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Our 100TH Year, No. 125THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERWednesday, April 21, 2010

New chief may need to build trustTwo of three nominees have ties to Prince George’s police

BY BEN PRESENTStaff writer

As controversy continues tospiral around what actually hap-pened during the March 4 riot,the university is making stridestoward hiring a new chief of Uni-versity Police, and two out of thethree finalists announced lastweek have served as PrinceGeorge’s County Police officers.

Although each candidate willbe judged on an individualbasis, students said, overall,they trust county police lessthan they ever have before.

The three — former countypolice chief David Mitchell, Act-ing Deputy Chief of Administra-tion for county police Gary Cun-ningham and Tom Coppinger,who has served as the chief ofthe Homeland Security Divisionof State Police — will visit thecampus and hold open forumsto answer questions from com-munity members Thursday, Fri-day and Monday, respectively.Whichever candidate isselected will replace interimUniversity Police Chief Maj.Mark Sparks as soon as theyare able.

University Police and countypolice, though they collaborate,are separate entities. UniversityPolice spokesman Paul Dillonsaid there is a concern that somestudents do not distinguishbetween the two departments.

“That’s always a worry, butnot a big one,” Dillon said.

Neither Mitchell nor Cun-ningham was on duty the nightof the riot downtown.

Still, many students pointedto events from the riot as criticalin shaping their opinion of

Floyd's Barbershop, which has been in College Parkfor the past five years, will be closing its doorsSaturday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Floyd’s Barbershopwill close doors Sat.

BY NICK RHODESStaff writer

Jim Morrison, TupacShakur, Jimi Hendrix andThe Beatles adorn the wallsof Floyd’s Barbershop.

Starting Sunday, the down-town salon will have some-thing in common with theseiconic musicians: They’ll justbe memories to students.

After five years of snip-ping, coloring and styling,Floyd’s will relocate fromCollege Park to Croftonamidst complaints of highrent and an inability to keep

up with transient students.“The truth is the rent was

way over the market,” ownerAnne O’Brien said. “The stu-dents are gone four monthsout of the year. And it’s hardto draw in the locals.”

With alternative rock blar-ing from the speakers and apair of pool tables in tow,Floyd’s more resembles anightclub than a salon. Andmany students were disap-pointed to hear the news ofits departure.

“Personally, I understand

Gov. Martin O’Malley speaks with public policy school DeanDon Kettl and university lobbyist Ross Stern during his visit tothe campus yesterday. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

O’Malley hypes stateprogram in univ. visit

BY AMANDA PINOStaff writer

With his re-election kick-off a week away, Gov. MartinO’Malley spoke to a crowdof more than 100 universityfaculty and students yester-day in Van Munching Hall.

Despite the beginnings ofcampaign season, O’Malleytook off his politician hat andplayed schoolteacher, tellingthe crowd — made upmostly of public policy grad-uate students — of his signa-ture StateStat program,which uses detailed data totrack government’s suc-cesses and pitfalls.

While O’Malley’s presen-tation was more technicalthan political, his trip to thisuniversity — along with anappearance at Salisbury Uni-versity later in the day and asimilar college road trip lastweek by Lt. Gov. AnthonyBrown — highlights howcollege campuses will likelybe friendly ground in hiseffort to fight off a challengefrom former Gov. RobertEhrlich this fall.

Besides banking on thetraditional liberal bent ofstudents and faculty, O’Mal-ley hopes to win votes by

Lengyel elected Residence Hall Association presidentCLARIFICATIONA June 25, 2009 article titled “The sins of the father:

Holocaust Museum shooter’s son speaks out,” reportedthat, according to his son Erik, James von Brunn, theman charged with the shooting at the U.S. HolocaustMemorial Museum last year, had spent time in recentyears reading the works of certain Holocaust scholars,including Norman Finkelstein. In reporting this informa-tion, the Diamondback did not state and did not intendto imply that Finkelstein, who is the son of survivors ofthe Holocaust, had minimized the suffering of Jews dur-ing the Holocaust or that he or his works contributed inany way to the actions of James von Brunn.

BY LEYLA KORKUTStaff writer

In what turned out to be aclose race, RHA spokeswomanSam Lengyel was elected nextyear’s president of the organi-zation last night.

Lengyel will face a full plate

of initiatives next year, such asthe opening of Oakland Hall,Northwoods Dining Hall, theongoing Purple Line debateand hosting a national Resi-dence Hall Association confer-ence. At last night’s meeting,the junior dietetics major beatout Commons Senator Casey

Anis though, who emphasizedthe importance of safety andconstituency service duringhis campaign. While the votewas not officially disclosed tomembers, it was a “close” race,said elections chairpersonZohara Barth.

“I am excited because RHA

has a lot of issues that it’s goingto be involved in next year,”Lengyel said. “I’m excited forRHA to get into the details andvoice the concerns of the stu-dents we represent.”

The president-elect, who has

CHIEF CANDIDATESThree candidates for universitypolice chief will be introducedin the next week. The introduc-tions are in the Student Union.

David B. Mitchell, formerPrince George’s County Policechief: Prince George’s Room,Thursday, 1 p.m.

Gary Cunningham, countyActing Deputy Chief of Admin-istration: Charles CarrollRoom, Friday, 3 p.m.

Thomas P. Coppinger, for-mer chief of the Homeland Se-curity Division for State Police:Benjamin Banneker Room,Monday, 3 p.m.see POLICE, page 3

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Owner cites high rent as reason

Three-year organization veteran will lead body for 2010-2011 academic year

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Students, faculty and other attendees at yesterday'sTestudo’s Market on Hornbake Plaza wait in lines for aunique blend of food from local vendors, including koreanbarbecue and crêpes. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

Students smell soaps and other bath products from Riverdale-based Mystic Water Soaps at yesterday's farmers’ market onHornbake Plaza. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

Farmers’ market lacks fresh fruitsand vegetables, but draws crowd

BY DANA CETRONEStaff writer

Students in Hornbake Plazayesterday were faced withoptions they wouldn’t find atThe Diner, such as jalapeño,egg and cheese crêpes.

