April 10, 2014

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T H U R S DAY, A P R I L 10 , 2 01 4 UNIVERSITY DATA BREACH

Former contractor: Data breach was preventable Ex-Canton Group employee says his warnings were ignored in leadup to massive Feb. breach

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer The massive data breach in February that allowed the personal information of nearly 300,000 people to be copied from university databases could have been avoided if proper preventative

measures had been taken, according to a contractor formerly assigned to run tests on this university’s websites.

Ex-university contractor David Helkowski said he and his coworkers discovered weaknesses in university systems months before the Feb. 18 data breach while working on a data project for the public health school.

In November, the 32-year-old stumbled across several shell scripts planted in the system, some dating as far back as 2011, he said. These scripts have file manipulation capabilities and “can do things to the system you’re not supposed to do,” he said.

“It’s basically a back door to the system,” Helkowski said, during an interview Tuesday in White Marsh.

Neither the university nor law enforcement officials have publicly stated how the databases were ac-

cessed in the Feb. 18 cyberattack.

Helkowski’s employer at the time, Baltimore-based information technology consulting firm The Canton Group, did not pass the information in the shell scripts or any other faults along to the university until Feb. 27, he said, more than a week after an unknown attacker copied almost 300,000 faculty, staff and student records dating back to 1992. Brian Ullmann, university assistant vice president of marketing and commu-

nications, confirmed the university had not received any reports of system faults at any time before this date.

Kelly Price, vice president of operations at The Canton Group, would not comment on questions regarding when the company received information of system weaknesses or if it withheld information from the university.

“The Canton Group has and will continue to cooperate and work with See data, Page 3

Academy reflects on first year College Park charter school plans expansion

By Eleanor Mueller @thedbk Staff writer

alcohol drinking challenges commonly called Neknominate have been played at this university. The trend, started in Australia, has been attributed to at least five men’s deaths worldwide. sung-min kim/the diamondback

DARED TO DRINK Neknominate participants try to do or drink more than challengers in viral video trend

By Teddy Amenabar @TeddyAmen Senior staff writer EDITOR’S NOTE: Some students’ identifying information has been withheld because they discuss underage drinking.

He shotgunned one Natural Light before throwing back four shots of Pearl Citrus Vodka. Next, he emptied one more beer into a funnel, tossed in a fifth shot of vodka and downed the concoction.

In an on-campus apartment one

Thursday night, Richard, a sophomore at this university, finished the mixture in less than 30 seconds while four friends watched the feat.

It wasn’t until after he finished the challenge that they discovered the friend videotaping accidentally ruined the recording.

So Richard drank it again.

The videos were a response to a challenge called a Neknomination from a high school friend at Loyola University Maryland. Neknominate is an international viral video phenomenon, though Richard said he didn’t know there was a name.

The rules are simple: The nominee must outdo or drink more than the challenger within 24 hours of being nominated and post a video.

At least five men have died from attempting Neknominate challenges, according to news reports.

Google Trends data show that the phenomenon began in Australia in January before spreading to the United Kingdom, Canada and parts of the United States. Searches for the game peaked in late February.

About 33,000 videos on YouTube include the keyword, and these statistics ignore the nominations that

don’t include the game’s primary title or are posted elsewhere.

University Police Chief David Mitchell said all drinking games come down to one thing: superficial “bragging rights.”

“Set aside legality and so forth,” Mitchell said. “What we are talking about here is risk to human life — if not death, substantial impairment, substantial brain damage.”

In most videos, people aren’t taking “30 shots,” Richard said.

Although it’s unfortunate people See challenge, Page 2

Pulitzer winner Dana Priest takes on journalism chair Professorship to focus on national security

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Staff writer Investigative reporter Dana Priest will become the journalism college’s next John S. and James L. Knight Chair for Public Affairs Journalism, focusing on issues of national security.

Priest has worked at The Washington Post for almost 30 years, winning two Pulitzer Prizes for her work in security journalism. She has covered the Pentagon and the CIA, and she spent time overseas reporting in Iraq. Her stories uncovered

the CIA’s secret prisons, the mistreatment of veterans at the Walter Reed Medical Center and several other groundbreaking reports.

“Dana understands how all of the agencies work; she has a reputation for accuracy and fairness,” journalism college Dean Lucy Dalglish said.

“She has a vision for creative ways to teach national security and public affairs journalism.”

In her new position, Priest will teach courses focused on national security and global public affairs. In the fall, she plans to lead a class on imprisoned journalists overseas. Students will research and profile a journalist, which Priest hopes will teach them about relations between the U.S. and other countries, how national security

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agencies operate and how press freedoms differ around the world.

“I love the energy of students,” Priest said. “I am really looking forward to helping them figure out how to be important, consequential journalists, to do work that matters and changes things in the world.”

In addition to teaching, she plans to work with two students each semester on a long-term investigative project to be published in The Washington Post.

Priest said she made the switch from reporter to educator to help train the next generation of journalists.

“The media landscape is complete chaos, and we as a country are losing sight of what’s important,” Priest said. dana priest will teach about national security reporting as the Knight Chair for Public Affairs See priest, Page 3 Journalism. photo courtesy of the journalism college

As the weather warms, College Park Academy’s first year as the largest charter school of its kind comes to an end.

The academy, which opened Aug. 19, offers sixth- and seventh-graders the chance to earn college credits in a unique learning environment.

With about 300 students enrolled, the school will expand to include eighth grade in the fall with hopes to include an additional grade each year until it reaches 700 students.

