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City officialsdivided overdowntownhotel planSupporters say hotel couldhelp downtown competewith East Campus project

BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer

The City of College Park’s plan to redevelopits downtown City Hall property into a luxuryhotel may be threatened by dissent amongcity officials and a lack of developer interest.

City officials hope to have a full-serviceluxury hotel downtown — a Hilton or similar— that would be used by dignitaries visitingthe university and may help revitalize thedowntown area.

Although the 38-acre East Campus develop-ment is just a few blocks north of the City Hallsite and will likely include a hotel, East Cam-pus developers support a downtown hotel.Local support for East Campus had been con-tingent on keeping the existing downtownarea competitive rather than allowing all busi-ness activity to move up the road.

Under its plan, the city would sell its prop-erty and arrange for a new developer to buyout several storefronts that separate the cityproperty from Route 1, between Lehigh andKnox Roads, including Subway and SmoothieKing.

But city officials disagree on several as-pects of the project.

City Planning Director Terry Schumclashed sharply with Mayor Stephen Bray-man at a recent council meeting when themayor asked her to narrow down seven “ex-pressions of interest” the city received fromdevelopers about the possible project.

Student feesnow coverCRS fitnessclassesChange aims to make gymservices fair for both sexes

BY ALYSSA ZELEZNIKStaff writer

All group fitness classes will be offered forfree beginning this semester as part of a deci-sion Campus Recreation Services made inMay 2007.

Group fitness classes, such as aerobics,yoga and kick-boxing, traditionally costabout $1 per class. Now, instead of chargingstudents for the classes, gym membershipfees will increase by $1.50, Brent Flynn,assistant director of business for CRS, said.

Though CRS has been planning this policysince 2007, this is the first semester studentscan participate in these classes for free, saidMiranda Giossi, coordinator of fitness pro-grams.

The issue arose when some staff voicedconcerns that usually male-dominated intra-mural sports are offered for free whilemostly female fitness classes were charged,Flynn said. To make things more equitablebetween the genders, CRS proposed groupfitness classes be free as well. Staff then

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and Aug. 2008

264Thefts reportedbetween Jan.

and Aug. 2007

368Property crimes

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Summer car thefts,burglaries increase

BY KYLE GOONStaff writer

Police spokesman Paul Dil-lon remembers how summercrime went in College Park20 years ago.

“Ghost town,” he said.“There was hardly anythinggoing on at all.”

Nowadays, the university ismore active year-round andhas more programs duringthe summer months. As aresult, although summer isquieter than spring and fall,crime no longer disappearswith the students.

University Police crimestatistics showed increases inburglaries and motor vehiclethefts this summer comparedto recent years. A crime blot-ter shows 20 cases of bur-glary during August, themost cases in one summer

month since June 2006. Fivemotor vehicle thefts werereported each in June andJuly.

However, the most com-mon crime at the university,theft, fell for the second sum-mer in a row.

Dillon said this year’scrime totals are roughly com-parable to the numbers atthis time of year in 2007,when on-campus crimereached a 10-year low.

“We are hopeful that thenumbers stay down and wehave another year similar to2007,” Dillon said.

Theft between January andAugust dropped from 264cases last year to 232 thisyear. Despite 10 stolen vehi-cles this June and July, motorvehicle thefts so far in 2008

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Turner regains starting position

Steffy fractured thumb, out indefinitelyBY ERIC DETWEILER

Senior staff writer

When Terrapin quarterback JordanSteffy told Chris Turner to warm upbecause he’d injured his thumb early inthe third quarter of Saturday’s gameagainst Delaware, the backup was skep-tical.

Turner expected to play at some pointthis season, but he didn’t think it wouldbe so soon.

“I said, ‘All right. I’ll start warming up,but keep rolling. Keep going. You’re

being tough,’” Turner said. “[Steffy] dida good job. He was hurt most of the thirdquarter.”

Wednesday, coach Ralph Friedgennamed Turner, who started the Terps’final eight games last season but lost hisspot to Steffy in a preseason competition,as the starting quarterback for Satur-day’s game at Middle Tennessee State.

He also revealed Steffy will be outindefinitely with a fractured right thumb.

The injury will require surgery after

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Univ. givessome studentsiPhones, iPods

BY CHRIS YUStaff writer

The university gave away freemobile Internet devices to selectstudents in an effort to see if suchtools can enhance the learningexperiences of its users, a schoolofficial said.

Called the Mobility Initiative,

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City worries hotel plans will ‘cheapen’ downtownSchum said there was not enough in-

formation yet to choose a preferred de-veloper because the city hasn’t yet beenable to provide developers with enoughinformation. When the initial request forexpressions of interest was sent out overthe summer, the city was months fromsecuring property for a replacement cityhall, a key step in the redevelopmentthat is still weeks away.

Without a new city hall site, the exist-ing city hall property could not be rede-veloped. Brayman said he hoped one ormore developers would work with thecity in discussing detailed plans for thesite even before the city was certain itwould be able to sell it, which Schumsaid may not work.

“We’re sort of flying by the seat of ourpants, and you’re throwing out a lot ofquestions, and I don’t think we’re able toanswer them. We can’t take seven peo-ple and just sort of string them along andthrow them out along away,” she said. “Iunderstand your goal, I just don’t know ifit’s an attainable goal.”

None of the expressions of interestpromised a Hilton or similar hotel, butone suggested a Hilton Garden Inn — an“upscale” hotel not quite as luxurious as

Brayman had hoped for — that somecity officials said is more likely to be ableto survive on the relatively small proper-ty size and tight height restrictions thecity is offering. District 2 CouncilmanJack Perry supported the Hilton Gardenidea, which Brayman rejected as “at theget-go trying to cheapen what we’vegot.”

“You couldn’t cheapen that block ofRoute 1 if you tore the whole thingdown,” Perry said. He waved a pictureof a Hilton Garden Inn, adding, “This isgoing to cheapen Route 1?”

