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U appoints new undergrad studies dean Former English department chairman William Cohen replaces Donna Hamilton in position

“It is with great pleasure I appoint Dr. Cohen to the role of Dean for Undergraduate Studies,” Senior Vice President and Provost Mary Ann Rankin said in a university news

By Scott Gelman graduate studies dean. @thedbk William Cohen, a former professor release. “His experience leading For The Diamondback and English department chair, started large, complex units on campus that in the new position Aug. 17, accord- provide critical service to the entire As the new school year approach- ing to a university news release. He University of Maryland community es, this university has appointed a replaces Donna Hamilton, who held makes him exceptionally qualified for this new role.” new associate provost and under- the position for the past 12 years.

Cohen was the English department chairman for the past three years and spent more than 20 years as an English professor at this university.

He also served as the undergraduate studies director from 2006 to 2009.

“I’m honored to have been appointed to this role, which has oversight of a large number of programs William Cohen is now associate provost and dean See dean, Page 3 of undergraduate studies. photo courtesy of thai nguyen

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City names Somers as its manager Former Oregon official to take over next month

City Council approves 5-year plan to increase development, sustainability

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By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff Writer

For the past 10 years, College Park City Council meetings kicked off with Joe Nagro presenting the weekly city manager’s report.

Come September, that job will instead fall to Scott Somers, whom the city appointed to the position last week following a “competitive and comprehensive” national search process, College Park Mayor Andy Fellows said. Nagro in January announced his plan to retire.

Somers, who previously served as both a county and city manager in Oregon, impressed the council with his professional experience and ideas for the future, Fellows said. He described Somers’ role as city manager as “essentially the chief operating officer of the city.”

“We’ve had a really good city manager for the last number of years,” Fellows said. “[Somers] strikes us as someone who picks up on things quickly and who understands See manager, Page 2

The City Council unanimously approved College Park’s 20152020 Strategic Plan at its Aug. 11 meeting, outlining goals for strengthening community-university ties and heightening environmental protection.

The plan includes six goals: creating “One College Park” of diverse and united populations, promoting environmental sustainability, engaging in high-quality development and reinvestment, building quality infrastructure, fostering effective city leadership and ensuring excellent city services.

“We are very excited to have passed this,” Mayor Andy Fellows said. “It lays out some good goals for the city. … [The city and its residents] share so many things in

UMB offers law class on Freddie Gray

Research team gets $5 million to study biothreat detection

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Course to address city problems after protests

By Hallie Miller @thedbk For The Diamondback In an effort to engage the community and challenge students to think critically, the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s law school announced this month that it plans to offer a new course: “Freddie Gray’s Baltimore: Past, Present, and Moving Forward.”

This eight-week course, taught by a variety of University of Maryland, Baltimore faculty members on a class-by-class basis, will address topics including community policing, housing segregation, employment,

Baltimore residents protest after the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died from injuries suffered in police custody. A law class will address problems brought to light by the unrest. file photo/the diamondback public health, cycles of violence and education, said Donald B. Tobin, the law school’s dean.

He said the course’s 80 seats filled quickly.

“We think it’s a really exciting opportunity,” Tobin said. “We wanted to provide an intellectual look into what happened and wanted our stu-

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dents to think about how law affects what happens.”

A series of protests and riots occurred in Baltimore following the arrest of 25-year-old Baltimore native Freddie Gray, a black man, and his death after he suffered spinal cord See Gray, Page 2

Causing chills, runny noses and general feelings of malaise, the flu has always been unpleasant, but in recent years there has been a new concern surrounding the virus: biological warfare.

To combat such threats, the public health school received a $5 million grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a new method to protect against potential biological attacks, according to an Aug. 5 university news release.

“The concern has been for a long time that there have been crazy people out there trying to engineer viruses to be highly pathogenic, so it is important for us to have ways to identify threats before they cause

tremendous damage,” said Dr. Donald Milton, a public health professor and the principal investigator on the grant.

Milton and his team will work to develop a new way to test lab workers for exposure to dangerous strains of influenza. The method will work by analyzing individuals’ exposomes — signatures in the skin, hair and breath that indicate everything they’ve been exposed to, Milton said.

“The testable exposome is made up of the bacteria and chemicals that reflect what exposures you’ve had,” Milton said. “The idea is that exposures leave marks in the form of bacteria that live on your skin and in your mouth and chemicals in your hair.”

Because of this physical record, studying the exposome can help determine if a researcher has been working with genetically engineered

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Manager From PAGE 1 the importance of continuity and change.”

Cou nci l members, who received feedback from city stakeholders and residents throughout the application process, said they were pleased with the choice.

“We were lucky to have very good candidates apply, and we hired a consultant to help us make the decision,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said.

“We were looking for someone who can work and help with the council, [because] there is quite an ambitious agenda to work on.”

A s c o u nt y m a n a ge r i n Clatsop County, Oregon, for the past three years, Somers said he worked to enhance sustainability efforts and industrial development with neighboring jurisdictions.

gray From PAGE 1 injuries in police custody.

The tension prompted the intervention of the Maryland National Guard and the establishment of a city curfew.

Some students who enrolled in the course said they were eager to begin exami n i n g B a lt i m o re’s u rb a n unrest.

“T his is the first class I h ave ta ken i n l aw school or elsewhere that touches on current events in such a practica l or holistic manner,” Joseph Sweeny, t he l aw scho ol’s st udent body president, w rote i n an email. “Baltimore City law students need to u nderstand the incident, the history leading up to the incident, the aftermath, and most importantly how we,

The county received a Government Finance Officers Association budget award the past two fiscal years. The county had never received the award before.

“Communication and outreach to the community also improved,” Somers said. “All the things citizens look for in their government, we think, improved.”

