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THE DIAMONDBACK WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER

98TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 112

Univ. won’t pursue S. Campus dorm

FOOD for

THOUGHT CPI stands for Consumer Price Index, which is calculated using retail prices gathered by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics across the nation reported through February.

Prices on the campus were gathered with a combination of invoices from last year provided by Dining Services and through a check of prices as marked last night.

Unless otherwise noted, prices are calculated by the pound.

Citing state funding issues, officials say they will focus on N. Campus dorm

BY CARRIE WELLS Staff writer

University officials have abandoned plans to seek funding for a 750-bed dorm on South Campus this year after concluding the University System of Maryland won’t be able to finance all the administrators’ requested housing projects.

Statewide competition for systembacked loans has tightened in recent years, as housing demand has increased at this university and others, System Vice Chancellor Joe Vivona said. Meanwhile, administrators here — who recently rolled out a comprehensive master plan for on-campus housing — said they’ll have to pick and choose which projects they’ll pursue, as the housing crunch only seems to

tighten.

Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Pat Mielke said the university will focus on a 650-bed North Campus dorm, set to be finished in the Denton Community in fall 2011, brushing aside hopes for the South Campus dorm — at least for this year.

Mielke said she hopes the university will bring the 750-bed building, modeled after the South Campus Commons, before the Board of Regents, the university system’s governing board, next year. But she added that system officials told the university they want to see progress toward new housing in the private sector before they would authorize any more debt.

“We were concerned about the debt

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Noise rules prove incomprehensible Council delays action on ordinance change after details trip up members

BY BRADY HOLT Staff writer

GRAPHIC BY SAM STONE SOURCE: BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DINING SERVICES

As food prices rise, stores on the campus try to adjust

BY NANDINI JAMMI Staff writer

Those eggs you’re buying at the Commons Shop weren’t laid by golden hens. They’re the same quality you bought last year — they just cost 64 percent more.

A Diamondback analysis found the price of milk and eggs

at the South Campus Commons Shop jumped at a rate far higher than average national price increases did. Dining Services officials blamed the hikes on rising food costs, labor costs and inflation. But they admitted that on this campus, where there is little competition for student dollars, they seldom have to

worry about students not buying, even if they jack up the prices.

“They’re not using cash per se — they’re using Terp Bucks so they’re not looking at the costs,” said Clarence Patterson, unit administrator for campus

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Lights out for Old Leonardtown

College Park City Council members yesterday decided to defer a vote and allow city staff work with two council members to study overhauling the city’s noise police, possibly going beyond the current plan to lengthen the time period during which the city can double-fine residents and landlords for repeat-offense noise violations.

Confused? So was the city council.

The topic is a policy that allows the city to double the $500 fine for a residence’s noise violation after the first offense, as long as the second offense happens within six months. The change on the table would extend that length of time to 12 months, making it easier for violators to have their fines doubled.

Despite a strong response from students and residents on opposite sides of the issue, the proposal was met with confusion and frustration from city council members last night, as they decided for the second time to delay a vote on the measure.

In nearly 900 letters Student Government Association President Andrew Friedson delivered to city staff before the meeting, students complained the proposal time increase compels landlords to start passing the charges onto their tenants because of a common clause in lease agreements. Opponents of the policy point out tenants could be fined $1,000 — the penalty for a second offense — even if they weren’t living in the offending building at the time of the first violation.

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OUTSIDE THE LINES

Students find themselves struggling through day without electricity DERBY COX Staff writer

When Maria Cowan woke up yesterday, she noticed the light in her room was dim, the Internet on her computer wasn’t working and the bathroom was pitch black.

Cowan and other residents of Old Leonardtown were left without

power for about eight hours yesterday — from 12:30 to 8:00 p.m. — when cables running through an underground conduit stopped working, according to Jon Dooley, director of residential facilities. Residents complained that power problems, which they said actually began as early as 10 a.m., disrupted their daily activities.

“I feel like we just traveled back in time to the 1800s,” said junior criminal justice major Ramy Ibrahim. “I was supposed to register for class and I couldn’t. This could be a big April fools.”

A lack of information about the

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Concert canceled amid NCAA concerns

BY KEVIN ROBILLARD Staff writer

A concert planned this month at Byrd Stadium that would feature Good Charlotte and O.A.R. has been postponed until later this fall after the NCAA said it could potentially jeopardize football players’ amateur status.

The concert, which was sched-

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uled for April 19, was to be one of 16 Gridiron Bashes scheduled for universities around the country.

Like the other events, the one on this campus was originally meant to feature a concert, a pep rally and a football scrimmage.

But the event has been postponed amid concerns it could violate NCAA rules, according to a press release from MSL Sports

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and Entertainment, which organized the events. The concerts would have been for-profit events, which NCAA athletes are barred from participating in.

MSL Sports and Entertainment is now planning to have the event in the fall, but students are still angry about not being able to see

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Andy Bowen, a senior history major, looks at art during the Proudly Coloring Outside the Lines art exhibit at the Student Involvement Suite in the Stamp Student Union Tuesday evening. The exhibit showed off art by students and artists from around the community.

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WAYCROSS, Ga. – A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday.

The plot, which involved as many as nine boys and girls ages 8 and 9, at Center Elementary School in south Georgia was a serious threat, Waycross Police Chief Tony Tanner said.

School officials alerted police Friday after a pupil tipped off a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon to school. Tanner said students apparently planned to knock the teacher unconscious with a crystal paperweight, bind her with the handcuffs and tape and then stab her with the knife.

“We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely,” Tanner said. “We feel like if they weren’t interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful?

We don’t know.”

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All fueled up on biodiesel Alumnus discusses starting the area’s first biodiesel cooperative and the benefits of reusing vegetable oil Staff writer

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As temperatures and oil prices rise around the world, two recent university graduates have decided to abandon fossil fuels in favor of a cleaner-burning, plant-matter based alternative: biodiesel.

Adam Schwartz and Andrea Calderon said they hope to get the Washington area on the vegetable-oilbased fuel as well by starting the area’s first biodiesel cooperative, The Green Guild.

For starters, the eco-conscious duo will bulk purchase biodiesel and distribute it to members of the coop before gathering waste vegetable oil from local businesses and producing their own supply.

Biodiesel is a fuel that contains no petroleum. It is biodegradable, nontoxic and can be used in regular diesel engines with little or no modification. The fuel can be made from waste vegetable oil through a chemical process where glycerin is separated from the vegetable oil, leaving methyl esters, or biodiesel, behind. The fuel pumps less carbon dioxide into the air than petroleumbased diesel fuels and gasoline, and it comes from renewable resources.

The Diamondback spoke with one of the co-founders of The Green Guild Co-op to

The Diamondback: Why start a biodiesel co-op, especially here?

Adam Schwartz: I studied environmental science and policy at the university. It was something that I continually kept learning about from researching and doing projects about alternative fuel.

Biodiesel just appealed to me because it was very concrete and it was very do-it-yourself.