Discussions among city staff andcouncil members and a lack of detail inthe expressions of interest are problem-atic in a development project with tightdeadlines. The city is hoping to use a fi-nancing deal tied to the neighboringEast Campus project, which is muchfurther along the design process thanthe city’s hotel plan.

“It’s sort of like we’re juggling sevenor eight balls in the air. There’s alwaysthe possibility for one or two of the ballsto drop,” District 2 Councilman BobCatlin said. “It’s somewhat of a long shotthat this thing can be done, but there’senough payoff that it’s worth it.”

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Greg Schimmel’s football column yes-terday, “Too early to panic,” had anediting error on the number of ACCteams to have lost last weekend. Onlyfour teams in the 12-team conferencelost last weekend. Schimmel’s intentwas to state “Half of [all] teams thatplayed games last weekend lost.”

Senior center Edwin Williams: “I’m pret-ty revved up, especially [Saturday at Mid-dle Tennessee] being our first away gameof the season. I just want to go down thereand execute our plan well. That comeswith practice. Today will be a tough one, to-morrow will be a tough one, Thursday willbe a tough one. Friday we get on a plane.”

“Everything we can fix. It’s not a lack ofeffort. It’s not a lack of assignment knowl-edge. It’s just little things. As long as wecan take care of that, I think we’ll be good.”

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Journalism students surprised with $150 fee

BY TIRZA AUSTINStaff writer

Journalism students will be$150 poorer than expected aftersettling their student bills this fall.

A “professional charge” hasjournalism students puzzled afterit appeared on their accounts forthe first time this semester, andonly after tuition had beencharged to their accounts.

“When I saw it, I was like, ‘Idon’t know what the hell this is,’”graduate student Romney Smithsaid. After contacting the univer-sity’s financial aid department,she discovered it was the firsttime the journalism school hascharged this mandatory fee.

The fee surprised students whofelt they should have been noti-fied about the fee and what it wasdesigned to fund.

Notifying students about thenew charge slipped through thecracks, said Linda Ringer, assis-tant dean for business operationsin the college of journalism. Thecollege has a lot on its plate, shesaid, including adjusting to a newdean and overseeing the construc-tion of Knight Hall, so it didn’toccur to them to inform students.

“I would understand [students]being upset about [not being in-formed],” Ringer said. “It shouldbe something we should have no-tified you about.”

Ringer said a computer pro-gramming error charged stu-dents’ accounts after the tuitionpayment, which made the billeven more “glaring.”

Ringer said she has talked tostudents and parents, apologiz-ing for not notifying them in ad-vance. Most parents told Ringer

the charge wasn’t going to be aproblem, but Ringer added theyshould talk to an advisor if itposes a hardship for students ortheir families they should talk toan advisor.

Most professional collegeswithin the university have similarcharges, as do other journalismschools across the nation. Juniorjournalism major Matt Ford, whorecently transferred from North-western University, said $150seemed cheap compared to thethousands of dollars spent onequipment required by North-western.

Ringer said peer institutionscharge students thousands of dol-lars in mandatory fees over fouryears. This university’s smallercharge will support software up-dates, the school’s UMTV station,off-site bureaus and subscriptionsto wire services.

“[The charge] makes sure weare able to buy what students areusing,” Director of Public AffairsMatt Sheehan said. “We want toprovide that equipment so stu-

dents are exposed to it.” He added it is much easier to

provide the resources throughthe college rather than requirestudents to buy new technol-ogy on their own.

In the past, money for com-puter labs and broadcastequipment has come from pri-vate donations, but Sheehansaid the college is trying to con-tinue the revenue stream while“ramping up” technology.

Sheehan said the money,which he roughly estimated tobe anywhere from $140,000 to$150,000, will not leave thebursar’s office until Decemberand therefore can’t be used forimmediate updates.

The fee will be reevaluatedlater to see if the amount isappropriate, Ringer said, butany changes to the fee must beapproved by the Provost’sOffice, Associate Vice Presi-dent of Academic Affairs BillMcLean said.

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Campus faces spikein burglary, drop inproperty crimesare down to 26 as compared to36 through August last year,police records show.

Crime statistics for Augustare based on the UniversityPolice department’s regularlyupdated crime blotter. Officialstatistics for August are notyet available.

Overall, University Policeare enjoying a relatively slowyear in crime through August.There have been 10 violentcrimes reported so far thisyear, one of the lowest totalssince 1999. Property crimesare also down to 368 reportedcases through August, wellbelow the five- and 10-yearaverages, according to policestatistics.

The most troubling aspectof crime statistics this year todate is burglary. There were90 break-ins in 2008 by theend of July, compared to 89 inall of 2007, according to theUniversity Police website.

The university’s StrategicEnforcement Response Team,a police unit that reacts tocrime trends, is struggling toslow the increase.

“It’s tough to deal with,

because people could be leav-ing their homes or buildingsunsecured or criminals couldbe forcibly entering,” said Lt.Robert Mueck, commander ofSERT. “It’s hard to nail itdown to one factor.”

The university is working ona program to help educate res-idents on preventing burglary,Mueck said. He expects theprogram to receive approvalwithin the next few weeks.

Plainclothes officers havealso been patrolling parkinglots to cut down on the num-ber of motor vehicle theftsafter the unusually high num-ber of incidents in June andJuly, Mueck said. Only onestolen vehicle was reportedduring August, according tothe crime blotter on the Uni-versity Police website.

“We’re working hard andgiving a sustained effort topush crime out of CollegePark,” Mueck said. “Thenumbers can change fromyear to year without a spe-cific explanation, so we’rejust doing our best and tryingto pay attention to the rightthings.”

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the project began at the start ofthe semester and will examinewhether students can effectivelyuse educational applications oniPods and iPhones, said PhyllisDickerson Johnson, a spokes-woman for the Office of Informa-tion Technology.

“I think [this project is] goingto be very, very effective,” saidKent Norman, a psychology pro-fessor and member of the Mobili-ty Initiative Steering Committee.“I think it’s essential to the cam-pus.”

