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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 99TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 117THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2009
THE DIAMONDBACKUniv. mayadd costly fine artsmaster’sProgram has annualprice tag of $500K
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
The university is considering a master’s pro-gram that will cost about half a million dollars ayear but will only attract about ten studentsevery three years.
Administrators said the Master of Fine Artsdegree in Performance will enable the univer-sity to attract gifted artists from across thenation and take advantage of the Washingtonregion’s growing reputation as one of thenation’s best performing arts areas. They alsopoint out that the program is expected to attractheavy philanthrophic support — Robert andClarice Smith, two of the university’s largestdonors, have already pledged to support it.
But the program’s relatively small cohort forsuch a high cost has some asking questionsabout whether it’s an appropriate use of univer-sity funds during an economic downturn.
“Whenever I see that kind of a price tag forthat few amount of students, I hesitate,” saidundergraduate student senator David Zucker-man. “It looks like a good program if we have themoney for it.”
Zuckerman is a member of the senate execu-tive committee, which voted to send approval ofthe program to the full University Senate earlier
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RHA seeks healthier options in shop Residents complain Leonardtown store should carry food for cooking
BY DANA CETRONEStaff writer
The RHA is pushing Dining Ser-vices to offer healthier foods in theLeonardtown convenience store.
The move, Residence Hall Asso-ciation members said, aims to givestudents living in New and OldLeonardtown convenient, healthyoptions for their meals as an alter-native to dining in Route 1 restau-rants, which are closer to the
apartments than either of the uni-versity’s dining halls. Its two mainrequests were for fresher fruit andingredients students could use tocook their own meals.
“Right now there are only snackfoods, which are unhealthy andyou can’t use them in the kitchen,”said Sam Lengyel, the chair-woman of the RHA committeethat advises Dining Services. “Wewant to put in more produce andcookable foods.”
In addition to fresher fruit, thecommitted listed vegetables,bread, larger quantities of flourand ground beef as some of thefoods that would make the conven-ience store more accessible for stu-dents who want to cook.
“A lot of the complaints are thatnone of it is for people who cookand that it’s basically a glorified 7-11,” said Taylor Cole, a member ofthe committee.
Students said they wish the con-
venience store would offerkitchen-friendly supplies.
“Some of the ingredients are forbaking, and if they had some stuffto season food with or somethingthat I could use to make like amarinade for, that would be prettycool,” sophomore kinesiologymajor Phil Cobb said.
“I mostly cook, I occasionallytreat myself to something a little
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Univ. scientistsdiscover key tonew TB drugsEnzyme could help combatlatest forms of fatal disease
BY JEFF NASHStaff writer
A team of university scientists has cleared amajor scientific hurdle that should lay the foun-dation for the development of new drugs to com-bat tuberculosis, a disease that killed 1.8 millionpeople in 2007.
The team uncovered the structure and func-tion of NAD+ synthetase, an enzyme essentialfor the survival of tuberculosis-causing bacte-ria, that could help scientists develop drugs tofight the deadly disease.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Bio-chemistry Barbara Gerratana led the study,“Regulation of active site coupling in gluta-mine-dependent NAD+ synthetase,” which waspublished on March 8 in Nature Structural &Molecular Biology. Graduate student MelissaResto and Assistant Professor Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc also contributed to the study.
“I am hoping that now with the structure andcharacterization in hand, a drug effectiveagainst latent tuberculosis will be developed,thus contributing to the eradication of this dis-ease that still is one of the world’s majorkillers,” Gerratana wrote in an e-mail.
Gerratana said no current treatments areeffective against the latent form of TB, buttargeting the NAD+ synthetase enzymecould be key to fighting both active andlatent bacteria.
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Members of the Student Power Party break through a banner that reads "Rus-sell Contract" to represent their goal of ending a university contract that buysapparel the group says is made in sweat shops. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Student groups locked outof administration buildingActivists sought Russell Athletics, univ. records
BY MARISSA LANGSenior staff writer
Student activists were lockedout of the Main Administrationbuilding yesterday whileattempting to deliver a publicrecords request to universityPresident Dan Mote.
The Student Power Party andFeminism Without Borders
attempted to deliver a request forthe release of e-mail and commu-nication records between the uni-versity’s director of trademarklicensing, Joe Ebaugh, and Rus-sell Athletics — a universitylicensee that delivers orders foruniversity apparel — yesterdayafternoon after running a lap
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BY MARISSA LANGSenior staff writer
In eighth grade, SGA presiden-tial candidate Malcolm Harris ranfor student body president and lost— to a Slurpee machine.
“The other kid prom-ised a free Slurpeemachine, and I lost andhe won,” said Harris,who leads the StudentPower Party. “I feel likethat’s what’s happeningall over again. I can’tpromise you a Slurpeemachine, but we’re run-ning an issue-basedcampaign and we canget results.”
To Harris, the prom-ises of other presidential candi-dates are like the Slurpee machine— great in theory, but unlikely tomaterialize. Harris promises hisparty will address issues, includ-ing several the other parties’ plat-forms ignore, by grassroots organ-izing and protesting.
Harris, a sophomore govern-
ment and politics and Englishmajor, said his party stands out forits lack of connection to the cur-rent SGA.
