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Battery company heads to innovation district FlexEl will add 50 new employees, continue relationship with university students, faculty By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer There’s a battery as thin as a business card, flexible and biocompatible. It can be found in technology such as medical devices, military applications and disposable electronics. And, with some help from the
university, county and state, the company behind the battery will be opening a research, development and manufacturing facility in College Park’s innovation district this fall. FlexEl will lease more than 10,000 square-feet from the university to expand its operation, adding 50 new jobs over the next five years. The company, located on Technology
Drive, currently employs 10 fulltime employees. “This is just like the startup companies you have in Silicon Valley and next to [Massachusetts Institute of Technology],” university President Wallace Loh said. “This is what brings meaning to the so-called innovation district.” FlexEl CEO Bob Proctor said, as a startup, the company used analytics, chemistry techniques and equipment flexel batteries are as thin as business cards, flexible and biocompatible. The company, a university startup, See FLEXEL, Page 2 won the Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Award in 2010, among other recognitions. photo courtesy of mtech
Saturn’s outer ring larger than expected Univ professor helps discover Phoebe ring’s unanticipated size By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer
The College Park City-University Partnership is working to attract more university employees to the city with a new homeownership program that includes $15,000 zero-interest, 10-year loans. sung min kim/thediamondback
a livable community Homeownership program encourages university employees to move to city By Matt Schnabel and Ellie Silverman @Matt_Schnabel, @esilverman11 Senior staff writers The College Park City-University Partnership announced Monday a homeownership program to incentivize university employees to
live in the city. T h e p ro g ra m w i l l p rov i d e $15,000 zero-interest, 10-year loans to regular, full-time, benefits-eligible university employees to help cover a city home’s down payment and closing costs, according to the program document. The city’s median home value
is $273,100, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, meaning the new loan program is “just a drop in the bucket” of the cost of a house, university President Wallace Loh said. “People own a home in a city; they get invested in it. It’s their money, and this is just a small portion,” Loh said. “A ny city
will be a much better city, better maintained and have more community involvement, if the residents are homeowners versus if they’re renters.” Over the past 10 years, the number of university employees See HOME, Page 3
A research team including university professor Douglas Hamilton made a surprising discovery in 2009 when it found Saturn’s nearly invisible Phoebe ring, the solar system’s largest. This year, the team followed up its research with another unexpected development: The planet’s outermost ring is about 30 percent larger than originally expected. Photos from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft helped Hamilton’s team get its fi rst good look at the Phoebe ring. The ring is massive, Hamilton said, about 270 See SATURN, Page 2
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Washington pride parade brings glitter, drag queens
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By Rachel Kuipers @thedbk For The Diamondback For about three hours on Saturday, floats paraded around Washington, with the people aboard throwing party favors like glitter, bracelets and lube to those on the streets. This year’s Capital Pride Parade, which honors the LGBT community, began Washington’s weekend-long celebration of 40 years of progress. The parade wound around Dupont Circle and the surrounding area for a mile and a half and was part of a larger pride celebration from June 3 to June 14. Floats a nd ca rs ca rried d rag queens, provocatively dressed performers and pole dancers through the streets. A wide range of people walked alongside the vehicles, from babies in their mothers’ arms to older men and women.
positive representation.” Companies such as Chipotle, Starbucks and Uber sponsored the parade and tossed treats to the crowd including headbands, Frisbees, necklaces and candy. Chipotle handed out cards that asked “¿Homo Estás?” and “Which way do you sway?” Paradegoers could indicate either, “I eat tacos” or “I eat burritos.” Rainbow flags rose above the crowds, and some people wore them wrapped around themselves as capes. “I have best friends who are gay, and I’ve been surrounded by the community for so long,” said Kelsie Stevens, who identifies as straight. “Everyone should have the chance to be loved and be happy.” Stevens, who showed support a performer rides a float during the 40th Capital Pride Parade in Washington. Other people in the parade for the community in the form of tossed bracelets, glitter and lube to the people watching from the streets. rachel kuipers/for the diamondback rainbow glitter on her cheeks, said “It gives people a space to express annual events like the parade are Senior criminology and criminal t he m se lve s a nd a pl at for m to important, because they represent a justice and women’s studies major Brittany Hamson said she enjoyed the voice things,” said Hamson, who movement for “people that weren’t event, though she said it could have identifies as bisexual. “We don’t [often] get the chance to, and [it’s] a been more “outlandish.” See PRIDE, Page 3
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A series of comprehensive maps that pinpoint areas with different levels of opportunity are the foundation for Baltimore’s fi rst-ever regional sustainability plan, thanks to a university study released last week. The university’s National Center for Smart Growth developed the maps, which are slated to help the city flourish by identifying areas with strong and weak levels of opportunity, said Gerrit Knaap, NCSG director. The Opportunity Collaborative — a partnership of local governments, state agencies, universities and nonprofit organizations — presented the map plan June 8 to city and state lawmakers. “Regional planning has been around for decades,” said Mike Kelly, the partnership’s chief legal officer. “One difference in this project was that everyone had a seat at the table See maps, Page 3
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ment also approved a $250,000 conditional loan for this, said Karen Glenn Hood, media relations and public affairs deputy director for the state’s business and economic development department. David Iannucci, the senior economic development advisor for County Executive Rushern Baker III, said in the past, the county has “not effectively taken advantage” of the university as a resource for economic development. “Every year businesses get started by the university staff, by faculty, by students,” Iannucci said. “We want their businesses located in P.G. County to grow. … It’s critical to our strategy to keep these types of companies as close as we can to the university.” The area around The Hotel at the University of Maryland is set to become the innovation district and Ken Ulman, the university’s economic development strategist, said he hopes it will also serve as a space for more startup companies like FlexEl to move to once they outgrow their space. Many international startups are attracted to the Maryland International Incubator located on Route 1 near the Univer-
sity View, but once they find their footing in the American market, they “graduate” and move to other parts of the state or country, said Kai Duh, the incubator’s director. Ulman said he wants to leverage the success of the incubator and keep those companies in College Park by having a space for them even if they add hundreds of jobs. But he also said the university has not had compelling spaces in College Park to attract businesses and retail — until now. “It’s one thing to lay out a master plan that includes supporting companies started at the University of Maryland, it’s another thing to do it,” Ulman said. “And we have a lot of opportunity with our new innovation district around the hotel.” This development is the first of a series to come from the university as part of its Greater College Park vision, which was announced last week. “What we have is a 1980s version of a research park. It is not for 21st century startup companies,” Loh said. “[FlexEl] is the beginning of a new trend.”