Somers wants to see development in those areas within College Park as well. He said he also looks forward to strengthening the relationship between the city and this university.

“The idea is to continue to create a community that is inclusive of all residents in the city,” Somers said. “One of the initiatives is to be at one with the interests of College Park and the university.”

Somers said he plans to move forward with bike and pedestrian improvements, as well as the installation of the Purple

as future counselors, advocates and representatives can play a role in shaping the dialogue.”

A group of the university’s faculty designed the course to provide students with an outlet to express their opinions and ideas in the wake of the protests and riots, Tobin said.

The class culminates with a final paper requiring each student to identify the city’s major problem and propose a solution, Tobin said.

“We a re often a fra id to grapple with important societal issues,” Tobin said.

“I wanted to give our students a chance to grapple with them.”

Theresa Thompson, a t h i rd-y e a r l a w s c h o o l student en rol led i n t he course, said she hopes the class will prompt open dialogues about race and offer ways to implement effective

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scott somers sits in a meeting. In September, Somers will take over as city manager, planning to increase communication and community outreach. photo courtesy of scott somers Line light rail through the campus. He’ll also be working with the city on its 2015-2020 Strategic Plan, which was approved Aug. 11 and enumerates goals for the city.

Kabir said College Park presents unique issues for a city manager, but he is confident in Somers’ ability to succeed.

The city manager “has many challenges in the city in terms of maintaining relationships

change in the community.

Fredd ie Gray’s death a nd t he v iolence t h at en sued affected her on a profound level, she said.

“In law school, we’re not a lw ay s c o g n i z a nt of t h e impact we can have in the community since we’re expected to operate inside of a bubble,” Thompson said.

Practicing law “is also about reaching out to the community and seeing what their concerns are, and making

with the state, university, local groups and stakeholders,” Kabir said. “It is a challenge to bring them all together.”

Somers said he’s eager to begin working through those challenges.

“There’s a lot on the plate at College Park,” Somers said. “I can’t wait to roll up my sleeves and get to work.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

sure the existing laws are applied fairly.”

Sweeny also said practicing law requires community engagement and service.

“I know how much our professors care about this community and want to help it grow,” Sweeny wrote in an email. “I am optimistic this class will analyze the problem clearly before we draw blueprints for the future.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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tion is critical to the team’s success.

“That’s really how major progress is made,” Milton said. “You need a lot of different skills to develop different technologies … to identify biomarkers and develop highly specific detectors, which requires a lot of different expertise.”

Milton’s own background in asthma research piqued his interest in the field of exhaled breath analysis.

“One of the reasons I’m interested in biomarkers is because it has a lot of implications in diagnosing asthma a nd helpi ng w ith asth ma therapy,” Milton said.

Michael Grantham, a collaborator on the project and a research assistant professor at the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, said he has high hopes for the results of the project.

“Figuring out the human exposome is a newer field,” Grantham said, “so it’s important for us to do this research because people haven’t really figured it out yet.”

strains of influenza virus.

Milton said the research team will work to identify biom a rkers con si s tent with exposure to mutated i n f luenza v i ruses a nd detect biomarker proteins in droplets in a person’s exhaled breath.

To d ete ct t he se biomarkers in breaths, the scientists will use mass spectroscopy techniques, said Catherine Fenselau, a collaborating researcher on the grant and a professor in the chemistry and biochemistry department.

“One of the great strengths of this project is that the analysis will i n c l u d e f i v e d i f fe re n t samples of hair, exhaled breath and m icrobiome composition,” Fenselau said. “I’m excited to be part of the team.”

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2020 From PAGE 1 common in terms of self-interest for the quality of life in College Park and making College Park a great place to live, work and play.”

D i s t r ic t 1 Cou nc i l m a n Patrick Wojahn said the city hired The Novak Consulting Group in December to assist with developing the plan. City residents and other stakeholders held meetings over an eight-month period to discuss the strategic plan and frame its priorities.

An online survey also helped determine the opportunities and issues residents wanted to see addressed in the future, and an environmental scan published in February offered age and demographic statistics on the city’s population.

T he pla n fol lows up on some of the goals laid out in the 2010-2015 Strategic Plan, District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said, but also

dean From PAGE 1 that influence undergraduate education across the campus,” Cohen said. “The impact of the Office of Undergraduate Studies is felt in providing a wide range of special opportunities and programs that enhance and enrich the experience of many students.”

As he begins his tenure, Cohen — whose vision for undergraduate education involves a “culture where students are curious and learned and can explore the transformative potential of liberal arts” — said he has made it a goal to expand

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includes fresh ideas, like the “One College Park” concept, which he, Wojahn and Fellows agreed is one of the plan’s most important points.

“We have a lot of different demographics, and I think it is a challenge in front of us to close the gap between them,” Kabir said.

For example, Wojahn said he would like to see more engagement with the city’s growing Hispanic population, which rose from 5.5 percent in 2000 to about 10 percent in 2013, according to The Novak Consulting Group’s report.

He said he hopes creating a city communications position, which the plan recommends, could lead to new strategies to bolster cityresident interactions.

Co u nc i l m e m b e rs a l so agreed that it’s important to continue building a strong relationship between the university and the greater College Park community.

Kabir said the campus community holds an interest in

seeing the city thrive and has been instrumental in certain improvement efforts, such as revitalizing Route 1 businesses. He said he hopes to see those efforts continue.

The plan states that the city will again team up with the university’s Partnership for Active Learning in Sustainability, through which students and faculty provide local governments with lowcost problem-solving geared toward a jurisdiction’s unique issues. In May, students in a public art and design class installed temporary artwork around the city.

Another important ongoing issue is sustainability, Wojahn said, and the city plans to plant new trees, promote a community garden and generate more renewable energy.

