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ACC lawsuits could drag on Struggles over bylaws, jurisdiction complicate highest-ever exit fee suits

By Yasmeen Abutaleb Senior staff writer It was hardly an unfamiliar story — in November, another school decided to switch athletic conferences for more money and security.

Nothing unprecedented.

But the stakes were different. University President Wallace Loh’s November announcement that the Terps would join the Big Ten in 2014 rattled the ACC. Though all conference realignments have been settled out of court, some legal experts said the lawsuits between the ACC and the university could be drawn out for months or even years.

Between the ACC’s recently signed grant of rights deal, the possibility the conference violated its constitutional bylaws, the highest-ever exit fee and both sides’ desires to fight lawsuits in their home states, experts said, it seems the ACC and the university are both prepared for a drawn-out legal battle.

Just a week after Loh’s announcement, the conference

filed a lawsuit in North Carolina — where its headquarters are located — to ensure the university would pay the entirety of its $52 million exit fee. By January, the state had filed its own lawsuit in Prince George’s County on behalf of the university; that suit argues the ACC violated antitrust laws and its constitutional bylaws when it hiked its exit fee in September.

Both the state’s and the ACC’s lawyers presented preliminary arguments a week ago.

“At the end of the day, it’s always about the money,” said Bradley Shear, a sports lawyer and sports management professor at George Washington University. “It literally just comes down to economics and money and ensuring that both parties are protected financially.”

ACC GRANT OF RIGHTS DEAL The ACC argues in its North Carolina lawsuit that this university’s departure weakened it financially. A member’s withdrawal leads to conference instability, the ACC has argued, See LAWSUITS, Page 2

taylor smyth, a senior history major, traveled to Bristol, Conn., on May 20 to compete in the final round of “The Schwab.” Though the athletic department media relations intern lost the trivia contest on the ESPNU show UNITE, he said the behind-the-scenes look into ESPN was an amazing gift for a dedicated sports fan. photo courtesy of joe faraoni/espn images

THE smyth vs. ‘the schwab’ Univ. student Taylor Smyth travels to Connecticut to compete on ESPNU sports trivia segment

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer While most of his classmates endured the crush of finals week papers and tests with the promise of a return home or a getaway vacation on the horizon, Taylor Smyth studied for a very different task with a very different destination.

Instead of heading to the beach or a foreign country, on May 20, the senior history major traveled to Bristol, Conn., where he was a contestant on “The Schwab,” a trivia contest on the

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer

Sarah Hancock, 20, dreamed of one day becoming a social worker

Helping others — that was Sarah Hancock’s mission.

Friends said she always put others before herself and treated everyone who crossed her path with kindness.

The junior sociology major, 20, was found dead in her Kent Hall dorm May 6.

She dreamed of becoming a social worker and hoped to work with women and children, said Jeanne Novotny, Hancock’s aunt. In middle

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school, Hancock said she would never let anyone sit alone at lunch, Novotny recalled.

“She’d go up to whoever,” Novotny said. “She was very outgoing, always a smile on her face.”

Shortly before her death, Hancock joined this university’s chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service fraternity, Novotny said.

Stephen Kostka, a sophomore fire protection engineering major, said he met Hancock through APO, and they quickly became close friends.

lot of really cool things, got to meet some really cool people.

Overall, it was a once-in-alifetime experience. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

An athletic department media relations associate director, Jodi Fick, recommended him for the show, Smyth said, and told him to look for an email from ESPN. He wasn’t expecting anything.

But early in the semester, Smyth, a media relations intern with the athletic department, received an email saying ESPN representatives were interested in casting him

for the game show, which was modeled after the ESPN Classic show, Stump the Schwab. He completed a 10-question interview over Skype and soon received an email saying they had selected him for the show.

In February, Smyth Skyped in to the competition, answering questions about the topgrossing football movies since 1975 and the most-followed professional sports franchises on Twitter. He beat contestants from the University of Virginia

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Africa’s spreading extremism concerns experts, expatriates

Always smiling, recalled fondly

By Madeleine List Staff writer

ESPNU late-night show UNITE, after winning two preliminary rounds to advance to the final.

Though Smyth lost in the finals, which aired May 22, to the University of Utah’s Michael Smith, Smyth left the ESPN campus with an unparalleled experience.

“When I won the [semifinals] and they said I was going to ESPN, I was really pumped,” Smyth said. “Then after going there, it was better than I thought it was going to be. That place looked like a really unique place to work. We got to see a

Sarah hancock was found dead in her Kent Hall dorm on May 6. Friends recalled how the junior sociology major always aimed to help others happily. photo courtesy of stephen kostka “She was just an amazingly nice and kind person, always thought about other people before herself,” he said. “She was always a happy person in any activity she did.”

Hancock did a wide variety of community service, Kostka said, from gardening around campus to tutoring.

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As the U.S. continues to focus most of its military efforts on fighting extremist groups in the Middle East, university students from Africa know this is a battle playing out on a much broader stage.

Countries such as Somalia and Sudan have long struggled against radical Islam, and only in the past decade has the U.S. been active against the problem of extremism — albeit in a different region — a fact that irritates Nana Asare, a graduate electrical engineering student, because he sees the U.S. putting its economic interests over its expressed goals of fighting ter-

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“I do think it has to do with the U.S. interests — of course oil comes to mind,” Asare said, adding that while he is a native of Ghana, a more stable state in the region, those close to the violence across the continent are “fellow Africans — African brothers and sisters.”

The issue has come more into the spotlight in the past year as radical Islam has found a new home: Mali.

