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Housing requests met for second straight year After closing Carroll, Caroline and Wicomico halls, Resident Life added about 200 beds to doubles and triples

BY KATIE WILHELM For The Diamondback

For the second year in a row, the university granted housing to all eligible students who requested an assignment on the campus, in part by adding about 200 beds to existing dorm rooms.

Despite losing hundreds of spaces after closing Carroll, Caroline and Wicomico halls — the three South Hill dorms set to be demolished by fall 2014 — Resident Life Assistant Director Scott Young said the department committed itself to providing housing to students. Adding beds to make “flex” triples and

quads allowed the department to house every returning student who met housing deadlines and participated in room selection last semester.

“We do this every year and our returning students can see the flex room designations when they are participating in Room Selection 2012,” Young

wrote in an email. “This is done in anticipation of larger numbers of returning students and/or new freshmen.”

Dodging a triple or quad isn’t an option for incoming students. However, freshman civil engineering major Sam Dusenbery is more excited than nervous for his assignment.

“I think it’s a good opportunity to overcome different challenges of freshman year with two roommates instead of one,” Dusenbery said. “It should be interesting.”

Another 400 students remain on a housing waitlist because they did not meet the original housing deadline or were not

financially eligible to participate in room selection, Young wrote. He said he did not have information on the number of sophomores, juniors and seniors returning to housing.

Resident Life also sent incoming freshman dorm and

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Rare birth defect saved music student’s life

Students among Manga and anime fans at Otakon

BY LAURA BLASEY Staff writer

BY MAY WILDMAN For The Diamondback

Before descending on the Baltimore Convention Center last weekend, many people adjusted their attire one final time.

Even in bright blue wigs, spiked-out hair and maid outfits, the boldest fans barely stood out among thousands of conventiongoers. At Otakon, anything goes.

The 19th annual three-day convention drew an audience of more than 32,000 diehard Manga and anime fans and casual pop-culture lovers, according to figures released by the convention. Otakon spokesman Victor Albisharat, said 1,000 more people attended this year’s event than last year’s, including a few students who traveled from this campus for the chance to traipse the convention center halls in carefully constructed outfits and slip into different personas.

Otakon describes itself as a “convention of Otaku generation,” referring to the Japanese term for people with an obsession, usually Manga or anime, that keeps them from even leaving their house.

Many hurl “otaku” as an insult, akin connotatively to being geeky or socially

According to the odds, Petra Anderson shouldn’t be alive right now.

She had a greater chance of surviving a shark attack or a lightening strike than she did surviving a gunshot wound to the head. Nationally, only 5 percent of those who suffer such an injury live to tell the tale, and Anderson, who had been planning to attend this university’s graduate music school in the fall, is fortunate enough to be one of them.

The night of July 19, the 22-year-old decided to purchase tickets to The Dark Knight Rises on a whim. She wasn’t a huge fan, but she enjoyed the movies and thought it would be fun to see the movie’s midnight premiere.

She had just finished studying music composition at the University of

the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music and was aspiring to become a professor of music.

Life was looking good for Anderson, and she was looking forward to new horizons.

It should have been a normal night.

But after a gunman entered the theater and went on a shooting rampage, leaving 12 dead and 58 wounded, Anderson wound up lying on an operating table at the Aurora Medical Center.

It was something out of a Batman movie: As Anderson, the two friends she came with and the other moviegoers were settling into their seats and watching the opening scenes, a canister flew across the theater and erupted into a thick cloud of smoky gas. Through the haze and panic, a man in a gas mask appeared at the helm and unleashed a

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Working to give back Former Terp Greivis Vasquez honored at White House

BY DANIEL GALLEN Senior staff writer

Former Terp Greivis Vasquez was honored at the White House for running youth sports camps in his native Venezuela. PHOTO COURTESY OF MADELINE CRANDALL

TOMORROW’S WEATHER:

Greivis Vasquez is a Terrapins men’s basketball icon.

Known for his characteristic “shimmy” and flamboyant style of play, the Caracas, Venezuela native understands entertainment. He became a national storyline when he led his team to a share of the 2010 ACC Championship, and he is perhaps the most recognizable Terp since Juan Dixon.

And now, two years removed from entering the NBA, Vasquez is once again making headlines.

The winner of the 2010 Bob Cousy Award, given annually to college basketball’s top point guard, was honored Friday at the White House in the “Champions of Change” event, part of a weekly ceremony in Washington to honor those making a difference in their communities.

Vasquez was recognized for youth sports camps in his home country, which he runs in partnership with the U.S. State Department’s

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Four high school students represented the U.S. in the International Chemistry Olympiad, hosted on the campus. PHOTO COURTESY OF CORINTHIA HARRIS

Campus hosts Chemistry Olympiad for first time Second time competition has been in U.S.

