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Graduate students discuss unionizing

73 No. 3 CARDINALS

GSG looks at meet and confer in Big Ten context

By Joelle Lang @thedbk Staff writer

will still have access to Green Tidings food beginning April 23 at the weekly on-campus farmers market, Hipple said.

Executive Chef Will Rogers will run the stand with Good Tidings and Green Tidings staff, showcasing an entree and side dishes. The stand also will make an appearance on Maryland Day. “We are excited we are still able to provide some of our Green Tidings cuisine to the graduating class, and we plan to be reopen by the next semester,” Rogers wrote in an email.

As the university prepares to move to the Big Ten, g raduate student assistants are reopening discussions about unionization and the fl aws in their current negotiation system.

In the absence of union rights or collective bargaining, the University System of Maryland offers a meet-and-confer program, which i ncludes a Gradu ate A ssista nt Advisory Council composed of 12 elected graduate assistants. These students meet with the graduate school dean, the provost and the administrative affairs vice president once a semester to share concerns ranging from stipend levels to child care options to issues involving intellectual property rights.

The council is given one hour once a semester to voice the concerns of more than 4,000 graduate assistants, and the meetings are non-binding.

“R ig ht now, [w it h meet a nd confer], we can advocate, but that is all we can do,” Graduate Student Government President David Colon-Cabrera said. “It’s mediation, not an outlet.”

University system and school officials maintain that graduate students are not employees and that their duties are part of their education, not employment eligible for unionized negotiation, The Diamondback previously reported. The meet-andconfer system was put in place two years ago as a compromise between university interests and a push by graduate students to unionize.

But a look at Big Ten schools has graduate students more willing to challenge their status, Cabrera said.

Northwestern University in particular has been a source of inspiration.

Last week, a National Labor Relations Board official ruled that undergraduate scholarship football players were employees of the school and therefore had the right to unionize.

“I see us banding together and unionizing, following the lead that Northwestern athletes demonstrated,” said Yvonne Slosarski, fifth-year communication doctoral candidate.

“It’s high time that we realize that we are valuable people in this institution and deserve a seat at the table

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GUARD SEQUOIA AUSTIN celebrates in the arms of center Malina Howard after the No. 4-seed Terps advanced to the Final Four with a 76-73 win over No. 3-seed Louisville last night. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

SILENCE AND ADVANCE No. 4-seed Terps hold off No. 3-seed Louisville to advance to first Final Four since 2006

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More than an hour before the opening tip between the Terrapins women’s basketball team and Louisville last night, police closed off a section of West Washington Street just outside the KFC Yum! Center. Fans in Louisville jerseys and T-shirts flooded the sidewalks, while the team’s cheerleaders and pep band performed on the street.

When the arena doors opened, Cardinals fans fi led to their seats and created the type of lively environment the Terps have struggled in during the season.

When the No. 4-seed Terps beat No. 3-seed Louisville, 76-73, on the Cardinals’ home court in an Elite Eight matchup last night, though, players celebrated as the arena went silent. The Terps clinched their spot in the Final Four in Nashville, Tenn., and ended Louisville’s season.

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Green Tidings truck to remain closed Workers still injured; farmers market stand to serve truck’s menu

christian johnson is the undergraduate student representative on the newly formed President’s Task Force on Cybersecurity. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

Engineering greener pastures Cybersecurity student makes impact on univ

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer The Green Tidings food truck will not reopen this semester, Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said Monday.

A grease fire on March 7 injured four employees cleaning the truck after it closed, putting it out of operation indefi nitely.

Three of the employees, none

of whom were s t u d ents, were treated immediately for first-degree burns, while the fourth remained in the hospital to receive surgery for second- and third-degree burns, Hipple said.

These four workers, who formed what Hipple called the core staff because of their extensive experience working on the truck, have not returned to work, each for individual reasons, he said.

“We love the food truck; we know the campus loves the food truck,” Hipple said. And we’re real disappointed about it, but we just can’t get it back open this semester.”

However, the campus community

Pipe leak leads to hot water outage for North Hill dorms

Christian Johnson is getting comfortable having his picture taken.

The freshman computer science major has garnered attention from the likes of The Wall Street Journal (“they told me not to smile”) and is among the rising young faces in a new generation of cybersecurity specialists.

His resume includes positions such as NASA big data specialist, CEO of a computer company he fou nded i n h igh school a nd student board president of this

50-year-old area pipes cause weekend issues

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By Jeremy Snow @thedbk Staff writer After a chilly morning run Saturday, sophomore Michael Zanfardino looked forward to going back to his Queen Anne’s Hall dorm to take a warm shower and relax. But his ideal cooldown was impossible because of a few rusty pipes and a 3-foot-deep hole.

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From Friday to Saturday afternoon, an underground pipe leak next to Dorchester Hall caused h o t w a t e r o u t a ge s i n s e v e r a l North Hill dorms. T he outages highlighted issues caused by the area’s 50-year-old pipes, Facilities Management officials said — an all-too-familiar situation for students living in that area. jeff bennett, Facilities Management heating, ventilation and air conditioning chief, stands next to a leaking pipe near Dorchester Hall. The hole allowed workers to solder a cracked valve. jeremy snow/for the diamondback

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2014

Vape Exchange to come to city E-cigarette store owners plan to bring cafe, lounge

By Jon Banister @j_banister Staff writer This spring, two university alumni will open an electronic cigarette and vapor accessory store a few blocks from the campus.