“Students are really unsatisfiedwith the SGA right now,” said
Mary Yanik, the StudentPower Party’s Life Sci-ences legislator candi-date. “We know wecould do it better, that’swhy we’re running.”
Unlike its three com-petitors, the StudentPower Party is com-prised mostly of studentswho have little to no SGAexperience, which Har-ris lauds as a necessarychange.
“For years we’vebeen electing the same peopleover and over again,” he said, not-ing that the three other presiden-tial candidates all ran withJonathan Sachs’ Students Partylast year. “We need a new model.”
The new model, Harris said,
MALCOLMHARRIS
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Promising more thana Slurpee machine
Harris calls for ‘new model’ of studentleadership different from current SGA
With his backagainst the wallGary Williams took a long road tobecoming men’s basketball coach,facing adversity at every step
BY MARK SELIGSenior staff writer
Talk to Gary Williams longenough and surely sometopic in the conversationwill cause the 20-year Ter-
rapin coach to reminisce about hiscareer in basketball.
He will link his approach to hisdays as a high school coach in Cam-den, N.J.
He will reference his own play-ing career at the university whendiscussing athletes who supple-ment mediocre talent with knowl-edge of the game.
He will laugh about the fracasesBig East teams regularly engagedin when he used to coach at BostonCollege.
So in the midst of a chaotic sea-son for Williams, which featured averbal spat with the AthleticsDepartment, a bevy of criticismvis-à-vis his recruiting ability and ahome fan-base that was divided insupport, Williams reminisced to aworse time.
When a reporter asked him if
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(Left to right) Scientists Nicole LaRonde-LeBlanc,Melissa Resto and Barbara Gerratana discovered anenzyme that could help combat tuberculosis. JAMES
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Store struggles with spaceunhealthy, but I’m trying tokeep myself in shape by cook-ing my own meals,” he added.“If there was some stuff at theLeonardtown Community Cen-ter, I’d probably go out a littleless.”
Other residents noted thatthe fruit is not fresh and thatthe convenience store doesn’tcater to their needs.
“I think they sell sausagelinks in cans, which I don’tthink anyone buys, so anythingwould be better than that,”said Molly Lazarek, a sopho-more engineering major livingin Leonardtown. “They havesingle pieces of fruit but itnever looks good, just likebananas, never anything likestrawberries.”
Dining Services spokesmanBart Hipple said students
years ago used to want frozenfoods to cook, which hethought meant hamburger pat-ties or hot dogs. But what stu-dents had really wanted wasfrozen dinners. Now it seemsstudents have changed theirminds.
“The issue is that the store isso small that we cannot addthings. We need to cater to thatspecific student population,”Hipple said. “RHA brought theconcern to us, but we need anunderstanding of what it isthey want.”
The committee, the DiningServices Advisory Board, alsorealized the problem of thesize of the store and that thecontent can only be changed,not added to.
“It goes from one extreme tothe other. [The advisory board]is hoping to find the balancebetween students who just
want snacks and students whowant something other thanmac and cheese,” Cole said.
Although the CVS nearRoute 1 has a small grocerysection, the nearest grocerystores to the campus are aShopper’s Warehouse and aGiant, both requiring the use ofbus transportation if studentsdon’t have cars. The lack ofeasy access to groceries makesimproving the conveniencestore’s offering an evengreater priority.
“We cook everything. I wishthere was a grocery storenearer to campus because a lotof kids don’t have cars so it’skind of hard to get there some-times,” said Joanna Shieh, asophomore graphic design andpublic relations major and oneof Lazarek’s roommates.
RHA, from Page 1
New tuberculosis drugscould take years to make
The World Health Organiza-tion estimates that one-third ofthe world’s population are car-riers of latent TB, and 10 per-cent of those people will even-tually display symptoms of thedisease.
In the past, scientists havehad difficulty isolating andblocking the enzyme NAD+.People need NAD+ to survivejust as much as the tuberculosisbacteria does, so developingdrugs was a tricky process.
By unlocking the inner work-ings of the synthetase, whichcreates the NAD+ enzyme,Gerratana anticipates drug de-velopment should be easier.
“We have an enzyme essen-
tial to tuberculosis which maynot be essential in humans, sowe may not be burdened somuch by the specificity of theinhibitors,” Gerratana said.“The most important aspect ofthis is we have structure andmechanistic indication thatcan now be used to design in-hibitor molecules to combatthe disease.”
TB decline in the UnitedStates has slowed in the periodof 2000 to 2008 because ofemerging drug-resistantstrains, according to the Cen-ters for Disease Control andPrevention. The discoverycould lead to drugs that killeven resistant forms of thebacteria.
“Our work opens the doors to
the structure-based develop-ment of drugs targeting this en-zyme,” Gerratana wrote.
Gerratana is collaboratingwith the National Institutes ofHealth to develop drugs to fightTB. While the findings provideoptimism for science’s constantbattle against the disease, Ger-ratana said new drugs wouldtake years to emerge.
“It’s very difficult to saywhen drugs will be developedat this early stage,” Gerratanasaid. “Creating drugs is verydifficult; this is the first step of along process. But without thisdiscovery, no structure-baseddrug development could haveoccurred.”