With a couple of other folks, we decided it’s something we could do. There is just kind of a vacuum for biodiesel in this area. There’s really no opportunities for getting biodiesel in the area.

DBK: What do you think about when you drive past a gas station, especially when you see the prices?

Schwartz: Everyone is feeling the crunch. The price is coming up, and it’s only going to keep going up. It presents us with a big challenge and a big opportunity. I think that, on the one hand, those increasing prices are going to push people toward alternatives, so that’s the good part.

But the bad part really is that people are gonna feel that crunch along with other economic issues.

DBK: What kinds of people do you think this co-op will attract?

Schwartz: People that are environmentally and socially

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JAMES B. HALE–THE DIAMONDBACK

Alumnus Adam Schwartz has been developing a biodiesel cooperative with fellow graduate Andrea Calderon.

They fitted a bus with a 375-gallon gas tank it hopes to fill with biodiesel fuel made from recycled vegetable oil. aware of the climate and other issues. I guess folks who are interested in biodiesel come from different areas. Some of them are really against the war and see oil as something that is causing that, and others [are] very much about that localism and do-it-yourself and energy independence. Others are very much more coming from the environmental angle and are concerned about the climate.

It’s kind of a medium that brings together different people and different perspectives.

DBK: How do restaurants typically react when you try and get their waste vegetable oil?

Schwartz: Most restaurants pay someone else to take

away their vegetable oil. We offer to take it for free. In most cases, that’s enough of an incentive. People are pretty open to it. There is a culture of home brewing biodiesel, just individuals going to restaurants and picking them up. In some ways, that’s created barriers for us.

We’ve been working on developing contracts with restaurants and getting pretty good response, particularly from locally and independently owned as opposed to chain restaurants.

DBK: How much will your biodiesel end up costing relative to petrol-based fuel?

Schwartz: There’s a co-op in Baltimore that’s selling for $3 and ninety-something cents.

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It fluctuates around $4, but it has fluctuated consistently around that area for the past two years. Our goal is between $3.50 and $4.50 per gallon, and that would be based on whether it’s the summer and winter and what other costs we have. But if you look at the cost of petroleum diesel, right now it’s at around $3.99, just a months ago it was about $3.50, and a couple months before that is was around $3.30, so it’s increasing, and it’s only going to get more expensive. So you can save money on biodiesel.

It’s not always the case that you have to pay extra to be environmentally friendly. jsleimandbk@gmail.com

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Globalism on a campus scale

Meal plan cost to rise this fall

German ambassador Klaus Scharioth stresses importance of international perspectives

BY JAMES SENSOR For The Diamondback

FOOD, from Page 1

While some students spent yesterday afternoon soaking up the sun on McKeldin Mall, a group of about 40 students and faculty gathered in the multipurpose room of St. Mary’s Hall to hear Klaus Scharioth, German ambassador to the United States, speak.

Scharioth came as part of the Office of International Programs’ Ambassadorial Lecture Series, a series aimed at giving students an international perspective on world politics, said Joe Scholten, associate director of the Office of International Programs.

During his hour-long lecture, Scharioth explained the nature of German foreign policy while also emphasizing the importance of gaining international perspective through study abroad programs.

International cooperation was a prevailing theme throughout the lecture, as the ambassador stressed the need for a worldwide approach to problem-solving and a “transatlantic partnership” between Europe and the United States.

“Many of the problems between countries have to do with the fact that we don’t

“He was a diplomat, basically. He said everything that he needed to say in the correct way.”

–Allison Chang JUNIOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND GERMAN MAJOR

convenience stores. “Looking at the movement of milk, our demand hasn’t changed.”

Demand may have stayed the same, but at $4.89 a gallon, milk at the Commons Shop has increased by 64 percent since November. Likewise, a $2.69 carton of a dozen eggs is 94 percent costlier than in September.

Though food costs nationwide are on the rise, the Commons Shop hikes sharply contrast with national rates during the same time periods: Egg prices saw an only 19 percent increase, while milk hardly got more expensive, according to Consumer Price Index, a federal government measure of average price of consumer goods and services.

“Certainly stores pass along cost increases. If they have a bit of a monopoly power, they can pass that cost along,” said Steve Reed, an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, adding that any increase more than 7 percent is significant because the inflation rate is 4 percent.

When asked how much prices on retail food on the campus fluctuate based on consumer demand, Patterson acknowledged that “there’s not a ton of motivation” to tinker with prices because students seem to pay whatever the Commons Shop charges for staple items.

But faced with a lack of options, many students who frequent campus convenience stores complained their pocket books are taking a hit.

Freshman communication Dayna Burrows said she noticed the price hikes but would continue shopping at the Commons Shop because she doesn’t have a car to go off the campus.

“My dad has to put money, like six times a semester,” she said, “I would buy [food] either way, but I just kind of roll my eyes and go ‘Oh gosh!’”

Dining Services officials defended the price hikes, chalking them up to a higher cost of labor compared with chain grocery stores, rising costs of staple foods and inflation.

“If we don’t mark up the products, how are we going to cover our own costs?” asked Bart Hipple, Dining Services spokesman, who noted Dining Services marks up items by 35 to 40 percent to cover labor and transportation costs.

Officials said some foods have not gotten more expensive, and some costs have only risen in line with inflation.

Prices for bologna, American cheese, butter and peanut butter, for instance, have remained flat for the past six months. The price of bread only increased by 10 cents per loaf despite nationwide price increases, which Patterson described as “amazing because the price of grain has gone up.”

Also, Patterson said he can’t change prices on some items because the places he can buy

JAMES B. HALE–THE DIAMONDBACK

University President Dan Mote greets German ambassador Klaus Scharioth at St. Mary’s Hall yesterday afternoon. Scharioth spoke on relations between Germany and the United States at the event hosted by the Office of International Affairs. know each other,” Scharioth said.

His call for global teamwork rang true with many in attendance.

“He talked about problems that I see as global problems, and it’s good to see that there are other people thinking about them in global terms rather than just ‘What can the U.S. do?’ — he’s saying ‘What can the world do?’” said junior English major Liz Campbell.

Scharioth said studying abroad is important because it’s a way to learn outside the classroom. “[Studying abroad] is a constantly thrilling experience because, even if you skip classes, you still learn some-

thing,” he said.

After his lecture, Scharioth tackled questions from the crowd on a number of issues, including climate change, nuclear disarmament, terrorism, China’s rise and Turkey’s bid for admission to the European Union.

“I thought that he really handled the questions well,” said junior anthropology and German major Allison Chang.

“Somebody asked about small arms, and [Scharioth] didn’t need time to answer. He just answered it with, ‘We do have programs; we’re trying to ban small arms.’ He was really on the ball.”

Despite his general openness, the ambassador wouldn’t

answer all questions. When asked specifically about his view on the war in Iraq, he said he couldn’t comment on the situation. Some students said they worried the ambassador was painting a rosier picture of the German-American relationship than what actually existed.

