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Book Exchange slated for demolition 77-year-old building’s end will allow construction of apartment complex down the building is the first step of R and J Company’s redevelopment project for the space.

The approved plan includes an apartment complex with 287 units T he building that houses the and a maximum of 855 beds, accordMaryland Book Exchange has stood at the corner of Route 1 and College ing to the city’s September developAvenue for 77 years. But in the near ment update. The plan also includes future, nothing will remain but a pile 13,844 square feet of retail, which will feature the relocation of the of rubble.

The former Terrapins gear and text- Book Exchange.

The time line for construction is book store is prepared for demolition in the near future, though city officials sliding a bit, District 3 Councilman have yet to set a specific date. Tearing Robert Day said, but he said the city

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will demolish the building by the end of this year. Until workers build the new complex, he said, the Book Exchange will maintain its online presence.

Some residents and city officials, including Day, are concerned about the size of the planned development. T he side of the bu i ld i ng facing Route 1 will be six stories tall, and the side facing Yale Avenue will be three stories.

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the maryland book exchange will be demolished by the end of the year to make way for a retail and apartment complex. file photo/the diamondback

Open mic event celebrates, encourages LGBTQ coming out

By Talia Richman @talirichman Staff writer

See resolution, Page 3 josh deese (top right), sophomore government and politics major, shared his coming out story at yesterday’s Queer Open Mic in Stamp Student Union’s North Atrium alongside other participants, such as junior Madeleine Moore (bottom right) and graduate student Tuesday Barnes (left). kelsey hughes/the diamondback know that things do get better.”

The event took place in Stamp Student Union’s North Atrium — the area immediately outside the Maryland Food Co-op. Students eating lunch on the food-court level directly

above often peeked over the railing to see the faces of the people whose stories echoed throughout the area.

“The beauty of having it in Stamp is that it’s right in the middle of campus where a lot of people can

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wes bush (center left), president and CEO of Northrop Grumman Corp., and University System of Maryland Chancellor William “Brit” Kirwan attend the ACES launch party in late September. kelsey hughes/the diamondback criminology and criminal justice, engineering, and mathematics, will live and learn together during the first two years of the program before having the opportunity to pursue advanced studies during the last two.

“One of the main emphases is to say that it’s not a purely technical program,” said Michel Cukier, the

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hear it without specifically coming to the event,” said Sree Sinha, a junior psychology major who presided over the event.

“IN THE END, POLITICAL ADVERSARIES SET ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES AND DISAGREEMENTS TO PREVENT THAT DISASTER.”

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In light of recent cyberterrorism and digital security threats across the country, the university launched the nation’s first undergraduate honors program in cybersecurity this semester with a $1.1 million grant from Northrop Grumman Corp. that the university is matching.

The program, Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students, includes interdisciplinary studies and projects to address cybersecurity problems while partnering with Northrop Grumman to help prepare students for future careers in cybersecurity. The program’s 57 students, who are studying various fields, including business, computer science,

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer It took 16 days of behind-thescenes negotiations, stalled talks and finger-pointing, but Congress has reached a compromise to reopen the government and address the looming debt ceiling deadline.

Senate leadership announced yesterday that lawmakers had reached a bipartisan agreement to fund the government and raise the country’s debt ceiling, the statutory limit by which the federal government can service its already outstanding debts.

The continuing resolution is set to fund the government until Jan. 15, 2014, and extend the debt limit until Feb. 7, 2014. It also creates a budget conference committee chaired by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The committee is tasked with crafting a budget plan by December that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said would “prevent these frequent crises” and “chart a course for economic growth.”

“The eyes of the world have been in Washington all this week, and that is a gross understatement,” Reid said.

“While they witnessed a great deal of political discord, today they will also see Congress reaching historic bipartisan agreement to reopen the government and avert default on the nation’s bills.”

finding another way

Josh Deese took his father’s pistol and held it to his head.

It had all gotten to be too much: being called a “faggot” by his high school classmates, being tripped in the hallways, being jumped after school by guys who threw both punches and insults.

With tears pouring down his face, he pulled the trigger.

