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Four sought in strong-arm robberySGA Pres.accused ofimproperjob hiringSachs says hiring wasproper; Petition forcesinvestigation’s launch
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
A petition signed by 54 people hasforced the SGA’s judicial body to investi-gate possible misconduct by PresidentJonathan Sachs, centering around an SGAposition he filled last summer.
The petition accuses Sachs of unspeci-fied misconduct during the appointment ofthe Student Government Association’sassistant vice president for financialaffairs last year. Sachs said he acted prop-erly during the process and that the com-plaint was simply the result of an upsetindividual who was denied a position.
“Anytime that you make an appointment,there are some disgruntled people, andthat's what this case is all about,” he said.
The complaint is related to Sachs’ rejec-tion of Anjelica Dortch for the position,who was Vice President of FinancialAffairs Jason Hofberg’s first choice. Sachsultimately approved Hofberg’s secondchoice, Andrew Levine.
The SGA Governance Board, which ismade up of students otherwise unaffiliatedwith the organization, is required to inves-tigate if more than 50 students sign a peti-tion. But a search by The Diamondbackrevealed a significant portion of the signersaren’t listed in the student directory andappear to have no ties to the university.
The petition is vaguely worded, andmany of its signatories are members ofthe Student Power Party, which wassharply critical of Sachs during the SGAelections. The petition calls for the boardto “investigate the conduct of SGA Presi-dent Jonathan Sachs during the appoint-ment process of the SGA Assistant Vice
Group attacks alumnus outside Annapolis Hall early Sunday morningBY NICK RHODES
Staff writer
University Police are looking forfour individuals in connection tothe strong-arm robbery of an alum-nus near Annapolis Hall early Sun-day morning.
The incident is the first such
crime this month and comes onlydays after an assault outside thebars early Friday morning, makingit the second crime alert sent out byUniversity Police this week. Untilthe first crime alert, none had beensent out since March 30.
At about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, the vic-tim, a university alumnus, was
parking his car alone in the meteredparking lot of Lehigh Road. The firstsuspect tapped on the driver’s sidewindow of the car and asked to usethe 22-year-old victim’s cell phoneto make a call. The victim agreed,got out of his vehicle and handedover his phone, according to thecrime alert.
The suspect then began walkingaway from the victim toward theSouth Hill section of the campuswith the cell phone in hand. The vic-tim began following the suspectwhen three other unidentified sus-pects surrounded him. One of the
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BY DERBY COXStaff writer
Students cramming late at night for theirfinal exams this semester will be able topark near popular study areas around thecampus as a result of a new DOTS initiative.
The Department of Transportation Ser-vices plans to offer special overnight park-ing permits that officials hope will help pre-vent students from having to make longtrips to their cars late at night. The permits,
BY TIRZA AUSTINSenior staff writer
Sunbathers everywhere — andnot a drop of water to cool them.
The deck of the Eppley Recre-ation Center’s outdoor pool wascovered with sunbathing studentsyesterday, but the pool itself wasdevoid of water. Even though thepool opened on Maryland Day,swimmers will be denied an out-door pool on the campus for atleast the immediate future.
The university has yet to meeta federal mandate to upgrade itsdrain covers, and until it does, thepool must remain empty. Despitehaving known about the mandatesince before the start of the aca-demic year, Associate Director
Students will be allowed to park near McKeldin,other study spots during night-time hours
DOTS offering specialparking permits for finals
Despite an empty pool, students have flocked to the deck to bask in thesun. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
A full deck and an empty poolLack of water doesn’t deter sunbathing students
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Karen Lips looks for salamanders under a rock next to a stream near the campus. Salamanders, like other amphibians, are threatened by the fungusLips is trying to stop the spread of. The fungus is already prevalent throughout North and South America. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY RICH ABDILLStaff writer
There is an international pan-demic killing off millions ofamphibians, and university biol-ogy professor Karen Lips is try-
ing to save them.Lips and her colleagues discovered an
unusual fungus called Chytridiomycosisthat thrives in cold, moist environments
and infects the skin of amphibians,killing them by hampering their abilityto absorb both oxygen and water. Theeffect on international ecosystems hasbeen drastic, Lips said, and while she’snot optimistic about finding a cure forthe fungus, she is trying to develop a bet-ter understanding of “chytrid” to betterpredict where it will hit next.
Biology professor Karen Lips is trying to savethe world’s amphibians from extinction
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‘Dedicated to protecting America’Sachs tofacehearingby end ofsemesterPresident of Financial Affairs.”
Dortch declined to commenton the pending investigationother than to say the petition wasdesigned “to look at the SGA con-stitution in terms of an appoint-ment process that could possiblytreat people unfairly.”
“I was treated unfairly duringthis entire appointmentprocess,” Dortch added. “And itneeds to be looked at so it doesn’thappen to someone else.”
Dortch said the GovernanceBoard told her the signers of thepetition would remain confiden-tial, but the document wasmailed to The Diamondback by aperson who was unlisted in theuniversity directory.
Sachs declined to say why hedidn’t approve Dortch, but saidhe acted appropriately duringthe appointment process.
“It was a judgment call, and Iknow I did the right thing,”Sachs said. “That discretion isprescribed in the by-laws to pro-tect the organization.”
Hofberg said he thought Sachshad denied the appointment inresponse to Dortch’s sometimesconfrontational style, which hesaid she exhibited as a memberof the finance committee beforehe made the appointment.
“My understand is that[Sachs] felt she wouldn’t workwell within the organization,”Hofberg said.
