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New chief may need to build trust Two of three nominees have ties to Prince George’s police

BY BEN PRESENT Staff writer

Floyd's Barbershop, which has been in College Park for the past five years, will be closing its doors Saturday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Floyd’s Barbershop will close doors Sat.

As controversy continues to spiral around what actually happened during the March 4 riot, the university is making strides toward hiring a new chief of University Police, and two out of the three finalists announced last week have served as Prince George’s County Police officers.

Although each candidate will be judged on an individual basis, students said, overall, they trust county police less than they ever have before.

The three — former county police chief David Mitchell, Acting Deputy Chief of Administration for county police Gary Cunningham and Tom Coppinger, who has served as the chief of the Homeland Security Division of State Police — will visit the campus and hold open forums to answer questions from community members Thursday, Friday and Monday, respectively.

Whichever candidate is selected will replace interim University Police Chief Maj. Mark Sparks as soon as they are able.

University Police and county police, though they collaborate, are separate entities. University Police spokesman Paul Dillon said there is a concern that some students do not distinguish between the two departments.

“That’s always a worry, but not a big one,” Dillon said.

Neither Mitchell nor Cunningham was on duty the night of the riot downtown.

Still, many students pointed to events from the riot as critical in shaping their opinion of

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CHIEF CANDIDATES Three candidates for university police chief will be introduced in the next week. The introductions are in the Student Union.

David B. Mitchell, former Prince George’s County Police chief: Prince George’s Room, Thursday, 1 p.m.

Gary Cunningham, county Acting Deputy Chief of Administration: Charles Carroll Room, Friday, 3 p.m.

Thomas P. Coppinger, former chief of the Homeland Security Division for State Police: Benjamin Banneker Room, Monday, 3 p.m.

Owner cites high rent as reason

BY NICK RHODES Staff writer

Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles adorn the walls of Floyd’s Barbershop.

Starting Sunday, the downtown salon will have something in common with these iconic musicians: They’ll just be memories to students.

After five years of snipping, coloring and styling, Floyd’s will relocate from College Park to Crofton amidst complaints of high rent and an inability to keep

up with transient students.

“The truth is the rent was way over the market,” owner Anne O’Brien said. “The students are gone four months out of the year. And it’s hard to draw in the locals.”

With alternative rock blaring from the speakers and a pair of pool tables in tow, Floyd’s more resembles a nightclub than a salon. And many students were disappointed to hear the news of its departure.

“Personally, I understand

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THIS LITTLE TERP WENT TO MARKET Farmers’ market lacks fresh fruits and vegetables, but draws crowd

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Gov. Martin O’Malley speaks with public policy school Dean Don Kettl and university lobbyist Ross Stern during his visit to the campus yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

O’Malley hypes state program in univ. visit

BY AMANDA PINO Staff writer

With his re-election kickoff a week away, Gov. Martin O’Malley spoke to a crowd of more than 100 university faculty and students yesterday in Van Munching Hall.

Despite the beginnings of campaign season, O’Malley took off his politician hat and played schoolteacher, telling the crowd — made up mostly of public policy graduate students — of his signature StateStat program, which uses detailed data to track government’s successes and pitfalls.

While O’Malley’s presentation was more technical than political, his trip to this university — along with an appearance at Salisbury University later in the day and a similar college road trip last week by Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown — highlights how college campuses will likely be friendly ground in his effort to fight off a challenge from former Gov. Robert Ehrlich this fall.

Besides banking on the traditional liberal bent of students and faculty, O’Malley hopes to win votes by

Students in Hornbake Plaza yesterday were faced with options they wouldn’t find at The Diner, such as jalapeño, egg and cheese crêpes.

The crêpes, which students bought from the Ruben’s Crepes stand, were part of Testudo’s Market — the university’s first-ever on-campus farmers’ market. Amid the other Earth Day-themed festivities happening around the campus, the market, sponsored by the university’s Wellness Coalition, was intended to present students, faculty and staff with an opportunity to improve their health and sustainable living habits. But despite the event’s

marketing as a farmers’ market, vendors selling healthy produce staples were notably absent.

The market featured about 12 different vendors, selling everything from jewelry to free-range eggs to soaps and lotions, as well as several tents offering Indian and Korean foods. But despite the array of vendors, none were selling fruits or vegetables, which are necessary for the healthy diet the Coalition wanted to push by creating the market.

“They’re just not in season,” said Lauren Stewart, coordinator of special health programs at the health center. “If you go to farmers’ markets at this time,

Check out video of the first-ever Testudo’s market on our website.

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Students smell soaps and other bath products from Riverdalebased Mystic Water Soaps at yesterday's farmers’ market on Hornbake Plaza. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

Students, faculty and other attendees at yesterday's Testudo’s Market on Hornbake Plaza wait in lines for a unique blend of food from local vendors, including korean barbecue and crêpes. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Lengyel elected Residence Hall Association president

CLARIFICATION A June 25, 2009 article titled “The sins of the father: Holocaust Museum shooter’s son speaks out,” reported that, according to his son Erik, James von Brunn, the man charged with the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last year, had spent time in recent years reading the works of certain Holocaust scholars, including Norman Finkelstein. In reporting this information, the Diamondback did not state and did not intend to imply that Finkelstein, who is the son of survivors of the Holocaust, had minimized the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust or that he or his works contributed in any way to the actions of James von Brunn.

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Three-year organization veteran will lead body for 2010-2011 academic year

BY LEYLA KORKUT Staff writer

In what turned out to be a close race, RHA spokeswoman Sam Lengyel was elected next year’s president of the organization last night.

Lengyel will face a full plate

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of initiatives next year, such as the opening of Oakland Hall, Northwoods Dining Hall, the ongoing Purple Line debate and hosting a national Residence Hall Association conference. At last night’s meeting, the junior dietetics major beat out Commons Senator Casey

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Anis though, who emphasized the importance of safety and constituency service during his campaign. While the vote was not officially disclosed to members, it was a “close” race, said elections chairperson Zohara Barth.

