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Shuttle-UM U. Police launch new collaboration to continue for local residents Multiagency team includes county police, fire department, liquor board and city

BY ERIN EGAN Staff writer

City Council votes to buy passes from DOTS for fourth year

In a more proactive effort to nip local crime in the bud, University Police is partnering with several other departments to create a multiagency service team officials said has proved successful in the county.

The City Multiagency Service Team — dubbed CMAST, which launched in the city this semester — will allow police to analyze data about

reported problems and target which areas need help from agencies other than the law, officials said.

CMAST is a collaboration between University Police and several agencies, including the Prince George’s County Police Department, the College Park Fire Department, the City of College Park, the County Liquor Board, the State’s Attorney’s Office and the university’s Office of Student

see POLICE, page 3

Not letting go yet

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

The College Park City Council voted last night to continue purchasing Shuttle-UM bus passes for city residents for a fourth straight year.

Although the city previously met with Department of Transportation Services Director David Allen to discuss increasing this year’s fee from $6,000 to $10,000, the Student Government Association and DOTS settled on the lower price. While District 3 Councilman Mark Cook said the council should vote against paying for residents to ride the university’s buses because not many take advantage of this free transportation option, councilmembers voted 4-2 to continue the program.

“I think we’d be throwing good money by the wayside,” Cook said.

However, several city councilmembers said the program benefits the community because it provides more transportation options to city residents.

“I do know from residents that they really need a reliable mode of transportation,” District 1 Councilwoman Christine Nagle said during the meeting. “I think we should give it another chance.”

She added that if more residents take advantage of the program this year, it would make the $6,000 fee worth it.

In 2009, the city issued about 340 of

University Police Chief David Mitchell introduced a new multiagency service team to the campus this semester. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

At vigil, LGBTQA community mourns

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

Attendees light candles candles in remembrance of Guarav Gopalan, the slain university researcher, last night in Memorial Chapel. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

Since engineering research scientist Guarav Gopalan was killed while wearing women’s clothing earlier this month, the LGBTQA community on and off the campus has banded together to promote a more accepting atmosphere in the area.

In a candlelight vigil last night in Memorial Chapel, about two dozen students, friends and colleagues gathered to remember the slain engineer, and many used the event as a forum to express their concerns that ignorance, homophobia and transphobia

see VIGIL, page 3

see RIDERSHIP, page 3

McKeldin’s second floor redesigned 11 candidates finalized for New space promotes quieter study spaces, library officials say

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

Students venturing to the second floor of McKeldin Library will find the layout rearranged to create a quieter study space than last year’s group setting that some students had dubbed “Club McKeldin.”

Only a year after library officials unveiled a new look for the second floor of McKeldin — called the Terrapin Learning Commons — the space underwent phase two of its $1.6 million multiphase renovation over the summer and reopened this semester. After hearing requests from students for more study rooms, library officials installed partitions to create more private spaces and created a graduate-student-only area, according to libraries Dean Patricia Steele.

The remodeled floor now features new computers and furniture, includ-

City Council’s Nov. elections Only two of city’s districts to be contested

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

Officials recently revamped McKeldin Library’s second floor to emphasize more private study spaces for students. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

ing tables, plush couches, whiteboards and partitions designed to allow students to create their own study spaces. The last phase of the floor’s makeover this semester will be

complete tomorrow or Friday when officials roll out more new furniture.

Funds for the renovations came

see LIBRARY, page 2

The candidates for this year’s College Park City Council election have been finalized, and only two of the city’s four districts will be contested in November.

In 2009, each of the city’s districts were contested. This year, however, only 11 candidates are registered to run for the four districts, which hold two seats apiece. Three candidates are running in both District 1 and District 3, and although few students reside in District 1, District 3 includes Fraternity Row, the Knox Boxes and many of the South Campus Commons apartments.

Only two council members, District 2 Councilman Jack Perry and District 3 Councilman Mark Cook, are not seeking re-election.

With six of eight council members running for re-election, only a few of the candidates have not served on the city council previously. Fazlul Kabir, who ran in the 2009 election, is once again a District 1 candidate. He will run against incumbents Christine Nagle and Patrick Wojahn.

In District 2, which includes The Varsity and the University View as well as the South Hill and North Hill communities, 14-year incumbent

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LIBRARY from page 1 from the library’s budget and various donations, Steele said.

Last year, maintenance crews began the first phase of the transition; they painted warmer colors on the walls, replaced aging carpets, added electrical outlets and introduced new furniture and more computers, printers and scanners to the floor.

Steele said when officials initially set out to redesign the second floor, they wanted to create an environment unlike the rest of the library and enable students to work together without noise constraints.

“The whole idea was just to create a floor where collaborative work could go on,” Steele said. “That was the biggest need we have heard from students.”

After hearing requests from students, Steele said library officials decided to add more furniture with this year’s funds to change the layout and the floor’s atmosphere.

“It’s a big floor, so if you just launch a bunch of furniture down, there’s no coherence,” Steele said. “Part of

the effort is for students to use the furniture to make spaces of their own.”

Several students, such as senior English and secondar y education major Beth Barkley, said the revamped space helps her and her peers block out noise and other distractions.

