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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 99TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 67FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
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COLONIAL CLASHAfter toppling Michigan, theTerps take on local rival GWSPORTS | PAGE 10
ROLL ANOTHER NUMBERCadillac Records doesn’t do justice to theChess Records legends it depictsDIVERSIONS | PAGE 7
Focus dates made optional for allEnergy maycost univ.less thananticipated
ALL EYESFiscal year costs lowerthan expected despitehigh prices last summer
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
Despite rapidly fluctuating energy costs, theuniversity will not likely spend more thanplanned on energy this year.
Though utility bills were higher thanexpected this summer, they have recentlydropped sharply, resulting in a current projec-tion that looks comforting for the university.
The sudden change is the latest drastic shiftin the university’s energy costs. Energy costsjumped during the first several years of thisdecade — the university spent $6 million morethan anticipated a few years ago — beforedeclining last year.
The university anticipates spending about$500,000 less than it had originally planned,said John Blair, the university’s budget director.Officials attributed the discrepancy to the
After years of discussion, program slated to begin next semesterBY MICHELLE CLEVELAND
Staff writer
Every student will be able to optout of Dining Services’ much-maligned focus dates programstarting next semester.
An agreement reached betweenthe Residence Hall Association
and Dining Services on Wednes-day will result in a pilot programnext semester in which all stu-dents may opt out of focus dates.Under the present rules, only stu-dents who have had a dining planfor two consecutive semesters canopt out of focus dates.
This decision will better regu-
late dining hall spending through-out the semester and will helpDining Services to better managelabor and supplies, said DiningServices spokesman Bart Hipple.
Residence Hall AssociationPresident Alex Beuchler saideliminating focus dates is some-thing students have requested for
years. The RHA’s dining servicessubcommittee has been talking toDining Services about this pro-gram since this past summer.
“I think that the students aregoing to be really happy that theycan spend their money how and
Please See DINING, Page 2
Interest inmixed-genderhousing downfrom last year
PROGRAM POINTS52 people applied for spots in the
mixed-gender housing program, downfrom 102 last year.
40 students are currently in the pro-gram.
Six new apartments are being addedto the program, increasing the number to16.
This is the second year of a two-yearpilot program. The program could bemade permanent.
Please See ENERGY, Page 3
Half as many studentsapply for second year ofpilot housing program
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
About half as many students as last yearapplied for the mixed-gender housing pro-gram in South Campus Commons and Court-yards, but interest still exceeded availability.
Resident Life received 52 applications forthe program by the Dec. 1 deadline com-pared with 102 last year, said KathleenBlankenship, a Resident Life official whooversees South Campus Commons and Uni-versity Courtyards apartments. The appli-cants will learn in March whether they willfill one of the six apartments added to theprogram for next year.
Blankenship said she did not know why thenumber of applicants dropped this year,
Please See HOUSING, Page 3
CHASING THE CUP SPORTS | PAGE 10
Forward Graham Zusi (above) and defender A.J. Delagarza are the only current Terrapinmen’s soccer players to have played in the College Cup. They will try to lead this year’s teamto the same success the 2005 national champions had. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Capital Oneto buy ChevyChase Bankfor $520M Impact on univ. dealingswith bank yet to be seen
BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer
Capital One Financial Corp. revealed yes-terday it will purchase Chevy Chase Bankfor $520 million, but the impact on the uni-versity remains uncertain.
Chevy Chase Bank has a large presence atthe university: It has a branch located inStamp Student Union, and several ATMs dotthe campus. It’s also the primary financierof the Tyser Tower project and the corpo-rate name of the Byrd Stadium football field.However, university officials said they wereunsure whether the acquisition will impactthat relationship.
Kathy Worthington, a senior associate
Please See BANK, Page 2
BY KEN PITTSStaff writer
Graduate teaching assistant Shane Dillingham sitson a table in front of his class in Taliaferro Hallas his students discuss the state of slavery in
mid-19th century America. In blue jeans, an untuckedbutton-up shirt and gray cardigan, he looks like anyteaching assistant leading a discussion group.
You’d never guess that Maryland State Police hadlabeled him a terrorist.
Dillingham is one of 53 people in the state who discov-ered that, between 2005 and 2006, police secretly spiedon them for participating in anti-death penalty and anti-war activities and placed their names on terrorist watchlists, all without any evidence of criminal misdeeds.
Graduate teaching assistant uses time onterrorism watch list as a teaching tool
Please See DILLINGHAM, Page 3
Shane Dillingham, who was beingmonitored by state police, speaksto his history discussion section.JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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Towing commission reveals plan
A task force charged with finding solu-tions to the state’s problems with preda-tory towing is preparing to recommendthat Maryland form a state Board of Tow-ing to license and regulate towing compa-nies.
At a meeting in College Park, the TaskForce to Study Motor-Vehicle TowingPractices discussed draft legislation thatdrew heavily from Virginia’s towing regu-lations as well as from the state’s rulesgoverning electricians and would give thisnew board the power to shut down“rogue” towing companies.
Recommendations from previous statetowing task forces were never enacted,leaving the problem of what the currentgroup’s members called “renegades” and“profiteers” who are too aggressive to towa car or who overcharge their customers.
However, beyond the basic idea of astate board regulating towing companies,the members of the task force — whichincludes about two each of towing com-pany officials, police officers, state dele-gates, Motor Vehicle Administration offi-cials, insurance company executives andmembers of the general public lackedconsensus.
Towers were concerned about themakeup of the board, which in the pro-posal would be similar to that of the taskforce. They would rather see Marylandmore closely follow Virginia’s example andhave the board made up mostly of repre-sentatives from the towing industry.
“We should be allowed to regulate our-selves,” said Fred Scheler, president ofTowing and Recovery Professionals ofMaryland. “If the insurance company isgoing to come and sit on my board, I wantto go sit on the insurance company’sboard.”
In an earlier task force meeting, Schelerhad said it’s in the towing industry’s bestinterest to see “snatch-and-grab” “gypsytowers” — often independent operationswith no fixed address that are limited to apickup truck and a driver — shut downbecause they make reputable companieslook bad.
The task force is due to provide its rec-ommendations to the state by the end ofthe year, but College Park City ManagerJoe Nagro, the chair of the task force,plans to ask for a few more weeks to ham-mer out the details of their recommenda-tions.
—Senior staff writer Brady Holt
SCENE + HEARD
‘We forgot how to fight for freedom.’BYKENPITTS
Staff writer
Political dissident and humanrights activist Natan Sharanskyvisited the campus Wednesdayto present a somewhat contro-versial argument: You can’t havetrue political freedom unlessyou’re willing to die for it.
Some 200 spectators gatheredin the Grand Ballroom at StampStudent Union to listen to Sha-ransky’s life story, from his cap-tivity in Soviet prison to his ca-reer in the Israeli government,and now to the writing of his lat-est book on democracy and iden-tity, Defending Identity.
Sharansky became famous inthe 1970s as a figure among “re-fuseniks,” or Jews who were re-fused emigration from the SovietUnion.
After applying for a visa to Is-rael, he was convicted of treasonas a spy for the United States andspent almost a decade in Russ-ian captivity, becoming an inter-national symbol for humanrights.
“My real alma mater was So-viet prison,” he said, “whichgave me many lessons.”
It was in his isolated cell thathe realized people must rise
from fearing for their lives to de-fending their identities.
He criticized the post-WorldWar II mentality that all differ-ences between people should beerased and that nationality is po-litically incorrect, a mindset hesaid has left Western countriesvulnerable to terrorists.
“When we learned over thelast two generations to love free-dom,” Sharansky said, “we for-got how to fight for freedom.”
Sharansky was freed and be-came a citizen of Israel in 1986,and he has forged a long careerin politics. He founded the Yis-rael b’Aliyah party in the Israeliparliament to help with the ab-sorption of Soviet Jews into Is-rael and held several govern-ment offices, including that ofdeputy prime minister and min-ister for Jerusalem and for Dias-pora affairs. He resigned fromthe government in 2005 inprotest of then-Prime MinisterAriel Sharon’s plan to pull Israelisettlers and soldiers out ofEgypt’s occupied Gaza Strip.
Using the conflict between Is-raelis and Palestinians as an ex-ample, he suggested that theonly way to end conflict betweencountries is for people to findstrength in nationality and re-
spect it in others.“The best allies that you have
are people who, like you, believein freedom, but also have identi-ty,” he said, “something they arewilling to die for.”
