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THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY UMBC’s Student Newspaper INSIDE Volume 41, Issue 28 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 May 15, 2007 News 02 Gaumer found guilty of fi rst- degree murder, fi rst-degree rape will lead prosecutors to seek a JENNI CHOI death sentence. Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff Gaumer, 23, wept slightly as guilty verdicts were read. After the Mulch fi res, Dinner A Baltimore County jury jury, comprised of six women and with Hrabowski, and found John C. Gaumer, a former six men, exited the courtroom, Study Abroad UMBC student, guilty of first- Gaumer and his parents broke degree murder and first-degree down. Gaumer’s defense attorney rape last Thursday. put her arm around him while The verdicts were announced wiping away her own tears. Opinion 08 at around 4:30 p.m. to a packed Relatives of Josie P. Brown, the courtroom. The jurors deliberated young woman who was murdered, for between four and five hours. quietly remained seated on the A capital sentencing hearing is opposite side of the courtroom. scheduled to begin Monday. As several sheriff’s deputies [Courtesy of www.facebook.com] Fully Qualifi ed: Found guilty of murder and an “aggravating circumstance,” John The conviction of both first- led Gaumer out of the courtroom, Gaumer can be given the death penalty by the jury who tried him last week. degree murder and first-degree Christopher Gaumer, the rape, a charge that serves as an defendant’s father, shouted “John, UMBC student and former deserve the pain of burying their John Gaumer, Al Gore, “aggravating circumstance” under I love you, man. I love you, son.” acquaintance of Gaumer’s son. Knowing what he has done and the SGA Maryland’s death penalty statute, Kathryn Catania, a current commented, “When I first heard is painful enough. For me, this the news that John had been is one of those times, and I hope arrested for these crimes, words John, his family, and the family of Lacrosse wins cannot describe the shock and Josie Brown do this, this is one of sadness that I felt. I had never those times where you have to pray Arts 16 fi rst-ever NCAA known John to be someone that things will result as they are who was emotionally capable of supposed to.” degrading human life in such an Tournament game awful way. Hearing the news of Closing Arguments year,” coach Don Zimmerman said. the verdict today has surfaced the Hours before the verdict ALEXANDER PYLES “They have a great attitude and we feelings of fear, shock, and overall came out, prosecutor Ann Bropst Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff had a terrifi c week of practice. We sadness that I experienced the day and defense attorney Gayle L. came ready to play.” he was arrested. I guess it’s one of Robinson gave their respective In the biggest game of their Blevins played the most those things you can’t really let closing arguments in a final Drag show, Sum- young careers, Jeremy Blevins and outstanding game of his two-year go of. As for his eligibility for the attempt to sway the jury. mer playlist, and 28 Cayle Ratcliff delivered, helping career, making 18 saves for UMBC death penalty, my stance remains: During three days of evidence Weeks Later UMBC to a 13-9 win over favored and frustrating the Terrapin attack I don’t know what’s right. I’m glad and testimonies, starting from local rival Maryland in the fi rst round all night long. After struggling that it’s not my decision to make, last Monday, the prosecution of the NCAA Tournament. The win during the middle part of the season, because although I feel that John and defense focused on the issue Sports 27 is the Retrievers’ fi rst Division I Blevins has repeatedly been clutch deserves the worst our justice of whether or not Gaumer had NCAA Tournament victory in the for the Retrievers recently, but never system can deliver, his parents have see VERDICT, page 6. school’s 40-year history. done nothing wrong and do not “This team has been fi ghters all see LACROSSE, page 29. UMBC Quiz Bowl team competes nationally Softball falls short in lowest number of points in the AEC championship, ELIZABETH SILBERHOLZ country. Team captain Mike Fasulo Baseball continues Retriever Weekly Editorial Staff was fourth for total points in the downward spiral Region 4 qualifi er and within the After winning a regional top fi fty scorers nationwide. championship round, the UMBC This is the fi rst time that UMBC Quiz Bowl team competed at has won the regionals in a College the national level. The team won Bowl Tournament. Last year, the four rounds at the College Bowl team snagged second place. Tournament series, hosted this In the College Bowl nationals year at the University of Southern for the fi rst time in school history, California in Los Angeles. Fasulo continued his streak by Newsroom ........... 410.455.1260 Advertising .......... 410.455.1261 The Quiz Bowl team competed ranking ninth in points recorded. Editor in Chief ...... 410.455.1262 against fi fteen schools in the mid- Half of the UMBC team, which Business Fax ....... 410.455.1265 On the Web ........... trw.umbc.edu Atlantic regional qualifi er held at consisted of Brian Chan, Michael West Chester University in West Pollard, Bryan Wilkinson and Chester, Penn. earlier this year. Michael Fasulo, achieved standings ETRIEVER Mike Milchanowski [Retriever Staff] There, UMBC was awarded fi rst in the top third of total points THE WEEKLY Upset Special: Mike Burch and the Retrievers kept the Maryland defense off R place. In this round, the team held see QUIZ, page 3. balance and frustrated the offense in the 13-9 win. the distinction of allowing the 2 News May 15, 2007 THE RETRIEVER WEEKLY Behind the Scenes Simon Stacey: Engage your education College News enough to be a professional philosopher.” as interning at the state legislature, working ZAINAB ALKEBSI Some would disagree. at an NGO, or volunteering at a church. So 2007 Anti-Hate Summit Retriever Weekly Staff Writer After his college graduation, his career it’s very gratifying when students with lots of brought him a long way from South Africa other commitments make the effort to keep hosted by UMBC Simon Stacey is a visiting assistant to UMBC. “After graduating in South up with their reading and come to class. On Tuesday, May 1, 2007, the professor of political science, specifi cally Africa, I did research work for a few think The fl ip side, of course, is that it can Coalition Opposed to Violence and teaching political theory, “with an occasional tanks and policy institutes about local be very disappointing when students don’t Extremism (COVE) held its annual Anti- foray into something like American political elections, public-private partnerships, state prepare, especially when one thinks that Hate Summit at the University of Maryland thought, or ethics and public policy.” He government, and so forth; and I did some the stuff one has given them to read and Baltimore County (UMBC). COVE is an is also the acting associate director of the teaching in sociology and political science. think about is as interesting as possible for alliance of public and private civil rights Honors College, which will become a Then I applied to graduate schools in the US the printed word to be. The other enjoyable organizations, community human relations, full-time position at the beginning of the and UK. Princeton made me the best offer, aspect of the job, of course, is the time to do law enforcement, advocacy, religious and summer session. Explained Stacey, “That so I went there and did my PhD in political one’s own reading and writing.” educational organizations in Maryland and happened because the Honors College theory, specifi cally on transitional justice-- In his spare time, Stacey likes to fi sh, the Washington, D.C. area. needed someone, and the professor who that is, how to deal with people who commit “ideally with a fl y-rod.” He also dabbles in COVE seeks to increase the awareness regularly teaches political theory courses in human rights abuses under authoritarian woodworking and carpentry. of strategies that combat hatred, violence, the political science department is coming regimes once those regimes fall and are When asked to give a piece of advice to extremism and discrimination that exist back.” replaced by democratic polities. While I UMBC readers, Stacey replied, “This will in our communities. Since its inception in Stacey has had an interesting and was doing my PhD, I worked on a study of probably sound trite and—coming from a 1979 the organization has participated in unique childhood. Said Stacey, “I’m from peace and confl ict resolution organizations professor—self-serving, but I would really activities that oppose, resist and eliminate South Africa, and I was a teenager when in Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, and urge students, as much as they can, to use bigotry, prejudice, violence and extremism Nelson Mandela was released from jail and at South Africa and met my wife, who was a the time and resources they have now for its based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, university when the fi rst democratic elections PhD student in social work at UCLA. When intended purpose- reading, writing, thinking, sexual orientation and disability. were held. That was a very exciting and she graduated, she got a job as a social work questioning. Because there is, unless you go Several years ago, COVE adopted inspiring time, but it’s diffi cult to say exactly professor at the University of Maryland, to graduate school, unlikely to be another the slogan, “No Hate in Our State” and how it affected me.

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