W I SE s p a c e c ra f t, wh ic h was launched in 2009, the researchers acquired a comFrom PAGE 1 plete view of the ring. Michael Skrutskie, a Unitimes larger in diameter than Saturn, which has a diameter versity of Virginia astronomy professor, was part of of more than 72,000 miles. “For the first time, we know the WISE science team reexactly how big it is, which sponsible for assembling the is one of the first questions full image of the ring. WISE people ask when we tell them traveled arou nd the solar we found the biggest ring in system ta k i ng “sha l low” the solar system, so that’s a p i c t u re s o f t h e s k y, a n d relief,” Hamilton said, laugh- Saturn “happened to be in ing. The area of space that the the right place at the right Phoebe ring covers is 7,000 time,” he said. “In the last study, there times larger than Saturn. was a very slight germ of T h e t e a m’s 2 0 0 9 d i sdoubt, as with anything in covery came from a small sample, just a “stripe across astronomy,” he said. “So as the ring,” he said. But this WISE was painting the sky, time, using data from the we knew Saturn was coming.
It was a relief as each stripe went nearer and nearer to Saturn and we started to see the ring.” In addition to discovering the largest ring in the solar system, the team answered a l i ngeri ng question — what size particles compose the ring. Through the WISE images, Hamilton said, the team now knows it is primarily made up of dust particles, unlike big blocks of rock and ice making up Saturn’s main rings. T he pa r t icles’ avera ge width measures about a 100th of a millimeter. To help contextualize how tiny that is, Hamilton offered a comparison: A human hair measures
From PAGE 1 that’s available on the campus, and collaborated with undergraduate, graduate, master’s and doctoral students. Relocating from its smaller operation on Technology Drive to a larger facility also within walking distance from the university allows the company to continue these operations, he said. “Being close to the university gives us a lot of access to the broader set of resources that the university provides,” Proctor said. “It’s been a great source of talent.” The company, launched as a university startup, won the Maryland Incubator Company of the Year Award in 2010, the university’s Business Plan Competition in 2009 and the Division of Information Technology’s Invention of the Year Award in 2008. University funds will be used to create the space, with the company paying rent during its time in College Park, Ulman said. The state’s business and economic development depart-
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n spring 2014, an experimental partnership between the city of Salisbury and 50 university students resulted in the reconfiguration of the city’s master plan. This successful test run by students and the city’s officials led to the expansion of the university’s Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability, a campuswide initiative that pairs students with local city governments to offer hands-on experience with some of the most pressing topics in sustainability. Now counting 350 university students among its participants, PALS, created by the university-based
about a 20th of a millimeter — so five Phoebe dust particles equal one human hair. These tiny particles don’t last long, Ha m i lton sa id, meaning the ring is being produced quickly in real time. T he Phoebe ring is significant in that it is vast, faint and behaves differently than all other known rings, said Andrea Smith, a senior communication major and astronomy minor. According to traditional understanding, if rings extend too far from the gravitational pull of the planet they orbit, they should collapse. Phoebe’s ring doesn’t do that; instead, it gradually fades out into the distance, Hamilton
National Center for Smart Growth, plans to expand further next year, according to a news release. This past year, PALS joined forces with both Frederick and College Park in the hopes of providing “high quality, low-cost” solutions to the environmental, social and economic problems prevalent in the two cities, according to the release. Students in at least seven colleges within the university tackled the Frederick and College Park projects this past year.
