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SGA candidates debate lobbying, campus issuesExec. board hopefuls face o� on future plans By Sandra MüllerSta� writer
In 90 minutes of rapid-fire ques-tions and back-and-forth debate Thursday night, the executive board candidates for the Go and Time parties
underpinned the di�erences in their visions for the campus.
The Student Government Associ-ation-sponsored election debate fea-tured the parties’ presidential hopefuls, incumbent Samantha Zwerling and Time Party candidate Noah Robin- See DEBATE, Page 2
son, and both party’s student a�airs, academic a�airs and financial a�airs vice presidential candidates. Voting on Testudo is open until Wednesday.
Robinson repeatedly attacked Zwer-ling for having spent substantial time lobbying in Annapolis rather than fo-cusing attention more singularly on the campus, while Zwerling criticized Robinson’s idea of creating a central-ized online portal as unwieldy.
“Yes, we want to do things that take a while,” Robinson said. “But we will include students in these initiatives, and it will hugely change the face of the campus.”
“To say that we have not worked on campus is simply not true,” Zwerling said. “Yes, I think it is the best use of my time to keep college a�ordable.”
The debate spread six rounds of ques-tions across the parties’ platforms and promises — often focusing on specific plans and strategies to achieve those goals.
An SGA elections board member asked Zwerling why her platform included some initiatives she’d previously set out and failed to accomplish, such as TerpsRide.
Buses could enforce ID ruleSenate hears campus safety suggestions
abuzz with potentialUniversity Apiary to add eight hives with new grant money, popularity
By Bradleigh ChanceSta� writer
To Andrew Garavito, there’s nothing like opening up a beehive and witnessing thousands of workers car-rying out their perfectly timed dance.
“Each bee has a job, and when you open a hive, you can see them all working; it’s really cool,” said Garavito, a research assistant who
helps out at the university’s apiary. “You might think it would be scary to open up a hive if you have never done it before, but once you get into it, it can be very relaxing and enjoyable.”
The beekeeping club has rapidly grown in popularity on the campus, and with the help of a $9,600 grant from the Sustainability Fund, members are working toward ex-panding the university’s fragile
colony. After surviving the winter, the apiary’s bees are thriving and will soon be joined by eight more hives, putting the group one step closer to producing enough honey to sustain the club.
Members hope to develop a “Terps Bees” brand of honey products and beeswax candles, similar to the
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beekeepers at the university’s apiary on the roof of 251 North recently received a sustainability grant, allowing for more research and future expansion of the colony. Eventually, the club hopes to sell branded “Terps Bees” honey products and work with Dining Services to provide the honey as a condiment. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
SGA Candidates for the Time and Go parties debated Thursday on issues such as lobbying, open-source textbooks and helping o�-campus students during �nal exams. Voting is open until Wednesday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
Stamp Student Union restaurant sees 20 to 30 orders a day through website service By Teddy AmenabarSta� writer
By the end of each semester, the line of students waiting for a seat at Adele’s tends to wrap around the first floor of Stamp Student Union.
To provide students with a more convenient way to enjoy the res-taurant’s cuisine, Dining Services officials recently unveiled a new online ordering system. Patrons can now order carryout items between 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. through the restaurant’s website, which Dining Services spokesman Bart Hipple said should help cut down on wait times for carryout orders.
“This increases Adele’s reach to our student customers,” Hipple said. “This really speeds up the process.” See ADELE’S, Page 3
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By Alex KirshnerSta� writer
Identification checks on Shuttle-UM buses, drunken driving prevention and sexual assault education are some of the potential safety priorities high-lighted in this year’s Campus Safety Report, presented Wednesday to the University Senate.
The annual report from the senate’s Campus Affairs Committee — based largely on input from a March 12 com-munity forum — comes on the heels of a February murder-suicide that left two students dead and another injured, plus a string of robberies earlier in the semester. Police have emphasized vis-ibility in the weeks after the crimes, as both a crime deterrent and a comfort-ing presence, said University Police spokesman Sgt. Aaron Davis.
“We are increasing our visibility in areas where students congregate, so the criminals will see that we’re there and think twice about committing a crime,” he said.
Although the university’s constant flow of information on safety issues can be frustrating at times, Senate Chair-woman Martha Nell Smith said, mobile and email police alerts are critical ways of making sure the university commu-nity knows about dangerous situations.
“If they weren’t there, we wouldn’t be informed about a lot [of] things,”
Knox may see apt. complex Development would tear down Knox Boxes
By Teddy AmenabarSta� writer
Yet another apartment complex could be coming to College Park if the city council approves plans for the Knox Village project.
Development company Toll Broth-ers unveiled preliminary plans for Knox Village, an apartment complex that would replace the Knox Boxes, at the College Park City Council’s work session Tuesday.
The development would provide roughly 1,500 beds. Plans for the apart-ment complex include retail spaces, a parking garage and outdoor recreational areas for students.
Once opened, Knox Village would provide middle-of-the-road pricing with various room options to fit every budget, developers said.
City o¦cials zoned the land between Knox Road and Guilford Drive, which Toll Brothers recently purchased, for high-density housing. The area and zoning laws make the lot a perfect
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knox village could replace the long-standing Knox Boxes with a midrange apartment complex as early as fall 2016 if approved. photo courtesy of wdg architecture
Adele’s o�ers online ordering for carryout
A few years ago, Adele’s launched a “hallway-to-go” menu of carryout items for patrons who craved Adele’s on the go, said Joe Mullineaux, Dining Services senior associate director.
“It wasn’t that user-friendly, because you had to come in to the res-taurant, place your order and wait for it,” Mullineaux said.
The new option of ordering online will help make the carryout products more convenient, o¦cials said. Now, a few weeks after starting up the new system, the restaurant is taking about 20 to 30 online orders a day, said Adele’s chef Ivory Kornegay.
She did not yet know exactly how many orders Adele’s received per day using the new system. Still, officials
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popular Burt’s Bees products — and sell their goods at the Mary-land Food Co-op in Stamp Student Union, farmers markets and the university’s convenience shops, said Jordan Arata, a freshman en-gineering major. Eventually, Dining Services plans to o er honey-in-fused ice cream and provide honey as a condiment in the dining halls, said Greg Thompson, Dining Ser-vices assistant director.
Students are also hard at work building and painting equipment they will use in “beeminars,” semi-nars in which students will learn how to keep bees and maintain the hives. After establishing the new hives, the apiary will eventually begin dividing them each year.
“Once we build our numbers, we plan on putting aside some hives for research,” Arata said. “Hopefully the entomology department can use this, including the grad stu-dents, for experiments.”
Students frequently see Arata with beekeeping equipment on the roof of 251 North and become curious. He then uses that curi-osity to educate students about the apiary and the true nature and benefits of bees — a source of anxiety for many.
“I’ve had people come to
the ‘beeminar’ who are afraid of bees, and once they leave, they’re not afraid of bees anymore,” he said. “They’re ac-tually more curious about them.”
