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Our 102ND Year, No. 119THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERWednesday, April 4, 2012
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BY FOLA AKINNIBIStaff writer
After 32 Anne Arundel residentswere told they could not return totheir dorm next year, Honors Collegeand Resident Life officials reworkedthe hall’s gender layout to ensurethey could stay in their old, on-cam-pus home.
This decision comes after a March12 email to Anne Arundel residentsfrom Honors College Assistant Direc-tor Dean Hebert that stated incomingHonors Humanities freshmen wouldbe moving into the dorm next yearsince their current location
(Wicomico Hall) will be demolishedby fall 2014 to make room for PrinceFrederick Hall. This meant the 32 ris-ing juniors and seniors would not beallowed to stay, and many said they didnot have enough time to secure ade-quate housing and petitioned the Hon-ors College for the right to stay.
The students were informed afterthe lease deadline for a room in SouthCampus Commons and Courtyardshad ended. The Honors Collegeresponded to the students’ complaintswith a one-day pass to apply for leasesfor the two apartment complexes,according to Honors College Director
South Campus DiningHall to extend its hours Diner will soon remain open 7 to 9 p.m.
BY ALLISON GRAYStaff writer
The South Campus Dining Hall willremain open between dinner and latenight starting Monday, just about onemonth after a Residence Hall Associa-tion subcommittee began pushing forthe extended hours.
Rather than closing between 7 p.m.and 9 p.m., the dining hall will extendthe hours of several food stations,including the salad bar and pasta sta-tion, and begin late night at 8 p.m.Members of the RHA dining advisoryboard said they were pleased withhow quickly the Dining Services offi-cials moved after they began dis-
cussing the issue in early March.“RHA’s main goal is to represent all
the on-campus students, and this wasobviously a big deal to many people,so for us to be able to get somethingthis big done that’s going to make alasting effect felt really great,” saidsophomore theatre and plant sci-ences major Dwight Townsend-Gray,chairman of the RHA dining servicesadvisory board.
Bart Hipple, the assistant directorof communication for Dining Services,said students were “persistent” inrepeatedly pushing for the extension.
Hipple added that it is too early to
New iPhone app seeksto keep students safe,prevent sexual assaultApp downloaded more than 15,000 times
BY QUINN KELLEYStaff writer
Preventing sexual violence could bejust a text message away, thanks to anew free iPhone app targeted at col-lege students that allows users to sendpre-programmed messages when in adangerous situation.
The app, called Circle of 6, was co-created by anti-violence advocate andfilmmaker Nancy Schwartzman tohelp make it easier for college stu-dents in uncomfortable or dangeroussituations to quickly get in contactwith friends for help. Two weeksafter its release, the app has beendownloaded more than 15,000 times— and university officials said it
could be a useful tool for both femaleand male students.
After users download the app, theychoose six friends to make up their cir-cle. The app has pre-programmedSMS messages like “Come and getme. I need help getting home safely,”“Call and pretend you need me. I needan interruption” and “I’m looking upinformation about healthy relation-ships and respect. Just letting youknow.” Once users select an option,the message, along with the user’sGPS coordinates, is sent out to the sixfriends in their circle. The app also hasa feature that links users to resourcesand allows them to program in a local
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Anne Arundel Honorsstudents to stay in dormStudents’ complaints reversed decision
see HONORS, page 3
BY REBECCA LURYESenior staff writer
In an average year, it is rare for a universityto have several defining events that shake it toits very core and leave the community and itsmembers changed.
Although 2001 began an average year, it didnot end one. From the first week of the fallsemester, a series of tragedies struck thecountry and the campus — including a drug-related student death Sept. 5, the Sept. 11 ter-rorist attacks that killed university alumni andlocal residents and a tornado that killed two
SAVED BY THE GLORY DAYSNCAA win helped bring
together a woundedcampus after 9/11
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see APP, page 3
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ROMNEY WINS BIGIN STATE PRIMARY
More than 160 students voted in election, officials say
2012CANDIDATES
MITT ROMNEYFORMER MASSACHUSETTS
GOVERNOR
47.8 PERCENT OF THE VOTE•
RICK SANTORUMFORMER PENNSYLVANIA
SENATOR
30 PERCENT OF THE VOTE•
NEWT GINGRICH FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
11 PERCENT OF THE VOTE•
RON PAUL TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE
9.6 PERCENT OF THE VOTE•
BY CHAD SINCLAIRStaff writer
As the four remaining Republican presidential hope-fuls vied for Maryland’s 37 primary delegates Tuesday,low voter turnout on the campus cast a shadow over anotherwise bright day for campus supporters of formerMassachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
He won Maryland’s winner-take-all delegates by 47.8percent, as of 11 p.m. yesterday. Former PennsylvaniaSen. Rick Santorum finished with 30 percent of the vote;former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich won 11 per-cent and Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) ended with 9.6 per-cent. Officials at this campus’ polling locations said 86students voted at Ritchie Coliseum as of 6 p.m. yester-day and 77 total voted at Stamp Student Union.
According to Student Government Association
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Students vote in the Republican primary election yesterday in StampStudent Union. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
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*PROJECTIONS AS OF 11 P.M.
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Director of Governmental AffairsZach Cohen, low voter turnoutcannot be pinpointed to one par-ticular reason. Several studentsand officials said it was because itwas a Republican primary on afairly liberal campus and manystudents are still registered attheir home districts.
“Turnout has been relativelylow, but not as low as we expected— especially with not too muchcontention on the democraticside,” Cohen said. “Not too manystudents have been motivated tocome to the polls today.”
Cohen said the flow of votersfiltering into Stamp’s polling sta-tion was “pretty steady” at aboutnoon, but it was fairly lacklusterat other times.
