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mckeldin library was evacuated and searched yesterday afternoon after a staff member reported someone had asked a question with concerning language. University Police found no evidence of danger after taking bomb-sniffing dogs through the building and reopened the library at about 8 p.m. photos by christian jenkins and charlie deboyace/the diamondback

McKeldin Library reopened last night more than four hours after University Police evacuated the building in response to someone asking library staff a question with concerning language, Maj. Marc Limansky said.

An individual allegedly approached the information desk at about 2:30 p.m. and asked a question — which was not specified to The Diamondback — that worried library staff, said spokesman Sgt. Aaron Davis. A staff member then called police at about 3 p.m., Davis said, and police responded by pulling the fire alarm to evacuate the library.

The staff member who reported the statement to police wasn’t entirely sure

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Commuters can receive bike, refund in exchange for permit Students who hand in their commuter parking permits to DOTS can now receive a free bike and a refund worth 25 percent of the permit’s initial cost.

The incentive is part of the Department of Transportation Services’ plan to encourage the campus community to go green. The percentage of faculty, staff and students without commuter parking permits has grown to nearly 60 percent — up from less than 20 percent in 2005 — and DOTS officials are hoping to reduce the number even more.

DOTS will give a brand-new, $200 Fuji hybrid bike along with a helmet, lights and U-lock to students who pledge to turn in their parking registration and agree to become ineligible for parking during the next academic year, said Beverly Malone, DOTS assistant director.

“I want to get more people who don’t bike or who don’t bike regularly to consider it as a transport option,” Malone said. “People have already inquired. …

We have 20 bikes, so this is available while supplies last.”

Interested students must also take a 30-minute bike safety class with Michael Levengood, bikeUMD bicycle coordinator.

The ultimate goal, DOTS officials said, is to keep as few cars on the campus roads as possible. Student and faculty commuters produce nearly 15 percent of the university’s greenhouse gas emissions, while Shuttle-UM — the campus public transportation system — produces about 0.8 percent, according to a 2010 campus sustainability report.

“At first I was focusing on upperclassmen because I really believe that once someone adjusts to a biking

what the suspicious individual said, Davis said, but police evacuated the library as a precautionary measure.

Police began a search of the building with bomb-sniffing dogs from University Police and Metro Transit Police at about 4:30 p.m. The dogs found nothing of concern, allowing police to reopen the library at about 8 p.m., Limansky wrote in a 9:30 p.m. email to the university community detailing the incident.

Police are continuing to search for the individual who made the statement and said they received a description of the person who may have made the threat.

Police are reviewing security cameras.

Danielle Mein, a junior dietetics major, said she saw three police officers searching through a bag on the second floor about 15 minutes before an officer pulled the fire alarm.

“It seemed odd,” Mein said. “But no one else seemed to think it was a problem.”

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tomologist Mike Raupp — also known as “The Bug Guy” — was just a young boy enthralled by the natural world.

Raupp and his siblings scavenged the fields and forests near their rural New Jersey home for wild animals to study.

Sometimes they even domesticated animals, as per their mother’s rule: If they could catch it, they could keep it.

“As kids, we had raccoons, we had opossums, we had a hawk, we had an owl as pets in our house,” he said.

Raupp, 60, said his childhood was

just the start of a decades-long career in science and an unparalleled expertise in cicada biology that’s earned him national attention, especially as a new generation of the bugs begins to emerge for mating season.

The fast-approaching flying bugs live in several generational broods, each ascending from the ground every 17 years to mate, die and leave

safety to the next generation, after the university launched an updated version with several new features Wednesday.

With the update, users and dispatchers will have the option to communicate via text message, which would be useful in a situation where a caller couldn’t make noise, said Ashok Agrawala, a computer science professor who helped develop the app alongside the university’s Department of Public Safety. The revised app will also have access to the front and back cameras of smartphones, enabling users to send video of a situation to University Police.

In addition to a more stable and effective server and new user interface,

the upgrade will also allow users to create a profile that includes any special needs, such as preferred language or allergies, Agrawala said.

“This information will be automatically sent to the dispatcher, making it easier to accommodate the needs of the person who called,” he said.

Agrawala and his team launched the first version of M-Urgency in January 2012. And while the upgrade just became available for download today, the developers have already begun designing the next version.

Although the job market has been rough on recent graduates, a new report indicates better job prospects may be on the horizon, despite slow growth this spring.

Employers are planning to fill positions with 2.1 percent more graduates from the class of 2013 than they hired from the class of 2012, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, down from earlier projections of a 13 percent increase. It may be slow, but the growth is still a positive sign for the class of 2013.

About four out of five employers indicated in surveys sent out by the NACE that they planned to hire interns or fulltime employees this spring, and the early projections for fall 2013 are optimistic — about 30 percent said they would like to hire new graduates in the fall.

The report indicated some students will have an easier time than others — employers are drawn to students who graduate with degrees in engineering, accounting and health care.

The report paralleled an April 18 CareerBuilder.com survey that found 53 percent of employers were looking to hire students from the class of 2013, though the fields with the most promising outlooks were information technology, customer service, finance and accounting.

Engineering and business majors are especially prone to increasing opportunities, said Heidi Sauber, this university’s engineering Career Center director, as they are taught skills that are highly sought after in the job market.

