March 27, 2014

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Loh testifies on cybersecurity issues Univ president speaks to U.S. Senate committee about balancing openness with data protection

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer

lenges universities face in addressing data protection issues.

T he hea ri ng was ca l led to address business community conMore than a month after a massive cerns stemming from a data breach cybersecurity breach on the campus, in Ta rget’s systems in Novemuniversity President Wallace Loh ber, but Loh remarked before the testified yesterday before a U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Senate committee about the chal- Science, and Transportation that

the issue is much different when applied to universities, which also need protection.

“A university is an open organization; there are many points of access because it is all about the free exchange of information,” Loh said in his testimony. “In the private sector, you can centralize cybersecurity. You cannot do that at a university, so we have to find that proper balance between security and access, and that is the challenge

for all universities.”

The committee, chaired by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), expressed frustration that companies weren’t taking appropriate measures to warn customers and protect their data in the wake of large data breaches.

But Rockefeller was also critical of Congress, which he believes is dragging its feet on passing substantive cybersecurity laws.

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college park’s metro station could form the hub of a planned transit-oriented professional community nearby. file photo/the diamondback

LEARNING TO GO BEYOND

Developers sought for Metro area 8.3-acre site eyed as housing, retail space

By Eleanor Mueller @thedbk Staff writer

International Space Station astronauts, back on Earth, speak to students

Prince George’s County officials are looking for developers to submit designs for an 8.3-acre site across from the College Park Metro Station.

Officials hope to create a transit-oriented community that could include lodging, residential, retail and office space. The development would be tailored toward professionals working i n the a rea or com muti ng to Washington, College Park Economic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater said.

The county filed a request for applications from developers March 13 to present ideas for the space. The request is essentially an open invitation for developers to submit design concepts for consideration by landowners, including the county, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the Castle family, a private party that owns parcels of the land.

“There’s a set of documents including conceptual plans that interested developers must submit by the April 25 deadline,” Stiefvater said.

Stiefvater met with developer

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer Though he went through extensive training before his journey to space, astronaut Luca Parmitano wasn’t prepared for a malfunction in his suit during a space walk.

While working on a project outside the International Space Station in July 2013, he wasn’t sure what to do when he felt cool water on the back of his neck. Quickly, the water began to accumulate, and he realized he couldn’t see.

“Never in my life did I think that I would feel like a goldfish in a bowl,” he said. “You can never think of everything that can happen, but you can gain the confidence in what you’ve learned and apply [that] in any situation. I give the credit to the people that trained me.”

Parmitano, an astronaut with the European Space Agency, and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg returned to Earth in November after almost six months on the ISS. luca parmitano, a European Space Agency astronaut who lived on the International Space Station for almost six months, spoke in the Biosciences Research Building last night with NASA’s Karen Nyberg, a fellow ISS astronaut. Parmitano made international news when his suit malfunctioned. lena salzbank/the diamondback

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‘We’re shaping it from the ground up’

PALS seeks to put plans into practice for state communities Students in fall to work toward sustainability

By Joelle Lang @thedbk Staff writer

Zeta Beta Tau returns to campus anew zeta beta tau colony members are bringing the fraternity back after a 2009 removal. photo courtesy of zach cohen

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer Zach Cohen never thought about being in Greek life — he didn’t want to deal with the time commitment and wasn’t interested in pledging — until he heard about the returning chapter of Zeta Beta Tau. Now, he’s the president and a founding father of the colony, which returned to the university this spring after its removal in 2009, when police served the chapter house with a

search warrant for drugs. Thirty members have already been initiated into the fraternity, and the group plans to have a third class before the end of the semester.

“The opportunity to get involved really just came at the right time,” said Cohen, a sophomore finance major. “I was ready to expand my group of friends and my network and saw this as a chance to start something new and help the fraternity create its own culture, not necessarily follow any existing stigmas.”

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A friend in Sigma Delta Tau, a traditionally Jewish sorority that has a chapter at this university, referred Cohen to a national representative last semester, as the organization and students at this university garnered interest for the fraternity’s return.

Before long, Cohen received a bid from the colony and was initiated as a brother 72 hours later.

The national organization and this university’s Department of Fraternity See zbt, Page 3

Karen O’Brien has witnessed firsthand the impact that learning alongside a community — rather than in a traditional classroom setting — can have on students.

The university professor and psychology department co-director teaches courses on domestic violence that include traveling to the Family Crisis Center of Prince George’s County.

“I have developed empathy as well as a greater understanding for the issues surrounding those who live with domestic violence,” said Yonina Goldberg, a senior psy-

chology major who took O’Brien’s class. “I now feel like I have a better understanding of the issues and not just gut reactions that would cause me to judge others incorrectly.”

This is the type of result the university’s new Program for Action Learning in Sustainability hopes to achieve, O’Brien said.

The program, which will be implemented in the fall, will partner students across courses and majors to work with and improve different communities around the university each year, according to Maggie Haslam, public relations consultant for the architecture school.

“So few classes allow the students to practice what they learn,” O’Brien said.

PALS is intended to benefit students, faculty, local communities See PALS, Page 2

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2014

NASA From PAGE 1 Last night, they shared their experiences as flight engineers for 166 days on Expeditions 36 and 37 to about 200 audience members in the Biosciences Research Building. They orbited Earth 2,656 times and traveled more than 70 million miles, all in the name of science — and perhaps much more.

“My hope is that we can be a model and a drive for politicians to realize that we need to look further than borders and lines and start thinking of a global effort towards human aspiration,” Parmitano said. “We only have one Earth, one planet. That future, we build it today, and that future is in space.

We are billions of people and we keep growing, and we only have one planet.”

The duo, along with Russian astronaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, took off from Kazakhstan in their Soyuz rocket in late May 2013, headed for

the ISS, which orbits Earth about 250 miles above its surface.

“T he launch is amazing; the ride is insane,” said Nyberg. “The vehicle kind of comes alive — you can feel the motion and the vibration — and once the rockets light, you’re going, and going fast. Exactly eight minutes and 48 seconds, in our case, until all of a sudden … you’re in space.”

T he tea m worked Mond ay through Friday on a variety of projects, including new technology, scientific research, maintenance, research on themselves and other space aspirations. They had to ensure they worked out for two hours daily to maintain muscle and bone density in their weightless environment.

After they shared some video footage and talked about their experiences, Parmitano and Nyberg fielded questions and signed autographs for the many space enthusiasts in the crowd.

“I just want to go to space so bad,” sophomore computer science

major Gabby Larios said. “It inspired me more. I just want to keep working harder because I see they have a lot of fun too, and I agree with a lot of things they said. We’re humans, and we should all work together to keep going further.”

Aerospace engineering major Matthew Feeney is working on his senior design project for an artificial gravity space station, and he said the astronauts’ expertise was interesting and relatable.

“They really seemed like they knew a lot about everything, not just specific space things. When they made a joke or referred to something back on Earth, it seemed like they were just normal people,” he said. “I thought that was really cool.”

The two astronauts called on students to keep pursuing new discoveries and to keep sending people to space. “ We’ve been ex plor i ng t h i s world for so long. There’s something different about putting your eyes on it than putting a camera on it,” Nyberg said. “I think per-

KAREN nyberg (left) from NASA and Luca Parmitano from the European Space Agency share stories about their recent mission to the International Space Station to more than 200 people. lena salzbank/the diamondback sonally we need to get the human element in it. I think it’s worth the effort and money.”

Though Parmitano joked that they weren’t using differential equations on the Soyuz, he said all training is important.

“Training gives you a set of skills, just like what you are doing now

in college. What you are studying gives you a set of skills that you can use in any situation,” he said. “We are learning today in order for you to be the generation that can go beyond; we are guinea pigs so you can go beyond.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com

PALS From PAGE 1 and the university, according to the program’s website.

Students enrolled in the program will address community issues and growing social networks in hands-on environments, according to the website.

“Local governments gain access to the multi-disciplinary expertise of UMD faculty and the energy and ingenuity of UMD students to tackle real sustainability-focused projects,” the website states.

“The University gains a new and innovative approach to serve both its instructional and land grant missions.”

O’Brien, working alongside another professor and two students, compiled data th roug h student su rveys t h at prove t h i s teach i ng met hod works, she sa id.

The results showed a drastic cha nge i n students’ perspectives and attitudes after working with a community of abused women.

They turned their information into a research article and sent a draft to The Counseling Psychologist, an academic journal covering the psychology field. The journal gave the article a favorable review, and O’Brien and her co-researchers are working to resubmit the revised report for publication, O’Brien said.

T he pu rpose of the research article was to show that a university-commu-

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Psychology department co-director and professor nity partnership allows for a u n ique oppor tu n ity to educate students while assisting a group in need, according to the study.

“Through university-community partnerships, students can obtain real-world experiences that enhance their career development and skill acquisition, and community agencies benefit from the energy and enthusiasm that college students bring to their organizations,” the study said.

T h e s t u d y fo u n d t h a t college students are open to innovative learning and often want to put their skills to practice, but lecture courses don’t allow them the opportunity. By working with a community and developing marketable skills, students can also get a step ahead in the competitive job market.

PALS will allow students to do so, program leaders said.

The city of Frederick, the pilot venue for PALS, developed a list of 27 candidate projects that will allow students to entrench themselves in hands-on learning, according the website. jlangdbk@gmail.com

ASTRONOMICALLY SPEAKING

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Surf’s up on Titan Scientists this week spotted the first evidence of possible waves outside of Earth on Saturn’s large moon, Titan.

Before you grab your wetsuit and surfboard and catch the next rocket to this moon, know that the surfing won’t be too great – scientists measured the waves reaching a peak of about an inch. Surfing for ants, maybe.

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RHA votes for airport shuttles Buses will bring students to BWI for Thanksgiving

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer Starting in the fall, DOTS will provide extra airport shuttles in the days leading up to Thanksgiving break for students who fly home.

The Residence Hall Association voted T uesday in favor of expanding of shuttle services to Baltimore/Washington International T hurgood Marshall A irport during the Monday and Tuesday before Thanksgiving break.

The authors of the resolution, Transportation Advisory Committee Chairman Steven Chen and Resident Facilities Advisory Board Chairman Logan Grenley, told RHA Senate members that students who fly out of BWI have to pay between $30 and $60 for a shuttle to the airport or have to take multiple modes of transportation to get there.

“It’s an inefficient way of getting to the airport and just a hassle,” Grenley said.

Gren ley sa id he rese a rche d ot he r B i g Te n schools and found that nine campuses offer free shuttle services for students during break weeks. He said he felt it was important to make it easier for this university’s large population of out-ofstate and international students to travel home.

T he new prog ra m w i l l offer three extra shuttles leav i ng f rom Cole F ield

A FIRE TRUCK responded to a fire in South Campus Commons 1 last month. Facilities Management officials will replace alarms and sprinklers in 11 campus facilities. The cost of planned fire prevention system upgrades range from $80,000 to $350,000. james levin/the diamondback SHUTTLE BUSES will take students to BWI Airport in the days leading up to Thanksgiving break after the Residence Hall Association passed a bill. kelsey hughes/the diamondback House at 6 p.m. Monday and at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.

T uesd ay lead i ng up to Thanksgiving break.

Other senate members also questioned whether it would be possible to expand services to Dulles Airport as well and whether such services could be offered for other breaks as well, but Chen and Grenley said that the plan was to start small and see if the shuttles are successful in the fall before considering any larger steps.

“We are trying to get the easiest thing done first,” G re n l e y s a i d . “ [ D O T S] thought that Thanksgiving was the easiest way to do it.”

Chen said if the program is successful, DOTS would be w i l l i ng to consider further expansion.

At this university, 6,425 people — or 24.1 percent of the undergraduate population — are from out of state or international, according to the RHA resolution.

“On-ca mpus students have expressed the need for more flexibility in attaining transportation to BWI before residence halls close

for Thanksgiving break,” the resolution read.

RHA members expressed concerns about the costs of such an expansion. But Chen told the members that Department of Transportation Services Director David A llen said extra bussing would not result in student fee increases.

The RHA also amended the resolution to recommend that if any additional funding is required, it should be raised by charging students who actually use the service.

Many out-of-state senators voiced their approval for the idea and agreed it was difficult to get home for Thanksgiving break and that this resolution was a “step in the right direction.”

“Maybe I’m biased b e c au se I f ly, b ut it’s a pain in the butt,” said Alex Stoller, chairwoman of the R e s id e nt L i fe A dv i sor y Team. “And if our university can make it any easier for our students to get home, it would be really great. I strongly support this.” meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

FM to update fire alarms, sprinklers

By Jeremy Snow @thedbk Staff writer Starting this year, campus academic buildings will receive new fire alarms and sprinklers capable of providing firefighters with more specific information about a fire’s location, Facilities Management officials said.

“There was nothing wrong with the old systems,” said Jack Baker, Facilities Management operations and maintenance director. “It’s sort of like a personal computer; every few years the technology changes for the better.”

Workers are modernizing fire prevention systems in 11 facilities, focusing primarily on buildings where lectures and classes are held, such as H.J. Patterson Hall, the Mathematics Building and the Potomac Building, Baker said.

Facilities Management will update more buildings each year through 2025. The cost of the upgrades will range from $80,000 for new fire alarms in the Potomac Building $350,000 for updated sprinklers in the Mathematics Building, according to the “Invisible Crisis” document, which outlines the

CYBERSECurity From PAGE 1 Ranking member of the committee Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said it is important the federal government pass laws dictating uniform standards by which companies should inform their consumers of potential risks to their data.

These issues are handled by the states in a “patchwork of laws,” Thune said.

“Breaches of personal information can affect individuals in many ways, ranging from the inconvenience of having a credit card replaced to the horror of identity theft,” Thune said.

“When there’s a risk of real harm stemming from a breach, we need to make sure that consumers have the information they need to protect themselves.”

Thune sponsored the Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2013,

THE COLLEGE PARK METRO STATION could see nearby development. An 8.3-acre site near the station would bring housing, lodging, retail and office space. file photo/the diamondback

METRO From PAGE 1 representatives March 17 to educate them about the landowners’ expectations for development proposals, College Park District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said.

Stiefavter’s audience was three times the normal size for such information sess i o n s , P r i n c e G e o r g e ’s Cou nty spokesma n Scott Peterson said. “ T h e re ’s a n u m b e r o f parties interested [in developing the site],” Kabir said.

“They don’t yet know what will go there, but they’re looking for an office park or mixed-use community.”

Stiefvater said he expects the development to blossom into a community of its own, rather than become integrated into the surrounding area.

“The site represents one of the largest development opportu n ities i n Col lege Park, so we imagine it becoming its own neighborhood that is different than the single-family neighborhoods tucked behind Route 1,” Stiefvater said. “If completed, the project area will help

improve the research park from a typical office park to a vibrant community that can be utilized beyond the work day.”

While the specifics remain to be seen, the site itself is centrally located. It is within wa l k i n g d i s t a nc e of t he Green Line and the future Purple Line light rail station and is near the university, M Square Research Park and the College Park Airport.

This is the latest of many efforts to increase transitoriented development i n t he c ou nt y. O t he r projects include the University Town Center development at the Prince George’s Plaza Metro Station and the potential FBI headquarters at the Greenbelt Metro Station.

Such construction benefits not only transportation and the environment but also the local economy by attracting residents and businesses that might not otherwise target the area, Stiefvater said.

“From a purely economic view, it will provide a boost to the city a nd cou nty t h roug h add it ion a l ta x revenue on underutilized property,” Stiefvater said. emuellerdbk@gmail.com

ZBT From PAGE 1 and Sorority Life cooperated to establish the new colony. The university will recognize Zeta Beta Tau’s chapter pending official recognition by the Interfraternity Council, scheduled to take place next week.

Zeta Beta Tau was founded in 1898 as the “world’s first Jewish fraternity,” according to its website, and has 140,000 initiated members at more than 90 chapters. It’s not a fraternity of Jews, Cohen said, but a Jewish fraternity; members don’t need to be Jewish to join.

Zeta Beta Tau committed in 1954 to a “non-sectarian” brotherhood, valuing diversity, its website says.

The national organization was the first to abolish pledging in 1989, in favor of a brotherhood program. It will rejoin the

university’s plans to update campus infrastructure.

Facilities Management will replace the older sirens and alarm pulleys with newer, more compatible ones and overhaul control panels to specifically locate fires.

“In the old days, if there was a fire, you wouldn’t know where it was in the building until you the saw the actual flame,” Baker said.

Once the new smoke detectors identify a fire, they directly send details of the blaze’s location to the alarm system and fire departments.

“It makes it much easier to direct people away from possibly dangerous areas and makes fighting fires easier in complicated buildings,” said James Milke, university professor and fire protection engineering department chairman.

Addressable alarms date back to the 1980s, M i l ke said. But the university has not yet upgraded the alarms in academic buildings because its main focus was to ensure safety in student living spaces before tackling classrooms, which still have alarm systems that are up to code, Baker said.

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a bill that would “require certain entities that collect and maintain personal information of individuals to secure such information and to provide notice to such individuals in the case of a breach of security involving such information, and for other purposes.”

Efforts to pass similar bills in 2005 and 2007 failed, Thune said, because “finding broad agreement on the path forward has proven difficult.”

Edith Ramirez, chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, urged Congress to consider — in addition to stronger data security laws — measures enabling the FTC to seek civil cases against nonprofits, such as public universities, that are not properly protecting data.

Loh was invited to testify after this university and its Shady Grove campus fell victim to a cybersecurity

recently pledging-free Sigma Alpha Epsilon as well as Phi Sigma Kappa and Sigma Phi Epsilon as university fraternities without a pledging process.

The chapter returned this semester after it was removed from the campus and had its national charter revoked in 2009. Typically in such instances, chapters might not return to the campus for four years or until all of the fraternity members at the time of the removal graduate, said Matt Supple, DFSL director.

In Zeta Beta Tau’s case, the national headquarters set a five-year mark for when the fraternity could return to the university.

The national organization and the DFSL, then named the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, took disciplinary action against the chapter in December 2009, two weeks after police searched the

marshal and the environmental safety department’s assistant director, said fire alarm systems have a long life, and while addressable alarm systems are more advanced, older systems are just as safe and effective.

“Fire systems are designed for reliability,” he said. “You don’t need to update them immediately.”

T he academic building updates are the last steps in a long-term effort to update fire protection on the campus, Baker said. All dorms and Fraternity Row houses have received addressable fire systems and updated devices similar to those being added now, said Andrew Van Der Stuyf, Residential Facilities assistant director.

Fire alarms aren’t the only updates; Faci l ities Ma nagement workers continue to modernize much of the school’s aging infrastructure.

The “Invisible Crisis” outlines 122 projects and 13 years of changes to the university’s pipes, heating and cooling systems and fire protection systems, which are becoming too outdated to be fully functional, according to the plan. jsnowdbk@gmail.com

breach in February. An attacker stole personal data, including Social Security numbers, from nearly 300,000 students, faculty and alumni dating back to 1992.

In an effort to remedy the situation, this university notified most of those affected within 24 hours, offered free credit monitoring services and invited firms and organizations to help locate the perpetrator and protect against further attacks.

Loh said these measures, taken after the fact, are in line with the goals the committee had in holding the cybersecurity hearings and sponsoring related laws.

“Because we’ve never been hacked before, we were just flying by the seat of our pants,” Loh said. “It just so happens that we did what your bill proposes to do.” jbachdbk@gmail.com

chapter house with a search warrant for drugs on the premises following a “history of violations,” Supple said.

Fratern ity members vacated their chapter house, located at 14 Fraternity Row, at the end of the fall semester in 2009 and were forced to find other housing. Their former house is now occupied

by Sigma Chi. Zeta Beta Tau hopes to have its own chapter house by 2015, but current members will live together in various satellite locations both on and off the campus next year, Cohen said.

The new generation of Zeta Beta Tau hopes to reinvent the fraternity and separate from its history at the university, which included a 2008 hazing violation in which Zeta Beta Tau members poured a mixture of water and Shout stain remover on a student’s head, injuring him, after he mispronounced

a fraternity founder’s name.

“That’s one of the major appeals: We are a new fraternity, and we really can create it the way we want to,” said freshman government and politics major Logan Grenley, the colony’s external vice president. “We’re shaping it from the ground up, and it’s great. I’m a freshman and could get involved right away.”

In addition to upholding the fraternity’s values, Grenley and Cohen hope to get involved with the community and impact the campus, focusing on service and philanthropy, not just social life.

“Something like less than half a percent of Greek life have the opportunity to be a founding member of a fraternity or sorority chapter, which is a great experience in itself,” Cohen said. dcostellodbk@gmail.com

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No such thing as free University of Baltimore’s Finish4Free incentive is more complicated than it seems

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eing a college student comes with a lot of stress: Academics, job searches and graduate school applications seem to be on almost every student’s plate. But one of the biggest stressors, student debt, is about to become a smaller problem for students at the University of Baltimore.

Last week, the University of Baltimore announced it would launch an initiative called Finish4Free, a financial incentive in which students will have their final semesters of college completely subsidized if they graduate on time, starting with the class of 2018.

The incentive was created in response to decreasing graduation rates at the institution. Since 2007, the University of Baltimore’s graduation rate has dropped a staggering 18 percent. Today, a minuscule 8 percent of the university’s students graduate in four years.

Although there’s no doubt students at this university would appreciate a free final semester of college, Finish4Free probably would not work statewide. The key motivators behind Finish4Free are increasing graduation rates and improving the appeal of the university.

As the state’s flagship institution, this university does not suffer from either of these issues. According to the Education Department, 65 percent of our university’s students graduate in four years, while percentages are sig-

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nificantly lower at other public institutions — 12 percent of Morgan State University and 11 percent of Bowie State University students graduate on time.

OUR VIEW

The Finish4Free program is a feasible idea for some schools, but it would not work at this university.

Our university has NASA, National Institutes of Health and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grants at its disposal. It has flourishing programs in business, journalism and engineering, and attracts donors who give sizable sums. Meanwhile, the University of Baltimore, which used to be a traditional university — graduating most students in four years — is trying to transform into an upper-division research university.

Student population sizes also come to mind when we compare public universities within this state.

How would taxpayers subsidize the thousands of students who graduate on time from this university, where costs are higher?

The University of Baltimore’s president, Robert Bogomolny, said many of the institution’s students are firsttime students who are economically challenged and come from families that don’t have a history of higher

education. Though this profile might fit some students at this university, it clearly is not as overwhelming of an issue as it appears to be at the University of Baltimore.

Even if we were to look at this program on an individual level, many concepts about Finish4Free are complicated and could be hard to implement at different institutions.

School officials at the University of Baltimore have admitted they are unsure how much the program costs.

If this university, or other large research universities for that matter, were to institute this program, what would happen to students who take significant course loads versus those who take minimal course work and graduate on time? Should there be weighted incentives based on how early students graduate or the difficulty of their majors?

T h e s e q u e s t i o n s o bv i o u s l y become harder to answer once we look at larger universities that offer diverse programs and majors. Although there might be implications with Finish4Free in general, it seems like a program suited to the specific institution it is meant to address: A smaller college with a staggeringly low graduation rate and minimal financial support.

Though we all want a “free” education, we need to realize people have to pay an essential cost, and some might need the support more than others.

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Using Facebook to appreciate others Don’t be jealous of your friends — be happy for them

MARIA ROMAS

Some people hate this part of social media. I have read countless articles and columns, written by people who think seeing others’ accomplishments makes their own lives seem inadequate or less great. But I choose not to look at it that way. Of course, I don’t want to invalidate people’s feelings of jealousy when seeing others’ successes, as they can sometimes be disheartening. But it’s important to put it into perspective and remember everyone goes through hard times as well as good times.

Whenever I see someone post about anything exciting, whether it is a new job, an engagement, a new baby, an exciting experience, a new relationship or whatever, I make sure to “like” it. For me, this is my way of showing I care and am happy to see this person be happy. I don’t take it as any reflection of how my life is going or try to compare myself to what points my friends are at in their lives.

That’s not to say I always felt this way about friends’ posts. Sometimes, in fact, I do get jealous when someone has reached a point in his or her life that I would like to reach, such as with academic accomplishments.

And before I forced myself to change my way of thinking, I beat myself up a lot more about not having as exciting things happening to me or being as successful as others.

But that’s why I made myself put things into perspective. It wasn’t healthy for me to try to compare myself to everyone I know (or am friendly enough with to be “friends” with on Facebook). It’s important to make yourself take a step back, especially to realize great things happen to you too. Social media makes it even easier for us to compare ourselves to others — but to what end? Be happy for your friends. It will make you a lot happier, too.

“I hate you. You know who you are.” “I’m so much better off without you.”

These are just a couple of excerpts posted by a number of my Facebook friends, and I’m sure many people can relate to seeing these types of statements on their social media news feeds. I think it’s now called “subtweeting” on Twitter when you write about someone and don’t mention his or her name, but those types of posts have been happening since social media was born.

Some friends are going through breakups, and some are angry at the world. Some just like to get into arguments with strangers about politics. There is a vast array of people posting negative things about their lives — many rightfully so, as they are going through horrible things and trying times.

But what I like most about Facebook posts is seeing my friends’ accomplishments and successes.

This is an opportunity we have that our parents and in some cases, our older siblings and cousins, didn’t have when they were growing up.

They had to wait until high school reunions or random run-ins at the grocery stores in their hometowns to find out what people were up to.

There was no way of keeping tabs on those high school friends whom you might not constantly talk to but still want to see how their college years are going. There was also no way of keeping tabs on that ex of yours, which was probably a good thing and something a lot of people in our generation fall prey to.

We have been given the unique Maria Romas is a senior English privilege of watching our friends m a j o r. S h e c a n b e re a c h e d a t mromasdbk@gmail.com. grow before our eyes.

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DOTS must reinstate appeals process Campus Transportation Advisory Committee let students down

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ast summer, DOTS canceled the secondary appeals process for university traffic violations.

This means ticketed drivers anywhere on the campus have exactly one opportunity to appeal their punishment. If that appeal is denied, students have only one option through the university: pay up.

The Department of Transportation Services had its reasoning. It cited a secondary appeals cost of $10,000, and we should always encourage university efforts to save money.

However, negotiations with the Office of Student Conduct, which handled such appeals, determined the cost could be reduced to $2,000.

Unfortunately, when the University Senate’s Campus Transportation Advisory Committee considered legislation to reinstate this program just before spring break, the bill was senselessly voted down.

Even worse, two undergraduate students on the committee voted against it.

This denial was a stunning disappointment because the content of the proposal was so straightforward. The main arguments against it were a distrust of DOTS student workers who conduct appeals, and that the second appeals process was redundant.

If this appeals process was cut for financial reasons, then that aspect should have been the main focus when deciding whether we

should bring this process back.

More importantly, CTAC committee members insinuated that the reasons students want the second appeals process is because they distrust those making the decisions merely because they work for DOTS. There is no basis for that presumption. But there are plenty of reasons why students want to appeal a second time. For example, it is very difficult to explain the ticket situation because of the online appeals process’s word limit. Those looking for appeals co u l d fe e l t h e n e e d to c l a r i fy because arguments could have been misunderstood.

To combat the supposed redundancy of the second appeals process, I suggested amending the legislation to give those who made an appeal a response explaining why they were denied. This seemed like the best way for students to know if they should make a second appeal.

To my dismay, the main argument against giving responses is students would take advantage of them and potentially lie to get out of a ticket.

It is terrible that there is an immediate presumption that students will be dishonest. The initial rationale for denying the appeals process was that students did not trust DOTS. In reality, it seems like there is no trust in students.

Secondary appeals are about

giving community members simple due process. It is time students got involved to make sure sensible proposals like this one are not ignored.

At the CTAC meeting, the reinstatement of secondary appeals failed by one vote. Of the three undergraduates on the committee, I was the only one who supported it.

Had the other two students stood with me and the rest of the student body, we would have gotten the right outcome: reinstate the second appeals process. But these students backed away and as a result, students collectively will pay thousands of dollars more in undue parking tickets.

We are fortunate to have robust opportunities to participate in shared governance at this university. Whenever you have an opportunity to vote for your peers to represent you in university governance bodies, remember the people we elect make the policies that, in not-so-subtle ways, significantly shape our university experience.

If we do not engage in our civic responsibilities as students, we run the risk of paying for it in the long run. It shouldn’t take a bad traffic ticket to reach that conclusion.

Josh Ratner is a junior government and politics major. He is the student affairs vice president for the Student Government Association.

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The bracketology is just half of the madness, though. The games themselves are nothing short of legendary.

From Texas Western’s historic upset of Kentucky in 1966 and Christian Laettner’s 1992 buzzer-beater to N.C. State’s incredible 1983 run and Florida Gulf Coast’s high-flying “Dunk City” offense, the NCAA tournament has provided fans with countless epic moments.

Largely unheard-of schools can claim a moment of fame and a spot in millions of hearts by upsetting highly-ranked teams in some truly miraculous games.

Though these games might bust our brackets, all of us watching can’t seem to get enough of March Madness.

My family looks forward to March Madness like it does Christmas. We fill out dozens of brackets for as many contests in a fury of research and guesswork. We each have our favorites and our upset picks. The TV never leaves college basketball, and we all have our brackets up on our computers that first weekend. The brackets are soon forgotten as we take in upset after upset.

Already this year, we saw Mercer take down Duke and Cinderella Dayton take down powerhouses Ohio State and Syracuse. These upsets might have torpedoed my bracket, but nothing beats Duke losing.

March Madness has this exciting and unifying effect that is difficult to convey.

But if you like massive upsets, great basketball or an exciting atmosphere, you too will fall in love with the madness that has consumed so many of us.

So eve n i f yo u d o n ’t h ave a bracket — or if yours is already destroyed — watch tonight and all weekend as teams play their hearts out for a chance for that coveted trip to Arlington, Texas. It will be exciting and a great way to make new friends, and you might even see history made.

Every March, millions of us work feverishly to fill out our NCAA tournament brackets. The thrill of predicting every game in the tournament combined with friendly competition (and possibly monetary incentives) makes for a stressful yet incredible couple of days midmonth. By the time the tournament is over — after the field has been narrowed from 64, to the Final Four, to the champion — we will have watched more college basketball than we had the four months prior and (most of us) will have a decimated bracket.

As much as I would like to brag about my brackets or give you advice on how to win next year, this is not the sports section. So I’ll settle for explaining to March Madness virgins why we go crazy this time of year. And if you’re an aficionado like myself, then just take a moment to enjoy the classic memories of the craziest basketball of the year.

While the 1924 Wimbledon Championships might have been the first prominent tournament to arrange by seeding, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament began in 1939 with just eight teams. Since then, it has expanded to 68 teams competing to be crowned college men’s basketball champions.

But even before the first game is played, the madness begins. Friends, families, businesses and websites organize bracket pools in which entrants predict the results of each game all the way to the final. Some contests offer prizes to the winners, others require an entry fee to be given to the winners and still others offer only bragging rights (because Matt Dragonette is a sophomore acthe tournament has already started, counting major. He can be reached at there’s no reason to delve further). mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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Evil marbles, crass knuckles and THE robopocalypse A roundup of new March video games, including a post-apocalyptic robot war and a bunch of foul-mouthed Colorado preteens The game progresses from this relatively easy starting point by throwing increasingly convoluted glass setups that seriously test your ability to keep track of multiple spinning objects while the camera swirls and tilts.

The evil part kicks in when you die. In the free version, you have to start from the beginning every time you fail. In the premium version, you are allowed the privilege of using sparingly laid-out checkpoints. While the intended effect was no doubt to generate more sales of the premium version, each death just makes me grit my teeth harder and hit play again without upgrading.

Smash Hit will inspire many to lose several hate-filled hours of their lives jiving along to the smooth music and stark level design. It’s evil through and through, but I’m hooked.

By Warren Zhang @auberginecow Senior staff writer

Smash Hit Available on Android and iOS. Played on iOS. Partway through my 10th play through, I realized Smash Hit might just be the most soothing form of torture ever devised.

Don’t be fooled by the relaxing electronic soundtrack or the beguilingly sterile aesthetic; Smash Hit, in its free incarnation, is pure evil.

You play as some entity hurtling on rails through some artfully designed void. The sentience ruling this plane of existence is determined to stop you by placing glass in front of you. You, however, have a finite number of marbles that you can use to smash the glass.

South Park: The Stick of Truth Available on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. Played on PS3.

South Park: The Stick of Truth is South Park with even less of a moral filter.

Wrapped around a simple turn-based RPG, The Stick of Truth plays out like the longest, most vulgar and offensive episode of South Park ever.

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jokes, you’re well advised to steer clear. Heck, if you have any taste or moral c o m p a s s , yo u s h o u l d probably avoid The Stick of Truth. The nadir (or zenith, depending on how you look at it) of the game takes place in an abortion clinic. The scene is such a holocaust of good taste that one must see it multiple times to believe it.

For fans of the show, The Stick of Truth is glorious — packed with the most energetic, risque material to have graced South Park in some sea so n s. Fo r eve ryo n e else, The Stick of Truth is a grab bag of contradictions and buggy gameplay that won’t convert any naysayers.

Titanfall Available on PC, Xbox One and Xbox 360. Played on PC. D e ve l o p e r R e s p a w n Entertainment has captured lighting in a bottle with Titanfall, an unlikely marriage of first-person parkour, mech-fighter and Call of Duty-style shoot ’em up. In this case, “playing is believing” does not do the stunningly balanced gameplay justice.

Wall running, doublejumping and robot fighting never have felt so fluid or organic.

But Titanfall is far from a perfect product, and its flaws hinder its prospects, at least this iteration’s, of instantly becoming the next Call of Duty or Halo. For all the miraculously tuned

controls and meticulously crafted maps, Titanfall disappointingly relies on a number of stodgy multiplayer conventions.

The weapons are an assortment of mostly generic Modern Warfare-style rifles and shotguns. Outside of a creative auto-targeting pistol, the game modes are reconfigured versions of the old death match, capture the flag and king of the hill rigmarole and the campaign is laughably vestigial.

Still, Titanfall offers more than enough fun to justify its price tag. It just comes so close to all-time greatness that its flaws are all the more noticeable and heartbreaking. wzhangdbk@gmail.com

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Terps work past loss for first time this week in practice Tillman points to lack of communication as problem in defeat; team has options on faceoffs with Raffa, Garino

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer This week in practice, the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team tried to move past a loss for the first time this season.

The then-No. 1 Terps fell to thenNo. 6 North Carolina, 11-8, in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Saturday, ending their bid for an undefeated season. Turnovers, untimely penalties and missed opportunities all factored into an underwhelming performance that came at the back end of a grueling stretch featuring three games in eight days.

Coach John Tillman and midfielder Mike Chanenchuk both suggested fatigue likely played a role in Saturday’s defeat. As a result, Tillman gave the now-No. 4 Terps two days of rest Sunday and Monday in an effort

TIGERS From PAGE 8 playing bad in any way,” McPartland said. “She does everything all over the field.”

On the defensive end, the Terps (12-0) stifled the Tigers (5-5) early after allowing Towson to score the game’s first goal in the third minute.

Eventually, the Tigers produced more offense, though.

Attacker Taylor Moore found a hole in the Terps defense with 15:30 left in the first half to end a five-goal run by the Terps and make the score 5-2.

She continued to exploit the Terps defense, scoring two more goals in just more than two minutes.

to recuperate.

Chanenchuk said the team returned to practice on Tuesday with renewed focus. The game against the Tar Heels was the young team’s first setback, but the Terps will have a chance to return to form entering another conference battle this weekend against Virginia.

“These kids have worked really hard,” Tillman said. “They’ve invested a lot since Jan. 3. We’ve asked a lot in terms of scouting, preparation, weight training, really competing hard every day. … So we felt like trying to give them a little bit of a mental and physical break would be positive.”

In the Terps’ first team meeting of the week Tuesday, Tillman, Chanenchuk and other seniors addressed the team. Chanenchuk said it was especially important to urge the freshmen to look forward and not dwell on the past.

With a 5-4 lead, the Terps shored up their defense, and they responded to the Tigers’ run with five unanswered goals of their own to end the half.

“We weren’t getting our slides there as quick as we wanted to, but we turned it around,” defender Megan Douty said. “Once we talked about that, we got back together and were able to stop them from doing that again.”

In the second half, the Terps used a balanced attack to open up a large lead, and seven different players combined to score nine goals after the break. The scoring outburst eventually resulted in a running clock after midfielder Jen Mendez scored with 12:40 remaining in the game.

“Guys were really eager to get back The defensemen would force ofout there, get after it,” Chanenchuk fensive players to certain areas of the said. “It’s definitely been a little more field, expecting help from teammates. up-tempo this week.”

That support, however, never arrived.

“It’s making sure when we get in those defenses, everybody echoes it LOOKING AT THE TAPE and everybody’s well aware of what In the days following the loss to the they should do,” Tillman said.

Tar Heels, Tillman reviewed video with his team and examined what SUCCESS AT THE X went wrong for the Terps, who surrendered a season-high 11 goals, scored Before the Terps’ eight-goal win at a season-low eight goals and commit- Michigan on March 18, team trainer ted a season-high 16 turnovers.

Amelia Sesma strongly recommended Defensively, Tillman said the group to Tillman and his staff that faceoff failed to communicate properly. A specialist Charlie Raffa sit the game number of times during the game, the out to rest an injury, which has forced coach said defensemen were “not on him to wear a brace on his right knee the same page” in terms of what scheme for most of the 2014 season. the Terps were running — something The fourth-year coach heeded her that changed based on the personnel advice, giving midfielder Jon Garino the Tar Heels had on the field.

Jr. a full game at the faceoff X while

Raffa watched from the sideline.

Garino won 11-of-19 faceoffs in a strong performance that solidified him as a viable second option for Tillman moving forward this season. But perhaps more importantly, Raffa received some muchneeded rest, which translated to a dominant performance against the Tar Heels five days later, when he won 16-of-23 faceoffs and picked up eight ground balls.

“It is a long year,” Tillman said.

“Making sure we have a good pulse on Charlie, how he’s feeling [is important]. And hopefully, if he can continue to get better, then maybe he doesn’t need as many breaks. But if he does, I’m confident the other guys will step up.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

The Terps cruised the rest of the way to a comfortable victory over an unranked opponent. Their stout defense kept Towson from mounting a second-half comeback, and McPartland’s offensive outburst gave the Terps plenty of cushion. Even without Cummings scoring a goal in the past two games, the Terps remain undefeated with five games left in the regular season.

“I don’t know that they are shutting her down,” Reese said. “In a team sport you are all working together to find who’s open, and when we are able to put up 19 goals against a team like this, we are moving the ball quite well.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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13-2 run to take a 28-22 lead in the first half, Howard scored a layup while getting fouled and then hit the ensuing free throw to halt the run. The three-point play started a late surge that tied the game at 31 at the end of a first half in which forward Alyssa Thomas and Brown combined to score two points.

“There were so many times in game that I know how hard these players work,” Frese said. “Some players this season had to sacrifice a larger role than expected, and they came up with some big plays.”

Thomas, three-time ACC Player of the Year, was 0-of-5 from the field seven minutes into the game, and she ended the half scoreless.

Still, the Terps’ reserves were confident the starting unit would improve in the second half, and at halftime backup guards Sequoia Austin and Chloe Pavlech gave words of encouragement to Thomas, the calming presence in the team’s win over Army on Sunday afternoon.

“Sequoia and Chloe, they gave me confidence,” Thomas said. “They told me, ‘We’re not worried you haven’t scored yet.’

They just told me to get to the basket, and that’s when things started opening up for me.”

Thomas had seven points,

three rebounds and one assist in the opening 4:07 of the half, which began the starting five’s resurgence.

The Terps’ bench cheered as the starters stepped up in the second half to seal a win and set up a Sunday matchup against No. 1-seed Tennessee in Louisville, Ky. But without Mincy, Howard and the rest of the Terps reserves in the first half, the game — and season — could’ve been vastly different.

“I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen Alyssa with zero points and we were tied at halftime,” Frese said. “We are putting ourselves in a great position with our team.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 2014

NCAA TOURNAMENT | WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BOOST FROM THE BENCH Reserves keep Terps in first half of win over Texas

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

guard laurin mincy was part of a Terps bench that scored 23 of 31 points in the first half of Tuesday’s victory over No. 5-seed Texas. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

With the shot clock at two seconds in the opening minutes of the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s 69-64 win against Texas, guard Katie Rutan launched a 3-pointer that sailed over the hoop and bounced off the top of the backboard for a shot clock violation.

Rutan’s errant attempt was part of a slow offensive start for the No. 4-seed Terps, who scored on one of their first six possessions during the NCAA tournament round of 32 against the No. 5-seed Longhorns on Tuesday night. But when guard Laurin Mincy replaced Rutan about two and a half minutes into the game, she provided an instant boost.

Mincy scored the Terps’ next eight points, and the bench continued to lead the way. The Terps’ starters finished the half with eight points, while their substitutes had 23 and helped them tie the game entering halftime.

The starting five regrouped to score 32 points in the second half, but they knew the contributions from the bench helped make a third straight Sweet 16 appearance possible.

“Nobody’s shot was really falling except for the people coming off the bench,” guard Lexie Brown said.

“And that was huge.”

In the Terps’ first-round win over Army, Mincy held Black Knights guard Kelsey Minato — a two-time Patriot League Player of the Year — to one field goal in the final 10 minutes of the first half. Against the Longhorns, the redshirt junior, who missed most of last season with a torn ACL, returned to the crafty offensive game that earned her All-ACC honorable mention during her sophomore year.

Mincy hit two straight 3-pointers less than three minutes after entering and then crossed over her defender before hitting a step-back jumper to give the Terps a 10-9 lead with 12:38 left.

“Coach [Brenda Frese] just told me to come in and play with confidence,” Mincy said. “And thankfully, my teammates were able to find me in open spots, and I was able to knock the shots down.”

An established starter before her injury, Mincy started nine times and has appeared in 31 of 32 games this season. Center Malina Howard, an All-ACC freshman team honoree last season, began the season as a starter before moving to a significant bench role. But she boosted the Terps’ inside presence with nine points and three rebounds Tuesday night against 6-foot-7 Texas center Imani McGee-Stafford and the Longhorns’ long frontcourt.

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NCAA BASKETBALL BRACKETOLOGY 101

WOMEN’S LACROSSE | No. 2 TERPS 19, TIGERS 8

Here are the leaders in The Diamondback’s Bracketology 101 NCAA Contest going into this weekend: MIDFIELDER KELLY MCPARTLAND scored six goals in the No. 2 Terps’ 19-8 win over Towson last night.

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Midfielder’s five first-half goals lead to comfortable win

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff Writer Taylor Cummings failed to score a goal for the first time in a game this season at James Madison on Saturday, and the Terrapins women’s lacrosse midfielder went another 60 minutes without a goal last night against Towson.

Still, the No. 2 Terps recorded 10 first-half goals in two five-goal spurts. Midfielder Kelly McPartland scored five goals in the first half alone and finished with six on the game in the Terps’ 19-8 win on a

cold spring night at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex.

“We came out strong,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We fought hard for a full 60 minutes, which was nice to see despite the weather. I thought we had a good effort all over the field.”

Rather than jump-start the scoring with goals of her own, Cummings helped facilitate the offense with two firsthalf assists. She found attacker Brooke Griffin for the Terps’ first goal of the night and one of Griffin’s four goals.

The Terps used their strong ball movement for the rest of the night to shoot better than

50 percent, following up a 44.8 percent shooting performance against the Dukes.

“I thought our offense worked really well together tonight,” Reese said. “We were moving off-ball; we were creating a lot offensive opportunities and good looks.”

Despite Towson goalkeeper Kelsea Donnelly’s 13 saves and Cummings’ scoreless outing — who entered the game with a team high-tying 30 goals — the Terps were able to match their season high of 19 goals.

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