Vape Exchange in the Campus Village shopping center is expected to open in the next two months, said Barry Vuong, one of the shop’s founders. Vuong founded DC Vapor in Wheaton with Toan Nguyen in 2013, and the duo has decided to expand to a second location.

In addition to a retail section, Vape Exchange will include a small cafe and lounge area intended to foster a community among e-cigarette smokers, Vuong said.

“If they want to enjoy vaping, we don’t want them to have to go to another spot where they’re exposed

CARDINALS From PAGE 1 “Just a phenomenal environment,” coach Brenda Frese said. “I know the fans probably didn’t enjoy the outcome, but you can’t ask for a better game when you talk about the fans and how many were here.”

Forward Alyssa Thomas had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and guard Lexie Brown added 20 points for the Terps, while Louisville guard Shoni Schimmel scored a game-high 31 points, but the senior star missed a potential game-tying three-point shot with one second left.

“I’m pretty sure that ball took 25 minutes to go through the air,” guard Katie Rutan said.

“But then just seeing it bounce out and then the buzzer hit, I don’t have words. My whole life went blank right there.”

Four of the Terps’ six losses this season — including their lopsided defeat at Duke in February — have come on the road or on a neutral court, and they had to play before an announced 14,002 at Louisville’s home court to keep their postseason alive.

“I just think we got a renewed focus,” Brown said. “We’ve really come together as a team these past couple of weeks.”

In the hostile environment,

the Terps (28-6) got off to a fast start. Rutan sank two three-point field goals in less than four minutes to build an early 8-2 lead. Schimmel responded with two 3-pointers of her own, leading Louisville (33-5) on an 11-2 run that gave the team a 15-11 lead.

The seesawing continued in the fi rst half, and both teams prevented each other from establishing a half-court offense.

There were four steals between both teams in a 42-second stretch, but the Cardinals took advantage of the game’s back-and-forth nature, closing their deficit to 22-21 with 7:01 remaining in the half.

T h e Te r p s ’ t u r n o v e r s proved costly during the fi nal moments of the first half. Louisville had four steals in the fi nal two minutes and scored three unanswered baskets.

Schimmel finished a layup after intercepting a pass from center Alicia DeVaughn. Cardinals fans erupted, and the play gave Louisville a 36-32 lead entering halftime.

“I think one of the biggest adjustments that we made as staff was at halftime when we settled our team down,” Frese said. “Every timeout, we went into talking about ball reversals and being patient.”

Louisville came out strong in the second half and built a

about being able to come out here after class and just chill for a few minutes and smoke, but not have all the smell or nearly as bad health effects.”

DC Vapor sells a starter kit that costs $34.99 online. E-liquid refills start at $5, Vuong said. The DC Vapor store in Wheaton sells more than 100 flavors of cartridges, the most popular being tobacco and menthol because they taste similar to traditional cigarettes, Nguyen said.

College Park Economic Development Coordinator Michael Stiefvater said the store will provide a unique service that will attract more consumers to the city.

“It’s nice to diversify our stores a little bit,” Stiefvater said. “Especially by bringing a nonrestaurant, those that visit the store will support the restaurants around it.”

A bill in the state’s General Assembly presents a potential obstacle for the store by redefining “smoking” under the Clean Indoor Air Act to include electronic smoking devices. If passed, House Bill 1291, sponsored by Del. Aruna Miller (D-Montgomery),

DC VAPOR FOUNDERS Barry Vuong (left), Toan Nguyen (right) and marketing Director Peter Bui plan to bring an electronic cigarette store and cafe to Campus Village shopping center. james levin/the diamondback would ban the use of e-cigarettes in bars and restaurants.

A 2012 study published in science journal Inhalation Toxicology found that e-cigarettes “produce very small exposures relative to tobacco cigarettes.” The study concluded there was “no apparent risk to human health from e-cigarette emissions.”

Though scientists are still studying the potential dangers of e-cigarettes to smokers and people around them, e-cigarettes could help smokers quit, Vuong said, because they provide

nicotine to feed a smoker’s addiction while leaving out other chemicals found in traditional cigarettes.

“A lot of people kind of generalize smoking and vaping as the same thing. But smoking requires combustion, something to light it. With vaping, there’s no combustion. It’s just electricity that runs through wire and heats up the wick to create vape,” Vuong said. “There’s no tar, there’s no arsenic, there are no carcinogens.” jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

FORWARD ALYSSA THOMAS (top left) scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, while guard Lexie Brown (right) had 20 points of her own as the Terps withstood a game-high 31 points from Louisville guard Shoni Schimmel (bottom left) in the No. 4-seed Terps’ 76-73 victory over the No. 3-seed Cardinals in the Elite Eight at the KFC Yum! Center. alik mcintosh/the diamondback 41-34 lead. But the Terps went on a 12-0 run and took a 54-45 lead with 10:34 remaining.

