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Facilities o� cials to update two hallsJiménez, H.J. Patterson to receive ventilation, electrical improvements
Univ classics students will get more chances to study Rome
participants in Cupid’s Undie Run in Washington on Saturday rest along the route of the noncompetitive run, which raises money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation to do research. grace toohey/for the diamondback
By Jeremy Snow@thedbkSta� writer
Jiménez Hall and H.J. Patterson Hall will receive substantial maintenance updates this summer to improve the buildings’ ventilation and electrical systems, Facilities Management of-fi cials said.
“These are old, tired buildings,” said Jack Baker, operations and mainte-nance department director. “I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in the case of Patterson, it may be one of the worst buildings on campus.”
Once the spring 2014 semester ends, workers will begin renovat-ing the halls to be completed for fall 2014. During the updates, summer classes and offices will be moved to other buildings in order to empty the facilities out, Baker said.
H.J. Patterson’s renovations will focus on the fi rst wing of the building, which faces Stamp Student Union. These changes will be similar to work done last year on the third fl oor, when its electrical and ventilation systems were overhauled. In Jiménez, the north wing of the building will be renovated.
H.J. Patterson’s fi rst wing has not received major work since its con-struction in 1937, according to Facili-ties Management’s 2010 “Restore the Core” building renovation report, part of an initiative to upgrade outdated university buildings. And Jiménez has received only a partial heating, venti-lation and air conditioning renovation since 1962.
Running for research sans pants
See facilities, Page 7
Alumni-founded Cupid’s Undie Run
raises charity money
By Grace Toohey@grace_2eSta� writer
This past weekend, hundreds of people stripped down to run through the streets of Washington for charity.
The fi fth annual Cupid’s Undie Run, in which participants ran through the winter weather in their underwear, raised more than $2.6 million for the Children’s Tumor Foundation on Sat-urday. A few hundred runners 21 and older scampered down Pennsylvania Avenue, many covered by a “liquid blanket” from the alcohol available See run, Page 2
in prerace festivities, showing a lot of skin and sporting apparel reading, “I’m with Cupid.”
“We are putting the hilarity in charity,” said Bobby Gill, co-found-er of the run and 2006 university alumnus. “There are people in crazy outfits; it’s wild all-around. We’re worldwide. We’re raising millions
By Joe Antoshak@MantoshakSenior sta� writer
Students in the university’s classics department will have more opportunities to study the impact of Rome on American ar-chitecture after the department received a $500,000 grant from the National Italian American Foundation on Jan. 13.
The Ernest L. Pellegri Grant will go toward funding new opportuni-ties for paid study abroad trips to Italy, recruiting more top-tier high school students who have studied Latin, encouraging high school teachers to pursue master’s degrees in Latin and studying the infl uence See ROME, Page 3
for a great cause, and we’re having a great time doing it.”
Brendan Hanrahan, who graduated from this university with a doctor-ate in 2013, and Gill came up with the idea for Cupid’s Undie Run with their friend Chad Leathers in 2010,
Grant will fund study abroad, scholarships
of Roman traditions in the U.S.Professor Jorge Bravo, who is in his
second year of teaching at the uni-versity, authored the department’s proposal to the NIAF that beat out 24 other American and Italian university proposals.
“The way you think about the past a£ ects what you’ll do in the future,” Bravo said, explaining the impor-tance of the grant.
The grant will apportion $100,000 a year to the university for five years, starting in the fall. Roughly $400,000 of the total will be devoted to student scholarships, Bravo said.
Judith Hallett, a classics profes-sor and co-director of the Pellegri Program at this university, said the proposal stood out because it focused on studying similarities between ancient structures in comparison to
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DURHAM, N.C. — He sat on the fl oor at Cameron Indoor Stadium for several seconds Saturday night, his arms resting on his knees and his eyes staring down toward the historic hardwood. The 6-foot-8, 260-pound Charles Mitchell eventually rose to his feet, and when he did, guard Dez Wells was there to greet him.
Wells wrapped his right arm around Mitchell, and Mitchell put his left arm around the shoulder of his Terrapins men’s
basketball teammate. Then the two Terps walked slowly across the fl oor together, leaning on each other for support.
It was the fi nal time the Terps visited Duke as an ACC opponent and perhaps the end to a rivalry steeped in more than 60 years of tradition. And Saturday’s game, as Blue Devils Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski put it, was “one for the ages.”
But when Mitchell’s turnaround hook shot trickled off the rim with less than fi ve seconds remaining and the Terps trailing by one, it sealed the team’s 69-67 loss to the No. 8 Blue Devils
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hoping to support Leathers’ younger brother, who has a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis.
“We wanted to do something that would help our friend’s little brother, but we didn’t want to do your basic 5K or happy hour. We wanted to do something that made a big splash in the bucket in terms of fundraising,” Gill said. “So here we are, five years later, and we are now the biggest fundraiser for the Children’s Tumor Foundation that exists. I’d say it was a success.”
With events in 27 cities in the U.S. and three in Aus-tralia, Cupid’s Undie Run doubled its donations for the Children’s Tumor Foundation from 2013, Gill said, and the co-founders expect fundrais-ing to continue into March.