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Harris won’t placeemphasis on Annapolis
relies on grassroots organ-izing of students — evenpost election — to forceadministrators and politi-cians to pay attention totheir concerns.
“Going door-to-door is theonly way,” Harris said. “Stu-dents have been alienatedfrom each other, from the[Student Government Asso-ciation] and from the univer-sity and I don’t blame them.We don’t need to shake theapathetic people or hit themuntil they care, we just needto talk to them.”
The Student PowerParty’s platform also sin-gles out different issuesthan the other three cam-paigns, including expand-ing the proposed GoodSamaritan Policy to includedrug use, minimizing theamount of sexual assault onthe campus, ending “sweat-shop” labor practices byuniversity contractors andinsuring students’ rightsare not violated by callingfor student conduct discipli-nary hearings to be tapedand made accessible.
“We’re not content to justbe relegated to what theadministration tells us weshould address,” Harrissaid. “Sexual assault does-n’t happen on street cor-ners, it happens in dormsand at house parties ...
[and] Good Samaritanneeds to be extended toinclude drugs. We can’tcompromise on studentsafety.”
But Harris said hisunconventional platformhas also brought on criti-cism from those who don’tfully understand hisphilosophies.
“I’m not going to nation-alize the Stamp,” Harrissaid, smiling. “If peoplehave issues with my poli-tics, I invite them to cometalk to me and ask me aboutthem. I’m not a politician,I’m an organizer.”
And organize he does. Inaddition to co-sponsoring aprotest of Russell Athletic’scontract dealings with theuniversity yesterday, theStudent Power Party’sbright yellow shirts wereall handmade by the candi-
dates and countless otherswho “have nothing to gainby helping out,” Harrissaid, but believe in theircause.
“This is our community,we have to care about whatgoes on for ourselves andeach other,” he said. “Thereare people with the StudentPower Party who are work-ing their asses off, knockingon doors for three hoursstraight because theybelieve in making the uni-versity better for students.That’s the differencebetween [the parties] —these people don’t get tired,not until the job’s done.”
Harris also said thatwhile Annapolis will not bea priority next year, othercandidates who think theycan out-lobby professionalsand ensure the studentvoice is heard are makingSlurpee-like promises.
“Nick Mongelluzzo maylook good in a suit but he’snot going to beat [univer-sity system lobbyist] P.J.Hogan at pushing for text-book reform,” Harris said.“Student power is the ideathat since we’re the major-ity on campus, we shouldhave a say in what happensat this university.”
“Even if it takes 3,000 stu-dents on the mall,” he added.“That’s what we’ll do.”
HARRIS, from Page 1
Two university peers recentlydropped Russell contractsaround McKeldin Mall chanting:“What’s disgusting? Union bust-ing! What’s outrageous? Sweat-shop wages!”
The protest was intended toput pressure on the university’sadministration to join 25 otheruniversities — including theUniversity of North Carolina andthe University of Michigan, twoof the university’s peer institu-tions — and discontinue the con-tract with Russell Athletics, thestudents said. After circling themall, the students then ranthrough 25 streamers to repre-sent each contract that has al-ready been cut, and one long signto represent the university’s con-tract with the corporation.
They then attempted to go in-side the Main Administration
building to deliver their request,but were turned away by twoUniversity Police officers whosaid the building had been “shutdown” and the students needed apermit to continue protesting onor around the building’s steps.
“It’s kind of alarming thatstudents can’t even go into theMain Administration build-ing,” said undergraduate stu-dent senator Josef Parker, whois also running for a legisla-tive position in the SGA withthe Student Power Party.
But student leaders said thisis not the first time they havemet resistance from theadministration — just the firsttime they have been lockedout of the building.
“We have had meetings withJoe Ebaugh and [Mote’s chiefof staff] Sally Koblinsky
before,” Feminism WithoutBorders President Mary Yaniksaid. “But nothing’s reallyhappened since.”
Students have been calling forthe administration to sign ontothe Designated Suppliers Pro-gram which proposes that uni-versities to license most of theirapparel exclusively with workerrights certified factories.
“This isn’t anti-Terp gear,”junior English major and pro-tester Henry Mills said. “Thisis pro-Terp gear done theright way.”
Eventually, after the group dis-persed, two of the students de-cided to go back and try to deliv-er the request again, in additionto mailing a copy to Mote’s officethis week.
PROTEST, from Page 1
Sophomore aerospace engineering major Uzzoma Agbara, left, and other members of the Student PowerParty and Feminism Without Borders participate in a protest yesterday. JAMES HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Holum anticipates support for program from senate and donorsthis month. The senate will con-sider the program on Monday.
Generally, the senate executivecommittee quickly approves newprograms, but senators took amore skeptical look at the pro-gram during their meeting.
“[The cost of the program]means the senate has to scrutinizeit that much more closely,” said
undergraduate student senatorBrad Docherty, who also serves onthe executive committee.
But Phyllis Peres, an associateprovost, said the large amount ofmoney budgeted for the smallprogram is misleading becausesome of the funds will be used to-ward undergraduate projects. Itwill also fund tuition for the gradu-ate students as they work with un-dergraduates in the classroom
and on stage, she said. Both University Senate Chair
Ken Holum and Peres stressedthe program would benefit the en-tire university, not just the theatredepartment because it woulddraw philanthropic support, at-tract highly-acclaimed visitingartists and benefit the universityand the surrounding community.
