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State analysts recommend $7 million cut to USM

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer State budget analysts are recommending cuts to this year’s university system budget, but system chancellor Brit Kirwan warned in

testimony to the House of Delegates on Wednesday that the reduction would set a bad precedent.

Among the state’s Department of Legislative Services budget recommendations, which followed the release of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget in January, the biggest hit

would be a $7 million cut to the University System of Maryland. The DLS argued the university system could pick up the tab on its employees’ cost-of-living salary adjustments because tuition revenue has increased over the past year.

K irwan criticized the recom-

mendation before the House of Delegate’s Education and Economic Development subcommittee. Costof-living adjustments should be a state obligation, Kirwan said, and in his roughly 50 years working in higher education, he’s never seen a university pay for cost-of-living

salary adjustments.

“This is setting a very bad precedent,” Kirwan said. “We are all very sensitive to the tuition costs, the idea that we’re using tuition now to cover the cost that the state has always See USM, Page 7

Researchers help battle rare disease Immunology lab might cure Wiskott-Aldrich

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer

lindsey axel, senior community health major, helps fight eating disorders. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

Dancing the way they were born ‘Love Your Body Month’ promotes body image positivity

andy fellows, College Park mayor, high-fives teammates as he exits a community basketball game Friday. james levin/the diamondback

Playing the great equalizer

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer Inspired by uplifting lyrics in songs such as “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga and “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera, students at Friday’s Zumba class in Eppley Recreation Center started a monthlong programming series to raise awareness about eating disorders and promote positive body images.

“Love Your Body Month,” organized by the University Health Center’s Wellness program, is an expansion of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which falls on the last week of February this year.

“We decided to turn it into a monthlong series of events and spin it to be a little more of a positive focus,” said Meghan Cohen, health and wellness coordinator. “So instead of only bringing awareness to eating disorders, we also wanted to bring awareness to body image issues, especially things like the media’s effect on body image and just promote an overall positive message of loving your body and the different ways that you can do that.”

Events in this year’s Love Your Body Month are co-sponsored by Campus Recreation Services, Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, the Office of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy, the One Project and the Student Health Advisory Committee.

By working with student groups on the campus, Cohen hopes the events for the fifth annual awareness month will bring big numbers. The events range from exercise classes at the ERC to a Body Image Open Mic night, free See BODY, Page 8

By Teddy Amenabar @TeddyAmen Senior staff writer

Instead of seeing officers behind a squad car or reporting an incident in College Park, local kids got the chance to beat them at basketball this weekend.

Police officers from this university, Prince George’s County and Maryland-National Capital Park Police came together for a basketball game with local youth at the College Park Community Center on Friday night.

The game between the two groups is a bimonthly event, but on Friday, officials at the university’s Office of Community Engagement helped create a “College Park Dream Team” that went on to win, 71-58.

The team included College Park Mayor Andy Fellows, University Administration and

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Finance Vice President Carlo Colella and Paint Branch Elementary School Principal Emmett Hendershot, along with local police officers.

Emily Adams from the community engagement office helped coordinate the event and said the game helps build a sense of trust between residents and police departments.

She said the series “increases the likelihood that a citizen is going to come up to the police.”

The idea behind these games, University Police Chief David Mitchell said, is that a police department gets out of a community what it puts in.

“It also gives [kids] a chance to see the police in a different light,” Mitchell said. “Not an enforcement role but a role where we are all having fun together.”

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Thousands of students get math assistance in ResLife program Math Success tutors nearly 4,000 in fall

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer Last semester, the Department of Resident Life’s Math Success Program helped a record number of students with math-related struggles.

The program, which has expanded over the past few years,

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Basketball unites College Park youth, local police officers

Ask university cell biology and genetics professor Wenxia Song to explain the immune system, and she might compare it to war.

In the 17 years she’s been at this university, researchers at her immunology lab, which is researching cures for a rare but deadly chromosomal disease, have studied the fine line between a healthy body that can fight off a cellular intruder and a sick one that cannot.

Often, Song said, the body gets lost in the chaos of fighting off potential invaders and confuses friend and foe, as if engaging in limited-visibility warfare.

“Our body is taking stuff all the time,” she said. “We inhale the air; we eat the food; we contact each other. So what is basically friend or enemy? There are lots of gray area.

What we study is how this is balanced and regulated.”

In a research paper published in the science journal PLOS Biology in November, Song’s lab reported a new discovery in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, an X-linked chromosomal disease that shows up in the first month of life and almost always leads to one or more autoimmune diseases later.

Her researchers found that the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, which initiates a process that leads to the release of antibodies, is balanced in healthy people by another

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saw its largest turnout in the fall with nearly 4,000 students attending evening tutoring sessions, said Ian Feller, Math Success graduate coordinator.

“Before we moved into Oakland Hall, we saw about 3,000 student visits a year. Then after we moved, we started seeing 3,000 a semester,” said Olan Garrett, Educational and Outreach Programs manager. “This year, we’re on track to do about 8,000 visits for the year.”

Math Success coaches help tutor students in two ways: Students who

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Math Success tutor, sophomore need help with introductory calculus classes are coached in larger nick fleming, sophomore mechanical engineering major, tutored calculus courses in the Math Success See math, Page 8 program in the fall. holly cuozzo/for the diamondback

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basketball From PAGE 1 In essence, a basketball game is “a great equalizer of perception,” Maryland-National Capital Park Police Lt. Brian Waters said. The game is also a representation of the three police forces that protect College Park, he added.

“The University of Maryland is not this monolithic campus that is irrelevant to the communities around it,” Waters said.

Community Engagement Director Gloria Aparicio Blackwell said her department is a matchmaker — it comes to a local community and addresses its needs with the help of university groups.

Aparicio Blackwell praised the university, but it did not do all of the work, she said —

this event would not have been possible without a great community effort.

Junior community health major Muftau Shinaba said he went to the game Friday with the African Students Association because he felt that a basketball game was a great way to bring the community together.

Hendershot said it’s been four years since he’s played a full game, though he played in high school and college.

“It’s fun having the kids play against the officers — good exercise,” Hendershot said.

Colella said he loves working with the university’s neighboring communities, and he was glad to see how many students and university officials came to the game. Events like this provide a way for local youth to interact with members of the university and hopefully

“IT ALSO GIVES [KIDS] A CHANCE TO SEE THE POLICE IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT ... NOT AN ENFORCEMENT ROLE, BUT A ROLE WHERE WE ARE ALL HAVING FUN TOGETHER.” DAVID MITCHELL

University Police Chief be inspired to look toward a future at the school, he said.

“They’re right next door. I think it is fantastic for them to know the university in a personal way,” Colella said.

Tariq Johnson, a ninthgrade guard who often plays at the community center, said he always has fun playing the officers.

“It helps kids get off the streets, stuff like that, and b ei n g i n f luenced by bad people,” Johnson said. tamenabardbk@gmail.com

University Police Chief David Mitchell salutes a young College Park resident during the community outreach basketball game. The event pitted local police against town residents in hopes of fostering positive relationships between the two. james levin/the diamondback

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or years, students enrolled in Freshmen Connection have rightfully voiced concerns about being made to feel like outsiders. The most common concerns have been housing-related — and for good reason. Typically, Freshmen Connection students haven’t been ensured space to live on the campus.