“It’s rea l ly a fou r-hou r party with a brief run sand-w i c h e d i n t h e m i d d l e ,” Hanrahan said. “Everyone gets here at noon, they make new friends, they strip down to their undie outfits, and then at 2 o’clock we hit the streets
of Pennsylvania Avenue.”A m o n g t h o s e t re k k i n g
around the nation’s capital i n t hei r u nd er we a r were senior studio art major Sarah Fitzsimmons and her sister Megan Fitzsimmons, 28.
Megan Fitzsimmons came to the event two years ago to support friends, and she has wanted to participate ever since.
“Everyone’s kind of united in their own way. You pull together with strangers for the same reason, and that’s a really cool experience,” Fitzsimmons said. “They’re an amazing cause, they help fam-ilies that have children with terminal brain tumors. Any-thing I can do to help someone be healthy and happy.”
For Sarah Fitzsimmons, participating with her sister was a special experience, and she hopes more people will get involved in the future.
“It was amazing. We’ve never done anything like this together before,” she said. “It’s just a simple thing to do, to run a mile in your un-derwear. It’s a lot of fun and especially for a good cause. Definitely worth it.”
A few months ago, Gill quit
his engineering job to commit full-time to Cupid’s Undie Run, something he never ex-pected when Hanrahan first shared his idea.
“His idea was: Let’s get people together, let’s throw a really big party, people in their underwear, and then let’s run around in the freezing cold on Valentine’s weekend,” Gill said. “And I looked at him and said, ‘Brendan, you’re an idiot, but that’s a great idea. Let’s do it.’”
The event has grown each year, with people from many generations showing up in crazier outfits and with more e n t h u s i a s m . H a n r a h a n , though, said he thinks the most incredible part is the impact people are making.
“The craziest thing I’ve seen is the amount of fund-raising the people do for this cause,” he said. “People will come into it because it sounds like a crazy party and then you’ll set the hook and they will do $10,000, $20,000 in fundraising. It’s crazy good.”
M e g a n F i t z s i m m o n s wished she had a camera to catch her unique perspective as she navigated the crowd in her wheelchair.
“From a bottom-only type of view, it was definitely in-teresting,” she sa id. “It’s worth it. You can’t put a price on helping people with a ter-minal illness. And what does it cost you? You ran in your u nderwea r. We w i l l defi-nitely do it next year.”
G i l l h o p e s t h a t i n t h e future more university stu-dents and fellow alumni will sign up to support their cause and join the fun.
“If you’re 21, come out. I guarantee it will be better than anything that happens at the Knox Boxes or on Frat Row or a Bentley’s party,” he said. “Cupid’s Undie Run, hands down, is far better and we raise millions for charity.”
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BRENDAN HANRAHAN (center), university alumnus, started Cupid’s Undie Run with Bobby Gill to support their friend’s brother, who has neuro�bromatosis. grace toohey/for the diamondback
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Information college HackHealth program promotes Internet research skills
By Jon Banister@thedbkSta� writer
Long gone are the days of regularly going to the doctor for every ache and pain. Students in the information studies col-lege’s HackHealth program are using research skills to improve their community’s health.
The information studies col lege develop ed H ack-Health to teach middle school students attending Title I schools — those in districts with high numbers of under-privileged students — how to use the Internet to research health topics important to them. The program, led by information studies college
professors Mega Subrama-nian and Beth St. Jean, brings together a group of about 10 students after school once a week for eight weeks. Par-ticipating students select a topic, learn how to research and present their findings to the class using PowerPoint or another medium.
The program launched in the fall at William Wirt Middle School in Riverdale Park and is now also in progress at Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi. HackHealth is pre-paring to launch a third loca-tion at Charles Carroll Middle School in New Carrollton.
Students are asked to re-search topics that are sig-nificant to them, such as a personal issue or problem af-fecting a family member. One student with Type 1 diabetes found new ways to maintain a healthy blood sugar level by
adjusting his eating habits.Another student’s mother
w h o e x p e r i e n c i n g l o w e r leg and foot pain. Through her resea rch, the student found the pain was caused by her mother’s job, which kept her on her feet, and she found ways for her mother to prevent and alleviate the pain.
“The program gives them a really special confidence,” said Rebecca Oxley, a librar-ian at Buck Lodge Middle School. “Kind of like a self potency about their ability to care for not only their own health as young people but to influence the people that they care about to also care about their own health.”
The program teaches stu-dents research skills, such as how to identify credible sources. Most students come into the program with very
little research ability beyond basic Google searches, and Subramanian said their skills improved greatly during the eight weeks.
“It’s really fascinating to know how these kids come to our program,” she said. “By the time they leave the program, they have all the necessary skills that they need to find out information.”
HackHealth aims to reduce health problems in under-served communities that are often caused by lack of infor-mation, Subramanian said.
“The kids who need this t y p e o f i n s t r u c t i o n t h e most are the kids who are from disadvantaged back-grounds, because they don’t have access to information at home,” she said.
St. Jean said an important aspect of the program is reach-ing kids in their early years.
