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The University of Maryland’s Independent Student Newspaper
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ISSUE NO. 115
103rd Year of Publication
NEWS 2 OPINION 4 FEATURES 5 DIVERSIONS 6 CLASSIFIED 6 SPORTS 8INDEX Submit tips to The Diamondback at [email protected] For cute puppy pics, follow @thedbk © 2013 THE DIAMONDBACK
Police dog to take over as chief of Police AuxiliaryBy Holden RetrieverExecutive freelancer
UNIVERSITY POLICE KENNEL — Behind the warm brown eyes of University Police Auxiliary’s new chief is a steely composure — it’s clear Pink has no tolerance for troublemakers.
The black labrador retriever, who proudly sports her “Do Not Pet” vest, quickly rose up the department’s ranks from explosives detection to lead forensic analysis. As the new su-pervisor of all Police Auxiliary opera-tions and campus entrance ID checks, Pink demonstrates a dedication to weeding out potential criminals, col-leagues say, particularly American Shorthairs, Scottish Folds and juniors enrolled in letters and sciences.
University Police Chief David Mitchell knew it was time to promote Pink when she surpassed another labrador in her graduating K9 unit, the less aptly named Chief himself. However, severa l students sa id they’re concerned the former bomb-sni� er is being too heavy-pawed in her new post.
“I handed over my ID and she just grabbed it and ripped it to shreds,” said junior Leonard Schwartz, who Pink then chased to the edge of the campus. “I kept trying to explain that I had my friend’s swipe, but she just kept barking.”
Schwartz has been unable to return to his South Campus Commons apart-ment or reach an administrative o� ce to appeal his ban.
“Plus I’ve missed, like, a week of human sexuality,” he added.
Severa l ba n ned students sa id they’ve tried unsuccessfully to sneak back onto the campus — for example, by crossing the bridge by Looney’s Pub or donning a lanyard and hud-dling among clumps of Freshman Connection students. But the chief is waiting every time, said Courtney Doyle. Saturday night, Pink confi s-cated and buried Doyle’s ID when the sophomore biology major returned to the campus.
When The Diamondback sought comment from Pink, she became agi-tated and Police Auxiliary o� cers had to distract her with a Testudo squeaky
By Hugh JassSta� writer
NEXT DOOR AT RATSIE’S — It’s been a long time coming, but Terrapin Turf
After delay, Terrapin Turf to fi nally openDespite sprinkler system holdup, bar owners say they are sure they will not experience fi res
By Alex Charles LewisAssistant to the editor in chief
BALTIMORE — R a ndy Edsa l l was adamant in telling people that he had emotions last season. Humans have emotions, he said. And he’s a human, so he had to have them, too.
On Saturday, those emotions got the best of him. After openly weeping while talking to reporters after the Terrapins football team’s scrimmage at Dunbar High School, the second-year coach slipped on his own tears and fell to the ground. The fall tore both of Edsall’s ACLs.
“I feel terrible for Randy,” Edsall said in basically the exact same state-ment he released after quarterbacks C.J. Brown and Perry Hills tore their ACLs. “Randy has worked incredibly hard to be the head coach of this team. Randy has stepped up and been a tre-mendous leader. We’ll do everything we can to make sure Randy gets the best treatment to help in his recovery.”
Edsall began crying when talking about wide receiver Stefon Diggs’ play on Saturday.
“I told him to catch the ball, run fast and score,” Edsall said as tears streamed down his face. “And that’s exactly what he did. He just did his job. I said, ‘Catch the ball,’ and he caught the ball. I said, ‘Run fast,’ and he ran fast. Then I said, ‘Score a touchdown,’ and he scored a touchdown. When I talk about players doing their job, that’s what I want to see: Young men doing exactly what I tell them to do.”
These are the fifth and sixth torn ACLs the Terps have suffered since August. Brown, Hills, quarterback Caleb Rowe and linebacker Demetrius Harts-fi eld were all ruled out for the remainder of this past season with ACL injuries.
“It’s honestly crazy,” Brown said. “Like, one torn ACL is bad. But two is even worse. Then when you talk about three, four and five of them, it’s like, what the heck?”
Edsall said the Terps will play with the same next-man-up mentality that served them so well last season. Line-backer Shawn Petty is expected to take over head coaching duties in Edsall’s
Edsall tears both ACLs,out for year
told city officials they promised there would not be any fi res in the new bar.
“We’re no Ledo Pizza,” Mohammed Afshar said.
The Afshars have quite a show planned for the bar’s opening night to reward students who have patiently waited since they were promised a new bar in May. Not only will bartend-
is fi nally set to make its debut.The sprinkler system’s installation,
which has stalled plans for nearly a year now, may not be perfect, but owners Sa-lohmeh, Mohammed and Yasmine Afshar
ers be lighting shots for adventur-ous students, but a fire juggler will open for Terrapin Turf’s fi rst live act, Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z. The duo is rumored to be debuting a new song about a tuxedo.
As a Diamondback reporter sat in the bar, smoke began billowing from the kitchen. But Yasmine Afshar
said it was “no big deal,” noting her father burns food “all of the time.” Since the bar has plenty of liquids on tap, putting out small kitchen fires should not be a problem, she said, as she reached for a bottle of tequila to quench the fl ames.
See TURF, Page 2
The university debuted a new turf � eld made up entirely of the state � ag print in an e� ort to boost attendance at football and lacrosse games. Although several fans had to be carried out after experiencing fainting, vomiting and utter confusion upon seeing the new � eld, athletic department o� cials are con� dent the unique design will help in recruitment and fundraising e� orts. “I highly doubt any other school will ever have something like this,” said Athletic Director Kevin Anderson. “We’ll have uniforms to match the � eld soon, so watch out for that.” graphic by dee zyner/the diamondback
FOOTBALL coach randy edsall tore both his ACLs after slipping on his tears. � le photo/the diamondback
See ROCKIN’ RANDY, Page 2
One-woman play about Frederick Douglass too confusing to be o� ensiveBy Pré TentiousAcclaimed theater critic
If nothing else, no one can say soph-omore theatre major Elizabeth Lemon didn’t do her research.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Dou-glass: A New Hope, which premieres in a one-night-only run at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center tonight, con-tains enough trivia about the life of the
titular abolitionist to satisfy even the most hardcore history bu� .
Did you know Douglass escaped slavery by posing as a free black seaman? Or that he was the fi rst African-Ameri-can nominated for vice president? More importantly, can you imagine a young white woman with Tootsie’s hair and the swagger of Mitt Romney rapping her way through Douglass’ acceptance speech?
You read that right. That’s indicative
of the kind of tone-deaf and earnestly absurd play Lemon has written for herself. She plays every role, includ-ing Douglass, his wife, Abraham Lincoln and a confederate soldier who may have been intended as Robert E. Lee but ended up looking like Colonel Sanders.