“We will be entering a new phase in our work in making the city more sustainable,” Wojahn said. “We also want to help our residents be more sustainable with things like expanding our bicycle and

pedestrian infrastructure.”

Aside from the sustainability initiative, the plan also calls for regular meetings with university officials to discuss strategies for the innovation district, an anticipated mix of apartments, university housing, offices, retail and labs along Route 1 near Ritchie Coliseum.

“We have a historic opportunity to really make sure that we become a high-class college town,” Wojahn said.

“It’s important for us to make sure we work together closely to make sure the people who have a stake in the future of College Park have a say in how it’s governed.”

District 4 Councilwoman Denise Mitchell said she is excited about the strategic plan’s focus on reconstructing Route 1 as well.

“We want to make sure it’s conducive for traffic flow and for our residents to be able to travel to and from the city,” Mitchell said.

The strategic plan’s corresponding action plan, also

approved Aug. 11, details how the city can accomplish each goa l. “One Col lege Pa rk” action items, for example, include building on existing community events such as Maryland Day, College Park Day and National Night Out and partnering with local organizations to sponsor additional community engagement events.

Now that the plan has been approved, Fellows said, city staff and the council will start to look at some of the action items they intend to start tackling this fall before the November local elections.

W hile the plan provides a good road map of how the city can progress in coming years, he said, the challenge now is making it a reality.

Mitchell said it’s important to keep residents involved in

the process as the plan takes shape. She said she would like to see the council work with civic leaders in different districts and perhaps hold a citywide session to talk about the plan with residents.

Robert Day, District 3 councilman and former president of a city civic association, said he was happy so many stakeholder and resident voices were taken into account as the plan was being developed.

He said the plan is an accurate reflection of what residents want to see in the city.

“I think it reaches the heart of what we want to see moving forward,” Day said. “It’s about coming together, working together and trying to build a better College Park, and I think that’s the real goal.”

access to higher education for first-generation college students and those from lowerincome families through more grants and funding.

Cohen said he also plans to take maximum advantage of the school’s location in the Washington metropolitan area and create numerous opportunities for internships, research, community service and collaborations with agencies and businesses.

“The university’s status as a flagship gives us a special responsibility for attracting the most academically talented students in the state and from around the world,” Cohen said. “I expect to collaborate

with departments and colleges across the campus in developing programs that prepare them to meet the global challenges of the 21st century.”

H is determ i n ation a nd ability to communicate and solve complex problems should make his goals realistic ones, said Kent Cartwright, the new English department chairman and Cohen’s former colleague.

“He has an unusual capacity to grasp an issue or a problem in all its complex details, to think imaginatively about solutions and to communicate these matters clearly and compellingly to others,” Cartwright said. “Professor Cohen is a thoughtful leader

and a warm, engaged and approachable human being.”

In his time with the English department, Cohen helped lead the development of new livinglearning programs, such as the Jiménez-Porter Writers’ House and Carillon Communities, as well as plans for new certificate programs, including the establishment of the film studies major, creative writing minor and professional writing minor.

He also charged the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies with consolidating all academic programming within the English department, which “resulted in a new grant-making process open to undergraduate and graduate

students, staff and tenuretrack and professional-track faculty,” he said.

I n a c a d e m i a , C o h e n’s instruction has focused on British literature and Victorian-era culture. He has aut hored t h ree b ook s on the history of sexuality, the body, the senses and literary theory and is working on a fourth.

He has also taught classes that survey British literature from the 18th through 20th centuries, the history and theory of the novel, literature and film and literary criticism, he said.

Cohen confirmed he would no longer be directly

involved with the English department upon assuming his duties as dean.

D e s p ite t h e c h a n ge i n course, Cohen said he is eager to make connections and view collegiate education from a different perspective.

“T he office works w ith thousands of students, faculty and staff, and it has an expansive network of connections among the different colleges and schools,” Cohen said. “I am excited to become familiar with all of these connections and to use them in support of the undergraduate studies mission.”

“WE HAVE A HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY MAKE SURE THAT WE BECOME A HIGH-CLASS COLLEGE TOWN.” PATRICK WOJAHN

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hock-full of all the buzzwords you’d expect to find in a 21stcentury college town’s selfencouraging vision, College Park’s 2015-2020 Strategic Plan also lays out something the city hasn’t truly seen since the university’s East Campus plans dissolved years ago: the groundwork for real growth.

Over the past few months, city and university officials have rolled out plans for local parks, a homeownership program and a business-friendly innovation district (hopefully) replete with tax credits.

The city, for its part, had been rather tight-lipped throughout the whole ordeal, dropping piecemeal “Greater College Park” announcements throughout late May and June — benches and greenery here, a lowinterest loan program there.

All stood as substantial city improvements in their own rights, but assessed separately, none of the projects looked likely to provide the initial push and inertia needed to get comprehensive redevelopment rolling.

The multimillion-dollar strategic plan, however, indicates that those projects — along with other less-hyped initiatives — could coalesce into a whole greater than their sum.

Approved unanimously last week by the City Council, the strategic plan offers a broad (if occasionally vague) look at the city’s brightest possible future.

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Written in present tense, it depicts a top-20 college metropolis “known for distinctive and connected neighborhoods, thriving commercial districts, cultural amenities, attractive green space and streetscapes, convenient transportation systems serving all users, and a strong sense of community pride.”

OUR VIEW

The city’s new strategic plan contains the comprehensive revisions needed for College Park to become a top college town.

It’s certainly not the College Park of yesteryear. It’s hardly the College Park of the present, either — particularly when it comes to attractive green space and thriving commercial districts.

There’s something to be said for dreaming big, even in College Park, and the strategic plan doesn’t lack for gumption.