“T here’s a lot of hea lth disparities that are caused by different levels of infor-mation l iteracy,” St. Jea n said. “If we can work with these kids before these huge health disparities start to really develop, we develop their health literacy skills and their ability to find relevant information and make sure that it’s credible.”
Subramanian and St. Jean wa nt Hack Hea lth to be a model for other schools to follow. They are working on creating modules and lesson plans librarians can easily use to implement the program, and they have been presenting
them at school librarian con-ferences across the country.
Natalie Greene Taylor, an information studies doctoral candidate and HackHealth team member, said Hack-Health is one of the many ways the school aims to posi-tively affect its community through research.
“We really try to do re-search that has an impact, re-search that is directly impact-ing their local communities, underserved populations,” Taylor said. “This project is a really good example of that sort of research.”
Outreach program encourages interest in health for kids
“BY THE TIME THEY LEAVE THE PROGRAM, THEY HAVE ALL THE NECESSARY SKILLS THAT THEY NEED TO FIND OUT INFORMATION.”
MEGA SUBRAMANIANInformation studies college professor and HackHealth co-founder
American ones, specifically in the nearby capital. Classics undergraduates and gradu-ates alike have studied ancient Greek and Roman structures in comparison to Washington architecture, she said.
Because the Founding Fathers were so immersed in the think-ing and the lessons of Greek and Roman philosophers, the build-ings in Washington reflect those of their societies, she said.
“[The NIAF] said that they really liked that we were in prox-imity to Washington, that we had a track record of producing Latin teachers and that we were giving most of the grant money to scholarships,” said Lillian Doherty, this university’s Pel-legri Program co-director and classics professor.
Landing this grant is signifi-cant for improving the univer-sity’s national rankings in clas-sical studies, Bravo said. But his primary personal benefit, he said, is watching the program take o�.
A graduate of Princeton Uni-versity and the University of California, Berkeley, Bravo said he bounced around short-term teaching jobs before finding a home at this university.
“I’m a relatively new hire, so I’m just interested in seeing the program thrive,” he said. “I’m pretty excited. My long-term career path is here at Maryland.”
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The U.S. Capitol is one example of Roman-in�uenced architecture in the Washington area. College Park’s proximity to Washington is one of the reasons the National Italian American Foundation awarded researchers at this university a $500,000 grant for study abroad trips, teacher training and recruiting, and projects geared toward studying the architecture. �le photo/the diamondback
“THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT THE PAST AFFECTS WHAT YOU’LLDO IN THE FUTURE.”
JORGE BRAVOUniversity classics professor
Tobacco use is the leading pre-ventable cause of death.”
That’s a major point from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fact sheet, and it’s a pretty irrefutable fact. On average, “smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers.”
“Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030,” the fact sheet continues.
This editorial board doesn’t need to convince anyone that smoking is terrible for their health, and we stand behind most policies that dissuade people from smoking cig-arettes — in particular, higher tax rates and massive, graphic health warning labels. But we’re not so sure about the latest anti-smoking
proposal in the state Senate.Senate Bill 325, sponsored by
Jennie Forehand (D-Montgomery), would raise the minimum age for purchasing and using tobacco prod-ucts from 18 to 21 years old.
“This would make it harder for many in the university community to purchase tobacco,” said Carlo Colella, administration and finance vice president at this university. “Even fewer people on campus would be smoking.”
We ’re n o t q u i te c o nv i n c e d . While the bill would most likely stop some potential smokers from purchasing cigarettes, it’s hard to imagine college and high school students wouldn’t just do the same thing they do with alcohol: either use fake IDs or simply get tobacco products from their older friends.
Still, there are plenty of reasons
this bill is a good idea. According to tobaccofreekids.org, about 4,200 Maryland residents younger than 18 become regular smokers each year. These minors get cigarettes from those 18 or older who can legally purchase them.
This is a troubling, multilay-ered problem. At face value, the b i l l l i m i ts t h e r i g h ts o f t h o s e between the ages of 18 and 21, preventing them from obtaining
Legal age to purchase cigarettes should stay put
OUR VIEW
This state should focus on increasing the cigarette tax
and other e� ective measures before raising the legal age.
ASHLEY ZACHERY/the diamondback
Dear weather,
On behalf of all the students at this university (and other schools in the area), I would like to thank you for the recent snow days you have provided us. Your fluffy white excuse to stay home from classes was a blessing to all.
For those who have been strug-gling to find time for friends, these two days off were just what the doctor ordered: time to catch up and enjoy one another’s company over a hot chocolate or an Irish coffee, time to plop down on the couch and watch a nostalgic movie. These snow day memories will always be cher-ished; they help complete the college experience.
T wo d ays o f f a l l owe d fo r stress-free studying for those of us behind on our homework. Just when readings and assign-ments began to pile up, you threw a wrench into class schedules and cut us all a little slack. In return, we’ll cut you a little slack for giving the South such a hard time.
What’s better than curling up next to a fi re on a cold winter day? Gathering around a prematurely lit “Beat Duke Week” bonfi re, that’s what. The beauty of the fi re’s fl ick-ering light illuminating Memorial Chapel can’t be reproduced accu-rately in Instagram posts. Only in our hearts can we ever relive that feeling, surrounded by fellow Terps as we engaged in late-night bor-derline vandalism.
