February 19, 2015

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Loh announces commission to address budget Flagship 2020 Commission’s five workgroups will study strategic plan revisions, budget cuts

By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer

freeze because of state-mandated budget cuts.

University President Wallace Loh will announce the Flagship 2020 Commission this morning to address the university’s budget and plans for the next five years. The commission will comprise five groups of faculty, staff and students and focus on topics such as a strategic plan update; bud-

During the past few months, this university increased tuition by 2 percent for the spring semester, announced furloughs for more than half of its employees and implemented a campuswide hiring and construction

geting and finance; innovations and efficiencies in education, research and administrative services; and revenue development.

“What is very important is that these different perspectives — and one is not necessarily better than the other — is that they all be part of the mix,” Loh said. “That is what diversity is all about. The strength of diversity is to include different viewpoints, because we all have blind spots.”

University President Wallace Loh will announce the Flagship 2020 Commission this morning to address the See LOH, Page 3 university’s budget and plans for the next five years in the wake of state budget cuts. file photo/the diamondback

Lawmakers weigh bill protecting social media Legislation could ban colleges from accessing student social accounts

By Jon Banister @J_Banister Senior staff writer

Senior Marketing major Talia Evans (left) talks with other students at Jewish Geography: Food Edition, an event hosted by JSU in which students tried foods from around the world. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

nosh through the nations Jewish diversity on display at Jewish Student Union’s kosher food geography night

By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer Sophomore Benji Mitrani has fair skin, red hair and a Jewish heritage — but at Jewish Student Union’s Food Geography night, he brought the Cuban dish arroz

con frijoles, or rice and beans.

H is fat her’s fa m i ly is f rom Havana, where there was a large population of Jews during the 1950s and 1960s. Now, most of them have i m m ig rated to the U.S., said Mitrani, a special education major.

“I called my grandmother for

the recipe, and she was really happy that I am keeping the heritage alive,” Mitrani said.

T he Jew i sh S t u d ent Un ion hosted Jewish Geography: Food Edition last night at the university H i l lel. T he event i nv ited students from various Jew ish heritages to share their tradi-

tional recipes and cultures with others.

A ll recipes were kosher and cooked in a kosher kitchen, and st udents were ch a l len ged to complete their paper passport by filling up their plate with foods See food, Page 2

In the face of social media’s rise, some lawmakers in this state are trying to strengthen the protections students have against university intrusion on their social space.

Senate Bill 210, sponsored by Sen. Ronald Young (D-Frederick), would prohibit colleges and high schools in this state from requiring students to grant them access to their online accounts. This includes forcing students to be friends with university officials on Facebook if their account is private, or handing over their username and password so that officials can access private messages.

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Airport safety issues prompt hotel redesign

Resident survey reveals continuing city dissatisfaction

Hotel budget up $15M to accommodate planes

Lack of amenities irks some city residents

By Joe Zimmermann @JoeMacZim Senior staff writer

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer Despite community efforts to make the town more livable, College Park residents continue to find the city lacks amenities.

Assistant City Manager Bill Gardiner presented the results from a resident satisfaction survey to the College Park City Council at the work session Tuesday night, and he explained how the sample failed to provide a comprehensive look at the

Assistant City Manager Bill Gardiner (left) and City Manager Joe Nagro (right) speak at a College Park City Council meeting on Feb. 11. According to a survey, some citizens are unhappy. stephanie natoli/the diamondback city’s population.

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Out of the university students in the area and more than 30,000 individuals, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, fewer than 800 people took the 43-question survey, which has been distributed to residents every two years since 2002.

The survey asked residents what they like and dislike about the city, but only about 20 of the respondents were undergraduates, leaving a large subgroup of the city’s population underrepresented.

“We ca n do better there,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir said Tuesday. “That’s not acceptable.”

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Developers have redesigned and shortened The Hotel at the University of Maryland in response to concerns about air safety, increasing their budget by about $15 million, the CEO of the hotel’s developer said.

The new designs have the hotel shorter by three stories — from 13 to 10 — or about 35 feet, said David Hillman, CEO of Southern Ma nagement Corporation, which is responsible for the hotel’s development.

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hotel From PAGE 1 The hotel’s previous design violated air safety regulations that require buildings near an airport to remain shorter than 198 feet. The construction site of the hotel is less than a mile away from the historic College Park Airport and nearly in line with its runway.

The budget for the hotel has increased to between $140 million and 150 million, Hillman said, but now the maximum height of the structure will be exactly 198 feet, with much of the building shorter than that height.

After a series of delays, the construction is set to be completed between September and December 2016, Hillman said.

Even though the new design includes three fewer stories, the hotel w i l l be sl ig htly increasing its occupancy, Hillman said, expanding from 294 to 297 total rooms because of the addition of a new fivestory wing.

FOOD From PAGE 1 from every country represented, including Mexico, Venezuela, the Czech Republic, Israel, Guatemala a nd the Un ited States’ “down South.”

“A lot of t he A mer ica n Jewish food, people would know, especially the Eastern European Jewish foods,” JSU President Hailey Siller said.

“But a lot of what we have at this event is South American foods.”

Many Jews from Cuba are Seph a rd ic Jew s, M it ra n i said, meaning they originated from the region in and around Spa in. His fa m ily now lives in Miami, where

Col lege Pa rk District 3 Councilman Robert Day said the height change represented a compromise between two important aspects of the community — the airport and the future hotel.

“This is something that we all wanted to see,” Day said of the change. “It makes it easier on everybody.”

Day called the airport a “gem” that “none of us want to lose” a nd a lso sa id the hotel would be a huge opportunity for the city and could make College Park a popular destination. “[The redesign] is a huge win for College Park,” he said.

