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University Senate will vote on Newest capital budget contentious student fee review bodes well for campus Students’ minority report will also be included in discussion

BY LAUREN KIRKWOOD Staff writer

The University Senate will vote on several recommendations to make the student fee review process more transparent at its April 19 meeting, although several student leaders have said the recommendations will be ineffective.

Last month, the senate’s Student Affairs Committee passed three recommendations to improve the process by which academic departments determine how much students will pay in mandatory fees

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Final version still in the works, but plan could help push millions into campus construction

BY JIM BACH Staff writer

Several faculty senators said they expect a lively debate from the full University Senate at the April 19 meeting. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

NOAA to open weather prediction center off campus, officials say

Lawmakers approved state capital budget measures this week that would fund the planning and construction of various university projects — projects officials said will help propel this university as a leading world-class research institution.

The final version of the capital budget — which

totals about $1.1 billion — appropriates millions of dollars in state funds to university initiatives that include implementing a new teaching and learning center and the construction of a new bioengineering building. Although the budget isn’t yet final — lawmakers have to reconcile differences between the House of Delegates and Senate versions of the budget before it makes its

way to Gov. Martin O’Malley’s desk — university officials are lauding the tentative capital budget.

“The state is looking at the university as a valuable entity that they want to support,” University System of Maryland Capital Planning Director Mark Beck said.

University officials said they were especially

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MIXING IT UP New mixed martial arts club launches

University will offer new undergrad major once $50M building opens

BY MOLLY MARCOT For The Diamondback

BY NICK FOLEY Staff writer

When a national hub for weather and climate prediction debuts in College Park this fall, students who aspire to become meteorologists or oceanographers may soon receive new opportunities to further their goals.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Weather and Climate Prediction — a 268,762square-foot complex for national weather prediction, air quality studies and global satellite data — is slated to open at the M Square Research and Technology Park in August or September.

In collaboration with the center, the university’s atmospheric and oceanic science department will also offer a new undergraduate major once the building opens, which would allow students to work on projects with

researchers at the center and satisfy federal government requirements to become certified meteorologists and oceanographers.

The $50 million complex will house offices for about 800 employees as well as the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, the Air Resources Laboratory and the Satellite and Information Service. Maureen O’Leary, a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service, said the center will allow for close collaboration among a “variety of different sciences.”

Jim Carton, who chairs the atmospheric and oceanic science department, said NOAA officials chose to build the center in College Park due to the university’s strong research background. He added officials envisioned collaborations between researchers and students

Exercise mats covered the floor, punching bags hung from the ceiling and Eminem’s rhymes played in the background. A dozen students gathered in Ritchie Coliseum for the first practice of the university’s newly established mixed martial arts club, looking for a combative recreation outlet.

“We want to advertise the club for interested people at all different levels,” said aerospace engineering graduate student and club member Jonathan Geerts. “It’s important that everyone feels comfortable here.”

Although members now have a regular practice time and space, establishing the MMA club took years to achieve. Because of the potential physical danger members could endure, the group had to take extra precautionary measures to adhere to Campus Recreation Services’ policies, making it an extensive and lengthy process.

The members will practice Muay Thai

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Library officials implement late-night security checks Some students say they’ve been unfairly kicked out of McKeldin

BY PETE KOLLM For The Diamondback

Libraries Dean Patricia Steele said officials implemented a stricter policy on checking ID cards to increase security. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Although McKeldin Library officials implemented late-night student ID checks this year to make patrons feel safer, some students called the policy an inconvenience and others complained they had been unfairly kicked out for not having an ID. Since September, security staff members have made regular sweeps

through the library at about 11 p.m., asking everyone to show them their student ID cards. Staff members also require anyone entering the library after 11 p.m. to show their ID at the front desk. If an individual does not have a card, a police auxiliary escort shows that person to the exit.

Libraries Dean Patricia Steele said officials implemented the measure in response to student concerns about security during late night study hours.

“The way with all the nooks and crannies, it is such a large building, some don’t feel safe,” Steele said. “If there is any way to improve student security, we do.”

While Steele said student response to the policy was mostly positive, some students said they were confused by the rule, noting that even if they showed a staff member they were

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Although students struggled for years to establish a mixed martial arts club, the group had its first official practice last Thursday.

Students practice Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which are both combative sports. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

CLUB from page 1 and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, both of which are considered combative sports.

“Any type of combat or fighting — including grappling and sparring — must be preapproved and is limited to being held in a structured, supervised and scheduled activity space,” said CRS Associate Director Brent Flynn, who added the Eppley Recreation Center is not an option for an MMA practice site. Instead, the group rents out the martial arts room in Ritchie Coliseum.

Additionally, Flynn said the club had to secure insurance and have a certified EMT or athletic trainer on site at every group practice before gaining formal accessibility to their facilities.

These costs totaled about $1,300, which three founding members fronted so the practices could begin. But Brian McGough, the club’s presi-

dent, felt providing the funds to jump-start the club was worthwhile because of student interest in MMA. “Mixed martial arts is such a popular thing around here — people are really into it,” said the junior government and politics major, who took over the club’s official creation when another student opted out of the duty about a year ago.

