February 11, 2013

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CP Academy may lose $500k in state funds Despite proposed cuts, state officials say school will likely secure funding, open as planned

By Teddy Amenabar Staff writer Though about 300 students were selected last week to attend the College Park Academy, $500,000 in funding for the charter school may be slashed from the state budget.

Last week, the state’s Department of Legislative Services recommended a host of cuts to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s

higher education plan, including funding for the College Park Academy.

However, state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (DPrince George’s and Anne Arundel) said O’Malley is dedicated to supporting the project.

The school, a partnership with the city and university, will likely secure state money and open as planned this fall, he said.

“This will be one of the most inno-

vative schools in the state,” Rosapepe said. “There’s a lot of interest in the legislature as well as with the governor to get it funded, so I’m very optimistic.”

Though state funding would greatly aid in getting the school off the ground, education college dean Donna Wiseman said the cut will not hinder its launch.

“The school is a public school, so it will be funded like any other public school,” said Wiseman, a member of the school’s founding board. “Additional resources that we would put in from the state budget would be used primarily for the start-up funds, for things such as furniture.”

The county will supply most of the See academy, Page 3

the synchronized skating team took home a silver medal from last weekend’s Eastern Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships. photo courtesy of sundi myint

Synchronized ice skating team places second in sectional championships despite obstacles

No words sum up the synchronized ice skating team’s trip last weekend better than Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong will.

Between lost luggage, a missed flight and bad weather, the club’s journey to upstate New York was an adventure of its own. But that didn’t stop it from taking home a silver medal, placing second in the 2013 Eastern Synchro-

nized Skating Sectional Championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. Teams from all over the East Coast turned out for the sport’s biggest competition of the year, in one of its most important cities. Lake Placid was the host of the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics, and the team competed on the same rink the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team played on when it defeated the Soviet Union in the game that inspired the movie Miracle.

It’s an important victory for the

Police increase patrols after slew of incidents

By Fola Akinnibi Staff writer

University Police are currently investigating Thursday’s incident, in which a female student was reportedly robbed of her phone and cash at gunpoint in the parking lot behind the nuclear and chemical engineering building.

After the past two weeks brought a string of reported armed robberies to the area, University Police are responding with new safety measures, said police Chief David Mitchell.

For the foreseeable future, officers will patrol footpaths near the edge of the campus, including those near The Varsity apartments, and greet students as they walk, Mitchell said.

Plain-clothes officers, high-visibility patrol and a collaboration with Prince George’s County Police’s Robbery Suppression Team are also in place to help curb crime in the area, he added.

Since Jan. 27, there have been five incidents of reported armed robberies involving students, including one in which the suspect fled after a confrontation and another that officers determined was a false report. An armed robbery in Lot KK Thursday night was the first such incident to occur on the campus in 13 months, Mitchell said.

“Our campus is one of the safest campuses on the planet,” he said.

“That’s not to diminish what happened, but they aren’t very frequent.”

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Attempted armed robbery on fourth floor of Varsity

Student reportedly punched and robbed in front of Shanghai Cafe

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Armed robbery at Paint Branch Parkway and Rhode Island Avenue: Prince George’s County Police later determined the incident was fabricated.

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Student allegedly robbed at gunpoint in Lot KK

Armed robbery on Lakeland Road

Crim. program struggles with limited funding USM review process highlights strengths, areas of improvement

OVERCOMING ALL ODDS

By Laura Blasey Staff writer

Robbery string prompts changes

university’s team, but it’s not the win itself that is so impressive — it’s what it took to get there.

“In about 17 years, I have never seen it quite like this,” coach Carli Jenkins said.

The skaters trained for the championships for hours each week, returning to the campus early after winter break to prepare for the last and most important competition of the season.

As planned, the team left College

country — would open up unprecedented opportunities. She has landed an internship with this state’s Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and plans to be a teaching assistant next semester — all of which she credits to the accessibility of her professors, who have helped her transition to a new major.

But the program isn’t perfect, and there’s still much work to be done, some students and officials said. Over the past year, the department and a University System of Maryland committee

By Jenny Hottle Senior staff writer Taylor Gross struggled to decide on a major. But during summer 2012, the junior decided criminology and criminal justice was the perfect fit — not unlike many of her peers at the university.

Gross knew taking part in the program — one of the top-ranked for criminology and criminal justice in the

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Rifle and Pistol Club seeks to teach responsible gun ownership

By Fatimah Waseem Staff writer Eyes straight ahead, a shooter lines up his gun with a red target, finger curled around the trigger.

“Breathe. Breathe deep,” says Kenneth Lan, a junior history major.

As his heart rate falls at a consistent pace and his body aligns with the small

rifle before him, he releases half his breath and pulls the trigger; the bullet lodges itself in the center of the target.

This shot is what drives members of the Rifle and Pistol Club to make the 35- mile trek from the campus to the Izaak Walton shooting range in Poolesville every Saturday morning — a bullseye and a release.

“Some people like golf. We like

guns,” said Lan, the club’s president.

“America doesn’t have a problem with a gun culture; America has a problem with a violence culture.”

The group isn’t the first rifle and pistol club on the campus — in the 1970s, the university had an ROTC rifle team and part of the Reckord Armory See club, Page 3

the criminology and criminal justice major became a limited-enrollment program in 2009. Officials wanted to maintain a low student-to-faculty ratio in the university’s most popular program. graphic by kelsey marotta/the diamondback

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SKATING From PAGE 1 Park early Feb. 1, eager to get on the ice at Lake Placid. The trip was only supposed to take a few hours — a short flight to Philadelphia, a connecting flight to Vermont and an hourlong drive would get the team to Lake Placid by midday.

The coaches were already there, booking practice time on the ice and waiting for the team’s arrival. But things started to fall apart at the airport when the team’s plane was delayed.

“When we got to Philadelphia, we found out that our flight had left,” said Sundi Myint, a sophomore computer science major.