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said, with its edges fading into invisibility. “All of the textbooks will tell you that rings form near planets,” Hamilton said. “This thing flies in the face of that — it’s the furthest distance something can be from a planet and still have it be in orbit.” Hamilton and his team’s 2009 resea rch project stemmed from interest in o n e o f S a t u r n ’s m o o n s , Iapetus, which has fascinated scientists for hundreds of years. Iapetus, unlike any other moon discovered in the solar system thus far, is black on one side and white on the other. T hat, Ha m i lton’s tea m learned, is a result of the
Phoebe ring’s black dust and debris striking the front face of Iapetus. “It’s l i ke a c a r d r iv i n g through a rainstorm, where all the droplets hit the windshield,” Hamilton sa id. “T he dust was on ly hitting the front side of the moon — it was only hitting the windshield.” For Skrutskie, discovering Phoebe’s ring in 2009 came as a complete surprise, which he admits gratefully. “Being surprised in astronomy is a great thing,” he said. “Because then you have to explain it, and that’s when the cool stuff happens.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com
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PRIDE From PAGE 1 recognized before, weren’t treated right before. It’s a movement in the right direction.” Jimmy Mendoza, who identifies as bisexual, came from Northern Virginia to attend the parade in a rainbow speedo with a rainbow flag wrapped around his shoulders. Colorful bead necklaces that had been tossed from floats were draped across his chest. “It gives people an outlet and reassurance,” Mendoza said. “I just like how happy it is and how free everyone feels.” A number of churches and Boy Scouts also walked in the parade, representing groups not generally seen as accepting of the LGBT community. On Sunday, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen headlined the Capital Pride festival concert alongside female R&B group En Vogue,
HOME From PAGE 1 living in the city has grown from 544 to 643 as of Oct. 8, said Dale Anderson, former university human resources director. About 4 percent of u n iversity facu lty a nd staff live in the city, said Eric Olson, executive d irector of the city-university partnership. The partnership secured a $100,000 Community Legacy grant from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development and $50,000 in university funds to develop the new program, Olson said. The partnership has a year to use half of the secured funds
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“[THE CELEBRATION] PUTS US AS A COMMUNITY OUT THERE. ... NOTHING CAN [RUIN IT] BECAUSE IT’S OUR DAY.” ALICE FRIEDMAN
Pride festival attendee ’90s pop trio Wilson Phillips and singer-songwriter Amber. “[The celebration] puts us as a community out there and I think it’s amazing to see the people holding hands in front of everyone,” said Alice Friedman, who identifies as lesbian. “Nothing can [ruin it] because it’s our day.” newsumdbk@gmail.com
parade participants march through the streets during the 40th Capital Pride Parade honoring the LGBT community. The parade, which took place on June 13, lasted about three hours and wound around Dupont Circle and the surrounding area for a mile and a half. The parade was part of a larger pride celebration from June 3 to June 14. rachel kuipers/for the diamondback
and can offer up to 15 loans, Olson said. “I’m hopeful, confident, that we’ll spend those; based on the interest we’ve already heard, I feel like it’s going to be a popular program,” Olson said. “Assuming that we do spend those funds, we would have another opportunity to apply.” The funds from this homeownership program may be combined with other loans and grants, such as the Maryland Mortgage Program, the “You’ve Earned It” homeownership program and the city’s New Neighbor Homeownership Grant Program. College Park Mayor Andy Fellows said officials will continue to look for other opportu-
nities to incentivize university employees to live in the city. It is difficult to attract families to live near groupowned houses in downtown College Park because of the noisy student parties, Fellows said. However, the city isn’t looking to eliminate students from renting homes downtown. Instead, officials want to work on building a community among the variety of residents, he said. The university’s off-campus expansion of the Code of Student Conduct has helped hold students accountable for violations in city neighborhoods, Fellows said. “We want to work in a collaborative way with students, faculty and staff, [University
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Police] and Prince George’s County Police to monitor and build a strong community in a time when we are going to have group houses in neighborhoods,” Fellows said. Olson said the homeownership program would boost the city’s economy and help the environment by cutting down on the number of employees who com mute. It is also consistent with the university’s goal of creating a “real living-and-learning community,” he said. “If you’ve got professors or other researchers living near the community, students and faculty are interacting all the time,” Olson said. “If different faculty members from different disciplines are out at a local park with their kids, or they’re at a community potluck, or whatever, a lot of ideas come about that way.” The university recently an-
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during the planning process.” The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development tasked the collaborative with creating a plan for sustainable development, along with plans for regional housing and workforce development in the Baltimore area, according to the NCSG website. The plan, called the Baltimore Regional Plan for Sustainable Development, is three years in the making. The RPSD is a culmination of efforts by the NCSG, the collaborative and an Opportunity Mapping Advisory Panel comprised of
A house sits on Calvert Road by the College Park Metro station. The city is working to incentivize university employees to move to College Park. sung min kim/the diamondback nounced its Greater College weeks regarding campus dePa rk v ision i n col labora- velopments, public-private tion with Prince George’s research collaborations and County, the city, the Univer- downtown projects. sity of Maryland College Park “Amenities by itself is not Foundation, the College Park going to start attracting people City-University Partnership, to come and live in College alumni, local developers and Park,” Loh said. “You have to other groups. This vision will have a housing subsidy.” include a series of development announcements in the coming newsumdbk@gmail.com
community investors and mapping specialists. T he plan aims to further sustainability efforts by identifying key areas of weakness in the Baltimore region. “We were looking to find indicators that graphically display which parts of Baltimore have high and low opportunity,” Knaap said. To create these “opportunity maps,” the NCSG spent three years analyzing information from public and private resources looking at hundreds of indicators, including access to transit and high school dropout rates. The NCSG analysis resulted in a collection of data that assesses regional opportunity in six subject categories: education,
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public health, transportation, training and workforce development, housing and neighborhood quality and social capital, Knaap said. The final outcome of the project was a series of maps t h at show ex act ly where social, environmental and e c onom ic s t re n g t h s a nd weaknesses lie in Baltimore City and in its surrounding counties. “Opportunity mapping is basically a mapping tool,” said Chao Liu, a faculty research associate at NCSG. “After putting all the different pieces together, you can identify the high and low opportunity areas.” NCSG found that opportunity and equity ranked the highest outside of Baltimore City, according to the report. Although Howard County ranks in the 80th percentile for education, the report found that the ranking for Baltimore City stands in the 16th percentile. Compa red to subu rba n areas, Baltimore City also scored low in other categories, such as health and housing, according to the report. “T he plan made clear some of t he opp or t u n ity gaps that exist,” Kelly said. “R a ng i ng f rom access to employment, to access to communities.” For Ba lti more City, the project is the most intricate of its kind, Kelly said. Officials said NSCG and the collaborative hope the plan will increase opportunity and quality of life for people in Baltimore. “What just happened in Baltimore can be directly linked to be people who are frustrated with the lack of opportunity,” Knaap said. “To make the Baltimore region a more sustainable place to live, we have to even out that opportunity.” newsumdbk@gmail.com
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ecades before the current crop of students enrolled at this university, College Park faced many of the same issues that plague the city today: bottleneck traffic on its major thoroughfare, a Metro station located an inconvenient distance from the campus, a dearth of business and retail (though a revolving door of quick-fix restaurants) and trouble drawing employees of its biggest driver of economic activity — the university — to live within city borders. Faced with such wide-ranging e co n o m i c a n d i n f ra s t r u c t u ra l challenges, some of which have grown more entrenched over time, it comes as no surprise that many of the city’s and university’s redevelopment efforts over recent years have fallen by the wayside or proven largely ineffective. The university’s long-running plans for a new East Campus dissolved without fanfare, abandoned or repackaged into other projects. Most students enrolled at College Park Academy, though still in its infancy after the charter school opened in 2013, don’t reside in the city. Domain College Park, a luxury apartment complex aimed at attracting graduate students and faculty, has seen low occupancy rates since it began leasing two years ago. This state’s less-than-attractive business and tax climate dissuades
corporations from setting up shop in the area, though it’s located just a few miles outside the nation’s capital. The university’s Maryland International Incubator, designed to work with foreign technology firms, only partners with businesses for a couple of years; such firms usually move to greener financial pastures. OUR VIEW
Redevelopment efforts need to focus on long-term partnerships that attract businesses and residents. While there’s been drive on the part of city officials and university administrators to tackle College Park’s residential and corporate woes, the deep-rooted obstacles the city faces in becoming a top-20 college town have so far been insurmountable. Retailers simply don’t want to come to College Park because the city’s transient student population picks up and leaves for half the year, but STEM-focused firms aren’t rushing to take advantage of the fertile academic ground either. Professors seem more comfortable with a lengthy commute than building lives in College Park with their
families, and it’s not as though the city has a host of attractive housing options and solid local schools to convince them otherwise. Just 4 percent of university faculty and staff live in College Park, a statistic that sets the city back significantly in its plans to foster a living-learning community. Were employees more apt to reside in the area, courting big business might not prove as crucial, but the city’s failure to attract and retain both have long hamstrung revitalization. Fortunately, the latest round of redevelopment efforts, titled none too creatively the “Greater College Park” initiative, seem to be on the right track. The city has begun offering zero-interest $15,000 loans to full-time, benefits-eligible faculty, and custom battery manufacturer FlexEl plans to open a facility that will bring 50 new jobs to the city. A startup that earlier partnered with the university incubator, FlexEl provides an example of the kind of homegrown successes the university needs to keep in the area if the city hopes to improve its pedigree. There’s good reason to get excited over these two announcements and those still forthcoming, but as students and residents know all too well, only some of the spaghetti the city throws at the proverbial wall ends up sticking. As always, don’t hold your breath this time around.
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n the past few years, debate about higher education’s value has increased. With students facing bleak job prospects and unstable markets, college education is being viewed as more of a luxury than the norm. This remains increasingly problematic as a college education is still one of the most prominent demarcations of how society values people. The consequences of this reality have already constructed a hierarchy in the field of academia in which some majors, such as those in the STEM field, are seen as more “valuable” than others, like those in English and the humanities, where our university has recently seen a precipitous drop in enrollment. When we continue to view knowledge as a priced commodity, however, our society faces the danger of compartmentalizing information as those worth learning and those not. In a traditional university setting, scheduling conflicts limit class availability, and switching fields of study in the middle of college can incur even more costs. The restrictive class schedules necessary to fulfill major requirements force students to prioritize homework over real work that some might need to pay for their education or support their families. Massive online open courses have the ability to break this vicious circle of traditional higher education. With companies that offer accredited university courses to be recorded and streamed, students still have the ability to learn from top-notch
faculty; however, they can do it at their own pace and convenience and not be forced to choose between education and other vital responsibilities. The significantly lower costs of taking an online course can even provide a college education to those who otherwise could not afford it. The widespread availability of prerecorded lectures in a variety of subjects can allow students, even those already enrolled in a university, to better explore and experience the entire gamut of fields of study before committing to one career path. With sites like Khan Academy and Coursera now teaching material spanning from kindergarten to graduate school, we see that teachers don’t have to be confined to a specific demographic, time and place to do their jobs. Many students already know through experience that attending lecture is not the only way to succeed in a course. MOOCs, through short segmented lectures focusing on individual topics, provide students the opportunity to cater to their own strengths and weaknesses, making learning much more efficient. It’s efficiency and accessibility that truly elevates MOOCs beyond the traditional education model. The relatively low stakes of taking an online course reinforces the notion that knowledge is its own reward and should not necessarily only be applied to finding a lucrative profession. By removing price from the equation, MOOCs additionally ensure all knowledge is equally important and equally priceless. Centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin famously said, “the only thing more expensive than education is ignorance,” but today, MOOCs provide an educational system to students so they don’t have to choose between the two. Patrick An is a senior biology major. He can be reached at patandbk@gmail.com.
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n April, Michael T. Slager, a former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer, was charged with murder in the death of forklift operator Walter Scott. Indictments of police are rare, but Slager’s case has proceeded swiftly with the help of a hidden bystander’s chilling video of the shooting. However, the sequence of events that unfolded immediately after the shooting suggests that in many cases, even the most gratuitous killings by police can go unpunished. The video evidence is not ambiguous; Slager fired off eight shots in Scott’s direction as the unarmed man fled from the officer on foot. But this kind of video — direct footage of a civilian’s fatal encounter with the police — hardly ever reaches the public. Scott’s killing underscores the need for lapel cameras, outfitted to all officers authorized to use deadly force. These cameras could bring murderous cops like Slager to justice — and prevent these tragedies from occurring in the first place. The immediate aftermath of the shooting highlights the weight an officer’s testimony holds in departments’ investigations into whether killings carried out by police are justified. In a statement released by a
police spokesman before video of the shooting surfaced, North Charleston Police alleged that Slager resorted to using his firearm only after Scott had wrestled away Slager’s taser and was attempting to use it on the officer. The video of the encounter shows Slager slyly drop his taser near Scott’s body after shooting down the weaponless man, literally laying down the foundation for his exoneration. South Carolina newspaper The State reported that South Carolina police officers “have fired their weapons at 209 suspects in the past five years, and a handful of officers have been accused of pulling the trigger illegally – but none has being convicted.” In the absence of the video, Slager would likely have escaped justice and remained on the streets. The opaqueness of the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, to name two visible cases, remind us that most fatal encounters with the police remain murky. Clearly, we cannot rely on amateur videographers to stumble upon and record every police interaction that results in a citizen’s injury or death. By equipping officers with lapel cameras and requiring every interaction with the public be recorded, departments could quickly root out egregious abuses of the system. Detractors of police cameras argue
they would feed the massive nexus of information at the hands of an increasingly beefed up surveillance state. Moreover, as evident in the case of Eric Garner, video of an officer violating department procedures in a way that results in a civilian’s death does not necessarily lead to an indictment — let alone a conviction. But the implementation of lapel cameras has achieved significant results. After body cameras were outfitted to an entire police force in Rialto, California, the use of force by officers fell by 60 percent, according to The Wall Street Journal. In the words of Steve Ward, president of Vievu, a business that manufactures wearable cameras, “everyone behaves better when they’re on video.” Even if it is difficult for the public to access the footage captured by body cameras, the simple fact that police know they are being recorded should deter misconduct. When body cameras are in place, state and local governments and the police departments they direct will have to grapple with the difficulty of refining the process of collecting, storing and retrieving police video. But in light of the deaths of Michael Brown, Freddie Gray and Walter Scott, among many others, it is clear they cannot delay. Charlie Bulman is a senior government and politics and history major. He can be reached at cbulmandbk@gmail.com.
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’ve read two articles that oppose the renaming of Byrd Stadium and the Byrd Citizenship Prizes. It’s clear that neither of these authors have experienced gross injustices in their lives nor can they accurately relate to the pain and suffering created by these actions. For them, learning about former university President Harry Clifton “Curley” Byrd’s leadership role in racism is probably considered to be minor in comparison to his contributions. The article titled “Handling our past with care” motivated me to ask: Who is the care recipient? Opposing the name removal is not a caring action for black Americans. Byrd has already been duly honored for his contributions with the stadium name and prizes for decades. Knowledge of his actions and having his name serve as a constant reminder simply exacerbate present-day issues. The average black American’s life is filled with frequent reminders of injustice. That is why we must take note of Byrd’s positive and negative impacts in the university’s history. This is not history to forget, but history to be studied. As the saying goes, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Today, we see more than enough evidence of our society failing to study history. Granted, studying black history might require more than ordinary efforts. For instance, a more-than-1,100-page United States history textbook I once read mentioned blacks twice. The first account discussed chained and bounded Africans being brought to this state’s shores in 1619. The second discussed African descendants in 1945, now labeled Negroes, picking cotton in South Carolina. Disappointedly, I read and searched the entire text for more related information. My enslaved African ancestors performed most manual labor and struggled through great adversity, yet this country has failed to acknowledge their existence for more than 326 years. Our knowledge of history plays a significant role in present and future actions.
Removing Byrd’s name from its present positions of honor is a collective action toward alleviating a discriminatory environment. Moreover, eliminating the label “African-Americans” and realizing it is equivalent to white Americans being labeled European Americans are greatly needed changes. AfricanAmerican is a marginalizing term based on the misconception that Africa is not a country, but a continent with more than 50 countries. If you reference an Italian American, you are recognizing ancestral origins from the country of Italy. If one of my white students were born in South Africa but is a U.S. citizen, then he or she should also be considered African-American. I say thank you to the authors who showed equality by simply saying black and white. Considering African-American as “politically correct” is further evidence that we do not study history. Throughout U.S. history, many terms and actions that devalue, marginalize, discriminate and disrespect people of color have been deemed “politically correct.” And there is logic behind why many blacks use this reference for themselves. Imagine you were born, grew up and now live in a society in which you were told directly, indirectly or if it was insinuated on a near daily basis that white is bad. White is wrong. White is ugly. White is bad luck, (A white cat crossing your path brings bad luck.) A white lie is the most horrendous lie one can tell. You must alter your natural white features to be accepted into this society. The incessant negatives might influence you to distance yourself from the white label and move toward a preference for “European American.” Now, revisit this described society, replace the term “white” with “black” and observe how imagination is changed to reality. The correct label for black Americans is U.S. Americans because our genetic combinations of ancestors from Africa, Europe or other groups were combined here in the United States. It’s sad that we all can’t simply be what the United States implies, just us. Fran Lewis-Steiner is an advanced special student. She can be reached at flewisst@umd.edu.
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he coming week will see a certain type of individual forced to face issues that have been tucked away for quite some time -and why? Because they are in some way fearful of them or otherwise unwilling to face what those issues imply. This is a good week for such people to realize that everyone, at some point or other, must do what they are being called upon to do: to think the unthinkable, do the undoable and learn the unknowable. Indeed, there is something for everyone to learn, but those who have been hiding from such lessons will have the hardest time of it. At the same time, they can make the most pronounced progress because of it. Personal issues may become heated. Honest talk with family members about hot topics may be difficult to get started, and once it does, it may be difficult for everyone to keep the emotional current from running too swiftly or too high. It is essential that everyone participate in a manner that is rational and receptive. GEMINI (May 21-June 6) -- You may have enjoyed some downtime recently, but you’ll soon be required to get your motor running at top speed. (June 7-June 20) -- You’ll have to be in constant communication with someone who is nominally in charge. Make changes as required. CANCER (June 21-July 7) -- You may have to disrupt your routine on at least two occasions. One involves a family member who is in need of assistance. (July 8-July 22) -- Your ability to hide your feelings away can work for you and against you simultaneously. Know when to speak openly. LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) -- You’ll want to research a certain issue quite carefully, following the trail wherever it leads until you have your answers. (Aug. 8-Aug. 22) -- The promise of something much brighter keeps you going when everything around you seems to be plunged into a kind of unexpected darkness.
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LASTING IMPACT | JAWS AT 40
STILL ONLY SAFE ON SAND 40 years after it scared America out of the ocean, Jaws still incites a fear of the deep blue and, more chillingly, the unseen By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer A quiet theme begins to play. At first the notes consist of just short staccato. They’re low and ominous and somehow manage to resonate deep within you. The tempo increases and with it, your heartbeat. Something is coming. It’s big but you can’t see its face. The tune gets louder and begins to reach its crescendo. The water turns a shade of crimson; a killer shark has claimed its next victim. When it was released 40 years ago, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws became the quintessential and premier summer blockbuster. More than 67 million Americans saw the movie in the summer of 1975 and it forever changed the way people look at the ocean. The plot is rather simple. A massive great white shark is terrorizing Amity Island, a fictional beach resort town that anyone who frequents the shore could relate to. Eventu-
A SWIM in the ocean lost all its innocence in 1975 after Jaws was released. The Steven Spielberg classic sent America running to the shores. ally, three brave men board a small vessel to kill the murderous creature. By the end of the film, the viewer finally sees the animal’s face — well, mostly its mouth — as it flops on board the ship in an attempt to swallow any human. Jaws revolutionized horror films because it had a killer that one never fully views until the very end. The film capital-
izes on the assumption that it’s easy to be scared of something you can’t see. Until the film’s completion, the viewer can’t be sure of the monster’s size or appearance, making its debut at the end even more horrific. Interestingly, this strategy of hiding the killer throughout the movie occurred in part because of a mistake. The large animatronic shark was
supposed to be used in many of the scenes throughout the beginning of the film, but it experienced technical difficulties during filming. Spielberg decided to embrace the issue and save the problematic mechanical fish until the end, thus creating the mysterious horror one feels when viewing the deaths of characters plagued by the unseen
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denizen of the deep. The blockbuster not only set the tone for horror and action movies to come, it instilled a very real fear into the lives of beachgoers. Even though the odds of getting attacked by a shark while at the beach were and are incredibly slim — about 1 in 3.7 million — when the film debuted, many people who once entered the ocean
without hesitation began to spend more time on land. Today, Jaws remains a summer classic. Through the eyes of anyone existing today, the shark in the movie is obviously fake; it moves in a mechanical way and has the lifelike qualities of a high-tech rubber duck. Yet, even with incredible advances in CGI and 3-D, Jaws, with its now archaic special effects, remains a classic feat of action and horror rather than the butt of every special effects joke. If one thing is for sure, it’s that Jaws hasn’t stopped its storied tradition of putting fear into the hearts of innocent vacationers. As beachgoers continue to flock to the shore this summer, many will have to repress that nagging feeling after watching Jaws and convince themselves there isn’t anything dangerous lurking under the waves. Or is there? mdunigandbk@gmail.com
ESSAY | ‘90s SITCOM REVIVAL
PUT in the wrong bin As much as we think we love ‘90s sitcoms, recent reboots will surely show us they’re not worth recycling By Mel DeCandia @melephant11 Staff writer I admit, I lost it a little bit when Disney announced its plans for a Boy Meets World reboot in 2012. Not only had I felt like I had grown up with the show’s characters — Cory, Topanga and Shawn — in real time, I’d indulged in watching the often-syndicated episodes on occasion as well, and in the process, taken to heart all of teacher/ neighbor/mentor Mr. Feeny’s sage advice. I couldn’t wait for an old favorite to return to my TV. Inevitably, when the spin-off, Girl Meets World, first aired June 2014, I
eagerly tuned in, despite it being on Disney Channel – a channel I hadn’t watched since its High School Musical heyday, except on a babysitting job here or there. But perhaps even more inevitable was my disappointment. The show for which Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel had returned to reprise their roles was far from the continuation of Cory and Topanga’s story I had hoped for. Instead, Girl Meets World belonged to their eldest daughter Riley, a typically irritating Disney Channel protagonist. The childhood power couple was reduced to nothing more than the clueless parents featured on so many children’s shows (not to mention popular heartthrob Shawn didn’t even make an appear-
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ance until well into the season). Unfortunately, the massacre of old and beloved 1990s sitcoms doesn’t merely start and end with Girl Meets World. In April, John Stamos revealed plans for Fuller House, a Netflix reboot of Full House starring now-adult D.J. and Stephanie Tanner as well as their infamous neighbor, Kimmy Gibbler, in a situation near identical to the original show. In the short amount of time between the launches of Girl Meets World and Fuller House, executives have announced reboot treatments for The X-Files , Twin Peaks and even the cartoon The Powerpuff Girls . Yet frankly, none of these shows warrant a revisit.
Today’s television climate is almost the antithesis of that of the ’90s. More and more audiences are increasingly tuning into dark and gritty cable shows instead of network sitcoms. Recent hits such as Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones are light-years away from the fluffy, heartwarming Boy Meets World, Full House or any of the other programs that populated ABC’s hit TGIF lineup back in the day; reboots of such shows are nothing but outdated and out of place now. Furthermore, releasing Girl Meets World on Disney Channel or Fuller House on Netflix discourages its original audiences from watching. Instead of the weekly family-viewing these programs would usually warrant, these
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A couple of years ago, these accomplishments seemed unlikely for a program that had made the NCAA tournament three times in its history before last season. But after earning a tournament berth a year ago — the Terps’ first appearance since 1971 — and cracking the field of 64 again this season, the program has displayed its ability to compete at the highest level. “It shows that it wasn’t just a one-year thing, and it just wasn’t a fairy tale,” catcher Kevin Martir said. “It shows how good Maryland baseball has become in the past two, three years.” Coming off their first-ever appearance in the Super Regionals, the Terps (42-24, 14-10 Big Ten) received national recognition entering this season. But after winning 17 of their first 21 games and climbing as high as No. 11 in the polls, the Terps dropped three of their next four games, which included a midweek loss to James Madison and two defeats in a three-game set against Michigan. By that time, the Terps had already started playing short-handed. First baseman Andrew Bechtold, a freshman who started seven of the team’s first eight contests, suffered a torn ligament in his left thumb Feb. 28 that ended his season. Center fielder LaMonte Wade, meanwhile, was sidelined for an extended period after breaking his hamate bone March 7. And the injuries continued to deplete the roster as the season progressed. On April 5, designated hitter Nick Cieri broke his hamate bone during batting practice, which caused him to miss more than six weeks. Then April 18, a line drive hit left-
sophomore guard Kristen Co n f roy, wh o saw so m e action at the position in her first season with the Terps, will offer more depth. “There is going to be a lot of tremendous opportunities for them that I know they are going to take advantage of,” Frese said of the trio. Confroy, who played mostly shooting guard as a freshman, will attend Point Guard College this summer. Frese said Confroy made the decision to attend the program, which instills leadership qualities and how to be a floor general, on her own. Moseley and Pavlech both attended the camp in the past along with former players, including Kristi Toliver and Laurin Mincy, who led the team with 13.5 points per game last season as the Terps’ lone senior. “It’s been phenomenal for our kids,” Frese said. Frese recruited a pair of McDonald’s All-American
right-hander mike shawaryn winds up during the Terps’ 10-1 win over Iowa on April 10. The Terps ace’s 24 career victories are the most in program history. file photo/the diamondback hander Tayler Stiles in the face, ending his season and leaving the Terps without their No. 2 starter. “We really had to battle through some injuries and tough times throughout the season,” said right-hander M ike Shawaryn, who broke the program record for career wins with 24 as a sophomore. “That stuff is a credit to the guys that we had on the team. We had a lot of strong-willed players.” The slew of injuries eventually wore down the Terps, leaving the team on the NCAA tournament bubble entering the Big Ten tournament in Minnesota. Plus, the Terps limped into the postseason having dropped two of three games against Northwestern, which finished 10th in the conference. With their NCAA tournament aspirations in danger, however, the Terps likely secured their spot in the field with three straight Big Ten tournament wins, which earned them a spot in the championship game. “You got to give the credit to the players because they could have checked out after that poor weekend,” Szefc said about the team’s series with the Wildcats. “But they went to Minnesota and played some of their best
baseball of the year, almost won the Big Ten Championship and earned their spot into the field of 64.” Despite falling to Michigan in the conference final, the Terps carried their momentum into the Los Angeles Regional. The Terps, who entered the tournament as a No. 3 seed, then upended the top-seeded Bruins on June 1 to claim their second straight regional title. Their unlikely run through the regional earned the Terps a rematch with Virginia in the Super Regionals, and Szefc’s squad was well-positioned to win the first two games of the best-of-three series. But the Cavaliers’ lategame heroics off right-hander Kevin Mooney, who entered the series without a blown save in 11 tries, ended the Terps’ up-and-down season a series victory short of their ultimate goal — the College World Series. “ S i x te e n te a m s we re able to play in the Super Regionals, and we were fortunate to be one of the 16 teams,” Shawaryn said. “Does it suck how we lost and that we lost? Yeah, but we shouldn’t be ashamed of what we were able to accomplish over the season.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com
Guard Brene Moseley drives toward the basket during the Terps’ 75-57 win over New Mexico State on March 21 in the first round of the NCAA tournament. file photo/the diamondback forwards for next season, but she didn’t bring in any guards. While she did acknowledge she would’ve considered recruiting a point guard had she known earlier this year Brown wouldn’t be returning, Frese said, “I’m not concerned because we have so much firepower.” The Terps finished last season with the ninth highest scoring offense in the country after
losing Thomas and four other seniors. Now, while Brown sits out next season with the Blue Devils per the NCAA transfer rules, the Terps will turn to an experienced group of players to again combat a significant loss. “We are going to fight at the end of the day no matter who is on the court,” Moseley said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com
second session, which starts July 13. Once he starts classes, he can start practicing. The Terps’ summer workouts officially began Tuesday, according to The Baltimore Sun. Stone was spotted on the campus Saturday and participated in this university’s high school basketball camp, according to InsideMDSports.
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roundup From PAGE 8 confident he will be a great team leader for our football program.” The 6-foot-2, 230-pound Ashiru will help bolster a young Terps linebacking corps that graduated four starters. “I’m really excited to join the Maryland football program and have the opportunity to compete in the Big Ten Conference,” Ashiru said in the release. “I have known Coach Edsall and was also recruited by [Maryland defensive backs coach] Darrell Perkins, so those relationships played a key role in my decision to come to Maryland. Coach Edsall is a tremendous leader who cares deeply about his players. I’m looking forward to furthering my education and continuing my football career for a great University.”
STONE WITHDRAWS FROM U.S. TEAM Terps basketball center Diamond Stone has elected to not play with USA Basketball’s U-19 team this year, The Baltimore Sun’s Don Markus reported. Stone’s dad, Bob Stone, told InsideMDSports his son didn’t want to leave the country with his mom set to undergo surgery. If he had played with the national team, he would have arrived to start workouts with the team in College Park in early July. The highly touted incoming freshman, who has made the national team the past two summers, isn’t able to work out with the Terps yet, though, as he has to enroll in classes first. He missed out on this university’s first summer session, which began June 1, but can enroll for the
After a program-record eight members of the Terps baseball team were selected in the MLB Draft, five of them have signed professional contracts this offseason. On Tuesday, left-hander Alex Robinson signed with the Minnesota Twins organization, which selected him in the fifth round. Left-hander Zach Morris (24th round) signed with the Philadelphia Phillies organization Monday. Catcher Kevin Martir (18th) signed Saturday with the Houston Astros organization. Two former Terps also signed with the Milwaukee Brewers organization. Third baseman Jose Cuas (11th) and left-hander Jake Drossner (10th) both signed Friday. Right-hander Kevin Mooney (Washington Nationals, 15th) said he expects to sign soon. Outfielder LaMonte Wade (Twins, 9th), meanwhile, is expected to sign today. Second baseman Brandon Lowe (Tampa Bay Rays, 3rd) has not signed with the team yet. sportsdbk@gmail.com Senior staff writers Phillip Suitts, Kyle Stackpole and Brittany Cheng contributed to this report.
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Terps prepare for future without star point guard Brown headed to Duke; Frese confident in reserves By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer
catcher kevin martir (32) celebrates at home plate with second baseman Brandon Lowe (5) and third baseman Jose Cuas (12) after hitting a home run during the Terps’ 9-2 win against Towson on May 6 at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen. christian jenkins/the dimaondback
A season to remember
Szefc leads squad to program-record 42 win campaign By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Senior staff writer After its season-ending loss to Virginia in the Super Regionals on June 6, the Terrapins baseball team held a meeting before returning to College Park. Instead of harping on back-to-back heartbreaking defeats — the Terps blew late-game
leads in consecutive games against the Cavaliers — they looked back on the year’s successes. The Terps set a program record with 42 wins, advanced to the conference final and beat the NCAA tournament’s No. 1 overall seed UCLA twice in three nights, a feat that sent them to the Super Regionals for the second straight year. See review, Page 7
ROUNDUP
Winfree withdraws from university after suspension Edsall adds former UConn linebacker to young group By Ryan Baillargeon and Joshua Needelman @RyanBaillargeon @JoshNeedelman Senior staff writers Terrapins football wide receiver Juwann Winfree has withdrawn from this university after violating the StudentAthlete Code of Conduct, The Washington Post’s Roman Stubbs reported Wednesday. The sophomore, who caught 11 passes for 158 yards and two touchdowns in his first season, was also suspended last year for the same violation and was forced to miss the final two games of the regular season. The former four-star recruit was expected to compete for a larger role this season, with wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Deon Long moving on to the NFL. There was even less competition after another wide receiver, Marcus Leak, who starred in the Terps’ spring game with three touchdowns, withdrew from this university May 29. Winfree’s departure adds another question mark to an already depleted position. The Terps will look to Levern and Taivon Jacobs, Amba EttaTawo, Malcolm Culmer, Will Ulmer and DeAndre Lane for playing time. EDSALL SIGNS LB The Terrapins football
wide receiver juwann winfree hauls in a touchdown during the Terps’ 37-15 loss to Michigan State on Nov. 15. He has withdrawn from this university. file photo/the diamondback team added former Connecticut linebacker Jefferson Ashiru, the program announced Friday. Ashiru, who will use his final year of eligibility this season, was controversially dismissed from the program in November. He did graduate from Connecticut, though, and will pursue a master’s degree in real estate development at this university. As a redshirt junior last season with the Huskies, Ashiru started eight games and recorded 47 tackles. He
also recorded one interception and 3.5 tackles for a loss. “We are thrilled to welcome Jefferson to the Maryland football family,” coach Randy Edsall said in a new release. “Jefferson has experience as a starter and can play multiple positions at linebacker. He has a tremendous work ethic and terrific understanding of the game. During his time at UConn, he played in a similar system and he will make a seamless transition. We are See roundup, Page 7
The Terrapins women’s basketball team proved last season it can lose its star and still be great. After graduating the program’s alltime leading scorer, Alyssa Thomas, the Terps set a new program record with 27 straight wins before falling to top-seeded Connecticut in the Final Four. Next season, the Terps will need to do it again — this time due to an unexpected loss. On May 26, the program announced guard Lexie Brown, an All-Big Ten first team selection this past season, was transferring from the program. She will attend Duke next year. The junior, who was given the nickname “Big Shot Brown” by the team, finished in a tie for second on the Terps in points per game at 13.3. Still, the team is confident that, like last year, they will be able to overcome the departure of a key starter. “In the past, we’ve lost great players, we’ve faced adversity, we’ve faced injuries, so our mentality going towards this is no different,” said guard Brene Moseley, who will be expected to
guard lexie brown dribbles up the court during the Terps’ 65-55 win over Duke on March 28. The Blue Devils announced they added Brown on Monday. file photo/the diamondback take on a larger role without Brown on the team. “We are still going to have the same goals, same expectations as we have previously.” While the news originally came as a bit of a surprise to coach Brenda Frese — she found out Brown intended to transfer just days before it was made public — the veteran coach knew the past two years away from home had been tough on Brown, who said she wanted to play closer to her home in Suwanee, Georgia.
On Monday, it was announced she would be enrolling at Duke, about a fivehour drive from her home. And though it won’t be easy for Terps fans to watch Brown slip on the jersey of the school’s most-hated rival, the program is ready to fill the void at the point guard position. Moseley, a redshirt senior, and senior guard Chloe Pavlech will provide veteran leadership in the role while See brown, Page 7
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