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Univ. joins partnership to fix aviation dilemmas Team to tackle flight delays, air traffic

BY MOLLY MARCOT Staff writer

Crowded airports, flight delays and plane crashes — these are images that haunt travelers’ nightmares. But to curtail some of these problems, members of this university are joining forces with airline officials to upgrade aviation operations.

In 1996, a team of researchers from four universities and the airline industry came together under the Federal Aviation Administration to generate innovative ideas on air traf-

fic control, airport design and combating flight delays. This month marks the launch of a new sevenyear, $60 million contract — which has grown to include eight universities — to continue this research by blending business, economics and engineering concepts.

This university will serve as an academic leader in the coalition, and some professors and students have already worked on several projects with the first contract, spearheaded

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Loh sets plan to improve College Park Task forces to study transportation, housing issues

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University alumnus wins debut on Jeopardy! game show

BY JIM BACH For The Diamondback

What began as a love of learning and trivia at 9 years old has evolved into the realization of a lifelong goal for university alumnus Jeffrey Amoros, who made his debut on Jeopardy! Wednesday night and pulled off a come-from-behind win.

After finishing the first round in last

place, Amoros surged ahead and overcame a $9,000 deficit to pull ahead of Bethesda native Adam Marshall.

Amoros led Marshall by a mere $200 going in to Final Jeopardy, and he wagered most of his $15,600 on the last question.

His risk ultimately paid off as he answered correctly and won handily with more than

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University President Wallace Loh recently launched five task forces to revitalize the City of College Park and transform it into a top-notch college town — complete with modern transportation, an increased police presence and affordable housing — in the next 10 to 15 years.

To accomplish this objective, Loh announced Friday five work groups — safety, housing and development, transportation, sustainability and education — that pull leadership from state, local and university officials. By August, each must compile a report detailing how the university can work with the city and Prince George's County to progress in each area.

“We all kind of have the same idea in mind — that our area can really increase the wellbeing and living

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Construction underway on Campus Dr. Crews to repave road, fix potholes

University alumnus Jeffrey Amoros watches himself on a segment of Jeopardy!, which he won, at a viewing party with friends and family. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY NICK FOLEY For The Diamondback

Morning commuters may be facing more traffic in the upcoming days due to continued construction on Campus Drive that will last until at least Tuesday, university officials said.

While the campus’ main road is being repaved, drivers cannot head straight up Campus Drive toward Lot 1; instead, they must detour through Paint Branch Drive, Stadium Drive and Regents Drive. After the project that started early this week is completed, more repaving work will begin on Campus Drive near Tawes Hall.

The construction — which Facilities Management officials said is just routine maintenance — ends at the “M” traffic circle, allowing vehicles to turn right into Lot 1 after the detour through the campus.

Jack Baker, Facilities Management’s director of operations and maintenance, said the construction is necessary because of failing asphalt and an abundance of potholes. Money for the repairs is drawn from the campus facilities renewal account, which allocates about $400,000 a year for road repaving.

“It’s a fairly typical summer project

Her journey to the crown Univ. alumna competes in Miss USA pageant

BY REBECCA LURYE For The Diamondback

When Allyn Rose was a punk-rocking, high school tomboy, she never imagined she would one day have a future in pageantry.

But inspired to honor the memory of one of her biggest supporters — her mom — the university alumna entered a fundraising pageant on a whim and set herself on an unexpected path toward competing on the national stage in this year’s Miss USA contest as Miss Maryland.

“I feel like when you lose

someone close to you, you start to realize life is very fleeting, and all the time you’ve been given is a gift,” Rose said. “I like to make use of every moment my mom doesn’t have.”

She won the inaugural Miss Sinergy pageant — a competition that raised money for the Libby Ross Foundation, a support program for women with breast cancer. Allyn’s mother, Judith Rose, died of the disease when Rose was 16 years old.

After nearly a year of working with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Relay for Life, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and other

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organizations through Sinergy, Rose gave up her crown; she was now eligible to compete in pageants again.

Two weeks later, Rose won the Miss Maryland pageant in October, and on June 20, she came in eighth place in Miss USA. In only her third pageant experience, this position placed her higher than any other Maryland native since 1973.

“We’re not a very competitive state,” Rose said, laughing. “We have a sordid pageant history.”

She did not quite live up to the “scandal” of Marylander

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University alumnus Jeffrey Amoros (far left) made a come-from-behind win on his Jeopardy! debut Wednesday night; he will be on the show at 7 p.m. Thursday. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

ON THE BLOG blogs.umdbk.com/campusdrive A FIFTH TIME IN THE SPOTLIGHT What would you do if you had already won four Tony awards?

If you are Brian MacDevitt, you win a fifth. The associate professor at this university’s school of theatre dance performance studies recently won another Tony award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical in The Book of Mormon.

Although claiming that “after the thrill of the first [award], it’s never the same again,” MacDevitt said that he is proud of the music and that he greatly admires the musical’s writers: Robert Lopez, Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

To read more, visit The Diamondback’s online news blog, Campus Drive.

$30,000 to his name.