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has a lot of issues that it’s going to be involved in next year,” Lengyel said. “I’m excited for RHA to get into the details and voice the concerns of the students we represent.”

The president-elect, who has

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A woman from The Rustic Gourmet of Roland Park rolls dough at yesterday's first-ever oncampus farmers market, which was held on Hornbake Plaza. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

But vendors said they were generally happy with from page 1 the turnout at their stands.

“It’s been ver y busy,” said you won’t find much pro- Julie Bolton, who ran the duce. In June and July, it’s Groff’s Content Farm stall usually the height of the pro- selling free-range eggs and duce season, which is why organic meats. “We would we’re hoping to have this in absolutely come back if they did this again.” the summer and fall.”

The planning committee Although yesterday’s event aimed to improve for Testudo’s Market began accessibility for students preparation in October, who wanted to buy organic working with a farmers marand locally-grown products, a ket manager to help attract key element in many univer- vendors. Members said they sity environmental groups’ hoped the event would genplatforms, some questioned erate enough interest to keep how well the market would it going into the summer and appeal to students with lim- fall, possibly on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. ited resources.

“This was something we Senior Spanish major Caitlin Osborne said she was- found other universities had n’t sure about the look of the done to reach out and provide herbs being sold and said she help to improve physical, as wondered how organizers well as social wellbeing,” expected students without Wellness Coalition chairwoman Tracy Zeeger said. kitchens to use the products.

Bolton said the on-campus “People living in dorms can’t use things like the market is a good idea, as she herbs for cooking, they need often sees many students at things that are ready to eat,” the Riverdale Farmers Market where she has been sellOsborne said.

The nearest farmers mar- ing her products for three ket is by College Park Airport years.

“We usually have students and Herbert Wells Ice Rink and is open on Saturdays. Stu- there,” Bolton said. “It has a dents without cars can only lot do with location, but colaccess it by bike, Shuttle-UM lege-aged boys like meat!”

Stewart added that she or a lengthy walk.

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FLOYD’S from page 1 why it’s closing,” freshman economics major Sid Patel said yesterday, as he sat in the barbershop’s waiting area. “People don’t want to pay a little more.”

Though freshman business major Sylvian Roux is only in his first year, he is well versed in the cruelty of the revolving door of downtown businesses.

“This is the best place to get a haircut,” Roux said. “They actually know what they’re doing.”

Floyd’s is located in a strip of stores owned by Greenhill Capital Corporation known as Terrapin Station. The area is no stranger to turnover. Just this semester, two businesses have closed on the strip. The only businesses that have been constant over the five-year span have been T-Mobile and Quizno’s — though even the sub shop has changed ownership during the span.

“He’s just churning and burning people,” O’Brien said of the landlord.

But Richard Greenberg, a representative of Greenhill, contended that high rent wasn’t the main cause of Floyd’s exit.

“The landlord was more than willing and reasonable in our efforts to work with Floyd’s barbershop,” Greenberg wrote in an e-mail. “The ultimate decision to not exercise their option was based on the seasonal business in a college town.”

O’Brien said she wished the city would step in and help busi-

“This is the best place to get a haircut. ...They actually know what they’re doing.”

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nesses gain a firmer footing downtown but understood that it’s above their capabilities.

“It’s an issue but it’s not a huge issue,” District 2 Councilman Bob Catlin said. “We wish it could be more stable, but that’s out of our hands.”

Other business owners, such as Kiyoko Express owner Morgan Gale, seemed to side with O’Brien.

“It is a continuing struggle,” Gale said of surviving in College Park. “It centers around parking and availability. There’s no critical core downtown.”

Last year, the city built a parking garage equipped to hold 288 cars. Kiyoko Express is also owned by Greenhill and Gale said the landlord is “not helpful” when it comes to communicating with area businesses.

Gale was late paying the rent in August of last year and instead of receiving a phone call or note, he was issued a summons to appear in court.

“It sets a tone for a difficult working relationship,” he said. rhodes@umdk.com

CORRECTIONS Due to sourcing and reporting errors, a story earlier this month about the SGA left out one of the courses the university is offering this semester. There are three courses in total, including CMLT 298N: American Indians in Literature and Film: Perspectives North and South, taught by English professor Regina Harrison.

Due to an editing error, the years and majors of Colleen Hoffman and Colleen Meehan were switched in Monday’s story on Relay for Life. Hoffman is a senior government and politics major. Meehan is a junior family science and government and politics major.

Due to a reporting error, yesterday’s story about the controversy surrounding Palestinian Solidarity Week misstated which Israeli holiday fell on Monday. It was Yom Hazikaron, the Israeli equivalent of Memorial Day.

thought the market ultimately went well — all 300 reusable bags the Wellness Coalition gave out were gone.

“The numbers are there,” Stewart said. “We just have to wait for feedback from the vendors and the students and then we can go from there.”

Host of the famed Insomniac, comedian Dave Attell, headlined Student Entertainment Events’s Spring Comedy Show and performed a stand-up set in the Grand Ballroom of the Stamp Student Union last night before hundreds of students. The show included performances by comedians Matt Davis, and Kurt Metzger of the new Comedy Central show Ugly Americans. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

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In race for SGA, candidates aren’t only hurdle Student government hopefuls continue to wrestle with voter apathy

BY ANNA ISAACS Staff Writer

As SGA candidates embark on their last-ditch efforts to recruit voters, they face one obstacle more formidable than all of their opponents — student apathy.

The Student Government Association is tasked with a slew of duties: It finances student groups; it lobbies lobby in Annapolis; in many cases, it serves as an important conduit between the administration and the student body.

But some students couldn’t seem to care less.

