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Terrapins men’s basketball guard Mychal Parker was the highest-rated recruit of the team’s 2010 class. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Parker set to transfer

BY CHRIS ECKARD Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS | 2012

In final hours, state approves $5M cut to USM Gas tax increase, legalized medical marijuana fail General Assembly

BY JIM BACH Senior staff writer

ANNAPOLIS — As lawmakers scrambled to vote on several bills yesterday before the legislative session ended at midnight, students traveled to Annapolis to make their voices heard one last time on contentious pieces of legislation.

Yesterday marked the last day of the legislative session, also known as Sine Die — a day when legislators have until midnight to either vote on or kill legislation that has been introduced since January, or stall it for at least another year.

For many, yesterday’s votes signified victories in long-fought battles or foreshadowed initiatives they will once again prepare to tackle next year.

Operating and capital budget Although legislators spent hours arguing over the final version of the state’s budget for the next fiscal year, legislators

passed a budget bill that includes about $5 million worth of cuts to the University System of Maryland.

Lawmakers struggled to settle discrepancies between House and Senate versions of the bill even after it went through a conference committee yesterday. Although legislators entertained the idea of extending their time frame to vote on the budget by up to five days, they ultimately rushed to vote on a version of the bill in the waning hours of the night.

While the initial Senate version of the bill proposed $5.3 million worth of cuts to the system, the House version proposed nearly $20 million.

Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown said the governor’s proposed budget, which stipulates students would face a modest 3 percent tuition increase compared to the proposed 5 percent, represents the administration’s commitment to higher education.

“We have generally in each of the six years of the [Gov.

Terrapins men’s basketball guard Mychal Parker will transfer out of the program after two seasons, a team spokesman confirmed yesterday.

Parker, a sophomore from Washington, N.C., averaged 4.3 points and 3.0 rebounds in 18 minutes per game this season. He played in all 32 contests this year after appearing in just 13 as a freshman.

“I have come to the realization that it is in my best interests to continue my education and my career elsewhere,” Parker said in a statement.

“I’m very grateful for the opportunities and support I’ve gotten from the University of Maryland and from coach [Mark] Turgeon. I will always consider myself a Terp for life.”

The 6-foot-5 guard never quite lived up to his billing as the Terps’ highest-rated recruit from

see PARKER, page 7

see LEGISLATURE, page 2

Some students complain of excess cigarette butts Ashtrays close to campus buildings removed in September after U. Senate vote

BY BRADLEIGH CHANCE For The Diamondback

After university facilities officials removed a large number of ashtrays set near campus buildings this past fall, some students have complained the measure has forced smokers to litter as discarded cigarette butts pile up all over the campus.

In September, the University Senate passed a policy requiring all smokers to stand at least 25 feet away from all campus buildings when they light up — an extension of the previous policy, which required smokers to stand at least 15 feet away. The senate then asked Facilities Management officials to remove all smoking urns that may cause students to violate the rules, according

to Facilities Management Director Carlo Colella.

“This wasn’t an effort to discourage student smoking, it was an effort to uphold the policy,” Colella said. “It’s an individual’s right to smoke, but only where it’s permitted.”

Colella said there are currently about 150

see SMOKING, page 3

Some Knox Box residents hired inspectors to survey mold. PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH KISH

Black mold found in Knox Box apts.

BY NICK FOLEY

University researchers work to launch new safety app dent’s location makes the existing service too inconvenient.

“Our understanding is that it takes a long time for the escorts to show up and the service is not widely used,” said Mah, an advanced

One morning, Sarah Kish woke up and couldn’t breathe. After a fit of wheezing, she rushed to the store to buy an inhaler. She didn’t have time to go to a doctor — she had an exam that day.

Kish, a junior studio art major, soon developed an irregular cough and could taste blood in her mouth. When she began to notice a foul stench wafting through her Knox Box apartment, she sensed something was wrong.

“It smelled like an ecosystem,” she said.

After months of discomfort, she called in a

see APP, page 3

see MOLD, page 2

App would allow students to use virtual escort; funding not yet secured for project

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

By the end of the semester, students seeking an escort to their homes at night will be able to use a new smartphone app instead of waiting for Police Auxiliary to meet them.

University researchers Ashok Agrawala and Matthew Mah are working to create a virtual escort program to help students, faculty and staff travel safely to their destinations using their cell phone’s cameras. Mah said the pair came up with the idea after hearing several complaints that waiting for an officer to walk to a stu-

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Legislators voted on a slew of bills yesterday on the last day of the legislative session, also known as Sine Die. The state budget, which includes cuts to the University System of Maryland, ultimately passed. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

LEGISLATURE from page 1 Martin] O’Malley-Brown administration put fairly significant investments in all of our state university’s capital projects,” Brown said.

Several lawmakers said they felt the bill that went before the floor spent too much money and raised money for the state by burdening taxpayers with several revenue-raising measures.

“In the worst economy in 75 years, we’re getting ready to wallop our citizens,” said House Minority Leader Anthony O’Donnell (R-Calvert and St. Mary’s). “We’re spending money and making decisions that our children are going to have to pay for, that our grandchildren are going to pay for.”

Offshore wind energy A bill that would create more sustainable forms of energy using off-shore wind farms near Ocean City was tabled, and the bill’s failure to pass prompted several student activists to protest the General Assembly’s decision.

HB441: Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2012 would provide incentives for developers to create more green forms of energy by using wind farms and has been O’Malley’s signature environmental issue since last year.

Even before the bill had officially been killed, student activists protested — and were charged with criminal trespassing — when it appeared the bill was unlikely to pass.