“I definitely think that engineering

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mike raupp grew up fascinated by the natural world, an interest he parlayed into decades of scientific research, especially cicada biology. Raupp, now 60, has appeared on national talk shows to discuss the bugs, a generation of which will emerge here next month after living underground for 17 years. photo courtesy of mike raupp

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Police could not confirm whether the bag was related to the incident. Any officers walking around before an officer pulled the alarm were just beginning the investigation, police said, and making sure everyone was able to evacuate.

Police did not issue a UMD Alert when people evacuated the building.

“The purpose of the alert system is to alert people if there’s a threat to their personal safety, and in this case, there was no threat to the university community,” Limansky said, adding police used social media networks to keep the community updated.

Library conservator Bryan Draper said the lack of communication was inconvenient to library patrons.

“A lot of people are coming from D.C. to go to the library and just saw people sitting outside,” Draper said, adding he would be frustrated not knowing what was going on.

But some students said sending out an alert would have created a panic among students and faculty.

“The point was to get everyone

students have the skills for IT jobs, even though they may not be directly taught in their classes,” she said. “I can tell you that any engineering job will behoove them to have some type of IT experience, which many students have from internships and participating in student organizations.”

The market is still recovering, but it’s a start, Career Center officials said. Having a degree from this university may also help, said Michelle Lopez-Mullins, Career Center public relations and marketing manager.

Nationally, many students still have to settle for jobs outside their major, with 63 percent of 18- to 30-year-olds working in the service or retail industries instead of their careers of choice, according to a PayScale, Inc. and Millennial Branding survey.

“A lot of majors can fall under these skill sets that employers are looking for, but the jobs available may be

a k-9 unit investigates the area outside McKeldin Library. People were able to return to the library at about 8 p.m. after it was evacuated at 3:30 p.m. for a bomb threat. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

out [of McKeldin],” said sophomore marketing major Jessica Davis, who works at the library.

“We don’t need people swarming around when they’re trying to keep people safe.”

Wes Peltzman, a senior communication major, said he and his friends had just sat down in a group study room when the alarms went off. “ Mo s t p e o p l e p ro b a b ly thought it was just a drill ... The evacuation was pretty inefficient,” Peltzman said. “People were more concerned about their property than getting out of the building.”

Though many students evacuated with their valuables in hand — some headed straight to the mall to continue studying — some library workers had to wait to retrieve their belongings before going home.

Several students approached library workers about evacuating the building without checking out books or with rental laptops and study keys. David Rivard, assistant dean for library administration, said items checked out yesterday could be returned today without penalty. newsumdbk@gmail.com

different from what students actually want to do,” LopezMullins said. “It can be very discouraging for students to find out that their dream job has hundreds of applicants and only one opening. It’s hard to accept that you majored in something for four years, and now you can’t get the first job that applies what you learned.”

University data indicated, however, that 75 percent of the graduates the Career Center surveyed in December were partaking in their first choice of postgraduate activity directly after graduating, whether it was traveling, an internship or a fulltime job, Lopez-Mullins said.

There may not be a job market bursting with opportunities, but graduates seem to be satisfied, and “that’s definitely a success story,” Lopez-Mullins said.

Senior engineering major Karen Dunford is just beginning her career, and she said finding a job has been easier than she anticipated.

“As someone who has gone on multiple interviews and has gotten a job offer, I can see that there are actually a lot of job opportunities for me,” she said. “I think that

the analytical skills I have learned in college make me feel ready to tackle a new set of challenges in the engineering field.”

There is some concern that the market won’t stay so fluid, however. The federal budget cuts went into effect March 1, so it’s too early to tell how they will affect the economy, but Sauber worries students graduating after June may find their job search challenging.

“It’s really hard to predict how the sequester will change things, but I’m holding my breath,” Sauber said. “It could actually be a harder year than predicted, and students have to be willing to look outside the D.C. area.”

Lopez-Mullins said it’s important for graduates to have a healthy sense of perspective, no matter what the market looks like.

“All in all, it comes down to perseverance and resourcefulness,” she said. “Look for [a] job that is looking for your skills, because that’s what employers want. The more that employers see you can bring to the table, the more likely you will get hired.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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at the university. He’s been called on for radio, network and print appearances around the country to shed some light on the famous skin-shedding bugs.

“We’ve had the big push — we’ve done a few spots already,” Raupp said. “It’s really gonna go nuts here around the middle of May, when the adults start to come up in big numbers. That’s when there’ll be another big media push, I think, to see these guys.”

Raupp said he appreciates the demand because it reflects a deeper societal enthusiasm for environmental issues he thinks have been too often neglected.

“It’s almost like a rebirth or a reenergizing of this environmental movement. I think you guys are a lot more interested in the environment than maybe your peers were 10 years ago, and I find this very exciting,” he said.

Raupp studies all sorts of insects, but he said cicadas — and their exciting romances — are especially fascinating to him.

“There’s sex first; that’s the great part. They come up — they’ve been sucking on plant sap for 17 years

underground; it’s dismal,” he said.

“They’re gonna emerge in May; they’re gonna shed their skins; they’re gonna climb up to the treetops. It’s gonna be a big-boy band; only the males sing — they attract the females.”