Voter participation in SGA elections has hovered between 15 percent and 22 percent for

“I just don’t really care to be honest. [SGA members] come to my room, and they knock on my door ... but I don’t really care either way. ” SARAH MCKAY SOPHOMORE BIOLOGY MAJOR

the past five years. Students offer a range of explanations.

“I just don’t really care, to be honest,” sophomore biology major Sarah McKay said. “They come to my room, and they knock on my door, and they tell me their spiel, but it doesn’t really — it applies to me, but I don’t really care either way who wins. I don’t think it will really change much.”

Others students point out that the candidates’ visibility has been minimal and platform information even less so.

“The most that I’ve seen from the parties are on the sidewalk, and I got a Facebook message the other day.

Random,” freshman English major Shirelle Ellis said. “But that’s about it. ... I actually was interested in voting, but I don’t even know where to find the information about the parties.”

Each party has a website and Facebook group. For sophomore engineering major Laura Stayman, that information came right to her room. The Your Party lobbied her dorm, but she said that was the extent of her election knowledge.

“I don’t know where you vote; I didn’t know when the election was,” she said.

Then there are those who are on the fence.

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drawing near.”

She also hopes to continue from page 1 green initiatives like the Eat IN-itiative, which was estabthree years of RHA experi- lished last year to encourage ence under her belt, said she students to eat meals inside will draw from this experience dining halls and to avoid using to help guide her presidency, carryout containers. Lengyel but, she added, her leadership sees sustainability as an style will not mimic that of important issue and one that keeps “popping up.” past leaders.

Outgoing RHA President “I’ve been around for three years, I’ve seen three differ- Josef Mensah, who said that ent presidencies,” Lengyel passing up Samantha Lengyel said. “I know what works and for spokeswoman this year what doesn’t and what strate- would have been the “biggest gies to use as far as outreach mistake of his year as RHA goes and as far as empower- President,” was excited about ing students goes, and I want her win.

“Sam is a big initiative type to use those techniques and Mensah said. bring my own passion to the person,” “[She’s] perfect for the year organization.”

In addition to doing work they’re going into. She’s related to Oakland Hall and going to be able to see everythe Northwoods Diner, thing from a larger perspecLengyel also hopes to revisit tive but also know that noththe establishment of the Pur- ing can fall through. She’s going to be very aware of the ple Line on the campus.

“I just know that it’s a very details of all the large initialarge long-term process,” she tives coming in. She’s somesaid. “I don’t want the RHA to one who will keep her eyes let it slip by and not revisit by open for anything that will pop this year. I want to see up.”

South Hill Resident Taylor progress being made since it’s

“Maybe,” said junior engineering major Joseph Pieterzak, referring to his prospects of voting.

His reason?

“I know a few people who are in each party,” he said.

Pieterzak added that if not for the personal connections, he’d most likely be abstaining.

“I feel like the main thing they do is allocation of SGA funds, so to me, that doesn’t really matter because every student group I belong to gets appropriate funds,” he said. “I really don’t see anything else they do, personally.”

For some students who plan to vote, their choices don’t hinge much on platform policies or issues.

Junior Persian studies major Dan Weininger said he’s voting because he wants to ensure fair funding for student groups.

“Issues like supporting the Purple Line — I don’t think [the SGA] has anything of value to add or do,” he said.

“I’m involved with a number of student groups, and I feel like it’s important that they receive appropriate funding. That’s what SGA does.”

Based on his analysis of SKY presidential candidate Andrew Steinberg’s performance as vice president of finance this year, Weininger said he deserves to step up to the SGA’s top position.

“He seems pretty serious about the job,” Weininger said.

But as for issues beyond financing, Weininger said the

“I don’t think [SGA members] necessarily have much of an impact on what goes on at the university, but I think it’s still worth trying.”

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SGA has no impact.

Freshman English major Katie Wiggins said it was the SKY Party’s logo — the Tshirt worn by the candidate she spoke with yesterday still bore an extra “Y” — that earned her vote.

Senior Arabic studies major Monica Kamen, who voted for the STARE candidates, said she became aware of their activism last semester after Cordell Black was dismissed from the position of associate provost for equity and diversity. Still, she said she’s skeptical of the results the SGA, under the leadership of any party, can deliver.

“I don’t think they necessarily have much of an impact on what goes on at the university, but I think it’s still worth trying,” Kamen said.” aisaacs@umdbk.com

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Residence Hall Association Spokeswoman Sam Lengyel won the organization’s presidency last night. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Cole beat out three other people for the vice president slot in what was one of the most competitive vice president elections in years, members said. Cole emphasized the importance of revisiting

establishing a university Good Samaritan Policy, establishing more mixed-gender housing and the creation of an Ad-hoc sustainability committee. korkut@umdbk.com

Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) addressed the School of Public Policy yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

O’MALLEY from page 1 comparing his treatment of higher education to his predecessor’s. In-state undergraduate tuition was frozen for the first three years of O’Malley’s tenure, but increased 40 percent under Ehrlich, who also often clashed with university and university system officials.

“According to [Kiplinger’s Personal Finance], Maryland is one of the top 10 values in higher education in the nation,” he said during his speech, to a round of applause from the crowd. “I like to say top 10, because as Marylanders, when we hear ‘8’ we say, ‘Why aren’t we number one?”

The policy mavens gathered yesterday treated O’Malley as a rock star. The 100 chairs in the Van Munching atrium filled quickly, and late-comers were forced to squeeze into the back and sides of the room, many snapping pictures.

“The state is spending less now than it was four years ago, yet we’re continuing to make progress,” O’Malley said. “And we’re doing it with a level of openness, transparency ... and information sharing which has never before been attempted in Maryland before and perhaps is occurring at a greater degree here than in any other state.”

