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Our 102ND Year, No. 137THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPERMonday, April 30, 2012

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BY REBECCA LURYESenior staff writer

In her lifetime, she befriended someof the most powerful figures in Wash-ington. She was courted by an agricul-ture professor five years her junior.Under her leadership, this universitysaw female enrollment skyrocket from93 students to more than 4,000.

And Saturday, 38 years after herdeath, Maryland Day visitors had theopportunity to glimpse into the life ofAdele H. Stamp through a collection ofletters, diaries and photographs that

shed a new light on the university’sfirst dean of women.

Lori Sonderegger — the great-grand-niece of Stamp — inheritedStamp’s belongings after her motherdied this past summer. Sondereggersaid she already had enough familystories and scrapbooks of her own,and the large bust of Stamp did notbelong in a living room.

University archivist Anne Turkossaid viewing many of these itemsforced her to reshape her perception

BY JIM BACHSenior staff writer

Although students were disap-pointed after Vito’s Pizzeria ownersfailed to open a bar on the corner ofHartwick Road and Route 1 in the fall,Big Play Sports Grill opened its doorsThursday, hoping to spice up the city’srestaurant options.

Big Play has relied solely on word-of-mouth advertising thus far, butseveral students attended its debutlast week in addition to the owners’network of supporters. Although dis-putes with the College Park CityCouncil and renovations totaling$125,000 delayed the opening of thenew bar by more than six months, co-owner Allen Morrison said he thinksthe business will soon be a fixture inthe city’s dining scene.

“Big Play is going to be here for along time,” Morrison said. “Therehas not been a place like this on this

BY ERIN EGANSenior staff writer

Police arrested Terrapins men’sbasketball point guard Pe’ShonHoward and charged him with disor-derly conduct early yesterday morningafter reportedly witnessing him “taunt-ing” an individual outside of ShanghaiCafe, University Police spokesmanCapt. Marc Limansky said.

Howard was issued a citation around2:25 a.m., but was not held at the sta-tion, and he was released yesterdaymorning. When a date is set, Howardwill appear in court and, if convicted,the incident will go on his record,Limansky said. The maximum penaltyfor Howard’s offense is a $500 fine andtwo months in jail, Limansky said.

Several patrons flagged down police

Terps men’s basketball point guardPe’Shon Howard was charged fordisorderly conduct yesterdaymorning. FILE PHOTO/THE DIAMONDBACK

U. PolicearrestPe’ShonHoward

Big Play Sports Grill opened itsdoors for the first time Thursday.Owners said they hope the barsoon becomes a staple in the city.ALEXIS JENKINS/THE DIAMONDBACK

After delay,Big PlaySportsGrill opensRestaurant hopes tobecome local fixture

A FIGHT TO THE FINISH

BY JON WOLPERSenior staff writer

Between Night and Day, a standoff.The humans had held rank for more than a half hour,

14 strong and standing in a circle, backs to each other.Many wielded small, semi-automatic weapons. Somehad swords. One had a hatchet. One had a machine gun.

Just a few feet away, in the shadow of H.J. Patterson

Hall, zombies were putting together a plan of attack.Nothing, to that point, had been working. And, for thenext 90 minutes, barely anything would.

It was eight days into Humans vs. Zombies, a two-week long semesterly game put on by the UMD NerfActivity Society in which a group of students, most ofwhom readily admit they’re nerds, brandish variousNerf weapons and chase each other around the campus.In the game, which began April 16, the humans have to

try to stay alive; the zombies have to hunt for brains.In the circle between the Night and Day sculptures

— two stone statues that sit between Holzapfel Halland H.J. Patterson — orange, black and yellow dartslittered the ground, and an uneasiness gripped thehuman formation.

Suddenly, an ambush.About a dozen zombies poured out from behind a

bush on the southwest side of the circle, some quiet,

beelining for their human of choice, some yelling,charging with abandon.

A flurry of darts, an orgy of plastic clicks and staccatoshouts of “got you!” Then, quiet.

“Did we even get one?” a zombie asked.They didn’t. The zombies retreated to the bushes, but

they weren’t dissuaded. There would be plenty more

On April 16, the UMD Nerf Activity Society began a two-week long game of Humans vs. Zombies,which the group puts on every semester. Saturday was the final night, and the zombies claimed victory in the final battle on McKeldin Mall. PHOTOS BY CHARLIE DEBOYACE AND JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

The challenge is not really for the humansto win. … It’s how long you survive.“ ”

see ZOMBIES, page 2

Nearly 40 yearslater, still an icon

Md. Day exhibit celebrates Adele Stamp

Students push for more input onEast Campus development plansOfficials say they are working to finalize terms of agreement

BY LAUREN KIRKWOODStaff writer

As city officials finalize preliminaryplans for the East Campus develop-ment, which would bring a hotel,upscale restaurants, retail and graduatehousing to College Park, students saidit is important they have more opportu-nities to give input on the project.

More than a year after budget woescaused developers to abandon plan-ning the 38-acre East Campus devel-

opment, Vice President for Adminis-trative Affairs Rob Specter said theuniversity is now about a month awayfrom resolving the terms of its agree-ment with development firm CordishCompanies. Although officials nowplan to host forums during the sum-mer and fall to elicit feedback fromstudents and community members,several student groups said theirrequests for a spring forum were“kind of pushed aside.”

“There really hasn’t been a whole

lot of effort to engage the public,”said Michelle Kim, the Student Gov-ernment Association’s sustainabilitydirector. “No one really knows what’shappening behind closed doors.”

However, Specter said officialswant to wait to hold a forum until theysign their term sheet with CordishCompanies. They will then seekapproval from the Board of Regents— the 17-member governing body

see PLAN, page 3see STAMP, page 3

see OPENING, page 3 see ARREST, page 3

Basketball pointguard charged withdisorderly conduct

fully armed battalion ofhumans, plenty of chances tolet the world melt away and theinner children inside everyonetake charge.

DAY 1

At the beginning, pickingswere slim.

At 11 a.m., Sarah Dagen, theAlpha Zed — the original zom-bie chosen by moderators andcharged with amassing anundead army — trailed fresh-man Tyler Albers from thephysics building all the way upto North Campus and attackedhim by the computer andspace sciences building.Albers shot her with a Nerfgun, stunning her.

Dagen stood with her armsabove her head, counting.Albers thought the stun timewas five minutes, leaving himwith plenty of time to talk toDagen before he could runaway. But he was wrong; he did-n’t know the rules well enough.

After two minutes, Dagenlunged at him and grabbed hisarm above his yellow armband.He became the Beta Zed, thefirst human Dagen turned intoa zombie.

Dagen had been huntinghumans since 7:30 a.m. thatmorning. She wouldn’t retireuntil 12 hours later.

Since Humans vs. Zombiescame to the campus in fall2006, reception hasn’t alwaysbeen kind. For every studentwho prizes the escapism ofthe game as a way to truly letloose in college, there areplenty who view the gamewith skepticism or, some-times, outright revulsion.