With 5:19 left, Schimmel missed an uncontested layup that would’ve made it a fivepoi nt ga me, a nd T homas grabbed the rebound and drew a foul on the other end. After she converted two free throws, the Terps were up 58-49. They held a commanding lead, until

the Cardinals went on a late run to come within two points of tying the game in its waning moments.

Schimmel hit a trio of desperation 3-pointers in the final 30 seconds, but the Terps made 14 of 16 free throws in the final 2:39 to clinch the Final Four berth. The Terps will face undefeated Notre Dame on Sunday for a chance to advance

to the national championship.

Though they lost to the Fighting Irish earlier in the season, the Terps have stayed composed through pressure situations this postseason.

Without that poise in a raucous atmosphere, the Terps might not have been ascending a ladder to cut down the net in the minutes after the fi nal buzzer sounded.

“We really got them to buy in to welcoming the environment, embracing it,” Frese said. “If this was three months ago, we wouldn’t have been prepared or have been in this place, but just to see this team grow — the trust level, the confidence level — was really special to be able to watch.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

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union From PAGE 1 when decisions are made that affect our lives, the university’s research and our students’ education.”

Yakov Kronrod, a fifth-year linguistics doctoral candidate and GAAC member, said he has recently found more graduates talking with peers about unions and collective bargaining.

“T he biggest cha nge i n opinion on unionizing has been people going from ‘no opinion’ to ‘supportive,’” he said.

Cabrera said a state-recognized union would introduce a new level of power to graduate assistants to have t hei r conc er n s honore d .

W hereas GA AC terms are short, a union would allow the students to address deeper problems with institutional memory, Kronrod said.

But the idea of a union is still as controversial as it was two years ago, and some students, such as Logan Fletcher,

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to secondhand smoke if they don’t want to,” Vuong said. “We want it to be as inviting as possible.”

E-cigarettes are smokeless, battery-powered devices that convert liquid nicotine into a vapor the user inhales. DC Vapor’s owners moved to College Park because they saw an opportunity to introduce an alternative way of smoking to faculty and students.

“The main reason we want to come to a college town is to promote students to be healthier,” said DC Vapor marketing Director Peter Bui. “The whole health thing is a trend right now, and this is a lot healthier than cigarettes and cigars.”

Brayton Metzger, a junior education and history major, said he smoked cigarettes for seven years before switching to e-cigarettes eight months ago. E-cigarettes have made him feel healthier, saved him more than $600 since he began using them and rid him of the cigarette smell, he said.

“I’m addicted to nicotine, but it’s more than that. It’s the habit of smoking I enjoy,” Metzger said. “It’s

a sixth-year philosophy doctoral candidate, are skeptical of whether a union is the answer to graduate student concerns. “ It i s t r u e t h at we a re tech n ica l ly employees of the university, but it seems to me that our main purpose, as graduate students, is to receive professional traini n g ,” F l e tc h e r s a i d . “ I n particular, being a graduate student is not, in itself, a ca reer, a nd g iven t h at, I’m not inclined to support graduate student unions to the same extent that I would suppor t u n ions for other kinds of workers.”

A n o t h e r m a j o r re a s o n graduate assistants are hesitant about supporting unionization is the fear that a union would introduce adversarial relationships with professors, Kronrod said. There would still need to be further work regarding negotiations with the administration, but the presence of a union alone, he said, “is not a magic solution.” jlangdbk@gmail.com

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For students such as Julia Ring, however, the solution isn’t ideal.

“I have class literally all day on Wednesdays,” the sophomore elementary education and English major said. “It’s a little disappointing that I will miss the majority of Green Tidings opportunities.”

D u r i n g t h i s d ow nt i m e, Hipple said, officials will look into potentially expanding the Green Tidings business with a bigger truck or through other means, though that decision is not yet finalized.

Officials to put $50,000 toward green additions

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Staff writer The University Sustainability Fund granted Facilities Management $50,000 on Thursday to implement a rainwater harvesting system, a teaching green roof, or both, for the new Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center, which is scheduled to open in summer 2016.

The university has not decided on which project it will focus the funds because the designs, originally proposed by university students from the 2011 WaterShed Solar Decathlon team, are still being worked on, said Bill Olen, Facilities Management interim planning and construction executive director and capital projects director. If they had the funds for both projects, he said, officials would go forward with both.

“We started creating a list of ideas that were feasible, but also that might push them so they have a project that forces them to integrate a new sustainable practice into their project,” said 2012 u n d e rg ra d u a te a n d 2 0 13 graduate university alumnus David Daily.

The new building will be located on McKeldin Mall and will provide about 2,000 seats in new classrooms, nine new teaching labs, a hub of undergraduate student life and will have about 14,000 people going through the building each day, Olen said.

Facilities Management did not receive all the funds it requested. The proposal was reviewed with 55 others vying for a portion of the 2014 Sustainability Fund, which totals $350,000.

“We thought they were both strong projects, so we basically said we want to support the overall sustainability of this building, whether you think that’s best allocated toward the green roof or to the rainwater harvesting system,” said Ori Gutin, chairman of the student-run subcommittee that reviews sustainability fund proposals.

holzapfel hall stands at the site of the Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center. The project is expected to finish in summer 2016. kelsey hughes/the diamondback If the university decides to implement the rainwater harvesting system with all or part of the $50,000, it would offer more hidden teaching and research opportunities and decrease the amount of water pumped into the building, said sustainability office Senior Project Manager Mark Stewart.

