May 13, 2014

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North Campus buildings lose power

Faulty breakers cause dorms, buildings, construction site to go without power for several hours

By Joe Antoshak and Morgan Eichensehr @Mantoshak, @MEichensehr Senior staff writers

251 North, the public health school building, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and Eppley Recreation Center, according to an email sent to North Campus residents at 4:38 p.m.

Several North Campus buildings by Amy Martin, Department of Resiexperienced power outages yesterday dent Life associate director.

Just after 5 p.m., Dining Services afternoon that lasted until about 7 p.m.

Denton, Easton, Elkton, Oakland spokesman Bart Hipple said the dining and Hagerstown halls lost power hall would remain closed for the evening students flood Stamp Student Union’s food court, which accepted dining points during a power outage at about 3:15 p.m. yesterday, as did and the food court in Stamp Student yesterday evening. kelsey hughes/the diamondback the North Campus Dining Hall, Union would accept resident dining

plan points from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The dorms without power used emergency lighting in public areas, Martin wrote in the email. The cardswipe systems to access the buildings were also functional, she wrote, and affected residents were given access to the air-conditioned Cambridge Community Center. Temperatures rose to the upper 80s yesterday, according to The Weather Channel.

In an email sent to the university

community at about 9:45 p.m., Facilities Management officials said two faulty breakers were to blame for the outage. Power to the North Campus buildings was restored at about 6:15 p.m., though the Mowatt Lane Garage and the Prince Frederick Hall construction site will remain without power until today, the email said. jantoshakdbk@gmail.com, meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

Univ turns to company partners

Corporate backing funds science programs, tests U independence

By Joe Antoshak @Mantoshak Senior staff writer

State-funded universities across the country have had to find new streams of revenue, and some have started reaching into the corporate world to stay at the forefront of a rapidly evolving academic landscape.

Institutions such as this university have begun to partner with companies willing to pay for equipment and construction — especially in computer science education — in return for curriculum feedback and access to students.

This university’s Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students honors program, which launched in the fall, is funded in part by technology corporation Northrop Grumman. The company gave more than $1 million to the program — about $600,000 of which went to the construction of Prince Frederick Hall, said Brian Ullmann, marketing and communication assistant vice president at this university.

“It’s a collaboration,” said Michel Cukier, ACES director. “It’s how you can successfully work together with a major company and keep all the requirements from a major university on how you build a curriculum involved.”

Josh ratner, former SGA presidential candidate, poses for a portrait yesterday. Ratner was running uncontested until he was disqualified after a routine transcript check.

PICKING HIS BATTLES

By Mike King | @michaelrkingjr | For The Diamondback

J

osh Ratner was radiant one week and despondent the next.

On Apr i l 14, t he ju n ior government and politics major looked and sounded a lot like the student leader from a promotional video a year earlier. In that campaign, Ratner successfully ran for Student Government Association student affairs vice president on Samantha Zwerling’s Go Party ticket. He spoke loudly and energetically — like a politician trying to woo a voter.

But over the weekend of April 18-20, Ratner’s presidential plans for his senior year collapsed. A routine investigation found Ratner — then the sole candidate running for SGA presidency —

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Study finds American Indians score low on tests

Reservation students face barriers to success

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer When senior Aaron McKay visited a Cherokee reservation during an alternative break trip last spring, he met a 14-year-old boy who told him how much he wanted to go to college one day.

But it seems the odds are stacked against that boy and other American Indian children when it comes to attending college, according to a study the ACT released in March.

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ineligible to remain in the governing body he had dedicated his college career to.

During the past month, Ratner has found himself at a crossroads, facing an uncertain future that once seemed its most promising.

For most of his adult life, Ratner had been heading toward the SGA presidency. When unopposed, he was set to carry on former two-term SGA President Zwerling’s policies.

“I was surprised, shocked, disappointed,” Ratner said April 23.

“I spent the last three years of my life doing this s---.”

Once-future SGA President Josh Ratner reflects on whirlwind month

Eighty-six percent of American Indian high school graduates express a desire to pursue a higher education, according to the study.

But among graduates who took the ACT in 2011, 46 percent do not enroll in college the fall after graduating high school — the highest percentage of any ethnic groups studied.

“They want to go to college, but there’s so much around them in their environment that’s holding them back,” said McKay, a management major who is part Chitimacha, Powhatan Confederacy, Cherokee and Yeocomico.

At th is u n iversity, A merican Indians and Alaska Natives make up 0.13 percent of the student population for fall 2013, according to the university’s Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment reports.

Many of the barriers keeping American Indian students from a college diploma are related to economics, McKay said. The poverty rate among Native Americans and

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RATNER From PAGE 1 As he spoke, Ratner oscillated from resignation to righteous anger, from interlocking his fingers to waving his hands. The appeals process through which he tried to regain his eligibility frustrated him, but it also reminded him of his reasons for pursuing public policy.

