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Athletics dept. names seventh head baseball coach in program history Kansas State assistant coach John Szefc will replace Erik Bakich at helm

Although a report Monday said Athletic Director Kevin Anderson was likely moving to Stanford, he said it wasn’t true. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

BY CONNOR LETOURNEAU Senior staff writer

Kansas State assistant coach John Szefc will take over the Terrapins baseball program, athletics officials announced yesterday.

Szefc’s appointment comes less than a month after former coach Erik Bakich took the same position at the University of Michigan. He will be the Terps’ seventh head coach in program history, athletics department spokesman Zack Bolno said.

A Middletown, N.Y., native, Szefc returns to the East Coast after two seasons at Kansas State and two seasons at Kansas. He helped the Wildcats advance to an NCAA Regional in 2011, and was part of two Jayhawks teams that appeared in the Big 12 Championship.

see BASEBALL, page 2

PAST EXPERIENCE

Anderson says no truth to Stanford rumors, plans to stay in College Park

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB AND CONNOR LETOURNEAU

John Szefc’s resume:

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■ Two seasons each at Kansas State and

Kansas State assistant coach John Szefc will take over the Terps baseball program less than one month after Erik Bakich’s departure. PHOTO COURTESY KANSAS STATE ATHLETICS

Kansas as assistant coach ■ Seven years as Marist’s head coach with 212-137-1 record ■ NEC Coach of the Year ■ 60 players who have gone on to play professionally

Students struggle to find jobs after graduating with Ph.D.s in sciences 45 percent of May CMNS graduates surveyed employed thus far

BY JENNY HOTTLE For The Diamondback

Deborah Hemingway’s parents knew they had a scientist on their hands long before politicians began pushing STEM education as the nation’s future. At a young age, she begged her parents for math workbooks while her friends were still coloring outside the lines.

Now, a doctoral student at this university pursuing a career in biophysics, Hemingway absorbs reports that say science graduates may outnumber the opportunities available to them. But she and professors in the computer, mathematical and natural sciences school said they are unconcerned and still see value in a doctorate from this university, whose programs helped the state secure a first place national ranking in innovation

see SCIENCE, page 2

When the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday Kevin Anderson was in the midst of negotiating a contract with Stanford University, the athletic director’s primary concern shifted to one thing: his family.

He remembers just two years ago when he accepted his position at this university and was planning to move from West Point, N.Y., but hadn’t told his kids right away. The story leaked — his kids found out from their friends they’d be moving — and Anderson promised from that point on, they would be made aware of any potential

move early in the game.

“First thing that happens [Monday] is I walk into the house and my oldest daughter … is in tears and said ‘Daddy, you lied to me,’” he told The Diamondback yesterday. “So those are the repercussions of what happens, and I don’t know if anybody ever thinks or realizes that.”

Anderson said he still isn’t sure how the rumors, which began circulating last month over Twitter, got started and escalated into Monday’s report. He denied the rumors to The Diamondback last month and maintained he has not communicated with Stanford since a search committee

see ANDERSON, page 3

DOTS to cut popular grad student bus route Apartment management decides to pull funds

BY MAX GROSSFELD For The Diamondback

Some students living far from the campus will soon lose their free transportation after their apartment complex’s management decided to pull its funding of the 113 Shuttle-UM route.

The Department of Transportation Services will cease running a bus from the campus to Prince George’s Plaza and University Town Center in Hyattsville on Aug. 24, maintaining its Saturday service only, officials announced July 3. Although apartment complexes off the campus front the cost of running a DOTS route to

Job prospects are grimmer for those graduating with Ph.D.s in science-related majors. Data according to a 2012 CMNS Career Center survey. ILLUSTRATION BY CAROLINE AMENABAR/THE DIAMONDBACK

their locations, DOTS Director David Allen said, students are putting pressure on the university to keep the bus running.

Graduate Student Government President David Colon-Cabrera said students contacted the department and hope to find an alternative to cutting the shuttle.

“It caught everyone by surprise,” Colon-Cabrera said. “It affects not only graduate students living in the area but also other students.”

Senior criminology and criminal justice major Diane Berringer said she

see ROUTE, page 3

After a journey, back to her roots Incoming Provost Mary Ann Rankin served in several academic and national positions

BY BRADLEIGH CHANCE Staff writer

Mary Ann Rankin, who will take over as provost Oct. 1, created a national model for training science and math teachers, called the UTeach Institute.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LEE CLIPPARD

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When Mary Ann Rankin developed her UTeach Institute, now a national model for training science and math teachers, she had one goal in mind — to engage students in learning and teach them to do the same.

Rankin, the university’s incoming provost, had the same ambition when she secured more than $800 million in private funding as dean of the Univer-

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sity of Texas at Austin’s natural sciences college and when she served as CEO of the National Math and Science Initiative. Now, returning to a college campus, she said she is excited to apply her experience and passion beyond the fields of science, technology, mathematics and engineering.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed working with students in the past,” Rankin said.

“That’s mainly why I wanted to come back to an academic position.”

Rankin will assume her post Oct. 1.

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Before becoming NMSI CEO in 2011, she spent 36 years at Texas, six as chairwoman of biological sciences school and nearly 17 years as the natural sciences dean. University President Wallace Loh said he knew he’d hired a well-connected fundraiser as the university’s second-highest ranking official, but what stood out in their first meeting was her presence.

