February 3, 2015

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Endowment fund grows by $25 million University of Maryland College Park Foundation reports growth, still places last in Big Ten

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer

$25 million from fiscal years 2013 to 2014 — a 10.2 percent change in market value, according to the 2014 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of T he Un iversity of M a r yl a nd Endowments.

With $273 million in endowment Col lege Pa rk Fou ndation’s endowment funds grew by more than funds in fiscal 2014, this university

ranked 253 out of 851 colleges and universities listed in the study released Thursday.

Among Big Ten schools, this university placed last on the NACUBO’s list, behind No. 9 University of Michigan, No. 24 Ohio State University and No. 27 The Pennsylvania State University.

Though this university also receives $94 million in endowments

from the University System of Maryland Foundation and $104 million from the Common Trust Fund, this university and Rutgers University are the only two Big Ten schools that operate with less than $1 billion in endowed funds.

The money primarily goes to endow chairs for faculty, to fellowships for See endowment, Page 3

University president wallace loh delivers his annual State of Campus address to the University Senate in November. file photo/the diamondback

Cuts for a cause

Loh: Spring tuition rise permanent

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer

Hair Cuttery to donate free haircuts for homeless

This university will increase tuition by 2 percent each spring semester and implement furloughs for more than half of employees as a result of state-mandated budget cuts, university President Wallace Loh will announce this morning in an email to the campus community.

“The state is in a pretty poor fiscal situation and higher education is paying the price for that,” said Patrick Ronk, Student Government Association president. “Students are going to be paying more, getting less services and staff and faculty are going to be paid less.”

Furlough days will be based on salary level, and those earning less than $60,000 — about 40 percent of the university workforce — will have no furloughs. Employees making between $60,000 and $100,000 will have one furlough day, those making $100,000 to $180,000 will have two, and those making more than $180,000 will have three, according to the email.

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By Josh Magness @josh_mag Staff writer Ca reer ex per ts say a n i mportant factor in landing a job could sometimes be as simple as a clean haircut.

The Hair Cuttery in College Park is one of several hoping to help some in the area achieve this goal by offering the homeless population free cuts.

As part of its Share-A-Haircut program, the Hair Cuttery on Route 1 will donate a haircut to a local homeless or low-income person for every haircut purchased during business hours yesterday and today.

“Certainly as a company, we know that having a fresh, new haircut can make you feel good a n d c o n f i d e n t,” s a i d D i a n e Da ly, H a i r C ut te r y’s p u bl ic and community relations dir e c t o r. “ P a r t i c u l a r l y w i t h homeless people, if they want Dzuyen Pham (left) cuts Tyler Blake’s hair (right) as part of Hair Cuttery’s Share-A-Haircut program, which donates a haircut to a homeless person for every haircut purchased yesterday and today. Last year, 133 local homeless people received haircuts through the program. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

City to weigh code change requiring residents to recycle

Bike shop in Cole teaches students to make repairs

Businesses, residents say mandate is needed

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanormueller Staff writer

Staff leads four-week courses on maintenance

By Carly Kempler @CarlyKempler Staff writer To properly fix a flat tire and to avoid getting into an accident on this campus, students who ride bikes have to understand how bike tubes and tires work together, said the manager at this university’s Campus Bike Shop.

T he bi ke shop i nt ro du ce d a program in the fall open to faculty, professors and students to help them to understand how to fix their bikes

Campus Bike Shop instructors run an introductory bicycle maintenance class on Mondays in February at Cole Field House. Attendees learn how to fix common bike problems. rachel george/the diamondback when they break. Jeffrey Holliday, the shop manager, is the instructor of Campus Recreation Services’ intensive four-week course held every Monday during February in Cole Field House, where the bike shop is located.

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go there for free and ask questions and learn in a less-structured environment, but this [program] is more of a structured environment, which provides a comprehensive overview of the basics of bike maintenance.”

The bike shop offered the course See bikes, Page 2

College Park soon might require its residents and local businesses to recycle if the city council implements a change in the city code this month.

An ordinance introduced at the council’s Jan. 13 meeting seeks to revamp local law to make it mandatory for those using city waste collection services to recycle all materials.

“We’ve been working with residents and businesses to collect recycling for some time now,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said. “This is all part of that same

goal to become College Park a sustainable city and make it more green.”

While recycling has been mandatory, this is the first time it’s been written into city code, District 1 councilman Patrick Wojahn said.

“Our city code is so out of date that it only refers to recycling of used newspapers,” Wojahn said. “The big change here is updating it to expand to apply to all recyclable materials.”

College Park resident Suchitra Balachandran said many citizens in the city neglect to recycle.

“When we put our trash out on Tuesday, I drove up and down the street, and about 10 percent of the people had their green trashcans out, but no recycling bin,” Balachandran said. “There needs to be ways for people to start thinking about waste in different ways and not just, ‘Let’s

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bikes From PAGE 1 t h i s pa s t O c tob e r a nd it sold out, which prompted Holliday — also the Maryl a nd Adventu re P rog ra m coordinator — to offer the course again this semester.

It’s geared toward people looking to learn about and maintain their bikes instead of stopping into a shop when something goes wrong with them, Holliday said.

