They were more than just puppets. They were the Muppets, and they touched the lives of children across the country for decades.
Now, fans are mourning the death of one-half of the team behind the iconic characters.
Jane Nebel Henson, university alumna and philanthropist, died in her Connecticut home Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. She was 78.
Jane and Jim Henson, also a univer-sity alumnus, were the creative team behind the Muppets, pioneering not
only a style of puppetry — a soft hybrid doll combining the features of a stan-dard marionette and a ventriloquism dummy — but also family television programming. From Sesame Street to The Muppet Show, the Henson creations See henson, Page 3
became household names.Jane Henson was born in New York
City in 1934 to Winifred and Adalbert Nebel, an astrologer.
Univ. Senate addresses long-term faculty issues
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JANE HENSON receives a tribute at the 1990 homecoming game from then-university President Brit Kirwan. Henson met her husband, Jim, at this university and created the Muppets with him. photo courtesy of university archives
Challenge part of year’s wellness initiative
By Savannah Doane-MalotteStaff writer
To deal with the stresses of higher education and everyday life, strug-gles all too familiar to many stu-dents, Minh Pho took up a creative outlet and a challenge.
He started his own photo project, taking new photos daily to keep his mind off the anxieties of his classes and schoolwork. Wellness @ Mary-land, the university’s wellness center, had a similar idea when it launched its campuswide Stress Less Photo Challenge, asking students and staff to submit photos through April 14 that reflect how students keep their worries in perspective.
“It gives me a sense that I can stay on top of things, and is really helpful See challenge, Page 2
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By Alex KirshnerStaff writer
Non-tenure-track faculty members who have expressed concerns about their treatment at the university could soon see changes, after the University Senate voted Thursday to accept a set of task force recommendations.
The recommendations deal mainly
Student Conduct working to expand its reach By Teddy Amenabar and Laura BlaseySenior staff writers
University officials hope expanding the Code of Student Conduct would increase student responsibility off the campus, they told city council members at Tuesday’s meeting.
Members of the city and university community see amending the code as a path toward alleviating tense neighborhood relations and provid-ing students with a way to report off-campus misconduct. City officials said the University Senate bill represents a positive step toward reining in student behavior off the campus.
“We want to educate students that when you’re a student at Maryland, you don’t leave that title when you cross the street,” Andrea Goodwin, Office of Student Conduct director, told the College Park City Council last week. “We’re trying to teach students how to be better citizens, better neighbors.”
If the bill passes the Senate Executive Committee today and the full senate later this month — and also receives university President Wallace Loh’s sig-nature — University Police would be able to enforce student conduct policies within the bill’s planned jurisdiction extension. That would allow the force to patrol in residential areas around the city, Goodwin said.
The proposal is a long time coming, said District 3 Councilman Robert Day.
“When I ran for this office, this was one of things I brought up to many people,” Day said. “You don’t understand
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Photo contest aims to lower students’ stress
in reminding me to take it easy once in a while,” Pho said.
The challenge, which began April 1, is part of the center’s yearlong Stress Less initiative, which aims to educate students on symptoms and effects of stress and healthy ways to manage them. Because stress is the No. 1 health problem on college campuses, accord-ing to national data, the university wanted to make a priority of helping students keep calm, said Kate Maloney, Wellness communications coordinator.
“Sometimes stress seems like a badge of honor on campus, and if you’re not stressed, you’re not doing something right,” Maloney said. “But you don’t have to stress for success. We wanted to rewrite the story of stress at UMD and
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with pay and promotional issues and seek to address gaps in the handling of non-tenure-track faculty and their tenured counterparts. Now that the senate has accepted the recommenda-tions, various senate subcommittees will review each of the 21 proposed changes next school year, nearly two years after the Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Task Force was created.
“I would rather see it done right than see it done rushed,” said Thomas Holtz, the task force’s co-chairman.
Although some awareness of the issues already exists, the report could be a step toward broader understand-ing, Holtz said.
“I think all the NTT faculty have
holi celebrations organized by the Hindu Student Council coated more than 200 students in vibrant, powdery paint yesterday on McKeldin Mall. The university sees annual revelry for the spring festival, which honors the potential and romance of the season. photos by charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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been sort of aware of issues of themselves and maybe other people in their own unit,” Holtz said. “They’ve been pretty aware of some of the specific issues but not seeing the bigger picture.”
The task force identified many concerns: Non-tenure-track faculty members work too much for too little pay, have limited upward mobility, work under mis-leading titles and receive adminis-trative treatment that lags behind that of tenure-track members.
“I’m still paid what I was paid 11 years ago, when I started working at this university,” Sabrina Baron, a part-time lecturer and non-ten-ure-track faculty member, told senators at the meeting.
From behind the podium, senate Chairwoman Martha Nell Smith grimaced.
“I was horrified,” she said after the meeting. “That just appalled me.”
The task force’s recommen-dations could greatly impact the university if implemented because non-tenure-track employ-ees constitute a majority of the faculty. About 3,000 non-ten-ure-track faculty members work in instructional, research and service capacities, compared to about 1,600 tenure-track faculty members, the task force found.
Over time, non-tenure-track faculty have taken on more of the university’s teaching load, and the breadth of their role on the campus surprised even Holtz. Non-tenure-track faculty are now teaching 40 percent of the university’s total credit hours, the same as tenure-track faculty.
“The NTT faculty are, in fact, a majority on campus, which is something that I wasn’t spe-cifically aware of,” he said. “I
suppose if I sat down and started thinking about it, I would have realized it. Seeing the actual counts really brings this to light.”