One week ago, he was replaced in the student body he expected to lead. Sophomore government and politics major Patrick Ronk and the rest of his Open Party executive board swept unopposed elections and assumed their new positions May 6.

“Because of this arbitrary requirement, I and those like me are prohibited from participating or being heard in the organization,” he said.

In the legislature’s final meeting of the semester April 30, Ratner lost a vote to lower the GPA requirement to 2.0, which the university requires for graduation.

“I DON’T SEE THE PROBLEM WITH THE SGA WANTING TO KEEP ITS MEMBERS AT A STANDARD.” SAMANTHA ZWERLING

Former SGA president

“I had almost no expectation that it was going to pass,” Ratner “This was unfair” said May 5, staring at his palms. “I O n t h a t p i v o t a l A p r i l was more trying to make a point weekend, Ratner stood before that this was unfair and that it three SGA governance board really prohibited participation for judges to defend himself ad lots of people at the university.”

Other student groups, such nauseam. Those judges ruled that the body’s elections board as Greek life organizations, have did not have the authority to GPA requirements above 2.0, grant Ratner’s appeal, and he apparently without violating the was declared ineligible to run for ADA. And the GPA requirement president because his GPA was that disqualified Ratner was calbelow the SGA-mandated 2.5. culated by the university at the That requirement violates the end of the fall semester, along Americans with Disabilities Act, with every other student’s.

“I don’t see the problem with Ratner said. Anxiety and attenthe SGA wanting to keep its tion deficit hyperactivity disormembers at a standard,” said der prevent Ratner from possibly attaining the same grades as Zwerling, a senior environmental science and policy major. “A other students, he said.

lounge of his South Campus Commons apartment. His short black hair was unkempt, and he rocked back and forth on a bench with his arms crossed as he spoke in a low, sometimes breaking voice. He did not smile.

“It’s a difficult pill to swallow, knowing that I’ve dedicated the last three years of my life to serving the student body and working as part of the SGA, and suddenly it’s all taken away,” Ratner said. “There was a day I didn’t get out of bed, and there was a day when I had so much stuff to do associated with this that I didn’t have a second to stop moving. I’m lucky to have such great support systems with my girlfriend and my friends and colleagues, friends on the ticket as well who have been supportive throughout this. That’s made it bearable, and I’ve been functional.”

Ratner has considered filing a discrimination case against the SGA through the university’s diversity and compliance office because of the GPA requirement.

That could force the SGA to remove the requirement, he said, but it could also lead to nothing.

“I don’t want to hurt the organization,” Ratner said Sunday. “I’m still trying to find “It ’s a difficult pill to the balance of potential harm it could do to the organization swallow” versus what it could mean for On April 23, Ratner stared students with disabilities and at the wooden table in the floor other issues on campus.” lot of people in the organization are wondering why, if this is such a huge inclusiveness issue and fairness issue, why hasn’t Josh brought this up before?

Josh has been in the organization longer than I have.”

In response to Ratner’s concerns, SGA executives clarified that the organization’s bylaws don’t exclude members with GPAs below 2.5 unless they are serving in elected or appointed positions. And executives plan to establish an ad hoc committee that will work to make the association more inclusive.

“Through this process, we have definitely seen ways that we need to clean up our bylaws and be a lot more explicit about what would happen in a scenario like this,” Zwerling said.

Zwerling said this process has not happened “in recent history,” and she expects the new administration to alter GPA checks to ensure a similar situation does not happen in the future.

“It seems as more of a wall to getting in than a gate to keep bad people out,” Ratner said. “I don’t think I’m unqualified to do the job. There’s nothing that having a 2.5 GPA would do that would make me a better president.”

Josh Ratner smiles for a portrait in April, just before the SGA announced he was ineligible to run for president. His GPA failed to meet the required 2.5. sung-min kim/the diamondback Zwerling said the possibility of bringing outside administration into the SGA over this requirement concerns her. Ratner said he won’t make a decision about any discrimination case until after this semester.

Though he called his failed appeal process “the largest personal disappointment I’ve experienced,” Ratner plans to help the SGA in any way he can, and he continues to work with the SGA and other organizations.

He doesn’t want to dwell on the past, he said.

“I don’t have any regrets.

I think I did the right thing throughout,” Ratner said. “I still think that the governance board grossly mishandled the case. I think they were very unprofessional about how it was handled.

I don’t think they asked the right questions during the trial. I dis-

agree with a lot of the premises in their verdict. But it happened, so what am I going to do?”

“You need to address personal problems”

On April 14, before he was disqualified from the presidential campaign, Ratner sat down in his floor lounge. Wearing a flapping red T-shirt, huge Maryland flag athletic shorts and flip-flops, he smiled widely and talked freely. A sticker on his MacBook case showed Homer Simpson taking a bite out of the Apple logo.

Ratner’s confident words and beaming face projected on ly opt i m ism about h is political prospects in a body that represents more than

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RATNER From PAGE 2 26,000 undergraduate students and budgets millions of dollars in student fees.

