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Activists hope Obama policy propels state DREAM Act Reform aims to protect students from deportation

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After weeks of speculation, athletics department officials released several details for a much-discussed green synthetic turf field. Athletic Director Kevin Anderson said he expects the field to generate revenue and help with recruiting efforts. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

Supporters of the DREAM Act, locally and nationally, cried victory Friday when the Obama administration announced a change in policy protecting children of illegal immigrants from deportation and providing them access to work permits.

Students are eligible for protection if they meet a set of criteria, including having come to the United States under the age of 16 and earning or working toward a high school degree.

While the measure is not intended to be permanent or guarantee citizenship, officials said it will delay policy enforcement against immigrant youth while the government works to restructure immigration policy.

“Imagine you’ve done everything right your entire life — studied hard, worked hard, maybe even graduated top of your class,” President Barack Obama said in a press release. “Only suddenly to face deportation to a country that

Officials release turf field details Green field, to be completed by Sept. 1, to feature heat-reducing technology

BY YASMEEN ABUTALEB Senior staff writer

Athletics department officials unveiled plans for a new, green turf field yesterday, effectively ending weeks of speculation about the privately funded project.

The FieldTurf Revolution surface, which will boast temperature-controlled features that provide a difference of up to 15 degrees Fahrenheit, is slated to be completed by the

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Terrapins football team’s Sept. 1 home opener, according to an athletics department press release. The end zones will continue to have a design “reminiscent of the Maryland state flag,” the release stated.

“I think [the field] is going to give us a competitive edge,” Athletic Director Kevin Anderson told The Diamondback last night. “It’s for the health and safety of all our student-athletes; they have new technology … that can reduce the possibilities of concussions. We’re

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Engineering students set world record for human-powered helicopter For The Diamondback

Engineering school students have done it again — for the second year in a row, they set the world record for the longest flight of a human-powered helicopter, and they’re not finished yet.

Last July, a team of engineering students earned a world record with an 11.4 second flight of their human-powered aircraft, Gamera I. After spending the past year making adjustments to the helicopter’s design, a group of 38 graduate and undergraduate engineering students flew the Gamera II for 35

seconds yesterday morning in the Reckord Armory.

The 85-by-85 foot aircraft stretches most of the width of the Armory, yet only weighs 71 pounds, according to the Gamera team. The aircraft has four trusses that are positioned as a cross, with a cockpit hanging from the middle. At the end of each truss is a rotor, which has two long blades that help propel the helicopter upward.

In 1994, the Nihon Aero Student Group from Japan showcased the Yuri I, which flew for an official time of 19.46 seconds

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Prince George’s County deputy sheriff admits to assault Sheriff charged with second-degree rape after allegedly sexually assaulting 34-year-old female inmate awaiting trial in Upper Marlboro courthouse

BY ERIN EGAN Senior staff writer

A Prince George’s County deputy sheriff was charged with second-degree rape yesterday after he admitted to sexually assaulting a 34-year-old female who was awaiting trial at the Upper Marlboro courthouse, police said.

At about 2 p.m. Tuesday, the female, an inmate, was waiting to go to trial when Deputy Sheriff Lamar McIntyre allegedly sexually

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assaulted her in her holding cell, county police spokeswoman Sgt. Sonya Rorls said.

McIntyre admitted to committing the assault, Rorls said. “[McIntyre] is currently waiting to go before a commissioner, so we don’t have his bond status yet,” Rorls said yesterday.

Officers responded to the courthouse after the victim reported she had been sexually assaulted, police said. Rorls added police are unsure of what crime the victim had been

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charged with that led to her arrest.

County police’s criminal investigation division is still investigating the incident, Rorls said.

According to court documents, a man named Lamar McIntyre faced two domestic violence charges — one in 2005 and the other in 2007 — but it is unclear whether he is the same McIntyre.

Loh to forge partnerships after nine-day tour of Asia

BY QUINN KELLEY Staff writer

University officials will forge a partnership with the Taipei Medical University and launch several other collaborations and scholarship opportunities, following university President Wallace Loh’s tour through Taiwan and South Korea last week.

Loh’s nine-day innovation tour, his third trip to Asia since his start at the university, brought about agreements with several Taiwanese and South Korean higher-education and government officials to bring home new research and education exchange opportunities, including an international business competition, expanded scholarship opportunities and a joint program in biomedical informatics and environmental and occupational studies between the university’s public health school and Taipei Medical University.

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University President Wallace Loh traveled to Asia for the third time as president. He said students can expect to see new research opportunities.

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very excited about that, very excited that it’s going to allow us to not only have more student-athlete events, but also having a field available for the student body and hosting different intramural events.”

While athletic officials said they could not release the cost of the field, which is funded entirely by donors, Anderson said everything is running “as planned and on time.”

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Univ. President Wallace Loh met with high-ranking officials, such as Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, during his nine-day tour of Taiwan and South Korea. PHOTO COURTESY OF SPAIENZA BARONE

TAIWAN from page 1 “The purpose of a presidential trip is to show the flag of Maryland,” Loh said. “This kind of personal visit is incredibly important and what it does is it opens doors.”