“At the half, my only goal at that point was don’t finish in third,” Amoros said, whose total stood at an abysmal -$400 after the first round, trailing Marshall’s thenfirst-place total of $8,600.

As captain of his high school’s It’s Academic team, a member on this university’s Quiz Bowl team and a big winner on Game Show Network’s Chain Reaction, an appearance on Jeopardy! was the exclamation point on Amoros’ longtime pursuit of knowledge and unrelenting thirst for competition.

According to Chris Ray, Amoros’ former Quiz Bowl teammate, Amoros’ stunning comefrom-behind victory was reminiscent of his Quiz Bowl days.

“His score was just plain embarrassing after the first round,” Ray said. “And he ended up going on a monster tear. That’s one of the things Jeff is able to do.”

“The experience itself was incredible,” Amoros said. “It was incredible meeting Alex Trebek.

You’ve watched Jeopardy! or seen Jeopardy!, at least, since you were a little kid, and seen Celebrity Jeopardy!’ on [Saturday Night Live] and all that kind of stuff in popular culture, and all of a sudden you’re two feet from the guy taking a photo.”

Amoros, a 24-year-old former Diamondback editor and staff writer, took an online Jeopardy! test; a timed, 50-question evaluation on a wide array of topics, early in 2010. Just weeks later, producers invited him to an audition for the show in New York.

Every year, 100,000 people take the test nationwide, from which only 4,000 are invited to auditions, Amoros noted.

The audition phase consisted of a much harder 50-question test, a mock game of Jeopardy! with two other people and a 15-minute personality test, Amoros said.

Amoros had auditioned four times: once in each his sophomore, junior and senior years, and the fourth coming last April. It was not until this fourth time that he finally moved forward to the next stage, where between only 300 and 400 people are selected, according to Amoros.

In February 2011, Amoros received an invitation to Culver City, Calif., and he left for the West Coast with his friends and family for the taping of his appearance on the show March 2.

To prepare for his Jeopardy! debut, Amoros utilized the same resources that brought him success in It’s Academic in high school and Quiz Bowl in college.

“Note cards,” Amoros said.

“Going back to high school and college and stuff, I used to do note card files on everything: U.S. Presidents, Nobel Peace Prize winners, famous works of art, 18th century Russian literature; it got really specific and really obscure at times.”

Chris Ziesat, Amoros’ friend and former roommate, was one of the many people who helped him in the months leading up to his Jeopardy! debut, reading him questions and quizzing him.

“It was always really amazing how early on in the question he would actually get the answer,” Ziesat said. “I would say six words,

and he would automatically know where I was going. That’s the kind of quick response you have to have with those questions.”

Amoros’ love of “trivia-based competition” began when his aunt ordered him a subscription to National Geographicin third grade.

“I read every issue cover to cover; I loved that magazine,” Amoros said. “I always watched Jeopardy! with my parents when I was a kid. They had a category on National Geographic, and as a 9year-old, I ran the entire category.

That was just when it clicked.”

Amoros took these interests to his high school’s It’s Academic team, serving as its captain.

In college, Amoros played for the university’s Quiz Bowl team, which he described as “a perennial top-10 school with Quiz Bowl every year.” In his senior year, they shut out Cornell University.

Amoros was an average college student pursuing a degree in journalism and serving as an editor for The Diamondback, but as Ziesat noted, he always kept his trivia hobby at the forefront of his pursuits.

“What helped Jeff was that this wasn’t just a chore for him, this is something he truly enjoys,” Ziesat said.

Jeopardy! was not the first time Amoros played on a nationally televised game show. In 2007, Amoros, along with his father and his father’s friend, won $7,200 on Game Show Network’s Chain Reaction, in New York.

Amoros will appear on Jeopardy! Thursday night at 7 p.m. on ABC to defend his title. news@umdbk.com

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REVITALIZATION from page 1

Because Campus Drive is being repaved, commuters should expect minor traffic delays until at least Tuesday.

Drivers will detour through Paint Branch Drive, Stadium Drive and Regents Drive. MATTHEW CREGER/THE DIAMONDBACK

CONSTRUCTION from page 1 to repair roads as required,” he said.

While Baker said the annual road maintenance is typically performed in the summer to minimize traffic, several stu-

dents, such as senior public health major Jason Lin, said the congestion was a headache.

“It was annoying,” Lin said.

“It took longer than usual to get here because of all the congestion.”

Although the number of cars on the road is significantly less than during the school year,

university alumna Serene Liao said the detour was an inconvenience and she didn’t see why it was necessary.

“I think the road is in good condition,” said Liao, who received her master’s degree in business administration in May. “I don’t know why they blocked it and rebuilt it again.”

But senior geography major Katie Kee said she was glad university officials chose this time of year to repave the road instead of the fall.

“It’s better to do it in the summer, I would think, than in regular school hours,” she said. news@umdbk.com

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opportunities for anybody in College Park,” said College of Education Dean Donna Wiseman, who is chairing the education work group. “We want this to be one of the top 20 college towns.”

Although their work has just begun, several university and city officials are already mapping out what exactly they want to change.