That popularity, however, may be due to the stereotyped theatrical trend of combative sports.

“I think [MMA] gets a bad rap because of UFC and how bloody and gory those fights get,” said junior psychology major and club member Micah Colston. “That’s not what the sport’s [all] about.”

Colston and other club members said they want to provide an inviting environment for those interested in learning about the various fighting techniques, even though the risk of injury is always possible.

Sam Thompson, the group’s athletic trainer and a univer-

sity alumnus, understands the preventive measures necessary to ensure the safety of club members, especially those new to the sport.

“When the guys grapple, there’s always the risk of somebody having a fracture or a dislocation or something like that, so they would need somebody to be able to recognize that and assess the severity of it so it can get handled appropriately,” he said.

But some members said the measures are overly cautious compared to other potentially dangerous club activities on the campus.

“I think it’s stupid how this is considered so dangerous because we have a wrestling club here, we have a boxing club here, and it’s the same kind of contact,” said sophomore kinesiology major Rui Ponte. “If anything, wrestling and boxing train harder because those sports actually compete with other schools, and it’s more dangerous.”

Although no combat sport

practice takes place in the ERC, both the wrestling and boxing clubs are able to practice in a public health school training facility.

Flynn attributes this discrepancy to published information regarding the accepted protocol of collegiate wrestling and boxing clubs, meaning the organizations can be managed more appropriately. There is no similar guide for MMA, Flynn said, so university officials must remain vigilant.

But for now, the MMA club wants to build membership and recognition on the campus, seeking to teach other students about the art of combative sports.

“Hopefully if we get some money together we can get a real good trainer to come in to help us get better too,” Ponte said.

MMA club practices Tuesday and Thursday from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. in Ritchie Coliseum’s martial arts room. news@umdbk.com

pleased with state lawmakers commitment to supporting the funding of new amenities. The tentative budget allocates $2 million to fund a teaching and learning center — a proposed $63 million center that would be the first campus building constructed in 50 years solely dedicated to classroom space — which also received a $10 million gift from Baltimore developer Edward St. John in September.

“We appreciate very much that the state has stepped up to the plate,” Provost Ann Wylie said. “[The teaching and learning center] will provide muchneeded lecture hall space; we have a lack of classrooms.”

To make room for the learning center, the Shriver Laboratory will be torn down and part of Holzapfel Hall will be renovated. Wylie added that the university has been trying to secure funding for the center for more than 20 years.

Despite university officials’ praise of the capital budget’s higher education commitment, some lawmakers, including Del. Andrew Serafini (R-Washington), said the budget spends too much money at one time when the state is grappling with a deficit of more than $1 billion.

“We’ve borrowed too much in the last couple years, and we exceeded recommended limits,” he said. “We need to slow down a bit; we can’t afford to do this.”

In addition to the learning center and the bioengineering

building, the capital budget expends $29.5 million to help complete construction of the physical sciences complex — a nearly $130 million building slated to be completed in fall 2013 — as well as $10 million for infrastructure improvements and $435,000 for a remote library storage location.

University lobbyist Ross Stern said infrastructure funding was particularly important in revitalizing crumbling buildings on the campus.

“The state has recognized that College Park has a huge problem with infrastructure,” he said. “We’re pleased the state is doing that.”

Additionally, O’Malley approved all capital budget recommendations by the university system, which will help ensure the projects are seen through.

“The projects that we requested system-wide were intact,” he said. “That’s one of the first years we haven’t had something fall by the wayside.”

Beck said he was even more pleased that both chambers of the General Assembly added more system-wide projects to the capital budget on top of initial recommendations.

“Most of the discussion about differences is happening on a level above where we started,” Beck said. “Both houses enhanced the budget with additional projects.”

University President Wallace Loh declined to comment on capital budget matters until the final version of the budget is passed. bach@umdbk.com

CLARIFICATION Due to an editing error, yesterday’s caption underneath the photos “Remembering Trayvon Martin” incorrectly stated the women’s studies, American studies and African-American studies departments sponsored a forum and vigil Wednesday. The departments sponsored the forum and MALIK Fraternity Inc. sponsored the vigil.

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SENATE from page 1 ever y year. They recommended that departments requesting fees meet with a review committee and constituency groups before making their requests and justify how the fees will be used. However, some undergraduate senators said the Student Affairs Committee’s recommendations don’t adequately address the issue, so six signed a minority report to the Senate Executive Committee.

Yesterday, the committee voted to send both the original recommendations and the minority report — drafted by Student Government Association President and undergraduate senator Kaiyi Xie — to the full body for a debate and vote. Xie’s minority report states more time is needed for analysis of the issue and asks the bill be sent back to the Student Affairs Committee for further evaluation.

Several senators said they expect the minority report will generate plenty of debate before the vote.

“It’s going to get attention,” Senate Parliamentarian Marvin Breslow said. “When’s the last time you saw a minority report in the senate? Maybe once in the last 10 years, or something like that. … There should be a very full discussion.”

CLIMATE from page 1 when they first announced the center in 2006.

