May 15, 2014

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U Libraries feature finals Testudo alms in campaign

Brit Kirwan, USM chancellor, said Tuesday that he will retire after a 50-year career. file photo/the diamondback

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Staff writer

Kirwan will leave USM spot

When library spokesman Eric Bartheld walks by the Testudo statue in front of McKeldin Library during finals week this year, he won’t be looking at an assortment of random objects. Instead, he’ll see stories waiting to be told.

To bring more personal meaning and purpose to the tradition of leaving offerings with Testudo, University Libraries and its student advisory group kicked off the #MyTestudo campaign Wednesday, encouraging students to use the hashtag on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to reach out and share the story behind their gift to Testudo.

“The goal is to allow students to be mindful as to what they are offering and what it means,” Bartheld said. “We also want to give others on campus an opportunity to understand the meanings behind the offerings.”

Bartheld said he always wondered about the people behind the anonymous offerings more than the objects themselves. Once when visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, he remembered seeing a bottle of whiskey and Tabasco sauce left next to it.

“I just wish I knew the story behind it,” he said. “Whoever left those had a story to tell, either about a brother, a father or a friend, but we didn’t know what the story was. … In a similar way, this campaign gives students a chance to tell stories.”

Last semester, Benjamin Crane, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences, left a bottle at Testudo, and with this year’s online integration and focus on purposeful offerings, he said the campaign interested him.

12-year USM chancellor announces retirement

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer kirk bloodsworth intended to come to this university but was wrongly convicted of murder and placed on death row.

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A SECOND CHANCE Wrongly convicted former track star reflects on death penalty abolition

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer

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mmediately after the judge declared him guilty, the courtroom erupted and the chanting began.

“Give him the gas and kill his ass! Give him the gas and kill his ass!”

Kirk Bloodsworth, an honorably discharged Marine who aspired to attend this university on a track scholarship, was convicted of the brutal 1984 rape and murder of 9-year-old Dawn Hamilton — a girl he had never met. At 23 years old, he was the most hated man in the state, he said.

But he was innocent.

This month marks one year since this state became the latest of 18 states to abolish the death penalty — an anniversary that holds special meaning for Bloodsworth, who championed the movement after spending almost nine years in a state penitentiary, two of

them on death row, before being released in 1993.

“I killed the thing that almost killed me,” said Bloodsworth, now 53. “Nobody in the state of Maryland will ever again have to go through being wrongly accused and sentenced to death again.

It was like I was Atlas, carrying the weight of the world, and all of the sudden I could straighten up.”

Although the death penalty is still legal in 32 states, public support for the practice is shrinking. In 1996, 78 percent of Americans favored capital punishment for people convicted of murder.

Today, 55 percent do, according to a Pew Research Center study released in March.

Brendan Dooley, a criminology and criminal justice lecturer at this university, attributes this drop to high-profile instances in which the death penalty has gone awry — whether through botched administration, like the recent Oklahoma case, or

University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan announced Tuesday he plans to step down after 12 years in the position in order to spend more time with his family.

Kirwan will retain the role of chancellor until the system picks a successor, he wrote in an email yesterday afternoon.

“It was a very, very difficult decision — difficult because I love what I’m doing,” said Kirwan, who is 76. “I feel that my energy and my passion has not abated one iota, but there is a hard factor that I can’t control: Father Time.”

Kirwan called his tenure as chancellor the “capstone” of his 50-year higher education career. Under his leadership, the system boosted its sustainability efforts, made strides toward expanding higher education access and kept tuition increases at a national low.

University President Wallace Loh said Kirwan, president of this university from 1988 to 1998, was his mentor.

“He’s made the University of Maryland, College Park, better and he has made me a better president,” Loh said. “To the extent that I’ve been president, I give credit to Brit for helping me avoid stepping on land

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It’s a small business (after all )

U unveils super computer Deepthought2 system took 12 years to set up

By Joe Zimmermann @thedbk For The Diamondback

By Holly Cuozzo @emperorcuozzco Staff writer When an entrepreneur decides to start a business, opening day seems just past the stretch of permits, payments and planning.

But sometimes the road from the idea’s creation to the grand opening can be more winding than it initially appears.

Two future College Park businesses, The Board and Brew and the Edgewood Road location of Star Halal Meat and Grocery, have experienced months of delays in opening their doors to the local community because of fees and permit problems.

For Board and Brew co-owners Ben Epstein, 35, and Brian McClimens, 36, a permit issue has delayed the board game cafe’s projected opening from January to June.

board and Brew Owners Ben Epstein (left) and Brian McClimens (right) stand in their cafe, which was set to open this spring. The small business is one of several coming to the area. stephanie natoli/the diamondback “Part of it is, I think, for people who have never opened a business before, there’s just a lot that you have to find out along the way,” Epstein said. “You can’t possibly know everything that’s going to come up.”

The partners originally planned to open their board game cafe in phases, opening the first section with fewer changes as their architect said they could. The county health department then told them they could not

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do that, McClimens said.

And as they reapplied for the permit, the architect failed to pay the necessary fees, and the department did not inform them they owed dues. When they went to pay, they were placed at the bottom of the list and had to wait another month, Epstein said. Oliver Schlake, university business professor and Entrepreneurship Fellows program See business, Page 3

A new supercomputer developed at this university will allow researchers to analyze from combustion to particles in the rings of Saturn.

After nearly 10 years of plann i n g a nd t wo ye a rs of c onstruction, university officials i nt roduced t he $ 4.2 m i l l ion Deepthought2 supercomputer a nd t he new 9,000-squ a refoot Cyberi n frastr uctu re Center that houses it to a crowd o f s e v e ra l d o z e n re s e a rc hers, facu lty a nd consu lta nts yesterday.

“This is a great day, and it’s an awesome computer,” university President Wallace Loh said before cutting the ribbon

to open the new center, which will be located in the Rivertech Building of the university’s M Square Research Park. “It’s awesome. I’m speaking like a teenager because I just learned what a supercomputer can do.”

With the computational power of 10,000 laptops, Deepthought2 ca n ru n tests a nd a na lyze data too large for normal computers to ha nd le, sa id Fra n L oP resti, deputy chief information officer for cyberinfrastructure and research information technology for the Division of Information Technology.

“This is 2,000 times the storage of a laptop and 50 the connection of any home broadband,” she said.

The Deepthought2 is about 30 feet by 7 feet by 4 feet and gets its name from the supercomputer designed to discover the meaning of life in Douglas Adams’ novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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justice From PAGE 1 through wrongful convictions, like Bloodsworth’s case.

“These stories are seeping into the public opinion when it comes to the death penalty,” Dooley said.

One of many reasons Bloodsworth said he wants the death penalty abolished is that he knows his experience is not unique. About one in 25 inmates on death row are likely innocent, according to a study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“If this happened to me — an honorably discharged Marine with no criminal history — it can happen to anyone in America,” he said. “The only way you can be sure not to execute an innocent person is to not have the death penalty once and for all.”

‘It was just like hell’ Bloodsworth led a simple life in 1984, he said. But it was a good one.

Six days a week, he would wake up at 3 a.m. and go crabbing all day on the Eastern Shore. He’d come home, shower and get in bed by 7:30 or 8 p.m. Saturday nights were for “letting his hair down” — going out with friends, grabbing a couple of beers, eating a crab cake at the Suicide Bridge Restaurant in Hurlock.

Bloodsworth said not many people from his town went to college back then, but he hoped to change that.

That plan changed at 2:45 a.m., one hot August morning.

There was a loud bang on his door and he was greeted with, “You’re under arrest, you son of a b----.”

“It all went downhill from there,” Bloodsworth said.

He was arrested based on the eyewitness accounts of people claiming he was the last person seen with Hamilton. They described the killer as a 6-foot-5 man with curly blond hair and tan skin.

Bloodsworth was a fairskinned redhead who had 10 people providing him with an alibi.

Bloodsworth’s trial took two weeks. The jury took less than three hours to deliver the verdict: guilty.

“They rushed a judgment on me quick,” Bloodsworth said.

“They wanted someone to blame for killing Dawn, and I was it.”

Guards shut him into his new home, a tiny cell in the Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore where he could touch both walls when he extended his arms.

When they slammed the door shut, it sounded like the tailgate of a dump truck, he said.

“You ever been accused of something that you haven’t done? No matter how small it is,” Bloodswor t h sa id.

“Magnify it by a million times to the 10th power and you’ve got what happened to me.”

Bloodsworth said he has tried to forget much of what happened during his sentence, but some memories won’t go away.

Like the heat during the summers, when the guards

would shut the windows and laugh as the prisoners did everything they could to stay cool — placing cool towels on their heads, stripping down to their underwear, dunking their feet in the toilet, Bloodsworth said.

Like the screams of other prisoners, driven crazy by their time there. One of Bloodsworth’s friends took two No. 2 pencils and drove them into his own eyeballs, he said.

