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THE DIAMONDBACKTHE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER 99TH YEAR | ISSUE NO. 48THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2008
THE DIAMONDBACK
COSTANZO IN CHARGEMen’s soccer co-captain hasmatured into leadership role
SPORTS | PAGE 11
JUNGLE FUNThe Madagascarsequel gets by onkiddie charm
DIVERSIONS | PAGE 9
Students endure problems at pollsElections board, TerpsVote to explore cause of names missing from voter rolls
BY ALLISON STICEStaff writer
After a largely successfulElection Day, questions stillremain about registrationproblems in Prince George’sCounty, where twice as many
voters called in with ques-tions for a nonprofit hotlinethan in any other county inthe state.
University officials willmeet with TerpsVote coordi-nator Devin Ellis today to dis-cuss solutions for a number of
students who said their infor-mation was missing fromelectoral rolls despite meet-ing registration deadlines.
“It is TerpsVote’s priorityto make certain that all provi-sional ballots are counted,”Ellis said. “But in the grand
scheme of things, it’s a minorproblem, especially becauseno one was denied the right tovote provisionally.”
The TerpsVote coalition,which comprises all campusvoter drives, delivered all2,514 registrations to the
Prince George’s CountyBoard of Elections, accordingto nine receipts stamped andsigned by the board. Afterthat, it is unclear whether theproblems occurred because
Obama’swin duein partto youth
BY DERBY COXStaff writer
The youth vote played a keyrole in President-elect BarackObama’s win Tuesday as youngvoters helped carry swing statescrucial to the candidate’s victory.
Support for Obama was highamong younger age groups butdecreased among older demo-graphics. About two-thirds of vot-ers younger than 30 supportedObama, compared to less thanhalf of voters older than 65, exitpolls showed. Support was espe-cially strong among black andHispanic young people, but morethan half of young white voterssupported Obama as well.
Debate tocontinueon slots
BY KEVIN ROBILLARDSenior staff writer
Although Marylanders voted tolegalize slot machines in the stateon Tuesday, debates surroundingthe issue aren’t completely fin-ished.
Slots opponents say they willtry to prevent slot machines fromappearing in the state by lobbyingelected officials in the five loca-tions where slots are to be placed— Baltimore City and Worcester,Allegany, Anne Arundel and Cecilcounties.
Additionally, some Anne ArundelCounty Council members said theywould consider altering zoninglaws to make it illegal to put slot
SGA narrowly approves carbon neutralityBY MICHAEL LEMAIRE
Staff writer
Despite heavy debate fromthe opposition, the SGA passedthe Clean Energy Act of 2008in a close vote last night.
For the first time this year,the legislature of the StudentGovernment Association wasforced to use a precise bodycount rather than a voice voteto determine the official ruling.The final vote was 12 in favor,nine against and four abstain-ing voters.
Steve Glickman, an outlyingcommuter legislator who votedagainst the act, was surprisedby the final result.
“I thought it was a lot closerthan I originally expected,”Glickman said. “I was expect-ing a lot more people to be infavor of it.”
The passing vote means $425will be removed from the Leg-islative Reserves, which ismade up of money from stu-dent fees, and will be used topurchase renewable energycredits that will offset the car-bon consumption of the group.
The initial request was for$275, but Speaker of the Legis-lature Matt Lyons amended theamount, adding $150 to includethe cost of heating.
Speaker of the Legislature Matt Lyons speaks in support of his bill tomake the SGA carbon neutral. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
A group of students arguedunsuccessfully with a statesenator about introducing leg-islation to strip funding fromthe planned ICC, a highwaythey said would be an envi-ronmental disaster and adrain on the state’s finances.
About 20 students met yes-terday with Sen. Jim Ros-apepe (D – Anne Arundel andPrince George’s), almostimmediately drawing a con-trast between the senator’s
environmental agenda and hisunwillingness to try to stopthe Intercounty Connector.
Rosapepe implied but didnot outright say he doesn’tsupport the ICC. Instead, hesaid he would not spend anyof his time fighting a losingbattle against a road alreadyunder construction.
“At this point, it’s alreadybeing built, and in terms ofenvironmental priorities, Ithink our efforts should gointo things we can actually
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Students, Rosapepeclash on ICC funding
ELECTION 2008
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A LONG-AWAITEDREMATCH
The Terrapin football team
heads back to Blacksburg,
Va., tonight with a bitter
taste resonating in the mouths of
those players who remember the
Hokies’ 55-6 win in 2004, the last
time the Terps traveled there.
The Terps haven’t won in Blacks-
burg since 1949, though they hope
to shake things up against a cold
Hokie squad that’s lost its last two
games entering tonight’s affair.
Voters under 30give Obama edgein swing states
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of errors on the registrationforms — like misspellingsand omissions — or becausethe forms were neverprocessed by the board ofelections, MaryPIRG campusorganizer Greg Schwab said.
Voters filled out more than350 paper provisional ballotsat Stamp Student Union andRitchie Coliseum combined,and the state’s electionboard will begin countingthem on Monday.
“The problems were mostlikely a combination of a lot ofvariables, so I can’t say wherethe problem can be tracedback to,” Schwab said. “Wecan only guarantee that whenwe receive a form, we’llcheck over glaring errors andthat each form will meet thedeadline. We made good onthat promise.”
TerpsVote maintains adatabase of the forms butdoes not have the legal rightto fix errors like typos, con-tradictory addresses or
missing signatures. Theresponsibility lies with theboard of elections, Schwabsaid. Donna Duncan, theMaryland Board of Elec-tions’ director of electionmanagement, said theboard operated a hugephone bank to call voterswho made mistakes on theirforms and filled in theirphone numbers.
Ryan O’Donnell, the execu-tive director of the watchdoggroup Common Cause Mary-land that operated the voterhotline, said registration wasthe biggest hurdle votersfaced in the state, especiallyin Prince George’s County.
“It’s especially terrible fora lot of people who are votingfor the first time,” O’Donnellsaid. “If people have badexperiences the first timethey come out, that’s magni-fied over time. And really, theboard of elections should betransparent about it and getto the bottom of this.”
[email protected] waited to vote Tuesday in the Grand Ballroom in the Stamp Student Union, with waits attimes exceeding an hour and a half. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
More than 350 provisional ballots cast at Stamp,RitchiePOLLS,from Page 1
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do,” Rosapepe said.The state has already spent
about $80 million onthe ICC, an 18-mile tollroad intended to con-nect Laurel andGaithersburg and re-lieve pressure fromlocal roads. The projectis slated to cost about$3.1 billion.
Davey Rogner, a sen-ior environmental sci-ence major who helpedorganize the meetingwith Rosapepe, wasone of many studentswho said those billionsshould be spent else-where.
“With how muchmoney is being pouredinto the ICC, thereshould be a greater pri-ority and emphasis put on tryingto defund the ICC in favor ofother transit items,” Rognersaid.
But Rosapepe offered a pes-simistic viewpoint on the feasibil-ity of the students’ suggestions.
“I believe the decision’s over
with,” he said. “In a practicalsense, I don’t think that moneywill be available to other proj-ects.”
Yet students wereundeterred. Citingstate and federal high-way studies, they saidthe ICC would in-crease driving in theregion by as much as700 million miles peryear by 2030, notingthis is at odds withRosapepe’s supportfor carbon emissionsreductions.
“By funding theICC, you’re undercut-ting the environmen-tal priorities you your-self support,” saidsophomore sociologymajor Ali Adler, a for-mer opinion colum-nist for The Diamond-
back and campaign director forClean Energy for UMD.
Rosapepe eventually offeredto meet with the students againif they got broader legislativesupport, but said he didn’t thinkthey had a good chance.
“How are we going to win
widespread support for this ifeveryone gives us the same an-swer?” countered Joanna Cal-abrese, senior vice president ofthe Student Government Associ-ation.