In the academy’s first year, students and employees worked to overcome the cultural mindset of a typical classroom, said Denise Mitchell, District 4 city councilwoman and vice chairwoman of the College Park Academy board.

Students use nontraditional study methods such as taking online courses and having online teachers and success coaches, Mitchell said, See academy, Page 3

City supports intercity bus route proposal Buses could link area with Wilmington, Del.

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer The College Park City Council approved a letter April 1 supporting a plan for Greyhound Lines Inc. to run daily busing services from College Park to Washington, Wilmington, Del., and major cities across this state.

Greyhou nd fi led a n appl ication with the state Department of Transportation earlier this year, requesting funding for intercity bus services to and from Washington, Baltimore and Wilmington via this city, Aberdeen, Edgewood, Elkton, Havre de Grace, Laurel, North East and White Marsh Station.

Randy Isaacs, Greyhound state government affairs representative, wrote an email to the City Council requesting support for the application. The council granted support

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THE DIAMONDBACK | NEWS | THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014

‘The invisible woman’ Civil rights activist Charlayne Hunter-Gault shares integration experience

By Elena Baurkot @thedbk For The Diamondback F i f t y ye a rs a f te r P re s id e nt Ly ndon B. Joh nson sig ned the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination based on qualities such as race, skin color and gender, President Obama will deliver an address in Austin, Texas, today to commemorate the anniversary.

This university also recognized the passing of the legislation with a lecture by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author, award-winning journalist and civil rights activist. She spoke last night to more than 100 people about her experiences during the civil rights movement at the David C. Driskell Center in Cole Field House.

The center invited Hunter-Gault as part of an annual series, “Distinguished Lecture in the Visual Arts in Honor of David C. Driskell,” which aims to educate attendees about the achievements of black people, said Dorit Yaron, the center’s deputy director.

challenge From PAGE 1 died in attempting these videos, he said, he wouldn’t be surprised if those deaths were related to actions other than drinking alcohol.

“People are a little too uptight nowadays,” Richard said. “Most [of] the time, people are just chugging half a cup of alcohol.”

Richard said he first saw friends at the University of British Columbia post drinking videos on Facebook. He eventually was nominated after someone who wasn’t

In 1961, Professor emeritus David C. Driskell stared at a black-andwhite television screen, watching Hunter-Gault and fellow student Hamilton Holmes walk through a crowd of protesters to register for classes as the University of Georgia’s first black students. The two were denied admission from the university several times and eventually were able to enroll after a U.S. District Court judge ruled they were qualified to attend nearly a year and a half later.

“She a nd H a m i lton Hol mes walked with grace and dignity, and they integrated the University of Georgia,” Driskell said in an introductory speech. “And they made it a different place, and it’s been a different place ever since.”

In Hunter-Gault’s lecture, “From the Jim Crow South to the Horizons: A Journalist’s Journey,” she discussed her experiences as a part of the civil rights movement, from being the first black woman to enroll in the University of Georgia to working as a journalist in Johannesburg.

After graduating third in her high

drinking because of antibiotics deferred a nomination to him in a video’s comments.

The challenges weren’t about pressuring friends into drinking, Richard said. He nominated only friends he thought would be up for the challenge. It didn’t matter to him that all of them declined the challenge.

“We’d maybe make a joke about it, but it isn’t serious,” he said.

There’s no sense in drinking excessively, Mitchell said, because it puts the lives of those drinking and others in danger.

“You have to ask yourself, ‘Is it really worth it?’” he said.

When a friend nominated

school class, she and Holmes visited Georgia State.

“We looked at Georgia State’s curriculum and said, ‘This ain’t good enough,’” Hunter-Gault said.

They wanted to go to the University of Georgia instead, which worried people because they couldn’t provide the pair as much protection there. On Jan. 9, 1961, they registered for their first semester of classes.

On Hunter-Gault’s third day at that university, students rioted outside her dorm. Chants of “two-four-six-eight, we don’t want to integrate” filled the air, she said, and one student threw a rock through her window.

“About three weeks later, most students hadn’t spoken to me. The professor hadn’t spoken to me,” she said. “I was the invisible woman.”

She received an A-plus on her first paper — about a piece of artwork she admired — and several students asked to see it after. She said she considered art a “door-opener” and “game-changer” in her life after this experience.

While working as a journalist in South Africa, Hunter-Gault said, she “saw up close the scars that apartheids agents had wrought on so many people.”

When Nelson Mandela was freed, Hunter-Gault wanted to immediately go see him. But her co-worker was hes-

Richard for the drinking challenge, Richard said he never worried about putting his life at risk.

“By no means was I pushing my limits,” he said. “I know what I was doing.”

After taping the nomination twice, Richard said he went out to dinner with his family.

T he O f f ice of Student Conduct has not had any referrals from these viral videos, Student Conduct Coordinator Vanessa Taft said. But officials could respond to videos they’re referred to with a range of penalties.

Occasionally, officials see

CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT speaks to more than 100 people about civil rights. kelsey hughes/the diamondback itant because it was very expensive, and they couldn’t guarantee an interview with him. Indignant, she said, “If anyone can get an interview with Nelson Mandela, I can,” and she did.

Hunter-Gault ended her lecture with two lessons she learned from h igh school students she once interviewed.

The first student told her: “Everybody to somebody is ugly, and that racism will always be with us.”

The second student’s aunt was part of the civil rights movement. The student told Hunter-Gault she was shocked by her aunt’s struggle; before, the student didn’t realize how big the movement was. Many of her high school friends, the student said, didn’t know about the history or didn’t seem to care because it happened so long ago.