The cicadas, he joked, aren’t altogether different from 17-yearold humans.

“They’re just teenagers,” he said.

“No wonder they want to get up, rock out, have sex.”

Last weekend, Raupp dug up what he said was the first cicada of the new brood in the country, and he now keeps the living insect buried in a plastic container on his desk.

“It’s even before CNN,” he said, sitting in his office in the Plant Science Building. “You’re looking at the first Brood II cicada.”

The cicadas, he said regretfully, will not be mating directly on campus grounds, but rather in surrounding counties.

Even when it isn’t cicada season, Raupp keeps busy. He chaired the entomology department from 1993 to 2000, a time during which he staved off financial crisis and

structurally stabilized the department, current department chair Charles Mitter said Generally, Raupp focuses on the impact of urbanization on insect populations and examines the effects of pesticides and invasive species. He works toward greater sustainability, Mitter said.

“He’s the world leader in that field,” Mitter said. “Mike’s a superb colleague. He was a very effective chair of the department for seven years, and all of us hold him in the highest possible regard.”

Student reviews of Raupp on OurUMD paint a similar picture.

“Some teachers that have tenure or have gotten old at Maryland have become decadent and unresponsive, but Raupp definitely cares about his students,” one wrote, saying he or she didn’t find his CORE course to be challenging.

Raupp also wrote 26 Things That Bug Me, a children’s book, in 2010, “under the guise of teaching them the alphabet,” he said, but designed to engender children to insects.

“People are looking around for bug geeks who are goofy or something, and they find me. The next

If the user lets go of the screen, the app begins a countdown.

After seven seconds, a loud From PAGE 1 noise would sound, intending The next goal, he said, is to to attract attention or chase a utilize the university’s Wi-Fi potential culprit away, and after infrastructure — which has 13 more seconds, the app would more than 4,000 access points automatically call for help. on the campus — to locate users During that time, if required, in specific rooms of buildings. users would be able to turn off Currently, users can be located the alarm with a personal code.

“A big component that makes outside via GPS, he added.

The Student Government As- this app great is that it is proacsociation has been pushing to tive,” Greer said. “This is someintegrate a digital escort service thing that can make people feel supplementing the University much safer on campus because Police escort service into the they can be in communication phone app, said SGA Chief of with the police when need be.”

The team is already in the Staff Landon Greer, who saw a similar feature from Ohio State process of developing an escort feature for their app separately University.

Through this technology, of the SGA, Agrawala said. In users could walk around with M-Escort, the user will start a a thumb pressed on the screen, video and audio recording of his causing the app to start tracking or her surroundings, which will the phone’s location, Greer said. then be streamed at a monitor-

ing station. Personnel can then react to the situation based on what they see or hear.

In the case of an emergency situation, a user could also make an M-Urgency call by simply touching the screen to connect to a 911 dispatcher, Agrawala said. A time-delay feature — such as the one suggested by SGA members — could be integrated into the app, he added.

“I would definitely use it,” said Liz Beck, who is pursuing a master’s degree in food science.

“I think people are more willing to use it because they do not want the inconvenience to make someone accompany them.”

But a digital escort service might not give students the same feeling of safety as having a person physically walking with them, said Meredith Wilson, a sophomore civil engineering major.

“It would kind of suck if

something happened and then it’s too late,” she said.

Agrawala, SGA members, University Police and the Division of Information Technology will begin discussing the implementation of MEscort next week.

“It is highly customizable,” Agrawala said of the app.

“It’s up to the user community to decide what they want implemented.”

University Police Chief David Mitchell, who said he was impressed by the app’s capability after seeing a demo version, said he would like to see an escort app ready to go by fall semester.

The implementation of a n e sco r t a p p, M i tc h e l l said, would be a “win-win situation.”

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Over the course of his career, Raupp estimates he has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America about 15 times. He’s talked bugs with Dr. Oz and Tyra Banks, spoken to audiences on Animal Planet and Discovery News and written for a number of academic journals. He’s been a consultant for the writers of Fox’s TV comedy-drama Bones and maintains a website called Bug of the Week to get young people engaged in natural history.

With the expected arrival of the Brood II cicadas next month, the testimonial spotlight is shining on Raupp again, now in his 36th year

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mike raupp, a university entomologist, is known as “The Bug Guy.” He has made about 15 appearances on ABC’s Good Morning America as a cicada expert. photo courtesy of mike raupp thing you know, you’re answering questions,” he said.

Yet for Raupp, all his research, writing and appearances trace back to the start. His professional experiences, he said, were born out of an upbringing that immersed him in the natural environment and cultivated his desire to study it.

“That’s the place that I was never bored. There was always an adventure. Every time I went out, there was some new animal, some new plant, some new rock, some new cave, some new river to swim in or mountain to climb

up,” he said. “Just being out in nature was part of a lifelong ‘a-ha’ moment.”

Even now, decades into his scientific career, with a 65-page resume, a wife and three grown children, all campus graduates, Raupp said he finds himself taken aback by natural discovery.

“There’s never a time that I don’t go out into a forest or a rain forest or a desert that I don’t see something I’ve never seen before and say, ‘Oh, my god. This is so cool,’” he said.