Mali has long been the site of separatist movements against the Malian government, such as a coup in 2012 that ousted a sitting president.

But a new influx of rebels fighting under the banner of radical Islam has changed the

scope of the conflict.

After an uprising in nearby Libya led to former ruler Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster and assassination in 2011, forces loyal to him, including the nomadic Tuareg people, took weapons and ammunition from the fallen regime and moved westward to Mali.

“Over the years, [Gadhafi] built a band of very loyal militias,” said Bonny Ibhawoh, a professor of African, Global and Human Rights History at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. “He did have a lot of military and political influence beyond Libya, so that once Libya [collapsed] and

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lawsuits From PAGE 1 and could hamper its ability to negotiate a lucrative TV deal.

I n Ap ril , tho u g h , ACC Commissioner John Swofford convinced all 15 members — including new additions Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Louisville — to hand over their media rights to the conference until 2027. That means the schools themselves cannot negotiate their own TV deals, even if they switch conferences. It essentially keeps the conference intact for at least 14 years.

The ACC is now financially stronger than it ever was with this university as a member, said Jeremi Duru, a leading sports law expert, and that could weaken its argument that it needs the exit fee to compensate for damages incurred

proper procedures to implement the increased exit fee, which, if proven true, could alter the nature of both cases, Shear said.

Because the increased exit fee did not go through the ACC’s constitution and bylaws committee before the vote, and members did not receive a copy of the constitutional amendment 15 days before the September meeting, the fee is not enforceable, Maryland Assistant Attorney General John Kuchno argued last week.

If a judge upholds that argument — the state’s strongest, Shear said — the ACC will have to revert to its old exit fee.

“If their own constitution was not properly followed,” Shear said, “it would be very difficult for them to win, at POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF BYLAWS least in Maryland court.”

And that would also push the conference to settle out of The state argues in its lawsuit that the ACC did not follow court on a fee that is more faby this university’s departure.

In September, the ACC’s Council of Presidents approved an exit fee hike from $21 million to $52 million — three times the ACC’s operating budget of about $17 million. Loh, along with Florida State President Eric Barron, opposed the fee for “legal and philosophical reasons.” Loh called the fee punitive and illegal.

The new financial security, however, could decrease the ACC’s urgency to settle, Duru said. Attorney fees won’t strain the conference, he said, leaving less reason to end the lawsuits.

“I’m not sure they think they have a whole lot to lose,” Duru said of the ACC. “They’re more likely to fight this thing through.”

vorable toward the university, Shear said.

While there’s no telling whether such a ruling would affect the ACC’s North Carolina case, Shear said it likely would because it changes both cases’ facts.

“If Maryland followed the constitution of the conference … then Maryland’s case should be strengthened, whether it’s in North Carolina or Maryland,” Shear said. “Wherever the case is eventually adjudicated, it should come down to the facts.”

“WHEREVER THE CASE IS EVENTUALLY ADJUDICATED, IT SHOULD COME DOWN TO THE FACTS.”

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Big East for the Big 12 in 2011 — the university filed a suit to forgo its waiting period, and the Big East filed a suit in Rhode Island,where it’s headquartered.

Shear likened it to home field advantage in sporting events.

The crowd is more likely to be rooting for the home team, and the referees may be more inclined to make favorable calls.

It’s unproven whether that same advantage exists for court “HOME COOKING” cases, but parties often rush to While in theory it shouldn’t file suits at home.

“Obviously everyone wants matter where a lawsuit takes place, both sides are likely home cooking,” Shear said. looking to fight in their home “When people file lawsuits, they always have the mind-set states, experts said.

Similar lawsuits ensued that the judge doesn’t want to when West Virginia left the anger local communities.”

And because the exit fee would be the highest in history, the university is unlikely to concede anytime soon, Shear said. That means there’s no predicting how long it will take for the two sides to settle outside of court, he added, or whether they’ll settle at all.

But a drawn-out lawsuit isn’t in either party’s best interest because of mounting attorney fees, experts said.

“The longer this thing wears on, the more fatigue there will be on those who are interested in following ACC and Maryland athletics,” Duru said. “A lawsuit’s not good for anybody.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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africa From PAGE 1 Libya became less hospitable for these foreign troops … they had to find refuge elsewhere.”

The episode in Mali illustrates how a country the U.S. once considered an emerging civil society could become an unstable piece in a volatile region, Ibhawoh said.

Following the March 2012 coup, Tuareg militants, as well as fundamentalist Islamist groups, seized cities in northern Mali. In this time, Mali had become a safe haven for extremists linked to al-Qaeda until a French-led intervention helped to push these groups out of the North.

But the violence hasn’t completely diminished, and there are concerns about what Mali could become if the country doesn’t get back on stable footing. Even in a country such as Ghana, which is separated from Mali by Burkina Faso, some fear a spillover of radical ideology could disrupt the peaceful Islam practiced there.

“I do worry that eventually in the future the same thing might happen to Ghana,” said Asare, a Christian who grew up in the region. “I think it’s unlikely, but when the Mali incident happened, it was just kind of like, ‘Whoa, I didn’t see that coming.’”

As a Nigerian-born Christian in a Muslim-majority country, senior computer science major Bori Oludemi said he had already felt the fears that radicalism can stir up.

Though Nigeria is considered a somewhat safe country relative to nearby states, the presence of militant groups such as Boko Haram in the region has given Oludemi anxiety.

Boko Haram members often bomb churches in northern Nigeria, making Oludemi worry about his aunt and his church, which sometimes has to search patrons at the door.