Matt Verghese, who served asSachs’s chief of staff last semes-ter, said a desire to bring a freshperspective to the position was aprimary factor in Sachs’s deci-sion, but that temperament wasalso a consideration.
The Governance Board needsto select a new member before ahearing on the issue can occur,but the hearing is scheduled totake place before the end of thesemester, Governance BoardChief Justice Rudi Sarna said.
Josef Parker, who was electedfrom the Student Power Party toserve as a neighboring com-muter legislator in the SGA nextyear, said he signed the petitionto ensure that appointments aremade carefully in the future.
“I want to make sure that peo-ple who are getting jobs are qual-ified, because we are talkingabout a huge budget,” he said.
Many signers of the petitionwere affiliated with the StudentPower Party, including MalcolmHarris, the party’s presidentialcandidate, and Julia Burke, theparty’s candidate for vice presi-dent of academic affairs.
But several signers of the peti-tion also appear to not be en-rolled at the university. For ex-ample, there are no studentsnamed James Byrnes, Taylor Hi-bert or DeLante Curtis in theuniversity directory, but all threesigned the petition. Dortch saidshe believes all the signaturesare from university students.
PETITION, from Page 1
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BY KEVIN ROBILLARDSenior staff writer
While they won’t likely be de-veloping exploding pens, daggershoes or rocket-firing cigarettes,researchers at a new university-affiliated center will be creatingcutting-edge technology for fed-eral intelligence agencies.
The Intelligence AdvancedResearch Projects Agency, lo-cated at the M Square ResearchPark — a joint venture betweenthe university and private devel-opers located down the streetfrom the College Park MetroStation — was officially dedicat-ed yesterday. While high-rank-ing Congressional memberssaid the agency would be partic-ularly crucial to national securi-ty, university officials were con-fident the agency will add to theschool’s prestige.
“This is about dedicating a
building that’s dedicated to pro-tecting America,” said Sen. Bar-bara Mikulski (D-Md.), a mem-ber of the Senate committee thatoversees federal intelligenceagencies. “Make no mistake, inthe 21st century, the four horse-men of the apocalypse are stam-peding across the globe.”
IARPA, an outgrowth of theDefense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency, was created inthe 1950s to engage in high-risk,high-reward research for themilitary. The agency is supposedto engage in what universityPresident Dan Mote called “far-out thinking.” DARPA has sincedeveloped the satellite-basedglobal positioning system andthe Advanced Research ProjectsAgency Network, one of theearly precursors to the Internet.
IARPA aims to engage in sim-ilar projects to help the nation’sintelligence organization devel-
op both high- and low-tech waysof information gathering.
“Intelligence is the best de-fense against terrorism andRussia and China and all thosewe’re competing against,” U.S.Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said. Ruppersberger,Mikulski and House MajorityLeader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.),who represents College Park,took credit for bringing IARPA
to M Square after what they saidwas a rough battle with Vir-ginia’s congressional delegation.
“It is another step in expan-sion of the technology and re-search base at the university,”Hoyer said.
While most of the governmentofficials in attendance stressedtechnological development,Mote said researchers at IARPAwould also work in the social
and life sciences fields, addingthat they could also serve as ad-junct faculty members and pos-sibly take on students as re-search assistants.
“We were caught with ourpants down on Sept. 11, not be-cause of technology, but becausethere were a lot of cultural dif-ferences we didn’t understand,”Mote said.
Mote and Hoyer both empha-sized having the agency nearbywould naturally help to betterthe university’s reputation.
“It increases the prestige ofthe university from which stu-dents will be receiving a de-gree,” Hoyer said.
The university already has abase of students and re-searchers focusing on nationalsecurity with two federally-funded research groups: the Na-tional Consortium for the Studyof Terrorism and Responses toTerrorism and the Center forthe Advanced Study of Lan-guage.
University President Dan Mote unveils the design for the newheadquarters of the Intelligence Advanced Research ProjectsAgency headquarters Monday at MSquare off River Road in CollegePark. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
The outdoor pool on North Campus remains empty as sunbatherslounge around it. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
for Aquatics Carrie Tuppersaid the pool might not befilled before the end of thesemester, but she was hope-ful it could open during thenext week.
Meanwhile, some studentsbemoaned the loss of the pooleven as they relaxed near theempty concrete basin in yes-terday’s 90-degree heat.
“It’s a pretty big bummer,”said junior public healthmajor Naomi Kruger, whowas tanning on the pool deckyesterday afternoon. “It’smuch better to go to the poolif there is water. It lets youstay out longer. It’s a reallysucky situation, because it’sreally hot right now.”
Taylor Betancourt, a fresh-man in letters and sciences,was mad when she found outthe pool would not be opentwo weeks ago.
“I was looking forward tothe pool being open for solong,” Betancourt said. “Itreminds me of summer.”
The delay, Tupper said, has
two causes. Campus Recre-ation Services first encoun-tered problems working outthe details of the contract toupgrade the pool. Contrac-tors originally said theupgrades would cost$100,000, but university offi-cials have managed to lowerthe cost of the project to$20,000, she said.
Causing the current delay,Tupper said, is a massivebacklog from suppliers andcontractors. Since the law —which aims to improve poolsafety by preventing swim-mers from becoming stuck indrains — was signed by for-mer President George W.Bush in December 2007,every public pool in thecountry has been required toupgrade its drain covers,causing demand for theessential parts to dramati-cally outstrip supply.
The university tried tomake do by opening the pooldeck and turning on a mist-ing fountain for sunbathersto cool off. But without waterin the pool, which was left
uncovered, roped off and stillbeing watched by four life-guards, the experience was-n’t the same.
