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Students turn to national marriage equality With Supreme Court hearing two cases, students rally, protest in front of courthouse

By Jenny Hottle and Alex Kirshner Senior staff writers As a crowd gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court steps Tuesday morning, Ryan Heisinger couldn’t help but feel like part of history in the making.

For each protester holding a poster declaring, “Kids do best with a mom & a dad,” another three or four waved rainbow flags and held signs proudly proclaiming themselves as advocates of marriage equality. A man wearing a red baseball cap and scarf, Thos Shipley, showed off a new engagement ring — his partner proposed last week in

Times Square, Shipley explained to nearby ralliers.

It was exhilarating to watch the morning unfold, said Heisinger, the Student Government Association academic affairs vice president.

“All different backgrounds of people are rallying around this cause — it’s really inspiring,” he said. “Maybe one day in our kids’ textbooks, there will be pictures of this rally.”

The senior English and history major was among the thousands of advocates — some of them students from this See court, Page 2

Student creates site to help others come out

By Matt Bylis For The Diamondback

thousands of people, including university students, gathered in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday and Wednesday as justices heard two cases regarding same-sex marriage: California’s Proposition 8 and the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Qween Amor (top) rallied alongside opponents (bottom) in Washington. photos by kelsey hughes/for the diamondback

While he was on vacation in South Carolina this past summer, Brooks Gabel picked up the phone to find two text messages, both with the same cry for help.

Two friends from home texted Gabel about their fears of coming out about their sexuality to their friends and families. That, Gabel said, was the “aha moment” that inspired him to create a social network through which members

of the lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender community can connect and find support.

By this fall, the senior marketing major plans to debut his website, JustLikeYou. org, which is meant to be a free online pen pal service where users can anonymously share their stories, backgrounds, fears and questions with other members of the LGBT community. Gabel — a gay student himself — said he hopes to create JustLikeYou chapters on college campuses across the nation to help other students See lgbt, Page 3

Under secretary speaks on campus about online terrorism Government has turned to Facebook, blogs and message forums to help fight extremist recruiting efforts, speaker says

By Jim Bach Senior staff writer When it comes to waging war on terrorism, the United States isn’t just fighting in the Middle East, Western Asia and North Africa — it’s also combating violent

extremism online, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Affairs Tara Sonenshine said to an audience in Stamp Student Union on Wednesday.

At an event hosted by the university’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terror-

ism, Sonenshine told attendees in the Atrium the government is currently engaged in a different kind of counterterrorism strike. Instead of focusing on standard military procedures, they’re using Facebook, blogs and message forums to rebut extremist rhetoric and

militant ideologies targeted at young people in these mediums.

“We have to actually cover a full spectrum; going all the way from online activity to more traditional spaces, virtual and non-virtual,” Sonenshine said.

While al-Qaeda and its leadership has

significantly weakened over the years, smaller, sympathetic extremist groups continue to be problematic as they search for young recruits through the Internet.

“It is not just central al-Qaeda that See sonenshine, Page 3

Big Ten to provide Univ. may cut ties with Adidas univ. travel stipend Officials demand company ‘remedy labor rights violations’ in Indonesia

By Erin Egan Senior staff writer When Terrapins athletes begin taking on mainly Midwestern Big Ten teams in July 2014, getting to games won’t be so simple.

It will require planning plane rides and transportation to and from airports — and much steeper travel costs. So to ease the university’s transition, the athletic department will receive a travel stipend of between $20 million and $30 million, a source close to the negotiation said, that will compensate for the longer distances between College Park and other conference members.

The athletic department’s travel budget for the university’s first year in the Big Ten is expected to double to $6 million, the source said.

The farthest the Terps have had to travel to face a conference foe in the ACC is about 1,000 miles to get to Miami, and most games have been within 300 miles.

However, once the university is in the Big Ten, the Terps will have to travel up

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to 1,100 miles to Minneapolis or 1,200 miles to Lincoln, Neb. Negotiation details still need to be worked out, including the Terps’ 2014-15 schedule. Additionally, conference and university officials have not decided whether the stipend will be given in one lump sum or in payment installations.

Even though Big Ten trips may require more planning, athletic department officials said they are not worried about the extra miles.

“What was a five-hour bus ride in the ACC could now be a two-hour plane ride in the Big Ten,” the source said.

“We anticipate that we will adjust our travel schedule based on the timing and location of the athletic event prior to the switch to the Big Ten.” Athletic department officials declined to comment on whether they ever received a travel stipend from the ACC, citing confidentiality agreements, and Big Ten representatives declined See stipend, Page 2

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By Fatimah Waseem Staff writer The university threatened Tuesday to cut future financial ties with Adidas to pressure the sports apparel giant in an effort to provide 2,800 former Indonesian factory workers with severance pay amounting to $1.8 million.

After a PT Kizone factory — which is predominantly owned by Adidas — suddenly shut down nearly two years ago, the workers were denied nearly half a year’s worth of wages.

The university could join nine others in shuttering Adidas if it severs ties with the company. The university has requested that the company “remedy labor rights violations” within 90 days beginning on Tuesday, Joe Ebaugh, the university’s director of trademark licensing, wrote in a letter addressed to the company.

The second anniversary of the factory’s shutdown is on Monday.

Student advocacy groups, including Community Roots and Justice at Maryland, are pushing the administration to follow through with the demands.

The groups also met with Diane Krejsa, the legal affairs office deputy chief counsel and chief of staff, on Feb. 28, and 59 students and

community members wrote to the administration demanding termination of the contract.

“A blemish on a company with which we do business is a blemish on us, because we benefit from [workers’] exploitation,” Justice at Maryland and Community Roots wrote in a Feb. 26 letter to the administration.