The extremist group wants to carve out northern Nigeria and establish it as an Islamic state, an idea Oludemi said he would be content with only if it makes Christian worship safer.

“I just kind of hate them now because of what’s going on,” he said. “It seems like they want … to force Islam on us.”

But while Islamic extremism may have helped bolster the north Malian cause, Sadick Abubakar, national youth president of the United African Congress and a graduate mechanical engineering student, said the blame for Mali’s current state is on the international community’s insistence on toppling Gadhafi’s regime and a shared desire for control among the French, British and Americans.

Under Gadhafi, there was a level of stability in the region, and the fledgling extremist movements were held in check, Abubakar said. Without him, the movements were brought to the forefront, and Mali became a safe haven for extremist movements.

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Ghana. The French used the rebels’ alleged ties to jihadists as fodder for military intervention, he said.

“We’ve seen what has happened in Iraq and in Afghanistan and possibly what is going to happen in Iran — there is no difference here,” Abubakar said.

If the violence had become as dire a problem as the French military stated, military coalitions such as those within the Organization of African Unity could have stepped in to mitigate the damage without French intervention, Abubakar said.

“I do not think the military option is the best way to go,” he said. “If anything at all, African countries have military forces that could have been used to resolve the issue if military force is what is necessary.”

And the idea of Islamic extremism is ultimately misleading, Abubakar said. Many of the terrorist groups and militant organizations instead espouse the beliefs of what he called corrupted forms of Islam, such as Wahhabism or Salafism, and were built around political goals as opposed to fundamentalist religious values.

“When you look at all the extremist groups that are causing chaos everywhere,” he said. “All of these entities are actually not Islam-oriented groups,” he said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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smyth From PAGE 1 and Clemson University in the “ACC Battle” of “The Schwab” to advance to the semifinals on May 8. After beating two more contestants from Temple University and the University of Texas, he was Bristol-bound.

“I thought that was a good prize to be able to get a day at ESPN behind the scenes,” said Howie Schwab, who wrote most of the show questions.

“Normally you wouldn’t get that. They earned their way here to ESPN for the final.”

In Bristol, Smyth received the full ESPN experience.Along with Smith and the other finalist, Northern Illinois University’s Michael Benson,he toured the campus to get an inside look at the inner workings of the sports network. He ate lunch in the cafeteria,saw the newsroom and toured the studios.

“They were all really awesome to share the experience with and really fun

hancock From PAGE 1 Hancock found ways to help.

When Novotny was fighting breast cancer, Hancock made “hope” bracelets and participated in a charity run, she said.

Hancock was born in Bel Air and graduated from Harford County’s C. Milton Wright High School. She went to Harford Community College for two years but always dreamed of attending this university and transferred for her junior year. She knew how much it would cost her parents, so she worked at a ShopRite grocery store to help pay for school, Novotny said.

A positive attitude and

to compete on the show with,” Smyth said. “There’s people who like sports, but I think there’s a certain level of people who just really like it. Those two people were at that level. They were really fun to have conversations with.

They were two good guys.”

Some of the trio’s experiences seemed straight out of the famous ESPN “This Is SportsCenter” commercials. They saw baseball Hall of Fame shortstop Barry Larkin sitting at a cubicle doing research for a segment and later met him. They ate a meal next to basketball analyst Tim Legler in the cafeteria and then saw him filming a SportsCenter segment 15 minutes later.

While Smyth and the other finalists waited for the taping of UNITE to begin, they sat in a green room to watch baseball. It turned out former major leaguer Curt Schilling and Baseball Tonight host Karl Ravech had been sitting in the same room earlier, and they came back to retrieve their coats.

“It was just weird to see Hall of Fame athletes just walking

around and going about their job,” Smyth said.

Smyth advanced through the initial round of the contest to the finals against Smith but ultimately bowed out after failing to name the two NHL teams with the longest streaks of advancing to the league’s conference finals.

“I’m just not a hockey guy at all,” Smyth said. “It was surreal that that’s what almost knocked me out of the game and then did knock me out of the game.”

Still, as a sports fan always deepening his knowledge, Smyth’s day in Bristol marked a pinnacle; he knew not many others would get to experience the same things he did.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Schwab said. “The three finalists got to ESPN, spent the whole day there. The experience of traveling there to Bristol, which is always entertaining, but behind the scenes, they got a lot of good working experience and good opportunities. I think they learned a lot, and I think they had fun.”

love of life were just some of Hancock’s many wonderful qualities, said Victoria Bowcutt, sophomore accounting major and member of APO. “She was always able to find the good in anything that happened,” Bowcutt said. “If the rest of us were down, she would find a way to pick us back up.”

Hancock improved the lives of everyone who knew her with her quirkiness and good sense of humor. According to Novotny, Hancock never wore matching socks — “Why be boring?” she would say.

Hancock’s friendliness and kindness made it easy for her to connect with others, Novotny said. The night of Hancock’s death, friends held a vigil outside Memorial Chapel, where they shared stories about the young woman they

had come to love in her short time at this university.

“She had wonderful friends,” Novotny said. “We were all amazed when a University of Maryland bus pulled up at her funeral. She made so many friends in one year.”

Friends said she will be missed, but they will honor her memory by trying to live positively.

“She always had a smile on her face,” said Aditya Dilip, a junior government and politics major who lived in Kent Hall.

“She’s just the greatest friend you could ask for.”

Hancock is survived by her parents, Rick and Barbara, and sisters, Jessica and Christina.

