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Univ begins purging data accessed in breach Officials have learned how cyberattacker gained access to personal info of more than 309,000

By Yasmeen Abutaleb @yabutaleb7 Senior staff writer The university has purged its databases of about 140,000 names, Social Security numbers, birth

dates and university IDs of former students that were compromised in a massive data breach, university President Wallace Loh said.

University officials have also learned how an attacker obtained the personal information of more than

309,000 students, faculty and staff members dating back to 1998, and they have taken measures to protect university systems from an identical method of attack. For security purposes, university officials did not disclose how the data was obtained.

After officials learned of the attack two weeks ago, they informed much of the community within two days and have since offered those affected

up to five years of free credit protection with Experian.

Officials are also working on purging the names of former faculty and staff from the affected databases, which Loh said they hope to complete soon.

The process has taken some time, Loh said, because officials must first ensure that these students and faculty do not need any university

services, such as financial aid or paychecks, that would require their Social Security number to be stored in an information database.

Additionally, officials are seeking ways to purge information for current students who were affected without disabling their university IDs or financial services. yabutalebdbk@gmail.com

President proposes tax-reform budget plan Few aspects would aid college affordability

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer

Key Hall for the history department’s discussion, “What is a Maidan, and why are people protesting and getting shot there?”

Piotr Kosicki, a university history professor who helped organize the event, said the discussion’s purpose was to give the audience historical context for the recent crisis in Ukraine.

The panel explored past conflicts between Russia and Ukraine as precursors to Ukraine’s

President Obama unveiled his most recent budget proposal yesterday, cementing a strong middle class as a top priority while leaving college aid funding little room for growth.

Obama outlined three important college affordability initiatives in his budget, all of which are geared toward the federal tax code. One would permanently extend a tax credit for students; another would simplify taxes for Pell Grant recipients, and a third would remove a federal provision that taxes individuals on any prior forgiven student loans.

The American Opportunity Tax Credit allows students to claim a tax credit of up to $2,500 per year against their higher education expenses, such as tuition, should their income fall below certain benchmarks: $90,000 a year for single filing and $180,000 for joint filing. It was introduced in 2009 and will continue until December 2017, but with his budget proposal, Obama is asking Congress to make the credit permanent.

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panelists discussed the turmoil in Ukraine, especially the protests in the capital of Kiev and Russian troop movements, with about 60 audience members in Francis Scott Key Hall last night. sung-min kim/the diamondback

‘SOCIETY CAN CHANGE’ Historians, professors, former ambassador discuss Ukrainian conflict, prospect of Russian military intervention

By Jeremy Snow @thedbk Staff writer As Russian troops mobilize for potential combat in Ukraine less than two weeks after the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, President Obama announced a suspension of all military engagements with Russia.

In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, anti-government protests have become increasingly violent

as people clash over ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s rejection of a deal that would strengthen ties with the European Union.

For t wo hou rs l a st n i g ht, more t h a n 4,800 miles from the center of the protests, a panel of historians, professors and a former ambassador to Ukraine educated students on Ukraine’s history and its relationship with Russia and shared opinions on the unfolding political unrest.

About 60 people gathered in Francis Scott

Not attending college creates lifelong costs

RICHARD MATTESON, 1928-2014

Carrying wonders within Richard Matteson inspired ed students

age 85. His words, however, continue to inspire Mary Duru, his student from 1975, who has carried around a copy of that quotation with her for the past 76 years.

By Ellie Silverman “In fact, it is hanging on my kitchen @esilverman11 wall as we speak,” Duru said last Senior staff writer night. “When you ponder that [quoOn a piece of paper tacked onto the tation] for a while, you really feel embulletin board in Richard “Dick” L. powered that what you’re searching Matteson’s office was the quotation, for was really within yourself.”

Matteson tried to instill that “We carry within us the wonders we seek, we seek the wonders we carry feeling of empowerment in his students, Duru said. He was a professor within us.”

Matteson, a university professor in the education college’s human defor more than 30 years, died of cancer velopment and quantitative methodin his College Park home on Feb. 13 at ology department for more than 30

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“[My parents] always are telling me, ‘Gabi, you need a degree, just because we don’t doesn’t mean you shouldn’t,’” Amige said. “I feel like my dad was very lucky. He’s a very smart businessman so he was able to start from nothing, but a lot of it was luck and the time. Nowadays, it’s much more competitive and just a different world. You need an education.”

By Talia Richman While the price of going to college @talirichman continues to rise, not attending is Senior staff writer becoming even more costly. College graduates ages 25 to 32 who work fullAlthough Gabi Amige’s father never time make about $17,500 more per went to college, he has made a living year than other employed millennias the owner of a flower wholesale als with just a high school diploma, business. But Amige, a freshman cell according to a Pew Research Center biology and genetics major, said she study released last month. doubts she would find a job if she were to follow her father’s example.

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Pew study: income gap highest in past 50 years

richard matteson, 30-year professor, died at age 85 on Feb. 13. photo courtesy of anne matteson years, and Duru said he dedicated countless hours to helping students reach their goals, even taking them out for Ledo pizza.

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OPINION

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UKRAINE

O k s a n a N e s t e re n k o, a U k ra i n i a n l aw profe ssor at Yaroslav the Wise Law From PAGE 1 Academy of Ukraine, focused social protests and Russia’s on U k ra i ne’s f utu re. She recent placement of troops argued that a new constitui n C r i m e a , a U k r a i n i a n tion, especially one crafted by the country’s citizens, peninsula.

“It’s not just one event that wou ld g ive U kra i ne more causes the revolution,” said economic freedom and libMichael Wirtz, a junior gov- erties. She said such a docernment and politics major. ument is mandatory to the “Instead it’s a combination country’s success. “ W h e n w e c h a n ge t h e of uprisings, so it will be interesting to see how it plays constitution, we can change out and changes the country.” institution,” she said. “Then Former U.S. Ambassador society can change.”