“He was a diplomat, basically,” Chang said. “He said everything that he needed to say in the correct way. He didn’t really give his personal opinion except when he was talking about study abroad and his personal experiences; he gave the really official opinion.” jsensor@umd.edu

Univ. to spend $35M for housing projects HOUSING, from Page 1 on the system as a whole if we went forward with both of these projects,” Vice President for Administrative Affairs Doug Duncan said. “In the meantime, this will help some.

I think we reached a conclusion that’s going to get housing built on campus fairly quickly.”

But even for the future, Vivona said he didn’t expect the system’s rush of construction requests to trail off. And as the system’s capacity to take on debt for new projects increases every year, he said it was too early to tell whether they’d keep pace with demand. “[The university] has done a very good job of managing its finances,” Vivona said. “But I just can’t make a prediction at this time.”

After more than a thousand students found out they couldn’t live on campus last week, the Residence Halls Association voted to apply pressure on the regents to prioritize College Park.

“We complain about housing every year,” said Matt Verghese, an RHA senator. “The only solution is to make this a priority and make sure these beds are built on campus. E-mail them over and over again.”

For this year, Duncan said the North Campus dorm had a better chance of winning University System approval because it’s replacement housing for the Leonardtown apartments, which East Campus developers will tear down to make way for the 38-acre development.

In the meantime, the univer-

sity decided it will take $35 million from East Campus developer Foulger-Pratt Argo, originally earmarked for the North Campus dorm, and use it to fund more housing projects elsewhere on the campus.

Administrators said they had

“The only solution is to make this a priority and make sure these beds are built on campus.”

–Matt Verghese RHA SENATOR

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Students not well notified of power outage, some say LEONARDTOWN, from Page 1

is online,” she said.

Several other students scrambled to outage added to students’ frustration. find a place to work.

“I had an exam,” said Felisha Though there were several small orTankard, a freshman biology ange paper signs posted major. “I needed access to the around the community alertInternet and whatnot to study.” ing residents about the outBut some students took the age, many said they didn’t outage as an opportunity to see the signs or understand enjoy the outdoors. Freshman the cause of it. elementary education major “I wouldn’t even have Chantal Rukundo-Karaara seen [the signs] if [my and freshman history and roommate] hadn’t told me dance major Jessica Goldberg about it,” said junior psyheaded out to listen to music chology major Jess Allanunder their blankets. son. “There was no sign –Jess Allanson “Today was a good day for a on our door, no e-mails, JUNIOR power outage,” Rukundonothing.”

When workers told PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR Karaara said, of the weather.

“We enjoyed the time.”

Cowan power might not reTankard didn’t quite agree. turn until today, she went to “It’s hot in the apartment her home in Ellicott City to and it smells like garbage,” she said. do school work.

“I have a lot of homework that I have to do by tomorrow and most of it dcox@umd.edu

“There was no sign on our door, no e-mails, no nothing.”

not decided where the money would go, but acknowledged the possibility of using it to pay for the South Campus dorm.

With the North Campus dorm expected to cost around $80 million, that money would not be enough to fully fund the project.

A 368-bed public-private dorm has already been approved for South Campus.

Mielke said because the North Campus dorm would house mostly freshman, it was probably a better choice than the South Campus dorm, which would house upperclassmen.

However, she would be happy for approval on any kind of project.

“I need housing [built],” she said. “I’ll take what I can get.”

Noise vote could come in summer NOISE, from Page 1 District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich maintained excessive noise keeps residents awake at night.

But after a lengthy discussion in which council members found themselves confronted with convoluted wording and the realities of inconsistent code enforcement, some council members had given up on the issue.

“I think the simple fact that we’ve gone through 50 minutes going through various permutations of this, we need to go back and look at this legislation fresh,” District 3 councilman Mark Cook said. “But if all eight of nine of us keep having to ask over and over again and we’re not getting it, a code enforcer out at 1 in the morning isn’t going to get it.”

Mayor Stephen Brayman said the council may not be ready to vote on anything until

summer, possibly after the end of classes. A vote had originally been scheduled for next Tuesday after Stullich first proposed the measure three weeks ago.

“Is there any way that it’s legal to ask a newcomer to a property to be responsible for a previous person’s transgressions?” asked Danielle Kogut, SGA student liaison to the council. “It doesn’t sound fair to me.”

City attorney Suellen Ferguson said that is not only legal, but the city has no way to force landlords to pay their own fines rather than passing them on.

But Ferguson and the city’s Public Services Director Bob Ryan explained to the council other problem areas with the existing noise ordinance rules.

They said relatively few noise complaints result in a citation and fine, that the fines are typically charged only to one violator who a code enforcement officer identifies as a resident.

Additionally, the fines are often

drastically reduced in court outside of the city’s control.

“If we’re so concerned with how our noise code enforcement operates, why aren’t we discussing how we can put more money into code enforcement to solve these problems, so we don’t have to legislate, legislate, legislate,” Kogut said.

“I think instead of making this legislation, we should consider why we have so many problems that are bothering Ms. Stullich’s neighbors.”

After extensive discussion last night and at the previous public hearing, it became increasingly clear that council members didn’t understand how noise enforcement worked now or how it would work under Stullich’s proposal. Several eventually agreed with the argument voiced by the SGA, including District 1 councilman Jonathan Molinatto.

“I’m afraid of punishing people whose only wrongdoing —

them from are so limited.

“We’re locked into some of the vendors,” Patterson said, noting that a state contract that governs milk prices prevents him from trying to get a lower price. “But with Gatorade, I can buy it from Pepsi or I can shop around.”

Hipple pointed out that dining halls have not raised prices at all this semester, calling it “unfair” to do so after students have paid their board fees. But he said the rising cost of milk is taking its toll on the Commons Shop.

“We had to raise the price [of milk] more steeply than we would have,” he said.

Hipple also said students can expect to pay a slightly higher fee for meal plans next semester to cover inflation and higher labor costs.

Patterson claimed he has actually avoided raising prices at the Commons Shop multiple times.

“I was trying not to hit them with price increases during the semester,” said Patterson of the milk prices, adding that prices should have gone up three times this semester.

Because the Commons Shop makes it a policy to mark up items 35 to 40 percent, it has even stopped carrying some items because they would be too pricey, Patterson said.

Splenda, for instance, would have cost students $10 a bag — $3 more than last semester. Patterson also decided to stop carrying raspberries once he found a half-pint box would set students back $7.

Agricultural economics professor James Ahern from California Polytechnic State University said the biggest culprits behind high prices are the dramatic increase in the cost of oil combined with the plummeting value of U.S. currency.

“The dollar’s falling against most of the currencies in the world. That means our money is worth less,” he said, adding that corn is in high demand from ethanol producers and livestock farmers, which makes raising livestock more expensive. “All the corn is sent to making fuel, it’s not going to feeding livestock.”

Unfortunately for consumers, economists say the end is not yet in sight. Assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics Barrett Kirwan said he doesn’t expect milk prices to let up anytime soon, saying that milk farmers now have an upper hand when it comes to setting prices.