But the firing pin didn’t properly strike the bullet, meaning Deese was able to share his story at the Queer Open Mic event yesterday, about four years after his attempted suicide.

“I put the gun away and started thinking that there has to be another way to solve this,” said Deese, a sophomore government and politics major. “I shared my story at the Queer Open Mic because I know there are a lot of LGBTQ youth who feel suicidal, and I want them to

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director of ACES. “The view is that you need an interdisciplinary approach to really solve today’s problems in cybersecurity.”

ACES students enroll in HACS100: Foundations of Cybersecurity I, which includes technical, ethical See aces, Page 2

Shortly after President Obama took office nearly five years ago, his administration launched what is now known as the White House Office of Public Engagement as part of an effort, the president said, to create “an unprecedented level of openness in government,” a task Paul Monteiro has taken to heart.

Monteiro, a Columbia native and 2002 university alumnus, works as an adviser in the office, where he engages the administration and the public in discussion focusing on Arab-Americans, gun violence, faith and poverty.

Monteiro, 32, came to the university after graduating from High Point High School in 1998. Since then, he’s worked as an intern for the Supreme Court and White House, a congressional aide for then-Sen. Obama and a corporate lawyer.

Yesterday evening, Monteiro returned to the campus, speaking to a small crowd of students in La Plata Hall’s Multipurpose Room about his entrance into a n d e x p e r iences working in law and national politics.

As a student on the campus, Monteiro was involved in the paul monteiro Student Legal University alumnus Aid Office, Student Government Association, academic quiz team and two different fraternities. After he graduated with a history degree, Monteiro attended Howard University’s law school, and from there, he took a job in the Washington office of Los Angeles-based law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP. He was on track to live a comfortable private-sector life, but Monteiro said See monteiro, Page 3

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event host sree sinha, who is a co-creator of Sex Week, gives opening remarks at the Queer Open Mic event at Stamp Student Union on Wednesday afternoon. Students shared their feelings about being LGBTQ through short talks and poetry. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

open From PAGE 1 Brit kirwan, University System of Maryland chancellor, speaks at the ACES program’s launch event Sept. 25 in Stamp Student Union. A high percentage of women — 23 percent — make up the participating students in the program’s inaugural semester. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

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North Campus Office Associate Director Amy Martin said ACES’ additions to Prince From PAGE 1 Frederick are generating great and professional development excitement for the program.

“The grant … has been a lot components. Learning how to conduct yourself in the busi- of the reason why they’ve been ness world is very important, able to do things in Prince Frederick in terms of techCukier said.

“These students need to nology and the way they’re know how to interact with a setting up some of the spaces company when they get offers, there,” she said. “So kind when they get phone calls, of the planning and design when they’re at networking of Prince Frederick should happen along the same time events,” he said.

The program and company line as the development of the meet monthly, Cukier said, ACES program.”

In class, along with develadding that the program’s “close collaboration” with oping technical and profesNor t h rop Gr u m m a n a l so sional skills, the students are helps students get jobs and working on a “cyberhygiene” campaign to zero in on a speinternships.

“Northrop Grumman is cific problem pertaining to trying to reach out to the stu- their field, such as security dents on a very regular way,” attacks, and exploring how it Cukier said. “It allows us to could be fi xed.

“These students will have create new things because, with this partnership, we hear to face situations where they much more what a company will have to decide what to do in front of a computer,” might be interested in.”

Though the program is tem- Cukier said.

Elizabeth Rogers, ACES porarily located in Ellicott Hall, Northrop Grumman’s coord i nator, helps i n the grant is helping fund ACES’ living-learning aspect of the move to Prince Frederick Hall program by organizing outnext year. That includes de- of-class events.

For instance, ACES held signing and building a cybersecurity lab in the new residence a welcome dinner after the hall, Cukier said. More grant first day of classes so students funding is delegated toward could socialize and learn how paying staff salaries and paying to present themselves profesfor student trips to Northrop sionally in the business world, Grumman in Falls Church, Va. she said.

“ We re a l ly wa nt t here to be a community for the program,” Rogers said. “It’s not just all academic.”

The program also stressed diversity in its inaugural year, both in students’ majors and in the inclusion of women.