“You aren’t, but it’s the truth.You aren’t going to like it, but it’sthe truth,” responded an in-creasingly agitated Rosapepe.“I’m frustrating you, obviously,because I know you want me tosay, ‘Yes, yes, yes.’ But you’refrustrating to me because somany smart people are puttingso much time and energy into afight you can’t win.”
Rosapepe suggested the stu-dents at the meeting focus onother environmental initiatives,but that didn’t make them anyless interested in opposing theICC.
Next week, several of themeeting’s organizers will joinstate Del. Joseline Pena-Melnyk(D-Anne Arundel and PrinceGeorge’s) in a rally at a StateHighway Administration meet-ing to call for funding to be de-ferred from the ICC to otherprojects.
ICC, from Page 1
Students, senator butt heads over ICC
Some say act not the right solution
“We needed to include heat-ing, but we decided not to in-clude cooling, because it was im-possible to get an accurate esti-mate,” Lyons said. “We didn’tthink it was prudent to try andguess.”
Speakers of the legislaturegenerally do not argue for oragainst bills. But Lyons, the pri-mary sponsor of the bill, said theact was so important that he de-cided to temporarily step downfrom his position to debate themerits of the bill.
“It was a really important de-cision that I feel really stronglyabout,” Lyons said. “I originallycame to Davey [Rogner] withthe idea of making us carbonneutral. It was something I start-ed, so I wanted to finish it.”
Jessica Abramovici, a busi-ness legislator, filled in for Lyons
as speaker during the debate.Lyons and fellow supporters
were met with sharp rebuke assome members felt the SGA wasbeing hypocritical in its decision,and would have used more strin-gent requirements for similarrequests from other groups.
“We voted in favor of stuff lastyear that we wouldn’t do for any-one else,” said engineering legis-lator Kate Bodner during themeeting. “If a group came to uswith similar documentation,would that be enough?”
Although Lyons said he ap-preciated Bodner’s opinion, headded that he didn’t think shewas right.
“I disagree. We are not giv-ing ourselves preferentialtreatment with this act,” Lyonssaid. “How are we supposed toconvince administrators tomake efforts to become carbonneutral if we aren’t carbon
neutral ourselves.”Seth Clute, an outlying com-
muter and one of the dissentingvoters, said he felt there wereeasier ways to solve this problemthan by throwing money at it.
“We need to do more thanspend a few hundred dollars tomake ourselves feel better,” hesaid. “Just doing things like turn-ing off computers and turningoff lights will help.”
Before the legislature came toa vote, Lyons and Senior VicePresident Joanna Calabresemade one final plea hoping thelegislature would gain a level ofaccountability.
“Actions speak louder thanwords,” Lyons said. “We repre-sent this student body. I under-stand we can’t be perfect, butthis is really just a first step in along-term goal.”
SGA, from Page 1
State Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) debates the Intercounty Connector with agroup of students in the Stamp Student Union yesterday. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
University recognized for value
BYCHRISYUStaff writer
The university jumped to No. 9on Kiplinger’s Personal FinanceMagazine’s list of public collegeswith the best value, the highestposition it has ever occupied.
Last year, the university placed28th on the list, and prior to thisyear’s ranking, the all-time high-est ranking was two years ago, atNo. 15. Administrators attributethe rise to improved retentionand graduation rates, as well as atuition freeze for in-state studentsthe past three years.
Despite the improvement,Provost Nariman Farvardin saidmaking the top 10 was not a prior-ity for the university.
“I’m obviously pleased,” Far-vardin said. “[But] we don’t de-sign the university based on theserankings.”
Kiplinger took a pool of morethan 500 public colleges and nar-rowed it to 120 schools based onSAT scores for incoming fresh-men, admission rates, freshmenretention, student-faculty ratioand graduation rates. Then, themagazine made the final rank-
ings based on tuition costs, per-centage of students who receivefinancial aid and average debtper student before graduation.
The University of North Caroli-na at Chapel Hill is No. 1 on themagazine’s list, followed by theUniversity of Florida and theUniversity of Virginia.
According to The Office of In-stitutional Research, Planning,and Assessment, the school’sthree-year retention rate in-creased from 73.5 percent in 1992to 85 percent in 2005. Meanwhile,the four-year graduation rate hasclimbed from 32 percent in 1992to nearly 62 percent in 2004. Far-vardin said the improvementslikely contributed to the universi-ty’s ranking.
But perhaps one of the biggestreasons why the universityplaced so high on Kiplinger’s listis the school’s financial aid pro-grams, Farvardin said.
Monique Boyd, associate di-rector of the Office of FinancialAid, explained the university hasa unique three-tiered programcalled Maryland Pathways thateliminate students’ need to bor-row loans.
According to the Office of Fi-nancial Aid’s website, MarylandPathways has three components.First is the Work Grant Program,which allows low-income stu-dents to work part-time on thecampus to help pay for tuition.The remaining payments will becovered by grants.
Next, there is the Pell GrantSupplement Program, which al-lows students who have jobs toreceive the same amount ofgrants as those who do not work.
Lastly, there’s the Senior DebtCap Program, which allowsgrants to completely cover the4th year of a student’s education,provided he or she has alreadyborrowed $15,900 or more inloans.
Although the university is ex-panding its financial aid and gain-ing national recognition, Far-vardin said it was for the good ofthe students, not the publicity.
“The university is making aconscious push to control thecost,” Farvardin said. “[But]we’re not doing this for the sakeof Kiplinger.”
“I’mfrustratingyou,obviously,because Iknow youwant me tosay, ‘Yes,yes, yes.’”
STATE SEN.JIM ROSAPEPE(D-ANNE ARUNDEL ANDPRINCE GEORGE’S)
Ranking on Kiplinger’s list beneficial for students, officials say
All too often, the content withinthese pages and the media ingeneral can seem extremelynegative. We’re all far too used
to reading about College Park’s crimerate or a natural disaster in some far-flung location. There’s a reason for this:People don’t want to read about “happy”news, and this type of negative contentsells. So instead, all we are left with is theoccasional “Hero saves small child fromburning building” story on CNN.
But today, I bring you positive news: Iwant to commend the University Police.
After Barack Obama was officially de-clared the winner of the 2008 presiden-tial contest late Tuesday night, I got a callfrom a friend who told me people were“going crazy” on Washington Quad andthe police were showing up. I got mycamera, sprinted out of the room and, intrue journalistic fashion, hoped for theworst. Correction: I expected the worst.
Now I did have history on my side inbelieving there were raging bonfires andcrazy students running all over the place,tipping over busses, knocking downsigns, rioting.
Remember, we go to the school that set
the bar for how to riot. In 2006, hundredsof students rioted after the women’s bas-ketball championship. A 2005 riot leftfive people injured and one person get-ting shot in the face with a rubber bullet.Perhaps a 2006 Illinois Orange Crushcheer sheet said it best: “Maryland fansproudly riot after any major event; win-ning a big game, learning how to write,flushing a toilet.”
In the wake of these incidents, the uni-versity cracked down on this type of be-havior, instituting a new policy that calledfor suspension or expulsion for any stu-dent connected to an off-campus riot.
Back to Tuesday night: When I got toWashington Quad, it was an electric at-mosphere, with people chanting andscreaming and jumping all over the place.After a few minutes and a few fireworks
explosions later, the mob walked allacross the campus, gaining people alongthe way. It was almost as if we were say-ing, “Where do we go from here?” Even-tually, after a quick pit stop at the fountain,the mob made it down to Route 1.
Given their past history, I expected thepolice to be out in full force, decked out inriot gear. But initially, they were nowhereto be found. For a few minutes, it was justa bunch of students screaming at thepassing cars on Route 1. Then, we flood-ed the streets, mobbing any car that at-tempted to pass through.
At this point, I would have fully expect-ed the police to swiftly move in and breakup the festivities. This would have beenthe easy way to go: Just take care of the“problem” before it gets bigger, right?