“She’s probably the most visible national figure in the whole area of STEM education, and she’s really

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quite charismatic,” Loh said. “She can sell ice to Eskimos, and she can make a very dry subject like teaching science and math sparkle.”

At Texas, Rankin created highly successful programs for undergraduates, including the UTeach Institute, established in 2006, to address concerns the quality of science and math education public schools was slipping.

UTeach programs now operate in 14

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Police suspect former offender behind string of campus thefts Warrant issued for 48-year-old Robert Lee Scott Jr.

BY FOLA AKINNIBI Staff writer

A series of thefts on the campus stirred up memories of past incidents for University Police, prompting the department to issue a warrant for a recently released Capitol Heights man.

Police are seeking 48-year-old Robert Lee Scott Jr. in connection with alleged thefts on the campus, including a July 1 incident in which a suspect stole a laptop from the Glenn L. Martin Hall library, according to University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky. Scott received a 10-year sentence after he was convicted of a June 2010 burglary of the

SCIENCE from page 1 and entrepreneurship, according to the Daily Record.

“There may be a glut of people with the label of Ph.D. [in the country], but there’s not so much a glut of graduating Ph.D. students who are really strong,” said Paul Smith, the CMNS interim associate dean for faculty affairs and graduate education.

At this university, 45 percent of CMNS respondents to a University Career Center survey had accepted full-time employment between one month prior to and one month following graduation in May. CMNS’ employment rate ranks higher than those for graduates of the journalism (32 percent), arts and humanities (34 percent) and agriculture and natural resources (34 percent) colleges this year.

Fifty-nine percent of engineering graduates who responded are employed, according to the survey.

Erin Brault, the Career Center assistant to the director, said it was a good sign that more CMNS graduates were finding work than last May — and 75 percent of respondents said they secured their first choice of post-graduate activity.

Patuxent Building, according to court documents.

Upon appeal, his sentence was reduced and he was recently released, Limansky said.

Scott’s lawyer, Robert Moskov, declined to comment.

“A known offender to police, Scott is known to victimize the campus by entering unsecured offices and stealing laptops, electronics, and personal property of the office occupants,” University Police wrote in a press release upon his arrest in July 2010.

Scott has been denied access to the campus for decades, Limansky said, “It is sort of starting to feel like him,” Limansky said. “Some inci-

“All signs seem to indicate that it’s going to get better,” she said.

Though some sources, such a July 7 Washington Post article, find the number of scientists entering their fields outnumbers open job positions in academia and research, university officials and professors said the situation is no different than in past years.

CMNS Associate Dean Robert Infantino said job shortages coincide with the health of the economy and that the government must increase its investments in research and technology.

“The federal budgets are flat and going down, and so people who might have been able to come into a research institute, for example, on soft money from the government are not able to do so,” Infantino said. “Even research assistants, when their grants run out, are not going to be able to find renewals, and that’s probably going to get worse before it gets better.”

University President Wallace Loh said the government should invest more money into STEM fields to help graduates compete with their peers from other countries that are rapidly building up science programs.

“The issue is that other nations are catching up very fast in science and technology,” Loh

dents have [Scott] on camera.”

A 48-year-old Robert Lee Scott has been convicted on numerous charges over the past 20 years, including theft of less than $100 in September 2010 and fourth-degree burglary in August 2008, according to court records.

Limansky said students can take steps to prevent these incidents by being attentive about where they leave their property.

“The best way to prevent theft is to get people to hold on to their stuff,” he said. “Getting people to understand that is the biggest hurdle.” akinnibi@umdbk.com

said. “They’re luring back their own graduates from the U.S., they’re building up huge labs, they’re investing huge amounts of money and they’re catching up — and this is a huge risk to the future of our country.”

However, this campus may be well-situated for competition, with its close proximity to publicand private-sector research centers and the growing M Square Research Park — the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Weather and Climate Prediction is set to open there in the fall.

Smith said the university’s work is supported by its connections to outside groups. A week ago, the Maryland Cybersecurity Center announced a partnership with cybersecurity

BASEBALL from page 1 But this won’t be Szefc’s first stint running a program. He was Marist’s head coach for seven seasons (1996-2002), leading the Red Foxes to a 212137-1 (.606) record and four Northeast Conference titles.

“That was the best time of my life,” said Szefc, who was one of four candidates who toured the campus in recent weeks.

“There’s a lot of rewards that come from that, from being a head coach, that don’t neces-

sarily show up in a paycheck.

There’s a lot of intangible rewards you can get out of that.”

And Szefc understands he’ll also be expected to continue what Bakich started.

After inheriting a program that hasn’t made the NCAA tournament since 1971, Bakich steadily improved the Terps in each of his three seasons. He led the team to its second-highest win total (32) in program history last season, narrowly missing a Regionals berth. Szefc said Bakich set the team up well for his arrival.

“It’s a very attractive situation based on what he’s done with the

The Terps baseball team will be led by Kansas State assistant coach John Szefc next season. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

company Sourcefire, its 14th such collaboration.

“We have the ability to get outside support for the work that’s being done here,” Smith said. “That rebounds to the benefit of the graduate students who are able to work with faculty members who are themselves active and recognized in the research community.”

The doctoral program helped Hemingway make connections with the area’s potential employers, and she said she has already received two job offers.

“Opportunities are there if you cast your net wide,” she said. “You can’t be willing to do just one thing.”