Like when his mother died while he was still locked up, and he felt like a kid who had been kicked in the back of the legs and couldn’t keep from crumbling.

“I wore my innocence like armor,” Bloodsworth said. “It was theonlythingthatkeptmegoing.”

He escaped his cage by seeking refuge in books. He read Gestalt psychology; he read Hemingway; he read the 1,680-page transcript from his trial — over and over and over again.

In the end, it was reading that set him free.

T he Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh tells the story of how the murders of two English girls were solved using DNA. Bloodsworth said he can’t remember ordering the book or how it came into his possession, but he remembers once he started reading it, he didn’t put it down until he finished it the next day.

“It was like I had found the armada, the sunken ship with

“LET THE DEATH PENALTY DIE ... IT’S THE ONLY THING THAT NEEDS TO DIE.” KIRK BLOODSWORTH

Anti-death penalty activist thousands of bars of gold on it,” he said. “It hit me that I had to get my DNA tested.”

Bloodsworth’s freedom lay in a paper bag in a cardboard box on the floor of a courthouse. Inside, a spot of semen on Hamilton’s underwear proved what Blood- Kirk Bloodsworth, who was cleared of his convictions in 1993, has advocated against the sworth had been saying for years. death penalty in five of the last six states to abolish the practice. james levin/the diamondback “My attorney called and said, making sure no one else goes who was very close to dying ‘Kirk, you’re innocent,’” he said. through what he did. because we had a death penalty In 2004, the Justice for All made me change my mind.”

“And I said, ‘I know that.’”

He left prison in 1993 as Act established the Kirk BloodFrush said the state made the fi rst American death row sworth Post-conviction DNA a great decision one year ago, inmate to be exonerated using Testing Grant Program to help and she remembers that when DNA testing. Since then, 17 fund DNA analysis of evidence. the votes were counted, BloodHe’s part of Witness to In- sworth looked down at her with others on death row have been released after DNA verified nocence, a group of exoner- two thumbs up. She had tears their innocence, according to ated death row survivors who streaming down her face. are working to end the death the Innocence Project.

Bloodsworth has helped penalty, and he shares his story lobby in five of the past six with everyone he can. states to abolish the death Life after prison After fighting to abolish the penalty; he’s worked on the Discovering who had actu- death penalty in this state, he New Hampshire campaign, ally killed Hamilton occupied said he can walk into any legis- which failed by one vote in Bloodsworth’s mind for the lators’ office in Annapolis and the state Senate; and he’s got next 10 years. Further DNA be recognized. his eyes set on Texas and the 31 “When I started in the legis- other states that still allow it. testing found her murderer was Kimberly Ruffner, a man lature, I was in favor of the death “Let the death penalty die,” who was serving time in the penalty,” Del. Barbara Frush he said. “It’s the only thing same prison as Bloodsworth (D-Anne Arundel and Prince that needs to die.”

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“WE WANTED TO HAVE JOBS THAT WE ACTUALLY ENJOYED AND HAVE A GOOD REASON TO From PAGE 1 LOOK FORWARD TO GOING INTO WORK.

director at the Shady Grove campus, said one of the best ways to open a business successfully without delays is to “talk to people who are already doing what you want to do.”

From speaking with other business owners, Epstein and McClimens said they knew to allow time buffers for paperwork to come back from county departments, but they did not foresee these issues.

Co-owners, managers and siblings Omar Koite, 28, and Adja Koite, 23, helped their mother and brother open the Star Halal Meat and Grocery in Takoma Park in 2011. The brother-sister duo said they felt sufficiently prepared to open the new location.

In the new store, they intend to add a grill so customers can order food from the Grill Monster’s Star Halal Meat catering company in addition to the halal meats in the store, they said. But this required additional fire and health code inspections, further delaying their opening from the planned date in March.

T he Koite family began paying for the space earlier this month, but they will not open the store until they receive full approval for the grill.

The siblings’ mother started the family business after moving to the U.S. from Senegal in 2002 and working in catering for some time. The family bought the store from a halal shop owner on the

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Co-owner, The Board and Brew verge of failure and brought in more customers, Koite said.

Epstein said while the itch to open The Board and Brew is exciting, the amount of time and money it takes to start a business can be frightening. “ I f t h e b u s i n e s s f a i l s, everything that we own is collateral for this loan, so everything is on the line,” McClimens said. “It’s a scary thing to move forward on.”

The Board and Brew owners spoke to about 10 banks about obtaining a loan to start the business before they found success th rough the U.S. Small Business Administration, which works with banks and small businesses.

Struggling and future business owners in College Park can also look to the city for grants, Michael Stiefvater, city economic development coordinator, wrote in an email.

The city’s Commercial Tenant Improvement Program offers up to $25,000 in total grants for leasehold improvements for new and aspiring businesses, and the Retail Business Assistance Fund gave six grants totaling more than $24,000 to existing businesses in November.

A community legacy grant from the 2013 fiscal year and the five-year Capital Improvement Program fund these two grants,

respectively. Any business owners or prospective owners can apply for these grants through the city’s website.

“T he successf u l places we’ve seen open recently have introduced a new cuisine … or provided a lively atmosphere,” Stiefvater wrote. “Hopefully some of these early success stories becomes the Ratsie’s or Bentley’s of the future.”

Regardless of setbacks to its opening, Omar Koite said his hope that the new Star Halal Meat and Grocery location will prosper is stronger than the fear that it won’t because of the effort he put into it, he said.

Epstein and McClimens said they are also confident The Board and Brew will be successful; as alumni of this university, the partners know what students wish to have in the area, McClimens said.

Taking the plunge, despite the delays, stresses and fears, is worth it when looking at the big picture, Epstein said.

“In general, this is something that we love,” Epstein said. “We wanted to have jobs that we actually enjoyed and have a good reason to look forward to going into work.

Plus, it’s nice to be able to be your own boss.”

kirwan From PAGE 1 mines or falling into deep holes in the ground.”

Board of Regents Chairman Jim Shea will appoint a selection committee and hopes to announce a successor in the next several months, according to a news release.

M.J. Bishop, Center for Innovation and Excellence in Learning and Teaching director, said she had been looking forward to

testudo From PAGE 1 “It could be cool,” Crane said. “It could boost school spirit, which is a reason why a lot of people go to schools — all the quirky little things we do.”

The campaign encourages students to take a picture of each item they leave next to Testudo and to share the purpose behind the items online. The storytelling campaign will promote the most creative offerings, said Aaron Ginoza, University Libraries

working under Kirwan’s leadership for many more years and is disappointed to see him go.

“He will be sorely missed by those of us in the system office who have looked to his leadership in terms of academic transformation and all the amazing work he’s done,” she said.

Bishop said Kirwan will be remembered in the university system as someone who was willing to innovate. He also established clear goals and cared deeply for students, she said.

Bishop hopes his successor will continue “to carry the torch,” she said.

“We’re just beginning to move the needle to effect change across our institutions, and I hope whoever steps into the chancellor’s role will help to continue the mission,” Bishop said.

social media and community engagement coordinator.

With #MyTestudo, Ginoza said he hopes to showcase offerings often removed by the next morning. For example, Ginoza said he remembered one person who left chicken eggs decorated as turtles next to the statue.

“We’re trying to get the backstory behind some of this really creative energy that goes into the offerings,” he said.

Aside from #MyTestudo, McKeldin w ill be giving students different oppor-

tunities to ease fi nals week stress. The library will be open 24/7 during the week, and officials rented more tables and will open the special events room on the sixth floor for more study space, Bartheld said.

W hen students need a break, the Footnotes cafe w i l l a lso have ex tended hours to satisfy students’ thirst if they are tired after playing Dance Dance Revolution on the second floor, Bartheld said.

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Laura Blasey Editor in Chief

MATT SCHNABEL Managing Editor

Academic year in review F SGA: COne year removed from creating perhaps its most wildly popular initiative, beginning major efforts in Annapolis and Washington to advocate college affordability and reinstating the Collegiate Readership Program, the SGA floundered in the 2013-14 academic year.

What to Fix UMD, a Facebook page and Twitter profile designed to address student concerns around the campus, drew hundreds of student posts in spring 2013 . But investigations into many concerns remain incomplete.

After rolling out a new student group funding process last spring, the Student Government Association weathered a storm of complaints from groups that never received funding, many of which cited a lack of communication on the SGA’s part regarding the new rules as the reason for the mix-ups.

Most embarrassingly, on April 20, with the SGA campaign season about to begin, the association’s lone presidential candidate, Josh Ratner, was found ineligible to run due to a low GPA. After scrambling to find a replacement candidate, the Open Party went uncontested in all but one race.

publicly scrutinized tests of his threeand-a-half-year tenure: a February data breach and a string of Route 1 accidents involving pedestrians. The university’s much-lauded partnership with the Corcoran Gallery of Art fell through, and the academic year again was set against the dramatic backdrop of the impending Big Ten move.