“I wanted to understand and share

concerns regarding underage drinking on social media, but those tend to be in conjunction with a separate referral, Taft said.

“Anything that you put out there can certainly be viewed, no matter how private you think it is,” Taft said.

Amy Martin, Department of Resident Life assistant director, said the department discourages resident assistants from looking for policy violations on social media because it is difficult to “assume” a video or photo shows alcohol. Instead, Martin said she hopes resident assistants will remind students about the dangers of posting

that history with others so we can all understand where we came from to keep us from going back,” the second student told Hunter-Gault.

Rachelle Browne said she was captivated by the lecture.

“I appreciated that she gave us such a broad overview of her entire life,” Browne said. “It made it very engaging. At times I thought I was with her in that dorm room.”

For Adanna Paul, Hunter-Gault gave her insight into the past.

“When she was just talking about what she went through when she was in college, that wasn’t that long ago, and it was surprising to know that that happened just so recently, it really brought into perspective to me that wasn’t so long ago,” Paul said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

content on social media.

A few hours after posting his first video, Richard said family members told him to remove the post so future employers wouldn’t see it. When he posted the second video, he changed the settings so his family couldn’t see it but took it down after a little more than a day.

When Matt Myers, a sophomore mechanical engineering major, was nominated for the challenge, he declined. His friend who attends the University of Southern California sent the nomination in a video group message rather than posting it on a social network.

Myers said he understands

students might want to have the freedom to post anything they want on social media without fear of being reprimanded by future employers, but nothing is stopping employers from checking personal information on social media.

“In a way, it is kind of unfortunate,” he said.

Someone can do a nomination without posting it on Facebook, Myers said, calling into question why anyone would post the video on social media in the first place.

“There’s a risk, and it’s not worth taking,” he said. tamenabardbk@gmail.com

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“If approved by DOT/ MTA, our plan would provide access to daily scheduled Greyhound service to your constituents,” Isaacs wrote.

“It would also provide access to the statewide and nationwide intercity bus networks operated by Greyhound and its interline partners.”

The application awaits consideration from the state transportation department, officials said.

Sophomore physiology and neurobiology major Saj Soltanmohammadi said he liked the idea of daily bus services to other cities. He said it could be especially helpful for commuters.

F re sh m a n e c onomics major Nasreen BatenTschan agreed.

“Maryland students come from a broad range of areas, as well as traveling to places for extracurricular activities,” Baten-Tschan said.

“Having Greyhound buses available would encourage students to branch out in terms of activities, as well as expand the Maryland community.”

Funding for the project would be secured through a Federal Transit Administration program that provides funding for public transportation in areas with populations less than 50,000. The state allows applications for competitive bids for funding every two years.

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“We believe this extension will increase ridership further, and it will add new stops like the one proposed for College Park,” Isaacs wrote.

Junior cell biology and genetics major Amin Hadavand said the buses could be useful for college students who do not have access to personal cars or struggle to pay for gas.

“Public transportation is very limited when it comes to traveling long distances within Maryland,” Hadavand said.

Junior Hedyeh Javaheri said the university’s Shady Grove bus is a l ready so popular among students that buses to other cities around the state would likely be popular too.

“Greyhound buses to other areas in Maryland would be awesome,” said Javaheri, a biology major. “A bus to Baltimore in particular would be phenomenal since the Metro doesn’t go there, and not everyone can drive or is willing to drive that far.”

District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn said the service would benefit students attending this university. He sa id he used to t a k e t h e G re yh o u n d bus home when he was a student at the University of Wisconsin.

“Offering more options for students who don’t want to or are unable to drive to school from their homes — providing a regional service like this — is especially beneficially for students,” Wojahn said.

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After a Feb. 27 teleconference between The Canton Group and the university, Helkowski said, he continued to test the university systems at home. To hide his identity, he used IP addresses from locations such as Sweden, Switzerland and Hong Kong.

“If I had actually gone on and used what I call malicious exploits, which are things used to damage a system, I could have gained full-fledged access to their systems, potentially to their entire network,” he said.

Helkowski then called University Police to clear his name, explaining he had more information on the data breach and could help. He said he did not receive a call back.

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“There’s a lot of adjustment involved,” said Gayatri Varma, parent of a College Park Academy student and this university’s Executive Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization. “It’s a completely different school format, which means a learning process for the parents, the students, the administrators and the teachers.”

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ceived a call from Helkowski, because the investigation is active and ongoing.

On the evening of March 14, Helkowski said he posted university President Wallace Loh’s cell phone number and Social Security Number to Reddit because he felt ignored by the university. University officials said they were unable to confirm that the senior university official whose information was made public was indeed Loh. The morning of March 15, Helkowski said, he contacted members of the President’s Task Force on Cybersecurity, providing them a link to the Reddit page, which has since been removed. According to an affidavit by FBI special agent Jeremy Bucalo made public on Tuesday in the Baltimore City Paper, Helkowski’s initial email to the task force asked for legal amnesty in return for his systems expertise — terms to which Helkowski said the task force had agreed.

“If you want to cooperate I would be willing to provide details … but I would want some assurance (in legal writing) that I will not be charged with any

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“I would like to do my small part to keep us on track and to help train a generation of reporters that will dig deep and find the most important stories.”

Priest’s work at this university will mark the beginning of a push for security journalism expertise in the journalism school. Dalglish said college officials hope to

David helkowski, 32, said he found flaws in university systems before the data breach.

Helkowski posted his account of events this week on Reddit. joe antoshak/for the diamondback crimes. If not, consider this your fair warning and last contact from me,” Helkowski allegedly wrote from alias “The PPM” to the task force on March 15, according to the affidavit.

