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HOLDING A LEADMen’s basketball has struggledin second halves of gamesSPORTS | PAGE 10
TAKEN TRIPS UPVendetta thriller takesall the wrong turnsDIVERSIONS | PAGE 7
Athleticsrift makesheadlinesOfficials clash overbasketball recruits
BY MARK SELIGSenior staff writer
A growing unrest between Terrapin men’sbasketball coach Gary Williams and the Athlet-ics Department became public this week afterthe 20th-year Terp coach and Senior AssociateAthletics Director Kathleen Worthingtontraded words about the university’s recentrecruiting issues.
At a standard media availability sessionMonday afternoon, a reporter asked Williamsabout the circumstances of once-Marylandbound recruits Tyree Evans and Gus Gilchrist,who both eventually decided not to play at thisuniversity.
In defense, Williams replied, “It wasn’t my
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House passes stimulus packageBillions could be invested in scientific research, federal financial aid
BY MARISSA LANGStaff writer
The House of Representativespassed a historic $819 billion stim-ulus bill last night that could
bestow $150 billion in new federalfunding to the nation’s publicschools and universities, morethan doubling the Department ofEducation’s current budget.
In a 244-188 vote last night, the
Democrat-controlled Houseapproved stimulus legislation thatincludes an allocation of $39 bil-lion to be spent on public schoolsand universities during the courseof two years — the largest increase
in federal education funding sinceWorld War II — as well as $25 bil-lion for states to spend on “otherhigh-priority needs,” which, state
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Campus art exhibit aboutancient Chinese philosopher
ends today in Stamp
Capturing
Journalist Hou Xinjian looks at his favorite piece in the "Traces ofConfucius" exhibit, a photo of a rice paper drawing of Confucius inthe Colony Ballroom in Stamp Student Union. The exhibit closestoday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/ THE DIAMONDBACK
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
Two millennia after his death, the university is get-ting a first look at Confucius.
Traces of Confucius,” which displays more than 70giant photographic prints of artwork associated withConfucius and Confucian culture, is being presentedto the public for the first time at the university.
The exhibit, a collaboration between the universityand Shandong Pictorial Magazine, contains never-before-seen photographs of ancient Chinese portraits
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SGA to lobbyon behalf oftuition freezeSachs says a student voicein Annapolis is essential
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
SGA President Jonathan Sachs at last night’smeeting stressed the need to lobby the state gov-ernment this semester to maintain the in-statetuition freeze and pass legislation that aims toreduce the cost of textbooks.
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) included the in-statetuition freeze as part of his budget proposal,
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Students carefully walk the icy path toward the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center next to Tyser TowerWednesday. Classes were canceled in the morning due to inclement weather. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Police warn students aboutleaving electronics in carsThough no uptick in thefts has been reportedthis year, Univ. Police say it’s a perennial problem
BY NICK RHODESStaff writer
University Police issued a crimeprevention alert yesterday via e-mailwarning students that leaving elec-tronic devices in their unattendedparked vehicles can lead to theft.
University Police Capt. John Brandtsaid the trend has yet to present itself—there have been only three on-cam-pus incidents so far this month — buthistorically has been a problem. Thealert was sent out as a precautionarywarning, not because there has been arecent string of thefts.
Brandt said in the alert that GPSdevices and other electronic equip-ment left in plain sight are prime tar-
gets for theft. He advises that studentsroll up their windows completely, locktheir doors and be sure to hide allvaluable equipment or remove it fromvehicles entirely. Officials do notguarantee these precautions will alto-gether prevent thefts, but hope it willdecrease drastically if students areconscientious.
Last year, there were 13 reportedthefts from motor vehicles in Januaryand seven in February. The monthlyaverage for 2008 was fewer than five,and while the overall thefts have beendeclining since 2004, the statisticsfrom January and February of 2008were increases from 2007.
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Md. trooper kills bull after it knocksdeputy down
MT. AIRY — Maryland State Police saya trooper shot and killed a bull after itcharged a Carroll County sheriff’s deputyand knocked him down.
A Carroll County Sheriff’s Departmentdeputy and a Maryland State Policetrooper went to the 2500 block of Flag-marsh Road in Mount Airy about 11 a.m.yesterday. Police had received reports ofa loose bull.
Authorities say when police ap-proached the bull, it turned and chargedat the deputy, knocking the officer to theground with its horns.
Then the trooper shot the bull; it diedat the scene.
Police say no one was injured.
Obama dismayed that daughters’classes canceled
WASHINGTON — The commander-in-chief took a friendly poke at Washing-ton’s reaction to the winter storm.
President Barack Obama said after hisdaughters’ school was closed yesterday,“Because of what? Some ice?” His re-marks drew laughs after some more seri-ous talk about the economy.
Obama said his children pointed outthat “in Chicago, school is never can-celed.” He said he’ll have to instill someChicago toughness into Washingtonians.
The Obama daughters attend SidwellFriends School, which was closed yester-day, along with many schools in the re-gion. D.C. Public Schools, however,opened two hours late.
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Q + A
Taking care of stalking problems BYANNAKOWALCZYK
Staff writer
To recognize National StalkingAwareness Month, the Health Center’sSexual Assault Response and Preven-tion Office and SARPP Advocate Officesponsored Stalking Awareness Week.They held information sessions and lec-tures to educate students about therisks and effects of stalking, as well asthe resources available to stalking vic-tims. Coordinator of SARPP AllisonBennett discussed stalking and how itaffects the college community.
Diamondback: How common is stalk-ing, both nationally and at the Universityof Maryland?
Bennett: Nationally, the statistics aresomething like one in 12 women and onein 45 men are being stalked. We don’thave great statistics for our area specifi-cally because it is very underreported. Itis the third most common reason peoplecome to our office.
DBK: What are the most commonmodes of stalking?
Bennett:The most common modes areshowing up and following someone. Cer-tainly, the use of technology is increasing,things like instant message and e-mailare the most common. And then all sortsof things with the phones, such as calling,texting and voice mails.
Eighty-four percent of the stalkers aresomeone you are acquainted with. Usual-ly it’s a partner, ex-partner, ex-husband,ex-wife, a co-worker. It’s so hard to re-search because many times it takes awhile to realize it’s a problem.
DBK: What are five steps studentsshould take to protect themselves?
Bennett: The first step would be to beaware of what you are comfortable withand recognizing when you are uncom-fortable with the level of contact, know-ing if you are being creeped out.
The second step would be to, if you feel
uncomfortable, to be assertive in statinghow you feel and what you want to bedone.
The third step would be to utilize theprivacy settings on Facebook, Myspaceand other social networking sites. Youcan now tailor your privacy settings to fityour needs and what you feel comfort-able with other people knowing.
The fourth thing would just be to edu-cate yourself about that line betweenwhen we’re joking about Facebook stalk-ing and understanding what it is really.So, understanding the legal guidelines,what is appropriate and what is not, whatis harassing, etc.
The fifth thing would be, if you feel likethere is a problem, to use the servicesavailable on campus. In some ways, thisis a really protected area. Certainly, ouroffice [SARPP] is a great resource. TheOffice of Information Technology canalso be a great help. They can help to getproof of stalking, whether it is e-mail, In-stant Messaging or wiping things clean.They can also help with changing pass-words, everything with the tech side.
DBK: How can students protect theirclassmates and be aware of the situationto help others?
Bennett: I think that being aware ofwhat is appropriate and what is not re-garding stalking and relationships. If younotice a behavior change in a friend oryour friend is talking about being fearful,sort of those red flags, take it seriously.Offer your support and help them to getconnected to other resources. I think it’seasy for people to want to minimize whatis happening, but it is important to listento those red flags so you can stop thingsearlier before they get out of control.
DBK: What is the university doing tostop stalking?
Bennett: I think putting resourcesinto programs like ours is important sowe can do education efforts such asStalking Awareness Week so students
can understand what is appropriate forthemselves and others. And then otherprograms like OIT and Student Con-duct are really helpful.
DBK: Are there any legal conse-quences to stalking, and what are they?