“That’s just not normal,” saidMelissa Kahn, a junior psychol-ogy major, who one day foundherself face to face with ascreaming zombie about tocharge. A few days ago, she said,she saw a group of players carry-ing Nerf guns and thought thecampus was under attack.

In fall 2008, University Policeshut down the game after lessthan a week when the depart-ment received a call from a pro-fessor who said he saw a manwalking around carrying a realgun. It turned out to be an HvZplayer with a Nerf gun.

Now, Danny Michaelis, thegroup’s president, correspondswith police to let officers knowwhen the game will take place toavoid such problems. Thissemester, things went smoothly.

That doesn’t change somestudents’ perceptions, though.

During a scenario, as Terpslinebacker A.J. Francis andAndrew Stefany, a freshmancomputer science major,stealthily moved around Com-cast Center, a girl on a scootersaw the football player wieldinga massive, automatic blastercalled the Stampede.

“Are you kidding me A.J.?”she called out.

“You know it,” he said. Hegrinned and kept jogging.

DAY 5

Shane Walker is so good atthis game that he has becomenotorious — a mythologicalcharacter in a post-apocalypticscenario. He was part of thespring 2010 humans team, theonly squad of humans to everwin in six years of Humans vs.Zombies. It was his first semes-ter playing.

Some people say that whiledual-wielding his blasters, hecan reload using only his hips,like some sort of Wild Westgunslinger. In reality, he can’t.

“I don’t know why they keepmaking these dumb legends,”he said.

But still, the junior classicsmajor embraces it and under-stands that, for all his notoriety,he still is one of the best playerson the campus. He looks likesomeone who should be hunt-ing zombies, with his thin sun-glasses, fingerless leathergloves and a shoulder-lengthponytail. He wears two arm-bands instead of one, doublingthe chances of a zombie turn-ing him. He does it as a favor to

them, to even the odds.At noon on day five, he called

Marut Tangtrongwanit, a soph-omore geography and geo-graphic information sciencemajor and recent undead con-version, and told him to get afew zombies to camp outsidethe North Campus Diner. Hewas on his way, and he wantedto hunt. When he got there, heclimbed over a brick ledge and

hid behind a dumpster nearEllicott Hall.

Sitting outside the diner wasTangtrongwanit; a small andexceedingly quick zombie, JoshClark, who had been turned intoa zombie on day one; and theAlpha Zed herself, Dagen.

“Speak of the devil,” Dagensaid as Walker revealed himself.

“And the devil will come,”Walker answered, withoutmissing a beat.

The three zombies got upand began to triangulate a posi-tion. Walker kept his twoblasters outstretched, trying tosee everything at once.

They charged. Walker found aslight opening among the threeof them and backed through it,carefully aiming and firing. Hehit Dagen and Clark withoutmissing. When Tangtrongwanitcame at him, darting with hishands down at his sides, tryinghis best to run in a snake-likepattern, Walker missed once butput him down before he waswithin striking distance.

And like that, it was over.The three zombies put theirhands on their heads andbegan mentally countingwhile Walker — the man whocalls himself “the king” —reloaded. Dagen sang thepraises of the pistachio milk-shake she had just picked upfrom the Diner.

The zombies began to stiragain, and Walker put themdown again without much trou-ble. He went inside the diner toget a hamburger. For now, hehad survived.

But the zombies’ ranks weregrowing. After the first sce-nario the day before, Dagenestimated they had grown toabout 30.

The infection was spreading.

The average Nerf dart isabout 1 inch long and 1 ounceheavy. It’s made mostly of foam,a material so light and inconse-quential you can rip it in twowithout much effort. It’s tippedwith rubber, which keeps itsaim true. Sometimes the dart isbright yellow with a bright pur-ple tip; sometimes it’s brightorange with a bright orange tip.

It leaves the blaster with alame click, the sound of aspring pushing forward, thesound of a simple plasticmachine doing a simplemachine’s work.

Sometimes, when a dartsoftly thwacks a zombie, thezombie barely even registersthe hit. But the zombie will stillimmobilize, resigned and frus-trated, with hands atop his orher head for a full two minutes.

A Nerf dart is absolutelyharmless.

A Nerf dart is absolutelyterrifying.

Ultimately, people playHumans vs. Zombies becauseit’s fun. It’s fun to let the kidinside you run around. It’sjust fun.

But why this game? WhyHumans vs. Zombies? Why not,say, Cowboys vs. Indians?

“It really is that zombiesstrike a nerve with us becausethey are, in my opinion, thequintessential postmodernmonster,” said Matt Mogk, thehead of the Zombie ResearchSociety, which is made up ofdoctors who construct biologi-cal theories for how zombiesmight exist. “They are themonster for our time.”

That’s because, as Mogksaid, there’s nothing supernat-ural about zombies — essen-tially, they’re a virus with legsand teeth. A century ago,when an influenza pandemicwiped out between 20 and 40million people, scientists did-n’t have microscopes powerfulenough to see the bug. Therewas no way for them to knowhow people were dying, andthere was a perverse romanceto the unknown.

But now, Mogk said, the aver-age college student knows moreabout the spread of disease andinfection than top scientists in1918 did. Nowadays, we’rescared of what we understand,not what we don’t, he said.

“We don’t believe in thebogeyman anymore,” saidMogk, who has written threebooks on zombies andappeared as a panelist onAMC’s Talking Dead. “There’s

no more romance in the mod-ern world because there’s noth-ing left to discover.”

So Humans vs. Zombies, forall the fun of running around,mirrors the spread of an infec-tious disease. The game was cre-ated at Goucher College in 2005.

There’s a reason the gamebegan so recently.

“The challenge is not reallyfor the humans to win,” said

Kent Norman, a psychologyprofessor at this universitywho studies immersion invideo games. “It’s like Tetris.You never win Tetris. It’s howlong you survive before youget crushed.”

DAY 9

In the afternoon, Walker, theking, was zombified by a groupoutside of McKeldin Library. Itwas a surprise, an anticlimax —as Walker finished dispatchingzombies and went for the door,another zombie jumped out frominside the lobby and attackedhim — but it was enough.

It sent a message: You maybe one of the best, but there arealways more zombies. Theywill always come toward you,unceasing, undaunted. Theinfection will spread. There isno escape.

That night’s events ended in asuccession of firefights atop theMowatt Lane Parking Garage. Itended with humans shootingthrough the partitions betweenfloors of the garage, with zom-bies hiding behind cars, withFrancis wielding his huge auto-matic weapon and surviving.

It also ended with a lot ofturns. Michaelis, at this point azombie for a long while, figuredthere were about 50 humans left.

“We have full confidence thehumans are going to lose now,”he said afterward. “It’s justgoing to happen.

“The final’s going to bedevastating.”

DAY 13 - THE FINAL

“Humans, raise your hands!”Sifrit yelled from atop the sun-dial’s ledge.

Nearly 40 players responded.“Don’t get used to it,” he

said, confident all the humanswould soon be zombies. “Soon

you’ll be doing this.” He outstretched his arms in

the classic zombie pose. Andhe was right.

A march. A dispersion.At 9:30 p.m., four squads of

humans set off from the engi-neering fields in different direc-tions, each with a specific, con-voluted set of objectives. A mod-erator led each group, attempt-ing to bring them to a specificspot without getting massacred.