“Some of my goals include bringing tailgating back onto campus, auditing and improving the Health Center, and increasing public safety both onand off-campus,” he said in the April 2013 promotional video for his campaign for student affairs vice president.

Ratner, with the help of the University Senate, in which he was an undergraduate senator; the College Park City Council, for which he was last year’s student liaison; and the SGA; achieved those goals and others over the past few years.

“I love public service,” he said. “I love community service.

I come from a very well-off area, and I’ve been to lots of not-sowell-off areas, and kind of seeing everything I have and the fact that lots of people don’t have, that really made me passionate about policy and trying to kind of bring people up and empowering them to be able to succeed.”

When he still had a platform, his main focus was improving the SGA’s human relations capacities by expanding the chief of staff’s office and creating a safe place for members to discuss issues.

“Leading people is much more complicated than the task at hand,” Ratner said. “You need to address personal problems before you can do anything.”

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“I’ve had times where I kid — I know he’s going to do well; haven’t gotten out of bed I know he’s going to succeed. But it’s definitely made it really hard for a week” for him, hard for us.”

Ratner was diagnosed with ADHD and an anxiety disor- “Most policy decisions der about a year after he entered aren’t as life-and-death” college. The experience inW hen Hurricane Sandy spired him to get involved in the mental health issues he later struck New York, Josh Ratner went back to his Long Island championed in the SGA. Sometimes he calls the di- hometown to help repair the agnosis “differently abled.” He damage with the volunteer can use the ping-pong nature of firefighters there.

He works as a volunteer his thoughts to devise solutions others hadn’t, he said, and he firefighter in College Park can dive into new topics often. too. He has seen someone “If there’s a problem, Josh get shot, delivered babies will throw out, like, a million and watched a family friend ideas about how to fi x it,” Zw- die of cardiac arrest.

“It’s tough on people,” erling said.

Ratner told her he was voted Ratner said. “But the bene“Most Likely to Come Up with fits and the pleasure I get from helping others outweighs the an Idea” in high school.

“I still see it as a disabil- negative psychological aspects ity,” Ratner said. “There’s still of what happens.”

Volunteering with those things that are difficult to do emergency services has given and work on.”

Part of the disability is the Ratner invaluable perspective, he said. stigma.

“Luckily, most policy de“People a re a l l, ‘I’m so ADD,’” he said. “It can be cisions aren’t as life-andr e a l l y d e b i l i t a t i n g , a n d death as ones in that circumpeople don’t realize how it stance,” he said.

R at ner k nows he mu st affects people. I’ve had times where I haven’t gotten out of wholly invest himself in each new patient, then disconnect bed for a week.”

Denise and Sandy Ratner, and prepare for the next one.

Josh’s parents, said Josh’s Lately, he has thought about his diagnoses have rerouted his ineligibility process in much the same way: As soon as the call is life’s trajectory.

“It’s affected his academics; over, it’s time to drop it. it’s affected his life; it’s affected “I’m moving on” everything,” said Sandy Ratner, a pulmonologist in Great Neck, Ratner is focusing on what New York. “It’s been hard. He’s definitely struggled. He’s a big he can change.

There are things he can’t: the governance board’s decision, his ADHD and anxiety diagnoses, executives’ point of view on the 2.5 GPA requirement, the induction of an SGA legislative board that does not include him.

B ut t he re a re t h i n g s h e h o p e s to c h a n ge i n the future: working with more nonprofits, increasing mental health awareness on college campuses, improving the workings of the SGA, planning for the university’s transition to the Big Ten. “Right now, I’m just focusing on me and making sure I take care of everything I need to personally before I step back into the kind of work I was doing before,” he said.

He smiled as he talked about the fulfillment he feels through volunteerism and went through a mental checklist of his accomplishments over the past few years. His smile faded as he spoke about advocating mental health issues and the misunderstandings surrounding them.

“For every failure like this, there’s 10 successes, so it’s OK,” he said. “I’m moving on, doing more, keeping on pushing.”

The more he focused on what he could change, the more he became the radiant man from mid-April, even if only briefly.

“It’s not about winning,” Ratner said. “It’s not about the position. It’s what you can do for the university, for the organization. And I think there’s still a lot that I can do.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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“ULTIMATELY THEY’RE NOT THE ONES From PAGE 1 DETERMINING WHAT With the exception of Alaska WE’RE DOING.”

and North Dakota, every state is spending less per student now than it was before the 2008 recession, according to a recent study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Public four-year colleges in this state exhibited a 3.1 percent increase in tuition from 2008 to 2014, the lowest increase rate in the country, the study found.

But the state has not been immune from the economic downturn. The recession has encouraged the universitycorporate partnership trend, sa id u n iversity President Wallace Loh. Setting boundaries for corporate intervention is a main priority at this university, Loh said. Jonathan Katz, Maryland Cybersecurity Center director, said the curriculum for computer science students is developed internally and officials meet with Northrop Grumman once a month to get feedback.