“They are extremely attracted by the idea of being associated with a great university, and we have a real strength in atmospheric and ocean science,” he said. “Students at the university are going to be able to have access to this expertise, because we are going to involve these researchers … we are going to have them available as advisers.”

Several students, including atmospheric and oceanic science graduate student Javier Amezcua,

SGA President Kaiyi Xie drafted a minority report calling for the University Senate to further evaluate the student fees process.

Xie and Graduate Student Government President Anna Bedford brought this issue to the senate in October, when they drafted a proposal that would require the Committee for the Review of Student Fees, which approves fee requests from university departments, to gather more student input before submitting their requests.

The proposal Xie and Bedford originally submitted called for the creation of a student advisory board to review fee re-

“It’s great because now [researchers] can fund students directly.”

JAVIER AMEZCUA ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCE GRADUATE STUDENT

said students would benefit from having immediate access to researchers at the center.

“Sometimes [students’] funding comes from Ph.D. researchers,” Amezcua said. “It’s great because now they can fund stu-

quests before they reach the review committee and requiring that detailed minutes of the review committee meetings be taken. The Student Affairs committee did not accept either of these recommendations, prompting Xie to draft the minority report.

Although some faculty senators have said they are wary of a student-only review board voting against all proposed fee increases, Xie said he’s confident the committee would approve fees

dents directly.”

Atmospheric and oceanic science graduate student Dan Goldberg said he hopes researchers will eventually teach classes at the university as well, noting that some researchers become professors after they graduate.

“That connection is easier — there’s a very close connection,” Goldberg said.

He added the hands-on experience outside of the classroom would be invaluable for undergraduate students.

“It’s ver y good for undergraduates just to see exactly what’s going on,” he said. foley@umdbk.com

that are justified and transparent.

“I think the important thing in creating that kind of unit level review is to have it be as open and transparent as possible,” Xie said. “We would have to say why we want to put an additional financial burden on our fellow students. We just can’t vote down every single proposal that presents a fee because it costs more to students. I think there needs to be a kind of balance. I don’t think students are unreasonable or will be in the future.”

LIBRARY from page 1 logged in to their student accounts it would not suffice as long as they did not have their card.

“I find the policy to be more of an inconvenience than anything,” junior civil engineering major Craig Schuchart said.

“There have been multiple occasions where I’ve found myself ID-less ... and been forced to leave the library after only being there for an hour or so.”

Other students, however, agreed with the measure.

“Having a late-night security check at McKeldin might be a little annoying, but in general it is probably a good idea,” junior bioengineering major Justin Frey said.

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The executive committee also voted against sending the proposal back to the Student Affairs Committee — which chairwoman Rachel Cooper said did not have enough time to consider all recommendations — until after the full body meeting.

Senators said now that the Student Affairs Committee has passed its recommendations, it is up to the full body to take up the matter.

“The SEC would be saying this is a good interim step, but

the determination of student fees is such an important issue that we recognize that these things need to have more time for discussion,” faculty senator and journalism professor Carol Rogers said. “Six people signed it — that’s a pretty big minority.”

“One would think a minority report might give this body pause,” said Staff Affairs Committee chairman Steve Petkas.

However, some patrons said they were concerned the checks may weed out local residents who want to use the library late at night. Ijlaal Taalibdin, a non-student resident from Riverdale, said she uses the library to study for nursing classes, but last month she was escorted out of the library for not having a student ID. “It is a convenient resource for those who live around here. If there’s enough resources for everyone, it should be okay to stay later,” she said. “More than half the people I study with transfer here, but we still feel like UMD is still ours.”

Steele said the measure has gone smoothly thus far, but she still welcomes any suggestions.

“We are very open to listen-

ing to people to find ways to improve,” she said. “We are not getting many complaints, and some students I’ve talked to said they do feel more secure.”

Senior English major Brittney Thomas, a late-night security staff member at the library, said officials may want to consider more flexible means to make the library more secure.

“Students usually have their IDs and I feel really bad for those who don’t, because I know if I was in their position I would want to stay,” Thomas said. “Maybe have it like the ERC where if they don’t have their ID they can punch in their numbers. Maybe even a more lenient policy.”

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midst increasing political anxiety and uprisings, wartime scandals raises. They said they are happy to give and help the business live on.

It’s commendable that the employees are so passionate about their busiand radical social changes in the 1970s, this university became a center of student activism. Students rallied against the Vietnam ness, but there needs to be more of a sense of urgency to save this campus War, social and cultural standards were changing, and people’s gem both by the workers and the university community in general — the sur vival of the co-op depends on it. sense of community seemed to be strengthening.

Students have proven their loyalty time and again over the years; they Of the different changes implemented on the campus at the time, the unilove the store. During lunchtime, the line can be just as versity initially considered funding a food co-op, book long in the co-op as at Chick-fil-A or McDonald’s. The co-op and music co-op. When the plans fell through, a co-op should not be floundering; it should be thriving. In group of students rallied: They began selling sandwiches anywhere they could — at events, gatherings, The university cannot afford its time of need, the co-op needs to directly reach out to its patrons and show just how desperate it is to stay alive even out of baskets. The police tried to shut them down, but they failed; students stood in hordes to buy to lose the Maryland Food — not just sit back and hope ever ything falls into place.