But starting in the fall, they will be offered on-campus housing for the first time. Department of Resident Life Assistant Director Scott Young said officials hope this new option will foster stronger community ties. And that’s a large part of what Freshmen Connection students have desired.

In fact, about this time last year, then-guest columnist Emma Atlas wrote in to the editorial board expressing her concerns about how those in Freshmen Connection are treated as second-class students.

This editorial board agrees that this university should pay more attention to how it addresses and cares for these students — who, though accepted for the spring semester rather than the fall, are still in fact accepted.

They have met the standards relied upon by university administrators to populate this campus with smart Terps. And thus, they should be just as respected as any other student.

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We believe this new housing program is a step in the right direction. Undoubtedly, it will foster a sense of inclusion and equal worth for all students, as Young and other officials hope.

OUR VIEW

Allotting housing for those in Freshmen Connection will help foster a sense of community, a step toward fulfilling housing needs for all students.

This plan seems to fit with Resident Life’s overarching goal of supplying housing for all students who want it.

With the addition of Oakland Hall and the highly anticipated Prince Frederick Hall, that goal seems within reach for the first time in a while.

In 2007, students camped out on McKeldin Mall to protest the lack of affordable, on-campus housing for all students. And it seems the department has been making strides toward remedying that situation ever since.

Then, just two years ago, all students who requested on-campus housing received it. True, many upperclassmen didn’t request on-

campus housing, as they may not have known Oakland Hall opened up the opportunity to live on the campus or simply weren’t interested in the opportunity. But the on-campus options are still expanding.

Yet the reason many students seem to be still moving off the campus is more than just a desire to move away from resident assistants. The cost of living in a dorm or on-campus apartment is still relatively high — the dorms, though less expensive than apartments, require a dining plan, which is inordinately expensive.

(But that’s an argument for another day, and one we’ve already made.)

And off-campus or South Campus Commons apartments, though they don’t require a dining plan, are more expensive than the dorms, simply because of the demand for separate rooms for each student in such close proximity to the campus.

What Resident Life really needs to focus on in the coming years, in addition to continuing to ensure those who want on-campus living can get it, is making housing affordable and fulfilling students’ needs. Paying attention to the long-neglected demographic of Freshmen Connection students can only yield positive results for the department and the university community.

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BuzzFeed narcissism: What it says about you most likely created by a bearded hipster blogger, reveal something so complex as the human personality? People think that these quizzes reveal their originality, but they’re really conveying that everyone can be chalked up to one single thing.

Everyone knows (or hopefully knows) there is no substantial evidence behind these posts. BuzzFeed doesn’t have the makers of the Myers-Briggs Test working on a project that reveals to BuzzFeed readers what their eye color says about them, but people continue to buy into the ideas of these quizzes.

People give horoscopes flak, but at least horoscopes use a semblance of scientific evidence by analyzing the moon and stars.

BuzzFeed understands our “selfie” culture so well that they not only create the ego-inflating quizzes, but they also encourage us to share the results of these quizzes and articles on other social media platforms. This sharing then spreads the narcissism even further into our society, because sharing results or an article is an attention-seeking tactic. When you’re on Facebook, do you really care that the boy you went to summer camp with in high school has the personality of Ron Weasley or that Cinderella is his ideal Disney princess?

The writers of BuzzFeed are geniuses.

They get us to keep coming back to them so they can reveal to us trite factoids about ourselves. However, in the future, when you’re trolling the Internet late at night or right before class and you happen to stumble onto a quiz or article, keep your index finger from scrolling and ask yourself what your behavior says about yourself.

MAGGIE CASSIDY

You might have started reading this column because you saw one of the most common lines in all of social media: what your dog, choice of pen, favorite Disney princess or basically anything says about you.

They key word is “you.” No one can scroll through his or her preferred social media outlet without seeing an article with the pronoun “you” in it. Even the once-safe blogging site Tumblr has been invaded with these selfabsorbed posts and quizzes.

We live in a society that has been dubbed the “selfie culture.” (I’m a little frustrated as I write this column because my word processor doesn’t even recognize “selfie” as a misspelled word.) Social media, which is going to be around for the long haul, is boosting our society’s inherent narcissism.

The list-friendly site BuzzFeed is famous for having quizzes that “reveal” everything under the sun about you. Just this week, there was an article about what your choice of emoji says about you.

I’ll admit I was on the bandwagon when these kitschy quizzes and articles began to barrage the Internet. At first, reading these articles or taking the quizzes was a fun way to liken my personality to something else in the pop culture sphere; they made me feel connected to something and maybe even a little bit special.

But now, these quizzes and posts just hone in on our conceited culture. We have reached the Maggie Cassidy is a sophomore point at which these posts don’t English major. She can be reached at matter at all. How can a quiz, mcassidydbk@gmail.com.

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Microblogging: Democratizing truth EMMA ATLAS “I’m learning as much on Tumblr as I do in my classes most days.”

This phrase, written in Ezra Fishman’s Jan. 31 column, speaks to my problem with Tumblr. On a good day, the average Tumblr post is only misinformed. On a bad day, it’s lying and manipulative — and self-rightously so.

It’s not a good first step, I think, to use my first column for The Diamondback to argue with another columnist. But what my brief stint on Tumblr taught me was that dissent is crucial.

First, let me explain how Tumblr works. Much like on Twitter, Tumblr users aim to absorb large swaths of the community into their list of “followers.” As Fishman wrote, this can often be an extremely beneficial system in which unknown artists can become incredibly popular and develop a fan base on their own merit.

Users can relay other users’ posts, known as reblogging, to their own set of followers, creating something like a Internet-powered megaphone.

But of course, with great power comes great stupidity. Tumblr favors quick, interesting posts over

well-researched ones, and who can argue with a post when 30,000 other Tumblr users have passed it on?

My personal favorite is the massive spread of an image of a policeman standing in profile, holding a rifle for some ceremonial purpose. The deep scar on his cheek rips at everyone’s heartstrings. We all feel patriotic.

Reblog, or the Internet will never talk to you again.

It’s a picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker from The Dark Knight.

There’s no pretense of objectivity on Tumblr. And that’s rightfully so — it’s a space for people to express their interests and build a walled garden full of only the things that interest them. Rather than wasting time on a trusted news site full of boring, factual, well-researched news, Tumblr users can set up a personal newspaper using their “dashboards,” which only includes the best news for them. Done right, a user’s dashboard will be equal parts beautiful, original artwork, music by undiscovered performers, meaningful photography, and microblogged headlines from a variety of news sources.

Done wrong, Tumblr becomes damagingly biased in a way that is not casually harmful. Almost everyone on Tumblr is engaged in the pursuit of popularity in the form of followers and reblogs. So naturally,

if you post a popular opinion, you are more likely to get more followers and more reblogs. If you post an unpopular opinion, the inverse is true. So begins the polarization of Tumblr, which in my experience generally favors the left, with pockets of extreme liberalism that tend to dominate any controversial topic.

