face paint.
Though the event was primarily adance class, many of the partici-pants did not have much dancingexperience. But most students saidit didn’t matter.
“This is more for fun than realmusical talent,” senior marketingmajor Sue O’Neill said. “It’s not thattechnically difficult.”
Others, like sophomore journalismmajor Michaelle Bond, said it’s justnot Halloween without “Thriller.”
“I’ve always wanted to know thedance. It’s quintessential Halloweento learn the dance,” Bond said.
“We got a party to go to, so we def-initely have to know the ‘Thriller,’”junior psychology major RobertGranville added.
Some attendees had done the dancebefore, such as freshman letters andsciences major Carmen Alston, whosaid it has been years since she firstlearned the “Thriller” moves.
“When I was little, I did two-steppingin front of the TV to this,” Alston said.
The instructor, junior communica-tion major Mona Javid, has taughtthe dance all three years at the ERC.
“It comes kind of naturally,” Javidsaid. “It’s a really easy dance. Youcan just follow.”
Due to the enthusiastic studentresponse Javid gets every year, shesaid she intends to continue the“Thriller” tradition in the future.
“As long as I’m here,” Javid said,the dancing will go on.
Angela Fu, a graduate student andfitness instructor, helps with the pro-
gram in hopes that the unique themewould inspire people who don’t nor-mally exercise to come out and try it.
“I can’t think of a muscle you don’tuse [doing the dance],” she said. “It’sa way to exercise and have fun.”
Some of the students ended uphaving so much fun, they said theywant to come back and try otherdance classes.
“This will be the catalyst to get meto go to more classes,” Bond said.
A group of more than 160 students learned the "Thriller" dance at a special Halloween-themed dance class atEppley Recreational Center last night. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Members of the Student Government Association showed up to their Tuesday night meetingin costume. They also unanimously passed two bills on academic reform. VINCE SALAMONE/THE
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Academic reform bills passBills aimed at influencing decisions on final exam
BY EMILIE OPENCHOWSKIStaff writer
Two SGA bills aimed atinfluencing the UniversitySenate’s position on key aca-demic reforms passed thelegislature unanimously lastnight.
The senate is consideringchanging the current finalexam policy to limit the maxi-mum number of exams perday to two, and making theprocedure for reviewing alle-gations of unfair grading morestudent-friendly. The two Stu-dent Government Associationbills are meant to encouragethe senate to adopt the pro-posed changes.
While the SGA doesn’t havethe power to actually changepolicy, the senate directlyadvises university PresidentDan Mote, and he rarelyignores their decisions.
The first resolution encour-ages the university to lowerthe maximum number of finalexams a student can take in aday from three to two.
Business legislator CindyKim, a senior finance andaccounting major who spon-sored the legislation, said thatin her first semester at the uni-versity, she had to take threeexams in one day, an experi-ence she called “quite trauma-tizing as a freshman.”
“In the three years I’ve beenat Maryland, I have heard var-ious complaints from myclassmates, peers [and]friends about how havingeven two exams on the sameday is a strain,” Kim said. “Butwhen it’s three, it’s justabsolutely horrendous. …From my own experience, I
agree.”Kim explained further that
six hours of testing seemedtoo extreme to her, and shedecided to investigatewhether that was a reasonablenumber of exams per day.
“Students may very wellknow the material butbecause of the physical andmental strain, they may beunable to clearly show theirknowledge on the exams,”Kim said. “Even the SATsare only about four hours.Having to potentially sit forsix hours of testing seemslike an undue burden.”
Kevin Ford, a junior Eng-lish major and the South Hilllegislator for the SGA, agreedthe policy should be changedbecause having more thantwo exams in one day is unfair.
“Exam week is alreadystressful enough,” Ford said.“We’re trying to make it theeasiest and least stressful pos-sible for students.”
The SGA also endorsedchanges to the system forreviewing alleged instancesof “arbitrary and capriciousgrading.” The bill supportsgiving the committeecharged with hearing com-plaints more power tochange grades and allowingthe committee to include stu-dents and faculty membersfrom different departments.
The current policy sayscommittee members caninstruct a professor to re-grade or re-administer anexam after the committee con-ducts a fact-finding session tofind “clear and convincing evi-dence” the allegation of unfairgrading is true. However, itcan’t force the professor to
change the student’s grade. “In general, we [the SGA]
like to do things to make theacademics of the school easierfor the students,” BSOS legis-lator Shira Silver said. “Stu-dents’ academic recordsshould fairly reflect theirstudy habits, not the numberof tests per day or any capri-cious grading.”
The senate will begin to dis-cuss changes to the policy atthe next meeting of the Acade-mics Procedures and Stan-dards Committee on Nov. 18.Committee Chair Charles Del-wiche said the policy needs tobe changed because it isunfair as it is.
“The problem that we haveright now is that we have apolicy that’s not workable,”Delwiche said. “So what weshould try to do is solve oneproblem at a time. And thefirst problem we need tosolve is to have a process thatis functional. Once we getthat process in place, we cantackle this issue of what thecomposition of the key com-mittee should be.”
Kevin Tervala, a studentsenator, said he thinks theSGA’s resolutions will carry“immense weight” in anyfuture senate decisions.
“This is a step in the rightdirection for those who wantthese changes passed,” Ter-vala said. “These are issuesthat affect the academicenvironment at the univer-sity, which is, in fact, whywe’re in school.”
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with the city’s inner workingswould lose valuable time get-ting up to speed, he said.
Besides, he added, he does-n’t want to quit just as issues hehas worked on over the years— including attracting morestudent housing to Route 1 —are about to become realities.
“You get involved in things,and nothing can get done inthree to four years,” saidCatlin. “You get somethingstarted, and you want to be in-volved with it to see if finished.… It’s nice to see somethingthat you’ve worked on formany years come to fruition.”
Among Catlin’s efforts onthe council was a rent stabiliza-tion ordinance that he intro-duced six years ago in the hopethat capping rental homes’profits would discourage spec-ulators from buying single-fam-ily homes to convert them intostudent rental properties — anultimately failed endeavor.
Catlin voted against continu-ing rent stabilization this sum-mer. However, he still clashesopenly with landlords, callingthem “greedy” and manipula-tive.
But aside from landlords,Catlin has typically shied fromcontroversy. A retired econo-mist from the Federal EnergyRegulatory Commission,Catlin, 55, says his 25 yearswith that office give him the at-titude of a mild-mannered civilservant.
“I always view myself as nota politician but more of a be-hind-the-scenes person, moreof a policy wonk rather thanthe sort of person who wouldactually get elected to some-thing,” he said.
Rather, Catlin said his prefer-ences lie with “facts and fig-ures, which typically hasn’t ap-pealed to a lot of the othercouncil members.”