“[The pool staying closed]would ruin the end of ouryear,” said Alex Selarnick, afreshman government andpolitics major who said hehad planned on coming to thepool on every day with niceweather for the rest of thesemester. “It provides a nicesocial scene, but it defeatsthe purpose [to not havewater in the pool].”
POOL, from Page 1
Pool upgrades strands students in the heat
University aims to raise profile,aid security with new building
Lips began to notice thingsgoing wrong while doing graduateresearch with the University ofMiami in the Costa Rican moun-tains in the early 1990s. Lips wentto the Central American cloudforests — wooded areas highenough to be continuously shroud-ed in mist — during the summer tocatalog amphibians, especiallyfrogs, which are easier to find thansalamanders and other creaturesthat live underground. She andtwo of her colleagues discoveredfour or five new species; severalyears later, though, she began tonotice changes.
“Before, we’d find 20 speciesand 100 animals in a night,” shesaid. “We came back and we’dfind four in a week. ... How doeseverything look the same, exceptyou lose 40 species essentiallyovernight?”
She returned to the UnitedStates to find that other places,including the National Zoo inWashington, were having simi-lar problems.
“They said, ‘We’ve got frogswith something weird in theirskin,’ and I came back and said,‘I’ve got frogs with somethingweird in their skin,’” Lips said.
After further research, Lips re-alized the chytrid fungus that shefirst encountered in CentralAmerica was responsible for thedamage to the amphibians’ natu-ral environment. At least 2,500
species of the 6,300 currentlyknown frog species are “endan-gered or declining” because of thefungus, Lips said, and the pace ofextinction is rapidly increasing.
“That’s 100 species in 20years,” she said. “Before that itwas like, two.”
But while Lips, who came to theuniversity in January and willstart teaching in the fall, is work-ing with researchers to try and un-derstand the fungus and how itspreads, she says a cure for themalady is still far off. While affect-ed creatures can be cured in cap-tivity with a chemical wash, re-turning them to their indigenousenvironments means the animalswill just contract the fungus again.
“Everywhere we look, we findit,” Lips said. “Asia is pretty clean,but North America, CentralAmerica, South America —they’re wiped out.”
And though scientists are con-sidering genetic engineering as ananswer, all they can do now is treatthe amphibians in captivity orhope they develop an immunity tothe fungus.
Though Lips has been workingwith frogs for two decades, shewasn’t always so specific in herfield of study — while pursuingher undergraduate degree at theUniversity of South Florida, sheknew she wanted to work with an-imals, but that was all.
“I was going to be a vet,” shesaid. “But then I got a job makingdouble the minimum wage catch-ing turtles and I said, ‘This is thelife for me.’”
Lips said her research is mov-ing out of Central America and be-coming more focused on the U.S.,specifically the already-affectedAppalachian Mountains. TheGreat Smoky Mountains National
Park that straddles the border be-tween Tennessee and North Car-olina will be the first site she tack-les.
Though there is evidence thefungus has already passedthrough the Appalachian Moun-tains, its harsh seasonal climateskeep the fungus from growingyear-round and give amphibians achance to bounce back in the win-ter and summer, she said.
Yet while Lips isn’t giving up onthe fight for the frogs, students saythe problem may not draw the at-tention of too many people.
“I mean, if I had to pick a causeto fight for, this probably wouldn’tbe too high on the list,” sophomoresociology major Sophie Kieffersaid. “I mean, not that it’s not im-portant, but if I had to choose be-tween saving the frogs and feed-ing the children, I would choosethe children over the frogs. Peoplewould probably care if it startedaffecting people, though.”
But even without an on-slaught of public support, Lipsisn’t giving up.
“People might say, ‘Oh, it’sfrogs; they’re nice, but what doesit have to do with me?,’” Lips said.“But they eat a lot of insects, in-sects that carry a lot of diseases.And amphibians aren’t that faraway from mammals. If all thedogs and horses and monkeys andcattle were dropping dead, peoplewould be screaming.”
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suspects punched the victim in thehead, stunning him for a brief peri-od of time. University Policespokesman Paul Dillon said thereis no evidence a weapon was used.
When the victim regained con-sciousness, he saw the four sus-pects heading toward South Cam-pus Dining Hall and realized hewas missing his watch, Blackberryand wallet. The victim was trans-ported to a local area hospitalwhere he was treated for a minorinjury and released, police said.
The suspect who took the phoneis described by the crime alert as ablack male, 5-foot-10, who wore a
multi-colored shirt with whitestripes at the time of the robbery.The victim could not provide a de-scription of the other three sus-pects, according to the crime alert.
University Police are reviewingvideo surveillance footage in thearea and encourage anyone withinformation about the incident tocontact them.
Dillon advised against lendingcell phones to strangers. He saidcell phones are more common thanever and most people already haveone. He suggested thinking twicebefore giving someone your per-sonal property.
No weapon was usedin strong-arm robberyROBBERY, from Page 1
Allen: Registration for finalsparking to open next week
which will be valid from May 12 toMay 20, will be usable from 6 p.m.to 7 a.m., DOTS Director DavidAllen said.
Nearly 80 spots will be madeavailable for the program, includingseveral near McKeldin Library andthe engineering building. The per-mits, which will be available in theDOTS office starting May 7, are freefor students who already have park-ing permits and will cost $30 foreveryone else for the week.
Gabi Band, the Greek legislatorfor the Student Government Associ-ation who came up with the ideawhile trying to find places to studylate at night, said the program wouldmake studying safer for students.
“In my freshman, sophomore,junior years, I’d need to drive tosome place quiet to study,” Bandsaid. “I’d have to park somewherefarther away, and then I’d leave atlike 4 [a.m.] and I’d have to walk tomy car.”