Getting a few extra days of sleeping in — after weeks of early-morning wake-up calls
and zombie-like walks to ride the struggle bus — has rejuvenated the exhausted students of College Park (not including the “my first class is at 2 p.m.” kids we upperclassmen can’t stand). It seems the Sandman finally won out over Father Time — with some help from Mother Nature.
Snowball fights on McKeldin Mall and elsewhere on the campus brought out the kid in all of us. Those precious moments from childhood came flooding back like an avalanche (no pun intended). Nothing says “let’s have fun” like catching a ball of frozen water in the face. The snowman armies that popped up outside dorms will be reminders of the gift you gave us for weeks to come — barring a heat wave, of course, which would also be worthy of a thank-you note (hint, hint).
And last but certainly not least, thanks for letting us enjoy the beauty of our campus with a lovely layer of pure white snow. The mall and many other areas came alive with the untouched blanket that was dropped from the heavens. Trees and shrubs looked as if they were fresh out of a Thomas Kinkade painting or a Robert Frost poem.
So good looks, weather. You should be receiving a mini-muffin basket in the mail any day now. It would have been there earlier, but, you know … the weather.
Thanks again,Dave Stroh
P.S. Mind sending another one of those snowstorms our way again soon? Say, around midterms?
Dave S t ro h i s a s e n i o r E n g l i s h m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t dstrohdbk@gmail .com .
On the surface, sports games might seem meaningless after stadiums have emptied. But sports have power beyond the scoreboard; they bring to-gether people of all backgrounds who otherwise might have no reason to interact. As Nelson Mandela once said: “Sport has the power to change the world. … It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does.”
This year’s Olympics provided a great example of this. Over the weekend, millions across the nation woke up early Saturday to watch Team USA take on Russia in men’s ice hockey. Those who did were treated to a spectacular show: a classic defensive matchup settled in a shootout victory for the Americans. Complete strang-ers and I excitedly talked about the game later that day. I saw a little kid re-enact T.J. Oshie’s decisive shootout goal. One simple game can provide a feeling of unity for millions.
But as remarkable as Oshie’s heroics were, no Olympic event can compare to the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”
On a cold day more than three decades ago, 20 American Olympians united the nation in a way no one else could. Their incredible story deserves retelling for eternity.
In 1980, our nation faced some of its darkest days. The specters of Vietnam and Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis combined with a weak economy and a strengthen-ing Soviet Union cast a pall over the country. My family remembers this era as the bleakest in a lifetime.
On the sports front, U.S. Olympic hockey’s outlook was equally bleak. Since its 1960 upset of the Soviets, the team had won just one medal in Olympic play. The world’s best team and the U.S. national rival, the Soviet Union, had won the gold medal in each Olympics since 1960.
For the 1980 Winter Olympics, new coach Herb Brooks put together a team of amateur college hockey players whose average age was just 21, the youngest in American Olympic history. In contrast, the Soviets fi elded “amateurs” who had years of experi-ence and were widely considered some of the best players in the world at their positions. In the period leading up to the Olympics, the Soviets shut out the NHL All-Stars, 6-0, in the fi nal game of the 1979 Challenge Cup series and humiliated the U.S. Olympic team, 10-3, in New York.
In Olympic pool play, the Soviet team averaged 10 goals per game, easily advancing to the medal round. The Americans had a more diª cult time, coming from behind in all fi ve games to win four and tie the other. The stage was set for a Soviet-Amer-ican semifi nal match.
Of course, the Americans’ improb-able run did not go unnoticed. Fan attendance increased each game, and news media began analyz-ing the matchup with the Soviets. The coverage went beyond hockey, however; news sources focused primarily on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. One analyst even de-clared the Soviet team used “human tanks and waves of troops in grace-ful assaults on ice to conquer any land and destroy any contemptuous opponent.” This coverage, humilia-tion from the past matchup and the
state of the nation gave the semifi nal much more meaning than an ordinary hockey game. Both inside and outside the stadium, Americans of all back-grounds united behind the 20 players skating for the United States.
In true underdog fashion, the U.S. overcame two defi cits to win a nerve-racking 4-3 game. As the fi nal seconds ran out, young broadcaster Al Michaels emotionally asked the audience, “Do you believe in mira-cles? Yes!”
People across the nation came to-gether to celebrate the astonishing victory, now known as the “Miracle on Ice.” The game, which would later be voted the best sports moment of the century, was the victory the U.S. needed. Our problems remained, but the victory went a long way toward restoring people’s pride in our nation.
The power of events like these should not be ignored. For these Olympic Games and any future in-ternational sports events, we should use our pride to become closer as a national community. Today’s Olympi-ans compete for us as much as they do themselves. Thousands of miles away in Sochi, they continue to represent and unify us. Sport can be the uniting factor Mandela believed it was.
Even on our own campus, our support for our sports teams has many of the same e¬ ects. After Sat-urday’s crushing loss to Duke, for instance, Terps across the country were united, reflective and proud. Let’s continue to take advantage of the opportunity sport gives us to create a stronger community.