Task force members did respond, Helkowski said, but when he outlined all of the system’s weaknesses in a PDF file that he sent them the next day, communication ceased.

Attempts to contact various task force members to confirm or deny these events were met with no comment.

On the evening of March 16, the FBI raided Helkowski’s Parkville home and confiscated thousands of dollars worth of equipment, according to the documents.

“About 15 percent of our students come from private schools or homeschooling, so it’s been very successful in attracting students back into the public schools,” Rosapepe said. “Eighty-seven percent of our kids are taking classes above their grade level.”

Mitchell pointed to a growing “culture” within the academy bridging different demographic backgrounds among students as evidence of the school’s success this year.

With successes come challenges, though, and the academy is now facing space constrictions, Rosapepe said. The incoming fall class had nine applicants for each available spot.

“Most of the people who would like to send their kids to College Park Academy can’t,” Rosapepe said. “The university offered early on to open up additional campuses elsewhere in the county, and

open a Center for National Security Journalism in the next two years. The center would conduct research projects and hold conferences to “convene the world’s leading experts on this topic and make them available to our students and faculty,” she said.

T he K night Foundation created Knight chairs in 1990, giving money to 22 journalism schools across the country for distinguished positions that allow professional journalists to work as professors.

“I don’t believe that anything I did was malicious,” Helkowski said in the interview. “Frankly, I don’t view myself as guilty of anything.

In other words, I view myself as a person trying to help. I didn’t do anything bad to them.”

On Monday, Helkowski opened an Ask Me Anything post on Reddit under the username krage28, where he responded to questions from other users.

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I’m hopeful that over the next two years the school system will embrace that.”

Expansion to additional campuses aside, the academy is looking for a new home in College Park, Mitchell said, as its current location in Hyattsville is temporary. Though the university has made no definitive decision, they’re looking closely at two possible locations.

Soon, school officials hope to also bring on-site teachers to the academy in an effort to supplement the online learning experience, Varma said.

“One of the core classes is social studies, and at this point in time it’s an online class with an online teacher,” Varma said. “Going forward, we will have an in-person teacher. There’s a number of kids taking Spanish, and we’ll hopefully have an on-site teacher for Spanish too.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

Eric New ton, sen ior adviser to the president at the Knight Foundation, said the Knight chairs’ purpose is to “strengthen American journalism education by bolstering core values of good journalism and encouraging innovation.”

He added that the K night chairs are intended to bridge the gap between classrooms and professional newsrooms with the knowledge and exp er ience of profession a l journalists.

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National security coverage has emerged as an important niche in the world of journalism after 9/11 and the National Security Agency revelations in 2013. Newton said this university’s proximity to Washington makes it an ideal place to teach journalists how to report on these issues.

“It wa s ver y sm a r t for Maryland to decide that the topic to focus on should be national security and to fi nd such a terrific person to be the chair,” Newton said.

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Learning from big data

Supreme Court decision makes sense

Grant will help this university effectively use analytics Big data is all the rage right now.

The massive growth of available datasets has improved processes and techniques in a growing number of fields, namely business, sports, politics and more recently, education.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at supporting innovation in education, health and community giving, recently gave a $200,616 grant to the University System of Maryland. The grant will be allocated specifically toward using analytics to improve the system’s programs’ effectiveness.

Although the grant might seem like a drop in the bucket compared to the massive budgets school systems implement, it is definitely a step forward in finding innovative ways to improve academic programs and reduce costs.

Regardless of opinions on using techno log y i n an d arou nd t he classroom, the growing trend at the grade school and college levels is to incorporate technology, not only to teach but also to quantitatively analyze the effectiveness of initiatives.

Some reject the idea of using more data analysis in education because it doesn’t measure true indicators of success. For instance, grades and

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graduation rates establish whether funds on ineffective programs or students passed classes but not their trials for new programs.

As the flagship institution within capacity to perform well once they the system, this university has an enter the professional setting. imperative to be at the forefront of education innovation. Although we OUR VIEW have educational initiatives in place, such as the Effectiveness and Efficiency Initiative, which executes internal audits within the system, this grant can break new ground by capturing and manipulating longterm information.

The system funded by this grant will respond to a question almost But analytics can help solve this every university is asking: How can problem. By maintaining and ana- we improve the quality of our prolyzing data, we can begin to measure grams without adding new ones, and factors previously deemed immea- how can we do this without heavily surable. Quantifying the types of increasing our bottom line? Although mistakes a university will make specific details of the grant’s impleover the years and determining the mentation have not yet been released, subsets of classes or specializations the general concept of learning from in each major that highly correlate analytics is something this university with career success are potential should prioritize.

Steve Jobs once said, “technoladvantages of maintaining longogy alone is not enough — it’s techterm data on universities.

Outside of academics, one of the nology married with liberal arts, biggest advantages of an analytics married with humanities that makes program is reducing costs. Because our heart sing.” The combination of student and university data give data intelligence and education will administrators an idea of the best improve this university for years, plan for their university, we won’t and that’s something everyone be worried about wasting expansive should get behind.

The university should focus on analytics when using its $200,616 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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same-sex marriage at private funerals, had his rights to protest protected by the Supreme Court. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban of large sodas was overturned because it was too restrictive of personal freedom.

Our society promotes individual freedoms that don’t cause significant harm to others.

But how much harm does the influx of money into advocacy and politics actually cause?

