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More adjuncts, same financial struggles Increasing number of professional-track faculty face low wages and growing course load Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer Adjunct faculty across the country have garnered attention for their fight to earn a living wage, and some

faculty on this campus feel this university is relying too heavily on lowwage instructional faculty.

Twenty-five percent of part-time faculty nationwide receive some government assistance, such as food stamps, Medicaid or welfare, according

to a study from the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education released in April.

A growing number of professors at this university are hired on a semester-by-semester basis and paid relatively low wages per course, putting them in dire financial struggles, said Sabrina Baron, who represents part-time lecturers in the University Senate.

This nationwide problem has led to a call for action among faculty advocacy groups, which emphasize the detrimental impact this has on the quality of education students receive.

Faculty at this university are appointed in two categories: tenure-track faculty and professionaltrack faculty.

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Yao Yao, a visiting scholar, chats with student Ellen Levine, his ESOL program partner, inside the Stamp Art Gallery. tom hausman/the diamondback

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Language program to shut down Nearly 500 participated in ESOL conversation program in 2013-14

Students, residents in area apartment complexes cite many safety concerns

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer Ellen Levine and Yao Yao sit outside the Stamp Art Gallery and talk. They discuss Yao’s computer science research, upcoming finals — and the recent release of the new Avengers movie.

“I don’t understand all the languages because there’s not subheads, but I think I missed a lot of details,” said Yao, 26, a visiting scholar from the Beijing Institute of Technology. “Even if you don’t know the background, there is a good guy and a bad guy, the pro...”

“Oh, the protagonist and the antagonist,” said Levine, a sophomore English major.

“So who is who?” Yao asked.

“If it is good versus evil, it is almost always the protagonist versus antagonist,” Levine said.

“Most stories go like that.”

This is the last of Levine and

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer

A student holds the door for others at the University View apartments. Tenants of other area apartments have voiced safety concerns.

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A de ad b o dy i s a hel l of a wake-up call.

Stefon Powell, 22, had been living in Camden College Park before pol ice d iscovered h is corpse Jan. 1 between two bullet-riddled cars in the complex’s parking lot.

His killer is still at large, and Powell’s shooting was the crest of a wave of crime that had been crashing over Camden — just three miles off this university’s campus — for months. Breakins had been occurring at the apa r t ments at a n u nu s u a l ly high rate since October, with the building witnessing as many

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Tuition increase could affect univ diversity, study shows

Grad student dies at city MARC stop

Hikes could lower minority enrollment

Train struck Rebecca Selleck, 35, while she crossed platform

By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Senior staff writer When she wasn’t studying lima bean pathogens and taking classes at this university, 35-year-old graduate student Rebecca Selleck — whom departmental coworkers remember as a quirky, caring person — loved traveling and making arts and crafts.

“This is a person who in a very short time became someone who everyone knew and liked and admired.

A very caring and a very giving person,” Angus Murphy, the plant

Rebecca Selleck, a plant sciences graduate student, died Monday after a CSX train struck her while she crossed a railway platform at the College Park MARC station. She was 35. photo courtesy of angus murphy sciences and landscape architecture department chairman, said of Selleck, who died Monday morning at the College Park MARC station.

Selleck, who was about to complete her first year studying plant sciences at this university, was crossing a railway platform when a CSX train struck her, according to a Prince George’s County Police blog post.

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Prince George’s County patrol officers responded to the incident at 11:05 a.m., according to the report. Responders found Selleck suffering from critical injuries, and medical examiners pronounced her dead at the scene.

“Any time a pedestrian is involved in an incident with a train, See SELLECK, Page 3

The tuition increases the University System of Maryland Board of Regents voted on last week could cause a shift in this university’s racial diversity, according to a study presented at the American Educational Research Association’s April meeting.

The study of 530 institutions from 1998 to 2012, conducted by researchers from New York University and the City University of New York, found the number of black and Hispanic students on college campuses tends to drop as tuition costs increase.

A $1,000 increase in tuition and fees at an average public four-year institution could result in a 2.5 percent drop in racial and ethnic diversity, according to the study.

“Results from this study highlight the need for education leaders and research to look critically at how the cost of higher education intersects with access for underrepresented populations,” the study states.

Last week, the board voted to raise tuition systemwide by up to 5 percent, translating to a $388 hike for in-state students and a $1,395 increase for outof-state students at this university.

In addition, this university will raise tuition for juniors and seniors in computer science, engineering and business majors.

This differential pricing will begin phasing in for the fall semester.

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UNSAFE From PAGE 1 as three breaking-and-entering cases in a single day on Dec. 1.

But despite the crime reports, residents said the building’s owners refused to respond to complaints about the thefts.

Leaving gates broken, neglecting to hire a security guard and failing to address other lapses in security, the management fostered an environment that left Camden susceptible to tragedy, resident Cory Sanders said.

“There was absolutely no security,” Sanders said. “One break-in, I can deal with, because that’s the world we live in. But when you have numerous break-ins during the day within hours of each other? That’s when it became a concern for myself and other residents.”

It wasn’t until scores of articles about “the county’s first death of the year” went to print that Camden Property Trust took note of the raised voices, Sanders said. It sent a representative to a meeting of the Camden College Park Civic Association, a group Sanders formed out of frustration with the situation.

“We told management there were issues, but it got blown off until the homicide happened,” Sanders said. “Once the homicide happened, the police get involved. The media get involved. People look bad.”

Yet after the furor died down, Camden management appeared to lose interest once again.

Emails went unanswered and meetings unattended, despite what Sanders said were the civic association’s best efforts to make contact.

Growing desperate, residents reached out to the city for backup.

College Park officials sent a letter to Camden Property Trust Regional Vice President Richard Key — responsible for managing the College

Park property — requesti n g a meet i n g to d i scu ss resident concerns.

At the town hall April 7, Key sat opposite the mayor and eight council members, responding to the outlined complaints.

“Our goal is to have a harmonious relationship with the community of College Park,” Key sa id at t he meet i ng.

“I will make sure we get a written response to the mayor about what we’re doing to make sure College Park is a great place to live.”

Since then, management has hired a security guard, improved the lighting, installed deadbolts and implemented key fobs, Key said at the meeting.

Key d id not respond to Diamondback requests for comment.

However, Sanders maintains it shouldn’t have taken a homicide and the formation of a civic association for Camden management and local government to step in.

“The city should have paid more attention to Camden,” Sanders said. “It was mindboggling that the City Council saw 12 break-ins on a police report a nd d id n’t step i n [themselves].

“You don’t wait until a homicide to start asking questions.”

SECURITY SPENDING Sophomore physiology and neurobiology major Michael Sanders was sitting in his apartment in College Park Towers a few weeks ago when three armed men burst through his door.

“They came in and basically asked for our possessions — demanded, I should say,” Sanders said. “They all had hoods and ski masks on, so we couldn’t identify them very well.”

Brandishing a knife and what appeared to be a gun, the intruders followed Sanders as he woke his roommates and handed over property.

When Sanders attempted to wrestle the knife from one of them, they fled.

“It’s been a couple weeks now, and [Prince George’s Police] still have no lead on where or how they got in,” Sanders said. “They don’t have very good security.”

The incident instilled fear in other students living in the building. Caroline Cummings, a sophomore journalism major whose apartment is located near Sanders’, said she and her roommates became more cautious after the burglary.

“A lot of times we left the door open, but now we’re very aware of locking our do ors,” C u m m i n gs sa id .

“We’re scared of something like that happening.”

While Sanders’ roommate’s mother wrote a letter to management and Prince George’s County Police to see what measures could be taken to identify a suspect and prevent future incidents, she has yet to hear anything back, Sanders said.

“In light of what happened, something else could be done,” Cummings said. “T here’s some small things that they could do to make it feel more safe.”

Though College Park Towers uses a key fob system that requires residents to gain entrance to the building through personalized electronic devices, its security system is lacking, Sanders said.

“They could do more,” he said. “They just remodeled the entire lobby, which they had to have shelled out for, and that money could be better used on security than cosmetics.”

College Park Towers combines the key fobs with security cameras and exterior lighting to prevent crime, said Jory Schuick, board president.

“We’re constantly talking to our tenants to see what other improvements we can make to make people feel safe,” Schuick said. “Our tenants feel pretty safe and pretty comfortable in

the varsity apartments (top) on Route 1 house several hundred students. Adrian Lee (bottom), of Triton Security, monitors the University View II. The “back door” that students use to get into The Varsity (right) stands open. top, bottom: josh loock/the diamondback, right: rebecca rainey/thediamondback our buildings.”