Sophomore communicationmajor Miriam Mathis was oneof the 163 who voted. For her,voting yesterday was moreabout exercising her right tovote than it was choosing a par-ticular candidate.
“There weren’t any issuesspecifically, but I think I owe itto all the women who fought tobe able to vote,” Mathis said.
Mathis said many studentsprobably did not vote in yes-terday’s election because itwas a primary.
“It’s not very well advertised
on campus, either,” Mathissaid. “No one is going aroundencouraging people to vote. Imean, people chalk for every-thing, so they could at leastchalk for [the primary].”
Senior government and poli-tics major Zachary Crowley —who remains registered to vote inHarford County — said his classschedule and the distancebetween College Park and hisdesignated polling station kepthim from voting.
“Because I got out of class solate, if I would have tried to drivehome, I would have hit rush hourtraffic and probably not made it intime or had to turn right aroundand drive all the way back,” Crow-ley said, adding, “I’m guessingthere will likely be a low turnoutjust because we are at a very lib-eral campus. Most people proba-bly think that they don’t havestake in the outcome.”
In a speech last night in Wis-consin, Romney said he wasgrateful for three victories thathelp him lead the GOP presiden-tial pack significantly.
Candidates need 1,144 dele-gates to win the nomination. Rom-ney currently has 646, while San-torum has 272 and Paul has 51.
“Thank you to Wisconsin,Maryland and Washington, D.C.,”Romney said. “We won a great vic-tory tonight in our campaign torestore the promise of America.”
Maryland is not often at the
center of a compelling Republi-can presidential primary race.Because Republican primaryrules have changed nationally —to the point that some states haveabandoned systems that awardall delegates to the winner of onestate — this state’s primary hasbecome more significant, accord-ing to Brad Coker, a pollster fromJacksonville, Fla.,-based Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc.
“This stage of the race, it’sreally all about delegates,” hesaid. “[Maryland is] important,probably more important thanit’s been in a long time justbecause of the changes in theRepublican primary rules.”
Coker added the state’sRepublican voter base is largelysuburban, a demographic of theparty that is most likely to votefor Romney.
“For Romney, now it will be asymbolic victory,” he said. “It’sgoing to help him bring up hisdelegate lead and help bring himcloser to the nomination.”
Journalism professor andelection expert Chris Hansonsaid this election cycle providesa unique look into how the GOPis choosing a candidate.
“The basic primary electionconstituency of the RepublicanParty has long been a minorityof factions whose allegiance hasbeen problematic for them,”Hanson said. “Normally theRepublicans have been more
likely than the Democrats todecide, ‘Let’s coalesce around acandidate.’ But now, it looks as ifa candidate without much enthu-siasm from the base of the partyis very likely to be nominated.”
There is no clear-cut nomineeat this point in the primary sea-son, so the Republican Party isdamaging its chances to defeatPresident Obama, Hanson said.
“Traditionally, there wouldhave been a clear front-runner atthe beginning of the race, andthat person would be nomi-nated,” he said. “The party thisyear is divided against itself, tothe point that whoever was thefront-runner seemed to change
practically every day or everyweek. How it sorts out is any-body’s guess, but the party hasalready bled itself a great deal.”
For Cohen, elections boildown to voting for the most quali-fied — not a single issue.
“It’s more of a candidate thingfor me and about who I think isbest for the country,” Cohen said.“I think that a lot of students areespecially motivated by thingslike the national debt and socialissues, but then they’ll discountcertain candidates because oftheir stance of those issues.”
Mohsen Farshneshani, a jun-ior government and politicsmajor and president of this uni-
versity’s chapter of Youth for RonPaul said it does not matter whoregistered Republican studentsvote for. It is just important thatthey do so.
“I honestly think that our gener-ation’s apathy is one of the mostoverwhelming and heartbreakingsetbacks — no matter what we do,no matter how much we talk tothem, a lot of them just don’t care,”he said. “As soon as people putdown their labels, put down theirbias and recognize the truth, that’swhen a change will come.”
Staff writer Jim Bach contributedto this [email protected]
About 86 registered Republicans voted at Ritchie Coliseum as of 6 p.m. yesterday and 77 total atStamp Student Union, which students called a relatively low turnout. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK
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university students when it devas-tated the campus Sept. 24.
Former university PresidentDan Mote said the environmenton the campus was tense as stu-dents, faculty and staff grappledwith the year’s events. It took oneteam to lift the university commu-nity’s spirits.
University officials and formerstudents said they were united bynot one or two stars that season,but the entire Terrapins men’s bas-ketball team and its coach, GaryWilliams, when the playersclinched the Final Four win fromDuke. Faculty and staff who hadcome to connect with each playerwatched the team reach “themountaintop,” said alumnusSammy Popat, as they swept intothe NCAA national championship
against Indiana and won, 64-52, 10years ago last Sunday.
“You come to the realizationthat this actually happened, this isyour institution, everyone’s eyesare on Maryland, and that’swhere I am at this moment,” saidPopat, who co-chaired the 2002senior class gift council.
The team’s climb to the top,the program’s first and onlyNCAA championship win, wasespecially powerful in the wakeof the fall’s events, Mote said.
“It’s the worst September inmy memory,” he said. “I thinklooking at it in terms of the time,[the championship] was verysignificant, more significant thanit might have been today. ... Thesports programs were strong,and the campus has a greatsports culture, and they did a lotto bring the campus together.”
Many in the university com-munity, such as Stamp Student
Union Director Marsha Guen-zler-Stevens, said they felt a spe-cial pride for Williams and theteam as they soaked up storiesabout the players, their families,high school backgrounds andjourneys to the university.
“You want to believe you’regoing to win, and there were somany incredible stories on thatteam, friendships and personalstories, and you were cheeringbecause you felt like you kneweach and every one of them,”Guenzler-Stevens said.