Popular users determine what is true by passing forward only the posts that they agree with. If you don’t agree with the hive mind, you begin to lose the microblogging “game.”

Thus, the inevitable demonization of outsiders occurs. People who disagree are censored or verbally attacked. Discussions on social issues aren’t so much “discussions” as online hugboxes, because the mechanics of Tumblr make it so. There are no corrections and no way of stopping a popular post once it’s gained traction. Every discussion becomes a feedback loop hurtling further and further into insanity.

So if you want to learn from an unreliable source, stick to Wikipedia.

There are things to learn on Tumblr if you look in the right places, but if you drink the proverbial Kool-Aid, you’ll go blind.

Emma Atlas is a junior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at eatlasdbk@gmail.com.

Managing money with roommates How to avoid losing your friends after you start living under the same roof

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espite being just a few weeks into the spring semester, students’ inboxes are already flooded with messages about selecting housing for next year. Some will be returning to their dorms for another year, and many will consider an apartment or house off Route 1.

Moving into a new house or apartment with your friends is an exciting transition, but you may run into new challenges about sharing living expenses. Money problems between roommates, such as not paying rent on time, not splitting grocery bills evenly or forgetting about the utility bill are common points of contention — and chances are, you’ll have disagreements or awkward conversations about these expenses. These issues can drive fierce wedges even between close friends who live together.

But don’t let that keep you from signing that lease with your best friends for next fall. Here are three easy ways to minimize money mismanagement and maintain the peace: 1. As soon as everyone moves in, write up an agreement that describes the house rules for monthly payments. Who is collecting the bills each month? By

what day will they need each roommate’s share? How much should each roommate pay? Clearly lay out all of these details in writing, and have each roommate sign the agreement.

2. Hold one another accountable.

Remind one another in person about payments and allow ample time to make payments. Don’t let one roommate get away with not paying their share of the rent for long; this only leads to resentment and awkward conversations and could even hurt your credit score.

3. Use an easy payment service to collect shared expenses. An electronic payment service on your computer or phone makes handling these expenses simpler than constantly handling cash or checks or making trips to the bank. Popmoney’s personal payment service is one tool that can set up recurring payments and simplify your monthly expenses.

It’s understandable why roommates can get upset with one another over money problems — we’re all poor college students, after all — but if you follow these tips, you and your roommates can live a little closer to financial harmony.

Mary Beck is a senior communication major. She can be reached at mary.beck125@gmail.com.

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avoiding the danger zone Archer creator Adam Reed’s decision to retool amid high ratings pre-emptively averted the decline of the FX series

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer Predictability rarely bodes well on television. Expected plot twists, cliched dialogue and lack of excitement can often turn viewers off from shows. As a result, many television shows decide to retool by changing an essential element of the show.

The fifth season of Archer brilliantly avoided this problem. Fans and critics were not complaining about the show’s quality, but Adam Reed, the creator of the FX animated comedy, subverted expectations by seamlessly altering the entire premise of the show and preventing a potential plateau for the witty series.

“It’s the challenge to keep it fresh and interesting,” Reed said in an interview with The A.V. Club. “I think probably all writers have the fear of repeating themselves over and over.

It’s sort of a way to hopefully make sure I’m not doing that.”

The first four seasons of Archer focused on the International Secret Intelligence Service, a spy agency during the Cold War era. In the fifth season premiere, viewers find out the United States government never recognized ISIS, turning the show on its head. The premiere explored the consequences of ISIS’s misdeeds, and the gang avoids charges when ISIS Director Malory signs a deal at the expense of ISIS closing its doors. The show throws a substantial curveball by revealing a massive amount of cocaine hidden in the ISIS offices, and the former employees decide to form a drug cartel.

The twist was wacky, but it fits perfectly with Archer’s off-kilter nature. The premiere ended with highlights from future episodes, assuring viewers the idiosyncrasy and quality of the show will be maintained. The show’s title card now reads Archer Vice, cementing the series’ new direction. The premiere reached a series-high 1.6 million adult viewers, according to zap2it.com.

Part of the reason the reinvention was so successful is because Archer is animated. Many shows have been as ambitious as Archer, but their lack of resources has prevented them from seeing as much success.

Still, Archer’s achievement should not be understated. Television shows retool all the time, mostly resulting in anger from fans and swift cancellations. How many times have you seen a television show add an annoying child to the cast in an attempt to generate buzz or avoid staleness? It’s understandable, though, because few shows stack up to Breaking Bad and can maintain the same level of quality from beginning to end.

Many of these retools are referred to as “jump the shark” moments, a reference to a 1977 episode of Happy Days in the show’s fifth season when Fonzie jumped over a shark on water-skis. Jon Hein, a radio personality on The Howard Stern Show, coined the term to describe when television shows feature a gimmick to entice viewers, usually prompting the decline of that show.

Hein created a website — jumptheshark.com — compiling about 200 moments from television shows that “jumped the shark.” He

sold his company to the owners of TV Guide in 2006, according to an article from The Huffington Post.

Jump the shark moments are debatable, but are always fun talking points in the discussion of popular television shows. Did The Office go downhill in the final two seasons without Steve Carell’s popular Michael Scott? Did Friends really need to explore a relationship between Rachel and Joey? Should Scrubs have ended before its illfated ninth season when many of its stars did not return?

While fans can deliberate about the moments before their favorite shows began to decline, Archer averted this discussion with its recent twist.

Jump the shark moments often come at a time when shows want to increase viewership, put off cancelation or address the beginning of a decline. Archer, however, abandoned its premise at a time when few were complaining about the show’s quality and, as evidenced by the high ratings, the show was more popular than ever. Archer’s major twist cannot be categorized with the gimmicky retools of other shows because Reed’s decision was purely creative.

“I just sat back down and started thinking about Archer and also dismantling what had been a perfectly good motorcycle,” Reed told The A.V. Club. “And at some point in there, I don’t know, the idea just popped into my head that this might be a good thing to try.”

Archer’s reinvention was additionally successful because the show is in touch with its fans. In promotion for the new season,

the show put ads on Reddit, revealing a keen awareness of Archer’s large following on the site. More than 65,000 Reddit users are subscribed to A rc h e r ’s page on the site. Reed and his cohorts know what fans will like and dislike and could predict the fifth season change would be one that went over well within the fan base.

This season feels significantly fresh and new storylines are able to emerge — the lovable Pam is addicted to cocaine; Cheryl is embarking on a country music career, and Lana is dealing with a badly timed pregnancy. Reed also revealed Archer recorded a real country album for the season that features Kenny Loggins, an oft-mentioned musician on the show.

There is no telling how the reinvention of Archer will affect the future of the show. Whether this is the last season or the show produces five more, the decision to revamp stands out in the television landscape for its daringness and creativity.

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USM From PAGE 1 borne is shifting the responsibility to the students.”

He a lso sa id the excess tuition revenue doesn’t mean the university system is in a position to foot the bill.

More tuition means more students, and all new money will be needed to service the increased enrollment.

“Let’s think about excess t u i t i o n f o r a m o m e n t ,” K i rwa n sa id. “I f we have more students that we are budgeted for, we have to pay for them.”

