APRIL 2015 THE UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1933

UB student nominated for University Systems of Maryland Board of Regents eet obile pp By Andrew R. Koch B M A Senior Staff Writer UB seniors launch new app that captures the essence of life’s 13 he University of Baltimore moments in video. may soon be well represented on the state University TSystem’s executive board. Sydney Comitz, a senior in the Merrick School of Business and an early-entry student in the School of Law, has been nominated by Gov. Larry Hogan to be the student representative on the Board of Regents for the University System of Maryland. The University announced Comitz’s nomination on Feb. 26. Comitz will be graduating in May with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, and is planning to complete her Juris Doctorate in the School of Law in 2017. She’s also the President of the Student Government Association. Post UB the for Comitz Sydney of courtesy Photo Comitz said that if she’s confirmed ew alleries by the full Maryland State Senate, N BMA G it means she’d be representing all college students in Maryland, not BMA to open just those of the University of expanded African and Baltimore. Asian galleries 11 “Technically, this means that I’m going to be representing 100,000 students in the state of Maryland,” Comitz said. “Personally, it means that I’m going to have to extend my work beyond UB to encompass all of the other students and remember the diverse student populations Student Government Association President, Sydney Comitz within our entire state, and not just the school that I love.” Comitz said that on a professional on the council. They do a round “Sometimes we often feel that are online and can be edited by level, this opportunity would of interviews, and they rank the graduate students are pushed professors to provide the most up-to- give her a chance to strengthen candidates, one through three,” to the side and not favored over date information. That distinguishes the student voice on a statewide Comitz explained. undergraduate students. I feel like the textbooks from Wikipedia, platform, including being a voice She was the top student pick, and I am so many different categories where posts can be edited by for first-time and first-generation then got a chance to interview for the that I would do a great job of anyone, and often have inaccurate college students. She feels that often nomination with University System being representative for all of these information in them. Comitz says times, those students who lack the Chancellor Brit Kirwan. Chancellor populations,” Comitz said. students at some universities, such most resources are the last ones to Kirwan then recommended Comitz She wants to advocate for as Towson, can then print off the get a chance to say what they need. to Gov. Hogan, who then made his additional protections for interns books and get them bound in the Comitz had to go through an choice based on who got the Student from sexual harassment, and free library for a nominal charge. extensive process to become a Council’s vote and the Chancellor’s textbooks for students. The State Senate’s Executive ycle racks nominee for Student Representative recommendation. “So far, we’ve done a pilot program Nominations Committee reported C T on the Board of Regents, starting “He’s really trusting the student which uses open-source textbooks, favorably on Comitz’s nomination in th Our featured article with the University System’s Student voice, in this case,” Comitz said. and we’ll have saved by December its March 5 report. As of press time, voices the need for Council. She feels that she fits the bill 2015 students over $1 million in it’s unknown when the Senate will safer bike lanes in “You meet with the students, and for representing a diverse group textbook costs,” Comitz said. vote on Gov. Hogan’s nominations 6 there’s a student representative of students, and giving a voice to She explained that open-source for the Board of Regents. Baltimore. from each of the 14 institutions graduate students. textbooks are textbooks that 2 | The UB Post | April 2015

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“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” SPORTS RECREATION& Orioles looking to fill holes

Byin Andrew R. Kochoutfield Senior Staff Writer

The Orioles have added depth in their Yankees, the largest contract ever for a abundance of catchers heading he looks to join last season’s platoon a 4.81 earned-run average. Wei-Yin middle infield and bullpen, but will reliever. The Orioles acquired Miller into Opening Day. Matt Wieters of Ryan Flaherty and Jonathan Chen had 16 wins to lead four starters have a pair of large holes to fill in from Boston at the trade deadline continues to recover from Tommy Schoop. As for the corner infield who had double-digit wins last season. their outfield this season. last summer, and was a valuable John surgery last season, and his spots, Manny Machado will be back Baltimore will open the season After nine seasons, right fielder weapon coming out of the bullpen status for the start of the season is at third base after recovering from with three games at Tampa Bay Nick Markakis left via free agency during Baltimore’s postseason run. still uncertain. If Wieters isn’t ready knee surgery that abruptly ended his April 6-8. The Orioles will open their and signed a four-year, $44 million Baltimore did re-sign closer Zach for Opening Day, Caleb Joseph and 2014 season. Chris Davis has received home schedule on April 10 with the contract with the Atlanta Braves. Britton and left-hander Brian Matusz Steve Clevenger will be the Orioles’ a therapeutic use exemption from first of three games against Toronto, The Braves offered Markakis the to avoid salary arbitration. catchers, and a roster move will have Major League Baseball, allowing him followed by three more against the contract even though he had surgery Baltimore still has a waiver-wire to be made once Wieters returns. to use Adderall, but he’ll still have to Yankees and Boston Red Socks. The on his neck during this offseason. pickup from last season in Alejandra Baltimore continues to add depth sit out Opening Day to serve the final Chicago White Sox will also come Left fielder/designated hitter Nelson de Aza, and the Orioles also re- to its middle infield. The Orioles game of his 25-game drug suspension. to Baltimore for three-game series Cruz also left via free agency after signed outfielder/DH Delmon Young signed infielder Everth Cabrera to The Orioles’ depth in their starting during April. leading Major League Baseball with to a one-year, $2.25 million contract. a one-year contract. Cabrera hit .232 rotation is also helping them cushion 40 home runs last season. He signed Young could also earn an additional with 18 stolen bases for San Diego the blow from the struggles of right- a four-year, $57 million contract with $750,000 in incentives. The Orioles last year. Cabrera has played for the hander Ubaldo Jiminez this spring. the Seattle Mariners in December. traded Class A pitcher Stephen Padres since 2008, and has 136 steals in This follows his demotion to mop-up The Orioles also lost a key arm Tarpley to Pittsburgh for right fielder his career, including a Major League- duty out of the bullpen after signing in their bullpen after left-hander Travis Snider. Snider hit .264 with 14 high 99 over the last three seasons. a four-year, $50 million contract at Andrew Miller signed a four-year, $36 homers and a career-high 38 RBIs. However, Cabrera has struggled the start of Spring Training last year, million contract with the New York The Orioles will have an defensively in Spring Training has and then posting a record of 6-9 with Photo courtesy of Flickr user James G. under a Creative Commons license. Commons a Creative under G. James user Flickr of courtesy Photo Photo courtesy of Wikimedia user Djh57 under a Creative Commons license. Commons a Creative under Djh57 user Wikimedia of courtesy Photo

Baltimore continues to add depth to its middle infield by signing former Padres infielder Everth Cabrera.. Travis Snider has previously played for both Toronto & Pittsburgh. SPORTS & RECREATION 4 | The UB Post | April 2015 Free agency leaves Ravens with Photo courtesy of MarylandGovPics under a Creative Commons Licence. Commons a Creative under MarylandGovPics of courtesy Photo Bymore Andrew R. Koch questions than answers Senior Staff Writer

Free agency in the NFL got off to a March 11, the Ravens traded Ngata busy start when it began on March to Detroit for the Lions’ fourth and 10. As a result, the Baltimore Ravens fifth-round picks in this year’s draft. have lost several popular players Ngata thanked the Ravens and their who’ve been keys to their success over fans with a full-page ad in the March the last several seasons, providing 15 edition of The Baltimore Sun. He several players from last year’s draft ended the letter with the Samoan class with an opportunity to play a phrase “Ofa Lahi Atu,” which means bigger role in 2015. “Love you.” The Ravens also released Just before free agency began, the defensive tackle Terrence “Mount Ravens released receiver/kick returner Cody,” who’s been charged with Jacoby Jones. Jones had been a game- animal cruelty in Baltimore County. changer with his ability to make big Meanwhile, linebacker Terrell Suggs plays in the kick return game. He did agree to restructure his contract was also on the receiving end of to give the team some space under the “The Mile-High Miracle,” catching salary cap, and cornerback Lardarius Joe Flacco’s 70-yard touchdown pass Webb took a pay cut to re-sign with to tie the game in the 2013 AFC the Ravens. Cornerback Anthony Divisional Round at Denver, which Levine has also re-signed with the Ravens won in double overtime. Baltimore, and defensive end Chris However, Jones struggled with Canty has signed a new two-year, catching the ball in the passing game, $4.65 million contract with the team and as a returner muffed several kicks. after being released in late February. Jones signed a two-year contract with In the backfield, running back Wide receiver Torrey Smith, a 2011 graduate from the University of San Diego. Justin Forsett agreed to terms on a Maryland, has also left the Ravens as an unrestricted free agent. Wide receiver Torrey Smith, a three-year, $9 million contract to 2011 graduate from the University of stay in Baltimore. Baltimore will be Maryland, has also left the Ravens as looking for a new backup quarterback an unrestricted free agent. He signed after Tyrod Taylor signed with the a four-year, $32 million contract Buffalo Bills. with the San Francisco 49ers, where The Ravens are once again dealing he’ll join another former Raven in with players who’ve had run-ins with Anquan Boldin. Last year with the the law. Running back Bernard Pierce Ravens, Smith caught 49 passes for was pulled over by Baltimore County 767 yards, and was 10th in the NFL Police for speeding after allegedly with 11 touchdown catches. However, being clocked going 55 mph in a 30 he’s been knocked for his perceived mph zone near the Beltway on St. inability to run more complex routes. Patrick’s Day. He reportedly failed Baltimore is also down a tight end a field sobriety test. Pierce has been after Owen Daniels joined former charged with DUI and exceeding Ravens offensive coordinator Gary maximum speed, among other Kubiak by signing with Denver. Free charges, and has since been released safety Darian Stewart also signed by the team. He’s the second Raven with the Broncos. to be released after being arrested Defensive tackle Haloti Ngata was for DUI this offseason, joining scheduled to make $16 million this cornerback Victor Hampton. season, and was going to count for $8.5 million against the salary cap. On SPORTS & RECREATION 5 | The UB Post | April 2015 MD women get #1 seed, men #4 seed in NCAA tournaments By Andrew R. Koch Senior Staff Writer