“The pilot had not led us to believe that our flight would be gone when we got there.”

For most people, attempting to get travel plans back on track after a missed flight is an arduous task. But with more than a dozen skaters involved, the task was nearly impossible.

“It’s really hard to get 16 people on a plane that’s already

program From PAGE 1 reviewed the undergraduate and graduate criminology programs and found they have seen a turnover of about half of the department since they were last reviewed in 2005. While the undergraduate major is the most popular on the campus and the graduate program is the top-ranked in the nation, department officials said they are understaffed and do not have enough funding.

“The problem is there’s not enough bodies, not enough faculty,” department Chairman James Lynch said.

The program’s review is part of a routine process. Every academic program in the system goes through an external and internal review process at least every seven years, during which departments create a plan of action to make improvements or address weaknesses.

Although the program attracts influential faculty members, offers students research opportunities on critical security issues and has four distinguished professors, it has fewer than 20 faculty members and struggles with funding. It became a limited-enrollment program in

been booked,” said Brittany Greene, a sophomore bioengineering major.

There were no flights to Vermont with the number of open seats the team needed, and team members were unable to contact university officials.

Club teams require the approval of Campus Recreation Services to make adjustments to travel plans, and at the crucial time, their contacts were in a conference.

Team members said the delay wasn’t even the worst part — real panic set in when the airline lost their luggage, containing their costumes, makeup and skates.

Several hours after they were supposed to be in Lake Placid, the team hitched a flight to Boston and, upon arrival, was told several bags were missing.

One was in North Carolina, and two were still in Washington.

Unlike regular shoes, a personal pair of ice skates can’t be replaced easily. They can cost more than $1,000, and the blades and frame are specially molded to a skater’s feet and shaped by the way they move on the ice.

“It’s kind of like when your pet dies. You can get a new pet, but

it’s not quite the same,” Myint said. “Skates are very personal — you put a lot of time and effort into breaking them in, and no pair will ever be the same.”

Meanwhile, coaches Jenkins and Kim Eddy nervously waited in Lake Placid. Each team gets time to practice on the unfamiliar ice, and Eddy and Jenkins had to push back the girls’ practice time twice.

“We had minimal contact with the girls as they were flying and driving all over the place,” Jenkins said. “In the past, maybe one person might get delayed or one bag might get lost, but we’ve never had an entire team.”

It was late when the team finally arrived in Lake Placid.

They were still a few bags short and exhausted from the six-hour drive from Boston.

It didn’t matter how tired or stressed they were, though.

Come 7 a.m., they had to be ready to compete.

“Even though we had prepared for this the entire season, it felt like everything was falling apart and all the odds were against us,” Greene said.

“I think tensions were really high, and everyone was really stressed out,” Myint added. “It came out in how we reacted to each other and how we were tired, and I think the hardest part was trying to get people to be happy, be excited, be relaxed.”

The team easily could have gone home or given up. They could have lost everything.

“Not having any control over the situation was really stressful,” Jenkins said. “But at the same time, we were kind of joking that despite all of this,

they’re probably going to pull out an awesome performance.”

Running on little more than three hours of sleep, airport food — which “is not real food,” Greene said — and the cheers of the audience, they somehow managed to get onto the ice.

“I don’t know if anyone really thought we could do it. We wanted to do it, but it seemed kind of far-fetched at that point,” said Lauren Daly, a senior English and French major.

“But we knew we just had to do our best because we didn’t come

all this way to throw it all away.”

Their success didn’t really hit Myint until they received their medals in the Olympic oval with Jenkins, herself a synchronized skating champion.

“It was a very emotional weekend,” Myint said. “Being able to skate out onto the Olympic oval and receive our medals — it’s a legendary place, and I think that’s one thing that will always stick in our memories, more so even than our travel.”

2009 because it was too popular for so few faculty members, said Charles Wellford, a criminology and criminal justice professor.

By limiting the number of students in the program, officials can maintain the desired small student-to-faculty ratio. Despite having few faculty members, Wellford said, those in the department are highly qualified and among the best in the field.

“When you have very good faculty, that’s what happens — people come after our positions and we recruit them,” Wellford said. “What happened in our case is we’ve been able to replace them with new individuals who bring new ideas, new areas of approach.”

For example, the department hired Gary LaFree in 2000 to fill a vacant spot. LaFree created, and now directs, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, one of the leading terrorism research centers in the world, Wellford said.

And Lynch, who was appointed chairman in January, was the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics director.

“That’s what happens — good people are attracted [to the program] and some of them leave,” Wellford said. “Then you go out and get new people who are good

and bring new strengths.”

The personal knowledge and experience professors bring to their classes keep students engaged in course topics, said sophomore Tim Stipa.

“Some classes are more interesting than others, but that all depends on what topics of the criminal justice system are to your personal liking,” Stipa said.

“There’s not much I really dislike about the program so far. Overall, I’ve definitely had a positive experience with it.”

But some courses,while interesting, could be more rigorous, several criminology and criminal justice majors said — a sentiment also expressed in the program reviews.

“I acknowledge that upperlevel CCJS classes are not the most difficult, but I believe the class

experience is what you make it,” said Gross, adding the addition of a capstone-like class could help students prepare for the transition from undergraduate to graduate school or to a career.

“My current internship is helping me prepare for my career, and I know other students could also gain a lot from an internship experience,” said Gross, who plans to attend law school after graduation.

The department has had plans to create capstone courses, but doesn’t have enough faculty members to implement them, Wellford said. However, the department has been able to expand its honors program over the past 10 or 12 years, he said, offering a series of smaller-sized classes focused on topics such as immigration

and crime or violent crimes for advanced students.

The other main issue, program reviewers said, is finding increased funding for doctoral candidates and improving the time it takes for students to receive their doctorates, something the graduate program is already working on, said Laura Dugan, the department’s director of graduate studies.

