THE • j "You hate to think you have to censor your language to meet other people's lack of understanding." -Julian Bond, NAACP Volume XXXIV, Number 20 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 June 20, 2000 Construction Begins on. New Dorm as UMBC Awaits Approval Erickson Ready to Team Up With UMBC for Another Residel)ce Hall to Provide Housing for 500 More Students DAHLIA NAQIB and 14, administrators hope that site work, which did not need Pretriever Editorial Staff the garage will attract commuters approval from the board because who will then leave more spaces it required only a limitedcontract The hundreds of students near the dorms to the residents. of under $0.5 million, which the rejected each year for housing The newest dormitory project university is paying. will undoubtedly be pleased to will, if approved, be constructed This preliminary work will, hear of the new dorm that, if as before with help from Dr. John according to Williams, help the approved, could provide the C. Erickson of the Erickson university save time and stay on campus with another 500 beds foundation, which will foot the schedule until they receive within two years. $21 million in costs and be paid approval from the Board of The thousands of students back over approximately ten Public Works. who already live on campus are years with the money that stu­ UMBC administrators were annoyed with the project, which dents are charged to live there. willing to take the risk of starting Nate We~t I Pretriever Staff Earth Moving: Resident students are concerned with the loss of has already taken the 255 parking The $18 million it took to construction because they are parking due to the construction of the new dorm. Students will spaces of lots 11 and 14-two of construct Erickson Hall is also confiedent that the contract for a have a forum to discuss their concerns. the major lots for residents. being paid back in a similar fash­ new dorm will be approved by The administration is trying ion. A contract has yet to be · mid-July. The Board of Reagents to address the parking situation signed between UMBC and the has already approved the plan. with a $4.5 million garage near Erickson Foundation because "We don't see any reason why Napster Use· Causes the physics building to be open UMBC still needs approval from the Board [of Public Works] to students in the fall with 412 the Board of Public Works. would not approve," said spaces, 100 of which may be According to Vice President Williams. Problems at Colleges metered. Although the garage for Administrative Affairs Clolita Even with the 250 beds pro- will be located further away from Williams the construction cur­ JENNIFER SCHILDROTH Napster. the residential areas than lots 11 rentlY, underway is preliminary see DORM, page 2 Pretriever Editorial Staff While UMBC is looking in to methods of limiting the effect of Napster, an Internet-based Napster and related programs on Scary Movie, computer program that allows transfer speed from the UMBC users to swap music files at no system, the university intends not Sexy Ladies charge, is bringing much concern to get involved with the legal bat­ Jamie Peck catches up with to college campuses across the tle. Shannon Elizabeth and Carmen nation. Questions of Napster's . "We don't want to be in the Electra, two members of the cast legality as well as massive con­ middle of trying to block of Scary Movie, summer's hottest gestion on college servers are Napster," assured Director of spoof. The gals dish about causing many schools to consider comedy, their careers, possibly limiting usage of see NAPSTER, page 3 working with Keenen Ivory Wayans and What's Inside: whether they'd ever Features pose for Playboy p.9 again. See page 9. Opinion Adam Craigmiles makes a tri­ p.S umphant return to Insert Name Here, Live Wire looks at a Writers take sides over US rockin' performance from local Shriver Center Office to Move to military forces in Asia, gender faves Brickfoot, and reviews of equality in sports and viola­ Titan A.E., Shaft and Chicken tions of the Clean Air Act, and Run. Former Health Services Trailer duke it out over mandatory drug testing in this issue's Sports PoinVCounterpoint. SCOTT DAUGHERTY residential halls. Center, though it will not return to p. 19 Pretriever Staff Writer This move is an indirect result the same location. In December UMBC takes a tum for the worse of renovations to the Che~try of 2002 the center will move into Focus during the playoffs, two coaches UMBC's famed internship building. During this summer, the new accommodations in a soon­ p. 12 receive help in the form of new and