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CVS struggling to fill prescriptions Local pharmacy has been unable to supply some controlled substances, narcotics since November

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scription since high school, but here in College Park, she has struggled to obtain her medicine.

“Finals week was horrible; my mom ended up shipping it up here,” During fi nals week last semester, the sophomore education major said.

Rozzie Eppsteiner ran out of her ADD medicine and could not refill her pre- “I think I was a couple days behind, scription. She has had the same pre- but you just drink a lot of coffee and

hope for the best.”

The CVS on Route 1 has not been able to supply legal narcotics and other controlled substances, including medications for ADD, ADHD and anxiety, since November. The store lost its power to order them when its pharmacy manager quit unexpectedly, said Sophia Wang, a senior biology major and pharmacy technician.

Mike DeAngelis, CVS public relations director, wrote in an email

that the problem has been resolved, and he expects product availability to return today.

“The legally required power of attorney paperwork that allows a pharmacist to order controlled substances was delayed by a technical issue,” DeAngelis wrote. “We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused our customers.”

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ANNAPOLIS 2014

Legislators reconsider ASA funds Bill would divest from group boycotting Israel

Anechoic ‘Chamber, 2014’ cuts off sound, light from participants in Art-Sociology

By Jim Bach @thedbk Senior staff writer A foreign policy debate that has confounded the world’s diplomatic and military leaders for nearly a century is playing out in Annapolis as legislators debate whether to fund Palestine-supporting academic institutions.

A state bill would prohibit state dollars from funding activities such as travel or membership dues tied to the American Studies Association, which passed a resolution in December to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The almost 5,000-member organization is devoted to American studies but also has taken a position on foreign policy regarding Israel that state officials said conflicts with the state’s stance.

The bill’s sponsor, Del. Benjamin Kramer (D-Montgomery), said it would be inconsistent for the state to continue to support See israel, Page 2

By Elena Baurkot @thedbk For The Diamondback On a busy campus filled with noises and passersby, it can be difficult to find a moment to be alone with one’s thoughts. That’s not the case in a 12-foot sphere that resembles a soccer ball in the Art-Sociology Atrium.

“Chamber, 2014,” a felt-and-wood structure composed of a series of pentagonal and pyramidal cells fixed together that opened yesterday, cuts off all senses and stimuli to leave visitors with only their thoughts.

Designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Joel Lamere and William O’Brien Jr., the darkened anechoic chamber was assembled the fi rst weekend in February and is the result of a partnership “Chamber, 2014,” a 12-foot sphere in the Art-Sociology Atrium that cuts off stimuli to the individual inside, opened for visitors yesterday.

‘I never said no to an assignment’

The voice of the Terrapins took a break from his duties last night to speak in a different voice: his own.

Johnny Holliday, who has served 35 years as a play-by-play announcer for the Terps men’s basketball and football teams, spoke to a crowd of about 20 in Knight Hall, detailing the ups and downs of his career as a sportscaster.

“My best advice to anyone who wants to get into this business is if you honestly think you can do it, you can,” Holliday said. “And I’m

Some sororities raise concern over demand

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer

johnny holliday, who has served as a Terps basketball and football radio announcer for 35 years, speaks in Knight Hall last night, giving career advice about the broadcast journalism industry. lena salzbank/the diamondback the perfect example.”

At 18, Holiday was working four jobs in his hometown of Miami with little direction. Holliday’s career in radio and broadcast began as a disk jockey on a radio station in Perry, Georgia.

“I knew nothing about radio,” Holliday said. “I knew nothing about broadcast.”

But that didn’t stop him.

The common theme threaded through Holliday’s speech was never

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to let go of an opportunity.

“If I said no, somebody else gets that job,” Holliday said. “I never said no to an assignment.”

From there, he found success as a radio DJ in Georgia, back home in Miami and then in Rochester, N.Y. He then moved to Cleveland, where he branched out into sports, theater and commercials. And after See hoLliday, Page 3

A record number of women registered for sorority recruitment this spring, and with that came one of the highest recorded numbers of students who didn’t receive a membership.

T he spring incom ing class brought the average sorority chapter size to 168 members. Sororities offered 636 memberships to 884 potential new members, leaving 248 without a home in Greek life. The growth shows the increasing popularity of Greek life on the campus, but some Panhellenic Association

officials are concerned about meeting the demand of interested students.

This semester, the PHA saw its lowest drop rate — the number of students who withdraw from the recruitment process without receiving a membership or completing all four rounds — in years, said Molly Alsobrook, PHA president.

In spring 2013, each chapter aimed to offer a PHA-set goal of 39 new memberships. This year, they aimed for 44, the largest quota yet. Almost every chapter reached the quota, Alsobrook said, making it the largest number of memberships given out in recent memory.