“It will attract really good peo-ple to the graduate program and
make a big impact on theater inthe D.C. area,” Holum said.
The program, which will pre-pare graduates to write, direct,compose, produce and performtheir own work, is intended tocomplement the existing pro-grams in the theatre department,according to a program proposalsubmitted to the senate.
The graduate students are alsoexpected to serve in teacher as-sistantships and incorporate un-dergraduates into their perform-
ance projects.The program will primarily be
funded by the gift from the Smithfamily, but the provost is also pro-jected to reallocate about $50,000a year to the program.
If the program is a success,Holum expects the program to at-tract other donors. He doesn’t ex-pect the program to cost the uni-versity because programs likethese tend to have a positive im-pact on fundraising.
“It’s the attention and recogni-
tion that the university reallylikes,” said Holum, who expectsthe senate to support the proposal.
But the theatre department isconvinced the smaller programwill create a strong ensemble,while eliminating resources. Theproposal states admitting stu-dents every year would requirehiring at least four more facultymembers in addition to other re-sources.
MASTERS, from Page 1
“If people haveissues with mypolitics, I invitethem to come talkto me and ask meabout them. I’mnot a politician, I’man organizer.”
MALCOLM HARRISSGA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
The days of the novelist arenumbered. Let’s face it, themodern American tends tolive by the motto “I’ll wait
for the movie,” and there’s no changein sight. That said, I was more than abit disappointed when I searchedthrough the catalog of classes andfound no screenwriting programoffered at the university. True, beingan aspiring writer in 2009 is a bit likeselling VCRs, but writing for film isstill a growing market is a greatsafety net.
As I started looking into theabsence of screenwriting opportuni-ties here, I realized my woes are partof a much bigger problem. Farbeyond screenwriting, there’s anenormous gap in film studies at theuniversity. The moving pictures sim-ply aren’t getting the clout theydeserve.
Any of my fellow slackers who
would rather watch movies than doactual work will surely have noticedwhile surfing Testudo that there is nofilm major. A few film classes exist,sure, but the program is broken intoa handful of individual courses thatare divided among a number of otherdepartments, such as English, com-parative literature and history.There’s certainly no obvious path foraspiring film students.
It turns out that there actually wasa film program at the universitymore than 15 years back, but caughtbetween budget cuts and the claim
that keeping up with the cost of mate-rials needed for teaching film pro-duction was simply too expensive,the major was dissolved and thecourses were shifted to other depart-ments. Since its dismantling, the filmprogram seems to have had a num-ber of lobbyists fighting for itsreturn, but to date, none have suc-ceeded in resurrecting the major.
Now I understand that thealmighty economy has cast its plagueupon us all, and budget cuts areinevitable. As usual, the first depart-ments to feel the burn will be the finearts, but the fact that the universityeagerly offers majors in literature,theater, art design and dance beforespending money for teaching filmseems a bit skewed to me. I havenothing against ballerinas and bas-soonists, but if you had to choose amedium for art expression that isgoing to thrive in the near future,
film is the obvious choice. There is certainly a stigma sur-
rounding film studies, and there areno doubt many who envision a “filmstudies program” as a gatheringpoint for potheads and aimless geeks.But the truth is, there are plenty ofbrilliant individuals doing significantacademic study through film. Nearbyuniversities such as the University ofMaryland, Baltimore County andAmerican University both have filmprograms, and this university couldeasily join the pack with a little sup-port.
Is there a part of me that simplywants to get college credit for watch-ing movies? Of course there is. But abigger part of me simply wants to seecredit given where it is due.
Mike DiMarco is a junior Englishmajor. He can be reached [email protected].
Film studies: Bring back that movie magic
If you’re studying business, you probably won’t see yourself as just a uni-versity graduate — you’ll be a proud graduate of the Robert H. SmithSchool of Business. The same is true of you aspiring newspaper hacks —you’ll be proud graduates of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
And if you’re studying government and politics, or geography, or hearing andspeech sciences, well, at least you can still identify as a Terp.
The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is underfunded and riddledwith shortcomings. The college has an alarmingly poor student-faculty ratio,the university’s lowest credit hour-to-state funding ratio andsome of the university’s largest classes. The problems arestarting to drive students toward a common cause — BSOSstudents are walking out of their classes today in protest. Butas Dean Ed Montgomery leaves the college, his replacementshould take this opportunity to build a BSOS identity aroundits academic mission, not just its adversities.
A strong communal identity benefits students most directly— it would foster a cohesive group of academic peers, a better understandingof where the disciplines sit and a clearer sense of academic mission. But astrong college identity also benefits the university. Administrators areincreasingly chasing alumni donations, and more than ever the burden forfundraising is falling directly on individual colleges. You’re not likely todonate to a college that you never felt a part of.
It’s not that Montgomery was bad at his job, but a change of leadership is
the ideal opportunity to reexamine the college’s priorities. And if you don’tbelieve that a talented dean can transform a college’s potential, you just don’tknow your university history. In 1981, the journalism school had its accredita-tion suspended. Then, former-dean Reese Cleghorn stepped from newsreporting into academia, leading the school to national prominence. Manycredit former dean Howard Frank with winning similar successes for thebusiness school.