By reaching out to the local beekeeping community — in-cluding the White House’s bee-keeper — Arata has been working to build connections in the hope that someday, local beekeep-ers will come to the university to use its equipment, including expensive extractors most indi-vidual beekeepers cannot a ord. The apiary could also potentially help students start their own bee farms in their homes once they graduate, he added.
“We want to become a source of support for the beekeeping community,” Arata said. “Eight hives isn’t that much, but this is growing.”
Some students, like Jason Rubin, became involved with the apiary after learning what bees contrib-ute to the environment. In 2007, beekeepers nationally began ex-periencing what researchers call “colony collapse disorder,” or a dramatic loss in colonies, according to a report in The New York Times. Some farmers found half of their bees missing, presumably dead after they ventured out for food and pollen and never returned.
Not only do bees create honey, they also help farmers in the pro-
duction of a host of foods, from almonds and avocados to broc-coli and squash. Yet between 2006 and 2007, colony collapse disorder killed about a third of the coun-try’s honey bees, according to the USDA, and the losses continued the next winter worldwide. About $15 billion worth of produce in the United States would not be pos-sible without pollinators such as bees, according to a 2009 report by EatingWell Magazine.
“I’m a big advocate for sustain-ability and green environmental initiatives, and at first, I didn’t think much of beekeeping,” said Rubin, a freshman computer science major. “I thought it was for people that just liked playing with insects.”
After helping open up a beehive and handling the drone of thou-sands of bees, freshman com-puter science and finance major Praneet Puppala said he learned to appreciate rather than fear the creatures. And with the apiary’s expanding activities, more stu-dents will have opportunities to turn their anxiety around.
“Once students learn more about beekeeping, what it con-sists of and its positive effect on the environment, they will be in-terested,” Rubin said. “The apiary will pull students in because of its distinctiveness.”
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Students at the apiary, home to the campus’ beekeeping group, learn about the vital role the insects play in the environment. Members gain practical beekeeping knowledge by learning how to maintain and later split the hives so the colonies can expand. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
“I knew last year that I would have the opportunity to run again,” she said, and added that if re-elected, she could tackle those goals.
“Many things come up on the way that need to be done im-mediately,” Zwerling added in regard to the SGA helping launch Get Help UMD, which prompted students to share their stories about using the campus’s mental health resources. “When those things happen, you don’t stick to the plan.”
Robinson took a rebuttal, saying, “Reacting is not the real role of an SGA president, it is about being proactive.”
The debate directed another question toward Robinson’s role as an undergraduate senator, asking why he did not submit any of his platform initiatives to the body this year.
“I did not have the time,” Rob-inson said. “What is great is that I will be dropping everything to be the SGA president and to focus on the student body.”
In her rebuttal, Zwerling criti-cized Robinson for having taken on a leadership role by joining the senate without committing enough time to have an impact.
“It is shocking to me,” she said.Both parties, however, found
areas to partially agree on. The candidates for financial a airs vice president, the Go Party’s Andrew Aggabao and the Time Party’s Cameron Ross, said it was not the time to increase the student activities fee.
“Only 200 of 700 student groups apply for the money,” said Ross, who served on the SGA’s finance committee this year. “There are large amounts of funding left.”
Aggabao added the organi-zation needs more time to test its rolling-basis funding al-location system, implemented this semester.
“We need more data,” he said.However, the two parties had
differing views on the explo-ration of online and blended learning classes.
Meenu Singh, the Go Party’s candidate for academic a airs vice president, said, “Technol-ogy is not coming, it is right here,” emphasizing the need to adapt to these changes, and fast. Meanwhile, the Time Party’s candidate, Stephanie Graf, em-phasized a “need to use technol-ogy, but in the right way.”
Graf and Singh clashed again on the issue of open-source textbooks, one of the main topics on the Go Party’s agenda.
“It is a great idea, but not the only option,” Graf said, adding it would not be feasible to get faculty to write these books and make them accessible for their students soon.
However, Singh said they are the key to textbook a ord-ability. They must be peer-re-viewed to ensure they live up to the standards of traditional textbooks, she added.
The student a airs vice presi-dent candidates, Josh Ratner for the Go Party and Jonathan Lee for the Time Party, had the chance to express their differing ideas on commuters’ struggles to arrive at exams on time during finals week.
While Ratner’s plan calls for the university to provide on-campus
housing to students for that time, Lee said that could overburden dorms already squeezed for space.
Instead, Lee said, the SGA should tackle the problem of traffic by rerouting shuttles and making it easier to travel to the campus, which could help students get to early classes and exams.
When the debate turned toward the parties’ sustainability e orts, Lee and Ratner both mentioned the need to work on students’ use of bikes. But while Ratner emphasized the importance of bringing the Capital Bikeshare program to the campus, Lee said his first priority would be working with Facilities Management on the campus’s lack of bike lanes.
At the end of the debate, the Elections Board allowed a few questions from the audience.
Mike Lichtenberg, chairman of the SGA’s constitution and bylaws committee, asked whether each party was open to integrating members of the opposing party into their cabinet if elected.
“If they are the most qualified for the job, then yes,” Zwerling said. Robinson added he espe-cially o ered Zwerling a position in his cabinet to give her the op-portunity to lobby in Annapolis while the SGA president could keep the focus on the campus.
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noah robinson, the Time Party’s candidate for Student Government Association president, spoke about his vision for the university in a debate Thursday. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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Smith said. “I personally have found the campus police really re-sponsive, and I think that’s a really terrific thing.”
Visibility and a consistent pres-ence have been the force’s focus of late, Davis said, but the safety report also mentions a number of other potential safety-oriented reforms.
Simply raising awareness of existing safety programs such as NITE Ride and nighttime police escorts is a priority, said Sarah Heidt, the Campus A�airs Com-mittee coordinator.
“This campus has a lot of re-sources that a lot of people don’t know about,” she said.
University Police are also col-laborating with the Department of Transportation Services to enforce university identification checks for patrons boarding Shuttle-UM buses, Davis said.
“[Several recent local arrests] came from people who came off the shuttle bus, who had no busi-ness being on campus, were not students, not faculty or anything of the sort,” Davis said. “They came on campus to make crimes.”
Shuttle drivers rarely check for university ID cards when passen-gers are boarding, even though the o�cial policy states to check them.
“It’s a policy, but it’s a policy that’s not being followed,” Davis said.
Not checking IDs can give crimi-nals a convenient, economical way
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“I ride past people and they say, ‘Dude, that’s awesome,’” said Riker.
He’s been juggling for about eight years and can juggle up to six balls or four clubs (the bowling-pin-shaped ones — but “if you call them pins, people will call you a pinhead,” he said) at one time. Now he knows how to juggle poi — balls with tails that create circular patterns in the air. He’s not very experienced with diabolo, but he can do it.
Riker started juggling simply because he wanted to learn a new skill. But all of it — unicycling, jug-gling — he does to clear his mind.
Lessons learned from juggling include, “What goes up, must come down,” he said.
He learned how to ride a unicycle by holding on to two people as he pedaled, keeping concentration and keeping focus. Now he can juggle
while riding atop his unicycle. People sometimes ask him if
they can try his unicycle. He has to deny them.
“Nobody has legs long enough to reach the pedals,” he said.