None of the costuming involves black-face, thankfully. Lemon has nothing but good intentions, but her painfully wonky sincerity and community theater ex-
pink will serve as the new chief of police auxiliary, leaving the canine responsible for checking IDs at the university’s front gates. She has banned several students from the campus. � le photo/the diamondback
ecution lead to something like an episode of Schoolhouse Rock! di-rected by Ed Wood.
There’s a certain train-wreck fascination to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: A New Hope — at one point during the sole preview show, Lemon forgot a line, broke down, and began eating a block of cheese she had apparently kept in her pocket during the entire perfor-mance — but there’s also a kind of dignity to the way Lemon commits wholeheartedly to such a fi asco.
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TERPS SET TURNOVERS RECORDTurgeon says mishaps are just part of team’s charm
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TERPS SET TURNOVERS RECORDTurgeon says mishaps are just part of team’s charm
DIVERSIONS
TIMBERLAKE TO HEADLINE ART ATTACKArtist said he plans to ‘bring sexy back’; will wear suit and tie P. 6
toy. University Police did not respond to inquiries either.
“Sorry, what was the question?” said University Police spokesman Maj. Marc Limansky, as he watched
Pink rip off Testudo’s rubber head. “Oh my God, she’s ador-able. Isn’t she adorable?”
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ISSUE NO. 115
103rd Year of Publication
Body found student groups were applying for more than they needed
By Annika McGinnisStaff writer
As chilly winter winds dissolve into warmer spring weather, Amber Clark is beginning her hunt for summer clothing.
Unfortunately, her affordable options in College Park are limited to just one store.
“Besides University [Shop], this is the only clothes place,” the sophomore busi-ness marketing major said as she browsed discount racks at Rugged Wearhouse in the College Park Shopping Center. “It would be cool if College Park had other random shops.”
Her problem, finding a large-scale, af-fordable clothing store within walking dis-tance of the campus, afflicts many students. The city has lacked such a store for the past 20 years, said Lea Callahan, Downtown College Park Management Association president and ZIPS Dry Cleaners owner.
As the city enjoys a surge of new restaurants,
Big Ten task force working on detailsGroup has until June to deliver report to Loh
on cloud 9 is one of the only clothing store options in the city, leaving students with few places to add to their wardrobes. Soon, however, students can turn to Unwritten, an online store sophomore Michelle Shahparast and her brother are launching Wednesday. file photo/the diamondback
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By Alex KirshnerStaff writer
This university lags behind many Big Ten institutions in fundraising and will have to ramp up its efforts to better fit into the conference in time for its July 2014 move, a president’s commission found.
The 22-member group, which uni-versity President Wallace Loh formed in December to study the university’s integration to the Big Ten and Com-mittee on Institutional Cooperation, has until June to present Loh with policy recommendations. The group is crafting ways to tap into new areas for fundraising and is comparing this university’s major sporting venues to those of Big Ten schools.
“[Fundraising’s] an area that we need to think about,” said Linda Clement, co-chairwoman of the com-mission and student affairs vice presi-dent. “We’re not as competitive in those arenas as the schools that we’re going to be with.”
The commission has been meeting monthly since January, driven by four working groups that cover academics and the CIC; Terrapins athletics; com-munication, fundraising and market-ing; and finance.
All of the fundraising working group’s research and policy recom-mendations have been driven by one central question, Clement said: “How does the fundraising for the athletic department integrate into the fund-raising for the campus as a whole?”
SGA launches overhaul of group funding process
By Sandra MüllerStaff writer
The SGA’s launch of an overhauled group funding system had some hiccups last month, members said, but should ultimately lead to more groups receiving the money they need — and not a dollar more.
Under the Student Government As-
See SHOPPING, Page 3
The No. 4-seed Terrapins women’s basketball team fell to top-seeded Connecticut, 76-50, in the Sweet 16 at Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday. Forwards Alyssa Thomas (left)and Tianna Hawkins (right) did their best to lead the team with a combined 24 points, but it wasn’t enough for the Terps to overcome a poor shooting effort. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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sociation’s previous system, the body found many groups applied for far too much money and had vague plans for how to use it, while others underesti-mated how much they would eventually need. As a result, the SGA repeatedly struggled each spring to grant groups as much as they wanted or needed to operate. The new system sets multiple deadlines throughout the semester and takes applications on a rolling basis.
A pilot round of the new system in February yielded 87 budget submis-sions, said Tali Alter, SGA vice presi-dent of financial affairs.
“Sometimes, with a new process, people are like, ‘I am not going to even try,’ but we had a lot of groups actively engaged,” Alter said. “The first round wasn’t perfect, but it gave us insights into things that we should have, and things that we could not possibly have foreseen.”
For example, a 30-day grace period following each deadline is intended to give groups more leeway in planning ahead for events. However, it may clash with some student groups’ schedules because they cannot receive funds during that time. That left some groups
without the money they needed to hold programming in Stamp Student Union before late March, as Stamp requires payment for room reservations within 10 days of booking.
Leadership changes in student groups can also pose a challenge, said Nandi McCammon, president of the Caribbean Students Associa-tion. To help smooth transitions, she suggested the SGA create a deadline during the summer, after
See FUNDING, Page 3
SEARCHING FOR THEIR STYLESCity struggles to offer students varied clothing store options; officials say problem is lack of space
Sophomore and her brother will launch Unwritten, an online clothing store that doesn’t follow trends
By Laura BlaseySenior staff writer
The kind of student who might shop at Michelle Shahparast’s store, Unwritten, has no use for style rules and seasonal fads.
“It’s for someone who is unwritten. They don’t follow trends, they’re their own person,” Shahparast, a sophomore business major, said. “I think it’s so cool that people show their identity through their outfits.”
Shahparast and her brother, 2008 business school alumnus Sean, set out to create an online store that would encourage just that. Their company, which will launch online Wednesday and will kick off Tuesday night with a party and fashion show at Big Play Sports Grill, will provide women with a venue to recycle unwanted clothing and buy others’ secondhand wares at affordable prices.
Shahparast and her team will only buy and sell the highest quality items, she said. The
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Because Big Ten schools are spread across the Midwest, a region the uni-versity has seldom traveled to as part of the ACC, officials are optimistic alumni in those regions will be more inclined to support the university.
“We certainly see an opportu-
nity to engage our alums in Big Ten markets,” said Brian Ullmann, the commission’s spokesman and the university’s marketing and commu-nications assistant vice president. “Whether that means that they just come to games or whether or not that means they might be prospects for major gifts, we don’t know that.”
Additionally, the commission found Byrd Stadium to be one of the
conference’s smallest football stadi-ums, which could place the university at a revenue disadvantage even if foot-ball games fill the bleachers after 2014. However, Comcast Center is the sec-ond-largest arena in the conference.
