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Worker rights contract stalls Union, university negotiations may go on for months before agreement

By José Umana For The Diamondback Despite weeks of protests and negotiations, university officials and housekeeping employees have yet to reach an agreement on a workers’ rights contract, and those involved said negotiations could take months.

A contract protecting housekeeping employees expired June 30, but representatives from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees workers union said negotiations for a new contract have hit several stumbling blocks. The 23 union representatives, negotiating on

the “tree of life,” a handcrafted needlepoint sculpture in the Memorial Chapel, represents the chapel’s welcoming environment as part of a larger renovation. photos courtesy of catherine kapikian

Many hands, many branches They were seasoned artists and novices, bringing with them a variety of faiths and beliefs. They came together for hundreds of hours of work, and after two years, their creation is nearly complete.

The “Tree of Life,” a handcrafted sculpture featuring needlepoint foliage, will be installed in the Memorial Chapel’s West Chapel starting July 29, showcasing the efforts of

more than 75 members of the university community.

Standing 15 feet tall and 18 feet wide, the tree features a trunk and branches made of wood and 52 volunteer-embroidered tapestries. It’s part of the transformation of the West Chapel into the “Garden Chapel,” which will also include a new altar and piano.

Two years ago, the Rev. Elizabeth Platz, then a university Lutheran chaplain, began working with Stamp Student Union Director Marsha Guen-

zler-Stevens to conceptualize chapel artwork.

“It’s the sort of place where we see students coming, having quiet time,” Platz said.

“We wanted to make it welcoming for a variety of faith communities.”

They decided on a tree because it is a universal symbol for many faiths.

“The idea of growth, the idea of deep roots, the idea of flourishing, the idea of seasons, the idea of the tree as a place of healing,” Platz said. “All of those

Alumna, teacher Christina Denny wins state pageant in stride

Christina Denny wasn’t in it for the glamour, the makeup or the designer gowns.

When the university alumna was looking online for scholarship opportunities during her undergraduate years, she happened to stumble upon the Miss America Organization. The pageant appealed to the former gymnast’s love of competition, so she entered.

Several local titles later, Denny, a special needs teacher, was crowned Miss Maryland 2013 earlier this year and will vie for the title of Miss America.

When Jenni Coopersmith, a teacher at Echelon Academy in Sandy Spring, heard she would be sharing a classroom with an aspiring Miss America, she didn’t hear much else. Coming

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from a family of anti-beauty contest feminists, Coopersmith wasn’t too thrilled by the news.

But less than a year after meeting her coworker, Coopersmith found herself driving a rented van full of students more than an hour to see Denny compete in the Miss Western Maryland pageant.

“Sure, a lot of the pageant was cliche and funny,” Coopersmith said. “But Christina wasn’t. She was sincere and honest, and she brought the entire competition up to a level of intelligence and class.

It sounds cheesy, but it’s true.”

The Miss Maryland pageant, affiliated with the Miss America Organization, uses scoring based on each respondent’s on-stage interview responses, performance in evening wear, and lifestyle and fitness in a swimsuit. All contestants must

‘Her passion was dancing’ Sophomore, 19, remembered for friendly attitude

things are what prompted the Tree of Life symbol.”

Platz envisioned community involvement, so she contacted local artist and university alumna Catherine Kapikian, who specializes in community-based art, to design the tree. She painted the wooden base, and all the pieces have been delivered to the chapel to be installed.

“There are deep correspondences between engaging in a See chapel, Page 2

To many, Talaya Jones was the woman on the catwalk, dancing her heart out and performing in front of crowds.

But to people close to her, Jones was something more. For all her natural dancing ability and hard work, they say her real talent lay elsewhere. They say her real talent was in being a friend.

Jones, 19, drowned July 6 while on a family vacation in Virginia Beach, Va. Her family was at a family reunion in Spotsylvania County, Va., at the

Talaya jones drowned on a family vacation July 6. photo courtesy of christopher stokes time, her cousin Christopher Stokes said.

Born on March 8, 1994, Jones attended the Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Towson, where she was in the dance prime, a program that allowed her to focus on her passion. She See Jones, Page 2

One Stop Shop aims to snag student convenience sales

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behalf of the university’s 3,000 maintenance and housekeeping employees, had hoped to ask for additional workplace protections, including designated lunch and break areas, but discussions have stalled amid disagreements about the negotiating conditions.

The housekeepers were originally permitted to send two representatives, who would not be penalized for missing work to negotiate, said AFSCME spokesman Jeff Pittman. Twenty-one additional housekeepers had hoped to attend the negotiations but said

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christina denny, a special needs teacher, won the Miss Maryland 2013 competition earlier this year. photo courtesy of sherry rush raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network, and each has her own charity.

Denny’s charity of choice, “Special Deeds for Special Needs,” stems from her passion for teaching at Echelon, doing See denny, Page 3

It’s any entrepreneur’s dream for a friendship to become a business relationship, so opening up a convenience store in a college town was a great opportunity for the founders of the nearly five-month-old One Stop Shop.

Located on College Avenue, directly off Route 1, the convenience store is owned and operated by three childhood and college friends from northern Virginia. The manager, Bissrat Tewodros, 27, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and co-founder Rhoheen Mehra, 25, attended Virginia Tech. Both graduated with business-related degrees, Tewodros said, while the third founder, Seth Sach, 25, did not attend college.

Mehra and Tewodros met through their multicultural fraternity, Sigma Beta Rho.

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The former College Park Convenience Store is what drew the friends-turned-business-partners to the city. Sach worked in wholesale retail, providing services to the owner of the nowdefunct convenience store.

When the owner closed her store to retire more than a year ago, Sach and his friends saw a need in the university community.