Sophomore neurobiology and physiology major Susan Lubejko has heard finding a job will be diffi-

cult, but she said it helps to make personal connections and get a foot in the door early by learning technical skills.

“Many of the labs are very receptive to undergrads with little or no experience and are willing to teach the skills they are looking for,” said Lubejko, a neurobiology research assistant on the campus this summer.

Joelle Presson, CMNS assistant dean for undergraduate academic programs, said even in slow economic conditions job prospects do not dictate the value of a student’s education.

“They believe their degree is training them for a particular job, but that could not be further from the truth,” Presson said. “[A doctorate] teaches you to think, and it opens you

program,” Szefc said. “With the guys coming in and the guys coming back, anyone can look at that group and go, ‘Wow, that’s a pretty good collection right there.’”

Szefc hopes that talent will help offset the program’s modest funds, as the athletics department recently cut seven varsity programs in the face of an $83 million debt. Anderson plans to balance the department’s budget by 2015, but such a goal will likely force Szefc to operate with a stagnant budget the next couple of years.

No matter. The former NEC Coach of the Year is confident he’ll help the Terps become legitimate ACC contenders next season.

With a successful track record — he’s won every place he’s been and had 60 players play professionally — he said he doesn’t see why he can’t create the same success here.

“I’m just excited to get working with these guys and get things going,” said Szefc, who’ll encourage stolen bases and base hits to grind out wins. “That’s where it begins for me at this point.” letourneau@umdbk.com

up for lifelong learning.”

The university’s programs are also working to take a more interdisciplinary approach to research, Infantino said, citing the master’s degree in sustainable development and conservation biology, which he said broadens students’ understanding of how science can address issues facing communities.

Infantino said he hopes the government will continue to encourage science education and invest in giving graduates a greater chance of using their skills.

“The world’s problems that relate to biology and chemistry are getting bigger, not smaller,” Infantino said. “They’re not going away.” news@umdbk.com

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University to replace Blackboard system with Canvas learning platform this fall New system meant to enhance social media integration, reduce costs

BY FATIMAH WASEEM For The Diamondback

When students return to the campus next month, some will see social media become a more significant part of their academic experience.

The university will shift from Blackboard to Instructure Canvas, a “robust” enterprise learning management system that faculty members hope will encourage more interaction between professors and students, said Chris Higgins, the Division of Information Technology’s learning technologies and environments director. The pilot program will begin this fall and will be fully deployed by Januar y 2013.

Canvas provides more userfriendly features, including more integration with social media, Higgins said, and costs about half as much as Blackboard. The program boasts more efficient communication between students and profes-

ROUTE from page 1 takes graduate classes at the business school and often uses the bus to get home, to Prince George’s Plaza and to the Metro.

“As a female I don’t feel comfortable walking down Adelphi after my night courses are over,” Berringer said. “They end at [9 p.m.] every night.”

The Towers at University Town Center management informed DOTS about a month ago it was not going to continue paying for the service, which cost $87,900 annually, according to Allen.

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sors, calendar functions and automated calculated curves for tests, which faculty members and students who tested the program touted.

The jump to the new platform began in spring 2010 when a faculty-led committee began exploring systems on the market as part of a regular assessment process.

The year-long evaluation included members from ever y college at the university as well as the Graduate Student Government and the Student Government Association.

“When we switched to Blackboard six years ago, it was determined that we would periodically review systems on the market to ensure we had the best learning communities on campus,” Higgins said.

“With Blackboard a couple of years behind, we either had to go to the next version ... or we could have looked at other tools.”

Faculty members said

house university students, also catering to Howard University, Catholic University of America and Gallaudet University. Allen said fewer students have been filling the rooms.

Kim Moss, community manager at the Towers, did not respond to calls for comment this week.

The GSG and DOTS officials met Monday to discuss a plan to get another bus running to the area that was covered by the canceled route. Both sides stressed talks were only preliminary.

Allen has said he anticipates at least 1,000 fewer students to register for parking this year and that there is no danger of a parking crunch because of construction of Prince Frederick

they expect the new program to enhance the learning environment for students and make it more interactive and engaging.

“The team felt it was easy for faculty members to accomplish their tasks and it

“The team felt it was easy for faculty members to accomplish their tasks.”

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provided a better environment for collaboration between faculty and students,” said education college senior lecturer Helene Cohen, who took part in the selection process.

But sophomore civil engi-

neering major John Groeger said he thought a new system seemed unnecessar y.

“I always thought that [Blackboard] worked just fine,” he said. “Its weakness was the teachers who didn’t regularly post grades and documents. I found it easier to keep track of assignments and class standing when teachers and students used [Blackboard] as a common resource.”

GSG President David Colon-Cabrera said the body sees added value in moving to Canvas.

“While we didn’t participate in the pilot, we look forward to its implementation and hope the transition goes smoothly,” he said.

“We believe the experience will be positive on a daily, goaloriented, task-driven sense,” Cohen said. “The transition may seem like something a little extra to focus on at first, but it is worth the monetary disruption.” news@umdbk.com

Hall knocking out lots U5 and U6 because DOTS gained about as many parking spaces formerly used by the University of Maryland University College.

“We lost about 260 spaces, and we’re gaining about 260,” Allen said.

Students can still shell out a few dollars to reach the Prince George’s Plaza area through the Green Line on the Metro or the Greenbelt-Twinbrook Metrobus, which has a stop in front of Cole Field House.