University Police Chief David Mitchell chairs the safety coalition tasked with increasing the department’s shared jurisdiction with the county to include predominately student-rented highrises — a decision that will depend on an agreement between the campus community, county executive Rushern Baker and Prince George’s County Police, Mitchell said.

“Off-campus student housing is growing by leaps and bounds. We want to increase the feeling of safety and security our students have,” he said. “When you call for an officer when you’re having an emergency, not only Prince George’s County Police will respond, but the University of Maryland [police department] will respond as well.”

County police have primary jurisdiction in most of downtown.

With the addition of the View II, Varsity, Enclave and Mazza Grandmarc in the area, Mitchell said there is a greater need for police visibility in the city.

“Every time you see an officer, you have a greater feeling of, ‘Hey, the police are on patrol and I feel pretty safe about that,’” Mitchell said. “And certainly, if we see something that needs our assistance, we can legally act.”

The housing and economic development task force, chaired by District 3 County Councilman Eric Olson (D), will look at the economic impact the proposed 38-acre East Campus development project — which seeks to dramatically transform Route 1 and bring more hotels and shopping downtown — will have on the university. It hopes to get the ball rolling on the longdelayed project and tie a deal with developer Cordish Companies this month, with a detailed design process and construction on the first phase of development to follow suit, he said.

Olson noted that economic development is also dependent on increasing the city’s accessibility through the Purple Line — a 16-

mile, $1.93 billion light rail proposed to connect Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. The rail will be a nod to businesses that College Park and East Campus are places to invest money, according to Henry Kay, Maryland Transit Administration executive director for transit development.

The new rail system is also in line with helping MTA meet its goal to increase eco-conscious transportation and double its ridership by 2020.

“Overall, if you can shift transportation away from cars to transit, you’re going to lessen the impact on the environment,” Kay said.

Mayor Andy Fellows chairs the university’s sustainability work group, and state delegate Joseline Pena-Melnyk (D-Anne Arundel and Prince George’s) will lead a transportation work group.

Although construction should start on the light rail project in 2015 and progress in stages to lessen traffic, it is uncertain when it will arrive in the city or how long construction on the campus will last, Kay said. Preliminary engineering could begin this fall if MTA receives approval from the Federal Transit Administration.

“If we were building a WalMart or something, it would all be merged together,” Kay said.

“We don’t want the impacts of construction to be a hardship to people.”

But for those who live in the city, the university is hoping to form more partnerships with local public schools.

“We want schools that are very high quality schools, but we also want to, in general, merge what’s happening in the city and county and campus together so we can really offer this rich array of educational opportunities for anyone that lives in the area,” said Wiseman.

While some of the university’s colleges partner with nearby Paint Branch Elementary School to provide tutoring and other activities, Wiseman said the university is capable of more.

She added a goal of all task forces is to make the city a more attractive place to live for members of the university community.

“Many faculty will move out of the area while their kids are at school and might move back closer when they graduate,” Wiseman said, adding that the development of East Campus will also help. lurye@umdbk.com

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Policing the future

Equality for all

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espite its claim to be “a livable community,” Prince George’s County some of calls to College Park, where they are often dispatched to deal with ineis to many students anything but. Crime, it seems, is an endemic and briated students or investigate burglaries that are unlikely to be solved. Indeed, ever-present part of life. The blighted Route 1 corridor is an eyesore the strained student-police relationship came to a head last March when stufor both residents and visitors alike and snarled transportation is a dents rioted after a Terrapin men’s basketball victory over Duke and the county never-ending headache for commuters. But university President Wallace Loh, it police response led to allegations of police brutality and an FBI investigation.

While Maj. Hector Velez, the new District 1 commander, has taken steps to seems, is working to turn all of that around. improve relations with students, the underlying probIn creating a task force focused on revitalizing College lems remain: Some county police officers have little motiPark, Loh has made clear his intention to better the univation to care about student safety, the city has no police versity, the city and the county by improving the area that force, and University Police frequently lack jurisdictional surrounds the campus. The task force consists of five topIn examining how best to authority outside the boundaries of university property. ical work groups, each instructed to submit a report in improve off-campus safety, It is encouraging, then, that Mitchell states a desire to August demonstrating how this institution can work with city and county officials to implement a rejuvenation in the university should advocate increase the University Police’s concurrent jurisdiction into areas populated by students. After all, the police their area of expertise. for an extension of the force best prepared to serve the needs of a community is While the five work groups — safety, housing and develthe police force most involved in that community. Univeropment, transportation, sustainability and education— University Police’ s jurisdiction. sity Police, by their very nature, are attuned to the unique each address a meaningful issue, the safety group chaired safety needs of college students. The stray underage

by University Police Chief David Mitchell stands out as drinking citation notwithstanding, the University Police’s mission is to serve the being of particular importance.

The city lacks its own police force and therefore relies on Prince George’s university community. It is a mission they did well in the spring semester, when County and this university’s police department to patrol the streets of College there were no reports of violent crime on the campus.

Loh’s goal of a College Park rejuvenation cannot be achieved without improvPark. And as the university has transformed from a commuter-student safety school into a nationally recognized research institution, a higher concentration ing student safety in College Park. If planned developments such as East Camof resident students has come to occupy the surrounding neighborhoods. Stu- pus revitalization and the Purple Line come to fruition, the boundary between dents moving into the Old Town neighborhood of College Park and, more campus and city will continue to blur. Because College Park appears unwilling recently, into high-rise apartment complexes on Route 1, have frequently or unable to build its own police force, Mitchell’s goal is clear: The safety work learned first hand that the city is targeted by thieves and burglars from sur- group should recommend the university aggressively pursue an enhanced jurisdictional agreement with Prince George’s County. rounding areas.

Only then will College Park truly have a shot at being a livable — not just surBut many members of the Prince George’s County Police, accustomed to cop drama-worthy crimes in other parts of the county, are understandably loath- vivable — community.

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Millennials: More engaged than you think

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ear Ted Nugent, I recently read your June 23 op-ed in the Washington Times, “Millennials sleep as their future crumbles,” a piece in which you criticized my generation for our supposed apathy and lack of political activism when compared with that of college students in the 1960s and ’70s. Specifically, you expressed disappointment that we are not fighting police officers in the street, joining the Tea Party or “interrupting political events.” Unfortunately, you have missed some major differences between the 1960s and today that account for the behavioral norms of each time period.

The 1960s were a very turbulent time in our nation’s history. The civil rights movement rolled right into the anti-war movement, and students were burning up about their schools treating them like children. The Vietnam War was far larger, far less necessary and cost significantly more lives — American or otherwise — than all the current wars in the Middle East combined. And young people faced the

GREG NASIF prospect of being drafted, a proposition foreign to college students today.

Student protesters younger than 21 could not vote in federal elections (the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, which lowered the voting age to 18, was not ratified until July 1, 1971) Their friends were dying overseas for politicians they could not vote out of office, and those at home were afraid they’d be next.

In the late ’60s and early ’70s, students had no way to express their views. School papers were compromised — this very newspaper, which established its independence during the conflict, had its funding cut when it ran blank pages instead of news in protest of school censorship, and tombstones on its opinion page in protest of the war. Meanwhile, an easy

medium for student dialogue, such as the Internet, did not exist.

But more importantly, student activism is alive and well in the United States. Perhaps you should get to know Avaaz, a civic organization that rallies support for causes at lightning speed. In the past two weeks, I’ve helped pull Formula One racing out of brutal Bahrain, pushed anti-corruption laws in India, Brazil and Spain, called for the resignation oppressive dictators, stopped the death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda and contributed to the call for a no-fly-zone over Libya, all from my laptop, safe and sound at home, and I didn’t have to burn any buildings down or fight any cops (which, may I remind you, is a bad thing).

Your criticism of our failed political activism is misplaced, but to say we have never marched on Washington is just plain wrong. We did just that last October, in the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Specifically, it was a rally against the very message you have espoused.

It was a rally against the concept that political activism is only political activism if it’s for a cause you support.

It was a rally against the notion that emotional politics are good politics, as if anger accomplishes anything in political discourse. It was a rally against people who interrupt political events, as if disrupting a speaker’s control of the floor is productive instead of downright barbaric. We’re better than that.

And unlike the late ’60s and early ’70s, it’s simply unnecessary, thanks to the Internet, thanks to our freedoms and thanks to those who rioted in those turbulent times. That’s what our march on Washington was all about.

Simply put, sir, you feel we aren’t engaging adults in political discourse simply because we won’t shout at each other and condemn our political opponents as evil forces. And while that is ignorant, misinformed and irrational thinking, I don’t know what else to expect from someone who never left a decade he still doesn’t understand.

Greg Nasif is a senior history major. He can be reached at nasif@umdbk.com.

Mr. Obama: It’s time to come out

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ay back in 1996, before sodomy was decriminalized by the Supreme Court, before television shows with gay-inclusive characters and storylines were common, and just as the gay community was finally beginning to recover from the widespread death and destruction wrought by the AIDS crisis, an aspiring politician named Barack Obama was campaigning to become an Illinois state senator. Like many candidates running for public office, Obama completed surveys sent to him by interest groups and newspapers, including one to Outlines newspaper in which he “came out” as an advocate for gays and lesbians, declaring his unequivocal support for same-sex marriage.

However, as he climbed the political ladder, becoming a U.S. senator and then president, Obama, it seems, began to long for the warmth and security the closet provided him, and he crept back in, retracting his support for same-sex marriage and stating that civil marriage should be exclusively a union between a man

and a woman.

Yet, in spite of this shocking turnaround, Obama apparently still thinks he’s a “fierce advocate” for the gay and lesbian community — a belief that would be laughable if it weren’t so offensive. Indeed, on June 23, after receiving hundreds of thousands of rainbow-hued dollars from LGBT donors at a New York fundraiser for his re-election campaign, Obama said with a straight face (pun intended) that he stands with the gay community in its fight for equal rights.

But how can Obama be with us in the fight while actively stating he opposes marriage equality? As an attorney, Obama is wise enough to know the word marriage is needed to access more than 1,100 federal benefits and protections, including Social Security spousal benefits and the rights to make medical decisions for same-sex partners or to inherit their loved one’s estate.

Politically, the president’s advisers believe he’s in a bind in which there is no good position on same-sex marriage. If he comes out in support of marriage equality, some Democratic

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ARNSTINE strategists worry socially conservative Hispanic voters could swing back to the Republican Party, thus hurting Obama’s chances of a second term due to the rapid growth of Hispanic voters in swing states such as Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico.

Ethically, this is a poor reason for denying more than a thousand rights to a significant segment of our population. And politically, it makes little sense as well.

Public opinion is moving at a rapid pace regarding same-sex marriage.

According to a recent poll conducted

by The Washington Post in Virginia, more voters support marriage equality than oppose it, and 73 percent of voters aged 18-29 favor marriage equality. And even well-known Republicans such as former First Lady Laura Bush and former Vice

President Dick Cheney have offered their support for gay marriage. And if Bush, Cheney and a plurality of voters in Virginia — of all places, the former seat of the Confederacy — believe gays and lesbians should be able to wed, it’s high time Obama support it, too.

When organizations such as the National Organization for Marriage or even the Family Research Council — which is certified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center — can say “not even President Obama supports same-sex marriage,” it gives cover to wavering state legislators to deny gays and lesbians full equality.

Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

And so, Mr. President, it’s time you stop playing politics with people’s lives. Learn from King, listen to your constituents and follow your heart: Come out for marriage equality.

Matt Arnstine is a junior government and politics major. He can be reached at arnstine@umdbk.com.

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he recent legalization of gay marriage in various states, most recently in New York, has caused both elation and anger among certain sets of Americans. But for some people, such as myself, these actions have produced some confusion. Why in the 21st century United States, a country founded on freedom and equality, are people still not allowed to marry whomever they choose?

Before I dive into my opinions on the topic of gay marriage, I need to establish some background on my beliefs. I am not homosexual, but I do not think people who are attracted to others of the same sex should be treated any differently than heterosexual people. I am liberal in most of my political beliefs, but I am also a Christian. Here is where the controversy lies.

I have been told condoning gay marriage means I am not a Christian, a statement that offended me.

“Let me get this straight,” I thought, “Because I think people should be happy means I’m not following my religion properly?”

The dispute stems from a verse in the Bible (Leviticus 18:22 to be specific) that states “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” So, when Christians say the Bible forbids homosexuality, they are technically right. However, the Bible also says not to lie or wear clothing made of mixed fibers — two biblical sins we all commit on a daily basis.

So why is the law about homosexuality any more important? Can having a relationship with someone of the same sex be as bad as committing murder? Some ultraconservatives will argue: “Yes, being gay is as bad as killing someone; both are sins.” And to them I say: “Well guess what? That sounds ridiculous. And nobody’s asking you to be gay. Who gave you the right to meddle in other people’s private business, and to say what’s right and wrong? Why should the decisions others make with their lives matter to you?”

What perplexes me the most, though, is that there are laws banning gay marriage in the first place.

One of the cornerstones of America is the separation of church and state. Granted, the country was founded for primarily religious reasons, but it was for the freedom to practice religion however its citizens chose. The spirit of equality and independence runs throughout our nation’s history — “liberty and justice” are in our Pledge of Allegiance, after all. The United States has long been a refuge for those seeking to escape persecution, and yet even here homosexuals are persecuted against by not being allowed to marry. Is this not unfair? They are just trying to fulfill their own American dream, their own “pursuit of happiness.”

I think states taking action to legalize gay marriage is a move in the right direction, and at the same time, a move to where this country ought to have been all along.

Church and state are separate, and therefore there should not be legal barriers against marriage, whether it be between a man and woman, two men or two women.

And to all you anti-homosexual ultra-conservatives out there: Just worry about yourselves, and let people be. All they want is to be happy and enjoy life; don’t deny them that.

Lauren Mendelsohn is a junior psychology major and president of this university’s chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. She can be reached at shortandsweet425@gmail.com.

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If Michael Bay has a mantra, it must be “more:” more explosions, more girls, more CGI — more, more, more. Everything always has to be cranked up to 11; God forbid the audience’s attention wander for half a moment.

If “more” is Bay’s mantra, then watching Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a lot like watching him achieve nirvana — loud, stupid, aggressive nirvana. It’s a two-and-a-half hour sugar rush with as much fire and wreckage as $200 million can buy.

If only it were nir vana for the rest of us.

A brief 1960s prologue, which features one of the worst John F. Kennedy impersonations ever committed to film, introduces the alien MacGuffin that will motivate the film’s plot. It’s some sort of teleportation device (or “Space Bridge,” to use one of many ridiculous names the film tries to pass off as cool-sounding.

The winner, though, is “the great Matrix of Leadership,” which sounds like an overblown Excel spreadsheet) hidden away in a spaceship that crash-landed on the moon.

From there, Bay cuts to the present day and to a woman’s underwear-clad ass. The woman is Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, a model in her first role), the new girlfriend of Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) and the replacement for Megan Fox, who is unceremoniously written off in a single line (“She was mean,” says a robot; apparently Bay still holds a grudge against Fox for comparing him to Adolf Hitler.)

Although Sam was given a “Hero Medal” (perhaps he also won a “Vague Award” and a “Generic Merit Badge”) for his efforts in the last film, he’s since been cut out of the loop and is having trouble finding a job.

This is, of course, only a temporary problem, but Bay drags his feet end-

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lessly before finally kicking the narrative into gear. The first act isn’t slow by any means; there are plenty of big action spectacles thrown in, but they’re all only tangentially related to the larger plot, and it takes a full hour for the main narrative to really get moving.

Once the film gets moving, however … well, it’s bloated and unfocused, but at least Bay gets down to brass tacks, which in this case means wrecking Chicago. The last hour and a half is essentially one long action sequence, which serves to prove that despite Bay’s reputation as the quintessential blockbuster director, he’s not very good at

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A good fight scene has a sense of progression. Even in a sprawling, hectic sequence — say, for example, the finale of Saving Private Ryan — you know where everyone is, who’s winning and how events are connected.

Bay, on the other hand, tries to simply beat you into excitement through sheer force of spectacle. Each individual shot is relatively well-composed — sometimes even thrilling, in a dumb way — but the scattershot editing means those shots

never add up to anything, so there’s no real tension and no payoff.

He has no ability to set a tone, either, and so the feel of the film varies based on whatever character happens to be onscreen. It’s a self-serious epic whenever Optimus Prime is delivering his stick-up-the-ass dialogue, a sarcastic teen dramedy if LaBeouf shows up, a Wayans brothers comedy when any of the jive, racial-caricature robots are present, and so on.

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He started out in commercials, and his filmmaking hasn’t evolved since. There are lots of lingering, almost pornographic shots of fast cars that look like they could be TV spots for General Motors wedged between beer commercials.

Sickeningly, he shoots cars and women the same way. There’s even a scene in which a character describes the “curves” of a car and the camera holds a close-up on a woman’s body. For Bay, women — who are always either damsels in distress or ice queens — and automobiles are interchangeable.

To make the film even more annoying, it throws in a fair amount of jingoism to go along with its considerable misogyny. There’s no shortage of chest beating and shots of flags, and there’s even a pointless early scene where the Transformers help the U.S. government beat up on Iran.

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the rare film that feels both aggressively corporate and hopelessly selfindulgent. Bay has the egomania and refusal to compromise his vision of an auteur, but his vision happens to be a deeply commercialized, product-placement friendly one. You never doubt his commitment and sincerity, just his intelligence, morals and originality.

If you’re looking for a fun popcorn movie, see the other Steven Spielbergproduced film released this month, Super 8. You can feel his influence in that movie. You can’t in Transformers, which is two and a half hours of summer spectacle done all wrong.

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WHO RULES THE WORLD? On her newest record 4, Beyoncé turns to early 1990s R&B for inspiration

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Senior Staff writer

If, by some inconceivable accident, the newest Beyoncé record doesn’t win some honor at the 2012 Grammys, we can still lend it the honor of having the most misleading single of the year.

After just a cursory sampling of her new record, 4, it is very clear that club hit “Run the World (Girls),” is the lone albino cub amongst the 11 fantastic mid-tempo throwback R&B tracks that dominate this album.

Beside that single — an unforgiveably plain club slam — the record pushes aside the pop tropes being whored out by everyone from Rihanna to where’d-her-career-go punching bag Ke$ha and searches for a sound with more meat on its bones.

Beyoncé’s album is filled with actual songs — compositions overflowing with soul most singers only wish they had, presented in a style that masterfully straddles originality and homage.

Her style is not as virtuosic as Alicia Keys’ and it is not as flashy or

overblown as Lady Gaga’s, but Beyoncé has definitely captured something wonderful on 4. It’s funky R&B with a distinct interest in adding a host of elements to take the songs to the next level, from marching band rhythms (“End of Time”) to cinematic washes of strings that don’t sound flat and cheesy (“I Miss You”).

The retro R&B songs that rule this album are simply lovely, including “Love on Top,” which bounces like a smooth, funk-inflected late 1980s Soul II Soul.

Other tracks take a similar route, such as the thumping “Party,” featuring hip-hop mavens André 3000 of OutKast and Kanye West. The song is led by thick synthesizer bass lines, powerful harmonized vocals and, most importantly, her unflinching sense of groove.

It is clear that 4 is

extremely far from the dance-club fare that rules the airwaves, which is a godsend for listeners tired of the same old tune. This is what makes “Run the World (Girls)” such a confusing song to close the record with, considering the songs that come before it.

The album is a crisp, clean recording — perhaps too clean — with wonderfully written songs such as “Rather Die Young,” which has some decidedly adventurous chord changes given that the target audience are is the same listeners who loved “Run the World (Girls).”

With a host of forward-thinking producers and songwriters backing Beyoncé, many tracks feature interesting sonic experiments to go along with the already pleasurable music, such as “Countdown,” which features an actual countdown that doesn’t disrupt the flow.

With any luck, these sorts of tracks will draw virgin ears into other styles of music beyond the top 10 charts (where 4 will surely be), a goal that isn’t too hard imagine having been wholly purposeful, especially given spouses Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s well-known affinity for all types of music, even indie groups like Grizzly Bear.

Some of the album’s tracks do crack the seemingly impenetrably cool mood and seem just a bit too cheesy, like second single “Best Thing I Never Had,” which comes across as forced, losing the emotion captured on other parts of the record by not appearing to be a track Beyoncé really needed on this album to make the record a hit.

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A father’s homecoming After serving in Iraq, Afghanistan for seven months, university alumnus returns home to meet newborn son

BY NICK FOLEY For The Diamondback

When Navy Lt. Charles Fatora arrived home after a seven-month deployment overseas, he laid eyes on a sight perhaps more remarkable than what he saw flying throughout Iraq and Afghanistan: his seven-week old son.

From participating in Operation Enduring Freedom missions over Afghanistan to Operation New Dawn over Iraq to working aboard the ship that buried Osama bin Laden at sea, Fatora — a 2002 university alumnus — said his time at the university and as an ROTC member at George Washington University in Washington prepared him for military career and helped ensure he made it home to see his newborn son, Brendan.

Immediately after high school, Fatora joined the Navy and learned the ins-andouts of flying planes. But without a college degree, his dream to become an officer was grounded.

So he enrolled at this university to earn the degree he needed and to accomplish his officer aspirations.

But because the university only offers Air Force and Army ROTC training, Fatora commuted three times a week to George Washington.

“I drove from there to Maryland,” Fatora said. “That was a pretty challenging time.”

The attacks on U.S. soil hit

home for Fatora, who was in Washington when a plane flew into the Pentagon.

“Not only do I have my time at Maryland to help me out,” Fatora said, “but I also have my time with the ROTC during 9/11.”

After graduating, Fatora was able to put all of his skills learned at the university to test by reentering the Navy.

While in Afghanistan and Iraq, he said he participated in a barrage of electronic attacks with his squadron, using electromagnetic energy to help destroy enemy planes in a coordinated effort between ground and air units.

For his wife Janice, the uncertainty as to her husband’s whereabouts was ner ve-wracking.

“We really don’t get to hear anything,” she said. “Everything we hear, we hear from the news.”

Although his job is rewarding, Fatora said he began to miss his family — especially when his first child was born in April.

Fatora, who returned home from his latest tour June 14, said he’d never forget seeing his son outside of a computer screen for the first time.

“It was very three-dimensional. I’ve been on Skype this whole time,” Fatora said. “It didn’t really feel real. It was really amazing to feel that.”

His wife said the scene was like one out of a movie.

“There was a whole mix of emotions,” Janice Fatora said.

Navy Lt. Charles Fatora, a university alumnus, returned home from seven months overseas.PHOTO COURTESY OF CHARLES FATORA

“Excited, anxious. It was pretty much magical, exploding on the inside waiting for him to lay eyes on his son for the first time.”

Since he will fly overseas for a six-month deployment at the end of the year, Fatora said he plans to maximize his time at home with his newborn baby boy.

“It’s the completion of a long journey,” Fatora said.

“It’s very humbling.” news@umdbk.com

AVIATION from page 1 by the National Center for Aviation Operations Research.

Some of the innovations by researchers from this university have already impacted how airlines function. Under NEXTOR, students and faculty helped individual airlines work with the FAA to control air congestion and manage delays.

“A lot of our ideas have been integrated and are used on a day-to-day basis,” said business professor and researcher Michael Ball, an original codirector of NEXTOR. The FAA decided to invoke this new contract — dubbed NEXTOR II — due to the success of the past aviation research.

During the previous study, university researchers also worked on managing airport congestion in New York, where several airports are so close together that their airways are interconnected.

“We had a series of projects that were looking at how you could control access to the airspace in New York in such a way where you could get these delays down to a more acceptable level,” said engineering professor and

researcher David Lovell.

For NEXTOR II, the researchers said they hope to find ways to implement new technologies that will allow more planes to share the sky.

“Planes will be able to fly closer together than they can now simply because they’ll have more information on where each plane is,” Lovell said.

Some university researchers said balancing the interests of government with those of industry officials can be complex, though they try to accommodate all the competing perspectives when it comes time to make recommendations on how to advance.

Cooperation is the key to putting new research in motion, Ball said.

“It’s getting everything to work together as a system, getting the right incentives so … everybody will be on the same page,” he said.

Because NEXTOR researchers collaborate with FAA and airline employees, university researchers said the prospect that their work could be used in real life is motivating.

“There’s a good chance it’s going to have an impact and that’s very satisfying,” Ball said. marcot@umdbk.com

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WILLIAMS from page 10

Former Terp forward Jordan Williams averaged 16.9 points last season.

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where I did.”

Williams, who is not guaranteed a rookie contract, will join a Nets squad seemingly on the rise. The team, which will move to a new arena in Brooklyn, N.Y., for the 2012-13 season, boasts a young core of talent, including two-time All-Star point guard Deron Williams as well as center Brook Lopez and guard Anthony Morrow.

“It’s something you dream about every day,” Williams said. “It’s a young organization ready to do big things, and I’m excited to be a part of it.”

Williams’ path to the draft was not without controversy. When he submitted his name into the draft pool following his sophomore season, many believed he planned only to test the draft waters before eventually returning to College

Park for his junior year.

But on May 4, Williams announced he had hired an agent and would not return to the Terps for the 2011-12 season. Though many questioned his decision, expressing concerns about his NBA readiness, Williams said last week he’s ready to prove to the Nets, as well as to fans, that he can compete at the professional level. “[I have to] start to show the coaches how bad I want it,” Williams said. “As long as I put the work in both on and off the court and show my teammates that I’m a good teammate and that I want to be great, they’ll start to realize that’s what I want.”

As Williams moves ahead with his NBA dreams, the team he left behind likely will find itself quite limited next season.

Longtime Terp coach Gar y Williams retired not long after Williams’ decision, and coach Mark Turgeon will inherit a roster mostly

devoid of interior size.

The Terps carry just nine players on the current roster, and without Williams, only three players — James Padgett, Ashton Pankey and Berend Weijs — are taller than 6-foot-8. Even more worrisome, Pankey missed all of last season with a leg injury and Weijs played very limited minutes off the bench, leaving Padgett as the only relatively experienced post player on the team.

But even without last season’s conference-leading rebounder at his disposal next season, Turgeon said he was happy for Williams and his future in the NBA. “I’m excited for Jordan that he realized a longtime dream of his to have his name called in the NBA Draft,” Turgeon said in a statement. “It’s a testament of his hard work and the great opportunity he had to play college basketball at Mar yland.” vitale@umdbk.com

NEWS

ROSE from page 1 Mar y Leona Gage, who was stripped of her 1957 Miss USA title when the organization discovered she was a wife and mother.

A panel of interviewers told Rose she was the only contestant to say she would pose for nude fashion photographs.

“We come into this world naked, we leave this world naked and it’s nothing to be ashamed of. You know, power to it,” said Rose, adding she believes all women should feel confident and comfortable in their own skin.

Some Miss USA attendees were quick to write Rose off, yet friends said she turned many stereotypical opinions around once skeptics heard her interview answers.

When Rose stepped forward to answer the judges’ questions, senior English major Josie Callahan, who attended the pageant to support her friend, said she remembered hearing snickering in the audience.

“I heard this lady behind me say, ‘Oh, here we go, this stereotypical dumb blonde, this should be good,’” Callahan said.

“And when she answered the question, she was just a class act and very well spoken.”

As a latecomer to pageants, Rose, who graduated from this university last year with a degree in government and politics, said school has always been first priority.

“She’s academically brilliant;

I don’t think that’s an overstatement,” said her father, Dave Rose. “She’s very strategic, and she studies the environment she’s going to participate in with rigor.”

She blames her only C in college — thanks to failing an economics final — on the Miss USA pageant, which she watched during study breaks.

And when she competed in Miss Sinergy, Rose was juggling participation in multiple fraternities — including Delta Gamma — and a Student Government Association council.

Rose said everyone did not always believe she had it in her; as a child, she aspired to be a Hollywood actress but faced taunting from naysayers in her small hometown of Newburg telling her she was not pretty enough.

“But every day, my mom would pick me up from school and say to me, ‘What’s it like being the most beautiful girl in the world?’” Rose said. “Having someone on Team Allyn meant a lot.”

That is why participating in the pageants felt right, Rose said. While Rose’s future may not hold another contest, she said she plans to continue modeling for designer Sherri Hill and will apply to law school.

“I think my story’s helped people see you can pick yourself up by your bootstraps,” she said.

“I lost my mom in the most crucial time in my development as a woman, and I didn’t think I could do these glamorous things.” lurye@umdbk.com

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High subsidies for AD According to USA Today, the Terp athletics department gets plenty of help from university subsidies. Read more at TerrapinTrail.com.

For Williams, Nets are next Former Terp star forward selected

by New Jersey after being passed over in first round of NBA Draft

BY JOSH VITALE Staff writer

Thirty-five players heard their name called before Jordan Williams could say the same at the NBA Draft on June 23. But when the 36th pick arrived, and NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver strode to the podium at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Williams’ long-awaited validation was all but complete.

“With the 36th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft,” Silver announced, “the New Jersey Nets select Jordan Williams, from the University of Maryland.”

Forward Jordan Williams, shown during a game against North Carolina last year, was picked No. 36 overall by the New Jersey Nets in the NBA Draft on June 23. As a second-round selection, Williams is not guaranteed a contract. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Nearly two months after the former Terrapin men’s basketball team’s forward made his much-talked-about decision to leave school, Williams was officially on his way to the NBA as one of the newest members of the Nets.

“It wasn’t the first round, but it’s a huge sigh of relief,” Williams told The Washington Post on June 23. “It was tough watching, but coming out as a sophomore and being one of the youngest guys in the draft class, it’s definitely an honor. I’m just glad I landed

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