The community needs to rally once again to keep this the sandwiches, refusing to back down. In 1975, the Collective; employees and business going. The company’s website boasts, “Our Maryland Food Collective was officially granted space community members must community is our greatest strength. The Mar yland in Stamp Student Union.

Food Collective has sur vived since 1975, through good The store, which specializes in vegan and vegetarrally to save this times and bad, as a result of the people who have supian food, has had ups and downs throughout its hiscampus landmark. ported and loved it through all those years. … We cretor y. The community of close-knit workers and cusate community through ever yday interactions and spetomers has helped the business scrape by in times of need — from Stamp threatening to evict the co-op for refusing to ser ve a cial events that reflect our mission both as a business and passionate student based on a T-shirt she was wearing to the mere difficulty of running human beings.”

This editorial board believes that’s true, and it’s time for ever yone to a business that sells inexpensive food yet still has to pay the bills.

The co-op has now run into another problem: The business accumulated a prove it. The co-op should reach out to other student groups and the commassive amount of debt over the years due to its lack of a long-term busi- munity in general for more support. Student groups and co-op patrons in ness plan and now needs $16,000 by June 1 to renew its lease in Stamp. The return should volunteer their time to help save this campus landmark.

If and when the business makes it through, employees need to set a speco-op may have been able to sur vive in years past, but it’s already April and cific plan for its future, so problems like this don’t continue to arise. As the the store has only raised $50 online.

Yet employees don’t seem to be worried. All 17 paid workers recently old saying goes, you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. We hope we took pay cuts, from $10 per hour to $7.50, and now have no potential for don’t have to find out.

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Shut up and think for yourself

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, like many other introverts, was in denial for a long time.

We live in a world (and attend universities) with extroverted expectations and let’s be honest: Extroversion is not difficult to fake.

Now, what is an introvert? Almost ever y piece about introversion starts with a few qualifications, such as (1) introversion does not mean shyness, (2) introverts do not dislike people and (3) there is nothing wrong with introverts. An introvert is simply someone who is energized by alone time. Alone time is the new party time.

For me, it took an insanely busy semester to finally come out as an introvert. The free time I used to spend between classes sitting on the mall and reading or taking walks around the campus with my giant headphones is gone. I find that I miss the access to quiet thinking about as much as I miss seeing the sun, because what I thought was a just hobby, I realize was my time to recharge. Nowadays, I have to take that alone time when I get home,

JAKE DEVIRGILIIS much to the surprise (and often chagrin) of the people I can’t spend as much time with for fear of exploding.

Regardless of preference, everyone has the capacity to develop introverted or extroverted traits. For introverts like me, the world requires us to learn extroversion fast. Between practical considerations like public speaking skills, class participation grades or interview behavior and social concerns like making new friends, knowing how to be an extrovert is critical for success.

But because extroversion is often the assumed norm, many people never have to learn introverted behaviors.

The qualities of introversion are vastly underrated. Being comfortable alone and being comfortable with other people in silence are important

skills for anyone to learn. Why? Because, regardless of what anyone says, alone time and quiet time are the times when the best thinking occurs. And thinking — especially independent thinking — is something everyone should be doing.

Without a doubt, dialogue can be a method of finding new ideas — and many people do think “out loud.” But only thinking that way isn’t enough.

Really, really thinking requires focus. Focus requires freedom from distractions, like the constant “white noise” author Don DeLillo bemoans in his book of the same name. Much of today’s white noise in a world that defaults to extroversion is perfectly summed up by David Byrne in the classic Talking Heads song “Psycho Killer,” when he muses, psychotically, in a way only David Byrne can: “You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.” If no one has to think and it feels weird not to talk, then naturally, words are emptier.

They exist for their own sake.

Thinking, too, requires some independence. Being alone forces one to

think critically and deeply without having anyone else to fall back on.

Having someone to bounce ideas off of is great, but one can find that everywhere. What’s missing is independent thought: One individual really considering something.

I’m not writing this to tell you to become a reclusive philosopher or to stop talking to your friends. But I would encourage you to think for yourself. It couldn’t be easier to completely disengage with deep thinking by engaging in surfacelevel talking. And I feel like the world would probably benefit from more unique ideas.

There’s plenty to think about: one of the thousand-fold problems facing the world, who you are as a person, how prescient this column is. So embrace your inner introvert! And then embrace some introverts! But then give them, and yourself, some space to think.

Jake DeVirgiliis is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at devirgiliis@umdbk.com.

Sexual assault unawareness month

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n a frigid day last November, I sat in the University Health Center for about eight hours straight listening to students read accounts of women and men on the campus who have been sexually assaulted. As more stories were presented, each one seemed more gruesome than the one before: a sorority member who was date-raped and turned to drug use and bulimia; a fraternity member who witnessed his frat brothers ignore claims of sexual assault in their group, continuously shouting the oh-so-popular “bros before hoes” phrase to erase the problem from their minds; a stellar college student who was told by her female peers that she should “be proud” she was raped by a certain guy (because he happened to be “way out of her league”).