The crêpes, which studentsbought from the Ruben’sCrepes stand, were part of Tes-tudo’s Market — the univer-sity’s first-ever on-campus farm-ers’ market. Amid the otherEarth Day-themed festivitieshappening around the campus,the market, sponsored by theuniversity’s Wellness Coalition,was intended to present stu-dents, faculty and staff with anopportunity to improve theirhealth and sustainable livinghabits. But despite the event’s

marketing as a farmers’ mar-ket, vendors selling healthyproduce staples were notablyabsent.

The market featured about12 different vendors, sellingeverything from jewelry tofree-range eggs to soaps andlotions, as well as several tentsoffering Indian and Koreanfoods. But despite the array ofvendors, none were sellingfruits or vegetables, which arenecessary for the healthy dietthe Coalition wanted to push bycreating the market.

“They’re just not in season,”said Lauren Stewart, coordina-tor of special health programsat the health center. “If you goto farmers’ markets at this time,

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you won’t find much pro-duce. In June and July, it’susually the height of the pro-duce season, which is whywe’re hoping to have this inthe summer and fall.”

Although yesterday’sevent aimed to improveaccessibility for studentswho wanted to buy organicand locally-grown products, akey element in many univer-sity environmental groups’platforms, some questionedhow well the market wouldappeal to students with lim-ited resources.

Senior Spanish majorCaitlin Osborne said she was-n’t sure about the look of theherbs being sold and said shewondered how organizersexpected students withoutkitchens to use the products.

“People living in dormscan’t use things like theherbs for cooking, they needthings that are ready to eat,”Osborne said.

The nearest farmers mar-ket is by College Park Airportand Herbert Wells Ice Rinkand is open on Saturdays. Stu-dents without cars can onlyaccess it by bike, Shuttle-UMor a lengthy walk.

But vendors said theywere generally happy withthe turnout at their stands.

“It’s been very busy,” saidJulie Bolton, who ran theGroff ’s Content Farm stallselling free-range eggs andorganic meats. “We wouldabsolutely come back if theydid this again.”

The planning committeefor Testudo’s Market beganpreparation in October,working with a farmers mar-ket manager to help attractvendors. Members said theyhoped the event would gen-erate enough interest to keepit going into the summer andfall, possibly on a weekly orbi-weekly basis.

“This was something wefound other universities haddone to reach out and providehelp to improve physical, aswell as social wellbeing,”Wellness Coalition chair-woman Tracy Zeeger said.

Bolton said the on-campusmarket is a good idea, as sheoften sees many students atthe Riverdale Farmers Mar-ket where she has been sell-ing her products for threeyears.

“We usually have studentsthere,” Bolton said. “It has alot do with location, but col-lege-aged boys like meat!”

Stewart added that she

thought the market ulti-mately went well — all 300reusable bags the WellnessCoalition gave out weregone.

“The numbers are there,”Stewart said. “We just haveto wait for feedback from thevendors and the students andthen we can go from there.”

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why it’s closing,” freshman eco-nomics major Sid Patel said yes-terday, as he sat in the barber-shop’s waiting area. “Peopledon’t want to pay a little more.”

Though freshman businessmajor Sylvian Roux is only in hisfirst year, he is well versed in thecruelty of the revolving door ofdowntown businesses.

“This is the best place to get ahaircut,” Roux said. “They actu-ally know what they’re doing.”

Floyd’s is located in a strip ofstores owned by Greenhill Capi-tal Corporation known as Ter-rapin Station. The area is nostranger to turnover. Just thissemester, two businesses haveclosed on the strip. The onlybusinesses that have been con-stant over the five-year spanhave been T-Mobile andQuizno’s — though even thesub shop has changed owner-ship during the span.

“He’s just churning and burn-ing people,” O’Brien said of thelandlord.

But Richard Greenberg, a rep-resentative of Greenhill, con-tended that high rent wasn’t themain cause of Floyd’s exit.

“The landlord was more thanwilling and reasonable in ourefforts to work with Floyd’s bar-bershop,” Greenberg wrote inan e-mail. “The ultimate decisionto not exercise their option wasbased on the seasonal businessin a college town.”

O’Brien said she wished thecity would step in and help busi-

nesses gain a firmer footingdowntown but understood thatit’s above their capabilities.

“It’s an issue but it’s not ahuge issue,” District 2 Council-man Bob Catlin said. “We wish itcould be more stable, but that’sout of our hands.”

Other business owners, suchas Kiyoko Express owner Mor-gan Gale, seemed to side withO’Brien.

“It is a continuing struggle,”Gale said of surviving in CollegePark. “It centers around parkingand availability. There’s no criti-cal core downtown.”

Last year, the city built a park-ing garage equipped to hold 288cars. Kiyoko Express is alsoowned by Greenhill and Galesaid the landlord is “not helpful”when it comes to communicat-ing with area businesses.

Gale was late paying the rentin August of last year and insteadof receiving a phone call or note,he was issued a summons toappear in court.

“It sets a tone for a difficultworking relationship,” he said.

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CORRECTIONS

Due to sourcing and reporting errors, a story earlier this monthabout the SGA left out one of the courses the university is offeringthis semester. There are three courses in total, including CMLT298N: American Indians in Literature and Film: Perspectives Northand South, taught by English professor Regina Harrison.

Due to an editing error, the years and majors of Colleen Hoffmanand Colleen Meehan were switched in Monday’s story on Relay forLife. Hoffman is a senior government and politics major. Meehan is ajunior family science and government and politics major.

Due to a reporting error, yesterday’s story about the controversysurrounding Palestinian Solidarity Week misstated which Israeli hol-iday fell on Monday. It was Yom Hazikaron, the Israeli equivalent ofMemorial Day.

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A woman from The Rustic Gourmet of Roland Park rolls dough at yesterday's first-ever on-campus farmers market, which was held on Hornbake Plaza. STEVEN OVERLY/THE DIAMONDBACK

“This is the bestplace to get ahaircut. ...Theyactually knowwhat they’redoing.”

SYLVIAN ROUXFRESHMAN BUSINESS MAJOR

county police.“The veil has been lifted,”

junior English major ChrisFiery said. “Trust won’t beregained ‘til the current cropof students is gone.”

Sophomore StephanieCantor looks back to the 30seconds when she “thought[she] was going to die” as aturning point in her ability tohave faith in county police.

