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Three face charges in Knox Road robberyMale student allegedly robbed, assaulted early Sunday morning

By Fola AkinnibiSta� writer

Three 18-year-olds face charges for allegedly assaulting and robbing a university student on Knox Road early Sunday morning, according to police.

Tyrrell Kelly of Glenn Dale, Joshua Fields of Baltimore and Johnathan Garrett of Baltimore face charges of robbery and conspiring to commit a robbery, second degree assault and theft of less than $1,000, according to Prince George’s County Police District 1 Commander Maj. Robert Brewer. A

robbery conviction can result in a sen-tence of up to 15 years in prison.

Stemming from the same incident, officers charged 18-year-old Kend-rick Frazier of Hyattsville with mari-juana possession, Brewer said. Police

Rumors of O’Malley presidential runnow intensifyingPassing same-sex marriage, DREAM Act on ballot help win national attention, experts say

By Jim BachSenior sta� writer

In supporting same-sex marriage and the DREAM Act, state voters may have provided Gov. Martin O’Malley the political fodder he needs to thrust himself into the running for the Demo-cratic presidential nomination in 2016.

Talks of his aspirations for higher office have echoed throughout the state for months, if not years. But with Maryland making national headlines

on Election Day by embracing major Democratic initiatives at the ballot box, the party need look no further than O’Malley for a progressive icon to carry the torch in 2016.

With two years left in his second term — meaning he can’t run again in 2014 — O’Malley may be “laying the groundwork” for a presidential run, said marketing professor Hank Boyd. Between becoming the first state to

A DOMINANT HOME SHOWING

Three days after dropping its season opener to No. 3 Kentucky in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Terrapins men’s basketball team picked up its �rst win of the season last night. Forward Charles Mitchell (left) hugs center Shaquille Cleare after Cleare blocked a shot. The Terps won, 67-45, at Comcast Center. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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David alan grier, an actor and comedian, speaks in front of about 100 people last night. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

More student-athletes graduating, data show Trend in line with athletic department goalsBy Laura BlaseySta� writer

More athletes are graduating than ever before in the university’s recorded history, helping emphasize the athletic department’s focus on the “student” in “student-athlete.”

The university broke its record by posting a Graduation Success Rate of 83 percent, the highest in history. It’s 7 percent higher than the university’s earliest available GSR report, released in 1998.

The NCAA uses the GSR to measure the academic progress of student-ath-letes by dividing them up into four-year “cohorts,” then measuring how many graduate with a degree. The GSR is di�erent than the Federal Gradua-tion Rate, which doesn’t include trans-fer students or students who enroll midyear, and is considered to be less accurate.

This year’s results were based on the 2002 to 2005 cohort, meaning the students

Making his voice heardComedian David Alan Grier speaks about childhood, rise to fame

By Savannah Doane-MalotteSta� writer

From an early age, David Alan Grier realized he just couldn’t stop the jokes.

The writer, producer, director and actor’s comedic career began in his first grade classrooms, Grier told an audience of about 100 people yesterday night at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

“I know a lot of class clowns are

really smart, and they know the lessons being taught; they’re beyond it, they’re bored, so they’re just acting out,” said Grier, one of Comedy Central’s top 100 stand-up comedians of all time. “I just always have to be laughing.”

This semester’s first speaker for the Worldwise Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series — the program that brought Noam Chomsky, David Simon and Angela Davis to the campus last year — Grier later developed his knack

for making people laugh into stand-up and humorous roles in Emmy-winning shows, such as In Living Color.

One of his greatest influences, his father, served as a model for Grier in having a voice and delivering a message — but not through comedy. William Grier penned Black Rage, the 1968 book revealing the complex psychological re-actions black Americans have to racism.

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constituting the 83 percent were student-athletes six to 10 years ago.

“The 83 percent is a great re-fl ection on our department and a great refl ection on the seri-ousness and the emphasis that was put on academic support just a little bit around 10 years ago,” said Christopher Uchacz, an associate athletic director.

While the GSR doesn’t say anything about the student-athletes on the campus now, other figures show academic performance is improving. The cumulative student-athlete GPA was 2.875 for 2011-12, with the fi gure improving from fall 2011 to spring 2012, according to athletic department data.

The athletic department also reported 48 student-athletes earned a 4.0 GPA; 139 earned a 3.5 or higher, and 281 earned a 3.0 or higher. And 113 made a dean’s list.

Since arriving on the campus in 2010, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson has continually stressed the dual responsibili-ties of student-athletes.

“Our student-athletes and the signifi cant role our coaches and support staff play in as-sisting each of them as they work toward earning a uni-versity diploma has helped us to reach this level of success,” Anderson said in a Sept. 11 news release. “Maryland stu-dent-athletes truly epitomize the term student-athlete as they prove day-in and day-out that they can be successful in both the classroom and the athletic arena.”

At a time when many have criticized institutions with large athletic departments as “too big to fail” in light of recent scandals, university officials said they work to ensure ath-letes know they’re here for more than just sports.

“This is the expectation at

Maryland. Don’t come here simply to play your sport,” university President Wallace Loh said. “In addition, you’re expected to work hard in the classroom.”

As a product of the 1990 Student Right-to-Know Act, federal law mandates universities keep track of and release statistics and data on several aspects of college life, including athletics.

But there’s a story behind the statistics, aspects of a college ath-lete’s life numbers can’t document.

Senior psychology major Alvin Thomas described a life of stress and late nights as he tried to pursue his dream of becoming a surgeon and playing football in the FBS.

Thomas transferred to this uni-versity from Albright College in 2010 but dropped out of the foot-ball program after two seasons.

“It was kind of obvious that a lot of the guys come here for foot-ball; they’re typically not taking the hardest classes,” Thomas said.

