October 23, 2014

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Noncitizens could vote in College Park elections City to prioritize politically interested residents without citizenship status in voting policy

By Eleanor Mueller @eleanor_mueller Staff writer College Park residents who are not U.S. citizens might soon be eligible to vote in city elections. The issue, discussed at Tuesday night’s College Park City Council work session, has been considered for several months

now. It was first raised in May, when District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn brought it up at a work session on behalf of a resident.

“These residents have an investment in their community and want to see College Park thrive and do well,” Wojahn said. “We should give them the opportunity to participate.”

College Park law prohibits non-

citizen residents from voting. Meanwhile, nearby cities such as Takoma Park have supplemental voter lists, which allow anyone who is a resident to register separately regardless of their citizenship status.

“We have a hard enough time getting turnout from people who live here,” said Stephanie Stullich, District 3 councilwoman. “We should focus on the long-term residents in our community who can’t College Park mayor andy fellows and District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stullich at a February City Council See voters, Page 2 meeting. Stullich said Tuesday that she is for extending voting privileges to noncitizens. james levin/the diamondback

RHA seeks univ student input for 15year plan Projects include new dorms, dining hall, practice fields, updates

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The Campus Pantry includes hundreds of nonperishable goods donated by members of the university community for students, faculty and staff who can’t normally afford food.

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hungry for more Campus Pantry sees no visitors on first food distribution day in Cole Field House

By Taylor Swaak @tswaak27 Staff writer Over the past few years, Jane Jakubczak, University Health Center dietitian, has noticed a trend: more and more of the students who request nutrition counseling are not only struggling to eat nutritious food. They’re struggling

due to a lack of food in general.

“All of the students who are coming here are coming to better their lives through getting a higher education,” Jakubczak said. “And we fuel our brains through the food that we eat, so it’s much more difficult to concentrate and study. …

Even comprehension and memory are affected by how well we’re nourished.”

In response to the observed need on the campus, the health center, Dining Services and the Food and Nutrition Club collaborated to create the Campus Pantry, a semimonthly food bank open to university students, faculty and staff.

This pilot program, located in Concession Stand 4 at Cole Field House, held its first food distribution day on Wednesday from 4 to 7

p.m., but failed to receive any visitors. Allison Lilly, the sustainability and wellness coordinator for Dining Services, said the program plans to brainstorm and coordinate better outreach efforts to improve future turnouts.

“Any new program takes a little bit of time to kind of spread the See food, Page 2

Stamp sexual health expo drums up Sex Week interest 20 student groups, offices hand out prizes

By Darcy Costello @dctello Senior staff writer When Joseph Dawson, a sophomore bioengineering major, attended this university’s first Sex Week last year, he said the open dialogue took The University Health Center asked students health-related trivia questions for prizes at the him aback.

“I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, Sexual Health Expo. tom hausman/the diamondback sex!’” Dawson said. “I was still in Earlier this month, the Trojan that mindset, the idea that sex is a condom company ranked this univertaboo subject. It really made things sity third on its annual sexual health easier to talk about though.” report card, which ranks 140 national That’s why this year, Dawson was institutions on their sex education on the lookout for future Sex Week efforts. The report examined factors events, and attended Wednesday’s including health center accessibility, Sexual Health Expo, held in the availability of contraception, STI and Grand Ballroom of Stamp Student HIV testing and sexual health educaUnion. The expo was one of several tion programming.

To continue expanding outreach events the Sex Week organization will host this year, leading up to the efforts, student organizers this year main event, scheduled to take place hope to host a Sex Week event each month in an effort to get people prein April.

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pared and excited for the “climax,” said Allie Reese, a senior behavioral and community health major.

“Sex Week is really important. It can be something scary to talk about, so any way we can open up the dialogue and address the issues is great,” she said.

Reese, who took part in Sex Week last year as a Sexual Health and Reproductive Education volunteer, now interns with the Teen and Young Adult Health Connection, one of about 20 student groups and campus organizations at the Sexual Health Expo to spread awareness and open conversation.

T he tables i ncluded T itle I X office representatives, the University Health Center’s new Gold Code alcohol education program, the University Student Judiciary, the university-unaffiliated College Park Kinklings and the campus’s Bedsider organization, among others, all hoping to expand the campus dialogue on sex.

“The nice thing about the expo

and Sex Week is that they make any sexual choice — whether you’re having sex or not having sex — normal. You can see you’re similar to others,” Dawson said.

“It’s changing the culture, giving students an opportunity to learn in a way that isn’t just ‘Don’t have sex or you’ll get these diseases.’”

Jill Santos, Sex Week’s spokeswoman, said this year, student organizers wanted to create a broader group effort in planning Sex Week events, expanding to the campus community. The organization’s listserv now has more than 100 students and about 25 regular meeting attendees.

I n t he sa me vei n, of f icers reached out to more student groups for the expo this year, including organizations not previously involved in Sex Week events.

“Some of the groups tabling may not pertain to sexual health, but it’s all related,” Santos said. “It’s See expo, Page 3

Caroline, Carroll and Wicomico halls opened their doors for students in 1954, and 60 years later, the buildings still stand.

But those buildings and others soon will change as outlined in the Department of Resident Life’s 15-year On-Campus Student Housing Strategic Plan, Resident Life officials told Residence Hall Association senators Tuesday night.

“Anyone who’s lived in Carroll, Caroline and Wicomico or Old Leonardtown can tell you our facilities are aging,” said Deb Grandner, Resident Life director. “And you can see a real See RHA, Page 3

In cold (local) blood Private detective takes on univ student interns to work cold case

By Madeleine List @madeleine_list Senior staff writer As he walked up to knock on a front door, private investigator Steve Kerpelman warned his student interns to stand to the side; someone might shoot at them from behind the door.

“You never know what you’re going to face,” he said.

But this is what three university interns signed up for when they decided to join Kerpelman, a retired Prince George’s County Police officer, on his investigation of the 1975 murder of Kathy Beatty.

The 15-year-old was assaulted near her home in Aspen Hill and later died of her injuries. Her case remains open 39 years later.

Senior criminology and criminal justice majors Ariana Amini, Alexandra Broseker and Rebecca Peele started interning with Kerpelman at the beginning of this semester.

He has been working on the case as See murder, Page 3

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“THIS WOULD PROVIDE AN INCENTIVE FOR PEOPLE TO COME AND LIVE IN COLLEGE PARK.” COLE HOLOCKER

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voters From PAGE 1 participate, although they may be very involved and very active.”

A lt hou g h t he ch a n ges would give long-term residents t he voice t hey’ve been missing, some council memb ers rep or ted t hei r con s t it u e nt s we re wa r y of the idea. However, the c o u n c i l m e m b e r s r e a ssured residents that the new voters would be residents just like them.

“Some of our residents are very protective of their right to vote,” District 4 Councilman Alan Hew said.

“When I try to defend our reasoning, the strongest argument I can think of is that many of these noncitizens are home-owning residents of College Park.”

Though the changes are intended to target city residents who are not U.S. citizens, they would also affect this university’s interna-

tional students and faculty, who spend time in the area but are not eligible to vote because of their noncitizen statuses.

“We have a very diverse student body,” Cole Holocker, student liaison to the City Council, said. “Not all the faculty or students are residents of the United States. This would provide an incentive for people to come a nd l ive i n Col lege Park.”

City staff estimated at the work session that 200 to 3 0 0 re s i d e n t s w o u l d become newly el ig ible i f t he ch a nges were m ade.

The council is still deciding whether these residents would need a green card, a visa or both to qualify for voter status. “ We h a v e i s s u e s to resolve before we can move f o r w a r d ,” M a y o r A n d y Fellows said.

T he ch a nges, i f m ade, w i l l not go i nto effect i n time for the next election on Nov. 3, 2015, but the council hopes to have them in place for the election after that. emuellerdbk@gmail.com

The UMD Campus Pantry collects food donations and provides an emergency source of nutritious food for at-risk staff, students, and faculty at this university. rachel george/the diamondback

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baby food and other items — every Monday at Cole from From PAGE 1 3 to 6 p.m.

Lilly said the pantry also plans to receive fresh produce word,” Lilly said. “When y o u ’ r e t a l k i n g a b o u t donations from Terp Farm in hunger and food insecu- the future — between 5 and rity, it’s a very personal 10 percent of its production issue, so we really have to output. For now, however, make sure we’re reaching the pantry runs solely off unipeople in the right way so versity members’ donations, that they feel comfortable so consistent contributions coming to the pantry to are vital for the program’s longevity. receive food.”

“It is fundamentally really T he pa ntry w i l l continue to distribute food important to support each in that time frame every other within our commuo t h e r w e e k , o n o n e nity,” Lilly said. “ProvidWednesday and Thursday i ng for one a nother when each month. The next dis- a n y o f u s a r e i n n e e d I think is a fundamental tribution date is Nov. 6.

People are encouraged feature of building a strong to donate nonperishable community.”

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FAN Club President Sarah G of f, a sen ior d ietetics major, said the best way to spread word of the pantry is through direct activism and involvement.

“If someone’s a leader of a club or even a member of a club, by bringing it to the club’s attention and maybe doing something about it, automatically everyone in t h at orga n i zat ion k nows about it,” Goff said.

“T h is whole ef for t is really inclusive. … We want people to get invested, and get others involved.”

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T here a re between 15 and 20 volunteers in total, and many are dietetics majors and FAN Club members.

T h e go a l i s to p ro v i d e recipients w it h t he r ig ht type and quantity of food, Lilly said.

Ja kubcza k sa id that while those involved in the pantry effort hope students will overcome the stigma a sso ci ate d w it h ne e d i n g food donations, recipient confidentiality is respected during this process.

“I n ter m s of i nd iv iduals, we won’t be taking full names or any thing like that, so it’s confidential in that way,” Jakubczak said. “ T he re’s a l it t le bit of a stigma to utilizing or needing a fo o d p a n t r y. … We ’ r e hoping this will really help

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murder From PAGE 1 a private investigator since 2008 and said he felt student interns could help bring a fresh perspective.

“We’ve got different people looking at the same notes we’ve been looking at for years,” he said. “You start to miss things.”

The students accompany Kerpelman on interviews, analyze potential sources and pore over Kerpelman’s six years’ worth of notes.

They are currently working to organize the information and create a visual data web of suspects, people of interest, interviewees, witnesses and anyone involved to show how they might be connected

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to one another and to the night of Beatty’s assault.

“One of the major things we’ve noted is the fact that there’s sill more work to be done,” Peele said. “There’s a lot of people, in my opinion, that I think we could still interview and consider that cou ld hopef u l ly g ive us information.”

Part of the difficulty of this case is the hard drug use among the circle of suspects, which can skew the facts, Amini said.

Phencyclidine, or PCP, is a drug that can produce hallucinations, paranoia and sense of invulnerability in users and was just starting to grow popular in the area at the time of Beatty’s murder, especially among those close to the case, Amini said.

dents,” Richard said. “There shouldn’t be a stigma around sexual health; it’s about people’s health and well-being.”

The Sex Week organization will host a Condom Fashion Show again this year, partnering with other student groups to destigmatize condoms in a fun way, Santos said, and it continues to look for input from the campus population about what they want to see from future events.

“Whatever importance sex holds in your life — whether you’re into abstinence, are sexually active, really prioritize sexual safety — we want to hear your voice,” Santos sa id . “ We wa nt to m a ke sure there are resources and outlets available on campus for you, no matter what role it plays in your life.”

important to see them coming together, exploring the way sex impacts students’ lives a nd show i ng the va lue of send i n g a c c u rate se x u a l health info to campus.”

Anne Richard, who tabled at the event with the Help Center, the university’s confidential peer counseling and crisis intervention group, said she appreciated the efforts Sex Week was making but that there was still potential to improve the campus conversation.

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“It add s a l ayer of t he unknown because we don’t know if the person who assaulted Kathy was on drugs that night,” she said. “If they were, they might not even remember they were doing it.”

Because many people of interest were heavily involved with drugs, their stories often aren’t as reliable, Kerpelman said. Some have carried their drug use into later adulthood, and many people Kerpelman wishes he could interview have died or are deep into alcoholism or drug addiction, he said.

But there are still plenty of people to talk to, and Kerpelman said he always brings the interns along, though he would never allow them to go alone because some of the interviewees could be dangerous.

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RHA From PAGE 1 difference in places like Oakland and Prince Frederick. Our goal is to bring all of our residence halls up to the same standard.”

The average age of oncampus dorms is 54 years, Grandner said, and many buildings are in need of up d ates a nd a men it ies to g ive a l l students the same “high-quality living experience.”

T he 15-yea r pl a n i nvolves spending about $548 million on campus development, with North Campus dorm renovations, a new dining hall, a practice facility and two dorms in place of the Varsity Practice Field.

Lot 1 will be home to a $160 million public-private part-

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stand in front of a potentially violent person or a known sex offender and interview him, Broseker said. However, she said she has never felt she was in danger because of her involvement with the case.

T he i nterns sa id they aren’t helping with the investigation for the adrenaline rush or the class credits. Like Kerpelman, they said they’re doing it for Beatty’s mom, Patricia Haberman.

“I just hope a nd pray that they can come up with a n s wers a nd f i nd something that somebody else has missed,” said Haberman, 81.

“It’s incredible that 39 years have gone by and we don’t have answers. You don’t know what it’s like to live with that.”

Kerpelman said he connected with the case because

he went to middle school with Beatty and said they always got along well in school. He carries his yearbook with Beatty’s school picture in it in his car wherever he goes.

And with the help of the interns, the investigation is making progress, Kerpelman said.

This semester alone, the team has interviewed about 20 people connected to the case and has a working list of about five suspects, he said.

Though everyone would like to see the killer or killers brought to justice, the most the investigators can realistically hope now, 39 years later, is for the truth to come to light and for a little peace of mind for Haberman. Broseker said she believes the case will be solved one day.

Kerpelman and the interns said they are confident there are people alive who know exactly what happened that summer night in 1975, and Kerpelman said he is hopeful that the weight on someone’s conscience will eventually bring them to confess.

It might be a while before t he i nvest igators m a ke a breakthrough, but Peele said she’s prepared to continue working on the case until that happens.

“It’d be weird after the semester’s over to wipe your hand of it all because of what we know now,” she said. “I would be willing to work with Steve on this case as long as he needed. I hope it won’t take another 40 years.”

nership community. Caroline, Carroll and Wicomico halls are scheduled for razing, and Cambridge Hall updates will kick off the long-term plan this fiscal year.

“Standing in Prince Frederick and looking out onto Caroline, the difference is clear and almost seems unfair,” said Mike Glowacki, Resident Life assistant to the director. “Do we expect that every building we build will look exactly like Prince Frederick? Probably not, but they will look far more similar than Carroll.”

Much of the plan is still tentative, including the idea of adding more community living rooms to dorms and the possible implementation of a scaled-rate structure for housing costs, Glowacki said.

The RHA acts as the voice of the student body going forward. The Resident Life Adv isory Tea m w i l l continue to meet with Grandner to address issues that senators and students raise, and the RHA will be in charge of

whether to approve the Resident Life budget, which the plan will significantly figure into, later in the year.

Ultimately, senior psychology major and RHA President Sree Sinha said, it is important to keep in mind that nothing is set in stone.

“There is a plan, and to achieve that plan, it costs a projected amount of money, but if students rally and say ‘No, we do not want to pay for this. We have all the amenities and buildings we need and don’t need anymore,’ then the budgets do not have to be approved and the plan would be rewritten or dropped,” she said. “However, I haven’t had any students come and tell me that.”

R H A members ra ised questions during the pres e n t a t i o n a b o u t s e v e ra l aspects of the plan, such as replacement parking when officials build three dorms and a dining hall on Lot 1.

Grandner and Glowacki said they don’t have answers yet but encouraged senators

to inform the department about their concerns so further discussions could take student voices into account as the plan takes shape.

Sinha said in the meeting that it was important for senators to consult their residents.

“The Strategic Housing Plan looks amazing, but the only concern I could foresee is disinterest from students,” said Sasha Galbreath, a sophomore government and politics major and Resident Life Advisory Team committee chairwoman.

Galbreath said some students might not see the value in providing their input, as they won’t be around for much of the development’s completion.

“They’re the voice of the k ids who a ren’t here yet, and we can’t just leave it in the hands of the officials who have never lived oncampus or lived in a dorm,” Galbreath said. “Their decisions today could affect the students of tomorrow.”

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CAROLINE CARLSON Opinion Editor

Montgomery counties rely on it to get to and from work, class and social outings. For a lot of us, riding the Metro has practically become a part of our routine. That’s why this state should be committed to helping the Metro by pitching in to fund Momentum, the Metro’s new strategic plan.

OUR VIEW

The university system should endorse the Metro’s Momentum plan, as its initiatives will benefit students of this community.

We hope a proposal by the Senate Executive Committee, which requests the University System of Maryland Board of Regents to endorse the plan passes.

If the plan successfully receives enough funding and moves forward, initiatives such as running 100 percent of eight-car trains during peak periods and bus fleet expansion, among five others, will be put in place.

The university community is a large stakeholder in the Metro, so the university system should ensure its voice is heard when it comes to the improvements that can be made.

As a top university when it comes to sustainability, we should be sup-

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hen Washington-area commuters typically think of the Metro, some words that come to mind might include “expensive,” “delayed” or “inefficient.” At least, a Washington Post article published earlier this month found that to be true: Some of the biggest issues the Metro is currently facing include decreasing ridership, fewer workers and higher peak fares.

A report released earlier this month by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority found that Metro ridership “has declined slightly during the recession and then more substantially during the past two years,” after a 15-year period of strong ridership growth.

The decline was largely due to the fact that this metropolitan area was the only one among the top 15 employed urban areas in the country to “show a decline in gross regional product from 2012 to 2013.”

Given many of these troubles, it’s becoming obvious the Metro needs a facelift. Though direct federal employment has been decreasing, the WMATA should be preparing for renovations in its structure and operations, as Moody’s Analytics estimates show this decline will be outweighed by a potential growth in the private sector by 2025.

As much as we associate the Metro with the nation’s capital, residents throughout Prince George’s and

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portive of actions that can reduce the amount of single-rider cars on the road as well as vehicle emissions at large.

Though Gov. Martin O’Malley agreed to support the plan by pledging $25 million, an endorsement by the university system would add an additional representation to a demographic that would benefit from improvements made to the Metro — students.

According to an American Public Transportation Association report, younger generations have become more reliant on public transportation than their older counterparts. The mean “preference rank” of transportation modes among 18-34 year-olds was bus, bicycle, rail transportation, car and walking, in that order.

Today, there’s a certain stigma surrounding public transportation.

Politics about funding levels and inefficiency seem to be endless. If we really want conversations on these topics to end, we need to show commuters how efficient and operationally capable the Metro can be.

We’re not saying this will happen in a few years, but by the time 2025 rolls around, we hope riding the Metro will become a more attractive, economical option. This can only happen if everyone’s on board, particularly influential voices at this university.

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et’s face it — by all accounts, Campus Creek is in poor condition. Years of development — both within the campus footprint and the greater Campus Creek watershed — have increased the impervious areas draining to Campus Creek and have significantly decreased the forest buffer that naturally protects the stream. The result is a stream with severely eroded banks, few ecological habitats and potential threats to infrastructure such as roads and water and sewer lines, which could become unstable as the stream shifts. Without restoration of Campus Creek, this area will continue to degrade and be a persistent source of pollution leading to the Chesapeake Bay. This is far from a new campus issue — for more than a decade, there have been talks about restoring Campus Creek, but nothing has happened.

Restoring the creek has been listed as a high priority in several studies including the campus’ Sustainable Water Use and Watershed Workgroup Report, Facilities Master Plan 20012020 and the FMP 2011-2030. For all this time, money has stood in the way of making this project a reality.

But after years of university personnel pursuing funds to revitalize the creek, last year the state Department of Natural Resources decided to allocate $1.5 million to the project.

Unfortunately, this is not as simple as it seems. The $1.5 million was contingent upon this university developing a restoration plan, which would be done through an external contractor, costing roughly $400,000. Additionally, the DNR money was only granted for the fiscal year 2015, beginning July 1 this year and ending June 30, 2015, meaning that if we do not at least start using the funds by the date in June, then they will be revoked and allocated elsewhere. Unfortunately, facilities planning staff, who are working on this project, have not been able

to secure funding for the restoration plan. Because we are already halfway through the allotted fiscal year, we could not get the restoration underway by the deadline. As such, facilities planning has asked the DNR to extend this offer to fiscal 2016, to which it has verbally agreed to but not officially committed.

However, facilities planning feels confident that the DNR will officially extend this offer, giving us another chance at this missed opportunity. In anticipation of this extension, facilities planning is seeking funds from the Sustainability Fund, campus stakeholders and offcampus grants.

Beyond all of the benefits that would accrue from restoring Campus Creek, we also would be putting ourselves one step ahead of the game in terms of complying with state permits. As efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay continue to increase, stormwater management permits are becoming increasingly tighter. For instance, under the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System program, this university will likely have to restore the creek to better manage its stormwater runoff. Will we stay ahead of the curve and abide by this law now with the help of the DNR? Or will we fail to take advantage of this opportunity and pay $1.5 million in the future to comply with the storm sewer system program?

The choice seems simple: Restoring Campus Creek will benefit the campus’s environmental footprint, save us $1.5 million in future expenses and help save the Chesapeake Bay. We’ve already missed the opportunity to restore the creek in 2015, but fortunately, we will likely get a second chance in 2016.

Second chances do not come frequently in life, and if we miss this opportunity again, it will certainly be a mistake that the entire campus community will regret for years.

Ori Gutin is a junior environmental science and policy major. He can be reached at omgutin@gmail.com.

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Something to show for it ROB COBB Classes come and go. While we are taking them, we can usually describe them to our friends or family when they ask. To some degree, most classes leave us thinking differently than we did before, even if it is impossible for us to tell which parts of our minds came from which professors. If a class interested us at all, we can usually hold a conversation about what we learned in it, even years later.

Still, more often than not, classes are not designed for us to produce anything worth showing to anyone.

Most of the work we do is solely for the eyes of an instructor or teaching assistant, and we would never in a million years think to show our homework or term paper to an employer or interested friend.

We need our class projects to be something we can be proud of, talk about and show off beyond affecting degrees and GPAs. Satisfying curiosity is a noble endeavor, but we need to be able to demonstrate that we really learned something. No one outside the classroom can really know how easy or difficult the exam

was or how well the grading served as a measure of learning. Friends, employers and even parents simply don’t care how well students do on tests. They care about who you are, what you know and what you can do.

This university is not a trade school, nor is it a factory for churning out excellent cocktail party guests. We aren’t here to become technicians or enthusiasts of a particular domain; we’re here to become scholars, capable of critical assessment and novel insight. Still, it would be nice if we had, at the end of our college career, more than one or two projects that we could point to and take pride in — papers published, apps built, products designed, medieval history blogs uploaded.

Some schools are better than others for helping students accumulate a portfolio — for art, it only makes sense. But how many engineers, business students and pre-med students have only their hard work outside of their classes to point to leadership, real-world skills and demonstrated success on projects? How many English and journalism majors leave here unpublished? How many psychology majors graduate without a demonstrable track record of helping?

It is a challenge for professors

to design classes around work we can show. Despite the difficulty, the best classes at this university are the ones that end up with a result we can point to — a blog or paper published, a social venture launched or a grant granted. These are not faux projects designed to imitate or simulate the real world.

We know when class projects are just pretend.

We don’t work as hard, we won’t care as much and ultimately, we won’t tell anyone about them. The great classes do not focus on business plans written and pitched but never realized or technical papers researched and written without anyone’s real need for them. They are really real.

Professors who want to be known and remembered for amazing teaching, no matter the department, will make sure that the work they assign to students is real to them. They will not just produce students who think differently, but those who can show it. Students who want to enjoy their time here and graduate with more than memories will pick such classes and such professors.

Robert Cobb is a senior computer engineering major. He can be reached at rcobbdbk@gmail.com.

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ecent scientific studies show that sediment backed up behind the Conowingo Dam is not as big a threat as previously thought.

During a big storm, 80 percent of the sediment that comes through the dam is from upriver, while 20 percent is the mud scoured from the area behind the dam, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

What that means is the bigger threat to the Chesapeake Bay remains what it always has been: pollution that enters the Susquehanna River and all other tributaries from farms, cities and suburbs.

Don Boesch, president of the university’s Center for Environmental Science, testified in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in May about the additional sediment coming over the dam.

“The increased loads have a relatively modest effect on dissolved oxygen in deeper waters near Kent Island, with little or no effects on water quality over vast portions of the estuary, including the larger tributary subestuaries, such as the Choptank and Patuxent rivers. Impaired conditions in the tributaries, including not only water quality but also harmful algal blooms and fish kills, are much more determined by reductions of nutrient pollution loads within their watersheds.”

It’s important to keep our eye on the biggest problem: the source of pollution. We need to address the sediment buildup at the dam, but not as a substitute for the hard work in our own backyards to reduce the overload of nutrients and sediments that foul the bay and threaten crabs and other marine life.

The state General Assembly and this state’s next governor, therefore, should be pushed to do just that. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation recently issued a list of critical actions state leaders must take in the next four

years to finish the job of cleaning the Chesapeake Bay. Those actions include reducing the amount of pollution from manure that reaches creeks and rivers, tightening enforcement efforts of environmental laws and stopping raids to environmental funds. The foundation is urging its members and the public to consider gubernatorial and legislative candidates’ positions on these issues when voting.

The university also should be aware that in 2010 the Environmental Protection Agency put the six states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and Washington on what the agency called a “pollution diet.” The jurisdictions all agreed to abide by this diet and to design and implement plans to do so.

The foundation calls this initiative the Clean Water Blueprint. It is a national model for restoring a multistate water system. It holds all jurisdictions accountable for progress. It will make the bay swimmable and fishable once again. The foundation was a leader in the initiative, suing the EPA to force the “diet” and subsequently pushing and helping jurisdictions to meet their pollution limits.

Meeting their responsibilities under the blueprint should remain the focus of leaders in this state and other jurisdictions. Pennsylvania leaders must do their share to reduce pollution entering the Susquehanna and ultimately reaching the Conowingo Dam. Other states and local jurisdictions must do their part to reduce pollution entering their local waters. This comprehensive approach offers the best hope not only for crabs, oysters and other marine life, but also for our children and grandchildren.

They shouldn’t have to swim or frolic in polluted water.

A l i so n P ros t i s t h e s t a te executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and a 2004 alumna of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She can be reached at aprost@cbf.org.

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By Michael Errigo @DBKDiversions Senior staff writer Ryan Chang was about to start his senior year of high school, a period supposed to be full of celebration of what he had accomplished and excitement for what was to come. But he was nervous.

The early application deadline for this university loomed ahead on Nov. 1, and he knew that getting in would be tough. But he had to. This university was his No. 1 option, his dream school.

“I knew that there were was going to be a lot of applicants to Maryland and that if I didn’t stick out I was just going to be a number. So, I wanted to do something that would put me out there,” recalled the freshman kinesiology major as he sat at a table about a year later outside Stamp Student Union, the heart of his personal promised land.

Looking over the long application, he noticed a special section close to the end. After the standard essay questions, there was a prompt telling him that if he needed to further explain some-

thing about himself he could do so in 100 words or less. So he did. In song.

You may have seen the video or heard the song last spring when it went viral.

It’s a clever two-and-a-half minute number to the beat of “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz, and it’s quite catchy.

“I know right where I want to be/ Is at UMD, ’Cause/ I love you/ Can’t you see?/ Please accept me/ Oh, UMD/ I’m yours,” Chang sings in the refrain. He says he came up with the idea to use the 2008 hit as his inspiration while taking a shower late one night in early October.

The idea snowballed from there and he had the refrain floating around in his head by the time he toweled off.

The whole process, including writing the lyrics, recording the music and shooting and editing the video, took him about 10 days, Chang explained. He finished the video by midOctober and had his application in by the 27th. After that, all he could do was hope he stood out as more than a number.

In the several months of waiting, he didn’t show many people the video in fear that it would later serve as a

RYAN CHANG recorded a YouTube video of himself performing a university-themed cover of Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours” and included it on his application to this university. The video later went viral. photo courtesy of youtube.com source of embarrassment if he didn’t get accepted.

By that time, Chang had already been posting content to YouTube for more than a year, stuff that was similar to that song — song parodies and covers. He sees the popular video site as a tool for people seeking to express themselves.

“I feel like people watch YouTube more than they watch TV or movies or anything because there is so much creativity,” he said. “It’s solely independent; you get to make what you want.

Anything you want to create, you can upload it and the world can see it.”

Before the world could see Chang’s creation, though, his day of reckoning had to come. He still remembers the date: Jan. 28. This was the day the university sent him an email saying its decision was available online.

“I was extremely nervous because Maryland was my top choice,” said Chang. “My hands were sweating and shaking as I logged on to the computer.”

But all of that worry melted away when he saw the school’s decision. After receiving the good news, he made the video public by posting it on Facebook along with the obligatory “accepted”

status. From there, the video spread.

First he heard from Maryland Images, the tour guide organization on the campus, which told him it loved his passion and to give the group a look when he arrived in the fall (he plans to apply for a position in the spring).

The university’s official Facebook and Twitter posted the video a couple of days later, using the Silver Spring native as a symbol of Terrapins pride. Later, WTOP asked for a radio interview and the PublicAsian ran a story.

“It’s just a really nice feeling that people passed it around and enjoyed it. As a musician, that’s always a nice feeling to know that people like what you make,” he said.

Chang said he is sure that the video made him stand out to this university’s admissions officials, but he is confident that it’s not the sole reason he got in.

“I’m sure it wasn’t a crucial factor in accepting me — or at least I hope not,” Chang added. “But I’m sure it put a smile on someone’s face, and that’s awesome.” merrigodbk@gmail.com

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Popper From PAGE 8 Asked about transitioning without those five players?

“I’m not talking about it,” Turgeon said.

He was pressed further.

“I love my team,” the fourth-year coach said emphatically. “Love ‘em.”

Later in the news conference, this question was posed: A number of your players moved on and transferred; can you talk about what it’s going to be like without Allen and Charles Mitchell?

Turgeon shook his head. The reporter rephrased his query.

What about opportunities for other guys?

“Because some of the players that are coming in are so great, maybe that’s why things happened the way they happened,” Turgeon said.

“You guys getting the hint?”

That was the end of it,

and Turgeon’s message was direct: Don’t ask me about last year because we’re moving forward.

But that doesn’t mean the Terps should forget about what happened. And that’s not the case.

“It’s in the back of our mind.

It drives us, the guys that were here,” Turgeon said. “But it was an aberration, so we just don’t want to talk about it.”

That decision from Turgeon will be made easier to enforce and justify considering the talent that has joined the team. From McDonald’s All-American Melo Trimble to fellow four-star recruit Dion Wiley to Slovakian center Michal Cekovsky to redshirt senior transfer Richaud Pack — the Terps have the pieces to replace what was lost.

But on top of raw ability, it’s apparent this year’s players have an enhanced drive compared to those on last season’s team.

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The practices are more intense, players said. If Turgeon tries to end a drill in a tie, he receives backlash from every player on the court.

Defense is a priority, so much so that Trimble said he’s even starting to enjoy it.

“Everyone’s coachable,” Dodd said.

Above all else, this year’s Terps already have chemistry.

It’s only weeks into practice, but on Tuesday virtually every member of the team mentioned the level of camaraderie among all 14 players.

And it’s not that the group is friendly off the court. Last year’s team had that.

It’s the fluidity on the court that matters.

“The difference is this: Our chemistry is out there between the lines,” Turgeon said Tuesday, pointing to Gary Williams Court. “Offthe-court chemistry, I really don’t care about that, to be honest with you. … We always talked about it in the past, how much our team liked each other, but not like this group likes each other between those red lines.”

Whether this season’s Terps will surpass the results of last year’s squad is yet to be determined.

One thing is for certain, though: Everyone has bought into the team, and no one thinks they’re above anyone else.

That’s a good start. dpopperdbk@gmail.com

athletic From PAGE 8 less than their season average on the night.

And this season, the Terps plan on sustaining their fastpaced play throughout the Big Ten schedule, especially because coach Brenda Frese sees athleticism as one of her team’s strongest attributes.

“In my 12 years here at Maryland, I feel like this is one of the most athletic teams that we’ve ever had,” Frese said.

So when league play begins Dec. 29 with a home bout against the Buckeyes, the Terps expect it to be a battle of two teams vying to impose their styles of play on each other.

With the Terps’ combination of depth and athleticism, they anticipate they’ll be able to wear down Big Ten opponents.

“It will be hard to run with us for 40 minutes,” guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough said.

Still, the Terps can only control the pace when they have the ball. Playing defense in the Big Ten will take some getting used to, especially after losing three starting seniors from a season ago.

Forward Alyssa Thomas, a three-time ACC Player of the Year who led the team in steals and finished third in blocks, won’t be on the floor. Neither will center Alicia DeVaughn, who tied the team lead with 18 blocks last season.

“We are going to have to

GUARD LEXIE BROWN speaks with Terps radio broadcaster Johnny Holliday during Tuesday’s media day, in which she pointed out the Big Ten’s physical style. christian jenkins/the diamondback focus on the physicality,” said guard Laurin Mincy, the only senior on the roster. “In the half-court sets, we are going to have to play defense for the whole shot clock and hope to get a stop.”

If the Big Ten media and coaches are right, the Terps won’t have a problem adjusting to the new conference.

Both polls selected the Terps as the preseason favorite.

“It’s humbling,” Frese said.

“You haven’t played a game in the Big Ten and you’re already tabbed to win it. It speaks volumes in terms of being recognized for having a national-level program.”

The Terps have had strong success against Big Ten opp o n e n t s d u r i n g Fre s e ’s tenure. Since the start of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, the Terps are 7-0, the only team still undefeated that has played in the event.

This season will mark a new journey for the Terps with different competition. But they aren’t ready to change their identity.

“Not only will we have to adjust to them, but they will have to adjust to us,” WalkerKimbrough said. “I don’t think they have seen the athleticism that we’re about to bring.” rbaillargeondbk@gmail.com

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teammates who transferred. “But everyone had a different goal. Everyone had a different mindset. Everybody wanted to do different things. Everyone wanted to score the ball, and everybody didn’t want to do what they were supposed to do.”

Sounds like a broken team, huh?

That’s why coach Mark Turgeon is forbidding discussion within his program about last season: too many bad memories, too much frustration.

He made that clear during media day Tuesday.

During media day on Tuesday, the Terrapins women’s basketball players discussed the physicality of the Big Ten, and guard Lexie Brown highlighted the difference in the pace of play in the new conference.

But in their lone contest with a Big Ten team last season, the Terps were the ones who controlled the paint. They outrebounded Ohio S ta te 5 3 - 3 5 e n ro u te to a 1 2 point victory in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

This season, after losing three starting seniors, including two frontcourt mainstays, the Terps plan to use their athleticism to outmatch the physical style of play for which Brown said their new conference is known.

“Our game focuses primarily on running,” guard Chloe Pavlech said.

“The Big Ten hasn’t experienced a transition like our transition, so I think they are really going to have to adjust to that.”

In the matchup against the Buckeyes last season, the Terps attempted 64 shots from the field during the contest, which was slightly above their average from ACC play. Still, a shaky 35.9 shooting percentage led the Terps to score significantly

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LOOKING FORWARD Terps avoid discussing last year’s team or five departed transfers, and that’s a good thing

DANIEL POPPER The Terrapins men’s basketball team isn’t allowed to talk about last season.

And there’s good reason for it.

The 2013-14 campaign was disappointing and disastrous. One year after a run to the NIT semifinals, the Terps finished just two games above .500 and missed postseason play. Then in the offseason, five rotation players inexplicably trans-

ferred, including four-star recruit and freshman Roddy Peters, who never came close to reaching lofty expectations, and then-sophomore Seth Allen, who figured to play a pivotal role on this season’s squad had he stayed in College Park.

We might never know what actually happened with last year’s Terps behind closed doors. But what I do know is that five players don’t transfer from a marquee Division I program unless schisms exist among all members of the program — coaches and players alike — that are beyond repair.

“Don’t get me wrong; they were good guys,” sophomore center Damonte Dodd said of his

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