Scott Wible, professional writing program director, said non-tenure-track faculty members are critical members of his department, doing work that “demands a lot of time and energy.”
“They help us to advance the university’s collective teaching and research mission,” he told senators.
The task force’s recommenda-tions are broad, generally avoid-ing hard numbers and leaving some leeway for implementation if they eventually pass the senate in individual votes.
One provision calls for the senate and Provost Mary Ann Rankin to “collaborate with the relevant bodies on campus” to place more non-tenure-track faculty in the senate, where they are drastically outnumbered by
tenured senators.Smith said any discussion
of increasing their representa-tion in the body ought to extend beyond the hard numbers.
“ T h e va r i o u s co n t r i b u -tions that people make and how much time they spend on task and what their work is really does vary. It’s different if you’re tenure-track,” she said. “I think that any adjustment to senate representation cannot be just looking at numbers because I think that’s a very simplistic way to analyze.”
The issue of how to treat non-tenure-track faculty has extended beyond this university, several senators said.
“This is a great step in leader-ship for the University of Mary-land. This is not just a conversa-tion on campus,” Baron said. “This is a nationwide conversation.”
teach Terps to take charge of managing their own stress.”
Students can enter the photo challenge at any time during its duration, and can submit one photo for each day’s theme through the group’s Facebook app, “Stress Less Photo Chal-lenge.” When the challenge is over, a randomly selected par-ticipant will win an iPad mini, and the two photos voted as favorites for each theme will win a free T-shirt. The app received almost 400 submis-sions during the challenge’s
first four days, Maloney said.Wellness staff conceived the
photo challenge after seeing the 7 Day Stress Less Chal-lenge succeed in October. That event invited students to spend 10 minutes each day for a week engaging in a stress-relieving activity. The last day of the program requested that students send in a picture, and many students participated, inspiring staff to come up with an even bigger event.
“We decided to play off the photo challenge idea, but we always wanted to incorporate a social media aspect of it,” she said. “So we built a Facebook app that was a combination of
those things, and let students interact through stress-reliev-ing activities.”
Now in its eighth day, the photo challenge has garnered submissions that range from a dog relaxing on the Fourth of July to a couple parasailing in Aruba. Using the app not only teaches students how to handle their stress, but is also a stress reliever in itself, said senior community health major Chardon Hunt.
“It really brings the eye to things that we do every day to manage stress, but may not really realize it,” Hunt said. “A lot of the themes really focus on spiritual wellness, eating well and being
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active, which are all things that can decrease stress.”
Many students are unaware of useful ways to de-stress because of a lack of formal education on this topic and the busy nature of college stu-dents’ lifestyles, said Meghan Co h e n , Ce n te r fo r Hea l t h and Wellbeing coordinator. Negatively managing stress can cause short-term effects such as headaches, difficulty making decisions and irrita-bility, and can cause even more problems in the long term, Cohen said.
“The most severe way that stress can negatively impact students is through mental
health issues that can arise,” she said. “But the challenge is a good example that solving these problems is not as hard as people think. It can be as simple as sitting outside and enjoying nature, which Day 3 of the challenge encouraged students to do.”
Cohen also encouraged stu-dents to use other resources on the campus aimed at manag-ing stress. These include in-dividual stress management training programs in the Center for Health and Wellbeing, meditation sessions and the University Counseling Center. However, there are also other ways students can cope with
their stress, she said.“Students should try and
improve their time management skills so that they lead a more balanced lifestyle,” Cohen said. “Also, sleeping, eating well and exercise are all very important.”
“The most severe way that stress can negatively impact students is through mental health issues that can arise.”
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Only someone close to Ray would know who Dan Collins, Hayden, Dermis, Anne and Erica the supposed goblin are. Yet all these people are featured — some-times prominently — as characters or allusions in Teen Suicide songs. Even more peripherally, you prob-ably don’t even know who Julia Brown is. But this specificity piques your interest and makes you want to know more.
At the same time, misanthropy and self-deprecation are frequent songwriting themes of Ray’s.
In one lyric from Teen Suicide’s “The Same Things Happening To Me All The Time, Even In My Dreams,” Ray sings, “I wish that I’d never met a lot of the people that I’ve met/ Not because I don’t like them/ But because I only let them down/ And when you dis-appoint everyone all the time/ It’s hard not to want to die.”
Recently — instead of dwelling on the effects of these contra-dictions — he’s turned his at-tention to the professional side of music. He’s been spending time in a real studio rather than recording at his home, placing a special emphasis on craftsman-ship and precision.
Ray still loves the do-it-yourself ethos — something he says won’t change anytime soon — but Ray’s two goals at this point are making money and gaining artistic validation.
“It’s all a lot more structured and official, and it’s fun,” Ray said, referring to the business world. “Like filling out tax forms about music, that’s the part that I enjoy the most — the stupid, bureaucratic bulls — of it. I feel that everyone who wants to be a musician as a kid is like, ‘Yeah, I want to just play shows and travel and tour and have people like what I do.’ I’m like, ‘I want to make money from this.’”
Ray talks about business with a
directness that is unprecedented for him. In contrast, discussions of his past in Teen Suicide are tinged with superfluity and a noticeable amount of filler words such as “like” and “weird.”
Even with Ray providing direc-tion and guidance, collaborating is an open, democratic experience for everyone.
“I feel like as I spent more and more time playing with him, it got heavier and more chaotic and thrashy and that was more like my side, what I’m really into,” said Simke, Julia Brown’s bassist. “We kind of seem to play off each other.”