The sign announcing the Congress of Jugglers is a piece of loose-leaf paper stuck to the door of Ritchie Coliseum, written in red marker.
Inside, it’s a circus — almost literally. One person is juggling atop a long-board. Some are jug-gling across the top of a volleyball net. Some are purists, juggling with two or three balls or clubs to the booms of typical arena-rock pump-up music. People of every size (younger kids to older adults) and juggling equipment of every size (balls, clubs, rings) fill the gym’s length.
The Congress of Jugglers, held this year in the first week of April, is the 21st annual festival. It cel-
ebrates the art by inviting jugglers for a daylong event with free jug-gling lessons and a show performed by this university’s Juggling Club.
“It’s sort of like a religion,” said Barry Sperling of Fairfax County, Va. He and his club were crowded around a sign with a crest reading “Fairfax Jugglers,” near the left-side bleachers. He joked that his family were atheists, but he branched o� to learn the “religion of juggling” at age 50. He’s proof that juggling clubs exist after college, too.
For Sperling, who’s been coming to the congress for almost the entire span of its existence, the event is pure fun. There’s nothing di�cult about it, he said.
Bonding happens at the con-gress almost instantly. Scott Moore of Germantown, and Joe Kohlhaas of Fredericksburg, Va., tossed seven clubs between them after having just met, dropping some, keeping others afloat.
Moore’s love of juggling
evolved from tennis at a summer program. His roommate was a tennis player and juggled tennis balls. The hobby stuck.
“It’s not an ego thing for me,” Moore said. “For me, it’s like magic. When you first see someone jug-gling, it’s like, ‘How the heck did they do that?’”
“I’m not sure there is any sport or activity that is still magic after you learn how to do it,” he added.
It’s like jazz, he said. Listeners have no idea what will happen as a jazz piece evolves, and that’s the beauty of it.
“I can’t play an instrument to save my life,” he said. “This, however, works out.”
Kohlhaas teased his new buddy lightly: “Could you really do that to save your life?”
Then, as if a lightbulb went on, Moore turned to me and posed an idea.
“It’s even better if you’re sur-rounded by it.”
Before I knew it, I was between the two men, waiting and cring-ing — “Don’t flinch,” they said — ready for clubs to soar by. They told me to stand completely still and poised themselves.
One by one, clubs whizzed by my head. The thuds of the arena and the laughter of the jugglers
vanished. All that was left was the men in tandem with these agile clubs flying quickly, just missing my nose in the most beautiful way. I knew I was immune. I knew nothing would hurt me.
It was magic.
knox road may see a new student housing development, Knox Village, open as early as fall 2016, developers said. file photo/the diamondback
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Joseph Levesque, who works for the Department of Transportation Services, sometimes joins in when the university’s Juggling Club practices on the mall. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
to get to the campus and cause problems, he added.
“Are there other ways to get on the campus? Sure. The campus is open,” Davis said. “But we don’t want to give them quick transpor-tation onto campus for free.”
The university has agreements in place with Hyattsville and other surrounding communities, Davis said, and the average campus visitor coming for a weekend visit with a friend would not be a�ected if IDs are checked.
“That’s not the sort of person we’re looking for,” he said.
Senators also discussed whether the campus could o�er University Police-aided rape defense classes, something Davis said police had tried before but discontinued because of lack of interest.
“We initially got a lot of interest; a lot of people signed up for it. They would back out; they wouldn’t show up. Attendance was very poor,” he said.
The safety report also mentions a taxi service o�ered by university athletic teams. At some institutions, an audience member at the report’s presentation said, teams provide players with cars so they can pick up potentially intoxicated students during periods of “high partying.”
Sometimes such programs are free, and sometimes they come in exchange for an unspecified dona-tion to the team. The program could help prevent drunken driving and serve as a team fundraiser at the same time, the forum member said.
Beyond larger program reforms, University Police Chief David
Mitchell offered four tips in the report to enhance campus safety on an individual level.
Mitchell emphasized the need for “situational awareness” — stu-dents’ understanding of their own surroundings — and encouraged students to guard personal proper-ty to avoid theft, not hesitate to call 911 in potential emergencies and not engage in “high-risk behavior.”
Officials stressed students should always call for police help in emergencies, and said they hoped the senate’s February passage of an expansion to the Good Samaritan policy — which o�ers protection from university sanctions to stu-dents who call for help for others in the case of alcohol-related in-cidents — to include drugs would encourage more students to reach
out for help if necessary.“I think safety is always some-
thing we need to work on, that you can never relax, but I do think we’ve made great strides,” Smith said.
Changing the perception some have of College Park as a crime-ridden city is not a significant concern of the committee, Heidt said. Crime has declined through-out the county in recent years, al-though the university still faces challenges inherent to a modern institution in the heart of an urban, low-income area, Davis said.
“On any campus, the amount of crime is going to be less than in the surrounding area,” he said, “unless your campus is in the middle of a farm.”
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but when finishing the order, Chase discovered the program was going to charge his Terrapin Express account instead of his dining points.
“I hope they get it fixed soon, because that would be an awesome way to order from Adele’s,” Chase said.
T h e re we re a co u p l e o f “hiccups” when the program first began, according to Dining Services o�cials.
“We have made adjustments,” Kornegay said. “We are just op-timistic that it will keep growing and it will run as smoothly as it is right now.”
For some students, such as fresh-man bioengineering major Dakota Katz, trips to Adele’s are few and far between. When she does go to the restaurant, Katz would rather eat in than take her meal to-go.
“I only go to Adele’s to eat with other people,” Katz said. “I’d rather order from somewhere on Route 1, like order pizza.”
Students who live o� the campus tend not to go to Adele’s, but senior communication major Marshall Pollack said he sees the program as a way to grab a quick dinner.
“It’s definitely a plus to just get in and out,” Pollack said.
plan to open online orders to the lunch business in the near future.
“We do get a lot of o�ces that are looking for something like this,” Mullineaux said.
To prevent the kitchen from having an overflow of incoming orders, Mullineaux said the system has an automatic shutoff. That ensures patrons in the restaurant are the sta�’s first priority.
“There could be times when ‘Web food’ would not be avail-able in the same way,” Mullineaux said. “We would not take carry-out orders.”
The online ordering program has already been tested at the Dairy, but the program did not seem to be a popular option for patrons. O�cials decided to take it to Adele’s instead.
“Adele’s is a more appropriate menu for the online food order-ing because of the customer base,” Hipple said.
Alex Chase, a sophomore bio-engineering major, said he tried the new system with his friends a few weeks ago after seeing ad-vertisements for the program at the North Campus Dining Hall. He said the site was easy to use,
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location for a student housing project like Knox Village, said city Economic Development Coordi-nator Michael Stiefvater.
“I think it has always been a site that a lot of people have envisioned as a more dense, most likely student housing development,” Stiefvater said. “Given its proximity to campus and also [because] it’s not near any of the residential neighborhoods,”
If development goes according to plan, the apartment complex could open as early as fall 2016, according to Toll Brothers Commercial Ac-quisitions and Development Vice President Richard Keyser. But, he added, it could take the company longer than that to complete the full
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p a s t f e w we e ks, d e -velopers have been meeting with univer-sity and city officials to gather feed-b a c k a n d come up with detailed site p l a n s t h a t
appeal to both groups.“We’re going through, we’re
trying to solicit feedback, we are trying to understand what the neighborhood wants, what we want to provide,” Keyser said.