“Last year’s was a lot more open space, so sound could travel a lot,” Barkley said. “I think it helps with not only the sound, but the focus — you kind of feel like you’re in your own study area or zone.”

However, sophomore government and politics major Karen Contreras said she liked last year’s layout better.

“They took away a lot of space. There was a lot of tables last year, and now it’s harder to find seats,” Contreras said. “If you really needed it to be quieter, you should go somewhere else.”

Some students agreed the new changes have transformed the atmosphere on McKeldin’s second floor.

“It’s definitely toned down from the ‘Club McKeldin’ times,” Barkley said.

The remodeled floor also fea-

In the second phase of McKeldin Library’s $1.6 million renovation of the second floor, library officials added new computers, furniture and partitions with the goal of creating more intimate study spaces for students. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

tures a new graduate student section with a main study area, private study spaces and a table for collaborative work, as well as a multi-purpose room intended

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for group study and relaxation.

Both rooms are accessible only to graduate students.

Kirsten Crase, Graduate Student Government chief of staff,

said graduate students have lauded the space’s airy feel.

“It’s a comfortable, pleasant setting — definitely a pleasant workplace,” Crase said. “It’s a

definite upgrade. There has not been a space just for grad students.”

ELECTION

incumbent Andy Fellows is the sole candidate for the seat he occupies.

Several council members said elections with more candidates are preferable, as they give voters more options and gar ner more interest in city af fairs.

“I think that having more people [running] is always better,” Wojahn said, adding that District 1 is generally one of the more contested districts.

“We’re civically engaged, active members of the community.”

Nagle agreed.

“I think it’s good for voters to have contested races,” she said. “More active engagement is for the most part a good thing.”

Although there is no student candidate r unning, Afzali — who ran as a graduate student in 2009 — said he does not believe this will impact student participation in the election.

“Having more people [running] is always better.

We’re civically engaged, active members of the community.”

from page 1 Bob Catlin and Lakeland Civic Association President Monroe Dennis are the only candidates.

At least one of the elected officials will be new to the council in District 3, as current Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich, teacher Robert McCeney and College Park Estates Civic Association President Robert Day vie for two seats.

In District 4, which covers western College Park, only two residents are running.

Current councilmembers Marcus Afzali and Denise Mitchell, who replaced two incumbents in a four-way race in 2009, will be unchallenged in this November’s election.

Following election patterns of the past several decades, there is no contest for the office of mayor —

In its first meeting of the year, the Residence Hall Association approved the establishment of a new standing sustainability committee with the legislative power to launch more eco-friendly initatives. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

CLARIFICATION Although a caption on the photo accompanying Monday’s story, “Ten years later, still healing,” was attributed to the Department of Public Safety, the original photo was taken by then-university freshman Adam Goodman.

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Afzali noted that the highest student voter turnout occurred in 2009 in District 2, where the two candidates elected — Perr y and Catlin — were the most senior members of the council.

“I think students should definitely pay attention,” Afzali said.

“Who’s elected definitely has an impact on their quality of life.” kirkwood@umdbk.com

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POLICE from page 1

University Senate Chair Linda Mabbs (right) and Senate Parliamentarian Marvin Breslow applaud the passage of the Good Samaritan policy in March. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

SSDP moves to expand Good Sam Group hopes policy will extend coverage to drugs

BY MARIA ROMAS Staff writer

Members of Students for Sensible Drug Policy are gearing up for a familiar fight this semester — pushing for a Good Samaritan policy that applies to those under the influence of drugs.

After a three-year push from members of the university community — including many in SSDP — the University Senate approved an official Good Samaritan policy in March, which protects dangerously intoxicated students from university sanction if they call for help for themselves or a friend.

While this is the first full semester it will be enforced, members of SSDP said they are already mobilizing different on-campus groups to extend the policy to students on drugs.

“There’s really no reason it shouldn’t be [added to the policy],” said Brandon Levey, former SSDP co-president and current undergraduate senator. “If a person is overdosing on some other drug, they shouldn’t be scared to call for help.”

Although several other undergraduate students have championed an all-inclusive Good Samaritan policy over the last few years, nothing ever came to fruition, with

many officials citing legal reasons as a major deterrent.

Levey said he is working on a senate proposal to get the discussion going again, but he may face similar problems this time around.

University Senate Chair Eric Kasischke said he is not sure the proposal is plausible from a legal standpoint because being in possession of alcohol underage is simply a misdemeanor, whereas possession of drugs is sometimes a felony.

“Where possession of alcohol underage is a civil violation of law, moving into unlawful drug violation is criminal,” said University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky. “It’s kind of crossing over a line.”

However, Kasischke said he is still open to discussing the matter.

Kasischke said while people generally recognize drinking as a problem on college campuses, they tend to diminish the role drugs play.

“I think there’s a dichotomy in play here, because on the one hand we all want to protect the students and prevent tragic things from happening,” Kasischke said. “But society has a much different attitude toward drug use than they have toward alcohol use. So, even though having alcohol underage is illegal, people are more

willing to [get behind] alcoholrelated incidents than drugrelated incidents.”