“There’s a college demand [for convenience stores],” Tewodros said. “An opportunity presented itself, and we seized the moment.”

As recent college graduates, the friends feel especially connected to their patrons.

“We understand the needs of college students,” Tewodros said. “Our aim is to be as personable as possible.”

One Stop Shop sells typical convenience store items, such as cold drinks, candy, gum, chips and some school supplies. The store also sells cereal and other items less likely to be found in the average convenience store

one stop shop wants to win patrons with low prices. christian jenkins/the diamondback yet more necessary for most college students, Tewodros said.

However, Sach said the store works to emphasize its wide selection of hookah supplies and other tobacco products. The store’s Twitter account, @1StopUMD, advertises a free hookah and starter kit giveaway. The store is also offering 10 percent off nontobacco products, and employees are distributing

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creative process and the deepening of one’s spiritual life,” Kapikian said. “And that’s what’s so life-giving about a project like this.”

Kapikian designed a model using a foam core and painted paper. Fractals, repetitive geometric patterns often used in Muslim art and architecture, inspired the tree’s colorful leaves.

To assist in coordinating and teaching a crew of needlepointers, Chapel Coordinator Denise McHugh enlisted university alumna Soozie Brendler. An active member of the Potomac Fiber Arts Guild and a former stitchery instructor, Brendler was eager to take on the challenge.

Starting in February 2012, B re n d l e r a n d vo l u n te e rs

began assembling 52 kits of yarn and canvases in various sizes. McHugh asked campus c h a p l a i n s to s p rea d t h e word and recruit volunteer needlepointers.

In April 2012, Brendler hosted the first “stitch-in,” in which needlepointers gathered to work together. Members of Brendler’s guild, university students, faculty and staff, as well as the College Park Needle Arts Society, gathered in the chapel conference room or at Stamp twice a month to work, socialize and enjoy Platz’s desserts.

Brendler said teaching firsttime needlepointers the basket weave stitch was sometimes a challenge, but she said she is grateful for the people she’s met, many of whom found the lengthy process therapeutic as they shared personal struggles.

“Needlepoint can be medi-

tative and relaxing,” Brendler said. “It gives me something to do with my hands and quiets my brain.”

After the group finished the needlepointing, Brendler “ blocked” the canvases, shaping them to fit into the frames of the branches.

Meanwhile, Rockville-based carpenter Jim Doman created the wooden base and branches of the tree. It took him twoand-a-half weeks to trace and cut out the base and three layers of branches, he said.

“It’s always fun to tackle something that you don’t know if you can do it,” Doman said.

“It’s also fun when you can actually accomplish it.”

Doman’s neighbor, David LoBosco, helped him cut and sand the wooden parts of the structure. LoBosco will enter the university as a freshman

computer science major this fall and said he is proud to have worked on a project that will be displayed at his school.

“Maryland is a school that pulls together a lot of different cultures,” LoBosco said. “It was cool to build something going into Maryland that was representative of that.”

McHugh hopes the tree will foster a climate of reflection in the chapel and connect it to the garden outside.

“I think the Tree of Life has been a wonderful representation of the community coming together, individuals of all ages and different faiths, to create something beautiful for our campus,” she said.

A dedication ceremony is tentatively set for October, Platz said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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one stop shop opened on College Ave. about four months ago. The store offers traditional convenience store goods such as snacks, drinks and cigarettes at discounted prices as well as more exotic products like hookah accessories. christian jenkins/the diamondback

shop From PAGE 1 coupons on and around the campus. Tewodros said the owners aim to offer similar deals regularly. However, he said, they hope customers will come for the discounts and return for the customer service.

They aim to set themselves apart from local competitors such as 7-Eleven, CVS and Café Hookah through their personalities and prices, selling cheaper cigarettes, for example. Popular cigarette brands are roughly $1 to $2 cheaper at One Stop Shop than at 7-Eleven.

“It’s going to be stiff competition,” Tewodros said.

They also want to set themselves apart from competing convenience stores through the store’s appearance.

“We came in here [and] gave it more flair,“ Sach said.

The walls inside the store are lined with T-shirts and hookah supplies. Across the few aisles, the refrigerators hold a selection of drinks near various candies and knick-knacks. The trio decided on the store’s inventory based on customer requests when the store first opened.

Another strength of the store, according to the founders, is its proximity to Fraternity Row. As alumni of Sigma Beta Rho, Tewodros and Mehra feel a connection to students in fraternities and sororities. They hope to be especially close with the Greek community, Sach said, helping with philanthropy initiatives and other events.

They also hope to be able to connect with the college-town community through service and other forms of aid. The store operators work closely with the DC Central Kitchen — a community food-recovery network — delivering leftover goods

from the One Stop Shop and other Route 1 establishments such as Bagel Place.

“It not only gives back, but it gets our name out there,” Tewodros said. “We just want to help somebody.”

One Stop Shop saw a good amount of business from students when it opened in March, Tewodros said, and while the store has seen less success in the summer, “everything takes a little time.”

The store is open until midnight on weeknights and 3 a.m. on weekends, Tewodros said.

While it’s difficult to compete with nearby stores that are open 24 hours, Tewodros said the trio still has high hopes for its future.

“It’s a challenge, but we’re motivated by our day-to-day customers,” he said. “I need every customer that comes in.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

graduated from the program in 2012, before moving to College Park for the summer to take part in this university’s Academic Achievement Program.

She began to make an impact on the students around her from her arrival on the campus, quickly befriending her summer ro o m m a te , so p h o m o re criminology and criminal justice major Alecia Frye, as well as other members of her AAP family.