“The comparisons are all over the place,” Clement said. “It varies.”
The breadth of the group’s work has proven challenging, Clement said, enough so that the commis-
sion has had to postpone looking at which of the seven athletic teams cut can be brought back until one of the commission’s final three meetings.
But the group has also already seen the beginning of collaborations with other Big Ten members, such as joint research efforts and a comprehensive library digitization program.
“I think we’re realizing that there are going to be an awful lot of ben-
efits for us,” Clement said. “They’ve already become evident.”
This university’s structure, Ullmann added, is similar to those of many of the flagship, land grant and research institutions in the Big Ten, noting many of the universities were founded on the “same mission.”
“We can see how we compare to these other large public flagship campuses, and that’s amazing,”
Clement added. “You’re just seeing what the enormous possibilities are, and I don’t even think we’ve seen them all yet.”
On April 8, the commission will hold a community forum in Stamp Student Union, where members will offer progress updates and take feed-back and questions.
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other types of retail struggle because of high rent prices, paid parking, lack of space and the sea-sonal fluctuation of students living in the city, Callahan said.
“There’s a few clothing stores downtown,” city Economic De-velopment Coordinator Michael Stiefvater. “But certainly not Forever 21 or anything like that or anything popular.”
There’s not enough space for larger stores as new develop-ments continue to crop up, Stief-vater said. Instead, retailers pass College Park by in favor of cities like Silver Spring.
Because College Park is so close to Washington, clothing stores often can’t afford the high rents required to stay in the city, Cal-lahan said. Metered parking also deters potential customers, she added. In the College Park Shop-ping Center, the maximum meter time is two hours.
“When you go out to eat, you know it’s going to be anywhere from a half-hour to an hour,” Callahan said. “But when you go shopping, you don’t know how long it’s going to be. Nobody wants to pay $17.50 for an expired meter.”
Meters were originally imple-mented because students would park for hours while they went to the bars, tying up spots needed by potential customers of other stores or restaurants, Callahan said. But now, people don’t come to College Park because of the paid parking,
instead choosing to frequent nearby malls where they can park for free.
At Rugged Wearhouse, a store manager said customers complain about parking on a daily basis.
And with College Park’s seasonal droughts in business during school breaks, stores struggle to scrape by. During the two weeks in August before students return, all the retail-ers are “nail-biting,” Callahan said, and some even have to shut down.
Despite these issues, some stores have found ways to survive in the city. Rugged Wearhouse has sold its discounted clothing in College Park for eight years now, the manager said.
“I was blown away when they opened up — I didn’t think they would survive as long as they have,” Callahan said.
The store’s cheap prices are a draw for financially strapped students, the store manager said. At Rugged Wearhouse, he said, nothing costs more than $24.
“Students want fashionable products, but they want afford-able prices,” he said. “They have student loans — they want to get a T-shirt for $5.99.”
Although the manager said stu-dents make up about 80 percent of the store’s customer base, Callahan said the store does well because it also appeals to permanent residents, such as those living in University Park and Langley Park.
At On Cloud 9, the pricey boutique on College Avenue, almost all of the store’s customers are students, said store manager Briana Abedi.
“We’ve had very few locals come and shop,” she said. “I think res-taurants definitely do better here
because they market to everyone.”Several students said they
would appreciate more clothing store options. Clark, who often shops at Forever 21 in Washington, said a small shopping mall in the city would be ideal.
But Rachel Muccino, a junior psychology and Spanish major, said department stores in the city aren’t needed because students can easily take a short trip to The Mall at Prince Georges. Instead, she said, the city should develop a niche market of secondhand stores, including shops where students and residents could sell their unwanted clothing.
For bigger stores to move into the city, new developments would be required, Stiefvater said.
Some stores expressed inter-est in the proposed East Campus development, but after that was scrapped, Stiefvater said there weren’t plans for more clothing stores to debut in the city. Most of the recent development proposals are for large-scale hotels or multi-family housing units rather than clothing stores, which Callahan called “the bottom of the barrel.”
“I think most of these kids who come down here, they don’t need to go clothes shopping,” she said. “And the pretty well-to-do ones go over to Chevy Chase and have mom and dad’s credit card.”
That’s why restaurants will continue to dominate Route 1, Callahan said.
“If anything, the kids have to eat.
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business model follows that of ven-tures like Uptown Cheapskate, a store with locations in Rockville and Timonium where students can get cash or store credit for their fashion-able pieces. At Unwritten, however, students donate their clothing and then get an as-yet-undetermined cut once a sale is made.
Shahparast said she got the idea for Unwritten in fall 2011, when her brother told her his biggest regret was not starting his own business while in College Park.
“What’s missing at Maryland? There’s really no place to shop,” she said. “People are always looking to make money and girls have extra clothes. ... and what makes it even more convenient is they don’t even have to leave their dorm.”
In addition, there was a retail market that hadn’t yet been satu-rated — Rugged Warehouse on Route 1 could be hit-or-miss, and On Cloud 9 on College Avenue was too expen-sive for many students.
“There really aren’t any places I know of to shop in College Park,” said Jessica Wiley, a sophomore mechani-cal engineering major. “I have to go home or go into D.C.”
Shahparast said while she’s looking forward to the launch party, what excites her most is finally seeing her idea come to fruition. After studying the founder and owner of NastyGal.com, a street style-centric online clothing store popular among college women, she thought a similar business focused on College Park could thrive.
With the help of her brother, Shahparast set out to find the perfect
team to build her dream business — but it was much harder work than she expected.
“I kind of just thought you just come up with the idea and set up the site, and people would sell their stuff and you just sit back and get money,” Shahparast said. “There’s so much you don’t even realize matters.”
She had trouble finding people who shared the same passion, and many potential partnerships fell through. No one was really in it for the long run, she said.
“A lot of people thought it was a great idea, but it’s a big time commit-ment. You have to be into starting a business,” Shahparast said. “Every-one likes to go out and everyone has a lot of school work, but you need to spend hours on end every day.”
Over winter break, Shahparast did make some meaningful con-tacts — Brigette Fine, a sophomore government and politics major, and Eva Woolridge, a sophomore com-munication major. With their help, the Shahparast siblings were able to get Unwritten off the ground.
“I can only speak for myself, but I think the reason that the four of us work so well together is because we genuinely enjoy each other’s company,” Fine said. “Our Thurs-day meetings can last three hours, in addition to hour- or two-hourlong Skype sessions throughout the week, but I never feel like I’m working.”
The team meets three times a week, but also has other meetings as needed to discuss the fine mechanics of running a business.
Shahparast said she didn’t realize how expensive it was going to be. She and her brother have fronted a majority of the costs of putting together a business.