Women make up 23 percent of the program, a much higher number than the percentage of women majoring in computer science, Cukier said. “[T he women i n ACES] agreed to work with us and go to high schools and help with outreach,” he said. “They would be amazing models to show that you can be a successful woman in cybersecurity and attract other women.”

A s t he prog ra m moves for wa rd w it h Nor t h rop Gr u m m a n’s pa r tnersh ip, Cukier hopes to continue emphasizing interdisciplinary cybersecurity learning and structure a program that’s unique on a national level.

“What you’re teaching is not what will be taught in computer science, is not what will be taught in community colleges, so it’s something different where we teach them cybersecurity from the beginning and not having, say, a bunch of technical geeks around a table,” Cukier said.

“We broadened that. We need to do it from the fi rst year.”

The open mic was held in celebration of National Coming Out Day, which was Friday.

“I n the tr ue spi rit of a n o p e n m i c , e v e r yone was welcome,” said Fiona Jardine, a graduate student in library science and one of the event coordinators. “These stories a b o u t ge n d e r i d e n t i t y are so powerful to hear, even if you aren’t part of the LGBTQ community.

If some students aren’t in a place where they feel comfortable sharing their stor y, I hope they ga i n st ren g t h f rom he a r i n g others speak.”

Deese said the best part of speaking about his experience — both through the open mic and his work with the Trevor Project, a nonprofit focusing on suicide

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could speak, as well as people who don’t,” Smith said. “‘Gay’ has become a political thing, and it was good to hear people’s stories. It makes it less of a political issue and more of a community issue.”

Not all of the people who g at he re d i n t he S t a mp’s atrium for the event identified as LGBTQ or allies.

Sophomore Peter Fairbanks, who said he would die before saying, “I support gay marriage,” ca me to see what people with beliefs that differed from his had to say.

“Do I think homosexuality is wrong? No. Do I think acting on homosexuality is wrong? Yes,” said Fairbanks, a biology major. “When I hear these stories, I feel sadness.”

As Fa i rba n ks sa id th is, Davinia Forgy, a transgender university graduate, approached the microphone and recited an original poem: “Having Wept for the Phobics.”

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prevention in the LGBTQ community — was the knowledge that his words can make a difference.

“When someone comes up to me and says, ‘Thank you.

You saved my life’ — that’s truly rewarding,” he said.

Deese, who is originally from southern Florida, said the LGBTQ community at this university is the complete opposite of what he experienced in middle and high school.

There, getting slammed into lockers was a daily norm. Here, he can take part in events like an open mic session.

“I feel so safe,” Deese said.

“The LGBTQ community here is fantastic. I’m in an environment where I can truly be accepted and appreciated for who I am.”

Becca Smith, a sophomore environmental science and policy major, came to the event so she could listen to the different perspectives.

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and convenient to live there, I can’t imagine students want to pay much more than the View From PAGE 1 and The Varsity prices,” she said.

“The new developers are going “So, unless they find some way to build a monstrosity,” Day said. to actually give students their “It’s something that is too big for money’s worth in housing or jack where it’s at. It doesn’t fit the down the prices to affordability, neighborhood, and it doesn’t fit I seriously can’t see a housing any of the characteristics around complex doing well there.”

R&J Company could not be it. I think the students may have reached for contact. However, a different opinion.”

Senior Liz Lane, who lives District 3 Councilwoman Stephin the University View, said anie Stullich said developers have being in the center of student not announced specific prices.

The development could help life on Route 1 makes the Book Exchange area prime real estate. alleviate the lack of student “While it would be very nice housing options in the area,

Stullich said. But Day said the large number of beds is disconcerting to residents.

“The residents and landlords are starting to work together with the students to create a better atmosphere, and when you dump almost 900 students into Old Town, it creates a lopsided traffic flow with the types of people walking around,” Day said.

“There’s always this image that needs to be looked at.”

Stullich said she thinks the development will be in high demand once it’s completed, but she would rather see

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told The Diamondback on Monday she had received dozens of such concerns.

