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Thousands of students get math assistance in ResLife program

By Jim Bach@thedbkSenior sta� writer

State budget analysts are recom-mending cuts to this year’s uni-versity system budget, but system chancellor Brit Kirwan warned in

Dancing the way they

were born‘Love Your Body

Month’ promotes body image positivity

By Grace Toohey@grace_2eSta� writer

Inspired by uplifting lyrics in songs such as “Born This Way” by Lady Gaga and “Beautiful” by Chris-tina Aguilera, students at Friday’s Zumba class in Eppley Recreation Center started a monthlong pro-gramming series to raise awareness about eating disorders and promote positive body images.

“Love Your Body Month,” orga-nized by the University Health Cen-ter’s Wellness program, is an expan-sion of Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which falls on the last week of February this year.

“We decided to turn it into a monthlong series of events and spin it to be a little more of a positive focus,” said Meghan Cohen, health and wellness coordinator. “So instead of only bringing awareness to eating disorders, we also wanted to bring awareness to body image issues, es-pecially things like the media’s e� ect on body image and just promote an overall positive message of loving your body and the di� erent ways that you can do that.”

Events in this year’s Love Your Body Month are co-sponsored by Campus Recreation Services, Delta Phi Epsilon sorority, the O� ce of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advo-cacy, the One Project and the Student Health Advisory Committee.

By working with student groups on the campus, Cohen hopes the events for the fi fth annual awareness month will bring big numbers. The events range from exercise classes at the ERC to a Body Image Open Mic night, free

testimony to the House of Delegates on Wednesday that the reduction would set a bad precedent.

Among the state’s Department of Legislative Services budget rec-ommendations, which followed the release of Gov. Martin O’Malley’s budget in January, the biggest hit

By Morgan Eichensehr@MEichensehrSta� writer

Last semester, the Department of Resident Life’s Math Success Program helped a record number of students with math-related struggles.

The program, which has ex-panded over the past few years, See math, Page 8

Math Success tutors nearly 4,000 in fall

saw its largest turnout in the fall with nearly 4,000 students attend-ing evening tutoring sessions, said Ian Feller, Math Success graduate coordinator.

“Before we moved into Oakland Hall, we saw about 3,000 student visits a year. Then after we moved, we started seeing 3,000 a semester,” said Olan Garrett, Educational and Outreach Programs manager. “This year, we’re on track to do about 8,000 visits for the year.”

Math Success coaches help tutor students in two ways: Students who

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would be a $7 million cut to the University System of Maryland. The DLS argued the university system could pick up the tab on its employ-ees’ cost-of-living salary adjust-ments because tuition revenue has increased over the past year.

K irwan criticized the recom-

Playing the great equalizerBy Teddy Amenabar@TeddyAmenSenior sta� writer

Instead of seeing officers behind a squad car or reporting an incident in College Park, local kids got the chance to beat them at basketball this weekend.

Police o� cers from this university, Prince George’s County and Maryland-National Capital Park Police came together for a bas-ketball game with local youth at the College Park Community Center on Friday night.

The game between the two groups is a bi-monthly event, but on Friday, o� cials at the university’s O� ce of Community Engagement helped create a “College Park Dream Team” that went on to win, 71-58.

The team included College Park Mayor Andy Fellows, University Administration and

andy fellows, College Park mayor, high-� ves teammates as he exits a community basketball game Friday. james levin/the diamondback

Finance Vice President Carlo Colella and Paint Branch El-ementary School Principal Emmett Hendershot, along with local police o� cers.

Emily Adams from the community en-gagement o� ce helped coordinate the event and said the game helps build a sense of trust between residents and police departments.

She said the series “increases the likelihood that a citizen is going to come up to the police.”

The idea behind these games, University Police Chief David Mitchell said, is that a police depart-ment gets out of a community what it puts in.

“It also gives [kids] a chance to see the police in a different light,” Mitchell said. “Not an enforcement role but a role where we are all having fun together.”

Basketball unites College Park youth, local police o� cers

See basketball, Page 2

Researchers help battle rare diseaseImmunology lab might cure Wiskott-Aldrich

By Joe Antoshak@MantoshakSenior sta� writer

Ask university cell biology and genetics professor Wenxia Song to explain the immune system, and she might compare it to war.

In the 17 years she’s been at this university, researchers at her im-munology lab, which is researching cures for a rare but deadly chromo-somal disease, have studied the fi ne line between a healthy body that can fi ght o� a cellular intruder and a sick one that cannot.

Often, Song said, the body gets lost in the chaos of fi ghting o� potential invaders and confuses friend and foe, as if engaging in limited-visibility warfare.

“Our body is taking stuff all the time,” she said. “We inhale the air; we eat the food; we contact each other. So what is basically friend or enemy? There are lots of gray area. What we study is how this is balanced and regulated.”

In a research paper published in the science journal PLOS Biologyin November, Song’s lab reported a new discovery in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, an X-linked chromo-somal disease that shows up in the fi rst month of life and almost always leads to one or more autoimmune diseases later.

Her researchers found that the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein, which initiates a process that leads to the release of antibodies, is bal-anced in healthy people by another

See research, Page 7

See BODY, Page 8

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nick � eming, sophomore mechanical engineering major, tutored calculus courses in the Math Success program in the fall. holly cuozzo/for the diamondback

mendation before the House of Delegate’s Education and Economic Development subcommittee. Cost-of-living adjustments should be a state obligation, Kirwan said, and in his roughly 50 years working in higher education, he’s never seen a university pay for cost-of-living

salary adjustments.“This is setting a very bad prec-

edent,” Kirwan said. “We are all very sensitive to the tuition costs, the idea that we’re using tuition now to cover the cost that the state has always

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In essence, a basketball game is “a great equalizer of perception,” Maryland-Na-tional Capital Park Police Lt. Brian Waters said. The game is also a representation of the three police forces that protect College Park, he added.

“The University of Mary-land is not this monolithic campus that is irrelevant to the communities around it,” Waters said.

Community Engagement Director Gloria Aparicio Black-well said her department is a matchmaker — it comes to a local community and ad-dresses its needs with the help of university groups.

Aparicio Blackwell praised the university, but it did not do all of the work, she said —

this event would not have been possible without a great com-munity e�ort.

Junior community health major Muftau Shinaba said he went to the game Friday with the African Students As-sociation because he felt that a basketball game was a great way to bring the community together.

Hendershot said it’s been four years since he’s played a full game, though he played in high school and college.

“It’s fun having the kids play against the o�cers — good ex-ercise,” Hendershot said.

Colella said he loves working with the university’s neighbor-ing communities, and he was glad to see how many students and university o�cials came to the game. Events like this provide a way for local youth to interact with members of the university and hopefully

be inspired to look toward a future at the school, he said.

“They’re right next door. I think it is fantastic for them to know the university in a personal way,” Colella said.

Tariq Johnson, a ninth-grade guard who often plays at the com mu n ity center, s a i d h e a l w a y s h a s f u n playing the officers.

“It helps kids get off the streets, stuff like that, and b ei n g i n f lu enc e d by ba d people,” Johnson said.

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University Police Chief David Mitchell salutes a young College Park resident during the community outreach basketball game. The event pitted local police against town residents in hopes of fostering positive relationships between the two. james levin/the diamondback

“IT ALSO GIVES [KIDS] A CHANCE TO SEE THE POLICE IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT ... NOT AN ENFORCEMENT ROLE, BUT A ROLE WHERE WE ARE ALL HAVING FUN TOGETHER.”