The finance and economicsmajor said during the chaosthat followed the Terps’ victo-ry over Duke, she was cor-nered in an alley just off ofRoute 1 where she was pep-per-sprayed. She added shehad done nothing other thantravel to downtown CollegePark to observe the festivitiesthat followed the game.

“I was more intimidated bythe cops than I do feel safefrom them,” Cantor said.

But some students saidtheir newfound skepticism ofcounty police would not pre-vent them from supporting

someone with ties to countypolice, should one of them beselected as university chief.

“I don’t like to generalize,”sophomore psychology majorFunsho Adenugba said. “Justbecause of the bad stigmaplaced on PG County copsdoesn’t mean one of themwouldn’t do a good job as uni-versity police chief.”

Sophomore sociology majorSarah Makhlouf said she ismore skeptical of the depart-ment as a whole, consideringthe aftermath of the March 4riot, but added each personshould be judged independentof county police’s reputation.

“Their individual records ascops should be examined,”Makhlouf said.

Most students, some ofwhom were directly affectedby the events during and fol-lowing the riot, said time is theonly remedy for the lost truststudents have in county police.

“I’ve already had distrust inthe police and their ability toprotect and serve,” seniorEnglish major LaurenIzquierdo said. “I don’t thinkthey can do anything [toregain student trust].”

Criminology and criminaljustice department Directorof Undergraduate StudiesLaure Brooks said shehopes students are able toprevent themselves fromjudging the entire policedepartment based solely onone night’s events.

“I don’t think [countypolice] have lost studenttrust,” Brooks said. “I don’tthink students are going tojudge an entire police depart-ment on the basis of actions ofa few individuals, and theyshouldn’t do that.”

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comparing his treatment of high-er education to his predeces-sor’s. In-state undergraduate tu-ition was frozen for the first threeyears of O’Malley’s tenure, butincreased 40 percent underEhrlich, who also often clashedwith university and universitysystem officials.

“According to [Kiplinger’s Per-sonal Finance], Maryland is oneof the top 10 values in higher edu-cation in the nation,” he said dur-ing his speech, to a round of ap-plause from the crowd. “I like tosay top 10, because as Marylan-ders, when we hear ‘8’ we say,‘Why aren’t we number one?”

The policy mavens gatheredyesterday treated O’Malley as arock star. The 100 chairs in theVan Munching atrium filledquickly, and late-comers wereforced to squeeze into the backand sides of the room, manysnapping pictures.

“The state is spending lessnow than it was four years ago,yet we’re continuing to makeprogress,” O’Malley said. “Andwe’re doing it with a level of open-ness, transparency ... and infor-mation sharing which has neverbefore been attempted in Mary-land before and perhaps is occur-ring at a greater degree herethan in any other state.”

The StateStat website, whichboasts a collection of agency re-ports, documents and special-ized maps and diagrams, is mod-eled after the Baltimore crimereduction strategy CitiStat,which O’Malley implementedwhile he was mayor from 1999 to2007. Both programs are de-signed to encourage govern-ment agencies to quantify theirgoals and accomplishments,and locate where improvementscan be made.

O’Malley said the rise of the In-ternet means more informationcan be made more available tomore people than ever before, al-lowing regular citizens to hold

government accountable.“We’re good at telling you

what the budget is, but we’re notgood at telling you what the out-put is,” he said. “This system al-lows us to make those connec-tions around tools like the map.”

The program recently expand-ed to track the state’s efforts withthe federal stimulus bill and tolook more closely at ways to con-tinue the cleanup of the Chesa-peake Bay.

The speech seemed in linewith O’Malley’s push to portrayhimself as a responsible fiscalsteward who guided the statethrough the wake of the worsteconomic downturn since theGreat Depression. Ehrlich’scampaign has argued O’Malleyoverspent, and Republicanshave pointed out that O’Malleyused one-time accounting ma-neuvers to eliminate about halfof the $2 billion deficit the statefaced last year.

While students were intriguedand encouraged by StateStat,they questioned if average peo-ple could understand the dataand wondered if reports couldeven be trusted.

“We’re taught in the school ofpublic policy to look at thingsfrom a lens of accessibility, so it’sreally exciting to see all of thesegraphs and projections,” saidpublic policy graduate studentRavi D’Souza. “But there’s a lot ofaverage people that this websitemight be overwhelming to.”

Others were unsure that thestatistics could be totally reli-able. Walter James, anothergraduate student, also said hewasn’t sure taking a model forcrime reduction and applyingto all areas of a state govern-ment would be effective.

O’Malley is expected to offi-cially kick off his campaignnext Tuesday. Former Del.George Owings III, who servedas Ehrlich’s Secretary of Veter-ans Affairs, is expected to chal-lenge him for the Democraticnomination.

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three years of RHA experi-ence under her belt, said shewill draw from this experienceto help guide her presidency,but, she added, her leadershipstyle will not mimic that ofpast leaders.

“I’ve been around for threeyears, I’ve seen three differ-ent presidencies,” Lengyelsaid. “I know what works andwhat doesn’t and what strate-gies to use as far as outreachgoes and as far as empower-ing students goes, and I wantto use those techniques andbring my own passion to theorganization.”

In addition to doing workrelated to Oakland Hall andthe Northwoods Diner,Lengyel also hopes to revisitthe establishment of the Pur-ple Line on the campus.

“I just know that it’s a verylarge long-term process,” shesaid. “I don’t want the RHA tolet it slip by and not revisit bythis year. I want to seeprogress being made since it’s

drawing near.”She also hopes to continue

green initiatives like the EatIN-itiative, which was estab-lished last year to encouragestudents to eat meals insidedining halls and to avoid usingcarryout containers. Lengyelsees sustainability as animportant issue and one thatkeeps “popping up.”

Outgoing RHA PresidentJosef Mensah, who said thatpassing up Samantha Lengyelfor spokeswoman this yearwould have been the “biggestmistake of his year as RHAPresident,” was excited abouther win.

“Sam is a big initiative typeperson,” Mensah said.“[She’s] perfect for the yearthey’re going into. She’sgoing to be able to see every-thing from a larger perspec-tive but also know that noth-ing can fall through. She’sgoing to be very aware of thedetails of all the large initia-tives coming in. She’s some-one who will keep her eyesopen for anything that will popup.”