BY SAVANNAH DOANE-MALOTTE For The Diamondback

Christopher Hillenbrand’s definition of fun may differ from that of the average student.

He hasn’t spent his summer at the pool or the beach. Instead, the high school sophomore from Mountainside, N.J., spent weeks preparing for the 44th annual International Chemistry Olympiad, hosted by the university, by spending hours on the Internet looking for every chemistry fact out there.

“For a long time, I just really loved chemistry, so to prepare for the Olympiad I would go on Wikipedia

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and read a ton of stuff for fun,” he said.

“It was like a bedtime story for me.”

High-school aged chemistry experts from more than 70 different countries took over the campus for 10 days in late July during the Chemistry Olympiad, which tests students on their knowledge through laboratory exercises and written exams.

This year was the first time in 20 years, and only the second time in the competition’s history, the United States has hosted the Olympiad.

“Hosting this event is not only a big honor for the university, but it also

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HOUSING from page 1 roommate information July 20, three weeks earlier than in previous years. Most of the nearly 4,000 students got assignments, but the university told 75 freshmen that they did not yet have a room or roommate.

Freshman landscape architecture major Nick Martinazzi said he had to put off making larger purchases, a worry shared by several students browsing through the aisles of local Targets and Walmarts.

“It is tough since I don’t know who my roommate is so I can’t buy a TV or refrigerator,” Martinazzi said. “I was really disappointed since I was excited to find out my roommate.”

The notification also put a hiccup in Kaitie Silk’s planning. The freshman said she didn’t know how close to the wire she would be getting her assignment.

“I expected to get everything together and to talk to my roommate, but it was a big disappointment not to,” said Silk, who is

“I was really disappointed since I was excited to find out my roommate.”

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enrolled in letters and sciences. “I felt like I did something wrong even though I didn’t.”

Young said the department holds off on about the same number of assignments ever y summer to avoid placing freshmen in apartments or dorms with upperclassmen — in the coming weeks, cancellations and other resolved housing issues open up spots for more freshmen.

“We make a concerted effort to make assignments and to accommodate Living and Learning programs as well as special requests,” he said. news@umdbk.com

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OLYMPIAD from page 1 gives us visibility in the international and national spheres that we are a center in chemistry,” said chemistry department Chairman Michael Doyle.

A 14-member scientific committee, made up partly of university professors, created and prepared the lab and written sections for the competition.

University President Wallace Loh kicked off the opening ceremonies July 22 along with Gov. Martin O’Malley, who delivered the keynote speech.

“This was an opportunity for us to highlight the importance of science and the achievements of students in science careers,” O’Malley spokeswoman Raquel Guillory said.

“These sorts of events spark curiosity and interest.”

The national team included high school seniors Sidharth Chand and James Deng from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., and New Haven, Conn., respectively, Hillenbrand and junior Jason Ge

On Tuesday, hundreds of attendees watched the closing ceremony of the 44th International Chemistry Olympiad, held on this campus July 21-30. PHOTO COURTESY OF CORNITHIA HARRIS

from San Diego.

All entered the competition for the same reason: a love and passion for chemistry.

“In this sort of world that we live in, I find that having the opportunity to challenge yourself on an intellectual level is not only becoming rare but also less appreciated,” said Chand.

“This competition is a way in which I can remind myself to try and push my limits.”

“Even if there is a language barrier between people, through chemistry, we can get to know each other,” Deng added.

The American Chemical Society, the competition’s organizer, partnered with the university for the event’s preparation along with the competition’s chief sponsor, the Dow Chemical Company.

Hillenbrand won a gold medal, placing 16th in the overall

competition. The rest of the team members won silver medals.

But the best part of the competition wasn’t winning an award, team members said. It was being able to interact with teams from across the globe.

“Chemistry is a science that is universal in the sense that it unites people from all different countries,” Chand said. news@umdbk.com

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VASQUEZ from page 1 sports diplomacy program. His goal is to give kids growing up in Venezuela opportunities he never had when he was younger, he said.

“It was something I will never forget,” Vasquez said Monday. “It was a pleasure. It was an honor to be there in the White House receiving that award. I couldn’t believe it at first.”

Vasquez joined eight other “champions” under the theme “Connecting the Americas.” All nine honorees were involved in some sort of community activism to help members of the Latin American diaspora, including El Salvador, Colombia, Guatemala,

OTAKON from page 1 inept, but in America the term has morphed into an umbrella category for anyone with an avid interest in Manga, illustrated Japanese comic books, and anime, Japanese television or film animation.

