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THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER

Rising food Univ. budget to be cut by Friday costs push Officials impose faculty hiring freeze until state finances rebound up dining hall prices

BY KEVIN ROBILLARD Senior staff writer

The university implemented a hiring freeze that went into effect yesterday in response to a midyear budget reduction that should be coming in the next few days, officials said.

Students say meal points running out faster than usual

The reduction means some open positions may go unfilled for now, and the university may delay maintenance projects. Many student services, which are supported by student fees and not by the state, will be unaffected by the cuts, but cuts will likely be made to academic and administrative

areas that are paid for using the roughly $400 million the university received from the state this year.

While university administrators had anticipated a budget reduction, the reduction now seems to be a certainty.

“We will receive a budget reduction,” said Joseph Vivona, the

chief operating officer and vice chancellor for administration and finance for the University System of Maryland.

Both Vivona and university President Dan Mote said the state’s increasingly difficult fiscal

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ELECTION 2008 | THE ISSUES OF OUR AGE

BY SAM TAUTE Staff Writer

The cost of the standard campus meal plan this semester had its smallest increase in four years despite rising national food prices, and some students say their meal plans are already coming up short.

Despite the lower increase in meal plan costs, the food prices in the dining halls have increased due to significantly higher costs for the bulk food Dining Services purchases.

The price of hamburger patties are up 7.5 percent from last year. Chicken breasts are up 18 percent, oil for french fries are up 39.8 percent and french fries themselves are up 15 percent, Dining Services Director Colleen Wright-Riva said.

The only food item that did not increase in price was scrambled eggs, the price of which decreased 4.3 percent from last year, she said. Rather than passing along the price hikes directly to students, however, Dining Services has been able to offset the losses caused by reducing operating costs in other areas of the department, she said.

“Everything is a balancing act,” WrightRiva said. “It comes down to how well we negotiate deals with vendors, how efficiently we run the business, how well we get rid of waste and how we make slight adjustments

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FUTURE For student voters, the nation’s energy issues seem to lack long-term consequences

BY BEN PENN Senior staff writer

Amid high gas prices, a struggling economy and ongoing military involvement in the Middle East, finding energy solutions has become more urgent in this election year than other perennial issues such as immigration and higher education.

With oft-repeated phrases such as offshore drilling, renewable energy sources, nuclear power and independence of foreign oil dominating this election season’s energy discussions, it is easy for the average college

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Council set to vote on city’s official language Perry’s push for English met with heavy criticism by other council members

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[Editor’s note: This is the second story in a biweekly series highlighting the impact of the presidential election on college students.]

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DOTS: Shuttle program draws no city riders in two weeks

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BY BRADY HOLT Senior staff writer

A College Park city councilman’s suggestion that the city evaluate making English its official language met sharp rebuke from his colleagues last night.

District 2 Councilman Jack Perry said English is “the language that holds us all together,” and repeatedly referred to it as “the language of commerce” in the country.

The wording Perry offered the council borrowed heavily from two other regional municipalities: Herndon, Va., and Taneytown.

“The use of a common language removes barriers of misunderstanding and helps to unify the people of College Park,” the proposed amendment to the city charter reads.

“The government of College Park can reduce costs and promote efficiency … by using the English language in its official actions and activities.”

But last night’s council meeting didn’t start

BY JEANETTE DER BEDROSIAN Staff writer

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Since the university bus system opened up to residents of College Park Sept. 1, there have been no reports of bus use by registered non-students, officials from the Department of Transportation Services said.

Under the pilot program, which is costing the city $5,000, Shuttle-UM drivers are supposed to check city ID cards for non-students and radio in when a resident boards their bus, DOTS Director David Allen said. The tally exists to track use of the program by non-student riders, he said.

“It takes a long time,” Allen said. “That’s kind of how transit is. It’s not like you make a change and people flock.”

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ROCKVILLE – A Kensington man is charged with starting several fires at schools in a string of 12 Montgomery County fires within two weeks.

A Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesman says 21year-old Preston Crocker is accused of starting the fires between Aug. 26 and Sept. 9. Spokesman Pete Piringer says Crocker was arrested Monday and charged with arson of vehicles and structures.

In Silver Spring, firefighters were called to Woodlin Elementary School Sept. 8 because a trash bin, a covered wooden walkway and a portable classroom were burning. Damages were estimated at $130,000.

Authorities also connected Crocker with several arson attempts on vehicles in Kensington and Silver Spring and trash bin fires at Oakland Terrace Elementary School in Kensington.

Ocean City taking votes on license plate design OCEAN CITY – The big vote underway in Ocean City has nothing to do with picking the next president or American Idol.

Tourism officials are offering Internet users the chance to vote online for one of three designs for a new specialty state license plate honoring the resort town.

Town Spokeswoman Donna Abbott says resort officials chose not to design a new logo for the license plate. Instead, the three contenders are established logos: a wave logo from the official town flag, an “O.C.” logo currently used by the tourism office and a 1970s-era logo from the Inlet water tower.

The voting ends Oct. 10. The winning design will require town council approval.

Md. to seek bids for I-95 rest stop project BALTIMORE – The Maryland Transportation Authority is looking for private developers to renovate and take over two rest stops on Interstate 95.

State officials say the Maryland House and Chesapeake House are too costly for the state to maintain.

The Transportation Authority will hold a public meeting Oct. 8 at the BWI airport Marriott hotel to attract potential operators and contractors.

The rest stops in Cecil and Harford counties are owned by the state but have been managed since 1986 by Bethesda-based rest-stop operator HMSHost Corp. A spokeswoman for HMSHost says the company plans to bid on the renovation and lease project.

Plastic bag ban proposed again in Baltimore BALTIMORE – The Baltimore City Council is looking again at restrictions on plastic bags.

City Councilman James Kraft has introduced a bill that would ban plastic bags at stores.

The council voted in July to reject narrower legislation that would have affected retailers with more than $500,000 in annual gross revenue.

Meanwhile, Councilman Bill Henry says he plans to introduce a bill that would impose a $0.25 fee when customers get a paper or plastic bag from a store.

The bills will be studied by the new Baltimore City Commission on Sustainability before the council considers them.

Man arrested after punching puppy WALKERSVILLE – Frederick County authorities have accused a man of punching a pit bull puppy, fracturing its skull and blinding the animal.

Troy D. Goines of Frederick has been charged with felony and misdemeanor animal cruelty. He is being held on $20,000 bail. He was arrested last week.

According to charging documents, Goines is accused of punching the dog in Discovery, a Walkersville subdivision, on Aug. 2. The dog’s owner agreed to have it euthanized after its condition deteriorated.

Trial is set for Nov. 6 in District Court.

– Compiled from wire reports

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Leading Terps to the polls Devin Ellis discusses the university’s voter registration, civic engagement efforts

BY STEVEN OVERLY AND KRISTI TOUSIGNANT Senior staff writers

With the Nov. 4 general election quickly approaching, expect the politically active to traverse the campus, encouraging students to register to vote. Among them will be Devin Ellis, who spearheads the university’s TerpsVote effort.