South Hill Resident Taylor

Cole beat out three other peo-ple for the vice president slotin what was one of the mostcompetitive vice presidentelections in years, memberssaid. Cole emphasized theimportance of revisiting

establishing a university GoodSamaritan Policy, establishingmore mixed-gender housingand the creation of an Ad-hocsustainability committee.

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In race for SGA, candidates aren’t only hurdleStudent government hopefuls continue to wrestle with voter apathy

BY ANNA ISAACSStaff Writer

As SGA candidates embarkon their last-ditch efforts torecruit voters, they face oneobstacle more formidable thanall of their opponents — stu-dent apathy.

The Student GovernmentAssociation is tasked with aslew of duties: It finances stu-dent groups; it lobbies lobbyin Annapolis; in many cases,it serves as an important con-duit between the administra-tion and the student body.But some students couldn’tseem to care less.

Voter participation in SGAelections has hovered between15 percent and 22 percent for

the past five years. Studentsoffer a range of explanations.

“I just don’t really care, tobe honest,” sophomore biol-ogy major Sarah McKaysaid. “They come to myroom, and they knock on mydoor, and they tell me theirspiel, but it doesn’t really —it applies to me, but I don’treally care either way whowins. I don’t think it willreally change much.”

Others students point outthat the candidates’ visibilityhas been minimal and platforminformation even less so.

“The most that I’ve seenfrom the parties are on thesidewalk, and I got a Facebookmessage the other day.Random,” freshman Englishmajor Shirelle Ellis said. “Butthat’s about it. ... I actually wasinterested in voting, but I don’teven know where to find theinformation about the parties.”

Each party has a websiteand Facebook group. Forsophomore engineeringmajor Laura Stayman, thatinformation came right toher room. The Your Partylobbied her dorm, but shesaid that was the extent ofher election knowledge.

“I don’t know where youvote; I didn’t know when theelection was,” she said.

Then there are those whoare on the fence.

“Maybe,” said junior engi-neering major JosephPieterzak, referring to hisprospects of voting.

His reason?“I know a few people who

are in each party,” he said.Pieterzak added that if not

for the personal connections,he’d most likely be abstaining.

“I feel like the main thingthey do is allocation of SGAfunds, so to me, that doesn’treally matter because everystudent group I belong to getsappropriate funds,” he said. “Ireally don’t see anything elsethey do, personally.”

For some students who planto vote, their choices don’thinge much on platform poli-cies or issues.

Junior Persian studies majorDan Weininger said he’s votingbecause he wants to ensure fairfunding for student groups.

“Issues like supporting thePurple Line — I don’t think[the SGA] has anything ofvalue to add or do,” he said.“I’m involved with a number ofstudent groups, and I feel likeit’s important that they receiveappropriate funding. That’swhat SGA does.”

Based on his analysis of SKYpresidential candidate AndrewSteinberg’s performance asvice president of finance thisyear, Weininger said hedeserves to step up to theSGA’s top position.

“He seems pretty seriousabout the job,” Weininger said.

But as for issues beyondfinancing, Weininger said the

SGA has no impact.Freshman English major

Katie Wiggins said it was theSKY Party’s logo — the T-shirt worn by the candidateshe spoke with yesterdaystill bore an extra “Y” — thatearned her vote.

Senior Arabic studies majorMonica Kamen, who voted forthe STARE candidates, saidshe became aware of theiractivism last semester afterCordell Black was dismissedfrom the position of associateprovost for equity and diversi-ty. Still, she said she’s skepti-cal of the results the SGA,under the leadership of anyparty, can deliver.

“I don’t think they necessari-ly have much of an impact onwhat goes on at the university,but I think it’s still worth try-ing,” Kamen said.”

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POLICEfrom page 1

“Just becauseof the badstigma placedon PG Countycops doesn’tmean one ofthem wouldn’tdo a good jobas universitypolice chief.”

FUNSHO ADENUGBASOPHOMORE PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR

“I don’t think[SGA members]necessarily havemuch of animpact on whatgoes on at theuniversity, but Ithink it’s stillworth trying.”

MONICA KAMENSENIOR ARABIC STUDIES MAJOR

“I just don’treally care to behonest. [SGAmembers] cometo my room, andthey knock onmy door ... but Idon’t really careeither way. ”

SARAH MCKAYSOPHOMORE BIOLOGY MAJOR

“I woke up on a raft in a bath tubfilled with beer. excellent night.”Nice. Thanks to the websiteTexts From Last Night and a

roommate who insists on reading me allthe new posts, I now know what somecrazy kid from Illinois was up to lastnight. Awesome.

Who would’ve thought 10 years ago— or even five years ago — that anyonewith a computer and spare time couldfind out exactly what you’re doing,when you’re doing it and who you’redoing it with (we still don’t know whyyou’re doing it).

Technology has come a long way and,let’s be honest, has become a littleinsane. TFLN, FML, Facebook, Twitterand Skype. I can see and talk to my friendin Costa Rica with the click of a button. Idon’t, but I could. My roommate fromIllinois gave me a tour of her house andintroduced me to her family via com-puter screen. I can creep on new friends’

walls and keep up with old friends’doings. I can read about strangers’ worstdays and feel better about mine. I canIMDB the actor who I know I’ve seenbefore but can’t for the life of me remem-ber where.

A kid in my terrorism class, whenasked the first thing he would do aftersurviving an attack, answered, “Updatemy Facebook status.”

I can keep up with game scores dur-ing church or look up the weather onmy phone. You lucky jerks with iPhoneshave an app for everything — even pop-ping BubbleWrap — and other snazzyphones aren’t far behind.

And the crazy thing is, I’m not evengood with gadgets. Anyone can do thisstuff. I don’t even want to think aboutwhat a computer whiz can do — what’sleft of my mind would be blown.

On the one hand, all this is just so cool.All the information in the world is at myfingertips, just waiting to be Googled.Even the White House has embracedthe less traditional modes of communica-tion and information dissemination:Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stated thatTwitter is an “amazing tool” that allowspublic officials to reach tens of thou-sands of people who otherwise mightnot have been aware of news.

On the other hand, all the informa-tion in the world is at everyone else’sfingertips, too. Cybercrime didn’t evenexist 30 years ago, and identity theft hasexploded because technology doesn’tjust give you access to the world of infor-mation, it lets everyone else in too.

