May 8. 2014

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Cinco de Mayo diner costumes stir controversy

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer M a r i a Fe r n a n d a A n d i a a n d Ulysses Muñoz sat in the South Campus Dining Hall eating together Monday when they noticed several Dining Services employees wearing sombreros and fake mustaches.

Employees were dressed up and decorations hung from both the North and South Campus dining halls’ ceilings for the Cinco de Mayo

dinner, during which Dining Services served foods such as tacos, burritos and tres leches cake slices in celebration of the holiday.

“At first we thought of it as kind of humorous and a little bizarre,” said Andia, a sophomore anthropology and journalism major. “Then we started seeing [multiples] of them, just mustache and the sombrero, and then I just — I drew back for a second.”

Andia and Muñoz, two Latino students, said they tried to take a photo of an employee wearing the costume

when Imelda Mejia, one of the dining hall’s managers, approached them and told Andia she could not photograph employees without the Dining Services’ marketing department’s and the employees’ permissions.

Mejia and Andia spoke in Spanish with each other, and the student asked Mejia if she felt it was right to celebrate the holiday in such a way, Andia said.

Andia then approached a cashier wearing the costume, and Sean Tilton, the dining hall’s assistant di-

rector, told her she could not distract the employees during their shifts but could speak with them when they go on break as long as they were willing, she said.

Andia said she found the hats and false mustaches offensive, much as others might react to a costume featuring blackface, but the employees Andia questioned were not willing to voice their opinions or did not consider the costumes a problem.

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a student orders from a South Campus Dining Hall worker in a sombrero. photo courtesy of the publicasian

Graduates elect new GSG leaders Biophysics PhD student elected body president

By Joelle Lang @joelleRlang Staff writer

Democratic Gubernatorial hopefuls Attorney General Doug Gansler, state Del. Heather Mizeur and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (left to right) at yesterday’s primary debate.

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clash of the candidates Democratic gubernatorial candidates hold first debate on campus

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Staff writer The first debate of this state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary took place last night at this university’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, with two candidates exchanging verbal attacks and a third avoiding the heat.

The three candidates are competing for the Democratic nomination in the June 24 primary, a victory that could put the winner in prime position for the gubernatorial race. This state, long considered Democratically controlled, has elected only one Republican governor,

Robert Ehrlich — who served from 2003 to 2007 — in the past 45 years.

Attorney General Doug Gansler began by blaming Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown for the botched rollout of this state’s health care website. In April, the state decided to abandon the failed system — which cost $125 million — and hired Deloitte Consulting to rebuild the website.

“This is literally the one thing he’s been in charge of, that he’s managed or he’s led since he was lieutenant governor, and it’s been an unmitigated disaster,” Gansler said.

Brown later attacked Gansler’s parental judgment by bringing up an incident last June in which a beach house

party with underage drinkers, including his son.

“Could I have done something differently there that night? Absolutely,” Gansler said. “That was the mistake we made that night.”

Del. Heather Mizeur (D-Montgomery) avoided attacking the other candidates, saying, “Voters want candidates who remain positive, who are focused on the policy and not platitudes.” One topic she emphasized was marijuana legalization.

“If we legalize, tax and regulate marijuana,” Mizeur said, “not only are we bringing in a new revenue source that I See debate, Page 2

Business report shows city behind on recycling efforts City officials: recycling levels positive but still need improvement

By Eleanor Mueller @thedbk Staff writer College Park has made strides to improve sustainability efforts, but businesses in the city only recycle about half of what they could, according to a recent survey.

“There’s a lot of recycling being done by College Park businesses,” District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich said. “But there’s also a lot of room for improvement.”

The College Park Business Recycling Survey found businesses estimated they recycled 24 percent of their trash as of last Thursday, while about 42 percent was recyclable.

Of the 107 companies included in the survey, 60 percent cited space limitations for dumpsters and recycling carts as a minor, moderate or major barrier to recycling. Twenty-four percent indicated it was a major barrier.

“Lack of space is an issue,” Assistant City Manager Bill Gardiner said. “Hopefully these grant guidelines will encourage collaboration between businesses to share trash and recycling facilities.”

Businesses also cited time and expense in the survey as reasons

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“Some th i n k it’s too costly,” Stullich said. “T hat’s probably something we should explore.”

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Deborah Hemingway, a doctoral student studying biophysics, has been elected to serve as president of the Graduate Student Government’s 34th Assembly.

Previously, Hemingway served two years in the assembly as a biophysics representative and one year on the executive board as academic affairs vice president.

R e s u lt s of t h e l a s t m o nt h’s 2014-15 GSG elections were annou nce d ye s terd ay, of f ici a l ly naming Hemingway, who ran unopposed, as the top executive. She will replace former GSG President David Colón-Cabrera, who reached his two-year limit.

“I look forward to watching the GSG continue to progress under the leadership of Deborah Hemingway,” Colón-Cabrera said. “It’s really good that Deborah has been in an executive position this last year. Her experience will be invaluable for her success this upcoming year.”

As academic affairs vice president, Hemingway oversaw Graduate Research Interaction Day and chaired the day’s planning committee. She See GSG, Page 3

Hate incident displaces univ housekeeper

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer When a housekeeper who works in Easton Hall arrived for his shift Friday morning, he saw offensive language written on a lounge whiteboard.

N----- had been scrawled repeatedly on the whiteboard stationed in the communal room on one of the floors he cleans in the dorm, said the housekeeper, who asked to remain anonymous.

University Police received a call at about 9 a.m. regarding the hate bias incident, and officers responded to the dorm to find the derogatory word written all over the whiteboard, police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said.

