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Univ system secures final legislative victories RISE program to spur economic development; E-Nnovation initiative to fund professorships

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — With a budget bill passed this weekend and the University System of Maryland successfully

the legislature and passed with little controversy.

But for what amounted to a quiet day, the university system secured lobbying for limited cuts to its state significant victories, with measures funding, the fi nal day of the state’s that use university resources to spur legislative session was less intense economic development and a state grant program aimed at attracting for the higher education lobby.

The most significant bills for this talented faculty to state universities university and the university system passing one right after the other on received support in both chambers of the morning of sine die.

by educational institutions, such as a university, that “have a strong and One bill establishes the Regional demonstrated history of commitInstitution Strategic Enterprise ment to economic development and Zone Program. This program would revitalization in the communities in create “zones” in which businesses which they are located,” according to will be able to coordinate with the a state analysis of the bill. state, county or municipality to take With the creation of this program, advantage of certain tax credits and university lobbyists hope that this other incentives. The RISE zone status can be granted to areas defined See SESSION, Page 3 RISE PROGRAM

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Minimum wage slated to increase to $10.10 by 2018

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer The General Assembly approved a bill yesterday that will incrementally raise the state’s minimum wage to $10.10 per hour by July 2018.

On the last day of the legislative session, the House of Delegates officially passed the Maryland Minimum Wage Act of 2014, 87-47, after it passed in the Senate on Saturday with revisions.

The bill calls for a minimum wage hike from the current $7.25 per hour to $8 per hour on Jan. 1, 2015, followed by yearly increases: to $8.25 on July 1, 2015, $8.75 on July 1, 2016, and $9.25 on July 1, 2017. The raises will be complete on July 1, 2018, when the minimum wage reaches $10.10 per hour.

With support from Gov. Martin O’Malley, the bill’s approval came as no surprise. Other states, such as Delaware, West Virginia and Connecticut, have also raised their minimum wages. This state is following in the footsteps of the Prince George’s County Council, which passed a gradual minimum wage increase in December, and complying with President Obama’s plan to increase the minimum wage on the federal level.

“I think this is one of the most important bills that we passed this year,” Del. Mary Washington (DBaltimore City) said.

Washington said that while ma ny people usua l ly see the minimum wage as an “introductory

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Bill decriminalizes penalties for small marijuana amounts

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer About a month after the nation’s capital decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, the General Assembly passed a bill during the last day of the legislative session to do the same in this state.

The bill, which passed the Senate in a 34-8 vote yesterday after moving through the House of Delegates on Saturday, establishes possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana as a civil offense with a fine, rather than a criminal offense with possible jail time and a fine for people over the age of 18.

The first time a person is caught with more than 10 grams of marijuana, a $100 fine will be imposed, followed by a $250 fi ne and a $500 fine for the second and third offenses, respectively.

Del. Curt Anderson (D-Baltimore City) has sponsored marijuana legalization bills for the past three years and received increased support each year.

Anderson said young people who are arrested and given a criminal record tend to be “put in the back of the bus.” They might have a harder time getting educated and See marijuana, Page 3

dave fontenot, a University of Michigan student who organizes hackathons, plays a virtual reality game this weekend in Cole Field House. rachel george/the diamondback

By Joe Antoshak and Jenny Hottle @Mantoshak, @JennyHottle Senior staff writers

building applications, gadgets and modifications.

“No one sleeps at these things,” Noski n sa id. “I mea n, ca n you imagine sleeping here?”

Daniel Noskin stared at a spiralRows of tables cluttered with bound sketchpad, twisting a pencil in tangled power cords, empty coffee his hand as he reviewed the interface able send friends short song clips. cups and used paper plates lined the design of his team’s project.

At about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, former basketball arena’s floor. The Empty cans of Mountain Dew and Noskin, a senior management and low drone of conversation from the Monster littered his squad’s work- marketing major, was settling in at nearly 750 hackers in attendance place. He and teammate Jackson Cole Field House for Bitcamp, this meshed with music playing quietly Geller, a freshman computer science university’s first-ever Major League in the background. Hundreds of pairs m ajor, were pla n n i ng to bu i ld Hacking event. Students from uni- of eyes squinted at computer screens.

Snapdio, a music equivalent to Snap- versities across the country came to chat, through which users would be the campus Friday to spend 36 hours See bitcamp, Page 2

Bitcamp, univ’s first Major League Hacking event, draws hundreds

Student conduct office proposes several changes to student honor code

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer Though the Code of Academic Integrity hasn’t had significant revisions since the 1990s, there might be major changes to the standards in the coming year.

In an effort to “improve customer service for students,” the Office of Student Conduct suggested several

updates to the student honor code to be considered by the University Senate, Assistant Director of Academic Integrity Kevin Pitt said.

The major changes include expanding the definition of cheating and adding a disciplinary conference option for students who have allegedly committed an offense that would not normally result in suspension or expulsion and who have no prior judicial history, according to the Senate bill.

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“Currently, students only have two options when they are accused: take responsibility or request an honor review,” Pitt said. “We wanted to create a third option for students. A disciplinary conference gives the ability for students to resolve their case one-onone with an administrator.”

Pitt said this system is already being used for students who violate the Code of Student Conduct and could be implemented for academic

integrity violations to resolve such cases faster.

Catherine Thompson, chairwoman of the University Student Judiciary executive board, said the adjustments to the honor code will help students. She said they would give students more options for resolving their cases and could make resolutions more efficient.

However, Thompson said disciplinary conferences would be

reserved for the “more straightforward cases.”

“Highly complex or unusual cases will most likely still go before a board of honor council members,” she said.

The definition of cheating will also be clarified to encompass the kinds of violations that Pitt said the Office of Student Conduct staff has seen in recent years.

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overnight — it took months to put together. Groundwork was laid in October, when Shariq Hashme, a junior computer science and electrical engineering major, had an idea.

Terrapin Hackers, the club Hashme helped found over the summer, had just earned an unexpected win in the MLH regular-season standings. To finish in first place, students at this university spent weekends at hackathons as far away as the University of Michigan.

“Why not have one here?”

Hashme thought.

In the months that followed, university students spent thousands of hours of volunteer time. And despite weeks of preparation, Bitcamp saw its share of obstacles.

On Friday, while Gubbels and fellow event organizer Josh Sheldon set up a fireside game of wooden blocks — the hackathon came complete with a fake campfire — and other students added the final touches to workstations, the event’s facilities manager, Je re my G r i f f it h , fa c e d a d i lem m a: T here weren’t enough power resources.

At about 6:45 p.m., the junior electrical engineering major was weaving between rows of tables and ducking u nder cha i rs to check on powerstrips. By the end of the weekend, there had been no incidents, though the power, he said, was just one issue facing the organization during setup. Wi-Fi connection also was faulty.

Accord i ng to Jon at h a n Davis, a freshman computer science major and event organizer who helped set up the network, workers spent nearly six hours wiring the arena, beginning at noon Friday.

Troubles arose after kickoff that evening, and some had trouble logging onto the Wi-Fi network and setting their own access points, an issue that only hampered Bitcamp’s wireless capabilities. More than 100 people were using mobile hotspots at one point, said Daniel Eckert, a consultant for Drakontas Consulting, which helped set up the event’s network.

But within two hours of the official start time, organizers had resolved the issue, said Josh Berenhaus, Bitcamp’s

press director.

Making sure nothing went wrong was a major undertaking for a person who had never attended a hackathon, Griffith said. But as he yelled into a walkie-talkie clipped to his shirt, he smiled and checked the time.

“We’re good to go,” he announced. “Soon, I’ll be able to relax for a bit.”

“The new definition classifies cheating as any ‘fraud, From PAGE 1 deceit, or dishonesty in an academic exercise,’” Pitt said.

Office of Student Conduct DiThe Code of Academic Inrector Andrea Goodwin told the tegrity defines cheating as “intentionally using or at- Residence Hall Association last tempting to use unauthor- month that her office would be ized materials, information updating its free academic tutoor study aids in any academic rial for students in a joint effort exercise.” Pitt said this defini- with the Senate to help students tion excluded violations such better understand terms such as as submitting a fake doctor’s cheating, academic dishonesty, note or signing-in a friend for and plagiarism.

Goodwin said she hoped that attendance reasons.

efforts to provide more examples of what constitutes cheating would help educate students more about the honor code.

“I think it could be useful,” said Residence Hall Association President Omer Kaufman.

“The more tools students have at their disposal to check and double-check their work, the more likely they will be able to avoid unintentional academic dishonesty.”

From PAGE 1 Though Noskin had never been to a hackathon before Bitcamp, he seemed to have no problem getting comfortable.

He reclined in his folding chair while explaining the app, with his bare feet sticking out from under the table.

Bitcamp, which began at about 9:15 p.m. Friday and continued until about 9:10 a.m.

Sunday, mixed rookies like Noskin with hackathon veterans. Some, such as Raj Vir, a junior computer science and entrepreneurship major from the University of Michigan, said they’d been to a dozen or more.

B i tc a m p w a s t h e f i r s t hackathon Vir had attended in about a year. He said it was Bitcamp’s ties to virtual reality company Oculus VR, which university alumni cofounded, that attracted him to College Park.

“It’s very clear that virtual re a l it y i s t he way of t he future,” Vir said. “Like, you can fly. I’ve wanted to fly my whole life.”

A lex Wissma n n, one of Vir’s teammates and a sophomore comp uter science major from the University of Pennsylvania, was drawn to Bitcamp for different reasons.

“Hackathons are just fun,” Wissmann said.

The two connected over Facebook and have spent time together at previous hackathons — a living example of the collaboration events like these boast.

M ajor L eag ue H ack i ng ranks universities with a point system based on performance and attendance rates, but MLH officials said competition is secondary to the learning experience. At Bitcamp, organizers decided to get rid of a grand prize altogether, in favor of smaller categorical ones.

“Winning and losing is a side effect of participating,” said Michael Gubbels, an event organizer and third-year graduate student studying humancomputer interaction at this university. “If I lose, I don’t care. I just learned JavaScript.”

SPARKING THE FIRE Bitcamp was not organized

Honor

NEXT TOP HACKERS For employers in the technology industry, hackathons like Bitcamp are among the best ways to find young talent in action. They’re roughly the equivalent of the scouting combines collegiate football players attend to showcase their skills.

But unlike college football players, who are selected for professional football teams by way of a draft, tech prospects get to choose where they work.

Because of that, companies looking for employees have to do their part to attract new employees.

On Friday, an electric bike company called Riide let participants coast around the floor of Cole on the motorized bike.

Another company, a university start-up called Java Zen, had an employee make rounds with a hot coffee and tea-dispensing backpack in the early morning hours Sunday, offering a cup to anyone who wanted one.

“When I was their age, I couldn’t do this stuff,” said Mike Clark, a physical scientist at the Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences. “I’m just happy I can be a small part of it.”

At 60 years old, Clark gets around in a wheelchair outfitted with light-up wheels. He teaches at Carnegie Mellon University remotely, via an iPad attached to a wheeled stand several feet tall that he controls on his phone.

On Friday, he showed off the stand, gliding it up and down one side of the floor area and interacting with passersby while he sat in his wheelchair in one corner of the room. Some made an effort to get out of the robot’s way, and many eyed his face, which was shown on the iPad’s screen, with curiosity.

Later, Clark attracted another crowd with a quadcopter, which

DANIEL NOSKIN, a senior management and marketing major (top), rests after working on Snapdio, a music equivalent to Snapchat, at Bitcamp.

Eric Angelo (bottom left) traveled from University of California, Berkeley, for the 36-hour competition. Team Six Dimension (bottom right) created a virtual reality headset that incorporates wind for a more immersive gaming experience. rachel george/the diamondback flew over the red chairs of one corner of the Cole’s bowl. When explaining the mechanics of its flight, Clark’s eyes widened from behind his glasses. It was the same look that could be seen on the faces of many of Bitcamp’s hackers when asked to explain their projects. “ You look for pa ssion, people who have a real interest in ways to solve a problem,” Clark said.

On the other side of the arena, Microsoft representatives showed off Cortana, a not-yet released rival to Apple’s Siri.

“Who’s your daddy?” a Microsoft employee asked the program.

“Techn ically speaking, that’d be Bill Gates,” Cortana replied. “No big deal.”

and hackers in sleeping bags dozed off next to their tables at about 2 a.m. Sunday.

Noskin was sitting with Geller at their table, slouched over his laptop and scrolling through logo designs. Geller was pouring shots of a Starbucks Refresher. Most hackers at Bitcamp did sleep — some more than others. Geller got about nine hours of sleep the night before, and Noskin said he slept for four.

“No one wishes they slept more i n col lege,” Nosk i n sa id . “ No one’s goi ng to wish they didn’t stay up for a hackathon.”

By 10 a.m., the start of the hackathon’s expo, the duo had put the final touches on Snapdio, and they showed off the website’s functionality by sending a sample of Pitbull’s song “Timber” (featuring Kesha).

BEYOND THE “I can’t wait to start thinkCOMPETITION ing clearly after getting a good Fans whirred in front of night of sleep,” Noskin said.

Oculus Rifts, Arduinos lit up During the event’s closing

ceremonies, sponsors awarded 17 prizes, including three teams that won trips to Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle.

But for many students, the event was more about the experience of hacking than winning.

Friday night, sophomore electrical engineering major Juan Alonso was building a tower of blocks with freshman computer science major Pauline Chan near the fake f i re p i t . A l o n s o h a d a ttended his first hackathon, HackDuke from March 29 to March 30, and was excited for the networking opportunities and the chance to work on projects for sponsors at these kinds of events. But Bitcamp, he said, was more about developing skills.

“It’s a nice environment to work in,” Alonso said, adding he hadn’t thought of a project idea yet. “I’m here to learn more.” jantoshakdbk@gmail.com, jhottledbk@gmail.com

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Sexuality discussed in sports journalism panel Michael Sam story inspires academic attention

By Sarah Dean @sarahmariedean Staff writer

When college football star Michael Sam announced he is gay in February, it became increasingly likely that the NFL would soon have its first openly gay player.

Panelists discussed Sam’s impact on sports, their predications for his draft prospects, and the media and public reaction to his coming out during “Michael Sam: In the Spotlight,” a discussion held in Knight Hall yesterday.

Panelists included journalism professor and ESPN broadcaster Kevin Blackistone, LGBT Equity Center Associate Director Nicholas Sakurai, former Washington Redskins player Brig Owens, and sports columnist Dave Zirin. George Solomon, The Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism director, moderated the event before an audience of about 40.

The panelists agreed that LGBT rights are an area in which sports lag behind social progress.

“Here is an issue where sports is absolutely in last place,” Blackistone said. “We have moved forward in this society so much on this issue in just about every walk of life, except in sports.”

He said NFL scouts and coaches care more about the issue than players do because of the generational gap.

Sakurai brought up the discrepancies between the percentage of the national population that identifies as LGBT and the percentage of the NFL that does. If NFL players reflected the national average of 3.5 percent identifying as LGBT, there would be about 60 LGBT players in the league.

Panelists repeatedly compared Sam to the first black player in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson.

Zarin used a quote commonly attributed to author Mark Twain, saying, “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” implying that Sam is causing many Americans to “confront their own prejudices,” just as they did in 1947 because of Robinson.

Owens, former defensive back for the Redskins, has a personal con-

nicholas sakurai (center), associate director for university’s LGBT Equity Center, speaks at “Michael Sam: In the Spotlight” on Monday afternoon. nection with LGBT rights in sports.

Owens played alongside Jerry Smith, his friend and roommate for 10 years. Smith, who was gay, died of AIDS in 1986.

“There was never an issue with regards to him being gay on our team because we were all a team, a family,” he said. “As far as I was concerned, he was my friend.”

Panelists also shared their predictions for Sam’s position in the upcoming NFL draft.

“It’s hard to imagine a group of more risk-averse people than NFL general managers,” Zarin said.

“Objectively, you’re going to put yourself out on a limb and under

a microscope if you draft Michael Sam, so to a degree at which it will take someone with some courage to say ‘He’s the best player. I want him.

I don’t care if it makes me look bad.’”

After Sam, a defensive end at the University of Missouri, disclosed his sexuality, former NFL coach Herm Edwards told ESPN that having Sam on a team would be “bringing baggage into your locker room.”

“I step back and I say, ‘No, it’s the baggage already in the NFL which is the problem. They have to clean out their baggage. He’s fine with his,’” Blackistone said. “To me, it’s really how everyone else reacts to Michael Sam, not how Michael Sam reacts

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to them. He’s been reacting with who he is for years and he seems perfectly fine.”

Bl a c k i s ton e a nd Z a r i n b ot h predict no team will take Sam as a public relations strategy. Sakurai said that although Sam’s sexuality would not be the sole reason for a team to pick him, it definitely would be a factor.

“I can’t imagine a team picking him without thinking about his sexual orientation and also the media swarm they will have to deal with,” Sakurai said. “I think it is going to be a factor no matter what.” sdeandbk@gmail.com

bills align with national initiatives session From PAGE 1

the state house in Annapolis. Legislators filled the building Monday to vote on several bills, including one to raise minimum wage and one to decriminalize marijuana possession. file photo/the diamondback

wage From PAGE 1

salary and that it’s mostly [for] young people,” some people go through their whole lives making minimum wage and cannot make enough money to ensure their families a positive future.

“I am a bit disappointed that it’s taking so long to get to $10.10, but I suppose that justice can move slowly,” Washington said.

Freshman Bridgette Roa works as a retail sales associate, making minimum wage, to help pay for school.

Roa said any increase would benefit her and her coworkers, many of whom have been working for years, yet still earn the current minimum wage.

“It is really expensive to live, especially on campus, and with all the costs of college in general,” said Roa, an early childhood education major.

“I know that they had been talking about it, so the fact that it got passed is really cool.”

The university will have to comply with the set schedule from this legislation. As far as adjusting the wages after January, university departments will “just have to keep making up the difference,” said University Human Resources Director Dale Anderson.

“It’s going to be an additional cost that the institution will have to come up with,” Anderson said.

Anderson said a change like this will likely impact some students and staff members at this university in the coming months and years, although maybe not immediately. The additional 75 cents should not cause serious adjustments to departments that already allocate $7.25 an hour to employees, and it’s unlikely that there will be fewer hourly jobs or additional costs to compensate for the increase, he said.

When the campus releases its fiscal year 2015 budget, Anderson said, appropriate adjustments will be made to cover the additional costs of the raise.

“Those departments that do have students hired are going to have to find the money to make these salary adjustments,” Anderson said.

Sophomore neurobiology and physiology major Gyyoung Oh works as a community assistant for the university, earning slightly more than the

current minimum wage. She said balancing a part-time job with homework and campus involvement can be busy and tiresome, but mandated wage hikes would be helpful.

“It’s a good idea,” Oh said. “Even if we were to be paid $10.10 right now, it’d be good for us. We work crazy hours.”

While she said she would benefit from a larger paycheck, Oh said she isn’t sure the university can afford to pay minimum wage employees more money across the institution.

“They could cut work,” Oh said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if they fire people or lay people off.”

But Anderson said the university would find a way to make it work.

“If it’s become law, we’ll figure out a way to live with it,” Anderson said.

Opponents of the bill insist that a minimum wage raise this high might lead to people losing their jobs and businesses closing.

“It’s a deceptive bill; it gives people a false hope,” Del. Neil Parrott (RWashington) said. “Those jobs that used to go to college students, people who are really unqualified for the higher level jobs, are not going to have those jobs as much as they had them before because businesses … are simply going to close their doors or go out of business.”

The bill’s wage increases will not be indexed to the cost of living as originally planned before amendments.

Washington said although she would have liked to see indexing in this bill, the General Assembly might try to index to the cost of living years from now after analyzing benefits from this current bill.

“I do think it’s fair to let things settle, let people see that, ‘Hey, we were able to raise this minimum wage, businesses were able to manage it, people were able to do better,’” Washington said.

However, Parrott said this session’s bill is bad enough.

“We’re not going to see the effects … until we get to $10.10, and when we do, that’s when a lot of these jobs, we’re going to start losing,” Parrott said.

Senior staff writer Jim Bach contributed to this report. eserpicodbk@gmail.com

university and College Park will be given an opportunity to apply for the designation of a RISE zone and begin to attract businesses and development projects to bolster the local economy. While the exact “zone” around the university is yet to be determined, Sen. Jim Rosapepe (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) said he’d like this bill to help attract development along Route 1 and near the College Park Metro Station.

Sen. Catherine Pugh (D-Baltimore City), sponsor of the Senate version of the bill, said it would give universities an opportunity to ask how they want campuses and the areas around campuses to grow.

“We’re going to see more profitable businesses moving their institutions because they’ll see the opportunity there,” Pugh said.

This RISE program would also allow the state to better recognize the potential for economic growth coming out of the state’s universities, said university lobbyist Ross Stern.

“A lot of intellectual capital is created in a university,” Stern said. “Hopefully, the local regional

marijuana From PAGE 1 finding a job, he said, which could lead them back to drugs.

“We wa nt to keep as ma ny of our citizens as productive as possible,” Anderson said. “I think saddling a 19-year-old or a 21-year-old with a criminal record is not the right idea.”

Del. Craig Zucker (D-Montgomery), one of the sponsors of a House bill to decriminalize marijuana and a supporter of the approved bill, said decriminalization is part of a public safety measure and a step in the right direction for youth and the criminal justice system.

“If someone over the age of 18 gets caught with marijuana, it’s not a life-altering situation,” Zucker said. “I think it will have an impact in terms of not severely impacting their lives, but at least give them the opportunity to make right in the future.”

While the drug is still illegal and frowned upon by the public, Zucker said, penalizing someone caught possessing the substance is not a good use of ta xpayer money when the resources could be redirected toward preventing more threatening crimes.

Anderson said this kind of conversation will bring marijuana

economy can then develop companies coming out of that and create economic development and get sort of a positive feedback loop going.”

The incentives for businesses locating in these zones are undetermined, but Rosapepe said the bill “provides a lot of flexibility for the city, the university and the county together to come up with some proposed incentives the state might give, and the county or the city might give, to try to get the kind of development we want.”

E-Nnovation Program A second bill aimed at attracting high-quality faculty passed with little trouble. It creates the E-Nnovation Initiative Program, through which the state would match a university’s fundraising efforts to create an endowed chair for specific fields and departments.

“If we go out and raise a million dollars from company ‘X’ to endow a chair in a field that’s listed in that bill, the state will match that,” Stern said. “This is an attempt to bring superstar faculty to the state, it’s an interesting way to help us raise money to endow chairs.”

The fields listed in the bill for which the state would match funds include cyber technology; energy and environmental sciences; nano-

reform has received negative attention, and the passage of this bill might serve as a path to full legalization in the state. After Washington state and Colorado legalized marijuana, he said, fresh attention and information might help this state realize potential fiscal gains.

Legalization could mean bringing in more money by taxing marijuana like alcohol and cigarettes, he said.

“It may not happen next year, but certainly the year after that,” Anderson said.

However, Del. Neil Parrott (RWashington) said the bill could lead to more people abusing marijuana.

“This bill, unfortunately, was rushed through,” Parrott said. “It’s going to harm a lot more people than it helps, and we’re going to see a lot of higher use of marijuana in the state of Maryland as a result of this bill.”

Sophomore aerospace en g ineering major Zach Brown said he doesn’t think the bill will have much of an effect on people already using marijuana but it might have a negative impact on students as a whole if it’s eventually legalized.

“At the end of the day, it’s more about who’s getting hurt,” Brown said. “It’s their decision to destroy their brain; that’s their choice, as long as it doesn’t affect [others].”

While Parrott also opposes the legalization of marijuana, he said this bill is even worse because it has no taxation or regulation behind it.

“WE’RE GOING TO SEE MORE PROFITABLE BUSINESSES MOVING THEIR INSTITUTIONS BECAUSE THEY’LL SEE THE OPPORTUNITY THERE.”

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Senator, D-Baltimore City

technology and materials sciences; advanced medical and public health science; quantum computing and engineering; transportation, space and aerospace sciences; biometrics; gerontology; neurosciences; language sciences; and high-tech manufacturing processes.

The endowment would go toward funding professorships, endowed chairs and related private-public partnerships.

“What we hope is that with the emergence of cyber security and other technologies that are now taking place,” said House Speaker Michael Busch (D-Anne Arundel), “universities can start to draw the best and the brightest research educators in the country.”

Busch also hopes that by bringing in the best faculty, the state could “become the hub for cyber security on the East Coast.” jbachdbk@gmail.com

“WE WANT TO KEEP AS MANY OF OUR CITIZENS AS PRODUCTIVE AS POSSIBLE...

SADDLING A 19-YEAR-OLD OR A 21-YEAR-OLD WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD IS NOT THE RIGHT IDEA.” CURT ANDERSON

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It could encourage people to go to drug dealers to get the substance, he said, or give people a stronger incentive to sell it.

“When people go to a drug dealer, they’re supporting gangs, they’re supporting pimps, they’re supporting terrorists, they’re supporting cartels,” Parrott said. “These are not the type of people that we should be encouraging, but we are with the bill that Maryland just passed.”

Dr ug dea lers cou ld then sel l people into harder drugs this way, Parrott said.

Zucker said decriminalization is a “step in the right direction” before the state decides to take further steps to legalize it. However, he said legislators might first look into legislation approving medical marijuana, ensuring that those who need it can get it.

Senior staff writer Jim Bach contributed to this report. eserpicodbk@gmail.com

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he General Assembly has done it again. Like in 2013, the end of the legislative session yesterday was productive and drama free, just the way it should be.

The two most significant to-be laws to come out of yesterday’s “Sine Die” were decisions to increase minimum wage to $10.10 by 2018 and decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.

First, minimum wage: Generous minimum wage laws help, not harm. In the late 1960s, when the United States’ mandated wage floor was the highest it’s ever been (at about $10.10 in 2012 dollars — sound familiar?), the economy flourished.

Between 1965 and 1970, the gross domestic product sustained growth of more than 3 percent in all but one year. Gross domestic product per capita jumped from about $20,000 to more than $22,000 (in 2009 dollars).

And perhaps most importantly, unemployment stayed between 3 and 5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Giving the minimum wage the purchasing power it once had will revitalize the middle class in places that need it, such as College Park, where median household income lags more than $10,000 behind the state average, according to the Census Bureau.

The minimum wage in this state will climb to $8 in January, hopefully doing something to put a dent in the 29.3 percent of College Park residents living below the poverty line but not in the bottom lines of the businesses and firms we love.

The Montgomery and Prince George’s county councils voted in No-

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vember to raise the wages higher and more quickly than the state — $11.50 by 2017 — but this editorial board is happy to see policymakers recognizing they need to play catch up.

And tying the wage law to inflation after catching up makes sense. There’s no reason to have this debate again a few decades down the road.

OUR VIEW

The General Assembly’s clean passage of both a minimum wage increase and decriminalizing marijuana is admirable.

Hopefully, this state can serve as an example for the nation of a place where protecting the lower and middle classes and encouraging economic growth are not mutually exclusive.

Next, marijuana decriminalization: It’s about time.

This opinion section has featured ad nauseam support for marijuana decriminalization, deregulation and legalization for years, from staff editorials to columns and guest opinions.

The arguments have become rote: Marijuana taxation will increase state revenue (Colorado pulled in $2 million story in January alone); state residents support decriminalization (90 percent of respondents to a Goucher poll in March supported medicinal marijuana); prohibition laws are racially biased (black offenders are more than three times more likely to be arrested for possession than white offenders).

So it’s a relief that this state has stopped resisting the social, political and economic tides favoring decriminalized marijuana.

If anything, changing possession of 10 grams of marijuana or less to a civil fine rather than a criminal offense is too small a step forward. But the legislation passed yesterday also begins to establish a framework for medicinal marijuana dispensaries and growers.

We’ll get there one day.

All said, the General Assembly continues to impress. Since 2012, it has moved forward with modern policies that make sense, such as legalizing same-sex marriage, repealing the death penalty, tightening gun regulations and protecting transgender rights.

Additionally, the state has illustrated its ability to compromise and negotiate on budgets, as the past two years have seen financial negotiations settled before the final day of sessions.

Tuition increases have remained capped at 3 percent and cuts have remained relatively small, compared to the $50 million the barely averted “doomsday” budget almost sucked away from the University System of Maryland in 2012.

Looking to 2015 — the first year since 2006 that Gov. Martin O’Malley won’t be signing legislation — the state will have more issues to consider. Environmental initiatives are ongoing and questions about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, remain. The state’s new health exchange is largely broken and will need significant fixes.

But based on what we’ve seen in the past two legislative sessions, we’re confident in the General Assembly’s ability to address those issues.

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I’m done with the bars (I promise) I will find better options on weekends

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somebody to grind with or end up doing an awkward step-touch in a circle with friends.

Also, the volume of music in bars is typically too high for someone to have substantial conversations with the people they came with or anybody they might meet. I’d prefer hanging out in a place that’s more conducive to verbal interaction.

Finally, the bar atmosphere is not enticing enough to justify the extra money for cover charges and marked-up drink prices.

Despite all of this, I find myself going back time after time. I think it’s because this narrow idea of what nightlife should be like has been drilled into my head during my time at school, and now I don’t know what else I should be looking for. I feel if I’m not having a stereotypical night out in college, I’m not getting the full and authentic college experience.

It’s time I make a resolution: I’m done with the bars. I’ll spend the precious free time I have left this semester hanging out with the people I care about and doing things that I enjoy. I’ll cut this column out of the newspaper and put it on my fridge so that when I go to get a beer on Friday night, I’ll remember why I don’t want to go with my roommates to Terrapin’s Turf.

T h a t sa i d , t h e re ’s a c h a n ce amnesia will hit and I’ll find myself there this weekend. If you see me, my weekday self gives you full permission to slap me across the face.

After a semester and a half of indulging in senior-year weekend fun at local bars, I think I finally have convinced myself that I’m not a fan.

The funny thing is, I come to this conclusion every morning after going out, but by the next free weekend night, I’ve somehow erased that conclusion from my mind. That’s when I say, “What the hell, I’ll come with you guys,” and the cycle repeats itself.

I have no doubt there are plenty of people who legitimately enjoy going to bars, and I can see why. The music is loud; there are flashing lights and a ton of people. Many of those people are single, so there’s the prospect of spontaneous romance. Plus, they serve many kinds of alcohol.

I think a significant subset of bar-goers end up at bars because it’s a thing to do in college when you’re old enough. This is the group I belong to. We were intrigued by the hype of the bar scene and decided not to knock it until we had tried it.

Now we find ourselves still trying it even though we’ve already knocked it.

There are a few things I don’t like about going to the bar. First, I’m not crazy about dancing. I should clarify: I have no trepidations about making a fool out of Kevin Hogan is a senior computer myself on the flo’. What I don’t engineering major. He can be reached like is that people either find at khogandbk@gmail.com.

How to kill a club in one semester Who needs clubs, anyway? It’s much more fulfilling to eliminate them.

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If we don’t decrease our dependence on fossil fuels, climate change will worsen and the human race will suffer. Global temperatures will increase, sea levels will rise and weather patterns will shift, leading to largescale change on our planet, as many scientists have posited.

Climate change will not distribute its effects equally around the globe.

The North Pole has experienced, and will continue to experience, the highest temperature increases. As such, Arctic ice will continue to melt and drain into the ocean, raising global sea levels and flooding communities that live by the water.

Climate change will also affect life in our seas when increased carbon dioxide levels in the air lead to higher levels in the ocean. This increased carbon dioxide in the oceans will kill coral reefs and destroys their vibrant ecosystems, eliminating habitats for millions of species, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Studies show that coral reefs are unable to survive once carbon dioxide concentrations reach between parts per million, which unfortunately scientists predict will occur by the second half of the century.

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levels, too. Many large marine animals that rely on plankton and shellfish as a primary food source will face serious survival threats when their food source dwindles. Fishing industries will suffer, and about 1 billion people will lose their main source of protein, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

Climate change also will affect the spread of disease. A slight increase in temperature will expand the range of disease-carrying mosquitoes that thrive in warm weather and put millions of people at risk.

Despite the known consequences of callous energy use and burning fossil fuels, global energy consumption has almost doubled since 1990, and fossil fuels are expected to continue to be our main source of energy. Even worse, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that America is the No. 1 consumer of oil worldwide. As fossil fuel consumption increases, so will the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, further harming the environment and the people on this planet. It is imperative that we take steps to reduce our energy usage and dependence on oil.

Luckily, the chronicle of climate change doesn’t have to end with tragedy. As awareness grows about how we negatively influence the environment, humankind’s tremendous

capacity for innovation can be put to the test. But before large-scale change can happen, there must be a change at the smallest level: the individual.

If everyone makes a small change to his or her lifestyle, it will make a big impact. And as individuals begin to use less energy, and consequently fewer fossil fuels, the large-scale change that we desperately need will soon follow.

So this week, you can reduce your energy output in a number of ways.

Turn off the lights when you leave a room; use public transportation or walk instead of driving a car, support local agriculture, stay away from beef and unplug electronics when you aren’t using them. By remaining aware of how your actions affect the environment, you can be eco-friendly and help create a sustainable world.

Wednesday to April 15 is Energy Week, the third week of the What Will YOU(md) Do? sustainability pledge.

During this week, choose to bring the issue of climate change into your life and pledge to reduce your energy use. Learn more and take the pledge at www.whatwillyoumddo.org.

Sara Spaur is a freshman economics and government and politics major.

She is a member of the Student Government Association’s Student Sustainability Committee. She can be reached at sspaur@terpmail.umd.edu.

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Step 2: Flip your table.

If graduation is the fatal disease of all clubs, freshmen are the cure.

Once you’re ready to succumb to a sad, slow death, actively chase freshmen from your club. Do not table, do not add new recruits to the Listserv. Assume they have all knowledge of club habits and never talk to them when they stand in the doorway, blushing and doe-eyed.

When they appear on Reddit asking if a club exists identical to the description of the club you run, shrug and go to r/funny instead.

Step 3: Steal Christmas.

Lots of clubs have huge annual or biannual events that require at least a month of planning, some phone calls, budgeting, registration and a lot of other nonsense that nobody wants to do.

So if it’s time to close up shop, make no steps to organize the event again for this year.

Your club can help you with this step: If they also want to shut down the club, they won’t come forward to help. You can all sit back and watch the festivities not commence.

Step 4: Take that break you always wanted.

It’s exam week. You have a 10-page paper due yesterday, and these annoying kids want you to show up and entertain them for an hour or two.

Don’t they have tests to take?

Yes. They have many tests. They should be studying. You should be studying, too. Why doesn’t everyone take a week off?

W hy d o e s n ’t eve ryo n e ta ke another week off for that presentation you have? Another, just because not showing up for the past two weeks felt so good?

“Are we meeting this week?,” they ask. You laugh, and then you go to Cornerstone.

Everyone wants to run a club.

It’s the ultimate feather in your resume’s cap. But like caring for a house plant or a cute small animal, running a club is a lot of responsibility. After a semester of showing up to meetings, organizing on Facebook, planning events for the future, tabling and genuinely giving a crap, some people just want to make it stop.

Nobody wants to send out that email, though, because admitting a club has died is a failure.

No, the modern club folds slowly, like a dying whale sinking into the ocean, with the unspoken consent of every member as the whole group lapses into indifference.

If this prospect entices you, read on and learn how, in one semester, you too can make 10 to 50 students disenfranchised with a hobby that used to genuinely excite them.

Step 1: Never email again.

Email is the most important form of communication a club has.

More ubiquitous than Facebook, email allows a club president to contact every member easily.

If you want to shed members, never email anyone again. If your club meets outdoors and it rains, pick a place indoors to meet and never email anyone disclosing the location.

Feel free to be belligerent or make jokes about how foolish you are for forgetting. Assume everyone in the club uses Facebook and only update there to watch social media-phobes drift away, confused.

If you receive an email asking, “Does this club still exist?,” you Emma Atlas is a junior government and are doing this step correctly. But politics and journalism major. She can don’t respond. be reached at eatlastdbk@gmail.com.

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You are a highly energetic individual, but you are never to be found simply spinning your wheels or working off steam. You always want to spend your time and energy doing things that matter somehow. You keep track of time very carefully, though you may not ever wear a watch of any kind.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- You can make your mark by setting down in writing something you have perhaps only been thinking about of late. A daring step is called for.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -Ease and relaxation will make the difference between your work and that of a close competitor.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- You can watch things develop from a safe distance and face the consequences, or you can shape events by being directly involved. Choose!

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Technically Funny New show from Mike Judge brings satire to startups

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Staff writer After Game of Thrones, HBO premiered another show about a fantasy world where those in power are ruthless and women are marginalized.

However, the world of Silicon Valley exists, and the comedy from Office Space’s Mike Judge sharply satirizes the geeky culture of startups in which the next technological breakthrough is right around the corner.

Silicon Valley’s premiere episode seamlessly introduces the culture of its setting,

home to the world’s largest technology corporations in California’s South Bay. In the premiere, Richard Hendrix, the show’s timid protagonist, played by Thomas Middleditch (Someone Marry Barry), hits it big with an app that determines whether music violates copyright infringement. In the middle of a bidding war, Richard is forced to choose between selling his software for millions of dollars to his employer, Hooli, and collaborating with a venture capitalist to start his own company.

In the end, Richard makes the obvious choice to join forces with his nerdy buddies in his programming incubator to strike out on his own.

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Despite the business of the pilot, the show’s unique premise has a lot of comedic potential that keeps it from becoming an exposition dump. T.J. Miller’s (This is Not Happening) Erlich Bachman, the owner of the incubator, is perfectly obnoxious and is a good fit for the show’s universe, referring to Steve Jobs as “Steve” and touting an app called NipAlert. Middleditch’s quieter presence serves his role well — he can roll his eyes and make sarcastic remarks without coming across as smug or snobby.

The late Christopher Evan Welch (Golden Boy)

stands out as Peter Gregory, who agrees to invest in Richard’s program while fiercely advocating against higher education. (“Silicon Valley is the cradle of innovation because of dropouts,” he remarks during a TED Talk.)

To play to a broad audience, the show keeps the techie jargon from being overwhelming, featuring jokes about binary code, Grindr and the racial and physical makeups of programmer groups, none of which really should confuse the casual viewer.

While the dialogue doesn’t strive for realism — the jokes sound like jokes — it works for the show’s satirical bent.

This is best displayed in a scene in which Richard, stricken with panic attacks over his decision, visits a doctor played by Andy Daly (Review), who painfully muses about a patient who suffered in making a similarly difficult choice and casually asks Richard to invest in a

startup. This kind of playful exaggeration drives Silicon Valley and allows it stand out from other sitcoms.

Noticeably missing from Silicon Valley, perhaps to reflect the real Silicon Valley, are women. One of the only featured women on the cast, Gregory’s tech-savvy assistant, is pretty lifeless and an apparent potential romantic partner for Richard.

The contributions from the rest of the cast are minimal but promising. Martin Starr (Veronica Mars) plays one of Richard’s roommates, a “LaVeyan Satanist with some theistic tendencies,” complete with an upside-down cross tattoo on his arm. The other roommates, played by Zach Woods (Kroll Show) and Kumail Nanjiani (Portlandia), are less defined but do not fail to add cutting, sarcastic quips throughout the premiere.

Unlike The Big Bang Theory, another nerd-centric sitcom, Silicon Valley does not condescend to its target audience.

The most biting comedy gets spread around: Richard laments interacting with programmers, while the owner of Hooli is shown wearing toe shoes and seeking spiritual advice. Additionally, Richard’s decision to turn his program into its own company separates Silicon Valley from the typical depiction of nerds on sitcoms. The show does not set out to embarrass its nerds but rather to empower them.

Silicon Valley’s premise also gives it a modern vibe, capitalizing on “the next big thing” culture of startups, software and applications. Judge, who directed and wrote the premiere, uses the premise to keep the show fresh while preventing the comedy from being swallowed up by the labyrinth of the technology industry.

Silicon Valley is not The Social Network meets HBO. It’s lighter, it’s exaggerated and Justin Timberlake is nowhere in sight. By establishing a protagonist worth rooting for and a conflict that presents a long future struggle in the series, the show likely will develop a following like another HBO show: Entourage, just with a touch of geek chic. dlevydbk@gmail.com

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WILLIAMS From PAGE 8 news conference in North Texas. H is career, which spanned 33 years, included 668 victories and ended with a successful 22-year run at his alma mater, will be honored as one of the greatest in history.

It’s here in College Park that Williams left the deepest imprint, though, with his signature on the Comcast Center floor and fans still clamoring for fist pumps.

“The community rallied behind him and he really embodied the fighting spirit of the Terps, and that was kind of the nature of the school,” said guard John Gilchrist, who played for Williams’ Terps from 2002 to 2005. “He was the perfect fit for the school, not to mention that he won. He was bigger than a basketball coach.”

When Williams is enshrined in the Hall of Fame on Aug. 8 in Springfield, Mass., the honor will double as validation for the Terps program. The fiery coach led a team without a McDonald’s High School All-American to the pinnacle of the sport by leading it to win the program’s only national title in 2002.

Just more than a dozen years earlier, Williams left Ohio State to take over a program that wasn’t allowed to play in the NCAA tournament or on national television because of violations committed by his predecessor, Bob Wade.

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“In March of my first year, they took away three scholarships. They took away live TV. We couldn’t even play in the ACC tournament one year because it was on live TV,” Williams said in February. “I think we’re the only team in the history of the ACC that went through that.”

Williams thinks his ability to turn a program around so dramatically without any hints of foul play led to his Hall of Fame nod, he said.

Star forward Walt Williams decided not to transfer in 1990 and helped build the foundation for his coach’s success.

Soon, Gary Williams recruited All-American Joe Smith to join the Terps, and the team made the NCAA tournament in 1994.

They didn’t miss another NCAA tournament until 2005.

“Everybody knows that he turned that entire program around when it was on probation and couldn’t go anywhere,” radio announcer Johnny Holliday said. “He just breathed and lived intensity and focus and toughness and defense and making tremendous players out of average players. He’d take a guy and they would go to the next level because of his work ethic.”

Gilchrist and Holliday both point to Williams’ internal fire as his greatest trait. The coach, a New Jersey native, was famous for finishing games dripping with sweat because of how much he jumped and screamed on the sideline.

Holliday remembers peering

scratch for everything you get. That was one thing he took pride in. He fought.”

Williams reaped the ultimate benefit of his competitiveness in 2002, when he won a national championship.

Behind lightly recruited star Juan Dixon, the Terps beat four perennial powerhouses on their way to the title, an achievement many credit to Williams’ leadership.

But he was more excited for the fans and the people around the program. The basketballcrazed school wasn’t even allowed to play in the NCAA tournament when Williams took over in 1989, and by 2002, it had reached new heights.

“I was proud we could get the program from when we were probably in the lowest position out of any of the socalled big programs to where we got it to. It was very important to me as a coach,” Williams said. “Any individual things that we did were nice, but to get the mentality back that we could be a national power was satisfying to me.”

FORMER COACH GARY WILLIAMS won 668 games in his 33-year career coaching in the college After he capped the proranks. He led the Terps to the national championship in 2002. file photo/the diamondback gram’s rise to prominence That drive was evident with a national title, Williams’ over at Williams during games and watching the coach berate in Williams’ practices. Gil- legacy in College Park was the bench when he was unhappy christ said his coach made cemented. Comcast Center’s sure players dove on the floor hardwood is named Gary Wilwith a play on the court.

“He was making sure they for loose balls in drills, and liams Court, and it’s common understood that, and when he turned everything into a to see students walking around with yellow T-shirts emblathey got in, it was a whole competition.

“That’s the thing he taught zoned with the phrase “Garydifferent ball game,” Holliday said. “His passion for the me is that nothing is ever going land,” even after coach Mark game was something very few to be easy,” Gilchrist said. “You Turgeon took over in 2011.

Forbes released a list of the have to fight and claw and coaches have.”

country’s most valuable college basketball programs last month and ranked the Terps No. 18, estimating the team’s worth to be $11.9 million. That financial success, Holliday said, is due to the foundation Williams laid.

“Gary Williams is an icon not only here at the University of Maryland, but for all of college basketball,” university President Wallace Loh said in a statement.

Yesterday’s announcement solidified Williams’ status outside of College Park. The coach knew what was coming after he learned his fate on a call from the Hall of Fame on Wednesday afternoon.

Williams knew he’d receive the call at about noon that day, but unlike big games in Comcast Center or Cole Field House, he didn’t prepare with a fist pump. He was a bit too nervous to do that.

“I was sitting down by my phone, and I wouldn’t move because I didn’t want to miss the call,” Williams told CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz at the news conference yesterday in North Texas. “That was a thrill.”

Then the call brought good news, and in August, Williams will settle into a new role as a Hall of Famer.

“He led the charge in turning around the Maryland basketball program,” Dixon said in a release. “It doesn’t get bigger than being inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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CENTER BRIONNA JONES scored 12 points in the first half of Sunday night’s Final Four loss to Notre Dame. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

JONES From PAGE 8 early, but the Terps responded through Jones. She scored the team’s first six points, finding open spaces in the post before receiving the ball and quickly finishing layups. Jones scored six more points in the final four minutes, eight seconds of the first half, but it wasn’t enough to weather a Fighting Irish scoring run that gave them a 48-31 halftime lead.

Though Jones had less experience than returning players such as center Alicia DeVaughn and forward Malina Howard, she anchored the Te r ps f ro n tco u r t i n t h e opening half with 12 points.

“She played like she’s been to the Final Four,” coach Brenda Frese said. “Gave us a tremen-

dous inside post presence.”

Jones had four points in the second half, though, and the Terps’ inside offense worsened as the game wore on.

Notre Dame forwards Taya Reimer and Markisha Wright combined for 21 points and 14 rebounds, making up for the absence of their leading rebounder, forward Natalie Achonwa, who tore her ACL in the Elite Eight.

Reimer and Wright both average less than 20 minutes per game, but they played 30 and 23 minutes, respectively, Sunday night. Still, Achonwa remained a vocal presence entering the game and encouraged her teammates from the bench as they played extra minutes.

“Achonwa is injured, but they were playing for her,” DeVaughn said. “So they came

REVIEW From PAGE 8 entire season with a torn Achilles and freshman Nicole Dragon competed just twice because of injuries. While neither of these freshmen was able to gain the experience of the others, Nelligan expected Slobodin to be an integral part of the team, and she should provide a solid boost for the team when she returns next season.

“Leah was a really, really big loss for us,” Nelligan said. “We had her penciled in fifth in three of the lineups. … She had potential to be a major contributor.”

out and played hard for their senior.”

Ultimately, Notre Dame’s frontcourt duo had a bigger impact than Jones, but her individual performance was still a significant takeaway for the Terps.

She didn’t expect to have a key role during her freshman year, but Jones’ improvement during the second half of the season helped the Terps go on a deep postseason run.

Though the result wasn’t what she had hoped, she has three years of eligibility to help the Terps return to the Final Four.

“It’s really tough right now,” Jones said. “But I think later on, it’s going to be easier just knowing that we made it this far and nobody expected us to make it this far.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

Nonetheless, the healthy freshmen provided a pleasant surprise for a team depleted by injuries. Faller led the way by competing in the thirdmost events during the season, behind senior Karen Tang and junior captain Stephanie Giameo.

And when the postseason meets came at the end of the season, Faller didn’t falter under the pressure. The Raleigh, N.C., native posted a careerhigh 9.825 on bars and tied her career high on beam with a 9.800 at the EAGL championships.

Two weeks later, Faller tied her career high on vault with a 9.800 in the NCAA regionals and finished the season without a fall on beam. She

ran routes and caught passes from quarterback C.J. Brown.

Diggs said he feels about 90 percent healthy and the last step is to return to football shape after almost six months away from the field.

It was difficult to persevere through rehab without spending time on the field, Diggs said, but he had a partner during the process. Wide receiver Deon Long broke his leg in the same game as Diggs, and the two spent a lot of time rehabbing and studying film together.

To p u s h t h e m s e l v e s , Diggs and Long often turned strengthening exercises into competitions. Long said he won each time. Diggs told reporters not to believe it.

“I love competing in everything I do, as I try to express, but I tried not to rush it,” Diggs said.

“I was going to come back when I was ready, but I was still going to beat him at everything I could.”

Long also took part in noncontact drills Monday and, alongside Diggs, worked with new wide receivers coach Keenan McCardell, a 16-year NFL veteran. Diggs, who ranked second on the Terps with 587 receiving yards last season despite missing the final six games, said he hopes to become a better route runner before the fall and expects McCardell to help with that maturation.

“He’s been where I’m trying to go,” Diggs said. “So everything he says, I take it to heart because it means something.”

Coach Randy Edsall made sure to craft a practice schedule that allowed plenty of time for seven-on-seven and individual drills so Diggs and Long could get extra work. He plans to do

was the first freshman to do so since Giameo, Nelligan said.

“It has been so incredibly fun for me,” Faller said before the meet. “I came in here not even knowing what I would be competing in.”

Similarly to Faller, Chung also performed at her best on the big stage.

Following up a 9.800 on vault at the EAGL championships, which tied her career high, she set her new career high at regionals with a 9.825.

Chung improved as the season progressed, specializing mainly in vault.

While Chung always had the height on her vaults, she worked with assistant coach J.J. Ferreira on her landing, which she stuck in the final meet.

WIDE RECEIVER STEFON DIGGS finished the 2013 season as the Terps’ second-leading receiver with 587 yards despite missing the final six games. file photo/the diamondback the same Wednesday, though the duo isn’t expected to play in Friday night’s spring game.

The most important aspect for Diggs, Edsall said, is to continue improving his game as he works back into shape.

“The biggest thing he can do is he can become a better route runner than what he was a year ago,” Edsall said. “Also from a mental standpoint to know what defenses are going to do. I think those are the things that he has to work on in order to become that complete receiver that I know he wants to be and I know we want him to be.”

Diggs and Long still aren’t able to fully participate in practice,

“She has made some tweaks to her technique to really improve her landing because she has always had good height and power,” Nelligan said after regionals. “But in the preseason, she would have low scores because she would take a few steps on the landing.”

Behind strong seasons from Faller and Chung, the Terps were able to accomplish one of their preseason goals to remain undefeated at Comcast Center. And as the freshmen improved, so did the team’s scores.

The Terps posted their season best of 195.700 in their second consecutive second-place finish at the EAGL championships, which secured their spot in the field of 36

though, so they were forced to watch from the sidelines during 11-on-11 drills. But the team still feels their impact, Brown said.

The whole offense followed Diggs’ lead to congratulate Reid after that big run, but there’s no doubt that the energetic receiver in the yellow jersey was the first to run onto the field after the play ended.

“They’re out there talking trash, jumping around, hooting and hollering,” Brown said.

“That’s just their personality. It’s what they bring to the table. It’s just a great characteristic that they have.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

for the NCAA tournament.

While the strong performances by the freshmen at regionals weren’t enough to cause any upsets, they provided additional experience for a team that will compete frequently against top competition in the Big Ten next season. And in a season riddled with injuries and a woeful start, the freshman class proved the invaluable depth the Terps have moving forward.