No one has earned a salary yet,
and the costs of building a website and promoting the idea, as well as reserving space for the launch party, have been staggering. They’ve spent hours building decorated drop-off boxes to place in each sorority house to make clothing donations easier.
There’s also the matter of actu-ally getting the clothes. Their busi-ness plan won’t work unless women donate clothes, so they had to start promoting Unwritten early.
So far they’ve collected a few outfits, about 80 or 90 pieces — enough for photo shoots and a fashion show at Big Play. Once students get to see what Unwritten is about, they’ll be more likely to send their clothes in for sale, Shahparast said.
“There is no other website where students can make money selling their own clothes and accessories without doing the dirty work to put it online and ship it,” Fine said.
They’re currently accepting clothes, shoes and accessories. Higher quality clothes from more ex-pensive brands like Free People will sell in the $30 range, while clothes from brands like Forever 21 will sell for less than half of that.
If it’s successful, Shahparast said she wants Unwritten to spread to other campuses — a full-on brand.
“I would definitely be willing to check something like that out,” Wiley said.
Sophomore psychology major Katie Ingram said she would welcome a new place to shop.
“If clothes are unwanted, there must be some reason, so I’m a little skeptical of the quality,” Ingram said. “But shopping options are pretty bleak in College Park, so it’s definitely a start.”
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new leadership is in place.“It is very hard to work with a
budget that you did not apply for,” McCammon said.
Ultimately, the deadlines for fall 2013 will be set by the SGA’s new vice president of financial affairs, said Alter, who graduates in December and will not hold the position next year.
“Any decision that we make is geared towards the charge … to distribute the student activities fee fairly and accountably,” she said. “Groups can sometimes see it in a narrow vision, but my job is to see the bigger picture and make sure we are treating every student group fairly.”
Until now, student groups sub-mitted a budget during the spring for the upcoming school year. SGA collected unused funds the following spring and reallocated them in the
fall through a secondary application process. Many student groups sub-mitted their budgets before they had a plan for the next year, Alter said.
“The budget process was kind of a joke,” she said. “We wanted to address the lack of accountability … and give student groups a chance to learn from their mistakes and submit a better budget directly next month and not the next year.”
In 2012, a commission studied the flaws of that system to find a solu-tion, Alter said. And over the last few months, the SGA reached out to student groups by offering work-shops and mandating meetings to educate them on how the new process will work. For example, groups can use the money they receive to fund programs scheduled between one and five months after each deadline.
So far, group presidents said they appreciate the benefits of rolling applications.
“I think the new process is great,”
McCammon said. “It is very efficient and more flexible.”
However, Alexander Ryan, presi-dent of the Gamer Symphony Orches-tra, said the new system will require more effort from student organiza-tions. Each must come up with exact figures for budget requests, using ex-isting contracts to prove their finan-cial need rather than relying on vague estimates of needed funds.
“I understand where SGA is coming from with their idea of the new system,” Ryan said. “But it is a little more complicated and more work for student groups.”
Though the SGA initially planned three deadlines this spring, there will only be two — the next being this month.
“We wanted to give ourselves time to evaluate,” Alter said. “It was more important to improve the process than to push dates.”
Thoughts of a drunk
MARC PRIESTER Mental health has been at the forefront of both local and national political discourse
recently — an aberration of sorts, considering how the topic is typi-cally viewed. Within families and across relationships, depression, anxiety, personality disorders and other mental health concerns are more often ignored than confronted in a meaningful manner. The potential dangers surrounding mental illnesses make accessible treatment a route of counterproductive convenience — a path doomed to fail, and one the federal government appears all too intent on pursuing.
In the midst of sequester cuts that have jeopardized thousands of jobs and countless essential govern-ment functions, mental health ser-vices are yet another casualty in the bureaucratic shuffle. If the federal government allows the current cuts to persist, mental health programs may face budget slashes as high as 9 percent in the coming months. For the 373,000 mentally ill Americans who would have critical help stripped away if such draconian cuts were to play out, political realities do little to assuage the nightmarish e� ect fewer services could have on their lives.
This university understands all too well that while mental health services usually fail to garner much attention or financial support, unaddressed mental illnesses can lead to terrifying tragedies. In February, when univer-sity graduate student Dayvon Maurice Green killed himself after shooting two of his roommates — killing one
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and injuring the other — the tragedy shocked the campus. Green’s history of mental illness only compounded an un-settling reality on this campus: Mental health services are increasingly lacking.
Recently the opinion section has hosted the “mental health series,” which has o� ered numerous perspectives on the state of mental health services on this campus — few of which painted a glowing portrait. By most accounts, the Counseling Center sta� struggles
to accommodate the increased demand. This editorial board itself has written a number of di� erent perspectives on the matter lately. Many students in precarious situations face monthlong waits before they receive the care they desperately need.
This editorial board would like to commend the efforts of the Student Government Association in forcing this issue to the forefront of students’ minds through its Get Help UMD campaign, which allowed students to share their experiences with mental health services on this campus. However, students’ frustrating experiences aren’t neces-sarily a refl ection of any ineptitude or carelessness on the part of the Coun-seling Center itself, which has done a meritable job, given its constraints.
Rather, what we’ve experienced on this campus parallels a national trend of severely inadequate mental health services. In a 2012 national survey by the American College Counseling As-sociation, 88 percent of counseling centers reported di� culties in handling the volume of students, as the growing prevalence of “serious psychological problems” among students has “posed sta� ng problems.”
Yet the magnitude of this failing system extends well beyond college campuses. Over the past three years alone, states have cut mental health budgets by a combined $4 billion — the largest cuts these programs have seen since the 1970s, according to Mental Health America. So while we need ad-equate mental health services more than ever, the federal government is on the verge of undermining the lives of the millions of Americans a� ected — both directly and indirectly — by mental illnesses.
Sequestration is a� ecting government agencies across the board; many face equally devastating cuts. Nevertheless, economics cannot be seen as an excuse to ignore the crucial nature of mental health services. Across the country and on our own campus, we cannot lose sight of the need to confront mental illnesses in a sustained and meaningful manner. This issue needs to stay in the spotlight for as long as it takes to secure proper access to help for those in need. Because when tragedies do strike, we are already stuck with enough “what-ifs” as is — wondering “what if there were more mental health services” shouldn’t be added to the list.
Earning a clean bill of health
OUR VIEW
Mental health services cannot be brushed aside,
though budgets must tighten in this economy.
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EDITORIAL CARTOON
These are the observations and thoughts of a man at a party, told in a poetic stream-of-consciousness style. The language is uncouth, the thoughts are jumbled and the content is controversial. And that is the point.
