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Royal Farms closes its doors Route 1 convenience store beneath The Varsity shuts down Monday, cites ‘poor business’ By Hallie Miller @thedbk For The Diamondback
Farms had been a destination for frozen foods and produce items for years on the Route 1 strip before it became the latest local business fold. In a loss for fried chicken en- Megan Miller, of the maintenance fathusiasts and residents in search cilities department for Royal Farms, of a quick meal, the convenience said the closing was due to poor busistore Royal Farms closed its doors ness in the area. A 7-Eleven is set to take its place Monday for good. in the coming weeks, said Raj Pura, Located under The Varsity, Royal
branch manager of College Park’s Royal Farms. Students, especially frequent customers of Royal Farms, reacted to the shutdown with confusion and dismay. “When I heard I was shocked,” junior communication major Alixandra Hyatt, who lives at The View, wrote in an email. Business seemed steadily plentiful during the school year, Hyatt wrote. See closing, Page 2
royal farms, located underneath The Varsity, shut down on Monday due to poor business in the area. The convenience store on Route 1 will be replaced by a 7-Eleven in coming weeks. stephanie natoli/the diamondback
DOD gives funding to U projects Six out of 22 project teams include a university professor By Nate Kresh @thedbk For The Diamondback The U.S. Department of Defense awarded research grants on June 2 to 22 multidisciplinary projects, including six with a professor from this university on the team, according to a computer, mathematical and natural sciences college news release. The grants, awarded through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, total $149 million to be distributed over five years. Wolfgang Losert, a physics professor and computer, mathematical and natural sciences college dean for research, leads work on the dynamic properties of complex systems, which, he said, is observing how pieces move together. His team’s research, which received a grant of $7.5 million, w i l l l ay t he g rou ndwork for future applications. The components of a cell have waves “just like the grains of sand on a beach collectively move out of the way when you step on them,” Losert said. The information collected observing these movements See grants, Page 3
GONE FROM THE ROW Delta chi, No. 6 on Fraternity Row, lost its university recognition Monday. The chapter’s recognition will be withheld for four years, or until all currently active undergraduate members graduate. By Ellie Silverman @esilverman11 Senior staff writer Delta Chi fraternity lost its university recognition Monday, according to a letter obtained by The Diamondback, which was addressed to chapter President Jack Canavan and signed by Student Affairs Vice President Linda Clement. Clement accepted the Department of Fraternity and Sorority Life’s recommendation to remove the chapter’s recognition after “the unacceptable patterns of behavior the chapter has exhibited for the past two and a half years,” Clement wrote in the letter. Canavan sent an email addressed to
“Chapter Presidents” on Tuesday June 16, asking members of Greek life to write a letter to DFSL or Clement supporting the chapter. “Although our chapter has had no negative incidents this semester, has contributed positively to the Greek community and has improved greatly in many facets, DFSL believes we do not deserve to be a fraternity anymore,” Canavan wrote. The chapter held an “away weekend” in December at a hotel in Pennsylvania, leaving more than $20,000 in damage behind, Clement wrote. Following this incident, the chapter was placed on probation on Feb. 3 until December 2015 and needed to comply with “a series of self-imposed and
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Study cuts process down from 12-36 hours By Nate Kresh @thedbk For The Diamondback university president wallace loh and others stand alongside professor Javier Atencia-Fernandez, whose team created a process that separates bacteria in an hour rather than 12 to 36 hours. photo courtesy of mike morgan according to the FDA’s website. A team from this university’s bioengineering department – led by professor Javier Atencia-Fernandez – has created a potential solution with a process that separates bacteria in an hour rather than the normal 12 to 36-hour timeline. “What the industry is doing right now is taking a sample, putting it in
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thing to do.” Corin Gioia Edwards, DFSL advising and programming associate director, sent an email about Delta Chi’s removal to the “UMD Greek community” Wednesday. “I hope this decision will serve as a reminder to all chapters in our community that the University is serious about the expectations we put forth, and about the values we espouse,” Edwards wrote. “Failure to uphold our collective mission … will result in grave consequences.” In Clement’s letter to Canavan, she referred to a Delta Chi “satellite” house as “a source of neighborhood and community complaints reported See FRATERNITY, Page 3
Maryland Media Inc. names its new general manager
Univ team separates bacteria in an hour
A process that accelerates the separation of bacteria could be the answer to the food industry’s prayers. Food contamination, which refers to the presence of unwanted chemicals and bacteria in food, has been plastered across the news lately. Dozens of products have been recalled in the past 60 days. For example, Blue Bell Creameries had a massive recall of all ice cream products due to an April listeria outbreak,
DFSL conditions,” but the chapter let several deadlines pass and completed certain requirements months later, Clement wrote. DFSL’s recommendation to revoke the chapter’s recognition contradicts previous letters “that said our recognition status would be reviewed at the end of the Fall 2015 semester, has no basis based on our behavior this semester, and threatens to set a dangerous precedent,” Canavan wrote in the email. And Canavan said he felt like DFSL did not handle the situation properly. “I feel like a lot of the stuff was done behind our backs,” Canavan said. “Actively keeping us out of the talks and circumventing us was a poor move on their part and not a professional
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a bag with lots of liquid nutrients, and then they have to incubate that for 24 hours to allow the bacteria to reproduce,” Atencia-Fernandez said. “It’s a technique to be able to separate pathogens from food fast. It doesn’t detect them, but it allows them to be detected by other technologies fast.” See bacteria, Page 3
With about 35 years of experience in newspaper sales and advertising, university alumnus and former Washington Post executive Arnie Applebaum will become the new general manager of Maryland Media Inc., the parent company of campus-based publications The Diamondback, The Mitzpeh and The Terrapin yearbook. A pplebau m , who wa s T h e Post’s vice president of sales for about three years, began training Monday and will officially take the spot of current general manager Michael Fribush on Sept. 1. “He’s bringing a lot of good ideas,
which is what Maryland Media has been looking for,” Fribush said, “some new and different directions we could go in and different things we may try to boost our revenue potential.” Applebaum said his goal is to ensure The Diamondback remains financially self-sustaining while satisfying the demand and usage of online news as it begins publishing in print once a week next semester. “It was easy to figure out how the bills would get paid when we were publishing The Diamondback five days and even four days a week, but now we have to pay the bills from one day a week, so we have to think about how we’re going to monetize digitally,” Applebaum said. “These are the exact issues I dealt with at The Washington Post, but now I get to apply all that to this environment.” Applebaum worked as a sales
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