It also sent a message to students hoping to work for the federal government after graduation. Bryan Kempton, career services and alumni relations director in the public policy school, said it may call into question the viability of such jobs and urged students to broaden their job search into the nonprofit and private sectors.

“A lot of students come to College Park and really have their sights set on federal government employment with no other options,” Kempton said. “That’s a bad idea. You should always have a backup plan.”

However, Kempton said despite the media hype surrounding the government shutdown, it doesn’t necessarily make federal work a poor career choice.

“It might be a time where expectations aren’t as high as they once were, but it’s still a place where students can find positions,” he said. “The federal government will once again remain a place for suitable employment.”

From PAGE 1 After Senate officials passed the bill, 81-18, the plan was cleared by the House later last night on a 285-144 vote. President Obama said he would sign the measure.

The shutdown came as a result of failed budget talks between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans proposed a deal that would repeal a medical device tax within the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health care legislation, and delay full implementation of the ACA by one year. Democrats refused to budge, unwilling to gut the law that has become their signature legislation.

The debate, which outlived the Oct. 1 deadline to pass a budget and keep the government funded, caused a partial shutdown that furloughed roughly 800,000 government employees, closed national parks and reduced government services.

As federal government agencies were operating under a skeletal staff with only “essential” employees, the debate raged on for more than two weeks.

Reid praised the Republican leadership for coming to an agreement with Democrats and

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“After weeks spent facing off across a partisan divide that often seemed too wide to cross, our country came to a brink of a disaster,” Reid said. “In the end, political adversaries set aside their differences and disagreements to prevent that disaster.”

While the government shutdown had a minimal effect on higher education, it had a more direct impact on students’ parents, who work with the federal government. Some worried they would be unable to meet financial aid obligations, unsure how long they would be without paychecks. Financial aid director Sarah Bauder

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student housing projects on the west side of Route 1. The Knox Village development planned west of Route 1, she said, is a more favorable project that could foster a community feel. “[The Knox Village] includes a lot more opportunities for social space,” Stullich said.

“There are pretty well thoughtout courtyards … and it will include at least one restaurant or bar. Also, I think it’s more attractive architecturally. It will be fairly similar to South Campus Commons in terms of the quality of materials.”

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District 3 city councilman to solve, is addressing the community in a way that invited discussion,” he said. “I think he more or less said, ‘This is what we want to do.’ The residents didn’t really like it, so he didn’t really try to continue that conversation and work to solve the problem until we started fighting him at the county level.”

planner, said the Knox Village developers were much more responsive to the city, community and staff than R&J Company was.

Day described R&J Company’s efforts as “disingenuous,” resulting in a pending lawsuit launched by some heated residents.

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Paul Monteiro, public engagement advisor in the White House, speaks to students at a “What is Your Dream?” event in La Plata Hall.

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office, working on faith outreach issues. Obama was just one senator of 100 at the time, From PAGE 1 not nearly the political celebsomething changed in summer rity he would become during his campaign for president in 2008.

2006.

“Getting to meet him in that “I met this g uy, Barack Oba ma,” he sa id. Oba ma window of time was really a was participating in a town blessing for me,” Monteiro said.

He worked on Obama’s 2008 hall with Tim Russert at the Warner T heatre in Wash- campaign as deputy director of i ng ton. T he theme of the religious affairs, and after the discussion, according to a candidate’s victory, he took a press release, was “making job on Obama’s inaugural coma difference through public mittee, then a job in the administration that he still holds. service.”

In a question-and-answer Monteiro, only a few years out of college, found himself session with students, Monwowed by the junior Illinois teiro offered advice on getting senator’s responses in his talk into the highly competitive, with Russert, NBC’s longtime high-pressure world of professional politics.

Meet the Press host.

“Nothing’s private, even “He was just so thoughtful,” if it’s set as private,” he said, Monteiro said.

Monteiro was instantly warning the audience that struck. Several months later, high political figures’ staffers he left his job as a corporate and interns fall under a sharp attorney and landed a posi- social media microscope.

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He also stressed the importance of taking advantage of the university’s close proximity to the nation’s capital and all institutions and opportunities that come with it.

“You’re literally and figuratively right next door to the U.S. government,” he said.