Perry, District 2’s other in-cumbent, says he also has aquality he feels his colleagueslack: a willingness to think forhimself.
He has served on the councillonger than any other memberand frequently casts the onlydissenting vote on council ac-tion items. He’s also often theonly member of the council tostrike up debate on routineagenda items.
Perry sees himself as thor-ough. Especially if he doesn’tknow everything on a givenbill, he’ll demand to hear a fullexplanation from someonewho does.
Mayor Steve Brayman, wholikes his meetings to move
quickly, has a different opin-ion.
Brayman once describedPerry as “a completely roguecouncil member” during a pub-lic meeting when Perry spokeout of turn; Perry, in turn, hasdescribed his colleagues asBrayman’s “puppet council.”
“I don’t have an agenda,okay? I just want to bring dis-cussion,” Perry said about histwo decade council tenure.
Perry’s blunt statementshave brought no shortage ofcontroversy. The national blo-gosphere debated his failedproposal last year to make Eng-lish the official language of Col-lege Park, and he has no pa-tience for his noisy studentneighbors.
Perry, 69, comes to the coun-cil with a distinctly differentbackground than most of hiscolleagues: He went straightfrom high school to the CoastGuard and subsequently held avariety of blue-collar jobs, mostrecently a self-employed autoparts recycler.
He has been recently grap-pling with cancer, pegging hishopes on an experimental formof chemotherapy. He missed anumber of council meetingsearlier this year for treatment.Now, he says he is presently“vertical and receiving nour-ishment” and lacks any interestin rushing through the coun-cil’s agenda items.
But Bob Weber said District2 needs a fresh face.
“I can bring a new perspec-tive, a fresh approach, newideas — that whole sort of
thing that they haven’t had in awhile,” Weber said.
Weber, a landlord who rentsfive College Park houses to stu-dents, said his interactionswith his tenants give him a bet-ter understanding of the stu-dent population than the dis-trict incumbents.
He added that the city hasbeen “deteriorating” under thewatch of Catlin and Perry.
He admits he doesn’t yetknow what he would do to re-verse the negative trends hesees — particularly in publicsafety — but says that, if elect-ed, he would learn the systemand come up with recommen-dations.
Weber’s other emphasis, hesaid, is taking residents’ viewsdirectly to the council and vot-ing based on what he hearsfrom constituents, rather thanon his own opinions. He saidhis past experience as an airtraffic controller has accus-tomed him to listening insteadof talking, though he de-scribes lengthy council meet-ings as “torture.”
“There’s over a hundredpeople who work for the city,they all have jobs to do, and tome, a lot of the time and effortof the city council goes into mi-cromanaging some very smallaspect that a person on thestaff could have done rightfrom the start,” Weber said.
Weber, 58, grew up in andaround the city and eventuallytook over and expanded his fa-ther’s rental property busi-ness. Over the years, he said,he also flew helicopters in Viet-nam and developed and patent-ed a type of snowboard.
The city council election willbe held Nov. 3. Residents ofDistrict 2 — which stretchesfrom Paint Branch Parkway tojust north of University Boule-vard on the east side of Route 1and also includes most on-cam-pus housing and the UniversityView — vote at City Hall from11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
DISTRICT 2 CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES
BOB CATLINAge: 55
Retired Economist
JACK PERRYAge : 69
Auto-parts salesman
BOB WEBERAge: 58
College Park landlord
are very insensitive to stu-dents with disabilities,” Byrdsaid. “I can take criticism. Theuniversity needs to have acourse that teaches them thatthey can talk to us like theytalk to any other person.”
Nan Kaufman, the mother of ajunior with disabilities, agreedclasses and training sessions areneeded. She added that able-bod-ied people are uncomfortablearound those with disabilitiesand that some professors havevalid questions and but do nothow or where to ask them.
Two issues with transporta-tion were also brought up repeat-edly: Disabled students nowhave to pay for parking at the newpay stations, and handicap park-ing on the campus is limited.
There is a difference betweenconvenience and necessity, andfor some with mobility issues,driving is a necessity, saidwomen’s studies graduate stu-dent Angel Miles, who uses awheelchair to get around.
David Allen, director of theDepartment of TransportationServices, agreed there needs tobe more handicap parking andsaid DOTS plans to add more.
Allen also defended DOTS’ de-cision to require those with dis-abilities pay for parking, citingother universities and cities thatenforce the same policy. It is amatter of fairness, Allen said.
Gay Gullickson, chair of thePresident’s Commission on Dis-abilities Issues and forum mod-erator, told Allen she refuses toaccept that argument.
“It is the cost, not the accessi-bility to meters, that is the prob-lem because driving is some-times the only form of transporta-tion available to [people with dis-abilities],” Gullickson said.
Kaufman and her son, juniorAmerican studies major AaronKaufman, brought up inacces-sible buildings and the lack ofvisible signs as problemsAaron has experienced on thecampus. Nan said after learn-ing Aaron’s wheelchair couldnot fit in Holzapfel Hall’s smallelevator, she had to buy threewalkers for Aaron before find-ing one that could.
Aaron, who usually uses awheelchair and has a visual dis-ability, said accessing bathroomsin buildings like Holzapfel isoften difficult, if not impossible.Signs designed to match the aes-thetics of university buildings areoften hard to see because theyblend in easily, Aaron said, notingit is very difficult for him to dis-cern which paths are accessiblewhen he can’t see the signs.
Earlier this semester, he fellout of his wheelchair because hewas unable to tell the differencebetween a curb without curb cutsand one with, said Aaron.
“It is extremely difficult tofind curb cuts, which can leadto accidents like mine and po-tential liabilities for the univer-sity,” Aaron said.
Leonard Azonobi, programplanner for facilities manage-ment, walked around the cam-pus with Aaron and his motherTuesday in an attempt to betterunderstand the difficulties somestudents with disabilities face.
“Each individual is differentand so are their needs,” Azonobisaid. “We are trying to be accom-modating to students and makethe campus more accessible.”
Lack of university initiativewas a reoccurring accusationthroughout the forum. Renova-tion delays on older buildings, in-consistencies in accessibilityacross the campus, a lack of pro-fessors with disabilities and alack of programs designed toraise disabilities awareness werecited as examples of universityunresponsiveness.
“I don’t doubt the sincerity ofthe administration, but to me, theslow nature of their commitmentis troubling,” Aaron said.
Along with pushing for achange in the university’s sloth-like pace in dealing with disabili-ties issues, students advocatedfor increased student awareness.
Miles spoke of her struggle tostart a disabilities student union.