After the incident, Residential Facilities advised him to work two floors below his assigned floor for two days

a recycling container sits in the North Campus Dining Hall. rachel george/the diamondback

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OPINION

FINDING AN APT COMPARISON

STAFF EDITORIAL: Feeling the sting of social media

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Prince George’s County Police would have made a terrible decision — and been no more transparent — had they executed a plan to live-tweet a prostitution sting P. 4

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debate From PAGE 1 dedicate to paying for a universal pre-K program, but we would also be sending an important message about the fact that this is a substance that is arguably less harmful to the body than alcohol and tobacco.”

Gansler and Brown agreed with the marijuana decriminalization bill but disagreed with Mizeur’s plan to legalize the drug. Brown said Mizeur’s legalization plan focused too much on ta x revenue and not enough on the “socioeconomic effects.”

A recent poll by St. Mary’s College showed Brown holding a strong lead, with 27.1 percent to Gansler’s 10.8 percent and Mizeur’s 7.7 percent. According to the poll, 54.3 percent of voters were undecided.

All three candidates said t hey supported changing

the name of the Washington Redskins, noting the racial insensitivity of the name.

During their discussion on education, Gansler said he would do more to improve the quality of minority education. He said this state had the second-highest minority achievement gap in the country and condemned Brown for his inaction on the issue, calling it the “moral stain of our state.”

Brown said he admitted the minority achievement gap is a problem but fired back at Gansler, saying, “If we pass the Gansler corporate tax giveaway, that moral stain will become an indelible blemish.”

When the issue of income inequality came up, Mizeur said the recent m in imum wage increase was not enough.

On Monday, G ov. Ma rti n O’Malley signed a bill increasing the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2018, but Mizeur ca l led the bi l l “watered-

David Gregory (right) of NBC News moderates last night’s Maryland Democratic primary debate at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. matt mcclain/the washington post down” and said she would do more to create a “living wage.”

The issue of college affordability was not discussed in the debate, but in a media question and answer session, Mizeur’s running mate, Delman Coates, discussed the college affordability plan she proposed Monday. He said the plan would increase state support for needbased tuition assistance by

$12 million per year and create a statewide commission to focus on college affordability.

“We believe there needs to be a greater focus on providing need based assistance for Marylanders,” Coates said.

The candidates will take part in two more televised debates before the primary. jbanisterdbk@gmail.com

The Candidates (left to right) Doug Gansler, Heather Mizeur and Anthony Brown are introduced at last night’s Democratic primary debate. matt mcclain/the washington post

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several special dinner nights throughout the semester with decorations and simple cosFrom PAGE 1 tumes for the employees to wear.

However, Hipple said these Tilton said he remembers the celebrations could be tempostudents were more aggresrary because they are meant to sive in trying to speak with employees and take photos. be something unique for stuHe informed the students that dents to enjoy and might get too Dining Services does not force repetitive over the years.

Hipple plans to bring up this its employees to wear costumes for this celebration or any others issue at the next Residence throughout the year and referred Hall Association Dining Serthe students to Dining Services vices Advisory Board meeting to determine whether other spokesman Bart Hipple.

Tilton sent an email to Hipple people were insulted and did about the scenario, writing that not speak up, he said.

Andia said she did not find students were concerned about the costumes and would contact the food and recognition of the holiday offensive, but she him about it, Tilton said.

Hipple said he received the felt the costumes were not an email and did not hear from any accurate representation of concerned students, but he saw Mexican culture.

“Because no one says anytweets from students — includthing, no one knows it’s ofing Andia — about the stereofensive, and it just continues,” types implied by the costumes.

He said Dining Services meant she said. nothing offensive by the celebration and that the diners hold hcuozzodbk@gmail.com

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If a student is eventually proven to be tied to the incident,, it could result in a referral to the From PAGE 1 Office of Student Conduct and until the investigation was the Rights and Responsibilities further processed, the house- Office, police said, although the investigation is still ongoing. keeper said.

“We really wanted people Amy Martin, Department of to know they need to be more Resident Life associate direcrespectful,” Martin said. “[The tor, said an email was sent to all floor residents, describing meeting] was for the students the incident and reminding on the floor to process what the students that this behavior is incident means with each other, but also to try to figure out if unacceptable.

Printouts of the email were anyone has any information.”

While Martin said most stualso posted on the doors and in the hallway, Martin said, dents were shocked and disapfollowed by a meeting Sunday pointed the incident took place night to discuss the situation and Resident Life is taking steps to prevent something like this as a floor.

Some students have been from happening again, the apologetic, the housekeeper housekeeper said students and said, writing apology notes on faculty alike have to remember to respect one another. his supply closet door.

“Housekeepers here are not “Many were very upset by the important,” he said. “We’re incident,” Martin said. “Many of them see [him] as a member important in our own way, but to Residential Facilities of the community.”

This hate bias incident is and management, we’re just different from vandalism, here to clean.”

Police said if students have Hoaas said, as no one physiany information about the incally damaged the board and the words were erased easily. cident, they should call UniA hate crime is a criminal act versity Police or submit an with hateful motivation, such anonymous tip online.

“Even if whoever wrote it as assault or graffiti, she said. didn’t mean for it to impact “There’s no crime associated others, it cer ta i n ly d id,” with it,” Hoaas said. “It is an inMartin said. cident; it is something we investigate, but there’s no criminal charges for a hate bias incident.” eserpicodbk@gmail.com

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MedImmune, USM collaboration expands to include this univ Research will focus on five projects dealing with a variety of medical issues

By Talia Richman @TaliRichman Senior staff writer

additions,” said Reginald Seeto, MedImmune’s vice president and head of partnering and strategy.

Researchers at this univerI n i t i a l l y, a f i v e-y e a r, sity agree the collaboration $6 m i l l ion col l ab orat ion b e t w e e n b i o t e c h n o l o g y will have a positive impact.