College Park Towers also pays two to three “security monitors” to patrol its parking lots and hallways from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., Schuick said.

“There’s a maintenance guy who wanders around,” Cummings said. “He’s not a security guard by any means, but he’s aware of the situation.”

But Sanders and Cummings said they wish College Park Towers would take an approach more similar to the University View’s, where security guards man a desk in the main lobby 24 hours a day.

“I know [rent at] Knox is cheaper, but one security officer is pretty affordable,” Sanders said. “Just having someone in the front lobby all the time would be beneficial.”

the building are the same way, Hough said. Though it doesn’t concern him because most residents are fellow students, it makes him nervous when the exterior doors fail to lock as well — something he said happens fairly often.

“The side door is always unlocked,” Hough said. “It seems like they try and fix it, but every couple weeks it breaks again.”

Senior criminology and criminal justice major Eryn McKenzie, who also lives in University Club, said she and her roommates have asked management to address the entryway multiple times, but nothing has changed.

“We always make sure that our door is locked, because t h a t d o o r i s j u s t o p e n ,”

McKenzie said. “They keep trying new things, but either someone keeps breaking it or it’s really bad.”

University Communities, the company that owns the property, places special emphasis on lock inspections, said Keona Lee, leasing and marketing director.

“We do invest a significant amount of money in managing our access controls,” Lee said.

“We do building inspections, and if there are any doors or locks malfunctioning, we do repairs accordingly.”

While there’s a security guard who mans the front door, management should station someone by those doors with See UNSAFE, Page 9

EASE OF THEFT When junior mechanical engineering major Anthony Hough paid a friend to watch his dog last semester, he didn’t give his friend a key to his University Club apartment.

Instead, he texted a short list of instructions.

“If you push on the door with your hand, it moves about an inch, and you can push a card in and it pops the door open,” Hough said. “It’s faster to do that than use a key.”

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University Senate seeks to improve undergraduate participation Meetings see few undergrad students

By Andrew Dunn @AndrewE_Dunn Staff writer Less than half of undergraduate senators attended the average University Senate meeting this year, reflecting an attitude J.T. Stanley, a newly elected Senate Executive Committee undergraduate representative, said he wants to change.

For Stanley, the participation and attendance numbers among the 26 undergraduate members are an insult to his goal to increase the role of students among about 180 voting senators.

“It’s unfortunate and ridiculous,“ Stanley said. “It’s rea l easy to criticize a ny attempt to grab more power by the undergraduates when we can’t even get attendance

SELLECK From PAGE 1 it’s a tragedy,” CSX spokesm a n R o b D o ol it t l e s a i d . “ C S X ’s s y m p a t h i e s a r e with the family and friends of [Selleck] in yesterday’s incident.”

Cassandra Swett, a plant sciences and landscape architecture professor, said Selleck was likely on her way to this university when the train hit her.

“She had been in contact with people here and sent in some assignment in the morning,” said Swett, who served as Sel leck’s prox y adviser in the lab. “[She] was on her way here.”

Murphy said others have expressed concerns about the pedestrian safety at the crossing where Selleck died. “ It’s a n op p o r t u n it y for people to think hard,” Murphy said. “There’s tragedies of people being killed on Route 1. … M aybe it’s time to pay attention to that crossing too.”

During her time as a graduate student, Selleck, who wa s work i n g towa rd he r master’s degree in plant sciences, focused her energies on studying the “white rot” pathogen that kills lima bean crops, wh ich a re a m ajor source of protein for parts of the world, Murphy said.

from the 26 we have.”

Although Stanley said he wa nts more i nvolvement from undergraduate senate members, the total percentage of those senate members could drop from 14 percent to 13 percent, while faculty representation could increase from 59 percent to 65 percent, along with the addition of a second graduate student on the committee.

T ho s e c h a n ge s w i l l b e implemented after the Elections, Representation & Governance Committee finalizes the exact numbers, said Charles Wellford, chairman of the Plan of Organization Review Committee, which recommended the changes in the senate’s composition.

Kristen Essel, an outgoing undergraduate representative on the Plan of Organization Review Committee, said she does not agree with the distribution of voting power.

“When professors end up having around 60 percent of the votes for the body’s general makeup, that is astronomical,” said Essel, a senior government and politics and history major.

“That’s really kind of irresponsible that they don’t even have to persuade a student or even a staff member that their idea is right.”

But outgoing SEC undergraduate representative Ryan Belcher said the senate deals predominantly with issues concerning faculty rather than students.

“The longstanding condition that tenure-track faculty should be equal to at least 50 percent of the voting senators should be continued,” Wellford said.

And though their representation is shrinking by percentage in the senate, undergraduates are on each of the 14 senate committees, which create and review policies, according to the senate’s website.

“I thought the committee towards an undergraduate was very welcoming,” said Andrew Podob, the sole undergraduate on the Faculty Affairs Committee. “At no point did I feel my opinion wasn’t wanted, my opinion wasn’t taken seriously or that I shouldn’t be on the committee.”

But he said the materials to review before each meeting were vast, often longer than 100 pages. The combination of the amount of material to review and the complexity of topics discussed — such as faculty salary inequities — occasionally left Podob with little to add to the conversation, he said.

“They just know about more of the issues and more of each issue than I possibly could,” said Podob, a senior government and politics major.

“There were plenty of spots where I wanted to chime in, but I didn’t necessarily have anything to add.”

“[Her research] has implications for more than just lima beans,” said Murphy, who frequently i nteracted with Selleck. “Dealing w it h pat hogens is something that’s very important because [beans] are such important crops, especially in the developing world.”

Selleck mainly conducted her research off the campus under the direction of plant science and landscape architecture professor Kathryne Everts at the Lower Eastern Shore Research & Education Center in this state, but she was often on the campus for classes, Murphy said.

Swett said Selleck took great interest and passion in her research.

“She was very ambitious and enthused with a lot of what she was doing,” Swett said. “She was looking at l i nes of l i m a bea n s f rom all over the world to try to develop [and] identify lima beans that had resistance to the white rot pathogen.”

Even w it h her d e d ic ation to her work — which required her to travel regularly between this university and the research center — Selleck nurtured various other hobbies and interests, Swett said, including being fluent in Spanish and getting involved on the campus.

“She did a lot of arts and crafts with recycled prod-

ucts,” Swett said. “She wo u ld ge t a l l k i n d s of strange recycled things and make shawls and interesting clothing amendments. … There would be arts-and-crafts night at her house.”

Selleck also traveled to Spanish-speaking countries, such as Mexico and Costa R ica, and volu nteered at the campus Food Co-op, Swett said.

Murphy described Selleck as a remarkable, warm presence in the lives of others.

“Her presence was felt by everyone in the department — the graduates, undergraduates, alumni and faculty,” Murphy said.

Sel leck’s pa rents a re not ready to make a public statement at th is ti me, Murphy said, but noted they have “expressed appreciation for everything that’s being done.”

To commemorate Sel leck’s l i fe, a memorial service was held We d n e s d a y a t 1 1 a . m . at the Memorial Chapel Garden of Reflection and Remembrance.

There are also plans to create a scholarship in her honor, Murphy said.

“It would be directed toward students who have interest in their research along the lines of what her interests were,” Murphy sa id . “ We’re t r y i n g to respond to her interests a nd her t hou g hts, a nd w h at s h e t h o u g ht w a s important.”

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From PAGE 1 Tenure-track faculty have more job security, higher wages and responsibility for participation in all three areas of academic activity: teaching, research and service.

Professional-track faculty range from part-time lecturers to research assistants and are generally paid on lower sca les tha n tenu re track, said Mark Arnold, Office of Faculty Affairs faculty initiatives director.

This university has seen a shift over the last 15 years, with professional-track faculty teaching a growing portion of undergraduate courses.

Between 1997 and 2012, courses taught by tenuretrack faculty dropped from 55 percent to 41 percent of all classes, while professionaltrack saw their load increase from 30 percent to 46 percent, according to this university’s 2013 non-tenure-track task force report.

Professional-track faculty also nearly double tenure-track faculty in teaching classes with fewer than 30 people and receive less teaching-assistant support, the report found.

