February 20, 2014

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Social Security numbers accessed in data breach Largest cyberattack in university history yields personal data of 309,079 to unknown attacker

By Laura Blasey and Mike King @lblasey, @michaelrkingjr Senior staff writers A massive cyberattack struck university networks Tuesday morning,

putting personal student, faculty and staff information at risk.

O f f i c i a l s e s t i m a te 30 9,079 student, faculty and staff records were comprom i sed, i nclud i ng na mes, bi rth dates, u n iversity ID numbers and Social Security

numbers. No financial, medical or academic information was accessed, university officials said.

The database that was accessed contained information from everyone who has received a university ID from the College Park or Shady Grove campuses since 1998.

Because identity theft is possible, officials said the university will offer those affected one free year of credit

monitoring from a yet-to-be-determined company.

The case has been passed on to state and federal law enforcement for investigation, said Brian Voss, the university’s vice president of information technology and chief information officer. Voss encouraged everyone affected to be “vigilant” regarding their credit accounts.

In a letter sent to the university

community last night, university President Wallace Loh said the attack was “sophisticated” and officials are working to remedy the situation “with an abundance of caution and diligence.”

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State plans outreach for low-income high schoolers

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer the corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington was the target of a university partnership until GWU’s takeover. photo courtesy of mr. t in dc/flickr

Corcoran partnership dissolves

VISITORS TOUR the Central Maryland Research and Education Center in Upper Marlboro, the site of a planned sustainable food project. photo courtesy of EDWIN REMSBERG

Fresh from the farm Dining Services plans local Terp Farm pilot program

University’s plan ends with National Gallery, GWU takeover

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer

By Yasmeen Abutaleb @yabutaleb7 Senior staff writer

Starting in the fall, Dining Services will supply some campus food venues with fresh produce from Terp Farm, a new project coming to the Central Maryland Research and Education Center, about 15 miles from the campus.

The initiative, a collaboration between Dining Services, the Office of Sustainability and the agricultural college, received a $124,400 grant from the university’s Sustainability Fund to start and pilot the program for three years, Mark Stewart, sustainability office senior project manager, wrote in an email.

“Terp Farm received unanimous support from the Student Advisory Subcommittee and the University Sustainability Council,” he wrote.

“Everyone was delighted to see this partnership

… to develop a farm that will produce vegetables, fruits, and herbs for our own dining halls.”

During the pilot period, Dining Services’ goal is for the 2-acre plot in Upper Marlboro to provide produce not only for campus food venues but also for those who are food-insecure on the campus and in the surrounding community, said Allison Lilly, Dining Services sustainability and wellness coordinator.

“We really want this project to help everyone, even outside the dining halls,” she said.

Officials plan to use the produce in some dining hall kiosks and in the Green Tidings food truck.

The farm is an initiative stemming from Dining Services’ 2012 Sustainable Food Commitment, in which the university pledged to increase sustainable food in on-campus dining

Already lauded for their efforts to fund higher education, members of this state’s legislature are looking to further help lower-income students gain access to college degrees.

A bill in both the state’s House of Delegates and Senate would create the “College Admissions Outreach Program for High–Achieving Students.” The program would work with the state’s Higher Education Commission and Department of Higher Education as well as other higher education officials to provide college financial and admissions information more openly to lowerincome students.

Eligible students would include seniors in a state high school who are academically high-achieving and qualify for the state’s “Guaranteed Access Grant” — a program that covers the full financial need of students living below the poverty level.

While it is unclear exactly how the information will be administered and what it will include, the House bill’s co-sponsor Del. Kirill Reznik (D-Montgomery) said MHEC will determine the definition of “high-achieving student” and the finer details of the program. Reznik would like to see students from neighborhoods that see low college

After this university and the Corcoran Gallery of Art spent months exploring a potential partnership, Washington’s oldest private art museum has instead decided to pursue a plan announced yesterday that would have George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art take it over.

Under the proposed plan, George Washington would absorb the College of Art and Design while the National Gallery of Art would be in charge of the museum’s more than 17,000 pieces of art. After a period of study, the National Gallery of Art would obtain many of those pieces, and the rest would go to museums across the nation.

The announcement came as a surprise to university officials, given that this university and the Corcoran were studying a “mutually beneficial” partnership. That potential partnership, announced in April, would have enabled the university to access the iconic art museum’s vast collection while boosting arts and humanities programs at a largely STEM-focused institution.