“It’s hard because one of the strengths — getting students engaged in research early on — also slows them down,” Dugan said. “[Graduate students] are marketable because they already have experience, but it slows down the time to graduation.”

But the department is now focusing on more accountability, Dugan said, noting that in previous years, some graduate stu-

dents would get a job while still in school, leading them to leave the university for a few years and then return to complete their degrees.

Now, “to make sure students don’t fall between the cracks,” they must fill out annual reports on what they accomplished during the year, Dugan said.

And while funding for graduate students, as well as hiring more renowned faculty members, remains one of the program’s ultimate goals, students said they’re still impressed with the curriculum and experiences they’ve had.

“I’ve still got more than two years to go before I graduate,” Stipa said. “But so far I feel like the program is doing a good job preparing me for a future career.”

the synchronized ice skating club team received a silver medal for its second-place finish in its sectional championships last weekend.

After dealing with lost luggage and a missed flight, the skaters had to compete on less than three hours of sleep. photo courtesy of sundi myint

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club From PAGE 1 was a shooting range, Lan said.

In the wake of a series of mass shootings and other recent incidents of gun-related violence, the new group’s mission — teaching responsible gun ownership — has never been more important. The Rifle and Pistol Club, formed in March 2012, educates college students about developing marksmanship skills and provides a platform for about 80 students to enjoy rifle and pistol shooting while attending college.

“We’re not shooting just to shoot. We’re teaching safety, rules, and regulations.” said club member Luzella Morton, a freshman economics and government and politics major.

Their meetings are about range trips; their tools of choice — privately owned rifles, pistols and ammunition bought out of pocket — are stored off the campus.

Down to the gel bullets and plastic casings at their booth at the First Look Fair, the group’s operations are all about good etiquette: be it in shooting or gun safety. All members, particularly beginners, master proper form, breathing and aim and begin practicing with the gun rested on a wood box or a sandbag.

“We’re really drilling gun safety in their heads. Good

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marksmanship is about repetition and stability to repeat the same motions,” Lan said.

Following the December tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 26 people and the shooter dead, national attention has turned to the gun control debate, with people divided between enacting a slew of reforms and protecting their Second Amendment right to bear arms. For many students, it’s difficult to conceive of guns as tools of sport rather than violence.

“As long as they keep firearms off-campus and keep this as far from the university as possible — even if they are students here — I don’t see a problem with the club, even as much as I support gun control,” Jacob Siegel, a sophomore computer engineering major.

However, new background checks and severely limiting magazines sizes won’t hit the target, Lan said.

“The problem lies with current laws that aren’t strictly enforced.

The justice system is sending a message that gun crime won’t be prosecuted,” he said, adding that a 10-round magazine limit would make defense in the low light more difficult and that banning assault weapons based on appearance is faulty because many “less dangerous-looking weapons” are very harmful.

For most members, rotating through weekly trips and visiting

gun shows with a community is a liberating experience.

“Shooting is a slow-paced sport. Each time you get another target to aim for, a new challenge to get better,” said Annie Bolek, a senior animal sciences major.

Although male students primarily compose the group, female students are often better shooters because they are more careful and precise in handling guns, as compared to males, who use guns like an Xbox controller, Lan said.

Most members have grown up with guns. For example, Morton’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather have all served in the military.

“I was terrified, scared to death when I first picked up a gun in 11th grade, but it soon became a pastime for my dad and I,” she said. “Gun appreciation as a sport really stems from your family.”

Lan’s appreciation for guns stemmed from his love for finely made mechanical devices and precision instruments. He hopes to compete in a national match in Ohio which began in 1903 with the support of Teddy Roosevelt after the Spanish-American War to improve American troops’ shooting skills.

Lan’s favorite gun, he said, is the M1 Garand, used in World War II. “They just don’t make guns like that anymore,” he said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Not only will Saturday be awesome because of all the discounted Valentine’s Day candy, but Adventure Club will be performing at Fur. Christian Srigley and Leighton James compose the Canadian dubstep duo.

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ACADEMY From PAGE 1 school’s funding, though it will also see support from College Park, the university and — assuming the General Assembly approves O’Malley’s budget in April — the state.

However, DLS recommended the cuts on the basis that the state’s higher education funding should not go toward a charter school, said Student Government Association President Samantha Zwerling.

Last week, Zwerling testified before the state Senate Budget and Taxation Committee that the academy’s success would be far-reaching within the state.

For example, the SGA is in the

robberies From PAGE 1 An incident Friday night involving two suspects and two victims is also under investigation by Prince George’s County Police.

County police made arrests in relation to two incidents that occurred on Jan. 27.

O f f i ce rs a r re s te d a n d charged 21-year-old Demonte Antonio Spearman with firstdegree assault, second-degree assault, attempted robbery, firearm use and carrying a handgun for his alleged involvement in an attempted armed robbery on the fourth floor of The Varsity.

Police also arrested and

midst of writing a proposal for after-school programming.

“It’s a school where our students from UMD can go to learn teaching,” Zwerling said.

Besides connecting the university with the city, the College Park Academy will benefit higher education in the long run, Zwerling said.

“The whole point of the a cademy is that students between grades six through 12 have the opportunity to earn up to 60 credits,” Zwerling said.

In essence, the academy would be “paying” for the students’ tuition, as they receive credits for college courses before graduating, Rosapepe said.

Following a lottery pick at College Park City Hall on Wednesday, roughly 300

sixth and seventh graders out of about 400 applicants will receive an invitation for a spot in the school, Rosapepe said.

The academy, to be located in the former site of St. Mark the Evangelist School in Hyattsville, will push interactive and technology-blended learning and will offer a variety of teaching opportunities to university students.

Any relationship between the university and the county’s education would only benefit both parties in the long term, Rosapepe said.

“Having the University of Maryland deeply engaged with our local public schools is a big plus,” he said.

charged 20-year-old Edgar Umberto Hernandez, a 15-yearold and a 17-year-old with armed robbery, first-degree assault and related charges, according to the county police’s blog.