T he lect u res were folto Ukraine William Miller spoke first about his expe- lowed by a question-andriences working in Ukraine answer session in which the and explained U.S.-Ukraine panelists shared their opinions on how stakeholders relations in the 1990s.

were handling the situation.

University government and politics professor Vladimir Tismaneanu said foreign intervention, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apparent proposed Crimea occupation, is not an effective or appropriate means to end the violence.

“It is a shameless intervention,” he said. “[Putin] has no right to decide who is the legitimate or illegitimate leader of Ukraine.”

When asked about U k ra i ne’s i mpor ta nce to the U.S. or other European nations, Tismaneanu replied by referencing the opening epigraph of Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom the Bell

william miller, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, speaks to a crowd about the foreign policy dispute. sung-min kim/the diamondback “When someone dies, don’t Tolls, a quote from English poet John Donne about how ask for whom the bell tolls — even a stranger’s death af- it tolls for you.” Tismaneanu said. “The dignity of Europe fected the poet.

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“IF I WASN’T HERE, I’M CONFIDENT THAT I COULD GET A JOB, BUT I’M NOT CONFIDENT From PAGE 1 IN HOW WELL IT WOULD PAY.”

“I’m going to college to get a good job afterwards,” said Sarah Kruger, a freshman mechanical engineering major.

“If I wasn’t here, I’m confident that I could get a job, but I’m not confident in how well it would pay.”

The salary gap is the widest it has been in almost 50 years.

In 1979, when the baby boomer generation was t he sa me age millennials are now, the average high school graduate made about 77 percent of what a college graduate earned, according to the study. Today, you ng adu lts w ith on ly a high school diploma earn 62 percent of what the typical college graduate makes.

“In the 1960s and ’70s, you could be a young, high schooleducated worker and go work in the manufacturing sector and those were pretty highpaying jobs,” said Rick Fry, a senior economist with the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project. “Because of the decline in manufacturing, those sorts of good paying opportunities have diminished.”

The study also revealed stark differences in unemployment. Millenials with a bachelor’s degree have an unemployment rate of 3.8 percent, about 2.8 percentage points lower than the national average. In comparison, 12.2 percent of millennial high school graduates are out of work.

“Employers increasingly want workers who can solve problems,” Fry said. “There’s

less need for workers who can do repetitive tasks and more need for those who think outside the box, work in teams and use technology in the workplace. Those sorts of skills are the kinds of skills college graduates disproportionately tend to have. “ Amige has seen the reality behind the statistic — her mother also didn’t attend college, and her search for work has been difficult so far. To improve her job prospects, she’s started taking classes at the local community college.

“She’s been trying to find

bachelor’s degrees believe that, despite the cost, the investment in college is worth it — a n idea that SARAH KRUGER seems to resonate with stuFreshman mechanical engineering major dents applying to this university. In fall 2004, there something, but you just can’t were 28,841 undergraduate without a degree these days,” applications. That number Amige said. rose to 33,949 by fall 2013.

The study also highlighted Ryan Hegarty, a junior a severe contrast in poverty m e c h a n i c a l e n g i n e e rlevels among those with and ing major, said he agrees, without degrees. despite a l ready bei ng In the millennial genera- $25,000 in debt because of tion, 6 percent of college grad- college loans. uates live in poverty, whereas “It’s an obvious decision 22 percent of people with only that if you want to get ahead a high school diploma do. in life, you go to college,” About 15 percent of Generation Hegarty said. “It’s a return Xers with only a high school investment.” diploma dealt with poverty in 1995 and 7 percent of baby trichmandbk@gmail.com boomers did in 1979.

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BUDGET

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Rae Grad, this university’s federal relations director, said the fate of this provision as it moves through the budgeting process is unclear, as the AOTC isn’t “wildly popular” among some legislators. A 2013 analysis by the Tax Policy Center estimated the costs of the tax credit to be $137.4 billion over the next decade.

There is also a provision to exclude forgiven student loans as taxable income. Under federal law, when a lender cancels an individual’s student loan debt, that individual must report whatever part of the loan has not been paid back as income, which is then taxed.

A third point on Obama’s proposal said his budget would “simplify taxes for Pell Grant recipients” through reductions and the boost to the AOTC, according to a White House news release.

As the budgeting process continues, there is no guarantee any of these ideas will catch on, Grad said, and Congress will craft its own budget proposals.

“There’s no assurance that the budget will go anywhere,” Grad said.

Despite these tax code initiatives, Obama’s budget includes some slight declines in funding to federal student aid.

Prior budget agreements have placed caps on discretionary spending, public policy professor Tony McCann said, leaving the budget with little room for higher education funding growth and new initiatives.

“He wasn’t able to do much, certainly in the area of education beyond what he’s done in the past,” McCann said.

McCann said education

“He was a good teacher because he didn’t let you rest.

He wanted you to think,” his wife, Ann Matteson, said. “His love of people and the love of his students and the generosity, he was always willing to give his time and effort.”

After serving in the Army for two years in Korea as a first lieutenant, Matteson earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at this university. A proud alumnus, Matteson held football season tickets every year since 1954 with his wife of 61 years, and they were present at the Oct. 19, 1957, game when Queen Elizabeth II was in the crowd at Byrd Stadium.

“We were there when Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth came to the football game,” Ann Matteson said. “It was exciting, it was very exciting.

We just enjoyed being out in the autumn air and rooting on the football team.”

The Mattesons’ four child ren attended Un iversity System of Maryland institutions, and their family took in

President Obama, pictured at a town hall meeting on the campus in 2011, outlined three college affordability initiatives in his budget address yesterday. file photo/the diamondback will continue to see stagnant growth in its budgets for years to come because pressure will only continue to mount for discretionary funding whether it is stalled or slashed.