One in four college women report surviving rape, and 28 women in the United States are raped every hour, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An intensive Center for Public Integrity investigation revealed that students who were responsible for alleged

sexual assaults on college campuses “can face little or no consequences for their acts.” Too often, rapists unfairly escape facing punishment and receive little more than a slap on the wrist. Meanwhile, victims of rape and sexual assault live the rest of their lives scarred by the trauma of their experience — and rarely receive justice.

Why are rape and sexual assault such important issues to bring up now? April marks Sexual Assault Awareness Month, but you most likely weren’t aware. That’s the problem.

Everyone claims they care about sexual assault. It’s obviously a serious topic, so why wouldn’t they? But how many people at this university actually care about preventing it from happening, rather than sitting back, doing nothing and claiming that they care about the well-being of their peers?

This class I took about five months ago, part of the Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program, had about 30 female and five male students. Of the females, most only took the class because they were required to do so to maintain mem-

CAROLINE CARLSON bership in their sororities. All five male students were required to take the course for their fraternity memberships.

In the midst of ongoing sexual assaults that occur during college, as well as the recent accusations of sexual and physical abuse from the university’s faculty, youth-oriented sexual health groups should have a higher focus on trying to engage students to talk about sexual assault. Who should they try to market to the most? Men. SARPP and other organizations are not going to get anywhere by tabling in front of Stamp Student Union with brochures and candy. They won’t do any good by not marketing their violence intervention classes to students of both genders, either. It seems as if people assume rape is always

viewed from a female lens, and men are afraid to speak out against rape because it’s a “women’s issue.”

Recently, MenCanStopRape.org started a marketing campaign to engage young men to look out for victims of rape and sexual assault. The website’s posters cleverly suggest how men can prevent rape but still maintain their masculine identity by being someone who “takes a stand” against sexual violence.

It’s these efforts, like trying to convince a demographic they are equally responsible for preventing rape, that actually make a difference. To students on the campus, April is just like any other month. But if people start actively caring about violence intervention, Sexual Assault Awareness Month will become a living period of activism and engagement, not just a month where we supposedly care about those broken by rape, violence and hatred.

Caroline Carlson is a freshman government and politics and marketing major. She can be reached at carlson@umdbk.com.

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wo acts of hatred recently exposed on our campus are deeply disturbing: An elevator was vandalized with anti-Semitic messages and a construction super visor discovered a noose in a renovation area. Since reading university President Wallace Loh’s campuswide message about these incidents, many of us have experienced a myriad of emotions — shock, dismay, anger, sadness, fear. But what, if anything, might we learn from these acts? What do they tell us? Teach us? In what direction do they point us?

Stereotypes, bias, discrimination and hatred are still powerful forces in the United States. We have made great strides in abolishing legal segregation and discrimination toward people of color, in countering the persecution of religious minorities and in beginning to address the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Yet our work is far from complete.

In the past month, we’ve followed Trayvon Martin’s killing in Florida and the beating death of an Iraqi-American mother near San Diego. In the past year in the Washington area, there’s been a spate of attacks on LGBT people.

These incidents tell us that we have much more to do to create an equitable and inclusive nation.

And this campus is no exception. When we enter from Route 1 or University Boulevard, we bring with us what we’ve seen, heard and learned over a lifetime. Sadly, this often includes prejudicial beliefs, messages of intolerance and the notion that people who are different from us — based on gender, skin color, sexual orientation, ability, religion, income or language — are lesser people. These beliefs, which are often unconscious and thus difficult to access and acknowledge, usually get expressed in subtle ways: We marginalize the opinions of folks who are different; we don’t include them in our in-group; we construe them as less competent; we avoid them. And sometimes we express these beliefs expressed in more overt, direct or even threatening ways, as seen in the recent incidents on the campus.

In the aftermath of these troubling acts, we have some opportunities. Fortunately, we have a relatively diverse community. No, we’re not where we want to be, but we’re far from homogeneous.

Plus, we have a clear, articulated commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, as well as an understanding that these principles are central to this university’s excellence. We have the raw materials to create and model the kind of community that not only this campus but also this state and this country desperately need.

There’s no better time than now to learn all we can about the diverse groups in our community and to challenge ourselves to look at our own biases. There’s no better time to share our culture and values with others, to listen intently to their stories and to engage in difficult, but respectful, dialogues about controversial topics. There’s no better time to take an ethnic studies class, become a Rainbow Terp, participate in an interfaith dialogue and link your affinity group with mine. There’s no better time to speak up than when we hear racist, sexist, antiSemitic, anti-Muslim or homophobic comments or “jokes.”

As this university’s first chief diversity officer, I’ll be working to foster these kinds of constructive interactions. My job is to help unify the many diversity resources on the campus and to build on them in support of our ambitious strategic plan for diversity. I’m eager to hear suggestions for ways to learn from these incidents.

Interracial and interreligious relationships are fragile in our nation. These incidents remind us that, as a university community, we are not immune. My hope is that we will each respond to these hateful acts with a new (or renewed) commitment to work toward the creation of a bias-free, just and inclusive campus. It truly takes a village.