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service now serves about 3.5 million riders per year, DOTS officials determined it was the right time to launch the parking registration trade program, Malone said.

But junior individual studies major Reby Silverman said she worries students won’t take advantage of the opportunity.

“I can’t imagine students with cars on campus giving them up for a bike,” said Silverman, who often rides her bike to class. “I like the idea of trading in your permit parking for a bike and discount, but I question how realistic it is.”

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commute they don’t feel it’s necessary to have a car,” Malone said.

Riding a bike could open up job opportunities in the city, Malone said. Some jobs might not pay students enough to maintain a car or pay for parking in urban areas, she added.

Trends indicate an overall increase in reliance on public transportation, especially by students, according to the university’s 2011 Sustainability Metrics Report.

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tories of black mold, flimsy locks and neighborhood crime are but a few of the negative associations the Knox Boxes have garnered over the years. For all their flaws, these apartments have nonetheless remained a popular destination for both the party-oriented as well as cost-conscious students who enjoy living close to the campus. Living in a “box” may lack glamour, but it’s practical — and frankly, the convenient location has proven enough to entice tenants.

But as most safety-concerned parents would agree, location isn’t enough — this city can do better than notoriously unsightly apartment complexes. And developers appear intent on proving just that.

On April 16, the College Park City Council heard preliminary plans from the Toll Brothers development company on its proposed Knox Village project.

Under the current plans, developers would raze the current Knox Boxes to the ground. In their stead, Knox Village would host outdoor recreation areas, a parking garage and retail spaces to accompany the 1,500 additional beds that would house students in the land between Knox Road and Guilford Drive.

Current plans suggest construction could be completed as soon as 2016, though this goal seems unlikely based on the extensive delays other projects such as the Maryland Book Exchange and East Campus development have succumbed to in the past.

Like any massive project, these plans are bound to draw concerns and experi-

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ence hiccups. But after what this editorial board has seen from the current proposals, students and community members alike should embrace the potential Knox Village development.

To be clear, we hope this project, along with the Maryland Book Exchange apartment project, would conclude the rapid increase in off-campus

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Well-formulated plans to replace Knox Boxes with apartment buildings and retail space warrant city and university approval. housing that has transformed the city since 2005. Though The Enclave, Mazza Grandmarc, University View I and II and The Varsity apartment property owners have said they’ve collectively maintained occupancy rates near 95 percent as recently as 2012, any further developments would threaten to saturate the market for off-campus housing. Yet, as a Knox Village development would replace preexisting, suboptimal housing, this editorial board finds it pertinent the city approves some iteration of the current proposal.

As we’ve stated previously, improving retail space and amenities in the downtown area is the next logical step for city planners, but for the time being, one thing is clear: Any effort to infuse life into the city would suffer from re-

jecting a Knox Village proposal.

Students deserve high-quality and safe living quarters, and living in secure apartment buildings is the least developers can provide. Despite what city council members or Old Town residents may fear, replacing the Knox Boxes wouldn’t dramatically alter the flow of partying students toward residential areas. If anything, it would help isolate student disturbances to within Knox Village — a far easier area to monitor and ensure student safety in. Plus, the middle-of-the-road pricing would be a crucial alternative to the more exorbitant high-rise apartments built in the past few years.

More work can be done to improve the current proposal, including supporting student aspirations to dedicate retail space toward a grocery store.

The 1,200 square feet allocated toward retail in the current proposal doesn’t leave room for a legitimate grocery option, and we hope the developers at Toll Brothers will take this concern into account with any future modifications to the plan. If Knox Village fails to feature a grocery store — and it likely won’t — students will have to wait to see if university and city officials can follow through on delivering a grocery store closer to Route 1 after the Cafritz development stalled.

Even without a grocery store, and despite the years worth of construction inconveniences students may face, College Park would simply be a better place if Knox Village replaced the Knox Boxes.

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There’s a better way to accommodate students living off the campus MATT DRAGONETTE At the beginning of my freshman year, people frequently asked me what dorm I lived in. A little embarrassed, I would reply by saying I drove to school. Being mostly on-campus freshmen, they would reply with reactions ranging from sympathy to awkwardness.

While nearly every student knows long-distance commuters, many do not understand the daily problems they face.

As a commuter, I know the time constraints: I live 24 miles from the campus, and my average commute time is 45 minutes. If my class times force me to commute during rush hour, it’s easily an hour-long drive. One morning, I actually had a two-anda-half-hour commute. Some other commuters live so far away that my drive seems like a walk in the park.

Like many commuters, I neither enjoy nor want to make the long trek to College Park — I do so for financial reasons only. A friend of mine repeatedly suggested I take a loan out to pay for on-campus housing for four years.

When I did not, he told me that I “must not care about the college experience.”

This unfortunate attitude causes a rift between those who live in College Park and those who travel long distances to get here. Not all Americans can afford college, much less the expensive room and board.

It is a feeling of entitlement — as if we all automatically deserve a “full” college experience.

Commuters work hard to make time to be involved on the campus and fulfill program and group obligations. We try to enjoy our college experience as much as possible. Commuters may have a different dynamic than College Park residents do, but we have fun doing the same things. Of course, I would like to live somewhere in College

Park, but if I can manage to avoid tens of thousands of dollars of debt, I will. I have to prepare for my future.