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court From PAGE 1 university — who rallied for samesex marriage as the Supreme Court takes up two cases on the matter this week. Several hundred people also took to the streets in support of the two laws up for debate: California’s Proposition 8, which passed in 2008 and banned samesex marriage in that state, and the Defense of Marriage Act, which federally defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.

The clash of ideologies was reflected inside the courtroom Tuesday and Wednesday as Supreme Court justices heard oral arguments over both cases and expressed strongly divided views on how they should rule. Some, such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia, remained steadfastly supportive of allowing states to dictate the legality of samesex marriage, while others, such as Justice Sonia Sotomayor,suggested the time may not have been right to hear a case on Proposition 8 at all, according to several news reports.

Meanwhile, several justices, like Anthony Kennedy, seemed to lean toward enforcing marriage equality.

This state became the first in the nation to affirm same-sex marriage by referendum on the state ballot in November. In the election, 73 percent of people who voted on the campus supported same-sex marriage on the state

level. Now, supporters and protesters alike are keeping a close eye on the court as the justices hear arguments on the two cases.

“The bottom line is both legal and moral civil rights,” said Del. Bonnie Cullison (D-Montgomery). “In this country, we grant rights to our citizens that are defined in our laws, defined in our Constitution, defined in our Declaration of Independence.”

Politically speaking, the past month has been a momentous one for same-sex marriage.

Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican senator who had been publicly against it his entire life, announced his support for marriage equality after his son came out.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton followed suit days later in an online video release, with a slew of Democratic senators echoing their support afterwards.

“We’re at a point where we’ve crossed a line, so to speak,” said Luke Jensen, director of the university’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity Center. “The number of people who are below the age of 30 who support the availability of marriage for samesex couples is overwhelming.”

Fifty-eight percent of Americans support the right to samesex marriage, while 36 percent oppose it, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released last week. A decade ago, The Post noted, those numbers were nearly flipped exactly. Among younger

Several hundred protesters carried signs bearing messages like “holy matrimony, vote for,” outside of the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning. kelsey hughes/for the diamondback

Americans, the favorability rating was even higher.

“My inclination is to say that [now] is a turning point, and I think the turning point was actually the fact that it was on the ballot and passed in the ballot in three states,” Cullison said. Last November, Maine and Washington state also upheld referendums on the issue, and Minnesota rejected a constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.

Maryland has come to accept same-sex marriage sooner and more broadly than most states, advocates said, though it is not quite at the cutting edge of acceptance.

“It took Maryland a while to get to this point,” Cullison said. “Marriage equality has been heard in the Statehouse at various times over the last decade, and we just got it in 2013, so I wouldn’t call us standing out front. But I also believe that we were taking steps in the right direction in those 10 years.”

Cullison, who is one of eight openly LGBT members of the state’s General Assembly, said same-sex marriage has become a topic of broad importance in the state, far exceeding only gay and lesbian circles.

“It’s not just personal. It is about the bigger picture, the philosophies and the rights,” she said. “My straight allies were some of the most impressive speakers on the floor during the marriage equality debate, and I know they are speaking from the heart.”

But while many allies of the LGBT community have been switching their Facebook profile pictures in support of marriage equality this week, some students at this university said they are sticking to faith-driven beliefs that the definition of marriage should remain — or return to — a union between a man and a woman.

Based on social media debates, David Burkey said he recognizes he holds an unpopular opinion on the campus by opposing samesex marriage.

“People who share my opinion are often seen as bigoted,” the junior accounting and marketing major said. “I have friends who are

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Proposition 8 and that it would likely strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, though those predictions are far from certain.

Heisinger said he hopes for a sweeping ruling that same-sex marriage is constitutional and legal across the United States,but noted commentary and analysis of the oral arguments shows the justices are still on the fence.

“I assume the court will rule narrowly — the ruling will probably just apply to California and not to the U.S.,” Heisinger said.

The justices could take a number of different paths in rendering verdicts on both cases, which are said to be due around June. They could strike down or uphold the laws, declaring marriage discrimination outrightly constitutional or unconstitutional. In Proposition 8’s case, the issue could be left to California to decide, with no constitutional assessment made.

Cullison anticipated the Court “might take the moderate road and not make sweeping statements.”

Regardless of the results in Washington, Jensen said longterm social changes of heart on the issue are inevitable.

“The tide is coming. The wave is already passed, or we’re in that first wave,” Jensen said, “and it’s going to reach all the states.”

to comment whether the conference has offered travel stipends to other schools. Conferences typically don’t pay for travel costs,university President Wallace Loh said, but university officials managed to negotiate the stipend as part of the deal with the Big Ten. Athletic Director Kevin Anderson was pleased with the negotiations, he told The Baltimore Sun in December.

“I can’t see that there is going to be any disadvantage for any of our student-athletes in our move to the Big Ten,” Anderson said.“Their family will be able to follow them on the Big Ten Network. There is more TV exposure.”

And the stipend will help make athletes’, and the athletic department’s, lives easier, Anderson added.

“There are some difficult trips,” he said.“We found that,for the most part, it’s not going to be any longer than most of our [ACC] trips.Going to Tallahassee is not the easiest. Going to Miami is probably as long as some of the others.”

Several coaches declined to comment whether the longer distances would affect their athletes academically because they could miss more classes for increased travel time.

Coaches said it is still too early to make that determination. But the stipend is helping some students warm up to the conference change.

Whenthemovewasfirstannounced in November, junior Garrett Yung said he was opposed.

“After all of the financial reasons, I realized it was better for us to move to the Big Ten than to stay in the ACC,”the business and psychology major said.

“It’s good for the athletes because they are ultimately the ones affected by the new travel schedule.”

The stipend demonstrates the Big Ten’s commitment to supporting the university through the transition period, said Kat Ziemke, a senior kinesiology major.

“It shows that the conference is very welcoming to our move and it relieves some of the financial burdens from us while we transition,” she said. “I support the move even more now.”