T he $15 class has room for eight participants, who are allowed to bring in their own bikes for inspection and practice. The first hour of the class focuses on learning about a bike’s mechanics, while the second hour allows participants to work handson with a demonstration bike

haircuts From PAGE 1 to get back i nto work i ng, having a haircut is import a n t fo r i n t e r v i e w s a n d just boosti ng con f idence in general.”

T he prog ra m b e g a n 16 ye a rs a go i n a n ef for t to provide haircuts for children in low-income families each fall before school started.

During the program’s first 14 years, “hundreds of thousands” of children received free haircuts, Daly said.

Hair Cuttery now has expanded Share-A-Haircut’s scope to prov ide help for more homeless people across the country. “ We k n e w t h e r e w e r e more people to help than just children, so we decided to help adults in need as well,” Daly said.

After expanding services to adults in the last year, Hair Cuttery provided more than 35,000 haircuts to homeless people across the country,

or their own, Holliday said.

Students will learn the basics about flat tires, squeaky brakes and the different ways to stop or change gears on bikes throughout the class. Each week, the course focuses on a new topic, which Holliday said allows the students to gauge a wider variety of bike mechanics.

“By the end of this course, our goal is to have participants be able to identify what an issue is, understand how to fix it and know how to fix it themselves,” Holliday said, “as well as be confident enough to use Campus Bike Shop tools to fix the problem.”

Holliday instructs the class w ith two other bike shop employees, which provides enough help to give the participants one-on-one attention, he said.

“One of the coolest things

we do [at the bike shop] is teaching people,” said James Abend roth, a ju n ior mechanical engineering major.

“We take time to share our knowledge, and this structured learning will definitely be more effective.”

The class participants are all interested in learning more about their bikes, Abendroth said, and he can tell that some go out of their way to do so by attending the class.

Class participant Rebecca Wilson said she acknowledges the importance of finding out what’s wrong with a bike before bringing it into a shop for professional help.

“It is awesome that we have a campus bike shop, and I’ve always wanted to come over here,” said Wilson, the graphics coordinator for University Libraries. “I’ve taken

including 133 people near the College Park area.

Daly said there is a definite “uptick in business” during the Share-A-Haircut days, a trend she attributes to the customers’ charitable nature.

“People are trying to get a haircut anyways, and if they know they can help someone out, we absolutely see more of a turnout,” Daly said.

To translate a purchased haircut into a free one, Hair Cuttery tracks the number of haircuts sold on applicable days and prints an equal number of vouchers for free haircuts. The salon then works with social service agencies to give the vouchers to homeless people, which can be used at any Hair Cuttery in the country during any time throughout the year.

While seemingly small, a free haircut can be incredibly helpful for low-income individuals, said Lori Proietti, executive director of the Laurel Advocacy & Referral Service — a local nonprofit that manages a food pantry.

The group also runs a crisis center and helps low-income people find “self-sufficiency.”

“A haircut can make all the difference in the world for our homeless clients,” Proietti said. “It can really determine if they can get a job or not, and it also lets them feel good about themselves.”

For E r i k a A r met t a , M a r yPI RG’s Hu n ger a nd Homele ssne ss c a mpa i g n coordinator, the Share-AHaircut program is a great way to remind students at th is u n iversity about the reality of poverty.

“A t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f Maryland, a lot of students feel l i ke we’re i n a l itt le bubble of 17- to 22-year-olds and therefore don’t really pay much attention to the outside,” the junior dietetics and psychology major said.

“But they need to realize that we can make a better Maryland, a better community and a better university by giving back.” jmagnessdbk@gmail.com

this bike into other places twice for help; each time it leaves feeling brand new.

Then I ride it for 10 minutes, and it falls apart again.”

Wilson said she looks forward to being able to fix the bike on her own one day, which the class could help her do.

Not all participants enrolled in the class because their bikes needed mainten a nce, however. Sa ra h Smith, a first-year graduate student in the student affairs program, got involved after being recently introduced to mountain biking, and she said she wanted to learn more about her bike to be able to keep up with her friends.

“This is a great way to get an introduction and learn the lingo and craft my skills from there on my own,” she said.

the campus bike shop started a new bike repair program in Cole Field House this fall, which is open to faculty, professors and students. rachel george/the diamondback Holliday said he plans to of fer a si m i la r, more advanced course this March, a n d h e h a s a l r e a d y a nnou nced the same cou rse will be offered again in April.

“My hope is that people get more involved in Maryland

Adventure Program’s cycling initiatives,” Holliday said.

“We’re doing a lot more of bike programs, and I hope this opens to the doors for people to participate.” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

phuong nguyen cuts Carrie Parish’s hair as part of the Route 1 Hair Cuttery’s Share-A-Haircut program. The nationwide program provided more than 35,000 haircuts to homeless people across the country last year. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

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Univ students aim to create, improve on tuition medical care models in new competition Maryland Innovate 4 Health Challenge calls for solutions to health issues

By Marissa Horn @MarissaL_Horn Staff writer Imagine doctors’ offices where you can go straight into the exam room without filling out long check-in forms.

It might seem impossible, but students at this university and at high schools across the state are working to make quick and easy medical care a reality. Using mobile health technologies, these students hope to not on ly improve medical visits but also change overall health maintenance for the better.

The Maryland Innovate 4 Health Challenge began last month, aimed at students with the goal of creating a healthier society, said Kenyon Crowley, the deputy director of The Center for Health Information and Decision Systems in the business school.