“There is an African AmericanStudent Union, Asian AmericanStudent Union, there is even astudent group to celebrate highfives,” Miles said. “There needsto be a demand from the stu-dents or else the university willcontinue to give the same oldtired excuses.”
Council refuses to support overcrowding
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staf f writer
A week after the CollegePark City Council expressedreservations about a land-lord’s request to legallyhouse more students in hisCollege Avenue rental home,council members unani-mously voted Tuesday towrite letters to the countyopposing his plan.
Landlord Steven Behrrents the house at 4618 Col-lege Ave. to nine students —nearly twice the legal maxi-mum of five the property iszoned for — but said he onlylearned about the restrictionafter already buying thehouse in 2006 and has sincebeen seeking a special excep-tion from the county to con-tinue housing at least sevenof those tenants.
“I’ve done everything legally.I’ve worked with the city. I’veworked with the county,” Behrtold the council. “I’m trying tomake sure the students have aplace to live and their lives arenot impacted.”
The house’s previousowner had assured him themodifications that hadformed it into three apart-ments were legal, he added.
But council members con-tinued to resist the idea ofrecommending the countygrant him an exception torent a single family home tomore than five tenants —especially after Behr’s attor-ney, Robb Longman, sug-gested the city offer amnestyto the landlords of all thecity’s overcrowded homes.
“You’re saying thosehouses that are now over-crowded to an illegal capac-ity, that we should take and
endorse rezoning in order toallow them to comply?”Mayor Steve Brayman askedLongman. “Don’t you see afundamental problem withupsetting a zoning ordinanceto say, ‘Hey, if you commitany illegal act, we’ll changeyour zoning to be legal’?”
Longman said by making itlegal to house more than fiveunrelated tenants — as manyhouses in College Park donow illegally — the citywould have better control ofthe residents’ safety.
Residents at the housecalled the council’s objection totheir home “ridiculous,” sayingthey had more space than inmany legal rental homes.
“I lived in a Knox Box and
paid the same to share anapartment with three peopleinstead of one person,” saidsenior cell biology and genet-ics major James Welch, wholives in the house’s basementunit. “There’s no way thatjust five people can live in thishouse — it’s way too big.”
Council membersresponded that high densitytends to create noise and park-ing issues, and District 3 CityCouncilwoman Stephanie Stul-lich said while the city oftenhas trouble identifying over-crowded properties, the statusof this particular house is nowout in the open.
“I see you as a man of goodintentions who has gottenhimself into a dif ficult situa-
tion, but it’s also a dif ficultsituation for the neighbor-hood,” Stullich said to Behr.“It sounds like you have avery strong case against theformer owner, who clearlylied to many people, includ-ing to you and the city, and Iwish you every success inthat lawsuit.”
Reached at his Gaithers-burg catering business, for-mer owner David Modeldeclined to comment.
The council voted to sendletters opposing the specialexception for Behr’s house tothe county planning boardand to the county HistoricPreservation Commission,because the house is in a his-toric district.
The county agencies willhave the final say on the prop-erty, as College Park does nothave its own zoning authority.
Interviewed after the coun-cil meeting, Behr said he ishoping for better luck and“community support” whenhe goes before the county.
The College Park City Council does not support a landlord seeking to convert one single-familyhome at 4618 College Ave. into two rental units. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Mayor says givingone illegally-filledhouse the OK setsbad precedent
“Don’t you see a fundamental problemwith upsetting a zoning ordinance tosay, ‘Hey if you commit any illegal act,we’ll change your zoning to be legal’?”
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Unless you spit gamewith the best in the busi-ness, it’s not a good ideato just waltz up to her say-
ing “Did it hurt?” or worse, an, “Umm,you look really familiar. Did we sit atadjacent tables in the South CampusDining Hall once last semester?” I thinkyou’re wise to assume you probably willappear creepy or desperate if youapproach the situation incorrectly, butthere is hope for you yet. Without know-ing what either one of you looks like, I’mgoing to go ahead and throw out a rulein relationships that is correct onlyabout 2.9 percent of the time but always
useful. The rule is this: Any guy can getany girl.
Everyone knows by this point thatconfidence is some sort of huge turn-onfor girls — just like singing while play-ing the acoustic guitar or the ability todown a beer bong full of whiskey. Girlsjust can’t be around that stuff withoutmelting into a puddle of giggling andhair twirling. Myself included. Give mesome Kentucky Gentleman dribblingdown the front of your shirt and some“Freebird” unplugged and I’ll ... I’m get-ting distracted.
In any case, if you didn’t know confi-dence is highly attractive in guys, you’reprobably not destined to succeed withwomen, similar to how the WashingtonRedskins aren’t destined to succeedwith football (BURN). Somehow, whena confident guy puts the moves on a girl,it’s cute and exciting, and she can’t waitto tell all of her friends how hilariouslyattractive everyone finds her. The same
words from a less suave version of thesame person could result in her tellingher friends how hilariously unattractiveyou are. If you approach this situationknowing without a doubt that you aregoing to get some serious ass, youractual chances improve drastically.
Once you have the right mindset, youstill need some tactics to break the ice.Seeing as you already know you’regoing to get with this girl in the nearfuture, you can certainly start to relaxaround her. Suddenly, imagining hernaked in class changes from awkwardand creepy to fun and clairvoyant.
Your next step has to be an obvious
indication of interest. Keep in mind: Youare the man. Considering it’s a big lec-ture, try coming a bit early and sittingnear where she usually sits. Onceyou’re close enough, do something topique her interest. Whether it is a totallyawesome doodle, the crossword or abag of gummy bears, you need to havesome way to spark conversation thatwon’t be, “Uh ... come here often?”
In situations like this, it’s trickybecause even if you put on your bestshow, she might be in a relationship,just not into you or a lesbian. But in theend, what’s the worst that can happen?It’s not like your rejection will be onnational television. I can only hope ifthings don’t go well and end in an epicTila Tequila-style ousting, it’ll be in oneof my classes on the one day I decide toattend. But good luck, man.
Esti Frischling is a senior English major.She can be reached at [email protected].
Advice: Head of the class
Diversity is not something that can be opposed. In modern America, noone — save bigots like Pat Robertson — opposes the concept of adiverse and inclusive society.
Instead, feelings about diversity range from apathetic to deeply pas-sionate. Engaging the ambivalent majority is one of the central challenges that theuniversity faces as it crafts the diversity plan, and one the plan needs to go much fur-ther in addressing.
The university has one of the most diverse undergraduatestudent bodies in the nation and has long placed an emphasison recruiting talented faculty and graduate students fromunderrepresented groups. Despite a drop in the number ofminority freshmen this year, the numbers largely bear this out.On paper, it may seem that a diversity plan is unnecessary.