However, some students said they think DOTS should have considered the impact of those additional costs on students, considering parking on the campus next year will cost

ANDERSON from page 1 began looking for former Athletic Director Bob Bowlsby’s replacement in May. “I haven’t talked to anybody at Stanford, period,” he said. “I talked to the assistant editor at the Chronicle, I expressed how disappointed I am and he did apologize, and I guess that’s all I can ask for.”

Shortly after the report came out, Anderson said he received a call from university President Wallace Loh asking him if there was any truth to the story. But he has continuously promised Loh would be the first to know if he were to ever interview for another job.

“Kevin said to me when I asked him about these rumors a couple weeks ago — and he’s a man of his word — and said if I were ever talking to somebody, you would be the first to know,” Loh said Monday.

“He has not called me, so I assume he’s not going anywhere.”

Since taking the helm in 2010, Anderson has faced several controversial decisions. He has overseen the hiring of a men’s basketball and football coach — which entailed buying out the last year of former football coach Ralph Friedgen’s contract for $2 million — as well as the elimination of seven teams from the department’s 27-sport program to help balance an annual deficit that was projected to reach $4.7 million in fiscal year 2011.

“Going through what we did with having to discontinue teams

and everything else, I don’t want anybody to think, ‘Oh, OK, so now he’s jumping ship,’” Anderson said. “I got an email from somebody who said, ‘Hey, if you can reconsider, take the job and get the hell out of here,’ but I get those all the time.”

But men’s soccer coach Sasho Cirovski said he never doubted Anderson would stay in College Park to see through his transformed department.

“He just started things and seeing them through, and I believe him,” Cirovski said. “He inherited a mess, and we’re looking forward to a fresh beginning here.”

Anderson and Loh have both said they can’t chase every rumor but hope the university community knows the athletics department’s leader won’t be changing any time soon.

“I can’t control rumors and people speculating, and I can’t go out there and say when any jobs open, I’m not interested, because then people would say ‘He’s nuts,’” Anderson said.

And Loh said he wouldn’t be surprised if more rumors crop up in the future.

“I really do believe he’s one of the best athletic directors in the country, and he’s had some really tough issues this year,” Loh said.

“I’m not surprised whenever there’s an opening somewhere, one of those names will always be Kevin Anderson.” abutaleb@umdbk.com, letourneau@umdbk.com

commuter students $227, a $10 increase from last year’s permit price.

The Residence Hall Association granted DOTS’ request to increase permit prices for students, faculty and staff to bring in more than $308,000 in additional revenue next year.

Junior government and politics major Luagh Malone said the bus from the campus to his Towers apartment, where he’s lived since last fall, is generally busy, and he anticipates making the long walk every day for classes and work.

“I actually have a job on Route 1,” Malone said. “That means I have to walk.” news@umdbk.com

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hen the University Senate decided to extend the mandated dis- this university and walk across this campus ever y day didn’t have any direct tance between smokers and campus buildings to 25 feet in the impact on the new decision. Members of the board apparently believe they fall, the debate surrounding whether to ban smoking alto- know what students want. It seems a ban like this would be enacted to benegether on the campus seemed to be put to rest. But the Board fit students, but it feels more like the board is exerting too much control of Regents took matters into its own hands and banned smoking on all 11 over perfectly legal student behavior.

The policy states: “In recognition of the health risks of tobacco smoke, University System of Mar yland campuses, effective June 2013. this policy establishes standards and requirements to The board — a 17-member gubernatorial body that provide a smoke-free environment for all USM faculty, oversees the entire system — hoped the ban would staff, students, and visitors.” “promote a healthy, smoke-free environment for stuFirst, smokers aren’t going to quit simply because dents and employees.” So the air on the campus will The Board of Regents’ they can’t smoke on the campus. If they have to walk an ideally be clean and free of that toxic cigarette smoke decision to institute a extra 20 minutes every time they have to smoke, it will — but is that what students want, or what administrabe an inconvenience, but it won’t necessarily stop them tors think we need? smoking ban will be too entirely. Additionally, it’s not officials’ place to try to stop The senate decided increasing the required disdifficult to enforce, and students from smoking. It’s an individual’s decision to tance from buildings from 15 feet to 25 feet was a compromise, and it would prevent the university from people will not benefit from a smoke cigarettes — if a person wants to smoke, regardless of the risks, it’s up to him or her. And it takes an having to jump through too many legal hoops. So the smoke-free campus. incredible amount of contact with a smoker for someone board swooped in and saved the day — but this editoto be affected by secondhand smoke. Several studies, rial board doesn’t think the day needs saving.

The new policy won’t be any more enforceable than the current rule. including one published by the Environmental Protection Agency, cite the Sure, university officials will feasibly be able to tell any student around the dangers of secondhand smoke inside buildings — but don’t say there are campus who’s smoking to stop, or even ser ve them a fine. But will there severe risks in an open environment. In fact, it’s suggested that non-smokers actually be people to take on this duty? With the new policy, the board prevent personal harm by providing more ventilation to any smoking area; assumes the university has the resources to ensure the measure is there’s plenty of ventilation outside without bringing a fan around.