Omar Blaik, the co-CEO of U3 Advisors, a firm advising this university on city changes, including the hotel development, said the redesign was a credit to the developer, which was willing to work with the city and the airport to come to a mutually agreeable design.

Kurt Schneckenburger, a longtime pilot at the airport, said he was happy the hotel would comply with air safety

much money as the hotel could, but that it was still an economic benefit. The airport brought in almost $1.2 million in business revenue in 2012, providing 45 jobs and $221,000 in state and local taxes, according to an MAA-commissioned study.

T he airport, which was used by the Wright brothers, would lose its status as the oldest continuously operating airport in the world if it had to close because of hazardously tall buildings, Schneckenburger said. But he said he was hopeful the hotel redesign would inspire other developers to comply with air The Hotel at the University of Maryland will be redesigned and shortened by three stories in response to concerns about air safety. Following numerous delays, construction is set to be completed between September and December 2016. joe zimmermann/for the diamondback safety regulations.

Hillman said he hoped the regulations, which he said are tion and local zoning laws all decided it would be cheaper to hotel would now continue in place to protect pilots and prohibit structures taller than go through a redesign, even one without any further changes that would require consider- or delays, saying it would be a certain height. people in buildings.

“It’s the architecture’s re- able structural changes.

However, Schneckenburger the next step in building up He said he was not willing to the College Park area and said the costs of redesign were sponsibility to comply with all a “self-inflicted” problem the rules, and they didn’t do fight the airport, but another expanding this university’s developer could in the future. opportunities. that could have been avoided that,” he said.

“It’s an impediment to good Hillman said Southern Manif the developers had com“It’s going to bring a lot of plied with regulations from agement Corporation could econom ic development,” business to the university,” the beginning. The Maryland have fought the regulations, Hillman said. he said.

Schneckenburger said the Aviation Administration, the but that would have cost time Federal Aviation Administra- and money. The developer airport might not bring in as jzimmermanndbk@gmail.com

many Cuban-Americans immigrated, but his grandparents speak Ladino, a unique mix of Hebrew and Spanish. “ I t’s l i k e t h e J e w i s hSpanish Pig Latin,” he said.

Sophomore Andrea Picciotto, whose parents are from Guatemala, said most Jewish people in Guatemala are Sephardic. Picciotto, a hearing and speech sciences major, made a chickpea dish using her mother’s recipe.

Sen ior Jessica H i l fer, a p s ycholog y m ajor, m ad e traditional potato pancakes from the Czech Republic, where she studied abroad last spring. Though there isn’t a large Jewish population there now, she said there is a lot of Jewish history and influence in the country.

Israeli food was the most plentiful at the event, and students could choose from a table fi l led w ith meat burekas, Israeli salad, shawa r m a , fa l a fel, pit a a nd hummus.

Hillel Israel Fellow Nurit Eitan made the Israeli salad — a combination of tomatoes, onions and cucumbers — and said she was excited to give students the opportunity to learn more about traditional Israeli foods.

“I’m rea l ly g lad people have a chance to taste Israeli food if they’ve never tried it before,” Eitan said. “If they have had it before, it reminds them of their time in Israel.”

Senior Max Cohen came to the event for the food but said he ended up learning

more about his peers.

“It’s nice because there are people that I know, and their heritage is from different places, so getting to see that side of their identity is really, really cool,” the computer engineering major said.

Both Siller and M itra n i s a i d t h e y h o p e s t u d e nt s lea rned someth i ng about worldwide Judaism during the event.

“No one ever bel ieves me when I say I’m Cuban,” Mitrani said. “But I tell them culture, heritage — it’s all from inside; it’s not about the look; it’s how you act.

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zeke melman, a junior biology major, piles Israeli food onto his plate at Jewish Geography: Food Edition. The Jewish Student Union hosted the event. stephanie natoli/the diamondback

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Rajshree Agarwal, a business school professor and Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets director, will chair the commission. Her advisory council will receive recommendations from the five workgroups and determine whether the plans should be sent to Loh for approval. Recommendations will be implemented on a rolling basis.

“True revenue-enhancing programs need fundraising because state funding is being limited,” Agarwal said. “So I think the commission is about opportunities. The institution has to be innovative and think proactively about both enhancing revenues so that its mission can be carried out, as well as innovative resources that are made possible to boost revenues.”

T h e s t ate’s B o a rd of P u b l i c Wo r k s a p p r o v e d Ja n. 7 a $40.3 m i l l ion cut to the University System of Maryland’s fiscal year 2015 operating budget, leaving this university with a $15.6 million budget cut.

Gov. Larry Hogan submitted his fiscal 2016 budget proposal on Jan. 23, calling for a 1.3 percent increase in spending for the university system and including projections of a 5 percent tuition increase at all system schools.

These changes are to take

$15.6 million Amount cut from this university’s budget

$40.3 million Amount cut from the university system fiscal 2015 budget

$750 million Amount of expected revenue shortfall in this state’s fiscal 2016 budget place at a time when the state is expected to face a $750 million revenue shortfall in next year’s budget, which will take effect July 1.

Provost Mary Ann Rankin will chair the workgroup dedicated to updating the university’s strategic plan through 2020 as well as the strategic budgeting and finance workgroup.

The current strategic plan needs to be updated, Rankin said, because many goals have already been achieved or need revisions, and there is no mention of recent advancements such as the university’s MPower partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore, or joining the Big Ten. Rankin said the group will analyze where the university was when the 2008 strategic plan was made and where the university is now, then determine other major goals to implement for the future.