Although the stories of successful deans might serve as an inspiration forambition, their approaches to building community won’tserve BSOS very well. Cleghorn cut down the size of the jour-nalism school to focus on quality. The business school is well-known for playing the same game — talk to any studentapplying to enter business programs, and just wait to hear thegrumbles about business school advisors who refuse to talk tonon-majors. But raising the walls around BSOS would simplyclose off too many opportunities to too many students —
every single student should have the chance to take a government or psychol-ogy course if they’re interested.
Dan Mote first addressed the campus Aug. 30, 1998. It was 90-degrees andsunny, but before he took the podium, he pulled a new University of Marylandsweatshirt over his shirt and tie. Mote had been appointed president twomonths earlier, but it was at that moment that he became a Terp. Maybe whenthe new dean arrives on campus, he can throw on a BSOS T-shirt.
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istration would stop raiding small mar-ijuana dispensaries in states where itwas legal, as long as they followed statelaw. Sorry, Maryland is not one of thosestates yet. But even President BarackObama’s greatest critics on the econo-my praised him for his new policy.
The beneficiaries were likely ecstat-ic. Old people and sick people werehappy because they could alleviatesome of their worst pain without wor-rying about when their shopkeeperwould get busted and their supplywould disappear, sending prices high-er. And college students were happybecause it has got to be pretty easy forthem to find a doctor to diagnose themwith some fake disease so they couldcarelessly toke up.
Should we hold Obama to his wordthat sick people and their pharma-cists/dealers are now safe? What are
American citizens supposed to think ifObama goes back on what he said? Andhow should Maryland legislators weighthis development as they consider a billto legalize medicinal marijuana?
The answer came last week, and itwasn’t promising. The DEA shockinglyraided a San Francisco cannabis clubafter promising the raids would stop.No arrests were made, but computers,marijuana plants and growing lampswere hauled off the property.
The DEA won’t tell us why the clubwas raided, of course, only claiming itviolated state law. Local governmentssaid the club hadn’t even been on theirradar screen, and were unsure why itwas raided. Shouldn’t state and localgovernments be responsible for stateand local laws?
Matthew Miller, a spokesman at theDepartment of Justice, said that in fact,no new policy was in place. The depart-ment’s funds were simply redistrib-uted. They were diverting money awayfrom busting dispensaries to use to-
ward other needs the DEA believes aremore pressing.
So what if we do legalize medicalmarijuana here in Maryland? Shouldwe rejoice? No. In California, the DEAhas had to make substantial invest-ments to develop their presence on theWest Coast. We’re so close to the de-partment’s headquarters that thatwon’t even be an obstacle.
Many people on the campus supporta strong central government in order todeliver national programs such as uni-versal health care. But issues like me-dicinal marijuana are precisely why Ihave always championed states’ rights.
States are in the ideal position to
judge what’s best for the local popula-tions. California determined marijuanais good medicine, and are consideringlegalizing it completely. Central plan-ners don’t do well planning anything,so of course they’re not going to begood at planning the national drug poli-cy.
Thirty-three states have already im-proved their policies on medical mari-juana, according to the Drug Policy Al-liance Network, and 80 percent ofAmericans support the cause. Manystate legislatures are trying to legalizeit themselves. There are countless sto-ries of how improving medical mari-juana has helped people. Yet, the DEAis perfectly willing to undermine stategovernments for no explainable rea-son.
So much for change we can believein.
Nathan Cohen is a junior economicsand journalism major. He can bereached at [email protected].
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I’ve never been much of a politician.I’ve been obsessed with politics since Iwas in 7th grade, but I’ve never had thetemperament to run for elected office. Itend to be loud and brash, I don’t have alot of tact and I tend to say the truth whena lie or brush-off would be more strategic.Instead, I’ve focused my energy on or-ganizing, on getting people to take activeresponsibility for what happens in theircommunities. I’m running for StudentGovernment Association president withthe Student Power Party not because Iwant to improve my resumé or hobnobwith the governor, but because I think stu-dents need a new representative model.
Student Power is the idea that students,as the majority on the campus, shouldhave a real voice in university decision-making. I’m not content with a simply ad-visory SGA. Current SGA members havefailed to make themselves heard on anumber of issues. The administrationkeeps students in the dark about majordecisions, and the SGA is content to wagtheir fingers and hold meetings. When itwas leaked that the administration wasplanning on bulldozing the Hillock — thelast wooded area on the campus — tohouse departments that would be movedto make room for a shopping center inEast Campus, the SGA unanimouslypassed a resolution opposing it. But pass-ing a resolution and banging a gavel does-n’t stop the bulldozers, and the adminis-tration’s plans for the Hillock are pro-gressing.
The SGA we envision would reach outto students by meeting them where theyare. Holding a couple of office hours aweek in the Student Involvement Suite inthe Stamp Student Union does not countas reaching out to students. The SGAneeds to be out knocking on students’doors, getting us out to put pressure onthe administration and improve our uni-versity. We’re running our campaign theway we want the SGA to work: door-to-door.
