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could have ended up paying, thanks to meticulous planning, said Bart Hipple, Dining Services spokesman.

Dining Services has not offered early breakfasts in the past because of the additional resources and costs that come with increased operating hours. Previously, officials were not confident enough students would use

Many faculty members could have some concerns about their treatment on the campus addressed if the University Senate votes to review recommendations that would address gaps between tenured and non-tenure-track faculty.

The recommendations from the senate’s Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Task Force deal largely with pay and promotional guidelines for non-tenure-track faculty, who some think are not compensated and recognized commensurate to their contributions on the campus. None of this university’s peer institutions have taken such actions before, according to the task force.

The senate was scheduled to vote March 6 whether to charge various committees to examine the issues brought up in the report,

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continental breakfast items, including bagels, fruit, yogurt with toppings, muffins, cold cereal, donuts and waffles will be available in the dining halls on the weekends starting at 10 a.m., rather than the normal 11 a.m. opening time. Dining Services officials said even though the change will result in additional costs from operating the dining halls longer, they are confident students will take advantage of the extended hours. photo courtesy of umd cvs. graphic by holly cuozzo/the diamondback

MORE TIME TO DINE Dining Services to open dining halls earlier on weekends after spring break in response to continued student requests

By Laura Blasey Senior staff writer Not everyone sleeps in on the weekend.

Sophomore psychology major Abanoub Gad works on Saturday mornings. His shift starts at 9 a.m., two hours before the North Campus Dining Hall opens.

“Most of the time, I have to go

without breakfast,” he said.

Starting after spring break, however, Dining Services will pilot a weekend continental breakfast menu through the end of the semester. Instead of opening at 11 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, the North and South Campus dining halls will open at 10 a.m. with a variety of cold options.

The menu will include bagels, donuts, cereal and fruit, as well as yogurt with

toppings. Though the waffle irons will be open for use, workers won’t serve hot food like pancakes, French toast and omelets until 11 a.m. Still, Dining Services is hoping to hold early risers over with the selected offerings.

Dining Services will pay $15,000 to open the two dining halls an hour early for two semesters total, depending on the pilot program. That number is low compared to what the department

Groups in Holzapfel will vacate Moves ahead of construction of new state-of-the-art teaching center

By Dustin Levy Staff writer As the university prepares to make way for a new teaching and learning center, America Reads*America Counts — a mentoring program that works with local elementary schools — will leave its home in Holzapfel Hall this summer

and head to Stamp Student Union.

The Edward St. John Learning and Teaching Center, a $55.1 million center that has been in the works for more than two decades, is still in design stages.

But America Reads*America Counts and several other groups must vacate Holzapfel Hall so site design and construction on the new center can begin.

The new building will be constructed between Campus Drive and the historic front of Holzapfel facing McKeldin Mall, said Stamp Director Marsha GuenzlerStevens. The original building’s facade will remain, but the university will demolish Shriver Hall to make way for the center.

Commission to look at blended learning courses Group crafting ways to integrate more technology

By Sandra Müller Staff writer While about 97 percent of all courses on this campus are still taught face-toface, a new university commission is exploring ways to incorporate greater use of technology in classrooms.

The 25-member Provost’s Commission on Blended and Online Education will make recommendations on how online and blended learning — a teaching approach that combines computerbased activities with in-person lessons — can fit into the university’s mission as a research university, said Gary White, public services associate dean and a member of the commission.

“Our primary focus is to ensure high-quality teaching and learning experiences,” White said. To that end, the commission — chaired by public health college Dean Jane Clark — has

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considered factors such as accessibility, physical infrastructure and finances, White said.

The commission has reached out to different colleges on the campus and studied existing research on this new type of learning, White said. White and another commission member, Student Affairs Assistant Vice President Warren Kelley, met with Student Government Association members Wednesday evening to seek student input on the commission’s work.

“National data show that blended and online learning can lead to a superior learning environment — even better than face-to-face,” White said.

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MORE ONLINE Sophomore Annie Hendrick was walking over to a stationary bicycle next to her friend at Eppley Recreation Center one evening when a man bearing a striking resemblance to Wallace Loh sped past her and jumped on.

On second glance, Hendrick realized the man was, in fact, Loh. The university president had taken her bike, but she was too starstruck to care.

“I wasn’t even upset that someone took it, because it was Wallace Loh — it’s kind of like seeing a celebrity when you see him at the gym,” said Hendrick, a studio art major.

Many students said it’s not uncommon to see Loh exercising or using weight machines on a Friday night.

“I loved seeing him there,” said Benjy Cannon, a sophomore government and politics major, who has seen Loh riding the stationary bikes. “It made me feel that he was approachable and also a real person.”

But the president doesn’t think much of it when he goes to complete his workout routines. To him, the ERC is just the ideal fitness center.

And while it may not be his primary focus, Loh said one of the perks of working out at the ERC is that it’s a great place to meet and chat with students — even though some students, such as Hendrick and freshman Mitchell Arnett, said they’ve been too intimidated to approach him.