Facilities Management Director Carlo Colella said his action on the matter thus enforced. Many people have cited schools in the state that have similar bans. Yet these schools — including Towson, Salisbur y and Montgomer y far “wasn’t an effort to discourage student smoking, it was an effort to uphold the College — have significantly fewer students than this university. Maybe it’s policy. It’s an individual’s right to smoke, but only where it’s permitted.”

The policy includes a provision that allows the university president to possible for them to enforce a ban to a smaller student body, but here, it’s a approve limited and specific designated areas on the campus for people to much bigger — and maybe nearly impossible — feat.

University President Wallace Loh told The Diamondback he supported smoke. We hope Loh considers all members — smokers included — of the the measure and plans to keep the health and well-being of students, faculty community when deciding how to implement the policy on the campus. and staff a top priority. So maybe he will take the additional steps necessar y Given how long the issue has carried on, it’s unrealistic to expect the comto encourage students to stop smoking. However, the students who attend munity to embrace these changes right off the bat.

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Tangled terrapins: The nuances of the ‘nice guy’ Two columnists take on whether it’s fair to label men based on stereotypes and first impressions. Visit diamondbackonline.com to join the conversation.

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t face value, the phrase only men placing the blame on “nice guys finish last” women. The problem is this phimakes some sense. What losophy reflects a couple of larger I think people are essen- cultural patterns. One is the privitially saying is that without a bit of leging of men over women, posia mean streak, one can’t get ahead tioning females as less capable of in the cut-throat world of American intelligent decision-making or capitalism. People who are “nice” exotic friend-zone demons, when get pushed around and thus don’t in reality the dudes who they reject probably just smell weird. get what they want.

The second So far, nice theme is harder guys seem like AKE E IRGILIIS to pin down, but they can finish it has something far enough from When men make excuses to do with first and close enough to last for their own inadequacies, responsibility. made that the phrase it is a sign of misogyny, not Comments with the intention isn’t totally usea product of a of redirecting less. One who uses it seriously woman’s feelings blame, removing fails to take into toward a specific personal ownership and alleviataccount factors “type of guy.” ing responsibility such as whether have become there is any good commonplace. It in the world, but creates a sort of I can believe there are cynics who subscribe to paranoid polarization among people.

It separates, but takes place less the idea there isn’t much.

Where the phrase becomes annoy- between individuals in the specific ing is when dejected, would-be suit- (i.e. “Reed, it’s your fault I forgot my ors use it. They complain of being put lines”) than between larger social in the nebulous but seemingly groups in the abstract (i.e. “Women inescapable “friend zone” by women. don’t go for nice guys”).

The danger in this line of thinkThey express their concerns that women don’t like nice guys and ing is that it’s not thinking. It’s letalways go for the wrong type — a type ting blanket statements do all the work. Generalizations like this of guy different from them.

People need to stop with this line allow myths such as the nice guy of thought. All they are really doing narrative to permeate our culture is blaming others for their own and damage the way we view othshortcomings; it’s men trying to say ers. Once ideas are thought of in women lack discretion because they broad, unspecific terms, they can prefer “bad boys” to “nice guys.” go unquestioned. As a culture, it This is an excuse men use to fault is important we distance ourwomen for not liking them, when in selves from generalizations and reality their failure has nothing to do quit blaming others in passivewith either women or men and aggressive ways before they everything to do with them being become the norm. the kind of person who makes that type of excuse.

Jake DeVirgiliis is a senior government Of course, this is an excuse that and politics major. He can be reached at women don’t and can’t use. It’s devirgiliis@umdbk.com.

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tale as old as time: “Nice such “wimps?” Why do we value one guys finish last.” For the over the other while simultaneously sake of making my argu- pitying or ridiculing each? What good ment impossible to disagree does it do us?

Nice guys finish last: It’s a good conwith, let’s broaden the term “nice guys” to include all men who are “bad” with solation prize for the “losers” who don’t women. That means you: quantum get the girls. It’s a catchy phrase to offer physics junkies, Breaking Bad fanboys, by the “winners” who do. Above all else, ironic watchers of Lizard Lick Towing it’s a cop-out for all men. It’s a “get out of and hopeless Keats repeaters. Let’s jail free" card for those who don’t want also take another step back and broad- to differentiate confidence with cockien the term “bad” to include people ness — those who don’t want to admit the difference between being nice and who frankly just don’t “get” women.

That’s simple enough. It’s a term that being compassionate.

It’s not an ironic moment for the “nice still includes nice guys and even abguys” to lose the sorbs the opposing selfless act for a bad boys. This way, REW ARRELL second and deyou can essentially clare to the world, divide men into the Women have the right to “Woe is me!” If two groups. Those who truly believe choose a man based on his that were the we’d have to nice guys finish last actual merits, not simply by case, also discredit the are those who behow he is charac- notion that “bad lieve bad boys come first, and subterized. Labeling boys” always get sequently, girls men as “nice” or their girls because of their apathy. It’s come second (if at “bad” is juvenile. a codependent biall) and way, way in nary. If nice guys the back, come the finish last, a bad nice guys. boy could never Regardless of where (or when) nice guys or bad boys legitimately be compassionate or exude finish, like all men, plenty of people in humble confidence — he could only both of these groups just don’t under- feign it — nor could a nice guy flash a stand (or satisfy) women’s desires. moment of cockiness or fake an inTherein lies the difference between stance of niceness.