“T he more you bu i ld company MedImmune and the Un iversity System of these relationships between Maryland only included a companies who want to do partnership with the Univer- applied research and university of Maryland, Baltimore. sities who want to do basic Last week, the research research, the more opporcollaboration expanded to tunities students have to see include this university and how the real world works,” the University of Maryland, chemistry and biochemistry professor Philip DeShong said.

Baltimore County.

“These are major research “It’s a great opportunity for institutions within the uni- student engagement and to versity system and fantastic do basic science development.

Any time you can advance science, it’s a good thing.”

The release of the research projects the agreement will launch accompanied the announcement about the expanded partnership. More than 50 joint research proposals were submitted, and five were chosen, including two from this university.

One project will research the role of particular phagocy tes — cel ls t h at i ngest foreign particles, dead and dying cells and bacteria — in inflammatory diseases, accord i ng to a u n iversity media release.

Another project will investigate the function of stem cells in cardiac regeneration.

DeShong said he will work on a new way to make vaccines.

“The University System of Maryland is an economic engine for the state and with this important partnership w it h M a r yl a n d’s l a rge s t biotech company, we will further expand our translational research endeavors,” system Chancellor William Kirwan said in a university press release.

Wit h t he new pa r t ners h ip, b o t h p a r t i e s b r i n g something vital to the table, DeShong said. This university, for example, has the resources to research basic science, while MedImmune has the abi l ity to test its principles through advanced immunology studies.

“The university’s role is to create and disseminate knowledge,” DeShong said.

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Vincent novara, the outgoing chairman of the University Senate, addresses the body during the senate’s transition meeting yesterday. Donald Webster will replace Novara as chairman. Willie Brown was selected as chairman-elect. sung-min kim/the diamondback

Senate turns to new leadership

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Staff writer T he Un iversit y Sen ate Willie Brown as chairmanelect and swore in Donald Webster as chairman at its transition meeting yesterday.

Brown, who defeated nontenure-track research faculty Senator Devin Ellis in the senatewide vote, will serve as chairman-elect until next year, learning from Webster before taking over as chairman in May 2015.

“The system that we have where we have someone serve as chair-elect before they become chair is a really intelligent process,” said Reka Montfort, senate director and executive secretary. “It really gives that perspective to the chair-elect of what they’re going to have to take on before they’re actually in those shoes.”

Webster said he is excited to begin collaborating with Brown.

“We had two great choices, and I will really look forward to working with him,” Webster said. “He’s got a long, very distinguished record at the senate.”

Brown was the Campus Affairs Committee chairman this year and previously served as chairman of the senate’s Staff Affairs Committee and Council of University System Staff. He has also served as president of the university’s Black Faculty and Staff Association.

In his 21 years at the university, Brown has worked his way up in the Division of Information

Technology and is currently the director of office automation.

“I can bring all that experience here from the system level to the university level,” Brown said. “I’ve been in shared governance most of my entire career here.”

Despite Brown’s resume, outgoing Senate Executive Committee representative Josh Ratner said he supported Ellis in the election.

“A s a n u nderg radu ate, Devin can relate to us and our issues and has a better understanding of what we value,” Ratner said before the meeting.

Outgoing Chairman Vincent Novara gave his final report at the meeting, and the senate also voted on new members for the Senate Executive Committee, the Committee on Committees, the Athletic Council, the Council of University System Faculty and the Campus Transportation Advisory Committee.

The result of those elections, which were conducted on paper, will be announced tomorrow.

The undergraduate candidates for the Senate Executive Committee were Ryan Belcher from the behavioral and social sciences college, Anu Challa from the engineering school, Khalil Pettus from the business school and Taeler Wilson from the arts and humanities college.

Ratner said Belcher, who is the Student Government Association’s Open Party ticket chairman, is his top choice to replace him on the Senate Executive Committee.

“He’s going to be doing a lot of work through SGA with shared governance in more capacities than just senate, so I think he’d be a great fit, and he has a lot of experience with university politics and university administrators,” Ratner said.

The senate also wrapped up the year by passing three Programs, Curricula and Courses Committee postbaccalaureate certificate proposals, which were presented by committee Chairwoman Marilee Lindemann.

The first is a certificate in world language education, which is aimed at high school teachers looking to receive foreign language certification without taking a full master’s program.

The second is a 12-credit certificate in public financial management, designed for public administrators and federal government workers seeking greater expertise in accounting and finance.

The third is a certificate in African-American studies intended for graduate students in other programs who are interested in the subject. Participants will conduct close research with a professor. Lindemann said this is the first step toward creating a doctoral program in African-American studies at this university.

“The certificate programs are becoming very popular, especially from teachers,” Webster said. “Maryland’s really done a good job in trying to put together some really relevant ones.”

also served as co-chairwoma n for the Provost Student Advisory Council, a ssi sted t he Academ ic Affairs and Senate Education Affairs committees, wrote legislation and attended to student concerns.

“Her years of experience serving in different capacities in GSG will serve her well as the leader of the assembly,” said BreAnna Dav i s, for mer s t u d ent affairs vice president. “She will be able to speak from experience, and I believe her insight [will] aid her in achieving the objectives of the government.”

While Hemingway said she will take on her new position with an understanding of the workings of the GSG and student issues, she said she has more than just experience; she has passion.

“In addition to my extensive experience, I am ambitious and dedicated to issues affecting our graduate student body,” Hemingway wrote in her candidacy statement. “As president, I will use these qualities to guide the operations of the Graduate Student Government with honor and integrity, advancing graduate student interests and ensuring our voice is heard.”

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“We’ll do a lot of the basic, underlying science, but to put something in humans in the future, there’s a lot of background toxicology work a nd efficacy stud ies that have to be done. That’s not the type of thing the university has the resources to do.”

W h i le both g roups w i l l bring unique research to the table, they do share a similar objective, Seeto said.

“We bring skill sets that are complementary,” Seeto said.