The discussion, part of the University Honors Program’s “What is Your Dream?” programming series, had an audience of about a dozen, and organizers said they were pleased with how the event went.

Cathy Barks, associate director of the honors program, said Monteiro “didn’t start out with connections,” but with “a very small dream,” making his a good example to follow.

Damien Franze, University Honors program coordinator and the event’s organizer, was also pleased.

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his university has championed sustainability for years. Among the noble projects enacted is a push for a more bicycle-friendly community. Starting Feb. 1, a major development will arrive for local cyclists, but it might not be what they actually need.

That’s when Capital Bikeshare implements its service in the surrounding area. There will soon be 10 stations in the city, six of which will be on the campus and one of which will be at the College Park Metro Station.

Our opinion on the program has not wavered since it first began to take shape in May 2012: It likely won’t be beneficial to students.

To start, the service isn’t free, unlike the Department of Transportation Services buses. So students will have to pay from $7 for a 24-hour pass to $75 for a year of access. At current rates, bike rental is free for the first 30 minutes and costs $1.50 for up to an hour. After that, the rate increases until reaching an hourly price of $8. These rates are pricey and may discourage students from using the bikes at all.

With the cost of hosting the Bikeshare sites being about $400,000 — which includes purchasing the bikes and putting in stations and about $160,000 to run and maintain the program — it’s debatable whether either

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the university or Alta Bicycle Share, the company that runs Capital Bikeshare, will see a profit on this project. DOTS spokeswoman Beverly Malone said she is looking into a student discount, which would be a plus for students but raises the question of whether the discount would garner enough money for

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The upcoming Capital Bikeshare stations won’t be a transit cure-all for the city.

They will be costly clutter. the project to stay afloat.

Additionally, our concerns about bike station placement have not changed. The system is specifically designed for high-density urban areas, a description not exactly befitting of this suburban college town. Finding a full station to return their rental on one part of the campus could mean students have a major trek to find another.

The most troubling proposed location is the Metro station’s. An influx of bikes likely will appear at the Metro station bike stop during morning commutes. Students, residents and visitors looking to go to Washington will bring bikes from all the stations around the campus to the Metro stop

in the morning and snatch them back up upon their return, leaving a shortage of bikes to ride to the campus in the evenings. Users likely won’t be willing to risk the possibility of having nowhere to park the bikes if they ride them to the station. As the closest place to deposit a bike from the Metro station might be on the campus, the entire system could be ineffective.

That’s how it differs from the program’s promise in Washington and other urban areas.

We hope planners take these commonsense concerns into account as the locations and logistics are finalized.

“The object is especially to help connect the Metro station with downtown and then the campus in a way that is not done currently,” said Terry Schum, the city’s planning director. She and university officials seem to be overlooking that this just might not be feasible. The project has been on everyone’s minds for so long that it seems they can’t take a step back and look at it realistically.

We urge the university once again to reconsider implementing this program. There are many other avenues by which we can spend the money, including other projects to revitalize the city. This program likely won’t be as effective or monetarily beneficial as university and city officials seem to think.

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First Look Fair: The morning after ERIK SHELL A staple in this university’s co m m u n i ty, t h e Fi rs t L o o k Fa i r p rove s t i m e a n d a ga i n that not only does the juggling club exist, but also it looks best when wedged b etween Jewish a cappella and martial arts demonstrations.

On this principle, we upperclassmen have, over the years, become adept at convincing freshmen that our club is for them. And we totally have free food at meetings, like, all the time.

Empty promises like these inevitably lead to pages upon pages of illegible email addresses, where SuzieQ96 snuggles right next to RoGuEmAsTeRdunge0nPimp@hotmail, all vying for that sweet, sweet weekly meeting information.

But time goes by and emails go out, and somewhere in the week between the First Look Fair and the first club meetings, eager applicants begin to experience something similar to the morning after a blackout. Suddenly they have 10 strangers in their inboxes, all telling them where and when to meet. It’s not dissimilar to a lowlevel drug ring, in which all leaders want to meet at the same time each Thursday and members need to remember to bring a friend.

I cannot report what happens after that. Namely because I, myself, signed up for just two clubs at my only First Look Fair, and to this day, I’m a board member on both.

