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University Police charge student with disorderly conduct on McKeldin Mall Student allegedly lit Vitaminwater fliers and cigarette butts on fire

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

Police arrested a 21-yearold student on McKeldin Mall yesterday afternoon when he was reportedly disorderly and uncooperative to University Police officers, spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said.

Officers charged Daniel

Blake, a Hyattsville native, with disorderly conduct at about 4:30 p.m.

The misdemeanor charge came after Blake reportedly lit Vitaminwater fliers and cigarette butts on fire in front of the fountain on the mall, Limansky said. When police arrived at the scene, he allegedly told officers he wasn’t going to stop until he was

arrested, Limansky added.

Police asked him to stop what he was doing, but Blake insisted he would not end his disorderly behavior until he was charged, Limansky said.

“It was a bizarre string of events,” Limansky said. “It was definitely a strange call to get.”

Police report there was no indication Blake was

under the influence at the time of his arrest.

The maximum penalty for Blake’s disorderly conduct charge is $1,000 and a year in jail, Limansky added.

According to official court documents, Blake has no previous charges in the state. egan@umdbk.com

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For MaryPIRG, a fund worth fighting for

Kevin Anderson speaks to the senate.

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Kevin Anderson addresses athlete suspensions before U. Senate

BY JIM BACH Senior staff writer

In light of athletics department officials announcing three studentathletes’ suspensions this week, Athletic Director Kevin Anderson assured members of the University Senate yesterday the department would continue to hold athletes to high moral standards.

For the first time this week, Anderson addressed the one-year suspensions of men’s basketball players Terrell Stoglin and Mychal Parker and football linebacker Lukas Foreman at yesterday’s sen-

ate meeting. While some senators questioned the vagueness surrounding the suspensions, Anderson said the department was legally bound from disclosing the reasons for the punishments, but said the department was determined to uphold its standards of respect, passion, honor, innovation and transparency.

“Quite frankly, that won’t be tolerated,” he said of the suspensions.

“When you come here to be a student-athlete, it’s a privilege.”

Anderson also presented the Department of Intercollegiate

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Dining Services officials to buy flat-screen displays Menus to show nutritional information

BY ALLISON GRAY Staff writer

Group members hope to continue funding salaried positions

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

Mar yPIRG members won’t go down without a fight — they took the first steps yesterday toward saving the group’s internship program, which received massive cuts from the SGA last week.

David Bransfield — the president of Mar yPIRG, an on-campus public interest lobbying group — filed an appeal with the Student Government Association’s governance board Tuesday to overturn a recent referendum that made it unconstitutional for the SGA to continue funding Mar yPIRG’s two salaried positions. These full-time, non-student

employees run the group’s internship program — the two salaries amount to about $43,000, which is taken out of the mandator y student activities fee that ever y undergraduate pays.

Because the SGA does not typically fund salaries, students vote every two

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In final meeting, SGA members pass slew of resolutions

To stop printing nearly 200 paper menus each day, Dining Services plans to install at least 13 flat-screen displays in the dining halls in the coming months to display daily options and nutritional information.

Over the summer, Dining Services facilities maintenance workers will be on ladders in both the North and South Campus diners installing the equipment, according to Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple.

Depending on how many $12,000 TVs the department purchases, the project will cost between $156,000 and $264,000. Officials have been setting aside the funds from a mandatory Dining Services facili-

ties fee, which contributes to longterm renewal projects.

“We think it’ll really increase not just the image of Dining Services, but really the whole feel and utility of dining spaces,” Hipple said.

“They will become brighter, more modern and also more useful.”

Many schools within the National Association of College & University Food Services have implemented electronic menu boards already, Hipple said, and Dining Services Director Colleen Wright-Riva “spearheaded the effort” over the past two years to bring them to this university.

“We don’t want to put them somewhere that would be just a simple replacement for a sign,”

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In hours-long debate, legislators override presidential veto, approve new funding process, call for paperless sporting tickets

BY LEAH VILLANUEVA Senior staff writer

In their final meeting of the year, outgoing SGA legislators approved a new student group funding process, overrode a presidential veto to sponsor MyMaryland.net and called for the athletics department to adopt paperless tickets.

Members of the Student Government Association also amended one of the body’s bylaws — a clause prohibiting student activities fees from being used to fund salaried positions — so that any student group may have their request for salary funds placed on a referendum ballot. Additionally, a plurality

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of the almost 4,000 students who voted on the SGA elections ballot opposed funding salaried positions for MaryPIRG, rendering it unconstitutional for the SGA to grant the group an exception from the old clause.

Approving new financial process The SGA unanimously approved a new process for funding student groups after several months of deliberations by a committee of SGA members and student group leaders. Rather than dole out funding in annual spring allocations, the SGA will allocate funds on a rolling monthly basis. This process would begin in the 2013-14 year.

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“This was heavily thought out,” said Vice President of Financial Affairs David Berlin. “Groups will know exactly what they need. It’s more accountability for student groups, it’s more accountability for us, and it makes it a lot easier for the SGA and the student groups to get more involved with each other.”