Additionally, the department arrested university student Teshauna N icole Jones, 18, of College Park and charged her with making a false statement to an officer. On Feb. 5, Jones said she was the victim of an armed robbery on Paint Branch Parkway.

After looking at video evidence, police determined Jones’ claim was false and she later admitted to providing a false statement, according to the department’s blog.

Chad Knipschild, a junior

environmental science major, lives on Lakeland Road, where one of the robberies occurred, but said he and his roommates don’t plan to take any new precautions.

“We always keep our house locked up,” he said. “Me and my roommates have good habits, and we aren’t going to change what works.”

However, Mitchell said students should always be concerned and alert about their surroundings to deter future crimes. He advised students to take advantage of University Police’s resources.

“Use our escort service,” Mitchell said. “Give us a call 24/7 and we will be there for you.”

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CORRECTION Due to a reporting error, Tuesday’s article, “Officials to debut new diversity campaign,” incorrectly stated how many diversity marketing campaigns the university has had. There have been numerous campaigns for several years. Additionally, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion does not have plans for an assessment of workers’ rights issues, which the article stated.

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More than a campus issue L et’s be honest: Prospective students are often deterred from attending this university because College Park is widely considered an unsafe place. Our city’s reputation is awful when it comes to crime — when it’s a positive sign there were only 362 thefts, two aggravated assaults, 46 burglaries and 28 motor vehicle thefts in 2012, you know there’s a serious problem. University President Wallace Loh has continually emphasized his desire to revitalize the city and make College Park a top-20 college town — for that to happen, eliminating crime has to be a No. 1 priority.

The effects of these crimes aren’t just detrimental to student safety and the university — they also affect the city’s attractiveness to prospective residents. People aren’t just dissuaded from living in College Park because of rowdy students; they want to feel safe in their homes, which seems like a faraway dream given a recent string of armed robberies. It’s high time we change this perception so we can live up to the city’s label: “A Livable Community.”

In the past two weeks, there have been five reported armed robberies. While Prince George’s County Police determined one incident was fabricated, that hardly eases our concerns. Sure, there has been a decrease in on-campus crime this year, which University Police attributed to its efforts to implement patrol sectors

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and an increased use of technology and university-wide alerts.

But the past two weeks’ crimes have occurred dangerously close to the campus where students often walk.

And one was on the campus.

OUR VIEW

This city’s reputation of being unsafe, along with its high crime rates, needs to disappear; University Police need more state money to make this a reality.

While some students are quick to blame police, these crimes highlight a much larger problem: a lack of necessary funding from the state for safety initiatives. For the second year in a row, University Police received a nearly $31,000 grant to funnel toward new technology and enforcement.

But this simply isn’t enough, as the campus and city clearly need an increased police presence, which means there is a need for more money to pay officers working additional hours.

This year looks like the most promising for the state, financially speaking, as Gov. Martin O’Malley released a proposed $37.3 billion state budget that, for the first time in his two terms, does not require

drastic spending cuts or tax hikes to remain balanced. O’Malley has even proposed a 7.5 percent increase in state funds to the University System of Maryland, which seems to indicate there would be enough money to designate additional funds for safety initiatives.

Although it’s still unclear what the state’s prospects are for the budget — the U.S. Congress has delayed negotiating a national budget deal until May, when debates surrounding the debt ceiling will almost certainly resurface — it seems the state has dodged the worst of the downtrodden economy.

Even if Maryland is faced with a more constrained budget than anticipated, funneling money toward safety initiatives needs to remain a priority. One of College Park’s worst qualities is its level of crime — and even if police say crime rates are perceived as higher than they actually are, that doesn’t change the fact that prospective students and residents are still hesitant to move here.

Rather than granting university or Prince George’s County police tens of thousands of dollars to crack down on underage drinking, state officials should focus on making the most of limited resources by addressing the most pressing problems. Right now, we’d rather be able to feel safe walking across or close to the campus than to know students under 21 aren’t getting drunk in bars.

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A not-so-sloppy city Failed riot after the Ravens’ win shows College Park is slowly becoming classy EZRA FISHMAN Last week, the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl. Immediately afterward, students rushed to the bars on Route 1 to celebrate. As lines got long, the students got boisterous. They were drunk, cold, impatient and excited.

Soon they were joined by many other students who weren’t there for the bars. These students joined the crowd for something different — a riot. They had heard of, and in some cases experienced, past riots, and they were ready for their own.

The Ravens cheers were soon mixed with shouts to “take the street,” and a student started climbing a traffic signal. They were ready for action.

That is until the Prince George’s County Police showed up and quickly shut it down. Within moments, the stirring was quelled.

The students who wanted to go to the bars waited patiently, and the students there for rioting gathered across the street for a moment, then slowly meandered home, defeated.

In years past, this would never have happened. Given basically any excuse, we, the students, rioted. In 2001, students caused $550,000 in damage to the campus after our basketball team lost to Duke in the Final Four. After a victory against Duke in 2010, 23 students were arrested. Just a year later, students celebrating Osama Bin Laden’s death lit a fire on the mall. Even the Great Fire of 1912 was aided by a riot — that night, the water tower was empty for repairs after a student celebrating a baseball win against St. John’s shot a hole in it.

So why was this time different?

First, we live in a very different College Park than students have in years past. With the closing of the Thirsty Turtle and the increase in police crackdowns on under-

age drinking, Route 1 is not nearly as friendly to student drinking as it once was. Since most students are underage, there is almost no reason for them to be drunk on Route 1 anymore.

Further, a majority of students don’t even remember the riots anymore. The last event that could be called a riot was almost two years ago.

For most students, memories of riots are just stories, and these stories tend to end in police brutality, beatings and arrests — not exactly the sorts of things to put on a bucket list. As fewer and fewer students remember the rioting days, more and more of them wonder why there was even rioting at all.

