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City votes to support same-sex marriage present in Annapolis when former Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law the bill granting equal marriage rights within state boundaries. Wojahn is again hoping to be part By Eleanor Mueller what he didn’t know was how long @eleanor_mueller it would be before the couple could of the success for the equal marriage rights movement with the help of his Staff writer officially wed in this state. A failed lawsuit and a decade of fellow council members. The College In 2003, Patrick Wojahn knew he advocacy later, Wojahn, College Park City Council voted Feb. 24 to wanted to take the next step in his Park’s District 1 councilman, and support same-sex marriage and sign relationship with Dave Kolesar. But Kolesar, now his husband, were a brief filed with the Supreme Court,
Council members vote to add city to amicus brief ahead of Supreme Court marriage equality case
which will hear arguments on samesex marriage bans in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee on April 28. The vote was unanimous with the exception of one absence and one abstention. “It reflects our long-standing tradition of supporting same-sex couples in College Park,” Wojahn said. See marriage, Page 3
A double-decker MARC Train, a new model, approaches the College Park MARC station yesterday morning. sung-min kim/the diamondback
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MARC line adds more local stops Additional trains will run between Baltimore, DC in mornings, nights
Univ professor explores feline musical inclinations
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Every day, Joyce Teixeira da Silva waits in College Park — usually for about 20 minutes — before the MARC Train can take her to the University of Maryland, Baltimore, she said. She com mutes tw ice a day between her home in College Park and UMB’s dentistry school, where she is completing her doctorate, and said she always faces this delay between the bus and the train. “The timing of the bus is not so close to the timing of [the] leaving MARC train,” Teixeira da Silva said. But the Maryland Transit Administration’s addition of a new commuter rail link between Baltimore and Washington drastically shortened her usual wait by several minutes Monday, she said.
Despite what one might assume while watching videos such as “Keyboard Cat” or medleys of cats dancing along to dubstep, felines do not particularly enjoy human music. I n fact, cats p erh aps h ave a similar disinterest in most music as they have in many human activities, but that doesn’t mean cats are not musically minded, one university professor found. David Teie, a composer at the music school, wrote songs to appeal specifically to the musical senses of the largely domestic pet. Teie has released three singles for cats and co-authored a study published Feb. 19 in Applied Animal Behaviour Science that found cats had more interest in his original a cat listens to an original song by David Teie, a composer in this university’s music school. Cats have their own musical preferences.
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Diversity discussion tackles racial, cultural identities
Univ cricket team heads to national competition
Students, panelists share experiences By Lexie Schapitl @lexieschapitl Staff writer
Student team succeeds in inaugural season By Grace Toohey @grace_2e Senior staff writer Shivank Joshi grew up playing cricket in India and played for his state’s team, but he said there wasn’t as much of an interest in the sport when he came to this university. So he and some fellow cricket enthusiasts started the Terrapin Cricket Club in September, and he said he did
Mahesh Naidu, a telecommunications engineering graduate student, practices batting for the Terrapin Cricket Club. The team is heading to its first national championship Wednesday. tom hausman/the diamondback not think in his “wildest dreams” that the team would be heading to the college national championship, which starts tomorrow. “Honestly, when I was forming this club, there were a lot of folks who had
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Sangeetha Madhavan saw a need to discuss black diversity when she noticed her students struggling to understand one another because of cultural differences. Being “black” means different things to different people, said Madhavan, an African-American studies professor. As the moderator for last night’s panel, “Engaging Black Diversity: A Conversation with UMD Students,” Madhavan shared her
observations and facilitated a discussion on identity with panelists and the audience. “This event is really about and for students,” Madhavan said. “We’d like to hear what the students have to say about this issue of black diversity and what does it mean to be African-American versus Nigerian or Jamaican, first-generation, second-generation?” Panelists Onoso Imoagene, a sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Michelle Rowley, a women’s studies professor at this university; and three undergraduate students distinguished between “black” and “AfricanAmerican” labels. See diversity, Page 3
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