Band said he saw the program asa low-cost strategy to help make thecampus safer.
“Yes, the best thing to do would beto put more police on the street,” hesaid. “But there are a lot of smallprograms like this that you can im-plement to deal with crime.”
To gather data for the permit, theSGA set up shop earlier this monthin the Stamp Student Union, armedwith thumbtacks and a large map of
the campus. More than 200 studentsstuck thumbtacks into the map indi-cating where they prefer to study,SGA Senior Vice President JoannaCalabrese said.
As expected, many chose McK-eldin Library, but other popularspots included the Engineering andPhysical Sciences Library and VanMunching Hall, Calabrese said. Onestudent even chose the Shuttle-UMbuilding.
The SGA then took that data toAllen, who said they chose whatareas to include in the programbased on the map and their own datawhich indicated which parking lotsgenerally had overnight vacancies.
Under the plan, spaces from eightparking lots on the campus will bemade available: three in Lot W1 and25 in Lot Y, which is near SkinnerHall; two in Lot S4, which is besideSusquehanna Hall; 14 in Lot T,which is beside the engineeringbuilding; five in Lot MM2, which isnext to the Cambridge Community;19 in Lot A and four in Lot D, whichare near Worcester Hall; and six inLot U6, which is beside MowattLane Parking Garage.
Allen said he considered the per-mit program a pilot and that it couldbe tweaked in the future.
“My ultimate goal in the future isthat this could be applied to week-night studying or midterm study-ing,” Band said.
PERMITS, from Page 1
RHA leads talks on legal drinking age
BYDANACETRONEStaff writer
Students and administratorsgathered yesterday to discussthe legal drinking age in the lastof a three-dialogue series aimedat opening discussion on thetypically taboo subject of under-age drinking.
About 11 students, administra-tors and health experts participat-ed in the Residence Hall Associa-tion’s final Amethyst Dialogue ofthe year, held to further the RHA’sResponsible Action Policy, a reso-lution passed recently in supportof a Good Samaritan policy andfurthering alcohol education onthe campus. The organizationplans to send information andopinions gathered at the dialoguesto the Alcohol Coalition, a grouporganized by the UniversityHealth Center that aims to educatestudents about safe drinking prac-tices. They hope to inspire changein programs such as AlcoholEduand eChug to make them more re-latable and relevant for students.
“If AlcoholEdu was more appli-cable and realistic, people would-n’t just ignore it,” RHA PresidentAlex Beuchler said. “We hope anoverhaul of this program will be aproductive way to reach stu-dents.”
Beuchler said that although thedialogues consisted of only smallgroups of students, RHA mem-bers use their best judgment tohelp flesh out ideas and assess thesuccesses and failures of the dia-logues. Depending on what theydetermine, the RHA may contin-ue to hold Amethyst Dialogues —named after the Amethyst Initia-
tive, which university PresidentDan Mote and University Systemof Maryland Chancellor Brit Kir-wan signed to open discussionabout alcohol-related issues, in-cluding the legal drinking age —in coming semesters.
“The dialogues are very issue-driven,” Beuchler said. “A lot ofpeople are invested in subjectslike the Good Samaritan policy.”
Assistant Vice President forStudent Affairs Warren Kelleysaid that despite Mote’s decisionto sign the Amethyst Initiative, thedrinking age wasn’t even a ques-tion the administration had con-sidered taking a stand on until itwas brought up at an AlcoholSummit in October, which drewstudents, faculty and experts fromacross the state to discuss alcoholpractices and lowering the legaldrinking age. Beuchler, too, wasinspired by the summit, and soonafter established the RHA’s Alco-hol Dialogue initiative to engagethe rest of the student body.
“I don’t know that we thoughtabout the drinking age, becausewe all know people under 21abuse alcohol, and we know thatpeople over 21 abuse alcohol,”Kelley said.
RHA Finance Officer RachelVieder noted regardless of whatthe legal drinking age is, stu-dents will still engage in ques-tionable practices.
“There are still people who are21 who pass out in the grass,”Vieder said. “Society cannot betheir babysitter.”
The group discussion focusedon whether a lower drinking agecould smooth the transition fromhigh school to college and how
drinking is seen as a “forbiddenfruit,” tempting students to drinkwhile they are legally forbiddenfrom doing so.
“I think it’s the stigmatics of ourculture that younger peopleshouldn’t be drinking,” RHA Pub-lic Relations Officer Alicia Hart-love said.
Only one student involved inthe discussion disagreed, notingthat lowing the drinking age“makes it easier for the bad applesto screw it up for themselves.”
The group brainstormed waysto mitigate harm from alcohol,ranging from “drinking licenses”that could be revoked based onthe person’s behavior and a graceperiod between 18 and 21 wherepunishments are harsher, similarto how many states handle issuingdriver’s licenses to young people.
“Although we cannot pass a law,the best we can do is create an en-vironment where drinking still ex-ists that’s relaxed,” Kelley said.
Beuchler said she hopes stu-dents and administrators whoparticipated in the dialogueswalked away better informed
about how different populationsperceive the alcohol culture onthis campus.
“We want to review all threetalks and assess their success andcontributions. We will try to figureout what worked, what didn’twork and why,” Beuchler said.
The dialogue was held in thewake of the University Senate’srecent near-unanimous supportof a Good Samaritan protocol.But the senate is holding off thedecision of amending universitypolicy until next spring. In themeantime, Beuchler said theRHA will continue to work withthe Department of ResidentLife, the Office of Student Con-duct and other student groups tochange what they can.