Other students have family, work or personal obligations preventing them from living near the campus. In a previous Diamondback article, commuters shared their difficulties getting to class and the resulting embarrassment of being late. Their comments reflected the need to leave hours in advance just to get to class on time.

During Thursday’s Student Government Association-sponsored election debate, a question focused on possible solutions for commuters struggling to make it to their final exams on time. One cabinet candidate, Josh Ratner, suggested commuters live on campus during exam week through university accommodations. He must not be a commuter because this “solution” does not address long-term needs or seem remotely practical. This university simply does not have the space to house all commuters for a week.

So what could the city of College Park and this university do to improve commutes? The city could better synchronize and alter traffic lights to make Route 1 traffic move more quickly. The Route 1 expansion project may also be a good plan. This university could allow commuters to adjust their exam schedules to avoid rush hour. While commuters might have to leave home very early for a class, professors should give commuters more leeway if traffic forces 60- or 90-minute commutes.

The bus schedules could be reviewed for commuters’ benefits. Lastly, university officials should meet regularly with commuters to discuss these problems.

This university has always been inclusive of a diverse student body, so I ask that College Park students continue to be accommodating and understand the needs of commuters. Hopefully university officials can work with us to make our experiences as ideal as possible.

Matt Dragonette is a freshman accounting major. He can be reached at mdragonette9@yahoo.com.

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Different strokes for different folks Priorities are meant to change during college — embrace it IAN LACY When I was in high school, my life was centered on hanging out with friends, girls and partying ‘til the sun came up. These were the predominant facets of my life up until about halfway through my junior year of college, and I thought people who did not share my lifestyle choices were not taking advantage of their youth and were being, for lack of a better term, lame.

Throughout the past year, however, my priorities have unexpectedly shifted. Family and school are now the centerpieces of my life. My old vices — over-socializing and partying — just don’t have the allure they once did.

Prior to college I was like most other young adults: I couldn’t wait to pack up, move out and go to college. After being away at college for the better part of three years, the fact that my family is on the short list of people I want to spend

my free time with snuck up on me.

Having several of my relatives pass away taught me one cannot take the presence of your family members for granted — they will not be around forever. With professions possibly requiring us to relocate after college, it seems unlikely we’ll be able to remain around our families forever. Therefore, I don’t mind catching the Metro and heading back to Montgomery County for the weekend to help my parents with yard work and have family movie nights.

Granted, my studies should have always been a priority during my two-plus years at this university. But as we all know, life tends to throw us all curveballs from time to time. But once I made my studies a priority, college actually became more enjoyable. No longer do I have to pull all-nighters and stress myself to the point of madness in order to barely scrape by and get a “C.” Now, I study daily and find that mastering the material allows me to relax and actually enjoy the learning process. It is also nice walking in to an

exam knowing you are about to show it who’s boss.

My evolving priorities regarding family and studying have definitely cut into my partying habits. This has also impacted spending time with my friends because many of them enjoy partying. I am not saying I never go out to grab a drink with my bros down at Looney’s Pub; I just do so on a much less frequent basis. But I have come to prefer my lifestyle of infrequent partying and shenanigans, and my friends have come to understand it is just me doing me.

Everyone is going to change at points in his or her life — I definitely have. But the important thing about change is embracing it. I do what I find makes me happy. I encourage people to really focus on what makes them happy and not let social pressures influence their actions. I am now as lame as the people I used to mock, and I’m completely all right with that.

Ian Lacy is a junior kinesiology major. He can be reached at ianlacy19@gmail.com.

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This is not an column about politics. In fact, it is not an column about gun rights, American values or PlayStation vs. Xbox. This is also not an column about the glorious inclusivity of the human spirit.

This is an column about things that suck.

I don’t mean things that suck only for some people. Sure, Garfield hates Mondays, but other cats don’t. Of course, you may hate writing papers, but a historian with two thumbs and a tea addiction sure doesn’t. And yes, despite the fact that the Department of Transportation Services is hated by its employees, its serviced population and its inanimate parking meters, I’m sure there’s someone in the organization who wakes up each morning with a smile. Maybe.

No, this is about the universally sucky things in college life, specific to life in College Park. I write with the hope that rage will flow through you, young reader, and this campus can be lit aflame with passionate people who will no longer accept being told things are hunky-dory.

Let’s start with that 40-pound hobo sling you have at, near or around your shoulders: your backpack. It may be cute and it certainly makes life easier, but for a species that can go from 12 seconds of powered flight to putting man on the moon in about 60 years, why is there no alternative to this back-breaking, megalomaniacal back sack?

The pack’s contents don’t mean much when you can’t see what’s inside. Why can’t you see? It’s because the power is out. Again. This past weekend may have brought a small outage, and I doubt anyone has forgotten the freezing temperatures having no power brought this past winter. What’s more, it’s so normal

in this state. Go to any other state, and you’ll find they have a much better time keeping their residents warm — a novel concept — and they do this without complaining to Mama Government about how hard it is to get a pipe under the ground.

Oh look, as I was writing, I got five emails. Let’s go see what … and they’re police alerts. The spam, trash, junk and inbox folders have all been assaulted by the shocking development that, because of sports traffic, driving is hard.