“Mostly, our goal is to bring great medicine and meaningful medicine to help patients.

By working together, we can do that, because we have complementary strengths.”

The interaction between this university and MedImmune could provide a good

He m i n g way sa id som e of her planned initiatives involve continuing the work she began this year with the Academic Affairs Committee on a l low i ng g raduate students to take and receive credit for lower-level courses.

She said she also plans to continue working toward increasing the minimum graduate teaching assistantship stipends to better account for the regional cost of living.

Some more of her initiatives include transparency in departmental graduate student policies, creating memorandums of understanding with faculty advisers and improving support for graduate students with families by offering options such as affordable oncampus child care for infants and toddlers.

“I know it won’t be easy; it is always challenging when yo u i n i t i a te c h a n ge a n d challenge the status quo,” Hemingway said. “But my hope is that through my work as president that our great university will become even more outstanding not only for this current body of graduate students, but for future students as well.”

Many GSG members expressed excitement for Hemingway, including former legislative affairs Vice President Michael Wiederoder.

“She has a lot to learn replacing an outgoing president who has done very well,” said

that meet basic requirements can apply to be refunded for dollars spent on recycling du mpsters, compaction equipment, proper signage and other components of the recycling process.

The program is tailored to encourage creative proposals with “innovative” approaches, including changes s u c h a s b u i l d i n g s h a re d

model for how public universities and private companies can interact in the future, DeShong said.

“Universities are a unique environment,” he said. “If you can get a partnership with companies that allows you to retain the integrity of that knowledge creation and also utilize it for good, it’s a win-win for everyone.”

Seeto said he hopes t h ro u g h t h i s c ol l a b o ration, the state will become a top-five biotech hub in the country.

“We’re all committed to the outcomes of patients, we’re a l l com m itted to science and we’re all committed to Maryland,” he said. trichmandbk@gmail.com

deborah hemingway Graduate Student Government president Wiederoder, who will remain on Hemingway’s executive board as committee affairs vice president. “But I think she will grow into it and represent graduate students well.”

Aside from Hemingway and Wiederoder, the GSG will welcome six new faces to the executive board this coming year.

Those executives will fill these vice president positions: Jessica Chalk Bennett, academic affairs; Ellie Howe, p u b l i c r e l a t i o n s; P r e e t i Lakhole, community development; Harsh Pandya, financial affairs; Dirk Parham, leg i sl at ive a f fa i rs; a nd Gareth Vaz, student affairs. “ M y d o o r i s o p e n ,” Hem i ng way sa id. “I look for wa rd to work i ng w it h our student body, our faculty and our administration in the coming year.” jlangdbk@gmail.com

space or a unique design, listed as one of the criteria.

“Hopefully this grant and the grant process will encourage businesses to join together and create a great way to share recycling facilities,” Ga rd i ner sa id. “T he goa l behind the flexibility is to encourage a range of programs.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

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LACROSSE From PAGE 8 midfielder Beth Glaros said.

“We are just comfortable here, and our fans are great.”

The average announced attendance at home games is 808, compared to an average of 517 at road games. And the home-field advantage will also help the Terps as student-athletes.

Wi t h t h i s u n ive rs i ty holding finals from May 15 to May 21, a quarterfinal matchup for the Terps would ATTACKER BROOKE GRIFFIN and the Terps will host an NCAA tournament first-round game be in the middle of finals Sunday against the winner of Friday’s Penn-Canisius matchup. chester lam/the diamondback week on May 17 or 18.

“One of the advantages of having a top-four seed is that you have the potential to host two games,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We are thrilled for that, especially because after the first round we are in finals, so it’s nice to not have to take our kids off of campus if we are in that position.”

And if the Terps advance past the quarterfinals, a feat they have accomplished in five straight seasons, they will play about 50 miles away in Towson, a location with which the Terps are familiar. In the past six seasons, the Terps are 5-1 in

six games at Towson, their only loss coming against North Carolina in the 2009 NCAA semifinals.

When the Terps won the championship in 2010 at Towson, it was the third consecutive season the event was held there. Now, with the championship’s return to Towson, Reese would like to see the final rounds remain in the state long-term.

“The national championship should always be in Maryland,” Reese said. “We just have got such great fans, so many kids playing the sport. It’s just a love and a passion for the game.”

Eight of the past 16 NCAA championship games have been played in this state, and five of the Terps’ 10 national titles were clinched in the state.

With the championship returning to Towson, the Terps hope they can remain undefeated at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex to recreate their 2010 championship on the Tigers’ campus.

“It’s the exciting part of the season,” Griffin said.

“You are just playing lacrosse, and that’s the best part of it.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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Tweeting about criminals

Give more credit to graduate students

@PGPDNews would have taken Twitter to its lowest level yet

Teaching classes is harder than it looks

STAFF EDITORIAL

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witter is arguably the best form of social media for expressing yourself quickly and succinctly to a mass audience. It has brought about new, significant and sometimes disruptive changes to our lifestyles, from communicating with friends using hashtags to learning about breaking news.

This week, Twitter was set to be used in a new way by Prince George’s County Police: publicizing prostitution stings. According to a county police department announcement last week, “The PGPD’s Vice Unit will conduct a prostitution sting and we’ll tweet it out as it happens. From the ads to the arrests, we’ll show you how the PGPD is battling the oldest profession.”

Though there was no mention of where the sting would take place, other than revealing it would occur somewhere in the county this week, police offered reassurances that the tweets and pictures would largely consist of those in the area who solicit prostitutes, not the sex workers themselves. The ultimate goal, beyond simply cutting down on prostitution, was to increase transparency by using social media.

On Tuesday, however, the PGPD decided to conduct the sting without making any arrests or posting live tweets. Within the past week, PGPD’s original decision garnered international attention, with critics taking to social media to denounce it. Ultimately, the department claimed it reversed their decision because it wanted to protect the identities of undercover officers.