But the number of potential new members made it more difficult for people to get bids, said Amanda Eisenberg, a sophomore history and See sororities, Page 3

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STAFF EDITORIAL: Return second DOTS appeal

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chamber From PAGE 1 between the a rch itectu re school’s Kibel Gallery, the architecture program, the u n iversity’s A r t Ga l ler y, the art department and the Design | Cultures + Creativity honors program.

C h a m b e r, o n d i s p l a y through March 7, is open to any visitor looking for a removed, peaceful experience amid the chaos of daily life, Lamere said.

“It’s basically meant to completely disorient you in a certain way, in order to allow a person to go in and experience only themselves as opposed to all of the other kinds of constant feedback and input that we get in our everyday existences,” Lamere said.

Chamber leaves visitors with only their thoughts, Lamere said. The dark, strikingly quiet sphere slightly rocks on its base to prevent visitors from establishing a consistent gravitational orientation. Only one person can enter at a time, and the sphere’s opening cannot be closed from the inside, requiring someone to shut the visitor inside, said Ronit Eisenbach, Kibel Gallery chairwoman.

Israel From PAGE 1 Israel in trade and agricultural and economic development while also funding organizations like the ASA. He called the ASA’s boycott a “discriminatory position.”

“Here we have a Maryland state policy that says we are going to try to work closely with, to the benefit of citizens of both, Maryland and Israel on these various issues,” he said. “And yet, we’re using

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“It leaves you in, I think, in a very unsteady place, but an unsteady and hopefully very self-reflective kind of place,” said Eisenbach, an architecture professor.

Chamber cost about $20,000 to construct, Lamere said, and it was funded partly th rough a g ra nt from the Council of Art at MIT. Lamere and O’Brien funded the remainder of the cost.

The two started working on Chamber in summer 2012. They had the idea and a lot of felt, Lamere said, but they struggled to find the right venue, so the project lay dormant for about a year.

Lamere asked Eisenbach if she knew of a place where Chamber could be displayed.

Eisenbach suggested assembling the structure in the atrium of the Art-Sociology building.

“When they approached us about whether there was a place in Maryland for it, we just felt that this was the place,” she said.

Although finding the right location for Chamber was initially a challenge, Lamere said its location was ultimately ideal.

“T hat atriu m is just so perfect for it because the atrium has all of these kind of harsh angles and tons of inter-

esting geometries of its own, but then of course with the sphere sitting almost perfectly in that little cutout area, it’s almost like they were meant for each other,” he said.

Eisenbach said the architecture school’s mission is to “create exhibitions that create conversations about the built environment, about the world we make for ourselves.”

Chamber opened for visitors yesterday, and it will remain open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays. Models and drawings of the project

are also on display in the architecture building.

Ashley Gryzwa, a first-year architecture graduate student, helped install Chamber. Although she hasn’t entered it yet, she speculated about the unique closed-off experience.

“I imagine it will be quite a shocking experience but also in a really thought-provoking way, about what makes it possible and kind of all the sensations you take for granted,” she said.

publ ic f u nds… to u ndermine the very cooperation agreement — the policy of this state.”

The ASA boycott is part of a much larger initiative by world organizations and Palestinian civil society groups called the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The plan calls for broad nonviolent measures to undermine Israeli cultural institutions associated with what movement members believe are policies similar to apartheid and violations of interna-

tional law in regard to Israeli occupation of Palestine.

The ASA took the measure to a vote in December, and about two thirds of the voting body supported the boycott of institutions in solidarity with the BDS movement.

Accord i ng to the ASA’s website, “by responding to the ca l l from Pa lesti n ia n civil society for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions, the ASA recognizes that 1) there is no effective or substa nt ive ac adem ic freedom afforded to Pales-

tinians under the conditions of Israeli occupation; and that 2) Israeli institutions of higher learning are a party to Israeli state policies that violate human rights.”

T h e bi l l’s l a n g u a ge, however, seems intended to set precedent, rather than to target the ASA. William Martin, a former mathematics professor and columnist on issues in the Middle East, said this is part of a larger effort by the west to shield Israel from being held accountable for its actions toward Palestine.

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“It was the beginning of the month, and that’s when most pharmacies usually have stuff.”

But CVS pharmacists told her they didn’t have it in stock and wouldn’t have it for a while, Brecker said.

“He was also like, ‘We would not have 20 milligrams’ — which is a completely normal dose,” she said. “I think you can get up to 40 milligrams a day, and it was for only 30 days.

It wasn’t even a big prescription, and they were just like, ‘Absolutely not.’”

She went to the University Health Center pharmacy, where pharmacists filled a prescription for her in “literally five minutes,” she said. Health center pharmacists were unavailable for comment.

Brecker and Eppsteiner have been able to fill other prescriptions easily at CVS, but Brecker said she has continued going to the health center for Vyvanse.

It’s worked for her, but she is worried for students who might not be able to obtain their prescribed medicines so easily.