“It’s a student-led effort, andpeople have been very open sofar,” Beuchler said. “Whetherthey are directly involved in thetalks now, or simply their peersare helping us with planningideas, it should have a great ef-fect on all Maryland students.”
RHA President Alex Beuchler discusses the legal drinking age withstudents and university officials. VINCE SALAMONE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Administrators say talks have helpedopen their eyes to drinking issues
Fungus endangers at least 2,500 frog species
Biologist Karen Lips is researching trends among frogs to anticipatewhere the fungus will affect next. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
FROGS, from Page 1
Construction worker incritical condition after fall
BY NICK RHODESStaff writer
A male construction worker fellfrom the fourth floor scaffoldingof the South Campus CommonsBuilding 7 construction site yes-terday afternoon and is in criticalcondition, police said.
University Police and thePrince George’s County Fire De-partment responded to the in-jured person call around 2:20 p.m.
University Police spokesmanPaul Dillon said the unidentified26-year-old male was transportedto a Baltimore hospital and is nowin critical condition.
Dillon said he was unsure ofthe specific injuries, but said theman suffered broken bones and
a leg injury.University Police do not antici-
pate a criminal investigation butsaid the university’s Departmentof Environmental Safety and theOccupational Safety and HealthAdministration — a federal or-ganization that works to preventwork-related injuries— will inves-tigate the incident.
No one else was injured.Attempts to reach officials from
either Whiting-Turner, the com-pany building Commons 7, orCapstone Management, whichmanages Commons properties,were unsuccessful.
Staff writer Darren Botelho contributed to this report. [email protected]
AFacebook message asked me tosign a petition demanding thatofficials re-instate two NativeAmerican studies classes the
university won’t teach next semester.And I started thinking, is there a moreneglected and forgotten minority in theUnited States today than Native Ameri-cans? Counting American Indians andAlaska natives, the 2007 U.S. Census putsthe population at about 0.8 percent of theUnited States, which is still millions ofpeople. And according to the 2000 U.S.Census, about half a million reside onreservations.
The economic opportunities on thesereservations are scarce, and there istremendous hardship. Unemploymentrates are more than 50 percent, alongwith the highest rate of poverty in the na-tion. The result is, for practically everymeasurable social statistic, the NativeAmerican population ranks at the bottom.
Anyone who reads my columns knows
I tie everything and anything into energyand environmental issues. No need tohesitate here. Native American reserva-tions contain large quantities of naturalresources, including energy. There is lit-tle to no access or control over as to howthey are used — 65 percent of NorthAmerica’s uranium lies on these reser-vations, as is 80 percent of all the urani-um mining and 100 percent of all the ura-nium processing in the country.
The result has been high rates of can-cer, respiratory ailments, miscarriagesand birth defects. The water and soil areloaded with lead, radium, thorium andother toxins. People who work in the
mines rarely receive clothing, protection,medical evaluation or compensation.There is almost no wealth to show for thisexploitation, and our tax dollars subsi-dize it daily through our funding of un-economical nuclear power.
There is an ironic twist, though.Throughout history, as Native Americanswere thrown off their land and sectionedoff in reservations, we thought we weregiving them land no one really wanted —land in the Midwest, where the sun wasbrightest and the wind strongest. We’renow in a time where we desperately needto increase renewable energy productionto help address environmental, nationalsecurity and economic problems, and thesolar energy potential on tribal lands is4.5 times the annual U.S. electric genera-tion. The reservations on the GreatPlains have a windpower potential thattops 300 gigawatts, half our annual elec-tric generation. Everyone wins with aclean energy economy, but I can’t think ofa group in this country who would benefit
more than Native Americans.This would explain why I’ve been see-
ing and hearing a lot more of groups likethe Indigenous Environmental Network.A good climate bill, a green energy billand a new electric grid only benefit in-digenous people if they are involved inthe legislative process. We can’t abusetheir renewable resources like we’veabused their traditional resources. Theyneed to be a partner, not a tool. The lesswe understand about their culture andhistory, the harder this will be.
We’re headed in the right direction onenergy. I have a hunch. In a few decades,it will be as impossible for the universityto abolish Native American courses asAfrican American or women’s studies —lack of funding be damned. For now, theycan get away with it. Or can they?
Consider this my petition signature.
Matt Dernoga is a junior governmentand politics major. He can be reached [email protected].
Native Americans: Give power to the persecuted
We must protect our country from the “revolutionary and incendiaryhorde of foreigners now seeking our shores.” After all, these“long-haired, wild-eyed, bad-smelling, atheistic, reckless foreignwretches” are undermining not only our labor system, but also
our very American identity. That’s the rhetoric spouted by the (aptly named)Know-Nothing party of the 1880s, but it’s a tone of nativism that could just aseasily be found on an episode of Hannity & Colmes. It’s the language that’sbeen leveled against Jews, Europeans, the Irish, Catholics and against His-panic immigrants. It’s part of a dogma that rails against immi-gration, against naturalization and certainly against providingthe children of immigrants in-state tuition rates. But the factof the matter is it’s a reactionary position that doesn’t just limitthe opportunities available to immigrants; it harms our nationas a whole.
Stella M. Flores, an assistant professor of public policy andhigher education at Vanderbilt University, recently completeda study evaluating the impact of offering lower, in-state tuition rates to undoc-umented immigrants. The result, unsurprisingly, is that offering lower tuitionrates makes these immigrants far more likely to enroll in college. At this point,it’s tiresome to review the personal and societal benefits that accompany a col-lege degree. Even disregarding the opportunity to pursue graduate degrees,people with bachelor’s degrees earn an average of $20,000 a year more thanthose with just a high school education, and they have the types of jobs that arefar less susceptible to being outsourced and shipped overseas. Unfortunately,this month, a bill in the state legislature that would have provided immigrantswith in-state tuition failed.