DAVID MITCHELLUniversity Police Chief

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BuzzFeed narcissism: What it says about you

MAGGIE CASSIDY

For years, students enrolled in Freshmen Connection have rightfully voiced concerns about

being made to feel like outsiders. The most common concerns have been housing-related — and for good reason. Typically, Freshmen Connec-tion students haven’t been ensured space to live on the campus.

But starting in the fall, they will be offered on-campus housing for the fi rst time. Department of Resi-dent Life Assistant Director Scott Young said officials hope this new option will foster stronger commu-nity ties. And that’s a large part of what Freshmen Connection students have desired.

In fact, about this time last year, then-guest columnist Emma Atlas wrote in to the editorial board ex-pressing her concerns about how those in Freshmen Connection are treated as second-class students. This editorial board agrees that this university should pay more atten-tion to how it addresses and cares for these students — who, though ac-cepted for the spring semester rather than the fall, are still in fact accepted. They have met the standards relied upon by university administrators to populate this campus with smart Terps. And thus, they should be just as respected as any other student.

We believe this new housing program is a step in the right direc-tion. Undoubtedly, it will foster a sense of inclusion and equal worth for all students, as Young and other o� cials hope.

This plan seems to fi t with Resident Life’s overarching goal of supplying housing for all students who want it. With the addition of Oakland Hall and the highly anticipated Prince Freder-ick Hall, that goal seems within reach for the fi rst time in a while.

In 2007, students camped out on McKeldin Mall to protest the lack of a� ordable, on-campus housing for all students. And it seems the depart-ment has been making strides toward remedying that situation ever since.

Then, just two years ago, all stu-dents who requested on-campus housing received it. True, many upperclassmen didn’t request on-

campus housing, as they may not have known Oakland Hall opened up the opportunity to live on the campus or simply weren’t interested in the opportunity. But the on-campus options are still expanding.

Yet the reason many students seem to be still moving o� the campus is more than just a desire to move away from resident assistants. The cost of living in a dorm or on-campus apartment is still relatively high — the dorms, though less expensive than apartments, require a dining plan, which is inordinately expensive. (But that’s an argument for another day, and one we’ve already made.) And o� -campus or South Campus Commons apartments, though they don’t require a dining plan, are more expensive than the dorms, simply because of the demand for separate rooms for each student in such close proximity to the campus.

What Resident Life really needs to focus on in the coming years, in ad-dition to continuing to ensure those who want on-campus living can get it, is making housing affordable and fulfilling students’ needs. Paying attention to the long-neglected de-mographic of Freshmen Connec-tion students can only yield positive results for the department and the university community.

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You might have started reading this column because you saw one of the most common lines in all of social media: what your dog, choice of pen, favorite Disney princess or basically anything says about you.

They key word is “you.” No one can scroll through his or her preferred social media outlet without seeing an article with the pronoun “you” in it. Even the once-safe blogging site Tumblr has been invaded with these self-absorbed posts and quizzes.

We live in a society that has been dubbed the “selfie culture.” (I’m a little frustrated as I write this column because my word processor doesn’t even recognize “selfi e” as a misspelled word.) Social media, which is going to be around for the long haul, is boosting our society’s inherent narcissism.

The list-friendly site BuzzFeedis famous for having quizzes that “reveal” everything under the sun about you. Just this week, there was an article about what your choice of emoji says about you. I’ll admit I was on the bandwagon when these kitschy quizzes and articles began to barrage the In-ternet. At first, reading these ar-ticles or taking the quizzes was a fun way to liken my personality to something else in the pop culture sphere; they made me feel con-nected to something and maybe even a little bit special.

But now, these quizzes and posts just hone in on our conceit-ed culture. We have reached the point at which these posts don’t matter at all. How can a quiz,

most likely created by a bearded hipster blogger, reveal something so complex as the human personal-ity? People think that these quizzes reveal their originality, but they’re really conveying that everyone can be chalked up to one single thing.

Everyone knows (or hopefully knows) there is no substantial evi-dence behind these posts. BuzzFeeddoesn’t have the makers of the Myers-Briggs Test working on a project that reveals to BuzzFeedreaders what their eye color says about them, but people continue to buy into the ideas of these quizzes. People give horoscopes flak, but at least horoscopes use a semblance of scientific evidence by analyzing the moon and stars.

BuzzFeed understands our “selfie” culture so well that they not only create the ego-inflating quizzes, but they also encourage us to share the results of these quizzes and ar-ticles on other social media plat-forms. This sharing then spreads the narcissism even further into our society, because sharing results or an article is an attention-seeking tactic. When you’re on Facebook, do you really care that the boy you went to summer camp with in high school has the personality of Ron Weasley or that Cinderella is his ideal Disney princess?

The writers of BuzzFeed are geniuses. They get us to keep coming back to them so they can reveal to us trite fac-toids about ourselves. However, in the future, when you’re trolling the Inter-net late at night or right before class and you happen to stumble onto a quiz or article, keep your index fi nger from scrolling and ask yourself what your behavior says about yourself.

Maggie Cassidy is a sophomore English major. She can be reached at [email protected].

Despite being just a few weeks into the spring semester, stu-dents’ inboxes are already

flooded with messages about se-lecting housing for next year. Some will be returning to their dorms for another year, and many will consid-er an apartment or house o� Route 1.

Moving into a new house or apartment with your friends is an exciting transition, but you may run into new challenges about sharing living expenses. Money problems between roommates, such as not paying rent on time, not splitting grocery bills evenly or forgetting about the utility bill are common points of contention — and chances are, you’ll have disagreements or awkward conversations about these expenses. These issues can drive fi erce wedges even between close friends who live together.

But don’t let that keep you from signing that lease with your best friends for next fall. Here are three easy ways to minimize money mismanagement and maintain the peace:

1. As soon as everyone moves in, write up an agreement that describes the house rules for monthly payments. Who is col-lecting the bills each month? By

what day will they need each room-mate’s share? How much should each roommate pay? Clearly lay out all of these details in writing, and have each roommate sign the agreement.

2. Hold one another accountable. Remind one another in person about payments and allow ample time to make payments. Don’t let one roommate get away with not paying their share of the rent for long; this only leads to resent-ment and awkward conversations and could even hurt your credit score.

3. Use an easy payment service to collect shared expenses. An electronic payment service on your computer or phone makes handling these expenses simpler than con-stantly handling cash or checks or making trips to the bank. Popmoney’s personal payment service is one tool that can set up recurring payments and simplify your monthly expenses.

It’s understandable why roommates can get upset with one another over money problems — we’re all poor college students, after all — but if you follow these tips, you and your roommates can live a little closer to fi nancial harmony.

Mary Beck is a senior communica-tion major. She can be reached at [email protected].

“I’m learning as much on Tumblr as I do in my classes most days.” This phrase, written in Ezra Fish-man’s Jan. 31 column, speaks to my problem with Tumblr. On a good day, the average Tumblr post is only misinformed. On a bad day, it’s lying and manipulative — and self-rightously so.

It’s not a good fi rst step, I think, to use my fi rst column for The Dia-mondback to argue with another col-umnist. But what my brief stint on Tumblr taught me was that dissent is crucial.