Limansky said officers are not bound by the policy — whether it pertains to alcohol or drugs — when deciding whether or not to charge a student with possession.

“If we get to scene and feel a person has to be charged or sent to the Office of Student Conduct, we do that,” he said.

“Then, the Office of Student Conduct decides if it falls under the Good Samaritan protocol. It doesn’t really affect our behavior; we decide whatever criminal charges are appropriate given the situation.”

But Levey said he still plans to push for the expansion, noting he’s reached out to Student Government Association representatives for support. SGA President Kaiyi Xie said he has begun to set up meetings about expanding the policy and hopes to nail down some details soon.

“A lot of schools and states have a Good Samaritan policy this comprehensive,” Levey said. “We are really hoping that we will be able to emulate that here. It’s definitely in the initial stages, but it’s something we are planning on doing this year.” romas@umdbk.com

Conduct.

“The idea is that when you look at a problem in a community or in an area, rather than labeling something as a police problem or a liquor board problem or an education problem, you take all these entities and you form this team and as a group you have input toward solutions for a problem using your areas of expertise,” University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said.

Overlapping information from several departments develops clusters that identify areas that need the most attention, he said.

“We can do a lot with just our own data, but having everyone on one sheet will paint a very clear picture,” Limansky said.

University Police Chief David Mitchell, who has been involved in CMAST initiatives in other departments such as county police, brought the concept to the campus.

“I’ve used this before in policing with great success,” Mitchell said. “So, I offered to bring the initiative in partnership to the city of College Park.”

Limansky said it can be especially useful when working within a student population.

“Let’s say we have a problem with underage drinking,” he said. “It can certainly be seen as a police problem, but it could involve, for example, a housing problem. If we target a problem from a police standpoint, people are just going to be fined and move on, but if you go to the landlord, then you can completely change the rent space. It’s a problem-solving model.”

Mitchell said CMAST has been used successfully in the county several times. When there were several reports of aggressive panhandling a few years ago, Mitchell said, the

RIDERSHIP from page 1 the 1,000 passes it purchased for residents, and DOTS officials previously reported that residents took about 289 rides that year. Last year’s numbers were not in the city council agenda packet last night.

“We need to get the word out, make sure the residents know that the university can meet their needs,” Nagle said.

The university’s “performance standards” for keeping track of ridership numbers needs to be improved, according to Cook.

While District 1 Councilman

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English professor emeritus Maynard Mack speaks at the vigil for the slain research scientist. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

With their resumes in hand, many students attended the first day of the annual three-day career and internship fair held in Stamp Student Union.

Participants are encouraged to dress professionally and bring multiple copies of their resumes.

The fair will last until Thursday and various employers will be available from noon to 5 p.m. both today and Thursday for students to start their searches early. PHOTOS BY MAYA MUNOZ/FOR THE DIAMONDBACK

and said it has “made visible a community and a network that from page 1 we need to develop.”

“Until we can teach causestill plague society. On the less hatred out of every human weekend of Sept. 10, in addi- being, we need to watch each tion to Gopalan’s slaying, one other’s back,” Mack said. “It’s transgender woman was mur- our job — while pushing to dered and another was shot. know what happened —it’s Police have identified one our job to do something.”

Although police are still inman in connection with the vestigating Gopalan’s murder nonfatal shooting.

Additionally, during the and it has not been declared a morning hours of Aug. 26, an hate crime, Mack said he beallegedly drunk off-duty D.C. lieves the incident stemmed police officer reportedly shot from feelings of hatred of at a car with two transgender LGBTQA people that are passengers in Northwest deeply rooted in society.

“These kinds of events are Washington, according to The just so tragic and so scary,” Washington Post.

“We are living in a climate of Sakurai added.

Some attendees — such as ugliness and pettiness — there’s a nastiness in the air,” sophomore computer science said English professor emeri- major Marshall Peters — said tus Maynard Mack. “Hateful they hoped the vigil would inthings lead to more hateful spire campus communities to things, and eventually it leads make the issue of violence toward transgender people to something like this.”

Many at the event said they more visible to police and to were disillusioned with the the general public.

“The LGBT community itMetropolitan Police Department, and Associate Director self has come together,” Peters of the Office of LGBT Equity said. “We lost one of our own, Nicholas Sakurai said that po- and it’s a sobering reminder of lice are responding too slowly all the problems we still have to live with.” to these three crimes.

Sakurai said he felt a deep connection to Gopalan’s case, foley@umdbk.com

VIGIL

University Police is partnering with other departments to target issues other agencies can help solve. County Police District 1 Commander Hector Velez (above) said the initiative has worked well for the county. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

police were called to shoo them away, but they consistently came back.

“By taking a problem-oriented approach with CMAST, we found that the homeless organization in [the county] was dropping them off to go apply for jobs and [the panhandlers] weren’t doing that, but arresting a homeless person just gives them a record,” he said. “It wasn’t something that should be handled by the law. When we use other partners, we end up with solutions that work, which free up our time to do other things and improve the quality of life in our neighborhood.”