What beasts violate the sanctity of my being? Thoughts stumble over one another like willow trees blown down by torrential downpours and violent hurricane breaths. My peers, like my thoughts, struggle to erect themselves, some falling while laughing with uncon-trollable jubilance, some bowing before their God while they speak porcelain prayers. Half-man, half-beast.
I call myself a knight for knowledge. Where the universe ends, so does the quest for inquiry, though I perceive no boundaries to my struggle and triumph to emphatically consume knowledge.
So why do I defile myself in this basement, with walls so grotesque and splattered with an unassuming white, while those very walls chuckle at our hypocrisy?
Watch the man make his far-o� lover a cuckold. She, like our fading memo-ries of innocence, is completely out of sight, thus out of mind. While others dance like harpies, hovering overhead, preying on the masses of virgin meat laying terrifi ed in a sea of horror. The ground overruns with grime, sludge blacker than tar, spilling and mixing itself with the forbidden juice. The walls shriek, “You will never leave.”
So their startling prophecy becomes fulfi lled. My cup overrunneth with elixir so toxic, so menacing, it is banned to those not of age. My mind dies, leaving me a shell of being, disoriented and intoxicated from my own hypocrisy. I praise myself a scholar, yet anoint my head with disgrace. Lest we may say, you leave half the man you arrived as.
And what man might live in the in-sincere world he constructs for himself? How can one call himself king when he is merely a Shakespearean fool? One who claims an air of supremacy so stratifi ed
and surrounded by the aromas of intel-ligence and understanding, yet enables the detestable practices of the savage. The mere occupation of this wrongly en-amored space validates its evil exercise.
Look at the two men — both belong-ing to a communal bond reserved for those who rely on the wealth and pros-perity of others. They fi ght like wolves, desperate for food. Watch them trade punches, like comets pelting the young Earth, leaving their surfaces scarred and tattered with devastation.
Look at the broken relationships. These words are meant to be banished to the realms of the mind reserved for the most objectionable ideas. Watch them flow like the river — less a flow, more of a furious cascade compelled by a tempest. The arguing friends lace each other with vulgarities. Brotherhoods, sisterhoods and courtship, like ancient Grecian art, once so magnificent and splendid, degrade and crumble.
While we enjoy this poison, some-where within the walls of a bedchamber is a crime so explicitly horrid I much wish to never confront its existence. When copulation is defi led by the tryst of a madman who unrighteously robs a woman of her body, and destroys her. Yet this abominable bastard is nothing less than that of a fi end, driven by drunken revelry to commit the unspeakable.
Does my being here enable this? My mind struggles with this sicken-ing notion. While I stumble from the confi nes of this insane asylum we call a party, I hear the heavenly chorus of Passion Pit. They cry out “Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Yeah, they love you when they need you but some day you’re gonna need to fi nd some other kind of place to go, oh.”
The operatic vocal arrangements, at that moment, are no longer affirma-tions of the spirit of humanity. Those voices become the indicting fury of justice passing an incontrovertible guilty verdict, ruling my hypocrisy and my enabling as beastly.
M a rc P r i e s t e r i s a s o p h o m o re economics and government and politics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
The week of spring break was crazy. While the economy of Panama City Beach was booming, things elsewhere in the world were taking an unexpected turn for the worst — particularly in Europe.
Back in 1999, many European countries pulled together to create their own currency, called the euro. Big, small, advanced and developing countries all got thrown into a United States-like setup of individual states — only these were entire countries, and there was no federal government to clean up messes. Unknown at the time, this was a recipe for disaster, and over the years, the problems with such a system came to light.
The most troubled of all those countries is Greece. The country often known for its provocative stories of gods, war and valor has fallen victim to a dysfunctional gov-ernment support system that simply cannot afford the promises it has made to its constituents. This situ-ation is proving very difficult to fix, as the solution could involve cutting the programs Greek citizens have grown accustomed to and settled into their lives.
Greece is one of many nations in which persistent worry has become commonplace, as the government has displayed it may not be able to meet its obligations. Greece is joined in the ranks by Portugal and Spain, which face similar cuts. Al-though those countries are often found headlining European news, the spring break blunder featured a fairly unheard of member of the euro: Cyprus.
Far from mainland Europe, Cyprus is a small island south of Turkey, with a mere 1.1 million citizens. What makes Cyprus so special is that it is to Russia what the Cayman Islands are to the United States: a tax haven. With a GDP of 24.69 billion
euros, this small island accumulated an incredible 88 billion euros worth of deposits in its banks.
That statistic alone was enough to raise concerns; the kicker is that the banks were buying government bonds from none other than the Greek government. This risky busi-ness proved to be very lucrative, as risky investments tend to yield the most — until October 2011.
At about this time, when it came time for Greece to pay its bills to Cypriot banks, Greece only managed to muster up about 50 percent of the funds and a sincere “oops.” This was devastating to Cyprus’ economy, as it required assistance from the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank in the form of a bailout. Enter spring break.
The moment of truth was real as ever last week, with Cyprus heading toward total bankruptcy and the need to come up with a plan eminent. Fifteen billion euros was the prescribed remedy to the woes, money the IMF and ECB were not willing to simply fork over.
Instead, the idea was formulated together to simply “tax” up to 60 percent of uninsured deposits worth more than 100,000 euros. Now Cy-priots with more than 100,000 euros in their banking system have to pay for the risky loans and poor judgment of bank managers in a hefty way.
This decision was monumental, because banks are institutions based on faith. You have faith that when you deposit your paycheck, some-thing dramatic simply isn’t going to happen. The euro has now set the worst precedent it could have pos-sibly set with regards to its troubled economies. American banks have more than 80 billion U.S. dollars of exposure in European banks and the fear that this could happen in any other euro countries could shake our financial system to its core.
W i l l D y e s s i s a j u n i o r economics major. He can be reached at [email protected].
India has a population nearly four times as large as that of the United States, and a landmass about one-third the size to fi t that massive group.
Just think about that for a second. While the U.S. GDP growth rate is hovering around the zero mark, India’s is raging at an average of about 7 percent annually. What does this mean? It means India is growing as if it were on natural ste-roids. It also means that if you can spot the opportunities, you prob-ably shouldn’t miss the party.
All right, let me come clean: My objective is to encourage you to scout for opportunities to travel and live in India for at least a period of three months. I’ll make a case for the economy, geopolitical signifi -cance and culture of India.
First, let’s discuss the economic opportunity. Recently I was in Phila-delphia, attending the Wharton India Economic Forum. I heard Ron Sommers, the president of the U.S.-India Business Council, speak. According to Sommers, the India’s annual energy consumption per capita is about three times less
than the world average and is close to fourteen times less than that of the United States. This gap is bound to be bridged — if not to a level on par with America, at least to a level on par with the current world average — in the decades ahead.