But instead, they showed incrediblerestraint. Instead of sweeping the streetsclean, they blocked off Route 1 to trafficand allowed us to celebrate. They al-lowed cars to pass through the mob attheir own will, and at one point, they hada truck and a Shuttle-UM bus back upand turn around in order to avoid the ha-rassment. The best part of the night wasthe drivers’ reactions. Some looked
deathly afraid for their lives, while othersjoined in the revelry.
Eventually, after only two ignored“Let’s tip the bus” chants, two sans-riotgear policemen joined the crowd andcalmly told students it was time to gohome. And amazingly, we listened.
The police treated us with respect, andin return, we, the students, treated themwith respect. No raging bonfires. Notipped over busses. No knocking downsigns. No rioting.
The police could have easily stormedin with full riot gear and broken up thecelebration. If they had moved in, it mostlikely would have further escalated thesituation. But by showing restraint, theyallowed students to celebrate in a safemanner while at the same time prevent-ing the gathering from reaching past lev-els of disorder.
Sure, you could argue this wasn’t asbig of an on-campus event as the basket-ball championships, but it could have justas easily gotten out of hand.
Joel Cohen is a junior government andpolitics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
Election night’s riot: A job well done for the police
This week, the citizens of the United States elected a remarkable candi-date to serve as their 44th president. He was born and raised far outsidethe traditional power centers of America. Yet Barack Obama was notmarginalized into obscurity as un-American: He has reminded us what it
truly means to be a citizen of the U.S. Yet as we reflect onObama’s meteoric rise to the most rarefied height of powerand influence, it is instructive to reflect on what may be a moretraditional component of his path — his trail through some ofthe U.S.’s most prestigious universities.
There can be no question the time Obama spent at universi-ties was formative. He graduated from Columbia beforeattending Harvard as a law student, and finally, he taught con-stitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Obamais renowned for his lithe intellect, his ability to assimilate enor-mous amounts of information and the depth of his analysis. It isdifficult to imagine him having so sharpened his mental faculties without havingspent time in three internationally renowned centers of study.
But it’s important to remember Obama attended his elite Hawaiian high schoolon a scholarship, and took on student loans to pay for his subsequent education.We
often speak of ensuring the accessibility of higher education in terms of justice, ofeducation as a right linked to citizenship. But Obama’s story is irrefutable evi-dence that we must make education available not only because it’s fair; we mustmake it available because otherwise the greatest potential leaders might never
have a chance to develop. Making education affordable isn’tsimply good for individuals — it’s good for society.
Yesterday, state Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel andPrince George’s) visited the campus and discussed the seriouspossibility Maryland will not continue to fund a tuition freeze.Obama’s story should give us pause before we accept the risingcost of education. His story reminds us that a president cancome from anywhere, regardless of race, regardless of socio-economic status, regardless of whether they are Washingtoninsiders following a traditional path to power. And yet if Obamahad not had his educational opportunities, generations of Amer-
icans would in all likelihood have been deprived of the hope he has inspired, of theleadership we hope to see in the years to come. We’re enormously fortunateObama overcame the obstacle of education’s high cost. But if we allow education toremain prohibitively expensive, America will lose potential great leaders.
And education for allStaff Editorial
Our ViewGrowing from modest
means, Barack Obama’s riseto become president-electunderscores the need for
accessible education.
Editorial Cartoon: Mike O’Brien
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When I used to live on thecampus, it seemed like Col-lege Park ended at the bigred M. With such a huge,
active university andCampusFood.com’s delivery service, it’seasy to feel insulated. And yet, whetherwe see it or not, a few independent busi-nesses struggle to survive just beyondour borders.
My favorite independent business (asI’ve written about in the past) is VertigoBooks. Vertigo is that endangeredspecies of a locally owned bookstore thatfocuses on quality instead of sales. Itsshelves are full of the books the Universi-ty Book Center doesn’t carry: books fromlesser-known and foreign authors, salebooks that will change your life and em-ployees who are booksellers instead ofcashiers. Vertigo also has author events— even hosting a young state Sen.Barack Obama in 1995.
Unsurprisingly, it’s hard to survive as a
bookstore without selling out to the low-est common denominator. The financialcrisis has hurt Vertigo especially hard,and the owners recently sent out an SOSe-mail to their list of loyal customers. Theidea that Vertigo could go out of businessmakes me want to grab my wallet andclear out space on my bookshelves. But ifVertigo and other independent local busi-nesses are to survive without constantfear of insolvency, then it’s going to takemore than just the few devoted cus-tomers who already exist.
To me, the virtue of local independentbusinesses is self-evident. Already, thevast majority of Route 1 shops are chainsyou can find in every moderate-sized cityin the region. Vertigo now sits betweenStarbucks and Chipotle in a shoppingcenter with a CVS, Boston Market andRadioShack. I don’t want to be reminisc-ing in 10 years about all the good timesspent at Borders or Barnes & Noble.
Locally owned businesses also keep
money within the community. Accordingto a 2002 study by Civic Economics, aneconomic consultancy firm that focuseson sustainable development, 45 cents outof every dollar spent at a locally ownedbusiness stays in the community, com-pared to 13 cents at a chain store. A bigzero cents are returned to the communi-ty from online retailers. The difference isstark; if we’re concerned about the eco-nomic well-being of our community, wehave to vote with our wallets.
Professors can get involved too. Thispast week, one of my English professorssent out an e-mail about an author event
at Vertigo. Last year, one of my profes-sors ordered our class books throughVertigo instead of the UBC. Of course,the provost discourages this practice, butwhat’s he going to do? If you’ve gottenure, you might as well use it to pre-serve and improve the local literary com-munity. Plus, at Vertigo, students mightrun into a new translation of Tolstoy in-stead of a “book” Hot Chicks withDouchebagson display at the UBC.
Preserving valuable local businessessuch as Vertigo is going to take somework, but once these businesses aregone, we won’t be able to get them back.We can decide now to work for local busi-ness, or we can watch our communityturn permanently into an uninterruptedcorporate wasteland. It’s our choice.
Malcolm Harris is a sophomore Englishand government and politics major. Hecan be reached [email protected].
Local businesses: They need your support
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JOELCOHEN
MALCOLMHARRIS
End the fighting
To be quite frank, I’m furiouswith Democrats and Republicansalike.
I’m disappointed in the lack ofrespect coming from the supportersof both President-elect BarackObama (D) and Sen. John McCain(R-Ariz.). I’ll be the first to tell youI voted for the McCain-Palin ticketand they had my 100 percent sup-port, and I’ll also openly admit I amnot happy about the way the coun-try spoke. However, Republican ornot, I am first and foremost a citi-zen of the greatest country onEarth. And I will support theUnited States of America with mywhole heart for the rest of my life,so if Obama is my president, I willsupport him,regardless of mypolitical affilia-tion. I loveMcCain andAlaskan Gov.Sarah Palin (R)and everythingthey believe in; Ithink they wouldhave made a fan-tastic team in theWhite House.But on Jan. 20,Obama willbecome ourleader and hewill have mysupport.
I beg everyoneto get off theirrants about winning or losing. Theelection is over and nothing can bedone. I was sad to take my McCain-Palin magnet off my car and takethe sign out of my yard, but it’stime to move on. In addition, I feelcompletely disrespected for themean-spirited way Obama’s victoryis being celebrated.
It has been less than 24 hourssince the decision was made, and Iam already tired of being called anignorant person. I’m not ignorant,and I don’t think it’s fair to callMcCain voters ignorant. I havestrong beliefs that don’t necessarilyalign with Obama’s policies. If thiscountry didn’t have separate par-ties and we all didn’t have differentopinions, there wouldn’t be an elec-tion to fight about. It’s time to cometogether. The campaigns are overand the fight is over; let’s go back tobeing one country.