But people don’t live their lives on paper. The universitywhere we study, work and live is one where the dining halls arevirtually self-segregated, where the vast majority of studentsenrolled in African American studies courses are black and where a largely whitestudent body feels a disconnect from a largely black surrounding county.
It could be said that the university does not have a diversity problem but ratherhas an inclusion problem. But while the administration can create diversity, chang-ing the social tendencies of the university is infinitely harder. No one can force peo-ple to mingle with people from other groups, no one can force people to be welcom-ing and no one can instantly summon an environment in which everyone is com-fortable with everyone else. So while the 18-page draft of the diversity plan hasstrong, clear methods to increase diversity, its attempts to create inclusion seem tomainly be cloudy platitudes.
The diversity plan steering committee should be commended for many of theirideas and for crafting a solid outline. Those who criticize the plan for not presentingenough real solutions are not giving it enough credit. The creation of a chief diver-sity officer to coordinate the university’s disparate efforts, setting aside specialfunds to hire academics who would improve the faculty’s diversity, expanding asummer program for talented, underrepresented high school males and assigninga diversity-specific fundraiser are all wonderful steps.
The committee is not ignorant of inclusion. They clearly state inclusion as one ofthe plan’s goals, and propose, for example, refining and expanding the Words ofEngagement Inter-Group Dialogue program, in which diverse groups of studentsgather on a weekly basis to discuss divisive issues like race, gender and religion.They also propose the creation of a “Building Community” fund, which would beused to help create and sustain new projects and programs focusing on inclusion.
There is also a vague mention of promoting more inter- andintra-group dialogues.
To bolster the creation of an integrated university community,the plan should recommend increasing the number of minoritystudents in the living and learning programs. With more andmore of the student body participating, more and more fresh-men are finding their friends for the next four years within thesesettings. The plan should also pay careful attention to the devel-opment of a diversity requirement in the general education over-haul to ensure it does more to actually bring students of different
groups together to understand the necessity of diversity in a globalized world.The most prominent critics of the plan so far have been students and faculty,
largely from underrepresented groups, who claim not to be able to see themselvesin the plan. Committee members should take their opinions and thoughts in toaccount but perhaps should worry even more about those who aren’t complaining.
We aren’t going to debate the degree to which various groups are marginalizedin society. But if only the excluded care about inclusion, it’s hard to imagine the uni-versity making any progress.
More than 30 people spoke at the diversity town hall Tuesday. Of those, a merethree — Student Government Association President Steve Glickman and two pro-fessors — were what an academic might call “normal” — white, straight, abled andmale. Many students, faculty and staff from this category hear the word “diversity,”and instantly think it doesn’t matter to them, or even worse, that it means someoneless qualified than them is going to take their job or spot in a graduate school class.
If you want to create an inclusive community, everyone needs to see the merits ofone and have a reason to care. The indifferent must be convinced. Diversity is onlyattainable though inclusion, and inclusion means nothing without diversity.
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I ’m going to get some angry e-mails for this column, I’m sure,but in the name of all men ages15 to 34 nationwide, I think I
have to stand up and finally say some-thing. As many of you have now learnedfrom the endless pink ribbons in gro-cery stores and restaurants or even justfrom watching the NFL players wearingthose sweet pink gloves and otheraccessories, October is National BreastCancer Awareness Month.
Just so we’re clear here, I think amonth dedicated to breast cancerawareness is awesome and will proba-bly yield some really positive results.My problem with this, however, is itscounterpart does not exist.
Yes, folks, I’m writing a column abouttesticles. Sorry, Mom.
Normally, I leave the whole research
thing to columnists who have realissues to talk about, but as someonewho is quite passionate about his testi-cles, I thought it would be appropriateto dig a little into this issue. As IGoogled around, I quickly discoveredthere is indeed no Testicular CancerAwareness Month. In fact, all we have isone measly week in April (April 1 to 7 incase anyone’s interested). I just thinkfair is fair.
October can stay pink; they’ve got agood thing going, so why ruin it, right?
But if breasts deserve a whole month,then maybe so do our boys. So whatmonth should we claim as ours? Well,October is out, and no one wants to talktestes during the holidays, so that nixesNovember and December.
February is Black History Monthand the Irish — or just anyone wholikes to drink — celebrate St. Patrick’sDay in March. April is already home toour awareness week, but do we reallywant testicular cancer to put a damperon 4/20? I think not. As far as the sum-mer months go, we’ll all be too busy try-ing to kill brain cells at the beach to sup-port a cause, so they’re definitely nogood. And out of respect to the Jewishcommunity, we should probably leaveout September.
That leaves us with January, and thatjust might work. The NFL playoffs will
give it plenty of national attention, andbecause January is the month duringwhich most couples break up, those so-called “January blues” will be all themore appropriate.
So men, boys and ladies alike, joinme this coming January to supportman’s most crucial appendage. I realizethat testicular cancer is relatively minoron the cancer Richter Scale and has oneof the highest survival rates of any formof cancer, but that doesn’t mean it isn’tworth our attention. So keep cheeringfor pink this month, and I’ll get to workon some blue ribbons we can all wear inJanuary.
Everyone gets two.
Mike DiMarco is a senior English major.He can be reached [email protected].
Cancer awareness: Celebrating the sack
AIR YOUR VIEWSESTIFRISCHLING
T here are five days left untilthe College Park CityCouncil elections, and ifthis year is like any other,
chances are not many students wouldbe voting. Traditionally, studentturnout in these elections has beenabysmally low: In 2007, fewer than 50students at a university of tens of thou-sands took the time to cast their votesin the elections.
But this semester can be different.UMD for Clean Energy has beenworking on a campaign called Greenfor College Park. In light of the manydeveloping or recently passed stateand federal laws mandating renew-able energy portfolios, energy con-sumption reduction standards andgreenhouse gas reduction targets,we feel the near future is going tobring unprecedented levels of invest-ment in renewable energy, energyefficiency and low-carbon technol-ogy. The regions that stand to benefitthe most from this investment will bethose with policies and programs inplace to encourage it. We feel withthe right leadership there is no rea-son why College Park cannot be aleader on these issues and a modelfor the county and the state.
The first step in this direction is toelect a city council that will makethese issues a priority, and that iswhere we, the students, can do ourpart. In order to gauge where each ofthe candidates stands on sustainabil-ity issues, UMD for Clean Energy hasput together a platform of policies andprograms that we have presented toeach of the candidates for the citycouncil. The platform includes,among other suggestions, a revolvingloan fund to help College Park resi-dents finance energy efficiencyimprovements for their homes, taxcuts to attract green businesses to thecity and encourage existing busi-nesses to decrease their environmen-tal impacts, white roofs and LEEDcertification for new buildings anddevelopment projects, further devel-opment of biking infrastructure andbetter recycling practices.