The Maryland Student Climate Coalition held “Maryland Wind Works” signs and sat on the steps of the statehouse as a “last stand,” said activist Megan Jenny. Student activists netted 4,000 petition signatures and staged demonstrations in Annapolis, Jenny added.

“Passing this bill is about the future. We cannot wait,” said Sam Rivers, who headed student activist campaigns for this university’s chapter of MaryPIRG. “Climate change is a pressing problem and it needs to be addressed now.”

Opponents have expressed concern over the legislation’s $1.5 billion price tag and the tax

state residents would incur on their electric bills to subsidize the legislation.

Brown said the project is a big undertaking and may be an issue that plays out over a number of years before the governor’s vision of 200megawatt wind turbines offshore come to fruition.

“We know that big initiatives like offshore wind, sometimes they take a number of years,” he said. “If we’re not successful this year we’re not going to throw in the towel.”

Gas tax Amid budgetary uncertainty and an unwillingness by some lawmakers to push for more revenue-raising measures, a bill that would increase the tax on gas failed to make it to a vote yesterday, effectively stalling the legislation for at least another year.

The measure, proposed by O’Malley in February, would have phased in a 2 percent increase in the state’s existing 23.5-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline every year for three years until it reached the current 6 percent sales tax rate. The revenue would go toward funding the Transportation Trust Fund, which grapples with a large budget deficit every year.

Brown said the measure is necessary to help patch budgetary holes in a cash reserve used to finance infrastructure projects and provide money for state transportation purposes.

“The need hasn’t diminished; there’s still an $800 million a year deficit in the Transportation Trust Fund,” he said.

Sen. Roger Manno (D-Montgomery) said many legislators expressed concerns over raising taxes in the state’s budget, especially as many residents already struggle to make ends meet.

Brown added that both the House and Senate were skeptical of the measure.

“We were willing to look at all alternatives, none of which were acceptable to the General Assembly,” he said. “What has emerged is a lack of interest in the proposal.”

Many students voiced opposition to the measure, and the SGA almost unanimously passed a resolution to oppose the tax last month.

“That we need more trans-

portation funding is not controversial. It’s a question of whether or not that should come from an additional gas tax or from better management of our existing funding,” SGA Director of Governmental Affairs Zach Cohen said. “I think this was not the year to pass a gasoline tax, especially with gas prices as high as they are right now.”

Medical marijuana While the state will have to wait to join the likes of 16 other states, as well as Washington, in authorizing the use of medical marijuana, the House passed a bill that would provide more protection to caregivers authorizing the use of the drug under specific circumstances.

The fate of the bill now lies in O’Malley’s hands, who will decide whether to stall the legislation for another year or send it to a special session, meaning lawmakers would vote on the bill in the coming weeks.

Del. Cheryl Glenn (D-Baltimore City) initially introduced the bill as a measure that would enable doctors to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with severe pain and end-of-life ailments. Legislators amended the bill, however, so it now provides caregivers who administer marijuana to such patients with a defense in court to mitigate charges associated with possession of the drug. The House passed the bill 86-41 just minutes before midnight.

Last legislative session, the state successfully passed a bill that lessened such charges by the user of the drug. Sen. Jamie Raskin (D-Montgomery) said this year’s bill expands those protections to the caregiver.

“This year we are extending that affirmative defense in the event of prosecution to a caregiver who would also be able to escape a prosecution on the basis that they were a caregiver for a seriously ill person,” Raskin said.

Lawmakers originally hoped to craft legislation that would set up a program to distribute the drug, but the effort was pulled after O’Malley threatened to veto it, Raskin said.

O’Malley said he feared it would lead to the prosecution of government employees, but Raskin was skeptical of O’Malley’s reasoning.

“We feel this an extremely unlikely threat,” he said.

“There are more than a dozen states that have medical marijuana programs and no state government employees have ever been prosecuted.”

Table games After lawmakers failed to vote on a bill that would enable Prince George’s County to open a venue for table games, O’Malley will have the final say on whether the bill is voted on this year or stalled until next legislative session.

The measure, which was introduced by Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters (D-Prince George’s), would allow the five licensed gambling sites in the state to add games such as craps and black jack to expand their gambling options. Even though part of the bill stipulates it will go to referendum so county residents have the final say, the issue has polarized state and county legislators.

Peters said while he does not support gambling, voters should have a say as to whether their counties should allow such facilities.

“The people need to say whether they want it or not; sometimes our personal feelings need to be set aside for the voice of the people,” he said.

“I’ve always supported referendums regardless of the subject.”

The venue is estimated to generate $48 million through table games and another $21 million in local hotel retail taxes, Peters said. He added that the county executive has pegged the National Harbor as a prime location for a venue that would serve as a “high-end economic development project.”

Opposition to the bill comes from the personal values of some lawmakers, Peters said, as well as officials from other gaming locations who feel the added site would erode their “potential base of revenue.” But because voters have the final say, the bill will not go over the heads of county officials or residents.

“The legislation is silent on the zoning authority of the county council, so the county council can still zone out slots even if the statewide referendum’s passed,” he said. bach@umdbk.com

team of experts, who punctured through the walls and discovered the cause of Kish’s symptoms: black mold.

The inspectors uncovered hazardous amounts of the spores — reports from Gorman Management, which manages the Knox Box apartments, detailed mold counts of 300 outside the apartments and more than 3,000 inside, according to resident Chelsea Kajs.

The conditions prompted Kish and other ailing residents in two other Knox Box apartments on Guilford Drive to book hotel rooms and immediately evacuate.