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Don’t blame student groupsIn response to Wednesday’s col-
umn “A voting story gone awry,” Ihave to say I agree with the idea ofestablishing an Election Day regis-tration because it may encouragemore people to vote than our cur-rent system. But I do not agree withthe way the columnist Elissa Fitz-martin arrived at this conclusion.As she clearly stated in her column,she had nearly four years to com-plete a voter registration formproperly, giving her the opportunityto vote in the 2008 presidentialelection, as well as the other elec-tions prior to this time.
By choosing to register on the lastday of voter registration, she puther own civic responsibilities atrisk. The TerpsVote organizationwas established to encourage andassist students to register, not to beheld responsible for their own care-lessness. Had the columnist chosento register earlier, perhaps theerror would have been correctedand she would have been able toparticipate in perhaps the most sig-nificant election of our time.Maybe she should take responsibil-ity for her own actions rather thanpointing the finger at a responsiblestudent organization.
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Local and university officialsoptimistic after slots referendummachines near the Laurel Park horsetrack, one of the five planned loca-tions for slots.
Now that the referendum passed,the state General Assembly will needto pass a law before slot machinescan be set up — the referendum onlychanged the state constitution toallow for the possibility of havingslots. Prior to the referendum, stateSenate President Mike Miller (D)supported slots, and House of Dele-gates Speaker Michael Busch (D)opposed them.
“If this passes, it’s not over, it’s juststarting,” Aaron Meisner, the chair-man of Stop Slots Maryland, said inan interview before the referendumpassed. “It’s going to be very, veryugly in Annapolis this spring.”
Adding to the complexity of pass-ing slots legislation is a recent push toraise the percentage of revenue theslots license-holders would earn. Thestate’s plan right now is to give 33percent of slots revenue to the parlorowners, whereas nearby states offerabout 45 percent.
Alex Hughes, a spokeswomanfor Busch, said if the number ofbids for licenses to run the parlorsis low, then “there is the possibilityof looking at the 33-percent split forthe licensees.”
But Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), aslots supporter, said he didn’t see aneed to alter how the slots revenue is
distributed.“No change,” O’Malley said. “I
don’t see it.”But the gambling industry has
been hit hard by the economic down-turn, and MGM — one of the largestcasino companies — has said itwouldn’t bid for a license in the state.
Any increase in the amount givento slots parlor owners could mean adecrease in the amount given to ed-ucation, depending on how the newsplits are drawn up. Education isgoing to receive about $660 milliona year, according to state analysts,about half of the total revenuesfrom slots.
“I hope it doesn’t happen. I hopewe keep as much money for educa-tion as possible,” said Sen. Jim Ros-apepe (D-Anne Arundel and PrinceGeorge’s), whose district includesCollege Park.
The state has estimated it will re-ceive about $90 million from sellingthe slots licenses, but the vast ma-jority of slots revenue won’t startflowing in for another three years,meaning tax increases or spendingcuts are necessary to solve thestate’s projected $1 billion deficit inthe next fiscal year.
“Once slots are up and runningand we’re out of this recession ...theoretically, we should be close toclosing the structural budgetdeficit,” said Ross Stern, the uni-versity’s lobbyist. “It’s not apanacea for 2010 and 2011.”
The current five-member StateLottery Commission will be nearlydoubled with four new appoint-ments. The commission will ownand lease the slot machines to theoperators.
The governor also will appointthree members to a separate com-mission granting the licenses, whileBusch and Miller will appoint twomembers each.
The commission will considersealed competitive bids based onvarious factors. Those include whichbids will provide the highest revenueto the state, the extent a proposed lo-cation will encourage Marylandgamblers to play in state and thenumber of jobs a site would create.
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SLOTS, from Page 1
Young voters: Obama reached out to us
“I think Barack Obama isreally a candidate thatspeaks to young people,”said events coordinator forCollege Democrats MichaelBesser. “Politically, the cam-paign must have realizedearly on that young peopleare a completely under-tapped resource. They’re anelectorate that people think,‘Why talk to them?’... Whenyou speak to anybody thathas been ignored, they’rethat more receptive to youand your message.”
Voter registration drivessaw record numbers ofyoung people, and Rock theVote, a group that aims toengage young people in pol-itics, registered more than2.3 million voters by Oct. 26,about 900,000 more thanfour years ago.
The large youth numberscontributed to Obama’s suc-cess in swing states. In Vir-ginia, a traditionally Repub-lican state that Obama car-ried, election officials saw asurge in registration among18- to 25-year-olds. Ten per-cent more young voterswere registered in Julycompared to the same timea year ago.
Campus groups evenhelped to spread the demo-cratic message in Virginia.College Democrats can-
vassed the state almostevery weekend this semes-ter, College Democrats sec-retary Angela Gentile said.
“[Obama’s campaignmanager] did an excellentjob at really gearing thecampaign toward the Inter-net,”said sophomore theatreand government and poli-tics major David Olson, whocanvassed Richmond withStudents for Obama. “Ithink a lot of young peoplefound that they were beingincluded in ways thatthey’ve never been includedbefore, because the candi-dates were trying to com-municate with them in a
way that they were verycomfortable.”
The surge in young voterscan be attributed to youthwanting to help change thecountry, said Brian Lentz,coordinator of the New Vot-ers Project of MarylandPublic Interest ResearchGroup, a public advocacygroup. Lentz said his organi-zation had registered morethan 2,500 students on thecampus.
“One of the main reasonspeople were excited aboutthis election was because ofthe way the last eight yearsturned out under George W.Bush,” he said. “Not manypeople were happy aboutthat.”
Obama’s status as an“icon” was key in motivat-ing young voters, Lentz, asophomore sociology major,said.
“Among young voters, Iknow the excitement willcarry on,” Lentz said. “It’snot just a one-time thing.They see that now theirvoice does matter, and theycan make a difference, andthey can shape the future.Everybody is encouraged toget out and keep the move-ment going. ... It didn’t endlast night.”
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TURNOUT, from Page 1 “Among youngvoters, I knowthe excitementwill carry on ...They see thatnow their voicedoes matter, andthey can make adifference, andthey can shapethe future.”
BRIAN LENTZNEW VOTERS PROJECT COORDINATOR
“Once slots are upand running andwe’re out of this re-cession ... theoretical-ly, we should be closeto closing the struc-tural budget deficit.”
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Students wait for hours fornewspaper’s special election edition
BYKYLEGOONStaff writer
Senior criminal justice majorIrene Tsampos has an examtoday, but instead of crammingyesterday afternoon, she spentalmost eight hours at CVS wait-ing in line for, of all things, anewspaper.
“I definitely should be studyingright now,” she said. “I’m here be-cause I love [President-electBarack] Obama.”
Tsampos and a few dozen oth-ers put their lives on hold forseveral hours to crowd the frontsection of the CVS on Route 1 tohave the chance to buy the spe-cial election edition of The Wash-ington Post and take home a tes-tament to history. Copies of themorning edition of the newspa-per sold out earlier in the day atmany stores in the area.
“It’s history in the making — Ican cherish this moment withsomething tangible to hold onto,”said junior economics majorKevin Corbin, who was buyingcopies for himself and his moth-er. “I want to be able to pass thisonto my kids to show I was a partof history.”
Students and other CollegePark residents lined up along thefront of the aisles, often sittingdown to rest their backs againstthe racks. Junior environmentalengineering major Jake Bauerand senior education and historymajor Heather Brady playedrummy to pass the time.
“I’ve been here since 4 [p.m.],and I’ve read some magazines,did some of my homework, too,”Bauer said. “It’s an important
thing. Obama’s the first blackpresident. I think it’s worth it toget the paper.”
The special issue was sched-uled to be delivered between 3p.m. and 5 p.m., and customerswho showed up in those hours de-cided to wait a little longer. Astime went on, 5 became 6, 6 be-came 7:30 and the night contin-ued. Aside from occasional up-dates from CVS regional manage-ment, customers were in the darkas to whether the newspaperswere coming at all.
“I just didn’t think The Wash-ington Post would jerk peoplearound like this. Honestly, I’m be-yond upset,” senior physiologyand neurobiology major CassieErdeky said. “I wasted my wholeday doing this.”