“When you can’t get your medicine, that’s going to hurt your studies and concentration and how you act in classes and around your friends,” Brecker said.

Sta ff members at the pharmacy said they were uncertain when the medications would be back in stock.

For Eppsteiner, filling prescriptions has been an issue ever since she came to the university.

“I have never been able to fill a prescription there,” she said. “I either go to Kensington, where my aunt lives, and fill it there, or my mom fills it at home and sends it here.”

Home for Eppsteiner is not right off the Capital Beltway or simply across state lines — she’s originally from Atlanta.

“It’s really frustrating because I’ll go when I have 10 left, and I’ll try and fill it and they won’t have any. I’ll call back a lot and they never have any,” she said. “I don’t understand. This is a college town. Having ADD is a pretty big deal; a lot of people have it. You should have enough.”

Sophomore T heresa Brecker ran into the same problem in November.

“I went to CVS after getting my prescription for Vyvanse, which is an ADHD medicine,” said Brecker, a Spanish major. gtooheydbk@gmail.com

“It is all about protecting Israel and nothing more. It is not about defending a universal principle of morality,” Martin wrote in an email. “It is about damping criticism of Israel, about punishing the American Studies Association, a nd it is about d i scou ra g i n g a ny f ut u re popular movements aimed at Israel.”

T he an nouncement of boycotts such as the ASA’s d rew criticism from a number of academic leaders, including university Presi-

dent Wallace Loh. “A ny such boycott is a breach of the principle of academic freedom that undergirds the University of Maryland and, indeed, all of American higher education,” Loh wrote in a December statement. “To restrict the free flow of people and ideas with some universities because of their national identity is unwise, unnecessary, and irreconcilable with our core academic values.” jbachdbk@gmail.com

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Sororities From PAGE 1 jou rna l ism major. Eisenberg received a membership from a sorority in spring 2013 before dropping out, and she withdrew from recruitment this year.

“Around 900 girls rushed, so if you look at it that way, there should’ve been around 60 girls in each pledge class,” Eisenberg said. “The quota being 44 means that regardless of your age, it’s difficult to find a house.”

Adding a chapter could be beneficial, Eisenberg said, because more interested students could be accommodated.

The PHA has discussed the idea, Alsobrook said.

The Department of Fratern ity a nd Sorority L i fe u lti mately decides wh ich G re e k org a n i z at io n s a re allowed at the university, b ut it pl a n s to lo ok i nto adding chapters in coming years, Alsobrook said.

“Persona l ly, I th in k we s h o u l d l o o k i n to e x te nsion,” Alsobrook said. “We have an incredibly diverse community, so any time we can add another house, it’s

a chance to appeal to more types of people and interests, which will only make Greek life better.”

For now, the expanding interest in Greek life and the limited space in chapter houses leave a number of disappointed students — particularly sophomores — without a house on bid day, Eisenberg said.

“It may be a decision that goes above the sorority chapters’ heads — I don’t know,” Eisenberg said. “But I do think it’s pretty apparent that it’s more difficult for sophomores and upperclassmen to get bids than freshmen.”

From a financial standp oi nt, E i senb erg sa id , it makes sense that a sorority would rather admit a freshman than a sophomore, especially if the new member wou ld wa nt to l ive i n the chapter house. Fresh men would have three years to pay to live there, rather than the two remaining years for sophomores, she said.

But A lsobrook sa id sororities have increased their acceptance of sophomores and juniors over the past few years, especially when compared to chapters at peer in-

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“THE STIGMA IS THAT SOPHOMORES OR UPPERCLASSMEN WON’T FIND A HOUSE, BUT WE’RE STARTING TO COMBAT THE STEREOTYPE.” MOLLY ALSOBROOK

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“Each chapter is different, but I would say that as a community, we’ve varied acceptances in new member classes,” A lsobrook sa id.

“The stigma is that sophomore s or upp ercl a ssmen w o n’t f i n d a h o u s e , b u t we’re starting to combat the stereotype.”

Regardless of the process, though, the growing popularity of sororities is hard to ignore, Alsobrook said. “ We’re m a k i ng a posit i v e n a m e fo r o u r s e l v e s o n c a m p u s ,” A l s o b r o o k sa id. “People see us w ith Ter p T hon , w it h G re ek events; they just see what we’re doing and want to be involved.” dcostellodbk@gmail.com

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Those are the words that appear at a university URL that formerly hosted an article about the now-infamous Mach 39 speedskating suit that was tested at this university’s Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel. They’re perhaps indicative of disappointment, unexpected failure and, ultimately, a desire to erase the memory of a lackluster performance shown by a team that was supposed to be wearing the fastest suit in the world.