“We are still always sharing music, and that was probably a factor in us working together so well, knowing what kind of stuff bands were doing that the other person was stoked on,” said Livingston, Teen Suicide’s former drummer. “It helped our artistic vision align by kind of mushing it together. We both influenced each other’s tastes.”
Ray’s Julia Brown bandmates, while fully invested in their work together, remain slightly mys-tified by him and his ambitious future plans for them.
They speak in speculative terms, hinting at a relationship filled with constant entropy.
“With Sam’s other projects, it seemed like there was some internal conflict that kept him from really trying to promote his music and get it as popular as he could,” said Toohey, one of Ray’s current collaborators and Julia Brown’s drummer. “With Julia Brown, it seems like he’s just ready to take this as far as it can go. Things are about to get kind of crazy.”
Even with constant feedback from dedicated bandmates and a new focus on professional-ism, Ray’s quirks and contra-dictions remain very much a part of who he is.
Ray attended a local College Park house show in March, but he kept mostly to himself, hardly interacting with anyone there.
It wasn’t until the party was slowly dying out, with all of the bands long since finished, that he decided to make his pres-ence known.
Ambling over to a blue fender mustang, he plugged in and started playing the opening chords to Teen Suicide’s “Ev-erything Is Fine.” Slowly, people started to file in.
Ray then moved on to the jagged riffs of “Dan Collins v. The Maryland Judiciary System” — another Teen Suicide song. Thrashing his head in time with the strumming, the peak of his black wool cap flapping from side to side, Ray shouted, “I said/ I don’t want anyone to notice me.”
More people entered. “I just wanna stay far away from anyone,” Ray continued.
Everyone kept their distance — but nobody wanted him to stop.
how many colleagues sitting here said it would never happen.”
Goodwin is one of roughly 30 members of the city’s Neighbor-hood Stabilization and Quality of Life Workgroup, which is ad-dressing issues such as noise vio-lations, neighborhood relations, rent stabilization and diversity of housing. Extending the code to the city could aid the growing “sub-stantial partnership” between the city and university, Goodwin said.
District 1 Councilman Patrick Wojahn, one of the leading members of the work group, agreed university penalties could serve as a crime deterrent.
“The vandalism and making lots of noise, these are things covered by the Code of Student Conduct,” Wojahn said. “In some ways, it could have a greater impact than the fines the city imposes for violating the noise ordinance. It could have an impact on students’ futures.”
However, several city officials expressed concerns about how residents would report inci-dents such as excessive noise or vandalism from house parties
to the university.“We need landlords to provide
names of tenants,” District 3 Councilwoman Stephanie Stul-lich said. “That’s an issue that will come back to us.”
If the proposal becomes policy, university and city officials said, it will be necessary to educate students on the consequences of misconduct off the campus.
“The training has to include the residents,” Day added. “They need to understand what info to collect and how to report it.”
Although some students might worry the extension of universi-ty-sanctioned regulations could negatively impact student life off the campus, Goodwin said the change should ultimately help students, providing resources to victims of hazing, violence or sexual assault.
“There are benefits,” Goodwin said. “If you’re a victim of another student’s misconduct [off the campus], right now it’s very difficult for us to intervene within the university.”
Some students worry the university could use the policy to increase enforcement of issues like underage drinking, said Student Government As-
sociation President Samantha Zwerling. However, she said the initiative also provides students with a much-needed safety net.
“In the cases of sexual assault, it’s going to be very important,” Zwerling said, adding, “[The Office of Student Conduct is] not going to be going after petty issues.”
The change would simply provide an “additional course of action” for police officers on patrol around the city, said Uni-versity Police spokesman Maj. Marc Limansky, as students living in rented homes may react differ-ently to university sanctions than to previous avenues of discipline.
“It will be interesting to see how it all plays out,” he said.
Although the university is one of the last schools in the University System of Maryland to extend a student conduct code into the sur-rounding area, Goodwin said the new plans are not about “keeping up with other institutions.”
“It’s changing now because the time is right,” she said. “It’s no longer a time where we can say that all of our students are only students when they are on the property of the University of Maryland campus.”
In 1951, she enrolled at this uni-versity, where she studied fine arts education. She would later meet Jim Henson, who was two years her junior, in a puppetry class.
What bonded them together was “a unique approach to pup-petry that is joyful and sophis-ticated,” a release from The Jim Henson Co. stated. When local NBC affiliate WRC-TV asked Jim Henson to produce five-minute segments to air twice a day, he took Jane with him.
Called Sam and Friends, the show challenged the traditional structure of puppet shows, re-jecting the use of puppet stages. There was music, witty dialogue and the roots of iconic characters such as Kermit the Frog.
As the segment began to draw attention, the two began to make appearances on national television. Most notably, producers at The Tonight Show starring Steve Allen asked Jim and Jane to perform.
Jane Henson graduated from this university in 1955. She went on to study fine arts at Catholic University but still played an active role as Jim’s partner in Muppetry, and life, after they married in 1959. The pair had five children, who currently own most of The Jim Henson Co. and run that and the couple’s other enterprises.
The couple separated in 1986, but Jane continued as Jim’s business partner until his death in 1990.
She had a sharp eye for per-former talent, recruiting only the finest puppeteers to handle Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of the gang.
But as involved as she was, she was modest and humble.
“Collaboration is such a strong word in the Muppet com-munity, yet I don’t know how much I was a part of that col-laboration,” she said at a Henson Co. event in 2012, adding it was Jim who was her inspiration.