The competition asks students to work on a solution to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer or mental health disorders. They can also design a solution structured around treating an acute care event, such as surgery, or a major life stage such as preg-

nancy, or create methods to improve the flow of information between patients and medical providers, according to the press release.

The challenge requires students to use mobile technologies while working on these projects, as new technologies have become increasingly important in health care. “ [ We a r e] a i m i n g t o promote industries in Maryland because mobile health in Maryland is an interest in the state,” Crowley said.

Students are in a special position to help incorporate mobile technology into medicine.

“Students today are very tech savvy,” said Ben Gaines, CEO of MdBio Foundation I nc. “[ T hey] u ndersta nd technology much better than most … older adults may not be as savvy as that.”

Finalists will be announced in April. Competition winners will be announced in June and receive a $2,000 prize, according to the news release.

In this state, health-related public budget spending added up to nearly $10.4 billion, which is about 28 percent of the state budget, according to

the state budget highlights for fiscal 2014.

In a recent Forbes Magazine opinion piece, writer Howard Steinberg questioned the effectiveness and hype of mobile health technology by analyzing “lifestyle diseases,” which are so common in the country that more than one in three adults are obese. Major causes of obesity are from unhealthy eating habits and behaviors, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result, implementing health apps in the lives of those with unhealthy behaviors is a much bigger challenge for mobile health technology advocates.

But Gaines hopes the students will think outside the box to address these issues and make the solutions more appealing and applicable to everyday life. If not, obesity can lead to other chronic health issues such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.

The real-life application of this project lies in the hands, or rather at the fingertips, of those with chronic diseases.

“How do we really marry technology and health care to improve health care for ev-

$25 million

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Amount the College Park Foundation’s endowment funds grew from fiscal years 2013 to 2014

$273 million

Amount this university had in endowment funds during fiscal 2014

No. 253

This university’s ranking out of 851 colleges and universities on the 2014 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments

Endowment From PAGE 1 g radu ate students, for funding financial aid and to support specific areas of research, said David Silver, the College Park Foundation’s director of financial management.

Schools with big endowments tend to have larger donor bases than schools with smaller endowments, said Ken Redd, research and policy analysis director at NACUBO. This university has the fourthsmallest enrollment in the conference, according to U.S. News and World Report.

In addition, endowments started more recently are l i kely to be sm a l ler t ha n those at h istoric i nstitutions that have been building them for decades, Redd sa id. Ha rva rd Un iversity rema i ned at the top of

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T h i s s t ate’s D ep a r tment of Budget and Management announced last month a $40.3 million cut to the University System of Ma ryla nd budget, leav i ng t h is u n iversity with a $15.6 million onetime cut under then-Gov. Martin O’Malley.

U n d e r G o v. L a r r y Hogan’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2016, faculty and staff will give back the cost-of-living increase and forgo merit raises, saving t h is u n iversity $29.6 million. This university w i l l save a n add itiona l $6.6 million by eliminating vacant positions, according to the email.

The midyear tuition increase is expected to generate $3.1 million, according to the email.

T he Board of Regents approve d t he prev iou s midyear tuition increase for four University System of Maryland institutions, including this university, at the Jan. 16 meeting. It’s the first time the system implemented a midyear tuition increase in 12 years.

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NACUBO’s 2014 list w ith almost $36 billion in endowment funds.

“Endowments started more recently at universities that don’t have as large a donor base – those two characteristics can explain the difference between a large endowment school and a small endowment school,” Redd said.

The uptick at this university from fiscal 2013 to 2014 can be partially credited to an increase in the College Park Foundation’s staff size, said Peter Weiler, vice president of university relations.

“We, as a university, have got much more impressive in talking up who we are to our alums who support us,” he said. “It’s all about leadership — people believe in the vision the president has for the university and the direction we’re headed and they want to support us.”

Weiler said unlike many

eryone?” Gaines said. “That’s what we are looking for.”

Stepha n ie N katchou, a junior biochemistry major, plans to enter the competition with an app that could better manage the information exchanged between patients and doctors. After surgery, followup information such as when and if patients are taking their medicine or taking care of their bodies would be filtered to doctors’ offices so they can better treat patients during recovery, Nckatchou said.

“That app would help with the flow of things,” Nkatchou said. “I want to focus on the technology side of it, and to overall benefit health care.”

Competition guidelines also encourage students to take advantage of robots, webenabled technology or wearable devices such as Jawbone products. Across this state, eight or nine high schools have already signed up for the competition, Gaines said.

“This is a real-world challenge we have put in front of students,” he said, “and I think they are really wanting to change the world.”

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has to bea r pa rt of the burden,” Loh said.

L oh sa id the u n iversity is at risk of competing institutions offering better jobs for faculty, staff and administrators with these f u rl o u g h s c o m i n g a f t e r fou r consecutive yea rs of no merit raises.

“There will be some [employees] who will be lured away,” Loh said.

Although Loh reassured the athletic department’s fiscal future in the Big Ten, the department currently has a $3.5 million operating loss.

“Look, $3 million is nothing,” Loh said. “We have pretty much ensured the financial future of Maryland sports for the next 50 years.

By the year 2018, all their debts will be wiped out and they will have a very substantial, positive cash flow.”

Loh announced plans to form a task force to find additional ways to cut spending and increase revenue after the university implemented a hiring freeze Dec. 10.