Still, students will likely keep shopping at the Commons Shop. But that doesn’t mean they’re happy about it.

“Quality is not good and prices are higher,” said junior history and secondary education major Craig Lebovic.

“Guess you’re paying for convenience.” jammidbk@gmail.com. Reporter James Sensor and editor Kevin Litten contributed to this report.

besides committing one noise violation — is choosing the wrong roommate,” a roommate who had previously incurred a noise violation, he said.

Kogut suggested that the 6or 12-month period be reset whenever any tenants move in or out of a property. Molinatto suggested the city follow independent violators instead of properties. And District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin suggested abolishing landlord fines in favor of a “point system” through which excessive landlord problems would lead to occupancy permit revocations.

Mayor Brayman asked to see a report on their progress in two weeks, but is not optimistic that anything will be ready to be voted on before students leave for summer vacation.

“I think we have shown on this issue a lot of input from students,” Friedson said after the meeting. “It would be unfortunate if their positions are not represented.” holtdbk@gmail.com

Despite ticket refunds, students disappointed by cancelled concert CONCERT, from Page 1 the two acts with Maryland roots — Good Charlotte, a poppunk band from Waldorf, and O.A.R., a jam band from Rockville.

“I’m pissed off,” said Ankit Bhalla, a sophomore account-

ing major. “It’s so late in the process. People have been buying tickets. ... The NCAA should have known about this.”

Refunds will be available for people who have already purchased tickets, according to an Athletics Department press release.

No concerns about violations arose until last week, when MSL Sports and Entertainment contacted the NCAA about the events.

The NCAA was concerned about free tickets that would be given to athletes and about the involvement of the football players in the for-profit events.

“It sucks that they have to cancel a concert because of regulations,” said Paulina Prochownik, a sophomore journalism major. “I was really looking forward to seeing them.

They’re the biggest band to come here in a while.”

But some students were

more concerned about the football team.

“It’s disappointing that the concert’s canceled, but I guess it’s worth it not to jeopardize the eligibility of any of the football players,” said Adam Anderson, a sophomore computer engineering major.

Other concerts were scheduled at universities throughout the country including Penn State, West Virginia and Rutgers. The first was scheduled for this weekend at Louisiana State University. robillarddbk@gmail.com

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Opinion L

ook at me, I’m a grad student!

I’m 30 years old, and I made $600 last year,” Bart exclaims as he holds a fake ponytail up to the back of his head.

“Bart, don’t make fun of grad students,” Marge chastises him. “They just made a terrible life choice.”

This well-known exchange between Bart Simpson and his mother Marge has become as well known to graduate students as the Girls Gone Wild tapes have become to Eliot Spitzer. Why did we go to grad school? Why do we voluntarily subject ourselves to classes, studying and exams only to get paid a pittance?

Was it truly a terrible life choice?

While I wouldn’t go so far as to say yes, I’m finding out that the payback is harder to find than I thought.

Fundamentally, most of us went to graduate school in order to prepare ourselves for a better career. We hope that with a master’s or a doctorate in hand we can land a better job than if we just had a bachelor’s degree. Usually we are right in the long term, but the path we take to get there is not always the most efficient. Many of us don’t find that dream job right out of graduate school, so the big payoff we were hoping for is often delayed. For some, it eludes us entirely.

I’ll volunteer myself as an example. I am hoping to graduate sometime this calendar year, so I am currently in the job market. I did all the things I thought people looking for jobs ought to do: I put together my resumé, wrote some cover letters and started reading the “Tech Jobs” section of the The Washington Post. As my final, almost ceremonial, act of starting The Job Search, I scheduled an appointment at the University Career Center. How did it turn out?

Well, suffice to say, if the Career Center was a temple to gainful employment, I suggest finding another religion.

My appointment lasted all of 10 minutes, during which the best advice I received was that I used too fancy a font on my resumé. Nothing about how I should present myself to potential employers or what types of skills I should focus on; only simple corrections to my resumé’s formatting and layout. Even the graduate student section of the Career Center’s website offers woefully inadequate suggestions on things like what to wear to an interview. If we didn’t already know that, we probably wouldn’t be in graduate school in the first place. The most glaring omission, though, is in the graduate student “Career Possibilities” section. It offers only the most trite advice, focusing mainly on academic jobs and saying very little on non-academic career choices.

The reason for this is very simple — people in academia don’t usually know what to do with graduate students. I recently attended a seminar on alternative career choices for physicists (coincidentally, I happen to be in the chemical physics program in case you don’t feel like reading to the bottom of the page). The speaker told us the story of how he entered into a career in science policy, very much outside the realm of his thesis work in high-energy physics.

He said one day while he was a graduate student, he counted that the one professor he worked for had seven other graduate students and four postdocs working for him in what is a typical university research group. Here was one professor training 12 people to take his one job. The numbers didn’t add up — where were the other 11 going to go?

The truth is, there are lots of good career choices out there, but they are hidden in places often unseen in a university setting. Look around at what recent alumni are up to, where the “other 11” went, and talk to them. Networking is by far the best way to get a job. In fact, I would almost go so far as to say it doesn’t matter what is on your resumé or even what you wear to the interview. If the Career Center really wanted to help graduate students, it would take down all of the useless advice on brushing your teeth and tying your tie and pour resources into building a graduate alumni network. That way graduate students could find real-world examples of what their investment has bought them and find opportunities outside of the obvious academic ones.

In graduate school, we rarely get good advice on where to go after we graduate. Our advisers often tell us to follow their footsteps into academia, simply because that is what they know the best. In fact, there are a lot of good industrial or other non-academic jobs out there; we just have to look for them.

In the meantime, we always have a backup career helping sexually repressed governors.

Danny Rogers is a graduate student in the chemical physics program. He can be reached at drogers2@umd.edu.

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Mardy Shualy

“Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.” - Sallust

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ity Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich’s move to doing if it had more tax revenue. But other college towns increase the penalties for noise violations in the also have this problem and deal with it by trying to unite city is yet another measure representative of their various constituencies. Instead of viewing residents, the city’s short-sighted approach to improving professors and students through separate lenses, they work to create towns where professors choose to live, the lives of College Park residents.

For the most part, the needs and wants of students and alumni decide to remain and students are empowered to residents are aligned. We all want to live in a safe town in participate in local politics.

Yet, instead of looking at the university and its student close proximity to the university and other institutions in the area; but in the instances where the goals of residents base as a potential source of future residents who have and students are in opposition, the city has a history of strong ties to the area, the city looks at students as a threat disenfranchising students. The city has repeatedly to the well-being of its voting constituency. Those darn treated students as if they were second-class citizens by students, with their cars clogging our streets, their parties holding special elections during winter break when stu- interrupting our sleep, their drunken antics attracting these criminals. dents weren’t in town to vote and saboAll of these are clearly nuisances, but taging the compromise last year that the city’s approach of increasing would have preserved a fee waiver City council must stop restrictions is detrimental to creating a encouraging student-friendly housing livable community. They’re plugging developments on Route 1. alienating students to holes in the dam instead of doing someThe attitude of many on the city counmake College Park a thing about the water. cil in understandable. After all, who are If the city council stopped these these measures hurting? Students? Studesirable place to live. attempts to disenfranchise students and dents who don’t vote? Students who don’t stick around College Park very long? Students whose tried to create a city in which the campus community felt income tax goes to their home districts because they don’t welcomed and choose to live in after graduation, College Park would be a better place. Instead of eliminating the bother to change their address to College Park?