Matt Dragonette is a sophomore accounting major. He can be reached at [email protected].
Do you believe in miracles?
An open letterto the weather
MATT DRAGONETTE
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and smoking cigarettes legally. But on a deeper level, it hopefully would work to break a cycle of even younger kids getting hooked on cigarettes.
That potential outcome is enough to make the bill fair and worth considering. But it’s not enough to make it worth passing.
As an editorial board that sup-ported lowering the age to run for the College Park City Council and supports lowering the drinking age, we would be inconsistent and hypocritical to favor raising the legal age to purchase tobacco prod-ucts. At age 18, citizens can vote, drive and enlist in the military. Our society considers 18-year-olds adults, and they must be treated as such.
Other measures to discourage smoking should be applauded:
From 1998 to 2010, smoking in this state fell by a third, while the cigarette tax quintupled. That tax rate is $2 a pack, tied for 12th-highest in the country. It can — and should — be even higher. State voters have supported these so-called sin taxes in the past, and they likely would again.
A s f o r r a i s i n g t h e a g e , i t remains to be seen if that would have any concrete, demonstrated impact. Just a few months ago, New York City raised its age to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21. Voters and legislators in this state should watch and take note to see if that change makes a substan-tial impact on smoking habits for those under 21. But until there is an established benefit, this state should seek out other, less dis-criminatory measures.
Celebrating Saturday’s hockey win by remembering the 1980 classic
EDITORIAL BOARD
MIKE KING, editor in chief, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor, deputy managing editor and managing editor.
Dan Appenfeller, managing editor, is a senior journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor and assistant managing editor.
MATT SCHNABEL, deputy managing editor, is a sophomore journalism major. He has worked as a copy editor, assistant managing editor and diversions writer.
Maria Romas, opinion editor, is a senior English major.She has worked as a reporter, assistant opinion editor and columnist.
ADAM OFFITZER, opinion editor, is a senior journalism major.He has worked as a diversions writer and columnist.
While state Senate bill has its merits, 18-year-olds should be able to make decisions for themselves
MIKE KING, Editor in Chief
DAN APPENFELLER, Managing Editor MATT SCHNABEL, Deputy Managing Editor
OLIVIA NEWPORT, Assistant Managing Editor BRIAN COMPERE, Assistant Managing Editor
Chris Allen, Design Editor QUINN KELLEY, General Assignment Editor
JENNY HOTTLE, News Editor LAURA BLASEY, News Editor
Maria Romas, Opinion Editor ADAM OFFITZER, Assistant Opinion Editor
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holding all the cardsThe second season of Net� ix orginal series House of Cards, released Friday morning, picks up right where it left o�
By Michael Errigo@DBKDiversionsFor The Diamondback
Warning: This article contains spoilers.The second season of House of Cards
doesn’t have time to set things up. There’s no recap, no refresher. It storms out of the gate with alarming intensity and never looks back.
Right away, the viewer is thrown back into former Congressman Frank Under-wood’s labyrinth of lies and deception. Season one of Netflix’s critically acclaimed original series ended on a cliff-hanger, with Underwood’s world on the brink of chaos. The fallout from the scandal doesn’t disap-point — season two begins with an episode that can only be described as utterly shock-ing. It sets the tone for the rest of the season, which is even more ruthless than the first. To watch this season is to fight a heavyweight — each episode is a masterful, well-crafted punch to the gut.
Kevin Spacey (Inseparable) is again brilliantly
powerful in his role as Underwood, and Robin Wright (A Most Wanted Man) shows why she won a Golden Globe last month for her role as Claire, Frank’s own Lady Macbeth. Support-ing actors Mahershala Ali (Go for Sisters) and Michael Kelly (Man of Steel) also excel in their instrumental roles as Remy Danton and Doug Stamper, respectively. Some old faces are gone, and some new faces crop up, but consistently strong acting from the whole cast is one reason this show is so good.
The second season again follows the Un-derwoods as Frank continues to try to climb the political ladder at whatever cost. Claire has problems of her own as pieces of her past creep into the limelight and threat-en both of their careers. Frank’s political dealings are now on an even bigger scale in his new role as vice president. Instead of playing mind games with members of Congress, he’s up against the likes of bil-lionaire string-puller Raymond Tusk and the president.
This season undoubtedly focuses on Frank and Claire, becoming an examina-
tion of gender roles and power at home and in the workplace. It exposes them as people in contrast to the first season, i n wh i c h t h ey b o t h se e m e d distanced from the viewers. In this sense, the show adds a new dimension: character de-velopment. Bits and pieces of emotion — other than greed or hatred — are hidden throughout this fierce, biting script. The moments when they shine like little lights in the darkness are when this show really takes off.
Episodes one and four are especially good. They are well-crafted, powerful hours that will have the viewer picking up the pieces of his or her blown mind while simultaneously playing the next episode as soon as possible. The season’s final three episodes are also thrilling as all the action comes to a head. Once again, Frank suc-ceeds in being inherently conniving, yet it’s hard not to root for him. The smooth-talking southerner has done nothing to win
our approval, so that support may be purely out of fear. Or it may be that we enjoy the chaos Frank creates — perhaps we want to watch Washington burn.