There is a controversy in a wealthy

Pennsylvanian suburban school inwhich students and families havealleged the webcams of school-loanedlaptops were used to spy on students intheir homes and bedrooms. Hijackedwebcams? Reminds me of Big Brotherand an especially grisly CriminalMinds. And it’s not just webcams; thepotential loss of privacy through tech-nology is boundless.

Technology is making the world eversmaller. The question is, how small arewe willing to allow it to get?

But for now, I’m content to sit backand use this powerhouse of technologyjust to get a laugh from Texts From LastNight: “Yeah I’m buying him lunchright now because I shot him with thefire extinguisher last night.” Way tokeep it classy, Ohio.

Bethany Offutt is a sophomore criminologyand criminal justice and psychology major.She can be reached at offutt@umdbk.com.

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S ome people are born bored.Others have boredom thrustupon them.

Some people have the driveto involve themselves in things such asthe Student Government Association.I’m not some people. I’m an average-to-below-average guy in general, butbecause of my job here, for the pastfew weeks, I’ve been privy to the won-derful world of the SGA. The excite-ment. The majesty. The power. Therevamped website. The Safety Walk.

Balls, this stuff is boring. I reallyrespect all the people who involvethemselves and their passion and shitand whatever. But holy Christ, thisstuff excites me about as much asreading the online comments on myMonday column.

Be that as it may, I appreciate theactivism. So while the SGA kids aretrying to get out the vote and encour-age students to get involved, I’m goingto reach out to a very particular stu-dent group that’s been dormant for

way too long — funny people.When I got here, it seemed like

every election season brought thepromise of a union between universitycomedians, sketch groups, generalmiscreants, troublemakers, carpetbag-gers, Elvis impersonators, jokers,smokers and midnight tokers. Thesepeople would come out from the depthsof what I can only assume is Hell andpiece together the best part of any elec-tion season: the joke campaign.

And let me tell you, we needed itthis year. During these past fewweeks, I spent more time listening toSteve Glickman’s campaign to createan all-you-can-eat, buffet-style diner onNorth Campus (with a Kosher option)than any human should ever be sub-ject to — which is to say, more thanzero minutes. At this point, I could usethe comedic relief. Even the zany stu-dent activists of the “STARE coalitionof human beings who may or may notbe friends with one another and likepolitics and have similar mindsets and

whatever” actually turned out to bereally involved, experienced and intel-ligent. So in other words, boring.

And by the way, that name is amouthful. They should have just calledthemselves a party. Duh.

What we need is a group of peoplewho are willing to dedicate themselvesto bullshit. People like me. I’ve workedtirelessly over the past two years tochallenge the status quo of valuessuch as “coherent writing” and“columns with a legitimate basis infact.” I’m looking for some lads andlasses who are going to pick up thetorch next year. I mean you, Sketchup.And you, Erasable, Inc. The SGA elec-tions are one of your grandest stages,

and you’re wasting it. Think about it.We here at The Diamondback have torun profiles of, and guest columnsfrom, every presidential candidate.You get to go to the debates. The stageis set. All you have to do is show upand make people laugh.

And I’ll make you this promise:Although I’m graduating and going onto bigger and better things — such asliving in my parents’ basement — I willreturn next year and manage the cam-paign of anyone who is willing to runon my ticket, which I call “We LikeTo.” So let me know if you’re willing tosupport the We Like To Party.

Maybe then next year, the electionsprocess won’t be so tense and stuffy.Hey, there’s a campaign promise foryou. And maybe next year, people willappreciate what we’ll do. “We Like ToParty,” they’ll say. “We like We LikeTo Party.”

Rob Gindes is a senior journalism major.He can be reached at gindes@umdbk.com.

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T he Onion once ran an article entitled “T.A. spotted at bar.” The joke was agroup of undergraduates shocked to see their teaching assistant hangingout, and that in the eyes of students, teaching assistants and professorsare generally two-dimensional academics who do nothing but research,

teach and study.Surprising though it may be, professors and graduate students do more than

read scholarly journals all day. They balance their academic work with outside lives,and some have families to raise. And although they might not frequent CornerstoneGrill and Loft or come out in force to football games, they’re an instrumental part ofthe university.

But getting them to stay in College Park has become a prob-lem. No one doubts the quality of the university’s academicwork, but the university needs to provide more than just qual-ity academics to attract and retain truly top-notch faculty. Itneeds to provide quality of life.

When administrators ask faculty members why they choosenot to take a job or decide to leave the university, location isoften cited as a factor. College Park is surrounded by federalresearch agencies who are ready and willing to provide fund-ing, but the city itself pales in comparison to the opportunities around peer institu-tions in Chapel Hill, N.C., Ann Arbor, Mich., and Berkeley, Calif.

And when graduate students are asked why they dropped out of programs, thedesire to be at an institution that enables them to have a family comes up again andagain. Faculty and graduate students share a fear of losing a research grant or a pro-motion if they take time off after having a baby. The university’s teachers andresearchers want a family-friendly environment. While the university has the Cen-ter for Young Children, the program is not nearly big enough to care for every pro-fessor’s child. And female faculty and graduate students still face an unfair fear thathaving a child could cost them a job, scholarship or fellowship.

Fortunately, the university has started taking steps to provide professors with abetter quality of life. However , many of the new initiatives have been neutered by alack of funding and the plans should only be considered a first step.

In the fall, the University Senate approved a revamping of the university’s pater-nal leave policy for tenure-track faculty. The new policy now allows such faculty torequest reduced workloads and a delay in their tenure review date in order to allotmore time to raising a family.

This semester, the senate voted to create a family care resource and referralservice that will point faculty toward available child care resources. But the pro-gram will only be free for 240 people, with the remaining help-seekers having to pay.The senate hoped to create a more extensive child care plan, but with the univer-sity budget as tight as ever, opted to go for a scaled-down version.

University administrators also announced a plan for next year that would create aChildbirth Accommodation Fund that would grant paid parentalleave to graduate assistants. In order to attract a wide range ofgraduate students — not just those who are single and withoutchildren — the university must be able to compete with its peerinstitutions, three of which already provide six weeks of unpaidparental leave.