Bennett: There are laws againststalking. I think in Maryland they aremostly misdemeanors, but there aresteps people can put in place to protectthemselves. If you are feeling harassed,you can file for a protective order, whatwe know as a restraining order. If some-one violates this order, it can get moreserious. The misdemeanor usuallycomes with a fine or jail time.
In terms of what Student Conduct cando on campus, they can put things inplace such as requiring someone to
change classes so they have no contactwith another person, all the way up tosuspension.
DBK: If students remember one pieceof advice from this interview or theevents tonight, what would you wantthem to remember?
Bennett: I think, based on the researchthey have done on who stalkers are, it’sreally not the victim’s fault. It’s not be-cause of behaviors the victim has done;it’s really because of the behaviors of thestalker. So, taking advantages of the re-sources is really important because thenature of stalking can make you feel real-ly isolated. So, connecting yourself to theresources is really important.
Allison Bennett is organizing the university’s National Stalking Awareness Weekprogram. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
The Health Center’s Allison Bennett discusses what to do when things get creepy
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which he unveiled last Wednesday, but thegeneral assembly can cut spending items.In a year when the state faces a $2 billiondeficit, Sachs said the freeze is not guaran-teed to survive.
“Just because it’s in the budget doesn’tmean it’s a done deal,” he said.
The textbook bill would require pub-lishers to list the content added in newtextbook editions to universities, amongother regulations. The bill notes the cost oftextbooks grew 186 percent between 1986and 2004.
Owing to the limited state budget, Sachs
said most SGA lobbying will be restrictedto these two issues.
Sachs said he plans to be in Annapolis atleast three days a week this semester, butadded that involving other students in thelobbying process is “crucial” to the suc-cess of both measures.
Starting Feb. 9, the SGA will organizelobbying trips to Annapolis every monthto keep students involved, Sachs said.
Additionally, the SGA will use $12,000of unallocated funds to offer grants to stu-dent groups who want to lobby in Annapo-lis, Sachs said.
Sachs said he had already talked to a“few” groups about the money, but de-
clined to name which ones because thegrant process has not been finalized. Thegrants could be used in a number of ways,including paying for speakers and trans-portation, as long as the groups gear themoney toward lobbying, Sachs said.
Student lobbying can affect the actionsof the legislature, according to Ross Stern,the university’s lobbyist.
“I think it has a strong impact,” he said.“I think legislators do listen to students. Ithink they’re always impressed when stu-dents take the time to go down there.”
The SGA is also coaxing students to signletters asking state representatives to sup-port the tuition freeze and textbook bill.
Since the campaign started five daysago, the SGA has collected more than1,000 textbook letters and about 200 tu-ition freeze letters, Sachs said.
The SGA is asking students to includetheir home addresses on the letters, so theycan be delivered to the state representa-tives from their districts, Sachs said. Theidea is to show representatives from dis-tricts across Maryland – not just those rep-resenting College Park – that the tuitionfreeze matters to their constituents as well.
“If we can put stacks of letters on everyrepresentatives’ desk, they’re not going tobe able to ignore us,” Governmental Af-fairs Committee Chair Nick Mongelluzzo
said at the meeting.Mongelluzzo said about 50 students had
expressed interest in going to Annapolisduring the time he spent collecting signedletters.
“I think Annapolis is one of the manythings on students’ plates right now,” hesaid. “Our presence there is going to befelt whether it’s physical or on paper.”
Still, it is important for students to makethe trip to Annapolis in person, said stateSen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel andPrince George’s).
“The squeaky wheel gets the grease,”he said. “Typically the SGA really takesthe lead, as it should, but leaders need fol-lowers. If we had 1,000 students downhere lobbying, we’d have a lot more helpfor the university than we do.”
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Due to an editing error, an inside head-line Tuesday incorrectly classified thereason landlord James Kane owes $90to the City of College Park. The money isfor a county occupancy permit.
Due to a reporting error, a story yester-day incorrectly stated the date of a floodcaused by a pipe that burst in a fore-closed home in College Park. The floodwas in January.
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Brandt said there are very fewtimes when statistics reveal atrue pattern, but cites theft fromvehicles to be one of those rarecases.
“We know what’s going on,”Brandt said. “The statistics arethere, they’re real and don’t lie.”
He said the alert is anattempt to “get ahead of this”and give students the power toprevent the trend from continu-ing. He reiterated the warningin the alert saying studentsshould not only take down theGPS windshield mount, but alsoclean off the mark left by thesuction cup ring so as not toleave any trace of the GPS.
University Police spokesmanPaul Dillon said in addition toinforming students, UniversityPolice have already startedmore extensive patrols of park-ing lots.
“We’d rather prevent crimesbefore they happen,” Dillonsaid.
Brandt also said that officers
have been instructed to lookinside cars more frequently andwrite down license plate num-bers of cars with money, elec-tronics and other valuables outin the open. They then will findthe owner of the car’s addressand send them a letter warningthem of the dangers of theft withspecific details of what the offi-cer observed. This program wasstarted last May, but officers arereally concentrating on it thistime of year, he said.
Officers will be spendingmore time in parking lots tryingto identify irregular activity inan effort to keep students’ valu-ables safe, Brandt said. Buteven with increased policeactivity, he says it’s up to stu-dents to be vigilant and usecommon sense.
“Everyone out there needs toknow we’re here, but we don’tsee everything,” Brandt said.“Bad guys looking to steal fromcars look a lot like studentsgoing to their cars.”
Federal aid to state could benefit higher education
officials say, could include education.“[The stimulus bill] is obviously very
good for college students,” said State Sen.Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel andPrince George’s), who represents CollegePark. “It provides a significant amount ofmoney to the state that I would hope can beused to improve the university’s budget forthe coming year.”
The stimulus measures include billionsof dollars for scientific research funding,university facilities and construction, taxcredits for college expenses, an expansionof federal work study and need-based stu-dent financial aid.
Included in the funds are $3 billion set togo toward the National Science Foundation,two-thirds of which would be set aside forexpanding science and engineering jobs andopportunities and $300 million in grants forconstruction of research buildings at univer-sities. The research provision makes it morelikely the university can benefit from thepackage, university advocates said.
Rosapepe, a strong advocate of highereducation, gushed over the legislation,adding that the language in the bill specifiesthat the funding should also be used to holddown tuition and protect the universityfrom budgetary cutbacks.
“I’m very hopeful that this will pass [inthe Senate],” he said. “And I’m pushingvery hard to make sure that some signifi-
cant amount of that money goes toward theUniversity of Maryland.”
Not a single Republican member of theHouse voted to pass the legislation. ManyRepublicans have criticized the stimuluspackage by saying the measure won’t helpthe economy fast enough and will saddlethe government with long-term, budget-wrecking commitments.
One such commitment that critics cite isthe proposed increase in funding for need-based student financial aid. The bill woulddouble spending on Pell grants, which helplow-income students pay for college. If ap-proved, the maximum Pell Grant awardwould be raised by $500 for the next aca-demic year. The increase is unprecedentedduring economic downturns — Pell Grantfunding was cut during the 1980 and 1981 re-cessions because Congress failed to author-ize enough money for student financial aid.
The bill would also provide $490 millionmore for the federal work study program andincludes a $2,500 tax credit for college ex-penses, including tuition and textbook costs— a stipulation that lawmakers say wouldprimarily benefit middle-class families.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), a university alumnus who representsCollege Park, said in a statement that theexpansion of the Pell Grant would providefinancial assistance more than 89,000 stu-dents in Maryland alone, and an additional53,000 students stand to benefit from thetax credit, helping them “stay in college de-
spite these tough times.”But ultimately, students are not the only
ones who stand to benefit from the legisla-tion. The package also sets aside money forthe state to limit budget cuts — a necessaryhelp to a state budget that includes an ex-tension of the in-state tuition freeze for afourth straight year.
“The states don’t have the luxury that thefederal government does of printingmoney,” said Shaun Adamec, a spokesmanfor Gov. Martin O’Malley (D). “With thisstimulus legislation, we’ll be able to main-tain funding programs that we would if theeconomy was doing better... and a signifi-cant chunk of which would specifically gotowards education.”