The show took a distinct turn at last sea-son’s 11th episode. Things became darker, even more cold-blooded. But another trend that stemmed from that shocking install-ment was a growing distance from reality. This is not necessarily a bad thing; the show remains immensely entertaining. However, you get the sense in season two that House of Cards shifts from a somewhat believable political drama to a definite television fab-rication. The number of twists and turns
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Facilities Management plans to add a new central cooling system to each building to replace the dated steel radia-tors and the room-based air conditioning units in Jiménez.
Baker said the new heating system will be much more reli-able and less distracting than the current versions.
“You can’t teach very well over the loud units and these cooling units generally did not fi t into a good teaching envi-ronment,” he said. “The change will also waste less energy.”
Junior Japanese major Saria Rudolph, who has had multi-ple classes in Jiménez, said she
would welcome the change.“In a couple of my Japanese
classes, the people who sit near the back by the air conditioner usually have a lot of trouble hearing the teacher,” she said. “The teacher would either need to constantly repeat what she said or turn o� the air, making the room really hot.”
The two buildings will also receive upgrades to their elec-trical systems to match the growing demand for technol-ogy in the building, Baker said.
Facil it ies Management plans to install more circuits and breakers to provide the power required for modern laboratories and classrooms.
“Language classes are very dependent on stable technol-ogy to use videos and Internet
access as teaching tools,” said Mary Scullen, a French profes-sor who teaches in Jiménez. “A reliable wired access can bring us into the world and also bring the world to the class.”
This round of renovations in Jiménez will cost the school $5 million and H.J. Patterson’s will cost $7 million to $9 million, Baker said.
The updates will improve the longevity of the buildings greatly, he said.
Further updates to H.J. Patterson will take a couple of years to begin, but Jiménez renovations will continue in the south wing in summer 2015, Baker said.
Scullen said she hopes future work will continue to improve the Jiménez computer lab, classroom overhead projec-
tors and new study rooms.“I want the renovations to
create a community in here,” she said. “I want rooms for faculty, students or TAs that support an area where you can come and talk.”
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Jiménez Hall and H.J. Patterson Hall will undergo major renovations after the spring semester, such as updates to their electrical and ventilation systems. Facilities Management has not completed any major work on either since the 1960s, which has led to problems that have hampered students and teachers. sung-min kim/the diamondback
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m a k e s i t i m p o s s i b l e to retain a sense of reality, so it’s probably for the best that this season somewhat abandons it.
Like last year, all 13 epi-sodes of season two were released simultaneously. This al l-at-once release format Netflix uses elimi-nates the worst part of most television shows: the wait between episodes. Being able to watch two (or eight) episodes back to back allows
the viewer to stay on top of every storyline, making the twists and turns even more effective. The only problem with this show is that it’s to o go o d . M a ny p e o p l e , myself included, devoured it over the weekend. Make no mistake, season two of House of Cards is satisfy-ing. But now the long wait begins, and deep down in the stomach of a public that finds it hard to watch good television, the hunger has already started to grow for season three.
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win,” Frese said. “We’re going back on the boys’ sixth birth-day, and they’ll be with us, and it should be a tremendous day.”
Both teams have been histor-ically even head-to-head, with the Blue Devils owning a 40-39 edge over the Terps overall. Kristi Toliver’s game-tying 3-pointer with six seconds re-maining in the 2006 national championship remains one of the defining moments of the rivalry. Her step-back jumper forced the game into overtime, in which the Terps sealed the program’s fi rst — and only — national title.
The win capped a signifi cant turnaround for the program. It came three years after Frese’s fi rst game at Duke, a 101-52 loss during a season in which the Terps went 10-18.
“To go full circle like that in four years was phenomenal,” Frese said. “It doesn’t get any better than that.”
Since the Terps’ national title, however, they are 6-11 against Duke, and they have struggled in the intimidating environment of Cameron Indoor Stadium during that span.
Duke’s famous gym was the site of forward Alyssa Thomas’ fi rst career double-double — 11 points and 12 rebounds — in her fi rst conference game, a 71-64 loss three seasons ago.
“It was kind of a wake-up call on just how the ACC was and how tough the teams would be,” Thomas said. “Duke being one of the top teams, just a great
way to start your ACC career.” Though Duke has been
without All-America guard Chelsea Gray, who is out for the season after fracturing her right kneecap Jan. 12 against Boston College, the Blue Devils have still been one of the top teams in the conference.
D u k e h a s f o u r o t h e r players who average more than 10 points per game and ranks second in the confer-ence in three-point fi eld goal percentage.
“They know what it takes to win,” Thomas said. “They have great players that make plays and make up for the absence of Chelsea Gray.”
With a 2-4 record against Duke, Thomas said past ex-perience will help her lead teammates who are making their first appearance in the rivalry’s last regular-season matchup as ACC members.
“It’s going to be a battle for 40 minutes,” Thomas said. “It’s very physical, tough environ-ment to come in and get a win, so it’s all about staying together and just playing hard.”
Frese and the Terps know that sticking together will be critical to getting their first win at Cameron. With Markus and Tyler’s birthday marking the team’s final matchup at Duke, the Terps hope to cap another memorable day for their coach.