Although a similar system in the new Physical Sciences Complex pumps groundwater, Stewart said a system that harvests rainwater would be the first of its kind on the campus.

“We’re lucky to live in a water-abundant area, but as time goes on, that need will increase and water scarcity will increase, so that’s always an important consideration to have,” said Gutin, a sophomore environmental science and policy major.

If the university chooses to use the funds for a teaching green roof, it would create the first student-accessible rooftop classroom on the campus, Stewart said.

“The green roof is a bigger student benefit, in terms of the two projects, because they have the opportunity to make it a teaching green roof, and make it accessible for students to walk in, and have classes up there and learn,” Gutin said.

“That will be a pretty cool thing for campus.”

With either a rainwater harvesting system or a teaching green roof to add to the building’s development, Stewart said the Sustainability Fund subcommittee is excited for sustainable options. “[The Edward St. John Center is] going to be a major development in the middle of campus; it’s high visibility, high traffic,

high importance,” Stewart said. “We were really happy to see the project managers and the architects for the building are really interested in integrating sustainable design features.”

The facilities committee will look at the ease of design, sustainability benefits, overall cost, payback on energy reduction and research and teaching opportunities when choosing between the teaching green roof and rainwater harvesting system, Olen said.

“There’s a focus from day one on sustainability,” Olen said. “We’re trying to work toward carbon reduction. It’s not only sustainability, but also energy use and carbon footprint of every building we’re designing and constructing.”

Students created the Sustainability Fund in 2007 by increasing the student fee, Gutin said. The subcommittee looks to support proposals that benefit students and also have a strong, positive environmental impact.

“We’re aspiring to be a national leader in sustainability; we want to be a campus that becomes a model for how a sustainable community could look and operate, so that needs to permeate everything that we do here,” Stewart said. “The infrastructure of campus is a significant part of what the university is about so it’s important that these buildings are designed and operated in the way that reflects this vision that we have.” gtooheydbk@gmail.com

PIPES From PAGE 1 “People were mad,” said Zanfardino, an accounting major. “This seems to happen more often than it should.”

Workers dug a hole to reach a faulty pipe with two corroded valves that blocked hot water access to A nne Arundel, Dorchester, Somerset, St. Mary’s and Queen A nne’s halls. To stop the leaking water, contractors soldered the cracked valve, and they plan to “thoroughly repair” the pipe in the summer, said George Mohr, Residential Facilities Maintenance assistant director.

While leaks are common around the campus, issues are especially prevalent on North and South hills, said John Austin, Facilities Management systems support assistant director. These areas contain some of the oldest plumbing on the campus. Pipes can usually last 20 to 25 years before they need repairs, Austin said, but eventually their age shows.

“Some of these pipes have been around since the 1930s,” said Jack Baker, Facilities Management operations and maintenance director. “We’re placing large pieces of metal into the ground, so you can expect them to deteriorate.”

To find potential problems, workers look at the older, larger areas that may not have

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leaking pipes led to a hot water outage in North Hill dorms on Friday and Saturday. Officials said outages are frequent due to the age of the pipes. jeremy snow/for the diamondback broken recently, Austin said.

Still, sometimes they will not know until it is too late.

Fixing pipes can create trouble, too. Older pipes need old parts, Baker said. When workers have to replace a valve or specific bolt, they sometimes have difficulty finding a usable piece that fits with the outdated model.

“We have recognized the aging infrastructure and are trying to schedule times we can fix it,” Mohr said.

Sta r t i n g t h i s su m mer, workers will begin a $40,000 project to replace pipe valves near A nne A rundel and Queen Anne’s halls in time for the fall semester, Austin sa id. To f u rther i mprove plumbing stability, workers will replace pipes that bring u nd erg rou nd water i nto buildings on South Hill.

Baker also said Facilities Management will spend about $750,000 to replace the water

main pipes on Fraternity Row during the same time.

“We have a small time frame to do these projects and need to work around the school schedule to not interrupt anything,” Austin said. “But even during the su m mer, t here a re tou r groups coming by and such.”

I n t h e p a s t, t h e a ge d pipes have caused disturbances, such as the steam leaks on Tawes Plaza and nea r t he Sout h Ca mpu s Dining Hall. A break also fo rc e d w o rk e rs to s h u t down hot water to North Hill dorms last year.

While dealing with these problems, Facilities Management has also updated the piping from Francis Scott Key Hall to Marie Mount Hall and fixed an underground cooling system near Preinkert Field House. jsnowdbk@gmail.com

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Green tidings, the campus food truck, sits behind the North Campus Dining Hall. The truck closed indefinitely after a grease fire injured four employees. rachel george/the diamondback

do in an hour what it had previously taken Robert days to complete.

“He was paid for the report, not the hours that he worked,” Christian Johnson said. “So he would just turn in the report early and take days off with my dad.”

Years later, Gary helped Christian build his first computer at age 6 in the basement of their home in Buffalo, N.Y. “Honestly, it’s like LEGOs,” Christian Johnson said. “Most kids can sit down and build a computer if someone is showing them. You know, it’s, ‘Put this thing here. Put this thing there.’

