April 30, 2015

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College Republicans to screen Sniper Decision to host event prompted after SEE delays showing of controversial film until fall

until the fall after the Muslim Students Association voiced concerns.

College Republicans collected more than 1,500 signatures between paper

By Jon Banister licans decided to sponsor a showing and online petitions. Breyer Hillegas, president of this university’s College @J_Banister to take place Monday.

Senior staff writer Student Entertainment Events, Republicans chapter, said there was which organizes several free movie widespread support for showing After SEE postponed screenings of screenings on the campus throughout the movie.

“Censorship is horrible for a college American Sniper and sparked public the year, decided to delay a screendebate about the film, College Repub- ing of box-office hit American Sniper campus,” Hillegas said. “Colleges are

supposed to present everything and expose the students to everything.

SEE’s decision set a precedent to say if any small group objects to something, then it’s OK to limit its exposure to students.”

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mayor andy fellows speaks at a public hearing at City Hall on July 15. file photo/the diamondback

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By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_meuller Staff writer College Park residents participated for the second time in the National Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation, an annual campaign that asks citizens across the nation to take an online pledge to save water.

“This area doesn’t as often think about water conservation, but water conservation is really good everywhere,” city Mayor Andy Fellows said. “It saves money and it’s good for the environment.”

T he ca mpa ig n, wh ich took place through April, or Earth Month, invites mayors nationwide to register their cities and ask t hei r residents to ta ke a series of pledges online.

Last year, this city finished 10th in the bracket for municipalities with 30,000 to 99,999 residents, said Steve Beavers, the city’s community development coordinator. As of yesterday, the city was ranked 17th for this year’s contest.

“Last year, we did pretty well,” District 1 Councilman Fazlul Kabir

CARE to Stop Violence, LGBT Equity Center host LGBTQ sexual violence panel

By Carly Kempler @carlykempler Staff writer Some people are unaware of sexual assault within the LGBTQ community, said Tonya Turner, assistant attorney general with the Domestic Violence Section of the Office of the Attorney General in Washington.

“In my job, what I see most often is that people don’t recognize when they are in unhealthy or abusive relationships,” Turner said. “Often people are dismissive because people think, ‘Oh, we’re both men’ or ‘We’re both women,’ so it’s not really considered an abusive relationship. We’re trying to dispel that myth.”

Panelists Kristin Eliason, Amy Loudermilk and Tonya Turner speak during the Take Back The Night panel in Hoff Theater yesterday.

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Univ Senate recommends lone absence policy

Students take to Baltimore streets in city protests

Changes will undergo review in fall semester

U branch of grassroots collective hosts trip Students wait for a ride. sung-min kim/the diamondback

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By Katishi Maake @TheHavocRat Staff writer

The University Senate’s Student Affairs Committee unanimously finalized recommended changes to clarify the university’s excused absences pol icy at its meeti ng yesterday.

The committee aimed to consolidate the many excused absence policies for students into one uniform policy students and faculty could follow. The bill also clarified language surrounding excused and unexcused absences.

The committee’s recommendations will be sent to the Academic Procedures and Standards Committee, which will review the issue in the fall semester, Student Affairs Committee Chairman Ian Chambers said. The Senate Executive

senate representatives Austin Trupp, Josiland Chambers, David Bigio, Mary Hummel and Dennis Passarella-George listen at the Student Affairs Committee meeting last night. rachel george/the diamondback Committee charged the Student Affairs Committee on Feb. 23 to submit its recommendations by the end of this semester.

Chambers, a graduate student who teaches animal sciences classes, said he believes these revisions, if implemented, would make the excused absence process clearer for students.

“The whole beauty of this policy is it’s going to make the process a lot easier for students to handle excused absences,” Chambers said.

The current policy requires a student to have a “verifiable source” to excuse an absence.

The committee’s recommendations provide a list of examples that

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satisfy the source requirement, such as death notices, police reports and court summons, which students might not have known counted as proof of an excused absence.

Kevin LaFrancis, an undergraduate member of the committee, said the revisions would make the policy better suited to the student body.

“We really discussed and parsed the wording of the legislation to make sure it tailored to every student’s possible concerns and questions that may come up,” said LaFrancis, a junior government and politics and journalism major.

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“No just ice. No peace. No racist police.”

This was one of many rallying cries senior Nathan Brandli chanted Saturday during a demonstration in Baltimore to protest the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. Gray died April 19 after suffering severe spinal injuries while in police custody April 12.

Before his death incited demonstrations and rioting Monday — which resulted in a citywide curfew and Gov. Larry Hogan declaring a state of emergency in Baltimore — Brandli said he sought to protest peacefully and express his frustration.

“There was plenty of antagonism, understandably and right-

fully so,” the African-American studies and government and politics major said. “But there wasn’t anything violent by any means.”

University Bloc — a branch of social justice grassroots collective Baltimore Bloc — organized another group of students from various student groups yesterday for a protest at Baltimore’s Penn Station.

As an African-American Muslim from Baltimore with family in the city, ju n ior k i nesiolog y m ajor Nana Barry said she felt compelled to return and speak out against police brutality.

“The ties to this situation are very close this time; it’s really personal at this point,” she said. “The fact that police brutality has come to the point where it has taken the lives of people — that hurts.”

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senate From PAGE 1 Bereavement, the period of grief after the loss of a loved one, was also recommended by the committee to be added to the excused absence policy. While faculty and staff have bereavement pol icies t h at a l low t h ree or more d ays of e xcu sed absence, students do not, according to Chambers.

T he committee decided it wa s necessa r y to h ave a si m i l a r p ol icy for st udents but did not designate a specific number of days for student bereavement.

Instead, the revisions call for a case-by-case length upon which the professor and student would decide.

Although the phrase “reasonable time” for a student to make up work is vague, the committee did not decide to specify a time frame, opting to let professors decide on an individual basis.