“It will the fi rst and last time that we’ll be able to do this,” Thomas said. “We’re just going in with a mindset of coming in and playing our hardest.”
devilsFrom PAGE 10
have displayed a knack to go cold sud-denly and let opponents pull away.
That wasn’t the case Saturday.Guard Nick Faust threw down
a slam off a missed 3-pointer by forward Jake Layman to hush the Cameron Crazies in the highlight of the fi rst half, punctuated by Mitchell stomping his foot to the floor after the dunk. The teams traded runs to enter halftime with the Blue Devils up, 39-33, and it felt like the Terps were solidly in contention entering the second half.
Then, Wells — who has often spoken of carving out his own spot in Terps history alongside the likes of Dixon, Len Elmore and Len Bias — took over. He drove straight at Duke forward Jabari Parker, a projected top-three pick in the NBA draft, for his fi rst points of the game with just less than 13 minutes remaining.
Wells tied the game at 52 with 8:50 remaining, knocking down a free throw for a three-point play after being fouled. From there, the teams traded blows, exchanging the lead six
times the rest of the way.When Wells gave the Terps their
first lead at 54-52, Duke forward Rodney Hood answered with two free throws to tie. And after guard Seth Allen hit a layup on the next posses-
sion, Duke forward Amile Je� erson responded with one of his own.
With 2:45 left, Wells drained a 3-pointer to put the Terps up, 67-64. They wouldn’t score again, and Park-er’s thunderous dunk over forward
Damonte Dodd with 77 seconds left would lift the Blue Devils after Mitch-ell’s shot rolled out.
Instead of leaving Cameron Indoor Stadium weakly as the victims of yet another blowout, this Terps team
cemented its place in the history of the rivalry as it ended, albeit with an unsavory result.
“I don’t know how Charles’ shot didn’t go in,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “Call it the Duke gods or what-ever. That thing was rolling in, and all of a sudden, it’s rolling out.”
The game will go down in ACC lore as the Terps leave for the Big Ten this summer. Mitchell’s shot balancing on the rim will remain the lasting image of the rivalry, with a packed gym holding its collective breath.
“I thought it was in, but the bas-ketball gods looked out for us,” Hood told Fox Sports Carolinas. “[The ball] was up there for like 10 seconds, in my opinion. I was just waiting in an-ticipation. I think the crowd helped us a lot with all the noise and kind of shoved it the other way.”
And as the buzzer sounded, the Terps walked dejectedly o� the court. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski sought out Wells. The Cameron Crazies cele-brated another triumph over the Terps.
The rivalry in its current form was over, but as it left, it lived up to ev-erything that came before it.
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GUARD SETH ALLEN defends Duke guard Rasheed Sulaimon during the Terps’ 69-67 defeat at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday. christian jenkins/the diamondback
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before an announced 9,314. That narrow miss was what sent Mitchell to the ground in devastation and what im-plored Wells to comfort the sophomore big man.
Mitchell and Wells both played their parts in the intense bout, a fitting finale for the rivalry’s likely final chapter. But as they separated from each other when they reached Duke’s end of the floor, it was clear they had fallen agoniz-ingly short in a game for which the significance stretched beyond the two teams on the court Saturday night.
“This goes all the way back to the ’70s, when Len Elmore had almost a triple-double against them or Joe Smith scored 40 points,” Wells said. “This rivalry is so much bigger than anybody on this team, so we had to come out here and play for everybody who’s been part of this rivalry.”
The Terps (14-12, 6-7 ACC) came as close as they have all year to topping a ranked team and getting a marquee win for their postseason resume. They didn’t falter when they fell behind by 10 points in the first half; Wells scored all 17 of his points in the game’s final 13 minutes, and the team’s defense forced Duke (20-5, 9-3) to shoot 6-of-26 from the field in the second half.
Forward Jake Layman led the Terps with 18 points and Mitchell had 12 points and six rebounds to help the Terps get in position for an upset of a top-10 team in a hostile envi-ronment. But Duke freshman sensation Jabari Parker threw down a dunk over forward Damonte Dodd with 1:17 re-maining that proved to be the game-winner.
“I can’t be more proud of my guys,” Turgeon said. “I hope Maryland fans feel the same way. I know we’re upset that we lost, but our guys gave it all they had.”
T h o u g h P a rk e r l e d a l l scorers with 23 points, the Terps held a typically potent Duke o�ense to 33.3 percent from the field on the night. Even with early foul trouble — both Wells and Mitchell had three fouls before halftime — the Terps never let the game get out of reach.
Guard Nick Faust provided the Terps’ top highlight in their final trip to Durham as a conference foe when he soared from several steps outside the paint for a thunderous putback slam on a Layman miss late in the first half.
A nd Wells provided the most substantial production when he got into a rhythm in the second half and shouldered the o�ensive load for the Terps in the game’s final 13 minutes.
“He was in one of those modes where he was being ag-gressive and getting his shots off and getting some great looks,” Layman said.