The Senate is expected to debate thestimulus measures next week. Its version ofthe bill contains similar programs, but gen-erally with less money funding them.
“The university stands to benefit great-ly from this, particularly in terms of re-search funding and student aid,” said RaeGrad, the university’s federal lobbyist.“We’re throwing all of our support behindthis legislation.”
The university will be joined by the gov-ernor’s office, who said about $56 million incuts are now being delayed in hopes thatthey will not be necessary with the passageof the stimulus legislation.
The Associated Press contributed to this re-port. [email protected]
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associated with Confucius. The photo-graphs have been stored in Chinesemuseums for years in fear of damagingthe delicate silk of the paintings andwill go back into storage after theexhibit closes today in the Colony Ball-room of the Stamp Student Union.
“It’s very important for Americansand Chinese to understand each otherand get along,” entomology professorMichael Ma said. “This is a goodmedium to educate our students andsociety.”
Ma worked with Hou Xinjian, one ofthe top Chinese photojournalists on theexhibit. Ma said Hou wants his photo-graphs to promote Chinese culture inthe United States.
The exhibit includes photographs ofthe orginal genealogies of Confucius’family, tomb and burial grounds, as wellas prints of wooden blocks commis-sioned by three different Ming dynastyemperors that tell Confucius’ story.
Universities in England, Japan andSingapore all attempted to get the pho-tos displayed on their campuses. Butuniversity President Dan Mote’s rela-tionships with Chinese governmentofficials helped the exhibit make itsway here, Ma said.
“Without [Mote’s] relationship [withthe Chinese government], we wouldnot have gotten them here,” Ma said ofthe photographs.
Ma, who has been at the universityfor more than 30 years, was workingon an unrelated project in China whenhe was introduced to Hou, who hadalready started photographing Confu-cius-related subjects and was display-ing smaller exhibits of his work beforethe two met.
Two years ago, the university part-nered with Hou to display his photog-raphy after he took photos of the newlyunearthed portraits.
Students, faculty and people fromoutside the university have been com-ing to view the exhibit at a constantpace, Ma said.
The portraits have been particularlypopular, Ma said. He pointed to themas great examples of Ming Dynasty art.The Ming emperors loved Confuciusand his family, giving them expensivegifts and portraits, which survive as
rare artifacts in the exhibit. Confuciuswas so beloved that emperors allowedhim to use golden dragon seals, whichare the traditional symbol of the Chi-nese imperial family.
The exhibit will be loaned to local col-leges and universities across the coun-try for free and stored on the campusafter the exhibit is taken down tonight.Ma expects the non-profit exhibit totravel far as its photographer has to pro-mote a strong relationship between theUnited States and China.
After bringing photos of China to theUnited States, Hou is planning to dothe opposite. He is working on a bookof photos of the United States to bereleased in China. Hou took portraitsof Mote before running outside of theUnion to capture pictures of the snow.He has already visited the GrandCanyon and the monuments in Wash-ington.
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Cameras in Eppleygenerate privacyconcerns for someCameras intended to help studentsplan; many dismiss privacy issues
BY ANNA KOWALCZYKStaff writer
Some students haveexpressed privacy concernsabout two cameras installedin the Eppley RecreationCenter.
The cameras, which wereinstalled over the summer,are intended to give studentsthe opportunity tocheck the avail-ability of machinesat the ERC beforethey leave theirrooms, accordingto Brent Flynn,associate directorof Campus Recre-ation Services.
“I don’t like theidea of it,” saidsophomore dietet-ics major MichelleVogt. “It’s toocreepy. Besides,the gym hasenough machinesthat even if you gowhen it’s crowded,you can still exer-cise in some waywhile you wait forfive minutes to getthe machine youwant.”
Flynn said recreation serv-ices hadn’t received anycomplaints about the cam-eras and added that CRSmade sure the resolution onthe website was low toensure student privacy.
The two cameras cost $400each and were installed as atest. Their effectiveness willbe evaluated this summer.So far, Flynn said, about 550people have visited the page,which is linked off the recre-ation services home page,per month.
“There has been a goodresponse so far,” said Flynn.“We’ll see if people like anduse the cameras to determineif we should put cameras inother facilities.”
Many students are unawarethe cameras exist, and somewere unconcerned aboutpotential privacy issues.
“I didn’t even know aboutthe cameras,” said freshmankinesiology major AshleyLessans. “I personally hategoing to the gym when it’ssuper-crowded. I would liketo know when it is so I can go
at a different time,but I don’t know howto access the video.”
“I don’t think any-one is really going towatch people workout [online], so I haveno problem with it,”Lessans added.
“I feel like theyshould tell gym-goersif there are going tobe cameras in thegym, but I could careless,” said freshmaneducation majorAlexandra Post. “Idon’t feel like peopleare watching me workout.”
Other students feltthe cameras were awaste of the univer-sity’s money.
“The universityreally shouldn’t be throwingmoney at unnecessary thingslike cameras in the gym,”said freshman English majorAllie Edwards.
Freshman psychologymajor Alissa Mahler alsosees no need for the cameras.
“It seems like a waste ofmoney, and I’ve never had towait for a machine,” she said.“I think they should use themoney for the cameras onsomething more useful andpractical.”
Some students recom-mended camera-free zones ora listing of the number of freemachines online to help pro-tect student privacy while stillgranting the same services.
Police will increasepatrols in parking lotsALERT, from Page 1
Barry Kagan, an Athletics Department employee, looks at the “Traces of Confucius” exhibit during his break on Tuesday. The exhibit is ondisplay in the Colony Ballroom in the Stamp Student Union until Thursday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Professor Michael Ma explains the meaning of different parts of the "Traces of Confucius"exhibit in the Colony Ballroom in Stamp Student Union. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
“I don’tthinkanyone isreally goingto watchpeoplework out[online], soI have noproblemwith it.”
ASHLEYLESSANSFRESMAN KINESIOLOGYMAJOR
China ties helped land exhibit
“It’s very important forAmericans and Chineseto understand eachother and get along.”
MICHAEL MAENTOMOLOGY PROFESSOR
When I first arrived at Col-lege Park, every time Ispoke to my father on thephone, he pestered me
with the same question:“Are your professors too liberal?” he’d
ask. “Are they brainwashing you?”“No, Dad,” I’d answer, exasperated.
“They’re very evenhanded.” Of course, that was a lie. Virtually
every professor I’ve had is liberal, andlast semester, they all drank the ObamaKool-Aid. Now the economics faculty ismulling over the benefits of an $800 bil-lion stimulus package, and they can’t getover the sugar high.
You’d think that there would be somediversity of thought on a campus thatprides itself on diversity, yet it’s not so inour economics department. In one of thelargest departments on the campus, Icouldn’t find a single professor whopreaches the Austrian theory of econom-ics. To put it bluntly, the Austrian schoolteaches that no matter how much money
government spends or what programs itsets up, it will only make things worse.
Professor Howard Baetjer, a TowsonUniversity free-market economist, saidhe has a problem with the label “Austrianeconomist” because it implies a fringegroup of ideologues. He said schoolsneed more professors with an apprecia-tion for free-market ideas.
And he’s right; the Austrians are theonly ones who predicted the economicmess we’re in today. The founders of thatschool of thought immigrated from Aus-tria to the United States with the beliefthat their government was too involvedin the economy. Unfortunately, few still
see their genius.“It’s an extreme theory,” said associate
professor John Shea, a macroeconomistat the university. “I don’t think anyonewho supports any ideological extreme [ispresent in our department].”
Shea said the university’s economistsare practical, believing they should “letthe data tell us the answers.” But main-stream economists don’t have the predic-tive foresight the Austrians do.
According to Mark Thornton, a seniorfellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institutein Auburn, Ala., they’ve been discussingthe housing bubble since 2002. Thorntonfirst wrote about the bubble in 2004.
“The existence of a bubble impliesthere will be a burst,” Thornton told me.“I think when confronted with the crisis,mainstream economists offered more ofthe same. They’re arguing that in orderto correct that, we should get even moreinflation and go into more debt.”