“Until we decide to either raise taxes significantly or begin to address the entitlements — Medicare and Social Security, primarily, but not exclusively — then the pressure is going to be on the discretionary accounts, and that is the source of funding for virtually all of higher education,” McCann said.

This budget holds the funding for Pell Grants, the largest source of federal aid for college students, at $22.8 billion, though the number of undergraduates relying on the program is expected to drop from 9.4 million this year to 8.9 million in 2015, and the projected maximum award could increase from $5,785 to $5,830.

Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, which are awarded to students with demonstrated financial need, absorbed a $2 million cut from Obama’s budget proposal in 2013, with program funding shrinking slightly to $733 million. The program benefits 1.6 million students.

The Federal Work-Study Program has also been scaled back from the previous Obama

Under the American Opportunity Tax Credit, students can claim:

$2,500

per year against higher education expenses

$90,000

per year for a single filing

$180,000 per year for joint filing

Obama looks to make the credit permanent with his budget proposal. budget proposal, with $975 million going toward 690,000 students. In 2013, the budget proposed $1.13 billion for 809,000 students.

One slight increase over the previous year will come in the form of Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grants, a non-needbased federal grant awarded to children of service members killed in combat in either Iraq or Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. T he 2015 budget proposes $355,000 for 1,000 awards,whereas the 2013 proposal allowed for $231,000 for the same amount of awards.

six other students from this university and helped them pay for college.

One student, Edward Constantine of Jamaica, came to this university on a soccer scholarship but lost the scholarship when he hurt his knee in his first semester. Ann Matteson said he lived with her and her husband until graduation.

“Oh, we enjoyed having Ed here,” Ann Matteson said.

“We had lots of fun and lots of anecdotes.”

Years after graduation, Matteson continued to stay in touch with alumni. Duru said Matteson also remained close with her and other faculty from the education college after his retirement.

“Every Christmas for as long as I can remember — now this is going to be very emotional for many of us next December — there would be a potluck and we would go to Dick and Ann’s house there in College Park for a gathering,” Duru said. “Someone would call out which carol they’d like to sing next, and we would sing for a good hour after dinner. This was a very tight group of friends.”

Duru said she was grateful for Matteson’s generosity. He helped her get a grant to complete her doctorate dissertation. And when she graduated with her doctorate, the Mattesons opened up their home for a graduation party.

“In some ways, he was a father figure. My own father had died when I was 16. ... I always knew he had my back and he was looking out for me,” Duru said. “I know he will be missed by so many.

He reached so many lives and was such a positive influence for students at the University of Maryland.”

Matteson is su rv ived by his wife, his four children, Richard Jr., David, Suzanne and Jeffrey, and his grandchildren.

A memorial celebration will be held at University United Methodist Church on Saturday, March 15 at 2 p.m. The Richard L. Matteson Scholarship Fund, under the education college, has been set up for students in the Human Development and Quantitative Methodology department. esilvermandbk@gmail.com

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fter more than two weeks of this university scrambling to control the fallout from the Feb. 18 data breach and ensure some measure of financial security for those affected, complaints continue to roll in from students, faculty and alumni, who — searching for answers and assistance — have reportedly found little in the way of both.

Now, in the latest worrisome detail to come to light in what has been a confusing and frankly mismanaged affair, an investigation in October found that an online identity theft market acquired much of its information from Experian, the corporation responsible for the free five-year credit monitoring plan the university is offering.

Former Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs revealed that Experian subsidiary data collection service, Court Ventures, Inc., had been furnishing identity theft websites with Social Security and drivers license numbers, among other data.

The perpetrator, a 24-year-old Vietnamese man who posed as a private investigator to gain access to Experian’s information, was arrested in February 2013, and Experian stopped reselling data to U.S. businesses for fraud prevention and identification verification purposes.

Yet for the more than 300,000 university community members hoping to take advantage of the five years of free credit monitoring promised by the university after the cyberattack, Experian’s preventative measures offer only slight reassurance. Even though the company has taken swift action to prevent information from being compromised again, that’s not the most pressing issue at hand for the university community.

In the past two weeks, the company’s chief black mark has lain with its call-in lines, which students,

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faculty and alumni said were unable to provide them with information at times and, in some cases, offered conflicting answers regarding whether their information was compromised.

Many who tried to call simply weren’t able to get through at all.

Brian Ullmann, this university’s marketing and communications assistant vice president, told The Diamondback last week that Experian was unprepared for the sheer number of calls it received. In addition, some operators hadn’t been briefed properly regarding the university’s data breach, a situation Ullmann said “has been largely resolved.”

OUR VIEW

Despite missteps in the university’s response, the free credit hotline should be used.

“Largely resolved” isn’t good enough. The financial security of 309,079 students, faculty and alumni is on the line. The university expects to shell out $6 million to Experian if all those affected by the data breach sign up for credit monitoring, according to Ullmann. Though university officials have learned how the attack transpired, many questions remain regarding the breach and the future, and we shouldn’t settle for mediocrity in any of the attempts to address this cyberattack. There’s simply too much at stake.

Though much of the blame for problems rests on Experian’s shoulders, we must take the university to task as well. Some alumni affected by the cyberattack reportedly did not receive university emails notifying them of the breach, and the university’s hotline established shortly after the breach experienced the same overload of calls

as Experian’s service.

Moreover, university President Wallace Loh’s initial assurance in a Feb. 19 email that “no financial, academic, health, or contact” data had been compromised rang hollow, especially with hundreds of thousands of Social Security numbers in the hands of an unknown attacker.

Sure, no one saw the cyberattack coming, and it’s possible that no level of preparation would have proven adequate in the face of such catastrophe.

But the fact remains that the university community hasn’t had access to the information and assistance it needs — and that needs to change.