“Not every courtship ends in marriage,” university President Wallace Loh said. “We’re still

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By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Staff writer To i mprove the city’s aesthetic appeal and take advantage of a n a nticipated Route 1 redesign, College Park City Council members discussed the possibility of undergrounding utilities between College Avenue and Route 193 during Tuesday night’s work session.

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“For a long ti me, the city of College Park has looked at burying the utilities lines and placing them underground because they’re not that attractive,” city Mayor Andy Fellows said. “For decades, it’s been our agenda to work towards putting them underground.”

The city is in a unique position to underground its utilities now, in conjunction with the planned redevelopment of Route 1, said District 2 Councilman P.J. Brennan.

“This is an opportunity that is going to come around again probably not for another 100 years. By doing these things together, you’re

SPORTS

TERPS FRESHMEN MAKE STRIDES Guard Roddy Peters and forward Damonte Dodd maintained poise in key moments of Tuesday’s 71-60 victory over Wake Forest P. 8

taking advantage of the opportunity to access those renovations and incorporate those renovations for undergrounding utilities into the road renovation,” Brennan said. “Those types of infrastructure projects don’t happen regularly.”

The council has until April 1 to decide whether it wants to move forward with the project, reject it or ask to postpone the decision.

“At this point we’ve moved to a place, finally, after really years and years of looking at this, where we have the opportunity to really discuss the specifics of financing and decide if we want to move forward,” Fellows

said. “It’s kind of exciting that we’ve gotten as far as we have. This is a great stride forward.”

The project will have drawbacks, however. If the council supports undergrounding utilities, District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said it would delay Route 1 developments at least five years. Additionally, the city commissioned the State Highway Administration last year to conduct a study on the project’s feasibility. The SHA consultant estimated it would take 75 months and cost approximately $14 million

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GALLEN: Examining attendance woes The Terps have struggled to fill Comcast Center at times this season, but there isn’t one place to heap all blame for empty seats P. 4

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BREACH From PAGE 1 IT security engineers and analysts. We also doubled our investment in top-end security tools,” Loh wrote. “Obviously, we need to do more and better, and we will.”

Division of Information Technology officials detected a data breach Tuesday between 8 and 9 a.m., Voss said.

Officials believe the information was accessed by an unknown source between 4 and 5 a.m. and then copied. No data were altered in the university’s networks, and university ID-related tasks, such as logging into Canvas or swiping into buildings, are unaffected, Voss said.

Within hours of detecting the breach, officials assembled a task force of law enforcement, computer forensic in-

vestigators and IT experts and began consulting with the FBI and state law enforcement.

“Someone worked around very stringent security and gained access to this data,” Voss said. “Whoever did this broke through multiple levels of security in order to get this file.”

Unlike some recent highprofile data breaches elsewhere, this university’s data breach did not occur as a result of a faulty preventative system or an IT mistake, Voss said.

“I wish it was an easy solution, that a mistake was made or a door was left open,” Voss said.

“What troubles me as an IT professional is I know the university security is really good — really good. That someone was able to get through is a real point of concern not just for the University of Maryland, but for everybody.”

Voss said officials do not

have any leads yet as to who the attacker is or where the attack was made from.

Other universities have faced similar breaches. In 2010, a cyberattack on Ohio State’s systems affected 760,000 people, according to The New York Times, and a breach at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, compromised 75,000 student and staff Social Security numbers in 2011.

And in July 2008, this university’s Department of Transportation Services accidentally exposed personal data for all enrolled students at the time.

The address labels on mailings sent to students about parking options were found to include the addressees’ Social Security numbers in addition to their names and addresses.

In that breach, affected students were offered a free year of credit monitoring

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“It’s never over,” Voss said.

“You can never be perfectly safe because the bad guys come up with new ways of doing things, and we counter, and then they come up with new ways of doing things.”

Officials launched Web page umd.edu/datasecurity at about 6 p.m. yesterday, where community members can learn how to check the status of their personal information and get help figuring out what to do next.

Officials encourage anyone with questions regarding the cyberattack to call a special hotline at 301-405-4440 or send an email to datasecurity@umd.edu.

Senior staff writers Yasmeen Abutaleb, Teddy Amenabar and Jenny Hottle contributed to this report.

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Loh said in April the impacts of partnering with the Corcoran could have greater implications than joining the Big Ten. Financial troubles have beleaguered the Corcoran for years. It once considered selling its more than 100-yearold Beau x-A rts bu i ld i ng, which is less than a half-mile from the White House. It also needs more than $100 million worth of renovations to bring the building up to modern museum standards.