The Student Power Party doesn’t havethe deep pockets of other campaigns. Wemade our T-shirts with spray paint andwe coded our website ourselves. We don’thave SGA experience because you can’tthrow out the current SGA if you are thecurrent SGA. What we do have is a bunchof people who believe in what we’redoing. We have tireless volunteers whoaren’t running for office and don’t wantappointed positions. What they want is anew model of student leadership and in-novative policy ideas, and you can’t buyeither of those.
Instead of writing up some platitudesabout sustainability or transparency, wehad hours-long issue meetings duringwhich all of us decided that to fix stu-dents’ problems we needed to fix theSGA’s problems first. I don’t believe thatanyone always has the best ideas — andthe SPP has taken good suggestions fromwherever they come — but we know thatno matter how good our opponents’ goalssound, they won’t be accomplished with-out a new organizational model.
In terms of policy, we want things suchas a comprehensive Good Samaritan pol-icy because it’s never acceptable to com-promise student safety. We want sweat-shop-free Terp gear so students don’thave to choose between supporting ourschool and supporting a living wage forworkers. We want open textbooks and anon-profit campus book exchange be-cause education should never cost morethan it has to.
If you want to know more, go to ourwebsite (www.umdspp.com) and checkout our platform; it’s all there in painstak-ing detail, without the bullshit. We’re notpoliticians, we’re organizers. We’re notsuits, we’re students. If you want a newmodel for your SGA, if you think studentscan do better, vote for Student Powercome Election Day.
Malcolm Harris is one of four candidatesrunning for Student Government Associ-ation president, and a former opinioncolumnist for The Diamondback. He canbe reached at [email protected].
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MALCOLM HARRIS
Born today, you have beenendowed with such bound-less energy and enthusiasmthat you often don’t know
when enough is enough, and youhave been known to stretch thelimits of propriety and possibilityfar beyond their everyday limits.You thrive on new experiences,and your capacity for learningsomething new knows no bounds.When you are faced with some-thing even remotely novel, youwill immerse yourself in it com-pletely, exploring all there is toexplore about it until you comeout the other side utterly familiarwith all its ins and outs and subtlevariations. The more somethingcaptures your imagination, themore you will explore its depths;you have been known to disap-pear for days, weeks, evenmonths, simply because you arepursuing knowledge and expert-ise in a new realm.
There is very little you areashamed of, and in fact you havebeen known to behave in waysthat challenge the world’s percep-tions of what is right and appro-priate simply because you are pur-suing a new kind of enjoyment. Aslong as you are not hurting some-one else, you will charge ahead,unbounded.
Also born on this date are Em-mylou Harris, singer; Linda Hunt,actress; Jack Webb, actor; BuddyEbsen, actor; Alec Guinness, actor;Hans Christian Andersen, authorand storyteller.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.FRIDAY,APRIL 3ARIES (March 21-April 19) —There is no reason for you tothink that you can get awaywith the things that others can-not. You’ll learn that you mustfollow the same rules and regu-lations.TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —The time you spend alone,
whether working or resting,can prove more valuable to youthan usual. It’s a good time forsome reflection and self-analy-sis.GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —Your judgments of another arelikely to be premature andfaulty. It’s time for you to stepback and take another look at acertain situation.CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’sa good time for you to thinkabout improving yourself — inways that are both seen and un-seen. Later, it’ll be importantfor you to put your best foot for-ward.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Youdon’t want to be dealing instereotypes at this time. Judgeeverything for itself, and don’tlet your own preconceived no-tions shape your opinions.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Youmay hear a resounding wow.after you finally do somethingthat others have been waiting tosee for quite a while. You canshatter expectations.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —You’ll have a chance to raise thebar. Be prepared, however: Asthe skill level increases, so willthe expectations of those incharge.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —There’s no need to succumb tonegative opinions and pressure.You can remain confident andsecure, no matter what is saidabout you.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— Like it or not, you’re almostcertain to find your name oncemore a hot topic on thegrapevine. Be sure that youdon’t fuel the fires of gossip bydoing anything untoward.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —While you are dealing withhard-and-fast realities at thistime, someone may come to youwith a request that isn’t basedon anything you can weigh ormeasure.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —You may not understand what ateacher or mentor is really ask-ing of you at this time — but youmust always be willing to put inthe effort that is required. Allwill be clear.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) —Pick up the pace. You’ll havefun challenging those who thinkthey can keep up with you. Re-member, however, that thiscompetition is all in fun.
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tor told Williams to coach soc-cer for a year before they gotsomebody more qualified to fillthe position. Six seasons andone school-record nine-winseason later, Williams finallyleft his men’s soccer post, head-ing to Boston College, again asan assistant to Davis.
“It kept me as a headcoach,” Williams said. “I wasmaking decisions like a headcoach would make at a veryyoung age, so when I finallygot [a head coaching opportu-nity], at least I had experienceas a head coach, even though itwasn’t basketball.”
Williams began climbingthe college coaching ranks,moving from American toBoston College to Ohio State,before he answered the cry forhelp from fledgling Maryland.
THE RECOVERY PROCESSJune 13, 1989: Gary
Williams became the seventhhead coach in the history ofTerrapin men’s basketball.
After the Terps’ previouscoach, Wade, violated NCAArules when dealing withrecruits, Williams was told hisnew team would face impend-ing penalties — probably justa slap on the wrist.