First, let me explain how Tumblr works. Much like on Twitter, Tumblr users aim to absorb large swaths of the community into their list of “followers.” As Fishman wrote, this can often be an extremely benefi-cial system in which unknown artists can become incredibly popular and develop a fan base on their own merit. Users can relay other users’ posts, known as reblogging, to their own set of followers, creating something like a Internet-powered megaphone.

But of course, with great power comes great stupidity. Tumblr favors quick, interesting posts over

well-researched ones, and who can argue with a post when 30,000 other Tumblr users have passed it on?

My personal favorite is the massive spread of an image of a policeman standing in profi le, holding a rifl e for some ceremonial purpose. The deep scar on his cheek rips at everyone’s heartstrings. We all feel patriotic. Reblog, or the Internet will never talk to you again.

It’s a picture of Heath Ledger as the Joker from The Dark Knight.

There’s no pretense of objectivity on Tumblr. And that’s rightfully so — it’s a space for people to express their interests and build a walled garden full of only the things that interest them. Rather than wasting time on a trusted news site full of boring, factual, well-researched news, Tumblr users can set up a personal newspaper using their “dashboards,” which only includes the best news for them. Done right, a user’s dashboard will be equal parts beautiful, original artwork, music by undiscovered per-formers, meaningful photography, and microblogged headlines from a variety of news sources.

Done wrong, Tumblr becomes damagingly biased in a way that is not casually harmful. Almost ev-eryone on Tumblr is engaged in the pursuit of popularity in the form of followers and reblogs. So naturally,

if you post a popular opinion, you are more likely to get more follow-ers and more reblogs. If you post an unpopular opinion, the inverse is true. So begins the polarization of Tumblr, which in my experience generally favors the left, with pockets of extreme liberalism that tend to dominate any controversial topic. Popular users determine what is true by passing forward only the posts that they agree with. If you don’t agree with the hive mind, you begin to lose the microblogging “game.”

Thus, the inevitable demoniza-tion of outsiders occurs. People who disagree are censored or verbally at-tacked. Discussions on social issues aren’t so much “discussions” as online hugboxes, because the me-chanics of Tumblr make it so. There are no corrections and no way of stopping a popular post once it’s gained traction. Every discussion becomes a feedback loop hurtling further and further into insanity.

So if you want to learn from an un-reliable source, stick to Wikipedia. There are things to learn on Tumblr if you look in the right places, but if you drink the proverbial Kool-Aid, you’ll go blind.

Emma Atlas is a junior government and politics and journalism major. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Predictability rarely bodes well on television. Expected plot twists, cliched dialogue and lack of ex-citement can often turn viewers off from shows. As a result, many television shows decide to retool by changing an essential element of the show.

The fifth season of Archer bril-liantly avoided this problem. Fans and critics were not complain-ing about the show’s quality, but Adam Reed, the creator of the FX animated comedy, subverted ex-pectations by seamlessly altering the entire premise of the show and preventing a potential plateau for the witty series.

“It’s the challenge to keep it fresh and interesting,” Reed said in an in-terview with The A.V. Club. “I think probably all writers have the fear of repeating themselves over and over. It’s sort of a way to hopefully make sure I’m not doing that.”

The first four seasons of Archer focused on the International Secret Intelligence Service, a spy agency during the Cold War era. In the fifth season premiere, viewers find out the United States government never recognized ISIS, turning the show on its head. The premiere explored the consequences of ISIS’s mis-deeds, and the gang avoids charges when ISIS Director Malory signs a deal at the expense of ISIS closing its doors. The show throws a substan-tial curveball by revealing a massive amount of cocaine hidden in the ISIS o�ces, and the former employees decide to form a drug cartel.

The twist was wacky, but it fits perfectly with Archer’s off-kilter nature. The premiere ended with highlights from future episodes, assuring viewers the idiosyncrasy and quality of the show will be maintained. The show’s title card now reads Archer Vice, cement-ing the series’ new direction. The premiere reached a series-high 1.6 million adult viewers, accord-ing to zap2it.com.

Part of the reason the reinvention was so successful is because Archer is animated. Many shows have been as ambitious as Archer, but their lack of resources has prevented them from seeing as much success.

Still, Archer’s achievement should not be understated. Television shows retool all the time, mostly resulting in anger from fans and swift cancellations. How many times have you seen a television show add an annoying child to the cast in an attempt to generate buzz or avoid staleness? It’s understand-able, though, because few shows stack up to Breaking Bad and can maintain the same level of quality from beginning to end.

Many of these retools are referred to as “jump the shark” moments, a reference to a 1977 episode of Happy Days in the show’s fifth season when Fonzie jumped over a shark on wa-ter-skis. Jon Hein, a radio person-ality on The Howard Stern Show, coined the term to describe when television shows feature a gimmick to entice viewers, usually prompting the decline of that show.

Hein created a website — jump-theshark.com — compiling about 200 moments from television shows that “jumped the shark.” He

sold his company to the owners of TV Guide in 2006, according to an article from The Huffington Post.

Jump the shark moments are de-batable, but are always fun talking points in the discussion of popular television shows. Did The O­ce go downhill in the final two seasons without Steve Carell’s popular Michael Scott? Did Friends really need to explore a relationship between Rachel and Joey? Should Scrubs have ended before its ill-fated ninth season when many of its stars did not return?

While fans can deliberate about the moments before their favor-ite shows began to decline, Archer averted this discussion with its recent twist.

Jump the shark moments often come at a time when shows want to increase viewership, put o� can-celation or address the beginning of a decline. Archer, however, aban-doned its premise at a time when few were complaining about the show’s quality and, as evidenced by the high ratings, the show was more popular than ever. Archer’s major twist cannot be categorized with the gimmicky retools of other shows because Reed’s decision was purely creative.

“I just sat back down and started thinking about Archer and also dis-mantling what had been a perfectly good motorcycle,” Reed told The A.V. Club. “And at some point in there, I don’t know, the idea just popped into my head that this might be a good thing to try.”

Archer’s reinvention was ad-ditionally successful because the show is in touch with its fans. In promotion for the new season,

the show put ads on Reddit, re-vealing a keen awareness of Archer’s large following on the site. More than 65,000 Reddit users are subscribed to A rc h e r ’s page on the s i t e . R e e d and his cohorts know what fans will like and dislike and could predict the fifth season change would be one that went over well within the fan base.

This season feels signifi-cantly fresh and new story-lines are able to emerge — the lovable Pam is addicted to cocaine; Cheryl is embarking on a country music career, and Lana is dealing with a badly timed pregnancy. Reed also revealed Archer recorded a real country album for the season that features Kenny Loggins, an oft-mentioned musician on the show.

There is no telling how the reinvention of Archer will a�ect the future of the show. Whether this is the last season or the show produces five more, the decision to revamp stands out in the television landscape for its daringness and creativity.

Archer is on a two-week hiatus for the Winter Olympics, but check out diamondback-online.com for last week’s recap. New ep-isodes and our recaps will return Monday, Feb. 24 on FX.

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borne is shifting the respon-sibility to the students.”

He a lso sa id the excess tuition revenue doesn’t mean the university system is in a position to foot the bill. More tu ition mea ns more students, and all new money will be needed to service the increased enrollment.

“Let’s think about excess t u i t i o n f o r a m o m e n t ,” K i r wa n sa id. “I f we have more students that we are budgeted for, we have to pay for them.”