After meeting with all the candi-dates and hearing their positions onthe platform, we have decided toendorse the seven who we believe tobe outstanding on these issues andwill do the best job of making Col-lege Park a leader. They supportmost — if not all — of the ideas onour platform, and many have a his-tory of interest and advocacy in thisarea. We have posted complete infor-mation from our meetings with all ofthe candidates on our website(www.umdforcleanenergy.com) that Iencourage everyone to explore, butthe names are as follows: Mayoralcandidate Andy Fellows; District 1candidates Patrick Wojahn andFazlul Kabir; District 3 candidatesStephanie Stullich and Mark Cook;and District 4 candidates Mary Cookand Marcus Afzali. We are notendorsing any District 2 candidates.
I implore you, if you are registeredin College Park, take the time to votenext Tuesday.
Voting in these elections for candi-dates who are strong advocates forsustainability gives us a chance toinvest in the future of not just thecommunity around us but one smallpiece of our society at large.
We’ll be having a rally at 5 p.m.Tuesday at the sundial on McKeldinMall to distribute information aboutwhere the candidates stand on ourplatform, and then we’ll be marchingdown to City Hall to vote. Please joinus and cast your vote. Together let’smake this the year that counts.
Hilary Staver is the political liaison forthe student group UMD for CleanEnergy. She can be reached [email protected].
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HILARY STAVER
Born today, you don’t alwaysfeel as if you know whatyou’re doing — but that’s
not something that’s likely to holdyou back at any time, for you areso daring and brave and willing tocharge ahead without fear orreservation that you will usuallyreach your goals even when youhave no real idea how to get therein the first place. You can be arather comic figure at times, butyou are the kind to invite laugh-ter rather than shun it — and youare almost always the first tolaugh at yourself. Despite all ofthis, you are a keenly skilled indi-vidual, and you’re likely to be rec-ognized for lasting accomplish-ments in the field of your choice.
When it comes to love, you mayfind yourself buffeted this wayand that by your affections, andyou may only settle down withthat one perfect someone rela-tively late in life. You are both at-tractive and easily attracted toothers; you sometimes wear yourheart squarely on your sleeve.
Also born on this date areWinona Ryder, actress; FinolaHughes, actress; Fanny Brice,comedienne; Melba Moore,singer; Kate Jackson, actress;Richard Dreyfuss, actor; BillMauldin, political and militarycartoonist.
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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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Energy dedicated to your fi-nancial situation is surely wellspent — unless you make themistake of thinking things arelocked down.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— You may discover that a
pressing problem really isn’tall that pressing — or all thatmuch of a problem. You can seea way out.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Do what you can to see thingsin a new way. A new approachcan provide you with energy,inspiration and enthusiasm.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Now is no time to complainabout the same old things.Focus on activities that keepyou occupied and positive.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) —You may find it more difficultthan expected to make yourway around your own emotion-al landscape. A few surprisesare in store.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Ifit’s love you’re after, you mayhave it — but you’re going tohave to give it, as well. It is,after all, a two-way street.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —Others are gravitating towardyou, finding your ideas attrac-tive and your positive energyirresistible.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —Something you may havethought was tailor-made foryou is actually more appropri-ate for someone else. You’ll ad-just properly.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —Don’t lose sight of your primarygoals. Where money is con-cerned, you are best to take aconservative stance.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) —There’s nothing wrong withbeing in the background, aslong as you have a clear view ofwhat’s going on near the front-lines.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —You’re after something that’sone of a kind, but that may behard to come by. Are you sureyou aren’t willing to compro-mise?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Anoffer comes your way that givesyou pause. Take the time to lookover your situation carefullybefore committing one way orthe other.
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Senior staff writer
Maybe it’s too early to call itfor sure, but early indicationsare that 2009 is the year ofindie estrogen. Whether it bethe boy-consuming succubusin Jennifer’s Body; the spunky,rebellious roller derby girl inWhip It; or even the AmeliaEarhart biopic, those of thefairer sex have been takingcharge, changing lives andasserting themselves onscreens across the country.
Yet, a more thoughtfuldimension remainsº in thosestories, namely the painfulrealization that any gain forwomen as a whole comesthrough halting, exactingwork by an individual. Thevery American Whip It andthe newly released, veryBritish An Education arevastly different films, but theydo share this essential real-ization. Consequently, onecan now safely list themamong the best of thethoughtful, post-feministfilms so prevalent this year.
There’s a reason parents
warn their children not to talkto strangers, and the ruleshould apply doubly tostrangers who look like PeterSarsgaard (Orphan). Hishandsome features neverquite hide the disembodiedquality he brings to every per-formance — an attribute usedto great effect when hestarred as the child kidnap-ping villain in Flightplan.
Nevertheless, his charm out-weighs any fear of his preda-tory nature when his character,David, begins to enchant a sub-urb-dwelling but city-dreaming16-year-old school girl, Jenny(Carey Mulligan, The Greatest).She likes to think she’s differ-ent: more mature, intelligentand elegant than her natteringclassmates who have to makedo with awkward teenage boysand lower scores on their Latinexams.
David, knowing full well themix of romantic fantasizing anddreary school work whichpredicates the life of a 1960steenager who wants to “readEnglish” at Oxford, conjures upthe perfect story. He plays therole of the consummate play-
boy with Jenny, offering herrides in his sports car, trips toexotic locales and high-classclassical music concerts.
Based on Lynn Barber’smemoir, the story wasadapted for the screen by pop-ular British novelist NickHornby, who has a singulartalent for creating protago-nists defined by an obsessionthey need to conquer.
In An Education, Hornbyappears to reverse his for-mula a bit, creating a teenagegirl whose love for art andeverything else high and cul-tured is her ticket out of the
dreary middle class — notsomething holding her back.Mulligan is winning enoughas an actress to exclaim, “Ilove the Pre-Raphaelites!”with gobs of enthusiasm andno traces of pretension.
Even when David spends anabsurd amount of money tobuy her a piece of artwork,Jenny is too enchanted by hismyth to ask any questions.The truth does come out, par-tially at least, but all is for-given as David whisks Jennyaway to the bright lights andfamed shopping districts ofParis. Jenny’s life, related to
her classmates through coyhints, becomes something outof a novel — exactly the wayshe wants it.
Director Lone Scherfig’s(Just Like Home) talents areexceptional in the Parissequence. Dressing Mulliganup in a pair of Chanel sun-glasses and a fur coat, Scher-fig conjures up the ghost ofAudrey Hepburn and forcesthe audience to forget abouthow disturbing the wholeaffair is.