Kumea Shorter-Gooden is this university’s chief diversity officer and associate vice president. She can be reached at kshorter@umd.edu.

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Plants and Animals’ 2008 album, Parc Avenue, was loaded with strings, horns and chorus breakdowns that brought on worthy comparisons to its Canadian countr ymen, Arcade Fire. Its latest album, The End of That, however, is ready-made for a laid-back summer barbecue, with a sound that’s undeniably American.

The band’s drummer-vocalist Matthew “Woodman” Woodley says this classic rock influence is in

the band’s blood. “We wanted to capture the sound of the three of us playing together live whenever possible,” he said.

Tonight’s show will be a tr ue live setting when Plants and Animals makes a stop at the Red Palace in Washington, in the middle of its threemonth tour.

Unlike Parc Avenue, which relied heavily on production polish, Woodley says this album is intentionally raw. “What you hear is what you get,” he said. “We didn’t use production to embellish as

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discipline, honor, leadership — began to rub off on him.

Almost instantly, Tillman developed a reputation as a man of character, a man others could depend upon.

Perhaps just as important, he gained respect for his dogged work ethic. He spent countless hours poring over mounds of film, intent on gaining every possible advantage over the opponent.

“We were convinced he slept in his office,” said Jon Birsner, a former All-America attackman who played under Tillman at Navy. “He just worked so hard and was so dedicated to what he was doing. He would find something on a player from his junior high rec film. It was ridiculous.”

The late nights began to pay off. Before the 2002 season, Tillman was named the Midshipmen’s head assistant and offensive coordinator.

He thrived in his new roles.

With Tillman’s offense leading the way, Navy made its second-ever appearance in the national championship game in 2004. When the season ended, the Maryland State Lacrosse Coaches Association awarded Tillman his first of two Collegiate Lacrosse Assistant Coach of the Year Awards.

Programs across the country began taking notice. At least twice during his 12-year tenure at Navy, Tillman was considered a top candidate for Division I coaching positions. One offer even came from the Midshipmen’s archrival, Army.

But Tillman felt entrenched in Navy’s culture. He wasn’t ready to leave behind his players, his brothers.

“He really bought into ever ything the Naval Academy’s about,” Birsner said.

“Even today, I’m convinced he didn’t tr y to get that Army job.”

Eventually, the allure of leading a program proved too great. He accepted the coaching job at Harvard, bidding Annapolis goodbye after an 104-63 record at Navy.

Leaving the school that had given him his first Division I opportunity was “difficult,” Tillman said, but he was finally ready for a new set

hard because each game, everyone was like, ‘You’ll be back for this game,’ and, ‘You’ll be back for this game.’”

The painful reality — that no matter what, she wasn’t going to compete again for the rest of the season — hit her soon enough. After a collision with James Madison goalie Alex Menghetti in last year’s meeting with the Dukes, she suffered a concussion — only Johnson didn’t even know it.

It wasn’t until she got hit in the head again in the team’s next game against Towson that she took a concussion test.

Johnson, in her own words, “failed miserably,” beginning a slide from a National Player of the Year pick to just another body on the bench.

“I was more devastated for her,” coach Cathy Reese said.

“She just loves playing lacrosse and is passionate about representing Maryland on the field.

It was sad because she was going through a traumatizing time and she could only sit by and watch.”

Redshirt freshman Brooke Griffin knows the feeling. The talented midfielder was stuck on the sideline alongside her teammate last season after suffering a torn ACL. “It was so hard to see her there,” Griffin said. “She’s such a great lacrosse player, and it was so hard for her to sit on the sideline. You never want to have to experience that again.”

The team didn’t wallow away in Johnson’s absence, though.

It remained undefeated until the month of May, winning seven straight games after Johnson’s concussion, includ-

Coach John Tillman still teaches his Terps team the values he learned coaching at Navy. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

of challenges. He was eager for more responsibility, for even longer nights.

“I think it was tough because I was very happy. I was very content,” Tillman said. “But if you go into coaching and you don’t ultimately aspire to be a head coach, then you’re limiting yourself.”

Since parting ways with the Midshipmen, Tillman has experienced little but success.

In just three seasons in Cambridge, Mass., he took a struggling Crimson team as high as No. 11 in the national polls and its best record (8-5) in 10 years.

After longtime Terps coach Dave Cottle resigned following the 2010 season, Tillman couldn’t pass up the opportunity to lead one of the country’s premier programs. In his first season in College Park last year, he took a seniorladen Terps squad to the brink of its first national title since 1975, making it all the way to the championship before falling to Virginia.

“Wherever he was going to go,” former Navy coach Richie Meade said, “he was going to be successful.”

Yet even though he’s now five years removed from his days patrolling The Yard, Tillman thinks about his experience with the military often. He reflects on the people he met and the ideals he cherished.

He tries to instill the same philosophies he learned at Navy in his players. Only this time around, “Maryland” is stitched across their chests.

“I learned a lot,” Tillman

said. “A lot of things we did well there I’ve taken with me.”