“To cut labor costs and cut the costs of benefits, universities have systematically adjunctified the faculty,” Baron said. “They haven’t i nv e s te d i n te n u re l i n e s and full-time employment because they found out there was a surplus pool of qualified people who were willing to work for slave wages.”

While this university has come to rely on these faculty more, the administration has not rewarded them with higher wages, Baron said.

The 2013 report found that 54 percent of instructional

“WHEN PROFESSORS END UP HAVING AROUND 60 PERCENT OF THE VOTES FOR THE BODY’S GENERAL MAKEUP, THAT IS ASTRONOMICAL. ... THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE TO PERSUADE A STUDENT OR EVEN A STAFF MEMBER THAT THEIR IDEA IS RIGHT.” KRISTEN ESSEL

Undergraduate University Senate representative Essel, who is on the Plan of Organization Review Committee, said she felt her voice was often drowned out.

“Students just don’t get much of a say,” Essel said. “Several times on the committee I felt disrespected and that there was no point in me being there.”

But students have not done a great job of showing they are invested in the senate, Belcher said.

“We need to act like the adults we are and show up to these commitments that we’ve signed up for and offer the input the senate is asking for,” Belcher said.

As Belcher passes the torch to Stanley and Kevin LaFrancis, the other undergraduate SEC representative, the role of the u nderg raduates i n the senate remains tricky to define, Belcher said.

Stanley said he is looking into possible remedies to fix attendance numbers, including incentives for undergraduates and consequences for not attending.

“T he senate has a great deal of privilege,” Stanley said. “But that’s not going to be utilized if we don’t have attendance.”

faculty felt underpaid.

Adjuncts at this university are paid a median of $4,330 per course — and as low as $3,000 in some departments — according to the Adjunct Project, a tool from The Chronicle of Higher Education. Comparatively, out-of-state students paid $3,489 per three-credit course this academic year.

T he Mo d er n L a n g u a ge Association recom mends universities pay $6,800 per course for faculty members off the tenure track.

“An adjunct faculty member is not going to be making what would be considered a living wage by stringing those things together,” said Devin Ellis, chairman of the senate’s Faculty Affairs Committee.

Instructional faculty in the arts and humanities college, which the report found had one of the highest rates of salary dissatisfaction at 68 percent, earn between $32,000 and $34,000 per year.

Unski l led construction workers m a ke a n a n nu a l average of $34,170, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the report states.

The English department has 89 lecturers, all earning less than $42,000 per year, according to The Diamondback’s annual salary guide. The department carries a “crippling load of classroom instruction” due to the required freshman and junior writing courses, Baron said.

“It’s economics, supply and demand,” said university President Wallace Loh. “There is a huge supply of Ph.D.s because for the most part, you need a Ph.D. or its equivalent to get an academic position. So if there’s a huge supply, what is going to happen to the cost? It’s going to go down.”

Bill Cohen, the English department chairman, said this

figure does not distinguish between lecturers who are current graduate students and those who are adjunct faculty. He said the department has worked ha rd to ensure fair wages. “ We h ave been able to recruit and retain extremely high-quality faculty, who are highly trained and regularly reviewed for performance, in part because of the health and tuition remission benefits we offer,” Cohen wrote in an email.

Paying such a large population of teachers less than a living wage forces them to work outside jobs and lessens their commitment to students, said Maria Maisto, a former graduate student who taught English classes.

“Students and parents are increasingly looking at this, because they’re less interested in climbing walls and amenities and more interested in quality education,” said Maisto, who heads a national advocacy organization, New Faculty Majority. “Unfortunately, the colleges have thought otherwise.”

While working on her dissertation, Maisto said, she was overloaded with English courses and felt obligated to take her teaching seriously, ultimately preventing her from completing her degree.

“I’ve had really bright students who have come to me and said they would really love to become a college teacher, and I’ve had to say to them that I can’t in good conscience recommend that you pursue that because of what the situation is,” Maisto said. “They think it’s a well-paying middle-class job, which is what you would think because of the education you need to be qualified for it.

They are shocked that’s not the case.”

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GUEST COLUMN

A university report card

WALLACE LOH: B+ After last year forced this university to contend with a widespread data breach and a lawsuit filed by the ACC in the wake of the Big Ten move, it seemed as though this year would provide university President Wallace Loh with a much-deserved reprieve.

Instead, Loh and other university administrators hopped out of the frying pan and into the fire, often through no fault of their own. In the fall semester, officials faced protests against militarygrade weapons this university had acquired through a controversial federal program; protesters often ignored the fact that federal protocols regarding

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION: AAfter last year’s disaster of a SGA election, expectations for Patrick Ronk, a then-last-minute uncontested presidential candidate, were nearly nonexistent.

Over the course of this academic year, however, Ronk has helmed one of the most effective Student Government Association administrations in recent memory. In a refreshingly calculated approach to lobbying in Annapolis, the SGA looked beyond simply opposing tuition increases and other less concrete initiatives in favor of focusing on specific bills that would aid thousands of university students.

At this university, Ronk and the SGA played a crucial role in the creation of a police advisory board, the University Athletic Council’s approval of alcohol sales at sporting events and the reinstatement of the Department of Transportation Services’ second appeals process for tickets.

Though the SGA has had a few legislative missteps — calling for the creation of a speech code and allocating 10 percent of its yearly legislative funds toward the $2 million Campus Creek restoration effort — those don’t detract significantly from the rest of its accomplishments.

With Ronk returning to office in the fall with a full academic year under his belt, this editorial board hopes a reinvigorated SGA can continue along the same path to success it mapped out this year.

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nuclear materials require the university to possess these weapons.

During winter break, the state’s staggering budget shortfall prompted former Gov. Martin O’Malley to propose wideranging rollbacks on University System of Maryland funding, forcing this university to pick up $15.6 million in budget cuts and institute a wildly unpopular 2 percent midyear tuition increase.

This month, the university system went on to approve a 5 percent tuition hike for 2015-16 and a four-year phasein of differential tuition for engineering, business and computer science students at this university; this university announced the latter proposal just two days before the system Board of Regents’ vote.

Students also called on Loh to take action after a racist, sexist email sent by a former fraternity member went viral in March.

Though he appeared lost at times when facing the tide of public opinion, Loh clearly strived to connect with students and explain policy decisions through all of this year’s controversies.

in these majors less than 48 hours to voice widespread opposition. Moreover, the vote came days after the May 1 enrollment deadline for incoming freshman students.

While this editorial board recognizes such financial decisions probably weigh heavily on the regents, that’s no excuse for the stunning lack of transparency students witnessed earlier this month.

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT POLICY AND EDUCATION: B The university’s decision to revamp its sexual misconduct policy came as a welcome one. Officials hoped to clarify definitions of various policy violations and clearly distinguish between the two categorical offenses: Sexual Assault I and Sexual Assault II. After waffling on changing these categories to sexual assault and sexual contact, respectively, a University Senate committee ultimately decided against renaming the categories, though the expanded definitions rightfully remained in place.

Beyond the updates to the policy’s language, the committee also considered recommending revisions to the investigative, adjudication and appeals processes for sexual misconduct cases.

The committee smartly decided to recommend striking an age requirement for support persons, but it declined to advise adding in additional grounds for appeal that would allow students found guilty of sexual misconduct the same recourse available to those sanctioned for committing a variety of other offenses.

On the education front, the university implemented mandatory online sexual assault training which officials hope to tie to class registration, forcing students to at least load and ignore the presentation — but hopefully watch and digest it — in order to pick their course loads.

While the efforts officials took to upgrade sexual misconduct policy and education proved a mixed bag this year, they marked initial steps toward comprehensive reform.

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND: C+ The 2014-15 academic year proved tough on University System of Maryland institutions and students alike.

Handed $40.3 million in budget cuts with relatively short notice, the university system slashed member institutions’ funding and boosted tuition for the spring semester — once almost unthinkable, considering the state had committed itself to a 3 percent cap on tuition increases each year after a four-year freeze in 2007.

The reasoning appeared sound, if not particularly popular; the cuts and tuition hikes came as part of a statewide awakening to past budget mismanagement in Annapolis.

Where the system fell egregiously short, however, is in its rollout of differential tuition for this university’s engineering, business and computer science students. The system’s Board of Regents voted on the measure just two days after university officials announced For a full list of university grades, the proposal, leaving students enrolled visit dbknews.com.