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Better-of f h ig h school students will be studying colleges, admission procedures and costs, Reznik said, but lower-income students might be less inclined to look for information or might be from school districts lacking extensive counseling services for students looking to get into college.

“In this particular case, the information is available, but putting it together in such a way that makes it relevant to students who are in low college-attendance school districts is a huge benefit to them,” Reznik said.

Legislators hope the bill will encourage students deterred by cost to seek information about financial assistance, such as grants and scholarships, that

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More than 12 percent of Dining Services’ 2012 budget went toward providing susta i nable food i n ca mpus dining halls, according to a 2013 university sustainability report, and officials look forward to this program’s potential impact.

“We are indeed committed to providing food for the campus that meets sustainability criteria,” Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said. “You can’t get much more sustainable than a very, very local farm where the labor is provided by people of this campus.”

Labor will come from students in various agriculturerelated courses, an agricultural technician who will work

would make college more accessible and affordable, said Del. Eric Luedtke (D-Montgomery), a co-sponsor of the House bill.

“Low-income students in particular, who often see college as cost-prohibitive, need to be given information [about] existing state programs that can help them pay for school,” Luedtke said.

“Because otherwise, it’s very easy to look at the tuition statement and say, ‘No, I can’t afford that.’”

This particular bill resonates with one of the bill’s co-sponsors, Del. Alonzo Washington (D-Prince George’s), a university alumnus who grew up in a low-income household.

“I was a high-achieving student, and I was eligible for a Guaranteed Access Grant,” Washington said. “And if not for someone coming to me and telling me that this opportunity was available to me, then I wouldn’t have gone to college.”

full-time at the farm and other volunteers, Lilly said. This technician has yet to be hired.

Students said they appreciate this project because it will provide better-tasting, healthier food options while educating people about the social value of the food they eat.

“I think it’s so important to teach people, especially when they’re young, about sustainable food,” said Kelsey Sutton, a junior English and journalism major. “Eating food isn’t just about nutrition but where it’s coming from.”

Officials aim for Terp Farm to be a teaching tool as well as a food supply.

Students in the Institute of Applied Agriculture and other agriculture-related departments, such as plant sciences and landscape architecture, have been working with officials on the farm’s budget and other plans, said

The bill isn’t just for students, though, Reznik said.

Over the years, challenging budgets have made it more difficult for some public school districts to employ attentive, full-time high school counselors to help students understand the transition to college.

In some cases, one counselor would have to “float” from one school to another and assist every student. “ I wo u ld l i ke to s e e a program in place where we take some pressure off high school counselors who are incredibly overburdened in school districts that can’t afford to really have a number of high school counselors in each district,” Reznik said.

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professors Chris Walsh and Meredith Epstein.

A group of Walsh’s senior students are working out the details of the farm’s crop rotation schedule and other logistics for their capstone projects, he said.

“I think it’s a really good situation for education as well as the sustainability initiative,” said Walsh, a horticulture professor.

Students currently study the agriculture industry by taking field trips to local farms, such as Larriland Farm in Woodbine. With Terp Farm, classes will travel to the site each week for labs.

“It’s really exciting for us to have a sustainable farm we can teach on,” said Epstein, who teaches sustainable agriculture classes for the Institute of Applied Agriculture.

“I think that on-farm training in a formalized accredited

university setting is really lacking in the mid-Atlantic.”

Students will have the opportunity to work on the farm doing harvesting, production, packaging and other procedures during the academic year. Officials are looking into volunteer opportunities for other interested students.

“As we move the project forward, we’re looking to be able to get as many students involved as possible,” Lilly said.

“Every part of this project is invigorating and everyone that we’ve talked to about it is really excited to get involved.”

Nikki Waxman, a sophomore government and politics major, is among many students who look forward to a rise in awareness about sustainable food stemming from this project.

“It seems like a really cool sustainability initiative that will help to lessen the en-

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need to look at is the best value that this is going to bring to the long-term College Park and the community that we’re trying to create in the next five years with all this rapid development,” he said.

“And then what that cost is actually going to be to the city and to the taxpayer.”

Kabir said undergrounding utilities is also a city safety improvement, citing previous power outages due to severe weather conditions.

“It will be safe for the utilities itself,” Kabir said. “Every time there’s a storm … utilities lines get cut off.”