Sharansky visited as a speak-er for Caravan for Democracy,an initiative to create dialoguebetween college students andprominent speakers from Israel.The event was sponsored by thePro-Israel Terrapin Alliance,Maryland Hillel and the AlphaEpsilon Pi Fraternity. Sharan-sky’s views have been occasion-ally controversial. At a speech atRutgers University in 2003, aspectator threw a pie at him, andhis security was a concern atWednesday’s event, saidShoshana Hill, senior campusprograms coordinator for theJewish National Fund.
However, the assembly re-mained calm throughout the lec-ture and question-and-answersession, and even a heated de-bate between Jewish and Mus-lim students afterward was re-spectful.
“I think he’s controversial forhis role in the Israeli govern-ment,” said Andrea Waghel-stein, a senior operations man-agement major and Sharansky
supporter. “But I think what hedoes now to get Russian Jewsinto Israel is a good thing.”
But some students questionedwhether Sharansky’s visit wasmeant to include everyone orjust to reinforce the stance ofpro-Israel attendees.
“I feel like these events areoverwhelmingly in favor of Is-rael,” said Sana Javed, a seniorgovernment and politics andSpanish major, who stood toquestion Sharansky’s status as ahuman rights activist while hedefends a nation accused ofabusing the rights of Palestini-ans.
“Any voice that you hear say-ing Israel is not that great getscome down on hard,” said Javed,who is an Indian Muslim. “Inever feel like the dialogue hereis really dialogue. It’s advocacy.”
Sharansky has received nu-merous awards for humanrights activism, including thePresidential Medal of Freedomfrom President George W. Bushin 2006. He is currently chair-man of the Shalem Center’s In-stitute for Strategic Studies, anorganization that explores issuesof stability in the Middle East.
Natan Sharansky, right, discusses his latest book, DefendingIdentity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy, withuniversity faculty during a luncheon Wednesday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Chevy Chase marks third purchase in three yearsdirector in the AthleticsDepartment, said Athleticswill not know any detailsuntil the deal closes some-time during the first fiscalquarter. Questions surround-ing the name of the footballfield and the Tyser Tower
project can’t be answereduntil then, she said.
Chevy Chase Bank officialscould not be reached forcomment yesterday.
Millree Williams, the uni-versity's chief spokesman,said yesterday he was stillunsure of the larger impactthe deal might have on the
university as a whole. Chevy Chase Bank, which
has about $11 billion indeposits, operates branchesin Maryland, Virginia andWashington. Capital One hadabout $98.9 billion in depositsas of Sept. 30.
Bethesda-based ChevyChase Bank is the latest in a
string of regional banks Cap-ital One has purchased inrecent years as it expands tobecome a full-service bankafter primarily operating as acredit-card lender.
In November 2005, Capi-tal One bought NewOrleans-based HiberniaCorp., which had branches
in Texas and Louisiana. InDecember 2006, the com-pany completed its acquisi-tion of North Fork Bank,which operates banks inNew York and New Jersey.
The Associated Press con-tributed to this [email protected]
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Israeli politician, activist speaks on campus
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Many groups, one voice
BYANNAEISENBERGFor The Diamondback
Collaboration among minoritygroups on the campus has increasedthis semester compared with previousyears.
In an attempt to create a more uni-fied minority voice at the university,the groups have started co-sponsoringone another’s events. Minority issuesstirred in the recent presidential elec-tion and friendships among grouppresidents have prompted groups suchas the Latino Student Union, the Na-tional Association for the Advance-ment of Colored People and the AsianAmerican Student Union to work to-gether in an attempt to extend thereach of each individual group.
“Whether you’re Jewish, black,Asian-American or Latino, your voice isso much stronger if you’re all together,”NAACP chapter President Wanika Fish-er said. “It’s unnecessary for us to func-tion separate of each other.”
Robert Waters, the assistant to thepresident for equity and diversity, saidstudent minority groups have been try-ing to come together for the last four orfive years. He said they have a lot to learnfrom each other and believed that theycould benefit from sharing resources.
“A unified experience is better than a
divided one,” Waters said.A collection of minority groups this
semester co-sponsored events, in-cluding “Living in Terror, Voices ofHope,” a dialogue about the humanrights stance on terror attacks andconflict in the Middle East, and “Dif-ferent Color, Same Struggle,” whereguest speakers talked about race andthe civil rights movement. Manygroups also sponsored “The State ofBlack Leadership” event, a forum dis-cussing the impact of past, presentand future black leaders.
By co-sponsoring events like these,the groups become aware of problemsbesides their own, Fisher said.
“In the past, we focused so much onour own issues,” Latino Student UnionPresident Manny Ruiz said.
Ruiz said the LSU concentratedspecifically on getting the U.S. Latino/astudies minor approved last year. Manyorganizations supported the cause,which Ruiz said was the “initial spark”for the LSU to sponsor other groups’ ef-forts.
“We should all be backing each other,”he said.
Both Fisher and Ruiz said friend-ships among group presidentshelped stem the minority groups’ re-cent collaboration.
“When you’re friends with people, it
makes it so much easier to come togeth-er,” Fisher said.
The effort to unite minority groupshas been going on since last spring,when the OMSE created a student lead-ership advisory board, which meets tocollaborate on minority issues at the uni-versity.
“Anytime you bring students togetherfrom diverse backgrounds and it resultsin personal, professional or academicsuccess, I’d say that’s a win-win situa-tion,” said Christopher Lester, directorof the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Ed-ucation.
Minority issues involved in the presi-dential election also brought minoritygroups together, Fisher said. While elect-ing the nation’s first black president was amajor step for the minority community,Ruiz said there is “still work to be done”concerning diversity on the campus.
Ruiz said that although the universityprides itself on its diverse student body,minority groups still face difficulties onthe campus and need to pool their re-sources more often. Ruiz said he hopedthe groups can make strides together bysupporting each other’s causes.
“It improves our community, im-proves advocacy and betters our univer-sity as a whole,” Fisher said.
Minority groups increase collaboration this semester
BY KYLE GOONStaff writer
University Police made two morearrests in connection with a Sept. 6Fraternity Row robbery early yester-day morning.
Police arrested Freeman ObengKwarteng, 20, and EmannuelScott, 20, of Silver Spring,and charged the pair withrobbery. Kwarteng faces fur-ther charges of second-degree assault, one count oftheft and four counts relatedto fraudulent credit cardexpenditures.
The arrests come morethan two weeks after thearrest of Anthony WayneCrowe and almost twomonths after the initial sus-pect, Najie Shabay Walker,was charged. UniversityPolice spokesman Paul Dil-lon said there are no pendingarrests in the case.
Charging documents for Croweobtained from court records providea clearer set of events on the night ofthe robbery.
Kwarteng, Scott, Walker, Crowe andanother male friend came to attend par-ties in College Park together, riding in awhite Chevy Impala. After beingdenied entry at a Stamp Student Unionparty and going to another party at aUniversity Courtyards apartment laterbroken up by University Police, theyparked along Fraternity Row about2:45 a.m.
It was at this time a student victimwalking in the field in the middle ofFraternity Row was approached bytwo men. The first man, who the vic-tim identified as Crowe, pushed thevictim to the ground, while the secondsuspect came at him from behind.The victim then said Crowe took hiswallet and told him to stay down. Thetwo men fled the scene.
Initially, Kwarteng and Scott toldpolice that Walker and Crowe left thecar, returned minutes later and toldthem to go to a Hyattsville 7-Eleven.They claimed no knowledge of therobbery at the time.
Only 10 minutes after the mugging,Crowe and Walker used a stolen
credit card in Hyattsville to buyphone cards, a Visa gift card and ciga-rettes, among other purchases, total-ing just less than $95. Within the hour,they also made purchases totalingmore than $50 at another 7-Eleven inSilver Spring.
Police obtained store securityfootage of the two men andthe car and used thefootage to corroborate themen’s identities with otherwitnesses. After the victimpositively identified Croweas the suspect who broughthim down in the FraternityRow field, they arrestedhim on Nov. 17. Walkerremains in jail for con-cealed weapon charges inMontgomery County.
On Dec. 1, investigatingofficer Det. Raphael Mossfiled warrants forKwarteng and Scott. Theywere served about 5 a.m.yesterday without incident
at the men’s respective homes.Dillon was unable to specify any
particular evidence incriminatingKwarteng and Scott but said policelearned from the fifth person in thecar that the other two men initiallydownplayed their role in the robbery.The fifth person has not beencharged.
Crowe’s charging documentsreveal several miscues by the sus-pects, particularly Walker. WhenMoss interviewed Walker at theMontgomery County police office inSilver Spring, Walker was wearingthe same shirt he was wearing invideo footage from the night of therobbery. He also claimed to knownothing about a robbery “in a field”before Moss said where the incidentin question had taken place.
