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“The game unites you in a way that none of that stuff really matters.” Former Maryland wide receiver Torrey Smith
“The best thing I could do was perform well on and off the football field.” Former Maryland player Darryl Hill
“I was still living with [those issues in 2012], but nobody cared. That’s why Kaepernick is a f---king hero.”
illustration by evan berkowitz/the diamondback. hill: photo courtesy of the university of maryland archives. smith: keith allison/via flickr. francis: file photo/the diamondback
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Former Maryland defensive lineman A.J. Francis
he Maryland women’s basketball team agreed on a plan.
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The
players would follow the Notre Dame women’s basketball squad sports
in wearing “I Can’t Breathe” warmup shirts.
PLAYING IN SILENCE
The quote comes from Eric Garner, who repeated the phrase before he died in 2014 after a New York police officer placed him in a chokehold.
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This deal, though, had
one condition. If any of the 12 team members weren’t informed enough on Garner’s death or police brutality issues to pass a quiz
By Kyle Melnick | @kyle_melnick | Senior staff writer
from the coaching staff, no players could
As athletes continue to protest racism, Maryland’s remain quiet. Why?
don the shirts. Before allowing her players to speak publicly, coach Brenda Frese wants them to understand both sides of an issue. See athletes, p. 7
campus
faculty
Comp science majors struggle to meet reqs
‘more than just hiring’
See CMSC, p. 6
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Minority faculty say univ needs better retention to create tenure diversity By Natalie Schwartz | @nmschwartz23 | Senior staff writer
Total: 1,442
Total: 1,458
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University of at the top ranks.” Maryland pro- TEnured or tenure-track faculty of color, 2012-2016 Although fessor Thurka this university’s fall 2016 breakdown of tenured Sangaramoorthy strategic plan 346 or tenure-track faculty of color works in a defor diversity has 342 339 asian 212 outlined guidepartment with no 338 339 tenured minority lines to better black/african 61 american faculty. recruit and retain Now in her faculty of color, hispanic 60 sixth academthe numbers have 2 or more races 9 Other groups ic year at this held largely stagWhite: 951 islander 2 Unknown: 110 university, the nant — or even fall fall fall fall fall native 2 Foreign: 35 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 anthropology dropped — for p ro fe s s o r h a s about a decade. Charts include only U.S. citizens. Graphic by Evan Berkowitz/The Diamondback Sources: University System of Md.; Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment begun the tenure In fall 2009, 70 process herself. of this universiBut she said it can be hard to put a tenure port- ty’s 1,472 tenured or on-track faculty members, folio together as a faculty member of color for or 4.8 percent, were black Americans. By 2016, multiple reasons, including doing work that goes this figure dropped to 61 of 1,442 tenured or onlargely unrecognized, such as mentoring minority track faculty members, or 4.2 percent, according students and tailoring courses to place a heavier to this university’s 2017 Cultural Diversity Report. emphasis on diversity and inclusion issues. Between fall 2009 and fall 2016, the number of “I would like to see more people who look like Hispanic-American tenured or on-track faculty me at higher ranks, and there are very few,” San- members grew from 49 to 60, while Asian-Amerigaramoorthy said. “That’s what makes me want to can or Pacific Islander professors part of the tenure stay in academia — to know that this is a place that actually values minority faculty because they’re See faculty, p. 3 Total: 1,477
Senior computer science major Andrés Anhalzer was frustrated with small class sizes and long waitlists when he registered for his spring 2018 computer science courses. “Only seven days after spring registration began, not only could I not grab one of the two classes I needed for my last semester, but the waitlist for that class was really long,” Anhalzer said. “I talked to other people in the major and everyone has been dealing with the same thing.” His solution: to make a petition, which has garnered more than 1,000 signatures in about three weeks. The idea to write a joint letter came first from Reddit, where students posted about the issue, Anhalzer said, but he expanded that idea and created a formal petition on Change.org. The petition is addressed to Alan Sussman, computer science associate chair; A p i tc h a ya P i m p a wa t h i n , t h e department’s undergraduate studies by
Lindsey Feingold @lindseyf96 Staff writer
assistant director; Gerald Wilkinson, interim computer, mathematical and natural sciences college dean; and university President Wallace Loh. “At the time of writing this letter, only a few of the upper level (400s) courses are open for registration,” the petition reads. “Of the classes which are full, many have long waitlists which are close to surpassing the capacity of the class itself […] Due to the lack of classes offered, the lack of professors, and the lack of sections, students who have pursued specific tracks within the major (e.g. Data Science, Cybersecurity) have been told by their academic advisors to drop their specializations – which in and of itself is bizarre and unprofessional.” The petition calls for changes to be made within the department, such as online classes, increased class sizes, the hiring of more professors and increased funding for the program. A screenshot attached to the petition, also located on umdcspetition. us, showed one computer science course — CMSC420: Data Structures — with more than 60 people per waitlist for each of its three sections. Since then, department administrators have made some changes, but there are still courses, such as CMSC456: Cryptology and CMSC435:
Total: 1,483
Shortage of upperlevel courses leaves students in lurch, some of them say
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