Although officials planned toreplace Cole Field House withComcast Center the next season,they opened the stadium again tofans April 1 and aired the gameplaying in Atlanta.
“I think people believed some-how the energy in Cole wouldtransmit itself way down towhere the game was beingplayed,” Guenzler-Stevens said.
“So, I think in some ways, we be-lieved we were part of the force.”
Linda Clement, serving herfirst year as Student Affairs vicepresident, said she watched theteam from Cole, mixed in side byside with students.
“People were very proud ofthem and very proud of CoachWilliams,” Clement said. “It wasexciting, it was something newand different, and it was great tobe part of a crowd like that —much more fun than being inyour living room.”
However, Mote, caught up inthe night’s victory, nearly missedanother presidential duty — at-tending a 9 a.m. event the nextday. The event was important —it formalized the University ofMaryland-China Research Park— and it was in College Park. ButMote was hundreds of milesaway in Atlanta.
“I found someone with an air-
plane, and we flew back thatnight,” Mote said. “But everyonethere didn’t really want to talkabout the agreement. ... For thefirst half an hour, we just talkedabout the game.”
“Even after that, when I get offthe plane at Beijing and gothrough customs, they say, ‘GoTerps,’” Mote added. “People allover the world were watchingthis event, millions and millions.... Everyone wants to celebratethe winners.”
After the game in Atlanta, Motehad the honor of cutting down apiece of the net after the men’s vic-tory — as well as after the Terrap-ins women’s basketball team’schampionship win in 2006. Hesaid the pieces of net still hang on abulletin board in his home.
Seniors that year also decidedto commemorate the major datesof their year, including the nationalchampionship, in their class gift.
The gift, located in the MemorialChapel Garden, is set to be un-veiled for the first time at Mary-land Day on April 28.
Popat, who was an R.A. in 2002,said he watched the game with hisresidents in Centreville, many ofwhom had spent their first semes-ter on the campus coping withmore common concerns, such asa rash of thefts in the first weeks ofschool, and the unprecedentedSept. 11 attacks and the deadly tor-nado. However, when the gamefinished, he let his residents dis-perse and then stayed out on thecampus “into the wee hours of thenight,” absorbing the moment.
“We gave them the spiel, to becareful and be safe, but we knewthere was no way we could con-tain them,” Popat said. “And wewere students, too. How could wecontain our own excitement?”
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tell whether staying open willincrease Dining Service’s laborcosts. However, Food ServiceManager Dan Robertson saidhe thinks the change couldbring in more money.
“We haven’t seen it in actionso we can’t make that judg-ment yet, but we would think itwould help us a little bit,”Robertson said.
Robertson added that he islooking forward to giving stu-dents another dinner option.
“We’re looking forward to itbecause it’s going to give peo-ple a place to eat on this side ofthe campus when we wouldnormally close,” he said.
The pasta bar will extend itshours to 7:30 p.m. and thepizza station, bakery and icecream station, salad bar andsandwich stations will all
remain open through latenight. To transition withoutclosing doors to students, Din-ing Services staff will shutdown the grill for a shortperiod to clean and will closethe value meal station at 7 p.m.
Hipple said he was able to im-plement the change in less thanone month by simply adjustingthe station’s closing times.
“We went and worked out amodel that would make senseand allow us to give employeesbreaks, which was one con-cern, because when we closedbefore we had time to clean up,give everybody a break and re-open with minimum staff,” Hip-ple said.
Townsend-Gray said it firstoccurred to RHA members inearly February that studentswanted more flexibility fromthe South Campus Dining Hall.
“I personally was getting din-ner with a couple of my friendsand they started complaining,
‘You know, how come the din-ing hall isn’t open from 7 to 9?’”Townsend-Gray said.
He realized many other stu-dents have asked the samequestion and decided to intro-duce the issue to the committeeand Dining Services officials
about a month later.Several students, such as
sophomore environmental sci-ence and policy major Sara Yan-nuzzi, said it was frustratinghaving to rush to the dining hallfor dinner before it closed.
“I’m just excited there’s not
going to be a gap anymore be-cause then there’ll be more flex-ibility in my schedule of when Ican eat,” she said.
Others said they anticipatedthe new hours, especially asthe Commons Shop has been“packed” with people looking
for snacks before late nightbegins.
“It’s probably the best deci-sion they ever made,” saidsophomore economics majorZach Ashe said.
Bill Dorland. The students in Anne Arundel
rejected this option, saying theystill felt they were being pressedfor time, according to sophomoregeneral biology and managementmajor Alex Duplessie.
Sophomore aerospace engi-neering major Sylvie Delahuntand Duplessie met with Hebertlast week to discuss other possi-ble solutions.
Hebert drafted a survey tofind out exactly how many stu-dents wanted to return to AnneArundel next year and realizedthey could all be accommodated— but with some slight changesto the layout. The Departmentof Resident Life reassigned thegender of some rooms to allowcurrent residents to stay.
Duplessie was surprisedthe Department of ResidentLife was able to accommodateall parties.
“I was very happy with howthey responded to student con-cerns,” he said. “I think theyfound a good solution.”
According to Hebert, therewill not be room for students toreturn in the 2013 school year —by then, Anne Arundel will beexclusively for Honors Humani-ties students. But this time, therewill be no surprise to the stu-dents, according to Hebert.
“We’ll make sure to notify stu-dents much, much earlier nextyear,” Hebert wrote in an email.
Duplessie said he is morethan happy with the compro-mise. He and other Anne Arun-del residents just did not want tobe blindsided by any more sur-prising news, he said.
“[The result] was not what Iwas expecting,” he said. “Wehave much more warning thanwe did before.”