A nother cut that would come down on the system is a reduction just less than $700,000. K irwa n said it m ight look insign i fica nt, but the cut has a much more complex backstory.

I n t he 2013 f isca l yea r, Kirwan said the university system’s health care budget experienced an $11 million shortfall. The system asked t h e s t a te to c o v e r t h o s e costs, as health care costs are expected to be picked up by the state when they are underfunded, but K irwan said state officials told him they’ll “just have to swallow that cost.”

Eyeing a $700,000 surplus in a state personnel account, the system asked t he state for t h at money to make a dent in the large discrepancy in health care d ol l a r s . B y c u t t i n g t h a t money this year, however, Kirwan said the state would b e re ve rs i n g wh at wa s a “ver y modest bu f fer to a deep budget.”

T he story of this year’s state h igher education budget began when revenue estimates near the end of 2013 showed the state was running a structural deficit.

In September, Kirwan said,

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University System of Maryland chancellor after extensive budget talks, state officials had originally planned to allocate about $1.25 billion to the system, but a drop in revenues eventually forced a $26 million cut.

“One day I get a call saying, ‘You know that number we talked about back in September? You can’t have it; it’s going to have to be cut,’” Kirwan said.

Fearing these cuts would threaten three key initiatives the system has been working on — which include an effort to grow STEM enrollment, technology-driven course redesig n a nd i ncreased support for Un iversity of Maryland, Baltimore County strategic alliance MPowering the State — the system looked to keep those dollars in the budget.

To o f f s e t t h o s e c o s t s , the university system approached O’Malley and asked to have the $26 million restored, and in exchange, the u n iversity system wou ld transfer $26 million in its fund balance — essentially, the system’s savings account — to the state’s fund balance.

K irwan said any cuts would harm the three initiatives and possibly others, consideri ng the system already agreed to transfer its own money back to the state. jbachdbk@gmail.com

Wenxia Song (third from left), a university cell biology and genetics professor, with the staff of her immunology lab. Song and her staff, (from left) Heather Miller, Margaret Seeley-Fallen, Mark Wang, Qian Yu, Michelle Lazzaro and Xiaoming Bai, are conducting research into cures for a rare but deadly chromosomal disease. james levin/the diamondback

RESEARCH From PAGE 1 similar protein called the neuronal Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein. Individuals with the disease have a mutation that causes an imbalance of the two.

The study’s lead author, former graduate student Chaohong Liu, said not much was known about the N-WASP before the study’s publ ication. Because it shares 50 percent homolog y w ith the WA SP, he said, the neuronal protein’s function was difficult to pin down.

Liu, a faculty member of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee, said the research indicated that the two were inversely related, with the WASP flipping the signal on to release antibodies

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a nd the N-WASP tu rn i ng the signal off to make it stop.

In many who suffer from the d isease, a lack of the N-WASP leads to problems in which the body attacks itself, Liu said.

“Enhanced signaling [from the WASP] will produce antibodies that won’t attack the virus; they won’t attack the bacteria; they’ll attack the human body,” he said.

With the disease affecting between one and 10 men per million worldwide, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is rare, according to Genetics Home Reference, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Because it is X-linked and recessive, it is even less common in females.

But the disease is dangerous, Song said. It is considered d ifficu lt to resea rch because it leads to added autoimmune disorders as the patient ages and proves fatal when not treated.

In 2012, Song began discussing treatment options

with the Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University in China. The hospital received a government grant funding to further research the syndrome. Soon after, hospital administrators decided to begin treating children suffering from the syndrome with bone marrow transplants.

T he col laboration is ongoing, and Song said they have seen positive results so fa r. T he bone m a r row transplant is the only cure available for the syndrome, she said.

But a long w ith it bei ng physically demanding for the patient and requiring a perfect bone marrow match from a healthy donor, the procedure is incredibly expensive, Song said.

“Health insurances don’t cover it, so most of the people actually couldn’t afford [the treatment],” she said, explaining that many children from poorer families died.

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own, they still can’t afford it.

To prepare for a future in which the transplant will be more accessible, Song broug ht X i aom i ng Ba i, a 28-year-old pediatrician from the south-central Chinese hospital, to learn more about the disease and how to treat it. Bai has worked in her lab in the microbiology building since September and will continue working there until the end of March.

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“This is a good kick-start event for the rest of the campaign that we have for the month,” said Lindsey Axel, Health and Wellness intern.

“Eating disorders are about education and awareness. A lot of people equate it to being shameful or embarrassing to share if they think they have a problem or their friend has a problem. So if you are given the information, it gives them a leeway to a whole world of help that they didn’t know existed. It opens a lot of doors for them.”

Michelle Regius, an exercise class instructor since May 2012, embraced the Love Your Body Month message by planning a dance to “Born This Way” for the Zumba session she taught.

“I think it’s a great, beautiful message about everyone’s bodies,” Regius said. “I think we should be having it all year

round. I think it’s a great way to make your body feel great. I love dance fitness because you dance and have fun and enjoy your curves and feel beautiful.”

Sachi K hemka, a freshman business student, said she felt a special atmosphere during Zumba.

“Everyone was si ng i ng along,” said Khemka, who won a “Love Your Body” T-shirt.

“Everyone was really energetic and really excited.”

Catherine T hompson, a HEALTH Works peer educator, had never taken a Zumba class until the event.

“It’s a good way to love your body while you’re working out,” said Thompson, a senior government and politics major.

“Body image issues and eating disorders are a huge issue among college students, male and female, so I’m really glad University of Maryland is putting so much effort into encouraging positive body image.”

After the event, students flocked to the HEALTH Works table, giving the Love Your Body team a chance to spread their message.

“I think just gaining one piece of information is all you need,” Axel said. “Knowledge goes a long way, and the more knowledge you have, the more willing you are to try and make changes in your life or someone else’s.”

Cohen said she has many goals for the impact of the program during the rest of the month.

“T he huge stereoty pe I wanted to focus on this year, that I want to try to break, is that eating disorders and body image issues are an affluent white woman’s problem,” Cohen said. “That’s the historical thought and stereotype, and it’s really not true. Eating disorders don’t discriminate.

But mostly we want it to have an overall positive feel, so we

want people to learn different ways that they can appreciate everything that their body does for them, and they can love how they look and how they feel in their body and to promote that message among their friends.”

This university’s large campus makes it hard to reach everyone, but Cohen and Axel agreed these events can have a large effect when people start talking.

“Ultimately, in a perfect

world, if I could change the entire societal culture and how we view bodies and the messages that are being put out in the media about what an ideal body should look like, I would love to change that,” Cohen said. “But it starts with things like this — it starts with small shifts in individual thought processes, and then that spreads.”

semester. He said he saw a post about the program online and decided to apply after reading From PAGE 1 more about it.

“I helped students work on tutoring sessions, while those seeking help for classes with their WebAssigns and prepare lower traffic are often assigned for tests and quizzes, using the to one coach in peer-to-peer online problems, book problems and sometimes making sessions, Feller said.

The collaborative study example problems for them,” groups have been drawing a lot Fleming said. “I mostly helped of traffic throughout the past students with calc I and II. few semesters, Feller said, as Other tutors helped students more students take advantage with classes such as stat, differential equations, calc III and of the program’s resources.