In terms of advocacy, a person spending money to spread a message just isn’t harmful enough to warrant significant restriction. Groups campaigning for marriage equality or policy groups trying to persuade the public to support free trade are simply exercising their constitutional right to do so. They are not forcing others to believe what they are saying; they are simply campaigning for a cause, as activists have done throughout our nation’s history. Money for these causes should not be restricted.

Giving money to politicians is slightly different. Money for personal use, such as bribes of cash or cars, should be heavily restricted — although exceptions for a reasonable birthday gift make sense. But money for campaign use should be less restricted — as stated before, political campaigns require money to inform voters. People shudder at the thought of candidates spending millions or billions of dollars on elections, but I shudder at the thought that people would choose a candidate solely because of a TV advertisement.

Fortunately, it appears money has a lot less influence on elections than we thought. According to research by award-winning economist Steven Levitt, “When a candidate doubled their spending, holding everything else constant, they only got an extra 1 percent of the popular vote. It’s the same if you cut your spending in half, you only lose 1 percent of the popular vote. So we’re talking about really large swings in campaign spending with almost trivial changes in the vote.”

As much as we might hate the confluence of money and politics, we have to respect the rights of our fellow citizens to spread their messages and spend their money as they please. Our best response would be to raise money ourselves — or commit to becoming educated voters and educating those around us.

In its staff editorial Friday, The Diamondback’s editorial board lamented the McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decision allowing individuals to spend money more freely in political campaigns. But the editorial board neglected a detailed discussion of the rights at stake.

As a society, we tend to fear any mention of money and politics in the same sentence. Obviously it would be detrimental, as well as legally and morally wrong, if a person could simply give a politician a new house so he or she might vote a certain way on an issue. But money and politics are inseparable. It’s a simple fact of any society, magnified in America by the sheer size of our electorate. This state’s representatives and senators must represent millions of people.

They need money to raise awareness about themselves, their platforms and the issues that matter to them.

This issue transcends party lines, as much as you might hear otherwise (President Obama outspent Republican candidate John McCain more than 2-to-1 in 2008). But politicians aren’t the only people who should be allowed to voice their opinions on issues — citizens and interest groups have a right to express their opinions.

And money is a requirement to research, formulate, advocate and convince others of a particular viewpoint.

McCutcheon pitted an individual’s right to express his opinions via monetary donation against federal campaign finance law. While it would be unfair to have no oversight on campaign finance, giving a candidate or cause $2,000 and giving a senator a new Camaro for his or her personal use are different acts entirely.

The beauty of America can be seen most clearly in its founding: The people gave up some of their inherent rights and powers to a government for the greater good.

Unlike many governments, ours does not give rights to the people — it’s the other way around. An individual should be free to broadcast opinions, or even spend money, without the government deciding what is appropriate to Matt Dragonette is a sophomore acsay or do.

That’s why Fred Phelps, the de- counting major. He can be reached at lusional lunatic who protested mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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Flaws of two-party system ERIK SHELL Everyone has an opinion about our two-party system. Love it, hate it or improve it, there seems to be no end to the suggestions about how to make our politics more functional.

Unfortunate as it may be and as much as I think we could do better, our two-party system is not going away any time soon. This isn’t entirely a bad thing; there are many benefits to having two large forces of change forever in opposition.

One of those benefits is perpetual balance.

Imagine moving a large stack of chairs with a dolly. If you start rolling faster, then slow down or stop, the top of the stack keeps moving and the whole thing topples over. So it is with a radical left. Too much change can overshoot its social context, and if a disaster forces an immediate stop in progress, the system can become unstable and collapse.

Now imagine welding that stack of chairs to the ground. No matter where you weld them, they are going to get in someone’s way and need to be moved. It will not be long before someone with less emotional attachment to the chairs sledgehammers the stack until chairs go flying across the floor. In the same way, a rigid, unmoving focus on tradition and conservatism will eventually lead to violent reaction. (See: the history of almost any social movement.)

Another benefit of having two voices in politics is the lively debate.

Theoretically, both sides can bring data and analysis about an issue to the table, arguments can take place and, as opinion editor Maria Romas suggested, a frustrating but helpful compromise can be reached.

Hardly anyone will be 100 percent happy, but each will get a little bit and the world

will keep turning.

It’s also worrisome — aside from the lack of compromise, an issue that is, in itself, self-destructive — when these two forces, balanced by their opposition, start to agree on harmful things.

It is no secret members of our legislative branch are rich. According to U.S. News & World Report, the two senators with the least net worth are held down only by their student debt and outstanding mortgage payments.

But what we see on both sides is a vested interest in keeping rich people rich. While there is a partisan split on how much minimum wage workers should earn, there is unanimity that hard-earned, all-American wealth should remain in place.

Sure, one side might want to tax the rich more than the other. What is unmentionable, however, is stripping an executive of his wealth, despite his role in, say, the financial collapse of 2007. It is his American right to keep money he swindled and use it as speech for electing more rich Americans to protect that right.

Though this is one example — and an incomplete one, at that — it counters the compromising yet necessarily at-odds system we should expect; the core principle is no longer service to its people but rather self-service.

Need more proof? Look at the things they do not agree on: helping the poor, funding schools, improving medical service and ensuring fair business practices for consumers.

Consider who those policies affect and what their disagreement and inability to move forward means.

Spoiler alert: You are the one affected. And until you get rich or they start constructively debating, their inability is your problem.

Erik Shell is a junior classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at eshelldbk@gmail.com.

Benefits of compromise MARIA ROMAS Compromise is a word politicians tout often, but it doesn’t seem to actually mean anything in today’s political climate. Just take a look at the past few years and Congress’ inability to agree on almost any social or economic issue.