Thomas described a wall in Gossett Team House dedicated to the football players who have graduated — “There’s like 90 people,” he said.

The full report released this year shows a wide disparity between the student-athlete graduation rate and the overall graduation rate. Overall, women’s sports at this university boasted a gradua-tion rate of more than 80 percent, with fi eld hockey and swimming leading the pack at 100 percent.

The rates for men’s sports were lower, with golf at 90 percent and cross country and track and la-crosse at 87.

Men’s basketball saw 50 percent of players in the 2002 to 2005 cohort graduate, and the football team had a rate of 65 percent.

It’s too soon to tell whether the university’s decision to cut seven sports will a� ect the progress the athletic department has made. Men’s swimming and tennis, officially cut in July, had the second- and third-lowest rates at 55 and 56 percents, respective-ly. By the same token, women’s swimming, with its 100-percent rate, was also cut.

Because of how the rates are tracked and reported, Uchacz said it could be up to 10 years before the consequences show up, if at all.

Thomas said it isn’t unusual to enter college with the mindset of going pro. The difference, he said, is when athletes wake up and realize just how unlikely it is to make it to the professional level, learning to defl ate their egos and focus on careers — and lives — beyond being star athletes.

“The main weak point of ath-letes in general is, if in high school all you know is athletics, and then you come to college where you’re given a full athletic scholarship, your first mindset is going to be that you’re going to the pros,” Thomas said. “My mom always raised me, ‘OK, football is some-thing that you’re good at, and you might be good at other sports, but you’ll always have academics to fall back on.’”

Thomas said one of the foot-ball team’s biggest advocates for strong academics was coach Randy Edsall, who boasts an im-pressive record. He was praised for keeping graduation rates high at the University of Connecti-cut by the American Football Coaches Association three years in a row.

Thomas dropped out of the football program in the spring to focus on academics. Despite e� orts to keep up with his schoolwork, in-cluding late nights studying before games, the pressure to be both an athlete and pre-med student was too great. After failing his third organic chemistry test, Thomas handed in his uniform.

“As much as I was studying, I still didn’t have enough time to get the grades that I needed,” he said. “I didn’t want to be OK at football and OK at academics; I wanted to be great at something.”

“We want to graduate 100 percent of the student-athletes that walk through our doors,” Uchacz said. “It sure would take a lot of hard work, but it’s always our goal.”

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William also struggled with polio for most of his life, which motivated his son to perform in Porgy and Bess — the Broad-way show has a large focus on a polio-stricken character, and David Alan’s role earned him a Tony Award nomination.

“My dad is my hero, and he is in love with this musical,” Grier said. “There’s a part of himself that sees in this play his own char-acter on that stage.”

Following in his father’s foot-steps, Grier has taken on multiple performances that delve into the issue of racial prejudice in modern society. His own book, Barack Like Me: The Chocolate Covered Truth, reveals his personal ex-periences with racism in America and how the election of President Obama has further influenced this subject.

“I had to tell my story and my relationship to this country, to inform the reader as how this af-fected me as an African-American man,” he said. “My daughter’s life was changed as soon as I real-ized Obama had the chance to be elected; she’s not going to grow up in the way I grew up, and that was just amazing.”

Grier also shared experiences from his diverse acting career, which includes roles in films such as Boomerang and Jumanji, Broadway shows such as Race and Dreamgirls and television shows such as DAG and Life With Bonnie. His stories ranged from winning the Golden Lion Award for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his debut 1983 performance in Streamers, to now being cast

in the upcoming Tyler Perry-produced movie, We the Peeples.

“I’ve been acting over 30 years and have never had to take another job, and that is a bless-ing,” Grier said of his success. “I’ve had a fruitful and amazing career, and I’m not done yet. I think it’s very important to diver-sify. Do serious dramas, do mu-sicals, write, produce, direct and take any and all opportunities.”

According to Sheri Parks, the event’s moderator and an associ-ate American studies dean, Grier’s mix of comedic relief and serious racial undertones in his charac-ter portrayals is what makes him a special actor. His ability to raise questions about our society while making people laugh made him a great addition to the third year of the Dean’s Lectures, she said.

“The business of show business does not often allow performers

to show a wide range of roles or talents,” she said, “but Grier defi es that.”

Freshman business major Alicia Arbaiza appreciated the perspectives Grier shed on racial issues, as well as his insights on fi nding success in any career.

“He has a really big body of work, and he’s a very eclectic actor,” she said. “He seems to do whatever he’s passionate about, and he took control of his own future, which is very commendable.”

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“i’ve been acting over 30 years and have never had to take another job, and that is a blessing.”

DAVID ALAN GRIERActor and comedian

DOTS collecting hurricane donationsShuttle-UM bus to bring storm victims supplies on Friday

Making University Senate voting records publicly available rejected in committee’s final meetingTracking senators’ votes would stretch resources, discourage new membership, members says

By Lauren KirkwoodSenior sta� writer

University senators have made it clear they don’t want to make available public records of members’ votes.

While the senate has the technological capability of recording senators’ votes using electronic clickers, the body would likely have to assign members their own clicker for an extended period of time rather than borrowing the technology each meeting, as they do now. Despite the proposal’s intention of increasing trans-parency, members of the Senate Execu-tive Committee said changing procedures would place inordinate strain on the senate offices and would likely do more harm than good.

“This transforms what the senate is,” faculty senator Ellin Scholnick said. “It makes it a highly political process.”

The same committee shot down an earlier version of the proposal in October, submitted by undergradu-ate senator Matthew Popkin. While he was absent from yesterday’s meeting, Popkin said he expected senators to charge the Elections, Representation and Governance Committee with re-viewing the procedural change.