Daughter Cheryl Henson,
who serves as president of the Jim Henson Foundation, told The New York Times that Jane was “the great maza shelaza of the Muppets,” a Henson family term for the “mother of all Muppets.”
The couple’s work expanded far beyond Big Bird and Kermit. Their charity work was just as central to them as their franchises, and Jane was active in all of it.
She served on the board for The Jim Henson Foundation, co-founded the National Pup-petry Conference and founded the Jane Henson Foundation, along with The Jim Henson Legacy, all organizations com-mitted to philanthropic work through puppetry and art.
As part of her legacy at this university, she established The Jim Henson Fund for Pup-petry in 1996 and The Henson Endowment for Performing Arts in 2002. In 2005, she also oversaw the donation of The Jim Henson Works, a large collection
of videos covering more than 35 years of the Henson family’s work in film and television.
The Henson children were not available for comment, but Arthur Novell, a trustee of The Jim Henson Legacy, said the entire Henson enterprise is mourning the loss of its founder.
“She was our inspiration, our guiding light,” said Novell. “Working with Jane has been a great pleasure and privilege, and it is a great loss to us all.”
Henson’s survivors include her children, Lisa, Cheryl, Brian, John and Heather, as well seven grandchildren and one step-grandchild.
Donations in Henson’s honor can be sent to the Center for Puppetry Arts, The Jim Henson Foundation or The Puppetry Con-ference at the Eugene O’Neill Me-morial Theater Center, according to the Henson Co. website.
Jane Henson, wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson, poses with Sweetums in the early 1990s. Jane Henson, also a puppeteer, died at 78 on April 2. photo courtesy of henson.com.
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LAUREN NURSEThe recent fl ooding of an Old Leon-ardtown apartment provides yet another example of how on-campus
housing is often a story of contrasts. For students living in dorms such as Queen Anne’s or the newly constructed Oakland Hall, cozy accommodations and modern facilities allow for a com-fortable lifestyle.
But students who lived in the cramped and crumbling confines of buildings such as Wicomico or Caroline halls may recall dorm life with the same fondness as one would describe grisly trenches. Moldy walls, fl ooded fl oors, cold showers or saunalike conditions — none of these exactly scream excite-ment for prospective students.
In some sense, these characteriza-tions belie the tremendous upswing in quality on-campus housing options the campus community has recently experi-enced. The Department of Resident Life is slowly but surely installing air con-ditioning in every dormitory, Oakland Hall and the Denton quad renovations are fi nally complete, and by fall 2014, the $71 million Prince Frederick Hall will open up seven fl oors of presumably ex-ceptional housing to students. Few stu-dents will be pained by the proceeding planned demolition of Caroline, Carroll and Wicomico halls and the minimal luxury they provide, and cessation of Prince Frederick’s construction noise will be a major relief to some.
Yet the desire for minimized con-struction on the campus must not silence the much-needed call to
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provide fair housing options for every student. Transforming this univer-sity and improving students’ quality of life requires an expansive e� ort that doesn’t lose sight of the oft-forgotten subcommunities. A prime example: Old Leonardtown.
For the second time this year, Old Leonardtown residents have reported
considerable flooding in their apart-ment-style units. Regarding his apart-ment’s condition during the fl ooding, senior government and politics major Paul Tumulty told The Diamondback: “It was pretty insane. Right under the table where we eat at, there was pretty much a lake of water.”
Barring some freak meteorological event, a “lake of water” in a dorm war-rants discussion of potential structural housing issues that need addressing. In the context of the housing developments on and o� the campus over the past few years, this incident is a stark reminder of the work left ahead.
Not too long ago, university o� cials were sharing plans for a hotel, shops and other amenities included in the expan-sive East Campus development project to replace Old Leonardtown along with
several other unsightly campus facilities beside Paint Branch Parkway. As we’ve discussed elsewhere at length, that in-carnation of East Campus’ development has evaporated. This is not to say we can forget the need for further renovations.
If a “lake of water” isn’t a stark enough reminder, this editorial board urges university o� cials to remember its past promises. Specifi cally, opening Prince Frederick Hall in 2014 won’t remove the need for housing con-struction on the campus. Along with the need to fi nish installing air condi-tioning and other modern services in every dorm, future plans to renovate or replace Old Leonardtown deserve serious consideration. Even without a broad East Campus project, replac-ing decaying dorms across the campus, such as Old Leonardtown, should be a key part of the next step in the College Park revitalization e� ort.
For two straight years, Resident Life has successfully provided on-campus housing for all eligible students who put in a request, but this accomplishment loses much of its meaning if housing options fail to reach some consistent baseline standards. Paying almost the same amount for a forced triple in Wic-omico Hall and a spacey room in Oakland Hall is not fair to students, nor is it fair when officials ignore a series of dorm floodings. When students first moved into Old Leonardtown 41 years ago, it helped transform housing on the campus. Nearly half a century later, it might be time for another transformation.
Shoring up the leaks
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Flooding in Old Leonardtown apartments illustrates the
need for further renovations in on-campus housing.
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The issue of same-sex marriage is the defi ning civil rights struggle of our generation, and as a Christian, I have wrestled with how my personal faith would a� ect my behavior at the voting booth. Some Christians cite Leviticus in condemnation of same-sex mar-riage, while others cite the Gospel of John as evidence of God’s uncondi-tional love.
After debating internally for some time over which Bible verses should dictate our laws regarding homosexu-ality, I have come to a conclusion: none of them.