Frye stressed this university was Jones’ dream school, her “No. 1 pick,” and that she couldn’t have been happier when she was officially accepted at the end of summer 2012.

And for as much as Jones loved the school, the school loved her in return. “ S h e to u c h e d e ve r y person that she came in contact with. Every person was impacted by her,” Frye said. “She just had that type of personality. She was everyone’s best friend.”

While at the university, Jones joined the Echelon Fashion Society, a multifaceted organization focused on helping students break into the fashion industry.

Davian Morgan, a senior criminology and criminal justice and sociology

the tree of life, a sculpture made from needlepointed canvas and wood, is due to be installed in the Memorial Chapel’s West Chapel on July 29. photo courtesy of catherine kapikian

major who first met Jones at her audition for Echelon in September, said the organization was a great fit for her and an opportunity to show off her talent.

“Watching Talaya at practice, I could definitely tell that her passion was dancing,” Morgan said. “It was something that she was amazing at and gave her all to.”

Another Echelon member, senior architecture major Janae Edley, who also attended the Carver Center, said she felt an attachment to Jones, as they were the only two Carver graduates in the Echelon club.

“Whoever’s life she walked into — anyone who met her — felt loved,” Edley said before reminiscing about one practice where the “Carver Kids” — she and Jones — walked down the runway together in their distinctive Carver style.

In her freshman year, Jones was placed in a quad-sized dorm room along with fellow AAP members — a group that bonded throughout the year despite its potentially uncomfortable living quarters.

“People knew us because we we re ro o m m a te s. We would all hang out together all the time,” said Johanna DeGuzman, a communication major and one of Jones’ roommates. “Cambridge 1202 — that was us.”

“This has taught me that you really can never take your roommates for granted. You’ve got to cherish the connection

“every person was impacted by her ... She just had that type of personality. She was everyone’s best friend.”

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you have, cherish the moments you share,” DeGuzman said — moments like when Jones would take a study break by sprawling in the middle of their floor with her blanket making snow angels, a moment DeGuzman said she will carry with her forever.

This summer, Jones worked as a bagger at a Giant Food, as well as at Loftin Love Christian Daycare in Windsor Mill and as an assistant instructor in an introductory dance class and summer camp at Studio A Modeling, Etiquette and Dance Academy in Randallstown.

She planned to train over the summer and reaudition for this university’s dance team this fall, DeGuzman said.

Jones was a business major at the university but was still figuring out her career path and interests, Frye said.

Jones’ survivors include her father, Troy Jones; mother, Wanda Jones; and her older brother, Michael Wedington Sr. A funeral service for Jones was held July 11 at St. Bernardine Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore. newsumdbk@gmail.com

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denny From PAGE 1 volunteer work and working one-on-one with individual students as an applied behavioral analysis therapist.

“A l o t o f t i m e s , w i t h special needs kids, it’s sort of ‘out of sight, out of mind.’

Not everyone thinks about these issues every day, but I think it’s important to make it known that these people deserve equality — in sports, education, arts, in everything,” Denny said. “I try to tell everyone that they’re people too. We should be working towards giving everyone equal opportunity.”

Denny began participating in local pageants while studying hearing and speech sciences at this university.

A s s h e b e ca m e m o re i n volved, she said, she appreciated the Miss America program even more.

“It offered me an amazing chance to perform onstage, gain interview skills and gain confidence,” Denny said. “I was never a musical performer onstage until I started competing in pagea n ts, a n d n ow I h ave a vo c a l c o a c h a n d s i n g i n competitions.”

Denny’s mother, Sheryl Denny, said she has seen her daughter grow substantially since she first began competing in pageants — particularly in her interview skills. “ S h e ’s l ea r n e d h ow to rea l ly s p ea k c l ea rly a n d answer questions concisely.

She’s incredibly well-spoken now,” Sheryl Denny said.

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“She’s learned how to really speak clearly and answer questions concisely. She’s incredibly well-spoken now … She’s fearless” SHERYL DENNY

Mother of Christine Denny, Miss Maryland 2013 was, but now it’s even more evident, up there in front of the judges.”

Though Christina Denny will dedicate the next year to Miss Maryland commitments and preparing for the Miss America competition, students and teachers said they won’t forget her teaching style.

De n ny gave m o re t h a n expected in her work with students, Coopersmith said.

He r e f fe c t ive m e t h o d s i n co r p o ra te d m u s i c i n to her lesson plans whenever possible, and she often sang with students and even participated in their winter concert.

When this university’s popular “Gangnam Style” parody came out, Denny showed it to her students on the classroom’s interactive whiteboard.

“You’ve got a bunch of new Terps fans, thanks to her,” Coopersmith said, laughing.

Denny, who graduated in spring 2012, said that after the pageant fun is over, she wants to return to school for a master’s in speech pathology.

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CORRECTION Due to editing and reporting errors, a July 3 article, “Housekeepers protest work conditions,” incorrectly stated a contract negotiation was scheduled for July 6. The negotiation was scheduled for July 9.

workers From PAGE 1 t h ey d i d n o t re c e ive a timely response from the university as to whether they would be paid their regular wage while away from work. Some university supervisors told employees they could attend the negotiations without penalty, while others made no such promise and told housekeepers they would need to use their vacation time, which workers’ advocates said is especially valuable as workers have to earn it through tenure.

“Not one other public university had ever had the gall to tell workers at a university they had to use their own vacation time to n e go t i a te ,” P i t t m a n said. “Housekeepers, like all other UMD employees, want to be respected by UMD management for the job they do to make higher education happen.”

However, university officials contend there was a miscommunication, and they never intended to force the additional workers to use their vacation time to attend the negotiations.