Manjur Ahmed, a junior electrical engineering major, said Otakon’s highlights are peoplewatching and cosplay — a term combining “costume” and “play.”

“I think you get the most out of it if you dress up and enjoy yourself, and talk to other people,” he said.

Kelly Wong, a sophomore community health major, dressed up as a member of Team Rocket of Pokémon. She said she had a great experience bonding with fellow characters and joined an impromptu photo shoot with about 50 other Pokémon cosplayers.

“There was a collection of gym leaders, Pokémon, Pokémon trainers, the bad guys,” Wong said. “A

Mexico and Venezuela.

“They were great people,” said Vasquez, who started 26 games for the New Orleans Hornets last season. “I was really impressed.

It was unbelievable the way they inspired other people and worked for their communities and how they do things.”

Vasquez said his professional basketball career gives him a platform to make an impact on the country that helped raise him. It’s an opportunity he doesn’t take lightly.

“I went through a lot to get to the NBA,” Vasquez said. “So what I’m trying to do is go back to the community and have the youths understanding that if I made it, they can make it, too.”

On Monday, Vasquez was preparing to fly back to Venezuela

lot of people who are complete strangers get to meet others [and ask], ‘Oh my God, how long did you spend on your costume?’ ” The event also featured workshops, screenings of anime films, video game tournaments and panel discussions such as “Ladies’ Choice: A Guide to Hentai” and “Pokéholics Anonymous.” In one cavernous hall, dealers of anime-related wares hawked everything from sushi-shaped pillows to purple-colored contacts and scandalous R-rated Manga posters.

One successful new feature was the maid cafe, where women dressed up as French maids, developed personas and served customers, a nod to an otaku fetish. Albisharat said Otakon’s cafe only admitted 40 people at a time, contributing to lines that were two to three hours long.

Lian Bien, a senior behavioral and community health major, said she enjoyed the experience of serving as a maid at the cafe.

“It was a lot of fun being a part of

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for two weeks to be with his family and run basketball clinics and camps. He’ll then return to the U.S. to prepare for the upcoming NBA season and plan next summer’s charitable efforts.

The former Terps star has hardly forgotten about his time in the Mid-Atlantic. He expressed a desire to do a number of camps and speaking engagements at high schools in Maryland, Washington and Virginia.

It all comes back to Vasquez trying to make a difference.

“If I speak two languages, they can speak three languages.

If I get my degree in college, you can get it, too,” Vasquez said.

“Everything is possible by just working hard.” dgallen@umdbk.com

Otakon rather than just seeing panels and going to concerts and things like that,” she said.

Albisharat said the performance by a Korean pop band, the convention’s first, “added an extra highlight which people really enjoyed.”

Wong, attending her third Otakon, said she keeps coming back for the atmosphere of acceptance and friendliness.

“I really like Otakon not because of the concept, but the people you meet there,” she said.

The main gripe for student convention-goers this year was the cost — $80 for three days.

Rochelle Gobantes, a criminology and criminal justice and psychology major, hesitated at the expense. Rather than pay more money at the maid cafe, her friends came up with a solution.

“We didn’t want to pay 40-plus dollars to get served by hot maids, so we went to Hooters instead,” she said. news@umdbk.com

ANDERSON from page 1 hurricane of bullets, pellets and casings upon the audience. “[Petra], in the hospital, said that ‘Batman came off the screen and started shooting people,’ ” Chloe Anderson, her sister, said. “We asked her if it was the real Batman, and after thinking, she said, ‘No. I think it was a fake Batman.’ ” That man was allegedly James Holmes, a 24-year-old former graduate student at the University of Colorado living near the theater. Police later said he told them he was the Joker, the most recognizable of Batman’s foes in the series. Between his arrest and the formal filing of charges Monday, new information would come that would paint a chilling picture of Holmes as a villain in his own right.

The Century Aurora 16 shooting, however, was not only one that hit closer to home, but one that brought to life the seediest parts of a story that has been cherished since Batman’s inception in 1939.

While her sister was out at the movies, Chloe Anderson had stayed home for a quiet night in.

She woke to the alarming news of a movie villain come to life.

“My mother woke me about an hour after I fell asleep and said, ‘There has been an incident and they say that we need to go get your sister at the hospital,’ ” she said. “I asked what happened, and my mother said, ‘Well, they said she’s breathing.’ ” One of Petra Anderson’s friends was hit, and her other friend pulled Anderson down to the sticky theater floor before calling 911. She suffered three gunshot wounds to her arm as well as a shot to her head; a shotgun pellet traveled through her nasal cavity and brain before be-

Petra Anderson, a university admit, survived the shooting in Aurora, Colo. PHOTO COURTESY OF JACQUELINE ROCAMORA

coming embedded in her skull.