Austin Trupp, an undergraduate on the committee, said the committee’s recommendations would benefit students.

“As a student, you don’t want to go through five different documents and read through all these things to just get absent from a class

or two,” said Trupp, a senior business and government and politics major. “It’s a lot more clear.”

Overall, the com m ittee was u n ited i n suppor t of its final recommendation a nd opti m istic about the changes’ potential effects on students and faculty.

“I hope that the word gets out about what the excused absence policy is,” Trupp s a id . “ I hop e profe s sors include it in the syllabus and that it actually does make some change and improves people’s ability to miss class and make up things.” adunndbk@gmail.com

panelists Amy Loudermilk, Tonya Turner and Kristin Eliason speak during the Take Back The Night event in Hoff Theater yesterday. CARE to Stop Violence sponsored the event, which focused on sexual violence within the LGBTQ community. sung-min kim/the diamondback

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BALTIMORE From PAGE 1 A nd though sophomore com mu n ity hea lth major Urooj Fatima said she doesn’t fully support the actions of the rioters, some of whom have set buildings and cars on fire, she said she empathizes with them and understands their frustration as a community.

“A lot of these people have nothing to lose and they’re angry, and so for them, it’s probably like, ‘Why not?’” she said.

Brandli said it is valuable to express discontent through demonstration because it’s the best way to inspire change in citizens, policymakers and government officials.

“You have to make it uncomfortable enough for people to

care, unfortunately,” he said.

“Society is very resistant to change and getting involved with things that are outside their immediate sphere.”

Groups on the campus such as Political Latinxs United for Movement and Action in Society, the Student Labor Action Project and Community Roots are collecting goods such as water, snacks and prepackaged goods in the Nyumburu Cultural Center to be distributed to protesters and families because many Baltimore shops are closed.

Additionally, Community Roots will host a town hall today at 7 p.m. in Nyumburu to encourage students to speak out against injustices, whether or not they agree with what transpired in Baltimore.

Barry said students are making history by protesting

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STUDENTS gather outside Stamp Student Union and wait for their ride to a protest in Baltimore. sung-min kim/the diamondback issues such as police brutality and racism, which have plagued the country for decades.

“The plight for black Americans is still the same,” she said. “We have moved up the ladder somewhat, but we are still experiencing an oppression that really ingrained in our society and ingrained in cities like Baltimore.” kmaakedbk@gmail.com

The LGBT Equity Center and CARE to Stop Violence hosted an event yesterday to raise awareness about se x u a l v iolence i n t he LGBTQ community before an audience of about 40.

CA R E’s a n nu a l Ta ke Back the Night event fo c u s e s o n p r o v i d i n g awareness about sexual assault and relationship violence, said Lauren Bloom, the event’s coordinator.

Each year has a different focus, Bloom said, with last night’s event concentrating on sexual violence in the LGBTQ population.

The national Take Back the Night movement sta rted i n the 1970s as an outlet for women to speak out against sexual violence. Since then, the event evolved to advocate for all people facing sexual assault, Bloom said.

The three panelists — Turner and LGBTQ and intimate partner violence issues specia l ists A my Loudermilk and Kristin Eliason — informed au-

dience members about the resources each organization provides for members of the LGBTQ community struggling with sexual assault and intimate partner violence.

The panelists explained how it can be difficult for people within the LGBTQ community to speak about their abusive relationships in fear of misunderstanding and lack of support.

Loudermilk, associate director of government affairs at LGBTQ youth support and suicide prevention service The Trevor Project in Washington, said about 50 percent of t he t ra n sgender community either attempts or commits suicide.

“We need to think less in terms of race and create more sa fe spaces where people are able to share,” said Nick Sakurai, a member of the LGBT Equity Center. “And that way, when people need to come forward, they can be understood for all of who they are.”

Sakurai said sexual assault and violence are approached differently within various com mu n ities. He sa id a m a n s l a p p i n g o r to u c hing a women’s rear without

consent would be interpreted differently than a man slapping another man’s — even i f both situations were nonconsensual.

T w o v i d e o s w e re a l s o shown at the event about assaults and abusive experiences within the LGBTQ community before a closed d iscussion session bega n among attendees and panelists. “[The closed] part of the program [was] ... in order to provide a safe space for survivors to feel comfortable to share openly about their experience and to have an open dialogue,” Bloom said.

Pho eb e D oa n , a ju n ior English major, said she attended the event because she wanted to support CARE initiatives on this campus and speak out against insensitive language regarding rape.

“A lot of people here at this school are uninformed and people still say really insensitive things, especially over social media, like on Yik Yak, which is insane,” she said.

“People need to hear from experts on how to navigate these specific things.” ckemplerdbk@gmail.com

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Univ project works to detect children’s disease

RHA puts up plan for parking

Detector identifies dangerous defects

DOTS considers need-based priority

By Jess Nocera @jessmnocera Staff writer

By Morgan Eichensehr @MEichensehr Staff writer The RHA passed a resolution Tuesday recommending that DOTS implement an academic need-based parking allocation strategy, but some students are unsure the idea is feasible.

With an anticipated loss of about 1,790 parking spaces by t he 2016-17 academ ic year, Department of Transportation Services Director David Allen has been working with the Residence Hall Association’s Transportation Adv isor y Com m ittee to decide how to distribute the remaining 1,200 residentstudent parking spaces.

“T he way we thought about it was a points-based approach: looking at academic needs, looking at seniority, looking at whether you live in [South Campus] Commons, and figuring out if you really need a space,” committee chairman Steve Chen said.

Over the past two weeks, the RHA circulated a survey on social media to gather student opinions about how parking permits should be distributed. One question’s result indicated that 65 percent of respondents t h i n k pr ior it y shou ld b e based on a combination of academic need and seniority, and about 51 percent of respondents voted that underclassmen with academic need should be prioritized for permits over seniors who want it for convenience.

Chen wrote the resolution and the RHA members voted 27-2 in favor of the restriction, recom mend i ng that academ ic need, fol lowed by seniority and then dining

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THE Mowatt lane garage is located near Van Munching Hall. A new RHA proposal urges DOTS to allocate resident student parking based on need. file photo/the diamondback plan access, should be deter- least fall 2016.

“T h is resolution is mining factors for parking si mple enou g h , where distribution.

W h i le t he st udy i s not we state ou r i ntent ion necessarily representative but stay away from the of all on-campus resident mechanics of implemenstudents — 191 resident stu- tation,” he said. “We are dents completed the survey, not making any final dewith about 32 percent of re- cisions right now, but it’s spondents being freshmen a foundation.”

R H A P re s i d e nt S re e and 18 percent sophomores — Chen said it confirmed Sinha said this resolution what he suspected people ca n act as a n idea, a nd RHA members can work wanted to see.

“It could be very hard to with DOTS in the coming implement,” Chen said. “It year to see whether imwill be difficult for people to plementation is possible.

“This is a very basic recsubmit documentation confirming internships or work- ommendation and nothing places, then fig u ri ng out is official from this right how to verify those, check- now,” Sinha said. “This ing throughout the semester is just saying … ‘Things to make sure people aren’t might change, but this is faking it, and then having what residents have said to check if that internship they want to see happen.’”

Chen said it’s hard to is close to a place accessible by public transportation.” f i nd a perfect solution T he plan would require to the parking problem, some kind of points-based and while this might be system to be set up, as well the “most complex and as a system to m a ke su re b u r e a u c r a t i c w a y ” t o students maintain their need handle it, he said it is the for a permit, Chen said. He most fair.

“Idea l ly th is is what added that the parking situation could also potentially should happen, and I want change completely if Purple this to happen. But when Line light rail construction we start talking specifics, is approved to begin in 2016. that’s what I have conR H A s e n a t o r M i c h a e l cerns and struggles with Dunkelberg, a sophomore right now,” Chen sa id. bioengineering major, said “Hopef u l ly it is somet he re solut ion i s wor t h- th i ng that the TAC for wh i le because of its good next year can deal with.” intentions, even though it wouldn’t take effect until at meichensehrdbk@gmail.com

rated A merica n wa r hero who risked his life for you and me and all the viewers every day, just like everyday Americans do in the military, and we should honor them the way they need to be honored.”

The film will be shownMonday at 6 p.m. and will be followed by a forum with panelists representing all sides of the debate, College Democrats President Ben Kramer said.

“We wanted to make sure on this campus we let students see the movie, but also that we created a forum for students to talk about why the movie is controversial and that the forum is a warm environment for people who might feel alienated by the film,” Kramer said.

Admission to the screening is limited, and tickets will be available Monday at 10 a.m. outside the theater.

the MSA members, and they “were right to speak up for what they believe in.” He also praised College Democrats a nd College Republicans for collaborating to host a post-film discussion. “ Wo rk i n g to ge t h e r, despite differences in philosophy and doctrine, is a laudable example for us all,” Loh wrote in the email.

The MSA gathered more than 300 signatures on an online petition saying SEE should cancel the movie to help create a “more inclusive and diverse community atmosphere.” “ T h i s wa r propa ga nd a guised as art reveals a notso-discreet Islamaphobic [sic], v iolent, a nd ra c i s t nationalist ideology,” the petition read.

The movie screening garnered national attention, as jbanisterdbk@gmail.com many critics said postponing the movie represents a restriction on free speech.

Hi llegas appea red on Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Susteren on April 23 to discuss the controversy.

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This is the fourth year CORRECTION Toyota and the Wyland Foundation presented the Due to an editing error, challenge and the second time yesterday’s story “Majority College Park participated. of 2014 graduates hold full“Water conservation is time jobs” incorrectly stated one of the most important that the report reflects 58 issues around the world, percent of students in the because obviously there’s 2014 graduating class. The no substitute for potable report reflected 75 percent water,” said Bruce James, of the class. director of the universi-

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Urea cycle disorders, a class of rare diseases often seen in newborns, are often misdiagnosed, which can lead to death or a drop in IQ. T hese ch i ld ren m ig ht vomit, fall into a coma or have seizures as a result of t he defect, wh ich causes ammonia in blood to rise to dangerous levels.

A nd for t he pa st t h re e years, junior Brian Heligman has been working with a team of university researchers to study this class of defects and develop a device to detect this disease in newborns.

“It can cause a lot of problems for infants, as they are in a really developmental stage,” the materials science and engineering major said. “Right now it’s a really rare disease.”

Geneticists from Children’s National Medical Center initiated the project, expressing the need for a simple device to measure for blood metabolites that affect children who have the rare disease, said Omar Ayyub, who received a bioengineering doctorate from this university in 2014.

The team hopes to start clinical trials next week on patients at Children’s National Medical Center, Heligman said.

“We kind of just dove into it, and that’s kind of how we got to where we are today,” Ayyub said.

Heligman works as a research assistant to develop this tool. He began working o n t h e p ro j e c t a f t e r h i s ENES100: Introduction to Engineering Design professor, Peter Kofinas, brought him on the team.

“It’s exciting that [Heligman] can help make a device that can make such a differ-

BRIAN HELIGMAN, a junior materials science engineering major, works on a project to detect urea cycle disorders, rare but serious diseases, in children. tom hausman/the diamondback ence,” said Kofinas, the bioengineering associate dean.

The device measures blood a m mon i a leve l s w it hout a ny sa mple prepa rat ion .

Placi ng the blood nex t to a membrane that pulls out t he a m mon i a a l low s t he resea rchers to study just t he a m mon i a . T hen t hey use a reaction that changes color based on the amount of ammonia, and they can q u a l i f y t he leve l s of t he blood, Heligman said.

The device is expected to be inexpensive, and it could cost as little as a few dollars per test, Heligman said.

“It should be able to give an accurate reading within 10 to 15 minutes,” he said.

Children with these rare diseases do not have many options, and they need to t ravel to m ajor hospita ls to have blood work done, Ayyub said.

The device will help reduce hos pit a l v i sits, wh ich i s crucial, especially for infants, as more time in the hospital increases the risk of infection.

“If you don’t get treatment it ca n cau se deat h, and in some cases after an episode, an average IQ can drop to 45 if it isn’t treated,”

“IT’S EXCITING THAT [HELIGMAN] CAN HELP MAKE A DEVICE THAT CAN MAKE SUCH A DIFFERENCE” Peter Kofinas

Bioengineering associate dean Heligman said.

T he resea rchers hope the device can reach other countries that are unable to afford the medical equipment needed to screen for urea cycle disorders. “[T his device] will help ma ke the ma nagement of cond ition sig n i fica ntly easier, and diagnosis,” Heligman said.

The team submitted a paper in February to Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, the official journal of the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders. T he journal is expected to publish the paper next month to inform other researchers about the developments, Heligman said. “[It’s] really neat because we are making a sensor that can potentially save lives and can be used for newborn screening,” Kofinas said. jnoceradbk@gmail.com

USM renames center after retiring Chancellor Brit Kirwan to increase access, affordability and quality of higher education,” said M.J. Bishop, the center’s director. “Given The University System that that is also the mission of Maryland is renaming its of the Center for Academic Center for Academic Inno- Innovation, it seemed to make vation in honor of system sense to honor Dr. Kirwan’s Chancellor Brit Kirwan, legacy and rename the center who will step down from as a tribute to his hard work his position June 30 after and inspiration.”

The money will go toward 13 years.

“It was seen as one very establishing an endowment fitting tribute to the chan- for the center, Bishop said.

“We haven’t yet decided cellor as his retirement approaches,” university how exactly we’ll use the system spokesman Mike funds, but however we do decide to use them, they’ll Lurie said.

System of f ici a ls a n- go directly towards fulfillnounced the new name, the i ng t h at student success William E. Kirwan Center mission,” she said.

The center works with each for Academic Innovation, at a gala earlier this month, of the system institutions on as well as the $3 million ways to improve education fundraising total secured and create teaching techniques through initiatives to support the center.

“Dr. Kirwan’s primary such a s cou rse redesig n, interest and vision for the open educational resources state of Maryland has been and online learning.

“Our big, overarching goal is helping Maryland reach its 55 percent college completion goal,” Bishop said. “That’s t he gove r nor’s goa l , t he country’s goal, to increase the number of individuals with postsecondary degrees in order to be successful in jobs and in life.”

The center brings together one representative from each institution for monthly meetings of the Academic Transformation Advisory Council, where the group shares best practices.

“CAI tries to provide some sort of collective guidance and structure for all the campuses,” said Ben Bederson, who represents this university on the council. “We could try to do this on our own at College Park, but there’s a dozen campuses and we can all learn from each other.”

Bederson said having Kirwan’s name on the center will

bring it national prominence.

“Brit Kirwan has been an incredibly respected name throughout the country, so the fact that the CAI will now have Kirwan’s name attached to it will give the center some extra credibility,” he said.

“People may not know what CAI is, but they’ll know who Brit Kirwan is.”

Under Kirwan, the system opened the center in 2012.

“Thanks to the power of adaptive learning, made possible by intelligent software, we are opening the possibility of reducing the costs and improving the quality of higher education delivery,” Kirwan said in a statement.

“The Center for Academic Innovation is at the forefront of these efforts and I am deeply honored to have my name associated with its important work.”

directly engage people is a good way to get the word out,” said Cat Baker, a junior environmental science and policy major. “Scaring people isn’t always the best option, but if you put a happy spin on it, like winning a prize, they’re more likely to respond.”

However, Baker said she had not heard of the campaign, which encourages consumers to use less water and energy to shrink their bills, reduce infrastructure costs for cities, improve drought resilience and protect ecosystems, according to its website.

While the city publicized

this year’s challenge via email, Fellows said he plans to reach out to the Student Government Association before next year’s competition and make a greater push through social media.

“I think the best way to communicate with students is through social media,” James said. “There are certain things the city could have done with Twitter or Instagram that would get the attention of the student body around here.”

It also educates participants about resources in their area as motivation to increase their commitment even more, ac-

“THE IDEA OF BEING CONSERVATIVE WITH WATER IS A GREAT IDEA NO MATTER

By Talia Richman @talirichman Senior staff writer

ty’s environmental science and policy program. “There are substitutes for energy, substitutes for materials, but nothing can substitute for water.”

Whichever cities log the highest percentage of participating residents in their population categories win, and their residents are entered for prizes ranging from a Toyota Prius to home-improvement gift cards.

Last year, almost 1,000 people nationwide received more than $50,000 worth of prizes, according to the campaign’s website.

“Little things like that that

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“Though Maryland is not short on water now, it could be in the future,” James said.

“The idea of being conservative with water is a great idea no matter where you are.” emuellerdbk@gmail.com

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ver since a racist, sexist email sent January 2014 by a former Kappa Sigma fraternity member went viral in March, students, administrators and others outside the university community have struggled to navigate the bounds of regulating student speech.

Many claimed — falsely, though likely out of misunderstanding rather than attempted deceit — that hate speech does not fall under constitutional protections. Even university President Wallace Loh, who holds a Yale law degree, wrote in a campuswide email in March that “a thin, gray line separates free speech from hate speech.”

Sure, Loh went on to write that university officials are “mindful of First Amendment jurisprudence,” but the idea that administrators could so sorely misconstrue the concept of free speech proved unsettling.

Since Loh’s email, officials determined that A.J. Hurwitz, the vitriolic email’s sender, violated no university policies, though they did suggest he take a leave of absence, an offer he — perhaps wisely — chose to take up.

The outcry didn’t end there, however, and beyond several town halls and a protest march on Fraternity

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Row by a host of offended students, up in a court of law, as the university’s the Student Government Association legal staff cautioned Loh. decided to get involved on a legislaThe SEC agreed on that count, as tive front. it shot down the bill Tuesday with Belcher providing the lone vote in support of charging a committee with OUR VIEW reviewing the legislation.

“I think it’s a useful idea in the sense it encourages civility,” said astronomy professor and SEC member Andrew Harris, who voted against moving the bill along. “In practice, I’m very nervous about how and who will determine what is improper speech.”

Representatives penned a proposal In principle, yes, a speech code to revise the Code of Student Conduct would ensure civility, just as Harris, to define and regulate hate speech, Belcher and other students suggest. including it as a violation of the code. But practice is far more important Ryan Belcher, the SGA shared gover- than theory, and the application of nance director and a Senate Executive such a speech code certainly would Committee undergraduate represen- violate the Constitution. tative, presented a bill modeled on the The SEC was right to throw out SGA proposal to the SEC committee. the proposed revisions to the code, While it’s certainly true that hate as hard as students facing racism and speech has no place on a college sexism might find that to stomach. campus that values harmony and diThe most salient way to combat versity as much as this one, suspend- intolerance on the campus is still ing, expelling or otherwise punishing to voice speech opposing it, not to students who voice such offensive regulate speech. That’s simply more statements as those contained in the incentive for students to stamp out email — “f--- consent,” a host of outdated, ignorant attitudes on racial epithets — would hardly hold their own.

The Senate Executive Committee was right to throw out a conduct code revision regarding hate speech.

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ast week, Jillian Santos responded to my column on rape culture, as she did with one of my earliest columns against feminism late last year. As expected, she proceeded to straw-man what I said. I’ve no intention of changing her mind, either, but to attack the toxic misandry spewed frequently under the guise of a perverted form of “justice.” My column wasn’t meant to pander to political correctness, and everyone has a right to be upset by it, but straw-manning me leads nowhere.

To begin, I never claimed that simply relying on the justice system would be “dandy.” I said the fraternity members mentioned in the University of Virginia Rolling Stone article deserved to be tried by a jury of their peers, not by a mob of people or a cheap magazine desperate for a rape story. Whether you like my opinion or not, nobody has any duty to believe victims, but that does not imply hostility toward them. I believe in evidence, and there seems little of it besides Jackie’s own testimony and some prior history- to an extent. Having post-traumatic stress disorder and being depressed are not the same as being raped.

And as for the argument of “perfect recollection goes both ways,” it’s pretty fair to be skeptical of what a traumatized person has said due to the nature of trauma itself (selective memory), and that also is not a sign of hostility toward the victim — it’s healthy skepticism.

I’m pretty sure I never claimed that victims should not be helped to deal with what has happened; what I refuse to support is the trampling of someone’s rights or destruction of one’s reputation simply because feminists feel as though that’s the way it should be. No matter the crime, investigations must follow legal protocol, and the accused must be given a fair trial. If people are still

too deep in their feminist paranoia about a crowd of rapists on the loose under every rock and waiting for us around every corner, then maybe they should look up the Duke lacrosse case (which does not appear anywhere in Santos’ rebuttal, conveniently enough) as well as the story of Brian Banks, who did time in prison for a rape that did not occur. Tell me, are they examples of the ominous “rape culture?”

In one of the closing paragraphs of the rebuttal, Santos states that opinions like mine “will not go unchallenged.” Well, good for you.

Challenging an opinion that is not popular and not in control of this college is not an achievement; that’s just standard procedure. There are no signs begging women to “walk in his shoes,” and men’s rights activists do not have much influence outside of the manosphere, so replying to me is hardly an epic deed. Keep in mind that my fellow columnist Patrick An had to point out in his Dec. 11 column that the accused still have rights, and he was lectured on rape culture by your allies instead of being challenged to a healthy debate. Apparently, wanting fair treatment for the accused is “misogynistic” nowadays.

In my closing paragraph, I will reiterate and clarify the points I previously made: Nobody is under any moral requirement to automatically believe the victim of any crime, but this is not evidence of societal hostility to them. I have never denied that rape happens or that victims are entitled to aid, but I am not going to condone what happened at the University of Virginia, either.

People can and will lie about rape, as they also do about other crimes. Could it be that Jackie was gang-raped at a frat party? Certainly, but evidence examined in a recognized court of law would prove it. Feel free to find any excuse to undermine the rights of the accused, but do not be surprised when people retaliate and point out how sickening that is.

G o n za l o Mo l i n o l o i s a j u n i o r history major. He can be reached at gmolinolodbk@gmail.com.

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he history of the principles of freedom of speech and of tolerance is inseparable from the history of suppression of speech and intolerance. That is so because ideas have been suppressed when they are held to be offensive to existing institutions. That was the case when the Catholic Church condemned the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei for the “heresy” of insisting the Earth revolved around the sun, when Christian fundamentalists objected to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, when the Nazis burned books that they found to be “degenerate,” when the Soviet Union banned Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s work on the Soviet prison system as treason against the Soviet regime and when the New Left sought to ban ideas it labeled as racist on the grounds that such intolerance was “repressive.” In all these different cases, these censors believed they were defending the morality of the day and keeping their societies safe from the corrosive impact of dangerous ideas.

The Muslim Students Association’s petition to cancel the screening of Clint Eastwood’s film American Sniper stands in this long and regrettable tradition of censorship in the name of an offended and presumably higher morality. The initial decision of Student Entertainment Events to cave in to this demand reflects a lack of understanding of the university’s core mission. That mission is to search for truths about important and difficult issues — a search that rests on respect for evidence, even and especially when theories and evidence challenge cherished beliefs.

The MSA petition claims that the film American Sniper is Islamophobic and racist. It reports that

a “simple Google search will give you hundreds of articles that delve into how this film has fueled antiArab and anti-Islamic sentiments.”

Further, it “is offensive to many Muslims around the world for good reason” because it “dehumanizes Muslim individuals, promotes the idea of senseless mass murder, and portrays negative and inaccurate stereotypes.” While a work of art is open to a variety of interpretations, these assertions about American Sniper are, in my view, false.

As the MSA petition refers to evidence about the film gleaned from a Google search, it is not clear that the petition’s authors or signers have actually seen the film they are denouncing. Though the dubious concept of Islamophobia rests on a misuse of the concept of phobia, the film does not advocate an irrational fear of Muslims. It does not foster racism or stereotypes, nor does it promote mass murder.

The film is a grim depiction of some of the most intense battles between U.S. armed forces and Iraqis who took up arms against t h e m . T h e l a t te r a re ro u g h ly modeled on the forces of al-Qaida in Iraq led by the notorious terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi.

Far from promoting mass murder, the film presents the difficult decisions combat created when U.S. soldiers were seeking to distinguish civilians from combatants. While there are scenes that depict the intentional murder and torture of Iraqi civilians, those scenes concern the murder of Iraqi civilians carried out by a figure who resembles Zarqawi. In fact, al-Qaida in Iraq was responsible for intentionally killing large numbers of Iraqi civilians. American Sniper does not generalize from the Zarqawi-type

figure to all Muslims. It depicts those persons in Iraq who engaged in combat with U.S. forces to either restore the Baathist dictatorship or create a new Islamist one.

The MSA petition obfuscates matters when it asks SEE to “exercise your freedom of speech to help us create a safer campus environment” and suggests that censoring a film will “create a more inclusive and diverse community atmosphere.” A university cannot create a “safe” environment by suppressing ideas or works of art, such as American Sniper, that foster critical reflection about important matters such as the Iraq War. The MSA petition misuses the language of inclusion and diversity to foster exclusion of ideas as well as conformity about its view of the war in Iraq. It would deprive others of the freedom to form their own independent judgments about American Sniper.

The fog of rhetoric first offered

by SEE was disappointing. In the same statement announcing it had succumbed to a request to censor a film, it claimed to support freedom of expression. It could not have it both ways. Therefore, it is very welcome news that College Democrats and College Republicans have agreed to jointly sponsor a screening and panel discussion about American Sniper on the campus. Doing so allows members of the university community to do what should have been possible from the outset, namely, to reach their own independent judgments about this film and to discuss it with one another.

Jeffrey Herf is a Distinguished University Professor in the history department. He can be reached at jherf@umd.edu.

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achieving and focused on high-paying fields has an easy road to the top of these rankings.

Much of the growth in tuition costs has been nonacademic. A constant demand for new luxuries has led to fancier dorms, student centers and other amenities that were unheard of in the “good old days” when college was more affordable. Economists have found that only the highest-achieving students prefer to spend more for greater academic quality.

What results is a divide in preferences between students who think of college as a way to increase their future income and those who see it as a oncein-a-lifetime experience to enjoy. While these mindsets are by no means mutually exclusive, their resultant spending will be motivated differently.

One does not look at vacation destinations and compare the Bahamas versus Jamaica for a return on investment. The decision should be made based on one’s unique wants and spending ability. There is not an objectively better destination.

Most universities must strike a balance and cater to both groups. All work and no play makes college a dull place, but academic reputations must be upheld as well. This mix ends up providing college students with the growth experience that makes higher education so valued in our society.

Whether it’s the classroom, the laboratory, the art studio or the bar scene, each student is positioned to take advantage of college’s package of opportunities in his or her own way.

Some will benefit in a way that will be measured in their paychecks, and others will benefit in other ways. No single number can possibly do an adequate job of summarizing all this, nor should it.

rom Yahoo to BuzzFeed, various online hubs have offered a nonstop barrage of content about which colleges are the “best investments.” Ostensibly helping students make more informed decisions, they offer dubious calculations about potential rates of return.

Nothing more than clickbait, these articles promote a harmful way of thinking that neglects the differences among students and is ultimately useless.

It is understandably appealing to simplify complex decisions down to one or two numbers. However, calculating a return on investment for schools is nonsense. Spending on a university education is not the same as purchasing a long-term bond and sitting idly as regular payments come your way.

It is a combination of investment in oneself based on one’s goals, values and abilities. Additionally, there is an element of consumption based on your priorities, funding sources and willingness to take on debt.

Schools such as Harvey Mudd College and California Institute of Technology tend to dominate these lists. As both are technologically focused institutions located in a region where salaries are high, this revelation is nothing new. Placing a math-averse poet in one of these schools would not achieve the desired result.

Essentially, this type of measurement ends up evaluating only students who enter the school, not the effect that the school has Daniel Galitsky is a junior economics on them. A school comprising and finance major. He can be reached students who are already high- at dgalitskydbk@gmail.com.

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ESSAY | THE RETURN OF PUNK’D

Back to punk with our hearts After three years off the air, the powerhouse of all celebrity prank shows is set to return on BET

By Maeve Dunigan @maevedunigan Staff writer There are few things more satisfying than watching celebrities spiral into madness as they begin to believe all their belongings have been reclaimed by the Internal Revenue Service or that they ruined Christmas.

It’s moments like these that allow people living the most average of lifestyles to realize that celebrities are just like us: terrified of confronting authority figures and willing to cry and call their moms as soon as anything bad happens (yes, 2004 Justin Timberlake, I’m looking at you).

Fr o m 2 0 0 3 t o 2 0 0 7, MTV’s Punk’d gifted the p u b l i c t h e s t ra n ge s a t i s fa c t i o n o f wa tc h i n g famous people get nervous and upset. Whether it was Zach Braff’s Porsche being vandalized or Demi Lovato getting freaked out by some recording-studio ghosts, the joke never got old.

The show came back for one season in 2012 but didn’t last long. Now that BET has announced it’s planning to revive Punk’d , it looks as if

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punk’d was the only show and Ashton Kutcher the only guy who could successfully convince the constantly cool, calm and collected Drake that an earthquake was happening while he was in an underground parking garage. The brilliance of the prank, and the show as a whole, is represented here by the rapper’s saturated underarm. photo courtesy of mtv.com the spirit of mischief and deceit will finally be restored to cable television.

A c c o rd i n g to R o l l i n g Stone , “BET announced [last] Thursday that it would revive Ashton Kutcher’s MTV hoax show Punk’d as part of the network’s up-

coming slate of new shows.”

The network has not yet announced whether Kutcher will be returning to host the show, but said it will “tailor” the show to BET’s audience. It also discussed plans to provide more behind-the-scenes looks at how the pranks work.

The behind-the-scenes aspect could add an interesting element to the program, especially considering many of the pranks probably involve weeks of p l a n n i n g a n d a n a bs u rd amount of money.

Although there are many

c e l e b r i t i e s q u a l i f i e d to host the show, it would be a shame if Kutcher didn’t return. Not many other fully grown men can so convincingly cackle like a sixthgrade boy every time they come to give prank victims a dose of (staged) reality.

Plus, there are so many new prankable celebrities the show has to work with.

Imagine all of the glorious possibilities we’re talking about here. Let’s convince Kendall Jenner that she accidentally set fire to a quaint farm. Let’s prank everyone i n M u m f o rd & S o n s b y telling them their banjos are all stolen property. While we’re at it, why not prank Grumpy Cat as well? Just to reinforce that no one — human or animal — is safe.

Overall, the news that Punk’d is coming back is almost too good to be true. I hope this isn’t actually part of a strange meta- Punk’d in which Kutcher sits in a control booth somewhere and laughs as the public gets excited over the fact that the show is returning — though that would be a pretty good prank. mdunigandbk@gmail.com

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Diggs From PAGE 8 football fans grew accustomed to watching over the past three seasons. But now, the former Terps star is headed to the next level. Diggs opted to forgo his senior season and enter the NFL draft, which starts today and runs through Saturday.

And the Gaithersburg native can’t wait for the moment his name is called at Roosevelt University in Chicago.

“I’ve been playing football since I was 5, so it’s a long time coming,” Diggs said during a phone interview Monday.

“I’ve got a lot of emotions built up inside, and I can’t wait to let it all go.”

Diggs spurned offers from top football programs such as Ohio State, Florida and Auburn to play for his home school. The No. 13 overall recruit in the nation according to ESPN.com, Diggs made an instant impact with the Terps, finishing second in the ACC Rookie of the Year voting in 2012.

Despite dealing with an inconsistent quarterback situation over his three years — five different signal-callers saw action during his time with the Terps, including converted linebacker Shawn Petty — Diggs hauled in 150 career catches (fourth all-time) and 2,227 yards (second all-time).

“He’s got the biggest hands I’ve ever seen in my life,” Milloy said. “He’s a real talent,

he really is. Somebody is going to get a real good player.”

NFL.com draft analyst Lance Zierlein projects the 6-foot, 195pound wideout to be selected in the third or fourth round of the draft. While Diggs said he can’t wait for the emotional release of being selected, that won’t be the moment it feels real.

“It’s going to be the first game I play,” Diggs said.

“Having your name called is not even half the battle. That’s just the glitz and the glamour.”

While Diggs enters the draft listed as a wide receiver, many of his highlight-reel plays with the Terps came as a kick returner. As a freshman with the Terps, Diggs took two returns to the house.

He was also very versatile in high school. Diggs played both sides of the ball, and Milloy called him an “unbelievable cornerback. He just shut people down.” Milloy has told the NFL teams that have called him about Diggs that he could play defensive back professionally, too.

“Over the course of the … four years, he just did things that, to be honest with you, normal people just can’t do,” Milloy said.

While the NFL will pose faster, stronger competition, Milloy believes Diggs’ explosive and elusive style will still translate to success.

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“When you see the pitcher struggling a little bit, you want to keep having tough at-bats,” LaMonte Wade said. “Keep him out there on the mound for as long as you can. When we see the pitcher struggle, we try to play faster and keep on adding on runs and make it uncomfortable for him.”

The Terps recorded five of their seven hits against lefthanded starter Colman Vila. “[Vila] didn’t have a good feel on the strike zone,” Wade said. “We were waiting for him to throw a strike, and if he did throw a strike, we were ready to hit.”

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JAYS From PAGE 8 Bernlohr and the Terps could have an opportunity for revenge if the top-seeded Blue Jays defeat No. 4-seed Penn State in the Big Ten tournament semifinals tonight. But first, the No. 2-seed Terps hope to defeat No. 3-seed Ohio State in the other semifinal at Byrd Stadium.

“I know I definitely want a lot of shots back in recent games, especially that Hopkins game,” Bernlohr said. “I would definitely like that one back.

But at the end of the day, we still have all the players, we still have all the capability that we know [could] take us to the championship game.”

The Terps defeated the Buckeyes on April 18, but not without a fight. Ohio State led for the first 58 minutes, until midfielder Colin Heacock tied the game with 1:09 left in regulation. Then attackman Jay Carlson clinched the victory

Bloom, who entered the game with an 0-1 record and a 5.14 ERA, earned his first collegiate win. He tossed five innings and allowed three runs, two earned, on seven hits.

After two scoreless Delaware frames to start the game, Bloom ran into some trouble in the third. With runners on the corners and no outs, catcher Justin Morris mishandled a passed ball and allowed Blue Hens shortstop Brock Niggebrugge to score Delaware’s first run. But after walking the next batter, Bloom retired three consecutive Blue Hens with runners on first and second to escape the jam.

“He worked efficiently,” Wade said. “He had hitters off balance. He did a great job

today, something he can build on in his next start.”

Bloom encountered another setback in the fourth inning when Delaware catcher Ty Warrington drove in the Blue Hens’ second run with a double. With runners on the corners and two outs, though, the Terps picked off Warrington at third base to end the scoring threat.

In the sixth, Blue Hens lefthander Matt Hornich walked two runners, allowed two hits and threw a wild pitch as the Terps added three more runs. In total, Delaware’s four pitchers issued 10 walks.

“You always want your guys to be patient,” Terps coach John Szefc said. “You win baseball games because of a lot of the freebies you get.

And we got 10 freebies today.”

Left-hander Eric Sawyer held the Terps hitless over the last two innings, but their early lead proved too much for Delaware to overcome.

After the Terps’ offense combined for two runs in a three-game skid, it has erupted for 37 during the fivegame winning streak. And while Szefc still sees room for improvement, the offensive production was enough for the Terps to top Delaware for a second straight day.

“We had really good strikezone discipline,” Szefc said.

“We had some big hits and really tough at-bats early in the game. We struck out six times. Our goal is no more than five a game, so we were pretty close.”

with a score in overtime to cap a five-goal comeback.

While they couldn’t muster the same magic when trailing Johns Hopkins late in the fourth quarter Saturday, the Terps feel confident entering the semifinal. “ W h e n yo u d o n ’t ge t what you want, you move forward, you learn from it, and you have to be excited about going out there and playing again,” coach John Tillman said. “You can’t be a guy that only wants to play and practice when things go your way. That’s not what athletics and life in competition are all about.”

Against Ohio State, containing attackman Jesse King will be integral for the Terps, Tillman said. The senior, a first-team all-Big Ten honoree, ranks third in the conference with a 2.33 goals-per-game average and totaled six points (four goals, two assists) in the team’s regular-season meeting.

The Terps, though, know

they can’t put all of their focus on King. Attackman Carter Brown, who also made the conference first team, notched 44 points this year on 28 goals and 16 assists.

“If you are too concerned about Jesse, that will open up things for other people,” Tillman said. “If you don’t switch on a pick, that guy’s going to get to the goal and score. And if you don’t pay attention and you slide or help and you get a mismatch on Jesse, he can score a lot of goals.”

The Terps’ top-ranked defense failed to contain Johns Hopkins’ top scorer, attackman Ryan Brown, especially after faceoff specialist Charlie Raffa left the game early in the fourth quarter. Brown scored four of his eight goals in the final period.

Tillman said Raffa’s status for tonight is uncertain, but expressed confidence in the Terps’ ability at the X regardless.

Faceoff specialist Jon Garino Jr. and midfielder Andrew Walsh

have taken reps this year when Raffa doesn’t play.

“I don’t think it puts a lot of pressure on them,” Tillman said. “If Charlie can’t go, those guys are fired up to get in there and try to help the team win.”

After Brown launched a shot past Bernlohr to knot the game at eight early in the third quarter, Bernlohr slammed his fist into the ground and went to retrieve the ball. It was one of the goals the netminder pondered after the game.

With a conference championship berth on the line, the Terps hope Bernlohr has learned and moved on from the team’s first loss in more than two months.

“You want to have a short m e m o ry, wh e t h e r i t’s a win or a loss,” midfielder Bryan Cole said. “Just kind of clean up where you can clean up and go from there and look ahead.”

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BASEBALL | No. 21 TERPS 9, BLUE HENS 4

Terps continue win streak Four-run second inning paces offense past Delaware

By Kyle Melnick @kyle_melnick Staff writer Center fielder LaMonte Wade stepped up to bat in the second inning of the Terrapins baseball team’s game at Delaware yesterday with a chance to add insurance to the Terps’ one-run lead.

B e f o r e Wa d e m a d e contact, though, the Blue Hens catcher threw to first base in an attempt to pick off designated hitter Jamal Wade. The throw got away from the first baseman, which allowed third baseman Jose Cuas to score the second run of the contest.

Then LaMonte Wade singled to left field, bringing Jamal Wade and right fielder Anthony Papio home to increase the team’s lead to four runs. From there, the No. 21 Terps cruised to a 9-4 victory over Delaware for their fifth straight win.

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Bernlohr tries to rebound Goalkeeper seeks improvement in Big Ten tournament

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Wide receiver Stefon Diggs sprints toward the end zone during the Terps’ 33-13 loss to Georgia Tech on Nov. 3, 2012. NFL.com projects the Gaithersburg native to go in either the third or fourth round of the NFL draft, which starts tonight. file photo/the diamondback

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Former Terps star hopes to bring explosiveness to NFL

By Ryan Baillargeon @RyanBaillargeon Senior staff writer Stefon Diggs burst into action on the first snap from the line of scrimmage in the 2011 WCAC football championship. The wide receiver took the hand-off on a jet sweep play to the right side and was met by a swarm of Gonzaga defenders.

But Diggs didn’t panic. The Good Counsel senior planted his right foot, leaving one Eagles defender reaching at air. Diggs then reversed the field as he

built up speed, leaving a trail of Gonzaga players in his wake.

“He just evaded everybody on their team,” Good Counsel coach Bob Milloy said. “It was like backyard football to him.”

Seventy yards later, the Falcons star gently placed the ball down in the end zone as his teammates caught up to congratulate him.

His opening score set the tone for a 42-0 rout that secured Good Counsel’s first undefeated season in school history.

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“It kind of pisses me off sometimes, thinking about maybe I could’ve been more ready for this or that,” Bernlohr said. “When a team like Hopkins is moving really fast, you sometimes forget about some tendencies.”

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Goalkeeper Kyle bernlohr prepares for a shot from Johns Hopkins attackman Ryan Brown during the Terps’ 15-12 loss to the Blue Jays on April 25. christian jenkins/the diamondback uniform Saturday, snapping the team’s 11-game winning streak. Although the Terps entered the fourth quarter with a 10-9 lead, the Blue Jays

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