In June, Tillman had the opportunity to take it all back to where it started. Meade, who ser ved Navy for 17 years, was fired after the Midshipmen finished the season 4-9 and missed the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year.

Navy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk called his former employee, wondering whether he’d be interested in succeeding his old boss.

Before he could even meet with Terps Athletic Director Kevin Anderson, Tillman declined. He wanted to finish what he’d started.

“I owe it to everybody here to stay longer than 10 months,” he told Gladchuk.

Meade wasn’t surprised.

Neither was Birsner. After all, they knew Tillman was a man of loyalty. Darting after less than a year on the job would’ve been out of character.

Surprising or not, though, the Terps can’t help but feel thankful. They have the coach they want, the one they feel can lead them to that elusive third national title.

“He’s one of the most hardworking — if not the hardestworking — coach in Division I,” midfielder John Haus said.

“I feel like every second he gets, he’s there trying to make our team the best it possibly can be.”

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Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson, who leads the Terps in points this season, missed the team’s run last year to the national championship game. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

PITCHING from page 8 ERA and seven saves in 13 appearances, totaling 18.2 innings for the Terps (19-12, 39). He’s struck out 22 batters and walked three in that span while limiting opposing batters to a .161 average.

Reed’s not the only pitcher on the move, though. Right-hander Brett Harman, who has primarily started on Sundays, will return to Friday night, where he pitched in 2010 before missing last season recovering from Tommy John surgery. Harman leads Terps starters this year with a 2.38 ERA and has a 4-1 record.

With arguably his two best

ing the ACC Championship and every postseason test.

Well, almost every one. Down a star, the Terps fell in a crushing 8-7 loss to Northwestern in the national championship game.

“Some teams might have crumbled with a star player like her injured, but we just kept pushing forward,” Reese said.

“A team is not made up of one person, and getting there showed the depth of our team.

We’re fortunate that we had a team of great players — everyone embraced the opportunity that was given to them.”

Johnson’s return to the field in the fall, though, was not taken lightly. She was voted captain by her teammates, and Johnson, Reese said, “hadn’t missed a beat.”

Her return hasn’t been seamless. The team began to struggle after a torrid three-game start to the season, losing two

pitchers now starting the first two games of the series, Bakich hopes the team won’t have to wait until Game 3 to get a win, as has been the case in the team’s three ACC victories.

“That’s kind of been what the plan is going to be, is to make sure we get an opportunity to get off to a good start to begin the series,” Bakich said. “We know what we’ve got ahead of us, but the focus for us is just to play to our potential.”

Right-hander David Carroll is set to start Sunday for the Terps, the second straight series in which he’ll start the final game.

He pitched eight innings of onerun ball in the Terps’ 7-1 win over Boston College.

“You got to look at it as a

of its next four. But the No. 5 Terps have found their form of late, averaging a gaudy 16 goals per game during their current six-game winning streak.

In her triumphant return to the field this season, it has never been more obvious that Johnson has become her old self, if not better — she’s scored four or more goals in four of those six wins.

But for her, it’s not about individual statistics. It’s about savoring her last season as a star in College Park, about showing she belongs once more.

“I think when something’s taken away from you, you appreciate it much more,” Johnson said. “[Playing] was one thing that was taken away, and now I’m just trying to cherish every moment with the people and the team that I have.” munson@umdbk.com

pitcher,” Harman said. “You’re just going out there to pitch to the best of your abilities, not really worrying about who you’re facing because if you start thinking about that external stuff, the things you can’t control, it’s not good. You just want to go out there and do what you can do.”

Regardless of whom the Terps put on the mound, they’ll still have to face another stiff ACC challenge. The Wolfpack boast a balanced attack, combining some of the best pitching in the conference with strong hitting for a mix that has the Wolfpack tied for third place in the ACC after being picked seventh in the preseason coaches poll.

N.C. State’s Carlos Rodon and Ethan Ogburn rank 1-2 in the conference in ERA with marks of 1.49 and 1.59, respectively.

Rodon, a left-handed freshman, is 4-0 on the season and will start Saturday opposite Reed. Offensively, shortstop Chris Diaz is sixth in the conference with a .378 average and leads the Wolfpack with 56 total bases.

After four league series with both pitching and offensive struggles, the Terps are more than ready for a new period of prosperity. And even as they shake up their starting rotation, the team’s pitchers know nothing about the game itself has changed.

“I know from our pitching standpoint, we got to do the best job that we can to keep the team in the game and just limit damage,” Harman said. “Hopefully, we can get at them early, and then, as a staff, we can shut them down.” dgallen@umdbk.com

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Tennis drops Wake The Terrapins women’s tennis team won its first ACC match of the year yesterday. Read more at umdbk.com.

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Heading back to normalcy After concussion ended 2011 season, Johnson’s a star again

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The turf at the Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex is where Karri Ellen Johnson belongs.

It’s where she bonds with her 28 teammates, old and new. It’s where she serves as captain and mentor to a young and developing freshman class. It’s where the attacker has succeeded time and time again in her four-year Terrapins women’s lacrosse career.