Had I received an email from an unsolicited and unwanted organization — like I do from Terptix every other day — I would have unsubscribed and never thought of them again.

But there are tons of people who don’t do this. At first glance, the club I run seems fairly large: There are about 250 members on the Listserv. Come to a meeting, however, and you’ll see seven. And that’s if we have brownies.

This can mean one thing and one thing only: Somewhere out there, 243 students go through the habitual action of ignoring or deleting club emails, sight unseen. Better yet, many of them have done this for more than a year now. Icing on the cake: It’s quite likely that my club is not the only one for which they’re doing this.

Who are these students? I’m not convinced they exist. If I had to guess, I’d say this university fills out the crowd at the First Look Fair with paid young people, much like the Republican Party during Romney’s rallies. Yes, much like Steve Buscemi on 30 Rock, the old folks have duped us by trying to blend in.

Suddenly, the slow walking speed at the First Look Fair makes sense.

For fun, let’s say they are real students. How great is it that the millennial generation — who grew up with computers, who should know them the best, who can usher the digital era into the workplace and who will drive the final nail into the 20th century’s coffin — has stopped reading emails?

Suddenly they can’t be bothe re d fo r a h a l f- m i n u te to te l l Vegetarian Activists for Medieval Awareness that they just cannot m a k e i t to N o r t h C a m p u s o n Friday afternoons.

I lo ng fo r the day when the members we email are the ones who care. But it is not this day.

Instead, we must be satisfied with the law of club Listservs: 95 percent no-shows, 5 percent attendees and 100 percent proof that your club must be lame.

Eri k Shell is a junior classical l a n g u a ges a n d l i te ra t u res a n d history major. He can be reached at eshelldbk@gmail.com.

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Post-shutdown reassessment MATT DRAGONETTE Just 16 days of partial government shutdown and you would have thought the world had ended. If you’d looked at Twitter trends, The Diamondback or CNN before the government reopened yesterday, you would have seen overwhelming panic and anger.

In Washington, veterans protested the closure of memorials, and politicians and pundits called one another terrorists and Nazis. Commentators traded insults while proposing no real solutions to the country’s many problems.

But amid this political circus, we once again lost sight of the true problem for Washington and, quite frankly, for America.

The oldest generations of Americans are robbing the youngest generation.

Our parents and grandparents have irresponsibly spent our nation’s wealth for themselves. They have created trillion-dollar deficits and left us broken welfare programs. Not only did they misspend money, but they spent our generation’s money.

They took out massive loans and did not plan to pay them back; instead, they are leaving us to pay back the enormous federal debt.

Young people will pay into Social Security and Medicare, but we will not get anything close to the benefits

our parents and grandparents have received. Instead, we will pay heavy taxes to make up for the excesses of previous generations.

Just how bad is the spending problem?

If you were to shrink the government, proportionally, down to familysized income levels (using 2012 Congressional Budget Office numbers), this is what it would look like: Income: $50,000.00 Spending: $73,729.17 Debt: $350,104.17 How is this level of spending sustainable? American families have to budget, but why doesn’t Congress?

Each member gets paid just less than $200,000 annually, yet the group hasn’t passed a budget on time in years.

This deficit is an incredible gap to narrow. No one wants to make politically unpopular cuts, but someone eventually has to. And while debt is sometimes necessary, this pace is unsustainable. What’s the plan for, one, balancing the budget and, two, paying off the debt?

When you remember that the debt is actually $16.8 trillion, you realize just how serious this problem is. More concerning, if you were to completely eliminate all discretionary spending (except mandatory interest payment), you could not balance the budget. If we wanted no military or research programs, we still could not balance the budget.

In effect, politicians are throwing

a 50-year party and then leaving us the bill.

It is no less than generational theft. And no one puts it better than President Obama (then a senator voting against raising the debt ceiling) in 2006: “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Americans deserve better.”

Obama was right. If only he listened to himself.