The 133 freshmen, includingBanneker-Key scholarship recip-ients and members of the Mary-land Incentive Awards Program,had the option of choosing eitheran iPod Touch or an iPhone 3Gfor this study, Dickerson Johnsonsaid. The iPod Touches were free,while the iPhones required stu-dents to sign a two-year contractwith AT&T.

Once students made their se-lections, they could then use theirdevices to access educational ap-plications designed by the univer-sity, Dickerson Johnson said. As apart of the Mobility Initiative, theuniversity reformatted two uni-versity websites — MyUM portal,where students can check classschedules, grades and other aca-demic information, and ELMS,where students can check assign-ments and participate in discus-sions — to be more functional on asmaller screen Dickerson John-son added.

The handheld devices will alsobe able to access MyeVyu, an ad-vanced application that helps stu-dents navigate and plan trips onand around the campus. Accord-ing to the Mobility Initiative web-site, this program that was origi-nally developed for the NokiaSmartphone can pinpoint wherethe user is located and give direc-tions to another place on schoolproperty.

In addition, MyeVyu will listShuttle-UM and Metrobus sched-ules, help students locate the clos-est bus stop and tell users all thebus routes that come at a particu-lar stop, said Ashok Agrawala, a

computer science professor andlead developer of the program.By using GPS, MyeVyu can alsomemorize the location of wherestudents park their cars. And forsafety purposes, the program hasa panic button feature, whichsends the identification and loca-tion of the user to a police dis-patcher in the event of an emer-gency.

Agrawala said MyeVyu will beavailable for the Mobility Initia-tive students to use within thenext two weeks. He and his teamare hoping to develop other fea-tures for this program, such asthe ability to find friends and thenearest restrooms.

“What we build is a flexibleplatform from which a large vari-ety of applications can be imple-mented,” Agrawala said. “It’saimed at improving the quality oflife.”

The students will use the aboveprograms on their iPods andiPhones and then discuss how ef-fective each feature is in semi-nars. Their feedback will helpfaculty determine how effectivemobile devices are when it comesto furthering education.

Agrawala said he hopes the pro-grams being offered in the Mobili-ty Initiative will one day be ex-panded to all devices. He addedthey do much more than simplymake things easier for students.

“When on campus, there is avariety of information, and bymaking them readily accessible ...it makes you that much more pro-ductive, that much more effec-tive,” Agrawala said. “This is thefirst of its kind, and it’s well aheadof anything else anywhere.”

Norman said by allowing stu-dents to use educational pro-grams on mobile devices, it pre-pares them for the future, be-cause the 21st century workplacewill be filled with similar technol-ogy. But that is not the only bene-fit, he said.

“They’ll feel much more con-nected to campus,” Normansaid. “It’ll extend [learning] be-yond the doors of the class-rooms.”

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iPods help studentsnavigate the campus

Males and femalessplit on fitness feetalked to student groupsabout making the change anddecided to waive the fee afterreceiving positivefeedback, Flynn said.

Female studentsappreciate thischange, because theywill have to plan lessfor their gym trips.

“When I went tothe gym to take aclass last year I did-n’t know it costedanything, so I could-n’t go because I did-n’t have a dollar onme, so this is great,”sophomore financeand government andpolitics major ZinaMakar said.

Male students didnot seem as affectedby the change.

“I’m not really agroup fitness kind ofguy,” said MichaelLuongo, a freshman crimi-nology major.

Though the decision wasmade in 2007, CRS needed tospend some time rearrangingthe budget to accommodatethe free classes.

The staff hopes the freeclasses will attract studentswho formerly had reserva-tions due to the fee. AssistantDirector of Fitness Brianne

Rowh said shewants these stu-dents to try outsome classes theyhad not attendedbefore.

Students’ feel-ings about the freeclasses alreadyseem to be fulfill-ing the staff’shopes for the newchange.

“Last year, Inever went before,but I actually wentto yoga today,” saidLeni Schimpf, asophomore com-munication andgovernment andpolitics major.“And I think weinitially wentbecause it was

free.”Because the semester just

began, it is too early to tell ifclass attendance hasincreased, staff said.

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“Last year, Inever wentbefore, but Iactuallywent toyoga today.And I thinkwe initiallywent be-cause itwas free.”

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This summer, I experiencedwhat was both the most dis-turbing and most encouragingevent I’ve seen at the universi-

ty. Thanks to Facebook and The Dia-mondback, some of you have probablyheard that late-night study narrowly es-caped cancellation in July. The adminis-tration had decided to look at cuttingback late-night hours at McKeldin Li-brary to avoid a budget deficit. Unfortu-nately for them, something they weren’texpecting happened: Students found out.

One former late-night employee re-ceived an e-mail from the administrationencouraging her to find a new job, as theservice would be closing. Curious — eventhough she no longer worked there — shechecked in with her former bosses andfound out it was true. The administrationwas going to shut down late-night studywithout consulting students. Dissatisfiedwith the possibility of losing such a valu-able resource, she contacted members of

Students for a Democratic Society, a stu-dent group she was involved with.

What happened next was spectacular.A Facebook group was created, and hun-dreds of members joined overnight. SDSheld meetings to form a strategy and in-vited students from the Student Govern-ment Association. SGA PresidentJonathan Sachs and his assistantsshowed up at the house of an SDS mem-ber (OK, fine, my house) to plan resist-ance to the administration’s proposedpolicy. Students sent hundreds of e-mailsto the provost’s office, demanding action.

The administration had no choice but

to respond, and agreed to hold a studentforum. You wouldn’t think studentswould show up at the sixth floor of McK-eldin Library at 7 p.m. on a summerweeknight, but we were there in force —and we wanted answers.

Students regaled administration rep-resentatives with stories about classespassed and grades saved. When InterimLibrary Dean Desider Vikor (who wasnot responsible for the decision andseems perfectly nice, if a bit out of touch)asked what studying in the dorms waslike, he was nearly laughed out of theroom. Some students even threatenedcivil disobedience if the service was cut.