T he task force — wh ich will consist of faculty, students, sta ff, ad m i n istrators and alumni — will also address the state-mandated budget cuts and “develop new ways to innovate, cut c o s t s, a n d ge n e rate n e w re ve n u e s,” a c c o rd i n g to the email.

other universities in the Big Ten , this university has had on ly one major fu nd ra ising campaign — the Great E x p e ct at ion s c a mpa i g n , which raised just more than $1 billion from 2006 to 2012.

“We started late,” Silver said. “Most of the Big Ten schools sta rted thei r endowment much earlier than we did. They’re ahead of the game — they were doing it in the 1960s and ’70s.”

Silver said although he is an alumnus of this university, he can’t recall being asked to donate until about 10 or 15 years ago, when this university “kicked up their fundraising.”

“Those guys — Michigan, Pen n State, Oh io State — have been doing it for years and years, and now our goal is to catch up and surpass,” Silver said. trichmandbk@gmail.com

get it out of our house.’”

It’s why Balachandran said she supports the ordinance. “ I t ’s a g o o d w a y t o recycling practices might become required by law for all College Park residents if the ensu re people put their City Council implements changes to the city code this month. sung-min kim/the diamondback recycling out,” Balachan- paper plate. The only thing nent solution, it would be a dran said. “It is time we we wou ld recycle i s beer step in the right direction, s t a r te d t h i n k i n g more bott les a nd sod a, but we Wojahn said. about the environment.” don’t have many of those.”

“The ability to handle trash Though the most obvious in the city, the county, the state Along Route 1, some business owners were quick re a son for t he re cyc l i n g and the country is becoming to express support of the ch a n ge i s Col lege Pa rk’s less and less,” Wojahn said. ongoing effort to become “While recycling is not an efmovement as well.

“We recycle everything greener, another motivat- ficient solution, it’s the start of t hat we ca n — bott les, ing factor is the shrinking something that we need to do.” plastic, paper,” said Pat capacity of the city’s landMaking recycling mandaAhern, R.J. Bentley’s general fill, District 2 Councilman tory also will spare taxpayers’ manager. “We do more than Monroe Dennis said. dollars, Wojahn said.

“Our county landfill is bewe’re supposed to do.”

“It’s just cheaper,” Wojahn But not every business coming full, so we need to find said. “If people recycle, it costs alternative ways of disposing the city less. If they don’t, then feels inclined to do so.

Ratsie’s, for example, of our trash,” Dennis said. the residents as a whole have to which recently announced “If we can keep recyclable pick up that burden.” i t s c l o s i n g c o m e S e p - materials out of the trash The council cannot offitember, does not recycle and thus out of the landfill, cially pass the ordinance until any of its materials, said we buy ourselves more time hearing residents’ input, which T here sa Joh n s, pa r t i a l before the county has to take a will happen in a public hearing greater action towards finding at City Hall next Tuesday, owner of Ratsie’s.

“We don’t recycle right out what to do about another Dennis said. now,” Johns said. “No- landfill facility.”

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CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the percentage decline in the arts and humanities college enrollment was misstated in Monday’s story “English sees decline in enrollment.” The article reported that it shrunk 21 percent in three years, but the correct percentage decline was 18 percent.

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Missing the mark on American Sniper SAMANTHA REILLY

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Sniper become the second-highest grossing war film of all time, left the theater in a rush to bury their noses in painstaking research rather than taking the film at its face value. It is understandable, even. But without solid evidence, or a basic understanding of the tangled web of conflicts embedded into the film, how are they to make a case for either side of a debate?

The film undoubtedly left an impression on viewers; so much so that attorney J. Warren St. John, who will be defending Eddie Routh in his trial for the murders of Kyle and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield, has publicly expressed concern that the film has rendered it impossible for his client to receive a fair trial. Routh is expected to appear in court this month, but with the nationwide success of a film glorifying Routh’s alleged victim, St. John has stated that it will be difficult, if possible, to find a fair jury.

With a film so rooted in perspective, having been adapted from an autobiography, it is expected that viewers walk away with a better understanding of Kyle’s personal story. Applying this understanding to the world around them, however, warrants a considerable interest in the context that might not have fit into a two-hour blockbuster film.

People have a right to their own opinions about what is and isn’t right but should be prepared to explore the contexts within which they place their screenadapted passions.

he recent record-breaking release of American Sniper has sparked intense emotions, both in awe and in spite of Chris Kyle and the images of war that the film adaptation of his autobiography inspired.

The number of conversations spanning terrorism, military tactics, family issues and religion, that the film has ignited all have one thing in common: They have transformed into a series of red rover games in which people must choose a side and fight to uphold it.

The problem is not with people having opinions or injecting passion into those opinions — I even dare to say that is the American way — but the problem is with the approach.

War, both on and off the big screen, is complex. And just as a war evolves, so do the opinions surrounding it.

A Gallup poll revealed that the proportion of surveyed Americans who thought that sending military forces to Afghanistan was a mistake rose from 9 percent in November 2001 to 49 percent in February 2014. In a March 2012 survey, 35 percent of subjects revealed that events in Afghanistan had caused them to change their opinions about the validity of U.S. forces there.

The movie itself is a display of Chris Kyle’s own metamorphosis as he tackles emotional, physical and mental challenges. Lead actor Bradley Cooper “tried to calm the debate, saying the film wasn’t intended to be political but a human story about a soldier’s life and internal struggles,” according to The Samantha Reilly is a freshman Washington Post.