Oh, but now is the time to be vigilant because there’s a dangerous man on the campus. Oh, nope, that’s a false report. It’s hard to tell, what with the crime-themed weeks full of assault we have every so often.

So after a full day of carting your half-ton backpack and somehow receiving a carrier-pigeon traffic alert while the power is out, you want to go out to eat tonight. But, much like a famous sitcom figure would say, “No soup for you.” It’s because everything closed at 9 p.m. Sharp.

That makes sense. Even better, if this weekend you’re roaring to stay up all night in the library — the central and perhaps most necessary building on the campus — you’d better keep walking. Because if there’s one thing college students never want to do, it’s get a book past 9 p.m. on a weekend.

And this is just the easy stuff. These are the undisputed, unpleasant things we all suffer through. So what about the big issues, the ones that are less clear-cut, but even more important in your daily life? Why are you, right now, more inspired by a piece about heavy backpacks than fiscal irresponsibility or volunteer efforts to beautify our community?

Funny as they may be, obvious issues like these don’t need awareness.

Act more, act out and use this passion for the stuff that really matters.

E r i k S h e l l i s a so p h o m o re classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at erik1434@gmail.com.

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By Emily Thompson Staff writer There is nothing like seeing an incredible live performance. Whether it’s a major production at a venue like Madison Square Garden or a particularly crazy house show, live music offers a connection not always attainable through just listening to music on laptop speakers. After walking away from one of these shows with ringing ears and shaky legs, you know it’s an experience you’ll never forget.

But this feeling isn’t always easy to obtain.

There are factors, such as lack of funds or geographic distance, that can get in the way of going to shows. This is how I felt for a long time regarding many major music festivals.

Although I’ve lived in two places that are close to major cities (New York and Washington) and have been able to attend more than my fair share of shows, I was never able to make it to one of those festivals that was bursting at the seams with my favorite acts.

For years, I schemed over how I could attend one. I dreamed of magically finding a ride from College Park to Texas to attend Austin’s South by

Southwest and how to save money so I could fly out to California for Coachella. But it appeared as if I would be forever stuck on the East Coast without disposable income. I started to give up my hopes of sweating it out in the California desert or making my way through massive crowds at Chicago’s Lollapalooza.

In the spring of 2011, I was introduced to new technology that was able to tide me over.

I could stream the performances and see what the swarms of people who were able to pay for a $300 concert ticket and an even more expensive plane ticket were seeing. I watched different bands late into the night on a friend’s television screen, only peeling our eyes away from the screen after Arcade Fire’s exuberant closing set. Even though I was thousands of miles away, I could still feel the electric energy of the different shows.

For someone who had romanticized these kinds of festivals for the last five years, it was oddly satisfying to finally see what I was missing.

Besides, I didn’t have to forgo showering for a few days and sleep in a tent to hear the music. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

By Dean Essner Senior staff writer The live music atmosphere is irreplaceable and impossible to replicate. Music exists in myriad forms — vinyl, CD, MP3, cassette tape, to name a few — but the concert formula is far more rigid and, at the same time, simplistic.

There’s you, the band and the sound populating the space you inhabit together.

I argue the rigidity of this connection because there’s been a prevailing notion that the live setting can be recreated by streaming shows. Coachella now broadcasts its festival on YouTube. American Express Unstaged pairs together bands and oddball celebrity personalities — the next features Vampire Weekend and Steve Buscemi — to film and present special concert simulcasts.

However, watching these streams does nothing for me other than make me wish I were experiencing the show in person.

I went to Coachella in 2011, and it was one of the best weekends of my life. Last year, I tried watching the simulcasts as a way of inciting a sense of nostalgia for the experience. It was

the end of the semester and academically, I was feeling a bit sluggish. “If I could just relive the festival, I’ll be okay for a little while,” I thought. But watching Jeff Mangum play amid the swaying palm trees and desert sand on the main stage — all captured in striking, cogent display on my MacBook Pro — made me feel even worse. It was like the apex of my concert days, and perhaps my youth as well, had come and gone, reduced to a pair of headphones, a bag of pretzels and my two tear-stained eyes staring at a computer screen.

I will agree that there’s a surreal coziness in watching a live stream of a show in 100degree Coachella heat while you’re in your air-conditioned bedroom. But it pales in comparison to actually being there. We get the music, the banter and a decent bit of insight into some of the more tangible things such as crowd size, lighting setup and the violence level of the mosh pit.

Yet the atmosphere, that holy space of solidarity where the band and audience unite via sonic transference, is all but lost on a laptop. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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Panova From PAGE 8 It was the easiest way for her to provide for her family while also honing her game against other top players across Europe in the Women’s Tennis Association. She competed against — and sometimes beat — players who would ultimately compete in Grand Slam events.

“I had to play professionally because we didn’t really have any money,” Panova said.

“That would help me make money, so we could go to the next tournament.”

Still, Panova had plenty of doubts about her early career.

She had the chance to become a Top-100 player and compete in Grand Slams, but she said she didn’t work hard enough during her teenage years to maximize her potential.

P a n ova wa s s t i l l go o d enough for Division I tennis in the United States, though.