Nick Fleming, a sopho- some others.”

Feller said Resident Life more mechanical engineering major, was a math coach for the is researching whether the program during the fall 2013 prog ra m m a kes a d i f fer-

ence i n students’ g rades and success in math classes.

Feller said he reads through anonymous student evaluations each night. And so far, students have said they enjoy the program, are getting good help and are doing better.

“And students are coming back,” Feller said. “For more sessions, other classes.”

Kelly Devine, a sophomore biology major, is one such student. She said she attended the Math Success collaborative study groups for her introductory calculus classes and found the program “very helpful.”

“When I would go, I would

bring problems I was struggling with,” Devine said. “And having the concepts explained really helped me a lot when it came to taking exams.”

Devine said friends from her classes also attended the program’s study sessions, and they were all happy with the results.

“I never remember feeling that I wasn’t helped,” Devine sa id . “T here wa s a lways someone there that was able to answer questions and teach concepts very well.”

Feller said he is pleased with the growth of Math Success and that those involved with the program would like to

expand the collaborative sessions and offer them for more classes. They do not have the space to do so now, he said.

Fleming agreed that the program should be expanded and said it is an “amazing resource” for students who struggle with math.

“We saw everybody from people who just needed a few math credits for their degree to people majoring in math,” Fleming said. “A lot of people would come in feeling really dow n about math, but by the time they left would be excited about the progress they were making.”

New coaches are hired each semester based on math education qualifications and an interview process to make sure they are able to connect with and help students, Feller said.

A new application will be available starting in March, and Garrett and Fleming are working on ways to better advertise the program around the campus and improve the program.

“I look at the evaluations every single night and we really use them to make sure that the program keeps getting better,” he said.

From PAGE 1 HIV testing at the Health Center and programs to encourage a healthy relationship with food.

“The events really are intentional. We want people to learn something from the events we are doing,” Cohen said. “The events in the ERC focus on the fitness aspect of loving your body and also to educate about the dangers of compulsive exercising.”

Outside of the Zumba class, Cohen — a Health and Wellness intern — and HEALTH Works peer educators set up a table to reach passersby in the ERC. They handed out educational materials on eating disorders, overexercising and body image, passed out buttons with a blank to fill in what people love about their bodies and had blank Valen-

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MOUNT From PAGE 12 your instincts, trust your teammates … we’ll be fine.”

Rambo and Cannizzaro attributed their success on the field Saturday to the older players on the team. The Terps’ leaders, including senior midfielder Mike Chanenchuk, emphasized having a major role in the youngsters’ development on and off the field during the fall and preseason.

The result was an explosive seven-goal performance from the group of rookies — including one goal from attackman Ben Chisolm — answering questions about how the freshmen would acclimate to the college game and creating excitement for the season to come.

“It’s fun because these guys really want to learn,” said Chanenchuk, who notched a hat trick in the rout. “It makes it easy for me.”

Rambo said his favorite goal —

or at least the one he’s most excited to see in film during the week — was his third of the day, which came with 6:13 remaining in the second quarter.

Defensive midfielder Brian Cooper forced a Mountaineers turnover, scooped up the ground ball and started on a fast break. Cooper drew a defender before dishing to Rambo, who sneaked a soft shot past goalkeeper Frankie McCarthy to give the Terps an 11-2 lead before halftime.

“He’s my locker buddy,” Rambo said. “I loved to dunk it for him.”

Rambo said the Terps midfielders created most of the scoring opportunities for him Saturday. The group’s hard dodges from in front of the cage forced the Mountaineers to slide, and once the ball worked around to Rambo behind the goal, the freshman was oneon-one with a defender — a mismatch he exploited on several occasions.

“I know with this group, if

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somebody gets a double team, they’ll throw it to the next guy,” Tillman said. “It’s just a matter of who is going to get opportunities to finish, and Matt’s usually pretty good in the midrange area.”

T i m Ro ta n z a n d Co l i n Heacock — ranked No. 2 and No. 4 for attackmen in the 2013 class, respectively — were absent against the Mountaineers due to injury. Tillman said neither issue threatens their seasons, and he’s hopeful they will return this week.

But even in the absence of some of their classmates, Rambo and Cannizzaro put on a full display of the goal-scoring potential of Tillman’s recruiting class. And while the coach made it clear that challenges still await his young squad, he agreed Saturday was a sign of positive things to come.

“It feels great to come out here and play at Byrd,” Rambo said. “That’s my dream.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

MIDFIELDER MIKE CHANENCHUK (left) celebrates with midfielder Bryan Cole (right) during the Terps’ blowout victory over Mount St. Mary’s on Saturday. Chanenchuk had a hat trick in the contest, which featured heavy contributions from freshmen. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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GUARD SHATORI WALKER-KIMBROUGH scored 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting in the Terps’ 95-43 win over Clemson. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

scoring offense in the ACC, had trouble scoring inside during the contest’s opening minutes, as the Terps frontcourt tandem of Jones and center Alicia DeVaughn prevented the Tigers from getting to the basket.

The Terps’ inside presence was also noticeable on the glass, as their 10 offensive rebounds in the first half led to 12 secondchance points, which helped them take a 39-23 lead into halftime and continue their dominance in the second half.

“Our emphasis has been lately to hit the glass hard,” Jones said.

“And when we do that, we get second-chance options, and when we get defensive rebounds,

we can push and get in transition like we want to.”

The Terps had seven players with three or more assists in the game, and the transition offense continued to cut through Clemson’s defense after halftime. The Terps had 16 assists and three turnovers in the second half, and they shot better than 63 percent from the field in the period.

“I really liked how we shared the basketball,” Frese said. “I just thought the second half we just got stronger and stronger. Once we were able to get stops, that led to our transition to really easy plays.”

Clemson’s offense sputtered in the second half, as it shot 9-of-25 from the field and only got to the free-throw line once. The Tigers got as close

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The team finished the game on an 11-0 run to seal its third straight conference win.

“I think we did a much better job of attacking the ball with their dribble penetration,” Frese said.

“We had some really aggressive plays on the ball, making it a little bit more difficult.”

After lopsided wins against Pittsburgh and Clemson, the Terps will hope to replicate those performances in road matchups against Miami and No. 5 Duke.

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SEMINOLES From PAGE 12 though, the sophomore point guard bested his previous career high by 11 points and helped earn personal and teamwide redemption before an announced 14,783 at Comcast Center.

“It felt real good,” said Allen, whose Terps travel to play at No. 20 Virginia tonight. “The win felt even better because they beat the crap out of us last game. We came into that game with a chip on our shoulder.”

The win over the Seminoles, the Terps’ third victory in four games, is the team’s most impressive addition to a shaky resume since ACC play began. The Terps were in control for much of the afternoon, building a 17-point halftime lead that grew to 20 midway through the second half.

Though Wells (15 points, six assists) and forward Jake Layman (12 points, five rebounds) provided significant contributions, it was Allen’s offensive eruption that made the difference.

“Seth Allen was at another level tonight, made some incredible shots,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “He played within himself most of the game. I was really proud of him.”