The Maryland women’s basketball Kimbrough were named to the Leading 42-38 at halftime, Maryland Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals scored 14 points to lead the Terps, team continues to get attention on the All-Big Ten Conference First Team went on a 20-4 run in the first seven in Chicago on March 13, but lost to but it was a strip by senior guard national scene for their strong play by the league’s media, while senior minutes of the second half to jump Michigan State 62-58 the following Varun Ram of Clarksville in the over the last several seasons, while guard Laurin Mincy was named to out to a 20-point lead, and led by day in the semifinals. Michigan State final seconds that sealed the win. the men’s team has finally made it the Second Team, and sophomore as much as 24. The Terps (33-2) would eventually lose to Wisconsin Wells provided the margin of victory to the tournament for the first time center Brionna Jones was named to successfully defeated former ACC 80-69 in overtime in the tournament by scoring while getting fouled on an under its current head coach. the First Team by the coaches and rival Duke on March 28, 65-55 and championship game. Senior forward/ offensive rebound, and then making The fourth-ranked women’s team the Second Team by the media. The will advance to play Tennesee in the guard Dez Wells was named to the free throw with 1:44 left. Two was selected as the top seed in the Lady Terrapins pulled away for a 75-57 Elite Eight on March 30 at 9 p.m. If the All-Big Ten First Team by the days later, Maryland struggled with Spokane, Washington (West) Region win over #16 seed New Mexico State they win, they will head to the Final league’s coaches and to the Second #5 seed West Virginia’s harassing of the NCAA Division I Women’s at Xfinity Center on March 21. Jones Four in Tampa Bay, Florida to face Team by the media. Junior forward press and frenetic pace, committing Basketball Tournament on March had 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead the winner of the Albany Region’s Jake Layman was named to the 23 turnovers in a 69-59 loss to the 16. Maryland finished the season three Terps players in double-figure Connecticut vs. Dayton face off. Third Team by the media, while Mountaineers. Trimble had 15 30-2, ending on a 24-game winning scoring. On March 23, Maryland beat The Maryland men made it into the freshman point guard Melo Trimble points and seven rebounds, but left streak that included going undefeated #8 seed and previously undefeated tournament for the first time under was named to the First Team by the midway through the second half after during the Big Ten regular season Princeton 85-70 to advance to the Head Coach Mark Turgeon. The media and the Second Team by the appearing to get kneed in the back and conference tournament. This is Sweet 16 for the fourth straight year. Terrapins were selected as the fourth coaches. Turgeon was named Big Ten of the head by teammate Damonte the fourth time Maryland has been Mincy went six of seven from three- seed in the Midwest Region, which Coach of the Year by the media. Dodd. Trimble, who’s said he’ll be selected as a regional top seed in point range on her way to a game- also has undefeated and top overall Maryland began the tournament back for his sophomore year, was the tournament, and the third time high 27 points and seven assists. Four seed Kentucky. Maryland went by holding off the upset-minded later diagnosed with a concussion. under Head Coach Brenda Frese, other Terps scored in double figures 26-5 overall and 14-4 in the Big Ten Valparaiso Crusaders, the 13th seed Maryland finished the season with who was named Big Ten Coach as Maryland shot 56 percent from the during the regular season, and won in the Midwest Region, on March 20 a record of 28-7, and will return of the Year. Sophomore guards floor in the second half, including eight of their last nine games. The at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, three starters next season—Trimble, Lexie Brown and Shatori Walker- seven of eight from beyond the arc. Terrapins beat Indiana 75-69 in the Ohio. Wells and Trimble each Layman and Dodd. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia user Wlaw422, under a Creative Commons Licence. Commons a Creative under Wlaw422, user Wikipedia of courtesy Photo