Ellis, who has held numerous positions in student government, spoke with The Diamondback about civic engagement on the campus and how college students seem to be showing an increasing interest in politics.

The Diamondback: Can you explain your new position and what it entails?

Devin Ellis: TerpsVote is the name we have given to this broad effort that has been organized across the university to try and support and promote students registering for and voting in the election on November 4. It’s not an individual bureaucratic entity. It’s a steering committee of 32 people from different organizations and departments across the campus.

And as that sort of grand, coalition-style operation, they needed someone whose full-time job it was to simply coordinate it and make sure everyone is moving in the same direction. That’s what my job is.

I simply sit at the center of the web and just make sure all wheels are turning at the same time and no one is duplicating anyone else’s effort.

DBK: Was this a new effort?

Ellis: It’s not new. There were large registration efforts in past years, particularly this past year in the primary election, that were very successful. This kind of grew out of that, and that has been run out of vice president for student affairs’ office. The folks who had manned the last couple of times around sort of framed it directly out of the [Stamp Student] Union with Gretchen Metzelaars to do this group. This year it transformed from, ‘Lets do what we did last time,’ to, ‘Let’s move heaven and earth and try for 100-percent participation from students, faculty and staff,’ DBK: State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) in Annapolis had been pushing for some election reform requiring universities to have an individual or a group devoted to voter registration and civic engagement. Is this related to that?

Ellis: I wouldn’t say this was a direct response to that at all. It is a nice tandem. I think the university independently, if you will, recognized the need to have someone doing this through election season.

Right now, my position is not permanent after December. We will see what becomes of that.

DBK: In the media, there is a lot of hype about the youth vote in this presidential election. Have you found that to be accurate?

Ellis: From the extreme microcosmic perspective I have, I would say yes. I was comparing notes with two of my colleagues this afternoon and we were saying how sort of stunned we were when we went to talk to large UNIV100 classes, which are all freshmen, about registration. Many of them are already registered, which

is unusual compared to past years. I think what we are seeing is more people than we expected are already registered and the outreach that we have done so far, which has been very targeted and focused on individual interaction, have been very successful.

DBK: I know you have a more narrative perspective since you focus on this university, but what about this election is resonating more with young people than previous elections?

Ellis: I don’t know. Without sort of wondering off my highly neutral political reservation here, I think I’ll just say that the combination of personalities and issues in the presidential race as well as a sense that this is a very dramatic turning point in the history of country has sort of energized young people to focus on these issues in a way that they might not have four years ago, much less eight years ago. I think there is a much greater sense that we are in times that are changing much more quickly. There is a great deal more uncertainty. You aren’t really all that comfortable thinking, ‘Oh, you know, I’m at the university. These problems are four, eight or 16 years away from having an impact on my life.’

Increasingly, they are trickling down and affecting us directly as students and also increasingly dayto-day changes and importance of policy decisions that are made in Washington are affecting everyone in the country’s’ lives very dramatically, and that’s a lot harder to miss. I think that gets people energized.

DBK: In your opinion, should voter registration or other civic engagement initiatives be the university’s responsibility?

Ellis: Here’s what I’ll say: I think that a university is not the same as say a primary or secondary education unit. It’s more than just a teaching environment. It’s also a community with a tremendous amount of dimensions that functions as its own little world in a lot of ways. It’s a community that largely, if you survey leaders in higher education, part of the purpose of this community, especially in the past few years, has been directed at fostering the engagement of young people with this society and with the world. Most higher education leaders would tell you that, yes it is their responsibility to support civic engagement.

DBK: Having that community on a college campus atmosphere, does that make voter registration and civic engagement easier or more difficult?

Ellis: I think it makes it easier. It’s more direct. It’s more compacted, especially if you live on the campus. You live in a microcosmic world. You spend 90 percent of your day within the same square mile, essentially.

You are there with 30,000 other people. It’s as much as we talk about all the transportation problems on campus and how many cars there are in the parking lots and the shuttles, all you have to do is step outside to see that it is still largely a community where people travel onfoot. They interact face-toface on a massive scale.

It’s like living in downtown Manhattan. There is a density of people that makes it hard to miss any-

thing that is going on prominently on the campus. So that’s great for civic engagement. We go out for a couple of hours in the afternoon to see if people want to get registered and we rake up 50 or 60 people who aren’t registered yet who register. I think that you can’t really do that in the broader world.

DBK: Politicians seem to be using universities as a backdrop for rallies. Is that a coincidence or does that carry any meaning as to the role that young people might play in this election?

Ellis: It’s not a coincidence.

You look at electoral math and you see what is a large portion of the population that votes anemically and that is 18-to25-year-olds and so when, as a politician, you get a sense that this age category is getting fired-up, and all of the pollsters and pundits and thinktank people are saying there are going to be record numbers in this age group turning out, then it’s hard not to see it as votes to be won. So I think it’s natural that politicians are going to come to college campuses, and they are going to try and draw big crowds and are going to persuade those voters. For them, it’s more bang for their buck. Leaving aside [Sen.] Barack Obama’s sort of once-in-a-decade virtuosity in terms of drawing a crowd. It’s much harder for your average politician to go someplace other than a college campus and get a couple hundred people on any short notice. It’s a great environment for them. They certainly feel charged up. I think it’s fine. I think it’s good that young people feel that they

Devin Ellis, who is leading the university’s voter registration efforts, stands with Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.). Ellis said students seems to be showing increasing interest in politics. COURTESY OF TERPSVOTE.UMD.EDU

are being made important.

That college students feel that the significance of their participation is being recognized directly and that they have an opportunity to see candidates and elected officials up-close and personal and to interact with them directly, to maybe even get the chance to ask them some questions. That’s real direct democracy, in a way. I think that it’s great. It energizes people who may not otherwise have gotten involved to get involved in an election and make up their minds and take a position and go out and vote if maybe they feel like there is a personal

connection. They’ve seen the person and now they really agree with them or now they really hate them. I’ve heard people say, ‘Oh, politicians are going to come and take advantage because it’s a captive audience.’ I mean, come on, students are not naive. It may be easier to get a big crowd of students in a room, but they are definitely not talking to an audience that is any easier to win over or any less astute or questioning than another audience, in fact probably more so. overlydbk@gmail.com tousignantdbk@gmail.com

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“I’m not saying that there you-can-eat meal plans to has not been an increase in certain areas of the campus. the price of food for students, In order to make drastic because there has been in changes, however, she said some cases, but I don’t think she would need a lot of stuit’s significant enough to dent input. It is too early to cause serious problems.” predict any changes to the meal plan at this point, Wright-Riva said.

Some students, however, Wright-Riva said. disagree.

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“I think that we could have a foodfrenzy crisis by the end of the semester.”

No city residents ride Shuttle-UM despite 130 registering SHUTTLE, from Page 1 The city has registered approximately 130 residents for the program, said Claire Carabello, who works in the city clerk’s office and compiles the registrations. Still, Allen said the ride-count remains at zero.

“I haven’t heard a peep from anybody,” he said.

At least one College Park resident says she has used the buses, though. Councilwoman Mary Cook, one of the program’s biggest advocates, said she used the Seven Springs shuttle to get from her home in North College Park to a city council meeting downtown.