After Allen hit that first 3-pointer

GALLEN From PAGE 12 and that was tremendous. That was a winning play.”

The third-year coach has often emphasized the tiny details of defense or extra effort to the Terps. They have had narrow defeats this season — including a one-point loss to Connecticut and a two-point loss to George Washington — and as the season winds down, making the extra effort can result in a two- or three-point swing, and that can provide the difference. “[Turgeon has] been stressing a lot lately — just make winning plays when we need to and we need guys to make

and force some shots, and tonight he was picking his spots.”

The Terps paired Allen’s dazzling offense with a stifling defense that held Florida State to 38.1 percent shooting from the floor. The Seminoles — playing without guard Ian Miller, their second-leading scorer — struggled to produce much offense until the closing minutes, when they forced a frantic pace and cut the Terps’ lead down to eight points.

But just as the Terps’ comfortable lead seemed to be slipping away, Layman dove for a loose ball and it knocked off of guard Devon Bookert’s leg with 57 seconds left to give the Terps a key possession that essentially sealed the victory.

The Seminoles never trimmed the Terps’ lead below eight points in part because they just couldn’t keep up with Allen. The Terps’ floor general hit that early three off the feed from Wells and never looked back.

GUARD DEZ WELLS scored 15 points and had six assists in the Terps’ 83-71 victory over Florida State on Saturday at Comcast Center. marquise mckine/the diamondback “[Assistant] coach [Scott] Spinelli on the left wing, he become more ag- and Allen was stuck in the air with when to be aggressive and directed always tells you to hold your follow gressive. He attacked the rim to finish the shot clock winding down. So he an offense that shot 51.9 percent from through and hold your guide hand, but a scooping layup about a minute later flipped a desperation shot toward the the field, marking the team’s third once you get into a rhythm you don’t game in the past four in which they have to do that,” Allen said. “Once and nailed an awkward mid-range hoop that slipped through the net.

“After that, I felt like I could just have shot better than 50 percent. runner after that. you get an open look, you can pretty “He’s definitely more under much throw it up there and you know Allen drove to his left on the play make anything,” Allen said.

Despite Allen’s confidence, Turgeon control,” Layman said. “Last year it’s going to go in.” and jumped to make a pass to guard Nick Faust in the corner. A Seminoles didn’t think he took many bad shots. and then when he first came back, defender retreated to Faust, though, Rather, Allen appropriately chose he would get a little crazy at times akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

plays,” Layman said. “It was that play tonight that really kind of saved it for us.”

Tonight in Charlottesville, Va., the Terps begin a stretch in which three of their next four games are against ranked foes, starting with No. 20 Virginia. A trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium to face No. 11 Duke looms this Saturday, and in two weeks, No. 1 Syracuse treks to Comcast Center for a matchup that is already a public sellout. Sandwiched in there is a bout with the ACC’s 10th-place team, Wake Forest, on Feb. 18.

Basically, the next two weeks are crucial for the Terps.

After the Terps’ loss to Pittsburgh on Jan. 25, Layman said every game for the Terps is a

“I THINK WE’RE KIND OF CATCHING OUR STRIDE A LITTLE BIT RIGHT NOW AND FINDING OUT OUR IDENTITY, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY, AND PEOPLE ARE KNOWING THEIR ROLES MORE. SO IT’S GOOD TO SEE.” JAKE LAYMAN

Terrapins men’s basketball forward “must-win” contest. They’ve responded, winning three of their past four to climb above .500 in ACC play.

If the Terps are to put together an appealing postseason resume, it appears they’ll need to win at least two of the three upcoming games against ranked foes. They lack a signature win this season — arguably, the Terps’ two best wins are over

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Providence and Florida State, which aren’t overly impressive — and coupled with dreadful home losses to Oregon State and Boston University, they’ll likely need more than one key victory down the stretch.

And it will likely come down to defense and the extra-effort plays like Layman’s on Saturday if the Terps want to pull off a string of significant upsets to storm back

into the tournament picture.

The Terps have the talent to stay with almost any team offensively. Guard Seth Allen dropped a career-high 32 on Florida State, and guard Dez Wells had a careerhigh 33 against Boston College in December. Plus, Layman has a 27-point game to his credit, and forward Evan Smotrycz scored a career-high 20 points against Northern Iowa in November.

But the Terps haven’t had the knack for the big defensive stop or hustle play to ice a victory — until Layman’s play Saturday, at least.

“I knew it was a huge play for us because they were kind of on a tear offensively and getting foul after foul and and-1 after and-1s,” Layman said. “So it

was big for our team.”

For an unpredictable and mercurial group, there’s no telling how the next two weeks will go. But the Terps have strung together some positive results, and they enter a seasondefining stretch on a high note.

“I think we’re kind of catching our stride a little bit right now and finding out our identity, I guess you could say, and people are knowing their roles more,” Layman said. “So it’s good to see.”

During the season, the Terps have provided peeks into what they’re capable of in all facets of the game. Now is the time to put it together. dgallendbk@gmail.com

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FIRST BLOOD: Rambo scores four times in debut Terps thrash Mount St. Mary’s in season opener Saturday thanks to explosive, youth-laden offensive performance

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Matt Rambo and Connor Cannizzaro lined up at midfield Saturday afternoon at Byrd Stadium, both moments away from making their college debuts in the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s season opener against Mount St. Mary’s.

The freshmen were the only two representatives in coach John Tillman’s starting lineup from a highly anticipated re-

cruised to a 16-3 victory before an announced crowd of 1,203.

Rambo finished the contest with four goals and two assists, becoming the first Terp since 2004 with six or more points in a debut, while Cannizzaro, who started at midfield, scored twice.

“The big thing we tried to emphasize to those guys is that nobody has to win the game — just do the things that we’re coaching you to do,” Tillman said. “If you play fast, trust

cruiting class that Inside Lacrosse rated No. 1 in the nation. And it took less than five minutes for Rambo, the top-ranked attackman in the class of 2013, and Cannizzaro, the No. 3 attackman, to find the back of the net for the first time in Terps uniforms.

The goals were part of five unanswered scores in the first 10 minutes. The Mountaineers answered with two of their own to close the first quarter, but that was as close as they came to eclipsing the lead, as the Terps

See mount, Page 9 ATTACKMAN MATT RAMBO had six points in his first career game, the most in a Terps debut since 2004.

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Allen’s 32 points power Terps to third win in four games Saturday

Saturday’s win provides springboard into crucial stretch of schedule

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DANIEL GALLEN

As Dez Wells swiftly brought the ball up the floor about three minutes into the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s game against Florida State on Saturday afternoon, Seth Allen trailed behind to spot up on the left wing. So Wells sliced into the lane to draw defenders and ripped a pass back to Allen, who calmly stepped into the pass and buried his first 3-pointer of the night to give his team a 6-5 lead.

That transition three, Allen said, is what got him into a rhythm Saturday. And for the rest of the game, Allen never lost his groove and the Terps never relinquished the lead.

