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Senior admin. resigns Rob Specter drove East Campus plan terps men’s lacrosse will continue to play Johns Hopkins in the future, as both teams are set to enter the newly formed Big Ten lacrosse conference in 2015. file photo/the diamondback

By Yasmeen Abutaleb Senior staff writer

Big Ten forms new lacrosse conference

By Aaron Kasinitz Senior staff writer The Terrapins men’s and women’s lacrosse teams will follow the Johns Hopkins men’s team into a newly formed Big Ten lacrosse conference in 2015, athletic officials announced Monday afternoon.

The fate of the Terrapins lacrosse teams had been uncertain since November when the university announced its move

to the Big Ten, a conference that at the time didn’t sponsor lacrosse as an official sport.

But after Johns Hopkins revealed Monday its men’s team would join the conference as a lacrosse affiliate member, ending its 130 years of league independence, things began to clear up for the Terps.

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‘Wheel bite’ solution wins business prize New challenge awards entrepreneurs change, and the judges for the 2013 University of Maryland Business Model Challenge About a year ago, senior Chase agreed — Kaczmarek’s invenKaczmarek found himself the tion, a protective barrier called victim of what skateboarders call Wheel Shields, was one of two “wheel bite.” When the business grand prize winners for this major swerved to avoid hitting a year’s competition.

Skaters place Wheel Shields rabbit, his longboard’s wheels scraped the bottom of the board, above their wheels, and the plastic coverings prevent wheel and he suffered a nasty fall.

After the accident, KaczSee challenge, Page 3 marek decided things had to

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band of brothers, a Laurel-based music act of brothers featuring a university graduate student for a singer, has frequented major venues across the area for eight years. The band has gained popularity with a televised song contest and online buzz. photo courtesy of luke roberts

brotherly Harmony Local group Band of Brothers on upward trajectory through love of fans

By Matt Bylis For The Diamondback Over the past eight years, the Roberts brothers have played on prestigious area stages, from the 9:30 Club in Washington to Baltimore’s Bourbon Street.

But for university engineering graduate student and band member Luke Roberts, his favorite performance was at Flat Tuesdays, a small pub on the University of Maryland, Baltimore County campus.

“The place was packed,” Roberts said. “There were

Journalism giant won awards, hearts

He may have been a “journalism giant,” but he was a gentle one who touched the lives of students and faculty during his 15-year term as a journalism professor at this university.

Haynes Johnson, Knight chairman of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, professor, best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian, died May 24 from cardiac arrest. He was 81.

“Haynes Johnson was our journalistic and literary lion, a man who covered presidents and paupers, who infused reporting with both eloquence and hu-

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manity,” journalism professor Mark Feldstein wrote in an email.

Born in New York City, Johnson began his journalism career as a copy boy. He worked at The New York Sun alongside his father, Malcolm Johnson, another Pulitzer Prize winner. The Johnsons would later become the first fatherson duo to receive Pulitzers.

Haynes Johnson earned degrees in journalism and American history from the University of Missouri and the University of Wisconsin, respectively, and fought in the Korean War. He also went on to report for The Wilmington News-Journal in Delaware and later The Washington Evening Star in 1957.

let them know that they are not alone,” reads a statement on their website, mybandofbrothers.com.

That is not to say they have not had success, though.

They’ve earned a modest profit selling songs on iTunes and posted their first music video — a recording of Luke performing “Her Heart’s Lips Have Kissed My Soul,” a song he wrote — to YouTube on May 9. It’s nearing 5,000 views in its first four weeks on the video-sharing website.

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people all over the floor, balcony and even the staircase.

The most powerful moment was when we played ‘Hallelujah,’ and the crowd began to sing so loudly that I actually heard them over myself. I get chills just thinking about it.”

Band of Brothers, which consists of brothers Michael, 19, Luke, 23, and Daniel, 25, would much rather touch people with its music than merely gain fame.

“We seek to create the deepest artistic expression of the human experience through music, make something beautiful, give others hope, and

After nearly two years at this university, Vice President for Administration and Finance Rob Specter resigned this week, just months after helming a redirection of East Campus initiatives.

University President Wallace Loh announced Specter’s resignation in a June 3 email to university vice presidents, deans, chairs and directors.

“On behalf of the University community, I thank Rob for his valued service,” Loh wrote.

A successor selection process will be announced soon.

Specter helped ramp up plans for East Campus — originally a projected 22-acre development along Route 1 to revitalize College Park — by hiring a new developer, expanding University Police’s jurisdiction beyond campus borders and planning the construction of a hotel and conference center on Route 1, among other steps.

Specter will continue to assist with several projects in the works, Loh said, and an interim vice president will soon be hired in his place.

Specter was appointed in July 2011 as one of a slew of new administrators. Though Specter helped set new East Campus plans in motion, Loh said the more-than-decadeold project is still moving “full steam ahead.”

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Haynes Johnson

Journalism college professor Johnson worked at the Evening Star for 12 years in various reporting and editing positions. During his time at that publication, he won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1966 for his coverage of Selma, Ala., during the civil rights era.

He was also known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. Then, in 1969, he went to The Washington Post, where he mainly worked as a columnist.

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With some seeds, sun, soil and a little water, Dining Services officials are hoping to take a step toward sustainability with their new Chef’s Garden outside Stamp Student Union.

William Rogers, executive chef for university catering service Good Tidings, got the idea for the 60-foot garden after seeing one installed at a restaurant where he had previously worked.

“The garden allows us to be interactive outside of the kitchen, and it creates excitement when people see us harvesting the herbs that will be used in our dishes,” Rogers said.

Students grew the majority of the plants for the garden

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CHEF’S GARDEN, a 60-foot site outside Stamp Student Union, grows fresh ingredients using rain barrels (above) for university catering service Good Tidings. sung-min kim/for the diamondback from seeds in the university greenhouse this spring, said Allison Lilly, Dining Services Sustainability and Wellness Coordinator. The others came from a local nursery.

To maximize sustainability, Dining Services used soil made from compost and installed rain barrels with drip irrigation systems to water the

plants, Lilly said.

Currently, only Rogers and Good Tidings are using the garden to prepare meals, but Lilly said Adele’s staff expressed interest in serving the garden’s herbs and vegetables in the fall.

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garden From PAGE 1 patrons who get to take advantage of the garden’s fresh produce — students can enjoy it, too, through Green Tidings, a new food truck operated by Good Tidings that will serve lunch on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Though the idea for the garden stemmed from Rogers, pulling it together required collaboration from students working with Dining Services, the university arboretum and Facilities Management workers from Stamp.

“What struck me the most was the combination of people working on the garden,” said Alex Krefetz, a senior government and politics and environmental science and policy major. “We had three unique demographics from

campus working together on one project.”

Students worked diligently to make the garden a reality, and many hope this will be just the first project of its kind.

“I hope we can start producing more food on campus through sustainable practices that will be consumed by faculty and students at the university,” senior art history major Alexis Wojtowicz said.

Though the Chef’s Garden is the only one providing food for Dining Services programs, there are four other food gardens located on the campus.

The rooftop garden on top of South Campus Dining Hall is being expanded, Lilly said.

Dining Services won the National Association of College and University Food Services’ Gold Sustainability Award in Waste Management this year, and projects such as the Chef’s

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The Chef’s garden outside of Stamp Student Union will provide vegetables and herbs for Good Tidings catering service and a new food truck. sung-min kim/for the diamondback Garden are improvements on an already outstanding green dining program, she added.

In the future, Rogers hopes to see a program that would allow students to farm and harvest crops on the campus for academic credit. The crops produced would then be sold internally to restaurants and

dining halls on the campus.

“Penn State has a successful program like this, and I think it would be a great way to mix education while improving sustainable dining practices at the university,” Rogers said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

time with students and faculty alike, Feldstein wrote.

Johnson died while writing his 19th book. He wrote six best-sellers in his time, including The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years, which the Book-of-the-Month Club deemed a main selection and the New York Times selected as “Notable Book of the Year.” He also co-authored The Battle for America 2008 with fellow Post reporter Dan Balz.

Colleagues said he will be remembered for his wide range of societal contributions, especially in the journalism world.

Johnson’s survivors include his wife, Kathryn Oberly, and five children.

The National Press Club in Washington will host a memorial service on June 23 at noon to honor Johnson.

and was a finalist for four additional Pulitzer Prizes.

Johnson was scheduled to be inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists D.C. Pro Chapter’s Hall of Fame in June.

After establishing his credibility as a reporter, editor, national television commentator and more, he began his career as a professor at this university in 1998.

“It was a treat for me to walk a couple of doors down the hall and discuss politics with Haynes,” journalism professor Diana Huffman wrote in an email.

“He brought not just his reputation to the school but a real love for teaching and his students.”

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performing locally. Fan Hannah Lebo found Luke’s ability to sing while playing the keyboard and drums at the same time mesmerizing.

“It’s not just that the music is really good, it’s also the amount of energy that they have on stage,” said Lebo, who first met Luke while he was an undergraduate student at UMBC. “I didn’t go at first, but when I did, I got hooked. Any one of them can play a number of instruments, and each has his own distinct style of songwriting.

Everyone who goes to a show wants to go to another one.”

The Roberts brothers have also created their own record label, Ivystone Records, to aid in distributing their music in the Internet age. That allows them to have more control over their own music than they would through a corporate record label, Daniel said.

“Artists nowadays have to become successful before getting signed to a major label,” he said. “With innovations in technology, you can achieve success on mediums like Facebook, SoundCloud and iTunes without being signed.”

Alexi Charalambides, a former teaching assistant for Luke, said the label was a smart and not unexpected move for the brothers, who show signs of being savvy businessmen as well as musicians.

“In my mind, their future has a better chance this day in age than ever before to become popular, thanks to social media,” Charalambides wrote in an email. “The quality of their music just makes it a matter of when, not if.”

Daniel will make a threeweek visit to Nashville this summer to learn from esteemed bass player Victor Wooten, and then the brothers will continue to perform live. Their upcoming plans include opening for The Volunteers, the Army’s premier touring band, at Ft. Meade on June 6.

The brothers plan to release a video once a month, featuring either an original song or a cover.

They got a taste of fame when Luke won the YOBISing Singing/ Songwriting Contest and a trip for two to the 2011 Grammy Awards.

Their song “Turn Me Around” won them the honors in their second year competing in the contest. They didn’t win the first year they entered, but their song was automatically re-entered the next year.

“I had forgotten about the contest by the time all of the finalists were announced,” said Luke, who sang the song. “It had made it through a month of voting before I started to urge my friends to vote, and eventually was declared the winner.”

The night of the Grammy awards, Luke and Daniel rode up to the red carpet in a limousine and rubbed elbows with stars such as Bruno Mars, Ryan Seacrest and Pauley Perrette.

“There were things that were very inspiring about the experience, and some that were not,” said Daniel,a Howard High School music teacher. “It was very shiny, glamorous, and polished, but also very business-heavy. Like a sugar high, it’s exciting at first, but it can wear on you.”

For now, the brothers stick to their local events around their busy schedules. Michael, the youngest, is an undergraduate student at UMBC studying mechanical engineering, and Luke occupies his time building robots, including the breakthrough“Robo Raven” that recently made headlines, at this university.

“So many bands have a shot to make it big, and it’s a lot about who you know,” said Michael Criscuoli, a longtime friend and senior journalism major. “But they all have futures in other things that they can fall back on if it doesn’t work out.”

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lacrosse From PAGE 1 the sport of lacrosse in general, with the announcement of the Big Ten lacrosse league,” men’s coach John Tillman said in a conference call. “We’ll see some talented teams take the field, and some great competition.”

Athletics Director Kevin Anderson reached out to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany in December with the idea of creating a new men’s lacrosse league with the addition of Johns Hopkins.

Officials from the Big Ten had been interested in adding lacrosse, Delany said in a news conference at Johns Hopkins on Monday. The Blue Jays and the Terps would add high-quality competition to the league, he

added. The men’s teams share one of the most celebrated rivalries in college lacrosse — they’ve played 103 times. “[Anderson] just wanted to do what was best for the Big Ten conference and for the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams,” Tillman said. “We just sat down and went through a lot of different options. … We really left no stone unturned.”

The new league will have six teams on both the men’s and women’s sides, meaning the conference champion will earn an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament each year.

The men’s conference will include Rutgers, Penn State, Michigan and Ohio State. Both the Buckeyes and the Nittany Lions reached the NCAA tournament this season, though Michigan and Rutgers com-

bined for just three total wins.

“It’s important for us to always play a difficult schedule,” Tillman said. “That’s the way it has always been at Maryland on the women’s and the men’s side.”

The women’s team will also join a strong six-member conference that was seemingly set in November. The conference was already home to other universities that competed in Division I women’s lacrosse: Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers.

The Terps women’s team plays Penn State annually and has competed with Northwestern, which has won seven of the past nine national titles, several times in the postseason.

“We’ll have the opportunity to develop new rivalries,” coach Cathy Reese said. “And

one of the neat things for us is five of the six women’s lacrosse programs [in the Big Ten] are coached by Maryland alums.”

The Terps will compete in the ACC for the 2014 season.

And Big Ten league officials are still working out factors such as scheduling, the formation of a Big Ten tournament and the presence of lacrosse on the Big Ten Network.

But both Reese and Tillman are excited for what lies ahead.

“The Big Ten, everything they’ve really put their mind to, they’ve done exceptionally well on all levels,” Tillman said.

“It’s something that made us feel comfortable knowing that, ‘All right, we’re going to look at a lot of different options, but this really looks like a special one.’” sportsdbk@gmail.com

challenge From PAGE 1 bite and trap water from wet streets that often sprays riders. The coverings also allow skaters to stand on top of their wheels, opening up a realm of new tricks and stunts.

It’s safe, innovative and practical — which is why the competition judges awarded Kaczmarek and his product a $5,000 prize.

The Business Model Challenge, a new competition run through the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, gave 11 finalist teams of students and faculty two months to develop a product, create a business strategy and research a market, tinkering and tweaking their products based on customer feedback.

Unlike most entrepreneur competitions, in which teams pitch ideas to possible investors, the challenge judged students based on innovation, practicality and customer research.

Wheel shields, a plastic safety device for long board riders, was one of two grand prize winners in Mtech’s innaugural Business Model Challenge. The devices prevent “wheel bite” and trap water from wet streets to keep riders dry. photo courtesy of chase kaczmarek “We wanted to make sure [the teams] went out and talked to real-life customers about the problems and needs they have,” said Edmund Pendleton, a director at Mtech who helped organize the competition. “We’re not worried about who is raising the most money. We want the teams to solve problems.”

Each finalist team received $3,000 for participating and was required to talk to at least 25 potential customers. The winning teams received $8,000 in total.

Wheel Shields competed against computer programs

designed for life science researchers, a method for recycling plastic pellets for use in 3-D printers and technology for monitoring bridge safety.

The other grand prize winner was UMDTutor2Go, an interactive online tutoring service developed by 2013 graduates and sisters Chandra Smith, a psychology major, and Changudra Smith, a business major.

The site combines Skype video messaging, instant messaging and audio broadcasts to create a 24-hour tutoring resource.

“When I tutored football players, I heard them com-

plaining that they didn’t have time for tutoring to fit in their schedule,” Chandra Smith said.

“We wanted to make a good environment to help them.”

Pendleton said judges were specifically impressed with the two groups’ ability to take the large amount of data they obtained from research and apply it to their products to make substantial changes.

Kaczmarek surveyed more than 200 longboarders to improve the aesthetics of his project, such as the colors and designs of Wheel shields.

“It was helpful to sit down and focus on exactly what my customers want,” he said, as the surveys showed customers preferred a sleek design in green and purple shades and they found the water-wicking capability to be a very attractive feature — a concept Kaczmarek hadn’t realized was so important to riders.

With the prize money, Kaczmarek will be able to develop molds to make Wheel Shields and hire a videographer to create advertisements. The Smith sisters said they plan to use their money to further develop the UMDTutor2Go platform and they hope to have it up and running by 2015.

D e s p i te t h e t wo c l e a r winners in the competition, Pendleton stressed how the contest helps all of its participants and even hopes to deemphasize the idea of grand prizes in future years.

“What is most important is that the teams get something out of it,” Pendleton said.

“Even if someone came back and realized no one wanted their product or service, it was still successful.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Your DNA: U.S. property A mericans’ rights to privacy and protection from inappropriate searches have fallen under scrutiny after a Wicomico County assault charge led to what Justice Samuel Alito called “perhaps the most important criminal procedure case that [the] court has heard in decades.”

After police arrested Eastern Shore resident Alonzo Jay King Jr. in 2009, but before he was tried or convicted, police took a DNA sample through a cheek swab, which was then legal under this state’s laws.

King protested the sampling, and in 2012, this state’s highest court decreed the law unconstitutional, contending that it violated innocent citizens’ protection from unreasonable searches under the Fourth Amendment.

However, on Monday, the Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn the Maryland Court of Appeals’ judgment and deem DNA sampling constitutional for those arrested under “serious offenses,” a term this state defines as violent or burglary-related crimes or attempts.

The Supreme Court’s majority opinion also defended the law’s provisions to use gathered DNA evidence to include arrestees in other criminal investigations.

Proponents of the decision, such as Justice Anthony Kennedy and The Baltimore Sun editorial board, have argued gentle cottony dabs are painfree and do not cause trauma to those sampled. To think, however, that the minimal physical side effects of such searches mark their ambiguity is largely misguided. The foundational assumption behind sampling non-convicted citizens possibly to connect them to other crimes is where the problem lies.

Using technological capabilities to indiscriminately check non-convicted arrestees’ DNA against evidence collected at crime scenes is a process carried out under the assumption — not necessarily with evidence or suspi-

BRIAN COMPERE

Managing Editor

cion — that a citizen may be guilty of a crime. And that assumption can be interpreted to stand in stark contrast with the freedoms offered in the Constitution, as well as the fundamental belief that every American citizen is innocent until convicted. Having non-convicted citizens’ DNA in databases challenges that assumption of innocence.

And if the court holds fast that privacy-related concerns are significant enough to still require warrants for home searches, this editorial board is left asking the same question as Justice Antonin Scalia: Why are those concerns not significant “when an intrusion into the body is at stake?”

OUR VIEW

The Supreme Court’s ruling to allow DNA collection from arrested suspects again raises important rights questions.

However, using DNA evidence in criminal investigations should be encouraged in this country. As a technology regularly touted as the future of criminal justice in the United States — one that has saved innocent citizens from death row and put criminals behind bars — DNA analysis certainly offers benefits. And the Supreme Court has regularly defended law enforcement’s right to fingerprint and photograph arrestees before trial; many, including the majority of the Supreme Court, argue DNA sampling is no different. And it might not be.

In order to cultivate a more robust criminal justice system, developing databases of DNA evidence may be a beneficial step in more accurately and fairly administering justice. The range of benefits that could arise from increasing DNA sampling should be weighed against the costs of an unambiguous and small limitation on our freedoms. Therein lays the crux of the

debate over this decision.

But one thing is for sure: Citizens should be wary of any attempt to infringe upon their rights, and DNA evidence should not be held for use against citizens if they go unconvicted after trial.

It is potentially worrisome from legal and philosophical lenses that five members of the court contend that sampling arrestees’ DNA should be regular protocol. But the decision’s logistical consequences might prove to be worse.

A 2012 Department of Justice report showed that in 2009, of the 1.4 million requests for DNA analysis, almost 900,000 were backlogged. With almost half a million of those samples coming from arrestees or convicted offenders, rather than from crime scenes — 28 states, including this state, allow such sampling already — increasing the number of DNA samples taken will likely increase the backup.

Additionally, University of Virginia law school professor Brandon Garrett told The Washington Post that a deluge of DNA samples into crime databases could limit the effectiveness of the technology. With more samples to check against, the system could gather even more gunk to slow it down.

Having innocent citizens’ DNA in these databases could limit the system’s potential effectiveness, diluting the overall pool with innocent samples to check, said Garrett and other forensics experts.

And in a justice system marred by bulging prison populations, uneven enforcement and broken policies of the past, adding more roadblocks is not in the nation’s best interest, making this decision even less wise.

The decision marks the first steps into the legal nuances of new forensic technologies, and it is important for Americans to approach the debate with keen skepticism and special regard for the decision’s benefits and drawbacks.

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Suppressing male emotion in patriarchy

he regret it afterward?

Not only do we expect our fathers not to cry or to have fears — or even hopes or regrets — but our fathers know we don’t expect these things from them. So they don’t do them.

There’s nowhere for them to learn how to emote — they certainly won’t learn it from their dads. Those men are even deeper in it all, and the thought of changing this stoic male ideal isn’t any more likely to have entered their minds than it is to have entered yours.

So what we have is half of the population walking around in an emotionally unstable and misinformed state, and we call it a social norm.

It’s as arbitrary as if, hundreds of years ago, we decided it would be great if all men had to cut off a finger to be considered a man. And every man with ten fingers would be looked down upon as a “wuss” or “girly.” So these men would wear a glove over that hand to make it look like they had nine fingers instead of ten just so they could function in society.

That’s what we’ve created here, and we have just as much credit for perpetuating it as our forefathers had for creating it. We participate by holding our fathers on those pedestals, making them think they need to live up to some unachievable goal.

And shame on us for that. Shame on us for creating an environment where children have to be legitimately frightened of their fathers — where some children’s lives would be better off if their fathers just disappeared, and worse, where fathers feel like it’s their duty to perpetuate this fear-inspiring persona.

This is an issue for us all, and only through feminism — that blunt yet essential revealer of social necessities, injustices and change — can we fully internalize the harm done not just to women in the patriarchy, but to fathers as well.

ERIK SHELL

The door slams downstairs.

You freeze immediately, fearful that the slightest move will upset him — that it will make him come up to your room that much faster.

But he’s coming up anyway.

There was never anything to avoid that — it was only a matter of time. He’s coming upstairs to your door, and the rest of your night will not be pleasant.

This scene plays out every single day. Every day, somewhere, there is a child who is quite literally sitting around waiting to be physically abused by his or her father. These children are forced to stand next to their towering male role model in public and see his stoic and unmoving face as they grow up. They come to believe this is what manhood looks like.

But children are not the only ones deceived and hurt by this very real, daily tragedy. These men have significant others, too, and all of these individuals should be society’s primary concern.

They are in the most immediate — and potentially fatal — physical and emotional danger, and they deserve to be given everything they need to escape and get well.

Of the many revelations borne of these tragedies are the unrecognized emotional problems of the fathers involved. Just as gun law debates bury the need for mental health access, abuse cases similarly ignore how that man’s distorted underlying perception of masculinity is completely FUBAR. If you’re skeptical, ask yourself this: Have you ever seen your father cry? Not a “the Ravens just won the Super Bowl” cry, but a Erik Shell is a junior classical languages cry following a truly vulnerable and literatures and history major. He and emotional outpouring? Did can be reached at erik1434@gmail.com.

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Economy’s hold on a new governor MATT DRAGONETTE With the state’s gubernatorial primaries just a year away, local politicians are preparing for what should be a competitive election season.

Though this state traditionally leans heavily Democratic, the primaries are often very competitive, with the winner of the Democrats’ primary usually winning the general election.

The new governor will have a lot on his or her plate.

Over the past seven years, politics in this state have focused on social and environmental issues. However, with the recent ballot initiatives and Gov. Martin O’Malley’s agenda, social issues have been put on the back burner for the time being. Economic issues will be the focus of the 2014 campaign for both parties.

This state has always benefited economically from the plethora of government contracts and jobs in the area. But with the sequester and other looming cutbacks, this state must create a stronger economy. That means a stronger private sector and a more encouraging public sector.

What does this entail?

First, the state must continue to balance revenues and expenditures. This current fiscal year should maintain a balanced budget without resorting to raiding special funds.

However, during the previous six years, this state ran massive budget shortfalls (more than $1 billion each year) that had to be paid for with a combination of taxes, transfer of government funds and budget cuts.

Marylanders, especially the poorest, cannot continue to pay ever-increasing taxes and other “fees.” For instance, an increase in the sales tax, the addition of a rain tax on polluted stormwater and other taxes all aim to increase revenue. Additionally, this state has had to withdraw from special funds just to balance the budget. We need to create a sustainable budget plan that reduces the need for tax increases while balancing the spending we do need.

Our state government must also create an environment that is conducive to business in order to strengthen our economy. Businesses should want to come to this state and hire Marylanders to work. In a Forbes ranking of the best states for business, this state ranked 16th. In contrast, Virginia was ranked 2nd, second only to Utah as the best in

the country.

According to the ranking, labor costs in this state are the second highest in the nation, while it ranks 42nd in business costs and 39th in regulatory environment. It’s easy to see how business owners could be annoyed by the maze of taxes and fees they face.

The lesson to be learned is that this state’s heavy regulation and taxation takes its toll on businesses, especially small ones. Working for a small business, I have seen firsthand the difficulties one faces in simply running the operation. We need an environment that encourages sustainable small-business growth to strengthen our economy and put Marylanders back to work.

This does not mean we need to abandon all regulations and taxation, but we should look to streamline those things.

Improving the economy should be the priority of the next governor.

This state’s citizens deserve more opportunities for jobs and success.

Hopefully the next governor will make Maryland a more businessfriendly place.

Matt Dragonette is a sophomore accounting major. He can be reached at mdragonette9@yahoo.com.

Think before you tweet

ith the ever-increasing importance the Internet has in our everyday lives, online media have become huge outlets for schools and prospective students to use to learn about one another. Many graduating high school students look to the Internet for information on where to study for the next four years.

So this university’s administration should be concerned when looking at the recent crop of student-run Twitter accounts using the university’s name.

The first of these studentrun accounts is @UMDConfessions, which became popular in the beginning of the spring semester. This account advertises its anonymity for those who submit their “confessions” and posts mostly vague and unspecific tweets. While some of them could be viewed as harsh or aggressive, they are rarely targeted at a certain person.

As with most social fads, @UMDConfessions was quick to see imitators. @TerpCrushes has seen huge popularity since its inception. This Twitter account is similar in the anonymity for those submitting the tweets but is uncensored when it comes to the subjects. Many of the tweets are sexual and focused at specific people, in many cases naming them personally.

The latest of these Twitter sensations was @UMD_BurnBook, before it was apparently deleted.

Administrators for this account bragged that they would post anything and everything. They even went so far as to ask for the most brutal and aggressive of posts.

Names of the burn book victims were to be posted with nothing held back. This was obviously the

account that had the most chance of negative consequences for the university.

This type of media presence could have lasting negative effects for the university if prospective students, or parents of students, see these accounts as unbecoming. While I cannot say I would make a decision on a school based on this knowledge, I would certainly question a student body that has such little regard for one another as classmates and, in some cases, humans.

College, to me, is as much about the connections and relationships that can be forged as it is about education. Why would someone want to attempt to forge relationships or connections with a group of perceived gossipers and slanderers?

The First Amendment and disclaimers on the Twitter accounts’ pages prevent the administration from having any real say in the content being shown. It would be a possibly sticky situation for school officials to attempt to put an end to this trend. The repercussions of any type of legal battle over freedom of speech could have lasting negative effects, possibly larger than those associated with gossip Twitter pages.

While these anonymous accounts can be entertaining and good for a laugh now and then, we must ask ourselves if the good outweighs the possibilities of the bad. Even if the administration has little authority over this subject, we as students can take a stand and show those around us that we care more about our school and fellow Terps than we do about gossip. I believe we can be a positive impact on our school, and this is an opportunity to do so.

David Stroh is a senior English m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t Davestroh11@gmail .com .

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REVIEW | BEFORE MIDNIGHT

HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Before Midnight continues the winning streak of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset by focusing on the difficulty of maintaining a long-term relationship

By Robert Gifford Senior staff writer Why are so many movies about love and romance dedicated to the least interesting part of any relationship — the beginning? There are thousands upon thousands of works of art dedicated to seduction, to the early blush of infatuation, to overcoming some series of trite obstacles and misunderstandings until the couple finally gets together which then conveniently fade to black during the honeymoon glow before the couple has to get to the rough and difficult work of building a life together.

Before Sunrise, the first film in writerdirector Richard Linklater’s (Bernie) epic yet understated series about star-crossed lovers Celine (Julie Delpy, 2 Days in New York) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke, Sinister), is such a film. It centers on a pair of literate postgrads, American Jesse and Frenchwoman Celine, who meet by chance, fall in love over the course of one night in Vienna, and agree to meet six months later. It was an unusually intelligent and unquestionably swoonworthy romantic drama.

Like a fictional counterpart to Michael Apted’s “Up” series, Linklater has checked in with Celine and Jesse every nine years since, and the series has grown more mature and less starry-eyed with each subsequent film.

The 2004 installment, Before Sunset, showcased the couple’s long-delayed reunion in Paris as 30-somethings. Both are dissatisfied with their lives; Jesse is unhappily married with a son, and Celine has an emotionally distant boyfriend. Adult responsibilities and disappointment replaced the youthful naivety of the first film, but the ambiguously hopeful ending still suggested a strong sense of romantic longing.

Before Midnight, the most recent — and quite possibly the best — installment in the series, throws out the first two films’ willthey-won’t-they element entirely. Rejoice, longtime fans: Celine and Jesse are finally, wonderfully together. Now in their 40s, they’re not married, but they might as well be — they live together with their two daughters and have a stable, loving relationship.

That’s where most films would end — they’ve earned their “happily ever after,” haven’t they? — but it’s where Before Midnight starts. The message is simple: Starting a relationship is easy. Maintaining one is hard.

Like its predecessors, the film is set in a gorgeous continental locale — this time, the islands of southern Greece, where Celine and Jesse are spending the last few days of a summer vacation. The sun-drenched scenery, combined with the relaxed pacing, inspires a kind of reverie, as if you’re actually spending an idle afternoon in the Peloponnese.

The simple joy of watching two intelligent people converse has always been one of the series’s chief pleasures, but Before Midnight opens the dialogue up to a wider range of characters. It’s no longer just Celine and Jesse who opine on love and philosophy — their friends and neighbors get to contribute too, and the film is all the stronger for it.

Still, all of the drama comes from the trials of the central couple. Those trials might not seem particularly dramatic — there are no histrionics, betrayals or life-shattering lies.

Instead, their trials are of the everyday kind — the kind of problems you and I might face on any given day. It’s a film about the ordinary drama of two decent people trying to make a life together, and it’s all the more compelling for how familiar many of the issues seem.

CELINE AND JESSE are finally a couple in Before Midnight, but that doesn’t mean their lives are any simpler. The myriad complications of adult life and long-term relationships makes the film the best in the series and one of the best of the year so far. photo courtesy of mubi.com Jesse worries he isn’t seeing his son — from his first marriage back in America — often enough. Celine has a career she isn’t willing to compromise for anyone. Each has failings that irk the other to no end. When they fight, they’re doing battle with their own neuroses as much as with each other.

Hawke and Delpy, credited as writers for both Before Midnight and Before Sunset, know these characters backward and forward and deserve immense credit for making their quotidian drama into one of the best films of the year. They embody their characters so fully and imbue them with such complexity that you feel you know them, and they find a way to make you identify with, and even

root for, these realistically flawed human beings even when they’re being painfully cruel to each other.

There’s a building sense that the relationship we’ve waited so long to see consummated could fall apart at any moment, and it leaves a raw edge lurking behind even the most languid scenes. When this tension finally comes to a head, it’s a ferocious thing to behold, but Linklater and company find the perfect resolution — one that says love isn’t just something that happens, it’s something you build with great effort and repair every single day. diversionsbk@gmail.com

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REVIEW From PAGE 8 back-to-back road wins over NCAA tournament teams — the victory over Loyola and a 16-7 rout at eventual national champion Duke.

A balanced offense combined with a stifling defense — anchored by All-Americans Amato and long pole Jesse Bernhardt — to create a cohesive and seemingly dominant team.

“Guys have really sacrificed for each other, and guys have been willing to do things to help the team win,” Tillman said after the Terps’ victory over the Blue Devils.

Eventually, the circumstances started to turn. On March 23, the Terps struggled against North Carolina in a 10-8 loss, their first pitfall of the season.

Though the Terps won their next two contests, the team didn’t alleviate its offensive concerns. It squeaked out wins

over Virginia and Navy — two teams that missed the NCAA tournament — by a combined five goals. The comfortable blowouts the Terps had experienced early in the season were gone.

On April 13, the Terps’ issues hit a new low in a 7-4 home loss to rival Johns Hopkins. Tillman seemed baffled. How could his team, which averaged more than seven goals per half through the first six games, muster a season-low four goals against its archrival?

The Terps were again humbled by a 13-6 loss to a reeling Virginia team in the ACC tournament semifinals two weeks later. The offense had completely fallen apart.

After scoring at least 12 goals in each of their first five games, the Terps couldn’t reach that mark even once in their next seven.

Previously perceived as a balanced attack — six Terps scored at least 17 goals on the season, but none scored more than 23 — the team’s lack of

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a go-to scorer haunted them late in the year.

“Early in the season … it was a little easier than maybe we expected,” Tillman said after losing to the Cavaliers.

“We talked a little bit in the locker room about creating the right identity for this team.”

The Terps finally found a semblance of their earlyseason form in an 18-6 Senior Day thrashing of Colgate. Attackman Kevin Cooper and midfielder Mike Chanenchuk — the Terps’ top two points leaders — combined for 10 points, and the squad earned its first comfortable win in nearly two months.

But the Terps’ three regularseason stumbles forced them into a first-round matchup with the Big Red, which boasted a potent 12-3 record at the time. The Terps surrendered a season-high 16 goals to the eventual semifinalist in a blowout loss and were bounced from the NCAA tournament.

The Terps could still find positives from the season after

their fate was sealed. They tied for tops in the nation with seven All-Americans and won at least 10 games for the 11th straight year. They’ll return four of those All-Americans and a host of contributors to make another run at a title next year, too.

Still, after the season came to a close against the Big Red, the Terps couldn’t help but think back to Amato’s words from February.

The first two months of the campaign produced so much success and evoked so much promise. But that didn’t matter. The Terps wanted to succeed at the end of the season, when it mattered most. But they couldn’t quite do it.

“I think Niko said it best: You don’t win championships in February and March,” Bernhardt said after the loss to Cornell. “You always have that second season, and this May was supposed to be that second season.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

TRACK From PAGE 8 Satisfied with her current form, the senior is more focused on meeting her personal goals.

Still, Young said she doesn’t want to embarrass herself on the national stage.

“I have nothing to lose,” Young said. “Just try not to get last place.”

Regardless of what transpires this weekend, Valmon is pleased with the Terps’ accomplishments throughout the year.

Upon returning to College Park from his coaching duties with the U.S. men’s track and field team during the 2012 London Summer Olympics, he wanted to maintain the culture of success he stressed with the national team.

“You want to coach the

Games, but you want to come back in to your kids and do something big as well,” Valmon said. “That was kind of a silent expectation for me.”

After 2012’s near-elimination of the men’s outdoor track and field team and damage to the entire program’s image, having athletes compete in the NCAA championships helps the Terps remain relevant on the national landscape.

Valmon is thankful the athletes have endured the team’s recent hardships to continue its success, something LaFond’s and Young’s presences in Eugene symbolize this weekend.

“We want to be up there with all the [university’s] other sports,” Valmon said. “It’s a great feeling to see that we’ve had kids that … embrace the challenge.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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TRACK AND FIELD

Young, LaFond earn spots in title round Two Terps qualify for championships in Eugene, Ore., will compete this weekend

By Paul Pierre-Louis Staff writer

midfielder Jake Bernhardt and the Terps’ offense fell flat as the squad lost three of its final five games after starting the year 6-0.

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After promising start, Terps stumble to first-round exit from NCAA tournament

By Aaron Kasinitz Senior staff writer Niko Amato sat drenched in sweat in a pressroom at Loyola’s Ridley Athletic Complex on Feb. 23 after his Terrapins men’s lacrosse team beat the defending national champion Greyhounds, 12-10.

The goalkeeper’s voice was raspy from exhaustion, but he was able to mutter what would become a mantra for the Terps through the first half of their season.

“No one’s ever satisfied being a winner in March and February,” Amato said after the 2012 title game rematch. “Our bar is set for national championships.”

Teammates and coaches echoed Amato’s sentiment during the Terps’ blistering 6-0 start to the season and ascent to the top of the national polls. The Terps had been to two straight championship games, and they seemed poised for another return on Memorial Day. But as the year wore on, the Terps’ season followed an

entirely different trajectory than Amato had hoped for.

As its offense sputtered, the team’s early-season success faded. The Terps peaked in March, and when it came time to compete for a championship, they fell to Cornell, 16-8, on May 12 in the NCAA tournament’s first round.

That was the Terps’ third loss in five games, and it capped a steep plummet from the nation’s topranked squad to an uneven team that fell short of a national championship for a 38th straight year.

“There were times [this season] where we were really locked in and we were in a groove and things were great,” coach John Tillman said. “But then there were also times we were very inconsistent.”

Through their first six games, the Terps averaged 15 goals per game and outscored opponents by more than eight goals per contest. The run even included See REVIEW, Page 7

A sharp pain shot through Moriah Young’s right hand as she made her final shot put throw of the NCAA East Regionals on May 25.

The Terrapins track and field senior thrower has been dealing with strained muscles in her throwing fingers since sophomore year, but she fought through the pain as the shot flung off her fingertips.

Young’s recorded distance was 52 feet, 3.75 inches, her personal record and the second-best outdoor shot put mark in program history. And it was enough to join Terps sophomore jumper Thea LaFond in qualifying for the NCAA championships for women’s outdoor track and field this weekend at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. “Since freshman year … all I wanted to do was get to NCAAs,” Young said. “Now I can say I left Maryland an accomplished athlete.”

The Columbia native will compete in the shot put, while LaFond will compete in the triple jump and high jump. The pair has qualified for at least three finals in meets throughout the season in those events.

“These two kids have been pretty consistent in terms of their production,” coach Andrew Valmon said.

“We’re not surprised, and we’re excited to see them compete this weekend.”

During regionals, LaFond shared a first-place finish in the high jump

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and ranked seventh in the triple jump.

Young finished 11th in the shot put, but her 24th place in the hammer throw wasn’t enough to qualify in the event.

This season, both athletes have etched their names at the top of the Terps’ record books. While Young achieved the program’s second-longest shot put throw, LaFond’s 42 feet, 11.75 inch-mark in the triple jump tied the team’s outdoor record.

“That’s what we have wanted f ro m o u r k i d s,” Va l m o n sa i d .

“Winning is important, but go out and leave a legacy.”

The duo’s standout numbers help Valmon believe the pair can notch podium finishes this weekend if they perform at their peak. Nevertheless, LaFond is entering the NCAA championships with the same calm demeanor she expressed in past meets this season.

The Silver Spring native is confident she can succeed this weekend if she maintains a clear mind before each jump, emphasizing her desire to contend for a top spot in her events.

“I think that’s the one thing that NCAAs has to be for me — just a good place to compete,” LaFond said. “It makes it really easy to do so because of all the great competition already there.”

Unlike LaFond, who competed in the indoor track and field national championships in March, this weekend will be Young’s first NCAA championships appearance.

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Terrapins baseball pitchers Jimmy Reed and Jake Stinnett could be selected as high as the 10th round in the MLB draft, according to an analyst. Reed (right) was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 21st round last year but returned to school. Stinnett (left) finished his junior year and has the option of returning to the Terps if he is drafted. For full coverage starting today, follow @DBKSports on Twitter or visit diamondbackonline.com. file photo/the diamondback

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