A lt hou g h $1 4 m i l l ion would be a burden on the city budget, Fellows said he hopes city officials will collaborate to figure out how to make undergrounding utilities “financially doable for the city.”

Brennan said he is hopeful the aesthetic and economic benefits undergrounding

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The county would shoulder $4 million of the cost, but the remaining $10 million burden on the city worries Kabir. The total city budget is $14.6 million.

“If the city needs to pay $10 million, I’m uncomfortable, honestly speaking from all the feedback I got from the residents, and they’re not comfortable,” Kabir said.

Brennan said he suports undergrounding utilities but is worried about the cost. He cited state Sen. Jim Rosapepe’s (D-Prince George’s and Anne Arundel) statement that if the option to underground utilities were free, the city would continue without hesitation. But there is a cost, Brennan said, and it must be considered.

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vironmental impact of our campus,” Waxman said.

Students will provide the labor, and the land has been provided by the Upper Marlboro facility of the Central M a r yl a nd Resea rch a nd Education Center, which the agriculture college runs. The facility set aside the land exclusively for the pilot project, Lilly said.

As students continue to work out the details of the program, many developments remain uncertain leading up to the fall kick-off.

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Why can’t we fill Comcast Center?

Weak attendance for athletic events isn’t unique to this school — it’s indicative of a national trend DANIEL GALLEN At some point during every Terrapins men’s basketball or football season, “the talk” happens.

Sometimes it’s brought up by a famous alum with a national platform, such as ESPN host Scott Van Pelt, or by a flurry of photos posted to Twitter before a game. And each time, it’s followed by self-examination, sometimes unpleasant online discourse and reassurances that things aren’t really as bad as they seem.

But no matter the cause, the same question and subsequent discussion happens every year: Why can’t Terps fans fill Byrd Stadium and Comcast Center?

Tuesday night’s win over Wake Forest, which drew an announced 10,665 — the smallest crowd to attend a home ACC game this season — to the 17,950-seat Comcast Center, was just the latest game to spark this tired conversation.

And at this point, it’s clear: Fans just aren’t going to come to games unless it’s a big contest against a national name. It’s unfortunate, but that’s the truth. That’s not to say Terps fans aren’t as passionate as they used to be, but the way the culture and climate is right now, a mammoth arena won’t be filled every night.

M a ny fa n s o n Tw i t te r a f te r Tuesday night’s game pointed to the Terps’ lack of success as a main reason for the attendance woes.

The Terps are 7-7 in ACC play and 15-12 overall, making them 57-40 overall and 21-27 in the ACC since coach Mark Turgeon took over in 2011. The Terps are an average team, and mediocrity is the easiest way to build apathy.

For a program with expectations as high as this one, it is disappointing. This university’s students and recent alumni were raised on Gary Williams, Juan Dixon, Steve Blake and the 2002 national championship. The fan base is starved for a return to the NCAA playoffs, which the Terps haven’t reached since 2010.

But arguing that winning solves everything is shortsighted. Sure, it helps, but take a look at other successful college teams. According to a Duke Chronicle report from January 2012, Duke started selling tickets for the student section at Cameron Indoor Stadium — arguably one of the most famous in the nation — to the public to fill it. That’s for one of the most prestigious basketball programs in history.

In November 2012, The Crimson White at Alabama reported that about 30 percent of student tickets went unused for Crimson T ide

football games at Bryant-Denny Stadium, and a Wall Street Journal article in August 2013 suggested the Alabama fan base is “bored.” That’s for a program with a 60-7 record and three national championships over the past five years.

Clearly, it’s not a problem unique to this university. Attendance is down all over the country, and it’s because of a number of factors, including the rise of amenities available to fans to enhance the home-viewing experience. Instead of roasting in the bleachers in Byrd Stadium in 90-degree weather in September or trekking more than a mile from South Campus to Comcast Center in the dead of winter, students can watch on a flat-screen or find an online stream to watch from the comfort of their dorm rooms with their favorite beverage in hand.

And this season, the Terps haven’t been playing bad basketball, either.

They were inches or centimeters or millimeters or nanometers away from upsetting then-No. 8 Duke on Saturday, and arguably two plays away from beating then-No. 17 Virginia on the road. Even their loss to North Carolina appears worse on paper than it was. After digging a deep hole early, the Terps played the Tar Heels almost even in the second half.