About two hours after draining his first 3-pointer of the night, Allen walked off the Comcast Center court with a career-high 32 points to lead his team to a convincing 83-71 win over the Seminoles. Allen shot 11-of-15 from the field for the game and 7-of-10 on 3-pointers to push the Terps past a team that beat them by 24 points Jan. 12.

In the loss in Tallahassee, Fla., last month, Allen shot 0-of-8 from the field and was still working back into full form after missing the season’s first 12 games with a broken bone in his foot. On Saturday,

Jake Layman sat on the court, his head tilted back to the Comcast Center rafters, and screamed while a beaming Nick Faust stepped over him to help him up. Behind Layman on the other side of the court, coach Mark Turgeon pumped his fist while the rest of the Terrapins men’s basketball team celebrated wildly.

Layman had all but sealed Saturday’s 83-71 win over Florida State.

With the Terps nursing a ninepoint lead with about a minute remaining, Seminoles guard Devon Bookert lost control of his dribble, and the ball went rolling into the backcourt. Faust pursued Bookert, but Layman left his man and dove for the ball. It knocked off Bookert’s leg and out of bounds, giving the Terps possession.

It wasn’t an emphatic dunk or a statement swat, and it shows up in the box score as simply a steal, but the forward’s desperate dive was the type of play the Terps will need in coming weeks as their NCAA tournament hopes remain in limbo.

“We were really just kind of limping into the finish there,” Turgeon said. “Jake dove and that really kind of took their spirit there,

See seminoles, Page 10 GUARD SETH ALLEN scored a career-high 32 points on 11-of-15 shooting in Saturday’s win over Florida State. The Terps play at Virginia tonight. chester lam/the diamondback

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FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS had 22 points and seven rebounds as the Terps routed Clemson, 95-43, yesterday at Comcast Center. The Terps wore pink uniforms for the annual Play4Kay games. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

As Clemson forward Nikki Dixon rose for a layup midway through the first half, Terrapins women’s basketball forward Brionna Jones stepped in Dixon’s path and swatted the ball out of her hands for her first block of the game.

It was one of the many ways the No. 10 Terps stymied the Tigers offense during yesterday’s ACC tilt.

They forced 27 turnovers, and their steady scoring led to a dominant 95-43 win at Comcast Center.

“You want to build confidence, like we’ve been able to do, in these

stretches,” coach Brenda Frese said.

“I think we’re getting a tremendous feel for one another and making easy plays for each other.”

Like in their stellar performance against Pittsburgh on Thursday, the Terps’ sharp ball movement and stingy defense played a significant role against Clemson (11-14, 3-8 ACC). The Terps (19-4, 7-3) had 29 assists and 10 turnovers, while holding their opponent to less than 50 points for the second straight game.

Forward Alyssa Thomas finished with 22 points and seven rebounds, while Jones, making her third straight start, had 14 points and seven boards in the matchup. The Terps’ bench players also added 42 points, helping them maintain

control for the rest of the game.

“Once the starters get going, that feeds into us, and then we keep it going,” forward Tierney Pfirman said. “We step in for them when we are supposed to produce like that, so that’s what we do.”

The Terps pounded the ball inside from the opening tip, shooting 6-of-8 from the field in the first three minutes, 40 seconds, building a 14-2 lead. Thomas scored 15 points and grabbed six rebounds in the first half, and Jones keyed the team’s post offense with seven points and four rebounds in the opening 20 minutes.

Clemson, which has the worst See TIGERS, Page 9

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Landing the internship

By Eliana Block @thedbk For The Diamondback It begins with a daunting to-do list that gets longer as the months whittle away. Next comes friends announcing their grand summer plans as parents start putting the pressure on. Before you know it, deadlines rapidly approach, panic sinks in and you’re finally forced to pay the price for procrastination and confront your greatest fear: the summer internship.

Sure, summer internships can be extremely rewarding and can catapult students to their dream careers down the line. But it can be extremely stressful to start applying and to make plans so far in advance when you don’t even know which bar you’re going to Friday night.

To offset stress paralysis, university officials encourage students to be proactive in researching summer opportunities. Erica Ely, internship program director at the Career Center, said the best ways to land summer internships are to utilize the university’s Careers4Terps site, have one’s resume reviewed and attend university-sponsored career events, such as the three-day Spring Career & Internship Fair, which starts Tuesday.

“Students shou ld show up

making sure to follow up are also crucial steps in the process, she said.

“Sending a follow-up email is knowledgeable the day of the fair. the step students miss the most,” It sounds good to an employer when Ely said.

Although the Career Center a student says, ‘I saw you had a position in public relations that I wanted pushes students to get involved early, some students are relucto talk to you about,’” Ely said.

Ending the conversation by taking tant to use the center’s resources. an employer’s business card and Freshmen psychology majors Vic-

toria Daley and Jasmine Trumbull said they felt “no pressure at all” — Trumbull hadn’t heard of the Career Center or the career fair, and Daley thought it might be too early in her college career to start searching for jobs and internships.

“As a freshman, I don’t think [the career fair] would do much for me,” Daley said.

However, Ely said it’s never too early to get started. In response to many underclassmen thinking there wasn’t a place for them at the career fair, the Career Center sought out some businesses specifically interested in freshmen and sophomores, such as Capital One, Verizon and Toyota.

SEE internships, PAGE 7

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Destined to fail?

Don’t let your career end before it begins

By Katie Takacs @thedbk For The Diamondback When their resume is one of hundreds, it can be difficult for students to stand out among their peers — unless they’re unknowingly standing out in a bad way.

With a difficult job market and an abundance of opportunities for personal mistakes to be documented on social media sites for years to come, students can easily sabotage their career chances. Luckily, there are ways to avoid these pitfalls.

Ashlee Kerkhoff, the business school’s undergraduate student programming director, said one of the biggest mistakes students make is not connecting with career services early and often enough, forgoing the opportunity to do their best in interviews.

“Even if you feel like you’re prepared, there are so many resources here. Any step in the process, we can help,” she said.

Kerkhoff said one of the most crucial skills the University Career Center provides is preparation.

When students are not equipped

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with the correct skills for an interview, it shows both lack of research and interest.

Karen Lewis, internship and career adviser and English undergraduate studies assistant director, agreed.

“The No. 1 issue I hear from recruiters is that students aren’t prepared,” Lewis said. “They want you to be able to know what their company does and ask questions about ‘X,’ ‘Y’ and ‘Z.’ They want you to have done your research.”

Employers aren’t the only ones who feel students aren’t prepared it’s easy to mess up your chances before you’ve walked into the interview. james levin/the diamondback — students do too, Kerkhoff said.

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“Students need to realize that ples to share, the ability to sell Some students have caught onto their skills or knowledge of the employers are typing their names the idea of sanitizing their social into Google to see the perception media accounts. Avoiding using company, she said.

While it’s essential for students they are giving the public,” Lewis to do sufficient research on poten- said. “Any picture that gives the SEE SABOTAGE, PAGE 8

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Everybody’s working for the weekend University students balance coursework, activities and on-campus jobs

By Joe Zimmermann @thedbk For The Diamondback Working at the information desk at Stamp Student Union, Diana Kim answers questions constantly. At times, that might involve giving step-by-step directions to a desperately lost student over the phone. Other times, she answers what she thinks could be the most common question asked in the lobby of the student union: “Where is the Stamp?”