“When I was on the bus, they haven’t taken any kind of count,” she said. “They did check my ID. … I got on the day, maybe the day after, the program started, so maybe they hadn’t send out the memo.”

Cook said she only rode Shuttle-UM one time because she usually doesn’t head downtown, but she encourages other residents to register.

“It’s a logical thing, with the university right in the center of town,” Cook added. “Why not have that cooperation between residents and the college?”

Though Cook is not sure how long the pilot program will last, she said she hopes

“I think it got off to a much better start than I anticipated. ”

off well for Perry, as Mayor Stephen Brayman opened the meeting with a jovial “Well, hola everyone!”

Council support for Perry’s proposal did not improve over the course of the night.

Brayman grilled him over what effects the English proposal would have and, unsatisfied with the answers he received, eventually dismissed the extended discussion as “a complete waste of time.”

When Brayman and other council members said the language Perry had submitted was vague and asked him to clarify it, his response was to begin reading the document aloud, talking over the mayor as he asked Perry to explain what English as an official language would accomplish.

“Mr. Perry, I gotta say, you’re really avoiding the question,” Brayman said. He suggested the only purpose of the motion was to “get you on Rush Limbaugh.”

“I don’t want to be on Rush Limbaugh, and I don’t think you should be asking all these damn questions,” Perry said.

“You told me in the very beginning you were opposed to this. I just wish I could get a fair hearing.”

Perry eventually described the purpose of his suggestion as “an indicator as to where we as a government want to go.”

But other council members did not seem to support his proposed direction. District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn introduced a resolution with a direction for the city nearly the polar opposite of Perry’s, and District 3 councilman Mark Cook said the city has better things to talk about.

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the city will fund the program for at least a year to give the city’s residents a chance to learn about the program.

“We have to advertise,” she said.

As for the program’s progress thus far, Cook is pleased.

“I think it got off to a much better start than I had anticipated,” she said. “I realize that residents of the Washington, D.C., area don’t take advantage of the public transportation that’s available to them.”

With a little advertising and a couple more months of operation, she hopes people will recognize the program’s benefits.

“It’s just one more option available to people in terms of alternative transportation, to get them out of their car since everybody’s complaining — including me — that there’s too many cars on Route 1,” Cook added. jeanettedbk@gmail.com

Councilman John Perry tried Tuesday night to convince the council his English-only proposal was beneficial. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK

tions” who spoke only “the Hispanic language” or “Tagalog, whatever the hell that is,” and didn’t think the city government should be spending money on translations.

City Manager Joe Nagro estimated the city spends $4,000 to $5,000 per year to make information available in other languages, offering translations of the city’s website, printing Spanish versions of a guide to city services and maintaining multilingual personnel.

“If you want them to follow rules, you have a good reason to present them in their native tongue,” Nagro said.

He added that the effect of any English-only legislation on the city’s ability to communicate with its residents would depend entirely on the wording of the final document the council adopts.

As proposed by Perry, the ordinance offers numerous exceptions to an English-only

city: “Private use” is protected under the First Amendment, multilingual voting documents are required under federal law and using other languages to teach English is encouraged.

It also accepts the use of other languages to “protect public health, sanitation, and public safety,” or to collect taxes and fines.

Wojahn’s proposed resolution calls for a laundry list of items, among them “recognizing the value of diversity and the importance of providing services to all residents,” which recognize the use of English but do not call for it to have the designation of “official.”

The council will vote on the two proposals at next Tuesday’s council meeting.

“I expect grandstanding to be anywhere from 30 to 270 minutes,” Brayman said. holtdbk@gmail.com

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“Really, as a council, we need to be focusing more on important issues — economic development, public safety — and not on things that are just there to say, ‘Well, English is the official language of the city,” Cook said. Furthermore, he said, “This is a wedge issue.

It is designed to divide people, not unite them.”

Wojahn agreed.

“I see no reason why we need to declare an official language,” he said. “It would be a meaningless gesture, as Mr. Perry was unable to declare what impact it would have, and any effect it would have would be a negative one.”

For his part, Perry worked to address what he said may have been perceived as cultural insensitivity on his part.

“I have a difficult time with individuals who would tell me that I’m xenophobic,” Perry said. “That could be no further from the truth than it possibly is. I want everyone in this country to succeed, to go as far as they possibly can.

And if you don’t speak English, you run up against a ceiling where you can’t go any higher.”

Perry’s proposal brought higher-than-usual media attention to the College Park City Council, whose day-today activity is typically covered only by The Diamondback and the weekly Prince George’s Gazette, after he first brought up the idea.

Over the summer, the idea of English as the city’s official language was covered by the Associated Press and the local NBC affiliate, whose accounts were spread around the Internet and met with enthusiastic blog response.

Perry told The Diamondback in July he was “sick of kowtowing to minority fac-

student to tune out the topic altogether — unless, of course, it can be directly tied to lowering prices at the pump.

With seven weeks remaining before the Nov. 4 election, various student leaders are discovering through their efforts to encourage fellow students to become more informed voters a disconnect exists between students’ ability to recognize the importance of energy policies today and their knowledge of how energy plans will directly affect them in years to come.

Ali Adler, for instance, preaches energy’s significance to students everyday as part of her role as the campaign director of Clean Energy for UMD. “It’s hard to connect how clean energy issues affect us personally, because we don’t really see the effects, except for gas prices. I think it’s important to think about what our lives are going to be like when we’re getting out in the real world,” said Adler, a sophomore sociology major and former Diamondback columnist. “What

kind of energy do we want to be spending our money on?

Do we want to be spending our money on foreign oil, or do we want to be spending our money on energy sources that are going to be creating new jobs — jobs that our students themselves can be picking up as soon as they get out of college?”

Sterling Grimes, who coordinates this university’s chapter of Students for Barack Obama, is also thinking about energy’s future implications.

“These are the problems that we are going to inherit,” Grimes said. “We are going to have houses soon, and we are going to have to pay for our energy. It’s really important for us in this generation to realize that these problems are going to be ours, whether we like it or not.”

To those who devote their careers to studying energy, like Greg Jackson, who chairs the university’s Energy Research Center, the issue retains the most relevance for younger generations.

“We’re at a point in climate history where the decisions

that we make in the next 10 years may lead to irreversible changes in the climate that will impact the lives of college students and their kids much more so than it will someone like myself,” Jackson said.

In addition to economic and environmental changes that could result from this country’s choice of energy sources, the issue has other potential life-altering effects on the daily lives of students in years to come.

Steve Fetter, the dean of the public policy school, advises people to pay attention to energy policies because of the possible shift to electrically powered hybrid cars.

“Plug-in hybrids could have a dramatic affect on what things would look like 10 years from now,” Fetter said. “Most cars, almost all the time, would run on electricity, so you’d have much lower levels of air pollution and much less dependence on oil.”

Fetter said the younger generation need not worry about the United States running out of an oil supply. Rather, he said, the issue is whether oil will become too expensive, forcing us

to switch to alternatives such as hybrid cars.