For Petra Anderson, what happened next was so unexpected, so rare, even her doctors had the word “miraculous” on their tongues. In 95 percent of cases, the victim of a shot to the head dies. And for those who survive, brain damage is almost certain.

But Anderson was born with a very particular birth defect, a channel of fluid that ran through her brain. She likely wouldn’t have known she had it, but for the pellet that shot through the inside of her head, traveling at such a trajectory that it entered the channel and followed the course of the tunnel all the way to the back of her head.

Doctors only discovered it when they rushed her into the operating room to remove the pellet, which had completely avoided passing through all the vital areas of the brain. Doctors are still waiting to see what damage was done, but are optimistic there will be little, if any at all.

“This battle we’re facing is going to take months, long after all the hype is gone,” Chloe Anderson said. “We’re so glad that there are people still willing to come alongside us and be with us in this fight. We’re writing the end of this story together.”

Petra Anderson’s recovery is going to be a long one. She will have to put off her plans to become a professor for now, but music, just as it has been a key part of her life and identity, has continued to play a key role in her recovery.

On July 25, Petra Anderson asked her boyfriend, fellow musician Austin Hogan, if he had brought his clarinet to the hospital.

Used to playing in front of large audiences as a clarinet performer, Hogan was playing this time for an audience of one, but it meant so much more, he wrote on the family’s fundraising site.

The music is helping Anderson’s mother recover as well.

The future holds uncertainty for a family so united.

Anderson’s mother, Kim, a breast cancer survivor, discovered in June her stage-3 cancer had returned, as aggressive as ever, and had spread to her lungs, bones and liver. Complications prevented traditional treatment from being effective, and she’s instead sought alternative treatment that brings a hefty price tag along with its promise.

It’s a lot for the family to handle. Chloe Anderson, Hogan and several friends started a campaign online to help pay the bills.

In the few days since the shooting, the fundraiser has surpassed its goal of $250,000 and garnered national media attention. As her mother begins her treatment, Anderson is improving as well. As of July 31, she was discharged from the hospital and starting inpatient therapy.

Despite the horror, there also came stories of heroism.

“It’s not the violence that’s changed me,” Chloe Anderson said. “It’s the outpouring of strength and help from those around us — people who know and love us, friends we’d lost touch with, and even complete strangers.” blasey@umdbk.com

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seemingly obvious protection went into effect when former Presi- because they include two additional groups of people. Lawmakers are willdent Bill Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act in 1994. ing to forgo public health and safety on the premise they are protecting Although activists knew the law would periodically be up for reau- their values.

You can’t always pick out who has been abused in a crowd. A victim of viothorization, it seemed unfathomable to them that members of Congress would tr y to reverse a law helping victims of violence. The legislative lence can be a woman on a college campus, a woman running in the park at battle was over, and efforts could be geared toward the real battle — help- noon, a woman living in a mansion, a woman eating out of a dumpster, a woman riding the subway or a woman born in another country. ing these battered women.

Violence doesn’t discriminate; why should protection?

The measure’s passage was a milestone in this Vice President Joe Biden, who wrote the original act, countr y. It created new programs, funding and reforms that have shaped responses to violence in all It should have been an easy wrote in a column for McClatchy-Tribune that 23,000 women each month call the national domestic abuse forms, be it domestic, sexual or dating-related. It set a precedent that reported violent crimes will be decision for Congress to renew hotline, which runs so successfully because of the act’s ability to break down barriers. Women who may have solved and not merely brushed under the rug, and and expand the Violence previously suffered in silence can come for ward prosecutors who fail to protect these women in court suffer repercussions. The act made it OK to talk Against Women Act. Instead, because of programs created under the measure. about abuse. This critical piece of legislation has led targeted discrimination could Numerous different initiatives have launched to help victims recover, and many of them were made possible to improvement on many levels, but there are still so destroy a critical framework because of provisions in the VAWA. The culture that many obstacles to overcome. a problem with talking about violence against Lawmakers renewed and expanded the act in 2000 for the protection of women has women is (slowly) disintegrating. and 2005; partisan politics didn’t play a leading role in But violence against women is widespread, and the this issue of human rights. Each aspect of the initial across the country. stigma against reporting crimes still exists. The univerlaw has been revamped to ensure optimal protection for victims. Every time the act was up for renewal, it was modernized and sity and all levels of government have to keep moving for ward to stop the violence. The first step is protection, which will hopefully lead to being able made more inclusive.