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hotline, Schwartzman said.“The purpose of the app is to re-
ally prevent violence before it hap-pens,” she said. “We wanted to re-ally harness those relationshipsinto ways to prevent situationsthat we know to happen.”
While many other apps andmethods of violence preventionfocus on “stranger danger,”Schwartzman said — such ashow to avoid a stranger in analley — Circle of six is more con-nected to college experiences,
like meeting someone at a bar orsleeping on someone’s couch,that can lead to assault. She saidthe idea for the app came fromtalking to college students na-tionwide about sexual assaultand violence, as well as the factthat the average teen sends 60text messages a day, accordingto a research Pew ResearchCenter poll.
“It’s been born talking to col-lege students across the country,talking about what they need andwhat violence looks like acrosstheir lives,” Schwartzman said.“We thought, let’s keep it really, re-ally simple.”
Circle of 6 won the WhiteHouse “Apps Against AbuseTechnology Challenge” andlaunched March 20, Schwartz-man said; today is the app’s na-tional “Download Day.” Univer-sity Health Center Assistant Di-rector of Health PromotionsHope McPhatter said the app isunlike anything else she hasseen on the market, noting shethinks students should down-load it so that they have multipleoptions when they are in un-comfortable situations.
“The idea of it actuallysounds pretty good,” McPhat-ter said. “I don’t see the harm in
trying it out.”However, McPhatter said sexu-
al assault is still a topic that makespeople uncomfortable, and the appwould be best promoted as a re-source that both men and womencould use in tricky situations.
“I think there are a lot of situa-tions where anyone would feeluncomfortable,” she said. “It re-ally comes down to how theymarket it.”
Senior psychology majorBecca Abram said although shealways sticks with her friendswhen she is out, she is aware shecould always get into a dangeroussituation. She said the app would
probably be most helpful for peo-ple who tend to go off with peoplethey do not know.
“I don’t know if I’d personallydownload it and ask my friendsto do it,” Abram said, addingthat she would be more likely todownload it if one of her friendswanted Abram to be in her “cir-cle of six.”
“I think if I had it and dis-cussed with my friends that itwould never be a joke, it wouldbe good,” she said.
Junior law enforcementmajor Bethany Petersen saidshe thinks the app could helpstudents get a quicker reply
from friends than an individualtext message, and she wishedshe had had the app last weekwhen she was hit on by a mid-dle-aged man in Starbucks.
“I pretty much had to lie mybutt off to get out of the situation,”she said.
Petersen said she would haveliked to use the app so that one ofher friends would immediatelycall her and she could pretend tobe busy.
“It would have been a goodout if they had responded,” Pe-tersen said.
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G rowing up, people told methat talking about race andgender would almostalways lead to an argu-
ment. Americans have been taughtto avoid such touchy subjects — toact as if they don’t exist at all.
Throughout American history,minorities have struggled to gainequal rights. Although we still havework to do, the situation hasimproved, and this country hasmore equality.
The history and diversity of thiscountry shouldn’t be swept under arug — it should be celebrated anddiscussed without fear of argumentsor allegations of being racist, sexistor discriminatory. Society hastaught us to be so sensitive aboutthese topics that it has led to twodominant ways of handling them:Pretend they don’t exist and avoidtalking about them, or rely too heav-ily on them and illogically concludethat one is racist, sexist or discrimi-natory in general.
Those who avoid talking aboutthese issues either don’t believe
they exist or are too afraid of start-ing a confrontation to speak up.Ignorance or fear of how others willreact may be to blame, but whateverthe reason, avoiding these issuesisn’t the answer.
However, it is my belief that peoplewho rely too heavily on issues ofracism, sexism and other discrimina-tory acts are even worse than thosewho avoid the issues in the first place.
Take for example the Rev. AlSharpton, who seems to go on thenews every week screaming aboutracism in any part of the country.Does racism still exist in this coun-try? Certainly. However, does racismaccount for every problem Sharptonbelieves it does? No.
Since the beginning of theTrayvon Martin case, Sharpton hasstuck to his belief that this was an actof racism. Despite the controversysurrounding whether the killing wasan act of racism or an act of selfdefense, Sharpton has decided toplay the role of the justice systemand place a guilty verdict on GeorgeZimmerman before all information is
obtained, an arrest is made or thetrial is completed. It is entirely tooearly to blame this particular case onracism — let the investigationuncover the facts first. If those factswarrant a trial and racism is provento be a factor in Martin’s death, thenSharpton — and the country as awhole — has every right to be out-raged. Until then, Zimmerman —regardless of his race — is innocentuntil proven otherwise.
Jumping to these sorts of conclu-sions happens at this universityevery year. Last year, an advisoraccused me of being sexist basedon a review I wrote of my intern-ship. This particular advisorbelieved I “praised” a male intern-ship coordinator more than afemale internship coordinator I had
the previous semester. Growing upin a household run by a woman, Ihave nothing but the utmost respectfor women — whether they arehousewives or CEOs of a majorcompany. The fact that I liked oneinternship more than another hadnothing to do with whether thecoordinator was male or female. Itbaffled me how quickly one couldaccuse someone based off such cir-cumstantial and minimal evidence.
In general, people need to bemore open to discussing issues deal-ing with race and gender in a respon-sible manner. Society needs to rec-ognize that injustices still exist, butwe must not be led to believe theseinjustices account for every problemthat some, like Sharpton, point to. Inan ABC report, actor Hill Harpersaid it best, stating that we need a“truthful dialogue” when dealingwith these issues. Not ignorance,nor blame, but dialogue.
Josh Birch is a senior communicationand history major. He can be reachedat [email protected].