My personal interpretation is ir-relevant in the public sphere because Christian morality doesn’t belong any-where in civic life, whether in support or opposition of an issue. The Christian resistance is putting the legitimacy of American politics as a secular, fair and democratic system in serious peril.
I am saddened to see my brothers and sisters wishing to impede the private lives of gay Americans by sup-porting legislation such as the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, but not because I personally support same-sex lifestyles. In the debate over gay rights, opponents ignore the funda-mental idea of the separation of church and state.
The last time I cracked open a history book, I noticed the Consti-tution’s establishment clause reads, “Congress shall make no law respect-ing an establishment of religion.” Sadly, some extremist Christian sects have twisted this sacred political text by es-sentially adding, “… unless that reli-gion is shared by the Anglo-Saxon, Christian and historically privileged majority, in which case, ignore the fi rst part.”
Passing a nationwide law that di-rectly impacts the everyday lives of millions of Americans and is morally
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rooted in a single religious text is a trav-esty and contrary to the very fabric of this nation’s existence. Religion and public policy should resemble oil and water — two very separate substances that coexist peacefully in nature but cannot mix at their most basic molecular level.
Christians are the most vocal religious opposition to same-sex marriage, in part because they have enjoyed historical privileges granting them political and social power. From placing the Ten Com-mandments in front of civil courthouses, to pressuring children to utter the phrase “under God” in public schools, Chris-tians have been able to skirt the secular limits of political life for much of this nation’s history.
But can you imagine the absolute pan-demonium that would ensue if the tides turned and suddenly policymakers man-dated all American women wear a hijab? Or if the phrase “under God” became “under Vishnu?” Christian extremists wouldn’t hesitate to unleash an uproar just short of torching the Capitol build-ing itself.
It is a grave mistake to argue against the legitimacy of same-sex marriage because of contradictions with bibli-cal scripture. As a Christian, I enjoy the right to attend worship on Sundays, keep Bibles in my private residence and raise my future children in the church. As a citizen, I enjoy the right to participate in a secular public sphere where my behavior is not imposed upon by the morals and rituals of other religions.
As Christians, we cannot pick and choose to have scripture dictating public policy where it supports our religion. We do not live in a theocracy like Iran or Saudi Arabia. We are privileged to live in the United States, a nation founded on the ideals of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. If we allow Christian morals to decide the legality of same-sex marriage, the U.S. will lose its credibility as a free and secular democracy.
Lauren Nurse is a freshman government and politics major. She can be reached at [email protected].
EDITOR’S NOTE: The author’s full name was withheld to protect his job security as a university employee.
I am a gun owner who has legally pur-chased and collected firearms for many years. I find the gun control
laws recently passed in the General As-sembly to be a total infringement on my Second Amendment rights.
The fi rst rule of common sense is to study and know your subject before you make a judgment or decision. When a car driven by a drunken, crazy criminal kills innocent bystanders, do people cry for car control? You are 64 times more likely to be killed by a doctor than by someone wielding a gun, accord-ing to statistics compiled by Natural-News.com. Why has the Department of Homeland Security purchased more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition?
Why would the government be trying to stockpile ammunition? Does it think there will be repercus-sions for something it plans on doing? The deaths at Sandy Hook Elemen-tary School and other places are ter-rible. Is the answer taking guns away from honest, law-abiding citizens? Do you think criminals will turn in their weapons?
Anyone with open eyes should notice the apparent swing in Ameri-cans’ attitudes toward drug violence. We criminalize plenty of drugs, but prescription-drug abuse is an epi-demic that has also led to a resurgence in heroin addiction. Many drugs are illegal, and how has that issue changed? These laws are an attempt to make it look like Gov. Martin O’Malley — the wannabe president — is addressing a problem with a drastic and unconsti-tutional plan to feed his own agenda.
Americans have always had guns, and there has never been an anti-gun outcry of this magnitude before. The guns were here, but it isn’t the guns
that need addressing: It is the criminals and the mental condition of these crazed individuals. As a society, we need to search for what changed in America and why.
Our Founding Fathers had the great insight and intelligence to know one day someone would try to disarm the people. They knew citizens must have the ability to fi ght back against their own govern-ment, just as they did against Great Britain and King George.
Look at 20th century history. Adolf Hitler told fellow Germans in the 1930s that gun control would make them safer. Joseph Stalin took away Russians’ right to own guns just years earlier. See a pattern? Has our government reached a point where leaders think they know what is best for us?
Look at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his regulations on soda. We have lost our right to be heard by our government unless we share its beliefs. We must not allow any changes or distortions to the Constitution. First comes small change, then comes drastic change. Many people died to keep the strength and rights on which America was built. Do we not owe a debt of respect to leave a document of such importance untouched, instead of trying to rewrite it to conform to changes in society? Is society not to live within the rules and laws of the land?
I feel that as a nation, we need to step back and take a deep breath before we start assigning blame, changing laws and taking away people’s right to bear arms. Even if you are against guns, do you or should you have the right to take away the security and passion they o� er others? I think not, and I have talked with many others who feel we are walking down the wrong path. We need to look before we jump.
Mark is a university employee. He can be reached at [email protected].
Like many young men, I am ob-sessed with sports. I can never watch enough ESPN or read enough articles on Bleacher Report. Recently, my focus has been on the U.S. men’s soccer team, which played two World Cup qualify-ing matches in late March. The United States defeated Costa Rica in Colorado and managed a draw against Mexico on Mexico’s home turf.
The results of these matches filled me with an overwhelming sense of na-tional pride, and at once I began think-ing about the state of soccer in the U.S. Considering soccer is the most-played game around the globe, why is there such a disparity between its presence in the U.S. and in the rest of the world?
There are a multitude of possible ex-planations for Americans’ lack of en-thusiasm toward soccer, but I’ll break it down by three major factors: American elitism, tradition and attention spans.
Describing “American elitism” is not an assertion that Americans are
all snobs who think themselves better than the rest of the world. But when it comes to sports, Americans are very keen to place traditional “American” sports such as baseball and American football above “foreign” sports such as soccer.
There is nothing wrong with taking pride in something created in your own country. But problems arise when you believe self-creation is innately better than foreign creation. This type of close-mindedness inhibits growth, and in order for soccer to grow in this country, this type of thinking must diminish.
For many people, traditions are important things to honor. Whether that tradition is something as major as attending the Super Bowl on a yearly basis or something as simple as having Dunkin’ Donuts coffee on Sunday mornings, most people enjoy some sort of tradition. For many Ameri-cans, autumn Sundays are traditionally reserved for football. Most people fear deviating from their traditions because they fear the unknown. But more often than not, change tends to be a good thing. If Americans as a whole were less
apprehensive of change, the popular-ity of soccer could increase drastically.
As many of our parents can probably attest, people of our generation have embarrassingly short attention spans. Everything is now instantly available thanks to the advent of the Internet, mobile phones and social media. This desire for instant gratifi cation is appar-ent in the presentation of most Ameri-can sports. Basketball has built-in tele-vision breaks, much like football. These breaks enable us to use the bathroom or grab a cold one during commercial breaks. This type of stop-and-go action is just not something you see in soccer. The action is constant and allows for no breaks in the fl ow of the game.
Luckily, the walls are beginning to break down slightly. Soccer is gaining more traction with a wider fan base in the United States. But if American elitism, blind adherence to tradition and the inability to focus continue to char-acterize us Americans, soccer will likely never reach the heights of its sporting counterparts in this country.
Ian Lacy is a junior kinesiology major. He can be reached at [email protected].
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It’s almost 6 p.m. on a cold evening in late February, but Sam Ray is just eating his first meal of the day. This comes after nearly staying up all night.
The 21-year-old musician eats and sleeps in sporadic cycles. He spends most of his time in College Park but doesn’t go to school at this university or hold a job nearby. He’s even had trouble mustering enough effort to write music he’s proud of.
“[Inspiration] comes and goes,” he said, chewing on a Plato’s Diner chicken finger.
But right now, he’s hit a creative stride. Ray’s newest act, Julia Brown, dropped
its debut album to be close to you — a warm, wistful, lo-fi collection of eight pop songs — on Feb. 22. The reception was overwhelmingly positive; Pitchfork and Consequence of Sound both gave glowing endorsements to the song “Library” at the end of March, and the album itself reached the Bandcamp download limit of 500 within the first day.
R ay’s esti mate for tota l sa les, i nclud-ing all of the free Mediafire and Bandcamp downloads as well as cassette tapes, now stands at 2,200.
Julia Brown will play in Baltimore at Club K on Wednesday and the Charm City A rt Space on Sunday.
Ray is also organizing a multipart com-pilation called “420 Love Songs,” a project inspired by the iconic Magnetic Fields record 69 Love Songs. Most tracks are recorded by him or his close circle of collaborators — in-cluding sophomore English major Caroline
White, senior sociology major John Toohey and senior psychology major Alec Simke — with the exception of a few choice submis-sions by random musicians that Ray green-lighted himself.
Ray posts all of the songs in sporadic fashion — with lyrics and a brief introduction — to a bare, cream-colored Tumblr page featuring a pink heart cursor and a doodle of a black cat that stares at you as you scroll up and down. As of yesterday, the project had reached song 99.
In January, he chose to amiably end his punk band Teen Suicide — founded initially as a two-piece in Columbia with drummer Eric
Livingston — with a final gig at Baltimore’s Bell Foundry. The show culminated in a chorus of people screaming the words to Ray’s coffeehouse staple “Methadone Kids,” their heads banging in unison to the song’s euphoric ending.
Music is his focus, the stable part of an adult-hood always in flux. Yet he’s only gotten serious about the music now — which meant ending Teen Suicide.
“It’s a weird time thinking of myself as an actual musician,” Ray said. “It weirds me out. I never took it seriously until the Julia Brown album. Songwriting-wise, all Teen Suicide stuff was fun. It was just messing around.”
It’s also been difficult for Ray to come to terms with the fact that this “messing around” has greatly impacted a lot of people.
“My friends have a similar story about their band,” he said, referring to Teen Suicide’s in-fluence. “People got their lyrics tattooed and stuff, and they were just like, ‘Well, that’s something we came up with while we were smoking crack, and people have that on their bodies.’ We didn’t write anything smoking crack, but it’s weird.”
“I’m not trying to devalue it,” he added. “I’m glad people are into it. But it got the attention that it did when it wasn’t something that I was trying for at all.”
Ray is a bundle of contradictions. He oscil-lates between craving attention and finding it difficult to stomach.
On the one hand, he’s got Julia Brown, Teen Suicide, his ambient moniker Ricky Eat Acid (a name he’s recorded under since 2009), “420 Love Songs” and other miscellaneous projects with his frequent collaborators, all adding up to a prolific amount of music.
He’s commanding and candid on the Inter-net. A Ray post can range from a long Tumblr essay that vaguely reveals the framework of a troubled past to a short status on the Julia Brown Facebook page denouncing “folk punk” and its fans. His outbursts even extend to his personal Facebook page; for example: “Talent-less f---s live forever, and my judgment day is nigh, friends.”
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and won the ground-ball battle, 35-27, in the three-goal victory.
For the first eight minutes of the second quarter, though, Navy seemed the superior team. After penalties from Terps defender Matt Dunn and long pole Jesse Bernhardt gave the Midshipmen a two-man advantage to start the frame, attackman Tucker Hull scored to get Navy on the board and cut the lead, 3-1.
From there, Midshipmen attackmen Sam Jones and T.J. Hanzsche continuously pen-etrated the Terps’ defense, and Navy dominated for a signifi-cant stretch against the nation’s top-ranked team.
“We didn’t play as smart as we could have,” Bernhardt said. “We fell into a little bit of a trap and made some mistakes.”
Then the Terps displayed some resiliency. Midfielder Mike Chanenchuk found mid-fielder John Haus cutting in front of the net for a crucial man-up goal to snap a 14-
minute scoring drought. Two minutes later, defender Casey Ikeda forced a turnover to jumpstart a breakaway that ended with a goal from attack-man Kevin Cooper.
The Terps tied the game at five before halftime, but the Midshipmen weren’t willing to go away.
“We knew they were going to fight and be determined,” Haus said. “For them to hit a few goals and make a few good plays, it didn’t really surprise us.”
The intrastate rivals traded goals to start the second half
before Chanenchuk, whose father was a three-time All-American at Navy in the 1970s, fired a goal from 20 feet out to give the Terps a 7-6 lead. They never let go of that lead, as five different players scored during a 5-0 run from that point to give the team a 10-6 edge.
Eight different Terps found the back of the net by game’s end, and the experienced crew totaled eight team assists.
Tillman’s squad was just too difficult to guard, Navy defender Austin Miller said. Chanenchuk led the way with
four points, but Cooper, Haus and Owen Blye each added three points for the Terps.
“You could really go down the [Terps’] roster,” Miller said, “and really consider everybody a threat.”
Despite the Terps’ daunt-ing list of skilled players, Navy wasn’t intimidated. The group put pressure on the Terps throughout the game and con-fidently attacked their highly touted opponent.
The Terps, though, were prepared. Tillman warned his team about the emotion the
Midshipmen would play with against a heated rival, so the Terps matched that intensity and hung on for a victory that clinches the program’s best nine-game start to a season since 2004.
But it wasn’t easy. It never is against Navy.
“We knew they were going to come out hard; the Navy-Maryland rivalry is always big,” Bernhardt said. “We were kind of ready for it, and I think we responded very well.”
Carolina (11-2, 4-1) could do nothing but chase a stalling Schwarzmann into the corner as time expired.
With the Tar Heels closely watching attacker Alex Aust for the majority of the game, the Terps’ midfield carried the scoring load. Schwarzmann secured a game-high five scores, and Cummings added four.
“We thought they would face-guard Alex,” Cummings said. “So we decided to add a few plays this week. … We were able to dodge and get easy looks.”
The Terps found the score-board first for the 10th time in 14 games, as Schwarzmann tallied the opening score less than four minutes into the contest. The Tar Heels came right back with a score of their own 48 seconds later.
After attacker Abbey Friend gave North Carolina its first lead of the game with 20:39 left in the half, the teams traded 3-0 runs. Attacker Aly Messinger then streaked down the field, corralled Can-nizzaro’s pass and fired it past Howard off one foot to give the
Tar Heels a 5-4 lead with 6:37 remaining.
The lead would change hands two more times before the half’s final buzzer sounded, and the teams entered inter-mission tied at eight.
In the Terps’ first real chal-lenge of the season, the Tar Heels controlled possession and held an 11-6 first-half advantage on draw controls.
“Possession is a huge thing in the game of lacrosse,” Schwarzmann said. “[Winning the draw] was a big focus for us, to come out and get possession and really push transition.”
With their 13-game winning streak on the line, the Terps ap-proached the second half with a renewed sense of aggression. After a North Carolina tally to start the half, the Terps rattled off four unanswered goals to take a 12-9 lead with 20:23 left.
The Tar Heels kept pushing, though. With less than 12 minutes remaining, Cannizza-ro took a step backward toward midfield and then sprinted past the Terps’ defense to find the back of the net, trimming the lead to two.
Less than three minutes later, though, Cannizzaro was ejected. Her absence proved costly, too, as the Tar Heels
missed her dominating pres-ence in the middle, which was highlighted when Cummings scored the Terps’ final goal.
“We had been swung at all game,” Tar Heels coach Jenny Levy said. “It’s unfortunate that you have a great game going on, and you’re going to call that foul at the end of the game when it’s been going on all game.”
Saturday probably won’t be the lone time the teams face off
this season. The ACC tourna-ment is in less than three weeks in Chapel Hill, N.C., and the Terps and Tar Heels could be on track for a crucial postsea-son meeting.
“We probably will see them again,” Schwarzmann said. ”We are just going to learn off of this game. And we’ve got to get better every game here on out.”
attacker alex aust celebrates with her teammates during the No. 1 Terps’ 14-13 victory over No. 2 North Carolina before a record crowd of 2,347 on Saturday. christian jenkins/the diamondback
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competitors when they entered Saturday’s regional. Knowing the field contained some of the nation’s elite squads, Nelligan urged his gymnasts to focus on themselves.
“We don’t allow ourselves to think about [other teams],” Nelligan said. “We are going to compete to [the] best of our ability.”
Throughout the six-team meet, four programs competed on an event while the other two were on the sidelines. Keeping track of a running leader proved difficult, Nelligan said.
The Terps jumped to a fast start on floor, which has been one of their most reliable events this season. They tallied a 48.750, just a few ticks under their season average of 49.016. Junior Katy Dodds paced the squad with a 9.875.
The Terps then moved to vault, their strongest event of the season. Dodds again shined, securing a stellar 9.900 on the event en route to a team score of 49.050.
After a bye, Nelligan’s team walked to bars knowing they’d need a solid score to compete
with Florida and Minnesota.Senior Kesley Cofsky tied
a personal best with a score of 9.850 to lead the Terps to a 48.925. And in her third meet back from a sprained ankle, freshman Kathy Tang notched a 9.750 — her highest score since returning March 17. The Terps scored a 48.850 in their final event on beam.
The showing marks the Terps’ best performance at the NCAA regionals since they notched a 195.850 score in 2001. Over the past 11 years, the Terps have de-veloped into a solid program on the brink of national greatness, but they’ve struggled to excel against the country’s top teams. That wasn’t the case Saturday.
They earned a fitting ending to a historic season that saw the Terps finish atop the con-ference for the first time in program history. They won’t move on to the sport’s next round, but they certainly made significant progress.
“[This was] a huge step forward for our program,” Nelligan said. “Big step for them to be calm and confident in front of 7,000 fans and go right against Florida, Minne-sota [and] Auburn.”
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Heels giveTerps close home testRecord crowd watches 14-13 win on Saturday
By Joshua NeedelmanStaff writer
Taylor Cummings, Kasey Howard and Katie Schwarzmann couldn’t help but dance while waiting to address the media following the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s contest against North Carolina on Saturday.
Their jubilation was to be expected. After all, the No. 1 Terps survived 60 minutes against the relentless No. 2 Tar Heels to earn a 14-13 win before a lacrosse-record crowd of 2,347 at Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex.
“Carolina came out fighting,” coach Cathy Reese said. “You’re always going to get a great game between these two programs. It’s been the history.”
After outscoring opponents by a gaudy 208-104 margin this season, the Terps’ largest lead over the Tar Heels never surpassed three. The lead changed hands seven times, and the Terps caught a break when reigning ACC Player of the Week Kara Cannizzaro was ejected for receiving two yellow cards with less than nine minutes left and the Terps leading 13-11.
Cummings immediately took ad-vantage, netting a score with 7:18 left to stretch the Terps’ lead to three. But the Tar Heels struck right back with two straight goals.
The Terps (14-0, 4-0 ACC) were able to hold possession, though, as North
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Terps fail to advance at regionals195.575 mark gives team 4th-place finishBy Joshua NeedelmanStaff writer
Coa c h B re t t Ne l l i ga n wa s n ’t content as he sat in an Arkansas locker room following the Terrapins gymnastics team’s fifth-place finish at the Fayetteville Regional Champi-onships a year ago.
The Terps didn’t count any falls in that meet, but they managed a team score of just 194.400. Next year, Nel-ligan told his team, he wanted his gym-nasts to be more aggressive at regionals.
The fourth-year coach got his wish this season. Though they failed to qualify for nationals, the Terps placed fourth Saturday at the Gainesville Re-gional with a stellar 195.575 score — the program’s second-highest regionals mark — before more than 7,000 fans at Florida’s Stephen C. O’Connell Center.
“I wanted to do something special,” Nelligan said yesterday. “Bars and beam were phenomenal. This will pay off leading into next year.”
The No. 22 Terps held their own against some of the nation’s top-tier teams. No. 1 Florida finished first with a 198.400 team score, and No. 8 Minne-sota and No. 12 Auburn came in second and third, respectively, with scores of 197.100 and 196.700. The Gators and Golden Gophers advanced to the NCAA championships, which will be held on April 19 in Los Angeles.
The Terps weren’t focused on their
MiDFIELDER JOHN HAUS (right) and attackman Owen Blye (left) celebrate during the Terps’ 11-8 win over Navy in Annapolis on Friday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
MEN’S LACROSSE
A battle of willsTerps use second-half surge to fend off relentless Navy team, 11-8
By Aaron KasinitzStaff writer
ANNAPOLIS — The Terrapins men’s la-crosse players run onto the field each game behind a Maryland flag because they play for their state. Their op-ponent Friday night, the U.S. Naval Academy, runs onto the field behind the American flag because they’ll one day fight for their country.
So the No. 1 Terps knew the un-derdog Midshipmen wouldn’t back down. Even when Navy fell behind
3-0 in the game’s first nine minutes, it didn’t falter. It simply responded with five straight goals to take a sur-prising 5-3 lead.
But the Terps withstood that spurt and outlasted a relentless Navy team the rest of the way to earn an 11-8 victory in front of 6,961 fans at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium on Friday night. Coach John Tillman’s Terps matched Navy’s energy and ul-timately wore down the Midshipmen with their overwhelming firepower.
“It’s always a fierce battle. We
have so much respect for [Navy] and for this rivalry,” said Tillman, who served as an assistant coach at the Annapolis school from 1996 to 2007. “We knew coming in here you better work hard for 60 minutes, and I give our kids credit: They did.”
Tillman called the game a “dog-fight,” but the Terps’ (8-1) physicality and offensive balance were the de-ciding factors as they took 22 more shots than the Midshipmen (3-8)
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