We know something’swrong when Jenny ambiva-lently voices the followingthought about losing her vir-ginity to David: “I suppose itwill be with David, won’t it?”
The magic of the film is theviewer almost wishes for thisimprobable and frowned uponencounter between a middle-aged man and a 16-year-oldschool girl to work. In a bleakmoment of clarity, she sees nooccupation in post-World WarII England for a woman withher intelligence and skills.
Of course, post-war femi-nism did not originate fromone girl’s story, and therereally is no resolution as tohow Jenny deals with the soci-etal forces lined up against hersuccess. The unraveling andburning of the grand myth sheand David live in, however, istreated with excruciatingdetail. Mulligan can transforminstantly from a girl wisebeyond her years to a scaredteenager whose window intothe world is rapidly closing.
Even a happy ascendancy inJenny’s life at the end of thefilm is not without rewards.The most jaded of viewers stillshould prove unable to resistthis well-told chronicle of aremarkable young woman. Itis very possible to make a filmwith a developed, teenagefemale lead and inspire whilebeing fully immunized againstthe dreaded label of “chickflick” — perhaps that is thereal lesson in An Education.
MOVIE:An Education | VERDICT:
Carey Mulligan, left, and Peter Sarsgaard play a pay of unlikelylovers in An Education. COURTESY OF MOVIEWEB.COM
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Friedgen has said he did notplan to use this many truefreshmen this season, butinjuries at several positionshave forced him to dip into hisfreshman reserve.
With four games left to play,Friedgen said yesterday he willattempt to find a balance therest of the season betweendeveloping young talent for thefuture while still trying to win.
The Terps (2-6, 1-3 ACC)need to win all of their remain-ing games to qualify for a bowlgame, but Friedgen hopescontinuing to play as manyyoung players as he alreadyhas may benefit the team inthe long run.
“We’d obviously like to look atsome kids that we think canhelp us win, and they may havea future,” Friedgen said. “To meif it’s close or even, I’m going toplay the younger guy to try andget better. But I’m still trying towin football games too.”
BYE WEEK INJURIESFriedgen discussed the
injury situations of four key play-ers yesterday and lamented thelatest injury to defensive tackleA.J. Francis as the most recentbout of bad luck to hit the Terpsthis season.
Francis was walking toclass yesterday when heattempted to dodge a bicyclist.
He sprained his ankle, andafter trying to practice yester-day afternoon he left the work-out early on a cart and wentinside for treatment.
Friedgen said he doesn’tknow how serious the injuryis but hopes Francis will beback at practice next week.
“It’s been one of thoseyears,” Friedgen said.
Friedgen also said offensiveguard Bennett Fulper had anMRI on his injured shoulder,but team doctors are still eval-uating the results.
Friedgen said, “from what Isee, they’re probably going toend up operating on it.”
Running back Da’Rel Scott isstill on track to return in timefor the Terps’ game againstFlorida State on Nov. 21.
Scott broke his wrist Oct. 3against Clemson, and Fried-gen said his only concern iswhether the training staff canengineer a pad Scott can wearwithout it inhibiting his abilityto hold on to the ball.
Backup running back GaryDouglas, who missed theDuke game after spraining theAC joint in his shoulderagainst Virginia, practiced in anon-contact jersey yesterday.
[email protected] Terps were forced to use more defensive backs than usualagainst Duke’s pass-happy attack. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
NOTEBOOKfrom page 8
Carolina entered as the No.1 seed.
But the Terps could eas-ily do the exact opposite —finish with two more lossesand the No. 8 seed.
Despite the implications,coach Brian Pensky feelsthe next two games againstNo. 11 Wake Forest and No.6 North Carolina are moreimportant in terms of theNCAA Tournament, ratherthan conference seeding.
“It’s amazing that wecould finish as high as oneor as low as eight,” Penskysaid about the ACC Tourna-ment seeding. “But no mat-ter where we finish, weknow we’re going to have abear of a game on Wednes-day, whether that be theNo. 8 seed or No. 1 seed orsomeone in between.”
The Terps (12-2-2, 4-2-2ACC) are fifth in the confer-ence standings and tied withthe Demon Deacons, theiropponent tonight. Only twopoints separate the currentsecond-place team, BostonCollege, from the Terps andDemon Deacons.
But, as Pensky said, theTerps are looking ahead tothe NCAA Tournament. A
win against Wake Forest(12-3-2, 4-2-2) or NorthCarolina Sunday wouldsolidify the Terps’ résuméas one of the top teams inthe country.
“There’s a ton on the linethis weekend, and we lookforward to the challenge,”Pensky said.
With a week off fromtheir last game, a 3-0 vic-tory at Clemson, the Terpsare well rested for the firsttime in a month.
They will also end theregular season at LudwigField where they haven’tlost all season. Wake For-est will be the fourthranked opponent to play inCollege Park.
The Terps will need tostop an experiencedDemon Deacon attack.Their senior trio of JillHutchinson, Kaley Foun-tain and Allie Sadow hascombined for 24 goals and13 assists this season.
“They have a front threethat is as good as any in theconference and in thecountry,” Pensky said.“We’re going to continueplaying how we have allseason. That’s not stub-bornness, but becausewe’ve been so effective.”
WAKEfrom page 8
If Campbell had to missmuch more time, it’s a goodbet he would’ve had to pushtrue freshmen Nick Klemmor Pete DeSouza into actionalong the line. And for a linethat’s allowed an average ofthree sacks per game andgarnered just 2.8 yards perrush, even more youth wouldnot be a good thing.
That’s led Campbell, whosays his mother, Rita, would-n’t buy the talk that her sonisn’t “a complainer,” to pushhimself to his limits. He’smanaged to be in uniform forfive of the Terps’ eight games.
“Sunday is a sleep day forBruce,” Campbell said mat-ter-of-factly.
Linemate Paul Pinegarknows Campbell isn’t any-where near as menacing as
his imposing demeanor andphysique would indicate. Hesees Campbell struggling,even if it’s just a facial expres-sion in the huddle or a gingermovement in practice.
Pinegar has asked Camp-bell if he wants to switch offthe left side and take a breakfrom the important job of pro-tecting quarterback ChrisTurner’s blind side from tena-cious pass rushers. But thegrit and determination Camp-bell has shown on the fieldthis season has led the 6-foot-4, 290-pound former walk-onto a conclusion most wouldmake at first glance.
“I think if I were ever tohave to get in the ring withhim, I’d probably have tothrow in the towel after around or two,” Pinegar said.
Campbell has relished thepast few days as a chance tobe a normal student and getsome well-deserved rest. The
junior said his body feelsrefreshed and he fullyexpects to play the last fourgames no matter how muchpain he has to endure.