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In May 2007, the university took a major step in committing to an eco-friendly campus: Former university President Dan Mote signed theAmerican College and University Presidents’ Campus Climate Commit-ment, pledging this institution’s dedication to reducing greenhouse gas
emissions from the campus operations and moving toward the goal of carbonneutrality. That significant public commitment was the first eco-friendly build-ing block that has continued to grow to this day —largely with the help of student advocates.
After launching the nation’s first energy degree in2009 and developing subsequent energy-related majorsand concentrations, this university has shown its com-mitment to education about sustainability. It didn’t stopthere — a month later, Residential Facilities switchedcleaning products to help improve air quality and stu-dents’ and workers’ health. The university has intro-duced more energy-efficient shuttle buses and put solarpanels on the roof of the North Campus Diner. Changescaused by widespread efforts and individual activismhave helped this university’s sustainability grade gradu-ally improve from a “C” in 2007 to an “A-minus” in 2010.
State leaders are starting to take notice of environmentally friendly move-ments too, with Gov. Martin O’Malley introducing the Maryland OffshoreWind Energy Act last year. Although it ultimately failed, student activists madeoffshore wind energy a priority and have been lobbying hard for its implemen-tation ever since. They got their chance again this year: O’Malley once againintroduced the legislation, and this time it seems to have a fighting chance.
O’Malley’s proposal includes creating a wind energy farm on the state’seastern coast. The offshore wind energy farm is set to include 200-megawattwind turbines between 10 to 30 miles off the state’s coast. The bill is projectedto cost the state $1.7 billion over the next 20 years and would provide forcleaner energy use, as well as give the state an economic boost with a newrenewable energy market.
Last year, it seemed all students knew about wind energy was that itincluded pretty windmills. This year, activists’ continued support of the legisla-tion may be the key to showing state lawmakers how important this invest-ment into eco-friendly practices is. Monday, about 44 university activists ralliedin Annapolis behind the legislation, and it seems to be helping: The House ofDelegates passed it with an overwhelming 88-47 vote on Friday, and the Sen-
ate is expected to vote in the coming weeks.From the bill’s inception, legislators have been skepti-
cal about passing the measures because of its financialuncertainty; they feared it would see too high a hike totheir monthly electric bills. Proponents have tried toquell those fears by revising the original legislation todecrease the cap on how much it will cost state residents.
This new market, which would potentially help thestate’s economy, seems to be the biggest draw. By cut-ting down on fossil fuel emissions, the state will ensurea cleaner, safer environment for its residents, all whilecreating more jobs at the actual farm itself.
Though it may cost more in the immediate future, asproponents for the bill recognize, the long-term benefits may provide thebest alternative for propelling the state and its sustainability measures intothe future.
Although the legislation’s fate is still uncertain, student activists shouldbe applauded for their dedication to the cause. We’ve come further this yearthan the last, and with continued student advocacy, this state can continueto move forward.
This bill aligns with the university’s ever-growing goals to promote sus-tainability. Additionally, the university will ultimately profit from the bene-fits it could have on the economy. Though the bill remains somewhat con-troversial among government officials, it so closely aligns with this univer-sity’s initiatives toward sustainability that there is really only one option:Support the state’s energy makeover.
Staff editorial
Our ViewStudent activists should becommended for their work
on making the campusmore eco-friendly and
helping advance OffshoreWind Energy Act.
The new normal of college and beyond
To the staff of this university: Ifa problem arises at work, donot wait — file a grievanceright away. Don’t try to work
out the problem first and don’t botherfollowing the steps of the grievanceprocedure set up in the 2010 Memo-randum that states before filing a griev-ance, an informal discussion must takeplace between both parties and bothmust try to work out a solution at thelowest possible level. Also don’t befooled by its name; Staff Relations is nothere to help staff.
In 1988, I was hired to work on thiscampus. Beginning in 2005, I was as-signed to more and more hours at theCentral Maryland Research and Edu-cation Center in Ellicott City untilreaching full-time during the last twoyears, since, as my department chair-man stated, “that is where the depart-ment needs you.” Until last August, Iwas reimbursed for the extra mileage.Last July, I was notified by the chair-man that I was being “reassigned” toCMREC (even though I had beenworking there full-time for more thanone and a half years), and sinceCMREC would be my “permanent”work place (to be reviewed every sixmonths), I would no longer be reim-bursed for the extra mileage. Increasein mileage without compensationamounts to a pay decrease. I emailedmy department chairman four timesfrom July 14 to Aug. 12 stating my ob-jections, including the fact that both mymileage and commuting time hadmore than doubled — not a trivialamount with soaring gas prices. He didnot reply until Aug. 12, stating againthat there would be no mileage reim-bursement. On Aug. 25, I filed a formalgrievance. The next day, my step onegrievance was denied, and I filed a steptwo grievance request. I emailed StaffRelations several times but did not hearback from them until Nov. 16, only afterI emailed Human Resources DirectorDale Anderson.
You may have noticed the universitymails out yearly reminders of its poli-cies regarding discrimination and sex-ual harassment to protect itself, but Ihave never received a copy of theMOU, which states a staff member’srights. A staff member has 30 calendardays to file a grievance upon “reason-able knowledge of the act.” My 30 daysended Aug. 11, and coincidently, thenext day my chairman finally respond-ed to my emails. The MOU also statesStaff Relations has 10 work days to re-spond to a step two grievance requestand “Any question concerning thetimeliness of a grievance or whether acomplaint is subject to the grievanceprocedure shall be raised and resolvedpromptly.” I didn’t receive a responsefrom Staff Relations for more than twomonths. Once they finally did reply,they filed for a dismissal filled with un-truths, such as stating that each of thefour times I emailed the chairman, hereplied there would be no mileage re-imbursement even though elsewherein the same letter they admit the chair-man only replied to one of my emails onAug. 12. Or else they tried to deliberate-ly confuse the issue, stating staffing is-sues and fringe benefits are not subjectto grievance procedures, knowingmileage reimbursement is neither astaffing issue nor a fringe benefit.