That slap turned out to be asmack, clench and pull. Theprogram was effectively
crippled.While the Terps were
preparing for an ACC Tourna-ment game during Williams’first season as head coach,they learned of the penalties.
No postseason play for twoseasons. No television cover-age for one.
“No Maryland,” is what thatmeant for potential recruits.
The Terps finished the ACCseason in second-to-last place thenext two years, and Williams did-n’t look like the savior many pro-jected him to be.
Though the Terps weren’ton television or in the NCAATournament, point-forwardWalt “The Wizard” Williamswas exciting enough that GaryWilliams could wrangletogether a quality 1992 fresh-man class.
And, building on that suc-cess, the Terps pulled in deco-rated high school players JoeSmith and Keith Booth thenext season. Smith scored 26points in his first game, lead-ing the Terps to an upset over-time victory over Georgetown.
Finally, the wheels wereturning.
“That game really might haveput the program back on the mapnationally,” Booth said. “It wasbig thing in this area becauseGeorgetown was known as thetop team in the area for manyyears before that.”
Smith and Booth’s freshmanseason (‘93-’94) ended in aSweet 16 finish — Williams’first NCAA Tournamentappearance at the university.
The next season, the Terpswon 26 games — a schoolrecord at the time — but onceagain, they were ousted in thethird round.
In the following five sea-sons, players like TerrellStokes, Rodney Elliot, LaronProfit, Obinna Ekezie andSteve Francis came and went.The Terps made the tourna-ment each year, but never gotpast that vaunted Sweet 16.
Skeptics began to viewWilliams as just an averagecoach who would never be ableto make a serious title run.
SWEAT AND TEARSWilliams is an indefatigable
force on the sidelines.Throughout a game he will
pace a country mile on thesideline, causing sweat to seepthrough his sport coat. And if
his team is not playing flaw-lessly, he will embark on pro-fanity-laced tirades directedtowards his players and assis-tant coaches.
This rash routine has chafedat some of his past players,namely John Gilchirst, wholeft the Terps after a chaoticjunior year only to go unse-lected in the NBA Draft.
But some players, such ascurrent guard GreivisVasquez, embrace the toughlove that Williams doles out.
“He’s a tough guy, whonever gives up and alwaystries hard,” Vasquez said. “It’sjust a privilege to play for him.... I mean, if I got to go to warwith him, I would die for himbefore he dies.”
On at least one occasion,before either Gilchrist orVasquez had ever played forthe Terps, Williams’ tough-guy approach worked to per-fection:
In 2001, the Terps finallybroke through the Sweet 16,making it all the way to theFinal Four, where they lost toDuke. The following season,they earned a No. 1-seed in theNCAA Tournament, andtreated that honor with toomuch relaxation.
Two days before the open-ing round game, Williamskicked his team off the prac-tice court in response to whathe thought was poor effort.
“It showed us that, no mat-ter who you are, he’s still incharge,” said Byron Mouton,the starting small forward on
the team.Guard Juan Dixon begged
Williams to give the teamanother shot at practice andtold his teammates to refocus.
The Terps then won sixstraight games to becomeNational Champions. Williamsstood atop a ladder with thechampionship game net in hisright hand and an uncharac-teristically joyous smile plas-tered to his face, as a tearbarely crept out of his eye.
“It was the best moment of myprofessional career,” he said.
SEVEN YEARS A.C.(AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP)
Since the National Champi-onship in 2002, the Terps havebeen on a much-publicizeddecline. But Williams, who haswon a school record 418 gamesfor the university, is dogged indefending his program, point-ing out the merits amid themore talked about faults.
In four out of the seven sea-sons A.C., the Terps havemade the NCAA Tournament,but they have not been a seri-ous contender to return to theFinal Four.
The turnover rate of assis-tant coaches has been fre-netic, thus hampering theteam’s recruiting efforts.
Additionally, brokers fromthe AAU scene do not believeWilliams has adjusted to theincreasingly complicatedrecruiting world.
Going into this past season,the Terps were projected to bea bottom-tier team in the ACC.
And with fan expectationsat an astronomical level andthe Terps in the midst of arut, Williams’ status as headcoach was called into ques-tion this year.
In response, Athletics Direc-tor Deborah Yow, who is widelybelieved to have a tepid rela-tionship with Williams, gaveher coach a vote of confidence.
In meeting certain per-formance-based benchmarksin his contract (reaching theNCAA Tournament and hav-ing players sustain a fixednumber of credit hours),Williams’ contract, whichreportedly averages roughly$2 million per year, will morethan likely extend throughthe 2012-13 season.
“Health is the biggest thing,and I feel very healthy,” the64-year-old Williams said
before the season. “I think youhave to look at this as not a jobbut something you like to do.You make money as a coachnow, but when I started, Imade $6,900.”
As for his legacy, despite allthat Williams has accom-plished, the next few yearsmight help decide what peopleultimately remember aboutthe polarizing Terps coach.
“I want to be rememberedthat we took a program thatwas probably the lowest of anyprogram, that was supposed tobe a decent basketball pro-gram, and made it a nationalchampion,” Williams said.“We had to leapfrog about 200schools to win a nationalchampionship and I’m proudof that.”