Less than one week ago, the fact that Under Armour had tested its new Olympic speed suit in university facilities was something worth boasting. Now, amid controversy

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holliday From PAGE 1 he made his name as the public address announcer for the NFL’s Cleveland Browns, Holliday hosted musical variety shows on NBC such as Shindig! and Hullabaloo.

“There are so many different things you can do just from that face you have at broadcasting,” Holliday said. “If you have a home base, you can expand all sorts of ways.”

Hol l id ay beca me t he voice of the Terps in 1979, taking over that post at Washington’s WMAL, and

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stemming from widespread poor showings from Team USA speedskaters in Sochi, Russia, plenty of those involved — including this university — seem to want to forget.

Questions have been raised about whether a suit could hamper a speedskater enough to push someone like Shani Davis, a two-time gold medalist in the 1,000 meters, to eighth place.

The Mach 39 has been criticized for vents on the back, designed to allow body heat to escape and give skaters a surge of speed.

johnny holliday, known to many as the voice of the Terrapins, spoke about his career as a sportscaster to a group of students in Knight Hall yesterday night. lena salzbank/the diamondback he was honored in October at Byrd Stadium for his 35 years and counting of service to the university’s sports.

During his career of broadcast, Holliday delved into different avenues, including news. He also wrote a book, From Rock to Jock, and starred in musicals, including the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s first musical, The Music Man. “The main thing that stuck out to me that he said was not to turn down any assignment,” said Rob Dawson, a university alumnus and a current CBS radio sports anchor and news reporter. “Sometimes I feel the same way — you never know what will happen.”

Samantha Medney, senior journalism major, said she found Holliday’s story inspiring as she seeks to become a sports broadcast journalist.

“A lot of sports journalism can be scary at first and he makes it all so relatable,” Medney said. “He has so much fun with it, and I am so excited to continue learning and go into the field.”

Hol l id ay once covered women’s gymnastics at the 1984 Olympics, alongside famous coaches and with little knowledge of the sport. After the show, which he said went OK, he got a call from Home Team Sports, the network now known as Comcast SportsNet, to cover more gymnastics competitions.

“They can tell in 20 seconds I don’t know anything about gymnastics,” Holliday said.

“But I’m not going to let them know that. That was probably the best thing I pulled off.”

Holliday was asked back for eight years. “By the eighth year, I was an expert,” Holliday joked.

The Society of Professional Journalists, along with the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism, hosted the event.

“I was at the football game in October where Johnny Holliday was honored, and I thought, we have such a valuable resource and amazing broadcaster right here, and we need to get him,” said Brett Hall, this university’s SPJ chapter president. “Not only is he a big part of this school, but he is one heck of a broadcaster.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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Paying the price for DOTS accountability

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here are few administrative departments at this university that students seem to disdain as much as they do DOTS. Slapping students, their families and their friends with steep tickets since their first visits to the campus, the Department of Transportation Services is far from the student community’s favorite.

And as such, DOTS should be scrutinized carefully, met with checks and balances at every turn. But a recent change in policy does quite the opposite.

Last summer, DOTS ended its second appeals process for parking tickets. While ticketed students once had the option to request that the Office of Student Conduct and the University Appellate Board review a second appeal, DOTS now has the final say after one appeal.

Without a third-party department holding DOTS at least modestly accountable, the department has little to no reason to grant appeals or reconsider ticketing decisions.

The numbers were already discouraging. In fiscal year 2013, DOTS issued 71,117 tickets and received 12,075 appeals.

The largest portion of those appeals, almost half, came from students, who filed 5,588. DOTS went on to deny 4,045 of those student appeals, or 72 percent.

By contrast, the department denied only 6.7 percent of faculty and staff’s 2,219 appeals. Visitors? DOTS denied just 2.2 percent of their appeals.

And that’s not all. While students had only about one in every 10 of their tickets voided — their appeals fully recognized — faculty, staff and visitors all had more than half of theirs nullified.

In that same fiscal year, DOTS pulled in 44.9 percent of its revenue from student parking registration and parking violation fines.

Why are students shouldering so much of the DOTS budget? Why are our appeals so clearly treated with more flippancy and less urgency?

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The second-round parking ticket appeal should be reinstated.

It’s a better use of money than departmental raises.

DOTS Director David Allen told The Diamondback the second appeals process was a waste of money, costing the department $10,000 a year.

It’s odd, however, that Allen didn’t do much to protest his $20,656 raise between 2012 and 2013, according to The Diamondback’s Salary Guides.

And that’s just part of the $113,088 the department has offered to three of its top administrators in recent years, according to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Allen said if “students want to pay for a second appeal by levying $10,000 in additional, nonmandatory fees in the

parking fee, [DOTS] can do it.”

He’s right. We as students rarely want more fees. But DOTS is already asking for a portion of the money from the next year’s student fee hike, and we’d rather pay for something that benefits us than help finance his fivefigure raises.

In order to keep DOTS at least remotely accountable, $10,000 is a bargain — less than 0.1 percent of the department’s operating budget (and just more than twice what the department wanted to pay out in a widely criticized video contest that offered $4,328 to the winner last year). When looking to cut corners, the department shouldn’t be going after one of its few good policies; it should focus on keeping already-high salaries where they are.

Additionally, that $10,000 might not even be necessary. The appellate board expressed its willingness to offer the second appeals process for free in a proposal to the University Senate.

This editorial board tips its hat to the Graduate Student Government and the appellate board for calling on DOTS to reinstate the second appeals process. It’s unfortunate the department was allowed to get to this point, but it’s integral that students push right back.

We’re tired of shelling out usually hard-earned money to pay off those obnoxious yellow envelopes on our windshields. And we want an objective party to have our backs when those yellow envelopes turn out to be bogus.

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South Campus needs a gym, too LAUREN NURSE Love it or hate it, there’s no getting past the massive size of this campus. It’s so big that there are basically two campuses — one north, one south.

There’s a North Campus and a South Campus dining hall, North Campus and South Campus housing and so on. Despite this, students who move to South Campus still have to make the mile-long hike across McKeldin Mall, down the hill of death near Stamp Student Union and past the freshman highrises in order to work out. This university is in the midst of extensive housing renovations on South Campus that seek to enhance the quality of student life, and it’s time they added a fitness facility to the top of their list.

Up to this point, the university has been able to get away with only one major gym for more than 25,000 students by attempting to redirect students to Ritchie Coliseum, inconveniently located on neither North Campus nor South Campus. Those

facilities are small and cramped, like putting gym equipment in the basement was an afterthought. At a cost of just $200,000 when it was built, Ritchie Coliseum has had a long and important role as an athletic center on the campus.

During the 1930s, when boxing was at its peak, the coliseum held sold-out boxing matches with thousands in attendance. Basketball games were held immediately after in hopes of drawing a small crowd of leftover spectators to watch the Terrapins play ball. After the university joined the ACC in 1953, basketball games saw a swell in attendance and play moved to Cole Field House. And in 1997, Ritchie Coliseum was renovated as a “multipurpose facility.”

Despite Ritchie’s long and rich history as a part of our campus, the need for student gym space on South Campus simply is not being met by a facility that is also dedicated toward dozens of other uses.

Unless you call Fraternity Row home, that gym is not close to student housing. Fitness classes run on a much-reduced schedule, making it harder for students to balance working out with classes and other commitments. For students who are

only free during the evenings, going to Ritchie can mean walking off the campus alone or crossing Route 1 in the dark — both unnecessary safety risks for students who are simply trying to make good decisions about their well-being.

Other student residences in College Park recognize a dedicated workout facility as an integral part of student living. Courtyards, The Varsity and the University View all have gyms for their residents. While those don’t compare in quality or size to Eppley Recreation Center, they still serve as convenient choices for students seeking healthy lifestyles.

It’s time the university recognizes the needs of South Campus residents.

As an employee of Campus Recreation Services, I am proud of the role CRS plays in shaping the physical, emotional and social lives of students. As CRS continually strives toward excellence in its commitment to student wellness, it should consider expanding its facilities to include a dedicated workout space on South Campus.

Lauren Nurse is a sophomore government and politics major. She can be reached at lnursedbk@gmail.com.

FACULTY AND STAFF 2,219 appeals

VISITORS 4,268 appeals

148 denied 93 denied

STUDENTS 5,588 appeals

4,045 denied

Charts to scale based on area. GRAPHIC BASED ON FISCAL YEAR 2013 NUMBERS BY DAN APPENFELLER/FOR the diamondback

Get involved before it becomes too late CAROLINE CARLSON Before I even get to the serious stuff, let me tell you a quick story.

There’s a good chance this silly memory might make you wonder, “What’s the point?” But you’ll just have to trust me.

It was 2002, and I was a thirdgrader in Mrs. Holmes’ class.

Unfortunately, my elementary school’s administration was not intelligent, as they thought it made perfect sense to impose a no-bathroom-break rule on all students. Speculating that kids would abuse the extensive three whole minutes of free time they would have with a bathroom break, the administration prohibited anyone from going to the bathroom during class. As an obvious result, it wasn’t rare for innocent, sweet kids to face the terrible tragedy associated with no-bathroom-break rules — the policy correlated with an increase in accidents across all classrooms.

One afternoon, regretting my decision to drink three cartons of Hi-C during lunch, I had to go.

After begging my teacher profusely to let me use the bathroom, she yelled at me in front of the class and made me sit in the corner of the room. I’d had enough. I understood the doom that I was about to face, so I decided to take advantage of it. I stood out of my chair, walked straight to my teacher’s desk and peed on the floor right next to her favorite chair. (Please don’t judge me — I was 8 years old at the time and had a low tolerance for nonsense.)

The event resulted in a trip to the principal’s office and a call to my parents, but my parents sided with me, saying the policy resulted in more time punishing students than trusting them to be responsible. Not only did my parents tell other parents about the rule, but kids who witnessed my bravery told their parents, who subsequently voted to eliminate it at a parent-teacher meeting. It was a bathroom choice revolution.

So that was my first experience in politics. Although I’d never commit that type of action ever again, it reminds me how carefree 8-year-olds are toward fixing things — about getting rid of stupid rules and not fearing judgment by “the establishment.”

Although being young typically is associated with being active, I’m appalled by the extremely low level of political efficacy college students have today.

In the 2012 election, young people aged 18 to 29 made up about onefifth of the nation’s electorate, according to an exit poll from Edison Research. However, only half of potential voters age 18 to 29 were registered, the lowest rate in the past 16 years, according to the Pew Research Center.

Sadly, we’ve tolerated not paying attention to the news or caring about politics. Being well represented in the electorate is not enough. For instance, less than half of us know simple facts about Congress or federal elections, according to a study at Tufts University.

So how do we solve this problem?

According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, more young people will get involved when someone in their close network persuades them to do so. Our political knowledge stems from the people we talk to and the networks we maintain (like my classmates’ parents). We should take advantage of the fact that we can influence others through student organizations and events. To those who don’t care, you can get involved easily — following a news source on Twitter requires minimal effort.

Politics is, unfortunately, everything. It determines the taxes we pay, the rights we have and the lifestyle we choose. Although I would never recommend urinating in a classroom, I think we all need the inner strength and retaliation third-graders miraculously have. Maybe some day we can all help get rid of stupid policies, too.

Caroline Carlson is a junior government and politics and information systems major. She can be reached at ccarlsondbk@gmail.com.

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THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST Film is a business. Movies are altered all the time to meet the demands of audiences. Sometimes, however, directors can fight back by releasing their own unaltered cut.

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over the years. In particular, here are three of the most legendary director’s cuts of recent decades:

By Warren Zhang @auberginecow Senior staff writer The year 2013 reintroduced the notion of a director’s cut to pop culture when a number of clashes between directors and distributors made headlines. Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster was released in the United States in condensed form, while Lars von Trier agreed to release a shortened version of his art-porn epic Nymphomaniac: Volume I. Even mainstream movies saw conflict in the cutting room, as Martin Scorsese had to cut down The Wolf of Wall Street to receive an “R” rating, Darren Aronofsky clashed with executives over the final cut of his forthcoming Noah, and the director of sci-fi siege flick Snowpiercer fought vehemently to release his director’s cut over a more action-y edit in the United States.

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Blade Runner Director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is a classic tale of unfortunate studio intervention — only with a happier ending than most. Initially, negative feedback from a test screening led the distributors to radically alter Blade Runner into something more palatable by adding a voice-over, changing the ending and stripping out any indication that (spoiler) the main character might have been a replicant.

Reactions, both reviews and box office, were muted at the time, but Blade Runner earned a hardcore following in the years since, with frequent revival screenings after its initial lackluster theatrical run.

Eventually, the early test screening cut was found and screened to soldout showings, prompting Warner Brothers to commission an official director’s cut from Scott. Creatively dubbed, “The Director’s Cut,” this version of Blade Runner reintroduced the ambiguity and violence not found

in the original release — this time without Harrison Ford’s voice-over.

Though this edit was received enthusiastically, Scott lacked the time and the resources to make all of his desired changes. Thus, in the mid2000s, Scott revisited his seminal sci-fi noir again, resulting in “The Final Cut,” a comprehensive, definitive director’s cut of Blade Runner.

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Heaven’s Gate Perhaps the most infamous bomb in all of cinema history, Heaven’s Gate suffered not only the indignity of across-the-board critical pans but also of being released in severely butchered form. The premiere cut — running more than three-and-ahalf hours — was so cataclysmically received that United Artists released to theaters an immensely pared down two-and-a-half-hour cut that promptly fell off the face of the earth.

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The Thin Red Line After disappearing for 20 years, director Terrence Malick came back to Hollywood with The Thin Red Line, a film that almost instantly gained notoriety not for what’s in it but for what’s not.

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Terps begin quest to bounce back from defeat at Duke Wake Forest visits Comcast Center tonight having lost five consecutive games by at least seven points

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer During his 22 seasons as Terrapins men’s basketball coach, Gary Williams took pride in competing against Duke. The Hall of Fame finalist, who retired in 2011, pined to top the rival Blue Devils each year and planned intensely in attempts to best coach Mike Krzyzewski.

But regardless of the result against Duke, it was the next game on the schedule that often left Williams uneasy.

“You have to watch for a letdown,” Williams said last week. “You try to get that through to your team, how important that next game is.”

Williams’ successor, Mark Turgeon, will be tasked with delivering that message to his Terps (14-12, 6-7 ACC) tonight when they host Wake Forest (14-11, 4-8) just three days after a thrilling 69-67 loss to the No. 8 Blue Devils.

The Terps’ emotional bout Saturday in their final trip

to Durham, N.C., as an ACC team was their third loss in four games, and several players dropped to their knees in devastation when forward Charles Mitchell’s potential game-winning shot trickled off the rim.

So the Terps’ challenge is to regain the positive play that brought them to the brink of an upset Saturday night when a Demon Deacons team that has lost five straight games hits the Comcast Center floor tonight.

“Is [a letdown] a concern?

A little bit,” Turgeon said.

“But we’re very confident even though we’ve lost three of four. We’ve gotten better; we’ve played well. So we want to translate it into some ‘Ws.’ The only way to do that is to be prepared.”

Guard Dez Wells is likely to be at the heart of the Terps’ attempt to end a two-game skid.

Wells scored all 17 of his points at Duke in the second half, displaying his ability to change the tone of a game quickly with aggressive play. After sitting with foul trouble for much of the first

Guard dez wells scored all 17 of his points in the second half of Saturday’s 69-67 loss to Duke. The Terps host Wake Forest tonight at Comcast Center. christian jenkins/the diamondback half, the Terps’ leading scorer made seven of his last nine shots over the final 13 minutes of the game and routinely attacked the basket to give his team a late lead.

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22 points as one of four Blue Devils starters who scored in double digits.

Center Elizabeth Williams blocked Brown’s first shot, and Duke’s zone defense proved difficult to penetrate in the opening minutes. The No. 8 Terps missed their first four field goal attempts and had three turnovers in the first 1:37.

“That top part of the zone was really long, so it made it real difficult to get your shot off,” Brown said.

The team’s offense eventually found its rhythm in a seesawing first half that had eight lead changes. Thomas struggled to score in the opening frame, shooting 1-of-7 from the field, but she provided six assists in the half. Her pass to center Alicia DeVaughn for an open layup gave the Terps a 9-8 lead at 13:51.

They would never lead by more than three, however, and Duke went on a 14-4 run in the final 5:36 to take a 38-31

against the top two teams than we were tonight.”

The loss, the Terps’ worst of the season and worst since their 31-point loss to Notre Dame in the 2012 NCAA tournament, left them short of another win against a top-10 opponent.

Despite having arguably the nation’s top player in forward Alyssa Thomas, who came close to yet another tripledouble last night with 14 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, and a strong supporting cast, the Terps struggle against top opponents.

The Terps fell to 1-3 on the season against top-10 teams, and in the previous three seasons, the Terps went 3-6 in regular-season games against top-10 teams.

Last night, Frese had one idea of how to make the leap into the upper tier: stopping the team’s road woes. The losses to Connecticut and Notre Dame came at Comcast Center, but

Coach Brenda Frese has never won at Duke. On the day of the Terps’ most recent road win over the Blue Devils in 2008, she gave birth to twin boys. christian jenkins/the diamondback edge at halftime.

The Terps closed the deficit to 42-39 in the opening minutes of the second period, but then the Blue Devils, who shot 62 percent from threepoint range in the game, found a groove from beyond the arc.

They sank four of their next six 3-pointers to extend the lead to 62-48 with 8:47 remaining.

The Terps switched to a fullcourt press in the final minutes of the matchup but couldn’t capitalize on Duke turnovers to cut into the deficit.

In their past games against higher ranked opposition, the Terps had stretches in which they showed they can

compete against the nation’s top teams. But they have also suffered dips in performance that have proven to be decisive in such matchups.

So by t h e e n d o f t h e contest, the reality of another loss against a national contender overshadowed the history of Frese’s and the Terps’ rivalry with Duke.

“I think for us, first and foremost, we’ve got to be better on the road,” Frese said. “At times, we’re really good, and then at other times those elements impact us. But it’s continuing to grow as a team.” ppierrelouisdbk@gmail.com

69.4 points per game, the third-highest total in the conference. But Wells’ leadership could also be a major factor as the Terps’ aim to shake the sting of the Duke loss.

Turgeon labeled Wells the team’s leader at the beginning of preseason practice, and the junior has taken to the role. After Mitchell’s shot fell to the floor Saturday night to essentially seal the Terps’ staggering loss, Wells found Mitchell and put his arm around the big forward.

“We got a lot of tough guys in my locker room,” Wells said Saturday. “We’re not going to hold our heads down, and I’m not going to let anybody hold their heads down because nobody’s going to feel sorry for us. If anything happens, we have to bounce back.”

Turgeon, like Wells, thinks his team can respond. In their past two games, the Terps have hung around while playing on the road against ranked teams.

Plus, the Terps are returning home to face Wake Forest, a team they’ve beaten seven straight times.

“We’ll get over it,” Turgeon said minutes after the loss in Durham. “We’re starting to ball now.”

But even Williams, who led the Terps to a 2002 National Championship, admits that his teams were prone to letdowns after battling Duke.

So without much time left to improve their slim NCAA tournament hopes, the Terps probably can’t afford to dwell on the classic matchup from three days ago.

Wells certainly seems to agree with the Terps’ former coach. While directly outside the Cameron Indoor Stadium locker room Saturday night, the Terps guard had already turned his focus past Duke and onto the final weeks of the season.

“It’s not about losing,” Wells said. “It’s about how you respond from losing, so we have to come out ready to play our next game and whatever happens, happens, but we have to keep competing to keep our season alive.”

those teams are arguably the top two teams in the country by a wide margin. Five of the six losses to top-10 teams in the previous three years came outside College Park.

“That’s an element for us that’s inconsistent,” Frese said.

“At times, we’re really good, and then at other times those elements impact us. But it’s continuing to grow as a team.”

Guard Lexie Brown, part of a freshman class that’s contributed to the Terps’ success this season, said the circumstances of the game threw her off, especially after Blue Devils center Elizabeth Williams blocked her first jumpshot of the game.

“It wasn’t as loud as I thought it would be,” Brown said. “But definitely the atmosphere, it was great. It was fun to play in. But I did let the crowd and Duke get in my head a little bit during the game.”

Brown scored 11 points in the first half, but she missed all five of her shots in the second half and made two free throws to finish with 13 points. Guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough,

a n o t h e r f re s h m a n , wh o entered last night second on the team with 10.8 points per game, scored four points and turned the ball over three times in 19 minutes.

“We’ve got a lot of players, a lot of depth, a lot of talent,” Frese said. “And it’s continuing to grow as a team and learn from each of these moments that we’ve got to be a part of.”

In the ACC tournament, the Terps are likely to run into a highly ranked team like No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 7 Duke, No. 11 North Carolina or No. 14 N.C. State, and most of those teams are likely to have a boost from their fans in Greensboro, N.C., creating a somewhat hostile environment. Then, it will be on to the NCAA tournament, where they could run into a team that travels well in later rounds.

So as the Terps look to ascend to the upper ranks of college basketball this season, it’s clear where that journey starts: on the road.

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DURHAM, N.C. — Brenda Frese hoped to exit

DURHAM, N.C. — Entering last night’s Terrapins women’s basketball contest at Duke, Brenda Frese spoke with her team about the importance of a game that not only carried historical significance but also provided an opportunity to make a leap onto the national stage.

It was the final time the Terps would face the Blue Devils in ACC play at Cameron Indoor Stadium, where they’ve won only once since Frese took over the program in 2002. That was six years ago yesterday, and Frese wasn’t on the sideline then. She was giving birth to her twin sons.

But last night, the No. 8 Terps had the chance to take down an upper-echelon team before a national television audience in the No. 7 Blue Devils. The Terps already fell this season to the nation’s top two teams — No. 1 Connecticut in November and No. 2 Notre Dame a few weeks ago — and last night could have been a marquee victory entering the final four games of the season.

But after four Blue Devils scored at least 12 points and Frese’s team missed a hail of 3-pointers — going 5-of-21 — the Terps exited Cameron Indoor Stadium for potentially the final time in an 84-63 defeat, still positioned firmly on the outside looking in at the country’s elite teams.

“We talked about that, obviously,” Frese said. “I thought we were a lot more competitive

Cameron Indoor Stadium on Monday night with a different result than what she has endured throughout the past 12 seasons.

But when the final horn sounded, the Terrapins women’s basketball coach walked to the visitor’s locker room with a familiar final score on the jumbotron, as the Terps suffered an 84-63 loss in their final trip to Duke’s famous gym before moving to the Big Ten conference.

“Tough night at the office,” Frese said. “Obviously when you shoot the percentages that we did tonight and then give up on both ends of the floor defensively, obviously we struggled.”

Frese gave birth to twin sons only hours before the Terps’ most recent win at Duke in 2008, and securing a victory with her on the sidelines was a big motivating factor for the players entering the matchup.

But after the opening tip, the team struggled to maintain its poise.

“Sometimes you can make a game bigger than what it is, and that’s an area that we can definitely improve in,” Frese said.

The Terps (20-5, 8-4 ACC) shot 32 percent from the field, while Duke (23-3, 10-2) shot 53 percent. Forward Alyssa Thomas finished the game with 14 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists. Meanwhile, guard Lexie Brown, who had 11 points in the opening half, finished with 13.

Duke guard Alexis Jones shot 5-of-9 from three-point range and scored a game-high See Devils, Page 7 guard lexi brown scored 11 of her 13 points in the first half, but the Terps lost their sixth straight game at Duke. christian jenkins/the diamondback

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