Jackson and Fetter both said presidential candidates Sen John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen Barack Obama (D-Ill.) actually have similar energy proposals, with the key differences coming in the areas of offshore drilling — Obama appears less willing to drill offshore than McCain does — and reliance on nuclear energy — McCain favors investing in nuclear energy.

Try asking Adler who to vote for, and you will come away empty-handed. She maintained Clean Energy for UMD’s unwillingness to support a certain candidate’s energy policy.

“A lot of students will ask, ‘Who should we vote for?’ and it’s not up for us to say,” Adler said.

As for what Adler will be telling them, her message is clear: “I think that’s something scary, getting out of college to a slumping economy. And I think that seeing a major clean energy transition within the next 10 years is going to have a major positive impact on our lives.” penndbk@gmail.com

Cuts, hiring freeze leave departments short-staffed indefinitely BUDGET, from Page 1 situation means the university, along with most other state agencies, will see budget cuts.

Vivona said the size of the reduction should be decided by Friday.

However, Mote and Vivona both said the reduction should be relatively small.

“We shouldn’t consider this a crisis,” Mote said. “We shouldn’t get too alarmed.”

Vivona said it will be a “reasonable reduction, relative to the size of their [deficit].”

Some student services, such as Dining Services, the Department of Resident Life, the Stamp Student Union and the Department of Transportation Services, are paid for entirely by student fees and won’t be impacted. Costs that are supported by private donations, such as endowed chairs and the athletic department, also won’t see cuts.

The budget reduction is necessary because of a slumping economy, which has resulted in lower-than-predicted revenue from sales, income and other taxes. The state now anticipates receiving about $400 million less in revenue this fiscal year than it originally expected. The decline in tax revenue means the state could face a deficit of $1 billion in

“We shouldn’t consider this a crisis. We shouldn’t get too alarmed.”

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the next fiscal year.

The poor economy is causing the deficit to grow, despite a variety of tax increases and budget cuts passed by the state legislature during a special legislative session last fall.

Although the reduction’s size could be announced in the coming days, it won’t become official until the state’s Board of Public Works approves it.

The board, which consists of Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), state Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) and state Treasurer Nancy Kopp (D), has its next meeting Oct. 1.

The university last faced mid-year budget reductions in the 2002-2003 school year, when the state also faced a large deficit. In total, the system had to return 12-to-13 percent of the funds it originally received from the state, totaling about $100 million. That budget reduction forced the Board of Regents to raise tuition between the fall and

spring semesters, but Mote has said previously that option can be avoided.

O’Malley said last week “hundreds of millions” in cuts to the state budget would be coming.

The most immediate impact of the cuts will likely be the hiring freeze, which went into effect yesterday. The freeze means some professorships and other positions will go unfilled for the time being. Lower-cost positions such as lecturers, graduate teaching assistants and student employees are exempt from the freeze.

Exceptions to the freeze can be granted by Mote at the request of one of the university’s vice presidents, but only if the hiring is essential to the department.

Vivona said the university system also implemented a hiring freeze in 2002, and it lasted through parts of two fiscal years. He said the length of this freeze will depend on the size of the budget reduction.

While administrators are waiting on word from the state about the size of the reduction, departments are trying to figure out how to deal with the reduction and the hiring freeze.

Charles Rutherford, associate dean for faculty affairs at the College of Arts and Humanities, said he wasn’t

sure exactly how the hiring freeze would impact the college because they were waiting for more information.

“Right now, it’s sort of a wait and watch for us,” he said.

Rutherford added that during the last hiring freeze, the college was only able to make two hires, compared to about 17 or 18 during a normal year. Right now, the college has 38 open positions for faculty listed on its website.

Linda Clement, the university’s vice president for student affairs, said her division receives about $12 million of its $150 million budget from the state. The state money supports the career, health and counseling centers, as well as the offices of student conduct and parent and family affairs.

Clement was unsure of how student affairs would respond to the cuts.

“We’re just beginning to talk about it now,” she said.

Vivona said although there was no alternative to the budget reductions, the university system would do its best to spare students from the brunt of the cuts.

“We’ll do everything to minimize the impact on academic programs, teaching programs,” he said. robillarddbk@gmail.com

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he greatest university presidents have had a well-defined vision for the ing the drinking age to 18. The initiative drew vociferous attacks in the national institution and aggressively used their position as spokesmen of the uni- press, and we applaud Mote’s commitment to pursuing this dialogue despite the versity to generate progress. Consider, for example, former president criticism he’s fielded; the issue is simply too pressing to stall or ignore it.

“Curley” Byrd, who is judged by some to be the most influential individual But Mote needs to become more aggressive still. When asked about adopting a in the university’s history. During Byrd’s tenure as president, enrollment more Good Samaritan policy, he hemmed and hawed. Mote declined to answer the than quadrupled, state funding increased more than six-fold, question, claiming he didn’t want to violate the principles of and the university’s total increased tremendously, from $3 milshared governance and it was a matter for consideration by the lion to $37 million.

University Senate.

It was a combination of Byrd’s unparalleled political While we appreciate and value Mote’s espoused respect for the On alcohol, Mote should involvement (he was, at one time, the favored candidate in perspectives of the senate’s staff, administrators and students, it Maryland’s 1954 gubernatorial race) and his vocal champi- adopt a more aggressive cannot serve as an excuse for timid leadership. It is Mote’s responsioning of his vision that led to his unparalleled success. In Monbility to develop a firm position on the university’s most important brand of leadership day’s State of the Campus address, university President Dan issues and to lead the University Senate — much in the same way Mote outlined his commitment to the self-reliance needed to White House initiatives are driven through the U.S. Congress. achieve excellence in the coming decade but refused to take an equally strong Strong leadership will never be universally popular; Byrd had to contend with stance when it came to addressing alcohol abuse on the campus. We urge him to both the suspicion of his colleagues and consistently critical coverage in The (Balfollow in Byrd’s footsteps to become the university’s leader, instead of merely its timore) Sun. Furthermore, in times of crisis, strong leadership may require abanhead cheerleader. doning an established process: Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus to At yesterday’s address, Mote announced an entire day of programming commit- preserve the Union. We’re hardly encouraging Mote to lock up students, but it is ted to addressing drinking. Last month, he signed the Amethyst Initiative, a docu- not hyperbole to suggest alcohol abuse on the campus approaches crisis. The ment acknowledging the seriousness of alcohol abuse on college campuses nation- adoption of a Good Samaritan policy has the potential to literally save lives. Lead wide and demanding an honest discussion of potential solutions, including lower- us, Mote.

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I have so many problems with Richard Garcia’s guest column, “In Defense of ROTC,” that I could fill an entire newspaper addressing them all. I doubt The Diamondback would allow this, so I’ll focus on just one.

In Garcia’s opening sentence, he claims “It is despicable that The Diamondback would run Malcolm Harris’ column … on the seventh anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001.” He goes on to call the article “fraught with anti-military, antiAmerican rhetoric.” While Garcia’s column makes further claims about the “righteous cause” in reference to bomb-making and the waging of war, and basically claims that the protesters at Kent State had it coming, his anger over the publishing of a column with views that challenge his own is alarming for its hypocrisy and ignorance.