“I didn’t want to interrupt him in the middle of his workout to say hello,” said Arnett, a computer science major. “But it was weird enough that I told everyone afterward I worked out with the president. It was cool.”

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Holzapfel From PAGE 1 No physical construction is planned for this summer, said Carlo Colella, Facilities Management associate vice president.

However, all units in Holzapfel are expected to vacate by the end of the fall semester.

“We need them out of there soon,” Colella said. “It’s more convenient, I think, on everybody if that happens with ample time before we’re there with workers trying to knock things out.”

America Reads*America Counts plans to make the move before the start of the upcoming semester, said Ali Barlow, the program’s coordinator. She said the move to Stamp will enable them to connect with similar organizations.

“It doesn’t really feel like we’re being forced out of our home, because we’re joining the rest of Leadership and Community Service Learning, which is kind of our family group,” Barlow said.

But space concerns remain an issue for the group, Barlow said. About 280 students are volunteering through America Reads*America Counts this semester, and possibly will do so this summer.

“I think some of the hangingout-in-the-office time that our students do — we’ll have to figure out what works best for us,” Barlow said.

But the space issue is less of a concern than the financial burden the move could put on the university, said GuenzlerStevens. Holzapfel is a statesupported building, and the program will be moving to a self-supported building where luxuries such as space, heating and air conditioning are not funded by the state.

“That’s probably the primary detractor,” Guenzler-Stevens

said. “It’s a financial detractor.”

Still, the program’s coordinators are confident the major move will be beneficial in the long run, especially because a location in Stamp could increase program visibility.

“Students barely know how to find our office right now,” Barlow said. “So moving to the Stamp will give much more of a centralized location.”

The new location could also increase the program’s access to resources and collaboration with other departments, Barlow said.

“What will be easier is training space,” she said. “Because right now, we don’t have any space in this building we’re currently in to do training and to do meetings.

But since we’ll be in Stamp, we’ll have much more access to training rooms and meeting rooms.”

As a collaborative program between the university and Prince George’s County Public Schools, America Reads*America Counts offers tutoring in math and reading and mentoring opportunities for college and elementary school students. A third part of the program offers workshops conducted in English and Spanish to help parents learn how to teach their children to read.

But with the upcoming move, Barlow said the identity of her program could shift.

“There’ll be some growing pains, sort of figuring out what our identity is in the context of Leadership and Community Service Learning, since we have had this sort of pre-established identity that’s associated with our space to some extent,” she said.

But with the potential for an increase in visibility next semester, tasks such as looking for volunteers could become much easier for the program.

“To me, there are an awful lot more pros than cons to this move,” said Barlow. newsumdbk@gmail.com

the additional hours. Now, however, staff schedules will be reorganized to accommodate the new opening times.

“We’ve selected the menu very carefully, choosing food that we can set out, and students will basically serve themselves,” Hipple said.

These pilot weekends will be the only times the dining halls have opened early, apart from finals week.

“There has been a concern that there is nowhere to get breakfast on campus other than a convenience store before 11 o’clock,” Hipple said.

He said the change is in response to concerns voiced by on-campus residents and the Residence Hall Association’s Dining Services Advisory Board.

“It’s something we’ve been pushing for since last semester, so it’s nice that it’s happening,” said DSAB

learning From PAGE 1 and job readiness, said Talia Brown, the SGA’s public health representative.

“How do you learn interaction when it is all about you and how you learn?” Brown asked.

Online and blended lessons could be more beneficial to science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses than to humanities or social sciences classes, said Kiese Hansen, the SGA’s neighboring commuter representative. Such considerations are being taken into account, White said.

“The effectiveness of a course varies from the structure and

Chairwoman Devrie Stellar.

“Hopefully it’ll be successful.”

But some students are skeptical that a continental breakfast is a solid investment.

“I understand that people might be frustrated that there’s not anything open — there have been plenty of times where I had to get up early and I have to pay for food,” said Mia Simon, a sophomore journalism major.

“But money-wise, I’m not sure it’s worth it.”

“A majority of students don’t get up that early, and I would prefer the [North Campus Snack ‘n’ Shop] open earlier,” Simon added.

Other students, however, said they are tired of having to spend money on expensive granola bars and cereals at convenience stores while they wait for the dining halls to open.

“Sometimes I do get up early, and if I’m hungry, I have to go to the 24-Hour Shop,” said Jennifer Arseneault, a freshman enrolled in letters and sciences.

While college students stereotypically sleep the day away after

the content of the class,” White said. He added the committee is exploring the appropriate equipment and faculty skills needed for each individual course.

As the commission is still in an information-gathering stage, members are not ready to make specific recommendations, Kelley said. The commission has until the end of the spring semester to report its results to the university deans.

Last fall, the university joined Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that partners with universities around the world to offer free online classes. Participants can take advantage of these massive open online courses, but university students cannot receive credit for completion.

the dining halls will open an hour earlier on Saturdays and Sundays after spring break.