But Property Manager Gosia Sylla wrote in a March 15 email to Kajs that “levels detected are considered normal fungal ecology,” and insisted the apartment was habitable. Sylla could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Even though several residents filed complaints with Gorman Management, Kish said the company initially refused to acknowledge the dangers of the mold, instead calling it “livable mold,” and declined to show residents evidence of a mold inspection it had promised to perform.

Management eventually responded to resident concerns after Kish’s mother alerted the City of College Park of the mold outbreak, Kish said. Two weeks ago, the city ordered management to remove the mold in 30 days or risk being shut down, according to Kish.

Public Services Director Bob Ryan said he could neither confirm nor deny this order. Kish said she believes management altered the results of the mold inspection.

“When they were doing the [mold test], they set up air purifiers in everybody’s apartment, which would change the results of the test,” Kish said, adding that her symptoms have forced her to miss classes.

“I actually told them that I needed the report for school to show teachers and they were like, ‘No, sorry, we’re not going to give that to you.’”

Kajs said she first noticed

mold spores seeping through her bathroom ceiling in September. Upon returning from winter break in late January, she started falling asleep frequently and found it difficult to concentrate. She decided she would front the $300 cost for a private mold inspector.

“We wanted to make sure we weren’t blowing this out of proportion,” Kajs said.

“When he came in, he said we were at the highest toxic mold level, that it was unsafe to live there and that it had been there for four to five years.

“What they claimed to be safe, our mold inspector said was completely unsafe,” she added.

Although Sylla wrote in a March 15 email to Kish that “test results … showed no presence of black mold,” Kish’s symptoms flared up again when she moved back in eight days later.

“I went inside my apartment and right away, my throat started hurting, my eyes were burning,” she said, adding that a doctor advised her at an April 4 visit to the University Health Center to evacuate her apartment. “The doctor that I saw said, ‘Tell them they need to move you out of that apartment.’”

And while evacuating the apartments may quell the immediate symptoms, Kajs said she worries about the long-term effects the mold may have on her body.

She and Kish both plan to schedule appointments at The Johns Hopkins Hospital to receive diagnostic testing. They both are considering suing Gorman Management.

“They’re going to run a whole bunch of tests on our lungs and our breathing, and if there are [long-term effects], I’m going to be suing our landlord,” Kajs said. “Because they need to be paying for our medical bills.”

Kajs hopes to spread awareness of the hazardous mold she believes could still fester in some Knox Box apartments.

“I honestly would never live there again, and I would not recommend anyone live there until they get a mold test,” Kajs said. “If I knew about the situation, I never would have moved in to begin with.” foley@umdbk.com

CORRECTION Yesterday’s article, “Parents wary of athletics funding,” incorrectly stated John Tynan’s son’s year.

His son is a freshman on the swim team.

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Several students said they noticed discarded cigarette butts littering the campus. Some smokers complained about a lack of conveniently placed ashtrays. CHELSEA DIRECTOR/THE DIAMONDBACK

SMOKING from page 1 smoking urns on the campus, but some student smokers said these urns are difficult to find. Several said the risk of igniting a fire by throwing cigarettes into a trash can made their only option tossing the butts onto the ground.

“I bet you’ll see 100 cigarette butts before you see one ashtray,” freshman letters and sciences major Patrick Markel said. “Even trash cans aren’t conveniently placed.”

University officials said it had been difficult for facilities workers to keep up with the littering problem.

Harr y Teabout, building and landscape ser vices director, said workers will plant urns in areas at least 25 feet from building entrances once officials identify places with serious littering problems.

“If you place ash receptacles close by entrances, you’re inviting smokers to linger,” Assistant Director of Administrative Services Sandra Dykes

said. “The department has employees assigned to keep entrances swept and cleared of this debris, but it is not entirely controllable.”

“It’s as much management’s fault for removing the ashtrays as it is the smokers’ for being careless.”

CHRISTINA HAN SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE MAJOR

While some smoking policies at other colleges, such as Georgetown University, clearly state smokers are held responsible for disposing of their cigarette butts and ashes properly, this university’s smoking policy does not contain any specific guidelines for smokers to deal with their waste.

And the debris may be more than simply an eyesore. According to a 2000 study, cigarette

butts do not decompose for up to 12 years, and when the debris comes into contact with water, toxic chemicals are rapidly released into the ecosystem.

Several students called the littering an embarrassment, saying more should be done to make ashtrays more accessible and hold more smokers accountable.

“Each side — Facilities Management and the student smokers — should do their part,” said senior environmental science major Christina Han. “It’s as much management’s fault for removing the ashtrays as it is the smokers’ for being careless.”

Other students said inconvenience is no excuse for creating an environmental hazard.

“Students need to understand that they pay thousands of dollars to come to this university. This is their home for the next four years,” freshman psychology major Greg Wolf said. “The incentive should come from wanting to keep what is essentially their front lawn clean.” news@umdbk.com

computer studies research associate. “Our application will be able to provide you greater safety by streaming live video to get you from point A to point B and get you home quickly.”

The free app will access the camera on the user’s smartphone so the receiver can see and hear what the user experiences on his or her walk home, Mah said. He added they are developing the app in conjunction with the Office of Information Technology and University Police, although he has not yet secured funding for the virtual escort app.

“There is no dedicated funding for this at present,” he wrote in an email. “It is being developed on shoestrings.”

University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said the app is still in the “idea phase.”

“If people are hesitant to use our services because they have to wait for our officers to come get them, this may be a good option to use,” he said.