Overriding MyMaryland.net veto Legislators unanimously overrode a veto SGA President Kaiyi Xie issued last week on a contentious bill that gave $2,500 to MyMaryland.net, a site aimed

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MaryPIRG intern James Jalandoni and President David Bransfield said their group relies on interns to lobby for student causes.

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our campus.”

Some students said they did not have a problem with their fees going toward salaries as long as it benefited students in the long run.

“It sounds like a good organization,” freshman journalism major Kate McNee said. “It’s good for students to practice and lobby for things so we can keep that going to be active in government.”

Others said it was fair to give students the opportunity to decide whether their fees would go toward these nonstudent positions.

“If students disagree with it, they have every right to vote against it,” sophomore government and politics major Kevin McIntyre said.

“If they consent, then that’s okay. If they don’t, then MaryPIRG’s out of luck.”

Athletics’ Vision Statement — a strategic plan outlining the guiding principles and values for student-athletes — which emphasizes academic achievement as much as success in their sport. Officials began crafting the plan at the beginning of the academic year by compiling information and conducting meetings within the department.

“There are many programs in this countr y that think, ‘We have athletes first and then students,’” Anderson said.

“We wanted to create an atmosphere where our athletes understand that we want them to graduate.”

Some senators, however, said they felt the depar tment did not act in accordance with its values this week.

Senator Doron Levy, a mathematics professor, said the vague information regarding the suspensions did not align with the department’s mission of being transparent.

“I could not quite figure out the details of what happened last week,” Levy said. “I’m a little bit disturbed by some lack of transparency here.”

But Anderson said the department revealed as much as it could and the students were “dealt with appropriately.”

“There are certain things that I think all of us know that we’re not open to discuss about students, period,” Anderson said. “It’s as open and as transparent as we can be from a legal standpoint.”

Senators also expressed concern over low graduation rates among athletes in revenue-generating sports. Faculty senator Chris Davis, an electrical and computer engineering professor, said he was war y of students’ ability to balance the demands of a full academic load and a rigorous practice schedule.

“I’m always concerned that we make enormous demands on these studentathletes,” Davis said, noting he also felt scholarships did not adequately compensate athletes’ “enormous demands.”

“I’ve long felt that students work so hard that when you calculate scholarships’ value and how much time they put into their sports, it’s less than minimum wage.”

Anderson, however, said because some student-athletes wouldn’t be accepted into this university based on their academic merit, department officials tr y to emphasize the rare educational opportunities they receive.

“We have to do what’s best within the system that we’re working in right now,” Anderson said. “To a certain degree, being a student-athlete, you do have options.”

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from page 1 years on the body’s elections ballot whether to continue to fund these positions. Last Wednesday, the body announced that 37 percent of voters opposed funding these salaries, while 32 percent voted in favor. MaryPIRG members then returned the $12,297 the SGA allocated them earlier that week, leaving them with a little more than $1,000 — enough for the group to survive, but not for the salaries.

“Without funding for staff salaries, MaryPIRG would not be able to run this internship program, which is clearly a valuable resource for the over 50 course credit interns we’ve had this year and hundreds of volunteers who work on the campaigns

we run,” MaryPIRG Campus Organizer Dan Herb wrote in an email.

Bransfield said the news came as a surprise, as members of MaryPIRG spent three days petitioning students across the campus to vote to continue funding the salaries, and collected a total of 2,117 signatures.

“We know that students on this campus think that we should be doing what we’re doing,” he said. “We got almost 2,200 signatures, and the numbers don’t lie.”

However, the group was the subject of controversy during last year’s SGA funding process, when MaryPIRG was allocated more appeals money than any other student group.

Because some legislators were concerned students did not fully understand what MaryPIRG’s funding went

toward, the body reworded the referendum on this year’s ballot to include the group’s salary breakdown.

As far as student groups go, student activities fees do not only support MaryPIRG’s salaries; the fees also fund the salaries of student defenders in the Undergraduate Student Legal Aid Office. According to the behavioral and social sciences college guidelines — out of which MaryPIRG runs its internship program — students may not run programs that offer class credit, which is why the group hires non-student employees.

Despite the cut, Bransfield said he is determined to preserve the group’s campus organizer position — the employee who educates and trains the interns on grassroots activism and organization — next year.

Junior government and

politics major James Jalandoni, a Mar yPIRG intern and campaign coordinator, agreed many students would lose a valuable opportunity if the internship were lost.

“This internship provided me with a lot of skills I previously did not have. I learned to organize and make change about issues I care about,” he said. “And the skills taught to me are available to anyone in the university.”

Bransfield noted MaryPIRG advocates for important student issues, including voter registration and college affordability, and the group depends on interns to lobby for these issues in Annapolis.

“We will keep doing our work,” Bransfield said. “The work we do is not work that can be replicated without us. ... Losing our internship availability would be a tragedy for

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MENUS from page 1 Hipple said. “They would need to have some added value to our customers in order for it to be worth us putting up.”

He said these menu boards, most of which will be about 46 inches wide, will be more visible, as the paper signs are hard to see behind customers.

“We’ve really struggled to make sure that we’re not just taking sideboards and replacing them with electronic sideboards.”

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“They’re small and if you’re coming up to a counter, you’re coming up the value meal line, you can’t see it until you’re second or third in line,” Hipple said.