Permission to include the additional workers in the negotiations was granted on July 8, a day before the negotiations were originally scheduled to begin.

“When there was no immediate reaction to [the request], that’s what then prompted the assertion that the university was trying to use their vacation time to bargain,” said university Administration and Finance Vice President Carlo Colella, who is involved with the negotiations. “That is not a fair representation of the facts.”

Colella also said worker c l a i m s t h a t t h ey we re forced to eat their lunches

university housekeepers protested poor working conditions and called for higher wages in front of Stamp Student Union several weeks ago. The negotiations between workers and the university could last for months, officials said. file photo/the diamondback in cleaning supply closets were overstated as well. No worker was explicitly forced to eat in closets, and a memo was sent to university employees in June highlighting specific lounges and rooms where workers could eat on their lunch breaks, though workers still say a lack of respect remains.

Workers protested what they called a lack of respect at a June 27 rally, but some workers were allegedly too afraid to attend the rally or speak out in favor of the negotiations.

“Tenure means everything here, from better wages and benefits,” said Edward Marquez, a warehouse employee.

According to a June 27 letter delivered to university President Wallace Loh, the workers are asking for wages without parking costs deducted and better working conditions, including lunch areas, airconditioned and well-lit work spaces and adequate uniforms and training. However, Colella declined to discuss which benefits are now on the table for discussion.

“I don’t think it is appropriate to talk about the items

that are on the negotiations, but I can tell you that we are at the outset of the negotiation process,” Colella said. “I can assure you that the university’s representatives are very interested in getting an acceptable agreement and will continue working in good faith to do so.”

William Pugh, assistant director for staff relations programs, also declined to comment on the negotiations.

Colella said there is no set timetable for the negotiations and they will go on as long as the two groups continue to disagree.

“Parties could become reasonable and make modest changes, making agreements wrap up rather quickly,” he said.

“Sometimes, one or both parties have more challenging demands and working to make an agreement takes some time based on what the demands are.”

The university has hired Jay Krupin, an attorney with Washington-based firm BakerHostetler, to negotiate on its behalf.

The AFSCME representatives said they hope to move forward in discussion with the university soon, Pittman said.

“housekeepers, like all other umd employees, want to be respected by umd management for the job they do to make higher education happen.”

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AFSCME communications director

“AFSCME members want to get on with negotiating substantive issues and stop the silly bickering,” Pittman wrote in an email. “We feel that we have aggressively attempted to move negotiations forward.”

Ana Lovo, a sophomore secondary education and Spanish major, said she hopes the negotiations end up benefiting the housekeeping staff better than they have in the past.

“I know the shifts they work, and I know they get tired,” Lovo said. “They definitely need to have better working conditions. If I were the university, I would make the [housekeepers’] job a little easier and pay them a little more because of their hard work.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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The (human) right track W orkers at this university began bringing forward allegations of workplace abuse more than two years ago now. Some of these claims include horrifying reports of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, as well as accusations of racial biases.

And although officials have assured the university community they are taking steps toward remedying the situation, months of evidence show they are simply trying to placate the public and administrators are not prioritizing worker safety.

In the meantime, student and faculty coalitions, such as Justice at Maryland and the Black Faculty and Staff Association, have persistently championed efforts to help on-campus workers. Forums, rallies — including one at the end of last month — petitions and plans have come before the administration.

Most of these efforts have been met with the same response: The university takes incremental steps that administrators then tout as progress or action. In reality, these supposed updates only put further strain on the relationship between university officials and those advocating changes to workers’ treatments.

The most recent example of officials’ habit of delaying real fixes is the issues of fairer wages and, primarily, more respect.

University administrators claim to be working on negotiations with housekeepers, who are coming forward with tales of abuse and mistreatment. Yet these negotiations seem to be stalled, even as administrators make statements assuring they will work to “provide better accommodations” or that “safety measures [are] being put in place.”

Though these officials have assured

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everyone things are under control, workers at this month’s rally said many of their peers were too afraid of the abuse supervisors are allegedly inflicting upon them to attend the rally. These supervisors appear to be the very same people university officials are protecting — the ones who abuse and frighten their employees.

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University employees made allegations of workplace abuse more than two years ago; it’s high time students make the administration listen.

With all the years of workers’ confrontations and public complaints, administrators don’t seem to have time to protect the rights of the abused employees — just to propose piecemeal solutions that accomplish next to nothing. For instance, when the BFSA submitted a 56-page report just more than two years ago detailing workplace abuse with suggestions on how to eradicate the problems, the administration issued a report that outlined merely nine different steps to improve the working environments in Facilities Management and Residential Facilities. And to date, officials have yet to accomplish even half of the steps.

There are major rights all people should be afforded — to have to go to work fearing degradation and lessthan-human treatment is understandably discouraging for workers.

Any abuse similar to the alleged incidents is clearly immoral, so why there haven’t been immediate, tangible responses to the multiple

reports of mistreatment is a mystery and should be a constant source of consternation for students, workers and administrators alike.

Last summer, this editorial board explained it was angry about the abuse workers on this campus are forced to endure. And our standpoint has not changed. It is reprehensible that these issues have not been resolved. We called for everyone to come together and make university officials see this is an important issue to fix. And today, we ask the same of students.

All university workers — in fact, all people in general — deserve a basic standard of care. And that’s something administrators are not providing for them. If we, the students paying for our education here, make a point of showing officials this is something they cannot get away with pushing under the rug, we can make a change.

In 2009, more than 600 students marched to the administration building to protest the termination of then-Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity Cordell Black. And though Black was never reinstated after months of talks with administrators, the university appointed a chief diversity officer just more than two years later, proving that officials recognized how important it was to students that they not sacrifice diversity administrators for the budget.