The StateStat website, which boasts a collection of agency reports, documents and specialized maps and diagrams, is modeled after the Baltimore crime reduction strategy CitiStat, which O’Malley implemented while he was mayor from 1999 to 2007. Both programs are designed to encourage government agencies to quantify their goals and accomplishments, and locate where improvements can be made.

O’Malley said the rise of the Internet means more information can be made more available to more people than ever before, allowing regular citizens to hold

POLICE from page 1 county police.

“The veil has been lifted,” junior English major Chris Fiery said. “Trust won’t be regained ‘til the current crop of students is gone.”

Sophomore Stephanie Cantor looks back to the 30 seconds when she “thought [she] was going to die” as a turning point in her ability to have faith in county police.

The finance and economics major said during the chaos that followed the Terps’ victory over Duke, she was cornered in an alley just off of Route 1 where she was pepper-sprayed. She added she had done nothing other than travel to downtown College Park to observe the festivities that followed the game.

“I was more intimidated by the cops than I do feel safe from them,” Cantor said.

But some students said their newfound skepticism of county police would not prevent them from supporting

“Just because of the bad stigma placed on PG County cops doesn’t mean one of them wouldn’t do a good job as university police chief.”

government accountable.

“We’re good at telling you what the budget is, but we’re not good at telling you what the output is,” he said. “This system allows us to make those connections around tools like the map.”

The program recently expanded to track the state’s efforts with the federal stimulus bill and to look more closely at ways to continue the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay. The speech seemed in line with O’Malley’s push to portray himself as a responsible fiscal steward who guided the state through the wake of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Ehrlich’s campaign has argued O’Malley overspent, and Republicans have pointed out that O’Malley used one-time accounting maneuvers to eliminate about half of the $2 billion deficit the state faced last year.

While students were intrigued and encouraged by StateStat, they questioned if average people could understand the data and wondered if reports could even be trusted.

“We’re taught in the school of public policy to look at things from a lens of accessibility, so it’s really exciting to see all of these graphs and projections,” said public policy graduate student Ravi D’Souza. “But there’s a lot of average people that this website might be overwhelming to.”

Others were unsure that the statistics could be totally reliable. Walter James, another graduate student, also said he wasn’t sure taking a model for crime reduction and applying to all areas of a state government would be effective.

O’Malley is expected to officially kick off his campaign next Tuesday. Former Del. George Owings III, who served as Ehrlich’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs, is expected to challenge him for the Democratic nomination. pino@umdbk.com

someone with ties to county police, should one of them be selected as university chief.

“I don’t like to generalize,” sophomore psychology major Funsho Adenugba said. “Just because of the bad stigma placed on PG County cops doesn’t mean one of them wouldn’t do a good job as university police chief.”

Sophomore sociology major Sarah Makhlouf said she is more skeptical of the department as a whole, considering the aftermath of the March 4 riot, but added each person should be judged independent of county police’s reputation.

“Their individual records as cops should be examined,” Makhlouf said.

Most students, some of whom were directly affected by the events during and following the riot, said time is the only remedy for the lost trust students have in county police.

“I’ve already had distrust in the police and their ability to protect and serve,” senior English major Lauren Izquierdo said. “I don’t think they can do anything [to regain student trust].”

Criminology and criminal justice department Director of Undergraduate Studies Laure Brooks said she hopes students are able to prevent themselves from judging the entire police department based solely on one night’s events.

“I don’t think [county police] have lost student trust,” Brooks said. “I don’t think students are going to judge an entire police department on the basis of actions of a few individuals, and they shouldn’t do that.”

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In the fall, the University Senate approved a revamping of the university’s paterhe Onion once ran an article entitled “T.A. spotted at bar.” The joke was a group of undergraduates shocked to see their teaching assistant hanging nal leave policy for tenure-track faculty. The new policy now allows such faculty to out, and that in the eyes of students, teaching assistants and professors request reduced workloads and a delay in their tenure review date in order to allot are generally two-dimensional academics who do nothing but research, more time to raising a family.

This semester, the senate voted to create a family care resource and referral teach and study.

Surprising though it may be, professors and graduate students do more than service that will point faculty toward available child care resources. But the proread scholarly journals all day. They balance their academic work with outside lives, gram will only be free for 240 people, with the remaining help-seekers having to pay. and some have families to raise. And although they might not frequent Cornerstone The senate hoped to create a more extensive child care plan, but with the univerGrill and Loft or come out in force to football games, they’re an instrumental part of sity budget as tight as ever, opted to go for a scaled-down version.

University administrators also announced a plan for next year that would create a the university.

Childbirth Accommodation Fund that would grant paid parental But getting them to stay in College Park has become a probleave to graduate assistants. In order to attract a wide range of lem. No one doubts the quality of the university’s academic graduate students — not just those who are single and without work, but the university needs to provide more than just qualchildren — the university must be able to compete with its peer ity academics to attract and retain truly top-notch faculty. It needs to provide quality of life.

The university has become institutions, three of which already provide six weeks of unpaid leave.

When administrators ask faculty members why they choose more family-friendly, but parental All three of these initiatives would make the university a more not to take a job or decide to leave the university, location is can go further. attractive place to work, but all three are new, and implementaoften cited as a factor. College Park is surrounded by federal tion needs to be carefully watched. In addition, once the econresearch agencies who are ready and willing to provide funding, but the city itself pales in comparison to the opportunities around peer institu- omy turns — if it ever does — child care resources should be near the top on the list of programs that warrant expansion. tions in Chapel Hill, N.C., Ann Arbor, Mich., and Berkeley, Calif.

Still, more can be done to improve the quality of life for university employees.