If America is this great, ass-kicking nation (to paraphrase Garcia) that voluntarily spills its own soldiers’ blood “to spread freedom and liberty to an area of the world devoid of them,” isn’t it antiAmerican of Garcia to criticize The Diamondback for allowing Harris to exercise his right to free speech?

No, Garcia, The Diamondback should not have withheld Harris’ column on Sept. 11. To do so would be to eliminate the very thing which you feel it is necessary for hundreds of thousands of people to die for: our freedoms.

The Diamondback’s publishing of columns such as Harris’ and yours isn’t “despicable” at all. Rather, it is a celebration of our freedoms and liberties, which we must be vigilant to protect from suppression.

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ollege Park’s five bars are wonderful for a variety of different drinking-oriented activities, but occasionally the average university student demands a different experience. That is where College Perk comes in — or that’s where it did, until it was threatened with a double-whammy of eviction notices and an electrical fire that has shut down the city’s only real coffeehouse.

When I was in high school, I dreamed about hanging out at the Perk. I decided it would make me a better person: It would bring me toward unknown bands I could brag about to all my home friends; it would introduce me to cool, witty people prone to having long, pointless conversations; and, most of all, it would make me a lover of coffee, a drink I’d never gotten used to... If The Diner’s buffalo chicken sandwich sold me on the university, the Perk sold me on College Park.

But the Perk, I soon realized upon

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REED starting school, wasn’t walking distance from my dorm, or the campus or anywhere, really — it is perched atop an off-ramp for Route 1. It was essentially inaccessible: I didn’t drive; I had very few friends with cars and even fewer brave enough to try the lone Metrobus route that stopped there.

The Perk’s inaccessibility was nothing short of a tragedy for me at 17, and I would find my ascent to college hipsterdom stunted until I got myself a driver’s license.

The Perk is an example of what sociologists would call a “third place,” a public setting where people can interact with each other. Coffeehouses, with their comfortable chairs and Bob Dylan wannabes strumming acoustic

guitars at the open mic, are the stereotypical “third place,” but the term could apply to bars, diners or even bookstores. Not your dorm and not your classes, they allow you to put aside your concerns and, as the kids say, “just chill out.” They “are the heart of a community’s social vitality, the grassroots of democracy,” according to urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg.

“Third places” aren’t just a place for people to kill time; they’re a tool for social and civic engagement.

College Perk is a community, even if its members don’t all know each other.

In the front room, tables are pushed together and board games are set up for late-night marathons. By the bar, jaded graduate students congratulate themselves for getting away from the drunken freshmen’s antics on Route 1.

Out on the back porch, cigarettes are smoked and conversation is made between strangers brought together by an orange flame that slowly burns out in the night.

Can any of the downtown bars offer

that same diversity of experiences under one roof? Can any of our bookstores offer the exchange of ideas that the Perk makes possible? Why is it, then, that a venue that offers so much is in such an inaccessible location? As soon as the necessary repairs are done, the Perk plans to reopen later this semester, but there’s no telling if it’ll be able to remain, as foreclosure threats loom. With all of downtown’s vacancies, there’s no reason why it or another coffeehouse couldn’t set up shop there, within easy walking distance of the campus and the surrounding neighborhoods.

To the communities they build, coffeehouses like the Perk are the center of the universe. Shouldn’t we have one in the center of town, where they can build a stronger community for College Park’s residents and students alike?

Dan Reed is a senior architecture and English major. He can be reached at reeddbk@gmail.com.

Leaders: Protect students from crime, not themselves

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rime is like that annoying friend from your freshman dorm — it shows up at inopportune times and it attacks before you have time to react. But instead of awkward exchanges of “Let’s hang out sometime,” you could be knocked down with your wallet stolen.

Although we live in an area with a high crime rate — according to a 2006 FBI report, the university recorded the second-highest number of violent crimes of all state universities with large undergraduate populations — we also live in an area with a large population.

With 25,813 undergraduates attending this university, the probability of becoming a victim of a crime is statistically very low. But

crime can, and does, happen, and the university needs to take real steps to address this long-standing issue.

The Student Government Association and University Police will tell you they have taken steps to address the problem. But online presentations lecturing you on security do little. I mean, the only thing I remember from AlcoholEDU, another online presentation, is to put water, rather than alcohol, in your red cup.

Education and preventive measures help only so much. While inexcusable, student behavior on the campus will never change, no matter the threat. Inebriated students will still walk back from the bars alone rather than waiting an

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hour and a half for NITE Ride, and sober students will still walk alone across the campus at night to their friends’ dorm rooms.

It is the responsibility of the leaders at this university to stop trying to protect students from themselves and to start protecting them from crime.

How about taking some real steps toward protecting this campus, like better lighting? If you’ve

ever walked from across the campus past Shipley Field at night, you know what I’m talking about.

Or how about foot patrols along Paint Branch Parkway on the way to the College Park Metro Station?

How about something other than oft-repeated advice that students tune out?

Unlike when you see that annoying friend from afar, you can’t turn the other way when dealing with the issue of crime. But that’s exactly what this university has done. It’s time for administrators to take a second look.

Joel Cohen is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at jcohendbk@gmail.com.

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“As we like to say in Wyoming, you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but at the end of the day, it’s still a pig.”

Anyone who has observed the presidential campaign trail for the past week has become very familiar with this barnyard metaphor, as it was used by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) at a rally in Virginia last Tuesday.

But the words above are not Obama’s; rather, they belong to Vice President Dick Cheney in 2004, referring to Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) soon-to-befruitless presidential campaign.

The McCain camp has jumped at the opportunity to scrutinize the statement and label Obama as a sexist, claiming his lipstick comment was directed toward GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska).

It is easy to make this supposed connection. In the eyes of many campaign spectators, Palin has taken on the image of the “beauty” to complement Sen. John McCain’s (R–Ariz.) “brawn” and “brains.” But let’s not assume the Obama campaign has turned to Old MacDonald and swine name-calling.

The main problem is the metaphor includes the word “lipstick” — an item that Palin herself wants used more often in the White House.

But the context of the quote in no way refers specifically to Palin.

Obama said, “John McCain says he’s about change too... And so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out, George Bush — except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics — we’re really gonna shake things up in Washington.’” So there’s the pig.

Now for the lipstick, which could be on the lips of two things, neither being Palin. Either the lipstick is the general message of “change” that McCain is endorsing, or Palin herself is the stick of Maybelline. In no logical way can it be interpreted that Palin is the pig. She is either the lipstick (which is hardly an insult) or she is one of the jockeys on the pork of McCain’s campaign.

My recommendation to Obama about the quote: say “lipstick on an elephant” — it’s clearer, not to mention painfully corny.

BRIAN HOOKS JUNIOR JOURNALISM

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MOVIES AT THE HOFF: Today: Fido, 11:59 a.m. | Nerdcore Rising, 2 p.m. | Iron Man, 4 p.m., 10 p.m. | Life 101, 7:30 p.m.

Tomorrow: Fido, 11:59 a.m. | Nerdcore Rising, 2 p.m. | Iron Man, 4 p.m., 10:30 p.m. | The Band’s Visit, 7:30 p.m.