Finally, our student body has changed significantly over time. As the university tries to clean up its reputation and make itself into a toptier school, it has been attracting a more refined student body. We may still have party-school elements, and we may be the college with a reputation for the least studying, but we’re certainly not the same party school we once were. This less boisterous student body goes to fewer basketball games, is cited less for underage drinking and generally behaves much better than students used to.

Whenever an individual high on PCP drives into the McDonald’s brick wall, or a group of girls skinny dipping in the fountain get their clothes stolen, the most common response is, “Stay classy, College Park.”

Based on how well we behaved last week, it seems we finally are. The rioting days have come and gone, and a newer, more civil Terp has emerged — one who might get trashed after a big win, but does so with decency and respect. Though I can’t guarantee this will last, I know I will enjoy it while it does.

After all, nothing is more fearsome than a classy turtle.

Ezra Fishman is a junior accounting and finance major. He can be reached at ezra.fish@gmail.com.

The merits of the Second Amendment The debate on gun control chugs along

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

State gun control proposal: Warranted?

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like to think that we all have an inherent sense of liberty, yet it shocks me that so many people are so willing to just give up one of the most essential liberties we have: the right to bear arms, ergo, the right to revolution.

It is easy to think we live in a country that will never go against the will of the people, yet history proves otherwise. Time after time, from the Romans to the Nazis, freedom was replaced by tyranny. My ancestors did not believe their government could turn against them, and they perished in the Nazi death camps for the crime of being Jewish. So I believe stricter gun control brings us one step closer to repeating history.

Current gun control legislation does nothing to stop mass shootings — all it does is trample on the Second Amendment, which is not about hunting or sport shooting. It is about resistance to tyranny, and I do not know about you, but I do not want to live as a slave.

As such, I will keep my assault rifle with my 30-round magazine, so when the time comes to fight, my countrymen and I will have the necessary tools to establish liberty once again.

HAL BERGER FRESHMAN, JEWISH STUDIES After reading the Feb. 7 staff editorial “Deciding under the gun,” supporting new gun control measures, it became immediately apparent that the writers of this article are grossly uneducated on the aforementioned

issue. Consequently, false information is presented as indisputable fact, thus potentially swaying the mind of a reader who is on the fence.

For example, if a 21-year-old citizen in good legal standing were to decide to purchase a handgun, he or she would need to state whether that firearm is for his or her own use. Should they lie, they have already broken the law.

Adding additional laws will accomplish nothing. It will, however, make those of us with spotless records have to jump through hoops.

Oh, and it should be noted that California and Chicago have some of the strictest gun control measures in the country. They also have some of the most shootings. Much like how the United Kingdom saw its gun-related crimes significantly increase after banning them.

Sa d ly, g u n crime s cannot be eliminated by adding laws. Murder is already illegal. The people doing these terrible things decided long ago that they just don’t care.

MICHAEL BERON SOPHOMORE, LETTERS AND SCIENCES I’d like to point out that nothing under current national gun control legislation prohibits the possession of “high-capacity” magazines, but rather the sale, manufacture or transfer. This state’s gun enthusiasts have been going to Virginia and Pennsylvania for years to get high-capacity magazines.

Clearly, such magazines pose little to no threat to public safety because they are already present in this state but are seldom used in crimes. What state law does do is force state money to be spent out of the state.

Only two of 398 murders in Maryland in 2011 involved a rifle of any sort. Nationwide, “assault rifles” are only used in about 2 percent of murders. In fact, more people are killed with hands and feet than with an “assault rifle.”

Also, The Diamondback did not explain what an “assault rifle” is. They are no different than any other semiautomatic firearm (with one shot per pull of the trigger), except in appearance. They look like military rifles, but in fact have more in common with traditional looking semiautomatic hunting rifles than they do with their full-auto (multiple shots per pull of trigger) counterparts, which the 1934 National Firearms Act regulates.

These rifles are, in fact, used for selfdefense, hunting and competition, because they are light, accurate, reliable, adaptable and simple.

The Second Amendment isn’t about hunting or sport, but the ability of the people to defend themselves against both tyranny and other threats. You can hunt with a battle rifle, but you can’t fight with a hunting rifle.

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WILLIAM DYESS Recent events have inspired fierce debate from both sides of the spectrum with regard to what should be done to reduce the amount of gun violence in this country. The sad reality in this country, particularly in this area, is that, as a citizen, I feel as though I need a gun to be safe.

Those who have not been robbed may not share my feelings, but God forbid that day ever comes, you will understand. Having been robbed twice, once at gunpoint — when I watched a lowlife gunman threaten each member of my family — I think of gun ownership simply as a matter of personal security. My unfortunate run-ins and the recent wave of armed robberies at this university serve as perfect anecdotal evidence as to why stringent gun laws that may restrict gun access to those of us on the victim end of things simply shouldn’t pass.

As any astute observer may have guessed, though, those who claim more guns are the solution to our problem are equally as misguided, and as a result, Americans find themselves with a limited range of steps that can be taken with regard to gun control. The argument often goes that stricter gun laws mean those who want firearms to defend themselves from criminals with firearms will simply be left without that option and, in turn, at the mercy of an aggressor.

Although I understand the grounds of that argument, empirical evidence shows that we are in a situation in which the oversaturation of firearms in our population has led to a higher number of homicides with firearms. Harvard’s

public health school has run several studies, ranging from cross-state to cross-country, proving more firearms in a population means a higher probability of being killed. That being said, please don’t shoot the messenger.

The real tragedy is that we let ourselves get here in the first place. The framers of the Constitution must be turning over in their graves at the current state of guns in this country.

The Second Amendment says: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This statement is oftentimes not cited in its entirety.

The first half of that statement does, however, make a difference, and I don’t see how those who cite their Second Amendment rights feel it is OK to simply leave out the first half.

Imagine a society in which we govern ourselves not by the rules, but by just the first half of the rules, or maybe just one part of the law. What the first half of that sentence does, that no other amendment does, is it gives the rule following a clearly stated purpose — a militia, in this instance.