Junior psychology major Shana Jones said she is skeptical of the app, noting it would not provide the

same security as a police officer.

“The walking escort is all about numbers, so someone could still come and kill you,” Jones said.

Agrawala and Mah, however, are confident they can create an effective app that will expand on the services of M-Urgency, a similar program they launched earlier this semester. That service connects users directly to 911 dispatchers via video in emergency situations if they are in University Police’s concurrent jurisdiction — which includes the campus and some surrounding areas.

M-Urgency, which is only available to Android users with a directory ID, has been downloaded about 100 times since its launch at the end of January, but no one has used it, Mah said. However, he’s optimistic the number of downloads and uses will increase after police release the iPhone version later this month.

“From our informal survey, it seems that more people have iPhones than Androids, but we’re really trying to get more people to download it,” Mah said.

While the M-Urgency app faced several setbacks in development that pushed its release date back from September to January, Agrawala said researchers have

already worked through most potential technological problems, so they do not expect similar delays. Whether the app will change how many officers are available to escort students home will depend on how the community receives it, Limansky said.

“If it works very well, we may start to minimize the walking escorts we have, but we won’t get rid of officers on the street,” he said. “I think the advantage we’ll see is being able to handle more escorts in a more time-efficient manner.”

Junior biology major Salwa Saif said she felt the app would not help her if she were in a dangerous situation.

“There’s no reaction time with that app,” she said. “They would still have to come and get you if something happened.”

Others said the app seemed beneficial, and they would like researchers to expand the service to other areas, such as Washington.

“I would definitely use something like that, especially because I’ve called services like Nite Ride and it never came,” sophomore government and politics and psychology major Rachel Cavanaugh said. egan@umdbk.com

ON THE BLOG campusdrivedbk.wordpress.com A TASTE OF THE SWEET LIFE Most students by now are familiar with Sweetgreen, the health food restaurant founded in Washington by three college students that recently opened a location on Route 1 under the University View apartment complex. The restaurant attracts students who are sick of not being able to identify any of the ingredients in dining hall food.

(Did anyone see last week’s “chicken parmesan sandwich”? I mean, really).

On April 28, Sweetgreen is presenting its annual event, the Sweetlife Food & Music Festival, which is being called “a party with a purpose.” The event boasts delicious and healthy food, two stages and a combination of headliners that could only be dreamt up after a long night at Cornerstone.

This year, Avicii, Kid Cudi, The Shins, Explosions in the Sky, Fitz and the Tantrums, A$AP Rocky and Fun. will all be gracing Merriweather Post Pavilion’s main stage. The second stage, the Treehouse stage, will showcase less mainstream artists: Twin Shadow, Zola Jesus, Delta Spirit, The Knocks, Rac, U.S. Royalty, Yuna, Haim, LP, Action Bronson, Ben Browning and Bluebrain.

To read more of Becky Kaminsky’s post, visit The Diamondback’s news blog, Campus Drive.

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Getting carded at McKeldin

Important points by Ron Paul

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extbook. Notes. Laptop (with power cord). Energy drink(s). Student icy that all late-night patrons carry their student ID, then students should be able ID card? The checklist for late-night study sessions in McKeldin to bring it along if they want to enjoy the convenience of an after-hours study spot.

But the ultimate reality is this policy is in place to protect students — not to Library is now a bit longer because in September, security staff began actively enforcing a long-standing rule: You must have a valid student test their ability to adhere to obscure policies. If the actual goal is removing nonstudents from the library, officials should be willing to compromise with those ID to remain in the library after 11 p.m.

On one hand, it’s good to see officials taking steps to ensure student safety. who don’t have their student ID. One easy solution has already been mentioned: Have Visitors lacking the proper credentials are asked to leave students log in to their “MyUM” account. If officials are the library, and an escort from the Police Auxiliary concerned about a non-student possessing an actual stuensures the individual complies with the request. Even if there aren’t many hardened criminals perusing the firstInstead of relying only on dent’s login information (which is no more likely than possessing a stolen ID card), security personnel can ask floor periodicals collection, the peace of mind for stustudent ID cards, officials for an alternate form of identification to compare with dents is probably enough to warrant the policy itself — the name listed in the upper-right hand corner of the as the late-night rules state, the “goal is to provide a safe at McKeldin Library MyUM homepage. Another option is to request a stuand quiet study space for our students.” should explore alternative dent’s university ID number, or ask whether the individThe policy also has its downsides, though, because has any other paperwork or identification that can students are being kicked out of the library when they means to let patrons prove ual identify him or her as a university student. Even a drifind themselves sans identification. According to some ver’s license lists a name that can be looked up in the stustudents, even logging into a student account — which their student status. dent directory online. requires a unique username and password — is not Of course, working with students to find a way to let them stay in the library enough to sway officials hell-bent on removing patrons who lack the proper is much less convenient than marching around the first and second floors plastic rectangle.

As this editorial board sees it, that’s a little too far down the police state side demanding identification. Instead of escorting noncompliant patrons to the exit, perhaps the auxiliary should take them to the circulation desk to resolve of the continuum for comfort.

Libraries Dean Patricia Steele says officials are simply responding to con- the situation. That would be enough of an inconvenience that students will cerns about security during late-night study hours, noting, “If there is any way remember their ID card the next time — but not so much as to ruin an already stressful night of studying. After all, the “goal is to provide a safe and quiet to improve student security, we do.”

No complaints there and, to be fair, rules are rules: If the library has a stated pol- study space for our students” — right?