However, they found CVS to bemore than accommodating. Shiftmanager Toya Joefield set up a
sign to direct people where to waitand also gave customers freewater, candy and Domino’s pizza.
“It’s common courtesy. Every-body’s already in the store, so theymight as well be comfortable,”she said. “Everybody just wantsto take part in history.”
As of 11 p.m., a core group ofdedicated customers were stillwaiting in CVS for the newspaper.Corbin kept himself going by re-minding himself what he learnedin the election.
“It represented progress andchange,” he said. “Just thinkingabout the whole process, from ourancestors who were slaves to nowhaving a black president, remindsus patience is a virtue.”
The Washington Post’s distribu-tion services could not be reachedfor comment.
Crowd spends hours at CVS waiting for The Washington Post reprints
Council supports StarView expansionDespite late stage, one story and 112 beds will be added to project
BY BRADY HOLTSenior staff writer
The College Park CityCouncil expressed supportlast night for expanding aplanned student housingproject to include more than100 additional beds and anextra floor.
The StarView Plaza hadoriginally been proposed as afive-story, 550-bed studenthousing project on Route 1near the College Park CarWash.
But developers last nightasked the city council for itsblessing in a plan to addmore one story and 112 bedsto the project, which cityofficials did not object to butsaid was an unusual step forso late in the developmentprocess.
Josh Peters, a member ofthe Star Hotels developmentteam, said a redesign of thestructure of the plannedapartment building allowedit to support the extra weightof an added floor.
The university had askedthe developers to maximizethe number of student hous-ing beds, Peters said, whichprompted them to add thefloor. Yet the building’s gen-eral appearance and foot-print will remain unchanged,he added.
Developers will breakground for StarView within amonth, and the buildingshould be open for tenants byfall 2010.
The council indicated itwould vote next week to senda letter to other agenciessupporting the modificationto StarView’s plans.
At the same council meet-ing, city officials “agreed todisagree” with developers ofanother student housing
project about two environ-mental issues.
City staff noted the Varsityat College Park, a mid-rise914-bed project to be builtnext to the University View,is planned to be partiallybuilt inside the Paint Branchstream buffer and did notconform to LEED greenbuilding standards.
Matt Tedesco, an attorneyfor developer Mark Vogel,said he expects the countyand the Maryland-NationalCapital Park and PlanningCommission to accept theproject as is.
The building onlyencroaches above the 50-footstream buffer, with only onepillar actually touching theground in the area, develop-ers said. They will also spendup to $750,000 to improve thestream in the area.
On the green buildingissue, developers used a dif-ferent standard to measure
the environmental impact oftheir facility than the city isaccustomed to.
Developers said theyearned an “extremely highscore” of 49 by the GreenCommunities standard, butneither they nor city plan-ners could translate that intothe LEED ranking of bronzethrough platinum.
The city had requested“LEED Silver or similar,”with silver being the secondlowest of the four LEEDstandards.
The city council does nothave the authority to block adevelopment, but city offi-cials customarily testify infavor of or against it at otherbodies’ hearings. The counciltentatively deferred the twoenvironmental issues to parkand planning, and will hearback from the developers intwo weeks.
College Park Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich, above, and othermembers of the city council discussed housing developments at thecouncil meeting last night. JAMES B. HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Both students and College Park residents waited at CVS for hours forthe special election newspapers, playing games and snacking onDomino’s pizza to pass the time. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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DiversionsREEL NEWS:
Visionary director David Lynch (Inland Empire) will bedeveloping a webisode series for ON Networks, future home
of Amy Poehler’s online show Smart Girls at the Party.Lynch’s program will be based on his 2006 autobiographicalbook, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and
Creativity. So, still no retribution and answers for all thoseTwin Peaks fans out there. We can still dream.
arts. music. living. movies. weekend.
BY DAN BENAMORSenior staff writer
Pixar has redefined the meaning ofanimated film, while Madagascar andMadagascar: Escape 2 Africa are noteven in the same league. But both of theMadagascar films (more so the sequel)are so goofy and enjoyable they are per-fectly viable pieces of entertainment intheir own right.
From the jump, it is clear Madagas-car 2 is going for a slightly more seri-ous emotional arc (with the key wordhere being “slightly”). We see Alex thelion (Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder) as acub, tenderly cared for by his father,Zuba (the late Bernie Mac, Transform-ers). The rival lion, Makunga (AlecBaldwin, whose animated characteractually looks a little like him, My BestFriend’s Girl), distracts Zuba longenough for Alex to be captured byhunters. Through a ludicrous series ofcomplications, Alex is taken to the fic-titious New York Central Zoo. Theopening scene has a level of emotionalseriousness not seen anywhere in theprior film.
After the opening, it is more or lesssilly time. Madagascar 2 has instancesof emotion here and there, and some do
connect, such as a heartfelt speechfrom Melman the hypochondriacgiraffe (David Schwimmer, Nothing Butthe Truth) to his love, Gloria the hippo(Jada Pinkett Smith, The Women).
But the real appeal of Madagascar 2lies in its oddball characters andequally screwy dialogue. Kids willenjoy the movie plenty (though parentsmay be surprised at the level of cartoonviolence), but for adults, the draw is theoccasional, out-of-nowhere adult joke.
At one point, as a penguin tries torepair a crashed plane, he fumbles witha screwdriver (no opposable thumbs)and curses, “Damn you, Darwin!” Mon-keys are brought on to help finish thejob but soon go on strike for maternityleave (despite being all male). The pen-guins protest to Alex when he asks themto hurry the repairs, one of themexclaiming, “Can’t you see these Com-munists are breaking me?” And whenKing Julien the lemur (Sacha BaronCohen, Sweeney Todd) discusses thingshe wishes to do before he dies, heincludes, “I want to invade a countryand force my ideology upon them, evenif they do not want it.”
Speaking of Julien, Cohen’s vaguelyIndian-crossed-with-Caribbean accentmakes nearly everything he says a little
funny to begin with, and he steals theshow every time he appears onscreen.Though Cohen is a remarkably reliablecomic presence, his feature filmappearances have been despairinglyfew since Borat: Cultural Learnings ofAmerica for Make Benefit GloriousNation of Kazakhstan. But even in themore recent Sweeney Todd, he washilarious in a minor role. Simply put,Cohen is the standout among a group ofamusing secondary characters.
And it really is the secondary charac-ters propping up the film. There’s thecrew of military-organized penguinswho fake death on the roads to stealJeeps from tourists. Two cultured mon-keys are often seen playing chess orwearing top hats. Also, Andy Richter(Semi-Pro) as Mort, the adorable andpersistent lemur, absurdly survives afall from a plane and a chase with ashark that extends deep inland.
But the general lack of internal logic(the shark example being one of many),or really any logic at all, preventsMadagascar 2 from being taken seri-ously. Its nonsensical tone should pre-vent most adults from ever believing
the characters are in any sort of danger.When a plane clearly is about to crashand magically pulls up, when a sharkcan follow someone through a volcano,when a Jeep can ram an elderly womanat full speed and she survives — well,we clearly are in Wile E. Coyote terri-tory. So, any time the characters are indanger, the audience feels no need toworry. As the movie has no logical rules,we can be assured a magical solutionwill present itself.
As for the leads, Chris Rock (BeeMovie) sounds slightly less bored thanin the first film as the zebra, Marty.Schwimmer is still the most endearingas Melman, and Pinkett Smith is stilllargely relegated to the “No-you-didn’t-girl!” stock character as the spunkyhippo. Stiller gets a few laughs but ismore a tool to further the story than acomic mouthpiece.
Because Madagascar 2 has about asmuch emotion and depth as 10 min-utes of Ratatouille, it remains a trifle.But it’s about as good of a trifle as youcan get.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa has its fun without rivaling Pixar’s superior flicks
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BY THOMAS FLOYDSenior staff writer
It’s no longer up for debate: CharlieKaufman is the most fascinating mindHollywood has to offer.