We need to start acting now if we want a functional government in our lifetimes. It is clear that older generations have little regard for our financial well-being. This means we have to vote for candidates who promise fiscal responsibility. More importantly, we have to challenge our politicians when they propose more spending — it is our money. If we do not demand change in our governments, we will spend our lifetimes paying more taxes and receiving fewer benefits than our parents. Older generations may have contributed a lot to American society, but they also left us a crushing debt.

So let’s forget about the shutdown and start worrying about our futures.

Matt Dragonette is a sophomore accounting major. He can be reached at mdragonettedbk@gmail.com.

am a student at this university, and I am offended by Sex Week.

Believe it or not, some students believe human sexuality is sacred and should be treated with reverence. Sex Week is spit in our faces.

I understand the intention, and I respect it. For those who are sexually active, it’s highly important to be educated, safe and healthy. That’s why there is a large sexual health division at the University Health Center. That’s why students can get STI testing and free condoms whenever they need to.

Free HIV/STI testing? Wonderful. Meditation? Go for it. But a pole dancer coming to teach us how to talk dirty in the bedroom? A sex toy demonstration? A performance by a group called Pussy REP? Stop right there. These events cannot be classified as sexual health. They are offensive and unnecessary. They trivialize human sexuality and show no reverence whatsoever for the human body.

Perhaps the worst part of all this is the tank tops. I haven’t seen the T-shirts, but I can’t imagine they’re much better. I’m genuinely wondering who designed these and what on earth they were thinking. Yes, they’re going for shock value; they want students to stop and look at the tank tops

so they’ll participate in Sex Week.

But why on earth would you choose a skimpy, neon pink tank top with the words “Sex Week” on it in huge bold letters? At the very least, could you have printed “Safe Sex Week” or “Sexual Health Week”? Wake up.

How do you think this tank top will look on a cute female Terp riding the Metro alone?

The obvious argument will be, “If you don’t like it, don’t participate,” but unfortunately, I have to. I walk through Hornbake Plaza on Tuesdays. Every time I see a Sex Week tank top in the future, I’m participating.

One of my classes began with an announcement from a peer educator about Sex Week, featuring a showcase of the tank tops. It’s all over the Internet. So yes, I am involuntarily participating because Sex Week is being shoved in my face.

It stands against my religion, many other religions represented on the campus and many students’ basic moral codes. This university blatantly neglected us when planning this week. If Sex Week returns to our campus in the future, I sincerely hope there are serious reforms made.

The author is a junior history major and university employee who requested her identity be withheld to protect her job.

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By Kelsey Hughes @Kelsey_said Staff writer It’s strange to go back and look at your childhood television programs with fresh, pseudoadult eyes. Things that were probably never intended to be inappropriate can often yield a chuckle from the teenager who’s suddenly realized the double entendre in a cartoon character’s innocent words. The older viewer will unexpectedly catch references and jokes that were perfectly placed to keep the attention of unenthused parents but sail right over an unworldly toddler’s head. Cartoons like Adventure Time and SpongeBob SquarePants are great examples of this phenomenon, and their purposeful use of jokes that apply on two levels is in large part why they have found such success in a diverse audience.

But in the literary world, the master of mass appeal has to be Daniel Handler, the man behind the pseudonym Lemony Snicket, who will be visiting Washington this week. Snicket is the children’s author who penned the novels of A Series of Unfortunate Events, as well as his four-part prequel: All the Wrong Questions, one part of which has been released.

I haven’t yet read Snicket’s new series, but

that’s because I decided that before I did, I would reread all his old works. Friends warned me I would be sorely disappointed in this venture — that, much as I feel when I rewatch shows like All That and The Amanda Show, my expectations would be so high that I would inevitably be disappointed, effectively destroying a happy memory of my youth. Unpersuaded, I cracked open the first book.

I started, logically, with The Bad Beginning, savoring all the minute details any reader could easily miss the first time around and picking up so much more than I ever understood as a child.

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But luckily, none of this emotional trauma came from disillusionment over the series.

These books were still as good, if not better, than they had been the first time around. Snicket is a master of dark subject matter. As a kid, I never noticed the grim nature of these stories.

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By Beena Raghavendran @thebeenster Senior staff writer All shows at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center were $10 until yesterday — a special government shutdown deal for the general public, which would usually have had to pay at least $25 for some shows.