It’s not as impressive as people make it out to be.”

That first project jumpstarted a life’s passion for Christian: He spent three years breaking and reformatting the computer about 50 times and spent hours in the basement every day after school. The basement was a workshop and a safe haven, a room he fondly recalls as looking “kind of like an archaic computer science museum.” It still houses his grandfather’s IBM. When Johnson was 10, he and his father built a network in their house. About two years later, the father conceded that his son’s computer skills had surpassed his own.

W hile attending Canisius High School, a private Jesuit school in Buffalo, Johnson created Maplegrove Partners, a computer company that serviced the western New York area.

Now with Christian living hours from home, his father said they video chat on Skype as much as possible, so that even when they’re apart, the technology keeps them together.

From PAGE 1 university’s Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students honors program.

In February, the 19-year-old was chosen as the lone undergraduate student representative in the President’s Task Force on Cybersecurity. But if the thought of working in the wake of February’s massive data breach with experts decades his senior scares him, he doesn’t show it.

“This is really an opportunity for everyone across the university to pull together their collective resources,” Johnson said, “and not only strengthen against the problems that came from the breach, but [also] our talent and resources in cybersecurity.”

Johnson addresses questions with the poise of academia but without much of the pomp, and he has the look of a man nearly, but not quite, grown into his body. He wears half-rimmed glasses and dark slacks just short enough to see two white socks of different lengths on his ankles.

“His potential is probably only limited by the wisdom of the choices he makes as he moves for wa rd ,” sa id Gary Johnson, his father and mentor. “We’ve taught our children that part of life is about financial position, but it’s also about character.”

Christian Johnson is the only member of the 18-person task force legally unable to buy a beer. But he holds a spot in two of four subgroups — policy and data — and so far has demonstrated his skill, said Ann Wylie, task force chairwoman.

“Christian, in the first meeting, was … holding his own certainly, not just sitting Renaissance people of the back and taking things in, but computer age an active and very helpful participant,” she said in a voicemail At about the time he estabyesterday. “I’m just very pleased lished Maplegrove, Johnson that he’s on the task force.” joi ned NA SA I NSPI R E, a program for students interested in STEM topics. As a junior in AN EARLY START high school, he was accepted Johnson’s computer science into NASA’s Langley Aerospace roots go back to tinkering with Research Student Scholars his father and his grandfather, program in Virginia, where he Robert Johnson, on an original completed his requirements in IBM Personal Computer in the four weeks — six weeks fewer 1980s. After Gary Johnson’s than the expected 10.

“I sat down with the branch mother died in 1983, he and Robert spent countless hours manager of the information working with the machine, technologies branch at NASA eventua l ly enabl i ng it to Langley, and she basically said, process the financial reports ‘What do you want to do?’”

He decided he wanted to for Robert’s job. The PC could

focus on a big data system that NASA had been collaborating on with IBM. It had been offline for two weeks and no one from either organization could get it back up and running.

“I came in the next day to work and fixed it,” Johnson said. “And that pretty much earned me a permanent spot [as a contractor] there.”

Johnson takes pride in his technical achievements, but he said that many people are doing the same work he is. The challenge often forgotten among those in the field, he said, is that of an ethical capacity.

That challenge is part of the reason he chose to come to this university. In the fall, the Honors College unveiled ACES, the country’s first four-year cybersecurity honors program.

An influx of computer engineers is not enough to solve the threat of a cyberattack in the future, ACES members said.

It will also take a number of people who can consider the economic, legal and ethical issues surrounding the matter.

“It’s a great learning community that has kind of embodied that kind of principle that we learn together, and it doesn’t matter where we are in our track,” Johnson said.

“We’re all coming out on the same side of the green pasture, so let’s work together to try to get there.”

Michel Cukier, ACES director and task force member, said ACES members are multifaceted, technically sound and eager to solve complex puzzles. “ C h r i s t i a n re p re s e n t s m a ny of t he students [i n the program],” Cukier said.

“They have the classwork, but they take advantage of what ACES has to offer. They know it’s just as much about experiential learning.”

This summer, Johnson will work as a systems application developer, or “growth hacker,” at Gallup’s headquarters in Washington and as an advanced systems developer for Mid-Atlantic Crossroads, a network management company with offices in College Park.

“Growing up, people at first thought I was insane,” Johnson said. “Eventually it just became, ‘Yeah, that’s Christian. That’s just what he does.’ … And that’s really the best position to be in: where people support you and you do what you can to support them.” jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

A bed with a view

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Sarah Fitzsimmons, a senior studio art major, sits in a bed hanging from a tree on McKeldin Mall yesterday. Fitzsimmons said the display was part of a performance art project.

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s college costs continue to r i s e a c ro s s t h e n a t i o n , forcing students and families to stretch their budgets further to finance educations, perhaps no one feels the strain more acutely than graduate students.

Median debt loads for graduate-student borrowers nationwide stood at $57,600 in 2012, up from an inflation-corrected $40,209 in 2004, according to research published in a March Bloomberg Businessweek article.

Often regarded as overworked and undercompensated, graduate students traditionally face higher tuition rates than undergraduates, a trend also visible at this university.