EMPTY SEATS lie behind Nick Faust (right) as Seth Allen takes a pair of free throws in Tuesday night’s win over Wake Forest. The game only filled 10,665 of Comcast Center’s 17,950 seats, resulting in the smallest crowd to attend a conference game this season. marquise mckine/the diamondback So where does the blame fall?

On the fans for not making the trip to the stadiums and arenas on the campus? On the Terps for just not being that good? Or is it just that Comcast Center, which was built at the height of the Terps’ success and is the fourth-largest arena in the ACC, is just too big to fill?

It’s unfair to heap the blame all on one thing. It’s never black and white — it doesn’t make sense to blame only students while expecting them to watch a subpar product, and it doesn’t make sense to blame

the Terps when they can’t directly control the number of people who come to the games.

In the end, what’s happening at this university is symptomatic of a larger, national problem, one that doesn’t really have a distinct solution. Until things change — however that happens — that’s the way it is.

But at least Monday’s game against No. 1 Syracuse will be packed.

Daniel Gallen is the sports editor of The Diamondback. He can be reached at dgallendbk@gmail.com.

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Giving up on going out Big nights out usually aren’t worth the hassle ERIK SHELL Arlington, Va.: home of the Iwo Jima memorial, the Pentagon and public parking garages that close at 1:30 p.m. on a Saturday.

Unimportant as it may seem, this column is about the latter.

It was not as if the sign was invisible; it was clearly placed right next to the garage entrance. Nevertheless, I found myself staring at a bolted-shut garage door Saturday night with no number to call and too much work to do. This event followed a disappointing and expensive viewing of a movie with almost no plot and the Metro ticket machine’s decision to eat about $10 more than was required for me to get from the expensive movie theater to the locked garage by the Metro.

This does not even come close to describing the crazy and largely disastrous adventures I get myself into whenever I leave the house. Be it to meet an old friend or to attend a family gathering, the threshold of my front door seems to be the dividing line between stable existence

and Thunderdome-style anarchy.

Even if I successfully reach my destination and park legally — a near impossibility — activities become immediately limited. Dancing, while fun, quickly becomes odd for others around me; the noises and general mistrust of what is in my drink turn me off to dance clubs and theme parks alike; and while I love jazz clubs, I find that I have almost no idea what to do with my hands. Do you snap along? Clap at odd places?

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Yet what is at home? Typically, even if you are a poor college student in a dorm, there is food. Yes, there is food in the real world, but it is not your food. However, outside food can quickly become yours with the power of the Internet and a delivery person. There is also any drink and company combination you can think of, with the added bonus of having fewer social codes on noise level and pants requirements.

Last but not least, it is worth reminding the reader that the human population has spent the better part of existence perfecting ways in which we can exist separate from the fresh air. This can be lightly tossed aside by the reader in light of meager

displays of outdoor romanticism, such the Olympics. But there is a reason the warm, glowing hearth of all peoples was inside the hut, close to the aforementioned food, drink and pants, and not in the long line outside Club Sweat and Body Odor.

True, there are those rare nights that stand out. The time you meet a celebrity or a future significant other are particularly vivid, so it can be hard to let those go. But when it is the second time your car gets towed from a hipster-infested, scooter-themed coffee bar during art week, reality starts to kick in rather fast.

It comes to a point where the risks outweigh the benefits. Though this may just be my complete inability to park properly, the productivity involved with staying in more than makes the case for me. Though wanderers all, we must eventually come to the same conclusion as others have before us, namely that home, not an impound lot, is where the heart is.

Eri k Shell is a junior classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at eshelldbk@gmail.com.

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battle far less “glamorous” than battles remembered today. We often forget that inhabitants of the islands lost their homes and ways of life to conduct the nuclear tests.

I was fortunate enough to come across actual pictures and footage from the battle. If you watch them, you can get some sense of the Americans’ undertaking, some 70 years ago. Young Marines, many barely college-age, sped to shore after a short, fierce bombardment. Camera footage shows Marines crawling low to avoid Japanese bullets and medics frantically checking on comrades.

Typical scenes of war contrast with the expansive Pacific in the background. Most somberly, however, I found a picture of a Marine dragging a dead comrade from the ocean. It was a sobering sight and a reminder of the ultimate sacrifice made for us by people we will never know.

So today, I wanted to bring their sacrifices to your attention. Thousands of families and friends lost loved ones in that battle, so it is important we honor them.