Though the department made a good call in deciding not to live-tweet the sting, the effects would have been

disastrous had the department gone with the original plan,.

Even though arrest records are already public information, tweeting photos and updates about arrests isn’t necessarily the smartest decision, even assuming it would increase transparency and potentially deter individuals from committing future crimes.

OUR VIEW

The Prince George’s County Police department made a smart move in reversing its social media decision.

Given that the @PGPDNews Twitter account is managed by that police department, and those officers determine which photos and informational updates are tweeted, this enterprise doesn’t really increase transparency much.

A Twitter campaign with selfselected photos is completely different, for instance, from on-body cameras — small cameras officers wear in some cities that capture every move they make.

We can’t get too caught up with the idea that the police would be truly transparent if they live-tweeted arrests. A police department’s tweets are in no way going to be the same as whistle-blower footage of a university student getting beaten up outside a bar by two cops — as occurred in the 2010 riot that ensued after this university’s men’s basketball team upset Duke.

It is obvious that police work is demanding and fast-paced — making

arrests and chasing criminals aren’t walks in the park. But with police live-tweeting arrests, mistakes will inevitably arise.

For instance, police claimed last week they would not post photos of the sex workers themselves but still posted a photo, which was recently taken down, of a police officer leading away a zip-tied woman.

The specific original reasoning behind tweeting the prostitution sting was that police view the crime as something that “has the potential and very often leads to other crimes,” according to county police spokeswoman Julie Parker.

If the department wants to address gateway crimes, then shouldn’t it not only target prostitution solicitors but also rapists, robbers and the like? Focusing special attention on one type of crime makes it seem more threatening compared to others.

The department claimed that it would post photos of arrests right after they occurred, which likely would have led to Twitter followers demonizing someone who hadn’t even been declared guilty of any crime. Though of course that happens already, it would have been unwise for county police to perpetuate this issue by posting photos of an innocent person to the account’s nearly 12,000 followers.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

If police live-tweeted their arrests, a picture wouldn’t only be worth a thousand words, but it would also potentially lead to thousands of Twitter followers disparaging a suspect, hundreds of tweets with errors and one not-sotransparent police department. We’re glad the department wised up and did the right thing.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

If you do not believe me, ask any teaching assistant.

Also, people can just be difficult sometimes. Their inability or inattentiveness will work against us at every turn, but our bosses need these people to learn, and if they fail, it is our heads on the chopping block.

These are the realities of the workplace, and being ill-prepared will get us nowhere. Yet when graduate programs put people in a teaching situation, it suddenly is no longer job training, but rather a duty and a way to earn a stipend.

This is clearly inaccurate. Every aspect of a graduate student’s education has been tailored to cultivate the best job candidates for the most demanding positions, and teaching is part of that training.

Of course, if teaching is a part of training, one can argue that these people are just students, not employees. They are there to learn, and learn only. I maintain my neutral stance but would direct the reader to the following jobs in which people get paid to learn (in case they are interested in such a job): journalist, actor, musician, politician, anyone above middle management, lawyer, any scientific researcher and, of course, college professor.

The teaching profession is constantly under assault by modern society. It is written off as “easy,” seen through the lens of the bitter third-grader in all of us, who thought we were learning nothing.

Yet only with graduate students is this classification allowed to be explicitly expressed. Somewhere along the way, critics decided they could lambast graduate students as scapegoats for their other academic concerns.

The classification of TAs teaching as a duty is the manifestation of this academic write-off at work. Do not allow those who have benefited most from a good education disparage it at the cost of the educational system that created them.

ERIK SHELL

Graduate students and football players. Not two groups you typically associate with each other, but in the debate about unionization they are not too different.

Both are waging battles across the country for representation and bargaining rights, and both are seeing just how difficult their universities can be in the courtroom as well as the classroom.

While I would never make the faux pas of choosing a side — I will, after all, be applying to graduate schools soon — the rhetoric concerning graduate student “work” has been consistently undercut by a certain idea, namely, that graduate student teaching is simply their duty to the academe.

This is, in one respect, obviously correct. Graduate programs allow those students to teach the discussion side of massive lecture classes and, through grading papers and holding office hours, get the most information out to students without driving the professor to insomnia.

The unionization argument, then, is that teaching is work and therefore graduate students are employees. This point is most often countered with the “it is their duty” argument, as if someone must teach as a sign of gratitude for the opportunity to earn a higher degree.

What is ignored is how teaching is, in itself, a crucial element in training a graduate student.

I n a l l o f o u r f u t u re j o b s, whether in business, technology or teaching, we will be required, at some point, to not only research a topic heavily but also know enough about it to teach that information to others.

This is no simple task. Everyone learns in a different way, and we need to adjust to that accordingly. Often, the first question Erik Shell is a junior classical languages someone will ask us is one we and literature and history major. He can have never thought about before. be reached at eshelldbk@gmail.com.

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Finding the right candidate to improve this state Making a difference in statewide politics involves voting in next month’s primaries MATT DRAGONETTE As a voter in this state, it might be tempting to push back all thoughts of candidates and voting until November.

But in a state like ours, the June primaries matter much more than the general election. Democrats dominate state politics. Few Republicans are elected to statewide office — besides former Gov. Robert Ehrlich — and of the state’s eight U.S. House representatives, only one is a Republican.

For Democrats, this is your chance to really choose your next governor or representative. For Republicans, you can show your preference for a losing candidate or a local office.

Independents: Unfortunately, the parties haven’t opened their primaries to you yet.

While a variety of seats are up for re-election, all eyes are focused on the Government House. Only one GOP candidate seems to be mounting a strong bid — businessman Larry Hogan — and he will probably win the Republican primary. This is a good choice, both for the party and the state, as Hogan has an economics-focused mindset and the potential to run a somewhat competitive campaign.