This attitude is the primary cause for the city’s medi- fee-waiver zone along Route 1, the city should have supocrity as it frames too many issues as a battle between ported the construction of student-friendly apartment residents of the city and members of the university com- complexes. The developments would have been a boon to old town, by easing rental pressure upon it, decreasing the munity.

Perhaps that’s unavoidable when you have city politi- frequency of students walking its streets late at night, cians who have made their political careers in trashing trips which in turn, attract criminals to the area, and stopthe university and listening attentively to anti-student res- ping the noise violations and degradation of its historic idents. And maybe that’s understandable when one con- houses due to years of renter’s neglect.

Granted, these are highly optimistic and long-term outsiders the challenge students and the university pose to the city’s tax base. After all, the university is the largest comes, but this sort of thinking doesn’t seem to be on the landowner in the area, but as a non-profit institution they minds of many elected officials. The only way to have subare exempt from taxes and are still paying the city just stantial improvements in the area is to lay the foundations $5,000 a year based on a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agree- for a community of long-term homeowners who are committed to making College Park a great city in which to ment negotiated decades ago.

We could all imagine what the city would be capable of live. With the city’s current approach, we’re doomed.

Our View

Editorial Cartoon: Max Greenberg

Letters to the Editor The RHA represents me no longer Monday’s staff editorial, “The RHA exception,” was dead-on, and I commend the editorial staff for publishing what has been on the minds of so many students here whose views are seldom represented by the elected officials. For Residence Halls Association “student” representatives to be guaranteed on-campus housing is to remove them completely from the plight of students seeking housing. Additionally, the only students left living on the campus next year will be sophomores and freshmen, yet juniors and seniors will remain on the RHA, despite the fact that their peers may be living miles away from the campus in a roach-infested room costing upwards of $800 a month. To claim that the RHA is a realistic portrayal of student residents is completely inaccurate given this reality, and granting upperclassmen an exception is negating the whole idea of representation.

When questioned on the policies regarding commitment group exclusions from on-campus, South Campus Commons or University Courtyards housing, the administration often cites “student involvement in these decisions.” No wonder these decisions are being passed by the RHA — if the policies don’t affect the leaders, then the representatives are free to follow their private interests or, at the very least, lose sight

of the public (student body) interest. Similar to my disenchantment with much of the leadership at the federal and state levels, I have now lost hope in the RHA to represent me and make decisions in a manner that follows the democratic principles that elected them in the first place.

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JULIA BURKE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SENATOR UNIVERSITY SENATE

The tragedy must end This letter is in regards to Mike O’Brien’s editorial cartoon from Monday. I propose we do a similar calculation: U.S. casualties during the four years of World War II were 600,000, giving us 150,000 a year, and we still have military bases in Germany and Japan. With O’Brien’s math, we would estimate 9,450,000 American soldiers have since died in Germany and Japan. This tragedy must end; write your congressman to bring the troops home from those meat grinders.

MATTHEW GRAVES SOPHOMORE ECONOMICS

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onathan Sachs’ guest column from Monday is excellent in many regards, and he is absolutely correct in emphasizing the need to reframe the higher-education debate. Members of the state legislature must be pressured to regard higher education as a necessity rather than as an option, as an investment in the state’s greatest resource rather than as a luxury.

Unfortunately, Sachs’ comparison of K-12 and higher education presents only half of the picture.

The frightening truth is that the state is struggling through a period in which government spending far outstrips the state’s revenue, resulting in a structural deficit. Although Maryland enjoyed a $1.3 billion surplus in fiscal year 2006, it has been projected that “the cumulative gap between revenues and spending will exceed $5 billion over the next five years.” This year, Gov. Martin O’Malley was forced to present a budget that made up for a $1.7 billion deficit. When a state senator asked Sachs to find funding for higher education in the state’s budget, it was more than a ploy to avoid providing the money vital to the success of the University System of Maryland. Given the projected economic health of the state in the coming years, compounded by nationwide economic downturns (as evidenced by the recent mortgagelending crisis), we must fight harder than ever simply to ensure that funding for higher education is not dramatically reduced. It is unrealistic to expect hundreds of millions of dollars to materialize as a monetary panacea for all of our university’s many problems.

Do not mistake this essay as a defeatist submission to the cruel fates of economic trends. Rather, it is vital to realistically consider the available resources of the state when planning to improve our university. The funding process consists of two phases: the allotment of funding through the state budget and the expenditure of money by the university. As we cannot depend on an enormous influx of funding from the state, it is more crucial than ever to ensure the university is spending money as efficiently as possible.

The dynamic funding process proposed by Provost Nariman Farvardin in the Strategic Plan is precisely what the university requires.

Departments must be held responsible for the efficiency with which they spend money, and resources must be diverted to over-burdened and under-funded departments. It is unacceptable that the colleges generating the most undergraduate degrees, behavioral and social sciences and arts and humanities, receive so little funding. It is unacceptable for undergraduate students to be lost in 200-, 300- or 400-person lecture halls. The departments under the greatest financial strain suffer beyond the classroom. With fewer academic advisers, students are all too often abandoned to navigate a bewildering maze of restrictions and requirements on their own. With a poor faculty-to-student ratio, students are less likely to have access to the departmental research that is the pride and joy of this institution. With less money and more students, departments are more likely to have to rely on graduate students to teach classes.

It is our obligation to ensure the university distributes funding in a responsible manner so students are not penalized for their area of academic interest. A student majoring in criminal justice or economics should receive the same quality of instruction and the same level of individual attention as a student majoring in business or engineering.

In order for this university to achieve its vision of becoming one of the premier academic institutions in the world, it must redirect its focus to the departments in dire need of attention. If this vision of an efficiently managed university is pursued enthusiastically and consistently, we will no longer strive to imitate our “peer institutions;” other schools will strive to consider us as a peer.

Mardy Shualy is an arts and humanities legislator in the Student Government Association and is the presidential candidate of the House Party. He can be reached at mshualy@gmail.com.

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America’s fashion sense failure The Fashionista looks at American fashion stylings through the eyes of study abroad participants than comfort. [Although,] they manage to combine function and fashion in a very smart way here.”

Another difference Turek noted between the Queen’s land and ours is how much time and money we spend on said outfits. Although we tend to look as if we took half the amount of time to put our outfits together, we usually spend twice as much on them.

“The most expensive things are most admired here, as opposed to real special pieces that you couldn’t find elsewhere and clothes that kind of tell a story,” Turek said.

“I’ve been to some thrift stores here, and [one time] there was this group of sorority girls who were friends with my friend … and I go buying my things, and they turned around and said, ‘Is she actually buying clothes from here?’ because they were buying clothes for a dress-up party.”

Despite the ridicule, Turek said she likes thrift stores because of the unique pieces you can find. While thrift shopping at home, she and her friends have found vintage designer pieces, including used Vivienne Westwood garments. She and her friends also swap old clothing they don’t like anymore and tend to raid their “mums’s” and “grannies’s” closets for vintage pieces that they can incorporate with their own modern wardrobe, Turek said.

Laura Jacob, a senior Japanese major who studied abroad in Tokyo last year, also had a lot to say about American fashion after her visit.

“In the U.S. … people aren’t really concerned as much with fashion … but in Japan, everyone’s interested — its normal for them to follow trends,” she said. “They feel like [fashion] says a lot about what a person is like — their kind of social status, the type of person they are, things like that.”

Jacob and Sperry also noticed during their visits abroad that the locals do a lot more shopping than the average American.

America may still be widely regarded as one of the globe’s superpowers, but the only thing that foreign visitors are seeing by the dawn’s early light in this day and age is the unoriginal attire of the fashion senseless.

BY COURTNEY POMEROY Staff writer

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”

And, honestly, who is more American than Ben Franklin? But it seems that in 200 some years since his death, Americans have slipped a little regarding how strictly they listen to this founding father’s fashion advice.

After studying abroad, some students notice how tired and boring American fashion is when compared to the fashion they find across the pond.

Lala Turek is an American studies major at the University of Manchester in London studying abroad here. However, her classes left her unprepared for one aspect of the American lifestyle.

“I can describe fashion here in three words, which [are] Ugg boots, North Face and copycats,” she said. “I thought people would follow high fashion a lot more.”

She’s not judging the entire country based on university fashion, of course, but some of her observations are scarily accurate.

“People have a kind of fear of being different,” she said. “One huge difference … is that in England people try really hard to be different.”

She’s also noticed the overly casual nature of American fashion, which, in the last decade, has degraded into an advanced state of constant pajama-wearing. Most think it is actually acceptable to walk around in unstructured sweatpants that make you look like you are sporting a diaper underneath. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, leggings — which are more often than not too much information. They try to justify it as “comfortable.”

Turek described it as “sloppy.”

“In England, people take care to look dressed up during the day, whereas if I wear those clothes here, people say, ‘Oh, are you going out?,” she said. “It makes me sad that they don’t admire what they could be doing.”

Caroline Sperry, a junior English major who is studying abroad in London, agreed.

“Europeans want to look good and let you know they put effort into looking good,” she said. “It is much more about the look rather

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Given two weeks to write the plays, five members of the group each set out to write 10- to 15-minute-long plays centered on the ambiguous theme, The Inescapable Us, which doubles as the show’s title.

“We wanted to give each of the writers the chance to interpret [the theme] as we see fit,” John Barkmeyer, senior theatre major and one of the playwrights, said.

The idea to write and produce five original plays came when Jason Schlafstein, a senior theatre major who, in addition to writing one of the plays, is co-producing the event, wanted to produce a series of plays centered around a bar.

With the group, Schlafstein then redeveloped the idea to include the group’s newly inducted members.

While Weekday Players has casted, directed and produced its own mainstage productions for four years, this is the first in which the group will feature original plays written by its own members.

According to the group, this is also the only event outside of the Theatre Department’s 24-Hour Play Festival and Off-Center productions that gives students a chance to see their own plays on stage.

After the two weeks given to write the plays, the playwrights handed the scripts over to five other troupe members, who then directed the plays. The group held auditions to cast the plays, and rehearsals began shortly after spring break.

“It feels great to be able to take it out of my hands and share what I have to say with others,” Barkmeyer said.

Daniel Kobrin, a senior government and politics major, Diamondback opinion columnist and a director of one of the plays, added that because the members are all friends, the process of understanding the meaning and angle of the play becomes easier. For the members of the group, the event has morphed into a chance to develop not only their writing and directing skills but also a chance to work together with friends and have fun.

“I think that’s a really

important thing, the idea that it is a collaborative thing,” Schlafstein said.

“Being able to let [control of one’s play] go is important because then it becomes what the director sees.”

“It’s not easy,” David Olson, a freshman theatre major and director, added.

“It’s gutsy. Especially when you know the people who wrote it.”

The group’s goal is to provide students with a chance to be in theater productions without the demanding schedule inherent in mainstage university productions.

They said they hope with the start of this tradition, they can now give student writers a voice.

According to members, Weekday Players is a collection of a number of skills that can be utilized in its productions, including improvisation, music, design, and now writing.

With these unique abilities, the group can easily expand into an authentically student-run production.

“Our goals are getting bigger; our ideas are getting more grand,” Aaron Bliden, a junior theatre major and one of the directors, added.

“This group is really coming to fruition.”

Working together has built a strong sense of group camaraderie, which, according to group members, is indicative of the real world. Working with peers, they said, is more likely in the professional acting world, and this process has allowed them to learn to work together.

The five plays, though centered on one theme, range significantly in genre and mood. From a lighthearted look at unrequited love to a man intent on going to the moon to a sobering play about failed relationships, the event is something the Weekday Players can call uniquely theirs, from start to finish.

“It’s playtime,” Bliden said with a laugh. “Doing this is just as redeeming as any full-scale mainstage production … we’re just focusing on having fun.”

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Reynolds up to 14 goals REYNOLDS, from Page 10 “tedious” and “painful.”

For Reynolds, whose worst injury previously had been some broken fingers, it was hard to be restricted by his body. He was left working on improving his stick work as his rehab continued.

His teammates saw that it was a tough time for him.

“He was really depressed,” junior midfielder Dan Groot said. “You could tell it was eating at him, and he was itching to get back on the field. He was always around with his stick, just playing around, kind of getting on everyone’s nerves a little bit.”

It was two to three months before Reynolds could even jog. Then he still had to build back all his leg strength and get in shape.

“I think my speed is something I value the most. To have something happen to my leg scared me a little bit.

I didn’t know if I was going to be as fast, so it motivated me to get stronger and work harder in the off-season.”

Doctors and coaching staff decided to hold Reynolds out of fall ball, but he continued working his way back into shape, lifting weights and running.

“He had a year off, but at the same time, he was at treatment every single morning trying to make himself better,” said senior midfielder Drew Evans, Reynolds’ roommate for the past four years. “This summer, he worked out a lot, and then this fall he did everything he could to make himself stronger.”

The run When it was time for testing, Reynolds was ready to see what he could do. He was pleasantly surprised when he covered the 40 yards in Cole Field House in 4.6 seconds.

“It was gratifying. I didn’t know what to expect going into the 40,” Reynolds said.

“To see I’m almost back to where I was a year before — I felt good about that.”

His teammates and coaches were even more impressed.