Students will be able to choose from a number of cold breakfast items. file photo/the diamondback late weekend nights, many said they wake up earlier than people might think. And some students, such as sophomore Arabic major Christina Fahmi, said it’s time to open the dining halls earlier.

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This university offers five new vision of how teaching and Coursera courses, White said. learning will be in the 21st century.”

Just one course can attract several thousand participants, he added. newsumdbk@gmail.com “Online is growing on a fast pace around the country,” Kelley said.

However, he added, “It is a little too early to have enough feedback on this.”

Ultimately, it was “pretty clear that the university wants to invest in the future,” White said.

Last year, university President Wallace Loh — who helped develop the commission over the summer — said in an age when many people start using computers in their early childhood, blended learning models and shorter lectures are likely the future of higher education.

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Tenure From PAGE 1 but the meeting was postponed because of anticipated snowfall.

After spring break,the body will take up the issue at its April 4 meeting.

Should the recommendations pass, nothing binds the university’s administration to put them into place — but it would be cause for serious consideration.

Thomas Holtz, co-chairman of the task force and a university geology professor, presented the group’s findings to the Senate Executive Committee on Feb. 22, shortly before they were approved to go to a full senate vote.

Holtz told members of the senate’s most powerful subcommittee that non-tenure-track issues are not known well enough or talked about frequently on the campus.

“Because people aren’t aware of the scope of the issues, there is a lack of cohesion and lack of awareness of what policies do exist,” Holtz said as he presented his bill, which the SEC then backed for a vote in the full body.

The task force found plenty

that needed to be altered in the way the university treats its nontenure-track faculty, the report showed, focusing on areas of appointment, rank and promotion, evaluation, recognition, compensation and governance.

“The list of recommendations is extensive,” the report states, “but only because the problems are substantial.”

There are concerns that nontenure-track faculty work too much for too little pay have limited upward mobility and receive administrative treatment that lags far behind the handling of tenured and tenured-track members.

“These are really neglected faculty, in terms not only of policies but also of implementation of the policies,” said Ellin Scholnick, SEC member, at the Feb. 22 meeting.

The university employs about 3,000 non-tenure-track faculty members, the task force found, who work in instructional, research and service capacities. Comparatively, there are only about 1,600 tenured and tenure-track faculty.

Over the past 15 years, the number of class hours taught by tenured faculty has fallen to about

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40 percent of the university’s academic time. That is because non-tenure-track faculty have been teaching more classes, also amounting to about 40 percent of the university’s credit hours.

“I think that that should be recognized. It doesn’t mean that they do all of the teaching, it doesn’t mean they do most of it, it just means that they do a lot of it, and we have to think about how to reward them fairly,” said University Senate Chairwoman Martha Nell Smith.

Although many recommendations are laid out in the report,it does not offer many details about implementation. For instance, one provision calls for the senate and Provost Mary Ann Rankin to “collaborate with the relevant bodies on campus” to ensure more non-tenured faculty have seats in the senate. Currently, tenured faculty outnumber nontenured on the Senate.

Though the concern is a valid one, there is gray area, said Smith, a tenured faculty member.

“In terms of representation, one has to look at part- and fulltime,” she said. “That’s one of the main things. I don’t think you can simply look at the numbers and

say, ‘There’s underrepresentation here.’ It’s much more complex.”

But she added, “I haven’t talked to anyone who doesn’t want to see [non-tenure-track faculty] have more representation.”

More than 33 percent of the recommendations pertain to the evaluation, recognition and compensation of non-tenuretrack faculty members.

One calls for the revision of job titles for non-tenure-track faculty to “accurately represent the primary contribution” of such employees — which is not always the case, the task force found.

“When people are doing the same job, they should be referred to by the same job title,” Holtz said.

The report also recommends the university pay instructional faculty for the work they do beyond the classroom. Because instructors often conduct course-related work that goes beyond the parameters specified in their contracts, the task force called for some sort of overtime pay measure.

But extracurricular work is not exclusive to non-tenure-track faculty, Smith said, and tenured faculty members make plenty of

MARTHA NELL SMITH, Senate Executive Committee chairwoman, said non-tenure-track faculty, who teach about 40 percent of credit hours, should receive more recognition. The senate will vote to address gaps between tenured and non-tenure-track faculty. file photo/the diamondback contributions beyond the classroom that should not be underestimated.

“Tenure-track faculty do a lot of work that I think is invisible to those that aren’t in our rank. A lot of my relatives, for example, if I meet my class twice a week, they think that’s what I’m doing,” she said. “That’s only part of my job.”

Smith said whether the senate passes the bill or not, the best way to ensure long-term equity and fairness is through thorough conversation between faculty and administrators.

“I know that both the senate and the administration are mindful that these sets of issues

are ones that need to be dealt with, but I think they need to be dealt with in dialogue,” Smith said. “The report [is] very valuable, but I think there needs to be extensive dialogue about it.”

Smith added the outcome of the vote seems uncertain.

Nonetheless, the task force — with future investment on the university’s part in mind — wants its recommendations acted upon.