Interior view of the Xfinity Center, home of Maryland basketball, prior to joining the Big 10. 6 | The UB Post | April 2015 FEATURES I want to ride my bicycle Fear, love, and loathing in Baltimore’s bike lanes Librarian at Langsdale and a bicycling Baltimore advocacy group Bikemore, commuter. Helman is right. Not in a proposal urging Baltimore City By Laura Melamed everyone in Baltimore can afford a car. to upgrade the Baltimore City Master Contributor The city says it’s committed Plan to make city roads safer. Several days after Palermo’s The MACTs top the plan’s priority I love bike riding. Pedaling up a hill put until I passed by—and that their restaurants. death was reported in the New York list, the first of several lanes that are at the end of long day is a great way to doors would stay closed. I had heard Allotey was thrilled with the Times, the Maryland Department part of the planned Baltimore City burn off stress and cruising down the about people getting “doored”—at health benefits she got from bike of Transportation announced it was Bicycle Network. other side with the breeze in your face the last moment a car door opened riding around Druid Hill Park last committed to the construction of the We need to make sure the cycle is a fantastic and exhilarating reward into the bike lane and the cyclist had spring and summer, but she is scared MACTs. tracks are built properly in order for for your work. no time to avoid it. to ride in traffic. There was a bike lane on them to be really safe. It’s hard to describe how liberating Ron Cabal, a cyclist originally “I’m afraid to ride it in the street— Roland Avenue where Palermo got Bikemore board member and it is to do something you thought from Rhode Island and currently afraid I’ll get hit by a car,” Allotely hit, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Director of External Relations of you’d never do again—that you manager at Two Boots Pizza on Mt. said. Rawlings-Blake said, as reported the UB School of Law, Jedediah thought you were too old to do. Royal Avenue, has seen at least two Dina Varsalone, a returning in the Baltimore Sun. “It motivates Weeks, is concerned that the physical Since I got back on my bike after a cyclists hit car doors in the three student, working on finishing her the work we are doing to have more “barrier” planned to separate cyclists 15-year “break,” I am in better shape years he has been in Baltimore. BA at UB, is terrified of bike riding protected lanes for bicyclists to ride.” and traffic on Maryland Avenue, is than I have been in years. I can run But still I felt safer on Roland in Baltimore. “We have a long way to go to catch none other than parked cars. further, I can lift more, and I lost 15 Avenue than a street with no bike A couple of Varsalone’s friends up, but we’re going to get there very “You know what’s going to happen,” pounds while actually eating more. lane at all. were hit by cars in the city. She quickly,” said City Transportation Weeks said, who is also a founding And I didn’t have to take any extra I rode regularly to UB until one doesn’t want to go through what Director William Johnson as quoted member of Bikemore. “People are time to do it. day in late December when I cruised they’ve gone through. in the Baltimore Sun. “This is a top going to be driving and parking in I could do it on my way to work— past a flower-filled memorial on a Varsalone, who loved cycling on priority of the mayor’s office. It’s been the bike lane.” the ideal exercise for a busy UB hill just south of the intersection of trails in New Hampshire, was excited made very clear to us.” Parking and driving in a bike lane student—especially non-traditional Bellmore and Roland Avenue and to hear about the cycle tracks. She Also running through UB’s campus, is more than just an inconvenience. students like myself, a Gen X mom thought Oh my god—someone was hit. was especially enthusiastic when she a buffered bike lane is planned for Mt. It’s dangerous. Cyclists run the risk working on a second master’s degree. Tom Palermo, 41-year-old father found out the tracks will run through Royal Avenue. Called the Midtown of hitting the car—especially if there After a fun bike ride with of two, was killed by a car while some of the more well-travelled areas Streetscape, it seems this cycle track, is nowhere to swerve to. With the UBGreen on the Jones Falls Trail riding in the same bike lane I took of the city. “We could use them for if built to best practices, can make UB MACTs that will be the issue. The in November 2013, led by UB to UB every day. It was a shocking more than just getting to school,” she a safer spot for student commuters. bike lane will be between the parked Sustainability Planner Jeff La Noue and tragic reminder of how, sadly, I said. Safety second? New Maryland cars and the sidewalk. and UB student Zachary Holbrook, am taking my life in my hands every “I don’t like riding around guidelines Pittsburgh initially had that I was more than ready to commute time I try a healthy commute to work Baltimore,” Tracy Dimond said, a The Maryland State Highway problem and learned from its mistake. to school by bicycle, especially since and school. grad student at UB. “I think drivers Administration (SHA) just released Bikemore members suggest we learn it was mostly downhill. And until I Cold weather set in, snow fell, and are doing things I can’t anticipate new bike lane construction guidelines from Pittsburgh’s mistakes instead of was more fit, I could take the light I decided to take a break from bike but might kill me, like pulling out in January 2015. having to experience them ourselves. rail halfway home—but I need a safe riding. of parking spaces without looking, While it’s a step in the right “We’re working to convince place to ride. I want to start cycling again now at all.” direction, allowing raised bike lanes the Maryland Department of UB Gen X-graduate-student- that the weather is nice, but should I Dimond liked the flexible posts and other safe bike lane construction Transportation (MDOT) to install mom tries bicycle commuting take the risk? she’d seen installed recently in New initiatives, it doesn’t actually require flexible posts at least at the beginning Heat bounced off the SUVs racing For people of all ages York (they can also be found in DC). them. and end of the cycle tracks,” Weeks by me, inches from my side. Riding A physical barrier, such as a curb, The posts are reflective and create a The absence of designs for two- added. my bike south on Falls Road, to raised median or planting buffer, barrier between drivers and cyclists. way protected bike lanes, is a concern, “We want construction to start UB from Mt. Washington, was between the bike lane and traffic “That would definitely make me said health economist Jeff Lemieux early in the spring,” Weeks said. challenging, especially north of the would help. Protected bike lanes, feel safer as a biker to have those and bicycle advocate Gregory Billing “The Mt Royal [Avenue] Cycle leafy beauty and relative safety of the also called buffered bike lanes or things,” Dimond said. in the Washington Area Bicyclist Tracks (MRCT) have three critical Jones Falls Trail. Coming off the trail, cycle tracks, have been constructed UB grad student Charlie Association Blog. flaws,” Weeks said of the other just a block north of UB, I had to be in New York, Washington, DC, and Billingsley likes to ride mainly on Since the MACTs are supposed to protected bike lane planned to run careful to avoid crashing into the back Denmark. trails and in parks. be a two-way protected bike lane, I’m through UB’s campus. “It starts at the of the Bolt Bus, often hidden from “In Copenhagen people of all ages, “My last epic ride was from concerned, as well. MICA Brown Center and runs to the view. I was commuting by bike for including seniors, bike without fear; Pittsburgh to DC on the Allegheny Protecting bike riders from buses UB Law Center. Basically from glass exercise and stress reduction; until it’s normal,” La Noue said. passage, two years ago,” he said. “I also needs to be addressed, say building to glass building.” I realized the shoulder and neck Construction of the Maryland like to ride in big open spaces.” Lemieux and Billing, since many bike This may be an interesting tension I was experiencing came from Avenue Cycle Tracks (MACT) is Billingsley once rode in New York lanes run next to bus lanes. aesthetic touch but safety-wise it dodging cars on Falls Road, north of planned to run from Charles Village City before cycle tracks were installed. The #11 bus runs on Maryland falls seriously short. The track should the trail. to the Inner Harbor, passing between He found himself swerving around Avenue along with the aforementioned really start in Reservoir Hill or, at the The drivers seemed tense, too, the UB’s Gordon Plaza and the renovated car doors, taxis, and automobile Bolt Bus. very least, at the MICA dorms on way they were leaning on their horns UB Langsdale Library, may start this traffic. He’d love to see cycle tracks Also missing from the plan, stated North Avenue so students don’t have and occasionally yelling, “Get off fall, after being postponed in 2014. in Baltimore. Lemieux and Billings, is a plan for to ride in traffic. Weeks is hopeful the road!” It wasn’t the most relaxing If the cycle tracks are built to Young children may benefit from intersections, where most collisions that with a new president at MICA, soundtrack. best practices such as a 10-foot wide protected bike lanes as well. Cycle occur between bicycles and cars. the plans can be reconfigured. Why not try Roland Avenue? It track (and at least five-feet wide in tracks support public health goals, And high-speed roadways are a Another problem with the MRCTs is 20 minutes out of my way and up intersections), it’s possible many, especially for children, said the major issue, as well. The good news is they run right by the Interstate 83 a steep hill in Baltimore, but that otherwise concerned, will start to Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle is SHA requires new roads to include exit ramp. would be a small price to pay for bicycle. Professionals (APBP) in a 2010 report. bike lanes. “It’s unsafe,” Weeks said. “The feeling a little safer. On the shaded In Copenhagen, the bicycle After seeing a young family The bad news is, painted bike lanes highway off-ramp needs to be Roland Avenue bike lane I got a lanes are at a different level than bike riding on Roland Avenue, in are often too narrow for high-speed redesigned. Cars come off at highway little more peace and respect. People sidewalks and the road, giving all the unprotected bike lane, during roads—yet that’s where they appear, speeds.” seemed to expect to see a cyclist, at groups their own space morning rush hour, I have to agree. say Billings and Lemieux. Bikemore is working with MDOT least. Ianta Allotey, who attended UB in I was shocked, at first, to see a man Another safety issue concerns cars to create a safer highway crossing for Maybe no loathing, but still there 2014 and lives in Reservoir Hill, said towing his child in a cart attached to traveling above the posted speed limit. both pedestrians and cyclists. was fear—and danger she would like to use the MACTs his bicycle, followed by a young girl So you’ll find bike lanes designed for Part of the MRCTs is slated for I hoped, gripping my sweaty to visit the library, museums, and of about 12 years old, riding her own 30 mph streets where people are really the sidewalk, which is unsafe for handlebars, that I would only art galleries, as long as the track bike. traveling 40 or 50. pedestrians. Bikemore is working encounter regulars on Roland truly offered protection. A mother Cars were teaming down the street Broken bicycles—will Baltimore’s with MDOT to resolve this issue as Avenue—that there would be no new of three and formerly a professional beside us. bike lanes really be safe? well. drivers unaware of the bike lane. baker, Allotey was especially excited “People have to get places,” William Cycle tracks are essential for streets See CYCLE TRACKS, Page 11 I prayed parked cars would stay about the prospect of cycling to local Helman said, Digital Services with high-speed traffic, insisted 7 | The UB Post | April 2015 COLUMNS Take the lead Bee Aware A regular column for current and aspiring leaders A piece of the puzzle By Keiya West Great leaders know how to survive Business Manager By Anthony Butler Have you ever interacted with word phrases by age 2, no response Associate Director of Leadership and Community Engagement in someone who you thought may be to name, loss of language or social the Rosenberg Center for Student Involvement missing a piece of their puzzle? What skills, poor eye contact, excessive if they weren’t missing the piece, but lining up of toys or objects, and/or A scan of the headlines will tell you of substance to do. That’s not just challenge, odds are your team is were the missing piece? April is no smiling or social responsiveness. that these are challenging days for stressful for the leader, it’s destructive feeling the same way. Take the time Autism Awareness Month. Autism Not all children with an ASD leaders, both locally and around the to the group. Team members with to recognize their good work, offer awareness is symbolized by colored diagnosis, or suspected ASD, will world. As our society evolves and nothing to do will mentally check encouragement, and remind them of puzzle pieces, which you may see show early signs. Many will develop technology brings us closer, we find out and often will leave the group the successes they’ve had. Doing so around town. at a later age. The later indicators of we have to accomplish a lot more entirely if they sense they’re not an will bring renewed energy and focus According to the National an ASD are impaired ability to make with less and as our organizations integral part of the group’s success. to your group and enable them to Institute of Neurological Disorders friends with peers, impaired ability grow, we face new challenges. It’s Take action. Figure out what your move forward. and Stroke, Autism Spectrum to initiate or sustain a conversation understandable to feel unprepared. group must do first to overcome its Consider these ideas as you work Disorder (ASD) is a range of complex with others, absence or impairment Sometimes it may feel like you are in current challenge, and begin to with your group to resolve challenges. neurodevelopmental disorders of imaginative and social play, a sinking boat that’s filling up with implement a solution. Many groups One of the hardest things for leaders characterized by social impairments, stereotyped, repetitive, or unusual water faster than you can bail it out. suffer from “analysis paralysis,” and to admit is that some things are communication difficulties, and use of language, restricted patterns Your team is counting on you to are so occupied trying to develop beyond their control. Determine restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped of interest that are abnormal in solve these mounting problems, and solutions that they never try anything. what changes are possible and begin patterns of behavior. Autism, or intensity or focus, preoccupation with that can be overwhelming—maybe Breaking a problem into smaller to execute your plan. If you do so in Autistic Disorder, is in actuality the certain objects or subjects inflexible even a little scary. Here are some parts and taking the initial steps to a way that includes your team and most severe form of ASD. Other adherence to specific routines or tips that will help you and your team solve it will give your group a sense encourages them to contribute, those forms along the spectrum are rituals. thrive in even the most challenging of accomplishment and pride and daunting challenges will seem much the milder Asperger’s Syndrome, This month, people all over the circumstances. enable it to take on larger challenges smaller. Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, United States celebrate their loved Realize you are not alone. Often as they come. Want to learn more about and Pervasive Developmental ones who have ASD. There are leaders think they have to have all of Take a step back. Ever pull an how to survive tough leadership Disorder not otherwise specified many Walk Now For Autism Speaks the solutions, when in reality, they “all-nighter” and find that as you challenges? (PDD-NOS). The Centers for programs going on through the have a diverse team that is capable of stare at your paper the words seem Join the Rosenberg Center for Disease Control and Prevention tells month, in all states. The Walk Now navigating through challenges. New to blur on the screen, and lose all Student Involvement for its annual us that 1-in-88 children age will have for Autism Speaks: Cumberland and innovative ideas come from the meaning? Facing a tough challenge Spring Forward Retreat, May 29-30 an ASD, with men being more likely Tri-State is scheduled for April 11 unlikeliest of places—maybe from often works the same way. You may at YMCA Camp Letts in Edgewater, than women. There is no known in Cumberland, MD. You can visit that person in your group that hasn’t feel overwhelmed by the challenge MD. The theme of this year’s retreat cause for ASD, but there is ongoing walknowforautismspeaks.org for more spoken up. As a leader, you should and need to take a step back, breathe is Survivor Leadership: Adapting to research into the effects and they will information and to get involved. challenge everyone to own your deep, focus, and center yourself, Change in Challenging Times. The hopefully, one day, find the cause. Autism speaks is a non-profit charity organization’s problems and think before continuing your work. This retreat is open to all students who There are many signs of ASD in that raises money for awareness and of ways to solve them. may involve taking a day or two away are returning to UB for the 2015-16 children, even appearing as young as research for Autism. People with Delegate, delegate, delegate. See from the problem so that you can academic year and is free of charge (a infancy. The most significant sign is Autism are just that, people. Go find #1. It’s not always a good thing to be a attack it with renewed vigor when small, refundable deposit is required that of impaired social interaction. the missing piece to your puzzle and super busy leader. Some leaders take you return. to secure your place on the trip). Early indicators of ASD are no get involved with Autism Speaks. on so much responsibility that their Celebrate your team. If you’re Space is limited. To find out more, babbling or pointing by age 1, no team members are left with nothing feeling the weight of an oncoming visit www.ubalt.edu/bemore. single words by 16 months or two- Library Insider So much is possible after breakfast By Laura Melamed Contributor