About a week later, the administrationannounced late-night study would con-tinue for the foreseeable future. What theordeal demonstrates is the kind of powerstudents have when we choose to exer-cise it. We are the university, and whenthe administration forgets it, it’s our job toremind them. What disturbs me is how

the administration behaved. Administra-tors claimed they had made no decision,but they had no plans to consult studentsbefore making one. Had it not been forone former employee, we wouldn’t havelearned this essential service had beencut until the first day of classes. Duringthe meeting, administrators refused toadmit a responsibility to consult studentson decisions that them. I’m not sure theyfully learned their lesson.

Overall, saving late-night was anamazing display of students’ willingnessto get involved. It showed the administra-tion we won’t sit down and have our deci-sions made for us. It showed them morethan just a few elected representativeswould show up to a meeting. It showedthem who’s boss. Now we have to makesure they don’t forget.

Malcolm Harris is a sophomore govern-ment and politics major. He can bereached at [email protected]

Late Night Study: Telling the Man how it is

Tuesday, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) held a townhall-styletalk on the campus. This isthe question I put to him

about the presidential race.“Senator Cardin, could you give one

positive and one negative about Sens.[Barack] Obama and [John] McCainthat you, having worked with them inthe Senate, would know but that we,having no direct contact with the twocandidates, would not know? Forexample, how they think and how theymake decisions, because over the nextfour years, a lot of unknowns will hap-pen.”

The senator responded with, “Well,one positive of Obama is his ability toconnect with people, the skill of reach-ing out and understanding the prob-lems facing average Americans. That’svery important. As for a negative ...You know, I really can’t think of any-thing bad about him.” The audiencelaughed. “As for McCain, I respect hisindependence, and a negative wouldbe that I don’t agree with him on hispolicies, that his policies are wrong.”

Now, what is so special about thisexchange, and what does it have to dowith Obama’s weakness? For amoment after Cardin responded, I wassatisfied with his answer. Soon after,however, I realized it was a standardpolitician’s non-answer to a question,with a funny line thrown in for goodmeasure. It was short and concise, andit appeared as though Cardin wouldrather talk policy than take jabs atMcCain.

How, I asked myself, would Obamahave answered my question? He wouldprobably mention the bravery andhonor McCain displayed during histime as a prisoner of war in Vietnam,waxing eloquent as he is known to do.Then, I suspect, Obama would havebrought it back to McCain, describinghim as the agent of the status quo andtalking about how McCain’s presi-dency would simply represent thethird term of President Bush. All thiswould have been presented in thethoughtful and almost prosaic Obamastyle we have become accustomed to.So, you ask, where is the Obama weak-ness — the flaw in speaking the truthand speaking it well?

As I digested Cardin’s curt, politi-cally correct answer to my question, Irealized how his response highlightedone of Obama’s greatest weaknesses.Anyone who watched the Saddlebackfaith forum with Rev. Rick Warren afew weeks ago recognized Obama’sanswers to tough questions repre-sented not just a thought process but adesire to be open and honest aboutwhat had led him to his beliefs — inshort, to truly answer the question. Incomparison, McCain’s blunt, one-dimensional responses gave viewersthe sense that McCain knew what hewas talking about and could express itclearly. Obama is intellectually supe-rior, but he is worse at connecting withhis audience.

For Obama to win the upcomingdebates, he must learn when to evadea question and when to give a simpleanswer, when to be a professor andwhen to be a politician. He must framehis values and policies in sentenceswithout commas or semicolons.Obama won more than 17 million votesin the Democratic primaries by reject-ing the role of the typical politicianusing typical political tactics. It’s beena winning strategy for him. But if he isto win Nov. 4, Obama must boil downhis eloquence, learning when toanswer in monosyllables, what toevade and when to respond simplisti-cally to induce a laugh, as Cardin didin our brief exchange. The lesson forObama is there, and if he is to becomepresident, it is one he must master.

Owen Andrews is a senior governmentand politics and history major. He canbe reached at [email protected].

Cardinaldirection

This summer, College Park bar owners made nice and, for achange, decided to work together. The result, which we’re sureat least a few students noticed, meant beers now cost at least $1and shots cost at least $2. We’re all for playing in groups, but

raising prices won’t increase safety.State Sens. Jim Rosapepe (D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel) and

Paul Pinsky (D-Prince George’s) originally approacheddowntown bar owners, concerned that low drink prices wereencouraging “excessive binge drinking.” In the past, othermunicipalities have collaborated to combat dangerousdrinking. Bob Ryan, the city’s director of public services,compared this agreement to Baltimore County’s Cooperat-ing Taverns and Alcohol Retailers’ Agreement. If only itwere so.

The Baltimore County agreement created guidelines topromote responsible drinking and emphasizes a commit-ment to only serving customers 21 and older. If College Park bar ownersthink they did anything similar with the price floor they agreed to,they’ve overlooked elementary arithmetic. It was really cheap to getwasted on the 25-cent rails Thirsty Turtle offered this summer. But a $2shot isn’t that expensive. Most students can probably still get drunk foraround $10, so don’t expect problems connected to binge drinking —noise, assault, rape — to decline. And while the downtown’s big three —

Mark Srour, John Brown and Alan Wanuck — might say they’re steppingup to combat the “excessive binge drinking” that concerned Pinsky andRosapepe, they’re mistaken if they think this will be an effective meas-ure.

Of course, these are sharp businessmen, and what’s most interestingabout the bar owners’ agreement is how the owners themselves volun-

teered it as a solution to downtown binge drinking.It’s an empty gesture of investment in safety towardthe senators and the university, while protectingbusiness interests.

Ryan said the city did not look into the legality ofthe agreement. Few students attended the unadver-tised meetings that produced the agreement, andwe’d encourage any history majors familiar with theSherman Antitrust Act to do their own digging. Thelaw, originally passed to break up oil monopolies,

aims to prevent anti-competitive practices. As the U.S. Justice Depart-ment’s website puts it, “American consumers have the right to expect thebenefits of free and open competition — the best goods and services atthe lowest prices. … When competitors collude, prices are inflated andthe customer is cheated.”