He added that there will also be more space to dis-

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play chef specials, which are not online, and nutritional information.

In addition, Dining Services will be able to eliminate using 180 sheets of paper each day between both dining halls to print menus, he said.

“Anywhere you can minimize the paper, that’s a good thing,” Hipple said.

Alysha Heckman, a sophomore anthropology and geographic information systems major, was surprised by the amount of paper the dining halls use on a day-today basis.

“I had no idea, I thought you were going to say six [sheets of paper],” Heckman said.

Hipple emphasized that the electronic menu boards will be an asset to the dining halls.

“It’s not like switching out a red carpet for a blue carpet; we’ve really struggled to make sure that we’re not just taking sideboards and replacing them with electronic sideboards.”

Sofia Tassano, a sophomore civil engineering major, said she typically looks to see what the specials are, but that the boards will be a convenient addition.

“I usually go in and squeeze through the line and check,” she said. “You could stay in one spot and look around and see ever ything, it would be nice.” gray@umdbk.com

SGA from page 1 at connecting students and state residents with lawmakers.

Some legislators argued the SGA should not fund a company’s startup costs — MyMaryland.net is set to launch within a month — and Xie vetoed the bill after he and site founder Ben Simon failed to come to an agreement that redefined the organization’s relationship with the site.

However, Xie said he and Simon, a former Diamondback columnist, were able to negotiate Xie’s concerns over the past week, and agreed the SGA would only fund the site once it is launched and functional. The bill’s sponsor, letters and sciences legislator Zane Adoum, amended the legislation to reflect this, and Xie agreed to support the veto override.

“The whole point was to respect the legislature’s autonomy,” Xie said after the meeting.

“We came to a consensus on how the contract would look on the SGA side of it and specific ideas in the website.”

Simon said he looked forward to having the site up and running by the fall.

“We had a lot of support from the students, from the SGA legislators and eventually from Kaiyi [Xie],” Simon said. “I’m glad he came back to the table and gave support for overturning his own veto, and I’m glad that we were able to incorporate

the changes that he wanted to see.”

Rewriting the referendum clause Legislators approved a clause allowing any group to request funding for salaried positions from the SGA. Every two years on the SGA election ballot, students would then vote to support or oppose those funds.

Although it is typically against the SGA’s bylaws to fund salaries, the body had granted an exemption to MaryPIRG contingent on this referendum vote — a plurality of students voted against the funding of MaryPIRG’s salaries this year.

The new referendum would list the dollar amount of these salaries; how much each individual student would contribute toward these salaries; and the percentage of the student activities fee that would go toward the salaries.

The salaried positions of Undergraduate Student Legal Aid and Student Entertainment Events are automatically exempt.

However, legislators spent more than an hour debating the language of the clause to ensure a positive referendum vote would not guarantee funding for a group’s salaried positions. Legislators would still have to vote on how much to fund toward these salaries just as they would vote to fund any other organization.

The SGA overrode President Kaiyi Xie’s MyMaryland.net veto after Xie and Ben Simon negotiated a deal. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

“We just wanted to be sure that because the [referendum] result was ‘yes,’ that we weren’t bound to give them the money,” Speaker for the Legislature Carson McDonald said after the meeting.

Supporting paperless ticketing at athletic events In a unanimous vote, legislators also passed a bill calling for the athletics department to switch to a paperless ticketing system. McDonald, who sponsored the bill, would work with the registrar’s office to store ticket information on student identification cards.

“Getting rid of this paper consumption is really a remarkable change,” Senior Vice President Matthew Popkin said.

Splitting the director of governmental affairs position

Roommates

In a 16-5 vote with no abstentions, the body approved splitting the current director of governmental affairs position into two roles: a governmental

affairs director to focus on lobbying in Annapolis and a community affairs director to focus on local issues.

Some legislators questioned whether splitting the role was necessary and would only create more bureaucracy within the body. Others worried there could be a power struggle between the two positions in the governmental affairs committee, as the former would serve as chairperson and the latter would be vice-chairperson.

However, supporters argued having two separate roles would allow the organization to address additional issues, such as off-campus housing.

“It’s a lot of work for one person, so this would let each focus on what they’re best at and their area of expertise,” said computer, mathematical and natural sciences legislator Elizabeth Antman, who sponsored the amendment.

“It’s a great way to get more things done and focus on a greater variety of issues.” villanueva@umdbk.com

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BASING JUDGEMENT ON MERITS I consider myself a reasonable guy. I like to look at both sides of an issue, hear what people are saying, examine it from different perspectives and draw my own conclusions: pretty standard operating procedure.

When I found out that John Berry, director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, was speaking at commencement, I dozed off for a few minutes.

But there’s another dimension to Mr. Berry: He’s gay.

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A better way to share

Setting the record straight

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hanks to a grant announced this week by Gov. Martin O’Malley, the for four stations on the campus, at Eppley Recreation Center, McKeldin area will eventually feature a flock of the same bright red bicycles Library, Stamp Student Union and the Regents Drive Garage. Four more stathat have become nearly ubiquitous in Washington.The state will tions will be located in the city: at the College Park Metro Station, Hollywood provide the university and College Park with a $375,000 grant to Shopping Center, The Varsity housing complex and near the downtown interinstall eight bicycle stations from the Capital Bikeshare program, a public- section of Knox Road and Route 1.