Beyond that, Campbell,who will be four yearsremoved from high school byNFL Draft time thanks to aprep year at Hargrave Mili-tary Academy, is not surewhat the future holds.
NFLDraftScout.com ranksCampbell as the third-besttackle in the 2011 Draft Classand a possible first-roundpick — something that noTerp offensive tackle hasever achieved.
But, for a freakish athletewho’s sure to wow with hisNFL Combine numbers, leav-ing early is definitely worthconsidering. Campbell hopesbeing back on the field twoweeks after a toe injury thatnormally takes four to sixweeks for recovery will show
pro scouts he is a quickhealer.
“I’m going to put myself inthe best situation,” Campbellsaid. “I’m not going to want totry to screw myself over.”
Either way, the Terps goback to work next week, hop-ing to shake their inconsis-tent play, which has beenmore annoyingly painful thanCampbell’s right big toe.
“We’re at the point wherewe just trying to breakthrough the wall,” Campbellsaid. “We’re just trying to getone good hit — Pow! — thewall crumbles and we’re run-ning again.”
If that’s all the Terps need,it’d be hard to think of some-one better to be leading thatcharge than Campbell. Andthey better enjoy their hard-nosed, mammoth of a weaponwhile they still have a chance.
DETWEILERfrom page 8
start earlier in her career. Butshe chose the Terps.
Looking back, she has noregrets.
“I learned you have to waityour turn,” she said. “Ilearned that it’s about makingyour teammates better andchallenging them every day. Iknew Kat was going to playover me, with good reason,but it was about coming outand doing that not only formyself but for my team.”
Her patience paid off. Lastseason, she took over as thestarting goalkeeper andallowed an average of just 1.24goals per game and recordedfour shutouts.
And after spending twonational title seasons mainlyon the bench in 2005 and2006, she helped lead theTerps to another, garneringthird-team All-American andAll-ACC honors for herefforts.
This year, her play has onlyimproved, with a 0.77 goals-against average, fifth in thenation, and the team hasrecorded six shutouts so far.She stopped 12 of 13 shots ongoal in Saturday’s 4-1 winagainst the No. 2 Tar Heels,her career-high save total, toearn the Co-ACC Player of theWeek award.
“You can always depend onAli G. back there,” midfielderAlexis Pappas said. “She was
diving all over the place. Wereally rely on her back there,and she always pullsthrough.”
Grater can be heard direct-ing from the cage duringevery game. She said thetalking is for her own benefit,to help her stay in the match.But Meharg says her commu-nication ripples all the way upthe field and is as importantto the team as her tangiblestatistics.
The coaches place so muchtrust in Grater that she oftenleads the defense in drills dur-ing practices.
Off the field, her presenceis felt just as much. She helpsorganize the team on roadtrips, and she listens andcounsels — perhaps encour-aged by her status as an ele-mentary education major.People often call her the“team mom.”
But now, after five years,Grater’s career as a Terp iscoming to a close.
And she wants to make themost of every opportunityshe has left, not only by win-ning in the postseason butalso by helping her team-mates and providing extra tid-bits of advice.
“I just want to watch overeveryone,” Grater said. “It’sjust I care about everyone somuch and I just want them tohave the best experience pos-sible. I guess ‘team mom’ isprobably about right.”
GRATERfrom page 8
BY KATE YANCHULISSenior staff writer
A few weeks ago, Terrapin fieldhockey captain Alicia Graterdecided to send an e-mail to someof her younger teammates. A red-shirt senior whose time as a Terpis winding down, Grater wanted toensure they would never taketheir stint on the team for granted.
“Every practice counts. Everyball counts. You don’t think aboutit now, but four years from nowyou’re going to wish that you’dscheduled those individual work-outs with the coaches. You’regoing to wish that you worked atthat skill,” she wrote.
The message was not a genericpep talk but wisdom reaped fromGrater’s own experiences duringher five years with the No. 1 Terps.
The two-year starting goal-keeper has been with the programlonger than any other currentplayer, and she is the only playerwho was on all three TerpNational Championship squads inthe last four seasons.
“I think sometimes we getblinded by the fact that we’re com-ing off the bench or that we’re not
going to play in a game or that thatwe’re redshirting,” Grater said.“But really, that’s the time that isso critical, and it’s the time to keepdeveloping yourself.”
When she first came to this uni-versity in 2005, the Terps had theirstarting goalkeeper in then-sopho-more Kathryn Masson, now a vol-unteer assistant coach. Grater satout the season.
“She sacrificed, redshirting herfreshman year and watching fromthe sidelines,” coach Missy
Meharg said. “Then she wentback and forth with Kat — butreally played behind Kat — for thenext two years.”
Grater played in just 14 gamestotal in her first three seasons.
Some of the top field hockey pro-grams in the country recruited thePottstown, Pa., native, includingACC opponent North Carolina,and another school could have pro-vided Grater the opportunity to
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Terp goalie Alicia Grater, a second-year starter, made a career-high 12 saves in the No. 1 field hockeyteam’s 4-1 win against No. 2 North Carolina Saturday. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
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GoalieGraterfinishesstrong
Senior leaderinspires Terps
see GRATER, page 7
Campbell soldiers onward
A thin scar runs down the back ofBruce Campbell’s massive neck.It’s the result of a brain surgerythe Terrapin left tackle had his
sophomore year of high school. Campbell’snot clear on the details — something aboutdraining fluid, relieving pressure and hisbody growing too fast for his bones.
He doesn’t really remember, and it’s notimportant anymore. The pain wasn’t toobad, and he just had to deal with a stiff neckfor a few days. In fact, Campbell comparesthe surgery recovery to the sprained MCLthat kept him out of action against WakeForest earlier this month.
And it was nothing compared to the turftoe that shelved him for two games and stillbothers him daily.
“I didn’t get back into a sneaker foralmost two weeks,” said Campbell, whosustained the injury in the Terps’ season-opening loss at California. “I couldn’t weara sneaker. I couldn’t wear a cleat. I couldbarely wear flip-flops. It’s by far the worstinjury I’ve ever had, to tell you the truth.”
Welcome to Campbell’s world.It’s a place where you may be more
gigantic and ripped than any other life-formyou encounter, but this year especially, it’snot easy.
With seven days a week of pre-8 a.m. treat-ment, painful Sundays after forcing his waythrough games on Saturday fueled solely byadrenaline and a lousy 2-6 record to show forit, it’s hard to imagine how — and why — the6-foot-7, 310-pounder does it.
The player, who was the top recruit out ofConnecticut in 2006, freely — and inexplica-bly — blames himself for the Terps’ lack ofsuccess this season. While finally getting achance to rest his ailing body during theTerps’ bye week, Campbell is trying toremain focused on the final four games of alost season — and ignore the allure of anNFL career sure to come when it’s finished.