Dillon credited Moss for closing thecase and said the arrests will helpkeep crime low and hopefully dis-courage future incidents.
“Detective Moss spent a lot ofhours on this investigation and did agreat job,” he said. “When you arrestthe guys committing crimes, you canreduce the crime rate.”
Sustainability keeps energy costs lowuniversity’s energy conservation efforts.
“We can’t bring the cost down, butwe can bring the usage down, andnow you are just paying more forless,” Blair said.
The university was under budgetby $2.5 million in fiscal year 2008but increased the budget by 7 per-cent for fiscal year 2009, he said.
“We try to focus on consumption,”said Susan Corry, the conservationmanager in Facilities Management.“Cost fluctuates with the price ofgas. But, our consumption has beenflat over the past couple years.”
Balir said it’s difficult to predictthe utility budget because the pricesare constantly changing.
“The problem is that the naturalgas prices are market based, andthey fluctuate quite a bit,” Blair said.He added that weather is another
variable that affects the consump-tion of energy on the campus.
Facilities Management has contin-ued to improve conservation effortsby using automation to limit the useof energy throughout universitybuildings. They have also added aninitiative to lessen the amount oflight in hallways to cut costs.
But the biggest impact comesfrom an initiative to replace older,antiquated equipment on the cam-pus with energy-efficient versionsthat cut costs. The newer equip-ment pays back the universitythrough a decrease in the moneythe university must spends onenergy costs.
“If we wouldn’t spend it on energy,we could spend it on somethingelse,” said Heather Lair, projectmanager for the university’s Officeof Sustainability.
The efforts save money while
reducing carbon emissions andimprove the quality of the buildingsthemselves, said Corry.
Lair said some departments stillneed to be careful about how muchenergy they are using. She said theuniversity could improve by raisingawareness in departments wherestaff don’t realize how much theyare spending on energy each year,Lair said.
“They don’t get the bills, so peopledon’t see what they’re using,” shesaid.
In fiscal year 2008, the universitybudgeted $60.9 million on utilities.With this year’s seven-percentincrease, the university is budgetedto spend $64.7 million.
“We try to keep enough in thebudget so we are prepared formore,” Blair said.
ENERGY, from Page 1
Change in focus dates to beevaluated after next semester
when they choose,” she said. “Ithink people are going to be pleasedthat it’s up to them.”
Director of Dining ServicesColleen Wright-Riva said that whenshe began her job at the universityabout a year ago, she knewthere was some studentinterest in eliminating thefocus date budgeting sys-tem.
“It’s one less thing thatsomeone else is tellingthem they must do,”Wright-Riva said. “It justmade sense to try it.”
When crunch timecomes around, studentshave been known to stockup on food or splurge atAdele’s the days before afocus date.
Laura Jerousek, a juniorcriminology and criminal justicemajor, said that when she was afreshman she bought containers ofcereal or bags of muffins and cookiesin order to meet the focus date with-out losing dining points.
“It was upsetting to lose money tothe university,” she said.
Jerousek said she would also buydinner for her roommates to getbelow the cut-off balance.
“I still wouldn’t make it,” she said.Samira Farah, a junior history
major, agreed.“I felt ripped off,” she said. Farah
said she would never get down to themaximum point limit unless shebought her male friends food.
Focus dates occur every threeweeks and set a maximum pointvalue that students must meet or bebelow, or else their balance will auto-matically decrease to a set dollaramount. According to Hipple, the
system was implemented in 1989 tomake sure dining halls operated atconsistent levels throughout eachsemester.
Hipple said after next semesterofficials will evaluate how thechange affected Dining Services’business. Not budgeting students’
points could be a problemif they end up with agreater number of pointsleft to spend at the end ofthe semester than theyotherwise would have. Toaddress this problem, Din-ing Services will retain thea 40-point-per-day spend-ing limit for the last threeweeks of the semester forstudents who have optedout of focus dates, Hipplesaid.
But Wright-Riva doesnot anticipate there beingany problems and said the
pilot program may be made perma-nent.
“I don’t think that it’s going to bean operational challenge,” she said.
The online process for opting outwill not change, and that option willbe available between Jan. 25 andMarch 6 of next year. The opt-outperiod will now extend to the secondfocus date instead of the first, Hipplesaid.
Wright-Riva said that in manyways the change won’t affect upper-classmen.
“It’ll be interesting to see howmany first-year students decide toopt out,” she said.
At the beginning of next semester,resident assistants will remind theirdorm students about the option, andsigns will advertise it in the dininghalls, Hipple said.
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Despite demand, program won’t expand
though the limited space may haveplayed a role, and students might havethought that they didn’t have a lot ofchance to get into the program, shesaid.
The number of applicants may havebeen greater last year because of thenovelty of the program, Residence HallAssociation President Alex Beuchlersaid. Many people interested in theprogram already got in last year, shesaid.
The six new apartments will in-crease the number of apartments in theprogram to 16, half in Commons andhalf in Courtyards. More spaces mayopen as some of the 40 students in theprogram this year graduate or decidenot to return.
Resident Life will not further in-crease the size of the program to meetdemand, Blankenship said.
“We want to go into open leasingwith some completely open units,”Blankenship said. “The more that wetake for the pilot program, the lessthere would be for the general popula-tion. We have to balance what’s fair for
the pilot program and the general pop-ulation.”
Next year will be the second year ofthe pilot program. Students currentlyliving in mixed-gender apartmentshave indicated that their main reasonfor participating is to live with theirfriends. Blankenship said she believedthe new applicants have similar moti-vations.
“Part of the reason I chose the Uni-versity of Maryland was because it wasa diverse university, and I like to takeadvantage of that, and I thought thatthis was just another aspect of diversi-ty,” freshman government and politicsand journalism major Adam Kerlin,who applied to the program for nextyear, said.
Kerlin said he thought a mix ofmales and females might be able to livetogether with fewer issues than anapartment occupied by all members ofone gender.
“I could have chosen to room with aguy I’m friends with, but I felt some-times when guys live together andthey’re friends, it creates problems,”he said.
Freshman government and politics
and journalism major Wynne Ander-son, who applied to live in an apart-ment with Kerlin and two otherwomen, agreed. She said the programprovided a nice alternative to the sin-gle-gender living environment of a tra-ditional dorm room, sorority house orfraternity house. “This is just a goodopportunity for my friends and I to geta room together,” she said.
Both students said the opportunity tolive in Commons or Courtyards was aplus but that it wasn’t the main factorin their decisions to apply.
Blankenship said it was too early toassess how the mixed-gender programwill progress after next year. Duringthe summer, Resident Life will studydata collected from this year as it be-gins to plan for the program’s future,she said.
Based on the positive feedback theprogram has received so far, Beuchlersaid she hoped it would continue afterthe pilot period concludes at the end ofnext year.
“I would hope that this could be apermanent option for people,” she said.
HOUSING, from Page 1
‘They were like, ‘Wow, our teacher’s a terrorist.’’
But instead of letting the revelationput a damper on his life, Dillinghamdid what any good teacher would do.
“My immediate reaction,” he said,“was, ‘How can I use this as a hookfor my students?’”
In four discussion sections of HIST156: History of the United States to1865, Dillingham has used himself asa case study to show American histo-ry is not just an outdated collection offacts, but a living debate about thebalance between power and liberty,which his students said helped themsee history’s meaning in their dailylives.
Dillingham, a 27-year-old doctoralstudent, was at first reluctant to dis-cuss the case with his students, fear-ing that it might discourage themfrom political activity.
“I didn’t want my freshmen to say,‘OK, I’ll go home and mind my ownbusiness,’” he said. “But it’s the secre-cy that’s the problem, right?”
So, instead, he took the opportunityto engage students in the course ma-terial and make them aware of thecontemporary debate over liberty.The course professor, Ira Berlin, gave
Dillingham his full support.“We’ve talked a lot about the chang-
ing meaning of freedom,” Berlin said.“And, as it turns out, Shane is objectlesson No. 1.”
During a lecture about the debateover power distribution in the broil-ing American Revolution, Dillinghamshowed his students a news storyabout the police surveillance pro-gram and a letter from the state in-forming him that he’d been a subjectof investigation.
Some students gasped. Some sug-gested he shave his beard off. Othersurged him to get a lawyer and sue thestate.
“Everyone was interested,” saidfreshman letters and sciences majorMitchell Barker. “They were like,‘Wow, our teacher’s a terrorist.’”
However, students said the initialshock soon gave way to discussionabout how the same issues that in-spired protections in the U.S. Consti-tution and the Bill of Rights are chal-lenged to this day.