All three of these initiatives would make the university a moreattractive place to work, but all three are new, and implementa-tion needs to be carefully watched. In addition, once the econ-

omy turns — if it ever does — child care resources should be near the top on the listof programs that warrant expansion.

Still, more can be done to improve the quality of life for university employees.College Park is not a prime place to raise a family. With the congested and dingyRoute 1 corridor and the city’s fair share of crime, few would point to College Parkon a map and declare they wouldn’t live anywhere else. Revamping a city isn’t easy,especially when its current state is much the result of the surrounding area. Butthat is exactly why administrators should work further to implement policies thatmake the university, if not the surrounding area, more attractive. The developmentof East Campus should help, but ultimately the city needs to rival upscale Mont-gomery County in its attractiveness to families.

The university’s academic reputation has skyrocketed in the past 20 years. Let’shope that in the next 20, its reputation as a place to live and work can keep improving.

Staff editorial

Our ViewThe university has becomemore family-friendly, but

can go further.

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ROBGINDES

D uring this Student Gov-ernment Associationelection process, youhave heard a lot about

each of the candidates and their par-ties, but on this year’s ballot, there isan additional referendum questionthat you should also hear about.MaryPIRG — Maryland studentPublic Interest Research Group —is a statewide advocacy organizationthat has been at the university since1973. As an organization, our mis-sion is to encourage students to getinvolved and provide them with theresources they need to better affectchange on the local, state and evennational levels.

We work to find solutions onissues in the public interest andespecially those that we feel aremost important to students. Some ofthe most recent issues students inMaryPIRG have worked on includeglobal warming solutions, hungerand homelessness relief efforts,voter registration, higher educationand affordable textbooks, healthcare reform and a sweatshop-prod-uct-free university.

We have been really effective onthese issues and others for 36 years.For example, in 2009, we workedwith student groups at the univer-sity, our citizen organization Mary-land PIRG and its coalition partnersacross the state to pass the Green-house Gas Emissions ReductionAct, making Maryland one of theleading states in global warmingpolicies. We have raised thousandsof dollars for hunger and homeless-ness, including hundreds for Haitirelief efforts this year. Additionally,this year, with the help of the profes-sional organizers and lobbyists whowork on students’ behalf, we helpedpass student loan reform thatincreases the federal Pell Grants byat least $40 billion.

In order to continue gettingresults like these, we need your help.Our referendum question will askstudents if they want to keep fundingMaryPIRG through student activi-ties fees, which we use to fund full-time positions such as a campusorganizer and a state director.Because we as an organizationunderstand the importance of thestudent voice, we know it can behard to affect change without somesort of guidance or help from peoplewho are willing to provide resources.

That is why these positions arevery important to us and the workthat we do. Not only do they help uswork toward finding the solutionswe believe are necessary for someof these issues, but they also helpkeep us involved and connectedwith students across the country.There are nearly 100 student PIRGsin the United States, all of which aredoing their part to keep studentsactively engaged in their communi-ties. This is something we hope tocontinue to do in the same capacityafter this referendum. On almost allof our flyers you will read, “Togetherwe can make change happen,”because we need your vote to helpus continue this mission and con-tinue to make changes for the bet-terment of our society.

So don’t forget to vote at www.tes-tudo.umd.edu. And feel free to stopby and see us at anytime in ouroffice in South Campus Dining Hall.We would love for you to help usmake change happen.

Krystala Skordalos is a member ofMaryPIRG. She can be reached atkskordal@umd.edu.

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INTERVIEW | DOUBLE DAGGER

BY DREW WALDOStaff writer

Those who have alreadyseen Baltimore band DoubleDagger live will probably tellyou to see the group yourselfas soon as possible.

When the band took the stageat last summer’s Baltimoremusic festival Whartscape on ascorching-hot Sunday, its late-afternoon show abruptly set thebar for the entire event —including popular local actssuch as Future Islands, TeethMountain and Dan Deacon.

It wasn’t that the earlier per-formances had been bad, but itwas not until bands such asDouble Dagger took the stagethat the festival felt more likean event and less like a back-yard performance.

With its new EP, Masks, anda celebrated live show, DoubleDagger will visit the Black Catin Washington on Thursday.

Masks follows the band’sthird full-length album, MORE.It’s a collection of earnest, lo-fisongs with surprisinglystripped-down arrangements.It features a couple of left oversongs from MORE, as well as afew new tracks.

Early on, the band — DennyBowen on drums, Bruce Willenon bass and Nolen Strals on leadvocals — considered addingmore instruments to the mix.Ultimately, though, the mem-bers chose a different approach.

“We essentially just addedsome more amps,” Willen said.

Willen and Strals, also theduo behind Post Typography, asuccessful graphic design firm,

do not hide their confusionover the comparisons to otherbands that Double Daggerreceives. On its MySpace page,the group lists all the bands ithas been compared to by listen-ers and critics, including acts asvaried as Broken Social Scene,Led Zeppelin and Weezer.

And although the band isoften compared to some Wash-ington-based DischordRecords punk bands of the‘90s, Willen and Strals pleadignorance, claiming only apassing familiarity with groupssuch as Fugazi.

Still, the band keeps with itsBaltimore beginnings. Themembers listen to mostly areabands such as Dope Body andtourmate Future Islands. Theband has also mentioned itsdisdain for some of the cheaper

aspects of new music, particu-larly things that are purposelyand overly ironic.

“We hate what passes forirony these days,” Strals said.“...When it is wielded by a intelli-gent hand, [it] can be a powerfultool. But I think in most cases inour contemporary world,[irony] is like the fallback, likethe easy sort of cop-out.”

The lyrics Strals himselfwrites tend to vary themati-cally from song to song. As aresult, there is nothing as lyri-cally simple as a Double Dag-

ger break-up record.“I don’t think there is ever a

conscious or calculated sort ofeffort to push them in, like, acertain direction,” Strals said.“There’s times like the politi-cal stuff is at the forefront ofour thought processes, or per-sonal stuff.”

For now, Double Dagger willbe keeping up with its relent-less touring schedule. Nextmonth, it heads to Europe.