The Oscar-winning scribe, whoserenowned body of work includes suchcelebrated films as Being JohnMalkovich, Adaptation and EternalSunshine of the Spotless Mind, isknown for creating fantastical ideas asmystifying as they are distinctive, es-tablishing an idiosyncratic blend ofstyle and theme one can only describeas Kaufman-esque.
Which is why calling his directorialdebut, Synecdoche, New York, the mostambitious of the bunch is really sayingsomething. The 49-year-old once againtoes the blurred lines between realismand idealism, personally tackling thevast scope of his vision with unflinchingpoise and bravado. Dream, hallucina-tion or reality — what to make of Kauf-man’s eccentric narrative is never ex-plicitly explained.
Sure, Synecdoche will probablydrive some moviegoers mad thanks toits simple lack of clarity. But the trulyremarkable movies are the ones youfind yourself still pondering long after
you’ve left the cinema, and that is cer-tainly the case here. Throughout its 124minutes of mind-numbing enthrall-ment, Synecdoche amounts to both abrilliantly crafted film and a deeplythought-provoking experience.
The movie centers around the life ofCaden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoff-man, Capote), a middle-aged theaterdirector in the small New York town ofSchenectady (hence the title’s play onwords). When an unrelenting series ofmysterious illnesses take over his body,Caden realizes he is slowly but undeni-ably hurtling toward death.
Neurologist, ophthalmologist, urolo-gist — with a touch of dry humor, eachbewildered doctor simply recom-mends he move on to another physi-cian. His wife, Adele (Catherine Keen-er, an Oscar nominee for Malkovichand Capote), dreams about his deathbefore leaving him and pursuing a ca-reer in art. His body and mind are de-teriorating, and the breakdown ispainful to watch.
“I’m afraid I’m going to die. I don’tknow what’s wrong with me, and I wantto do something important while I’mstill here,” Caden explains to his thera-pist (Hope Davis, Six Degrees). Sowhen the MacArthur Foundationawards him with a genius grant, Caden
decides to rent out a massive hangar inNew York City and create a work of“brutal honesty.”
Recreating the buildings of Manhat-tan and hiring a huge ensemble of dop-pelgangers to play his real-life ac-quaintances, Caden’s production be-comes the increasingly complicatedtale of his life as it happens. Life imi-tates art, and art imitates life, and it isnot long before the two indecipherablysplice together into something bothunsettling and intriguing.
Synecdoche becomes more andmore dreamlike as it goes along, withKaufman habitually weaving somebizarre situations — such as a housethat is perpetually on fire — into hisworld as if they were everyday circum-stances. The passage of time becomesarbitrary, which makes for a startlingmoment when one actor remindsCaden they have been rehearsing for17 years without an audience.
Along the way, it is the women inCaden’s life who largely define who heis. Michelle Williams (Deception),Emily Watson (The Water Horse) andthe phenomenal Samantha Morton(Elizabeth: The Golden Age) all play the
love interest at different points.Caden’s relationship with his estrangeddaughter, Olive (Robin Weigert, ThingsWe Lost in the Fire), also weighs heavilyon his conscience.
Kaufman and Hoffman were seem-ingly born to make movies together, soit comes as no surprise Hoffman deliv-ers a stunning, tour-de-force perform-ance. The Oscar-winner embodiesCaden over the course of severaldecades, taking advantage of Kauf-man’s beautifully written dialogue,while going through both the charac-ter’s gradual aging process and widerange of emotional beats.
Although the movie is difficult tofully comprehend after just one view-ing, it clearly is still a special filmfrom a writer who transcends the tra-ditional standards. If you find yourselfbewildered, thinking Kaufman’s ideaswithout another director’s guidanceare too obscure to grasp, just listen tothe words of Williams’ character,Claire: “Knowing that you don’t knowis the most essential step to knowing.You know?”
MOVIE:Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | VERDICT: 1/2
REVIEW | MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA
MOVIE:Synecdoche, New York | VERDICT: 1/2
In Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman takes a surreal look at an artist’s life
Mind and metaphor, death and the city REVIEW | SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
DirectorDavid Lynch
BY MICHAEL KATZStaff writer
Looking at the Terrapinfield hockey team, a pro-gram that measures suc-cess in national champi-onships, the ACC tourna-ment might appear amere speed bump in thefast lane to the NCAAtournament.
But the teamsees the confer-ence showdownas perfect prepa-ration for the bigdance.
The No. 1Terps (16-2)earned the topseed and a first-round byethanks to a 4-1record in leagueplay. They willmeet the winnerof No. 4-seedVirginia and No.5-seed Duke onFriday inDurham, N.C.
“I don’t thinkany schools inthe nation havethe same oppor-tunity to prepare as theACC schools do,” coachMissy Meharg said. “Youhope you can go two[games] deep into thetournament to utilize theopportunity as much aspossible. In terms ofpreparation for the NCAA[tournament], it’s a per-fect emulation of thequality of play.”
In fact, size seems to bethe main difference
between the two tourna-ments. With all six ACCteams ranked in the top15 nationally, the confer-ence gauntlet is daunting.
In college field hockey,there’s theACC, and thenthere’s every-one else.
The challengehas made iteasy for theTerps to avoidlooking ahead tothe bigger tour-nament loomingon the horizon.
“We’re notjust treatingthese as warm-up games,”back SusieRowe said.“The competi-tion is so strongin the ACC. It’sreally, reallygood to teachthe younger
players how tournamentplay goes.”
After giving the teamthe weekend off, Mehargsaid she’s been pleasedwith the energy in prac-tice. During the season,there is less time inbetween games to workon the specifics. Theextended layoff hasafforded the Terps anopportunity to work indepth on an array of skills
and sets.Players said they are
worn down from the grindof the year, but the excite-ment of the postseasonhas been a powerful rem-edy.
“Yeah, my body ispretty tired, but it’sbecause we’ve been work-ing hard. We want sobadly to do well,” Rowesaid. “No, we’re going tobe ready to go once we getdown there.”
The Terps know theconference tournamentcan have a lasting impacton a team as the last com-petition before the NCAAtournament.
Last season, a loss toWake Forest in the team’sopening ACC tournamentgame was part of theTerps’ late-season col-lapse. Two games later,the Terps bowed out toPenn State in the nationalquarterfinals.
A strong showingagainst foes from thenation’s top conferencewould send the Terps tothe NCAA tournamentwith the wind in theirsails. It’s easy to see whythe Terps are staying inthe present.
“It [would be] a boost ofconfidence,” forwardKatie O’Donnell said. “Ifwe come out with a win weknow, playing these topteams already and comingout on top, going to theNCAA it’s pretty much thesame competition.”
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Terrapin men’s soccer coachSasho Cirovski described RichCostanzo as a typical “Pitts-burgh guy.”
For the most part, the senior de-fender fits the tough, gritty stereo-type associated with his home-town. Costanzo is far from theflashiest or most talkative playeron the No. 5 Terps soccer team.
The senior plays a defensiveposition — right back— where attimes it’s necessary to dig outballs and sacrifice one’s body tostop an opponent’s attacking run.Even among some of Costanzo’sfellow defenders, such as tower-ing 6-foot-5 center back OmarGonzalez or lightning-quick leftback Rodney Wallace, it’s easy toforget how important the 5-foot-9co-captain is to his team.
But throughout this season,Costanzo has not only providedthe fierce competitiveness otherplayers and Cirovski have cometo expect from him, but he’s doneit while displaying his developedoffensive skills. He’s also checkedhis aggressive play, which lastseason earned him a red card anda team-leading five yellow cards.
Costanzo’s progression hasmade him one of the team’smain leaders.
“In the locker room he’s aleader and on the field he’s aleader,” defender A.J. Delagarzasaid. “Even though he’s not asvocal as we would like him to be, I
think he’s a good role model forthe younger players. He’s loudabout his play, like getting stuck intackles … just getting on guys.”