Bob Ryan, College Park’s director of public services, wrote in an email that city officials are looking forward to working with the other agencies in-

volved in CMAST. “We have worked with joint agency groups in the past; and, believe that combined City, County, State and University resources, working together in a CMAST organizational structure, have the potential for improving public safety citywide,” Ryan wrote.

Prince George’s County Police District 1 Commander Maj. Hector Velez said Ryan’s hopes for the city has so far been successful in the county.

“It’s been very effective, and I think it will be very good in College Park, too,” Velez said.

“If all the entities are on the same page, it’ll be great. You can’t go wrong with all of those entities. Chief Mitchell deserves a lot of credit for this.”

Patrick Wojahn said the program was valuable, he added that the city should continue to explore other public transportation options, such as looking to Prince George’s County officials to increase bus service along Route 1.

“I like this program, and I think we should keep it in place,” he said. “I don’t think cutting public transportation as a whole is a good idea.”

District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said she supports continuing the program because it not only helps residents who would like to rely on bus transport get around the city but also those who drive along

“I like this program, and I think we should keep it in place.”

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Route 1, leading to less congested roads.

“There is a lot of concern in the community about transit, especially on Route 1,” she said. “This is a program that we fought for.” kirkwood@umdbk.com

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Hazardous chemicalerts

Lessons from a liaison

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hree weeks ago, this editorial board commended university officials for ments on The Diamondback’s website saying they only received the last of three their prompt and effective communication with the community before, alerts sent via text message — the one that arrived at 4:19 p.m. stating the chemistry building had been reopened. Some said they normally receive messages but didn’t during and after Hurricane Irene. this time, and others said they have repeatedly signed up for the alerts but have Apparently, we spoke too soon.

Based on officials’ communication with the university community following never actually gotten any.

Even for the unknown number of students who did, in fact, receive all the the explosion in the chemistry building Monday that left two students with firstintended alerts, let’s just hope they weren’t on their way to and second-degree burns, it seems the University the chemistry building at the time. Because in the 48 minPolice’s emergency alert notification system needs some utes it took for the university to get around to notifying the serious tinkering. community of a chemical explosion, hundreds — if not Far too many students reported not receiving one or The university needs to fix thousands — of students could have passed through the more of the university’s alerts — either the emails or the text the glitches and inefficiencies area, unaware they might have been at risk. messages delivered to those who opt to receive them.

The fact the incident turned out to be minor is irrelevant.

It’s concerning if a handful of students are inadvertently in its emergency alert system, When asked about the delay, University Police spokesman left hanging in an emergency situation — it’s a huge probCapt. Marc Limansky said the department’s communicalem if thousands of them find themselves out of the loop, as as notifying students and tions room was “really hectic,” so they had trouble getting they did earlier this week. others in the community that first text message out quickly.

But what’s even worse than this inconsistent delivery During Irene, officials found it easy enough to monitor of messages — and more telling about the system’s ineffimust be a top priority in The Weather Channel and send regular updates. The situaciency — is how long it took for students to be notified in those situations. tion Monday was considerably different, however, as events the first place. The explosion occurred at 12:30 p.m.; the unfolded quickly and officials had to field lots of frantic first email from University Police didn’t arrive in inboxes phone calls, according to Limansky. until 1:18 p.m.

If communications officials were that overwhelmed by the chaos of this event, we This editorial board is left wondering how it could take 48 minutes to bang out a 22-word message, especially when this was the exact kind of situation the system shudder to think how ineffective the system might be during a more severe emergency. What if the hurricane turned out to be more serious and caused flash floods? was supposedly implemented to address.

Equally puzzling is the near-identical email from University Police that arrived an What if the campus were targeted by a terrorist attack? What if a gunman went on a hour later. Both messages informed recipients of the “chemical incident” and shooting spree down McKeldin Mall?

Police clearly had difficulty adapting to Monday’s chaos, but they should have priadvised them to “stay clear of the area,” but there was a slight difference in wording about personnel crews on the scene. That difference makes us wonder whether the oritized sending out the text message. In this technological age, people expect second email was sent as an afterthought to make sure everyone received it or immediate information; in a situation involving potential danger, police owe that whether it was written by a different official who hadn’t communicated with the first peace of mind to the university community.

It boils down to emergency preparedness, and on Monday, the university sender. Both of those scenarios are hardly comforting in the midst of an emergency.

Many students and professors have contacted this editorial board or posted com- failed the test.

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Editorial cartoon: Joey Lockwood

The U.N.-stable peace

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n May 16, The New York Times published an opinion piece “The Long Overdue Palestinian State,” by Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In the piece, Abbas, through a tone of emotive storytelling and historical review, sought to advance an inspirational hope: a U.N. General Assembly vote — to be held this month — that would internationally recognize a Palestinian state based on Israel’s pre-1967 borders.

When writing on the history of Israel’s founding, Abbas noted that the last time a Palestinian state came into question, the 1947 U.N. vote divided the British Mandate of Palestine into two states for two peoples. However, “Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened.”

Thus, according to Abbas, the ensuing war led to a Palestinian expulsion from its homeland — the territory occupied by Israel after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. Conclusively,

ARIEL DOSETAREH Abbas further underlined that a U.N. vote for statehood is the only viable option, alluding to Israel’s failure in advancing peace.