The interpretation of the Constitution has changed to reflect modern opinion through the ages. In the case of the Second Amendment, whose purpose has often been disregarded, this has cost our society dearly.

Moving forward, this country faces deep reflection on the true reality of guns in our society as we decide what measures to take. I hope those on both sides of the argument gleaned some perspective from this column.

Nothing is black and white in this world, and deriving a solution on such a notion will leave us chasing our tails for years to come.

William Dyess is a junior economics major. He can be reached at dyess00@gmail.com.

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Halfway between a jam band and a DJ, the increasingly popular live act Zoogma mixes live musicianship and digital production straight out of a dance club

By Zachary Berman Senior staff writer Last summer, Mississippi-based live-electronic jam band Zoogma posited a question on its tour banner: “WTF is Zoogma?”

At once a sarcastic reflection of the group’s impressive increase in popularity and a testament to its bizarre band name, the question reflects Zoogma’s playful mixture of live instrumentation and prerecorded sequences that has captured the ears of many.

“It’s hard, but we’re all dedicated to the same thing,” said guitar and keyboard player Justin Hasting. “It’s just the music we like making. You know, we like rock music but we also like electronic music and all kinds of dance music. Combining those two, you’re still giving kids the dance-party vibe they want when they go see a DJ, but

you’re also giving them guitar solos, keyboards and live bass and drums — they’re actually watching us play it.”

Before the band’s tour dates this week, it’ll be stopping in Athens, Ga., to practice and put together a host of new songs for a new album that is slated to be released later this year. After that, Zoogma will start its grueling tour schedule, a 24/7 cycle of sleeping, eating, setting up, performing and sleeping again.

Hasting noted the difficulties of both prepping music and playing on the road, which are not as glamorous as one might expect.

“It’s like a research paper — you gotta go and do a lot of work, really dive into a project,” said Hasting. “There’s really tons of work involved in the whole-day process, but I feel like that two to three hours that you get to play really does make it worth it, especially if it keeps growing and growing.”

Through his experiences with Zoogma, Hasting finds the added element of a full live band helps the group connect with people on a more visceral level than what the audience might get with a DJ. Although mixing sequencing and samples with live musicianship isn’t a new idea, the style has gained a lot of traction recently in several music communities. Hasting believes this element is what has brought so many people to Zoogma, even if there’s been a lot of confusion along the way over what the group actually does during performances.

The group’s goal is to create the most interesting music — in Hasting’s words, the most “epic” — and see how far it can manipulate the sound into something that can please the crowd without losing the band’s more grandiose tendencies in space and progressive rock.

“Not everything at our show that you’ll hear is going to be extremely easy to dance to,” Hasting said.

That being said, there’s no denying that a large portion of Zoogma’s music is intended to get people on their feet. Hasting — who is glad to see people boogie at concerts — stresses the difference between his band and the hordes of MacBookabusing disc jockeys.

“Some people have never heard us before and when they look at our equipment before we go on stage they see that everyone in the band has a laptop,” said Hasting. “What immediately pops into their heads is that we have four DJ rigs. Only our second guitarist and our drummer are the ones that do the sequencing stuff — my computer is just for keyboard sounds.”

Hasting admits it’s a strange feeling when someone criticizes the band’s sound after a show for being overly

produced. While he’s always open to new ideas, Hasting and the rest of Zoogma are very pragmatic in their acceptance that some people won’t like the music the group plays.

“Some people are gonna like what you do and some people aren’t; you’re just going to have to give and take,” Hasting said. “I think it really just boils down to playing the music you feel like playing and if other people like that too, then it’s great.”

Zoogma may not have given a written answer to the question on last summer’s tour banner, but it has given a fairly definitive answer through the sound of its music: This is a group that plays the compositions and improvisations that it wants to play, critical opinions be damned.

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Deacons From PAGE 8 first half. While Wake Forest (10-13, 3-8) shot 48 percent from the field in the first half, the Terps forced 12 turnovers in order to build their lead.

But in the second half, the turnover issues that have plagued the Terps at times this season returned. The team finished with 20 turnovers, their ninth such performance this season.

Demon Deacons guards Chelsea Douglas and Asia Williams and

center Sandra Garcia combined to score the next 13 Wake Forest points to cut the Terps’ lead to 62-59 with 3:01 remaining.

“Wake Forest gave us their best punch,” Frese said. “That’s what we’ve seen all year, and I thought Wake was really aggressive after we came out at halftime and made our run, and then they made their run.”

But the play of Hawkins and Thomas came through. They scored 23 points each, while Thomas grabbed a game-high eight rebounds and Hawkins had seven.

Center Alex Len struggled with Virginia’s continuous double-teams on defense in yesterday’s 80-69 loss. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

cavaliers From PAGE 8 The Cavaliers jumped to a fast start, piecing together an 18-6 run to take a nine-point lead midway through the first half. The Terps (17-7, 5-6 ACC) chipped away at the deficit, and a Faust layup tied the game at 28 with 3:20 remaining before the break.

But a 7-1 Cavaliers rally gave Virginia (17-6, 7-3) a 35-29 halftime lead. Guard Justin Anderson had 14 of his career-high 17 points at the break, and the Cavaliers held a significant edge in every major shooting category.

And unlike Thursday’s 60-55 win at Virginia Tech, no Turgeon speech could trigger an early second-half rally. The Cavaliers used a combination of layups and 3-pointers to emerge from the break on a 16-8 run, allowing their lead to balloon to 51-37 seven minutes

into the second half.

The Terps — who have struggled playing catch-up this season — were unable to mount the comeback they needed.

With a Virginia double-team nullifying center Alex Len down low, Turgeon’s squad leaned on dribble drives and kick-outs. But the Cavaliers seemed to have an answer for each Terps putback or jumper, and the home team never got closer than seven points in the second half.