At face value, the $6 million figure for credit monitoring appears staggering, but the university’s allotted spending toward data protection amounts to less than $19.50 per affected person. If Experian’s services don’t cut it, and students, faculty and alumni continue to be left in the dark, this university needs to seek alternate means of protecting its community, regardless of cost. The university might pay the ACC $52 million in exit fees to enter the Big Ten Conference — a move this editorial board supported — but when push comes to shove, is it willing to spend what is needed to ensure its community’s financial security?

This editorial board urged students, faculty and alumni Feb. 25 to call the Experian hotline and sign up for credit monitoring services. One week later, even after all the complaints and qualms voiced, we have no choice but to echo our plea. For all its alleged inefficacy, this service remains the only free option afforded to individuals affected by the data breach, and the university community must make use of it.

So call, even when you can’t get through. Call, even if the answers you receive aren’t the ones you wanted or needed. Call, and hope the university does right by its community.

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Help Ukrainian freedom another country that was neither a threat nor in violation of any international law. The lack of effective international response to two European nations about to engage in a ground war is shocking.

But most of all, it should concern us that yet another movement for freedom has been squashed while the free world sits idly by. Young people have led a host of freedom movements in the past five years, in countries as diverse as Iran, Libya and Ukraine. The Arab Spring, which affected many nations in North Africa and the Middle East, has been a years-long struggle to bring democratic reform to a part of the world that sorely needs it.

Though the conflicts have varied in terms of intentions and results, there is no doubt that real change is brewing throughout the world, led by young, educated people who want change for the better.

For the most part, though, we as people and as a nation have failed to support these movements. Protesters in Iran were all but ignored, and though certain movements in Libya and Egypt got our attention, their resolutions, as well as movements, have been neglected by the U.S. Now, it’s not our job to oversee every country all the time. And these aren’t situations where we need to send soldiers to flex our muscle.

But it is in our interest and duty to provide moral, diplomatic and political support for these people.

Like it or not, the U.S. has a disproportionate role in mediating international affairs. We should use that clout to discourage tyrants from abusing and slaughtering people.

Spreading democracy worldwide has long been in our interest, and it is in our character.

We can help make a difference in Ukraine. We have lost so much credibility now that Putin attacked without fear, so we need to back our criticism with actions. Economic sanctions against Russia could range from removal from the G8, a summit of the eight most powerful countries in the world, to undercutting their natural gas sales to Europe with our own resources. But first and foremost, we need to take action for the Ukrainians in their continuing struggle for freedom.

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It was an unsettling sight: Four unarmed Ukrainian soldiers, none appearing older than 20, stood behind the front gate of a tiny Ukrainian army outpost in Crimea facing dozens of heavily armed Russian soldiers surrounding the entire base. Media members, church officials and civilians gathered at the spectacle. The Ukrainians refused to surrender to the Russians, in spite of the overwhelming odds.

The two sides would remain at an uneasy standoff symbolic of the current situation in Ukraine.

Russian troops have crossed Ukraine’s border and seized much of Crimea, a predominantly ethnic Russian area that has significant trade and symbolic value.

Ukraine, whose people have suffered tremendously for centuries, reached a crisis after it withdrew from European Union political and trade considerations last fall.

Thousands of people protested across much of Ukraine – besides the Russian-dominated east – for a variety of reasons, including closer ties to the EU, more jobs and less corruption and constitutional violations.

These protests took an ugly turn when violence caused the deaths of protesters and security personnel. Eventually, a compromise was reached; it was then broken and the resulting massacre forced the sitting president to flee, and a protester-backed government took control. Russia’s subsequent invasion has left Ukrainians, Europeans, Americans and much of the world’s nations in a difficult position.

This attack on freedom should matter to us.

Certainly we should be wary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imitation of interwar Germany by invading sovereign nations on the pretext of uniting an “ethnic people” — this time Russians. That rhetoric mirrors Germany’s defense of its invasion of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia in 1938.

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Accepting realities: Death and taxes ERIK SHELL Of all the fears and phobias in the world, death is certainly one of the most logical. It is unpredictable, not always peaceful and, perhaps worst of all, unavoidable.

Its inevitability is culturally cemented in a fairly well-known phrase: The only certainties in life are death and taxes. While often used to quell fears about the unknown future and randomness of life, there is also a bitter twist in this phrase. Not only is the future uncertain and your destiny unclear, but you have to pay the government for the privilege of going through it all.

Taxes have received a lot of attention in the media lately, with discussions on topics such as simplifying the tax code.

Indeed, the tax system is a labyrinth of confusing deductions and potential pitfalls that, if discovered by the Minotaur known as the IRS, can severely dent a person’s bank account.

Yet we are reminded time and again that taxes are not optional. They are an obligation on our time and salaries. It is an obligation many people,

particularly in the more radically red states, believe to be a tyrannical imposition by the evil feds. Some states go so far as to threaten secession in order to avoid them.

So what is the point? What do taxes provide that wealthy corporations cannot?

The typical argument is a useless one: Most jump immediately to public education and a police force, which Ayn Randians counter with the ability to allocate those to private enterprise.

Round and round it goes until both sides have dug themselves deeper into their previous position.

Maybe we should go back further.

Back in the day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau thought he had an original idea that said we give up some freedoms to be part of society. These sacrificed freedoms include the ability to kill your neighbor for his or her curly fries or the freedom to make toxic chemicals right on top of the town’s water supply. You give these up, enter society and learn to love the tea party’s worst nightmare: a society with fewer freedoms.

Those seem like extremely reasonable terms. Even in a hypothetical world where I would need to pay my police bill month to month in order to be protected from muggers, I would pay

taxes for the bare necessities of society, including my neighbor being baffled if I thought he or she would kill me to take my backyard. That neighbor’s response is culturally conditioned as a result of our tax-funded legal system, and it is well worth a percentage of my income.

Of course, you can have society without taxes. The last people to do it were overwhelmingly subsistence farmers whose very lives depended on it raining at the right time. The minority, meanwhile had to — surprise — constantly worry about their neighbors killing everyone.

On a more general note, though it might come across as complacency, the willingness to accept the inevitable is the clear sign of a well-adjusted individual. While death can remain scary until the end, the thought of a largely functioning, nonrevolutionary government taking some money to educate children is notably less frightful.

Besides, what is cheaper: Taxes or paying to build a trench and moat around your property? One might, in fact, be cheaper, but which would you really rather worry about?

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

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he Washington Post ran an article on Feb. 22 about the inevitability of cannabis deregulation. The Diamondback has also had a front-page story not long ago about the change in public opinion regarding marijuana, and the nation’s first legal recreational marijuana dispensary opened its doors in Colorado earlier this year.

A lot is changing fast, and we are definitely past a tipping point. But there is still a ton of work to do.

The first thing you can do is register to vote. Gov. Martin O’Malley has been a massive obstacle to overcome on the path to ending marijuana prohibition, so electing the right governor as his time concludes would be a huge step toward reasonable policies.

Three of the gubernatorial hopefuls in the upcoming state elections are in favor of cannabis reform. Most vocal about the importance of this issue is Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery), who includes the issue in her primary platform. If you’d like to get involved with her campaign, find Heather Mizeur for Maryland on Facebook. But please don’t vote for a candidate based on a single issue. Check out Attorney General Doug Gansler and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown before making a decision.

Even if you think marijuana is disgusting, drug policies affect you every day whether you realize it or not.

These policies target our black and Latino brothers and sisters disproportionately. Drug arrests largely are responsible for sending one in three black men in this country to prison.

(Yes, you read that right.) They keep those with drug convictions from voting, getting jobs, returning to their families and applying for student aid.

They affect those with cancer who can’t find affordable medication that will reduce nausea and allow eating during chemotherapy. (Marijuana is known to do both.) They affect heroin addicts who have few treatment options because funding affordable, effective rehabilitation programs is often overlooked.

They affect the efficacy of our overregulated and overburdened government — one that Mexican newspaper El Universal reported in January has brokered deals with Mexico’s ruthless Sinaloa drug cartel for more than a decade, in part allowing the cartel to continue smuggling.

To find out more about these issues and participate in the discussion, please attend Marijuana Policy in Maryland — A Community Forum tomorrow at the College Park Community Center. For all the details please visit tinyurl.com/MarijuanainMaryland. For comments or questions, or if you’d like to get involved in drug policy reform initiatives on the campus, send me an email.

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By Jonathan Raeder @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback We live for memories.

The value of an event or a person — his, her, its impact on us — is in our memories. How can you enjoy an event you can’t remember? How can you learn from a person you can’t remember? It’s the memories of life, both good and bad, that form our identities, that leave us slamming the steering wheel in tears or laughing alone at some amazing moment long gone. What good could come from erasing any memories, even if they are painful, even if they make it seem like there will never be another good memory again?

Ten years ago, director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman teamed up to answer those questions in a fantastic movie that stands as one of my favorite films of all time: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

After breaking up with her boyfriend, Joel (Jim Carrey), Clementine (Kate Winslet) undergoes a strange medical procedure that erases all her memories of their time together. Soon

afterward, Joel sees her again and, in response to her unknowing stare, eventually finds out what’s happened and decides to follow suit. The film eschews most forms of chronology, jumping among Joel’s memories as they’re being erased by a trio of employees, played by Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood and Kirsten Dunst. Eventually he realizes his time with Clementine, while ultimately ending badly, changed his life, and so he attempts to hold on to her as she fades away, memory by memory.

Kaufman is one of the few screenwriters in Hollywood whose films are referred to among movie wonks with his name attached. There are Charlie Kaufman films in the same way there are Quentin Tarantino films or David Lynch films. Between Eternal Sunshine, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and Synecdoche, New York, Kaufman has created some of the strangest and most human films I’ve ever had the pleasure to see. I never know what direction they’ll take or what bizarre premise I’ll be thrust into, but I know both my mind and my emotions will be a wreck by the end — and that’s a good thing. Kaufman had already left his mark on the film world

when Eternal Sunshine was released, but for me, at least, it was only the beginning. This film was my rabbit hole into the world of strange storytelling; I learned that stories could be cerebral and bizarre without losing their emotional core.

There are so many scenes and images from this film that remain burned into my memory — Joel and Clementine lying on a frozen lake, staring up at the sky, the two lying on a bed in the middle of a snowy beach, the two running through rooms filled with faceless people as the door frames, windows and buildings themselves crumble and dissolve. This film is both a dream and a nightmare, in the same way our memories are both beautiful and painful.

Eternal Sunshine examines its main relationship honestly, showing us the ugly fights, the ways that Joel and Clementine use their intimate knowledge of the other to hurt each other and the fact that these two people might not be right for each other in any realistic way.

Yet we see the two hold each other close as if that might heal them; we see them really become better people for having known each other, even if the end is rough and drives them to erase the

whole experience. These are fleshedout people, despite our tendency to view them as the stereotypical sad, quiet writer-type guy and impulsive, quirky artistic girl. Neither is perfect by any means, but their relationship is an example of all of our relationships at their best and worst.

The crux of the film comes at the end, as Joel and Clementine, both aware of their past relationship and the problems that caused its downfall, decide to give it another try. Clementine argues that Joel will grow to hate her and she’ll grow to find him boring because that’s what they do and that’s what they’ve already done. It’s Joel’s response that seals it. “OK.” OK. So what if relationships fail? So what if people keep falling for the same types of people? So what if there are people who might never end up with their ideal matches? Every relationship ends, either by a breakup or death, but that doesn’t make them valueless. It’s the memories that make them worthwhile. It’s the lessons about what to do in the future or what to avoid doing. It’s the memories of lying down, staring at someone so close to you and knowing, for at least

that one moment, that something in life makes sense. Erasing the darkness isn’t the answer.

Eternal Sunshine encompasses all of the risky and painful elements that make up any attempt at a romantic relationship. It’s about love, loss, memory, identity, human nature — all of the big issues that make us human: gloriously, imperfectly, terribly human. Its impact has stayed with me and many others for years.

Joel and Clementine will continue to fall in love, to break up, to erase each other and to get back together again, perhaps forever. That’s what they do, and that’s what they’ve always done.

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By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer The bases were loaded with one out in the bottom of the 10th Sunday when Mike Rescigno hit a bouncing ball toward Massachusetts second baseman Nick Sanford, allowing Terrapins center fielder Charlie White to scamper home with the winning run of a 3-2 game.

The freshman third baseman’s walk-off single capped a series in which he batted .400 and was one of several reserves to play a key role in the threegame sweep of the Minutemen.

“Our lineup is really solid top to bottom,” right fielder Anthony Papio said. “There’s no weak spots in our lineup.

Any one of the nine guys can go up there. We have some guys coming off the bench who can

step in and get the job done.”

Entering the weekend, Rescigno had started four of seven games, including three at designated hitter.

But against the Minutemen, he started all three games.

Rescigno was penciled in at designated hitter in Game 1, but when Kyle Convissar made his season debut at designated hitter in Game 2, coach John Szefc moved Rescigno to third.

Rescigno replaced Jose Cuas, who has excelled defensively but is batting 1-for-18. Over the weekend, Rescigno went 4-for-10 with one double, three walks and three RBIs. “He has as much raw power as anybody we have,” Szefc said.

“But he’s a work-in-progress as far as him as a hitter. His strikezone discipline is getting better.

He’s getting to a point where you can trust him against good arms.”

“OUR LINEUP IS REALLY SOLID TOP TO BOTTOM. THERE’S NO WEAK SPOTS IN OUR LINEUP. ANY ONE OF THE NINE GUYS CAN GO UP THERE. WE HAVE SOME GUYS COMING OFF THE BENCH WHO CAN STEP IN AND GET THE JOB DONE.” ANTHONY PAPIO

Terrapins baseball right fielder Catcher Nick Cieri, another freshman, filled in for Kevin Martir, who had a strained hip flexor. While Cieri went 1-for10 with two walks, he had two RBIs and threw out one of two Minutemen base runners from behind the plate.

Szefc said Cieri and Rescigno are future anchors in the middle of the lineup for the Terps.

In limited action this season, Rescigno’s gone 9-for-21 with four doubles, good for a .429 batting average.

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“FOR MOST OF US, IT’S OUR THIRD OR FOURTH YEAR TOGETHER. SO WE’VE REALLY From PAGE 9 GROWN TO KNOW EACH OTHER A LOT,

the board — can play with anybody.”

The Terps surrendered five goals in the first 20 minutes but locked in defensively from the middle of the second quarter through the beginning of the fourth quarter, holding the Blue Devils scoreless for a stretch lasting more than 26 minutes.

The offensive drought was so substantial that goalkeeper Niko Amato, who made 17 saves in the contest, lost track of time.

“Honestly, in the third quarter, I came out and then I looked up and there were two minutes left,” Amato said. “I didn’t even know where the time went.”

Two weeks ago, the Terps completed a similar feat at then-No. 1 Syracuse, preventing the Orange from finding the back of the net for more than 18 minutes in a 16-8 win at the Carrier Dome.

Despite facing two of the nation’s best offenses in backto-back games, the Terps are

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ESPECIALLY THIS YEAR.” NIKO AMATO

Terrapins men’s lacrosse goalkeeper tied for No. 1 in the country in scoring defense, allowing five goals per game.

“We’ve been keying in on our film,” Murray said. “We’ve been keying in on buying into [the fact that] this is a team defense.”

Murray attributed the success of the Terps defense — featuring defenders Matt Dunn and Casey Ikeda along with Murray and long pole Michael Ehrhardt — to the group’s overall experience.

Ehrhardt is a senior and a three-year starter, Murray is a junior and a three-year starter and Ikeda is a junior and a two-year starter. The youngster of the group is Dunn, a sophomore, who played 12 games during his rookie season last year. Not to mention, Amato, the Terps’ preseason All-American anchor in net, is a fifth-year senior and four-year starter.

“For most of us, it’s our third or fourth year together,” Amato said. “So we’ve really grown to know each other a lot, especially this year.”

A f te r Sa t u rd ay ’s w i n , Tillman made a point to compliment Murray on his willingness to sacrifice personal gain for the team.

He was given the most difficult defensive assignment of the day, and though Wolf got the better of him at times, Murray still had a hand in another stingy performance by the Terps.

“Goran, this week, he’s been so selfless,” Tillman said.

“He’s improved so much as a complete defenseman where he could care less if Jordan scored eight goals and we won, he was going to be happy.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

“The lineup we have — everyone can hit it,” Rescigno said. “Everyone can produce every day.”

Convissar, a senior, was a starter last season but missed the first eight games because of injury. In two games against UMass, he went 1-for-6 with three hit by pitches, two runs and one RBI. He was also the first and last of 10 straight Terps to reach base with one out in the fifth in Game 2, sparking an eight-run inning.

forward,” coach Brenda Frese said Monday.

The Terps planned to switch their defensive strategies more often in the game, Frese said, but when the 12th-year coach noticed Virginia Tech’s offensive troubles, they kept playing zone. The strategy silenced the Hokies inside, as they scored only four points in the paint during the matchup.

For a team that has one of the worst scoring offenses in the ACC, Virginia Tech’s lack of close-range opportunities hampered its offense.

The Hokies shot less than 18 percent in the first half, and their 48 points tied their lowest total of the season.

“We got off to such a bad start and had some open shots,” Virginia Tech coach Dennis Wolff said Sunday. “And when we weren’t able to knock any of them down, it really spiraled out of control against us.”

The Hokies’ ball movement was ineffective in generating

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Lowe impressed the coaching staff and has started nine of 10 games, batting .333 and making a second base platoon with Convissar unlikely.

Instead, Convissar will be a designated hitter, compete for playing time at third with Cuas and Rescigno and possibly see time in left field.

Szefc has experimented with the Terps’ lineup with varying degrees of success as he attempts to find the combination of players and account for some early-season injuries.

Michael Montville made his first start in the field, replacing left fielder Andrew Amaro in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader. Montville went 0-for-2

with a walk. Then, with Lowe out Sunday with a jammed thumb, Krysthian Leal filled in at second but went 0-for-4.

Last season, the Terps couldn’t overcome injuries and suspensions and failed to make the conference tournament for the eighth straight year. For the Terps to break their tournament drought, Szefc expects players such as Rescigno and Cieri to perform when called upon.

“It’s always good if you got contributions from a lot of different guys as opposed to the same guys,” Szefc said. “You aren’t going to win a conference championship with 10 guys playing. Guys get hurt, and they get beat up. It’s a game we play every day, so sooner or later you’re going to run into nagging-type injuries.”

any open shots, and their top scorers barely made an impact.

Forward Uju Ugoka and guard Vanessa Panousis, who averaged 18.3 and 12.7 points during the regular season, respectively, had a total of 10 points, as they were often forced to create their own shots. The pair was a combined 3-of-17 from the field.

“We’re not really great at taking anyone off the dribble,” Wolff said. “They put us in a position to have to do that, and we weren’t able to.”

The Terps began to combine man-to-man defense with their effective zone approach in the second half. Though Virginia Tech shot an improved 12-of-22 in the second 20 minutes, the Terps’ matchup zone forced eight turnovers, including four in the opening four minutes.

The Terps, who were playing on their Senior Day, forced 13 turnovers in the contest, which

led to 21 points.

“I thought the five seniors did a tremendous job setting the tone,” Frese said. “I thought the teammates followed their lead.”

So even when the Hokies were finally hitting shots, the Terps’ defensive prowess helped maintain a large advantage until the final horn. With the team putting together a string of strong performances entering the ACC tournament, its stingy zone defense could have the Terps primed for a run.

Though the Terps won’t look to play a zone defense for the rest of their matchups, Frese said, its success against Virginia Tech proved they could rely on it during certain situations.

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TRIBE From PAGE 10 opportunities as we are.”

The Terps were able to hold down one of Duke’s top offensive options Saturday. Defender Megan Douty matched up with Blue Devils attacker Kerrin Maurer, who entered Saturday’s game with 15 goals in the Blue Devils’ first four games. Douty and the Terps neutralized Maurer and held her to two goals and one assist.

Despite that performance, Reese said the Terps still failed to provide necessary help defense at different times during the game.

“We need to get our help there outside the 8-meter, not when it is too late when our opponent is already getting a shot off,” Reese said.

As a result, the Terps made

Clipp’s day in net more difficult.

Reese said the redshirt junior — who had six saves on 16 shots on goal — played well, but Clipp still faced wide-open Duke scorers in front of the net for difficult saves and easy scoring chances.

“We have a lot of room for improvement on defense,” Reese said. “We still need to tighten some things.”

While the Terps had their most uneven defensive performance Saturday, the offense picked up the slack with a season-high 19 goals. Entering the game against the Blue Devils, Reese was hoping to get the team’s first 60-minute effort of the season. A 15-minute scoreless stretch Saturday, however, proved to Reese the Terps still lack consistency.

“I think sometimes we are a little slow to attack,” Reese said. “One thing we need to do a better job of is attacking the

cage quicker.”

When the Terps attacked quickly, they found success. Five of their first nine goals came 70 seconds after a draw, including two within 25 seconds.

In the second half, the Terps had similar success and scored seven of their 10 goals within 70 seconds of a draw. Attacker Brooke Griffin scored the fastest goal of the game when she finished a pass from midfielder Kelly McPartland 17 seconds after the Terps gained possession.

When the Terps take on William & Mary today, the focus turns to improving their help defense and minimizing the mistakes that lead to open looks at goal. And on the offense, the Terps hope an extended scoreless drought doesn’t return.

“Obviously, we would like to give up less goals than we did,” Reese said. “So that’s something we need to focus on moving forward.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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though. Turgeon sent starting forward Charles Mitchell to the locker room for the first nine minutes of the second half after an apparent incident involving Mitchell and assistant coach Scott Spinelli.

Mitchell returned to the bench midway through the half, but Turgeon did not put Mitchell in the game. The third-year coach declined to comment on Mitchell’s status for Sunday’s regular-season finale against Virginia.

Aside from Mitchell’s situation, it was a smooth night for the Terps.

“We had a positive attitude, and I thought our defense was terrific,” Turgeon said. “I thought our execution against the zone was good. For the most part, our patience was better.

Eighteen assists, five turnovers — that’s a good night for us. All in all, it was a good night.”

Guard Dez Wells was a catalyst for the Terps (16-14, 8-9 ACC), particularly in the second half when they outscored the Hokies (9-20, 2-15) by 18 points.

Wells finished with 11 points, four assists, two blocks and two steals. Forward Jake Layman, coming off the bench for the first time since November, ended his recent shooting slump by going 4-of-9 from deep to score a team-high 13 points.

Still, the Terps took some time to get going. The Hokies took a 29-28 lead into halftime, as they outrebounded the Terps, 21-11, in the first half and scored 10 second-chance points just two days after the Terps dominated the boards at Clemson.