But much more attention should be paid to the Democratic primary, as painful as that might be to say. Three candidates, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Attorney General Doug Gansler and Del. Heather Mizeur, are vying to replace Gov. Martin O’Malley.

While the candidates generally agree with many of O’Malley’s policies, each has sought to differentiate himself or herself from the other candidates.

Considering the flurry of activity in the past legislative term, many voters have

returned their attention to the traditional issues of education, health care, taxes, the economy and crime, according to The Washington Post. Polls have identified Gansler and Brown as the far-and-away front-runners — their multimillion dollar bankrolls certainly have not hurt.

As young voters, we need a candidate who has a strong economic vision and a track record of getting things done. Gansler is the answer in this field of candidates. He is committed to reining in the budget, while making Maryland much friendlier to businesses.

His multistep plan to promote research and manufacturing is a step in the right direction, as is his call for lower, more competitive tax rates.

His career as a prosecutor bodes well for the continuing fight to lower this state’s high crime rate. As attorney general, he proved moderately suc-

cessful in his prosecution and budgetary duties, at least compared to Brown.

Brown’s main claim to fame seems to be his stint as lieutenant governor.

While his military and public service credentials should count for something, Brown seemed to accomplish little while working with O’Malley. His major assignment during O’Malley’s second term was to oversee the rollout of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which became a national embarrassment as the state’s exchange website crashed and spewed misinformation.

As if a failed rollout wasn’t bad enough, Brown’s failure to take responsibility and make an immediate fix showed weakness as a leader. Simply receiving high-profile endorsements and serving as a lieutenant governor does not qualify someone to lead this state for the next four years.

To be sure, no candidate on either

side of the aisle is perfect. While Hogan has strong private-sector experience, his campaign seems to lack details on an economic program; hopefully he can expand on his state goals come November. The Democratic front-runners have their own issues to deal with — Gansler’s character and Brown’s competence — but have government experience and detailed visions.

Regardless of your political affiliations, go vote this June. Your voice will be magnified in the primaries thanks to this state’s traditionally lackluster turnout, and you will have a chance to determine the state’s future. Hopefully, the winners of the primaries will be open to debate and discussion, not simply adhering to a one-party status quo.

Matt Dragonette is a sophomore accounting major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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give peeps a chance The newly announced Peeps movie could either mirror the successes of The Lego Movie and Toy Story in the line of product-based films or flop miserably

Peeps will be taking their marshmallow shape to the big screen in a film centered around a Peeps diorama contest. photos courtesy of (from left to right) tablespoon.com, alum.mit.edu and pflow.com

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figure into a movie’s results at the box office, and anything could happen at this stage. The Peeps movie could become the next big thing; the It’s a Small World flick based on the Disney ride could be our next Citizen Kane.

Cynicism has turned into a knee-jerk reaction for many, but it’s pointless to be this cynical this early in a film’s development. In fact, there’s reason yet to be cautiously optimistic. As openly opportunistic as the Peeps announcement is, there are countless examples in

The recent announcement that Peeps, the infamous brand of colored marshmallows, got optioned for a movie and a possible TV adaptation was met with somewhat undeserved pessimism and sarcasm.

I don’t wish to suggest the Peeps movie will definitely be successful or even that it will probably be successful.

A million, nay, a billion little things

Hollywood of seemingly thin ideas turning into good movies.

Consider David Fincher’s The Social Network, a movie about Facebook; The Lego Movie, a movie about Legos; and Toy Story, a movie with a ludicrous amount of product placement. All three are excellent movies that started with premises that received a good deal of cynicism at their onsets.

The thing to remember is you can make a good movie from any premise, not unlike how you can make a bad movie out of anything. Peeps’ whole

shtick is that they are marshmallows shaped into cute birds. The pre-existing designs coupled with the candy’s Easter theme offer a great number of possible stories and setups.

The premise the producers are going with — centered around a Peeps diorama contest, just like the annual Washington Post contest — could be the foundation for an entertaining animated film.

We have no legitimate reason to presume the movie will be bad.

However you feel about licensing

out Peeps, making a movie based on a candy product still represents a fairly sizable risk.

It’s hard for a movie, especially one based on an uncinematic product, to succeed. While making a Peeps movie isn’t what we’d traditionally call a risky move, it’s still a fairly ballsy endeavor and something we should encourage — if not for the potential quality movie, then for the entertaining meltdown come release. wzhangdbk@gmail.com

NO: A PEEPS MOVIE SIGNALS THE CORRUPTION OF HOLLYWOOD

By Jonathan Raeder @jmraeder Staff writer In the good ol’ days of Hollywood, huge franchises would inevitably create equally huge revenue from toy sales. Look at Star Wars, Harry Potter, animated films and countless others.

Films exist; toys are made from them; rich film producers get richer; and the machine chugs on.

Yes, there’s going to be a Peeps

movie. Who knows, it could be good.

I heard The Lego Movie was cool, and that’s great. But this goes deeper than that. Hollywood has been getting more terrible every year, churning out awful films at an alarming rate. We have corporate money-grubbers who want nothing more than to turn everything into a multimedia cash magnet. If you pitch an interesting idea for a movie but it can’t be perverted into a franchise and milked for all it’s worth and then some, sorry — Hollywood isn’t

going to go for it.

Films need to tell original stories, or at the very least adapt lesserknown tales and books into a medium that might handle them better. I’m so tired of sequels, remakes and franchises, and yes, the very idea of a Peeps movie makes me enraged.

What’s next? Goldfish are already animated and personified in the cracker’s ads; let’s just make them a movie. After that, we can have a movie about animated Cinnamon

Toast Crunch squares and follow it up with a movie about Hostess Cupcakes. Before you call hyperbole on me, just let this sink in: They’re making a movie about a marshmallow candy bird. Those things you eat around Easter? They’re going to be in a movie, and you probably aren’t.