But this year, the act is facing resistance. There are new provisions that to prevent these heinous crimes. If one link in the chain of help for these vicwould extend the act’s protection to same-sex couples and illegal immi- tims breaks — like the VAWA not being renewed — the whole system could grants, which many conser vative Republicans aren’t on board with. There fall apart. We would be back at square one, and victims of a myriad of violent are members of Congress ready to withhold protections for all women just crimes need our help too much for that to be an option.

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Sexy nerds and fuming hipsters

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ust in case there are students out there who have somehow avoided the last couple of years of moderately popular cinema and television, let me tell you about Zooey Deschanel. From her seemingly anti-cheer attitude in Elf to her quirky, relatable and frank display of character in New Girl, Deschanel has carved herself a niche as the woman who says what all of us quiet social critics are thinking.

This forthright approach to previously demonized personality qualities (e.g., recognition of either female sexual behavior or “nerdy” things such as Star Wars) has gained a fair amount of clout in our shifting culture. This has led to the more recent slew of ads and pictures all centered on one central theme: Nerdy is the new sexy.

While I have a hard time denying such a claim (Emma Watson went to Brown, you say?), I feel this new movement needs a significant amount of correction.

First off, to those who think up these pictures of women in thick-rimmed glasses biting a Super Nintendo controller that isn’t plugged in — you’re not accurately depicting a female gamer. Your inaccura-

ERIK SHELL cies are neither sexy nor effective; they’re just plain insulting to both the woman in the picture as well as your intended audience — we can tell when FZero is not properly functioning.

Which brings me to my next grievance — the intended audience. I recently saw a screenshot of a Facebook status where someone claims he’s playing video games and is, therefore, such a nerd. A friend then asks this person if he’s excited for E3, the biggest video game conference in the United States. After a humorous exchange — from the perspective of an outsider — the original “nerd” politely requests that his friend stop commenting on his status, as the “nerd” has neither heard of E3 nor does he find the concept particularly interesting.

Since it is clear the intended audi-

ence of this new trend is not gamers of either gender, I tried to figure out the target demographic. Then it hit me: In the musical The Music Man, the classic portrayal of the sexy librarian plays a pivotal role in the character arc of the protagonist. Alternative culture, then, seems to be the flavor of the month just as there has always been the archetypal sexy librarian.

Again, I take some issues here.

First, by definition, alternative culture must appeal to the minority. I can’t comment for my entire generation, but it’s fair to say there has been a real shift toward the former “underground” of music and fashion. It’s overused, but the stock phrase, “you’ve probably never heard of it,” the hipster battle cr y and an attempt to car ve out your own area of expertise, is all too familiar in the academic world.

We’re seeing a radical shift in what society views as attractive. I paraphrase radio personality Diane Rehm, who says our generation is demanding more from our politicians and taking more time to be

critical of media sources. In the 21st centur y, knowledge is power, and the ability to hunt down some wild boar for prehistoric bacon is becoming less of a determinant in choosing a mate.

Like many with more brains than brawn, more personality than pop knowledge, I couldn’t be happier.

Having a sexy geek in the media is like taking out a personal ad without having to pay for it (Joseph GordonLevitt, I’m looking at you, as are many others). What I’m not happy about is the number of, if I may be so Holden Caulfield, phony fan boys and girls at the concert for an artist previously unburdened with fairweather fans.

Even though I can’t have my cake and GLaD-ly eat it too, I will say we are blessed to live in an age where knowledge is the new front page — for now.

Erik Shell is a sophomore classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at opinion@umdbk.com.

Waitressing: How to abide by social norms

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aving been a waitress for a few years now, my opinion of “eating out” etiquette has changed completely. I work at a vegan restaurant, which attracts a somewhat pickier crowd (mostly people living on vegan, raw, gluten-free and sometimes soy-free diets). But I’m willing to bet waiters the world over deal with the same issues, if not to the same magnitude.

Now that I’ve worked in food service extensively, when I eat at a restaurant, I keep in mind the same values that I hope people uphold when sitting at my tables. For you, the students of this university, I’m sure we have a few thousand past/present/future waiters and waitresses out there — particularly the theatre majors. So here’s my take on being a patron, having been a waitress.

1. The first, and most obvious calamity as a waitress is a poor tipper.

The general rule of thumb as I see it is 15 percent for adequate service and 20 percent for good service. Obviously, if your server is rude to you, or causes some mistake that renders your meal

inedible or massively unpleasant, your tip should reflect that. However, punishing your waiter for things that are out of his or her control (i.e., food taking a long time) you’re only affecting the waiter — the kitchen gets paid hourly. I know I make an effort with my tables to be pleasant, run little errands, offer soup samples, make good recommendations and have everything out in a timely manner.