Wells scored back-to-back transition buckets to give the Terps their first lead of the game, 54-52, with 8:26 to play. After the two rivals exchanged baskets, Wells hit a 3-pointer from the left wing that gave the Terps a 67-64 lead with 2:45 left.
But Duke forward Rodney Hood hit a pair of free throws, Parker threw down his game-defining dunk and the Terps were back down by one.
Mitchell’s shot from about 5 feet away with the game clock dwindling could have put the Terps back in the lead. Instead, it bounced o� the back rim, then hit the front rim twice, hung for a second and fell o�.
“I don’t know how Charles’ shot didn’t go in,” Turgeon said. “Call it the Duke gods or whatever. That thing was rolling in, and all of a sudden, it’s rolling out.”
R at her t h a n Wel l s a nd Mitchell triumphantly hugging and cheering, they came to-gether to console each other after the excruciating loss.
Yet it was also a contest that added another — and potentially final — epic tilt to a storied rivalry.
“Being a part of this tradi-tion is second to none,” Wells said. “I just wish we could have won this game.”
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“THIS RIVALRY IS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN ANYBODY ON THIS TEAM, SO WE HAD TO COME OUT HERE AND PLAY FOR EVERYBODY WHO’S BEEN PART OF THIS RIVALRY.”
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COACH MARK TURGEON watches the second half of the �nal regular-season Terps-Duke ACC game at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday evening. christian jenkins/the diamondback
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MEN’S BASKETBALL | No. 8 BLUE DEVILS 69, TERPS 67
FORWARD CHARLES MITCHELL scored 12 points Saturday despite missing time with three � rst-half fouls. christian jenkins/the diamondback
HYPE ACHIEVEDFinal regular-season Duke game carves its own place in history
DURHAM, N.C. — The man with the bullhorn shouted at the Cameron Crazies to push closer together and turn sideways. More students had to fi t in the bleachers at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the final ACC regular-season contest between the Terrapins men’s bas-ketball team and Duke on Saturday.
There were 300 more undergraduates outside, the man said, and all of them were going to fi t in the stands for the end of a his-toric rivalry. The stream of blue-clad Duke students started about 90 minutes before tip-off, entering from the muddy tents of Krzyzewskiville, and by the time the “ACC” and “not our rivals” chants began, the leg-endary gym was packed.
The frenzied Duke students, part of an an-nounced 9,314, watched an epic fi nish to an ACC staple, as forward Charles Mitchell’s desperate layup attempt with less than two seconds remaining fell harmlessly into a mess of bodies on the fl oor, and the No. 8 Blue Devils escaped with a 69-67 victory.
In a rare case, a much-ballyhooed matchup lived up to the hype.
“Hopefully in 10 years, this’ll be on ESPN
Classic and I’ll be talking to my children, my sister and my mom about how I picked up like three fouls in fi ve minutes,” said guard Dez Wells, who scored all 17 of his points in the second half. “Hopefully, I’ll be looking back laughing at it, but right now it hurts to lose. It was fun. That was so much fun.”
In last week’s run-up to the game, memory after memory was recalled about the Terps-Duke matchups from the early 2000s, when the teams were in the thick of the ACC and national title races. But in 2014, with the Terps scuffling through a .500 season in ACC play, the chances of recapturing the energy and pageantry of Juan Dixon, Jason Williams, Mike Krzyzewski and Cole Field House seemed unlikely.
As Duke built a 10-point lead in the fi rst half, the Blue Devils seemed poised to put together a typical home performance. Enter-ing Saturday, the Terps had lost the previous six matchups in Durham by an average of 19.8 points, including a 41-point embarrass-ment in 2009. And this season, the Terps
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
In fi nal trip to Duke, Fresesearches for fi rst victoryNo. 9 Terps, No. 3 Blue Devils square o� on twins’sixth birthday tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium
WHEN Tonight, 7 p.m. WHERE Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham, N.C. TV ESPN2
DATA Coach Brenda Frese has never beaten the Blue Devils on the road in her Terps tenure.
TONIGHT’S MATCHUP
No. 9 MARYLAND TERRAPINS20-4, 8-3 ACC
No. 3 DUKE BLUE DEVILS22-3, 9-2 ACC
By Paul Pierre-Louis@PaulPierreLouisSta� writer
Six years ago today, the Ter-rapins women’s basketball beat Duke for the fi rst time at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 2000, a victory that sealed what coach Brenda Frese called “a perfect ending to a perfect day.”
But it was an ending she didn’t experience. The morning of Feb. 17, 2008, she gave birth to her twin sons, Markus and Tyler Thomas, at Howard County General Hospital. Though Frese looks back on that day fondly, she wasn’t on the side-lines for the Terps’ only victory at Cameron Indoor Stadium during her 12-year tenure.
So entering the No. 9 Terps’ fi nal scheduled visit as members of the ACC to No. 3 Duke tonight on Markus and Tyler’s sixth birthday, Frese, like her current players, will be looking to get her fi rst win in Durham, N.C.
“It’s such a di¡ cult place to
See devils, Page 8COACH BRENDA FRESE (right) and forward Alyssa Thomas (left) will have a chance to gettheir � rst victory at No. 3 Duke tonight in a top-10 matchup. � le photo/the diamondback
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