“This is something that in the long run is really going to work to benefit us, that these young kids got so much experience right away,” Nelligan said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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Terps nab 7-foot Slovak center for 2014 recruiting class Team currently over scholarship limit with latest addition to heralded incoming class

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s basketball team landed a commitment for its class of 2014, center Michal Cekovsky of Slovakia, multiple media outlets reported yesterday afternoon.

InsideMDSports.com was first to

report the news that Cekovsky turned down offers from national powers Arizona and Louisville to come to College Park. Cekovsky is rated as a four-star prospect by 247sports.com and ESPN.com.

The 7-foot Cekovsky spent this past season at Spain’s Canarias Academy and is expected to be eligible to play next season. He joins

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a recruiting class already ranked in the nation’s top-15 by several media outlets. The Terps’ 2014 class includes Trayvon Reed, a 7-foot-1 center from Georgia, and the two centers are likely to bolster a frontcourt that had a decreased defensive presence this year.

The Terps, though, already had an NCAA limit of 13 scholarship players signed for next season before Cekovsky committed. It’s unclear how coach Mark Turgeon will provide Cekovsky with a scholarship if all five members of the 2014

class qualify academically and no returning players transfer.

Assistant coach Dustin Clark was assigned to recruit Cekovsky and reportedly took several trips to Europe to watch the big man play for the Canarias Academy, which has produced two NBA draft picks and several other Division I players. Florida State center Boris Bojanovsky, who slammed home the game-winning dunk in the Terps’ 67-65 loss in the ACC tournament, is one of several post players to attend the academy

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Injuries provide valuable experience for young team

FOOTBALL

Star WR completes individual drills, still out for spring game

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

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Diggs back practicing with Terps

Built for the future

The Terrapins gymnastics team seemed poised for a successful season after finishing its 2012-13 campaign ranked No. 22 and receiving a preseason ranking for the first time since 2003.

But three meets into the season, the outlook was dismal. Not only did the Terps post their lowest score since 2011 in their season opener, but they also lost sophomore Haley Jones to a season-ending knee injury for the second consecutive year.

Then, nine days after senior captain Katy Dodds led a comeback victory for the Terps’ first win of the season, the All-American tore her Achilles tendon warming up for their third meet of the season at North Carolina.

Without her, the Terps failed to break 193.000 for the second time in three meets and went the rest of the season without two gymnasts expected to make significant contributions. But the depth that coach Brett Nelligan harped on in December stabilized the Terps’ season.

Though the Terps came up short of an East Atlantic Gymnastics League Championship and failed to make any noise in the NCAA regionals, the season provided valuable experience for a strong freshman class. “[The freshmen] can head into next year with a higher confidence level,” Nelligan said before regionals. “They can kind of help bring next year’s freshmen along, show them things that can help them and things that they would do differently.”

The Terps had five freshmen, three of whom were staples in the lineup, with Sarah Faller, Emily Brauckmuller and Nikki Chung all competing in at least 12 of the Terps’ 13 meets during the season.

Freshman Leah Slobodin missed the

before traveling to United States to play in the NCAA. Cekovsky, according to several reports, is signed with Partizan Belgrade, a professional team in Serbia, but hasn’t played in a game for the team. In 2012, Ukranian center Alex Len had to sit out the first 10 games of his freshman season for the Terps because of a violation of amateurism rules. Len was the fifth overall pick in June’s NBA draft.

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

FORMER COACH GARY WILLIAMS will be enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., in August. file photo/the diamondback

HIS PLACE IN HISTORY Former coach Gary Williams elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame that fist pump often sent nearly 18,000 fans into hysteria. The legendary coach who transformed the Terps from a program crippled by NCAA sanctions to a national championship still gives a fist pump t was a simple gesture. He’d squeeze the fingers when he appears at public events.

He has to. If he doesn’t, fans don’t stop chanting of his right hand together, rear back and raise his fist into the air — no different than common his name.

Yesterday afternoon, Williams earned basketcelebrations flashed by amateur golfers and ball’s ultimate honor when he was named to the parents of youth sports stars.

But when Gary Williams walked out of Comcast Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame at a Center’s tunnel and onto its court before Terrapins men’s basketball games prior to his 2011 retirement, See WILLIAMS, Page 7

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer

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Two Terrapins football players were chasing running back Albert Reid after he broke free down the right sideline in an 11-on-11 drill during yesterday morning’s rainy practice at Byrd Stadium.

There was cornerback Will Likely, pursuing Reid from his left in an attempt to cut him off before he reached the end zone. And there was wide receiver Stefon Diggs, who sprinted behind Reid on the sideline, shouting encouragement to his fellow offensive teammate.

Likely eventually caught Reid and pulled him down, but Diggs bolted onto the field to congratulate the running back on the big gain. The junior wideout slapped Reid’s helmet in excitement and shouted at Likely as the sophomore jogged away.

Diggs isn’t participating in contact drills after breaking his leg in the Terps’ loss at Wake Forest on Oct. 19, but he was a limited participant in practice yesterday and his return to the field has already sparked an energy boost as spring practice nears an end.

Whether he was cheering with offensive teammates or jawing at defenders, Diggs remained vocal even when he was kept out of drills.

“I’m a charismatic young man, so I bring enthusiasm to the game,” Diggs said afterward, still sporting the yellow jersey signifying his status as a noncontact participant. “It’s rainy outside right now. Everybody’s mood is kind of down. It’s a little gloomy. But I love the game, and I’ve only been out there for so long, so I try to pick everybody up and keep everybody’s juices up.”

The former five-star recruit participated in seven-on-seven drills,

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | FINAL FOUR

Jones shines as bright spot in loss Freshman scores 16 points in Final Four against Notre Dame

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Entering her first year with the Terrapins women’s basketball team, Brionna Jones couldn’t imagine playing significant minutes in a pivotal postseason matchup. The center was focused on recovering from a torn ACL she suffered in high school, the same injury that depleted the Terps roster last season.

Still, it didn’t hamper Jones’ development. Once she recovered, she became a starter, and during the No. 4-seed Terps’ 87-61 Final Four loss to No. 1-seed Notre Dame on Sunday night at Bridgestone Arena, the 6-foot-3

freshman was their leading scorer in the biggest game of the season.

The team ended its seemingly charmed postseason run on a bitter note with its most lopsided loss of the year, but Jones’ performance was one of the few bright spots.

“It’s exciting, and it’s an accomplishment,” Jones said. “I mean, when I first got here, I didn’t even expect to play this much because I tore my ACL, and I didn’t know what was going to happen. But I think it’s just really a great opportunity, and this gives me a lot of experience going into next year.”

She finished the game with 16 points, scoring 14 of the Terps’ 28 points in the paint. Jones’ offense wasn’t enough for the Terps front-

court, however, as Notre Dame had a dominant 50-21 rebounding edge and 42 points in the paint.

The Fighting Irish crashed the boards from the outset, grabbing three offensive rebounds on the game’s first possession before Notre Dame guard Jewell Loyd’s layup for the opening basket. Jones had three rebounds, including one of the Terps’ four offensive boards in the contest.

“We just didn’t fight back,” Jones said.

“They came out with a quick punch, and they rebounded on the first possession of the game and we didn’t fight back.

We didn’t have a punch back.”

Notre Dame controlled the post CENTER BRIONNA JONES emerged as a reliable post presence for the Terps in ACC play, and the freshman was See jones, Page 7 the team’s leading scorer in Sunday night’s 87-61 loss to Notre Dame in the Final Four. alik mcintosh/the diamondback