“That’s when we knew he was kind of a freak, physically,” Cottle said.

“I think it’s faster than I ran, and I didn’t even get hurt,” Groot said. “It just shows how athletic the kid is and how good it is to have him back on our team.”

The comeback At that point, Cottle trusted he would have the old Reynolds back by the start of the season. He kept the same plan for Reynolds — to use him more offensively — and Reynolds has rewarded the confidence, excelling with the second midfield line.

He scored his first career goal in the season-opening win at Georgetown, and he has kept producing. He is currently the highest scoring midfielder on the team with 14 goals, including recording a career-high three goals in each of the Terps’ last two games, wins against then-No. 5 North Carolina and thenNo. 1 Virginia.

Reynolds said after two seasons when he was discouraged from shooting, it is nice to be able to contribute in a new way, and he thinks the time off may have helped his scoring prowess.

“I’ve always liked to play offense. I’ve just never had the stick work to do it,” Reynolds said. “But I’ve been working on that, and I had a whole year to mess around playing catch off the wall. I guess it’s helped me out to be able to contribute offensively.”

Reynolds said he feels as though he’s back at 100 percent after battling through soreness at times as he got his conditioning back.

Nowhere was it more evident than in the win over North Carolina when he raced toward a fourth quarter ground ball in the Tar Heel zone, scooped it up, took a check and scored a man-down goal to pad the Terp lead.

“It’s awesome,” Evans said. “I hadn’t played with him for a whole year. I forgot how athletic he is on the field. Now that he’s on my line, you really notice how athletic he is.”

Cottle said he’s never seen such a quick and thorough recovery from an ACL injury, calling it amazing.

And Reynolds doesn’t want to look back. He said he’s treating the extra year as a positive since it will allow him to double major, secure a job and maybe find more success on the lacrosse field.

“Hopefully, I’ll be able to be a better player by my fifth year and do some things I wouldn’t be able to do my fourth year,” Reynolds said.

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First baseman Will Greenberg and the Terps piled up 13 runs in their win over Navy last night at Shipley Field.

Middle relief keeps Terps alive NAVY, from Page 10 inning gave the Terps the lead for good.

“I’m seeing the ball well and the wind was blowing out, so that didn’t hurt much either” said Jowers, who hit his second home run of the game in the sixth inning.

Unlike other come-from-behind wins, when the Terps (1513, 3-9 ACC) were done in early by shaky fielding and poor situ-

starters because ational hitting, Navy’s we’ve got a couple 4-0 start could be guys in the mix that if tagged on ineffective BASEBALL they just become Terp pitching.

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If the current trend continhave been unable to find a consistent midweek starter, and ues, the Terps understand it’s only a matter of time before that was apparent last night.

“The strength of this team they aren’t able to stage a has been our middle relief, but comeback, and finally let a I’m not concerned about the game get away.

In last night’s contest though, the Terps escaped with the win when matters once again seemed dire early.

“We need to play [innings] one through three like we do seven through nine,” Jowers said. “We need to jump on top of them. It’s always harder to come back, but luckily we’ve been able to play well for the last four or five innings.” akrautdbk@gmail.com

Terps came up short on road to Tampa RETURN, from Page 10 Frese said. “We had a tough night last night. It was our last opportunity to play with this team.”

After beating out Stanford for the final No. 1 seed when the bracket was set, the Terps seemed well positioned for a run to the final four in Tampa,

Fla. And with upperclassmen only two years removed from a national championship, the notion did not seem far-fetched.

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“It’s still a tremendous accomplishment.”

She said she was proud of all this senior class, including forward starters Crystal Lang-

horne and Laura Harper, has done in their four years.

“I keep reminding them that only four teams in their careers got the chance to win the national championship,” Frese said. “And we were one of them. I’m incredibly proud of all of them.” kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

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Injuries to top Softball looking to find rhythm LBs testing depth Terps trying to rebound vs. Delaware State after tough ACC slate at position

BY JEFF NEWMAN Staff writer

Philistin, Fokou and Costa out for spring practice; Moten limited

BY ADI JOSEPH Senior staff writer

After senior linebacker Aaron Ball wrapped up running back Da’Rel Scott in the Terrapin football team’s practice yesterday, his defensive teammates exploded.

They were reacting because Ball, who is not even listed on the team’s spring depth chart, had stuffed the first-string running back in the backfield.

Ball is part of a growing group of linebackers coach Ralph Friedgen has worked into his spring rotation.

Between forming four different units rather than more traditional two- or three-unit sets and a series of injuries to the top players at the position, Friedgen has had to rely heavily on players whose names even hardcore Terp fans may never hear again.

Seniors Dave Philistin, Moise Fokou and Rick Costa are all out for the entire spring session, and a recent ankle injury has limited redshirt sophomore Adrian Moten recently as well. Those four will likely all be competing for starting jobs entering the fall.

As a result, numerous others have stepped in for the spring.

Currently, the top of the linebacker depth chart consists of redshirt sophomore Alex Wujciak, sophomore Dominique Herald and redshirt senior Chase Bullock.

The group has 31 tackles combined in their careers.

But the talent exists.

Wujciak was a respected prospect out of Seton Hall Prep in New Jersey two years ago. Entering last season’s training camp, the middle linebacker was expected to compete for significant playing time, but a knee injury put an end to his season.

Still, Friedgen said he loves his competitive fire and has held onto his big expectations.

“He drives me nuts because he’s hitting the quarterback when he’s not supposed to hit him,” Friedgen said. “I do like that about him because he loves contact. I think he’s a hell of a football player.”

Herald, on the other hand, is a far cry from what’s expected at the SAM linebacker position he is competing for.

Measuring up at just 5-feet11, 190 pounds, Herald was recruited as a safety. But for the spring, Friedgen moved him to the outside linebacker position.

Herald’s small stature and quickness have allowed him to frustrate the Terps’ offensive players so far in practice.

“He’s a little guy that’s just a little feisty guy that makes a lot of plays,” Friedgen said. “You wouldn’t think he’d be big enough to play that position, but he’s hanging in there.”

Bullock has taken strides as well.

And as a whole, yesterday’s practice was dominated by the defense. At the end, Friedgen had his offensive units running as the defense watched.

Still, between injuries and a lack of effort, Friedgen said he wasn’t satisfied with his team’s practice. As they were walking off the field, Wujciak commented on the long practice to the coach.

Friedgen responded that they would only be getting longer if the team kept up its current level of play. Later, Friedgen boiled down his philosophy with a set of rhymes: “They’re going to have to learn, you want to come off the field, do it right, do it light. Do it wrong and do it long.” ajosephdbk@gmail.com

During the first month of the season, the Terrapin softball team blazed through its pre-conference schedule, posting a 22-4 record while becoming the 23rd-ranked team in the country.

Then it started playing ACC teams.

The Terps (23-9, 1-5 ACC) have since lost five of six and seen their national ranking evaporate, while those of their two previous opponents, No. 16 North Carolina and No. 21 Virginia Tech, have risen.