Perhaps, then, the answer is to esnice guys and bad boys: It’s not actually between nice guys and bad boys them- chew both cliches: Do away with the selves, or their respective “games.” It’s bad boys and nice guys of the world and between how the two deal with women. just let women (and gay people, I should If we, as men, can’t understand add — anyone who has ever pursued or women, it doesn’t matter whether nice been pursued by someone romantically guys or bad boys finish last, first, in ever) decide for themselves.

After all, whether you have dubbed front of their computer screen, in bed with a “10” or even at all. Bad boys are yourself — or been dubbed — the selfthe only ones consciously aware of conscious, anxious “nice guy” or the where they finish in comparison to self-aware, cocky “bad boy,” and acceptnice guys, as well as the only ones ed or understood that assignment, you aware of when they finish with women. have missed the point.

Whether you’re the unselfish, caring Similarly, nice guys are the only ones consciously aware of where and when “loser,” or the brash, sexual “winner,” no they don’t finish in comparison to bad matter where you finish, she (or he) comes first. Always. boys and women alike.

However, that isn’t enough. Why is it that we can surmise and paraphrase Drew Farrell is a senior English major. that bad boys, successful as they are, He can be reached at are such “dicks” while nice guys are opinion@umdbk.com.

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ast week, Daniel Tosh got into a spot of trouble for a joke he made at the expense of a female audience member at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. It sent the Internet into a tizzy, riling up a lot of people into retweeting and repeating the same argument in ALL CAPS or with a lot of exclamation points!!!!

For those of you who prefer to get your pop-culture news in The Diamondback’s weekly summer edition (so much more convenient and timely than Twitter!), here’s a quick recap of what went down.

Daniel Tosh (of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0) was making rape jokes during a set when a woman in the audience interrupted saying, “Actually, rape jokes are never funny!” — which he countered with a comment about said woman being raped “by like, five guys right now.” The incident quickly created an Internet firestorm, with a lot of women coming to the defense of the audience member and a lot of comedians berating her for heckling.

I think we can all agree the way Tosh handled the situation was grossly inappropriate. As Lindy West pointed out in a July 12 piece on Jezebel, “How to Make a Rape Joke,” any dark or taboo humor that makes marginalized person(s) the butt of the joke is bound to be ineffective and unproductive.

Tosh managed to be ineffective, unproductive and(very) offensive with his retort, but has since apologized.

And since there seems to be a general consensus he was in the wrong, let’s move on to a more interesting angle.

Was the woman in the audience also wrong?

Comedy — like all other art — is often effectively used to push social progress, and it can be easily used as a tool for revealing the absurdity inherent in much of our own cultural prejudices. In her article, West assert jokes about rape can work if they are used in this progressive manner — in short, to ridicule rapists and not rape victims.

Thus “rape jokes are never funny” needs to be qualified with “if they make fun of people who have been raped.”

But without the qualifier, the claim "rape jokes are never funny” is problematic. The woman in Tosh’s audience said, in regards to her reaction, “I don’t sit there while someone tells me how I should feel about something as profound and damaging as rape.” In his set, Tosh said rape jokes are funny, which this woman cited as an invasion of her right to have her own autonomous feelings about the issue of rape. She did not want to be told rape was funny, because, as a modern woman rightly concerned with an issue so scary and sexualized, she thought her feelings should be up to her.

The irony here is her reaction — “Actually, rape jokes are never funny” — also invades upon a woman’s right to have an individual and distinct engagement with the issue of rape. By saying jokes about rape are never funny, she is inevitably also saying it is wrong to think a joke about rape can be funny, and that this is an immoral way to feel about rape.

There is no correct way to feel about rape. It is a social issue that becomes a deep and painful issue on a personal level, and it is not OK to tell a woman she is not allowed to deal with the trauma of rape in whatever way makes sense to her. Most women will not laugh at even the most socially critical rape joke. But some might want to.

That should be OK. Alex Leston is a sophomore English major. She can be reached at leston@umdbk.com.

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DAYS OF ODD FUTURE PAST Frank Ocean’s full-length debut is imperfect but artistic and soulful

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Frank Ocean is unique.

He’s a sultr y romantic who’s also really, really scared of revealing how he truly feels. He’s into classic Mar vin Gaye R&B, but he also loves psychedelic pop and cold-as-dr y-ice hip-hop. He dabbles in recondite ar t, but he knows, full well, the universality of his sound. He’s a bundle of sonic contradictions.

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Police: Call Mont. College students to see new path to univ. of armed suspect unfounded Hillman Entrepreneurs Program expands to Montgomery College with $600,000

BY SARAH TINCHER For The Diamondback

Witness fled, then retrieved property, county police said

BY REBECCA LURYE Staff writer

Although county and university police received a call reporting an armed suspect fleeing near the campus, officials determined there was no crime and that confusion arose because of a language barrier.

A witness reportedly was walking between University Boulevard and West Park Drive at about 2:25 a.m. when he saw two men, one of whom allegedly pointed at him with what looked like a weapon, said Prince George’s County Police officer Edward Martin. The witness then dropped his bike, ran and called county police. When the witness returned to the scene, he retrieved his bicycle and told police he did not know whether the suspects had attempted to rob him.

After searching the area early Wednesday and completing an investigation, police determined the witness did not observe a weapon.

University Police spokesman Capt. Marc Limansky said county police initially received a report of two male suspects, one with a handgun in his waistband.

“The initial reporting of this incident was hindered by a language barrier,” University Police wrote in a crime alert yesterday afternoon.