Simply put, Loh had a lot on his plate this year. And for the most part, he delivered in trying times. The university admittedly handled some issues poorly — the data breach chief among them — but Loh and other administrators’ achievements can’t be discounted.

The university finally made progress with long-stagnant East Campus developments, and Loh listened to the community’s qualms when the university golf course faced rezoning and redevelopment.

Loh’s honeymoon period at this university might be over, but there’s a reason he’s remained immensely popular — he seems to care about each member of the university community.

DATA BREACH: D+

provided by Experian. As estimates of the number affected were continually revised, it also came to light that after a university contractor discovered a cybersecurity threat months before the breach, the FBI seized his computer equipment.

Though the university set up a cybersecurity task force and extended credit monitoring services, the manner in which the university initially botched its damage control rightfully raised concerns.

CITY COUNCIL: AThree months after a heated College Park City Council race between District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich and university graduate student Matthew Popkin highlighted tensions between city residents and students, the City Council voted to lower the required age to take office to 18 — and Stullich provided the deciding vote.

Beyond promoting student involvement in city government, the council is investigating enfranchising noncitizen residents and has voiced support for the Fairness for All Marylanders Act. After the string of accidents involving pedestrians on Route 1, the council has lobbied the State Highway Administration to speed up safety changes.

In addition, the council has approved a long list of economic initiatives to improve College Park’s appeal to prospective university students and city residents, mainly with the upcoming residential project located in the lot formerly inhabited by the Maryland Book Exchange.

After this university announced an unknown attacker had gained access to the Social Security numbers, birth dates and university IDs of almost 300,000 students, faculty and staff members dating back to 1998, it mishandled the situation from its beginning to its uncertain end.

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I’ve been changed for the better MARIA ROMAS The summer before my freshman year, I came to orientation at this university with every intention of working for The Diamondback. And it happened.

For my entire college career, I have held jobs at this university’s independent student newspaper. And it has been the best experience of my life.

The summer before my freshman year, I wrote in tandem with Rich Abdill — who worked with me on two of the most hilarious, wonderful stories I’ve helped write for this newspaper. They were about a guy who periodically crapped on the floor of McKeldin Library and a university alumnus who became a porn star, killed a co-star with a samurai sword, then jumped or fell off a cliff to his death while fleeing police, and that was my introduction to The Diamondback.

Marissa Lang was editor in chief my freshman year. She was the one who taught me how to write a lede and nut graf — something I carry with me to this day. I was the only freshman who worked more than attended class, who walked across the campus at 11 p.m. after going over my news stories. There was even a time when I almost stopped working for The Diamondback, simply because of how much hard work was involved. I can honestly say I am eternally grateful I didn’t leave.

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In my sophomore year, Lauren Redding rose through the ranks to become the editor in chief, and I gained one of my best friends. Thennews editor Rachel Roubein and I ran around the campus like idiots during the earthquake, trying to get Internet and cell service; I’m sure lots of people on the campus got a good laugh that day. Then, in the spring semester, I became opinion editor. I had the honor of working on the opinion desk with Chris Haxel, who is one of the smartest people I have ever met.

That year, I wrote in one of my first columns that I wasn’t a “feminist” — and within months, I realized how wrong I was. That was my first taste of how easy it is to learn and change your mind as an opinion columnist. I have learned to accept that sometimes I’m going to be wrong. (Not often, but sometimes.)

I even prove myself wrong — and that’s OK. That’s what growing up is all about.

Yasmeen Abutaleb became the editor in chief during my junior year. We wrote about and dealt with the murder-suicide, which was the most emotional staff editorial I had ever worked on with Yasmeen, Mike King and Tyler Weyant.

When it was announced we moved conferences to the Big Ten, I wrote about sports, which is something I never thought I would do. I learned to work with others with different opinions — an invaluable experience.

By this point, I had changed my

career path from journalism to law, but I just couldn’t leave The Diamondback.

I loved it and the people who worked there too much. It was what I did with all my time, and I didn’t know anything else . And I’m glad I stayed, because chats in the editors office with Yasmeen got me through the year. We started at the paper together as freshmen, and I was so happy to grow close to such an amazing woman. I’m lucky to count her as one of my friends.

This year, with Mike King as editor in chief, I got to work with all the other seniors to finish our time here. Sports editor Daniel Gallen and I lived in Cumberland Hall together years ago, and we would talk about our entry-level Diamondback struggles. Now we’re both done, and we’ve handed off our desks to capable successors.

To the readers: Thank you for listening to me spout my opinions — for responding, critiquing and sometimes belittling.

You’ve all helped me immeasurably. I hope you’ve enjoyed my writing.

I have loved my time at The Diamondback and, by extension, college. Moving on is hard, but this experience will always have a place in my heart.

To my DBfamilyK: You all are the best of the best and have left a handprint on my heart. “Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.”

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Moving mountains and going places WALLACE LOH

Literally! Gamera, a team of more than 50 engineering students, labored countless hours to set world records in human-powered helicopter flight.

Student interest in innovation and entrepreneurship has soared. Three students won national University Innovation Fellow awards. Two companies founded by our students and alumni won prizes at the annual Cupid’s Cup, chaired

by Kevin Plank, Under Armour founder and CEO. This is why this university’s entrepreneurship programs are among the top 20 in the U.S. Students continue to excel at winning national scholarships. For the third year in a row, students at this university led the nation with 12 Boren Scholarships for language study abroad. The National Science Foundation awarded 24 of our students highly competitive research fellowships.

Across all disciplines, you achieve.

Computer and engineering students won the U.S. Major League Hacking Championship in the fall and events at this university’s Bitcamp. The University of Maryland Chamber Singers were selected to compete this summer in Seoul, South Korea, against the best choral ensembles in the world. Our urban design students won this year’s Urban Land Institute Student Urban Design Competition, bringing home the $50,000 first prize.

“There are points to be scored.

There are games to be won.”

I applaud our student-athletes for their commitment and performance, both on and off the field. As we compete in the Big Ten, I know you will continue to be exemplary representatives of this university.

“Sadly, it’s true … hang-ups can happen to you.”

Of course, there are times when you feel “all alone,” when “you mix up your right foot with your left,” when “your arms … get sore and your sneakers … leak.”

But always remember: Terps possess a can-do attitude. Terps are FEARLESS. Terps have chutzpah.

To be a Terp is to THINK B1G. Aim high. Take risks. Persevere. Never give in. Never give up. This is why this university’s students lead lives of accomplishment, commitment and service.

“Will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! 98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.” You already have!

As the spring term ends, I look back with pride at the contributions and accomplishments of this university’s students over the past year.

In the words of Dr. Seuss’s zestful classic, Oh, the Places You’ll Go, you — the students — have “brains in your head” and “feet in your shoes.” You are “ready for anything under the sky.”

Your years at this university are an incandescent time of growth. You shine by finding innovative ways to blend learning and action. You are caring, curious and high-achieving.

“You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”

I am amazed by the many passionate paths of service you have chosen.

This is no passive, self-absorbed generation. From freshmen to graduate students, you put your brains and feet to work.

Your passion for sustainability has kept us on track to reduce our carbon footprint. We now rank among the greenest U.S. campuses.

The Student Government Association worked to lower the eligible age for serving on the College Park City Council to 18. The SGA organized 80 students from all Big Ten universities to lobby on Capitol Hill on behalf of student causes. Thousands of students petitioned online for pedestrian safety on Route 1. This is the stuff of leadership.

Your hearts reached out abroad and at home. Students Helping Honduras took top honors at this year’s Do Good Challenge. They raised more than $25,000, and more than 100 students from this university went to Honduras to build schools during winter break.

Engineers Without Borders raised money to carry out a project in Ethiopia. Public Health Without Borders raised funds for a project in Sierra Leone. Fraternities and sororities surpassed their membership records and devoted thousands of hours to community service.

Right after the data breach, dozens of students staffed our emergency call center. Cybersecurity students will be interning with and assisting our information technology staff this summer.

You can contact Wallace Loh at “You’ll join the high fliers who president@umd.edu or on Twitter soar to high heights.” @presidentloh.

The importance of an opinion section ADAM OFFITZER

ing these pieces help me believe we made the right call by publishing them.

The opinion page of The Diamondback is not meant to provide definitive answers. Instead, it’s meant to highlight individual viewpoints from members of the diverse campus community. It’s meant to spark discussions, inspire conversations and invite responses. Essentially, the page should be an open forum.

And it has been. When we received controversial letters to the editor or guest columns, we almost always published them (as long as they were clearly written and related to relevant issues).

That means we’ve run a lot of columns I personally disagree with, and if I were a reader, I would be outraged by them.

But we’ve also run plenty of pieces that are inspiring, interesting and thoughtful.

Which brings me to another point.

Those who cite one article as a reflection on The Diamondback’s content are just not paying close enough attention.