“We’ve never been to Europebefore, so we’re definitely look-ing forward to that.” Willen

said. “I think sometimes it is dif-ficult, especially if you haven’tbeen playing shows regularly,it’s like a lot of energy to put out… it wears you out for sure. It’slike running a marathon, in away. You have to work up to it alittle bit, or otherwise you kindof burn yourself out.”

Double Dagger will performat the Black Cat on Thursday at9 p.m. Future Islands and EdSchrader will open, and ticketsare $10.

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Double Dagger brings its eclectic sound tothe Black Cat on Thursday

Seeing double

Double Dagger, a Baltimore-based band, will be supported by Future Islands and Ed Schraderwhen it comes to the Black Cat on Thursday. COURTESY POST TYPOGRAPHY

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2010 | SPORTS | THE DIAMONDBACK 7

season’s start. “She can play anyposition better than anybody else.”

In her senior year, Schultzhas brought her defensiveprowess to third base whilefinding herself at the plate.

Watten can’t explain how it’shappened, but in Schultz’s senioryear, she leads the Terps with a.433 average, seven home runs,32 RBI and 35 runs scored. She’son pace to shatter the Terps’ sin-gle-season batting averagerecord of .408, set by infielderAmber Jackson in 2007.

Schultz has also brought aunique bravado to the Terps.Oftentimes during the season,she’s made proclamations of per-ceived superiority over opponents,including a recent claim that Tow-son was “nothing special” beforethe Terps faced off — and lost —against the Tigers last week.

Without her brilliant seniorseason, the Terps likely wouldn’tbe heading into their ACC seriesthis weekend at N.C. State withtheir name firmly in the NCAA

Tournament discussion.And on a team dominated by

underclassmen, Schultz’s contri-butions as one of three seniorsboth on and off the field havebeen instrumental in the team’squest to end its 10-year postsea-son drought.

“She leads the team on and offthe field,” pitcher Kerry Hickeysaid. “I can’t even pinpoint oneexample. It’s just an every daything. She’s in it every day, everypractice, she’s all about it.”

Although the statsheet ade-quately captures Schultz’s impor-tance to the Terps, it’s her timelyhits that have mattered most.

Her three-run home run gavethe Terps a 5-2 win in the openinggame of the team’s weekendseries against conference foeNorth Carolina, and a two-RBI sin-gle helped the team take a 2-1 deci-sion in the day’s second game.

“She’s having a fabulous year,”Hickey said. “I don’t think shecould ask for a better senior year.”

“She’s the one you want theball to go to, and who you wantat the plate when it’s a clutchsituation,” pitcher KendraKnight said. “She’s having a

great year.”Even in the midst of the best

year of her career, Schultz and theTerps won’t be happy until theysee their name in an NCAA Soft-ball Championship regional.

More poignantly, Schultz wantsto reach the postseason not onlyfor the team, but to repay thecoach who she once clashed withbut now thanks for her success.

“She’s an awesome lady. I would-n’t be here if it wasn’t for her. I’vegone through so much with her.She’s a fantastic coach and she hasa lot to give to the sport,” Schultzsaid. “I guess I just want to,because I know how bad she wantsit, too. I just want to help the teamget to where we need to be andwhere we can be. I just want to helpher out as much as I can — giveback to what she’s given me.”

For Watten, the opportunity tosee one of her first recruits to Col-lege Park flourish in her senioryear has been just as welcome.

But it doesn’t come as a surprise.“When I saw her, recruited her

and watched her play travel ball,”Watten said, “I knew it was in her.”

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team gears up for another run tothe ACC Championship andFinal Four. Both start at midfieldand have combined for 25 goalsand 12 assists this season.

While they play the same posi-tion on the field and hail from thesame Poway, Calif., home, theyhave distinctly different roles onthe Terps’ offense.

Brandi, a junior, is the more tra-ditional two-way midfielder. Hernorth-south speed opens up scor-ing windows for the team’s attack-ers on offense, and her strengthon the defensive end makes heran asset in front of goal.

“The reason why I’m open orother people are open is becauseshe’s making space,” attackerKarri Ellen Johnson said. “Shedoesn’t get enough creditbecause no one sees the workthat she puts into it.”

Brittany plays a more finessestyle. Instead of the straight-ahead style her sister employs,the midfielder the team calls“Noodle” darts around thedefense, using a quick first stepand a long, lean frame to set upher shots.

They don’t just play differently;The two came to Reese with dif-ferent mindsets and understand-ings of the game.

Brandi, a 2007 UnderArmour All-American, came inlike any other self-assuredrecruit: a talented freshmanwho hadn’t yet grasped theintricacies of the game.

Brittany, with two years’ worthof college experience at the clublevel, already had a feel for thecollege game — but not muchconfidence.

“I don’t think that Brittany ini-tially realized how good shereally was,” Reese said. “She is anawesome college player and itwas just believing that.”

Despite growing up together,playing on the same sports teamsand going to the same college,the two sisters say they rarelybutt heads, if ever.

But Johnson, who lives withboth the Joneses, provided a dif-ferent picture.

“Sometimes they’re enemiesand sometimes they’re bestfriends — I mean, they’re sis-ters,” Johnson said. “They’rereally funny. They definitely lookfor each other on the field. Theyhave that sisterly sense.”

“I love them both to death, butthey’re both such different per-sonalities and people though,”Reese added. “They’re very for-tunate to have each other this faraway from home.”

Last season, Brandi earnedAll-ACC and second team All-America honors after scoring 28goals and notching 33 assists.Not to be outdone, Brittanyreceived ACC All-Tournamentrecognition after she contributedfour goals and two draw controlsin the team’s title run.

Their time together is windingdown — this season will be theirlast as teammates. After this sea-son, Brittany plans to go back toCalifornia and find a way to coachlacrosse. Brandi, meanwhile, willenter her senior year without theguidance of her older sister.

“We’ll miss Brittany for morereasons than that, but she is veryresponsible and she looks out forher little sister,” Reese said.

Laughing, she added, “Hope-fully Brandi will step up into thatrole of responsibility next year.”

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Still, coach Dave Cottle contin-ued to place trust in Holmes.Rather than lighten his load, thecoach placed even more respon-sibility firmly on Holmes’ shoul-ders, dedicating his practice timealmost exclusively to faceoffs.