Some argue immigrants don’t stand to benefit significantly from a collegeeducation anyway, because without documentation they can’t get choice jobs,college degree or not. But that points to the need for more legislation, not less.The federal Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act wouldprovide undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as minors andhad at least two years of college or military service a path to permanent resi-dency. Only through such a multi-pronged and comprehensive legislativeapproach will we be able to transform a systemic problem into an asset.
In the 1982 Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, the courtruled that states must provide the undocumented children ofimmigrants with primary and secondary educations; to dootherwise would be in violation of the 14th Amendment,which ensures equal protection under the law for everyonewithin a state’s borders. The ruling quotes the District Court’sopinion, which notes that those “[a]lready disadvantaged as aresult of poverty, lack of English-speaking ability and undeni-
able prejudices ... will become permanently locked into the lowest socioeco-nomic class.” We can’t afford to continue allowing reactionary arguments blindus to the opportunity we have to empower our nation’s disadvantaged and tobenefit society as a whole in the process. Time and again, comprehensiveimmigration reform has failed at the national level. We hope to see PresidentBarack Obama’s administration buck that trend, but this state needs to join the10 states who have already granted the children of illegal immigrants in-statetuition. The real threat to the “American identity” in this debate doesn’t comefrom illegal immigrants; it comes from pundits and politicians who fight tolimit the scope of liberty and justice for all.
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Déjà vu at the alma mater! Morethan 20 years ago, the American CivilLiberties Union sued to stop prayers atuniversity commencement cere-monies. I was the plaintiff, graduatingin December 1987. The lawsuit wasfiled after Chancellor John Slaughterrefused to discontinue the constitution-al violation.
The day before the commencementceremony, the judge denied our requestfor a temporary injunction, declaring,“If he’s really so upset, he can come lateand leave early... or stand out in thehall.” (What a sweetheart!) So I skippedthe ceremony, even though I graduatedsumma cum laude. I wasn’t going toparticipate in a ceremony that treatedme like a second-class citizen. As anatheist, I wasn’t part of the “us” or “we”mentioned during the prayers.
Fast forward to 2009. The com-mencement still contains offensiveprayer, the guy in charge of the univer-sity still ignores the Constitution andthe arguments in defense of the prayershaven’t changed.
One common argument states moststudents are religious, so they shouldbe allowed to pray. Too bad if nonbe-lievers are offended. Well, most stu-dents at the university are white.Would it be OK to devote two minutesof the ceremony to white students? No?Then why have two minutes devotedonly to religious students? Would blackstudents feel excluded during a white-only part of the commencement? Ofcourse. That is also how atheists feelduring the theist-only section. The cer-emony should unite us, not divide us.Besides, religious students can praywhenever they like — before, during orafter the ceremony.
Another argument is the commence-ment ceremony is voluntary and,therefore, including religious aspectsis OK. Public high school graduationsare also voluntary, but the SupremeCourt ruled prayers at those gradua-tions unconstitutional in 1992. The gov-ernment can’t endorse religion regard-less of whether we’re forced to witnessthat endorsement.
Many claim the prayers are nonde-nominational, and therefore, they can’toffend anyone. Kyle Ingels, the univer-sity’s Catholic chaplain, said “theprayer is a very, very inclusive prayer”that is “not directed at any particulardeity that would be offensive to peo-ple.” This Orwellian claim of inclusive-ness can quickly be dismissed by re-minding the good chaplain that atheistsdo not pray and thus cannot be “includ-ed” in said religious ritual. It makes nodifference to an atheist if the god beinginvoked is specific or generic.
In a 1988 column, Lisa Voss, The Dia-mondback’s opinion editor, asked,“Why insult [a] deity with a general,wishy-washy prayer uttered by an in-termediary of the wrong religion? Whynot thank whatever god for academicsuccess by going to a church, syna-gogue, mosque or whatever before orafter the graduation ceremony? Thatway, everyone could spend what theybelieve is an appropriate amount oftime thanking whatever deity they wishin appropriate words, and no one wouldbe offended.” Her suggestion madesense 20 years ago and still does today.
I’m encouraged that the UniversitySenate voted overwhelmingly (unani-mously among the student senators) toend the invocation. It appears that re-moving the divisive prayer is in-evitable, just as soon as the universitygets a president who respects the sepa-ration of church and state.
Also, I noticed the current ceremonyhas only an opening invocation. In 1987,the ceremony had two prayers. Theclosing benediction must have been jet-tisoned sometime in the interveningtwo decades. One down, one to go!
Matthew J. Barry is a university alumnus from the class of 1987.He can be reached [email protected].
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Together Through Life — Bob Dylan’s33rd studio LP — is a border album in thesame sense that Orson Welles’s Touch ofEvil is a border film. Both works focus onthe physical boundary between the Unit-ed States and Mexico (though Dylan is alittle less explicit). But more importantly,they thematically ride the line betweenpast and present, love and loneliness, lightand darkness.
Since Newsweek started streaming “IFeel a Change Comin’ On,” a lot has beensaid of Dylan’s supposed optimism in con-nection to President Barack Obama’selection. Depending on your political per-suasion, though, this theory reeks of wish-ful thinking.
“Well now, what’s the use in dreaming?/You’ve got better things to do/ Dreamsnever did work for me anyway/ Evenwhen they did come true,” Dylan sings(or, more appropriately, croaks). As theyears have gone on, the man has certainlygotten more literal-minded and direct inhis writing, but his songs are no less inter-esting for the shift.