Quick history lesson: There was never an entity called “Palestine” in these lands captured by Israel in the 1967 war. And what’s more interesting and ironic is that there would have been one had the Arab leadership not rejected the 1947 U.N. vote and invaded the fledgling Jewish state the day after it declared independence.

The 1948 war that ensued was, on Israel’s part, a defensive one. And the result? An Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip and a Jordanian occupation of the West Bank. It should therefore be made clear that Israel did not take those territories from the Palestinians

in 1967. Rather, they conquered them in what was another war of defense from Jordanian and Egyptian occupants — countries that never even worked to establish a Palestinian state in those areas at the time.

And Israel’s failure to advance peace? What about the 1993 Oslo Accords? Or the 2000 Camp David Summit, where 90 percent of the West Bank, all of Gaza and a capital in East Jerusalem were put on the table? Or in 2005 when Gaza was returned to Palestinian leadership? All halfway meeting points that were only met with violence.

The incontrovertible truth is that a U.N. vote to establish a Palestinian state will not bring peace. A return to the 1967 borders will not bring an end to hostility toward Israel because the calls for Israel’s destruction go well past that year. It will not bring peace because it is based on unjust, flawed scrutiny and manipulated claims of history. It will not bring peace because Abbas constantly states he does not recognize Israel’s existence as a Jew-

ish state. And, on the most troubling note, it will not bring peace because of Abbas’ current alliance with Hamas, whose constant vow to destroy Israel has become expected rhetoric.

I’m not a voice advocating against a future state for the Palestinian people.

I’m not a voice that wants to dismiss the genuine call for peace, the call to ensure two peoples living in harmony where the focus becomes less on politics and more on sensible livelihood.

Instead, I’m one of the many voices that hopes to wake people up to the reality of present conditions — leadership that’s not ready for a peaceful Palestinian state.

A precarious peace built on pillars of precarious facts — all on a foundation of radical, dangerous associations — is undeniably unstable in what it promotes, is bound to collapse and could lead to further violence in an already volatile region.

Ariel Dosetareh is a freshman Jewish studies major. He can be reached at dosetareh@umdbk.com.

Remember, remember the Irvine 11

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tudents have always pushed the limit when questioning authority, and they usually get away with it. But sometimes, as with the Irvine 11, they get knocked down.

Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, delivered a speech at the University of California, Irvine in February 2010 that drew national attention. About halfway through his address, a student stood before the 500 others seated in the room, shouted a message at Oren and made his way to the aisle, knowing there would certainly be an officer there waiting for him.

Oren continued his speech only to be interrupted again. And again. And again. That evening, Oren would be interrupted a total of 10 times by 11 different students. The group came to be known as the Irvine 11.

The protesters were all escorted out of the hall and arrested. UC Irvine administrators later alleged the university’s Muslim Student Union planned the protest, prompting the university to

suspend the organization for the remainder of that semester and place it on probation through December 2012.

Nearly a year later, the Orange County district attorney charged each of the protesters with two misdemeanors — disturbing a meeting and conspiring to do so. On Friday, a jury found 10 of the 11 students guilty on both charges and sentenced each to three years of probation and 56 hours of community service.

College campuses have historically been the epicenter of the American social and political conscience. From the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, college campuses have hosted the robust debates and free flow of ideas that are vital components of the American identity. Regardless of whether you agree with their approach, the Irvine 11 were simply expressing their views much like many protesters before them.

Personally, I would have taken an alternate route. Indeed, when Oren spoke at this university in October 2010, I sat quietly and listened to him

OSAMA ESHERA during his speech and then joined other students in protest outside afterward. The Irvine 11 chose a different approach, but it was still a peaceful protest that shouldn’t have resulted in criminal convictions.

Protesters commonly flirt with unacceptable behavior, but authorities rarely pursue disciplinary action.

When Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelled “You lie!” during President Barack Obama’s health-care speech to Congress, he was only asked to apologize. When two individuals interrupted Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame, they were simply escorted out. This selective enforcement undermines our judicial system and is unfair to the

Irvine 11. UC Irvine’s sanctions on the Muslim Student Union were a sufficient consequence.

I deeply respect the courage of the Irvine 11 — they embody the passion and the voice that drive student activism. Martin Luther King Jr. told us “the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.” The conviction of those 11 students is a conviction of the entire student voice. It is a conviction of the very freedom of dissent and intellectual liberty that defines our universities.

So we as students are now tasked with reclaiming our impunity to demonstrate. This is not a matter of which side you stand on or which cause you champion. This is a matter of principle. As long as you are motivated by your beliefs, you should be allowed to stand and make your voice heard — even if your methods are a bit unorthodox.

Osama Eshera is a junior bioengineering major. He can be reached at eshera@umdbk.com.

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hen you think of College Park, do you think of it as your home or just the place you live for nine months of the year?

Students should view College Park as their home and should want to get involved with the community and help enact change where needed.

How about another question: Because students are transient in nature, are we precluded from any activity or decision the city makes?

No. As students, whether living on the campus or elsewhere within city limits, we are all affected by rules and regulations. Have you ever been affected by a noise complaint?