“It related to the class because welearn about the freedoms we have andthe freedoms we don’t have,” Barkersaid. “[The Constitution] came frompeople standing up and speaking for
their rights. That’s all he was doing.”Sophomore environmental science
and policy major Andrew Flentje saidDillingham’s case led students to crit-icize the current government, andthis dialogue opened debate aboutquestions historical players raised inthe past.
“That was one of the best classes,because all we did was talk,” Flentjesaid. “It kind of got everyone fired upand kept the discussion going.”
An independent review of the spy-ing program found that police hadoverreached the limits of their powerwhile watching over protest activi-ties, including one university-sanc-tioned event at the Nyumburu Cultur-al Center.
Police have since agreed to purgeactivists’ names from state and feder-al databases.
As for how the ordeal has fed intohis classroom, Dillingham said hehopes his students will think morecritically about the exchange of free-dom for safety now that they knowsomeone who has been affected.
“It if has served that purpose,” hesaid, “I think it’s been valuable.”
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Dorothy had it right all along —there’s no place like home.The recent tragedy in Mum-bai, India, the genocide in
Congo and the ongoing attacks on Iraqicivilians have made me that much moreappreciative that I can call the UnitedStates my home. It’s no utopia, but com-pared with these other countries, it justfeels safe. Most of us wake up everymorning pissed that we have to go toclass and scared that we’re going to fail.Halfway around the world, I knowthere’s a girl my age pissed that she can’tgo to class and scared that she’s going todie. We’ve probably felt the latter, maybearound the times of the Virginia Techand Columbine incidents, but how longdid those feelings last? Steps were takento put students at ease, and we soon re-turned to our regular routines, now withan occasional text-message safety alert.But there’s no text-message-alert systemin the parts of the world I’m referring to.
Last summer, I spent five weeks in Er-itrea, the country my family comes from.Located in northeast Africa, the smallcountry borders Sudan and Ethiopia. Myparents left in the early 1980s to escapethe war with Ethiopia, in hope of findinga better life. There were many times
along the way when they could have losttheir lives, but they decided that thepromise of success made the risks andthe struggle worthwhile.
Nearly 30 years later, they have threekids and are accomplished health pro-fessionals. My parents will probablynever return to live in Eritrea because ofthe country’s current political situation.When Eritrea gained its independencein 1991, war hero Isaias Afewerki be-came president, but he turned dictator.So when I went, I traveled alone.
By the time I went, the Eritrean Em-bassy was no longer issuing visas butidentification cards. In the process of“becoming a citizen,” I signed papersthat basically said I was eligible for mili-tary draft, which is common in Eritrea.To top things off, the country is on theU.S. Department of State list of placesnot to travel. Travel warnings are issued
to describe long-term conditions thatmake a country dangerous or unstable.A travel warning is also issued when theU.S. government’s ability to assist Amer-ican citizens is constrained by the clo-sure of an embassy or consulate. Need-less to say, I didn’t care. I needed to seemy aging great-grandmother, and nonumber of signatures or documents wasgoing to derail my plan.
I’ll spare you the common third-worldwoes of the spoiled American who en-counters frequent power outages, thesparse delivery of water barrels (theonly source) and the toilets in theground. But I will highlight the two-yearmilitary training between high schooland college, mandatory for all men andwomen. Unfortunately, it’s the only as-pect where gender equality exists. Civilrights didn’t exist in Eritrea; walkingaround after midnight could land you injail — the type to greet criminals withmalice, not mug shots and a call to yourlawyer. Every time I left the city to go tothe village, I was carded. In Eritrea, theID symbolizes that you’ve completedyour military training. My ID card wasequivalent to an Eritrean citizen’s, but Idid not have to earn it through militarytraining because I am also an American
citizen. Once, my bus was stopped at thecity border and police carded everyone.A boy my age didn’t have his, and afterhe was dragged off the bus, several peo-ple quietly prayed to themselves.
One week before departure, I sweetlyaccepted my version of ruby slippers —an exit visa. After hours of elbowing myway through the crowded U.S. Embassy,now only open to foreigners — which,technically, included me because of mydual citizenship — I ran a few blocks tomy aunt’s workplace. I jumped for joywith my newly stamped passport andteasingly waved it around mumblinghow I couldn’t wait to eat McDonald’sagain. It was all so exciting until shelooked at me and asked, “Do you knowhow much that’s worth?” I wanted to an-swer, “priceless,” but there was no needto make it worse.
Caught between frustration and thefear of sounding like a patriotic hick, Icriticized this country’s government forthe past eight years. It took a few grandand five weeks of separation to realizethat there’s no place I’d rather call home.
Fenan Solomon is a junior journalismand pre-pharmacy major. She can bereached at [email protected].
America: A heart grown fonder
Tuesday night, the College Park City Council wasn’t even seekingRoute 1 redevelopment funding from the State Highway Admin-istration. Maybe some modern traffic lights would do the trick,they said. Or even just some street signs, they pleaded.
It’s a sign of the times for College Park’s busiest street when eventhese modest requests are met with resistance. Traffic signs warningdrivers to stop for pedestrians would take months to install,SHA engineer Anyesha Mookherjee told the city councilTuesday night. And to get a traffic signal telling pedestri-ans how much time they have before making the four-lanedash across the street would take eight years, Mookherjeesaid.
Just three months ago, Route 1 was scheduled toreceive $7.1 million as the start of a multi-year projectthat would take an estimated $110 million to complete. The money wouldhave gone toward widening parts of Route 1 into a four-lane road, creat-ing bus pull-off lanes and constructing a new median. All of these effortswould have been significant steps toward making the road safer. ButTuesday night, the city mostly discussed upping the fines for not yield-ing to pedestrians and cracking down on jaywalkers.
It’s great that city officials are trying to work with the hand the statehas dealt them. But at this point, such small fixes are not enough.According to SHA documents, between 1998 and 2006 College Park’sstretch of Route 1 had 51 percent more crashes than the state average.And every student crossing Route 1 at the end of a weekend night at thebars knows what it’s like playing real-life Frogger drunk.
City officials need to make the seriousness of the situ-ation an unavoidable truth to state lawmakers. They’ve
made substantial efforts already, lobbying annually inAnnapolis and even holding a protest last month. Butwith a struggling economy and a tight budget, lobbyingefforts must not only be emphatic, they must be cre-ative.
Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Anne Arundel andPrince George’s) has lobbied to de-fund the construction of the Inter-county Connector, and to commit a portion of that funding to the rede-velopment of Route 1. While it is not clear to what extent that particularidea is compelling or feasible, the intent is admirable. We only hope thatit won’t take yet another tragic accident to convince lawmakers of Route1’s dangers.
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There is one thing I have learnedduring my time here that Iknow I will use for the rest ofmy life. I’m not referring to the
political history of Taiwan, the effects ofinternational trade on currency evalua-tion or even the different characters usedin writing Mandarin. I have learned thatnaps are good.
Napping unfairly gets a bad rap. Eventhough kindergartners, senior citizensand college students all love them, ourfast-paced American culture looks downon the idea of afternoon breaks. For yearsI subscribed to the notion that fallingasleep in the middle of the day is a sign oflaziness. How can I doze off when Ishould be working? Napping made mefeel sluggish and weak. I figured if mybody really needed more sleep, I shouldjust find more time at night. Taking a nap
was simply a waste of time.Over the course of the past two-and-a-
half years, however, I have graduallycome to realize quite the contrary is true.There is nothing like a nice nap, refresh-ing for both body and mind. I find I oftenfeel both energized and more alert aftermy hour-long nap during economics onMondays and Wednesdays.
A lot of research has come out to sup-port the idea that napping can have posi-tive repercussions. Recent studies sug-gest humans are biologically inclined totake short naps in the mid-afternoon.The drowsiness most people associatewith eating a big lunch is actually thebody’s natural daily cycle. This is com-pounded by the fact that most Ameri-cans, and especially college students,don’t get enough sleep at night. Underthese conditions, taking a midday break
is particularly important. According toThe Boston Globe, a short catnap of 20minutes can improve both concentrationand mood. If you are really sleep de-prived, a longer nap of up to two hourscan help recoup lost sleep. Whether youare struggling from a long night at the li-brary or at Bentley’s, catching a few Z’scan help boost productivity.
Of course, some naps are better thanothers. Resting too late in the day or formore than two hours can throw off the
body’s circadian rhythm, or internalclock. Most studies recommend sleepingsometime between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Ad-ditionally, napping can sometimes exac-erbate the problems associated with sev-eral sleep disorders.