That said, it is hard to believe the mil- journalism major. She can be lions of viewers, who helped American reached at sreillydbk@gmail.com.

STAFF EDITORIAL

Getting out of the red

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ver since this university’s penultimate decision to leave the ACC for greener pastures in the Big Ten, the athletic department and its fiscal woes have been in the unwanted spotlight.

According to the Washington Business Journal, it was revealed at the Board of Regents Finance Committee meeting Thursday that this university’s athletic department had a $3.5 million operating loss in the 2014 fiscal year, which was jacked up compared to the loss of $1.2 million in the 2013 fiscal year. From 2010 — just a few years before the Big Ten move — and until now, the athletic department has accumulated a staggering $10 million in operating losses.

Along with the athletic department’s operating losses, this university still owes the ACC $31 million to settle the lawsuit about its decision to leave the conference for the Big Ten. While this university takes pride in its Terrapin red, the athletic department’s overwhelming amount of debt has the department in the wrong kind of red.

The amount of debt that the athletic department has accumulated is worrisome to the university, especially because it is about to embark on a monumental renovation of Cole Field House, which will forever change the image of university athletics. The proposed plan to revamp

Cole will cost about $155 million and still needs money from private donors to fund part of the project.

But the real question is: What is this university going to do get the athletic department out of its heaping debt? Or worse, will the department get further entrenched in debt in 2015?

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To get out of debt, the athletic department should explore other options besides potential Big Ten revenue.

The Washington Business Journal also reported that Bob Page, the University System of Maryland associate vice chancellor for financial affairs, is confident that the athletic department doesn’t expect to hemorrhage any more money, and that the department officials hope to repay their debts back by 2021 — after Big Ten revenue helps balance the department’s checkbook.

The confidence in Big Ten revenues is warranted seeing that the conference predicts that Big Ten schools will make about $30.9 million in revenue for the 2014-2015 year. The catch is that this university won’t receive the full amount

of shares of revenue the conference accumulates because of its six-year integration process.

The university athletic department also got the short end of the stick after being denied $6 million that was given to the 11 full-integrated Big Ten schools after Ohio State University’s appearance in the national championship.

With the Big Ten leading in revenues, it makes sense that the athletic department is relying on its Big Ten revenues to offset the department’s debt. However, this university will not be seeing the full amount of revenue for at least five years until it becomes fully integrated into the Big Ten, which cuts it awfully close to the year 2021 — the department’s goal year of having their debt settled.

With fiscal relief being so close, yet so far away, the athletic department’s faith in the Big Ten needs a stronger foundation to help alleviate the department’s debt sooner.

At this point, the athletic department, this university and university President Wallace Loh need to explore other options to help offset the overwhelming amount of debt the athletic department has racked up. If not, come time this university is fully integrated into the Big Ten, it might have to forgo the conference’s greener pastures, and instead cough up all of its revenue just to get out of debt.

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Widening the scope of media coverage MAX AN

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If the purpose of media is to inform citizens of issues and to educate and entertain them, why is it that such a pressing issue has been swept aside?

The lack of coverage almost seems to be a result of possible government influence: If we can spend weeks and months talking about a missing airplane and the backlash to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, why are we not spending more time discussing the eradication of terrorists and mass murderers in Nigeria?

I find it depressing that in this age of information, the majority of us remain in the dark. This harsh generalization extends to myself, and it wasn’t until very recently that I realized I was watching the news but not seeing beyond what U.S. television sources were serving to me in half-hour programs.

As rather privileged relative to the rest of the world, is it not our responsibility as Americans to at least use the resources at our disposal to stay informed about the world and its happenings? Considering how much of the world lacks the resources to access basic information or an uncensored press, the idea that we are willingly choosing to ignore certain humanitarian crises is depressing and regrettable.

How can we in good conscience spend so much time debating about ideal gas laws and #Deflategate when there are so many people dying mere hours from us? Spider-Man’s wise uncle once famously stated that “With great power comes great responsibility,” and it is time for us to step up and at least recognize atrocities that extend beyond our sporting worlds.

couple of months ago, I wrote a column about the seeming infatuation the U.S. media had with Ebola: then the hot topic of the year.

And recently, this problem with mass media’s constant inflation of rather trivial stories and its ignoring of other world issues has again manifested itself — and glaringly so — in Nigerian villages.

Recently in Nigeria, thousands of people have been senselessly butchered by an Nigerian Islamic terrorist group called Boko Haram, and yet here in this country we still have yet to truly acknowledge this unspeakable massacre. Surely, a massacre in Nigeria, a country with Africa’s largest economy — according to the latest 2014 evaluations of GDP — would warrant some sort of immediate reaction from the United States, wouldn’t it? Amazingly, the American answer has been and still is no.

While the recent Paris attacks on Charlie Hebdo and other instances of terrorism in the European territories have taken higher priority and have commanded American headlines, the U.S. response to the immediate danger that Boko Haram poses in Nigeria has been intolerably deplorable. There’s no doubt that ISIS poses a threat to the world, but so does Boko Haram in Nigeria.