And that’s right. Economists like thoseat this university offered charts and
equations to lawmakers, telling them tospend more money to fix the problems.Hundreds of billions of dollars later, it’sno surprise their recommendations onlymade the economy worse.
The Austrians believe that no econom-ic problem can be solved by central plan-ning, not through a Federal Reserve, notthrough taxes and not through regula-tions. In my classes, I’ve learned almostnothing about the business cycle andnothing of the debate surrounding gov-ernment intervention and socialism.
Thornton said that was unfortunate forus.
No grand math equation will fix thespending mistakes of 300 million Ameri-cans. We can only hope the economicsdepartment realizes that, and finallystarts teaching us some real tools forsolving economic problems.
Nathan Cohen is a junior economicsand journalism major. He can bereached at [email protected].
Economics: Less learning from lefties
The Purple Line is an enormous project in every sense. It will cost more than$1.5 billion by the time it’s completed and will transform the university’s re-lationship with surrounding areas. The many potential benefits of the projectare well-documented, both here and elsewhere.
The immensity of the project will transform the campus, and the specifics of howthe campus is integrated into the Metro system matter. These decisions will impactthe entire university community for decades, and they are deci-sions that cannot be made properly without being fully debated bythe full range of stakeholders. Despite widespread opposition, lastmonth the administration officially endorsed the Preinkert Drivealignment. Unfortunately, both the reasoning and process behindthe decision remain unsatisfactory.
The administration has stubbornly resisted the Campus Drivealignment from the get-go, scrambling for excuses rather thanweighing the relative merits of proposed options. The administration has painteddoomsday scenarios of students pancaked by speeding trains. It has predicted 10-foot-high walls bisecting the campus — everything but the barbed-wire topping. It has ar-gued that the Preinkert Drive alignment will better serve the campus as it will be in 50years, if not as it is now. But despite the studies conducted and the many presentationsgiven, the administration has not yet compellingly explained why that would be so.
Most recently, the administration has switched the focus of its objections, arguingtrains will interfere with the measurements of sensitive scientific equipment. As withearlier concerns for safety and efficiency, the worry is not without merit, as hundredsof millions of dollars in research grants are at risk. But yet again, the administration’sargument, though based on a legitimate concern, falls flat.
The problem with the argument is that interference is a concern with either pro-
posed alignment. Colin Phillips, a professor of linguistics, points out that the researchhe and others conduct in Marie Mount Hall would be virtually impossible if trains arerunning along Preinkert Drive. The linguistics department is one of only several re-search programs worldwide equipped to use magnetoencephalography, an advancedbrain-imaging technique. The machine, which cost millions of dollars, was designedand built in collaboration with a Japanese company. It uses coils cooled by liquid ni-
trogen to a few degrees above absolute zero in order to measurethe incredibly small magnetic fields generated by the brain’s elec-trical activity, and is housed in a five-ton box literally built into theframe of the building in order to minimize vibrations. It should beno surprise that Phillips says relocating the machinery would like-ly cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and might take years.
At the end of the day, it’s possible that the administration is right.It is possible that the Campus Drive alignment will (no pun in-
tended) derail plans for future research planned in the immediate vicinity of theUnion. But time and again, Phillips evaluated potential options on the same terms.“The details matter,” he said. And that’s exactly what the administration has failed toprovide. The administration has yet to come out with a clear and compelling argu-ment that the Campus Drive alignment will have the most unmitigatable negative im-pact on the broadest range of research. If the administration is correct in that belief, itmust present its evidence publicly, and in a way that the average student can under-stand. Administrators have demonstrated an admirably deep concern for the future ofthe campus. Their position may just be right, but if so, the Residence Hall Association,the Student Government Association, the Graduate Student Government, this news-paper and tenured professors don’t get it.
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We’ve all noticed the growingcosts students face: thelengthy textbook receipts,the rising cost of living, the
out-of-state tuition increases. I thoughtthe worst part was Chipotle’s recentprice increases (really, $3 for chips andguacamole?). But a recent study by DeltaProject on Postsecondary EducationCosts, Productivity, and Accountabilitysuggests that this isn’t even close to theworst part. It turns out that while we’repaying more for tuition, proportionallyschools are spending less on us. We’re ef-fectively getting less bang for our buck(kind of like how the burritos seem tohave gotten smaller since Chipotle raisedthe prices).
While our governor wants in-state tu-ition to stay stable for a fourth straightyear, public research institutions (likethis university) had the highest tuition in-creases of any category (29.8 percent
from 2002 to 2006, for those of you wholike numbers), but these schools had onlyincreased spending per full-time studentby 2.5 percent. So, basically, what they’retelling us is that we’re paying more andgetting less per dollar. I don’t know aboutyou, but that kind of ticks me off.
The reason for the proportional differ-ence (as most of us have heard before) isthat the increase in tuition doesn’t bal-ance the cuts from the state. What they’retelling us is, “It’s not our fault. Take it upwith the governor.” That might be true,but it turns out that as spending on stu-dents (defined as the cost of instruction,student services and a portion of spend-ing on operations, support and mainte-nance) has decreased, a lot of that extracash we’re dishing out was spent on ad-ministrative costs. OK, I understandabout the budget cuts and needing morecash, but the least they could have donewas spend that money on us students.
What bothers me more than the num-bers is that during this whole mess, we’vebeen told we’re paying more so that theuniversity can keep up its quality, rank-ing, etc. How is spending less on studentsgoing to improve the quality of anything?How can we be expected to take up thegovernment’s slack and not even be toldwhere that money is going? Administra-tive costs — what does that even mean?
The report concludes by claiming thatwe “are not going to get the performancewe need in higher education without bet-ter strategic financial decision-making,
by state legislatures as well as within in-stitutions, to invest increasingly scarcediscretionary resources in essential pri-orities.”
So here’s the solution: Find out wherethe money is going, and tell people. Themore we know, the more power we have.The university budget is a public docu-ment (where do you think The Diamond-back gets its information on faculty andstaff compensation every year?), so let’smake it public. If we make it our busi-ness to know what university PresidentDan Mote is doing with our money, he’llbe a lot more careful with it. We can’t justblindly trust that the system works:We’re paying taxes and tuition, so wehave every right to demand that ourmoney be spent responsibly.
Lida Zlatic is a senior art history andclassics major. She can be reached [email protected].
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NATHANCOHEN
I am still a die-hard Terrapin basketballfan. Therefore, I still loathe Terps coachGary Williams. I did two years ago when Iwrote a similar column as an undergradu-ate, and my hatred has only increasedsince. In fact, it may have peaked after thisSunday’s nationally televised embarrass-ment at Duke. Watching lowly Boston Col-lege pick us apart last night in the secondhalf, I don’t think it can get much worse.
I believe I speak for many students andalumni when I say, “Gary, you have donegreat things for this program in the dis-tant past, but enough is enough.” We allhave to ask, “What have you done for melately?” I continue to be embarrassed byignorant Terp fans proclaiming their lovefor our glorified coach based on cluelessoptimism for an annually underachievingteam. I still get nauseous when Williamscomes out of the locker room tunnel,pumps his fist and the crowd goes crazy.What, or whom, is he pumping to? Is he re-ally still pumping because he knows at theend of a big game he won’t have anotherchance to throw a victory pump and is get-ting it out of his system in order to meetsome sort of seasonal quota? But I digress.In the following analysis, I will AGAINprove that Williams is the foundation forthis team’s mediocrity.
First off, I’d like to make it clear I’m analumnus. I attended the university inyears following the national champi-onship (the Mike Jones era) with high ex-pectations for the four years I would at-tend. Other than a fluke Atlantic CoastConference Tournament Championshipduring my freshman year, thanks entirelyto John Gilchrist, the Terrapin men’s bas-ketball program has shown me nothing inthe past seven years. Since 2003, the pro-gram has been a complete and utter fail-ure. We have become a lock for the Na-tional Invitation Tournament year afteryear. I can’t even wear my Maryland bas-ketball shorts or jersey in a game of recball without someone asking me, “Man,what happened to that team? Didn’t theyused to be good?”