Do you wonder what possibilities “Unlimited possibilities @ your “Because I work at the circulation and paper so I can write down titles.” await at your library? library” is the theme of this year’s desk and as a writing instructor, I get UB’s Langsdale Library opens at National Library Week, celebrated an academic thrill when I see students Kemi Kodja in Wonderland 8 a.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. on April 12-18. start to make connections about Kodja is currently reading The weekends. Come on down, right after Unlimited possibilities at the different topics,” Dimond continued. Little Women Letters, a novel by breakfast. library mean different things to “When I see them in the process of Gabrielle Donnelly, which she found On April 2, there will be a citations different people. thinking, writing, and learning, I get at Langsdale. workshop at the library. “I think of the library as a place a excited for them. It’s fun.” From an academic, standpoint, But that’s not all. student can explore an idea that they “You can do anything at the Reference and Instruction Librarian One of the library’s popular would not have the opportunity to library!” Kemi Kodja said, another Pete Ramsey said the role of the Lunch-and-Learn’s is scheduled for explore otherwise,” Tracy Dimond, student worker at Langsdale. “You librarian is to give people access the week of April 20. Heather L. Graduate Teaching Assistant and can read, do your homework, hang to everything—because we want Pfeifer, Associate Professor in the writing student at UB, said. out with your friends. You can eat or the possibilities hidden inside each School of Criminal Justice, will be “We have so many books they might have a group meeting.” person to come to fruition. leading the session. To find out more, not realize are academic,” Dimond Kodja likes to shelve books “So the unlimited possibilities of contact Mike Kiel at [email protected]. added. “I hear people say ‘Oh, I can because she can jot down titles while individual potential, when combined Or visit the library April 30 for a write my paper about that?’ I think she works. with what we, as a library, hope to do, long night of studying. The library that’s really cool. Music, sex, and “Like shopping for a book, only it’s can change the world,” Ramsey said. will be open until 1:30 a.m. gender are usually the big surprises.” free,” Kodja said. “I always have a pen COLUMNS 8 | The UB Post | April 2015

CivicFor more of Corner humanity, love and marriage is in the air this spring By Ron Kipling Williams Columnist

According to the New York Times, marriage, who claim that it represents and homelessness if they were a credit card under their own name. Proclamation. But blacks were not the Presbyteries of the Palisades, both a decline in the morality of unmarried. Still, it appeared that Birth control? Not until the ’60s. afforded any legal rights to marriage the largest Presbyterian domination society, and a strike against God. marriage was between a man and as Even though in 1938 federal until 1896 in the US Supreme in the country, voted to expand the They insist that marriage has many women they could finance. minimum wage eliminated Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision. definition of marriage from “between always been, and should always be, According to Stephanie Coontz, disparities between men and women Subsequently, interracial marriage a man and a woman” to “two people, between a man and a woman. It is author of Marriage, a History: How when it came to hourly wages, in was not made legal until 1967. So, for traditionally a man and a woman.” the traditional definition of marriage. Love Conquered Marriage, monogamy 2015 a woman earns only $0.77 to all intents and purposes, marriage in This permits its 171 regional body For those who believe that, allow did not become a practice in Western every dollar a man makes. That is up the US has been between all men and clergy to marry same-sex couples. me to disabuse you. societies until the period 600- from a 1963 report commissioned by all women for only 48 years. Also according to the Times, For thousands of years, marriage 900 AD, and even then, it was not President John F. Kennedy showing Woody Allen once said, “Tradition there are other denominations that was an arrangement between families deemed a sacrament until the 19th that women made $0.59 for every is the illusion of permanence.” I permit clergy to perform same-sex for strategic purposes such as property century. Until then, men could be dollar a man earned. So in 52 years cannot think of a more fitting phrase marriages, including the Episcopal and political power. In fact, it was as promiscuous as they pleased and women have received a whopping for marriage. If anything, one can Church, the United Church of Christ, a worldwide traditional practice up women could do nothing about $0.18 raise. describe it as an evolutionary process. and the Reform and Conservative until the 18th century. Although both it. Furthermore, any illegitimate Women did not gain the right to I know that does not sit well with the movements within Judaism. Though parties consented, love was not the offspring were not entitled to a dime. vote until the 19th amendment was Creationists, but anyone who has advocates see it as a sign of progress, basis for the marriage. Additionally, Essentially for only the last 250 years ratified on Aug. 19, 1920. It was not been oppressed throughout history there is still an enormous debate in because women were regarded as has there been a belief that marriage until 1973 that women could serve on can attest that evolution benefits us religious institutions over whether it property, or at the least second to is a sanctimonious institution juries nationwide. Additionally, even all. violates biblical messages. men, the marriage would never be between a man and a woman. though women make up 51 percent of In this upcoming spring, we Since Massachusetts became the deemed as equal. There were other Well, there is the belief, and then the US population, only 19.4 percent should be joyous for any two people first US state to legalize same-sex arrangements without two-party there is the practice. of the 535 members of Congress are who have fallen in love and decided marriage on May 17, 2004, 36 states consent which were forced marriages. Remember, marriage as a legal women (104 members). Three of the to marry. Let the iron shield of have followed suit. A recent Gallup Both continue to this day in certain partnership is predicated on equality, nine US Supreme Court justices ignorance fall from our hands, and let poll revealed 55% of Americans now parts of the world including parts of and if we remember our history, are female, and there has never the pollination of progress permeate support gay marriage. In our civil Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. women have not been equal to men been a woman elected to the Oval this marriage season, blossoming society where all citizens exist and If you want to get biblical, there for very long. Office. So policymaking regarding into full equality, one union at a time. abide by the Constitution, it appears were several men who engaged in Women were not allowed to own women’s issues and equality is still that soon more will be able to enjoy polygamy. Solomon had 700 wives property even in divorce until 1839 predominantly in the hands of men. its protections. and 300 concubines. The argument when the Married Women’s Property Let’s not forget slavery. Enslaved There are those who argue for this was that women were in Acts began, and it was not until 1974 Africans were considered property vociferously against same-sex danger of forced prostitution, slavery, that women were allowed to even open until the 1865 Emancipation COLUMNS 9 | The UB Post | April 2015