Costanzo carefully measureswhat he says while answeringquestions from the media, and isalways sure to credit teammateswhenever he can. But that atti-tude comes from his humble,businessman-like personality.
“I try to be vocal,” Costanzosaid. “I try to also just lead in anyway on the field.”
That effort includes bettermanaging his forceful style, an as-pect of his game that hurt theTerps at times last year. With fiveseconds remaining in doubleovertime of a 1-1 tie against CalState Northridge last October, afight broke out between Costanzoand an opposing player. Costanzowas given a red card and ejectedfrom the game, resulting in an au-tomatic suspension in the nextgame. Cirovski was obviously dis-turbed by the incident and addedan additional game to the manda-tory suspension.
This season, Costanzo hasn’tearned any major penalties, andhe said it’s because of a consciouseffort to serve as a better examplefor his teammates now that he hasearned the co-captain’s role.
“I’ve matured a lot in my de-fending, and I’ve just beenmore cautious about diving inand fouling,” Costanzo said.“I’m trying to keep my fouls to aminimum and not draw cards. Ifeel it’s my responsibility toshow that you don’t need to behacking guys, fouling them.We’re all good enough to be ableto stay with our opponents andstay away from fouling them.”
Whether it’s winning a diffi-cult ball in the Terps’ end of thefield or hustling into the oppo-nents’ zone to keep a ball frombeing cleared away from theTerps’ attack, Costanzo has keptto his word.
He’s also added some firepow-er to the Terps’ attack by pickingand choosing spots to push upwell past midfield.
Costanzo was a forward andmidfielder during his freshmanyear at Penn State, where hescored four goals and wasnamed Big Ten Freshman ofthe Year in 2004. After sittingout 2005 because of an injury,he transferred to this university,knowing he could eventuallyend up playing defense.
This season, Costanzo has
played exclusively at right backbut also has been able to draw onhis past experience as an offen-sive threat.
Costanzo has pitched in withfive assists this year, including animpressive cross from deep in theright corner that midfielder Jere-my Hall headed in for a goal onOct. 17 against Evansville, bring-ing up memories of his days as astriker and outside midfielder.
He also helped set up theTerps’ only goal in their confer-ence-opening 1-0 win againstthen-No. 9 Boston College, bymaking an accurate pass downthe right sideline to midfielderDoug Rodkey, who found mid-fielder Graham Zusi in the boxfor the game-winner.
But to Costanzo, who along withDelagarza, midfielders MichaelMarchiano and Graham Zusi andgoalkeeper Aaron Chinn will behonored before Friday’s SeniorNight matchup against No. 20North Carolina, getting the nod asco-captain this year has been hisbiggest achievement.
“It definitely means a lot tome,” Costanzo said. “It’s probablythe best honor I’ve ever had play-ing because it’s such a great pro-gram. I have just tried to be the
best leader I can and tried to helpthis team.”
In his three seasons with theTerp program — and over the lastyear, especially — he has evolvedinto that leadership role, accord-ing to Cirovski.
“Richie’s been a great additionbecause he doesn’t take anythingfor granted in this program, theculture, the values [or] the oppor-tunity that he’s had here becauseof where he came from,” Cirovskisaid. “He brings a sense of appre-ciation both on and off the field.He brings a sense of confidencebecause of his competitiveness.He’s one of the most competitiveguys that we have on this team.”
Costanzo’s consistency, leader-ship and desire to win, even iflargely unnoticed on the field be-cause of his no-nonsense ap-proach, have been his callingcards. For that, teammates suchas midfielder Drew Yates are ap-preciative.
“He just has this maturityabout him,” Yates said. “He hasthis presence about him. I’m justhappy to have him on my team,because I wouldn’t want to playagainst him.”
The Pittsburgh guy’s new look
Costanzo’s powerful leg andability on throw-ins allow him tohelp the Terps with key clears.JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Though a defender for the Terps, Costanzo has strong ball skills as a result of his time as a midfielder for Penn State. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
Costanzo’s intensity, hustle and athleticism have made him a stalwartof the Terp defense. JACLYN BOROWSKI/THE DIAMONDBACK
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That’s what you have in theACC.”
That’s true, and it definitelyworks in the Terps’ favor.
The Terps are playing someof the “best” teams in the con-ference in their four remaininggames, yet every single game isvery winnable. They could evenlose tonight and still controltheir own destiny.
But if they prove they can wina game like this, the AtlanticDivision is pretty much theirsfor the taking.
If the Terps were a rational,predictable football team, Iwould tell you if they beat Vir-ginia Tech tonight — the tough-est remaining game on theschedule, no matter how theHokies’ season is going so far orwho their starting quarterbackis — you could start bookingflights to Tampa for the ACCChampionship game.
But since the Terps’ season,and the conference in general,have been anything but rationaland predictable, I’m going to be
a little more guarded.Still, it’s all in their hands.“I get that we have a very
good chance, and everyoneknows that,” quarterback ChrisTurner said. “But at this point,we’re taking it one game at atime. We don’t want to overlookany team, especially when it’san enormous game [tonight].”
But tonight is not quite astough of a game as it appearedto be at the beginning of theseason, or even a couple ofweeks ago, and the Terps reallydo have a chance to put somedistance between them and theother teams in their division.
This is not the same Hokieteam that obliterated the Terps(who were, granted, also amuch different team then) 55-6in 2004, or the Hokie team thatwon 28-9 in 2005.
It’s not even really the sameHokie team that beat GeorgiaTech, North Carolina andNebraska earlier this season.
The Hokies looked prettyaverage in losses at Boston Col-lege and Florida State in theirprevious two games, and with
quarterbacks Tyrod Taylor andSean Glennon still banged up, aonce-seemingly unlikely Thurs-day night win in Blacksburg iscertainly doable.
As winnable as tonight is, it isstill the Terps’ toughest remain-ing game. The Hokies haven’tlost at Lane Stadium all season,and they haven’t lost threegames in a row since 2003.
“We’ve got to show the coun-try that we’re here for realnow,” linebacker Moise Fokousaid. “We have to win. That’sthe bottom line.”
A win tonight would guaran-tee that the Terps would still bein first place in their divisionheading into the last threegames against No. 19 North Car-olina, No. 24 Florida State andBoston College, and that’s whenthings would start to get fun.
All three of the upcomingopponents picked up at leastone loss in their previous twogames, and none of those teamsis infallible.
With two of those threegames at home, it would be theTerps’ Atlantic Division to lose.
And maybe, for a change, theTerps will actually comethrough each time when they’resupposed to.
Tampa is in the Terps’ sights.There aren’t any juggernauts
standing in their way. VirginiaTech is good, but not that good.North Carolina, Florida Stateand Boston College are OK, butnothing to worry about.
Then again, the Terps aregood, but not that good.
Still, that just might be goodenough.
SCHIMMEL
SCHIMMEL, from Page 14 “I get that we havea very good chance,and everyoneknows that. But atthis point, we’retaking it one gameat a time.”
CHRIS TURNERJUNIOR QUARTERBACK
Freshman running back Davin Meggett and the Terps controltheir own ACC destiny now. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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comes into tonight’s game struggling tofind an answer at quarterback. TheHokies’ top two signal-callers, SeanGlennon and Tyrod Taylor, will begame-time decisions because of leginjuries. Third-stringer Cory Holt, whowas forced into action in an Oct. 25 lossat Florida State, may get the start.Friedgen said he’s counting on bothGlennon and Taylor to be available andthat he’s been impressed with Holt.
But no matter who has been undercenter for the Virginia Tech (5-3, 2-2ACC) this season, it has been a strug-gle. The Hokies have lost two straightACC road games and currently ranklast in the conference in total offense.The team that has the most wins in theACC since 2004 needs a win tonight to
stay in the hunt in the wild ACCCoastal Division.
It makes for a much different scenariothan the 2004 game, which the Terpswatched a highlight film of as a teamlast week.