The only party that seems to lose out is students. Students pay more fordrinks, and this price floor likely won’t make them any safer, either.

Hardly worth the priceStaff Editorial

Our ViewCollege Park bar own-

ers’ agreement to aprice floor won’t make

drinking safer, onlymore expensive.

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The other day, a New YorkTimes article and a throw-away joke in a Simpsonsrerun both caught my

attention. In the cartoon, the crimi-nal, Snake, found himself with anewfound pile of riches. “Hah hah,”he chortled. “Goodbye, student loanpayments!”

Snake is not alone. The Aug. 23article in the Times noted abouttwo-thirds of college students takeout loans, and on average, theyaccrue about $20,000 in debt. Thatmay not sound like a lot of money(although on second thought,maybe it does), but what can beespecially surprising to newlyminted college graduates is howquickly the amount owed can grow.A woman in Wisconsin deferred

payment on about $23,000 in stu-dent loans when some health prob-lems demanded her attention, andthe resulting fees and penaltiesnearly tripled the amount she owedwhen she finally defaulted threeyears later. (I encourage you toread this Times article; the statis-tics and anecdotal evidence pre-sented are sobering.)

Defaulting and having to rebuildyour credit is only one way studentloans can alter the trajectory ofyour life. A good buddy of minegained admission to one of the toplaw schools in the country andemerged three years later with adegree and over $100,000 in debt.He accepted a job at a large lawfirm in New York City, figuring hecould work hard and erase the debt

in a few years. That is, indeed, whathappened, but he can testify that allof the horror stories you hear abouthow NYC law firms work their jun-ior associates into the ground aretrue. When they say 70-hour workweeks, they’re not kidding.

And once, my buddy missed hisown birthday party — held at abeach house in Martha’s Vineyard— because at the last minute, hisboss decided to make him stay in

the city and review documents for acase that was several months off.My friend is now totally burnedout, can’t stand the legal professionand is wondering what happened tohis 20s.

I guess this column might be abuzzkill, especially at this time ofyear, when everyone is excited to beback on the campus. University lifecan — and should — be a lot of fun,both intellectually and socially. Butdon’t forget the fewer loans youtake out, the less impact they willhave on your post-collegiate life.

Jeremy Sullivan is a Ph.D. candidatestudying American history. He canbe reached [email protected]

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Born today, you are not thekind to take orders, butyou do understand thatthere are times when it is

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) —You may have to recycle one or

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —You may want to change yourimage at this time, but othersaren’t likely to accept you asanything but what you alreadyare. Trust the status quo.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —Now is the time for you to investa little more enthusiasm intoyour endeavors. When someonesays jump, you should want tosay, “How high?”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’relikely to need someone to dothings side by side with you, iffor no other reason than you arehungry for some able compan-ionship.

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Ethnocentrism and full-blown racism are nostrangers to Hollywood cinema. In fact,they’re sort of mainstays. From the sprawlingKlan glorification in Birth of a Nation throughthe thinly-veiled racial caricatures of the lat-est Star Wars trilogy, mainstream Americanfilm has a rather embarrassing track recordconcerning anything or anyone non-white.

On the surface, Traitor wants to undo Holly-wood’s racial and religious tunnel vision.There’s nothing too subtle about the film’s hor-ribly infantile ruminations on martyrdom andIslam (“Seems every religion has more thanone face,” one character quips with absolutesincerity), and the script rarely differentiatesbetween the two.

Perhaps director/scribe Jeffrey Nach-manoff (The Day After Tomorrow) and co-writer Steve Martin (yes, THE Steve Martin,Baby Mama) think they have taken one giantstep in the right direction. The conversationsare in place, and Don Cheadle (Ocean’s Thir-teen) leads as Samir Horn, a devout Muslimand apparent terrorist who is also the film’sprotagonist.

Admittedly, it’s a provocative twist, one ren-dered null and void by several other surprisesin the hum-drum cops ’n’ terrorists game. Thetraditional political crossovers and betrayalsensue — Agents! Double-agents! A mole in theFBI! — but Traitor’s predictable plot hardlyregisters as offensive.

And it’s not the main characters causing thebiggest ripples either. Sure, Cheadle’s charac-ter is bland and lifeless to the point where wenever care too much about his religion andallegiance issues. We’ve seen enough SamirHorns in past films to write him off quickly.

Guy Pearce’s (Winged Creatures) absurdlyrendered Agent Roy Clayton rounds out themindless religious discourse. As a convenientfoil to Horn — the man he pursues for mixingin with some major Arab baddies — Claytoncomes from a Baptist background and oncetrained to become a minister before deferringto the FBI.

Yes, bad movies happen to even the bestactors. But the real crime here is in the over-all design.

Preying on (i.e. profiting from) the sum ofall American fears, Nachmanoff not onlymisses an important opportunity to confronthis audience’s post-Sept. 11 prejudices, headds significant fuel to the fire.

After a prison break puts Horn at the dis-posal of an Arab terrorist group out to fightjihad throughout the United States, we arecasually introduced to a group of namelessArab terrorists-to-be. Spread throughout thecountry but united in montage, they are as fol-lows: the coffee-shop clerk, the white-collarprofessional, the university student and theassimilated middle-class American.

By introducing and continually returning tothese four characters, Nachmanoff ’s simplis-tic and oh-so enlightened view of the worldcompletely shatters. Good intentions fail toexplain the sudden shift in tone, and Traitorgoes from empty-headed and topical to out-right hostile.

The film’s hard-line message reads loud andclear: At any given point, your neighbors couldbecome terrorists and destroy everything youhold dear.

Any way you look at it, the conclusion isgreatly unsettling. The selection of the fourcharacters appears quite deliberate and ismeant to threaten a viewer from any walk oflife.