And when graduate students are asked why they dropped out of programs, the desire to be at an institution that enables them to have a family comes up again and College Park is not a prime place to raise a family. With the congested and dingy again. Faculty and graduate students share a fear of losing a research grant or a pro- Route 1 corridor and the city’s fair share of crime, few would point to College Park motion if they take time off after having a baby. The university’s teachers and on a map and declare they wouldn’t live anywhere else. Revamping a city isn’t easy, researchers want a family-friendly environment. While the university has the Cen- especially when its current state is much the result of the surrounding area. But ter for Young Children, the program is not nearly big enough to care for every pro- that is exactly why administrators should work further to implement policies that fessor’s child. And female faculty and graduate students still face an unfair fear that make the university, if not the surrounding area, more attractive. The development of East Campus should help, but ultimately the city needs to rival upscale Monthaving a child could cost them a job, scholarship or fellowship.

Fortunately, the university has started taking steps to provide professors with a gomery County in its attractiveness to families.

The university’s academic reputation has skyrocketed in the past 20 years. Let’s better quality of life. However , many of the new initiatives have been neutered by a hope that in the next 20, its reputation as a place to live and work can keep improving. lack of funding and the plans should only be considered a first step.

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Technology: It’s a small world

woke up on a raft in a bath tub filled with beer. excellent night.”

Nice. Thanks to the website Texts From Last Night and a roommate who insists on reading me all the new posts, I now know what some crazy kid from Illinois was up to last night. Awesome.

Who would’ve thought 10 years ago — or even five years ago — that anyone with a computer and spare time could find out exactly what you’re doing, when you’re doing it and who you’re doing it with (we still don’t know why you’re doing it).

Technology has come a long way and, let’s be honest, has become a little insane. TFLN, FML, Facebook, Twitter and Skype. I can see and talk to my friend in Costa Rica with the click of a button. I don’t, but I could. My roommate from Illinois gave me a tour of her house and introduced me to her family via computer screen. I can creep on new friends’

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OFFUTT walls and keep up with old friends’ doings. I can read about strangers’ worst days and feel better about mine. I can IMDB the actor who I know I’ve seen before but can’t for the life of me remember where.

A kid in my terrorism class, when asked the first thing he would do after surviving an attack, answered, “Update my Facebook status.”

I can keep up with game scores during church or look up the weather on my phone. You lucky jerks with iPhones have an app for everything — even popping BubbleWrap — and other snazzy phones aren’t far behind.

And the crazy thing is, I’m not even good with gadgets. Anyone can do this stuff. I don’t even want to think about what a computer whiz can do — what’s left of my mind would be blown.

On the one hand, all this is just so cool.

All the information in the world is at my fingertips, just waiting to be Googled.

Even the White House has embraced the less traditional modes of communication and information dissemination: Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated that Twitter is an “amazing tool” that allows public officials to reach tens of thousands of people who otherwise might not have been aware of news.

On the other hand, all the information in the world is at everyone else’s fingertips, too. Cybercrime didn’t even exist 30 years ago, and identity theft has exploded because technology doesn’t just give you access to the world of information, it lets everyone else in too.

There is a controversy in a wealthy

Pennsylvanian suburban school in which students and families have alleged the webcams of school-loaned laptops were used to spy on students in their homes and bedrooms. Hijacked webcams? Reminds me of Big Brother and an especially grisly Criminal Minds. And it’s not just webcams; the potential loss of privacy through technology is boundless.

Technology is making the world ever smaller. The question is, how small are we willing to allow it to get?

But for now, I’m content to sit back and use this powerhouse of technology just to get a laugh from Texts From Last Night: “Yeah I’m buying him lunch right now because I shot him with the fire extinguisher last night.” Way to keep it classy, Ohio.

Bethany Offutt is a sophomore criminology and criminal justice and psychology major.

She can be reached at offutt@umdbk.com.

Campaigns: Missing the joke

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ome people are born bored.

Others have boredom thrust upon them.

Some people have the drive to involve themselves in things such as the Student Government Association.

I’m not some people. I’m an average-tobelow-average guy in general, but because of my job here, for the past few weeks, I’ve been privy to the wonderful world of the SGA. The excitement. The majesty. The power. The revamped website. The Safety Walk.

Balls, this stuff is boring. I really respect all the people who involve themselves and their passion and shit and whatever. But holy Christ, this stuff excites me about as much as reading the online comments on my Monday column.

Be that as it may, I appreciate the activism. So while the SGA kids are trying to get out the vote and encourage students to get involved, I’m going to reach out to a very particular student group that’s been dormant for

way too long — funny people.

When I got here, it seemed like every election season brought the promise of a union between university comedians, sketch groups, general miscreants, troublemakers, carpetbaggers, Elvis impersonators, jokers, smokers and midnight tokers. These people would come out from the depths of what I can only assume is Hell and piece together the best part of any election season: the joke campaign.

And let me tell you, we needed it this year. During these past few weeks, I spent more time listening to Steve Glickman’s campaign to create an all-you-can-eat, buffet-style diner on North Campus (with a Kosher option) than any human should ever be subject to — which is to say, more than zero minutes. At this point, I could use the comedic relief. Even the zany student activists of the “STARE coalition of human beings who may or may not be friends with one another and like politics and have similar mindsets and

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GINDES whatever” actually turned out to be really involved, experienced and intelligent. So in other words, boring.

And by the way, that name is a mouthful. They should have just called themselves a party. Duh. What we need is a group of people who are willing to dedicate themselves to bullshit. People like me. I’ve worked tirelessly over the past two years to challenge the status quo of values such as “coherent writing” and “columns with a legitimate basis in fact.” I’m looking for some lads and lasses who are going to pick up the torch next year. I mean you, Sketchup.

And you, Erasable, Inc. The SGA elections are one of your grandest stages,

and you’re wasting it. Think about it.

We here at The Diamondback have to run profiles of, and guest columns from, every presidential candidate.

You get to go to the debates. The stage is set. All you have to do is show up and make people laugh.

And I’ll make you this promise: Although I’m graduating and going on to bigger and better things — such as living in my parents’ basement — I will return next year and manage the campaign of anyone who is willing to run on my ticket, which I call “We Like To.” So let me know if you’re willing to support the We Like To Party.