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Things you don’t Ending college rape culture always think about STAFF EDITORIAL

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t the end of the spring semester, university officials agreed to explore plans for a sexual assault education pilot program targeting about 30 percent of the incoming freshman class. The move came from debate over a University Senate bill seeking to mandate sexual assault education for all incoming freshmen at orientations.

The Senate’s Sexual Harassment Task Force is still weighing that proposal, which won’t go to a vote until the fall. The pilot program would be an intermediary measure to help implement the proposed mandate later, should it pass.

Student Affairs Vice President Linda Clement agreed to support the pilot program and promised to start assembling a group of proponents and officials from the provost’s office to work on logistics after graduation.

The pilot program was designed by former Diamondback editor in chief Lauren Redding and Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program officials. They have consistently advocated for more widespread sexual assault education, an example university officials should consider following. But as of right now, the Senate seems to want more extensive research on the matter before diving in to stop the university’s sexual assault.

SARPP itself saw 76 new cases at this university during the 2011-12 academic year, including more than 40 sexual assault or rape victims. And those are only the reported cases.

According to Brown University Health Education, female college freshmen are at the highest risk for sexual assault between the first day of school and Thanksgiving break, and

over the course of their college career, 20 to 25 percent of college women are victims of completed or attempted rape. This is not an issue that’s going to fix itself or just go away.

This university is taking a good first step in planning a pilot program for sexual assault education, but the University Senate should not have linked the proposed mandate to a

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Sexual assault is a widespread problem on college campuses, and university officials need to do more to educate students on the matter. broader review of the university’s sexual harassment policies, pushing back the vote on the measure. Senate members also claim not to want to decide quickly and make the outcome less effective. However, given extensive research done by the bill’s proponents (including SARPP), it seems the ideas have been laid out for the Senate — all it has to do is vote.

But by postponing this decision, officials no longer have the summer to work out how to implement a program. Sure, they say they will now plan a pilot program. But they could have dedicated these three full months to working toward educating new students about sexual assault.

Instead, this is wasted time.

Everyone in the university community deserves an atmosphere of understanding that doesn’t toler-

ate sexual assault — and mandating this education program for all freshmen would be the first tangible step toward that goal. Officials seem to have a hard time understanding that.

Student Government Association academic affairs chairman for 201213, Ryan Heisinger had it right when he said, “What we don’t realize is that these are human beings who are being affected, and they’re people that we know, people that we may live with, and it’s something that we can effect change on.”

According to a Psychology of Women Quarterly study of sexual assault education programs’ effectiveness, attendees of such a program would better understand and adapt to seven specific and prevalent variables, such as incidence of sexual assault and knowledge of and attitudes about rape. Evidence such as this, alongside existing on-campus work, should be all the University Senate needs to implement this program.

Sexual assault is not black and white. There are intricacies and different attitudes that complicate the issue, and unless we all work in a concerted effort to change the widespread ignorance and misunderstanding, sexual assault will continue to occur and attract acceptance among college students.

It should not be commonplace to hear your friends say they were raped. It should not be commonplace to be afraid to report your assault.

It should not be commonplace for college students not to understand the word “no” or not wait for consent. College culture needs to change, and university officials need to help change it.

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ROBERT COBB Here are some things you might not regularly contemplate that deserve some thought.

1: Where your life is going, in the broad sense.

Yo u a re p ro ba b ly say i n g , “Crazy Rob, I am so futureoriented it would blow your mind,” and reciting what you are doing to prepare for your future.

Though you can’t know what your career is going to be further out than five years, what you can do is ask fundamental questions, such as, “Who do you want to be when you’re 40? 80?” We have an implicit trust: If we plan the next step and succeed, then we can plan the rest later. Instead, you can dream up where you want to be, then walk backward from there, figuring out what needs to happen to live the dream.

2: What biases you have, and how they make you who you are.

“Check your privilege,” you might hear if you hang with certain people. Growing up, we are supposed to confront different views and question what we think, reaching new conclusions about beliefs we took for granted.

Still, we don’t often make time to actively inspect the lens through which we see the world.

Think about the way you select what you consume — likely a more important bias than how you interpret any particular narrative. What other biases do you have? It feels silly to write a list, but if you actually do it, and let me know, I’ll give you a gold star, redeemable for one hug.

3: Goals, strategies, tactics, plans and habits.

You hear people talk about vision, leadership and goalsetting. You swallow platitudes whole. You know you have to plan ahead, think about your goals and develop strategies for accomplishing them. You’ve heard that stuff hundreds of

times, probably. But now it’s on you to take the time to contemplate your goals, observe patterns in your behavior and design habits and mental tactics to serve as the basis of your actions.

Schedule an hour a week, or if that’s not your thing, take a strange, intense weekend all at once. It’s going to take time to formulate these things, so browse Wikipedia articles for heuristics and thought, read the “Seven Habits of” whomever, and figure out how you tick.

4 : W h a t yo u l e a r n i n yo u r major, and what people learn in other majors.

While those designing course requirements no doubt know what they are doing, they cannot tailor your course of studies just for you.

You must contemplate the point of each class (and extracurricular and job). Are you taking economics to help you understand the way value flows among people or for analytical skills? How does it relate to the material in your government, English, or biology classes? While the advisers and forms will help you graduate with the necessary credits, you are responsible for drawing the connections among your classes, for building yourself from all these disparate pieces of theory and data.

Don’t wait until senior year to realize why you had to take foundational classes. Don’t look back during a midlife crisis and think you ought to have paid better attention or taken a different class.

There is no requirement to learn the shape of human knowledge (unless you are in library and information science, and then only maybe), and no one will tell you who you are.

Make time to talk about it, think about it, write things down, draw out different four-year plans and consider how your education fits together into an integrated whole.

That process is likely as valuable as the stuff you learn in class, which has a current market value of about $80,000. Take it or leave it.

Robert Cobb is a senior computer engineering major. He can be reached at rwcobbjr@gmail.com.

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Summertime on Capitol Hill WILL DYESS Summertime is here, and life is probably going a little smoother.

Unfortunately for some, the magic of summer didn’t grace the White House this year. Recent happenings on Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill have been fraught with scandal and dismay. A trifecta of scandals that played out recently included two Internal Revenue Service commissioners’ resignations.

Republicans are determined to use any leverage they can salvage to blame President Obama. Some have mentioned impeachment, while many see the controversy as an opportunity to derail the Affordable Care Act. Politicians on both sides want answers, and as active members of a democracy, we should too.

The scandal manifested itself in the tax-exempt and government entities division at the IRS. Earlier this month, news broke that since as early as 2010, the IRS had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status with extensive audits and harassment. The IRS targeted groups using keywords “tea party” and “patriot” and forced these entities to undergo exten-

sive questioning that reached far beyond what is typically necessary to receive tax-exempt status.

High-ranking members of the IRS admitted to having known as early as 2011, and we are still just now receiving word.

The Benghazi, Libya, story has not managed to gain the same traction with the general public as it has within Republican ranks, but it still remains a high-profile issue, as it more directly involves the commander in chief. On Sept.

11, 2012, as America remembered the 2001 Twin Tower attacks, militants executed another terror plot at U.S. diplomatic compounds in Benghazi. In the end, it cost four American lives, and questions about who knew what, and when, were again brought to the forefront. In then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s official statement, she said the attack was a result of an anti-Islamic YouTube video. Many have argued that, given the time frame, this was a convenient misstatement during a close election year: a misstatement covering up the truth that the president was more culpable.

The third layer of this confection of scandals involves the Justice Department and The Associated Press’ phone records. The Justice Depart-

ment allegedly far overreached its bounds when subpoenaing private AP phone records. In doing so, the department violated the precious link between journalists and their anonymous sources. The department’s official stance is that it was a last resort effort for the sake of national security.

This was the first time any sort of substantive mishap with the government was grave enough to retain my attention. Whether the president had prior knowledge of each case is obviously of utmost importance.

These events need to serve as a template for our generation as it moves forward participating in our democracy. We are moving into a time of new technologies, from drone warfare to 3-D printing, where guns can be printed in your own garage, and most everything you do is cataloged in one way or another. The need to keep a careful eye on how our government handles its affairs has always been a priority of the people, but given the fundamental changes happening in our society, we must be able to adapt and maintain the same standards from our leaders.

Will Dyess is a senior economics major.He can be reached at dyess00@gmail.com.

Last week, I voted against legislation that could make college more expensive for thousands of Americans by allowing the interest rates on student loans to be determined by the government’s cost of borrowing.

Congress needs to take shortterm action now to stop student loan interest rates from jumping from 3.4 to 6.8 percent on July 1. Rather than freezing the current fixed student loan interest rate at 3.4 percent, this bill, which unfortunately passed the House of Representatives in a primarily party-line vote, will: • Raise interest rates on a yearto-year basis. Over the next decade, students will end up paying a 7.4 percent interest rate, more than double the current rate.

• Cost students almost $4 billion in additional interest charges — even as the current student debt crisis already tops $1.1 trillion.

It’s in our national interest to work toward solving the $1.1 trillion student loan debt problem. There are many options we could and should consider that won’t make a college education more expensive. An amendment offered by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. John Tierney (D-Mass.) would have allowed students to pay the same interest rate on their government loans as the nation’s largest banks, which currently pay a rate of about 0.75 percent. Unfortunately, the amendment was rejected.

Keeping student interest rates low will not only help young people who are drowning in debt, but will also strengthen our economy and create a pipeline of jobs for the future. We should evaluate longterm solutions to student loans as part of the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act when we can do so as part of a com-

prehensive effort to address student debt, college affordability and the financial aid system as a whole.

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger Democrat-Maryland If a rape goes unreported, is the one who was raped less of a victim?

When you hear stories of campus rape, they all sound like they have a happy ending before they begin. I don’t personally know Lauren Redding, the former editor who wrote “An editor’s confession: Part II” for The Diamondback’s May 11 issue, but I’m genuinely glad she has found peace with what happened to her. It must’ve been hard for her to talk about.

I have a similar story but a different message. I was raped while asleep in my bed last year. I still lie in the bed it happened in and cry. I tried telling the people close to me, but they weren’t supportive or understanding. I’m strong because I choose not to be weak, even if there’s no support to be found.

University Police officially posted that there were zero rapes in 2012.

Online sources say that about one out of every four women will be raped during their college careers. Of this university’s 26,538 undergraduate students, 47.13 percent are female. If that statistic held true, about 3,127 women would be raped at this university, with most not being reported. How is this alarming statistic overlooked by everyone?

It took being raped for me to realize how normalized the culture at this university has made it. It’s taboo to talk about, but talking about it could have a huge impact. There is nothing “normal” about rape, even if it is a nationwide issue on college campuses.

What will it take for our generation to show some responsibility for the rape culture we live in?

GERI MARTIN Fire protection engineering major

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THE DIAMONDBACK | THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013

ALL THE CRAP YOU CARE ABOUT

91-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER LEE IS MORE HEAVY METAL THAN YOU WILL EVER BE

Actor Christopher Lee, known for portraying Saruman in The Lord of the Rings, Darth What’s-His-Name in the Star Wars prequels and just about every B-movie horror villain from 1960 to 1980, released his second heavy metal album, Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, on May 27, his 91st birthday. So remember: You will never be as hardcore as a 91-year-old man who once starred in a movie called Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf.

LASTING IMPACT | TWIN PEAKS

MY BRAIN ON BOB

In the world of Twin Peaks, everyday life is frequently invaded by a nightmarish evil. What happens when that fiction starts bleeding into reality?

By Dean Essner Senior staff writer When I started watching David Lynch and Mark Frost’s macabre, fauxsoap opera TV series Twin Peaks, I was in the midst of a jarring moment of turmoil that had interrupted my otherwise peaceful existence. In other words, I was feeling much like the residents of the titular town.

The first episode presents a small, close-knit village, tucked away from the rest of the country in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Everyone knows one another on a first-name basis. Casual conversation topics, such as where the best slice of pie is, suggest a utopian society. Tragedy is scarce.

T h e n , wh e n L a u ra Palmer — the idyllic town’s deceptively perfect homecoming queen — washes up dead on the beach in a body bag, the show suddenly becomes less about utopia and more about explaining why evil and darkness are always juxtaposed with perfection and prosperity. The ugly, Lynch seems to say, casts a shadow just as long, if not longer, than the good. And this truth is inescapable.

My viewing experience followed a similar trajectory. The night I started watching the show was a sad one during an otherwise wonderful semester.

I was drunk; it was late; nobody wanted to spend time with me.

As I continued watching, I started to think regularly about the show’s symbol of pure evil, the psychopathic killer, BOB. BOB is a spirit inhabiting different people in the town, taking over their bodies and forcing them to murder others.

I started to see BOB a lot: in doorways, as a dark figure in my pitch-black b e d ro o m — o cca s i o n ally, even, in my dreams.

Overcome with paranoia, I floated the idea once or twice that, like the poor c h a ra c te rs o n Ly n c h ’s show, BOB was inside me.

One night, after I learned the identity of Laura Palmer’s killer and sat through the show’s unequivocal climax (to explain what this climax is would spoil the show), I could not fall asleep. My thoughts were scattered and frighteningly incoherent. Frantically, I jotted down everything that popped into my head.

It read like someone’s insane ramblings.

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“Something particularly scary is happening in my brain right now,” I wrote.

“My thoughts aren’t particularly destructive or bad or frightening; I just cannot quiet things. It’s as if I am a character in a dystopian novel, plugged into the scattered thoughts of my neighbors so that it sounds like a symphony, or cacophony, of nothingness. No rhyme or reason.

No p a t h . Ju s t n o i s e s, mostly useless yet frustratingly ceaseless.”

I’ll never really know exactly what caused this panic attack; I haven’t had another Twin Peaksinspired experience since.

I still contemplate the possibility that BOB is next to my bed when I turn off the lights to go to sleep or waiting in my dreams to “catch me with his death bag” and inhabit my body.

But if the excitement of watching the show is something purely good, then the effect it had on my consciousness — the nagging fear that a piece of art could cause a future of anxiety — is what Lynch would most certainly deem the kind of pure evil that never goes away. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

DAVID LYNCH AND MARK FROST’S TWIN PEAKS has a surreal, dreamlike edge reminiscent of Lynch’s films. Few shows can match its potential for inspiring nightmares. photos courtesy of moviesandsongs365.blogspot.com, theeternalmementoofthewallfloweratlas.blogspot.com and skinnypocalypse.tumblr.com

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THE DIAMONDBACK | THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2013

ALL THE CRAP YOU CARE ABOUT

91-YEAR-OLD CHRISTOPHER LEE IS MORE HEAVY METAL THAN YOU WILL EVER BE

Actor Christopher Lee, known for portraying Saruman in The Lord of the Rings, Darth What’s-His-Name in the Star Wars prequels and just about every B-movie horror villain from 1960 to 1980, released his second heavy metal album, Charlemagne: The Omens of Death, on May 27, his 91st birthday. So remember: You will never be as hardcore as a 91-year-old man who once starred in a movie called Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf.

LASTING IMPACT | TWIN PEAKS

MY BRAIN ON BOB

In the world of Twin Peaks, everyday life is frequently invaded by a nightmarish evil. What happens when that fiction starts bleeding into reality?

By Dean Essner Senior staff writer When I started watching David Lynch and Mark Frost’s macabre, fauxsoap opera TV series Twin Peaks, I was in the midst of a jarring moment of turmoil that had interrupted my otherwise peaceful existence. In other words, I was feeling much like the residents of the titular town.

The first episode presents a small, close-knit village, tucked away from the rest of the country in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Everyone knows one another on a first-name basis. Casual conversation topics, such as where the best slice of pie is, suggest a utopian society. Tragedy is scarce.

T h e n , wh e n L a u ra Palmer — the idyllic town’s deceptively perfect homecoming queen — washes up dead on the beach in a body bag, the show suddenly becomes less about utopia and more about explaining why evil and darkness are always juxtaposed with perfection and prosperity. The ugly, Lynch seems to say, casts a shadow just as long, if not longer, than the good. And this truth is inescapable.

My viewing experience followed a similar trajectory. The night I started watching the show was a sad one during an otherwise wonderful semester.

I was drunk; it was late; nobody wanted to spend time with me.

As I continued watching, I started to think regularly about the show’s symbol of pure evil, the psychopathic killer, BOB. BOB is a spirit inhabiting different people in the town, taking over their bodies and forcing them to murder others.

I started to see BOB a lot: in doorways, as a dark figure in my pitch-black b e d ro o m — o cca s i o n ally, even, in my dreams.

Overcome with paranoia, I floated the idea once or twice that, like the poor c h a ra c te rs o n Ly n c h ’s show, BOB was inside me.

One night, after I learned the identity of Laura Palmer’s killer and sat through the show’s unequivocal climax (to explain what this climax is would spoil the show), I could not fall asleep. My thoughts were scattered and frighteningly incoherent. Frantically, I jotted down everything that popped into my head.

It read like someone’s insane ramblings.

“Something particularly scary is happening in my brain right now,” I wrote.

“My thoughts aren’t particularly destructive or bad or frightening; I just cannot quiet things. It’s as if I am a character in a dystopian novel, plugged into the scattered thoughts of my neighbors so that it sounds like a symphony, or cacophony, of nothingness. No rhyme or reason.

No p a t h . Ju s t n o i s e s, mostly useless yet frustratingly ceaseless.”

I’ll never really know exactly what caused this panic attack; I haven’t had another Twin Peaksinspired experience since.

I still contemplate the possibility that BOB is next to my bed when I turn off the lights to go to sleep or waiting in my dreams to “catch me with his death bag” and inhabit my body.

But if the excitement of watching the show is something purely good, then the effect it had on my consciousness — the nagging fear that a piece of art could cause a future of anxiety — is what Lynch would most certainly deem the kind of pure evil that never goes away. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

DAVID LYNCH AND MARK FROST’S TWIN PEAKS has a surreal, dreamlike edge reminiscent of Lynch’s films. Few shows can match its potential for inspiring nightmares. photos courtesy of moviesandsongs365.blogspot.com, theeternalmementoofthewallfloweratlas.blogspot.com and skinnypocalypse.tumblr.com

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FOR RENT

One block from campus – early signing bonus: $1000! Plus gas grill with lease signed in two weeks. Three residential houses in University Hills. Available June 1. 5 bedrooms, central ac, dishwasher, washer/dryer. RENT range from $3100 up. Great location for students in team sports (lacrosse, soccer). Dr. Kruger: 301-408-4801.

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Heels From PAGE 8

The tar heels celebrate the first national title in program history. North Carolina scored 13 goals Sunday, led by midfielder Kara Cannizzaro, who scored six points and was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. photo courtesy of jeffrey a. camarati/unc athletics

cannizzaro

ship game … against whoever we’re playing. It didn’t really matter.”

From PAGE 8 It was the same on the opposing sideline, too. no victory to cushion the April’s hard-fought conblows as there had been every other time. There was no tests were far from the minds “one game at a time” mantra of North Carolina’s players and coaches on Sunday night. to fall back on.

“It wasn’t about revenge,” And the Terps didn’t blame North Carolina coach Jenny the loss on their familiarity with North Carolina, either. It Levy said. “There’s no stories. didn’t matter they had played You still play the game. You each other twice this season. still have to show up and play “ We to o k i t a s a n ew 60 minutes.”

Still, the victory representgame every time,” attacker Alex Aust said. “We didn’t ed a sea change for a Tar Heels have that in the back of our team accustomed to coming minds. We were just taking up just short.

In addition to her three it as a national champion-

losses in the ACC championship, Cannizzaro suffered three losses on Memorial Day weekend, late in the NCAA tournament.

Late in Sunday’s contest a ga i n s t t h e u n d e fea te d Terps, it appeared one more big loss would be added to the lengthy resume.

But in the end it was Tracy, the freshman, who put away the Terps for good.

“It gives us one,” Cannizzaro said. “I think it’s going to propel the program. … I have faith that they’ll be back and this is just the first of many.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

at Villanova Stadium.

“It definitely stings,” freshman midfielder Taylor Cummings said. “It just didn’t fall our way this time.”

Tracy’s tally didn’t come without several missed opportunities, though. The Tar Heels took six shots in overtime before she finally found the back of the net.

Howard saved four of those shots. The senior — playing in her first NCAA final — delivered a subpar performance in regulation. She recorded just one save, which didn’t come until after the Tar Heels had netted seven scores.

“We weren’t giving Kasey any chance to make any saves,” coach Cathy Reese said. “We didn’t play particularly great defense in the first half.”

The Tar Heels put pressure on the Terps defense early, netting the contest’s first three goals less than five minutes into the game.

The Terps (22-1) dominated in the draw circle in the first half, 12-4, but they were unable to turn those opportunities into scores. The Tar Heels (18-3), who held Northwestern to just four goals in the semifinals, stymied the Terps with physical play.

The energetic play almost hurt the Tar Heels at some points. Star midfielder Kara Cannizzaro received a yellow card after slashing midfielder Beth Glaros in the face early in the game.

As time expired in the half, North Carolina winged a last-ditch effort across the field, and it crashed into defender Iliana Sanza’s face.

The senior received stitches during halftime.

Attacker Alex aust scored just one goal and one assist in the championship game. The senior tallied a team-high 125 points in 23 games this season. photo courtesy of umd athletics The Terps scored the second half’s first goal. They won the next four draw controls and turned the opportunities into goals to take an 11-9 lead with 19:55 left.

The squads exchanged blows for the rest of the period.

It looked like the Terps would pull away with their third victory of the season against the Tar Heels, but Cannizzaro netted two goals to give North Carolina a 12-11 lead with nine minutes left.

W i t h 3 : 5 1 re m a i n i n g , though, attacker Alex Aust fired a shot past Ward that sent the game into overtime.

Coppa (three goals, one assist) recovered the opening draw control in the extra period and nearly put her team ahead after sprinting down the field. Howard stopped her and kept the game tied.

The Terps had several opportunities to go ahead in the first overtime.

They came up short on a free position shot as Ward stopped Glaros’ opportunity and Cummings (three goals, one assist) passed out of what looked like a clear lane to the net.

Glaros (two goals) had one more open look before time expired, but Ward stopped her and sent the contest into sudden-victory overtime.

“There was a lot of pressure,” Ward said. “But I knew that if I made the save, our attack could go down and score.”

More chaotic play reigned in the second overtime, with the national championship on the line.

At one juncture, the Terps forced a turnover but couldn’t maintain possession against the swarming Tar Heels defense. But as the teams battled for the ground ball, Griffin (two goals, three assists) suddenly swooped in to recover the ball.

Later in the period, Cannizzaro eluded two Terps defenders to get an open look at Howard, but the senior stopped her opportunity. Then, as time expired in the period, North Carolina’s All-American got another opportunity, but her shot flew wide.

Finally, after three overtimes, 72 minutes, 51 shots and 49 fouls, the longest NCAA final in history came to a close when Tracy’s shot zipped past Howard.

An accolade-laden senior class featuring Aust and midfielder Katie Schwarzmann — two Tewaaraton Award finalists — had stepped onto the field to begin warm-ups hoping to go out with a national championship, just as it did three years ago.

But following the seniors’ fourth collegiate lacrosse season, the Terps stood inside the press room not celebrating but lamenting what could have been.

“I think this team that we had was one of the best,” Reese said. “You wanted to see them have this last opportunity, this last award. …

But someone’s got to win, and someone’s got to lose.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP: TAR HEELS 13, TERPS 12

Cannizzaro, Heels finally get by Terps

coming up short

North Carolina earns redemption after losing four straight years in ACC finals

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer

VILLANOVA, Pa. — Kara Cannizzaro sat at a table in front of reporters at Carmichael Arena in Chapel Hill, N.C., just after 7 p.m. on April 28, trying to explain precisely what went wrong in North Carolina’s 12-8 ACC championship loss to the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team.

The senior midfielder’s complexion was tear-soaked and red.

The Tar Heels had just fallen to the Terps in the conference championship for the fourth time in as many years.

Twenty-eight days later, the Tewaaraton Award finalist strode into the press room of Villanova Stadium following another contest with the Terps — this time a 13-12 triple-overtime NCAA championship victory — with a vastly different demeanor.

A victorious gait replaced the downcast shuffle from late April.

She swapped her former frown for an ear-to-ear grin. Sporting a backward NCAA Championship hat with a matching T-shirt, the senior asked to sit next to freshman midfielder Sammy Jo Tracy, whose shot gave the Tar Heels their first national championship 31 seconds into the contest’s third overtime.

“We’ve lost so many times,” Cannizzaro said, as she clung to her Most Outstanding Player award. “And to go out on top,

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Called on the Terps and Tar Heels in the title game there literally are not words to describe how happy I am for the senior class.”

Cannizzaro faced the possibility of ejection after slashing midfielder Beth Glaros in the face early in the contest, earning a yellow card.

One more hard foul, and she would be out. In North Carolina’s 14-13 loss to the Terps on April 6, the AllAmerican fouled out with less than nine minutes remaining.

But instead of letting the circumstances hinder her, Cannizzaro continued to make her presence known. She torched the Terps for four goals and two assists, including her North Carolina-record 83rd point of the season.

In the other postgame press conference, the Terps spoke of their inefficiencies after the contest, just as they had in the preceding 22 games of their 2013 campaign. But this time, there was See Cannizzaro, Page 7

Attacker Abbey Friend (18) and the North Carolina Tar Heels celebrate after midfielder Sammy Jo Tracy scored the game-winning goal in triple overtime of Sunday’s NCAA title game. The Tar Heels lost to the Terps in the regular season and the ACC championship earlier this year. photo courtesy of jeffrey a. camarati/unc athletics

Triple-overtime score lifts North Carolina over previously undefeated Terps in longest-ever national championship game

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer

VILLANOVA, Pa. — In a flawless run during which everything seemed to go its way, the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team came up short when it mattered most on the biggest stage.

After more than 70 minutes of riveting, fast-paced theater in the NCAA championship, midfielder Brooke Griffin had an opportunity to deliver the Terps’ 11th national championship with a point-blank

opportunity early in the third overtime period. But her shot caromed off Tar Heels goalkeeper Megan Ward’s stick, and then Ward desperately fell to the ground and covered the ball.

Before the second-largest crowd to ever watch the women’s lacrosse championship game, the freshman netminder sailed a pass to midfielder Brittney Coppa, who eluded several Terps defenders in the midfield.

Coppa found midfielder Sammy Jo Tracy wide open in front of the net, and Tracy netted the game-clinching

score past Terps goalkeeper Kasey Howard.

“It literally all feels like a dream,” Coppa said. “To see that ball go into the back of the net is something I’ve dreamt about since my dad put a stick in my hands.”

After rolling into the NCAA final unbeaten, the top-seeded Terps fell to No. 3-seed North Carolina, 13-12, in the longest championship game in history before 9,391 See Heels, Page 7