Our View

Editorial cartoon: Nathan Tucker

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n its coverage of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s March 28 rally in Ritchie Coliseum, The Diamondback missed the two most important points Paul had to make, which distinguish him not only from his Republican rivals for the nomination, but also from President Barack Obama.

First, Paul criticized Obama for ordering the assassination of an American citizen. Secondly, he criticized Obama for not vetoing the recent National Defense Authorization Act, which Paul and other opponents say threatens Americans’ right of habeas corpus.

This provision allows for the indefinite incarceration of American citizens by the military without benefit of trial. Also, the constitutionality of the law is made difficult to challenge by the fact these incarcerated American citizens can be sent to foreign lands where standards are such that they may be subject to torture.

JONATHAN MILLER GRADUATE STUDENT GEOGRAPHY

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he word “bromance” may have emerged only recently, but the concept has existed for generations. A bromance, in my own words, is when two male friends publicly — and without shame — display their fondness for each other and together reach an unprecedented level of extreme awesomeness. It just so happens people all of a sudden gave it a label incorporating the words “bro” and “romance” in an attempt to embarrass best friends everywhere for being so close.

But the term doesn’t make true bros blush. The attempt at shame and humor failed, miserably, because mockery is a terrible disguise for jealousy.

And you know who’s jealous of bromances — the ladies.

A bromance encompasses everything women want out of their relationships with men: going out and engaging in sweet activities, finishing each other’s sentences and enjoying each other’s company in a way the opposite sex just can’t match.

It’s not that guys are intentionally put-

SAM SPIEGELMAN ting their bros before their hoes; it’s more of a natural inclination.

Can a bro talk to his girlfriend about sports? I dare you to bring up Kevin Durant’s ridiculous 3-point shooting percentage, or how you think the Manhattan Messiah will fit into the Jets’ offense.

Watch as her face cringes and mind wanders. And then, God forbid, you dial in to a game on TV mid-conversation — you might as well have just cheated on her right before her eyes.

Can a bro take his girlfriend out Vneck shopping? Sure, if he wants to spend an exorbitant amount of time trying on clothes in the fitting room, comparing and contrasting clothes in each store and then being forced to spend the rest of the afternoon/early evening

nearby as she shifts the focus to a new handbag and shoes.

Can a bro watch romantic comedies with his girlfriend? Warning: If you do, keep the remote nearby. Watching a romcom with a chick is like getting that extra commentary feature on the DVD, except the insight you’re hearing is like a sharp, mind-gutting pain in your ear. And when you pause the flick to let her speak, she’s oblivious as to why.

Now take all of those awesome, fun and extremely personal festivities and replace your girlfriend with your bro — it’s like hearing they’re making a sequel to Anchorman.

When you talk sports with your bro, you’re free to tune in and tune out at your own leisure. Drown ‘em out and jump back in whenever you feel like it — he won’t take it personally, he’ll return the favor. And in the end, you’ve both made your points and can move on.

Shopping with your bro allows you to finally enjoy that one-stop, express-version of buying clothes that only Internet shopping can provide. Except now you

have your bro/wingman beside you when you spot a beautiful babe, and you’ll be dressed fresh.

And when you watch romcoms with your bro, it’s an unspoken rule to remain unspoken. Laugh, cry, fart, burp — that’s all good — but there is never a need to interject with your emotional state or when a scene reminds you of a previous hookup.

Some of the classic bromances are J.D. and Turk from Scrubs, House and Wilson from House and The Hills’ Brody Jenner and Co. But every bro needs a bromance.

Speaking personally, I have five. And I make sure that (at least) once a week I dedicate a day of bro-tivities to them.

For example, a brunch chock-full of endless mimosas, an afternoon of Ryan Gosling movies and an abundance of girlish giggles — it’s not only awesome; it’s bromantic.

Sam Spiegelman is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at spiegelman@umdbk.com.

The monolith that isn’t women

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n a recent White House forum on women’s issues, President Barack Obama said, “There’s been a lot of talk about women and women’s issues lately, as there should be, but I do think that the conversation has been oversimplified.”

The president went on to assert that women are not a “monolithic bloc” or an “interest group.”

The president’s investment in handling women’s issues by not approaching women as a voting bloc, ironically, consolidates women into a group that he is no doubt jockeying to woo in the upcoming election. His approach seems to be working. In a Pew Research Center poll, Obama is leading Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney by a 20-point margin among female voters (58 percent to 38 percent).

Although Obama’s rhetoric doesn’t express anything any socially conscious person wouldn’t already believe (women aren’t all the same — really?), over the past few months, his competitors have tried to divest women of their reproductive rights.

You may remember the Susan G. Komen for the Cure controversy in

which the breast cancer awareness and prevention group planned to defund 19 of Planned Parenthood’s 83 affiliates around the country in what some people, including Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, saw as capitulation to antiabortion pressures.

You might also remember Rush Limbaugh’s vitriolic — and illogically conceived — attacks on Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student who testified in front of Congress about the outrageous cost of contraception and the fact that her school’s health insurance plan didn’t fund contraception. Fluke claimed that as a result, women on her campus were paying about $1,000 a year for contraception.

Her testimony prompted Limbaugh to call her a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

You might also remember when the U.S. Senate was debating the Blunt amendment, a measure slipped into a highway funding bill that would allow employers and health insurance companies to deny women coverage for contraceptives.

After an enormous outcry from women around the country, Susan G. Komen did eventually refund Planned

MICHAEL CASIANO Parenthood. The Blunt amendment was also killed — just barely — in the Senate by a 51-to-48 vote. Perhaps the victories are a sign women’s rights are doing swell. However, as Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) was quoted as saying in a March 1 New York Times article, these attacks on women’s health are part of “a systematic war against women.”