Fans had already started filing for the exits by the time Anderson — a former Terps commit who was showered with chants of “Traitor” and “We don’t need you” — was fouled on a layup with 30 seconds remaining.

“They just kept making shots,” guard Logan Aronhalt said. “They just kept making the big 3s that really took the air out of us.”

Turgeon said after the game that fatigue could’ve

played a part in the Terps’ lethargic display. The Terps didn’t get into College Park until about 4 a.m. Friday after dealing with snowy conditions on the trip back from Blacksburg, Va. But Turgeon wasn’t willing to excuse his team’s performance.

Something seemed off before tipoff, he said. Players and coaches had blank expressions, and they didn’t look poised to play a must-win game.

That lack of preparedness could prove especially critical if the Terps fall to the Blue Devils this weekend. With no more opportunities for a noteworthy regular-season win remaining, a miracle run through the ACC tournament would be their only hope of experiencing March Madness.

“We weren’t very good,” Turgeon said. “It’s disappointing. We’re all disappointed.”

Coach Brenda Frese’s Terps will face No. 5 Duke on the road tonight. file photo/the diamondback

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Tang said. “It’s going to happen.”

Tang would fall later on beam — the Terps’ penultimate and lowest scoring event of the night — but it wouldn’t affect their lead. Sophomore Stephanie Giameo, tied for third nationally on the apparatus, did secure a meet-high 9.875, but no other Terp eclipsed 9.625, and two athletes tallied sub-9.1 scores.

Towson, New Hampshire and N.C. State didn’t fare much better, though, and the Terps’ 47.650 was still enough to keep

SPARK From PAGE 8 hard work is paying off. It certainly helps with their confidence, and it came at the right time of year.”

Sheptock and his veteran teammates have been key in what could be the start of the Terps’ late-season middleweight improvements. McCoy said

“We’re best in transition and getting the ball up at the rim, so we just took advantage,” Thomas said. “I was able to get the ball down the middle and just attack the numbers.”

After Howard (12 points, 5-of-5 shooting) dropped in a layup to give the Terps a 58-50 lead with 6:18 remaining, no player besides Hawkins or Thomas would score the rest of the way for the Terps.

Hawkins scored eight points down the stretch, including a shot-clock buzzer-beating 3-pointer, and Thomas scored seven, shooting 5-of-6 from the free-throw line to put the game out of reach.

While the Terps allowed Wake Forest to shoot 44.2 percent from the field — the highest mark they’ve allowed this season — they recorded a season-high 15 steals, including six from guard Chloe Pavlech. The Demon Deacons were able to convert many of their opportunities when they did find shots, but the Terps’ defense harassed them enough to scatter those chances.

Now the Terps can turn their attention to tonight’s nationally televised matchup with the Blue Devils (21-1, 11-0), a game that could go a long way to decide the race for the ACC regular-season title. They’re the top two defensive teams in the conference, so the Terps know what’s in store and what they might have to do when they take the court at Cameron Indoor Stadium after Friday’s win in Winston-Salem, N.C. “Sometimes you’ve got to win ugly,” Frese said. “I thought we were able to do that tonight.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

their lead going into the fourth and final rotation.

But the performance on beam seemed to unnerve the Terps.

Sensing his squad’s early discomfort returning, Nelligan once again pulled his squad aside before floor.

“It’s pride night; it’s our house,” Nelligan said. “We are going to finish on our terms.”

Nelligan’s words, for a second time, proved crucial for the Terps. They wowed the judges on the final apparatus, as each earned 9.825 or better, cruising to a meet-high 49.425 team score. In her first floor routine this year, junior captain Ebony

Walters notched a 9.850.

“The outcome was perfect,” Nelligan said. “When they compete hard like that, they’re always great.”

Friday’s victory provided a much-needed sense of security for a team struggling with its identity. While Kathy Tang may be out, Nelligan’s squad isn’t ready to lie down.

Especially not with her older sister leading the way.

“We haven’t peaked yet,” Karen Tang said. “We are still growing. Once we hit, we are unstoppable.”

having older, nationally ranked wrestlers who are so dominant on the mat has been crucial in allowing the inexperienced ones to develop and progress.

“We are definitely continuing to improve,” McCoy said. “The guys are working together and raising each other up. They are directing the younger guys and saying ‘I’ve been where you are.’”

The Terps’ marquee wrestlers have performed all season,

and their success might finally have begun trickling down to their younger counterparts in the middle of the Terps’ lineup.

And with ACC championships less than a month away, it might be happening at the perfect time.

“We’re moving in the right direction,” McCoy said, “and I’m very happy about it.”

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Frese relies on go-to scorers to secure win Hawkins, Thomas lead Terps past Wake Forest

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer With a double-digit lead rapidly evaporating before her eyes and an eight-game winning streak in jeopardy, Terrapins women’s basketball coach Brenda Frese turned to her two All-ACC forwards to deliver results Friday night at Wake Forest.

After the Demon Deacons shaved a seemingly insurmountable 20-point lead down to three with as little as two-and-a-half minutes remaining, Tianna Hawkins and Alyssa Thomas took over. The pair combined to score the team’s final 15 points as the No. 7 Terps continued their torrid ACC play with a 73-63 win over Wake Forest at Joel Coliseum.

“We had to find a way to grind it out tonight,” coach Brenda Frese said. “Not every game is going to be pretty, that was definitely for sure, but we found a way in a close game.”

It never looked like it would get to that point, though. In fact, in the first half, it seemed as if the Terps (19-3, 10-1 ACC) would easily cruise into tonight’s marquee matchup with No. 5 Duke with an easy win.

After falling behind 11-4 early in the game, the Terps reeled off a 17-4 run to build a six-point lead. Then, surges at the end of the first half and beginning

Forward Alyssa Thomas scored seven of the Terps’ final 15 points in a 73-63 win. file photo/the diamondback of the second half catalyzed a 21-4 run to give them a 48-28 lead with 16:50 left in the game.