The perseverance paid off.In the team’s game against

Navy on April 10, Holmes tookall but two of the team’s faceoffsand won 71 percent of them,helping the Terps snap a two-game losing streak. Against theBlue Jays, he proved his play wasno fluke. His 13-of-21 perform-ance paced the No. 5 Terps (8-2)to a possession-heavy showingagainst their in-state rival.

“That is the toughest son of abooger I think any of us haveever been around anytime in mycoaching career,” Cottle said.His faceoff wizardry had goodtiming, too. After the Blue Jayshad scored two straight to pullwithin two goals in the fourthquarter, Holmes flicked a face-off to long pole Jesse Bern-hardt, who scooped it up andheaded straight to net, where hefinished what Holmes started.

“We tried to get the ball aswell as we could and especiallykeep it on the offensive end,”Bernhardt said. “Bryn did agood job facing off, and thatreally helped us play well.”

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Infielder Alex Schultz leads the Terps in severaloffensive categories. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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SportsBaseball beats Old DominonCheck out TerrapinTrail.com for beat writer MichaelLemaire’s game coverage of the Terrapin baseballteam’s 14-9 win on the road at Old Dominion.

Holmesrebounds atfaceoff ‘X’

Infielder Alex Schultz, right, charges toward home plate during an April 11 win against Virginia Tech. The Terps won 7-3. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK

Senior starred inBlue Jays victory

BY KATE YANCHULISSenior staff writer

For 15 minutes Saturday, BrynHolmes made Brian Phipps’ lifemuch less complicated.

When Holmes lined up atthe center ‘X’ in the third quar-ter of the Terps’ 10-9 winagainst then-No. 16 Johns Hop-kins, the team’s faceoff special-ist didn’t come away empty-handed very often.

Holmes won 4 of 5 third-quar-ter faceoffs for the Terps, whoraced from a one-goal halftimedeficit to score three of the quar-ter’s first goals to take a 6-5 lead.

As the Terps’ offense gotgoing, Holmes and the Terps’defense stayed happily in place.

“[Defender] Brett Schmidtand I were joking; we were say-ing that we could do this allgame,” Phipps said.

They’ve only recently gottenused to the long-running lapsesin action.

Earlier this season, game-changing performances fromthe senior had been lacking,especially against top-flightopponents. Two weeks ago, thetop-five team’s No. 1 option onfaceoffs had won less than halfof his battles on the season.

Even in the Terps’ winsagainst Georgetown, Duke andTowson, the team lost the major-ity of its faceoffs. Against thethen-No. 9 Blue Devils, theTerps won less than a third.

Midfielder Bryn Holmes, left,locates a loose ball. MATTHEW

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In senior year, Schultz finally shinesWith big words and hot bat, infielder helps Terps chase postseason dreams

BY JEREMY SCHNEIDERStaff writer

During the Terrapin softballteam’s 10-game homestand inlate March and early April,infielder Alex Schultz had anextra roommate.

It wasn’t a teammate or afriend who crashed on the pull-out couch for three weeks atSchultz’s College Park house.

It was Shawn Schultz.Her mother.

“She’s been coming to allthe games,” Alex Schultz said.“She drives her 1996 ToyotaCelica that has 200,000 mileson it. She’s living exactly howshe wanted to, and she’s lovingevery minute of it. ... She wasup here with me staying withme and then she’s in NorthCarolina staying with mygrandma and some friends forthe next two weekends.”

Since Schultz’s grandfatherdied in January, her motherhas embarked on what shecalls her “early retirement,”splitting time between hergrandmother’s house inOcean Springs, Miss., andwherever the Terps take her.

Schultz is having the best

year of her career as a senior,doing her part to make themost of her mother’s road trip.

Had the trip come in thethree previous years, it mightnot have been nearly as pleas-

ant. But that doesn’t meanSchultz hasn’t learned fromthose seasons.

“A lot of confidence,” Schultzsaid, “comes from just remem-bering where you’ve been.”

The transition from a two-time Colorado state cham-pion at Pueblo West HighSchool to a self-proclaimed“little fish in a big pond” atthe collegiate level wasn’t

easy for Schultz. She mixedoccasional clashes with coachLaura Watten’s staff with a.203 batting average.

There were plenty of lowpoints for Schultz. But evenwhen she felt like quitting,Schultz said her parents werethere to keep her playing.

“My dad has probably beenthe biggest key as to why I’vebeen continuing to play,”Schultz said. “Just because, hetold me one day that he prettymuch pushed me back on theplane one day and was like‘No, you’re going, and you’regoing to do this.’”

In her sophomore year,Schultz said “it was like every-thing clicked.” She gelled withthe Terps’ coaching staff andfinally felt comfortable in Col-lege Park.

Even as she struggled offen-sively, hitting .226 during herfirst three years, she became adefensive ace, playing everyfield position but first base.

“She’s diving all over theplace, screaming and yelling,making ESPN-type plays,”Watten said before the current

Infielder Alex Schultz, left, leads the Terps with both her boasts and her bat this season. Aftera slow start to her career, Schultz now leads the team in hitting. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Midfielder Brandi Jones, left, is the younger sister of Terps’midfielder Brittany Jones. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

Same name, different gameJones sisters play separateroles for women’s lacrosse

BY CHRIS ECKARDStaff writer

Playing for Cal Poly’s clublacrosse team three years ago,Brittany Jones felt contentwith her school, her team andher life.

But after one eight-goal bar-rage, everything changed.

When Terps’ coach CathyReese saw the offensive fire-works in Jones’ televised clubchampionship game, shepicked up the phone and calledher prized California commit,Brandi Jones.

Reese asked Brandi if therewas any way she could con-vince Brittany, her older sister,to come along to College Parkand don the Terps’ lacrosseuniform as well.

The two had difficulty per-suading the already comfort-able Brittany, but only twomonths before the start of fallclasses she decided to flipcoasts, ditching her older sisterJanelle at Cal Poly and makingthe cross-country trip to Col-lege Park.

“Some people transferbecause they hate their team,but I loved the school environ-ment,” said Brittany, a redshirtsenior. “But Maryland was achance to play Division Ilacrosse with the best playersin the country.”

In the three years since theirarrival, both Jones sisters haveplayed vital roles for the No. 3Terps (14-1, 4-1 AC) as the

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