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n her recent column for The Diamondback, Katie Stuller rebuffs the audacity of engineering students at this university who are upset with the recent announcement of major-based tuition hikes. While I disagree with Stuller’s opinion, ultimately both her opinion and that of those to whom she responds are symptoms of the same ailment: The way we approach postsecondary education is broken.

The cost of an engineering degree should not be higher than that of an English degree.

At the same time, Stuller should not have to defend her English major. This is not a dichotomy, a s so m e wo u l d h ave i t , a n d therein lies the problem. The modern American university has increasingly become a stamp of upper- and middle-class continuity rather than a home of learning and innovative thought.

If you can pay for it, you can — more often than not — get a degree. If you have a degree, you can — again, more often than not — get a job that pays a reasonably sufficient wage to maintain or elevate your parents’ socioeconomic standing.

When you can pay for a degree but aren’t cut out for or can’t seem to work hard enough for a “difficult” one, you switch majors. Some people never even switch, opting from the outset for an “easy” one. Stuller’s overpopulated and flippantly regarded degree is one of the prime examples of this. This is not to say Stuller, or any hardworking and passionate English major, is guilty of anything. Rather, they are the victims of this problem, victims along with the shallowpocketed engineering students

and the state of liberal arts research in general.

By devaluing pursuits of study that are — by their very nature — not lucrative in the same way that science, technology, engineering and math are, we sell ourselves, our futures and the very idea of a university short. This university is meant to be a place where additions to the compendium of human knowledge happen, where each and every student is exactly that: a pupil of the vast world waiting to be discovered. Each student at this university should have the opportunity to do this, and not just if they study in a technical field. If this whole thing is only a racket to score us jobs, then our society as we know it is going to have major problems in the years and decades to come.

When J.R.R. Tolkien, the orphaned son of an unsuccessful banker and a tutor, was an undergraduate student at Exeter College, Oxford, he made significant research strides in the field of linguistics and philology. Undergraduate students today rarely, if ever, make substantial research progress in the sciences; I can only imagine the dearth of opportunities to do so in the liberal arts.

The tuition problem can only truly be solved with a fundamental rethinking of this university as we know it because, in actuality, it has the potential to be so much more. We must revalue education as a fundamental good and remind ourselves that a degree in English, philosophy or sociology must be just as intellectually valuable as one in the sciences for education to truly work.

Cory Frontin is a 2014 university alumnus. He can be reached at charlievictorfoxtrot@gmail.com.

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Don’t let insecurities get the best of your 4 years when I should’ve cared more about things, such as when I refused to study for my nutritional chemistry exam because I stayed up late SENIOR watching election results come hen I look back at the past in (I know, I’m a loser), when I four years, I try my best to should have been more proactive conclude that I don’t regret when friends needed help or when anything, that every decision I I should have spent less time on made was at least somewhat justi- Netflix and more in the library.

With that said, there were times fiable, and there weren’t additional when I cared too much about social things I wish I could’ve done.

Everyone has regrets — some things, and that prevented me life-changing, some minor. But if from truly enjoying the college I were to regret anything about my experience.

W h e n eve r I p a r t i c i p a te d i n college experience, it would probably be that I cared too much. Let social activities — whether that be going to bars or hanging out with me explain.

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to others: Did my outfit make me look fat compared to other people in the bar? Are the conversations I’m bringing up stupid? Why is everyone hitting on my friend but not me?

I k n o w, t h e y ’ re p re t t y s a d thoughts to have.

Being in a crowded social situation adds a lot of pressure. It seems as if there’s tremendous competition to be noticed or get a free drink — especially if you’re in a bar filled with college students.

When graduating seniors think back to those fun times when they got drunk at R.J. Bentley’s or made out with some random guy at Terrapin’s Turf, it’s best if

those memories aren’t crowded by insecurities.

To those who still have some time left at this university, don’t worry about the social things — the whole point of getting drinks or spending time with friends is so you don’t have to worry — so you can enjoy yourself without stressing over anything.

Maybe I was just a really insecure girl, but whether you like it or not, your social life is a defining element of the “college experience.” This is likely the one time in your life when you’re going to be surrounded by thousands of people your age who all have similar interests as you.

Don’t let this time go to waste.

I wish I didn’t worry so much about the way I dressed. I wish I didn’t stress about ways to start small talk with people, and I wish I could have truly had fun — enjoyed myself because I wanted to, not because everyone else was.

Now, I’m off to graduate school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hopefully, I’ll learn my lesson there. To any of you who have yet to graduate, don’t waste your time — go out there, have fun and most of all, care less.

C a ro l i n e C a r l s o n i s a s e n i o r go v e r n m e n t a n d p o l i t i c s a n d informations system major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.

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FEATURE | THE OPERATIONS AND OBSTACLES OF STUDENT ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS

Concertgoers crowd the stage at this year’s Art Attack. The annual year-end show is consistently the student-run organization’s most expensive event. This year ‘s four-hour performance was held in Xfinity Center for the first time ever. tom hausman/thediamondback

By Dean Essner and Beena Raghavendran @ DBKDiversions For The Diamondback If you’re a student at this university, you hold a stake in SEE’s existence.

The student activities fees that all students deposit along with tuition every fall and spring semester are pooled into Student Entertainment Events’ finances. Those tickets purchased for Art Attack XXXII went straight to funding future events. And fees that go to Stamp Student Union — SEE gets part of that, too.

But it hasn’t been enough.

SEE has relied on bailout funds from Stamp in the past to fund the Homecoming Comedy Show, Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk said. But those funds have been cut. SEE has been working without Stamp’s contribution for the show since 2014.

That is why the organization lobbied for an increase in funds from the student activities fee.

Pending approval, the activities fee will increase by $5.28 starting beginning fall 2017, giving SEE $48,500 more per year to match the rising costs for entertainment, said SGA Financial Affairs Vice President Brian Nowak.

“We give SEE a lot of money, don’t get me wrong, especially compared to a lot of other student groups. But we don’t really give SEE as much as people think,” Ronk said. “And especially with the cost of talent and the cost of putting on a production like Art Attack, it’s so expensive nowadays, and it’s getting even more expensive.”

Despite its financial troubles, SEE maintains some costly traditions, like spending thousands each year on dinners for Art Attack and Homecoming Comedy staff volunteers, according to records obtained by

The Diamondback. These expenses come from money SEE gets from local donors, which have included Mazza Grandmarc, South Campus Commons and The Courtyards.

As of this year, SEE has spent at least $787.72 on meals for its staff and directors, often from Chipotle, Bagel Place or Domino’s Pizza, according to SEE expenditure records obtained

by The Diamondback. SEE is contractually obligated to feed all hired production staff; the group said it feeds its student workers with its own money for courtesy and convenience.

In 2014, the group spent $2,356.10 on food, according to the records. One of its largest food spending years was 2011, when the group spent $5,042.89 It was that year that more than $1,000 went to financing Chipotle burritos for “dinner for directors & production” during Art Attack XXVIII, which featured Nelly.

Meanwhile, other student groups — which also get student activities fee money to fund their programming — saw funding cuts of up to 90 percent this spring, Ronk said.

SEE President Isha Aggarwal and faculty adviser Laura McGrath note that this spending happens just a couple of times a year for “all hands on deck” events when student staff members are working full days in preparation.

“To have that expectation of them to figure out their own meal when we’re hiring them for the day to work is kind of a little mismatch,” Aggarwal said.

“This is just something we can provide for them so they don’t have to worry about packing a sandwich,” McGrath added, mentioning that students are often lifting heavy things during setup.

In comparison with SEE’s overall budget, these expenditures are minimal, but for a

group that lobbied for an activities fee increase, they warrant a breakdown of its financial workings. *** About 70 or 80 percent of SEE’s money — or $430,418.60 — is funded by the student activities fee. About $99,000 from Stamp makes up another piece of SEE’s funding, Stamp Director Marsha GuenzlerStevens said.

The last piece of SEE’s funding comes from self-generated revenue, which combinesticket sales and corporate sponsorships. SEE’s self-generated revenue can roll over to the next academic year.

Event ticket sales are split; half of the money goes into self-generated revenue, and half goes back into the program line to fund next year’s event, McGrath said.

The crux of the issue is SEE’s

will to be self-sufficient, plus the challenge of keeping ticket prices low. For years, the group has used Stamp’s support as a crutch. Now, Stamp has pulled away its help for the Homecoming Comedy Show — it didn’t fund last year’s show, and it won’t be funding this year’s, Guenzler-Stevens said.

Because of Cole Field House’s transformation into an athletic facility, SEE needs to look for an alternative (and potentially more expensive) place to host the event. Its solution to the challenge has been championing the bump to the student activities fee this year.

SEE’s funding is approved monthly by a body called the SGA/SEE Working Group, which handles SEE finances. All other SGA-recognized student groups go to the Student Organization Resource Center,which oversees the SGA Finance See SEE, Page 7

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SEE From PAGE 6 Committee’s budget-review process for those organizations.

The group this year included Ronk, Aggarwal, Nowak, SGA Legislature Speaker Aiden Galloway and Guenzler-Stevens.

In the meetings, SEE presents its budget to the SGA, and the group allocates funds to each program line within SEE — performing arts and comedy are two separate lines, for example. The group looks into long-term SEE funding as well.

“You’re always thinking five years ahead to make sure we have enough money to even have the Homecoming Comedy Show,” Ronk said.

The SGA audit committee has the authority to inspect student group records if the group needs to be investigated. Only twice has the audit committee found a group violating guidelines, in which case its account gets frozen or the student group gets suspended, Stamp Coordinator for Student Organization Services Valerie LaHoud said.

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sure SEE’s budget checks out, she said.

“I put the money where they tell me to, and I let them spend it the way they do,” LaHoud said, “trusting that that’s why there’s a full-time staff adviser, that’s why there’s multiple layers, that it’s all been vetted.” *** SEE isn’t just any student group. It has a full-time faculty adviser and offices in the Student Involvement Suite — some of the largest for any student organization. It deals with professionallevel concerts and events. And it has the weight of serving the entire campus community with large-scale, diverse programming on its shoulders. “[SEE] runs like a fully functioning production company,” said Stamp Associate Director Donna Lim, who served as SEE program coordinator during the mid-’90s.

That means the group puts pressure on itself, too, Aggarwal said.

“SEE is put in a position where we are held to high expectations from ourselves,” Aggarwal said.

“Especially regarding Homecoming Comedy Show, we are concerned about being able to live up to those expectations each year.”

At some other universities, university departments take on SEE’s role, Nowak said. He said he prefers a student-run and student-funded group to lead student programming.

Noah Cogan, a graduate student studying classics, went to Vassar College for his undergraduate, and he said similar events were free for him. He hasn’t been to a SEE show but said if he had to pay a fee and pay to go to the events on top of that, he wouldn’t go to the events.

“Unless I had a lot of friends that were going, it’s not worth $20 to $30 when I’m ostensibly paying a lot of money for it,” he said.

Guenzler-Stevens said SEE is focused on providing diverse programming in the most costeffective ways. Many alumni have gone into the industry with the help of contract negotiation skills they learned at SEE, she said. *** SEE’s current financial insta-

LOGIC performs at Art Attack. The show and its costs are some of the reasons SEE finds itself in financial trouble . james levin/the diamondback bility is hardly new.

The 90s were a particularly troublesome period for the organization, fraught with debt, Stamp bailouts and a depleted well of self-generated revenue, Lim said.

Lim experienced this firsthand at the beginning of her tenure as program coordinator. She recalled one major mishap — when SEE signed a contract to bring an act to the campus, only to quickly realize they couldn’t afford

the performance.

Contractually obligated to put on the event anyway, SEE was forced to seek help from Stamp, which ended up paying for it. But then SEE had to pay Stamp back, leaving it vulnerable with virtually no risk capital for backup. It was a learning experience.

“That’s kind of how some checks and balances [came] into play,” Lim said.

SEE hasn’t been a completely self-sustaining organization,

but, unlike in the ’90s, it now brings in self-generated revenue from corporate sponsorships and ticket sales.

Ticket sales will fund this fall’s Homecoming Comedy Show.

“SEE is not struggling,” Aggarwal wrote in an e-mail.

“However, we feel we would be doing our students a disservice if we did not constantly push to bring the best each year.” diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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a $15.6 million cut for this university.

Kirkland-Gordon said in this fiscally difficult time, the center needed to look at its core mission and priorities, which are mental health, learning support and academic support.

Although the ESOL program is valued, she said, she needed to make a “tough decision.”

When balancing cost and the center’s priorities, Kirkland-Gordon said, the center also cut the Peer Assisted Learning program, as she felt other programs the center still offered could accommodate those in the PAL program.

Tiffany Pao, the current E S O L c o o r d i n a t o r, s a i d many of those involved in the program are willing to pay to participate if it meant the program could still operate.

As a former participant from Taiwan, Pao said she knows how valuable it is to have this option available for international students.

“Any little life things, like going to a supermarket, is a very difficult thing. We may meet troubles because we don’t understand the menu,” Pao said. “[The ESOL program] is really good for me to adjust my life in the States. You will know there are people who can

From PAGE 1 Yao’s weekly meetings through this university’s English for Speakers of Other Languages Conversation Program, which is set up to help international students and scholars improve their English and expose participants to other cultures.

Sharon Kirkland-Gordon, Counseling Center director, announced May 4 the program would be cut in a letter to ESOL volunteers a nd pa rticipa nts. Du ri ng the 2013-14 academic year, 482 students were involved i n t he prog ra m , a c cordi n g to a rep or t f rom t h e Counseling Center.

The program’s termination is due to a 2 percent cut, totaling about $54,000, to the Counseling Center’s budget for nex t yea r, K i rk l a ndGordon said. It takes about $20,000 to run the ESOL program, between the cost of the graduate assistant who heads the program and miscellaneous expenses, such as events and teaching materials, she added.

The University System of Maryland faced $40.3 million in cuts this year, resulting in

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Haiku-Ping Wei, 33, a mechanical engineering doctoral student, said he participated in the ESOL program for four semesters. This spring, his group consists of people from India, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and America, which not only helps the international students learn about American culture but also enhanced all the participants’ worldviews, he said.

“Opinions and experiences from every different countries, it’s so amazing,” Wei said.

“If we don’t have that kind of program, I think we don’t have that kind of opportunity.”

A lt houg h Pepper Ph i llips, the Learning Assistance Service acting assistant director, said she was “saddened” to have to make this cut for budgetary reasons, she said she thinks the program could still operate in a new form, either as a student-run club

or if another program funds or adopts it.

Pao said the program would not operate as well if it were run by students. Currently, the program has strict rules and regulations for the weekly meetings. For example, if participants do not show up to scheduled meetings three times over the course of a semester, they could lose opportunities within the program.

A petition to save the ESOL program gained more than 550 signatures, Adam Lax, the previous program coordinator and an international education policy graduate student, wrote in an email.

“It serves a fair amount of people from the community, so for international folks, whether they are students or town people, it plays a very important role for them,” university President Wallace Loh said. “Maybe they can band together and get it restarted

Joy Wang, a speaking partner, chats with Yao Yao, a computer science visiting scholar, at an end-of-semester ESOL event Friday in St. Mary’s Hall. stephanie natoli/the diamondback in some other way.”

W it h o ut t h e p ro g ra m , Wei said new international students, visiting scholars and the A merican volu nteers will lose the “chance to explore and experience other cultures,” and those who do not speak English well could feel isolated on the campus.

“A lot of international stu-

dents — they will be lost, left out because they can not make friends or they can not even just practice their English that much,” Pao said. “If they have partners and groups to help them or practice or be friends with them, they will feel like they are more involved in the American culture.” esilvermandbk@gmail.com

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Though the View boasts one of the most complex security systems in the city — students are required to unlock an exterior door, show their ID, unlock access to an elevator and then unlock their individual doors — residents said management could do more to make them feel safe.

For one, sophomore kinesiology major Matt Bower said the security guards are inconsistent in enforcing the rules.

“The guards are pretty strict, but it depends on the night,” Bower said. “Sometimes they’ll let large groups of people in, and you know none of these people live here.

“You’re going to risk your job

and our safety, even though it’s a hassle to get everyone to get signed in? It’s better to be safe than sorry.”

Another student who lives in the two-building complex noted the trend of nonresidents entering through a back door.

“People sneak in through the back door,” sophomore mathematics major Melissa Chammas said. “If you do that, you have to have someone inside let you in, so it wasn’t outsiders who wouldn’t know anyone.”

However, situations like these might not be the responsibility of the management, said Jordan Polk, the View’s leasing manager.

“We do as much as we can given the environment,” Polk said. “We take similar measures that the university does.”

College Park is safer than only 11 percent of U.S. cities, according to neighborhoodscout.com.

The website reports the city experiences 247 crimes per square mile — more than six times the national average of 37.9.

“Col lege Pa rk has a lot of break-ins and crimes,” Chammas said. “Everyone knows that.”

University Police responded to 69 burglaries in 2014 alone.

“When we get to the scene off-campus, we just maintain the scene,” University Police spokeswoman Sgt. Rosanne Hoaas said. “We then turn it over when Prince George’s County Police gets there.”

Last month, the city saw 10 cases of breaking and en-

levels of diversity. In fall 2014, black and Hispanic students accounted for 18 percent of From PAGE 1 business majors, 15 percent of Students who identified as computer science majors and 12 black or Hispanic constituted percent of engineering majors.

22 percent of the campus popu- These numbers do not include lation in fall 2014, according to students who identified as data from the university’s Office foreign or more than one race.

Jazmyn White, president of of Institutional Research, Planthis university’s Black Student ning & Assessment.

The majors affected by dif- Union, said she fears these inferential pricing showed lower creases could disproportion-

ately affect minority students, who historically have had the most difficulty affording college and succeeding in the majors selected for tuition increases.

“It’s kind of scary to think that now that Maryland is raising the tuition, especially for certain majors, will minority students get the opportunity to pursue something that they’re passionate for?” the

senior computer science and economics major said. “Their career for the rest of their life could be determined based on how much money they had or what they could afford at the age of 18.”

Senior accounting and international business major Olasubom i Adesoye, who plans to graduate in spring 2016, said he chose to attend this university over Pennsyl-

no thanks to our management.”

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faulty locks if they’re irreparable, McKenzie said.

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However, even the lobby’s security guard is ineffective, Hough said. The guard is only there twice a week, often leaving his laptop abandoned on the desk or falling asleep in a chair, Hough said.

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University-owned high-rises layer locked exterior doors, locked elevators and locked dorm doors with round-the-clock staff and student education on the dangers of letting people in.

“We take security very seriously,” Mike Glowacki, assistant to the director of the Department of Resident Life, said about oncampus housing. “Locked doors provide barriers, staff provide barriers, vigilant residents provide barriers, and all those add up to increase the overall safety of the community.”

However, few apartment buildings follow a similar protocol. Though the View operates under related con-

vania State University because it was less expensive.

“It’s kind of unfair now to my parents because now they have to pay a lot more because three years ago, I made the choice to be an accountant,” Adesoye said.

Adesoye said the lack of diversity in the business school is “horrendous,” adding that he is one of only three black students in several of his accounting classes.

Study co-author Drew Allen, director of the Office of Research, Evaluation and Program Support at the City University of New York, said financial aid is “an incredibly powerful tool for ensuring campus diversity.”

White said the university should increase the number of scholarships, grants and workstudy jobs it offers to business, engineering and computer science students to encourage diversity in those fields.

Twenty-five percent of the funds generated from the differential pricing structure will go toward grants and financial

ditions, Camden, College Park Towers and University Club are each missing various pieces of the puzzle.

“Places like the View — newer high-rises adjacent to campus — have more features similar to resident halls,” Glowacki said.

“Places that are older and farther away from campus tend not to.”

And if student anecdotes a re a ny i nd ication, those variables can mean the difference between a safe apartment and an unsafe one.

“Apartment buildings need to be more proactive,” College Park District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said. “They need to start doing their fair share to improve security.

“Someth i ng needs to change.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

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Un iversity President Wallace Loh said this university has some of the lowest tuition and fees when compared to its peer institutions.

Other Big Ten schools have already implemented differential pricing, and it did not impact their total enrollment or enrollment of minority students if money was set aside for financial aid, Loh said.

He said most of the minority students this university attracts are middle-class, and low-income students can be covered with additional financial aid.

He said he is “absolutely positive” tuition increases will not affect minority enrollment at this university.

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Coach cathy reese instructs her team in a huddle during the Terps’ 10-7 win over Syracuse on March 7 at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex. file photo/the diamondback

coach cathy reese shouts to her teammates during the Terps’ 18-10 victory over Princeton on April 8. She helped lead her team to a 27-game winning streak spanning the past two seasons. marquise mckine/the diamondback

REESE

and kicking butt, and we’re all out of cookies, so it’s kicking-butt time.”

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tournament looming. Yet during a team talk on the field after a workout, Reese and her squad couldn’t help but laugh as Braxton walked through the huddle pretending to shoot the Terps like a Power Ranger.

And Reese’s youngest isn’t the only one of her children to entertain the women, whom Riley refers to as his “Terps sisters.”

Riley is often seen dancing on the sidelines at practices and games and is known for performing the NaeNae and the Whip.

Cayden thinks of herself as one of her mom’s assistant coaches and often gives the Terps pep talks after her mom gives in to her incessant pleading to address “her” team.

“There’s only two things I’m good at,” Reese remembers Cayden shouting to her players. “It’s eating cookies

PARENTING BOTH SIDES With such a close, constant interaction between her kids and players, Reese has fostered a family-like atmosphere around her program.

Senior attacker Taylor Salandra said Reese is always there to help her “conquer her day” when she has a problem — just like a mom would.

“She brings her kids to practice and you watch her teach them and parent them, and at the same time, she’s a coach to us,” Salandra said.

“She takes herself out of lacrosse and teaches us things that we need to carry on throughout life, and so I think she does a good job kind of parenting us as well.”

The family aspect of Reese’s coaching philosophy shone through when Riley was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes three years ago. While Reese slept

in the hospital for the 31 days Riley was hospitalized, groups of players visited them on their free nights.

Reese’s assistants became more involved in planning for games and arranging the other team activities during her absence.

After learning that freshman attacker Shelby Scanlin is a Type 1 diabetic, Reese organized a juvenile diabetes awareness game when the team hosted Rutgers on April 4. In her team’s 17-5 trouncing of the Scarlet Knights, Reese’s efforts raised more than $12,000 for juvenile diabetes research and inspired her to continue the program’s outreach game on an annual basis.

“That fueled our fire,” Salandra said. “You wanted to win for her. You wanted to win for Riley.”

A TERP FAMILY The Reese family’s connection to this university doesn’t end when practices are over or when the game clock strikes zero.

Cathy and Brian both played lacrosse for the Terps from 1995 to 1998, and Reese said her kids are convinced they’re going to follow in their parents’ footsteps.

All four attend as many Terps sporting events as they can. They’ve become emotionally attached to the program.

They cried when their mom’s squad fell to the Buckeyes two weeks ago. They cried when the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team fell to Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament earlier that week. They even cried when the Terrapins men’s basketball team lost to West Virginia in the second round of the NCAA tournament in March.

Their support for their parents’ alma mater, though, doesn’t end when they leave the College Park premises.

Brody’s first-grade class was assigned to wear purple for field day last year on the same weekend the Terps faced Northwestern in the Final Four. Instead, Brody was decked out in red from head to toe while he took pictures among his classmates, who were clad in the Wildcats’ primary color.

“He’s in first grade, and he’s just like, ‘What? I’m not wearing purple.

My mom plays tonight,’” Reese said.

But as her kids have gotten older, it’s been tougher for Reese to keep them directly involved with the team.

Likewise, it’s been tougher for the Reese parents — their attention and driving skills pulled in four different directions — to handle their active bunch’s schedules.

“If I said that I was a big help, that’d kind of be a lie because Cathy does everything,” said Brian, who also is a consultant for the

Chesapeake Bayhawks in Major League Lacrosse.

Still, the kids spent their spring break running across the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex’s turf with lacrosse sticks in hand.

And Riley has posted a bunch of Terps-related pictures to his Instagram account. He even put up a happy birthday message to attacker Brooke Griffin.

Sometimes, however, he’ll upload pictures with captions that read: “Terps sisters don’t like this. I want to see how many likes I can get,” assistant coach Lauri Kenis said, because he wants to gauge his popularity without the help of about 50 likes coming from his mom’s squad.

Reese said she isn’t very social media-savvy, but her favorite picture on Riley’s Instagram is a selfie of the two that he posted on Sunday.

In the caption, he wishes his mom a happy Mother’s Day and says he loves her with a heart and kiss emoji.

But much like the Reeses’ Mother’s Day celebration, the ending piece of Riley’s note was a product of the Reese family’s unique lifestyle.

“It [reads] happy Mother’s Day, she’s great, #beatUMass,” Reese said laughing. “This is just kind of how we roll.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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carlson From PAGE 13 a captain for the Tars. But in early February, he came down with the flu.

Lyndall Hauver soon texted Kathy Carlson: Her son was sick and unconscious. She was worried.

Twenty minutes later, he was dead.

“Will was just a carefree, happy kid who just loved playing sports, even though he was never the biggest guy on a team,” said Chip Carlson, Jay’s father, who coached Hauver in a youth league. “[His death] took everyone totally by surprise. Shocked [ Jay]; shocked us; shocked so many people.”

For years, the Carlsons and the Hauvers hung out together at the L’Hirondelle Club of Ruxton in Towson.

When they weren’t playing lacrosse or tennis, the two boys would retreat to the pool and play games such as sharks and minnows and capture the flag.

They played on the same U-13 team at the Vail Lacrosse Tournament and won the championship.

While in Vail, Colorado, Carlson and Hauver spent

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time together off the field, too. They mountain biked, wh i te -wa te r ra f te d a n d played paintball. “[Hauver] had a great sense of humor and just enjoyed m a k i n g p e o p l e l a u g h ,” Carlson said.

So Carlson felt dazed and distraught when he learned of his friend’s death. Shortly after receiving the news, he called a number of friends, including Dan Gutberlet, who played youth lacrosse with Carlson and Hauver.

After Carlson told Gutberlet, the two stayed silent on the phone for a few minutes.

“We were both just heartbroken,” Gutberlet said.

“Completely heartbroken.”

From there, Carlson joined others in the pursuit to keep Hauver’s name alive.

O n M a rc h 1 , a v i d e o posted to the Terps’ Facebook page featured Carlson and other Terps standing in Byrd Stadium. After a brief speech from Carlson, he and his teammates cracked eggs over each other’s heads.

“It’s who Jay is,” coach John Tillman said. “He’s a talented player, but he never makes anything about himself.”

Carlson couldn’t attend Hauver’s funeral, as the Terps hosted Cornell in a scrimmage that day. But

afterward, he joined friends a n d fa m i ly a t t h e wa ke before the group retreated to a nearby bowling alley.

They reminisced about Hauver and shared memories of his life.

“I know that Will is probably watching down and really happy about how everything worked out,” Carlson said.

Carlson knows family gatherings with the Hauvers will never be the same. The v i b ra n t a r t i s t wh o wa s always ready to crack a joke or throw around a lacrosse ball is gone.

Every time he looks at his right wrist, though, Carlson will remember what he’s learned from the situation. In his four years in College Park, the Terps have fallen twice in the national semifinals. A loss to North Carolina on Sunday in the NCAA quarterfinals would mark a discouraging end to Carlson’s career.

B u t h e ’s d eve l o p e d a deeper perspective.

“I understand that if you lose in lacrosse, or if something unfortunate happens, there’s a lot more to life than sports and competing,” Carlson said. jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

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Martir wanted Cuas to sign with the Terps. The duo had talked about playing together in College Park since the Terps started recruiting them as sophomores.

The day Martir committed, he told Cuas. Initially, Cuas was reluctant to sign. He had offers from Miami and Florida State, two perennial powerhouses. But Martir’s persistence paid off.

“You know what, let’s just do it,” Cuas recalls saying. “I mean, we have a dynasty together, and I want to keep going.”

But another option e m e rge d fo r C u a s t h e summer before college.

PROFESSIONAL ASPIRATIONS Cuas had a taste of the bigleague life for one day.

The summer before his first year of college, the Toronto Blue Jays drafted Cuas in the 40th round of the MLB draft. The Blue Jays flew him to Toronto, and he took batting practice with the team.

“All the guys on the Blue Jays were like, ‘Come on, come on, sign,’” Owens said. “‘You’ll love it here.’”

Cuas wanted a $500,000 signing bonus, a figure usually reserved for higher draft picks.

And the Blue Jays came close to that figure, Cuas said, which left him at a crossroads.

But Cuas couldn’t delay the decision forever. It was a Sunday, and the next day there was a summer program he had to attend if he planned on playing for the Terps.

So he sat down with his parents and adviser and made

his choice. He was in College Park the next day.

“My parents were pushing for education,” Cuas said.

“That’s important for them, for me to get an education and earn my degree. I don’t regret it.”

Owens was ecstatic. He wants all his players to attend college. Plus, Cuas and Martir need to mature, Owens said, and college is the perfect place for that.

“I wish all the kids out of New York City would be smart enough to do that,” Owens said. “It helped that they were together.”

‘EVERYONE’S REALLY NICE HERE’ In his hometown, Martir hears a constant refrain: “What the hell you staring at?”

But in College Park, people are friendlier.

“Everyone’s really nice here,” Martir said.“It’s much different.”

Since they arrived on the campus in the fall of 2012, Cuas and Martir have played a m a jo r ro l e i n rev iv i n g the Terps’ once-dormant program. They started as freshmen during coach John Szefc’s first season. Then last year, they helped the Terps make the NCAA tournament for the first time in 43 years and advance to the Super Regionals for the first time in program history. Along the way, Martir and Cuas earned All-Regional honors.

“It’s great to see those guys thrive under Coach Szefc and evolve into two of the best players in the conference, which they are today,” said former Terps coach Erik Bakich, who recruited the pair.

Off the field, Martir and Cuas leaned on each other as they adjusted to a new atmosphere. They were roommates freshman year. They split up

as sophomores, but Cuas is always in Martir’s room. The two play video games such as Call of Duty together.

“They’ve done a good job of navigating their way around campus,” Szefc said. “They’ve kind of learned how to adjust from the academic atmosphere they came from.”

Martir still calls Cuas “Chello,” a childhood nickname, even though the rest of the Terps usually refer to him as Jose.

“If he calls me Jose I won’t respond,” Cuas said. “I’m not used to hearing that from him.”

LOOKING AHEAD Next year, Cuas and Martir might not be teammates.

Both are eligible for the MLB Draft this June, and it’s unlikely the same team will select both Brooklyn products. Plus, one could turn professional and the other might stay with the Terps.

But Cuas and Martir are hopeful they can extend their years together as teammates.

“Someone might like us enough to take both of us together,” Cuas said. “There’s a chance.”

Right now, they want to savor their junior seasons.

They’ve come a long way from the playgrounds of Brooklyn to College Park. There were plenty of roadblocks along the way.

But they emerged unscathed from East New York, largely thanks to the sport they grew up playing together.

“They made it out,” Owens said. “They enjoyed playing baseball enough to keep them out of trouble, and they finished high school.

And you see where they’re at right now. They have the option that they don’t have to go back there if they don’t want to.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

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third baseman jose cuas hits a fly ball during the Terps’ 3-1 loss to VCU on April 22. He was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays out of high school. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

Catcher kevin martir (32) is greeted by second baseman Brandon Lowe (5) and third baseman Jose Cuas (12) after hitting a home run during the Terps’ 9-2 victory over Towson on May 6 . christian jenkins/the diamondback

BROOKLYN From PAGE 14 GROWING UP They are teammates and best friends now, but Cuas and Martir first met as opponents.

When they were 6 years old, Cuas and Martir played against each other in a small local league called La Nueva Creda. While the league was for 6-, 7and 8-year-olds, Martir and Cuas were the best players from the beginning.

They pitched to each other and hit home runs off each other. Out of that on-the-field rivalry, a lasting friendship blossomed.

“Our parents played softball together,” Martir said. “We’d always see each other at the park and just play catch.”

At 10, Cuas and Martir became teammates.

But their friendship, on and off the field, reached new heights when they joined the New York Grays and developed a special connection.

The two locked eyes across the diamond. Behind the plate, Martir nodded his head. At shortstop, Cuas touched his cap. No words were exchanged.

Seconds later, Martir fired the ball to second and Cuas applied the tag as the duo picked off another runner.

The scene played out numerous times during their time with the Grays.

“I don’t know if it was ESP,” said Owens, director for the Grays.

“They would just have this communication, and they would pick off so many people.”

‘ACADEMICS FIRST’ In the basement of a middleschool gym in Queens, a group of teenage boys gathered around their new coach, Owens. It was January 2010, and a few months earlier, the Grays had taken control of Cuas’ and Martir’s team.

Every player arrived early for the 8 a.m. meeting. While Owens was impressed by the squad’s prompt-

ness, Martir’s appearance took him aback.

Martir, then a high-school sophomore, had braids down his back and wore his pants at his knees.

“If there’s a poster child for East New York, Kevin Martir was the person,” Owens said. “My first words to him were, ‘That’s not going to work in the real world.’ I started to curse: ‘Cut your f------ hair and let’s start acting like a professional baseball player.’”

While Martir initially chafed at Owens’ commands, he eventually relented. A new perspective helped.

For the first three years of high school, Martir attended a private school, Xaverian, before transferring to Grand Street Campus, where Cuas starred. The different environment helped Martir understand where Owens was coming from.

“What he was saying was right, and it’s gotten me to where I am today,” Martir said. “I’m very thankful for him.”

Before Martir met Owens, he never considered playing college baseball. His dream was to sign a professional contract out of high school.

Owens stressed the importance of education, though, and outlined the pros and cons of playing professional versus going to college. He taught his team about NCAA eligibility requirements, too.

At the time, Martir’s grades were poor and at the rate he was going, he wouldn’t be eligible for college.

“He was getting into trouble,” Owens said. “A lot of boys were getting into trouble. They weren’t taking school seriously, and basically I told them, ‘If you’re going to play in my program, it has to be academics first.’”

ACTING UP Like most teenagers, Martir and Cuas just wanted to fit in.

Unfortunately for Martir, that meant hanging out with kids who skipped class and threw firecrackers in the hallway. Martir often got in trouble for fighting, and his mother regularly came to the principal’s office.

“I would get in a bunch of trouble,” Martir said. “That kind of changed [under Owens].”

Cuas attended a different middle school, one in Queens, where his mother worked. But the same problems existed there.

“It was probably one of the worst schools, academic-wise,” Cuas said.

“A lot of gang activity going on and at such a young age.”

Every Friday after school, a crowd gathered and fights broke out. While Cuas didn’t fight, he’d follow his friends to watch.

“I needed the reality check,”

Cuas said. “I got it junior year of high school.”

HIGH SCHOOL BLUES At Grand Street Campus, friends encouraged Cuas to cut class every day. There were always parties to go to or opportunities to walk around off the campus. Sometimes, they’d simply go home.

It got to a point where he was suspended for a game his junior season.

When his parents found out, a sitdown ensued.

“It’s your dream to play college baseball,” Cuas’ parents told him.

“You’re going the wrong way. The way you’re going, you’re going to end up, God forbid, in prison or dead.”

Cuas’ father, also named Jose, threatened to pull the high-school star out of baseball altogether.

“It could have easily done a 360 turn,” Cuas said. “I could have easily been in a different situation than I am right now.”

After that talk, Cuas steered clear of trouble and the conversation transitioned to which college he would attend.

‘LET’S JUST DO IT’ Cuas’ cellphone rang like clockwork every day during his junior year.

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MEN’S LACROSSE

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Carlson honors passing of friend Senior gained perspective after his former teammate’s sudden death

By Joshua Needelman @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writer The words on the blue bracelet Jay Carlson wears on his right wrist might have faded away, but that doesn’t diminish the wristband’s significance for the Terrapins men’s lacrosse attackman.

It reads: ‘W.L.H. To Be Remembered.’

On Feb. 2, Carlson was walking into the Varsity Team House after practice with a couple of teammates when he received a call from his mother, Kathy Carlson.

Fighting back tears, Kathy delivered the news: Will Hauver, who played on Jay’s lacrosse teams for years and whose family had spent countless summer days at the pool with the Carlsons, was dead. He was 22.

“I just walked back [from the locker room] and scooted home. I was just kind of s t u n n e d ,” C a rl s o n s a i d .

“K ind of speechless for a wh i l e . Yo u d o n ’t ex p e c t those things.”

Hauver had struggled with diabetes for years and died unexpectedly from complications with the flu. The news was devastating for those who knew Hauver, including Carlson. The senior has chosen to honor his friend, though, and celebrate his life. That’s why he wears the commemorative bracelet and brought the ‘Egg Crack Challenge,’ which supports diabetes research, to College Park. “[Carlson] did it, I think,

“I JUST WALKED BACK [FROM THE LOCKER ROOM] AND SCOOTED HOME. I WAS JUST KIND OF STUNNED. KIND OF SPEECHLESS FOR A WHILE. YOU DON’T EXPECT THOSE THINGS.” JAY CARLSON

Terrapins men’s lacrosse attackman because he knew and loved Will,” said Lyndall Hauver, Will’s mother. “They had known each other since they were 5.”

Last August, Will Hauver was nominated for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Hauver, though, decided “to change the freakin’ game up” in a video. Sitting in front of his computer with a gray Rollins lacrosse T-shirt, Hauver disregarded the cup of ice in front of him and cracked an egg on his head.

The stunt caught on after his death with friends, fa m i ly a n d t h e l a c ro s s e community taking up the challenge to raise money for Type 1 diabetes research.

Even news anchors from MSNBC participated.

Hauver was diagnosed with diabetes at 15 but still excelled on the lacrosse field.

After a solid high school career at McDonogh, Hauver went on to play midfield at Rollins, where he served as See Carlson, Page 11

coach cathy reese stands on the field with her kids after the Terps’ 13-10 win against Penn State on April 23, which clinched the Big Ten regular-season title. alexander jonesi/the diamondback

Reese balances four kids with Terps Coach manages powerhouse program, busy family life during season

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer After a full day of lacrosse games, Cathy and Brian Reese were lounging by the pool at their Howard County home with their four children for Mother’s Day. Following her top-seeded Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s second-round NCAA tournament win over Massachusetts, Cathy rushed over to a youth lacrosse game to watch her 10-year-old son Riley.

Then, Riley and Reese’s other children — Brody, 8, Cayden, 7, and Braxton, 3 — gave their mom a collection of gifts, including a homemade poster filled with glitter and coupons for her to use to have

the kids make dinner, take out the trash and get the mail. There was only one thing left for the family to do: Go out to dinner.

But when Brody learned that his mother was too tired to go out, he broke into tears.

Brian said the family was taking “a rain check” on Mother’s Day this year, and it likely will have to wait until Cathy Reese and the Terps finish their run for a second consecutive national title, which could stretch to the end of May. Such is reality for Reese, who is regularly forced to balance parenting her children and coaching the perennial powerhouse women’s lacrosse program.

But through the grind, the two spheres of her life have merged.

“There’s never a dull moment,” Reese

said. “Enjoyable [is] not really the right word because it’s hard, but at the same time, it makes it really special.”

A LIGHT MOOD T h e Te r p s s p o r te d a 27 - ga m e winning streak entering their conference semifinal match against Ohio State on May 1. But by the time the final buzzer sounded, the Terps walked off the High Point Solutions Stadium field with dispirited expressions on their faces as the Buckeyes celebrated an upset.

Reese and the coaches approached practice with a more serious mentality the following week with the NCAA See reese, Page 10

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BASEBALL

THIRD BASEMAN JOSE CUAS (left) AND CACTHER KEVIN MARTIR (right) grew up playing baseball together in East New York and have continued their friendship the past three years with the Terps.

from left: karen tang/the diamondback; reid poluhovich/the diamondback

BROOKLYN BOYS Baseball provided a lifeline out of New York for Terps starters Cuas, Martir

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer One is a lanky third baseman with dangling arms and a fluid running stride. The other is a stocky catcher who frequently bounces the baseball off the infield turf in excitement.

Despite their different physiques and personas, the lifelong friends and Terrapin baseball starters share the same story.

Third baseman Jose Cuas and catcher Kevin Martir grew up in East New York, once dubbed New York City’s “killing fields.”

Baseball was their lifeline out.

It took the two kids from Brooklyn all over the country. When they were young, they traveled to Disney World for a tournament. As they got older, they spent most of their summers on the road and barely saw their parents. A coach, David Owens, became their father figure for those months.

“Without him, I don’t know what I’d be doing right now — probably, like, working at a grocery store or something crazy,” Martir said. “He helped me keep my head on straight, and he told me what was right, what to do and what not to do off and on the field.”

Baseball gave Cuas the opportunity to attend this university. His parents couldn’t afford it without the financial aid.

There were obstacles along the way. Sometimes, Cuas and Martir failed to steer clear of trouble, but days on the diamond gave them a reason to try.

“I feel like baseball was the path to a straight line, staying out of trouble and following the right footsteps,” Cuas said.

“Without baseball, I don’t know where I’d be, but I’m glad I had it.”

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