Arguably, the lack of a U.S. response could be due to a dearth of resources to invest in resolving Nigeria’s issues, but the fault does not solely lie with the U.S. government, for it belies America’s intrinsically biased nature Max An is a sophomore physiology to only address issues that are relevant and neurobiology major. He can be reached at maxandbk@gmail.com. and interesting to us.

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y parents’ words were pretty explicit back in 1963: “Don’t go to any demonstrations or sign petitions … stick to your Ph.D. studies”.

But the farther I got from New York, the sooner those words were forgotten. In fact, I got diverted and radicalized the first week of school when I invited a fellow graduate school African American classmate from this university for a beer in College Park, and we were refused service. Signs that said “We reserve the right to refuse service” were posted all over the area. This occurrence encouraged me to join CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, and get involved in the Civil Rights Movement.

From 1963 to 1964, schools, private housing and hotels in the state were mostly segregated — including Montgomery and Prince George’s County. In 1964 our CORE chapter was joined by the NAACP and Baltimore chapters of CORE at the Maryland General Assembly, and we vowed to sit in until a public accommodation bill was passed — it eventually was.

The university system was not sympathetic to integration. CORE was not permitted to meet on the campus, so we formed a Students for a Democratic Society chapter. Hyattsville, College Park and Takoma Park all had their “ghettos.” Langley Park and Adelphi were “sundown” towns: After dark, blacks on the streets were escorted by police to

the border with Washington.

Remnants of tobacco families still dominated state and local politics.

There were few Latino or Asian students and teachers, and only one black player was on the university football team in 1963. The university chaplains had an ongoing problem over the university president’s refusal to allow Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak on the campus. The Emergency Student Civil Liberties Committee was established in February 1964 to inform students about restrictions on freedom.

In the summer of 1964, our CORE chapter worked with the SDS chapter in Cedar Heights near the District line, a town with unpaved streets, mediocre sewage and a barbed wiretopped fence separating it from the closest shopping center.

We started a summer “Freedom School,” community cleanup and voter registration drive, and we had our first contact with Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Reports by The Washington Star and The Baltimore Sun on the plight of Cedar Heights came to the attention of King’s Christian leadership conference, which wanted to tear down the fence because the proximity to Washington would grab the attention of the media. However, our position was that the community needed to make that decision — not us or the Christian leadership conference.

The community members voted down King’s and the Christian lead-

ership conference’s offer to bring outside protesters to topple the fence.

They feared that the action would leave their community facing racist neighbors. We respected their decision while the Christian leadership conference was disappointed. Keep in mind that, at that time, there were active Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Party and White Citizen Council groups in this county, and they often showed up at our demonstrations to taunt us.

In February 1965, Selma, Alabama was about to implode. I was chairman of the local CORE chapter and worked in social work in Montgomery County. I called national CORE for assistance in getting to Selma for the planned march to Montgomery, Alabama. They suggested contacting a religious organization for sponsorship. I called the national Unitarian Universalist Church, and they agreed to send me.

The morning of my departure, my sponsors called to inform me that a Boston Unitarian Universalist minister, James Reeb, offered to represent the church in my place. I understood and dropped my efforts to get to Selma. Reeb went and was murdered by pipe-wielding white racists, as depicted in the film, Selma.

The struggle continues.

Michael Tabor is a 1964 university graduate from the American studies department. He can be reached at esiegel2@igc.org.

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FOOD | COOKIE BUTTER

take that cookie and spread it Trader Joe’s cookie butter is a hit in dorms on the campus and across social media. Is it a mere foodie fad, or is it here to stay?

Made from Speculoos, a Belgian shortbread cookie

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Introduced in the U.S. in 2011 Available in crunchy, smooth and cocoa swirl varieties photo courtesy of amazon.com

By Hannah Lang @DBKDiversions For The Diamondback It’s safe to say that butter, as a thing and a concept, changed the world for the better. Whether it’s butter churned by a colonial woman in a log cabin, peanut butter that’s become a daily staple in your diet or that strange almond/cashew/sunflower seed butter that your mom stows in the back of your pantry at home, butters are the best.

And now, there’s a new kind of butter on the market. I first heard about it from a friend; then I kept noticing it pop up on social media.

Maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe you haven’t, or maybe you’re a recent convert to it like me, but no matter who you are, it’s becoming almost impossible to ignore the

latest food trend: cookie butter.

While it might be just a food obsession that will be passe when the next cool new food hits the shelves, I have a gut feeling that cookie butter is here to stay.

When my friend first gushed to me over lunch about cookie butter, I pictured some kind of cookie dough that you could eat out of the jar without having to worry about salmonella or E. coli or whatever else made cookie dough supposedly bad for you. What’s not to love about that?

I was told that while many companies were making and selling cookie butter, I absolutely had to get my first taste of it from Trader Joe’s, where cookie butter was apparently pioneered in the U.S. I chose the classic, smooth version instead of the crunchy

one, and although I love chocolate, I decided to leave the cocoa version for another time. And yes, I am confident that there will be another time.

Cookie butter is made from Speculoos cookies, which, yes, are a real thing. Trader Joe’s describes them as a classic Belgian cookie with a slight gingerbread flavor. The butter looks a lot like peanut butter, which could be potentially deceiving to people who don’t usually read labels on jars. However, the consistency is much thicker than peanut butter.

And of course, it tastes pretty different, too.

I first tasted it by itself, and I wasn’t that impressed: It kind of just tasted like nothing followed by an explosion of Christmas and gingerbread houses.