But when the zombieswould come, the humanswould be diverted; and then onthe run; and then they wouldreluctantly split from eachother; and then they would beturned; and their numberswould dwindle and eventuallythey would hide, terrified offacing a giant horde of zom-bies as the rain pounded downlate Saturday night.

A small group of humansstood with their backs to Shoe-maker Hall, cautiously inchingalong, weapons outstretched,as an ever-larger group of zom-bies came toward them. Theytook off. One human wascaught immediately.

The fight moved to theMemorial Chapel fields, thehumans slowly backing awayand fending off zombies withflurries of darts and meleeweapons. But when facingdown so many zombies, it’s

hard to run. They kept coming.Suddenly, cries of “MEDIC!” A zombie fell on a pathway

and skinned her palm andknee. Play stopped. The hazyveneer of gameplay fell by thewayside as another playertended to her. She was a bitdazed, but OK.

“Resume in 10 seconds!”Sifrit shouted. Then: “Five!Four! Three! Two! One!”

More than a dozen zombies,who had congregated in wait,flooded over a small set of stairsafter the humans. They turneda few. Another few got away.

Meanwhile, on the other sideof the campus, two of the fourhuman squads were annihilated.

“I’m really in the dark of howmuch they’ve done so far,” saidAlbers, the Beta Zed, wonder-ing how much the humans hadaccomplished.

He was one of three scoutsemployed by the zombies. If hecame across of a group ofhumans, he’d call in an army. Atthis point, he was patrolling thearea at the top of McKeldin Mall.

By Hornbake Plaza, hefound some humans, alongwith a small group of zombieson their tail.

“Keep ‘em running, keep ‘emrunning!” yelled another zombie.

The group, as it turned out,boasted a few of the game’s mostelite players, some of whomwere alumni coming back torelive the thrill of past years.

A few years ago, the groupcalled themselves The SundialStrikers and won the entiregame for the humans; it wasthe only time that ever hap-pened.

This year, they traveled withballoons tied to their backs tomake themselves more visibleto zombies. They called them-selves Ballooner Eclipse.

The zombies cornered oneof the members of BalloonerEclipse, though, in front ofthe Biology-Psychology build-ing, and turned him into azombie. He popped his bal-loon in resignation.

At 10:15 p.m., two dozenzombies waited for a bloodbathat the engineering fields. Theyhad heard there were two smallgroups of humans left andknew they’d have to comedown that way to completetheir next objective.

Time passed, and no oneshowed up. An hour later,when the rain was comingdown in harder and harderspurts, the zombies werebecoming disillusioned. It’shard to mentally commit to thegame when you’re just stand-ing around, waiting.

“They’re hiding,” Michaelis

said about the humans.“They’re scared.”

At 11:30, p.m., Michaelisbegan to frantically field phonecalls from remaining humans.He threatened to call the entiregame by midnight if they didn’tshow themselves.

But then he found out onemoderator had mistakenlybypassed one of the scenario’ssteps and had avoided the engi-neering fields entirely. Theywere off to the mall to com-plete their penultimate task:building and activating a gameof Mouse Trap.

“All the zeds to the mall!”Dagen screamed, windmillingher arms like a third base coach.

On the mall, chaos.The humans had split into

sub-groups and ran toward themall from different directions.There were no more than 15,and the zombies chasedwhomever they could find.More than 70 people running,slipping in the rain-slickedgrass, grabbing arms, yellingand yelling and yelling.

It was three minutes to mid-night. A human dropped thegame of Mouse Trap, which hisgroup was supposed to build.He was turned, and four zom-

bies guarded the box. No onewould get close again.

A group of eight humansstood back to back and slowlymoved east on the mall, buteventually they were broken upand turned into zombies.

The mall was alight withmovement, and the humanswere falling quick.

After five minutes, all weredead except for four or five,three of whom were membersof Ballooner Eclipse. Thewriting, for all intents andpurposes, was on the wall.The zombies were about towin again.

“Oh, God,” Walker said. Helooked up to the sky. Morethan 40 zombies took off afterthe remaining humans. Theprecipitation intensified. “It’sraining darts.”

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ZOMBIESfrom page 1

Day 9 ends with a series of firefights on the roof of MowattLane Parking Garage. One player estimated there were justabout 50 humans left. CHARLIE DEBOYACE/THE DIAMONDBACK

It really is that zombies strike a nerve with us because they are ... the monster for our time.

Humans brandish variousNerf weapons as they evadeand attack zombies through-out the semesterly game.JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

A wounded zombie relaxesafter carrying out an attackon the remaining humans.JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

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Big Play Sports Grill opened in the space previously occupied by Vito’s Pizzeria. Thursday.The restaurant drew a crowd of customers on its first night. ALEXIS JENKINS/THE DIAMONDBACK

corner yet.”After Vito’s closed last year,

the owners of Big Play — Mor-rison, Andre Hopson andEzetrick Coleman — spentmonths obtaining the neces-sary permits to open, as wellas gut the bar to renovate theinterior from scratch.

While Big Play offers tradi-tional American food options,such as wings and mozzarellasticks, Hopson has previous-ly said the freshly made foodwould be a “step up” fromCollege Park businesses.

The strip across from theCollege Park Shopping Center,which has seen a significantturnover of businesses due tohigh rent prices, presents achallenge for the new businessowners, but Hopson said theyplan to stress food over alcoholto attract customers.

“We think alcohol is alcoholwherever you go,” he said.“Food is what is going to keepus in business.”

Several students said they didnot think competition would bea problem for Big Play.

“Me and some of my friends

get tired of going to the samebars all the time,” said sopho-more government and politicsmajor Kwon Billingsley,adding the city needed “a newasset to things you can do inCollege Park,” which he saidwere limited.

While this is their first ven-ture running a restaurant, uni-versity alumnus Hopson saidhe has learned that businessesmust look to other marketsoutside of the student demo-graphic. The three ownershave established networks inthe area to attract businessesfrom various age demograph-ics, he said.

“That’s going to be para-

mount in staying afloat,” hesaid. “If you only depend onthe students first and fore-most, you’re making yourbusiness almost seasonal.”

The venue’s size is not con-ducive to a dance floor or alarge crowd, unlike the near-by R.J. Bentley’s or Corner-stone Grill and Loft, Morrisonsaid, so it will not need a largecrowd to pack the bar andseats. Hopson said the restau-rant would have a “loungefeel” to it.

“You’re not going to seekids passed out, wasted in thebathroom — it’s not that typeof place,” he said.

Opening night drew a largecrowd comprised mainly offriends and family of the own-ership, Morrison said. How-ever, there was a mix of stu-dents, and many customersreturned over the weekend.They expect to see more busi-ness as they expand their ad-vertising, they said.

“I think we got a good han-dle on what we need to do,”Hopson said after the openingweekend. “We have a vast net-work of people spanning somany places.”

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of Stamp, who served as deanof women from 1920 to 1960.