Students could be taken advantage of, however, if a company were to require a certain number of students to take internships there or if the company prevented student access to other companies, Loh said.

“That’s why there are safeguards like policies, like review by legal counsel, committees that review for possible conflicts of interest,” he said.

In February, Carnegie Mellon University announced a fiveyear, $10 million partnership with Yahoo to conduct research with “an industry-first mobile toolkit.” IBM is also partnering with seven universities — including New York University and the University of Michigan — to allow students to test the Watson computing system.

JONATHAN KATZ

Director, Maryland Cybersecurity Center

“I see it as additional exposure,” said Christian Johnson, ACES student board president and a freshman computer science major. “And as long as it still allows professors to teach and give the students the academic portfolio background they need without specifically curtailing to the needs and wants of a corporation, I think it’s a very positive thing overall.”

Johnson said the partnership with Northrop Grumman has opened doors, such as access to prestigious internships, that might otherwise have remained closed for students. The partnership makes the university more attractive to prospective students, he said.

Bradley Shear, a Bethesdabased lawyer who specializes in Internet law, wrote in an email that it is crucial for a university to understand political implications before engaging in a partnership or accepting a donation. In 2007, Purdue University accepted a $100 million research grant that other schools denied for fear of restraints on the research process, but the school ended the deal after five years.

“We’re kind of aware of the slippery slope,” Katz said. “We take input from them, and we try to use that to determine what we do, but ultimately they’re not the ones determining what we’re doing.”

Senior staff writer Yasmeen Abutaleb contributed to this report. jantoshakdbk@gmail.com

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The unknown cost of security

Treat housekeepers with more respect

Lengthened data breach protection would come at a high price

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s college students, we value our grades, friends and family, career plans and, especially in recent months, our data. February’s data breach was one of the largest university breaches in American history, with the victim population including faculty, staff and students who have worked at or attended this university’s College Park or Shady Grove campuses since 1992.

While there’s no doubt members of the university community have become more concerned about their privacy and personal data since the data breach was made public, the Graduate Student Government seems to be at the forefront of addressing the issue and attempting to expand identity protection coverage for graduate students.

In April, the GSG unanimously passed a bill that approved sending a letter to the university requesting the registration deadline for the Experian protection program be extended from May 31 to Dec. 31, but this effort proved unsuccessful because the activation codes for the Experian protection program will not be effective after May. In a more recent attempt to expand the accessibility of Experian identity theft protection, the GSG pursued legislation to extend the coverage from five years to 16 years.

During Friday’s GSG meeting, however, the organization decided

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to kill the bill by an 8-9 vote after nancial realities trump philosophiconsulting with Administration and cal dreams in the real world.

We have no idea how prices will Finance Assistant Vice President fluctuate for identity theft protecAnne Martens. tion over a 16-year period. Some OUR VIEW analysts estimate identity protection services will grow into a $6 billion annual market by 2015.

Originally, it seemed the GSG overestimated its capability to get this legislation passed. Identity protection for 16 years is a lot to ask, even considering the extreme circumstances.

The protection, however, isn’t Though students might fear identity theft in the future, extend- entirely limited to five years in all ing the identity protection cover- cases. Martens said the service age would have been financially already can be extended if an individual experiences identity theft impossible.

At the end of the day, the GSG after the five-year period.

According to Experian’s website, made the right decision on common-sense grounds: We shouldn’t the cost of using a ProtectMyID request something when we have identity theft program is $15.95 a no idea how large the price tag is month. Though that could seem like a drop in the bucket for an individgoing to be.

Martens, who attended Friday’s ual, multiply that cost — or even a meeting, said the extension would discounted version of that cost — by be impossible because predict- the number of people affected by ing a 16-year price trend would the breach, and that’s a huge chunk be extremely difficult. According of change.

One of the most important things to Martens, pricing the five-year we desire is safety, and that includes service alone was a challenge.

Even though GSG members such safety of property. In an ideal world, as electrical engineering representa- everyone who has experienced a data tive Ryan Suess claim they want to breach would receive protection request lifetime coverage “because throughout his or her lifetime, but philosophically, it’s the idea that you protection usually comes at a cost are protected or not protected,” fi- — in this case, an unknown cost.

Extending the Experian protection program to 16 years would be financially irresponsible for the university.

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the bathrooms and disinfect showers and toilets. However, the housekeepers are not the parents of the dorms. They should not be expected to clean up that glob of toothpaste someone left in the sink or that wad of hair clogging the shower drain.

Dorm residents need to recognize that though they are sometimes messy, housekeepers’ jobs are as important as professors’, and housekeepers should not be treated with any less respect than professors.

Maria, the housekeeper in charge of my floor in Wicomico Hall, is one of the sweetest and most patient people I have encountered at this university. She deals with a floor full of girls constantly in and out of the bathroom making messes left and right, never receiving any gratitude for the job she does. Maria cares about the floor: Right before the snowstorm in February, she made sure that all of the bathrooms on my floor were well stocked with supplies so we wouldn’t run out. Despite the lack of respect and empathy from residents, Maria goes about her job and always says “Good morning” to me as if I were one of her friends, and she should be treated with the same respect.