Just because all students may not view College Park as their home, it should not and does not make us less bona fide members of the community. While we may look, feel and act a little different than some of the other residents, we are one and the same, and maybe we could put in more effort to make this more than “a livable community.”

Many students are unaware of what the city can do for them, as they believe it is the university that needs to enact change within the community. But this is not always the case. The College Park City Council works hard for students, even allowing a student representative to be present at its meetings to voice a student opinion.

The city, according to its mission statement, is dedicated to enhancing the quality of living for all who live here. Such enhancements include determining rent control levels, noise ordinances and other regulations to generally keep peace and maintain order. Some ordinances may hinder our Saturday night plans, but keep in mind that the 10-year-old down the street may not want his weekly chore to be picking up the red Solo cups from his yard on Sunday mornings.

Now, hear me out: I’m not calling for an end to Saturday night shenanigans, but what I am saying is try to remember we are all members of the same community. Maybe we could work to make it a little more livable for full-time residents.

Once again, the city will be hosting College Park Day, where officials will showcase all that College Park and the surrounding areas have to offer.

This year, the event is being held during Family Weekend, on Oct. 22, as the city hopes to draw students and their families to the event.

Why not stop by and spend a little time with the greater College Park community? Who knows, maybe you’ll get to enjoy some of Washington’s famous food trucks.

Many students are registered to vote in their hometowns, but how about registering to vote in College Park? When you vote, you are voting for change, and changing College Park should be important, as well.

Many student residents of College Park are unaware city elections are taking place in November. If students were to register and vote en masse, we could really make a statement in our community.

Next time you are walking to Cornerstone Grill and Loft or roaming around the Graham Cracker, look around you and take a mental note of things you think need to be changed.

Talk to friends who live in off-campus residences to get their views on how the city could work better with students. College Park thrives on students and students should thrive on the city, so be the voice and enact the change.

Marcella Morris is the SGA city council liaison and can be reached at morrismarcella@gmail.com.

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SPOTLIGHT | MORGAN WALLACE

University sophomore Morgan Wallace dances for a cause — and more

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BY MARY CLARE FISCHER ✦ FOR THE DIAMONDBACK This summer, sophomore Morgan Wallace was dancing, as she has since she was three or four years old. She was in a hip-hop class at an intensive New Jersey program when a choreographer came in. He complimented her moves, jotted down her contact information and left.

“We don’t have a lot of details about it yet because it wasn’t even a serious audition,” Wallace said. “He just really liked me and was like, ‘OK, I’m booking her on the spot.’ And that’s what I want to do — dance for artists and choreograph for artists.”

Wallace has already taken major steps toward achieving her goal. She opened her own New Jersey dance studio — The Dance Vault — this summer, teaching hip-hop, jazz, ballet, contemporary and even Zumba. While in school, she performs in Maryland Dance Ensemble showcases as part of her fulltuition Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship.

She’s also a member of this university’s dance team and the Dynamic dance team, which performed alongside three other student groups and America’s Best Dance Crew winner Poreotics at the Hoff Theater tomorrow.

“It’s so cool that you can get someone that big to come to this school, and it’s great networking being able to meet them, getting to go dance with them and just watching them and taking in what they do,” Wallace said. “And I love dancing with people and rubbing off, taking and giving, that whole concept.”

The Dance Vault gives Wallace another chance for group interaction from a different perspective — she’s the sole teacher. She hopes to run a franchise of dance studios someday.

Wallace’s father, who converted parts of their New Jersey home into the business, said the studio was an easier endeavor than he expected.

“Morgan’s always been more than just a dancer,” Duane Wallace said. “We used to call her the Pied Piper. The other children flocked to her, and she taught them dance and other things, but dance was the primary way she got their attention and kept their attention. She’s danced all her life; she’s been teaching dance to different universities and high schools, but she’s always done it at someone else’s location. Now that everyone’s out of the house, [the studio] seemed like a natural transition.”

Wallace credits her ambition to her family, especially her mother, who died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, almost a year ago.

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“When she passed away, it definitely set the tone for my life in a whole different way,” Wallace said. “Everything got so much more real. You don’t have your mom to call when you’re upset, so you become so much more independent, one, and then you realize you don’t have a lot of time. So that’s when I went on the fast track.

“I also set a goal for myself,” she added. “Anything I told my mom that I was going to do, I’m going to do it. If I told my mom I was going to have my studio, I’m going to have my studio. If I told my mom I’m going to be on tour with an artist, I’m going to be on tour with an artist. It gives me that extra push.”

Those close to Wallace said her mother’s death has elevated her dancing to an even higher level.

“She’s always been a great dancer, but she’s just more spirit-filled right now,” Duane Wallace said. “Every time I’ve seen her dance in the last year, I think she’s as good as she can get, and then she just goes another level, and everyone’s saying the same thing.”

“Morgan is a very energetic dancer, so whenever we perform, she puts her all into it, 100 percent,” added sophomore dance and psychology major Courtney Harris, who is Wallace’s teammate on both the official dance team and the Dynamic dance team. “She’s a born performer, and when she dances, everyone can’t stop watching her.”

The Wallace family has made it their mission to raise awareness for ALS: Morgan Wallace’s brother, university senior Duane Wallace II, hosted an ALS dinner with a speaker on the campus; Duane Wallace is hosting the Valerie Wallace Basketball Showcase back in New Jersey, with all proceeds going to the ALS Foundation; and Morgan herself plans to dedicate a dance in the next Maryland Dance Ensemble showcase to her mother, with a box outside for donations.

“Now I feel like I have a cause,” Morgan Wallace said. “We always said that everyone has to go through a storm, like sometimes God gives you something you’re going to have to weather through, but I never felt like I had any big issue in my life.

Everything was great, and then that happened, and I was like, ‘That’s what I need to do.’ That’s my storm.”

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NOTEBOOK from page 8 options,” guard Andrew Gonnella said yesterday. “But we have a lot of great receivers.

I don’t think we were hurting talent-wise.

“I think the biggest thing is we have two seniors back so that’s going to add some more leadership to our offense, and I think it’s a positive message to the team. It shows they were able to get their off-the-field issues sorted out quick enough, and they had enough desire to do that to be back with the team.”

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Kenny Tate, a one-time starter at safety, will remain at linebacker, coach Randy Edsall announced this week. Titus Till is set to take the starting spot vacated by Matt Robinson, who underwent season-ending surgery. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Edsall’s said since his arrival in College Park that his goal is to put the 11 best players on the field.

And to this point, he’s shown it doesn’t matter how old they are. The Terps’ two-deep this week includes 18 freshmen, four of whom — defensive end Keith Bowers, fullback Tyler Cierski, linebacker Lorne Goree and safety Titus Till — will start against Towson.

Edsall said yesterday three more true freshmen — wide receiver Tyrek Cheeseboro, linebacker Cole Farrand and defensive back A.J. Hendy — will see time on special teams this weekend.

“If they’re our best guys in our opinion as coaches, then we’re going to play them,”

Edsall said, “and you’ve got to understand that there could be some growing pains with some of those freshmen.”

While some freshmen, such as Bowers and Till, have been pushed into more pivotal roles by injury, Edsall has set a precedent that no job is guaranteed.

“If a guy has a chance to beat an older guy out, he’s going to let them know and he’s going to make that clear,” Gonnella said of Edsall. “He’s just trying to get the best 11 guys on the field.”

ODDS AND ENDS With an overhauled coaching staff and a worrying 1-2 start, it’s easy to think the Terps may be mired in a rebuilding year.

Edsall, however, after acknowledging the program’s transitional state, scoffed at the notion this season could be considered a wash.

“There’s no rebuilding here. That’s not something in my vocabulary,” Edsall said.

“If that was the case, then I’d be doing a disservice to these young men that are here.

You’ve never heard that word come out of my mouth, and you never will.”

Edsall also said that despite Kenny Tate’s struggles so far, the former starting safety will remain a linebacker instead of replacing safety Matt Robinson, who suffered a season-ending shoulder injury. Till will start in Robinson’s place Saturday. cwalsh@umdbk.com

FIELD HOCKEY

Terps avenge loss to Tigers with dominant 6-2 victory Five players score in rematch of team’s sole loss from 2010

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CHARLOTTE from page 8 Terps (9-0-1) attack this season.

Townsend, Mullins and Stertzer account for more than 80 percent of the Terps’ goals this season, and they tallied all six of the team’s shots on goal last night.

“As a trio, we’ve put in a lot of goals and I think our team expects that from us,” Townsend said. “If that’s what it takes for us to win, I’m okay with that.”

Although he didn’t bur y the goal, Mullins was again pivotal in the 30th minute, when he blew by his defender and launched a shot just outside the 6yard box. After Charlotte (7-2-0) goalkeeper Klay Davis blocked the attempt, 49ers defender Anthony Perez netted an own goal after misfiring on a clear.

Perhaps feeling left out of the excitement, Stertzer joined the party just minutes later when he controlled midfielder Jereme Raley’s corner kick and netted his seventh goal of the season, giving the Terps a 3-0 lead late in the first half.

But the 49ers, who had allowed just six goals entering the nonconference showdown, weren’t quite ready to concede their second loss of the season.

Moments after Stertzer’s goal, 49ers forward Donnie Smith darted up the left end line and curled an 8-yard attempt past a diving Will Swaim.

“Charlotte’s a great team, and they really showed that tonight,” Cirovski said. “They never gave up, and they played hard the entire game.”

Both teams struggled to score after halftime, and good-natured competition devolved into a laundr y list of

“They make everyone else’s job 100 times easier.

Knowing that you have three guys that can go out and score on a nightly basis is huge for us.”

WILL SWAIM

It was wet and humid at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, and yet last night couldn’t have gone much better for the Terrapins field hockey team.

Hosting a Princeton team that was their only blemish on a near-perfect 2010 season, the Terps avenged last year’s 4-2 loss to the Tigers in dominant fashion, scoring four unanswered goals in the first half en route to a 6-2 victory.

“We left Princeton last year with our tails between our legs,” coach Missy Meharg said. “Because it was Princeton off of last year, it gave it a little more importance. … [It’s] always a big game for us.”