S h e jo i n e d t h e m i d d l i n g Oregon Ducks in the middle of the 2001-02 season — the NCAA forced her to pay back the $7,520 she earned on the professional circuit — and eventually cemented her status as one of the program’s all-time greats.

The lackadaisical teenager

was gone. Panova was reinvigorated with the Ducks, and would earn All-America honors. The team concept of collegiate tennis and playing for something larger than herself motivated the Russian.

Under Ducks coach Nils Schyllander, Panova experienced a coach who matched her stubbornness and passion. Schyllander used their similarities to push Panova unlike any of her previous coaches. She would ultimately become the winningest singles player in Ducks history (94) and set the single-season record for wins (32).

During her first two years at Oregon, Panova’s childhood dream of coaching was in jeopardy. It would be too tough, she told herself, after failing to make it professionally like many of her peers. But by the time she graduated, Panova was ready to start coaching and ensure her players didn’t make the same mistakes she did.

Panova, who had spent time as a club and practice coach, landed her first assistant coaching job at Minnesota under Tyler Thomson in 2007.

While Panova had worked well with Schyllander at Oregon, she clashed with Thomson at times. He was calm and collected, a direct contrast to the excitable Panova.

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“We usually looked at the same problem from two different perspectives,” Panova said. “I learned a lot from him. We challenged each other a lot, and I think it was very helpful.”

Last year, after Minnesota had its best start in program history and made its first NCAA tournament appearance in nine years, Thomson left to take the top job at William & Mary. Panova applied for the vacant opening with the Golden Gophers, but was passed over. Hurt and angry, Panova began applying for other jobs. That’s when the Terps — who had cycled through three coaches in the past three years — gave her a call.

“Maryland never really reached its potential,” Panova said. “I don’t want to go to a program that is already successful because there is nothing new you can do.”

The growing pains have been evident — the Terps own a meager 6-15 record entering today’s conference tournament and suffered through a stretch in which they lost 12 of 14 matches.

But even after losses, Panova praised her team. As long as she saw them fighting for every point, she was pleased. She just asked her players to compete.

Opposing coaches such as

Thomson have noticed. When matched against the Terps on March 17, Thomson saw a team motivated by its coach. Though Panova didn’t best her former boss, losing 4-3 to William & Mary, she earned his praise.

“On paper, we were heavily favored, and it came down to the wire,” Thomson said. “I was extremely impressed with the way her girls competed.”

Despite the grind of a losing season, the Terps still see what Panova can do for the program.

“It’s always hard getting a new coach,” junior Welma Luus said. “But I think it’s worth it when it’s someone like [Panova].”

Panova has proved her mother wrong. More than two decades after giving up figure skating, she’s still involved in tennis.

But conquering one challenge invites more. Now, P a n ova i s n ’t c o n c e r n e d about being cut. Her shortterm attention is focused on the ACC championships. Her long-term attention is on improving the Terps program as a whole, and maybe one day winning a national title.

“It’s going to be a growth process,” Thomson said. “But she’s ready to take that on.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

hornets From PAGE 8 her as she slid into the base. “[The pitcher] just put the ball in the glove and looked down,” Mancuso said. “I got out, but being aggressive is what matters.”

Terps pitcher Kaitlyn Schmeiser maintained the team’s assertiveness, hurling a complete game shutout in the first contest. She has given up only one earned run through her last 19 innings pitched.

The sophomore found success the same way she did in outings against Boston College last weekend. Schmeiser consistently hit the strike zone and got ahead in the count, forcing batters to hit routine fly balls and pop ups.

P itcher Maddie Martin bounced back from her rough outing against Boston College on Saturday with a solid outing during her Game 2 start yesterday, posting three scoreless innings after conceding a threerun home run in the first.

“It was going to be inevitable that she was going to have to …

tigers From PAGE 8 will need a series victory — and more than likely a sweep — to keep its postseason hopes alive, but the first-year coach is keeping things simple with the young and inexperienced team.

“I just want us to make sure that we stayed up and stayed focused and we didn’t get too lax.”

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suck it up and fight,” Watten said.

“I wasn’t going to be pulling her.”

The Terps regained control immediately after Delaware State took a 3-0 lead, responding with nine runs of their own over the first two innings. The aggression the players exhibited while running the bases helped them tally those gaudy offensive numbers, Watten said.

Now the eighth-year coach hopes the team can continue to wreak havoc on the base paths during their final home series against North Carolina this weekend.

“I just want us to make sure that we stayed up and stayed focused and we didn’t get too lax,” Watten said. “I want us to stay focused and be intense the entire game.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

“We’re just trying to go in there and win one inning at a time,” Szefc said. “You can’t look too far ahead, you just have to try and get it done one inning at a time. These games are marathons and you have to just hang in there.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps outlast Towson in 16-15 road slugfest Wade records game-high 5 RBIs in victory

By Daniel Popper Staff writer

Coach daria panova will lead the Terps in the ACC championships today in Cary, N.C. She is in her first season in College Park. photo courtesy of greg fiume/maryland athletics

Panova sets competitive example for struggling Terps entering ACC championships

By Phillip Suitts Staff writer A 9-year-old Daria Panova had a choice to make: tennis or figure skating? So the grade-schooler turned to her mother.

The tennis team is going to cut most of its members by the end of this year and you won’t make the cut, Ludmila Panova told her daughter. You’ll be free to concentrate on figure skating.