Maybe the incidents I have experienced are only common in Wicomico Hall, but I would be willing to bet there is a similar amount of disrespect at other dorms on the campus — maybe all of them.

That said, during this last week of school and finals, take the time to appreciate all the hard and dirty work the housekeepers in your dorms do. Say hello to them when you’re brushing your teeth in the morning and maybe even extend a thank-you to them for all they do.

Just remember: Housekeepers are people, too.

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Last week, a housekeeper working in Easton Hall was the victim of a hate incident. It was reported that a racial slur was written on the whiteboard of a student lounge. The housekeeper, who was just trying to do his job, received the brunt of a racial slur most likely written by the residents he cleans up after.

I was both livid and sympathetic when I read this story in The Diamondback. I was incredibly angry that my peers had stooped so low as to hurt someone who is crucial to their daily lives, and I was concerned for the housekeeper who encountered such an ordeal at this university. Thankfully, some residents of Easton Hall reportedly left notes on the housekeeper’s closet door, apologizing for the actions of whoever committed the act.

The event got me thinking about how dorm housekeepers at this university deserve more respect from residents. During my two years living in a dorm, I have seen several of my floormates treat the housekeepers of my building with little to no respect.

I witness residents hastily brushing past a housekeeper who is busy mopping without so much as a “Good morning” or even an “Excuse me.” Other times, I see residents trying to throw away trash in an already overflowing trash can, putting their waste on top of the can and expecting the housekeeper to take care of it.

Residents are led to believe that the housekeepers are there to clean up all messes in the dorms, no matter who or what made Maggie Cassidy is a sophomore them. Yes, their job descriptions English major. She can be reached call for them to mop the floors of at mcassidydbk@gmail.com.

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GUEST COLUMN

PowerPoint presentations hinder learning experiences Students need to demand more hands-on teaching from their professors

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f you were to average the cost of in-state and out-of-state tuition for one year at this university, it would be about $17,000.

That’s right. You are paying almost $17,000 a year to obtain that glorious piece of paper that will lead you to the shining path of employment. We’ve all heard this before from our parents, relatives, co-workers and financial advisors.

They’ve told us to make the most of our college experiences and to actually learn something. And we try. Believe it or not, most Terps do care about learning.

Underneath the pile of dirty Solo cups and crumpled beer cans are textbooks full of annotations and impressive notes. It is not the social life that jeopardizes students’ potential to obtain some serious knowledge. Shockingly,

it is the professors.

Nothing is worse than when I walk into a classroom and see my professor talking to the dreaded information technology student. Not the projector! Not another PowerPoint!

Meanwhile, half the class is thinking, “Yes! Now I can upload my 500 photos from Away Weekend to Facebook!” As the PowerPoint flashes onto the screen and the laptops begin to open, those tuition checks addressed to the Office of the Bursar slowly begin to burn away in a pile of wasted time and dreams.

Why? Because PowerPoints are nothing more than an excuse for students to take a power nap while still securing an “A” in the class.

Even worse, most professors put these PowerPoints on ELMS later that day.

What motivates students to go

to their class if the entire lecture is online and can be read in a matter of 10 minutes?

Of course, if a professor is teaching a 100-level psychology course that consists of 400 confused freshmen, then PowerPoint becomes a means of survival. But when a professor is teaching 300- and 400-level courses to 10 students in a small classroom in the basement of Tawes Hall, this form of teaching conveys nothing more than laziness. There are 10 to 20 students in the class who have clearly chosen this upper-level course because it applies to their interests.

Why not share something exciting with them?

Students seek conversation.

We want to be intrigued. We enjoy debate. We hope to develop our own theories and formulas and share them to prove we are contemplating

this knowledge on our own. Sitting in silence while observing a PowerPoint is almost a form of oppression.

Professors will argue it is up to the student to pay attention. If they want to ignore the PowerPoint, then that is their fault and their grades will suffer the consequences. This might be true, and there are certainly some students with very little academic integrity.

But by removing PowerPoints from the classroom, professors can force students to pay attention.

Each time a professor makes a reference, quotes a person or cites a text, every student will be ready with pen and notepad to jot down the verbal notes that will be gone as soon as the professor closes his or her mouth. You cannot find that discussion online. You cannot save the professor’s words to a file

on your desktop. If you skip class, then you’ve missed out. And that is your fault.

Next time you’re filing your nails in your plant science lecture, ask yourself if you would really pay $17,000 to read that PowerPoint again. Most likely, you will want to cry at the thought of it. Ask questions, talk to classmates, start a debate — hell, start a riot in your lecture hall.

Do something crazy to ingrain that information into your head.

And more importantly, fill out those course evaluations. Brutal honesty is what saves professors from accidentally wasting your precious $17,000 check.

K a t i e S t u l l e r i s a s o p h o m o re English major. She can be reached at kstuller@comcast.net.