Maybe then next year, the elections process won’t be so tense and stuffy.

Hey, there’s a campaign promise for you. And maybe next year, people will appreciate what we’ll do. “We Like To Party,” they’ll say. “We like We Like To Party.”

KRYSTALA SKORDALOS

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uring this Student Government Association election process, you have heard a lot about each of the candidates and their parties, but on this year’s ballot, there is an additional referendum question that you should also hear about.

MaryPIRG — Maryland student Public Interest Research Group — is a statewide advocacy organization that has been at the university since 1973. As an organization, our mission is to encourage students to get involved and provide them with the resources they need to better affect change on the local, state and even national levels.

We work to find solutions on issues in the public interest and especially those that we feel are most important to students. Some of the most recent issues students in MaryPIRG have worked on include global warming solutions, hunger and homelessness relief efforts, voter registration, higher education and affordable textbooks, health care reform and a sweatshop-product-free university.

We have been really effective on these issues and others for 36 years.

For example, in 2009, we worked with student groups at the university, our citizen organization Maryland PIRG and its coalition partners across the state to pass the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act, making Maryland one of the leading states in global warming policies. We have raised thousands of dollars for hunger and homelessness, including hundreds for Haiti relief efforts this year. Additionally, this year, with the help of the professional organizers and lobbyists who work on students’ behalf, we helped pass student loan reform that increases the federal Pell Grants by at least $40 billion.

In order to continue getting results like these, we need your help.

Our referendum question will ask students if they want to keep funding MaryPIRG through student activities fees, which we use to fund fulltime positions such as a campus organizer and a state director.

Because we as an organization understand the importance of the student voice, we know it can be hard to affect change without some sort of guidance or help from people who are willing to provide resources.

That is why these positions are very important to us and the work that we do. Not only do they help us work toward finding the solutions we believe are necessary for some of these issues, but they also help keep us involved and connected with students across the country.

There are nearly 100 student PIRGs in the United States, all of which are doing their part to keep students actively engaged in their communities. This is something we hope to continue to do in the same capacity after this referendum. On almost all of our flyers you will read, “Together we can make change happen,” because we need your vote to help us continue this mission and continue to make changes for the betterment of our society.

So don’t forget to vote at www.testudo.umd.edu. And feel free to stop by and see us at anytime in our office in South Campus Dining Hall.

We would love for you to help us make change happen.

Krystala Skordalos is a member of MaryPIRG. She can be reached at kskordal@umd.edu.

EDITORS WANTED The Diamondback is looking for two opinion editors for the 2010-11 school year. The paper’s opinion editors are responsible for writing the staff editorial at the top of this page, editing staff columns and selecting guest submissions.

Opinion editors work between 20 and 30 hours a week. They are paid positions.

Ideal candidates have an understanding of campus issues, a familiarity with journalistic writing, a strong management style and are good with deadlines.

For more information on how to apply, please contact opinion editors Rob Gindes and Justin Snow at opinion@umdbk.com.

Rob Gindes is a senior journalism major.

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POLICY: Signed letters, columns and cartoons represent the opinions of the authors. The staff editorial represents the opinion of The Diamondback’s editorial board and is the responsibility of the editor in chief.

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INTERVIEW | DOUBLE DAGGER

Seeing double Double Dagger brings its eclectic sound to the Black Cat on Thursday

BY DREW WALDO Staff writer

Those who have already seen Baltimore band Double Dagger live will probably tell you to see the group yourself as soon as possible.

When the band took the stage at last summer’s Baltimore music festival Whartscape on a scorching-hot Sunday, its lateafternoon show abruptly set the bar for the entire event — including popular local acts such as Future Islands, Teeth Mountain and Dan Deacon.

It wasn’t that the earlier performances had been bad, but it was not until bands such as Double Dagger took the stage that the festival felt more like an event and less like a backyard performance.

With its new EP, Masks, and a celebrated live show, Double Dagger will visit the Black Cat in Washington on Thursday.

Masks follows the band’s third full-length album, MORE. It’s a collection of earnest, lo-fi songs with surprisingly stripped-down arrangements.

It features a couple of left over songs from MORE, as well as a few new tracks.

Early on, the band — Denny Bowen on drums, Bruce Willen on bass and Nolen Strals on lead vocals — considered adding more instruments to the mix.

Ultimately, though, the members chose a different approach.

“We essentially just added some more amps,” Willen said.

Willen and Strals, also the duo behind Post Typography, a successful graphic design firm,

do not hide their confusion over the comparisons to other bands that Double Dagger receives. On its MySpace page, the group lists all the bands it has been compared to by listeners and critics, including acts as varied as Broken Social Scene, Led Zeppelin and Weezer.

And although the band is often compared to some Washington-based Dischord Records punk bands of the ‘90s, Willen and Strals plead ignorance, claiming only a passing familiarity with groups such as Fugazi.

Still, the band keeps with its Baltimore beginnings. The members listen to mostly area bands such as Dope Body and tourmate Future Islands. The band has also mentioned its disdain for some of the cheaper

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“We hate what passes for irony these days,” Strals said. “...When it is wielded by a intelligent hand, [it] can be a powerful tool. But I think in most cases in our contemporary world, [irony] is like the fallback, like the easy sort of cop-out.”

The lyrics Strals himself writes tend to vary thematically from song to song. As a result, there is nothing as lyrically simple as a Double Dag-

ger break-up record.

“I don’t think there is ever a conscious or calculated sort of effort to push them in, like, a certain direction,” Strals said.

“There’s times like the political stuff is at the forefront of our thought processes, or personal stuff.”

For now, Double Dagger will be keeping up with its relentless touring schedule. Next month, it heads to Europe.