But for most of us, taking a short mid-day nap is a great way to rest an over-worked mind and catch up on lost sleep.It will likely improve mental functioning,motor skills and mood. Regardless of theconnotations our culture assigns to nap-ping, there is no reason to feel guiltyabout taking a brief nap. So if reading thiscolumn hasn’t put you to sleep already,feel free to yawn loudly, yawn proudlyand take a nice, long nap.
Andrew Hallowell is a junior govern-ment and politics major. He can bereached at [email protected].
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A call for unity
I am expressing my sincere condo-lences for the victims of the tragedy inMumbai, India. In 1956, I was the vicepresident of the International Club atthe university. In those days, we hadmembers of all nationalities in thelargest independent club on the cam-pus. In those days, there were not sepa-rate clubs, one for Indian students andanother for Pakistani students. I under-stand that the International Club nolonger exists, and instead there areclubs that are divided and separatedfrom one another by their countries oforigin. I deplore this move away fromwhat used to be. In the InternationalClub, we were able to have differencesof opinion, but we all got along well so-cially — some even met their futurespouses there.
FRED A. KAHNUNIVERSITY ALUMNUS
CLASS OF 1960FORMER DIAMONDBACK COLUMNIST
A unified SGAMichael Lemaire’s Dec. 4 article,
“SGA rejects changes to VP elections,”completely misrepresented the leader-ship relationships that exist in the Stu-dent Government Association and inac-curately conveyed my opinion as an in-dependently elected executive. I did notfeel that the amendment was “directedat [me].” It was well-intentioned, and asJonathan Sachs and Andrew Steinbergsaid, it aimed to give “every SGA achance to maximize their year.”
I am very upset that this article sug-gested a great deal of miscommunica-tion within the SGA and that it resur-rected past parties with which we nolonger associate ourselves. As the lead-ers within SGA have asserted manytimes, elections are far in the past andhave had no effect on relationships with-in the organization. In the article, I saidthat “real leaders work together arounda common goal despite different ideolo-gies. If you are good leader, then you canwork with anyone.” Sachs’ account ofthe SGA’s success this semester in theState of the SGA address Wednesdaynight is a testament to that statement.Sachs, Jason Hofberg, Sterling Grimesand I, along with other leaders in the or-ganization, are on the same page andhave worked collaboratively on manyinitiatives — and that will not change.
JOANNA CALABRESE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTSTUDENT GOVERNMENT
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Housing selection processI support the push by the Residence
Hall Association to institute a new hous-ing selection process. The current sys-tem of room assignment involves hun-dreds of freshmen and sophomores run-ning around the ballrooms in the StampStudent Union, trying to arrange agroup selection. The process is totallydisorganized and confusing to those un-derclassmen who are less experiencedwith the process. Exploitation of the sys-tem is commonplace, as large groupsform the day of the housing meeting inhope of flipping the odds in their favor.Simply walking around the StudentUnion asking potential roommatesalone or in a pair if they have a lowenough priority number is all it takes toensure that you and your group of six orseven can get housing regardless of yourown assigned number. The chaos of low-erclassmen trying to escape the torturesof the high-rises also means that line-cutting or lying to the organizers is alsocommon. By the end of the whole mess,many students leave dissatisfied withtheir assignments, feeling cheated out oftheir dream South Hill suite or apart-ment despite their seemingly low priori-ty number. If the priority number sys-tem is to remain, these loopholes anddishonest practices need to be stopped.Hopefully, an online system will not onlymake the process much less stressful,but it will also ensure that room selec-tion is much more fair.
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Born today, you are one ofthe most imaginative andcreative individuals bornunder your sign. Where
others may be practical in thoughtand deed, you tend to think anddo things that have never beenthought or done before, and thewellspring of your ideas is richand deep. The danger, of course, isthat you might never know inwhich direction you are meant togo; only if you work to defineyourself and your life at an earlyage will you be able to chart asolid course for yourself — per-sonally or professionally.
There are times, of course, inwhich your heart will lead yourhead directly to the gates of seri-ous trouble, and only with disci-pline can you keep disaster at bay.You will always be rather emo-tional, however, even when youare putting your brainpower tothe test.
Also born on this date are: JoanDidion, writer; Walt Disney, car-toonist and producer; Jim Messi-na, rocker; Little Richard, rocker;Fritz Lang, director.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— You mustn’t try to second-guess the motives of a familymember; take it for grantedthat he or she is being sincere.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —You will be able to attract agreat deal of attention to your-self, but once all eyes are onyou, performance is what reallycounts.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Adomestic adjustment is neces-sary soon, and you should beable to sound out the feelings ofthose who are most closely con-cerned.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Aproject that seems to be a no-win situation may actually turnout to be a sure thing in the end.Unseen forces are surely atwork.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Anunusual association can provebeneficial to you in the days tocome. Open yourself up to allpossibilities.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —Someone may find your wordsand your actions quite suspect— but the explanation is simple,and you must make it in goodtime.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —You’ll enjoy a last-minute op-portunity that can enable you tosnatch victory from the jaws ofdefeat. Success can be lastingat this time.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Amutual understanding is likely
to develop between you and arival. You mustn’t expect morethan is possible, however.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — By theend of the day, you’ll be back inthe swing of things — thanks toa close friend. Inspiration andmotivation are both on the in-crease.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Maintain a down-to-earth ap-proach, and you’ll win out overeven the most formidable oppo-sition. You know where you’regoing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — It isimportant for you to be readyfor action as soon as possible.The quicker you can turn anidea into reality, the better.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —That which is mysterious andsomewhat peculiar will hold aparticular fascination for youthroughout the day. Don’t getlost in dreamland.
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Loretta LynnWhy Loretta Lynn has chosen to come to the 9:30 Club this Saturday
instead of some of the area's classier venues, we can't understand.But any opportunity to catch one of country music's greatest livinglegends is one worth taking. She hasn't had any new material sinceher 2004 Jack White-produced album — the phenomenal Van LearRose — but Lynn has more than 40 years of classic back-catalog topull from. This is, without a doubt, our concert pick of the weekend.
Doors open at 6 p.m. and tickets are $55.
REVIEW | CADILLAC RECORDS
History playing on a broken recordCadillac Records gives a troubled portrayal of the influential Chess Records label and its many stars
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WASHINGTON — RAY DAVIESAT 9:30 CLUBMonday night isn’t exactlythe prime night for rockmusic, and withGrace Potter andLoretta Lynnsolidifying aSaturdaymonopoly on 9:30Club, the weekendoptions inWashington arelooking pretty good. Butsometimes, final essays andprojects be damned, you have toprioritize. Ray Davies, lead singer ofThe Kinks, is coming to town, whichmeans we’re advising you dropeverything and head into Washingtoncome Monday night. With twoexcellent solo albums under his beltand a hoard of Kinks classics, Daviesis not to be missed. Tickets are $40and doors open at 7 p.m.
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FEATURE | LEVERAGE
BY DAN BENAMORSenior staff writer
Imagine if Snatch and Ocean’sEleven had a test-tube baby and a littlebit of Looney Tunes goofiness fell intothe mix. That petri dish lovechild mightresemble Leverage, TNT’s new action-drama-comedy-absurdist series. Muchcredit goes to director Dean Devlin(The Triangle) and writers ChrisDowney (King of Queens) and JohnRogers (Transformers) for the creativerisks, but it’s an odd gumbo of ingredi-ents that doesn’t coalesce into a satisfy-ing stew.
From the start, it’s hard to figure outwhat Leverage wants to be. Concretely,it sets up a high-tech Robin Hood-likecrew of thieves. Tonally, it tries to befunny (hit or miss there), tries to be dra-matic and sometimes gleefully dispens-es with logic and indulges in silliness.In the pilot, the muscle of the group(Christian Kane, The Christmas Con-spiracy) literally magically beats up tenhenchmen.
Let’s put that another way: Thecharacter moves in fast-forward —much like an episode of Heroes or aWile E. Coyote cartoon — and brutal-izes and disarms everyone. This isnever explained. In the second episodethe same character gets into anotherfight and apparently does not have thesame powers.
Devlin and series regular AldisHodge (CSI) discussed the wild moodshifts of the show in an interview withThe Diamondback.
“As long as we didn’t get overlymelodramatic and kill the jokes, aslong as we didn’t get overly silly andkill the pathos or things that you careabout, you know, then we thought thatwe could live right in that zone,” De-vlin said.
At its core, Leverage brings up
major political power issues. The pilothints at crew leader Nathan’s (Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton, Lymelife) for-mer work in insurance and eventualbetrayal by the health care system.The second episode has the groupworking against a Blackwater-likemercenary group.