Friday: Pride and Prejudice, 5 p.m. | Life 101, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday: Toy Story 2, 11:59 a.m. | Life 101, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday: Definitely, Maybe, 7 p.m.

arts. music. living. movies. weekend. the end of an era: MTV’s TRL

Buzz Lightyear and Woody of Toy Story 2.

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Oh my sweet Carolina

Surprising news came Monday night when MTV announced it would end its flagship video show, Total Request Live, in November, after 10 years on the air.

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, TRL was the show you watched for your music video fix. It made stars out of Britney Spears, *NSync, Eminem, Limp Bizkit and especially its host, Carson Daly.

TRL shaped pop music at a time when MTV wasn’t just a network for faux-reality shows.

Long gone are the days of TRL’s reign, however; Daly left for his own talk show in 2002, and the show — which featured a rotating cast of young VJs, including Vanessa Minnillo and One Tree Hill’s Hilarie Burton — never quite recovered.

TRL will officially go on hiatus — producer Dave Sirulnick said it isn’t dead just yet — with a two-hour special in November. In recognition, Diversions takes a look at three of TRL’s more infamous moments.

Carolina Kitchen serves up Southern-style specialties

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MARIAH CAREY BREAKS DOWN In 2001, Mariah Carey wanted to become a movie star. On the heels of Glitter’s release in 2001, Carey appeared on TRL, wheeled out an ice cream cart, took off her shirt and said all she wanted was to take a day off so she could eat ice cream, stare at rainbows and learn how to ride a bike. It was either a cry for help or a publicity stunt, but either way, Carey’s breakdown didn’t help Glitter, which tanked both commercially and critically.

EMINEM VS. MARK WAHLBERG One of the more awkward moments in TRL history came during an oddly booked interview between Daly, Eminem and Mark Wahlberg. All three appeared out-of-sorts during the spot, with Eminem breaking the ice by saying something to the effect of, “Let’s all stand around like a funky bunch.” Wahlberg didn’t take too keenly to the reference to Wahlberg’s former rap group — he denounced his days as Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch to move on to an acting career — and a mini-feud erupted, Eminem’s TRL specialty.

THE JESSE CAMP EXPERIMENT With TRL came a renewed interest in VJs — a term MTV coined for its show hosts — and the winner of the first Wanna Be a VJ contest was Jesse Camp, a homeless-looking apparent junkie and wannabe rocker. Camp seemed ill-fit for the job, and appeared on TRL intermittently the year after he won. He also tried to parlay his fame into a failed music career, but Camp was troubled from the start, and MTV never seemed to get it.

One of the biggest holes in College Park’s cuisine is a lack of home-style eating. While there’s a plethora of quick food, café-style eateries and national chains, there isn’t much in the way of down-home eating. Thankfully, Carolina Kitchen is here to save the day.

OK, Carolina Kitchen isn’t in College Park — it’s located behind the Towers at University Town Center, adjacent to the Regal Royale 14 movie theater. But its location doesn’t make a While it may not be in College Park, Carolina Kitchen lives just outside the city, near University difference, because it still serves the area with Town Center in Hyattsville. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK good food in a nicely designed interior. greens are all featured, as well as a New Year’s Wood floors are complemented by warm or- a meal better set for the adventurous.

Fried chicken can sometimes be a rough ex- Eve favorite, black-eyed peas. A small side is ange-colored walls decorated with jazz posters and musical instruments. The bar area contin- perience: Too often, breast meat dries out by $3.29, and a large (for takeout only) is $5.29. Fear ues the wood floors and a bevy of large, high- the time it gets to the customer, forcing the use not, as the small sides are generous portions.

The collard greens were the biggest disapdefinition televisions, making it a primo spot to of a condiment to better enjoy it. Thankfully, it pointment of the sides, but even its shortcomcatch some good food or a good brew while wasn’t the case here.

The chicken breast was absolutely massive, ings could not derail the rest of the meal. The you’re watching the game.

The appetizers list is one place where Caroli- roughly the size of a brick. Fortunately, the sim- barbecued pork mixed into the greens added a na Kitchen takes some chances, which is al- ilarities between the two ended there. The strong barbecue flavor not normally present in ways nice to see. Among the normal selections, chicken was succulent beyond belief, comple- greens, and, while this addition made the like bacon and cheese fries and chicken wings, mented by its skin, which was dotted with a va- greens overly sweet instead of slightly bitter there are also a multitude of fried selections. riety of spices and added an extra oomph to the (the typical serving style), it did add a nice, Frankly, there’s almost no better way to try flavor of the fried chicken. The crunchy bits of smoky flavor. Without the overt sweetness, it something you’ve never had before than when extra seasonings and flour on the chicken are would have been a winner.

Regardless of the slight misstep with the collike bombs of flavor, exploding with a satisfyit’s breaded and deep-fried. lard greens, Carolina Kitchen is a restaurant Options include sweet potato fries ($4.95), ingly salty and greasy crunch in every bite.

Chicken is available in either two- ($7.79, add worth making a trip for. Whether you’re in the okra ($5.45), zucchini ($6.45), green tomatoes ($9.95) and eggplant fries ($6.45). While these $.99 for white meat), three- ($9.99) or four- mood for a meaty rack of ribs, a platter of fried are certainly not one-of-a-kind creations, they piece ($11.89)dinners and comes with two sides chicken, blackened catfish or a fried pork chop, it’s one place where you can scratch your soulare fun regional novelties some may have and cornbread.

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Egekeze has support from Terps EGEKEZE, from Page 10 convert 13 of his 14 field goal attempts against ACC opponents last season.

“I have all the confidence in the world in Obi,” quarterback Chris Turner said. “There’s no point in getting down on him because we’re going to need him at some point down the road. You just got to keep practicing and get better. I think he’ll be all right.”

That’s the spirit, Chris.

It’s not like Egekeze doesn’t have the ability to be successful.

He made 17-of-23 attempts last season in his first year kicking field goals for the Terps, and he’s been the victim of some bad luck so far this season.

Two of his three attempts in the season-opener against Delaware — all of which were from more than 40 yards out — hit the goalpost, and he also hit metal in his lone attempt against Middle Tennessee.

The near misses must have started to get in Egekeze’s head, as he didn’t really look terrible until he hooked a 27-yard attempt against California.

“It’s not a physical thing,” coach Ralph Friedgen said after the Cal game. “You got to kick it.

He’s trying to steer it through.”

But while he admitted this week that the field goal kicking is a concern, Friedgen smartly isn’t ready to give up on Egekeze just yet.

Friedgen said during his weekly news conference Tuesday that Egekeze, who was not made available for comment, looked very good in practice Monday on the first day of competition.

At the end of a two-minute drill, both Wallace and Egekeze were brought in to kick a 51-yard field goal. Wallace missed his attempt, and Egekeze knocked his through. “[At] our kicking competition [Monday] night, I would think Obi won the kicking competition,” Friedgen said. “We’ll still have it competitive this week, we’ll see where it goes. Obi [Monday] night was kicking very, very well, so we’ll see where’s he’s at.”

And let’s hope where Egekeze’s at Saturday against Eastern Michigan is back on the field kicking field goals.