But after I initially wrote it off,

I decided to snack on it with some graham crackers, and I began to understand the obsession. This stuff is actually really good.

I decided to take the rest of my jar of heavenly cookie goodness back to school after winter break, knowing that it would probably make me the most popular kid in my hall. A friend in my hall buys cookie dough on a weekly basis from the convenience store and eats it as though her life depends on it. I walked into my room recently and found her on the floor eating Nestlé cookie dough straight from the tube with a spoon.

I knew that I had something in my power that would change her life forever, so I grabbed my halfempty beloved jar of cookie butter and some graham crackers and told her that she absolutely had to try

it. I think she was tentative at first — it is pretty difficult to find something more delicious than cookie dough — but she was hooked from her first bite.

“I want to go buy this right now,” she said to me. “Where’s the nearest Trader Joe’s?”

And pretty soon I had my entire hall Google-mapping the nearest locations and taking overly frequent cookie butter breaks during our desperate search for the nearest cookie butter mecca.

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FILM | REBOOTING GHOSTBUSTERS

YES ALL GHOSTBUSTERS Boasting an impressive cast of women, director Paul Feig’s reboot promises a much-needed feminist update to the beloved ’80s comedy franchise

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer There was a time when I was sure that the red, green, yellow and orange Sour Patch Kids were all that I needed in my life. Then suddenly, out of the blue, a dark horse came and stole my heart. This dark horse took the form of the blue Sour Patch Kid, a delicious addition to the Sour Patch Kid candy family. Where am I going with this? The all-female Ghostbusters remake that has been in the news recently is essentially my cinematic blue Sour Patch Kid, a fantastic surprise and welcome addition to something I wasn’t even aware could be improved upon.

AS A GIRL WHO SPENT HER CHILDHOOD PROCLAIMING THAT I EITHER WANTED TO BE A VETERINARIAN OR A GHOSTBUSTER WHEN I GREW UP, SEEING FOUR FEMALE GHOSTBUSTERS ...

WILL BE INCREDIBLY SATISFYING. The new Ghostbusters cast is reportedly set to feature Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, and Melissa McCarthy. Paul Feig, creator of the cult TV classic Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids will be working as the director for

the film. On Jan. 27, after tweeting a picture of the women who will be starring in the remake, Feig also tweeted, “In other news, #Ghostbusters will be hitting theaters July 22, 2016. Save the date!” Consider it saved, Paul.

Putting these four funny women in any film would almost certainly equal success. But putting them in a movie in which they get to be best friends and capture ghosts?

Yes. That combination of cast and premise is the sort of thing that turns a mere success into an enormous game changer.

This remake is already set up so perfectly with its cast and basic concept that I’m convinced the movie itself doesn’t even have to be

good. The entire film could consist of Leslie Jones saying the phrase “We’re ready to believe you” over and over for 20 minutes and I would probably consider it a movie ticket well spent.

In fact, it could just be a PowerPoint slideshow of the four women wearing cool Ghostbusters uniforms and I would be fairly content.

However, I am almost certain that Feig will not go down either of those routes when crafting the film (and if he does, I expect to be paid a large sum of money for those original ideas).

In all seriousness, the Ghostbusters remake is a testament to the evolution of women’s roles in popular film.

The original 1984 version portrayed women as secretaries, librarians and

girlfriends in need of saving. The only strong or vaguely interesting female character in the 1984 version is the terrifying Gozer the Destructor who, according to a variety of Ghostbusters wikis, isn’t even actually a woman but simply a genderless evil entity.

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THE DIAMONDBACK | SPORTS | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2015

guard lexie brown controls the ball in a win over Iowa on Sunday. Brown had a game-high 26 points as the Terps extended their win streak to 13 games. marquise mckine/the diamondback

brown From PAGE 8 The No. 5 Terps haven’t had many games come down to the wire this season, but with their 12-game winning streak on the line, the team wanted Brown in control. And she delivered in the 93-88 win over the No. 16 Hawkeyes at Xfinity Center.

“She has a great mind for the game,” Jones said. “We’re comfortable with her having the ball in her hands.”

After Brown sunk the basket, she didn’t spend any time celebrating. The Georgia native hustled back on defense with the Hawkeyes searching for a quick answer.

Seconds after Brown’s bucket, Iowa guard Samantha Logic sent a long pass across halfcourt that would never reach its intended target.

Brown read the pass and intercepted it to cap a crucial seven-second stretch that ultimately sealed the Terps’ 13th straight win.

“When we had been pressing, they had just kept looking at that diagonal [pass], and we had to find the shooter,” Brown said. “I just figured that maybe they would do that again.”

Brown said she tries to hide the fact that she’s “freaking out on the inside” during the final stretches of close games, and any nerves the sophomore felt Sunday didn’t affect

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her play. She scored seven of her game-high 26 points in the final 90 seconds en route to her highest point total of the season. “ The re we re so many contributions when you talk about Kiara Leslie off the bench,” Terps coach Brenda Frese said. “The run we made with a season high of 26 from Lexie ‘Big Shot’ Brown.”

While some pundits expected Brown to emerge as the go-to threat offensively for the Terps after the program’s all-time leading scorer Alyssa Thomas graduated last season, she has been just one piece of the balanced attack that ranks fifth in the nation in scoring. Brown’s 13.1 points per game is third best on the team.