Staff Relations dismissed the griev-ance, and I filed for a step three griev-ance hearing, my final option in thegrievance procedure. The trial wasscheduled for March 27. Again, StaffRelations requested a dismissal, and itwas granted. During both requests fordismissal, not once did Staff Relationscite a policy that would allow the stop-page of the seven year precedent ofmileage reimbursement. They onlycited the fact that I did not file a formalgrievance within 30 days, even thoughI had tried, as it states in the MOU, tohave an informal discussion with mychairman and work out a solution atthe lowest possible level. Until thechairman finally replied to my emails, Icould not have “reasonable knowl-edge” of the fact that my mileagewould no longer be reimbursed. I findit ironic that I was “late” by 13 days andmy case was dismissed, but Staff Rela-tions was late responding to my griev-ance by more than two months anddidn’t try to resolve the issue of thetimeliness of my grievance promptlyas required. At no time was I allowed atrial to state my case, unless you counta meeting held after I had already re-ceived a signed denial during the stepone procedure.
Since the university doesn’t have tofollow the rules it requires staff to fol-low, remember to protect your rightsand file a grievance as soon as a prob-lem presents itself: Don’t waste timeand try to work it out first — that couldalways come back and hurt you.
Timothy Shellem is a researchspecialist with the Department ofAvian and Animal Sciences. He canbe reached at [email protected].
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Last May, my roommate, myfraternity big brother and mybest girlfriend all graduated.I packed up my belongings
and left behind my room on FraternityRow. It hadn’t fully sunk in yet, but Iwasn’t only departing a room, but alsoan entire way of life where I lived, ateand drank with 30 people. Sophomoreyear was when I started writing forthis newspaper — a year chock-full ofBurnett’s Mango, extensive conversa-tions about the future and — on a per-sonal note — the first year livingopenly as an out and proud gay man.With the year now in the rearview mir-ror, it was time to start the transitionaway from typical carefree college life.
However, in order to achieve suc-cess — both personally and profes-sionally — life would have to turn a tadmore mature. Without some of myclosest confidantes to help me copewith the change, I was moving into anapartment, starting the endless cycleof internships and adjusting to the fact
that three of my four closest friendswere no longer around. I realized thatcollege is transitory: People come andgo in and out of your life.
For years, all of us have had a voicein our head telling us the real world iscoming. A world where we have morepossessions than just a few suitcasesfilled with clothes, a television and amultitude of Apple products. Transi-tioning from a mindset where socialand academic college life are top prior-ities to a life in which a part-timeinternship consumes three days of myweek is an adjustment. It’s a newnorm, one where my priorities andsources of happiness have changed.
However, while some may say the
new normal of internships, a fewclasses and less socializing during theweek is less than ideal, it’s more aboutdefining the new normal. In our soci-ety, we define time periods in our life:teenage years, college days and youngprofessional life. Adults often repeat,in movies and other forms of popularculture, the refrain, “College is thebest four years of your life.” While I’veso far found this to be true, we all mustconsider how we’re spending our timein college to set ourselves up for a suc-cessful and fulfilling life. I mean,what’s a government and politicsmajor with no internships and profes-sional contacts worth in Washington?Answer: an unpaid internship or tem-porary employment.
We all want to — and should —enjoy our time in College Park and tryto live in the moment. But one mustunderstand that college is a limitedtime period, and how and with whomwe choose to spend our time matters.College will certainly be a highlight of
my life, but I’m not looking toward my20-something years with dread.Instead, having the opportunity to livein a city, attend networking happyhours and get intoxicated every Sun-day afternoon sounds enticing.
It’s a difficult balance, as collegecomes to a close and real life is start-ing. The fact that we are leaving thebubble of College Park doesn’t meanthe world is ending, and people shouldnot be too upset they are getting older— life goes on. I empathize with thosescared of change, but we all must real-ize college isn’t the only thing outthere. So while I’m hovering in limbo,trying to keep one foot in college andthe other in Washington, I’m trying toenjoy the best of both worlds. I can saywith certainty that I loved (and am stillloving) my time in college — but thefuture burns bright.
Matt Arnstine is a junior governmentand politics major. He can be reached [email protected].
Societal norms: Race, religion and gender
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Born today, you are alwayseager to learn about theworld around you, and as a
result you are likely to forge a ca-reer for yourself that allows you tosee as much of the world as possi-ble, and work with as many differ-ent kinds of people as possible.There is something rather mysteri-ous in your makeup that allowsyou to fit in among various types,and in all kinds of situations — andwhen others may be tense and un-easy, you are able to maintain akind of calm they find admirable.Though you feel things deeply,youare also quite a thinker.
You find satisfaction in a jobwell done;you do your homework,prepare thoroughly and follow agame plan that is detailed andbuilt on a solid foundation of ex-perience and training. You don’ttake chances, and yet you like tosee and experience new thingswhen you can.
Also born on this date are:Heath Ledger, actor; RobertDowney Jr., actor; Christine Lahti,actress; Craig T. Nelson, actor; An-thony Perkins, actor; Maya An-gelou, poet; Muddy Waters, musi-cian;Arthur Murray, dance instruc-tor.
To see what is in store for youtomorrow, find your birthday andread the corresponding para-graph. Let your birthday star beyour daily guide.