One reason the bikeshare program has enjoyed so much success — more private partnership founded in 2010 that features more than 1,200 bikes in than a million rides by its first anniversary — is the denabout 140 stations in Washington and Arlington, Va. sity of stations in Washington. If a rider finds his desired Officials hope to finalize paper work by July 1 and docking location is full, he has a 15-minute grace period expect it will take about a year to fully implement to find another spot. That’s pretty easy when stations are the system, which means the bikes should be availThe Capital Bikeshare located all over the place, but it would be a major hassle able to students and residents sometime during program certainly has for local users. Just imagine riding to the Metro station summer 2013.

It’s great news for the city and university, both of potential, and should the city only to realize the docking station is full and you must ride back to downtown College Park to park your bike, which have applied — and been rejected — for numerand university consider then walk back to the Metro station. It would defeat the ous bike-sharing grants in past years. The state will pay 80 percent of the nearly $500,000 cost of imple- students’ needs in different entire purpose of the program.

When plotting the eight planned docking stations on menting the program, with the university and city each chipping in about $45,000. It’s also great for stu- locations, it can be successful. a map, some potential bottlenecks quickly emerge: the Metro station and Hollywood Shopping Center are far dents and area residents who want to make a quick removed from other stations, which makes them potential dead-end destinatrip to or from the College Park Metro Station or across the campus.

But despite the heavy startup costs, the program isn’t free to use. Nor is it tions. Also, as most students know all too well, the campus is relatively hilly: A docking station at Stamp is likely to see plenty of users riding downhill certain to be successful.

Users will have to pay just for the right to enroll in the program, with fees toward Route 1 or the ERC, but how many people will want to make the expected to range from $5 for a 24-hour pass to $75 for a year of access. At cur- return trip?

The scarcity of stations will also discourage students from riding to class; rent rates, bike rental is free for the first 30 minutes and costs $1.50 for up to who wants to risk being late if your desired station is full? Even if the bikes an hour: after that, the rate increases until reaching an hourly price of $12.

The pricing is designed to encourage short trips over lengthy ones — and are redistributed to the stations at night it seems likely more than a few to help keep bikes available for other users. But the system is also designed users will have a bad experience — something a fledgling program like this for high-density urban areas, a description not exactly befitting this subur- can’t really afford.

Despite our concerns, the editorial board believes the bikeshare program ban college town.

Our main concern is with the scarcity of stations. According to College has a chance to become quite successful. We just hope the city and univerPark Patch, the joint grant proposal submitted by the city and university calls sity find a way to ensure there are enough stations to make success a reality.

do it. But what more can you ask of an employee? This way, you can always be sure it will be done now as it has always been done before.

What’s most impressive about Mr. Intern? His values. It was clear that he held professionalism above all. Mr. Intern is certainly unique in that he, at a very young age, mind you, has managed to learn the difference between professional attire and business casual. Every day Mr. Intern came in, he was dedicated to acting as much like a robot as possible. And I can think of no higher compliment than that. He possesses the efficiency of a supercomputer but has none of the desire for world domination.

In short, Mr. Intern comes with my highest recommendation. He has stapled for us, and he can staple for you. He is the best at being mediocre, and that’s all anyone should ever expect of an intern.

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

Courtney Guth is a sophomore English major. She can be reached at courtneyleighguth@gmail.com.

Editorial cartoon: Ben Stryker

The hypocrisy of affirmative action

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remember going through the heinous college application process about a year and a half ago.

As I struggled to figure out whether I should check off “Asian” or “White” on my application, I kept on thinking to myself, “Why does mentioning race even matter?”

After stating that I was an Asian-American female on my application to Smith College, a predominately white women’s school, I was stunned when the college gave me a $20,000 scholarship just for being a “minority of academic merit” — as if, for some reason, minorities weren’t supposed to be worthy of academic merit.

In high school, I had a pretty good GPA, decent test scores and involvement in extracurricular activities, but then again, so did everyone else who applied to Smith.

The Supreme Court is about to hear Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin, a case that may lead the court to interpret affirmative action as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Affirmative action, which has the clear purpose of preventing

CAROLINE CARLSON racism and discrimination, might just be interpreted as racist itself.

Throughout history, minorities in this country have endured the insidious experience of being judged for their race and had to work hard to make their oppression end. However, when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, he called for equality in America — not reverse racism.

As much as I appreciated getting a scholarship, receiving one based off of my racial status felt like a slap in the face.

Obtaining a scholarship or acceptance into a school partially based off of racial background tells me society doesn’t think I can get accepted on my own. Because I am a “minority,” I somehow naturally lack the strength and academic talent of the

majority. Because Smith referred to me as a minority, the admissions officers automatically assumed I had a tough background, in which I had been discriminated against and attacked. The funny thing is, I lived a perfect life. I lived in an uppermiddle class household, I was rarely discriminated against and, honestly, I knew of many white males who had an entirely worse upbringing than I did. But they never got scholarships.