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In his 20th season, Williams hasfaced off against the media thisyear on numerous occasions,defending his recruiting andteam. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Williams has been lauded for his coaching job this season, as he hasexceeded preseason expectations. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
this was the toughest seasonmentally, the self-assuredcoach was quick to debunkthat notion.
“No,” Williams said. “Myfirst three years here, due toNCAA sanctions, we couldn’tbe on TV or play in the post-season. That was the tough-est.”
Amid constant racket sur-rounding the program thisseason, Williams led the Terpsto the NCAA Tournament forthe 13th time in his 20 years ascoach of the Terrapins. Fewexpected the tournament run,which ended in the secondround against Memphis. Buteven fewer may haveexpected Williams’ 19 yearsthat preceded it, given the cir-cumstances by which heentered his current outpost.
TERP TURMOILJune 19, 1986: Len Bias is
pronounced dead at LelandMemorial Hospital inRiverdale after a heart attackcaused by cocaine use.
“I remember sitting in myoffice and a friend of mine
from [the university] calledme, and I was like, ‘Get out ofhere,’” Williams said. “It wasunbelievable.”
After successful stints ashead coach at American Uni-versity and Boston College,Williams had just accepted anew job during that offseasonto coach Ohio State.
As he sat in his new office,he watched his alma mater fallapart. Within months, LeftyDriesell, the Terps’ coach for17 seasons, was forced toresign. Williams would haveloved to have helped; he justcouldn’t.
“I took the Ohio State job,and people asked me if I’dleave Ohio State to go to Mary-land once Lefty left,” Williamssaid. “I said, ‘I can’t do that. Ijust took this job three monthsago.’ So I assumed the nextcoach would be there another20 years, and I’d never get thechance to coach them.”
As the Terps struggledunder new coach Bob Wade,the first black head coach inthe ACC, 400 miles away, inColumbus, Ohio, Williams wasthriving. He immediately ledthe Buckeyes to a 20-win sea-
son and a second roundappearance while stockpilingstrong recruiting classes forthe future.
Meanwhile, after three sea-sons at this university, Waderesigned from his job after theNCAA began investigatingrecruiting violations. Accord-ing to a 1989 article in TheWashington Post, the Terpssent out advertisements for anew coach, listing the follow-ing three qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree required,with a master’s degree pre-ferred.Minimum of five yearscoaching experience pre-ferred.Commitment to the aca-demic and athletic develop-ment of student athletesrequired. This time, Williams couldn’t
pass up the opportunity.
BASKETBALL IN BLOODAs a kid growing up in
Collingswood, N.J., Williamsfrequented local blacktopswith his friend Stan Pawlak sothe two could inhale the gameof basketball.
Pawlak, who eventuallyplayed in the Continental Bas-ketball Association, andWilliams, a feisty young pointguard, formed a formidableduo that dominated the otherlocal kids.
So when competition waslagging behind, they foundanother place to play just afew miles away.
“We would hitchhike intothe city of Camden all the timeso we could play against betterplayers,” Pawlak said. “Dur-ing the summertime, wewould just stick out ourthumbs, find a ride and godown and play.”
When it was time to decideon a college, Williams wantedto attend Pennsylvania — ashort drive (or hitchhike)
away, and a place where hecould play with his friendPawlak against strong Big 5basketball competition.
But without the grades toget into the Ivy League school,Williams contemplated goingto Clemson, Pittsburgh, Provi-dence and Maryland. Hisrecruiting visit to this univer-sity — during an NCAA Tour-nament Eastern Regional finalheld at Cole Field House —removed all doubt.
“I walked in; it was the firsttime I had ever seen a gymthat big,” Williams said. “Youknow how you could walk inthe street level there at Coleand look down? I see 14,000people there, and I said,‘That’s where I want to go.’That’s why I came to Mary-land.”
As a pass-first point guard,Williams averaged 4.5 pointsin 74 games at this university,but showed a sense for thegame that belied his averageplay.
“Gary Williams was verykeen and well minded,”Williams’ coach Bud Millikansaid. “He always knew whatwe were trying to do. He wasborn to be a coach.”
After his eligibility expired,Williams spent a fifth yearcompleting an undergrad
degree in marketing and act-ing as an assistant coachunder Tom Davis for theschool’s freshman team.
Williams returned home tocoach high school basketball,and in his first season as thehead man at Woodrow Wilson,his team went 27-0.
Then he followed his men-
tor, Davis, to Lafayette Collegeto become an assistant coach.Problem was, the only moneyleft was the salary for a vacantsoccer coaching position.
So at age 25, a naïveWilliams began coaching soc-cer — a position he admittedly
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SportsWILLIAMS, from Page 1
Williams, shown here at Lafayette College with his mentor Tom Davis, coached soccer for theLeopards, as well as basketball, as a way into a paid position. COURTESY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE
As a player with the Terps, Williams was a scrappy point guardknown for defense and passing. COURTESY OF THE TERRAPIN
Williams fondly remembers his days at Boston College, his firstmarquee job. COURTESY OF BOSTON COLLEGE ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
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“I assumed thenext coach wouldbe [at Maryland]another 20 years,and I’d never getthe chance tocoach them.”
GARY WILLIAMSMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH
Williams worked his way up Division I
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