That was about a staffing decision, and students made a difference.

But this case is a matter of workers’ basic rights as human beings. So it appears students have the burden of constantly demanding change, if the administration isn’t willing to take the necessary steps to enact it.

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Losing weight right CAROLINE CARLSON When I was in high school, my weight fluctuated. I would go through losing 25 pounds sophomore year to gaining it all back (plus more) my senior year.

Although not getting enough sleep and stressing myself out all the time didn’t help me become a healthier, thinner person, my parents’ approach to weight loss was anything but supportive.

I can easily remember those miserable conversations I used to have with my mother, who would constantly compare my sisters’ thinness to my chubbiness in order to somehow motivate me to eat less and run more.

At the end of the day, that method only stressed me out more, and, if anything, made me rely on eating endless amounts of food to make myself feel better.

Earlier this week, a United Nations report confirmed that Mexico, not the United States, tops the list of the most overweight industrialized nations. Though this may be a positive step for our country, health experts haven’t hesitated to point to another recent study released by the University of Washington. This study showed that, although on average women and men have been exercising more, obesity rates in this country are still climbing.

Though hundreds of ways to lose weight — from food delivery programs to pills — are marketed to us, it seems our country, especially our younger generation, has an image problem.

As I remind myself how high school was no walk in the park, I’ve come to realize we really suck at finding the proper way to tell people how to be healthy.

Instead of stressing health and nutrition, we’ve irresponsibly compared members of Generation Y to thin celebrities in order to get them on the treadmill. “Fat” and “gro-

tesque” have replaced “unhealthy.”

There are solutions to solving our country’s growing obesity problem without making more young people believe they shouldn’t eat anymore.

Why is it so necessary to bring this up now? Just in 2012, a Dove Skincare survey found that one woman in eight believes she’s attractive — with only one in four unable to remember the last time someone’s compliment made her feel attractive. Even internationally, 54 percent of girls ages 12 and 13 in the United Kingdom disturbingly say they want to lose weight.

As much as activists and Dove advertisements stress how big of an issue our distorted perception of beauty is, parents don’t do enough to use that message when confronting our country’s obesity problem.

I am in no way supporting a weak approach to health advocacy — no one wants to be too lazy or lenient in promoting health and wellness. Rather, I think a moderate approach solves two of our country’s growing issues at the same time: obesity and self-esteem.

Though recent obesity rates are alarming to look at, there’s no reason for us to play the blame game by providing people with unrealistic weightloss goals. Stressing an impossible goal of being just as skinny as your fellow celebrity may result in the adverse effect of young people relying on food consumption as their therapy. And the last thing we need is an even higher obesity rate.

Young people should be the primary target — we’re a vital generation dealing with increases in obesity, highly targeted marketing campaigns and consistent photo updates on our Facebook walls by someone who may be a size zero.

An efficient weight-loss strategy based on emotional and physical health may be the best way to prevent future generations of girls and boys from dealing with the same experiences I went through. What we need is not only to be healthy but to feel healthy.

C a ro l i n e C a r l s o n i s a j u n i o r government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at caroline.crlsn@gmail.com.

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All-nighters aren’t enough anymore ERIK SHELL Incoming freshmen and oblivious upperclassmen, listen up: As if the job market was not hard enough in one of the worst economic times since the Great Depression, the recent increase of Stafford loan interest rates now requires students with financial need to pay double the interest on degrees that no longer guarantee employment after graduation.

It used to be that those with a high school diploma could not only receive a well-paying job but could buy a house and support a family as well. Now you can barely push buttons at a desk from 9 to 5 without an irrelevant degree to verify some unrelated skill.

All this is to paint a beautiful picture of the life waiting for you outside the university. Don’t let the reports fool you: There are tons of jobs out there.

You could go to any one of your favorite blogs, news sites, radio stations, university departments or local businesses and find there’s something that needs doing.

The problem is that, because of “degree inflation,” more qualified people are fighting for these jobs than ever before. We are in a job market

melee, and it’s all the B.A.’s for themselves. This column is meant to give you a snapshot of the “new college students”: those who will get your desired job straight out of college. You will not like them.

But like it or not, the days of the “pull an all-nighter to start, finish and edit that paper” student are dead; you’ll find that method burned and buried right next to your job prospects.

New college students know their fields. This does not mean they rush headlong into the first class they kind of liked. They shoot broad, find what lights them on fire and hunker down for the long haul, because, despite #YOLO, life is long and retirement is becoming a funnier and funnier joke by the minute.

New college students are also absorbing massive amounts of information. They use RSS feeds, follow professional Twitter accounts, “like” Facebook pages and maintain a vibrant online presence. All of these allow information to come to you, making endless searching for work and news a thing of the past. These resources let you stay on the Internet and still be productive, a winning combination if there ever was one.

The new college students are also in their professors’, TAs’ or administrators’ offices. They know people in

places you want to go, and a surprising number of opportunities have come about through casual conversation and other moments of happenstance.

Finally, and most importantly, the new college student diversifies. The days of specialization are over. Basic software coding ability is quickly catching up to literacy, and it’s safe to say computers aren’t going anywhere.

The new college student recognizes the important parts of his or her field but is also learning how to sell that double major as more than just a credit-filler.

It took pressing the reset button on my college career to really start to understand the vault of resources within and connected to academia. Much like the business world, there will be those who lock into the changing system and those who punch in their hours and run. Except, in the metaphorical business office, they just received 1,000 new applicants for 20 openings and an uncomfortable number of them went to Harvard.

New college students will stop complaining about academic inflation and instead, step up to it, surpass it and, in so doing, watch their careers take off because of their efforts.