It’s not just the blasé action and pre-deter-mined plot threads leaving a bad taste. Traitoris cut from the misinformed heads of narrow-minded filmmakers whose concepts of theworld seem to come from 24 rather than actualexperience.

Odds are Nachmanoff and Martin onlyintended for the film to be another one of thosehalf-assed breeds between sociopoliticaldrama and espionage thriller. What they havecome out with is something far more troublingthan Iron Man in black-face or the gratuitoususe of the word “retard.”

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Why so serious? The blockbusterexplosions may have subsided, butthere are plenty of dark nights left.It’s hard to imagine this year’s fallmovie calendar besting 2007’s, but aquick glance ahead reveals sometough competition. Drugs, espionage,murder, post-apocalyptic devastation— and that’s all just in W.

Cut the lights and pop some pop-corn; here are your coming attrac-tions. (Note: All release dates are ten-tative and subject to change.)

Don’t worry; you’ll get your fill ofweepy, sweeping literary epics soonenough. But beating the Oscar pan-derers to the punch, the Coen Broth-

ers come out guns blazing with BurnAfter Reading, their follow-up to lastyear’s Best Picture winner, No Coun-try for Old Men. The plot involves theCIA, gym employees and marital infi-delity — all the makings of anotherdelightfully ludicrous Coen feature.Packed with familiar faces (GeorgeClooney, Frances McDormand,Richard Jenkins) and a few Coennewcomers (Brad Pitt, JohnMalkovich, Tilda Swinton), Burnlooks to be a return to the absurdcomic-noir of Fargo and Raising Ari-zona. — Z.H.

When Righteous Kill wasannounced back in May 2007, itseemed like it couldn’t miss. The filmstars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro,is penned by hot new writer RussellGewirtz (Inside Man) and is directed

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Going off of trailers and what weknow on paper, Spike Lee’s Miracle atSt. Anna could very well be the criti-cal pony to bet on this season. Basedon the James McBride novel of thesame name (he also wrote the screen-play), the World War II film followsan all-black company as the soldiersget caught in a Tuscan village in Italy.Stuck between the Germans and theracist, mismanaged American mili-tary, the men become entrenched inthe lives of the Italian people. Mys-tery and magic realism take hold asLee breaks the traditional war moviemold. This one could be special. —Z.H.

Can Shia LaBeouf transition fromboyish jokester to leading man? EagleEye represents the first test for thenew (bearded!) LaBeouf. The youngactor is courting overexposure as it is(www.BustedTees.com carries an“Enough LaBeouf!” T-shirt), and theirritating Fonzie-like role given to himin the latest Indiana Jones film did lit-tle to help matters. All this said, thefilm’s premise of innocent people

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Oliver Stone making a PresidentBush biopic: The phrase alreadysuggests a predetermined kind ofmovie. Initially, it seemed Stonehad made an effort to not indulge inBush-bashing, quoted in Entertain-ment Weekly as saying, the film is a“fair, true portrait of the man.” Butjudging by the first trailer, Stoneisn’t afraid to poke some fun, using“What a Wonderful World” as theironic soundtrack to portray Bushand his staff in some irreverenttones. Stone has said he didn’t wantto make a movie like MichaelMoore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, butexpect the same crowd to show upfor W. — D.B.

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at Cannes, Clint Eastwood’sChangeling — a true story of policecorruption and horrifying murder in1920s Los Angeles — should makeplenty of noise when it’s time to handout the golden statues. AngelinaJolie’s distressed mother role shoul-ders the brunt of the screen time asshe waits for her missing son toreturn home. Though less immediateand resonant than Mystic River,Changeling is a powerful drama anda worthy throwback to the classicAmerican films Eastwood so clearlyidolizes. — Z.H.

With no definitive release datepinned down yet, Charlie Kaufman’sdirectorial debut, Synecdoche, NewYork, should be blowing minds in atheater near you toward the end of theseason (www.imdb.com cites a limitedrelease next month). Equal partsWoody Allen and Philip K. Dick, Kauf-man’s latest boasts one of Philip Sey-mour Hoffman’s finest performancesto date in a heady meditation on death,art and relationships. If you thoughtAdaptation and Eternal Sunshine ofthe Spotless Mind were noodle-scratchers, just wait to see what Kauf-man has in store. — Z.H.

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the season, but Steffy may beable to return in three to fourweeks without doing addi-tional damage to the thumb.Surgery right now would endthe senior’s season.

Steffy was not available forcomment.

“I have a lot of confidencein Chris,” Friedgen said. “It’snot like he’s a rookie nowgoing in there. He’s shownwhat he can do. What he hasto do is do it consistently.”

Three weeks ago, Turnerwas contemplating transfer-ring after Steffy was namedthe starter for the Terps’ sea-son-opener against Delaware.After forgettable perform-ances by all three quarter-backs in Saturday’s 14-7 winagainst the Blue Hens — thegame which included Steffy’sinjury — Turner is back lead-ing the Terps despite going 1-3 for 11 yards in the game.

“It’s a little bit crazy,”Turner said. “I didn’t see ithappening, obviously. As thebackup I had to be ready foranything, and here I amnow.”

It also leaves the Terpswith just three quarterbackson the roster until Steffyreturns.

Junior Josh Portis, who ranthe ball on each of his foursnaps for 10 yards againstDelaware, will also see timeagainst Middle Tennessee.Redshirt freshman JamarrRobinson is the only otherquarterback on the roster,and freshman wide receiver

Tony Logan has taken snapsas scout team quarterback.

The injury also allows Por-tis to take more snaps atpractice, which Friedgen saidis what the young quarter-back needs. Friedgen ismindful that using hisdynamic athlete situationallyin games risks another injury,but the eighth-year coachsaid he’ll continue to use himbecause it gives the team thebest chance to be successful.