Beyond the little atoll, there are millions of people and places that deserve our remembrance. We might not be able to hear all their stories, but each sacrifice is worthy of our honor. Today, these sacrifices continue. Just last week, two American soldiers, Spc. John Pelham and Sgt. First Class Roberto Skelt, died in Afghanistan. Most of us did not hear their names on the news, but it does not mean we should not honor their service to our nation.

We should make a conscious effort to honor our nation’s service personnel, past and present. It does not need to be a national holiday for us to be thankful for these great Americans.

Seventy years ago, thousands of Americans and Japanese fought desperately for pieces of coral less than half the size of College Park. When the dust settled, the American flag flew above the battlefield. But not before 262 Americans and 2,677 Japanese lost their lives in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific War. Few know the existence of the Battle of Enewetak, and even fewer care. But we should.

Those pieces of coral, Enewetak Atoll, form a mere speck in the Pacific Ocean that has seen more than its fair share of destruction throughout history. Enewetak Island itself rises a mere 16.5 feet above sea level at its highest point.

The atoll that comprises the island group is all but invisible on any world map. But for all of its obscurity, Enewetak and its atoll would play a vital role both during and after World War II .

Enewetak became an American naval base that supported the thousands of ships necessary to win the Pacific War. It provided an airfield and shelter to the U.S. Navy that allowed it to progress farther and farther west, freeing more and more people. Its name is relegated to a passing mention, a forward operating base of a vast and far more interesting naval fleet. After the war, Enewetak hosted several nuclear bomb tests, including the first hydrogen bomb test. Whatever your feelings toward nuclear weapons, this test was a significant event in the course of human history.

Yet for all Enewetak’s uses, we forget about its human costs. Matt Dragonette is a sophomore acFor the forward operating base, counting major. He can be reached at Americans gave their lives in a mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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BEATS BY CHRISTOPHER He’s been sampled by Lil Wayne. He’s performed with Chick Corea. His music career is on the verge of taking off in a big way — and he’s only a junior

By Brianna Patterson @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback Christopher McClenney’s room is filled with contradictions. In a dorm room that doubles as a makeshift studio, posters of Jimi Hendrix and Deadmau5 hang near a Harvard Law School pamphlet; books on music history and theory lie in a stack mixed with LSAT prep books. It’s a combination that sums up the junior music and Spanish major’s work ethic, taste in music and style as a music producer.

“I’m always trying to find something new to build upon whatever I’m doing,” said McClenney, who studies jazz piano performance. “I value my versatility. It gives me [an] advantage.”

Two years ago, McClenney, now 20, began producing music with the music-creation software GarageBand. He started with making simple loops with his guitar and posting them online — now, he is MisterMack, hip-hop/ electronic/neo-soul producer with a collective and two EPs, including Infatuation/Heartbreak, which was released this month.

“I learned [how to produce] from playing around; it’s one of those things you have to keep messing with,” McClenney said. “You have to keep exploring and looking into techniques that other people use.”

His SoundCloud account is filled with remixes of popular songs, his own creations and songs produced with collective MackFive, featuring two other student rappers and musicians from this university: Victor Olalekan and Myles Muehlberger.

Listening to a variety of music has helped him build his unique sound, McClenney said. He draws his musical influences from Kanye West and Pharrell Williams to D’Angelo

than have to and his musical borrow,” he idol, Herbie said.

Hancock.

Another As a jazz single from pianist, guit h e E P, tarist and all“For You,” around music momenbuff, McClentarily leaves ney showcases behind the his diversity electronica and training in for a piano his music. ballad. The “I try not to seasoned use ordinary musician chords in my was nervous music,” he said. about the “So in some of response to my music I inhis singing corporate a lot even as he of electronic uploaded keyboard and t h e t ra c k I use certain to Soundc h o rd s t h a t Cloud, he might not said. show up in pop It’s easy music.” to capture McClenthe essence ney released of emotion Infatuation/ with lyrics, Heartbreak, a but Mcconcept album Clenney about love, on manages to Valentine’s foreground Day. the vibes “Things of love, lust I’ve tended to and admirad o fo c u s o n tion in eight love,” he said. tracks with “I guess I’m a CHRISTOPHER MCCLENNEY, above, released Infatuation/Heartbreak earlier this month. photos courtesy of christopher mcclenney few words. mushy guy.”

“This isn’t just a series of beats,” The EP is clever, creative and to create a heavy R&B slow-jam feel moving. The down-tempo vibes and and climaxes with a skilled and sultry he said. “This is not just a woman’s story or a man’s story; this is just a ethereal vocal snippets are hypno- guitar solo.