Kim, a junior community health major, is one of almost 5,200 undergraduate students employed on the campus, according to Human Resources Director Dale Anderson.

In addition to working at the desk, Kim also belongs to a sorority and works with Dining Services.

Between her two jobs, she works about 40 hours a week, but she said

she hasn’t had a problem balancing school and work.

“My jobs are pretty flexible,” Kim said, noting her bosses are always understanding. “They know school comes first.”

Kim has worked at the information desk for the past two years, and she has worked with Dining Services all three years she has attended this university. In that time, she has learned to prioritize and manage her time wisely. Two jobs is a lot, she said, but they brings in enough money for rent.

L au ren Jones, a ju n ior accounting major, is another of the nearly 1 in 5 undergraduates to work an on-campus job while taking classes. Jones, who recently started her job at the Visitor Center, worked a similar job at A nne Arundel Community College, and SEE campus, PAGE 5

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campus From PAGE 4 now she works a few times a week so she can still keep up with school.

“I’ve had jobs in school before, so I kind of know what I am and am not capable of,” Jones said.

Danielle Walkerwicz, a sophomore enrolled in letters and sciences, started her on-campus job at the University Book Center at the beginning of the semester, but she doesn’t think managing her time will be a problem. She scheduled all her classes so she would have more days available for work.

“Because of that, I’ve been able to successfully manage my time and make some money,” she said.

Students often seek out jobs for a chance to earn some extra cash, but that doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy working. Some even stick around after graduating.

Alex Nowak, a music major, and Nava Benham Shabahang, a dance major, were frequent customers at the Maryland Food Co-op before they began working there. Because of restrictive schedules, each started working there in their last semester, but once they started, they didn’t want to leave. Now they are still employed by the Co-op, even though they graduated in December.

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Philadelphia facilities.

Monica Karkhanis, a 2011 graduate, followed her love of “entertainment, media and pizza” to New York City to work as an event marketing “A couple of my big projects right coordinator at Nickelodeon.

Karkhanis organizes, plans and now include the Maryland Day website; we’re rebranding that,” he manages events worldwide for Nicksaid. “All the social media and all that elodeon, including the Kid’s Choice good stuff … that runs through me.” Awards and Comic-Con, she wrote While Siraj was unsure what he in an email.

“The minute I got the call for an would do when he graduated, Ike Richman, a 1988 graduate, represents interview, I took the Megabus to a rare case of someone who “fell into New York and never looked back,” she wrote. [his] dream job.”

University alumni end up all over As the vice president of public relations for Comcast-Spectator, the world in myriad careers, and Richman has publicized a variety many agree the skills they developed of events in his 20-year tenure, and the experiences they had during including the 1996 World Cup of their time as undergraduate students Hockey and the 2000 Republican shaped their future prospects for the better.

National Convention.

“I was really confident in myself; I “If you had gone back about 25 or 30 years ago and said, ‘Ike is spoke really well. I knew how to write going to do this,’ I would have said, and how to connect with people, ‘Yeah, that sounds about right,’” said and I think that’s what got me the Richman, who oversees public and job now,” said Siraj, who majored in media relations for the company’s communication.

University alumni offer advice for future

By Erica Bonelli @thedbk For The Diamondback Even after graduation day has come and gone, university students never really leave their pasts behind — rather, they become part of a network of alumni who are innovating, building, learning and communicating using skills learned at this university.

From the computer-savvy to the public relations wizards, university alumni end up in a plethora of careers.

Justin Siraj, a 2012 graduate, is a Web and new media strategies specialist working for the university’s marketing and communications department, in which he handles the university’s websites and does digital marketing.

Siraj said networking is the best thing students can do to further their job prospects and noted that his six diverse internships as an undergraduate were instrumental in helping him decide the direction of his career.

Richman, who got his start in radio, said he worked at student radio station WMUC and accepted

an offer to interview players at the Capitals’ game for the station, where he met the Philadelphia Flyers’ public relations director in the press box.

“I’d like to think that the skills I learned at Maryland really helped me. I studied journalism at MarySEE ALUMNI, PAGE 7

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Over the summer, Kardon worked as a real estate assistant, a job he found through his community email From PAGE 2 listserv. Fleskes, however, arrived Juniors Jason Kardon and Nicole at her summer position as a social Fleskes are both in the business media and marketing intern for school, which emphasized the im- Rene Arnéz through Careers4Terps. portance of students gaining hands- Both recommended students start on internship experience, they said. the search for summer internships “The business school stress- now because they can be a huge es being employable,” Kardon resume boost.

Karen Lewis, assistant director said. “There is a course, BMGT 367 [Career Search Strategies in of undergraduate studies in the Business], entirely dedicated to English department, said interning over the summer allows students to getting an internship.”

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“If you think you want to work in an industry, you should check it out first,” she said.

Lewis echoed Ely’s emphasis on the importance of following up.

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I worked at WMUC, so I was able to communicate on the radio,” he said.

Ultimately, Richman’s position today is a product of taking chances along the way, he said.

“It’s a little story called taking advantage of opportunities that exist,” Richman said. “Find someone that does what you want to do … and when you get ahold of them, ask them, ‘How did you get here?’”

Karkhanis also stressed the importance of internships and networking.

Karkhanis focused her interning in a specific field to show her dedication to entertainment and media.

Siraj and Karkhanis advised students to keep an open mind because career developments do not always turn out as expected.

“Work hard and do not let anyone tell you that you will not make it in your dream job,” Karkhanis said.

“It may not always turn out exactly how you had envisioned, but with enough determination and smarts you will get far.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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SABOTAGE From PAGE 3 her full name on social media sites and making her profiles private and unsearchable are steps senior environmental science major Alexa Nieves has taken, hoping potential employers won’t find anything negative about her online.

Jeremy Fields, a senior economics major, said he has heard horror stories of friends being denied jobs because of their online presence.

“I heard a story yesterday of a girl interviewing for a position.

When they looked at her Facebook, her profile picture was her, in a tub, feet in the air, jeans around her ankles with a beer in her hand,” he said. “She didn’t get the job.”

However, when used in the correct way, social media sites, specifically LinkedIn, can benefit students.. Kate Juhl, the Career Center’s student services and academic outreach program director, said it is important for students to have positive profi les on sites like LinkedIn with endorsements and skills.

Rachel Gottschalk, a junior management major, said it is sometimes

hard to clean up social media sites without completely deleting them, but it is also important for companies to see a “happy medium” to show personality.

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn might give employers a fi rst impression of a student, but beyond the computer screen students should also remember their clothing can make them stand out — in a positive or negative way. Lewis said it’s imperative to be mindful of clothing choices, which can sometimes be more difficult for women because of skirt lengths and shirt cuts.

With so many ways to hurt their chances, it’s important for students to be cognizant of the image they’re putting forward, in interviews and on social media sites, in order to land their dream job or internship. And the best thing they can do is work hard and put in the necessary time.

“Don’t sabotage yourself by neglecting to spend time on your job search. It’s not just about job searching,” Juhl said. “It takes persistence, networking and a lot of preparation.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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