The controversial posts always get the most feedback, but good columns often fly under the radar. When you get outraged by one column floating around Facebook, it’s fine to criticize that piece. But remember that we’ve been running columns every day — probably 90 percent of which you would agree with or relate to.

These days of passionate, intense backlash have helped prove one thing to me: People actually DO read the opinion page! Sometimes, at least.

There’s an inherent insignificance to the opinion page of a college newspaper.

As someone who has devoted at least 15 hours a week to editing this opinion page over the past school year, that’s a pretty tough realization. But it’s true.

In the digital age, when anyone can write, read, post and share any opinions they want at any time, what’s the point of giving 16 college students a columnist platform to share their views? Who cares what I think about Syria and President Obama, or even the Purple Line and university President Wallace Loh? I’ve thought about this a lot since accepting the opinion editor position back in March 2013.

What’s the purpose? What’s the point? Fortunately, I think I have a few ideas.

Over the past two semesters, we published only a few extremely controversial columns. In some of these columns, I disagreed with almost every single opinionated statement made. Judging from my Facebook news feed, many of my friends did, too.

It was uncomfortable to run columns that go against what I believe. And it was uncomfortable to Adam Offitzer is a senior journalism read them. But the intense response, major and former opinion editor. He can backlash and conversation surround- be reached at aoffitzerdbk@gmail.com.

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GIVING IT UP Staff writer Michael Errigo reflects on the lasting message of the classic The Giving Tree, while The Diamondback’s Casey Leins is done with The Bachelor. Visit diamondbackonline.com for more.

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robOts and heroes and Rom-coms, oh mY The summer movie season offers a slew of promising smaller films along with the usual onslaught of big-budget CGI blockbusters

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A Million Ways to Die in the West: Opens May 30 Nobody expected Ted to light up the box office, but, somehow, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane’s live-action, feature-length debut was a smash hit and pretty funny to boot. His followup, cheekily titled A Million Ways to Die in the West, ups the ante: MacFarlane is making his very own live-action Western, complete with sets, bad facial hair and duels.

MacFarlane stars, in corporeal form this time, as a cowardly farmer in the old West who looks to woo a lady (Charlize Theron) by dueling her outlaw ex (Liam Neeson).

Trailers haven’t been kind to the movie or MacFarlane’s performance, bringing back some painful memories from his stint as Oscars host. Still, the supporting cast for the film is stellar, featuring Sarah Silverman , Neil Patrick Harris, Giovanni Ribisi and more.

The Fault in Our Stars: Opens June 6 Nerdfighters, rejoice: The wait is almost over for John Green’s bestselling young adult romance novel, The Fault in Our Stars, to make its big-screen debut.

Fans of Green’s books or YouTube videos are no doubt already sold on the film, which Green has had a major role in producing. In the first clips and trailers shown of the film, the movie seems loyal to its source material, which follows the story of two cancer-stricken teens, Hazel Grace Lancaster, played

by Shailene Woodley, and Augustus

Waters, played by Ansel Elgort, who fall in quirky, awkward love, despite their tragic circumstances.

With its built-in audience, the film is likely to perform decently at the box office, but the biggest challenge the adaptation will face is marketing itself to outsiders to Green’s work. Erring more on the side of The Perks of Being a Wallflower than The Notebook, the movie is likely to be golden with younger audiences but a harder sell for pure romantics.

The Signal: Opens June 13 Whoever marketed The Signal deserves immense credit: The film’s trailers and posters are filled with astonishingly evocative images. The film is an interesting beast, a curious collision of District 9, classic dumb-teenagersgo-into-the-woods horror and arthouse sensibilities; a group of college hackers venture into rural Nevada in search of another hacker, only to find themselves in captivity as a sinister conspiracy emerges.

Though the movie looks promising, director William Eubank’s previous film, Love, was a catastrophically pretentious misfire. Fortunately, The Signal appears to be operating on a less grandiose, more human register, a movie more about relationships and ever-increasing dread than navel-gazing pontification.

Early word from Sundance Institute has been decent, though muted. Regardless, The Signal should make for a welcome palette cleanser among the loud and bombastic summer blockbusters.

Transformers: Age of Extinction : Opens June 27 It’s a movie you never knew you wanted — OK, maybe you still don’t

want it. But here it is: another Transformers film directed by the legendary master of explosions, Michael Bay. This film is the first in Bay’s disgustingly profitable live-action toy commercial franchise not to feature any of the original human cast. Instead, Optimus Prime lands in the hands of struggling mechanic/dad Mark Wahlberg, while humanity must decide what to do about the menacing Decepticons.

The movie still boasts big names, such as Stanley Tucci and Kelsey Grammer, but let’s be honest: It’s a Transformers movie. The human actors are only props to the super CGI robot action that makes the series such a moneymaker in foreign and domestic box offices.

From the trailers, it seems you only need basic knowledge of the series to follow this one, so if you’re in the mood for explosions and cool robots — including dinosaur ones — this is your movie.

Jupiter Ascending: Opens July 18 The Wachowski sibilings have spent the last decade repeatedly failing upward. Despite what fans of The Matrix follow-ups, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas might say, nothing the two have made since the first Matrix made much of an impression on pop culture.

Yet they keep doing bigger and bigger projects. After Cloud Atlas’ new age-y take on every genre ever, the siblings are back with their attempt at making the next Star Wars in Jupiter Ascending, bringing with them their habit of giving their characters atrocious names.

Mila Kunis stars as, sigh, Jupiter Jones, a poor maid on Earth who turns out to be the heir to some ga-

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Balem Abrasax? That’s a name?

OK, so forget the plot. All you need to know is this: The Wachowskis said in an interview that Jupiter Ascending contains something that tops The Matrix’s “bullet time” slowdown technique.

Find out if they’re full of crap this July.

The Giver: Opens Aug. 15 I was first introduced to the concept of a dystopia through Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel, The Giver, which tells the story of Jonas, a special boy who has the unique ability to gain the memories of the world beyond his city. In many ways, it was a precursor to modern young adult dystopian novels, though it seems the film’s producers are pushing the parallels between this movie and others in the genre a bit too hard.

Just as Jonas slowly learns that not

all is as perfect as it seems in his town, readers also slowly learn that this utopian city has a dark side. However, judging by the trailers, the filmmakers have taken a different approach in building the world of The Giver. The trailers present a high-octane world of intrigue and secrets a la The Hunger Games rather than the sleepy town Jonas inhabits in the books.

I hope the trailers are just spinning the film to make it look more like the other blockbuster dystopian flicks and that the movie still retains the spirit of Lowry’s book. I trust the cast will do a good job, but hopefully the filmmakers don’t dwell too much on the melodrama and lose sight of what made the books so great.

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ESSAY | COUNTRY MUSIC

CONDEMNING COUNTRY Putting it nicely: The genre could use some improvement

By Danielle Ohl @DTOhl Staff writer “It’s ’bout that time o’ year again,” muses Luke Bryan, country star and notorious tight jeans-wearer, to start his hit song, “Suntan City.”

Indeed, my friends, it is that time.

It’s the time of year when the days get longer, the air gets hotter, the crickets chirp, the fireflies glisten, and for some reason, everyone forgets he or she didn’t grow up on a farm in Georgia.

Country music: the genre almost synonymous with the changing season and warming weather. During the summer, it seems some peach- and pecan-flavored dopamine rushes up to intoxicate even the most musically sane brain. No longer a part of a niche culture, it seems country music has become so prevalent that city dwellers and suburbanites alike are donning denim and plaid and heading out to country music festivals across the nation.

JASON ALDEAn’s music is stereotypically over-thetop and void of meaning. photo courtesy of rhapsody.com It’s tempting to throw on something mindless and romantic when cruising down an open highway devoid of school-related stress. I, too, have been a victim of this musical temptation. The problem, however, is that no matter how thick the festival fog, I still feel a twinge of discomfort every time I hear the twang of a country song.

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Eric Church, who is featured in the song, similarly passed his hours in school by playing gigs at a local bar before earning a degree in marketing, and then moved to Nashville to pursue a music career. Even country giant Tim McGraw went to college on a baseball scholarship before dropping out and pursuing music.

Undoubtedly, these artists lived small-town lives with Southern morals, but just like any other genre, their claims are exaggerated. There’s a time and place for country music, but it has little to offer beyond the background to a bonfire bash — something all summer soldiers seem to forget.

three fatal flaws 1. the subject matter Perhaps a bit of applause is in order for a genre that has successfully idealized beer, but that’s as far as the praise goes. Songs are almost identical. We get it, country music: Some guy has a truck; he put alcohol in that truck, drove that truck through dirt to get to some safe haven/party/girl, and there was probably a creek around somewhere. Maybe he listened to George Strait or Bruce Springsteen on the radio. He did something patriotic. Beer was involved. He hit on a girl. They had sex in the grass/truck/river because beds don’t exist in country music. Someone brought out moonshine. Did I mention beer? There was beer.

And that’s all there was.

2. the “creep” factor To say country music is the only genre that involves uncomfortable advances toward women is grossly inaccurate. There is, however, something unsavory about adding these kinds of lyrics to the already established Pygmalion-like obsession with trucks and any type of fermented liquid. In Blake Shelton’s “Boys ’Round Here,” he croons: “Hey now girl, hop inside/ Me and you gonna take a little ride to the river.” Shelton explains later in the song just exactly what he and his newlyacquainted female friend do at the river. Outside the context of this song, however, his advance would result in confusion at best and police intervention at worst.

3. the front Most professional musicians work on maintaining a certain image. Unlike other genres, country attempts to establish a very believable “good ol’ boy” aura. The artists sing of homemade liquor, beat-up old possessions and hard work. Above all, they attempt to establish Southern roots. While other genres make outlandish claims, country music’s are overly simple.

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Don’t let fear get in the way EZRA FISHMAN College is supposed to be the best four years of our lives. From start to finish, we’re supposed to have an amazing, unforgettable experience. We’re supposed to live the stories we’ll be telling our children and grandchildren — the ones that make us the cool aunt or uncle.

This is our time to live the lives we always wanted. When we’re older, we’re supposed to reminisce about the amazing times we had here and how we wish we could have stayed forever.

And yet for many people — including me — college is something less than this. Sure, it’s been an amazing experience full of more crazy stories than I’ll ever remember, but it’s never quite lived up to the hype. I can see how it could have been that amazing, life-warping experience, but I also can clearly see that it hasn’t. As I sit here, having just finished my last class as an undergraduate, I can’t help but think about why my experience fell short.

As I think about it more, though, the answer becomes clear: The single greatest obstacle between me and the college experience I was supposed to have was fear.I am a cautious individual. I’ve been taught from a young age that as long as I don’t screw up, I’ll be able to succeed in life (I’ve been privileged in this and many other ways). Because of this, I’ve spent my whole life living the Hermione Granger code of conduct: Don’t do anything that can get me killed — or worse, expelled.

And this code of conduct has served me well. Barring any terrible, unforeseen circumstances involving the two exams that sit between me and my diploma, I’m going to be out of college and in the real world

with a full-time job in my field (I’ve also been lucky in this and many other ways). I can’t really complain about where college has taken me. I got the degree, which, after all, is why I paid so much money to be here in the first place.

But college could have been so much more than that. It should have been much more than that. College isn’t just a degree; it’s a life experience.

College is where you do the things you’ve always wanted to do, where you break any rule you can and learn exactly how far you can push the line before you get yourself into trouble. It’s where you learn exactly what you’re capable of and fail over and over again in the process.

And it could have been all that for me. It should have been all that for me.

But it wasn’t.

Because I was afraid.

I was so afraid of failure that I never gave myself a chance to succeed; afraid of getting hurt that I never let myself grow strong; so afraid of hurting others that I never stood up for my beliefs; so afraid of being myself that I spent more than three years doing my best to pretend I wasn’t anyone at all.

And so, four years later, I stand here to warn you not to do the same. Do not let the fear conquer you. Don’t let it control you. Don’t be that guy.

Don’t be me.

You still have one to three years left in your college experience. You have time. Go crazy.

Climb on a roof. Get in trouble.

Fail. Fail again. Learn how to succeed. Win all the things. Get out and do something.

You don’t want to graduate without ever even making a bucket list. I can tell you from experience: It isn’t fun.

Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting and finance major. He can be reached at efishmandbk@gmail.com.

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A force to be reckoned with MIKE KING I’ve been out of The Diamondback’s newsroom for nearly two weeks now. As I write this from the comfort of my bedroom, a new editor in chief, whose name appears on the opinion page’s masthead instead of mine, is publishing this daily newspaper with many of the same students who worked in the newsroom during my time there.

I’ve already written a retrospective of The Diamondback’s publishing history. I’ve written about our Friday editions. So here, with the final ink this newspaper will spend on me, I’ll write about me.

Like the rest of the students working at this newspaper, I started by devoting a sliver of my time to The Diamondback. As a copy editor in the first month of my freshman year, I wasn’t sure how the newsroom worked, what I had to do to advance or, looking

back, what made a piece good or bad. (Sorry.) I moved up through the editing track to the top spot, and thanks to a select few at the journalism college and my previous Diamondback editors, I felt confident taking it on.

I gradually realized the fulfilling, powerful part of The Diamondback lay beneath what I had perceived when I devoted just a portion of my time to the paper. I came to devote nearly all of my time from Sundays through Thursdays to The Diamondback (and, of course, some weekend nights when pedestrians were struck or when I finally got around to the nonurgent aspects of being a manager).

This sounds cliched, and maybe it is, but The Diamondback — like many student groups in the university community, I’m sure, but I can’t speak for them — is a force that changes lives. I like to think it changed the lives of the people who worked with me. And of course I assume it changes the lives of Diamondback readers, because any journalist has to believe that to tolerate the

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ntire villages depopulated. Zionist militants forced 750,000 Palestinians into exile through a violent campaign of ethnic cleansing. More than 500 Palestinian villages completely gone.

This was the catastrophe — Nakba Day. Those who weren’t violently removed fled in fear of another massacre like in the village of Deir Yassin. Militants destroyed or confiscated their remaining lands and possessions. This marked the beginning of the ongoing erasure of Palestinian culture and identity.

By the time Israel declared its independence in 1948, much of the damage from the ethnic cleansing had already occurred.

Last week on McKeldin Mall, Israel Fest attempted to not only erase and mock the memory of the historical Nakba, but also the ongoing Nakba. Israel continues to de-

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Over the past two weeks, I’ve had free time for the first time this year. I’ve been doing what I always wanted to do with my life: drinking beer and watching TV (namely, Game of Thrones).

It’s nice, but I’ll be ready to move on soon.

Wherever I end up after I graduate in a week, I’m sure I’ll drink beer and watch TV. But I will also make sure to visit diamondbackonline.com every day, even if only to feel the comforting mechanical input of typing those letters on a keyboard.

As long as I think about The Diamondback, it will continue to be a force that changes my life. And hopefully the same goes for you.

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molish Palestinian homes, annex land and expand settlements, furthering its ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Home demolitions were at a five-year high in 2013, according to Reuters, and the United Nations reported that this year 237 Palestinian structures have been demolished and 465 Palestinians have been displaced.

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But I don’t need to guess about my own life. The Diamondback changed it, for the better. If you’ve got an eye for back-patting and retrospection (which I’m sure you do if you’ve read to this point in the column), you too can trace those changes through my nearly 30 weekly Friday columns throughout this school year.

There, I often congratulated the staff on a job well done with the great experiment of my year leading The Diamondback: the digital Friday edition. We cut a day of our print publication at the end of last academic year, we set goals in response, and we met them.

It’s easy, selfish and pointless to say my staff (or myself) was better than other ones and succeeded where others failed.

It’s right and true to say my staff worked hard to do what we thought was best at the time, and looking back, I still feel good about it.

The next year of The Diamondback will be so exciting that I’m jealous I won’t be in

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You climbed a rock wall, but were not shown what lies beyond the apartheid wall.

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Students reflect on Israel-Palestine conflict Advocacy groups discuss peace talks

By Erin Serpico @erin_serpico Staff writer Tatiana Hasson has traveled to Israel, studied there and kept in touch with friends and family living in the country for years. She plans to move there someday after graduation.

But the senior com munity health major said with the most recent attempted Israel-Palestinian peace talks and negotiations, it’s hard for even her to grasp the details of the confl ict.

“I still don’t have a complete picture,” she said. “It’s still hard for me to fully understand it.”

When Secretary of State John Kerry was appointed and confirmed in February 2013, he made another round of IsraelPalestine peace talks a priority. In late July 2013, Kerry announced plans for nine months of discussions to try and calm decades of confl ict.

But the Israeli government announced it was halting the talks April 24, five days before their planned conclusion, after Palestine signed an agreement with Hamas, an advocacy group with historically antiSemitic viewpoints.

Paul Scham, a visiting professor and the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies executive director, said he has studied the Israel-Palestine confl ict for years and recognizes that the political conditions to reach an agreement “didn’t seem to be there at all” during this round.

“The underlying political dynamics in Israel have to change before you can have a peace agreement,” Scham said. “You have a strange situation there, and that has to be changed before anything can happen.”

Both sides are blaming each other, Scham said, but none of it is completely straightforward, given the differing viewpoints on how the confl ict should be understood.

On a col lege ca mpu s, Hasson said the idea of introducing uninformed students to a topic they don’t know about could be hard, given its lengthy background and history.

For this reason, Shalom Zionists at Maryland hosts “coffee chats” a few times throughout the semester to talk about aspects of Israel and its different perspectives, although the group is nonpartisan, said Hasson, the vice president.

“The way you come up with an opinion and the way you learn more is through conversation with other people,” she said. “Sharing thoughts, sharing opinions, sharing insights — we want to have that.”

But to Gabriella KaiyalSmith, the president of Students for Justice in Palestine, the most recent peace talks are just another failed attempt.

“For the Palestinian people, this isn’t something that was really of interest,” Kaiyal-Smith said. “It didn’t really affect us — we’re just hoping and praying that more of our rights aren’t going to be taken away.”

The senior animal behavior major said SJP focuses on promoting Palestinian rights on the campus and in Arab lands.

While the peace talks are supposed to entail two separate but equally powered parties coming together to negotiate with a mediating neutral party, this is not exactly the case, Kaiyal-Smith said.

“T here is an occupying force negotiating with the occupied,” she said.

During university President Wallace Loh’s visit to the Middle East in April 2013, he signed academic partnerships with universities in Israel

Deepthought2 is unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday. The state-of-theart supercomputer will be used for research and education. stephanie natoli/the diamondback Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to a group of American students while visiting Jerusalem in January. His peace talks were halted last month. jenny hottle/for the diamondback and Jordan. Some students are opposed to this agreement, Kaiyal-Smith said, as it could be viewed as the university leaning toward one side.

But Scham said he makes sure to stay unbiased during his course instruction at this university. In the fall, he will teach a course that will focus on both sides of the conflict through different lenses.

“A professor of a controversial course has a responsibility to present a variety of viewpoints,” Scham said. “And the emphasis in my courses is understanding the narratives of the two sides, how the two sides understand their history and their national existence, and trying to explain on those terms why it’s so difficult to make peace.”

Max Meizlish, Terps for Israel president and a junior government and politics major, said his student organization supports the talks and a two-state solution. However, the group does not take specific positions on domestic Israeli issues, as the members’ opinions vary.

Meizl ish sa id everyone should form an opinion to be part of the campus conversation regarding the conflict, but it might be challenging in an environment where people take strong-leaning stances.

“This is a confl ict that it’s very easy to take a side,” Meizlish said. “If you’re Jewish

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and you go to the University of Maryland, it’s really easy to identify with the Israeli cause without really recognizing the Palestinian narrative.”

Kaiyal-Smith said people on the campus seem apathetic or might have heard “chatter” about the topic and formed an opinion that way, but SJP does not have an official stance on the issue either.

“It hard for me, as a Palestinian American — I’ve seen the way that our hopes have been shattered every time we put everything into praying these peace talks will bring something,” Kaiyal-Smith said.

“And every time, it’s ended up in catastrophe for us.”

Students on the campus have the right to join organizations and advocate a side, Scham said, but he said students from all backgrounds take interest in one or both sides of the confl ict.

“We are not here to trumpet that Israel is great,” Scham said. “I always tell my students on the first day: The academic study is very different from what you may have heard elsewhere. And you have to be ready to at least deal with and understand different perspectives.” eserpicodbk@gmail.com

computer From PAGE 1 Researchers said they will begin to use it in June. It succeeds the Deepthought, a smaller supercomputer that has been used since 2006.

The newer supercomputer is 10 times faster than the first Deepthought, with an estimated ability to perform between 250 and 300 trillion operations per second, according to a DIT news release.

About 200 researchers used the original Deepthought, but LoPresti expects the new machine will accommodate more than 1,000 researchers in the next year, including professors, graduate students and undergraduates.

Vivien Lecoustre, a researcher at this university, said he previously exported his data to supercomputers across the country when researching fi re protection engineering. But with the new supercomputer, he said, his research will be much easier in the future.

“It’s what drives us,” he said. “If we can have more access, we can complete more computations and do more research. Everybody is very excited, and it puts the university on the map, too.”

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He is researching particles in the rings of Saturn, which have structures that are not yet understood. To study them, he collects and analyzes data on millions of particles.

“For that, you need a lot of computations and a lot of data,” Richardson said. “You need a supercomputer for that.”

The university will also use Deepthought2 as a teaching tool, said Ann Wylie, interim vice president for information technology, who noted classes will be offered to undergraduates to learn how to use a supercomputer.

“It’s important to not limit this to research, but also to teach from it, since we are a teaching institution,” Wylie said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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a more perfect sga

But with every success, sacrifices have been made. In becoming student body president, Zwerling has dropped a minor, left her role as president of student lobbying group MaryPIRG and even gave up being a vegetarian. “[SGA] has really been my life funding over the next 10 years for university mental health for two years,” Zwerling said. services, implemented an outlet for problems around the univerNO MORE HIGH sity with What To Fix UMD and SCHOOL DANCES spoke in Annapolis to protect When Zwerling came to students against tuition hikes.

Her efforts have been focused College Park her freshman year in toward providing students a fall 2010, she had two goals: join voice on topics being discussed Hillel and take part in an environmental group on the campus. at the state or national level.

SGA presidents do not have By the end of her first semester, a lot of tangible “strategic Zwerling had done both.

T hat October, Zwerling powers,” according to university alumnus and former University worked with MaryPIRG to get System of Maryland student 1,500 students registered to regent Steven Hershkowitz. vote — a goal some said was Zwerling said she understands impossible, Zwerling said.

Hours before the deadline, how to systematically achieve certain goals, when to compro- Zwerling and other members mise and when to stand against learned they were 30 students state, university and city offi- away from achieving their goal.

While they all worked for cials twice her age.

“She’s the strongest student those last signatures, Zwerleader that I’ve ever met,” said ling found out members of the Ryan Heisinger, university SGA were holding meetings to alumnus and former SGA aca- discuss student voter apathy rather than volunteering to demic affairs vice president.

Outgoing SGA president Sam Zwerling looks back on her two years in office

By Teddy Amenabar @TeddyAmen Senior staff writer Samantha Zwerling has always been mature for her age.

On field trips in preschool, while all the other kids sat with classmates, Zwerling sat with the adults, holding conversations with them at age 4. It was a story teachers would always joke about.

Instances when Zwerling acted older than her peers go “all the way back,” said Zwerling’s mom, Naomi. After moving to a new school, Eric Zwerling, her dad, remembers a time when Zwerling had to choose between siding with the popular kids or defending another girl.

She chose the latter and didn’t think twice, he said.

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That wasn’t the first time Zwerling wanted to join SGA. She had been a part of student government since her freshman year of high school. Zwerling even ran for high school president junior year, but lost.

Coming to college, Zwerling was done planning school dances. She didn’t initially want any part of this university’s SGA, but she found herself at almost every meeting freshman year because of MaryPIRG. At these meetings, Zwerling realized SGA’s potential to do more than dances or fundraisers by becoming the voice of the student body. “[SGA] was kind of just a group of people feeling important because of their titles, as opposed to actually being important because of their actions,” Zwerling said.

In her sophomore year, Zwerling stepped down from her role as president of MaryPIRG and persuaded some of the top leaders from the group to help assemble her campaign, a move she spent a lot of time reflecting on.

Sam zwerling, outgoing SGA president, poses for a portrait. kelsey hughes/the diamondback During her presidency, a her team promoted grassroots student referendum voted to initiatives. They ran a phone cut funding for two full-time bank and spent countless hours employees at the organization. talking to students around the Coupled with the fact that she campus, sharing plans and recruited some of the group’s getting input. members to join her campaign, “Certainly, I had doubts “there was a time I felt I person- that we could actually pull the ally killed MaryPIRG,” Zwerling whole thing off,” said Heisingsaid. But she moved on after a er, who joined the campaign friend convinced her the success team after Zwerling impressed or failure of MaryPIRG was not him with her “solution-oriher responsibility. ented campaign platforms to When the SGA election season re-energize the organization.” rolled around, Zwerling was not Zwerling and her Go Party only the “outside candidate” — a executive board talked until term given to individuals who 2 a.m. some nights, “working have never been in SGA before — and tweaking the platform,” but she intended to run a differ- said Landon Greer, Zwerling’s ent style of campaign. While the former chief of staff. other party gave out free Rita’s during election week, she said, See zwerling, Page 11

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zwerling From PAGE 10 Greer was the only student on Zwerling’s ticket who was previously a part of SGA, and he said he saw her campaign as the beginning of something that had never been done before. They created much more than a 10-point plan of what to fix on the campus, Greer added. Zwerling was using real campaign tactics to spread her message about university initiatives.

“As hectic as those nights were, those were some really great times,” he said.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE Since an early age, Eric Zwerling said he tried to show

his daughter the importance of making a difference. It all began when she attended environmental awareness meetings her dad helped form.

“She saw that as an individual you can make a difference, and you can make an even greater difference if you motivate a lot of people,” he said.

Even now, as she prepares for graduation and a career in politics in the Washington area, Zwerling is personally invested. When SGA succeeds, Zwerling said, she’s in a great mood.

O ne cold a f ter noon i n February, inside a committee room at the State House, Zwerling leaned over tubs of half-melted ice cream in high heels and a dress, scooping bowls to legislators, staffers

and interns.

Zwerling, along with others from the student government, was spending an afternoon passing out 24 gallons of ice cream at an annual social sponsored by SGA. It’s an event Zwerling’s administration started her first year as a way to put faces on the SGA for legislators debating increasing tuition prices or other issues involving this university.

The line snaked outside of the room and into the hall.

Those waiting killed time discussing bills that were close to reaching the House floor.

“You g uys a re the new leaders,” said one woman near the front of the line.

Zwerling lit up in response with a grin on her face. tamenabardbk@gmail.com

AUST From PAGE 15 But her new role on the coaching staff — as director of operations, she handles behind-the-scenes organizational work and cannot perform coaching duties on the field — took some adjusting.

“The hard parts were not being out there and actually playing every day,” Aust said.

“That was really hard to watch.”

When the Terps played UMBC in their season opener, Aust realized how different things would be when she wasn’t suiting up to play.

Aust no longer participated in the pregame traditions and superstitions. When the team lined up for warm-ups before the game, Aust didn’t take her spot in front of midfielder Beth Glaros as she had as a player.

“Just little things like that,” Aust said. “Like, ‘That’s my

spot, I’m supposed to be there.’

But it’s a completely different team, and I think that’s what is amazing about Maryland, is it is a different team every year, but it’s the same chemistry.”

Aust’s role during her standout senior season helped ease the switch, though.

She was a captain during her final year, so teammates already looked to her as a leader. Attacker Brooke Griffin bonded with Aust last season when the two were starting attackers.

“It’s still nice having her around, because we were so close with her last year that you can still go up to her with any concerns or any issues,” Griffin said.

After her first regular season as director of operations, Aust is in a familiar position. As a player, she reached at least the semifinals of the NCAA tournament all four years, and she was on the team that won the championship her freshman season.

When the Terps fell behind

Penn 1-0 early Sunday afternoon in the second round of the NCAA tournament, Aust found herself regressing to her earlyseason feelings of helplessness.

“It’s a really enlightening experience to be on the other side, because I can’t just run out there and fix it myself,” Aust said.

While she couldn’t affect the outcome, Aust didn’t take anything for granted Sunday, even when the Terps cruised in the second half to a 13-5 victory.

So as the Terps continue their pursuit for their first championship since Aust’s freshman season, she will do everything she can behind the scenes to make sure the Terps are the ones hoisting the trophy May 25 at Johnny Unitas Stadium.

“She makes my life easier,” Reese said. “But she also wants to see Maryland women’s lacrosse succeed and is willing to help out however she can.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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stinnett From PAGE 15 starts — against Florida State and Wake Forest, respectively — he gave up nine runs in a combined 4.2 innings. “ I wa s p re t ty n e rvo u s out there,” Stinnett said. “I struggled my first start and my second start as well, and so the coaching staff wanted to get my confidence up, so they put me back on the midweek and let me get a start there.”

Despite the changes, Belanger said Stinnett never complained or showed signs of frustration. A few weeks later, Stinnett returned as a weekend starter, and this time he stayed in the spot for good.

‘THE FRIDAY NIGHT GUY’ Stinnett’s junior season ended on a positive note. In 16

appearances (nine starts), he posted a 2.83 ERA, second on the team and 13th in the ACC. But the draft was a sobering reminder that he still had a ways to go.

“That had always been my goal: Go through three years of college, get drafted high and play pro ball,” Stinnett said. “When you have certain expectations for yourself for the first 20 years of your life and they don’t come through, it’s kind of hard to deal with it at first.”

But there was a precedent Stinnett followed. Lefthander Jimmy Reed, who pitches in the St. Louis Cardinals organization, was selected in the 21st round after his junior year but returned to the Terps and was taken in the sixth round last summer.

Before the season started, Stinnett said, he drew optimism from Reed’s rapid rise.

Stinnett finished the Terps’ regular season this year in the top 20 in the ACC in several pitching categories. He has a 2.53 ERA (16th), is holding opponents to a .183 batting average (4th), has pitched 96 innings (1st) and has compiled 113 strikeouts (1st).

“He came back to school with a plan,” Szefc said. “He’s executed his plan precisely since he came back. He’s got special ability, but his mental side — he’s matured an awful lot. Even with the frustrations he’s had this year, with us not scoring some runs for him and him losing a start, he hasn’t really let that get in the way of making progress.”

The Rancho Buena Vista product has also morphed into a vocal leader. Stinnett always led by example, Belanger said, but this season he’s held the pitching staff and the Terps accountable with his words.

Stinnett’s development has contributed to the Terps first postseason appearance in nine years. The Terps qualified for the ACC tournament this past weekend, and they have a chance to make the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1971.

With his personal achievements and the team’s historic season, Stinnett is content with his decision to come back. And as this summer nears, he hopes he won’t be waiting around for days before his name is called in the next MLB draft.

“It’s like a dream,” Kristina said. “I have to pinch myself sometimes. He went from somebody that was obscure to ‘the guy,’ the Friday night guy. He wasn’t on the radar last year, really, but now he’s on all these radars.” psuittsdbk@gmail.com

right-hander jake stinnett finished the Terps’ regular-season with a 2.53 ERA, which ranks 16th in the ACC. His 113 strikeouts lead the conference. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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FRESHMEN From PAGE 16 conference. “But I think it was passionate. I thought it came from the heart. … We got a reset. And the kids just played like it was 0-0.”

Tillman said the Terps started slowly because his players were too fired up and Cornell carried out a solid game plan. In the first two periods, the Terps took 18 shots — one more than the Big Red — but 10 of those were off target. Big Red goalkeeper Christian Knight, a freshman, was stout in goal with seven first-half saves.

Nonetheless, Rambo said he never lost his confidence because of the unwavering support from the Terps’ upperclassmen and coaches.

“I wasn’t rushed,” Rambo said. “I wasn’t really worried about it [because] everyone said they were going to fall.

And they did.”

Attackman Jay Carlson scored the first goal of the third quarter for the Terps on a shovel rebound with 11:18 left in the period. After the play, defender Jordan Stevens

leveled Carlson with a crosscheck to the head and earned a one-minute penalty.

Rambo finally got on the board during that extra-man opportunity when he ripped an underhand lefty shot past Knight from the top of the offensive formation.

One minute later, Cannizzaro added his first goal of the night. After receiving a skip pass from attackman Mike Chanenchuk, Cannizzaro faked a long-range right-handed shot before he pulled his stick down, slid past his defender and found the top right corner with a high bounce shot.

Tillman said those two goals were crucial for the youngsters, and they raised the Terps’ energy on the field and along the sideline.

Another cross-check from Stevens in the first five minutes of the fourth quarter gave the Terps, down 6-4, a one-minute extra-man opportunity. When no one picked up Rambo eight yards from the cage, the freshman stepped into a left-handed bullet that went between Knight’s legs for his second goal of the game.

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later, Rambo completed his hat trick. The attackman collected Carlson’s errant shot behind the goal and quickly drove to his left before finishing a wraparound goal. Then with 8:12 remaining, Cannizzaro added his second goal of the contest after dodging to his right from behind the cage and slotting a similar diving shot.

In total, Rambo and Cannizzaro scored five straight goals for the Terps during a span stretching just more than 18 minutes. But it was Chanenchuk’s game-winning goal with two seconds remaining that clinched the team a spot in the quarterfinal game against Bryant this weekend.

“It’s what this team’s been,” Tillman said. “Leading by example but enabling some younger players to get us where we need to be.”

The freshmen’s performances against Cornell came as no surprise to players, coaches or fans, though. All season, Cannizzaro and Rambo have carried the Terps offense.

And though their development and maturation were largely due to the guidance of upperclassmen such as

Chanenchuk, Carlson and midfielder Joe LoCascio, the duo still produced on a week-toweek basis. Rambo is the team’s second-leading scorer with 29 goals, while Cannizzaro ranks third with 22. Each has also added six assists in 15 games.

“Those guys have played well beyond their years,” Tillman said.

During the week before the first-round game against the Big Red, Tillman approached both Rambo and Cannizzaro and told them their time as freshmen was over. With the NCAA tournament quickly approaching, he needed his two star attackmen to play and act like veterans.

In the first half, nerves, excitement and quality defense thwarted Cannizzaro and Rambo. But with their season in jeopardy and a number of seniors, including Adelsberger, looking on desperately from the sideline, Cannizzaro and Rambo responded.

“They grew up before our eyes,” Chanenchuk said.

“They were being leaders out there today, which was really awesome to see.” dpopperdbk@gmail.com

Kasinitz From PAGE 16

didn’t start a single freshman and lost control of a oncepromising campaign as the postseason neared.

Saturday’s 8-7 victory over Cornell in an NCAA tournament first-round rematch showed how the composition of this Terps roster can lead to success.

After a paltry first half left the Terps trailing 5-1 at the break, Cannizzaro and Rambo turned the game around. The rookies scored five of the Terps’ seven goals in the second half and led a comeback that sent the team into a quarterfinal matchup with Bryant this Saturday.

Think the two freshmen were worried about nearly four decades of disappointment when they were slicing to the net and ripping powerful shots past Big Red goalkeeper Christian Knight? Probably not.

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after they fell behind Cornell in the NCAA tournament, and they never recovered.

Of course, senior leadership is valuable. In attackman Mike Chanenchuk, long pole Michael Ehrhardt and goalkeeper Niko Amato, the Terps have that.

Chanenchuk especially helped clinch the Terps’ spot in the quarterfinals with his clutch play. The attackman scooped up a key ground ball with the clock dwindling to allow coach John Tillman to take a timeout.

Moments later, Chanenchuk netted the game-winner on a quick shot from the left of the goal with two seconds left in the contest.

Clearly, the Terps have proven leaders they can turn to when the game is on the line. But they also have a group of fearless freshmen who can jolt an instant comeback when things seem bleak.

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From slipping down to stepping up After discouraging draft day, Stinnett shines as senior in College Park

By Phillip Suitts @PhillipSuitts Staff writer Jake Stinnett waited as player after player was selected. In pre-draft discussions, teams indicated they were considering taking the Terrapins baseball right-hander in the top 10 rounds, but now his high expectations were being crushed.

The first two days and first 10 rounds came and went. Round after round passed on Day 3, too.

First the 11th, then the 12th, then the 13th round went by without any team selecting Stinnett.

At some point — he can’t remember when — Stinnett stopped following the draft online at his home in Vista, California. His father, Mark, decided to drag the depressed pitcher to the movie theater.

But after he returned home, Jake noticed a bunch of text messages on his phone, and he soon learned the Pittsburgh Pirates had chosen him in the 29th round of the 2013 draft.

Mark said Jake briefly considered signing a professional contract despite the late selection. But after talking to Terps coach John Szefc and reviewing a book of past draft results pitching coach Jimmy Belanger gave him, Stinnett decided to return to this university.

Less than a year later and less than two years after committing full-time to pitching, Stinnett leads a Terps pitching staff that has helped the program clinch its first ACC tournament berth since 2005.

The senior admits last year’s draft results made him question his abilities, but he funneled his anger into improving as a pitcher.

“You start to question yourself, and you start to wonder,

RIGHT-hander Jake Stinnett was taken in the 29th round of the 2013 MLB draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates but returned to the Terps for his senior season. alik mcintosh/the diamondback summer before his junior year of college. While the 6-foot-4 senior grew up with a penchant for throwing whatever he could get his hands on, such as rocks or golf balls, he was a full-time starting pitcher for one season in high school, his freshman year.

Instead, the future Terps LATE BLOOMER ace played third base, where The draft snub was nothing his towering frame and natural new for Stinnett, his parents swing led college coaches to said. In high school, Stinnett view Stinnett as a hitting proswent undrafted despite his pect. An arm injury prior to hopes of landing with a team. his senior year only furthered Bigger, flashier prospects drew the perception that Stinnett more attention in high school should spend at least some of while Stinnett and his stoic his time hitting and fielding. personality flew under the radar.

It didn’t help that Stinnett SWITCH TO PITCHING — whom his mother Kristina called a late bloomer — didn’t In his first season with the start pitching full-time until the Terps, Stinnett started 40 games ‘Are these other kids really that much better than me?’”

Stinnett said. “You start to wonder, and you start to think about that and yeah, you start to get pissed off. You start to get that extra motivation.”

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at third base, part of 49 appearances on the season, and led the Terps with five home runs. But he was a streaky hitter, Kristina said, who often followed hot spells with prolonged droughts.

He ended the season with a .174 batting average and a .274 on-base percentage.

“My strikeout numbers were just outrageous because I would pretty much swing at anything,” Stinnett said. “I had decent power, but when word got around that this kid can hit the crap out of a fastball but can’t handle off-speed pitches, I started to struggle.”

Next season, then-freshman K.J. Hockaday replaced Stinnett at third, and Stinnett transitioned into a role as a spot reliever. He made eight appearances and threw 13.1 innings, the fourth-lowest total on the team.

Faced with the prospect of being mediocre both at the plate and on the mound, Stinnett decided to stop working on fielding and hitting and committed to improving his performance as a pitcher. “[Former coach Erik] Bakich said at third he was average,” Mark said. “On the mound, he was special.”

The transition wasn’t smooth, though. Stinnett struggled when he started last season as the Terps’ closer. With the Terps scrambling to find a stable weekend rotation, Stinnett became a weekend starter.

Belanger said Stinnett’s calm personality lent itself more to the starting role. Still, in the junior’s first two career See STINNETT, Page 12

Director of operations Alex Aust played for the 2010 national champion Terps and led the team with 70 goals and 55 assists as a senior last season file photo/the diamondback

Aust settles into role on sidelines Former attacker serves as director of operations after storied career

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer Former Terrapins women’s lacrosse attacker Alex Aust walked off the field in her final game last season wondering what she could have done differently. The senior watched North Carolina celebrate a 13-12 triple overtime win in the longest-ever national championship game, which ended the Terps’ try for a perfect season and Aust’s storied career.

Aust finished the game with one goal and one assist despite taking a team-high seven shots. Still, the Sterling, Virginia, native was an offensive juggernaut all season. She finished with 70 goals and 55 assists, both team highs.

Yet the Tar Heels seemed to have an answer for Aust. In three games, North Carolina limited her to a total of four goals and one assist.

“I obviously have gone over

that last game a hundred times in my head and just what I could have done differently and what we needed at that moment,” Aust said. “I’ve learned a lot from it. It wasn’t even the loss that stung, but now it’s not taking anything for granted.”

But Aust’s time with the Terps didn’t end at Villanova Stadium that night.

A month later, coach Cathy Reese called Aust to offer her the director of operations position, and Aust quickly accepted.

This Saturday, almost a year later, Aust and the Terps will face Duke in the NCAA quarterfinals. If the Terps reach the finals this time, though, Aust will be standing on the sideline.

“Being able to be here and do whatever I can to still contribute to another team that is hopefully going to see themselves in a similar position,” Aust said, “I can’t ask for anything else.”

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Freshmen Rambo, Cannizzaro lead second-half comeback in tournament win over Cornell

Terps possess better mix of upperclassmen, young players than 2013 squad

By Daniel Popper @danielrpopper Senior staff writer

AARON KASINITZ

Tyler Adelsberger stood before the rest of his teammates in the Byrd Stadium locker room during halftime of the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s first-round NCAA tournament game against Cornell on Saturday and delivered a message.

The Big Red had built a four-goal lead after a flawless first-half performance, and it appeared the Terps were headed for another premature conclusion to a previously encouraging season.

But the senior midfielder, who played in only four games this season, wasn’t ready for the end of his career. Nor was he ready to part ways with the tight-knit group of players and friends, young and old, who had grown so close this season.

So Adelsberger looked his comrades in the eyes and asked them if they wanted these next 30 minutes to be the last they ever spent together on a lacrosse field.

The emotional speech energized the team, and it fueled a furious comeback from the Terps, who outscored Cornell by five goals in the final two quarters to clinch an 8-7 victory. Adelsberger’s message resonated most with freshman attackmen Matt Rambo and Connor Cannizzaro. The duo led the late surge with five combined second-half goals, three of which came in the final 12 minutes of the contest.

“I can’t use every word he used because this is a PG crowd,” coach John Tillman said during the postgame news See FRESHMEN, Page 13

Last year’s senior-laden Terrapins men’s lacrosse team loved to talk about the program’s history. Coming off backto-back seasons in which they lost in the NCAA championship, the Terps’ seven senior contributors openly discussed their intention to win the program’s first title since 1975.

The Terps, though, wilted after a blistering start. They lost three of their last five games and suffered a blowout in the first round of the NCAA tournament to Cornell.

But this year’s Terps have an entirely different dynamic, one that has served them well. The team relies on freshmen to play key minutes, and that youth combined with a few senior leaders creates a makeup that appears more equipped to handle the pressures of a 38-year championship drought than last year’s veterans.

Starting attackmen Connor Cannizzaro and Matt Rambo, both freshmen, provide an infusion of youth the Terps didn’t have last season. They don’t have the experience of playing in title games and haven’t been here long enough to feel the weight of the program’s history.

Instead, the youngsters, part of Inside Lacrosse’s top-ranked recruiting class, play without much hesitation.

Their naivete and enthusiasm would have benefited last season’s Terps, who Attackman Connor Cannizzaro scored two second-half goals to help the Terps earn a comeback win over Cornell on Saturday. alik mcintosh/the diamondback

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