An in-state graduate student enrolled for 12 credits per semester at this university will pay more than $15,000 this academic year in tuition and fees, while the university will bill in-state undergraduate students about $9,200. Out-ofstate graduate students face far steeper costs totaling more than $31,100, though there is less disparity between out-of-state graduate students’ and out-of-state undergraduates’ tuition and fees.

Saddled with such financial and academic obstacles and citing insufficient advisory arrangements, graduate students at this university are seeking to unionize.

In 2004, the National Labor Relations Board ruled graduate teaching assistants at Brown University were primarily students rather than employees and could not unionize. That decision later provided legal grounds to oppose similar endeavors by graduate stu-

dents to unionize at New York University and its engineering school.

For public universities, it’s up to individual states to determine the legality of graduate student unions. In this state — somewhat surprisingly, given its propensity for liberal policies — it appears as though graduate students will face difficulty in garnering support for unionization efforts.

OUR VIEW

Graduate students don’t need to unionize — instead, they need to build sustained dialogue with the administration.

Proposed state legislation to grant collective bargaining rights to graduate students at this university and others failed to gain much traction in the General Assembly in 2008, and it seems unlikely that a new bill, if proposed, would be met with any greater success.

As things stand, this university uses the University System of Maryland’s meet-and-confer program, in which the Graduate Assistant Advisory Committee meets with school administrators at least twice a year to address issues from stipend payments to child care options.

Graduate students have argued a state-recognized union would give them more bargaining power and that, if unionized, they could offer the university a better perspective on widespread concerns. Though these motives make sense, recent

history skews far more toward adversarial dealings between unions and employers than well-reasoned compromise.

Re ce n t d eve l o p m e n ts i n a high-profile NLRB case involving Northwestern University football players’ attempts to unionize have prompted criticism from the country’s graduate students. A regional NLRB office ruled March 26 that student-athletes are university employees and thus have collective bargaining rights. Graduate students believe they have been shortchanged by the decision, arguing that their work in the classroom as teaching assistants should qualify them as employees as well.

This line of reasoning simply doesn’t hold up. Athletes earn no academic credit in their roles on the playing field and have a primarily economic relationship with their universities. Graduate assistants, on the other hand, are already compensated beyond their (admittedly slim) stipends, as they receive credit required for their degrees when they teach classes.

The real problem for this university’s graduate students lies in the lack of sustained dialogue between students and admini s t ra to rs. O n e d ay a se m e s te r certainly appears inadequate to address graduate student concerns and propose suitable solutions, but unionization isn’t the answer. Rather, if university officials and graduate students can manage to come to the table early and often by revamping the meetand-confer process, they can head off problems before they create lasting divides.

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EZRA FISHMAN

number of people. Students will also be able to see how many groups have a better priority number for any given location and will be able to use this information to help figure out whether they’ll be assigned their top choice. Students should try to make as many selections as possible so they can be sure to get something that works for them.

S t u d e n ts s h o u l d a l s o m a ke sure not to include any units they wouldn’t want to live in, as they could end up living there — such as a woman who chose to live on South Hill and unintentionally ended up in the all-female Cecil Hall. Students can also prioritize their unit selections, and groups will be given the first available unit based on their priorities within group sizes.

The deadline for preference-based shopping is April 16 at 3:30 p.m., when results will be posted.

Finally, from April 16 to April 18 at 3 p.m., group leaders will be able to assign group members specific rooms within their assigned unit. It’s important to discuss who will be the group leader ahead of time, to determine who will live with whom and, if applicable, who will get any singles.

Students who are dissatisfied with their housing assignment can also participate in room exchange, which will begin on April 21 at 9 a.m.

The Department of Resident Life regularly sends representatives to the dining halls to answer questions. Talk to them early and often.

If you follow these steps, you shouldn’t have quite as much trouble finding housing that works for you. It won’t be easy — it never is — but if you know what you’re getting into, everything should turn out all right.

Following up on yesterday’s general suggestions, here’s a more in-depth look at navigating the logistics of the month-long housing process.

On-campus housing selection officially starts today at 9 a.m., with the release of eligibility emails and priority numbers.

Then, from today to Friday, students who have elected to return to their units will be a b l e to v i ew t h e i r u n i t a n d d e c i d e wh e t h e r t h ey wo u l d like to stay. Students have until 11:59 p.m. Friday to opt out of their current location. If you intend to get pulled into another person’s room, make sure not to agree to live in your room another yea r. O n ce yo u ’re a ss i g n e d housing, you’re committed to it.

After that, from Monday to Wednesday, April 9, students w h o c h o s e to s ta y i n t h e i r rooms can pull other students i n to t h e i r ro o m s, s u i te s o r apartments. Students in semisuites, suites and apartments can pull people into any openings in their suites. In cases in which multiple students want to pull people into the same unit, the student with the best (lowest) priority number has the advantage. Make sure to communicate beforehand with your roommates about who is pulling people in and where.

Once pull-ins are done, preference-based shopping begins.

From April 11 to April 16, students can form groups and start selecting housing assignments.

As stated above, students can make groups of any size up to Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting six people; each group will have and finance major. He can be reached access only to openings for that at efishmandbk@gmail.com.