With a fleshed-out action plan accompanying the months of renewed promises to rejuvenate the city’s economic and residential scenes, the council and Mayor Andy Fellows might even achieve the lofty expectations they’ve set for themselves and the city.

The action plan goes long on all the feel-good initiatives likely to resonate with students (and, you know, possibly stave off the effects of climate change): phases of treeplanting, boosting the use of renewable energy, expanding community gardens, parks and playgrounds.

Perhaps more importantly, the plan also doesn’t park the bus when it comes to drawing capital to College Park, backing financial incentives, reworking city infrastructure and urging collaboration with university planners, with a marketing campaign of up to $50,000 to tie it all together.

Low-interest homeownership loans, state tax credits and synergetic property management and development represent viable solutions to College Park’s long-documented economic woes.

The council and university’s shared vision of the city as a haven for the arts, expansion-minded startups and groundbreaking scientific research isn’t unachievable, though we might not see it by the decade’s close.

The city needs to draw a vibrant crowd of creators and thinkers interested in sticking around for the long haul, but it also needs to give them reasons to show up in the first place — and with its revamped strategic plan, it seems that iteration of College Park isn’t quite so out of reach.

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Jim Webb may still have a chance DANIEL GALITSKY SENIOR

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lthough the primaries are still months away, the media circus surrounding presidential candidates has begun in earnest. On the Republican side, Donald Trump has the biggest share of attention, but with no dominant contender, more than a dozen candidates are receiving substantial coverage.

However, on the Democratic side, coverage is split almost exclusively between known quantity Hillary Clinton and upstart Bernie Sanders. Maryland voters are familiar with former Gov. Martin O’Malley, but nationally, he has mostly gone unnoticed by voters.

Meanwhile, a candidate who hasn’t gotten the attention he deserves is former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb. If Clinton becomes stale in voters’ minds and the public finds Sanders to be too far left, space could open for another option this primary season.

Webb’s campaign seems to be centered o n his military background. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Webb served as a Marine Corps lieutenant, leading a platoon in Vietnam. He is highly decorated, earning a Navy Cross and two Purple Hearts.

Historically, veterans have performed well in presidential elections, but that has not been

the case in the recent past. The 2012 election was the first since 1932 in which neither party had a veteran on the ticket. The only other veterans in the 2016 race are the long shot Republicans Rick Perry and Lindsey Graham, but neither saw combat duty.

Taking into account the lukewarm reception veterans received upon their return and the recent scandals involving the Veterans Affairs Department, it seems appropriate for at least one Vietnam veteran to play a significant role in 2016. But that alone is clearly not enough, as John Kerry in 2004 and John McCain in 2008 both failed to reach the White House.

Although it’s stabilized in recent years, the economy is still the dominant issue on many voters’ minds. If events in coming months bring greater focus to defense or foreign policy, Webb will become a stronger candidate. His statements opposing the Iraq War, along with other foreign policy columns he has written, have given him a foundation to build credibility.

Drawing tens of thousands to his campaign rallies, Sanders has become the first legitimate challenger to Clinton. As a more moderate Democrat, Webb has the potential to carve out his own base of support among more middle voters who don’t buy into Sanders’ brand of populism. He might currently be a long shot, but there is still time for Jim Webb to make an impact in the race.

Daniel Galitsky is a senior economics and finance major. He can be reached at dgalitskydbk@gmail.com.

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Clinton email controversy opens door for Sanders MATT DRAGONETTE

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he typical student on the campus probably doesn’t know too much about Hillary Clinton’s growing email scandal — and cares even less.

But for the numerous, boisterous Bernie Sanders fans at this university, the Clinton scandal represents Sanders’ chance to make the Democratic presidential primaries competitive. Sanders, who was trailing Clinton by as many as 40 percentage points in the beginning of the month, appears to be peeling away more voters. Clinton garnered only 47 percent to Sanders’ 29 percent according to the latest CNN/ORC national poll.

Sanders has energized a significant portion of the Democratic electorate – mostly younger, white liberals. His anti-Wall Street rheto-

ric, independent streak, and democratic-socialist policy objectives have attracted progressive voters distrustful of the Democratic establishment and elites in general.

Additionally, Sanders is currently Clinton’s only competitive challenger. Though Sanders’ numbers have jumped in key polls, analysts and pundits still point to his narrow base of support as evidence of a long-shot candidacy. Democrats might also be wary of Sanders’ chances of defeating a GOP candidate not named Donald Trump or Mike Huckabee.

Clinton, who remains the Democratic favorite, is a liberal considered more centrist and mainstream than Sanders. Pundits, donors and pollsters widely recognize the race as hers to lose. But her aforementioned email scandal has the potential to derail an otherwise strong candidacy.

For those unaware, the former

secretary of state is under investigation for her use of a private email server for government business, including the storage and transmission of classified information — a serious security violation. Security experts believe the use of a private server made her email more vulnerable to hacking than a secure government server. As for the actual emails, Clinton has agreed to turn over 30,000 emails but acknowledges she deleted almost 32,000 more emails considered “personal” or “private.” Her team originally claimed that her email contained no classified information, then revised that claim to state that the information was classified after the fact.

The Intelligence and State Department inspectors general allege that Clinton’s server potentially contained hundreds of originally classified emails, leading to ongoing investigations from the Justice Department, the FBI and

the U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi.

Furthermore, Clinton has not been completely straightforward when addressing the issue. In fact, she has almost completely avoided the issue herself — besides making a joke about it last week in Iowa. Clinton has become increasingly exasperated with the media coverage.

And what was her excuse for using a personal server? Clinton cited “a convenience,” in that she would not have to carry two different devices. Ironically, she ended up using two devices anyway (an iPad and Blackberry) for mixed government and personal business.