It might sound radical, but it isn’t that far from the truth. In those three instances impinging on women’s rights, the pundits, politicos and politicians were caught slipping. They lost touch with the identity politics that make their subdued hatred so successful. Limbaugh’s attacks on Fluke were too honest. In a “post-gender” society, you never say “slut” — you imply it. If Fluke’s character were successfully compromised, she would have been thrown right off of Capitol Hill.

Remember Anita Hill?

Perhaps the most detrimental systemic inequity present in these measures to limit women’s access to contraceptives and the right to have abortions is a historic masculine claim to ownership over the female body.

Angela Y. Davis wrote in her book, Are Prisons Obsolete?, that, under English common law, “marriage resulted in a state of ‘civil death.’” Women’s bodies were relegated to confined domestic spaces. Their bodies were unique in that they could produce children.

Sustaining masculine control over women’s reproductive faculties relies on perpetuating negative images — the “slut” or the “jezebel.” Narratives of “decency” and “respectability” exclude “sluts” (i.e. women who engage in sexually liberating activities harmful to the male ego) from being considered respectable. What we need is a new discourse that accounts for the complexities of women and allows them to exercise sexual agency without reproach.

Michael Casiano is a senior American studies and English major. He can be reached at casiano@umdbk.com.

love Jimmy John’s. It’s a fantastic solution to my latenight food cravings, and there’s a lot of wisdom to be found on the signs lining the walls of the establishment. There is one sign in particular that I wish my generation paid more attention to.

It reads: “I believe that credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.”

Some of us think the world owes us something. We’re attending a selective, nationally recognized university in one of the wealthiest states in America, mere miles outside the most powerful city in the world. We (or our parents) have paid tens of thousands of dollars to earn a piece of paper pronouncing our competence in a designated field of study. And somewhere along the line, a mentor probably told us we can do or be whatever we want as long as we want it badly enough.

So we deserve a well-paying job of our choosing and a nice car to go with it, right?

Wrong. “Humility,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.”

I’m not suggesting we shouldn’t be proud of our accomplishments. I’m suggesting we be more realistic about how important they are compared to other things.

Humility isn’t as sexy as the celebrities we worship. Humility is, however, key to discovering how you can add value to the world, even if it means taking a job others don’t think is so glamorous. It means not being dependent on your friends, your boss or your bank statement to validate your success. Most importantly, it means being free to experience the joy of helping others without the weight of expecting something in return.

So eat more subs — and some humble pie every so often, too.

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M. Ward — the moniker of Oregonian folk-Americana revivalist Matthew Ward — has his toes dipped in quite a few musical projects. From his work as one half of throwback pop duo She & Him — with actress and singer Zooey Deschanel — to his place in supergroup Monsters of Folk, Ward has still managed to find time for a seventh solo record.

“Watch the Show,” a Calexico-style But what’s the point?

There’s absolutely nothing southwestern cowboy croon about a wrong with making another record television producer hijacking his staof folk and 1950s pop tunes, but at a tion because he’s unhappy with how certain point any discerning listener his life turned out.

In other places, such as the cover has to ask himself when a lot becomes too much. A Wasteland of Daniel Johnston’s “Sweetheart,” Companion, for all its buzzy, finger- bits of She & Him’s early 1960s pop plucked guitars and throaty vocals style breaks through as well, but whispered through ’50s slap-back these are merely small inflections within A Wasteland reverbs, is just one Companion’s greater record too far — it’s VERDICT: overall tonal theme.

Ward doing what M. Ward’s seventh solo Aside from the few he always does, and record is a solid release, bright spots, the album it’s nothing special. but its similarity to his begs the one question Granted, fans of previous work makes the most artists would Ward are likely entire affair feel stale. rather their audiences ecstatic about never ask: Is there any receiving another extension of the singer-song- good reason to keep listening?

Ward’s last solo LP, 2009’s Hold writer’s catalogue, and not without good reason. A Waste- Time, sounds nearly identical to land Companion is a solid the new release. It’s easy to say album of songs in Ward’s sig- Ward’s musical predictability is a nature style, washed over in virtue — listening through the just a bit more atmospheric breadth of his work, you aren’t likely to find too many dips in production than usual.

There are fantastic songs here quality — but an artist who and there, such as ethereal repeatedly releases the same kind opener “Clean Slate,” and the fan- of record is, in a sense, wasting tastically depressing the audience’s time.

Even after several listens, A Wasteland Companion never feels like an album that needs to be returned to. On the other hand, fans of this kind of music, or of She & Him, who have never listened to an M. Ward record will probably enjoy A Wasteland Companion immensely, especially given its strong production value.

However, for anyone who casually listens to Ward’s music, A Wasteland Companion simply isn’t worth the 36 minutes it takes to sit through.

Ward’s fans can call it revivalism, but perhaps we’ve heard it just a few too many times before. berman@umdbk.com

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For White Denim, a four-piece garage rock band from Austin, the past year has been a whirlwind period of exciting progression.

This career-defining mean streak began with the release of D, its fourth record, to critical acclaim, which led to opening slots for tours with both Manchester Orchestra and Wilco, as well as a live release taped at Jack White’s Third Man Records. This was all while picking up a fourth member, guitarist Austin Jenkins, to help tighten up the group’s once-rambunctious, now refined sound.

“We’re used to playing 500 capacity rooms,” bassist Steve Terebecki said, discussing his band’s live experiences prior to its opening stints with indie rock royalty. “But now we’re playing 2,500 [capacity venues] and up, so it feels like a big thing.”