Additionally, Loh worked with Taiwan’s Hsinchu Science Park to bring high-tech companies to the science park and this university’s International Incubator. He said this university, Taiwan and South Korea will launch an international business competition similar to the business school’s Cupid’s Cup; he plans for local businesses and the university to fund students’ participation and travel.

“I want Maryland students to see it themselves and then when they come back, they’ll demand an education that prepares them for this kind of global world they’ll be competing in,” Loh said.

Loh also visited National Taiwan University to garner interest from professors in joining a nutrition genomics team for a university program in the works, saying he hopes such collaborations will give students the chance to learn from academics across the world.

Additionally, Loh signed a five-year agreement of cooperation June 12 calling for joint research and faculty and student exchange opportunities with National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu City.

At his final stop in Taiwan, at National Central University, Loh secured five summer scholarships a year, to begin in August, for university students taking part in the Chinese language and culture course at

NCU; this university will fund the students’ airfare. Within 24 hours of announcing the opportunities on Twitter, three students had applied, Loh said.

Additionally, the National Institute for International Education in South Korea agreed to expand the program that pays university students’ airfare and $1,500 per month to teach English from five spots to 25.

In South Korea, Loh opened up the possibility for collaboration with Sungkyunkwan University; the institution’s president, Jun Young Kim, told Loh he is interested in developing dual-degree programs with departments on the campus. Loh also visited current university partner Korea University to discuss expanding collaborations and upping the number of exchange students between the universities.

In November, Loh will join Gov. Martin O’Malley on a tour to Israel and possibly Turkey to foster innovation and entrepreneurship relationships. He said Israel, like Taiwan and South Korea, would hold strong partners for the university because the country is rich in human capital and research. Loh wrote on his travel blog that Taiwanese officials also invited him to return next year.

“It’s no longer a brain train where one country sends the best and brightest to another country, America. It’s brain circulation,” he said. “Some of the best American students go abroad to study, to have internships because that’s where they’re going to be working and competing.”

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but was not internationally recognized. Yuri I remained the unofficial leader in humanpowered helicopter flight duration until it was dethroned by Gamera II. “Our goal here is two-fold,” said William Staruk, a graduate research assistant and one of the two project managers.

“We want to beat the Japanese team and get the undisputed world record, and we also want to get 60 seconds.”

A flight duration of 60 seconds is part of the criteria for the American Helicopter Society International Sikorsky Prize, the $250,000 reward established for the first human-powered helicopter that could fly for 60 seconds and reach an altitude of three meters while remaining in a 10 meter square.

Team members working on the project made several material and design changes to Gamera I to increase endurance and reduce weight, according to Staruk.

Gamera II is stiffer than its predecessor and 35 pounds lighter, which allows for the pilot to have more weight, Staruk said.

“That extra weight means more muscle mass, which means more energy storage, which means more flight duration,” he added.

The team had been working A group of students set a record yesterday morning for longest flight of a human-powered in shifts for about 80 hours a helicopter when they flew the Gamera II for 32 seconds. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK week lately to prepare for the official testing of Gamera II, can accomplish a goal that has said they’ve already begun the together a great team, we’ve repair process and are confi- learned a lot,” said Cody with the majority of the work never been done before.”

Karcher, a sophomore aeroAlthough the aircraft suf- dent it will fly again. done in the Severn Building on fered an accident at about 1 “The team’s got some good space engineering major. “It’s Greenbelt Road, Staruk said. heads on their shoulders,” to a point where this project is The idea for the project Colin Gore, one of the pilots a lot more about the learning started in 2008, when Darryll who comically referred to experience than the Sikorsky Pines, then the chairman of the himself as the “meat motor,” Prize. It’s great to see all of our aerospace engineering departsaid. “We’ll be back up and work coming together. Thirtyment, and other faculty were flying again early tomorrow, five seconds is a great stepdebating whether a human ping stone. As soon as we fix I’m sure.” could lift off the ground Team members said they these problems, 60 seconds through mechanical means. are confident they will reach will be easy.”

“I asked a group of graduate Pines said he’s ready to see the elusive duration of 60 secand undergraduate students onds by the end of the week, this university dream realized. whether they’d be willing to “Just like the Wright brothdespite the setback. commit to something never “I feel we are capable of hit- ers broke history, why can’t done before and achieve a ting 60 seconds,” Staruk said. they break history?” Pines world record in this class of DARRYLL PINES “Our data shows that our pilots said. “Who says it has to be flight,” said Pines, now the ENGINEERING SCHOOL DEAN should be able to pedal for 60 the Wright brothers? It could dean of the engineering seconds. I’m optimistic for a 60- be them.” school. “It demonstrates how good our students are. It’s dar- p.m., when a truss cracked dur- second flight.”

“We definitely have put news@umdbk.com ing them to dream that they ing a test flight, team members

“It’s daring them to dream that they can accomplish a goal that has never been done before.”

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P.G. County school board approves university charter school College prep program will use blended learning techniques; univ. students will be able to conduct research

BY SARAH TINCHER For The Diamondback

Education majors and county middle schoolers will soon practice blended learning through a city- and university-run College Park charter school, which the Prince George’s County school board approved last week.

About 50 students each in sixth, seventh and eighth grades will enroll next August in the College Park Academy Public Charter School, a $2.4 million partnership between the city and university, county school board members said at a June 14 meeting.