One kick down the middle could get him back on the right foot.

“Once he gets going he’s going to be fine,” wide receiver Darrius HeywardBey said. “The team, we’re behind him. So as long as he has his teammates behind him I think he’ll be all right.” schimmeldbk@gmail.com

Volleyball coach Tim Horsmon won — and won often — at every stop he made before joining the Terps this season. So far, the Terps are 2-7.

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Finding his shell Tim Horsmon is finally coaching volleyball at the school he grew up loving

BY KATE YANCHULIS Staff writer

If you want to stop in on a Terrapin volleyball practice session this season, you are out of luck.

Coach Tim Horsmon bolts the doors to the Comcast Center Pavilion for the three-hour daily practices and the team discussions that usually follow, bringing intensity, urgency and — he hopes — winning.

His tough methods have not paid dividends yet in his first year with the program. The team is only 2-7 this season, albeit through a tough out-of-conference schedule. But this does not discourage Horsmon, who grew up in Maryland, went to Lefty Driesell basketball camps and, as the son of an alumnus, has rooted for the Terps all his life.

“I don’t know how many years it is going to take, but my goal has always been to win a national championship,” Horsmon said. “And there couldn’t be anything cooler for me than to do it at the University of Maryland. It’s going to happen. We’re not doing what we need to do right now, but, in the long run, we are going to be one of the elite programs in this country. It will happen.”

Horsmon took over for coach Janice Kruger, who retired in January after heading the program for 20 years.

Kruger led the team to five ACC

Championships, including three in a row from 2003 to 2005, but in her last few years, the atmosphere became lax and the program slipped into mediocrity.

Horsmon came with only nine years of experience as an NCAA Division I head coach, five years at Dayton and four years before that at Robert Morris.

Even with so little experience, he has earned eight NCAA tournament bids, eight conference championships and a 225-93 record with his past teams.

Freshman setter Sharon Strizak switched her commitment from Dayton to Maryland specifically for Horsmon and his coaching staff.

“I just really liked the way he coached at Dayton,” she said. “I think he’s brought a new identity to this team and a new work ethic. The team really has pride.”

Even with his own recruit, coming into a program can be a difficult task. The players are unknown, the routines are not yet established. But Horsmon embraced the challenge as he had twice before.

“I think coach Kruger and I, our styles are just very different,” Horsmon said. “She was very successful for 20 years, and there’s not really a right or wrong style, but we’re just different.

You’re always going to run into some problems, some issues. That’s not the players’ faults, that’s just the situation.

They’re having to adjust to us, and I’m sure that’s not easy.”

Rather than ease into it, Horsmon dived in headfirst, immediately implementing his own brand of coaching to get the players acclimated. Horsmon keeps the team and the players under tight control and pushes the players to give 100-percent every day on the court, especially stressing the importance of consistent play.

But for Horsmon, consistency does not translate to a set cast of players on the court from match to match.

Rather than having a set starting lineup, players “earn their time” in practices and games.

Horsmon has tried seemingly endless combinations of players and substitutes, including more recent ones that favor youth over experience.

Some established and experienced players can find the team’s new direction hard to swallow. Senior setter Tedi Doucet and senior outside hitter Mary Beth Brown were pulled from the rotation last weekend in favor of Strizak, Maddi Lee and Brittney Grove.

Both Doucet and Brown were unavailable for comment.

“We’re trying to find the right players that will give us the most success this year,” Horsmon said. “I think a lot of that is the players. The players need to walk in and say, ‘I am going to earn a spot on the floor. I am going to work to-

ward this role on this team.’ Right now we have a lot of players that are kind of in the mix but no one has really established themselves.”

Despite the lineup shuffles, senior outside hitter Maggie Schmelzle said the new coach has brought positive changes such as renewed energy, work ethic and team play that have only changed the team for the better.

This enthusiasm can be heard even through the closed gymnasium doors; the players cheer for each other over the squeaking of sneakers and pounding of volleyballs.

“We’re trying to make changes; it’s just our execution that isn’t there yet,” Schmelzle said. “But we’re getting things together, and we see how good we can be.”

Horsmon has not had the instant success with the Terps that he had with his previous programs. Still, he is confident he can lead his home team to success.

“We came here to do something special. We left a program that was a top-25 program because we knew it would be special,” Horsmon said. “Our goal is to surpass our last program as soon as possible and be a national contender.

“This was a great opportunity for me to come home and work for the school that I think is the greatest school in the country.” kyanchulisdbk@gmail.com

Terps face off with No. 14 American Without Infante sisters, local matchup has less flair

BY MICHAEL KATZ Staff writer

Midfielder Katie O’Donnell and the Terps have beaten American 30 of 31 times all-time.

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Don’t call it a rivalry.

The No. 2 Terrapin field hockey team hosts No. 14 American today at 3 in the 32nd all-time meeting between the teams located just a few Metro stops apart. The Terps lead the series 30-1.

The competition has heated up in recent years, with four of the last six meetings being decided by two goals or fewer.

The storyline had been fueled by the presence of the Infante sisters on both sidelines. Paula Infante was a four-time All-American for the Terps, while Camila Infante and Denise Infante were AllAmericans last season for the Eagles.

All three sisters have graduated in the past two years. With the family feud no longer a factor, coach Missy Meharg said the top-15 matchup is just another game on the Terps’ (5-1) tough schedule.

“It’s never really been a brewing rivalry; it’s always just been a cross-town game,” Meharg said. “It became a rivalry because of the sisterhood in those four years here, and that was very real, just from a parental standpoint and a culture standpoint. But that’s not present on the team anymore.”

Of greater concern for the Terps is continuing to regain the momentum that was derailed in last Saturday’s loss to No. 3 Syracuse. The Terps stormed back with a 10-1 win against Northwestern on Sunday.

American finds itself in a similar position. The Eagles (3-2) used a 5-2 win against Northwestern Saturday to get back on track after consecutive losses to No. 6 Iowa and No. 9 Duke.

“Before [the loss to Syracuse], we were

Terps vs. American Where: Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex When: Today, 3 p.m.

Radio: WMUCsports.com just sitting back, hoping that our skills would just kind of take over,” forward Sarah Scholl said. “Now it’s the front of everybody’s mind that we have to play well every day.”

A key for the Terps is to continue to move offensively like they did against Northwestern, when they applied relentless pressure on the Wildcat defense. The team has run up the score on several overmatched opponents but struggled against stauncher defenses such as Penn State and Syracuse.

As a result, the Terps are excited to get back on the field against yet another top-20 team.

That the team happens to be American only adds to the anticipation. Even without the Infante sisters, players said they still looked forward to the contest.

“It’s like fighting over territory — kind of a DC-Maryland field hockey thing — because you know they’re right around the corner and they’re always good,” Scholl said. “It’s always a team we know well, and it’s always a great game.” mkatzdbk@gmail.com

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On fresh feet Herrick’s recovery gives Terps another offensive option

BY AARON KRAUT Senior staff writer

As efficient as the No. 4 Terrapin men’s soccer team has been on offense this season, coach Sasho Cirovski thinks it can be even better.