At the Tuesday meeting, city council officials got a first glimpse of the project plans from Bob Keane, who designed South Campus Commons and works as the managing principal of WDG Architecture, which designed University View I, Oakland Hall and Prince Frederick Hall. Keane emphasized the importance of connecting Knox Village back to the university, saying the buildings should mimic the architecture of well-known university buildings.
“The visions for this project has always been to almost be an exten-sion of the campus,” Keane said.
The complex design is “bold and modern,” perfect for college students, said Keane.
“It’s kind of supposed to be a young, hip environment,” he added.
City officials voiced some concerns about the project, however. District 3 Council-woman Stephanie Stullich said the building will be easily visible in the city, and the plans should take more into account than just the university’s architecture.
The city is quickly approaching a point of student housing satura-tion if university enrollment doesn’t increase, Stiefvater said. Knox Village and the proposed apartment complex above the Maryland Book Exchange might not feel the impact because of their close proximity to the campus, but other complexes may see more empty apartments if the supply outgrows the demand for o�-campus housing.
“Maybe some of the [apartment complexes] that are a little further from campus may see some strug-gles,” Stiefvater said.
Once Knox Village and the Book Exchange apartments are built, Stiefvater said there will be a definite pause before the city con-siders any more private student housing developments.
District 3 Councilman Robert Day said the development would
be a step forward in improving the city’s appeal and continuing development could encourage students to live in the city after they graduate.
“This is something that could change the thought process in College Park,” Day said.
Private student housing proj-ects also help bring business to College Park, Stiefvater said. Without The Varsity, he said, the city wouldn’t have nearly the di-versity or number of restaurants.
More retail space also opens up the possibility of having a grocery store near the campus, which College Park currently lacks, said Josh Ratner, city council student liaison.
“A grocery store would be huge,” Ratner said. “They’d be really smart to listen to students for that one demand.”
More apartment buildings could also mean more com-petition for student tenants, driving down leasing rates, Ratner added. And Knox Village would also help restore one of the most worn-down areas in the community, he said.
“This is the first major step in making us one of the top 20 college towns,” Ratner added.
SGA presidential candidates SGA ELECTIONS
SGA presidential candidates
NOAH ROBINSON
My name is Noah Robinson, and I want to be your student body president for the 2013-14 school year. I arrived at this university eager to make the most of my college experience after coming out as gay at the end of high school. I never could have imagined how much I would get out of my three years here and next year, I want to give back to the campus community we’ve all grown to call our home.
I’ve inspired future Terps by giving tours, helped students through tough times as a peer counselor at the Help Center, put countless smiles on students’ faces by creating Maryland Compliments and lobbied for sexual assault pre-vention education for incoming students in the University Senate as a BSOS senator. Next year, I want to reform campus departments, improve the freshman experience and use technology to make our campus a more vibrant and welcoming place.
As a student body, we have a decision in front of us. SGA elections are underway, and it’s up to us to determine the path our campus will take going forward. What to Fix UMD has shown there are enough problems on our campus that our Student Government Association president must devote a signifi cant portion of his or her time to address. Here’s what I want to do to enhance your college experience.
First, I want to combine our university web-sites, such as ELMS and Testudo, into one central-ized portal. Once we have this portal, students will visit the same page every day. On this page, student groups will be able to let people know about interesting events and resources.
To do this, we’ll have incoming freshmen fi ll out an interest survey. If they so choose, they’ll be able to indicate their hobbies, academic in-terests, ethnic backgrounds and religious a� lia-tions. No one will see specifi c information about students. Rather, clubs and organizations will be
able to target events to specifi c student popu-lations. Say you’re interested in the outdoors. You’d see events posted not only by the SGA’s student sustainability committee but also by student groups such as the Terrapin Trail Club.
I also want to address the issues many stu-dents have with Dining Services and the Depart-ment of Transportation Services. DOTS relies on parking ticket revenue for funding, and they have the technology to be extremely e� cient at distributing tickets. But while they’re scanning license plates to fi nd rule violators, why don’t they also scan open spaces and update a live app that shows free parking on the campus? The ticket appeals process is also confusing and ine� cient. The SGA will work with DOTS to improve the ticketing system to be more fair and transparent through the use of technology.
Dining Services is part of our university as a nonprofi t organization, and it currently operates at a loss. It relies on taking extra dining points from students at the end of each semester in order to offset its costs. A service dedicated to students at our university should not have a business model relying on customer dissatisfaction. We will collaborate with Dining Services to improve services and increase student satisfaction.
To complement our focus on the campus, we want to continue the work in Annapolis that Samantha Zwerling has done this year. Next year, I want Sam to work with the SGA to ensure the student voice continues to be heard in Annapolis. That way, the organiza-tion can stay focused on the campus while maintaining the SGA’s presence in advocating for college a� ordability and other university-related issues.
When it comes down to it, you have a choice over these three days. It’s time to decide whether you want a better campus tomor-row. Vote for the Time Party today.
Noah Robinson is the Time Party’s candidate for SGA president. He is a junior psychology major and former Diamondback columnist. He can be reached at [email protected]. To learn more about the Time Party’s campaign, visit www.timepartyumd.com.
It’s that time of year again: the SGA elections. I know you’ve been inundated with informa-tion, but I promise it’ll all be over Thursday, after which we can get back to our normally scheduled programming.
I am currently serving as your student body president and hope you’ll re-elect me so I can continue to strengthen the student voice.
Now, I’m not going to lie to you about what the Student Government Association can do. The SGA cannot magically make the parking ticket fees lower while simultaneously getting more bus routes. The SGA cannot change the way Dining Services operates so your dining points roll over each semester. These are not possible.
But what the SGA can do is give you more input in your education. This year we helped create two Dean’s Student Advisory Councils. Now students in the journalism school and the business school will have more say in the educational experience. The SGA makes sure students are at the table.
To get a better understanding of what stu-dents want, we created What to Fix UMD, a Facebook and Twitter page in which students tell us what needs to be fixed. This has given students a chance to understand the SGA not only allocates money to student groups but can also make tangible changes. Just this week, we fi xed a problem students are always complaining about: getting kicked out of McKeldin Library after 11 p.m. when they forget their student IDs. We persuaded the library to allow students to stay if they can prove they attend this university by logging in to Testudo.
Also, students want more benches. They asked for benches at the Montgomery Hall bus stop, and it’s happened. These are issues that a� ect the everyday life of students.
But I’ve also been working on bigger issues that have come from WTF UMD. One student pointed out that our university application does not use inclusive language. It asks you to identify your gender, and only gives you two options to choose from. Next year I’d like to implement a policy that says all university forms must have
other options when asking for gender. This is something the SGA can do. I view WTF UMD as a running to-do list. We’ve shown we’re very open to student feedback, and I genuinely believe this could change how the SGA interacts with students and university departments.