“A lot of the pictures andletters are not at all what wethink of her,” said Turkos. “Idon’t think of Adele standingin a river fishing, that’s not theimage I have of her at all. Ithink of her behind her desk,writing some fiery letter to[former university PresidentHarry “Curley”] Byrd. ... Shewas a real stickler.”

The love letters were partic-ularly surprising, Turkos said.

In 1920, then 25-year-oldagriculture professor FranklinDay and a group of professorswent off on a three-day trip toSugarloaf Mountain in west-ern Maryland to celebrate therecent promotion of their col-league Harold Cotterman todean of rural education andeconomics.

The group hunted squir-rels and “simply butcheredthe English language,” butaccording to one letter in thecollection, Day spent thetime pining for one absentfaculty member — the then30-year-old Stamp.

“I think you are the onlywoman in the world thatwould have fitted in that partyjust right and I just wantedyou to be here so badly that Icouldn’t think of anythingelse,” Day wrote.

For months, Day senthandwritten letters in lop-ing blue script to Stamp,“the one and only girl whoso coyly permitted [him] tohold her dimpled hand andwhisper sweet nothingsinto her pearly ear the sum-mer before.” In another let-ter, he lamented, “Whocould be content with awhirlwind after having ex-perienced a cyclone?”

In 1921, Day married Eliz-abeth Hook, the first four-year female graduate of theuniversity, but the couplestayed in touch with Stamp.When Hook died in 1951,Stamp wrote her obituary inthe January-February edi-tion of the university alumnimagazine, calling her “ourfirst real co-ed.”

Stamp never married — afact Sonderegger said wasnot a topic of discussion inher family. A marriedwoman of that time wouldnot have become a universi-ty dean, and this positionmeant so much to Stampthat she lied about her agein order to slip past the tradi-tional retirement age.

“This was someone thatrather than retiring at 65, shedecided she wasn’t going to

be 65,” Sonderegger said.“She just had kind of thatstubbornness to do whatevershe felt she was going to do,come hell or high water.”

However, Sondereggersaid she knew little aboutStamp’s accomplishmentsgrowing up. Stamp was fore-most a “larger than life figure”within the family, she said.

Because no other extend-ed family lived in Maryland,Stamp kept in close touchwith Sonderegger’s motherand uncle, Hayden Lancast-er, instilling in them thesame independence she cul-tivated in the university’s fe-male students for decades.Lancaster said he remem-bers making treacheroustrips across Route 1 to visitStamp’s apartment in Col-lege Park, where he wouldspend most of his time in aformal dining room or the“nook and cranny of akitchen.” But he said Stampalways kept tabs on them.

On one occasion, he andSonderegger’s mother decid-ed to organize a house firedrill when they were homealone. They were dropping

their younger brother out thesecond floor window to theroof when their horrifiedmother caught them.

“It was good exercise,” Lan-caster said. “And we managedto save him from the fire —‘course there wasn’t any fire.”

But Sonderegger said hermother recounted a differentreaction from Stamp.

“Aunt Dell was completelynot horrified and completelyon the side of the kids andthought it made perfect sensethat the kids would practice afire drill without any adult su-pervision,” she said.

Sonderegger said shecame to realize her ancestor’sinfluence in empoweringwomen both at this universityand within her own family.

“I knew she was really inter-esting and vibrant but didn’tever really understand howunique and special she was tothe Maryland community,”Sonderegger said. “What car-ried through with the familywas a complete conviction thatwomen can do anything theyput their mind to.”

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STAMPfrom page 1

that oversees the university sys-tem — and can begin work on amore detailed developmentagreement, made of up hun-dreds of pages of design plans,Specter said. Developers are ten-tatively scheduled to breakground in about a year.

Specter added student inputwill still influence the more de-tailed planning process. Officialshave already incorporated an em-phasis on sustainability into theproject’s final design, he said, asEast Campus will follow Leader-ship in Energy and Environmen-tal Design standards and build-ings will have a minimum LEEDSilver certification.

“We’re building consistent inarchitectural design and sustain-ability standards to the rest ofcampus,” Specter said. “The ideais to make a neighborhood forthe people who live here and thepeople who stay in the hotel andhave a really nice green space, agathering space.”

“We also want to offer current

students more opportunity forinput to see the design plans andcomment on them,” he added.

However, Kim said several stu-dent groups on the campus — in-cluding UMD for Clean Energy,the SGA and MaryPIRG — want-ed to keep up with the recentprogress on East Campus, a proj-ect that’s been discussed for morethan a decade, and felt a forumthis semester would keep currentstudents in the loop, she said.

“We wanted to do that as earlyas possible just so people in thecommunity were kept up to dateand included in all stages of theprocess,” Kim said.

SGA Senior Vice PresidentMatthew Popkin said studentsshould let the university knowwhat retail and restaurantsthey would like to see broughtto the area, as well as stressthe importance of environ-mental responsibility.

“We have to keep in mind envi-ronmental sustainability and theimpact that’s going to have on thelocal community and environ-ment and the watershed,” he said.

Although Kim said she andother students were disappoint-ed they will have to attend asummer forum for city resi-dents or wait until fall to speakdirectly with officials, Popkinsaid the planned timeline is not aterrible alternative.

“Current students are verywell aware of what they want andwhat their peers want,” Popkinsaid. “It’s really to make surethere’s collaboration on all fronts.Public forums are a great way fordecision makers on this campusto hear exactly what students areinterested in seeing and what fitsin with the plan.”

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PLANfrom page 1

fine and two months in jail, Li-mansky said.

Several patrons flaggeddown police after a fight re-portedly broke out outside ofShanghai, Limansky said,adding he does not knowwhether Howard was in-volved in the fight.

“We had the aggressor sitdown outside to calm down,and at that point, Mr.Howard began taunting theindividual, trying to get himriled up again,” Limanskysaid. “Officers told [Howard]to stop what he was doing,but he continued to do it, atwhich point we placed himinto custody.”

In a phone interview yester-day afternoon, however,Howard said he did not pro-voke anyone nor try to start

another fight. “They thought that I was in-

stigating,” said Howard, a LosAngeles native. “But peoplearound me said I wasn’t. I wasspeaking to the cops, and thatwas it.”

Athletics department offi-cials said they were aware ofthe incident, but declined tocomment further.

“We are aware of an incidentSunday morning regardingPe’Shon Howard,” AssociateAthletic Director for MediaRelations Doug Dull said. “Wewill have no comment on thematter until the disposition ofthe situation has run its coursethrough local and campus judi-cial procedures.”

Howard, a sophomore let-ters and sciences major, washandcuffed at the scene andissued a citation, he said.

“We had intent to processhim as a full arrest,” Liman-sky said.

Limansky added Howardwas released from UniversityPolice’s Rossborough Lanestation on personal recogni-zance — meaning police donot believe he is a flight riskand will appear at his courtdate when it is set —shortlyafter his arrival.

“He has ties to the com-munity and he wasn’t vio-lent,” Limansky said. “Hewas just disorderly.”

Howard averaged 6.5 pointsand 3.7 assists in 14 games thisseason. He missed the first twomonths of the season with abroken ankle and was sidelinedfor the final month after tearinghis ACL in a February practice.