“I think it should have gone to com-mittee,” Popkin said. “If there were some problems with it overall, I can understand it potentially not passing, but the committee is set up to hash out

details and to work with it.”But at yesterday’s meeting, several

senators once again questioned the pro-posal’s objective — the body is not meant to resemble the kind of legislature that exists in Washington or Annapolis, said committee Chairwoman Martha Nell Smith, and tracking votes would likely discourage participation rather than il-luminate the decision-making process for students, faculty and sta�.

“Beyond surveillance, I don’t un-derstand the purpose of this and I don’t even understand the purpose of the surveillance,” Smith said. “It’s not analogous to knowing how [Sen.] Barbara Mikulski voted.”

Though Scholnick opposed making senators’ voting records public, she was the lone vote against rejecting the proposal outright. Several other non-voting members also said they would hesitate to shoot it down at this stage of review, considering past proce-dural proposals — such as switching over to clicker use in 2009 — which made it through the senate’s Executive Committee.

“We have to be consistent in how we consider things,” said senate Director Reka Montfort. “I don’t want this to go to ERG, but I’m not sure you’ve made your case for this not going to ERG, and I hate myself for saying that.”

However, keeping a tally of sena-tors’ voting records could lead some faculty and sta� to pause before joining the body or casting a particular vote, Montfort said.

“I think the largest unintended con-sequence of this is making the senate less attractive to people who want to be in the senate because we’re accounting for these votes,” Montfort said. “There’s

not always a way to prove you didn’t get your promotion case approved because someone didn’t vote a certain way.”

Over the past few years, the senate has worked to increase participation from the university community. One of the attractions of switching over to clickers in 2009 was creating a less intimidating environment for senators to voice their opinions and vote, said faculty senator Gay Gullickson. At one point, senators held up cards to cast their votes, Gullick-son said, and under that open system, discussion and final votes were less ac-

University Senate votes using borrowed electronic clickers, a system members of the Senate Executive Committee say fosters open discussion. For the second time, committee members rejected a proposal yesterday that would make senators’ voting records publicly available. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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By Bradleigh ChanceSta� writer

One Shuttle-UM bus parked outside Stamp will carry more than just student-passengers on Friday — it’ll deliver a week’s worth of donated items to Hur-ricane Sandy relief.

Department of Transportation Ser-vices employees will collect critical items, including batteries, flashlights, school and cleaning supplies, blan-kets and first-aid kits this week inside a Shuttle-UM bus situated in front of Stamp Student Union from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day through Friday, accord-ing to Beverly Malone, DOTS’ assistant director. The project, a joint e�ort with Dining Services, University Relations and the athletic department, allows the university community to demonstrate its value and helpfulness during times of crisis, said full-time Shuttle-UM driver Walter Michaca.

“It shows the university’s ability to conquer something together — there’s a sense of community,” he said. “It doesn’t matter that this isn’t happening in our backyard, either. We can raise awareness right here.”

The departments will either leave the donations at a nearby Red Cross check-point or have DOTS drivers drive the bus up to the New York and New Jersey area, Malone said, a decision o�cials will make at the end of the week. Malone said the Red Cross is in desperate need of baby and children’s supplies, but because many college students don’t have such items lying around, other items are welcome contributions. O�cials are not encouraging students to donate clothing, though, according to a DOTS flier.

While the storm’s impact was milder than expected in this area, many people in its direct path felt its devastating e�ects. Sophomore psychology major Lili Notovitz said her family in Great Neck, N.Y., just had its power restored Sunday after living with no heat, re-frigerator or Internet since the storm hit two weeks ago.

“My cousin’s entire house burned down after Sandy created some electrical issues,” Notovitz added. “They could def-initely benefit from donations like this.”

For each donation, individuals will receive a coupon from Dining Services and the athletic department for free popcorn at the Nov. 20 Terrapins men’s basketball game versus Lafayette. Al-though student tickets to the game are free, the coupon will also be good for a $15 discount on regular price tickets to the game, which are $20.

DOTS has publicized the relief project in a number of areas, Malone said, in-cluding on its website and in dorms, as has the athletic department. University Relations will be contacting alumni for donations as well.

Shuttle-UM drivers Michaca and Adrian Fonseca will spend the week manning the bus and collecting donations. The exchange of donations for coupons and discounts will be an e�ective way to help both the relief e�ort and turnout at the basketball game, Fonseca said.

“We’re getting donations, and at the same time, people get discounts,” he said. “The more visitors at the game, the better business will be, so both parties benefit.”

Sophomore English major Brigette Fine said she appreciated the university’s e�orts to help those in need with the project.

“I think it’s a fantastic e�ort,” she said. “Getting gas in Queens has become near impossible for my aunt and uncle, so they’ve resorted to walking a long ways to their grocery store.”

Fine’s family has been hoping for things to return to normal for quite some time, she said.

“This relief e�ort will not only help to ease some of the burden on people living in those areas,” she said, “but it will show people that they’re not alone in their struggles and that the rest of us are willing to step up and lend a hand.”

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Martin o’malley visits with students in the North Campus Dining Hall in 2010. Though rumors have circulated for years of the governor’s aspirations for a presidential bid, he has never been more appealing to Democrats, after recently passing same-sex marriage and the state’s DREAM Act by referendum. �le photo/the diamondback

uphold same-sex marriage on the ballot and passing the DREAM Act, which enables undocumented stu-dents to pay in-state tuition if they meet a set of requirements, O’Malley has boosted his stock as a presiden-tial candidate.

“In some sense, that is a way to garner some of the spotlight,” Boyd said. “I think that he wants to come o� as pro-gressive, as the progressive governor and the leader of the state of Maryland.

“Maryland has sort of been ahead of the curve in that regard.”

With the approval of both of these measures, Del. Joseline Pena-Mel-nyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) said it helps frame the state as more inclusive and receptive to civil rights issues. However, she said she did not hear of O’Malley’s poten-tial run for president.

“Maryland is progressive; Mary-land’s legislature is very diverse,” she said. “We want equality, we want justice, and we want fairness for ev-eryone living in Maryland.”

And what could be even more attrac-tive to O’Malley’s suitors in the Demo-cratic Party is the changing landscape of voters in this country. With the Latino vote becoming an increasingly important demographic, O’Malley will likely fare well in these circles with a record including the DREAM Act, which a�ects many Hispanics. Secur-ing this voting bloc helped President Obama keep his hold on the White House, Boyd said.

“If you look at the strengths of the Latino voters in this country, they were decisive in this last election,” Boyd said. “If President Obama didn’t carry the Latino vote, he would not have been re-elected.”

While O’Malley’s White House run is simply speculation at this point, Del. Michael Smigiel (R-Caroline, Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne’s) said it has been obvious to him for a while O’Malley has been eying the national spotlight, but it has been to the state’s detriment.

“It’s clear that since the day the

governor stepped into the governor’s mansion, his attention has been on higher o�ce, not on taking care of the problems here at home,” Smigiel said.

As the state grapples with budget uncertainty and looks to create more jobs, Smigiel said O’Malley hasn’t put his weight as governor behind solutions to benefit the state. He said initiatives such as fracking — a controversial process that includes

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drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at high pressure — which Smigiel believes could help address energy concerns and put residents to work, have taken a backseat to a more politically charged platform.

“Could we raise jobs and revenue by allowing the fracking to take place in western Maryland? Absolutely,” Smigiel said. “There’s a lot of things that could be done to fix the fiscal problems in the state and to actually address real concerns of energy that he’s not doing because they don’t fit a political agenda.”

Smigiel cited O’Malley’s ag-gressive push for windmills off the coast of Ocean City as an example of political posturing over effective energy solutions.

Supporting same-sex marriage and the

DREAM Act were further evidence of O’Malley clamoring for the national spotlight, Smigiel added.

“I see no other purpose,” he said. “We’re going to have to pick up the pieces and clean up after he’s gone.”

O’Malley is certainly an attractive option for the Democratic Party in 2016, Boyd said, but that could change if former senator and current Secre-tary of State Hillary Clinton — who lost to Obama in the 2008 primaries — chooses to run again.

“If she wants it, they would hand her, I think, the nomination on a silver platter,” Boyd said. “If Hillary opts not to run, then I think Martin O’Malley knows that he’s definitely going to be under consideration.”

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curate and reflective of the body. “I heard from many different

quarters that people had been pres-sured about voting and I believe those reports,” she said. “There was a good deal, I think, of intimidating behavior going on on the floor of the senate. … But the alternative of recording of every vote is a bridge too far. I can see no good coming of that.”

Carrying out the process of record-ing and storing votes for years after-ward would likely place a strain on the senate offices. Still, Popkin said the logistical requirements of the proposal would not be insurmountable.

“The SGA deals with clickers — we’re a smaller body for sure, but I don’t think it’s a hurdle you can’t overcome,” he said.

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“I don’t want this to go to ERG, but I’m not sure you’ve made your case for this not going to erg, and i hate myself for saying that.”

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“getting gas in queens has become near impossible for my aunt and uncle. ”

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“maryland’s legislature is very diverse. ... we want equal-ity, we want justice, and we want fairness for everyone living in maryland. ”

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stopped a fifth individual but did not press charges.

At about 3:15 a.m. Sunday, a suspect or suspects allegedly punched a male student in the face and stole his cell phone, Brewer said; police later recov-

ered the cell phone, and the student was uninjured. The suspects fled the area in a silver Mercury, according to a crime alert.

University Police originally report-ed the incident as an armed robbery. However, Brewer said no weapons were involved. Victims do not always know police terminology, which can result in confusion between the victim and

the dispatcher when identifying the crime, he added.

University Police made the arrests at about 4:15 a.m., Brewer said, after locating a vehicle in Lot K matching the description of the suspects’ car. O�cers turned the men over to county police.

Garrett pleaded guilty to posses-sion of paraphernalia in July, accord-ing to court records.

Brewer said students should practice caution and travel in pairs, and contact police as quickly as possible after an incident occurs.

“This individual was able to give us good descriptive informa-tion, and we were able to make an arrest,” he said.

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Drowning in wasted

stress

MARC PRIESTER

With armed robberies, mug-gings and other violent crimes in the area, it’s hard

for o cers to be acutely prepared for any and all situations. Unfor-tunately, one oft-forgotten critical area is domestic violence, especial-ly because to many, it doesn’t in-dicate a life-threatening situation.

But domestic violence cases occur all too often and are some of the most underreported crimes. One in every four women experi-ences domestic violence in her lifetime — 85 percent of domestic violence victims are women — but only 25 percent of physical assaults, 20 percent of rapes and 50 percent of stalkings are reported to police, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

With these disturbing trends in mind, it’s reassuring to see county and university police o cers will go through training to help and

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protect victims of domestic violence, courtesy of a $217,650 grant from the Maryland Network Against Domes-tic Violence’s Lethality Assessment Program. Rather than helping victims after the fact, the program aims to serve as a preventative measure against future as-saults by providing an easier path to help. Officers will learn how to better eva l u a te v i c t i m s and the severity of various incidents, a n d t h e n r e f e r them to a domes-tic hotline or help center, according to an article in yesterday’s Diamondback.

The program is a critical step in minimizing the stigma associated with domestic violence and making victims more inclined to report attacks. By opening up and publicizing avenues

for help and communication, victims will hopefully feel more comfortable seeking aid and protection. After all, if police deem the issue important enough to warrant additional, focused training, it encourages victims to report their cases and assures them there’s a way

out. The training only takes an hour, and all o cers will have to be trained before the new year. It appears to be rel-atively simple for o cers — they have to decide which calls meet the cri-teria for victims to be referred to a

domestic violence center, District 1 Commander Maj. Robert Brewer said, noting police departments “voluntarily moved to this to help potential victims,” and added, “We’re sort of ahead of the game, so this will be easy.”

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New funding to train police o cers to better address

domestic violence cases will bene� t the community and

future responsiveness.

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EDITORIAL CARTOON

Thomas Hobbes once famously wrote life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” So why add un-warranted stress to the equation?

As an anecdotal piece of evidence, a few weeks ago I received a “B+” on a literature class assignment. Irra-tionally, I saw all of my hopes and dreams go up in smoke. No, literally, I saw Yale Law School explode in cata-strophic splendor.

Behind the roaring flames and smoldering remains of my dreams, I saw my professor, laughing maniacally in stereotypical, B-movie “muahaha-haha!” fashion.

Academically, we have tremen-dous pressure on our shoulders. Foolishly, in our attempts to move mountains, we only succeed in throwing stones and kick ourselves for our failure. Though striving for the perfect 4.0 GPA and other scholastic laurels isn’t necessarily something to be discouraged, undue stress is problematic.

Competition is fi erce for the top score on an exam or scoring a prestigious in-ternship. Life is no Nintendo game: There are no reset buttons, do-overs or rage-fi lled forfeits when you feel like you’re losing. I’ve seen science majors crying hysterically, as if their mothers were just harmed, after getting “C”s on exams. Students even go as far as to use dangerous prescription drugs such as Ritalin in a misguided attempt to gain a viable edge.

If a professor told students every-one who jumps off the top of McK-eldin Library receives an “A” for the semester, would the entire McKeldin Mall be littered with corpses?

For the overstressed among you, put everything in perspective. After all, in every situation there is a broader picture you’re ignoring. So you re-ceived a “B+” on a paper? You have multiple opportunities to get an “A” on the next paper or exam. Or maybe you got a “C” for your semester grade. Out of 120 credits, a three-credit class will not destroy your transcript. And even if your GPA is as deflated as China’s currency (I couldn’t resist an economics joke.), you can intern, get involved in community projects and network your way into a career; GPA be damned.

Outside the classroom, social pres-sures are typically even more preva-lent. The a ̈ iction of attending all the best parties, joining the right frater-nity or sorority or making friends to improve your social status is out of control. People try to be as “college” as possible, without really defining what college is.

“College” is a subjective experi-ence every individual must discern according to his or her own ethics and utility. Don’t force yourself into going out on a Saturday night just because certain expectations exist among your friends. After all, sometimes loung-ing in your birthday suit and playing Super Smash Bros. with some bros can be just as rewarding as going to Looney’s Pub.

At the end of the day, stress is a part of life, but madness does not neces-sarily have to be. Aim to manage the stress — it may become the most im-portant skill you ever learn.

M a rc P r i e s t e r i s a s o p h o m o re economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].

Our country feels divided. Though President Obama won his re-elec-tion, the popular vote margin was relatively narrow. People are frus-trated with the government and don’t really know what to do. This election season was a sad reminder our current political system is not equipped to deal with problems while accurately representing the will of the people.

I do not blame the politicians in-dividually — I believe most of them are good, honest people attempting to navigate a system defi ned by insti-tutionalized corporate interests that transcend their individual tenets. However, the gridlocked duopoly creates the tension nurturing this corruption and driving our govern-ment’s stagnation.

Democrats and Republicans are not identical. But it’s becoming in-creasingly di cult to di© erentiate between the two. In theory, the two parties are ideological opposites: Re-publicans emphasize conservatism and traditional family values, while Democrats champion progressive, egalitarian views. But in practice, the system’s pervasive corruption by special interest groups has made the two parties’ actions almost in-distinguishable. Everything they do is a function not of their principles but of outside interest.

Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin, two fac-tions of the same party, representing not the American people but lob-byists and donors. Most of us are well aware of this reality. Usually it functions well enough to provide the basic needs of most Americans. But these aren’t “usual times.” Our government is overflowing with debt; people don’t have jobs or health care; the country’s infrastructure is crumbling; and we are dependent on foreign energy. The list continues.

Our politicians are unable to muster up the integrity, sincerity and creativity required to solve our prob-lems. Well-intentioned politicians are stuck in a zero-sum framework of short-term politicking: One party’s gains are the other’s losses. No one has the liberty to think of the long-term common good.

Take, for instance, the politics of the government’s response to Hur-ricane Sandy. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a politician respected by both sides for his e© ectiveness, was heavily criticized by fellow Republi-cans for praising Obama’s handling of

the storm right before the presidential election. Christie’s response captured the predicament most good people in government face: “If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics then you don’t know me.”

The tribal nature of the Democratic and Republican parties is an insur-mountable impediment to dialogue, which produces subpar solutions to our tremendous problems. Columnist David Brooks said it right, “If you took individuals outside the party context that we have now, I bet we could all cut a deal.”

Democrats and Republicans have long rigged our political system to prevent the rise of serious third parties or inde-pendent groups — reserving the power in their own pockets. If we really want a productive government serving people’s interests, we need to introduce the same elements that motivate businesses to best serve their clients: competition and accountability.

If competition drives the produc-tivity of our businesses, universities and health care, why don’t we use it to drive the productivity of our govern-ment? We need to introduce a class of politicians, free from the tentacles of special interest, who are able to solve our financial problems without Wall Street infl uence, create a robust health care solution without pressure from the pharmaceutical and insurance lobbies, introduce sustainable energy reform without compulsion from big oil — the list is endless. And if the politicians aren’t serving our interests, we should vote them out and replace them with people who will.

O s a m a E s h e r a i s a s e n i o r bioengineering major. He can be reached at [email protected].

Despite the well-formulated ar-guments Osama presents, Amer-ica’s two-party system works. Blue and red are not false choices dangled in front of middle-class America by a coterie of Washington elites, no matter what the cynics tell you. Ideologies represented by these colors are real, and they paint a system that has consistently de-livered results.

Granted, certain screws need to be tightened, such as education, health care, employment and equality. Po-tential reforms for these issues will require exhaustive debate to imple-ment the most effective policies going forward. But America’s two-party system has enabled people across the country to o© er innova-tive solutions and contribute to the decision-making process.

For those of you disappointed with our current political structure, I want to share some lessons from India’s experience as a democracy with a multi party system. India has six national political parties and 45 state-level parties, all of which are represented in India’s Congress equivalent, the Lok Sabha. In the last major election in 2009, there were candidates from 364 di© erent political parties competing for con-gressional seats. If no single party wins the majority, which is usually the case, the coalition of parties able to achieve a majority is invited to form the government.

In 2009, the Indian National Con-gress Party received only 28 percent of the popular vote, but was the un-disputed leader of the government coalition. The next major party in the coalition represented less than 4 percent of the entire popular vote. In

comparison, at least you as an Ameri-can voter know your vote will either be in the majority or in the minority, not simply obscured into oblivion.

Further, with a multi party system, it’s easier for extremist groups with no progressive agendas to target specifi c regions with hate-fi lled narratives. Even small electoral victories for such groups are enough for them to disrupt policy proceedings. This is not just something that has happened in India. Look at the success extreme political parties have had in Turkey, the Balkans, Greece, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands, to name a few. Even with a small fraction of the popular vote, the multi party system has helped amplify their regressive messages.

America attracts the best in the world because it is a nation in which hard work is rewarded. If racist, sexist or anti-immigration parties are allowed to win over even a small voting bloc, this strength will erode and the country will su© er dearly. The rebirth of cults like the Ku Klux Klan would be more than a hypothetical.

If you are frustrated with the slow progress of the politicking in this country right now, you can’t imagine the frustration you will endure if we were to adopt a multi party system.

Step back from the hype in the media about the apparent paralysis in American politics. Compare it to what exists elsewhere, and you’ll see what you have is far more e© ective and ef-fi cient. There is always going to be room for improvement, and it’s clear people like the president are working hard to achieve that improvement.

Anand Kumar Gupta is a junior environmental economics major. He can be reached at [email protected].

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This county and university have set a precedent for the rest of the state and country. Sure, this program is only the fi rst step, but it’s one that’s both simple and imperative to improving safety in the state. It will hopefully unleash a domino e© ect of measures geared toward helping an oft-sup-pressed group of victims.

We hope the program helps improve the statistics and the hesitance as-sociated with reporting domestic violence. Fortunately, domestic violence statistics in the state have been steadily going down for nearly a decade now. From 2006 to 2010, there was an 18.4 percent decrease in reported crimes. That, of course, doesn’t account for the unreported ones, but we’re optimistic that with the implementation of such programs, that number will continue decreasing and most victims will feel there is a safe haven waiting on the other side of the phone.

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Lana Del Rey and Kreayshawn both captured the spotlight for a brief moment, but inspired legions of haters in the process. Are their 15 minutes up, or do they have more to offer?

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FAUX INDIE MUSICIAN Lana Del Rey, known for her vacant stare and her affectless Saturday Night Live performance, represents a soulless corporate cash-grab to some, and an entertaining artist with a smart visual taste to others. photo courtesy of elle.com

Tonight, Oakland, Calif., rapper Kreayshawn (Natassia Zolot) will be taking the stage of Towson’s Recher Theatre. The venue can hold up to 630 people, but according to Re-cher’s booking agent Will McCrory, only 200 tickets have been sold so far.

Would this have been the case if the show took place at this time last year?

Kreayshawn was an unknown until she made waves on the In-ternet after debuting her song “Gucci Gucci,” an extremely catchy, yet whacked-out ode to rejecting designer products, in May 2011. The song’s music video amassed millions of YouTube views in a matter of weeks and helped Kreayshawn land a $1 million contract with Columbia Records.

She was the new thing. She collaborated with rappers such as 2 Chainz and Kid Cudi; she toured with Neon Indian and almost directed a Red Hot Chili Peppers video.

But by the time Kreayshawn released her full-length album, Somethin’ ‘Bout Kreay, in Sep-tember, much of that hype had dissipated. While the album has some standout songs such as the aforementioned “Gucci Gucci” and the thumping anthem “Summertime (feat. V-Nasty),” the majority of the record falls flat. It was poorly received by critics and sold a minuscule 3,900 records in its first week, according to online

publication Hip Hop 365.There’s no doubt Kreayshawn

still retains some popularity. She’s currently on a nation-wide tour, titled the Group Hug Tour, with fellow rappers Rye Rye, Honey Cocaine and Chippy Nonstop. McCrory foresees more tickets for the Recher show will sell at the door, but there’s a possibil-ity Kreayshawn is just one of many artists who failed to live up to her own hype.

This pattern isn’t uncommon these days. Artists gets “discovered” on the Internet and either manages to live up to the surrounding buzz or fails to meet the ex-pectations critics and audi-ences impose upon them. It’s a strange pattern that can leave artists who are praised for their uniqueness and talent virtually forgotten within a year.

The involvement of major record labels also makes the situation tricky. While Kreay-shawn started out as an un-derground rap darling, signing to a major label took her out of the world of independent music and placed her in the mainstream. Would she have fared better or worse if she had remained an unsigned artist? She might have received less criticism, but she also could have been floundering in the world of the unknown by now.

Some artists are able to

navigate the Internet fame. For example, New York hip-hop act Azealia Banks drew atten-tion for the black and white YouTube video for her song “212.” (Apparently YouTube really is the way to get discov-ered these days.) Banks’ ascent

in popularity is similar to Kreayshawn’s —

she signed to a major label,

Interscope Records. B u t s o far, Banks h a s y e t

to receive any serious

back l a sh or criticism the way

Kreayshawn has.There doesn’t seem to be

any definite solution to this cycle. In the case of Kreay-shawn, it seems like a major label invested in her but then waited too long to release an actual album. While Kreay-shawn can make a fun rap song, it’s possible she doesn’t possess enough ta lent to secure her place in the music industry. But it’s difficult to dismiss an artist based on the strength of one album.

For now, we’ll just have to wait and see what Kreayshawn does next. And attempt to get “Gucci Gucci” out of our heads.

Kreayshawn will be playing at th e Re ch e r T h e at re in Towson tonight. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets are $17.50 for 21 and up, $18.50 for under 21.

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The debate on Lana Del Rey is nothing new. After she tanked a performance on Sat-urday Night Live, the hipster manic pixie dream girl sprang from the fringes of pop culture to become one of the most loved (by indie girl wannabes) and hated (by music bros who quiz you on the more obscure Mag-netic Fields albums) cultural goddesses of our time.

And now, with the release of her new album, Born to Die: The Paradise Edition, Del Rey is once again in the cultural spotlight. Why do we love to hate — or hate to love — her so much?

It is clear Del Rey is a com-mercia l creation. T h is is nothing new in American pop culture — think Britney Spears, Aaron Carter, One Direction — but what was new about Del Rey was she was commercially tai-lored to be “di£erent.” She was supposed to appeal to musical

elitists through her persona: She was the girl you could listen to Velvet Underground 45s with.

Del Rey’s videos and aesthet-ics attempt to make suburban life feel meaningful, especially in the way she presents modern America in her videos. Del Rey primarily focuses on the visual aspect of musical stardom. Her music leaves much to be desired, especially live.

The lack of quality music is what Del Rey’s target audience struggles with: Does her lack of authenticity invalidate her as an artist? Does it matter that she’s essentially an avatar for someone else’s music? Is it OK to love a corporate creation?

Del Rey has been sold as an indie artist, which is why many have a hard time putting her into the same auto-tuned box as Katy Perry or Nicki Minaj. She has the same commercial tactics as these pop divas, but uses them to different ends. The rumored lip job, the overtly auto-tuned music and the

H&M deal go a long way in dis-crediting her, however. None of it is really all that “indie,” which is why there is so much controversy surrounding her.

But what is indie, anyway? It’s ridiculous to like a band just because of its hipster cred. The personal lives of artists are irrelevant; we should be paying attention to their art, not their background.

That said, it should not be taboo to like Del Rey. Yes, she uses electronic e£ects to alter her sound. But if that sound is something you like, why not enjoy it anyway?

This idea shouldn’t just be applied to Del Rey, though. Commercial tactics should be swept aside — in the big scheme of things, does au-thenticity matter more than quality? Music should simply be enjoyed for what it is — just sound, not the marketing surrounding it.

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THIS WEEK, IN THE ONGOING MISADVENTURES OF LINDSAY LOHANActress and noted car-wreck aficionado Lindsay Lohan, star of Mean Girls and a thousand tabloid cover stories, recently backed out of an interview with Barbara Walters when it became clear an interview with Lindsay Lohan might include questions about Lindsay Lohan. Presumably, Lohan hoped to comment on the fiscal cliff and the conflict in Syria and was outraged her various scandals and DUIs might come up.

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wasn’t much anxiety or any-thing. It was just a matter of waiting. Now, we’re ready to go.”

The Terps are making their 12th consecutive postseason ap-pearance and have been among the final 16 teams remaining 10 straight times. The Terps, however, haven’t made it to the College Cup since their last na-tional title run in 2008. Through-out the year, the team has made it clear its aim is to make it back.

But the Terps will have to go through either Brown or Drexel on Sunday at Ludwig Field fi rst. The two at-large teams play Thursday night in Philadelphia in the fi rst round.

Unseeded Brown compiled a 12-2-3 record this season and fi nished third in the Ivy League. With its bid, it’s now made the

postseason in seven of the past eight years, and it’s reached the sweet 16 the past two seasons. The Terps (17-1-2) lead the all-time series with the Bears, 1-0, winning a 1-0 game in the second round of the 2005 tournament, as the Terps went on to win Cirovs-ki’s fi rst championship.

Entering the postseason as an at-large bid out of the CAA, Drexel fi nished the year 12-3-3 and fell in its conference tourna-ment semifi nals. The Dragons are making their fi rst postsea-son appearance since 1972. The Terps defeated Drexel, 5-3, in the 1963 NCAA tournament in the programs’ lone meeting.

“We have some information on these teams,” Cirovski said. “We keep a running system of different teams throughout the year that are having good years, so we’re going to be well-prepared. These teams play on Thursday. We’ll have some time to see them play one way or another, and we’ll be ready for Sunday.”

The ACC, regarded as one of the top conferences in the nation, placed five teams in the tournament: the Terps, No. 9-seed North Carolina, No. 15-seed Wake Forest, unseeded Virginia and unseeded Boston College. The Terps could meet the Demon Deacons in the third round, a rematch of the Nov. 1 meeting that gave the Terps their only loss of the season.

The Big East came out as the tournament’s most impressive conference, earning three of the top four slots with No. 1-seed Notre Dame, No. 3-seed Georgetown and No. 4-seed Connecticut. No. 7-seed Mar-quette and No. 10-seed Louis-ville round out the Big East’s tournament squads.

“I think there’s a lot of great teams out there,” Cirovski said. “It’s a very balanced fi eld. There’s no gimmes out there. This is a very balanced fi eld, and it’s just another example of the parity and growth in the game. … Soccer, by its nature, is a very un-predictable game. You’re going to see some very good games.”

And while some of those hy-pothetical matchups are intrigu-ing — a College Cup matchup with local rival Georgetown is a real possibility — Cirovski has his Terps focused only on Sunday evening’s matchup with either the Bears or the Dragons at Ludwig Field.

“We addressed it with the team prior to the unveiling of the bracket and post-unveil-ing,” Cirovski said. “One of the things that has made us successful is that we’re very focused on the understand-ing that we don’t look too far ahead. We trust our process of preparation, and that’s what we’re going to continue to do.”

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11 points, respectively, were the lone Terps to fi nish with double-fi gure point totals.

“We wore them down,” Turgeon said. “That was evident.”

Turgeon regularly rotated four or five players at a time, ensuring fresh legs against a team picked to fi nish near the middle of the Ohio Valley Conference this season.

Though the Terps overcame a poor fi rst-half shooting performance to enter the break with a 35-19 lead, they struggled to pull away from the Eagles in the early stages of the second half. With about 12 minutes remaining, their 16-point halftime advantage had fallen to just 10.

But then the Terps’ depth began to show. They turned turnovers into transition points, began driving to the basket at will and started making the timely jumpers that were nowhere to be found during that fi rst half.

“We just played together and like a unit,” Wells said. “I think we have a camaraderie on this team I’ve never been a part of before.”

By the time center Shaquille Cleare netted

a layup with 7:33 remaining, the Terps (1-1) boasted a 60-37 advantage over the Eagles (1-1). They were on track to their most lopsided victory in two years, taking the pressure o¢ a young squad desperate to rebound from Fri-day’s disappointing 72-69 defeat to Kentucky.

“Guys did what they did to help the team win,” Faust said. “Everyone just played to-gether and we had a great win.”

That togetherness may have masked the Terps’ biggest shortcoming last night: turn-overs. The Terps played hurried at times, giving the ball over 20 times.

Turgeon said after the game the sloppiness was to be expected from a young group still fi guring out how to win college games. The Terps, after all, only returned four scholarship players from a team that fi nished a middling 17-15 last season.

But last night, Turgeon wasn’t overly focused on the growing pains. He was just content basking in his team’s newfound depth, in the sudden reality that he doesn’t need to depend on a diminutive o¢ guard for a third of his team’s scoring.

Said Turgeon: “Thank God we have depth.”

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Coach Mark Turgeon has a much deeper rotation he can lean on this season, regularly rotating 10 players. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sports TWO TERPS GET WEEKLY HONORSCenter Alex Len and forward Tianna Hawkins were named ACC Players of the Week. For more, visit diamondbackonline.com.

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TERRAPINS 67 45 EAGLES

Guard Nick Faust, center Alex Len, center Shaquille Cleare, forward Dez Wells and forward James Padgett (clockwise from top left) led a balanced scoring attackthat had 10 di� erent players score in a 67-45 win over Morehead State last night. Faust led the way with 12 points, and Len scored 11. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

Digging Deep

MEN’S SOCCER

Terps earn No. 2 seed in NCAAsTeam to host either Brown or Drexel insecond round SundayBy Daniel GallenSenior sta� writer

The Terrapins men’s soccer team has had to wait for results at times this season.

The No. 2 Terps have scored game-winning goals in the 80th minute or later four times this year, including Friday night against Clemson when an own goal in the 103rd minute gave the Terps the victory in the ACC semifi nals. At times, it’s made for high drama.

But last night, it was waiting of a different sort. After all, the Terps already knew what the result was going to be.

The Terps were the fi nal squad in the 48-team NCAA tournament fi eld to be announced. They didn’t hear their po-sition until almost 20 minutes after the tournament’s selection show began. When they fi nally learned the result — a No. 2 seed that guarantees a fi rst-round bye and home-fi eld advantage until the College Cup — Sasho Cirovski said the wait was just the function of the bracket.

“I’ve been in these quite a bit,” the 20th-year coach said. “I was just waiting to see who we’re going to play. It wasn’t really much of an issue. There

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Balanced attack leads Terps to � rst victory of season

By Connor LetourneauSenior sta� writer

After trudging through last season with just eight scholarship players, coach Mark Turgeon was ecstatic when he entered his second Terrapins men’s basketball campaign with much-needed depth.

He had a freshman class that ranked No. 18 nationally. He had two key trans-fers in Dez Wells and Logan Aronhalt. Finally, he fi gured, he had enough fi re-power to sustain rallies and hold players accountable. Rather than consistently relying on gunslinger Terrell Stoglin — who left the team after receiving a one-year suspension — to carry his team through tough stretches, he would be able to turn to his bench.

“We have more options,” Turgeon said in October. “I’m really excited about that.”

T h at d ep t h wa s on f u l l d i s pl ay du r i ng t he Ter ps’ 67-45 w i n over Morehead State at Comcast Center last night. Though it struggled through a rash of turnovers, Turgeon’s squad used a balanced attack to wear down the Eagles and secure its first win of the season in convincing fashion.

Ten Terps tallied points — a marked di� erence from the Stoglin-centric box scores of last season. Guard Nick Faust and center Alex Len, who scored 12 and

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

Mark TurgeonTerps men’s basketall coach

“Student newspaper guy, where are you? We need students to come. The game [vs. LIU-Brooklyn] is at 7 o’clock Friday night.”

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