As the end of the year approaches, seniors are hearing back from graduate schools and employers. It’s just a matter of time before I’m in their shoes.

But will deciding between marking myself as “Asian” or “White” factor into my acceptance into a law school or a business firm?

In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that public colleges, like this university, can consider race as one of the factors for admission. But seeing how competitive this university has become, it would be better off having a racially blind admission and scholarship process. As much as our undergraduate admissions director states

this could negatively affect students by not creating a diverse college experience, is our university really that diverse in the first place?

The university must understand that diversity cannot be socially engineered, as if you can just put a bunch of people of different ethnicities together and call your school “diverse.” Diversity is something that naturally happens on its own over time, whether we’re referring to racial diversity, intellectual diversity or religious diversity.

Essentially, affirmative action is a constitutional paradox. You are doing something unequal to ultimately create something that’s supposedly equal. As more students apply to this competitive school, the university should try to define each applicant for the incoming class based off of their academic merit and skills, not partially based off the color of their skin.

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

A letter of recommendation

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o whom it may concern: I have worked with John Q. Intern extensively over the past few months. I recommend him to you with full confidence.

Mr. Intern has an extensive skill set that surely represents everything you’re looking for. He can operate landline telephones, respond to emails using English, acquire coffee, make lists and file papers. During his time with us, Mr. Intern learned how to do what he was told without questioning it. Any burgeoning leadership capabilities he may have been developing were certainly squashed here. We bestowed upon him all the administrative talents necessary for a career in clerical work or middle management. If you hire Mr. Intern, fear not — he cannot and will not think autonomously; he cannot and will not try to change anything.

Aside from the few occasions when Mr. Intern showed up at the office looking rather gaunt and downtrodden — presumably from starvation, as we

extracted multiple days labor from him without pay — he fit into our office culture perfectly. He spoke only when spoken to, and no one spoke to him. He followed orders unfailingly. Mr. Intern is the kind of leader this world needs: The kind of leader who shies away from following his dreams or realizing his potential, instead slipping on his faded ID badge and projecting an image of importance to his peers.

You may worry when you look at Mr. Intern’s resume: “Is this not an exceptional person? Does he not possess the ability to do great things?” No. No, no.

Mr. Intern does not go any deeper than this document. He is as flat as the piece of paper on which he is described. He is nothing beyond his list of accomplishments and the bullet points on his resume. We made sure of that.

Mr. Intern expressed his desire to see what the “real world” was like when we first hired him. At first, we were unsure why he thought this experience would be more representative of reality than

JAKE DEVIRGILIIS any other. We then realized — it is Mr. Intern who is not real. He is only pretending. He will fit right in wherever you put him.

His networking talents are astounding — forgoing friendships to work for us, building an electronic empire of contacts. We have trained him well to make all interactions with other humans superficial. He certainly can pretend to like people. They will pretend to like him, too. Mr. Intern does not see any importance in taking relationships further than this. Very pragmatic of him.

He will work mindlessly and never think critically. However, I can assure you he is capable of completing any task — as long as you tell him exactly how to

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aura Frost’s column, “The war on women: It’s the wrong fight,” yesterday on UMD Feminists for Sexual Health’s recent SlutWalk event was completely inaccurate, and misrepresentative of the entire mission. I will acknowledge that Frost is entitled to her own opinion, but what good is an opinion without the proper facts to back it up? If Frost has the audacity to call me an “ungrateful person” for my personal beliefs, then I’d like to take a moment to point out that she is incredibly uninformed.

I agree the issues facing our sisters in China, Africa, the Middle East and other regions around the world are a high priority, yet that does not make our own issues on the homefront any less important.

At this university, Feminism Without Borders aims to address the concerns regarding the oppression of women in other countries, and the new group — Feminists for Sexual Health, the sponsors of SlutWalk — works to fight for reproductive rights here at home. Both groups are inherently important to the broader issues that affect women around the globe, and no issue is less important than another.

While I admire Frost’s powerful use of anaphora, I found her statements overgeneralized and misinformed. Let’s set the record straight: We are not fighting for the right to wear exposing clothing and have no one say anything bad about us. We are fighting for the right to speak out against victim blaming and the belief that a woman deserved to be raped because of the clothes she wore. Like many marches, it served the purpose of raising awareness about an issue and gaining attention for a movement. It certainly has people talking. Victim blaming is an issue that needs to end. Go ahead and try to tell me I deserved to encounter a form of sexual assault when I walked home from my school bus during my sophomore year of high school, wearing a pair of jeans and a simple T-shirt. Did this encounter not count because it took place in a suburban neighborhood rather than a third-world country? Frost has missed the point.

We are not fighting to have the government force companies to offer more extensive health coverage; we are fighting to make birth control more available and affordable for those who need it most.

Some don’t even need it because they want to have sex; they need it because it prevents harmful ovarian cysts and reduces symptoms of PMS. In many of her columns, Frost openly admits that she is a Catholic. Would the 98 percent of Catholic women who have used some form of artificial contraception agree they should not have ample access to birth control at an affordable price?