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orn today, you have keen instincts, and you are able to rise above those who get mired in unfortunate situations brought about by social miscues. You never seem to rub others the wrong way, and you have a knack for making difficult situations just a little less difficult, if not for yourself, then for others. In private, you can be quite critical of those who do not live up to your very high standards, but you’re not the kind to spread any sort of negative feelings around by indulging in such criticism publicly. You are quite adept at judging how others are feeling at any given moment, and you know how to act in a way that accentuates the positive and minimizes the negative.

You are one of the first that others go to when they are running short of plans or strategies, for you are a virtual font of ideas that can be used in a variety of situations. You seem to be quite at home in many settings, and when others are uncomfortable, you can put them at ease.

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DIVERSIONS REVIEW | THE BLACK KEYS, TURN BLUE

Black and bluesy Seasoned rock duo gets raw, experimental on newest album

By Danielle Ohl @dtohl Staff writer Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, probably the best two things to ever come from Ohio, make up the Black Keys, the dynamic duo synonymous with crash-and-bang basement rock. Incredibly smart and ultra-bluesy, the band’s past two

LET THE LIGHGHT IN Staff writer Jonathan Raeder looks at the latest from Kishi Bashi, which finds the indie vet mixing classical violin with peppy pop. Visit diamondbackonline.com for his review.

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albums, 2010’s Brothers and 2011’s El Camino, are muscly, raw, powerful collections that burst from speakers and take to the sky.

Turn Blue, the latest installment in the Black Keys’ growing collection of works, is not that kind of rock ’n’ roll.

Still dripping with swagger and fury, Turn Blue is brooding where Brothers and El Camino are belli-

cose. It’s also far more instrumental — organs, harps, horns and bells all feature prominently. But don’t let the acoustic guitar and atmospheric vocals fool you: Turn Blue is still the rumbling rock we’re used to.

Auerbach and Carney are just not the same rockers.

Embroiled in a bitter divorce, Auerbach isn’t afraid to let his feelings out. As the name suggests, Turn Blue is far darker tonally than anything the band has previously produced.

The album begins with a smoldering bit of desert blues via a powerful 6-minute, 50-second serenade, the eccentric opening track “Weight of Love,” which ambles out of the void like a dusty Western wanderer.

the black keys return to their boozy, bluesy roots on their latest album, Turn Blue, which finds the Ohio duo playing with elements of classic rock and modern pop to great effect. photo courtesy of survivingcollege.com Alongside soulful acoustic guitar and drums like distant thunder, Auerbach’s vocals eventually break in, telling a mournful little tale (“Don’t

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Keys From PAGE 6

Through an epic most bands would close with, the Black Keys send an opening message with this track: Turn Blue is back to basics.

A mix of ’60s psychedelia, soulful synth and Space Age struts, the album is its own definition of how modern rock should sound. “In T ime” is a chugging, seductive number in which Auerbach teases, “Where is your mind?” as keyboards fill in the rest of the irresistibly catchy tune.

“Turn Blue” is chilly, electronic and snaking, while “Fever” is

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wide, bumping and downright slinky. The variety in this production is the brainchild of co-producer Brian Burton, aka Danger Mouse. Burton, who’s been with the Black Keys since Brothers, functions more as a bandmate than a boss. His talents even extend beyond production — Burton plays the keyboard throughout the album.

It is clear, however, that Auerbach and Carney are still in control. Auerbach’s voice is the master of all 11 tracks, often spitting salty sentiment (“Bullet in the brain/I prefer than to remain the same”) as Carney forces the beat. In “It’s Up to You Now,” his drumming plows around before

c ra s h i n g w i t h A u e r b a c h ’s guitar shredding in the middle of the song.

“In Our Prime,” by contrast, is surprisingly delicate; organ and keyboard mingle before Auerbach and Carney jam at the end.

“Gotta Get Away” is the ending less adventurous rockers would have used as a start, a no-frills slice of Americana. Sounding more like Tom Petty than Muddy Waters, it’s vastly accessible with a singable chorus and a gorgeous guitar solo.

“I can’t stop/For no one,” Auerbach sings. At this rate, it seems the Black Keys never will.

DAN AUERBACH, guitarist and lead singer of the Black Keys, lets his adventurous side shine through on the group’s latest album, grappling with his emotional divorce on several of the album’s best tracks. photo courtesy of aceshowbiz.com

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ACT From PAGE 1 Alaska Natives was 28.4 percent in 2010, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

McKay recalled some children on the reservation had to share toothbrushes with their siblings. Many, he said, were being raised by parents who were alcoholics or abusive.

“It’s not a healthy environment for someone trying to get straight ‘As’ and go to college,” he said.

But the economic issues don’t just affect those on the reservation, McK ay sa id.

He had to work and take out student loans to pay for school when his parents couldn’t.

He said many people think American Indians automatically receive large scholarships, but often that isn’t the case.

“If your tribe isn’t recognized federally or by the state, like a lot on the East Coast where I’m from, then you’re not eligible for scholarships,” he said.

Dottie Chicquelo, the assistant director of the Office of

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OMSE is combating that with its annual A merican Indian Symposium, in which hundreds of K-12 students visit the campus and hopefully leave inspired to return, Chicquelo said.

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Ed Colby, the ACT public relations director, said preparedness is another issue.

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Cummings From PAGE 10

“Different centers do different things,” Cummings said.

“They threw a lot of different centers at me, so sometimes I would pull it to Beth or Erin [Collins], and sometimes I would go up for it for myself.”

Cummings continued to outdo whichever Penn player faced her in the circle. The 5-foot-7 midfielder frequently used her height advantage when the Quakers’ shorter players faced her.

When she didn’t think her height would be enough, she trusted her teammates to win the battles for the loose balls.

And they often did.

“It definitely takes a couple draws to try to figure out what their style is and what they are trying to do,” Cummings said. “I don’t always know where it’s going the first time with a new player, but we do a really good job of helping each other out when it goes somewhere when we don’t expect it to.”

The Terps’ persistence on draws limited the number of Penn possessions. The

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Terrapins women’s lacrosse coach Quakers forced the Terps to commit 11 turnovers, but the Terps’ significant advantage on draw controls led to a 28-12 edge in shots.

Cummings set the tone early with the first couple draw controls, and she didn’t let Penn’s lineup changes disrupt her success in the circle. Now that Cummings has helped her team earn a chance to play ACC rival Duke in the quarterfinals, the Terps will look for her to add to her team-leading 111 draw controls Saturday.

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MURRAY From PAGE 10 “Goran’s one of the best,” coach John Tillman said. “We wouldn’t trade him. I think there are some fundamental things he can do better.

I think he chose a couple tough moments to throw some checks, which opened up some opportunities. And when he just sits down and stays disciplined, he’s a tough guy to beat.”

Fo r m o s t o f t h e we e k leading up to Saturday’s game, both teams debated how to approach the matchup between Murray and Donovan.

Donovan said he spent countless hours breaking down film with his coaches to try and find weaknesses in Murray’s defensive techniques.

Ultimately, Donovan got the best of Murray in the first half, and the attackman credited his relentless preparation as a factor.

“The way you practice is the way you’re going to play in these types of games,” Donovan said. “I just felt like I had a step on him. … He’s a little stronger, but attack and this game is a quickness game.”

Likewise, Tillman spent the days leading up to the game analyzing the one-onone battle. He reached out to coaches who had already faced

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Donovan this season to gain valuable information on the versatile attackman, though there was a great deal of disagreement about which defensive scheme — if any — would be most efficient.

To start the game, Tillman limited the number of slides his defensive unit made on Donovan when he dodged and advised Murray not to pressure the attackman too hard. But without the help of defense, Donovan burned Murray for three goals in 12 minutes.

In the second half, Tillman let Murray loose, and the defender used his strength to disrupt Donovan’s offensive rhythm. The Terps’ defense also started sliding more frequently to the junior, though it did backfire once when Donovan found attackman Dan Lintner wide open on the crease for a goal in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter.

“We pressed out a little more in the second half, and I thought that suited Goran’s style a little bit more because he is so fast,” Tillman said. “When he gets out there, he can run with just about anybody.”

By the time the buzzer sounded, Donovan had four points against Murray, and no other Big Red player had scored more than once in the game.

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“We pressed out a little more in the second half, and I thought that suited Goran’s style a little bit more because he is so fast. ... When he gets out there, he can run with just about anybody.”

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The Terps maintained control of the ball for the final two minutes of action before Chanenchuk buried the gamewinner with two seconds on the clock.

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First baseman LaMonte Wade trotted home Sunday afternoon to give the Terrapins baseball team a 5-4 lead in the ninth inning of a 6-4 win over Pittsburgh when second baseman Brandon Lowe singled to left field. Wade’s run ensured the Terps scored five or more runs in every game this past weekend, a feat they achieved in one other series this season.

The Terps offense has been inconsistent throughout the season, but as the postseason nears, the team is establishing some reliability at the plate.

The Terps’ sweep of Pittsburgh extended their winning streak to eight games entering today’s regular-season finale against West Virginia at Bob “Turtle” Smith Stadium, and they have scored five or more runs in five of those contests.

“Guys are really sticking with the plan,” Wade said.

“Everybody knows that if one guy doesn’t get it done, then the next guy will pick him up.”

The Terps entered this past weekend’s set at Pittsburgh in ninth place in the ACC with a chance to qualify for the 10-team conference tournament.

Wi t h t h e i r p os tsea so n chances on the line, the Terps scored a season-high 32 runs in the three-game series. They started the series well by posting a season-high 18 hits and 21 runs in a blowout victory Friday.

Victories Saturday and Sunday clinched the Terps’

spot in the ACC tournament, their first postseason appearance in nine years.

Despite the pressure, righthander Mike Shawaryn said the Terps played loose all weekend. Every time the Panthers scored in the bottom of an inning this weekend, the Terps responded with runs at the top of the next inning.

Coach John Szefc said the older players’ leadership helped the team keep its composure in its last ACC series.

“We got to keep playing loose and keeping swinging the bats and keep pitching well and keep hitting the ball and see where it goes,” Shawaryn said.

“That’s really helped us out now: playing loose and trusting everybody. I think right now we are all just having a lot of fun.”

The Terps’ offensive resurgence follows a stretch in which they scored five or more runs once in six games, five of which were losses.

“We made a major turnaround after those 10 poor days we had at the end of April,” Szefc said. “We turned it up to another gear, and our players decided they wanted to keep playing together.”

The pitching has led the team all season and shut down the Panthers offense for most of the weekend. But Sunday, the bullpen gave up four runs in the seventh inning, which put the Terps in a 4-2 hole.

The Terps scored four runs in the last two innings, though, to secure their third ACC sweep of the season.

“For a change, the offense

picked up the pitching staff,” Szefc said. “The pitching staff has been picking up our offense all year, so it’s nice to kind of go the other way.”

The Terps have emphasized the importance of contributions from a variety of players during the season, and Szefc cited left fielder Tim Lewis as an example of the Terps’ offensive depth.

Lewis started the season as a little-used reserve but went 6-for-13 with a walk and a double along with three runs and two RBIs this weekend.

Catcher Kevin Martir, meanwhile, entered this weekend with a .223 average and a .200 average in conference games. But against Pittsburgh the sophomore went 6-for-11 with two doubles and a home run, and was hit twice by pitches.

Sustained offensive production helped propel the Terps into the ACC tournament and gave them a shot at earning an NCAA tournament at-large bid for the first time 1971. While the level of competition increases in the postseason, the Terps are confident their offensive consistency will continue.

“The last two weeks we were playing our best baseball,” Wade said. “We want to keep playing together, and we know in order for that to happen we need to keep winning. That’s what we’ve been doing, and that’s what we plan to keep doing.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

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MEN’S LACROSSE | NCAA TOURNAMENT

WOMEN’S LACROSSE | NCAA TOURNAMENT

Cummings displays dominance in circle Midfielder controls game-high 10 draws to help push top-seeded Terps past Penn

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

Defender Goran Murray (left) checks attackman Matt Donovan (right) in the Terps’ 8-7 win Saturday in the NCAA tournament first round. chester lam/the diamondback

LOCKING IN

Murray, Terps hold Donovan scoreless in second half of first-round victory

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s lacrosse team had no answer for Cornell attackman Matt Donovan in the first half of Saturday’s first-round NCAA tournament game at Byrd Stadium.

On three separate occasions during the second quarter, Donovan — who entered the contest with a team-high 54 points — dodged past Terps defender Goran Murray behind the cage and scored. Donovan completed his hat

trick with 12 seconds remaining in the first half when he picked the top corner with a left-handed shot to send the Big Red into halftime with a commanding four-goal lead.

But Donovan didn’t have the same success after the break, largely because of Murray’s increased on-ball pressure and aggressiveness. The shifty attackman failed to score for the remainder of the contest, and the Terps held Cornell to two goals in the final 30 minutes of play to escape with an 8-7 victory and avoid elimination.

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As she has all season, midfielder Taylor Cummings won valuable possessions for the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team in the draw circle in Sunday’s 13-5 victory over Penn in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

After the opening whistle, Cummings worked the ball off the draw out to midfielder Beth Glaros, who won possession. On the next draw, Cummings won control and initiated the offense.

C u m m i n gs f i n i s h e d w i t h a game-high 10 draw controls in the contest to help the No. 1-seed Terps control 17 of 20 draws, and they used the extra possessions to coast past the Quakers and into the NCAA quarterfinals.

Despite Cummings’ individual success, the Ellicott City native was quick to credit her teammates after the game. Glaros earned four draw controls of her own and three other Terps each added one.

“It’s not just me,” Cummings said.

“It’s the people on the circle and the people crashing in on the 30s. I think we did a really good job of focusing for those four or five seconds that the draw is up.”

Sunday’s matchup with Penn wasn’t the first time the Terps gained controls over the Quakers in the draw circle. When the teams met March 19, the Terps controlled

Midfielder Taylor Cummings leaps for the ball in a 13-5 victory Sunday. Cummings helped the Terps win 17 of 20 draws. christian jenkins/the diamondback

18 of 22 draws in a 15-5 rout.

D u r i n g t h e re g u l a r- sea so n matchup, Cummings controlled a team-high six draws on the day with eight other Terps recording at least one.

Penn entered Sunday’s contest with fewer draw controls than its opponents on the season. And against a Terps team that holds a 330-184 advantage in the category, Quakers coach Karin Corbett frequently rotated different players into the center of the circle to battle Cummings.

Corbett’s strategy forced Cummings to switch up her tactic.

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