Gen. Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State, also happens to agree with this assessment. He spoke at a Hewlett-Packard Co. government summit April 2 and discussed how the Founding Fathers compromised on slavery because they didn’t agree on the matter but had to make a decision. Even though some thought slavery should be perpetuated and some thought it should end, they knew it was more important to agree on the tenets of democracy. And Powell said that even though the compromise was deplorable, he is OK that the Founding Fathers established it because they couldn’t let a contentious issue prevent them from creating the Constitution.

The three-fifths compromise, which established each slave would count for threefifths of a person when determining congressional representation, came under sharp scrutiny during the Civil War, as it should have. That was the time America took to readdress the problem that had been pushed back with the compromise. But that’s the whole point — the issue was addressed later; years of democracy came out of the Founding Fathers’ decisions in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Don’t get me wrong — in no way do I mean to endorse the years of suffering so many people endured because the Founding Fathers didn’t abolish slavery. Slavery in all forms is appalling.

But there’s something to be said for the idea of compromising in politics. The three-fifths

compromise, despite its horrific moral nature, allowed the country’s independence and democracy to be established. Wouldn’t it make sense for politicians today to use such cooperation as an example for how to handle controversial issues?

On some of the most polarizing issues, many politicians are unyielding in their opinions. This especially shows during the political campaign process. But instead of campaigning further from the middle, politicians should strive to encourage Americans to want more compromise. That’s not to say members of government don’t know how to compromise. They should just do it more frequently.

Take the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Regardless of how you feel about the policy, there have been drastic compromises from both sides to pass it into law. Yes, the ideas have been greatly diluted. But the point is, the change — people receiving health care who weren’t able to before — was implemented. Sure, not all of the benefits originally intended to be included made their way through. And of course, a number of aspects of the original bill passed. But that is the nature of compromise. Not everyone gets everything he or she wants, but everyone can live with the decisions made — at least until the issue arises again.

That’s the idea behind earmarks to bills as well.

It’s the “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” idea: I’ll vote for your bill as long as you add this stipulation to appease my constituents. And even though this has allowed some questionable initiatives to slide under the radar, it seems like a reasonable price to pay to make change happen.

I know I’m just a college student whose opinion doesn’t really matter to those in Washington. But it’s cool to hear people such as Powell, whose opinions align with mine, make speeches reinforcing these points. He’s someone politicians might listen to, so it seems there’s hope.

Maria Romas is a senior English major. She can be reached at mromasdbk@gmail.com.

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FEATURE | THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES

Let’s talk about sex The Vagina Monologues opens conversation about women’s issues as part of campus V-Day Campaign Teixeira’s story

By Beena Raghavendran @thebeenster Senior staff writer Marianne Teixeira has been talking about vaginas quite frequently. And she’s totally comfortable with it.

“I’ve said ‘vagina’ more times in the past couple of months than probably my whole life,” she said.

Teixeira, a junior kinesiology major, is a cast member of The Vagina Monologues, which runs Thursday and Friday at Ulrich Recital Hall in Tawes Hall. This year is the 16th performance of this university’s production, the longest-running performance of The Vagina Monologues at any college campus, said assistant director Erika Klatt, a sophomore bioengineering major.

The play is part of V-Day: A Global Movement to End Violence Against Women and Girls and is performed to raise awareness about the cause.

Part of its ticket sales will go to the University Health Center’s CARE to Stop Violence organization.

Teixeira said it also addresses issues about the perception of female body parts — and emphasizes that it’s OK to talk about vaginas.

“I think it’s really important that women talk about their vaginas,” she said. “I think it’s important to demystify what a vagina is and what it does and how people feel about it. There’s a lot of stigma, and people are so hesitant to talk about it that stuff like this — like The Vagina Monologues — demystifies all that and makes the vagina a normal word.”

Teixeira, 38, has four children. Recently divorced, she is completing her degree at this university to help provide for her family.

Her monologue, “I Was There in the Room,” is about the playwright’s emotions at the birth of her granddaughter. It strikes a chord with Teixeira’s own experiences with childbirth.

“It’s taken me a lot to be able to read it,” she said. “Sometimes I can perform it and I’m OK, other times it really chokes me up.”

Part of her monologue about first seeing the baby’s body reminded Teixeira of the birth of her youngest child, when her other three children were in the room with her.

Teixeira said she’s trying to eliminate the stigma that vaginas are disgusting and untouchable.

“It’s just a chorus of ‘ew,’” she said. “I’m trying to normalize the word at home.”

Though participating in The Vagina Monologues means time away from her family, Teixeira said it’s important for her to perform because she feels strongly about it. She’s enjoyed meeting people through the play.

Her funniest experience so far?

“When we are all practicing our orgasm style,” she said. “I can’t even elaborate on that.”

Moore’s story Carly Moore, a freshman English and secondary education major,

sported a Vagina Monologues T-shirt, a white V-neck with a flower that resembles a vagina, Friday at Stamp Student Union.

She will perform “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy,” which is known within The Vagina Monologues community as the “dominatrix” monologue. Moore’s monologue is about a lawyer who realizes her real purpose in life is to make women happy.

“I just think so often that women, in regards to sex, it’s just, they’re not there for their own pleasure,” Moore said. “They’re there for someone else, so by reclaiming that for them, turning it around and deciding what you want to do — I thought that was really awesome.”

For her, the play is about raising awareness of women’s issues, fostering empowerment and loving one’s body.