Erik Shell is a junior classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at erik1434@gmail.com.

and thus don’t borrow as much, fewer students will need to use the IBRP. In addition, students in majors that generally lead to higher-paying jobs may be hesitant to choose the plan. It will base payments on a percentage of salaries, not on tuition costs. Because of this, students with higher-paying jobs will pay more money than students with lower-paying jobs. Further, because the plan is based on the assumption payments from graduates with higher incomes will make up the losses on payments from graduates with lower incomes, wealthier students may end up not using the plan, and the state could end up losing money. It would be a classic example of adverse selection, much like sick people’s increased willingness to buy health insurance and careless people’s higher likelihood of buying warranties for their electronics.

Based on these arguments, detractors claim the system is inherently built to fail — and they may be right. The system could unduly hurt lower-income individuals who will still struggle to pay for textbooks, housing and food.

However, these arguments all seem like stretches to me. Though adverse selection may occur, students who expect to earn more money will likely also inherently be willing to pay more money for their tuition — it’ll be worth a greater return on investment. The lowincome individuals who would be faced with post-graduation payment burdens possibly wouldn’t have been able to pay for tuition at all — and the plan will leave less of a burden on them .

There will be fewer burdens on them because even though the plan isn’t comprehensive, it does help ease the repayment burden for these students, many of whom need any help they can get. Instead of borrowing for all their college costs at heavy interest rates, they will be able to at least defer their tuition — and in these cases, every dollar counts. The plan may need work, but it’s definitely worth a try.

Recently, the Oregon legislature approved a program that would allow students to agree to pay a percentage of their income every year after graduation for a set number of years to the state government instead of paying their tuition up front. In other words, any interested student would be able to have a debt-free payment plan for his or her college tuition.

All of the hype about this plan has led to a large number of misconceptions about it. First, it is not even close to being a common practice; when Oregon’s Gov. John Kitzhaber signs the bill, a commission will begin developing a program to be implemented in 2015 to test the procedure for introducing the program statewide.

Second, the bill only covers tuition; students would still need to find alternate means to pay for housing, food and textbooks. Finally, the bill is not abolishing tuition entirely; it’s simply creating an alternate payment plan for students who would use it.

And not all students necessarily would use it. Though the plan would eliminate some amount of student loan debt, it wouldn’t get rid of it entirely — for some students, it would possibly make it worse. In the current system, former students can agree to pay 15 percent of their salaries toward tuition debt each month for 25 years, at which point any remaining debt will be forgiven.

Under the current system, students can use the Income Based Repayment Plan to limit their repayment to only 15 percent of their income each month and have any remaining debt be forgiven after 25 years. Under the proposed system, students would have to pay the state for tuition after graduation in addition to any interest owed on additional debt. However, if Ezra Fishman is a senior accounting students who use the proposed plan and finance major. He can be reached don’t need to pay their tuition upfront at ezra.fish@gmail.com.

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Special care should be taken this week whenever one chooses to repeat a past success -- mere repetition may be impossible at this time, and carelessness may result when one tries too quickly to do what has been done a great many times before. One must try to avoid that kind of behavior this week!

CANCER (June 21-July 7) -- You may find that something that was only “ho-hum” to you in the recent past is now virtually irresistible. (July 8-July 22) -- It may be nearly impossible to reverse certain trends, so why not jump on the bandwagon and enjoy yourself?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 7) -- That which looked good to you last week is almost certain to look even better to you now.

An old comrade comes to you with an answer to your prayers. (Aug. 8-Aug. 22) -- You’re likely to feel a great deal of desire for something or someone that you’ve hardly noticed in the past.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 7) -- You may have cause to count your money again and again -- and to ask yourself where it may have gone. It’s time to economize. (Sept. 8-Sept. 22) -- Your methods may come under some scrutiny from someone who has you in his sights.

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REVIEW | PACIFIC RIM

monsters exterminated Is Pacific Rim stupid? Of course it is. But it more than delivers the spectacular big-budget summer movie thrills it promises.

By Robert Gifford Senior staff writer Guillermo del Toro’s (Hellboy II: The Golden Army) Pacific Rim is exactly the movie it promises to be.

It seems to have sprung wholesale from the mind of a child mashing his action figures together in a sandbox and daydreaming about how freaking cool it would be if his toy Optimus Prime and toy Godzilla were life-sized and destroying downtown Hong Kong rather than sand castles in the backyard.

In other words, it’s a big, dumb, loud and extremely entertaining festival of exquisitely rendered CGI destruction. It often feels as if it was written by a

12-year-old, but perhaps that’s exactly what makes it work: It’s an almost Proustian experience, inspiring a nostalgic reverie for the days of youth when morality was black and white, the good guys always won and your biggest dilemma was whether Luke Skywalker or Batman was cooler.

There are some humans in the film. They are either serious, square-jawed people with ridiculous names, such as Raleigh Becket or Stacker Pentecost, played by the likes of Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) and Luther’s Idris Elba (still looking for the right role to catapult him to richly deserved

stardom), or they are extremely broad comic relief, such as Charlie Day’s (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) fast-talking nerd or the hulking gangster played by del Toro favorite Ron Perlman (also of Sons of Anarchy).

However, the real stars are, of course, the massive Jaegers and Kaiju — or, respectively, the giant robots and giant monsters. No sane person will enter the theater hoping the film thoroughly explores Hunnam’s (an actor with the charisma of a Tom Cruise cardboard cutout) rivalry with another Jaeger pilot, who seems to exist mostly because the hero’s supposed to have a rival, right?