M c C l e n n e y ’s m o s t re c e n t story about love.” tizing, entrancing the listener in an He set out to make a compilation musical endeavor is his singing. atmosphere of passion.

Opening track “Slowitdown” sets Aside from a few samples, most of of relatable and thought-provoking a seductive tone with a trippy vocal the vocals on Infatuation /Heart- songs, and Infatuation/Heartbreak is a love soundtrack with the right sample from Ciara’s “Body Party.” break are by McClenney.

“Playing instruments, I’ve gotten combination of rhythm and sound to The last song, “Extro/After the Fact,” uses a sample from Miguel’s “Adorn” in the habit of wanting to create rather unlock a litany of emotions.

McClenney stands out as a producer because his music’s quality is far and above most student work. His music doesn’t sound like it was crafted on a laptop and electronic keyboard under a dorm room’s lofted bed. While his style of music draws favor to beat mixers XXYYXX, SangoBeats or SBTRKT, he sounds more like a contender than an admirer.

And it’s this musicality that has gotten him noticed by important people in the music industry. Though he started out working on music for local artists, his beats have since moved on to artists such as Meek Mill, Sevyn Streeter, Lil Wayne and Fabolous. Earlier this month, he played piano on stage with music legends Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea.

“Nothing is guaranteed, but it’s exciting to finally be in the position where I know someone who might know someone in the industry,” McClenney said.

McClenney is talented and he knows it, but the humble savant is not afraid to keep learning and adding to his skill set.

“No person is a master of music; you’re always a student,” he said. “ T h e m o re yo u ex p a n d yo u r palette, the more you can be creative and think of ways to expand your own music.”

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FRESHMEN From PAGE 8 effective down the stretch.

Turgeon said Peters played his best minutes of the season at then-No. 8 Duke, and the third-year coach praised Dodd for his interior defense in the 69-67 loss.

Dodd, a 6-foot-9 shotblocking specialist, didn’t appear in the three contests leading up to the game at Duke, in which he played seven minutes, but he helped hold the Blue Devils to 23.1 percent shooting from the field in the second half. After playing in the closing minutes of a heated contest at Cameron Indoor Stadium, Dodd had little trouble maintaining composure before an announced 10,665 fans at Comcast Center on Tuesday night.

“Man, if I can do that in a big game like that, I know I can just be calm and do what

I’m supposed to do,” Dodd said Monday. “It was a big confidence booster.”

Dodd’s playing time has been sporadic this season, and before the matchup at Duke, he struggled to acclimate to the college game.

Turgeon has elected to keep the Centreville native on the bench in nine games this season, yet Dodd has played at least 10 minutes in seven other games.

But when Dodd stays out of foul trouble and avoids mental lapses, his length provides an added dynamic to the Terps defense.

“If Damonte can continue to grow as our team grows, it’s going to make us a better team,” Turgeon said. “Especially on the defensive end.”

Peters’ season has unfolded a bit differently than Dodd’s has. A four-star recruit from Suitland, Peters was thrust into a significant role early in the season, as starting point

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guard Seth Allen missed the team’s first 12 games with a broken bone in his left foot.

Peters exhibited flashes of promise in the season’s first two months. He started 10 games and earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors midway through December after he scored a career-high 14 points in an 88-80 victory at Boston College. Since Allen’s return, though, Peters has seen less time on the court, and he’s struggled to adjust to his limited role.

In back-to-back games against Virginia Tech and North Carolina earlier this month, Peters combined for six turnovers, one assist and zero points.

But Turgeon said the shifty guard learned while spending more time on the bench and showed improvement at Duke when he locked down guard Quinn Cook.

“Roddy’s playing time’s gone down, but his coachabil-

ity has gone way up,” Turgeon said Monday. “He’s listening to the coach, which has made him a better player. So therefore, he’s going to get on the court a little bit more.”

Peters played 14 minutes against the Demon Deacons, his most since a Jan. 12 loss at Florida State, and dished out three assists to one turnover.

With Allen proving ineffective for much of the game, Peters stabilized an originally erratic offense to help the Terps fend off Wake Forest, earning praise from Turgeon.

T h e Te r ps ’ t h i rd -yea r coach hadn’t trusted Peters enough to put him on the floor during critical moments in the past several weeks, but Tuesday night his newfound faith in the freshman floor general paid off.