“What is going to be very exciting, I think, is then to see how

we can blend these together,” Rankin said. “We’ll come up with some new ways of operating that I think will be more efficient, more connected, more streamlined, less expensive, and I just think we’re going to be a better university for it.”

The strategic budgeting and finance workgroup will reassess university programs and operating patterns and look at peer flagship universities for guidance on analyzing the budget process, Rankin said.

“We haven’t been as good at reallocating money based on new needs, new trends, new opportunities, sunsetting things that ought to or are maybe not as high priorities, or ought to go away or we have to make choices about,” Rankin said. “We have to come up with some better processes that make decisions like that a routine.”

Gregory Ball, dean of the behavioral and social sciences college, will chair the

a right to protect that.”

Young has introduced the bill in the last two General From PAGE 1 Assembly sessions. W hile “Everybody takes it for it passed both times in the granted that you can’t come Senate, it has stalled twice in in and listen to my phone House of Delegates commitcalls or read my mail, so why tees, preventing its passage.

Despite the bill’s lack of should you be able to read persuccess, it sparked statewide sonal correspondence online?”

Young said. “If you’re using a discussion, and in April, the private computer, they’ve got University System of Maryland no right to ask you what pass- adapted its policies to resemble words are, what you’ve been the ones laid out in the bill.

The major difference, in sending in private. You’ve got

addition to not covering high schools and private universities, is that the university system’s policies don’t include punishments for violating the rule, Young said. Instead, universities must implement their own penalties for violations, but Young said institutions would have no incentive to impose penalties on themselves without external pressure.

This bill would allow students who feel the university violated their privacy to file a

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innovations and efficiencies in education and research workgroup. The group will consider collaborating with different colleges to improve ways to learn, teach, conduct research and save money.

One service that needs improvement, Ball said, is the system for student advising and record-keeping.

“A system that works seamlessly across the campus would be a great advantage,” Ball said.

Eric Denna, the university’s vice president for information technology and chief information officer, will chair the innovations and efficiencies in administrative services workgroup to assess university services and determine whether technology can be used to make certain processes “better, faster [and] cheaper.”

Denna said he hopes his workgroup will come up with at least one or two ideas within its first six to eight weeks to improve the way work gets done, whether through technology, policy changes or other measures.

“Over the next few weeks, I think we’ll learn a lot,” Denna said. “We’ll stub our toe on some things, but hopefully we’ll be thoughtful about it and gather good data and be good scholars about what we’re doing.”

Business school Dean Alex Triantis will chair the revenue development workgroup. Triantis will work with others to expand the university’s revenue base outside of state funding, foster new partner-

ships and increase fundraising.

This group will look at ways to gain additional partnerships in the corporate, governmental and nonprofit sectors, such as the university’s Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students program, sponsored

by Northrop Grumman.

“Whether their support is structured as gifts or grants, research grants or otherwise,” Triantis said, “there is certainly a sense that we at the university have something to offer, both in terms of our research and the excellent students that we have, to provide them with good opportunities.”

Student Government Association President Patrick Ronk, a member of the advisory council, said the commission can help this university “get better in the face of a really tough fiscal situation.”

“I’m really interested in looking at how the university can get more revenue, whether through new corporate partnerships or more fundrais-

ing,” Ronk said. “It’s great if we have all these ideas, but the funding for them has to come from somewhere.”

The commission, composed of almost 100 members, has a corresponding website with an electronic suggestion box for faculty, student, staff and alumni input. Although Loh is asking for recommendations on a rolling basis, he is planning to ask groups for a tentative deadline of June 1 for proposals, said Brian Ullmann, marketing and communications assistant vice president.

“Because it is a very broad representation of these workgroups, I’m hoping that a lot of these faculty and students will come to understand these problems and issues and be partners with us in rethinking how we’re doing these things,” Rankin said. “It will be a major undertaking, but a sort of major awakening, maybe, for the campus.”

civil suit against the university, receive compensation for legal fees and up to $1,000 in damages.

The bill is mainly focused on preventing coaches from monitoring student athletes’ social media accounts, Student Press Law Center Executive Director Frank LoMonte said, a practice that has grown more widespread in the past five years.

In 2011, the University of North Carolina required all sports teams to “identify at least one coach or administrator who is responsible for having access to and regularly monitoring the content of team members’ social networking sites and postings,” according to a legislative analysis of the bill.

T he NCA A encou rages member institutions to monitor social media activity of studentathletes, the analysis stated. A 2014 public records audit by journalism students at this university in partnership with the Student Press Law Center, revealed that 59 of 83 universities polled restricted student athletes’ use of social media.

According to a 2012 WJLA report, some coaches at this university have previously required student athletes to be friends with them on Facebook, so their activity could be monitored.

Athletic department of-

ficials declined to comment.

University system officials attended a Senate Education, Health and Environment committee hearing about the bill Wednesday. The system did not take a position on the bill, instead it chose to suggest an amendment, said M.J. Bishop, director of the system’s Center for Academic Innovation.

T he a mend ment wou ld ensure that the policy does not prevent professors and students from using social media for academic purposes, Bishop said.

“Increasingly, we’re using social media in classrooms and for other purposes to mentor students, and we want to make sure the bill doesn’t go so far as to make that impossible,” Bishop said.

The bill was cross-filed in the House of Delegates and is sponsored by Del. Karen Young (DFrederick). She said it has stalled in past years because of university security concerns, but schools should have to obtain a warrant if they want to monitor private correspondence.

“Certainly, if the university has reason to believe the student is a security risk, they would need to have that access, they would have to justify that and not just have a general policy of having access to students’ personal accounts,” she said.