That’s because forward Jason Herrick, a redshirt sophomore who sat out all of last season because of a torn meniscus, is gradually approaching the form that earned him a spot on the All-ACC freshman team in 2006.

“We’re already better with him in the lineup. He looks like he’s getting 1, 2, 3 percent better every game,” Cirovski said.

“It’s only a matter of time before he gets his full groove back.”

Before a head injury sidelined him 12 games into the 2006 season, Herrick displayed the versatility and strength that Cirovski said reminded him a little bit of the program’s all-time leading scorer, Jason Garey.

Herrick finished crosses with his head and showed his touch, putting a goal in the top left corner from 30 yards out in a game against N.C. State on his way to scoring five goals in his first eight career games.

The Elmhurst, Ill., native recovered in time to record the game-winning assist in the Terps NCAA tournament match with St. John’s.

But then, Herrick tore the meniscus in his knee — twice. It

Forward Jason Herrick missed all of last season with a knee injury but provides scoring ability. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

was a slow recovery process, one he’s still going through even as he has regained the starting forward spot.

“Obviously, my legs still feel a little weak compared to what they should be,” Herrick said.

“The first couple months, it was going slow. But since I’ve been back, it’s been going pretty good.”

Though he hasn’t scored this season for the Terps (4-1-0), Herrick has made an impact on the attack. Through four games he has one assist and a couple of scoring opportunities, one that missed by a matter of inches.

With a little more than 30 minutes left in the first half of the Terps’ Sept. 7 win against Davidson, Herrick gathered the ball and saw Davidson goalkeeper Matt McElroy out of the net. Herrick flicked a shot over McElroy’s head, and the ball skirted just outside the left post.

“I missed it by a little bit, but they’ll come,” Herrick said. “When we need to score I think I’ll be the guy and I’ll get the big one.”

That confidence is another reason why Cirovski said it’s only a matter of time before Herrick gets back to full strength and completes his comeback.

“He just has a malice about the way he plays,” Cirovski said. “He can throw fear into any team.”

But the intensity Herrick plays with also made sitting through the injury harder, though Herrick said he eventually found the right mindset.

“It was frustrating. But I just decided that once it happened, it’s done. I can’t do anything about it, so I just tried to make the best out of it,” Herrick said.

“I tried to find the positives and just do whatever was best for the team, whether it was talking to people and motivating or whatever I could do from the sideline.”

Now that Herrick is off the sideline and healthy for the first time in a year, Cirovski hopes the forward will again show the promise he did during his freshman year. akrautdbk@gmail.com

Green working his way back BACKS, from Page 10 have another tough assignment to add to his schedule.

The Terp backfield would also be aided by Morgan Green, who saw his first action of the season Saturday after missing most of the preseason with a quadriceps injury. Friedgen said running back Dan Bonato and full back Corey Jackson could also seeing time in Scott’s role.

But Meggett, who has shown flashes of brilliance in gaining 136 yards on 22 carries this season, would likely take the bulk of the work.

“He’s a true freshman, and he’s learning every day,” Friedgen said of Meggett, who rushed for a career-high 82 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries against Cal. “If Da’Rel can’t go, he has to come up big for us this game.

We’re going to count on that.”

Meggett said he expects Scott to play Saturday. He said Scott is feeling better each day and looked good carrying the football in practice

Tuesday.

But even if Scott makes his fourth career start against Eastern Michigan, Meggett knows he plays a key role in the running game.

“I love helping him out,” Meggett said. “He always looks to me, and he’s like, ‘You got me?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I got you.’ He deserves a break.”

Meggett earned the second running back spot in preseason camp with his hard-nosed play when Green was sidelined. But Friedgen said he had relaxed his effort in recent practices, causing the eighth-year coach to have a talk with Meggett before the Cal game.

After Meggett stepped in for an injured Scott and helped seal an upset win, Friedgen said Meggett was back playing hard Monday and showing progress in several areas he had struggled, including pass blocking.

He expressed confidence in Meggett and Green, who earned praise after taking his

Morgan Green lost his position as the Terps’ second running back after an injury. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

first consistent reps in about a month.

Green, who entered preseason atop the depth chart with Scott, picked up no yards against Cal on his first two carries of the season.

He said he’s back at 100 percent and ready to contribute.

“It’s been rough,” Green said. “I was looking forward to the season, and then I got this nagging injury. Hopefully, I have a chance to get back out there.”

Scott is hurting, Meggett’s young, and Green just wants an opportunity.

The Terps would love to get all three in top form heading into ACC play, but it might not matter who is in the backfield against the Eagles.

The Terps, with an all-senior starting offensive line, have displayed a dominating ground game so far this season. They are averaging 186 rushing yards per game and 4.8 yards per rushing attempt.

“The holes they are opening up are not just big, they’re gaping,” Meggett said. “We’re all looking forward to running through them.”

TERP NOTES: Defensive end Mack Frost was listed as doubtful with a knee injury.

These players are out for Saturday: safety Terrell Skinner (ankle), cornerback Richard Taylor (knee), receiver LaQuan Williams (foot). ...

Friedgen also noted that safety Dominique Herald will not redshirt this season. Herald, who was suspended for the first game of the season, will be forced into action because of injuries in the secondary. edetweilerdbk@gmail.com

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True freshman Davin Meggett took over for starting running back Da’Rel Scott after Scott injured his shoulder and rushed for 82 yards Saturday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

Meggett may start at RB

BY ERIC DETWEILER Senior staff writer

Davin Meggett is confident in his abilities on the football field.

That’s why the Terrapin running back has other things on his mind, despite the possibility of his first career start Saturday against Eastern Michigan if Da’Rel Scott can’t play because of a left shoulder injury.

“What I’m thinking about this weekend is I have some homework to do in government and women’s literature,” Meggett said. “I think those are actually on my mind.”

Scott, the ACC’s leading rusher at 135.7 yards per game, sprained the

2008 FOOTBALL AC joint in his shoulder on a third-quarter run in Saturday’s 35-27 win against Cal. Coach Ralph Friedgen said the sophomore is very sore and would wear a no-contact jersey at practice to begin the week. Scott is questionable against the Eagles, but Friedgen said he hopes to get him on the field.

Scott was not available for comment.

If Scott is out, the 5-foot8, 210-pound Meggett will

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f you happen to see Obi Egekeze walking around the campus this week, give him a pat on the back.

Or maybe you could look him right in the eye, give him a firm handshake and say “I still believe in you, Obi.” Or maybe just give him a hug.

The Terrapin football team’s senior kicker is going through tough times right now, and he could seriously use a confidence boost.

Egekeze is 0-for-5 on field goal attempts through the Terps’ first three games this season, and he has fallen into a competition in practice this week with the Terps’ four other kickers. Sophomore Nick Wallace and redshirt freshman Mike Barbour are the closest behind him.

But a change to a new placekicker who has never attempted a field goal in a collegiate game is not what the Terps need right now.

If Egekeze is having trouble standing up to the pressure, how will any of the others fare?

As frustrating as it might be until he straightens things out, the Terps need to continue to be patient with Egekeze and hope he somehow regains the mental toughness that allowed him to

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Obi Egekeze has yet to make a field goal this season on five attempts.

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