While this won’t be the next Watergate, the email scandal has the potential to derail the Clinton campaign. Potential candidates, such as Vice President Joe Biden and former nominee Al Gore, are watching the situation carefully as they consider

entering the race. Pundits have expressed concern about the effect of the scandal on Clinton’s poll numbers, especially in surveys about honesty.

However, Clinton continues to dominate polling and remains the frontrunner in this race — for both the primary and general elections.

Even though Sanders will not openly confront Clinton, he stands to gain from the continued investigations and media coverage. He certainly has a lot of ground to cover, especially among donors, minorities and older voters. If he can keep some momentum heading into the first debate, he will have a chance to take on the Clinton political machine.

While it remains Clinton’s race to lose, her only real competitor might have the opening he needs.

M a t t D ra g o n e t t e i s a s e n i o r accounting and government and politics major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

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ALL THE REGAL CINEMAS has begun to check bags upon entry to its movie CRAP YOU theaters amid calls for increased safety. The talk of change and eventual CARE ABOUT move was spurred by two separate theater attacks this summer alone.

ESSAY | MINIONS AND THE HATE CYCLE

MINION MADNESS How much money would it take for all of America to fall in love with something? More than $593 million, apparently

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer

MINIONS have become the yellow, animated face of Universal Pictures, their spin-off movie finishing as the second-largest animated opening of all-time. But the love they received could only last so long before part of America turned. photo courtesy of flickr

Over the course of a handful of months the minion characters from Universal’s Minions have taken over our daily lives in a way that is somehow both hurriedly violent and sort of cute. They’re stuck to bananas, printed on paper towels, placed on boxes of Twinkies and on TV and movie screens alike.

As with anything popular, most people have developed a strong stance on Minions the movie, minion culture and the characters themselves. It seems you either want to remove all things yellow and cylindrical from the face of the earth, or you want to become a minion — or maybe become a minion’s minion, if you will.

The tiny, bright-colored creatures have joined a divisive group of pop-culture phenomena that you probably know all too well, a group of popular entities that include The Twilight Saga, One Direction, Glee and any and all Shrek characters. Bands, TV programs, movies, books and characters that exist in this upper stratosphere of popularity experience obscene amounts of love along with equally obscene amounts of hate. It’s not nec-

essarily bad or even surprising that popular entertainment spawns radical opinions and rifts in groups. The world would be a strange and scary place if no one were annoyed by the talking donkey from Shrek or if everyone was perfectly fine with the plot of Twilight. However, is there something about minions that allow them to be even easier to hate than their pop predecessors?

The advertising campaign for Minions cost at least $593 million, which was about eight times the cost of making the actual film itself, according to Bloomberg. The whale-sized advertising budget has meant no one is free from the minion madness, and most people existing, eating and shopping in any mildly populated area have come in contact with a minion smiling up at them thanks to a promotional budget that could easily buy multiple islands.

“They’re everywhere, those yellow guys,” said Nick Carpou, Universal’s domestic distribution chief in an interview with Variety. “In a way they exist in the culture without even having a film attached to them.”

Minions aren’t the first characters who bring joy to children and annoy everyone else. But the fact that minions

took pop culture by storm so quickly is part of the reason the negative backlash and annoyance are so strong. It begs the question, how much advertising is too much?

However, Minions had the second-largest animated film opening in history, according to Variety. So maybe the advertising was worth it? In the end, the success of Minions has really only reinforced the idea that if children’s filmmakers want an audience, they need to make sure children see the movie characters everywhere they go. The more often minions are on the brain, the more tickets will be sold. “[Minions] have become our Mickey Mouse, frankly,” said Ron Meyer, vice chairman of NBC Universal in an interview with USA Today. “They fill every need of an iconic character. Fifty years from now, people are going to instantly recognize Minions. They are huge in every way.”

There’s no doubt minions are Universal’s tiny yellow godsends, and it’s not crazy to assume they will still be recognizable in 50 years. But whether they will invoke joy or cringing that far down the road still remains to be seen. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

ESSAY | MOVE-IN CHECKLIST

AVOIDING THE FIRST-WEEK Fedex Four necessary items to remember while navigating the hectic mess that is moving into your college home

THE FALl’s arrival means it’s time to pack up the van, whether for the first time or once again, with everything you need for the next couple of months at college. Often forgotten in that process are warm clothes, posters and batteries. photos courtesy of (from left to right) pixabay, wikimedia and flickr

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer The season of moving into dorms and apartments both on the campus and off is quickly approaching. As summer ebbs into fall, minivans are stuffed to the gills with college-living essentials, and students’ parents start accepting the fact that they might soon be crying in a public place.

With all the hustle and bustle involved in packing your life into suitcases, it’s easy to forget some of the dorm essentials. Luckily for you, dear student, this is a list of things others have forgotten in the past, important items you can add to

that seemingly never-ending checklist.

WARM CLOTHES When packing for school in August, it can be easy to forget that the weather will soon begin to dip below 60 degrees. This state has proven itself in the past to have the most fickle and absurd weather patterns, so it’s a good idea to come prepared with coats and pants for the later fall months.

“Way back at the beginning of my first semester, I thought I could make it until after Thanksgiving without cold-weather clothing,” said Tevin Luckie, a sophomore kinesiology major. “I was fighting the possibility of

getting a cold and having to miss class. Even though I was from Maryland, I still didn’t understand how weather works, especially when you’re walking everywhere instead of driving.”

LAUNDRY BAG Now that you’ve managed to cram an entire wardrobe into boxes and duffel bags, it’s important not to forget that at some point, items within this mountain of clothing won’t be clean.

“I forgot my laundry bag,” said Courtney Lieberman, senior biology major. “This resulted in a pile of dirty clothes on the floor in the corner until my friend from home moved in and brought

me my laundry bag.”