It’s also, unsurprisingly, where she has already made her final year in a Terps’ uniform a memorable one. Johnson entered the season as a preseason All-American and a member of the Tewaaraton

Trophy watch list. With a team-high 50 points, she has lived up to those lofty expectations. With another goal in the team’s heavyweight bout against No. 2 North Carolina (12-1, 4-0 ACC) tomorrow in Chapel Hill, N.C., the senior will become the Terps’ (11-2, 2-1) No. 2 all-time scorer.

Clearly, that turf is where she belongs. So when she was forced to sit on the sideline for half of last year’s run to the national title game, Johnson was devastated.

“It was this cycle of being let down over and over again,” Johnson said. “Everyone was just waiting, and for me it was

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Attacker Karri Ellen Johnson missed all of the Terps’ postseason last year after she suffered a midseason concussion. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Before he became the coach at Harvard and then this university, John Tillman worked as an assistant at Navy from 1996 to 2007. The two in-state programs play tonight in Byrd Stadium. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Origin tale

Navy experience shaped Tillman

BASEBALL

In rotation change, Reed moves on up Accomplished closer to start Sat.

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU

BY DANIEL GALLEN

Senior staff writer

Staff writer

Before the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team steps on the Byrd Stadium field to face in-state rival Navy tonight, it may want to deliver a thank-you card to the visitor’s locker room.

Because even though no one in the room may know him personally, the institution the Midshipmen represent played a critical role in coach John Tillman’s development. It helped him become the tireless leader he is today.

When Tillman was a fresh-faced 26year-old in 1996, he arrived in Annapolis eager to begin his Division I coaching career. He had been lured away from a volunteer gig at Ithaca College for a Midshipmen assistant position with a whopping $20,000 annual salary. And he couldn’t have been happier.

Standing outside the Terrapins baseball team’s dugout Wednesday night after his team had easily dispatched Bucknell, coach Erik Bakich wouldn’t tip his hand about his weekend pitching staff.

At least, not with his words.

“We’ve got to check and see how some guys are bouncing back,” said Bakich, turning and staring into the dugout at Wednesday’s starter, Sander Beck, who was gathering his gear, “and see how their arms are doing, just so we can iron out who’s pitching which day.”

With the release of the weekend’s starters for a

Although the Terps have lost five of their past eight games against Navy, they won their past two by a combined eight goals. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

He took to Navy immediately. He loved everything it represented. He appreciated that his student-athletes were willing to pledge years of their lives to their country, and was amazed by

their commitment to one another.

And it didn’t take long before the principles the academy instills — integrity,

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three-game series against No. 26 N.C. State at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, Beck was nowhere to be found. The name penciled in for a Saturday start? You couldn’t miss that.

Left-hander Jimmy Reed, the team’s regular closer this season, will make his first career start tomorrow against the Wolfpack (20-7, 8-4 ACC).

Reed’s longest outing of the season came only last weekend, when he pitched 4.1 innings in a 5-4 extra-inning loss to Boston College.

But if quantity’s an issue, quality certainly is not. On the season, Reed is 0-1 with a 0.48

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SOFTBALL

For first time in a month, Terps streaking into Atlanta for ACC series

BY JASON BENSCHER Staff writer

Momentum in sports can be a fleeting thing. It’s difficult to attain, even harder to keep. But when it’s harnessed, few things are more dangerous.

Just when it was most needed, the Terrapins softball team may have finally found some momentum. After suffering through a stretch in which they lost six straight games and

eight of 10 overall, the Terps finally got back into the win column Wednesday with a doubleheader sweep of George Mason. This weekend, they enter a crucial road series with ACC foe Georgia Tech in the midst of their first winning streak in nearly a month.

“We need to stay with what we did [Wednesday],” coach Laura Watten said after her team’s two victories over the Patriots. “We need to stay

confident.”

After bursting from the gate with a 10-2 start, the Terps (20-14, 0-3 ACC) have regressed into an inconsistent squad. Their recent slide left them tied for last in the ACC and cast a shadow over a oncepromising season.

And while wins over such teams as George Mason (9-20) may not exactly inspire hope against top-tier competition, two come-from-behind wins

can do a lot for a team.

“It didn’t matter how we did it,” pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser said Wednesday. “No matter what, we had to win.”

The Terps, winless in ACC play so far, have a three-game set against the Yellow Jackets (24-16, 6-3) in Atlanta this weekend. They’ll need the one-two punch of pitchers Kendra Knight and Schmeiser to be at its best to stop Georgia Tech, which possesses one of the

best offenses in the ACC. They’ll also need much of the same offensively, including more of the clutch work in the batter’s box they showed Wednesday against the Patriots.

“Leaving runners on base was an issue of pressing,” Watten said. “We’ll work through that … and focus on the things we did right today.”

Having passed the season’s halfway point, the Terps’ road

certainly doesn’t get easier from here. But if they can sustain the intensity they showed Wednesday, the Terps can parlay two nonconference wins into something much more meaningful this weekend.

“We could either come back flat, or we can come back … and be absolutely electric,” Schmeiser said. “We’re just remembering how to have fun.” benscher@umdbk.com