A nother cut that wou ld come down on the system is a reduction just less than $700,000. K i rwa n sa id it m ight look i nsig n i fica nt, but the cut has a much more complex backstory.

I n t he 2013 f i sca l yea r, Kirwan said the university system’s health care budget experienced an $11 million shortfall. The system asked t h e s t a te to c o v e r t h o s e costs, as health care costs are expected to be picked up by the state when they are underfunded, but K irwan said state officials told him they’ll “just have to swallow that cost.”

E y e i n g a $ 7 0 0 , 0 0 0 surplus in a state personnel account, the system asked t he s t ate for t h at money to make a dent in the large discrepancy in health care d o l l a r s . B y c u t t i n g t h a t money this year, however, Kirwan said the state would b e re v e rs i n g w h a t w a s a “ver y modest bu f fer to a deep budget.”

T he story of this year’s s t a t e h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n budget began when revenue estimates near the end of 2013 showed the state was running a structural defi cit. In September, Kirwan said,

after extensive budget talks, state o� cials had originally planned to allocate about $1.25 billion to the system, but a drop in revenues eventually forced a $26 million cut.

“One day I get a call saying, ‘You know that number we talked about back in Sep-tember? You can’t have it; it’s going to have to be cut,’” Kirwan said.

Fearing these cuts would threaten three key initiatives the system has been working on — which include an effort to grow STEM enrollment, technology-driven course r e d e s i g n a n d i n c r e a s e d support for Un iversity of Maryland, Baltimore County strategic alliance MPower-ing the State — the system looked to keep those dollars in the budget.

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similar protein called the neuronal Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein. Individ-uals with the disease have a mutation that causes an imbalance of the two.

The study’s lead author, former graduate student Chaohong Liu, sa id not much was known about the N-WASP before the study’s publ ication. Because it shares 50 percent homol-og y w it h t he WA SP, he sa id, the neu rona l pro-tein’s function was dif-ficult to pin down.

Liu, a faculty member of the St. Jude Children’s Re-search Hospital in Tennes-see, said the research in-dicated that the two were inversely related, with the WASP flipping the signal on to release antibodies

a nd the N-WASP tu rn i ng the signal off to make it stop.

In many who suffer from the d isease, a lack of the N-WASP leads to problems in which the body attacks itself, Liu said.

“Enhanced signaling [from the WASP] will produce anti-bodies that won’t attack the virus; they won’t attack the bacteria; they’ll attack the human body,” he said.

With the disease affecting between one and 10 men per million worldwide, Wiskott-Al-drich syndrome is rare, accord-ing to Genetics Home Reference, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Because it is X-linked and recessive, it is even less common in females.

But the disease is danger-ous, Song said. It is consid-ered d i fficu lt to resea rch because it leads to added autoimmune disorders as the patient ages and proves fatal when not treated.

In 2012, Song began dis-cussing treatment options

with the Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical Uni-versity in China. The hospital received a government grant funding to further research the syndrome. Soon after, hospi-tal administrators decided to begin treating children su¥ er-ing from the syndrome with bone marrow transplants.

T h e c o l l a b o r a t i o n i s ongoing, and Song said they have seen positive results so fa r. T he bone m a r row transplant is the only cure available for the syndrome, she said.

But a long w ith it bei ng physically demanding for the patient and requiring a perfect bone marrow match from a healthy donor, the procedure is incredibly ex-pensive, Song said.

“Health insurances don’t cover it, so most of the people actually couldn’t afford [the treatment],” she said, ex-plaining that many children from poorer families died. “If they sell everything they

own, they still can’t afford it.To prepare for a future in

which the transplant will be more accessible, Song brou g ht X i aom i n g Ba i, a 28-year-old pediatrician from the south-central Chinese hospital, to learn more about the disease and how to treat it. Bai has worked in her lab in the microbiology building si nce September a nd w i l l continue working there until the end of March.

T he si x-month stay has proven very beneficial, Bai said — so much so that she has her eyes set on her next trip to the U.S., rather than when she returns to China on March 30.

“I don’t have time to think about [the return to China],” she said. “I really want to be here for a long time. But it’s good to make the connection with Dr. Song. Maybe I can get another opportunity to come back.”

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Wenxia Song (third from left), a university cell biology and genetics professor, with the sta� of her immunology lab. Song and her sta� , (from left) Heather Miller, Margaret Seeley-Fallen, Mark Wang, Qian Yu, Michelle Lazzaro and Xiaoming Bai, are conducting research into cures for a rare but deadly chromosomal disease. james levin/the diamondback

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“The events really are in-tentional. We want people to learn something from the events we are doing,” Cohen said. “The events in the ERC focus on the fitness aspect of loving your body and also to educate about the dangers of compulsive exercising.”

Outside of the Zumba class, Cohen — a Health and Well-ness intern — and HEALTH Works peer educators set up a table to reach passersby in the ERC. They handed out edu-cational materials on eating d isorders, overexercising and body image, passed out buttons with a blank to fill in what people love about their bodies and had blank Valen-

tine’s Day cards for people to write to their bodies.

“This is a good kick-start event for the rest of the cam-paign that we have for the month,” said Lindsey Axel, Health and Wellness intern. “Eating disorders are about education and awareness. A lot of people equate it to being shameful or embarrassing to share if they think they have a problem or their friend has a problem. So if you are given the information, it gives them a leeway to a whole world of help that they didn’t know existed. It opens a lot of doors for them.”

Michelle Regius, an ex-ercise class instructor since May 2012, embraced the Love Your Body Month message by planning a dance to “Born This Way” for the Zumba session she taught.

“I think it’s a great, beauti-ful message about everyone’s bodies,” Regius said. “I think we should be having it all year

round. I think it’s a great way to make your body feel great. I love dance fitness because you dance and have fun and enjoy your curves and feel beautiful.”

Sachi K hem ka, a fresh-man business student, said she felt a special atmosphere during Zumba.

“Ever yone was si ng i ng along,” said Khemka, who won a “Love Your Body” T-shirt. “Everyone was really energetic and really excited.”

Catherine T hompson, a HEALTH Works peer educa-tor, had never taken a Zumba class until the event.

“It’s a good way to love your body while you’re working out,” said Thompson, a senior gov-ernment and politics major. “Body image issues and eating disorders are a huge issue among college students, male and female, so I’m really glad Uni-versity of Maryland is putting so much e�ort into encouraging positive body image.”

After the event, students flocked to the HEALTH Works table, giving the Love Your Body team a chance to spread their message.

“I think just gaining one piece of information is all you need,” Axel said. “Knowl-edge goes a long way, and the more knowledge you have, the more willing you are to try and make changes in your life or someone else’s.”

Cohen said she has many goals for the impact of the program during the rest of the month.

“T he huge stereoty pe I wanted to focus on this year, that I want to try to break, is that eating disorders and body image issues are an affluent white woman’s problem,” Cohen said. “That’s the his-torical thought and stereotype, and it’s really not true. Eating disorders don’t discriminate. But mostly we want it to have an overall positive feel, so we

want people to learn di�erent ways that they can appreci-ate everything that their body does for them, and they can love how they look and how they feel in their body and to promote that message among their friends.”

This university’s large campus makes it hard to reach everyone, but Cohen and Axel agreed these events can have a large effect when people start talking.