Should I even bother bringing upWilliams’ impeccable recruiting resuméagain? A rational person would believethat a national championship would helpout a team’s recruiting tactics for the fu-ture. However, the recruits Williams hasattracted lately are second- or third-tierACC caliber, largely due to his refusal topersonally travel on recruiting trips (thisfact has been well documented). And forthose who have heard this is due to anACC low-recruiting budget, that is hardlyan excuse; most of the top-tier recruits areplaying less than an hour’s drive awayfrom College Park. The Baltimore-D.C.metro area is a goldmine for blue-chip Di-vision I basketball recruits, and Williamshas proven for far too long that he cannotconvince any of them to play for him.
Gary, if you are reading this, I have justone suggestion: Please bow out gracefully.You can take an administrative position,we will even build a statue to you for youraccomplishments, but your coaching daysmust cease. Furiously yelling at the benchfor mistakes players in the game are mak-ing, your inability to find a legitimate bigman and your annual wasting of scholar-ships on ACC garbage while letting localblue-chippers slip through your fingershas gone far enough.
For those of you who believe Williamsis capable of turning this ship around,keep dreaming. One national champi-onship seven years ago, when Williamscaught lightning in a bottle with Dixon,Blake, Wilcox, Baxter, etc., does not createa lifelong leash. And to Athletics DirectorDebbie Yow, you need to look at this as abusiness situation: The program hasturned into an absolute embarrassment,and Gary has proven he cannot do his jobeffectively anymore. He needs to go now.
I have reaffirmed why Williams pumpshis fist — he is still just that proud of him-self for conning the Athletics Departmentinto keeping him around.
Jeremy Cohen is a university alumnusand can be reached [email protected].
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Born today, you tend to pro-ceed through each andevery day with a certainlevel of care and caution,
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You know how to make money,and you know how to makemoney work for you. You’re notthe kind to leave your financial fu-ture to chance, and for this reasonexpect to amass a fortune onlyvery slowly. You’re not one whoshould ever expect a sudden wind-fall.
Also born on this date are:Oprah Winfrey,TV personality;AnnJillian, actress; Katharine Ross, ac-tress; W.C. Fields, actor; Tom Sell-eck, actor; Paddy Chayefsky, play-wright.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
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BY ZACHARY HERRMANNSenior staff writer
For all its misguided, bullheadedgusto, Taken has enough promisingloose seams to almost qualify as aninteresting mess. That’s hardly anaccomplishment, but at a time ofyear when quality is tough to findat most movie theaters, a missedopportunity is better than nothingat all.
Instead of a hilariously awfuland ultimately dull action dud —you know you’re in trouble withzingers like, “I will tear down theEiffel Tower if I have to” — the LucBesson-penned action flick couldhave settled on one of its two sorelyignored subtexts: a satire on Amer-ican vigilante justice (Obama ornot, it’s still timely) or a riff on afather’s fear of his daughter’ssexuality.
Besson (best known for writingand directing The Professional andThe Fifth Element) has long sinceexpired in cinematic relevance inFrance or the United States. Along
with co-writer Robert MarkKamen (Transporter 2), the Frenchfilmmaker never capitalizes on theconstant flow of absurdity in thescript.
After so many dead bodies thudagainst the floor (quite a few for aPG-13 rating), all you can really dois sit back and chuckle.
The plot is simple and falls justshort of being oh-so-bad-it’s-good.Against better judgment, retiredgovernment agent Bryan Mills(Liam Neeson, The Chronicles ofNarnia: Prince Caspian, slippingin and out of his native Irishaccent) allows his teenage daugh-ter, Kim, (Maggie Grace, The JaneAusten Book Club) to travel aroundParis with a friend.
Within hours of her arrival, Kimand her friend are abducted by aviolent gang of men in black. Millsis on the phone when it happens,and his professional composurejust can’t be taken seriously. Oncehe sends the “data” to a friend inhis old line of work, we learn in amatter of minutes the girls have
been abducted by Albanian sextraffickers.
The real fun begins once Millsarrives in Paris, leaving a bodycount in his path which must tallysomewhere around 30 (mysteri-ously, it never catches up to him). Ifthe film had been authored solelyby Americans, Taken would beeasy enough to dismiss as the sortof globe-trotting vendetta schlockwe see all too frequently on the bigscreen. But the foreign perspectiveforces us to consider Mills’ actionsfrom the outside.
Ultimately, it is the Frenchauthorities who prove corrupt andtreacherous, and the American vig-ilante — a poorly drawn descen-dant of Ethan Edwards of TheSearchers — whose actions arealways 100 percent defensible.Mills can murder one man afteranother without any pause formorality. He even slows down longenough to enjoy torturing one par-ticularly unlucky individual in arigged-up electric chair.
Oh, what Daddy will do for his lit-
tle girl! And it’s in the unexploredfather-daughter relationship thatthe tactless director Pierre Morel(Banlieue 13) and his screenwrit-ing team really strike out.
Shortly after we first meet Kimat her 17th birthday party, the richstep-father (Xander Berkeley,Seraphim Falls) outdoes the fatherby presenting her with a brand newhorse (an established Freudiansymbol for sexuality, for thosekeeping score at home), which shethen proceeds to ride in professedjoy, much to her father’s dismay.
Taken never really confronts thedepths of Mills’ urgency to rescuehis daughter, only caring to men-tion late in the game that Kim is avirgin. After all the car chases andfisticuffs — Morel’s actionsequences actually manage to slowthe film — he finds her in the cap-tivity of a relatively classier estab-lishment, virginity still presum-ably intact, and his resolve to res-
cue her becomes even more dire. It’s too much to ignore, but some-
how, the filmmakers manage toturn on the only worthwhile seedsthey planted.
Neeson’s stilted performancedoesn’t reach past the face-valueconstruct of a rampaging, ex-gov-ernment spy. He is the super dad: amurdering machine with both thedestructive capabilities and emo-tional range roughly equivalent tothose of The Terminator.
As the appropriately terrifieddaughter, Grace does slightly bet-ter, albeit with a fraction of thescreen time. Famke Janssen (TheWackness) is briefly bitchy as thewoman who left Mills back in hisactive work days.
To be fair though, Taken is notreally an actor’s piece. This timearound, they just let the stunt dou-bles shine.
the small screen
UNFAITHFUL (BLU-RAY)This re-release is an upgraded version ofthe 2002 DVD, bringing over all of theprevious edition’s features. In addition tothe film, the deleted scenesand a trailer forDeception are in highdefinition. The rest ofthe features are instandard definition,but offer the mostinteresting items onthe disc. The behind-the-scenes featurette,An Affair to Remember, isthe best of the bunch, mostlyfor detailing the process of shooting thescenes of intense wind in which DianeLane (Nights in Rodanthe) and OlivierMartinez (Blood and Chocolate) first meet.
COLLEGE (DVD)Despite mostly ripping off recent lowbrowcollege — and high school — based
raunchy fare, College doeshave a few bright
moments. Drake Bellsheds his wholesomeimage fromNickelodeon’s Drakeand Josh inspectacular fashion:
drinking to excess,swearing and finding
himself duct-taped nakedto a campus statue. The
DVD is bare bones, including only alengthier version of the gag reel from thefilm’s credits and the unrated andtheatrical versions of College.
REVIEW | THE UNINVITED
THE SPY WHO WASN’T THERE
Lame horror: It’s just uninviting
American vigilantism explodes in the ludicrously sloppy Taken
The Uninvited overindulges on the genre’s most tiresome clichés
MOVIE: Taken | VERDICT: 1/2
REVIEW | TAKEN
BY DAN BENAMORSenior staff writer
The PG-13 studio horror film isoften the cinematic equivalent of soft-core pornography. In films such asThe Messengers, the remakes ofWhen A Stranger Calls, Prom Nightand now The Uninvited, filmmakers,hamstrung without the availability ofmore graphic imagery, resort to film-making cheats. Making someonejump because an image pops onto thescreen as jarringly loud music playsis not artistry; it’s comparable to adoctor tapping your knee for a reflextest.