Additionally, we are not fighting for the right to “murder [our] babies” — we are fighting for the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy for a wide variety of reasons. This is a choice that affects only the individual, not Frost or anyone else. What a woman decides to do with her pregnancy is her prerogative. I do not need to go into the whole debate of pro-choice versus prolife, because what that ultimately comes down to is a matter of moral beliefs, and we will probably never agree. However, I will say this: Pro-choice is pro-life, in that an abortion can protect a mother from a pregnancy that may ultimately kill her.

So there you have it. A taste of what we’re really fighting for.

We’re not here “to take voters’ attention away from the real issues.” These are the real issues.

Issues I plan to consider carefully as I vote in my first election this November. I’m sorry you’re “embarrassed to be associated with [us] and ashamed that this is what [we] consider worth fighting for.” Perhaps if you did choose to associate with us and attended a meeting, you’d see what we’re really about. We’re not proactively prancing in heels for our own benefit. We’re striding with pride to address and change the narrow minded views that you present.

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Promotion for Marvel’s The Avengers began four years ago when, at the end of Iron Man, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) met Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, Meeting Evil), director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who expressed interest in putting together a team of superheroes.

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GALINDO from page 8 she soon could achieve speaks for itself.

And if that’s not enough, Galindo’s teammates are more than willing to chime in. Senior outfielder Sloane Van Meter said Galindo’s legacy will be obvious, and whoever is charged with the unenviable task of replacing her “definitely has some big shoes to fill.”

“If it’s a big-time game, she comes through for us, and that’s a good role model to feed off of,” Van Meter said. “If she can do it, we can do it.

That’s the vibe she gives off to us.”

Just as she won’t show off her body of work, Galindo is hesitant to call herself an outspoken leader, even as her career winds down.

“I’m not the one to talk and yell and get people upset,” she said.

“There’s five of us seniors, and we have different characters, so they can take part in that role.”

Galindo claims her home state’s laid-back attitude contributes to that leadership approach. She might be the only one who thinks so.

“She’s become more vocal,” coach Laura Watten said of Galindo over the years. “She’s taken charge.”

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matter how tedious or repetitive they may be.

“That’s the Vangie we know.

She’s always putting forth the effort to go the extra mile, and not settle for an average play,” said David Galindo, Vangie’s father.

“She puts her whole heart in everything she does.”

The statistics show she’s done that for her four years as a Terp.

And when Galindo’s family makes the more than 2,600-mile trip to College Park to see her final home game on Sunday afternoon, that steady commitment to excellence will be on full display.

“It’s the reality of every Senior Day, and Senior Weekend is tough for me,” Watten said. “I hate seeing my players have to graduate and move on. This is a really special senior class to me.”

Galindo’s determination has put her in a special place among that senior class: on the edge of Terps histor y. True to form, she is overly gracious about her opportunity to claim the hits record. If she reaches hit number 220, one can forgive her for finally being a little selfish.

“It’s an honor. I just hope that someone will beat it,” Galindo said.

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young Terps defense. He leads the Raiders with 27 assists, showing his knack for finding the open man.

“He is a difficult matchup because if you play him as a scorer, he gets teammates [involved],” ESPN lacrosse analyst Paul Carcaterra said.

That’s exactly what Tillman saw him do Sunday. The target of numerous Lehigh double teams, Baum exploded for six assists to go along with his three goals. It was a dominant performance, one Tillman knows his team will likely need to avoid to secure a home game this postseason.

The selection committee will announce the NCAA Tournament bracket Sunday night, meaning tomorrow’s contest is the Terps’ last opportunity to lobby for a top seed. With a mix of impressive wins (Johns Hopkins, Duke) and disappointing defeats (UMBC), the Terps figure to be on the bubble for a top-eight slot, which guarantees home-field advantage for next weekend’s firstround matchup.

“That’s what we’re really trying to do. We want to get another time in Byrd for the seniors.”

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A win over the Raiders would likely secure that.

“I think the only thing we looked for in the seedings is that we know we have to win this game to try to get a home game,” Bernhardt said. “And that’s what we’re really trying to do. We want to get another time in Byrd for the seniors.”

Of course, that’s hardly the Terps’ main focus. Right now, it’s all about avenging last year’s loss and making Tillman’s 13hour road trip worthwhile.

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“I knew in my mind that I was going to have [Tommy John] surgery,” he said, “or I was going to have to stop playing baseball.”

Harman opted for Tommy John surgery, a reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament that involves replacing the elbow tendon with another tendon from elsewhere in the body.

It would be 15 months before Harman pitched again.

“Once the surgery happened, you just wonder if you’ll ever be able to get back out on the field and play again, pitch again,” Harman said. “There’s that doubt initially. It’s a successful surgery. They say a 90 percent recovery rate, so you’ve just got to trust the people around you and trust the support.”

Harman took a redshirt season in 2011 and watched the Terps finish 21-35 in Bakich’s second year. While watching from the dugout as the team struggled to a 5-25 finish in ACC play, Harman tried to help his teammates as much as he could, even though he couldn’t be toeing the rubber for the Terps.

“At first I would say it was a little difficult, but my teammates were great about it,” Harman said. “They were always there for me. They were supporting me through that and you learn, when you’re sitting out, you learn you can help the team in other ways by teaching and being there for them.”