“Ultimately, in a perfect

world, if I could change the entire societal culture and how we view bodies and the messages that are being put out in the media about what an ideal body should look like, I would love to change that,” Cohen said. “But it starts with things like this — it starts with small shifts in individual thought processes, and then that spreads.”

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tutoring sessions, while those seeking help for classes with lower tra�c are often assigned to one coach in peer-to-peer sessions, Feller said.

The collaborative study groups have been drawing a lot of tra�c throughout the past few semesters, Feller said, as more students take advantage of the program’s resources.

Nick Fleming, a sopho-more mechanical engineering major, was a math coach for the program during the fall 2013

semester. He said he saw a post about the program online and decided to apply after reading more about it.

“I helped students work on their WebAssigns and prepare for tests and quizzes, using the online problems, book prob-lems and sometimes making example problems for them,” Fleming said. “I mostly helped students with calc I and II. Other tutors helped students with classes such as stat, dif-ferential equations, calc III and some others.”

Feller said Resident Life is researching whether the prog ra m m a kes a d i f fer-

ence i n st udents’ g rades and success in math classes. Feller said he reads through anonymous student evalua-tions each night. And so far, students have said they enjoy the program, are getting good help and are doing better.

“And students are coming back,” Feller said. “For more sessions, other classes.”

Kelly Devine, a sophomore biology major, is one such student. She said she attended the Math Success collaborative study groups for her introduc-tory calculus classes and found the program “very helpful.”

“When I would go, I would

bring problems I was strug-gling with,” Devine said. “And having the concepts explained really helped me a lot when it came to taking exams.”

Devine said friends from her classes also attended the pro-gram’s study sessions, and they were all happy with the results.

“I never remember feeling that I wasn’t helped,” Devine sa id . “T here wa s a lways someone there that was able to answer questions and teach concepts very well.”

Feller said he is pleased with the growth of Math Success and that those involved with the program would like to

expand the collaborative ses-sions and o�er them for more classes. They do not have the space to do so now, he said.

Fleming agreed that the program should be expanded and said it is an “amazing resource” for students who struggle with math.

“We saw everybody from people who just needed a few math credits for their degree to people majoring in math,” Fleming said. “A lot of people would come in feeling really dow n about math, but by the time they left would be excited about the progress they were making.”

New coaches are hired each semester based on math educa-tion qualifications and an inter-view process to make sure they are able to connect with and help students, Feller said.

A new application will be available starting in March, and Garrett and Fleming are working on ways to better advertise the program around the campus and improve the program.

“I look at the evaluations every single night and we really use them to make sure that the program keeps getting better,” he said.

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senior Catherine thompson (center), a HEALTH Works peer educator, hands out buttons at the Love Your Body Zumba event at Eppley Recreation Center on Friday. kelsey hughes/the diamondback

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scoring o� ense in the ACC, had trouble scoring inside during the contest’s opening minutes, as the Terps frontcourt tandem of Jones and center Alicia DeVaughn prevented the Tigers from getting to the basket.

The Terps’ inside presence was also noticeable on the glass, as their 10 o� ensive rebounds in the fi rst half led to 12 second-chance points, which helped them take a 39-23 lead into halftime and continue their dominance in the second half.

“Our emphasis has been lately to hit the glass hard,” Jones said. “And when we do that, we get second-chance options, and when we get defensive rebounds,

we can push and get in transition like we want to.”

The Terps had seven players with three or more assists in the game, and the transi-tion o� ense continued to cut through Clemson’s defense after halftime. The Terps had 16 assists and three turnovers in the second half, and they shot better than 63 percent from the fi eld in the period.

“I really liked how we shared the basketball,” Frese said. “I just thought the second half we just got stronger and stron-ger. Once we were able to get stops, that led to our transition to really easy plays.”

Clemson’s offense sput-tered in the second half, as it shot 9-of-25 from the fi eld and only got to the free-throw line once. The Tigers got as close

as 49-32 with 15:31 left in the second half, but the Terps went on a 22-5 run in the next 7:11, extending their lead to 34.

The team fi nished the game on an 11-0 run to seal its third straight conference win.

“I think we did a much better job of attacking the ball with their dribble penetration,” Frese said. “We had some really aggressive plays on the ball, making it a little bit more di� cult.”

After lopsided wins against Pittsburgh and Clemson, the Terps will hope to replicate those performances in road matchups against Miami and No. 5 Duke.

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your instincts, trust your teammates … we’ll be fi ne.”

Rambo and Cannizzaro at-tributed their success on the field Saturday to the older players on the team. The Terps’ leaders, including senior mid-fi elder Mike Chanenchuk, em-phasized having a major role in the youngsters’ development on and o� the fi eld during the fall and preseason.

The result was an explosive seven-goal performance from the group of rookies — including one goal from attackman Ben Chisolm — answering questions about how the freshmen would acclimate to the college game and creating excitement for the season to come.

“It’s fun because these guys really want to learn,” said Cha-nenchuk, who notched a hat trick in the rout. “It makes it easy for me.”

Rambo said his favorite goal —

or at least the one he’s most excited to see in fi lm during the week — was his third of the day, which came with 6:13 remain-ing in the second quarter.

Defensive midfi elder Brian Cooper forced a Mountain-eers turnover, scooped up the ground ball and started on a fast break. Cooper drew a defender before dishing to Rambo, who sneaked a soft shot past goalkeeper Frankie McCarthy to give the Terps an 11-2 lead before halftime.

“He’s my locker buddy,” Rambo said. “I loved to dunk it for him.”

Rambo said the Terps mid-fielders created most of the scoring opportunities for him Saturday. The group’s hard dodges from in front of the cage forced the Mountaineers to slide, and once the ball worked around to Rambo behind the goal, the freshman was one-on-one with a defender — a mismatch he exploited on several occasions.

“I know with this group, if

somebody gets a double team, they’ll throw it to the next guy,” Tillman said. “It’s just a matter of who is going to get oppor-tunities to finish, and Matt’s usually pretty good in the mid-range area.”

T i m Ro ta n z a n d C o l i n Heacock — ranked No. 2 and No. 4 for attackmen in the 2013 class, respectively — were absent against the Mountain-eers due to injury. Tillman said neither issue threatens their seasons, and he’s hopeful they will return this week.

But even in the absence of some of their classmates, Rambo and Cannizzaro put on a full display of the goal-scoring potential of Tillman’s recruit-ing class. And while the coach made it clear that challenges still await his young squad, he agreed Saturday was a sign of positive things to come.

“It feels great to come out here and play at Byrd,” Rambo said. “That’s my dream.”

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though, the sophomore point guard bested his previous career high by 11 points and helped earn personal and teamwide redemption before an an-nounced 14,783 at Comcast Center.

“It felt real good,” said Allen, whose Terps travel to play at No. 20 Virginia tonight. “The win felt even better because they beat the crap out of us last game. We came into that game with a chip on our shoulder.”

The win over the Seminoles, the Terps’ third victory in four games, is the team’s most impressive ad-dition to a shaky resume since ACC play began. The Terps were in control for much of the afternoon, building a 17-point halftime lead that grew to 20 midway through the second half.

Though Wells (15 points, six assists) and forward Jake Layman (12 points, five rebounds) provided significant contributions, it was Allen’s o�ensive eruption that made the di�erence.