Try to fathom the signifi cance of India’s economy, brimming with a population of 1.2 billion, when this gap is fi nally bridged. Businesses are bound to interact with this massive economy in the future, and you can already see the trends emerging right now. Exactly a year ago, Gov. Martin O’Malley took a delegation to India — the fi rst ever by anyone in his position in the state — and closed about $60 million in business deals.
By 2050, Goldman Sachs predicts that India could be the third-largest economy in the world, behind China and the U.S., respectively. My vision is that having prior “India experi-ence” will be a distinct way to di� er-entiate yourself from the millions of other job-seekers in the market today.
Second, for those of you vying for jobs in the government, India is going to be a key U.S. ally in the decades to come. Geographically, India is located near Pakistan, Afghanistan and China, all key countries in which the U.S. has heavy strategic and geopolitical interests. Really, as the single large
democracy in the region, India is the only potential ally the U.S. can turn to in order to leverage its presence. On an individual level, if you under-stand the culture and economy of India, wouldn’t you be able to market yourself to the federal government as an asset?
Third, India is a cultural phenom-enon. With most of the world’s reli-gions practiced without inhibition, nearly 800 distinct languages spoken and vast regional di� erences among the people, India has been an anomaly in its survival as a democracy for 65 long years. Acquiring a taste for this culture will defi nitely take you on a journey that will be personally en-lightening as well as one that is sure to be resume-worthy.
Sure, India is marred by social, gov-ernmental and economic problems. But what country isn’t? Better yet, with more than 600 million largely aspirational and progressive Indians under the age of 25, the politics and societal dynamic of the country is headed, certainly, in a positive direc-tion. That, too, should make it ap-parent: You probably don’t want to miss the party.
Anand Gupta is a junior environmental science and policy major. He can be reached at [email protected].
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and let me kick out the jamsThe Black Cat Backstage in Washington hosted a punk rock karaoke night Friday, with all proceeds going to the D.C. Books To Prisons project
FEATURE | PUNK ROCK KARAOKE
By Dean EssnerSenior staff writer
Held in the city that spaw ned M i n o r T h re at, B a d B ra i n s a n d Fugazi, Friday night’s Punk Rock Karaoke at the Black Cat Backstage in Washington was a celebration of a seminal genre and its aging but ever-passionate fans.
W h at s e t it apa r t f rom mo s t karaoke events, though, were the rigorously constructed back i ng tracks that event organizers Patrick Tyrrell, a Brooklyn law student, and his partner, Jay Johnson, re-corded themselves in a studio. This also gave them the opportunity to provide people with a catalog of deep cuts to choose from.
“A lot of the songs, you can buy them, you can find them on the In-ternet, but it’s a very limited selec-tion,” said Tyrrell. “We have a lot of one-of-a-kind punk tracks.”
Tyrrell and Johnson played all of the instruments in the studio and then gave the tracks to a producer who tweaked them for authenticity.
“He spends hours putting them side by side, trying to make sure the guitar sounds just shitty enough to get the perfect magic,” Tyrrell said.
Tyrrell and Johnson have been on the karaoke touring circuit since 2011, pairing up with a different nonprof it orga n i zat ion at each
event. On Friday night, proceeds from the $8 entry fee went to D.C. Books To Prisons.
“We put it together as a fundrais-ing series,” Tyrrell said. “Activ-ists, community organizers and a small crew of us just got together and brainstormed this as a way to have fun at events where we can also raise money for a different organization every month.”
The overall atmosphere Friday was joyful but mild-mannered for a punk crowd. There was no moshing or crowd su r f i ng. Most people hovered in front of the stage with a drink in hand, occasionally shout-ing along to the chorus of whatever song was being performed. It was a nostalgic experience for many.
“Back in the early ’90s, I was into punk rock, and it’s been a while, frankly, since I’ve gone out to a punk rock show,” said Washington resident Paul Anderson.
T y r rel l a nd Joh nson encou r-aged aud ience members to joi n p er for mers m id-son g, le av i n g out two extra m icrophones just in case. While this did incite ram-bunctious activity, some people were not interested in sharing the spotlight at all.
“[If] I got in here early, I could have done ‘Waiting Room,’” said Wa sh i ng ton resident Jon at h a n D r u y, r e f e r r i n g t o t h e i c o n i c
Fugazi song. “But what happens with that is no one can hear you — everyone knows the words.”
Druy instead performed a ren-dition of the seven-minute Sonic Youth classic “Teen Age Riot,” his
voice shifting between Kim Gordon’s ghostly talk-singing and Thurston Moore’s disgruntled vocal lines.
It wasn’t smooth; he was pitchy a n d s c r e e c h y t h e w h o l e w a y t h rou g h. B ut it wa s d i st i nct ly,
memorably punk rock — a fitting tribute to a genre that has finally become ubiquitous enough to be part of the karaoke canon.
punk rock karaoke offered songs from bands such as Fugazi and Sonic Youth, groups that entered the music scene in the ’80s and now draw nostalgic crowds. Event organizers Patrick Tyrrell and Jay Johnson personally record all background tracks, which allows them to provide a wide selection of songs. photo courtesy of blackcatdc.com
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and attackman Jay Carlson scored to give the Terps a 3-0 edge less than seven minutes into the game.
From that point on, the r iva l C ava l i e rs m a tc h e d their intensity and the Terps couldn’t pull away. But goalie Niko Amato stopped 14 shots to keep his team ahead by at least two goals all game. Amato’s most crucial save all but clinched the victory, as he used the toe of his shoe to stop a rocket out of midfielder Ryan Tucker’s stick with 47 seconds left.
“He was really dialed in,” Tillman said of Amato, who surrendered 10 goals against the Tar Heels last week, which tied his season-high. “I was really pleased with how he bounced back.”
Virginia’s best chance at a comeback came in the third quarter. Tucker scored to cut the Terps’ lead to 5-3 early in the frame and the Cavaliers had a few opportunities to get within one goal on their next two possessions. Amato stopped a shot and Virginia missed a few, but the Cavaliers consistently threatened.
When the Terps got ahold of the ball, though, mid-fielder John Haus helped them take momentum. The senior muscled his way near the crease and found the back of the net six minutes into the third quarter. He scored again on a dish from Jake Bernhardt several minutes later, stretching his team’s lead back to four goals.
“We just continue to fight no matter what the score is — we could be up three or down three,” Haus said. “Anytime we score a goal, it’s big for the team.”
With time expiring in the third quarter, the Terps scored arguably their most spectacu-
lar goal of the season. Chanen-chuk — standing about 30 feet from the Virginia goal — fired a pass toward Carlson in front of the net. Carlson jumped to receive the pass with his back turned to the goal, but as he caught the ball he whipped a no-look shot around his head. The lively Virginia crowd fell silent as the ball whizzed past Heller.