As the rest of the Terps did their conditioning and workouts, Harman was right there beside them rehabbing his injury, waiting for his chance to begin contributing to the team on the field, rather than simply offering words of encouragement from the dugout.

“You need to look to the returning players a lot of times for leadership, guidance, mentorship and just a general idea of how to do things,” Bakich said in February. “He provided that. He provided a voice at times, but I think for him it was a little bit frustrating to be in that leadership type of role as a player who wasn’t playing.”

When the 2012 season began in late February, there Harman was: on roster, in uniform, ready to take the mound again.

It didn’t take long for the Terps to see they were getting the same pitcher back that was their ace in 2010. In fact, Harman, a fifth-year senior, was better.

In his first start Feb. 19 at UCLA, Harman struck out eight Bruins in five shutout innings, allowing only two hits and one walk. The Terps won, 5-1, clinching their first road series

victory in almost three years.

“If anything, I think he’s come back stronger,” catcher Jack Cleary said after the UCLA series. “He’s been working real hard to get back and his confidence is there, and I think this weekend was good for him. It’s good to see him back out there.”

Harman didn’t allow a single earned run until his fourth start of the season at Wake Forest on March 11, letting up four over 7.1 innings in a 4-3 loss to the Demon Deacons.

But Harman came right back the next week, scattering seven hits and two walks over eight shutout innings in a 1-0 win over No. 10 North Carolina, helping the Terps avoid a sweep.

That game confirmed what many watching the Terps had come to realize.

“I feel like I’m completely back,” Harman said March 18.

“But even when you’re completely healthy, there’s always room to keep improving.

You’ve just got to keep working hard every day and get better at your deficiencies.”

Last Saturday at Virginia Tech, with the Terps trying to claw their way back into the ACC Tournament race, Harman provided a stellar performance to even the series and help keep the Terps’ hopes alive.

Harman struck out a seasonhigh 10 batters in eight innings, allowing a lone unearned run in an 8-1 Terps win. For center fielder and relief pitcher Korey Wacker, it was a prime example of what Harman has brought to the resurgent Terps program, both on and off the field.

“On Saturday against Virginia Tech, playing behind him, I didn’t get a single ball,” Wacker said. “The whole game I didn’t get one ball. Seeing that guy go out on the mound with a load of confidence lets me know when I’m in the outfield, he’s going to attack the hitters and do his job.

“I can’t say enough about the guy for dealing with adversity whenever it calls. He’s just a warrior.”

As the season winds down — the Terps have six ACC games and seven games remaining overall — Harman is looking to help lead the Terps into the ACC Tournament and beyond for the first time in his five years in College Park.

But even if it does end, Harman knows he’s made an impact on his teammates that extends beyond the dugout, weight room and locker room.

He’s always been comfortable on the mound. Now, he’s learned a lot about handling the spotlight off the field, too.

“I guess it’s a lot like baseball,” Harman said of his graduation. “It’s just funny to look back on now.” dgallen@umdbk.com

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Sports

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BASEBALL

MEN’S LACROSSE

Terps wary of road trip to Colgate Raiders feature No. 2 offense in Division I

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Senior staff writer

Harman’s mound presence to simply flipping a switch between off and on. In the classroom, Harman’s a two-time All-Academic ACC selection.

When he crosses the baselines, though, something changes.

“It’s the competitiveness inside of me,” Harman said. “You get out on the mound and it’s a pride thing. You have ‘Maryland’ across the front of your jersey, and you just want to go out there and compete for yourself and your program, your team. You just kind of get out there and it’s all business on the field.”

Harman’s 6-3 record and 2.79 ERA have been invaluable to the best Terps team in Bakich’s three years at the helm in College Park.

But last year, his career was in doubt. There was a question of whether he would be pitching for the Terps at all in 2012, much less at — or beyond — the level that saw him lead the team in ERA in 2010.

Throughout that season, where Harman was 5-8 with a 4.50 ERA, he felt discomfort in his elbow. He just pitched through the pain.

After all, that’s what baseball players are supposed to do. Harman could rest it and do some rehab, and he’d be all set for the 2011 season, his senior campaign.

But the pain never went away. After five

No one would’ve blamed John Tillman for catching up on some muchneeded sleep last weekend.

With the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s next opponent, Colgate, set to play a nationally televised game against Lehigh last Sunday, the second-year coach shouldn’t have needed to leave home to write up his scouting report.

But that’s hardly Tillman’s style. Not with a regular-season finale against one of the nation’s most dynamic offenses looming.

So before dawn broke Sunday morning, Tillman made the six-and-a-half hour trek north to Hamilton, N.Y. And after watching No. 12 Colgate fall to the No. 7 Mountain Hawks in the highest-scoring championship game in Patriot League history, he hopped in his car and headed straight back to College Park.

“That tells you how much we’re factoring this game and how much we respect them,” Tillman said, “and how concerned we are.”

Who can blame him? After all, Colgate (12-3) has only improved since upsetting the No. 9 Terps (9-4) at Byrd Stadium on Senior Day last year.

The Raiders have tallied four wins over top-20 teams this season and rank second in Division I in scoring offense (13.6 goals per game). A win over Bucknell in the Patriot League semifinals last Friday secured Colgate’s highest single-season win total in the program’s 91-year history.