In a young season, the last place Terps have already played two of the three ACC teams with a winning conference record, and the third, Florida State, is due in College Park this weekend.

But before the Terps test their mettle against the Seminoles, they will look to get back on track tonight at 5 and 7 p.m. in a doubleheader against Delaware State (1115), their first non-conference opponent in over two weeks.

The Terps hope the brief reprieve from conference play will let them regain some of the rhythm and momentum gained earlier in the season.

“We want to dominate a team,” junior pitcher Meredith Nelles said. “At the beginning of the season, we were just dominating, and we want to get back to that level and take it into the conference season.”

The transition from nonconference to ACC play can be particularly difficult on pitchers, who must acclimate

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Senior infielder Whitney Reigel and the Terps have lost five of their last six games. themselves to the improved skill and depth of the conference lineups.

“The biggest difference is that one through nine in [conference] lineups is a [good] hitter, whereas in other cases against non-conference teams, against the bottom of their lineup you can get the easy out,” Nelles said. “In conference, people are just so much more aggressive, and they’re going to swing at your pitches and swing at them hard. Bad pitches are always capitalized upon against the conference teams.”

It would have been easy for the Terps to chalk up their

recent struggles to the increased level of competition, but they have instead decided to focus on themselves.

“Definitely, ACC games are a lot tougher and a lot better competition,” senior outfielder Jenny Belak said.

“But we’ve proved we can beat these teams with the win against Virginia Tech, and that just comes down to ourselves and how much we can push it out when we’re playing teams of equal caliber.”

The Terps are 7-0 all-time against Delaware State and won last year’s meetings 5-2 and 6-3. But despite their past successes against the Hor-

nets, Watten said her team can ill afford looking beyond tonight toward the looming arrival of Florida State.

“They know not to overlook it,” Watten said. “We want to use tomorrow’s games to work out some of the things we want to perfect going into the weekend. That’s the good thing about midweek games during the conference season. They know they can’t overlook those things, and they’re excited to get back out there and play after some of the things we worked on this week.” jnewmandbk@gmail.com

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Spring football updates online

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Check out www.terrapintrail.com to get updates from yesterday’s spring football practice from senior staff writer Adi Joseph.

Running full strength

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Senior centerfielder Nick Jowers’ three-run homerun put the Terps in the lead for good against Navy.

Baseball tops Navy on Jowers homerun Shot completes comeback from four-run deficit

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

Sooner or later, the time might come when the Terrapin baseball team — owner of six comeback wins over out of conference teams this season — will falter in the face of deficit in an early inning.

That time wasn’t last night, as the Terps recovered from a 4-0 third inning hole at Shipley Field to beat Navy 13-6.

The game started out similar to many other Terp contests against non-ACC teams. The Terps got down early, this time when Navy used six hits to score three earned runs off of Terps sophomore starter Ian Schwalenberg.

“I talked to [the team] about it today and we come out and get the bases loaded in the first inning but can’t

get any runs,” coach Terry Rupp said. “Luckily we got runs later but we’ve got to come out more aggressive earlier in the game.”

Freshman pitcher Matt Quinn came on in relief and didn’t fare much better, giving up two runs in 2 2/3 innings. Freshman Adam Kolarek finally stabilized things pitching-wise when he came on in the fifth inning.

But it didn’t matter, because the Terps’ bats saved the day once again.

A five-run outburst in the third inning, started by a home run from senior second baseman Steve Braun, gave the Terps a brief 5-4 lead. After Navy tied the game in the top of the fourth, a three-run homer by senior centerfielder Nick Jowers in the bottom of the

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JACLYN BOROWSKI–THE DIAMONDBACK

Midfielder Jeff Reynolds had six goals in his last two games, and his 14 total lead all Terp midfielders this season.

Redshirt junior has come back from torn ACL to lead midfielders in goals this season

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

As Jeff Reynolds stepped up to run his 40-yard dash during the Terrapin men’s lacrosse team’s off-season testing at the end of last semester, it was hard to know what to expect.

Reynolds’ 2006 time of 4.46 seconds was the fastest ever recorded during the drills. But he was also just eight months removed from surgery to repair a torn ACL. After months of rehabilitation, this was his first chance to show his teammates and coaches that the injury that cost him the final 14 games of his junior season had not permanently robbed him of one of his greatest assets on the lacrosse field — his speed.

High hopes Going into the 2007 season,

Small crowd greets Terps Few fans greet women’s basketball on return to College Park

BY KATE YANCHULIS Staff writer

For the Terrapin women’s basketball team, there was no grand celebration on the steps of Comcast Center, no triumphant cheers.

After a loss in the elite eight to Stanford on Monday night, the Terps arrived in College Park to little fanfare less than a week after leaving for the regional game in Spokane, Wash.

“It just shows how hard it is to get to the final four,” coach Brenda Frese said. “That our upperclassmen have done it once is something special.”

The team bus pulled around to the back of Comcast Center. No more than 10 fans waited, friends of the

team, comforting rather than cheering.

The players looked worn down as they exited the bus after the long trip home and the emotional highs and lows of the weekend, in which the No. 1-seeded Terps played two games in three days.

Even Kristi Toliver, coming off a career high 35-point performance against the Cardinals, only managed a few “thank yous” before joining her teammates in grabbing her bag and slipping into a car, making a quick and subdued exit.

Frese remained, thanking each of the few there to greet the team.

“The trip back was quiet,”

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Terp coach Dave Cottle thought he had the best pair of short stick defensemen in the country in Reynolds and Jimmy Borell.

They both had speed, and he expected them to combine to create a tempo for the team that few opponents could match.

He even wanted to experiment with Reynolds on offense in hopes of adding an extra dimension to the Terp attack.

“Those were two of the guys we couldn’t have hurt,” Cottle said. Borell missed the first two games of the season with a thumb injury and later had his season cut short by a broken ankle.

Reynolds had a pair of assists in a season-opening win against Bellarmine before the ACL injury ended his season in the second game against Vermont.

The pair never played a minute together during the season.

The injury Reynolds describes the play on which his 2007 season ended concisely.

“It sucked.”

Reynolds said that when he went down in the game against Vermont, he knew right away something was wrong, even if the pain wasn’t immediately intense. He knew it might be his ACL, and he knew his season could be over.

A few days later, he found out he was right.

“I knew it was going to be a lot of work ahead of me,” Reynolds said. “Not to mention the fact that I was letting the team down because I couldn’t contribute in any of the games.”

Reynolds had surgery on his

right knee on March 8, 2007.

He was awarded a medical redshirt season, and he watched from the sidelines as the Terps earned a No. 7 seed in the NCAA tournament and fell in the first round against UMBC. But at that point, the hard work preparing for this season and that 40-yard dash had already begun.

“I wanted to support my team right then and there, and I wished them well, but I looked forward to the next year and the year after that,” Reynolds said. “I thought of ways I could get better.”

The rehab Within weeks, Reynolds was off crutches, and he had started a rehabilitation regimen he called

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