The No. 3 Terps (9-1) wasted little time against the Tigers (3-5), using a penalty-corner goal by midfielder Megan Frazer less than four minutes into the contest to take a lead they would never relinquish. They scored three more goals in the first half to take a 4-0 lead into the break.

“The first half was the type of hockey we’d really like to put our signature to,” Meharg said. “A lot of movement off-ball and a lot of twotouch passing, which I thought was exceptional.”

Princeton notched the first score of the second half, but a beautiful backhanded goal by Terps forward Jill Witmer quelled any momentum the Tigers might have gained. Princeton added an additional goal late in the half, but it was too little, too late as the Terps rolled to a four-goal margin.

The offensive performance was one of the Terps’ most impressive efforts all season. The team matched its season-high, singlegame mark with six goals and recorded its best shooting percentage statistics of the season, with six scores coming on just 15 shots.

“We knew that they were the only team to knock us off last year,” said midfielder Jemma Buckley, who

Midfielder Tara Zollinger, background, and the Terps moved to 9-1 this year with a 6-2 win over Princeton last night. GARY CHEN/THE DIAMONDBACK

scored two goals in the game. “To get over this win, because it was kind of a monkey on the back from the Princeton game last year, it was good to come away from a 6-2 win.”

While last year’s loss to Princeton helped the Terps begin a torrid 15game winning streak that culminated with a national championship, the team’s win in last night’s rematch with the Tigers cleared a mental hurdle that could afford them similar late-season success. But with ACC

rival Virginia visiting College Park on Friday, the Terps have little time to savor their victory.

“That would be just wonderful,” Meharg said of the team possibly getting back to the national championship. “But the reality is we have a lot of great teams to play, I know we can be a much better team and hopefully we’ll be the best team we can be by the end of October.” vitale@umdbk.com

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fouls. The 49ers (17 fouls) went down all but swinging, and several nearfights with the Terps broke out in the final 30 minutes.

Even with the sporadic skirmishes, Charlotte found enough open space to hand Swaim his fullest workload of the season. The fifth-year senior, who had waited and watched as his team dominated possession in recent games, finished with a season-high five saves last night.

Those saves proved critical in securing the Terps’ best start in more than a half-centur y. Cirovski’s squad is undefeated through its first 10 games for the first time since 1969, and just as they could for the majority of their games this season, the Terps have their “big three” to thank for that feat.

“They make ever yone else’s job 100 times easier,” Swaim said. “Knowing that you have three guys that can go out and score on a nightly basis is huge for us.” letourneau@umdbk.com

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Edsall says punishment was ‘right’ Tyler, McCree set to return after incident

BY CONOR WALSH Senior staff writer

After an off-campus altercation Sept. 15 left wide receivers Quintin McCree and Ronnie Tyler suspended indefinitely and Tyler with a second-degree assault charge, it was unclear when, or even whether, the two seniors would rejoin the Terrapins football team.

Coach Randy Edsall gave an answer Sunday, announcing that McCree and Tyler, who missed the past two games, would return for Saturday’s game against Towson. Although police did not arrest McCree following the incident, Edsall intimated yesterday he held the two equally responsible.

“I was privy to a lot more information than anybody in this room or anybody on the outside,” Edsall said at his weekly press conference. “I had seen the evidence, watched the evidence, so I had plenty of information, and the punishment that was given out to both of them was right for both young men based on all the information I have.”

While questions about that night’s events remain, McCree and Tyler’s return should bring much-needed depth and experience to a Terps offense that has struggled the past two weeks.

Both players practiced during their suspension and will start against the Tigers.

“I think having Ronnie and Quintin back obviously gives us some more

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Forward Casey Townsend, left, scores the first of three Terps goals during their 3-1 win against No. 12 Charlotte last night.

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‘Big three’ too much for 49ers Townsend, Mullins and Stertzer pitch in to help No. 3 Terps beat No. 12 Charlotte, 3-1

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Staff writer

The Terrapins men’s soccer team knows better than to mess with a good thing.

The No. 3 Terps have leaned heavily on their vaunted three-headed attack against top-tier competition, and the results have been

glowing. With forwards Casey Townsend and Patrick Mullins and midfielder John Stertzer powering their offense, the Terps entered their latest battle having outscored top-25 competition 10-1 this season.

It was no surprise, then, that the Terps again looked toward their dynamic trio to

capture a 3-1 win over No. 12 Charlotte at Ludwig Field last night, their ninth in 10 games.

“They’ve been great,” coach Sasho Cirovski said.

“They lead certainly by example, and they play with a lot of pride. I think people saw them step it up another notch today.”

After the two top-15 squads traded possession in the opening 20 minutes, Mullins darted past his marker and launched a shot just outside the penalty area. The attempt clanged off the goalpost, but Townsend burst through Charlotte’s backline and netted a 15-yard rebound goal.

That the senior notched

his ACC-leading 10th score of the season last night wasn’t a surprise, especially considering the team’s first month of play. Whether they’re shooting or passing, at least one member of what Cirovski calls his “big three” seems to be involved in almost every

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