Instead, Brown has taken on more of a facilitating role within the offense.

After dishing out seven d i m e s to o n e t u r n ove r Sunday, Brown is averaging 5.7 assists per game during conference play. And even though Brown took the shot in the final minute Sunday, she would have hit an open teammate if need be.

“The main goal is to get the best shot possible, and in this game, it happened to be my layup,” Brown said. “There have been so many times where the best shot is a dump down or a kick out, so I mean just taking the opportunities that present themselves.”

Brown’s ability to generate high-quality looks for teammates and create her own offense makes her dangerous late in games. With four Terps averaging double figures, Frese could’ve turned to multiple other players in the final minute.

Still, everyone wanted Brown to have the ball in her hands.

“We look to her,” Jones said.

“She is great under pressure.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

125-pound josh polacek works to break free from an Ohio State wrestler in a Terps’ loss on Jan. 25. Polacek narrowly lost in a match at Illinois on Sunday. christian jenkins/the diamondback

polacek From PAGE 8 the riding-time advantage Delgado totaled earlier in the contest.

“In the end, it could have been a different match,” said 149-pound Ben Dorsay, who secured the Terps’ only decision of the dual. “He could have won, but we’re all very happy and impressed with him.”

In addition to composing a game plan, Polacek wrestled without fear of falling short of expectations, something he said he’s struggled with this year. That free-spirited

attitude boded well for the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, native, who almost handed Delgado his 14th loss in 107 matches.

It also would have been the first time Polacek had beaten a ranked wrestler in his college career. “ I wa s n ’ t a s n e r vo u s knowing that I had nothing to lose,” Polacek said. “I just wanted to let it all fly and see what could happen because if I lose, it’s to the two-time national champ, and if I win, I shock the nation.”

Moreover, Polacek dealt with a thunderous crowd during his match. Moments

earlier, the Fighting Illini faithful went into a frenzy after Brooks Black, using a late escape, upset No. 8 Spencer Myers in the 285-pound match. “[Polacek] definitely was a good spark,” McCoy said.

“Especially coming after the match with Spencer losing, he easily could have just put his head down.”

In less than a week, Polacek will have an opportunity against another top-five foe when No. 1 Iowa travels to College Park on Feb. 6.

Thomas Gilman, the Hawkeyes starter at 125 pounds, ranks fifth in the country with a record of 18-1.

But if Sunday’s match is any indication, Polacek will step onto the mat at Xfinity Center confident he can compete.

“You go out there and stand toe-to-toe with a two-time defending national champ, and you lose a one-point match,” McCoy said. “It should be one of those confidence builders to know if he’s got the right game plan, the right mindset, that he can compete with anybody.” kstackpoledbk@gmail.com

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Polacek shows off potential in defeat Junior challenges top-ranked Delgado in losing effort against No. 14 Illinois

By Kyle Stackpole @kylefstackpole Staff writer

guard Lexie Brown readies to shoot a free throw in the Terps’ 93-88 win over Iowa on Sunday. Brown scored seven points in the final 90 seconds. marquise mckine/the diamondback

During the Terrapins wrestling team’s inaugural season in the Big Ten, Josh Polacek was thrust into the lineup at 125 pounds. After wrestling in just two dual matches in his first three seasons, Polacek was set to grapple with opponents from the nation’s premier conference.

Entering his bout against No. 14 Illinois on Friday night, Polacek sought to turn around an otherwise difficult season.

The redshirt junior had won five of 14 matches, two of which came by forfeit, and most recently suffered a 15-point technical fall loss against No. 7 Nathan Tomasello of Ohio State on Jan. 25.

But against the Fighting Illini, which featured two-time national champion and top-ranked Jesse Delgado at lightweight, Polacek looked poised to claim the improbable upset.

Though Polacek tied the match at two with an escape in the third period, his comeback bid fell short as Delgado earned an additional point for riding time after the final buzzer to secure the decision.

Still, Polacek’s effort against an All-American was a promising result in a season filled with

“HE HAD A GAME PLAN AND STUCK TO THAT GAME PLAN. ...

HE WENT OUT THERE WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE AND WRESTLED A GOOD MATCH AND PUT HIMSELF IN A POSITION TO WIN.” KERRY MCCOY

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“Since this has been my first year in the lineup, it’s been sort of like a roller coaster trying to feel out what works for me,” Polacek said.

Knowing Delgado has not seen the mat recently — his match against Polacek was his third of the season and first since Nov. 2 — Polacek entered the bout hoping to tire out his challenger.

“He had a game plan and stuck to that game plan,” coach Kerry McCoy said. “He went out there with the right attitude and wrestled a good match and put himself in a position to win; and that’s the most important thing.”

And though Polacek, who expressed confidence in his conditioning, appeared to wear down his competitor in the third period, he couldn’t erase

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By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Staff writer

Clinging to a two-point lead over Iowa with a minute remaining in regulation Sunday, the Terrapins women’s basketball team turned to Lexie Brown. The sophomore guard, who burst onto the national scene during last season’s NCAA tournament run, took the ball from center

Brionna Jones and drove into the lane.

Brown burned her defender and scooped a shot toward the basket just out of the reach of 6-foot-4 center Bethany Doolittle’s swatting arm. The ball caromed high off the glass before dropping through the net with 38 seconds left to give the Terps a critical two-possession lead.

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