“I think he’s a trooper,” coach RalphFriedgen said. “A lot of guys wouldn’t beplaying, but Bruce is. I appreciate that.”
It’s no surprise that Friedgen is grateful.
ERICDETWEILER
Tonight’s Wakegame vital to ACC positioningTerps need 2 wins andhelp for ACC’s No. 1 seed
BY CHRIS ECKARDStaff writer
Riding a six-game unbeaten streak and sportinga No. 12 national ranking, the Terrapin women’ssoccer team is poised to make an impact in nextweek’s ACC Tournament.
The problem is the Terps have no idea wherethey are going to wind up in the seeding. Withtwo games against top-15 ranked conferenceopponents looming, the Terps have a lot hangingin the balance.
Two wins coupled with a few losses around theACC would mean the Terps could travel down toCary, N.C., on Wednesday as the No. 1 seed. Onlythree times in the 22-year history of the confer-ence tournament has a team other than North
TERRAPIN FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK
Friedgen tries tomanage redshirts;Francis sprains ankle
BY GREG SCHIMMELSenior staff writer
When medical staff carried safety Antwine Perezoff the field on a stretcher Saturday, the Terrapinfootball team’s coaching staff was forced to burnanother redshirt.
Against Duke’s pass-happy offense, which fea-tured predominantly four-and-five wide receiversets, the Terps were often forced to play foursafeties. True freshman Eric Franklin was next onthe depth chart.
The Terps had been trying to hold the talentedFranklin’s redshirt all season — even after starterJamari McCollough injured his ankle in the seasonopener against California — but now coach RalphFriedgen and defensive coordinator Don Brown’shands were tied.
“Unfortunately, we were in a bunch of seriouspackages that we were using which required foursafeties on the field,” Brown said. “When [Perez]got hurt we had no choice.”
Perez’s injury is not serious, and he should beable to play in the Terps’ next game on Nov. 7against N.C. State. But Franklin still became the10th true freshman to play for the Terps this season— the most Friedgen has used during his nine-yeartenure.
Friedgen and Brown both said Franklin playedwell in his half-dozen snaps Saturday, and he col-lected his first career sack. And now that he hasused up his redshirt, he should play extensively onspecial teams the rest of the season.
Len Bias finishes a reverse dunk against Dukeduring his career with the Terps.PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
the attention and spotlight oftonight’s on-campus premiere.
Terrapin men’s basketball coachGary Williams and Bias’ coach,Lefty Driesell, had been rumored tobe attending tonight’s event.Driesell will likely be unable toattend due to health reasons,according to his son and currentmen’s basketball assistant coachChuck Driesell.
“Obviously, the university hasn’ttaken upon itself to talk about LenBias, because it is a tragic story,”said Kevin Blackistone, a sportscolumnist and professor in the uni-versity’s journalism school. “It’s acautionary tale, and I understandwhy people really close to it wouldnot want to revisit it.”
Before he signed on as a produc-tion assistant with Fraser’s film crew,Cecil Clarke, a junior American stud-ies major, knew only the basic outlineof Bias’ death. After taking a semes-ter off last spring to research Bias’life, play his highlight reel and inter-view the people who knew him best,
Clarke said he bore witness to Bias’unique skills and character.
“He was just a dream come true,”said Clarke. “People who don’t know[about Bias] will know and realizehow important his life was.”
On June 17, 1986, Bias wasselected as the No. 2 overall pick inthe 1986 NBA Draft by the reigningchampion Boston Celtics. He’d justcompleted his senior season at theuniversity, in which he’d earned All-American honors and lofty compar-isons to Michael Jordan.
On June 18, a day after the draft,he visited College Park to celebrate.
Bias and several friends returnedto his dorm in Washington Hall atabout 3 a.m., at which point theybegan to snort cocaine.
Media reports later indicated thatBias snorted nearly five grams ofcocaine that night in the dorm, aquantity far in excess of the typicalrecreational amount. He collapsedsome time after 6 a.m. while talkingwith a teammate, and was uncon-scious and not breathing when ambu-lance attendants arrived at 6:36 a.m.
Two hours later,Bias, 22, was pro-nounced dead of cardiac arrest.
“In life, [Bias] served a purpose of
coming here, shocking the world ofhow great of an athlete he is, andthen shocking the world in saying,‘Hey, these are the dangerous thingsin life as well,’” Fraser said.
The implications of Bias’ deathreverberated throughout this uni-versity’s administration.
Revelations of poor academic per-formances from student-athletesand an ongoing NCAA investigationprompted Athletics Director DickDull to resign in early October ofthat year. Three weeks later, LeftyDriesell accepted a reassignment toassistant athletics director after 17seasons and 348 wins as coach.
“With a tragic death like that, as asociety we have to find someonethat’s responsible,” Fraser said.“That’s just how life works.”
“Of a single event, the university’sprobably never suffered repercus-sions any greater,” Blackistone said.
The university slipped into whatFraser called its “dark days.” Chan-cellor John B. Slaughter resignedless than two years after Bias’ death,and men’s basketball coach BobWade resigned three years after hewas hired to replace Lefty Driesellamid allegations of improper contact
with players and recruits.With Bias’ memory still lingering,
the university revamped its entireapproach to managing its student-ath-letes — changes that last to this day.
The drug-testing program under-went massive upgrades. The admis-sions office established qualifyingacademic baselines for incomingrecruits. The size of the AthleticsDepartment’s academic supportstaff tripled immediately afterward.
“Everyone was under a micro-scope in terms of what are theydoing at the university — not theirinvolvement in Len Bias’ death, butwhat they are doing for the univer-sity?” Fraser said. “His deathchanged a lot with the school.”
Tonight, Fraser’s documentary,which includes interviews with BrianTribble, the man who was cleared ofinvolvement in Bias’ death, will fur-ther examine that story.
“It’s almost like a reunion,” Clarkesaid. “Everybody’s coming togetherunder one roof not to focus on thenegative aspect of Len Bias, just tocelebrate his life, celebrate this greatperson.”
BIASfrom page 1
see DETWEILER, page 7
see WAKE, page 7
see NOTEBOOK, page 7
WHAT MUST HAPPENThe following must occur for the Terrapin women’ssoccer team to earn the No. 1 seed in next week’sACC Tournament in Cary, N.C.:
The Terps must win both remaining games — tonightvs. Wake Forest and Sunday vs. North Carolina.
Florida State, currently in first place, must lose boththeir remaining games vs. Virginia and Virginia Tech.
Boston College must lose one of their two remainingmatches, or tie in both.
Virginia Tech must lose to or tie Miami and beatFlorida State.