“He has a chance todevelop now and grow,”Friedgen said. “It could be a

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THE RETURN OF TURNERLast season, Chris Turner took over for JordanSteffy at quarterback when Steffy was knockedout of the Rutgers game with a concussion. Turnerled the Terps to two wins against top-10 teams,Rutgers and Boston College. He finished with 1,958yards, seven touchdowns and seven interceptions.He had a 63.5 completion percentage and 135.51quarterback rating. Here’s the breakdown of Turn-er’s performances last season:

Date Opponent Cmp-Att-Yds TD-Int. Result9/1 Villanova 4-6-33 0-2 31-14 W9/29 @Rutgers 14-20-149 0-0 34-24 W10/6 Georgia Tech 10-17-255 1-0 28-26 W10/20 Virginia 13-19-103 0-0 17-18 L10/27 Clemson 19-31-217 0-1 17-30 L11/3 @North Carolina 20-36-209 0-1 13-16 L11/10 Boston College 21-27-337 3-0 42-35 W11/17 @Florida State 16-32-242 1-1 16-24 L11/24 @N.C. State 19-24-206 0-0 37-0 W12/28 *Oregon State 17-29-205 2-2 14-21 L

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“I have a lot ofconfidence inChris. It’s not likehe’s a rookie nowgoing in there. He’sshown what hecan do. What hehas to do is do itconsistently.”

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Sophomore Chris Turner has taken over the Terps’ starting quarterback position after Jordan Steffy wasinjured in the Delaware football game last Saturday. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK

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blessing, which is how Joshapproaches it. It’s an oppor-tunity for him to get better,and hopefully he will.”

But Turner, who threwseven touchdowns andseven interceptions last sea-son after taking over thequarterback spot whenSteffy was injured againstRutgers, is back in a familiarspot, even if he feels like hehasn’t done anything to earnhis job back.

“It’s just tough luck againfor Jordan,” Turner said. “Idon’t know what else to say.”

The newly-crownedstarter said he doesn’t wantto think about the past, andhe expects Steffy to recoverquickly.

Until then his charge issimple: “I just have to beprepared to win games,”Turner said. “I’m not here tojust do a decent job. I’m hereto win games and have agood record.”

TERP NOTE: Friedgensaid running back Da’RelScott should be ready toplay after missing Mon-day’s practice due to a leginfection. Running backMorgan Green, who missedthe season-opener with aquadriceps injury, may alsosee action against MiddleTennessee, according toFriedgen.

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BY MICHAEL KATZStaff writer

With wins against LockHaven and No. 6 Penn State, theTerrapin field hockey team hasshown it’s ready to start the sea-son.

Now, the Terps need to showthey are ready to start games.

After two contests, the teamhas just one first-half goal to itscredit. Still, the Terps’ defenseand second-half play has liftedthem to victory.

“It’s hard to ex-plain,” sophomoremidfielder Katie O’-Donnell said. “We getout of the first halfand realize we aren’tplaying as well as wecould, then somethingjust starts to click inthe second half.

“We go into the sec-ond half with greatmomentum and ourskills are just on, butwe need to work ongetting into the firsthalf the same way,”she added.

The Terps’ lonefirst-half goal came inthe opener against aninferior Lock Havensquad. Senior backSusie Rowe convert-ed a penalty stroke inthe seventh minute,but at the end of thefirst half they heldonly a 6-4 shot advantage and a3-2 advantage on penalty cor-ners.

Against Penn State, the Terpswere held without a shot for thefirst 10 minutes of the game.

But it is early in the seasonand, despite the sluggish starts,coach Missy Meharg is confi-dent the team will improve.

“I’ll tell you what: I’m notconcerned at all,” Meharg said.“I think that you have to look athockey as a game of mental re-

silience and no matter what thescore is at the end of the game,somebody has more than some-body else. If they don’t, you playovertime.”

The wait-and-see approach isunderstandable from the coachof a team with a bevy of offen-sive talent. It seems only a mat-

ter of time before theteam, which returnedits top three goal-scor-ers from 2007, startsputting points on theboard early and often.

To be fair, thematch with PennState was expected tobe a low-scoring af-fair. The NittanyLions topped theTerps 1-0 in last sea-son’s national quar-terfinal. And with theteam shutting out itsfirst two opponents,an offensive barragehas not been re-quired.

“We have somework to do with goalscoring,” Mehargsaid. “But at the endof the day, I thinksomething to be con-cerned about wouldbe statistics at theother end of the field.”

Junior goalkeeper AliciaGrater said the slow starts haveput the team in a position tolearn and grow.

“Against Penn State it was atough-fought game,” Gratersaid. “To be able to pull it outgives you confidence in yourteammates that you don’t mindwhen you’re under pressureand you can find a way to makeit work.”

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Sophomore midfielder Katie O’Donnell, shown here last season, and the Terps have struggled in first halves of games. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

“We go intothe secondhalf withgreatmomentumand ourskills arejust on, butwe need towork ongetting intothe firsthalf thesame way.”

KATIEO’DONNELLSOPHOMORE MIDFIELDER

Team attributes wins againstLock Haven and Penn Stateto second-half offense

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road games against Pac-10powers UCLA and Cal to startthe season last weekend.

“As is a custom with our pro-gram, we like to know wherewe are right at the beginning ofthe year,” the 16-year Terpcoach said. “Those games offergreat opportunity for us togauge where our strengths are[and] where our weaknessesare, and hopefully a betterchance to address those imme-diately and get stronger everygame.”

The Terps won’t leave Lud-wig Field until next month,when they travel to Clemson.

Wallace’s golden goalTerps sophomore Rodney

Wallace started Fridaynight’s game against No. 19UCLA on defense.

That didn’t stop him fromscoring the game-winninggoal in the seventh minute ofovertime after being moved

up to the attack.“After we got that goal to go

into overtime, I felt like weknew we were going to win,”Wallace said. “We had that fire,and we were working hard allsummer, basically preparingfor moments like this.”

Junior midfielder DrewYates threaded a pass in be-tween two UCLA defendersright to Wallace, who managedto stay onside and found him-self one-on-one with Bruinsgoalkeeper Brian Perk.