Doing laundry isn’t always the most exciting task, but unless you wear clothes and then throw them away, it is a necessary one. Don’t forget your laundry bag, because I’m sure your friends, roommate(s), professors and anyone within smelling distance of you will be well aware if you do.

ROOM DECORATIONS Poste rs, f lags, p hotographs and other decorations are must-haves for anyone moving into a dorm or apartment. You might be scrambling to find space in the car with all of your bedding and the six extra storage contain-

ers your parents insisted you would need, but don’t forget your giant giraffe poster or whatever it is that brightens your room.

“I forgot little things here and there, but [forgetting decorations] seemed to affect me most, because I realized how empty and lonely it felt with [the dorm room] just being another white room,” said senior bioengineering major Sumouni Basu. “By making [the room] my own, I was able to make it my home away from home.”

BATTERIES Unfortunately, there is no magical battery fairy that refills the batteries in remotes, alarm clocks and

electric toothbrushes. A battery fairy would be much more practical than a tooth fairy, but this creature doesn’t exist. And if you want your gadgets to be up and running, you must bring batteries to bring them to life.

“Last time I moved to campus, I forgot to bring AAA batteries, so I could not use my TV remote for a little while,” said Terrance Glover, a senior environmental science and technology major.

So if you want your calculator to keep calculating, your radio to keep playing and your flashlight to keep flashing, it would be beneficial to remember to pack the batteries. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

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OFFENSIVE LINEMAN damian prince answers questions from a reporter during the Terps’ media day Aug. 10 at the Gossett Team House. The redshirt freshman is projected to start. MARQUISE MCKINE/the diamondback

prince From PAGE 8 see him getting better, you can see him getting comfortable,” Edsall said.

Despite coming in as one of the best offensive linemen in the country, he experienced a shock when he arrived on campus. As of-

fensive line coach Greg Studrawa put it, he went from being a big fish to a little fish.

The Washington product was used to being the biggest, strongest player on his teams growing up, and once he came to the Terps, he was put in a conference filled with powerful linemen.

“He saw some of the people that we compete against on the sideline

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and thought, ‘I better get to going to work,’” Studrawa said. “He’s changed his body. He’ll continue to change and get better, but for a young man that’s that young that’s going to be a freshman starting, he’s already got strength levels right now that are really good.”

With more than two weeks left until the season opener against Richmond on Sept. 5, Prince has time to work on his technique, an area coaches said he is still progressing in. But he displayed the ability to be taught in his redshirt season, and Mulrooney commended his intelligence.

“In one year, he’s matured a lot,” Mulrooney said. “His knowledge of the game has really expanded, and he’s one of our smartest guys in the O-line room and the film room.”

Prince waited a year for his shot.

He’s got it now, and though he has room to improve, the burly rookie brings size and strength the Terps have lacked in the past.

“I like the way he’s coming along,” Edsall said. “He’s not going to be the finished the product this year, but he’s working.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

notebook From PAGE 8 the 2015 season after suffering a lower leg injury during practice Wednesday morning, the team announced in a news release.

The redshirt sophomore has played in one game with the Terps and was listed second on the preseason depth chart at defensive tackle behind Quinton Jefferson.

He was projected to provide quality depth in the Terps’ new 4-3 defensive scheme.

A three-star recruit out of high school, Jones redshirted in 2013 and earned scout team defensive player of the week twice. Redshirt junior Ty Tucker, who was listed in a battle to backup Jefferson with Jones, figures to see an expanded role.

GALLO DONE AFTER SEASON

Tight End P.j. Gallo is tackled by his teammates during a Terps scrimmage Aug. 17, 2013, at Byrd Stadium.

Gallo will forgo his senior season to take a job at Goldman Sachs next summer. file photo/the diamondback Edsall announced Tuesday that this season will be tight end P.J. Gallo’s final year with the team.

The redshirt junior interned with Goldman Sachs, and the firm offered him a job to start next July.

Gallo appeared in all 13 games last season, making two starts at tight

end. He is listed second on the depth chart behind Andrew Isaacs.

“He had a great internship with them this past summer, and it’s great for him and great for the program,” Edsall said. rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

PARENTS! KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR KIDS WHILE THEY’RE IN SCHOOL.

CRADDOCK

“IF YOU EVER GET A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN WITH BRAD, YOU From PAGE 8 UNDERSTAND HIS HEART the following years, that’s what I want to do,” Craddock said.

AND WHERE HE’S COMING Craddock’s ascent to becoming the FROM AND WHO HE IS AS Terps’ leader, though, wasn’t always a given. The Terps recruited him as a punter, but an injury to the team’s starting kicker Nick Ferrara in Craddock’s freshman year thrust him into kicking duties.

The Aussie struggled as a rookie, connecting on 10 of 16 field goal attempts, including a missed 33-yarder with two seconds left in a two-point loss to N.C. State. Craddock considered not returning to this university.

“There’s a lot of people, when that happens, that’ll just say, ‘Hey, I want to go back to punting. I don’t want to do it,’” Edsall said. “But that’s not Brad.”

Instead, Craddock enlisted the help of Super Bowl-winning kicker Matt Stover to improve his technique and fundamentals after having no prior experience with place kicking in organized football before coming to the U.S. Two years after his heartbreaking miss against the Wolfpack, Craddock found himself in another potential game-winning situation, this time in Beaver Stadium when the Terps faced Penn State last year. The Terps were again down by two points, but with less than a minute left, Craddock nailed a 43-yard attempt to seal a 20-19 victory.

His performance against the Nittany Lions, and his accuracy in going 18-for-19 on the season that featured his program-record 57yarder against Ohio State earned Craddock the Lou Groza Award for the nation’s best kicker.

“That was never a goal,” Craddock said. “Right now, it’s just focusing on one kick at a time, and [I’m] 0-0 against Richmond [in the season opener.]”