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in. And the subtle jokes Snicket throws in, which I never quite caught the first time — had me unexpectedly cracking a smile as I read.

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Creating the promotion during the shutdown was the center’s way of helping the neighboring area, Bondarev said.

“A core of what we do as performing arts people and administrators is to provide a service to folks that allows them to still participate,” she said. “It’s a great way to create a community around rallying and a place to meet and gather when times are difficult.”

The center joined several other venues in Washington have put

of nonessential public services came the end of many such deals.

The center’s offering was a continuation of a promotion from the weekend of Oct. 4, when it offered free tickets with discount code “SHUTDOWN” to the Miami String Quartet and a performance, “Bridging the Musical Spectrum: Tribute to Chuck Brown.” About 30 people took advantage of the deal, said Erica Bondarev, CSPAC marketing and

together similar promotions. The 9:30 Club called its deal the “Affordable Ticket Act” and offered a buyone, get-one-free deal for tickets to some October shows, including The Flaming Lips at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

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‘THIS IS YOUR BRAIN’ C.J. Brown discusses concussion, how culture of game has changed

By Daniel Gallen @danieljtgallen Senior staff writer C.J. Brown was more concerned with the pain in his ribs than the fog in his head.

In the minutes and hours after what he called a “gruesome” hit from Florida State nose guard Jacobbi McDaniel and linebacker Christian Jones, the Terrapins football quarterback received X-rays of his ribs.

He didn’t feel like himself, but he expected it to subside.

But after the team flew back from Tallahassee, Fla., on Oct. 5, the headaches started and the concussion symptoms began to worsen. The next morning, he failed medical tests, and though he said he felt fine Monday, he would miss Saturday’s 27-26 win over Virginia.

In the past, he may have tried to push more to play, Brown said Tuesday afternoon in his first meeting with the media since the hit. Football players are supposed to play through pain, and at some point in the season, it seems as if every player has some sort of wrap, bandage or brace accessorizing his uniform.

But with more information on concussions being brought to the forefront, Brown has come to realize it’s not worth the risk.

“You never want to mess with the brain,” Brown said. “It’s very important to yourself. I just wanted to make

QUARTERBACK C.J. BROWN, seen here during the Terps’ open scrimmage in August, will return from his concussion this weekend at Wake Forest after sitting out the team’s win over Virginia on Saturday. file photo/the diamondback sure that I was fully clear. I knew that Saturday and Sunday, I wasn’t.”

Injuries are a part of the game, as every player will say when a teammate goes down. After the Terps’ loss to Florida State, it was Brown.

This week, it was outside linebacker Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil, lost for the season with a pectoral injury.

Concussions, though, are different.

The NFL recently settled a lawsuit with former players for $765 million. More and more research is being done on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that’s been found in former players. It’s become a topic of mainstream conversation.

And Brown has taken notice.

“It’s definitely not something to mess around with, especially with all these guys that are coming back from the NFL saying they’re having problems long-term and they need assistance or they’re just not themselves,” Brown said. “I think it’s definitely something that needs to be brought to the forefront. People definitely have a lot more awareness now than they did in the past.”

Coach Randy Edsall said last week that the Terps have a concussion protocol, and the team’s medical staff decides whether to clear players for games. Brown was cleared to play

Sunday, and Edsall said he’ll start Saturday’s contest at Wake Forest.

Brown spent the week leading up to the Virginia game participating in a battery of tests, including conditioning and cognitive tests to compare to a baseline set when he entered the program.

“I’m more educated on concussions and things like that and the whole, ‘They want you to do all these tests and things like that,’” Brown said. “In the past, it was more of you could probably lie out of the situation. You could say, ‘Yeah, it’s just a headache, but I’m fine. I can do all these things.’ There’s just a lot more precautions now.”

Despite the change in views on

injuries and concussions in football, Brown said there’s still a ways to go before the awareness is fully integrated into the culture.

And above all, Brown tries to keep his future in mind.

“Players would still try to do it because that’s just their personality, but in all honesty and all reality, this is your brain,” Brown said. “This is a very important part of your body.

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