That conversation ignited a competitive fire that fueled a career. Determined to prove her mother wrong, Panova gave up figure skating and re-

dedicated herself to tennis.

Panova, taking over an unheralded Terrapins tennis program in August, has kept the same attitude in the 21 years since. Today, she leads her team into the ACC championships in Cary, N.C., where not much is expected from the No. 12-seed Terps. They won just one ACC match during the regular season and finished last in the conference standings.

But when the Terps take the court today, they will strive to emulate their coach, known throughout her career for her fire and passion.

“I’m louder than all of the players,” Panova said. “I’m always pumped up.”

Panova’s journey to College Park — one that includes stops in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest and Europe — hasn’t always been smooth, though.

Panova wasn’t one of the top youth players in Russia, so she wasn’t afforded the same access to resources as other elite athletes. At age 14, she moved to neighboring Poland to play on the junior circuit for club teams that gave her support and access to higherquality facilities.

Two years later — with her family in need of financial aid — she turned pro.

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SOFTBALL

Hornets struggle in sweep Terps outscore visitors combined 23-3 in doubleheader

By Paul Pierre-Louis Staff writer The opponents the Terrapins softball team plays during its midweek doubleheaders typically can’t compare to the ACC competition it faces on the weekends. There is always the danger, however, of coming out flat and allowing a weaker opponent to gain confidence.

The Terps didn’t exhibit complacency in their doubleheader sweep of Delaware State yesterday, though, winning both games in five innings, 11-0 and 12-3.

“To come out against teams that aren’t challenging you the way [the tougher] teams are, staying focused is a real challenge,” coach Laura Watten said.

“I think we did a good job of that.”

The Terps (27-23) put pressure on the Hornets throughout the night with aggressive baserunning, tallying 11 combined stolen bases in the two wins. The young Delaware State (15-31) team — which has 10 freshmen on its roster — crumbled under the constant duress.

When Terps runners didn’t dash directly to the next base, they hopped off the bags as the pitcher released the ball, preparing for a wild pitch or passed ball to advance on.

The strategy worked. As pitches skipped off the dirt and traveled past the Hornets catcher’s glove, the Terps were often already halfway to the next base.

“We worked on baserunning all week so that we could make

sure we were aggressive,” said outfielder Amanda McCann, who tallied three stolen bases on the night. “We definitely wanted to practice being aggressive and reading the defense today.”

The team’s baserunning mentality paid off most in the first game’s seven-run fourth inning.

A double steal set up a two-RBI base hit for infielder Lindsey Schmeiser. Two batters later, she reached home off another double steal and extended the Terps’ lead to 7-0.

Later that inning, infielder Melissa Mancuso attempted to steal home as the pitcher stepped out of the circle. The Hornets quickly took notice of Mancuso’s attempt and tagged See Hornets, Page 7

There was no shortage of runs in the Terrapins baseball team’s 16-15 victory over Towson yesterday.

In an outpouring of offense, the Terps compiled 11 hits as six different hitters recorded RBIs, including a game-high five from first baseman LaMonte Wade and three each from designated hitter Andrew Amaro and second baseman Jose Cuas.

“We’re sticking with our approach, and everyone is buying in,” Wade said. “We’re getting good pitches to hit, and we’re taking advantage of those and driving runs in.”

Left-hander Jake Drossner struggled early on the mound, and Towson took a 5-0 lead after two innings.

The freshman didn’t get much help from a usually sound Terps defense as errors by catcher Jack Cleary, shortstop Blake Schmit and third baseman Kevin Martir gave the Tigers extra base runners early.

Luckily for Drossner, the bats were there to pick up the pieces.

The Terps strung together a fiverun third inning, highlighted by an opposite field grand slam from Wade — his first home run of the season and his career.

“I got into the 3-1 count and I got a fastball up and away,” Wade said.

“I took it that way and it went out.”

After the Terps (23-20) notched runs in the fourth and fifth innings to take a 7-5 lead, the Tigers (19-20)

jumped on Drossner, scoring a run and loading the bases before righthander Brandon Casas replaced him.

Casas surrendered a two-RBI single to the first batter he faced, giving Towson an 8-7 lead.

But the offense responded again, scoring six runs on four hits in the sixth inning to give the Terps a 13-8 lead.

The Terps couldn’t quite close the door on the Tigers, though. They took a 16-11 lead to the bottom of the ninth inning, but a series of extra base hits forced coach John Szefc to replace right-hander Bobby Ruse with closer Kevin Mooney.

A wild pitch by Mooney and an error

by Martir brought Towson to within one with the tying run at third base.

Mooney rebounded, though, striking out right fielder Dominic Fratantuono and forcing a groundout to clinch the Terps’ second straight victory.

Despite allowing six runs in 4.1 inning of work, Szefc commended the effort of his bullpen, which battled back from several defensive mishaps.

“They held up,” Szefc said. “We had a lot of young guys in the lineup, and they really held tough, so I have to give them credit. ... They really did a good job of hanging in there.

It was a tough day, but our guys grinded it out.”

The Terps will now set their sights on a three-game series this weekend at Duke in Durham, N.C. Szefc’s squad See TIGERS, Page 7