Carlson’s highlight-reel goal was indicative of his recent play. He notched three goals against the Cavaliers to secure his second hat trick in the past three contests.
“We were moving the ball fast,” Carlson said. “I was able to cut to the inside and score some goals.”
The win displayed the Terps’ ability to respond to a pitfall. And because No. 1 Notre Dame lost Saturday, the Terps will likely regain the top spot in the national rankings.
But beating the Cavaliers is bigger than that. The Terps hadn’t won against their border-state rival in Klöck-ner Stadium since 2003, a stretch that included a seven-overtime loss in 2009. And the memory of the Terps’ 9-7 loss to the Cavaliers in the 2011 NCAA championship game still lingers.
The game’s significance wasn’t lost on the players. They were hoping to regain their energy Saturday, but in doing so, they accomplished a bit more.
“It means a lot,” Haus said. “Not only for the 48 or 50 guys on this team and the coaching staff, but it means a lot for ev-eryone that’s been through this program and everyone that will come through this program.”
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throughout the second period, but neither team was able to mount a serious run. In the end, the Terps’ early-game cushion was enough to bail them out.
Midfielder Kelly McPartland kicked off the early scoring barrage with a goal just 51 seconds into the contest. The Terps scored three more times before the Quakers found the back of the net. After trading two goals apiece, the Terps rattled off a 5-0 run to take a
10-2 lead with 5:09 remaining in the period.
“We have such a dynamic offense,” Aust said. “Every single person on our team can score, all seven of us, which I think makes us so different. It makes my job easy.”
But as Reese alluded to in her postgame news conference, the Terps got a bit too comfortable with the big cushion and allowed Penn to mount its 4-0 run.
After winning the draw control with less than 30 seconds remaining in the half, the Quakers swiftly drove down the field, and Penn midfielder Maddie Poplawski fired a shot
past goalkeeper Kasey Howard as time expired.
Motivated by the buzzer-beating tally, the Quakers came out with a surge of energy to begin the second period. Mid-fielder Iris Williamson scored with 26:49 left in the game, and suddenly the Terps’ eight-goal cushion had been cut in half.
“I think we were a little sloppy,” midfielder Katie Schwarzmann said. “We didn’t play a full 60 minutes today. They really capitalized on some of our mistakes.”
After the Terps dominated the draw control battle, 12-3, in the first half, the Quakers
corralled seven of the peri-od’s 11 opportunities. They turned those possessions into points, too, as Penn notched four more goals to the Terps’ five before time expired. But the Terps’ huge first-half lead ultimately proved too much for Penn to overcome.
After struggling to gut out a win, though, the Terps aren’t ready to sing their own praises. They still have work to do.
“We just want to keep getting better,” Reese said. “Fixing the things we need to so we can be the best team we can be.”
on the boards this year. Center Alicia DeVaughn led the Terps with 11, but center Stefanie Dolson (10 rebounds) bolstered the Huskies down low with her 6-foot-5 frame. UConn dra-matically outscored the Terps in the paint, 40-18.
Playing before a sold-out crowd of 8,594 at Webster Bank Arena, the Terps started the game with plenty of mo-mentum from Monday night’s 74-49 victory over Michigan State. The lead changed five times in the first four minutes, and the Terps led 10-8 with 15:27 remaining.
But the Huskies reeled off a 13-3 run and took a 21-13 lead. Dolson and forward Breanna Stewart hit back-to-back 3-pointers, and the Terps missed 13 of 14 shots in that span.
A quick 7-2 rally brought the Terps back within three points, but UConn — as they would all afternoon — had an answer. Guard Bria Hartley and Faris (eight points) hit back-to-back 3-pointers to put the lead back up to nine. Forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis then scored
two straight baskets. After Stewart hit a pair of free throws, UConn owned a 35-23 lead.
The Terps, aided by Au-riemma’s technical, responded with five points in the final 57 seconds to end the first half within striking distance at 35-26. The Terps had held the Huskies to 38.9 percent shoot-ing from the field at that point, and five Terps had scored at least four points.
After halftime, UConn surged and the game slipped away from the Terps. The Huskies scored the first nine points of the half, effectively erasing the Terps’ late first-half run and putting them down 18 before Thomas scored the team’s first two baskets of the half. The 14-point hole was the closest the Terps would be the rest of the way.
“Even to be down nine to Con-necticut, in my opinion, is too big of a gap,” Frese said. “I thought we would come out of the locker room with a lot more energy. But I actually thought Connecticut, they came in with a knockout punch in the second half.”
UConn shot 58.1 percent in the second half and 17-of-22 inside two-point range. Stewart and Mosqueda-Lewis each scored 17 points in the game,
and the UConn bench outscored the Terps’ reserves, 25-0.
Frese called Huskies guard Moriah Jefferson the game’s X-factor. The freshman scored 10 points, dished three assists and notched two steals in 26 minutes off the bench. She was quick, and the Terps — with only guards Chloe Pavlech (11 points) and Katie Rutan (six points) in the backcourt — couldn’t match that boost.
Saturday’s loss wraps up an up-and-down Terps campaign. After losing two projected start-ers for the season and a key con-tributor for the postseason, few pundits expected the Terps to
make a deep postseason run.But here they were, battling
the nation’s most successful program in the Sweet 16.
They ultimately fell short, but Hawkins — who played her last game for the Terps on Satur-day — couldn’t help but see the positives of her senior season.
“UConn is a really great team, but we don’t want to take away what we bring to the table, too,” Hawkins said. “We’re a great team, too. We’ve been struck by a lot of adversity, but we never used it as an excuse. We hung with the best.”
“it means a lot for everyone that’s been through this program.”
JOHN HAUSTerrapins men’s lacrosse midfielder
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Forward Alyssa Thomas and the Terps stuck with Connecticut at the start of Saturday’s game,but the Huskies were able to fend them off in the second half. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
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DISCONNECTEDTerps can’t mount comeback against UConn as season ends in Sweet 16
Forward Tianna Hawkins scored just 11 points in the Terps’ 76-50 loss to UConn on Saturday. It was the final game of the senior’s career. charlie deboyace/the diamondback
By Daniel GallenSenior staff writer
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Geno Auriemma yelled furiously at the referees late in the first half after he thought Terrapins women’s basketball forward Tianna Hawkins fouled Connecticut guard Kelly Faris as she drove to the hoop.
After several seconds of berat-ing the officials, the Huskies coach earned a technical foul.
Forward Alyssa Thomas calmly drained one of two free throws. Then, Hawkins hit a jump shot with
five seconds left in the half to cut a UConn lead — which had stretched to as many as 14 points — down to nine entering halftime.