I spend so much more of my time watching TV now because the good stuff on TV is leagues better than what Hollywood is vomiting out.

Compare popular films to popular

television. Game of Thrones is ridiculously popular, and it’s really great. The popular films can’t claim the same thing. There are many reasons behind this unfortunate drop in quality, but lazy filmmaking (such as stealing from toys and food) is definitely a significant factor.

Sorry, Peeps. Stay food. It’s what you were meant to be: sugary and, honestly, not that great. jraederdbk@gmail.com

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RIVALS From PAGE 8 Baltimore. The Terps answered the next week with a win at the Fighting Irish, though they lost the rematch six days later in the ACC tournament.

“With the nature of tournaments now, there’s going to be a lot of teams with losses going late into the year,” Tillman said. “It’s what you do with the losses. What do you learn from that? What are your takeaways? Do you come back hungry?”

The Terps played their next game against Navy largely without attackman Mike Chanenchuk, who is day-to-day with a sprained ankle, but they earned a six-goal victory.

“When we’ve gotten knocked down, we’ve gotten up,” Tillman said. “We’ve bounced back.”

Chanenchuk, the offense’s unquestionable leader, has been

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instrumental in the development of the Terps’ young talent this season. Attackmen Matt Rambo and Connor Cannizzaro, both freshmen, have combined for 46 goals so far in 2014.

But perhaps the culture the rest of the Terps’ older players foster during practice has been equally as important.

“We can always play better no matter how well we’ve played,” junior defender Goran Murray said. “Every game, we’ve got to get better. Every day, we’ve got to get better.

Every step we take, every drill we do, it’s got to be better.”

Goalkeeper Niko Amato said there are many facets to the concept of “playing your best lacrosse.”

“Physically, you want to be playing fast and picking up tough ground balls,” Amato said. “But you want to be coached up so much that you’re playing your smartest lacrosse as well. We’re going to continue

to work on that up until game time. And we’re going to see on Saturday. That’s for sure.”

At times, the Terps have d i s m a n t l e d te a m s w i t h patient offense and frustratingly stingy defense. At other times, they’ve shown their youth and inconsistency, struggling to score goals in stagnant performances.

But Tillman commended his team’s commitment this year.

And though the Terps aren’t in the midst of a dominant stretch as the Blue Devils were during their two title runs, the coach said his group’s camaraderie and cohesiveness would give it an opportunity to be successful against the Big Red on Saturday.

“It certainly hasn’t been a thing of beauty, nor should it have been perfect,” Tillman said. “But I think their approach was really darn good.”

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In the fifth inning, the Terps produced another two-out RBI single, this time from left fielder Tim Lewis. Lowe scampered home from third base to plate the go-ahead run.

“We came from behind and played pretty strong on the road,” said coach John Szefc, who became the first Terps coach to win 30 or more games in consecutive seasons last night. “We got to play better from behind and win on the road, and those are the two combinations we had tonight.”

Left-hander Ben Brewster

replaced Stiles in the seventh inning. Brewster and righthander Kevin Mooney, the Terps closer, didn’t allow a hit or run in the final three innings. Mooney picked up his ninth save of the season in 1.2 innings.

The Terps bullpen has now pitched 13.8 scoreless innings, a streak that dates back to Saturday’s 6-2 win over Notre Dame.

And the group’s continued success was only a small part of what Szefc said was a wellrounded performance against the Tigers from his team.

“We’re getting contributions from a lot of guys,” Szefc said. “And when you’re having success, that’s usually what happens.”

“And they weren’t preparing themselves mentally to go out and be depended on to play key roles.”

The Terps entered ACC play with Warner back at third base and Schmeiser at shortstop, but they could not shake their early-season struggles. The Terps had two early conference series canceled becausse of weather and lost five of their first six games in the ACC. Poor weather conditions also forced the Terps to cancel the Maryland Invitational on March 7 and 8, which would have been the team’s first chance to play at home. Watten said the cancellation eliminated an opportunity for the Terps to gain experience. “ O u r to u r n a m e n t i s a key weekend for us too, for b u i l d i n g o u r co n f i d e n ce with having our first home weekend, and everybody’s here, and you kind of get into that groove,” Watten said.

“Those are things you have to be able to have so you can work out little things.”

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Terrapins softball coach record to 3-28, but Watten’s team posted a winning record the rest of the way. The Terps went 8-7 in their last 15 games and closed the season with a sweep of Pittsburgh.

Still, the Terps failed to replicate their success from last season and suffered a historically disappointing campaign by finishing with 11 wins. But the Terps’ move to the Big Ten next season allows them to start anew.

“We just have to focus on the things we did well and did right,” Watten said, “and accept the things that we need to work on and get better at.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014

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Two-out RBIs lead to victory Terps earn fifth win in a row by topping in-state foe Towson

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer

dropped four of their first six contests — losing to the Terps, Denver, Pennsylvania and Notre Dame — and plummeted out of the national rankings. Again, though, Danowski’s team hit its stride in the last 15 contests, and its sole defeat came in the first round of the conference tournament, this time a one-goal loss to the Tar Heels.

The Terps’ progress this season wasn’t nearly as extreme as the Blue Devils. In fact, Tillman’s squad started the season on a seven-game winning streak before falling to the Tar Heels on March 22 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

The group responded with back-to-back home wins over the Cavaliers and Robert Morris but lost to Johns Hopkins by five goals April 12 in

The Terrapins baseball team c rowd e d a ro u n d t h e i n a u g u ral Ripken Cup trophy yesterday evening for a team photo. Center fielder Charlie White grasped the base of the shiny award with a smile on his face, and catcher Kevin Martir, still wearing his protective gear, knelt in front of White.

The postgame photo came after the Terps’ 4-3 victory over Towson at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen that featured offensive contributions from a variety of batters.