community service student building will be completely reno­ to-be-built Public Affairs building Your colorful, pull-out guide to recruits, Pratik Shah praises link will be serving the campus vated from the fifth floor down. across from the Physics building. the UMBC campus, every­ Tiger Woods over winning the community from a different The Shriver Center will leave the "A move is always disrup­ thing you ever wanted to US Open and Dr. Charles Brown office beginning next year. building to make room for some tive," said Dr. John Martello, vice know about college but were signs a contract extension. The Shriver Center office will of the displaced chemistry faculty ~rovost for community partner­ afraid to ask and a wealth of be moving this summer from the who are loosing their spaces due Ships and executive director of advice from the Pretriever College News ... p.2 Chemistry building to the former to the renovation. the Shriver Center. "We are not staff. Listen, won't you? World News ... p.3 Health Services trailer between The trailers are only tempo­ thrilled, but we realize that it's in the Chesapeake and Susquehanna rary housin~ for the Shriver the best interests of the campus." PAGE2 THE PRETRIEVER ·.NEWS June 20, 2000 ehind the Scenes E-mailed Allegations Force UMCP Athletic Department Investigation True Grit Speaks! (U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The athletic department is investigating ADAM CRAIGMILES My pen cocked; notepad drawn at allegations from an anonymous e-mail Pretriever Editorial Staff the ready, I approached exuding deter­ accusing at least nine teams· of violating the university's code of conduct for stu­ mination. I let a long silence elapse to dent athletes. True Grit stands happily, head evoke drama. Then I began, sipping The allegations were sent to cocked, jaw locked in an eternal half­ some joe I'd brought back with me to President Clayton D. Mote Jr. and pant. The Chesapeake Bay Retriever, in prove tbat I had, in fact, gone for cof­ Athletic Director Debbie Yow, as well as his tarnishing bronze coat, has faced fee. media outlets on May 31. The most pointed charge claimed the countless visitors and guests that Q. True Grit . •. Is it true that members of the-women's lacrosse team pour into this institution of bricks and you're fiXed? drank alcohol on the team bus in the books for years, and I was going to find A." ... No." presence of Associate Atq]etic Director out just what he had to say about it. Q. Really? Dave Haglund on its trip home from Trenton, N.J., after winning their sixth­ I arrived to our interview at the A. "Yes, well, everyone thought that straight national championship May 20. appointed time to fmd the little mascot a mascot with a little .swing in his step The e-mail, which is unsigned but already waiting for me. He refused my would prove a more formidable oppo­ describes its writer as a friend of a hand and introduction, so I immediate­ nent when it came down to athletic Terrapin baseball player and was sent ly moved on, dispensing straight off competitions and such. It's really done from the username "sportsfan777," also with my first question. marvels for the chess team the last few alleges that several teams engaged in Dale Beran I Retriever Weekly Staff hazing and underage drinking activities. Q. Why the name True Grit? Any years." Members of the women's lacrosse and relation to the 1969 film starring interview was proving more difficult than I was on a role; I had broken True field hockey teams also were accused of John Wayne? ever. I then did what I often do to my own Grit. I was so excited that my hands taking potential underage recruits to a A. [Silence] local bar during recruiting visits "for dog when he barks too fiercely at door-to­ began to shake. I noticed too that my drinking of alcoholic beverages." Perhaps the question was too easy. door Mormons or pees on the carpet - I . entire frame was almost quaking with Members of the athletic media rela­ Too common, even. Regardless, True stared him down. Still, True Grit was. a the same tension. tions department are away this week at Grit was not impressed by my research. fierce competitor and held his own until . Q. What advice would you have the annual meeting of the National I fired off another question. my eyes teared. I needed a coffee break. for incoming freshman? Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and were unavailable to com­ Q. Have you ever been stolen and A few more questions with the _same A. "Well, don't rub my freakin' ment Wednesday. replaced with a ter:rapin in a sopho­ response. I soon became flustered and nose.