THURSDAY,APRIL 5
ARIES (March 21-April 19) —All of your wishes will seem realto you today as you explore op-portunities that bring them tothe fore.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —Because you’ll be in a positioncoveted by someone else, todayyou may encounter opposition
that you did not anticipate.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) —Consider yourself lucky thatyou are not in another’s shoes,for he or she has more than asingle burden to bear, and youonly one.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —Despite your expectations, youcan be happy with what tran-spires today — though a certainmental adjustment will surelybe necessary.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Ener-gize yourself, and get focusedand ready for a renewed pushtoward a goal that means a greatdeal to you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —Fragments of a past episode arelikely to come back to you oneby one at first — but then theyare likely to flood your mind atsome point.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Generalizing and whitewashingissues is no way to get themsolved. Today, you’ll want to beas direct and specific as possi-ble.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Hold on to your dreams today.There are those who are readyto give up because things havegotten more difficult; you’re notone of them.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)— In case you are wonderingwhat’s about to happen — andwho isn’t? — you have beenblessed with a unique vision ofthe future.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)— “Just one,” you are likely tofind yourself saying today —again and again. You know yourlimits, and you must stand bythem.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Keep your feet on the groundtoday, even as your imaginationhas you soaring high above thecrowd. A realistic approach isnecessary.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) —Let another have what you want,and you’ll be able to enjoy a rareglimpse of how things might beif your luck changes.
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PLAYING GAMESBY WARREN ZHANG
Senior staff writer
Unlike other forms of popculture, video games face anuphill battle in convincingmost folks of their legitima-cy. Video Games Live, a sym-phony consisting entirely ofvideo game soundtracks,started out to prove and vali-date video games as an artform, according to execu-tive producer and hostTommy Tallarico.
“I wanted to prove to theworld how culturally signifi-cant and artistic video gameshad become,” Tallarico said.“But I also wanted to create ashow for everybody. Youdon’t have to know anythingat all about video games tocome to our show and have agreater understanding andappreciation for the culture.”
Video Games Live is now in
its seventh year and will becoming to the StrathmoreSaturday. For Tallarico, whohas been a video game com-poser for more than twodecades, the show repre-sents the realization of achildhood dream.
“When I was a kid, I usedto take my dad’s cassetterecorder and record all myfavorite video games at thearcade, and my homegames,” he said. “I’d splicethe tapes together, invite myfriends over and I’d jump upin front of the television setwith my favorite videogames behind me. I guessthose were the first videogame concerts.”
In the intervening years,video game music has grownin complexity and scale.Video Games Live celebratesboth the old and the newforms of game music.
“One thing about our showis that you get age differ-ences across the board,” hesaid. “You’ll get kids who are10-year-olds who want tohear Mario or Sonic. Thenyou’ll get 20-year-olds who’lljust die if they don’t hearPokémon or the stuff theygrew up on.”
Tallarico strives for a bal-ance between retro andmodern in his set lists. Healso focuses on changing upthe set list between everyshow, sometimes askingfans for suggestions.
“We’ve never played thesame show twice,” Tallaricosaid. “I’ll keep a couple of thebig hits around, like Castle-vania, Chrono Cross, ChronoTrigger, Zelda. But eventhen, the Zelda piece we’replaying this year is totally dif-ferent from the one weplayed last year.”
Besides changing the setlist, Tallarico and his teamalso explore new technolo-gies to make the show moreinteractive. For instance, Tal-larico mentioned a simula-tion of Space Invaders usedduring a past concert inwhich an audience memberbecame the ship while an or-chestra played the accompa-nying game music.
“We always change upthe humor, the comedy,”Tallarico said. “The tech-nology and productionchanges and will continueto always change.”
Video Games Live will beheld at the Strathmore on Sat-urday afternoon and night.Doors open at 1:30 p.m. forthe 2 p.m. show. Doors open at7:30 p.m. for the 8 p.m. show.Tickets start at $25.
Tommy Tallarico, above, is the executive producer and host ofVideo Games Live, which combines video game music with asynchronized light show. PHOTO COURTESY OF VIDEO GAMES LIVE
COLUMN | THE PARTY CORRESPONDENT
During the long week of introspec-tion spring break afforded me, andhopefully you as well, I’m coming tothis column with a bit of a backtrack.Polemic as it might sound for thispublication, I consider it a moral im-perative. You, the public of College
Park, have come to know and trustme, so I must beg you — stop goingto parties.
I’m not sure what I’ve been doingwith my life for these last few months.Going to parties, writing about par-ties, a third thing I can’t think of — it’sbeen a waste. We’re some of thebrightest students in the country, inthe vibrancy of our youth, and I’vebeen telling you all to go out and getdrunk all the time? As if that were acool thing to do? Frankly, I’m disgust-ed with myself.
Did you guys know we are actually
supposed to be going to college inorder to learn stuff? And like, readbooks? Do you guys even rememberbooks? Do you remember anything atall, you inebriated hooligans? Lookingback, I worry I might have been en-couraging this sort of social disarray.Did you know our parents pay for usto go here? Like, it was their dream topay for us to go here. And look at us.Nihilistic, beer-guzzling kids.
We file out of our dormitories everyweekend and stand around in sticky-floored basements, yelling at eachother over dubstep music and drinking
Burnett’s out of Poland Spring bottlesuntil we finally have the courage to rubour bodies on one another in a sick,purposeless ritual. We spend ourmornings writhing over toilet bowls,exchanging anecdotes with our room-mates about girls we almost kissed.
Our memories of college have beenreduced to a murky nostalgic swirlthat we retroactively convince our-selves were fun, meaningful life les-sons. And soon we’ll graduate, getmonotonous jobs and cling to theseflimsy recollections as somehowbeing the best times of our lives.
Next time you feel like going out toCornerstone or some quagmire of afrat party, just don’t. Start a gardenclub. Do a neat jigsaw puzzle. Look an-other human being in the eye andhave a substantial conversation withhim or her. Remember that freshmanwho wrote a guest column abouteveryone not having sex for some rea-son? Do that. Maybe he’s on to some-thing. Probably not, but I’m certainlynot the one with the answers. That’sfor sure.