This summer, Craddock spent time with Cleveland Browns kicker Carey Spear and has continued to work with Stover. He’s focused on enhancing his kickoff range and fine-tuning the footwork and consistencies of his field goals to build on his awardwinning campaign.

Craddock “kind of showed a lot of guys you can do it with the time and effort and work that you put in on

A PERSON.” CALEB ROWE

Terrapins football quarterback and off the field and [on] days off,” said wide receiver Taivon Jacobs, another member of the Terps’ leadership council. “It really showed me that I can do just as much as he could do and to push even harder.”

Craddock has extended help teamwide, not limiting himself to the special-teams group. He helped defensive end Yannick Ngakoue map out a daily schedule to keep his priorities structured.

They sectioned Ngakoue’s time out on a calendar to ensure he could focus on football — with aspects ranging from technique and footwork improvement to stretching and recovery — all while keeping a balance in his school work, faith and other activities.

“Iron sharpens iron,” quarterback Caleb Rowe said. “If you ever get a chance to sit down with Brad, you understand his heart and where he’s coming from and who he is as a person.”

Former quarterback C.J. Brown saw Craddock’s transformation. In his six-year stint with the Terps, Brown witnessed Craddock’s rise from a bumpy start in a foreign country to one of the nation’s best specialists and the head of the Terps’ locker room.

After the Terps’ season ended in Santa Clara, California, Brown rode in a golf cart from the postgame press conference to the locker room with Edsall. As they talked, Edsall asked his outgoing signal-caller, who had been with the program longer than the Terps’ coach himself, what he could do to make his team better. “[Brown] says, ‘You’re going to be much better next year,’ and I said, ‘why do you say that?’” Edsall remembered. “He said, ‘You’re going to have better leadership.’ And he’s right.

“That’s Brad Craddock.” ccaplandbk@gmail.com

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Despite strict international sanctions and treaties, If we don’t trust, can we verify? If Iran wants the Iran has operated covert illegal nuclear facilities $150 billion in sanctions relief it is promised for since the mid-1980s. In 2002, Iranian dissidents adhering to this deal and if it has every intention of revealed to a surprised world that the Islamic complying, why would it refuse to allow the Republic was building a uranium enrichment plant at “anytime, anywhere” inspections promised by Natanz, as well as a heavy water plan at Arak, the likes President Obama? Yet the P5+1 abandoned strict of which is capable of producing plutonium for inspection protocols, including the ability to inspect nuclear bombs. In 2009, the U.S and other Western military sites, in exchange for a scheme by which Iran states discovered Iran constructing another secret can delay any request to enrichment plan—this other secret one fortified deeply “Only if the U.S. Congress defeats the inspect facilities for 24 days underground—known as Iran Deal can the international minimum (and possibly Fordow. Notwithstanding all evidence to the community avoid a nuclear-armed terror much longer) in a bureaucratic jungle— contrary, Iran has insisted state—and the near certainty of a war.” plenty of time to spirit its nuclear program is away all traces of peaceful. While Iran is a disallowed nuclear activity. signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the What’s worse, astoundingly, neither the United International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found States nor any of the P5+1 nations will be involved in back in 2003 that “Iran’s many failures and breaches inspecting Iranian nuclear sites. Instead, inspections of its obligations to comply with its NPT Safeguards will be administered by the IAEA, which has Agreement... constitute non-compliance.” negotiated secret terms for these protocols with Iran, Indeed, in 2003 then nuclear negotiator and now the wily sanctions evader, which we will never see. president Hassan Rouhani bragged that “While we But what if we actually do catch Iran cheating? were talking with the Europeans in Teheran” about Even if Iran is caught violating Iran Deal terms, the preventing Iran from enriching uranium, “we were P5+1 has tied its own hands. The only penalty the installing equipment in parts of the [uranium P5+1 can levy against Iran is a “snapback” return to conversion] facility at Isfahan.” the sanctions—which could take months of In just the past year during the P5+1 negotiations, negotiations among P5+1 partners. What’s more, at despite generous easing of international sanctions the instant sanctions are reinstituted, Iran has the offered as incentive, Iran has cheated at least three right to abandon the entire agreement, flip its times on related agreements. First, in violation of the centrifuge switches and return to full-speed nuclear Joint Plan of Action, which prohibited Iran from weapons development. By then it will have collected enriching uranium in new centrifuges, the IAEA in its $150-billion reward and have little left to lose, but November 2014 caught the Islamic Republic using a nuclear arsenal to gain. With such stakes, it’s advanced, high-powered IR-5 centrifuges. Second, in certain no Western nation will want to upend the February 2015, Iran was discovered to have about 300 agreement for the kind of small, consistent kilograms of banned, gaseous low-enriched uranium, incremental violations that have characterized so which can be used as reactor fuel. Third, Iran swore much of Iran’s cheating in the past. We can also be to the IAEA it would answer questions about the sure that once British, French, German and Russian Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) of its previous firms have lined up multi-billion-dollar oil and nuclear programs, but to date it has mocked this weapons contracts with Iran, they will be reluctant to commitment, revealing virtually nothing. kill those lucrative programs by reinstituting This consistent history of lying, cheating and sanctions. weaseling out of agreements to limit its nuclear In short, if Iranians are determined to cheat, as they surely are, this deal leaves U.S. allies no means to catch them or force them to comply. Only if the U.S. Congress defeats the Iran Deal can the international community avoid a nuclear-armed terror state—and the near certainty of a Middle East or world war. Call your Sentators and Representative to voice your opposition today: (202) 225-3121.

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Prince adds size to offensive line Five-star recruit set to start at right tackle after redshirting last season

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer Coach Randy Edsall has called the Terrapins football team’s new conference a lineman league. And in order to win the battle of the trenches, Edsall has put a premium on recruiting top linemen from the area.