In addition to strengthen-

ing student privacy, the bill would shield universities from legal liability in cases in which harm that could have been prevented by monitoring social media occurs, said Bethesda attorney Bradley Shear, who specializes in social media privacy.

“What if the school was mon itoring accou nts and missed something? You’re going to have someone come back and say, ‘That’s negligent social media monitoring.

You should have known this student was prone to danger,’” said Shear, who testified at Wednesday’s hearing. “That’s insane. No school should ever have that legal obligation.”

Representatives from the Student Press Law Center also testified at the hearing in support of the bill, emphasizing the impact it could have on student journalists. “ W hen you t a l k ab out looking at contacts of someone’s social media account and looking at communications, that could really intrude on private newsgathering and whistleblowing,” LoMonte said. “It’s very common for journalists to send messages to sources and even conduct chats with them on social media, and I don’t want government officials reading those.”

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that advantage,” Balachandran said. “Though it’s useful for people to be located nearby the places they need to go, it doesn’t really say anything about College Park.”

Residents most frequently cited the lack of amenities as the aspect of College Park they least enjoy, with about 64 percent of respondents reporting they frequently leave College Park to visit dining establishments.

W hile the defin ition of a m e n it ie s c a n b e broa d , District 2 Councilman P.J. B re n n a n a d d e d t h at on e reason for this perspective could be a lack of awareness.

“A lot of information is ava i lable to citizens that they’re just not aware of,” Brennan said. “People who are informed are very happy people, and those who are not happy are not as aware of what is going on.”

Residents who responded also indicated that they would like to see more green space and

a community garden in the city.

Respondents identified Old Town — the neighborhood in which many university students reside — as an area having a low level of “perceived safety.”

About 37 percent of the residents said they would be “very likely” to recommend College Park to a friend, and about 31 percent said they would recommend living in the city to a family member.

Balachandran said it’s difficult to assess how citizens really feel from a relatively short set of superficial questions. She sa id city sta f f should be having in-person discussions with residents to learn their feelings on the city, although that might not be practical.

“I would rather go talk to groups of people in different places,” Balachandran said.

“Maybe it’s too time-consuming, but I think you get a lot more out of it.”

From PAGE 1 This lack of undergraduate responses could be due to the amount of surveys students already have to take on a daily basis, said Cole Holocker, student liaison to the City Council.

“Su r veys come a rou nd frequently on campus, so it is a challenge to get students to take a survey,” Holocker said. “We can always do better, but it rea l ly is challenging.”

About 300 of the 445 written responses to the question, “What do you like best about College Park?” mentioned the accessibility of public transportation and nearby metropolises Baltimore and Washington.

But this fails to differentiate College Park from other nearby cities, said Suchitra Balachandran, West College Park Citizens Association president.

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ust more than a month after a $15.6 million cut in state funding hit this university, prompting a midyear tuition increase, furloughs and a campuswide hiring freeze and throwing its 10-year strategic plan into disarray, university President Wallace Loh will unveil today a commission dedicated to blazing a new financial and administrative path to 2020.

The Flagship 2020 Commission will be led by an advisory council chaired by business school professor Rajshree Agarwal. The group will aim to update the out-of-date strategic plan; address budget cuts and financial policies; innovate in areas of education, research and administrative operations; and generate new revenue streams.

The commission’s members run the gamut of the university community, comprising nearly 100 professors, administrators, staff members and students among its five work groups and the advisory council.

Provost Mary Ann Rankin will head the work groups dealing with the strategic plan and budgetary and financial needs, while Chief Information Officer Eric Denna will chair the group focusing on improving the university’s administrative services. Work group leadership is rounded out by business school Dean Alex Triantis (aptly tasked with revenue development) and behavioral and social sciences college Dean Gregory Ball (education and research).

At about half the size of the university’s governing body, the University Senate, the commission certainly runs the risk of bureaucratic overgrowth, and its goals — buzzwords like “innovation” feature prominently — skew fairly nebulous. All the same, growth at this university necessitates self-reflection.

To achieve Loh’s stated goal of becoming a top-10 flagship university — this university ranked 20th on this year’s U.S. News & World Report’s national list of public universities — administrators, faculty, staff and, yes, students need to turn a critical eye inward.

As the most tangible and perhaps the most important of the commission’s goals, updating the university’s strategic plan deserves the most immediate attention. Unveiled in 2008, the current 10-year plan includes four main visions for the university: “a magnet for exceptional students,” “an international center,” “a vibrant surrounding community” and “a catalyst for economic development and a healthier society.”

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President Loh’s Flagship 2020 Commission needs to develop a strategic plan that addresses current and upcoming realities.

Of course, the plan couldn’t have accounted for the move from the ACC to the Big Ten, effective last summer, nor could it have anticipated the lasting effects of the Great Recession and this state’s current fiscal climate.

And while the university nonetheless has made strides in actualizing its first two visions, its progress toward the latter has stagnated.

College Park’s lack of diversity in housing, retail, dining and nightlife is well-documented, and only time will tell if projects currently in the development pipeline — a variety of apartment complexes, an art house, The Hotel at the University of Maryland — will foster the kind of revitalization the City Council, university officials and students alike hope for.

On the business end, this state’s annual economic development re p o r t fo u n d , u n s u r p r i s i n g ly, that investment in higher education serves as “a critical element in economic development,” but funding was slashed this year to balance the state budget. Moreover, the University System of Maryland has struggled in the past to retain graduates, and the state continues to rank poorly in business and tax climate.