More troubling is the fact that therewas no need to use tricks to try andcreate a compelling film from TheUninvited’s scenario. Anna (EmilyBrowning, Lemony Snicket’s A Seriesof Unfortunate Events) returns homefrom a mental ward, still troubled bythe untimely death of her mother. Shearrives to find Dad (David Strathairn,The Spiderwick Chronicles) livingwith her mother’s former nurseRachel (Elizabeth Banks, Zack andMiri Make a Porno), who she and hersister Alex (Arielle Kebbel, ForeverStrong) rapidly become convincedmurdered their mother.
Much of the film follows Anna’s is-she-paranoid-or-not rising suspicionsof Rachel, a similar template to thealso PG-13-rated What Lies Beneath.That film used strong performances,deeper characterization and effec-tively constructed situations of ten-sion to truly earn its fright factor. TheUninvited just packs on the out-of-nowhere jump scares.
Because each successive ghostsighting — posited in the film as partsof Anna’s dreams — is quickly fol-lowed by a jump back to reality, theylose any sense of menace.
And as far as lack of menace goes,Banks is hamstrung by some ques-tionable plotting in the third act inso-far as how cruelly she is allowed tobehave. As a result, she underplaysher wicked stepmom role and even,in her faux pleasantness, lets some ofher natural jolliness sneak out. Ulti-mately it’s a disappointing attempt tostretch beyond comedic territory.
The magnificent Strathairn is com-pletely wasted, with precious fewlines and even fewer chances toemote in a role, essentially relegatinghim to bystander status in the story.Browning comes off blandly in thelead, leaving little impression beyondan interchangeable young woman in
peril. Really, the only character get-ting much of anything out of her roleis Kebbel as the spunky Alex, who issubstantially aided by receiving thelion’s share of the few intentionallyfunny lines in the script (Her opinionof Rachel: “She’s like a coke whore,only with less dignity”).
Apart from those few funny lines,the entire film is consistently hin-dered by its script, a greatest hits col-lection of horror clichés. A characteris shocked by the arrival of someonecompletely innocuous. The frighten-ing ghosts include creepy childrenand an undead being sneaking out of adark corner (whose stuttering risefrom the ground laughably calls tomind Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”video). Characters lack the commonsense of any member of the audience,conveniently ignoring the existenceof cell phones, car locks and simplelogic.
And not only does the dialoguestruggle to engage interest, but itsometimes proves accidentally hu-morous, most notably during a quotefrom nurse Rachel on her job history:“I wiped old people’s asses for a liv-
ing, and I’ll assure you they were notall beautiful … like your mom.”
Most despairing, though, is thefilm’s attempt to be original throughseveral twist endings, each more un-believable than the one preceding it.The Uninvited coils upon itself untilit’s not only implausible, but overtlyself contradictory. The final reactionis one of skepticism and laughter, de-spite the film’s attempt to go out on aviciously punchy note.
There have been numerous filmslike The Uninvited released, andthere will be more so long as the de-mand exists. Made on limited budg-ets, the aforementioned Messengers,Stranger Calls and other films of thisilk sometimes recoup nearly all theirproduction budget in their first weeksof release. People continue to turnout, and so Hollywood continues tochurn out.
The Uninvited is not something youwatch; it’s something you are madean accomplice to. Save your moneyand borrow your doctor’s reflex ham-mer instead.
MOVIE: The Uninvited | VERDICT: 1/2
Renée Zellwegerin New in Town.
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Terp coach Gary Williams has become a figure of controversy in recent years. The 20th-year coach’s recent comments have vocalized a rumored rift between him and the administration. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
JOSEPH
Administration, Williams must repair tiesright?”). But it’s worth notingthat Williams’ comments cameimmediately after watching histeam blow a 16-point leadagainst Boston College.
Regardless, it was Worthing-ton’s initial contact of themedia, in which she vehe-mently denied one small com-ment from Williams, whichblew a small issue into a majorproblem and thrust Williams,Worthington and the Terp Ath-letics Department into thenational spotlight. In addition toher uncharacteristic and defen-sive quotes, Worthington wentso far as to show both newspa-pers the form Williams signedfor the former Terp recruit GusGilchrist’s release. Thoserelease forms are internal doc-uments, ones I was told yester-day I would have to file a Mary-land Public Information Actrequest to receive.
To summarize, Worthingtonissued comments questioningthe legitimacy of a statementfrom the highest profile mem-ber of the entire university com-munity and released an internaldocument to two major newspa-pers. And she did this all volun-
tarily, initiating the story with acall to The Sun.
It’s important to keep in mindshe is one of Athletics DirectorDebbie Yow’s top advisers.Ironically, she oversees allmedia relations within theadministration.
Tuesday, she violated amajor rule of successful mediarelations. She overreacted to asingle statement in a story thatotherwise would have beenforgotten soon after. She neverlet go of her own pride, and, asa result, created an embarrass-ing mess for herself, Williamsand the department. At thispoint, it does not matter whowas factually accurate on thematter in question.
The statement that caused theruckus was Williams’ responseto a question about the decisionsof former recruits Tyree Evansand Gilchrist to leave the Terps.He said, “It wasn’t my fault thatthey’re not here. That wassomebody else’s call.” This washardly worth such a reaction inthe first place. Williams’ inten-tions with such a comment maynot be entirely clear, but hedefended himself by pointing atthe comment’s vagueness.
Williams’ defense of himself
included an interesting point:“Who said the University ofMaryland’s call? Nobody.”
Worthington obviouslybelieved the “somebody else”Williams mentioned was refer-ring directly to the AthleticsDepartment. Paranoia canspark a chain reaction; this wasno exception.
What’s not yet clear is the roleYow played in the entire scandal— and that’s what this hasgrown into. For years there havebeen rumors of dislike betweenYow and Williams, each highlyrespected in their positions.
I reached Yow via her cellphone yesterday and she saidshe was not yet certain shewould make a comment on theissue. She’s out of town for thefuneral of her sister, legendaryN.C. State women’s basketballcoach Kay Yow. An assistant ofDebbie Yow’s told me the 15th-year Athletics Director was inher office yesterday, but it’snot clear whether she green-lighted Worthington’s contactwith the media.
If Yow did allow or evendirect Worthington’s contact,this rift may be simply the firstsign of the end of the GaryWilliams era. The case is
somewhat reminiscent of, ifnot as extreme as, some of theevents occurring in BobKnight’s final years as men’sbasketball coach at Indiana.
If Yow did not give permis-sion for Worthington’s com-ments, it indicates disorganiza-tion and discord within theadministration that must berectified.
Either way, something hap-pened that clearly shouldn’thave. When comments like thisreach the media, the integrity ofthe department is compro-mised. The public images ofboth Williams and Yow’s admin-istration have taken serious hitson a national level. For some-thing that started because of astory about poor recruiting, thiscertainly can’t help.
At this point, it appears no onein the administration is com-menting. After yesterday, a no-comment policy may makesense. But at some point, theobvious tension betweenWilliams and the administrationwill have to be addressed. Ifthey aren’t, Williams’ notabletenure may come to an earlier-than-expected end.
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Athletics Director Debbie Yow, shown here in 2007,has yet to release a statement on the verbalsparring between men’s basketball coach GaryWilliams and Senior Associate Athletics DirectorKathleen Worthington. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK
Guard Eric Hayes and the Terps have blown several big leads, including 16-point lead to BostonCollege on Tuesday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
again, in the second half, theTerps lacked aggressiveness.
“Something happens at half-time — we just come out flat,”Neal said. “It’s really weird forus; we play so well in the firsthalf, and [we’re] not able to sus-tain that energy or that hardwork.”
Boston College cut the Terps’once-16-point lead to 11 rightbefore the half, when the Eaglesstaged a 7-2 mini-run. But Mil-bourne’s highlight jam couldhave been the momentum-shifter, as Comcast Center wasrocking and the Terps were stillin control.
“I was just trying to get myteam energetic, try to get the pos-itivity back,” Milbourne said. “Ifelt like everybody was fired up,and I just tried to add to it.”