“The very first card we put on thewall in the writers’ room was MainStreet versus Wall Street,” Devlinsaid. “We’re trying to tackle somereal things.”
The aesthetic style of the series alsoreflects the show’s varied nature.Sometimes the music is bouncy lively,and the camera spins and zooms.Some characters are zany: Hodge’scharacter, a computer hacker, is intro-duced with a flashback to a Star Wars-inspired sex scene, and the crew’s ex-plosives expert Parker detonated herhouse as a 10-year-old — with her abu-sive father inside. This all calls to mind
a Snatch spin-off.But the show will occasionally do a
flip and amp the drama. The cameragoes static and the mood becomesmore serious. But it’s hard to find thedrama credible after all the sillinesspreceding it.
The instrument of most of the dra-matic acting is Hutton, sporting theclichéd stubble. And while he doesseem mildly grizzled as crew leaderNathan, his performance is often toolow-key to register. And when it isn’t,he’s overacting.
The bright spot might be Beth Ries-graf (Struck) with an oddly bemusedturn as the explosives expert Parker,but the show hides her quirks far toomuch despite Devlin’s obvious affec-tion for the actress’ work dating back toher audition.
“She’d created this really strange As-perger’s-like character, and I was inlove with it,” Devlin said.
The cons are sometimes clever butrarely clever enough to really wow,though the pilot capper involvingNigerian officials (playing off the com-mon e-mail spam) is a lot of fun. Thejoking dialogue, however, is rarelyfunny and sometimes has a genericfeel. Lines such as “Anybody notice howhard we rocked last night?” aren’t doingthe show any favors.
It will be worth seeing how Leverageplays out. The second episode is muchmore toned down than the loony pilot,but the mellowing out actually sacri-fices what makes the show original.
Hodge was not lacking in confidenceabout the show, however.
“You’re gonna have fun watchingthis, I guarantee it,” he said.
He might be right, but the problem isLeverage is more guilty pleasure thanstylish genre-bender.
Struggling to Leverage the dramaDirector Dean Devlin talks about his new ambitious-but-flawed TNT series
Cadillac Records tries to capture the stories of (from left to right) Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody), Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short) and Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles) . COURTESY OF MOVIEWEB.COM
BY VAMAN MUPPALAFor The Diamondback
Through the mess that isCadillac Records, one can stilldiscern that there is a greatstory to be told. Without thepresence and talents of MuddyWaters (Jeffrey Wright, Quan-tum of Solace), Chuck Berry(Mos Def, Be Kind Rewind) andEtta James (Beyoncé Knowles,Dreamgirls), it is difficult toimagine America, let aloneAmerican popular music.
It is the telling, however, ofthis quintessential Americanmusical odyssey that Recordsfrequently botches, as DarnellMartin’s inept direction andwriting reduce larger-than-life legends to shallow, incom-plete caricatures.
Still, much of Records’ firstact — like the musicians them-selves — brims with promise.
The story of Waters is espe-cially effective, as Wright deliv-ers a portrayal of the great bluesman whose seething resent-
ment from his days as a share-cropper led him to become the“baddest man alive.”
If there is one shortcoming toWright’s performance, it is thathe embodies the older, wearierWaters far better than theyoung one. Though Wrightmusters up sinister smirks andspeaks in appropriately gravetones as he beds throngs ofadoring women, he simply lacksan edge. One does not feel thedanger and energy that shouldcome from Waters’s presence.
Initially, Adrien Brody (TheDarjeeling Limited) isremarkably charming andearnest as Chess Recordsmogul Leonard Chess, a manwho is riddled with much ofthe same insecurity thatplagues Waters. Chess’s feel-ings of inadequacy are derivedfrom being a skinny PolishJew who loses girls because hedoes not have enough moneyto drive a Cadillac.
Brody effectively conveysthat Chess is a man of equal
parts ambition and sweetness.He magnanimously takes careof his performers, such asWaters and Little Walter(Columbus Short, Quarantine),to the point of being called“white Daddy.” But Chess stillexpects much in return, as thefilm later reveals.
The show-stealer, however, isMos Def as Chuck Berry. Bynow accustomed to owningevery film he appears in, MosDef embodies Berry with both awit and humanity that scenery-chewing Short could learn from.
Clearly, the foundation for thecharacters is strong. Yet theirdevelopment still goes astray,partly due to the film’s multipleconflicting story lines and sub-plots. Records simply lacks adriving narrative force.
The relationship betweenChess and Waters is relegated tothe back burner in favor ofChess’ flirtations with James.This romance would work muchbetter in the larger context of thefilm if Knowles and Brody were
given less clunky, halting dia-logue and were not rushedthrough their interactions. Theactors’ attempt at sexual tensionand electrifying chemistry justfizzles and dies after Brody looksinto Knowles’s tearful eyes forthe umpteenth time and prom-ises he will not hurt her.
Simply put, Knowles’s mercu-rial and occasionally revelatoryportrait of James is underminedevery time she has to open hermouth and force out clichés.
Although meant to be animportant character, Little Wal-ter simply shows up every fewscenes, gets himself in troubleand starts crying.
Similarly, Berry is banishedin the third act, never to beseen again.
All of these developments aremeant to tie in to larger themesof race — specifically the plan-tation owner-sharecropperdynamic at play — as a white
Jew makes millions off the workof black musicians. But thetopic of race is merely glancedat from a distance, losing impor-tance to the personal conflicts ofthe characters.
Due to these problems,Records does not flow fromscene to scene, but lurches. Itspacing is forced and artificial.One can almost imagine Martinhastily aborting each scene tosqueeze the story into a com-mercially viable 109-minuterunning time.
Apart from narrative issues,Records struggles mightily withtone. While its humor workswell, the switch to drama ismade far from seamlessly.
For example, a tearful con-frontation between Waters’swife, Geneva (GabrielleUnion, Meet Dave), and LittleWalter swings awkwardlybetween a heartfelt soliloquyexplaining how Geneva’s devo-
tion to Waters keeps her faith-ful and a farcical gag in whichWalter’s looks of dismay at theprospect of not getting any areplayed for laughs.
In addition, it is a cruel ironythat a film about some of thebest music of the 20th centuryhas serious score issues. To sig-nal every emotional scene, thesame rueful piano loop isplayed in the background, to anappreciable groan from theaudience. One expects betterfrom Spike Lee collaboratorTerence Blanchard.
Records would work muchbetter if it decided what storyit wanted to tell, and told iteffectively. Ensemble piecestest the story-telling skills of adirector more than anythingelse. It’s apparent Darnell isno Robert Altman, or evenPaul Thomas Anderson.
MOVIE: Cadillac Records | VERDICT:
Leverage’s tonal inconsistency ranges from goofy to dead serious and ultimately undermines the series pilot. COURTESY OF TNT
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Fittingly mediocre formerNFL quarterback Jake Plum-mer was born in Boise in 1974,and actress Kristine Suther-land, who apparently playedBuffy’s mother in Buffy theVampire Slayer, was bornthere too.
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BRONCO STADIUM: If youhaven’t worn yourself out at
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The current surface is thethird set of blue turf at BroncoStadium, and it was installedin 2002.
THAT’S PRETTY MUCH IT:I’d been hoping to add a couplemore sections, but Boise isreally making this difficult.
The Humanitarian Bowl isprobably the most excitingevent of the year in the entirestate.
I guess it’s too bad for themthe Terps will be playing in it.
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Blue turf makesBronco Stadium
stand outOK, in case you haven’t heard, the Terps are likely headed to the Humanitarian Bowl on Dec. 30 to playNevada. However, nothing is set in the ACC-stone yet. Only Georgia Tech and Clemson have officiallyaccepted bowl invitations, to the Chik-fil-A and Gator bowls, respectively.
It’s been speculated that the Champs Sports Bowl, located in Orlando, Fla., will snatch up nearby FloridaState for what might be coach Bobby Bowden’s final game. After that, it’s assumed that the Music City Bowlwill invite whichever team loses in the ACC Championship and that the Meineke Car Care Bowl, located inCharlotte, N.C., would then invite North Carolina. It’s highly unlikely the Emerald Bowl would invite the Terpstwo years in a row, which leaves the Humanitarian and EagleBank bowls. The Washington-based EagleBankbowl would love to have the Terps play Navy at RFK Stadium, but the game is held Dec. 20, the last day ofuniversity finals. And since Ball State has decided to not play in the Humanitarian Bowl, that opens the doorfor the Terps to play in Boise, Idaho. Good thing, too, because according to that scenario, the other doorswere closing fast.