The university needs to focus its efforts on structuring an achievable strategic plan that not only reflects the fiscal and educational realities of the day, but also can be modified to accommodate unforeseen changes as years wear on.

To this end, Loh assigned the commission to make recommendations that could be implemented on a rolling basis, not execute changes itself, which should help mitigate the rigidity we’ve seen from university plans of action in the past.

In particular, the Department of Resident Life’s On-Campus Student Housing Strategic Plan requires substantial revision in the wake of the system budget cuts, and the department stands to benefit from committee oversight.

No less necessary than updating the strategic plan, broadening the university’s revenue base is even more crucial given potential lapses in state funding. Fresh entrepreneurship and commercial, governmental and nonprofit partnerships — Loh charged Triantis with exploring these avenues and brainstorming others.

In the past, the university has benefited from a number of commercial federal interests, such as the Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students living-learning program and a five-year agreement to educate top-level U.S. Customs and Border Protection managers. In addition, donations — not state funding — have paid for the forthcoming Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation and a large portion of the Cole Field House renovations.

Overall, the Flagship 2020 Commission seems a legitimate effort at recharting the university’s economic, educational and administrative course. Were it only to accomplish its most concrete objective — updating the strategic plan — it would prove its worth and legitimize its formation. Should it achieve the lofty goals laid out by Loh, however, it could streamline this university’s slow, often-winding plod to the top of the national rankings.

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he 87th Academy Awards are this weekend. For a lot of people, that means absolutely nothing. For some, it means they’ll tune in for the red-carpet fashion show and none of the awards. I was raised in a movieloving family, and winning an Oscar has always secretly been a dream of mine — I guess notso-secretly now.

To me, the Academy Awards were the epitome of the best of the best in film. Winning meant something. But, like Santa Claus, these illusions slowly melt away as you grow up. Now, I see the Oscars as one big fashion show.

While actors are often recognized for superb work, the act of marketing your film for a nomination — and ultimately, which films get nominated — is totally based on what’s fashionable and popular in the headquarters of American royalty that is Hollywood.

The awards show takes place at the end of Black History Month, which is ironic, particularly this year, as the Academy was openly chastised for having no diversity in its nominations. Every single nominee for actor or actress is white. On top of this, the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma was only nominated for two awards: Best Picture and Best Original Song (which, by the way, is unheard of — how can a film be one of the best of the year and not be outstanding in any other category?).

Meanwhile, American Sniper was nominated for six awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The term “whitewashing” has been used to describe the nominations for this year, and it’s pretty alarming.

However, what’s more alarming is that Selma was really the only film that was even in consideration for these larger awards.

Was it left out because it’s inferior or because the Academy is racist?

Well, I think that an argument can certainly be made either way. Selma was said to lose momentum in the Oscar race because of historical inaccuracies in discussions between King and Lyndon B. Johnson. That said, it is a strong character piece that presents King as both a hero and a highly flawed individual.

But American Sniper was overwhelmingly praised despite the fact that it is based on the autobiography of a man who is undoubtedly an American hero but was reported to have embellished many of the accounts in his book and received a lot of flak from those who served with him for being egotistical (not that his ego isn’t necessarily justified).

The film ignores these slight character flaws that might have in fact enhanced the story, instead focusing on his exploits and family struggles. Why is an autobiography (which is inherently biased) more credible source material than accounts from real individuals and recordings that were expanded upon to make a point?

And beyond this (and most importantly), why are all the “best” films full of white people? Well, that answer is simple — the studios feel that white actors sell more tickets. White movies get more financial backing and are made at higher rates because black or minority films are seen as having too narrow of an audience.

This is a huge problem in Hollywood, and it really comes down to something that we discuss in public health all the time, which is distribution of wealth. It decides who is healthier, who is given greater opportunities in life and ultimately which movies we get to see. While the Academy might not be racist, Hollywood is certainly a system that is set up for white movies to get made and for other films to go unnoticed.

Samantha Watters is a graduate student in the masters of public health program. She can be reached at swattersdbk@gmail.com.

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n some fortunate areas of our country, people say it takes a village to raise a child; they understand that producing an upstanding citizen takes the work of a multitude of people to mold him.

In other parts of a country, an entire society is capable of oppressing a child as well.

My interview with Andrew came fortuitously, for I met him at the home of a mutual friend. Although Andrew attends school in Arizona, he grew up in numerous foster homes in Cleveland. Andrew never knew his father, and at age 4, his mother, who was abusing crack cocaine, gave him up to foster care because “she didn’t want [him].”

Throughout his formative years,

Andrew bounced from foster home to foster home. Some of his transitions were because of abuse by his foster parents, which led to Andrew’s destructive behaviors.

By the age of 12, Andrew skipped school regularly to deal crack cocaine on the streets of Cleveland as part of a neighborhood gang. Six months later, he was arrested by police and spent a year in juvenile detention, only to be released back into the foster home system; at this point, Andrew was also starting high school.

One change that Andrew told me probably saved his life was that his counselors in juvenile detention instilled in him the importance of education and, most importantly, the importance of leaving Cleveland’s correctional facilities and its dangerous streets. Although Andrew developed a new drive in his life, he still struggled to pass classes in school and obtained below-average scores

on his SATs all the way until his high school graduation.

To the outsider, Andrew is considered by many groups and institutions as nothing but a delinquent, a failure disposed to underachievement and laziness. Many of his classmates in Arizona do not believe he earned the right to study there, saying he took the spot of a student with more merit, one who actually applied himself in academics. All this might be true, but it is shortsighted not to delve into the social circumstances of Andrew’s predicament, something that is missed all too easily.