“Roddy Peters played well for us tonight,” Turgeon said.

“He really ran the team.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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Jones played at least 15 minutes in each of her starts, a mark she reached seven times in her first 20 games coming off the bench.

“We know that she’s going to stay consistent,” center Alicia DeVaughn said. “She’s like our second double-digit scorer, so it’s something we know and guarantee from her.”

Jones scored only seven points during the Terps’ 84-63 loss at Duke on Monday, though, which broke her four-game doubledigit scoring streak. The Blue Devils outscored the Terps in the paint, 38-26.

The Terps’ struggles inside spread to the rest of the offense, as they rely on post players’ effectiveness to free up space for three-point shooters. Though the Terps did manufacture some open looks against Duke, they shot 5-of-21 from three-point range, as the Blue Devils were still

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“I thought it really hurt us, obviously, against Duke,” Frese said. “We got to be able to rely consistently on a post presence for all of it to work together.”

Jones is a key part of that now, thanks to her recent play. Her contributions inside have helped her become a mainstay in the starting rotation, and earning that role after an ACL tear has provided additional motivation.

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YOUTH MOVEMENT Dodd, Peters play important minutes for Terps in loss at Duke, win vs Wake Forest

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Damonte Dodd and Roddy Peters jogged onto the court at an unusual time Tuesday night during the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s matchup with Wake Forest.

Neither Dodd, a forward, nor Peters, a guard, had been consistent enough to earn significant playing time during much of the ACC schedule. But coach Mark Turgeon didn’t hesitate to send the two freshmen into the game with 5:48 left as the Terps were clinging to an eight-point lead against the Demon Deacons.

Peters steadied the Terps’ offense upon hitting the floor, and Dodd swatted away a short jumper from Arnaud Adala Moto to help the Terps polish off a 71-60 victory. During a game in which the Terps leaned heavily on guard Nick Faust’s career-high 20 points, they also relied on their two rookies to close out an important win.

“We kind of had to get some different guys in the game,” forward Jake Layman said. “Damonte and Roddy really stepped up tonight.”

Tuesday night marked the second straight game Dodd and Peters were FORWARD DAMONTE DODD (35) provided an interior shot-blocking presence for the Terps in their 71-60 win over Wake Forest on Tuesday and their 69-67 defeat at Duke on Saturday. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

guard roddy peters played 14 minutes in Tuesday night’s win over Wake Forest after playing solid See freshmen, Page 7 defense against Duke guard Quinn Cook in Saturday’s loss at the Blue Devils. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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Healthy Jones plays major minutes Freshman who tore ACL last year has started five straight games

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CENTER BRIONNA JONES has scored at least 10 points in four of the past five games. file photo/the diamondback

When Brionna Jones’ right knee gave out in a game during her senior year at Aberdeen High School in January 2013, her future role with the Terrapins women’s basketball team, the program she committed to the summer before, became uncertain.

Entering her first season at College Park coming off an ACL tear — an injury that decimated the Terps’ roster last season — unsettled the center, but it motivated her to improve so she could contribute when she was healthy.

“I didn’t know what to expect after that happened,” Jones said. “I was going to work hard and try to do what I need to do — what they wanted me

to do — and see what happens.”

In the games before their matchup against Florida State tonight, Jones’ improvements have made her a significant part of the No. 8 Terps. The Havre de Grace native has started five straight games, helping the team reach a 4-1 record during that span.

After a three-game losing streak in which the team had inconsistent post scoring, coach Brenda Frese placed Jones in the starting lineup for the Terps’ matchup at Syracuse on Feb. 2. Jones has kept that spot since, averaging 10.8 points and 5.8 rebounds in her starts.

“She gives us a legitimate inside post scoring threat,” Frese said. “As she continues to gain experience and confidence, I think you’re going to continue to see our team grow. Love that move that we’ve made, it has

really made us a better team.”

The Terps won each of the four games Jones started and scored at least 10 points. Before she began anchoring the Terps’ inside unit on offense, however, she had to slim down her 6-foot-3 frame during the offseason to withstand the physical demands of the college game.

Jones has lost 30 pounds since joining the team, and she noticed the difference in her play instantly. Her improved fitness has helped her run the floor during fast breaks and outmuscle opposing post players for rebounds and layups.

“I just feel like I’ve gotten stronger, like physically stronger,” Jones said. “I can move faster than I could before, and I think it’s just all going to keep See JONES, Page 7

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