Police gave an all clear after both county and university police officers thoroughly searched the area and did not find the suspects, according to an alert sent at about 3:10 a.m. Wednesday.

“The individuals did not demand anything from [the witness], did not say anything to him,” Martin said. “Police canvassed the area for the two suspects because we want to make sure we’re being as thorough as possible and doing our due diligence. lurye@umdbk.com

Montgomer y College students will have a new stepping stone to this university in the spring through an expansion of an entrepreneurial program that has already helped graduate dozens of students.

The Hillman Family Foundation pledged $2.7 million over three years to support the Hillman Entrepreneurs Program, including $600,000 to expand the opportunities to Montgomer y College. Already in place at Prince George’s Community College, the program aims to ease students’ transition to a fouryear institution with enhanced resources and an emphasis on innovation.

For the duration of the program, which includes both their community college and university education, participants receive scholarship funds to cover two-thirds of their tuition, books and a $1,000 merit scholarship. Students pursue a bachelor’s degree in the major of their choice and Hillman Entrepreneurs Program members (above) will soon include students who apply as Montgomery College students a minor in technology entre- and transfer to this university to help ease the transition. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARYLAND TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE preneurship, according to than 2,200 transfer students, of the state,” Pines wrote. the Mar yland Technology who plans to attend gradu- type program,” she said.

“This program inspires Thirty students at both in addition to nearly 4,000 ate school in psychology.

Enterprise Institute.

Several students said they “It’s the perfect blend Prince George’s Community freshmen, according to the students to do their best acainstitutional, demically because it enables were happy to see the pro- between professional and College and Montgomery Col- university’s which and planning them to dream, lege will be receiving scholar- research gram grow. Kevin Ford, a community.” keeps them motivated to Hillman Entrepreneurs ships each year, in addition to assessment department senior family science major “(The program) expands excel,” he added. “We are and program participant, Program Director Carolyn 120 at this university.

In an email, engineering the reach and footprint of the delighted that the Hillman wrote in an email he gained Karlson said the program a sense of belonging at the helps students with an college Dean Darr yll Pines University of Maryland in its family continues to inspire interest wrote that opportunities to effort to attract a diverse the dreams of others university with the added entrepreneurial who may not be able to excel help draw in top trans- pool of students who can through their generosity.” benefit of financial security. fer students. Last fall, the contribute to our mission “They want ever yone to afford an education.

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PROVOST from page 1 states nationwide and enroll more than 5,500 students.

The National Academies Press noted the program’s success in its 2007 report, “Rising above the gathering storm,” in particular applauding its high minority enrollment rate — 26 percent com-

pared to 16 percent university-wide.

“UTeach graduates have deep disciplinary grounding, they know how to engage students in scientific inquiry, and they know how to use new technology to improve student achievement,” the report said.

Rankin also launched Texas’s Freshman Research Initiative, which allows more

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“When students feel that their work matters, their retention rates go from 30 percent to 80 percent,” said Rankin. “This is something we can apply to all fields, not just science and math.”

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REED from page 10

The Harrison twins are both top-10 prospects and could trigger a “new era” in Terps basketball.

HARRISONS from page 10 “As a Maryland basketball fan, it’s been a while since we’ve been kind of a nationally relevant, top-15 program,” said Ben Goldstein, a 2012 alumnus in attendance Monday night.

“If you can get two of those guys there next year with the class we already have coming in, it would be huge.”

Of course, it won’t be all that simple. The Harrisons, who have said they both plan to attend the same college, have narrowed their choices to five schools: Kentucky, Baylor, Villanova, Southern Methodist and the Terps.

Each school has its own enticement for the twins. Kentucky, the defending national champion, has become an ideal pitstop for top-ranked recruits before entering the NBA. Baylor is close to home. Jay Wright’s Villanova offense is a

boon for guards. Legendary coach Larry Brown is at Southern Methodist.

And finally, there’s Mark Turgeon and the Terps.

Aaron Harrison Sr., the twins’ father and Houston Defenders coach, spoke of Turgeon with great admiration after the game, talking about how the Terps’ coach went “above and beyond the call of duty as a man” following the death of a recruit while Turgeon was at Texas A&M. “At that point, I contacted him at A&M and said, ‘I like what you did,’” the elder Harrison recalled, “I want to send my kids some place where I can trust the man.”

And during the recruiting process, at least one of the Harrisons has adopted a similar view of the Terps’ secondyear coach.

“He’s just like a good, genuine guy,” said Andrew, who scored 14 points and had seven assists against the Baltimore

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Elite. “He tells me the truth.

He’s not trying to tell me whatever just to get me there, so he’s cool.”

It’s a feeling that could potentially help land the most highly touted brother duo of all time — a reality not lost on Terps fans.

“If they come, it’ll signal the dawn of a possible new era [of Terps basketball],” said Steve Katz, a 1981 graduate and longtime Terps fan.

Turgeon’s incoming freshman class, which includes center Shaquille Cleare, a former Houston Defenders teammate of the Harrisons, is ranked No. 18 by ESPN. It’s a sea of change from the Gary Williams era when the legendary coach was much maligned for not landing the nation’s top talent on a consistent basis.

The potential for the Harrison twins to become Terps created a palpable excitement in the gymnasium Monday, with many fans in red and white

Terps gear. Every move the Harrisons made was met with some sort of reaction, whether it was cheers of amazement or boos from Baltimore Elite fans.