The “change comin’ on” doesn’t real-
ly come off as the same “change” SamCooke sang about before Dylan hadeven gone electric — it’s a more per-sonal change on Dylan’s mind. Nowthat the possible trilogy the elusiveartist hinted at after the release ofModern Times has come to a close, he’sin transition. And he knows it.
Musically, Together Through Life fitsin pretty comfortably with Love andTheft and Modern Times. Even at 67,Dylan is evolving and looking forward.He’s gone Tex-Mex before (“Romancein Durango”) — after he was a recluseand before he was a born-again Christ-ian — and across an entire album, theaesthetic fits him well.
In addition to his regular backing band,Dylan has assembled quite a few signifi-cant representatives of Americana for hislatest album: guitarists David Hidalgo(Los Lobos) and Mike Campbell (TomPetty and the Heartbreakers) and Grate-ful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who re-ceives writing credits on nine out of 10album tracks.
Sure, Dylan’s voice is a froggy notionof its former self (OK, so it wasn’t muchto start with), but he’s the imperfectsinger America has always deserved.
That Dylan remains forcefully creative— unlike a certain electric car-slingingcontemporary — this deep into his ca-reer is a blessing.
Together Through Life gives off the im-pression we’ll never have to watch the leg-end fade into irrelevance. “Beyond HereLies Nothin’” (see the Obama Age opti-mism?) sends us straight to the “boule-vards of broken cars” in a sultry swing oftrumpet, accordion and some rippingrhythm and lead guitar work. At the otherend of the album, the finale paints a col-lapse of modern society, shrugged off bythe narrator’s repetition of the song’s title:“It’s All Good.”
Clearly, Dylan sees darkness on thehorizon — remember, he sang out againstVietnam and the Cold War well before itwas fashionable. However, not all is lost.Together Through Life gets both sides ofthe story.
“Forgetful Heart” and “This Dream ofYou,” though admittedly sorrowful, arelove (lost) songs, the former punctuatedby some wonderfully murky lap guitar.Conversely, “Jolene” and “Shake ShakeMama” strut their lustiness, burning hardat a bluesy mid-tempo.
Dylan’s post-millennial work has had a
pleasantly anachronistic quality, manythanks to his deft production under theJack Frost pseudonym. Unlike Love andTheft and Modern Timesbefore it, Togeth-er Through Life gets a little grittier. Thecleaner sounds on the first two albums ap-pear to have been Dylan’s (or Frost’s) re-action to Daniel Lanois’ shadowy produc-tion on Time Out of Mind.
It’s nice to hear the reverb sink in a littlearound the edges, making for somethingof a compromise between Lanois’s echo-ing, underwater ambiance and Dylan’smore classic-inspired sound. Old folksingers do learn new tricks.
But then again, at this point in his ca-reer, Dylan has seen and absorbed it all.
In contrast to Modern Times’ impossiblylofty, though largely successful, title, To-gether Through Life evokes somethingmore intimate and relatable. As he oncesuggested on “If You See Her SayHello,” maybe he’s too sensitive or justgetting soft, but Dylan really has let hisguard down.
The default title track of sorts — “Lifeis Hard,” which Dylan wrote for directorOlivier Dahan’s (La Vie En Rose) up-coming film — says it all. His road hasbeen a bittersweet one thus far, full oflove and loss. But it’s also getting richerall the time.
Former Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter co-wrote nine of the 10 tracks on BobDylan’s latest album, Together Through Life. COURTESY OF ISOLATION.TV
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After Duke’s eighth consecu-tive goal, the Terrapin women’slacrosse team found themselvesdown four with less than 24 min-utes left in Sunday’s ACC Cham-pionship game.
But the Terps neverdoubted their ability to stagea comeback.
“I knew we could get back init,” said midfielder Caitlyn Mc-Fadden, the tournament’s MostValuable Player. “Duke wasdown four in the first half andcame back. I said, ‘You guys, lis-ten. We’re still in this, we stillhave plenty of time.’”
She was right.At the end of the season, the
Terps (18-0, 5-0 ACC) havethrived on pressure in the last30 minutes of games andgrabbed victories with sec-ond-half surges. Against theNo. 3-seeded Blue Devils, thetop-seeded Terps had twofour-goal runs late in thegame, doubling their first-half goal total to snatch a 12-11 victory and their first ACCtitle since 2003.
“We’ve been playing our bestlacrosse in the second half,” Mc-Fadden said. “We just keep ourheads up, keep having fun andwork together. So we knew wecould come back in it.”
In four of the team’s last fivematches, including the confer-ence tournament, the Terpshave been separated from theiropponents by one goal at half-time — down one to Duke and
Johns Hopkins, tied with NorthCarolina, and up one against theCavaliers in the ACC semifi-nals. But despite these closescores, runs in the second halfensured victory.
“You just play those 30 min-utes as hard as you can,” saidgoalie Brittany Dipper, who hadsix of her 10 saves in the secondhalf. “Just step up, go out thereand play the Maryland way.”
The Terps haven’t just scoredmore, but have also performedbetter all around the field in thelatter 30 minutes. In those four
games, they scored 20 moregoals during second half of thematches than in the first half,controlled 18 more draws andhad 16 less fouls, especially im-portant against Duke, whonotched three man-up goals inthe first half thanks to Terp yel-low cards.
Their game against Vir-ginia Tech on April 18 servesas the only exception in thelast five games. The Terpsheld an 11-4 lead at the halfand needed no late onslaughtof goals to win.