“Doing so,” the report states, “is the right thing to do in terms of how a world class institution manages its most valuable resource: its people.”

time in less than a month, the winner of North Carolina and likely second round opponent Florida State — two teams the Terps own a combined 0-4 record against this season — looms in Saturday’s semifinals.

But the Terps aren’t letting a daunting road temper optimism. Turgeon said Monday the Terps will “pack for five days” before making the five-and-ahalf-hour trek south to Greensboro, and players approached yesterday’s news conference with a glass-half-full mentality.

“The beauty of college basketball is anyone can be beaten,” Wells said. “It’s really dangerous when you get to tournament time, because you don’t have to be the best team, you just have to be the best team on a given

night for 40 minutes.”

Said guard Nick Faust: “It’s a new season and we’re excited and confident.”

Little on the Terps’ resume suggests they can cobble together four complete games, which they’ll almost certainly need to do in order to punch a ticket to the NCAA tournament.

But don’t expect Turgeon to complain if the Terps have to settle for the NIT. It’s all part of turning a program mired in mediocrity into one of the nation’s elite.

“We’re a better team than we were last year,” Turgeon said.

“We want to get better, get our confidence going into the ACC tournament and then whatever postseason we play after that.”

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Forward Dez Wells knows the Terps have had their struggles this season, but he maintains that “the beauty of college basketball is anyone can be beaten.” christian jenkins/the diamondback

FRANCIS From PAGE 8 and other college athletes.

Francis said teams have finally begun calling his agent to schedule individual workouts and facility visits, and he has three lined up in the coming weeks.

“I feel like there’s a lot of spots I could fill. Every team plays a different defense, and every team has a different position they might think I would

help the team best,” Francis said. “I feel like I can play any one of them.”

He’s shown it throughout his career with the Terps. Francis has played in all three defensive line spots in a 3-4 defense, and he has experience at both nose tackle and 3-technique in a 4-3 alignment.

“I’m not just saying I can do that. There’s film of me doing that,” Francis said. “There’s not a lot of guys that can probably say that in the country. Not a lot

satisfy a win-starved fan base that entered this season with a March-Madness-orbust mindset.

Forward Dez Wells — a highly touted transfer from Xavier — was cleared to play days before the season opener. A bulkedup Alex Len was earning rave reviews for his offseason improvements. A four-member freshman class seemed poised to make an immediate impact. Turgeon’s second season, outsiders reasoned, was when everything would finally come together.

But since breezing through a lean nonconference slate with a 12-1 record, the Terps have become predictably unpredict-

of guys have switched [between] that many defenses, and not a lot of guys have played different positions in those defenses.”

In fact, Francis, Tate and Vellano have all shown they can succeed almost anywhere on defense. When asked what each of them could bring to an NFL team, all three used the word “versatile” at least once.

They’ve all played under three different defensive coordinators in the past three years — Don Brown in 2010, Todd Bradford in 2011 and Brian Stewart last season — giving each of them experience in multiple schemes.

Vellano has played end and tackle in both the 3-4 and the 4-3, and Tate played linebacker in each of the past two seasons after excelling at safety in his sophomore year.

“I’ve played a lot of football at every position. That’s kind of my biggest thing,” Vellano said.

“I can do whatever they want.”

“I could play safety, and I can still play linebacker,” Tate said. “I’ve also been taking some looks at playing offense, maybe. I know I could. I was a receiver before, playing a little H-back and things like that. I can definitely create a matchup [problem] on a linebacker.”

All three have a chance to get drafted next month, but Francis’

able. They haven’t won more than two straight ACC games this year, and they entered Sunday’s overtime defeat at Virginia having traded wins and losses over their past eight games.

Those are troubling signs for anyone hoping the Terps (20-11, 8-10 ACC) can defy odds and make a deep ACC tournament run. If Turgeon’s squad squeaks past Wake Forest (13-17, 6-12) for the third time this season, it’ll face a Duke team quickly emerging as a favorite to cut down the nets in Atlanta next month. The No. 2-seed Blue Devils are 18-0 with a healthy Ryan Kelly and are coming off thorough routs of Virginia Tech and North Carolina.

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Defensive lineman Joe Vellano works out at yesterday’s pro day. He’s expected to be drafted in the fifth or sixth round. charlie deboyace/the diamondback name has been heard the most in NFL circles. He’s the only one with any scheduled visits to NFL teams, and multiple websites have him ranked as a top-30 defensive tackle. He’s projected to go between rounds five and six right now. Vellano is also projected as a fifth- or sixthrounder, and Tate is expected to go in round 7 or be undrafted.

Coach Randy Edsall isn’t taking any stock in those projections, though. Where a player will go in the draft, he said, is too hard to predict this early.

“Having had the experience of coaching in the NFL and knowing what goes on as they come back, sit down and have their meetings and everything else, there’s so many things that can change,” the second-year coach said. “That’s what I tell the players. I say, ‘Hey, don’t worry about anything other than the fact that you’re going to get an opportunity.’”