“I think they looked great,” said Tommy Shekarchi, a 2011 graduate clad in a No. 5 Maryland Pride football jersey.

“They’re going to do real well at the next level with their size.

Hopefully, they’ll take us to the Final Four.”

While talk of the Harrisons leading the Terps to a championship may be premature, one thing is certain: It’s very much a possibility.

“Maryland’s one of my top schools,” Aaron said. “It’s great. My family’s down here.

Shaquille Cleare, he played on my team last year, he’s down there. So all of the schools that I named, they all have great qualities. So when it’s time to make my decision, I’ll make my decision.” dgallen@umdbk.com

round — I still think I can go higher in the draft,” Reed said.

“It’s not all about me. It is a decision I made for myself, but it’s also looking out for the team. I want to be a senior leader. You never get your senior year back.”

The Terps will have a new look for Reed’s senior year.

Coach Erik Bakich and pitching coach Sean Kenny are now at Michigan, and former Kansas State assistant John Szefc is now in charge.

And while Reed said the regime change didn’t significantly impact his decision, the same cannot be said for Haslup.

“I think that played a pretty big role,” Haslup said. “Sean Kenny’s the best in the business. He’s the one that made that pitching staff click, and he’s the one that brought us all together. I think he made me and Jimmy and all the other pitchers the pitchers that we were last year and moving forward.

“That uncertainty played a decent-sized role in it, possibly losing that chemistry that had been built over the last three years.”

Haslup, a 26th-round pick, planned to fly to Tampa, Fla., yesterday to complete paper work before learning his minor league assignment. He had been pitching for the Sanford Mainers in the New England Collegiate Baseball League this sum-

mer, and doesn’t anticipate a considerable number of minor league appearances this season due to his Mainers workload.

Still, Haslup expects to be assigned to either the Yankees rookie affiliate or the Staten Island Yankees of the New York-Penn League.

“It was kind of surreal to look at all the things I’ve done over my youth baseball career up until college,” Haslup said.

“It was kind of sad to think that I wouldn’t be able to go back and be with the guys on the team and finish out my college career as a senior. But at the same time, it was exciting to know that I was going to start that side of my career and get the chance to chase a dream that a lot of people look forward to.”

And while Reed will put that dream on hold for another year, he’s confident in his decision to remain in College Park.

“I don’t think I was ready to be a professional yet,” Reed said. “I still feel like I have a lot to accomplish at school, and I think I made the right decision.”

TERPS NOTE: Three signees — left-hander Jake Drossner (23rd round, Chicago Cubs), right-hander Jared Price (33rd round, New York Mets) and shortstop Jose Cuas (40th round, Toronto Blue Jays) — saw the signing deadline come and go without signing professional contracts. dgallen@umdbk.com

Charlie Haslup decided to forgo his final year of eligibility and sign with the Yankees last week. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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BASEBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Reed decides to return for final season With coaches gone, Haslup opts for pros

BY DANIEL GALLEN Senior staff writer

Aaron (left) and Andrew Harrison combined for 49 points at an AAU game in Baltimore on Monday night.

the class of 2013 — and Aaron — the No. 2 shooting guard — choose to bring their talents to College Park.

And while that decision isn’t expected to come until the Harrisons’ 18th birthday on Oct. 28, Terps fans in attendance couldn’t help but envision the twins on the Comcast Center court.

Jimmy Reed mulled over a lifechanging decision last Friday.

He could join the New York Yankees like teammate and roommate Charlie Haslup, becoming part of arguably the most successful franchise in major professional sports.

Or he could return to the Terrapins baseball team for his senior season, boost his draft stock and be a part of a team attempting to make its first NCAA Tournament since 1971.

And just more than a month after the Yankees selected him in the 21st round of the MLB Draft, Reed turned down the famous pinstripes to finish his college career.

“At this point, I thought it was in my best interest to come back and compete again and try to get this team into the postseason,” Reed said Tuesday.

“Not only was it a decision for myself, it was a decision to come back and be a leader for this team.”

Reed, who is pitching this summer for the Cape Cod League’s Orleans Firebirds, was a “summer follow.”

Yankees scouts tracked the Gaithersburg native’s performance before discussing his options. Reed said scouts attended his first two Firebirds starts, but didn’t contact him until the signing deadline.

His mind had already been made up.

“In my situation — I was the 21st

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Harrison twins amaze AAU crowd in Baltimore

Top-ranked prospects list Terps among final five programs, will make decision in Oct.

BY DANIEL GALLEN Senior staff writer

BALTIMORE – The gasp was audible throughout the Baltimore City Community College gymnasium Monday night.

Andrew Harrison had just shaken his Nike Baltimore Elite defender to drive into the lane. A second later, he

lobbed a touch pass to Houston Defenders teammate Derrick Griffin, who slammed home a reverse alleyoop dunk.

It wasn’t the first time Harrison did that, and it wouldn’t be the last.

Time and time again, he elicited the same shocked reaction from a capacity crowd as his Defenders notched a 79-66 win.

Meanwhile, his twin brother, Aaron, was putting on a similar show.

He totaled 35 points while scoring from nearly everywhere on the floor — in the lane, deep from three and from the free throw line.

For Terrapins men’s basketball team fans, it offered a look into what the future could hold for the program if Andrew — the No. 1 point guard in