And fi nally, as you might have heard, I have also been in Annapolis a lot this year. I will never stop working to keep college a� ordable for students. Students are busy and don’t have time to lobby for themselves — they’re in classes, they’re participat-ing in student groups and they’re doing homework. And if the SGA is not advocating on your behalf, who is? Who is going to make sure legislators know how important it is to keep college a� ordable? Who is making sure your voice is represented? That is the job of the student body president: to make sure you are heard, even when you’re not there. So although the SGA might be working on campus initiatives you’ll see while walking around the campus, my job is to work on things you’ll see when looking at your tuition bill. I am so proud I have been able to work with a fantastic team this year. While I was lobbying on your behalf in Annapolis, my team was still able to get you more benches and more input in your education.
One of the biggest impediments to our student advocacy e� orts is that we’re here for such a short time. We are here for four years (hopefully), while administrators are here for 40. They can just wait us out and watch us fl ounder to fi gure out how the university works and how to make change. I’ve already been through that learning curve. I have already developed relationships and an understand-ing of how to get things done on the campus. The moment I’m re-elected is the moment we guarantee things still get done. Go vote Go Party!
Samantha Zwerling is the SGA president and candidate for the Go Party. She is a junior environmental science and policy major and can be reached at [email protected]. To learn more about the Go Party’s campaign, visit www.gopartyumd.com.
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The infamous sorority email: O� ensiveness goes viral HEAD TO HEAD
JAKE DeVIRGILIIS
VIEW Hey, ladies! Want to be interesting? The Delta Gamma listserv email proves ‘cool’ is dangerous and that we need to forgive.
If you’re reading this like I told you, and you are also sitting in a chair, I want you to install one of those overhead restraints used for roller coasters because this is going to be a rough but fun ride, and safety is important.
By now, if you haven’t read the Delta Gamma listserv email leaked on the World Wide Web, you probably have your head stuck under a rock, much like the majority of the Delta Gamma chapter at this university — at least according to the author of the notorious email. It is also quite likely you are the kind of person one might describe as both literally boring and literally awkward. Let’s fi x you.
If you’re a girl, there’s one easy route to make you more interesting, and that is by talking to boys and not girls. There are 361 days out of the year that are OK to talk to girls. That means there’s just one week, with only four days in it, in which you really should be talking to boys. It’s what the fun girls are doing.
If you are not a girl who’s willing to do this, or you’re just a boy, you should punch yourself in the face because you need to start living up to other people’s standards. It doesn’t matter if your entire family is doing something else. Your family members don’t know how to make people like them. Nothing is more important than being liked. Stop being yourself before you get punted in the only body part that rhymes with “punt.” Violence is the only way to eliminate that par-ticular breed of weird s---s in this world who do weird s--- during the day.
Though not explicitly stated in this fi ne piece of electronic mail, I think there are some other important lessons we might glean.
For example, if you hate the people you are paying to be friends with because they are busy living their lives, and you write a profanity-laced message insulting them, threatening them with violence and using language both homophobic and offensive to people with disabilities, you are horrible, I repeat, hor-rible PR for your sorority, all of Greek life, this university and the human race. Quit being a goddamn boner.
Another important lesson, if you’re a writer for a widely read blog and choose to reveal the name of someone who has made an admittedly terrible mistake to the entire world, thereby allowing the Internet at-large to completely invade this individual’s privacy, you are morally
bankrupt. Please, Jezebel, go back to the inane celebrity gossip and stop trying to ruin people’s lives. Another lesson: If you’re the president of a sports website, and you offer a random girl a job at a salary of her choosing because she found the caps lock key, well, there’s a lot wrong. Sure, the author of the email seems to have a rudimentary understanding of how to cheer for one team, but if you’re seriously that desperate for someone to explain it, you’re in the wrong biz.
There are other important lessons. Much like Los Angeles Lakers vice president of player personnel and every front man of Van Halen, this is a classic example of one person blowing it for everyone else. Don’t let this one mistake reflect too poorly on this university or her sorority. We also shouldn’t forget it’s impor-tant to forgive people, especially when their mistakes make their lives considerably more di� cult. And considering the content of that message, let’s not rule out the possibility that maybe it’s time someone reached out to the email’s author and showed her what friend-ship is really about.
Jake DeVirgiliis is a senior government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
Most people have found the email written by the Delta Gamma sorority member to be tremen-dously hilarious. News sources such as The Hu� -ington Post went so far as to call it “incredible.”
I’m not laughing and neither should you. The rhetoric displayed by the email’s author was bor-derline sociopathic. However, underneath the blatantly horrendous language lays an even more troubling dynamic that is pervasive throughout Greek life: The culture is coercive by nature.
The expectations displayed in the email illu-minated the conformity and obedience to norms that have become the cornerstone of Greek life. From the matching tote bags and Greek-lettered shirts, to the very fact that the organizations are inundated with white, well-o� students, the idea of uniformity has been a consistent pattern.
The author merely succeeded in revealing these expectations of oneness in a way that was obscene but nonetheless true. You are expected to “please” Sigma Nu; you are expected to cheer for whom they tell you to, and you are expected to party and socialize where superiors deter-mine. Your destiny is no longer your posses-sion — autonomy is crucifi ed and replaced by Pleasantville-esque homogeneity.
Granted, a wide variety of social organizations su� er from similarly coercive cultures. However, what makes Greek life distinctively pernicious is
the unquestioning loyalty required of its members. I already mentioned the mandatory physical unifor-mity, but this e� ect is exacerbated by the nature of the pledging process and how it indoctrinates new members to unconditionally and irrationally value the image and ideology of the organization. The email was never intended to be publicized. Why? Because Greek culture expects members never to engage in behavior that exposes the atrocities of the organization, regardless of the emotional or mental abuse that is perpetrated.
The embolic fluid of lies sustains this culture of coercive conformity. The secretive nature of these organizations precludes the public from ever meaningfully scrutinizing their troubling conduct. Behind the opulent closed doors of fraternity and sorority houses lie reprehensible practices neither you nor I may adequately criticize insofar as they are enigmatic. We receive minute rays of light revealing indecent actions, such as shocking emails or racist party photos when they leak on the Internet. But how much more do we not know? Behind the so-rority smiles and group handshakes lies a crooked culture shrouded in hazy mist.
This culture leads to dubious consequences that ought to disgust any rational human being. The patriarchal relationship between sororities and fraternities establishes gender and sexual norms wholly contingent on female subordination and exploitation — to such an extent that women are valued as sexual commodities. The obvious end result is rape culture, which is beyond objectionable.
What’s most abhorrent is our unwillingness as a collegiate society to su� ciently address these issues by fully critiquing these establishments. I understand some Greek organizations are expo-nentially more malefi cent than others, but until we challenge the entirety of the culture to self-refl ect, we will continue the perpetual manifestations of conformist ideologies that the author of the email championed and continue to absolve the laundry list of troubling behaviors we have seen in hazing practices and alcoholism.