ThePeruvian laws Lomo of Saltado cooking Stir-fry with Potatoes and Mexican Hot Chocolate Pudding By Jessica Greenstein Editor-in-Chief Follow me on Twitter: @LawofCooking Editorial Note weekly meals, you can skip whatever between $18.00 and $30.00 per plate As sung in my favorite movie The weeks you want for any reason in and include items like scallops or Mexican Hot Chocolate Sound of Music, “I leave and heave a your personal dashboard. Ordering lamb chops. So, if you order two Pudding sigh and say goodbye, the time has is easy—simply review the menu for regular menu items ($12.00 each) x come for me to say goodbye. I’ve the upcoming weeks (usually they two people, you end up at $48.00, Makes 2 Servings (actually made been writing this column now for have four weeks available) and make press checkout and BAM, you’re a lot more for me) two years and I love it and hate it your selections. Once added to your taken to the checkout screen which About 240 calories per serving at the same time. I love expressing cart, you check out and pay, and just offers…desserts! Desserts run $4.00 myself through the written word and wait for your box to arrive. Two of per plate with a minimum of two sharing my love of cooking with all the best things about Plated is their plates per item. There’s your free Ingredients of you, but at the same time I feel so fantastic customer service and the shipping. 1 cup whole milk Mexican hot chocolate pudding. much pressure to outdo the column fact that they offer desserts. This month, I figured since UB 2 tablespoons granulated sugar before and to write or make the The few times I have had to Denit Honors students went to ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ( I used perfect recipes that will be loved by contact customer service, they have Nicaragua, we would have a Latin my own that I picked up in Mexico Method all of our readers. I know this is an been expeditious, helpful, and have American flair in our menu. We are in January of this year) Make Pudding Base: impossible feat, and yet, every single more than made up for any issue making Lomo Saltado, a Peruvian 2 tablespoons flour Add milk and 1 egg yolk to a month, I do the same thing. It is that I might have had. I walked away steak stir-fry dish and Mexican Hot 1 packet spice mix small pot over medium heat. Whisk literally insanity. Well, I’m getting off with the unfortunately rare nowadays Chocolate Pudding. ½ teaspoon chili powder continuously until milk begins to the crazy train, graduating with my positive customer service experience *Note: It’s important to mention ½ teaspoon cinnamon thicken, 2-3 minutes. B.A. in Jurisprudence, and if all goes feeling like, “yeah, I am the customer that Plated reached out to its 2 tablespoons semisweet chocolate as planned, heading to law school and I’m always right,” but without customers this week to notify us that chips Cook Pudding: in the fall—destination unknown. the arrogance and entitlement that the soy sauce which was included in 1 egg yolk Add granulated sugar, vanilla But, that means that if someone often goes along with it. our box was intended to be gluten extract, flour, spice mix, and a pinch out there has a flair for writing and When checking out, you must free, but in fact, the wrong soy sauce of salt to pot with milk and whisk to loves to cook, and is a student at UB, spend $50.00 in order to get was included and it is not gluten free. combine. Continue whisking until of course, I will gladly bequeath free shipping (shipping is $6.00 For those of you like me who do not pudding is bubbling, about 5 minutes my column in your capable hands. otherwise). That’s not a hard task. have Celiac’s Disease, or not gluten more. They have fantastic menu items intolerant, or simply not “off” gluten, Okay, let’s get into the reason that and lots of choices. Each menu item this is not an issue. Melt Chocolate: you’re actually reading my column has to be ordered for a minimum of Bon Appétit! Remove pot from heat and add in the first place—the food! This two plates and cost $12.00 per plate chocolate chips. Stir until melted. All photos courtesy of Jessica Greenstein. month, as promised last month, I (yeah, they’re a little pricier than am reviewing Plated. Plated is a some of the others). They also offer Plate Pudding: meal box subscription that sends two specialty meals that are usually Divide pudding evenly between 2 bowls or glasses and serve warm. Peruvian Lomo Saltado Stir-fry with Potatoes Makes 2 servings Roughly 530 calories per serving

pinch salt and bring to a boil over steak to pan and stir to combine. high heat. Cook until mostly tender Sauté Vegetables: when pierced with the tip of a knife, Add 2 tablespoons canola oil to pan Plate Stir-Fry: about 5 minutes. Drain and set aside. from steak over medium-high heat. Add red wine and soy sauce to pan When oil is shimmering, add potato, with steak, scraping up any browned Marinate Steak: onion, bell pepper, and garlic. bits from bottom. Simmer until While potatoes boil, rinse steak Sauté until bell pepper and onion reduced by half, about 1 minute. Taste and pat dry with paper towel. Cut are softening and potato is beginning and add salt and pepper as needed. against the grain into ¼-inch to brown, about 5 minutes. Add Divide stir-fry evenly between 2 plates, slices. Season with spice mix and ají tomato and cook until beginning to garnish with cilantro, and serve. amarillo and set aside to marinate soften, about 2 minutes more. Return at room temperature for at least 10 minutes or up to 1 hour.

Prepare Ingredients: While steak marinates, peel onion, halve, and thinly slice. Rinse bell pepper, halve lengthwise, and discard seeds. Cut into ¼-inch slices. Rinse tomatoes and cut into ½-inch pieces. Ingredients ¼ cup red wine Pick cilantro leaves, discarding stems. 8 ounces Yukon Gold potatoes 1 packet soy sauce (gluten-free) Smash garlic using the flat side of a 10 ounces inside round steak *See note above knife. 1 packet spice mix 3 tablespoons canola oil 1½ teaspoons ground cumin Kosher salt Cook steak: ½ teaspoon ground coriander Black pepper Heat 1 tablespoon canola oil in a 1½ teaspoons ají amarillo large pan over medium-heat. Season 1 red onion Method steak on both sides with salt and 1 green bell pepper Boil Potatoes: pepper. When oil is shimmering, 2 plum tomatoes Cut potatoes into ½-inch pieces. add steak in a single layer and cook 1/6 bunch cilantro Place in a medium pot and cover until browned, about 1 minute per Lomo saltado, ready to eat. 2 cloves garlic with cold water. Add a generous side. Remove from pan and set aside. COLUMNS 10 | The UB Post | April 2015 Battle of the Boxes Challenge accepted! By Jessica Greenstein Editor-in-Chief Follow me on Twitter: @LawofCooking

I recently heard from some students Inside my box: that they find box subscriptions too expensive, so this month—my last • Rimmel London Lash month writing this column—I’ve Accelerator Endless Mascara (Full decided to bring you one of the most size $7.97) affordable subscriptions available. • Dove Body Wash Mandarin & The second box, while not one of Tiare Flower Scent (Sample; Full the most expensive subscriptions, is size $5.47) not cheap by any means, but it is my • Neutrogena Healthy Skin most favorite subscription, so I saved Boosters Facial Cleanser (Sample; the best for last. This month the two Full size $7.47) boxes are the Walmart Beauty Sample • Lady Gaga Fame (Sample; Full Box and the PopSugar Must Have Box. size $30.88) • Schwarzkopf Essence Ultime Lots of coupons came in the Walmart Beauty Sample Box. Walmart Beauty Sample Omega Repair and Moisture Shampoo & Conditioner (Samples; Full size $13.94) • Maybelline FITme Matte + Poweless Foundation (Sample pack; PopSugar Must Have I am most excited about the Full size $5.94) PopSugar Must Have is a monthly Benefit Roller Lash Mascara. I • Nivea In-Shower Body Lotion lifestyle subscription box for women received this in another box this (Sample pack; Full size $5.92) and usually includes home, beauty, month, but haven’t had a chance to • Garnier Ultra-Lift Miracle health, fashion, and food items. This use it, but my favorite mascara of all Sleeping Cream (Sample pack; Full month’s theme was Renewal, Citrus, times is by Benefit, so I’m definitely Walmart Beauty Sample Box is a size $11.50) Fresh, and Traveling. The cost is looking forward to this one. I also quarterly box of health and beauty $39.95/month with free shipping loved the reed diffuser; the scent products that are either new or Coupons: and they promise various full-sized was absolutely incredible and I otherwise being featured for sale at • $2.00 off Schwarzkopf Essence products hand selected by the editors couldn’t wait to unpack it and use it; Walmart. The products included Ultime Hair Care Product or of PopSugar.com. The values of the it smells AHMAAAAZING. Other are usually deluxe and sample sizes Styling Product (exp. 12/31/15) boxes seem to be high and their favorites are the Bliss Micromagic with coupons to buy the full-sized • $3.00 off Schwarzkopf Color website promises that it will be at Microdermabrasion Treatment product versions at Walmart. The Ultime or Keratin Color Hair least $100. Boxes are always themed and Wet brush. The absolute best coupons usually don’t expire for a Coloring Product (exp. 12/31/15) and well curated around said theme. part about this box was the value, good amount of time, which gives • $2.00 off Fit Me or any Subscriptions are available on a by my estimates because of the you plenty of time to try the sample Maybelline New York face product month to month basis or in three or two samples, it’s about $140 worth and then redeem the coupon. The (exp. 12/31/15) six month increments and the prices of awesomeness. best part about this subscription is • $1.00 off Nivea In-Shower Body go down the longer the subscription the price: it’s FREE—all you pay Lotion (exp. 8/1/2015) you select. Each box comes with an PopSugar Must Have is $5.00 for shipping & handling! • $2.00 off any Garnier info card explaining why the items Because this subscription comes out Moisturizer (10/15/15) were selected and their values. Cost: $39.95/every month, less with seasonally, it often caters to what’s • $2.00 off any L’Oreal Paris PopSugar also does limited- 3 or 6 month subscription. FREE needed during that season: deep Cosmetic Product (exp. 4/30/15) edition boxes. They usually release SHIPPING! moisturizers in the winter, sunscreen • $2.00 off one CoverGirl + Olay quarterly and sometimes they have Website: www.musthave.popsugar.com products in the summer, etc. Simply Ageless Foundation Product gender specific specialty boxes. The Introductory Offer: Once you sign up for the box, no (exp. 6/30/15) Resort box was released recently MUSTHAVE5 saves your 5.00 need to monitor your subscription; and sold out quickly, so if you’re off your first box; occasionally they’ll send you an email notifying interested in them, grab them while they have better deals you they’re charging your card for I love that this box has so much you can! the next box when that season rolls variety. While the samples are All photos courtesy of Jessica Greenstein. around. Everyone gets the same items usually smaller, there’s always plenty Inside my box: although color and scent variations to choose from. I’m excited to try the may exist depending on what they’ve shampoo and conditioner and you • Bliss Micromagic curated for that season’s boxes. An can never have too much body wash Microdermabrasion Treatment information card isn’t included, and face cleanser! I also love that they (Full size $48.00) so the values are calculated using sent a newly release full-size mascara! • Greenmarket Purveying Co. Walmart’s website. The Archivist Lemon + Cucumber Walmart Beauty Sample Reed Diffuser Kit (Full size $20.00) Cost: FREE/per quarter. Just • Samudra Pink Piñk Zip Pouch pay $5.00 shipping and handling! 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ENTERTAINMENTCYCLE TRACKS from Page 6 & The intersection of the MRCTs Denmark’s official website. and the MACTs needs to be re- Wouldn’t it be great if Baltimore thought as well, Weeks said. could say that one day, too? To ride without fear Baltimore currently rates as a BMA to open I’m happy a resolution is in the Bronze-level bike-friendly city, works. Riding in unprotected lanes but if improvements are not made, can be scary and dangerous. Baltimore may lose this level. Other The JFT, right near UB, is also cities are surpassing Baltimore and a safety issue. Part of the JFT is on the standards are going up. There expanded African and a sidewalk, which is dangerous for is evidence that Baltimore is falling pedestrians. Part of the JFT is in the behind. street, which is dangerous for cyclists. Bikemore is working to make People have been hit by cars while sure Baltimore keeps its Bronze Asian galleries License. Commons a Creative under Porteus, Ann of courtesy Photo bike riding on the JFT as well as in rating, but needs help from the city. African art demystify the works other unprotected bike lanes. The Downtown Baltimore Bicycle in this renowned collection by Personal responsibility is essential Network is part of that plan. emphasizing the relationships when driving a car. Driving drunk We need to start construction right between objects and the lives of the is immensely irresponsible and away, Weeks said. “Before young people by, and for whom, the objects extremely dangerous. Texting and people decide they’re not going to were made,” Gunsch said. “We look driving is an omnipresent hazard. live in Baltimore.” forward to sharing this collection in Accidents happen, even under the Older students, like Ianta, a way that supports fresh connections best of circumstances, and when a Dina, and I, want Baltimore to be to these incredible artworks and to driver is using the utmost caution. bike-friendly, too. the social, political, and cultural Distractions are unavoidable: a baby Bike-friendly UB history of the continent more broadly.” in a car seat suddenly starts crying, a The newly formed UB Bicycle The Julius Levy Memorial and bird hits a windshield, an unexpected and Pedestrian Committee hopes to Newly Renovated Gallery of Asian pothole appears after the previous make UB the first accredited Bicycle Art is twice as large as the previous day’s snowstorm. When I ride my Friendly University in Baltimore space. The opening exhibit will focus bike, I need the same protection as City. In order to be Bicycle Friendly, on China—displaying examples pedestrians. according to the League of American of paintings, furniture, ceramics Maintain the lanes Bicyclists, a school needs to be and more from the 2nd century Once they’re built, bike lanes need working towards: BCE through modern day. In the to stay paved and free of debris. • Creating safe and convenient same press release, BMA Associate I’ve encountered potholes so large places to ride and park Curator of Asian Art Frances I had to leave the bike lane and ride • Giving people of all ages Klapthor expressed her excitement to in the street—and that’s with tires on and abilities the skills and see more of the collection on display. my bike so thick they rub against my confidence to ride “The two new galleries […] provide brakes unless I’m in a low gear. • Creating a strong bike culture us with the opportunity to better I’ve had to ride around wet leaves, that welcomes and celebrates showcase the beauty and strengths of storm debris like tree branches, and bicycling this collection,” Klapthor said. “This chunks of pavement that end up in • Ensuring safe roads for all users reinstallation wonderfully expands the bike lane. I’m happy to report UB has the aesthetic scope of the museum’s Sometimes the mess is so uniform bike racks at Gordon Plaza, the presentation of Asian art.” it looks suspiciously like it was swept LAP building, and the Angelos Beyond the galleries themselves, there—like someone coloring in Law Center. UB also has a small the BMA will celebrate by hosting the lines—as if the bike lane were but growing cycling community two separate day-long events of a drawing in a coloring book or an encouraged largely by UB African and Asian cultures. On April official dumping ground. Sustainability Planner Jeff La Noue. 26, the day when both galleries will Once I even came across a dead Students can find out more at Bike ‘Gbekre’ monkey figure by the Baule People of Cote d’Ivoire. be opened to the public, there will be deer lying in the bike lane. Okay, UB’s Facebook page. African music, artist demonstrations, that was probably an accident, but did Bike riding saves you money. UB by Mia White storytelling and hands-on mask it have to stay there for three days? student Heather Franz sold her car Senior Staff Writer making. The performers will include Finally, I called Baltimore City and and was able to buy four bicycles. Elikeh and Amadou Kouyate, who it was removed. Bicycling is good for the economy. On April 26, the Baltimore Museum representative environment for the blend traditional songs and Togolese Baltimore City needs to purchase “Businesses on Eighth and Ninth of Art will open their dramatically pieces. The state-of the-art lighting rhythms with blues and jazz riffs. an appropriate-sized snow plow for Avenues in New York saw a 50% renovated African and Asian galleries. and additional space will allow The Asian celebration on June 28 bike lanes as well, Weeks said. The increase in sales receipts after The first-floor galleries will greatly for an enhanced experience and will feature musicians, calligraphy city needs to realize bike lanes are protected bike lanes were installed expand the space that previously understanding of the artworks. demonstrations, origami, and a for commuting, not just recreation. on the corridor. On San Francisco’s housed the artworks. Alongside the The Alan and Janet Wurtzburger manga drawing activity. Many people can’t take the day— Valencia Street, two-thirds of the re-opening of the galleries, there African Art Gallery triples the After a series of impressive or the winter—off, just because it merchants said bike lanes had been will be events to celebrate the newly museum’s gallery space for African renovations, it will be wonderful to snowed. good for businesses,” reported unveiled gallery space. art. Higher ceilings and more options have more of the museum’s many Hope for the future—will Streetsblog USA. The project follows the celebration for display in the round means galleries accessible again. Whether Baltimore be as bike friendly as Properly built protected bike lanes of the BMA’s 100th year, which viewers will see the artwork in new or not visitors come for the cultural some cities? would improve student safety at UB. culminated in the unveiling of the and exciting lights. celebrations, the new Asian and Copenhagen is world famous for its Merrick Historic Entrance and The Wurtzburger Art Gallery was African spaces are bound to bring biking culture and now officially the Dorothy McIlvain Scott American curated by former BMA Associate new perspectives on the BMA’s first Bike City in the World. Last year, Wing in Nov. 2014. It is yet another Curator for African Art Kathryn impressive collection. it was voted “Best city for cyclists” part of the $28 million renovation Wysocki Gunsch, who explained and the “World’s most livable City”. that began with the opening of the in the museum’s press release the Cities around the world aspire to contemporary wing in 2012. importance of the changes in the be like Copenhagen. Copenhagen Both the Asian and African gallery space. has over 240 miles of high-quality, galleries will offer visitors a more “The BMA’s new galleries for designated bike lanes, according to ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 12 | The UB Post | April 2015 Photo courtesy of BagoGames under a Creative Commons license. Commons a Creative under BagoGames of courtesy Photo on top of the game’s original 82 for been that purchased content adds on just half of the price of the initial to a particular game. But this past game. Hyrule Warriors, over several holiday season, Nintendo launched a DLC releases, has added eight more line of multi-game DLC. You may playable characters to its existing cast have heard of it: It’s called “amiibo.” of twelve, as well as new maps and Yes, the little plastic Nintendo modes. And Mario Kart 8 offers 16 character figurines that interact with new racetracks on top of the game’s your Wii U and 3DS. You may argue original 32 for only a fifth of the that those toys are not DLC, but they game’s price. The point is, Nintendo achieve the same ends, including is extending fully fleshed-out games unlocking content that extends a and, importantly, extending them in game. The one major difference ways that are valuable to the players is a player can buy one amiibo of those games. With Nintendo’s and use it across multiple games. intimate and extensive relationship The Mario amiibo, for example, with their fanbase, they are well- currently adds content and modes to suited to make smart, targeted DLC six different games and the program for their catalog of in-house games. only launched this past November. The act of purchasing DLC can They’re pretty well-made little and should be fun in its own right. statuettes, to boot. And amiibo are Mario Kart 8 offers 16 new racetracks on top of the game’s People, in general, enjoy shopping selling like hotcakes, to the tune of 6 original 32 for only a fifth of the game’s price. and buying things. And yet people million in three months, developing loathe purchasing DLC. Last quite a community of collectors along summer, Nintendo released a game the way. If such products become the called Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball for its baseline value proposition for gaming Nintendo 3DS system that attempted add-on content, it will be Nintendo Nintendo is reinventing the to bring the experience of shopping that was forward-thinking and their to the DLC purchasing process. This competitors playing catch-up. “free” game is a collection of baseball- The best part of this deal for themed minigames; the catch is, these Nintendo is, unlike technological game right under your nose minigames have to be purchased innovations like motion controls Christopher Warman Contributor with real money and only one demo and touch screens, these advantages is free off the bat. However, players are very difficult for competitors And the game Nintendo is cycle, the most infamous of which with (or replace) their game designers. can haggle for those minigames with to replicate. Only Nintendo can reinventing? The business of games. was the concept of paid downloadable Some creators are releasing a glut of the eponymous Rusty, all the while achieve these facets because of There exists this perception of content, or DLC, on consoles. DLC DLC—like, we’re talking thousands learning about his pro baseball player an infrastructure that has grown Nintendo, shared by both gaming has become startlingly prevalent for of dollars worth. Meanwhile, youth and his miserable family life. over more than century and an enthusiasts and the general public: the bottom lines of game creators of Nintendo seems to be posing a riff This may sound absurd, but part unparalleled level of control over Nintendo is old. Nintendo is too all sizes and, unsurprisingly, frigidly on their usual question: Can DLC of what makes shopping at small their platform ecosystems. Outdated cautious. Nintendo makes fine games received by the gaming public. To be fun? businesses fun is the connections as the company may seem, to solve for kids, but games are not just for put it bluntly, most people hate In answering this question over that are made between people. It’s the problems facing the game kids anymore. Nintendo is running DLC. They feel like game creators the last two years, Nintendo has fulfilling. Sustainable business tends industry and medium, Nintendo’s on nostalgia. Nintendo is behind are intentionally withholding content proven three essential points that will to require customers that don’t hate unique perspective and values are the times. While there is some truth that would otherwise be in a full- define downloadable content and, by themselves after doing business with essential and should be respected and rooted in these generalizations, they price game for the sake of nickel and extension, the business of games for you. Nintendo, with time, could studied, not ridiculed. 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And from most companies has been a is solely understood by Nintendo, but, and should extend across multiple like any good business, Nintendo is matter of repackaging the old crap. for a game creator that’s so retrograde games. always looking for a problem to solve. You can now get “season passes” to and out of touch, it’s hard to argue This is the most foreign and radical See, there were some major access all the DLC for a given game. with their DLC portfolio. New Super innovation Nintendo has reached in shifts in the video game industry Companies are hiring “Systems Mario Bros U received the New Super its DLC odyssey. The traditional introduced during the last console Monetization Analysts” to work Luigi U DLC, which added 82 stages understanding of DLC has always

as the “Highest Rated Shooter by PC actually move on. This cripples the kind of like driving a go-kart on a Magazine”, and it was well-deserved. game, especially during the sections really cool track, but instead of being Nostalgic to death: It had a great story, great characters, when you are in a very fast car/ able to drive continuously there are plenty of intense shooting, the speed boat and have to stop so you sections in the track that weren’t built famous Gravity Gun, and plenty of can either make a ramp or operate a and the owner thought it’d be more other characteristics that Valve used crane to get to the next area—I didn’t interesting if you were to stop and ‘Half-LifeBy Antonio Pantaloni 2’ to justify taking forever to release make that up, those are both things find a way to fix it yourself. Contributor Half-Life 3. However, our patience you have to do. There are stops that Even the cutscenes are a flow killer. has run thin with Valve and we’re are purposeful, like stopping at a Instead of using cinematic cutscenes, Nothing is more memorable than things, they start to emphasize issues starting to ask ourselves, “Was Half- station to refill on ammo or adding they are set up in-game with the a gamer’s first video game. We all in previous titles and make older Life 2 really that good?” My answer? a gun to your vehicle, but a majority characters, which means you have to remember the first game that kept titles seem lackluster in comparison. Not really. of the time it’s a forced stop that sit there and wait for them to finish us glued to a TV for hours at a time, It doesn’t matter if the game was Half-Life 2’s biggest issue comes you have to go through in order to before. and while we may grow older, the terrible or was better than the from the flow of the game. In this progress the story. The game is memories we make with that game creation of Chipotle, eventually old instance, I’m referring to flow as will last a lifetime. One day, when games will age into something barely how smoothly the player is able to IGN of courtesy Photo the weight of the world is beating playable, and this issue is shown in get through the game, and Half-Life down on you, you pick up your first what was once called the greatest PC 2 does a terrible job with it. The game game, and try to relive the good Game of all time: Half-Life 2. is mainly a first-person shooter but times you shared with it, but there’s For those of you who don’t know, Valve added a puzzle element where only one problem: the game is awful. Half-Life 2 is one of the holy items getting to other sections required you The controls are clunky, the design given to us by the Valve Corporation to mess around in the environment is weird, and everything good you in the early 2000’s. While it isn’t the to allow you to move on. This remember about it is no longer there. only game released by Valve, it was sounds like an interesting idea but it It’s just an empty cartridge of what the most critically acclaimed game completely destroys the flow because used to be your childhood hopes at the time, and that’s not me spit trying to make progress required you and dreams. Sadly this is a common balling either. The game won 39 to stop what you were doing (having problem among video games; as Game of the Year awards and is even a good time), so you can go mess games evolve into bigger and better in the Guinness Book of World Records around with levers until you can Not all classic games hold up over the long run.. 13 | The UB Post | April 2015 AROUND CAMPUS UB seniors leave their mark, create app to capture life’s highlight reel By MontÉz Jennings Contributor

Memory seems to preserve the best moments of your life—but sometimes it might be better to just relive the moment. The same notion was put into the app Beet, developed by University of Baltimore seniors Campus Life Jonathan Miller (Business major) and Sean Thielen (English major), which aims to capture the essence of life’s moments in video. Upcoming The app takes six-second video clips and compiles them into one video, which can feel like you’re watching a year’s worth of your life. Events Everything in the digital age evolves, including memory. The app allows the user to create communities and become a part of a bigger story. Beet is doing more than connecting Apr. 1 Seventh Annual Urban Child people through traditional social media; it’s keeping and connecting Symposium - Violence and the Urban the user’s experience to friends and Child: What Can We Do? 8:30 a.m.-3:30 family. Whoever uses it becomes a p.m., Angelos Law Center – Moot Court part of a bigger, ever-expanding story. Miller explained that the idea stemmed from two sources of Apr. 7 UB Celebrates National Poetry Month inspiration. Miller and Thielen, 12:30-1:30 p.m., LAP Building – Rm. 308 like most seniors, felt college went by in the blink of an eye—why not have the chance to watch the best Apr. 9 Roger Friskey Noon Concert 12-1 p.m., moments? Take out the stress of exams and replace them with mixers SC – 2nd floor and the best times with friends and there’s the college beat. Lasertag 12-4 p.m., Gordon Plaza “One of my good friends studied abroad in New Zealand last semester and instead of taking a bunch of Apr. 13 New Muse Piano Duo 12:30-1:50 p.m., photos, he recorded a whole bunch of short videos of his trip,” Miller SC – Wright Theater said. “When he got back, I offered to edit them all together for him, and Investiture of Kurt L. Schmoke 4:30-5:30 the result was really cool. There are Apr. 14 a ton of videos online where people p.m., Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing took a bunch of short video clips Arts Center at the Lyric and then compiled them into one big video that shows their vacation A screenshot of Beet or even just their everyday lives, but Apr. 15 Student Government Elections All day there was nothing that allowed them this year, possibly as early as this put an expiration date on the videos. to do this is a simplistic way.” month. The app has positive reviews The videos are backed up on the app’s The app took about three months for its users which has given the servers. “We chose the name Beet Apr. 16 Spring Block Party 12-6 p.m., Gordon Plaza to develop. The process of putting creators validation. because we liked the idea of capturing the app on the iOS interface was “With such a positive response this the ‘beat of your life’ through videos Amusement Park Trip visit SEB’s OrgSync simple for the two seniors. After is definitely something we would of little everyday moments,” Miller July 11 submitting it for review under their like to be able to keep doing after we said. “We spelled it Beet because it’s site for more info developer account, it took about a graduate,” Miller said. “We are in the friendlier and allows people to use it week to be finalized in the app store. process of updating Beet with some as a verb when they capture videos or It only requires 16MB, but is only more features, and an update should ‘beets.’” iPhone users can download compatible with iOS 8. It will be be out in about two weeks.” the app and start making “beets” available for Android devices later Beet, unlike other apps, doesn’t today. AROUND CAMPUS 14 | The UB Post | April 2015 Denit honors scholars

Byserving Adnan Hameed in Nicaragua Contributor

From left, George Zelenka Jr., Paxton Tibbins, Elizaveta Nikonorova, David Sebastio, and Adnan Hameed pose after the hike.

Imagine yourself without Facebook, in Nicaragua and the Dominican We then spent our day working view of Jinotega and the surrounding cause, a few days would not bring Instagram, or any Internet for a week. Republic for 20 years. We were with 120 school children in camps at towns. The view at the top of the about a change that can be seen Could you handle it? While many provided, accommodation, all meals, a local school. During the afternoon, mountain is absolutely breathtaking immediately. It takes time and a University of Baltimore students and all local excursions. we spent our time learning about the and you could feel the crisp mountain lot of collaboration, and with time, were enjoying the cold winter, a small We spent a week as teachers, local culture and history and took breeze against your face. We also a significant transformation will group embarked on an Alternative working with underprivileged walking tours of the local cathedral, visited a local coffee cooperative happen. UB provides an education Winter Break trip to Jinotega, children and teaching them English markets, shops, and coffee shops. We and learned about coffee testing and that’s hands on and comprises a Nicaragua. Organized by the Helen and life skills. The idea for the trip walked about 30 miles while we were grading. We also got the opportunity lot of experiential learning. Such P. Denit Honors Program, five Denit was to get UB students engaged in Jinotega. During the evenings we to buy freshly ground coffee from the experiences better prepare students Scholars—David Sebastiao, George in global issues and, at the same watched documentaries and had nearby coffee plantations. to adapt more easily to different Zelenka, Paxton Tibbins, Elizaveta time, understand how one can reflection talks on various social The highlight of the trip was when environments, learn to be civic Nikonorova, and I—embarked on continue to make an impact in issues. We also had to plan lessons the Denit troop visited Selva Negra, leaders, and be a beacon of hope for a service learning experience in a their local community in Baltimore for the next day. Eco lodge, and Coffee Estate in the the future. foreign land. We dropped everything and developing the combination We also went on a hiking trip hills of Matagalpa. Here we enjoyed When you get an opportunity to back at home and immersed ourselves of knowledge, skills, values, and to Peña de la Cruz. Legend has it lunch and a tour of the sustainable travel, wherever it may be, remember in the Nicaraguan culture. motivation to make a difference that in the 17th century Jinotegans’s coffee estate. We got to learn how Mark Twain’s words : “Twenty It has been said, “Travel and every day. began to believe that the mountain coffee is planted, harvested, and sold years from now you will be more change of place impart new vigor to The day began with a hearty was growing. They believed it would to clients like Whole Foods. disappointed by the things you didn’t the mind.” The trip gave a glimpse local breakfast, usually some fresh continue growing and fall over the More so, during the trip, our do than by the ones you did do. So of how civic mindedness can bring papaya or orange juice, Pico de town. So the priest brought a cross group followed guiding principles throw off the bowlines, sail away about changes not only in oneself Gallo, plantains, beans, and of course up to the mountain (to stunt the such as Poco a Poco (little by little), from the safe harbor. Catch the trade but also in the community to which Nicaraguan coffee. Lunch and dinner mountain’s growth) and held mass the communication of love, and an winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. they belong. We learned to adapt to consisted of local cuisine with rice on the top in order to bless the land. “it’s not about you” attitude. Such Discover.” new surroundings and worked with and beans, chicken and beef, local Ever since, the mountain stopped principles help one to be selfless, All photos courtesy of Adnan Hameed. Outreach 360, an American-based cheese, soft drinks, fresh fruit and growing. We climbed about 930 think more critically, and understand organization that has been working vegetables, and more coffee. steps to the top to witness a majestic that when one volunteers for a AROUND CAMPUS 15 | The UB Post | April 2015

Denit Scholars David Sebastio, Paxton Tibbins , Elizaveta Nikonorova, and George Zelenka, Jr. pose with students after class.

Denit Scholars posing with a gift from their students. The Gracias UB poster was signed by all students with illustrations of Eubie. Adnan Hameed posing on the Peña De La Cruz after a 930 steps hike. AROUND CAMPUS 16 | The UB Post | April 2015

By Lynora Lawless BeeContributor Card: convenient or hassle? Before the past recession, a flash accept Campus Cash, which is noted cons for the reader have been Piezon’s Eddie’s of Mt. Vernon of a college ID usually gave you housed on the Bee Card, and one of with the paper for the machine. It Not many students have used it, but Like the University Mart, Eddie’s matinee prices at the theater. twelve participating stores. When I uses a lot more paper than their cash the machine works fine. At the time has a lot of experience with campus While the movie-going experience handed my Bee Card over in a recent register and the machine slows down of inquiry, the manager requested cash mediums. At the time of inquiry, no longer provides this relief to the visit, the cashier wouldn’t accept it. when the roll needs to be changed. that we send more customers. many students use it and they have student wallet, certain venues will When asked, the cashier stated that yet to have any need for tech support. still discount your entry. And the Chipotle has had several issues with Dunkin Donuts University Market and Deli night life still thrives on the college keeping the machine functional and At the time of inquiry, few The University Mart is familiar with At the time of this article, the night party. maintaining their speedy customer customers have used the card. the campus cash programs because of other four stores were not available At many schools, the college ID service. Difficulty obtaining technical The machine has not given many their first store on the Hopkins campus, for comment on their experience is an essential card that has evolved support in a fashion that allows them problems and they offer a 5% discount which uses the Jay Card. This location with the reader. from an annual printing requirement to maintain the Chipotle experience off purchases when using the Bee has little trouble when the Bee Card to a “guard with your life” possession. determined the management’s choice Card. Perk! is given. If the machine is down, they From providing access to buildings to remove the reader from the register. will let you know. Photo courtesy of the University of Baltimore of University the of courtesy Photo after public hours to paying for The card reader was removed three Domino’s parking, UB’s Bee Card functions months ago. Will only take for pick up orders. as a sort of local currency. But this is not the usual scenario. Not enough experience taking Bee For parents of students, the ID Other stores that accept Campus Card to have a comparison at time offers additional benefits. Now, Cash, like Shapiro’s on Biddle St., of inquiry parents don’t need to obtain a credit have endured the struggle with the card for their student or worry about machine. Depending on the cashier, Zena’s the bill. UB has a list of stores that there will either be an attempt to So far the spa has had two accept the card that the student body swipe the card or a request that the customers use Campus Cash. While can visit. The Bee Card requires a Bee Card carrier provide a second they enjoy the experience, they third party reader at the register to form of payment just in case. would like to know more about the supplement the credit card swipe My starting point in mind, advertising regulations to promote found on most systems. The third inquiries into the experience at other the option. party reader is necessary in part stores were as follows: because the Bee Card isn’t financed Studio 7 by a bank. Therefore, like Apple Pot Belly The SalonThis store has been Pay, unorthodox payment methods So far Campus Cash works well at taking Campus Cash for about two can have some hiccups at the register. the Charles Street location. The few months and so far hasn’t had any Chipotle is one of three major times that the machine was down, customers use the program. food chains in Mt. Vernon that IT has provided timely support. The UB’s mascot Eubie sporting their Bee Card.