“A couple years ago, I would not feel comfortable wearing a vagina on my shirt, and just getting that sense of being able to throw around the word ‘vagina’ in common contexts, just be so confident in it,” she said. “It’s just helped a lot in that sense.”

Johnson’s story Audrey Johnson, a sophomore English and secondary education major, is a cast member and stage manager. Her monologue is called “Reclaiming Cunt,” and it’s about how the word can actually have a different connotation than the typical one.

CaRLY MOORE rehearses for The Vagina Monologues. The annual show, which will be held tonight and Friday in Tawes Hall, is a chance for women to reclaim their sexuality, Moore said. james levin/thediamondback Though she doesn’t use that term when referring to her vagina, she is fine with saying it onstage.

“I’m very comfortable with words, and I believe that words only have power because we give them power, and this one is just trying to show that it’s not necessarily a bad thing,” she said. “It’s just a word.”

This is Johnson’s second year performing in the play; her monologues in 2013 were about the positives of the clitoris and about female genital mutilation. She’s interested in pursuing a women’s studies certificate at this university because of her involvement in the show.

“Something as simple as standing up there and sharing these monologues can affect people in an audience, let alone on a grander

scale, that can really help change t h e i r l ive s t h e way i t h e l p e d change mine,” she said.

She said steps have been taken to eliminate the stigma against women’s issues, but there is still progress to be made in issues such as rape, contraception and sexual assault and comfort level with women’s topics.

“The fact that there are people out there that are uncomfortable with the word ‘cunt,’ it’s like, why?

It’s so nice,” Johnson said.

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“That was their game plan, to work the ball around and possess for a few minutes on each opportunity,” Reese said.

“And then when they were ready to go, they were getting good looks.”

Cummings won possession on the next draw control,and used a rare opportunity to

mount From PAGE 8 even seen that before. … It’s uncharted waters.”

After scoring 11 runs in each of their past two games and totaling a season-high 16 hits in an 11-0 win over George Mason on Tuesday, the Terps bats produced five hits against Mount St. Mary’s.

Still, the Terps relied on 10 walks to put runners in scoring position and l oa d e d t h e ba se s i n t h e fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth innings. But unlike past midweek games, the Terps were unable to come up with hits in important

strike quickly. She found midfielder Zoe Stukenberg for a goal just 17 seconds after the Tigers’ score.

Clipp made a crucial save on a free position shot to prevent Princeton from extending its lead on its next possession.

While the offense struggled at the other end, Clipp was forced to defend the net again.

The redshirt junior, who has been benched in each of the past two games, made another important save to keep the Terps

within striking distance. With Clipp neutralizing the Tigers’ attack, the Terps went on a three-goal scoring run capped

by Griffin’s go-ahead goal.

Clipp was unable to stop Princeton’s next shot, and the Tigers tied the game. But the Terps didn’t falter. They forced a turnover after losing the draw control, and McPartland drew a foul near the goal.

The junior finished with a goal on a free position shot with 1:39 left in the game.

The Terps, who finished with a 9-8 edge in the draw circle, controlled the game’s final draw to secure the win.

It wasn’t their typical blowout against an unranked opponent, but the Terps found a way to avoid dropping their second straight game.

“I’m proud,” Reese said. “At the end of the day we found a way to fight back and win the game.”

at-bats. The Terps first run came in the seventh when left fielder Kyle Convissar drew a bases-loaded walk, and catcher Kevin Martir drove in their other run with a sacrifice fly in the ninth.

“We weren’t able to get that big hit,” Convissar said.

“Sometimes in baseball that just happens.”

All of the game’s runs came in the final four innings. With two outs in the sixth, second baseman B ra n d o n L owe t r i e d to backhand a grounder up the middle but dropped the ball, allowing Mountaineers right fielder Ryan Owens to score from second.

While the Terps struggled

with runners in scoring position, Mountaineers catcher Andrew Clow, who entered the game with a team-high .369 average, drove in the decisive runs in the seventh i n n i n g w i t h a two - o u t , two-RBI single to right field.

The Terps never recovered from Clow’s base hit, and they lost to a nonconference opponent for the first time since an 8-5 defeat at Florida on Feb. 16 in their first series of the season.

Right-hander Bobby Ruse started and pitched three scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out two on 32 pitches before Szefc pulled him to keep him available to pitch in a relief

role this weekend.

Despite numerous opportunities, the Terps couldn’t capitalize on Ruse’s strong start or complete the comeback attempt, resulting in a disappointing loss to Mount St. Mary’s for the second straight year. And this isn’t the first game in which the Terps were unable to produce runs in key situations.

“At some point or another someone has to step up and get something going,” Szefc said. “But that’s typical this year. … If you look at the games we’ve lost that’s exactly what our M.O. has been: leaving guys on base.”

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“I’ve never had a teammate who could do it all,” guard Lexie Brown said. “And it’s been an incredible season. I’m going to miss her so much. She’s one of the most dependable teammates I’ve ever played with.”

The Terps will lose two other starting seniors in guard Katie Rutan and center Alicia DeVaughn. Rutan was their best three-point shooter and perimeter defender, while DeVaughn started all but one game over her final three seasons, becoming their most reliable inside presence.

Guard Laurin Mincy will be the team’s only senior next season, and she spent much of this year returning to the form she displayed last season before she tore her ACL against Nebraska on Nov. 28, 2012. Mincy’s best performances came in the NCAA tournament,when she became the Terps’ top scorer off the bench. Mincy likely will assume a more significant role in the Terps’ rotation next year.