But even though McFaddenand attacker Karri Ellen John-son acknowledged that neck-and-neck first halves can befrustrating, the Terps said beingable to step up in stressful situa-tions gives them an edge.
“Our girls have just beenfighting all season,” coachCathy Reese said. “Whateverhappens, they just take it andthey fight for it. There’s beena lot of challenges and every-body’s stepped up.”
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BY MICHAEL KATZStaff writer
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - BrynHolmes is tough.
It's the first adjective off thetongue of anyone asked aboutthe contact-ready faceoff spe-cialist for the Terrapin men'slacrosse team.
It was a word that came upoften in the press conference fol-lowing the Terps’ 16-10 loss onFriday to North Carolina in theACC Tournament semifinals.
“We had one of the toughestkids I've ever coached in 30years facing off for us today,”coach Dave Cottle said of thejunior, who sat stoically at thetable. “I knew we were going tobe more competitive on face-offs, and I thought that was onething we could change.”
Holmes was sidelined with agroin injury during the twoteams’ first meeting of the seasonin March. In that game, NorthCarolina's Shane Walterhoeferran amok at the faceoff “X,”meeting little resistance.
The Terps won just two face-offs in 19 chances in thatgame. Holmes had won twofaceoffs after the third draw ofFriday’s game.
With Carolina converting 50percent of its shots in the firsthalf, Holmes gave the Terps achance by winning 11-of-17 face-offs. His 5-of-6 mark in the sec-ond quarter kept the ball awayfrom the Tar Heels, who lookedpoised to run away with the con-test before intermission.
“He’s a very, very toughcompetitor,” said Walterhoe-fer, who ranks second in the
nation with a .627 faceoff winpercentage. “He may not haveas good of technique as someother guys, but his toughnessmakes up for all the techniquethat he may not have.”
That grit has earned Holmes thefourth-highest faceoff win per-centage in the nation (.604). Friday,he battled Walterhoefer to a virtualstalemate, going 14-of-26, whilethe Tar Heel senior went 14-of-27.
But in the second half, Wal-terhoefer said he began to hearthe whistle better. As he got ina rhythm, Walterhoeferbecame unstoppable.
As the Tar Heels continuedto lengthen their lead,Holmes’ first-half impactbecame more obvious.
Holmes, who has known Wal-terhoefer since their days inyouth lacrosse, was too upsetafter the loss to revel in his per-sonal success.
“I don’t really care about win-ning faceoffs if we don't win,” hesaid after the game.
But Cottle looked at the effortas a positive among the disap-pointments in the Terps’ first-round tournament exit.
With the team needing tolean on someone at this latejuncture in the season, per-haps that stability will comefrom the force in faceoffs.
“The stats say 50-50, but I betthere are five or six faceoffs thatmight have gone possession oneway or possession the other way,”Cottle said. “Bryn Holmes com-peted his tail off. … I thoughtBryn was as tough as anybody onthe field.”
Despite trailing by one at halftime, Terps used another second-half scoring outburst to beat Duke in Sunday’s ACC title game
Midfielder Brandi Jones scored a late goal in the Terps’ 12-11 win against Duke in Sunday’s ACCTournament final. The Terps scored eight goals in the second half. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY MICHAEL LEMAIREStaff writer
With the score 2-2 in the bot-tom of the seventh inning onSunday, all the Terrapin base-ball team needed to do washave reliever Ian Schwalen-berg get two outs.
On the road against No. 4 NorthCarolina, the Terps (20-24, 6-18ACC) had an opportunity to stealan impressive win. Instead,Schwalenberg threw a fastballthat hung over the plate, and TarHeel second baseman LeviMichael hit a two-run home runthat led to a 4-2 North Carolinavictory and a series sweep.
That situation embodied the typeof weekend it was for the Terps,who had a chance to win in two ofthe three games only to watch theTar Heels flex their muscles.
“You have to give them a lotof credit,” coach Terry Ruppsaid. “They are the best teamin the country and theyshowed it. I think Friday andSunday we put ourselves in aposition to win those gameswith the way we played.”
Aside from allowing Saturday’sgame to get out of hand late, theTerps played the Tar Heels fairlyevenly throughout the weekend.
After being down early on Fri-day, the team rallied and had thetying run at the plate in the bottomof the seventh inning before theTar Heels ended the inning andfinished off the game. On Sundaythey outhit North Carolina (35-11,16-7) 10-6, but once again failed tomuster hits in key situations.
Even in Saturday’s matchup, agame the Terps eventually lost
14-3, they were still in decent po-sition to come back when pitcherAdam Kolarek entered the gamewith the Terps trailing 3-1. Ko-larek only got one out while al-lowing four hits and six runs.
“Adam just needs to develop anout pitch that he can throw withtwo strikes. He just couldn’t getguys out and that is a direct re-sult of his breaking ball beingbelow average right now,” JimFarr said. “This series showedour guys that we were right therewith the exception of one pitchhere, one pitch there.”
Now the Terps are preparingfor two difficult midweekgames against James Madisonand West Virginia. Ruppemphasized that the team isstill motivated to play well,even if their ACC Tournamenthopes are on life support.
“We want to win all ourremaining games,” Rupp said.“The ACC Tournament isn’tout of reach yet, mathemati-cally it’s getting there, but westill have a lot to play for.”
The ‘X’ manHolmes uses physical style asTerps’ premier faceoff option
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Baseball pressing forwardafter difficult weekendTerps got close, but didn’t finish at UNC
Midfielder Bryn Holmes won 14-of-26 faceoffs in the Terps’ lossagainst North Carolina on Friday. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK