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Festivals mark Big Ten move

By Brittany Cheng @thedbk For The Diamondback After months of negotiations, Prince George’s County and MGM Resorts International have reached an agreement on the planned $950 million casino at National Harbor, which officials said will fuel an economic boon in the county and create thousands of jobs and educational opportunities for locals, including students at this university.

T he move, sig ned Ju ne 15, marks a step forward in the development of the casino, which is slated to begin construction later this summer and open by July 2016.

As part of the agreement, MGM National Harbor has agreed to meet local hiring and minority-owned business contracting goals; pledge $4 million to renovate a local school; provide college internships and youth enrichment programs; and invest $1 million in various nonprofits and schools, such as Prince George’s Community College and potentially this university. Once it opens, the casino will also donate $400,000 each year to groups that benefit Prince George’s County.

“We feel this agreement manifests our commitment to create thousands of new local jobs and provide enormous economic benefits to the people of Prince George’s County,” said Lorenzo Creighton, president and CEO of MGM National Harbor, in a news release.

Hundreds turn out for ice cream, freebies at on-campus event

By Brandie Peterson @thedbk For The Diamondback

A B1G HELLO The university began a new chapter on July 1 with a two days of celebrations for the move to the Big Ten. On June 30, Big Ten school mascots gathered in Washington (top) for a block party at Nationals Park with university officials, including Athletic Director Kevin Anderson (bottom left). The fete continued on July 1, with a festival of Big Ten-related activities, such as signing a “Think B1G” board (bottom right). For more photos, head to diamondbackonline.com. clockwise from top: christian jenkins/the diamondback, sung-min kim/the diamondback, christian jenkins/the diamondback

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Fraternities fight brunt of stereotypes

Fate of univ student, out on $10,000 bond, to be determined

By Jeremy Snow @JeremyM_Snow Staff writer

By Anjali Shastry @thedbk For The Diamondback fraternities at universities across the country are feeling the brunt of attempts to crack down on sexual assault.

University campuses have faced But members and officials at this university said prevention is their priority. christian jenkins/the diamondback scrutiny over accusations of height- Force to Protect Students From in place since 2004.

Through the Ten Man Plan and ened and unreported sexual assault Sexual Assault released guidein the Greek system, but members lines for schools on prevention, Ten Woman Plan, fraternities and of the university community said responsiveness and enforcement sororities send representatives to fraternities should not shoulder all of university policies around sexual mandatory meetings to learn about of the blame for sexual assault on assault, binge drinking and hazing. sexual assault culture and prevention T he fi rst report recom mended on college campuses. The representacollege campuses.

“We work to overcome those campus climate surveys, getting tives are given the responsibility of stereotypes constantly,” said Matt men to join the conversation and spreading the message throughout Supple, Department of Fraternity and training school officials to handle their chapters.

Christopher Frye, the InterfraSorority Life director. “Fraternities sexual assault trauma.

A t t h is u n iversity, a pl a n to ternity Council external affairs vice are supposed to be the safest place for educate students i n the Greek women on college campuses.”

In April, the White House Task system on sexual assault has been See assaults Page 3

Video of fiery student group stunt goes viral Daniel Rosenberry and the JoyRiders were at it again, looking for a thrill — this time, the university alumnus and his friends lit one another on fire to create a chain reaction.

The members executed a human fire Rube Goldberg machine, an overly complicated contraption made to do something simple, as

part of their production company, J o y R i d e r s .T V, w h i c h s h o wcases the stunts on the group’s YouTube channel.

Daniel’s brother, Jonathan Rosenberry, shot the video that went on the web about about two weeks ago, which features young men dressed in black operating a human chain-reaction machine by lighting their backs on fire. He filmed the stunt, which he said was the largest project they’ve done, in Montgomery County near

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Reported sexual assault at show sparks university dialogue

In U crusade against sex assults, Greeks blamed

By Rokia Hassanein @thedbk For The Diamondback

It was a sea of Terrapins red at Mitchell Field on Tuesday afternoon during the celebration to mark the university’s official transition to the Big Ten. Hundreds of staff, students and alumni came out in full force to support the university and enjoy the festivities, which were the only events in the transition program to take place on the campus.

“We will show the Big Ten Conference that they will fear the turtle,” university President Wallace Loh told the crowd.

Attendees received free commemorative “Think B1G” t-shirts and got to sample The Dairy’s new Big Ten ice cream flavor, which includes three types of traditional Maryland cakes, raspberry and creme de cassis Melba sauce and Triple Sec in bourbon vanilla ice cream.

At mo s phe r ic a nd o c e a n ic science graduate student Laura Dunlap said she’s looking forward to seeing the Terps play a new set of teams. Posters featuring the fall sports schedules were given for free to patrons Tuesday.

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Olney on March 31.

The group of college students got together in 2009 to create the company, putting their creative skills to work performing and producing stunts, action sports and skits now catering to roughly 1,600 subscribers on YouTube.

NBC’s America’s Got Talent saw the group’s previous viral video of Daniel Rosenberry jumping off See joyriders, Page 3

University advocates are continuing their push for more sexual assault education in light of a sexual battery charge against a university lacrosse player.

Prince William County Police arrested sophomore men’s lacrosse at t a ck m a n B enja m i n Ch i sol m on Ju ne 2 2 a f ter he reportedly laid beside a sleepi ng 49-yea r-old wom a n a nd touched her i n appropriately at a concert i n Bristow, Vi rginia. Police initially arrested Chisolm for public intoxication a nd l i n ked h i m to the sex ua l assault on T hursday after an investigation.

“We are aware of the reported incident regarding one of our student-athletes. The University takes these matters very seriously and will cooperate with authorities during their investigation,” an athletic department spokesman wrote in a statement released the same day.

A judge released Chisolm on a $10,000 bond Friday and cautioned him not to drink alcohol.

Though the incident occurred off the campus, the university’s Sexual Misconduct Policy still applies to Chisolm, Title IX Coordinator Catherine Carroll said.

The school will look into the case

Ben Chisolm “I WANTED TO USE THIS MOMENT TO INCREASE AWARENESS TO PRESSURE THE UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY TO START A DIALOGUE ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT.” OWEN SILVERMAN ANDREWS University alumnus

because the policy is part of the Student Code of Conduct, which prohibits any unethical conduct and has no geographic boundaries, Carroll said.

Until a judge sentences Chisolm, Carroll said it is impossible to speculate what his future at this university will be, but expulsion or suspension is common for those who break the policy.

Shortly after the announcement of Chisolm’s arrest, 2009 university alumnus Owen Silverman Andrews See Crime, Page 2

SPORTS

OPINION

KASINITZ: Thoughts on moving to Big Ten

GUEST COLUMN: Discussing mental health

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We need to get comfortable talking about mental illness P. 4 DIVERSIONS

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GAME TIME

By Brandi Vincent @thedbk For The Diamondback It’s a l l f u n a nd ga mes at Looney Labs.

University alumni Kristin and Andrew Looney founded the College Park-based tabletop game company in the late ’90s.

Looney games are known for their whimsical and unpredictable nature. The most popular is Fluxx; the company has sold more than 1.5 million copies of the game and its variants, including Family Fluxx and EcoFluxx.

Looney Labs also hosts a variety of playtesting events in the area to give people a chance to try out their games and provide feedback.

Dice game Cosmic Wimpout was a feature in both of the Looneys’ childhoods, and it inspired them to create their own games.

“We were both on the game’s mailing list a decade before knowing each other,” Andrew said. “And, mostly, it helped us realize that games are communitydriven in their nature and succeed through word of mouth.”

Though the couple attended this university at the same time, they didn’t meet until years later, when they both worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight

Crime From PAGE 1 said he wanted to encourage his peers and alma mater to take a stand against sexual assault. To do this, Silverman Andrews created a template letter for students and alumni to send to the u n iversity administration.

“I wa nted to use th is moment to increase awareness to pressure the univer-

The mighty sound of maryland performs at the university’s on-campus Big Ten celebration on Tuesday. The event was one of several held throughout the area to mark this university’s transition to the conference. sung-min kim/the diamondback

CONFERENCE From PAGE 1 University alumni Kristen and Andrew Looney’s College Park-based board game company Looney Labs has offered games and playtesting events since the late ’90s. PHOTO COURTESY OF BENJAMIN C. TANKERSLEY Center in Greenbelt. T here, Andrew worked as a computer programmer and Kristin worked as an electronics engineer.

The couple is very supportive of the university and stays involved with the Gamer Symphony Orchestra. The Looneys still live in College Park and said they enjoy the atmosphere of a college town.

“There’s a certain intellectualism that develops around being in the shadow of a university,” Andrew said.

For the Looneys, the best part

sity and community to start a d ia log ue about sex ua l assault,” he said.

One way university officials hope to educate students is an online course on sexual assault similar to AlcoholEdu, set to be ready by fall. Carroll said all graduate and undergraduate students will be required to take the course to learn prevention tech n iques a nd ways for victims to get support.

“This is an issue that con-

of creating games is their ability to bring people together.

“Our games bring people faceto-face to play together and have fun,” Kristin said. “That’s what we do — we manufacture fun.”

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“I’m tired of playing the ACC schools,” Dunlap said. “I’m ready for some new rivalries and some new schools.”

Though fan reactions were strong when officials announced the intention to switch conferences, atmospheric and oceanic science graduate student Cory Martin is embracing the Big Ten. “Its great. I come from a Big Ten school, so I’m glad to see that Maryland’s joining,” Martin said. “Great athletics, great academics — it’s allaround great for the university.”

Sen ior h istor y m ajor Kend a l l Aughenbaugh said she’s most looking forward to seeing the benefits of the

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, an academic network to which Big Ten membership grants entry. The CIC will offer the university a shared research system and opportunities for collaborative projects.

“It’s a big, g i a nt con sor t iu m of working together with different resources,” Aughenbaugh said.

The Terrapins football team will play its first conference game against a Big Ten opponent at Indiana on Sept. 27.

“It’s rea l ly exciti ng, a nd I th i n k it’s a really great opportunity for our school,” senior hearing and speech sciences major Mackenzie Pretty said.

“Our school is finally being recognized for our athletics, and I think that’s a great thing.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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tinues to have more conversat ion a nd more concern a ro u n d it,” s a id C r y s t a l Brown, the university’s chief com mu n icat ions of f icer.

“This is a very critical issue that campuses have to deal with and address today, but I think we’re being very responsible by putting such a priority on it.”

Silverman Andrews said he never had sexual assault education when he attended this university and a manda-

tory online class would be very beneficial.

S t e p h a n i e R i v e ro, t h e a ssi s t a nt co ord i n ator of CA R E to Stop Violence, a ca mpu s advocacy g roup, is a lso helping w ith the n e w c a mp a i g n . Sh e s a i d she hopes the cou rse w i l l prevent a ssau lts l i ke t he o n e re p o r te d i n B r i s to w from happening.

Both Carroll and R ivero said they want to make sure the lessons from the online

course resonate with students by offeri ng more support. Already, CARE to Stop Violence offers student-led courses on sexual violence, but a pilot course about sexual assault might also be created, Carroll said.

“A lot of students ta ke AlcoholEdu and just forget about it,” she said. “If we do more than just a 90-minute class, then that could make the difference or help students to take a stand.”

T he Sexual Misconduct Policy will also be updated to fit more in line with federal g u idel i nes, Ca r rol l sa id .

Additions will be made to the policy to give underage student victims amnesty if they were drinking.

“This is all in an effort to further educate and bring awareness to these issues,” Brow n sa id. “We’re ver y committed.” jsnowdbk@gmail.com

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a flaming joyriders.tv TEAM MEMBER rides a small bicycle in a human fire Rube Goldberg machine in a recent video. photo courtesy of joyriders.tv

joyriders From PAGE 1 a cliff with his back lit on fire in December. The group made the “Human Fire Rube Goldberg Machine” video after they got a call from the show to send in an audition tape for this year’s competition.

“We knew what we wanted to do ahead of time,” Jonathan Rosenberry said. “It was all about figuring it out, testing it and finding people to be in the video and behind the scenes.”

But the group had been brainstorming since February, doing research and breaking everything down in steps to figure out how to successfully prepare for and complete the stunt.

The video is already grabbing attention, picking up almost 2,000 views after two weeks on the Internet.

The participants’ academic backgrounds played a big role in preparing for the video, said

Daniel Rosenberry, a university alumnus who graduated in December with a mechanical engineering degree.

“It was helpful that a lot of our friends who helped had an engineering and physics background,” he said. “Everything we did related to what we were learning.”

The process of lighting one human on fire in the safest way possible is tough enough, but preparing to light several people on fire for a stunt like this would be an even greater challenge for the group.

The Rosenberry brothers explained that a man who had experience in lighting himself on fire had trained them to perform it safely. After that point, the JoyRiders began their own fire-lighting videos.

“Since then, we wanted to use something bigger and better, but needed a creative push,” Jonathan Rosenberry said.

Mechanical engineering alumnus Dave Tyson, who

worked behind the scenes during the video, said he was glad to be a part of the experience. Tyson had to ensure everything was safe, putting Pyrogel on the back of the last member during the video.

“I had to make sure he lit on fire, which probably isn’t what a typical buddy would do,” Tyson said, laughing. “It was a little tough not getting the glory, but it was pretty cool to see.”

Although the JoyRiders were able to complete the video and submit it a few hours before the America’s Got Talent deadline, it “seems” it didn’t make it on this year’s show because of safety concerns, according to the YouTube video’s description.

“It was a huge commitment for all our friends who helped out. We cou ld n’t have done it without them,” Daniel Rosenberry said. “We have a great team.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

president, said fraternities are used as scapegoats for sexual assault. “If something happened at a fraternity event, whether it was a member or not, they assume that it was the fraternity,” said Frye, a junior economics and environmental science and policy major. “Our chapters can always do more — this is obviously a major problem. … But it’s easy to blame a group.”

It would be naive to believe the campus does not have a problem with sexual harassment, Supple said. “ We o w n u p to t h e s e issues, ju st l i ke a lcohol and drugs and hazing. It’s

Benefits From PAGE 1 Of the $1 million MGM has pledged to the community before opening, half will go toward workforce training; $250,000 to The Community Foundation for Prince George’s County, which supports local nonprofits; and $250,000 to organizations yet to be determined, said Brad Frome, Prince George’s County deputy chief of staff and economic development aide to County Executive Rushern Baker III. This university could be a potential recipient, Frome said.

In addition, MGM will guarantee at least 10 collegelevel internships to county residents in areas such as marketing, legal services and

true, those are all problems on college campuses across t he cou nt r y,” he s a i d . “ B u t w e’v e t a k e n agg ressive responses to educate these young men about their role in changing the culture that objectifies women. We’re really doing a lot, and we could be doing more, right? If even one woman is raped on a col lege ca mpus, that’s a huge problem.”

The 2013 campus crime report showed zero “forcible rapes” have been direct ly rep or ted to Un iversity Police since 2011.

During the 2013-14 school year, however, the University Health Center’s CARE to Stop Violence helped 142 students, 120 of whom were new to the service, according to CARE to Stop

Violence intern and University of Maryland, Baltimore, graduate student Noorie Patel. She said she could not share how many students went on to file charges with P ri nce G eorge’s Cou nty Police, University Police or through Title IX. It is easy to bel ieve sexual assault is concentrated in the Greek system, but th is is not the case, Patel said.

“Sexual assaults happen on any corner of this campus. It could be through any student group.

It has nothing to do with focusing on a fraternity or sorority,” Patel said. “A lot of our clients are assaulted a nd it has noth i ng to do with fraternities.”

accounting, Frome said.

The agreement also sets county resident hiring goals at 20 percent for all construction jobs and 40 percent of all positions once the casino opens, building to an ultimate ideal of 50 percent within a five-year window. It also calls for 30 percent of MGM’s contractors to be minorityowned businesses.

So far, MGM has chosen Baltimore-based construction management company Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. to coordinate the nearly $1 billion project.

The hiring percentages were based on local unemployment numbers and public interest in casino jobs, and both parties expect local recruitment to rise over time as more residents receive the training, Frome said. “[MGM] will want to, at least

initially, look to bring folks in,” he said.

MGM will spearhead a $4 million renovation project on Oxon Hill’s Thomas Addison Elementary School — which has been vacant for about five years — and turn it into a casino job training center for county residents. Afterward, the center will be handed over to the county.

All conditions set in the agreement will be monitored by a compliance manager chosen by a five-member oversight committee.

The agreement was sent last week to the County Council — which was briefed on its contents at an earlier meeting — for approval, and the council will hold a public hearing and vote on it July 15.

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Digging for gold in South Korea University alumnus takes second place individual score, top team score in world’s first soil judging competition

By Chris Melville @thedbk For The Diamondback

tyler witkowski, a 2013 alumnus, examines a sample of soil at the inaugural International Soil Judging Competition in Jeju, South Korea. The USA-A and USA-B teams competed against 13 other teams and claimed the top spots. photo courtesy of tyler witkowski

Tyler Witkowski didn’t expect to be there.

The 2013 alumnus said he came to this university to be a mechanical engineer and couldn’t have seen himself in South Korea, let alone neckdeep in soil pits.

But Witkowski ended up earning the second-highest individual score at the first International Soil Judging

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Competition, held June 5 to 7 in Jeju, South Korea.

The soil-judging competition debuted at the 20th session of the World Congress of Soil Science, an international research conference. The WCSS competition will be held every four years and is hosted by the International Union of Soil Sciences along with the Korean Society of Soil Science and Fertilizer.

Thirteen teams representing eight countries competed. The top eight individual performers at the National C ol l e g i a te S o i l Ju d g i n g Competition held at Delaware Valley College in April were chosen to make up the USA-A and USA-B teams.

Witkowski competed on the USA-B team.

He led his team to first place and the competition’s inaugural gold medal over the USA-A Team.

The competition requires participants to analyze a 4- to 5-foot deep soil pit to make accurate descriptions.

These descriptions will then be used to help produce a soil map for the specific country.

“These [descriptions] evaluate the water soil can hold, the types of crops it’s suited for, whether roads can be built on it,” said Chris Baxter, a USA-B team coach and a University of Wisconsin-Platteville soil and crop science professor.

“The contest asks students to perform soil descriptions using limited tools and the sense of sight and touch.”

It wasn’t cheap getting to South Korea. T he Soi l Society of A merica provided $3,000 per person for the USA-A team and $750 per person for the USA-B team.

Witkowski’s remaining costs were covered by the agriculture and natural resources col lege, the u n iversity’s Environmental Science and Technology program and

contributions from individuals and organizations, said Martin Rabenhorst, soil coach for the U.S. teams.

Soil judging instruction is available to undergraduates in this university’s Environ mental Science and Technology program. Witkowski said he took immediate roots in the program because he felt uncomfortable in a larger major such as mechanical engineering. “ It fe lt l i k e m o re o f a f a m i ly s it u at i o n ,” W itkow s k i s a i d . “ E ve r yon e cared about each other.”

The professors cared too, he said. Rabenhorst has been alternating coaching the U.S. teams with university professor Brian Needelman since 1983.

“Dr. Rabenhorst and Dr. Needel ma n … ta k i ng me out and explaining soils and showing how things form,” Witkowski said. “They took us out on Saturdays; they didn’t need to do that.

R aben horst, who received a m aster’s i n soi l genesis from this university in 1978, was involved with soil judging while he was a student at this university.

The soil judging Terrapins took third overall at this year’s collegiate competition to follow last year’s first-place finish.

Although he said he “was never a farm kid,” Witkowski is working as a soil conservationist and is interested in becoming a soil scientist.

Baxter said the competition’s increased recognition will help garner international attention for soil science and conservation.

“In the U.S., we’ve been competing for more than 50 years,” Baxter said. “It’s just now catching on in other countries. That made it interesting to the World Congress, which has helped raise awareness.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Embracing all student disabilities

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t can be easy to get lost in the shuffle of a large university, especially when the university is moving to the Big Ten and dealing with pedestrian deaths on the town’s main road. However, it can be even easier to go unnoticed if you are a student with a documented or undocumented disability.

Currently, this university has about 37,000 students enrolled, and of that number, 1,700 students are registered with the university’s Disability Support Service, a branch of the Counseling Center. Students with disabilities must register with DSS to receive accommodations ranging from academic amenities to on-campus paratransit.

Despite its importance in the university community, the issue of how to properly accommodate disabled students falls aside in the midst of other news and issues. In a threepart series, The Diamondback explored facets of college life and how they are different for students with disabilities. The series touched on the academic, residential and social components of college, which are altered for students with disabilities at this university.

In a past staff editorial, this editorial board recognized that the university needs to offer specific DSS training to faculty members to properly

help students in an academic setting.

While DSS provides academic aid such as more time on exams, access to note-takers and separate testing facilities, there are other facets of a student with disabilities’ life that need to be addressed by the university to level the playing field.

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University outlets must create an inclusive environment for students with disabilities and recognize their equality.

While academics should be valued at a premium in a college student’s life, whether they are disabled or not, other components, such as social and residential, need to be fulfilled for a student with disabilities to be at a comfortable and equal level similar to their colleagues and professors.

It is not solely the university’s or professors’ responsibility to bridge the gap in settings outside of the academic realm. Instead, all people at the university should do their part to raise awareness of the difficulty in being a student with disabilities and learn how to treat them equally and fairly.

Thankfully, many are starting to take the initiative to make the uni-

versity more inclusive. According to Scott Young, Resident Life assistant director, the 15-year strategic plan for housing will provide more accessibility options in any new residential facilities, such as handicapped accessible bathrooms on each floor.

The Adaptive Technology Lab in McKeldin Library will also provide more technology options to help students handle the academic rigors.

Also, students with disabilities are taking matters into their own hands by creating the Delta Alpha Pi honor society for students with disabilities and a GPA of 3.1 or higher.

These initiatives are not just about making sure students with disabilities are well equipped in their academic lives, but are about making them feel part of this university socially, which has the potential to be overshadowed by academic concerns.

The progress in leveling the playing field for students with disabilities must not stop at the administrative level. The initiatives need to expand past office doors and into everywhere else on the campus, because if everyone at this university made an effort to make students with disabilities feel included, then students with disabilities might feel they are worth more than their labels.

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y h u s b a n d w r i te s f o r and follows a number of movie blogs and forums, and about a week ago, he came to me with a debate involving the satirical Pixar movie about a lovable, lovestruck sanitation robot, WALL-E. While making some obvious environmental statements, the movie also has some distinct public health commentary regarding technology’s effects on our need for physical activity and how that contributes to our large obesity problem (pun intended).

I’m a graduate student pursuing my Master of Public Health in community health education, focusing my research on popular culture and how movies portray public health issues and influence public opinion and behavior. So he knew I’d have an opinion.

A few forum members had a problem with the portrayal of obesity in WALL-E. They felt that showing technological progress as contributing to obesity was harsh — people worked hard within the beautiful bounds of capitalism to expand our society, build this space-bound Noah’s ark and keep humanity alive.

Should this not be praised?

My initial reaction to this debate was simple — these guys are missing the point. Since when has satire not been defined by exaggeration? Yes, portraying every human as unable to walk or move due to obesity might seem like a stretch, but is it? Completely ignoring the fact that this was more a gravitational issue of deteriorating bone mass than anything else, let’s look at the trends.

Obesity rates have more than doubled among children in the past 30 years. The way kids spend their time also has changed. With video games, computers, tablets and TV, it’s easy for kids and adults alike to stay entertained all day long without leaving the house.

Even if causation can’t be confirmed, it’s certainly not a stretch for a kid’s movie to act

Fight the mental health stigma

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psychologists and launched an educational campaign about depression.

Though these changes will hopefully increase campus awareness about mental health concerns, we as students must also be proactive about our own mental health and stand up as allies for struggling peers.

I know firsthand how uncomfortable — sometimes on the verge of terrifying — it is to discuss mental health issues with peers. Entering college, I was so depressed and anxious that I spent most of my first semester shut up in my bedroom, turning down dinner and party invitations from my roommates because I felt too compulsively worried about money, classes, my high school friends and everything in between to enjoy myself.

Fortunately, my second semester I made an appointment with a psychiatrist, received a diagnosis of generalized anxiety disorder and started a combination of medication and therapy that helped absolve me of my irrational worries. Nonetheless, I knew my anxiety would never disappear completely, and when it did emerge, I was often too afraid to talk to my friends about what I was going through.

During my junior year, however, a volatile medication caused me to hit an intense low — and I finally talked to some close friends about my anxiety issues.

I was fortunate that most of the handful of people I shared my experiences with were supportive and eager

to listen. But for those who were skeptical, even unkind, and other college students who don’t see the legitimacy of mental health issues, a quote from a 2014 USA Today series on mental health is crucial:“If I have diabetes, there is no stigma … But if my brain doesn’t work, why am I supposed to be ashamed of that?” said Rick Warren, whose 27-year-old son suffered from depression and committed suicide.

Every year, more than 1,100 college students commit suicide. We cannot ignore the numbers or the equally real crushing pain many of our peers experience on a regular basis.

By offering an indiscriminating ear to a friend in need, you can make such a difference. Whether the person is coping with depression, grappling with panic attacks or dealing with the lows of bipolar disorder, knowing he has a friend who will listen without judgment will give him unparalleled comfort. It will encourage him to seek help and instill him with hope for the future.

As mental health issues on college campuses intensify, let’s multiply our efforts to combat them. Create a dialogue, stop stigma and act as an ally.

You never know how much of an impact you will make on someone’s life.

Andi Hubbell is a senior English major and an assistant online managing editor. She can be reached at onlineumdbk@gmail.com.

as a cautionary tale with people being literally carried and blinded by technology — so blind they can’t even see the beauty of what’s in front of them.

As for being impressed by this technology, the question the movie wants us to ask is, why were these things built? In the Bible, Noah had to build the ark because man screwed up so royally that God wanted to kill everyone on the planet besides him and his family. How different is this scenario? Only this time, we destroyed the planet, not God. It’ll be hard to find anyone who thinks the point of Noah’s ark is to marvel at the ark. Sure, we made the ark and WALL-E, but only because the planet was such a mess we needed robots to clean it up because we couldn’t stay.

The point: Progress is impressive and dangerous if moving forward so quickly means that we aren’t paying attention to what we’re leaving behind. We see a problem, ignore the cause and put a technological BandAid on it without ever asking why.

This is common in our society, and public health is no exception. In my master’s program, we call this upstream versus downstream thinking.

If you see a baby floating downstream, you save it … but then you see another, and another. When do you stop just saving babies and start asking why they’re in the water?

Public health should strive to stop problems at their source.

Environmentalists want to do this too — stop waste from entering the waste stream and conserve resources. And apparently, Pixar wants us to think about it because that’s what art does — it makes you question and ponder.

Obesity is a much more complicated issue than most people care to think about, but if a movie can bring you even close to thinking about these complex issues, it’s all right in my book … or column, I guess.

Samantha Watters is a graduate student in the Master of Public Health program. She can be reached at samurai7@umd.edu.

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magine waking up in the morning with paralyzing anxiety in the pit of your stomach. It seemingly has no source — after all, school’s going OK and your family is fine. But as this sense of dread floods your body, you frantically identify a million and one reasons why nothing is right. You know you have to get up, shower and finish that take-home quiz before class, but your heavy limbs and panicked mind won’t allow you to even roll out of bed.

You’re stuck.

Unfortunately, the 1 in 4 adults between 18 and 24 coping with a diagnosable mental health disorder contend with debilitating symptoms like these daily.

Mental health disorders, such as depression, bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, are caused by a combination of genetic, biological, environmental and stress-related factors. Experts report that the severity of mental health issues among college students has increased in the past several years; for instance, the 2013 National Survey of College Counseling Centers reported that 44 percent of students who sought help at their institutions’ counseling centers had “severe” psychological problems, compared to 16 percent in 2000.

In the wake of growing mental health issues among college students, the University Health Center and the Counseling Center have hired additional counselors, psychiatrists and

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and Democratic state such as ours, the primary season often can be more competitive and important than the general election.

To illustrate just how little of the state’s population has largely decided our leaders for the next two or four years, take the 22 percent of registered voters who voted as a percentage of the state population. With only about 72.1 percent of eligible citizens registered to vote in this state, less than 16 percent of the population voted. That 16 percent had an immensely disproportionate impact on the rest of the state. This group might be representative of the opinions of all state residents, or it could be a vocal minority.

For the U.S. to be a true representative democracy, we need to exercise our right to vote. This allows the actions of the government to align closer to the wishes of the people. An extremely high voter participation rate will help prevent politicians from catering to special interests and lobbies.

But voting for the sake of voting is still not enough. We must become informed voters who cast ballots after deliberately selecting candidates we want to represent ourselves and our viewpoints. Simply selecting a random name or voting along the party line is as bad as not voting. It does not take long to do research on your candidates: Check out their websites, debates and questionnaires or find them in person.

An educated, informed electorate high in civic participation will make the government and all of society better.

About 22 percent of registered voters cast a ballot in this state’s June 25 primary. In other words, more than 2.3 million eligible voters declined to show up at the polls, either on the day of the election or during the generous early voting period. For some perspective, consider this: 20 years ago in a similarly competitive gubernatorial primary, almost 40 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.

Even in 2010, with no competitive gubernatorial primary race, 25 percent showed up.

As a government and politics major, I’m both depressed and disgusted with voters. As citizens, we all should be disgusted with the turnout. (To be fair, registered independents have an excuse for not voting; because this state’s primaries are closed, they have few, if any, races to vote for.)

Why is it so difficult for us to make the effort to vote? Or even register to vote? Voting takes a few minutes, and registering to vote requires minimal effort. State residents — and Americans as a whole — love to complain about politicians, government policies and life in general. Elections are a time to make a difference with our opinions and preferences.

You might have the right to complain about the state of political affairs, but you don’t deserve that right if you don’t vote. That Matt Dragonette is a junior government sounds harsh, but it is meant to and politics major. He can be reached be. In a heavily gerrymandered atmdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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FILMS FOR THE 4th Staff writer Michael Errigo gives his list of all-American movies to help celebrate this weekend, and Jonathan Raeder takes a look at Snowpiercer. Visit diamondbackonline.com for more.

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LASTING IMPACT | FIELD OF DREAMS

Still Dreaming Big 25 years after it was first released in theaters, baseball classic Field of Dreams is still a beautiful, cheesy, tear-jerking classic

By Dustin Levy @DustinBLevy Senior staff writer I was floored when my friends told me they hadn’t seen Field of Dreams.

And it’s not as though I hold it in the absolute highest regard, but I do consider the film — now 25 years old — an American classic.

Fittingly, my father introduced me to the film, and at the time, I viewed it as a cheesy baseball movie. But over time, I learned it’s so much more.

F i e l d o f D re a m s i s a s p o r ts movie. It’s an adaptation of W.P. Kinsella’s 1982 novel Shoeless Joe. It’s a family movie. But mainly, it’s magic.

The moment a disembodied voice tells unassuming farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner, Draft Day) those infamous words — “If you build it, he will come” — it’s

evident this movie aims to be something special.

T h a t ’s n o t to s a y F i e l d o f Dreams isn’t cheesy, because it really, really is — but in the best way p oss i b l e . T h ro u g h R ay ’s journey of following seemingly random signs, such as the voice in his cornfield or a vision on the Fenway Park Jumbotron, the film embraces its hokey nature and even makes fun of it, with characters acknowledging the ludicrousness of Ray’s actions but going along with them anyway.

On the surface, Ray puts his family’s future in jeopardy to build a baseball field for a reason he doesn’t immediately know. It’s crazy and spontaneous and stupid, but somehow director Phil Alden Robinson assembles the film perfectly. It works because the movie’s thematic foundation of unfulfilled dreams is relatable and moving,

and the film ties together the lost hopes of its characters through a love of baseball.

Costner is unobtrusive as Ray, a n d h e ’s ba l a n ce d o u t by h i s feisty, wisecracking wife, Annie (Amy Madigan, Shirin in Love).

Gaby Hoffmann (Obvious Child) plays the too-cute kid who apparently was never taught not to chew and talk at the same time, and Ray Liotta (The Identical) gets to deliver his signature cackle as Shoeless Joe Jackson. But best in show is clearly the mighty James Earl Jones (The Angriest Man in Brooklyn) as reclusive writer Terence Mann, delivering the most humorous and emotional exchanges of the film with his booming voice.

The film was released in 1989 and still feels undeniably American; even its haters can acknowledge that. Baseball, dreams, the

Midwest — can it get more patriotic? Field of Dreams is a thick slice of American cheese with a swelling score and sweeping images of Iowa, a state I associate with this film more than anything else.

And did I mention it’s funny?

Between Annie celebrating her v i c to r y ove r c e n s o rs h i p a t a PTA meeting and Ray miming a gun with his finger in his jacket pocket, it’s a shame the humor in Field of Dreams gets overlooked for its overwhelming feel-good sentiments.

To top it all off, few movies end in as pitch-perfect sentimentality as Field of Dreams, with Ray playing the game of catch with his dead father, fulfilling his own smaller, impossible dream to make up for lost time. Then the game of catch zooms out to reveal an endless line of headlights — the

“people” coming to relive their past and, I guess, to bail the Kinsellas out of financial trouble.

Field of Dreams probably won’t change your life, but it’s easy to watch and a great tribute to America’s pastime. The fact that Major League Baseball may have lost its magic since the film came out makes us all a bit more nostalgic about the days Shoeless Joe stepped up to the plate. Few movies deliver with as much remarkable ambition as Field of Dreams.

After all, would you imagine a fantasy-sports hybrid film with an outlandish plot becoming so successful?

I can’t say Field of Dreams deserves tremendous critical accolades, but it’s a movie everyone should experience before disappearing into the cornfield. dlevydbk@gmail.com

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Diversions’ Favorite Baseball Movies It’s that time of the season when the days get longer, the nights get hotter, and the Orioles start to get better only to eventually dash our hopes. In other words, it’s baseball season. Here are three of our favorite cinematic takes on America’s greatest pastime.

1.) Bull Durham

2.) Angels in the Outfield

3.) The Sandlot

Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon talk sex, superstition and life in the minors in one of the funniest movies of the ’80s.

Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown himself!) and an adorably tiny Joseph Gordon-Levitt add a hit of class to this pitch-perfect remake.

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Alyssa Thomas named ACC Female Athlete of the Year Graham Zusi, Omar Gonzalez represent U.S. in Brazil; baseball standouts receive additional awards

By Aaron Kasinitz, Phillip Suitts @AaronKazreports, @PhillipSuitts Senior staff writers Alyssa Thomas’ historic college career came to an end in April, but the former Terrapins women’s basketball forward hasn’t stopped collecting accolades.

The ACC named Thomas, a three-time All-American, its female athlete of the year on Friday. Thomas has won the ACC Player of the Year award in each of the past three seasons, and as a senior this year, she averaged 19 points and 10.9 rebounds per game to help lead the Terps to the Final Four.

Thomas is the first Terps women’s basketball player to earn the ACC Female Athlete of the Year award and the

seventh Terps woman overall to claim the honor. Florida State football quarterback Jameis Winston, the Heisman Trophy winner, was named the conference’s male athlete of the year.

“It’s quite an honor to be named ACC Female Athlete of the Year,” Thomas said in an athletic department news release. “I was grateful to be athlete of the year in my sport and this is just amazing.”

Thomas was the fourth overall pick in April’s WNBA draft and is averaging 8.8 points and 5.2 rebounds per game for the Connecticut Sun as a rookie.

The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, native left College Park as the Terps’ all-time leading scorer with 2,356 points.

“What a tremendous honor for Alyssa to close out her career being named athlete of the year in the ACC,”

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Silverman also said there would never be more than four games occurring at one From PAGE 1 time on the network, but though which networks they broadcasting two or three siwill be is not yet clear. ABC/ multaneously is a much more ESPN owns football rights to regular occurrence.

On Saturdays, cable compathe Big Ten and shares basnies, including Comcast, will ketball rights with CBS. When the Big Ten Network broadcast the most relevant launched in 2007, football local game on BTN, then create games could only be sched- one or two extra channels to uled for noon, 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. air other games being played Now, games can be staggered at the same time. The Big at noon and 3:30 p.m. in ad- Ten Network’s app, BTN2Go, provides another option for dition to prime time.

As far as deciding which network subscribers on tablets, games are played in which smartphones and computers.

In terms of basketball, Siltime slot, Silverman said time zone, stadium lighting and the verman guarantees “every ability to maintain audiences single conference games from one game to another all is televised.” The network broadcasts about 70 conferaffect the decisions.

“There’s just a lot of factors ence games every year, and that kind of go into determin- Silverman said the network ing: How do we sequence would know its basketball those games?” Silverman said. schedule in the next month

coach Brenda Frese said in the release. “There were so many memorable games and highlites [sic] in her career that she demonstrated what it took to perform at the highest level each and every night.”

TERPS AT THE WORLD CUP Two former Terrapins men’s soccer players made quite the impact on the United States’ run in the World Cup before the team bowed out with a 2-1 loss to Belgium on Tuesday in the Round of 16.

Midfielder Graham Zusi and defender Omar Gonzalez, who both played on the Terps’ 2008 national title team, started the U.S.’s final two matches of the World Cup. Zusi, who also helped the Terps win their first NCAA

to six weeks.

T h re e to f ive “ l e s s e r quality” nonconference games will be relegated to the Internet, Silverman said — “That happens for all schools.”

Silverman also expressed the network’s excitement for the Big Ten’s lacrosse season next year. With the addition of the Terps, the Scarlet Knights and the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team, the conference will have an automatic qualifier to the NCAA tournament for the first time, not to mention a couple powerhouses to back it up.

Silverman said the network’s lacrosse programming will include the conference tournament next spring.

“We’re going to do a lot more lacrosse this year than we’ve ever done,” Silverman said. dpopperdbk@gmail.com

championship in 2005, started three contests for the U.S. in the World Cup and tallied two assists. His most impactful moment came in the tournament opener, when he entered off the bench and assisted on the game-winning goal to help the U.S. top Ghana, 2-1.

Gonzalez made a late appearance in a 2-2 tie against Portugal in the Americans’ second game and did enough to earn the start in the next two matches.

This university is the only one to have two representatives on the U.S. roster.

LOWE, SHAWARYN GARNER MORE HONORS Terps baseball second baseman Brandon Lowe and right-hander Mike Shawaryn

were named to the 2014 Baseball America Freshman AllAmerica team on Monday, the third freshman All-America selection for each player in the past month.

Lowe and Shawaryn are Louisville Slugger and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Freshman All-Americans as well.

T h e Te r p s a re o n e o f six teams that had multiple players on the Baseball America All-American teams.

Lowe, a Baseball American first team freshman All-America selection, led the Terps and was second in the ACC in batting average (.348) and on-base percentage (.464). His on-base percentage ranked 46th in the nation.

A redshirt freshman, Lowe led the Terps with a .466 slugging percentage and tied with

third baseman Jose Cuas for first on the team with 42 RBIs. Shawaryn was one of four starting pitchers on Baseball American’s freshman AllAmerica second team. He led the ACC with 11 wins, also a single-season school record and tied for 13th nationally. He had a 3.12 ERA, 72 strikeouts and 24 walks.

The ACC had five freshman All-Americans and Miami designated hitter and catcher Zach Collins was Baseball America’s Freshman of the Year. The Big Ten had one honoree, Nebraska outfielder Ryan Boldt.

The Terps advanced to the Super Regionals for the first time in program history this season, in which they lost to Virginia, a finalist at the College World Series. sportsdbk@gmail.com

kasinitz From PAGE 1 in the middle of a controversy.

He’s going to make decisions that shock the country. And he’s bringing this university along for the ride.

D e l a n y ’s m o s t re c e n t notable act came less than two weeks ago, when he testified in Ed O’Bannon’s lawsuit against the NCAA. O’Bannon — a former UCLA basketball player — and other college athletes claimed they should be compensated for the use of their likenesses in video games and on jerseys, but Delany delivered a testimony in which he strongly argued against the merits of paying players.

It’s an issue many have tiptoed around. Not Delany.

He’s going to lead the charge to advocate that college athletes do not get paid. Now that this school is in the Big Ten, university President Wallace Loh is essentially signing on with those beliefs.

A few days after Delany’s testimony, the Big Ten’s presidents and chancellors released a unified statement indicating the conference would push the NCAA to change nationwide scholarship policies. The proposal claimed the Big Ten wants all universities to offer only full, four-year scholarships.

But the most important part of that statement was the real message it was sending: that the NCAA should make scholarships guaranteed and should not take any steps toward paying players.

It was a message that had Delany’s fingerprints all over

THE UNDER ARMOUR BRAND HOUSE in Baltimore shows off new Terps Big Ten gear in the front of the store at the official inaugural apparel launch Monday christain jenkins/thediamondback it. And Loh’s name was signed on the statement the conference’s presidents sent out.

Delany’s been heavily involved in other issues, too, and he’s been a trendsetter on the national scene. In a controversial move, Delany launched the Big Ten Network in 2007 after contract negotiations between the conference and ESPN broke down.

The Big Ten was the first conference to start its own television network, but after it experienced significant success early on, other major conferences followed suit.

And Delany played a major role in developing the recent rash of conference realignments when he lured Nebraska away from the Big 12 in 2010. Soon after the Nebraska

move, Colorado, Missouri and Texas A&M bolted from the Big 12. Then the Big East crumpled when Syracuse, West Virginia and Pittsburgh left that conference.

Delany got back into the co n fe re n ce rea l i g n m e n t game in fall 2012 when — you guessed it — Loh announced the Terps would move to the Big Ten. The point is, Delany is going to do things that shape college sports. His decisions will be brash, impactful and controversial.

Sometimes you’re going to agree with what he does. Other times you won’t.

Either way, the moves Delany makes from here on out will hit home at this university.

So while those clips of Iowa’s basketball team are loading, maybe we should all do some research on the guy who runs the Terps’ new conference. akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

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THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2014

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Joining Jim Delany’s Big Ten means big changes — but is the university risking its independence?

After much anticipation and varied reactions during the past year and a half, this university officially joined the Big Ten on Tuesday.

With a new conference comes unfamiliarity: new opponents, new venues and eventually new rivalries. On top of all that, the Terps will also be broadcast on a new television station: the Big Ten Network, which inked a deal with Comcast last week to provide the channel in this state and New Jersey.

On Monday morning, BTN President Mark Silverman met with the media to discuss the network’s policies and goals, particularly regarding the addition of the Terps and Rutgers, which officially joined the conference the same day. Silverman said the network will air between four and six Terps football games and as many as 20 men’s basketball games.

One of those football games is the Terps’ contest against Michigan State at Byrd Stadium on Nov. 15, scheduled for an 8 p.m. prime-time kickoff on BTN. Silverman said the network will also broadcast the Terps’ home matchup with West Virginia; the time for that game has yet to be determined.

The only other Terps football game that has both a scheduled time and a television station is at South Florida, which will start at 3:30 p.m. and air on CBS Sports Network. For nonconference road games, the home team’s conference television rights determine which station will air the game.

Additional Terps football and basketball games will be televised on other networks,

Did you feel like a new person when you woke up Tuesday morning, the day this university officially moved to the Big Ten? Maybe you hopped out of bed and sprinted to your computer to Google highlights of Iowa’s basketball team, or perhaps you couldn’t stomach breakfast because Penn State football coach James Franklin popped into your mind and made you feel sick.

But I’m guessing none of that happened.

You probably wouldn’t even have remembered that the conference switch became official on the most recent midsummer Tuesday without the school’s over-the-top marketing campaign.

There’s no doubt the move to the Big Ten is one of the most important events in this university’s history, but by now most of us are numb to it. It’s been a transition that’s lagged for more than 19 months and we’ve all spewed our emotions and delved into every angle of how the athletic culture around here is going to change.

One aspect of the conference switch has grown more relevant in recent weeks, though, and it’s one that shouldn’t get lost in the talk of ACC memories and Big Ten projections.

On Tuesday, this university linked itself to Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany and, unlike many school’s affiliations with figureheads, this connection has meaning.

Delany is shrewd. He has striking conviction, and he doesn’t mind throwing himself See kasinitz, Page 7

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany and university Athletic Director Kevin Anderson converse while clad in Terps shirts outside the Under Armour Brand Store during the company’s inaugural Big Ten apparel launch in Baltimore on Monday. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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