For the first proper time since post-D fame, the band will get to harness its own rip-roaring live capabilities with a headlining tour, which stops in Washington tonight at the Rock N Roll Hotel.

“We’ve been working on a lot of new

material,” he said. “We’re going to be testing some waters with that, [and] we might play longer sets.”

Yet devoted fans need not worry about any drastic changes to the band’s hallmark live mantra of stringing together songs for extended, riffheavy jams.

“We’re still going to play big chunks of big medleys where we link three, four, five songs together,” Terebecki said. “[We’ll] play like 30 minute chunks of music, but we’ve been doing that for a while.”

White Denim has no detailed plans to record a follow-up to D, but being on the road does not mean being out of a creative mindset.

“We’re constantly demoing and working on new stuff,” Terebecki said.

“It’s going to be a busy year with touring, but when we have time we’re going to try and get in the studio, and we’re actually bringing studio gear on the road with us.”

Whether or not the band will be toying with new songs in the van, the real show will be on the stage where White Denim unleashes its rock ‘n’ roll ruckus.

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PARKER from page 1

faceoff X. The freshman has taken draws in each of the past five games, and is 16-for-34 on the year.

Yet Tillman has been careful to make sure his top faceoff specialist didn’t perceive the lightened workload as distrust.

Holmes, after all, is a former All-American. He played a critical role in the Terps’ run to the national title game last season.

And for the team to achieve similar heights this season, Tillman understands Holmes will need to put his recent struggles in the past.

“Hey, Curt, you’re the same guy,” he recalled telling Holmes during their pregame chat. “‘You know it’s in there.”

Holmes proved it Friday.

Now he needs to show he can do it against the nation’s best.

While Navy has won just 42.4 percent of its faceoffs this year, Saturday’s opponent — No. 3 Johns Hopkins — will likely present the Terps with a much stiffer test.

“Today was big for Curt coming into next week and the rest of the year,” attackman Joe Cummings said. “I’m really excited to see what Curt’s going to do the rest of the season.”

the 2010 class. Parker was ranked higher than guards Terrell Stoglin and Pe’Shon Howard across all major recruiting services, but he couldn’t find a role under former coach Gary Williams in his freshman season.

“Sitting on the bench last year was very frustrating,” Parker said at the beginning of his sophomore season. “I’ve never sat on the bench in my life. To sit on the bench all year was hurtful. I used that as motivation.”

With ample playing time available this season, Parker hoped to return to his high-school form, when he was a four-star prospect.

And as one of just seven regularly healthy scholarship players, Parker had his moments, playing tough defense during some stretches and throwing down several highlight-reel dunks.

But with freshman guard Nick Faust emerging as a go-to threat at the end of the season and Turgeon set to welcome another player at his position next year — 6-foot-8 swingman recruit Jake Layman — Parker’s minutes were likely to be slashed next year.

“We appreciate the effort and commitment Mychal made to our success and our program this season,” Turgeon said in a statement.

“We certainly wish him well as he continues his academic and athletic pursuits.”

Parker first announced his decision to leave the program yesterday on TheRecruitScoop.com. In a 545-word statement, the forward said he’d recently met with Turgeon, who advised him to look into other options for next season.

“I am never the person to back away from a challenge and would never be scared to compete for a spot,” Parker wrote. “I honestly believe I would have thrived under those circumstances. Unfortunately, after many sleepless and prayerful nights, I came to the realization that it may be in my best interest to continue my education and career at another institution.”

He later thanked the Terps’ fanbase for its support and emphasized he still has a dream to play professionally after he finishes his collegiate career elsewhere.

Parker said East Carolina, located 15 minutes from his hometown, has shown the strongest interest. Alabama-Birmingham, where former Terps assistant coach Rob Ehsan is now an assistant, and Loyola (Md.) are also possibilities.

“Coming from a very poor and rural town in Eastern North Carolina, it was an amazing blessing for Maryland to give me such a tremendous opportunity,” Parker wrote, “and I am forever indebted.”

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After ranking No. 7 in the country in faceoff win percentage last season, midfielder Curtis Holmes’ numbers have dropped off so far this year. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

HOLMES from page 8 gone 32-for-74 (43.2 percent) in a six-game stretch before Friday’s outburst. His faceoff issues had put the pressure on an inexperienced Terps defense, and the team dropped three of those six games.

Much of Holmes’ trouble winning draws could’ve been a byproduct of an ailing back.

After Friday’s game, Holmes said he hasn’t felt in top form for most of the season, and that he recently underwent MRIs and X-rays to pinpoint his injuries.

While he declined to elaborate further, Tillman said Holmes has been experiencing back pains — among other issues — that have impacted his form on faceoffs. Even after his stellar performance against Navy, Holmes conceded he was only at about “80 percent.”

“I mean, it’s been tough,” Holmes said. “But I think [the doctors] helped a lot because we were able to game plan and come together and figure out a way to get me healthy as soon as possible.”

Tillman said Holmes’ health concerns played a role in his decision to let midfielder Charlie Raffa see some time at the

REED from page 8 start like he had nine oneinning save opportunities and that he was still our closer, and he was going to close every inning for us,” Bakich said Sunday. “He didn’t do it nine times,

Sophomore guard Mychal Parker, who struggled for two seasons under coaches Gary Williams and Mark Turgeon, announced yesterday that he was transferring from the team. A once-highly touted wing prospect in Williams’ final recruiting class, Parker averaged 4.7 points and 3.0 rebounds for the Terps in his second year in College Park, playing about 18 minutes per game. Parker, a native of Washington, N.C., said East Carolina has shown the most interest in recruiting him, but AlabamaBirmingham, where former Terps assistant Rob Eshan coaches, and Loyola (Md.) are also possible destinations.