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BY DANIEL GALLENStaff writer
After the third out in the topof the ninth inning last night, aGeorge Mason bus pulled intothe access road that leads toByrd Stadium. It idled as thePatriots nursed a tenuous 7-6lead over the Terrapins base-ball team, ready to take the visi-tors home after more thanthree hours of waiting.
Given the night’s events tothat point, the bus’ suddenappearance seemed prema-ture, if not misguided. TheTerps could have sent thegame to extra innings with asingle run, or they could havesent their visitors back to Vir-ginia with a walk-off result.
In the end, though, aftersecond baseman Kyle Convis-sar bounced out to first basewith the bases loaded, afterthe Terps fell for only the thirdtime in nonconference playthis season, George Mason’steam filed past a group ofsilent Terps as it made its wayto the bus home.
“It was tough,” shortstopAlfredo Rodriguez said. “Any-time you don’t come out on theright side of the win column orthe loss column, it’s tough. We
battled throughout the game.We just made too many mis-takes and it caught up with us.”
The game hinged on threeTerps (18-12) errors ulti-mately responsible for fiveunearned Patriots runs. Threeof those runs came with twoouts in the eighth inning offreliever Charlie Haslup, who,after striking out the frame’sfirst two George Mason bat-ters with a 6-4 lead, walked thenext two on full counts.
Next up for George Mason(19-11) was left fielder DuncanSatherlie, who lined a ball to thegap in right-center field. Rightfielder Jordan Hagel closed inon the ball and tried a slidingcatch, but the ball deflected offhis glove to center field. Bothrunners scored, and the Patri-ots would add another offHaslup (2-2) to post the 7-6 final.
“There were a lot of differentparts to that game you canreplay and think back to, so Idon’t think you can pin it to onething,” coach Erik Bakich said.“Generally, our strengths havebeen pitching and defense, andwe just didn’t do a good enoughjob in those two areas tonight.”
Friday starter Brady Kirk-patrick got the nod on themound last night after a series of
recent subpar outings for theTerps. Entering the game, theright-hander had posted a 10.53ERA over 13.1 innings in ACCplay, and his last two starts wentone inning and 2.1 innings,respectively, in length.
“It was the same thing we didwith [David Carroll againstGeorge Washington on March20],” Bakich said. “Anytime astarter has a real short outing,we try to get them right backon the horse.”
Kirkpatrick’s output in a no-decision was decidedly mixed.He went four innings and gaveup two runs (no earned) onthree hits. He struck out fourbatters but walked five, giving
him a combined 15 strikeoutsto 16 free passes in his pastfive starts.
“Brady’s a great pitcher andbaseball’s a game of confi-dence,” Bakich said. “Some-times, that can play both ways.In sports, when your confi-dence gets shook a little, it canaffect you, and when your con-fidence is high, it can have atremendous positive impact.We just, as a team, have to getback to that confident state ofmind and play that way.”
The game itself was a back-and-forth affair with six leadchanges and three ties. TheTerps seemed to capture themomentum for good multiple
times — just never longenough. The most notableswing came in the fifth inning,when the Terps turned a 3-2deficit into a 4-3 lead on back-to-back home runs from firstbaseman Tim Kiene and leftfielder Michael Montville.
Their next time up, how-ever, the Patriots came rightback to tie the game on anerror by Rodriguez.
“It’s a momentum swing,always,” Rodriguez said. “Ifwe’re the offense and wescored, we want to come rightback out there and shut themdown, and we weren’t able todo that today and I think thatkept them in the game. You’ve
got to tip your hat to them.They took advantage of themistakes we made, but it wasfrustrating.”
The Terps continue their10-game home stand tonightwith a matchup against Buck-nell (14-14), but if Bakichcould schedule it any dif fer-ently, he would.
Instead of sitting in his officeas the George Mason busheaded back to the Capital Belt-way, the two teams would beback out on Shipley Field.
Said Bakich: “I wish wewere playing a doubleheaderright now.”
Third baseman K.J. Hockaday is tagged out after getting caught in a rundown in the bottom of the third inning last night. TheTerps fell to George Mason, 7-6, for only their third loss in nonconference play this year. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
SOFTBALL
BY JASON BENSCHERStaff writer
The Terrapins softball teamseems in need of a jolt. Winsonly two of its past 10 gameswould make that obvious toanyone.
There is good news, though:George Mason’s arrival in townfor a doubleheader todaycomes not a moment too soon.
The Patriots arrive in CollegePark only 10-24. So though theTerps (18-14) are falling fast, theyinsist their season is not yet lost.
“I think it’s just anothertest,” coach Laura Watten saidlast week. “It’s just being ableto go through the season andlearn some different thingsabout ourselves.”
After a rough road trip inFlorida, the Terps returned
home and suffered a three-game sweep at the hands of Vir-
ginia Tech. They wereoutscored decisively, 17-6, inthe series, a common theme astheir losses have mounted.
Watten has expressed a desireto “start fresh and start new,” asentiment the Terps could useafter falling to a tie for last placein the ACC with NC State.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t geteasier after the Patriots leavetown. The Terps will travel toAtlanta for a weekend set withGeorgia Tech (23-16), andanother bad series could placethe Terps too far from theACC’s leaders to recover.
Still, Watten’s leadershipunder trying times has led to adifferent outlook.
“We haven’t peaked yet,” shesaid. “And that’s a good thing.”
Looking for a new spark in season,Terps set to face struggling GMU
Coach Laura Watten andthe Terps will play GeorgeMason twice tonight. CHARLIE
DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK
Terps again runthemselves intotrouble vs. GMUPatriots score five unearned runs,come back to knock off hosts, 7-6