And yes, I expect to be paid properly for that. My hourly wage is less than $4, so if every table decides to leave 15 percent or less, I’m making far from minimum wage.

And if you’re looking to change the way the restaurant industry pays its workers, don’t use the excuse that your crappy tip to me is a political statement.

Write a letter. Lobby Congress. But leave a decent tip. For poor college students, if you can’t afford a decent tip, then you can’t afford to eat there. On the same note, though, waiters: Don’t work like your 20 percent is built in. Earn it — it’s your job.

2. Make an attempt to treat your

SARAH GORDON waiter like a human being, not your personal servant. Keep in mind your waiter probably has 8,000 things to do in the space of the next five minutes before people start complaining. Waiters do their best to make life pleasant for everyone. This is coming from a girl whose certain unnamed relatives have instructed waiters to give them “the best piece of meat.” Acting like this is also embarrassing for the rest of the table. No one is impressed by your power trip in getting someone who is obligated to serve you to do obnoxious little chores.

3. The restaurant is not your kitchen.

If you’re looking to have something prepared beyond the scope of reasonable adjustments (no tomato, medium rare, dressing on the side, perhaps a simple substitution), make it at home. For

instance, consider rethinking your request of “a little dressing on the salad and the rest on the side.”

My restaurant accommodates a huge number of allergies (I didn’t even know people could be allergic to red pepper vinaigrette), and I still serve people trying to have spinach-artichoke dip without spinach, as well as black bean and corn quesadillas without corn. Come on, people, let’s be reasonable. If you have to morph a dish so much that it no longer resembles what the menu advertises, maybe consider ordering something else.

Waitressing is probably the most thankless job I’ve ever had, and that includes two unpaid internships and working a few summers scanning thousands of pages when my dad’s insurance agency went paperless. But the satisfaction of having a good night and going home with upwards of $200 keeps me in the game.

Sarah Gordon is a junior neurobiology and physiology major. She can be reached at opinion@umdbk.com.

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hat do I do after I graduate? That is never an easy question, but the July 19 Diamondback article, “Students struggle to find jobs after graduating with Ph.D.s in sciences,” suggests it might be even harder to figure out.

The article cited a recent survey showing 45 percent of computer, mathematical and natural sciences school graduates had accepted full-time employment after graduation. It stated, “CMNS Associate Dean Robert Infantino said job shortages coincide with the health of the economy and that the government must increase its investments in research and technology.”

This makes sense to me. I bet most of us would relate it to various bad news coming from the European sovereign debt crisis, the slowing economies of the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South — tensions in the Middle East, poor corporate earnings results and other areas, and start worrying about our own futures.

But there is another option for highly educated and bright students — entrepreneurship. Launching or joining new businesses and nonprofit organizations can be a valuable and fun way to start your career after graduation.

There are a few reasons why: First, entrepreneurship is not as risky as it may seem. Right now, a sour economy is making “traditional employment” risky, too. Members of the Millennial Generation — 20- to 30-year-olds — are rushing to the job market and competing with each other for hardly makeends-meet positions. Against this backdrop, student entrepreneurs who take their futures into their own hands by hatching business plans based on social responsibility and their own passions, interests and skills seem wise.

Second, students and recent graduates can be good entrepreneurs. As the March 29 Diamondback staff editorial said, “You see, college students — both graduate and undergraduate — are world-renowned hustlers … We drive the Department of Transportation’s midnight shift drunk bus, trade semester-end trips to Adele’s for favors and start dorm-room enterprises, all in pursuit of that sweet nectar — cash money.

Put simply, we’re entrepreneurs.”

Third, entrepreneurship can be a great experience for whatever you do next. There is so much to do to start a new organization, so everybody has to do “real” work. This can be a little scary at times, but it means you learn a lot.

Thankfully, the environment at this university has been changing favorably toward entrepreneurship. University President Wallace Loh and the University System of Maryland have demonstrated this vision to push for more technological innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives and create or recruit 325 companies to the state by 2020. These initiatives include a 15-credit technology entrepreneurship minor launched last fall, the expansion of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, which focuses on technology innovation, and a technology commercialization course at the business school that gives students a chance to work on technology and entrepreneurship.

There is nothing wrong with spending your career under one employer, but maybe students can now look to other options. It’s the right time for our “hustling” students — both graduate and undergraduates — to take a chance on themselves and become entrepreneurs. There are 325 companies to be launched — perhaps you should move quickly to take your position in one of them.