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but he did it eight times. That was a clutch performance. That was a huge tone-setter for us to get on top on Friday night, set the tone like that. That’s what we needed.”

The strategy worked. As he cycled through the N.C. State lineup time and again, Wolfpack hitters couldn’t seem to

pick up on his stuff. Reed said he didn’t change his approach at all, even as he neared the end of his 106-pitch outing.

“I don’t think I tried to pace myself,” Reed said. “I just took it pitch by pitch, inning by inning.

That’s what you’ve got to do: focus on what you’re doing.”

It was yet another big outing for Reed, who has grown accustomed to the late-inning spotlight this year. He pitched the final innings of the Terps’ two wins in their season-opening series over then-No. 14 UCLA and earned five saves during the Terps’ 11-1 start.

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Despite the seemingly sudden insertion of Reed into the starting rotation — Bakich never let on that something was amiss last week until the release of the weekend’s starters — the move had been in the works for a while.

Reed said he started in a scrimmage before the season began and pitched five innings.

Before Friday’s start, Reed had 13 relief appearances, but had seen his appearances extend in length. In Game 2 of the Terps’ series at Boston College, he pitched 4.1 innings before surrendering the winning run in the

12th. He also pitched three innings of relief in the Terps’ 6-4 win at Miami on March 25.

“I think [the coaching staff] knew I could do it,” Reed said.

“I think getting the four innings or whatever against Boston College definitely helped their confidence.”

Moving Reed to the starting rotation, however, does leave a hole in the back of the bullpen.

For most of the season, righthanders Charlie Haslup and Michael Boyden have appeared in middle relief before giving way to Korey Wacker, who usually set up for Reed.

On Sunday, Wacker allowed N.C. State to score three runs in the ninth to tie the game and send it to extra innings. Afterward, Bakich said he thought Wacker’s struggles were simply due to fatigue. The left-hander closed Friday night, warmed up in between innings on Saturday and pitched more than an inning on Sunday.

“I think that was just a fluke,” Bakich said. “I have all the confidence in the world in Korey, and he’s another guy you trust when the game’s on the line.

You know he’s going to give you his best effort and he’s going to compete his ass off.”

Still, Bakich said he thinks Reed’s future lies somewhere in the starting rotation, something Reed welcomes.

“Every pitcher’s dream is to be a starter on the team,” Reed said. “I tried to treat it like every other outing, whether I’m closing or coming in middle relief or starting. It’s all the same. You’ve got to treat it like it’s the same.” dgallen@umdbk.com

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Injured, but not ineffective

Reed’s win could have big impact

After struggling somewhat with back troubles, Terps’ Holmes again thriving at faceoff X

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Senior staff writer

Moments before the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s win over Navy on Friday, coach John Tillman pulled his faceoff specialist aside for a quick pep talk.

“You’re going to have your best game of the year,” he told midfielder Curtis Holmes. “You’re going to play well.”

Tillman was trying to restore some confidence in Holmes, who has struggled to live up to expectations after ranking seventh in Division I last year with a 62.6 faceoff percentage. Entering Friday’s 13-6 rout of the Midshipmen, Holmes had won just 50 percent (66-for132) of his draws this season. He’d been hampered by several nagging injuries and was growing increasingly frustrated.

All of that changed Friday.

The junior went 15-for-20 at the faceoff X against Navy, including an impressive 12-0 run spanning from the first to third quarters.

The dominating performance proved key in snapping the No. 10 Terps’ first losing streak in two seasons under Tillman. With Holmes consistently gaining possession, the Terps took a season-high 52 shots.

It was their most attempts since an early-season win against Bellarmine last year and their highest total against Navy since at least 1986.

“We were getting good possessions, good looks,” midfielder Kevin Cooper said.

That hasn’t been the case for much of the season, a reality largely due to Holmes’ struggles.

The Marriotsville native had

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Pitching staff in flux after Friday

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

Midfielder Curtis Holmes battles for a faceoff draw against North Carolina on March 24. Despite an injured back on Friday, Holmes won 75 percent of his faceoffs in the Terps’ 13-6 victory over Navy. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

FINDING HIS WAY HOLMES: FACEOFF SPECIALIST IMPROVING LATELY March 17 vs. Villanova

March 24 vs. UNC

March 31 vs. Virginia

April 6 vs. Navy

5-for-14

7-for-13

5-for-8

15-for-20

It was obvious the Terrapins baseball team needed a change.

Four weeks into the ACC schedule, the Terps were 3-9 in the conference after dropping two of three at Boston College, a team they were tied with for last in the conference’s Atlantic Division.

On the bus ride home from Chestnut Hill, Mass., coach Erik Bakich conferred with his staff. Adjustments needed to be made. Last Monday, they came to a decision: Closer Jimmy Reed would move to the starting rotation against N.C. State.

It was a move Bakich hoped would jump-start the Terps as they approached the halfway mark of ACC play. It was also a move that could certainly imperil the team’s bullpen — Reed had been the staff’s shutdown closer all season, totaling seven saves and a 0.48 ERA entering the weekend.

In the end, the move paid off.

Reed pitched eight shutout innings, allowing just five N.C. State batters on base while striking out eight to lead the Terps to their first win in an ACC series opener this year.

“We approached Jimmy’s

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