Education school Dean Donna Wiseman, who has overseen much of the charter school’s

POLICY from page 1 you know nothing about, with a language you may not even speak.”

Yves Gomes was one of those students — the 20-yearold had to turn down an acceptance to this university in 2010 because of his legal status.

The Paint Branch High School graduate made national headlines in 2010 — when he was a star senior predicted to have a bright future — because he faced deportation to his native India, a country he left as an infant. He was granted a rare deferral to continue his education, but time was running out.

Deportation and immigration proceedings loomed at the end of this summer — until the Obama administration announced the change.

“I was pretty shocked when I heard the news,” Gomes said.

“I just didn’t see it coming. I was ecstatic.”

Gomes, an intern with Casa de Maryland and the advocacy group Educating Maryland Kids, describes himself as a “DREAMer” and said it’s been a long struggle. But as he waits to receive his admission decision

development, said the college prep program, which will expand by one grade each year until it adds 12th grade, will eventually house up to 700 students and offer both traditional classroom settings and online courses.

“This school is going to be using technology and media in ways we haven’t used before,” she said.

Wiseman, a member of the charter school’s founding board, said the school will develop a rigorous learning environment using “flipped curriculum,” meaning students will study materials on their own and teachers will devote class time to addressing their questions.

Some of those teachers may

be education majors who will have opportunities to tutor and intern at the charter school, she added.

Students from different university departments will also be able to conduct research, participate in tutoring and mentoring programs and form or participate in interest clubs, she added.

“I like the idea because it makes the students become kind of independent,” said junior education major Gwyn Pettit. Pettit interned at Greenbelt Elementary School in the spring, and she said the students’ increased motivation and readiness to attend college would benefit the county.

“I also think it will be nice for [university students] to learn

and go and do internships there because if that’s the way the school system is going, then why not put people in it now,” Pettit added.

Plans originally called for the school to admit seventh to 12th graders and a maximum of 600 students, but Wiseman said it expanded to include sixth grade.

Officials have not yet chosen a site for the charter school, but they hope to eventually open additional locations in the county.

“We’ve seen so much interest that they’re saying that the school is too small, and they won’t be able to take care of the demand,” said Wiseman.

In that event, grades will be set at a maximum of 100 students to

maintain opportunities for individualized learning and a lottery would determine which students can attend, Wiseman said.

To some, such as University System of Maryland Chancellor Brit Kirwan, the school’s launch will demonstrate a commitment to the surrounding community.

“I think it can serve as a model for other institutions,” Kirwan said. “The more universities can work in partnership with local communities, the better our state is going to be.”

District 4 City Councilwoman Denise Mitchell said she was happy to see the education school partner on an initiative in its own backyard.

“We felt [that] was the best

‘jewel’ of a resource that the city could have,” she wrote in an email.

While the charter school will not have many traditional high school amenities, such as a football team or a marching band, students will be able to join online clubs and graduate high school with up to 60 college credits.

According to the county school board, the school is targeted at students who “are ready to commit to an academically challenging and highly personalized program.”

“We really want to make a difference in Prince George’s County,” Wiseman said.

from this university in the next week, Gomes has new hope.

While the future of the state DREAM Act is unclear — the issue will go before voters in November — members of Educating Maryland Kids said they have gained critical ground with the new federal policy.

“The White House’s announcement on DREAM-Acteligible students is a huge victory for the thousands of kids who’ve worked hard, played by the rules and want to give back to the only country they know as home,” said Travis Tazelaar, campaign manager for Educating Maryland Kids.

Students are eligible for protection if they came to the United States under the age of 16, have lived in the U.S. for the past five years, currently reside in the country, have obtained or are in the process of obtaining a high school degree or are honorably discharged military veterans, are under the age of 30 and have not been convicted of a felony or multiple misdemeanors or have otherwise threatened public safety.

“Our nation’s immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner,” Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said in a press release. “But they are not

designed to be blindly enforced without consideration given to the individual circumstances of each case.”

Those wishing to seek the protection of the directive must demonstrate that they fit requirements in an application process that may begin in as few as 60 days.

Debate over the state DREAM Act’s provisions has not been without controversy, and opponents of the measure see the federal directive as a rallying point.

Spearheaded by Del. Neil Parrott (R-Washington) and Del. Patrick McDonough (R-Baltimore and Harford), opponents quickly mobilized to collect more than the nearly 56,000 signatures needed to put the measure to public vote.

In a blog post on his official website, McDonough said Obama ignored the “rule of the law,” and argued his actions had opened “a can of snakes,” leaving more logistical questions than answers, but he was still confident the state DREAM Act would be defeated.

Supporters and opponents are now working to win over a divided state — a statewide poll in January by Gonzales Research showed 49 percent of

residents opposed the measure while 48 percent favored it.

“With Obama’s decision [Friday], Maryland’s decision in November will become even more important,” Parrott said in a statement to the press.

“Marylanders will have the unique opportunity to indicate two things: whether they want their hard-earned money to pay for college for illegal aliens and also whether we want to enforce existing federal immigration law.”

Several officials, including university President Wallace Loh and Gov. Martin O’Malley, have pledged support for ensuring educational opportu-

nities to children of illegal immigrants — as long as they and their parents meet the outlined requirements.

“It’s not the children’s fault if they came into this country illegally at the age of one or two,” Loh said. “And we need to be able to use all the talent that we have.”

Educating Maryland Kids spokeswoman Kristin Ford said Obama’s directive has thrown a wrench in the mix for the better.

“These kids are now able to stay in this country without fear of deportation and work in this country, and we want to make sure they’re getting the higher education they need to contribute to this state,” she said.

“They’re complementary acts and we think it makes the case even stronger for the Maryland DREAM Act.” Gomes said the announcement of a national directive is a personal victory not only for himself, but the other “DREAMers” fighting to stay, and that it symbolizes a step forward for the state DREAM Act. “It has filled with hope the lives of so many students who have lived here and gone to school here and want to pursue a higher education,” he said.

“With this order, they have the opportunity to do that.”

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UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS, STUDENTS AWAIT HEALTH CARE DECISION Nationally, health care options are in the balance with the Supreme Court set to decide on federal health care legislation within the next week. But at this university, the future is more certain, officials said.

State-run health care exchanges — a new affordability option that would serve as a marketplace for purchasing health insurance — may be an area of exploration for universities, said Matt Celentano, deputy director of the Maryland Health Care for All Coalition.

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When incoming students first settle into their new dorm rooms, they’re reprimand students for certain kinds of crimes brought to the university’s given a booklet, with an excerpt of the Community Living Handbook, to attention — or Student Conduct should choose to not punish students at all remind them that any offense in their new homes —whether it’s violating the for crimes committed off the campus. Officials aren’t required to sanction honor code, drinking underage or using illegal substances — will lead to trou- students, Tamara Saunders, Student Conduct’s associate director, wrote in ble with the Resident Life Department and the Student Conduct Office. Their an email, which leaves students with a process that is too subjective and new student orientation also discussed the various repercussions of commit- lacks a clear directive for university authorities in deciding which students should be reprimanded and to what extent. ting crimes off-campus. Yet, after all of this, they were Saunders said if there were to be a new policy, it would never told the peculiar policy regarding crimes totally have to come from the University Senate. This editorial unrelated to this university.

Sometimes, students enter with a past criminal record The Student Conduct Office board urges the senate — which will be full of new members by the time it reconvenes this fall — to take up this or are charged off the campus with various crimes and reprimanded by non-university authorities, and they should create a standardized issue and quickly pass a resolution that creates clear guidelines for how these situations should be handled. The push often don’t expect university officials to reopen their policy in appropriately will likely have to come from student senators, who should cases. In this arbitrary process, some students are lucky and aren’t faced with additional punishment, but others handling students with past bring up the matter as soon as the senate begins meeting to ensure all students are treated fairly and justly. find themselves in double jeopardy. off-campus crimes, rather again In an incident cited in last week’s Diamondback artiStudent Conduct Director Andrea Goodwin told The Diamondback some police officers may choose than leaving them with an cle, “Students claim university sanctions inconsistent,” student recounted when he was threatened with to inform her office of offenses committed off the arbitrary and inconsistent aexpulsion for a crime he had committed outside of the campus while others may not, and that it is nearly university and had already been convicted for about a impossible to instate a consistent policy, especially sanctioning process. year earlier. He returned to the university after taking for students who were charged in an area with which university officials have little communication. There are no concrete guide- several months off hoping to start over, but found himself grappling with a lines in place, Goodwin said, that require police officers report students’ months-long process as he waited to learn his additional punishment from Student Conduct. misdemeanors or felonies to the university. It’s up to the officer.

The Student Conduct Office is not obligated to sanction students for past offThis policy, or lack thereof, seems to contradict Student Conduct’s stated mission, which reads, “We believe that fairness is paramount to the judicial process. campus offenses, but the current policies carry no clear proscriptions as to when and how a student should be charged by the university. The university … We employ a consistent process, and we strive for a timely resolution.”

While it may be difficult for university officials to perform a case search absolutely reserves the right to charge students with violations of student conon ever y student, there needs to be a standardized policy in place to vet duct, even if they occur off the campus. However, if it chooses to do so, there cases brought to their attention — such as guidelines for how to reopen and shouldn’t be any discrepancies between cases.

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Running away from validation

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t the end of Moneyball, Peter Brand (Jonah Hill, 21 Jump Street) shows his boss, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life), an endearing video of Jeremy Brown, an overweight catcher in Oakland’s farm system. In the video, Brown hits a ball hard, rounds first base and proceeds to do something new: He tries for second — “going for it,” as Brand puts it. Not the most fleet of foot, Brown puts his head down and sprints out of the batter’s box as fast as he can, only to embarrassingly slip when he rounds first base. He’s forced to literally crawl back to the base while the other team laughs at him. Brown doesn’t realize he had actually just hit a home run, 60 feet over the center-field wall.

It gets better. Next, we see Brown face down on the basepath with the other team’s first baseman helping him up. Brown eventually dusts himself off and starts his trot around the bases. As he rounds second, the

DREW FARRELL shortstop tosses down his glove in admiration, gives Brown a big highfive and slaps him on the butt. Brown grins from ear to ear when he crosses home plate.

“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Beane says at the end of the clip.

Eighteen months ago, I ran the Baltimore Marathon in four hours, 32 minutes and 31 seconds. That’s the first time I’ve ever admitted exactly how long it took me to finish.

Normally I round down to “about four hours,” because that sounds more impressive and I never cared about lying to impress someone.

I ran because I was bored, depressed and unsure how to spend my buckets of alone time. Or so I

thought at the time. In hindsight, I really just wanted to feel better. Not better about myself, but better than you — all of you, all 7 billion of everyone else. There was a grace period of up until maybe yesterday where I would try to finagle conversations, hoping to mention my marathon and brag shamelessly. I needed validation. That’s insanity.

Like Brown, we all take swings every day. Sometimes we make contact. My contact was the marathon that I rubbed in your face. It was that iPhone article I wrote and advertised until I was sure every soul I had ever met had read it.

Now it’s my Twitter mentions that I check constantly — never receiving enough to satisfy my hunger.

Unlike Brown, when I take a swing and make contact, I don’t put my head down, sprint as fast as I can or “go for it” at all. When I do anything, I automatically assume it’s a home run and trot around the bases slowly and arrogantly, for all of the world to admire.

That is, until now (I hope.) My aim here is to publicize this little plight of

mine and hope none of you share my yearning for constant validation. It’s a bummer, and it slows us down. Let’s focus on other people instead. Celebrate what they do, because they celebrate what we do. That way, we’re all doing something.

During the race — at about mile 24 — I almost quit. Actually, I did quit. I stopped running. As a guy dressed like Jesus and a man wearing a Dunkin’ Donuts costume ran ahead of me, I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was another racer who I did not know. He had severely wrapped-up knees and looked to be at least infinity years old. He told me if I weren’t going to finish, neither would he. His name was Jerry.

At four hours, 32 minutes and 31 seconds, Jerry and I crossed the finish line, together.

How can you not be romantic about other people?

Drew Farrell is a senior English major.

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Father’s Day: A holiday worth celebrating

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et’s face it — holidays are awesome. Even if the holidays do not coincide with our identities or religious beliefs, they are justifications for having fun. During the school year, we enjoy holidays such as Cinco de Mayo and St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone pretends they’re Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and everyone pretends they’re Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. These holidays act as excellent excuses for going out on weeknights, drinking with your closest friends and missing important classes the next day. Most holidays occur during the academic year, but one summer holiday doesn’t receive the attention it deserves — Father’s Day. On this year’s Father’s Day I was stuck working at a festival for 10 hours, so I barely got to see my dad. Before I left for work at 9:30 a.m., I shook my father’s hand, said “Happy Father’s Day” and that was about it. I worked all day and did not really think much of the occasion at

all. When I went on break at work, I started browsing through the plethora of Father’s Day tweets on my smartphone, one of which really caught my attention.

The tweet read, “The biggest problem with us kids today is that we don’t just say thank you to our dads on a regular basis for just being there.” Among the hundreds of Father’s Day statements flying around the Twitterverse, this one really got me thinking.

For many students — including myself — fathers are the breadwinners. Fathers’ main goal is providing their children with better lives than they ever had growing up. Fathers work from dawn until dusk to feed their kids, buy them clothes, put braces on their teeth and send them to expensive colleges. Fathers hope this allows their kids to get good jobs and ultimately become providers for their own families. While most mothers act as caregivers and sources of emotional support, most fathers act as advice-givers.

As children grow up and learn more

ALEX MCGUIRE about the world around them, their fathers teach them how to act like adults and develop a sense of professionalism, because fathers have extensive experience in what us rising adults tend to call “the real world.”

The disappointing truth is that society appreciates festive holidays more than Father’s Day. Of course holidays such as Christmas and the Fourth of July deser ve celebration and appreciation, but it seems like Father’s Day does not rank anywhere close to those two. Most people do not sit back and realize how important fathers really are, to both families and our culture. To many children, fathers are examples of

perfection. A daughter sees her father as the perfect man — the first man she adores — whereas a son sees his father as the man he aspires to become. In a cultural sense, fathers serve as a cohesive presence that strengthens family bonds and facilitates the healthy development of their children so they become contributing members of society.

Essentially, our fathers seem to do ever ything for us. They work their butts off to raise and support us, although we ignorantly think we do it all by ourselves. Fathers are just as important in our lives as our religious beliefs or national identity, so Father’s Day should be equally important as the other holidays on the calendar. One day a year to truly praise the guy who brought us here — that’s not too bad, right?

Alex McGuire is a junior journalism major. He can be reached at opinion@umdbk.com

Higher education is not cheap.

Tuition, books, lab fees and room and board are probably the first to come to mind primarily when you consider the costs of attending this university. While students should certainly monitor these costs to ensure the money is being used as efficiently as possible, the greatest need for oversight comes from the least understood cost in your bill: student fees. Most students are unaware of the mandatory fees that total more than $1,700 a student yearly. So what are you actually getting?

You shouldn’t be surprised to learn the free student seating in Byrd Stadium and Comcast Center come out of your about $400 yearly athletics fee or that shuttle buses aren’t free — they cost you almost $170 a year. But did you know you pay $70 a year in a performing arts fee? While the fees I just mentioned are somewhat questionable in merit, some of the least transparent fees are the technology fees.

Some departments, such as the behavioral and social science college and the campuswide Student Technology Fee Advisory Committee administered by the Division of Information Technology, allow students to submit proposals and evaluate the proposals submitted by faculty and staff. However, other colleges and departments — such as the libraries — have students merely “provide input” and ultimately rubber-stamp the proposals hand-selected by the departments.

While a member of the library advisory committee, I was asked to “provide input” and approve department requests for everything from iPads, to studentemployees in order to work on library technology. However, this amounts to less than half of the $100 yearly contribution from each student. The rest goes into research databases, about which the department would not disclose user figures to the committee. In essence, we pay more than $50 per full-time student — far more than $1,000,000 — to fund access to obscure research databases that only a handful of people at this university use. This is especially concerning considering we are only miles from the Library of Congress and the National Archives, which undoubtedly provide access to much of the same material.

At some point, you have to ask yourself, “would the $70 that I throw down the drain each year,” — excuse me — “in performing arts fees be better used elsewhere?” If every student redirected that money toward hiring new faculty, in 10 years we could hypothetically hire 200 new associate professors, helping reduce class sizes. If we eliminated the library’s technology fee, instead of paying $100 a year to borrow iPads and access obscure research databases, you could just buy an iPad with the $400 you would save.

The point of this column is not to dwell on my displeasure over paying certain fees or how departments allocate this funding. It’s to urge you to ask yourself the question — is this worth my money? As far as these auxiliary enterprises are concerned, we are the paying customers, not some sort of endless supply of money. In a world where student debt is exploding and the costs of college seem to increase constantly, if students don’t find value in a particular fee, they shouldn’t pay it and shouldn’t receive that service.

Zach Cohen is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at zach.b.cohen@gmail.com

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 3) — It’s important for you to have your facts straight before you start sharing with others what you know to be true! (Feb. 4-Feb. 18) — You may be next in line for a kind of promotion — but you must ask yourself if you really want the job.

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REVIEW | ROCK OF AGES

Sex, drugs and Tom Cruise The film version of Rock of Ages is a pointless pile of bad direction and lazily auto-tuned musical numbers

BY ZACHARY BERMAN Senior staff writer

To be perfectly fair, movie musicals — such as stage-toscreen train wreck Rock of Ages — really aren’t my cup of tea. Without the emotional pull of exceptional works such as Chicago or Dreamgirls, viewers can struggle to find the point in watching a bunch of actors pretend to sing.

Whereas the stage version of Rock of Ages featured a cast of multitalented thespians showing off their chops live and in person, the film adaptation is a meandering, poorly structured mix of headache-inducing cinematography and flashy all-star karaoke.

The film’s a failure even by its own low standards. Rock of Ages is, after all, a musical re-

view of 1980s hair-metal schlock with only the basic skeleton of a plot. With such a glossy premise, audiences could reasonably expect a glossy finish, but it can’t even deliver that.

Instead, the movie’s biggest failure is the supposedly sleek musical numbers.

The choice of songs or the heavily autotuned booth recordings that play over the film aren’t the problem. As terribly unexciting as all that is, each scene becomes almost unwatchable due to poor direction, cinematography and editing.

Throughout the movie, viewers get close-ups of slender thighs and wisps of hair as the camera jumps and sways blindingly through crowds of dancers and singers. There was clearly some extensive

blocking done for the dancers, but the camera work is so random it’s impossible to tell what’s going on.

In one scene, bland male lead Drew (Diego Boneta, Mean Girls 2) is supposed to give a monkey a high-five. As his hand flies toward the primate’s, the point of view inexplicably jump-cuts five times, circling the scene. It’s this kind of unfathomable directorial overreach that makes the musical unbearable.

Shockingly, the best parts of the movie are the overly long comedy skits in between songs.

Tom Cruise (Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol) as rock legend Stacee Jaxx is the runaway star, and he’s aided by cameos from Bryan Cranston (John Carter) as the town’s mayor and Catherine Zeta-Jones (Lay the Favorite) as his wife.

The scenes featuring these characters are actually quite funny and are likely to keep the presumably bored audience members at least mildly interested. Because there’s

A crowd displays its love of Tom Cruise while Tom Cruise displays his love of people loving Tom Cruise in the new hair-metal musical Rock of Ages. PHOTO COURTESY OF PIXELATEDGEEK.COM

essentially no plot, it’s easy to wake up after a lifeless rendition of “Here I Go Again” and enjoy a chuckle or two before passing out from lack of inter-

est again.

There was simply no reason to turn Rock of Ages into a film.

It doesn’t have a compelling stor y, and unlike a classics

such as Singin’ in the Rain and Hair, its musical set-pieces are decidedly uninspired. berman@umdbk.com

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NOTEBOOK from page 8 minor league career. The Baltimore Orioles, who drafted Beck in the 33rd round in 2011, signed the right-hander on June 11 and assigned him to the Class A Short-Season Aberdeen IronBirds. He has yet to appear in a game.

PRO DECISIONS

The synthetic turf field at Byrd Stadium will feature new temperature controlling technology, which will provide as much as a 15-degree Fahrenheit difference. It is set to be complete before the Terps’ Sept. 1 home opener. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARYLAND ATHLETICS

FIELD from page 1 University President Wallace Loh said the field is a beneficial investment in student-athletes’ and the university’s future.

“I don’t know how many millions it cost, but whatever that initial cost, the return on investment is dramatic,” Loh said. “Simply in terms of what you’re going to invest, where else can you get this kind of a return?”

Officials said they also hope the new field will help generate added revenue for the struggling department — which will cut eight teams June 30 unless they

can raise the funds needed for eight years of competition or they have worked out new deadlines with the department to help alleviate an $83 million debt — by hosting concerts, outside athletic events and high school games.

Anderson noted because the field will be capable of hosting multiple games and teams will be able to practice on it without worrying about its wear and tear, he expects it to help in recruiting the nation’s best athletes.

“I think just from a recruiting standpoint, it will be very attractive and help us in the recruiting process,” he said.

“Having this state-of-the-art field will show that we’re com-

mitted to not only our football program, but to our other programs as well.”

Deputy Athletic Director Nathan Pine said officials looked at several different options for the color of the field — many speculated it would be red, black or pewter — as well as its special features, and chose a design that would best suit student-athletes for several years to come.

“When you’re looking at the life of a tur f field, you’re looking anywhere at five to seven years of playing time on that sur face,” Pine said.

“So you have to make a smar t decision of not only at the current time, but into the future, so that’s a challenge.”

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Mike Locksley played a key role in landing three commitments from Friendship Collegiate Academy. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

school that made me feel like a part of a family, and that’s what they did.”

The 5-foot-8, 170-pound Lane plays both running back and cornerback at Catonsville High School but will likely spend most of his time on the defensive side of the ball in college.

Williams, a 6-foot-5, 280pound Archbishop Spalding High School product, is also a strong candidate to switch positions under Edsall.

Despite entering Sunday’s Terps football camp as a defender, Edsall flipped Williams from the defensive to offensive line midway through the day.

“I wasn’t really too happy in the beginning, because I think of myself more as a defensive guy,” Williams said. “But as the day went on, I got more and more comfortable with it.”

Though Williams hadn’t planned on committing as an offensive lineman, Edsall convinced him that he “could really help on the offensive line and really excel as an offensive player.”

“I was a little worried at the end, because I’ve always wanted to go to Maryland, but I’ve always wanted to go for defense,” Williams said.

“But Edsall told me the reasons why he wanted me to play offense, and it just made sense.”

Along with Edsall, firstyear offensive coordinator Mike Locksley has played a pivotal role in ramping up

This university’s teams will join more than 70 other NCAA Division I teams that practice on FieldTurf, as well as 22 NFL teams, according to the release.

Pine said he expects the field to help student-athletes and the department as a whole by providing a more reliable space to play and practice on.

“At the end of the day, it’s going to be a better playing surface, it’s going to drain much better than we had and it’s going to hold up better,” he said. “Just because the surface holds us a little bit better, you don’t have to worr y about what it’s going to do in your grass.” abutaleb@umdbk.com

the local recruiting efforts.

Locksley developed strong ties to the area when he served as the running backs coach under Friedgen from 1998 to 2002, and was key in landing the Friendship Collegiate Academy trio of Gray, Ngakoue and Walker.

“It’s not what they say but how you feel,” Gray said.

“It’s not just what they were telling me. You could feel it to the point that they cared about you as a player.”

Gray is a 6-foot-4, 290pound offensive lineman, and Ngakoue and Walker both project as linebackers in the team’s 3-4 defense.

Gray and Ngakoue, so far, are the Terps’ highest-rated incoming 2013 recruits, committing to the team over programs such as Auburn, Florida State, Ohio State and South Carolina. Walker’s choice, though, was much simpler than his teammates’.

“It was my first actual offer,” Walker said. “All my teammates were proud of me, and I felt like I was on my way.”

Considering all the criticism surrounding the team during Edsall’s first year on the sidelines, it may have seemed as though the recruiting trail would not be so fruitful for the Terps this year. But with nine commitments in the fold for fall 2013 already, it appears the program’s recent struggles have done little to deter local talent.

“Edsall seems like a straight-up coach,” Lane said. “He knows what he wants, and I like that.”

In separate interviews with PinstripesPlus.com, the New York Yankees’ Scout.com affiliate, pitchers Jimmy Reed and Charlie Haslup both said they will be “summer follows” in the next month.

That means Reed and Haslup will each continue their offseason plans of pitching in summer leagues before deciding whether to sign with the Yankees.

Both Reed and Haslup confirmed their status as summer follows to The Diamondback on Tuesday.

“It’s a summer follow type of deal where they will watch me throughout the summer and see how I do and fit with their organization,” Reed said.

The Yankees selected Reed and Haslup in the 21st and 26th rounds, respectively, in the MLB Draft on June 6.

The pitchers have until July 13 at 5 p.m. to decide whether to pursue professional careers this year. The Yankees’ scouts will track Reed and Haslup, and reconvene closer to the deadline to discuss possible scenarios for the pitchers.

Reed and Haslup were two of the most improved pitchers on the Terps’ pitching staff last season, elevating their play on the best team in Bakich’s tenure in College Park.

Reed, a 6-foot left-hander from Gaithersburg, started the season as the Terps’ closer and ended it as the team’s Friday night starter, posting a team-leading 2.70 ERA in 60 innings. He’s pitching for the Orleans Firebirds this summer in the Cape Cod League, and has allowed five runs through four innings pitched.

The right-handed Haslup was one of Bakich’s top options in middle relief in

2012, posting a 5-5 record and 2.64 ERA through 44.1 innings. He is currently with the Sanford Mainers in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, and has pitched 6.1 scoreless innings in relief.

SUMMER BALL Sixteen Terps will join Reed and Haslup in leagues scattered throughout the country this summer.

Those players will hope to replicate the success Terps first baseman Tim Kiene enjoyed in the New England Collegiate Baseball League last summer. The lefthanded slugger hit .318 with 10 home runs and 31 RBI in 37 games with Newport Gulls (Newport, R.I.), earning spots on the All-NECBL first team and Perfect Game USA’s Summer-Collegiate All-American team.

“Playing in the summer was a great opportunity for me,” Kiene said last September.

“The NECBL is a great league, and playing for the Newport Gulls was an amazing experience. We were a team of just pure winners.”

Kiene helped bring that mentality to College Park during the early stages of the Terps’ 2012 campaign. Before suffering shoulder and head injuries that hampered him the majority of the season, he batted .382 with three home runs as the Terps jumped to an 8-1 start.

Kiene is playing alongside Terps right fielder Jordan Hagel on Cape Cod’s Cotuit Kettleers this summer.

While nine Terps are headed to New England to play in the Cape Cod and New England Collegiate Baseball leagues, other Terps, such as third baseman K.J. Hockaday and outfielder Matt Bosse are staying in the Baltimore area to play in the Cal Ripken League.

Farther west, pitchers Jamie Pashuck and Bobby Ruse will play for the Danville Dans (Danville, Ill.) in the Prospect League, and pitcher/infielder Jake Stinnett will join the North County Waves (Carlsbad, Calif.) in the Western Baseball Association. dgallen@umdbk.com

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New ‘Pride’ designs unveiled Mock-ups of the Terrapins basketball programs’ new ‘Pride’ uniforms were leaked on the Internet this week.

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FOOTBALL

Local focus paying off for Terps Team lands five commitments from in-state prospects in three-day span

BY JOSH VITALE Senior staff writer

rookie-ball affiliate in the Gulf Coast League. The Nationals began their season Monday night, and Boyden has not yet appeared in a game.

Sander Beck, one of the Terps’ top midweek options in 2012, is also set to start his

In the later years of former coach Ralph Friedgen’s tenure, the Terrapins football team struggled to keep the state’s top recruits close to home.

Forestville’s NaVorro Bowman and Ellicott City’s Aaron Maybin committed to Penn State for 2006’s freshman class. Fort Washington product Joe Haden went to Florida a year later. West Virginia’s Tavon Austin, a Baltimore native, has tormented the Terps throughout his Mountaineers career.

But as he enters his second season at the helm, coach Randy Edsall seems to be making in-state recruiting a priority.

Seven of the Terps’ nine 2013 recruits are local products, and five — Baltimore running back DeAndre Lane, Severn lineman Michael Williams, and Washington players Derwin Gray, Yannick Ngakoue and Cavon Walker — committed to the Terps over a three-day span this week.

The marked increase in in-state commits is a much-needed change in philosophy in College Park. Coming off a 2-10 finish last season, the Terps are rebuilding the program in a way they haven’t in years past — locally. “[The Terps] were my No. 1 for a while, because it’s so close to home,” Lane said. “I wanted to go to a

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Alfredo Rodriguez is batting .429 with two runs scored in two games with the Helena Brewers. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

Rodriguez makes debut in Brewers organization 18 Terps playing in summer leagues

BY DANIEL GALLEN Senior staff writer

After the Milwaukee Brewers selected him in the 17th round of the MLB Draft earlier this month, former Terrapins baseball shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez said he wanted to start his professional career as soon as possible.

“Wherever they send me, that’s where I’m willing to go,” Rodriguez said June 6. “I’m ready to get to work.”

By June 11, the Terps’ 2012 RBI leader was in Montana with the short-season rookie league Helena Brewers of the class’s Pioneer League. He signed his professional contract four days later, and made his first start for the Brewers on Monday night.

Although Rodriguez went 1for-3 with a walk in his minor league debut, he had two fielding errors as the Brewers fell to the Great Falls Voyagers, 64. Through two games, Rodriguez was batting .429 (3for-7) with two runs scored, one RBI and one double.

For Rodriguez, it’s the next step after a successful career in College Park. He started the Terps’ last 177 games at shortstop and helped lead the team through a turnaround under coach Erik Bakich.

“It feels great,” Rodriguez said. “It’s a dream come true to get a chance to play professional baseball, and I’m really excited.”

Of course, Rodriguez isn’t the only member of last season’s Terps team who’s already started his professional career.

Right-hander Michael Boyden, a 31st-round pick of the Washington Nationals, signed his contract on June 12 and has been assigned to the Nationals

After leading the Terps to a 2-10 record last season, Randy Edsall has successfully recruited local prospects. Seven of his nine 2013 recruits are in-state. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

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