M incy saw the impact Thomas had on the team throughout her career, so she knows accommodating the loss of Thomas will be a tough task.

“She is the heart of this team,” Mincy said. “She’s my roommate, and I came in with her as a freshman, so I’m really going to miss her. I’m going to miss her voice and fight in practice. It’s a lot we are going to have to pick up next year.”

The team isn’t looking for a direct replacement for Thomas next season, Frese

said. The returning freshman unit, along with Mincy, will help lead the rotation.

Brown, center Brionna Jones and guard Shatori WalkerK imbrough emerged this season as important parts of the Terps’ success. The addition of forward A’Lexus Harrison, who redshirted this year after undergoing an appendectomy, will also help their inside presence.

“The presence that we got from Bri tonight, Lexie, Laurin, Shatori — there’s a lot of great things for us as a team to be able to look forward to,” Frese said after Sunday night’s loss.

“And it will just be a different style of play in terms of how we move forward.”

The Terps will also welcome three incoming freshman, including ESPN HoopGurlz’s eighth-ranked guard Kiara Leslie. The Terps hope the incoming freshman class will have a similar impact as this season’s, and the additional depth will be critical when Thomas is in her first WNBA season.

The experience the team has gained from this season’s Final Four run, however, will prove an important factor in its efforts to return to that stage next year.

It’s something Thomas thinks the Terps can do without her, and after their first Final Four appearance in eight years, they know what it takes to get there.

“It can do nothing but help your returners,” Frese said. “And so, when you look at the nucleus of who we have returning and our three freshmen and the presence they’ve been able to have and the depth we’ve been able to have this season, definitely that experience factor is key.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL | SEASON IN REVIEW

WOMEN’S LACROSSE | No. 2 TERPS 8, TIGERS 7

Late comeback leads to slim victory at Princeton Terps end game on 4-1 run, avoid consecutive losses

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer The Terrapins women’s lacrosse team trailed Princeton for about the first 50 minutes of play last night and was in danger of losing back-to-back games for the first time since 2006.

But with the score tied at six, attacker Brooke Griffin scored to give the No. 2 Terps their first lead of the game. And when Princeton answered, midfielder Kelly M c P a r t l a n d re s p o n d e d quickly with the decisive goal.

Despite their lowest scoring output this season, the Terps found the back of the net when it mattered most to topple Princeton, 8-7, at Sherrerd Field last night.

“It wasn’t pretty,” coach

Cathy Reese said. “We made some mistakes, and we also made some good plays. But at the end of the day, we fought back, and we found a way to win.”

The Terps (14-1) entered the game against the Tigers (7-4) looking to shore up a defense that allowed a season-high 17 goals in their previous game at No. 1 North Carolina.

But early in the game it was the Terps’ eighth-ranked offense that was problematic, and the Tigers held the Terps to a season-low three firsthalf goals.

The Terps failed to capitalize on their first-half chances, which allowed the Tigers to take a 5-2 lead with 15 seconds to play in the first half. But midfielder Beth Glaros controlled the ensuing draw and found

Griffin, who was able to beat the clock to cut Princeton’s lead to two entering halftime.

“It was a kind of a goal that just went in with a second left,” Reese said. “I think it showed our team that we could score in 15 seconds.”

While maintaining the lead, Princeton continued to slow the game down in the second half. While the strategy worked when the Tigers controlled the draw, the Terps went on the attack whenever they had the opportunity.

The Terps scored the first goal of the second half after finally gaining possession five minutes into the period.

Princeton finished a possession by beating goalkeeper Abbey Clipp to push its lead See tigers, Page 7

BASEBALL | MOUNTAINEERS 3, TERPS 2

Terps strand 17 in one-run defeat to Mount St. Mary’s Forward alyssa thomas leaves the Terps as the program’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

END OF AN ERA Terps enter offseason hoping to replace All-American Alyssa Thomas

By Paul Pierre-Louis @PaulPierreLouis Staff writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — After an injury-riddled Terrapins women’s basketball team suffered a 26-point defeat to Connecticut in the Sweet 16 in 2013, Alyssa Thomas was confident the team could contend for its first national championship since 2006 once it returned to full strength.

This year, the forward brought the Terps within two wins of an NCAA title, but their season ended in another rout, an 87-61 loss to No. 1-seed Notre Dame in the Final Four at Bridgestone Arena on Sunday. The defeat marked the end of Thomas’ storied career, but she said she remains confident in the direction the program is headed and believes a national title is within reach next season.

“I know we’ll get stronger from this game, and we’ll be better next year,” Thomas said after the loss.

Though their returning players gained valu-

able experience during the postseason run, the Terps will have to replace one of the best players in program history as they move forward.

The three-time All-American didn’t end her career with a national title, but she reached several milestones during her senior season.

Thomas broke Juan Dixon’s career scoring record and became the Terps’ all-time leading rebounder. She became the second player to win ACC Player of the Year three times, and the Terps hung her No. 25 jersey in the Comcast Center rafters during Senior Day on March 2.

With the team’s expanded healthy rotation, Thomas didn’t need to play as many minutes as last season, but she was still the main reason for the No. 4-seed Terps’ surprise run to the Final Four.

When the Terps needed their star player to step up during the biggest games, she responded.

Thomas scored 33 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the team’s Sweet 16 upset of No. 1-seed Tennessee and had 22 points and 13 rebounds See REVIEW, Page 7

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Left Fielder Kyle Convissar and the Terps posted five hits against Mount St. Mary’s yesterday, one day after recording 16 against George Mason. rebecca rainey/the diamondback hand the Terps a 3-2 loss.

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