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Advocates on both sides of marriage equality rallied in Washington this week as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on two same-sex marriage cases. kelsey hughes/for the diamondback gay — they’re great. I have nothing against the gay community.”

Still, Burkey said he views marriage as fundamental in its meaning as being defined between a man and a woman, and should stay that way because “it’s best, maybe, for society.”

The case against Proposition 8 is “infuriating,” said Jimmy Williams, a sophomore journalism major.

“Twice was the issue of gay marriage put to the voters of California, without a doubt the most liberal voting bloc besides maybe New York state, and twice was gay marriage shot down,” he said. “If the Supreme Court strikes down what the voters in California have already voted for twice, then what’s the point of the ballot anymore?”

Supporters of same-sex marriage said there were legal and moral reasons the high court should strike down both Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, though predicting the outcome is difficult.

“The cases are different. The cases have different merits,” said Sharon Brackett, board chair of Gender Rights Maryland. “My crystal ball’s as hazy as anyone else’s. I’m optimistic, but I’m also realistic. I really have no idea what course they’re going to take.”

As oral arguments concluded on Wednesday, the most prevalent opinions were that the court would be skeptical to pass judgment on

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LGBT From PAGE 1 feel more comfortable with their coming-out processes.

“It’s giving a wide variety of people a place to find comfort and connect with others,” he said. “People of different locations, religions and backgrounds are going to have completely different experiences, and my goal is to relate to all of them. This way, my visitors can see what others have been through and know that they don’t have to conform to any stereotype.”

JustLikeYou.org is not a dating site, Gabel said. In fact, its goal is to help tear down the stereotypes created by homosexual dating networks such as Grindr. Many see Grindr as sexually charged, but JustLikeYou will rely on users’ personal narratives, instead of picture or video content, to guide the conversation on the social network, he said.

While preparing the website, Gabel is also blogging about his personal experiences and anecdotal advice for others, catego-

sonenshine From PAGE 1 we’re worried about,” Sonenshine said. “We’re worried about their franchises, those that exploit negative factors with the express purpose of recruiting people and often very young people.”

Sonenshine described a “youth bulge” in the global population — there are more than 3 billion people in the world under the age of 30, and 90 percent of them are growing up in countries struggling with poor economic conditions, limited social opportunities and political unrest.

When these young people feel marginalized, they can become vulnerable to terrorist efforts, she said.

Counter-terrorism is now thought of as an “expansive concept” that shouldn’t be narrowly defined as a “choice between the law enforcement approach and the military approach,” said Bill Braniff, executive director of START. “The U.S. government is turning the page on the post-9/11 story.”

Now, the government must fight in the social media platforms and chat rooms where terrorists find their recruits, and central to these online efforts is the Center for Strategic Coun-

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rizing his posts into topics including “LGBT Lingo,” “Holiday Themed” and “Sexuality on a Spectrum.” Since the start of the blog, JustBrooks.blog.com, Gabel said he has received anonymous emails from people all over the world, including Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

“I don’t know how they found it,” he said. “But the majority are in the ninth through 12th grade, and around 30 to 40 percent have said that I’m the first person they have told. That’s the main reason why I feel that a social network will be so valuable. People are asking me to begin this global conversation around coming out, and that’s exactly what I plan to do.”

Carter Gisriel, a Johns Hopkins University student, also writes for the blog and has helped Gabel brainstorm about his site.

“During my coming-out process, I was fortunate enough to have a friend who led me every step of the way, from showing me around the town to meeting new people, and it helped me so much,” Gisriel said. “Brooks is going for the same idea, but we

are talking through the computer instead. We want to make sure people feel comfortable coming to us in any situation, and either simply venting or asking for some peer guidance to get through a hard time.”

Gabel was recently accepted into the business school’s EnTERPreneur Academy program, and the staff mentors there will support the website’s development.

“Brooks is very passionate about his startup and the mission it serves, and it makes a big difference,” said Alla Corey, the program manager at the Dingman Center. “All entrepreneurs encounter problems along the way to success, but not many are able to solve these problems.

Brooks is very creative, able to think fast and make difficult decisions, willing to put in a lot of work and has a positive attitude.”

To ease the financial burden of launching his website, Gabel has moved out of South Campus Commons and back into his parents’ house in Clarksville.

“I’ll tell you the website costs more than a car,” Gabel said. “It’s

terterrorism Communications.

Since President Obama signed a 2011 executive order creating the division, outreach teams have had more than 7,000 engagements with alleged extremists spreading misinformation on the web.

“Al-Qaeda is finding it hard to raise money, train recruits, plan attacks outside those regions in which they operate,” Sonenshine said. “When members of al-Qaeda complain about the CSCC getting on their forums and urge their adherents not to pay attention to us, that’s a plus.”

But still, the Web is only one aspect of a very broad strategy to counter recruitment efforts and the expanding influences of terrorist networks. Sonenshine cautioned against assuming “that every young person everywhere in the world is glued to their mobile device or their computer.”

Exposing young people in developing countries to Western ideologies through study abroad opportunities, scholarships and cultural fairs has also proved to be an effective strategy in shielding young people from terrorist influence, Sonenshine said.

Another tactic is to engage foreign religious leaders and create a culture more receptive to the West. The outpouring of support from these religious

figures after extremists attacked the United States embassy in Benghazi and their willingness to extend scholarship opportunities to their communities is evidence of a positive impact, she said.

Certain members of the audience weren’t completely satisfied with Sonenshine’s statements, though. One reporter asked how the government planned to address other sources of antiAmerican sentiment, like the unmanned drone strikes favored by the Obama administration, which have mistakenly killed civilians alongside terror targets.

Sonenshine responded that while there are a number of factors working against them in the short term, they believe their broader strategy will ultimately prevent impressionable minds from becoming al-Qaeda candidates and weaken extremist groups. While some experts have pointed to drone misfires as a catalyst for anti-American sentiment along the AfghanistanPakistan border, Sonenshine chalks that up to overemphasis in the press.

“If you get caught up in the vicissitudes of the news cycle and events, you can never really get beyond it to what people want,” she said. newsumdbk@gmail.com

more than I have now or will have in the near future.”

While launching a nonprofit may not be the most lucrative venture, Gabel said giving back to society is more important to him than making a lot of money. Some LGBT students said they think his site would be a great resource for students trying to come to terms with their sexuality.

Like other successful networking sites dedicated to youth and college students, JustLikeYou may help foster community, said Josh Deese, a freshman government and politics major and employee of The Trevor Project, a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBT youth.

“There are a number of students on campus that aren’t open about their sexuality and feel trapped because they can’t be themselves,” Deese said.

“JustLikeYou will be a worthy addition to the Internet and will undoubtedly provide resources to LGBT people.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

adidas From PAGE 1 monitor the case and suspend approval of new designs, a decision Justice at Maryland student activist Sam Williamson said was “a disappointment.”

“I am proud that we have s to p p e d a cce p t i n g n ew designs. The best decision would be to immediately terminate the contract with Adidas,” the senior history major said. “Adidas clearly violated not only a local law, but an international law, and the university’s contract.”

The financial losses of terminating the university’s contract are minimal: The company yielded 1 percent in royalties in the last year when compared to the university’s 499 other licensed companies, Ebaugh said.

Adidas has directly given $525,000 in humanitarian aid to the former workers and their families, the company wrote in a statement, and provided job placement services, noting that more than 1,000 workers found new jobs, many of which are with Adidas suppliers. The company also defended its refusal to pay

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Kosher snacks and desserts for passover

For most Jewish people, Passover means a carb-free week and a whole lot of matzo. While some people dread this week, it doesn’t have to be as bad as you think. There are a lot of creative recipes that can fill you up and actually taste good.

Elana’s Pantry is a website with a ton of kosher Passover recipes.

She covers everything from cupcakes and candy to cookies and frozen desserts. Most of these recipes are made from almond flour, which means they are also gluten-free.

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workers, saying it had no obligation to contribute financially to cases where contract suppliers fail to pay workers what they are legally owed and noting that it cut ties with the factory more than five months before violations occurred.

PT Kizone has been riddled with international and domestic law violations since September 2010. It stopped paying mandatory compensation to 49 workers when they voluntarily left and it refused to pay all of its employees their monthly December wages. The factory owner, Jin Woo Kim of South Korea, fled the country, and the factory shut down a few months later with no money for severance pay, according to a 2012 workers’ rights report.

“We cannot be held responsible for someone else breaking the law,” Adidas wrote in reference to PT Kizone.

University officials have been aware of contract violations since 2011 through reports from the Workers Rights Consortium, Ebaugh said, but they felt compelled to act after the student campaign began earlier this year. Community Roots and Justice at Maryland hosted two PT Kizone workers, Heni Sutisna and Aslam Hidayat, last month as part of the workers’

“i am proud that we have stopped accepting new designs ... adidas clearly violated not only a local law, but an international law, and the university’s contract.”

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national Badidas Worker Tour.

The student groups invited university President Wallace Loh, University Relations Vice President Peter Weiler and Administrative Affairs Vice President Rob Specter to attend the talk; Ebaugh also attended.

Sutisna recounted the story of a friend, a woman who worked at the factory for nearly a decade, who was hit by financial hardship and committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a bus. The incident prompted Sutisna to pull her children out of vocational school; Hidayat, t h e fa c to r y ’s u n i o n s h o p steward, said he received death threats in his efforts to secure compensation.

In a February 2012 statement, Adidas wrote it was “sympathetic to the plight of workers” and had instituted a job placement program. In a September statement, Adidas wrote it had created a $250,000 food aid program for former workers and committed $275,000 in humanitarian aid “in recognition of the continuing hardship faced by former workers and their families” — moves critics said were insufficient to rectify the company’s violations, according to the 2012 workers’ rights assessment.

PT Kizone is one of a “long chain” of similar incidents, Williamson said. Adidas closed an El Salvador factory in 2005, leaving employees with $825,000 in unpaid wages.

At this university, officials cut a contract with Russell Athletic Corp. in April 2009 when the company shuttered a Honduran factory in response to unionizing workers. Russell reopened the unionized factory and rehired 1,200 of its workers months after a national student campaign led by 96 colleges and universities, according to a previous Diamondback report.

This time around, the university has another chance to leave a mark on the international labor workers’ rights movement, Williamson said.

“We’re pleased to see that Maryland recognizes the seriousness of Adidas’ refusal to pay a single cent of the $1.8 million in severance owed to the former PT Kizone workers,” said Garrett Strain, international campaigns coordinator for United Students Against Sweatshops. “Across the country, students are committed to ensuring that schools like Maryland fully enforce their Code of Conduct by terminating their contracts with Adidas.” newsumdbk@gmail.com

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hen we register for classes on Testudo, most of us dread clicking the bookstore link. “What will it be this semester?” we wonder. “$400? $600?”

Some of the most burdensome costs students grapple with are the extremely expensive textbooks required for our classes. Not only do we have to pay the absurdly high costs of tuition and housing, but the cost of textbooks is simply becoming ridiculous.

Nationwide, roughly 20 percent of textbook costs go directly into the pockets of the bookstores, according to studies by the National Association of College Stores. The stores themselves are adding to the burden, which makes sense — they are businesses.

Bookstores across the country are struggling, but it’s not fair to penalize students in response.

One increasingly popular option that could save us all money is worth considering: open-source textbooks.

Licensed under open copyright and made freely available online for all, open textbooks deliver information directly to the reader without the costs of printing, distribution and sales.

As is, textbook companies have monopolized the industry to exploit students, forcing us to buy supposedly new editions of books that usually only differ in chapter layout. These new versions devalue the ones we just bought, forcing us to sell them back for beans.

Textbook prices are increasing faster than tuition, health care and housing,

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according to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington. There’s no excuse for such a rise other than the industry’s profit motive.

States such as Texas and California have praised open textbooks and are crafting initiatives to codify their use.

This state and university system should join in and embrace the future to ensure textbook costs won’t continue to add to the already unbearable debt we will likely face after graduation.

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Students need to advocate actively for open-source textbooks if we want to lessen that monetary burden.

The push for open textbooks is part of an overall paradigm change in higher education, shifting the institution from ivory towers to collaborative online instruction. Many universities, including this one, are already working to incorporate massive open online courses into the curriculum. These free courses, open to all, could revolutionize higher education by challenging the current stratified system of paid credit hours.

Part of this university’s mission statement is “developing and facilitating access to scholarly information in all formats.” High textbook costs directly contradict this goal. This university has already started to expand

online options: In the fall, the Division of Information Technology opened up free Microsoft software for download.

So the idea of open textbooks has precedence — and pressing importance.

Textbook prices unfairly target certain disciplines: Prepping for organic chemistry can easily exceed $200, whereas a paperback The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for an English seminar costs maybe $2. Such inequality could influence students’ decisions to buy textbooks, potentially harming their grades, or to enroll in a course at all, potentially harming their futures.

Some professors already upload scanned PDF versions of readings to ELMS, saving students money but also skirting the law in the process. Teachers and students shouldn’t be forced to resort to quasi-legal activity to be able to learn together.

Speaking of learning together, open textbooks allow a more collaborative approach for everyone looking at a book. Find a typo? Email your professor and she can change it on the spot.

Need more examples to help you tackle a certain concept? Also easily added.

Such instant editing is impossible in the world of publishers’ print textbooks.

Removing the middleman status from greedy publishers and bookstores and taking away the temptation of profit would go a long way toward further opening higher education to everyone, regardless of a person’s financial situation. That’s a worthy egalitarian goal — and it would be a hell of a lot cheaper, too.

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Educating or education?

ERIK SHELL This past week, I returned to my previous college. I went there for two years before transferring to this university, and what happened in the two years I’ve been gone really opened my eyes to a disturbing trend in education.

To put this into context, my previous college has just dipped below the 1,800-student mark. Compare that to College Park’s more than 26,000 undergraduates alone. As such a small school, it was always very open and sensitive to its students. Almost anyone could schedule his or her own meeting with the president, head of Student Affairs and each department chair all in the same afternoon.

More recently, however, it appears such closeness is becoming rarer. The administrative body has grown to the point that students are underrepresented and overburdened with new procedures, and the faculty are a small shove away from unionizing because of a lack of power.

Does any of this sound familiar?

The university we know these days is already knee-deep in administrative red tape, and the idea of an everyday student meeting with any administrator who can actually get something done is laughable.

Think of it this way: Back in the ancient Greek times, education was done outdoors, in the fresh air, without any need for someone to set up a projector or reserve a room or even pay an add-on activities fee.

They came up, paid the teacher, sat down and learned — and the payment and sitting were optional.

Sure, with 26,000 students running around, it would get a little unruly if they all had their checkbooks out to write tuition checks to their professors. Plus, no one would want to have their classes at this university outdoors, what with the intense winds and weekly downpours.

But having money handlers and building coordinators isn’t the problem. The problem is when you have teachers and administrators who, though they’ve gone to college themselves, seem to have no idea what it’s like to teach a class or even sit in one. Think, for example, of trying to get advised in your major or about the nearly impossible task of reserving a spot in a class.

In comes the administrator, whose job it is to facilitate education in every way possible. They organize events and get amazing speakers like Noam Chomsky to come to the campus. But then there are building projects that benefit donors instead of students and entire agencies in the university that funnel money from those who have graduated, without worrying about those who won’t because their programs were slashed out of the system completely.

When it comes down to it, professors can teach in a field with a direct-topocket tuition payment. That said, the administrative juggernaut allows for a more educated country and, therefore, a booming tech industry and higher quality of life. But at the point when those who don’t know enough — about whatever circumstance they’re in charge of — overstep their bounds to compromise the very core of the university as educational, the usefulness of administration diminishes.

These administrators, then, are the increasingly inefficient enablers of education, while professors and students represent the school itself as an educational institution, sans walls. Nowhere on McKeldin Mall will you find this university, but if you look in the rooms for the bodies, you’ll get a little closer.

This issue, much like our current Congress, would benefit greatly from some informed decision-making. I, for one, would be ecstatic to see a college adviser next to me in economics, and I think we’d all reap the rewards of that.

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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The downside of social media MATT DRAGONETTE In the 24/7 news era, with countless hours spent on political coverage, it seems easy to believe our generation is more informed and more aware of the politics of our time. With the advent of social media, many in our generation are inclined to advocate for their values.

And groups in our high schools and at this university do so. Indeed, with the numerous internships and jobs available in political advocacy and campaigning, it may seem we are destined to lead well-informed, logical debates over public policy. However, according to a 2007 Pew Research Center poll, less than one-half of the population from ages 18 to 29 is considered to have “medium” or “high” political knowledge — a number that has not improved since the late ’80s. Older generations have a more vast knowledge than ours by as much as 34 percentage points.

While this trend is not surprising, especially because those 18- to 29-yearolds feel too busy to be interested, it is worrisome. In this day and age, it is infinitely easier to share our opinions and advocate our beliefs through social media. If young people advocate beliefs without being well-informed, they are more likely to perpetuate false ideas and misguided opinions.

Social media has made it so easy to

simply spout off ideas, regardless of whether the ideas being spread are valid or not. And it has also become easy to forget arguments are stronger and more believable with support.

When that support is based on misinformation, it can snowball into widespread misconceptions.

The more people we can have involved in political and societal debates, the better it is for all of us. If they are forced to research and find support for their ideas, their conclusions can be much more beneficial to society overall.

However, access to social media and lack of political knowledge have magnified political ignorance and vitriol — some of the most serious side effects of failing to find support for one’s views.

Political ignorance is the art of expressing one’s opinion when it is supported more by emotion than hard fact.

Social media exacerbates this problem because it allows uninformed views to spread more quickly.

For example, many of those “quotes” we see by celebrities and Facebook users are actually fabricated. We, as college students, must be careful what we post on social media websites. If we post untrue or unfounded claims, not only do we contribute to misinforming others, but we also make ourselves look uneducated and uninformed.

Instead of just spouting opinions or false facts, we should take time to educate ourselves on the issues. This will lead to a more informed generation

of people who will greatly and positively contribute to the politics of our time. It is our responsibility as citizens to learn what we can about the issues of our day.

Political hostility represents a disparaging, personal attack on someone because of his or her beliefs; rather than attacking an opponent’s views, many choose to disparage peers personally.

We should all take special care to avoid personally attacking our peers with opposing viewpoints. I saw one Facebook post in which a girl called my good friend “ignorant” (among other worse things) simply because the girl disagreed with her politics. The two did not know each other.

Instead of fostering a reasonable debate on the topic, it led to a divide — each girl harboring resentment toward the other.

Again, social media magnifies the effect of disparaging comments. We do not need to agree with each other’s views, but we need to respect them.

Political ignorance and vitriol divide us. If we truly want to cross the partisan divide in our country, we must be willing to educate ourselves and respect each other. Students at this university must set the example for logical political discussion. Before we post that unfounded claim or disparaging comment on Facebook, we need to ask ourselves whether we are solving the problem or just causing more conflict.

Matt Dragonette is a freshman accounting major. He can be reached at mdragonette9@yahoo.com.

Last week was spring break, and I have just about two months of school left before I graduate, never see any of you again and stop writing these columns.

Most of my columns over that period of time are already planned out, and I have so many more lying around that I’d like to share with you. So I will, in the form of Top 5 lists.

Top 5 Campus Hangouts 5. Roof of the Art-Sociology Building 4. Roof of Francis Scott Key Hall 3. Memorial Chapel Garden 2. Top of Byrd Stadium 1. Roof of Tydings Hall Top 5 Love Songs 5. “Isn’t She Lovely” — Stevie Wonder 4. “I Will Always Love You” — Whitney Houston/Dolly Parton 3. “I Only Have Eyes For You” — The Flamingos 2. “God Only Knows” — The Beach Boys 1. “My Girl” — The Temptations Top 5 Overrated Things 5. Pizza (Especially Ledo pizza) 4. Theme parties 3. Mumford & Sons 2. Bill Clinton 1. Ronald Reagan Top 5 Art Forms 5. Photography 4. Culinary arts 3. Basketball 2. Writing 1. Music

Top 5 Shades of Pink 5. Coral sand 4. Peppermint beige 3. Midsummer dusk 2. Ashes of roses 1. French nude Top 5 Underrated Things 5. Secret handshakes 4. Two-ply toilet paper 3. The liberal arts 2. Rain 1. Pants Top 5 Human Inventions 5. Wheel 4. Internet 3. Airplanes 2. Vaccines 1. Writing Top 5 YouTube Videos 5. “Double Rainbow” 4. “Leprechaun in Mobile, Alabama” 3. “David After Dentist” 2. “Charlie Bit Me” 1. “Boom Goes the Dynamite” Top 5 Short Books You Should Take a Day to Read 5. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho 4. The BFG, Roald Dahl 3. Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl 2. Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson 1. Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke Top 5 Words in the English Language 5. Cyclical 4. Puffs 3. Cantankerous 2. Svelte 1. Trombone Jake DeVirgiliis is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at j.devirgiliis@gmail.com.

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orn today, you have a taste for adventure, but you have no desire to be in the thick of things; rather, you enjoy observing what is going on, and deriving a vicarious thrill from what others are going through in the heat of the moment. To say that you are not willing to put it on the line, however, would be erroneous; you are quite able to roll the dice and take a gamble when considerable success lies in the balance. You understand a great deal about the way the world works, and you are able to accept it and make it work for you, in most situations.

You have a great deal of brainpower; you know how to address a problem in such a way that it is quickly broken down, in your own mind at least, into its component parts -- and this, of course, makes it much easier to deal with. Others often look to you when a solution to a difficult problem is being sought.

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Has the yoga pants trend gone too far to be acceptable or are the haters overreacting?

By Kelsey Hughes Staff writer People, let’s talk for a second about yoga pants.

I will be the first to admit — I wear yoga pants myself. For me, the trend began in junior high, and some of my more well-off classmates were segueing from the terry cloth Juicy sweatsuit phase.

I saw all the cool and pretty girls proudly sporting yoga pants in the hallways. They were the magical garment that made it possible to wear sweatpants and also seem as if you tried to look good that day.

This struggle is one I still face on a regular basis.

I decided I had to have my own pair of fancy yoga pants. So I saved up a lot of birthday money, pooling American Express and half-used mall gift cards. I proudly walked into Bloomingdale’s and picked up a pair of nearly $100 Hard Tail pants (this brand, along with So Low, was the big name in stylish lounge wear at that time).

I loved my yoga pants. I wore them so much, they became holey – and as a result probably even more risque than they already were. I wore them strategically — though I liked the way they looked, I knew they were pretty revealing, and I always made a point to wear looser tops to counteract the way they tightly hugged my legs. I’ve bought several more pairs since that day (though never that expensive — I realized I could get them at most stores for much cheaper and I had grown out of my need to wear the best labels), but my balancing rule has stuck with me.

So I have few problems with yoga pants themselves, though I can see how some might find them

a bit too revealing. However, I do have a problem with what they’ve led to.

The social acceptance of yoga pants has snowballed into a newer trend: leggings as pants. There is a key difference between leggings and yoga pants (unless you’ve bought your yoga pants at Lululemon recently), and that is the thickness of the fabric.

Yoga pants are designed to be worn alone, and their fabric is typically thick and opaque. They also typically fold over at the top and flare out at the ankles, thus ensuring that the shape of the pants does not solely resemble the shape of the person underneath.

Leggings, however, are not pants.

They are designed as an undergarment — solely for additional warmth, maybe to show peeking out under the skirt for some added flair. This yoga pants sibling is more similar to stockings than sweatpants. Wearing leggings as pants in public is essentially like wearing tights as pants, except leggings show bare skin from the calf down. So really, they’re worse.

And nobody wants to see what color underwear you’re wearing through your pants.

Is this an arbitrary difference? Maybe. It may be time we say enough is enough on the whole thing — confine yoga pants to the home and gym and return to the baggy sweatpants we once cherished for our going-out wear. It would be sad to see them go, but it is becoming more and more apparent that the world wasn’t ready for the hefty responsibility of skintight workout gear. diversionsdbk@gmail.com

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By Joe Antoshak Staff writer If you’ve ventured outdoors within the last year or so, chances are you’ve seen women — or men, to be perfectly fair — in the skintight legwear known as yoga pants. Since their inception, they’ve inspired everything from contempt to fervent love, but lately they’ve struck a chord in mainstream culture.

Evidently, wearing them out and about rather than exclusively for yoga has become a more frequent, though not necessarily acceptable, occurrence. Some argue that the form-fitting attire is too revealing for everyday use, or that the fabric is virtually see-through and should be viewed as indecent (Lululemon Athletica recently had to recall some pants for being a little too thin and revealing).

While certain clothing standards are admittedly important for societies not operating under a nudism policy, we need to ask ourselves: Are yoga pants really all that bad?

The United States in particular loves to protest against newfangled clothing styles that challenge the norm. Consider the flappers of the 1920s. Scandalous in their time, when compared to the typical garb of today, their style would look closer to that of convent members than sexual revolutionists.

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Some complain that the pants are being worn by women not only for comfort, but to cheaply catch the eye of the modest, vulnerable men they encounter. But because dressing to attract the opposite sex is not against any U.S. law given that certain body parts are covered, it might be time to put those patriarchal views to rest.

Then there’s the contention that because not everyone has a pair of perfect legs, only some women are qualified to wear the pants.

The fashion world has always included a generous helping of elitism, but it should be reserved for the upper echelons of style, if at all. In the end, no one is forcing anyone to look at the less aesthetic of the yoga pants wearers.

None of this is to say, however, that yoga pants should immediately become acceptable as professional attire. Interviewing in your finest pair of Lululemons is certainly not recommended, but casual donning should not be grounds for judgment.

Granted, a wardrobe full of yoga pants may be a sign of resignation. As in anything else, moderation is crucial. But really, considering the national debt clock is set to hit $20 trillion in the not-so-distant future, yoga pants may be among the least of our problems.

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PAVLECH From PAGE 8 Connecticut in the Sweet 16.

“She was just saying to me that freshman point guards can do special things,” Pavlech said Sunday, “so make your own history.”

P avl e c h , wh o a s s u m e d

starting duties Nov. 21 against American, has been a steady hand for the Terps’ backcourt.

She’s eighth in the ACC with 4.1 assists per game and fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio with a 1.5 mark.

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ACC tournament. Quinnipiac jumped to an early 21-12 lead before the Terps ultimately put the Bobcats away. Pavlech still had five assists and two turnovers, but the shooting woes were pronounced.

“When we played Quinnipiac, we had two weeks off, and it’s really hard to get the feel for the game,” Pavlech said yester-

day. “You can only replicate it so much in practice.”

When the Terps beat No. 5-seed M ichigan State on Monday night to advance to their fifth Sweet 16 under coach Brenda Frese, though, Pavlech seemed to have taken Toliver’s message to heart. The Cincinnati native scored eight points on 3-of-5 shooting, dished six assists and notched two steals, all while turning the ball over just once and not committing a foul in a 74-49 rout.

After her 3-pointer with just less than six minutes left in the second half gave the Terps a 27point lead over the Spartans, Pavlech turned to Frese and the Terps bench and simply shrugged her shoulders. In her words, she was back.

With the Huskies on tap, it’s a welcome return for the Terps, who will need the entire roster to contribute against one of the nation’s deepest teams.

LAYMAN From PAGE 8 coach Mark Turgeon said. “We expect Jake to make shots.”

Layman lived up to expectations at precisely the right moment Tuesday. After a Levi Randolph dunk cut the Terps’ lead to 51-49 with 4:29 left, Wells found Layman standing alone at the top of the key.

As the Alabama defense collapsed on the Terps’ top scorer, Layman netted a wide-open 3-pointer, silencing a raucous Coleman Coliseum crowd.

But Layman was hardly done. Randolph missed a jumper on the Crimson Tide’s ensuing possession, and the Terps again found the deep threat for a 3-pointer at the top of the key.

Layman had singlehandedly turned a two-point game into an eight-point game in just 49 seconds. Alabama managed a mini-rally of its own, but ultimately failed to close the deficit before the final buzzer.

“Six quick points helps a lot whenever,” said Layman, who’s averaging 5.5 points per game and ranks fourth on the Terps in made 3-pointers this season.

“It was good to have.”

And Layman showcased more than his range Tuesday.

Pavlech and center Malina Howard, along with forward Tierney Pfirman, who is out indefinitely with an illness, are the lone Terps with no postseason experience before this season. Still, the rest of the Terps anticipate contributions from Pavlech and Howard.

“We expected them to be nervous, it being the first NCAA Tournament [games] for them,” forward Alyssa Thomas said. “I think they handled themselves very well, and we expect them to continue on.”

The next time the Terps take the court will mark Pavlech and Howard’s fifth postseason game. The Terps are back in the same groove that saw them reel off a nine-game winning streak during the season, Pavlech said.

The bright lights and attention of the Sweet 16 in Bridgeport, Conn., won’t be overwhelming, either. The Terps have played a number of

“She was just saying to me that freshman point guards can do special things, so make your own history.”

He demonstrated why many Terps fans salivated over his high school highlight reel when he committed to the program in September 2011.

Late in the first half, Layman intercepted a Nick Jacobs inbounds pass and posterized the Crimson Tide forward with a one-handed dunk.

The highlight provided a rare glimpse of athleticism from a player who has spent much of his first season in College Park stroking from the perimeter. After all, 63.7 percent of Layman’s shot attempts have come beyond the arc. Many of the rest have been of the midrange variety.

But Layman’s monstrous dunk was hardly a new addition to his arsenal. The same can’t necessarily be said of the former top-70 recruit’s defensive contributions Tuesday.

Turgeon spent much of the Terps’ nonconference slate publicly nitpicking Layman’s performance on the other side of the ball. The then-18-yearold would need to improve his defensive awareness, the second-year coach would say, if he hoped to lock down a spot in the rotation.

The message resonated.

Layman’s defense steadily improved throughout conference play, and he has emerged

as a key part of the Terps’ fullcourt press. Sitting atop the team’s diamond formation, the 6-foot-8 forward uses his length to disrupt passes and nag opposing ballhandlers.

He proved effective in both those aims against a slowpaced Alabama team that ranked near the bottom of the SEC in assist-to-turnover ratio this season. Layman tallied a team-high-tying three steals, helping his team force the Crimson Tide into 14 giveaways — nearly four more than Alabama’s season average.

“Jake’s tough out there,” Turgeon said. “6-feet-8 and long, quick feet, quick hands.

Our press is a lot better when he’s at the top.”

T h ey ’re a l so m u c h i m proved with Layman making an impact in the box score. The Terps are 8-0 when he scores in double digits and 17-12 when he doesn’t.

So odds are Turgeon is hoping Layman doesn’t disappear in New York next week. The Terps may need him to take a temporary break from the typical rookie ups and downs if they hope to win an NIT title.

“It’s nice to have shooters,” Turgeon said. “We get mad at him when he doesn’t shoot.”

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CHLOE PAVLECH

Terrapins women’s basketball guard high-profile games this season, including a nationally televised clash against UConn in Hartford, Conn., in December.

It will be just another game for the Terps. And for Pavlech, it will be another chance at history for a freshman point guard in a Terps uniform.

“I think having two games under your belt for both Chloe and Malina was key in terms of the role they have to play for us,” Frese said. “I think they were able to really get comfortable and confident as we move forward.” sportsdbk@gmail.com

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Terps men’s basketball target Dwayne Morgan committed to UNLV yesterday. For more, visit diamondbackonline.com.

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Not laying down

Layman rebounds from rough patch with strong outing in NIT win at Alabama

By Connor Letourneau Senior staff writer

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Jake Layman knows

over 12 times in an 81-70 victory.

In the next contest — the national championship against Duke — Toliver scored a 3-pointer with six seconds left to tie the game and send it to overtime. The Terps would win their only national championship minutes later.

For Pavlech, who scored two points and shot just 1-of-7 against No. 13-seed Quinnipiac, the message was not lost as the No. 4-seed Terps continue their NCAA Tournament run Saturday against No. 1-seed

freshmen have a reputation for inconsistency. They’ll follow up a star-making performance with a dud of a game.

And as much as he may want to avoid feeding the stereotype, Layman has experienced his share of ups and downs during his rookie campaign.

The Terrapins men’s basketball forward has alternated strings of double-digit games with modest outings, shuffling in and out of the starting lineup throughout the process.

In recent weeks, Layman’s production was trending downward. He seemed to disappear for stretches while swingmen Nick Faust and Dez Wells shouldered the offensive load.

Entering Tuesday’s NIT quarterfinal, Layman had reached the 10-point mark just once in his past nine games and was shooting 31 percent from the field over that span. He was due to break out of his slump.

Tuesday night, he finally did.

Layman erupted for 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting in the No. 2-seed Terps’ 58-57 win at top-seeded Alabama, helping his team earn a date in next Tuesday’s semifinal matchup with No. 3-seed Iowa at Madison Square Garden. The outburst marked the former U18 national team member’s highest point total since a Feb. 7 win at Virginia Tech, and his first time attempting more than seven shots in nearly a month.

“We recruited Jake as a shooter,”

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Guard Chloe Pavlech struggled in the Terps’ NCAA Tournament first-round win over Quinnipiac, but rebounded with an eight-point, six-assist performance in a second-round win over Michigan State. charlie deboyace/the diamondback

DVD from Toliver motivates Pavlech Terps great has message for freshman guard

By Daniel Gallen Senior staff writer Chloe Pavlech found something unusual in her locker following the Terrapins women’s basketball team’s NCAA Tournament first-round win over Quinnipiac on Saturday.

In the space usually reserved for shoes, jerseys and backpacks was a DVD and note from former Terps great Kristi Toliver. The DVD featured the Terps’ 2006 Final Four matchup against North Carolina when Toliver scored 14 points but turned the ball

Forward Jake Layman broke out from his recent slump Tuesday night, scoring 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting in the Terps’ 58-57 win at Alabama. It was his highest scoring output since a Feb. 7 win at Virginia Tech. charlie deboyace/the diamondback