But the game’s tone changed on the first play of the second half, when Wells cleanly picked off Hokies guard Devin Wilson’s pass, took the ball the length of the court for a layup with contact and finished the and-1 at the free throw line to give the Terps a 31-29 lead.

CENTER SHaquille cleare finished last night’s game with six points and three rebounds, as the Terps beat Virginia Tech for the second time this season. alik mcintosh/the diamondback “It was huge,” Layman said.

“In the first half, we had no energy, and that first play just got everybody going.”

Wells said he’s focused on improving his defensive play recently and agreed that his steal and breakaway finish helped the team moved past a sluggish first half.

“It was a good play for our team,” Wells said. “We responded well from our first half.”

V i rg i n i a Te c h ’s z o n e defense slowed the game down and caused the Terps some trouble in the first half, but the offense found a rhythm in the second half.

A string of hot shooting from Layman and guards Seth Allen and Nick Faust helped the Terps build a quick double-digit lead in the second half. Their smooth ball movement around Virginia Tech’s zone limited turnovers and kept all five players on the court involved.

Five Terps scored at least eight points and even struggling center Shaquille Cleare contributed, recording six points and three rebounds.

A 12-0 run just more than midway through the second half helped the Terps stretch their lead to 20.

“For the most part, I thought our zone offense was pretty good,” Turgeon said. “We got a lot of really good looks, and that’s what you ask for.”

The Terps shot 40 percent for the game and patched up their rebounding issues in the second half. Plus, the team held Virginia Tech to a 22.7 field-goal percentage in the final 20 minutes.

Layman said the Terps weren’t affected by Mitchell’s absence or the incident, and they cruised to a victory behind a well-rounded effort in the second half.

By the end of the contest, the Terps nearly emptied their bench and ended game with a comfortable win, a welcomed change of pace in a season defined by last-second losses.

“It was fun,” Turgeon said.

“We’ve been through a lot, so this was good.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

defender goran murray (right) was in charge of guarding Duke attackman Jordan Wolf during the Terps’ matchup with the Blue Devils on Saturday. Though Wolf scored two goals and had one assist, the Terps defense played well in the 10-6 win. christian jenkins/the diamondback

Defense comes up big in Saturday’s win over Duke Terps stifle highly rated offense for second straight week

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer Before the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team took the field Saturday afternoon at Byrd Stadium for its final regularseason ACC matchup with then-No. 1 Duke, coach John Tillman gave defender Goran Murray the difficult task of guarding Blue Devils attackman Jordan Wolf.

Wolf entered the contest

with a team-high 10 goals, and when the final whistle blew against the then-No. 2 Terps, the 2013 United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-American had scored twice and added an assist against Murray. But the rest of the Blue Devils failed to produce in the same fashion thanks to a dominant and cohesive performance from the Terps defense.

The Terps emerged with a 10-6 victory — their second

win over a top-ranked opponent in as many weeks. And while Wolf might have gotten the best of Murray individually on Saturday, the defender said the final score is all that matters to the nation’s newly top-ranked team.

“You can talk about matchups and you can talk about who’s guarding who,” Murray said. “I think everyone on our defense — the unit, across See defense, Page 7

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Defensive switch shuts down Hokies in victory Zone forces Virginia Tech into difficult shooting day their zone defense after each toss, though, keeping the ball out of the paint. So as the Hokies’ scoring options During many of Virginia dwindled, they often resorted Tech’s offensive possessions to jump shots, which repeatearly in the first half of its edly clanged off the rim.

While facing the Terps’ 87-48 loss to the Terrapins women’s basketball team zo n e d e fe n se i n s tea d o f Sunday, players passed the their usual man-to-man set, ball around the perimeter Virginia Tech didn’t score in search of an opening to during a more than nineminute stretch in the first attack the basket.

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shots. And for the majority of their final regular-season game, the Terps were in zone, giving them another effective defensive option entering the ACC tournament on Friday.

“It was nice to be able to spend a lot of time utilizing it yesterday and having a lot of success with definitely something we can use moving See ZONE, Page 7

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Terps look to stop defense issues from Saturday’s win Team hosts Tribe for first home game since Feb. 19

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GUARD DEZ WELLS (left) blocks Virginia Tech guard Devin Wilson (center) in the first half of last night’s 64-47 win. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

Terps earn comfortable victory despite Mitchell’s second-half absence

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer Mark Turgeon admitted that in two-and-ahalf decades of coaching, he’s never been part of as many demoralizing defeats as his Terrapins men’s basketball team has endured this season — and that was before Sunday’s double overtime loss at Clemson.

But ACC bottom-feeder Virginia Tech visited College Park last night, and the Terps earned a respite from their winter of heartbreak.

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Through the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s first five games, it has featured a stout defense anchored by goalkeeper Abbey Clipp and a host of defenders who clamped down on opposing scorers. The result was an undefeated start, including a comfortable victory over

then-No. 7 Penn State.

But while the Terps came away with a 19-10 victory at No. 6 Duke on Saturday, it was their shakiest defensive performance of the season. The Blue Devils went on a 5-0 run that spanned halftime, and Clipp’s 37.5 save percentage was tied for her lowest this season.

So when they return home for the first time since Feb. 19 to host William & Mary today at the Field Hockey and

Lacrosse Complex, the No. 2 Terps will aim to minimize the Tribe’s chances around the net.

“They are going to get good looks on goal,” coach Cathy Reese said. “But there are some where they capitalized on our mistakes. So we need to make sure we limit those, or at least minimize those, so that we aren’t giving other teams as many See TRIBE, Page 8

the second half to roll to a 64-47 win before an announced 10,517 at Comcast Center. The Terps committed a season-low five turnovers, dished out 18 assists and held Virginia Tech to 30.6 percent shooting from the field, as they handed the Hokies their 15th loss in 16 games.

Even the convincing victory over the Hokies didn’t come without controversy, See HOKIES, Page 9

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