Francis plans on taking advantage of that opportunity. This is what he’s been working toward throughout his football career.

As to where he’ll be next season, Francis isn’t sure. He has some ideas of where he’d like to be, but he’s leaving that decision up to the NFL’s 32 teams.

“My family is Cowboys fans, and Texas doesn’t have state income tax, so that’s nice.

Neither does Florida, and they have nice weather down there,” Francis said. “But honestly, anyone that’s willing to give me an opportunity to play. I’ll play anywhere.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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As college students, we experience our fair share of stress and anxiety. When we are faced with obstacles too great to overcome alone, we have several on-campus resources we can turn to for help. One of the most widely used resources is the Counseling Center, located in Shoemaker Building. While we are fortunate to have access to its services, such as individual counseling and group therapy, attaining these services can be a difficult and often frustrating process.

I am currently a sophomore at this university and I was diagnosed with clinical depression during spring semester of my freshman year. The depression grew in severity, and I eventually called the Counseling Center last semester to schedule an appointment. After waiting three weeks for an appointment, I had my first therapy session. During the session, the counselor agreed my depression was worsening. With the counselor’s recommendation

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for more individual therapy, my name was put on a waiting list.

And so the wait began. One week turned into two. Two weeks turned into four. Four weeks turned into six.

During those six weeks, my depression was not kind to me. It worsened to the point where I found myself trapped in bed for 12 to 20 hours each day. I found every task extremely difficult, from making it to class to simply eating. Finally, after missing weeks of classes and still remaining on the waiting list for therapy, I walked to the Counseling Center for an emergency appointment.

As I was talking to the counselor, she recognized my immediate need for therapy. But still, my spot on the waiting list was not changed. Another week passed without help until I reached winter break. I finally received my individual appointment 14 weeks after my name was initially added to the waiting list.

This wait time is unacceptable and inexcusable. It is difficult enough for college students to take the first step toward receiving help without the lack of positive feedback for their brave decision. Many challenges prevent us from seeking help, whether it is a busy schedule, therapy’s stigma or personal pride. Once we decide to seek help, we shouldn’t confront yet another obstacle in waiting time.

This is not an issue of quality, but of

quantity. The Counseling Center staff is exceptional, but there are simply not enough counselors for the number of students on the campus. According to the Counseling Center’s website, there are 17 counselors, psychologists and doctoral interns currently on staff to match the needs of the more than 37,000 students at this university. This breaks down to about one counselor for every 2,200 students — no staff could ever handle such a high ratio.

Students’ mental well-beings are at stake. During the waiting time, students are left to cope with their stresses and issues independently. The Counseling Center tells us, “Seeking Help is a Sign of Strength.” If this is true, the university needs to prove it by providing students with counseling in a reasonable time frame. It’s the only way counselors can help students make necessary and positive changes in their lives.

We are all waiting for something: to get better, to feel well again or to experience happiness, joy and a sense of peace in our lives. We are now faced with one more wait: the time it takes the university to respond. My story is one of the many thousands across this campus that needs to have a voice. No longer can we remain silent.

When will change happen? We have waited long enough. opinionumdbk@gmail.com

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t’s hard not to be outraged when reading the anonymous stories posted on the Get Help UMD Facebook page. Many students waited weeks before they could begin regularly receiving the treatment they needed. The page depicts the Counseling Center as nothing but a dead end and adequate mental health services on the campus as all but inaccessible.

It’s hard to criticize a movement bringing attention to the mental health services offered on the campus, but someone should. We need to have a conversation about mental health — but please, not like this.

When I first learned about Get Help UMD, I was overjoyed that students were asked to share their struggles with mental health issues — something that is so often too awkward to talk about. However, the tone of the campaign seems more disparaging than empowering, and I worry this may deter students from seeking services that could truly help them.

In Student Government Association President Samantha Zwerling’s Tuesday column in The Diamondback, she noted the 57 stories submitted to Get Help UMD. And, according to Madison Higgins and Jen Robinson’s column Wednesday, about half of all survey respondents cited long waiting periods. I saw an even larger proportion of stories on the Get Help UMD Facebook page directly criticizing long waiting times.

This surprised me as I had an overwhelmingly positive, expedient experience seeking counseling on the campus. I told a friend who had a similarly positive experience that I was planning on sharing my story through Get Help UMD and that she should too. Neither of our stories has been posted publicly, leaving me to wonder how many positive experiences are being filtered out to further some sort of anger campaign, one that may not be necessary or useful.

Health service officials on the campus agree there is a problem. As of

February, they had requested $500,000 in additional state and university funding, according to the Feb. 14 Diamondback article, “Mental health prioritized at University of Maryland after murder-suicide, student deaths.” In the article, Mental Health Director Marta Hopkinson said health services required more funding and staff to address the increase in requests for counseling and psychotherapy.

Officials on the campus petitioning for the funds are armed with the records of who is getting immediate treatment and who is put on some sort of wait list, rendering the purpose of collecting anecdotal evidence from students via Facebook unclear.

That’s not to say we as students don’t have a role to play in this movement or that Get Help UMD isn’t a powerful tool.

There is a large community of students with mental health and emotional issues on the campus, and it’s time to stop asking them to remain invisible. Get Help UMD can be an unprecedented way for peers to share what mental health issues they struggle with, what resources they sought, what worked and what didn’t.

It could empower students to seek help and demand wider, more comprehensive services. It shouldn’t be used to create the illusion that the help they need simply doesn’t exist.

So to those who think they can’t find the help they need on this campus, I will say this: Calling the Counseling Center might not be the solution to your problems, but it could the first step in taking things into your own hands.

There are group therapy programs offered through the Counseling Center and Health Center, both for general therapy and for specific themes. These are free, without a session limit and generally without a wait. Individual therapy provided on the campus is free and conveniently located, but be aware that as the situation currently stands, you may need to seek care off the campus if you want uninterrupted, immediate treatment.

Langan Denhard is a junior behavioral and community health major. She can be reached at langan.denhard@gmail.com.

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DOTS, say hello to STUPIBD A call to arms for those who value better campus parking NADAV KARASOV The Department of Transportation Services is making it rain tickets on this campus — 82,725 last year, to be exact.

If you drive on the campus, you’re basically guaranteed to encounter the harsh cruelty of parking enforcement.

Now, I know what those DOTS people will tell you: “But these tickets help reduce parking costs and shuttle fees,” or, “They encourage drivers to use public transportation.” Fine, you can buy into their Jedi mind tricks all you want, but you and I both know those parking attendants enjoy their work a little too lustfully to exempt them from guilt.

They ravage the campus’ streets and garages and beat down our spirits one violation at a time. We witness these vehicular marauders ooze schadenfreude on a daily basis (In my mind, these villains — “Raiders of the Lost Park” — only speak German), leaving drivers with little recourse.

All we can hope for is a more equitable and palatable process. If DOTS needs to dole out parking tickets in order to maintain fully functioning services, then by golly, students should make them earn their money. Nothing

comes free — convenient public transportation included — but as students (i.e., guardians) of this campus, it’s our obligation to ensure a just and welcoming environment.

I don’t care how many color-coded, thematic, flavored or topographical parking maps those harbingers of despair may list on their website; DOTS continues to leave students and campus guests exceedingly confused as to when and where parking is free. Distributing 82,725 parking violations is no accident — it’s a deliberate policy. Poor signage and disorienting parking regulations usually doom fresh-faced students, not to mention unsuspecting visitors.

Only seasoned veterans of this concrete battlefield can fully grasp the intricacies of true DOTS madness. When families tour the campus with prospective students, it’s all too likely they’ll leave feeling violated themselves due to predatory parking enforcers. Parking tickets have become the token College Park souvenir (besides liver poisoning, bruises and chlamydia, of course).

No more. There are 49 advocacy groups currently listed on this university’s student management system, OrgSync, none of which are taking a stand against DOTS. For the 50th group, I present to you Students Thwarting Unethical Parking Infractions By DOTS.

As this campus’ pre-eminent advocacy group, STUPIBD (The “B” is silent — sort of like Django, except more badass) would flood the campus with cheat sheets and easily accessible information for students and visitors alike.

Free parking does exist, along with the rest of the information on DOTS regulations — all STUPIBD would do is widely distribute this information in an easily digestible format. A website that intuitively breaks down when and where to find free parking on the campus would be a nice start, along with an app that could warn you of potential infractions in real time.

Beyond these basic offerings, STUPIBD members could help advocate on behalf of parking violators, honing their lawyer skills by working to convince DOTS officials to reduce or erase unfair tickets. I’m sure there are drivers with a good grasp of the loopholes in the DOTS system — it’s up to you to share this wealth of knowledge with the world.

If this initiative became a success and DOTS had to raise the price of tickets again or begin charging other fees, so be it. At least the punishments would actually match the crimes.

N a d a v Ka ra so v i s a j u n i o r economics major. He can be reached at njkarasov@gmail.com.

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ERIK SHELL How many people do you talk to every day? On a good day, you might say you talk to upwards of 15 or 20 people for longer than a brief nod or grunt in the hallway. But let’s see if we can narrow that number down. First, eliminate everyone who said “Good” when you asked about his or her day.

Next, eliminate anyone you talked with but can’t remember at least three facts brought up in conversation.

There are more limits I could put on this, but chances are you lost most of your candidates after the first stipulation. You see, there are many ways to converse with people, but I’ve found the overwhelming majority of people aren’t exercising those means of communication. In fact, if a human body were a metaphor for conversational prowess, almost everyone would be strutting around with skinny little chicken legs.

If you’re skeptical, sit in Stamp Student Union, preferably near a busy table, and listen to what people are saying. Not their topics so much, but the back-and-forth between those involved. Chances are it’ll go like this: Person one says personal fact, person two says unrelated personal fact, person one continues his or her own story and person two says something entirely off-topic. The pattern repeats again and again until this enthralling exchange ends in a “That sucks,” or “I’m so random, but…”

These aren’t conversations. Sure, a conversation only requires the oral exchange of ideas.

But what is going on in those exchanges? Rather than a valuable exchange, daily conversation more resembles two people hitting a tennis ball — the topic — at a brick wall. They swing away, each trying to hit harder than the other, until eventually the ball breaks, the other person walks

away or one person swings so hard they miss the ball completely. It’s a mindless series of chatter, egotistical at best and faux-sociopathic at worst.

This may seem like a step too far, but think about what you miss when you don’t dig into your interactions. Across from you sits a living person, a breathing being who has spent roughly the same amount of time as you living a completely different existence. Even as you speak, he or she speaks with decades of baggage and backstory you cannot even imagine.

And yet you give more weight and priority to your narrow perspective.

I’d like to say learning to converse properly can be taught, and I will do so in 30 easy, one-hour sessions at $19.99 a piece. But the solution is far too easy to ask for so much money.

First, stop answering “Good” when asked about your day. Instead, actually say how you’re doing. You’ll quickly find out who actually wanted to know the answer and who was just passing along the nicety. Next, suppress the urge to overnarrate. No one has lived so fully as to have a story about everything, so keep your stories relevant and limited. It’s not a coolest story competition.

Finally — and here’s the kicker — you have to actively listen to other people.

That doesn’t mean sitting silently and taking in everything they say. It means asking questions, understanding what they said and then asking more questions.

Get to the heart of things, and you’ll find people much more willing to open up and share than you might have expected.

People are interesting. While most are ready and waiting to drop stories about the weekend, you’ll find they get very uncomfortable when you start answering what they ask. Hold yourself to this higher standard of conversation, and you’ll soon be surrounded by people who care and who, if you can believe it, you’ll actively want to talk with.

E r i k S h e l l i s a so p h o m o re classical languages and literatures and history major. He can be reached at erik1434@gmail.com.

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orn today, you are one of the most sensitive and emotional individuals born under your sign, but you are certainly not the type to telegraph those feelings to others in an indiscriminate manner. On the contrary, most of the time other people have no idea just how deeply you are affected by what is said and done around you, as you are so guarded and able to keep your feelings close to the vest. What is most important to you is that you have some kind of outlet whereby you can let off steam and release any pentup feelings without embarrassing yourself or others.

Your passions are sure to help you achieve great things in life, for the more strongly you feel about a given endeavor, the better you are likely to perform. It is not likely you will ever do something that you do not feel passionate about -- at least not in the professional arena.

Also born on this date are: Kirby Puckett, baseball player; Billy Crystal, actor and comedian; Michael Caine, actor; Quincy Jones, composer and music producer; Frank Borman, astronaut; Hank Ketcham, cartoonist; Les Brown, bandleader; Albert Einstein, physicist.

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thing new today that fits with your aesthetic perfectly -- and yet allows you to explore something new.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -You’ve been good for quite a while, but today you may be tempted to break the rules -- albeit for a very good reason.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -Something you hope is yours and yours alone may actually be something you’re going to have to share -- but with someone you know very well.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -You’re going to have to consider a dissenting opinion today. When the time comes, you must be willing to accept another perspective.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) -- Temptation beckons, but you’re feeling strong and capable. There’s no need for you to revert to any of your old ways.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- You insist on fair treatment -- today and every other day. Right now, however, it may be hard for you to get others to adopt your point of view.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- A cooperative effort pays off in ways

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The new partnership you are forging is worth a great deal.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -The time has come for you to say yes and no to things in a direct, no-nonsense manner. There’s no room for vacillation.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -You can combine doing something for someone else with what you do for yourself today -- in a way that attracts unexpected attention.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- You’ll be able to do more things in less time today -- but take care that you don’t let your own momentum trip you up at any point.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- The fruits of your labors will be enjoyed not only by you and yours, but by others who are not directly involved in your affairs.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Your people skills will surely come in handy today, but you’re going to have to do or say things that don’t always come naturally to you.

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The spirit of funk lives on in the form of alumni band Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, which brings its danceable and increasingly popular sound to Looney’s on Sunday

By Zachary Berman Senior staff writer Word to the wise: Funk isn’t dead.

It just found a new home.

No longer sequestered to well-worn eight-tracks and Parliament reunion concerts, funk has taken up a new nest in Baltimore with up-and-coming, neo-psychedelic groove rockers Pigeons Playing Ping Pong.

Composed of university alumni, Pigeons will return to its alma mater this Sunday for a special St. Patrick’s Day performance at Looney’s Pub, intent on dropping as many jams as it can.

“First of all, we love to play funk music,” singer and guitarist Greg Ormont said. “I think funk is really fun and incredibly positive.”

Ormont’s sentiments are evident in the group’s sound, which mixes and edits a variety of styles down into one concise product: danceable jams.

The refinement of Pigeons’ sound has occurred over several years, running parallel to the group’s steadily growing momentum in the live music community.

“We started playing basements and garages and started practicing a bunch,” Ormont said. “We played

out at Stamp Student Union a little bit, we played at the Incon, in front of Cumberland [Hall]. We just started playing a bunch of school gigs and never stopped.”

Now music has become his profession. Among its many projects, Pigeons is recording a second fulllength album — its first was recorded on the campus at WMUC Radio — as well as hosting the Domefest music festival in Aldie, Va., and preparing for another full year of touring and venue residencies.

As Ormont explains, however, the most important part of being in a band is to avoid letting increasing popularity go to your head or indulge your ego.

“We’re in this to have good times, make new friends and bring people together, so after shows, we’ll go out and talk to the crowd,” Ormont said.

“Hanging with the people that go to the shows has helped with the loyalty.

They’ll support us more knowing that we’re just regular guys.”

This grounded attitude has clearly worked in the group’s favor, garnering it a large regional following, often referred to affectionately as “The Flock.”

After years of largely successful grassroots self-promotion, Pigeons has

just signed a deal with Hoplite, a national promotional agency, that promises to take the band into even more regional markets, starting in April with a big run of shows in Colorado.

According to Ormont, signing with Hoplite has freed up time for the band to work on other things, including songwriting and preparation for the fourth annual Domefest, taking place on April 26 and 27.

Even with all the work, there’s little else Ormont and company would rather be doing with their lives at the moment.

There may be tons of other, more modern styles of music pervading the musical social climate, but Pigeons is happy to show everyone funk is as alive as ever and can succeed just as well.

“We’re just gonna keep playing our stuff,” Ormont said. “It’s the electronic age; we’re aware of it, we listen to it sometimes and we know it’s what a lot of people are liking these days.

But we’re gonna keep playing what we love, and that’s funk.”

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong will perform at Looney’s Pub on Sunday.

Music begins at 6 p.m. Admission is free. jivin’ for a funky groove? Then strut on down to Looney’s Pub and catch the cool cats in Pigeons Playing Ping Pong laying down some sweet jams for your pleasure. photos courtesy of jordan august photography and pigeons playing ping pong

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QUOTE OF THE DAY Matt Furstenburg Former Terps tight end

“I didn’t meet Manti [Te’o].”

Reporter: “Did you meet his girlfriend?”

“Yes, she’s right here.”

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Francis posts solid numbers at pro day Former Terps Vellano, Tate, others also take part in yesterday’s pre-NFL Draft workout

By Josh Vitale Senior staff writer

After all, the Terps — a unit featuring seven underclassmen and six newcomers in its 10-man rotation — have made noteworthy strides from the irrelevant 17-15 campaign they pieced together during Turgeon’s first season.

They beat No. 2 Duke on national television, they’ve already reached the 20-win mark for the first time since 2009-10 and they helped develop the program’s first surefire NBA lottery pick in more than a decade.

Still, such achievements hardly

A.J. Francis stood silently in a nearempty Byrd Stadium late yesterday morning, his head forward and his right arm straight up in the air. It was the Terrapins football team’s pro day, and the former Terps defensive lineman was waiting his turn to do the vertical jump as more than a dozen NFL scouts watched nearby.

But just before he was about to jump, Francis stepped away from the line. He quickly ripped off his red muscle shirt and gray gym shorts, stripping down to only his Under Armour compression shorts before readying himself to jump again.

It was likely his final chance to convince NFL teams to bring him in for individual workouts before the draft begins April 25. He wasn’t going to let baggy clothes slow him down.

And they didn’t. He posted personal bests in the shuttle drill (4.5 seconds) and the broad jump (9 feet 4 inches), and he fell just short of his top marks in the 40-yard dash (5.01 seconds) and the bench press (24 repetitions).

It was the culmination of all the work he’s done in the past two months, which he spent training at Bommarito Performance Systems in Davie, Fla., alongside former teammates Kenneth Tate, Joe Vellano and Matt Furstenburg,

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Ahead of schedule

No matter what happens in ACC tournament, Turgeon says Terps are on right track

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer Mark Turgeon isn’t a fan of quick fixes or temporary remedies. The Terrapins men’s basketball coach prefers to look at the big picture, to judge a program’s extended growth.

So Turgeon isn’t putting too much emphasis on tonight’s matchup against No. 10-seed Wake Forest in the first round of the ACC tournament. He understands a loss to the Demon Deacons would extinguish any far-flung NCAA Tournament

hopes, and he realizes there’s still a chance the No. 7-seed Terps will sit at home come late March for the third straight year.

But no postseason invitation will change the bottom line. In his mind, the youthful bunch isn’t just on track.

It’s ahead of schedule.

“I came here to build a great program and we’re taking steps towards that,” Turgeon told reporters in Greensboro, N.C., yesterday.

“We’re much further along than I anticipated at this point in time.”

It’s an argument rooted in logic.

Defensive lineman A.J. Francis works out at pro day yesterday at Byrd Stadium. charlie deboyace/the diamondback