Echo Gao is a masters of business student in the business school. He can be reached at qiaoli.gao@rhsmith.umd.edu.

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The Washington music scene hasn’t been a place for new local bands to thrive as of late. Whether it’s due to promoters requiring bands to sell large numbers of pre-sale tickets just to take the stage or the shadow cast by the early-1990s post-hardcore scene, it can be tough for new indie musicians to survive in the District.

Now, that isn’t to say the D.C. music scene is dead — far from it. Things have just changed over the years. Gone is the golden era of Fugazi, Rites of Spring and Dischord Records.

And local band Technicians is not afraid to measure itself against this history.

Formed in an American University dorm in 2005, Technicians initially played under the name The Noise Complaints, because of its tendency to attract just that at late-night dorm shows. To this day, the band is known for the extremely loud shows it plays at area venues such as the Black Cat and Velvet Lounge.

The band has a post-punk, shoegaze vibe reminiscent of the classic sound of bands from D.C.’s golden era.

“It’s hard to be in a band in D.C. and not get compared to that sound; I’m just happy to be a part of it,” said lead singer Navid Marvi.

Marvi isn’t just happy to play the music he loves; he and his bandmates are helping to preserve the past before them, making Technicians a guiding light in the rough waters of D.C.’s current indie scene.

Listening to the band’s self-titled EP, one begins to hear what once made D.C.’s indie music so great. The use of guitar effects and overlapping melodies create a seismic wall of sound that instantly reminds the listener of the District’s glory days.

On Aug. 15, the band will enter the studio once again to record its first full-length album. Technicians will be recording with renowned music producer Don Zientara, who has recorded with every major band from the legendary D.C. record label Dischord Records.

“It’s a huge honor to be recording with Don, I mean he recorded every Fugazi album, so for him to like our music enough to personally record us is a great feeling,” said Marvi.

Technicians have proven to have longevity in the District, and perhaps the band’s collaboration with Zientara will create the same magic the city experienced more than 20 years ago.

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STOGLIN from page 8 roster who logged less than 10 minutes per contest. He totaled 13 points, three rebounds and three assists in five games, shooting just 25 percent from the field.

His best game of the week — a six-point, tworebound, two-assist performance in a 96-89 win over the Sacramento Kings on July 18 — would’ve been the worst of his entire sophomore campaign in College Park.

But even through his struggles, Stoglin remains confident.

“They learned from me, I learned from them.

They’re good players,” Stoglin said. “But I competed with them pretty well. I don’t think any of them are better than me.”

Now, the Tuscon, Ariz. native can only wait. There

are almost two months left until the first NBA training camps officially open Sept.

29, leaving just eight weeks for a team to take a chance on Stoglin.

“Right now, I’m in the process of just training and waiting,” Stoglin said. “I’m just weighing my options, tr ying to see what kind of offers I get and if I can get invited to a training camp or get any contract [offers].”

Stoglin has yet to receive any offers from an NBA or NBA Developmental League team, but he said he has received interest from teams overseas. He wouldn’t specify which countries in particular, but he did say the teams were located in “good places.”

Beginning his professional career outside of the U.S. is far from Stoglin’s first choice, but after his poor performance with the Raptors in Las Vegas, it might be his only option. It

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could even potentially help him in the long run.

“I’m not really hesitant [to go overseas] because most teams and most coaches I’ve talked to think I need another year before I’m ready for the NBA,” Stoglin said. “Obviously it’s a great opportunity and experience, so I could do my thing over there, then come back.”

Stoglin doesn’t know yet whether he’ll spend the upcoming season under the bright lights of an NBA arena, in an under-theradar D-League city or in a foreign countr y. What he does believe, though, is that no matter how he gets there, he’ll be in the NBA someday.

“Whatever happens, happens; I just know I’m playing ball somewhere,” Stoglin said. “Whichever way it works out, that will be the best way for me.” vitale@umdbk.com

Terrell Stoglin totaled 13 points, three rebounds and three assists over five Summer League games with the Toronto Raptors last month. He has garnered interest from teams overseas. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

VALMON from page 8 Roland Desonier, a Terps throwing coach. He knows what it took to be successful on a personal level. He also knows what it takes to be successful encompassing a team.”

Those skills proved especially critical last season.

In November, the athletics department decided to cut eight teams, including men’s cross country, and men’s indoor and outdoor track. Their only chance for survival? Valmon’s teams had to reach specified fundraising benchmarks by June 30 to stay alive for at least one more season.

Thus, Valmon turned his attention to unifying his program and raising the necessary funds.

Prior to the Olympic trials in June, he took care of most of his Olympic responsibilities by conference call. He worked tirelessly during the day calling alumni, making the case that track and field is a foundational sport.