But … Eric Prisbell of The Washington Post reported this morning that the Terps are still holding out hopethat the Meineke Car Care Bowl could invite them and set up a Maryland-West Virginia rivalry bowl game.For that to happen, North Carolina would need to be taken off the board by the Music City Bowl. That wouldonly happen if the Champs Sports Bowl selected the loser of the conference championship, which wouldreportedly only happen if the losing team was Virginia Tech. If all that happens, Maryland officials think theMeineke Car Care Bowl could pass over Florida State in favor of a Terps-Mountaineers matchup.
Got that? Not really? It’s OK, I don’t much understand it either. Just know this: It looks like the Terps aregoing to Boise to play on the blue field. But…they could still end up in Charlotte playing the Mountaineers.Hmm, I wonder which one Terp fans would like more…
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“They played with so muchpoise, so much confidence,and that energy really fedoff for all their teammates.”
With their team trailing42-35 in the second half,Toliver scored 20 of her 24points and Colemanchipped in nine of her 16points in the final 14 min-utes to cap the comebackand earn the Terps (7-1) a70-59 victory over the Boil-ermakers (5-2).
The victory marked theTerps’ seventh straight vic-tory and comes against atalented Boilermaker squadwhose only other loss thisyear came in overtime atthe hands of No. 4 Stanford.The Terps’ depth provedtoo much for even Purdue’sskilled and versatile for-ward Lindsay Wisdom-Hyl-ton to overcome. Wisdom-Hylton led the Boilermak-ers with 20 points, ninerebounds, four steals, threeassists and three blocks.
The significance of theTerps’ victory goes beyondthe box score. In defeatingPurdue, the Terps alsonotched an important road
victory in front of 10,814 atthe venerable MackeyArena, considered one ofthe nation’s loudest venues.
The flow of Thursday’sgame mirrored that of theTerps’ flawed performanceagainst TCU, with oneexception — as theiroffense got going in the sec-ond half, they saw to it thattheir opponent’s did not.
Exactly as they didagainst TCU, the Terpsexploded for a 40-plus pointsecond half after scoringfewer than 30 in the firsthalf. Down three at half-time, this time, the Terpsbalanced both offense anddefense, outscoring theBoilermakers 45-31 for thehalf and 35-17 in the final13:44.
“We had an aggressivementality, something thatwe kind of went away fromin the first half after we hadthat big lead,” Toliver said.“I think we playedextremely composed downthe stretch, stayed confi-
dent.”Toliver and Coleman
managed the way down thehomestretch for the Terps.After a cold start to thegame, where the Terpsrelied on Marah Strick-land’s hot shooting (16points) to keep them withinstriking distance, the pre-season all-ACC pickspicked up the slack. Theduo scored from outside thearc, found their midrangegame and finished stronginside. Perhaps mostimportantly, Toliver madeher free throws, going aperfect 12-12 from the line,including 10 in the secondhalf, to secure the win.
The team faces off atPittsburgh this Sunday at 2p.m. in their second stop ofa four-game road tripbefore they return home forthe Terrapin Classic in lateDecember.
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decided until overtime.Without such accurate
shooting, the 5-2 Terps couldeasily be 3-4 heading intoSunday’s BB&T Classicagainst George Washington(3-1) at the Verizon Center inWashington.
“We work on it a lot,” for-ward Landon Milbournesaid. “We take a lot of freethrows in practice, and itcarries over to the game.”
Part of the success at theline is a function of theTerps offense. Since anemphasis is placed onperimeter players scoring,those who are getting to theline most often are the oneswho can shoot free throwsbest. Vasquez leads the teamwith 33 attempts, and he’sconverted 29 of them.
Last season, forward Bam-bale Osby had the mostattempts, and he only made66.5 percent. The next mostprolific free throw shooterwas James Gist, who wasmediocre from the line,making 73.7 percent of histries.
“Remember last year?”Vasquez asked. “People waskind of like, includingmyself, I was hitting myselfbecause I was missing a lotof my free throws.”
Vasquez has gone fromgood (78.2 percent) last sea-son to great (87.9 percent)this season. His teammatesare improving, too.
As a team, the Terps areshooting 79.6 percent at theline, compared to 70.3 per-cent last year. And thesepercentages span roughlythe same amount ofattempts: They shot a littlemore than 21 per game lastseason and a little more than20 each contest this season.
“I think the key to anygood free-throw shootingteam is having enough guys,so that if one guy misses acouple, there are other guyswho are really good thatnight,” coach Gary Williamssaid. “That’s what we’vedone so far.”
It sure helps when your“center” is a quality shooter
like Dave Neal, who hasmade 9-10 from the line.Last season, Neal only hadfour attempts.
This year, it’s the lessershooters that don’t havelarge enough sample sizes todrastically affect the Terps’free-throw numbers.
Forwards Braxton Dupree(3-for-7) and Jerome Burney(0-for-1) figure to struggle abit with foul shots but so farhaven’t earned enoughattempts to make a differ-ence.
Milbourne said that a fewof his teammates — guardsAdrian Bowie and CliffTucker included — changedtheir shooting strokes duringthe offseason, and thosechanges have made themmore adept at hitting the 15-foot set shots.
“Coach looks at us whenwe’re shooting, and he’ll tellus, ‘Try this; try that,’” Mil-bourne said. “We’ll alwayschange up things, and it hasbeen working pretty well forus this year.”
“You can tell a player whatto do and fundamentally howto get better,” Williams said,“but they have to work on itlong enough and get it. Sowhen they get into a gamesituation, their naturalstroke is better.”
While Williams likes hav-ing the hands-on approach inhelping his players improvefrom the free-throw line, herefuses to say a word toskilled marksman EricHayes, who shot 85.2 per-cent last season and is a per-fect 16-for-16 through theTerps’ first seven games thisyear.
The Terps have shot below75 percent from the line justonce — the opening gameblowout against Bucknell.Last season they were under75 percent 21 times in 34total games.
Now that they’re hittingthose shots, the Terps needto improve upon receivingthose opportunities. Theyaverage more than 24attempts in their five victo-ries, while in respectivelosses to Gonzaga andGeorgetown, they attempted
only nine and 12 freethrows.
Without a true inside pres-ence, getting to the stripeagainst the better defensiveteams may prove to be diffi-cult. But at least for now, theTerps aren’t blowing theeasy opportunities theyhave.
“Hopefully, I get on a rolland don’t miss any more offree throws the whole sea-son,” Vasquez, the perfec-tionist, said. “[So far] we’vebeen a really good free-throw-shooting team.”
Forward Dave Neal is one of the Terps’ top free-throw shooters by percentage this season, making nineof his first 10 attempts. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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seen since his last College Cup.There are only six players onthe current roster who were onthat 2005 team.
Only defender A.J. Delagarzaand midfielder Graham Zusi,both seniors, saw significant ac-tion, though midfielder DougRodkey, a redshirt junior, playedin the team’s semifinal againstSouthern Methodist.
While Delagarza, Zusi, Rod-key and others have played asignificant role this season,newer players such as defenderOmar Gonzalez know with a wintomorrow, they’ll be makingtheir own mark. Still, Creighton(16-1-2) will provide a stern test.
“I expect it to be a tough,hard, just all-out game,” Gonza-lez said. “They’re a team that’sgonna come out and never stoprunning and never stop trying tofight for the win. It’s gonna takeeverything we have.”
The Bluejays, who wereranked one spot ahead of theTerps (20-3-0) at No. 2 in thefinal NSCAA/adidas poll, have
only allowed nine goals this sea-son. But according to Bluejayscoach Bob Warming, who saidwhen Creighton played an exhi-bition against the Terps in thespring he thought he was facingan “all-star team,” the Bluejayswill be looking to do more thanpack in defenders.
“With us, it’s not just about de-fending,” Warming said. “Wehave the ball an awful lot andwhen you have the ball it’s prettytough for someone else to score.We’ve created a lot of our defend-ing out of keeping possession.”
With their possession-orient-ed style and strong pedigree, theBluejays, who played to a drawin that spring match, are a lotlike the No. 2-seeded Terps.
“They are an extremely disci-plined, hard-working, connect-ed team that has some specialplayers,” Cirovski said. “I thinkthey have some similarities tous. ... At this point, they’re allgreat teams and you’re gonnahave to be at your best to beatthem. It’s as simple as that.”
Creighton midfielder AndreiGotsmanov, who, like Gonzalez,
is a semifinalist for the MACHermann Trophy for collegesoccer’s player of the year, leadsthe team with 10 goals. Goal-keeper Brian Holt has recorded12 shutouts and sports a 0.49goals against average.
“You have to be precise in thefinal 25 yards of the field on bothsides,” Cirovski said. “I think that’swhat we’ve gotta be good at.”