Milbourne’s play didn’t have itsdesired effect. The Eagles scoredthe next seven points and keptchipping away at the deficit with-out facing much resistance fromthe Terps.
One potential diagnosis for theTerps’ struggles with a lead isthey lack the key elements to runa slow-it-down, halfcourt set.When the shots aren’t falling, theTerps don’t have a low-postthreat that can pressure opposingdefenses.
The Terps’ lack of depth alsocaught up with them Tuesday.
Williams primarily played aseven-man rotation, then turnedto former starter Braxton Dupreefor six minutes when Milbournewas in foul trouble.
But guard Adrian Bowie dis-missed the idea that the team gottired. He said, instead, that theybasically got lazy.
“In the second half, for somereason, we have a lack of energyand we just don’t talk as much,”Bowie said. “It’s a lack of effort.Once people’s shots [aren’t]falling, once we go cold, ourdefense isn’t as [good]. Whenpeople miss shots, they put theirheads down, and it causes slow
defense. They don’t play as hardon defense cause they’re thinkingabout their shot.”
Williams said the discouragingtendency might in part be some-thing as simple as the side of thecourt the Terps are playing on.
“Looks like in the first half thisyear, by now it’s become a trend,when we come to the bench weplay pretty good defense, andwhen the defense is away from usin the second half, we don’t playas good defense,” Williams said.
He noted that when the defenseis by the bench, coaches can callout picks and directions to theteam. When the defense is infront of the opposing team’sbench, the onus is on the five guyson the court to do all the talking.
“You have to stay aggressivefor 40 minutes,” Williams said.“You can’t play like you’re up 15.”
At this point in the season,those words sound like a brokenMilli Vanilli record — somethingthe Terps never wanted to hear inthe first place. But it has costthem three games so far this year.At 13-7, the Terps are far on theoutside of a tournament birth. Ifthose games weren’t blown andthe Terps instead claimed a 16-4mark, their postseason outlookmight be different.
“If we put two halves together,”Neal said. “I think we have thechance to be a pretty good team.”
Forward Dino Gregory is one of justtwo primary reserves for the Terps.ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
During practice, it’s sometimeshard to notice Terrapin women’sbasketball forward Dee Liles iseven on the court, especially com-pared to her outspoken teammates.
Senior Marissa Coleman isalmost always talking, whethershe’s cracking jokes while prac-ticing free throws or advisingless-experienced players on thecorrect defensive positioning.Others, such as center LynettaKizer and even injured forwardEmery Wallace, constantly yellwords of encouragement.
Liles, on the other hand, quietlyrotates between offensive and de-fensive drills, periodically usingher freakish athleticism to sky for arebound or block a shot.
During games though, the storyis completely different.
While Coleman and preseasonAll-American point guard KristiToliver score most of the points, it’sLiles, the junior college transferfrom nearby Suitland, who gets no-ticed for her jumping ability, versa-tility and knack for coming downwith clutch rebounds.
“You didn’t know what to expect,how quickly she was going to beable to develop or be where she isat,” coach Brenda Frese said.“She’s been relentless on the glass.Every day, every week, she justcontinues to get better and finetune her game.”
That was evident Sundaynight, when the No. 8 Terps (16-3, 4-1 ACC) upset then-No. 2North Carolina 77-71. Liles’ 15rebounds, nine of which came inthe second half, allowed theTerps to finally take control latein the game and shine in an areain which they’ve struggled in
previous matchups against thetypically physical Tar Heels.
Liles has already helped theTerps replace forwards LauraHarper and Crystal Langhorne,who, during the previous four sea-sons, established themselves astwo of the best post players in pro-gram history.
“I didn’t think it was gonna hap-pen this soon,” Liles said. “I proba-bly thought it would be next yearwhen I could get all of it out, but it’sa blessing.”
Liles’ status as the team’s lead-ing rebounder, averaging 9.2 pergame, isn’t just a blessing becauseof how quickly it’s happened in herfirst year with the team, but alsobecause of the two years she hadto wait for the opportunity.
After a prestigious four-year ca-reer at Riverdale Baptist HighSchool, which included nationalrankings and an honorable men-tion McDonald’s All American nod,Liles was set on becoming a Terp.
But according to Liles, shecouldn’t qualify because of lowSAT scores and spent the nexttwo seasons at Gulf Coast Com-munity College in Panama City,Fla. Liles started for the Com-modores for two seasons and wasnamed the 2008 Junior CollegeNational Player of the Year, lead-ing her team to last year’sNJCAA national championship.
Going through that two-yearprocess to get to College Park issomething Liles said she thinksabout regularly.
“Me and coach were talkingabout that [Tuesday] before prac-tice — about how I was trying towork so hard to be here,” Liles said.“And now I’m finally here, with allmy lovable teammates, and win-ning games.”
While fellow first-year post play-
er Kizer has also performed well inher role right away, she has threemore seasons left to make hermark. Frese said Liles realizes hertime as a Terp will be shorter.
“I was talking to her about thefact that she did lose those twoyears, you know, not being able tobe here,” Frese said. “But I dothink she’ll even tell you that thejunior college route was the way togo. It helped her grow up, goingaway from home. I think she appre-ciates the moments that she hasknowing that she didn’t get the firsttwo years here.”
While Liles is almost averaging adouble-double through her first 19career games, she has the potentialto be dominant, according to coach-es and teammates.
“Your battle with her is to alwaysstay focused and try to get that con-sistency from a day-to-day stand-point,” said Gulf Coast CC coachRoonie Scovel. “We had a hardtime to get Dee to put two to threegood games together. From herfreshman year to her sophomoreyear she made great strides. By thetime she got to the national tourna-ment [last year], she picked theright time and she played fourtremendous games.”
Coleman praised Liles’ play sofar, specifically in the secondhalf of the game against the Tar
Heels, but also said Liles some-times brings her shy nature ontothe court.
“She needs to get a lot more ag-gressive,” Coleman said. “Once shecan get into her mind to attackevery time, she’ll be one of the bestplayers in the conference.”
According to Frese, Liles is get-ting more comfortable.
“Outwardly she’s quiet until shegets to know you, until she trustsyou,” Frese said. “I just love coach-ing her. She likes to have fun, shelikes to kind of poke fun at you andjoke around.”
Liles said she knows she’s an in-trovert. When questioned by re-porters, she speaks softly about herplay and may not be as boisterousas some other Terps. But after al-ready proving her ability on thecourt, she’s gradually starting tocome out of her shell and she isnow focusing on bigger things.
“They could see that I was shy,”Liles said. “On my visit I was shybecause I didn’t know anybody, butonce I got here I just fit in withthem. Now, I just keep trying tohelp my team win.”
Forward Dee Liles is still shy when shespeaks about her long path to joining theTerps. But she’s turning her teammates’
heads with her show-stopping athleticism
Liles (right) has impressed teammates, including Sa’de Wiley-Gatewood (center) andMarah Strickland (left), with her athleticism this year. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Liles has made her impact with the Terpsprimarily through defense and rebounding thisseason. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
“I think she appreci-ates the momentsthat she has knowingthat she didn’t getthe first two yearshere.”
BRENDA FRESEWOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH
BY CHRIS ECKARDStaff writer
Using his enormous 285-pound frame, Patrick Gilmoreliterally put the Terrapinwrestling team on his backand carried them to a victorywhen they were tied 18-18heading into the final matchagainst N.C. State.
While Gilmore certainlywas important, the meetshould never have gotten tothat point. Maryland startedout with a 9-0 lead and seem-ingly had the match in hand,until the team let the Wolfpackcome back in the mid-dleweight classes.
This past weekend’smatches against N.C. Stateand Duke showed two ever-present factors about the Terpwrestling team this year. Thefirst was the excellent produc-tion from its lightweightwrestlers, but the more alarm-ing factor was the Terps’ fail-ures in some of the mid-dleweight classes.
The trio of Brendan Byrne,125 pounds, Steven Bell, 133,and Alex Krom, 141, has pro-duced an outstanding 9-0record through the firstthree ACC matchups. Notone member of the three haslost since the Terps facedOklahoma on Jan. 16, andthe trio has compiled a 49-14record this year. Bell isranked eighth in the countryin his weight class, whileKrom is 13th.