No Terps player drove in more than one RBI, and three pitchers combined to pitch nine innings of three-run ball to clinch the team’s fifth straight win. The contest was supposed to be the back end of a two-game set — the Ripken Cup — but an April 15 meeting between the teams was rained out.

“It’s always nice beating those guys because they play us really tough every year,” right fielder Anthony Papio said. “It was really cool getting to play at this place. … It’s a great park and a pretty cool atmosphere, so I definitely enjoyed it.”

Second baseman Brandon Lowe — who ranks first and second in the ACC in on-base percentage and batting average, respectively — continued to produce at the plate and was one of four Terps to compile a multi-hit game. Left-hander Tayler Stiles, meanwhile, picked up the win in his third start of the season.

Stiles, who has made 17 appearances this season, pitched six-plus

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GOALKEEPER Niko Amato stops a Duke shot in a Terps victory in March. Coach John Tillman said he’s impressed with the defending champion Blue Devils’ tendency to improve throughout each year. file photo/the diamondback

LEARNING FROM rIVALs Pointing to defending champion Duke as an example, the Terps hope to hit their stride in the postseason

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer At times during the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s 2014 campaign, coach John Tillman alluded to rival Duke’s postseason success.

The Blue Devils won the national championship in two of the past four seasons under coach John Danowski, who has helmed the program since 2006. But the road to those titles was far from easy, littered with demoralizing early losses and subsequent uncertainty.

Yet in both instances, Danowski rallied his team to win 14 of its final 15 games.

Tillman has preached all year that he wants his players performing at the top of their game when May rolls around, just as the Blue Devils were in

their title runs. And with the Terps’ first-round NCAA tournament game against Cornell just two days away, the fourth-year coach said he is pleased with his team’s growth since the season opened in early February.

“Our guys have come a long way,” Tillman said. “The guys that haven’t played a lot have really bought in. The older guys have helped the younger guys. The younger guys have listened really well. And that’s given us a chance.”

In 2010, the Blue Devils lost three of their first five games, including back-to-back losses to the Terps and North Carolina four days apart. But the team got hot en route to the program’s first national championship. Duke’s only loss in the final 15 games was by four goals to Virginia in the ACC tournament semifinals.

Last year was a similar story. The Blue Devils

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SOFTBALL | SEASON IN REVIEW

Terps fail to get going, end with worst mark in program history Team doesn’t qualify for final ACC tournament at home stadium

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer

MIDFIELDER TAYLOR CUMMINGS helped the Terps clinch the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament this year, just as the team did when it won its most recent national championship in 2010. file photo/the diamondback

Road to championship stays within state lines Terps could host first two contests before semifinal, final rounds take place at Towson

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer The semifinals and final of the women’s lacrosse national championship return to Towson this season for the first time since 2010.

The last time the Baltimore suburb held the event, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team ended an eight-year national championship drought after winning seven straight titles between 1995 and 2001.

This year’s tournament provides a familiar situation for the Terps. In 2010, the team also entered the tournament as the top seed and played all four games in this state.

If the Terps return to the championship, they would once again play four games in this state, with two at

home and two at Towson.

“It’s so nice,” attacker Brooke Griffin said. “It’s kind of like a homefield advantage.”

The Terps’ first tournament game is set for Sunday at noon against the winner of the Penn-Canisius contest, which will be played at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex on Friday.

The Terps are 8-0 at home this season, and their dominance in College Park goes beyond their winning record. The Terps’ average margin of victory at home is 8.625 goals, and only one of their home games was decided by fewer than five goals: a 10-9 victory over then-No. 4 Boston College in March.

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One of Terrapins softball coach Laura Watten’s goals this season was to win the ACC championship on her team’s home turf.

Entering their final season in the ACC, the Terps returned several key players from a team that finished third in the ACC and scored the most runs in program history. In the circle, pitchers Kaitlyn Schmeiser and Madison Martin returned with another year of experience after combining to start all but three games last season.

But when the ACC tournament begins today at Maryland Softball Stadium, the Terps will be spectators. After three NCAA tournament appearances in four seasons, the Terps suffered their first losing season since 2000 and their worst season in program history to finish ninth in the conference and miss the eight-team league tournament.

“It sucks that we’re not out there in that tournament,” Watten said.

“It was a tough year. We had a lot of different factors too, but we didn’t catch any breaks.”

Injuries and cancellations due to poor weather conditions made it difficult for the Terps to find a rhythm this season, and their production declined from a year ago.

At the plate, they scored about two fewer runs per game than last year. And in the circle, the Terps posted an ERA

COACH LaURA WATTEN directed the Terps to their first losing season since 2000. alik mcintosh/the diamondback of 6.20 compared to last year’s 4.08.

The nonconference schedule provided stiff competition early in the season for the Terps, who played four of the top 11 teams in the USA Today/NFCA Coaches Poll. Watten said she scheduled top teams in hopes of strengthening the Terps’ NCAA tournament resume.

The Terps struggled mightily, though, winning one of their first 24 games while dealing with a grueling schedule.

“Going into next year? Yes, it’s helped us because it’s given us a lot of perspective of what we were capable of,” Watten said. “But at the time and in the heat of it, due to the other factors, it hurt us because we weren’t at our full strength going into

playing those top teams.

Injuries forced the Terps (11-35, 7-16 ACC) to begin the year with a makeshift starting infield. Watten said infielder Jessica Warner was set to start at third base after recovering from back surgery last spring. In December, though, a blood clot formed in Warner’s leg, forcing the redshirt junior to miss three months.

Infielder Lindsey Schmeiser, who started 51 games and played shortstop last season, started the season at first base because of a hamstring injury.

Infielder Mandy Gardner, who started 29 games at first last season before she suffered an injury, was still rehabbing during the beginning of the season.

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