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The unspoken issue of child homelessness Relisha Rudd’s tragic story is all too familiar — and all too preventable CHARLIE BULMAN On Saturday, with police and volunteers sidelined by heavy rain, divers searched a stretch of the Anacostia River bordering Kenilworth Park & Aquatic Gardens in Northwest Washington for the body of Relisha Rudd, the 8-yearold girl at the heart of an expansive multistate search. Police have centered their investigation on Kahlil Tatum, a janitor employed at the homeless shelter where Relisha lived with her mother and three siblings.

O n T h u rsd ay, Me t ro p o l i ta n Police Chief Cathy Lanier described the search for Relisha, who was last seen March 1, as a “recovery mission,” casting doubt

on the possibility of finding the young girl alive.

As city officials and commentators retrace the timeline that led to Rudd’s disappearance, they probably will hone in on the crucial junctures at which the tragedy could have been prevented. They might mention the employees who could have alerted administrators to Tatum’s strange behavior: habitually offering gifts and cash to young girls at the complex in violation of shelter rules.

They might recall the teachers at Relisha’s school who could have notified police earlier after a suspicious string of absences. And they will certainly question how Relisha’s mother could have left the girl in Tatum’s care in the first place. Few people, however, likely will question what has become seen as commonplace: that an 8-year-old girl residing in the capital of one of the richest countries

in the world was without a home.

Relisha’s difficult life is a microcosm of child homelessness in the United States. She joined 54 other homeless students at Daniel A. Payne Elementary School this year, according to figures compiled

by The Washington Post. They are among the estimated 1.6 million American children who will experience homelessness this year.

These children face staggering challenges. They are significantly more likely to be afflicted by health issues such as respiratory infections and gastrointestinal problems, and they are disproportionately likely to witness or experience violence.

Unsurprisingly, these obstacles present significant barriers to academic achievement — homeless children are four times as likely to show delayed development, according to The National Center on

Family Homelessness.

Ignoring the issue is an abandonment of pragmatism as well as children. It is well-documented that the uncertainties of homelessness disrupt schooling and leave young adults ill prepared to join the workforce. Furthermore, youth who experience the violence often accompanied by homelessness are more likely to internalize aggressive tendencies and turn to violence as a means of resolving conflicts. If policymakers don’t address child homelessness now, they will have to contend with poverty and crime later on.

Potential policy fixes to the scourge of child homelessness are achievable.

An expansion of public housing and subsidies to parents offer a direct solution. Investing in these programs’ advertising through targeted outreach initiatives increases the chances they will be taken advantage of. Treat-

ing the mental health problems of parents, which are often at the root of the issue, would help as well.

The greatest obstacle to ending homelessness is the topic’s disappearance from popular political discourse. Outside of local politics, few politicians mention homelessness, and even fewer offer concrete proposals. The fact of child homelessness is now taken for granted as an immovable fixture of American life. But in a wealthy participatory democracy, the perpetuity of the problem is an indictment of everyone.

Many have remarked that Relisha Rudd deserved better. She certainly did — from her mother, teachers and community. But more than anything, she deserved a home.

Charlie Bulman is a sophomore government and politics major. He can be reached at cbulmandbk@gmail.com.

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expanding their options Taco Bell began serving breakfast food for the first time Thursday, premiering menu items such as the Waffle Taco and the A.M. Crunchwrap

By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer My salsa packet issued a challenge: “Dare to do the undone.”

I vowed to rise to that challenge. I would do the undone. I would try breakfast food from Taco Bell.

Thursday morning, Taco Bell restaurants across the country opened their doors (and drive-thru windows) at 7 a.m. for the first time, daring Americans to start their days by “thinking outside the bun.”

After seeing the comical advertising campaign featuring a slew of men all named Ronald McDonald eating Taco Bell’s breakfast and claiming it was better than breakfast at McDonald’s, I knew I had to give my guilty pleasure fast-food joint a chance to succeed at the most important meal of the day.

The taco giant’s biggest challenger is the Egg McMuffin, the longtime best-selling breakfast champion. Of course, menu items such as breakfast burritos are not a stretch for the faux-Mexican fast-food giant. Even Burger King and Sonic offer them. How else could Taco Bell compete with the heavyweights in the fast-food breakfast world?

It took seven years of trial and error, but now the two contenders enter the ring: the Waffle Taco and the A.M. Crunchwrap.

Though it’s gotten mostly positive reviews, I couldn’t bring myself to try the Waffle Taco.

As a kid, I eagerly gobbled up McDonald’s’ freak breakfast concoction, the McGriddles, which I would get with eggs and sausage on

maple syrup-infused pancake-like buns.

Now, I’m not sure I could stomach the salty meat products and greasy eggs on a syrupysweet waffle. I wanted to make sure my first Taco Bell breakfast stayed down, after all.

So an A.M. Crunchwrap it was. Monday morning, I rolled into the drive-thru and ordered a bacon Crunchwrap and a small side order of Cinnabon Delights.

The scent of the Cinnabon Delights filled my apartment as soon as I pulled them out of the bag. I know you’re not supposed to start a meal with dessert, but I couldn’t help but try one of the Delights first. They aren’t a new menu item, but after growing up on Burger King’s unyieldingly sticky Cinnabon Minibon Rolls, I had to determine which cinnamon treat was better for breakfast.