“They pose a lot of problems,” Tillman said. “And the fact that we’re on the road, we’re certainly the underdog there. They’re pretty much the favorite, so we’re going to have to really work hard to get ready for them.”

A great deal of that preparation has focused on a single player: attackman Peter Baum. After leading Colgate with 49 points last season, the Tewaaraton nominee has emerged as perhaps the most dangerous offensive player in college lacrosse this season.

Baum leads the country in points per game (5.73) and goals per game (3.93), and has already set his school’s single-season scoring record with 86 points — only four points fewer than that of the Terps’ entire starting attack.

“We’ve definitely been keeping a good eye on him, and he’s a very good player,” long pole Jesse Bernhardt said. “Obviously one of the best scorers in the nation.”

But it’s not necessarily Baum’s scoring ability that’s most concerning for a

see HARMAN, page 7

see RAIDERS, page 7

Fifth-year senior pitcher Brett Harman, who missed last year with an elbow injury, is 6-3 this season with a 2.79 ERA.

JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

In the spotlight

BY DANIEL GALLEN Staff writer

All of the attention was on Brett Harman. The crowd was watching his every move. His nerves started to overcome him. He had to take a step back and take some deep breaths before he continued.

It was a familiar position for the Terrapins baseball pitcher. Except he wasn’t on the mound at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium or anywhere else in the country. He was in Cole Field House, about to walk across a stage to receive his diploma at graduation last May. “I just never like being in the center of things,” Harman said. “I know that’s kind of contradictory because you’re out in the middle on the pitcher’s mound, but walking across the stage was one of the hardest things to do with the big crowd and everything.”

It’s an ironic twist for a player who spends much of his time on the diamond elevated nearly a foot above the rest of the competition. For someone who so feared the glare from his peers at graduation, pitching in front of every watchful eye in a stadium should be a Herculean task.

Yet when he toes the rubber, Harman is unfazed. He has consistently found himself in that spotlight for the Terps this year, delivering series-salvaging wins or catalyzing win streaks, all while filling the role as the Terps’

Tommy John surgery behind him, Harman starring in Terps’ rotation most consistent pitcher.

This season alone, Harman has pitched in hostile environments at No. 15 UCLA, East Carolina and Miami. Tomorrow, the Terps start a three-game series at No. 1 Florida State, where Harman will find himself once again at the center of attention as the Terps (29-20, 8-16 ACC) look to make a late ACC run against the Seminoles (37-7, 19-2).

“We kind of talk about Harman being the Jekyll-and-Hyde guy,” reliever Charlie Haslup said. “Off the mound, he’s kind of soft-spoken, kind of a lighter of a personality. But then when he gets on the mound, he’s a bulldog and he battles.”

Earlier this season, coach Erik Bakich equated

SOFTBALL

Hitting her mark Galindo close to becoming Terps’ all-time hits leader

BY JASON BENSCHER Staff writer

It’s so repetitive. It’s been done so many times, it’s almost robotic. A short, compact swing lines a single past the shortstop. A flick of the wrists punches the ball into center. A perfect bunt deadens it in front of home plate.

In the blink of an eye, there’s a runner on first.

To some, those base hits might seem boring, unexciting. But the slap-hitting repetition has worked for Vangie Galindo quite a bit — 213 times, to be exact.

“I think out of nowhere,” she said, “slapping just came about.”

It’s been that way for the Terrapins left fielder since her early teenage years, and she’s parlayed it into success at a major college program.

Galindo’s .339 career average is the highest in school history by a wide margin. She already owns the single-season records for most hits and highest average. And if she can amass seven hits before the season ends, she’ll pass Jenny Belak as the program’s all-time hits leader.

The Fontana, Calif., native has been recordchasing all season. When the Terps (32-18, 8-7 ACC) host No. 20 Florida State (44-11, 15-3) this weekend, the senior will have the rare opportunity to reach those high-water marks before family and friends in her final home appearance.

“It’s really funny, because I forget,” Galindo

said. “I’ll usually have to ask coach, ‘What was my record?’”

It’s a fitting concession, one that reveals the modesty she had as a five-year-old first picking up a softball.

That humility was with her as she joined her first travel team in elementary school, and was still apparent when she earned All-San Bernadino County Honors at Etiwanda High School in 2008.

Despite setting a school record with 32 career stolen bases, however, Galindo didn’t garner interest from the nation’s top programs. After wading through offers from the likes of Penn State, Cal State Fullerton and Florida International, Galindo chose the first program to show her serious interest. She chose the Terps.

It’s a decision that’s paid off for both parties.

When Galindo arrived in College Park in fall 2008, she was hardly a blue-chip recruit. She will leave College Park with a legacy of singles littering the outfield at Robert E. Taylor Stadium, a mark of the success that other programs overlooked. Still, she’s hesitant to talk about her individual accomplishments.

“I don’t think I’ve recognized it,” she said. “I haven’t taken it in that I’ve set those kinds of records here.”

Not that she needs to. The all-time hits mark

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Left fielder Vangie Galindo is seven hits away from setting the Terps’ all-time career hits mark. She has a chance to do it in a Senior Weekend series against Florida State. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK