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OLYMPIC DREAMAfter surviving team cuts,Valmon ready for London
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Our 102ND Year, No. 156THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERThursday, August 2, 2012
Housing requests met for second straight year
Incoming student victimof Colorado shooting
BY KATIE WILHELMFor The Diamondback
For the second year in a row,the university granted housingto all eligible students whorequested an assignment onthe campus, in part by addingabout 200 beds to existingdorm rooms.
Despite losing hundreds ofspaces after closing Carroll,Caroline and Wicomico halls —the three South Hill dorms setto be demolished by fall 2014 —Resident Life Assistant DirectorScott Young said the depart-ment committed itself to provid-ing housing to students. Addingbeds to make “flex” triples and
quads allowed the departmentto house every returning stu-dent who met housing dead-lines and participated in roomselection last semester.
“We do this every year andour returning students can seethe flex room designationswhen they are participating inRoom Selection 2012,” Young
wrote in an email. “This is donein anticipation of larger num-bers of returning studentsand/or new freshmen.”
Dodging a triple or quad isn’tan option for incoming stu-dents. However, freshman civilengineering major Sam Dusen-bery is more excited than nerv-ous for his assignment.
“I think it’s a good opportu-nity to overcome different chal-lenges of freshman year withtwo roommates instead of one,”Dusenbery said. “It should beinteresting.”
Another 400 students remainon a housing waitlist becausethey did not meet the originalhousing deadline or were not
financially eligible to partici-pate in room selection, Youngwrote. He said he did not haveinformation on the number ofsophomores, juniors and sen-iors returning to housing.
Resident Life also sentincoming freshman dorm and
BY LAURA BLASEYStaff writer
According to the odds, Petra Ander-son shouldn’t be alive right now.
She had a greater chance of surviv-ing a shark attack or a lighteningstrike than she did surviving a gun-shot wound to the head. Nationally,only 5 percent of those who suffersuch an injury live to tell the tale, andAnderson, who had been planning toattend this university’s graduatemusic school in the fall, is fortunateenough to be one of them.
The night of July 19, the 22-year-olddecided to purchase tickets to TheDark Knight Rises on a whim. She was-n’t a huge fan, but she enjoyed themovies and thought it would be fun tosee the movie’s midnight premiere.
She had just finished studyingmusic composition at the University of
the Pacific’s Conservatory of Musicand was aspiring to become a profes-sor of music.
Life was looking good for Ander-son, and she was looking forward tonew horizons.
It should have been a normal night. But after a gunman entered the the-
ater and went on a shooting rampage,leaving 12 dead and 58 wounded,Anderson wound up lying on an operat-ing table at the Aurora Medical Center.
It was something out of a Batmanmovie: As Anderson, the two friendsshe came with and the other moviego-ers were settling into their seats andwatching the opening scenes, a canisterflew across the theater and erupted intoa thick cloud of smoky gas. Throughthe haze and panic, a man in a gas maskappeared at the helm and unleashed a
After closing Carroll, Caroline and Wicomico halls, Resident Life added about 200 beds to doubles and triples
Campus hosts ChemistryOlympiad for first time Second time competition has been in U.S.
BY SAVANNAH DOANE-MALOTTEFor The Diamondback
Christopher Hillenbrand’s defini-tion of fun may differ from that of theaverage student.
He hasn’t spent his summer at thepool or the beach. Instead, the highschool sophomore from Mountainside,N.J., spent weeks preparing for the 44thannual International ChemistryOlympiad, hosted by the university, byspending hours on the Internet lookingfor every chemistry fact out there.
“For a long time, I just really lovedchemistry, so to prepare for theOlympiad I would go on Wikipedia
and read a ton of stuff for fun,” he said.“It was like a bedtime story for me.”
High-school aged chemistryexperts from more than 70 differentcountries took over the campus for 10days in late July during the ChemistryOlympiad, which tests students ontheir knowledge through laboratoryexercises and written exams.
This year was the first time in 20years, and only the second time in thecompetition’s history, the UnitedStates has hosted the Olympiad.
“Hosting this event is not only a bighonor for the university, but it also
Four high school students represented the U.S. in the International ChemistryOlympiad, hosted on the campus. PHOTO COURTESY OF CORINTHIA HARRIS
Working to give back
Former Terp Greivis Vasquez was honored at the WhiteHouse for running youth sports camps in his native Venezuela. PHOTO COURTESY OF MADELINE CRANDALL
BY DANIEL GALLENSenior staff writer
Greivis Vasquez is a Terrapins men’s bas-ketball icon.
Known for his characteristic “shimmy”and flamboyant style of play, the Caracas,Venezuela native understands entertain-ment. He became a national storyline whenhe led his team to a share of the 2010 ACCChampionship, and he is perhaps the mostrecognizable Terp since Juan Dixon.
And now, two years removed fromentering the NBA, Vasquez is once againmaking headlines.
The winner of the 2010 Bob CousyAward, given annually to college basket-ball’s top point guard, was honored Fridayat the White House in the “Champions ofChange” event, part of a weekly ceremonyin Washington to honor those making a dif-ference in their communities.
Vasquez was recognized for youth sportscamps in his home country, which he runs inpartnership with the U.S. State Department’s
A NEW WORLD
BY MAY WILDMANFor The Diamondback
Before descending on the BaltimoreConvention Center last weekend, manypeople adjusted their attire one final time.
Even in bright blue wigs, spiked-out hairand maid outfits, the boldest fans barelystood out among thousands of convention-goers. At Otakon, anything goes.
The 19th annual three-day conventiondrew an audience of more than 32,000diehard Manga and anime fans and casualpop-culture lovers, according to figuresreleased by the convention. Otakonspokesman Victor Albisharat, said 1,000more people attended this year’s event thanlast year’s, including a few students whotraveled from this campus for the chance totraipse the convention center halls in care-fully constructed outfits and slip into differ-ent personas.
Otakon describes itself as a “conventionof Otaku generation,” referring to theJapanese term for people with an obses-sion, usually Manga or anime, that keepsthem from even leaving their house.
Many hurl “otaku” as an insult, akinconnotatively to being geeky or socially
see HOUSING, page 2
Rare birth defect saved music student’s life
see ANDERSON, page 3
Former Terp Greivis Vasquez honored at White House
see OLYMPIAD, page 2
see VASQUEZ, page 3
see OTAKON, page 3
Students amongManga and animefans at Otakon
PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIAN KEVIN JI, JESSICA LIU, LIAN BIEN
gives us visibility in the interna-tional and national spheres thatwe are a center in chemistry,”said chemistry departmentChairman Michael Doyle.
A 14-member scientific com-mittee, made up partly of uni-versity professors, created andprepared the lab and writtensections for the competition.
University President WallaceLoh kicked off the opening cere-monies July 22 along with Gov.Martin O’Malley, who deliveredthe keynote speech.
“This was an opportunity forus to highlight the importanceof science and the achieve-ments of students in science ca-reers,” O’Malley spokes-woman Raquel Guillory said.“These sorts of events sparkcuriosity and interest.”
The national team includedhigh school seniors SidharthChand and James Deng fromBloomfield Hills, Mich., and NewHaven, Conn., respectively, Hil-lenbrand and junior Jason Ge
from San Diego.All entered the competition for
the same reason: a love and pas-sion for chemistry.
“In this sort of world that welive in, I find that having the op-portunity to challenge yourselfon an intellectual level is notonly becoming rare but alsoless appreciated,” said Chand.“This competition is a way inwhich I can remind myself totry and push my limits.”
“Even if there is a languagebarrier between people, throughchemistry, we can get to knoweach other,” Deng added.
The American Chemical So-ciety, the competition’s organ-izer, partnered with the univer-sity for the event’s preparationalong with the competition’schief sponsor, the Dow Chemi-cal Company.
Hillenbrand won a goldmedal, placing 16th in the overall
competition. The rest of the teammembers won silver medals.
But the best part of the com-petition wasn’t winning anaward, team members said. Itwas being able to interact withteams from across the globe.
“Chemistry is a science thatis universal in the sense that itunites people from all differentcountries,” Chand said.
roommate information July 20,three weeks earlier than in pre-vious years. Most of the nearly4,000 students got assignments,but the university told 75 fresh-men that they did not yet have aroom or roommate.
Freshman landscape archi-tecture major Nick Martinazzisaid he had to put off makinglarger purchases, a worryshared by several studentsbrowsing through the aisles oflocal Targets and Walmarts.
“It is tough since I don’t knowwho my roommate is so I can’tbuy a TV or refrigerator,” Marti-nazzi said. “I was really disap-pointed since I was excited tofind out my roommate.”
The notification also put a hic-cup in Kaitie Silk’s planning. Thefreshman said she didn’t knowhow close to the wire she wouldbe getting her assignment.
“I expected to get everythingtogether and to talk to my room-mate, but it was a big disappoint-ment not to,” said Silk, who is
enrolled in letters and sciences. “Ifelt like I did something wrongeven though I didn’t.”
Young said the departmentholds off on about the samenumber of assignments everysummer to avoid placingfreshmen in apartments ordorms with upperclassmen —in the coming weeks, cancella-tions and other resolved hous-ing issues open up spots formore freshmen.
“We make a concerted effortto make assignments and toaccommodate Living andLearning programs as well asspecial requests,” he said.
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“I was reallydisappointedsince I wasexcited to find outmy roommate.”
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hurricane of bullets, pellets andcasings upon the audience.
“[Petra], in the hospital, saidthat ‘Batman came off thescreen and started shootingpeople,’ ” Chloe Anderson, hersister, said. “We asked her if itwas the real Batman, and afterthinking, she said, ‘No. I thinkit was a fake Batman.’ ”
That man was allegedly JamesHolmes, a 24-year-old formergraduate student at the Universi-ty of Colorado living near the the-ater. Police later said he toldthem he was the Joker, the mostrecognizable of Batman’s foes inthe series. Between his arrestand the formal filing of chargesMonday, new information wouldcome that would paint a chillingpicture of Holmes as a villain inhis own right.
The Century Aurora 16shooting, however, was notonly one that hit closer tohome, but one that brought tolife the seediest parts of a storythat has been cherished sinceBatman’s inception in 1939.
While her sister was out at themovies, Chloe Anderson hadstayed home for a quiet night in.She woke to the alarming newsof a movie villain come to life.
“My mother woke me aboutan hour after I fell asleep andsaid, ‘There has been an incidentand they say that we need to goget your sister at the hospital,’ ”she said. “I asked what hap-pened, and my mother said,‘Well, they said she’s breathing.’ ”
One of Petra Anderson’sfriends was hit, and her otherfriend pulled Anderson down tothe sticky theater floor beforecalling 911. She suffered threegunshot wounds to her arm aswell as a shot to her head; a shot-gun pellet traveled through hernasal cavity and brain before be-
coming embedded in her skull.For Petra Anderson, what
happened next was so unexpect-ed, so rare, even her doctors hadthe word “miraculous” on theirtongues. In 95 percent of cases,the victim of a shot to the headdies. And for those who survive,brain damage is almost certain.
But Anderson was born with avery particular birth defect, achannel of fluid that ran throughher brain. She likely wouldn’thave known she had it, but forthe pellet that shot through theinside of her head, traveling atsuch a trajectory that it enteredthe channel and followed thecourse of the tunnel all the way tothe back of her head.
Doctors only discovered itwhen they rushed her into theoperating room to remove thepellet, which had completelyavoided passing through all thevital areas of the brain. Doctorsare still waiting to see what dam-age was done, but are optimisticthere will be little, if any at all.
“This battle we’re facing isgoing to take months, long afterall the hype is gone,” Chloe An-derson said. “We’re so glad thatthere are people still willing tocome alongside us and be withus in this fight. We’re writingthe end of this story together.”
Petra Anderson’s recoveryis going to be a long one. Shewill have to put off her plans tobecome a professor for now,but music, just as it has been akey part of her life and identity,has continued to play a keyrole in her recovery.
On July 25, Petra Andersonasked her boyfriend, fellowmusician Austin Hogan, if hehad brought his clarinet tothe hospital.
Used to playing in front oflarge audiences as a clarinet per-former, Hogan was playing thistime for an audience of one, but itmeant so much more, he wroteon the family’s fundraising site.
The music is helping Ander-son’s mother recover as well.The future holds uncertaintyfor a family so united.
Anderson’s mother, Kim, abreast cancer survivor, discov-ered in June her stage-3 cancerhad returned, as aggressive asever, and had spread to herlungs, bones and liver. Complica-tions prevented traditional treat-ment from being effective, andshe’s instead sought alternativetreatment that brings a heftyprice tag along with its promise.
It’s a lot for the family to han-dle. Chloe Anderson, Hogan andseveral friends started a cam-paign online to help pay the bills.
In the few days since theshooting, the fundraiser hassurpassed its goal of $250,000and garnered national mediaattention. As her mother be-gins her treatment, Andersonis improving as well. As of July31, she was discharged fromthe hospital and starting inpa-tient therapy.
Despite the horror, there alsocame stories of heroism.
“It’s not the violence that’schanged me,” Chloe Ander-son said. “It’s the outpouringof strength and help fromthose around us — peoplewho know and love us, friendswe’d lost touch with, and evencomplete strangers.”
inept, but in America the term hasmorphed into an umbrella catego-ry for anyone with an avid inter-est in Manga, illustrated Japanesecomic books, and anime, Japan-ese television or film animation.
Manjur Ahmed, a junior electri-cal engineering major, saidOtakon’s highlights are people-watching and cosplay — a termcombining “costume” and “play.”
“I think you get the most out of itif you dress up and enjoy yourself,and talk to other people,” he said.
Kelly Wong, a sophomore com-munity health major, dressed upas a member of Team Rocket ofPokémon. She said she had agreat experience bonding with fel-low characters and joined an im-promptu photo shoot with about50 other Pokémon cosplayers.
“There was a collection of gymleaders, Pokémon, Pokémon train-ers, the bad guys,” Wong said. “A
lot of people who are completestrangers get to meet others [andask], ‘Oh my God, how long didyou spend on your costume?’ ”
The event also featured work-shops, screenings of anime films,video game tournaments andpanel discussions such as “Ladies’Choice: A Guide to Hentai” and“Pokéholics Anonymous.” In onecavernous hall, dealers of anime-re-lated wares hawked everythingfrom sushi-shaped pillows to pur-ple-colored contacts and scan-dalous R-rated Manga posters.
One successful new featurewas the maid cafe, where womendressed up as French maids, de-veloped personas and servedcustomers, a nod to an otakufetish. Albisharat said Otakon’scafe only admitted 40 people at atime, contributing to lines thatwere two to three hours long.
Lian Bien, a senior behavioraland community health major,said she enjoyed the experienceof serving as a maid at the cafe.
“It was a lot of fun being a part of
Otakon rather than just seeing pan-els and going to concerts andthings like that,” she said.
Albisharat said the performanceby a Korean pop band, the conven-tion’s first, “added an extra high-light which people really enjoyed.”
Wong, attending her thirdOtakon, said she keeps comingback for the atmosphere of ac-ceptance and friendliness.
“I really like Otakon not be-cause of the concept, but the peo-ple you meet there,” she said.
The main gripe for student con-vention-goers this year was thecost — $80 for three days.
Rochelle Gobantes, a criminol-ogy and criminal justice and psy-chology major, hesitated at theexpense. Rather than pay moremoney at the maid cafe, herfriends came up with a solution.
“We didn’t want to pay 40-plusdollars to get served by hotmaids, so we went to Hooters in-stead,” she said.
sports diplomacy program. Hisgoal is to give kids growing up inVenezuela opportunities henever had when he wasyounger, he said.
“It was something I will neverforget,” Vasquez said Monday. “Itwas a pleasure. It was an honor tobe there in the White Housereceiving that award. I couldn’tbelieve it at first.”
Vasquez joined eight other“champions” under the theme“Connecting the Americas.” Allnine honorees were involved insome sort of community activismto help members of the LatinAmerican diaspora, including ElSalvador, Colombia, Guatemala,
Mexico and Venezuela.“They were great people,” said
Vasquez, who started 26 gamesfor the New Orleans Hornets lastseason. “I was really impressed.It was unbelievable the way theyinspired other people andworked for their communitiesand how they do things.”
Vasquez said his professionalbasketball career gives him aplatform to make an impact onthe country that helped raisehim. It’s an opportunity he does-n’t take lightly.
“I went through a lot to get tothe NBA,” Vasquez said. “So whatI’m trying to do is go back to thecommunity and have the youthsunderstanding that if I made it,they can make it, too.”
On Monday, Vasquez waspreparing to fly back to Venezuela
for two weeks to be with his fam-ily and run basketball clinics andcamps. He’ll then return to theU.S. to prepare for the upcom-ing NBA season and plan nextsummer’s charitable efforts.
The former Terps star hashardly forgotten about his time inthe Mid-Atlantic. He expressed adesire to do a number of campsand speaking engagements athigh schools in Maryland, Wash-ington and Virginia.
It all comes back to Vasqueztrying to make a difference.
“If I speak two languages,they can speak three languages.If I get my degree in college, youcan get it, too,” Vasquez said.“Everything is possible by justworking hard.”
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Having been a waitress for afew years now, my opinionof “eating out” etiquettehas changed completely. I
work at a vegan restaurant, whichattracts a somewhat pickier crowd(mostly people living on vegan, raw,gluten-free and sometimes soy-freediets). But I’m willing to bet waiters theworld over deal with the same issues, ifnot to the same magnitude.
Now that I’ve worked in food serviceextensively, when I eat at a restaurant, Ikeep in mind the same values that Ihope people uphold when sitting at mytables. For you, the students of this uni-versity, I’m sure we have a few thou-sand past/present/future waiters andwaitresses out there — particularly thetheatre majors. So here’s my take onbeing a patron, having been a waitress.
1. The first, and most obviouscalamity as a waitress is a poor tipper.The general rule of thumb as I see it is15 percent for adequate service and 20percent for good service. Obviously, ifyour server is rude to you, or causessome mistake that renders your meal
inedible or massively unpleasant, yourtip should reflect that. However, pun-ishing your waiter for things that areout of his or her control (i.e., food tak-ing a long time) you’re only affectingthe waiter — the kitchen gets paidhourly. I know I make an effort withmy tables to be pleasant, run littleerrands, offer soup samples, makegood recommendations and haveeverything out in a timely manner.And yes, I expect to be paid properlyfor that. My hourly wage is less than$4, so if every table decides to leave 15percent or less, I’m making far fromminimum wage.
And if you’re looking to change theway the restaurant industry pays itsworkers, don’t use the excuse that yourcrappy tip to me is a political statement.Write a letter. Lobby Congress. But leavea decent tip. For poor college students, ifyou can’t afford a decent tip, then youcan’t afford to eat there. On the samenote, though, waiters: Don’t work likeyour 20 percent is built in. Earn it — it’syour job.
2. Make an attempt to treat your
waiter like a human being, not your per-sonal servant. Keep in mind your waiterprobably has 8,000 things to do in thespace of the next five minutes beforepeople start complaining. Waiters dotheir best to make life pleasant for every-one. This is coming from a girl whosecertain unnamed relatives haveinstructed waiters to give them “the bestpiece of meat.” Acting like this is alsoembarrassing for the rest of the table. Noone is impressed by your power trip ingetting someone who is obligated toserve you to do obnoxious little chores.
3. The restaurant is not your kitchen.If you’re looking to have something pre-pared beyond the scope of reasonableadjustments (no tomato, medium rare,dressing on the side, perhaps a simplesubstitution), make it at home. For
instance, consider rethinking yourrequest of “a little dressing on the saladand the rest on the side.”
My restaurant accommodates ahuge number of allergies (I didn’t evenknow people could be allergic to redpepper vinaigrette), and I still servepeople trying to have spinach-arti-choke dip without spinach, as well asblack bean and corn quesadillas with-out corn. Come on, people, let’s be rea-sonable. If you have to morph a dish somuch that it no longer resembles whatthe menu advertises, maybe considerordering something else.
Waitressing is probably the mostthankless job I’ve ever had, and thatincludes two unpaid internships andworking a few summers scanningthousands of pages when my dad’sinsurance agency went paperless. Butthe satisfaction of having a good nightand going home with upwards of $200keeps me in the game.
Sarah Gordon is a junior neurobiologyand physiology major. She can bereached at [email protected].
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A seemingly obvious protection went into effect when former Presi-dent Bill Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act in 1994.Although activists knew the law would periodically be up for reau-thorization, it seemed unfathomable to them that members of Con-
gress would try to reverse a law helping victims of violence. The legislativebattle was over, and efforts could be geared toward the real battle — help-ing these battered women.
The measure’s passage was a milestone in thiscountry. It created new programs, funding andreforms that have shaped responses to violence in allforms, be it domestic, sexual or dating-related. It seta precedent that reported violent crimes will besolved and not merely brushed under the rug, andprosecutors who fail to protect these women in courtsuffer repercussions. The act made it OK to talkabout abuse. This critical piece of legislation has ledto improvement on many levels, but there are still somany obstacles to overcome.
Lawmakers renewed and expanded the act in 2000and 2005; partisan politics didn’t play a leading role inthis issue of human rights. Each aspect of the initiallaw has been revamped to ensure optimal protectionfor victims. Every time the act was up for renewal, it was modernized andmade more inclusive.
But this year, the act is facing resistance. There are new provisions thatwould extend the act’s protection to same-sex couples and illegal immi-grants, which many conservative Republicans aren’t on board with. Thereare members of Congress ready to withhold protections for all women just
because they include two additional groups of people. Lawmakers are will-ing to forgo public health and safety on the premise they are protectingtheir values.
You can’t always pick out who has been abused in a crowd. A victim of vio-lence can be a woman on a college campus, a woman running in the park atnoon, a woman living in a mansion, a woman eating out of a dumpster, a woman
riding the subway or a woman born in another country.Violence doesn’t discriminate; why should protection? Vice President Joe Biden, who wrote the original act,
wrote in a column for McClatchy-Tribune that 23,000women each month call the national domestic abusehotline, which runs so successfully because of the act’sability to break down barriers. Women who may havepreviously suffered in silence can come forwardbecause of programs created under the measure.Numerous dif ferent initiatives have launched to helpvictims recover, and many of them were made possiblebecause of provisions in the VAWA. The culture thathas a problem with talking about violence againstwomen is (slowly) disintegrating.
But violence against women is widespread, and thestigma against reporting crimes still exists. The univer-
sity and all levels of government have to keep moving forward to stop theviolence. The first step is protection, which will hopefully lead to being ableto prevent these heinous crimes. If one link in the chain of help for these vic-tims breaks — like the VAWA not being renewed — the whole system couldfall apart. We would be back at square one, and victims of a myriad of violentcrimes need our help too much for that to be an option.
Staff editorial
What do I do after I gradu-ate? That is never aneasy question, but theJuly 19 Diamondback
article, “Students struggle to find jobsafter graduating with Ph.D.s in sci-ences,” suggests it might be evenharder to figure out.
The article cited a recent surveyshowing 45 percent of computer, math-ematical and natural sciences schoolgraduates had accepted full-time em-ployment after graduation. It stated,“CMNS Associate Dean Robert Infanti-no said job shortages coincide with thehealth of the economy and that the gov-ernment must increase its investmentsin research and technology.”
This makes sense to me. I bet mostof us would relate it to various badnews coming from the European sov-ereign debt crisis, the slowingeconomies of the BRICS nations —Brazil, Russia, India, China and South— tensions in the Middle East, poorcorporate earnings results and otherareas, and start worrying about ourown futures.
But there is another option for highlyeducated and bright students — entre-preneurship. Launching or joining newbusinesses and nonprofit organiza-tions can be a valuable and fun way tostart your career after graduation.There are a few reasons why: First, en-trepreneurship is not as risky as it mayseem. Right now, a sour economy ismaking “traditional employment”risky, too. Members of the MillennialGeneration — 20- to 30-year-olds — arerushing to the job market and compet-ing with each other for hardly make-ends-meet positions. Against this back-drop, student entrepreneurs who taketheir futures into their own hands byhatching business plans based on so-cial responsibility and their own pas-sions, interests and skills seem wise.
Second, students and recent gradu-ates can be good entrepreneurs. As theMarch 29 Diamondback staff editorialsaid, “You see, college students — bothgraduate and undergraduate — areworld-renowned hustlers … We drivethe Department of Transportation’smidnight shift drunk bus, trade semes-ter-end trips to Adele’s for favors andstart dorm-room enterprises, all in pur-suit of that sweet nectar — cash money.Put simply, we’re entrepreneurs.”
Third, entrepreneurship can be agreat experience for whatever you donext. There is so much to do to start anew organization, so everybody has todo “real” work. This can be a little scaryat times, but it means you learn a lot.
Thankfully, the environment at thisuniversity has been changing favor-ably toward entrepreneurship. Uni-versity President Wallace Loh and theUniversity System of Maryland havedemonstrated this vision to push formore technological innovation andentrepreneurship initiatives and cre-ate or recruit 325 companies to thestate by 2020. These initiatives in-clude a 15-credit technology entre-preneurship minor launched last fall,the expansion of the Maryland Tech-nology Enterprise Institute, which fo-cuses on technology innovation, and atechnology commercializationcourse at the business school thatgives students a chance to work ontechnology and entrepreneurship.
There is nothing wrong with spend-ing your career under one employer,but maybe students can now look toother options. It’s the right time for our“hustling” students — both graduateand undergraduates — to take achance on themselves and become en-trepreneurs. There are 325 compa-nies to be launched — perhaps youshould move quickly to take your po-sition in one of them.
Echo Gao is a masters of business stu-dent in the business school. He can bereached [email protected].
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Just in case there are students outthere who have somehowavoided the last couple of yearsof moderately popular cinema
and television, let me tell you aboutZooey Deschanel. From her seeminglyanti-cheer attitude in Elf to her quirky,relatable and frank display of characterin New Girl, Deschanel has carved her-self a niche as the woman who says whatall of us quiet social critics are thinking.
This forthright approach to previouslydemonized personality qualities (e.g.,recognition of either female sexualbehavior or “nerdy” things such as StarWars) has gained a fair amount of clout inour shifting culture. This has led to themore recent slew of ads and pictures allcentered on one central theme: Nerdy isthe new sexy.
While I have a hard time denying sucha claim (Emma Watson went to Brown,you say?), I feel this new movementneeds a significant amount of correction.First off, to those who think up these pic-tures of women in thick-rimmed glassesbiting a Super Nintendo controller thatisn’t plugged in — you’re not accuratelydepicting a female gamer. Your inaccura-
cies are neither sexy nor effective;they’re just plain insulting to both thewoman in the picture as well as yourintended audience — we can tell when F-Zero is not properly functioning.
Which brings me to my next griev-ance — the intended audience. Irecently saw a screenshot of a Face-book status where someone claimshe’s playing video games and is, there-fore, such a nerd. A friend then asksthis person if he’s excited for E3, thebiggest video game conference in theUnited States. After a humorousexchange — from the perspective of anoutsider — the original “nerd” politelyrequests that his friend stop comment-ing on his status, as the “nerd” has nei-ther heard of E3 nor does he find theconcept particularly interesting.
Since it is clear the intended audi-
ence of this new trend is not gamers ofeither gender, I tried to figure out thetarget demographic. Then it hit me: Inthe musical The Music Man, the classicportrayal of the sexy librarian plays apivotal role in the character arc of theprotagonist. Alternative culture, then,seems to be the flavor of the month justas there has always been the arche-typal sexy librarian.
Again, I take some issues here.First, by definition, alternative cul-ture must appeal to the minority. Ican’t comment for my entire genera-tion, but it’s fair to say there hasbeen a real shift toward the former“underground” of music and fash-ion. It’s overused, but the stockphrase, “you’ve probably neverheard of it,” the hipster battle cryand an attempt to carve out yourown area of expertise, is all toofamiliar in the academic world.
We’re seeing a radical shift inwhat society views as attractive. Iparaphrase radio personality DianeRehm, who says our generation isdemanding more from our politi-cians and taking more time to be
critical of media sources. In the 21stcentury, knowledge is power, andthe ability to hunt down some wildboar for prehistoric bacon is becom-ing less of a determinant in choos-ing a mate.
Like many with more brains thanbrawn, more personality than popknowledge, I couldn’t be happier.Having a sexy geek in the media islike taking out a personal ad withouthaving to pay for it (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I’m looking at you, as aremany others). What I’m not happyabout is the number of, if I may beso Holden Caulfield, phony fan boysand girls at the concert for an artistpreviously unburdened with fair-weather fans.
Even though I can’t have my cakeand GLaD-ly eat it too, I will say weare blessed to live in an age whereknowledge is the new front page —for now.
Erik Shell is a sophomore classicallanguages and literatures and historymajor. He can be reached [email protected].
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In November, the athleticsdepartment decided to cuteight teams, including men’scross country, and men’sindoor and outdoor track. Theironly chance for survival? Val-mon’s teams had to reach speci-fied fundraising benchmarks byJune 30 to stay alive for at leastone more season.
Thus, Valmon turned his atten-tion to unifying his program andraising the necessary funds.Prior to the Olympic trials inJune, he took care of most of hisOlympic responsibilities by con-ference call. He worked tirelesslyduring the day calling alumni,making the case that track andfield is a foundational sport.
“Maryland track and field wasdefinitely the primary focus forhim,” Terps sprinter John Daven-port said. “Clearly being a USAcoach is something that’s a greathonor, but at the end of the day, wewere his team first. He let us knowthat we were his No. 1 priority.”
And it wasn’t for naught. Val-mon helped raise the necessaryfunds to save men’s outdoortrack, the only one of the eightannounced teams to avoid theJuly 1 cuts.
Valmon said he wished theteam cuts never would’ve hap-pened. They did, though, and thetwo-time Olympic gold medalistis now drawing upon that situa-tion, along with his experience as
a coach and as an athlete, torebuild a troubled Team USA.
Much like he did with theTerps last season, Valmon istrying to foster a culture thatmakes the athletes feel like theyare part of a team.
“Track and field is largely anindividual sport,” Valmon saidfrom London on Tuesday. “But Ithink this experience is morerewarding when you feel like youare a part of a cohesive team.”
He attends track practiceevery day, assists athletes whodon’t have their personalcoaches with them and partici-pates in discussions about poli-cies and procedures.
Over the past month, Valmonhas emphasized the lofty expec-tations placed on the men’strack and field team.
As members of the team thathas won more medals than anyother country — 315 gold and744 overall — the athletes knowthey have exceptionally highstandards to meet in London.They’ll have nine days to showwhy U.S. track and field haslong been considered theworld’s top teams.
But although Valmon under-stands the importance of thismoment, he has hardly forgottenabout his Terps. He plans to returnto College Park after the Olympics.
“I have been the head coachfor both teams for a while, and Idid not want to abandon thisgroup, especially now that wehave come this far to save themen,” Valmon said. “So despitethe uncertainty for much of theyear about the men’s team, mycommitment to coaching atMaryland, coaching the womenthat I recruited to College Park,has not changed.”
VALMONfrom page 8
roster who logged lessthan 10 minutes per con-test. He totaled 13 points,three rebounds and threeassists in five games,shooting just 25 percentfrom the field.
His best game of theweek — a six-point, two-rebound, two-assist per-formance in a 96-89 winover the Sacramento Kingson July 18 — would’vebeen the worst of hisentire sophomore cam-paign in College Park.
But even through hisstruggles, Stoglin remainsconfident.
“They learned from me,I learned from them.They’re good players,”Stoglin said. “But I com-peted with them prettywell. I don’t think any ofthem are better than me.”
Now, the Tuscon, Ariz.native can only wait. There
are almost two months leftuntil the first NBA trainingcamps officially open Sept.29, leaving just eight weeksfor a team to take a chanceon Stoglin.
“Right now, I’m in theprocess of just training andwaiting,” Stoglin said. “I’mjust weighing my options,trying to see what kind ofoffers I get and if I can getinvited to a training campor get any contract[offers].”
Stoglin has yet to receiveany offers from an NBA orNBA DevelopmentalLeague team, but he said hehas received interest fromteams overseas. He would-n’t specify which countriesin particular, but he did saythe teams were located in“good places.”
Beginning his profes-sional career outside of theU.S. is far from Stoglin’sfirst choice, but after hispoor performance with theRaptors in Las Vegas, itmight be his only option. It
could even potentially helphim in the long run.
“I’m not really hesitant[to go overseas] becausemost teams and mostcoaches I’ve talked to thinkI need another year beforeI’m ready for the NBA,”Stoglin said. “Obviously it’sa great opportunity andexperience, so I could domy thing over there, thencome back.”
Stoglin doesn’t know yetwhether he’ll spend theupcoming season underthe bright lights of an NBAarena, in an under-the-radar D-League city or in aforeign country. What hedoes believe, though, isthat no matter how he getsthere, he’ll be in the NBAsomeday.
“Whatever happens, hap-pens; I just know I’m playingball somewhere,” Stoglinsaid. “Whichever way itworks out, that will be thebest way for me.”
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Stoglin ‘notworried’ afterRaptors stint
BY JOSH VITALESenior staff writer
What happens in Vegas, stays inVegas.
It’s the unofficial motto of a cityknown for bright lights, casinos, liveshows and general debauchery. It’smeant to mean that no matter whathappened, anyone who wasn’t theredoesn’t need to know about it.
Terrell Stoglin might want that ruleto hold true on the basketball court.
The former Terrapins men’s basket-ball guard had a disappointing show-ing in five games with the Toronto Rap-tors’ Las Vegas Summer League team,struggling to stay on the court longenough to prove his worth to theteam’s management.
Now five weeks removed fromJune’s NBA Draft, there’s still notelling where, if anywhere, Stoglin willbegin his professional career. Will helatch onto an NBA roster? Or will hehave to take his talents overseas?
“It was discouraging that I didn’t getdrafted because I thought I shouldhave. And the playing time [in summerleague], I wish I would’ve gottenmore,” Stoglin said Monday. “But all inall, it’s fine. It’s just a process I’m goingthrough. I’m not worried about it. Iknow once I finally get the opportunity,I’ll be fine.”
Playing alongside No. 8 overall pickTerrence Ross and former North Car-olina star Ed Davis, Stoglin was theonly player on the Raptors’ 11-man
Former Terps guardcould play overseas
see STOGLIN, page 7
TRACK AND FIELD | OLYMPICS
Five weeks after two of his teams were cut, Terps coach readies for LondonBY CONNOR LETOURNEAU AND
RHIANNON WALKERSenior staff writers
Andrew Valmon has mastered theart of multitasking over the pastnine months.
The Terrapins men’s and women’strack and field coach has simultane-ously coached his teams, raisednearly $1 million and prepared arevamped U.S. men’s squad for theSummer Olympics.
And now, less than five weeksafter helping save the Terps men’soutdoor program from budget cuts,Valmon is tasked with another chal-lenge: leading the U.S. men’s trackand field team in London whenevents begin tomorrow.
It’s no easy objective helping TeamUSA to its announced goal of 30medals. Getting to that point requireslong nights.
After claiming 23 medals in 2008,U.S. Track and Field assembled a
special task force to reevaluate thestate of Team USA. The group ulti-mately released a 69-page reportclaiming “chaos reigned” around therelays, there was a “culture of mis-trust” among coaches and athletesbased on staff selection and suggest-ing “coaches should act and betreated” professionally.
Searching for someone to instillorder among its 124 athletes, USATFhired Valmon as its head men’s coachfor London in February 2011.
It was a fitting hire. After all, Val-mon is no stranger to facilitatinglarge organizations. In addition tocoaching Team USA at the 2009World Outdoor Championships andthe 2010 World Indoor Champi-onships, Valmon has led six differentTerps squads — men and women’scross country and indoor and out-door track — since 2004.
“He knows how to delegate,” said
Stepping into the spotlightAndrew Valmon hopes to help Team USA rebound from a disappointing 2008 Olympics when track and field begins tomorrow. PHOTO COURTESY OF JODI FICK
see VALMON, page 7