The Terps’ offense was humming along. Thomas scored 11 of the Terps’ first 15 points, while center Malina Howard had 10 off the bench in the See DEACONS, Page 7

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Two dominant meets provide needed boost Terps defeat Duke, N.C. State on road trip

By Daniel Popper Staff writer Coach Mark Turgeon (center) said the Terps “weren’t very good,” in their loss to Virginia yesterday. Guards Logan Aronhalt (top left) and Nick Faust (top right), forwards Jake Layman (bottom left) and Charles Mitchell (bottom right) and the rest of the team struggled against the Cavaliers all afternoon. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Terps miss chance to capture much-needed win in uninspired effort against Virginia

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer The motivation was there. With a host of ACC bottom-feeders remaining on its February slate, the Terrapins men’s basketball team likely needed a victory over an upstart Virginia squad to put themselves in next month’s NCAA tournament discussion.

But the Terps’ play lacked urgency yesterday. They were a half-step slow all afternoon, allowing Virginia to nab loose balls and grab key rebounds.

The Cavaliers capitalized on the home team’s slow-footed display with a lights-out shooting performance, and cruised to an 80-69 win before 16,895 in Comcast Center.

“I thought it was their day,” coach Mark Turgeon said of Virginia. “They had a lot to do with making it their day; every loose ball, every 50-50 play.

We seemed a little lethargic.”

That lethargy gave Virginia plenty of open looks yesterday, and the Cavaliers connected on 54.2 percent of their field goal attempts. Guard Joe Harris led four Virginia players in double figures with a game-high 22 points, and the Cavaliers shot 11-of19 from beyond the arc.

The Terps, meanwhile, seemed lost against Virginia’s packed-in defense.

They struggled to find their big men in the post and often settled for rushed jumpers. The Terps lost the rebounding battle, 34-29, for the first time

this year, finished 5-of-17 from threepoint range and hit just 10 of their 18 free throw attempts.

All in all, it was a significant letdown after two ACC victories.

With just seven regular-season games remaining, it looks like the Terps will need to upset Duke — which figures to hold the No. 1 ranking when it arrives in College Park on Saturday — or win the ACC tournament to have a shot at their first NCAA tournament appearance in three years.

“This one hurt,” guard Nick Faust said. “[Virginia] just shot really well.

They were just hot today.”

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After falling to Virginia on Feb. 1 to drop its record to 1-2 in the ACC, the defending conference-champion Terrapins wrestling team was in dire need of a spark.

And that’s exactly what they got.

The Terps captured two convincing victories on the final weekend of their regular league season, blowing out Duke, 38-3, in Durham, N.C., on Saturday before besting N.C. State, 22-19, four hours later in Raleigh, N.C. No. 7 Jimmy Sheptock earned two technical falls at 184 pounds, No. 14 Christian Boley won by major decision in his only match of the weekend against the Blue Devils’ Michael Chapman at 197 pounds, No. 13 Geoffrey Alexander picked up two wins by forfeit for injury at 133 pounds and No. 6 Josh Asper cruised to two decisions at 174 pounds.

With their victories, all four earned No. 1 seeds at their respective weights

for March 9’s ACC championships.

“It was good for the guys to go out and wrestle well and get points on the board,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “Our expectation was to maximize on all the things we’ve talked about and I think we did a good job of that.”

Perhaps even more significantly, the Terps won three matches in middleweight classes against Duke.

Even with their litany of struggles at those weights this season, 165-pound Domenic DeRobertis and 141-pound Shane Arechiga earned decisions, and 149-pound Lou Mascola earned a pin Saturday.

Outside of Arechiga’s victory by medical forfeit against Virginia Tech on Jan. 25, the wins mark the only three for the Terps in middleweight classes in ACC play this season.

“That was really big for those guys,” Sheptock said. “They’ve had a really tough year, and it just shows that their See SPARK, Page 7

GYMNASTICS

Terps get quad-match victory without injured Kathy Tang

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer It had been an emotional week for Terrapins gymnast Karen Tang. During a Feb. 2 floor routine at North Carolina, freshman Kathy Tang, her younger sister, fell to the ground in pain after injuring her left ankle. With the freshman phenom out indefinitely, the junior found solace in one thing: a note she wrote for Kathy. “[It says] that we are going to come back from her [injury],” Karen said.

“The best thing is that, as a team, we’re still together.”

Friday night at Comcast Center, the Terps looked every bit like a team together on a mission, tallying 195.150 points en route to defeating visiting Towson,

N.C. State and New Hampshire. Only N.C. State came close to usurping the Terps, tallying a 194.600 team score.

Prior to the meet, though, Brett Nelligan said his squad appeared tight in warmups, perhaps flustered by Kathy Tang’s absence. Seeing his team’s discomfort and anxiety, the fourth-year coach pulled his conference-leading team aside.

“They were nervous that something bad was going to happen,” Nelligan said after the meet. “I said, ‘Stop holding your breath and go out there and do what you do best.’”

After his speech, the squad came out charging. Beginning the night on vault, senior Ally Krikorian and junior Katy Dodds led the way for the

Terps, each earning a meet-high-tying score of 9.925. Karen Tang’s 9.825 tied a season high, Kesley Cofsky set a season high with her 9.850 and the Terps tied the program record on the apparatus with 49.300 points.

“It was an incredible experience out there,” Dodds said. “We knew we had to make up little tenths for Kathy being out.”

The Terps moved to uneven bars for their second rotation. Already holding an advantage over their three foes, Nelligan’s squad didn’t let up. Karen Tang’s 9.850, tying the meet-high, helped the Terps secure a sizable lead over secondplace Towson after two rotations.

“I’m going to get that 10 this year,” See TANG, Page 7

Karen Tang wrote a note for her injured sister, Kathy, saying the Terps “are going come to back from her [injury].”

The team defeated Towson, N.C. State and New Hampshire on Friday in Comcast Center. file photo/the diamondback