No, you go to see Pacific Rim because you want to see big-ass robots

beat up big-ass monsters. And oh, how it delivers: A robot uses a cargo ship as a baseball bat; a flying monster picks up a robot and drops it from miles up in the sky; and so on. In short, it’s pretty awesome.

Del Toro avoids the pitfalls that doom so many other summer blockbusters.

Unlike Michael B ay ’s Tra n s formers, Pacific Rim is coherently shot such that it’s usually easy to tell what is actually happening on-screen and how one shot relates to another.

(These are the low standards of modern action filmmaking.)

Unlike Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, del Toro doesn’t simultaneously exploit the imagery of 9/11 and render the tragedy completely bloodless — in Pacific Rim, people die and c i v i l ians powerlessly huddle in bunkers a s i f they’re waiting out the blitz.

There’s actually a sense that there’s a cost to all this destruction, unlike so many films that portray righteous violence as free of consequence.

That’s not to say the film is perfect. Every scene that focuses on people rather than robots and monsters is downright awful, like something Tony Scott left on the Top Gun cutting-room floor after deciding it was a bit too cliche. For some reason, nearly every action scene is shot at night in torrential rain, occasionally reducing Jaegers and Kaiju to big gray silhouettes. The comic relief is often cringe-worthy.

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outfielder greg olenski is one of eight Terps players leaving the team to pursue other opportunities.

departure From PAGE 8 hopes to be drafted next summer. Olenski will transfer to Delaware and said he has applied for a waiver to be eligible to play next season.

“Things just didn’t work out,” Olenski said last night at the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game in Bethesda. “But you know, one door closes another door opens, so we’ll see what happens.”

Each player on the roster, including the eight who ultimately decided to leave the team, met with the coaching staff at the end of May

deadline From PAGE 8 expected to bump up to the No. 1 slot.

“It’s an honor to be a Friday-night guy anywhere,” Stinnett said. “Hopefully I can just be a good leader for the team and get some wins. I want to be a good example for the younger guys, especially.

I know Jimmy, last year … he really helped out the younger guys on the pitching staff and on the team. He’s a great leader, so hopefully I can fill his shoes.”

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to discuss where they stood with the squad, the individual said. After those meetings, six players opted to leave the squad to pursue other options.

Olenski and Moore both decided to leave the team about a week ago, the individual said. Olenski was initially considering staying with the Terps but ultimately realized other options would provide more opportunities for playing time and development. Moore’s decision to leave was based largely on undisclosed personal reasons.

Hockaday and Olenski both played in the Ripken League All-Star Game last night, and Olenski won a pregame home run derby. Hockaday, a 14th-

round Baltimore Orioles draft pick in 2011, is batting a leaguehigh .386 for Youse’s Orioles, while Olenski ranks second in both home runs (5) and RBIs (23) for the D.C. Grays.

Hockaday started all 56 games as a freshman in 2012 and batted .305 for Bakich.

This spring, he batted .286 in 36 games. He was a highly touted recruit out of Bel Air’s John Carroll School, where he broke New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira’s Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association home run record.

In late April, Hockaday was suspended indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules. The Joppa native was reinstated two weeks later but

After a junior season similar to that of Stinnett’s — both pitchers started in the bullpen and made successful switches to the starting rotation midway through the season — Reed was selected in the 21st round of the 2012 draft by the New York Yankees.

The lefty returned to school for his final year, just as Stinnett has decided to do.

Reed had a dominant season in which he compiled the seventh-best ERA in the ACC (2.33) and dramatically improved his draft stock.

“You saw what happened to Jimmy last year,” Stinnett

said. “Hopefully something like that will happen to me because I know Jimmy is really happy about how that worked out with him.”

Two of the Terps’ high school signees, right-hander Michael Shawaryn and catcher Nick Cieri, will be joining the Terps in the fall, despite being drafted. The Kansas City Royals selected Shawaryn, and the San Francisco Giants selected Cieri in the 32nd round, but both remained unsigned at the deadline.

Shawaryn and Cieri are part of a strong freshman class that, along with the

never returned to his freshman form. The individual said the suspension played a major role in Hockaday’s decision to not stay on the squad.

“I’ll train a bunch and try and work my way back to just level ground and try to get drafted,” Hockaday said last night.

Bosse was a local product out of Baltimore’s Calvert Hall College High School, where he was known for his power, hitting a school-record 16 home runs his senior season. He flashed that power his freshman season with three long balls in 34 games (12 starts), but his playing time decreased under Szefc — he played in only 17 games in 2013.

Ramsay was a key part of Bakich’s 2010 recruiting class that Baseball America ranked No. 25 nationally. He and second baseman Kyle Convissar both came out of Severna Park as the top two recruits in the state.

The Terps received some good news Friday, though, when center fielder Charlie White and right-hander Jake Stinnett — projected to be the team’s top starter next spring — passed on p ro fe ss i o n a l ca re e rs to return to the team.

Senior staff writer Aaron Kasinitz contributed to this report. sportsdbk@gmail.com

current squad, has the 2014 Terps poised to improve on last year’s result. Szefc will be returning a vast majority of his starters — the Terps only lost three seniors on the entire roster — and the former Kansas State coach has his first year in the ACC under his belt.

Most importantly, though, the players are hungry for the postseason.

So hungry, pro ball can wait.

“I’m excited to get back to work,” White said. sportsdbk@gmail.com

former Terps guard Logan aronhalt shot 43.4 percent from three-point range in his only season with the Terps. He signed a contract to play in Italy. file photo/the diamondback

aronhalt From PAGE 8 was just living the life,” Aronhalt said. “I couldn’t give it up.”

So he decided he would do whatever it took to continue playing the sport. On Monday, he signed a 10month professional contract with Assigeco Casalpusterlengo, a team in the third tier of competition in Italy.

