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Men’s soccer advances to NCAA Tournament quarterfinals after defeating Cal 2-1 Saturday

Vampire Weekend comes to the 9:30 Club this week

SPORTS | PAGE 10

DIVERSIONS | PAGE 7

THE DIAMONDBACK MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008

Man tries to photograph showering student

Task force still lacks CORE chair General education committee unable to work on overhaul

Peeping Tom incident is the second this month in Cumberland Hall restroom BY ADELE HAMPTON

BY MARISSA LANG Staff writer

Terrapin men’s basketball

A committee charged with creating a new general education program for the university is still without a chair, preventing the university from working toward what administrators have called a critical goal. In an attempt to follow a national trend of trading in traditional general education programs for newer, more contemporary methods of study, the university is ditching the current CORE program and trying to adopt a new general education plan. Yet because no task force can function without a chair, the general education review process is at a stand-still until the University Senate can find someone willing to chair the committee. The committee, formally called the General Education Task Force, was created last semester by the strategic plan, a document that outlines the university’s goals and plans for the next decade. The task force members were supposed to be jointly appointed by the provost and the senate. Though it is not uncommon for task forces to

team was embarrassed 75-

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Guard Eric Hayes, center, and the Terp men’s basketball team were throttled by Georgetown on Sunday, just three days after beating No. 6 Michigan State. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

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A female student was showering in a women’s bathroom in Cumberland Hall last week when a man used a cell phone camera to attempt to take a photograph of her, University Police said. The woman was showering at 6 p.m. on Nov. 26 when the incident took place. The man fled down the building’s stairs after the student noticed and yelled at him, according to a flier posted in Cumberland Hall. The man is described by police as wearing a gray jacket with a blue hooded sweatshirt. Residents of Cumberland Hall were troubled by the Peeping Tom incident. “I’ve never thought of this dorm [as] being sketchy,” said Perri Lieberman, a freshman communication major. Wednesday’s Peeping Tom incident was the second one reported in Cumberland Hall this month. At 2:20 p.m. on Nov. 2, a female student noticed a Peeping Tom in a women’s bathroom, and the incident was reported to authorities the next day, according to University Police. Wednesday’s incident is under investigation, and it is not known if it is related to the Nov. 2 occurrence, according to University Police spokesman Paul Dillon.

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99TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 63

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER

NO REAL RIVALRY IN SIGHT

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n Lake Buena Vista, Fla., the

48 by No. 21 Georgetown,

GENERAL EDUCATION TIMELINE

the first meeting between the local

CORE overhaul originally introduced in the strategic plan last semester, with a 2013 deadline for implementation.

teams since the 2001 NCAA tournament. The Terps (4-2) notched their lowest point total since 1995.

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Guard Sean Mosley started for the first time in his Terp career Sunday, but he couldn’t stop Georgetown from dominating the game.

SPORTS | PAGE 10

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Obama may appoint BSOS dean

After criticism from University senators, 2013 deadline was dropped and task force was created. Task Force has yet to start work because it still doesn’t have chair.

GROUNDED BY EAGLES

Edward Montgomery, who worked under Clinton, may return to Labor Dept. BY JEANETTE DER BEDROSIAN Staff writer

Edward Montgomery, dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, has been named the head of a transition team for President-elect Barack Obama (D), an indication he may be asked to return to work for the federal government, experts say. Montgomery is leading the Labor Review Team, a group of advisers who will examine the Department of Labor to identify key issues and problems Obama will need to be familiar with come the Jan. 20 inauguration. “They need to first understand what’s going on in those agencies, and second off what they want these agencies to be doing the day after the inauguration,” said Associate

Dean of BSOS Robert Schwab, who has taken over many of Montgomery’s responsibilities in the college. Among the issues Montgomery is concerned with as the head of the team is minimum wage legislation and occupational safety, Schwab said. Schwab said Montgomery still works on the campus two days a week and keeps in close contact via phone and e-mail on the days he is not in. Montgomery continues to deal with budget decisions and the hiring of new faculty, Schwab said. But whether Montgomery will return to the university as a fulltime faculty member remains to be seen. Montgomery said he was not giving media interviews until the inauguration, and both Schwab and

EDWARD MONTGOMERY BSOS Dean experts say a government job offer is not out of the question. “It’s possible,” Schwab said. “I wouldn’t be surprised. Few people would be surprised if they do offer Ed a position. To be honest, I think they would be fools not to. He would be fabulous. So many of us in the college have tremendous respect for

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Mumbai attacks sadden univ. community BY ANNA KOWALCZYK Staff writer

A 60-hour-long terrorist attack in Mumbai killed 195 people last week, including a Virginia man who was reportedly a former university professor, and shocked the university’s sizable Indian community. The coordinated attacks spanned from Wednesday to Friday and targeted several hotels, a train station and a Jewish outreach center. It remains unclear who is responsible

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for the attacks. Alan Scherr, a Virginia resident who was visiting Mumbai, and his daughter, Naomi, 13, were among the first to be killed in the attack on the Oberoi Hotel. Media reports and a Synchronicity movement website have said Scherr was a former art professor at the university between 1990 and 1996. But members of the art department said they have no memory of Scherr working at the university. “I do not recall Mr. Scherr teaching

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for us,” John Ruppert, the chair of the art department, wrote in an e-mail message. Scherr was traveling with other members of the Synchronicity movement, a transcendental meditation group he had been a member of for several years. Indian students said they were horrified by the attacks, which personally affected many of them. “A lot of students are from Bombay. A lot of our parents are from Bombay,”

Kicker Obi Egekeze’s missed field goal attempt was just one of numerous botched opportunities in the Terps’ 28-21 loss at Boston College on Saturday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

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FEATURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 CLASSIFIED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

DIVERSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . .7 SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

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