“We’ve never been to Europe before, so we’re definitely looking forward to that.” Willen

said. “I think sometimes it is difficult, especially if you haven’t been playing shows regularly, it’s like a lot of energy to put out … it wears you out for sure. It’s like running a marathon, in a way. You have to work up to it a little bit, or otherwise you kind of burn yourself out.”

Double Dagger will perform at the Black Cat on Thursday at 9 p.m. Future Islands and Ed Schrader will open, and tickets are $10. waldo@umdbk.com

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 | SPORTS | THE DIAMONDBACK

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Tournament discussion.

And on a team dominated by from page 8 underclassmen, Schultz’s contributions as one of three seniors season’s start. “She can play any both on and off the field have position better than anybody else.” been instrumental in the team’s In her senior year, Schultz quest to end its 10-year postseahas brought her defensive son drought.

“She leads the team on and off prowess to third base while the field,” pitcher Kerry Hickey finding herself at the plate.

Watten can’t explain how it’s said. “I can’t even pinpoint one happened, but in Schultz’s senior example. It’s just an every day year, she leads the Terps with a thing. She’s in it every day, every .433 average, seven home runs, practice, she’s all about it.”

Although the statsheet ade32 RBI and 35 runs scored. She’s on pace to shatter the Terps’ sin- quately captures Schultz’s imporgle-season batting average tance to the Terps, it’s her timely record of .408, set by infielder hits that have mattered most.

Her three-run home run gave Amber Jackson in 2007.

Schultz has also brought a the Terps a 5-2 win in the opening unique bravado to the Terps. game of the team’s weekend Oftentimes during the season, series against conference foe she’s made proclamations of per- North Carolina, and a two-RBI sinceived superiority over opponents, gle helped the team take a 2-1 deciincluding a recent claim that Tow- sion in the day’s second game.

“She’s having a fabulous year,” son was “nothing special” before the Terps faced off — and lost — Hickey said. “I don’t think she could ask for a better senior year.” against the Tigers last week.

“She’s the one you want the Without her brilliant senior season, the Terps likely wouldn’t ball to go to, and who you want be heading into their ACC series at the plate when it’s a clutch this weekend at N.C. State with situation,” pitcher Kendra their name firmly in the NCAA Knight said. “She’s having a

SCHULTZ

Infielder Alex Schultz leads the Terps in several offensive categories. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

great year.”

Even in the midst of the best year of her career, Schultz and the Terps won’t be happy until they see their name in an NCAA Softball Championship regional.

More poignantly, Schultz wants to reach the postseason not only for the team, but to repay the coach who she once clashed with but now thanks for her success.

“She’s an awesome lady. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for her. I’ve gone through so much with her.

She’s a fantastic coach and she has a lot to give to the sport,” Schultz said. “I guess I just want to, because I know how bad she wants it, too. I just want to help the team get to where we need to be and where we can be. I just want to help her out as much as I can — give back to what she’s given me.”

For Watten, the opportunity to see one of her first recruits to College Park flourish in her senior year has been just as welcome.

But it doesn’t come as a surprise.

“When I saw her, recruited her and watched her play travel ball,” Watten said, “I knew it was in her.” schneider@umdbk.com

SISTERS from page 8 team gears up for another run to the ACC Championship and Final Four. Both start at midfield and have combined for 25 goals and 12 assists this season.

While they play the same position on the field and hail from the same Poway, Calif., home, they have distinctly different roles on the Terps’ offense.

Brandi, a junior, is the more traditional two-way midfielder. Her north-south speed opens up scoring windows for the team’s attackers on offense, and her strength on the defensive end makes her an asset in front of goal.

“The reason why I’m open or other people are open is because she’s making space,” attacker Karri Ellen Johnson said. “She doesn’t get enough credit because no one sees the work that she puts into it.”

Brittany plays a more finesse style. Instead of the straightahead style her sister employs, the midfielder the team calls “Noodle” darts around the defense, using a quick first step and a long, lean frame to set up her shots.

They don’t just play differently; The two came to Reese with different mindsets and understandings of the game.

Brandi, a 2007 Under Armour All-American, came in like any other self-assured recruit: a talented freshman who hadn’t yet grasped the intricacies of the game.

Brittany, with two years’ worth of college experience at the club level, already had a feel for the college game — but not much confidence.

“I don’t think that Brittany initially realized how good she really was,” Reese said. “She is an awesome college player and it was just believing that.”

Despite growing up together, playing on the same sports teams and going to the same college, the two sisters say they rarely butt heads, if ever.

But Johnson, who lives with both the Joneses, provided a different picture.

“Sometimes they’re enemies and sometimes they’re best friends — I mean, they’re sisters,” Johnson said. “They’re really funny. They definitely look for each other on the field. They have that sisterly sense.”

“I love them both to death, but they’re both such different personalities and people though,” Reese added. “They’re very fortunate to have each other this far away from home.”

Last season, Brandi earned All-ACC and second team AllAmerica honors after scoring 28 goals and notching 33 assists.

Not to be outdone, Brittany received ACC All-Tournament recognition after she contributed four goals and two draw controls in the team’s title run.

Their time together is winding down — this season will be their last as teammates. After this season, Brittany plans to go back to California and find a way to coach lacrosse. Brandi, meanwhile, will enter her senior year without the guidance of her older sister.

“We’ll miss Brittany for more reasons than that, but she is very responsible and she looks out for her little sister,” Reese said.

Laughing, she added, “Hopefully Brandi will step up into that role of responsibility next year.” ceckard@umdbk.com

HOLMES from page 8 Still, coach Dave Cottle continued to place trust in Holmes.

Rather than lighten his load, the coach placed even more responsibility firmly on Holmes’ shoulders, dedicating his practice time almost exclusively to faceoffs.

The perseverance paid off.