Howard’s arrest is themen’s basketball program’ssecond this year. Assistantcoach Dalonte Hill was arrest-ed in January for suspicion ofdriving under the influence.

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After doing research and inter-views with health professionals, Ifound there are a few things youshould know about stress andpreparing for finals. First, drinkingRed Bull and planning to study 20hours a day for the next two weeksis not the most effective way to pre-pare yourself. Although this mayseem counterintuitive, the bestthing you can do is to set aside timeto get enough sleep. Not only willyou be able to absorb informationquicker, but it also turns out your

brain needs sleep to process andintegrate the information you aretrying to learn. Second, set asidetime to make sure you are fuelingyour brain with the proper nutrition(not just sugar, chocolate and cof-fee) and taking some breaks to dosomething you enjoy. Some exercise— even a quick walk or Frisbee toss— will also help oxygenate yourbrain and relieve the stress.

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S ince dean Kevin Klose announced his rather abrupt resignation lastSeptember, the Philip Merrill College of Journalism has been onthe hunt for a new leader. From the beginning of November, the col-lege has been accepting applications for the newly vacant position,

and there are now two candidates in the running. When Klose steps downon June 30, either Deborah Leff or Lucy Dalglish will have to be ready totake his place.

Leff was most recently deputy counselor for the Jus-tice Department’s Access to Justice Initiative and hasa number of top-dog jobs under her belt. She said sheconsiders herself a journalist, but one of our biggestconcerns is that her last job in journalism was in 1992— the same year that half of this editorial board wasborn. Journalism is an evolving field, and her lack ofrecent experience could be detrimental.

Dalglish, however, is the executive director of theReporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Shehas spent her career combining knowledge of law andjournalism in dif ferent facets, and her experience asan expert on media law and a First Amendment public speaker could poten-tially benefit students in the journalism school. Her focus is making stu-dents into lifelong learners, something she seems to have become.

Additionally, Dalglish knows what she wants to accomplish as dean andhas put thought into how to execute her plans. Leff herself admitted herlong-term goal is “amazingly vague and general” — something not soappealing in a candidate who would ideally propel the department into thefuture of journalism. Leff might be confident in her ability to address today’schanging world in regards to journalism, but we aren’t too sure.

The only concrete initiative Leff cites is getting rid of silos — specializa-tion in only print or broadcast journalism, in other words — something the

college has already begun in order to develop journalists with a wider skillset. During her forum on Monday, every time a student asked Leff a ques-tion, she seemed to not know the answer. Dalglish, on the other hand, listedher plans to address some very specific problems the journalism school has.

When Klose began as dean, the college was struggling with an outdatedcurriculum and a shortage of both university and donor dollars. Through-

out his tenure, people have complained about his lack oftransparency and ability to accomplish fundraisinggoals, though he was expected to have a large influenceon raising money, given his background of raisingnearly $400 million in his 10-year stint as National Pub-lic Radio’s president.

During Thursday’s forum, Dalglish specifically statedthe two main issues she sees holding back the college: alimited curriculum and budgetary concerns. Her plansrevolve around creating a fundraising strategy and dif-ferent changes to the curriculum. She wants more spe-cialized collaborations such as partnership programswith the business or public health schools, other jour-

nalism schools and field journalists — all to broaden students’ educationand supplement basic classroom learning. Leff simply wants to expandinternship and partnership opportunities that would benefit students inter-ested in science and law journalism, with no specific plan to do so.

Interestingly enough, neither candidate has much experience in acade-mia, but because Dalglish’s plans for curriculum and academic changes aremore thought-out, her inexperience can perhaps be overlooked.

For such a highly-respected journalism school, we’re a bit surprised thefinalists don’t have stronger journalism credentials. That said, this editorialboard believes Dalglish’s experience and preparation make her the bettercandidate — we hope to see her in Knight Hall next semester.

Staff editorial

Recently, NPR coveredthe story of XavierAlvarez, a Californianpolitician accused of

embellishing his resumé withcountless false accolades, includ-ing a Congressional Medal ofHonor. With liars competing inthe job market and applicants fal-sifying their pasts, the signifi-cance of awards has become lessmeritorious as their prominenceon resumés has drasticallyincreased. The court case, then,investigates the Stolen Valor Act,which makes falsifying a militarymedal a crime that is punishableby law. Some say that this law isunconstitutional because of theFirst Amendment right to freespeech. Others say that it wouldbe unethical to allow people to liewithout proper consequences.

Well, all of this sounds reallyinteresting, but what does it have todo with students at this university?

This is a busy time of year forstudents — awards season iscoming up, students are fillingout applications for jobs andinternships and graduate and pro-fessional schools are interview-ing for open positions. Studentsat this university are faced withethical dilemmas, now more thanever. With an extremely competi-tive job market, students mightbe tempted to embellish theirresumés and accomplishments inorder to give themselves an extraedge. The truth is, though, thatlying on your resumé or in yourinterview can (and will) comeback to haunt you.

Let’s take a generic example —applying for a summer intern-ship, you decide to exaggerateyour extracurricular activitiesand the knowledge that you havefrom your classes. No harm, nofoul, right? Well, let’s take a lookat three months down the road.Your mentor, impressed withyour leadership skills andextremely broad knowledgebase, assigns you a project with-out much guidance as to whichdirection to go with it. Nowyou’re in trouble — do you askfor help from your mentor andadmit that you are not as qualifiedas you made yourself seem, or doyou butcher the project and wastean entire summer struggling withsomething that you do not under-stand? If you had just beenupfront and honest in the firstplace, your mentor probablywould have helped you developyour skills with more guidance,but now you are forced to breakthe trust between you and yourmentor through either tellingthem that you lied or ruining theproject. How can you take pridein your work when you know thatyou deliberately lied to getahead? Tough questions, andtougher answers, await you onthe other side of your unjustifiedemployment or internship.

As for on-campus employmentand applications, according toLaura Tan, an Assistant Directorof Resident Life, applicants domore harm than good when theyare dishonest. She states thatemployers seek relevant experi-ences, and that they have a “highlevel of trust in [their] applicants,”emphasizing that it would be detri-mental to the applicant if theywere found to be dishonest. As faras academic classes, according toLucy LePeau at the Office of Stu-dent Conduct, fabricating informa-tion on a resumé for schoolcourses is prohibited under theCode of Academic Integrity, andstudents could be brought beforethe Student Honor Council forsuch a violation.

So while you’re filling out yoursummer applications, goingthrough interviews, and thinkingabout your future, just rememberthat the old adage “honesty is thebest policy” applies to the realworld in a big way. Although youmight not be lying about a Con-gressional Medal of Honor, yourembellishments could land you ina tough spot with someone whogave you the opportunity basedon your exaggerated or dishonestqualifications.

Caroline Murray is a sophomoreanimal science and biology majorand a member of the EducationTeam in the University StudentJudiciary. She can be reached atcmur22@terpmail.umd.edu.

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MARIA ROMASOPINION EDITOR

Iam wholeheartedly against thePurple Line — at least in its cur-rent proposed configuration. Forthose of you who don’t pay much

attention to local news, the Purple Line isthe proposed light rail that will connectBethesda to New Carrollton, makingfour stops in College Park along the wayand effectively slicing the campus in half.The train will run along Campus Drive,turning a pedestrian-friendly, scenic roadinto a congested and potentially danger-ous metal train yard. It would cut acrossRoute 1, through parking lots (includingLot 1) and landscaped space, behind res-idential buildings, and would require alarge amount of construction that wouldtake years to complete.

Unfortunately, despite much oppo-sition from students and former uni-versity President Dan Mote, Gov. Mar-tin O’Malley approved the route in2009. The project is now in the prelim-inary engineering phase. Station loca-tions have been identified, and plan-ners are now working on the smallerdetails, such as where exactly “along

Campus Drive” the line will run andwhat impact it would have on existinglandscaping and architecture.

The way I see it, there are two mainproblems with building a rail line thatruns along this university’s main artery.One has to do with student convenienceand visitor accessibility, and the otherwith the overall feel and aesthetics ofthe campus. I’m not sure how manypeople involved in the Purple Line proj-ect have actually been to the campusand seen how alive Campus Drive iswith students running to class and visi-tors on tours, cars and buses carryingprofessors and employees and groupsof friends meeting up and stopping tochat. It seems to me they picked theworst possible spot.

Convenience and accessibilitywould certainly be compromised, traf-fic will increase dramatically andNorth Campus will feel even moreremoved from the rest of the campusthan it already does. There will need tobe many places for pedestrians tocross the tracks so that foot trafficacross campus can continue flowingand students aren’t late for classbecause they needed to walk out oftheir way to cross the rail. Safety isalso a big issue, since the high-speedtrain will cross some busy intersec-tions, and students are often payingmore attention to their phone or iPodthan looking for oncoming trains.

Because of how the campus is setup, there’s really no way you can builda train throughout its heart and notcreate a chaotic, noisy, hazardousmess. What you could at least try todo, though — and here is where thecurrent plan fails — is maintain thesame look and feel of the university, sothat the rail enhances, rather thanalters, this beautiful campus. The Pur-

ple Line would require excavatingtrees and removing other notablelandscape elements; most promi-nently, the proposed alignment mightrequire moving the iconic “M” circlesomewhere else, no longer in a round-about for all to see as they enter cam-pus. Some people think relocating the“M” circle will turn it into a hangoutspot for students. It’s doubtful, consid-ering the new location could be infront of the Mitchell Building.

The alternative to relocating the “M”would be to make it smaller. Officialssay this is not the “safest” option — butwhat does that even mean? Doesn’t thewhole idea of a train through campussound unsafe? The Purple Line isalready going to make too manychanges to our campus; the “M” circle,one of the most important monumentsand symbols of Maryland pride on cam-pus, should remain right where it is.

Lauren Mendelsohn is a juniorpsychology major. She can be reached atmendelsohn@umdbk.com.

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Nurideen Bashir is left-hand-ed. Myth says lefties are sup-posed to be more creative, bet-ter problem-solvers, greaterleaders. When he begins torap, eyes closed, fingertipspressed tightly together, spit-ting lyrics about loss and perse-verance, he starts to fulfill thatprophecy. Yet his dominanthand has nothing to do withwhy his band is called Leftist.

The name could have beena political statement. Leftistdoes like to perform in sup-port of causes: GuitaristMahir Maruf played on thePoetic Vision Tour andopened for Outlandish duringthe Voices for Change Tour.On Friday, the group playedat Community Roots’ annualbenefit concert, Move theMovement. However, Left-ist’s members said theywould rather use their musicto advocate for their faith,Islam, than for liberalism.

In truth, Bashir adopted theFacebook name “LeftistMcGillicutty” as a meaninglessalias, just a way to hide on the In-ternet. But his fans soon cameto know him as Leftist ratherthan Bashir, and he and Marufused the label when they firstplayed together in 2009.

The members, who are2010 and 2011 alumni, tried tofind other names. For days onend, drummer Ismail Nicolassent the others texts withideas: The Cave Dwellers. The

Hornswagglers. The Short-stop Drifters. The Manatees.Simply “The People.” All werehorrible, Bashir said, chuck-ling. Maruf said it was more“arbitrary” than anything elsethat they settled on Leftist. ForBashir, it had evolved intosomething more.

“It’s the idea of trying to berighteous as opposed tobeing right, you know?”Bashir said. “I think at the mo-ment in this world, we havetoo many people who are try-ing to be right, which meansthat there has to be some-body who’s wrong.”

So what’s the opposite ofright? Left.

Tuesday night: Marufwalked down the tiers ofsteps into the main lobby ofthe Clarice Smith PerformingArts Center. First impression:gangly, with an impish glint inhis eye.

“Nice to meet you,” he said.“How was your day?”

He retraced his steps backto the table where he’d beensitting, waiting to get a callthat recording studio 1110Gwas available. Leftist wasn’tpaying anything for thespace, but the band was atCSPAC’s mercy and couldn’tcomplain if others were run-ning late.

“I know you’re supposed toask all the questions,” he said.“Can I ask you one?”

One turned into several —about the changing state ofthe media, Twitter, solutionsto the death of newspapers.

“I don’t know a lot,” he said.“I want to know a lot. I think[asking questions] is learning,and it leads to more learning.”

He pushed through a ran-dom door to a small theatre —dark, empty and a likely settingfor a scene in a horror movie.

Satisfied with the silence,Maruf began to talk abouthow he became a musician —listening to The Clash at age14 and realizing music coulddo more than just entertain orempathize — it could changethe world.

“As stupid as that soundsand as Steve Jobs-y as itsounds, that’s what I wantedto do,” Maruf said.

Eventually, bassistMouhamad Diabate led theway downstairs to an incon-spicuous door in the bowelsof the basement.

“You got stuck with him?”Bashir said by way of greet-ing. “I’m sorry.”

Wednesday night: Diabateand Bashir were the onlyband members in the studio.

“How was your day?”Bashir asked, smiling.

They were working on “As-tronomy,” which they playedas guests on WMUC.

“When night falls, you al-ways expect when you lookup, there’ll be stars,” Bashirsaid. “So it’s like what hap-pens if you look up one day,and there’s no stars? What doyou do then? What if some-thing unexpected happens?How do you continue goingon with your life?”

Diabate was starting hisbass part, using vocalist Lau-ren Schreiber’s chorus andMaruf’s guitar to guide him.

On his first take, he gotthree-quarters of the waythrough, hit a wrong note andstopped immediately.

Yet Bashir was swooning.“You came in smooth,

pimp!” he said excitedly.Diabate smiled, his teeth

gleaming. Born and raised inthe Ivory Coast, his tribe isknown as the musical enter-tainers for royalty. His lifetimegoal is to collect as many in-struments as possible.

He started again. At almostthe same spot in the song,there was a twang, and thebass ceased.

Bashir laughed at the backof the studio, revealing whyhis nickname is “Haterade.”

Diabate persisted, workingthrough a few more takes. Heis methodical and detail-orient-ed — the one who can remem-

ber that Leftist’s show, Rockin’with the Left, was April 8 lastyear, who patiently repeats sen-tences when his lilting Africanaccent curls around his words.

Bashir is his foil, reciting sta-tistics in a similar fashion to Dia-bate’s dates (“86 percent of peo-ple get their jobs from who theyknow, not what they know”)but outspoken in refusing tobuy into the political process.His evidence came from his ex-perience working as a free-lance photographer duringObama’s inauguration, watch-ing Washington elite convergein the nation’s capital.

“Obviously, you’ve neverseen D.C. that packed, neverin your life,” Bashir said. “Iwatched so many people walkover these homeless peopleand just keep walking. AndI’m sitting there, and I’mthinking like, ‘What changeare we talking about?’”

Thursday night: the finalnight in the studio. Nicolas

was too busy to record, sothey had found anotherdrummer to take his place onthe record. Diabate was star-ing at the drums, mesmer-ized but looked up to ask aquestion.

“How was your day?” he said.While the drums were

recorded, Maruf, Diabateand Bashir sat in the hallway.

They played “Lower YourGaze,” a song they claim every-one, from rappers to technos,loves. They reminisced, re-membering when they built astage out of loading dockcrates, when Maruf did hand-stand push-ups during a photoshoot. And they free-styled,with Bashir singing gibberishin a Spanish operatic voice.

When they were all calledinto the studio, Maruf had onefinal question: “Were we moreor less interesting than youthought?”

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Rockin’ with the left

ACC series for only the sec-ond time this year on Satur-day, as starter Brett Harmanallowed only one unearnedrun on three hits and twowalks in eight inningspitched. He struck out a sea-son-high 10 Hokies, and theTerps took an 8-1 victory.

“They were trying to attackearly and just getting a lot ofswings and misses,” Harmansaid. “Sometimes a couple ofthe balls were out of the zone.That was pretty much all fromtheir standpoint.”

Left fielder Matt Bosse pro-vided a boost in only hiseighth start of the season dur-ing the win. The freshmanbelted a solo home run in thethird to put the Terps on thescoreboard and later keyed aseven-run fifth inning with atwo-run home run. It wasmore than enough for Har-man to work with as hemoved into third on the pro-gram’s all-time strikeouts list.

“Matt Bosse has a ton ofpotential and I think you saw a

glimpse of that yesterday,”Rodriguez said. “It was greatto see him put a good swing onthe ball. He did it twice and hewas really able to help us out.”

For the series, the Terpsouthit Virginia Tech, 32-24.Rodriguez and Hagel led theoffense with 6-for-13 lines andcombined for five runs scoredand three RBI. The offensealso received support from thereturn of designated hitterTim Kiene. Kiene, who hadmissed nine games after beinghit in the head by a pitch onApril 11, was 4-for-10 on theweekend with three walks,one RBI and one run scored.

Still, it wasn’t enough asthe Terps stranded 21 run-ners in their two losses. OnFriday night, starter JimmyReed went 5.2 innings andgave up seven runs (fiveearned) as the Terps squan-dered leads of 4-0 and 5-4 ina 7-5 loss.

“I don’t necessarily thinkthat we played poorly in ourlosses,” Bakich said. “We’veplayed pretty well and prettyconsistent all season, but wealways seems to lose.Nobody wants to lose. I

think everybody on our teamhates losing more than theylove winning.”

The losses drop the Terpsto 8-16 in ACC play this year,putting them in 11th placeand at risk of missing theACC Tournament for the sev-enth straight year. They’rethree games out of the eighthand final playoff spot with sixgames to go.

“This is a team that’sgoing to find a way,” Bakichsaid. “We’re not out. Theshot clock’s running out.We’re letting it get low, butwe’re not out. We’re going tofind a way.”

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Eagles (22-26, 2-16) at bay.Yesterday, five different Terps

— including Knight’s batterymateShannon Bustillos — recordedtwo RBI as the Terps cruised to an11-0 victory in five innings.

The team combined for 12hits, including three from sen-ior left fielder Vangie Galindo.

“Hits are contagious andthey really get things going,”Watten said. “We left a lot ofopportunities out there yester-day, so our main goal today wasscoring runs.”

The sweep sends the Terpsinto their final regular-seasonseries of the year this weekendwhen they host first-place FloridaState, a team that poses thebiggest threat to date to the Terps’now-six game winning streak.

Not that Watten is worryingabout it.

“We’ve been in shape,” Wat-ten said. “We are hitting ourstride. We’ve been playinggood offensively and strongdefensively.”

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flat in the second half,” goalieNiko Amato said. “We had a biglead, and we kind of lost oursense of urgency. And Bel-larmine scored on a coupleopportunities and they alsoprobably are kicking them-selves because they know theyprobably missed a couple moreopportunities.”

But the Terps still got thingstogether when it matteredmost. Amato notched four of hisnine saves in the fourth quarter,midfielder Michael Shake-speare squelched the Knights’rally on a jump shot with 5:30remaining in the game and theTerps left Byrd with their sec-ond win in three days.

Yet if they hope to steal a vic-tory at No. 10 Colgate in theirregular-season finale on Satur-day, the Terps understandthey’ll need to put together a full60 minutes. Stretches of incon-sistent play likely won’t sufficeagainst the nation’s second-ranked scoring offense.

Of course, the Terps will bene-

fit from the week of rest. Afterplaying three games in just eightdays, Cummings conceded thatfatigue may have played a role inthe team’s second-half letdownagainst Bellarmine.

That shouldn’t be a problemcome Saturday.

“I think for some guys, someof the guys that do a lot of therunning, a lot of the transitionwork, their legs may be a littlefatigued,” Cummings said. “Sohaving a little break here goinginto Colgate, have a few days offwill be good for them just to gettheir legs back a little bit, espe-cially as we enter into May.”

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KNIGHTSfrom page 8

EAGLESfrom page 8

Shortstop Alfredo Rodriguez totaled six hits this weekend, butthe Terps dropped two of three games to the Hokies in Blacksburg,Va. PHOTO COURTESY OF BRAD KLODOWSKI/THE COLLEGIATE TIMES

Attackman Billy Gribbin scored two goals in the Terps’ 12-7 victory over Bellarmine on Saturday. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

“Having a littlebreak here goinginto Colgate,have a few daysoff will be goodfor them.”

JOE CUMMINGSTERPS MEN’S LACROSSE ATTACKMAN

“I thinkeverybody onour team hateslosing more thanthey lovewinning.”

ERIK BAKICHTERPS BASEBALL COACH

HOKIESfrom page 8

“We came out and I thinkwe were focused,” said attack-man Joe Cummings, who ledthe Terps with four goals andtwo assists. “We played well,and as a team, I was reallyexcited to see the guys per-form well [early].”

He wouldn’t be as pleasedwith their play in the latter half.

After a Cummings goalextended his team’s lead to 10-2 with 9:24 remaining in thethird quarter, the Terps’offense went silent for nearly19 minutes. The Knights, whohave lost six of their past sevengames, rattled off four-straightgoals during that stretch to cuttheir deficit to four.

It was the continuation of acommon theme for the Terpsthis season: take a quick advan-tage, then let the oppositionback within striking distance.They’ve fallen apart during thefinal period in three of their fourlosses, and struggled to putaway an unranked Mount St.Mary’s squad after taking aquick 3-0 lead on Wednesday.

“I just think we came out a little

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MEN’S LACROSSEWATER POLO

A proper sendoff

Senior midfielder Michael Shakespeare scored two goals in the Terps’ 12-7 win over Bellarmine on Saturday at Byrd Stadium. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Terps honor seniors, overcome inconsistent second half in 12-7 win vs. BellarmineBY CONNOR LETOURNEAU

Senior staff writer

Coming off a string oferratic performances, the Ter-rapins men’s lacrosse teamentered its matchup againstBellarmine on Saturday with asimple objective: play a com-plete game.

It wouldn’t need to.After dominating the first

half, the No. 9 Terps endured aKnights rally over the final twoperiods before securing a 12-7win in front of 2,507 at Byrd Sta-dium on Senior Day.

“Obviously not our bestgame, but we kind of grindedit out,” coach John Tillmansaid. “Give our guys somecredit for just getting the winand getting it done.”

The Terps (9-4) had their waywith Bellarmine (4-8) early.They jumped to a 7-0 lead anddidn’t allow a Knights goal untilthere was just 1:16 left beforehalftime. If the Terps had heldBellarmine scoreless for 76more seconds, it would’ve beentheir first time blanking anopponent for an entire half sincean April 4, 2008 loss to Navy.

BY RHIANNON WALKERStaff writer

The Terrapins women’s waterpolo team knew it had somethingto prove when it entered theCWPA Eastern Championshipthis weekend.

After all, university PresidentWallace Loh announced inNovember that the squad wouldbe one of eight programs termi-nated at the end of the season.And few students, faculty andalumni even seemed aware of theTerps’ existence.

“There are still people who don’tknow we have a water polo pro-gram,” coach Carl Salyer said. “Thisis the ninth year we’ve had one.”

The No. 14 Terps (20-7) tookmajor steps toward raising theirprofile by ending the season withtheir best-ever finish at the CWPAEastern Championship in Provi-dence, R.I.

And although they just barelymissed an automatic bid to theeight-team NCAA Tournamentwhen they lost to No. 13 Princeton,6-5, in the title game yesterday, thefourth-seeded Terps still madequite a statement in what will likelybe their last competition.

They opened the tournamentwith a 7-5 win over Hartwick on Fri-day, and then upset top-seededMichigan, 9-8, on Saturday. It was amajor feat considering the Terpswere 0-10 all-time against theWolverines entering this season.

In yesterday’s championship,the Terps and Tigers (28-4) weredeadlocked for almost the entiretyof the game. The teams went intothe half tied at three goals apieceand were tied again at four at theend of the third quarter.

It wouldn’t be enough for theTerps. Princeton jumped out to a 6-4 lead early in the fourth andfended off a late charge from theTerps to claim a one-goal victory.

“We had a great season, just aseason full of firsts,” Salyer said. “Itwas a hard loss [to the Tigers]. Igive credit to Princeton, but I’mreal pleased with the effort mygirls had going in and they dideverything they could to get thewin. We just came up short.”

Allison Campbell and ShelbyReyes were named to the All-Tour-nament first team. Simone Lewisand Nicole Tobin earned spots onthe second team, and Salyer wasgiven the Doc Hunkler Coach ofthe Tournament award.

“We have been and we’ll con-tinue to do everything to save theprogram,” Salyer said.

“This is my passion, the girls,this is their passion. I respect them.I’m honored to be associated withthem. I’m just super, super proud ofthem top to bottom.”

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Even with aloss, bestfinish ever

SOFTBALL

Terps continue stellarplay in sweep of EaglesTeam extends win streak to six games

BY DANIEL POPPERStaff writer

Three weeks ago, the Terrap-ins softball team was little morethan an afterthought. It had justbeen swept by Georgia Tech,had lost nine of its previous 11games and was winless in sixconference games.

How quickly things can change.After a three-game sweep of

Boston College in ChestnutHill, Mass., this weekend, theTerps have won 12 of theirpast 13 games and eight ofnine in league play. A squadthat was dead last in the ACCless than a month ago is nowfifth in the conference.

Kendra Knight was again thecatalyst for the Terps againstthe Eagles. The senior pitcherwas in the circle for all 19

innings the team played thisweekend, allowing just fourruns in the doubleheader onSaturday and no runs in ashutout victory yesterday.

“Kendra is playing well andreally setting the tone,” coachLaura Watten said. “She hasbeen keeping things simple,learning from her mistakes andstaying focused which hasallowed her to stay effectivefrom inning to inning.”

On Saturday, the Terps (32-18, 8-7 ACC) won, 4-1, in thefirst game and 4-3 in the sec-ond. No one on the team hadmore than one hit or one RBIin either game, but timely hit-ting and Knight’s stellar 14-strikeout performance wasenough to keep the last-place

BASEBALL

Terps drop two of three at Virginia Tech

First baseman Tomo Delp and the Terps struggled intwo losses to the Hokies at English Field this weekend.PHOTO COURTESY OF BRAD KLODOWSKI/THE COLLEGIATE TIMES

BY DANIEL GALLENStaff writer

Erik Bakich has made it clearthat he expects his Terrapinsbaseball team to win every game— no matter the circumstances,no matter the deficit.

Trailing in the ninth inning atVirginia Tech yesterday, theTerps displayed the resiliencytheir third-year coach seeksdaily. Second baseman Ryan Hol-land led off the inning with a solohome run to right field. Two bat-ters later, shortstop AlfredoRodriguez and right fielder Jor-dan Hagel recorded back-to-back singles.

It was too little, too late.First baseman Tomo Delp

struck out to end the game, andthe Terps fell to the Hokies for thesecond time in three days, 6-2.

“It was a tough shoe to swal-low,” Rodriguez said. “It wouldhave been great if we had beenable to come out with a series win,

but we weren’t able to do that.”At times this weekend, though,

it seemed that the Terps (28-19, 8-16 ACC) would leave Blacksburg,Va., with their third series win ofthe season. It appeared they wereready to bounce back from athree-game sweep by Clemsonlast weekend.

But after the Terps took a 1-0lead on catcher Jack Cleary’s sui-cide squeeze bunt in the secondinning yesterday, Virginia Tech(30-16, 10-14) took a command-ing lead with six straight runsover the next seven innings.

“You always want to be able toput up a zero defensively afteryou score on offense and weweren’t able to do that,” Bakichsaid. “So that hurt. It was backand forth. Two evenly matchedteams, two solid programs goingat it, and we just came up on theshort end twice.”

The Terps won Game 2 of an

Terps finish secondat CWPA Tourney

see HOKIES, page 7 see EAGLES, page 7

see KNIGHTS, page 7Senior attackman Joe Cummings scored a game-high four goals in Saturday’s win.He was one of seven Terps honored on Senior Day. JEREMY KIM/THE DIAMONDBACK

Team falls to 11th in ACC standings