The 2004 loss clinched a losing recordand squashed the Terps’ hopes of bowleligibility. But a win tonight will keepthem as the only one-loss team in theACC and in solid position to make theirfirst ACC Championship game headinginto the season’s last three games.
That’s why offensive coordinatorJames Franklin, who was the Terpreceivers coach in 2004, said it’s impor-tant to separate the personal feelings ofthe humiliating loss, so they don’t enterthe game “too geeked up.”
“The history doesn’t matter,”Franklin said. “The guys that played
there in ’04, they’re not there now. We’vejust got to go play and get ready for theguys that are there.”
The Hokies are 14-3 all-time inESPN Thursday night football games.The Terps haven’t won in Blacksburgsince 1949. But combine the Hokies’quarterback troubles with a suddenlyhot Terp team that’s won five of its lastsix, and the Terps have reason tobelieve they can come out of Lane Sta-dium with a win.
“I think this is definitely a differentteam now,” said linebacker Trey Cov-ington, who watched the 2004 gamefrom the sidelines as a true freshman inhis redshirt season. “If we go downthere and play our game, we can defi-nitely beat them pretty good.”
VT may not have top 2 QBsReceiver Danny Oquendo and the Terp offense may have their hands full against a traditionally tough Virginia Tech defense. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
Center Edwin Williams is a key factor in the Terps’ muchimproved offensive line efforts that have drawn praise. JAMES B.
HALE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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To combat the crowd noise at66,233-seat Lane Stadium, theTerps have been working on asilent snap count this weekin practice. The Terpshave had the maneuver inthe playbook but chosenot to use it in front ofbig crowds at Clem-son and Virginia.
“I just lift myleg,” Turner said."It’s not that hard.”
Friedgen has evenresorted to playingthe crowd noiseduring puntprotection drills thisweek to get his playersused to an environmentmost of his players areunfamiliar with.
“It’s very loud,” Friedgensaid. “They have greatteam spirit. It’s the onlyshow in town.”
ACC footballteams haveplayed 28games against
each other so far thisseason, yet virtuallynothing has been set-tled.
As more head-scratching results
lead to tighterstandings and fog-gier bowl predic-tions, there’s only
one thing that hasbecome clear in theAtlantic Coastal Con-ference.
Nobody is really all thatgood.
The Terrapin footballteam sat idly by Saturdayduring its pseudo-byeweek and, when FloridaState and Virginia lost,somehow found itself withthe best record in the con-ference.
The No. 23 Terps aresolid, but not spectacular.Yet it’s looking like slightlyabove average could begood enough to get theminto the ACC title game.
“[The conference] isbeing criticized right now,but I think we probablyhave the most parity of anyleague in the country, barnone,” coach Ralph Fried-gen said. “Everybody canwin on any given day.
Virginia Tech is last in the ACC in totaloffense, and third-string quarterbackCory Holt may be pressed into startingduty for the Hokies.
Terp quarterback Chris Turner has con-tinued his consistent play this season in anoffense ripe with big-play potential.
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BACK IN BLACKSBURG
PREDICTION
TERPGAMEDAYWHEN: Tonight, 7:30 p.m.WHERE: Lane Stadium, Blacksburg, Va.T.V.: ESPNLINE: Virginia Tech -3DATA: Virginia Tech is on a three-game losingskid, the Terps are atop the Atlantic Division.
THE MATCHUP
TERPTRACKER
TERPS VTPassing (ypg) 199.9 120.0Rushing (ypg) 166.8 160.0Total (ypg) 366.6 280.0Points per game 23.4 23.9Opponents ppg 19.2 21.1Avg. Time of Possession 27:03 31:13
2008 TEAM STATS
Maryland Terrapins
Virginia TechHokies
6-2 (3-1 ACC) 5-3 (2-2 ACC)
SERIES RECORDSALL-TIME SERIES Terps lead 15-13LAST MEETING 2005
RECENT MEETINGS
2005-(H)- L, VT 28, Terps 92004-(A)- L, Terps 6, VT 551993- (A)- L, Terps 28, VT 55
Virginia Tech, typically revered ondefense, has yielded at least 28 points inthree of its last four games.
The Terp defense has specialized inbending but not breaking. It ranks 11th inthe league in total defense but 6th inpoints allowed.
DEFENSE
Terp kicker Obi Egekeze is coming off agame in which he hit a career-long fieldgoal and his first career game-winner.
But Virginia Tech always has one of thecountry’s top special teams units, and thisyear it's helped by dynamic returnmanMacho Harris.
SPECIAL TEAMSHokie coach Frank Beamer and Terp
coach Friedgen are long-time friends, but asa head coach Friedgen has never beaten theman who he once took lamaze classes with.
Beamer has the most wins of any coach inthe ACC since he joined it and has made theHokies the ACC’s team to beat most years.
COACHING
The Terps need this game to stay aloneatop the ACC’s Atlantic Division andahead of Florida State.
The Hokies, who have one of thebiggest home-field advantages in theconference, need this game to just stayin the conference title picture.
INTANGIBLES
A few Terps still remember bitter 2004 loss last time they visited
KEY MATCHUPTERP LINEBACKER ALEX
WUJCIAK VS. VT RUNNINGBACK DARREN EVANS
The Terps’ leadingtackler will have tostep up his rundefense with second-leading tackler DavePhilistin questionablewith a shoulderinjury. But
Wujciak has been a force attimes for the Terps,highlighted by a monstrous16-tackle performanceat Clemson.
The mainconcern for Wujciak, who anchorsthe ACC’s ninth-best rundefense, is freshman DarrenEvans. Evans, who has scoredeight touchdowns this season, willneed to find early success to takesome heat off the Hokiequarterback no matter which of thethree options Virginia Tech coachFrank Beamer starts under center.
MEANINGLESS GAME?This time of year provides a con-
fusing litany of scenarios for fans.Nothing ever seems to make sensewhen it comes to who is going whereand to what bowl.
The Terps essentially control theirown destiny in the ACC so long as theya.) beat Florida State and b.) don’t losetwo of their other three games.
Because the Seminoles lost lastweek, the Terps are now alone atopthe Atlantic Division. With theFlorida State game set for Nov. 22,the Terps can provide a two-gamecushion ahead of the Seminoles ifthey win that.
So this Virginia Tech trip meansvery little on the surface. But it doesprovide an important buffer to holdthe Terps ahead of Florida State andBoston College in the long run.
BY ERIC DETWEILERSenior staff writer
At the mere mention of hislast trip to Blacksburg, Va.,Jack Griffin still gets emotional.
The Terrapin guard remem-bers what it was like to getembarrassed in a hostile envi-ronment before a nationalThursday night audience.
On Nov. 18, 2004, the Terpsplayed at Virginia Tech. TheHokies, then in their first sea-son of ACC play, ran up 55points in the first three quar-ters en route to a 55-6 win.
“Some of the fans just toldus, ‘Say we’re not good enoughfor the ACC now,’” said thesenior guard, who is one of twocurrent Terps who saw actionin the game. “They just got onus. It was infuriating, and wecouldn’t do anything about it.”
Virginia Tech beat the Terpsthe next season as well, thistime at Byrd Stadium. Thanksto the ACC schedule makers,the teams haven’t met since.
Tonight, the Terps (6-2, 3-1ACC) return to Lane Stadium totake on a team that, so far thisseason, has displayed much lessfirepower than the one that wonan ACC title in 2004.
“I don’t know how we’ll doin that environment,” coachRalph Friedgen said. “Hope-fully, we’ll be ready to playand have fun. That’s thebiggest thing. You can’t go inthere and play tight.”
Virginia Tech, which was ledby all-time career passingleader Bryan Randall in 2004,
Jeremy Navarre, right, and the Terp defense get to face off against a Virginia Tech offense with serious quarterback questions tonight. ADAM FRIED/THE DIAMONDBACK
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“[The Virginia Techfans] just got on us.It was infuriating,and we couldn’t doanything about it.”
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