Wallace faked insidebefore dribbling outside andtapping in the golden goal,leaving Perk on the groundbehind him. The Terpsstormed the field, and somedid a celebratory victorylap.

“It was a great moment,”Wallace said. “Yates made agreat pass. It was a great ballright between the defenders,and luckily I just put it away.”

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Rodney Wallace, seen above last season, capitalized on a pass from junior midfielder Drew Yates (left, last season) to score the game-winninggoal against UCLA Friday. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Wallace contributes game-winning goal Friday

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Even with the Terps trying toimprove every timethey step on the field,the team knows itneeds to perform bet-ter on the offensive endif it wants solid play inpractice to translateinto wins on the play-ing field.

After displaying thescoring touch theylacked all of last year inthis year’s season-opening 5-0 winagainst George Mason,the Terps appeared tobe an offensive force.

But since scoring ontheir first opportunityin their 3-2 loss againstBucknell on Friday, theTerps have managedonly one goal despite having nu-merous scoring chances. In Sun-day’s 1-0 loss to Elon, the Terpsdominated the game and the shotchart, out-shooting the Phoenix21-2 for the game but failed toput the ball in the back of the net.

Arias noted the team’s atten-tion to detail during possessionand finishing drills in practiceand believes it will carry over togames.

“When we do drills like finish-ing in practice, we take it very se-riously,” the senior captain said.“We focus on framing the goal

and runs in the box, and reallyfocusing on finishing.”

Pensky, on the other hand,wasn’t so quick to point the fingersolely at the offense for the

team’s two losses thispast weekend. With 21of the 31 players un-derclassmen, he saidthe burden falls on theteam as a whole and itneeds to continue towork hard every dayto improve.

“I think we need toscore goals, but at thesame time we need tonot take plays off,” hesaid. “We need to put90 minutes togetherand stay mentally andphysically focused theentire time we’re onthe field. When youdon’t do that, thattranslates to losing.”

Still, Pensky and theteam remain very optimisticabout this team’s capabilities,even after a shaky start to theseason.

“Despite the weekend’sresults, we know that we havea great team with terrificpotential,” Pensky said.“We’re quite young, so maybethis is part of our maturation.But there is no question thatthis group can do specialthings — the coaches knowthat; the players know that.”

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Freshman attacker Ashley Grove, seen above in Sunday’s match againstElon, and the rest of the women’s soccer team hope to step up theirgame after a shaky start to the season. ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

Pensky, team remain optimistic

Read the Diamondback.

PRACTICE, from Page 14

“Despitetheweekend’sresults, weknow thatwe have agreat teamwith terrificpotential.”

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SportsNSCAA/adidas Poll Men’s Soccer Top 10School Record Prev.1. Wake Forest (2-0-0) 12. Boston College (1-1-0) 43. Connecticut (1-0-1) 24. Creighton (1-0-0) 65. Akron (1-0-1) 12

School Record Prev.6. Indiana (1-0-1) 77. SMU (2-0-0) 178. Notre Dame (1-1-0) 39. TERRAPINS (1-1-0) 810. Ohio State (2-0-0) 9

Sophomore Will Swaim, shown here last season, is back for another season of bat-tling for the Terps’ starting goalkeeping position. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Pensky emphasizes each practice

A Terp goalkeeping battle ... round twoTERRAPIN MEN’S SOCCER NOTEBOOK

BY AARON KRAUTSenior staff writer

The dual goalkeeper system Ter-rapin men’s soccer coach SashoCirovski used throughout last seasonis still in place this year after twogames, despite the transfer of ThorneHolder.

During Sunday’s game againstCalifornia, highly touted freshmanZac MacMath, who spent time withthe U-17 U.S. National Team duringthe 2007 FIFA World Cup, got hisfirst opportunity in net in the 1-0loss. Sophomore Will Swaim startedFriday night’s season opener atUCLA, played throughout andyielded one goal in a 2-1 Terps over-time win.

Holder, who split time with Swaim

last season, transferred to AdelphiUniversity in New York in the sum-mer for more playing time, accordingto Cirovski, who will wait to make apermanent decision at goalie.

“It’s a very good battle. We won’t beable to settle on a clear starter untilprobably three, four or five gamesinto the season,” Cirovski said beforethe season. “They both bring differ-ent strengths.”

While Swaim is credited for being avocal organizer behind the defense,Cirovski said most of the freshmen,including MacMath, came in physi-cally ready to contribute right away.

Last season, Swaim got the bulk ofthe minutes in goal, starting 12 gameswhile Holder started nine. Cirovskisaid he would probably decide whowill get the start in this weekend’shome-opener against Hartford afterpractice yesterday.

Terps hit homestandThe Terps are preparing for a

stretch of seven straight home games,starting with Hartford and Davidsonon Friday and Sunday. But on thehorizon are visits from the Terps’ twohighest ranked conference rivals.

No. 2 Boston College and No. 1Wake Forest will both visit CollegePark this month, which is part of thereason why Cirovski scheduled two

2008MEN’S SOCCER

BY DAN MORRISONStaff writer

It’s the ultimate coaches’cliché: taking it one game at atime. But women’s soccercoach Brian Pensky is takingit to another level.

Pensky has focused histeam on each individualdetail, practice to practice.

“Yesterday, we focused onyesterday’s training,” Penskysaid Wednesday. “Today, wefocused on today’s training.

We can’t look beyond thenext practice or the nextgame.”

After two tough games lastweekend, in which the Terpsoutplayed both Bucknell andElon but came out on the los-ing side in each game, theteam appears focused on itsnext opponent — and only itsnext opponent.

“We’re just taking it agame at a time,” senior mid-fielder Nataly Arias said.“Right now we’re just looking

Women’s soccerlooking to figureout how to score

2008WOMEN’S SOCCER

Senior midfielder Natalie Ariashas taken a team-high 10 shotsthis year without scoring a goal.ALLISON AKERS/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Please See PRACTICE, Page 12

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