Last season, Edsall lured 247Sports five-star recruit Damian Prince and four-star recruit Derwin Gray. Both redshirted last year and now will get a chance to help bolster the Terps’ offensive line in their second season in the Big Ten. Prince earned the starting job at right tackle to start fall camp, and the bulky redshirt freshman is set to bring muchneeded size to the Terps’ experienced line. At 328 pounds, he is tied with Gray as the heaviest player on the roster.

“You look at the guy and you’re just like, where the hell did this kid come from?” center Evan Mulrooney said.

“He’s humongous, and he’s got feet like a cheetah.”

While spending a season without playing in games was tough for Prince, he has used the last year-plus to learn from the older guys on the team. The Terps are starting three seniors and a junior alongside Prince.

Prince said the biggest thing he has learned from them is composure. And he has continued soaking up as

“YOU LOOK AT THE GUY AND YOU’RE JUST LIKE, WHERE THE HELL DID THIS KID COME FROM? HE’S HUMONGOUS, AND HE’S GOT FEET LIKE A CHEETAH.” EVAN MULROONEY

Terrapins football center much knowledge as possible during camp.

“I’m just taking the time to pick all the older guys’ brains, just to learn as much as possible from them, being as they been there before,” Prince said.

Michael Dunn, who is listed as the starter at left tackle, praised Prince’s ability to listen to the veterans.

“The kid is always willing to learn, always willing to get better,” Dunn said. “Now he’s in really good shape, looking good, playing well, so I’m excited to see what he can do this year.”

It began in the spring when Prince first got his chance to compete for a job as a secondstring lineman. Dunn told him this was his opportunity if he wanted to play.

Prince was rewarded with the starting job at the start of fall camp.

“He’s just a redshirt freshman who has a tremendous amount of ability, and you can See prince, Page 7

kicker brad craddock celebrates with teammates after making a field goal during the Terps’ 52-7 rout of James Madison on Aug. 30, 2014.

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UNLIKELY LEADER Craddock has emerged as Terps’ voice in final year as kicker

By Callie Caplan @CallieCaplan Staff writer Last January, about a month removed from the Terrapins football team’s 45-21 loss to Stanford in the Foster Farms Bowl, kicker Brad Craddock met with Randy Edsall in the coach’s office.

After a year of sitting in on the Terps’ leadership council meetings as a junior, Craddock wanted to have a more vocal influence. “‘I’ve been in the meetings,’ he says, ‘and I’m going to take

charge of this leadership council,’” Edsall recalled Craddock saying.

So Edsall and Craddock formed lists of the players they thought should represent each position on this season’s leadership council, and soon, Craddock became the driving force behind the group’s formation.

As the Terps enter their second year in the Big Ten and Craddock’s college career comes to a close, the Australian’s initiative and guidance has rubbed off on the Terps.

“Anything I can do to make the guys better this year and See craddock, Page 7

FOOTBALL | NOTEBOOK

Edsall allowing three-way QB battle to work itself out Connecticut transfer Ashiru to slide over to OLB Logan’s spot; Jones suffers season-ending lower leg injury

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer After more than 10 practices in fall camp, Terrapins football coach Randy Edsall is still evaluating redshirt juniors Caleb Rowe and Perry Hills and fifth-year transfer Daxx Garman for the starting quarterback job.

The three signal callers have been splitting repetitions with the first-team offense.

In Friday’s practice, the three rotated in and out as Edsall attempted to give each quarterback the same amount of time under center.

Rowe had his turn running the first team Monday while Hills took Tuesday’s early practice and Garman had the evening practice Tuesday.

Edsall is still waiting for one of them to emerge.

“Some guys have had their moments and done well. We are looking for that consistency,” Edsall said Tuesday.

“We’ll do the same thing for the next three practices, and hopefully by that time,

somebody will have separated themselves. We are just taking it one day at a time and one practice at a time.”

Garman said Edsall hasn’t given him a timetable on when a decision will be made, but Edsall did say they entered this week with a plan and will re-evaluate the situation at the end of the week.

The Terps hold another scrimmage Saturday, as part of their annual Fan Appreciation Day, so Edsall might wait to see everyone again in a game format before making his pick.

Rowe said the first scrimmage helped him get comfortable, as he had missed the spring game while recovering from a torn ACL. “It was my first gamelike situation, so I definitely feel like I’m kind of calmed down,” Rowe said. “I’m kind of getting into my own a little bit. I kind of had the jitters a little bit going into it, but now I’m kind of getting a little more comfortable with everything.”

Garman, meanwhile, is beginning to settle into the new offensive system after

transfer Jefferson Ashiru was listed in a position battle with Jalen Brooks for one of the starting outside linebacker spots. But after Abner Logan, the starter on the other side, suffered an ACL injury in the first week of fall camp, Edsall has opted to move Ashiru into ASHIRU TO REPLACE Logan’s spot.

LOGAN Ashiru, a graduate transOn the initial preseason fer, started 18 games with the depth chart, Connecticut Huskies in his three seasons. transferring from Oklahoma State in May. “I’m definitely getting more comfortable just being out here just learning the routine, how everything goes every day,” Garman said.

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In 2013, he finished fifth on the team in tackles with 58.

After Ashiru has had about a week practicing in his new spot, Edsall said, “He’s doing well.” Ashiru has still been adjusting to the terminology with his new team, but Edsall said that part of the process is over.

“Now that he’s got that down, we’ll see him continue to do more,” Edsall said. “The

more he practices and he’s taking those reps, the more comfortable he’ll be. He’s played. He started. I’m not too worried about him.”

JONES OUT FOR YEAR Terrapins football defensive lineman Malik Jones will miss See notebook, Page 7

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