In the team’s game against Navy on April 10, Holmes took all but two of the team’s faceoffs and won 71 percent of them, helping the Terps snap a twogame losing streak. Against the Blue Jays, he proved his play was no fluke. His 13-of-21 performance paced the No. 5 Terps (8-2) to a possession-heavy showing against their in-state rival.

“That is the toughest son of a booger I think any of us have ever been around anytime in my coaching career,” Cottle said.

His faceoff wizardry had good timing, too. After the Blue Jays had scored two straight to pull within two goals in the fourth quarter, Holmes flicked a faceoff to long pole Jesse Bernhardt, who scooped it up and headed straight to net, where he finished what Holmes started.

“We tried to get the ball as well as we could and especially keep it on the offensive end,” Bernhardt said. “Bryn did a good job facing off, and that really helped us play well.” kyanchulis@umdbk.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010

Sports

Baseball beats Old Dominon Check out TerrapinTrail.com for beat writer Michael Lemaire’s game coverage of the Terrapin baseball team’s 14-9 win on the road at Old Dominion.

Holmes rebounds at faceoff ‘X’ Senior starred in Blue Jays victory

BY KATE YANCHULIS Senior staff writer

Infielder Alex Schultz, right, charges toward home plate during an April 11 win against Virginia Tech. The Terps won 7-3.

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In senior year, Schultz finally shines With big words and hot bat, infielder helps Terps chase postseason dreams

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDER Staff writer

During the Terrapin softball team’s 10-game homestand in late March and early April, infielder Alex Schultz had an extra roommate.

It wasn’t a teammate or a friend who crashed on the pullout couch for three weeks at Schultz’s College Park house.

It was Shawn Schultz.

Her mother.

“She’s been coming to all the games,” Alex Schultz said.

“She drives her 1996 Toyota Celica that has 200,000 miles on it. She’s living exactly how she wanted to, and she’s loving every minute of it. ... She was up here with me staying with me and then she’s in North Carolina staying with my grandma and some friends for the next two weekends.”

Since Schultz’s grandfather died in January, her mother has embarked on what she calls her “early retirement,” splitting time between her grandmother’s house in Ocean Springs, Miss., and wherever the Terps take her.

Schultz is having the best

Infielder Alex Schultz, left, leads the Terps with both her boasts and her bat this season. After a slow start to her career, Schultz now leads the team in hitting. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

year of her career as a senior, doing her part to make the most of her mother’s road trip.

Had the trip come in the three previous years, it might not have been nearly as pleas-

Midfielder Brandi Jones, left, is the younger sister of Terps’ midfielder Brittany Jones. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Same name, different game Jones sisters play separate roles for women’s lacrosse

BY CHRIS ECKARD Staff writer

Playing for Cal Poly’s club lacrosse team three years ago, Brittany Jones felt content with her school, her team and her life.

But after one eight-goal barrage, everything changed.

When Terps’ coach Cathy Reese saw the offensive fireworks in Jones’ televised club championship game, she picked up the phone and called her prized California commit, Brandi Jones.

Reese asked Brandi if there was any way she could convince Brittany, her older sister, to come along to College Park and don the Terps’ lacrosse uniform as well.

The two had difficulty persuading the already comfortable Brittany, but only two months before the start of fall classes she decided to flip coasts, ditching her older sister Janelle at Cal Poly and making the cross-country trip to College Park.

“Some people transfer because they hate their team, but I loved the school environment,” said Brittany, a redshirt senior. “But Maryland was a chance to play Division I lacrosse with the best players in the country.”

In the three years since their arrival, both Jones sisters have played vital roles for the No. 3 Terps (14-1, 4-1 AC) as the

see SISTERS, page 7

ant. But that doesn’t mean Schultz hasn’t learned from those seasons.

“A lot of confidence,” Schultz said, “comes from just remembering where you’ve been.”

The transition from a twotime Colorado state champion at Pueblo West High School to a self-proclaimed “little fish in a big pond” at the collegiate level wasn’t

easy for Schultz. She mixed occasional clashes with coach Laura Watten’s staff with a .203 batting average.

There were plenty of low points for Schultz. But even when she felt like quitting, Schultz said her parents were there to keep her playing.

“My dad has probably been the biggest key as to why I’ve been continuing to play,” Schultz said. “Just because, he told me one day that he pretty much pushed me back on the plane one day and was like ‘No, you’re going, and you’re going to do this.’”

In her sophomore year, Schultz said “it was like everything clicked.” She gelled with the Terps’ coaching staff and finally felt comfortable in College Park.

Even as she struggled offensively, hitting .226 during her first three years, she became a defensive ace, playing every field position but first base.

“She’s diving all over the place, screaming and yelling, making ESPN-type plays,” Watten said before the current

see SCHULTZ, page 7

For 15 minutes Saturday, Bryn Holmes made Brian Phipps’ life much less complicated.

When Holmes lined up at the center ‘X’ in the third quarter of the Terps’ 10-9 win against then-No. 16 Johns Hopkins, the team’s faceoff specialist didn’t come away emptyhanded very often.

Holmes won 4 of 5 third-quarter faceoffs for the Terps, who raced from a one-goal halftime deficit to score three of the quarter’s first goals to take a 6-5 lead.

As the Terps’ offense got going, Holmes and the Terps’ defense stayed happily in place. “[Defender] Brett Schmidt and I were joking; we were saying that we could do this all game,” Phipps said.

They’ve only recently gotten used to the long-running lapses in action.

Earlier this season, gamechanging performances from the senior had been lacking, especially against top-flight opponents. Two weeks ago, the top-five team’s No. 1 option on faceoffs had won less than half of his battles on the season.

Even in the Terps’ wins against Georgetown, Duke and Towson, the team lost the majority of its faceoffs. Against the then-No. 9 Blue Devils, the Terps won less than a third.

see HOLMES, page 7

Midfielder Bryn Holmes, left, locates a loose ball. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK