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Dancing movement study may advance knowledge of human brain

the answer may soon emerge.

This spring, Bradley — a professor in the theatre, dance and performance studies school — teamed up with Jose Contreras-Vidal, a former professor in the kinesiology department, to analyze the brainwaves of a dancer in motion. Dance participants performed specific movements while the researchers monitored their brain activity in their project, “Your Brain on Dance: The Neural Symphony of Expressive Movement.”

The researchers met in a flamenco dance class a few years ago, and after a short conversation about movement capture and analysis, they started developing the project. They began conducting preliminary research in 2011, when Contreras-Vidal was still at this university, using a sensorequipped EEG cap to measure a dancer’s brain activity.

By Erin Serpico For The Diamondback The question of what goes on in a dancer’s brain has always piqued Karen Bradley’s interest, and with her advancement of movement analysis and brain activity research,

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Board votes to raise tuition Increases of 3 to 4 percent to bring $35.7M to system

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Univ. diversity bucks graduation rate trend New York Times study finds most schools see lower rates as ratio of black freshmen increases

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black students, this university has largely broken free of the trend.

And it’s not by accident, according to university officials.

This university stands as This university’s relatively the sole exception to a nationwide negative correlation small gap between its graduabetween graduation rates and tion rate and its percentage of black student populations at black students is the result of a the college level, according to decades-long university coma recent New York Times study. mitment, said Kumea ShorterA scatter chart accompany- Gooden, chief diversity officer ing a May 7 article on affirma- and associate vice president of the tive action revealed that uni- Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

“I think what it really says versities and colleges with high graduation rates tend to have is that our commitment to direlatively small percentages of versity inclusion is being realblack and Hispanic students, ized,” Shorter-Gooden said. “It says that we’re getting there … and vice versa.

But as the only school on the It’s real. It’s real at the point of chart with a graduation rate of admissions, when [the Office more than 70 percent — at 81.8 of Undergraduate] Admissions percent — and a 2011-12 freshgraduation rates at this university, at 81.8 percent, are the highest among universities with a 2011-12 freshman class of at least 15 man class of least 15 percent See diversity, Page 3 percent black students, according to a New York Times study that showed a negative correlation nationally. photo courtesy of office of special events

AP phone seizures are ‘game changer’ Justice Dept. investigation elicits anger of journalism commentators

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer Following a U.S. Justice Department investigation of the Associated Press, some experts are questioning whether the next generation of reporters is prepared to handle the sour relationship between today’s government and the press.

While journalists have been privy to leaked classified information for years, experts said the Justice Department’s investigation into national security leaks marks a dramatic shift in the relationship between the

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government and journalists.

Last month, the AP announced the Justice Department had seized phone records from more than 20 AP phone lines — which AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said on CBS’ Face the Nation were used by more than 100 journalists to conduct thousands of reporting calls over a two-month period in 2012 — without notifying AP officials. Pruitt called the investigations unconstitutional on the program last month.

Pruitt added that this investigation was in response to a story about a foiled al-Qaeda bomb

Students at this university can expect to see their tuition bill go up following a May 15 Board of Regents vote.

The University System of Maryland board approved a plan to raise tuition and fees across the system. The effects of the increase will vary from school to school, but most will see about a 3 percent increase.

For in-state students at this university, the change means about a 3 percent, or $253, increase in tuition. Outof-state students will see an increase of about 3.9 percent, or $1,060, and graduate students will see their bills increase about 4 percent.

At some other system schools, the increase may be even higher — Salisbury University received permission from the system to increase tuition and fees 6 percent.

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“email does not stand for electronic mail, it stands for evidence mail.”

Univ. study: ADHD children thrive when their parents do

LUCY DALGLISH

New parenting methods help mothers fight depression

Journalism college dean

plot in 2012 that contained leaked information from anonymous sources. The probes also swept up AP national security reporter and university alumnus Adam Goldman, who declined to comment on the issue.

It’s not the investigation that’s unusual, said journalism professor Mark Feldstein, adding that “there were national security leaks when George Washington was president and in numerous White Houses since.”

What’s different with this probe is its scope and how the Internet has made this kind of government oversight easier.

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By Erin Serpico For The Diamondback Developing a parenting and emotional management program for mothers of children with ADHD can lead to happier, healthier mothers and significant benefits for their children, a university research study has found.

The study, conducted by psychology professor Andrea Chronis-Tuscano and her team, found that an integrated method of parenting would improve not only the mental health of the mothers of children with ADHD but also the lives and behavior of the children.

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“I think that when moms feel better, they can do a better job with parenting,” ChronisTuscano said.

Children with ADHD require extra attention, medication, praise and consistency, Chronis-Tuscano said, and it can become a lot of work for a mother to handle. And while this comes with enough stress, the study found that at least 50 percent of mothers of children with ADHD have a lifetime history of major depressive disorder, she said. This called for helpful parenting methods, the team found.

When parents don’t go about raising children in optimal ways,

Chronis-Tuscano said, a child’s ADHD is likely to become even more severe. This could in turn lead to behavioral problems, illegal conduct or even suicide attempts, she added.

Because mothers in some of these cases suffer from depression, they are more susceptible to anger, have less energy and may not engage positively with their children — something a child with ADHD needs, Chronis-Tuscano said.

“You have to take care of yourself, or you’re not going to be able to take care of your child,” Chronis-Tuscano said.

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tuition From PAGE 1 It’s the fourth straight year officials at this university have increased in-state undergraduate tuition and fees but the increases are necessary to run the school and the system, officials said, and the university system still ranks as one of the most affordable in the country.

“If you look around the country, the 0 to 3 percent increase is quite rare,” said Mike Lurie, university system spokesman.

System officials have been recognized nationally for their efforts to keep tuition increases at a minimum. While other university systems and states have seen their tuition rates rise — the average cost of tuition and fees in Arizona rose 78 percent between 2007-08 and 2012-13 — tuition and fees at Maryland’s public four-year

institutions increased 2 percent in that same period, according to the College Board.

Last summer, the university system was one of 10 systems nationwide included in a discussion with Vice President Joe Biden on college affordability.

This state was one of 11 to increase higher education spending over the last five years, while other states saw spending cuts.

Lurie said the board takes any increase very seriously and tries to keep the prices affordable, but finding a balance is all-important.

“Somebody’s got to pay for the salaries, the lights, the expenses of the institution,” university President Wallace Loh said.

This latest round of increases will bring in an additional $35.7 million in revenue for the university system.

University officials go to great lengths to ensure that a college degree remains in the grasp of current and prospec-

tive students, Loh said. With each increase in tuition and fees also comes an increase in the financial aid budget, he said, so low-income students won’t have to sacrifice their futures.

But for students who don’t have the benefit of financial aid, those little increases could add up, said Claire Gellner, a senior Arabic studies and linguistics major.

“There are a lot of students already struggling to pay costs, and they went to a state school to try to cut costs,” Gellner said.

However, junior business and psychology major Lisa Patti said the increases may hit students and their families’ bank accounts harder. But it’s important to realize the increase is to their benefit, she added.

“Students aren’t going to be happy,” Patti said. “But the increases are necessary to maintain the quality.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

brain From PAGE 1 “I was really interested in the moment in which a mover becomes expressive,” Bradley said. After receiving a 2012 university ADVANCE grant, an award for female faculty researchers, she started planning how she could continue her research.

Working with ContrerasVidal, who is now a computer and electrical engineering professor at the University of Houston, Bradley set out to study dancers’ brain activity in correlation with specific movements.

Over two days this spring, they brought five “highly expressive movers” — all certified movement analysts — to Contreras-Vidal’s lab in Houston. Each dancer wore the EEG cap while moving neutrally, thinking about

how they could perform a move such as a spin and actually performing a choreographed move, Bradley said.

“Each time he moved into expressivity, the whole thing would light up,” Bradley said, recalling the EEG readings on the computer. “It was gorgeous. It was just a beautiful array of waves.”

No results have been confirmed,but junior Sargoon Nepaul hopes to help draw conclusions from the research while she helps the team during the summer.

“I haven’t seen the data yet, but apparently it looks like it’s really good data,” said the physiology and neurobiology major, who arrived at the Houston lab last week. A dancer herself, Nepaul was learning the basics to get acquainted with the tools and background of the study, she said.

The research could have major implications for the dance field, as well as engineering, Bradley said. Understanding brain activity in conjunction

“Each time he moved into expressivity, the whole thing would light up.”

KAREN BRADLEY

Theatre, dance and performing studies professor with expression could possibly help in the creation of prosthetic body parts that better mimic those of humans, she said.

“Just increasing functionality can help, but also being able to open up the possibilities for being expressive as well as functional, and that’s sort of our dream,” Bradley said.

Looking ahead, expanded research could involve comparing the results of this study to studies on Asperger’s syndrome or post-traumatic stress disorder, she added.

“There’s a lot of places to take this,” Bradley said, “and lots of potential for helping people.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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diversity From PAGE 1

the Integrated Life Sciences honors program sends university students to tutor students in AP Biology at a local high school with a large minority population and a relatively small number of graduates heading to this university for the sciences.

“They’re helping improve the skills and … academic mastery of students in the K-12 school system,” Infantino said. “But they’re also kind of embodying what a college student’s like and making that barrier seems less of a barrier.”

But both Infantino and Shorter-Gooden pointed out that there are a series of outside factors that have also contributed to the relatively small gap this university sees between its graduation rate and its percentage of black students in the freshman class.

The first is the diversity of the state. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau show 30 percent of the state’s population in 2011 identified itself as black. And according to the university’s website, about three-quarters of the student population are residents of this state.

Coupled with a state public school system that Education Week has ranked No. 1 in the nation for the past five years, Infantino said the university starts with “good raw material.”

“It’s not surprising that the flagship institution of the state has a real talent pool to draw from,” he said. “So we admit students who are [going to] be successful, and by and large, we’re able to graduate them.”

Shorter-Gooden said the demographics of the state point to the idea that the university should be doing even better in terms of diversity, and she, Zeigler and Infantino agreed there is room for improvement in terms of the achievement gap.

“It’s certainly the case that not everybody’s academic preparation is equal,” Infantino said.

“There’s still some work to do. …

I would like the gap to be zero.”

has a very clear commitment to bringing in a diverse and rich class of students, and I think it says that all of the programs and the curricula also support student success.”

While this university didn’t stand out in the scatter chart for Hispanic students like it did for black students, it still ranked in the middle of the top section of the plot with a 10 percent Hispanic student population.

A number of university programs offer social, cultural, academic and financial support in an effort to address a “gap between the graduation rate of all students and particular sub-cohorts,” Shorter-Gooden said.

Programs such as Maryland Pathways, which provides work opportunities and financial support for students of lowincome backgrounds, strive to address the pressures those students may feel to help support their families financially or pay their own way through school.

The Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education offers services addressing the achievement gap for students from underresourced schools, while other student groups and programs, such as the Black Male Initiative Program, provide what ShorterGooden referred to as “cultural [and] identity support.”

Also essential are precollege programs,such as Upward Bound, that aim to get students from local schools thinking about and prepared for higher education.

“Those programs, historically, have been … like a pipeline in terms of admitting low-income and first-generation students into college [and] promoting diversity,” said Ronald Zeigler, director of the Nyumburu Cultural Center.

The computer, mathematical and natural sciences college offers a number of science-based outreach programs, said Dean Robert Infantino. For example, newsumdbk@gmail.com

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aP From PAGE 1 The investigation is a “game changer,” said journalism dean Lucy Dalglish, calling it a “fishing expedition” that targets the AP and the press in general instead of specific leaks.

In the past, the government had to confront a reporter in court to find the source of a leak, Dalglish said. But in today’s world, where the Internet dominates, officials can rely on digital records.

“They don’t have to put you in the courtroom; they don’t have to subpoena you,” Dalglish said. “They can figure out who you’re talking to without ever laying eyes on you.”

In the post-9/11 world, protecting national security has become all the more important to Washington, giving the Justice Department a lower tolerance for these kinds of leaks, Feldstein said.

“We have been, since Sept.

11, unofficially at war, and that has made the government under Bush and under Obama more jittery,” Feld-

adhd From PAGE 1 The way mothers feel, she said, affects not only how they react toward their children but also how children manage their disorders and consequently behave.

The study examined both the parenting techniques and depression symptoms of mothers. Two groups of families with children with ADHD — ranging from ages 6 to 12 years old — were isolated and instructed to use different parent training programs. Over the span of a few months, one group

“[journalists] shouldn’t have any skepticism or concern that the sources they’re dealing with are going to make them liable for legal issues.”

stein said.

Many journalism students, such as junior Dan Singer, understand that reporters and the federal government have their own responsibilities. But there needs to be better communication between the two to ensure conflicts like this don’t happen again, Singer said.

“Both the Justice Department and journalists have jobs that they need to be doing. That can conflict sometimes, especially in an instance like this,” Singer said. “They should be able to coexist and work together.”

Cases such as the AP investigation make Singer supportive of a federal shield law to ensure reporters are legally protected from having to reveal confidential sources. Such statutes in varying capacities exist at the state level but not at the national level.

“I think a federal shield law needs to happen,” Singer said.

“There needs to be protection for journalists so that they should be allowed to do their job, and they shouldn’t have any skepticism or concern that the sources they’re dealing with are going to make them liable for legal issues.”

Gone are the days of the Pentagon Papers, Dalglish said,

when former military analyst Daniel Ellsberg released confidential documents about the U.S. government’s political and military involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times and other newspapers.

Then, leaking sensitive government documents was limited by technology and subject to an extensive process, Dalglish said. Now, with the inception of WikiLeaks, an extensive online database that has drawn the ire of the national security community for publishing millions of classified documents and cables containing sensitive information, the government has gone into “all-out panic mode,” she said.

“It’s no longer Daniel Ellsberg smuggling out [several] volumes of a book and photocopying it page by page over a period of weeks,” Dalglish said.

“It’s somebody sticking a thumb drive in a computer, downloading 700,000 documents and

dumping it into an instantly accessible database.”

WikiLeaks has been the center of another debate on free speech,with the trial of United States Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who faces charges for passing U.S. defense secrets to the online database, now in its second week.

Avoiding future standoffs with the Justice Department requires mindfulness on the part of reporters, Dalglish said, to report in more traditional means and be aware of their digital trail.

“Go back to meeting your sources on park benches, have face-to-face conversations,” Dalglish said. “Realize that almost everything you do is going to leave an electronic trail of some sort, so figure out ways to minimize that.”

She added that “email does not stand for electronic mail, it stands for evidence mail.”

used an integrated parenting intervention, including both behavioral parent training and cognitive behavioral depression treatment, while the other used standard behavioral parent training with their children. In March, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology published the research.

The integrated parenting intervention stressed both parenting techniques and depression treatments for the mothers. This parenting style, Chronis-Tuscano said, allows the mothers to learn to praise their children’s positive behavior while also practicing relaxation techniques when their children engage in negative behavior. By taking care

of oneself, she said, a mother can be a more effective parent.

“I think we don’t spend enough time looking into the way parents are raising their children,” said Demi Adamopoulos,a sophomore psychology major. “By focusing less on the children and more on the parents, we will find that many behavioral problems that exist are due to the environment that the child is raised in.”

This method of parenting could also lead to more answers regarding the disorder, as fewer people will be looking for blame and more will be looking for a change, Adamopoulos added.

Asking parents to structure their homes on routines for consistency creates a stron-

ger environment for the child, Chronis-Tuscano said, and the depression treatment on top of it makes the ultimate difference so the mother can react in the best possible way.

In the future, ChronisTuscano wants to expand this research, possibly following younger kids for a longer period of time. At a younger age, development is more malleable. And the more time to examine the behavior, she added, the greater a difference can be made.

“What we really want to do is to try to help these parents be the best parents that they could possibly be,” Chronis-Tuscano said.

DAN SINGER

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The challenges of living by the good book scious action to sever virtual social ties, I prefer to leave things be.

The second issue I have is that, despite her lack of A-list celebrity genes, this baby was born straight into the public eye. Granted, she’s not making tabloid headlines, but this girl will one day learn that hundreds of people she’ll never meet had access to her baby pictures. I’ll reiterate that I don’t mean to criticize my friend who posted the pictures. Social media have unlocked a frontier of uncharted ethical territory, and it’s difficult to know right from wrong before doing some exploration. Will this virtual, public scrapbook from birth become the new normal? Even I, “born” to Facebook at the ripe old age of 16, have begun to wonder what to do about old pictures of awkward, adolescent Kevin.

We’ve made quite a bit of progress in establishing a code of conduct for our favorite Internet playground. For example, any girl who puts up a new profile picture is entitled to at least five likes and 10 compliments from her girlfriends. Also, all political statuses shall be brutally attacked by the peanut gallery until at least one commentator makes a reckless claim and loses credibility.

But as this Zuckerberg brainchild creeps up on its 10th birthday, we have some more important precedents to establish. How do we handle aging on social media? When I’m 30, will I be held accountable for my possibly offensive status from October 2009?

And when does friendship end if it doesn’t automatically fade away? Soon enough the answers will be upon us, but without some collective thought and initiative, we may not like what comes about.

KEVIN HOGAN

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My friend from high school recently had a baby girl. I feel like I’m practically a godfather to her kid. I was there for the delivery, I saw her just after she came out and I’ve been watching her slowly grow up. There’s one important caveat to all this that I should mention: I haven’t seen or spoken to my friend in about three years. In any other decade, I’d probably be considered a stalker, but here in the 2010s, I’m nothing more than a typical Facebook user.

I don’t think anybody should blame my friend for putting pictures of her child on the Internet, and I don’t think anybody should blame me for paying attention to my news feed. But as we usher in a new era of ubiquitous and instantaneous social connectivity, we should be taking careful notes about how the world is changing. It would be naive to underestimate the drastic consequences that might arise from the rapid proliferation of social media.

There are a couple of things I take issue with in the example I presented.

The first is that I am excessively informed about the personal life of somebody I no longer have any regular interaction with. Of course, Facebook gives me complete control over this with options to unfriend or unfollow.

But I am daunted by the task of trying to sort through a few hundred names to determine who is really my “friend” and who isn’t. I haven’t talked to Andy Anderson in a while, but does he really deserve deletion? I mean, he wrote on my wall for my birthday just last month. And so on.

While social interaction naturally ebbs and flows in the physical world, Kevin Hogan is a senior computer Facebook friendship is discrete and engineering major. He can be reached enumerable. Rather than take con- at kevin.hogan1992@gmail.com.

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Privacy: Not So Abstract U nless you have been living under a rock, you have watched the drama surrounding our government’s National Security Agency unfold. Ever since whistleblower Edward J. Snowden, former NSA computer technician, allegedly leaked information about the government monitoring citizens’ Internet and telephone communications, many observers have been debating whether this constitutes a major privacy violation.

It seems partisanship is in full swing in these arguments, too. According to a Washington Post poll, many Republicans, often in favor of increased government surveillance, are outraged at the news, while a plurality of Democrats approve of the program, likely because they are set on supporting Obama and his administration’s decisions. It’s almost as if we don’t need to hear the issues anymore; whatever one party says, the other has to disagree with.

NSA Chief and Army Gen. Keith Alexander said the surveillance programs have stopped “dozens” of terrorist attacks — and if that’s true, in the long run, a massive government database of all the phone calls and Web searches Americans make isn’t that big of a deal. Additionally, Susan Freiwald, a cyber law and privacy expert at the University of San Francisco law school, told NPR the NSA is simply collecting

troves of “metadata” from communication companies — master files of which phone numbers are connecting to one another — as opposed to finding specific individuals to wiretap or intentionally investigating certain people, as many have speculated.

Though the public has no way of asserting whether the NSA is significantly invading Americans’ privacy, it

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Our generation needs to demand government transparency, especially when it comes to privacy. seems experts are backing the NSA’s actions, saying they do more good than harm. And if this method truly helps the government stop tragic events from happening, and average citizens aren’t being hurt without cause, it’s hard to see why this would cause such an uproar.

While certainly disconcerting on the surface, these massive government databases are less cause for concern than the rumored alternatives, as the magnitude of collected data significantly reduces the direct impact on individuals’ privacy.

But we, as college students and young Americans, need to examine the issue beyond petty partisan dif-

ferences and tackle the real crux of the matter: how little we know about what the government is doing. A Washington adage holds that most Americans know less than 1 percent of what happens in the government.

Why are we simply settling for that?

We need to start taking an interest in government operations; our generation is known for its political apathy, and as the ones who grew up at the dawn of many new technologies, we need to have a say in the rules that govern them. Regardless of our feelings about the issue of privacy, surely we can all agree that as citizens, we have the right to know what the government is doing — especially when it directly impacts our lives.

As children of the computer age, we are the ones with the most at stake, with the most personal information up for grabs, if our information is leaked. Snowden is reminding us just how much others can find out about what we do on our phones and computers. We have the most to lose. We cannot let the government set the precedent of simply accessing our information without telling us, regardless of how insignificant each individual’s information is in the grand scheme of things. It’s still shadowy governance, and we have to work against it. We can’t let our collective apathy dig us into a hole that, down the line, we can’t jump out of if the government goes too far.

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The meaning in conversations M y friend recently told me he lives for my stories and he looks forward to the conversations we have over lunch. Naturally, it got me thinking about the kinds of conversations I like to have with people.

Words have to be used carefully.

Telling stories is fun — most of us really enjoy listening to our friends narrate funny occurrences that happened on their way to class or the last time they went out and woke up in the tub the next morning. These personal anecdotes are important, and they serve a great purpose in getting to know friends better. However, meaningful conversations we have with our friends are also significant.

I’m a very observant person. One of my great life philosophies is that sometimes it’s best to navigate the world while soaking up your surroundings and the interactions that are taking place. You learn so much that way.

As I go about my day, I see more and more individuals are talking about very benign and trivial things. Not to disregard any one person’s opinion, but sometimes it’s better to avoid gossiping or scrutinizing others’ lives.

If it’s not pertinent to you, then it shouldn’t be something you are thinking about. These types of conversations are usually very shallow in nature and don’t allow you to breach the surface of thought in the person you’re speaking to.

Having meaningful conversations is about breadth and understanding.

It’s about crossing the void that exists between two minds. You should say things the other person finds thoughtprovoking so they can ask questions or make comments. This is how you form

a great conversation that can go on for hours. If you tell Sam you don’t like Britney’s new profile picture because she looks psycho, there is only so much he can say.

On the flip side, if you tell Sam that going through a tough semester really made you realize how happy you are now and how motivated you are to accomplish your goals, he will be able to respond in such a way that builds upon the topic. These kinds of conversations can be approached from different perspectives.

Choosing your words wisely will have a monumental impact on the relationships you’re building. Your friends are able to get to know you better and are able to see how intelligent and wise you are when you use the filter between your brain and mouth. People who suffer from foot-in-mouth syndrome often lack this key feature.

Many individuals these days get so caught up in the lives of random others that they forget about those closest to them. Having meaningful conversations with your friends is also about asking questions and allowing them to relay information about themselves to you. A great recipe for a nice lunch date is to ask and listen. This is quite simple and does not require a four-year degree.

We search for people of substance. Your friends aren’t only interested in hearing what you say, but they are also interested in being heard.

The key to any good conversation is an ability to listen and reciprocate with a thoughtful response.

Santos Del Cid is a junior psychology major. He can be reached at sedelcid15@gmail.com.

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Awareness is the key to change ROBERT COBB I’ve become aware.

Aware of violence and poverty and hunger and pain, aware of dwindling resources and increasing environmental damage, aware of breast cancer and lymphoma, aware of millions dying of preventable and curable diseases, aware of diseases we might find the cure for soon.

I refuse to accept “the world is cruel” or “people are stupid.” That canned wisdom placates those first encountering the vast injustices in the world but doesn’t begin to capture the complexity of the messes in the world or hint at what we might do to make them better.

I have come to hate the little commitments: the “if I can just make one life a little better, I’ll know I did good” type of baloney. Touching one person, even to their core, isn’t enough. What’s more, presenting that as a dream — a lofty goal to aspire to — devalues the potential within each of us. We can do more.

Knowledge is power, they tell us, and that rings true — awareness is the first step. If everyone was aware of an issue, then of course it would be solved. Of course, as part of a campus community, each issue is highly complex. If everyone spent the time that you did to learn about the issue you care about most, everything else would get squeezed out, and we wouldn’t have the tremendous diversity of thought we enjoy.

So now that I have read the pamphlets I’ve been passed, now that I’ve watched the campaign videos online and read the sources for the statistics they cite, what next? How do I turn this flimsy awareness into broader change?

My awareness of mental health and substance abuse issues will absolutely lead me to act differently, to

think and speak differently. That small change has happened, and is happening, in thousands of minds, as awareness campaigns perform their magic.

It isn’t enough. Just keeping abreast of a single issue could eat up a person’s whole life, and there are so many issues to try to stay on top of. Not everyone has the time or the opportunity to even try.

How do we turn awareness into change in ways that don’t require every person to have a fully informed opinion?

Our culture is getting good at turning awareness into donations — money or in kind — when the message is right.

The networks around these campaigns are built on an increasingly tightly knit techno-social framework, with platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Kickstarter, Avaaz, Change.org, Upworthy and the ones I’m missing because there are a lot; with all this power, we can make great things happen. We are learning to, if the timing and the viral video are perfect.

Each disaster is met by instant surges of support from millions. But the slow deaths, the ones without a specific disaster to point to, the ones without a phone number to donate $10 by text — those are bigger and hairier problems.

I want to call you to action. I want you to stand up against the simplistic wisdom that begs you to ignore, to shut off, to switch the channel to something more pleasant. I want to commend you for everything you have done to make things better, and let you know that if you keep fighting, reinforcements will come soon. I want to inform you that you need to be those reinforcements for others, who’ve held out for far longer than they should have to.

We need to get over our apathy. We have to start believing the stories of people changing the world and let go of our fear of caring. We too can be happy, and we too can be kind and good and change things in ways that matter. The biting cynicism of those who have seen too much Washington brutality can be assuaged by the undying, bright-eyed hope of revolution.

Awareness, with its faults, is a first step. It’s hard to accept that these things take time and commitment, but without patience, it is easy to fall into the trap of misanthropy. Things won’t get better if we dismiss them as lost causes or ignore them or leave them for others to handle. We have to take problems seriously, and we have to hold on to our optimism. We are going to fix this, dammit, because it isn’t right. It just isn’t right.

I am not as naive as I sound. Both my parents worked in the federal government, and I’ve felt the wanton cruelty of politics. When I was 12, I saw my dad excoriated in front of a Senate panel; he was subjected to a long and painful investigation instigated by the political machinery, which substantiated none of its claims. The political policing took its toll at home: on me and my mother and brothers, and on Dad especially, who with his name and investigation above the fold in The Washington Post, was effectively out of work once the cycle turned up the other party and his political appointment ended.

And yet, though I know how awful and arbitrary the machine can be, I still believe in it. Despite the human sacrifices that the machine consumes for fuel, I think our democracy is one avenue of substantive positive change in the world. Of course it could be improved. The scandals that seem to come to light every week rightly outrage us, but imagine the scandals that must have gone unnoticed before the age of cellphone cameras and leaked emails. Our power to do good has increased with our ability to screw up, and these have each scaled with the size and complexity of the problems we are facing.

We can make the world better, each taking the pieces we can in our turn, trusting one another and expecting change.

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

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Those who are convinced of one thing may find themselves persuaded of something else entirely before the week is out -- in spite of their own concerted efforts to maintain the status quo. Faith in one’s own view of the world may prove shaky ground at this time.

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CANCER (June 21-July 7) -- You don’t have to have a lot of something to enjoy it fully this week; indeed, just a small sampling may be ample at this time. (July 8-July 22) -- What happens inside this week is likely to have a greater value for you when you take it outside. Commune with nature!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) -- A choice you make early in the week may come under some scrutiny by those who are calling the shots. You may have to defend yourself. (Aug. 8-Aug. 22) -- What you see and hear this week may have you doubting yourself for a time, but a friend gets you back on track.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 7) -Someone may be recommending easy stages this week, but that approach

may be too cautious. You can afford to take more of a risk. (Sept. 8-Sept. 22) -- A minor failure this week can lead directly to the kind of success that may be long remembered.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 7) -- You may be needed this week for some kind of emergency, but it’s not what you think, and it won’t develop in the way anyone expects. (Oct. 8-Oct. 22) -- No matter how far-fetched you may think the last explanation to be, it’s likely the truth, and you must face it this week.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 7) -- You are likely to be asked one or two questions this week that inspire you to do something new and different with familiar tools. (Nov. 8-Nov. 21) -- A variety of situations may stir emotions that you’re not used to, but through the week you can come to terms with them.

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ESSAY | PLAYSTATION 4 VS. XBOX ONE

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Microsoft’s Xbox One and Sony’s PlayStation 4 both have major flaws and limited advantages

By Warren Zhang Senior staff writer With Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 both nearing the end of their lifespans, this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3 — the biggest video game press event of the year — has been all about the next generation of video game consoles.

Microsoft, having just recently unveiled its new, idiotically named Xbox One, has spent most of the event showing off a bevy of exclusive games, while Sony revealed further details about its upcoming PlayStation 4 — such as what the damn thing looks like.

Battle lines have been drawn in the sand. It’s time to get down to brass tacks: Do the consoles deserve your money this winter?

The answer is, of course, more complicated than a simple “yea” or “nay.” Both consoles target vastly different goals and present radically divergent experiences for the user.

Microsoft has been slowly shift-

ing its target demographic over the years — the original Xbox’s grungechic was aimed straight at teenagers, while the Ikea-esqe Xbox 360 perfectly fit collegiate settings. Now, with the Xbox One, Microsoft is offering a console made with an older audience in mind.

While many younger people might scoff at the notion of traditional, cable-based television, Xbox One focuses obsessively on seamlessly integrating live TV with its other media services in the living room of your suburban house.

The omnipresent Xbox user interface is a smart move for Microsoft as it attempts to build a cohesive media ecosystem around Windows 8 and Xbox. Getting its customers to mentally associate watching TV with their Xbox One will probably prove to be a sound strategy for the company.

Unfortunately, Microsoft’s execution leaves a good deal to be desired.

Not only does the Xbox One cost $499 at launch, but its much-hyped television functionality relies on

janky, old cable TV technology. So while you can use the Xbox to access guides and switch channels, you’ll have to use your other remote and cable box to control the DVR. More troublingly for game enthusiasts, Microsoft’s media-first strategy has resulted in unsavory restrictions: The new Xbox requires an Internet connection (every 24 hours) and will not play used games (or Xbox 360 games, for that matter).

These aren’t necessarily deal breakers for most urban gamers, especially if Microsoft ever sorts out its labyrinthine game-trading policy, but they do suggest a certain disregard for the preferences of its gaming customers.

Sony, on the other hand, repeatedly emphasized a game-first approach. Not only will the PlayStation 4 play used games and not require an Internet connection, it will also (eventually) support PlayStation 3 games via streaming.

Additionally, the PlayStation 4 resolves many common frustrations

ESSAY | TONY AWARDS

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The Tonys are consistently the best (if the least-watched) awards show

By Beena Raghavendran Senior staff writer The Tony Awards promised to make its annual show “bigger” this year, in a celebration of sorts for reclaiming its home at Radio City Music Hall. For the past two years, the Tonys were shuffled to the Beacon Theatre, a smaller and less iconic venue. Broadway knew it was time to prove itself.

So, there was a disappearing magic trick.

There was Mike Tyson practically dancing onstage. There was a live song from Cyndi

Lauper. Host Neil Patrick Harris jumped through a hoop. And he finished the opening number with more than 100 performers hanging off a gigantic Tony Award.

The Tonys have long showcased the perfect combination of professionals who understand the power of live performance and the charisma of Harris, who draws from his television roots on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother to make the presentation ready for TV. This year, it was lauded for its witty writing and Harris’ hosting abilities. Previous Tonys have won several Emmys.

THE XBOX ONE’S streaming services and TV compatibility make it an ideal media center, but it leaves something to be desired in terms of, you know, actually playing games. photo courtesy of amazon.com from the PlayStation 3 era. System other, there is no one right console updates will now happen totally in for everyone, especially since both the background, games can be played feature strong game lineups. Which from partial downloads and the con- console you should purchase will troller’s thumb sticks don’t totally ultimately depend on what you’re suck anymore. looking for in a game box.

Sony’s focus on satisfying game Do you use your console predomienthusiasts is laudable but perhaps nantly as a media box instead of a short-sighted. It’s hard not to look gaming machine? Do you have a conat the rest of Sony’s PlayStation 4 sistent Internet connection? If so, the strategy as scattershot, from half- Xbox One may be the one for you. hearted Sony Pictures deals to overDo you just want a box that plays emphasizing implementations of games better than the competition? niche Sony media products (Video Then the faster, cheaper PlayStation Unlimited, anyone?).

4 is the console for you.

Media may not be a concern for Only a hardcore fanboy (or girl) many gamers, but Sony’s inability could definitively state that one to offer a substantial retort to Mi- console is better than the other. crosoft’s vision of an interconnected In which case, I say get a PS4. Xbox media ecosystem might sway more One: Go home. casual buyers.

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Tony wins this year spread the wealth and made for a better show. The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing awarded female directors and black actors.

In the “Best Actor in a Play” category, the Tonys even sidestepped Tom Hanks’ star power for Tracy Letts, who starred in the revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

That’s the kind of diversity every awards show craves but seldom delivers.

The Tonys succeed year after year, producing far superior shows to its awards show counterparts. The only problem? There’s no real audience.

This year’s Tonys clocked in at 7.24 million viewers — the highest in four years and a 1.2 million-viewer jump from 2012. Sure, the Tonys ceremony were competing with an NBA Finals game and an episode of Mad Men, but its viewership is still not much when compared to this year’s Academy Awards viewership (40 million) and this year’s Grammys (28 million).

The Tonys lack the relevancy that extends outside the niche theater community in New York City and theater geeks across the nation.

It doesn’t matter how many times Sigourney Weaver and Jesse Eisenberg and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg come to the Radio City stage. It doesn’t matter how many musical numbers the producers jam-pack into three hours on CBS. It seems the Tonys will always be relatively miniscule.

But maybe that’s OK. After all, the Tonys didn’t promise the hugest audience or the largest viewer turnout. It promised the biggest and best show for its community — to honor a year of great live performance in New York City. There’s no logical way the Tonys can be the biggest. But as long as it keeps pushing itself to the other superlatives — classiest, best-written, best-hosted — it’ll be No. 1. diversions@umdbk.com

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TERPS IN 2013 MLB DRAFT From PAGE 8

terps WOMEN’S LACROSSE was undefeated until the national title game against North Carolina. photo courtesy of greg fiume/maryland athletics

REVIEW From PAGE 8 Howard led the Terps on their respective sides of the ball, Schwarzmann contributed on both sides of the field.

On March 16, the Sykesville native held Boston College’s Mikaela Rix to one shot in a 13-5 Terps win. The next day, she held Stony Brook’s Demmianne Cook shotless in an 8-3 victory. Schwarzmann also notched six points during the two contests.

“That’s one of the things that gets overlooked on Katie sometimes,” Reese said.

“She’s the all-around definition of a true midfielder.

She’s an excellent defender.”

The undefeated Terps rolled into the ACC final against North Carolina, marking the fourth year in a row the two squads would battle for the ACC Championship. The Terps lost the draw control battle, 15-7. But a defense Reese had criticized all season closed the door on North Carolina, and the Terps

earned a 12-8 win.

“We go to the third part of our season, that’s going to be the NCAA tournament,” Reese said moments after the win. “We’re going to celebrate this win … And then we’ll get back to work.”

The top-seeded Terps easily defeated Stony Brook and Duke in the second and third rounds, respectively, before heading to Villanova, Pa., for the NCAA semifinals.

There, they ran into trouble against Syracuse. The Orange rattled off four unanswered goals down the stretch to take a 10-9 lead with 18:31 remaining in the game.

But with 2:51 remaining in the contest, Schwarzmann found midfielder Brooke Griffin in front of the net for the game-clinching score.

Fittingly enough, the Terps would have to beat the Tar Heels for a third time to accomplish their ultimate goal of winning a national championship. The Terps were prepared for the scenario, too.

“We probably will see them again,” Schwarzmann

said after the squads’ April 6 contest. “We’re just going to learn off of this game.”

Reese said the first 70 minutes of the title game, which included two overtimes, “would go down as one of the more exciting national championship games in the history of our sport.” But in the third overtime, Tracy beat Howard in transition for the game-winning goal.

The Terps were a dominant squad, and they stressed all season that their success was dependent on winning a national championship. The team came close to that accomplishment, but in a tripleovertime championship, it fell one goal short.

“I’ve been a part of a lot of Maryland teams, and I think this team that we had was one of the best,” Reese said. “[The seniors] have led the way. Their energy, their passion, their love … You wanted to see them have this last opportunity.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

since Brett Cecil went in the first round (38th overall) in 2007. Reed became only the fifth Terp in the past 20 seasons among the first 200 players drafted, and he will begin his professional career with the State College Spikes, the Cardinals’ Class A ShortSeason affiliate.

In addition to Reed, three more Terps and two high school signees were selected on Day 3 of the draft. “[It’s] nothing but excitement,” Reed said Friday. “I can’t tell you how happy I am for this.

The Cardinals were the team I wanted to go to for a long time just because they have a track record for developing pitchers.

It’s a dream come true.”

Reed spent the 2013 season as the undisputed ace and the lone senior in the Terps’ starting rotation, providing consistency and reliability on a young staff plagued at times by inexperience.

The left-hander totaled 22 strikeouts combined in his final two performances, earning consecutive ACC Pitcher of the Week Awards — the first player in program history to do so.

“It speaks volumes for the work Jimmy put in following his junior season,” coach John Szefc said in a release. “Obviously, he had a very good junior year. He put a plan in place to come back to school for his senior year and wanted to get into the singledigit rounds so he would have a better opportunity to move through the system, and that is what he did.”

Reed was the only Terp selected Friday, but he got some company Saturday. Righthander Jake Stinnett, who began the season in bullpen as the team’s closer but moved into the starting rotation through

ROUND 6, PICK 185 Jimmy Reed, LHP, St. Louis Cardinals ROUND 29, PICK 869 Jake Stinnett, RHP, Pittsburgh Pirates* ROUND 29, PICK 884 Charlie White, CF, New York Yankees* ROUND 32, PICK 954 Michael Shawaryn, RHP, Kansas City Royals** ROUND 32, PICK 972 Nick Cieri, C, San Francisco Giants** ROUND 39, PICK 1,172 Jack Cleary, C, Milwaukee Brewers * = has collegiate eligibility remaining ** = high school signee Stinnett, White, Shawaryn and Cieri have until 5 p.m. ET on July 12 to make a decision on their futures.

“I can’t tell you how happy i am for this. the cardinals were the team i wanted to go to for a long time just because they have a track record for developing pitchers. it’s a dream come true.”

JIMMY REED

Former Terrapins left-hander about one-third of the year was drafted in the 29th round by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Center fielder Charlie White, who stole a singleseason record 39 bases this season, went 15 picks after Stinnett in the 29th round to the New York Yankees. Jack Cleary, who started 38 games at catcher this season, was the final Terp drafted when the Milwaukee Brewers selected the senior in the 39th round.

Stinnett just finished his junior season, and White finished his redshirt sophomore campaign, so both still have college eligibility remaining.

The San Francisco Giants selected catcher Nick Cieri, of Rancocas Valley Regional High School in New Jersey, in the 32nd round, and the Kansas City Royals selected right-

hander Michael Shawaryn, of Gloucester Catholic High School in New Jersey, later in the same round. Both signed with the Terps for the 2014 season.

Stinnett, White, Cieri and Shawaryn have until 5 p.m. on July 12 to decide whether to sign with the organizations that drafted them or play in College Park next season.

As for Reed, he’s already using the past to bolster his hopes for the future as he enters the minor leagues.

“It’s just a testament to the hard work I’ve put in this past year and my determination to improve my draft stock,” Reed said. “I never could have done any of that without my teammates and my coaching staff.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE SEASON IN REVIEW

Blistering start, disappointing end Terps can’t close once-charmed season in national championship

By Daniel Popper Staff writer

By Joshua Needelman Staff writer

Jimmy Reed spent the majority of the 2012 season as the Terrapins baseball team’s top reliever before moving into the starting rotation in late March.

The then-junior’s 2.70 ERA in 20 appearances (six starts) ranked ninth in the ACC, prompting the New York Yankees to draft the left-hander in the 21st round of that year’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

But the Gaithersburg native didn’t sign with the Yankees. Reed decided to return for his senior season, determined to improve his draft stock — and he did just that.

Reed dominated this year as one of the most effective starters in the ACC. He finished eighth in the conference in ERA (2.33), 11th in opposing batting average (.240) and 13th in strikeouts (74). He made starts in all 13 series for the Terps, including a five-hit complete game shutout at Duke and nine scoreless innings against Miami.

The St. Louis Cardinals rewarded Reed’s improvement Friday — the second day of the MLB draft — by selecting him in the sixth round with the 185th overall pick, which is the highest a Terp has been drafted

As North Carolina players celebrated their program’s first national title on the Villanova Stadium turf on May 26, Terrapins women’s lacrosse attacker Alex Aust strode away from her opponents toward Kasey Howard.

Howard, the Terps’ senior goalkeeper, had just surrendered the triple-overtime goal that ended the Terps’ perfect season and the bid for their first national title since 2010. Aust patted Howard on the head and gave her a brief hug.

The Terps cruised through an undefeated regular season, won a fifth consecutive ACC Championship and earned the top seed in the NCAA tournament.

But the team had aimed to win the national title all year long, and when Tar Heels midfielder Sammy Jo Tracy slipped a shot past Howard in triple overtime to give her team a 13-12 victory, it halted the Terps’ run toward their primary goal.

After coming up short on the sport’s final weekend in each of the past two years, the team’s star senior class — including Howard, Tewaaraton Award winner Katie Schwarzmann, Aust and reigning ACC Defen-

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left-hander jimmy reed was drafted in the 21st round of the 2012 MLB draft by the New York Yankees, but he returned for his senior year and improved his stock with his performance. photo courtesy of maryland athletics

sive Player of the Year Iliana Sanza — started the season determined to end their college careers with a championship.

“It definitely puts a fire under us,” Sanza said in early February. “We know what it feels like.

Having freshmen come in every year, we just want to instill that fire in them so they know what it feels like to win a national championship.”

The Terps proved that their talent was enough to contend for a title early in the year. The Terps bested then-No. 2 Syracuse, 19-11, on Feb. 17, led by a career-high seven goals from Schwarzmann. Howard secured 11 saves against the Orange, securing the starting job.

In the next few weeks, Aust emerged as the primary playmaker on the offensive side of the ball. On March 5 against UMBC, the senior tallied a program-record seven assists, and her 11 points fell one point shy of tying a Terps record.

“I don’t really think of records when I’m playing,” Aust said after leading the Terps to their 17-10 victory over UMBC. “I just do what I can to execute the offense.”

W h i l e A u s t , S a n za a n d See review, Page 7