As a result of their light-weight success, the Terpsjumped out to early leadsagainst both N.C. State and
Duke on Saturday. But in bothACC matches, the Terpsallowed a comeback in themiddleweights and had tofight to pull out victories. TheTerps dropped four of fivematchups between the 149and 184 weight classes.
The most visible reason forthe Terps’ struggles has beenthe decision to redshirt MikeLetts, the 2008 ACC championat 174 pounds. Compiling a 22-6 record for Maryland lastseason, Letts was ranked 11thto begin the season and wasexpected to be an importantleader for the team.
“He wanted to put himselfin the best position to win anational championship,”coach Kerry McCoy said.“This year allows him time tomature, get stronger and workon his technique.”
Without Letts at 174, CoreyPeltier was the penciledstarter until he broke hisankle at the Midland Champi-onships in December. Withboth Peltier and Letts unavail-able, McCoy has had to turn toinexperienced sophomoresPatrick Klenkel and BradleyNielson.
Maryland has also beenforced to adjust to sophomoreBrian Letters moving up inweight class from 157 to 165.After finishing with a 4-1 con-ference record and an ACCchampionship last season,Letters is currently 1-2.
“This year, I haven’t had towatch my weight as much, so Ihave become healthier andstronger,” Letters said. “But Ihave had to adjust to the big-ger, stronger wrestlers at
165.”At 157, Letters’ previous
class, two redshirt freshmen,Kyle John and Matt MacLean,have been the main starters.They have struggled, cur-rently standing at 23-26 over-all and 1-2 in the ACC.
“When you put a freshmanout there against a fourth- orfifth-year senior, you’re goingto take some losses, and theyneed to come back and fightharder,” McCoy said.
Redshirt senior SteveFehnel took over the startingposition at 149 after sopho-more Eric Medina, a 2008 All-ACC wrestler, left the univer-sity. But he has struggled tostay healthy, promptingMcCoy to bump Dex Ledererup a weight class to serve as aback-up.
While the 149 to 184 weightclasses stand at a miserable 2-13 in ACC duals, Marylandhas had production from theback end of its rotation.
Hudson Taylor, currentlyranked 10th in the 197-poundclass, has a respectable 24-5overall record and is unde-feated in ACC play. Pairedwith heavyweight PatrickGilmore, the two are 5-1 in theconference.
With the great production atthe front and back ends,Maryland will need to solve afew personnel issues in themiddleweight classes beforethe end of the season and thestart of the ACC tournament,especially if it plans ondefending its ACC champi-onship.
Brian Letters, top, has struggled competing at his new 165-pound weight class. After winning the ACCchampionship last season at 157 pounds, he is just 1-2 in ACC play this year. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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fault that they’re not here. Thatwas somebody else’s call.”
The (Baltimore) Sun used thatquote in a story about the Terps’recent recruiting troubles, but ac-cording to a more recent Sunstory, Worthington called thenewspaper and said: “I want toclarify the facts and the timingand the decision process of thesesituations. It was my recommen-dation that we not sign a releasefor Gus [Gilchrist]. I didn’t want torelease him. It was the headcoach’s decision. No one else re-leased Gus.”
Worthington provided TheSun and The Washington Postwith a copy of the release, signedonly by Williams. The Diamond-back was told it would have tofile a Maryland Public Informa-tion Act request for the samedocument yesterday.
However, Williams said, “sign-ing the release had nothing to dowith [Gilchrist’s] leaving.”
Tuesday night, after the Terpslost a home game 76-67 againstBoston College, media memberswere ushered into the team’s lock-er room to conduct interviewswith players. In the meantime,one Sun and two Post reportersspoke with Williams in the cornerof the locker room.
According to The Post,Williams snapped back, “KathyWorthington does not speak forme. She has never won a nationalchampionship. She has neverdone anything. She is an associateAD. She doesn’t speak for me.”
Athletics Director Debbie Yowdeclined to comment to The Dia-mondback yesterday afternoon.Yow is in North Carolina for thefuneral of her sister, former N.C.State basketball coach Kay Yow.
Gilchrist, a 6-foot-10 inch cen-
ter who graduatedhigh school in 2007,originally signed withVirginia Tech butbacked away from theHokies prior to hisfreshman year, citingshootings on theBlacksburg campus.
He enrolled at thisuniversity last Janu-ary, but due to NCAAand ACC rules —since Gilchrist trans-ferred within the con-ference — he would only havetwo-and-a-half years of eligibilityremaining.
Gilchrist requested a release,and Williams complied. Gilchristis now averaging 10.8 points pergame at South Florida.
Evans, who now averages 13points per game for Kent State,had a checkered past which in-cluded guilty pleas to possessionof marijuana as well as assaultand battery charges.
When Evans’ transgressionsbecame public, Williams calledthe university’s Office of StudentConduct, saying he did not want
Evans on the team be-cause he had not dis-closed all of the crimi-nal charges, accordingto The Sun.
Tuesday night,Williams was asked ifhe received proper sup-port from the AthleticsDepartment in terms ofrecruiting. “I don’t wantto get into that now. Nocomment,” he said.
Many skeptics be-lieve Williams is on the
hot seat due to the Terps’ strug-gles and his tenuous situation withthe Athletics Department.
He still, however, appears tohave backing from his players. Inresponse to questions about theTerps’ loss against Boston Collegeon Tuesday, junior guard GreivisVasquez responded, “We got aHall-of-Fame coach. He knowshow to get guys to bounce backand he’s a great coach overall.He’s a father, he’s a friend, he’s apsychologist, he knows, that’s whyhe gets paid.”
Men’s basketball coach Gary Williams defended his statements on a pair of recruits after their validity was drawn into question by Senior Associate AthleticsDirector Kathleen Worthington on Tuesday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Releasesof Evans,Gilchristsparkedcomments
Worthington, Williamsboth displayed immaturity
This column will beentirely based oncomments made bySenior Associate
Athletics Director KathleenWorthingon and Terrapinmen’s basketball coachGary Williams to The (Balti-more) Sun and The Wash-ington Post on Tuesday. Nei-ther Worthington norWilliams would comment on
the situation to The Dia-mondback yesterday.
Why? Because things weresaid that shouldn’t have beensaid. Internal conflictsreached the media. And, inone day, previous rumors of arift between the AthleticsDepartment and Williamswere validated in a publicforum.
Tuesday’s episode culmi-nated in Williams statingbluntly: “Kathy Worthingtondoes not speak for me. Shehas never won a nationalchampionship. She has neverdone anything.” But in thiscase, the end result, thequotable lines that have Terp
fans abuzz on messageboards, were a by-product ofa childish lack of communi-cation on both sides and asenior official of the AthleticsDepartment throwing a 20th-year coach under the bus tothe media.
Williams was unprofes-sional in his response. Heshowed paranoia (“This isjust giving you stuff to makeme look bad”) and a defen-siveness that bordered onhostility (“I have run a cleanprogram for 20 years. ... Sowhat’s the purpose of this? Tosay he didn’t quite say it
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Terps continue second-half slumps
BY MARK SELIGSenior staff writer
Less than a minute into thesecond half of the Tuesdaynight men’s basketball gameagainst Boston College, Ter-rapin forward Landon Mil-bourne sized up an errantshot from teammate DaveNeal, came barreling into thelane to gather the miss and,while jumping over an out-stretched defender, force-fully dunked the ball.
Milbourne energeticallybarked at the defenderbefore shifting his enthusi-asm toward his teammates.
The play was, in one word,
aggressive.Yet, an hour later, after the
Terps (13-7, 2-4 ACC) lostanother game, this timeblowing a 16-point lead,coach Gary Williams and hisplayers echoed what hasbecome a relentless andtroubling theme to their sea-son that belied that oneimpressive move. Once
Team suggests a lack of intensity is biggest late-game issue
Greivis Vasquez and the Terps saythey’ve lacked toughness late ingames. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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ATHLETICS, from Page 1
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