It can be argued that the inception of Andrew’s life problems began in his numerous foster homes. Ideally, foster homes should be institutional environments that provide safe and wholesome upbringings for their recipients. Andrew’s reality, however, was only perversions of this. The

foster parent, often not feeding him properly and constantly forcing him to do housework, frequently neglected him and his foster siblings.

According to the nation’s premier urban policy magazine, City Journal, foster parents receive many times more money per foster child than from welfare alone, and many poor adults exploit this system by becoming foster parents only to pocket the money for their own ends.

According to City Journal, there is also a shortage of support for welfare workers to check on the quality of foster homes, mainly due to the fact that inner-city children and people are deemed not worth investing in.

All of these factors only lead to the further marginalization of people like Andrew.

Even when Andrew emerged from juvenile detention and had a new outlook on life, there were still a multitude of obstacles working against

him. Andrew still lived in poverty.

This prevented him from being able to pay for SAT prep classes or even have the time to study instead of being preoccupied by work. Andrew always knew he lagged behind his classmates in academics; he just wanted them to know it was not entirely his decision.

Today Andrew attends college with a Gates Millennium Scholars award, a generosity Andrew said he will never forget. He praises the scholarship board for accepting his past shortcomings and struggles and understanding that he did not wish for his life to have turned out this way. Now he has the luxury to have dreams, to really commit to his academics and to think about the future.

Patrick An is a junior biology m a j o r. H e c a n b e re a c h e d a t patandbk@gmail.com.

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You want to be free to soar with the wind, unburdened by the kinds of rules and expectations that rule most others in life. Indeed, you can become quite frustrated when life doesn’t present you with the kinds of exciting options and opportunities that you most enjoy. Some may consider this rather childish of you, but you try to live as you want to live, without ever trying to tell others how they should live their lives.

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MOVIES | SPIDER-MAN RETURNS TO MARVEL

(Wall-)CRAWLING BACK HOME In a new deal, the film rights for the Spider-Man franchise will now be shared between Marvel and Sony. What does this mean for the future of comic book movies?

SPIDER-MAN has appeared on movie screens before, played by Andrew Garfield (left) and Tobey Maguire (top right), though the film rights have only recently been granted to Marvel Studios, thanks to a deal with Sony. A rebooted film series might introduce a new version of the character, based on recent comics incarnation Miles Morales (bottom right), whose appearance is inspired by rapper-actor Donald Glover. images courtesy of (clockwise from left) beyondhollywood.com, moviepilot.com and youtube.com

By Zoë DiGiorgio @zozoembie Staff writer Last week saw an earth-shattering day in superhero movie history.

Though there were no fireworks or fans dancing in the street, there was no doubt that a long-fought war had finally been won and a victory granted to all Marvel fans: After months of rumors and high hopes, it was confirmed early last week that Marvel Studios had regained the rights to its worldfamous web-slinger. Spider-Man is coming home.

This new agreement — in which Sony Pictures and Marvel essentially share the film rights to Spider-Man — promises to bring Spider-Man to an undisclosed Marvel film. This appearance, along with a new co-produced Spider-Man film in 2017, has the potential to completely overhaul the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and superhero movies as a whole.

To some who aren’t quite familiar with the current state of superhero films, this news might seem a bit confusing; how can Marvel not have the rights to Spider-Man ? After all, Marvel is the company behind everyone’s

favorite web-head.

Spider-Man ’s journey to the big screen is long and complicated, suffering through 25 years of development hell. The short version is that Columbia Pictures, the film production and distribution division of Sony, acquired the long-contested rights to the web-slinger in 1999. With these rights, the company produced director Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man in 2002, Spider-Man 2 in 2004 and Spider-Man 3 in 2007.

After failing to expand the trilogy further after many cast members and producers decided to abandon the series, Sony opted to reboot the franchise. Many fans were unhappy with the notion of creating a new series so soon after Raimi’s trilogy wrapped, but the studio proceeded, creating The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

On the other hand, Marvel Studios has been churning out blockbuster flicks since 2008’s Iron Man, and though The Avengers was a massive hit, some important heroes from Marvel’s lineup were noticeably absent from the team-up flick because of the divided movie rights.

The implications of adding Spider-Man to the Marvel Cin-

THE IMPLICATIONS OF ADDING SPIDER-MAN TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE ARE POTENTIALLY STAGGERERING. ... THE POSSIBILITIES FOR THE USE OF THE WALL-CRAWLER ARE LIMITLESS. ematic Universe are potentially staggering. Though it is likely far too late to add the character into Avengers: Age of Ultron, the upcoming Captain America: Civil War will no doubt be affected by this famous addition to the cast.

Spider-Man figures into Marvel’s 2006-7 Civil War, a massive crossover event that pitted heroes against one another (and is the probable basis for the newest Cap flick). Though it’s too early to call exactly how this plot will be adapted for the screen, given its tie-ins to so many Marvel series, fans can assume with reasonable certainty that the film will pit Captain America and Iron Man against each other in an ideological clash over the Superhero Registration Act, which would force all superhuman crime fighters to

register with the government or face severe punishment.

Spider-Man plays a huge role in the Civil War comics, as he reveals his true identity, Peter Parker, in order to support Iron Man and the Superhuman Registration Act publicly.

Beyond this, the possibilities for the use of the wall-crawler are limitless. With the Avengers: Infinity War films on the forecast for 2018 and 2019, there will no doubt be plenty of opportunities for Spider-Man to make an appearance as a supporting role in other upcoming Marvel films.

However, how Marvel will introduce him is unclear and still open to plenty of speculation. Given Spider-Man’s large role in Civil War, it seems as though it might be too late to bring him in for the first time in Captain America 3. After all, what’s the point of revealing your secret identity if no one knows who you are?

Spider-Man is unlikely to join in on movies such as Doctor Strange or Black Panther, as his appearance would distract from the titular characters, nor is he a good fit for Guardians of the Galaxy 2, which is unlikely to take place on Earth.

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vel’s current TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and its other upcoming television prospects, the studio could easily introduce Peter Parker in an episode of a Marvel show and then bring him into the films. It’s also possible that Spider-Man simply won’t appear again on the big screen until July 28, 2017, when the coproduced film with Sony is slated to be released.

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huskers From PAGE 8 The fourth-year coach said he’s always worried about his team’s academics during this time of year, and the extended time at home should help players catch up. Plus, the Terps are 6-0 in conference games at Xfinity Center, but hold a 3-4 Big Ten record on the road.

“For us to be home almost two straight weeks is huge,” Turgeon said. “Academically, it’s going to help us a lot. Mentally, maybe it will.

Physically, maybe it will.

We’ll see. We have had some long nights on the road. After Penn State we didn’t get home until about 4 in the morning because of the weather, so being home should help us in a lot of ways.”

Though Nebraska has struggled to live up to its potential this season after earning a No. 21 ranking in the preseason AP poll, Turgeon warned reporters that the Cornhuskers (13-12, 5-8 Big Ten) have the talent to knock off the Terps (21-5, 9-4) and spoil the team’s return home.

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BADGERS From PAGE 8 face the second contest on less than three day’s rest.

Still, forward T ierney Pfirman believes the similar g r u e l i n g s t re tc h e s t h i s season have prepared the Terps for the late-night start at Wisconsin.

“We had three games in six days last week,” Pfirman said.

“That definitely will help us out, just knowing how our bodies feel after a day and turning around and playing two days later.”

Guard Dez Wells surveys the court during the Terps’ victory at Penn State on Saturday.

The Terps are 3-4 on the road and 6-0 at home in Big Ten play. alexander jonesi/the diamondback Ten with 18.7 points per game, and the Cornhuskers have the 10th-best defensive efficiency in the country, according to Kenpom.com.

Guard Dez Wells, a senior and the Terps’ vocal leader, made the point yesterday that because of the Terps’ success this season, opponents will have extra motivation entering Xfinity Center. While the home games might be welcome, the 6-foot-5 wing said they won’t be easy.

“Everybody is going to want to get their signature win on us,” Wells said. “So

we have to come here ready to protect what’s ours, protect this domain that we play in.

It’s going to be a great atmosphere, and I look forward to a great challenge.”

Wells also said he wants to make sure his teammates don’t get too relaxed while they stay in College Park for games against the Cornhuskers, No. 5 Wisconsin and Michigan before finally going back on the road to play at Rutgers on March 3.

“I hope it’s uncomfortable as possible,” Wells said. “My teammates, I hope it rubs off

“EVERYBODY HAS A DIFFICULT STRETCH IN THIS MONTH. ... IT’S WHO HAS MORE LEFT IN THE TANK. I KNOW WITH US HAVING THE DEPTH AND THE SUCCESS THAT WE’VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND THAT FOR THIS STRETCH RUN.” BRENDA FRESE

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on them. I’m pretty sure those guys, they are competitors just like me, so they’ll come in with a killer instinct [tonight] just like they have been.”

The Terps haven’t fallen victim to complacency in home games this season. Their only loss at Xfinity Center came against Virginia, which is now ranked No. 2 in the country, holds a 24-1 record and hasn’t lost on the road yet.

While Layman and Turgeon maintain that the Terps are still confident in their abilities on the road, both are excited for their extended stay on this campus.

They’ll get to sleep in their own beds for two straight weeks, avoid long bus or airplane rides and maybe even get a little more sleep.

They’ll also have the opportunity, for just three more games, to play in front of a fan base that’s been waiting five years to support a team headed toward the NCAA tournament.

“I expect what it’s been the past couple games, and really the whole season,” Layman said, “for [the crowd] to be energized and ready to go, just like us.” akasinitzdbk@gmail.com

raffa From PAGE 8 s u p p o r t f ro m t h e w i n gs during faceoffs.

Ehrhardt, a first-team AllAmerican player, and Cooper, the 64th selection in the 2014 MLL draft, provided an advantage for Raffa against other opposing units.

“There’s some non-verbal communication that goes on,” Tillman said. “You just have a sense of where that ball is going.”

In the Navy game, Tillman plugged an array of different players around Raffa, including defensive midfielder Isaiah Davis-Allen, midfielder Bobby Gribbin and long poles Mike McCarney and Matt Neufeldt.

“They’re my brothers,” Raffa said. “So it’s not the end of the world to not have Mike and Brian.”

Navy faceoff specialists Joe Varello and Brady Dove split time at the X against Raffa.

Dove, a member of the 2014 All-Patriot League Second Team, got most of the playing time, winning 7 of 9 faceoffs.

But when the Terps handed Navy a 12-6 loss in their 2014 regular season finale, Dove recovered just five opportunities, while Raffa went 16 of 21.

The team will need Raffa to be at his best Saturday, as Yale used multiple players to corral 22 of 26 faceoffs in its 19-4 win over UMass-Lowell last week.

Raffa might have turned in an uncharacteristic performance against the Midshipmen, but the Terps don’t think it will become the norm.

“When you faceoff, you’re putting yourself in a very compromising position,” Tillman said. “We want to get him back, but we don’t want to do it so fast that we push him backwards.”

INJURY UPDATE Two players who were expected to be significant contributors this year — attackman Tim Rotanz and midfielder Nick Manis — didn’t play in the Terps’ season opener.

It also might be awhile before either player returns to the field.

Manis, a junior, is nursing a foot injury. Tillman said Manis probably won’t be healthy until the end of the season at best.

Rotanz, meanwhile, is dealing with a head injury he sustained during the summer. Tillman preached caution for Rotanz, who scored three goals and added three assists last year. jneedelmandbk@gmail.com

the top seed in the Big Ten. But beyond the potential postseason impact, the Terps simply want to turn in a better performance than they did Monday.

That alone will serve as an incentive when the Terps take the floor for their second road contest this week.

“We will be motivated after having a very uncharacteristic night by a lot of players,” Frese said. “I know the character in the locker room, and I know they will be ready to bounce back.”

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Plus, Frese said, the Terps have motivation as they sit four wins away from a perfect conference campaign in their inaugural Big Ten season.

“Everybody has a difficult stretch in this month,” Frese said. “It’s who has more left

in the tank. I know with us having the depth and the success that we’ve been able to have, we should be able to find that for this stretch run.”

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At Navy, Raffa sees struggles Tillman calls senior specialist ‘rusty’ at faceoff X after win

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his players as they enter the final stretch of the regular season.

“Being on campus, going to class, doing your regular routine, it’s definitely nice,” forward Jake Layman said. “And the crowd, too. Just being at home, playing in the gym you practice in, it’s huge.”

Turgeon has several other reasons he’s happy to be playing at Xfinity Center for the rest of the month.

The 2015 Terrapins men’s lacrosse season began the same way the previous two years did: Faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa took his spot at the X, placed one knee on the ground, lined his stick up with his opponent’s and waited for the opening whistle.

Raffa went a combined 16 of 23 in the Terps’ previous two season-openers, which both resulted in victories over Mount St. Mary’s. But in the Terps’ 8-1 win at Navy on Saturday, Raffa hardly resembled his typically dominant self.

The senior, a preseason third-team All-American, went 4 of 11 at the X. That forced the No. 7 Terps to grind out long defensive possessions and limited a new-look offense’s time to develop with an important non-conference battle at No. 14 Yale looming on Saturday.

Still, coach John Tillman remains confident in his captain and expects the senior to return to form as the season progresses.

“He looked a little rusty,” Tillman said. “We’ve got to continue to push him and get him back into game shape.”

Tillman said Raffa spent much of the team’s fall season resting his injured knee, and the senior didn’t play much in the team’s two preseason scrimmages.

“It wasn’t so much that I wasn’t healthy to play in [the scrimmages],” Raffa said. “I just didn’t want to bang myself up for this year.”

Last season, Raffa had a pair of eventual professionals — long pole Michael Ehrhardt and defensive midfielder Brian Cooper — providing

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The Terps walk back onto the court after a timeout during a victory over Northwestern on Jan. 25. The team won’t play another road game until a March 3 contest at Rutgers.

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Cornhuskers visit tonight to kick off string of three straight games at Xfinity Center

By Aaron Kasinitz @AaronKazreports Senior staff writer After the Terrapins men’s basketball team ground out a 76-73 win at Penn State on Saturday night, the players and coaches boarded a bus close to 11:40 p.m. From there, the Terps made the trek back to College Park, driving about four hours through snow-covered roads in the middle of the night.

Coach Mark Turgeon’s squad has endured many similar late nights and long trips since it started Big Ten play on Dec. 30 with a doubleovertime win at Michigan State. The Terps stayed in the Midwest for several days between a Jan. 7 loss at Illinois and a Jan. 10 win at Purdue, and they’ve played four road games in the past four weeks.

So the No. 16 Terps’ upcoming three-game homestand, which begins tonight when they host Nebraska, is refreshing for Turgeon and

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By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer After back-to-back double-digit wins against top-20 opponents, the Terrapins women’s basketball team traveled to East Lansing, Michigan, to play a Michigan State squad Saturday it throttled by 29 points in January.

But what appeared to be a favorable matchup turned out to be a dogfight. The Terps trailed midway through the second half and gave the Spartans life until the final buzzer of a six-point win.

The contest proved two things to coach Brenda Frese and her team. The No. 5 Terps are going to get every team’s best shot, but they are capable

of finding a way to win even when they don’t play their best.

“I’m all about playing the best competition and having them play the best game,” Frese said. “We hit some adversity, and you know what? We will be better for this. It prepares you for March. It prepares you for postseason play. You want that target on your back.”

And that’s exactly what the

Terps (23-2, 14-0 Big Ten) anticipate when they head back on the road tonight to take on Wisconsin (8-16, 4-10), which has lost seven of its past eight contests. Michigan State entered Monday’s contest 4-10 in conference play, but that didn’t stop the Spartans from hanging with the Terps all night.

If the Terps leave Madison, Wisconsin, with a win, they’ll secure the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten tournament, which runs from March 4-8 in Illinois.

But center Malina Howard wants the Terps to focus on improvement.

“We just want to play hard,” Howard said. “Every game is a game for us to get better and better ourselves.”

After playing three games in a span of six days earlier in the month before the Michigan State contest, the Terps are faced with another quick turnaround. Tonight’s bout marks Frese’s squad’s third set of back-to-back road games in conference play, but it will be the first in which the Terps See badgers, Page 7

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Pushing for Alzheimer’s awareness Terrapins men’s basketball coach Mark Turgeon has raised $10,ooo for the Alzheimer’s Association through the Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge.

Learn about the story behind Turgeon’s support of Alzheimer’s disease at dbknews.com.