That means leading goal-scorer midfielder Jeremy Hall,freshman forward CaseyTownsend and forward JasonHerrick will have to converttheir quality chances while thedefense clamps down on an effi-cient Bluejay offense.
If they do, they’ll end theTerps’ two-year College Cupdrought and get to Frisco,Texas, where they’ve wanted tobe since the season started.
“Right now, it’s just a matterof fighting hard, staying freshand getting the result on Satur-day,” Kassel said. “We need tocontinue. We haven’t accom-plished anything yet.”
Midfielder Doug Rodkey is one of three Terps to have played in the NCAA tournament in 2005, whenthe Terps won the national championship. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
CREIGHTON, from Page 10
Blue Jays thrive on possession
Have you ever beento Boise? Well,you’ll love it.
All signs arepointing to the Terrapin foot-ball team playing in theRoady’s Humanitarian Bowlin the City of Trees. Andwhile an official announce-ment won’t be made untilSunday, now seems like asgood a time as any to puttogether a brief travel guidefor those of you who arethinking about making thetrip for the Dec. 30 game.
Sure, Boise may not be asinviting a destination asMiami, Atlanta, Jacksonville,Orlando, San Francisco,Nashville or Charlotte, but
maybe you should havethought about that beforeyou chose to go to a univer-sity with a football team thatbeats itself at least fourtimes per season.
Still, there is plenty ofexcitement to be found up insouthwest Idaho, and hereare some of the importantthings you should knowbefore you head up there.
TOURIST ATTRACTIONS:According to the Boise Con-vention and Visitor’s Bureau,“Boise is a delightful blendof traditional and non-tradi-tional sights and attrac-tions.”
So it has that going for it,which is nice.
You could visit Zoo Boise,or Boise Art Museum —Idaho’s premiere artmuseum — or the WorldSports Humanitarian Hall ofFame, where you can appar-ently “Be inspired to be a
humanitarian and learnabout how sports can teachyou the character traits youneed to succeed in sports andin life.”
If you visit the WSHHF,you may find a teary-eyedRalph Friedgen standing atone of the exhibits noddingsolemnly and mutteringmotivational phrases to him-self.
And if you’re trying to for-get you’re in Boise, you couldvisit any of the 28 listingsunder “Night Clubs and Bars”on www.downtownboise.org,
10 THE DIAMONDBACK | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
SportsThe ACC Championship
WHERE: Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Fla.WHEN: Tomorrow, 1 p.m. | TV: ABC
PROGNOSIS: The Eagles (9-3, 5-3 ACC) surprisedeveryone all season. The Hokies (8-4, 5-3) are the
defending league champions. It should be good.
VSNo. 18 BOSTONCOLLEGE
VIRGINIATECH
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Midfielder Drew Yates and the Terps have the opportunity to head back to the College Cupfor the first time in three years by beating Creighton. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Midfielder Jeremy Hall (center) is the Terps’ leading scorer this year with 14 goals and six assists. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
ONE STEP AWAYTerps can return toCollege Cup withhome win vs. No. 7-seed Creighton
BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer
By the time the Terrapin men’s soccer teamwon the national championship in 2005, it hadbecome an almost permanent fixture at theCollege Cup, soccer’s version of the Final Four.
The Terps made it to at least the semifinalround of the NCAA tournament four consecu-tive years from 2002 to 2005. But even withthat last College Cup appearance just threeyears ago, it feels like it’s been a lot longer.
Tomorrowafternoon atLudwig Field,an almostentirely differ-ent group ofTerps will seekto reestablishthemselvesamong the col-lege soccerelite, a groupthe programfrequentedduring the first half of the decade. The Terpswill take on No. 7-seed Creighton in the NCAAtournament quarterfinal.
“It’s an important game for us and for ourprogram and for everybody here,” midfielderMatt Kassel said. “This is what we’ve workedfor throughout the whole season and the sum-mer and the preseason.”
Kassel, a freshman, is a symbol of the signif-icant roster turnover coach Sasho Cirovski has
Terps vs. CreightonWhere: Ludwig Field
When: Tomorrow, 1 p.m.Radio: WMUCsports.com
Please See CREIGHTON, Page 8
Toliver, Colemanensure road victory
Forward Demauria Liles andthe Terps came back from anearly deficit to beat Purdue.PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHAEL
CARNEY/THE PURDUE EXPONENT
Seniors pull No. 8 Terps out of first-half deficit and avoid team’s secondroad loss in as many tries this season
BY JONAS SHAFFERStaff writer
After a little more than onehalf of basketball last night, itappeared the Terrapinwomen’s basketball team wasagain more than ready toreturn to the friendly confinesof the Comcast Center.
Considering the team’searly-season start away fromCollege Park, it probably was-n’t all thatsurprising tocoachBrendaFrese. TheTerps suf-fered ashockingseason-opening lossto Texas Christian on Nov. 14,and 26 minutes through lastnight’s date with No. 17 Pur-due in the ACC-Big Ten Chal-lenge, the No. 8 Terps seemedheaded for a second loss in asmany true road games.
Then Kristi Toliver andMarissa Coleman stepped in.As they have done so often thisseason, the two seniors tookthe lead in ensuring the flightback from West Lafayette,Ind., wouldn’t be one spentsulking.
“That’s what big-time, spe-cial players do,” Frese said.
Please See PURDUE, Page 9
WOMEN’SBASKETBALL
NO. 8 TERPS. . . . . . . 70No. 17 Purdue . . . . . . 59
Free throws keepingTerps in close gamesCharity stripe has helped Terps getoff to 5-2 start entering BB&T Classic
BY MARK SELIGSenior staff writer
With the Terrapin men’sbasketball team leading byfive points heading into thefinal 1:30 Wednesday againstMichigan, the Wolverinescontinuously fouled to extendthe game. The Terpsresponded by making 7-of-8free throws in that span, pre-venting any type of comebackand allowing the proverbialfat lady to belt her tune.
After the game though, thelone miss was what guardGreivis Vasquez couldn’t getout of his head.
“I missed one, and I wasgoing crazy,” he said.
That perfectionism on free-bies has served the Terps wellthis season, as their profi-
ciency at the charity stripehas been an integral part of atleast two wins already.Against Michigan, the Terpsshot 18-20 at the line in a five-point victory. Two weeks agoagainst Vermont, the Terps hit24-30 in a game that wasn’t
Please See BB&T, Page 8
Terps vs. George WashingtonWhere: Verizon Center
When: Sunday, 7:30 p.m.TV: MASN
Don’t fret; Boise’s greatGREGSCHIMMEL
Please See SCHIMMEL, Page 9
“There is plenty ofexcitement to befound up insouthwest Idaho.”
GREG SCHIMMEL
BY HIRDESH MATTAFor The Diamondback
After finishing 1-2 lastweekend against Drexeland two top-five teams,Iowa and Missouri, the Ter-rapin wrestling team willtravel to Penn State to par-ticipate in the Nittany LionOpen on Sunday.
The Terps saw their sea-son record fall to 2-4-1after last weekend’s dualsand will look to refine theirtechniques this weekendbefore they return to dualaction against Princeton onDec. 14. In the 05-06 sea-son, the Terps got off to aslow start as well, going 1-7before turning it around inthe second half of the sea-son and finishing with ashare of the ACC regularseason title.
“We were disappointed[with last week’s results],”said coach Kerry McCoy. “I
think we wrestled well, butwe made mistakes that wecan fix by the end of the year.”
With 22 wrestlers com-peting this weekend,McCoy will get an opportu-nity to see some of hisyounger athletes compete.McCoy will also have threeranked wrestlers compet-ing: Hudson Taylor, whofell to No. 5 in the 197-pound weight class afterhis first loss of the seasonto Missouri’s Max Askren;
Steven Bell, who is 10-1overall and No. 9 in the133-pound weight class;and Alex Krom, who red-shirted last season and isranked No. 15 in the 141-pound weight class.
“I’m looking for our guysto get more competition,”said McCoy. “Coming backfrom the Northeast Duals,guys were hungry for morematches. We didn’t havethe performance we wantedto, but we were definitelyable to compete at a highlevel, so I think [we] justneed to get back in thecompetition and build offthe momentum we startedlast weekend.”
More than thirty schoolswill be competing at theNittany Lion Open, accord-ing to McCoy, includingPenn State, Drexel, UPennand Hofstra.
Wrestling heads to Penn State
“We didn’t havethe performancewe wanted to, butwe were definitelyable to competeat a high level.”
KERRY MCCOYWRESTLING COACH
Terps looking to bounce back from two-loss weekend