“Seth Allen was at another level tonight, made some incredible shots,” coach Mark Turgeon said. “He played within himself most of the game. I was really proud of him.”

After Allen hit that first 3-pointer

on the left wing, he become more ag-gressive. He attacked the rim to finish a scooping layup about a minute later and nailed an awkward mid-range runner after that.

Allen drove to his left on the play and jumped to make a pass to guard Nick Faust in the corner. A Seminoles defender retreated to Faust, though,

and Allen was stuck in the air with the shot clock winding down. So he flipped a desperation shot toward the hoop that slipped through the net.

“After that, I felt like I could just make anything,” Allen said.

Despite Allen’s confidence, Turgeon didn’t think he took many bad shots. Rather, Allen appropriately chose

when to be aggressive and directed an o�ense that shot 51.9 percent from the field, marking the team’s third game in the past four in which they have shot better than 50 percent.

“He’s definitely more under control,” Layman said. “Last year and then when he first came back, he would get a little crazy at times

and force some shots, and tonight he was picking his spots.”

The Terps paired Allen’s dazzling offense with a stifling defense that held Florida State to 38.1 percent shooting from the floor. The Semi-noles — playing without guard Ian Miller, their second-leading scorer — struggled to produce much offense until the closing minutes, when they forced a frantic pace and cut the Terps’ lead down to eight points.

But just as the Terps’ comfortable lead seemed to be slipping away, Layman dove for a loose ball and it knocked o� of guard Devon Bookert’s leg with 57 seconds left to give the Terps a key possession that essen-tially sealed the victory.

The Seminoles never trimmed the Terps’ lead below eight points in part because they just couldn’t keep up with Allen. The Terps’ floor general hit that early three o� the feed from Wells and never looked back.

“[Assistant] coach [Scott] Spinelli always tells you to hold your follow through and hold your guide hand, but once you get into a rhythm you don’t have to do that,” Allen said. “Once you get an open look, you can pretty much throw it up there and you know it’s going to go in.”

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and that was tremendous. That was a winning play.”

The third-year coach has often emphasized the tiny details of defense or extra e�ort to the Terps. They have had narrow defeats this season — including a one-point loss to Connecticut and a two-point loss to George Washington — and as the season winds down, making the extra effort can result in a two- or three-point swing, and that can provide the di�erence.

“[Turgeon has] been stress-ing a lot lately — just make winning plays when we need to and we need guys to make

plays,” Layman said. “It was that play tonight that really kind of saved it for us.”

Tonight in Charlottesville, Va., the Terps begin a stretch in which three of their next four games are against ranked foes, starting with No. 20 Virginia. A trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium to face No. 11 Duke looms this Saturday, and in two weeks, No. 1 Syracuse treks to Comcast Center for a matchup that is already a public sellout. Sand-wiched in there is a bout with the ACC’s 10th-place team, Wake Forest, on Feb. 18.

Basically, the next two weeks are crucial for the Terps.

After the Terps’ loss to Pitts-burgh on Jan. 25, Layman said every game for the Terps is a

“must-win” contest. They’ve responded, winning three of their past four to climb above .500 in ACC play.

If the Terps are to put to-gether an appealing postseason resume, it appears they’ll need to win at least two of the three upcoming games against ranked foes. They lack a signature win this season — arguably, the Terps’ two best wins are over

Providence and Florida State, which aren’t overly impres-sive — and coupled with dread-ful home losses to Oregon State and Boston University, they’ll likely need more than one key victory down the stretch.

And it will likely come down to defense and the extra-e�ort plays like Layman’s on Saturday if the Terps want to pull o� a string of significant upsets to storm back

into the tournament picture.The Terps have the talent to

stay with almost any team o�en-sively. Guard Seth Allen dropped a career-high 32 on Florida State, and guard Dez Wells had a career-high 33 against Boston College in December. Plus, Layman has a 27-point game to his credit, and forward Evan Smotrycz scored a career-high 20 points against Northern Iowa in November.

But the Terps haven’t had the knack for the big defen-sive stop or hustle play to ice a victory — until Layman’s play Saturday, at least.

“I knew it was a huge play for us because they were kind of on a tear o�ensively and getting foul after foul and and-1 after and-1s,” Layman said. “So it

was big for our team.”For an unpredictable and

mercurial group, there’s no telling how the next two weeks will go. But the Terps have strung together some positive results, and they enter a season-defining stretch on a high note.

“I think we’re kind of catch-ing our stride a little bit right now and finding out our iden-tity, I guess you could say, and people are knowing their roles more,” Layman said. “So it’s good to see.”

During the season, the Terps have provided peeks into what they’re capable of in all facets of the game. Now is the time to put it together.

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Matt Rambo and Connor Cannizzaro lined up at mid-field Saturday afternoon at Byrd Stadium, both moments away from making their college debuts in the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team’s season opener against Mount St. Mary’s.

The freshmen were the only two representatives in coach John Tillman’s starting lineup from a highly anticipated re-

cruiting class that Inside Lacrosse rated No. 1 in the nation. And it took less than five minutes for Rambo, the top-ranked attackman in the class of 2013, and Cannizzaro, the No. 3 attackman, to fi nd the back of the net for the fi rst time in Terps uniforms.

The goals were part of five unanswered scores in the fi rst 10 minutes. The Mountaineers answered with two of their own to close the first quarter, but that was as close as they came to eclipsing the lead, as the Terps

cruised to a 16-3 victory before an announced crowd of 1,203.

Rambo finished the contest with four goals and two assists, becoming the first Terp since 2004 with six or more points in a debut, while Cannizzaro, who started at midfi eld, scored twice.

“The big thing we tried to emphasize to those guys is that nobody has to win the game — just do the things that we’re coaching you to do,” Tillman said. “If you play fast, trust

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Terps hold opponent below 50 points for second straight contestBy Paul Pierre-Louis@PaulPierreLouisSta� writer

As Clemson forward Nikki Dixon rose for a layup midway through the fi rst half, Terrapins women’s basket-ball forward Brionna Jones stepped in Dixon’s path and swatted the ball out of her hands for her fi rst block of the game.

It was one of the many ways the No. 10 Terps stymied the Tigers o� ense during yesterday’s ACC tilt. They forced 27 turnovers, and their steady scoring led to a dominant 95-43 win at Comcast Center.

“You want to build confidence, like we’ve been able to do, in these

stretches,” coach Brenda Frese said. “I think we’re getting a tremendous feel for one another and making easy plays for each other.”

Like in their stellar performance against Pittsburgh on Thursday, the Terps’ sharp ball movement and stingy defense played a signifi cant role against Clemson (11-14, 3-8 ACC). The Terps (19-4, 7-3) had 29 assists and 10 turnovers, while holding their opponent to less than 50 points for the second straight game.

Forward Alyssa Thomas fi nished with 22 points and seven rebounds, while Jones, making her third straight start, had 14 points and seven boards in the matchup. The Terps’ bench players also added 42 points, helping them maintain

control for the rest of the game. “Once the starters get going, that

feeds into us, and then we keep it going,” forward Tierney Pfi rman said. “We step in for them when we are supposed to produce like that, so that’s what we do.”

The Terps pounded the ball inside from the opening tip, shooting 6-of-8 from the field in the first three minutes, 40 seconds, building a 14-2 lead. Thomas scored 15 points and grabbed six rebounds in the first half, and Jones keyed the team’s post offense with seven points and four rebounds in the opening 20 minutes.

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By Aaron Kasinitz@AaronKazreportsSenior sta� writer

As Dez Wells swiftly brought the ball up the floor about three minutes into the Terrapins men’s basketball team’s game against Florida State on Saturday after-noon, Seth Allen trailed behind to spot up on the left wing. So Wells sliced into the lane to draw defend-ers and ripped a pass back to Allen, who calmly stepped into the pass and buried his fi rst 3-pointer of the night to give his team a 6-5 lead.

That transition three, Allen said, is what got him into a rhythm Sat-urday. And for the rest of the game, Allen never lost his groove and the Terps never relinquished the lead.

About two hours after draining his fi rst 3-pointer of the night, Allen walked o� the Comcast Center court with a career-high 32 points to lead his team to a convincing 83-71 win over the Seminoles. Allen shot 11-of-15 from the fi eld for the game and 7-of-10 on 3-pointers to push the Terps past a team that beat them by 24 points Jan. 12.

In the loss in Tallahassee, Fla., last month, Allen shot 0-of-8 from the fi eld and was still working back into full form after missing the sea-son’s fi rst 12 games with a broken bone in his foot. On Saturday,

Jake Layman sat on the court, his head tilted back to the Comcast Center rafters, and screamed while a beaming Nick Faust stepped over him to help him up. Behind Layman on the other side of the court, coach Mark Turgeon pumped his fi st while the rest of the Terrapins men’s bas-ketball team celebrated wildly.

Layman had all but sealed Satur-day’s 83-71 win over Florida State. With the Terps nursing a nine-point lead with about a minute remaining, Seminoles guard Devon Bookert lost control of his dribble, and the ball went rolling into the backcourt. Faust pursued Bookert, but Layman left his man and dove for the ball. It knocked o� Bookert’s leg and out of bounds, giving the Terps possession.

It wasn’t an emphatic dunk or a statement swat, and it shows up in the box score as simply a steal, but the forward’s desperate dive was the type of play the Terps will need in coming weeks as their NCAA tournament hopes remain in limbo.

“We were really just kind of limping into the finish there,” Turgeon said. “Jake dove and that really kind of took their spirit there,

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By Eliana Block@thedbkFor The Diamondback

It begins with a daunting to-do list that gets longer as the months whittle away. Next comes friends announcing their grand summer plans as parents start putting the pressure on. Before you know it, deadlines rapidly approach, panic sinks in and you’re finally forced to pay the price for procrastination and confront your greatest fear: the summer internship.

Sure, summer internships can be extremely rewarding and can catapult students to their dream careers down the line. But it can be extremely stressful to start applying and to make plans so far in advance when you don’t even know which bar you’re going to Friday night.

To o�set stress paralysis, univer-sity o�cials encourage students to be proactive in researching summer opportunities. Erica Ely, intern-ship program director at the Career Center, said the best ways to land summer internships are to utilize the university’s Careers4Terps site, have one’s resume reviewed and attend university-sponsored career events, such as the three-day Spring Career & Internship Fair, which starts Tuesday.

“Students shou ld show up

knowledgeable the day of the fair. It sounds good to an employer when a student says, ‘I saw you had a posi-tion in public relations that I wanted to talk to you about,’” Ely said.

Ending the conversation by taking an employer’s business card and

making sure to follow up are also crucial steps in the process, she said.

“Sending a follow-up email is the step students miss the most,” Ely said.

Although the Career Center pushes students to get involved early, some students are reluc-tant to use the center’s resources. Freshmen psychology majors Vic-

toria Daley and Jasmine Trumbull said they felt “no pressure at all” — Trumbull hadn’t heard of the Career Center or the career fair, and Daley thought it might be too early in her college career to start searching for jobs and internships.

“As a freshman, I don’t think [the career fair] would do much for me,” Daley said.

However, Ely said it’s never too early to get started. In response to many underclassmen thinking there wasn’t a place for them at the career fair, the Career Center sought out some businesses specifically interest-ed in freshmen and sophomores, such as Capital One, Verizon and Toyota.

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By Katie Takacs@thedbkFor The Diamondback

When their resume is one of hundreds, it can be difficult for students to stand out among their peers — unless they’re unknow-ingly standing out in a bad way.

With a difficult job market and an abundance of opportunities for personal mistakes to be document-ed on social media sites for years to come, students can easily sabotage their career chances. Luckily, there are ways to avoid these pitfalls.

Ashlee Kerkho�, the business school’s undergraduate student programming director, said one of the biggest mistakes students make is not connecting with career services early and often enough, forgoing the opportunity to do their best in interviews.

“Even if you feel like you’re pre-pared, there are so many resources here. Any step in the process, we can help,” she said.

Kerkhoff said one of the most crucial skills the University Career Center provides is preparation. When students are not equipped

with the correct skills for an inter-view, it shows both lack of research and interest.

Karen Lewis, internship and career adviser and English un-dergraduate studies assistant di-rector, agreed.

“The No. 1 issue I hear from recruiters is that students aren’t prepared,” Lewis said. “They want you to be able to know what their company does and ask questions about ‘X,’ ‘Y’ and ‘Z.’ They want you to have done your research.”

Employers aren’t the only ones who feel students aren’t prepared — students do too, Kerkho� said. The No. 1 issue students report is also not being properly prepared; they don’t have the right exam-ples to share, the ability to sell their skills or knowledge of the company, she said.

While it’s essential for students to do su�cient research on poten-

tial employers, it’s also important for them to recognize that employ-ers will do research too.

“Students need to realize that employers are typing their names into Google to see the perception they are giving the public,” Lewis said. “Any picture that gives the

idea that you are doing something bad should be taken down. We all know what is in the red Solo cup.”

Some students have caught onto the idea of sanitizing their social media accounts. Avoiding using

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Everybody’s working for the weekend

University students balance coursework, activities and on-campus jobs

By Joe Zimmermann@thedbkFor The Diamondback

Working at the information desk at Stamp Student Union, Diana Kim answers questions constantly. At times, that might involve giving step-by-step direc-tions to a desperately lost student over the phone. Other times, she answers what she thinks could be the most common question asked in the lobby of the student union: “Where is the Stamp?”

Kim, a junior community health major, is one of almost 5,200 un-dergraduate students employed on the campus, according to Human Resources Director Dale Anderson. In addition to working at the desk, Kim also belongs to a sorority and works with Dining Services.

Between her two jobs, she works about 40 hours a week, but she said SEE campus, PAGE 5

she hasn’t had a problem balancing school and work.

“My jobs are pretty flexible,” Kim said, noting her bosses are always understanding. “They know school comes first.”

Kim has worked at the informa-tion desk for the past two years, and she has worked with Dining Services all three years she has at-tended this university. In that time, she has learned to prioritize and manage her time wisely. Two jobs is a lot, she said, but they brings in enough money for rent.

L au ren Jones, a ju n ior ac-counting major, is another of the nearly 1 in 5 undergraduates to work an on-campus job while taking classes. Jones, who recently started her job at the Visitor Center, worked a sim ilar job at A nne Arundel Community College, and

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now she works a few times a week so she can still keep up with school.

“I’ve had jobs in school before, so I kind of know what I am and am not capable of,” Jones said.

Danielle Walkerwicz, a sopho-more enrolled in letters and scienc-es, started her on-campus job at the University Book Center at the beginning of the semester, but she doesn’t think managing her time will be a problem. She scheduled all her classes so she would have more days available for work.

“Because of that, I’ve been able to successfully manage my time and make some money,” she said.

Students often seek out jobs for a chance to earn some extra cash, but that doesn’t mean they don’t enjoy working. Some even stick around after graduating.

Alex Nowak, a music major, and Nava Benham Shabahang, a dance major, were frequent customers at the Maryland Food Co-op before they began working there. Because of restrictive schedules, each started working there in their last semester, but once they started, they didn’t want to leave. Now they are still em-ployed by the Co-op, even though they graduated in December.

Co-op employees are especially close, and the job places a strong emphasis on community, Benham Shabahang said.

“It’s a really special place,” she

said. “It’s not a job you can find anywhere.”

In Nowak’s last semester, he worked the early shift before going to class then had the rest of the day free. That way, he completed his fi nal 16 credits and worked 20 hours or more each week. Now that he’s done with classes, Nowak works full time.

It is much easier to work a job without being simultaneously en-

rolled in a full schedule of classes, he said.

Although many students thrive

with busy work and school sched-ules, it’s not for everyone. Tedros Bitew, a junior economics major who, like Kim, works at the Stamp information desk, also works two on-campus jobs.

He doesn’t have a problem split-ting his time between the informa-tion desk, the Stamp Ticket Office and his classes. He always finds it manageable, but he would not rec-ommend the same kind of commit-ment for most students.

“One job is enough,” Bitew said.

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Ties between TerpsUniversity alumni o� er advice for future

By Erica Bonelli@thedbkFor The Diamondback

Even after graduation day has come and gone, university stu-dents never really leave their pasts behind — rather, they become part of a network of alumni who are inno-vating, building, learning and com-municating using skills learned at this university.

From the computer-savvy to the public relations wizards, univer-sity alumni end up in a plethora of careers.

Justin Siraj, a 2012 graduate, is a Web and new media strategies spe-cialist working for the university’s marketing and communications department, in which he handles the university’s websites and does digital marketing.

“A couple of my big projects right now include the Maryland Day website; we’re rebranding that,” he said. “All the social media and all that good stu� … that runs through me.”

While Siraj was unsure what he would do when he graduated, Ike Richman, a 1988 graduate, represents a rare case of someone who “fell into [his] dream job.”

As the vice president of public relations for Comcast-Spectator, Richman has publicized a variety of events in his 20-year tenure, including the 1996 World Cup of Hockey and the 2000 Republican National Convention.

“If you had gone back about 25 or 30 years ago and said, ‘Ike is going to do this,’ I would have said, ‘Yeah, that sounds about right,’” said Richman, who oversees public and media relations for the company’s

Philadelphia facilities.Monica Karkhanis, a 2011 gradu-

ate, followed her love of “entertain-ment, media and pizza” to New York City to work as an event marketing coordinator at Nickelodeon.

Karkhanis organizes, plans and manages events worldwide for Nick-elodeon, including the Kid’s Choice Awards and Comic-Con, she wrote in an email.

“The minute I got the call for an interview, I took the Megabus to New York and never looked back,” she wrote.

University alumni end up all over the world in myriad careers, and many agree the skills they developed and the experiences they had during their time as undergraduate students shaped their future prospects for the better.

“I was really confi dent in myself; I spoke really well. I knew how to write and how to connect with people, and I think that’s what got me the job now,” said Siraj, who majored in communication.

Siraj said networking is the best thing students can do to further their job prospects and noted that his six diverse internships as an undergrad-uate were instrumental in helping him decide the direction of his career.

Richman, who got his start in radio, said he worked at student radio station WMUC and accepted

an o� er to interview players at the Capitals’ game for the station, where he met the Philadelphia Flyers’ public relations director in the press box.

“I’d like to think that the skills I learned at Maryland really helped me. I studied journalism at Mary-

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Juniors Jason Kardon and Nicole Fleskes are both in the business school, which emphasized the im-portance of students gaining hands-on internship experience, they said.

“The business school stress-es being employable,” Kardon said. “There is a course, BMGT 367 [Career Search Strategies in Business], entirely dedicated to getting an internship.”

Over the summer, Kardon worked as a real estate assistant, a job he found through his community email listserv. Fleskes, however, arrived at her summer position as a social media and marketing intern for Rene Arnéz through Careers4Terps. Both recommended students start the search for summer internships now because they can be a huge resume boost.

Karen Lewis, assistant director of undergraduate studies in the English department, said interning over the summer allows students to

explore a professional field without a long-term commitment.

“If you think you want to work in an industry, you should check it out first,” she said.

Lewis echoed Ely’s emphasis on the importance of following up.

“You want to make contact once a week at most so as not to overdo it, but just enough to keep your name in their thoughts,” she said.

Even if students don’t have pro-fessional or internship experience, they can highlight other “soft skills,” such as customer service,

communication and experience working in teams.

“ W h at you le a r ne d f rom bagging groceries can speak for itself,” Lewis said.

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land, and I learned how to write. … I worked at WMUC, so I was able to communicate on the radio,” he said.

Ultimately, Richman’s position today is a product of taking chances along the way, he said.

“It’s a little story called taking ad-vantage of opportunities that exist,” Richman said. “Find someone that does what you want to do … and when you get ahold of them, ask them, ‘How did you get here?’”

Karkhanis also stressed the impor-tance of internships and networking. Karkhanis focused her interning in a specific field to show her dedication to entertainment and media.

Siraj and Karkhanis advised stu-dents to keep an open mind because career developments do not always turn out as expected.

“Work hard and do not let anyone tell you that you will not make it in your dream job,” Karkhanis said. “It may not always turn out exactly how you had envisioned, but with enough determination and smarts you will get far.”

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her full name on social media sites and making her profi les private and unsearchable are steps senior en-vironmental science major Alexa Nieves has taken, hoping poten-tial employers won’t fi nd anything negative about her online.

Jeremy Fields, a senior econom-ics major, said he has heard horror stories of friends being denied jobs because of their online presence.

“I heard a story yesterday of a girl interviewing for a position. When they looked at her Facebook, her profi le picture was her, in a tub, feet in the air, jeans around her ankles with a beer in her hand,” he said. “She didn’t get the job.”

However, when used in the correct way, social media sites, specifi cally LinkedIn, can benefi t students.. Kate Juhl, the Career Center’s student services and aca-demic outreach program director, said it is important for students to have positive profi les on sites like LinkedIn with endorsements and skills.

Rachel Gottschalk, a junior man-agement major, said it is sometimes

hard to clean up social media sites without completely deleting them, but it is also important for compa-nies to see a “happy medium” to show personality.

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn might give employers a fi rst im-pression of a student, but beyond the computer screen students should also remember their cloth-ing can make them stand out — in a positive or negative way. Lewis said it’s imperative to be mindful of clothing choices, which can sometimes be more difficult for women because of skirt lengths and shirt cuts.

With so many ways to hurt their chances, it’s important for stu-dents to be cognizant of the image they’re putting forward, in inter-views and on social media sites, in order to land their dream job or internship. And the best thing they can do is work hard and put in the necessary time.

“Don’t sabotage yourself by neglecting to spend time on your job search. It’s not just about job searching,” Juhl said. “It takes persistence, networking and a lot of preparation.”

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