Unlike many other times this season, the Terps would piece to-gether no critical intermission-spanning run Saturday afternoon. UConn opened the second half on a 9-0 spurt, and the No. 4-seed Terps’ season ended in a 76-50 Sweet 16 defeat to the No. 1-seed Huskies.
“I said leading into this game that Connecticut makes great teams look really bad,” coach
Brenda Frese said. “Obviously, you saw that on display today.”
Thomas, who scored at least 26 points in her previous four games, was held to 13 points, nine rebounds and three assists. Hawkins, the ACC’s regular-season leading scorer, netted only 11 points. The Huskies keyed on the duo, and they combined to shoot 9-of-30.
UConn also outrebounded the Terps, 41-36, marking just the second time Frese’s squad was bested
MEN’S LACROSSE
Midfielder John Haus scored two third-quarter goals in a win at Virginia. photo courtesy of jenna truong/cavalier daily
Terps rebound from first defeat of seasonBalanced effort leads team in 9-7 win at UVABy Aaron KasinitzStaff writer
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Terra-pins men’s lacrosse players jogged into Klöckner Stadium on Saturday itching to prove their stagnant per-formance in a two-goal loss to then-No. 14 North Carolina a week earlier was an aberration.
They didn’t think the deficien-cies North Carolina exposed should define them. The No. 2 Terps felt the overwhelming energy and of-fensive balance they displayed in the season’s first six games more aptly characterized the team.
The Terps didn’t play their most dominant game of the year Satur-day, but they still validated their confidence in a 9-7 victory at No. 15 Virginia. The motivated group recap-tured the enthusiastic effort evident earlier in the season, consistently pressured the Cavaliers out of their comfort zone and had three different players score multiple goals to help the squad escape Charlottesville with
a wire-to-wire win.The Terps (7-1, 2-1 ACC) weren’t
perfect. They notched their second-lowest goal total of the year and made some untimely errors that allowed the Cavaliers (5-5, 0-1) to mount a late comeback. But unlike a week earlier, the team’s passion and experience were enough to overcome its struggles.
“I thought our guys played really hard. Our effort was outstanding,” coach John Tillman said. “Our ex-ecution needs to be cleaned up, our decision-making needs to get better. But I’ll certainly not question the heart and the effort and the tough-ness our kids showed.”
They didn’t take long to turn up the pressure Saturday. Midfielder Mike Chanenchuk fired a 20-foot shot past Virginia goalkeeper Rhody Heller a little more than 30 seconds into the game to give the Terps a quick 1-0 lead.
Long pole Jesse Bernhardt, pri-marily a defensive player, notched his first of two goals a minute later
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
Attacker Alex Aust scored six goals to lead the Terps in a 15-10 win over Penn. christian jenkins/the diamondback
Aust paces Terps in15-10 win over PennTeam is one of two remaining unbeatens
By Joshua NeedelmanStaff writer
Standing on the turf at Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex follow-ing the Terrapins women’s lacrosse team’s game against Penn on Satur-day, Cathy Reese tirelessly listed the medley of mistakes her team made.
The Terps were too complacent on defense. They didn’t help when they needed to. They turned the ball over too many times. They just needed to be more consistent.
Listening to the sixth-year coach’s assortment of critiques, one would be hard-pressed to believe the No. 1 Terps had come away from the contest with a victory. But that’s exactly what they did.
Led by attacker Alex Aust’s six goals, the Terps defeated the Quakers, 15-10.
“I sound so negative,” Reese said. “It was a good win. … But you sit there afterwards and try to nitpick, like, ‘What is it that we need to do a
little bit better?’”On a day when No. 2 Florida fell
to No. 9 Penn State — leaving the Terps and Notre Dame as the last two unbeaten teams in the nation — it would seem Reese had little reason to be pessimistic. The season is still far from over, though. The NCAA championships aren’t won in March, and if Reese’s team wants to be the last one standing in May, it can’t risk being satisfied.
But after jumping out to a solid 10-2 lead in the first period, the Terps (13-0) did become content. Penn (4-4) rattled off a 4-0 run that spanned both halves, shaving the deficit to four with more than 26 minutes left in the game.
“I think [getting complacent] is one of our main struggles,” Aust said. “It’s hard to do something for 60 minutes, to have that discipline.”
The squads traded punches
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BASEBALL
Terps drop series against WolfpackBack end of rotation struggles as team falls to 4-8 in conference playBy Daniel PopperStaff writer
The Terrapins baseball team’s lack of depth and experience at the back end of its starting pitching rotation was a glaring concern entering its 2013 campaign.
That inexperience has translated into inconsistency on Sundays.
For the third consecutive ACC series, the Terps failed to pull out a victory in a rubber game when they fell to N.C. State yesterday, 9-4. They have now lost four straight series and fallen to 4-8 in conference play.
Coach John Szefc has used freshman Alex Robinson and junior Jake Stinnett — both of whom hadn’t logged a col-legiate start entering this season — as game-three starters over the past three series. The duo has allowed a combined 12 earned runs on 11 hits in 5.2 innings of work during that span.
“You need a guy on Sunday that has been a starter in this league before, and not having that has definitely led to our lack of success in those games,” Szefc said. “If you get a good start, you’re
going to give yourself a chance to win, and if you don’t, you’re usually going to lose. And that’s been our story all year.”
The Terps dropped the series opener Friday night, 3-2, despite a late-game rally that included tallies in the eighth and ninth innings. Left-hander Jimmy Reed went strong for eight innings, allowing only one earned run on five hits, but untimely errors again plagued the Terps as the Wolfpack jumped to an early 3-0 lead that proved insurmountable.
Right-hander Brady Kirkpatrick helped the group respond Saturday, though. After allowing two runs in the first inning, the junior held N.C. State scoreless over the next six innings. Freshman Kevin Mooney finished off the final two innings for his third save of the season in the eventual 3-2 Terps win.
The team’s hopes of a series victory ended early on Sunday. The Wolf-pack scored nine runs in the first four innings, building too big of a lead for the Terps to overcome.
But Szefc isn’t blaming only his young starters for his team’s short-
comings. His offense struggled, too. The Terps left 12 runners on base and failed to execute at the plate when there were opportunities to manu-facture runs.
“We need to get quality at-bats and do the little things offensively, but we haven’t been doing that,” Szefc said. “We can rack up 11 or 12 hits, but if we aren’t getting quality at-bats when the money is on the table, then we’re going to struggle to find success.”
Nonetheless, the Terps are still seeking a third starting pitcher with the consistency to give the team a chance to win a conference series. The only problem is Szefc is running out of options. Stinnett and Robinson have more starting pitching experience than anyone in the bullpen besides Mooney, who has settled in as the team’s late-game reliever and closer.
“We need to give them the confi-dence they need to perform,” Reed said. “They need to know that they have the talent and that they have what it takes to win at this level.”
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