“Maryland track and field was definitely the primary focus for him,” Terps sprinter John Davenport said. “Clearly being a USA coach is something that’s a great honor, but at the end of the day, we were his team first. He let us know that we were his No. 1 priority.”

And it wasn’t for naught. Valmon helped raise the necessary funds to save men’s outdoor track, the only one of the eight announced teams to avoid the July 1 cuts.

Valmon said he wished the team cuts never would’ve happened. They did, though, and the two-time Olympic gold medalist is now drawing upon that situation, along with his experience as

a coach and as an athlete, to rebuild a troubled Team USA. Much like he did with the Terps last season, Valmon is trying to foster a culture that makes the athletes feel like they are part of a team.

“Track and field is largely an individual sport,” Valmon said from London on Tuesday. “But I think this experience is more rewarding when you feel like you are a part of a cohesive team.”

He attends track practice every day, assists athletes who don’t have their personal coaches with them and participates in discussions about policies and procedures.

Over the past month, Valmon has emphasized the lofty expectations placed on the men’s track and field team.

As members of the team that has won more medals than any other country — 315 gold and 744 overall — the athletes know they have exceptionally high standards to meet in London.

They’ll have nine days to show why U.S. track and field has long been considered the world’s top teams.

But although Valmon understands the importance of this moment, he has hardly forgotten about his Terps. He plans to return to College Park after the Olympics.

“I have been the head coach for both teams for a while, and I did not want to abandon this group, especially now that we have come this far to save the men,” Valmon said. “So despite the uncertainty for much of the year about the men’s team, my commitment to coaching at Maryland, coaching the women that I recruited to College Park, has not changed.” sports@umdbk.com

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Faust stars in Four Nations Cup Terrapins men’s basketball guard Nick Faust has posted impressive numbers for the East Coast All Stars at the Four Nations Cup in Estonia. For more, visit TerrapinTrail.com.

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Stoglin ‘not worried’ after Raptors stint Former Terps guard could play overseas

BY JOSH VITALE Senior staff writer

It was a fitting hire. After all, Valmon is no stranger to facilitating large organizations. In addition to coaching Team USA at the 2009 World Outdoor Championships and the 2010 World Indoor Championships, Valmon has led six different Terps squads — men and women’s cross country and indoor and outdoor track — since 2004.

“He knows how to delegate,” said

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

It’s the unofficial motto of a city known for bright lights, casinos, live shows and general debauchery. It’s meant to mean that no matter what happened, anyone who wasn’t there doesn’t need to know about it.

Terrell Stoglin might want that rule to hold true on the basketball court.

The former Terrapins men’s basketball guard had a disappointing showing in five games with the Toronto Raptors’ Las Vegas Summer League team, struggling to stay on the court long enough to prove his worth to the team’s management.

Now five weeks removed from June’s NBA Draft, there’s still no telling where, if anywhere, Stoglin will begin his professional career. Will he latch onto an NBA roster? Or will he have to take his talents overseas?

“It was discouraging that I didn’t get drafted because I thought I should have. And the playing time [in summer league], I wish I would’ve gotten more,” Stoglin said Monday. “But all in all, it’s fine. It’s just a process I’m going through. I’m not worried about it. I know once I finally get the opportunity, I’ll be fine.”

Playing alongside No. 8 overall pick Terrence Ross and former North Carolina star Ed Davis, Stoglin was the only player on the Raptors’ 11-man

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Andrew Valmon hopes to help Team USA rebound from a disappointing 2008 Olympics when track and field begins tomorrow.

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Stepping into the spotlight Five weeks after two of his teams were cut, Terps coach readies for London

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU AND RHIANNON WALKER Senior staff writers

Andrew Valmon has mastered the art of multitasking over the past nine months.

The Terrapins men’s and women’s track and field coach has simultaneously coached his teams, raised nearly $1 million and prepared a revamped U.S. men’s squad for the Summer Olympics.

And now, less than five weeks after helping save the Terps men’s outdoor program from budget cuts, Valmon is tasked with another challenge: leading the U.S. men’s track and field team in London when events begin tomorrow.

It’s no easy objective helping Team USA to its announced goal of 30 medals. Getting to that point requires long nights.

After claiming 23 medals in 2008, U.S. Track and Field assembled a

special task force to reevaluate the state of Team USA. The group ultimately released a 69-page report claiming “chaos reigned” around the relays, there was a “culture of mistrust” among coaches and athletes based on staff selection and suggesting “coaches should act and be treated” professionally.

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MADEA: WITNESS PROTECTION (PG-13) 7:10

10:10

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