The Cinnabon Delights taste like a fusion of doughnut holes and churros. They have a satisfyingly crispy shell with a soft inside.

The outer shell is coated in cinnamon and sugar, while the inside oozes icing. Though the icing was an unnatural color, the bites were just sweet enough without being sickening and not nearly as sticky as Burger King’s bites.

After satisfying my curiosity, it was time to move on to the main course. The first bite of my Crunchwrap was mostly tortilla but with a curious crunch: hash brown. While a normal Taco Bell Crunchwrap has a hard tortilla as a base for the meaty goodness, the breakfast version has a firm hash brown at the bottom.

The next bite was disappointing. Though the crumbly scrambled eggs and bacon

tACO BELL recently expanded its menu to include breakfast food in an effort to compete with other fast-food joints such as McDonald’s and Burger King. The Crunchwrap, an already popular Taco Bell item, has been repurposed as a breakfast burrito. file photo/the diamondback chunks tasted like I’d expected them to, the shredded cheese inside hadn’t melted. Ew. After microwaving the concoction for a few seconds, I kept eating. With the melted cheese oozing inside the wrap, eggs, bacon and hash brown meshed together in their tortilla prison. The bacon and hash brown were very salty, but the mellowness of the eggs, cheese and tortilla helped round out the flavors.

In true Taco Bell fashion, the whole thing had a slight zest. In addition to the green salsa I dribbled on the Crunchwrap, there was a creamy sauce inside binding the whole thing together, something you

definitely can’t get in a McMuffin.

Though it didn’t seem like the workers at Taco Bell were quite awake while preparing my breakfast, I was generally pleased with the experience. The Crunchwrap itself was filling enough, and the four Cinnabon Delights helped suppress my hunger until well into Happier Hour.

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LOUISVILLE GUARD SHONI SCHIMMEL (left) scored a game-high 31 points in the No. 3-seed Cardinals’ 76-73 loss to the No. 4-seed Terps in the Elite Eight last night. Coach Brenda Frese (right) reached her second Final Four with the Terps with the win. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When Shoni Sc h i m m e l ’s l a s t - se co n d three-point attempt clanged off the rim during Louisville’s 76-73 defeat to the Terrapins women’s basketball team in the Elite Eight at the KFC Yum! Center, all the Cardinals guard could do was smile.

With 56 seconds left, Louisville trailed by 10, and its hopes of reaching a second straight Final Four were slipping. Schimmel, who scored a game-high 31 points, made three straight desperation 3-pointers to help close the gap to 75-73 with 3.5 seconds remaining. After Terps forward Alyssa Thomas made 1-of-2 free throws to keep it a onepossession game, Louisville had a final chance to cap an improbable comeback.

“Just not to get down on myself,” Schimmel said. “It was my last shot, and it just happened to be the one that didn’t go. It sucks, but what can you do about it?”

Schimmel commended Louisville for nearly pulling off a shocking comeback, but after missed scoring opportunities earlier in the second half, the Cardinals couldn’t tie the contest, and the Terps held on.

A f te r S c h i m m e l h i t a 2-pointer to give Louisville a 45-42 lead with 15:06 re-

maining in the second half, the Cardinals didn’t score for more than seven minutes.

The Terps went on a 12-0 run during the Cardinals’ scoring drought, taking a 54-45 lead by the 10:34 mark.

Louisville, which forced an average of 19.4 turnovers per game entering the matchup, forced 25 turnovers against the Terps. Though the Cardinals’ takeaways led to 25 points, they couldn’t translate the turnovers into scoring opportunities during critical moments.

With the Terps leading 60-53 with 3:47 remaining, guard Laurin Mincy turned the ball over, but center Alicia DeVaughn stole it back on Louisville’s next possession.

DeVaughn’s pickpocket led to a Terps’ layup that made the score 62-53.

“I thought we did a great job of getting our hands in passing lanes,” Louisville coach Jeff Walz said. “We forced them into 25 turnovers, but you can’t win by getting one point per turnover. Our problem was we forced them into turnovers in the first half, but then we turned it over ourselves after we stole the ball, so it washed itself out.”

With Louisville’s offense sputtering, Schimmel took initiative. She scored 11 points in the final two minutes, with her long 3-pointers in the final seconds giving the Cardinals an opportunity to keep their

“JUST NOT TO GET DOWN ON MYSELF. ... IT WAS MY LAST SHOT, AND IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE THE ONE THAT DIDN’T GO. IT SUCKS, BUT WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?” SHONI SCHIMMEL

Louisville women’s basketball guard postseason alive.

Cardinals forward Asia Taylor found Schimmel on the right side on an inbounds play, and though she had the hot hand and an open look, her shot hit off the back of the rim.

“She had hit back-to-back, crazy, wild, clutch shots,” guard Lexie Brown said. “It was a great look, and all I could do was pray that it didn’t go in.”

The Terps went 25-for-28 from the free-throw line, and they forced the Cardinals into more turnovers in the second half, which put Louisville too far behind to complete a lastsecond comeback.

But with Schimmel leading the way, Louisville still made it a one-possession game.

“These kids fought,” Walz said. “We’re down 12 with two minutes to go, and I mean, there was never quit in one of them.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

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