This column is not meant to act as a death sen-tence to Greek life, but as a concerned university student and citizen’s call for Greek life to concede its problematic elements and actively open a dis-course to implement revolutionary change.
Marc Priester is a sophomore economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
MARC PRIESTER
VIEW The controversial message reveals the desperate need to � x Greek life’s disturbing and coercive culture.
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They always juggle, no matter the odds — even on days when the rain is too strong, the weather is too chilly and the wind is too blustery. But in that weather, the Juggling Club is stuck inside.
The members relocate to room 0116 or 0117 in Reckord Armory, places that are classic Armory: yellowed, weathered desks, dollar-green chalk-boards, limited space.
Yet the club makes the room its own. As en-tertainers who adapt quickly, these people know how to make it work — they cram the desks into the back of the room to make floor space, prop speakers up on the blackboard’s chalk ledges, sprawl out with laptops and notes and take off their shoes to get comfortable.
On a rainy Tuesday evening in late February, “Rolling in the Deep” cranked out of the speak-ers in 0117. Looming midterms had taken most of the club prisoner, even three of the five regulars. They apologized for being boring and doing their homework as they watched the other two juggle, mouthing along to the Adele song.
They call their biweekly meet-ups “club,” and refer to it casually: “Is there club today?” It’s all done simply, a friendly reminder of the club’s more than 25-year history and the community that revolves around this single word. Club is the circle of life in the ultimate sense: Veteran jugglers pass down old tricks to newbie jugglers; the newbies one day become the veterans.
Heidi Thalman, a senior communication major, describes her juggling journey as a determined one: She woke up one morning and decided it was the
day she would learn how to juggle. She tried for 10 straight hours, she said, and still hadn’t perfected it. So she kept trying, and now she can fire-juggle, tossing flaming objects through the air with ease.
“We’re all casual jugglers here,” she said, twirl-ing a club in her hand. “It’s not our dying passion to go onstage and perform. It’s our hobby — some-thing to relax.”
They’re all buddies. Shabai Liu, a freshman computer science major, rooms with freshman animal sciences major Cody Silva, and sophomore mechanical engineering major Vincent Wu lives on their floor. All three are club regulars.
Sara Shen, a sophomore computer science major, joined because Wu joined.
“I like the environment,” she said. “These are the people I’m around, regardless of whether I’m in club or not.”
Upon hearing the commotion and seeing the clubs and other objects whizzing in the air, pass-ersby took curious looks into the basement Armory room, only to keep walking. The club members’ conversations digressed, overlapping and meshing together into a single story of the community every Tuesday and Friday.
“Feel like you’re in a class with a really old pro-fessor yet?” Thalman asked.
A rainbow-colored umbrella remained open in the corner of the room that day, a reminder of the dreariness outside. And still, the speakers blasted, the friends joked and the clubs soared.
The act of tossing props in the air dates back to ancient Egyptian times, from about 1990 to 1700 B.C., based on research done by Arthur Lewbel, a professor at Boston College. Juggling was promi-
nent in several other ancient cultures around the world, too. Vaudeville captured the art form in the 19th century but wasn’t able to transition with the majority of the entertainment world to radio; juggling fell with it, but rose again with television. Now it has evolved into several di�erent types, forms and hand patterns.
Senior psychology major Sophie Jablansky, president of the Juggling Club, picked up the art at 10 years old and got much better after joining the club at this university. She has just finished organizing the Congress of Jugglers, an annual convention the club hosts for juggling enthusiasts.
To Jablansky, the unifying link between di�erent forms of juggling is object manipulation — whether it’s with clubs, rings or unicycles. Blake Waybright, a juggler from York, Pa., who visited this university during the Congress of Jugglers, said the umbrella of juggling breaks down into two categories: flow sports (hula hoops, poi, balancing acts) and throw-ing sports (rings, clubs, balls). Jugglers, too, are separated into different groups — the technical jugglers committed to the careful execution of steps and the performance-based jugglers who do it for more of an entertainment purpose.
Thalman, a fire-juggler, is familiar with dif-
ferent styles of juggling — for example, combat juggling involves jugglers who try to interfere with one another’s juggling and can evolve into zombie combat, trying to knock other jugglers’ clubs out of the air as they themselves walk around and juggle.
Wu, a regular juggler, has been mastering a style called diabolo since middle school. The tricky form involves flipping a yo-yo-like spool back and forth on a string with two sticks to create a spinning e�ect.
Juggling hasn’t caught on widely, but Jablansky is confident people will love it if they give it a try. It has a weird vibe, associated with circus clowns and the like. But it forms a community that bonds people together over a quirky art form, she said.
Daniel Riker owns a unicycle, a jester’s hat and several articles of colorful clothing. The senior theatre major has a quiet smile and a glint of mis-chief in his eyes. His hair is a wavy intermediary between gold and bronze. He’s lanky. His fellow jugglers call him “the magical pixie that spreads happiness across campus.”
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WHITE-TAILED DEERSta� writer Emily Thompson memorializes indie rock group Deerhunter, which will play at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington today, while sta� writer Joe Antoshak talks to Jessie Clavin of pop-punk sister duo Bleached, which played DC9 on Thursday. For more, visit diamondbackonline.com.
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It started early, too, as the Bulldogs fired o� five shots to the Terps’ one in the game’s first 10 minutes and held a decisive 7-2 advantage in ground balls. But Amato helped the Terps hold a 2-1 advantage at the end of the first quarter.
At the beginning of the second, referees measured Yale midfielder Mark Glicini’s stick
and found it was too long. The illegal crosse penalty gave the Terps a man advantage for the first three minutes of the period.
Attackman Owen Blye took advantage, notching two goals in a blistering five seconds to give his team a quick 4-1 lead. But when the Terps (9-2) were forced to face the Bulldogs (8-4) at full strength, their offense struggled with the limited opportunities it had.
“When you don’t get as
many possessions as you’re used to,” Chanenchuk said, “it’s tough to get into a rhythm.”
The Terps took a 5-3 halftime lead thanks to a third Blye goal, but it wouldn’t last.
Yale came out of the locker room with overwhelming energy and notched a pair of scores in the first two minutes of the third quarter to tie the game. The Bulldogs would continue to control possession for the rest of the game, and the Terps’
o�ense sputtered in response.Amato never let the Bulldogs
pull away, but Yale held a 7-6 advantage with five minutes left.
“We knew this was going to be tough, but I liked the fact that there was no press-ing, there was no negativity,” Tillman said. “We talked in the huddles, like, ‘We’re going to come back.’”
The Terps remained poised, and attackman John Carlson finally beat Yale goalkeeper Eric
Natale for the tie with less than five minutes to play.
The frantic finish that fol-lowed helped the Terps earn a win before starting the ACC tournament Friday.
Still, Tillman pointed out things his squad needs to fix. The third-year coach said the Terps won’t win many games playing the way they did against Yale, and the offense hasn’t found a rhythm in recent weeks.
But while the Terps haven’t
shown the same dominating streak that defined their six-game winning streak to open the season, they also proved they could win even when posting a subpar performance.
“I’m just happy we were the ones jumping up and down and not them,” Amato said minutes after Yale’s last shot ricocheted o� the post. “There is no style points as long as we win.”