Aronhalt, who averaged six points per game and shot 43.4 percent from threepoint range in 14.2 minutes per game last season, said he’s itching to get back onto the court. He’ll fly to the Italian city of Casalpusterlengo on Aug. 15, and the team’s season begins in early October.

Though Aronhalt will be playing professionally for the first time, he’ll be one of the older players on Assigeco Casalpusterlengo — similar to

his standing on a young Terps squad last season — and he anticipates being a focal point of the team’s offense.

“Any time they bring over an American player, I think they expect him to be able to score,” Aronhalt said. “I’m expecting to get the green light.”

While the Terps used the Zanesville, Ohio, native primarily as a perimeter-shooting specialist last season — he recorded 63 3-pointers and hit only 14 shots inside the arc — Aronhalt has shown the ability to be a well-rounded scoring threat during his college career.

He made more two-point field goals than 3-pointers during his final two years playing for Albany, and he averaged a career-high 14.6 points per game as a redshirt sophomore.

Aronhalt won’t only feel comfortable as a scoring threat on the floor; he’ll also be accustomed to his new surroundings off the court.

Aronhalt took two trips to Italy during high school to play in basketball tours, and during one of them, he stayed with a host family that spoke very little English. He doesn’t know much Italian, but he was able to communicate with them. And he didn’t have any trouble adjusting to Italian cuisine, either.

“I had a lot of fun there, and I can’t wait to go back,” Aronhalt said. “The food was probably my favorite part, but I have to watch what I eat a little more now.”

Still, Aronhalt isn’t headed to Europe to enjoy pasta and chicken cutlets. He’s there to build a professional career.

In Italy, incoming players often start in the thirdtier league, like Aronhalt will with Assigeco Casalpusterlengo. Players are able to move up into the higher divisions, as Aronhalt hopes to do by performing well this season.

“I’ll be playing in the lower league, but the top division is very good,” Aronhalt said.

“This gives me a chance to get my foot in the door over there, and hopefully I can work my way up.”

This time last year, Aronhalt wasn’t sure he’d want to continue playing basketball competitively. But now his back is healthy — he rested for three weeks after the season — and he’s ready to immerse himself in training for the professional season in Italy.

Aronhalt isn’t sure how his future will unfold. But after his year playing with the Terps, he’s just glad basketball is a part of it.

“When I was out there this year, I felt a rush that you just can’t match with anything else,” Aronhalt said. “Every single game was a constant reminder that this is what I love to do, and I want to do it as long as possible.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Eight players won’t return to program Local prep stars Hockaday, Bosse leaving

By Daniel Popper Staff writer

center fielder charlie white passed up the New York Yankees after being drafted to return to the Terps and College Park. file photo/the diamondback

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White, Stinnett forgo pro careers for another try at postseason berth

By Daniel Popper Staff writer Charlie White had his dream come true almost six weeks ago.

With the 884th overall pick in the 29th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, the New York Yankees selected the Terrapins baseball center fielder.

All he had to do was a sign a contract prior to the July 12 signing deadline, and he would become a professional baseball player. His lifelong fantasy would become a reality.

But there was something stopping White from signing that piece of paper: unfinished business.

“We have a core group of players that are coming back, and we all have the same goal in mind,” said White, a redshirt junior. “In my three years at Maryland so far, we haven’t made the postseason, and that’s something that was one of my goals

coming in: making it to the postseason and having success there.”

White was not alone, though. The Pittsburgh Pirates had selected Terps right-hander Jake Stinnett in the same round, 15 picks earlier. But the hardthrowing starter also passed up an opportunity to play professional baseball in order to return to Maryland.

“I love UMD, and I love playing there,” Stinnett said. “We have a great group of guys, great coaches, and I just have a lot of fun there.”

Stinnett will move into a more prominent role on coach John Szefc’s pitching staff with the departure of ace left-hander Jimmy Reed, whom the St. Louis Cardinals selected in the sixth round of the draft.

Szefc will expect Stinnett to return to his late-season form from this spring, when he developed into a consistent strike-thrower and arose as the clear-cut No. 2 starter in the weekend rotation. Now he can be See deadline, Page 7

Eight members of the Terrapins baseball team, including third baseman K.J. Hockaday and outfielder Greg Olenski, will not return to the program next season, an individual with knowledge of the situation said yesterday.

Outfielders Matt Bosse and Kyle Moore, left-handers Sam Carmack, Cam Hatch and Chase Tokunaga, and catcher Alex Ramsay have also left the team to pursue opportunities elsewhere.

The individual said the players made their decisions because they “didn’t fit the mold” of the small-ball, up-tempo and defensive-oriented style coach John Szefc brought to the program last season. Szefc replaced former coach Erik Bakich, who took the head-coaching job at Michigan in June 2012 and had recruited most of the eight players to the Terps.

Hockaday will attend Harford Community College in Bel Air and

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Aronhalt signs deal to continue career in Italy Guard averaged 6 points in year with Terps

By Aaron Kasinitz Senior staff writer Before arriving in College Park to join the Terrapins men’s basketball team last summer, Logan Aronhalt thought it might be time to abandon his lifelong dream of playing professionally.

Sure, the sharp-shooting guard was committed to ending his college career by contributing to an ACC contender after spending four years at Albany in the American East Con-

ference. But with an injury-prone back and solid academic standing, Aronhalt figured he might achieve more in life if he didn’t pursue a professional basketball career.

It didn’t take long into the season for that mindset to change, though.

Playing as a fifth-year senior transfer, Aronhalt reveled in the enthusiasm of Comcast Center’s crowds and his new teammates.

“Halfway through the season, I

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