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don’t have as much time to see it.”Schmeiser was dominant in
Game 1, allowing just two hits in a shutout. The Eagles managed five hits against the sophomore in Game 3 on Sunday, but she let up a combined one hit to the top four batters in the lineup and prevented the Eagles from starting early rallies.
The solid pitching took pres-sure o� of the o�ense, too, and allowed the Terps to feel com-fortable at the plate.
“We can go up and swing,” infielder Juli Strange said. “If we have a lead or we’re tied, you just go up there — no pressure, nothing. You’re just swinging.”
Strange displayed her aggres-sive mindset in the bottom of the fifth inning yesterday when she whacked an inside pitch over the center field fence for a two-run homer to clinch a run-rule victory. Bustillos went 3-for-3, too, including a two-RBI single that put the Terps on the board in the first.
The Terps weren’t able to play with a lead in Game 2 on Sat-urday, though. In fact, Martin conceded six runs without re-tiring a batter to start the game.
She started with a four-pitch walk, then a hard line drive to right field popped out of outfielder Amanda Mc-Cann’s glove. After three hits resulted in four runs, Eagles infielder Ronnie Mae Ayers cracked a two-run homer to left field, ending Martin’s weekend in the circle.
“I wanted to be able to leave her in that inning to … let her know I had confidence in her,” Watten said. “But I also had to get her out so we could try to get back into the game.”
Utility player Lexi Carroll re-
placed Martin, and the Terps slowly chipped away from there. Bustillos had a two-run double in the fifth to make it 8-4, and a solo shot from in-fielder Lindsey Schmeiser in the seventh brought the team within two runs. The Terps couldn’t create any more runs, however, leaving three runners stranded to end the game.
Following her complete-game shutout earlier Saturday, Schmeiser pitched two scoreless innings in Game 2.
The Terps tightened their grip on third place in the con-ference with a pair of wins this weekend. Now the goal is to fight for a top spot in the con-ference and focus on the teams above them in the standings.
The Terps will get a chance to do just that this coming weekend. After Wednesday’s doubleheader against Dela-ware State, the Terps will face second-place North Carolina, which currently possesses a two-game advantage over the Terps in the wins column.
And if the Terps can replicate the consistent pitching they displayed this week, they’ll have an added boost in their attempt to compete with the ACC’s best teams.
“Pitchers are going to set the tone and control the game,” Watten said. “If we can depend on our pitching to really control other teams, we can relax at the plate, and we can make some things happen.”
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before left fielder Anthony Papio crushed a two-run home run — his team-leading third of the season — over the right field fence to tie the game, 8-8. The Hokies took a 9-8 advantage in the eighth on a fielder’s choice, but Papio responded again in the bottom of the ninth.
Pinch hitter Andrew Amaro walked to lead o� the inning, and first baseman LaMonte Wade followed with a single. Third baseman Kevin Martir then dropped down a sacrifice bunt that Hokies reliever Clark Labitan fielded and threw wildly to third.
With the bases loaded and the infield playing on the grass, Papio singled through the right side, scoring Wade and Amaro to seal a 10-9 victory.
“It was a great team win,” Papio said. “My teammates gave me a chance, set it up for me that inning and gave me a chance to get it done. That was a great of-fensive e�ort as a group.”
The second game in Sat-urday’s doubleheader started just 30 minutes later, but it appeared as though a di�erent Terps (21-20, 6-15 ACC) team was on the diamond.
Right-hander Brady Kirk-patrick lasted just 3.2 innings, surrendering seven runs on nine hits, and the bullpen allowed an additional four runs over the final 5.1 innings. The Terps’ o�ense mirrored the pitchers’ struggles, as two Virginia Tech (24-17, 9-12) pitchers three-hit them in an 11-0 loss.
The squad failed to produce
at the plate yesterday as well. Despite getting another quality start from converted closer Jake Stinnett — seven innings, three earned runs and six strikeouts — the Terps could not provide the necessary run support.
Back-to-back triples from center fielder Charlie White and shortstop Blake Schmit and a sacrifice fly from right fielder Jordan Hagel in the fifth inning constituted the squad’s run production in a 3-2 loss.
“You get what you deserve in this game,” Szefc said. “If you don’t perform, you lose. If you’re going to win a game or a series, you have to deserve to win.”
Despite the gloomy outlook for the Terps’ postseason as-pirations, Szefc’s squad is not mathematically out of the ACC tournament. The team has nine games remaining against Duke, Clemson and Boston College and is three games out of eighth place for the final spot.
And despite the struggles of the conference slate and the end of the schedule in sight, the goal remains the same.
“We’re still focused on the ACC tournament,” White said. “We still have nine ACC games left and anything can happen, so we’re just going to go out game by game and play hard.”
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“If you don’t perform, you lose. If you’re going to win a game or aseries, you have to deserve to win.”
JOHN SZEFCTerrapins baseball coach
times before the Hokies’ first goal.After the teams traded
tallies, the Terps powered through the Hokies’ defense for three consecutive scores to make it 9-2 with 8:10 remain-ing in the first period, a nearly insurmountable deficit given a stout Terps defense.
The Terps (17-0, 5-0 ACC) followed up poor draw control play in their two previous con-tests with an overpowering e�ort in the first half, corral-ling 10 of the period’s 15 op-portunities. Midfielder Erin
Collins notched a game-high six controls.
They used those possessions to dominate the Hokies (8-7, 0-5) on the scoreboard and entered halftime with a 10-3 lead.
“We really made it a focus to focus on the little things,” Aust said. “I think we put in a little extra energy.”
The second half was more of the same, with the Terps tallying four of the half’s first five goals.
Midfielder Brooke Griffin scored the Terps’ final goal with 13:43 remaining as the lead ballooned to 10, sealing the Hokies’ fate.
Soon after, Reese called
for goalkeeper Abbey Clipp to spell starter Kasey Howard, who had quietly stopped three shots against a stag-nant Hokies offense in the final outing of her breakout senior campaign.
Virginia Tech rarely threat-ened Howard or Clipp. It never trimmed the Terps’ advantage to less than four after the Terps took a 5-1 lead halfway through the first half.
With the regular season over, the Terps will now shift their focus to the winner of a first-round ACC tournament tilt between Duke and Virginia.
The Terps made easy work of the two ACC foes earlier in
the season, outscoring them by a combined mark of 33-16.
While those two victories contributed to the Terps’ undefeated season, the wins didn’t help bring home any postseason hardware.
Neither did Saturday’s win at Virginia Tech, but it was an achievement that brings the Terps another step closer to the ultimate goal of a national championship.
“It’s a huge accomplish-ment,” Reese said. “Our goal is to keep getting better. We’ve had a great season. I think our best lacrosse is yet to come.”
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“If we have a lead or we’re tied, you just go up there – no pressure, nothing. You’re just swinging.”
JULI STRANGETerrapins softball in�elder
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WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Terps clinch undefeated seasonAust leads team with five points in 15-7 victory at Virginia TechBy Joshua NeedelmanSta� writer
As the final whistle blew in the Ter-rapins women’s lacrosse team’s final regular-season game Saturday, it was only appropriate that the Terps held possession, milking away the final moments of yet another blowout victory, this time at Virginia Tech.
The 15-7 rout of the Hokies put the finishing touches on the No. 1 Terps’ first unblemished regular season since 2009 before 307 fans at Thompson Field in Blacksburg, Va.
“It was a great win to finish our season,” coach Cathy Reese said. “The girls worked
hard and put together a full 60 minutes. We have been asking them to work hard all year, and today we did it.”
The victory further cemented the Terps’ senior class’s place in program history, as it finally capped an un-defeated campaign after a series of close calls.
And though the Terps have stressed that going undefeated is not their ul-timate goal, they were pleased with the achievement.
“It was awesome,” attacker Alex Aust said. “Being undefeated my senior year really means a lot.”
Once again, a balanced offensive e�ort was key to a dominating win.
Nine di�erent Terps found the back of the net with no player totaling more than two scores.
Aust, coming off a seven-point outing against Dartmouth, added three assists to her two goals for a game-high five points. The senior secured her 101st point of the season — she ranks second in the nation — adding to her case for the Tewaaraton Award.
Attacker Halle Majorana set the tone for the contest early, taking all of 26 seconds to draw a foul and net the game’s first score on a free-position shot. The Terps would score four more
attacker alex aust scored two goals and dished three assists in the Terps’ 15-7 victory at Virginia Tech on Saturday. The Terps wrapped up their �rst undefeated regular season since 2009 with the win. �le photo/the diamondback
MEN’S LACROSSE
mid�elder Mike chanenchuk completed his hat trick with a crucial, game-winning goal with 13 seconds left in the No. 4 Terps’ 8-7 victory over No. 15 Yale on Saturday. photo courtesy of greg �ume/maryland athletics
just getting byLate goal from Chanenchuk, last-second save from Amato lead Terps to close victory over Yale, 8-7
By Aaron KasinitzSta� writer
In many facets of the game, Yale outplayed the Terrapins men’s lacrosse team Saturday. The Bulldogs nearly doubled the Terps’ shots, held the largest advantage in faceo�s the Terps have faced this season and committed seven less turnovers than their hosts.
But goalkeeper Niko Amato stopped a career-high 24 shots, and the No. 4 Terps found a way to earn a critical 8-7 win in a frenzied finish against No. 15 Yale.
Amato made his 23rd save of the game to pre-serve a 7-7 tie with 51 seconds left. On the ensuing possession, a Bulldogs penalty gave the Terps a
man-up opportunity, and midfielder Mike Cha-nenchuk rifled a 13-yard shot for the go-ahead tally with 13 seconds left.
Yale midfielder Harry Kucharczyk had one last attempt after Chanenchuk’s goal, but his shot clipped Amato’s foot, smacked o� the right post and flew harmlessly away as the 3,052 fans in Byrd Stadium watched time expire.
The game didn’t ease all of the Terps’ concerns heading into the ACC tournament next weekend, though. After a demoralizing loss to rival Johns Hopkins, the team once again struggled to main-tain possession and turned in another paltry of-fensive performance.
This time, the Terps overcame it.“This is just what we needed,” Chanenchuk said.
“We didn’t play our best game, but to come out on top with a win — and a close one like that — I think will help us down the road.”
Against a relentless Bulldogs attack that outshot the Terps, 48-29, Amato’s stellar performance kept his team in the game. The junior netminder’s 24 saves are the most for a Terp since 2005, and he routinely bailed out his struggling o�ense as the Bulldogs outshot the Terps by 19 in the second half.
“He has been great in the big moments for us,” coach John Tillman said. “I think he really is seeing the ball pretty well over the last couple of weeks.”
Amato’s e�ort was in response to Yale’s domi-nating possession throughout Saturday’s contest.
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SOFTBALL
Schmeiser wins twice against BCSophomore strikes out 18 in three-game setBy Paul Pierre-LouisSta� writer
Boston College couldn’t keep up with Kaitlyn Schmeiser this weekend.
The Terrapins softball pitcher consistently overpowered the Eagles’ batters throughout the three-game series, notching 18 strikeouts in 14 innings of work. Boston College had success against Terps pitcher Maddie Martin in its 8-6 Game 2 victory Saturday, but mustered only one combined run and lost the other two games, both of which Schmeiser started.
The Terps’ two wins — 6-0 on Sat-urday and 10-1 yesterday — against Boston College (11-30, 2-13 ACC), bring the Terps’ ACC record to 9-6, which keeps them in third place in the conference. Many teams expected to finish ahead of the Terps (25-23, 9-6), such as Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, still find themselves trailing coach Laura Watten’s team in the standings.
“[The preseason rankings] picked us to finish seventh,” Schmeiser said. “So already I think we’re doing pretty big things.”
Schmeiser regularly got ahead in counts this weekend, forcing Eagles batters to chase after pitches. She com-bined her accuracy with hard-rising pitches that sped toward the high part of the strike zone.
The right-hander’s pitches often pounded into catcher Shannon Bustil-los’ mitt just as Boston College batters started their swings.
“I just feel like I’ve been able to throw harder,” Schmeiser said. “Which is helping getting them to chase my moving pitches more, just because they
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BASEBALL
�rst baseman lamonte wade and the Terps lost two of three to Virginia Tech over the weekend at home. They’re now in 11th place in the ACC with nine games left on their conference schedule. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
Postseason hopes fade vs. HokiesTerps drop 2 of 3, fall three games out of ACC tournament with nine leftBy Daniel PopperSta� writer
The Terrapins baseball team entered this weekend’s three-game series against Virginia Tech with its post-season hopes still very much alive.
The Terps trailed the ninth-place Hokies by two games in the ACC standings, and a series victory would be crucial to earning a berth in the eight-team conference tournament.
Those hopes were severely damaged yesterday, though.
For the seventh consecutive weekend since ACC play began March 9, coach John Szefc and his squad came up short. After a walk-off 10-9 victory
in Game 1, the Terps dropped the final two games of the series, losing 11-0 on Saturday afternoon and 3-2 yesterday to fall to 11th place in the conference.
Postseason play is now virtually unattainable. And as a result, the team has been forced to come to an unfortunate realization.
“When you’re having a season like we’re having, when you’re a .500 team, that’s how you play,” Szefc said. “If we were 10 games above .500, I wouldn’t always be having this conversation, we’d be much better. But we’re just not, you know. We’re an average team, and that’s just what we are.”
After Friday’s opener was postponed due to severe thunderstorms, the Terps
took to Saturday’s doubleheader with a renewed energy after a poor midweek performance against Mount St. Mary’s. The squad tallied three runs in the first inning, two in the second and another in the third to jump out to an early 6-2 lead.
Szefc’s squad appeared to be on its way to a series-opening win until left-hander Jimmy Reed uncharacteristi-cally unraveled in the top of the sixth. The senior surrendered a five-run inning — adding to a brutal stat line of seven runs on 12 hits in six innings — as the Hokies took a 7-6 lead.
Virginia Tech added a run in the seventh inning to extend its lead to 8-6
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